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^^^^yjSARTHL! ,ha<* .RJory? gHSflRE^He isn't living now; jSBjnBSjj^lere's wonder in bis story? isn't living now; mgfl&^Besar mounted pretty high. ffl^gHMKlharlcmagne was proud and great; ^Kw^Eharles of England, my, O, my! He moved at a rapid rate! w$?^BThere was French King Louis, too, Who bid nothing much to do IPI^k Baye he gay the seasons throughIll^^ ^hey'rc not living now! FIRST AID TO ? <3?:= ? D-' ' By CARROLL W ES an ornament, the big, impressive clock above the city hall was fully worth its original heavy cost. As a timepiece, however, it was thoroughly exasperating: In spite of all efforts to retard its overhasty nntions, it persisted in keeping ahead of time. The butcher staudIng near the doorway of the little shop occupying the opposite corner always replied when anxious strangers, hurrying trainward, paused to ask if the * clock was right: I "Mine gracious, not Dot clock vas more as two year fast alretty." , Delia Murchison was precisely like the clock, always ahead of time. If she were invited for 3 o'clock tea, she always arrived at half-past 2. If she had an appointment to keep she was Invariably to be found restlessly keepIng it at least twenty minutes too soon. She was small, thin, dark and eager, a vividly enthusiastic young person of fifteen: and just as it was impossible to retard the city hall clock sufficiently, so was it futile to attempt to make an 9?sy, slow-going personage of Delia. In school she was nearly two years ahead of the girls with whom she had graduated from the eighth grade. In the matter of elective studies she had been, during her freshman year, a decidedly grasping student As a sophomore, she had been even more enter?v?.Vlr./*. /tAnoAniiontlr of fhn hA<*innin<T l;i AOIU6 * vvuac^wuM/, ?*v w0-..?? of her career as a junior, she found that there were no more elective studies left to take. She was eager, indeed, to add the regular senior course to what she was already carrying, to pile physics and trigonometry upon geometry, and to cram two years of Latin into one; but to this heroic proposition both teachers and parents very wisely said no. But this unprecedented forwardness in the ^xifiatter of learning left Delia with much unoccupied time on her hands? and everybody knows what happens where there are idle hands. Before her junior year Delia had been too busy to get into mischief; but now. with so little real work to do, she became a disturbing element in what bad hitherto been a strikingly quiet. Well-behaved school. Just before Delia Yia/4 Kooomn o ennlmmnrA n now SlinPf ; Intendent of public schools was appointed. The first thing Mr. Graham did on taking possession of the schools was to make an appeal to th? school board in favor of football for the boys and basketball for the girls. The members of the school board, Ws, however, did not take to this innovation. One declared that he had not played football himself, and that he did not see any good reason why his grandchildren should. The second said that he once possessed a youthful rela, tive who had lost a good front tooth playing football, and that he considered piling wood a much safer exercise for his own stalwart sons. The third, an unathletic bachelor of seventy-two, surprised everybody by siding with the new superintendent, and was very much in favor of both games; but he was only one against two, and at first It looked as if the school would have to get along without either of the popular sports. But one of the obdurate board memL hers had two sons with athletic tendenM^oies, and the other had four equally ^^^BLuHetic grandchildren. All these en||^|Mthuslastic young persons labored strenjii Huously to overcome prejudices; and |||i|Hsoon, 60 far as football was concerned, lS|||Bthe board weakened. ?g||H When it came to basketball, however, i||j|^V there were stronger prejudices to overWmM come. At last the board grudgingly ||lw consented to rent a suitable room for one month, and to endure the game for that brief period of time on trial. WK If all went well, the game should stay; but if it killed Cissy Laurence, as Mrs. Laurence was certain it would, or if it interfered with Doris Green's **Caesar," or Anastasia Mallett's | h aaiuoiu, or jiyrut: nowuius huciviu I history, or Mary Ciark's heart the | game should be banished. ( Of course the girls were overjoyed. Nothing serious happened to any of them during the first month, the hall was engaged for another four weeks, and it began to look very much as if the game had come to stay. Mr. Miller was a stern disciplinarian. During school hours, whenever he was in charge of the assembly room. Delia behaved like a model pupil. In November, however, he was called away suddenly by illness