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A Dead Sttre Thing.?"Say, Brother
Smith, how is it your lodge is taking
in so many members, while my lodge
has not had an application for six
months?" asks the voice.
"Mine friendt und brudder, you don't
undershtand de pishness."
"What has that to do with it? We
have fine speakers in our lodge who
urge the members each week to work
for the order, and their speeches are
sublime."
"Yep, dot vas fine; but, dear friendt,
did you errer nunt auctts mu a u>?oo
bandt?'
"What do you mean?"
"It vas dis vay: If you want new
members you don't want to serenade
dem mit fine speeches, but yoost capture
dem. You must work as eferding.
Ven you courts a pretty girl you yoost
look into her eyes und make her pelieve
de moon is made of green sheese,
und she is yours ef you keep up to de
front. Ven our lodge vants a new
member we gets out and hustle. We
fasten ourselves to his buttonhole, und
we don't let him escape?O no! We
stay py him, keep at him, talk to him,
till he can't see, und shake him till his
suspenders cracks. Ef we done git
x him. we bury him mit honors, und
look for anudder victim. In dis vay
our lodge grows fast, py our keeping
to de front, und doing our own nuailing.
Different lodges have different
vays of getting candidates, but ours
is a dead sure thing."?Atlanta Journal.
The Discriminating Tile.?An Irish
barrister named Sidney is fond of telling
this story of the days of his early
practice. He was defending a boy who
was suspected of having entered a
house through a window in order to
open a door and admit a couple of
burglars. The evidence against him
was that a hat found on the floor below
the window?a hat which the police
declared the prisoner had been in
the habit of wearing and which he
could not produce when called upon
to do so. Sidney in his defense explained
to the jury that there were
thousands of those hats worn dally. A
verdict of not guilty was returned, and
Sidney turned to his client. "Go home
to your mother, my poor boy," he said.
But the boy lingered. "If you please,
sorr?" "Go home, my boy," repeated
cirinov with pmohasis. But the boy
had something to say and meant to |
say it. "Please, sorr," he cried at
the top of his voice, as he pointed to
the incriminating head covering, which
lay on the solicitor's table, "please
sorr, may I have my hat now?"
How He Got It.?A good story is
told about a former member of the
Missouri legislature. Before his election
he was chronically "broke."
When he returned from Jefferson City,
he exhibited $500 in good, crisp greenbacks.
Some of his friends "jollied"
him about his prosperity.
"You didn't have a cent when you
went to the legislature, did you,
Jones?" said one of them.
"Not a blamed cent." said Jones.
"As a matter of fact I lent you half
?i 1 T 0??
your ranroaa xare, uxuu u x;
"I believe you did."
"Well, you were down in Jefferson
City about forty days. You got 55 a
day. Now, what the gang wants to
know is how you managed to save $500
out of a total income of $200."
"Come closer," whispered Jones, "and
I'll tell you how I did it. I had my
washing done at home."?Kansas City
Journal.
A Lesson In Punctuation.?A Philadelphia
schoolgirl said to her father I
the other night:
"Daddy, I've got a sentence I'd like
to have you punctuate. You know
something about punctuation, don't
you?"
"Yes, a little," said her cautious father
as he took the slip of paper she
handed him.
This is what he read.
"A five dollar bill flew around the
corner.
He studied it carefully, and finally
said:
"Well, I'd simply put a period after
it, like this."
"I wouldn't," said the high school
girl.
"I'd make a dash after it."?Public
Ledger.
Wanted Them Lumped.?At the first
commencement of Washington college
after General Lee was elected its president.
sixteen young men delivered orations,
many of which abounded in
flattering allusions to the president
general.
General Lee became more and more
restive, and finally asked Frotessor
Allen how many inore of them were to
speak.
"Only four, if you need it. general,"
replied the professor.
The general drew up his chair and
whispered: "Could not you arrange it,
professor, for all four to speak at once?
I can't stand quite so much praise to
the face when it's spun out."
Not an English Bulldog.?The
Irish rebuke is seldom bitter or priggish.
but it generally finds its mark,
and one which the London Star records
is not an exception.
