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PAN, "W hat W e Xnherit Wi Scientific . With American control of the Pana ma canal opening the second chapter in the story of the great isthmian waterway, we inherit a graveyard of many ?reeked hopes and lites, with their monuments strewn from the Atlaotio to the Pacific in the shape of decaying relies of tn earlier engineer ing period. There is no richer dig ging in tho ruins of an ancient Borne or Pompeii than along the deserted route of the canal. For upward of a quarter of a century some $20,000,000 worth of deoayiog maohinery, build ings, and engineering implements have been boned in the moist soil. In nothing was the early French com pany more extravagant than in pur chasing supplies for tho isthmus. These included nearly everything that man could think of, and the ship ment of the goods to the isthmus kept employod a email fleet of large and small ships. Every steamer thai touched the isthmus in those palmy days of canal digging unloaded stack.? of supplies for the engineers and their subordinates. There was maohinery by the scores and thousands of tons, large, small, and medium site; costly maohinery and antiquated types of no, real value at all; maohinery that was to be used, and maohinery intended for waste; maohinery that was as much out of plaee in that far-away corner of the earth as steam radiators in the Desert of Sarah. Why this endless amount of maohinery was shipped there, no one could explain; but it was all ac cepted, paid for, and then left to rot in the hot, moist climate. There were locomotives from Belgium and the United States, enormous steam hammers from England, great turn ing lathes from Germany, sooops, buckets, steel rails, and machine tools by the aore from all parts of the earth. There were no storehouses sufficient to hold all these supplies. There are 2,431 building, on the isthmus left by the old (Panama company, many of which are hospital buildings and exe cutive offices, but not all of these could store the maohinery sent down to help dig the canal. What wonder, then, that maohinery-became ordinary articles of common use? Engineers and contractors stored what, they could, and turned the rest out of doors to the tender meroy of a cli mate that quickly destroys steel and iron. There were some who used the iron as foundations for their oostly homes. Along the line of the cabal, the slit of the soil is ofton as soft and slip pery as quicksand? It filters through and into scything, lt made the building of the canal a diffioult engi neering problem for the French, which they oould never quite over come. When you build substantial ho uses of stone or iron upon the run ning soil, there is no surety that the foundations will last.* Some of the large houses built by the Frc nob offi cers of the company sank down into the silty soil, until to-day only the upper stories arevisible. So, io make their homes more seoure, some of them used the surplus maohinery as foun dations. There are houses on the isthmus that stand on $50,000 wortjh of maohinery, whioh was never used for the purpose intended. In many similar ways tho surplus maohinery was employed to keep it from standing - idle. In parts of the isthmus it is found buried ten and fif teen feet below the surface soil. Un earth it, and you find it as soft and porous as chotee. It maybe a huge iron anchor, a steel bucket, or a east iron scoop, that protrudes above the soil to attract' the attention. With a penknife it oan be out and faired as easily as if it were an apple. In some mysterious way, the soil and elimata, bas disintegrated the metal, so that its hardness has disappeared, and r/hile retaining all of its outline and outward characteristics, it is no loisger iron er steal, dab banders along tho line of the oana! to pick up old pieces of relics, only to find them crumbling under the touch. 1 ? Not el! tis machinery, however, has been east asideiosink into tho loose ?oil of the canal. At Colon and Em perador it is scattered over miles of laud that has been Set aside for this purpose. Here, iadeed, is tbs grave yard of France's past ambitions. One stumbles upon the monuments of a past Whioh will forever live in the mentor^ of those in any way atsb oiated.with the. Isthmus of Panama or tho .?anal. Million?? upon millions of useless, rotting, neglected property stands exposed to the disintegrating influences of the climate, sadly out of data now, and fit ody for tho junk Pile, but teeming with memories and Possibilities of the glorious past. There are miles upon miles of steel