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VOL. IX.
SOOTHSAYERS.
The winds that, gipsy-wise, foretold
The fortune of today,
At twilight, with the gathered gold
Of sunset, stole away:
And of their cloud accomplices
That prophesied the rain.
Upon the night-forsaken skies
No vestiges remain.
—Youth’s Companion.
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◄MOGUL MAGNET> ►
After the explosion of the Giant
Powder Mills in Alabama, a party of
Northern capitalists purchased the di¬
vidends, and determined to erect an¬
other factory upon the ill-fated spot,
where, for every year for twelve
years, the mill had exploded, cdusmg
terrific loss and many deaths.
The president of the company re¬
quested that I should visit Pittsburg
in search of a magnet endowed with
sufficient power to attract an object of
friction at a distance of 50 feet.
Fortunately, while prospecting through
the North and in Alaska, I formed the
acquaintance of Captain Laurence, late
of the Pacific Steam Whaling com¬
pany, who kindly informed me that
along the Yukon delta there existed a
peculiar lodestone of wonderful maget
ism. To me this information was in
valuable, and I accordingly accepted
his invitation to join the whalers, who
were soon to leave on an expedition
from Point Barrow.
I was a little dubious of this adven¬
ture, in spite of the promising report
' oj the‘delta, for ten years previous my
brothbr Jim, my only surviving rela¬
tive sailed from Point Barrow with
Bpb Laurence, a brother of our cap¬
tain ‘ Wild fellows they too, and
*„ were,
Jthe result _was the wreck of the reven
ye' cutter and four liPhri whalin g vessels.
r andjeventually n llllWHlil I
perished from hunger
and ' long exposure * on the sterile coast
ot Gieenan .
Our voyage was replete with events, .
thrilling and dangerouA and in my en
thusiasm for the whaling business I
quite forgot my lodestone mission,
when it was brought to bear upon my
mind in a thoroughly disagreeable
way.
The captain and I were together on
deck, discussing the possibility of mak¬
ing our return down the Yukon river,
thus passing through the gold fields
and lodestone ore, when the engineer¬
ing crew appeared before us and an¬
nounced that the machinery in the
power room refused to work. None
of the engineers could explain the mys
tery; it really seemed inexplicable.
Soon the steam died away, but strange
the vessel’s speed increased, and be¬
gan registering as high as 270 knots
an hour.
It was indeed a ship at sea. What
direction we were going it was impos¬
sible to tell, for the compass didn’t
show. But with a glass I saw at a dis¬
tance a mountain of dark color, and
the secret of our speed was revealed.
We were within the precincts of the
great Lodestone Mountain, that both
the explorers, Ross and Franklin, be¬
lieved to be near the Pole, surrounded
by waters presumably unnavigable.
1 knew that when we arrived within
a certain distance, the attraction of
this Mogul Magnet would be so power¬
ful that the vessel would be crushed
to pieces against it. A hasty examina¬
tion was made of the vessel; nothing
could he done to avoid a disastrous
landing, for the hull was of heavy iron,
of the ordinary build, with fastenings
of steel.
We therefore tnought no more of the
vessel’s safety, but of how to avoid
the death shock which most assuredly
would come to us all. Necessity was
the mother of invention in this case.
An avenue of escape was suggested
by a British sailor, who, through fear,
had already suspended himself three
feet from the floor by catching to a
rubber strap that hung from the ceil¬
ing. Within half an hour we had a
strap each, and were dangling in mid
air when the crash came. It was a
crash indeed, for one side of the ves¬
sel was firmiy embedded in the ada¬
mant. With the exception of Good,
who sustained a slight shock, every
man alighted on the mountain bank
unhurt.
We succeeded in reaching the top
of the mountain, where millions of
grouse flew gaily enough around, and
I, in advance of the party, stopped and
rubbed my eyes, as well I might.
There, not twenty yards in front,,
placed in a charming situation, under
•To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the day. cnou ca’nsVnot then be false to any man. ”
LINCOLNTON, GA . THURSDAY, APRIL 3. 1002.
’ group of overhanging cliffs, was the
a
cozy habitation of a cliff-dweller!
“What the dickens!” exclaimed I.
“Can this be a mountain of cliff dwell¬
ers?”