A snobbish young Englishman accompanied
by a small dog recently got
into a street car and sat down opposite
an Irishman. The latter was immediately
attracted by the animal and, aftnl'
CAtVIU UllfflOAAO \1'V? 1IPAMA LuttrvWi
ivi oviiiv. uu?uuvco n tuvil H CIC uaugll*
tily received by the master, asked outright
what kind of a dog it was.
"It is a cross between an ape and
an Irishman," was the loud voice reply.
"Faith, thin, we're both related to
th' baste." retorted the Irishman cheerfully.
Tub Gator Called a Halt.?As
Brother Williams was preparing to
baptize a convert in the mill pond, the
convert said:
"Bre'r Williams, ain't dat a alligator
on dat log yander?"
"Hit sho' is," exclaimed Bre'r Williams.
"en a ten-foot one at dat."
"What we gwine do 'bout it?"
"Well." replied Bre'r Williams, 'de
water mighty col- ter-day, en dey's
lots er pneumony gwine 'roun'; en.
'sides dat. you ain't fittin' ter be baptized.
nohow. Go 'long home en pray
over yo' sins."
ittiscrUancouj: ^fading.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More
or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, August 21: Mrs. T. M.
Dobson and Misses Maggie McFadden
and Ella Cody of Yorkville, spent Wednesday
in town on their return from
Lancaster to Yorkville Col. W. G.
Stephenson of the King's Mountain
Miutnrv apfldemv. Dassed through
town yesterday evening on his way to
Yorkville Mr. Alexander Crawford,
who has been a salesman in Mr.
E. A. Crawford's store for more than
a year, went to his home at McConnellsville
yesterday evening, where he
will remain until Clemson college
opens, about September 1st, when he
will enter college. Mr. Crawford, in
his quiet way, made many friends during
his stay in town The Hazelwood
rifles are formulating plans to
give a big barbecue and picnic on
September 3rd at Cornwell. They hope
to have a battalion drill parade on
that day and with this in view they
have invited the military companies at
Liberty Hill, Fort Mill. Rock Hill and
Chester to be present and participate
in the exercises. Adjutant and Inspector
General John D. Frost has also
been invited and it is expected that
he will deliver a military speech If he
can make it convenient to attend. On
account of a great many members of
these companies being employed in
stores, etc., it is rearea mat tney cannot
be present, but the barbecue and
picnic will be held anyway, and a good
time is expected As little Eugene
Ward, the four or five-year-old son
of Superintendent Ward of the Eureka
mills, was attempting to cross the railroad
track at the Eureka yesterday
afternoon, he was struck by a hand
car and his thigh and collar bone were
broken and a gash was cut in his head.
Drs. Pryor and Miller gave the little
boy all the relief possible as soon as
they could reach him. They cannot
yet tell the extent of the injuries, nor
what will be the result.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, August 22: Mr. William
Wherry died at the home of his father,
Mr. F. M. Wherry, near Antioch
church in this county, at 1 o'clock a.
m., after an illness of three weeks of
fever. Mr. Wherry was about twentyfive
years of age. He engaged in business
here the first of this year, running
a market with Mr. Porter on the
Davis corner. In the spring he returned
to the farm, and since the esnf
IT TV rnntps ill this
lauiioiiiiivuw v* a . . VM.?
county In July has been Installing
mail boxes on the routes. He was a
young man of pleasing manners and
was liked by all who knew him. His
remains were taken to Lesslle In York
county, his former home, yesterday
for Interment Cards announcing
the approaching marriage of Mr. J. H.
Craig of Birmingham, Ala., a son of
Mr. B. H. Craig of this county, to Miss
Dennie Watts, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James S. Watts of Oakman, Ala.
have been received by friends and relatives
of the prospective groom in this
county. The happy event will take
place Wednesday, September 2d, 1903.
In the First Baptist church at Oakman.
....It was generally thought that gall
stone occasioned the death of our esteemed
townsman, Mr. J. M. Heath,
and it was so stated in the account of
his demise in our last issue, but Dr.
Mackey informs us that an autopsy
rovoniod that death was caused by the
bursting of an aortic aneursim near
the liver and pressing against the paucereas.
An operation could have
availed nothing. Death was inevitable.
Mr. John S. Wright, a carpenter,
formerly of this county, died at
Camden last Friday of chronic dysentery,
aged a"bout fifty-five years. He
married Miss Lon, a daughter of the
late Uriah Gandy of Cedar Creek
township, this county. He leaves several
children surviving him. His remains
were taken to Rock Hill Saturday
and buried by the side of his
wife. He was a member of Walnut
Camp W. O. W., and carried $1,000
insurance in the fraternity.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, August 21: Mr.