in his family, and upon little Mr. Peasley, the science teacher, devolved the task of keeping sixty-nine restless young persons in order. * Now Mr. Peasley knew all about bugs and blossoms and queer, evilsmelling acids; but he had never learned how to keep even a small classed six or eight pupils from wriggling. twisting and whispering. The task of looking after sixty-nine, with Delia nearly a year ahead of her studies, and consequently dangerously idle, was utterly beyond hi in. "With all her lessons prepared for the coming five days, Delia was In her most mischievous and least admirable frame of mind that Week; and owing |||$. to Mr. Miller's absence, the remaining HbsBb sixty-eight, too, were in a pleasant. ||?^P relaxed and receptive mood. Never ll^v had they been more willing to follow life Delia's reckless lead. N'ear-sightcJ Mr. F&tstej, poor man! |V conld not see the blackboard at the back of the room; so when Delia drew an alluring caricature of liobiu Dudley, suffering with toothache, instead of the. geometrical figure she was supposed to be drawing, ami then pointed k There is much regret tin? By men who live to-day; They want more than they're getting, The men who live to-day; They look across the past and mourn, They bend to labor and are sad; They wish that they might have been born To things such as some ineienta had; But better far, it seems to me, Than having immortality And being dust, it is to be Up and 'round to-day. -? ? S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Ilerald. THE INJURED ?<J_??1> ATSON RANKIN. with Lor ferule to one after another of Robin's graphically pictured features as she gravely explained the diagram that was supposed to be there and was not, Mr. Peasley could not understand why everybody laughed. He even mildly rebuked the giggling sixty-eight for embarrassing Delia during her recitation. After that Delia seemed to take delight in plating endless silly tricks on the unsuspecting little teacher. "Girls,? said she, one afternoon, as they were flocking down the steps, "let's dress up in some ridiculous way to-morrow, just for fun. Let's all curl our hair in Kittle Blaiue curls " "We did that Monday," objected Cissy Laurence, "and I couldn't sleep all night with my hair done up ib rags." "Yes," sympathized Anastasia Mallett. "It was just like trying to slumber on a bushel of doffr-knobs. Xo more curls for this damsel." "Well," agreed Delia, "it was a nuisance. and he didn't notice the curls, anyway. I'll try to think of something really startling by the time basketball's over to-night." That Delia had succeeded was evident the next mornlug. Cissy, leaning on a crutch, limped slowly down the aisle to her seat near the window. Anastasia wore her right arm in a sling, and, not being ambidextrous, made fearful and wonderful work of her written exercises. Doris had each separate finger swathed in a neat, glaringly white bandage. Blooming Rose Mitchel was powdered to a ghastly pallor with corn starch and green chalk. Large strips of black court plaster were cris-erossed on Laura Dale's flawless pink cheek. Adelaide Brown, the doctor's daughter, wore a shade over one eye, and was redolent of iodoform. Ada Gray carried a large bottlQ labeled , painkiller, and a tablespoon. From time to time she sighed deeply, and sadly took carefully measured doses., ( Lucy Mather's cheek bulged alarming- , ly, because the huge crab-apple in her mouth. Mary Clark, who painted ( in water colors, had decorated herself . and several of her classmates with j astonishingly lifelike cuts, scratches, , bruises and black eyes. Delia herself might have been the , sole survivor of a particularly dlsas- ] trous football game. She had pasted black paper over two of her rather . prominent front teeth, and wore one ( eyelid painfully glued down flat under a circle of flesh-colored court plaster. Both elbows were apparently out of Joint, and her limp was ever more distressing than Cissy Laurence's. The naughty girls had mumbled. "Basketball last night." when Mr. Peasley, at first mildly astonished, had asked each apparently suffering young woman In turn if she had met with some accident. Now the gentle science teacher was near-sighted and no disciplinarian, but : he was not stupid. The bruises and < bandages were all exceedingly lifelike, i Dut tne crop was iar too large iu have grown in a single night. It did not seem possible even to unobservlng Mr. Peasley that so many players could ) have been injured in a single, well- I conducted game of basketball. A little later, when he r*ad n note handed to him by a pupil from one of the lower grades, his eyes began to < twinkle behind his spectacles, quite as I if he had stumbled upon some huge 1 joke. 1 At half-past nine, very