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Show GOLD. OUT pKG happens in an! impor-hAtap- transaction. ,t jxdM ot Yellow Money fjfl HeaT Sack from the Dub-t- o the Steamer and Stored i c rd. 4 e (l t. ss OLD Bhlpmenta to rnrnno ar flnnn. ft necessity time to time cial from very few people outside of Wall street fully understand. "The which C7 '. en t s, of shlpm course, are neces- sary to pay debts In due Europe. has such debts, which ,.tpr 3 Via vin nnpfn m ore1 w , wv fris own ui uia v,uoivimv z'Vjjjg te does is to draw a check ..amount upon his bank In "le-'- ('' notes. It that is in legal tender ! e.1 v that these notes are understood ' or at treasury in Washington ir f sub-treasuri- the "rf rfanj(l be a matter of great incpn-fo- r any employe of the bank- "ry the actual greenbacks from .no i the to sub-treasur- There y. the risk of a daylight j be, besides, f facilitate and simplify faction the bank issues a cer-I'- Jj iUr. payable upon the demand of the "0t officials for the amount. This, is 'lie presented at the in either value 'ace lt3 gold u7 j far To t y, It is by no means the bars. -- gold 3 thing in the world to obtain the f metal on demand. The vaults Lit ., are not Inexhaust- if there does not happen to be f supply of gold on hand each tmust patiently await his turn. tie certificate from the bank Is Q:ed it is not accompanied by a that it be in eagles, doubles, or bars, but merely that it be Aad the reason for the absence jub-treasu-ry f. a H. Get tie nr J . 'HE! " r "The colonel turned to his writing, ,k us , , ; '. THE COLONEL'S STOEY. said ES," the The princess of Wales is wonderful! colonel, giving his On the first night of the play she came weed the reminisupon everybody as something; like a cent draw, "that Is revelation, after an absence of a: few an ugly scar Xan-thmonths from our, midst, says the' Lady's has across his Pictorial. We forgot how young, how face, but though he beautiful she was. We had often said has seen action and she did not look a day older than her pfoved himself as to we now. But daughters. brave as a lion; he began think that she looked even younger With didn't get that ' her fair hair arranged to perfectionand wound in battle." The boys who knew the colonel's dressed In very becoming lace and black velvet,' bediamorided to the story-tellin- g abilities, drew their chairs throat, she called to my ,mind the , de- closer and put themselves into a listenscription g?.veh of her by Dean Stanley, ing attitude. "the prettiest princess ever stepped out The old man rew his cigar of a fairy tale." And she was radiant and went on: "We were campedagain at a with" smiles, chattiner i now with the small town near Lexington that week; prince, now with Prince Nicholas of It was near the, end of the war and Greece or the duchess of Fife. Both while we had not been doing much prince, and princess of Wales were de- fighting for a month or more, our lighted v?lti the play and congratulated marching had been rather continuous the star in the kindest manner possi- and arduous. Xanthus then was a lieuble. When the curtain had fallen they tenant in the 5th infantry, and a braver desired to have the leading woman pre- or more daring fellow never wore the sented to them, and shaking hands very blue. He was the envy of all the young cordially, said such pretty and gracious officers and the idol of the soldiers. He things to her that! she (a! Very young had the manners of a Chesterfield and and ingenuous girl) fairly beamed with the daring of a Robin Hood. And It was delight all the rest of the evening. I the combination of these two Qualities imagine that the princess is desirous that got him into trouble and brought of setting the continental fashion here him the scar that makes him look so of adopting demi-toilat the theater. fierce and military. . For, the last year or two She has per"Near where we were camping was sistently' worn a smart high bodice with the mansion of a wealthy old Kentucky sleeves almost to the wrist whenever farmer, a supposed unionist, but who she has been seen in the royal box. ,Of really was in sympathy with the con course, abroad, at the theater as well federacy. In addition to other very de as casinos, full dress is unknown. Well, sirable commodities he nossessed a there is a reasonableness in the fash- pretty young daughter and from the ion. Once inside the theater a woman first time that Xanthus saw her it was is in public, and there are those who all over with him; He fell desneratelvJ think it inconvenable, I suppose, that In love and availed himself of every she should wear a low dress as in her opportunity to go up to the big house, own drawing-rooGranted. But we as we called it. And it wasn't long until in London always dress for dinner, the little Venable girl Venable was some more, some less, and we hop into her f atherls name, David Venable it our broughams or hansoms straight wasn't long till she was as much in love from our coffee and liqueur. For my with Xanthus as he was with her. part, although I can see the foreigners' "Those who were on the inside point of view, I love the gay look of a- watched the affair constantly and won theater with all the women In full toil- dered how it would turn out. The little girl had a couple of brothers, who for ct cat-g- 5 .' Keck Gowns. . et , i" sub-treasur- THE PRINCESS AT THE PLAY. Trying