Even as I said it, from an aperture
in the rock there limped out a Rip Van
Winkle looking fellow, clothed in a
beautiful cloak of duck breasts, and
with a glorious crown of white locks. I
thought I must have got a touch of the
sun. How did he ever get here? Be¬
sides, he was alone, for we could eas¬
ily see all over the mountain. I stared
and stared, and so did the other men,
and just at that instant the captain
came up from the rear.
“Here, Cap,” said I, “is that a white
man, or a North Pole joss?”
Then all of a sudden the white
haired man gave a cry and came nob¬
bling toward me. When he got close,
he fell down in a sort of faint. With
a spring I was by his side. Great
powers! It was my brother Jim!
At the sound of the disturbance an¬
other figure, also clad in sealskin,
emerged from the cliffs and came run¬
ning toward us. On seeing the cap¬
tain, he, too, gave a cry.
“Cap,” he hallowed, “don’t ygu know
me, Bob, your brother? And he fell
at his kinsman’s feet and rolled over
and over, -weeping with joy.
Meanwhile, Jim began,—
"Ten years ago, Laurence and I were
hurled against this mountain. The
; ship and the other thirteen men went
I into the deep. Since then, we two
have lived like a second Robinson Cru
soe and his man, Friday, hoping
against hope that some explorers
might help us away; but none ever
came. And now you, of all people on
earth, turn up, and find us where yqu
least expected! Wonderf ul—and
most merciful, too! ” '
In a joyful manner we all set to talk
in °- bating the main features of our
man - v adventures, till, exhausted frbrn
,ong asleep; for here
aroun«| te-mk nffTt cane, yet the-w d
us was mellowed with the deli
ca £ r£ * s of th« Aurora Borealis.
The preparations tor our return voy
age were arduous. From the wreck of
0,11 vessel we secured sectlreci a a sufficient sufficient
quantity of timbers to build a boat, in
which we conveyed ourselves safely
to the port of Nuwuk, thence to Uncle
Sam’s “ice-box,” rich in the knowledge
of the great fortune that lay await¬
ing our return—the Mogul Magnet of
the Earth. But life is short at best,
and if some ship, other than an iron
sided whaling vessel is not secured, I
■shall not risk the magnetism of the
wonderful lodestone again.
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
—Waverley Magazine.
Men for General Housework.
In West Philadelphia, the other day
four men answered an advertisement
calling for a man to do general house¬
work.
Of the four men who made applica¬
tion for the place, one was a China
man, one a colored man, who had been
porter in a club, one a retired sailor
and the other a widower.
The man who advertised would not
tell which of the men he engaged, but
he was not loath to express his pre¬
ference for a man to do the work
rather than a woman. With his wife
and daughter he had lived in Japan
and in China, where they depend en¬
tirely on men servants. Five years
ago they brought a Japanese servant
with them from abroad^ live but when comfort he
had saved enough to in
at home he -went back.
Women tried in his place did not
give satisfaction to the family, and
so a-dvertisement was made for a gen¬
eral housework man.
A Test of Friendship.
A gentleman has tried the follow¬
ing peculiar way of probing the ties
of friendship. He sent letters to 20
intimate friends asking for the loan
of £1. Thirteen of the two dozen
friends did not reply at all; five de¬
clined to lend the money; two prom¬
ised to send it on the next day and did
not do it; one sent his “last ten shil¬
lings” and only three sent the full sum
asked for. The supplicant and all the
“friends” he had written to are well
0 ff,—St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya.
Forethought.
“Why. I didn’t know you had weak
eyes, Mortimer!” exclaimed his very
best girl.
“I haven’t,” returned Mortimer, ear¬
nestly. "I have come to ask your fa¬
ther for your hand tonight, and it is
a state’s prison offence to strike'-a per
son wearing glasses in the eye.”-—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Life's Worst^Telltales.
Many a man is wendering why he
does not succeed, while his desk, at
which he sits, tells the story of his
life, and shows the limitations of his
capability. The scattered papers, the
unfiled letters, the disorderly drawers,
the dus* in the pigeonholes, the lay¬
ers of newspapers, of letters, of manu¬
scripts, of pamphlets, of empty en¬
velopes, of slips of paper, are all tell¬
tales.