much to the 1 horror of about thirty-five temporarily I disfigured girls, two members of the I school board, proudly escorting a dis- ; tinguished ont-of-town member of the < legislature, marched into the assembly 1 room. Mr. Peasley, not dreaming tbat I tbe visitors would take this little joko 1 seriously, apologized humorously for the battered appearance of bis pupils. "You see," be explained, without for 1 a moment suspecting that he was seal- i ing the fate of the basketball teams, ] "an unusually vigorous game of basket- : ball has left all my young ladies a little ; the worse for wear." 1 Only a few of the surprised culprits 1 had been able to squirm hastily out ] of their too-well-secured bandages. 1 Tbe visitors bad just left tbe sunshiue < for a schoolroom with half-lowered j shades, ar.d they did not suspect Mr. < Peasley of levity. They remained only a few moments. After leaving the building they discussed. In all seriousness, the game of basketball and its effect on schoolgirls. ! "It must be a fearfully brutal game," , commented the out-of-town visitor. "1 haven't seen it played, but I've heard about if." "Yes," agreed Mr. Black, of the school board, "it's worse than I ever dreamed it could be. From the looks , of that Clark girl's face, I should say she was pounded black and blue from head to heels." "They've only been at it, too." added .Mr. Gorman, "for seven weeks, ami there wasn't a girl there who looked real sound. That Mitchell girl used t# have the reddest cheeks in town." "I noticed," said the distinguished visitor, "that several had bandages over their eyes. Any game that en dangers the eyesight ought certainly to be prohibited." "When I see Mr. Graham this afternoon." promised Mr. Gorman, "I shall tell hi in that this board -will tolerate no more games of basketball!" , This happened on Thursday. By Monday morning the girls, at first rather ashamed of their childish escapade. had almost forgotten it; but remembrance returned very forcibly when Mr. Graham announced, Just be fore noon, that there would be no more basketball. Afterward an excited group clustered round Delia on the school steps. "It's all your fault!" accused Cissy Laurence, somewhat unjustly. "We'd never have thought of such foolishness if you hadn't put us up to It!" "$o," said Doris, "it was Mr. Peasley's little speech that finished us. I don't think for a minute that he realized what he was doing for us, but when he said what he did I said to my self, 'There! That settles our basketball r" "Couldn't we explain to Mr. Graham?" ventured Anastasla, doubtfully. "Or to Mr. Miller, when he gets back?" "Perhaps you'd like to undertake it," offered Mary, with mild sarcasm. "Mr. Graham's just the kind of a man one likes to explain a thing like that to, now isn't he? And fancy telling Mr. Miller!" "Yes," agreed Ada. "I can just see myself explaining that bottle of imitation pain iller!" "And that awfully geneuine iodoform," said Adelaide. "And those bandages," added Doris. "I guess the wisest thing we can do is to hope fervently that Mr. Graham will never learn the horrible truth. We've lost our basketball, and that's the end of it" It was not the end of it, however. The girls missed the sport, and could not refrain from eying Delia reproach- 1 fully whenever the game was men- 1 tioned. Sometimes, indeed, their excessively frank young tongues aided their reproachful eyes. The?, too, Delia had an accusing conscience, and altogether, the winter threatened to be an unhappy one. By the middle of Dc- 1 cember Efelia hated the very name of i basketball. < Oae Saturday morning, when Delia | was telephoning, the lines were crossed, and she overheard Mr. Gor- , man's rather unusual voice asking, "Is that you, Black? There'll be a ! school board meeting at my office at 11 o'clock. Yes, to-day." Delia, her small, dark countenance 1 alight with sudden hope, realized that i a glorious opportunity was waiting to be seized. It seemed fairly provldon- ( tial. The girls had not thought of appealing to the board. Mr. Gorman's office was just a little ' fenced-off corner of his dry goods store. ! Delia appeared therein at half-past 10, < to find the place vacant. 1 Shortly after the appointed' hour, ( however, the schooP board arrived in a j body. Delia, very crimson with guilt and speaking with almost feverish baste, made full confession. The elderly school board tried man- 1 fully to maintain its dignity?and ] failed. Delia left its members with ( mirthful tears standing in their eyes, j for, some fifty years previously, they, j loo, had played pranks. 