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I c» THE LEDGER: S. C., GAFFNEY, MAY 20, 1897. MKLOMERATED CHEROKEE ITEMS OK INTEREST TERSELY TOLD. Tzt News tTom Town and Conntry Rolled Down lor the Special Benefit of Busy Led ger Readers. GOOD ROADS. A NEW HOTEL IS CERTAIN, how to apply manure. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. IVi-see vt*ry few eolts on our streets 1-Lis Spring. Un»din<r on the 0. I». A C. is prc- , ressing finely. All gurdens are backward on ae- tuuntot tlie dry weather. J. S. Solomon has accepted a posi- lion al the Star Bakery as baker. The hog crop must be good. Our p>“, pie are beginning to talk about liaor big ones. iVmdon money granted by the ftja.-e. is intended for tlie actually din/jM'ing needy. r / '.)ih are being fixed up that will dry land to hundreds of Cat fish ibis summer. fv.-frv body is asking where the ' O. R. <(' C. will come into town and where the depot will be. The Methodist have bought a lot on the corner of Main and Betty >!reets for their new church. The chairs, scenery, etc., for the r?w f/ty halj have arrived and are hung placed in the building. fiigns of more activity are seen uinmt the otTices of our local attor neys as the time for opening court wpprotiefier. On Sunday, .Tune III. Rev. C. F. Febnet will hold the funeral sendees »f the late Mrs. J. C. Crocker at Cor- }r tb rhnrch. Rasiness is active in UafTney, and erery worthy enterprise receives sub- stantinJ encouragement from our en- terprising people. Potato bugs have made their ap- peurance in our gardens. Baris > THfnia the remedy for them—give n to them liberally. A farmers wagon loaded with baled lay going to the country, is not the fiist prosperous sign for the farm where the wagon belongs. Two brick machines are now put ting in full time in GalTney. and the hsdkations are that their output will net supply the local demand. While stands are not perfect our fanners are working their crops with a vim. Some are ploughing their cotton the second time. .Some large deals in real estate haw* been made in Galfney in the Ja?t Tew days. While prices have leen fair there is nothing booming ia them. Rer. B. P. Robertson Monday went to housekeeping in the pretty new cottage of County Treasurer Jones. **n Depot street, where he will proba bly remain until the new parsonage >* meted. learn that Governor Elerbe has rtet/ved a letter from Senator Till- jman. relative to the Agricultural Hall *ir.*d the Dispensary Scandal. The Senator asked that the letter he made public but the Governor declined to so muse it. There will be services at the Meth odist ft urch next Sunday night be ginning promptly at 8:510 o’clock. Tberewill he no services in the morn ing on account of the Interdenomina tional Sunday School conference at the Baptist church. The Chester Bicycle Club is nego tiating for a tract of land near that cily on which it will grade a fine txa: k and convert the whole plat into a purtt for the city. GalTney Cyclist miM move up. No place mustbe ul- .uk cd to pass GalTney. • F" erifT Ross lust week conveyed a puTent from Cherokee to the insane asylum. This makes the second un fortunate to be taken to Columbia nitre the formation of Cherokee. They were both cases of long stand ing however, and should have been attended to by the old county ofli- «-!*!.s some time ago. Manager Robert Roundtree* of the Cumpany Store, is nothing if not pruirrvssive. He has lately had eon- rUntied u hitching post with a shed orer it for the convenience of his ptcimns who desire to rest tlieir teams and has placed in the store an electric lau to cool the prospective purehus- •r while spending their time in his htorr. Not content with this Ed Ei- koi. has dressed the show windows in a truly artistic manner so as to at tract and delight those who pass by. <KT(iijg to the convention of the Utoesfone Interdenominational Sun day School which is to be held in the Firtl Baptist church Sunday morn- tog and afternoon there will he no •rnnon at that church in the fore- Min). After the morning session of tb* convention is over a church con- ferm^e will be held. Pastor Robert son earnestlry requests all the mem- of his church to be present us feuiiri**)! of Importance Is to be trans acted. This will he the usual night seriice. » . — y . M'ilund Kuaruntcc Ittcc's Cinris I—ae*nt no cure no |»i*y. OukuoKCK Intro lo. i n(.tMiNc (ircrisr lilniilncilt. I’ttrt’H nil t.at’.t's .ml pulnv Sold nnd uuitrnnlt'rd liy CutHOKt:*: lutcu < i». Prof. Holmes, of North Carolina, Gives Us a Fine Talk. State Geologist Holmes, of North Carolina, delighted a large audience on Tuesday afternoon at McArthur's Hall on the subject of “Good Roads.” Mr. Holmes was introduced in nice style by Hugh H. Long, one of Gaff ney's promising young attorneys. For more tha hour Mr. Holmes held the undivided