rails piled six feet hia& sinking th. tlie Panama Canal. ^menean. ?lowly into the soft soil, and. rusting in the moist atmosphere. Rows upon rows of oar wheels are apparent on every side, wheels which represent huge expenditures, but which were apparently dumped there and never UBed. Iron and steel buckets and scoops form an army of silent wit nesses to man's folly and wasteful ; extravagance. Machine shops, filled with huge steam hammers and giant turning lathes for repairing the ma* ehinery used in excavating, are fall ing apart by their own weight. A dozen rows of looomotives-small in size and weight, and scarcely adapted to the work required of. them-stand half sheltered under sheds that are themselves hardly able to stand up under their aged and weakened raf ters. Bust' and deeay are apparent on these locomotives, as well as upon all other articles of .use, and the hand of neglect appears stretched over the whole length and breadth of the isth mus. When the trade winds die out, and the hot, sultry air of the isthmus ceases to move, a white mist will sometimes rise out of the swelling ocean, and hover like a fog 0"er land and sea. This white mist is tao pre cursor of fever and sickness, and those of the isthmus who know remain with in doors, unwilling to meet tho ghost of the ooean half way. In the early days of the oanal his tory, the white mist that rose from the disturbed soil of the isthmus was far more disastrous in its killing ef fects than the mist of the ooean. It rose from the soil like incense from a brazier. It earried with it from its underground prison all the poison of putrefaction and wherever it inclosed its victimo, there fever and death fol lowed. The soil ia moist and damp, and when disturbed in that hot cli mate, it releases a dense white mist. For generations past luxuriant vege tation has been decaying in the soil, and when the surface is scratch ed, strange, unhealthy gases and poisonous vapors rush upward to spread around. Tier upon tier of an nual crops ot- rieh vegetation are packed down solid over the surfaoe of . the soil. In this hotbed of feverish decomposition, the process of fermen tation and disintegration is ever in active operation. Fortunately, nature holds most of the deadly exhalations in elose prison walls; but when man comeo along to disturb the even bal ance, trouble begins. In the hot, damp air of the isthmus, the poison ous exhalations released from the soil mingle with the mist, and the "white ghost of the canal" is aeoounted for. When the Frenchmen excavated for the eanal, 'tho mist hovered over their campa and homes during the greater part of the year. It entered nearly every home tc claim its victims. Men died like beasts in the field. They were strioken at their work, in their tents, in their beds, and even at the gaming or wine and card table. It was ?ll one with the monster; it knew neither rank nor condition j wealth'nor poverty. Only the natives knew enough to avoid it, and to keep away from the fever camps of the company. Tock film at His Word. The following story is ?old of the mate of an English bark now lying in port, says the Baltimore San. The vessel was unloading in Nor folk about a week ago and the mate ordered one of tbs sailors, a negro, to execute an ordur. The negro was somewhat slow in carrying out the order and the mate cursed, him round ly, as mates often do. To the mate's astonishment the negro, Who wai a new hand, stopped short in his task and said : "Don't yo' talk ter me dat way, man. Yo' ain't in Englan' now. Dis is er cullud man's country, en dere's a man at Washington who looks out fo' us.folks." The next moment the mate swept down upon the negro* like a tidal Wave, seised him by the collar and the afterni??k of his t??uDorB and threw him ever the rail into the Irater.. . J? Aa the negro came to the surface spluttering and kicking^ the mate roared at him from the deek above : "Sou biaa^-blank-blank! Now, you just swnn down the James river, j tura to y?tit right and go up the $bto mao to Washington and tall that man there all about it.'/ .