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C-lu:loix daily oi;3n:vj;L;, .ynuak3T 23. ico j. 11, M..r 37 COES TO SCIiOO H Topsy vr 'iraa.' IiAvxma HT "was Indeed uott pertinent little I ( eulld Muver found when, the rot - back from wie city lata the day of tha merrwreble, i rida .The con clusion of th training of Polly Ann -.- proved mere than sufficient punish ment, cor utu Mies Topsy Turvy, ' -' Muver. thinking H would be mora than cruel ton her part to add anything- fur ther- to Topsy penitence and even hu , initiation, A clean breast, was made 01 tne wnoie performance. Marr .stand inf toy to take her full share ef the ' ilam. Aunt. Rose, too,' rave her ver- v sien mt H ana had : it not been for Tepsy T.' tearful countenanoe. even Muver could not have refrained from laughter, for "ell 1 -welt that end veil." but Muver never laughed a , Topsy griefs, ' To the child they were ' Just a real and cruel and hard aa the cares of grown up folks, and all , -" little people,, therefore, reasoned Muv er;' should nave the sympathy - their - : beats hunger for Just as w oldroika , feel and desire. Ah I Muver, can It be j v possible that there are few like you? ' Perhaps this la truebut .even one - sudh life Is one of those thing which ' U "worth while'' In the Tunning of this race which wo callLife. , ' - .- ." , " -' Now one day it came about that 1 Muver realised if Topsy did not. that ?.-' the babyhood days were ended.' Here before her stood little 8-year-old girl. ' : with book, slate and pencil, all ready for. the strings of the Mue sunbonnet 7 to be tied, and then she would et forth to her first school. It was quite a de mure, timid, half afraid little freckled face that looked out from the depths of the bonnet that September morning "-and Topsy was Just . sure the . aaw tears In Mover's eyes. ' ,- 1 "Would -you -druther I didn't go, MuverT" sort of confided. Topsy as aha cuddled closer. "No, darling. Muver wants you to go and be a good little girl and (have the very best lessons of anybody in all the school.- r - - For, a moment tbe bonnet Aid two .V face back in -its depths, a and their f Topsy trotted away . toward her first "v.. ' ' tehool' while Muver stood on the porch ; - and waved her an encouraging good : bye. just before the little figure turned -the corner out of sight. . t, " --Beneath tbe neat, fresh blue ' and ? white gingham' ("olen glnan" she had '' called them In her baby days), beat f a-little heart excitedly, as Topsy got p ;; " farther and farther from home, and w M nearer to tne school about which she -had heard so much, but knew ao lit-.- tie. Though store knew It not (fortu " natefy ' for all children), little Topsy ' ,.T, was taking her first step out Into , 1 the big, unknown world. V 'all of Topsy" a playmates of her age bad been in school for two years, but (Muver had "notions," and - Topsy ; " T. had never been to school. She had a vu, not been Idle at home, however, for with (Muver as teacher, the child had -V- learned her letters, then to read and . write, almost without effort. It seem ed, so gradually had H been done. There "bad been some Instruction too. In arithmetic!, and even a wee bit ef muslo attempted, but -flggertn' " was a hard Job, and -while ehe had. since - j t ; he could remember anything, loved to "'-"listen to others make pltty music. -"v-'' It seemed most: uphill business for her ' , ;' own short fingers She never failed to v-,-..!!' tht iwhoto notes Ws.".or to Insist 1 that If a "rest was a rest, then why , , not do Itr "Flggerln' " and 'Mooslc." v therefore,, were not pressed Into Top sy's early life to the point of irksome- 7 .- ! item. Instead the things she naturally i . loved were cultivated, " and among " these was found a real passion for el ' most anything In the shape of a now ' er. 7 One winter day as the child stood with her face pressed close to the win i new pane watching the beautiful snow - - as It fell so white and silently out side, suddely she turned to Muver ..-with the Question: : "Muver, what comes of the flowers - . now while its. so cold?" - . 'They are asleep,' Miss Topsy T., . :? way down In the ground where It's warm." ' "Then, when it comes time for 'errH to wak up, weckon God calls 'em and t telhr 'em to ret up,' like you ,ao me in 1 , the mornln's?" : W: .; ,, "Well, dear not exactly Ukethat, ; hut X the way Jle does' It Is In sending the . i nice, warm rain and sunshine in April. i . and then. Just directly, the little heads - v -begin to peep, up all about us. It i won't be so lone as April, either, be t fore we shall find, out among the leaves, some little blue fellows ven ; turlng Torth with their cheeks all la ' Aei wffh Berfume.'' 1 . , "Violets!", laugbted the child tn "Muv- i er's face. , ' '. So' the 'teachlnsr went on, ' "here- a v little, there a little,? and although It S5: " may be Topsy s "book" - leanintr was i not a great a It miqbt have boen. Who can say, but that she bad . '". " knowledge of other things yet more to V be desired t t ' .-.v---Perhaps you may be thinking by this - time that Topsy was air of the good ; - euid hone of the bad but. such ts far from the truth. She Was a little miss With a 'Will of her own, this showing :f.r;V' Itself -very early In her young life. By ' ' the time she could walk ahe'was set 'I. . In ber- ways, and as stubborn as a i vnule." some one had said of her not t Muver, although perhaps she knew It ..: oesf oi any am.