attention of his audience. His stereoptican views of the McAdetn roads of England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy. New Jersey and North Carolina were fine and brought vividly to the inir.ds of his auditors the necessity of good roads in Cherokee county. He paid a trilute to the young coin ty and im pressed upon it the neeess ty of begin ning aright. Every'man in Cherokee county should have iieard the lecture. It would have given an imj e us to good roads that would have b-en of incalculable benefit to the countv. We hope to have Mr. Holmes wi li us again and enjoy the practical good roads lessons he so ably teaches. The following are a few of the practical suggestions in road build ing as mentioned by Prof. Holmes. Learn all you can from the expe rience of other countries add other counties that have good roads and prolil by their experience as far as possible. This may save much time and money. Employ the best men you can get to take charge of your road work regardless of their politics, religion, kinship nr anything else, save their fitness f,or their work. Be sure that your roads have the best possible location before you spend money to improve them. The dis- tnr.ee around a hill is no greater gen erally than tiie distance over its top, and it is far cheaper and better in the long run to build and keep up the more level road. No road in the Piedmont, S. C., should ever have a hill on it steeper than oft in 100ft. Grade and drain your roads carefully and let them settle before ma e ad a m i z i n g t h eni. Bad roads make people poorer and noor. Good roads makes the b st investment for the counties’ money and labor. Money invested in road building comes back to the county both directly and indirectly. If you delay building roads until the county gets rich, you will never get rich and never have the good roads. The entire people must pull and push together in this great industrial movement. Let the building up of the roads and schools he the county’s highest politics for the next decade and you will find yourselves entering a new era of prosperity. Do not ex pect to have good roads all over f lie county in a week or in a year. Be gin with the most important roads and make them good as fust as you can. Be patient in well doing and go ahead with a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together and you will meet with better success than you expected. — — BEATING FATHER TIME. A COMPANY ORGANIZED TO BUILD ONE. It is to Cost Not Less than Twenty Thousand Dollars—It Will be Modern in Every Re spect-Sites, Etc. Last Thursday night upon invita tion of Mr. H. I). Wheat the follow ing gentlemen met at his residence to discuss the erection of a new hotel: A. N. Wood, J. A. Carroll, R. C. Thompson, J. I. Surratt, N. Lipscomb, T. <5. MeCraw, W. H. Smith, L« Ba- k'r, W. C. Carpenter, J. G. Wardlaw, J. N. Lipscomb, J. (J. Little, K. S. Lipscomb, S. L. Cutting, J. F. Gar- r.-tt. F. G. Stacy. R. A. Jones, R. M. Wilkins, O. E Wilkins, J. I). Jones and II. L. Parks. The subject was carefully and fully discussed and it was finally decided to build a hotel to cost not less than $20,000. A committee was appointed to select a site and to report at a meeting which was held Monday. This com mittee wt i t to w rk Friday and se cured option- on a number of sites and reported at the meeting which was he’d at t! e office of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company on Monday. After discussing the subject it was decided to defer the selection of the site to a meeting which is to be held next week. At any rate the hooks for subscription to the capital stock of the new hotel have been opened and a large part of t he stock already subscribed. The building will he modern in every respect and will till a long felt need. These g-ntlemen have no fight with the proprietor of the pres ent hotel’or the management but be lieve that Gaffney needed a modern hotel and determined to give her one. After the hotel hud been discussed at Mr. Wheat’s on last Thursday evening the company was united to partake of an ch ga it rep :st prepar ed for the occasion. This was highly enjoyed by all present and the com pany r< solved themselves into a com mon b o hi rheo 1 to wt rk for GalTney. The Mormon llishop Wan Frightened nt tho null road Speed. Speed was once demonstrated on : western road in a fashion to cnrl tho I hair of at least one old Mormon bishop. The churchman considered it a phenom enon and got off the train as quickly an he could. He had bullwhacked across thp plains in the early days, and, strange to say Jpid never ridden on a railroad train tmtil the time when he intend upon his trip from Green river to 8an Francisco. The speed was, therefore, a revelation to him. He had never before seen anything so swift, and lie was scared. About 12 mill s from Ogden he asked the conductor for the time of day and was told that it was 7:555. He im pressed this time forcibly on his mind. Now, for a wonder, the western con nection at Ogden was quickly made, and after the lapse of but a few minutes the .San Francisco bound travelers were on their way Califi rniaward. Ogden had been left behind only a few miles, and the train was whooping along at a behind time rate of speesl, when the old bishop, frightened ami trembling, dared to ask the ccneluctor what was the time of day. If you have traveled westward, you know that at Ogden tho limei changes, and San Francisco time, tine hour ear lier, is adopted. Tho conductor had San Francisco time, and he said: “It is 7:1.)