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Jiumorous Department. - i After the Honeymoon. They had been married just three weeks and during that time had remained at home with each other every evening. This was the beginning of the fourth week. "Harry, dear," said the young bride, "can't you hurry home from the office this evening, and go with me to call on Minnie Jackson?" "Let me see; this is Monday," said the young husband, thoughtfully. "Really, I can't possibly tonight, my ? ? ? - .t - T\ T> O dear. I am R. P. S. y. or ine d. x%.. o., and this is the regular meeting night. I am just compelled to be there." "You can go tomorrow evening then, can't you?" "I am sorry, but the P. O. O. D. lodge meets Tuesday evening, and as there are four candidates to put through the s'teenth degree, I wouldn't care to miss the meeting." "Well, surely, you can go with me Thursday evening?" "Certainly, I can go with you on that evening?no, come to think about it. I can't possibly go on Thursday. You see the Independent Order " "Oh, these horrid lodges!" exclaimed vnim? hririe. "Do vou expect to spend every evening away from me?" "I could go with you Wednesday evening," suggested the young husband. "I couldn't go then," she said. "The Clover Leaf Club meets Wednesday night and I will have to go there." "How would Friday night do?" he asked. "Why, Harry, you know our literary club meets on that night and I am down for an important number. I couldn't think about missing that." "Well," said the young husband, as he scratched his head in a thoughtful manner, "I don't see what we are going to do about it. I am secretary of the Third Ward Building and Loan association and that meets Saturday night, and of course you will have to go to church Sunday night, as you are a member of the choir. I am afraid we will not be able to make that call on Minnie Jackson unless we can make the week longer."?Atlanta Journal. A Rejected Favor.?They boarded an open trolley ear. Silks, feathers and flowers decked the girl, while the young man smoothed his new pepperand-salt trousers with pride. They had eyes and ears for each other alone, and when the girl received a sharp rap on the shoulder from behind she uttered a little shriek. Eyes flashing, her young man turned to see a . rough, red-faced fellow offering a dainty bouquet tied with a knot of blue ribbon. "Do not notice him at all," the young man said, with great presence of mind, and looked away. Another rap upon her shoulder, and she whispered: "Harry, I think I'll cov 'Mn thank vnu.' to him. He's in toxieated as anything and may get violent if I ignore him." "Harry turned and shook his head at the man when the flowers were thrust forward again. Then they were flung in the young lady's lap. "Oh, Harry!" she cried, "111 faint. Hold me! Oh, gracious me, I knew she didn't sew them on tight. It's the bunch off the right side of my hat." "Stop the car," roared the excited Harry, and they left a^jnid the unconcealed giggles of their fellow-passengers.?New York Times. No Cause For Worry.?Proud father to his daughter: "Anna, has that young man declared his intentions to marry you yet?" Daughter?No. papa, dear: but there is no cause to worry, however. Father?How do you know there Is not? Daughter?Well, you know he is an Odd Fellow." Father?Well, I don't think that has anything to do with his paying attention to you, has it? Daughter?O yes, papa. Odd Fellows do not court young ladles like other young men. Father?O! Don't they? Daughter?No. Odd Fellows are courting young ladies by degrees.? Exchange. Naturally Smart.?Opie Read tells of an attorney in Kentucky who was driving along the road one day when U/vmoa or>/1 Kml/n Ano nf tho 11IO IIUI oc wiiiivV4 UIIU l/i vav V4IV Vfc Vi?v shafts of the buggy. He was wondering what he should do when an old darky came along. The darky saw what the trouble was, went to the side of the road, cut a hickory switch, and peeled it. With the peeling he bound the broken shaft together so that it was strong enough for the journey to be resumed. The attorney gave the Negro a coin and at the same time thanked him. "I would never have thought of mending it that way," he said. "I 'spect not," replied the darky. "Some men is jest naturally smarter than others." JtiiT Senators Hanna and Bailey met in front of the Capitol in Washington last winter and the Texas statesman said: "I just met a man who mistook me for you and wanted me to secure an Ohio postoffice for him." n nere is ne : ueinunueu oeiidiur Hnnna. in apparent anger. "I must avenge that insult." "I sent him to the hospital myself." remarked Senator Bailey. X'T "Naw," drawled the native of Kansas. "it don't pay to be too prosperous." "Where's your argument?" asked his friend. "Why, Hank Birdly had so much corn he had to pack some of it in his cyclone cellar. When a cyclone came Hank had no place to go. and it lifted him into the next state."