- two uiuw ' i before the morning Topsy T. ' had atarted to school. -Muver and this . young lady vhad . been - engaged in a contra t very concerning one of those very borr- ; nets which ToDsy bad come so odoui , ntly to havered, when she was about , ' to venture out Into the world. You see ft was J Ike. thta Topsy T.'s childhood - was in the days when sunbonnets were thought' to be the things tor cnuaren .t't'to wear, and Muver bel'eved In them i' - most heartily. Underneath., the frock- IV - . . ... . . X .-J 1m ; av aa. aa. - aafkUa' sbM . Mrs A knn. lev v wmw - lAli) , sw aavaaa1. vuu wu- i nets : were the things to protect this, x and .keep oft more 'freckles, thought ' Muver, but Topsy. thought differently. She loved to run ft wild -In a freedom of dress 'which would not hinder her Jw her tomboy pursuits for Topsy had : surely 'acquired much -of thla love of freedom and a certain tomboyiahhess V titt ' The calf .episode would convince one of this. , "Bonnets shut up tight, I-1 and I Just -'splse 'em, she had .been ' ' t heard to say much preferring any sort of old hat-One-bright, sunshiny mom , ing,, then, fully two years before the , school day had dawned, Topsy refused .! (absolutely to wear the much desolsed -head gear. When.' Muver-told her to " get the bonnet and put It on.' this ' i young lady doubled her,. smaU fisfa, p tamped tier foot, -and (I ,am ashamed to tell you of it), .looking Muver de t fiantly but square in the eyes, said: "I ain't -gonner do iti now. Muvert" Howyeally funny the smalt mite look ed In her- wrath! '.- and- Muver felt- a . great desire to laughbut not no! that , -would never do. This matter muet be setlled now once and for all. r Again Muver aald gently;- "Topsy, will yovi get your .bonnet at once; or will Muver have to make you?" , "Well," I'.Jcst ain't gonner get It no matter whir you -do,". came the quick and angry response. In the house where Topsy T. lived thre was jai large unimed room, not real dark and cobwebby, but dark Turvy Story sioiuusox turner. eneugh to make Topsy hate to go there even when she was In good and regu- lar standing with Muver-and .now It , w. ?' . v. did not, try to get- away, either,, .but. walked along Quite oraveiy,: ciapKine; hr ' heela down, however. ; In a iao f.'FJ'"" .r2W?:.r Jl!---. I. kvviwiu uu wu-ub ubi vui - ... t rlnn'fr r N. hit If Van ITCi taking me, to that old room, 'eause I ain't frald." after a pause. , , "Muver, it you do put ma In toere. I won't go uptown with, you either, so I won'tl Ana won t never nnng you HKe t UtelX:S,'...'-.;"'rt''',.' ,By4hl tlmo'the door of the room in with onit a. flhow of bra.vcrv. With-1 VUV I'-a :1 Vl WM V V V ii Vi away-and thera was perfect stillness throughout the whole bouse. Muver had really not gone far; away, bowr ever, for truth to tell, this little episode .. hnrrin Hr as vet , far worse ." " - . Z V ., , than TOTjSV. 1 j " - . , , . t ' Presently she beard most defiant and moat unpenitent Jlltia voice cmi out in angry tones: "Muver," you ain't nothln' but an old lug, so you atn't, and' I ''never will love you no mere- no I won't! -Wnett. I get out er nere I'm gonner- run away, and when I don't never come back you'll be sorry you won't good to me, so you wilU? From Muver there was n response. Dut an remained serene na qumi i slde. Just at this time a breeze sprung up and sort of flapped 1 and rattled one of Ihe blinda at a window near Topsy. Ordinarily this would not have frightened ner, mis ene- was always 'fraid.',. she acknowledged, where she was bad, Muver heard the blind, and also the quick movement or some uivie feet up nearer the door. "Muverl" caned auite a timid little voice this time. , . "Tea, dear! ' Then a pause for tome moments: although Muver had dls-1 "uccessrui painter,, sculptor, ana Jims-tlnctly-heard the 'sigh of relief that I trator is deep tn work, the profes- sbe was ao near and longed to take j sionat moaei wno stanas without turn the little girl tn her arms but the j lng a hand from day a beginning to time waa not vet,'-- - - ft day's end has employment for every -Muver. when veu aonner let tne eutr j "When you are ready to do what Muver wants you to do, not before."" Another - silence, v longer even than the first time. It always took Topsy a, rood-wblle to surrender her will, but when ehs did tt was complete capitu lation. - ' "I love rou. Muver.' "Do you. darling. Muvefa mighty glad." i "Tes, I does a whole heap!' "Muver y "Tea, dear?' Do you know where' my sunbonnet 1ST" "I think you know. Topsy. "Muver. I believe if you will let mei out I'll get it ana wear it." Bv the time Muver had the door un locked, a very penitent little girl was hugged up close in those arms, waiting Impatiently, too, for the chance of itj Now on this later day. aa Muver i looked intb the sunbonnet and saw thrfi thn exnectant , little face all ready to walk out Into , a new world, one, perhaps not ao kind as this she was ieavmg-wiin a pang wiw muuiw niLir.fiA the ending of the baby days ana. the entering Into that path lead ing out into the . woria ana me. ui euch was the dawning or tne nay wnen Muver stood on the norch- and waved Topsy T. ' a smiling good-bya as that little lady turned the corner into tne) new byways.. ... -1 1 " - ABOUT A CIGAtt. Hie Itot4rd Capitalist Tells Not of Hla Rtrt. hut oi Ills im D Back. New York Sun. . , Hnw rtlii I Bet my first start in life? Why, I think I'd rather tell you today," aald the genial retired capi-l t&llst, "how I got my first betpaca. "I had been plugging along at a Job I bad, faithfully, with strict attention to duty and as hard as I knew how, and I was getting' the-rewards that never fall to come