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OVERWORKED COPPER CENT.
OM BILLION OF THEM SOW IX CIR
CULATION.
, orn.T on the Penny Market Would
B) . Au Object Lesson on the Cur
re ue).
From the "Washington Post.
Xot withstanding the rumpus raised by
the disputing friends of gold and silver, the
most useful and hard-working member of
the T.ir. family is of neither of these ma
teria s It consists of 95 per cent, of copper
and i> per cent, tin and zinc, and bears on
its f i e the legend, “one cent.” The rise
of *he cent to this position of supremacy
has been rapidly going on the past few
year .. It doesn't require a person of ad
vanced age or long memory to recall the
time when the humhle coin was practical
ly unknown west of the Mississippi. Now
Its use Is well-pigh universal, and the de
mur.! for it Is increasing so rapidly that
the Philadelphia mint is compelled to turn
out one-cent pieces at the rate of nearly
4,000,000 per month to keep up the supply.
According to the estimate of the director
i of the mint, there are at present eome
! thing like 1,000,000,000 pennies in circula
tion,'engaged in carrying on the small
business of the country.
Two recent devices have been largely
res, risible for the increased use of our
only copper coin. One is the penny-in
the-slot machine, which has spread over
the land like the locusts of Egypt within
the past ttvo or three years. A single
automatic machine company in New York
city takes in half a million pennies a day.
Af there Isn't a crossroads village in the
country that hasn’t a chewing gum, ld-
I netoscope, music or weighing machine op
erated in this way. the number of coins
reunited to keep them all going is enor
mous. The other invention responsible
for the rise of the cent is the “bargain
counter ” The craze for 49-cent and 99-cent
bargains makes work for a lot of pennies.
Superintendent Milman of the New York
subtreasury said the other day that it
was no unusual thing for one of the great
department stores, which makes a special
ty of “bargains,” to take SIO,OOO worth of
cents-1,000,000 pieces—at a time. The pen
ny newspapers, and, in some places, 3-cent
street car fares, have also Increased the
field of operations of the one-cent piece.
“The cent is really the most interesting
and least known of our coins,” said Mr.
[ Milman, "and there are some very curious
facts about it. The subtreasury Is the
clearing house for the pennies in circula
tion In the metropolitan district, and the
penny is for us a barometer, a calendar
! and an accurate index of business condi
tions.
"Why, in the middle of July there was
a week or more of cold, rainy weather,
and the supply of pennies coming in for
exchange into large denominations fell off
one-third. A heavy storm or the sudden
coming of cold weather, anything that
keeps the penny-spending part of our pop
ulation at home, is accurately reflected
in the falling off in the supply of cents
coming to us for exchange. All through
the summer the pennies accumulate on
oflr hands, but when cold weather comes
and the children get back to school, and
retail trade revives, there is a great de
mand for them. At present the minor
coin division has tens of thousands of dol
lars’ worth of pennies on hand, but they
are beginning to go out, and by Nov. 1 we
shall probably be compelled to call on the
mint for a fresh supply. The holidays
demands a lot of pennies, and with the ap
proach" of Christmas our cent pile melts
aWay amazingly.
“There is no better Indicaton of lively
trade conditions than the cent. During
periods of dullness they always accumu
late on our hands, and when trade revives
they begin to circulate rapidly again.
“They come to us from the slot machine
companies, the newspaper offices and the
street railways, and they go out to the
department stores, the toy and confec
tionery shops and the small trader gen
erally. Of course, some of them come
and go through the banks.
“Come this way,” said Mr. Milman, “If
you want to see the way we handle pen
nies,” and he led the way to the minor
coin division, where half a dozen clerks
were busily at work. In one corner of the
room was a stack of canvas bag3 reaching
nearly to the ceiling and making a good
sized pyramid. "Those are all pennies,”
said the director. “I suppose there are
some 100,000,000 pieces there, and we have
more below." In another corner of the
room was a stack of loose coins piled high
above the heads of the clerks, who were
busily counting them off into the canvas
bags. The pennies are kept In bags of
1,000 each, and when they come In they
are all counted over. An express wagon
drew up at the door, and behind its grated
door could be Been the canvas bags piled
high. "There's a sample lot of half a mil
lion or so from the slot machine company,”
said the superintendent, "and here's a boy
with a one-hundred-dollar bill who will
get ten bags of pennies for it. That’s the
way they come and go. Talk about the
volume of currency affecting business, I
wonder what some kinds of business would
do if we locked up just what pennies we
have on hand and didn’t allow them to go
out. If somebody should corner the pen
ny market people would realize what a
highly important coin It is, for the reason
that there is no substitute for it.”
