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DEPTH OF THE OCEAN In the ahytmial depth* of the At lantic Ocean, beneath two rnllee of Jj< watftf?r ljjw the dead that went down with the TFltarilc. TtNJlr leu reduced to the uiua,llne*? of a man'* wiiut by the crushing pre#hur< of the water, are vtink in a bed of ?Hiny red ooste, and strange, fantas tic, mud-eating creature*. the like of which the bun never nhpne on, ?wlrn and crawl ubom them. At that deptii a great calm reign#. and no ray of HtinllKht ever pierce#. The Htomiii which churn the upper water* into tumuUouu fu ry are unfelt, the black iiua* 1? pro-, found and it i? always freezing CPlcl. "Down In the dark, the uU ler dark, where the blind white sea ynakc# are." The great steel hulk of tlic* Ti lanic rests in this black, culm of ooze, sunk part tally into it, per haps wholly sunk into it, for no uno has ever Hounded the depths of the layer of boft mud upon the bottom of the deep sea. It la a belief common among sail ors and lahdHinen that a wreck nev er goes to the bottom; thai it sinks until the pressure of writer holds It faat, and there, rocking about in the shadowy depths, It slowly dissolves. What food for Imagination lies in thhi fleet 'of h>si ships of the world, Ht 111 floating up and down in the deep, meeting and paHHlng in silence, no voice evr calling through the dark, no nail ever raising to a breeze. But the scientists know that what Sir John Murray, the great explor er of the sea floor, said in true: "Anything that will Kink in a glass of water,!.' wrote Sir John Mur ray, "will Hink to the lH>itom of the deepest sea." Scientists. point out that water Ib one of the moat lncompresslblei of substances. It can be compressed only one twenty - thousandth of Its -bulk, and ? wltho' the ureBBure may be enormous at the ocean bottom, the water is only a litrfe more dense than at it h nurface. .And yet the comparison rs hii r T U: lont ? bo that ? W It were suddenly released, Bay by the suspension of the attraction of gravitation, and all the water over all the globe should expand until it wuH of the Hame pressure and density everywhere as at -the sur face,. the ocean would Instantly rise some 500 feet, covering nearly all the Inhabited land ,of the world. Practically every part of the ocean's beds without the Arctic and Antarctic circles has been sounded and explored. Sounding wires and leaden weights and trawls of wire netting have been lowered to the bottom of the sea at it h greatest depths, even to eight miles, and mud and the creatures that live there have been brought up. And the lead winks as quickly through the last mile as it did through the first . A recent bulletin of the United States Hydrographic office contains t hefol lowing positive statement: "Once an object winks by its own weight to a point where no part of it remains above the surface, it is bound to sink to the bottom, ? no matter how far the bottom may be b/'low the surface." So it in <1 ?? f initely settled, beyond the question of doubt, that all the wrecks and bodies, and all objects \vi;li weight ciioukI) to sink below the surface will go to the bottom, and the myth of the wrecks and drowned men suspended in the mid dle depths was exploded long ago. It is probable that, not all the bodies of those drowned from the Titanic went down with her. Many put on life preservers, and these would float. It is well known that a stout man often floats like a cork. But all of those who were sucked down in the vortex caused by the sinking hull would go far enough to reach the tremendous water pres sure that would squeeze out all buoyant gases and air within the body, and it wtnild ke?