to that sort of j work If you've got the nerve to keep it ho. But there was a limit to thei possibilities where I was then, and I was looking for a place where I could hatva - more ; scnoe. and in due time -1 heard of a Job that was Just what I waa looking for. ,; v . "I - applied for the Job and I was received by an elderly; but at the same time very keen gentleman, who tnuM m' verv kindly and told ma finally that if they concluded to en-j gage me they wouia ie me anow vire i next day, I knew that I never would i hear from them and I never did; an other man got the Job. "Now why didn't I -et it 7 I learn ed why about .two years later, "Then, atlil working for the old on cem, I went one aay; mio ms omcw of a house that wa did business with, ind got through the buslmms all right as usual, but when t was coming away this man here, a good deal Older than mvleif aav to me: ' . . . Hfflo von come here I'd be obliged If you'd leave you cigar outside the door - "And th en it came to me all In a heap why I hadn't got the other Job. I I was a smoker, and i nao waixea m- to that other man's 'office with a cigar hi my Angers; and it wasn't a bad cl- gar, either, but I had gone in to see - huu i.iaaL wkiil was contrary to good taste and food ! manners and good businesa-. . - k ' i ' t. . . " ' I. L , .r. in.na- n. nM .nwilof a Bloux Indian, and long, black hair ment and showing ' that I was sUve to jf 0 Bu?" a habit. -or else It was showing that Bill hw'.1Jf ,S rywhere wel ? Lu-, iw . corned as he follows hla route from Independence that made me stick to that cigar to snow it, even wnen i was going into the.preeence of a -stranger, And he, knew of -course. , that U.l would walk into - his offlcswlth;a u.a t wM rait inMKtiiM omoes wher I might be -looking for business for, him in. the .same. way, Into offlcea where my cigar would be likely to strike other people Just as it had him. , And that would be bad business.. u -t.a- J-. I ."And there was my apparent flaw --.j h. ju. .i. 1 or; take th.e risk of teaching me. . And so I never heard from him. - 'A- ''But i had learned considerable In that two years time, Or I ioond I v.i t, th. mi f. ti,. vt jx;ii , tut, auwc jvjia i vui ui iimiu who Invited, me to leave my cigar on the outsider and I cut out smoking al-1 togeiher whea I was around on busf- nesa and about a week later I went agaiftto see the man I had been to see two years before,", but this time carrying no lighted cigar Into his of- flee and carrying no stale smoky odor about my clothes., - . VI hadn't lost one single-particle of my independence, but I had acquired Mme sort ot sense of tho courtesy due to other people, of the respect. In fact, due to them and their establish ment. And ' the keen old gentleman was sitting 'thert Just the same and siced me up in a minute, he knew by how much I'd grown, and there wasting to spend it they begin to fidget on j. ...-rcnt touch In his kindness to me now, ana- "Uut 1 wasn't going to tell you how I got my first start in life, but- how i. sot my first setback, as I've Just done, and If you are looking for texts lor aspiring- young:.' men, why, you might set down as the one, for toi day: ' "Never go looking, for Job with a liu m your mouw." - ; ,i. t"u--. i ,j I. ir. ; j Needed Idght From the Fire, ""w- neraio. ""le town of Imlngton is.a i wk great pnae. it is composed of voi- unteera and at the flr.t alarm the force wt nurneajy that the equip I r . V cumpieie.,- ' .1 'Not long ago a fire broke out at mid niMt, When the department v. arrived 1""". vm iniern eouia D louna. Tne I BrnoltB W rHMirlnar f,i, 4h. h,,l1illn hut no, flame apw-ared and the night T?fft d"tf ' ,aliy -iteagus ol SuiTd'ngTherow'd the' ma at . the nossle directed a atream ot wa- wj vwrt . . . r, I ln". tnanf ITun l) w-- ni T. the only light we've got to put out ths4 I r- ,T. "T-ZL' -wVb ais asva sy . - h v. ruWPtoVnt that lemons can & rates in KenVuck? as - he has grown - them himself. One 5n7 h,n ; ;ln r0""1'"-. Mr. McM.akln. planted a "ei?J ,n,ra oy a inena 4n w York In nil 'Aht-alnaul .v.r.l , else, They require too much attention to .oiuoKy to any exient, few oan be raised - without dlt- I EARNIi fl LIVING ? IDLY I I The Duties Of an flrllst's Model I Not So Easy ifls They tTppear OSTON, Jan. 17. About hardest worked people In the world, are those, who for hours at a time do J absolutely nothing but keep quiet At j cms ume ef the year, when the art jecnoois are run ot pupns ana overv I minute of every hour. His life M hard, exacting one. The spectacular side, particularly ? that of the women models, who pose for poDular illus- trators, Is. pretty familiar through full page "features" tn Sunday newspapers, but the downright 'severe labor pf ordinary posing, with the aroma of Bo hemlanlsm left out that la the real story of the professional poseur. " A hard life, as has Just been said. Only the men models. In fact, can en dure It for any length of time. Women come and go, but their little day of becoming famous as the models from whom prize pictures or world-renown ed mural decorations are painted, and then disappear. Less is written of the men .models, but they are a more con- Earning, a Living as a Model V- "i ... i. stant factor. With many of them it is a regular business, learned laborously and followed out through many years, Some - of the men . are cosmopolitan waeMr pMlnf.no J0" fw week" StS Boston, how in a western city or again t"rnn V.i of w"1 MntOT of the Old World where the. wages (are less but the expenses. of living cor- responding lower. . Bohemian of tMs type Is the most famous of -them all, an Italian who. u?f .r r"v':', T. " "tUe town of Italy, has posedfor ery . great nm oi nwaern n tor the atudents of almost every art. school. - The. drawings and ."H.",0"? .51,.'"