There are several unique features about
the coinage of pennies, and the work Is
managed in a somewhat different fashion
from the turning out of gold and sliver
coins.
In the first place, although the United
Slates government is the only authority
entitled to Indulge In the manufacture of
coins, our Uncle Samuel does not prepare
the blanks from which pennies are made.
Ue finds it cheaper to let out the work by
contract than to do it himself, and It is
hi present in the hands of a Cincinnati
They prepare the copper blanks In
sheets large enough to turn out 100 pieces
each. It is not known exactly how much
the government pays for these blanks, but
the price is in the vicinity of $1.25 per 1,000
or a trifle over one mill for each unstamp
ed cent.
in the disparity between the real and
f 1 e value of the cent there Is considerable
Profit for the government, for the reason
ihat a great proportion of the pennies
ccln.ff W iu never be presented for final
redemption. An enormous number of
c ''rils are lost In one way or another ev
ery year. They work their way into the
p ' ' V| rs or the ground, place them
0,1 railway tracks to be flattened out or
otherwise mutilated so that they will not
t l:lss current. One hundred thousand per
>' >r is n small estimate of the loss in this
Vtl Another source of profit for the
g'vcvnment Is In tho recoinage of old
pp ff. which were all larger and lntrinsic
“ • more valuable than those now In use.
1,1 ,; o three years 1894-1896 the gain from
*' ''dning old copper cents, three-cent and
'"n ent pieces into current pennies and
1 kola was $87,553.80.
" hen the copper sheets, ready for stamp
coach the Philadelphia mint, where
1 ” ur minor coins are made, each one is
'si.ii to see that the alloy is in the right
I' l 'portion. Thence they pass directly to
~' oolning room. Here the sheets are
1 into ktrlps, from which the round
ani a ' oalled “planchets,” are punched,
-i 'hose are run directly through the
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which Is forced down on the blanks and
leaves the impression. The brass blanks
or “planchets” drop through a hollow
tube upon feeders, which carry them be
neath the dies. Any imperfect pieces are
rejected by the woman operators, who ac
quire wonderful dexterity in detecting
them.
From the stamp the coins go to an au
tomatic weighing machine. This intelli
gent piece of mechanism, a German inven
tion, perfected by a former director of
the mint, throws out all pieces that are
above or below the required weight, and
an electric alarm attached to it warns
the operator in case two coins try to pass
into the receptacle at once. The pieces of
correct weight pass on to tho counting
room, and the others are sent back to
be recast.
Pennies are not counted by the laborious
process of handling each piece, but by a
device known as the “counting board,” by
which SCO are counted at a time The
counting board is an Inclined plane, with
columns the exact width of a cent, sepa
rated by copper partitions in hight ex
actly equal to the thickness of the coin.
The cents are spread over this board and
fall Into the grooves prepared for them, all
surplus coins falling off into a trough.
Then tho counting board is emptied into
the canvas bags, which are carted away
to be shipped to any part of the country.
The figures of distribution kept by the
mint are Interesting, as showing the local!,
ties where pennies are most in use. Last
year the demand for pennies was greater
from Pennsylvania, which took over 11,-
000,000 of them. New York was the second
largest customer, adding 9,000,000 to the
supply. In New Mexico, on the other
hand, the cent is still unappreciated and
little usedr and in 1896 only 4,000 pieces—
s4o—were sent to this territory.
CATHEDRALS IX AMERICA.
Xew York Contains One That Has
Taken Twenty Years to Build.
From the Church Economist.
