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TIL WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. SC. DECEMJ3E MY PRAYER. I have no lenghty praye' to make When I approach my bud, nd 'hen through God's grace, I owake, Again to fare ahead! 3y prayer I say Through al the day Te words are few And simple. too: God, let my faith in thee And in thy people be Forever strong and true!" This- is the sinple prayer I pray If it be answered, I Alone shall find the way And confidently die. -S. E. Kier. in the Chicago Times Herald. .. THE.. ttle Lace Mer Mdile. Noemi Verdier, a lacemaker of Valenciennes, was as good as she was pretty and her modesty and simplicity commanded the respect of all. Left an orphan at 13 years of L-: age she lived with her brother, three years her senior, who, having suddenly become the head of the house. labored for his little sister and himself at cabi net making. The two lived happily together; but the years passed and the time of mili tary service came. Louis was obliged to g6 The separation was terrible to those .wo children, who loved each ether so much. Left alone In the little lodgings, thus suddenly become too large for* her, Noemi with bleeding heart applied herself to her work and wrought mar vels from tUe flax fields. Every Saturday she carried back her work and when she returned home di vided her earnings in two parts. Must she not send a small subsidy to her soldier, who was thinking of her there in his far-away garrison? - On his side Louis believed in his regiment as he did in Valenciennes; e is to say, like an honest man, and Sht the end of the second year of his absence he was able to announce one beautiful morning that he had been promoted to be sergeant. You can imagine how happy Noemi Was! How her heart throbbed with joy! Oh, how proud she was' of her dear brother! But her happiness w&s short. In a few weeks came a letter. T'e war-cloud had burst all at once; armed ce us ed of the dt dd s - I -- the French army, W , Ville, 'Saint-Private, Gravelotte, S ZThen silence followed-no more ters, no more news, nothing. -~Nei. ho never read the pal hastened Low to the office of the C teur de Valenciennes'and of the ] de .la Fontiere, seeking there s little ray of hope. She listened tc talk on the street, she mingled - the groups of people commenting the news, she gave ear to the .pai accounts of the war and she lear with a sinking heart, that her brotb regiment had met with severe loss SMeanwhile the wounded sold were sent, through Hirsan and A - nes, to the towns and cities on northern frontier. Every day fi convoys arrived in Valenciennes. All the hospitals were full and they came. 'rhen private ambular were organized everywhzre, churc - and factories opened their doors to uhnfortunate wounded soldiers. One morning the report was cir lated that a convoy of wounded ft her brother's regiment had arri during the night. To the poor girl a glimmer of hi returned. She ran-from one to the other, a ing of the nurses, bending over evi cot; but the hope of the morning vi bhied. All at once she remembered that 1 day before they had o-pened in Sai: aulve a hospital intended .especia for the officers. Was theref'any pos bility that an unknown sergeant mij have been brought there? Surely n 4 Yet. notwithstanding, she fou strength to go thither. An army surgeon came toward he: "What do you wish mademoiselle? 'Oh, monsieur! Pardon! I am lo infr my~ brother, Sergeant Lel "Yaie mfean Lieutenant Louis Ye dr?" And pointing with his fing down the long row of mattresses< -the floor. 'there he is in the sixth bed To the poor girl it seemed as if ti earth vanished from beneath her fet She choked back an exclamation< joy, tottered forward a few steps at with an outburst of ir-finite happine knelt before the bed of Lieutenai Verdier, who, with his head wrappe In linen, was lying in a heavy stupor i Louis! Louis! It is I," she e3 claimed, trembling,with clasped hand ready to fall. At 'his appeal the wounded man re covered his consciousrness, opened -h1 eyes and perceived hir sister, but nc being able to raise his head h stretched forth both his hands, whic she seized in hers andi covered wit: 'tears. In the meantime the surgeon ap ched, and, half un willingly, led he tcaus~e him any emo uarantee anything er's wound is do >ver, taat Is cer o our work." teur-" le docteur Come bacia go home." is,"said the days later, her brother, frwhom :i of magniA cent lace for a wealthy English house. ] I began to work on it last night and I hope to finish It in ten days. For this work they will pay me a very high I price. Do you know what I am going to do with the money?" "Speak, my darling," answered