?Philadelphia neeoru. X'T Lilly?Well, dirt you see her? Is it true? Is she really engaged to him, or is it only idle rumor? Nellie?There isn't a word of truth in it. I had a long talk with her. and told her of the men who are just wild about me: and she never said a word about him.?Brooklyn Life. ittisceUanrous Reading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, August 18: Mr. J. A. Barron returned yesterday morning from attending the encampment and visiting his home at Tlrzah Rev. T. D. Latimer of Columbus, Miss., arrived yesterday and is visiting his brothers, Mr. Georee Latimer of town, and Mr. Robert Latimer of the county Mr. H. C. Moore, a cotton broker, of Clarksville, Texas, who has been visiting Mr. P. G. McCorkle, after looking at crops around here, said that Mr. John Frazer's cotton is as good as any he has seen in Texas Miss Anna McCaw, who has been spending the past two weeks with her friends, Misses Susie Caldwell and Jeannette McDaniel, of the county, returned to her home in Yorkville yesterday morning Mr. John S. Jones of Yorkville, spent from Saturday night until yesterday morning with Mrs. Jones who has been at Dr. H. E. McConnell's for the past week. Mr. Jones is a brother-in-law of the doctor Mr. C. H. Brennecke, who suffered considerably a few days ago on account of a spider Dite, was aDie 10 come 10 we express office Saturday morning: for the first time since his illness. He is feeling very weak still Married, by Rev. J. M. Friday, Thursday, August 6th, Mr. Clarence Grant and Miss Lillie Elliott, daughter of Mr. M. A. Elliott. By the same, on Wednesday, August 12th, Mr. Samuel McCollum and Miss Annie Wade, daughter of the late EVT. Wade Judge J. J. McLure, secretary of the Carolina and North-Western Railway company, spent the greater part of last week in New York on business connected with the company. The company had four separate issues of mortgage bonds: $24,300 C. & N.-W. bonds; $340,000 first mortgage 5 per cent bonds; $110,000 C. & N.-W. bonds and $100,000 Chester and Lenoir first mortgage 7 per cent bonds. The company desired to reduce these to one issue. In the presence of four other men beside Judge McLure these separate bonds were reduced to ashes. These men, as Judge McLure declared, descended into the bowels of the earth to the furnace of the Standard Trust company, the hot test place In the world, and there burned these Issues of bonds. In their stead there is now only one Issue, gold mortgage 5 per cent bonds. Other business concerning the road's interest was also transacted. LANCASTER. Ledger, August 19: Died, on Sunday morning last, at Kershaw, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Mittie Jane Bird, wife of Mr. Lee Bird, aged about thirty years. Her husband and two small children survive her. Her remains were interred in the Kershaw cemetery after services conducted by the pastor of the Methodist church !Rev. J. M. White is arranging for a big educational rally at Unity about the first of September. Speakers will be secured and an interesting programme arranged Last Sunday three Negroes were caught playing cards by Police man Pardue and notified to meet the council Monday morning. Two of them appeared and were fined by the mayor. Frank Lowry. the other Negro boy, failed to appear and Mr. Pardue, on learning that he had just left town, phoned to Mr. Knight, deputy sheriff at the cotton mill, to stop him, Frank took to his heels to escape arrest when Mr. Knight fired at him the ball entering his back about the shoulder blade. The doctors have not been able to locate the ball. It is not thought the wound will prove serious... .After a months illness of fever, Mrs. Dora Denton, wife of Mr. Henry R. Denton of this place, and a daughter of Mr. R. J. M. Steele, died here last Sunday. Had she lived until the 14th day of next month, she would have been twenty-three years of age Heavy rains last Friday and Saturday nights did considerable damage to crops in portions of Flat Creek agid Pleasant Hill townships. Little Lynches Creek was very high and the big bridge be tween Kershaw and Halle mine was washed away, also the Sowell bridge. The dam at Mr. J. M. Klrkley's grist mill was washed out and the dams which protected his bottoms were broken. It was reported here that the chaingang tents were all washed away, but later reports say that only one tent was lost. The gang was camped near the ford at Mr. W. S. Horton's. At the ford Saturday night a team of the Kershaw B. & M. Co., was washed down stream, the driver narrowly escaping with his life and the horses only being saved from drowning by breaking out of harness and swimming to the banks. The buggy has not been found. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, August 17: Mrs. Carrie Butler was killed by lightning at King's Mountain Saturday afternoon about 5 o'clock. She lived just out of town on the farm of W. A. Mauney & Bro. We learn that the bolt struck a tree, came down the chimney, tore up the hearth, killed Mrs. Butler who was sick in a bed at the other end of the room, and set the pillow on fire. The clothing was torn off a child between the hearth and the bed. but the little one was not otherwise harmed Ever pick up a Snake in a handful of straw? It's enough to give a fellow the "creepies" for two days. One day last week. Mr. Jim Holland near Bessemer, had a narrow escape from being bitten. He was pulling straw out of a stack and thought he had a frog mixed up with it. Whpn hp tnsspH it ilnu-n thprp was a big adder spreading its head at him Roosevelt in Gastonia would hardly have drawn a bigger crowd last Sunday than the wreck at the crossing. People who looked up the side streets to Main early Sunday morning saw lots of legs and all were carrying their owners toward the wreck. Ail day long, the crowd would have averaged about a thousand persons. It was an eddying pool of people: some came in from breakfast and took the job of sight-seeing for those who wanted to scurry home and get a bit and then return. The crowd grew and grew, and then a few-sight-seers turned away to go to Sunday school and to church. In the afternoon, they came back?and there were others. Just before night the C. & N.-W.'s wrecking crew arrived and went to work. They kept at it until the hard rain late at night. At night-fall the crowd was large, numbering perhaps far in excess of 1,000?men and women, old and young, white and black, In vehicles, on horseback, on foot. And they added something to their education?they learned how some very difficult things could be done with ease. There was one pulpit reference made to the scenes of the day. Rev. A. P. Pugh at the Baptist church Sunday night spoke about the collision in the human soul when good triumphed over evil and how necessary it was that first of all the evil wreckage should be removed and the track cleared for the free use of righteous influence Who are those railroad people? Well, here are the names of a few: C. M. Henrylight is master of the section force. He is from Salisbury or Spencer. There are Superintendent H. Baker and Train Master A. P. Cone from Charlotte. J. L. Davidson is the C. & N.-W. train master. He is from Chester. E. E. Henley of Chester is the road supervisor. Wrecking Master Wll- ' son is righting things for the C. & ' N.-W and Bob Smyre is ready to give ' a lift with his engine Engineer Donelson's locomotive No. 63 was de- j railed at the Loray yesterday morning, i He is doing shift work between Charlotte and Blacksburg. Going out on 1 the siding for some cars, his engine i fUrAMtti Ktr ho a Vi a rn Piirva. Of t wao iui unit uj iiiv ?/? * . -w. v. the three big new engines here in Gas- | tonia none could help?curve too sharp. So the yard engine from | Charlotte, the one with the headlight I on the tender, was sent out to do the ' work. It was shorter coupled than the others and "got there" ail right, but it was nearly night before the engine i that was off again got on again and I was gone again. 1 TREED BY A BULL. 1 Amenities of Teaching School In Fair < Wyoming. Driven to take refuge on the top of i the schoolhouse by what is described as a "large and furious-looking bull." held captive on the roof for three long, weary hours, is the strange and exciting adventure that befell Miss Retta ( Heiteshew, a pretty young school I teacher at Garrett, and seven of her pupils one morning recently. The pupils were assembling for the morning classes when the bull marked them as his legitimate prey. Mayhap he took offence at a red skirt or auburn hair worn by some of the children. 