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VOL. LXVII.
EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1902.
NO. 35.
Providence should suro complain
Bothered in the sky.
This one prayln' for the rain, *
That one for the dry !
On this here "terrestrial ball"
(Fairest one of any,)
Tryin' for to please em all,
Never pleasin' any!
^ THE TREASURE OF
BY GEORG
In 1863-64 a great treasure, to the
value of nearly one million dollars in
gold coin and bullion, was recovered
from the wreck of the Pacific mail
Steamship, Golden Gate. I have the
story direct from one of the principal
men of thc enterprise. During the pe
riod which elapsed between the dis
covery of gold in California and the
establishment of transcontinental traf
fic, the custom was to ship coin and
bullion from San Francisco to the Isth
mus o? Panama, across which it was
carried to Aspinwall, now Colon, on
the Atlantic. There it would be re
shipped to its destination in the Unit
ed States or Europe.
Thus in July. 1862, the tide-wheel
steamship. Golden Gate, was en route
from San Francisco to Panama, carry
ing more than, five hundred passen
gers and a large amount cf treasure.
While running along thc west coast
of Mexico, about two miles offshore,
che was discovered to be afire. She
was headed for the beach, and when
she struck the fire had so enwrapped
her that all on board were forced to
fling themselves into the surf. There
was a vicious undertow. Two hundred
and twenty-eight people were lost, and
of the vessel herself, in a short time
nothing remained in sight except some
of the tall machinery.
After the wreck became known it
was announced that there had been
a million and a half dollars' worth of
gold in the treasure-room of the Gol
den Gate. The underwriters sent
skilled divers to the scene to attempt
thc- recovery of this treasure.
The divers, after a prolonged ex
amination, reported that the vessel
had broken in two at the treasure
100m, and that tne gold had been ?
buried so deep in the sand, through
the combined action of the surf and
the undertow, that the recovery of any
ponion of it was impossible. The un
derwriters thereupon abandoned thc
attempt.
A number of adventurous spirits in
San Francisco, upon learning of this
report, determined to make personal
examination of the wreck.' This they
did in Augvst, 1862, and corroborated
/Uie_^nnr^rd^^ij^TM??j?i?^ .
^Tliecondexpeditlo^
although not successful, brovght back
reports that furnished encouragement
fer a third, which started fron- San
Francisco in October, 1863.
This expedition sailed In two schoon
ers, the-R. B. Potter, a former pilot
boat of seventy tons, and the Naiad,
a little craft of ihhty tons previously
used for collecting gulls' eggs from
the Farallone Islands There wer?
ten men on each vessel, including div
ers and engineers, and there was all
the necessary apparatus
The diving apparatus was put into
shape; the two schooners were moored
at a safe distance from the brr akers,
the air-pump, with its attendant",
was placed In position on th/? launch;
and one of the divers, in his submar
ine suit, dropped over the side, but
did not vanish. ' Since the water was
but four fathoms deep and clear as
crystal, he coiild easily be seen as he
walked along the bottom toward the
wreck. A stream of alr-bubblcs rose
behind him, and fish and sharks fled
from him in every direction.
As he approached the wreck and
found shallower water with each step,
it was soon that the furious surf and
the undertow forced him by degrees
to stoop until he was crawling along
on all fours. When he was directly
'over the wreck he began to ornploy
the ingenious apparatus to which the
adventurers looked for success.
This apparatus consisted of a brass
pipe, with a nozzle two and one-half
inches in diameter, which was at
tached to five hundred feet of hose
leading to a steam-pump on board the
Naiad. A continuous stream of wa
tfr, as powerful as that from a fire
engine, was to be forced through the
hose; and this, it was bored, would
roll the sand to such a statt- that the
diver could grad.iaUy settle down Into
it and lay hold of the treasure.
As soon as he reached the place
where he was to work, the diver gave
the signal to start the pump.
After an hour of expectancy by those
above, the diver signaled to stop the
pump, and then came to the surface.
After being relieved of his belmet, ho
drew in a few.breaths of fresh air and
reported:
"Everything is all right so far, but
there is a lot more work to be done
than we bargained for. The sand has
accumulated ro that where we expect
ed two or three feet, there are almost
six. Under this is the coal, and in if.
WP shall find the boxes of gold, if wc
ever find 'hem.
"The experiment with the hose
worked well." he continued. "I kept
playing the nozzle under and about
my legs, and sank three feet easily.
Put I tell you, there's danger for a
diver in this thing. If the steam
pump ever steps working wbile a man
is deep in the roiled-up sand he will
be caught there sure, for the sand will
grow solid about him before he can
get out."