—ten minutis after 7.” The old bishop, previously haunted by a dread of impcntling elcstruetion be cause of the horrible rate of speed at which he was being whirled through space, rose with a wild cry and made for the door. “Lemmc off!” he cried. “It was 3.1 miiHdceHtfti r 7 an hour ago, an we’iv goin so fast we are goin faster than time can count itself. L mme off!” Had ho really been g< ing as fast as I the old man had l>ciievod, he would ! surely have !;e-u beaten to bits as ho I jumped frtuu the train. As it was, lie i was only rolled something like a half mile and was carried back to Ogden on | a hand ear.—Chicago Record. Fit lit IVw. Professor Shaw of the Minnesota sta- , tiou is credited with saying that the ! Prussian Blue pea is possessed of a wider adaptation than the other varie ties of peas grown and should he suited to New England. For the west he names a variety known as the green field is'a; also another variety called the green or gray lieu. The Chancellor is mentioned us tx ing a popular variety in tho norttiwert. — - •* •- — I f Ul.v (itHMe lirt'Hst* tloti't cure your aches and twins. I>«rn», bruises uud spruliis. we pay you luoncy Lick. Diini i o. • 'roup. •'.<liL. buCrippi- mid Sore Thrimi, cured by Uoimc lirease' no cure no pay. Del'MK Dm d Co. Other Building Notes. Contractor L. Baker is adding a handsome dining room and porch to the Limestone Inn, of which Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Hoper are the delightful host and hostess. Prof. Zed Rupert son lias let tho contract for a pretty cottage to be built next to the Episcopal church building. Contractor Baker has just com pleted a pretty eight-room two story dwelling for A. F. Kendrick on Lime stone street. Mr. Kendrick moved into it this week. The contract for the Baptist par sonage is to be let tins week. R. A. Jones lias let the contract for a two-story brick store house on the vacant lot between the stores of It. A. Jones & Co. and T. Davenptr . Cherokee Chil! Tonic guaranteed to cure— % no cure no pay. Cherokee Drug Co. News From Willie. WTli.ij;, May 17.—Marion Bagwell begun chopping out his cotton Mon day tin* 10th instant. You will al ways find Marion on time whin It comes to farming. Our commissioners have about got the roads in this section worked over, or rather walked over, as they have done hut very little to them. They just gave them a “lick and promise.” \Ve suppose that they intend working them again this summer, If they don’t we will certainly have desper ately bad roads next winter. G. \\\ Williams’ baby has been right sick for several days with den tition. We had a splendid rain last Wednes day, the 12th instant, and I believe, after all, that we are going to get u pretty fair stand of cotton. “T. L. G.” su^s in his “Hungry Hill” letter of week before last, that if the prizes offered by the cotton mills for the best I and lucre cotton patches were reversed, that he would be certain to win both prizes. Now we are almost satisfied that some one in this sec tion will win the prizes, as it is. and were it reversed, “T. T. G.” would stand no chance in the world of win ning tiie prizes. Why, we have plen ty of land in this section upon which ii we were to produce us much us 1<H) lbs of seed cotton per acre, why, er— we would be almost tempted to pay forour guano. While upon tho i.th- • er Hand, we have in this section plen ty of land tiiat will produce from one to two bales of cotton per acre. J.wurs. . • Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Halve in the world for : Guts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Halt , Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped I Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all j Skin Eruption, and poetively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guar- . anteed to give perleet satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by The DuPrc Drug Co. Fomparatitr Merit* of Surfarr Manuring autl Plowing In Manure. Elias A. Long learned a h ssou in the application of manure when a hoy in his father’s nursery. Hr tolls the story, as follows, in American Gardening: