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--- Loo st Mountain,
One of the lari t signs ever painted is seen
by visitprsto tills historic Lookout old mountain mountain. is made The ascent by an
up incline railway. Open observation are
cars
used, and level, the'trip is made to Lookout in six point, minute*. 2,200 Jus-t ieet
above sea laboratory
at the loot of this incline the The of rooi the
CbattanooeaMedieine Co. is located. ami
of this building shows a sign 175 feet long
fortv feet wide that reads “McElree’s Wine of
Cards! for Women.” Some be of read the letters the ar"
twenty feet long and ail the i an the irom
cars while riding way up mountain moun¬
tain. No visitor “Wine comes to Lookout
without having of Cardui” firmly im¬
pressed on their memory. The Chattanooga Tbedford’s
Medicine Company also make
Black Draught, and have an immense labora¬
tory, containing more than one-half acre of
floor space.__
Saves the Babies.
For. Tbethln*. Cholera Infantum, Summer
Complaint, and other troubles common to
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will take children through the trying ordeal
of teething so pleasantly, safely and surely
as Germetuer. They all like to take it, and that it
acts like magic in meeting tho troubles of
critical period.
Attention, TonrUt.
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Building. Watt BL, Knoxville, Tenn .
Hall’s Catarrh Cure
. Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
gsaktard Air Line.
Short lino to Norfolk aad Old Point Com¬
fort, Va. Through sloepsr on vestibuisd train
between Atlanta and Waehington, Also be¬
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Impure Blood
Therefore the True
Method of Cure
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XlTTXJS BROWN HANDS.
They drive heme the obws from the ptohira
Wlw "’*? whfette8 loud «£****
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They find to the thick, waving grasses .V
Where the scarlet-dipped strawberry
grows; c
They gather the earliest snowdrops
And the first crimson buds oi the rose,
They | „ toss the hay in the meadow.
They gather the elder blooms white.
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted autumn light.
They know where the apples hang ripest,
And are sweeter than Italy’s wines ;
They know where the fruit is4he thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate sea weeds,
And build tiny castlesrof sand ;
They pick up the beautiful sea shells—
Fairy barks that have drifted to land.
They wave from the tall, rocking tree tops,
Where the oriole's hammock nest swings,
And at night time are folded in slumber
By a song that a fond mother sings.
Those who toil bravely are strongest,
The humble and poor become great ;
And from those brown-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.
The pen of the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of our land ,
The sword and the chisel and palette
Shall be held in the little brown hand.
—Bittsburg Bulletin.
THE GOLD OAVES.
BY LEON EDWARDS.
*=b=ilt was a good many
years ago, but if
I should live to
be as old as Adam,
r-. the incidents I am
about to narrate
will be as clear
and fresh in my
memory as if they'
ofi happened yester
yr day.
v There were three
of us, Ned Cop¬
ley, an old Rooky
Mountain hunter,
who, when game got scarce or furs un¬
profitable, took up the equally hazard¬
ous calling of gold feeking; Frank
Edgerton, a handsome yonng Ken¬
tuckian, who had come out to win a
sadden fortune, and myself, who had
u&de one fortune in 1 the gold fields,
lost it, and was now put to get an¬
other, and with the flyn determina¬
tion to hang on to it, if I struck luck
Again. Madre Mountains
Across the Sierra
in the San Juan region was* a mighty
dreary, lonely country in those days,
with the water flowing down out of
eight in the bottoms of th e canyons,
and the nearest white settlement three
hundred miles away in Eastern
Colorado.
Ned Copley had hunted all through
this country with Kit Carson, and he
believed it was rich in gold, and that
ifwe keptonr purpose to lastin’ oprselvea for¬
we “would make our ever
tunes,” to use his own words.
We had enough money to buy an
outfit of food for three months and a
mule to carry it; aa for the tools for
prospecting and the rifles and pistols
necessary for game, or to Indians protect our¬ and
selves from prowling well
sneaking whites, we were pro¬
vided.
We left Taos in the early spring and
while all the encircling with mountains
were covered low down snow,
looking like glistening marble walls
supporting a sky so clear and blue and
cloudless, that it looked as if it was
hewn opt of a globe* of the turquoise. yellow cold
But anxiety the to bottom see of the clear
flashing at San Joan, blinded
streams in the ns to
the glories of the landscape and the
unsurpassed natural splendor scat¬
tered sa lavishly oil every hand.