The men had not thought of this
before, but they at once saw the truth
of it, and arranged that every imagin
able precaution should be taken to
keep the pump working.
Both divers descended on the second
day, but after considerable time, re
appeared with no more encouraging
news than that one of them had got
down into the sand to the depth of
his armpits without discovering any
thing. During the following week
the search went on with no success.
The divers found that the stream front
the hose did not thin the sana enough
to enable them to bend down in it
and grooe about their feet. Tho stream
tend? & hoi? for them to oink in, but lt j
t
)ENCE.
Goin' counter every day.
Smllln' now, an' scowlin';
Bun the world one feller'6 way,
Sots another growlln'l
What a mixture all around 1 j
Life of tears an' jestin',
Then a little spot o' ground,
Daisies-dust-to rest In I
-Atlanta Constitution,
THE GOLDEN GATE, j
E NOBLE.
was not wide enough to stoop in. and
it was filled with a mixture of sand
and water, ready to "set" the moment
the stream should ?top. So thc men
employed "heir feet as hands, groping
about for the treasure-boxes.
The time passed thus until Thanks
giving day. Then the hopes of the
party, who had ventured most of their
savings in the enterprise, were very
low, but the divers were encased as
usual for their regular descents. On
this morning one of them remarked:
"Boys, I am going to touch the coal
today if I have to go my full length
for it. We're needing something spe
cial to be thankful for."
It was thres hours before he signaled
to stop the pump. With their expec
tations roused by his unusual stay, the
ethers waited ea?ony for a signal to
send down a bag of such implements
as the diver might netd to assist him
in raising a box of treasure. A small,
hat boat, containing two men and
grapnels, ice-tongs and such imple
ments, was always kept moored over
the spot where the diver was at work.
Soon the hopes of those above were
destroyed by the announcement that
the diver was coming to the surface.
The diver, however, had planned a
mest agreeable disappointment. He
who tells rae this story remembers
being struck by the fact that as the
diver ascended the ladder to the side
of the launch, he used but one hand
to assist himself. When he emerged,
his friends saw a, package under one
of his arms, and this he handed up to
those on board.
The box, about a foot long, eight
inches in width and four in depth,
was carried over to the Potter, opened,
and found to contain three thousand
five hundred dollars in gold coin.
To obtain this box the diver had .
been obliged to sink himself until the
top of his head was just level with the
surface of the sand. Feeling some
thing hard beneath him, he worked it
about for a long time with his feet,
until finally, with the assistance of
some hooks he had carried down with
him, he had raised it to a point where
he could get his hand on it. While
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assurance, which his tenders had
never received, no doubt because his
life-line had been buried in the firm
sand which surrounded the roily hole.
Great progress was now made, the
next day, with the assistance of grap
nels and bags, more treasure .was
discovered, and then, day after day,
two, three, and even four boxes, con
taining* various amounts, were ex
tricated from the sand by the labor
ol' both divers. With each box they
had to mount slowly out of the hole
they had bored, and allow the sand
to fill In and harden behind them.
Elated with success, the divers, as
was natural, relaxed their precautions
a little, until one of them had a peril
ius adventure. Standing over the
wreck, he was boring his excavation
with the hose and sinking rapidly
into the sand as usual.
Just as he got down to his shoulders,
the butt of the hose was suddenly torn
from his grasp by the surf. As he
groped about on the sand expecting to
fel it, he remembered with a shock that
before beginning cperations he had
neglected tho customary precaution of
attaching the hose to his belt by a
lanyard. The whole thing had been
washed far beyond his reach.
Almost instantly the sand, no longer
loosened by the stream of water, began
tn harden round him. and he realized
the full horror of his situation.
So quickly was he embedded that the
use of his arms was soon lost; noth
ing protruded from the solid sand ex
cept his helmeted ' head, hands and
wrists. With his life-line buried and
his arms powerless, he was unable tc
make any signal for relief to those
above, who were quite unaware of his
dreadful situation. Besides all this,
owing to the disturbance created
around bim by thc surf and the un
dertow, he might as well have been'
blind for all that he could see.
The pressure of sand on his chest
was so severe that he began to lose
breath, and resigned himself to the
speedy, agonizing death which ap
peared inevitable. Nearly exhausted,
he felt something touch one of his
hands. It was the bight of the hose,
which, in washing about over the bot
tom, had struck against him-a thing
not likely to happen once in a thous
and times.
Gripping this with his hand, he
slowly edged it along, bit by bit, un
til finally he got hold of the butt and .
the nozzle itself. With great difflcul- :
ty he turned the stream of water into '
the sand, and freed first one arra, then
.the other, aad gradually the.;whQlo'
upper part oi his body.
