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tumorous Jjcpartmrnt. H?el.i*ino the H elpijcss.?Everybody's Magazine tells of a good Samaritan, passing an apartment house In the small hours of the morning, who noticed a man leaning limply against the doorway. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Drunk?" "yep." "Do you live in this house?" "Yep." "Do you want me to help you upstairs?" "Yep." With much difficulty he half dragger, half carried the drooping figure up the stairway to the second floor. "What floor do you live on?" he asked. "Is this it?" "Yep." Rather than face an irate wife who * might perhaps take him for a companion more at fault than her spouse, he opened the first door he came to and pushed the limp figure in. The good Samaritan grouped his way downstairs again. As he was passing through the vestibule he was able to make out the dim outlines of another man, apparently in worse condition than the first one. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Are you drunk, too?" "Yep," was the feeble reply. "Do you live in this house, too?" "Yep " "Shall I help you upstairs?" "Yep." The good Samaritan pushed, pulled and carried him to the second floor, where this man also said he lived. He opened the same door and pushed him in. * * *? ?? fennf /?AAf as ne again reacucu mc nvin ~?. he discerned the shadow of a third man evidently worse off than either ol the other two. He was about to approach him when the object of his solicitude lurched out Into the street and threw himself into the arms of a passing policeman. "For heaven's sake officer." he gasped, "protect me from that man. He's done nothin' all night long but carry me upstairs, 'n throw me down th' elevator shaf." Teacher's Last Resort.?By the laws of Maryland corporal punishment in the public schools of that state is forbidden, says the Rochester Herald. This prohibition was much condemned by certain of the teachers with oldfashioned ideas, especially "by a teacher in one of the schools of the eastern shore some years ago. He was a strapping big fellow, and it was lucky for his pupils, who were rather a tough lot, that they were protected by the aforementioned law. The teacher did the best he could under the circumstances, but, moral suasion proving of little avail, he finally laid his case before the board of trustees. "Gentlemen," said he, after a recital of his trials, "those boys must be licked." "You can't do that." replied the chairman. "Then you must assist me in controlling them." "That, sir," observed the chairman testily, "Is what you are employed to do." "In that case," continued the teacher, "you must allow me to lick them." "Corporal punishment is against the law," insisted the chairman. "Then, gentlemen." concluded the teacher, with considerable emphasis, "some one must be licked; and I want to say right here that the ne.t time I have trouble with my boys I'm going to lick a trustee. As I have trouble about once a day, each one of you may expect, on the average, one licking per week. I reckon there's no law against that." Hrs Modesty Forbade.?A certain well known humorist recently attended a banquet at which he was seated beside a man who seemSd to have almost a mania for story telling, says the Chicago Record Herald. He began with the oysters and had at least one story for each course clear down to the Roquefort. The humorist listened in patience, but did not smile or make any comment. Finally the story-teller noticed the fact that he was not eicitlng any expressions of mirth, and, being one who was not at al afflicted with diffidence, he asked: "Say, old man, what's the matter with my stories, anyhow? You haven't cracked a smile over any of them." "If I haven't seemed to appreciate your stories you will have to blame my modesty." "Your modesty? There's nothing about any of the stories I've told that ought to interfere with anybody's modesty. At least I supposed they were clean. If there's a double meaning in any of them, for heaven's sake tell me. I told nearly every one <>f them to a lot of women the other night." "There's nothing at all the matter with them. They're good, clean stories. Nevertheless, my modesty forbids me to laugh at them. 1 wrote them." Pl.anthtj Bhst "Sunn."?The woes of the amateur gardener are very amusing to others, but decidedly real to the man who has spoiled a suit of clothes, blistered his hands and lost his temper in his efforts to make things grow. A young man. recently married, early in the spring secured a suburban place, mainly with the idea of "fresh, homegrown vegetables." Every evening la3 would hurry through his supper and rush out to his garden, where he displayed more energy than skill. Hut, alas! When many little green things began to break the ground in his neighbors' gardens, his own remained as bare as the Sahara. "It certainly has got me beat." he confided to a friend at his office one day. "I can't understand why not a blessed thing has come up. I planted peas and com and tomatoes." "Perhaps the seen were ueiecuve, the friend suggested. "I hardly think it was that." tlie gardener replied, "for I got the very best?paid 15 cents a can, for then*."