1 The board had made no promises, but Delia felt distinctly hopeful. She was abliged, however, to live in suspense until 2 o'clock the following Monday, when Mr. Miller, his grave eyes fixed 1 luizzically on Delia, who was turniug c red and white by turns, rose, cleared I Ills throat and prepared to make a little J speech. ^ "Young ladies," he announced, "all j who consider it safe to play basketball j may do so after school this afternoon in the usual place. The board has withdrawn its objections."?Youth's c Companion. ? J The new petroleum fuel reported j from Switzerland is in the form of . hrirmptfos containing four parts of , petroleum to one part of secret material. At fifteen cents per gallon for J oil, the cost of each briquette was about two and one-fourth cents, but ? on a large scale would be much less. > Four briquettes under a boiler having a < heating surface of 460 square feet ig- ( nited the coal in fifteen minutes, the c briquettes themselves burning forty- i five minutes. ^ The rare peculiarity known as haemophily, or "bleeding sickness," has been brought to notice anew by Dr. Boehme, a German physician. It continues for generation after generation t In certain families, and is character- t [zed by an extraordinary tendency to c hemorrhage, making the extraction of j l tooth a dangerous operation, while t ?vcn a pin-prick mr.y lead to severe or t fatal bleeding. The cause seems to cx- t ist in an unexplained failure of the c blood to coagulate like normal blood. [ The loss of energy in generating electricity and converting it into heat makes electric heating very costly for most purposes. In electric edbking. t however, this waste is offset by a greatly increased efficiency of applica- , tion. A recent determination shows ' that only two per cent, of the total s heat of the ordinary kitchen range is a nierl fnr ooo'riny the food, twelve Per | t cent. being wasted in obtaining a slow- i inp fire, seventy per cent, goinp up the s chimney and sixteen per cent, being s radiated into the room. The curious dread of cats that has 1 been studied for three years by Dr. r R. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, may r open up a wide held for investigation. An advertiS9ineut brought 139 replies from different countries?Including Germany, Egypt and India?and about two-thirds of them mentioned cases of fear of cats, the others referring to * asthma from eats. This asthma, due r to odors, may be excited by the pres- i ence of horses, dogs, cats or sheep, or even of roses, apples, oranges or ban- A arias. Identified bj Tattoo Mark*. A deserter from the British army j was identified recently oy tne io.jow ins tattoo marks upon liim: A cross on the left forearm, with the words "In loving memory"; a jockey with two flags. Buffalo Bill, a heart on the back of the left hand, a horseshoe with crossed whips, a cross with the figure 1 of a soldier leaning on It. a pierced ] heart, a heart on the right forearm. ' a heart with clasped hands, a soldier i and a girl. < The armies of continental countries are the first branch of the service* , ^The British Empire is sixteen times larger than all the Erencfe dominions* ' vesselHHOU^ American Fishermen Trespassing in Cannadian Territory HIT THIRTEEN TIMES IN FLEEING American Fishing Steamer Has Exciting Experience With Cannadian Cruiser Vigilant. Erie, Pa., Special.?The fourth ol the fish tug incidents of the past week took place in mid-Lake Erie when the Canadian cruiser Vigilant riddled the big steam tug Harry G. Barnhart with small shells from the rifle on the patrol boat. Captain Nick Fassel, of the tug, admitted after he escaped that the Vigilant could have sent her to the bottom if Captain Dunn had so desired. They ran more than eight miles under full head before they crossed the boundary line and escaped from the Canadians. More than thirty shots struck the vessel, and of those 15 of the small shells landed with telling effect on the upper parts, so that the boat careened to one side with the mass of wreckage when she came into port. Having-been used formerly for a pleasure steamer, the Barnhurst is Df a large size and well fitted wth 3team equipment. The fireman, M^; nus Johnson, failed in the hold from Dver-exertion is keeping the steamer going ahead. He was reported killed, but revived after reaching shore. The fishermen were cut in the fact by splinters shot away by the bullets. The Barnhurst, according to Cap.ain Fassel, was about five miles over the line drawing nets when the Vigilant ippeared. The other Erie tugs, the Mma, Valiant and the Boyd, were Moser to the line and ran away when :he chase started. Captain Dunn orlered the Barnhurst to stop, but Instead of doing so, Captain Fassel put pn full steam and started for the line. He took a southwesterly direction and :ould not bo headed off by the Vigiant. It has become Quite the custom for :he Erie fishermen to cross the line regardless of strict orders from the companies employing them, and having exiting brushes with the Vigilance. They icver think of surrender when there j a chance to run away. The Barnhurst lost a large quantity of nets. Taft Leaves For Home. Yokahama, By Cable?Secretary oL iVar Taft and party sailed at 3:0W >'clock Sunday afternoon for San "Yancisco on the steamer Korea, amid lapanese enthusiasm. A reception vas given at tho American consulate )y Japanese merchants. Before sailng Secretary Taft said he thought he reports of the Japanese anti-peace lemonstrations had been greatly exiggerated in America. He and his )arty had traveled all through Japan ?