- 'r'?HRfiv . The negro did not act on the advice pf the mate, however, but swam ashore and tried unsuccessfully to get a war rant for the mate's arrest. - Even the fellow who goes into a scheme on the ground floor should make sure of the fire escapes. -- The only use a woman has for a dude is, to make som? 35?2 jeal Third io World s Population. It is only hy association and? com parison that we can grasp the dimen sions represented hy the 80,000,000 population which the census bureau et Washington% estimated were ie the United Staten in 1903. This Ss more ^people than are in any other nation in she world, exeept China, with its 400, 000,000. and Russia, with its 130,000, 000. Computed on the capacity of its units this 80,000,000 stands for im measurably greater productive value than noes China's or Russia's total. When Alexander of Meosndon.in the middle of Asia, was weeping beoauee there was no more eartha for him to oonquer, he had fewer subjects than ?he United States of 1904 has sover eigns. Under Caesar's eagles, when Rome rnled tho world, were ?OBS people than are under the Stars and Stripes in the day of Theodore Roosevelt. With 7 per cent, of the world's land area and five per cent, of its popula tion, the United States have 25 per oent. of the world's wealth. The value of tho United States' property, real and personal, in 1900 was $94,000, 000,000 as oompared with $59,000,000, OOO? for Great Britain and Ireland, $48,000,000,000 for Franoe, $45,000, 000,000 for Germany, $32,000,000,000, for Russia $15,000,000,000, for Italy and $12,000,000,000 for Spain. More over, the United States' lead of all the other nations in wealth is increas ing faster than is her preponderance over them all, except Russia and China, in population. ' Franklin told the British Parlia ment just before the Revolution that the population of the thirteen Ameri can colonies was doubling every twenty-five years. The gain is slight ly less than that now, though it is greater than that of any other nation. Through natural increase, immigra tion and annexations the populaci?n of the United States multiplied fifteen times between 1800 and 1900, while it multiplied 105 times in those 100 years in wealth. Without allowing for increase in territory, but keeping the diminishing ratio of growth in mind, our 75,000, 000 population of 1900 will, there is good reason to believe, be 150,000, 000 in 1930, 300,000,000 in 1970 and 500,000,000 by the year 2000, while the aggregate of its wealth in the last named year will be up in the dizzy heights of mathematica. , Nothing in the Arabian tales is so marvellous as is the expansion in pop ulation, wealth and power of the United States.-Leslie's Weekly. lie Could Spare a Fin for Baby. One day the wife of an absent-mind ed pi of essor in a New England college stepped into the library, where the profescor was supposed to be enter taining his youngest boy and particu lar pet. There was a suspicious si lence, and then she saw that her hus band was deep in a book, while the baby, perohed upon his father's knee, was endeavoring to swallow a large black-headed pin which heiiad pulled from a tempting eoat lapel. "Dear me, Henry," gasped the mother, as she flew into the room, rescued the pin and seized her ohild. "Didn't you see that baby was trying to swallow a pin he had pulled out of your.lapel?" The professor looked at her with a dazed smile. "No, my dear, I had not noticed," he said, mildly. "And in any ease I have another pin there. Yes, there it is. You see I could easily spare one to the baby. It almost seems a pity to have dio turbe d him when he was playing so quietly, does it not, my dear? And all for a pin!" said the man of learning, with an air of gentle reproach, as he returned to his book, and the mother withdrew the baby to a place of safety.-Youth's Companion. _ A Fly Killer. W. W. Jacobs, the English humor ist, is sa modest os he is brilliant. . "The things that people laugh at. most in my stories," he said to an American, "are nearly always things that I have heard and noted down. They are not original with me. "On that account wherever I gd I keep my ears open and thus I get hold of many a good thing. "I got hold of a good thing last week in Margate. I was looking at a butchor shop's display when the butcher same ont and said teas, cid man: " 'Henry, I want you.1 " 'What do you want?'the old man asked. " 'Why/ said thsbutoher, Til give yon a shilling and a joint of mast if you'll JciU al! the flies in my shop.' " ?AH right,' said the old man. 