We purchased from a tannery a large pile of compost, hair, ashes, lime and other refuse, with enough bark in layers to make all pile up well. In the winter we drew this on land devoted to iiurx ry and other crops, usually plowing it un der in the spring. Soup times ou fall plowed land we would iucerporate the mixture with the soil, by th - use of the cultivator tr share harrow, in the spring. One of the things that vividly im- pre-sed mo as we dug trees and plants from soil thus manured was tho way in which rootlets would lay hold of con genial hits of plant food. The tufts and felted km ts of hair would he the attrac tion to a mass of small roots. This is illustrated in the accon pauying sketch, in which a a a show bunches of hair. This thing was seen not only in the ea e of seedling and tree roofs, but also in those of strav,’berry plants, which lio much nearer the surface. A lesson to be drawn from this is that the plowing in of manure as a method of applying it should not yield to surface applications in any markt d degree. The avidity with which roots seek out and lay hold of particles of manure in the case stated showed to rue that there can be no mistake in putting the plant food right whole it will be needed. With the surface and applica tion cf manure in tfie fall and winter there is often {treat loss of fertility through escape by leaching and surface drainage during thaws in the winter. If it ho drawn to the plat and be kept in piles until just before spring plow ing or cultivating, such loss is not ap preciable. The question of the comparative mer its of surface manuring and the plow- 7/ r [V A Batch of Newsy Items from the Iron City. Bi.ai KsnoRO. May 18.—Cycling is the fad here at present. There arc twenty odd machines in town, and. I understand that the ladies are con templating organizing a club. W ork on the branch <>f the O. R and <’ R. Ii. is progressing satisfac torily. Between two and three milts have been graded, and, as soon as the trestles are built, laying of the track will he began. Last Wednesday night ErnestGun- tiirop, one of the most popular em ployes of the O. 11. and R. It., was married to Miss (Mara Whisonant, a lovely and attractive young lady of this place. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Mr. J. 1). Bailey, of Oowpens, H. C., at the residence of the bride. After a few days stay, with the grooms parents at Shelby,N. 0., the young couple returned here, and are now with Mr. and Mrs. Gra ham. A negro man by the name of David Groves.hailing from Augusta.Ga.,died suddei !y at this place Thursday. As no inquest was held, the exact cause of his death is not known. And, us he had no relatives or friends, he was buried at tiie expense of tiie town. Friday, A. F. Did- of tnD place, was arrested by D. puty Marshall Dobson, at the instance of Post Office 1 nspector Gillespie, for having ob tained an^ opened an official lei ter ad dressed to one W. M. Smith. He was admitted to bail in the sum of iJ'IUO.'.X), by the commissioner at this place, for his appearenee on the 2Sth, inst. Saturday a number of State Con stables made their appearenee here, and proceeded to try and make things lively. First, a lew bottles of beer, shipped to a gentleman here from Shelby N. C. were siezed and tiie car rier arrested. A trial by jury being demanded, the case was continued un til next Week. Sunday, they went out on a road leading from this place to a Govt. Distihery. just across the line. After some hours waiting, they caught a m gro man from this place by the name of Ike Simms, coming from the distillery towards Blacksburg, with about three quarts and a pint, of corn whiskey. The offender was at once arrested, and upon trial Monday was convicted and sent to the county chain gang for thirty days, in ilo- A I.ESSOX IX IfAXURlNG. ing in cf manure may depend somewhat on tho crop also. It is plain in tho caso of shallow rooted crops, like lettuce, radishes, onions, strawberries, etc., that the manure is not wanted at the same level as with parsnips, cauliflower and other deeper rooters. Then, again, sur face manuring may, as in tho case of strawberries, serve an excellent purpose as a mulch in keeping the soil cool and in preserving moisture. Another thing, all crops do not need tho same amount of manure. It is a poor plan, for instance, to he lavish in the use of manure on potatoes and then slight it on onions and celery. Among crops that do the better for high feeding I would place strawberries, cel ery, onions, lettuce, spinach, beets, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower, squashes and cucumbers. Of such, the extent of the crop is almost measured by the amount of manure, and 30 to 40 tons per aero each year is none too much. The bush small fruits need loss manure than do strawberries, while vegeta