the young officer. "The surgeon says that you will soon be able to get up. I am going to take you home to our little nest and take care of you day and night. You shall see how happy we will be and how C quickly you will be well." "Dear, dear sister! Oh, what a good t idea and how I shall hasten to get r strong, so as to be able to go with you." s One morning. when she came in, r,- 8 diant with gladness, her brother b'ade 1N her speak - low and poilted with h's eyes to a new wounded officer, wh&n they had brought in and placed on a mattress beside his own. The wound.d man was M. de Lauterac d'Ambroyse, lieutenant "aux chassenu.s a pied- --lid had been struck in the shoulder by a t bombshell. "Poor young man!" said Noemi, n compassionately. "He has no sister to I1 take care of him." And she became p interested in this man, whose death r. seemed certain. R In the meantime the days went by ti and Louis' convalescence progresed si rapidly. Had he not promised to s' hurry? On the morning of the tenth g1 day Noemi arrived, joy in her face, a: bringing a precious package wrapped g In tissue paper. SE She, too, had kept her word; her U marvellous work was finished and she P' brought it to show her brother before i marrying it to the merchant who or- tc dered it, and in her joy at being able to take her brother home she forgot ibout the poor, wounded man lying be- 7 side her. "See how beautful it Is!" she said, a lisplaying the delicate masterpiece up )n the bed-proud of it, not because of o t's overwhelming difficulties, but be- ci muse it enabled her to realize her t nost ardent wish, to bring her dear E 'onvalescent into their little nest in in he little street, into the small lodg- t ngs where happiness would come back m Lt the return of her beloved brother. ti And they were both happy. With sc iands clasped, they contemplated the 95 lelicate lace. b All at once a piercing shriek drew a hem from their ecstasy. N In making an effort to rise M. de ] ,auterac d'Ambroyse hat disarrange- ei !is bandages, the wounA reopened, and b3 unfortunate man fc1 back on his cl dan e moved the bandage. 'Quck, quick! Some lint!' he cr )ers "Hurry, hurry!" uet And while the nurses, beside th uc selves at the cries of the pati searched everywher-e for what was ome hand, the stream of blood kept flow and the anxious surgeon multiplied with appeals. .1o1 - The brother and sister. motionl< aed, pale with fright, exchanged one glar er's Noemi seized her precious lace, tor< es in pieces, and gave it to the maj es.who applied it to the wound. es The hemorrhage was stopped te Louis and Noemi, trembling w tes emotion, looked at each other. eh"Dear sister, thanks--." That i till iall that Louis could say. cs "It will make but a few days'< tislay," .lisped the youn1g girh ke~epi the back the tears just ready to flow. "viii begin my work again." - Lieutenant de Lauterac d'Ambroy is today colonel; he is the father red three children; one a big, pretty gi edalmost as beautiful and sweet as h mothei', whose name she wea1 eNoemi; and two fine-looking bol who are "terrors," as their uncle a ;k- sures us, the brave commadant Lou try Vernier.-Waverly Magazine. heILLINOIS' VANISHED CAPITAL. it [lyIe Town of KaAkaskia Swept Away 1 the Mississippi. ht One hundred years before Ilino: became a territory and 111 years b dfore it became a state there was adtown at Kaskaskia, says the Chicag Inter Ocean. Fifty years before ther was a white settlement at St. Loul k or any military post at Pittsburi and ,96 years before the founds tomr were iata ror rort uearorg Chicago, Kaskaskia was a thrivia r- vlae erAs early as 1710 there were in th town three miles for grinding corn. A early as 1765 the town containel 65 families of whites. In 1771 five years before the Revolutionar, SjWar, it contained 80 houses ans dhda population of 500 whites an< 500 negroes. In 1809 it was made thi Lt capital of Illinois Territory. It wa: d the capital of the state from 1818 un til 1821, and was the seat of Ran dolph county until 1847. The first brick house built west o1 Pittsburg was constructed in Kas, kaskia. For over half a century Kas kaskia w> the metropolis of the Up tper Mississippi valley and was the focus of commerce in the Northwest JTerritory. On Thursday the last vestige of this historic settlement was swept away by the Mississippi river. The work of destruction that began with ,the great flood of 1844 was com pleted, and the home of the early Illinois governors-the first state capital--ceased to exist. Its destruc tion was complete. Not a stone was left to mark the place. Chicago. that was built in a swamp, is the second city in America. New Orleans, located in what was be lieved an unsafe and unhealthy dis trict, is the commercial metropolis of the southwest. But Kaskaskia, which Iwas set on a spot chosen from the boundless variety of the virgin west, is merely a memor'y. 