'Give me the shilling first and the meet afterward.' "Tho butcher handed out ?he shill ing. Th tn tin old man asked for a stick about ? yard long; This was brought to him? He gripped it firmly, went ? the doorway and said : " 'Now turn 'em out, one at a time.' " -It's funny that a woman never baa ti? con8ult a clairvoyant to learn if her husband is working in th? ??5ee nights when he says ?;e itv Much Used. A minister of one of the leading congregations of this city was recently making a oall on one of the prominent sssmh?rs of his nook and was greeted at the door hy the 8-year-old daughter of the house, who was doing the hon ors as hostess in the absence of "her mother, says the Philadelphia Press. Spying a well-worn family Bible near at hand, the minister commented on the feet that there mast hs a good father Sn the house whioh contained proof of having used the Bible to so great an extent. "Oh, yes," said the ohild, "papa has us on the Bible three times a day." "Indeed?" replied tho parson. "Ho*r edifying. And, pray, at what times does your good father oall upon this grand volume?" ."Always at meal times," answered tho radiant daughter. "You know, we never had a baby chair in the house, so pa jo,st sits the Bible on a dining room ohair and that makes it just, high enough for us children. My baby brother Jim sat on it this morning. Wc all had our turn ai lt." The Sommer Resort Widow. "The widow," said I. W. Read of Nashville, "furnishes the most de lightful study to. the observer of the tricks and manners of human beings. "One summer," he continued, in a ruminating manner, "I was spending some time at White Sulphur Springs, Ya.-I only tell this as an illustration of the aoumen and intelligence of the genus widow-and one afternoon a handsome young wonianNand her little 6-year-old son sat near me on the ve randa. The little fellow trotted up to me and I patted him on the head. " 'What's your name?' he asked. "I told him. " 'Is you married,' he lisped. "No, Tm not," I replied. "Then the ohild paused for a mo me_t and turning to his mother, said: " 'Mamma, what else did you tell _ _ 4_1_ I!_OH uto w BOO. mm < Starr's signs. A Chicago dispatch to the Washing ton Post says: Prof. F rc dc ri ok.Starr, head of the anthropological depart ment of the University of Chioago to day gave his class in elementary anthropology a list of marks of de generacy. Here they are: Red hair, hut not for the Irish. Blond hair in dark raoes, all right for Swedes. Bat ears. % Ears with small lobes. Parting hair on right side, or in the middle. Gray hairs before age of forty-five. Cross eyes. . Left-handness. Men wearing muoh jewelry. Tattooing. . Snub nose. Cowlioks in hair. Baldness. ; Receding ohin. Portrudiug Hps. Teeth set wide apart. "A person may have twelve of these marks of the degenerate," said Prof. Starr, "and be all right. If he has sixteen of them, pity him." "You needn't look at me so close ly," he remarked as the student gazed at him after the "teeth wide apart" rule. "I know I have many of the marko. These marks are hereditary, and by them you eau tell the ten denoy of a person toward degener aoy. Speaking of hat ears, he said: "It is strange that the only two bat-oared students in this ciaos are sitting together." Then he added: "I know a young man in one of my olasses who wears four rings on his fingers. Within ten years that young man will go to > ruin.'_ j -"Central, give me 3876, Madison." A wait of a few moments. "Hello, is that 3876?" "Yes." "Whojsatthe 'phone?" "This is Mrs. Harrison." "How do you do Mrs. Harrison. This is Mr. Jackson. Is Miss Eloise there?" "Yes, but she's in her bath just now." "Well I'm sorry I oan't see her. Goodbye," And next day when Eloise's brother knocked him down he couldn't understand why. Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administratrix of ?state of Preston B. Mitchell, dsesawd, fesrsbrsi vss ao??o? ?U? she will on the sd day of Septem ber, 1904, apply to tbs Judge of Probate for Andereon County, 8. C., for Final Settlement of ssdd Estate,and i\ discharge from her office as Administra trix. MRS. KANNIE B MITCHELL, Administratrix. Augusta, 1004 7 M 8? CITATION. State of South Carolina, County of Anderson. By M. Y. H. Nance, Judge of Probate. Whereas, T. H. Garrett has applied to me to grant him Letters of Adminstratlon. with WU1 annexed, on tho. Estate and effects of Annie Garrett, These are, therefore, to cite and admon ish all kindred and creditors of the said Annie Garrett, deceaed, to be and appear before me In Court of Probate, to be held at Anderson Court Houee.on the 18th dny of August, 1904. after publication hereof, to show cause, If any they have, Why the said Administration should not be granted; Given under my hand this lat dav nf A?gcse, 1004. ? Ki. Y. H NAJGOB, Probate Judge. Aufi.3,1904 7 a DO AS THE ROMANS DO. Df*e of tho Effects of Life In Rome on the Temporary Visitor. Tho strangest thing about life in Homo is that one not only doo? ss the Homans do, but ends hy thinking as tho Romans think, feel ing as the Hom**!;? feel. The best illustration I know of this is the mental