Through the remainder of the day
he was prostrated, but he pluckily
went back to thc work the next day,
and from that time on there was ho
lack of precaution on his part.
A later incident. In which the other
diver figured, indicates well to what a
degree the success of the expedition
was due to the pluck, persistence abd
bard work of.the divers. In raising
one large box of treasure from the. hole
in the sand, the tongs by which , he.
held it slipped, and ripped thc-cover '
entirely off the box while it was yet a
f. : from tho top of the hole.
But hy the greatest care and pains
he finally succeeded in resting it on
the level sand outside the hole with
out spilling a single coin. It was
hauled up to the boat in a bag, and
found to contain nearly thirty thous
and dollars. Of course the weight of
ther^ boxes in the mixture of sand and
water was far less than it would have
been in the air.
Uninterrupted by othw tnetdtnt*
the work of recovery went on until the
first of January, when the increase of
surf, with the change of season, made
further operations impossible. The
last box of treasure was extricated on
Christmas day, and although regular
trips below were made daily during
the week that followed, no more boxes
were brought to the surface. .'Then
the men stopped their work and left
the spot, fully intending to repeat the
operations in the following year; but
during the winter the party scattered
far and wide, and weie never reunit
ed.
Many schemes for obtaining the rest
of the treasure, by dredging, building
breakwaters or inserting coffer-dams,
have been talked about, but no one
has yet recovered a dollar of what i
the San Francisco sallormen failed to
lift; nor has any one produced a
scheme which, in the opinion of the
man who told me this story, will war
rant the outlay of the capital neces
sary to secure what is left of the
treasure of the Golden Gate.-Youth's 1
Companion.
CAME OF GAMES.
Gotr 1? ot Onco tho Mont Simple and
Mont Dimcult.
True, there is a point of view from
which it may be regarded as an ex- i
tremely simple game, the very sim
plest of all the games with a ball
and a club. The player's object is i
simple and singlo to the point of sim
ple-mindedness and singularity. One
might say; to put a small ball, in a ?
small hole with the fewest possible
strokes. But so are the object of the
highest ambitions, thc guiding stars ?
of careers the most perplexed and i
devious. It is true, likewise, that all
tl e countless strokes a srolfer m'ikes !
are resolvable into vince kinds of
stroke-driving, approaching and put- <
ting. But Mr. Everard, in a lecture
unsurpassed for truth and brilliancy
by any in all thc extremely clever lit '
erature of golf, has declared that to i
make those three strokes right one
must have "art, science and inspira- ?
lion."
From the moment the ball leaves i
the tee, whether it be topped, pulled,
or sliced, or whether, struck in proper I
lashion a trifle below thc medial line. !
and urged forward with an exquisite <
free lashing out of the wrists, it take '
flight as with wings and seek its true ]
course as with a mind and purpose of 1
its own, until it drop intp the cup
with a tintinnabulation that no louder I
clang or paean ever surpassed in ito 1
suggestion of victory and consunnna- 1
lion, there is no foreseeing what per
plexity or temptation to carelessness
or over-conhuence -- will present. Not (
twice, off thc tee ground and the put
ting green, will the possibilities and
probabilities of the stroke be quite
the same. In the lie, thc wind, the
not to be reckoned by any known ,
mathematics.
Then, as the match approaches its
dicadfully quiet climax of defeat or
victory, the responsibility may grow
positively . ^palling. The very delib
eration which, impossible in most
games, is so characteristic of this,
so far from lessening the strain on
one's nerves, undoubtedly heightens
it. Cue has time to estimate the
emergency, to realize the crisis. Not
the fiercest raliy at tennis, not the
longest and timeliest home run at
baseball, not the most heroic rush at
football, requires a more rigid con
centration of thought and energy, or
a more dauntless courage, that the
Hick of a putter that sends the boll
crawling on its last little journey
across the putting reen, when the putt
is for the hole, and the hole means tho
match. There is not a quality of mind
or body-I will not except or qualify
at all-no, not one, that life itself
proves excellent which a circuit of
the links will not test.-Atlantic
Monthly.
QUAINT AND *' CURIOUS.
A transatlantic steamer, carrying
what is called "a full mail," usually
brings two hundred thousand letters
and three hundred sacks of newspa
five hundred and odd sacks for other
places.
Mice canot exist on Papa Little, an
island in St. Magnus bay, on the west
of Shetland. To test the truth
of this statement several mice at va
rious times were brought there, but
the soil, proved so uncongenial that
they soon died.
Professor Albert Michelson of the
department of physics, University of
Chicago, has invented ?. machine so
delicate as to be able to measure the
width of a hair. By its. means it is
said he has discovered that matter of
any kind is no moro solid than water,
save in degree.
