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MIontly reports. .66.07 9 2
Pay roll......... 3,371 7
9,459 69
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ParmOent interest onNichol
son notes not scheduled 4,400
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iareitcout in this couty n atfew
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re'k arreted at th cRemiga b Raia
-taton turdaste up t ofn ae Yrin
ro 1artnas.i The ris ornersfaeld
ene illemudern and robbings a
Anisamhjor o gellanasayt 31aan
tas. 40dv Ifraion Cof et andm ws
tle.22phedc to Iavan S and soldicers
wv~re arento Ra toV watc h Ricoa
in. trin MatWhens The prisoners were
, slr ofa poldinhadurersin3.00
as fordin of pohesciu. This
moe is supposed to have been the
-rIc.lisC of the robber'v.
Mr. Janmes M1. Smith of Columbia. S
'.. writes: i~ear Sir-It eivne me
reat pleasure t. say tnat tne uid
North State Ointment bought of you
has entirely cured me of eczema when
eerything I had used previously failed
izgive any relhief. It is a great medi
cie. and I1 would not be without it in
youe. I use it for almost every
ing where any medicine is needed.
and have gotten the best of results
every time. Respectfully.
James M1. Smith.
Where Oh. Where?
'he Springfield Republican says:
"i'x-e'nsion Commissioner Corporal
Tane is in favor of opening the sol
diers' homtes to C- afederate veterans,
an the St. Paul I' neer Press is free
to thati the uorth went too far in ra
tf in the 15th amendment and giving
th ballot to thme negro! Where is the
batck man likely to be found when the
THE PIIOSll A TES.
State Inspector Jones Makes His
Annual Reoport.
ROYALTY PAID TO THE STATE
The Industry Has Improved a
Little. Full Facts and
Figures About the Phos
phate Funds.
The following is the annual report of
the State phosphate inspector:
To 11;s h:eelelncv W. 11. Ellcrbe. -ov
ernor, and chairman board of phos
phate cmisoes
Sir: I have the hInor to subujit this
my annuail report as Stite 1hosphate
inspector for the iscal year ending l)e
eember 31st, 1S98.
The condition of the State's phoa
phate industry January 1. 1s)S, was
far from encouraging. The mining
lant:! of all the large companies had
been elosed down. with the exception
of the 13eaufort l'hosphate company.
The pric2 of roek was ab:)ut the cost of
production. and sales were hard to ei
feet. About February 1st, the situa
tion improved. and there was a demand
for our river rock. This demand has
tinee continued at advancing prices,
and our shipments would have exceed
ed last year but for the advance in
ocean freights, caused by the enormous
hipmeuts of cereals and the war with
Spain. The price of hot air dried rivir
rock on January lt, 1898. was two to
two dollars and twenty-tve cents per
ton. f. o. b. On December 1st, 1898. one
of our companies refused an offer of
two dollars and sixty-five cents per too
f. o. b.
COMPANIES RESUME.
The Coosaw company resumed min
ing operations during the month of Feb
ruary. The Central Phosphate com
pany (successors to the Farmers' Min
ing company), resumed work about
April Is'.
STORW O 1898.
Our coast was again swept by two
disastrous storms, on the 28th of Au
ust and October 2d, coing great
damage to the mining fleet. The Beau
fort Phosphate company were the hea
viest sufferers. Their two dredges,
"Oglethorpe" and "Tomocheechee.
were badly wrecked: their hands pick
ing flats were blown ashore and damag
ed. The dredges were towed to Sa
vanah for repairs. Little mining was
done by this company in September ana
none in October. The loss in produc
tion to the several companies on ac
count of the storms would aggregate
about 8,000 tons. To this add the loss
in production of the Coosaw company
during January and part of February,
say 6,000 tons. together with the Farm
ers 31ining company's plant for Janua
ry, February and March say 10,000
tons, and we have an unavoidable ag
gregate loss of about 25. 000 tons during
the year, But even with this loss the
production of the State's mines showsI
a gratifying increase of 2.3.002 tons
over last year, 1898, as the following
statement of operati-ms for the year
will show:
OPERATION.S FOR THlE YEAR.
Tons.
