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Show y0Qr OUT k board the ship, ahd they are placed in the strong room.; This is a compart- GOLD. in an, impor- - HAPPENS transaction. iAaNt of Yellow Money $aga joada Sacks' from ther Bub-J0 jjeavy fn tfie Steamer and Stored f fl , freary jord r ss OLD shipments to Europe are a finan- t necessity i Wall street understand. The sary to pay debts in Europe, due such debts, which has tu&er the or his customers, own a check is' to draw ,Ls he does 'amount upon! his bank In le- gal tendei1 notes u Mhat is n understood that these notes are 1 yz : vs table in gold upon presentation at or treasury in Washington Ua it b 9 j fully of shipments, course, are neces- i j cial from time to time which yery few outside of people y hr M ttbe sub-treasuri- es. matter of great incon- bank- ,ce for any employe of the Jarry the actual greenbacks from There to the a of risk the besides, daylight i be, and simplify ,r? To facilitate issues a cer- bank the transaction the demand of the ,je payable upon the amount. This, sry officials for at the is presented value in either gold for its face It is by no means the or gold bars. ?t thing in tbe world to obtain the The vaults juetal on demand. are not inexhaust-and if there does not happen to be lient supply of gold on band each ant must patiently await bis turn. the certificate from the bank is' ?nted it is not accompanied by a that it be in eaglesj doubles, that it be ,g pr bars, but merely And the reason for the absence T be a ff0Uld ti Vi.;. 1ST I sub-treasur- cu i y (SPr ll flllj, & 11 i y. sub-treasur- y, i ry e c ment located amidships, surrounded on all four sides by impenetrable steels walls. The dimensions of the vault for such it in fact is are about 12x12 feet, and in it are a number of iron safes of the burglar proof variety, and in these tbe valuable kegs are stored. Although the freight charge on each millionof gold is $1,250 more than ten first-clafares for the passage no extra precautions are taken to guard the treasure while on the sea. This is primarily due to the fact that it would be impossible for anyone to get away with any part of the shipment, as the officers of the boat periodically inspect the steel room to see that its contents are intact. Consequently, should any daring crook or feather-braine- d crank attempt such a thing, the loss would immediately be discovered, and. a search of tbe passengers jwould necessarily reveal its possession unless it had been consigned to tbe jwaves. But it is not7 on record that such attempt has ever been made ay iff tbe history of, gold exportation. Upon' the arrival of the- - steamer In port. If tbe consignment be, for an inland city, it is Immediately transferred to land under a heavy guard, and placed aboard the train, Armed men to the number of half a dozen guard the kegs until their arriva at the city of their destination, and the transportation company furnishes another guard to accompany theth to the consignee. An insurance against loss may be had of nearly qll of the insurance brokers. There are three (classes of insurance total loss, partial loss and general average, loss. The total and partial loss requires no explanation, but the third is.not so well understood. Should the ship break down at sea and require assistance to reach port, the salvage allowed by the marine laws is an unusually large sum. For this every bit of the cargo and every timber in the ship are liable, the vessel itself first and the cargo afterwards. So to insure against an- possible claim for salvage the gold shippers cover by insurance. The insurance is in force from j - THE COLONEL'S STOEY. THE PRINCESS AT THE PLAY. Trying to Set the Fashion to Wear High-Nec- k Gowns. The princess of Wales Is wonderful! On the first night of the play she came upon everybody as something like a revelation, after an absence of a few months from our midst, says the Ladys Pictorial. We forgot how young, how beautiful she was. We had often said she did not look a day older than her daughters. But now we began to think that she looked even younger. With her fair hair arranged to perfection and dressed in very becoming lace and black velvet bediamonded to the she called to my mind the dethroat, scription g'ven of her by Dean Stanley, the prettiest princess ever stepped out of a fairy tale. And she was radiant with smiles, chatting . now with the prince, now with Prince Nicholas of Greece or the duchess of Fife. Both prince, and princess of Wales were delighted with the play and congratulated the star in the kindest manner possible. When the curtain had fallen they desired to have the leading woman presented to them, and shaking hands very cordially, said such pretty and gracious things to her that she (a very young and ingenuous girl) fairly beamed with delight all the rest of the evening. I imagine that the princess is desirous of setting the continental fashion here of adopting demi-toilat the theater. For the last year or two she has persistently worn a smart high bodice with sleeves almost to the wrist whenever she has been seen In the royal box. ,Of course, abroad, at the theater as well as casinos, full dress is unknown. Well, there is