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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
Scared the Surveyors.

A crowd of United States surveyors
and allotting agents were recently
working in the reservation of the
Comanche Indians, surveying, estab-
fishing cornerstones and getting every
thing ready to divide the land in quart
er sections. The Indians did not take
very kindly to the division and allot-
ment Of their land, and seeing that the
whites were scared, they decided to
act. The surveyors were all tender
feet from Washington. Suddenly,
without warning, their camp was in
Taded by yelling. shooting band of
500 Indians in war paint and
feathers. The surveying party could
not stand the pressure aud started out
for the settlements along the Texas
line. and kept up ther fight, pursued
BY the Indians. until they crossed the
state line Then tey telegraphed to
state line. Then they telesraphed to
Fort Sill and the commander there
sent out a large cavalry force to pro-
tect the surveyors. The general sup
position is that lot of cowboys and
young bucks played a practical joke
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
ssle spos and IN a rwfnkIfng had dzres

n W. l21sets 49, ~ q ImiAht1nS utQ TS
moved the bandage.
"Quck, quick! Some lint. he cried
Hurry, hurry!"
And while the nurses, beside them.
selves at the cries of the patient
searched everywhere for what was al
hand, the stream Of blood kept flowing
and the anxious surgeon multiplied his
appeals.
The brother and sister, motionless,
pale with fright, exchanged one glance.
Noemi seized her precious lace, tore it
in pieces, and gave it to the major,
who applied it to the wound.
The hemorrhage was stopped
Louis and Noemi, trembling with
emotion, looked at each other.
Dear sister, thanks" That was
all that Louis could say.
''It will make but a few days de-
lay .isped the youag girl. keeping
back the tears just ready to flow. 81
Will begin my work again"
Lieutenant de Lauterac dAmbroyse
is today colonel; he is the father f
three children; one big, pretty girl,
almost as beautiful and sweet as her
mother, whose name she wears,
Noemi; and two fne-looking boys,
who are 'terrors," as their uncle as
sures us, the brave commadant Louis
Vernier.-Waverly Magazine.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
THE
3 THE
:fittle Lace Maker.
nNAAAAAAAANAANNAAuAA

Mdlle. Noemi Verdier, a lacemaker
OF Yalenciennes, was as good as she was
pretty and her modesty and simplicity
commanded the respect Of all.
Left an orphan at 13 years OF
age she lived with her brother, three
years her senior, who, having suddenly
become the head of the house, labored
for his little sister and himself at cabi-
net making.
The two lived happily together; but
the years passed and the time of mill
tary service came. Louis was obliged
to &c The separation was terrible to
those Two children, who loved each
other so much.
Left alone in the little lodgings. thus
suddenly become too large for her,
Noemi with bleeding heart applied
herself to her work and wrought mar
vels from TIE fax fields.
Every Saturday she carried back her
work and when she returned home di-
vided her earnings in two parts. Must
she not send small subsidy to her
soldier, who was thinking of her there
IN his far-away garrison?
On his side Louis believed in his
regiment as he did in Valenciennes;
t5&t is to say, like an honest man, and
50, at the end OF the second year Of his
absence he was able to announce one
beautiful morning that he had been
promoted to be sergeant.
You can imagine how happy Noemi
was! How her heart throbbed with joy!
Oh, how proud she was of her dear
brother, But her happiness WIS short.
IN q few weeks came a letter. TIE
war-cloud had burst all at once; armed
France rushed tsefsz.SSe-Ss-ss11S s-ss11Sss1;. Of the
East ~
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
ILLINOIS, VANISHED CAPITAL.
1he Town of Kaskaskia Swept Away by
the Mississippi.

The Town of Kaskaskia Swept Away BY
the Mississippi.
One hundred years before Illinois
became territory and Ill years be-
fore it became a state there was a
town at Kaskaskia, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean. Fifty years before there
was a white settlement at st. Louis
or any military post at Pittsburg,
and SO years before the founda-
lions were Ia1u TOT roru Dearporn, at
Chicago, Kaskaskia was a thriving
village.
AS early as ITO there were in the
town three miles for grinding corn. AS
early as 1865 the town contained
IS families Of whites. In 1771,
five years before the Revolutionary
War, it contained 80 houses and
had population of 500 whites and
500 negroes. In 1909 it was made the
capital of Illinois Territory. 1t was
the capital of the state from 1918 un-
til 1921, and was the seat of Ran
dolph county until 1S47.
The first brick house built west of
Pittsburg was constructed in Kas-
kaskia. For over half century Kas-
kaskia W. 9 the metropolis of the Up
per Mississippi valley and was the
focus of commerce in the Northwest
Territory.
On Thursday the last vestige of
this historic settlement was swept
away by the Mississippi river. The
work of destruction that began with
the great food of 1914 was COM
pleted, and the home of the early
Illinois goyernors-the first state
to exist It's destruc. !
ton was complete. Not stone was
left to mark the place.
Chicago, that was built in swamp.
IS the second city in America. New
located in what was be.
ieved an unsafe and unhealthy dis.
.rict, is the commercial metropolis of
he southwest. But Kaskaskia, which
vas set on spot chosen from the
'oundless variety of the virgin west
S merely memory.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29

