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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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