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^tumorous Jlcpartmrnt.
Finished the Doctor.?A gaunt and
kilted Scotsman made his appearance
in a country village and was endeavoring
to charm the locals to charity with
selections on his bagpipe. A shaggyhaired
man opened the front door of a
house and beckoned to the minstrel.
"Gie us a wee bit lilt just oot here,"
he said, in an accent which told that
he also was from the land of the haggis.
"My auld mither's in a creetical
condeetlon opstair. The doctor's wl
her the noo. and says the pipes may
save her life."
Up and down in front of the house
marched the bTaw Hielander. discoursing
music that might well have been
incidental to a cat and dog fight.
Presently the shaggy-haired man came
out again.
"Gie us the 'Dead March.' noo," ne
said.
"Is the puir auld lady gone?" questioned
the piper.
"Na. na. mon; ye've saved mither."
came the reply: "but ye've killed the
puir doctor."?Boston Transcript.
Unseemly Haste.?Walter J. Knighi,
who has a fund of good darky stories,
surrendered this one yesterday:
"Jason, black as the ace of spades,
was tried for murder in Mississippi,
and found guilty. He was led before
the judge on a sultry day late in July
for sentence.
" 'Jason.' said the court, 'you have
'..on/I ?nllfv c\f hv n inrv
of your peers. Have you anything to
say before sentence is imposed upon
you?"
"Jason had nothing to say. There
was a pause, and the judge proceeded.
"It therefore becomes my painful
duty to sentence you to be hanged by
the neck until you are dead on the 13th
day of August."
"There was another pause, and Jason,
shifting from one foot to the other,
looked up.
" 'Sho'ly you' don't mean this comin'
Augus", does ye', jedge?' he asked."?
Newark Star.
Studying Gosintos.?The teacher
stood it as long as she could. Then
she said:
"Annie, what, are you doing? Why
are you mumbling so?"
"Please, teacher," responded Annie,
"I'm studying my gosintos."
"Your what?" asked the teacher
nuzzled.
"My gosintos."
The teacher pondered. And Annie
went on with her mumbling.
"Annie, what is gosintos, or whatever
you call it?" now questioned the
teacher.
"Gosintos," started Annie, "why gosintos
is?is?" she halted in confusion.
"Well," resumed the teacher, "then
show me how you study your gosintos."
A .nie quickly responded as follows:
"Two gosintos two. once; two gosinto,
four, twice; two gosintos six, three
times."?Woman's Home Companion.
Would Steal Gabriel's Horn.?H. K.
Adair, the western detective, was discussing
a Cleveland crime whereupon
he had failed.
"I take no shame to myself." said
Mr. Adair apologetically, "for having
failed on this Cleveland matter. The
Cleveland crooks, you know, are the
best in the business."
He relighted the stub of his cigar.
"You know what John B. Gough said
about Cleveland," he continued, witn
a faint smile. "In taking leave of the
town," Gough said solemnly:
" 'If the Angel Gabriel happens to
light in Cleveland, there will be no
resurrection, for some Cleveland crook
will steal his trumpet before he can
blow a single blast.'"?Washington
Star.
Not to Be Cheated.?"This is a
mighty dishonest world, you know,"
said Henry Dixey, "and it doesn't hurt
to be suspicious of some people. I
sympathize with the old negro who
came to a v tchmaker with the two
hands of a clov.;.
" 'I want yer rer to nx up aese nun
Dey ain't kept no correct time for mo*
den six munts.*
"'Well, where is the clock?' demanded
the watchmaker.
" "Out to my cabin.'
" 'But I must have the clock.'
" 'Didn't I tell yer dar's nuffln' de
matter wld the clock 'ceptin' de han's?
An' here dey be. You jes' want de
clock so you kin tinker it and charge
me a big price. Gimme back dem
nan's.' "?Young's Magazine.
ii 1 il Oi^__ A K.mr-h
numwr or tnc ok?ic ni|?.?..
of merry souls had gathered in the den
of Ab. the cave man. A tender young
pterodactyl had been slain that day,
and as they dined off the toothsome
mess sly jests went round. Flint, the
hammer man, told one on his motherin-law;
Jock, the arrow hewer, said
that all the Cave City policemen were
Irish; Hitt, the corn pounder, told of
the fire sale in Jerusalem, and every
fresh quip brought out roars of laughter.
Then Nip, the hunter, who had
been vigorously sucking a bone, looked
up with a merry twinkle in his eye.
"I know whose grandmother will be
dead tomorrow," he announced.
"Whose?" cried the bunch, springing
from the tloor of the cavern.
"Everybody's," said Nip. "It's the
opening of the Cliff Dwellers' baseball
association season."
Then everybody groaned. The joke
was so everlasting old.?Judge.