If I were to hire (a clerk. I would
ask no better recommendation than
would be afforded by th“ condition of
his desk, or table, or room, or work¬
bench, or counter, or books. We are
all surrounded by telltales which are
constantly proclaiming the stories of
our lives, cover them up as we will.
Our matfner, our gajt, our conversa¬
tion, the glance of the eye, the carr
riagq of the body, every garment we
wear, our collars, neckties and cuffs,
are all telling our life-stories to the
world.—O. S. Harden, in Success.
RED HOT B&RGAINS
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w Hotter Bargains and Better
Shoes than 1
ever was
K. G. Before.
"aarot?? Orfe* A®'j•?, S 1 ty-five
C—_ts Brogan beats the world.
Our One Dollar and Fifty Cents Shoes are simply superb. Two Dollar and '<• -
Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Our
Fifty Cents Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market.
We can give vou Ludips Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want to sell
rou are $1.00 anti $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
Ladies Dress Shoes. Th.ev are RED HOT BARGAINS and don’t yon
forget it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00
Shoes.
We never forget the Children and Babies and this line of Shoes this
season is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We rive you Bovs
Hafs 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men's Felt Hats 65c, Men s Extra Good
Felt Hats $1.00, and so on to the end. within mile of this in
We don’t expect any one to come a us season and be
Price and Quality. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine
Convinced.
GREAT EASTERN SHOE CO ■5
907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
Length, of Life.
Even a chronic pessimist ought to
find something to be cheerful about
in the recent census bulletin on the
mortality statistics of the United
States for the decade ending in 1900,
says Leslie’s Weekly. The bulletin
shows that the advances made in med¬
ical science and sanitation and in
preventive and restrictive measures
enforced by the health authorities
have had a striking effect upon the com¬
parative death rate for the cities of
this country where a system of regis¬
tration is in force.
In 1890 the death rate in 271 cities
of 5,000 or more population was 21
per 1,000; in 1900 the rate was 18.6
..in 3G1 cities of 8,000 population and
upward—a reduction of 24 per 1,000.
Another statement of special Interest
and significance just now is that the
deaths reported as due to consumption,
including general tuberculosis, de¬
creased from 245.9 per 100,000 of popu¬
lation in 1890 to 190.5 in 1900—a very
large reduction, due, the census au¬
thorities believe, to the better knowl¬
edge of the disease and the measures
adopted for its prevention.
Taxed Back Home.
Expatriated Americans in large
numbers, according to a New York
newspaper, are returning with re¬
kindled and renewed love to their na¬
tive country, because of the recent de¬
cision of the English courts, which
shows that a domicile in Great Britain
is sufficient to subject the dweller to
heavier taxejs than would be the case
on this side!
Have to Be on Time.
“Before I became a suburbanite,”
said a man who recently moved out
of town, according to the Philadelphia
Record, "I used to note with consider¬
able amusement the crowds of people
who every day would compare their
watches with the official timepieces to
be found in front of several Chestnut
street jewelry stores. I used to regard
them as cranks when they would say
to each other. ‘Right on the dot,’ or
draw long faces over a difference of a
fraction of a minute. For my part I
was satisfied if my watch kept decent¬
ly good time, and never bothered my
head over a matter of five minutes or
so out of the way. I have since dis¬
covered that the people I used to
think were cranks are really suburb¬
anites, with trains to think about. It
hasn’t taken me long to discover the
importance of having a watch exactly
right, and after having missed several
trains I myself have Joined the crowds
around the places where the official
time is kept.”
Care of Hands In Winter.
Any extreme temperature, or either
very hot or very cold water, is not
good for the hands. Warm water is
more cleansing than cold water, A
dozen drops of the tincture of benzoin
added to a basin of warm water is ben¬
eficial to the hands. Castile or one of
the fine toilet soaps should be used.
A generous lather should be made and
the hands thoroughly rubbed with it.
A rubber flesh-brush is a great comfort.
A little bran or oatmeal if put in the
water has a softening effect, and makes
the skin velvety and pliable. Almond
meal is also excellent for this purpose.
Care in drying the hands is essential
to their good condition, especially in
winter. A soft towel will gather up
all the moisture a_nd should be used in
between the fingers of each hand so
that every part may he thoroughly
dried. After drying the hands it is a
good plan to rub in a little cold cream
or almond oil, after which, if they are
particularly sensitive, powder may be
dusted over them.—Ladies’ Home Jour¬
nal.