? Philadelphia Ledger. % *% *' ' A Wisconsin school-teacher had among her pupils a little boy named Jackyy, who was always late in the morning. But one day he managed to get to th?j school house before the bell i*ang. whereupon he said to the teacher: "Veil, today I am pefore at last. I always was pehind pefore." *?' "I was talking to your wife today." "Ah. indeed! How did that happen?" "How did it happen? How did what happen?" "That you were talking."?II Motto per Ridere. ittistcllaitcous grading. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. News and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. News, June 12: Messrs. J. C. Elliott and A. P. McLure went to Piedmont Springs Sunday... .The barn or muck Hall on W. C. Vanlandinghain's place near Heath Springs, was struck by lightning Monday afternoon, setting it afire, which destroyed the building and contents Captain W. F. Rutledge, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of this county, died Monday at his 1 home in the vicinity of Kershaw. He had been in feeble health for some time, following an attack of the grip last winter. He was about sixty-eight years of age The Rev. R. *M. Mar' shall, in charge of the. Rock Hill and Lancaster Episcopal churches, Is chap( eroning a party of young boys enl camped on the banks of the Catawba this week, near the Jones mill, in York county A heavy rain storm accom> panied by hail visited this section ? Monday night. Little or no damage " was done by the hall in this immediate i neighborhood, but in some localities crops were badly injured. About Bell Town the hall was very heavy?In fact, there were two storms, one in the afternoon and the other after dark. Mr. Will Sowell had about twenty-five acres of cotton practically ruined and other portions of his farm hurt. Mr. J B. Bell was also hard hit. about I one-fourth of his crop being destroyi ed. Other farmers also sustained some 1 damage... .Lancaster, in common with ' Clinton, Yorkville and other communities where he was well known and be' loved, was greatly shocked and grievI ed to hear of the death of the Rev. Dr. Neville, president of the Presbyterian college at Clinton. The doctor was a 1 man of strong personal magnetism and a preacher of unusual power and ef fectiveness. He had many friends and admirers in Lancaster, having more than once visited and preached here 1 during his pastorate of the Yorkville Presbyterian church. CHESTER. Lantern, June 11: Mrs. P. A. Jackson and little daughter Ethel, went to i Yorkville this morning to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. W. S. Pei ters....Miss Flossie Latham of Guthriesville, who has been boarding with | her aunt, Mrs. J. G. Darby, and attending the public school, went home Friday morning Miss Lily Allen , went to Yorkville this morning to , spend a few days with relatives A severe hail storm was reported yesteri day afternoon below Richburg. Messrs. i J. M. McGarity and Brown Wylie are said to have suffered severe damage. I Mr. L. M. Ford reports hail about BasI comville both in the early afternoon and about dark. Mr. J. W. Black says ' there was considerable hall about Lando in the afternoon and the stones I were unusually large. There was i heavy rain also. The daily papers report hail in many sections of the state. i Little Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Murr, fell out of their hammock yesterday morning and broke her right arm between the wrist i and elbow. The fracture was set by i Dr. S. G. Miller, and she is suffering very little pain from it Mr. B. T. Peay, a carpenter who was working at Mrs. Bessie Reddick's new house i yesterday cut a gash in his left leg ' ' ? -4 - J ...LIAU above tne Knee wun a 1001 auze wmtu , struck a splinter and glanced. The wound was sewed up by Dr. J. M. . Brice. Mr. Peay was suffering considerable pain from it yesterday after noon Mr. D. K. Robinson, aged i fifty-eight years, died in Winnsborn Sabbath evening. June 9. 1907, at 11 o'clock, after an illness of several weeks. His body, accompanied by a number of relatives and friends, was brought up on No. 34 yesterday afternoon and the burial was in Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Robinson was raised in the Armenia neighborhood and was twice married. The first time to Miss Eliza Brooks and the second time to Mrs. Rhoda Hudson Dodds, who with seven children and four children of the first family, survive him. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 11: Work was , commenced yesterday morning on the new Loray Baptist church. A good force of hands was put to work and the structure will be rushed to completion and will be occupied as soon , as possible. Rev. J. A. Hoyle, pastor is superintending the work. Recently a new Presbyterian church was opened at the Loray and a Methodist church is in course of construction It cost Mr. R. H. Hill, a chauffeur for Armistead Burwell, Jr., of Charlotte, just $*>0 for frightening the horse of a physician at Clover yesterday. Hill thinks it cost him too much and threatens to have the matter investigated. Hill was driving a machine, having as passengers two English neonle. a aentleman and his wife.! , They went from Charlotte to Yorkville and reached Clover en route to Gastonia. At Clover they were approachins a horse and buggy; the horse took fright, ran away and damaged the buggy considerably. Hill was hailed before Esquire Fa I res and lined $60. ' The officers, it Is stated, refused to accept any security and the fine was ; paid in cash. The party came on to Gastonia and returned to Charlotte. ' Hill claims that, as soon as he saw the ' horse was going to become frightened, he stopped the machine and did all in his power to prevent a runaway 1 Four Gastonia piscatorial artists contributed $1.25 each, or a total of $5. ' to the school fund Saturday in pay-' ' ment for the fun they had Friday in fishing. The disciples of Isaak Walton. armed with rod and reel, left town ' for Hong creek to gather in a few of 1 the finny tribe. En route to their intended destination they dropped their lines into a pond or lake on which another well known Gastonia fisherman has a lease and which he has ' posted. They had been there only a ' few minutes when the lessee himself appeared, lie served notice on them that he would prosecute them in a test case, but a compromise was reach' ed whereby the unlucky fishermen were allowed to go unprosecuted on ciinditinn tlluv r-, >n t ri tin t ed tile sum named to the school fund. This they did and tlie incident was closed. I Jtfl' Animals blush as girls do, but It ! is fear and not modesty that in their ' case causes the inrush of blood, says I the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Horses blush in their ears, especially in the left ear. When a horse is frightened its left ear will be found very hot and swollen. This is also true of rabbits. Cows and all other cloven footed animals blush just above the fetlock. Dogs blush in their tales. When a dog is frightened its tail blushes so that it hangs limp, the dog having absolutely no control over it. | SELLING BIG GAME. Transportation on Shipboard Risky Unless Captain Gets "Graft." The animal trainer was speaking of the difficulties encountered in trapping and shipping wild animals. "Hut to secure their passage is not merely a matter of visiting the shipping agents' offices at, say, Singapore, and booking the space required on the next steamship. You may do this, but if the captain of the steamsip does not want the bother of the animals? and they are not always an agreeable | cargo?he will soon discover he is full i up, and it is never wise to prove that I 1" firwl Insist nn vnnr riehts. I So you must take your chance with the next boat, and the delay thus occasioned means not only extra expense In feeding the animals, but also the prolonged risk of their death ere they can be got to their destination. "The obvious remedy against loss both at port and at sea would be Insurance, but It is a cargo that no insurance company will take risks on. Consequently the best thing to do is to personally Interview the captain, and give him an interest in the selling value of the cargo?say a third or a half. That may seem a lot to give away, but it is wiser to pocket a- reduced profit than sustain a total loss. "It Is because of such difficulties and of the personal danger run by the trapper, that the prices of big game for live delivery run high. Tigers are worth anything from $250 to $500, leopards from $500 to $1,000, while a rhinoceros or a giraffe tops the list as profitable bags, selling at from $4,000 to $5,000 each. "Lions, however, are a drug on the market, and worth comparatively nothing, being such good breeders In captivity; nor is there much money in bears. Snakes are a good line when they run to any size. The largest I ever had the good fortune to handle was a forty-two foot python, which sold for $1,000. "And there is this advantage about these reptiles?they can be stuffed with sufficient food to last for months, and being fed before shipment, will travel in a state of coma, giving no trouble during the voyage. "It is after a heavy meal that pythons are captured; then they can be handled with safety, being too overfed to exert the terrible strength they are ?-?- - ? J" ? 1 t V,?.l cupuuie ui uispia> nig. x uom uu^ v..v tussel with a python, and, although nothing serious resulted, It sufficed to convince me that their strength had in no way been exaggerated. "Hunting big game to capture is, I need hardly tell you a far more dangerous business than hunting merely to kill, and when on the trail one cannot be too cautious. But with a careful man, who never fails to take every precaution, there is far less likelihood of accident and death during eight months in the jungle than in a week spent in city streets. "I say this with no desire of belittling the dangers surrounding the trapper's life, for during twelve years spent in the jungles of Malaysia, I have met with not a few accidents, and on more than one occasion it has been touch and go with death. "Elephant trapping pays well when the business is rightly managed, but if the herd that is being trapped stampedes weeks of work may be thrown away, with the possible loss of two or three lives. Where it can be arranged, the better plan is to work with a tame elephant, which acts as a decoy to induce the herd to enter the stockade."