New York has the largest Roman Cath
olic cathedral on the continent of Amer
ica—a vast structure requiring over twen
ty years to bring It to its present state of
architecture and not yet completed. And
shortly we are to have in our city another
great cathedral to be erected under the
auspices of the Protestant Episcopal
church. We hear of still another pro
jected in Newark, and cathedrals seem to
be springing up over the land.
Naturally the question arises—wherein
does a cathedral differ from an ordinary
church? What is a cathedral? The word
is derived from Kathedra. which means a
raised seal; in this case the seat of a
bishop. For the cathedral is the church
m which the bishop has his seat or chair.
It was In former times called Domus—
that is, the house (Duomo, Italian; Dom,
German), meaning the house of tho Lord.
And still earlier the name Matrix Ecclesia
was given to the cathedral, but at the
present time any church which has others
subject to it can also lay claim to this
title.
In the Roman Catholic communion no
cathedral can be established without di
rect permission -from, the pope, nor can a
church, collegiate or otherwise, be con
verted into a cathedral without the same
permission. Nor can one bishop have
Jurisdiction over more than one cathedral.
Of course, temporal power has often arisen
against papal authority, as when, for
instance, in France the revolutionary
government reduced the number of dio
ceses from 135 to sixty, tn opposition to the
Vatican. However, had the revolution
ists asked, permssion might have been
granted for so doing, inasmuch as the au
thorities of the church are often willing
to yield to the demands of the times.
Old sees are often suppressed. By the
concordat with Napoleon in 1803 Rome
sanctioned the nullification of a large num
ber of bishoprics, in consequence of which
France from that time has contained only
about eighty-five episcopates, instead of
the 135 existing before the revolution.
Analogous changes are provided for in
the Anglican communion by the theory of
the royal supremacy, though this theory
has been modified somewhat by the pro
gress of political demands. In the Angli
can church the sovereign 1s still supreme
“in all causes and over all persons, eccles
iastical as well as civil."
The sovereign still has the title of "De
fender of the Faith,” though the absolute
power thus vested is somewhat curtailed
by the parliament, which has a right to
condemn or uphold the will of the ruler.
But, for the most part, parliament and
head act conjointly, and both have often
wiped out old and set up new sees. In Ire
land ten Protestant bishoprics were sup
pressed at one stroke by act of parliament,
and also several suffragan sees in Eng
land, But w)th the Roman church the
power of suppressing or creating a cathe
dral see rests with the pope alone.
When a'cathedral is once established
there are certain laws laid down for its
government. The council of Trent forbids
the holding of more than one cathedral
church or the holding of a cathedral along
with a parish church by the same bishop.
It also enjoins that the ordinations of min
isters shall be publicly celebrated in ca
thedrals. The bishop must be present In
his own cathedral at such ceremonies as
necessitate the services of a bishop. He
cannot name a deputy unless there is a co
adjutor tn the diocese. Neither has the
bishop absolute control of the cathedral
funds. As In all other churches, he Is vot
ed a certain yearly stipend. The cathe
dra! differs in no respect from other
churches beyond the fact of the bishop's
choir being located there.
—(She—l give you my word, I saw the
boat leave the pier! He—Well, you didn't
suppose It was going to tow the pier along
with It, did you?— Yonkers Statesman.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1897.
FACED DEATH TO GET HOME.
HOW TWO TENNESSEE MOI XT.AIX
EEBS FOOLED A TEXAS SHEHIFF.
Xot Accustomed to Texas Ways ot
Doing Tilings, Tliey Did Xot Pros
per The Hot AVlnds Destroyed
Their Cotton nnd the Texas Fever
Killed Their Cattle. So They Con
fessed a Horrible Murder, and
AVere Seat Back to Tennessee In
Irons—Their Innocence Was Then
Easily Proved Reminiscences ot
Col. Beu Harris.
