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[THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNB, Pros't. F. Q. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. jj Surplus and I Undivided Profits I Faculties of our magnificent Now Vault loontalnlng 410 Safety-Look Boxes. Differ lent Slzos aro offered to our patrone and I the public at $3.00 tc 910.00 por annum. $125,000? THE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA, Fays Interest on Deposits, Accounts Solicited. L. C. Harne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1902. NO. 47. P1CTUF NEW ZI BY SIDNEY DIC XVT"<?7>HENEyER Nature pre \/\/ Pftres a continent for the Y \ nboile of man, silo puts beside it some conspicuous Island. Europe has its Great Britain; America, its Cuba; Africa, its Mada gascar; and Asia, Its Ja pa tl ; and we Bball find. In every instance, that either en in natural beauty or in developed , strength of national character, these ,: , islands exercise a strong influence up- i , on the mind of tue sympathetic rrav-L eler. The great island coutiuelit o; j \ Australia is no exception to this gen- L eral rule. If we compare Uer with L Europe, then sliall we find iu New ! j Zealand tile Lesser Britain of the j, SKELETON OF "MOA," AN EXTINCT NEW J ZEALAND BIRD. southern seas. It is a very strang.' j and interesting country which lies ; most beneath our feet-a country com- . punitively little known as yet, but coming yearly into better knowledge ? because of its unexampled beauties ? and ns a resort for the invalid, the ? tourist and the pleasure seeker. It has a stern, rugged coast, of vol canic origin; the whole stretch of this j coast is cut out into deep and narrow ' channels, hollowed out iu eaves, wrought in shape of pinnacles and spires; no coast is more fantastic. ! none is more dreaded by mariners. ; Thc *gr?at attraction of the North j Island of New Zealand, and one of j the world's most remarkable wonders. Is found In the bot lakes-certainly j one of the strangest and weirdest | regions on the face of the earth. The entrance into this country is through '. a land of broad and rolling Heids, lin-1 gering rivers and jagged mountains. I SPECIMEN OF : The soil is used chiefly for grazing, mid a large population is moving al ready Into, this beautiful region and doing extremely well with dairy farms and fruit orchards DESQUE i BALA ND. KINSON, F.R.G.S. Scattered about through the country are native villages, and upon thc hill sides may still be seen the palisades by which the ancient fortified forts were defended. In tile native villages of to-day appears the granary, used in common by ali the members of the - tribe aud raised Upon posts in order MAORI CHIEF AND HUTT-_ o preserve the store of maize and .weer potatoes from the ravages of .ats, upon which anima!* the Maoris ak? revenge hy serving them up in ?1 uitritious ivie.-:ss.e. As for (he na ives themselves (who are called the Maoris?, let us iutrude for a moment mon the privacy of this ehlef whom ve betv see enjoying a virtuous repose it the door of his lint. This chief at aiued considerable fame a number of .ears ago as companion of that uo SffrnrgrnWifl^ A?1.1 on? mts of Poverty Bay. where more than wo-scorc men, women and children vere massacred. It is not a great many .ears ago tliat a worthy chief, having conquered a hmnber of his enemies u, battle, had his prisoners ranged in i rou- on thc ground before him, and, ivlih his greenstone war club, dashed nit Hie brains of two hundred and ifly of them with his own hand, thcu brew aside his blood-stained weapon iud said. "I am tired: let the rest live," md ordered thc carcasses dragged to he ovens. The Maoris have lost very much of [heir former skill in architecture and in artistic decoration. To observe of what the former race was capable, le; us look for a moment , upon this carved front' of one of the Maori meet ing houses still found here and there :;bjiit the North Island. It is very cirions, interesting and artistic, too, in a rude decorative sort of way. The figures hore are quaint, pot-bellied monstrosities and goggling eyes of mother-of-pearl aud hands so imposed as to suggest the pangs of stomach ache. These figures are not ideal, lint arc. in point of fact, the portraits of deceased ancestors of the tribe, and ap pear in the Maori eye as authentic likenesses. Maori tattooing is something re markable and still further illustrates the very envious ideas of beauty prev alent among these people in the an cient time. As the Maoris gave over fighting