1 Mayhap he wished to join In the game of "tag" that was being played by the scholars before school "took up." Or ' mayhap?well, whatever "mayhap" entered his fancy (if he has one), he suddenly started things going at this knowledge dispensary In the state of Wyoming. The bull bellowed and pawed the ground as if to attract the teacher's attention and then charged the scholars. The youngsters Immediately ran for the schoolhouse, and reaching It a few lengths ahead of the bull, entered quickly and closed the door. The. bull, not to be baffled In his desire to go to school," attempted to en ter through the window. But this inlet proving too small for his huge frame, after breaking it he turned his attention to the door. Two charges reduced the door to kindling wood and made an opening large enough for the bull to enter. The teacher and her pupils had, In the meantime, escaped through the broken window. The bull, after knocking desks, inkwells and books around and demolishing things in general, left the building to seek the scholars. Miss Heiteshew and two pupils were on the ground and the other five were on the roof. When they saw the bull coming toward them again teacher and pupils started on a run for an outbuilding about 150 yards distant. The race between the teacher and pupils and the bull wad close and exciting. The bull was not disconcerted at his defeat in sprinting. He backed off a few yards, and then with head lowered and his eyes gleaming viciously, charged down upon the outhouse. Just before the impact the teacher and two pupils slipped out. The bull crashed through the door, tearing it from its hinges. The impact broke off one of the boards at the back, and, sticking his head through the aperture, he carried the house for some distance. Before the animal could disentangle itself. Miss Heiteshew and the two pu pi Is reached a place of safety on the roof of the schoolhouse. The bull kept guard for three hours while the teacher and her scholars sat on the roof. Miss Heiteshew and her oldest girl pum pil have borrowed six-shooters and are spending all their recess time at a traget shaped like a bull. They vow they will kill the bull if it ever trespasses on school ground again.?Garrett, Wyo., letter to Denver Post. Crbaturks Span op Life.?Elephants live a hundred years and upward, rhinoceros twenty, camel a hundred. lions twenty-five to seventy, tigers, leopards, jaguars and hyenas (in confinement) about twenty-five, beaver fifty, deer twenty, wolf twenty, fox fourteen to sixteen, llamas fifteen, chamois twenty-five, monkeys and baboons sixteen to eighteen, hare eight, squirrels seven, rabbit seven, \T I hare thirty, ass thirty, sheep under ten, cow twenty, ox thirty, swans, parrots and ravens two hundred, eagle one hundred, geese eighty, hens and pigeons ten to sixteen, hawks thirty to forty, crane twenty-four, blackbird ten to twelve, peacock twenty, pelican forty to fifty, thrush eight to ten, wren two to three, nightingale fifteen, linnet fourteen to twenty-five, blackcap fifteen, goldfinch twenty to twentyfour, redbreast ten to twelve, skylark ten to thirty-five, titlark five to six, chaffinch twenty to twenty-four, starling ten to twelve, cary seventy to a hundred and fifty, pike thirty to? forty. salmon sixteen, codfish fourteen to seventeen, eel ten, crocodile one hundred, tortoise one hundred to two hundred. whale, estimated one thousand, queen bees live four years, drone four months, worker bees six months.?Detroit News Tribune. She ^tory letter. P0UR-P0INT-8EYEN. By WALTER WOOD. Copywright, 1903, by T. C. McClure. Four-Point-Seven was attached to aD expedition operating against a strongly Intrenched body of Boxers. An admiral commanded, and it was his purpose to reach and destroy the enemy before thev could muster in greater force. "Four-Point-Seven," said Jock to a comrade at the end of the first march, "Is a useful creature, but a big, uuwillin' lump. What I want to know is why Four-Point-Seven? Why not maxims or pompoms or mountain guns?somethin' you can bring with you if you want 'em; eh, Harry?" "Bring 'em away from heathen Chinee!" exclaimed the comrade. "Never! There's no turnin' back on this journey." "I've been in China before," said Jock, "an' I know the breed. We've only a handful after all, an' if we're overpowered"? For five days the expedition forced Its way into the land of the enemy, sometimes meeting and beating him and sometimes advancing unopposed. The commanding officer then began to thnf RllCf'MS whh not to follow him and gave the word for a return to the place from which they had started. By this time a number of the officers and men had been killed, disease was breaking out, and the number of the sick and wounded grew. Not a shot had been fired by FourPoint-Seven, and her weakened crew dragged disappointedly at the heavy bulk. The retreat was kept up for two full days; then it was