!"! 2lidi1 Jl"!?! : j v "i" ftyV. A w" EFifL T40 ,xtJ?ctl,n In Boston has been posing steadily for M classes of the X"l fu"V"r i- In that . time he has .Tever trailed further from home than New York and then only for brief wiBagemeiiie. s always ousy. y the season does he . have a spare forenoon or afternoon, and even tt JtLlftrJJ'on' physical culture. Tet the hard work 1" wrii nira ww .w M, M wf ' TI. 111,11 T' " ' In speaking of his experience this I J xil l.a .1 ' w il !ro?ft, th5 . Po aalVatlon w',eu"-" , " , w , ence. a mf-n must pose netter each montb n paln. caln' to;get en- r"r-ments a all, , ; - "A fellow gets up before a Class of students," he says, "at nine o'clock In the morning and falls Into his pose, That isn't so hard. It's keeping, the pose a Whole week without changing the character of It that is so difficult. you've got to remember and .you've got to do some thinking. - Most model consider only the end of their week's work and the money ; . they will get theri. ' While they are thinking about that and speculating how they are so IX SUNNY OLD. SFAIX; Milwaukee Sentinel.' ,- , you may talk of skyscrapers that tower, And rear their heads high to, the, Sky, Tou of mansions may prate and stories , relate , ( . ,', (' c Of thslr wonders that'dassle the eye:' : But there's 'something I sing of .that's ' grander, rW - ., r Whose beauties axe hard to explain 1 in a far away land X hava reared with, a ,,wand J'-L, :. ,v -A castle Jtn sunny old bpaln. , '. Tour ' mansions may gleam : with . their ; splendors1 ' But what are their splendors, to meT.-v Your columns of white may stand In their Attesting ' to, man's witchery. " - And nema flash from over the main But there's naught can compare with my oastie m air My castle ta sunny old Spain,- '': Hose covered, vine laden. It stands there. - wun nails an a-guuer wnn eoia j There's a fountain of wine a neotar dl vine- - - -That la sweeter than nectar of old Tou may hear, if you wish, inkling muslo That ia bairn for each sorrow and pain msr uii wim twi wii wuu a, uiw; ring In my castle. In 'sunnjr old Spain. Tls true that my castle Is flimsy " Anrt tar far awav la thfi land: Tie true it may fade, aa castles will fade That tn .reared on the uncertain sand. But when Crumbled to dust are its pillars. And all scattered, Uk wind-blown rain. I have only to dream, and lo! there will gieam , - " -Another in sunny old Spain. the model stand, the body sways back ward and forward In a sort of rhyth mic way ' and. soon the model has slumped Into something very different from what he started with. "Well( that won't do at all. will It? None of tha artists who teach, in the Museum are going to stand for that. Tou see there, are perhaps 40 or GO young men ' ' or women in the class and evenMHtle shift or turn you make . disconcerts somebody. The be ginners, especially, have been used to drawing fronv the casts, and if you don't stand pretty still they get per plexed and pusaled. Then they be come discouraged. The Instructor finds they're not - advancing -and wonders what's the matter with them. It Isn't their fault of course. It's the fault of a model that Isn't Interested in what he is doingi-?.; v "But the real professional and there are only a very few of us in this busi ness is alt the timer thinking how he can carry out -the idea expressed in his pose. Keeping still without be coming listless Is the hardest thing in the world, to do. I have performed feats with circuses, taught physical culture, assisted at demonstrations in anatomy classes, where I have made myself at will Into a living skeleton or a fat man, and done a lot of other things that I am going to put into my autobiography when I write it; but I tell you, none of the 'stunts' I have ever performed la as difficult as that of just standing perfectly etui on tne model block and not moving a quar ter of 'an inch to right or left. "It isn't the first fifteen minutes that hurts; It's the occasional prolongation after your regular stopping time. Or dinarily a recess comes after three quarters of an hour, ' but sometimes, when the Instructor, is' criticizing a large class I hold a pose for two hours or more without rest. They al ways tell me, of course, to stop, but I know it pleases them' beet for me to keep right on. Alter,-, long; pose a man needs a long rest with absolute relaxation. "Who are the men In the profession? Well, I'll ' toll you. There are about half a dozen of us In this country who are really professionals, and then there Is a great reft of people who get a little posing to do now and then Most Of these come tn from other call ings; sometimes It's a case of an actor who hasn't got an engagement and must live somehow.' - There ' are a lot of semi-professional Italians who have been accustomed '-topose7" for almost nothing In their own country and who come here and cut' the rates. One or the most. popular models for many years In New .Yorka fellow with whom t posed when I was over there for a few week, was a big.- full blood ed Indian. He was one of the few-real professionals. AH sorts' of people try it on -now . ana tnen wnen- they get l -.1 .... . - .. Posing in the life classes of a school like the one at ;the Boston Museum is about . the most satisfactory kind thero is. If a -man gets well liked by the Instructors and' students the work is steady and the pay of course sure. And that's more than you can say tor tne loos ottered by , some of the art ista. - Some painters want to engage you to go to. their studios for a day now and then. If you agree you very iikeiy lose a soua week of employ ment . 