A Chicago .Alderman, who has
counted them, says that there are
three buildings and no more in his
city that are seventeen or more stories
in height. One of the three is the Ma¬
sonic Temple. Of sixteen-story build¬
ings there are in the city seven, of
fifteen story three, of fourteen story
six, and of thirteen story seven build¬
ings. A renewed attempt Is being
made to prohibit the exceeding of the
present limit of height in future build
ing operations.
NO. 44.
YOUNG SOLDIERS OF FRANCE.
Picturesque Scenes at the Departure of
the Conscripts.
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During the last three days 25,000
conscripts have left Paris for the vari¬
ous military centres. It is the annual
departure of the “classe.” There have
been many picturesque scenes in con¬
sequence. Bands of young men of all
conditions of life and drawn from all
parts of the country have been parad¬
ing the streets, shouting military airs
and blowing upon imaginary instru¬
ments. It is their way of keeping up
their courage, for the conscript, as
often as not, has little stomach for
war, and looks with a degree of dread
upon hi s barrack life. The district of
Montmartre, especially, has been en¬
livened during these evenings by the
roystering “Blues,” as Paris calls them
and the police have turned an indul¬
gent eye on their proceedings, prompt¬
ed, no doubt, by personal recollections
of the days when they also formed
part of the class. The town general¬
ly, looks fondly after the lads as they
go trumpeting along the boulevards.
The purely rustic conscript is a less
demonstrative person, and marches
soberly along, under the direction of
his sergeant or corporal, with his lit¬
tle valise or package, containing his
worldly possessions, on his arm, cut¬
ting often an odd figure in his rough
civilian clothes. These are the grubs
from which the butterfly of the sol¬
dier will emerge in a few weeks.
When the conscript comes among his
friends again it will be in the guise
o/ the familiar long blue coat and
red trousers of the infantryman, or he
will have blossomed into a cavalry¬
man, a gunner, or, perchance, an en¬
gineer.
The first day in barracks is a trying
one for the young conscript. Civil life
finishes sharply on the threshold of
the caserne. The soldier in embryo
is challenged brusquely by the ser
wholesome respect for agfitary <u» the
cipline at the very outset’- of
young man’s career. Very often the
conversation that ensues has its amus
ing turn. Each conscript is put
throng"'' an elementary examination.
The candidate is always asked wheth
er he can write, “But I am ‘bache
lier,’ ” perhaps he says, “I do not
ask your occupation,” responds the
sergeant, gruffly; “but can you write?”
And so on. When the parade takes
palace before the adjutant, there are
bound to be some few recruits who
make a last despairing effort to be
quit of military service. Their sight
is too bad, and they have not enough
strength. But the adjutant is a hard
hearted man; besides, he has heard
all this before. And the military net
is spread very wide. There is no my¬
opic bar, unless the degree of short
sight is very pronounced, and as to
the question of stature, one often sees
the diminutive sentinel handsomely
topped by the fixed bayonet of his
rifle.
The man upon whom military life
sits the lightest and to whom it may
be positively agreeable is the musi
cian. He comes under the class of
“ouvriers d’art,” which escape with
one year’s service. He is drafted into
the band, so that he continues his
studies and he may supplement the
sou a ’day which a grateful country outside
awards him by giving lessons
the barracks. And so we will leave
our brave conscript. Tonight lie may
put his head under the clothes in
sheer wretchedness of being; tomor¬
row he will hold his head up and cry:
“Vive la Patrie!” “Vive l’Armee!”
A Clever Landlord.
Some owners of property in the poor¬
er districts of Glasgow give rewards
to tenants who behave themselves,
keep their property in good order, and
pay their rent regularly. During the
past few years a great deal of slum
property has been pulled down or im¬
proved. and the landlords in question
also wish to better the condition of
the people, and the following novel
plan has been adopted: All
who are prompt in payment are al¬
lowed in summer to live rent free for
a fortnight, so that when they take
their holiday they need not pay double
rent. The idea has “caught on,” anxl
over 60 percent of the tenants manage
to secure the landlord’s prize.
So valuable is coal in the Ponchamp
coal fields of France that it pays to
mine coal at a depth of 3313 feet. A
steel cable, weighing seven tons and
| mlle long is used. The coal
tra in S of six cars,