Cor. of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Sherman, Tex.—"l was sheriff of one of
the border counties of Texas from '72 to
'B4, and I saw quite a lot of things worth
seeing,” remarked Col. Ben Harris of San
Antonio, one afternoon recently, as ha
leaned his chair back in the shade in front
of the Binkley house, of this town. ”1 had
several little experiences that I didn’t
think much of at the time, but that almost
takes my breath away when I think of
them now. I don’t know how I happen to
be alive to-day, unless it's true, as they
say, that there's some kind of special Prov
idence over children—and fools, I saw a
good many things that would do to laugh
at—afterwards—and a good many that
would do to cry over. Many a time I’ve
had to go to some fellow that was leading
a quiet, honest, respectable life in this
western country and jerk him up and send
him back east because he'd killed some
fellow or robbed some bank, or something
of that kind. I never could feel sure that
it was quite right to break up a happy
peaceable home this way, no matter what
the fellow might have done back east, and
I always felt blamed sorry when it had to
be done. I don’t think I ever in all my life
felt any sorrier for a poor fellow, though,
than I did for old man Bob Dixon.”
"Tell us about it, colonel,” asked sev
eral of the hotel loungers in chorus.
“Well, I don’t know but I will,” re
plied the colonel, meditatively. “Aside
from its pathetic aspect the story has
several features I never knew to be dupli
cated. If you don't like the story, you’ll
at least say that you never knew another
like it. Dixon was about the peaceablest,
mild-manneredest old fellow I ever saw.
He had come from the mountains of Una
ka county in East Tennessee, and his
whole appearance and demeanor was that
of the typical Tennessee mountaineer. He
talked in a long, slow drawl, and had a
most decided talent for taking life easy.
There was something pathetic in the indo
lent stoop of his long, lank form that went
far toward winning the hearts of us cow
fellows for him. True, he worked hard
in his way, but It was always a hopeless,
dispirited way, as if he knew he was fated
not to succeed and was only trying to
keep up appearances. His partner was
another mountaineer, a brawny young fel
low named Sneed, who had considerably
more push than Dixon, but still never
seemed to catch on to the Texas way
of doing things. He took care of Dixon,
fought for him once or twice, and looked
after his interests in general. The two
were generally very well liked, but the
older man was the more popular of the
two. Of course, they didn’t prosper very
much financially. Luck was against
them. Luck generally is against people
who try to do business in Texas in a
back-state way. After awhile the old
man’s health broke down. Then the hot
winds struck the little patch where they
were trying to raise Texas cotton in Ten
nessee fashion, and ten days later they
din't have *any cotton. The Texas
fever broke out among the long-horn
steers they were trying to raise like
mountain oxen, and after that they had
mighty few cattle of any kind. Finally
we got tired of seeing the old fellow in
such a bad way, and so a lot of the fel
lows from the ranches agreed to raise a
purse of money and send him back to his
old mountain home. The committee ap
pointed to inform him of this fact found
him sick and lying on the floor of his mis
erable shanty, with Sneed sitting by his
side und holding his hand.
!/^ ir y 2,*} uns to send him back
with me. asked the old man, raising up
or ) ° ne elbow and glancing at Sneed.
" ‘Him? Not much,’ snorted the spokes
man. ‘He’s young and strong and able
to work for himself. We Texans helps
fellows that can’t help themselves.*
“ 'Nary step do Igo without him,’ re
plied the old man, settling down again
and no argument could budge him from
this resolve. After some Ineffectual at
tempts in this direction, the committee
went off and left him.
Some days after this Sneed came into
my office in the court house to beg a short
extension of the time for paying the few
dollars of taxes he owed the county. He
seemed very much dispirited, and in order
to cheer him up a little I spoke of tho
devotion of the old man had shown toward
him. To my surprise, instead of apprecia
ting this reference, he laughed bitterly,
and Intimating that the old fellow's feel
ing might not be altogether unselfish. I
reproached him for saying this, after
Dixon had refused to go home without
him.
“ ‘Mebby he ain’t so powerful sot on go
in’ home, after all,’ Sneed suggested.
" ’Why shouldn't he want to go?’ I ask
ed. rather sternly.
” ‘Mebby it mightn't be healthy,’ he re
plied, cynically.
