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'S. / MORTAL PAGi T APRIL 8, I90i &>e SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Pubti/hing Co Buslnefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA. GEORGIA son, Maxim and Bell. Certain it is, that the dogma of intensive cultivation can be applied to thel mind as well as to the earth, and if it were pursued as conscientiously in the first instance as it is In *the last, little time would elapse before we proMuced a race of such mental vigor as would eclipsl the golden ages either outlined in history or bodi*? in the fevered fancy of the romanticist. A Genius is a sublime thjAg in its way, but hard l^id intelligent work is hardlyless effectual in the loihg run. Subfcrlptlon Terms : To those who subscribe to Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEII Nature, the Mother, Sweet heart and Friend Genius and Hard Work Necetsaiy to inventions From The Chicago Tribune. Eztored at the (Mulct Atlanta, Ga..ai teetaMut Mail matter .March 13,1901 tk« Sunny South u the oldest meekly neper ef Literature, Romance, FaA and yiAlon in the South & It is new re* Sored to the original chape and mill be published at fere merty every meek 4* Founded In IS74 It gram untU IOft mhen, at a monthly, itm form mam changed am an eaperU meat & It nom returns to Itm original formation am a meekly mlth renemed vigor and the Intention of ecllpet tag Urn moot promising period In the past. Some of the Lessons of Genius LSEWHERE»on this page The Sunny £ South reproduces a most-interesting article from The Chicago Tribune, summarizing succinctly the manner in which many of the most promi nent inventors of this age made their start in life. It would be com paratively an easy task to present other instances just as convincing and entertaining, but for the pur pose of illustrating our points the ones given are ample, more especial ly since they are typical of the methods pursued by what may be called commercial genius in contra distinction to that of purely literary or artistic trend. The four characteristics which stand out with bas-relief effect in the success of Edison, Max im and'Bell are: i. Never-sleeping energy. 2. Ability to make the most out of the material at hand. 3. Grasping of the slightest shade of an op portunity. 4. A genuine devotion to the subject pursued. In minor details these three men differ, as might be expected of their diverse tempera ments. but in the main the traits we have men tioned apply to all of them. Allowance must be made, of course, foi the equation of unusual abil ity, but even with their superlative gifts they would have accomplished little or practically nothing had they not brought into play those characteristics which are common to all men, by inheritance or cultivation. Which brings us to the point we wish broadly to stress; that since genius finds it neces sary to employ the toqls, let us say even of medi ocrity, that mediocrity, as well as the lower order e# ability^ may gain much by reversing the pro cedure and following in the footsteps of genius as regards the steadfast application of those princi ples which we all hold in common. Among the men of this day, the tendency to at tribute success to the possession of superlative in telligence or luck is entirely too prevalent. Wf see a man mount by what appears to be easy : tages, to the top round of the ladder, and we airily declaim that his dazzling achievements are due either to genius or some other quality for which lie is not personally entitled to credit. If we could only get behind the scenes of that man’s life, we would doubtless discover that aside from the brain tpecially developed in one direction, that he is very- like other mortals. Another and a more vital dis covery would be that he has worked and studied about five times as hard as the average man and that he has encountered more than the individual share of setbacks and disappointments. How many men and women make the most of the germs of ability with which they started life? On the other hand, what percentage drift along in the channels of the least resistance, happy if they have accomplished a bare living, listless, easily dis couraged, void of ideals or cherishing inferior ones at the best? These are the factors which we be lieve enter most frequently and disastrously into the marring of prospects and the making of unhap piness. Anyone may discourse glibly about luck, unappreciative employers, adversity, ill-health, etc., and