I think I should say in all honesty
to the brave fellow, that Frank Edger¬
ton wss an exception lo this. To be
sure he wanted gold. It to get
that he left his old Kentucky home
and drove an ox team across the ster¬
ile, blistering plains. No ehild’s work
in the days when the Indians and buf
frio were plent ,tiful and the snorting of
tbe iron horse had not yet stirred to
new X**^^™** life the echoes of the a giant a Book
iat - -
.
•" Frank Edgerton had a nobler mo¬
tive than his two partners We were
out to find gold for tbe sake of the
power and toe comforte it would give,
and it stay be with thoughts of the
deference that would 1*> paid ua by the
less fortunate when we were rich men;
but onr handsome young co mp a ni on
was moved to faee the hardships and
breve the dangers of the expedition by
BO lereenary purpose.. and
not more than five twen¬
ty, with early brown hair and ayes,
K ft
ton
, X.
a*
•e-r
B-uwy ^s a a * iW l h
>V,
i
Susie MgMBMj Heaven n—»gm g her out
Burns ain’t. out
for a first-elaes angel,and never changed
the original plan. Here’s her picture,
And let me say, you twtMire the only
strangers that ever lpoked inside the
lids sinoe sh.; :.;»t-oed it round my
neck, and told m?, as she kissed me,
that so long as I wore it next-my heart
I’d remain true to heT—just as if I
could ever dream of being false to
Susie.”
By the camp fire he opened his ooat
and hunting shirt, and- brought to
light a slender gold chain that hang
about his neek, and-at the end of
which there was a flat golden me
dallion. He opened it, kissed the
picture with the adoration of a pagan
for his idol, and then let ua look at
the face of a beautiful, blue-eyed girl
of nineteen or twenty, who seemed so
life-like that it looked mope like’the
reflection in a mirror than a colored
iVorytype. ain’t rich, v for Heaven
“Susie Burns
couldn’t give her all the continued blessings
without being unfair,”
Frank, as he restored the picture to
his breast, ‘‘but she’ll be rich some
day, if there’s gold to be found in
these mountains. Meanwhile, while
I’m out here prospecting, Susie’s a
teaching scKool down by the banks of
the Cumberland, and you can bet, if
she has any time to spare from her
work, she puts it in arraying for me.
That’s why I feel so sure, boys, that
we are going to win. I tell you an
outfit can’t fail that has an angel like
that a-praying for it. ”
Frank filled us with his enthusiasm,
and Ned Copley and myself felt that
we, too, > were interested she ip Would the have girl,
as we we ire very sure
been in us, had she known the circum¬
stances. . <$ '
I don’t know the name of the
stream, for it was in the days before
names were given to every strip of
wet ground in the West, but it rose in
the avalanches of the Sierra Ma’dre
and came down by our camp ioe cold,
and as it brought flecks of yellow gold
with it, we decided to stop there and
go to panning out the gravel.
We did fairly well. What we got
would have been big wages anywhere
else, but to compensate for what we
suffered and the dangers we faced, we
naturally wanted more.
A hundred dollars a day' between
three wasn’t so bad, but we were in a
mood when a thousand dollars a day
would not have satisfied Us.
My, how hard an t cheerfully Frank
did work! Why, he got so deeply in
terested in that unknown girl, away
on the bapks of the Cumberland . in
old Kentucky, that he got into the
habit of saying every morning, as we
ate breakfast by the light of the camp
fire: “Another day’s work for Susie,
boys'.”
Althqngh tho strongest of the three,
Frank was not used to this sort of
rough life, and I soon saw it began to
tell on him, and 1 wanted him to let
up, but the brave fellow stack to it,
working in the ioe cold water till he
was taken down with chills, followed
by a burning ftver. ,
We had some quinine and a few
simple remedies for cuts and brusises
along, and with these and the skill
that came of long years in the wiltis,
we did the best! we could for our
partner. remarkable . part of
-Now comes the
my story. I’ve seen men down with
the fever, when they got so wild they
had to be tied, but while Frank was
clear out of his head, he B^pt / jiist as
peaceful as ever, only that ne\iasis ted
that up the creek were great ca\es full
of gold, and that the specks gulch we had
been picking out of the came
from there.