'EANUTS AND G00BERS. lOW CROPS ARE RAISED, CATHERED AND PREPARED FOR MARKET. 'he Goober is to the Actual Peanut Whtt the Quahang is to the Genuine (imn Vines Are first-Clas Fodder for 31ties -5,000,000 Bushels a Fair Year's Crop. This is peanut- time in the South. oing through eastern Virginia and Torth Carolina the traveler can see irough the car window row after )w of what appear to be round ushes. They are the stacks or hocks of peanut vines hung around Licks waiting to be placed upon 'agons and carried away for strip ing. Some of the larger fields will a402 1000 of these stacks. yield ig from 0'- to 75 bushcls O* uts to the acre. Most of the nuts rown in Virginia and North Caro na are the goobers. The goober is > the actual peanut what the qua aug is to the genuine clam. The 1ell usually contains but two ker ?ls. This Is the nut with which the alians load their wagons and sell in iper bags on the street corners. The 'al peanut which answers to the hode Island clam is smaller than te goober. The kernel is about the ze of a large pea and its flavor is veeter than the other variety. It is 'own principally in North Carolina id Tennessee. Occasionally a few t into a bog of goobers, but very 4dom, as they are shelled and sold ir from 10 to 15 cents a ck more than the others. They go to candy paste and to the oil fac ries of Europe. The peanut farmer begins planting soon as the frost is out of the ound in the spring. The shelled its form the seed and about two ishels are required for an acre. In few weeks the plant gets above the rth -a nd begins to leaf out. A field peanuts looks much like a fieid of )ver, and during the war many of e Northern soldiers mistook clover lds for peanut patches, while hunt g for something to vary their ra ns. The plants grow in rows, very uch like potato vines, and are cul rated in the same way. Weeds will on choke their growth, and the ckaninnies on the farm are kept sy during the summer in weeding t the patches with their "fingers. )wadays the harvesting is done by iat is callied a plow, made espe il.y- for .the purpose. It is dr.wn one je and cuts the plants ofr )se to the ran an massed around a'iT1 stuck in 'the ground. The sta led, formed with the leaves outside the vines are wound around tightly as possible to protect the ,nt, from the weather. The plan is at what similar to that of bi ing wheat. About three weeks' exp his "seasons" the nuts and drie vine, so that the pods are rea Ss, be picked. I c The picking is the most expe or operation of all and takes the or, time. Whether in the barn or 0: field, all the work has to be dor hand. The nuts are thrown large baskets and the .Vines mad to large stacks or stored away ii sloft, for they make a hay whi< really more nourishing for the. age mule than timothy. The vii "Ia little too rough for a horse's th but it is a luxury to the ave esouthern mule, who will grow fa sepeanut hay, and nothing else. it fields some of the vines will be b ened and the nuts of poor que rThese are left on the ground an< Jter the pigs are turned into the i s, They eat everything that is left s- cept the roots.,.The nuts are not sfattening, biut they give the po a very sweet flavor. The fan hams cured in some parts of Vir~ owe most of their Quality to the that the pigs have lived partly r Y nuts before being fed the sour and garbage from the farmer's ki s en. 3- In half a dozen towns most of a peanut "factories"' are located. 0 factory Is merely a place where 8 nut is shelled or the shell polis s for the market. It is a curious 'that peanuts with clean, glisteL pods will .sell for 15 to 20 per c .more at retail than those yith la dirty-looking podst. antborht~ the I nels may be just as good, so the 11 Sintended for the bag trade at the cus and on street corners scoured in large iron cylinders. TI they are carried to fans, which b] the heavier nuts into one part of factory and the little ones into other part and at the same time move the dirt which was not tal off the shells in the cylinders. 'I dark, partly filled nuts are shelled machinery and sold to con fectionc while the other ones are carried b3 sort of endless chain apparatus ii bags, each of which will hold abc 100 pounds. As fast as a bag filled it is sewed with English twi1 marked with the weight and prof address and sent to the wholess peanut dealer, who makes anywhe from 25 to 50 per cent. prolt in do ing with the Italians, who are 1 principal customers. Of late years quantity of the bag peanuts h gone to manufacturers of ches coffee, to be roasted andi mixt with the coffee berry and th< ground, to be sold in n'ckages choice Mocha and Maiamibo. While most of the American nu are grown in eastern Virginia at North Carolina and Tennczsee. 