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PLAN CHIMNI INTew York to Have 1 Ea] Chicago ( New York, August 26.-New Vork i? HOOD to have the oddest amusement enterprise on thc face of thc earth in the shape of a tower taller than any ctruoturc in thc woild and equipped with a larger variety of combined cn tertainmcntH and utilities than any thing that has ever existed for the edification of thc millions who are constantly and hungrily seeking new pleasures. Called "thc Weber tower," after its designer, Carl Weber, ono of the best known experts in thc matter of tall ntcel-coucrete constructions, the build ing will bc unique in many ways, and when it has been erected, cither in one of the parks of Manhattan or io Borne equally prominent spot, will un questionably be one of the foremost attractions of the metropolis. In the first place it will reach the enormous height of 1;250 feet, just 258 feet taller than the Eiffel tower, in Paris, and more than twice as tall &B the Washington monument, which, with 555 feet, is at pr?sent thc high? est permanent structure in the world. It will so far overtop everything in New York that comparison is idle, the Park Kow building, which now holds pre-eminonce, being only 382 feet high, and the St. Paul building, ranking second, having hut 308 feet. Inn>J3uropc, after the Eiffel tower, there is only tho Olm cathedral, with 528 feet, but this is excelled by the city ball in Philadelphia, with 548 feet. . Height alono, however, will not be the chief recommendation of the Weber tower. It will be a sky scraper of universal invitation. If you aro a business maa you will be able to root officea inside tho lean but lofty s tr ct ch en. If you want an evening's frolic you will be escorted to tho highest roof garden in tho world, 1,100 feot above the sidewalk, whiob is so high that every other roof garden will look like a pygmy patch cf light without form or substance If you are aa as tronomer you will find all the para phernalia for the study of the hea vens at such close range that you will hardly need a telescope. And above oil there will be the necessary precau tions to prevent you jumping oft if you are one of those persons who get that impulse whenever they reaoh the top of a high plaoe. < Although virtually nothing has been known of thia remarkable project ex* j cept by those most intimately asso ciated with it, tho plans have so far progressed that in all likelihood it will be an accomplished faot in a rea ' sonably short time. Several of the most influential capitalists in New York have taken it up and have been so muoh impreBBed with it that the vast sum required for it is practically ready ano actual work will probably begin before the winter sets in.. So thoroughly has the sohemebeen work ed out that the whole structure eau be oompleted and ready for UKO with in a year after the beginning of the In design tho tower will b? entirely novel. Its main part is to' he cylin drical, iu the form of a shaft of 35 feet inside diameter, the lower 300 feet reinforced by a syBtem of ribs, while the largest ontBide diameter ' will bc 140 feet. Balconies for the accommodation of visitors will be provided at various heights and the high oat platform accessible to the public will be 1,200 feet above the street lovel, where there will be spaee for as many as 1,600 persons at one time. . According to present plans eight elevators will iron in the main shaft, with a capacity of about 1,260 persons every hour. Tho main platforms, however, where there wilt be a roof garden that can Le inclosed when the necessity arises, will be 1,100 feet high. Here there will h? refreshment stands, postoffico, telegraph " offices, public telephones, toilet rooms and about everything else that modern exigienoes demand, while well inform ed guides will bo in ' attendance to point out and explain the wonderful views from every side and to furnish field glasses, when required. Another . novel feature will Ve provision for av XJn??ed States weather observatory, which* will bb higher than any now in use,is :well as several rooms appli cable to private scientific research. From the base of the tower to the 300'foot balcony there will be eighteen stories, some of. which will be utilized ?or office purposes and entertainment. There will pe ampi? room for a theatre as well as for a museum and other ex hibitions. As a matter of fact, haif a dofieo "dislinot entertainment enter prise may bc included in thia great ; #?a'fo.; without conflict. 