lay the responsibility for failure on these con venient scape-goats. Oftener than otherwise the fault lies within the failure himself, but his self- love prevents him from making the acknowledg ment. Some one has remarked sagely, that “for the want of a little courage, much genius is lost to the world.” We should like to amend that statement by inserting that for the want of courage, energy, application, and self-sacrifice, much genius and tal ent has been lost to the world. It is bewildering to consider how the respective tecords of successes and failures would have been radically altered and how much more marked would have been the progress of humanity, had all men and women employed to the utmost the com monplace qualities so lavishly inanifested by Edi- AGES and poets and orators' and ro mancers have, for a good many cen turies, concurred in conferring a somewhat nebulous distinction on Nature—that of the universal moth er. In the abstract the idea is a beautiful one and it carries an ap preciable clement of verity. The ele ments which play such radical roles in natural phenomena are parts of our bodies, and others similarly in- terchangeabe perform the vital function of sustaining our lives. The farther away we get from Na ture in our daily physical routine, the more unhappy and dissatisfied and ineffectual we become, as a rule, and the only thorough and lasting cure- is found in a return to conditions near- ly approaching the primeval. At the last, when the animating infuence has left the body, the latter is hidden in the earth and the vehicle with which we lived, through whose co-operation we accomplished joys and sins and triumphs and defeats* is disin tegrated in order that its component parts may once more be redistributed -to the universe to per form their functions in perhaps some remote sense. The common mold, of which we are all fashioned, sets loose in us similar tastes, similar ambitions and virtues and weaknesses and makes tfs brethren in the larger meaning, more truly it sometimes hap pens than those actually of the same blood. But did it ever occur to you that Nature is more than a mother. That her influence over our lives is by no means confined to the maternal phase. Is it not true that just as often she is sister, brother, hus band, wife and sweetheart—the latter, probably, more frequently than any of the preceding rela tions ? - Let the young man or the young woman go out into the freshly tinted fields of spring, the air, im pregnated with the very essence of new life and strong, pulsing hope and the indefinable intoxica tion of resurrection. Then let them ask themselves honestly if the influence Nature exerts at this time, is that of the placid, undisturbing loye and guardian, ship of the mother. It is more analogous to the clinging exuberant, strangely lulling and excit ing relationship of that precious time of life, when I^E development of tbe faculty of “seeing that which others overlook,” which makes the success ful" inventor, took a com mercial direction with Thomas Edison before it did a mechanical one. In his first venture showed the unerring in stinct for business, which has given him the reputa tion of being. »above "werything else, a “com mercial inventor.” He was 14 when he started in business for himself as a news vender on the Grand Trunk road. This was during the civil war. when excitement for news re garding the battle of Pittsburg landing was at its height. "Tom," as he was call ed, persuaded the editor of The Detroit Free Press to let him have a thousand copies of the paper as stock in trade, tc be paid for'on realization, and to \be sold from the cars. He conceived the ingenious plan of getting his news bul letins printed on official blackboard along the line prior to the arrival of the trains bearing him and his papers. Mr. Edison thus describes the success of his first venture: 'AXl Utica, the first station out from Detroit, I usually sold two papers for 5 cents each. As we approached the sta tion on this day I put my head out of the window and thought I saw an ex cursion party. I had half a- dozen papers in my hand, and seeing that the crowd began to gesticulate ar.d shout when they saw me, I guessed that it was pa pers they wanted, and rushed back, grab bed' an armful, and when I reached the platform sold forty. Mount Clement was the - next' station. When it' came in sight I thought there was a riot. The plat form was crowded with a howling mob, and when the