?Philadelphia Ledger. REBUILT RIO JANEIRO. City Was Torn Down Simply to Improve Appearances. The loyal" citizens of Rio de Janeiro are manifesting much pride and satisfaction these days in the improvements which have been effected in their city within the last two or three years, particularly the improvements which combine to make Rio a more beautiful and healthful place of habitation. The Brazilian Review, for Instance, says that the ortener one goes aiong the Avenue Central and the Avenue Beira Mar, the more one marvels at the amount of work that has been done in so short a time, and at the way In which Rio in their years has been turned from a collection of narrow streets and cramped houses into one of the finest cities in the world. Avenues, buildings, parks, gardens, boulevards seem to have sprung into being at the touch of the magician's wand. It is doubtful whether there has ever been another instance where a city has been practically pulled down and rebuilt with every modern improvement merely for the sake of the improvement. Other cities have been destroyed by fire or some hostile demonstration of nature and have again risen better and more beautiful than ever before, but few cities have been deliberately pulled down for the sole purpose of making them more healthful and beautiful. Nothing is more significant of the change than the immense increase in automobiling in Rio. It is said that two yeai^s ago there were probably not more than half a dozen cars in Rio, while now there are hundreds. Ti.-.v t-ouvu ntrrt fiIitnmohiles WOUld have heen practically useless because there were no roads where they could bo used. Now that is changed and the opportunities for automobiling are the best. MAKING USE OF SOLAR HEAT. Time May Come When the Sun Will Run World's Engines. "Science." said Prof. Huxley, "is frequently on the brink of some great truth, but it is left to chance to disperse the vapors which obscure it." How true this is was never so well exemplified as at the outset of the twentieth century, says the Chicago Chronicle. We are actually hovering on the very margin of the promised land, so that many who are not seers, in the metaphysical sense, may pierce the mist. Today in Europe and North America, in chemistry, in biology, in physics, in astronomy, in geology, a thousand eager brains are at work and a number of interesting problems are almost solved. A problem which has been engaging the wits of practical philosophers for the last quarter of a century concerns Hi.- utilization of solar heat. Nothing is more important to tlie world than the supply of heat for economies and industrial purposes. Science has learned to prevent the dissipation of cold and ice has long been produced with little trouble in the heart of the tropics. But the conservation of heat has so far baffled the inventor, although he sees the evil day approaching when it will be of the utmost moment to the inhabitants of this planet. As Stephenson said, it is really the sun which drives all our engines, though at second hand, for what is coal but stored sun power? According to the late Prof. Langley, from every square yard of earth exposed perpendicularly to the sun's rays there could be derived more than one horse power. Thus in less than the area of London the noontide heat is sufficient on a moderately sunny day to drive all the steam engines in the world. One of tho first to Dut this idea to practical test was M. Mouchot, who constructed a solar engine looking like a gigantic Inverted umbrella. The parabolic reflector concentrated the heat on a boiler in the focus, and drove a steam engine with It. Mr. Ericson invented an improved form, but the difficulty hitherto has been to lessen the cost of utilizing the heat. "I hope some day," declared Mr. Tesla, "with an apparatus I have Invented so to harness the rays of the sun that that body will operate every machine in our factories, propel every train and carriage in our streets and do all the cooking in our homes, as well as furnish all the light that man may need by night as well as by day. It will, in short, replace all wood and coal as a producer of motive power and heat an electric lighting." His idea is simple enough, consisting as it does of concentrating the heat of the sun on a focal point by a series of mirrors and magnifying glasses and the great heat so produced is directed upon a glass cylinder filled with water. This latter Is chemically prepared so that it rapidly evaporates into steam. The steam Is made to operate a steam engine, which, in turn, generates electricity. This electricity is received by storage batteries and a vast and cheap supply is generated for ali purposes. With thousands of these sun stations ? 