the causes for these hideous disfigurations (whoso purpose was to strike terror into the heart of an en emy) passed away. In order to ap preciate the full extent of a tattooed warrior's countenance, however, you must imagine the owner of it over six feet high and nearly naked; his fea tures distorted with rage and Iiis longo" ''iingh?g out: loud yells issuing from "riront; arms flourishing bat tlt-a. J war-club, and the whole d AO It I TATTOOING stupendous aggregation coming down in your immediate neighborhood at tba high rate of'twelve good English miles au hour. Thc ancestors of these Maoris were an interesting nud intel _0eut race; aud the. present degrada tion cnnnot be too much deplored. Tin's gentleman Was a king, and his name was ns elaborate as his facial adornment, namely: Tawliaio Matu ticre te Puke-Puke te Pawa le Korate te aTotatau te Whereo-Whereo. Finally ive came to Oxford, the ter mination of the railway line; and after a night spent in a very comfortable botel, wc took our scats on the top of one of Carter's lino of American-built coaches to undertake the thirty-four miles' drive lying between UH and Lake Rotorua. About tho third of this distance lies Hiron?h the" "Eleven Mile Bust," where we catch glimpses ' pleasant . XHCTJ- As we approach ic town of Ohim-imV.n. which lies up l the shore of Lake I:IUT.VU?._we be ll to discern the odor of s-.ityhjur. ur road into the town lies between ro streams of nearly boiling water: id in thc fields upon cither side in imerable steam holes blow great DAUGHTER OF CHIEF, SIIO\ lasses of vapor into tho air. De i-ending to the shores of this curious ike, we find ourselves walking about i a vapor bath. All around us and lose at our feet, as wc step gingerly long the narrow pathway, thc shal iw water of innumerable springs oils and bubbles and the air is filled .?th the sound of Its simmering. If ou have any curiosity to know how feels to lia ve your leg boiled, step ut one foot off the narrow pathway nd you may masc that addition to our store of useful knowledge with urprisiiig suddenness. A place like this is. of course, a per ect godsend to the Maoris. Tiley can oak themselves all day In the warm .eather; cook their meat and potatoes imply by hanging them in their nets ii i ie corner of a boiling spring, and ive as happily, lazily and uselessly s the pigs that share their houses ud fortunes. All you have to do to minder clothes is to soak a garment ii n bot soda spring and then wash it ut in warm, clear water in another pring, and there you are. Even if a laorl has but one garment, he is not ibashed. Ile washes it and hangs it ?n the fence and sits down in the cos nmc of the Creek Slave until it dries. Each of these floating black heads rou see in the warm baths will have i black pipe in its mouth; and if the veather ls foul, you may see Indlvi luals holding umbrellas over Jfceir cads. Near by is Hm greal geyser of Wha carewarewa, rising fruin a eon<? like he most exquisite coral, by which you .an climb lo the mou!h of Hie crater. There is a dull, thumping sound far lowil below. You look over lo see ?That is going on: a spurt of hot steam .lose to your nose suggests caution: rou draw back, and a hush-1 of dia monds are thrown into the air and [.attie down the sides of the cone. It is nothing but drops of pure hot water: hut it looks like diamonds in the sun light. Then there is a sudden roar: [he air scintillates; and it seems as il nil the jewelers' shops had been ex ploded at once. I have seen many manifestations of Xiture in my time; but few where she displays al om e her power and her beauly so com pletely as in this irreal geyser. A good many naturalists are of the opinion that the gluut bird of New Zealand, Hie moa (generally believed to bo extinct), may still be found some ?where among the fastnesses of the mountains, such as Ave have now seeii. Well developed specimens of this fowl, ?iiONT OF THIBATJ ASSESIBIT I?O??B ike the one whose skeleton ls here de doted, are aliout thirteen feet. lr leight. At sight of such, no doubt he hunter's jaw would drop, his arms all down; while as for the moa, he vould undoubtedly gallop off as rap dly in the opposite direction, for ne .olding lo the local tradition these lirds were very timid. It ls supposed -in fact, it is known-that within the ast hundred years these birds have >oen alive and walking about in New talland. During my visit there I was ?resented with & thigh bone of one of hose birds, which thigh bone was ia If as tall, as myself.