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THE MONROE ADYERTISER.
VOL XXXVIII.
THE DAWNINC OF THE M >rning. j
When th all roll fore I
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When i*r warder
Where th
In Hi the morning.
away*
When oar hitudi
fit i;
tVben our I •.arts a arv never
i Through nlstakinc thorns for flow-rs,
Then no m ire the dark* uing shadows
() <t our happy live shall play
In the dawning ot tin morning
Wh tho clouds sli 11 flee away.
Hitherto our o\ ■re blinded,
Hit rto our hearts were sad.
;n r nu t endless sunshine
I'Hc-ri our h“ar j always glad,
N’everiXmri all storm clouds gather,
MhadowtP inter pt our day,
In I ho <lnAi ns; the morning,
When th clouds shall flee away.
Nellv If. Wool worth, in Boston j<,.*rnal.
All Unpublished Sensation.
3Y UU* lint JAAIKS PEOLEIT.
SS^TEFinto office when my private
r you are
flit at liberty, Mr. Ben¬
) nett. ”
a/lffg r’VS J The request was
Jdln made in terse,
au
' thoritntivo tones,
r - familiar enough to
4 & E gfc n '-ilfc® fti l * every editorial man do the
< art
^ v meat of the >aper
I us those of Mr.
i( st, tho managing editor—an un
dorsize’l, fussy little chap, Aiiih hair
prematurely gray, tiny sharp «yes,
like r ferret's, and enormous ears taut
seemed designed by nature t*> catchall
the news there was adrift Hie latter
organs he had a peculiar fashion of
moving backward and forward when
excited or inter ted a mulish man
uerism which had caracal him various
more or less appropi mt nicknames,
“Yes, sir, answered I ennett, look
ing up from the preparation f au
article on tho superlativt greatness,
past, pr« nt, and future, ot Kansas
City. “Be there in five min
added, and tln u sotto voce “w >nd(
what the douce is up uowr—
idiot’s been complaining" about a re
‘j ^0 course. \\ itli this reflection
tffl youu c man resumed his laudatory
screed on tno advantages of Kansas
City, commercially, socially, and gen¬
erally. At Inst the column of fiction,
upon which lie had expended a good
deal of energy. a\ a handed over to the
eity editor with tuo remark, “Here’s
that rot about the town.” An instant
later Bennett had disappeared doAvn
the passage to coufei* with I lie chief.
I ho air of the managing editor, as
he motioned Bennett to a seat, Avas
preoccupied. Ho aviih always preoccu¬
pied Avhen spoken to **r api'roached by
any but the business manager. Then
he Avas obsequious, 11 is manner uoav
said, as plainly ns words could have
said it. “Vou are my subordinate, and
must be duly impressed with the dig¬
nity of mv position.”
“■Mr. Bennett, lie said, “I’m going
to detail you on an important piece of
work.”
“\es. sir,” replied Bennett, Avith a
becoming show of interest.
“You know, Mr. Bennett,” con
tinned the chief, “all the main facts
regarding the counterfeit livo-dollar
bills which have flooded the eitA' uur
ing I he lasf feAv months. ”
“I believe l am tolerably familiar
'vith the matter, sir,” was the reply.
“ I he fact is, Benuett.” and the
little man’s ears began to oscillate
a\ ith increasing rapidity, “the fact is
that oa 'T ; > lcct,vc m the city has
n ." ' "r ,u " ad laded, and the
V '" "
Uie police HOKiiowledge themselves
iu Benin tt. The editor brought
Ins baud down on the arm of the chair
AMth an emphatic thump. “Now,
tin'll, and the ferret-eved little man
leemd forwanl as though to add
WAUght to his Avords. ••! have always
he d that a good repor er is the best
V,' t y 1, yy°' n " l I” 1 ’ F ' t ou I*' I’^JU havc 1 '
” v
'ii". F'"" 1 - in le*'i. ) on
"[ l i “ t lls , °'ot” yA'ur
AAhole . turn-to it, lolloAv vqi every con
con-able duo run these follows to
» ai i i a.!* w, . it you Mu-cot'd, ii Aviil
mak* a duLrenoo ,n a our salary.
MU ' u ' r man off
tin- local staff you may desire to assist
you. went on the editor, before Ben
m ti hm turn to reply. “I should
aug.,st Godfrey He a a bright fel
Y"V>!” ,i "" u> 1 u ' I should
th :Vh,
I think , Godfrey „ is . the _ right . man.
sir, ausw mvd Bennett. Godfrey en
ter. d a moment biter m response to a
7 ‘ ' 1 •' t ''‘ u ’ no : the nature
ot the , business on which lie had been
d* tail, d was explained, and then both
’ ‘ u* AAith the injunction
to do their best.