Legare Carson, whose right arm was
crushed a year ago while he was coupling
cars near Greenville, was awarded
$6,500 damages last Tuesday by the
supreme court of South Carolina, A
verdict for this amount was rendered
in the lower court last November, and
the railway company appealed. On
Tuesday the judgment of the lower
court was affirmed. Mr. Carson is
well-known in Gastonia and his friends
will be interested to know of his success
in the suit Miss Carrie Caldwell
of Sharon. York county, arrived
yesterday morning to visit her aunt,
Mrs. John H. Adams Messrs. Geo.
Gullick, W. A. Leeper, Robert Ratchford,
and J. D. B. McLean were among
the South Point visitors in town yes*
???,i
ici uu>. ?? c aiu ui j jri, sum xui. iuvLean,
"there hasn't been rain enough
to run in my yard since July."
Cotton is opening. The first open boll
we have seen was brought in yesterday
afternoon from his father's farm
by Master Averitt McLean. Who will
bring the first bale of cotton? Mr.
Forrest Floyd went to Steele Creek
this week to take Mrs. Floyd and the
children over to visit her father. Mr.
H. D. Smith. He informed the Gazette
that the fine ginnery, planing mill and
saw mill of Mr. J. P. Stroup was destroyed
by fire Wednesday noon. The
fire started in the shavings at the planer.
The plant was new and" cost $3,000
or $4,000. Insurance $1,400. Mr. Jim
Boyd also lost a lot of lumber on the
yard Mr. Hugh Nichols and little
son. George of Wild wood. Fla_, arrived
Monday for a short visit to Dr. and
\ltv 10 10 nhmti
noon they left for Piedmont Springs,
where Mr. Nichols will spend sometime
for his health Mrs. Miles Johnson
arrived yesterday afternoon from Harris
Lithia Springs, and stopped over
with Mrs. R. L. Johnson ;enroute to
her home in Rock Hill.
Not n> tt? Kxi'kitations.?A good
story was told by the Karle of Yarmouth.
who recently married Miss
Thain of Pittsburg, on his return to
Fhigland. < >ne evening shortly before
their wedding the nobleman and his
bride-elect were the guests at a dinner
at the house of a prominent Pittsburg
family. The meal was enfamile
and the little nine-year-old daughter
of the host was the earl's vis-a-vis,
Not once did she take her eyes off his
lordship's face, and finallv asked:
"Are you a real English lord?"
The nobleman, laughingly, said that
he was. The little girl, after a few
moments of silence, said thoughtfully:
"I never saw an English lord before
(and I have always been so anxious to
see a real one."
"And now that vou have seen one,
you are satisfied, aren't you?" said his
lordship, laughingly.
"No," said the little miss frankly,
"I am not satisfied. I am very much
disappointed."?Philadelphia Press.
SAFE-BREAKING SO EASY NOW.
Pinkerton Man Says There Are Few
Clever Burglars Left.
, "Any safe in the world that has a
square door can be opened in half an
hour, and all of the materials needed
are a half pint of nitro-glycerine, a
cake of laundry soap and a five-cent
fuse."
This was the opinion expressed recently
by T. H. Tollotson, western division
chief of the Pinkerton agency,
who has run to earth many supposedly
Kor>lr hnpcrlnrs In thp last ten
years. Mr. Tollotson does not possess
a very high opinion of the modern banfc
burglar.
"It no longer requires intelligence and
executive ability to crack a safe," said
he. "There was a time when the safe
cracksman was the aristocrat of theifdom.
Nowadays he is as likely to be a
tramp as not. I have picked them off
brakebeams with enough nltro-glycerine
in a bottle in their pockets to have
blown the coach to atoms if it had fallen
to the track.
"In the old days a bank burglar's kit
of tools was large and heavy. It consisted
of steel wedges, drills, sledge
hammers and screw jacks. The dooi
of a safe had to be literally torn off iri
sections, with a powder explosion now
and then to assist the operation. It
was an all-night job for three or four
men and they went after vaults thai
had big money inside them.
"They have no counterparts nowadays.