*p on sinking and he compressed into a solid as hard as a stone before it had drop ped to the depth of half a mile. And the body would never come up again. it would lie upon the sea floor until the last vestige of it was dissilved. Ages from now only the teeth, the hardest substance of the human body, would he all remaining of the body, and even these would dissolve in -time. Deep sea dredges often bring up the teeth of sharks from the depths of five and six miles, all that remains of the mon sters that died maybe millions of years ago. Bodies arise to the surface from shallow depths and float, but that is because they become bouyant from the Internal gases created by decomposition. But there cftn be no decay In the depths where the temperature is always low enough to freeze fresh w'ator. On the decks of the Challenger and other sea sounding vessels the sal}ors cooled their drinking water in the ice-cold mud brought up fr^mi miles below. Sir John Murray tells in one of his books what happens to the body of a man that sinks into the ocean abyss. He explains the crushing pressure of the water; how one by one the bones would be broken in ? Implosion, science caljs it ? how the flesh would he crushed into the interstices of the bones and the clothing flattened over them, until on reaching a depth of two miles ? the body would probably not be larger than a man's wrist. So it is likely that if the bodies of the Titanic's dead could, by any possible means, be raised, they would be unrecognizable. Even the watches in -their pockets, being air tight, would be crushed to solid lumps of metal and so would every article that had an air-tight c.hamb<4 within. And the air would be re leased in a bubble that would arise to the surface. The presaure of the air at the __ surface of the sea and earth and upon all bodies upon tham !a four teen pounds to the square inch. The presaure exerted by the tea water ta one ton to the aquare inch for eaci mile of depth. Thus the pressure at the twio-mlle -depth whore the Titanic Ilea la two lon? to the a<iuare Inch. The greatest depth ever reached *UviUitf-auU wm? feet and Khere the pressure waa 88 pounda to the aqua re inch. A piece of tarred rope lowered to the depth of one mile by the j I'rlnce of Monaco, a famoua ocean ographer," waa ho coiupreaaed that ItH diameter wan reduced front one Inch to a half inch, O, It Ih eMtlmated that the preaaure .it a depth of two or three lit ilea 4a K renter h y aeveral titnea than the preaaure exerted by the platona of the very greateat ateam enginea. The livliiK creature*, moving and immovable, that Inhabit iu countless number* 'the ocean floor are built to withstand the pressure of < wo or more tons* to the square ? inch and none of tbein may* venture to Kwim upward out of Its depths. it sometimes happens that a deep-sea fiith, chasing itn prey, gets out of itM depth and goes tumbling upward. As the pressure in relieved it swells and hursts and their bodies are of ten found, torn and mutilated, float lug upon surface. When brought to the surface in the deep - sea d red gen those fish are always dead; they fall to piece. The Titanic would sink slowly, owing to 'the resistance of her great bulk to the water, As' she sank ev ery square iuch of space within her would be gradually (tiled with wa ter. The doors of closed state room would hurst In, the boilers and air tight cylinders would be crushed and water would take the place of air everywhere. Once filled with wa ter the pressure would be the same from the Inside as from the outside aixl the hull woul*J retain its shape. / V The pressure would force sea wa ter Into the pores of every piece of wood, but she would sink too quickly for all the pores to be filled' Hint ho the elanks of the deck, the wooden finishings of the ca?>lns, me furniture and all else of wood would be compressed as in the most pow "il'ul vhre in nhnnt one half or nnc fourth the original size. A deep sea dredge once sent down a piece of oak flagstaff,- six inches logn and two Inches In diameter. When It was brought up again it was on ly four Inches long and one inch htlck. The water pressure had squeezed It into a solid almost as hard a? steel. There In nothing of vegetable life wh?re the Titanic lies. Plant life In -thu ocean 1h limited to shallow waters, hut fishes and members of the invertebrate groups are distrib uted over the floor of the ocean at all depths. The majority of them live by eating the mud, clay or ooze or by catching the minute particles of organic matter which fall from the surface. These mud-eating spe cies. rtiany of which are