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Show TWO SECRETS WELL KEPT. Trtcko of Trade Guarded by Chinese and Syrians. "Thero are two trade secrets " an artist, "that tho outside world it seems, will never learn. Ono i Chinese secret tho making of v .','. and beautiful color called verm'! I on or Chinese red. Tho other is a T rk! lsh secret the inlaying of the hard.-st steel with gold and sliver. "Among the Chinese and anion," tho Syrians these two secrets are guarded guard-ed well. Apprentices, before thoy aro taken for either trade, must sw.nr a strong oath to reveal nothing of what passes in the workshop. These apprentices, ap-prentices, furthermore, must belong' t0 families of standing, must pay a large sum by way of premium and mutt furnish certificates of good character and honestv. "You have seen damascened steel, J of course, and you have seen vormll- I lion, or Chinese red. Remember tho f next tlmo you look at theso two I things that their secrets havo been I guarded Inviolably, havo been handed ' 3 down faithfully from ono generation 1 to another for thousands of years." I |