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» 7-; '?f-v THE WEEKLY LEDGER': GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER *6, 1895. MOUND BUILDERS IN MINNESOTA. Reccut Diitcovi'ricH In Uio Kusin of tho I'iuht ftlUsisHippi. An cxccod u^ly valuable article bear ing upon the prehistoric inhabitant.- of Minnesota has been prepared by tire Hon. J. V. Brower, embodying the re- suits of invert'gations made by Imnreif ami Bruit .-.or T. if. Lewis about the head waters of the Mississippi. Mr. Brower is an adept in exploration and the be t avuhority on the basm of the upper lui.o ppi. Ho has found traces and relics of tho mound builders through the entire basin of the upper Mississippi, from Lake Itasca to the falls o! Bo- keguma. Through this district tho mounds are discovered everywhere. They are composed of various materials and were probably erected for different purposes, but all bear witness to the ex istence here in prehistoric times of a people who have now utterly vanished from the face of the earth. This mound building people lived probably, in Mr. Brower's opinions, where our people now have their homes at least 1,200 years ago. They discov ered and opened the various portages between tho great lakes in tho Missis sippi basin. They were of a race su perb t to any of tho savage tribes that succeeded them. The host of relics picked up here and there through the region, together with the' contents of mounds that have been explored, gives us what knowledge wo have of them. They resided mostly upon lake shores, in villages and lived upon game and lish. They used vessels of pottery, stone implements, tho bow and arrow and implements of copper. They were of i'u.l stature, and tho formation of the skulls that Mr. Brower’s party exhumed and examined indicates a high degree of intelligence. The existence of mounds of smaller construc tion—i fiigy mounds and sites for worship or for burial—over a wide portion of the Mississippi valley sug gests tho general distribution at some prehistoric day of this race of people, ot whose other work we know* so'lntle, and vhoso origin and fate are wrapped in common mystery.—fct. Paul Globe. A Latter Day Philauthrojiist. Loans without security are a bait •which usurers often hold out to the un wary, but a certain Lacour thought it might l ■ made still more tempting by advertising that people could pledge their honor for a substantial monetary advance. Honor is inexhaustible, espe cially when it can bo turned into hard cash, so tho scheme bade fair to succeed. But on the face of it as a commercial speculation it was a poor investment Its philanthropy was its chief rucom mendation, and therefore its author, a chemist’s assistant formerly, with two companions, felt emboldened to imitate Mme. Eugenio Bullet and sing in the streets to invite tho charitable public to contribute to the New Student’s Friend ly society, as they called their philan thropic loan office. The trio selected the Normandy coast resorts for their tour and duly adver tised their philanthropic motives in the local press. But unfortunately M. La cour preached without practicing. He had himseJf contracted a number of lit tle debts on tint strength of his honor, and his creditors were not quite satisfied with the value of that security, and when recently he borrowed from a friend a bicycle, which he at once handed over to a cafe keeper who was dunning him for money, the bicyclist took an unkind view of tho transaction and lodged a complaint wit lithe police 1 , with the result that the latter day phi- lanthopist is now in safe custody, modi tating upon tho worthlessness of honor in worldly transactions.—London Tele graph. Measuring the Heat of the HunO. All illustration of the marvelous accu racy characterizing tools or instruments of measim ment now employed as com pared with those of former times is given—namely, that whereas formerly .0U1 inch marked on a drawing would have been objected to on tho ground that if was diflicult or impossible to w.iii: so closely to measures us that, at tho ]iri. "lit time .0005 inch is measured in every line workshop, and dimensions given in hundredths or even thou sandths of an inch frequently appear on drawings without objection on the parr of tho workmen. The instruments of measmemeiit are now made with such a degree of refined accuracy that even the warmth of tho hand may expand a rod 12 inches long so that the amount of expansion can be measured. It has become important in iinc> measurement to be careful that tho piece to be mea sured should have tl^e same tem perature as that of the instrument by which the size is determined. By lirst handling a rod of tue length named and measuring it, particularly if the rod be of brass or copper, and then, after al lowing the rod to cool, handling the gauge until tho latter expands, it is found that a discrepancy of from .00? inch to .01 inch may bo sometimes made apparent, due entirely to differences of temperature. —American Machinist. THI GREATEST SPARKLER. Tho K.