attitude of the foreign resi dents toward certain superstitions, notably the belief in the evil eye the molocchio, or jettatura, as it ie indifferently called. I never knew an Italian who diu not hold more or less to this super stition. Americans who have lived long in Rome either reluctantly ad mit that "there does seem to be something in it," or, if they are Ro man born, quietly accept it as one of those things in heaven and earth of which philosophy fails to take account. In certain respects thc Italian is | markedly free from superstition as compared with the Celt or the Scot. For instance, the fear of ghosts 01 spirits is so rare that I have never met with it. On tho other hand, tho belief in the* value of dreams as guides to action is deep rooted and widespread. The dream book in some families is held hardly second in importance to the book of prayer. .Tho Italian's eminently practical nature makes him utilize his dreams in "playing tho lotto," as the buying of lottery tickets is called. To dream of certain things indi cates that one will bo lucky and should play. Tho choico of the number is tho chief preoccupation of the hardened lottery player. It ia decided by the oddest chance by tho number on a bank note that has been lost and found again 01 the number of a cab which has brought one home from delightful festivity.-Century. A Now Kind of Rem. Little Helen had just como home from a visit to grandma's and was telling mother all tho wonderful things she had seen. "One day I saw a wholo flock of sheep," she said, "and there were a lot of old rams too. Grandpa said they were very fine ones and that he hau one of almost every kind thero was." The next day Helen started to write a letter. "Who are you writing to, dear?" asked mother. "Grandpa," instantly answered Helen, "to tell him of a new kind of ram I'm sure he hasn't got in his flock. I heajd Mr. Smith over at tho water tower talking of it to day." . "What kind is that?" asked mother. "A hydraulic ram," replied Helen. A Relative. The young man was being enter tained by tho small hoy while ho waited for the young lady to appear. "I say," said the youngster after a long list of questions, "your moth er doesn't live here, does she ?" "No. She does not." "You haven't got any relations herc cither, have you?" ."None at all." "I said so," said the boy in a sat isfied way. "Said it to whom ?" "To sister when she said she be lived your uncle had your watch, 'cause you never took it out to seo if it was time to go." Gartero. There are certain strange super stitions connected with garters. Some people consider that a present of an old garter is a good omen. A bride should always wear a blue silk garter at her wedding. The wearing of the garter does not end the ritual concerning it. After the wedding ceremony it must be either cut into pieces or hidden. Yellow garters are generally considered to bo lucky omens to the wearers, while many women have garters the color ot their birthstone-green for em* eralds, red for rubies, yellow for topaz, blue for sapphire and white for diamond's. An Attentive Judge. One day the president of a French court had to extract the vote of a judge upon an appeal case. The good man had been dozing quite comfortably. "Eh? "What?" he exclaimed as he. was suddenly aroused. Then he inmediately add ed that "the man should be execut ed." "Oh, but the business in hand concerns a field," replied the presi dent. "Ah, yes, of course," was the answer. "Let it be mowed at onc?." His Tamper. . . "You would get along a great' deal better if you didn't get so ex Cited," said the calm mall to his irascible friend. "Can't you leant to keep your temper?" "Keep my temper! Well, I like that," retorted the other. 'Td have you understand that I keen more temper in ono day than you have in your possession during a whole yearl" ' . ? J?k.m TORIA? Beantae >t The Kind Yoo Haw Altais Bought -** Many a poor man has discovered that the shady side of Wall street is quite a loug walk from the annoy sic o of Easy street. - Thc fact fiat they a*e baoholor girls is proof of the fact that many wonten ?re so sensible they would maVe good wives. FORMAN UNIVERSITY, S?^ ^ Goars?? lesding to the degree? of Bachelor of Arts (?. A.) and Master otJ?sta? (M. A.) Library Reading Boom. Laboratories. Large and Comfortable Dorre,teciasv. Expenses rsiuGwd to a Miuiinum. Next session begins Sept. 14. For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. Cook. For Cato logne or information address The Secretary of the Faculty. 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