very striking. Digging down six or
eight feet, however, the farmer gen
orally comes to a loan which retains
the rain and other surface water.
This nourishes the plant, which re-
quires very light and porous soil It
also needs as hot weather as corn to
properly mature. After raising sew
eral crops the average peanut field
needs to be heavily fertilized with
lime or mari, as the plant exhausts
the soil.
During a fair year the American
peanut crop will average nearly
100000 bushels, estimating %
pounds to the bushel. This IS
but small proportion of the worlGl
crop, however, which aggregats
fully 55O,0OO,000 pounds. 1t is calcpN
lated that we eat about s10,000,00
worth of peanuts yearly, or 4,OQSISls
600 bushels of the nuts, either ii
candy or the original kernels. ~
shucks or shells form also good ~. >
for pigs, while, as already stat$ s
peanut vines are a frst-class fod&
for mules.
Very few peanuts are eaten ou
the pod in Europe, although
400,000,060 pounds are sent to
Britain and the Continent every
from Africa and Asia They are
Verted into oil and a sort of fioIfSS1
factories at Marseilles and seyexal
English cities. A bushel of the genu
inc peanuts Shelled can be pressed
into about gallon of oil. which is
substituted for olive and other table
oils very frequently. 1t sells at from
60 cents to 81 a gallon, and the meal
or -four left after pressure is used for
feeding horses and baked into kind
of bread which has large sale in
Germany and France. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
PEANUTS AND COOLERS.
HOW CROPS ARE RAISED, GATHERED
AND PREPARED FOR MARKET.

| The Goober is to the Actual Peanut What
! the Quahaug IS to the Genuine Clam
| Vines Are First Class Fodder for Mules
-5,0O0,OOO Bushels Fair Years Crop.
This is peanut time in the South.
Going through eastern Virginia and
North Carolina the traveller can see
through the car window row after
row of what appear to be round
bushes. They are the stacks or
shocks of peanut vines hung around
sticks waiting to be placed upon
! wagons and carried away for strip
ping. Some of the larger fields will
contain 1000 of these stacks, yield
ing from so to rs bushels Of
nuts to the acre. Most Of the nuts
grown in Virginia and North Caro-
lima are the COOLERS. The goober is
to the actual peanut what the qua
haug is to the genuine clam. The
shell usually contains but two ker-
nels. This is the nut with which the
Italians load their wagons and sell in
paper bags on the street corners. The
real peanut which answers to the
Rhode Island clam is smaller than
the goober. The kernel is about the
size of large pea and its flavor is
sweeter than the other variety. 1t is
grown principally in North Carolina
and Tennessee. Occasionally a few
get into a bog Of COOLERS, but very
seldom, as they are shelled and sold
for from 10 to Is cents
peck more than the others. They go
into candy paste and to the oil fac
tories of Europe.
The peanut farmer begins planting
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground in the spring. The shelled
nuts form the seed and about two
bushels are required for an acre. In
a few weeks the plant gets above the
earth Snd begins to leaf out. A field
of peanuts looks much like field of
clover, and during the war many Of
the Northern soldiers mistook clover
fields for peanut patches, while hunt
ing for something to vary their ra-
TONS. The plants grow in rows, very
much like potato vines, and are cul-
tivated in the same way. Weeds will
soon choke their growth, and the
pickaninnies on the farm are kept
busy during the summer in wedding
out the patches with their fingers.
Nowadays the harvesting is done by
what is called a plow, made espe-
ciaIly forIt purpose. 1t is drawn
by one mile and cuts the plants off
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29