tpnes became intelligible 1 realized that they were after news of Pittsburg Landing. I raised the price of papers to iQ- cents and sold fifty where 1 had never before sold more than a dozen. “As other stations were reached, these | scenes were repeated, • but the climax came when we got to "Port Huron. The. station there was a mile from the town, i "When the train stopped I shouldered my bundle -and "started : for the city. When ; I got less than half way I met a crowd! hurrying toward the station. I thought j 1 knew -what they were after, so as I got In front of a church, where a prayer i meeting was being held, I raised the! price;to 25 cents a copy, and commenced! to take in-a young for me. In two min-j utes the prayer meeting was adjourned the.members came rushing out, and the coin was produced-in a way that , indi cated that, the beacons hadn’t passed the plate before I came along. " It was during this part of his life that Edison savesra. child -from death tinder the car wheels, and the father, who had no money to reward? him,'offered to teach him tcIegraWiy. BdfSon gladly accepted, and he becamean operator when he was Along' the Highway By FRJWK. L. ST AN TO* AT LOVE’S GATE. I. In the darkness at Love’s gate, Stil for me, O dear one, wait! Though afar my lips seem dumb, O’er the world to thee I come! Let mg see Love’s beacon-light At Love’s gates, dear, in the night! II. In the darkness at Love's gate, For Love’s lonely wanderer wait! For the soul by tempest tossed On the seas hwose stars are lost! Dear, though still my lips seem dumb, O’er Love’s world to Love I come! A BOY’S LONGING. I. Hear the school-bell just a-ringin’ ’Crost the meadows green to me: Wish I was that bird a-singin’ In the old mulberry tree! II. Pathway to the riven turnin’. Where tbe wind-shook blossoms fall:— Got to study bard for learnin’, When the mockin’bird knows all! PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY. Lofe’s all too short for sighin’,—but. there’d be lots more growling if Prov-1 THE LONG WAY. Way seems long. An’ the tide polls strong; But—time an’ tide to the mornln’ song! An’ a dream of light ’Neath a heaven all bright, ’Till the restful shadows sigh, “Good night! “ &/>e Busy W< Mark Twain says he was “the first one to use a typewriting machine.” (Just as if Mark needed any more fame than he has already!) RURAL COMPASSION. “How dare you cage that poor lit tle mockingbird?” said the stem partnt. “Well, I just thought—” “Take him out o’ that cage this instant, sir, an’—see if you can’t sell him to somebody for $10.” SWEET DAY, REMAIN! L Sweet Day, remain! Life hath so much of pitiless, sharp pain— Such bitter lees in all the cups we drain— Sweet Day, remain! Scattering, but insignificant ei Inents, between Russians and ,JM in Manchuria have marked the pr of the war for the last week. As anticipation of a cessation of hoatM the two armies have been doing Util nothing. Togo's fleet is reported to in the China sea, near the southern* portion of the Philippine group. Roj- vensky, commanding the Russian squ ron, has, it is said, been commanded tbe czar to proceed and give battle the Japs. It appears that Nicholpa centered on a naval victory as a rorjo. hope, although the experts do not ho out appreciable hope of a Russian t* umph. The alleged peace negotiations are ej er hanging fire or progressing in trj secret fashion. Little that Is deity has been made public concerning thj and the status appears to be unchan; from that of last week, if indeed, j' v A not less forward now than then. II. idence deprived us of that luxury. Looking for the hills of Happiness, we forget that she has ten acres in the valley. Many of us who can pull with Sor row can’t stand one rollicking hands- round with Joy. SOWING AND REAPING. Like to be off yonder, Whtre pleasant pathways lead; But you cannot hope for harvest If you never sow the seed. The fields invite my labor, While the winds would sing to sleep; The vleyard’s voice is calling: “It’s the sower who shall reap!” 15 and an lnvehtor-sthen he was 17. WINS BY FIRST INVENTION. It seems khigular that a mere chiidd should have detected the weak spot In the system aspracticed in those days the two sexes first waken fully to the significance of that which lies before them. Even the high walls f nd with ^^ al , ‘ rainSns % “ per ? and shut-in streets of the city cannot wholly bar this oddly sweet influence, and few men and wo men there are, with the slightest reminiscent flicker of youth in