* 1? -1 r\n r>f nnv anti LLitl IlOU 1UUUU uw www w oreign feeling. While prominent Americans had been involved in a Tokio nob, he thought it was because the Ymerican party was caught in the nob, and not because they v;ere Amercans. Other churches besides Amercan churches had been burned. There was several special reasons in ;ach case, but no general anti-foreign eeling was responsible. Secretary Taft said that he had eximined the Chinese boycott closely. The Chinese, he said, wanted American goods, and having already lost $15,100,000 by the boycott, were finding )ut that they were cutting off their loses to spite their faces. Miss Alice Roosevelt will return iome on the steamer Siberia. The local situation continues quiet. Record Entry Clossd. Lexington, Ky., Special.?The entry 1st, which has closed, was received >y the Kentucky Breeders' Associaion for the big Lexington meeting >f October 3 to 14, includes 374 lorses for 20 purses. These added to hose kept in the stakes, brings the otal entry up to 628 horses and breaks he record for entries on American rotting tracks, established by the .exingtcn Association in 1898 by near- ! y 100 animals. All Now Quiet. Christiana, By Cable.?Peace be- j ween Sweden and Norway being astired, a quiet feeling prevails here, s'ews flrom Karlstadt, however, is till awaited with the keenest interest, tnd there is anxiety to learn the deails of the compromise. The press s unanimous in hoping for a speedy ettlement of the questions. There is orae misgivings entertained that >eace may have been bought too eary, but all the newspapers express elief that peace has been secured, trovlding it is on an enduring basis. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Piconning, Mich.. Special.?By t' 'xplosion of an alleged defective 1 t ;r in the stave "mill of Edward lings here five men were killed and 8 >r 10 injured. Thirty men were at work in the mill vhf>n iho Avnlrvdnn neeurred. The eon mssion was so terrible that windows verc broken a mile from the mill. The jodies of the five men killed were 'oady mangled. None of the Injured are :Lought to be dangerously injured. Prominent Man Dead. Lynchburg, Va., Special.?N. R. Bownan, president of the Lynchburg comnon council, and a prominent business nan, died Sunday morning, after a long illness. He was a Confederate soldier and for some time was president of the Lynchburg tobacco trade. At his death he was interested in a real estate company. He was 69 years old and is survlvder by his widow and seven children, all of whom reside here except the eldest, Walker Bowman, of New York City. m irv imsi Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises* Athens, Ga. The Aberdeen Linen Mill is now in operation. For the past several months this mill has been under construction. Asbiuy H. Hodgson is President, W. T. Bryan is secretary and among the most prominent stockholders are J. Y. Caritkers and Billups Phinizy. General Manager Tibbetts is also a leading stockholder. The looms are now being operated for the first time and some of the finished product has been turned out. The Aberdeen Mill is i one of the few of its kind in the South.. Its product will be entirely toweling. Nothing else will be manufactured there, and already the demand for the product of this estab- 1 lishment is heavy. A splendid grade of toweling will be maufactured. The new mill building is large and com- ' modious. The capacity of the Southern Man- , ufacturing Company will be doubled at an early date. This has been con- i templated for some time and the im- w, provement simply awaited the com- . pletion of the Aberdeen Linen Mill. 1 That has been accomplished and the doubling of the equipment of the ( Southern Manufacturing Company's plant will now be taken in hand. An- 1 other large mill building will be erect- ( ed, adjoining the present plant, and the machinery for this building is already. The company has recently built a large number of operatives' houses and has others yet to be built. 