A cat recently took up its abode and
nursed its litter of four kittens in the
fork of a tree, 28 feet from the ground
in the garden of Alderman Peace's
residence at Castle Hill, High Wy
combe, England. The kittens were
removed by the gardener, but the cat
speedily took them up the tree again
to their strange birthplace.
"Policemen-' at. High Wycombe,"
says the London Globe, "are now
.served out with housemaid's dusters,
and "these homely weapons arc to be
used against the -walls wherever ur
chins, suffering from cocoethes scri
bendi' have chalked up maxims, re
torts and the pleasant ironies of the
street. If there is a wag among the
youth of Wycombe he will write on
the walls 'A policeman's life is not a
happy one' Imagine the bobby's feel
ings who has to wipe that out."
An ingenious chemist has made the
claim that the average human heiiif? is
worth about (18,300 from thc chemical
standpoint. His calculations are based
on the fact that, the human body con
tains three pounds thirteen ounces of
calcium; and calcium just now is
worth $300 an ounce. If thu; calcium
could only be extracted, what a lasting
would become to their families. If
physicians should discover a way to
extract this $18,300 worth if ??ieiiini
from us poor m'ortal" Operations
would immediately become as numer
ous and popular as they <*?VrS during
thfl ippendWMe ?ftift? i
BY the courtesy of The Century
we are enabled to reproduce
enc of the most interesting
articles upon the very perri*;
uent questifi of Mic extermination jo?
the mosquito which has nppenred hi.
print for some time. The Century hiw.
taken'an active interest in this Impor"
tant matter, having published lu (lit-j
forent numbers severn! nrticles there
on, one from the pen of Dr. L. 0. How
ard, the Entomologist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who is rt reiidwitJjjb
uithorlty upon mosquitoes. The article,'
which we reproduce. Is entitled "A Cam
paign Against the Mosquito," written by
Henry Clay Weeks, and lt Is preface^
by a statement from Dr. Howard, who
summarizes the efforts which are beln^
made all over the conn tr j' to relieve
communities from so annoying nnjjl
lange rous a pest. Dr. Howard, In pan,
says: / , ^
"It is "my linn opinion tli.it, Wide
spread as the interest in mosqulto-es*
termination seems to be at present, rt
ls not a temporary interest, but "the
beginning of a great and intelligent
crusade. * * * New Jersey, .a State
which has suffered a great economic
loss from tho abundance of mosquitoes, !
ls giving attention to the mutter not)
only in isolated communities as com
munity work, but also by State action,
[lie Legislature having passed a bill
to promote investigations, but, unfor
tunately, without au appropriation,
fj.-ist summer tho towns of Summit and
South Orango carried on community
work which ls to bo continued tills ?
summer. The citk-s of Elizabeth.
Newark and Jersey City are. I believe,
to do some drainage work with this end
In view. * * * Tlio Donni of Health
af Nev Orleans has taken up the rant
tor, and is doing Intelligent imd saris-*
factory work. Nashville, Tenn.; ttoihe,
lia.: Talladega, Alu.; Winchester and
Norfolk, VII., and a number of other
pinces aro looking Into tho matter with
i view to immediate effort, and smaller
communities all over the country,
North, South, East and West, either
have tho matter under consideration!
.r are already beginning work."
OPERATIONS AT OYSTER BAY, L. I,
. DY HKXBX CLAY WEEKS.
With no claim to be acting under!
Dthei' -t}l???m*&m^m*m*MggBgm&B?&?!&
ting forth nothing as now In field br
laboratory, there has been going for
ward to a demonstration, on Lougj
Island, since January, 1001, thc move
ment of which this article is the sub-1
Jeer.
The purpose is to describe what ils
probably (lie li rs t attempt by a commu
nity to exterminate mosquitoes on a
large scale in this country. * * * The
Center Island work was the outcome
of a hurried reconnaissance of a terri
tory of about thirty square miles made
by the writer during throe days lu Oc
tober, 1900, at tho request of some resi
dents who had previously invited Dr.
Howard to visit tho region and state
whether, in his view, relief was pos
sible. Ills opinion was strongly fa
vorable. * * * But tho whole terri
tory was not then ripe for action, and
there was an opportunity of molding
h 0 s a i s i A y a
MAP OF CENTER ISLAND AND VICINITY,
OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND.
public sentiment or.?y in a small part
of the large aroa, namely, Center]
Island, in Oyster Bay Harbor.