A week after he had been detailed
on the matter, Jack Bennett sat loung
ing in on arm-chair at his rooms, ex
amining one of the spurious bills for
the hundredth time. He had just sue
cceded in running down, Avith the aid
of Godfrey, a eh v* hiva the latter had
suggested, but " hie!', like a dozen
other supposed clues. ha 4 proveu faNe.
A week is a 1* tain m a newspaper
ollie . and R nett beginning to
oil i > flthb'ii'.i : MiccvS' iu finding a
MUg thii »d t • "ork on.
‘ 1 1 hi man. he unis-. 1. “A
deu- < -i v id, iK-giuuiUjj.
lakiug tne eig..r :jv;u h:> lips, he
ag x ..aim l the counterfeit niiua
t( L b " a • ”■ , er.net. A slight
diflei n *. i rhaps, in tim t.-xt ire ot
th“ paper b. tweou this and th- uu
„
ine ml!, bn: the let i rmc wav dear and
.exact, the ui& black and thy printing
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY. GA, ESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER IT. 1893.
without a flaw. None bnt an ex pe»t*
could have discerned the fraud.
Then Bennett fell to thinking of eer
tain difficulties he had encountered in i
* this l ”“ investigation, —*•'— —u:_u which had so '— far I
proved profitless. Sometimes he had ,
thought Godfrey was jealous of the
precedence given another on the case;
sometimes his assistance and sngges
tions seemed half-hearted. Still, there
were times when he was feverishly
anxious to hunt down a newly discov
ered clue. There was no doubt of the
man's ability. Godfrey had worked
two or three affairs single-handed in a
manner that proved him a thoroughly
capable man—and yet, there was some
thing about his efforts to run down
these counterfeiters that seemed but
half sincere.
Little was known of Godfrey on the
paper. He floated it on the boom
tide, just when a good man was badly
needed. When Godfrey applied for
the job, Fawcett, the city editor, put
him on, and it took but a fe w days to
! demonstrate that a first-rate all-round
j man had been secured,
j Bennett thought over his associa
I tions with the new man, and could
feel no real reason for complaint.
Mentally resolving, however, to adopt
a new line of research on the following
day, he was about to retire, when a
knock on the door startled him. It
was the sharp rapping of some one in
a hurry.
“Jack, say, Jack !!” Bennett recog
nized the voice of young Davis. “Get
up and let mo in, old chap,” went on
the outsider.
Bennett walked over, turned the
key, and threw the door open. “Why,
Davis!” lie exclaimed, “”' what’s 1 the
row? You look as though you had
seen a ghost,” for the junior member
of the staff was very pale and very
much excited.
Davis assumed an air which told
plainly enough that he had a dis
closure to make. The youngster dreAv
up a chair, lighted one of Bennett’s
cigars, and replied to his friend’s query
with a question.
“How are you getting on with the
case, Bennett?” ho inquired, coolly.
“What case?”
“Como now, old fellow,” Aveut on
the youth, “I haven’t been in this
business as long as you have, but I
have learned enough to pick up a
piece ‘"Vve¥rfwhalT»att'''Aydff1{')iifkc<i of news before I fall over it.”
- >
time?” asked Bennett, rather discon
certed at the peculiar manner of his
young Colleague.
Davis pitched his hut in a corner,
stuffed both hands deep down into his
trousers’ pockets, and with an air of
quiet assurance, proceeded 5
“What I came here for, at this un¬
earthly hour of the night, Avas to put
you on the right track, and hell) you
capture these queer pushers. You’re
all Avrong,” said the lad, with peculiar
emphasis on the last three words.
“Look here, Davis,” and Bennett
rose to his feet, “what are yon driving
at?”
“Oh, uoav, don’t treat me like a
child,” interposed the other indig¬
nantly. “I’m on to the Avhole game.
You’re -working on this counterfeiting
story, and Godfrey’s Avorking with
you—that is, lie’s supposed to be. Am
I right?”
“Suppose you are right,” said Ben¬
nett, guardedly. “What then?”
“What then!” cried Davis, sitting
bolt upright, “Avhy, just what I said
before. You’re on the wrong lay—
clear off the scent, I tell you. Look
here, Benuett,” lie continued in an
i excited A-oice, “I’ve been Avorking on
this for tAA’o months. There’s a thou¬
sand dollars reward offered for the
capture of the gang, don’t you see,
and what I want is the reward.”
Bennett could not suppress au
amused smile. The vanity ot this
youngrt** tickled him imuenMly, bnt
Davis urns, bright sort of little chap,
and a fellow couldn’t help liking him.