1 In the vicinity of this plant a regular little town has sprung up. ' Atlanta, Ga. William F. Harbour, of Atlanta. ha% invented and received letters j of patent upon a cotton bar- * vester which he feels confident will solve the cotton picking problem. Ac- ' cording to the patent rights issued to Mr. Harbour, his machine is described as improved pneumatic cotton ' harvester. Mr. Harbour's cotton harvester works #11 the principle of pneumatic suction, and is so constructed J and adjusted as to separate the lint | cotton from the leaves and other for? * i it l eign matter wmcn may ue gainereu with it. The machine is made to be 1 hauled across a cotton field by a pair ^ of mules, and can be operated, it is ( stated, by one man and a boy. Mr. 1 Harbour states that his machine will pick all the cotton open in a five-acre 1 field in one day. A demonstration of 1 these facts will prove Mr. Harbour's 1 machine to the South what the reaper and binder is to the great grain growoAAi-inno nf tin* wrtcf Thp nrinpi jle of Mr. Harbour's machine is vast- ' ly different from that of the other machines which have been constructed with the same end in view, but which have practically proven failures. The principle of other machines has been either' rotating fingers or revolving stems. Winston-Salem?The Pioneer Manufacturing Co. with $25,000 authorized and $4,950 paid in capital stock has been granted a charter. The incorporators are: L. W. Brown and Charles C. Vaughan, of Winston-Salem, and Albert M. Brown of St. Louis, Mo. Its objects are the manufacturing and sale of cotton, woolen, silk, and linen garments, and the carrying on of a tailoring establishment and a laundry. Salisbury?It is planned to build a cotton factory of large size in con- s nection with the development of 3,000 c ' ? ? ? ? -? ? ?> linm V \r> uurse jjuvvci m mc uvunm .. a ??.... river below here. The water power i electric project is being furthered by i the Southern Yadkin Development c Co., which is composed of Philadel- \ phia and North Carolina capitalist. I Bandy & Terrell, of Greensboro, N. t C., are consulting engineers. a t Textile Notes. v Work, is going on with a rush at the t Gray Mill, at Gastonia. The one- t story portion is now ready for the * roof. The big electric generator has come and the machinists are now installing it. This will be something new in mill mechanics. It will be e driven by a direct connected steam n turbihe engine making thousands of v revolutions a minute. A number of a busy. They are finishing some goods 1' made by northern mills, and also cloth made in Georgia; the latter for shipment to China and South Ameri- u ca. J. W. Lidau is agent. on... cintimm riiftnn Oil AT ill Com- ? iUC u pany, at Pittsboro, taking advantage >f the summer idleness, is overhauling t! us mill and making several additions ' e o the machinery. The plant is an e excellent one, built by the D. A. h Tompkins Company, of Charlotte, and will be ready to start the coming season on a large scale, as soon cs the i cotton seed begin to come in. The je prospects ere for a steady run at full * capacity. j Fire broke out last week in the dry t house of the Minola Cotton Mills, at p Gibsonvillc, 12 miles east of Greens- > horo and destroyed sev> ral thousand dollars worth of proj>erCy The mills are equipped "vith a splei did waterworks plant and this sayrf the complete destruction of the Enterprise. A v large quantity of cotton was ruined p and the building and machinery great- *' ly damaged before the flames could be It is rumored that the Eldorado Cot- n ton Mills at Millegeville, N. C., will c double the r capacity, which is 5,000 t spindles. I i ANTS THAT FARM; ^ Di| m 8 erf en of Underground Chamber* la Which to Store Grain* Briefly, the interior formicary was found to be a series of large chambers arranged In irregular stories like the Roman catacombs, and connected at many points by tubular galleries leading to the central gate. Some of these cavos were used as nurseries for eggs, larvae and antlings; some were occupied by the winged queenlings and males, and by the fertile queens. But many were granaries. Nearest the top were unhusked seeds, such as the ants had been seen gathering. Farther down were storerooms of naked seeds, and these were identified as ant-rice, needle grass, buffalo grass and various oily seeds or nuts, such as had been taken from the workers ii; the field, and whose shells had been found in the kitchen midden. The demonstration was complete, as far as field observation could go. I gonomyrmex barbatus is a true harvester, a veritable "Agricultural ant!" Tlie excavation was necessarily slow, since the purpose was to study the interior architecture and collect material. This required to be done piecemeal and most carefully, constantly guarding against the falling in of the soil. Only a few feet in depth were, therefore, accomplished by a deep cutting, the galleries and chambers were traced to a depth of fifteen feet One may imagine the enormous work involved in carrying the formicary to such a depth, or even much less, beneath .the space covered by a ^le ten or twelve feet in diameter. rThe strain of such use upon the ants' working tools?the mandibles?mast be great. How does it affect them? An interesting fact developed ffom examiuations of the mandibles of many specimens. The normal jaw has well defined teeth, sharp and hard. The jaws of workers shdwed all stages of abrasion, from a pointless- long tooth to absolute toothlessaess.?H. C.