to Set the Fashion to Wear High-- - -- e Preshtation upon gId iVable in board the ship, and they are placed in the strong room. This is a compartment 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 cf .the burgjar proof variety, and in these the valuable kegs are stored. Although the freight charge on each millioriof gold is 1,250 more than ten first-clafares for the passage no ex tra precautions are taken to guard the treasure while on the sea. This Is pri-fathat it would be marily due to the impossible for anyone to get away with any part of the as the officers of the boatjshipment, 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 the passengers would necessarily reveal Its possession unless it; had been consigned to the waves. But it is not on record that aj ly such attempt has ever been made ii the history of gold exportation. Upon-tharriv il of the- - steamer In port, If the 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 them to the consignee. An insurance agjainst loss may be had of nearly all of the insurance brokers. There aref 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 shin break down at sea and require assistance to reach port, the salvage allowed by the marine laws i3 an unusually liarge sum. For this every bit of the and every timber in the ship are liible, the vessel itself first and the cargp afterwards. So to Insure against any possible claim for salvage the gold shippers cover by insurance. The insurance is in force from j m. o . s 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 of. sympathy in our hearts for the comrade who was braving danger alone for the sake of the girl that he loved., "It was but the w6rk 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. a was "It cold, clar night, one of the kind that puts spirit into a man and makes him feel like bounding over the 6et, ground. We were a light-hearthappy as could be In our mission, and we laughed, chatted and Joked as ;we galloped along under the bright, starlit skies. "'It's rather hard lines laughed Stetson, 'that an escort of half a dozen men has to be sent out every time a fellow wants to go and see hl3 girl.' 'Would" be harder 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.' r " 'It would be rather hard on the fellow added Tedsbury. "'Not half so hard as on the lis teners retorted Bates. " 'You're a fraud, Bates; a cynical, un- matrimonially inclined fraud; and mar ried at that said one of the men. " Married? That's the reason he isn't matrimoniallylnclined answered ; ed i ""It ; . -- another. v" 'By - George!' exclaimed' Stetson, j'lf you don't, change your opinions you don't deserve another letter from your wife and I hope she won't write to you "Bates sobered verysuddenly. 'Well has to he said, 'this little I I when remember I go on, suppose. was making love to my wife j " 'Old Jim Bundy died on Sunday broke out the chorifs of five irreverent love-maki- ng 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 don't seem to be much use for a voices, here's reconnoitering party one place where the course of true love to-nig- ht; ret . and ( 1. O l Ships HOkOj in Twe He . ii 1 . 1 1 rw k. m CT ' jrrrz jrz- - ar" - r - ..rCj-- . -7 -- is.- wiry . a. V' ft f . . McCarthy. .ji. Two men named McCarthy died about the same time at Bellevue hospital re- cently, says the New York Recorder. One had been baptized. Timothy and the other John. Timothy was an unfortu- nate without home or frlsnds; while John was described by his countrymen as a "dacent man," with plenty of "da-cefriends." He lived With his honest wife and family at 546 West Forty-sixt- h street before he was carried off to tho hospital in the hope of saving his life. There was grief among the respectable of John Mcnarthv nt well-wishe- rs was learned ne morning that he had died at the hospital from the effects of a necessary operation, and the feelings vl uiue gooa people were expressed 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 sam moment, had nobody to mourn for him. It was on a Sunday afternoon that tht thy assembled at his house to do honor to the dead. The corpse was laid but in a fine casket and many willing hands were ' lent to the preparations for the wake that began at 6 o'clock 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 one lamentation in the world, and that was on account of John McCarthy's death. It Was strange how people would, go to the 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 irianners to say that the 'body in the casket didn't 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 didn't lottk any more like John McCarthy than It uiu iiivo mw i twio ui uayui. s uimvt, they declared they didn't believe it was John McCarthy at all. Thereupon they repaired to Bellevue and found John McCarthy's body still on the ice. John was a big, husky fellow. The body of Timothy McCarthy had been shipped to John's 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 Johnfor the funeral was to take place on the following day. . NO WASTE OF WATER. Simple Process of Extracting Gold from Ore Which Saves Millions. From the Boston Journal of Com- srer merce: It is not generally known, even in California, that millions of dollar 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 has 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 wjhere the old chloride and other methods are not