'J'' ''f, w "Another-thine that rhaks )nr in the art school more satisfactory Is that the - teachers never . choose ex aggerated attitudes. In a . painter's stuaio you may save to do all sorts ot queer . things, sometimes when - an artist Is representing a - man thrown from a- Horse ha will r swing ' you in ruins . i . iiwi-air ana maxe you Keep a pose ot mas sort lor nours at a time, with every muscle of your bodv unusr severe strain. . -rne instructors at tha school believe that tt ts better wr uw luutuu m qw trom simple, graceful poses into which tha.Mv settles naturally, i They don't- encour age any doing feats for the sake of iiuwuiaf ore nig musciea That a petter for the ' students and It won't : wear the model out": ' w v Lurlng the last season models arh as either of the two ; Just described win pose ior rronr nine to fourteen hours a day. These men have to keep themselves In excellent onriirn f beings strictly temperate In matters of eating and drinking. ;( Many artists have the rAnutatinn. being inexhorable In their demands tipi on tha model's strength.' A .charac teristic example appears In an anec dote of the late Adolphe .Menset, the German painter, who at one time was engaged on a work of mural decoration and kept a man boslna 'in an lngly fatiguing position on a scarfold for two hours. The great calmer work ed away heedless of the: model's dls- vviiiwri. iiiiauy in , Victim " fiallad down, "Herr Professor, how about the recess " f- . a y " ' 4 , -, "Certainly tnv dear sir. r!nm right away, and you shall have your recess.' -, . As the model was decniiina rr'wn the ecaffoldlng his limbs awsumed a' position for - which the . artist had long been looking. ' . . "Stop!". Menael thundered. HoMi Ah, fine!' Keep that up while'I make a little skethch ef it." The. artist drew vigorously for half an hour, at the end ot whlrh he called out Imperatively, ."There that will do for now; wt up on the scaffold attain. We have bad our recesel'V .. i QEOLOQY , OF ; KORTII CflnOLIMfl 4 ' VOL; I; Corundrum t and Peridotltes. CORUNDUM AND THE fERirK TITBS OF WKfttKRN NORTH " CAROLINA; By Joseph Hyde Pratt and Joseph, Volney Lewis. -Under the. above title Volume I-of the Worth Ctrolina- Geological Survey reports has recently appeared. The scope of the work, however, is broader in many ways than this title indicate It is a volume of 464 pages and 4a illus trated by 45 plates and 85 figures In the text. While the report is the re sult ot collaboration, the work has been divided) ex that. In the main, the mln- eraiogical investigations have been conducted by Dr. Pratt and the retro graphical study of associated rocks has oeen tne work of Professor Lewis. A brief sketch of s-eolosry of the State Iff given In chapter I, with a somewhat fuller description of the belt of gneis ses, granites and schists, constituting tne mountain section of the West and in which the peridotltes and the corun dum deposits of the Stat occur. :; Chapter II deals with the peridotl tes and. associated basic : magnealan rocks,. Including four varieties of peri dotltes, four pyroxenltes, four gabbrolo rocks,, an, amphlboilte, and three vari eties of dlorite. These rocks are dis cussed In their relations to the belt of similar rocks which extends the whole length of the eastern chrvstalline belt from central Alabama . through Oeor gea, . South Carolina, North Carolina, .Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Penn sylvania, New Jersey, New York,, the New- England ; States, Quebec and Newfoundland. Maps are given showing the distri bution and relations of these rocks to the chrystauine rocks In eastern North America and Western North Carolina, besides several detailed maps of vari ous portions of the belt of particular Interest. The contoured map of West- em North Carolina is on scale of eight miles to the inch, with the base printed In three colors, after the man ner of the maps of the United States Geological Survey. On thds the "Con glomerates, quartsites, slates, etc., chiefly 'Ocoee.' correlated with Cam brian by the U. 8. Geological Survey,", and the ''Gneisses, schists, granites. dforitea and other chrystalllne rocks Of pre-Cambrl an age." are clearly repr resented by tints, while the numerous dikes of peridotltes and related rocks and the occurrences of carundum, chromlte and asbestos, are shown in bright red. , - The petrographlc descriptions - which constitute chapter III are illustrated by halt-tone reproductions of photomi crographs, showing the mlneralogle and structural variations and modes of alteration of the rocks described. Following the general description of these rocks throughout the Appalach ian region, the distribution and ds trographic characters are given in con siderable detail for western North Carolina. - In addition to .the numerous fades it ferlmary rockn, secondary types are also described. Including those me-' chanlcally derived from the primary types, now represented by gneisses, schists and gnbbro-diorlte, and also serious of hydrous alteration pro ducts, including serpentine, steatite. and chloritite (chlorlte-rock). The vast majority of occurrences of these bas ic rocks, while showing more or less alteration, are essentially fresh prim ary types, especially the pure ollvlne- rock