The bank burglar of modem
times is content with small returns
Isolated country banks where there is
no police protection and pursuit cannot
be organized for hours are his chiel
prey. Then big 'guns' of a quarter ol
a century ago would never kill. Adam
u'hnm tho Plnlrprfon acrenc\
respects as the greatest thief of the
century, never carried a revolver anc1
would not associate with any croofc
who carried one. He did not care tc
face a murder charge. The safe blowei
of today goes armed to the teeth anc
shoots to kill.
"In the iast three years we have
caught thirty safe blowers in this section
and only two of them had police
records. This is because a new methoc
of cracking has been invented anc
every tramp in the country knows how
it is done. It is so simple a process
that hundreds of hoboes go into the
business every year.
"They travel in pairs or trios, and after-spotting
a crib gain all the information
they can about the habits of tne
town marshal. They plan to pull ofl
the burglary just before a freight trair
is due to start, or often they steal c
1 Viot'a tflorr
nurse tutu uugg.v auu ua>E i?e
ready to drive across country and catch
a train. A tramp hangout, such as is
found close to every western t*>\\;n, is
headquarters, and this is far. enough
away to keep out of sight of officers
Stormy nights are most favored, wher
the wind is banging shutters and otherwise
making a noise.
"Nitro-glycerine is not for sale ir
stores, but dynamite is. The burglai
buys a stick or two, unwraps it and puts
it in a can of boiling water. After il
simmers for a few hours he has a neal
batch of the 'dope,' nitro-glycerine
This, being heavier than water, sinks
to the bottom. The water is drainec
off and the nitro poured into a bottle
"It is necessary that the bottle musl
be filled to the cork. If even a smal
space is left for the mass to slosh
around it might blow up its possessor
The stuff is highly explosive, so much
so that if you stand a bottle of it or
a table and shoot off a gun in the nexl
room there will be 'something doin'
right away.
"When the chap goes to town h?
Vtoncro I n a littlp hner tiec
to a string and hung next his chest, sc
that if arrested the stuff will not be
found. The remainder of his kit consists
of a cake of soap, a piece ol
soft putty, a fuse and some matches.
"One man only enters. The others
stand guard and block off inquisitive
citizens roused by the noise. The mar
inside works in the dark and with rapidity.
He pastes the soap or putty al
around' the safe door, closing the cracp
completely save at one spot, at the top
Here he forms the soap or putty intc
a little cup and pours the liquid nitre
into it. This seeps down and into the
space between the door and safe, and
the burglar keeps pouring until the safe
is full.
"Then he takes his fuse, a blac*
string the length of a lead pencil, with
a detonating cap on the end, puts this
cap into the putty cap at the top oi
the door and lights the other end. He
crouches behind the safe or on one side
of it and awaits the explosion. If the
man understands his business it is nol
a loud one. In our investigations we
have found that about one in ten is
heard by people outside of the bank
e.en by those living upstairs.
"But it makes a terrific racket inside.
One fellow told me he was as
deaf as a post for days after each
wrecking. The nitro-glycerine simply
rips the door to pieces and opens a
place for the burglar to reach in. He
lights a piece of candle, overhauls the
contents as swiftly as he can, makes a
bundle of them and lights out.
Lr io on elmnlu ??r?H ftlliflflv
done that not once in ten times are the
thieves caught. Before daylight comes
they are miles away, hidden in some
wooded place. If the haul is a big one
they divide it and separate. Western
banks to the number of 300 have been
looted in the last five or six years, until
it has become necessary to band together.
organize a mutual protection
society and turn the Pinkertons loose
on every case. This has lessened the
thing for a time, but there are periodic
outbreaks.
"Recently I rounded up three men
who had served terms for bank-breaking.
<>u each we found half a pint of
nltro-glycerine. They had fifty pieces
of fuse, two revolvers apiece, a shotgun
in a box. a bar of yellow soap, thirty
rounds of cartridges and three dozen
sandwiches. Their leader told me
the sandwiches were to eat while they
were making their escape across country
from a bank they had spotted to
rob that night.
"The only way to prevent these robberies
is to pass strict laws against
carrying nitro, search all tramps that
come to town and make it a penitentiary
offence for fellows with these outfits
in their possession."
THE ATTACK ON FORT FISHER.