11 peanut fields are beginniug to be et tivated in parts of Louisiana and N braska. Man:' of the QT>h in Nort Carolina contain ajpparent; nothin b'.t wet sand,. anthe do ( en i the leaves in contrast to the whit, very striking. Digging down six or eight feet, however, the farmer gen erally comes to a loam which retains the rain and other surface water. This nourishes the plant, which re quires a very light and porous soiL It also needs as hot weather as corn to properly mature. After raising sev eral crops the average peanut field needs to be heavily fertilized with lime or marl, as the plant exhausts the soil. During a fair year the American peanut crop will average nearly 5,000.000 bushels, estimating - 22 pounds to the- bushel. This j but a small proportion of the worli crop, however, which aggregat., fully 550,000,000 pounds. It Is calc') lated that we eat about $10,000,00o worth of peanuts yearly, or 4.00 000 bushels of the nuts, either candy or the original kernels. shucks or shells form also good for pigs, while, as already staf peanut vines are a first-class fod for mules. Very few peanuts are eaten o' the pod in Europe, although 400,000,000 pounds are sent to Britain and the Continent every from Africa and Asia. They are verted into oil and a sort of flo factories at Marseilles and se English cities. A bushel of the ine peanuts Zhelled can be pr j into about a gallon of oil, whi h is substituted for olive and other ble oils very frequently. It sells at rom 60 cents to $1 a gallon, and the meal or flour left after pressure Is used for feeding horses and baked into a kind of bread which has a large sale in GermAny and France. - St. Louis Globe-Democrat. MOUNTAINS OF SALT. A New Industry Which Will Help a Part of Australia. Immense salt gardens have recently been established in the neighborhood of Geelong, along the bay of Stingaree, in Queensland, Australia. The site was, until recently, a barren waste of swamp and samphire scrub, and thought good for nothing whatever. The present proprietors, however, have converted it into a place of interest, employing a large number of men, and turning out a valuable commodity, with the sea water as their raw ma terial. The works, or salt gardens, present the appearance of a chess shallow tanks. About 300 acr up int this -way by mil / or '-paddocks," 4 lizers vary Tr ek is from the sea a and sluice gates to adm it as required. The dividi% . nuts water uniformally v :me- ground, presenting all e sraat iding sible to -the evaporating AEctn :sure sun and wind. The rainiall is A the portant item. The av age is th ly to est at the site chose of any po: the whole coast. asive When the water enters throug most sluice gates it is held in the 1; 1 the paddoc'ks until the evaporation e by its density considerably. it is th into smaller sluices run into or pump e in- on to higher levels, called conde the Here it remains until the evapoi h is iraises the density to that of brini tver- by this time it has lost inanyi le is ities (such as lime) which, as-th roat, ter gets dense, ar-e d' .ositet. rage th'e manager knows by testing v t on hy dromneter that the brine is regt all theo crystallizers, and it Is pumnp ack- into them. By regular pumpnj .lity. brinc is let into and kept in th~e I Ia- taliizers, which have already hahi oeld. bottoms levelled at a uniform Id ex- and as the evaporation goes rery water becomes too dense to ho i kcr salt and deposits It in beautifu~ ious tals on the bottom, forming a, inia sevei-al inches thick. Again usi i fact hydrometer the manager knows pon the water has lost all the salt ' silk give up in a pure state, and whe tch- point is reached the remaining4 is drained off. This residue is the Imother-liquor, and contains m l'he sium, sulphates, chlorides, potast the etc. These impurities would bei hed posited on top of the salt and z act it impure If the mother-liquor ing not drained off at the ight timc. mt. vure salt only is obtained.,. 'ge, The salt is then harvested b) sh< ter. ling it up into cocks, which. give uscrystallizers the appearance fa cir-- tary camp. When the salt hasia are in the cocks it Is barrowed out ien stacks of severalhundredsoftonse owThe stacks are then thatched, to :he vent the rain from dissolving tt an.. The company has also a refinery re. which the salt Is dissolved in' ws en and again evaporated in irong pans he artificial heat.' In this way a beaut bywhite and superior salt is obtainec *rs, grinder-y has also been erected to -and crush the crude crystals ; ito here that the fine tabie salt Is-made t Just as it is. as bay salt, it is u is largely fo' packing meat for export; * preserving meat and rabbits, sht er jcattle: tor glazing bricks and' pott( he 'and other purposes-Philadelp re Record. 