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i HE NAT?ON/IL BARK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Prea't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. { ?pita!, $250,000. Undivided Profita } ?110,000. , Facilillos of our mapnl?lcont Now Vault con t.il ni ii jr -1!0 ?-afoty-Lock BOXPS. Dlffer Sizr-s ari' oCb??d to our patrons and *.!io public at ?3xo to 810.00. por annum. ll S ^ THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, R AUGUSTA, GA. I_ Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Kayne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EBGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1902. NO. 45 THE LAS PHOTOGRAPH 3Y C. E. Bf OWN, EAS ?P. S. S. "VERMONT," A RELIC 'Remains of Pizarro, Fit o? ; iii. lill C8H8? Of ' ' ISO lit ?41G3S. " i ? ? H By E; C. Rest. IC fhe fa'.??ous-ancient cathedral of Luna, Tem, nr?-on exhibition the remains of Captain-General Don Francisco Pizarro, who founded Li ma January IS. 1535. These remains are contained iu a white marble carlin, with a glass front, thus exposing to view the well preserved remains with in. The coffin stands in a niche or more properly a vault, entrance to Which is had through a massive iron barred door. To view tlK'se remains one must'fall into thc good graces of an attendant in thc cathedral, AVIIO for one sol (fifty cents) opens the iron doors, 'lights a candle and hy this light the remains arc examined. It whs my ambition to obtain a pho tograph of these remains, perhaps of greater historic interest than\all else {n South America. Pissarro was at once the founder of Lima (if riot of South America!, conqueror of the ancient and highly civilized Incas, and may bo re garded as ono of the most .brutal of all warriors. It required some very strong influence to procure "the desired per mission, uiuL.it. was ?only after an ar* iry;. toi'iiu? Peru vian Legation in Washington, that the necessary permission was finally granted. v Owing in the poor light in the vault I was obliged to give The plate two and TUE REMAINS OF one-half hours' exposure, with thc re sult herewith shown". Several rolls:of parchment manuscript visible near the foot of the body are also contained withiu tl;e marble cor??v.. which was placed where it nov. stands in 1891. Pizarro was killed in the palace at Lima June 2G. 1541, and his remains were previously buried in a subterra nean vault of thc old cathedral. Tturial Places of PiosiUcnte. Under the portico of the First Church at Quiney, Mass., rest the two illus trious men whom the Bay State gave JOHN ADAMS AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. ? to the Presidency-John Adams, and . his son. Jolin Quincy Adams. The : vaults are invisible, but there are rr eui . orial tablets In the church. An Immense coal li;:?d, 4U0 square j miles Ul extent, lies ISO miles north west of Bulawayo, South Africa.. Lt is ! . said that tlie coal bed is only forty feet) below the surface in many places. There are seventeen thousand stat utes in British statute law. Thirty volumes are yearly added to the Law Reports. rr OF THE rPORT, MAINE. O F OUR EARLY NAVAL GLORY, B TO MEASURE THE SERMON. Hour-Glass<>B Still Found In Some Old English Churches Very few tibor 'glasses BOW linger in country churches, tor they ceased to" be in anything like gei.?ral use after the Restoration, says the Golden Penny ANCIENT SE1UIOX MEASURE. best-preserved ."glasses" is still to be seen in the. Church, of ..St Mary, at Beckley, Oxon, where it controlled the length of pulpit discourses for many a Jy the aid of the hour glass tb? _ hers of a congregation could u?i^jr themselves as to whether their-'worthy pastor was giving them citherTong or short measure iu the way of sevinons, and, in truth, it was deemed little less ?than a scandal if-the preacher ceased FRANCISCO PIZARRO. j Uis homily before the last grain of sand had dropped into thc; nether globe. The story runs that on one occasion, when rumor reached the preacher's ears that his Sock considered Iiis sermons scan dalously abridged, the worthy divine reversed the glass no fewer than four ga rt ITs "Sleeping Congregation," on the left-hand side of the preacher. Strange, too, was the custom " asso ciated with long sermons, its object being to rousft the congregation from times, the congregation meanwhile,, marking the expiration of each allotted time by hopefully reaching,for their hats. It may be noticed that one of these monitory-horologes figures in Ho profound slumber. A long wand, with an end shaped like-a-hay fork, was car ried round the church by a beadle, whose duty it was to Jog the sleeping member in the nape of the neck, und effectually break the spell. Indeed, many individu?is set aside their sav ings in order tc support this custom of keeping the congregation awake. -I. ur Uv St, I/ncln. ; . Perhaps the most extraordinary phe nomenon which presents itself iu con nection with the volcanic eruptions at Martinique and St. Vincent is that St. Lucia.'