Center Island, of Irregular shapo,
about two miles long and half a mlle
wide, was peculiarly adapted for relief
work, though there were conditions
that made it a difficult held. It is
connected with a famous breeding re
gion by a narrow strip of land, along
which, ns well as over tho intervening
water, it was feared mosquitoes would
bo borne. A largo, sodden marsh ran
through the middle, wherein wore nu
merous marsh holes, always excellent
breeding grounds. Shore ponds were
numerous, where high tides would
leave water behind barriers of sand,
Which water would become brackish
by rainfalls and seepage. As a whole
the island was a rare breeding place,
and ifs reputation for mosquitoes was
well earned. * * *
Of course UK- enemy*! lissumo,
though or civ*A.,variety ticktocks;
H?^or rather ?he, tot. lt M only "
J
fernale that bites-secas blood whcr
ever lt cnn he found. She tvvks water
for oVlpoKitioii UK Industriously ns do
the root* of a tree for nutrition, and
with a ileteriniiuition ?is Irresistible.
Her Ingenuity almost bailies human
skill, and one has to meet lier on the
same grounds ol' persistence, giving
close attention to natural Instincts,
times mid conditions. It would be
VIEW OF THE PART OF TI]
useless to attempt to enumerate the 1
str?nge places mosquitoes seek for
laying their eggs-from high-water
?auks and clogged roof-gutters to wells
i hundred feet deep; from a hole In a
tree holding only a few spoonfuls of
(rater, discarded tinwar?', or the foot
prints of animals, to a quiet pond of
[nany acres.
Willi the knowledge thai water ls
absolutely required for breeding, it in
volved no great brilliancy to say thal
(Tutet tnust bc denied Ibo enemy. lier
breeding places must be abolished by i
braining marshes or pools, and water
barrels and the like must be done away
with.. Knowing nftso that in the larval
and pupal ?tutes (viggl irs) air ls re
quired for breathing, it Avas equally
patent that if a thin film of oil was
placed on their breeding places, des
truction would result for want of air.
It is the insistence of operations under
these ideas that insures success.
So tlie work has consisted of the em
ployment of drainage and petroleum.
But while that appears ?imple, lt en
tails careful planning and exactness
In execution. Drainage is the per
manent cure, petroleum the temporary
expedient, but each is essential In its
sphere. Thc former must be employed
thoroughly, the latter slightly. It is
not necessary, as some have intimated,
to consider the depth of a pond, but
only its superficies. The Ulm of fuel
petroleum does the work.
Evrht oil-stations were established
on tho island, where ono or two bar
rels were placed on platforms in thc
shade of trees, and at these the p?
trolier would till his krapsack sprayer
and sally Perth for the enemy. Ten
barrels were purchased, but n:iiy ?VV
were required throughout i tic islaud,
and now that so many points are per
manently reclaimed by drainage and
the tilling in <?r poola, probably one
barrel, or at must (wo, will be sulli
cient tili? season. Only live compfcfc
tours of tile islaud were found neces
sary from May 1 to October 1. though
applications were Often required nt
sp?cial points. As it was impossible
to do all the permanent work before
tho breeding season began, both reme
dies were worked co-ordinately. Ttys
was done in order to show best results.
To leave ?ny brawling places untreat
ed would have thrown discredit on
successful work at other points.
AT MEADOW, APPROACHING THE
R?SSING.
Surveys were fust taken for the
iLrnlhage work, to ascertain the entire
^catchment of Hie worst point, tm m ely,
? Great Meadow, BO as to pinn th?; mun
k|jbeSr bf dltohsis ue?cietu-y tu hold. UK
trater in case of a beary rainfall. Too
much excavation results in a waste of
money; too little in a flooding of the
reclaimed area and injury to crops.
Levels were taken for the ditching,
and lt was found that only one inch
of descent could bo had in sixty feet,
though this was sufficient, owing to
the great care tn grading.
A squad of about twenty-five men
was engaged for many weeks on the
ditching and diking. Where no dikes
were required the soil from the ditches
was used in tilling the marsh-holes and
streams, or was graded back at the
edge of tho uplands, leaving no holes
for water to settle In. * * *
Tho po?*?; formed perfect breeding
places, and the general sodden condi
tion of the marsh made ideal breeding
condition*. Karly in the season (before
.May li tU?> pools were found to be alive
willi larvae, and unless one had ab
solute confidence In the processes
of extermination, a glance Into one
of them would have destroyed all hope
CE DIKE ONCE A SAND-BAR.
uf success. While tlie excavation was
progressing, the p?troliers were set at
work, and bj' care and close supervi
sion scarcely an Insect got to wing.
Of the few that did, lt was found that
near them a little water surface had
been overlooked, which showed two
things: that mosquitoes do not fly far
from their native place, and that most
careful work ls essential for complete
results.