dunlte, which Is much the most common. Steatite is pretty widely dls- tnnutea as an alteration product, but massive serpentine le almost entirely confined to an area extending about 15 miles north and south of the French Broad River. ' Even In these cases, however the origin of the serpentine form peridotltes of exactly similar character to those found In adjoining regions is very evident. Chapter IV takes up the modes of alteration and decomposition of tbe peridotltes and five distant-processes are recognised: L. Weathering; . Ber pentlzatlon;.S. Steatltiiatlon; 4. Chlo ritlsatlon; : 5. Amphlbolisatlon: The processes of weathering and serpen- tinlsation v are wellnlgh universal though developed only to a slight ex tent, except In a few localities. Al temtlon.to talc, chlorite and anphlbole are much more limited In their man! festatlona, . but have given rise to many Important rock massea The va rtous 'processes as affecting the peri dotttesjrftf diverse composition are. de scribed minutely. The long vexed question of the orl gin 'of -the peridotltes is taken un In Chapter V. The strong trend of -mod era thought toward the theory of Igne ous origin Is clearly brought out, and the .- correctness of this theory Is a- bundantly substantiated by observe tlons, !n North Carolina, -The' data presented upon this point are arranged under five heads: 1. Mlneralogle char acters; 2. Mlcrosooplo characters; 3. Gross structures; 4. Modes of occur ence;. 5. Relation to the gneisses and schists. This Is followed -. by a dis cussion of the general petrology ot the pertdotltea And associated rocks in which the conception of genetlo unity of the whole series is strongly em ohaslsed. In discussing the magmatlo relation of the peridotltes, anorthosltes. em pllkbolttes, tc, it wo generation's 00 corundum are recognised. The great er part, including all depoalts of com mercial value, belongs to the first generation, and was formed by the crystallization of the excess of alum ina In the original perldotlte magna. A very small part, however, occurlng in microscopic grains,, has been pro duced by an excess of alumina arts Ing from the corrosion "Of emqrthlts by the still molten magna. . This process has produced the .sheaths of Inter mediate minerals which form the cor rosion mantles, so beautifully devel oped In some localities, or which, in some cases,: entirely replace the an orthlte or the olivine, as the case may be, with nest-llke aggregates. 1 . , , -. . Regarding tho age of peridotltes, the conclusion of the present writers mav be summarised, as follows! sufficient data are not yet available for a satis factory determination of the age of these rocks; but their intrusion.-was probably i Conternporaneous.wor practi cally so, for the whole region,, from Newfoundland to Alabama. The perl dotlte belt. lies ln,a region -of great disturbance and intense metamorph lam. (.This fact, together with the geo logical relations to the northward. suggest the hypothesis that the prin cipal period of . intrusion was closely associated wttn tne orogento move nwrnts which tiosed th -Ordovician period... The distribution of these rocks may well mark to a great extent the axis of most Intent folding and fault Ina.vTha later Appalachian disturban ces, at the close of Carboniferous, have produced the lamination so often In these rockav and -.have : probably riven occasion for a later minor mtrssions. This hypothesis Is not offered as a fin al answer to tne question oi age or the peridotltes. Much painstaking work yet remains to be done before ao en tirely ' satisfactory solution t ot . this problem can be ex : acted. , , , - The chapter closs with a discussion of the relation of the secondary rocks, : In which tht attempt is made to trace, - , , - i . 1 tho various' laminated and'hydrated alteration products back to their or iginal types. Here the '-questtion Is whether the amphtboUtes, - dltorites, hornblende-vchlsts and ( hornblende gneisses may not themselves have been derived ' from Corresponding py roxenlo types such as ' are met with In tlfe Maryland and , Deieware gabbro areas. The - fact Is pointed out that undoubtedly gabbro-diorttes do exist in portions of the belt In North Caro lina, and banco it is considered prob able that many, - If not all of these rocks as well aa similar rock through out the region have had a like origin. After a discussion of i the physical and chemical properties of corundum In Chapter VI is given ' a . description of the various applications of the min eral in the arts, and an outline of tbe t process of manufacture of the several types of corundum and . emery wheels on the market. Chapter VII deals with the modes of Occurence of corundum. In North Caro lina the mineral Is known In five types of igneous rock; namely, peridotltes, pyroxanlte, , amphlboilte, anorthosite, and pegmatite; in six metamornhlte rocks, serpentine, gneiss, mica-schist, quarts-schist, amphlbole-schlst and cblorlte-echlsts. It is also found in gravel deposits and tn deposits of emery whose relations are undermined. These modes of occurence are describ ed in detail and are compared with similar occurences, when known In other parts of the world. The: de. poslts which have been of chief com mercial Importance in North Carolina have been associated with peridotltes, and to a less extent , with pyroxenltes and amphlbolltee.