.lying between the tAvo islands, and only about forty miles distant from the seat of seismic distill bancos on either side, bas never ex-* rieneed Hie slightest tremor, nor have any but the faintest sounds been bean! by a few persons: and only once, for a few hours, has the fall of ashes caused darkness to the extent of inconveni ence. Tills ls all the more remarkable in that from St. Kite's southward Jo Trinidad, haye distinct earth rumblings been experienced, and loud d?tonations beard. Yet the electrical phenomena, especially when Moni Pelee has been active, can be distinctly seen from here.-Th* Voice of St. Lucia. More deaths from snake-bites occur in India in bouses than in the lields or in liip jungle. WOODEN i EIN G BROKEN UP FOR JUNK A 'J TYING HORSES TO SAND HOLES An Effective Device Used by t,he In dians of t>he Desert?. Tying one's boise to ti hole in the ground is a strange proceeding, and to the uninitiated seems impossible, bul In the great California deserts. With their vast saud wastes and alkaline beds, where neither trees nor shrub* have courage to grow, and where sticks and even stones refuse to exist, the demand for some efficacious method of hitching animals has been imperative. The white man, with all his ingen uity, has always found the question of anchoring his horse on the desert to bc au enigma. Fear and necessity compel the desert traveler to keep in motion, for thc sun is relentless and treacherous, as is thc vulture that hovers above with an anxious gleam of expectation in its eyes. Over miles and milos of burning, pathless sands he may bo doomed to wander whik* thc sun pursues with heated vigilance. His horse is his only companion, the only llviug thing lie sides himself in the great heartless pluin, and he clings to it for safety as a captain clings to his ship. If nature rebels against the struggle, and the traveler must rest, the only DESERT INDIAN TYING HIS HOUSE TO A HOLE. a brief sleep is to tie the halter rope around his arm, his leg or his body. Au animal requires a proportion of water equal to that of man, and be comes crazed if his thirst is not quenched. In such cases he is liable to plunge and careen wildly away over the sands like a ship in a iialo, drag ging his human anchor to destruction and death. Such has been the experience ol' the white man, but the desert Indians, who have never been accredited with superabundant wits, have for many years employed a mel hod that is clever, unique and effective-that of fastening their animals to holes in the ground. During a recent trip to tho desert a photographer caught an Indian in the very act. and for thc first time a photo was taken that illustrates the scheme. : Kneeling on tho hot sand, thc Indian began to dig with his hands, which were as hard and tough and imper vious to pain as a dog's paws. He worked energetically until lie had made a bolo about two feet deep. Ile then tied an immense knot to the end of the halter rope, lowered it into the bottom of the hole, lilied thc hole with snnd, and then jumped and stamped upon it till the earth over the knot was about as solid as the rock of Gibraltar.-Chicago Record Herald. Wedding Onv?? Itor Food. A wedding took place :it the Cathe dral the other day, and liberal showers of rice were thrown upon the happy couple as they left the church. After the carriages had rolled away a de crepit old woman, who had been seated on a bench in Logan Square, watching the gay scene in front of the church hobbled up to the great stone steps, and, getting down on lier knees, began tO/.brusb up the grains of rice that had been thrown at the bride and groom. ' Patiently the woman toiled over her task, carefully gathering up each grain into a ragged handkerchief. She gath ered up a pound or more ol' tile smooth, white grains, which sin.' tied up hy the corners of her handkerchief, and then she limped off with evident pleasure at the food supply that had so unexpect edly come to her.