The total number of tons of
rock mined during the year
ending December 31, 1893,
1s.. ... .. . .. - - ---.. 99,.315
As against last year.. .. .. .. 76,313
Increase in production.. .... 23,002
The total number of tons of
rock on hatnd December 31,
1898. is................ 33,015
A s against last year1897.. .. 26,65'J
Increase of rock on hand of.. 5,356
SHIPMENTS.
Tons.
The total number of tons of
rock shipped during the
year ending December 31,
1898........... .. -94,998 24
Against last year. 1897. . . . . 95,237
A decrease in shipments of .. 1,138 76
Of the rock shipped or sent to
market there have been
shipped:
To foreign ports...... .. .64,174 50
Coastwise ports...... .. .11761
Charleston and Beaufort . .18,162 74
Total shipments.. ..... .. 94 098 24
ROYANTIES.
The amount of royalty due the
. State for the year ending
Dec. 31 is............$25,179 81
The detailed amount of royal
ties is as follows:
Rloyalties.
*The Coosaw company on
shipment of 6,621 tons at 50
cents.. .. ........... . 5.310 50
The Coosaw company on ship
ment of 28,780 tons at 25
cents.... ............. 7,19500
The Beaufort Phosphate com
pany on shipment of 15.
886 50-100 tons at 25 eents 8.971 02
The Empire M1ining company
on shipment of 1.918 tons
at 25cents.. .. .. ....... 490
James Reid, by Thomas Tal
bird. State's attorney- on
shipment of 169.74-100 tons
at 25 cents.......... .....4244
Receiver for Farmers' Mining
company on shipment of
3,449 tons at 25 c-ents. 82 25
Total royalty on shipment of
9498.24 100 tons.S ... 25.171L I1
*'he 6,621 tons shipped by the Coe
saw company at 50 cents per ton wa.
the balance of the rock on ha-nd April
1st, as estimated by the comupany. See
THE FARMERS' MINING COMPANY.
Statement of roy alty aemunt:
Oct. 16, 1897. To balantce
due the State.... .......8 10,384 0
To be accounred for by re
ceiver ef Federal court.
November, 1897. To
2,411 tons shipped
at 25 cents per ton.$600 25
YYear 1898. To 3.449
tons shipped at 251
cents per ton . .. . 862.25 1.462 SI]
T otal royalty due.. .. ..8 1116 50
A Very Sad Case.
On Tuesday morning of last week
Mrs. Waring, of Georgetown, who has
been stopping at the Nixon house at
umter, S. C., was found in an uncon
ious condition in her moom by the
cambermaid. At a glance it was seen
that somethine unusual was the mat
ter, and a physician was summoned
immediately. She told the doetor
that she did not want to live and there
i no doubt that she fully intended to
end her life. A letter was found ini
her room asking that N. S. Gibson, o
Florence. and 3Mr. Waring, of George
How it Is to L >d: Ou: xnd
by Wi:m
AN iNTERESTING DQCUMENT
What Nam s are to bo Stricken
From the Rolls and those
Who Are to be
Added.
The Coo.t ::l -u
aneev Of 1:-! :,h;4 ip :. o t rso
re-ferece ti. pen:i..ns. a :Trov~d .darebi
2. 18J7. Aiu Act amnltlry
The penin bartd a - rzanizedli
1117 uill mcc t a r ro ird h 1' -': law ont
thethird . i0XX i:: .I:iInry. at a con
Vileient platc inti t'enhip. for the
puLoe Cf ex:Nii:in: the; toIhjip
r.'ls of their r -; stiv i i-. n:- ips. and
fur pa'bipt5 ny - : appliies fio
pen iitons nut rieron before
t "wnship hiard.- Iapplications
miust have the approval of ithIIe town
ship anld county bords before the ta te
boa rd can aiP roIVe. Io t.wn-hip
boards nuy Uni frtn the rl f ie
sioners the in': r iune (if any party
or parties whieb.1 in th-ir jitIniment are
not entiticl t, a pensiin under thte ta.
civinr the reasin theL:r'a wntit.
and also crae th m s of th-e e of whom
they know: to :>:uea'. J bL iay (.d
to the roll onl: uchi nme of ne ap
plicants am tima ile applications. Those
already on the 1e .-in need not
prepare nor fil!, new aiatiea ions.