^McCook, in Harper's Magazine. uinone or uiicnriMl VV WMV?I wr VVIMVW * The truly sublime Is always easy, md always natural?Burke. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.?Bossuet. He who speaks well of others speaks well of himself.?General Phil Sheridan. True religion is a close personal friendship with the Lord Jesus.? A. Murray. In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the [deal man.?Herbert Spencer. Let us not live fretful lives. God will never 6tretch the line of our duty beyond the measure of our strength. Life is springtime, and the gathering years are lengthening days, callng to constant endeavor.?Rev W. D. iVilliams. M no ns snmathini? hard. ind we shrink from It. Xo one is a arge man if lie does not feel that his luty is larger than himself.?Dr. Alexinder McKenzie. If only that we might realize that :he good God loves us more thau we ove Him?more than we love ourlelves!?Joseph Roux. ~ * The Chlnete Coolie. Lieutenant-Colonel Ma Infield, of the British army, writes: "My #?mi ation for the Chinese cooli? is unxiunded; there is no man in the world vho does the same patient, laborious vork so cheerfully. Farther on, when ve capie to the mountainous waterihed country, where only load backs ire possible, I became still more conIrmed in this opinion. Often after a ong and weary day with the surveyors, in the course of which we vould have climbed up from 5000 to JOOO feet, and made several such as;ents and descents, having, perhaps, )een on the move from 5 in the mornng until dusk, we would come in, ather inclined to pat ourselves on the >nek at the thought of what a hard lay's work we had successfully acjomplished, only to find that the Chilese coolies had made as good time, iach man having covered nearly as uuch ground with a load of 100 >ounds on his back. This done on a ew bowls of rice and bean curd, for /SO t wage of less than mnepence uo :ents). "Then, on their arrival, one might lave thought that the coolies woukl uxve been glad to rest; but If, as was >ften the ease where accommodation vas limited, I slept in the same house, found to my annoyance that to reIre to bed was far from their thoughts nd that my sleep was often disturbed >y the noise they made as they sat ip gambling long past midnight and et they would be again on the road lefore G in the morning, having risen o make up their loads and get their ood cooked before G o'clock."?Chicago Jews. Style In TVhlsker*. The most remarkable whisker novlty is to be found in France. Frenchmen for the last six months have been rearing box beards. A box beard is s square as a piece of carpentry, nine aches Jong, five inches wide, two nehei deep, every corner sharp and rue and all the surfaces, upper and nder and side, smoothed as if with a lane. The box beard is neat and ueer. It was introduced by the King f the Belgians. The English have a new mustachehe butterfly. The butterfly is, not more han two inches long. It is just a feathry little thing under the nose, with nds turning upward and inward. It as been adopted by all the young riuy officers. In Italy the patch is being worn. - " v.?o i,ia oiiin shnved smooth I1C 11U11UU il??o liio xcept for a tiny circular patch the ize of u shirt stud, and in this patch e grows a little tuft a half inch long, t is as though the Italian has a mole here, but he has no mole really. The atch is just his coquetry.?New York (ews. An American Countess. In Parts, the Countess Boni de Casellaue (one of Jay Gould's daughters), rho continues to lavish money on all ossible objects, is said to display more ewels than the old noble families approve. At a soiree she wore for the irst time a collar of pearls so large nd so beautiful as to make universal omment, as it was thought to be in ad tasta, " PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. . _ ?