them, iipmune from its subtle thrall. Thus it happens that the tendency to write and ] tion to stumbling block to its Extension- and development of^tlie sys'texhv This was his first great workjf the invention of a per fect automatiiijfipeater, and its success ful operafiowCHw. otlce attracted atten- act and speak poetry* of the more erotic parent almost universally at this seascM 0 But Nature has its other moods, just* until he So I leave the pleasant pathways For the stern and rigged soil, And find a rich rewarding In the blessedness of toil! Sweet Day, remain! Wt dream so many life-dreams that are vain— From eyes, heaven-lifted, fall sad tears, like rain— Sweet Day, remain! THE SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR. “My new book has gone into the tenth edition!” “That’s good! You’re sure dt im mortality.” “No, no! What I’m after is-enough cash to embark in the real estate business of the present time!” heo. p dam ''hoy has acc*J he' chairmanshF he new 1st Ml anal commission ' Chicago nianp/ * believed ‘ by rienda to be 1 est kind of lan the presil ould have sele<3 Ir. Shonts Is pf lent of the CU Leaf railroad, a understood that? Iheo. P. Shonts made It a condition of acceptance thi he should have a free hand in his wor and this was Immediately consented ' by the president. Mr. Shonts was bo in Crawford county. Pennsylvania, li 1855, and has been In the railroad bus>- ness since 1881. He has been succe., sively general superintendent, general- manager and president of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western railroad. He is a graduate of Monmouth college, Illi nois and a brother In law of John Drake. LOG CABIN SAYINGS The good die young; hut the gray headed sinners are too scared to die at all. No matter how rough the road to heaven is, you’ll feel all the more like ; enjoying your rest when you get there. The bees make the honey; man robs the bees, and then thanks God he’s having such a sweet time of it! DELCASSE, chief oi he French foreig ■trice, is report :d to have be* ** equested by Russia • Southern Naoiin and Its Rich Commercial Possibilities IN TWO PARTS—PART II. By HELEN HARCOURT. Writon for CJbe fanny Soul h | arrived at the top the load at sand thus I borne by the chain Is dumped off. while o act as mediator in he peace negotia- :ions with Japan. Delcasse is said to lave suggested the -ooperation of Lord Lansdowne of Eng land as an essential to success. From ^ M. Delcmsmo other sources the statement is made that peace will bo negotiated directly between the two countries concerned, and that no media- t tor will be used. President Roosevelt has. It is said, indirectly signified his willingness to exert his good offices along the lines of peace, hut has receiv- v ed no definite assurance that they would-" ~ be acceptable. as tender, as wistful jks this one, but—infinitely more When he Wl platonic. There are! times when we find ourselves truly in communion with her more as with a thoughtful, wiser brother or sister than in any more intimate connection. There are times when the soothing, confidential, sympathetic touch is that of the older, experienced son or daughter of a mutual mother, to whose superior knowledge and understanding we may pour out our joys and ourj griefs with a sure meed of reciprocal congratula tion or solace. Then, again, Nature comes to the thoughtful, sensitive man or woman as that curious alter ego, the other self, the complement to one’s own un rounded disposition, bringing that restful complete ness which, in human counterpart, finds its only perfect parallel in the unruffled intimacy and un faltering trust of the one man and the one woman. At such a time the still voices of that mysterious entity which abides everywhere and nowhere, seem to recall the sacred,.immeasureable^alm qf conge nial and well-mated spirits. More versatile than this even is Nature in her thousand and one manifestations. Go forth now at this season when she is dressed in the fresh gar- aC ' ' ments of the new yeaW follow her course on through the maturing beauties of summer and later in the auiumn when bud and bird alike prepare for the valuable disco of telegraphy i York, arriving’ chrohlc state ef a panic in - lounged outside ed that somet] the teifeg brought tumult he sll old reporting- j was wrong wife printer, . and manager that r halary of '4 was key* This mediately seething in hisj - Ke had already made in several branches HE kaolin mines of the south are simply won derful in their extent, even so far as known and worked, and the end is not yet, for new deposits pf this beau-, tiful white, clay are be- constantjy dlscov and Lake county in particular. Several years ago a company • i.