-Philadelphia Rec ord. Traveling Four Yours to liny Snuff. The East Greeulaiulers journey around to West Greenland to gel san ff, und will consume four years in a single excursion there and bark, often, ac cording lo Nansen, remaining nu longer than an hour at the trading station lie fore taking up their homeward march. Ireland's people commit fewer small offences than those ol' any other coun try. Last year there was a further diminution of 10.2 per cent, in minot offences. WALLS. C BROAD COVE. EA SITO UT, ME. -From Collier's Weekly. A Fire Ahum Whistle Itlotm hy Ons. One cf our correspondents, Mr. J. n Ritchie, of Cherryvale, Kan., has sem us an interesting photograph of th( FIEE ALAltM WHISTLE orE HATED E 1,'AXUKAL GAS. lire alarm whistle used by tbe Pionee Fire Company of that city. This whis tie is blown by natural gas furnisher by a local gas company. It is said t be Hie ??lily one of its kind, and can b beard several miles. One of thc ga wells Mows 13,000.000 cubic feet a daj and is now considered thc stranges well in thc Kansas gas Held. Natura gas is also used for fuel, for lightin; tho city, and is also ihe only fuel usei by zinc smelters employing 300 band: mid hy two vitriilcd brick planls. Scicutific American. Spmivnker who Never Wean R Hut. In a shipyard across thc river fron Bangor, Me., works Moody Brown who is said to be the oldest and bes spnrmnker In thc United States. II? was born in 1820. and bas handled tin adze since he was a boy. Mr. P.rowi AI? .fe^v-.!,;^,.., _?t\ ill 1 j hW\t?S ?Tn .Moody, Hie oilier day. "hut I'm ol some nyc to tlic world yet. My grandfather lived to be 1.13 years of age. and Avas smart to the last. At one time I thought I should equal his record, but now I think he'll brnt.ni>? by about thirteen years. It's kind o' bard to let a man's grandad beal him. ain't it?" Tump.T.ilsire of I ho Kurth. The temperature of the taust of the carib varies so much lu different places that no fixed law has ever boen found for thu downward increase of thc tem pera turc, except of local application! In the Comstock mining region thc temperature is one degree for every twenty-eight feet, down to 3000 feet, in ihe north of langland ii is one dc give for forty-nine feel: in N'ew South Wales it is one degree for eighty feet; in Leipsic i; is one degree for fifty-six feet: tit (.'r iss Valley, Cal., lt Is one de givo for b'T reel: In the copper mines of .Michigan one degree for 'J'J4 feet. Finding Out Ono's l<rienda. Whether he neills it or not, every inti ii should try lu borrow money so as lo lear:; who Ins friends aren't, lind also never to lend.- New York Press. IP?TTEBS ON TROLLEYS. "EVERY -ELECTRIC TRACTION C?M ? PANY HAS A LARGE CORPS. "All Strangers to Euell Otlier- Aro Known by Nun.ber Extern to Tlieir Chief anti tn the Auditor-Watch Conductora und "?Motormen - lt ules Governing Duties. In al) large cities having an electric Tailway system there is an important branch of service which never reaches j,the gaze of the public, states the Phil adelphia Record. Few people have any idea that the company pays a number of men to ride on its cars as passengers every hour of tue day. Thc ?jS?biect is to keep a strict watch on Kyjs conductors and motormen for any ' ^breach of che rules. These men are ?jfc'alled inspectors by the company, but I the employes call them "spotters." It is not only thc passengers who are ignorant of the identity of these ? men, hut no one connected with the ; company except the chief of the in spectors know them. In making their reports all the inspectors must sign : >by numbers. These are given then by the chief to [use instead of their names. The chief is not permitted to give the name of Siny inspector to any one except the ?auditor when the payroll is made out ?each week. Another element in the absolute secrecy of the service is the ??act that inspectors do not know each fOther. They do not work in pairs, as In other secret service, but each man W.orks independent of any other along *6ertain lines of directions given by > \ the chief. i The duties of these men are many ?and exacting. They must make a fcareful study of all thc rules, regula ions and orders of the company and ny infringement of these must be re ported. These include the proper and tfolite treatment of passengers, care ful running of the car on the part of 3the motorman in respect to cross .Streets, pedestrians, wagons and the Application of the power and brakes, jj Perhaps the most important duty of jill is to sec that all the fares are col lected, and, what is still more import ant, that they are all registered cor rectly. It is this duty that requires "tact, good judgment, an understanding of human nature and good eyesight. h6 inspector must keep constantly mind the fact that the man he is atoning may be a little sharper than e, and any false move on his part ould prove fatal to his usefulness on it car. Each trip made by the in spector must bear record on his final 'eport. Ho must give the badge mim er of the conductor, the block number the car, the street and lime he got the street and time ho got off, to ther with the register statements. I these* facts must be kept in mern ! ory until he gets off the car, when he ligates a record of them on his trip ?rd\ d of his day's work he must a full 'descriptive report of any wrong -f ?oing or accidents witnessed by him. These reports aro given the next day to the chief on reporting tc thc oifiec, who in turn forwards them to the gen eral superintendent. After a careful