[ The Greatest Assault In the History of
Naval Warfare.
At Fort Fisher, just below Wilmingi
ton. on the North Carolina coast, the
survivors of the long bombardment
that ended on January 15, 1865, are to
; gather in reunion. Federals of the attacking
force and the Confederate defenders
are to meet together there and
talk over the stirring scenes of war
i time. Some writers have pronounced
this the "heaviest bombardment since
the invention" of gunpowder, but since
i the civil war it may have been excelled.
Col. William Lamb, the defender of
the fort, who still lives in Norfolk, in
i his account of the battle, states that
the fort extended across the peninsula
682 yards, with twenty heavy guns
mounted, two mortars and four pieces
of light artillery. The sea face was
' 1,898 yards long, mounting twenty-five
heavy guns, and the mound battery
, was sixty feet high. The fort was
i constructed by General Whiting and
[ Colonel Lamb and guarded the port of
. Wilmington, where most of the block;
ade-runners carried their supplies to
the Confederates. Defending the fort
were 1,431 men.
On December 24, the Federal fleet,
, composed of the Ironsides, four moni
tors and forty-five wooden steam frii
gates, began the assault. For five
i hours the fire was terrific, over-10,000
; shot and shell being poured on the
fort. Only twenty-three men were
I wounded, however. On Christmas day
I Admiral Porter's fleet made a second
f attempt, reinforced by another monitor
and several other wooden ships, raininir
flown on thp fort (530 shots a min
ute. On that day five men were killed
and thirty-three wounded, while two
> guns exploded. Still the fort did not
succumb.
In January the Federals returned to
: the attack with what was said to have
been the largest naval force evergath!
ered in one command in America,
nearly sixty vessels. They carried over
i 600 cannon, and the projectiles in a
' single discharge weighed 22 tons. The
: Confederate infantry that had aided
in protecting the fort from assault on
: the peninsular side had been withdrawn,
General Terry landed 8,500 Fed
erals and cut of communication bei
tween the fort and Bragg's army. All
day and ail night on the 13th and 14th
> of January the immense fleet kept up
a ceaseless bombardment. Col. Lamb
t relates that "no meals could be pref
pared for the exhausted garrison: the
i dead could not be buried without new
r casualties. Fully 200 had been killed
* during these two days, and only three
I of four of the land guns remained ser:
viceable." General Whiting and Col.
> Lamb were both badly wounded. Cut
* off from their own army, after resistl
lng so long this overwhelming force,
the garrison surrendered on January
15, having lost about 500 men. The
Federals had lost 1,445 and had carried
> the fort only after the greatest assault
I that up to that time had been made in
I the history of naval warfare.
Among the hundred acts of heroism,
' that of Private Christopher C. Bland is
J notable. There were no halyards on
the flagpole, and he volunteered to
climb the pole and place the battle-flag
* there. In a perfect storm of shot and
5 shell he climbed to the top, and unfurl?
ed the Stars and Bars. A shell cut
I lnr?QP fho tnn nn/1 with qhplls hnratlne
1 all around him and himself a target for
1 the marksmen of the fleet, he climbed
1 it again and fastened the banner firm5
Jy to the staff. For less than that Ser'
geant Jasper at Moultrie won undying
1 fame.?Baltimore Sun.
1 A DRAMATIC LAWYER.
, Effective Climax That Resulted In Setting
a Murderer Free.
' Lachaud, the great French advocate,
[ was renowned for deliberate but telling
. dramatic improvisations, as it were,
' upon the original theme.
' At one time, for instance, he was de
rtA/tnmKar OA
? icuuiiig a Jiiuiucici vii xycLciiiMWi w <.
I All day long he harassed witnesses, re1
calling them, causing delay after delay
[ before getting his final address to the
i jury. It was well on in the evening
\ before he commenced. Then suddenly,
at the height of his passionate ap?
peals for the prisoner, the slow, solemn
I bells of the cathedral next door pealed
} forth the midnight mass?the first mass
[ of Christmas morning. Lachaud stopf
ped as if overwhelmed by a' sudden
warning.
"Do you hear?" he said solemnly
after a moment's silence, and his manner
conveyed that all his own glib
eloquence had been shattered by the
divine interruption of Christ himself.