of gigantic size, become the prey of numerous rapacious animals armed with pecu liar prehensile and tactile organs. Sunlight from above penetrates only 200 or 300 fathoms down, an even at that depth the light Is very dim. Where the Titanic lies Is an absolute darkness as black as pitch but many of tht> creatures of this abysmal region are phosphorescent and give out a faint glow at Inter vals, like myriads of living lamps weaving about In the dark. One of these has a long hfcwn protuding from its snout with a phosphores cent tip. It lies with open mouth and attracts other fishes with its lamp. ,( The Titanic went down just south of the south edge of the Grand Hanks of Newfoundland, where the bottom begins to slope off into the abyss of "Sigsbee Deep," which is five miles to the bottom. These banks are a vast expanse of shoal water extending 330 miles north and south and 390 miles east and west. The average depth of water there is only 18 0 feet, and there are many places where It Is much less. Had ?the Titanic gone down 100 mlles, north of where she did she might have been reached by divers. The bank Is really an enormous subma rine mountain with a flat top, cov ered with seaweed and other ma rine growths amid which the cod fish feeds. Here Is where the fish ing fleets gather. In fifty-six places in the oceans of the world the bottom has been found at three miles, ten places at four miles, in four places at five miles and two places at eight miles. The greatest depth was found be tween the island of Tristan and Ac unha and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, where the water was eight and three-fourth miles deep. Near the island of Guam, in the Pacific Ocean, a depth of eight miles was found. No hand will ever touch the wreck of the Titanic nor any contriv ance of man ever raise any part of her or her dead. The abyss in which they lie will forever defy the in genuity of mankind. The limit of deep-sea diving is 200 feet and in stances in which that depth have been reached are rare. One of the greatest feats of diving was (lone In the recovery of specie from the steamer Alfonso XII, which sank In 1885 off Point Gando, Grand Canary Islands. The Marine Insurance company sent out three divers with a promise of a large percentage of what might be recov ered. At a depth of 160 feet they found and senl up nine of the ten boxes of specie. The reward of one diver was $20,000, of another $7,000. One wias stricken with pa ralysis from water pressure and was months in getting well. Anoth er went down again for the tenth box and was squeezed to death by the pressure. The strongest submarine boat dare not go deeper than 30 or 40 feet for fear of the pressure of the sea. When one realises that the ooean has depths of upward of elght^intles one feels the utter feebleness of loan and Che Inadequacy of his In* rentlons. ? Kansas City Star. % Subscribe for The Chronicle. HliAI/fV TKA\b*fcR* Am HIii'Mu by Tlw Hooka iu County Auditor'* Off We. <- '% ' ? -C * ' 0. M, (lay to A. (\ Kiwurdfc, 44 acfrey, |360. * W. H. Eve, Jr., to H,, i}. fih^, l lot and buildings on Lyttleton at, C. L. Prle# to J, T. li. Elliott. 834 acres, $4,600." , J. W. A. Sanders and t,ishon White, Br., $f> acres, $576.56. Bethesda Pnapbyterljtn Church lo I). M. Harnett. 1 lot known a* (he Presbyterian Manse, $6,500, J. 8, Barfteid to Mamie A. Fletch er, 66 acre*, $500. John Jackson to Joshua Jackson, 350 acres, $100. W. M. and T. 8. Croft to J. J?. L. McNeeley, 1 lot at Csasatt. \V. M. Walking to ;J. B. Hunter, 1 lot at Cass&tt, $16.50. Robert M. C&pper to \V, M. Wat lllns, 1 lot at Cassatt, $16. J. J, Gardner to R. L, Bowell, 100 acre*, $1,000. ? H. C. Smith to W. Smith, l store house and lot oil Main Direct, $1,000. Fannie B. Downing to F. N. Gay, 16 acres, $3 00. Fannie. B. Downing to J. T. Gay, 31 acres, $6 20. IxHtle Mack to K. S. VUlepigue, 25 acres, $200. l*ottle Mack to K, 8. VUlepi?ue, 65 acred. Jesse T. Ross to Kllhu Meats lots at Blaney, $80. Kllhu Mears to Jesse T. Ilos*, 1 lot at Blaney, $50. Cora B. Nesblt to Margaret Schiller, 12 acres, $1. Margaret J. Garrison ,to Margaret C, Bchtller, 12 