-Scientific imcrican. Funtrh That Look Like UirdH* Neft?. Thc Kev. A. S. Wilson contributes > Knowledge an article on "Vegetable [imicry," in which he says: '"Odd re ?inhlanccs to various objects, which in only be regarded as accidental eo icidenccs, are presented by a mim er of fungi. There Ts the .Tew's-ear mgus, which grows on stumps of the der. and is so named from its un listnkablc likeness to a human ear. lie (.?easters are curiously like star ch; Aseroe has au extraordinary re-1 ?m bia nee, both in form and color, to sea anemone; equally remarkable is ie likeness to a bird's nest seen in >ecies of Crucibulum. Cynthus and ld ular in. Though most of these are o small to impose on one, rho rc niblnnce is singularly exact, and a rge specimen might almost pass for ie nest of some small bird, the eggs ! iiug admirably represented by the lit- I 3 oval fruits of the fungus. Even in cb cases we must not too rashly cou- ! i'.de that the resemblance confers no ! Mintage. The existence of attractive ' laracteTSi-ifi^o many fungi points ? tho conelusioifVjat the same princi es ure In operationpinong them as mong flowering plants. Numerou! nels indicate a tendency in fungi tc sonnie a guise which helps cither tc rotect thc plain or to promote tilt crlilization. germination or dispersior I' its spores. If, as some mycologists clieve, spores benefit liv being swat ?wed by animals, it is easy to under MUDS' NEST FUNGI. .. Crucibilum; 2,Nidulftriu; 3 rind 4, Cyathus. ;tand how a fungus might profit by icing mistaken even for a bird's uest containing eggs." Tho "lTtnlci>rroun<i" in Sine Sine;. I was particularly interested in the Underground Tunnel, for I immediate-j ly perceived its great usefulness. This j was the secret system by which cou-j I rahu ml articles, such as Avhisky, ! opium and morpliluc were brought into tlie prison. When a vogue is per suasive with the coin of the realm he can always lind a keeper or two to laing bim what he divms the neces saries ol* life, among which are opium, whisky and tobacco. If you have a keeper rigid you eau lie well supplied with these little things. To get him rigid it is necessary to give up a cer tain recognized percentage-about one fifth-of Hie money sent you from home. This system is worked in all tlie State prisons in New York, and during my first term, nine months of which were spent al Sing Sing and the rest at Auburn. 1 had no difficulty in supplying my growing need for opinm. -Autobiography ol' a Thief, in Leslie's Monthly. - -i, ?CO-OPEEATIVE EATING. ?NF SOLUTION TO THE VEXING SER VANT CIRL QUESTION, ltraal* Ten Cent? and No Cnre - A Mic??l enn Village Teacher a Lennon to the Bis; Cities - Problem of Economical Living and Still Having tho Best. Decatur, a prosperous little villago tw??ty-fivo miles west of Kalamazoo, Mica., is the scenfl of an interesting experiment with a plan* to solve the problem of economical living ?lvJ to do away with the servant question. Briefly stated, the idea is the main tenance of a common table by some twenty-five of the leading families of the town, about ono hundred persons being served in this way. A place for the experiment was found in a vacant shop building, which had been fitted up. for the purpose. The first week tho cost averaged 12 1-2 cents a meal for each person, Thfe second week the cost was 10 cents. D'. G. Stewart, a merchant, first thought of the plan. Mr. Stewart was asked to tell about the undertaking. "There were two chief considera tions," he said. "First, I thought it would be a great convenience for the business men of thc village, who are often hurried at lunch time, and do not like to leave their stores. "Then, even in this little village, the.servant question cuts considerable of a figr.re. The girls prefer to work in the shops or in thc fruit fields and ii Is difficult to get competent help. I had experienced some 'difficulty in these respects and so I began to fig ure. "The result was the organization of this co-operative scheme. We do not have a formal organization, nor keep elaborate books. The best people in the village are interested." Mr. Stewart proceeded to explain the practical working of the plan. Two competent cooks were engaged and a sufficient number of waiters to serve the different families promptly. Each (family has its table, except that several families, consisting of only two persons, may be seated at one table. A strict account of everything is kept and at the end of each week all bills are audited and the expense div ided pro rata. In this settling of ac counts everything is included, such