\< 'slor Dlneioml Traveled Under n Miliiary Escort. When a.diamond is four<1 weighing mr voth 'u 100 carats, the news is usu ally heralded with much ado. It is mit to he Y.ondered at tl. .cforo if tho fiud- r 'if the “Excelsior’’ created consid- i er excitement. Ir weighed in the i i 0,1 carats, and was found near ,i. sfontein, in the Grange Free State. When examined, it was found to bo a v bite stone of tho first water, but I i t small flaw in tho center. Tho in- s) i r ( f the mine, a Swedo named Jerg* nsou, was the tacky finder. The t ; victors of the mine, Breitmayer & I heimer, had tho stone tested tmd vahvil by experts, who agreed that the Yah. 1 v as $5,000,000. Two offers of :’, (, <i0,000 and £4,250,000 respectively have been refused by the proprietors. U]n :i its transfer to the coast great pre cast ions were taken for its protection. A squadron of cavalry escorted it to tho railway station. In Capo Town it was placed aboard the British gunboat Ante- 1 j., . which carried the precious gem to L ..i n. where it now rests in the fire and bir. far proof vaults of tho Bank of Eu eland. The next largest diamond in the world is tho « no owned by the rajah of Matau ( n the Hand of Borneo. This one weighs 5(E carats. The handsomest of all the large diamonds known is, however, the eno in the French collection of crown joe i !; k: own as the “Regent,” which w. 136?., carats. Louis XV paid 3,000.000 francs for it, but now it is value 1 at 10,000,000 francs or $2,000,- 000. How much tho “Excelsior” will lose in cutting can only bo decided by most eminent experts. Asa rule, the larger di ;; mis leso fully one-half of their v.i • ' t in this operation. Naturally the cut: 1 .which is done with a view to hir.v'g as few large pieces as possible ou b ■' f the main gem, must be carried on v ill the gieatest care. This business is (•.:■: led on mainly in Amsterdam and Antwerp. In Amsterdam there are at 1 a. at live large concerns of diamond eutic.. . with £72 diamond mills or cut ting wlr el.- and 3,000 hands, besides a ;a ...In v uf less iinporluutconcerns. —Philadelphia Record. RUM CAUSES LAWLESSNESS. N’lm* Murders In u. West Virginia Town Due to Whisky Drinking. The lawlessness of the western alco hol i avus is froquentlv p. r ibed to the J.) i rmal social conditions of a new j-c. llenient, and it is interesting to note the eifeets of open rumshops ou a for me ; .y law abiding community like the v ; : ;. e of Dingess, in the mountains of Y Virginia. Tho county (Mingo) has ni wed prohibition for years, and given the circuit court little trouble, but the completion of tho Norfolk and Western ru: loud evolved a number of little min- i: Mwns that defied the laws, - open ha. being tolerated “for the encourage- meni of industry,” and a few other tilings, to judge from tho folloiviug re port : “Winfield, W. Va., April 20, 1895.— Th -re may 1 e worse places in the United Muirs than Dingess, in Mingo county, hut they are not known here. Ever inrr the Dingess tavern keepers have begun to sell whisky openly crimes !>;.y< increased till now life in the little mining town has become almost unbear able. On pay day hundreds of meu get drunk, and for hours tho streets are filled with drunken, fighting meu, Yvho frequently lire their revolvers in all directions. On tho north side of the hill above town is a graveyard in which nine meu recently killed in this reck less manner lie dead. A half score more are buried elsewhere, and the number of wounded must aggregate 100.” Tho press correspondent mildly adds that tho place ought to be incor porated with a view of mitigating that remarkable state of affairs. Society I'rowim on Drankards. Intemperance is no longer looked up- on as a pardonable weakness, but as a grave fault and a disgrace. It has ceased to be permissible, as it once was, for public men to bo seen in a drunken condition. Society does not extend its former indulgence to persons Yvho fail to control their appetite for strong drink Tho practice of “fanning the flame of friendship with the wing of conviviality” is by no means so preva lent, as it u.-ed to be, for tho simple rea son that it has become disreputable.