’’ ‘What's that?’ I growled, turning on
him suddenly. ‘You don’t mean to say
that this inoffensive, peaceable old man
has ever ’
“ ’Don't mean to say nothin’,’ was the
reply, in terms of dogged defiance. ‘You
Jest write to the sheriff of old Unaka
county, back in them Tennessee moun
tains, and ax him ef he ever heared of
David Martins, or ever wants ter hear of
him again. You needn’t bother to ax him
nothin' about Bob Dixon. Bob Dixon
ain't knowed of back in them mountings,
none.’
"After this Sneed relapsed into the sul
len silence of the typical mountaineer,
and my most persistent questioning could
draw nothing from him. In a few min
utes he left my office, and started out for
the few miserable acres he called his
ranch. After he had gone, I told gome of
the boys in the court house what had
happened, and asked their advice. We
were all inclined to be indignant. Some
thought tt was all a sly, malevolent scheme
to get rid of the care of the old man. All
agreed that it was my evident duty to tel
egraph at once to the sheriff of Unaka
county, and investigate matters. If Sneed
were telling the truth, the old man un
doubtedly ought tq be brought to Justice,
regardless of our feelings of sympathy for
him. If, as seemed to most of us, more
probable, the matter was a pure fake on
the part of Sneed, justice to the old man
still dmauded that the cloud of suspicion
be taken from him. I think there may
have been a quiet little understanding
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among the boys that ' in this lat
ter contingency there was to be a little pri
vate interview of some kind with Sneed;
but, of course, I was not informed of this
fact—officially, at any rate. Acting on this
advice of my friends, I telegraphed the
Tennessee sheriff, asking if one David
Martins was wanted in his county; If 60
to wire description of man and particular*
of charge. The next day I received a reply
something like this:
“ Ten years ago David Martins butch
ered hi 9 aged mother, his wife and three
little children, because he suspected his
wifa of informing the revenue officers
about his moonshining. He was about for
ty years old, six feet three inches high;
had black hair and eyes, and a big scar
across his left cheek. By all means, hold
any suspect. Five hundred dollars re
ward. Will come at once alier my pris
oner.’
“This message puzzled us considerably.
According to it, Martins ought by this
time to be about 50 years old, but Dixon
seemed nearer 60. Dixon’s hair was
white now, instead of black, and his hight
was rather too small for the description;
but a man guilty of the awful crime he
was charged with would undoubtedly have
aged much and changed much in ten
years. As to the scar on the check, we
could not judge, for Dixon had always
worn several Inches of beard over his full
face. We could hardly conceive how so
inoffensive a citizen could have been guilty
of so awful a crime though we had known
things not unlike it to happen in Texas
before. It was evidently my duty to ar
rest the old fellow, though, on tho
strength of tiro telegram just received,
and hold him, to await the arrival of the
Tennessee sheriff. I never dreaded a job
so in my life. For the first and only time
in m career 1 dreaded to make an
arrest 5 to such an extent that I put the
thing off on some of my deputies, instead
of doing it myself. I was sitting in my
office, a few hours later, feeling pretty
tough over the whole m*atter, when In
walked one of the deputies.
” ‘Can the old fellow prove his inno
cence?’ I asked, eagerly, looking up.
" ’Prove hell,’ was the reply; ’lie s done
confessed. ’
" ‘What?’ I gasped.
“ ‘Jest so,’ he answered. ‘We hadn’t
more'n got to the door before he told us
he knowed what we was coming for, and
that he'd been dodging for ten years, and
was most glad it was all over. You ought
to have heard hint cus that old villain,
Sneed, though. I believe Sneed is the
vvuss devil of the two. Murderers is bad
enough, but traitors is wuss.'
“Just about that time Sneed himself
came in. I never saw a fellow so badly
worked up over anything.
“ ‘Boys' he says, ‘I never meant to give
him away. Before God, I never! I was
mad and plumb crazy, and I didn’t know
what I was doin’. We’d had tough luck,
nnd his was powerful bad on me
that had to t;*e keer of him; but I did a
good part by him—d shore did! Just you
uns ax him ef I ain’t staid by him day
anil night, an’ waited on him when he was
sick, Jest like he was mjt o\vn daddy. For
God’s sake, fellows, let the pore old man
off! He's lived peaceably on’ honest out
here, no mutter what he done In Tennes
see. Kaint you let him off, Mr. Sheriff?’