Thc writer has been informed that,
in other years, to drive along the bor
ders of thin marsh was a perilous un
dertaking for man and beast, but he
walked over it many times during
and after the work, and did not en
counter a single mosquito,
Another source of great trouble bad
heretofore been the brackish ponds
rog;^j?T(u^hcshore
ut '.nurt by nxtrn Illili tldOH. . Ixl tlwi,.<
ca'.SCS" tne"T,,n'n TVT.-T cn rrtt-f* - mit- -ot -rrx-1
cavating an opening, and allowing the
water to rut) off at low tide, which
would carry off a stream black with
larvae. In the finish of work at such
points an automatic tide-gate had to
be Inserted In the opening, which is
set somewhat below tlie level of the
bottom of the ponds. A number ol'
these ponds were so thoroughly dried
out that no breeding occurrotl in them,
and ono could walk through the former
beds and about their vicinity, where
formerly lt was well-nigh impossible.
The automatic tide-gate lets out th?;
water as soon as the tide has fallen
below its level, and closes when the
tide begins to ris<\ so that in these
shore ponds, as well as in larger
marshes the inner ditches must be largo
enough \> hold the water which has
collected between tides, without its
overflowing ibo land. Dikes are built
along the shore line to exclude the
THK PKTBOLIRB AND AN OIL STATION.
Jhles, and the gates are set in at tho
dike lille. * * *
The results of this skirmish have
been very pronounced, so much so that
the committee having the work in
Charge says of it lhat "it was in every
way successful and gratifying, and
that although the season of 11)01 was
unusually favorable to the breeding
ol' diese pests, yet Center Island was
practically entirely relieved from tnos
quitoes, and. for the first time, at al
most all hours of the day and evening,
we were able to enjoy the usc of our
piazzas and lawns without thc annoy
ance of those pests. The results
achieved by the use of fnel-pctrolenu?
were simply remarkable, and we were
astonished to lind how little it was
necessary to use to accomplish the
results desired."
"A Mun IK living."
A remarkable eas?' of suicide is re
ported fruin the State of Victoria. Aus
tralia.
Au old Imperial soldier at Violet
Town, aller swallowing a large quan
tity of strychnine, went to the local
flagpole and hoisted the Union .lack to
half-mast.
His little girl, untieing the action,
asked the reason. "A'llUill is ?lying,"
he explained. En; he ha?l time lo fire a
salute tlie pois?ui worked and he fell
dead.
A Till Did lt.
A Paris thief, while picking a lady's
pockel recently, pricked himself so se
verely with a pin thal happened to be
in her dress thal he uttered a cry of
pain, wliifli I"<1 io his imm?diate: ar
rest. The sum of ?'.>."io in cash was
found upon him.
T?e surgeon is not always super
eUtaui when \\H GUI? lila patl?atoi
HE BUILT A NEW NOSE.
A CHICACO PHYSICIAN'S REMARK
ABLE EXPERIMENT.
Tho Loss of a Child's Natal Orean Rem.
?died by Grafting Her Mille ringer In
Its Pino* - Operation Provotl a Com
plete succei? - The Process l-'xplaincd.
This ls the story of thc nose a Chi
cago doc:o.' built. He began to build
it some weeks ago when a little girl
twelve years old whose nose for the
most part-had made way with itself
presented her diminutive person at
the Cook County hospital for the pur
pose of recounting her disaster to the
surgical masters therein and of secur
ing their magical assistance in be
witching a substitute into existence.
The only evidence of a nose which
the twelve-year-old had at that time
was an aperture in her face On each
side were the vestiges of the nasal
walls and wings.
Today the noseless maiden is no
lunger noseless. A flesh and blood or
gan much resembling the missing part,
nourished by the same blood that
courses through every other part of
her physique, is proudly occupying
thc once deserted site for a little girl .5
nose. It has a bridge, nostrils, proper
ly outlined walls, and adapts itself
charmingly to purposes and breathing
without causing its owner any dis
agreeable ?ensat:ons.
The price paid by the heroine for
the new article was thc small finger
of her left hand. That was the build
ing material for the doctor in erecting
the new nose. The little finger of her
left hand was planted in the nasal
crifice. Its tip was cut off, the finger
inserted, and held in place by means
of a plaster of paris cast for two
weeks.
The cast was then removed, the
finger severed from thc hand, trim
med up, and sewed to the rudiments of
nasal flaps to form the nostrils.
The hand was then neatly trimmed
diagonally to avoid as far as possible
Hie appearance of deformity, so thal,
despite its lack cf one finger, it pre
sents a symmetrical appearance.
Although perfectly satisfactory, as
far as it goes, the work is not entirely
completed and will probably require
several additional operation* in order
to achieve the perfect symmetry
sought.