« i ft capitalists secured a large tract of the latter eltv in his ■ and - on w hicli several deposits had been “cuniosHv l^ere wasi ,0Cated ’ and «' the ka °«» j ; tested, as related in our previous article. in exchange he learn- } Those lands Iie in and around the pret- iioH mn.*«nmir with i ty village of Yalaha, on the south- had gone wrong with \ shores communication and lndlans more euphoniouillj .' call ^ , t> Lake Astatula. In many places dn these a standstill. In the ito the office of Law's discovered what •the stock quotation led the astonished Ticould put the machine with the result that by the company at month, a sum which [dest dreams, to put into shape im- ideas that had been An opportunity for selling his patents, among which was the Edison stock pfinfer. soon offered itself and the inventor decided that he might take S5.000 for-Jhem. The Gold and Stock Telegraph Com$fUD'> however, of which he was now a‘ ipember, made him an of fer of $40,000. 4 , “I believe',”. ttM! Mr. Edison in recall ing this incident, ,! that I could have, been knocked dow* with the traditional feather, so astonished was I with the sum. I concluded that there must be some Wall street trickery about the thing an4 that if I ever got a cent I should be ludky.. After signing the agree ment I received ’the check and proceeded neriod of sie^e You will find that here is a friend j t0 the bank 'With it. In thirty days .1 & -1- —C K.r her! had fuHy ■'quipped a shop of my own, an whose generous councils are only tnatched wise secretiveness, a sympathy ever effec* never officious and an inspiration constan 1 jcfficient. . . „ We do not mean to say that at all times and to all temperaments Nature makes this wonderful va riety of mute appeals; but to those who know how to cultivate her friendship and who are willing to strip themselves of the artificialities which sheath our twentieth century personalities, she is a very real and powerful entity. MiRado Imposes Wise Ruljps On * * His Fighting Fanatics country. If you do not observe courtesy of behavior, if inferiors treat their su- VERT Japanese soldier onj selves with social matters or political his enlistment receives a j questions, but strictly to confine your- summary of the soldier's 1 stives to the observance of your prtnCi- duty drawn up by the em- j pal duty, which is loyalty, remembering peror as a basis cf his; always that duty is heavier than a moun- moral training. These five! tain (and so to be much regarded),!,while articles, so remarkable for their high ethical spirit, are as follows: I. The principal duty of soldiers is loyalty to sov ereign and country. It is death is lighter than a feather (and therefore to be despised). Never spoil Jour good anme by a violation of good faith. 2. Soldiers must be polite in their be havior and ways. In the army and navy there are hierarchical ranks from the marshal to the private or bluejacket. not probable that anyone; which bind together the whole for pur- investment which left me little money.” MAXINLBE6INS HUMBLY. Sir Hiram Maxim, who a few years ago was knighted by Queen Victoria, tells somethingiof the early life in Maine which led to toito BrM inventions. “Dur ing my boyhpoA'my attempts at me chanics were Kfc&*IC prized by the neigh bors. I was TAjRipklarly expert in mak ing crossbows, boWs and arrows and so forth. AIs6 little guns for shooting peas. I also made «n Instrument for ascer taining latitude^ .My first position was m lands the pure white clay is forty or more feet in depth, its upper strata be ing only three or four feet below the surface. This company erected several plants, one at Yalaha. another four miles distant, at Richmond, and anoth er at a third point, this latter being es pecially assigned to the making of kao lin fireproof bricks. Immense sums of money have been in vested in these three plants, sums mounting into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each plant embraces several buildings of great extent, and expensive machinery. The main building at Yala ha alone is one thousand feet in length and seventy in breadth. The other build ings would be thought very large If this one were not larger and all of them contain elaborate machinery and pumps, for the kaolin undergoes a varied process