acres, $1. H. E. Jordan et al., to Margaret I. Schiller, 102 acres. Quit claim. Rebecca L. Salmoud to Margaret C. Schiller, 102 acres, $75. H, G. Garrison to Margaret (\ Schiller, 102 acres, $2,000. K. O. Whistler to Knilly 8. Clark, 1 house and 16t In Camden,- $1,^1)0. J. L. 8taley to C. S. Flowers, 1 lot in Camden, $23. Fanntyir. Downing? to Nathaniel Gay, A acres ,$80. Taylor Belton to D. M. McCasklll, -4? lttL_in__Camden on Clyburn street, $100. ; ? ? Nancy Kelly to G. A. Gulnard, 1 acre, $20. Hunan A. Flecther to Joe Fletch er, 45 acres, $300. Robt. Q. McCreight and Edwaid O. McCreighl to Beverly R. Mc? C'reight, 1 lot and 2 buildings on Main street/" Beverly R. McCreight to R. G. and E. O. McCreight, 1 16t on Lyt tleton Street. '/-? T. W. Brannon to D. I. Blaclunon, 149 % acres, $700. K. D. McCasklll, et al., to A. A. West, 46 acres, $600. W. W. Huckabee to Rebecca L. Iluckabee, 30 acres, $300. Hattle M. Moore to Ella M. Hough, 1 lot In Camden, $1,500. Robt M .Cooper to J. . Watklns/ 1 lot at Cassatt, $30. Jno. M. Watklns to J. B. Hunter, 1 lot at Cassatt, $15. Mlttle Gladden to Lucy M, Glad den, 1 lot on Market street. 7 ? Dangers of Spitting. "Ninety-five per cent of our con sumption," aays the North Carolina State Board of Health, "conies from careless spitting, coughing and sneez ing," particularly on the part of the consumptive, but also from peo ple who are apparently healthy. Spit is frequently laden with disease germs, particularly tliat of consumptives. "When one coughs, spits, or sneez es, a great multitude of tiny drops of spittle are violently expelled at the mouth and nose. The larges-t of these drops can be readily seen. A large number of smaller drops; can be found if a mirror or piece of glass is held before the face when coughing or sneezing. A' tremendou quantity of still smaller droplets are discharged In the form of an Invis ible spray ormlst, which floats In the air for some time. Scientists have found.,that when a man colighs, ?P?ts or sneezes in a large hall or r';om where the air Is quiet, these t'ny, invisible germ - laden drop lets will float in the air for a dis tance of 25 to 100 feet. These tiny droplets, In the form of mist ori spray, may be breathed in b" other people, or they may settle on ob jects with which they come into in timate contact, such as food and clothing. Viewed in this light, such conduct Is at least Impolite. Furthermore, it Is dangerous to the public at large to have care less people actually coughing, sneez ing and spitting germ-laden matter into their faces even if it is Invis ible and in the form of fine mist." The members of Company A, 'Ana Regiment, who have been for past ten days on the rifle range al Charleston, returned this morning. Four members having made the ess&ry percentage over 98, out ?* a possible 160, are ranked aa mark? men ? Fletcher Moore, 8toney ^OOr<V McDowell Lewis, J. A. Burdell. DISSOLUTION OF OO-PARTNMft > SHIP. Notlte is hereby given that Oil May 15-th, the undersigned mutual ly agreed to dlasilve oo-part nershlp and the business wlU hereafter be conducted by I. B. English under Its former name? -the Eureka Bar ber 8hop. 9. J. English wltf ~ re main at ths shop, where he will bo dad to servo his customers. a. J. English, KB. KMlUh. f1 Camden, s. C.. Mar 1*, t?ll? JH s I < <>;?,? SMI i \ii i iii ? t * ,t - t l ? - . . < ? (iuotl AihcrtUtaf >1ww Than N< Mbpkper l*ul?lidl>. ^ ? ?"* '*"? ? ?U.a ? newaptq^r priutb a talk on advertising, the reader take* it for granted the newspaper ih "boosting" iu own wares, -4ta ad vertising apace. Newspaper adver tising, although the m'oit far* reach ing, is not the only successful means of advertising and the subject of ad vert (sing one's business utn tie profitably dlacussed without laying too much aire** on the new?