All new applicalions not properly
and correctly ;iled in each particular.
althn,:,h approvd Iy towiship and
county boards. will Ib disapproved by
the State b rd. The county boards
are requestei- not to forward to the
State Board t he am-i e pofe en!ioners
disapproi 1-V the t:ow!.hip or countty
bord. C p ete county and towr
slip lists as (I; p i for 17 are here
%ith sent to the L ' hip btoards. from
which the n ar teeted to make up the
list of tho i- * -Ont inuted on the roll:
the sam will 1) hauilbe nd to the county
board fo : eir a pyrova.
Township and ceiinty boards will no
tice that tie law provide three classes.
- B" an ( - . (with fire sub-di
Tisions of -''C.") is fllows:
Class A.-Tiose who have lost bath
hands, or both leg. or bh eyes.
or wbse absobuLe disabilitics arising
from wouIius ar c-riivalent to the less
of either, and whose income does not
exeed -2511. This does not include
soldiers whose disabilities arise from
diseases or causes arising since the
war.
Class B.-Those who have lost one
arm or one leg. or whose disabilities
from wounds are equivalent to the loss
of an arm or a lez, and whose income
does not cece 82
Class C-(No. .)-Those soldiers
and sailors dimabled by woundhs, but not
suffiient to be pla~ced in Class B.
whose income- do not eceed :20.
Class C-(No .)-Theose who ha1ire
reached the age of t. years and whose
incomes do not eceedC' -100.
Class C-(No 3.)-W\idows of those
who lost their lives while in the service
of the State or C onfederate States. and
whose incones dto not eced $250.
Class C-No 4.\-Widowvs above the
age of f60 years, whose itncomeis du not
exceed $100).
Class C-(No. 5.(-WVidow s of pen
sioners. Tihis class is not mnctroned in
the printed Acts s:tnt Out. but by the
Act approved 0th December. 1S80 .
Blanks for the reports of township
and county boards in accord with these
lasses and sub-divisions have been
prepared and will be mailed to auditors
for distribution amiong the boards.
Class A gets Sf5 per month, or $72, and
will be paid this amount; Class B, 8'4
per month or 48; and Class C. with each
of its sub divisions, $:3 per mionth., or
536. After Class A shall have been
paid the balance will be pro rated be
tween B and C on the basis'of 51 to $3.
This money will be sent to) the clerks
f court as heretofore, as has been pro
vided in the Appropriation Acts each
year, and will be sent just as soon as
the roll for the State can be corrected
and verified.
Towvnship boards cannot be too care
ful in these muatters of "income"' and
"physical eondition -- It is a very por
man whose gross inco-n e from labor.
rent. and other sourcs. does not ex
eed Sl1t0, or piooir lands, if any, which
ill not prtoiduce this amount gross.
Proerty suihicient to ptroducie $100! in
a plicant' or his wife's name debars
himn or he. Wher.'e soldier., or widoVrs
ispose of their proierty- by giving or
seling' t ,their c.hildren they are de
brred from., recetiing a pentsion.
The question of service to the State
in connieton with the various classes
c- reserves et!!ed ito the service of the
State just at the e'.c of the war swill
deopend much upin tie evidence sub
mitted to the- State biard. WIhen real
ervice wats rendlcee thte pen io should
e alioWe . A n cit i/n of 'ihe State.
ver ye vars if a1'I. .n othewis
.itimut re:alf otis o e 't t -
Phi utse t! 'o. an fully the fillow
n. ~t -.-:i !:i l n co!Ulz hoarin
uii, a . *1 ior ea l e il. ap rt llv
r approving ' i r*. d i..po ii in caVeh
age. To~~aip , r u-t Brst ap
- i -aa i *i re '- .Ii-1 XV! i geu
.iyi c ai oleli ' , u. e s t~
tre Hre: of 2nitte.
.ktt~tiae . A.lBire r.
A Desprate- Negroal
Shtl .1 re i. i:- of 1 i s
i CAries Kae F. .io'ih hoher.c
jal.c-iae-d IVitft'i til. - tti n -ork.
tteat!' lipee iI" iNegro. ate
A iec-iale ro t tihia Ala.f.rs:
herf .beephae i' uitkin ofDLlas
-unt. sht ther e timo'eu lat househt
wChri Nlon. ::nerwh hetead wasnt
rein t arrest. l e ben ad ien tin
ichrge:id tith shtin wa hit thre
imes ao-Te inet li biLnre .taougafte
torie beien rosarcie fo h eiieas
FARMiING IN THE SOUTH.