Sell in* a Sheep.?Two Highland farmers
met on their way to churcn.
"Man," said Donald, "I was wondering
what you will be askin' for yon bit
sheep over at your stead in".'"
"Man," replied Dougal, "I was thinkin'
I wad be wantin' 50 shullin's for
that sheep."
"I will tak' it at that." said Donald;
"but, och, man Dougal, I am awfu' surprised
at you doin' business on the
Sawbath."
"Business!" exclaimed Dougal. "Man,
sellin' a sheep like that for 50 shullin's
is not business at all; it's just
charity!"?Ladies Home Journal.
"All Things Come."?The magnate
looked up Impatiently from his work.
"Well, .ny good man," he snapped at
the diffident and rural person who stood
twirling his rusty hat, "what can 1 do
for you?"
"1 guess ye don't remember me,
Hank," faltered the caller. "But you
an' me useter go swimmin* together in
th' ol' town. Then you got a job in th'
bank, an' 1 got a job in the grocery
store."
"This is all very interesting, and I
seem to remember your face. But come
to the point?my time is valuable."
"Yes, Hank. You got a better offer
tin' left the old village. I stayed pluggin'
along in th' grocery store."
"Well?well?"
"Well, Hank, when you left you owed
$73.62 on a grocery bill. Here's where
you pay up!"?Cleveland Leader.
JttiscrllnnroHc. ^tending. ,
- I
THE STORY OF THE MAINE.
Shocking Tragedy of Havana Harbor 1
In 1898. ?
The Maine was our first modern bat- '
tleship. She was a vessel of 6.682 }
tons, with a main battery of four 10- 1
inch suns. She was built in 1888 from *
English plans?for we didn't know 1
much about battleships then?and she *
cost in round numbers $2,500,000. On 1
February 16, 1898, she was blown to *
bits while lyins in the harbor of the %
friendly city of Havana, Cuba. From r
that incident sprans the Spanish 11
war.
Since then the wreck has lain, half
in and half out of the blue water of
Machina, with 68 skeletons of the
brave men who manned her lying inside
her shattered steel hull. Despite
repeated efforts it was only on Wednesday
of this week that congress
passed the bill making possible the
wreck's removal.
The feeling between Spain and the
United States had been growing more
and more bitter during 1897. Gomez
and Maceo, with the rag tag rebel
"army" had been harrying the Spanish
forces on the island and Capt. Gen.
Wavier had put into execution his
scheme of reconcentration, whereby
the people of the rebellious districts
were huddled into camps under military
guard. Here, according to report,
they were scientifically starved.
Meanwhile Gomez and Maceo were
adding to the suffering by burning all
the tobacco and sugar plantations they
could reach?each side was trying to
ruin the other physically and financially?the
Hearst Journal had rescued
Evelina Cisneros from a dungeon
keep, the Three Friends was busily
running in filibuster and ammunition
rrom fionaa, a congressional coimiuitee
had made a solemn Inspection and
report of conditions on the island and
all America was sizzling with the (
growing belief that Spanish rule in c
Cuba was one of tryanny and hideous t
cruelty. "The flag of blood and gold." a
the Journal called the red and yellow c
ensign over Morro. So did most con- j
temporaneous high school orators. ^
Enter the Maine. r
In the midst of this feeling the c
Maine, then lying at the Pensacola
yard, was dispatched for a "friendly r
visit" to Havana. The order which t
sent her there has since been most r
bitterly criticised. The presence of a ^
white fighting ship with the Stars s
and Stripes over her staffrail was j.
bound to rouse violent anger in the t
T ntln_ 4 morlnon Kncnmo hnnn/I tit nffl.
uauii-nuiviiiu.. ? S
mote jubilation among the revolutionary
Cubans, bound to make things ?
more unpleasant for Minister Fitzhugh r
Lee and other American citizens in f
Havana. However, the state and navy r
departments seemed to think a warship v
the necessary protection for Americans. a
The Maine went. c
It is related that when the Maine, r
entering the harbor, barked a salute a
from her little six-pounders at the ^
grim Morro her men were all at quar- f
ters behind the 10-inch guns in the
turrets and the ship was stripped for t
action. It is also related that there g
never was a more serious and solemn ^
naval function than when Capt. Sigs- j.
bee, in full dress uniform received the j
Spanish officers who came over the t
starboard gangway. A Spanish cruis- (
er lay nearby, but the blue-jackets of r
the two vessels did not fraternize. Indeed
Capt. Sigsbee allowed his men no 8
shore liberty. r
The Maine came in on January 25. f
Havana harbor was filthy beyond be- t
lief in those davs. To avoid stirring ,
up the sewage which formed the harbor's
bottom ships did not anchor: ,
instead they were assigned by the cap- (
tain of the port to fixed mooring j
buoys. The Maine's first mooring was ,
well up toward old La Punta Fort, j
Subsequently she was moved down op- ,
posite the shears of the old Spanish j
navy yard. Afterward this change by ,
Spanish authority was regarded as in- ,
tensely significant. j
The Tragedy. j
February 16 was a quiet, starlit i
tropical night. Capt. Sigsbee was writ- <
ing in his cabin. Marine Private Wil- t
liam Anthony was the orderly on duty i
outside his door. Most of the twenty- i
six officers and practically all the 328 ?