"The Redeemer comes to amend our
pitiable endeavors. Which of us would
j" dare now, on this great day of mercy
> and forgiveness, to condemn another
human being and, above all, to con:
demn one whose culpability is more
J than doubtful?"
f The prisoner was acquitted without
! the least difficulty, though his death
; sentence ten minutes before had been
> regarded as certain. The actual sound
' of the pealing bells had been too much
1 for nerves already strained to snapping
point by the fatigue of a long day's sitting.
1 But nobody guessed, except the few
! who knew Lachaud intimately, that
L he had been maneuvering from the
t time the court opened In the morning
to get that one stirring effect. The
prisoner was a dead man without it
and saved as certainly if it could be
' brought off successfully.?Kansas City
[ Independent.
' Sorxu and Pi'kv.?A lawyer who
1 spent the briefless days of his career
in New York city, and is now a successful
practitioner in the west tells
1 in the New York Mail and Express
how a master of the telling phrase
taught him to curb the thunderous
voice with which nature endowed
him.
Ill those days he was "a vociferous
cub," in his own phrase, until Justice
P. Henry Dugro lifted him into the
seventh heaven of judicial approbation?and
suddenly let him down
again.
He had been assaulting the eardrums
of the court for ten minutes, and he
concluded by saying. "I am sure my
argument must be convincing, your
honor."
"It is overwhelming." returned Justice
Dugro courteously.
The young lawyer's chest expanded.
"Indeed my ears are still buzzing,"
added the justice. "I deny your motion."
i
An Aolnj*! Story For ]
Little Folks
MOW
Jim Bug Was Frightened
c
"The police are after you!" cried But- ?
terfly to Jim Bug. 1
"What for?" asked Jim Bug. \
"They say you climbed the fence i
around Farmer Jones' orchard and bit t
a piece out of one of his apples." ^
"Oh. my!" cried Jim Bug. "I am dis- j
covered! What will they do with me?"
Then he began to run for his home.
When he finally reached the house he
rushed in out of breath.
"Oh, ma." he cried, "what am I to
do? Tlfe police are after me for taking
a bite out of one of Mr. Jones' apples."
i
"Hide in the cellar under the wash- J
tub!" exclaimed his mother.
So down into the cellar Jim Bug hurried
and crawled under the washtub.
He kept just as quiet as he could be- '
HE BEGAN' TO BUN FOB HIS HOME.
cause he expected a big fat policeman
would come along at any moment and
carry him olf to Jail.
I?a.i ml Klc mntlior <?nm.
i~ rear mi ur uuaiu uic uiuujvi
lng down the stairs.
"It's all right. Jiuimle; It's all right!"
she cried. "They are not coming to do
anything with you."
"How do ,\ou know, inn?" he asked.
"Caterpillar has just been here and
told me." she replied. "They were going
to punish you. but changed their
minds."
"Why. ma?"
"Because they found that you had
only bitten a crab apple. They thought
that would make you very sick and
that would be punishment enough for
you."
"I do feel rather sick under my shirt." :
said Jim.
"Well, I'll give you a dose of ginger
and you'll be well In a little while."
said his mother.
"That was the greatest scare I ever
had in my life," said Jim. "I guess I
won't eat any more apples that are not
mine."?Pittsburg Dispatch.
A MOUSE MILL.
How a Thrifty Scotsman Put the Small
Animal to Work.
Thrift is generally acknowledge to
be one of the leading characteristics
-e rvf T?lfckahlrft QTlfl ft
Ui U1C IIUIOCO Ui M.' ILVOIIMVI
never was more forcibly exemplified
than in the person of David Hatton,
a native of Dunfermline, who actually
proved that even mice, those acknowledged
pests of mankind, could be made
not only to earn their own living, but I
also to yield a respectable income to |
their owners.
About the year 1820, this gentleman
actually erected a small mill at Dun- I
fermline for the manufacture of thread |
?a mill worked entirely by mice. It
was while visiting Perth prison in 1812
that Mr. Hatton first conceived this <
remarkable idea of utilizing mouse |
power. In an old pamphlet of the time.
"The Curiosity Coffee Room," he gave
an account of the way in which the
idea dawned on him.