known that n horde of imperial troops was following to cut off stragglers. It's more a case of cut up than cut off if they get us," said Jock, by way of grim jest. "Will the admiral never tell us to heave her Into the nearest hole?" But th?e was no need for a command like that. One of the wheels of the carriage sank deep into a bed of mud. and the most furious efforts of the crew could not get it out. Lieutenant Reeder was among the wounded. He had been shot through both ankles and could not walk. Jock and Harry were among the sick and ooow,oiv nrnwl Thpv wntohed with languid Interest while the admiral's order that the gun should be destroyed and the ammunition burled was given. At the same time the sick and wounded were placed on the ground near Four-Point-Seven. Reeder watched earnestly. He understood before the admiral came up to him to explain. "I've got to leave you," said the admiral. "God knows how I feel about it. but It's the only way." "I understand that, sir," said Reeder. "I know it will take you all your time to get away with those who are sound, let ulone the cripplep and the sick. But leave us the gun, sir, and a shell." "Be it so." said the admiral, "and goodby." "Goodby, sir," answered Reeder. He raised himself a little as he spoke, but, exhuusted witn tue enorr, ue sun* back. It seemed long before the lieutenant heard a sound of any sort. Then he raised his head and looked sharply across the country before him, for he heard the sound of distant marching. But nothing met his gaze. His head sank back. Jock and Harry heard the noise also. "Is it to be a case of tryin' to run for it after all." asked Harry, "or squattin' 'ere till they come on?" "Wait for 'em," said Jock grimly. "But we shan't wait long. It'll soon be over when they see us, an' they can't miss. They're walkln' straight on top of us." "I've told you, men," said Reeder sternly, whose sharp ears had caught the sounds, "that I won't have you either talking or moving. Put your rifles down and shut your mouths. If this move fails then blaze away as hard as you please, only, in mercy's sake, give me a shot first and keep a nrtnnln tr\f Trrmraolvpa Thflt '11 be bet V.VU|/IV 4.V4 J VM?ww?f vwt ? ? ter shift than ever you'll get from devils like these." They raised their heads a little, but even yet did not see what the lieutenant's purpose was. "Jock," said Reeder, after a pause. "Sir," answered the seaman. "Can you climb on to your pins for two minutes? Help's coming. I'm sure of that. The admiral was pretty certain or he wouldn't have gone and left us here. Can you lend a hand? You're about the only one left among us that can stand." Jock forced himself Into a sitting position. Without saying a word he struggled to his feet, stood on them for a full second and sank to the ground. He gave a snort, nara rnugn. "You've seen that exhibition, sir. What do you think?" "Why," answered Reeder stoutly, "I think you can, my lad. Jock,.you've got to." Tut It as an order, sir," said Jock, with a strange light In his eyes. "Can you stand an' walk yourself at all?" "I can crawl a bit," said the lieutenant. "So can I," said a feeble voice near him. "Why, Harry," said Reeder, "I thought you were"? "So did I, sir, but I'm not?not yet Can you do as Jock says, sir?make it an order, like? Give us the word to fall in, sir?rap it out well. Then we can't help it. Force of habit '11 see us through." "Full in!" said Reeder in a loud, firm voice. Jock and Harry struggled to their feet. They tottered; but, supporting each otlier, they did not succumb. "Keep it up, sir," said Hurry. "I feel the strength coinin' buck to my bones as if I'd had a nip of grog." "Lug me up to the gun," ordered Reeder. The men bent down and took an arm each. They helped but feebly, yet the lieutenant got over the ground toward the weapon. Four-Point-Seven had stopped sinking and wus now lying forlornly on one side with the muzzle and the breech near the ground, so near that men could load her while on their knees. To any one approaching over the primitive road the gun and the sick and wounded were alike Invisible a thousand yards away. "Prop me up here against this stone," continued the lieutenant, "and be smart about it, my lads." He smiled as he gave the order. "That's the ticket, sir!" exclaimed Harry, with a grin. "It's as good as a pantymime." "It mokes a first rate chair, sir?the ~ +Ka o/vff An r?