bles, potatoes, peas, parsnips, carrots, beaus, tomatoes and melons wx along very well with one-half the manure called for by tho others named. Tiie Velvet Kean. Seme Florida farmers are experiment- | ing with a new legume for forage. It is called the velvet Lean. The Leans aro planted about tho same as corn. As de scribed by Field and Farm, the growth is rampant, making in Florida soil some eight or nine tons to the acre of green feed. It is hardy, taking a very heavy , frost to kill it. The green forage bean, 1 pod and all, is greedily eaten by stock. The pods are thick and leath ry and contain from throe to live beans each, i The pods are cove red by a clu-e, thick dowulike velvet, from whence it di rived its common name. It is a climber when ' 1 it gets a chance. ! Itcma la Coru Culture. The three varieties of corn giving the I highest yii Id per acre at the Texas sfa- i tiou were Meshy’s Prolific, 48 bushels; | Gulden Beauty, t? bushels; Blount’s i Prolific, D! bushels. The prolific vario- i ties were thinned to one stalk every 18 I i inches, while the other kinds were i thinned to one stalk every 3 tier. The j rows of all varieties were * feet 10 inches apart. Tiie te.^ts covered two | years, and M varieties of corn wero tested. Varieties of Orancrs. For the benefit of growers renewing their orange orchards or setting out new ones the following varieties are recom mended in a bulletin from the Florida station: For autumn shipping, Centen nial, Parson Brown, Boone Early, Non pareil, Homosassa, Tangerine,Mandarin uud Hatsuma for midseuson, Jaffa, Ht. Michael, Maltese Blood, Majorca and in rich hammock lauds Pineapple for late, Hurt Turdiff, King and Valencia Late. DICH RED BLOOD > s thefoun- ■V d ttiou of good health. That Is why Hood s Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH. fault of u hundred dollars line. Not yet content, on Monday they went to Cherokee Falls and arrested John R. Martin. Waiveing a preltm- inury hearing, the case was sent to court and the defemlent admitted to bail. It appears that Martin had betT reporttd for selling liquor, and, last week, the officers went to Cherokee Falls with a search warrant. After reaching that place, they enquired for Martin. A man by the name of Cobb, sent them in a round about way, in the mean-time, going to Martins and tellingall there, that the officers were coming. Those present, at once locked up the house and skip ped. A little later the constables appeared. They found Mrs. Martin and asked for her husband. She said he was in the field somewhere. After searching his house they asked to be allowed to enter one of the out buildings which was locked. She re fused, whereupon they broke open the dr o'and entered. They had no idea that an illicit still was being run in the house, hut, investigation soon re vealed the fact. In the cellar they found a slijl, furnace, cap, tfonnand about seven tubs. Tho tubs con tained beer, and, the room was badly smoked. The still, cup and worm wen ta .en to Gaffney City and the revenue officials notified. The still was of about lo gallon ca pacity, made out of a large cap in verted, while the cap was made out of a piece of copper riveted together and and about the size of a large dipper. M. M. Freeman, formerly Sec. and Tr> as of the C. S. A. Mfg. Co., has been appointed Postmaster at this place, vice J. M. Guyton remov ed. Mr Guyton made an obliging and efficient Postmaster, and, while ids many friends will regret to hear of removal, the public here have the s itisfacl ion of knowing that a good amlTftieient officer has been succeeded by another. Messrs. Russell and Fretwell, of Andezson, have signed a contrrct with the O. R. anil 0. Railroad for the filling of all the trestles along the line. The company’s steam shovel, under Capt. Patrick Bergen, will con- tinu'', while Messrs. Russell and Fretwell will have one of their own. Shelby street has been considera bly improved, (‘/) a few stray coble- stones have been moved from one part of the street to another, i:. a. t. Bi.m ksbi'ug, May 17.—The Sto'k- holders of the Cherokee Fails Man .- facturing Company, hi* d their annut 1 meeting at the fuct< ry, on Wednes day May 12ih .v large majority i f tiie stockholders were present, unit all seemed well satisfied with the showing made by the mill during the past year. Four car loads of young ladies from the \\ iiittop Normal uud ludusirial College, of Rock Hill. H. passed through the city on Friday, on their annual school picnic. I hi* year • hey spent the duv at tiie celebrated Pat terson Springs, N. C. Ample dimicr was provided for tbe large crowd, and teachers and pupils alike spent a very pleasant day. Three of the young ladies from Winthrop. stopped off at Blacksburg, and spent the day. They were Mis ses La I la Black, Mira Connor, and Delia Kirkpatrick. Mr. Will