reading by the su perintendent all the men who have been inspected and have no bad re ports against them are given good credit on their record. On the other hand, if any have bad reports made against them tho reports are placed on file, and if any have been reported for stealing or where a number of com plaints of a minor nature are on file, the man is ordered to he "specialcd." By this is meant that on every trip the suspected man makes in a day, week or month, he has on ids car an inspector. This fact shows how care fully thc man is watched. Each in spector who goes on a ' special" detail is required to make a full detailed re port, either good or bad, cf the man's actions. If a majority of these re ports agree as lo wrongdoing the su perintendent makes the basis for dis clj?linc. The position in itself is not perma nent, nor docs it offer any chance for advancement. These facts are told the applicant with emphasis on his first interview with the cbief. A working day consists of nine and a half hours, with a sliding schedule of reporting hours for every week. He can have no holidays and very few Sundays off. About twice a week he starts at 4 a. m.. and on two other |tys at 3 p. m. The other days of the eek are means between these ex emes. The wages of an inspector c $2.25 per day and cash paid for res. Another thing to remember is that inspector is on different divisions 2h day. His work is assigned each y by the chief, and, as a result, he dom rides a division more than once month. . Of course, he cannot in ct every car on a division in one ', but he is expected to make at st 18 trips oe about 20 minutes ?h. Uthough carefulness and secrecy j the watchwords of every inspec , the time soon comes when they e known to the motorman and con ictors. This may be due to some ght indiscretion or movement on e part of the inspectors, which has caused the motorman or conductor to be guarded. Descriptions soon spread at the barn, and in about three months new men take their places, as the company has no more use for them. When the cost of maintaining the system is considered, one would think that $20,000 a year would bc greater j than thc amounts stolen by employes, yet the officials say it is money well in : vested. Ko Eur I.nboa in .Inpun. I Japanese haye no ear lobes. Thi? is a discovery which has apparently ! been made for the first time by Dr. I von 'der Heyden, director of the pub I He hospital in Yokohama. Even if he j is not the first io discover it, he is ! certainly the first to draw public at tention to it. The absence of ear lobes, he claims, is in some respects the most marked distinction between Japanese and Eu ropeans, and he maintains that the probable reason why the latter hs ve .lobes is because their ancestors for many generations wore very heavy earrings. COMPRESSED FOOD FOR CAMPERS. Tho United ISIMMH Army Kntlon tito Mott Snccentfnl Vet Iii ?lie S!nrk?f. The traditional woodsman, hunter, or trapper, who staggered under a hun dred pounds or mere of food and impedimental has had his burden re duced very greatly in the past five years. Lighter rifles and shotguns, ammunition ot smaller calibre, and considerably less weight for modern rifles; thin pressed steel or aluminum dishes which nest compactly into one another so that not a nook or corner is wasted; packs, baskets, and straps of minimum weight and maximum convenience, have all taken something from thc grievous load the camper used io "tote." Still more remark able are the changes brought about by the condensed and compressed foods which, under one name or an other, are for sale in all the "outing stores." Salt pork, cornmeal, white beans, and tea, rei:'forced, ol' course, by fish, game, and native fruits, the dietary ?ccommended and many a "Pocket Guide to Hunting and Trapping," was bulky and also heavy in proportion to its nutritive value. Canned goods un til recently took up practically as much room as thc same articles in their natural state, and there was little gain in buying them, except for boat cr canoe trips 7/hen there was plenty of space-. Canned soups of the standard brands were put up ready to serve without dilution, and the only portable substitutes were the time-honored "soup cakes" of the kind used in the "Swiss Family Robinson." As soon as tho idea was conceived of manufactur ing something between these two ex tremes, it was taken up by several makers. The condensed soups of to day are thick and require to be mixed with several times their bulk of water, but they have not been boiled down so far as to sacrifice their flavor and deli cacy. Experiments in the way of "food tablets" have met with varied results. A large firm of packers once adver tised a compressed tabloid of meat anJ various vegetables, dried and closely pressed so as to keep, in thc language of advertisements, "for years in any climate." The trouble with this particular viand was that it did not taste good. Thc United States government in its experiments with the army's food supply, has incidentally accomplished a great deal for the camper's benefit. Tho regular emergency ration is per haps the most, successful prparation of its kind on the market. A square tin can, no larger than the ordinary pint fruit can, is suppose to contain three meals, not hearty repasts, how ever, for a really hungry man. There is a packet of tea inside the can, an other packet of seasoning, and a solid lump of a mixture of a partly dried meat with vegetables. Tho. adaptabil ffTlrtM??WW??M ?f? '"""'ous purposes 5BSB RrolfilWEoffl? 