a reasonableness in the fashion. Once inside the theater a woman is In public, and there are those who think it inconvenahle, I suppose, that she should wear a low dress as in her own drawing-rooGranted. But we in London always dress jfor dinner, some more, some less, and we hop into our broughams or hansoms straight from our coffee and liqueur. For my part, although I can see the foreigners point of view, I love the gay look of a theater with all the women in full toil- et m. GllE' run? Y ES, said the colonel, giving hi3 weed the reminis- cent draw, that i3 an ugly scar Xan-thhas across his face, hut though he has seen action and proved himself as brave as a lion, he didnt get that wound in battle. The boys who knew the colonels story-tellin- g abilities, drew their chairs closer and put themselves into a listening attitude. The old man rew his cigar again and went on: We were camped at a small town near Lexington that week; it was near the, end of the war, and while we had not been doing much fighting for a month or more, our marching had been rather continuous and arduous. Xanthus then was a lieutenant in the 5th infantry, and a braver or more daring fellow never wore the blue. Ie was the envy of all the young officers and the idol of the soldiers. He had the manners of a Chesterfield and the daring of a Robin Hood. And it was the combination of these two qualities that got him into trouble and brought him the scar that makes him look so fierce and military. Near where we were camping wa? the mansion of a wealthy old Kentucky farmer, a supposed unionist, hut who really was, in sympathy with the confederacy. In addition to other very desirable commodities he possessed a pretty young daughter and from the first time that Xanthus saw her it was all over with him.' He fell desperately in love and availed himself of every opportunity to go up to the big house, as we called it. And it wasnt long until the little Venable girl Venable was her father's name, David Venable it wasnt long till she was as much in love with Xanthus as he was with her. Those ,who- - were on the inside watched tne affair constantly and wondered how it would turn out. The little girl had a couple of brothers, who for us The colonel turned to his writing, and we knew that we had received our orders. Not a man who did not understand, and we turned away with smiles on our faces and a great thrill in our hearts for the comrade who was braving danger alone for the sake of the girl that he loved. It was but the work of a few minutes to- swing into the saddle and go galloping away in the direction of the Venable household where we knew our would be most valuable. It was a cold, clar night, one of the kind that puts spirit into a man and makes him feel like hounding over the d set, ground. We were a as could In our be and mission, happy we laughed, chatted and Joked as we gallped along under the bright, starlit skies. Its rather hrd lines, laughed Stetson, that an escort of half a dozen men has to he sent out every time a fellow wants to go and see his girl It would be har5er. said Bates, In re'ply, if the escort had to go all the way with him and listen to all he said to his sweetheart. - light-hearte- i It would be rather hard on the fellow, added Tedsbury. Not half so hard as on the iis teners, retorted Bates. Youre a fraud. Bates; a cynical, un matrimonially inclined fraud, and married at that, said one of the men. ,Married? Thats the reason he isnt matrimonially Inclined, answered another. By George! exclaimed Stetson, If you dont change your opinions you dont deserve another letter from your wife and I hope she 'wont write to you. Bates sobered very suddenly. Well, has to he said, this little go on, I suppose. I remember when I was making love to my wife. Old Jim Bundy died on Sunday, broke out the chorus of five irreverent voices, entirely drowning Bates incipient, narrative, and we all whipped up our horses to keep pace with the sudden indignant spurt which he took. Stetson was just remarking, Well, there dont seem to be much use for, a heres reconnoitering party one place where the course of true love love-maki- ng to-nig- ht; p reti 1 and rss l c VAK.ED THE WRONG M AN. How John Was ItoLhed to Far Morurthy. Two mm named McCarthy dl-'- i at cut the same time at Bellevue fcorGal recently, says the New York Rccordir. One had been baptized Timothy and the ether John. Timothy was an unfortunate without home cr friend?, while John was described by his countrymen as a dacent man, with plenty of friends. He lived with his honest wife and family at 546 West Forty-sixt- h street before he was carried off to tta hospital in the hope cf raving his life. There was grief among the re: of John McCarthy when it was learned no morning that he had died at the hospital from the effects cf a necessary operation, and the feeling of those good people were expre-ze- d loudly enough to leave no doubt as to the general esteem in which John McCarthy was held. Poor Timothy McCarthy, who died almost at the ram moment, had nobody to mourn for him. It was on a Sunday afternoon that tha friends and neighbors of John McCarthy assembled at his house to do honor to the dead. The corpse was laid