enlisted men were aboard. A stringed '
orchestra was playing on the Spanish i
T-Taenne umc o hlo 70 U'ltH
lights. From the Calle San Isidro, ,
which lies close to the water front. )
floated the sounds of revel. I
At 9.40 there came a terrific explo- j
sion. The forward part of the Maine, |
where was situated the forecastle, |
leaped high out of the water. Instantly f
followed another explosion amidships? <
at least so say some of the Maine's <
survivors and several good American ,
citizens who were sitting on Machina t
wharf, or what is now the Malecon?
the ship seemed split asunder, there was i
a i u i MI m?u <*, >III>\\iiik i"i ?iii 111 i (i ' i ]
the rending hulk with bodies flying (
through the air, then darkness.
Sigsbee came charging from his ,
cabin. Here was whore Bill Anthony ,
won undying fame. I.ike Bulwer Lyt- ,
ton's Roman sentry, who stood at his
post by the gates of Pompeii, while ,
the terrified city fled past him and the |
red glare of Vesuvius shone on the |
brazen helmet and grim face of a man ,
who knew only that lie was a soldier
of Rome not yet relieved from duty, ,
Anthony remained the captain's orderly.
In the blackness Sigsbee rushed
against him. The deck was a slew.
Anthony saluted.
"I have to report, sir, that the ship
is blown up arid Is sinning." hp said.
Boats came flying from the shore,
from the Spanish man o' war and from
a Ward liner lying close at hand. For
the most part they were too late. The
sleeping men in the forecast probably
never knew what had happened. They
were shattered by the explosion or
plunged too quickly into the murky
waters.
The Heroes.
Of the officers and men 2.r>4 were
killed outright or went <l<>\vn with
th< ir ship. Thirteen others died in the
Havana hospitals of their injuries.
Two or those who went down were
officers. Coxswain Job Anderson swam
ashore towing two messmates. When
he got there both were head. A lieutenant
of marines held up an engine, r
officers until a boat reached them, then
sank, but was pulled to safety by a
Spanish sailor. Capt. Sigsbee stayed
on his quarterdeck until the ship settled
under him.
In his report to the secretary of the
navy, sent on the night of the explosion.
Capt. Sigsbee wrote: "Public
opinion should be suspended until further
report." With what restraint the
American people bore themselves is a
matter of history: but the destruction
of the Maine is fitly described by Capt.
Sigsbee as "the ultimate incident which
compelled the people of the I'nited
States to regard Spain as an impossible
neighbor."
An American court of inquiry which
conducted its deliberations aboard the
ighthouse tender, Cangrove, while the I
ittle cruiser Montgomery took the
Maine's place as guardship found that
he ship was destroyed by an explosion i
>utside her hull. A Spanish court 3
ound that the explosion came from in- i
dde. It opined that her forward s
nagazine had blown up and that the 1
second explosion was the waist mag- c
izine. In the state of public mind no>ody
in America believed the Spanish 1
eport. There was a cry for war and 1
var came. Roosevelt's Rough Riders c
vent up Kettle Hill with the cry. "Re- 1
nember the Maine." So the Texans t
it the Rrazos, "Remember the Alamo." fc
wny the ueiay. I
The Maine sank in six fathoms of s
vater. For twelve years she has been
lettling in the mud. At any time it (
vould have been a comparatively easy (
ob to raise lier, but for some reason r
he United States government would e
lever do this?not even to give decent n
lepulcher to the bodies inside. Once, i
n 1904, the Cuban government began v
ler removal because she was a men- t
ice to navigation, but here our navy r
lepartment stepped in with the an- u
louncement that the wreck was United
States property, which could not be c
ibandoned without act of congress, s
"'or twelve years congress declined to e
iass the act. Now the wreck is to be t
emoved. Why the long delay? v
In Cuba there are people who be- t
ieve that when the rusted plates are d
ifted they will be found bent from the J
nside out, thus tending to show that r
he explosion did not r;ome from a mine t
ir a Do hid, but from sometntng in tne r
ship's interior. But as the man on e
he Malecon says, "Quien sabe?"