- The gravel deposits are of considerable Interest on account of the corundum gems (ruby) and as sociated garnet gema (rhodolite) that have been found in some of them. The chief localities 1 of corundum- 'bcarlng peridotltes are In Clay, Mac on and Jackson counties In tbe north western corner of th State, and most ot the corundum-bearing gneisses, etc are also found in tha same counties. Certain scattered occurences of corun dum in amphlboilte dikes and, also tn the gneisses are found east of the mountain' region, particularly In 'Ire del Countv. "Other occurences of corundum In America" extends the list of corundum-bearing Igneous rocks to Include granite, syenite, nephellne-syenlte. plumaslte, norlte, andeslte, and mon- chlqulte, and adds crystalline lime stone to the list of metamorphlte corundum-bearing rocks. A brief descrip tion of each of these modes of occur ence is given with reference to the lit erature of those that have been pre viously described. An additional list of "Modes of occurence of corundum not found in America" adda to the number of corundum-bearing Igneous rocks kyschtymite, tonalate, gabbro. quarts-porphyry, trachyte and basalt, besides contactsones and inclusions to Igneous rocks. To the metamorphia list are added corundum-schists and porphyrons, and graphite. These are followed. In tutn, by brief descriptions completing the list " to date of all known modes of corundum through out the world. The dlstrubution of corundum Is de scribed in Chapter VIII. Like the perl aotites, this is treated nrst with re ference to the Appalachian belt as a whole, noting the occurences In Ala bama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Connecticut,- and Massachusetts. Cor undum in the western part of the country includes descriptions of occur ence's thus far known In Montana, Col orado, and California. This is follow ed by a description of the North Caro lina localities in detail, arranged by counties beginning In the south western corner of the State. The Chap ter closes with the description of foreign corundum and emery deposits. Including those of Canada, India, Turkey and the Grecian Archipelago. Chapter IX deals with the alteration of corundum and lta associated min erals in great detail. The list of min erals found associated with corundum in North Carolina Includes 13 species, each of which is described with Its mode of occurrence of corundum Many have chemical analyses and crystallo graphlt: characters also given. "Min erals associated with corundum not found in North Carolina" adds 12 more to the list from various Ameri can and foreign localities. The difficult question of the origin nf corundum Is discussed In ChapterX This is prefaced by an account ot tne artificial production of corundum, and the origin of corundum In nature Is Introduced by a sketch of the various hypotheses that have been proposed during the last quarter of a century. After a discussion of th field relations INDIAN TRADITIONS III-.The Successful Quest -By MBS. SARAH Tha proud and senslttv 'nature "of the Indians is th chief feature of the Successful Quest." Their almost un pronounceable name are often i curl ously -descriptive of some traH ortpiaee it before them Incidentally, characteristic of the Individual; "7ti)ftS leave them. to think It out tui "Baln-ln-the-fac' "Is maicatlv , of general , indifference to ... outward k cir cumstances, but sometimes la given to one who ia unusually brave. . ; THE SUOCESSFUI QCTEST Tumbling, - grumbling, ' leaping, run ning, vaulting, Whirling almost ; fly ing cam "Kaln-ln-the-face," the In dian boy , who seemed sot to know enough to protect himself from th storm. - ; - - y 1 After exhausting - himself with H most original series of calisthenics, he rolled over on the grass and com menced looking earnestly for some minute object which was - hard to And. , . . , . ' i 4 Ke continued this diversion till be coming drowsy, sleep: put a tempo slon house." - -." t rary stop to bis queer- actions, much to the ' relief of :; thos who 7,: were watching r him as they , never - knew what, hs would do next, - , " He wa the prlvueged crank - of the band that , bad ' encamped ' near tne grounos or tn -mobs root roi- His existence was suposea 'to be productive ot good fortune to those around him. therefore he was not only indulged without comment In alt his . freaks, . but was "treated kind ly and made to feel his own import ance, by hla people. ' For. being dif ferent from other, he waa supposed to have been singled out tor the grand purpose of benencience, even by his very presence, and no amount of reasoning on the part of their teach--er could ' persuade-the Indians to give' the matter a different solution. ' Just ; here it is not inappropriate and the latter experitM ;.. 1 i i ductlon of corundum, a , I i ef corundum In fi.Uura Is fur by a sketch of the various hyp that have been introduced dun. last quarter of a century. After cuselon of the . field relations the .v.Tlatcr ; ' experiments , in the production of artificial corun " tha conclusion ' lar reached that -rundum was, held in, solution in i molten magna of the perldotlte. -w, it was intruded into the country to and that Is separated ' out among- t -first .minerals' segregated as the ma , began to cool. ' The conclusion is a i : m reached that the corundum in .... ti . o quarts-schists and , gneisses Is the re sult of metamorphiam of i-1 sandstone and ehales some' ot which were ri !i In alumina probably In the form of bauxite, which during th metamorph iam crystallised Out as corundum. Chapter XI deals with -corundum mining and milling. It 'is Introduced by a historical eketch of corundum min ing in the East, followed by a sketch ot- mining in