'Tho second jfoor, tfowover, will be reserved for: a restaurant of the first class; ?Mfr abott* 10,QQ0 squa?efe^ and, cf course the most up-tc dato improve lY TO CLOUDS. iha l li^licst Tower on rth. Chronicle. wents in the way of comfort and dec orative effect. On thc lower floor there will be Blores, but ouly such as will be in harmony with tho purposes of the en tire edifice, and here al?o will bc lo cated the electric machinery for the operation of the elevators and the power for thc light, heat, ventilation apparatus and KO on, although thin will be of such magnitude that a part of it will he helow the main stair way. Although details of thc architec tural ornamentation have not yet been finished, it is promised that -thc en' trances especially will bo extraordi narily elaborate, with marble columns, spacious stairways, promenades, re ception rooms and other features of luxury and splendor. So far as may be possible this effect of richness will bo striven for from tho base of the building to the top of the tower. I Whatever other attractions the building may contain, tho top of it will be the greatest by reason bf tho immense height and the magnificent view to be had there, to say nothing of thu quality of the air in any kind of weather. Before tho eyce of tho spectator stationed there will lie the whole city of New York, tho Atlantic Ocean as far as the Bight can reach, tho Hudson River and tho surround ing country to a distance of 250 milco It has been estimated that the view will take in a territory of 20,000 square miles. / All tho year around the tower will be open and tho elevators will begin to run one hour before sunrise and continue until midnight. The upper floors, however, probably will be uti lized as club rooms, in which case, of course, members will have access at all times. Carl Weber, to whose inventive genius the public will owe this novel attraction,, is a civil engineer and j president of the Weber Steel-Concrete Chimney Company, of Chicago. His chimneys are known everywhere, an for this new one, which probably will acquire the name of the "amusement chimney," ho has a large staff of engi neers and workmen at his command, although the whole work will be under his personal supervision. At present the tallest concrets con struction is the ohimcey of the Ameri can Smelting and Refining Company, in Tacoma. Wash. This has an in side diameter of eighteen feet and a total height of 308 feet, and although the thickness of the walls is only eight feot at the base, the chimney is proof against cyoloncs. The work on that construotion'was done in about seventy-five working days. A chim ney of the same type is now under construction for Senator Clark's re duction-workB at Butte, Mon. It is estimated that tho coat of the new tourer will be about $2,000,000, including electric equipment, interior decoration and fixtures and a reserve fund for emergencies. During the work of building the public will bo ad,' milted on Sundays and holidays -fer several hours for a nominal charge, the receipts thus obtained being de voted to the payment of interest on the working capital during the period of construction. It io believed that the tower when finally in operation will \e capable of accommodating easily 15,000 persons a day. "Nigger's" Adventure lu Cherokee. On Sunday morning last, as little Carl Bridges was on his way to Sun* day School, his attention was called to the noise of a dog barking, which seemed to emanate From ?ho forty frot well long ago abandoned, opposite the store of Mr. D. R. Bird. On investi gation it proved to be a dog, and after awhile lilr. Charles Baber, who had lost his little water spaniel, "Nigger," on the evening of August 1, just twenty days before, came over and got interested in . the incarcerated oanino. G They got some rope and a little negro bootblack volunteered to go after the little "Nigger," which he found perched on a plank just on edge of the water, which is about".eight feet. deep. He was very emaciated and somewhat feeble nf tor his long bath and fast, but he is now running tho streets vicing in speed with anj of his canine friends, and on Wednes day followed bis'?scb?c master tc Buf falo Creek, where they both indulged iii a bat^h together. Little "Nigger" is now the. mascot of Bl?ok?burg. i B??cksburg Chronicle. ^ A barkiag dog occasionally bi tes iheddstv-y. r/f - A mulo by any other name would kick just as hard. *- M?r?y ? poor fisherman gets tan gled up in a string of lies. - It's a poor architect Who is un able to draw kia own conclusions. Wouldn't Be Cut Up. Fearing, when he smelled the fumes of ether, used on a paticut in the cot next to that in which ho lay, that be was to bo operated upon, says The New York Evening Post, CharleB Hartling, a switchman for the Inter borough Kailway, who was injured in a collision un the subway etension at Freeman street aud southern bou levard, yesterday, leaped out of his bcd in Lebanon Hospital this morn ing, clad only in an undershirt, and in spite of the efforts of surgeons and nurhcs, escaped from thc building and ran to his home, several blocks t>w*y. On tho way bc leaped down a twenty-five foot wall from the hos pital grounds to Caldwell avenue, re ceiving only a few bruises in the de scent. Ho ran so fast, with his un dershirt flapping about his legs, that his pursuers, including a bicycle po liceman, were outdistanced. When he reached bis house, he ran upstairs to his wife, to whom he had been mar ried only a few months, and told her he was not going to stay in the hos pital and bc cut up for nothing, so he had como home. By the time Harding's wife had re covered from her astonishment, and bad put some clothes on her husband, the bicycle policeman appeared, and wanted to arrest him*. But his wife refused to let him be taken away, and the other tenants in the