1?? 1 .Iha nthnlii In. lucuieu ncie auu ......... ... dustrial problem would seem to be solved for mankind. NEVER-HANDLED A PENNY. First Treasurer of Dakota Had a Most Unique Experience. Samuel C. Irish, who is residing here in good health at the age of ninety-seven, says the Whiting, la., correspondent of the New York Herald, is the only man, living or dead, who has served as the treasurer of a state or territory of the Union without ever coming into possession of any money belonging to the commonwealth. Mr. Irish was the first treasurer of Dakota territory?four times the size of New York state?and he got the office by driving out a carpetbag United States marshal and getting a new election. This marshal's name was Pinney, and as late as one year ago Mr. Irish knew him to be still living in California. Pinney had charge of the ballots during the noon recess, and when the final count showed many more ballots than voters, Mr. Irish, candidate for treasurer, charged Pinney with fraud, and escorted him out of the building. The result of the new election, which consisted of balloting in Yankton?the only settlement of consequence in the vast territory?was sent to Washington with the first, and the government officials declared the second election valid. This was during the administration of President Buchanan. There had been no tax levy made, and before the collection of the first taxes Mr. Irish was out of office, having taken the field as second lieutenant of Company B, one of the two hastily organized territorial troops to fight the bloody Sioux. He said the other day that he had never ceased to wonder why ne ana nis iamny were not slain by a band of Sioux warriors who swooped down upon them while they were residents of Bon Homme county, Dakota, before going to Yankton. He was armed, but knowing resistance was useless, he stood resolutely while the Indians rushed upon him, his family having fled into the cabin. The reds, nonplussed by this action, after a parley, accepted some small gifts, and departed to foully slay the neighbors of Mr. Irish. Born In Chittenden county, Vt., In 1810, he went to New York when a young man, and worked as a carpenter and contractor until 1855, and recalls having helped to construct many buildings In the Old Trinity church district. Coming west that year, he located for a short time in Allamakee county, la., and then, went to Dodge county, Minn., where he helped found the town of Mantorville, and suggested the name in honor of Peter Mantor. one of their party. After a trip Into Missouri and Kansas, he located In Dakota. He has seen territory of 150,000 square miles develop into two of the greatest agricultural states in the world. Where there were but a few thousand acres under semi-cultivation then, there are now many millions of acres full of productiveness. MARVELS ^>VANT~L.IFE. Indefatigable as Workers and Skilled In Feats of Engineering. We have a way of saying that a man who works hard "works like a Tro jan," says t\ J. Marnins in ine ?ew York Tribune. Virgil wrote in his "Aeneid" that the Trojans reminded him of swarms of ants as they worked. The amount of labor that one busy ant can accomplish in one day is almost unbelievable. She has been known to dig a ditch along the highway of her home village at the rate of an inch a day, the ditch being many times deeper than herself, and the dirt taken out being molded into bricks and put along the edge to form a wall or embankment. If a man did an equal amount of work in proportion to his size he would be expelled from the union for working overtime. As engineers the ants have accomplished feats that make the great works of man. such as bridging the Luein cut-off and corkscrewing down the North Carolina mountains from the Kwannanoa tunnel look like child's play. They Invented tubular bridges long before an intelligent Canadian government threw the Victoria bridge across the St. Lawrence, and the ant bridge was formed of a living tube of little bodies closely knit together. The suspension bridges of the South American streams, built with such care by natives, and with the use of much rope and twine, were anticipated hundreds of years before by ants, who hung themselves in a line, the one holding to the hind legs of the one above him, until a rope many reel long was formed. When the floating end was blown across the river by a kindly breeze the lower ant seized a twig or branch of a tree, and, holding firmly, completed the living bridge, over which the migrating colony or the burden bearers could safely pass. REMARKABLE SAVAGES. Progress From Cannibalism to Citizenship In Only Fifty Years. The Maoris are In many respects the most remarkable savages with whom the white man has come In contact. says the National Geographic Magazine. Fifty years ago cannibalistic feasts, at which the flesh of their fallen