I -r™ follered up every clue," he
went on. “Hundreds of ’em have
amounted to nothing, but I tell you,
Bennett,” and the lad’s face flushed
with the excitement he felt, “I’m on
to the whole deal noAf. I’d bet my life
against a dollar that 1 can run these
fellows to the earth in a couple of
days.”
Bennett was interested now, and he
Avas never wider awake in his life than
when, turning sharp round on his heel,
he pushed the excited junior member
lnt o a chair, and took up a position * be
toJV him .
“Out Avith it now,” he said some
what fiercely. “What do you know?”
The lad shrugged his shoulders as a
mau will do who iasure of his position.
an d replied, calmlv. “Turn about’s fair
plav . What do you know? ”
“Well,” said Bennett, “to be per
fectlv frank with vou, I have discov
ered nothing. The whole ease looks
jlwt as blank a8 it did a week ago,
when I was put on it. ”
-That’s what I thought,” replied
the youth. “Now, I’ll tell vou some
thing. It’s not altogether fame I’m
aftel in this thing. Bennett. I need
that thousand dollars. Laugh if vou
j like remains ; laugh that, your if I head had off. the thousand, The fact
I’d get married in less than no time. ”
“A laudable idea, my boy—very
fine.” laughed Benuett “Er—who is
the lady?” he added.
“Dolly Taylor, of Omaha. Sweetest
j little girl in the world, 1 ve known
her all my life, Avent to high school
Avith her, knoAv all about her. and love
her all the more, the more I know of
■ her. There are only t\A-o in the fain
ilv—just Dolly and her mother. There’s
j a brother someAvhere, but he’s the
black sheep of the family—been in
some bad scrapes, I'm told, but they
never speak of him. The fatheFs dead,
you know, and it’s a case of highly re
spe stable poverty, Well, to cut it
short.” concluded the youngster,
“that thousand dollars would come in
awfully handy,'and I never miss a
j chance, Benuett. Will you help me
I to carry this thiiuz out? tfivtuaie tlw
m<mey, Will and do it?” you can take the glory, j '
you
“Yes, yes,'’replied the other, hastily,
“Now tell your story.”
“I had better begin with the most
important fact said Davis, deliber
ately turning over the leaves of his
notebook, “Here is the entry,” he
went on. It is dated just three hours
ago. It reads like this—‘Godfrey is
the counterfeiter.’ ”
“Eh! By George, you’re crazy, i
Godfrey, one of the best all-round I
newspaper in the West, a member of
this gang? Oh, come, Davis, this is
all rot—utter idiocy,” and Bennett be- !
gan to pace the floor hastily. “Still,”
he went on, as though arguing the
proposition iu his own mind, “I don’t j
know either. There have been one or
two queer things—”
He glanced at Davis. That young
gentleman had placidly closed his note
book, and was waiting for his friend
to calm down,
“Go on with your story,” said Ben
nett,
“It was quite by chance. ” Davis re
sumed, “that I got my clue. I was
down at Schaefers place to-night,
looking up a piece of news, when there
was a row at the bar. A SAvell-looking
chap had tried to ring a flash five on
Bid, the bartender. Bill had him by j
the scruff ot the neck and w as going
to send for the police. I he man pro- :
tested violently that he avhs all right,
and offered a large roll of bills in
evidence, but Bill Avas obdurate, and
there would have been a pinch all j
right if something hadn’t turned up
iu the nick of time. Now what do
yon think happened?”
“Give it up. ”
“Just then Godfrey stepped over
from one of the billiard tables, cool as
you please; shook hands with the
man* swore to the barkeeper that he
was all right, and asked Bill as a per¬
sonal favor not to disgrace him by ar¬
rest. You know Godfrey is chums
with every detective and patrolman in
the town, and Bill knew him well as
the police reporter of our paper. The
upshot of the thing was that he just
turned the swell loose and apologized.
The latter laughed at the adventure*
bought drinks for all the loafers, and
everybody forgot it. What impressed
me avrs the expression of tho man’s
face. You never in your life saw an
innocent man go as Avhite. I kept my
on the chap, and pretty soon he
got ovCfto the table where Godfrey
Avas still p’rwpng billiards. They had
a brief talk, unu‘ aU'i'.m iiu- jgame
was over, Godfrey went out alone
There was a big crowd in the p’ace and
he had not seen me. I had a mind at
first to folloAv him, but on second
thoughts determined to shadow the
other felloAv. In a feAV moments he
Avent out, too. I was on the other
side of the street in a jiffy. He went
through the fiont door of Harper’s on
Topeka street and I was after him like
a shot. As I entered the front, he
disappeared through the back door in¬
to the alley. There was no one watch¬
ing, and like a flash I seized a Avaiter’s
coat from the wall, threAV it over my
shoulders and Avalked out into the
alley. My hat avrs pulled over my
eyes, and even Dolly Avould not have
knoAvn me.”