so useful. ,' The water used by miners in bringing gold ffrom piles of mineral-bearin- g quartz is charged with a simple chem 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 t the mines and seeks its level, laden with gold, is charged with a deadly poison,, cyanide of potassium, ajdrug which ferf rets but the minutest particles of theyellowish metal and dissolves them and brings the precious burden to the vat& for conversion into refined gold again. The cyanide process is as noiseless and unerring as the laws of gravitation. Tho method is based on the fact that even a very weak solution of cyanide of potassium dissolves gold or silver, cy forming respectively anide and argento-potassi- c cyanide. Tho 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 Is 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 ah affinity. The gold deposits itself In the form of fine dust on the plates of zinc. a'- - I mart HOW GOLD IS SHIPPED TO ENGLAND. watt er id wi.. j0 is rithm:- - If rtif Jtv I lim. , WAKED THE WRONG MAN. How John TVaa Robbed to Far Timothy u m ot f base-looki- were made If request is as promptly "turned down." it that : be .treasury will redeem govern-:'.:gatio- ns in gold, but as to the there Is no contract or x Therefore the gold: is hand-a- 3 best suits the treasury of- of the specie agreement in the i:at2on - " gold is, therefore, more furnished in the shape of tars, but sometimes it is act--; The Neatly .. i cola. test" John Barclay, ( to Ma father's i?arl all of gold j who suc- -, title and calling delivered the j I was father His l'"3ted truckman for the of years ?"t financiers, and when he died -- ? sab-treasu- ry. 'j hi3 son a legacy, of confidence ie Junior Barclay has retained, ia treasury building Barclay is yellow metal in bars or In : each to the of- -; ie consignor. On the wagon tn is a representative of the -pins the coinand also a rep-the Insurance company ii3 undertaken to guarantee its "'Tal at it3 final destination, -- ch assumes all responsibility coaent it leaves the sub--7 -- staining $5,000 -- of tullding. 5 - j it Is packed ready John Shay occupies a cL 3 I tie oflce Q ilailar to that of "Honest" irtlay except that his duty Is metal and the manufacture n vhlch hold It while In tran-'- -i kogs used for this purpose are the best white oak obtain-hoope- d, with, bands of i:a7 has made them for years J a competition. The bankers 'r3 deal entirely with him, ; sjperlence In the business l Ura a reliable servant. The .;:3-- to a nicety to hold $50,- e nor less. d each holding $5,000, ;3i bags, hea e leave the they iea bag3 sub-ar- not; opened or re- -; are placed in each ;; it is headed up, a tape ,yT -2 it is stamped and sealed .'lTats mark, of the firm, itor Sarclay's services are requlsitioa again, and, with 7 guards, the gold is taken 'p . 11 pier, ';;-- .f J"3' however, a permit to be obtained from 5 2gent,whlch is exchanged r4 - a receipt signed by the r- consignment. . ,.ttiv9elare ia the shipment is gold, but raany keg3 cald to con- -: Tt2 7 V3 purser's receipt Is then agent of the company, for it a signed bill of Cc-P- lete3 ": -- 3 et. land-owne- i high-pressu- re ' 1 j hs ' : - j, six-tent- hs Hr;-T'.:-- ; , - i . , j i , in j -- ; And, strange to say, I find that the moment the gold leaves the treasury 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 rare. Of cases where An Island for the Chocolate-Make- r. ships have sunk with gold on board exone The purchase of the island of Anti-cos- ti since there has been but gold becommercial purposes by Henry Menier, the head of the portation for chocolate firm, is a huge transaction, gan. The steamer Sciiller, iof the North although the price is only $200,000. The German Lloyd lino, weni down off the Island lies in the broad estuary of the Scilly islands eight years ago this win- St. Lawrence. It Is 130 miles long and ter with $5,000,00C( 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, Menier's purchase will make him one rs but the Insurance company came out of the largest individual in the world. Anticosti belongs to the without losing the risk, province of Quebec. The interior is Motion. Swift wooded and mountainous and the popuThe Earth's Evervbodv knows that the earth lation sparse. The island has long been M 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 at which such an imA lumber trust has been formed on mense ball must urn In order to acU revoluone Pacific coast. the of the feat making complish Carnegie has ordered seven large tion in a day andja night. A graphic Wis., idea of the terrible pace which the blowing engines of a Milwaukee, M to cost concern, $210,000. us may after old garth keeps year year Muncie, Ind., is to have an extensive be had by comparing its; speed to that modern a silverware factory. Two carloads of of a cannon ball fired from velocmachinery for it arrived last week. gun., The highest Work on the new electric railway ity ever attained by such a misslle'has from Toledo to Petersburg,! Mich., has second, feet 1,632 per been estimated at itad three mile a in "begun and the line Is to be in operawhich is eaual to mak two-tenttion by Jxme 1. i seconds The earth, in v. short workthe of annual iif the The total one revolution product complete ing hours, must turn ers of the country is $7,215,000,000, and space of twenty-fou- r almost exactly equal to the average value