'. . terprise on the Part of
t: Ath'ata Journal.
T. A*..t.L r f Wdesday
ba., an ar ie on the sjimation of the
Iarioeme clohi
arier. rom ii. hi ne clip the follow
The farnier, as Sama Jonci says, is
inl i, mijidle of t-o bad fixes. lHt id
beteen vary ing condit ions of nature,
w hich he cannot control and the caprice
of the markets, which is beyond the
com1iprehension or control of human
beings. A prominent man said that it
is harder to run a farm than a business
establishment with the same capital ia
volved. Business principles are well
c hiabished and comparatively simple.
'ie cotuditiuns that control the resuit
uf rring are complex and ever chang
Inm nver exactly alike two years in
ae U1on. Yet, difficult as it is, the
iroblev of the farmer's success must
b' solved. Upon it the prosperity of
all ('lasses depends, and in the business
itclf a large majority of the people fo
the south are directly engaged. This
1ic.tion is worthy of the earnest and
sympathetic study of all classes, and no
nIe is without a personal interest in the
: ubIject.
With this view of the situation The
Journal has instituted a searching in
ve:-tigation into the condition of agri
culture in Georgia and the south. The
services of an experienced agriculturist
have been engaged, and the counsel of
many more will be sought and laid be
fore the public. Leading farmers in
every county in Georgia will be consult
ed and the best informed agriculturists
ill other states will be brought into the
discussion. What is needed is the
practical suggestions of experienced
and successful men and in the multi
tudc of such counsel wisdom will be
found. The journal earnestly invites
the attention of all thinking men, par
ticularly of men experierced in agricul
ture, to the solution of this problem,
which is the greatest before the people
of this section for solution. Concise
and pithy communications on this sub
ject by experienced and practical farm
ers are invited."
This is a subject in which every body
has a deep interest in ccmmon with the
farmer. And as the Journal says, there
is more advice dumped upon them than
npon any other class of people. And
theories do no good. The reform must
come from the farmers themselves,
from within outward, and not from the
outside. The investigation proposed
will get facts which we believe, will
stimulate thought and action among
the farmers and do good.
Free Delivery on Farms.
Congressman Stokes has introduced
a very important and practieal bill in
the House providing for free delivery
of mail on the farms The title of the
bill is: "A bill to extend free delivery
of mail along star routes." Under its
terms all future contracts for carrying
mail on star routes will include this in
creased service.
The star route contractor will have
this in mind when he puts in his bid.
The additional service will be slight,
the additional cost to the government
correspondingly slight, but'The benefit
to the people will be very great. Car
riers, as a general thing, deliver mail
now'along the line of their route by
priv ate contract for $1 or less per an
numi, to each family served. Of course,
taking it in gross for everybody it could
be done for less still than for a few.
It is confidently expected, however,
that instead of such service as is pro
vided in this bill being a sharge upon
the government it would be a seuree of
revenue. That has been the history of
all increases of mail failities in the
past. The increased cost of the ser
vice has invariably been more than off
set by the increased revenue ineident
to butter facilities.
This bill of Dr. Stokes provides that
mail boxes shall be placed along the
star routes on the roadside, and for eon
en ien ce, numbered consecutively from
the initial noint of the route. Those
desiring their mail deposited in these
boxes will leave with the nearest post
master on each side of them a written
request for delivery of their mail to the
carrier, designating the number of the
box in which it is to be deposited, and
thereupon it becomes the duty of the
carrier to deposit said mail in the box
without charge to the addressee.
Thus every person living on or near a
star route would get his mail every time
the carrier passed without expense or
loss of time in going to the postoffice.
it is easy to see that my multiplication
of the star routes, radiating from the
several railroad offices, a very cheap
and effective free delivery system could
be realized-one that there is every
reason to expect would become at once
self sustaining.