1l is Heartburniings About Bonnets. a The distinguished lady writer wh as we ktnow as Mrs. Leith Adams GMrs. tP' Cour-cy Laftfan) has another good Is in diou bus story for her friends. I n usual place on a bus, it may be p is mied, is in front "Yes, lady." said I driver on one of these recent hot da 13'Baby and 'smiler' is a fine pair d o sas you'll see anywheres.. E e ~-mier has a jealous mind-an' t'otL (- da he thought as 'Sabe-'at was V-bt tast~ir than his'n. So when leIft 'cm standing he'd ate hers alf( "'r 'd afore we could get back. Tha ii T--le' all over, that is--but he's GR1 VAST A Yell Land the Conn Gold rapidi else d as in Yo ck C(3 sa circ the It pla "It of B gold on h in th stric with gold. beco depo play roo prin a U ep the 1) ,r the search e pos- tions ofrIndia and Cia )f the their energies to keeping it out of n im- and circulation." low- But India and China are not the o nt on countries which absorb gold witho ever giving it back again. As a mats h the er of fact, in all counfriesth-efe~Ts 'a trgest tendency on the part of coined gold raises to get out of sight and stay hidden. en by This is a subject which has occupied ed up the students of finance in all lardJs, isers. and there have been many analyses of ation the different causes for the disappear and ance of gold. Yet, with the most in npar. genious explanations, the problem al Wa wWays has remained a very nteresting Then one. Our own treasury officials have ith a given it a good deal of study. y for Of the vast amount of gold that is d up annually mined and put into circula the |ton, there always remains a heavy bal crys- ;ance unaccosmted for, even after all ai their low~ance has been made for use in the epth, arts, for loss by friction and for what the would seem a fair amount to charge to I the loss by fire, by being sunk ir deep crys-,; waters and by hoarding. Layer |Our treasuiry officials, according to the j Mr. H-urley, estimate that there is used when in the arts annually, in gilding, in elec will troplating and similar operations which this withdraw gold from possibili'ty of other 'ater |use, probably not less than $10,000, a~lled 000 worth of gold. gne- Then there is the use of solidI gold ium, in jewelry and plate. This in reality de- is not an actual withdrawal of gold, ake for it can be remelted and coined. Still. ere the handling of the metal in the pro hus cess of manufacturing these articles and 'the handling of them after they el- are m ... nre of very eo - the siderable loss from friction, under Ii- which gold, because of its softness, ed loses weight sometimes with startling to rapidity. It is estimated that gold for ch. these purposes is used every year to e- the amount of fully $50.000.000. This, m. with the amount, $10,000,000. used in tat the arts, makes an annual total of r, $60,000,000 in these two directions y alone. Then there is to be added the ul uncertain and smaller, yet by no A means inconsiderable amount of gold lost every year by fire, shipwreck and s carelessness. S"Since the resumption of specie pay-I .d ments in 18''9." says Mr. Hurley, e "treasury officials estimate that $300, r 000,000 in gold has disappeared frm . circulation. The Bank-of England is said to be poorer by $400,0C0000i gold than it was in 1897. France re ports an immense decrease in gold coined and in reserve, and other coun detries have similar stories to tell. An de Inquiry recently set afoot by our er treasury derpartment showed that the - holrhngs in gold of the national banks he on April 26 were $195.769.872. The treasury holdings on May 1 were $426.989,371, the two items aggregating ut $622.759,243. The estimteor May;1 a000 to be accounted for as held by state a and private banks. trust companies. s rf an nsafes, tills. '-ockets and hoards. E of "A large amount of g~old is taken out S a fthe country by trave'els. One tou:'-t a ist agency r'cenes fro Lcpravelrs frm $100,000 to $:50,003~ per year and y .urns it into the Bank of Englind. A in the" a railroad adogs. On seve dhounds have been; .ng down train robbers, but i each case the dogs have been iborrowe ' for the occasion. Wherever tised it i also said, they have proven a succesi as was wvell illustrated in the huntini down of Torn Arkins. the Union Pacifi train robber, in Wyoming a few year