He wanted us to start up there, say¬
ing we eoold get all the gold in a day
we wanted for a lifetime.
Qf. course, Ned ■ Copley and *1
humored Frank, and told him we’d go
if he’d hurry up and get well, but he
swore that instead of being siek he
waa as strong as a giant. Frank
The third night after was
taken down, he seemed to be resting
quietly, so Ned and I,, who had been
taking tarns watching, thought it
would be safe to drop off to sleep—a
kind of lightly—and we did so.
When we woke op in the early morn¬
ing, and saw that Frank Edgerton’s
cot was empty, and his clothes and
piek and revolver gone, yon may try
to imagine, bat you can never realize
just how we frit.
W% cooked a hasty breakfast, then
picking apt enough provisions from
our little stoze to last three days, we
bid the rest, left the mala hid in a tit¬
tle valley where there hag lots of gram,
and then started off to And *ur insane
friend. > *» “the
Remembering his ravings about
gold caves” up near toe snow line, we
determine 1 io- follow the creek. We
eould read a trail as well aa aa India*
but tbe rooks were too hard to retain
the impression of a huma n foot; yet,
mow and than we saw signs to ancour
*.
ns farther up, and it waa only
tong Bonsultations that wa de
which to take, and then lor no
n that would not have ap plied
quito * ougb, hard road, aad
It waa a now
s ire went on, wetik^ped to
to
>
T vvrmr+rf * entTW^msfie
to the
'k t'.-V'.-- ®*y?ssi SpBwo a
& y-ft
awful tstghf, and Rlfll y, sign ..f Frank
Edgerton. We gave him up, auu with
sad hearts were returning, when Ned,
who had eyes like telescdvxes, said he
saw something moving nedr the snow
line across the valley. \
There had been an immdtose snow
slide down but the got valley, not anj And hour there be
fore, we across, with
under a ledge of rocks, a great
pile of loose, glittering stonfes about
him, lay Frank Edgerton, lookinwdike
a dead man. ** t -*
While Ned made some coffee, I
robbed Frank with show till his skin
felt warm, then we forced coffee be
tween his teeth, and wrapping one
blanket about him, we made a stretcher
out of the other and our two rifles, so
as to oarry him down tojcamp, no easy
job, I can tell you. off,
Just a?* we weto about to start
Ned noticed the piles of stones—
Frank’s pockets were full of them —
and those lying about had evidently
been brought there by him. But they
were fully one-half solid gold.
Frank Edgerton had discovered the
caves of his fevered dreams,
We got him bhok to oamp, and we
took turns nursing him and oarrying
4 own the gold so mysteriously found
with him under that ledge, and the
source of which had been concealed
by the snow slide,
“To make a long story short,” as we
used to say when I was a boy,,Frank
got well. When he was able to travel
we started back to Taos, oarryingwith
ns about one hundred and thirty
pounds of solid gold.
We made a second and » third trip
to find “the gold oaves,” of which
- .. and .
Frank reme mbered v . nothing, 4 others „
have often tried it since, but they
were lostqnite as mysteriously as they
were found.
Frank Edgerton had, however, for
Ms share, enough money to return to
Kentucky and marry, the fair Susie
Burns That they are as happy as.the
day is long I can vouch for, for I vis
ited them less than a year ago, and I
was highly flattered to find that his
oldest son was named after me.
, Odd Barometers,
Two of the oldest and oddest barom
eters, says a writer in the London
Spectator, are the leech in a bottle ana
a frog on a ladder. Mr. Richard In
wards Has seen An old Spanish drawing
of nine poaitionS of the leech, with
verses describing its attitude and be
havior before different kinds of weath
er. Dr. Merryweather, of Whitby,
contrived an apparatus by which one
of twelve leeches confined in bottles
rang a bell when a “tempest" was ex¬
pected. When leeches were kept jti
every chemist’s shop, and often in pri
vate houses, their behavior was the
subject of constant observation; and
it was generally noticed that in still
weather, dry or wet, they remained at
the bottom, bat rose, often as much
as twenty-four honri in advance, be¬
fore a change; and, in oase of a thun¬
derstorm, rose very quioklyto the sur¬
face, descending when it was past.