cent lace for wealthy English house
/ began to work on it last night and
hope to finish it in ten days For thi!
work they will pay me very higl
price. Do you know what am goinG
to do with the money!"
Speak, my darling" answered the
young officer.
'"The surgeon says that you will soor
be able to get up. am going to take
you home to our little nest and take
care Of you day and night. You shall
see how happy we will be and how
quickly you will be WELL"
Dear, dear sister! Oh, what a good
idea and how shall hasten to gel
strong, so as to be able to go with
you"
One morning, when she came in, r.
diant with gladness, her brother bade
her speak low and pointed with his
eyes to new wounded officer, whom
they had brought in and placed on a
mattress beside his own. The wounded
man was N. de Lauterac d'Ambroyse,
lieutenant faux chasseu.:s pied aud
had been struck in the shoulder by a
bombshell.
Poor young mani" said Noemi,
compassionately. HE has no sister to
take care Of him." And she became
interested in this man, whose death
seemed certain.
In the meantime the days went by
and Louis convalescence progressed
rapidly. Had he not promised to
hurry? On the morning of the tenth
day Noemi arrived, JOY in her face.
bringing precious package wrapped
in tissue paper.
She, too, had kept her word; her
marvellous work was finished and she
brought it to show her brother before
carrying it to the merchant who Or
dered it, and in her joy at being able
to take her brother home she forgot
about the poor, wounded man lying be-
side her.
See how beautiful it is," she said,
displaying the delicate masterpiece up
on the bed-proud of it, not because of
it's overwhelming difficulties, but be-
cause it enabled her to realize her
most ardent wish, to bring her dear
convalescent into their little nest in
the little street, into the small lodg-
ings where happiness would come back
at the return of her beloved brother.
And they were both happy. With
hands clasped, they contemplated the
delicate lace.
All at once a piercing Shrek drew
them from their ecstasy.
In making an effort to rise NJ. de
Lauterac d'Ambroyse hal disarrange1
his bandages, the wousd reopened, and
seeE unfortunate man fS,l back on his
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
or "paddocks, y


siuice gates to admN e..
, required. The dividil 9. yep the
water uniformally S. Bver the
ground, presenting all the surface pos.
SibIe to the evaporating action of the
sun and wind. The rainfall is an i'm
portant item. The average is the low
est at the site chosen of any point on
the whole coast.
When the water enters through the
sluice gates it is held in the largest
paddocks until the evaporation raises
its density considerably. 1t is then by
smaller sluices run into or pumped up
On to higher levels. called condensers.
Here it remains until the evaporation
raises the density to that of brine. and
by this time it has lost many impur-
tiles (such as lime) which, as the wa.
ter gets dense, are boosted. Then
the manager knows by testing with a
hydrometer that the brine is ready for
the crystallizers, and it is pumped up
into them. By regular pumping the
! brine is let into and kept in the crys-
tallizers, which have already had their
bottoms levelled at a uniform depth,
and as the evaporation goes On the
water becomes too dense to hold the
salt and deposits it in beautiful crys-
tails on the bottom, forming a layer
several inches thick. Again usin ng the
hydrometer the manager knows ;when
the water has lost all the salt 4 will
give up in pure state, and when this
point is reached the remaining water
is drained off. This residue is called
mother-liquor, and contains ma.gne-
SUM, sulphates, chlorides, potassium,
etc. These impurities would bel de-
posted on top Of the salt and make
it impure if the mother-liquor we're
not drained off at the right time. fhus
pure salt only is obtained,
The salt is then harvested By sho sI
ling it up into cocks, which give fei-
crystallizers the appearance of a TIE
tary camp. When the salt has draf IL
in the cocks it is narrowed out neo
stacks of severalhundreds of tons ea 20
The stacks are then thatched, to p On.
vent the rain from dissolving the e-
The company has also a refinery, ih.
which the salt is dissolved in wat at
and again evaporated in IRON pans '
artificial heat. In this way heautifEoy
white and superior salt is obtained. ~
has also been erected to d "A
and crush the crude crystals it
here that the fine table salt is made.
Just as it is, as bay salt, it is use
largely foc packing meat for export an
meat and rabbits, sheer
cattle; tor glazing bricks andGpotteryR h
and other purposes.-Philadelphia / |
Record.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
Heartburnincs About Bonnets.