as rent, fuel and lights. When the bills for the week are settled the organiza ron owes nothing, and has as assets whatever may be left over in the com missary depar:ment. "We get the best of everything," saul Mr. Stewart, "the best groceries ind the best meats. Our butter is :reamgry butter and all the rest of tb^m?terials -are e?ittee ot'nV? ?i^tiu'-^ T?.g nop-prtior.frn.i the menu for 0f-??' week is prepared by another committee of five. "I believe that the same plan could be worked to advantage in the large cities, and it would go far to solve the vexatious servant question. It seems to me that it would be feasible to se cure some dwelling, fer instance, and fit it up for the purpose, lt would then be possible to have private (lin ing rooms only the cuisine being com mon." Mrs. H. C. Lamond who is a member of the executive committee was asked Ifor ft sample menu. She furnished the following: Breakfast. Breakfast Food. Fried Potatoes. Eggs. Cookies. Doughnuts. Coffee. Chocolate. Dinner. Roast Beef. Roast Pork. Gravy Dressing. Green Corn. Boiled Potatoes. Tea, hot or cold. Tapioca Pudding. Apple Pie. White Bread. ' Brown Bread. Supper. Cream Potatoes. Cold Meats. Warm Bread. Cake. Plum Sauce. Tea, hot or cold. She was asked if the plan worked wen and if it was economical. "It has its advantages and some dis advantages," she replied. "Whether it is econmical or not depends some what on thc style in which a person is accustomed to live; whether one keeps servants or not, for instance. But, considering merely what is fur nished it certainly is economical. "We are able to get better dishes at lower cost than if we set a separate table. The plan enables us to buy at wholesale and we reap the advan tages. "Take the matter of roasts, as a point of illustration. A good roast of meat is not an economical thing for a small family to buy. You cannot get a good roast unless it weighs sev eral pounds, and the small family finds on its hands a large remnant, not all of which can be well utilized, no matter how clever the housewife is in planning. "By this method we get twenty pound roasts .nd of course we get the best. Then our bread is baked fresh every day in our own ovens and that is a fine feautre. "We have our individual tables. At our table there are three families, each consisting of husband and wife. "We each furnish our own silver and we have a vase in the centre of the table which we keep filled with ; flowers. We take turns in furnishing j the table linen. Our silver is taken I up, cleansed and put back in tho I places wc occupy respectively. "You ^ee, we save a good deal of j work, we save on our linen and al I together I have found that the plan j tw.es considerable responsibility off j my shoulders. If the scheme were ! carried out in a little different way j we could go still further and have a ! laundress come in and do the table j linen, which would take some mor" j care off our shoulders." j Mrs. Lamond explained that thc ' waiters had been neatly attired in j white aprons and caps and said that ' altogether quite a homelike effect had i been acompllshed. Some difficulty ! h?? been found in buying from one of j tue butchers. One was willing to roll I his meats at wholesale, but the other I refused to d^ BO, arguing that the p*?" pie who had gone into the project would have been good customers ?t retail prices if they had not con ceived this notion, and that they must continue to pay accordingly. Those who are managing tne enter prise expect to have no difficulty in improving the service and making it a success,-New York Sun. BUYINC A BOX OF MATCHES. Quito n Formidable Undertaking WU? foi tl reta of Pun?an. The natives of Samoa do not hurry the trader unnecessarily. Time is no object to them, says a willer in Lin pincott 'S ?Magazine. The two or three youngsters, who come and sit on the veranda are willing to wait thc trad er's own convenience belove they open trame with him. Then their language seems to the inexperienced strangely uncommercial. "O. Apa. lt is thus, and wc two will want?" the trader asks in the native speech, "that ycu sit on my portico beginning at sunrise and ending at all day?" "O. Apa, it ls thus, and we two will declare tho truth to thy highness." "Use not thc high-sounding words of the talk of chiefs; call me not ex cellency nor yet highness, for by that I know you two are come to beg. That thing do you two tell what you want, awl quickly." "O, Apa,. smooth out thc wrinkles from thy heart, but listen. In the In significant hut of thy family