, > , v
UP VESUVIUS. r
li
a
rhe Only Railroad Built Up a Vol- f
cano. r
Only one railroad in the world s
rawls up the side of a furious vol- c
ano and discharges passengers in a '
ruly infernal region of wild, fantastic
md contorted lava masses; deep ashes, '
:inders, rocks and boulders wreathed v
n steaming, sulphurous vapors, and *
>lack eruptive smoke from the crater t
>f Vesuvius, the most dreaded volcano 1
>n earth. v
No railroad ever had a more preca- i
ious roadbed than this; for If the 1
owns and villages of the smiling Cam>agna
Felice are apt to be, and have r
>een, overwhelmed by Vesuvius at r
ihort notice, though well away from 0
ler base, the railroad actually crawling f
lp the mountain's dreary flank is a S
till more precarious undertaking. f
Why was it ever built? When word c
roes forth that Vesuvius is in eruption v
noneyed travelers flock Into Naples i
rom all parts of the world?or at any t
ate from those parts lying within a r
veok's travel. Beyond question the a
pectaele of Vesuvius in eruption is one *
if unexampled splendor, with rivers of t
nolten metal gushing from the main c
ind auxiliary craters. In torrents i
vhlch have been known to exceed 90 c
eet in depth and 150 feet in width. 1
Since the Messina disaster nearly ^
wo hundred thousand visitors have g
iscended Vesuvius, though it often t
lappens the track is buried with great s
jeaps of lipilli, otherwise scoriae or ?
ine ash and cinders, thrown ten or t
welve thousand feet out of the central c
rater and falling in pattering tor- '
ents over an area of many miles.
The proprietors of the railroad keep 1
i special staft of expert laborers for
epairing the track, but It Is significant j
hat the engineer-in-chief. Herr Faer- i
)er, is not a Neapolitan at all, nor even t
in Italian, but a German.
The Ferrovia Funicolare, as the
,vlre-rope railway up Vesuvius is call- t
'd, is about three thousand feet in (
n
engtn, and its terminus is nearly two j
housand feet above the Stazione In- j
'eriore, which is itself nearly three r
housand feet above the level of the x
jay. The gradient is in places as steep J
is 66 in 100. The run up or down is j
oade by the cable cars in less than fif- i
:een minutes, and at the upper sta- J
don there are a number of guides .
.vho conduct passengers through the i
leep ashes and slag to the summit of I
"ne crater. Almost every distinguished x
nan and woman alive has made the
i ipont?Iflntr nml nrinr*nc ?tntP?mon i
dngers, actors, engineers, novelists. f
rho proprietors of the railroad have a |
nonopoly, and even on the government ,
carriage road, which ends about a ?
tuarter of a mile beyond the Meteoro- 1
ogieal observatory, the traveler must r
provide himself with tickets purchased >
from the management. During the
ast violent eruption three swift-run- j
ing insidious torrents of molten metal ,
glided across the tracks, then cooled, *
were flowed over by other streams, and >
on until at length a wall of ada- J
mantlne rock was thrown at right an- (
gles across the track. I
Herr Baerber and his assistants <
were soon on the spot, but it was (
found necessary to use large charges |
f guncotton and dynamite before the i
rock wall of cooled lava could be removed
from the road. It Is no wonder <
that a return ticket on the railroad r
cost $4.10. I
When the mountain is in active 1
eruption the cars ascend by night, af- ,
fording passengers an inspiring spectacle?particularly
if a river of lava be *
ebbing and gurgling erratically over j
the fantastic wilderness of lava blocks ,
cooled ages ago. and probably dating i
from the destructions of the Roman '
cities. ,
Leaning out of the cable car one <
sees the great, glorious southern moon 1
partly obscured by the colossal smoke \
plume, and this in turn glows a fright- j
ful dull scarlet, not so much through ;
flame as through the reflection from '
the stupendous mass of molten lava,
roaring anil bubbling in the abyss. On
leaving the upper station guides are in i
attendance, and some of these earn '
considerable sums by making Impress- J
es on hot lava with copper coins of 5 ,
centesimi (1 cent), and selling these '
for 20 cents.
A guide is an absolute necessity, ]
however, on leaving the car: for even .
If . .... rlok ,.f t I,,, n.l f.,1 f;t.. ,.f
certain tourists who have fallen j
through a lava crust into a river of li- ,
quid fire precisely as the skater falls
through ice. one may very easily cut
one's shoes to pieces and hruise one's \
feet on the old lava, which in places
is sharp as glass fragments and hard
as steel.
The receipts from the railroad '
amount to several hundred thousand |
dollars a year, but. as has been ex- <
t.1r>Snn/1 /touf ??f m?iinlnn'in/??. S J
heavy and no man can safely predict
anything about Vesuvius. Remember,
rattle grazed in the crater not long 1
before the frightful upheaval of A. I).
79, which wiped out the Roman cities
for nearly 1,800 years. Next, or the
week after, the Vesuvian cable railroad
may be utterly destroy 1 by the fiery
breath of the monster, and the hotel
near the summit may be sought for
but not found.?Travel Magazine.
