The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 21, 1905, Image 3
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,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
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' 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
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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.
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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. . _
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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.
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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
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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
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