America.' "Suggestions to prospectors" and methods of mining and milling as carried ''out at various plants conclude the Chanter. : - Chapter XII discusses the enromite, and other economic minerals ot tho corundum-peridotlte" belt. Chrmoiteln promising quanitlea has been found at a number of the perldotlte localities in ' western tNorh , . Carolina, pa rticular ly In Jackson and Yancey counties. It origin and relations are discussed and th conclusslon - reached la essentially th same as for th origin of corun dum In peridotltes. A discussion of i.it? biwuiaai vvuiiiuotuvn . VUl'UUJito,. and lta uses, .. and a description of ', the chromlte localities of the region, with a summary occurrence la other button and character of asbeetos, nic kel Area . aprnAfitlriA n-nA 1!mvnlt m1 erals which thus far are of minor tm portance In the region, close th chapt er. 1 - An Appendix, containing a Blbllo graphy of American peridotltes and ' corundum and t associated minerals is not complete, perhaps, a regards th wholo of North America, but Is ballev- ed to be practically complete for North v Carolina and the western crystalline ' region in general. There ar also many references to foreign llteraaure In foot-notes throughout the work, and the volume la closed with an a)abor ' ate index. " Copies of this Volume may! be ;hal ujr auuremiilg urilli WSFOUna UHH logical JSurvey., Chapel ,Hin, N. and -enclosing 32 cents to cover- postage,' Thought It Was a Secret."; Washington Post. x . Judge Oi M. Spencer. -a St Xeuis, Mol. lawyer, tells thla, one on himself- A lo-, cal dealer In horserlesh sold a good looking steed to a customer, who on the second day after the sale brought him back and angrily demanded the restora . tion ot his money on the ground that the animal was blind. ss i.: ' "You had the meanness," said the Irate man to the dealer, "to sell me a horse as blind as a bat and never said, a word about It." , "What you say Is true, and I eatt't' deny it," responded the other, "but I bought him from Spencer only last week, and as he failed to say anything about the horse being blind 1 supposed It was a secret." - sm THE WISE MEX. London Pally News. Step softly, under snow or rain. To find the place where men can prayr The way Is all so very plain That we may lose the way. --"vJj Oh we have learned to peer and 'sore On tortured pussies from our youth. We know ail labyrinthine lore, ,. We are the three Wise Men of yore, And we know ail things but the truth, y We have gone round and round the hill, ' -And lost the wood among the trees,. -And learned long names for every 111, .: And served the mad gods, naming stin1" Tbe Furies the Xhimenldee. . The gods of violence took the veil " : ' Of 'Inion and philosophy, . '- - The Serpent that brought all men bal. ' 1 He bites his own nccurood tall -And calls himself Eternity. , Q'a humbly it has hailed and anewed--. . With voices low and lanters lit, - !';': So very simple la the road, -'",".'., That we may stray from It. The world grows terrible and white, .i-V-wii And blinding white the breaking day. Wa walk bewllilered In tbe light. , -J, For something is too large for sight. ' -And something much toe plain to aay. The Child that was ere worlds begun (We need but walk a little way. V need but se a latch undone,) ' ' ' ' The Child that played with moon and sua -Is playing with a little hay. , . The hoa.io from whlrh the heavens ar fed, - The old Htranae house that is eur ownj: Where tricks of words are never said. And Merry Is as plain as bread And honor ts as hard as stone - Go humbly; humble are the skies, :- . And low and large and fierce the Star ' So very near the Manger ilea That we. may travel far. , , . , Hark! Laughter like a lion wakes r.-tftifpA To roar to the resoundlna claln. : And the whole heaven shouts and snake -. For God Himself Is born again. And we are little children walking , Thnpugh the Snow and rain. - KLSTMAX.- . to jate that the Indians ""mostly re tusei to listen to reason. S Tha, nn lv (Wajf to gain their attention and an- (?. MA t In . m ... A . m' ... a'.M . k. ft--........ . . for themselves. ' . -' . . a Sometimes - they reach;" the : rlcht conclusion, but wher there is a pi3- aiDie cnance tor ' the- exercise- of ini agtoatlon, .superstition will - creep l-i, and they will choose their- own inter pretation, which ts so over laid with the ' false accumulations ot "ages a i to be dlscouragingly , dense, - This i i not th case with th young Indians who have been trained to student Hie. They are usually unexcelled In bright ness of mind. - I ty f ... Thla brings us back to the unfortu nate young crank whom we left sleeping on the ground. - Suddenly he sprang to his feet with both arms up lifted and hands clutching at the air as though gome Insect that he would ctch wr flying - to escape htm. Then he slouched away drooplngly, and- sat half -tha day by the brook looking Into th water.' - K vVWherei Raln-ln-the-face; who has seen hiraT was tha anxious In quiry on al! sides a few davs tat. Tha boy had strayed away and w lost. "All agreed to search, for bii i OU he was found, after reaching t! conclusiop. . - . . 4 j .'At midnight b was found gash In" hl9 head, self-infli'tel v hunting-- knife, but with a i peaceful look In his dead f . - He had attalnel l-.W o' ! found the Wsa ha l- 1 t i . after he had overt cu-J v teachers say, "ha had not c ' head." lie was givfn all t?- f ors known to the trl' o, r r. J i ed more th -l a- y o i t r j wouli have I n, v, i . i I
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