ON MARK TWAIN'S OLD RIVER, c
>
Picturesque Steamboat Traffic Has 1
Disappeared. I
Now that Mark Twain is gone there 1
s a great telling over of old steamboat c
,'arns out on the big river which gave t
llm his name. Old days on the Mis- I
ilsslppi and the Ohio had a plct- r
iresqueness which cannot be dupli- t
ated anywnere.
The levee in those times, says the
Travel Magazine, resembled a modern t
ininn station in an important railway s
centre. Daily packets were constant- 1
y arriving and departing for all points v
ip and down the river. Fine boats ran P
letween Cincinnati and New Orleans, ?
?ut St. Louis was the centre of the 0
teamboat traffic. v
Daily packets ran to Omaha, Sioux ^
Tity, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Kansas *
Jlty, St. Paul, Dubuque, Chester, Caio.
New Orleans, Nashville and all oth- *
r important river towns. In 1839 there P
rrived at the levee 1,476 steamboats, *
n 1841 there was an Increase to 2.105.
chile through the month of Mav, 1846, ?
here was an average of twelve ar- 3
ivals each day, not including the reg- u
liar packets almost daily from Alton, d
Pilots at this time were of special r
onsequence. Every courtesy was d
hown them hy captains and crews and P
xtreme deference by the negro bar- *
ers, waiters and roustabouts. Their
cages were high. As a general rule 0
he scale was about $400 a month, but 1
luring the flush Kansas trade on tne ''
ifissourl river a good pilot received as c
nuch as $900 a trip, which amounted ^
o $1,800 a month: but a pilot only *
nastered his trade after long experi- ^
nee and close application. '
He had to be well versed in his
'ocation, for in those days there wer? 1
q
io snag and dredge boats, beacon *amps
or powerful searchlights to play ^
head of the vessel. The pilot must '
lave a mental map of the river, re- ^
nembering the location of every snag, ^
andbar, snallow and other danger, not
inly on clear days and nights, but also ^
n the darkness, fog, sleet and snow. '
No dantrer must be considered. In v
act many of the steamboat disasters 1
vere due to sheer foolhardiness. Up to F
f
850 there were 576 steamers lost on
v
he two rivers. In the year 1860
here were 179 steamboats partially ^
wrecked and 120 wholly lost. The ex- a
dosion on the Sultana in 1864 killed ^
.647 soldiers and civilians.
Although at first it may seem an uiiellable
statement, the great steamboat
aces in those days were less danger- J
ius than during ordinary trips;
or during that exciting period
greater precautions were taken to 9
iveul an accident, and besides only a e
ertain number of pounds of steam 9
cas permitted. Racing was never pop- *
ilar with the people at large, but to 1
he people of the valley skirting the 1
Iver and the steamboat men then- r
ielves it was a great event. The ad- ^
ance advertisement of a race between r
wo popular boats sot the entire river *
ountry talking. Cotton and the tarff
became side issues, betting began t
>n the favorite and the race was anxously
awaited.
While discussions and wagers were
foing on the captains of the rival
iteamboats made contracts with wood
mats and coal tlats, which were to be
itationed at various points up the riv>r
with the crews ready to lay alongilde
and transfer the cargo of fuel on
he move. Also the steamers must be
completely overhauled and all spars renoved,
as well as all dispensable
veight and equipment.
If a boat ran faster at a certain balast
she must be loaded to that depth,
rhe services of a good pilot must be
secured, for his knowledge of the
stream and management of the vessel
neant the gain or loss of valuable
:lme, and perhaps of the race. Few
passengers were taken and only short
stops made.
The greatest race ever run was beween
the Natchez, a boat built In
Cincinnati and commanded by Capt. s
r. P. Leathers, and a New Albany t
>oat. the Robert E. Lee, under Capt. .
iohn W. Cannon. There was spirited 1
ivalry between the two vessels and
vhen the Natchez made the fastest
Ime on record between New Orleans
ind St. Louis (1.27P miles In 3 days
!1 hours 58 minutes) Capt. Cannon
esolved to beat it. He engaged the
tenmer Frank Pargoud and various
uel boats, and arranged for them to
neet him at various points up the
iver with wood and coal. Then he
lad his boat cleared of all her upper
vorks likely to catch the wind, or
nake the vessel heavier.
On Thursday. June 20, 1870, at 4.45
5. m., tne Robert E. Lee steamed out
if New Orleans. The Natchez follow>d
five minutes later. The race had
>een advertised in advance and was
low awaited with gathering interest
it all the river towns. Large crowds
,vere assembled at Natchez, Vlcksnirg.
Helena and other large places,
relegram reports were sent out from
,-annus points, some even to Europe.