enemies was served, were not uncommon. Today several memuera ui men i are members of the New Zealand parliament, and Maori women, as well as the white women of New Zealand, exercise the right to vote. When the English first occupied the Islands, In the early part of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that there were about 100,000 Maoris In New Zealand. They were divided into tribes, each having its own unwritten laws regarding lands, cultivation and other social matters. The English found that they had a genius for war, showing unusual ability in building, fortifying and defending stockades, and they experienced considerable difficulty in subduing them. The Maoris were also skilled in several arts. They tilled the soil with great care, as carvers and decorators they were unrivalled in the execution of rock paintings and in carving the ornamental figures of their dwellings, their boats and sacred enclosures. But the Maoris were also noted for their remarkable tattooing, which was designed to clothe as well as decorate the body. The Maori artist knew how to give endless variety to the curves of his drawings; the natural furrows, the movements of the countenance, the play of muscles?everything was made to enhunce the charm of the design; and a hale young man certainly presented a fine sight, draped only In this delicate network of blue lines on the ruddy brown of his skin. Whoever refused to undergo the protracted tortures of tattooing required at every Important event of his life was regarded as a person by his own consent foredoomed to slavery. The men were actually depilated In order to Increase the surface to be covered with ornamental tattooing, while for young women the operation was limited to the lips, whence the term blue Hps applied to them by the English. There are about 35,000 Maoris left. These have retired to the northern provinces of New Zealand, where certain reservations have been set apart als their exclusive property. Schools have been established which the Maori children attend regularly. It is said that such of them as continue Into the higher branches of learning are worthy rivals of white students. Some of the Maoris have become large landed proprietors; they are proud of their right to vote, and especially of the fact that their women obtained this privilege at the same time that It was given to the white women of New Zealand, in 1893. NAPOLEON THE GREAT. Ingersoll's Characterization of the Monarch. A little while ago I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon. It Is a magnificent sepulcher of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deit)(. I gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare on/i namoloao morhlfl In urhlph roata at last the ashes of a restless man. I leaned upon the balustrade and thought of all the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world. I saw him walking on the banks of the Seine contemplating suicide. I saw him quelling the mob In the streets of Paris. I saw him at the head of an army In Italy. I saw him crossing the brlge at Lodl with the tricolor In his hands. I saw him in Egypt In the shadow of the pyramids. I saw him in Russia where the infantry of the snows and the cavalry of the wild blasts scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disaster, driven by a million bayonets; clutched like a wild beast, banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the magnificent force of his genius. I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where chance and fate combined to wreck the fortune of their former king, and I saw him a prisoner upon the rock at St. Helena, with his arms calmly folded behind his back, gazing steadfastly out upon the sad and solemn sea. And I thought of all the widows and orphans he had made; of all the tears that had been shed for his glory; of the only woman who had ever loved him torn from his heart by the ruthless hand of ambition. And I said, "I would rather have lived in a hut ? iflnao rrrniifl n CT niimlo In t Vl P Willi IUC VII1CO eiunuig pw> p.v ... ...v kisses of the autumn sun, with my loving wife knitting by my side as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees with their arms about my neck; yes, I would rather have been that poor peasant and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great. ELEPHANTS AT WORK. Hundreds Employed In Sawmills?May Give Place to Machinery. To see the working elephant in all his glory one must go to Burma, the centre of the teak wood Industry. Some of the great saw mills of Maulmain and Rangoon employ hundreds of elephants, some with and others without a mahout or driver. The companies own Immense timber concessions, and each year a certain number of trees are marked for cutting down. Those so marked are girdled to prevent the sap rising. This causes the tree to die. In three years it is quite seasoned and dry. It is then cut down, the branches are lopped off, and one, two, or three elephants are attached to it by chains to haul it to the nearest stream. The creek in which the elephant has deposited its log, says the Circle, may be dry in the timber cutting season; nevertheless the creature continues to pile log after log In the bed ?..