out in a fine casket and many willing hands were lent to the preparations for the wake that began at 6 oclock on this particular Sunday evening. No wake in that neighborhood was ever better attended. The house was thronged all that Sunday night and all the next day and all Monday .evening until midnight with worthy people, who discussed nothing save the virtues of John McCarthy, and had only ono lamentation In the world, and that was on account of John McCarthys death. It was stringe how people would go to th casket containing the mortal remains of McCarthy again and again. It was strange, also, how surprised they looked each time. If one was caught wearing a look of surprise, rather than one of becoming sorrow, that one was quick to cloak his thoughts, lest the good family should feel troubled. It would be ' the height of ill manners to say that the body in the casket didnt look a bit like.it did when life was in it. At a wake it is better to speak only good of the dead. Along about midnight on. Monday, however, two young men left the wake, and when they got outside they agreed that the corpse didnt lock any more like John McCarthy than it did like the mikado of Japan. Further, they declared they didnt believe it was John McCarthy at all. Thereupon they repaired to Bellevue and found John McCarthys body still on the ice. John was big, husky fellow. The body of Timothy McCarthy had been shipped to Jolinfs home by mistake. Timothy was little and weazened. An exchange of bodies promptly followed. Friendless Timothy had been waked thirty-si- x hours. There was only six hours left in which to wake John, for the funeral was to take place on the following day. da-ce- nt well-wishe- rs NO WASTE OF WATER. Simple Process of Extracting Gold from Ore Which Saves Millions. From the Boston Journal of Com- RSIC Tfhlm. s just a ed bui HOW GOLD IS SHIPPED TO ENGLAND. writ per ci and wt. l ar witho base-looki- is request make 30. 75 1 that if it were made promptly turned down. will redeem, govern-y.igatioIn gold, but as to the nation of the specie there is no agreement in the contract or ns. Therefore the gold is hand-- ; J as be ns alar to oio. suits the treasury gold Is, therefore, more neatly furnished in the shape of aid bars, but sometimes it is act-- a best as iOlSl of-T- he '. coin. -- John Barclay, who cst all of the gold delivered His father was truckman for years of the :e - suc-t- o fathers title and calling Ms nearly ed 'ft financiers, and when he died b hi3 son a legacy of confidence be junior Barclay has retained, a treasury building Barclay le yellow metajl in bars or retaining $5,000 each to the of iron tent Al ng tbec rklng in of-t- be consignor. On the wagon is a representative of the l?ping the coin and also a rep-blof the insurance company bns undertaken to guarantee its "fral at its final destination, ve -- ci -- e assumes all responsibility moment it leaves the sub-- 7 building. ite office j eL And, strange to say, I find that the moment the gold leaves the in New York to its reception what foreigners most admire when they and acknowledgment by the ultimate come to London is that very gay and consignee. The instances of general festive aspect of our stalls and boxes. average losses are j:are. Of cases where An Island for the Chocolate-Makeships have sunk iwith gold on hoard exone The purchase of the island of Antihut since been there has gold becosti by Henry Menier, the head of the portation for 'commercial purposes chocolate firm, is. a huge transaction, ( gan. The steamer Schiller, of the North although the price is only $200,000. The German Lloyd line, went down off the island lies in the broad estuary of the Scilly islands eighj; years ago this win- St. Lawrence. It is 130 miles long and ter with $5,000,00flj In gold coin on forty miles broad. Mariners bound up board. The insurance company which or down the St. Lawrence river dread held the risk, together with the owners its coasts, which have been strewn with of the vessel, raised the sunken craft, the wreckage of many trading vessels and every penny Was recovered. This and even hunters dread its climate. Mr. involved an expense in raising the ship, Meniers purchase will make him one but the insurancej company came out of the largest Individual in the world. Anticosti belongs to the without losing the risk. province of Quebec. The interior Is wooded and mountainous and the popuThe Earth Swift Motion. Everybody knows that the earth, lation sparse. The island has long been makes one complete revolution on its in the market. hours. axis once in each! twenty-fou- r But few. however, have any idea of the INDUSTRIAL NOTES. high rate of speed kt which such an imA lumber trust has been formed on mense ball must urn in order to acrevoluone Pacific coast. the of the feat making complish Carnegie has ordered seven large tion in a day and a night. A graphic idea of the terrible pace which the blowing engines of a Milwaukee, WIs., old darth keeps usyear after year may concern, to cost $210,000. sub-treasu- ry r. j land-owne- rs ! i to that it is packed ready he had by comparing itsi speed ?cnt. John Shay occupies a of a cannon ball fired from a modern similar to that of gun.j The