“Well?” asked Bennett, who was
now visibly agitated.
“Well, I found ’em there. They
Avere 'talking in the shadoAv of the
building, and of course I did not dare
stop. My object avrs to find.them to¬
gether. * That settled the thing in my
mind, but I followed farther to make
sure. I’ve tracked them to Godfrey’s
room, and now I know enough to just¬
ify a raid.”
“You confounded young ’un!”
gasped the excited Bennett. “I be
here yon re smarter than the Jot o
ns Hang me, he added, if I don t
“Bight!!! exclaimed the youth in
a sort of shriek. Of course1 m right,
Why man, don t you see the game
Godfreys, I mean? Tie’s a crack o’
i ac ^ ftt business. Knows some
I thing about newspaper work, makes
i application for a job and gets the very
I run most Avants—police. He works
hard, is a good writer, gets in with all
the detectives and patrolmen and
knows just about what they are doing.
^y t be T ' or even ^ n f traveled ° n ^ 18 around ve jy case with
-
1 „ aide*, the excited
• young
? f u ’ P au ^ in o neath. ^hy>
^ s the . greatest graft on earth, and the
grafter, like Caesar s wife, above sus
^ hen T, Oul . d sn ^? est maklU ’?
e + 0 as , y. e l -'ennett.
’
'Godfrey will be alone in the room
| alone, ^ter midnight us two If Me the must police manage make the it
! ca P tl 'T 0 ’ we sha11 lo % both credit
^ rewart • e r< -' on i 18 No.
20 ’ ° f * be Perr ^ b !°^
mus ^ be done to-morrow night If
anything scares these chaps it 11 be aU
j ‘Kv^th °‘ morr our o^> plans. en ^ sa1 ' ennett.
’
<tT Be . here ftt ld « c } 0 ? k ahar P’ a ,? d 7 e
^ ^r^ge the + details 1 tnen T I ll take
’“ aic 0 TCK Te / } t e 1 a J an< ^
you kee 1 P out of 61 ^ ht -
*
*
j At a quarter past twelve Fawcett,
the city editor, sat lolling in his
, spring-chair, having one of these little
breathing spells that come so rarely to
the city man on a morning paper. A
sudden, almost cyclonic rush into the
local room brought Fawcett up stand
ing in an instant. The new arrival was
Bennett. Blood was trickling from a
long scratch on his face, and his
clothing gave evidence that he was
fresh from an encounter.
j “What is it, Bennett?” asked the
city editor, scenting a sensation.
“Got 'em, ” answered the other
briefly, grasping a tab of paper. 'a “Got
the leader of the gang like rat in a
, trap. It s Godfrey. We’ve tied him up,
and Davis is standing guard over him
with a gun.”
“What! ! !” shrieked Fawcett, and
then r^coYtTiu^ iaaistfij— “Great
Scott!! hot stuff, old man. Jet right
at it.”
Bennett's pencil began to fly over
the paper.
“The gang of counterfeiters, whose
shrewdness has proven too. much for
the best detectives in the "country,”
he wrote, “have at last been run to
earth. The details of the capture,
and the events leading up to it, fur
nish one of the most remarkable pages
in criminal history—”
The rest of the story was never
written. The half-covered page of
copy was torn from Bennetts hands.
He looked up angrily, for time was
short. There, ghastly pale_arjd shak
ing from head to foot, stood* Oa\ is.
“Come out, quick,” he gsvisped, and
Bennett rushed after him to the eleva
tor. They entered the car just as
Fawcett called loudly to Bennett to
rush up his copy.
“In heaven’s name, what’a the mat¬
ter?” asked Bennett, excitedly, but
Davis only gasped for breath and pulled
the other out of the lift toward the
street door. Once in the street he
spoke.
“Jack, vou must not write that
st ory. I—I’ve let the fellow go.”
“You !! !”
“I’ve let him go, I tell you. For
God’s sake don’t write the story, Jack,
ifs ni y story* and you shan’t Avriteit,”
as Bennett hesitated before ^replying,
“I’ll tell you why. After we tied the
fellow up, and you came down here to
wr ite the story, I saw a girl’s picture
‘
on the table> i believe mv blood al¬
most froze in my veins whel\ I looked
at it, for the picture was of her. It
was Dolly’s photograph. The man’s
her brother, the scapegrace, the vaga¬
bond, the—”
Bennett was undergoing a struggle, a
terrible struggle. If he wrote the
story* lie would deserve to Be kicked
till the way to the Pacific Co «st; if he
didn’t write it, he would be kicked out
of the office. It was Davis w jlq got the
story. He knew that well. Yet the
paper would never recogniz a such an
excuse. The faces of the twain shone
white in the light of the stir jet lamp.