of product per head with a velocity that of the cannon ball. In short, its Labor leaders and the labor press will rate of speed at the equator is exactly to Is This make second. equal feet eight hours the chief effort dur1,507 per secand the three a mile every coming year, and several trades ing will demand a shorter day" on May 1. onds, sev&ateenj The eight large steel steamers or. dered by Rockefeller and others will A PleasiOff Ilia Ion. Mumake the employment for many ironworkMetropolitan Few visitors in and shipbuilders during machinists ers,' are aware, seum of Art In Njew Tork r,;winter. while admiring the Iridescence of the the dozen Minneapolis printers Nearly a and other ancient glass bottles, plates and service: examinacivil recent a discovered use pased articles of ornament to Washington and go in that tion: city in Cyprus, that thej prismatic huesofhere to take in the government the positions displayed are a result of a decay : office.' sets the printing in, glass. When 'disintegration into exced-lnglythThe sailors' unions will petition consubstance of the gliss splits as the sun- gress to amend present laws so - as to laminae1,' which,1 ' rise to a provide that all ships hereafter built thm, give light traversesof colore. Like the leaves shall have crew space at the rate of splendid play cubic feet per man. seventy-tw- o of a forest these delicate glasses signalbeSince 1890 the area of cultivated land ize their approaching dissolution by in England has decreased as follows: J coming more beautiful. by 632906 That, demoted to cereals M ji ' and 71,766, that deacres ; vegetables, Take a Bath. Tramp to clover, etc., by 79,081 acres, ' credited with voteda4 shut-down takes place In the winr If Tramps are not nsuallyj v esijeeM-iof Indiana, as seems habits of personal eanllness, factories dow glass but the n will be 4,000 New? records the! fact that one likely, atut Thereworkmen 562 pots In the seen rendered idle. SyTast week three of them were of sevn hands stream near th. district, with an average taking a swimin in the to a not sub- - the Ehipplng tie kejs relk3 cn fair grounds : Danbury. ; , ng -- HIS HORSE WAS CARRYING DOUBLE. he sake of policy, treated Dick Xan thus' visits with respectful considera tion, but they weren't blind and they hated him in his blue uniform as 'the devil hates holy water They were big, brawny fellows, who were only because their principles would not let them enter the union army, and their own and their father's interests kept them out of the confederate ranks. our young lieutenant . "We warned to the Venable house that bis visits would bring him into trouble, but youth and especially youth that l 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 as he winked knowingly gave tho young leave and warned him not to lieutenant get into trouble. "A quarter of an hour after Lieut. Dick Xanthus had cantered away from of us young felthe camp a half-dozlows were summoned into. the colonel's presence. We found him pacing back and forth the length of his tent; with a look of mOck sternness on his kindly facei 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 al lowed myseir 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 rignt or hot, It is not for us to say, but 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 stay-at-hom- good-heart- ed en 1 to-nig- ht, : es 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 horse's hoofs. But thought we, he will soon pass out 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, arid we could see him looking down into tho 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: 'Don't kill my brother and saw the saber, lowered; then there was a flash of another steel and Xanthus dropped from his horse, just as we dashed up and surrounded th two Venable boys. Singular Appetites. "The girl was on ther ground beside of appetite as to quanEccentricities her lover, weeping and trying to arid quality are far more common staunch the flow of blood, while her tity than many suppose and more extraorbrothers stood by, mad enough to end it all with her; but we took them all dinary. Two clergymen of New Engsafe Into camp. Of course, we couldn't landone a gourmand, the other abstemious were dining, together. The do anything with the feMows-rT-thewere only protecting: their own. But abstemious looked with wonder and The lady they had to consent to the marriage of horror upon his colleague. latter see the to of delighted thej house, their sister with Xanthus; for, as you until dish, on after dish eat, brought know, he did not die of his wound. overwas "A saber-strok- e, did you say? No, at last his wondrous capacity "Madam, I that's the unromantic thing about the taxed land he exclaimed:Said the other; whole affair.. A saber-strowould cannot eat everything' have had the right tone about it, but You surprise me." they had cut' our lieutenant with a big Not Mahogany Iady. cornrknife!" xfanriv Aim Say. Rastus. ue Way- down furniture store is advuttlsln maOld n the Service. ladies' rockers for L57. Yo W. Hasell Wilson, president of the hogany to git me one. Belvidere railroad, a part of the Penn- gotT?astus Git you nuffin. Ton aJV nt the oldest sylvania system, is probably actlady; you's ebony. Indian mahogany in railway president in86the world Journal. old. apolis j years ive service. He is auro-potass- ic ? y ke v . . A - |