Petween Cairo and .St. Louis the
S'atchez afterward claimed to have
ost seven hours and one minute on
iccount of a fog and broken machinsry.
The Robert E. Lee, however,
,vas not delayed and arrived in St.
L.ouis thirty-three minutes ahead of f
nwAifl/Mio mnnrrl ocfohlichorl hv hop
ompetitor. Fifty thousand people
from the housetops, the levee and the *
leeks of other steamers welcomed the t
t inner as she steamed Into port. Capt. ^
'annon was the lion of the hour. The ,
business men gave a banquet in his
tonor. 1
Some steamboats like the John Sinonds
during the busy season did a j
MO.000 business every round trip.
Phis, however was exceptional. As a 1
general rule steamboating was not a '
paying industry, the most fortunate t
wners making but 6 per cent, on the
money invested.
Many a hungry mouth did the
steamboat business fill in those days.
In 1832 the number of men earning |
heir living in the various departments
of the trade has been estimated
it 90.000; ten years later, counting
inly the laborers, engineers, pilots, t
repairers and others of actual crews,
here were about 180.000 men employ- A
id. In 1S30 there was $3,000,000 in- t
listed iii steamboats, with a yearly i
expense of $1,671,$40 for wages, $1,- .
593.200 for wood, $835,820 for provisions
and $7 13,040 for other expenses. v
in 1839 almost $2,000,000 was spent <
for wood alone along the shores of t
western rivers.
The steamboat age began about
IS21 and nourished for fifty years. As f
?arly as 1 834 the number of steam- i
boats on the Mississippi and its tribu- i
laries Is estimated at 230 and in 1842
there were 450 vessels, with a value f
if $25,000,000. Put the golden era
was from 1848 till the war. Never did t
the valley and steamboating prosper
more than then. Thousands of hales *
>f eotton were annually shipped to *
southern markets, and the wharves t
of St. Louis and Memphis and Vieks- f
Inirg and other large ports stacked
with piles of merchandise and lined s
with scores of steamers. c
Put the war came on. cutting off j
communications neiween ine norin
riiul south an?l sweeping the trade s
nvay. Ironclads bu'lt from former I
packets policed the mighty river. It j
was n period of storm and stress and
chloroformed prosperity on the Mis- '
sissippi. When peace was finally de- '
dared the survivors of the old steam- i
boat days were dead or engaged In
r>thcr industries.
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How Rubber Is Cured.
Rubber reaches the market in almost '
every possible shape and color. In '
most cases the queer names in the *
market reports are mostly decriptive
Thin, pale crepe, for instance, arrives c
in long strips generally about four feet f
long and eight to twelve inches wide. ?
It varies in thickness from one-six- s
teenth to one-half inch and has a c
roughlsh surface, from which the name ;
repe is derived. This rubber is pale
reIlow in color, and when held up to the
Ight is quite transparent, which proves
ts purity and accounts for the very
ligh price obtained therefor. The soailed
sheet rubber is similar to crepe,
>ut slightly thicker and not so trans arent.
It is prepared in a different
nanner, and unlike crepe, must be put
hrough the washing mills before it
an be used.
Hard, fine Para is prepared by naive
labor of the Amazon by dipping a
o-called paddle In the rubber and
hen holding It In the smoke of a tire,
,-hich hardens the coating of milk. The
addle is then dipped again for a sec
nil coating and again smoked, and so
n until quite a large biscuit, generally
weighing about sixty pounds, has bom
uilt up. The operator with a knife
hen slits the biscut down one side
n order to remove it from the paddle,
tubber so prepared contains a large
iroportion of moisture, but is stronger
han any of the plantation rubbers.
From the Congo come large supplies
f clean, black rubber, coagulated orl:inally
in large blocks and then cut
ip into small cubes to permit it to
iry and ripen. The Congo also ships
ubber in reddish sausages collected
irectly from the tree, the reddish aplearance
being caused by small porlons
of the bark adhering.
The Gold Coast ships rubber prepard
by the natives digging a trough in
he earth and running the latex into
t. In time the mass in the trough
oagulates from the outside, forms a
lard skin, and finally becomes hard
hroughout. But this kind of rubber
lolds the moisture which was originaly
in the latex and therefore such
limps often contain 50 per cent of waer.
On the ivory coast, the French
iuilan, and in the Sierra Leone neightorhood
the natives collected rubber
rom the same trees, but give a great
leal more pains to the preparation,
'he resulting product is known as
Sierra Leone niggers," or "konakry."
nis ruuDt-r is in mrgc uuus,
ng of strips carefully wound together,
arying in size from that of an orange
o that of a man's head. The rolling
trocess |3 done while the strips are
resh, and they become one compact
tall. Rubber treated thus is of a redlish
color, for which reason the balls
,re known as "red niggers."?Harper's
Veekly.