house pro tested so vigorously against the man's removal that the policeman let Hart ling along. He is new under treat ment by a private physician, who says be will recover. He signed a release of all blase ta thc hospital, when Su perintendent Daub sent an ambulance to take him back there, and declared that he preferred his wife's care to that of the hospital suraes and sur geons. Harding was caught between two sars on the elevated extension of thc subway, and was badly crushed. The surgeons at Lebanon Hospital said he suffered internal injuries, but they ad mitted today that for a man with in ternal injuries, he could give a long start many sprinters not suspected of being unsound. In the next cot to Hartling this morning was ? man upon whom the surgeons were about to operate. The switchman smelled the fumes of the ether, and became alarmed, fearing that they were about to "out him np." When he was unwatched for a mo ment he leaped from his cot, in his undershirt, and ran out. of the ward, whioh ia on the first floor. He reaoh ed the hospital yard, with a string oA nurses, surgeons und other employees after him. His escape by the main gate was barred, but that did not wor ry him. With his single garment flapping about him aa he'ran, he dash ed to the edge of thc wall, next te Caldwell avenue, where there is a drop of twenty-five feet to the sidewalk. He was over the wall in a second with his pursuers a few feet behind and ho dropped to the street, suffering only a few' scratches and bruises. He was up in'a moment, and running like the wind towards Third avenue, with a'String of hospital attendants after him. A large orowd followed, too but most of . those in it evidently thought bim crazy and dared not in terfere with him. He ran down Third avenue to 150th street, and then west to hi? homo. He dashed through a knot of his neighbors on the stopp to his.own fist on the first floor. : ..-j--A'^. - ----r A Famous Woman Lawyer. There* are many brilliant Women lawyers in this coontry, but probably no other has won BO notable a case as bas Mrs. Belva > A. Lookwood, of Washington. AB far ashmount of money is involved, it is said to bo the most important ever brought before tho United* States Court of Claims-, j the f amous Cherokee case--giving to the Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees over 84,708,705, whioh is their share, of tho tribal property long withheld from them. It was a compHoatcd, difficult and hotly contested case, and in the years it has been ponding Mrs. Lockwood has prepared very able brief a and carried her argument skil fully from' point to point. -Her share of the f e?>B Will> probably be $50,000. Since the deoision Mrs. Lockwood has made a sale of j?"ano lands (that ; bave been in be; hands, aa attorney, for * thirty ye?re) for, $250,000. ' She has also filed another case .lui the Court of Claims amounting to $7,00$, 000. Mrs. Lookwood was ai one time the oandidato of the women suffragists J fer?President of the United States, and is a brilliant orator and lawyer. At the recent meeting of the Inter national League of American ^ress piubs hf? plea for higher ide?is on the part of those engaged in newspaper work elicited a storm of applause from the men andwomen of the convention. -Pilgrim for September. -- Nothing makes a woman with a I new hat sc angry as to have other wo? \ mea pans her without looking at it. Many a man fails to appreciate j hie happy home because it is happy I only during his absence. " j ^ It-isn't every man who is com- j petcnt to enjoy a oompKepcy. * STATE HEWS. - The cotton warehouse at John ston was consumed by fire Saturday night, and with it about 1,000 bales of cotton valued at $tX>,000. The cotton and tho building were covered by in surance. There is no dew to the origin of the fire. - Former Supervisor J. E. Spcegle, of Greenville County, was arrested Saturday and brought across the State line into Greenville County to sign bis bond in order to make it legal. He wfe^ved a preliminary bearing be fore the magistrate. Speegls is char ged with embezzling the funds of the county, and at the investigation held during the summer startling evidence , of embezzlement of the public funds j was disclosed. - T. M. Glenn, an old mao 05 years j of age, was shot and instantly killed in Spartanburg County, Friday night by P. Haddon, a neighbor. Haddon heard a noise at his window in the night, and upon looking out be saw some one running away. He bred his gun at the fleeing man and returned to bed. The next morning upou inves tigation the body of Glenu was found a short distance from the bourse. T he affair is surrounded with mysterious circumstances. - Governor Heyward has declined to accept the resignation of B. G. Landrum, Chairman of the Board of Control of Spartanburg County. Lan drum tendered his resignation be cause the obter members of the board I have ignored him in all their official duties. The governor's action was based upon the theory that he was not the proper authority to pasB upon the resignation, as it should have been sent to the State Board of Dispensary Control. - Willie Hottell was killed Thurs day night io a wreokon