in preparing it for the potteries or brick mills. It -must be pumped and washed and squeezed and pressed into cakes and dried before It can be used. And now let us see how-all these things are done. The plant at Yalaha was of especial interest at the time of the writ er's visit, as hexe the kaolin was being taken from the very bosom of Lake Harris, which, by the way. is a beauti ful sheet of water with, for the most part, high, bluff shores, and an extent of twenty-four miles in length and from five to eight in width. The kaolin com pany has a strong wharf built out into the lake until a depth of five feet of wa ter is reached. Alongside of this wharf lay a monster dredge boat. On board of this boat were the machinery and boilers that formed the mqtive ■ power for a huge augur and a centrifugal pump. The augur bored down into the kaolin be Is the waste, with fhe kaolin In solution runs off from the scraper and re-enters the basin, to flow away at one side into the long, shallow launders waiting to re ceive It. . The launders are ranged side by side in pairs, only one end being-open at a time. As the white milky Odrreht flows down the long Course of the laundsr hag • come part • wev <hack agalth alt of th«,saud shat remains Is disposed of a revolving scjreen. The oblique paddles in the inside gf fJdlmir rand DuW-UM Mexandrovitch whom Hie Russian terror ists have threatened to "remove,” and for plotting whose death a beautiful young woman iggmber of . Russli— 1 ’" '-*■ * | this screen or drum that are nearest the *t. Petersburg. He Is an unci* of the trough or launder catch the falling being the eldest brother of the late ter and keep the wheels in motion, while emperor and of the present duchess of Abbott, in the -Carriage shop of Daniel !j ;he bottom of the lake and whirled D. Flint, who made the greater part of j clay upward to a point where it the machinery; of ' his works himself, j was mingled with water, and then led much of wh(ch- was better than which into large iron plpe3. . Through these obtains in mans: carriage shops today. | pipes the white kaolin wealth was forced T went from, one mechanical position to another until I entered the service of Oliver P. Drake, of Boston, who was also one of- the cleverest machinists I have ever seen. From Boston I went to triors with disrespect, or superiors their New York, where I received high pay ^feriors with harshness, if, in a word, as a-draftsman.. I lived economicaiiy thf harmonious relation between super- and laid up money, but in the meantime iers and inferiors be lost, you will be not only playing havoc with the army, but committing serious crimes against t»e country., MUST HAVE TRUE BRAVERY. 3. It is incumbent upon soldiers to be brave and courageous. These two virtues have in'this country been always hel<) in very high esteem, and are indeed indis pensable to our nation; soldiers, whose bom in this country will j poses of command, and there are also r, r ofessloa is to fight against the foe, . . .. . . . .. . ., e tho 1 \ . - T c i (but my father had taken ill and was un able to work. The family being large, it was necessary for me to put my shoul der to the wheel and assist them. Dur ing this tlmd: I conceived the idea, or Tnaying a gun l|bat would load and fire itself with fh&Cenergy derived from the burning powdef. -‘The idea occurred -to me when, after the civil war W* America, I was trying 4 fire a Spririgfleld rifle. The effect was year duty not to entalxaie irouv-‘ unite as one L In tbe service at tbs / CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. riittlBiHl to; have bean kicked into ine. There was enjragh eneiuritt Oh 11 kick to Perform all the, functions at hading and firing tne weapon.” The drawings of this gun were taken be wanting in patriotism, but .for sol-1 the gradations of seniority within the! ghould n Jver for one instant forget that so great Gi^ the^ idea jmght^^be said dlers this virtue is so essential that, un- ! 