> tnrront ncr:iinst the time when the monsoon shall break and wash the accumulation of logs into one of the main rivers. When this Is done men collect at various points and examine the various owners' marks. The logs are sorted and bound into rafts, and a family of Burmans forthwith installs Itself upon each, and builds a little hut of bamboo and leaves in which to live while the big raft of teak logs is coming down the river to Rangoon. When the rafts arrive opposite the saw-yards herds of working elephants are in waiting to heave the logs out of the water and take them to differ ent parts of the mill. They display an intelligence almost human; and when the dinner bell rings at midday logs E are dropped In every direction and the ground fairly shakes as hundreds of tuskers scamper off to dinner like n< playful children let out of school. ol When the logs have been sawn oth- ni er gangs of elephants move dexterous- pi ly about among the huge circular ti saws, avoiding them with extreme g care, clearing away debris, and In a gj marvelous manner discriminating be- di tween mere rubbish and the sawn ol planks. Then the elephants stack the w latter so carefully that the edges are ei not Injured. tl Most amusing It Is to see one of these working elephants tackling a cj huge squared log and placing it on the l stack. First of all he estimates Its length and weight as It lies on the 0, ground. Then he digs his tusks under It at one end, curls his trunk over and ^ tries to drag one end of the log on to his tusks. Should he find the task beyond hlni j he will give a queer little trumpet note, and up comes a colleague to help rj him at the other end. In a moment the two elephants have swung the big ^ log between them, walk In step to the pile, and then one of them, apparent- | ly by preconcerted agreement, places his end In position on the stack, while the other rams home the log. tj Every timber yard has Its own partlcular show elephant, more intelll- ^ gent than the rest, and one belonging w to Messrs. MacGregor & Co., of Ran- ^ goon, was irv the habit of turning on a e] water tap and helping himself to a big y ihnnch he could never be In- _ duced to turn the water off again. Similar obstinacy and occasionally bad J temper is often shown, and the mahouts are very highly paid, for .they live always In the risk that the huge brutes may turn upon them and kill them, particularly If the mahout has at any time shown cruelty or unkindness. A Hindu mahout was employed with a working elephant in Bangkok. Siam, and frequently used a steel goad, In defiance of all warnings. The result was that his elephant made frequent attempts to kill him, and finally the man was discharged. Nearly four years afterward, by a most remarkable coincidence, both elephant and mahout met again In Maulmaln, Burma, and no sooner was the big tusker out of sight of the saw mill and well into the forest, than he curled his trunk up backward, seized his old persecutor by the necK, nuriea him to the ground, and in an Instant a mighty forefoot had crushed out his life. Each working elephant represents a value of $1,500, and years of experience have shown that until quite recently this was the most profitable form of labor that could be employed In the great forests of Burma and Slam. Now, however, highly Ingenious American, German and British machinery?chiefly portable railroads and engines, cranes, etc., are taking the place of the giant workers, and in another decade the Independent elephant laborer may be entirely extinct. NEGLECTED HIS DUTY. When Washington Met Martha Custis He POrgot Mltun or imp?naiiM< b In the traditions of any members of I the Washington family the story of * Martha Custis Is of supreme import ance, writes Cora A. Moore, in the . New Broadway Magazine. ^ It happened one day that she was ^ visiting at the plantation of a neigh- 4 bor, Major Chamberlayne, when there ? came riding In haste an officer in the British uniform. The business that he II had with the major he transacted quickly, declining an invitation to stay because, as he declared, he was on his f way to the governor at Williamsburg on matters of Importance. But the Q host repeated the invitation more ur- U gently, slyly remarking that he had also beneath his roof the handsomest widow In Virginia, a young and charming woman. Ah, a lady In the case! That was different. But the plans of men have often waited on Cupid. When the officer bowed low over the hand of the lady whom he met In the major's drawing room, he forgot Williamsburg and the governor. And she, pleased with the courage of that colonel, George Washington, of whose military fame she had heard so much, scintillated and sparkled with even more than her usual fascination. That evening, long after the rest of the household had retired, ne ana uie charming widow sat