"In the summer of the year 1812,"
he wrote, "I had occasion to be in
Perth, and when inspecting the toys
and trinkets that were manufactured
by the French prisoners in the depot
there, my attention was involuntarily
attracted by a little house with a
wheel in the gable of it that was run-,
ning rapidly round, impelled by the insignificant
gravity of a common house
mouse. For a shilling, I purchased
house, mouse and wheel. Enclosing it
in a handkerchief, on my journey
homeward I was corfipelled to contemplate
its favorite amusement. But how
to apply half-ounce power, which is the
weight of a mouse, to a useful purpose
was the difficulty. At length, the
manufacturing of sewing thread seemed
the most practicable."
Mr. Hatton had one mouse that ran
the amazing distance of eighteen miles
a day, but he proved that an ordinary
mouse could run ten and one-half
miles on an average. A half penny's
worth of oatmeal was sufficient for its
support for thirty-five days, during
which it ran 736 miles. He had actually
two mice constantly employed in
the muking of sewing thread for more
than a year. The mouse thread mill
was so constructed that the common
house mouse was enable to make
atonement to society for past offenses
by twisting, twining and reeling from
100 to 120 threads a day. Sunday not
excepted.
To perform this task, the little pedestrians
had to run ten and one-half
miles, and this journey it performed
with ease every day. A half penny's
worth of oatmeal served one of these
thread-mill culprits for the long period
of five weeks. In that time, it made
3,350 threads of twenty-five inches, and
as a penny was paid to women for
every hank made in the ordinary way,
the mouse, at the rate earned 5 pence
a day or 7 shillings and 6 pence a year.
Taking 6 pence off for board and allowing
1 shilling for machinery, there
was clear yearly profit from each
mouse of 6 shillings.
Mr. Hatton firmly intended to apply
for the loan of the old empty cathedral
in Dunfermline, which would have
held, he calculated, 10,000 mouse mills,
sufficient room being left for keepers
and some hundreds of spectators.
Death, however, overtook the Inventor
before his marvelous project could be
carried out.?The Scotsman.
Paints and Oils
at Low Prices.
We are going out of the Paint and
)il business, and want to close out at
>nce about 200 gallons of best Paints,
ibout 1,000 pounds of best White
ead, and Linseed, Machine, Cylinder
ind Harness Oils of guaranteed qual'
ties. If you want any of these articles
ve can make it very much to your inerest
to see us before you buy. We
vill give you prices that you cannot
lun1lr>nto olqpwhprp Saa W R Mnnni
n person.
Trunks of
All Kinds.
We have the largest line of Trunks
n the city, ranging In price from a 50c
Packer to a brass bound, wooden top,
Inen lined Trunk at $10. For a flrst:lass
Trunk you should see our stock.
Bargains
We have a bargain for some one in
i two-bucket well fixture that we had
to take on account. Will sell cheap.
\sk to see it.
We can also offer you a bargain In
Show Cases, Oil Tanks and one No. 15
Hydraulic Ram.
Sewing Machines
We can sell you the high grade New
Home Sewing Machine?none better,
ind other makes at any price you want
to pay.
v*o
We continue to sell them and have
some real bargains and will sell you
an easy terms to suit the buyer.
Clauss
Shears, Scissors and Razors are unequaled
and if you would have the best
ask us for CLAUSS GOOD8.
A large line Just in. Have some fine
goods that we will stand over?nice
shapes and finished in any style you
prefer. W. B. MOORE & CO.
cabolinaSrth-westerii
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Schedule Effective June 7, 1903.
Northbound. Passenger. Mixed.
Ex. Sun. Dally.
Lv. Chester 9.00a.m. 8.00p.m.
Lv. Lowryvllle ... 9.18a.m. 8.28p.m.
Lv. McConnelss .. 9.28a.m. 8.48p.m.
Lv. Guthries 9.33a.m. 8.57p.m.
Lv. Yorkville 9.49a.m. 9.19p.m.
Lv. Filbert ..10.01a.m. 9.44p.m.
Lv. Clover 10.12a.m. 10.00p.m.
Lv. BowllngGreen. 10.20a.m. 10.24p.m.
Lv. Gastonfa 10.38a.m. 12.30a.m.
Lv. Llncolnton ...11.43a.m. 2.00a.m.
Lv. Newton 12.28p.m. 2.56a.m.
Lv. Hickory 12.50p.m. 4.00a.m.
Lv. Cliffs 1.23p.m. 4.40a.m.