HIS F'M,M .EPORT.
apanese Officer Keeps Record of His
Death.
Death news from the bottom of the
elf-humiliation seldom encountered
ven in naval circles, is recounted in a
ea, showing a degree of heroism and
ransmisslon pubiisnen m tne Lonaon
rimes of a message written by Lieut.
Tsutoma Sakuma, who was In command
of the Japanese submarine No. P,
rhen It foundered last week while maleuverlng
In Hiroshima bay, all on
toard being lost.
In the message, which was found XJ\
he conning tower of the submarine
vhen it had been brought to the surace,
Lieut. Sakuma explained that he
done was to blame for the disaster to
he craft and the death of fellow officers
and men. He describes In detail
he heroic and almost superhuman eforts
that he and the doomed men with
dm made to save the submarine and
heir own lives. The message was as
ollows:
"It Is with the deepest regret that
write this message to describe the
oss of this boat, with my fellow-officers
ind men, due to my own fault. I would
lere specially mention that all steps
lave been taken to raise her, my comades
and men working earnestly and
calmly till the end. I ordered the ship
o dive with the engine running, but.
is I found she went down too far, I
ried to shut the valves which admit
he sea water to the ballast tank, but
inexpecteuiy me cnuiu i.
waives broke. and I was left helpless,
mable to control the boat.
. "Meanwhile the tanks were fulled
vith water, and the boat went down at
in incline of about twenty-five defrees.
After striking the bottom the
vater began rushing in, the switchward
was immersed In water, all elec;ric
lights went out, the fuses burled
iway and the boat was filled with poitonous
gases, so that we experienced
he greatest difficulty In breathing.
Jnder these conditions we worked our
rery utmost with the hand pumps to
impty the main ballast tank, which,
believe, we succeeded in doing, alhough
we could not read the gauges
iwing to darkness. No electric current
,vas available, as I mentioned before,
ind our last hope of rising'to the sur-1
'ace lay In working the hand pumps I
>nly.
"I write this in the dim light coming
'rom the conning tower?11.45 a. m.
"I earnestly beseech his majesty to
jrant me forgiveness and to succor
he families of my comrades and men
,vho have lost their lives in this pcrshing
boat. This is my only wish?i
12.30 p. m.
It is with the utmost difficulty that
! can breathe, though I am sure we
nust have blown out the gasoline enirely
from the tanks. I can not con:inue
any more?12.40 p. m."
THIEVES WHO HIDE THEIR LOOT.
Recovered Later, and the Ex-Criminal
Lives In Wealth.
It is well known to the police that
here are a number of ex-convicts
vho are literally rolling in riches and
Iriving about London and the provnces
today in their own motor cars
mil carriages, said a detective to the
vriter the other day. The majority
if these men are old embezzlers and
here seems to be little doubt that
hey are able to live well and keep
joing lavishly furnished residences
>ecause the money they stole was
lidden by them before being arrest>d
and sent to prison.
It may surprise you to know that
housands of pounds worth of va'ua>le
property looted by thieves from
rarious sources lies buried in odd
orners of Hritain and will probably
?nly be recovered by the men ihemlelves
on their release. Cases are
onstantly occurring where an emtezzler
after running off with a large
lum in gold refuses to divulge the
tiding place of his ill gotten ?alns.
Ie is sent to prison and the loot remains
unrecovered. In nine cases out
>f ten the embezzler finding arrest
mminent buries his stolen property
ind digs it up again when he comes
>ut of prison.
A man who was for many years an
nmate of one of our prisons is now
iving in affluence in a town up north,
de was imprisoned for embezzling
iTO.OOO from his employer and he dedared
at the trial that he had spent
very penny of it. For some time
ifter his release from jail he lived in
i cheap lodging house at Hoxton and
hen one day he declared that he had
ome into a fortune, a brother in
Vustralia having died and left him
some thousands. As a matter of fact, ever
although the police had no proof, and
he had recovered the money which the
he had embezzled years before. ligh
A man of considerable means notf* stoU
living in the states served a term of had
imprisonment for forgery, having ob- in a
tained ?15,000 by means of false S(
checks. Not a penny of the money mcr
was recovered by the police. During to n
the forced confinement of the thief bed
his wife, in pursuance of a previous- The
ly agreed plan, went out to service wea
in a gentleman's family. As soon chai
as the husband was liberated, how- thei
ssvm
mgiu
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SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. W
04-i- -/ C/...4U r..ni:>i. rn..n?u n*
York.
In tlie Court of Common Plena.