by the fireplace in the shadowy drawing room, without a chaperon to regulate the tide o* swiftly moving events. Soon there was a resplendent wedding at the home of the bride. Directly afterward a coach and six horses, guided by liveried black postilions conveyed the newly married pair to A her town house in Williamsburg. Bus- * iness interests for some time demand- g ed the presence of Colonel Washington at the capltol. Later he took his = bride and her two children, Martha ? Parke Custis and John Parke Custis, I to his own estate at Mount Vernon, where they enjoyed that happy domestic life which is celebrated in history. His Best Friend. The following incident, .which oc- A curred at Great Falls, Montana, last spring, Is given in the Pioneer Press: "The victims of the recent blizzard that swept over the northern portion f, of that state, killing thousands of ^ lambs and a number of cattle, are now being found with the passing of thp snow. Ti nearlv every case the victims were sheep-herders who were caught in the storm and frozen to death before they could reach shelter. "One of the most pathetic cases that has come to light is that of William Plumber, an aged man, whose sole friend, so far as known, was a a handsome shepherd dog which he had raised from a puppy. This dog could do almost everything except talk. When Shep, as he was called, dragged himself Into the little sheep town ~ of Shelby, with two of his legs frozen, the fate of Plumber was known. It J was useless to prosecute a search for him without the aid of the dog, and ei as the animal was, apparently, too M disabled to make another move, it ( was proposed to wait several days before searching for the body of the ? missing man. "Shep, In spite of his condition, was ready to lead the party, however, and although the progress was slow and painful over me snow-coverea nui.i j, and valleys, the faithful dog led the G] party to the body of his master. ^ Crouching beside the frozen corpse, _ the dog, worn almost to a shadow by . hardships he had undergone, uttered a long, penetrating wall, and then, , licking the cold face of his master, 1 expired. Plumber and the dog were T buried in the same grave."?American Sheep Breeder. SMYRNA CARPETS. ar di mployment Given to Thousands of P? Needy People In Aidin. The cejebrated "smyrna carpet" is 21 Dt made In Smyrna; It is a product g( r the vilayet of Aidin, of which Smyr- ni a is the capital, says a consular re- of ort. The chief places of manufac- ar ire are the villages of Uschak, Koule, 01 hiardis, Makrl, Melessos, Klrka- h< atsch, Axar and Demirdjl. The in- th ustry gives employment to thousands el; f needy people, especially women, ca ho are obliged to do the work almost sj ntlreiy, wnne tne men spena tneir me in the coffee houses drinking p< :rong coffee and smoking numberless garettes, all in true Oriental fashion, ittle girls are compelled to take up le work early, at seven or ten years f age at the latest, and they keep at unceasingly until they go to their raves. The market for the wools is held very Thursday from dawn to sunset i the bazaar of Uschak, which is then lied with purchasers who have arIved on buffaloes, camels, donkeys nd other picturesque beasts of buren. The spun wools are not dyed by le weavers themselves, but by speal dyers. More than 3,000 female weavers are mployed at Uschak In the preparaon of carpets. The operators are enerally members of the same famy, but there are a number of girls | ho earn about six to seven cents per ! ay. The Qhlardis carpets are ger- j rally smaller than those of Uschak. ery fine prayer carpets, closely woven | | r*TwTVTVTt*^i'TVTVTWl^iTvTwTv ^ i; BE SURE n (I (j II "The ? j; Daughters i j ???????? b I> j; ByETTA W < I i > (i ? > (i <? 0 A ? # 1 1 I (I I i IE || THE OPENING CHAI j> IN THE ENQUIRI i I j; DON'T MISS THIS MiiiaaiMisiiiaa *A*A*AIU*A*A?mA*A*AltAA*AK?A EAT a?~ FFECTIVE ^ TATIONERY.. y0(JR STA1 Is your silent repi you sell the goods i date in style and of ity it ought to be re printing. 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BEFORE BUYING OR SELLING t 4 FARM or any property, write n< the CAROLINA REALTY AND Si RUST COMPANY. 1 Bishopvllle, S. C. r? 13 t.f. ly P< id of harmonious colors, are proiced In Imitation of the Persian carits. The carpets are made into bales of 10 pounds each and covered with >atsklns. The caravans pass the ght In the open country at the foot some hill, the drivers under tents id the camels and their loads in the jen air. Very large carpets, too lavy to be packed, are folded and rown across the backs of the cams In the form of covering. When the rpets arrive in Smyrna they are read out, beaten, broomed and reicked In bales weighing 500 or 600 >unds each for exportation. ^ | sss-r.ss V 1 ?SS?s% i ft ' ' ro IRE-A.II) I? < i <> ii -i 0 1 > ; of Cain" j! ? ? < > < > < ; . PIERCE i i j ii * < \ i) i? c ' i! % 0 ? (I 1 i it (I u < > * ?TERS APPEARED j; DR OF TUESDAY? ; 1 STORY. !! ET" ' riONERY -y resentative. 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