For the present, the people who get
this service would have to furnish their
own boxes, but the bill contemplates
that ultimately these shall be furnished
by the government, if the service justi
fies it. The cost in large numbas
wuld be small to the government; but
that is what is being done in many of
the city districts, says Congressman
Stokes, and "I am in this asking only
that the country residents be fed out of
the same spoon that the government
uses to dish out benefits to our city
cousis."
Dr. Stokes does not offer this bill as a
substitute foi the free rural delivery
with which he has been prominently
identified in the past, but as a supple
mental proposition - a sort of transition
stage. A general system of rural free
delivery is bound to come in the evolu
in of our postal system. It may be
in the form already inaugurated here
aud ther'e throughout the United States,
or' it may be through some modification
f this star route system, or it may be
through a systen of postal wagons radi
ating from several railroad offices. But
whatever may be its final form, as ap
proved by experiment, it will be a per
manent systew: and will be self-susaain
in;.
Tfhe plan suggested is now being sue
eesfully worked in this and all the
other counties of the State on a small
scale and we see no reason why it could
not be made general and work equally
a well. We believe that Dr. Stokes'
bill will solve the free rural mail de
livery problem, and that in a short time
it will be in general use on every star
route in the country. 'We hope the bill
will be speedily passed by Congress.
and the experiment of delivering mail
free on the farms will be tried at once,
IF the soldiers in Spain's Cuban
armies knew what was good for them
they would remain on the island, beat
their swords into pruning-hooks and
grow up with the country. There is
plenty of room for them there, and
the tropical sun might in a generation
or two roast the most virulent of theii
P~eninsular qualities out of them. It
ripens the spirit of inisular patriotism
as it does bananas, with extraordinary
rapidity. and they would become good
and loyal Cubans almost before they
CHOOSING BRIDESMAIDS.
Prospective 13r.hA Should Select
Girls WhoWa 'r. ell with Grace
fully-Pcisel fieads.
"In selecting bridersnaids," said she;
of the emerald aud diauud ring to tN
New York Coimerial Adve-iber
writer, "it is not bwaut y that coutin
so much as style and carriage. M.\os
brides take a great deal of pride in
~heir brideatmaids' costumes and wamz
them to show to the best advantage.
It is very i-nportant that a brides.
maid should walk well. The -- edding
marches are more suited to grand opera
stages than church aisles, and while
Elsa's or Lucia's attendants can walk
in gracefully to such music, the most
graceful of girls is apt to sway and fal
ter trying to keep time and step with
tLe same strains. I've watched bridal
processions and I've seen radiantly
pret ty girls lose all effect of their good
:.oks by a ho6biing walk. A brides
nraid should glide, not limp or h2op.
The beauty of a faultless frock and the
stateliness of a picture hat vanish when
the wearer is awkward and obviously
!: at ease. The bride herself is helpe<
by her long train, her drcoping head
and the leaning on her father's arm be
fere and on her husband's after the cer
tmony, but the bridesmaid wears a
short gown, carries her head erect.
walks up and down beside anether
girl, and so has her own grace alone
to depend upon. A girl who walks well.
wKhose head is well-poised on her shoul
ders and whose hair arranges well
makes a good appearance as a brides
maid, and-well. all mie are like that."
COWARDLY SPANIARDS.
The Dispicable Conduct of the Viz
enya's Crew at the Battle
of Santiago.
The contrast between the two nations
stands out very clearly in connection
With the Vizcaya, says .ra Nelson Iollis
in the Atlantic. The torpedo boat Eries
son ran close alongside of her, and ser'
a small boat to take off all that were
alive of her crew. A few boats from the
Iowa assisted. The Vizcaya was on fire
fore and aft; the ammunition on boar']
was exploding, and the guns that ha.-]
been left loaded were going off one af ter
another in the intense heat, to say notb
ing of the proximity of the shore. The
',osition of the little craft has been de
scribed as perilous in the extreme. Our
men risked their lives repeatedly t,
help their fallen enemy; but no soone'
were the Spaniards transferred to the
deck of the Ericsson than they urged
immediate withdrawal without regard
to their comrades who had been left
bchind. To the honor of our navv
Lieut. Ushur remained until every liv
ing being had been rescued from the
burning ship. A similar scene was en
acted around the two torpedo boat de
stroyers. It was a case of mad panic
on the one side, and of perfect coolnesz'
on the other. One officer of the Viz
eaya afterward stated on board the
Iowa that they were obliged to close the
gun ports on the disengaged side of the
ship, to prevent the men from jumping
overboard rather than face the Ameri
can gun fire.