The younger one was watching I his
companion eagerly. Jack,” |
almost * ‘You won’t AAU’ite it, he begged
piteously. cf
“No, old chap, I won’t, J.ot if tlie ;
Avliole press of the country turns its ,
back on me. Come* youngster, we’ve ;
got to shake this town. IU too hot ;
to hold us. j j
At daybreak next n ijb u g two j
unkempt felloAAS boarde iq Chicago
train at a way station, tjbi milts
Tom Kansas City, The 9 vuning
paper" Uontftiiiedr~'ft i,
about a capture
cape, but the only two ien who
knew the inside of the 5 ir were
speeding eastward as fast as stem u
could carry them. The wl ole affair
was ft great sensation in i+ewspaper
circles, and there -was a go )d many
theories evolved to account f or the ex¬
traordinary behavior of ce 'tain ab¬
sentees. Bribery Avas freely hinted,
but there were those Avho knew that
something more than mere money had
prompted Bennett to throw up the big¬
gest beat of the year. Little Priest
SAVore pompously that he would black¬
list both the men in every newspaper
office in America, but, despite the
threat, Bennett is uoav one of the most
valued men in New York, Avhile little
Davis has grown into a big strapping
fellow. He is the sporting editor of a
Chicago daily and Ins w-ife is a pretty
girl Avhose name was once Dolly Tay¬
lor, and her residence, Omaha.—Ro¬
mance.
Queer Tilings About Frogs,
A remarkable thing ial-ger about , hese
creatures is that the part of the
breathing is done through the skin. In
fact, it is said that this supply of air is
a necessary addition to that taken in
by ordinary breathing, as the latter
does not supply sufficient air to sup
po rt life in a froo-.
Another j neeuliar i thin» about the
!
j ak n of thp ro S „ course"
tion o{ water This ia due of
+o the numberless minute r,nres with
which their skin is m-ovideY It has
been proved that a frog can thus soak
h alf its weight of water in an hour,
The skin of the stomach is most active
in this way, and, at the same time, is
most often in contact with moisture,
such as mud, dewy grass, wet ground,
and leaves afford. As the skin per -
spires quite asfreely as it absorbs, it is
! easily seen why contact with moisture
is so necessary. Besides t he loss from
evaporation, there is the stopping of
sk i n . br eathing also, because the skin
has to be kept moist and soft, to ab
sorb fres h air and give off used ak
from the system. The soaking of
water is what gives the frog’s skin such
a cold, clammy, and unc'any feeling l
when handled. And it explains
st e thi Xhough a - bullfrog
were poked with a red-hot iron, it
t would not feel it enough to move out
of its tracks: for the moisture of the
j gkin forms a kind of fii m of vapor be .
tween it and the iron, which takes
time to heat through ; and so the frog
would not feel pain from the heat.
; Yet, if hot water is dropped upon him,
he will instantly jump from pain, ag
this heat at once strikes into the skin,
A frog has another safeguard against
drying up—that is, a kind of interior
sack for storing water. Like the camel,
it thus keeps a supply Avhich carries it
over many a dry place, when it would
otherwise lose all its moisture and die.
The water is as pure and tasteless
j that of any spring,
j of In Australia, it is said, on^ specie®
frog prepares for a drough* in ft
I wonderful Avay. Sometimes the
traveler suffering from thirst will g-Mnnd £pmf
to a bush, and, wif'find digging into the ball.
a foot or two, a clay He
cracks it open, and out jumps a frog*
Stranger still, inside the tall is, found
a good drink of pure water And with
thi* the man quenches hia thirst. —St,
i >'iohol*s.
TRANSPORTJNIt TREASURE,
HOW SILVER AND GOLD ARE SENT
FROM POINT TO POINT.
-
Single Shipments of Millions —Pro
cautionsTaken in Handling Large
Amounts—Cost of Transportation.
w HEN Tfr.. gency ously he r the felt began financial „ the to receipts • be i which strin¬ i seri¬ • of
t express company
handles the Government's treasure in
transit fell off rapidly. Now the busi
ness has picked up a little, because the
Treasury Department is hurrying "pulTinto out
National bank notes to be
circulation so as to relieve as much as
possible the scarcity of small bills.