The surgeons who had the noseless ,
little maiden in keeping were Dr. W.
E. Schroeder, who performed the op
eration; Dr. Wen strom, head resident ^
physician of the Cook County hospital, ,
and several others. *
The first step to be taken in cr??t- t
ing the new nose was the preparation .
of the little girl's face. This was j
bathed for four or five minutes with j.
#?aon. wac and afcsrile .V??S?, tallowed ?
"l'y . .o. . y>*t-l? -alephol, - Ijl?txlorl?e ot ,
mercury and othrr chemlcrtVu, -?ii*1*,
again with sterile water, rendering it ,
thoroughly clean and antiseptic. .
The edges of the nasal cavity Were ,
then "freshened," made raw to prepare ,
them for contact with the growth to j
the finger. Thc skin was cut away (
and an incision made along the free .
border. A vertical incision extending ,
up along the nasal bones >vas then .
made, the skin drawn back and ths j
tip end of the nasal bone laid bare.
This was also to prepare a ht place |
for the little finget to grow after it j
had beer scrted. (
The nasal cavity was now packed T
with gauze. This was a precaution t
taken against the access of blcod tc ,
tuber portions of the body, particular- j
ly the lungs, where pneumonia or (
some other disorder might resu't in <
consequence. i
Before the operation was started (
the little finger of the left hand had j
to submit to some treatment. Thc 1
presence of the nail at il tip made |
lt unavailable for service. The finger i
?v as hence amputated just above the
nail. The end was cut off obliquely
and an incision made alcng the sid-.-?
of the remaining part, in order that 1
its blood vessels could come in con- '
tact with those of the nose and enable
it to grow into thc nasal cavity.
The incisions left the ski" hanging
loose in flaps on the upper and lower
sides of the linger. The edges of the !
supper skin flap were trimmed to fit ;
Into the angle formed by the incision 1
made over the tip of the nasal bone.
The finger was now ready to be
grafted into the orifice. The tip of
the linger was placed at the upped
end of the nose and sewed, or, as thc
surgeons says, "sutured," into place
with silk thread. The first suture was
passed deeply through the bone at
the last finger joint. Additional sur
Uies were passed uniting the upper
Lkin flap of the finger with the skip
of the nose and cheeks, while the low
er skin flap was attached to the mu
cous membrane on thc iuterlor of the
nose.
Finally the hand was dressed,
bandages being placed round the arm
and head. The finger was now in
place. It was now necessary that it
be made perfectly rigid. The least
movement could undo the entire value
of the operation, and make successful
grafting impossible. For this purpose
it was fixed in a plaster of paris cast,
which extended about thc shoulders,
neck and head.
Thc little noseless maiden was now
hidden- from view, so far as the up- i
per portion of her- body was con
cerned. Thc cast obliged her to hold
her hand to tao spot where her nose
"ought to be," and necessitated her
being fed {brough a tube- She main
tained this position for. two weeks,
during that time not being able to use
ho? nos? even for breathing purposes.
During this period of apparent pas
sivity, while she lay motionless in
her bed, the liveliest and most novel
activity was going on in her small
frame. Little blood vessels were
shooting out in unheard of ramifica
tions and directions, meeting with
stranger currents In the vicinity,
swiftly greeting them, and uniting
with their forces in friendly co-opera
tion for the perfect irrigation of the
I system. The blood vessels of the lit
tle finger poured their red streams
into the vessels of tho face, the cur
rents of the fare cr-.-pt up to meet
those of the nose. By the end of a
fortnight they had established per- j
feet ly harmonious i elations with each
ether and set in operation a sys^mut
io nrder Pf communication.
It was now time for the second op
ration, severing the little finger from,
ts old associations and completely,
dapting it to the new service await
ng it. The patient was put to sleep,
.'his was done before the cast was
emoved, to prevent any possible
aoveraent on her part cf the liberat
d hand and arm.
The cast was now sawed off and the
ittle finger of the left hand, which,
tad been sewed to the nasal cavity at
he previous operation, was ampu
atcd at the middle or "metacarpal"
oint. Henceforth it was a nose.
lt was trimmed up and sewed to the
ragmentary wings of the nose so as
o induce a proper contour. Tlie nose
ias pricked with a needle to test the
.lood supply. It bled, indicating
icalthy activity.
The hand was then neatly trimmed
nto shape and sewed as the final
enture of the operation.
The little girl finds her finger In its
low sphere of life a most convenient
nd serviceable member. It submit?