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I'owcr of the Liquor Habit. Francis Murphy, the great temper ance lecturer, told me two years ago that after 22 years of absolute sobriety it still required all his will power to enable him to refrain from the use of liqunr when became in contact with it. The great JohuB. Gough to his dying day would never allow himself to be alone in a room with a bottle of whisky. —Dr. J. E. Blaine. Yankee Mode Alaakan Curloi. Ex-State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Sutter Creek returned, with his family, from a usit to Alaska yesterday ou tho City of Bin bio. “There is one thing from which tho ordinary tourist cannot bo weaned," said he. “He will buy curios wherever ho goes. That is the way in Alaska. Wo hear a good deal about the fine curving done by the native Alaskan. Now, the fact is, the Alaskan knows miglity little about curving. Tho crack carver of Sit ka came down to Snii Francisco, I was told, to .earn the art of curving, and now ho turns out barrels of ingenious contrivances supposed by his customers to be indigenous to the soil of Alaska only. Un a boat which went to Jimoau a short time before we arrived, there were actually 6,000 pounds of Alaskan curios, manufactured by Americans at Brockton,Mass. ’ ’—Sun Francisco Chron icle. Liquor Consumed In Paris. 1 Baris is mainly a wine drinking town, but, like Marseilles and Lyons, does in t consume so much as many of the smaller towns, though, when ex- | aminud ip detail, the provision seems to be on a sufficiently generous scale. In Baris the animal rate per head is 840 pint,- of wine, 16 of cider, 21 of beer, and rather over 12 pints per head ot spirits. c T Blrton is manager of -i iti hotel at Denison, Texas. I »' ! i “i traveling men say is one of ■st hotels in that section. In i i": 1 of (Miumberlaln’s Colic, i i 'iinl Diarrlnea Remedy Major ' “I have used it myself i i' ti v family for several years, i i' iileii-Hire in saying that I •' ler it an inralliMo cure for ,i " i ml dysentery. I always r • oii'ii i it and have frequently lo.inisti ivil it to my guests In the ; ,'it< 1. and in every ease It has proven it elf worthy of unqualified endorse* I ment. For sale by W. B. DuPre.JSS A NEW ART PROCESS. The Monotype Craze In ParU Is Bee'bin* Over Here. Y An effective departure in art is tho new monotype that is beginuiug to find its way to America from Paris, where it has enjoyed for some months a vio lent popularity. The process was discov ered by Hubert Herkimer. The artistic folk of Paris were quick to see its pos sibilities, and the fame thereof flew like wildfire through the inflammable painters’ quarters. Monotype parties have been one of the latest fads of these appreciative people. Artists infected with the craze and their curious friends gather in some accessible studio in ar dent groups to turn oat these pictures. The excitement lies in the fact that no one can foresee quite how they will turn out; the pleasure, not in the novelty, though that, of course, contributes to it, but mostly in the potent truth that in no other way can the same effects of light and shade be obtained. To produce the monotype the artist paints his study upon a zinc plate, which is put through a press. As the name implies, only one impression is produced. Those that are done in one color are the most snccessful as yet, though some of the tivo color attempts are very charming. The subtlety of cer tain delicate effects, as, for instance, sunlight ou water, is rendered by this new’ phase of art in a truly marvelous maimer. Although tho cordiality of Paris may not be expected, perhaps, in America for the monotype, there can bo no doubt that they will be warmly re ceived here when they are once at homo in our art exhibits, and when, too, the public has learned to understand them sufficiently to appreciate the fact that a favorite study, produced iu this ivay, will not bo found duplicated in a neigh bor’s drawing room. This is now the fear of the careless art patron who seems to have some hazy idea of etchings in his mind. Tho practical wife of an artist who has lately returned from Paris with the monotype fever raging in his blood com plains ruefully, “Why, my husband took the clotheswringer away from tho maids for a press to produce those pic tures!” She smiled with a woman’s su periority as she added: “He said they could have it back again 1 It would take at least three hours to remove that oily paint with turpentine every time they used it.” With a sigh, “I have bought a new* wringer. ” So there is a sordid side even to such gems of art as this wife displays with a pride that must, soften if it doesn’t efface the domestic incom’enience. The aesthetic side is Venetian scenes in browm, an old stone bridge in gray, mountain peaks and a seascape in blue and a cluster of picturesque willows iu green. Who could mind the loss of one wringer after feasting the eyes on such exquisite shading, particularly if it isn’t her wringer?