+V* #Ar BlUiit; iui a uui;ii au iuc ouu catiu iv? a seat," commented Jock when they had helped the lieutenant to a sitting posture. "If you'd like an armchair I can get. you a couple of stones to put your elbows on." "No. thank you; I want my elbows free," answered the lieutenant. "Give her a bit of a list to port, if you can. Just a touch up with that handspike. There; that's enough. No# she has an uninterrupted view from her one eye of the roadway. Now. if all's tight, make yourselves scarce in the ditch here." Jock and Harry, exhausted with their labors, did as they were ordered. The lieutenant crawled from his stone support and stretched himself upon his back near the gun, the lanyard of ;jvhich he held. "If they do come past us," he murmured. "we shall be ready to receive 'em. Now, old girl, if you never distinguished yourself before, see that you do it now. Let me see?that dismal looking tree's about 1,000 yards o-n-of Tho ahpii will patch the head of 'ein and do mischief with the body and tail unless I'm a Dutchman. Are they really here? They are coming In a bee line for us." He raised himself on his elbow and looked. The column came on, solid, resistless, It seemed, straight for the spot where Four-Point-Seven and the remnant of her crew were hidden. It was like a wall advancing. Banners were waving, and the men were crying excitedly. Those who were first among them kept stopping to examine the road, In which the footmarks of the retreating force were clearly seen. They came on like a huge pack of hounds keen on the scent and having the quarry almost visible. The mass came nearer. Reeder saw that the entire column was in the direct line of fire of Four-Point-Seven, that a shot or shell must bore a lane down the very middle of the mass and that a bursting shell must devasHo foil fl <11 ftTl hiS ! LttlC IUC 1UUCO. MM* ? face and pulled the lanyard. . There were a crash and a hiss from Four-Point-Seven. At the same lnstanc there were appalling cries and another crash, the sound of the bursting shell. Reeder, Jock and every sailor who could move rose up to mark what Four-Point-Seven had done. "They run, they run!" cried Reeder. "It's doubled 'em up! They didn't expect it, and they're demoralized." "If we could only get another In," said Harry longingly. "But we can't," Jock answered. "There's no more ammunition. Besides, look at the gun." The lieutenant looked and saw that Four-Point-Seven had been driven by the recoil deep into the earth. "Not all the men here, sir, could get her out of that," added Jock, "even if they could stand on their legs. But what is that?" Reeder turned slowly and looked to the rear. He saw men?men with white ho+a nnH hfimpts hurrvine over the ground. "They're our own people!" he exclaimed. "It's our own people reenforced and comlnfc back for us. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" he cried, waving his hand. The effort was too much for him and he fainted. When he came round he saw that ? marine artillery officer from his own ship was bending over him, offering him liquid from his water bottle. "You murdering young man," said the gunner In deep admiration. "They'll have to call you the 'plow' In future. Why, you pretty well wiped a regiment out with that shot." "Good old Four-Point-Seven!" said Reeder. "I always knew she'd do us well. She'll be a credit to us all for long enough yet If we can only get her out of the mud." "You are wrong there," said the gunner. "She'll talk no more. She can't possibly be got away from here, so as soon as we're all clear of this spot she'll be blown up. Here cones the stretcher chaps for you?you have the honor to be the last to go." A couple of marines got the lleuteaant upon a stretcher and marched off with him. When they were some hundred yards away they halted. Reeder turned and looked. Jock, from a neighboring stretcher, looked too. They saw a cloud of smoke in which were dark fragments. Then they heard the crash of an explosion. A very small fragment of steel fell near the lieutenant's right hand. He picked it up. "A bit of a gun," he muttered. "I'll keep it till the end of my days to remind me of what saved my lire, uooa oia r ourPolnt-Seven!" Jock sighed regretfully. "I always said the gun was all right If you could only get the other side to walk up an' give her a chance. They did walk up, dr." ?3" Ringtail monkeys, one of the most valuable and expensive of the smaller animals, are caught in an Interesting way. A cocoanut Is split In two and a banana with a piece of wood running through It placed lengthwise through the nut, the two halves of which are drawn together by wire. Then a hole is cut large enough for the monkey's Daw to enter. The monkey spies the tempting nut from his tree. He hops down, looks it over, sees the hole and smells the