“Of course, though, this plea was of no
use. I never hated anything so bad in my
life, but I had to jail poor old Inoffensive
Dixon, alias the iflend Martins, to await
the arrival of the Tennessee sheriff. I felt
sorry for Sneed’s grief, but I Jailed him
also, by his osvn consent, to avoid the pos
sibility of any mistake on the part of the
boys.
“The Tennessee sheriff was named Jack
son, a young fellow of less than 30 years.
He had seen Martins t ut a f< w times, and
that ten years ago, so his remembrance of
him was necesFarily rather vague. He
said Dixon looked like him, but he couldn't
Identify him positively. However, as the
crime had already I een confessesd, ttjere
seemed scant need for identification. Djxon
agreed to go without a requisition, and
Sneed agreed to go as prosecuting wit
ness, without waiting for an attachment,
on the ground that if he stayed he might
be mobbed by the enraged plainsmen; and
I'm not right sure but h s suspicions were
well founded. There was hardly a dry
eye in the crowd when the train pulled out
with the sheriff arid Sneed and Dixon on
board. It did look as If the old man
ought to have been permitted to spend the
few remaining years of his quiet, inoffen
sive life in peace."
Here Col. Harris paused for a moment
and looked solemn.
“How did the case finally terminate, col
onel?” asked one of the crowd.
"Oh, I was about to forget to tell you
that part of it," the colonel resumed.
“About a month later I wrote the Unaka
sheriff to know about things, and in re
ply he told me that Dixon was no more
Martins than I was. 'Scores of moun
taineers had Identified him and Sheed as
being honest men who had gone to Texas
ten years before, and had always borne
the same names they then had. Dixon
had denied all about his former confes
sion, and Sneed had no recollection of ev
er having eaid a word against him. As
Dixon was evidently not Martins, there
was nothing to do but to turn him loose,
and Sneed with him. Neither of them had
sworn anything so there was nobody to
be prosecuted for perjury. They couldn't
ship the fellows back to Texas, so what
was to be done about It? When the men
were released they had made for their old
haunts among the mountains, like two
chickens Just let out of a coop, and Unaka
county had the horselaugh on its sheriff.
Martins’ whereabouts was still a matter
of mystery. Jackson was fiery mad, and
no wonder, and wanted me to put up the
cost of transportation for his two charges.
"I have known a number of easterners to
be busted in Texas," continued Col. Har
ris, "but I never knew any other to delib
erately con £ess to a horrible murder in
order to get free transportation back
home. We admired the constancy of those
men in sticking to each other like they did.
We also could not help admiring their In
genuity; but we certainly did most deeply
begrudge them the tears we had shed and
the sympathy we had wasted over the sup
posed awful interruption of the old man’s
peaceful and Inoffensive Texas career.”
WONDERFUL CAVES OF ADELSBEHG
Said to Be the Stout Magnificent
Work of Nature In the World.
Adelßberg Letter in London Chronicle.
I have seen nearly every great object of
nature In Europe and many in America,
yet I have never seen anything so won
derful and magnificent as the Adelsberg
caves. People go to see far Inferior ob
jects, and yet leave these caves unvisited.
The Austrian authorities are partly to
blame for this. The caves are the prop
erty of the government and the Austrian
government Is the most conservative and
red-tape government in Europe. It might
make a big revenue by attracting visitors
to Adelsberg, but It will neither do so It
so'.f nor ncrmit any enterprising private
person to ilo so. although n good offer has
been made. You can’t walk into the caves
ns or when you like. Y'ou must apply at
tho official bureau, or go nt the stated
hour—lo:B# a. m.—or else submit to be
fleeced by extra charges. T was fortunate
in having th 6 caves Illuminated by double
caudle power—J.OOO candles—while the elec
tric arcs were lighted in those parts of
the great underground labyrinth which
expand into gigantic natural halts.
One enters at a big dark portal, which
might almost stand for Dante's entrance
into the inferno. A party of some five
and-twenfy persons, mostly Germans,
gather together and men in uniform, who
are stupid, ignorant and even incapable
of speaking plainly, take us In charge.