;racefully to the acts of breathing
.nd sneezing, and as time progresses
iromiros .0 assume greater and great
r comeliness. The surgeon's knife
ias not yet attained the lightning
apidity in its metamorphoses i's that
tf the fairyland wizard's wand, and
loes not pretend to be able to cast
uch an enchantment over even the
irettiest little finger in the world ar,
0 enable it instantly to convert itself
nto a nose of marked beauty.
The little girl is elated over the
ransformation of her visage and cou
pled the other day to one of the hos
lital physicians that her mother was
'tickled to death."-Chicago Tribune.
PRODUCTS FROM BONES.
Jtillzatlon of livery Blt or Material for
Varied Purpose*.
The economy which is practised In
he average boarding house has be
nnie proverbial, but it is extravagance
0 the staudard of economy practiced
it a "bone mill." The chief product
rom bones ;s glue, and among other
naterials which are obtained from
hem arc soap, glycerine and fertiliz
Ts. Nothing is wasted. Even the
nost economical boarding house has
1 few parings aud husks to throw
iway. There are no parings and husks
u the.disposition of bonos.
The first stage in the utilization of
iones is that of cleaning them. When
jrought to the glue factory they are
ipt to be covered with more or less
lried flesh and bits of foreign matter.
\fter being carefully culled over by
vorkmen and broken by crushers
hey are soaked in a weak solution of
uluhuric acid. From the soaking
auks the benes emerge white and ap
parently perfectly clea" but still redo
ent with a fai jrvadlng odor. They
ire then placed in what are termed
ligester*. or at? m tanks, where. o-f
ler toeing ^ubjectod to a. preiuvuTC ot
Ble'a'm ' lor several ?iourn, a -spigot its
r-pened at the bottom of the digester
ind the liquid glue is drawn off. The
grease of the bones, being lighter, is
Jrawn off Inst and separated from the
first product. The liquid glue is evap
;ratcd to a ftmigth of 45 percent
gelatine, a portion of which is per
nitled to harden for commercial use,
is glue, and a part is refined and sold
for gelatine for table use.
The grease is drawn oft into cooling
.auks, where, in its crude state, it is
nade into scouring scips. By a pro
cess of refining and the admixturo of
? egotable oils and perfumes, toilet
icaps are produced. The spent liquors
vhich are run off from fro boiling
:oap are utilized for thc manufacture
if glycerine. The bones which are
aken out of the digesters are ground
ip for fertilizing purposes, and the
iirly water in which they are cleansed
s boiled down and made into manure,
l'iom the beginning to the end of the
process not even an ounce of material
is wastod.-New York Tribune.
A Lucky Knftlgn.
Lieutenant-Commander A. B. Wil
lies, whose family lives in German
town, has written an interesting letter
home from his ship, the Iowa, which
is cruising in South American waters
with thc south Atlantic squadron.
The officer tells how last month the
squadron was halted in the harbor of
a little southern city that was much
pxcited over a lottery drawing soon to
he pulled off. Ah ensign on a sister
ship of the Iowa bought for $1 a one
tenth chance at the $100.000 prize, and
then, out of idle curiosity, attended the
drawiug. There was considerable rig
marole for a time, and a dark-skinned
native posted on a board a number
the winning number. The ensign
looked at his ticket and it was the
same number as that which had won.
He could not, he said afterward,
speak. He had to walk out into the
air. His delight was indescribable.
The next day one of thc officials of the
lottery brought to him aboard his ship
a bag containing $10,000 in gold. As
he is poor, and as he is also married,
he thinks the money will come in very
handy.-Philadelphia Record.
Cuckoos ami Larks.
Cuckoos are birds whose actions are
a standing puzzle to naturalists. As is
well known, the cuckoo lays its eggs
in thc nests of other birds. When
they hatch the young cuckoos throw
out the young of other species and get
all the attention of the old birds for
themselves. Recent experiments show
that the instinctive desire of the
young bird to eject its foster-brothers
from the nest is much stronger than
has been believed. Two cuckoo eggs
wer placed in the sanie nest, and the
fight that ensued after the chicks were
hatched reads like an account of
champions wrestling. The instinct
is a most singular one, and was man
ifested before the birds were 20 hours
old.
Proverbial early rising by the lark,
expressed in the phrase, "up with the
lark," is denied by an eminent orni
thologist, who claims that whereas the
greenfinch is up at 2 o'clock in the
morning in summer, the blackbird at
4 and thc hedgerow sparraw half an
hour later, thc lark does not appear
until after 5.-Chicago News.
Th?? Thine Thar Puzzled tho Patient.
"You may be thankful for your ex
cellent ?onstitution. It has pulled you
through many a spell of sickness."
"But, doctor, if I have such a blamed
strong constitution, why am I alway?