Clay County AlArchives News.....Laney, W.C. Makes Strange Discovery  February 25, 1905
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Anniston Star February 25, 1905
Mr. W. C. Laney, a representative citizen and successful farmer living near 
Delta, in Clay County, was in the city yesterday with his friend Mr. W. P. 
Pitts, exhibiting a wonderful stone which he accidentally discovered on his 
premises. On one side of the almost flat stone is clearly depicted the face of 
an Anglo-Saxon; opposed to it is that of a Chinaman, exhibiting to his white 
brother the ginseng, plant, which is revealed as the healer of all diseases. On 
the same side, and directly in opposition to each other is a chicken and an 
opossum. 
On the reverse side of the stone is almost an exact representation of Queen 
Victoria, who the owner of the stone characterizes aa the ideal woman and the 
representative of womankind. Opposite the face of the woman is depicted the form 
of a lamb and a wolf, characteristic of two strong dispositions that dominate 
mankind. Even with the crown of the bead of the woman is a line running entirely 
around the stone piercing the forehead of the white man on the opposite aide. 
This indicates that man is above woman and the dominant power, also, that he 
shall rule all animal kind. 
Mr. Laney reads the stone very fluently and interestingly. He is a mineral 
expert himself and says he never saw a stone like it. A noted lapidarist 
represents to him that there are only three such stones in existence and that 
they have great value. Mr. Laney has had several interesting offers for his 
discovery but refuses to part with it. He intends to prepare a lecture and 
travel over the country exhibiting it. 

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