S. G. Feemster and W. T. Feemster. rri
Plaintiffs, against Annie V. Feemster X
and Johnnie Leroy Feemster, Defen- coll
dants. Summons for Relief.?(Com- spU(
plaint Filed.) Cou
To the Defendants above named: a, n
YOU are hereby summoned and re- flfpe
quired to answer the complaint in ship
this action, which has this day been be <
filed in the office of the Clerk of the est
Court of Common Pleas for the said vide
county, and to serve a copy of your an- ing
swer to the said complaint on the sub- arsi
scriber at his office in Yorkville, South SOn
Carolina, within twenty days after the arsi
service hereof, exclusive of the day of s<
such service: and if you fall to answer tuit
the complaint within the time afore- Sep
said, the plaintiffs in this action will mat
apply to the Court for the relief de- B. J
manded in the complaint, 3f
J. S. Brice,
Plaintiffs' Attorney. 99
Dated Yorkville, S. C., April 12. A. D. The
1910. Rigl
NOTICE gra
To the absent Defendants, Annie V.
Feemster and Johnnie Leroy Feem- |&
ster:? 34
Please take notice that the Sum- H|
mons, of which the foregoing is a copy, Kg
together with the Complaint in this ac- Kg
tlon. were filed in the owfce of the Clerk G
of Court of Common Pleas for York
county, South Carolina, at Yorkville, S. K
C., on the 12th day of April A. D. 1910.
J. S. Brice, ft
Attorney for Plaintiffs. ?3
Yorkville, S. C., April 12. A. I). 1910. ffij
NOTICE H
To Annie V. Feemster, mother of John- El
nie Leroy Feemster, a minor under H
the age of fourteen years, residing |g
with her:? 3B
Please take notice that unless you B
shall in the meantime procure the ap- IE
nnlntm?nl nf n 7itnt'i1lnn nil litem. the Ki
plaintiffs will on the twentieth clay after
the service of this notice upon you,
exclusive of the clay of such service,
apply to J. A. Tate, Clerk of Court of
Common Pleas for the county and state
aforesaid, at his office in Yorkville, S.
C., at 10 o'clock in the forenoon or as
soon thereafter as counsel can be'
heard, for an Order appointing some
suitable person guardian ad litem for
said Johnnie Leroy Feemster and directing
said guardian when appointed
to appear and defend the action in his
behalf. i
J. S. Price, I
Attorney for Plaintiffs. *
Yorkville, S. C., April 12, A. D. 1010. j
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D. E. Finley. Hudson C. Miller.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW \
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vices to tiio.se in need of Land Sur- Ex
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his wife resigned her position d
the pair sailed immediately for E
colonies. It ultimately came to T
t that the money which had been b
;n by means of the forged checks tl
been buried under the flooring it
i Soho house.
)me fifteen years ago a Hindu w
chant who had come to London k
aake purchases of gems was rob- a
of many thousands of pounds. T
thieves carried their ill gotten si
1th to a cheap tenement in White- n
pel, but finding the police hot on t'
r track they carried the loot one ii
silll
tific Authority
lemonstrated that ol two Ui
s of bread, one raised 1
Dnvnl Rnlrtnn PawjIap ? ?
be other with alum bale- A!
>wder, the Royal raised P
s 32 per oentm more
title than the otherm
Avoid Alum
INTHROP COLLEGE
;holarship and entrance
examination.
HE examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop
lege and for the admission of new
lents will be held at the County
rt House on Friday, July 1, at 9
i. Applicants must be not loss than
ien years of age. When Scholar>s
are vacant after July 1, they will i
iwarded to those making the high- (
average at this examination, pro>d
they meet the conditions govern- |
the award. Annlieanfs for sohol- <
ilps should write to President Johnbefore
the examination for Schol- .
lip examination blanks,
iholarships are worth $100 and free
ion. The next session will open
tember 21, 1910. For further inforion
and catalogue, address Pres. D.
IOHNSON, Rock Hill, S. C.
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to increase the already large subs
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Saturday,
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Each of tlic Winners of Nine Cc
augurated for Nine Competitive
more if necessary, to each clubm;
as many as Five Annual Subscri
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and competitors living in the con
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The competitor in each of the
Paying for the Largest Number
JUNE AT 6 O'CLOCK, prov
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portation both ways. But this re
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ark night to a remote spot on the
Issex marches and secretly buried It.
hey then disappeared and have no'
een seen since. It is believed that
lie money remains to this day where a
; was buried.
Not so very long ago a burglary
ras committed by a couple of well
nown thieves who got away with
bout ?500 in coin and banknotes,
'hey were arrested, but refused to
tate what they had done with the
innnv dnnl.t? UU?A/1
ailliuu^ll Wlic uai IV1JT IIIIIICTIA
hat it had been buried in a garden
n a suburb of London.?Tit-Bits.
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ibution will be One Watch to
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aker who returns and pays for
ptions.
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are closest.
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is and pays for as many as
vill be entitled to a Watch relie
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