highest velocHonest ever attained by such! a missile' has relay except that his duty is ity hietal and the manufacture been estimated at 1,632 feet per second, 3 which hold It while in tran- -' which is equal to a mile in three auid secondsr The eafth, in makused for this purpose axe one the best white oak d complete revolution iff the short ing hours, must turn with- - bands of space of twenty-fou- r 7 ha3 made them for years with a velocity almost exactly equal to 13 cannon ball. In short, its competition. The bankers that of the deal entirely with him, rate of speed at the equator is exactly is equal to perience in the business 1,507 feet per second. This secand reliable servant. The a mile every three high-pressu- re -- two-tent- hs obtain-hoope- ' s six-tent- hs : SM to a nicety to hold $50,-:- e uor less, lags, each holding $5,000, Iwhen they leave! the sub-ijf- d onds, seventeen miles a minute. i opened or re-J- 1 placed In each it i3 headed up, a tape i3 stamped and sealed mark cf the firm. 7ut9 Ear clays services are Jl Bullion again, and, with J. prds, the gold is taken 9re notj bogs are ! Co till ay Lebanon merce: It is not generally known, evea in California, that millions of dollars are annually taken from rude heaps of quartz by the flowing of water over huge piles of broken .rocks that contain the precious metal. The process of robbing the earth of Its gold ha now been reduced to such a fine point that a gentle flow of water over the ore gleans it of its golden treasures, and this works well in cases where the old chloride ' and other methods are not so useful. , The water used by miners In bringing gold from piles of mineral-bearin- g quartz is charged with a simple cheiff ical. Which has the potency to dissolve gold and hold it in solution. The sparkling liquid, which flows over hundreds of tons of quartz, trickles through tthe mines and seeks its level, laden with, gold, is charged with a deadly poison,, cyanide of potassium, a drug which ferZ-retout the minutest particles of the yellowish metal and dissolves them and brings the precious burden Yo the vata for conversion into refined gold again. The cyanide process is as noiseless and unerring as the laws 'of gravitation. Th method is based on the fact that even, a very weak solution of cyanide of potassium dissolves gold or silver, cyforming respectively anide and axgento-potassi- c cyanide. The solution is separated from the solid material and the gold and silver are precipitated in metallic form. During the last five years the process has been introduced into almost every gold field in California and 'elsewhere, and more than $20,000,000 has been recovered by the gentle flow of the waters charged with the magical chemical. Precipitation la effected by the use of fine pieces of .zinc, so arranged that when the rich waters flow over them the fine gold clusters in rich deposits over the zinc, for which it has an affinity. The gold deposits itself in the form P , pier. "pbis, however, a permit to be obtained from I' Pt.which is exchanged & ; receipt signed by the 5 C . tr'r-- Hms " the consignment. IQ the acknowl-- 3 Mpment is gold, but r''uy kegs said to eon- -, receipt i3 then ' 7cnt cf the company, it a signed till cf 'Pletrs the shipping e pc'-3'r- l":--u- 3 rs the hepi rcl;J3 ea -- - i . A Pleasing Illusion. Few visitors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are aware, while admiring tlie4 iridescence of the other ancient glass bottles, plates and use discovered articles of ornament and the prismatic hues here in Cyprus, that of the displayed are a result of a decay sets in, the glass. When disintegration into exceedsubstance of the glass splits as the suningly thin laminae, which, rise to a them, give light traverses colors. Like the leaves splendid play of of a forest these delicate glasses signalbeize their approaching dissolution by comingJ more- beautiful. Bath Tramps Tk credited with Tramps are not usually of personal cleanliness, especialDanbury ly In weather, but that one fact records the Conn seen were wlek three of them a win In fair grounds in Danbury. ! ' te yn Muncle, Ind., is to have an extensive silverware factory. Two carloads of machinery for it arrived last week. Work on the new electric railway from Toledo to Petersburg, Mich., has is to be in operabegun and the line i tion by June 1. The total annual product of the workers of the country is $7,215,000,000, and the average value of product per head $1,880. .Labor leaders and the labor press will make eight hours the chief effort during the coming year, and several trades will demand a shorter day on May 1. The eight large steel steamers ordered by Rockefeller and others will make employment for many ironworkers, machinists and shipbuilders during the winter. Nearly a .dozen Minneapolis printers pased a recent civil service examination in that city and go to Washington to take positions in the government printing office. The sailors unions will petition congress to amend present laws so as to provide that all ships hereafter built shall have crew space at the rate of cubic feet per man. seventy-tw- o 1890 the area of cultivated land Since in England has decreased as follows: That