—New’ York Times. The Miseries of Doing; Nothing. Idleness plays many parts. There are the constitutionally indolent — those who, like Dr. Johnson, are never phys ically ready to get up in the morning, but who, like him, are possessed of a conscience which compels them now and again to face the reflection of what they have, compared with what they might have, done, and to stand aghast at the comparison. There are those whom circumstances have made idle—riches, absence of mo tives for exertion; ill health, real or fancied; indulgent friends, and much more often by self indulgence. That idleness is one of the seven deadly sins gives them no sort of concern; it is of the essence of their complaint to have no feeling of their own infirmity. They are asleep. They cannot tell their dreams, for they do not even know that they are dreaming. Giving up, nerveless relaxation, has become a habit, and to them—as to the immortal Mr. Toots, though from a dif ferent motive—nothing is of any conse quence. But whereas it was his ow’n convenience, bis own feelings, his owm comfort that never were of consequence to the unselfish Toots, it is precisely your convenience, your feelings, your comfort, thac are to tho idle man of no consequence. Floating idly about ou “the great Pacific ocean of indolence,” be makes first one compromise, then an other, with self respect, until lie ends by sacrificing the esteem of his fellow meu ou the private altar of his own slotb. His affairs get first muddled, then embarrassed, then decaying, tben desperate, and he feebly flatters him self with an idea of repose, now that all it gone. —Chambers’ Journal. A Gigantic Map. The great ordnance survey map of England, containing over 108,000 sheets and costing during the last 20 years about $9,000,000 a year, is nearly com pleted. The scales vary from 10 to 5 feet to the mile for the towns, through 25 inches, 6 inches, 1 inch, one-quarter of an inch and one-tenth of an inch to the mile. The details are so minute that “the 25 and 6 inch maps show every hedge, fence, ditch, wall, building and even every isolated tree in tho country. The 25 inch map shows in color the ma terial of which every part of u building is constructed. Tho plans show not only the exact shape of every building, but every porch, area, doorstep, lamppost, railway and fire plug. ’’ An Electric Tricycle. Several unsuccessful attempts have been mode to construct an electric bicy cle, and now a Connecticut inventor bus turned ont on electric tricycle. No tests are reported, but it looks os if people could ride on it. The electric motor is carried in a box over the driver, to which it is connected by a sprocket chain. The storage battery is placed be tween the two rear wheels. DOOR DIGESTION ■ nervousness, chronic dyspepsia and great mlscrv. The best remedy is I HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA 1 leads to ! J Cut Prices G. GALLOWAY & SO! G-£lffne;y, 1 .. l''roni now till 1st of January I will sell you Shoes. Hats. Dry Goods and No tions at Cut Prices I Iri'jC Jeans for 10c. l.V Jeans for 12(4e. 90c Jeans tor iii-',e. 25e Jean* for90e, OOc Jeans for 25c. XXo Jeans for 27'/se. . . . ■ S|.-Ml lints for Si.25. sKl.25 Huts for $.100. >1.00 Hals for 7.V and so on down. . . .! Ready Hade Pants. Shifts. Shoes and Hoots in pro portion to alHive Hest all wool Flannel 15 to 22'■■ cents. . Give me u fall before huyiiiK Yours respectfully, I. M. PEELER. St : :' JANUARY 6th, 1896. THE i WINTER > TERM .4; '■'.i- -AT- HUDSON'S Business Uuiversity will begin .Lin. (hli. B:.leiiftil work, High grade of s'p v and moderate c- ,. w - - . >Y jjv •v CMf*! ' n' r* i‘xpi*r.st*s m ’Soto! for ('mtnI"g: .!. E EEDSON, i’rimij.al. iStpf^ V ... - It’s the Talk ^ Ihi-eti ou !.’ .it \ our luilnr ( will buy more Groceries at Wolister’s titan at any other store in town. My stock of Fine Candies is up-to-date. Yours for business. W. M. Webster, Jr. July 19, 1895. A Wise Investment. A policy of insurance in such com panies as tiie .Etna, Home. Hartford, American Fire and JVnm-.i Ivania to protect your home and nusii.from loss and damage by fire is a wise in vestment. I shall be glad to furnish such pro- ! lection at any time. Cull before in suring. 1^. o. Special ¥ ' 1 On Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Grates, Etc., and hate now on exhibition the largest and most varied line ever carried by any house in the State, ranging over some twenty-five different prices, and we will be glad to have yon see them before you buy. WE ARE jnst in receipt of letters from several foundries ad vancing prices considerably, so we think you would do well to buy before our preseni stock is exhausted. Useful an 1 & son NOTHING PRETTiER TH A v R 1*01^1^ & my b «s s a or r s HOLIDAY • L OO D, Everything New and Enough to Su the Whole Country, Come and See Us Before Buying. 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