The distinguished lady writer whom
we know as Mrs. Leith Adams [sIrs. dc
Courcy Laffan) has another good Lon
don bus story for her friends. Her
usual place on bus, it may be pre-
missed. is in front "Yes, lady" said the
driver on one Of these recent hot days,
Baby and 'Smiler' is a fire pair of
'ogsas as you'll see anywheres.. But
'SnileT' has jealous mind-an' tother
day he thought as '5abyis-at, was a
bit tastier than his'n. So when We
left EN- sanding he'd ate hers salf OFF
her ed afore we could get back. That's
SlileG' ali over, that is-but he's a
grand 'css all the sa2e!"-4ondon
Chronicle.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29

on and nassed around Short poIt
stuck in the ground. The stack is
formed with the leaves outside, and
the vines are wound around it as
tightly as possible to protect the nuts
from the weather. The plan is some.
what Similar to that of binding
wheat. About three weeks exposure
seasons" the nuts and dries the
J vine, so that the pods are ready to
be picked.
| The picking is the most expensive
operation of all and takes the most
time. Whether in the barn or on the
field, all the work has to be done by
hand. The nuts are thrown into
large baskets and the vines made in
to large stacks or stored away in the
loft, for they make hay which is
really more nourishing for the aver
age mule than timothy. The vine is
little too rough for horses throat.
| but it is a luxury to the average
southern mule, who will grow fat on
peanut hay, and nothing else. In all
fields some Of the vines will be black
ened and the nuts of poor quality.
These are left on the ground and la
ter the pigs are turned into the field.
They eat everything that is left ex-
cept the roots. The nuts are not very
fattening, but they give the porker
a very sweet flavor The famous
hams cured in some parts of Virginia
owe most Of their quality to the fact
that the pigs have lived partly upon
nuts before being fed the sour milk
and garbage from the farmers kitch-
en-.
In half a dozen towns most Of the
peanut factories" are located. The
factory is merely a place where the
nut is shelled or the shell polished
for the market It is a curious fact |
that peanuts with clean, glistening
pods will sell for Is to 20 per cent.
more at retail thar those with large,
pods. althoUsilt the kerr
nels may be just as good, so the nuts
intended for the bag trade at the cir
Gus and on street corners are
secured in large iron cylinders. Then
they are carried to fans, which blow
the heavier nuts into one part of the
factory and the little ones into an
other part and at the same time re-
move the dirt which was not taken
III the shells in the cylinders. The
lark, partly filled nuts are shelled bv
machinery and sold to confectioners.
while the other ones are carried by a
ort of endless chain apparatus into
'ags, each of which will hold about
90 pounds. AS fast as a bag is
illed it is sewed with English twine.
marked with the weight and proper {
ddress and sent to the wholesale {
eanut dealer, who makes anywhere
rom 25 to so per cent. profit in deal
lg with the Italians, who are his
customers. Of late years a
uantity Of the bag peanuts has Y
one to manufacturers of cheap {
offee, to be roasted and mixed in 4
ith the coffee berry and then i
round, to be sold in packages as =
loice Mocha and Maracaibo. d
While most Of the American nuts =
e grown in eastern Virginia and r
orth Carolina and Tennessee. the s
9anut fields are beginning TO be cul- Il
yated in parts of Louisiana and Ne h
aska. Man. of the fields in North Il
srolina contain app&rentl nothing r,
It wet SAND, and the dark Green OF s
e leaves in contrast to the white q,
SIS OF the sand on sunny day is c,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
That Old Dispute.

Well after all" she said, you men
can't get around one fact when you
try to make out that mans woman's
intellectual superior. You admit that
1t vas woman who caused the first
mans downfall. Now, if that doesn't
show intellectual superiority on the
part OF the lady, I'd like to know why.
If the man had been above her men,
tally, how could she have accomplished
his overthrow? If he was ner superior
why didn't he
Pardon me" the man interrupted,
you haven't started quite far enough
back. AS in all such cases, there was
another fellow around to put her up to
it."
After which she scorned him and
entered into conversation with boy
at the other side Of the Chicago
Times-Herald. Z,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
MY PRAYER.

have no lengthy prayec TO make
When l approach my bed,
and when through Gods grace, I awake,
Again to fare ahead,
My prayer l say
Through all the day
The words are few
And simple, too:
GOD, let my faith in thee
And in thy people be
Forever strong and true"
This is the simple prayer l pray
If il be answered, l
Alone shall find the way
$ And confidently die.
IS. Z. KiSer, in the Chicago Times
Herald.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
MOUNTAINS OF SALT.
A New Industry Which VIII Help Part !
of Australia.