devoted to cereals by 632906 acres; vegetables, 71,766, and that devoted to clover, etc., by 79,CS1 acres. takes place in the winIf a shut-dow- n dow glass factories of Indiana, as seems will be likely, afreut 4,000 workmen 562 There in the idle. pots rendered cf Lands an ssvta average district, with to a not. 4 HIS HORSE ,WAS CARRYING DOUBLE. the sake of policy, treated Dick Xan-thvisits with respectful consideration, but they werent blind and they hated him in his blue uniform as the devil hates holy water. They wer$ big, brawny fellows, who were only because their principles would not let them enter the union army, and their own and their fathers interests kept them out of the confederate ranks. We warned our young lieutenant that bis visits to the Venable house would bring him into trouble, but youth and especially youth that in love is headstrong, so he went on his way just as we expected he would. Finally, one day, when things had been going on in this way for some time, Dick asked the colonel for leave on the next night. Old Tom Baker was colonel of the regiment then, and he old codger. He was a winked knowingly as he gave the young lieutenant leave and warned him not to get into trouble. A quarter of an hour after Lieut. Dick Xanthus had cantered away from n of us young fel-oLe camp a were summoned into the colonels presence. We found him pacing hack and forth the length of his tent, with a ook of mock sternness on his kindly aceJ He addressed us as follows: Gentlemen, the discipline of this camp, it must be confessed, is rather lax. Continued sojourn in peaceful territory and consequent immunity from danger have brought about this result. I have allowed myself to give Lieut. Xanthus leave to go outside the lines and it is my impresison that he has gone to the Venable house to carry off the daughter of that household as a bride. Now, whether his action is right or not, it is not for us to say, hut a man in love is liable to encounter great dangers in accomplishing his end. But,' said the colonel, with a twinkle In his eye, all this is neither here nor there, and is of no consequence to you. My purpose in assembling you together is to send you out as a reconnoitering party; go out and reconnoiter, no matter where or what don't do anything rash, but should you happen to find any soldier or officer of the United States in danger, give him protection.' us stay-at-hom- i good-heart- es ed ws half-doze- to-nig- ht, seems to run smooth, when the clatter of horses hoofs broke upon our ears We quickened our pace to the edge of a clump of poplars that commanded a view of the road. Even before we saw his flying horse and his face gleaming in the moonlight we knew instinctively that It was Dick Xanthus and that he was in trouble. ' We saw that his horse was carrying double and we smiled even as we halted and drew our sabers, for the noise of pursuers sounded close upon the clatter of his horses hoofs. But thought we, he Will soon pass ouf line and then we will flash out and put !his assailants to flight. We wished to take no rash measures. On they came, pursuer and pursued. The lientenant was very near us, and we could see him looking down into the face of the little Venable girl, when, to our surprise, what should he do but whirl suddenly and go charging back straight into the faces of his pursuers. It was all done in a moment. ) We saw his saber flash upward; and we heard a woman scream: Dont kill my brother and saw the saber, lowered; then there waa a flash of another steel and Xanthus dropped from his horse, just as we dashed up and surrounded thf two Venable boys. The girl was on the ground beside her lover, weeping and trying to staunch the flow of blood, while her brothers stood by, mad enough to end it all with her; hut we took them all safe Into camp. Of course, we couldnt do anything with" the fellows they were only protecting their own. But they had to consent to the marriage of their sister with Xanthus; for, as you he did not" die of his wound. know; a saber-strokA did you say? No, thats the unromantic thing about the would whole affair. A saber-strok- e have had the right tone about it, hut they had cut our lieutenant with a big e, ccrp-knif- e! ng s J auro-potass- ic of fine dust on the plates of zinc. Singular Appetites. Eccentricities of appetite as to quantity and quality are lar more common thaji many suppose and more extraordinary. Two clergymen of New England one a gourmand, the other abstemious were dining together. The abstemious looked with wonder and horror upon his colleague. The lady of the house, delighted to see the latter until eat, brought on dish after dish, overwas at last his wondrous capacity Madam, I taxed and he exclaimed: cannot eat everything. Said th other; You surprise me. Not Mahogany Fatly. Say, Rastus, da Way-dow- n furniture store Is advuttisin maOld n the Service. rockers for L57. Yo W. Hasell Wilson, president of the hogany ladies one. me to git Belvidere railroad, a part of the Penn- gotRastus Git you jiuffin. You aint no oldest the ds sylvania system, probably In act- mahogany lady; yous ebony. Indianrailway president In 6the world apolis Journal. old. years ive service. He i3 Mandy Ann |