8:1 me rank - The junior must obey the| ttey must be brave. But there is a true J . . j senior, the inferior must take orders bravery an d a false one, which is totally less a man . , from y,e superior, who transmits to them i different, and the rough behavior of youth Will be unfitted for hi* service. Disloyal our alrect command, and Inferior and not be called true bravery. A man man are llks dolls, however expert and {. j Un j or officers and men must pay respect j ar ms must always act with reason skilful they may be In their military art j to their superiors and seniors, even j an d makes his plans with sang froid and science, and a tr°°P 1<r hich is well I though they be not their direct superiors i ar) d care. You must never despise even trained and led. but lacks patriotism, is 1 aDd seniors. Superiors must never -be! a small body of the enemy: on the other j*g a a band without a chief. The protec- ! proud or haughty toward those of a! hand, you must never be afraid of large tion of a country and the maintenance of j lower rank., and severity of discipline! numbers; it is in the accomplishment of Its prestige must rest upon our military ; must be reserved for exceptional cases, j duty that true bravery lies. Those who and naval forces; their efficiency orde-jin all other cases superiors must treat thus appreciate true bravery iv U always terioratlon must affect, for good or for [those beneath them with kindness and j b* have with moderation toward others the -fate of our nation, and it is. j especial clemency, so that all men n»ay| ashore by the big pump in a steady, unbroken stream six inches in diame ter. This stream landed • it in the sand vats, each of which were seventy-five feet long and thirty-six" feet wide. PUMPING KAOLIN. When the kaolin first reaches these’ vats, it is of course held in solution, and the outpour from the pipes is a mix ture of clay, sand and water. Time is given the sand in the vats to settle to the bottom after which the liquid kaolin is drawn off by pumps that convey it to tanks In another large building. From these tanks still another pump carries away the clay, water and sand—the wa ter back into the lake, the sand, clear, white and sparkling, to the big sand heap, and the kaolin to the washer. The washer is a shaft with a strong, sharp iron bar projecting like the quiljs cf a porcupine, but not so close together. This the Water and kaolin pass out through a part of the drum that is covered'with fine wire netting. After the kaolin has passed this stage of its arduous Journey- In gs all the saijd and grit has been washed out. and the clear kaolin alone remains. In the water that still holds It in suspension. Moving sluggishly now. away from the drum, the Water carries its burden to the receiving tanks. These tanks are built of wood, water-tight, broad, long and shallow. In these (he white clay at last finds a temporary rest. It settles to the bottom and the water that has hitherto imprisoned It in ns midst now lies above It, clear and limpid, blue as the sky. a miniature lake with a bed of snow white purity. No one who had not followed lip course through its long journey could easily believe tha this could be the same cloudy, milk white water that had come up from the depths of the lake, bearing Hs burden of sand and clay. "It looks clear enough to drink.” exclaimed one of our party- And so it did, almost, only no one quite cared to try It. But certainly, if not drinkable, it la not useless, thte beauti ful. springlike water, for presently, when all the kaolin has settled below it, the water is drawn off. and does further duty in feeding the boilers and washers. Out of these receiving tanks, t,h kaknu is shoveled and scraped, and led to the mouths of pipes connected with pumps which force it along to the presses. The press room is a long building ad j turfing the engine room on one elde, the other three sides being open to the air. On the door are rows of heavy presses, into which the kaolin is pumped bn lea'lngthe receiving tanks. These presses are made -for squeezing, and squeeze they do, in deed. A main pipe runs the length of the room. From it run other pipes at right angles. Just above the rows of presses, and connected with each press bj a faucet, which permits the kaolin to pass in from the main pipe. There L a pressure gauge that regulates the amount admitted . In position to be filled, with the heaty white cloths into which the kaolin passes, neatly folded to receive it, the presses stand on their edges, the faucets attached to the cloths of each, making a solid, compact row. 2 feet high. 6 feet wide and 12 feet long. Each presa is smooth ly fluted or grooved on each side. * _ r __a M a«a la filled leader of the ctetujtlon- Ouke otedlmtr arlea, and is- one of the most outspoken of the war party at Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His wife, • Marie Pavlona. is a Mecklenburg duchess, and has made her house the center OP philanthropic endeavor for the soldiers In