Ar. Lenoir 2.05p.m. 6.00a.m.
Southbound. Passenger. Mixed.
Ex. Sun. Dally:
Lv. Lenoir 2.30p.m. 8.00p.m.
Lv. Cliffs 3.08p.m. 9.30p.m.
Lv. Hickory 3.20p.m. 9.50p.m.
Lv. Newton 3.45p.m. 11.45p.m.
Lv. Llncolnton ... 4.30p.m. 1.50a.m.
Lv. Gastonia 5.30p.m. 4.20a.m.
Lv. Bowling Green 5.48p.m. 4.55a.m.
Lv. Clover 5.57p.m. 5.10a?m.
Lv. Filbert 6.08p.m. 5.40a.m.
Lv. Yorkville .... 6.23p.m. 6.00a.m.
Lv. Guthries 6.40p.m. 6.50a.m.
Lv. McConnells .. 6.45p.m. 7.00a.m.
Lv. Lowryvllle ... 6.57p.m. 7.23a.m.
Ar. Chester 7.17p.m. 8.00a.m.
L. T. NICHOLS, General Manager.
P P R FIB. ft. P. Aonnt.
Chester? 8. C.
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Convinces
"I am thoroughly
pays to use the bes
a well-known Yorki
to us a few davs ag
us an order for Si
you will take notice
be struck with the I
Commercial Station
most successful firn
Stationery vc
4 not use the best ?ti
" your next order and
? like it better. We a
* if you want the best,
P want "cheap" stuff.
1 and use good stock,
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WASHINOTON, D. C.
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$oan and Savings ?ank,'
W Vorltvllle, W. C.
Deposit Your Savings
Where They Will Earn More.
By the use of our 8ystem of Saving
you not only lay aside small
amounts which you would probably
otherwise spend needlessly?
but what you accumulate is constantly
earning, more. A Savings
Account with us earns you 3 per
cent. The interest item, though in
itself a gooi feature, is not the
"drawing card" of our System;
it's a habit of saving Inculcated *
by the use of our Home 8avinqs
Banks, and the savincr of little
amounts which you would not have
at all If It were not for the "Little
Saver" In your home.
Continue to Save
Until it Becomes a Fixed Habit.
We will start you to save on One
Dollar?then?"keeping everlastingly
at It. brings a good balance." We
would like to talk to you about our
System. Favor us with a call.
W. P. HARRISON, Cashier.
S. M. McNEEL, President.
4. J. KELLER & CO.,
UNDERTAKERS.
OUR
STOCK.
WE are carrying a large and elab
orate stock of UNDERTAKERS'
GOODS. We give satisfactory attention
to all calls and the prices wb
charge are very close. Don't fail to see
us when in need .of anything In our
line.
Our place of business is near the Carolina
and North-Western depot.
J. J. KELLER A CO.
Wonderful Sales.
On account of the tardy spring
season the Buggy trade has been
late this season, but our sales so
far this season have surpassed all
previous records. We are using
our best efforts to keep them on
the increase. We have sold more
than 50 Columbia Buggies since
January 1st. to say nothing of the
other makes. We have a large
supply of second*hand Buggies
that we are offering at Bargains.
Should you need one come at once.
At the prices they are offered they
are going like hot cakes.
Wagons, Wagons.
This line is complete. We have
Studebaker and several other
makes.
We have a fine lot of Tannassaa
Horses, both saddlers and drivers.
Our Guarantee. We pride ourselves
on this feature of our business
and always take pleasure in
making it GOOD.
GLENN & ALLISON.
TIRE SHRINKING.
1AM especially wen prepared iu uu
the work and I am giving my personal
attention to the shrinking and
setting of tires on buggies and wagons.
I solicit your work of this kind,
and can promise you prompt work,
properly done at a fair price. Bring
your vehicles to me for this kind of
work. R. D. ALEXANDER.
W Particular business men are particular
about their business stationery.
We do the particular kind.
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convinced that it A
t Stationery," said T
/ille business man d
o, when he handed \
:ationery. And if #
you will certainly A
ugh quality of the f
lery used by the 4
is and individuals .
?u see. If you do ?
liinnaiiu nu 11 a Aft ^
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see if you do not T
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we are not if you \
We do good work #
but do no "cheap" a
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