of us two :here is tobacco, and we have plucked the dry leaves of the banana. But :here is no fire. That thing have we :wo come to ask of thy excellency. Af ton! to us two the fire-scratcher, just me box, for great.is the poverty of he family of us two." "O, pig-faced, it is the lie, and you j wo come to beg, it is true, lt is right hat you two buy firc-scratchers; I do lot give away the articles of wealth, est, I, too, become poor while you two ?ave all things," "Thou knowest, O, Apa. the great loverty of all this Samoa, and that we oo are poor people and of no account Ve have not wherewith to buy. But ?cause great is the lovo of us two to hy excellency we two give to thee the sving gift of the fruit of the hen, one." "Not so is it true, dirt and pigs. If i ou two love me you give me fruit of I 'ie hen, two. Give them now to me nd my black-boy thing shall look .trough them at the sun, and he shall pin them on this floor, and he shall oat them in water lest they be bad." "O, Apa, thou art wise to drive a ard bargain, and Samoans are fool h. Here, than, are these two fruits E the hen; row give to us two the 3X of fire-scratchers." a's' Jm "l'?ri-? k^g.UwUt UL I J ar the trainmen which rests upon a lore scientific basis than has, until ecently, been recognized as needful. Thc fundamental principle lies in diat the mental scientists term reflex ction, or subconscious control. The rain may bc taught to act according 3 the signals of the various senses without conscious thought. The first tep is thc complete training of the rainmen to their duties, so they re pond on the instant, almost involun arily, to any emergency. In the life of the railroader there ? no time for thought or reasoning, le must act instantly. If the engine river is called upon to save a train rom wreck he will be the more like y to succeed if his brain has been so rained lo act, not in response to his rill, but to habit. Certain circum tanccs will call forth certain actions, cgardless of his own volition, so the naii is put through a regular course if practical railroading before he is Employed at all. The applicant for a position must lot only be able to answer the ques> ions at an examination-he must give lis replies without hesitation or he is .ejected. Thc habit of quick action mist be strong upon him. Long experience and close observa ion have demonstrated that most men if'.er the age of 30 or 35 are not capa jle of acquiring this habit. The fu ure trainman must begin young. So, n this, as in other branches of learn ing, Hie pupils are youthful. A Now IVrinlnc Development. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has nade public an interesting project of dis department that promises to add to the arable area of the United States a region almost as large as the state of Illinois. He has recently made a tour in person through what is known as the "burnt districts" in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. These are tracts formerly covered with forests, but left denuded of timber by the lumbermen. Fire has followed the axe, destroying the undergrowth and all other voge:ation, leaving a scorched wilderness, dotted with millions of blackened -stumps. The northern latitude of these lands makes them desirable for settlement by immigrants from Norway. Sweden Russia. The land is naturally fer tile, but will require labor in clearing. Specialists of the agricultural depart ment are now making investigations i*d experiments to ascertain precisely what crops can be raised most eco nomically and profitably. They have already demonstrated the certainty o? profit in winter wheat, oats, one va riety of corn, potatoes and other tub ers. The secretary predicts that a few years will see this desolate region transformed into one of the most productive farming districts in tho country. This is a signal example of tho value of applied science in this useful branch nf the national govern ment.-New York Mail and Express. Klectrlclty In A ?rlcnlf tire. An effort is b"'ng made in Sweden to usc electricity in agriculture. A seed field is covered by a network of wire and a strong electric current is turned on during nights and chilly days, ont cut off during sunny and warr.: weather. Tho system was invented by Prof es .or Lemstrom, of Hcis'ugfors, Finland. Of thc ten'hors in the elementary schools of England in 1900, 80,057 were women and 28,978 men, a major ity of nearly two-thirds. Large shinments of M? best makes of wagons aid buggies just received. 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