banana inside. He is fond of bananas. Putting his paw in, he grasps it, but the wood prevents it from coming out. Then the catchers appear and the monkey runs for a tree. But he cannot climb because of the cocoanut on his paw and he will not let go of that, so he is captured, pawing wildly at the tree trunk. Xv She?You know that women have the reputation of being able to make money go farther than men! He?That's just it. What I want you to do is to let it keep still where it is and let it rest a little.?Boston Commercial Bulletin. MARVEL8 OF ANCIENT TIMES. Modern Engineers Might Be Proud of Executing Such Works. When the laudator temporls actl wants to silence the engineer he says: "After all, Egypt can show the biggest engineering works In the world, and they are all 4,000 years old. When you can surpass them you will have something to boast of.'" It Is, undoubtedly, true that Egypt contains the largest structures In the world, and probably will for all time. It Is not likely that we snail again see a ouuuing wun i,000.000 tons of stone in it, as has the pyramid of Gizeh, and it will be long before we have an irrigation reservoir of greater capacity than Lake Moeris, which, accepting the figures of Major Brown, R. E., held 11,800,000,000 cubic meters (tons) of water between high and low water marks. What the Labyrinth was like we do not really know, but Herodotus classed it as a greater wonder than the pyramids, although lesser than Lake Moeris. Further, there Is a tradition that in the dim past the Nile flowed at the foot of the Libyan Hills, and that it was diverted from that course into its present bed, and if the account be true, the work was of enormous magnitude. The engineers of the past directed the forces of nature on a large scale, but to compare their work with ours 10 ineir auvumage snows a complete Ignorance of the science of engineering. The matter In which they excelled was the transportation and manipulation of heavy weights, a feat that appeals strongly lo the lay Imagination. Among the chief examples of such work are the columns of the Temple of Karnak. To cut a block of stone in a distant quarry, to work It to a cylinder twelve feet in diameter, float It down the Nile, land It and place it on the top of a column of similar stones, making a total height of sixty feet, was no small enterprise. A still more difficult undertaking was the great obelisk now standing beside the church of St. John Lateran, in Rome, with a height of 108 feet and a weight of 450 tons. But the crowning example of Egyptian engineering was the* colossal statue of Ramases II. at Thebes. Before it was broken It was a single block of red granite sixty feet in height, and it has been computed to weigh 887 tons. These were notable examples of engineering work, and a modern engineer might be proud of executing them. But It must be remembered that they were done very leisurely, and that labor was abundant. With the simple appliances that we may assume the Egyptians possessed, such as wedges, levers, rope and pulley, great weights may be handled if we suppose that time was no object. The city of Thebes was in course of building 2,000 years, and in such a place it would excite little comment if a year was spent in putting an obelisk into position. If a weight can be moved at all, no matter how little, it can be transported any distance provided the same conditions persist for the whole route. Tornadoes and Cyclones.?It is difficult to teach the people the difference between a cyclone and a tornado. When the dispatches announced a few days ago that a cyclone had formed down about the Barbadoes and was moving in the direction of Cuba, and would reach the states about Thursday, people began to fear and tremble. They have been taught to call tornadoes cyclones, consequently they tremble when one is expected. The cyclone tViot ponoVino fho C/tii + Vi A tlonHo o f Q foa LilUL I V.UV. I * O VIIV kJVUlll V 4 tA V i We are | i E?" j To help you make i it ought to be ani A factor in promot A your business. V j very much if you ^ portunity to talk ^ printing, show k. f quote prices. Wc (possible service f( print everything \ line, as well as ments, Catalogue a We will thank yo x Yours ver I | L. n. GRIST'S I ^ftATES ON THE SUMf <9hllTHrDU KHHIIIUin ? Con ^*Jn ? Mai lUILWAf V.,T??. ~ ^ Pasa. Traffic Mp WASH1NOTON, D. ( generally begins In the neighborhood of the Barbadoes, about 1,500 miles southeast of Cedar Keys. It moves In a northwest direction through the Islands and gulf until It reaches Florida. 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