This National bank currency is “in¬
complete” when it leaves the Treasury
Department, for it lacks the signatures
of the President and Cashier of the
bank which is to issue it. Nevertheless
it is classed with the completed cur¬
rency issued bv the Government, and
if the express company should lose any
of it in transit it would have to make
good the loss, just as though it had
lost coin or silver certificates. The
banks pay the same rate for the ship¬
ment of this currency as they would
for National bank notes. As custom¬
ers of Uncle Sam, though, they pay a
small rate for handling the money. In
some cases it is less than one-fifth of
the rate which a private customer of
the express company would pay.
The contract for handling the money
shipped by the Government east of
Utah is held by the United Express
Company. E. T. Platt, who is a son
of ex-Seiator Patt, of New York (the
President of the company), is in charge
of the company’s Government service,
He has charge of it ever since the
United States Company took the con
tract away from the Adams Express A
Company more than four years ago.
The Adams Company received tAventy
five cents a $1000, while the United
States Company receives only fifteen
cents a $1000 in most of the Territory
which it covers. This rate is for cur
rency. That is what the Treasury De¬
partment ships in the greatest quantity.
The rate for silver and gold is much
higher.
Por this fifteeen cents the express
company guarantees the safe delivery
of the $1000 at the point of destina
tion. “Of course, on a single ship
ment of $1000 we Avould lose money, ”
said Mr. Platt, talking about the Gov
ernment service a few days ago. “Even
in handling large quantities of money
there la so small a margin of profit
that » single big robbery under ^
out all that we cbuld make
contract in years. Up to this time Ave
have lost only $8000. F'art of this
;vgrd. in a robbery of a part of the con
tents of two pacRS-gaS^ 11 ^ West and
the uot remainder far from iu Washington. the robb<3t*«r In a TTtdUl ® a ^
cases the Avork of the robber Avas so
carefully concealed that the packages
were accepted by the Treasury De¬
partment, Avhich gave us a cleau re¬
ceipt for them in each case. Of course
Ave made good the loss when the pack¬
ages were opened and the money was
missed.”
Small packages of money are
shipped in bags. Large quantities of
money going between big terminal
points are put in stationary safes,
Avhich are bolted to the floors of the
express cars. These safes are usually
not opened from one end of the route
to the other. No one can open them,
because the handle is taken from the
door when the car starts on its jour¬
ney, and with this handle goes the
dial of the combination lock. Expert
safe robbers have means of getting
into combination locks ; and of course
it would be possible, by collusion, for
the messenger to learn the combina¬
tion and so be able to open the safe in
transit. But a locked safe, without a
dial or a handle, is a puzzle Avhich
has baffled safe robbers up to this
time.
Most of Uncle Sam’s money is
shipped in stationary safes. Nothing
has ever been lost in shipments from
the Treasury Department or any of
its branches. The losses are usually
from packages of mutilated currency
sent in for redemption.
Gold cannot be handled like cur
rency because of its great weight. At
the time that so much gold was going
abroad a couple of months ago the
Treasury Department was shipping
about a million dollars in gold every
day from Washington to NeAv York.
This gold weighed two tons to the
million. One of the portable safes,
holding about 8200,000 in gold, weighs'
when filled, 1500 pounds. These safes
were locked and sealed at the Treasury
Department. The portable safes have
key locks. A strip of iron slips over
the key hole, and is fastened in place
once Avith a piece of string, and once
AAith a piece of wire. A lead seal is
used on the wire, and a green \vax seal
on the string.
To get at the key hole a messenger
or a robber Avould have to break the
seals or cut the*string and the wire,
The fact that the safe has been
tampered with would be plainly evi
dent to the next person handling it.
The safe, with its $200,000 worth of
gold, having been sealed, is hoisted
with a fall and tackle into a “cage”
express wagon—that is, a AA-agon with
wire sides. Anything that occurred
in the wagon would be plainly visible
to persons passing on the street, and
as the trips are made in broad day
light there is no possibility of the
messenger in the wagon tampering
with his charge. Besides the inessen
ger Avho sits ou the safe Avith a shot
gun in his hand and a brace of re
volvers in his belt, there are two men
on the front of the wagon, also fully
armed. The man in the wagon has a
shotgun of Belgian make, breieh
loading, the barrel sawed off so that
it canoe used at close action. The
expres ses owns fifty of these
and messenger has «n»
m Ins ear.
When e wagon reaches the railroad
station the safeiHifted amvin In means
of the fall and tackle and put aboard
[ the ear. There is not much r-ek in
handling gold, because it weighs : >
much that a robber would haven pret j
; hard time getting away with a it. Bu'
though the risk is not so great as in
handling currency, the express com¬
pany receives fifty cents on §1000 for
transporting gold. Silver, which
‘ weighs so much more than gold in pro
I portion to iis value, is still more ex¬
pensive in hauling. The express com¬
pany receives §1 for each §1000 cf sii
, vor handled between Washington and
j New York or Baltimore or Pittsburg.