Manchuria. Until the birth of the lit tle czarovitch. Grand Duke Vladimir was the heir presumptive to. the crown. He is big and handsome, over six feet tali, and As a soldier is said to be brave, and Teckless. His sons. Cyril And Boris, are, however, described as profligates and de generates. The heads of th<e church are much apposed to Grand Duke Vladimir's wife, for the reason that she has never abandoned the faith in which she was born, and still maintains a Lutheran chapel in her palace, which is one of the finest of the many fine buildings In the winter capital. ~teAR ADMIRAL ROBLEY DUNGL1- SON EVANS, who ■succeeds Admiral darker - (retired). In command of the 'north Atlantic- Sect. .is one" of the famous laval officere of the Jnlted States. He .vas born in Vlrgjriia. m 1848, was grAdu ' a ted from the nava. academy In 1883, and at once assumed ac- In both at\ soon as a row of presses is filled, the faucets are detached, and the pipe raised at Che farther end to check the flow of kaolin Two experienced men. working together, can handle about sixteen rows of presses, each press being of 80 pounds capacity. One man stands on either side of the inneT end of the row, then, with a quick movement, the first press is thrown flat on the floor, the cloth quick ly unfolded and the fluted contents, snow white, comes Into view. AT THE PRE88E8. With a celerity and skill than can only come of long practice, one man rolls the end nearest to him. tbe kaolin being now of the consistency of tough paste, and then the other man catches the embryo cylinder, completes It and tosses it on a ' with machinery? washer chums the soft white mass as broad belt connected though It were a lump butter, churns 1 that carries it away to be dried. The it and turns it and tosses it about, and j moment a roll of kaolin finally passes it to a basin opposite, j on its last trip, thus started its cloth is folded "back “ ex! = the separating process, is, gto£ on! j pM*. «£J* money 'Wfaui oStaindd lor the first ex perimento. Froakthe first itatt^teda [ re8ts with one end in great deS. of infcrert, though when the | ^ “ s , n P And here are wheel8 m „ g announcement was made in the papers j rQund an% round> ea Ch steadily taiing American engineer and j tht . burden of its jointed chain. «4eh succeeded in produemg a dragR ing its iron scraper through and fire jfaelf simply j the white contents of the Dig basin aud ! ON PAGE FOUR. J carrying its portion up the steep incline, wooden Inclosure! divided lengtTw.se other press seiscd and thrown and thus the work goes on with a marvelous celeri- ty and exactness. When the kaolin iZ sun dried, its is, stacked or spread out. three or four days being required in pleasant weather. Hot air drying, which CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. Admiral Evans tive service, participating tacks on Fort Fisher, and being severely wounded. ’During the period of strained relations with Chile In 1881 he come married the Yorklown at Valparaiso, and at that time became known aa *‘Fighting Bob ” In the Spanish war he command ed the Iowa, which distinguished itsei' when Cervera’s fleet waz destroyed a- Santiago. R. WASHINGTON gladden, whom h. H. Rogers takes to task for his criticism of John D. Rockefel ler’s gift of 8100,900 to the American' board of foreign mis sions, Is pastor of the First Congre gational church. In attacking his posi tion regarding Stav dard Oil Compaq s rebates, Mr.AISgers Dr. Gladden , ., said Dr. Gladden would not tq, t the deacons of his church with the Ten Commandments for fear Xtry would break them. Mr. Rogers also said re bates were not wrong antfl the law stamped them so. and amended the op erations of the Standard m Company. NEW RULES FOR A pit.”" (From London F»ch.) 1. The table shall be flrmll clamped to the ground, and the cards Jiaii be of metal not less than one-fojrth tacit thick, with rounded corners, 2. Any player who speaks in such an audible voice that thi position oflW roof is altered shall be forced to mAte the damage good. \ 3. No player shall use a mekaplufe or speaking trumpet of any kind. \ 4. Muffin-bells may only be by players who have formed a "cor amt desire to communicate this fact other players. If a player has called “corner.” and - is found to have only eight similar cards in his hand, tbe game shall be continued without him. His remains may be re moved at leisure. e. "Progressive pit" with more than fpur tables shall Only be played, la a house with fn«t.irA (Me,.