CRIMES OF COOLIES.
The Low-Lived Mpngols Are as Cn
ning a. Foxes and as Cow
ardly _as Wolves.
They are a queer crowd, these coolies,
whether on land or sea, says the Lud
gate Magazine. Cunnng as foxes and
:owardly as wolves, they resemble the
pariah dogs of their own -:ities in point
of inability to hunt any prey save in
packs. I heard of an instance where
a gang of them, employed as nivvies
in the cutting of a railway, killed their
sverseer with shovels and fled into the
bush. Nobody was ever hanged for the
::rime, because some 40 of them were in
i.--and that would have been rather a
large consignment to condemn, even
in the far east, where human life is so
:heap.
There are 250,000 Chinese in Bang
kok alone, and they do not appeal to
>ne's cordial emotions--very much the
:ontrary. And should this catch the
eye of any intending visitor to the far
east, I would urge upon him the un
wisdom of venturing to spend a night
on a Chinese junk without so much as
a revolver to defend himself with. Oc
2nsionally a European is discovered by
the marine police floating on the wa
ter with his throat cut. In such a case
it is highly probable that he had been
foolhardy. as I was. But different peo
ple are born to different ends, and the
Chinese contempt of the European is
frequently justified by facts.
TALLEST IN THE MORNING.
By Evening Most People Have Shrunk
Balf an Inch-How Men Get
Into the Army.
"The singular fact that people are
, bout half an inch taller in- the morning
than they are in the afternoon has en
abled many a fellow to slip into the
army," said an officer who has seen a
geod deal of recruiting scrvice. "Time
and again when the examinations wvere
being conducted at a tolerably early
hour men have been passed in my pres
ence who were barely up to the regula
tion height, in fact, they were under
it a shade, and the thickness of a card
board would have resulted in throwing
them out. I am perfectly confident
that if these same met' had been re
measured just before taps in the even
ing they would have fallen so far short
that they would never by any possibil
ity have been accepetd. I hav~e heard
it said that a man can put neariy an
irtch in his height try staying in bed
for a, couple of days and mena-while tak
Irng several hot baths, but I have never
sen the thing tried. The average morn
ing and evening variation I hav-e found
iy a good deal of experimenting on
myself and others to be a little less than
half an inch."
A COL ORED debating society in Jones
recinct had this weighty subject un
er discussion the other night: "Which
s the most useful, the san or the
noon?" After considerable wrangling
n both sides, during which they waxed
warraz and eloquent, the judge, an old
egro, promptly decided that the moon
was the most useful, as it "shined at
ight when the people needed light,
while the sun, he only shined in the
aytime when they could do without
it."
TUE Braddock, Pa., physician who is
nterested in statisticts of American
ero-worship finds that he has peronal
y ushered into the world five Deweys.
hree Hobsons, one Schley and one
iles, and in the households of his pa
tients 20 dogs, 17 cats and 9 goats an
wer to the names of the heroes of
[898. ________ __
Taz York Yeoman says if Tillman
ad done nothing but appoint Babcock
uperinsendent of the insane asylum. .he
would not have been governor in vain.
Dr. Babcock is one of the leadiug ex
pets in the United States on insanity,
n a native South Carolinian and loves
his state and the work for her poor un
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL SAIONO POWOER 00.. NEW YOAiIC
APPROPRIATED HIS CLOTHES. A DESERTED CITY.
But the Soldiers Gave Them Back
and Cheered for the Young Tale af the Dissolution of One of the
Correspondent. Strangest Towns on This
Continent.