>puperft an the proper medium. Over 50 per cent of the bualueaa enterprises started in 1 1> Ih country fail. Thia uasertiou may seem aa toundlng, but look buck over the history of nearly any city for $h?' past. five yearn. As you go down the street try to remember .what business occupied thla and that room a few years ago. You will b*r as tonished by the results of your in vestigation. Of those business establishments that manage to survive only ubout liftlf (Jo u reully profitable business, 'inls does not mean that bubinebb h<?H been black. It simply means ?viiat business men, like thobe of all other ^cities, are divided Into two classes, the drones and the work ers. The workers place lb known throughout the country, whereab the drone's place of business lb known to only u few friends of the owner. The live bubinebb man hab a neat dibplay window, well lighted, and keep* the frebhebt stock on dibplay there. When you come Inside the door you will fiai everything neat. It does not cost money to keep the _pjace looking spick and span- ? Just a little work. When he shows you his stock you are convinced that his .window dibplay and his newspaper assertions have not lied to you,' and you trust him. Also, his service is of ?the bebt. IIIb clerks are well dressed and courteous. He pays them good salaries for he can af ford to do so. You see this mer chant's name on billboards through out the county, he sends you a let ter every now and then calling at tention to his stock in trade and every day he tells you his story in a neat looking newspaper advertise ment. The drone, on the other hand, although he may be able to make a living, records no growth in his business as the years go on. His display window is dusty and the goods he cMsplays have been seen there for months. His store is dark and has hardly enough busi ness to keep one clerk active. Outside the name on the front, you know nothing .about his busi ness. He may have many things yo want, but he has never told you so, for advertising costs too much, hence he has not got your trade, and has but little chance of getting it. He may spenl a dollar or two now and then on a newspaper ad, but if his storeis not filled with cus tomers the next day he tells you that he can see no good in adver tising. John Wanamaker took inv $24.67 on his first day in business. He kept the 67 cents and spent the bal ance in advertising the next day. Wanamaker was no reckless schem er. He simply had enough busi ness acumen to realize that you cannot get business without public ity. The Mun Who Stood Still. Aurora, 111., May 18. ? The death of D. W. Stockwell, of this city, at Hawardon, Canada, last night, mark ed the passing of one of the quaint est characters In Illinois. He was known as "the man who stood still." As owner of one of the big gest stores in Northern Illinois, out side of Chicago, during the civil war| he prospered. After the war he failed to keep abreast of the times, and the same goods which he car ried then still adorn the shelves, and show windows of the store. Five years aftter the war he was still making a profit. In ten years more the place was a curiosity shop! and has continued so. The hoop skirt, barber - striped hose, Jet Jew elry and like antiques continued a part of his stock. In later years he ^was the only one who entered the plaee, except visitors to the city. He did no ad vertising. He had about $10,000 worth of stock, and settle^ down to wait for customers who never came7 He wag at business at 7:00 o'clock each morning, and remain ed until 6:00 in the evening. Ho was 77 years of age. ? * . 1 . > -/ - J i * A Beggar's Luggage* widow woman," was aiisSHU tor King at Wells she had the irtMM distributed about bar person: Ton. sugar, freeh cut hsefstoat. piece of bacoe. two bloaters, bread and | buna. ba< of MssoltH. two apples. onlona. tvs You Can't . ' ? . ; ?'? -- v '? .? Get Any Better " ' \H \ ?}'?? W Clothes than we can show you, no matter how you get them ; no matter who tales your measure; no matter, how much you pay for them. There are no better clothes made anywhere than our Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes. You get certainty of qual ity in fabrics, certainty of correct style, certainty of honest tailoring, certainty of good fit. If you don't get them all here, we'll give you back your money. ' ? This is the only place and the only way to get certainty in clothes. ft % m Suits $18 and up Overcoats $16.50 and op ?M N .s-jfh mm? "? :V4H