'Mix-'e'ct with water to the consistency o? a thick paste and brown in a pan, it becomes hasli. Thinned with a trifle less water it can bc shaped into balls or flat cakes and fried as Hamburg steak. Stirred up with a larger proportion of water, a savory stew is the result. Seve r;1 of thc packing and canning firms 1. o put on the market recenty an assortment of flat cans containing a l the staple meat and fish products, practically without juice, in the cans, und squeezed into, the smallest pos sible compass. Thc flat can is a con venience for packing which the mak ers sera to be slow in appreciating. At thc opposite extreme from the pork and beans are the malted-milk tablets and similar preparations which supply nutriment in its least compass but do not pretend to take the place of thc regular diet for healthy persons doing active work. Druggists testify to the extensive use of these in place of noonday luncheon by business men of poor digestion and neverous tem perament, but they are not to bc con sidered in supplying the woodsman's pack. Polite, Though Needy. "Excuse, me," said a shabby-looking man as he wai ked up to a cadaverous looking stranger, "but may I ask you for a bit of information?" "Certainly, you may," said the stranger, and the shabby-looking man smiled pleasantly. "And you will not consider me at all impertinent, will you?" "Not in the least," said the stranger. "And it will net be taking too much of your timo?" "Oh, no." Ey this time the stranger was becoming a little vexed, but the shab bily dressed fellow was apparently in the best of spirit. "No doubt you are a resident, of this city?" in a questioning tone. "But what can I do for you, what information do you seek?" asked the vexed stranger. "Well, you see," said the shabby man, "you will pardon me, but I am a stranger here. In fact I have just arrived. Now you will please excuse me for taking up so much of your time, but as I said be fore I have just arrived here and am a perfect stranger here." "What it is you wanted to ask about?" said the listener with a show of impatience. "Well, you see," the man replied, "I hope you will not think it impertinent in me to ask if you are in a condition at this time to give me some little as sistance in a financial way for-" "No, I am not." was the blunt reply. "Then you will excuse me," said the polite beggar, "and I'll not ask you to do it for fear of embarrassing you," and the shabby man bowed and smiled, and walked down th:- street.-New Orleans Times-Democrat. (Immpinn Pnbv Mnbn Troilor. I think that my baby boy. Francis Crasg. holds thc record for traveling. Ho was horn Jan. 1, 1001. On April 30, 1901, he left London for Liverpool, then New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hon olulu, Pago-pago, Auckland, N. Z., Syd ney. Australia, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Tasmania. Dunedin. N. Z., Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, back to Sydney. Brisbane, Queensland, Melbourne, Adelaide. Fremantle. Col ombo. Suez. Port Said. Naples, Mar seilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth, arrived in london June 21. 1002. just nine days before he was 18 months old. ami he hud traveled 33.850 miles-London Daily Hail fl m Large shipments of th ? best makes of wagons md buggies just received. Our stock of JurnU 0 \ ture and house furnishing is complete. Large Stock of Coffins and Caskets alwags or hand. All calls for our hearse prompt ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar gin of profit. Call to se3 me, I will save you money. G. P. C Joli, s. c. THE ARTISTS5 FAVORITE THE MATCHLESS rsi Unsurpassed in touch, tone, workmanship and dura rabilily. ' Sold on TERMS T. Factory and Wartrooi, feiiati, Ol. J. A. HOLLAND, Traveling Agent for South Carolina, NINETY-SIX, S. C. W. J. RUTHERFORD. R. B. MORRIS. MANUFACTURERS OF ?J s in Gement, Plaster, Hi, fire DIM, nre uiay, Ready Boofing^ami Other Material. WRITE US FOR PRICES Cir. fiiiiis ai Mulm Sis., . ispsli, Gt BUILTM/NG MEW Oil RE PAIRING . You'll Need Our PAINT ! 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