Banks, of Rock lleruld, spent Friday in tho city. An unknown negro supposed to hail from Georgia, died bore several days ago. It seems that he had been drinking very hard of late, and a short time before his death ho M-nt u A to boy to the dispensary for un^^^r bottle of ''chemically pure,” but fore the boy returned lie hud “passed in his checks.” A telegram fiom Washington was received by Major John Y. Jones, sev eral days ago, annouM'-ing that Mr. M. M. ]• reeman had been appointed postmaster at tliis place. As yet tiie matter has not been d< finitely set- lied, and Mr. Guy ton still lias charge of the office. O hio a crowd went from here to Charlotte, N. C.. on \V oi.esday, to see Barnuni W Bailey's e>»"is. At tbe residence oft lie brib-s’fath er. on Wednesday evening, at 8 i . m.. Miss Claire Wiiisonarit.'e 'oiui daugh ter of Mr. Charles Yv bi.- uiant. was united in marriage to .Mr. Ernest Guntharp. Rev. Mr. B: liey, pastor of the Baptist Church, ollb-iatod. The young people, are \v« 1! known in Blacksburg, and have th -b >t wi-b.es of their many friends. s, m. d. THE FROZEN BREEZE. A Straiig.' I’l'.eaoiJK ;:oii 05;s<tv«mI l;y a •f.’iv, r ot Nat are. Did you cv< r s< v a I'roxi n Ln i a- - You might have s- n om if you had goao wit li me into tho country cue winter morning. ’IJiis was tho way it i ame to be frcr.i n: All nignt 1 n.g tlio mr 1 ad D-en ludiu with mist. Over the il J.’s, in tho hol lows, all through the \z< , ds, eve a on top < f the hills, the fog Lang heavily. •Ail that time tin- wind How steadily, but not fiercely, from some nor'.horn quart, r. At nightfall the mor u:y Ml bolow tho froi ::ing point, so that ihi- mist, as it drifted through the In vs, was trozi u upon th‘ir branches and twigs. The elms, the oaks and the ether leafless trees took their ice coating quite evenly, but the thick, impem trablo masses of tho needles of the pine trees were cov ered noticeably only upon tho sides to ward the; north er northwest, from which the wind came-. The strong, steady breeze bent the branches to leeward, while it was icing them, and when tho wind went down in the morning they all romaim d just there, leaning to the s :uthwaril, iced and frozen to immova bility, but looking just as if tho wind were still steadily blowing. Even in the alti rnoon, when tho rain began to fall and the wind came from quite another ouarti r, that north wind of tho night before still remain 1 win to and frozen over the piny woods, tho pul?, rigid corpse of a thing once keenly alive.—-Listener in Co.vitrv. ' TmusiL.; „o)<i. — Of Ids recent extended, study of the gold resources of South Africa Dr. Becker says that the Transvaal republic contains the largest gold deposits in tho world. Within 15 miles of Johannes burg there is an amount of gold, prac tically in sight, estimated to be wortm. $3,100,000,000. or nearly as much sw the entire volume of gold coin now in the world. The geld is extraordinarily uniform, as uniform us coal in an or dinary diqiosit, as shown by shafts which have been sunk to a depth of 1,800 feet ami diamond drillings which have gone still farther. At present the gold is being taken out at the rate of $100,000,000 a year. The most surprising news which Dr. Bi cker brings is the testimony of an American who was formerly Ids assist ant in the geological survey, and who is now engage cl in mining in the Trans vaal, where lie has made several mil lions cf dollars. TM American mining expert rays to his knowledge and belief the gold deposits, instead of being SO miles long—the region now in sight—is practically 1,200 miles long, except that in the rest cf tho region later deposits have come in over the gold. This, how ever, will not prevent economical min ing, but will simply delay it.—Popular Science News. W. H. PALMER, WATERLOO, IOWA. “Saved From the Horror* of Ncrvouc Pro*- tration” by Dr. Miles’ Mcrvine. H COl'Clil dou:; not always indicate consumption. Mr \V. If. Palmer, of Waterloo, Iowa, urite.: "I was taken with a nervouii stricture of tho bronchial tubes, which developed into nervous pros tration, I was so weak i could not ul* op. I ^ot no blvup for clays except when under the iu.luciK e of opiates. For lour months I suf fered Uf.ouies and prayed that I might die and be at rest. One physician raid I h id consumption, for I had u couirh that (rave me no rest. Hut a good old physician whose medicine had failed, advised me to use Dr. I Miles'Ucstoratl ve Nervine nnd llhnnk God that It has bright ened my days, lonftthened my life and saved me from the horrors of nervous prostration.” Dr. Miles’Hem.-dies are sold by all drug gist* under a positive guarantee, ttrst Itottle lienefils or money refunded. Hook on Huu''t and Nerves sent free to all applldunts. DU. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ipd Dr. Miles* -Nervine Restores / Hsatth