From St. Louis or Colorado the ex¬
press company a on Id receive §4 for
j every §1000 handled, If Congress
| should attempt to put the 90.000,000
! silver dollars now in the treasury
vaults into circulation by shipping
them through the country the express
company would receive at least $91, -
| 000 for handling them. A year ago,
when the Tren.su rv Department shipped
$20,000,000 in gold from San Fran¬
cisco to NeAv York, it would have had
to pay the express company $65,320
for the haul at contract rates. But
San Francisco is outside the contract
territory of the United States Express
Company, and tin* Treasury Depart¬
ment sent the gold east as “registered
i mail” at a cost of a little less than
. $2500.
rp Tbe . , . . shipment , . . of , currency
. b m,led b .* he bMte bt "* E
! “ . T * ", ! ; wT 0il *P re “
f5,000,000 to Y"! Yo ‘ k snipped f onI ■ from » "S Washington 0 Ft was
'
“ bllU °‘ , ”'f! denomination end
‘hey were packed m two small boxes.
F< ! r ‘^aulthe express company re-
1,1 w \ "i: >e ai ges, go , s ip*
I
000 taken from Philadelphia to New
York a little more than a year ago.
For handling this shipment the ev
press company received $3500. The
gold was stored b' +-,vo sates which
Avere sent in a special car under heavy
guard. Every effort was made to keep
the time ol' shipment a secret. The
fear of train robbery is always in the
minds of the officials of the express
company. The’shipment of these large
amounts is what makes the contract of
the express company profitable. They
bring the aggregate of money handled
by the exnress company up to fully
$200,000,000 a year. Tho United
States Express Company has not lost
anything on its contract Avith the Gov¬
ernment yet. But eternal vigilance is
the price of its security.- Washington
Star 8 ^*4
WISE WORDS.
The real Avise man never makes the
game mistake twice,
The justice that a wick an never
wants is the justice he d/____
j* f^oman is ever M Kit; is
when she YA fli
The greatest troubleii Si ml
than the known guilt of one snP
Hoav Ave all admire the widom of
those avIio come to us for advice.
If happiness in this life is your ob
i jeet, don’t try too hard to get rich,
There is such a thing as trying to
live on blessings and starving to death.
When a man decides to say good bye
to his sin, one look at the cross kills it.
men do right only because they
! liave to 1 g° od because they love i
; f°
No man wants to be a saint Until
he finds out what it means to be a sin
! ner.
The mau who rides a hobby is al
Avays ' complaining that the world is too
s j 0 w -_
The lean pig is the one that squeals
the most. Let the faultfinder make a
note.
; People avIio bloAv their own horns
seldom furnish good music for other
folks.
: _ People avIio iiaA’C to make long
| a
reac * 1 U P ^ ie cross find it
j heavy,
] It is hard for some men to believe
that a sin can be black as long as it
pays well.
I A self-made man spoils his work
' PV ery time he opens ‘liis mouth to
■ praise himself.
There are spots on the sun, and yet
some people expect a twelve-year-old
boy to be perfect.
Home people never find out that
there is joy in giving, because they do
uot £ lve enough.—Ram s Horn,
The Electrical Horsewhip.
A wily horse trainer some time ago
provided the jockey who was riding
his horse, fora valuable cup, with a
complete electrical outfit for supply
ing current to a pair of electrical spurs,
The current v.*as found to be an infin-
1 Rely more potent stimulus to the speed
of the horse than the simple steel
spur, and the horse Avon. A protest
was entered and the jockey was dis
qualified and the race forfeited on the
someAvhat inconsistent ground of cru
eity. It seems doubtful whether such
an objection can be brought against
the latest form of the horseAA-hip,
Avhich is constructed so as to give a
slight electric shock to the animal,
The handle, Avhich is made of cellu
loid, contains a small induction coil
and battery, the circuit being closed
by means of a spring push. The ex¬
tremity of *the Avhip consists of two
small copper plates insulated from
each other, each of which is provided
with a tiny point. The plates are con
nseted to the induction coil by meaiis
of a couple o. fine insulated wires. As
a means of surprising a sluggish animal
into doing his bast woflt without the
; infliction of phy.-iea] pain the electri¬
cai horsewhip will by many bo hailed
Avitii gla-in ■'ss. —New I’erx pynuner*
ciul Advertiser.
NO. 41.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There are electric railways in New
Zealand.
A Paris medical journal declares
jaundice is, or can be, cured by eating
nothing but lettuce and lemons.
Doctor E. M. Hale, the elimotolo
gist, states that Bright’s disease is
most common in New Jersey, and least
frequent in Virginia.