Here is one to the credit of Richard
Harding Davis. After the battle a In Nevada county, Cal.. repose the
heavy traveling bag or trunk was found remains of one of the strangest towns
with no owner at hand to claim it, says on this continent. Meadow Lake is the
a Nashville American correspondent. American Pompeii, whose entombing
Several negroes of the Tenth cavalry I lava is the sum-it snow storms. which
regulars opened it and found a variety , sometimes bury it 25 tes ooep ) a
of fancy shirts, trousers, stockings and level. and whose anrual exnuwg is
ruch like. These they immediately con- brought about by the .:-.ner a-.says
Escated and began to bedeck them- the New York He'd.
ielves with. It was in the summer of 1865 that the
Shortly after Richard Harding Davis name Meadow Lake was formally given
came upon the scene from another part to the town, previc t:s'y e:cd Lxcel
of the field. He saw he had been de- sior and Summit City. Until 1858 noth
spoiled, but entered no complaint. An ing had been done in the way of pros
Ilicer of the regiment, however, began pecting that particular locaity.
to make inquiries. He asked where Henry Hartly, an Englishman, who
the clothes came frota and was told. visited the vicinity in June, 1S63, in
Turning to Mr. Davis he inquired: search of game and chanced to discover
"Are these your clothes?" Mr. Davis fragments of gold, imparted his discov
*owed in the affirmative. "Then, men, cry to his friends. A company was
,ou should be doubly ashamed of your -formed and soon after other companies
:onduct. You not only did wrong in and the building of a city was started.
ipening the trunk at all, but you have With the close of the fall of 1865
.nade a brave man your victim. When 1he new city contained about 150
%- e were fired upon from ambush by houses completed and a number of oth
the Spaniards Davis here was right in ers in course of construztion. Then all
front of our column pointing out the 3wpes were blasted. The adventurers
Spaniards for us to shoot at. A so,- av-oke to the sad reality that, though
dier was shot down by his side. He there was plenty of gold in Ecadow
picked up the gun and began firing im- lake, it was so combined with some
mediately. He has just returned from siubstance unknown to the metallur
the pursuit. Take off those garments. gists that it was effectually locked
Mr. Davis, in behalf of my soldiers, I from the hand of man.
apologize for their thoughtless con- All dreams, the black art, science
duct." and metallurgy were set at naught.
There was a cheer given for Richard One after another, as they abandoned
Harding Davis, which the big, broad- hope, the disappointed gold seekers
shouldered. war correspondent ac- ui'ned their backs on Meadow Lake
knowledged with a smile, and the in- and went down the mountain.
cident was ended. More than $2,000,000 had been pourea
into that bottomless abyss of California
IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. 1:nown as "dead work," to pay for milla.
roads, buildings and mining. -
The Possibilities Developed in the For years the solitary inhabitant .:
Extreme North in Late Ieadow Lake was Hartly, the English'
Years. man who was mainly responsible for
The close of the century discloses for t__eitec _oteton
the first time in the world's history a
practical purpose to develop the re
sources of the Arctic circle, says Lqs- Three Semi-Wild Tabbies Pouce
lie's Weekly. The discovery of gold in Upon a Hawk That Invaded a
the Klondike has sent a fiood of immi
grants into a territory which was sup
posed to lie almost uninhabitable. And I. C. Barnett who lives near Media,
now scientists of Great Britain are rak- has in his possession the body of a
ing a careful investigation of enormous
deposits of iron ore, some distance from Luliar manner, reports the rhiladel
Stockholm, Sweden, within the area in
eluded in the Arctic circle. These new
ore fields are apparently of limitless
extent and of the greatest possible try raising Sinc3 he has owned the
valuetnt idt e fam threeold cats left by the former
valu tothe ronindutryof Geattenant have hung about the place in a
Britain, which is rapidly finding itself e
unable to compete with the cheap prod- o
ucts of American ore. These Swedish all fr e oveturs and took rppthei
deposits are said to be among the most abd in th e n H o as they
valuable ever discovered on either on- id nt har Hwhicken s they
tinent. nomoetd
Following the discovery of gold in h te dy hl aretwso
Alaska, this may be taken as an indica- hsbr ofrpaigsm hnls
tion that the mineral wealth of the
Arctic regions may ultimately lead to
the establishment of a large population hro i hceshdldtgte
in thosc parts of the world nearest the adseigygetyaiae.Te
north pole, w1/ch have hitherto beenledioeedaarehw jutp
little explored, because of their inhos-paigtmkeaso.Bantws
pitable climate. An ingeniows philoso- ieangtdscdtohercu
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preious metals of the world will be erf.dows Thrberase
found in greatest abundance in -the
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