the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad south of Laurens. His body was crushed and mangled in a terrible manner. He was acting os fireman when the acci dent occurred. Four negro employees of the road were badly injured in the same wreck. - H. F. Bouzard, lately dispenser at Fort Motte, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. He was short in his acoounts acd was check- I ed up and closed out in April. The amount of the shortage of $2,271.Si. The defalcation waB discovered in the spring, but for some reason no aotion was taken in the matter until lost week* ,'? - A man may bo great in a few things and little in many. flan Improred bj Marriage. .'Did you over notice how it im proves a man to be married?" This query was propounded by a young Southern woman hf ?c. "You can always depend upon it that it is a married man who shows yon all the small courtesies in an elevator; it is a married min who stands up for yon io the street car, and it is a married man who does ail (he chores at a pic nic. The moat thoughtless, irrespon sible kind of a single man becomes a veritable model of amiability after he gels him a wife. I suppose his wife has so drummed good manners into' him that he has to keep practicing all the time to keep in trim. I believe bufciness men have moro respect for a marrried man, too. They succeed better in everything they do. W.by, only the other day there was a bis* bail game between the married men and the single men. Who won? The married meo, of course. And you can't tell mo their wiveB did not have something to do with it."-Philadel phia Record. Unconscious 145 Day?. Yonkers, Aug. 31.-After remain ing in a state of coma as a result of spinal meningitis for 145 days, Charles Canepi, the eight-year-old son of Joseph Canepi, Jr., died last night, just five hours after the body of his ; one-year-old sister had been buried. The child had remained in a state of unconsciousness ever since he WSB j stricken on April 8. i The oase bas attracted the attention of the whold medical fraternity, as it is the first cr.ee on record where com plete unconsciousness has lasted for such a long period. - From a strong, healthy boy weighing seventy-eight pounds, he wasted almost to a skele ton. . mm ? - ?- You would never know.how bright some children are if their parents didn't tell you. . - Sunshine may be healthful, bat the lazy man seems to flourish best in the shade. SSH? Office over barmera and Merchants Bank. Anderson. &C. Killi li IPv M iliiiiil Now i? a good time to buy a new Buggy and Harness, and. we wantyou to look at our largeBtbok of the latest and nest up-to-date styles, audit will be no trouble for youUo jnake a selection. Our work ie all sold under guarantee* We Aaye extra bargains to offer? Give us a trial. Our prices are lowland terms ;t>* suit. TBE J. S. FOWLER COMPANY. P. S-We have a iaw last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost. Come in to Bee upland let us iel! you all about it. : >^ haye sold this Point ftp ninny years, and all have been pleased ribo used it. We have? fine selection bicolora, and will gladly give you acar? showing them if you will cali in and request same. ??so, a full i?n? of~ Furniture PolisH, .9 Wost to Bank of Anderson. Reliable Druggists. 'OMtlW Eet^bl???inie?it lias besa Sailing w" ??S^?P- for more than forty year?.? 'Daring all that time odmiwtitof? ?ffi!^ ?t!?5J29?tbBt we^e.?em"ti8^right hero. We have always sol?ffl '^?KS^Z^^^^?^ fcll08*;*0?S Wa w* have not had one d&rfl ?SS!lTk'5J5t?>m5: ^istakjw wilUo?aettmoa Occur, and if .at any time i?ffl .SStS?*v ?ra?r w?3.&a8^^e ^d *?ii wst umii we had made Nfl battafied.. This pnli?^^gidly adhered tec has made us friends, true and 1?$B! r?g, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the ??fiSS; dence of.the peoplo of th?e section. Wc have v?.:l&erStodk^^ods l?W|. season thaa we haye eve? had, and wc piodge you our word that'wo nave nett* soli JJ urj?t4ve;;-et as closev?* margin of profit ss we are 'doingTbuii? proveo by.them?> ^m(^^mm? 'Ptirnit?re- not .onW aH-vcVer','A?d?!K? O?anty but in e*e?*^own in the Piedmont'?e??on.-^^O??? audiaM-o^ *^n?p v -mOaay by bnyin^ from us, and you cniX your children c?n money by buying Low ano. Wo carry BVEXIYTHINw" ia the i\4rnito^,jpS Ca* Jp* ^?LLY ^& ^^^?'^^;^^flB ?ENFIL PE?SODS I M Life often seems too long to the woman who sui - m :4' fcrs from painful periods. 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BROWN,JRTCB. and Treas, j 3?; ^ M?UDDIK, Vice President. ..; 'j.' A. S. FARMER^Secretary. , / ' - : . The AjidLi?^sib?rl: -R?^^?t?t?' - BTTKERS AND SBL-IiERS OF REAL ESTATE, STOCKS lliii OU? facilitiesfor handling your property are ^ ab we ar? large advertisers all eyerS$h$ ?ou?tryv ^ight now we are having coasiderabi? inquiry for fariaa in this and ad joining Counties? and owners of farm landa in the Piedmont section who wish to dispose of their property will find that wew*in;-a'position to make quickand satisfactory sales. [.c.^Sfe^ is the time tollst your property ^ith'ii^.?w? will proceed at ones to give Attention to all propartles en? trusted to us. Address all communications 5 to 3\ C, Cummings, Sales Department.