The frog barometer, used in Germany
and Switzerland, is a very simple ap¬
paratus, consisting of a jar of water', a
frog and a little wooden step-ladder.
If the frog comes out and sits on the
steps rain is expected. old-fashioned The weather¬
glass dearest to (he cot¬
tage in the last generation was the
‘.•old man and old woman,” who came
out of their rough-cast cottage in foul
or fair weather respectively. This was
almost the earliest of semi-scientifio
t°J 8 > and depended on tfite contract¬
ing of a piece of catgut fastened to a
lever. The belief that bees will not
before a shower is probably true,
and is the rational origin of the bang¬
ing of trays and iron pots with a door
key when bees are going 1 to swarm,
The insects are supposed to take this
for thunder, and so settle dose at
hand, instead of swarming at a dis¬
tance. Squirting water on them with
garden syringe often makes them set¬
tle at once. But no such ingenious
process of rationalizing can be found
for the belief that if the insect inside
cuckoo-spit lies head upward, increased the sum¬
mer will be dry, though the
worrying of horses by flies before rain,
and the rise of the gossamer before
fine weather, are abundantly confirmed
by observation. — Popular Science
Monthly.
A Freak et am Eccentric Character.
“I aee yon have had a visit from
George Francis Train,” saidagrizzled
old, newspaper man at the National.
“I never hear his name that I don’t
think of an incident in his remarkable
career many years ago, when he waa
1 ime and enjoying almost no
limited power. When the Union
Pacific Road being built and had
nearly reached completion Train took
r>«££ # ou?W^ tSSSuelhe entcr
prise. At pmaha, which was then the
most re kind of a town, Train
CL tv a dinner in the only
Blaoe. When the guests
seated_ : *r M
were . ..
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that one of the panes in the window
behind kia chair waa broken out. and
be ordered ”
the lead waiter, who also de
^ and sept ȣ sis; pass
“‘Wh hai will toia old
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RAKING J kind in the
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wholesome bread, cake, and biscuit A
*s thousand unsolicited testimo¬
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nials to this effect are received annually
by its manufacturers. Its sale is greater
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if.
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little Curious Things.
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Professor Maeso, the Italian ooien
tist, is authority for the statement that
eel’s blood is as poisonous as viper’s
venom ’
One of the new rifles used by the
Italian soldiers sends a ball with force
enough to go through five inches of
solid oak at a distance of foot thou
'
sand feet. ‘ • . * '
According to an investigator located
8 t Davenport, ^ I«l, there are 20,000,000
oubjo inoh of Wft ter
taken from ^ Mississinni at that
,
‘
Stotisticq that nearly two- .
prove earned by the
thirds of all the letters
postal service of the world are witten,
sent to and read by English-speaking
people.
June was named in honor of Juno, a
Roman divinity, who Was worshipped
as queen of the heavens. It is called
the “month of marriages and of sui¬
cides." . >< ,i>
“The Speed of the Earthquake” was lec¬
the subject of a recent soientiflo
ture by Professor Lancaster. . He
• proved .that the average speed of trans¬
mission of the shook is 16,000 feet per
'sechnd.
Thi was one of “notable
births,” bringing into the- world snob
celebrities as Queen Victoria, John
Buskin, Walt Whitman, Oharles Kings¬
ley, Julia Ward Howe, J. G. Holland
and Gyrus W. Field.
During the year 1898 tbe people 229 of
Paris consumed 21,291 horses,
’amount donkeys and 40 mules, tile xtftal
of such meat sold in thr’mar
keta of the French capital, being set
down in round numbers st 4,615 tons.
Southern Recipes.
-The Cream of Cook Books’* contains the
beet recipes of the old books, and many never
before in print.
•The New South Cook Book” is beautifully
bound, and will be sent to any.address upon
the receipt of T..aVWfsatjkb: ten cento in postage.
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KNOWLEDGE
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nntold’Wealth in the hiBsid
bought, atfd the secret of
abouts was oommonioated to!
people, .who onoe occupied
tion, but who now live in t
Territory. The mountains
the Tennessee river, and 1<
untold them have quantities long existed. of stiw* The
saye she will develop her toea
out delay.
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The _ inhabitants of HeUas, ehuri :
are fond of butter
sheep e milk. It is semi-liq
are used as beset* of burden
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