ago. Arkins, when he found that h< was pursued by the dogs, killed one o them, but was himself shot an hou: aterward by the sheriff's posse. The plan to be carried out by thi Oregon Railroad and Navigation corn pany in the event of a train on thei: line being held up, is told by John B Lenning, agent of the road at Poca. tello, where two of the pups have beer sent to be raised. Mr Lenning was iz the city today and in an interview re gardling the innovation said: "The Oregon Railroad and Navigatior> company has gone into the blood. houno business, and from now on it will hardly be worth while to hold up any of this company's trains, for the guilty party is more than likely to be caught. "As yet but six pups have been pur chased, but this number will be in creased as rapidly as possible until a sufficient number have been stationed at various points, so that in case they are needed they can be secured quick ly. "Circulars have been issued to all in whose care the dogs have been placed, and to conductors of trains, instruct ing the latter in case of a robbery to having pups. The agents receiving th messages will at once get the dog ready, and as soon as they can be got ten to the scene by special train og otherwise, they will be put on th< scent. In this manner it is believe( that, as the trail will be warm, ther4 will be little danger of the robbers get ing away very far before the houndi are close upon their heels.'' Scared the Surveyors.. A crowd of United States surveyors and allotting agents were recently working in the reservation of the Comanche Indians. surveying, estab lishing cornerstones and getting every thing ready to divide the land in quart er sections. The Indians did not take very kindly to the division and allot ment of their land. aand seeing that the wvhites were scared, they decided to ict. The surveyors were all tender ecet from Washington. Suddenily, ithout warning, their camp was in aded by a yelling, shooting band of 00 indians in war paint and eathers. The surveying party could tot stand the pressure and started out or the settlements along the Texas ine. aind kept up ther flight, pursued y the Indians. until they crossed the tate line. Then tey telegraphed to [ate line. Then they telegraphed to ort Sill and the commander there .t out a large cavalry force to pro e:t the surveyors. The general sup usition is that a lot of cowboys and aung bucks played, a practical joe rgnnaut. ealthier ord converse of ~ ordinary EngF as our reprse investigating the ,the American spe trip to Europe than' On a tour in his nati the English visitor to expenses of living *The Englishman, there! chooses Ireland, which creasing in popularity, continent. He is not es lar just now in France, buth meet with Insult. The reas rious. Not only London but tinent Is crowded with A the French will not insult an man for fear he might turn out. an American. It Is a little humili that, like one of our kings, we owe immunity to the presence of oth Richmonds In the field.-London Chronicle. - Slow, But Sure. George Resoner of Muncie, Ind., re cently received a five-cent check from the treasury department at Washing-. ton, D. C., in payment of an excess settlement made by him fourteen years ago, when he was postmaster at. Wheeling, a small town four miles northwest of this city. At that time Resoner made his usual monthly re port and settlement through the Cini cinnati office. He sent in nyve cents too much once, but did~o recent y,w cheekcame,a e mpanied by a letter of explannan. 'i s was the first tnfe RXesoner -evet knew he had given Uncle Sam too much money. He says the .govern ment will istill be indebted on its ac couints to the Wheeling postoffice, for he does not Intend to cash the check, but will have It framed and hung in his home as a souvenir of Uncle Sam's squareness and honesty.--Cincinnati Enquirer. That Old Dispute. "Well, after all," she said, "you men can't get around one fact when you try to make out that man's woman's intellectual superior. You admit that it W:2s a woman who caused the first man's downfalL. Now, if that doesn't show intellectual superiority on the part of the lady, I'd like to know why. If the man had been above her men tally, how could she have accomplished ~ his overthrow? If he was her superior - why didn't he--" - "Pardon me" the man interrupted, "you haven't started quite far enough back. As in all such cases, there was another fellow around to put her upt It." -t After which she scorned entered into-dconversation witha at the other side of the ro .Clai Times-Herald. Prussia does not permit c~amatnn,~ but does nQt forbid the ' corpses to Bremen, or Thuringia, - hunednt .