Experiments made at a cancer lios
pital in New York have convinced the
physicians that the virus of erysipelas
injected into cancerous tumors causes
them to disappear.
In the museum at Cambridge, Eng¬
land, is the skeleton and stuffed skin
of an adult hybrid between a lion an l
a tigress. This, with several distinct
litters by different parents, was born
in the same menagerie.
It appears that the camel does a
good deal of harm in Egypt, by eating
the trees as they are growing up.
Already the massive Cairo camel is a
type distinct from other camels, sur¬
passing all in its cumbrous, massive
proportions.
Some investigations carried out by
Doctor Alexander A. Houston, of Ed¬
inburgh, respecting tho number ol
bacteria in the soil at different depths
from the surface go to prove that the
micro-organisms become less and less
abundant as the depth from the sur¬
face increases.
Extensive draught will cause the
snail to close its doors, to prevent the
evaporation of its bodily moisture and
dry up. These little animals are pos¬
sessed of astonishing vitality, regain¬
ing activity after having been frozen
in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a
degree of heat for weeks which daily
crisps vegetation.
The common purslane, which grows
anywhere as a Aveed, produces more
seeds than any other plant. One seed
pod, by actual count, has 3000 seeds,
and as a plant will sometimes have
twenty pods, the seeds from a single
year’s growth may, therefore, number
60,000. There is no instance of simi¬
lar fruitfulness in any other plant,
growing in this country.
The Bible fixes the creation of life
in successive periods, the creation of
the higher order 0 animals in the last
period, and immediately before the
appearance of man. According to
Moses, the order in which living things
appeared was,;*. Plants, fishes, fowl,
land animals and man. Science, from
a study of fossils in tho rock founda¬
tions, has independently arrived at
the same conclusions.
—xeiepnonf^neter is ♦ ” aoiu
u -
naming an instrument to registef the
time of each conversation at the tele¬
phone from the time of ringing up the
exchange to the ringing-t T signal.
Such a system would reduce rentals of
telephones to a scale according to the
service, instead of a fixed charge to a
business firm or occasional user alike.
instrument has been constructed
.» * The invitation of the German tele
lone department and is to control
duration of f lephone conversa
tions‘'3!5ato total tkeTmie!
Space for a fort ou a hill near Lon¬
don is being cleared of tree stumps by
an electric root grubber or stump
puller. The dynamo for supplying
the current is about two miles from
the hill. The current is taken by over¬
head wires on telegraph poles to the
motor on the grubber carriage. By
means of belting and suitable gearing
the motor drives a capstan upon Avhich
are coiled a few turns of wire rope. A
heavy chain is attached to the tree
roots, and as the rope exerts its force
the roots come up quietly one after
the other.
The Oldest Trees. c
The Soma cypress of Lombardy is,
believe, the oldest tree of which there
is any authentic record, It is known
to have been in existence in 42 B. C.
There are, however, many trees for
which a vastly greater antiquity is
claimed. The Senegal baobabs—some
of them—are said to be 5000 years id.
The bo tree of Anuradhapura, in
Ceylon, is perhaps the oldest specimen
of another very long-lived species; it
is held sacred upon the ground that
it sprang from a branch of the iden¬
tical tree under which Buddha reclined
for seven years Avhile undergoing his
apotheosis, This oak is Avell known
to be a long liver, and there are speci¬
mens still standing in Palestine, of
which the tradition goes that they
grew out of Cain’s staff, The haw
thorn, again, sometimes lives to be
very old ; there is said to be one in¬
side Cawdor Castle of an “immemorial
age-’ :
The cedars of Lebanon may also be
mentioned, and there are, according
to Dean Stanley, still eight of tht
olives of Gethsemane standing, “whose
gnarled trunks and scanty foliage will
always be regarded as the most affect¬
ing of the sacred memorials in or about
Jerusalem.”—Notes and Queries.
In Northern Alaska.
Juneau is the most northerly stop¬
ping place on the regular Alaska ex¬
cursion route, and Avhile it is not suffi¬
ciently near the pole to meet the mid¬
night sun, there is time at this season
of the year for a good deal of light
work.
What most troubles strangers is to
know when to go to bed. The sun is
apparently unwilling to pass and leaves
its halo behind.
TAvilight waits for dawn, or if there
is an interval between I have not dis¬
covered it. It is not difficult to read
ordinary print at 11 o’clock, and sit¬
ting on the deck at midnight (the ship
keeps San Francisco time) watching
the shadows cast upon the smooth
water, and the snow-capped peaks at a
few miles’ distance is not uncomfort¬
able with an overcoat, —Han Francisca
Bulletin.