- t Changes at Clemson. There will be some new faces is the faculty of Clemson College this < ^ year. Dr. J. N. Harper of Kentucky is the new director of the agricutlural department; Prof. C. L. Newman, recently of the University ,of Arkansas, is associate professor of agriculture, Prof. John Mitchells of Michigan is associate professor of rfnimal hubandry and dairying; Prof. James McCiure of Nashville is instructor in physics; Mr. S. T. Howard has been promoted to be assistant professor of machine work; Mr. John W. Gantt has been promoted from the position of instructor in drawing to be assistant professor of forge and foundry; Mr. C. G. Timberlake, graduate of Miller school, Va., recently of the Welsh Neck High School, is instruc tor in drawing; Mr. J. E. Hunter has been promoted to be assistant professor of mathematics, and Mr. Burr H. Johnston has been appointed instructor of mathematics in the subfreshman class. There are also some minor changes among the working foremen of the departments. The Bethel Presbytery. * J Heath Springs, Special.?Quite a number of preachers and delagete?s are in attendence on the Bethel presbytery, which convened here Tuesday at 3 o'clock p. m. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Lin gle of Rock Hill. Rev. E. E. Gillespie of Yorkville preached Tuesday evening and addressed the congregation on the cause of missions Wednesday morning, after, which address some business affairs were discussed. Rev. Will Hafner of Chester occupied the pulpit Wednesday evening. Three services a day are held, preaching morning and evening, business affairs in the afternoon. Business affairs having been disposed of an adjournment was called. New Mill For Gaffney. Gaffney, Special.?The Globe Manufacturing company is the name of a new mill for Gaffney. It will manufacture cotton goods. They expect to be in operation by December 1st, 1905. The contract for large additions to the supply mill, where it will be located, has been let to the Gaffney Brick company. Houses for the operatives will be erected at once. The stockholders had a meeting recently, at which the following were elected directors: William M. Webster, W. 0. Lipscomb, W. C. Carpenter, J. A. Carroll, W. H. Smith, D. C. Ross, R. L. Spears, H. D. Wheat, J. N. Lipscomb and J. C. Jefferies. The directors elected W. M. Webster president and treasurer and W. 0. Lipscomb vice president. uenneusviue s uia. Bennetsville, Special.?A final meet- ' ing was held here to complete Bennettsville's bid for the Presbyterian College of South Carolina. A happy sensation was sprung by the reading of a telegram from Mrs.Harriet Murchison Beckwith, offering $20,000 in cash and 12 acres of land as an inducement towards the college locating in Bennettsville. "I do this," she said, "in memory of my beloved son, John D. Murchison, Jr., who died 16 years ago today, and in memory of ' my beloved daughter, Elanor Murchison. '' V* Palmetto Items. Assistant Attorney General W. H. Townsend went to Wilmington Friday afternoon to make argument in the Latta case. This is the question of stopping the Atlantic Coast Line's fast trains at Latta. Dr. W. J. Mcgee has discovered how storms are made in the great Ameri can desert in Arizona, known as the "storm-breeding belt." * Railway Wants More Land. Roanoke, Special.?The city was offered $40,000 for the Gish farm of 10 acres, purchased about two years ago for $10,000 for park purposes. The offer was made by the Tidewater Railway Company, which recently purchased the fair gronds of 30 acres, lying half a mile east of the Gish farm. The offer must be acepted within 10 days or it will be withdrawn. Roanoke business men say it indicates that Roanoke is to have the shops of the new road. A Fortune in England. Florence, Special.?Mrs. William Bowie has prone to England to attend to the settlement of an estate in which she is very much interested. By the loss by death of a sister she inherits a fortune of about $40,000. The fortune was the property of two maiden aunts who willed it to the one of their nieces who should marry last. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Good housekeeping is surely an art, for besides seeing that every room in the house Is perfection in every detail, window curtains always fresh - n and clean, floors spouess, UUI ? I of dust anywhere, everything at hand* for the toilet?the service must be faultless, your maid In a neat black gown, white apron, stiff white collar and cuffs, her manner deferential when she open3 the door for yon or waits upon you at the table. The cooking, of course, has to be delicious, the kind that melts In your mouth, the washing must belunques* tionable, and the Ironing & iroture In Itself. All these things and many more are simply parts of good housekeeping,, and If a woman 13 able to carry on and control a hcfcse of her own In the right kind of way. her work Is Inferior to no man's and she deserves Just as much credit and oftentimes a great deal more.?American Cultivator. /- ' i ' ' it ,