New Industry Which Will Help Part
of AustraIia.
Immense salt gardens have recently
been established in the neighborhooG
of Geelong, along the bay of Stingaree,
in Queensland, Australia. The site
was, until recently, barren waste of
swamp and samphire scrub, and
thought good for nothing whatever.
The present proprietors, however, have
converted it into a place of interest,
employing large number of men, and
turning out a valuable commodity,
with the sea water as their raw ma
terial.
The works, or salt gardens, present
the appearance Of chess boaaia
shallow tanks. About 800 acres
I'D in this way by niles&ofI;
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29
loafs she fearned tha sncS Ia

of the French army, WoeFt6, Rozen
vile, Saint-Private Grayelotte, Sedan
Then silence followed-no more let
ters, no more news, nothing.
Noemi, Eho never read the papers
fastened how to the Office of the Guet.
teur de Yaleneiennes ,and of the Echo
de la Fontiere. seeking there some
little ray Of hope. She listened to the
talk on the street, she mingled with
the groups of people commenting on
the news, she gave ear to the painful
accounts of the war and she learned.
with sinking heart, that her brothers
n regiment had met with severe losses.
y Meanwhile the wounded soldiers
were sent, through Hirsan and Aves-
nes, to the towns and cities on the
northern frontier. Every day fresh
conveys arrived in Valenciennes.
All the hospitals were full and still
they came. rhen private ambulances
were organized everywhere, churches
and factories opened their doors to the
unfortunate wounded soldiers.
One morning the report was circu-
lated that a convoy of wounded from
her brothers regiment had arrived
during the night.
To the poor girl a glimmer of hope
returned.
She ran from one to the other, ask
ing of the nurses, bending over every
Sot; but the hope of the morning val-
4shed.
All at once she remembered that the
Gay before they had opened in Saint
Saulve a hospital intended especially
for the officers. Was thereSany posi-
6iiity that an unknown sergeant might
have been brought there? Surely not.
Yet, notwithstanding, she found
strength to go thither
An army surgeon came toward her.
What do you wish mademoiselle?"
"oh, monsieur! Pardon! am look
ing for my brother, Sergeant Louis /
-:EEZsrdier.
''Yoa mean Lieutenant Louis Yer
dier?" And pointing with his finger
down the long row OF mattresses on
the floor, there he is i'll the sixth bed"
To the poor girl it seemed as if the
earth vanished from beneath her feet.
She choked back an exclamation Of
joy, tottered forward few steps and
with an outburst of Infinite happiness
knelt before the bed of Lieutenant
Verdier, who, with his head wrapped
in linen, was lying in heavy stupor.
Louis! Louis! 1t is l." she ex-
claimed, trembling, with clasped hands,
ready to fall
At his appeal the wounded man re-
covered his consciousness, opened his
eyes and perceived his sister, but not ,
being able to raise his head he
stretched forth both his hands, which ,,
she seized in hers AMI covered with
tears.
In the meantime the surgeon ap- .
sroached, and, half un unwillingly, led her '
cause him any emo r
guarantee anything, 7
hers wound is do =
kover, tnat is GER i
DO our work" |.
Z. teur-"
Or lie docteur. is
Come back @
go home" Ii
is, said the u
days later, ii
her brother, W
for whom I h
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-29

1
siderable loss from friction, under
which gold, because of it's softness,
loses weight sometimes with startling
rapidity. 1t is estimated that gold for
these purposes is used every year to
the amount Of fully $4,000. 900. This,
with the amount, S1O,OO0,OOO, used in
the arts, makes an annual total Of
! S60,000,000 in these two directions
alone. Then there is to be added the
uncertain and smaller. yet by no
means inconsiderable amount of gold
lost every year by fire, shipwreck and
| carelessness.
Since the resumption of specie pay
ments in 1879" says Mr.. Hurley.
treasury officials estimate that $780,
100000 in gold has disappeared from
circulation. The Bank.of England is
said to be poorer by s4O0,00O.OO in
gold than it was in 1897 France re-
ports an immense decrease in gold
coined and in reserve, and other coun-
tries have similar stories to tell. An
inquiry recently set afoot by our
treasury department showed that the
holdings in gold of the national banks
on April 26 were $195, ,769.S72. The
treasury holdings on May l were
426,989,371, the two items aggregatins
S622,759,242. The estimate for MAY /
was S1,043,525, III. which LETT S420.000.-
600 to be accounted for as held by state (!
and private banks, trust companies.
and in safes, tills, pockets and boards.
"A large amount of gold is taken out
Of the country by travellers. One tour
ist agency receives from travellers
from 100000 to S15N,0G1 per year and
.urns it into the Bank of England.