The bright outer world closes behind us
as the gates clang together, and we are
In a mysterious world, which should lie in
habited by gnomes and elves, a world of
dark recesses, giant columns, halls of
gloom and terror, where fantastic shapes
of all kinds reveal themselves In dim out
line to the beholder, and where one mar
vels at the wonders wrought by the hand
of nature in the lower parts of the earth.
Water has accomplished this work, the
underground rivers sending forth stream
lets which percolate through the rocks,
and drop by drop, in the course of untold
ages, form these grand objects. It takes
fourteen years to form a stone of the
thickness of a sheet of paper, so one may
guess at the millions of years In which
the caverns have been formed.
A gloomy passage leads to a vast natu
ral building known as the “Bom," because
it might easily be taken for a huge ca
thedral. At its depths rushes nn Ice cold
river, which makes the passenger over the
bridge that has been constructed shudder
as he looks down. A road has been made
all through by the government, and this
road is tome miles long, the paths di
verging and then reuniting, parties being
taken up one way and down the other.
One got the impression of. passing along
the crypts nnd aisles of some gigantic
church of proportions never dreamed of
by any earthly architect, and the groups
of candles shining at intervals in the
gloom added to this effect.
By the way, one passes all kinds of sin
gular objects which nature has made, re
sembling natural and artificial objects.
Here is a lion, there an elephant, again
a human head. Splendid natural pulpits,
with glories of carving, crowded with fig
ures, reveal themselves. From Gothic
roofs, rich with ornaments, depend ban
ners as in a great church nave, the ban
ners themselves the work of nature, rich
with color and borderings of fancy pat
terns, which the guides' lanterns show us
as we passed along. I never saw such
magical effects. All at once we emerge
Into a gigantic hall, with a flat surface
nnd huge columns all round, in this place
a great dance is held at every Whitsun
tide festival. We pass on and tind still
stranger effects. There is the virgin en
throned with crown and big inflated dress,
Just as we see her image In Catholic
churches. Here is a single column, with
capitals of acanthus leaves. There, again,
is a great organ, all the pipes carved by
nature's cunning hand, and one almost
expects to hear the “Kyrie’’ peal forth and
echo among the arches of the giganllc
aisles.
But the most impressive part of the cav
erns is that known as the calvary. A
steep winding path leads up its htghts,
which is covered with what seems exactly
like the ruins of splendid temples, grand
er than ever reared by earthly architects.
I thought of Wordsworths’ lines, “a wil
derness of building" It seemed, a grand
array of “alabaster domes and sliver
spires." One looked constantly for the
presence of superhuman beings; one in
stinctively turned one’s head to see if
some towering form worthy of the place
were approaching to lattr vengeance on
the rash intruder who had penetrated into
this abode of the gods. Carved statues,
busts, broken columns, marble capitals,
heads of figures, all lay tn confusion on the
slopes of the great hill enshrouded In
gloom. But ever nnd anon througn this
gloom there gleamed the Utile bright
splinters of quartz and mica shining like
diamonds, and on one mass of stone the
guide’s lantern flashed into view thou
sands on thousands of these shining
stones.
I do not hesitate to say that a more
Impressive and magnificent natural scene
than this calvary In the Adelsberg caverns
does not exist. It is wonderful, grand,
mysterious in the highest degree. After
this'climax the rest seemed comparatively
common-place, but we walked along
through the dim aisles, with their columns
and pedestals, and animal’s carved by na
ture's hand, the slow drip, drip of water
every now and then splashing on face or
coal, while the lights were gradually extin
guished by the guides, who now followed
In our rear, until we finally emerged
(again the Dante smile suggests Itself) into
upper air, and left the vast deserted aisles
and halls to the mysterious genius of the
place. There are few English tourists to
be found tn Austria at all, for the English
Stick to certain well-deflned routes. But If
they should come to this very attractive
and beautiful country let them not fail to
pay a visit to the wonderful caverns of
Adelsberg.
Cisneros Show Not a. Success.
Washington Special in Philadelphia
Times.
The Cuban girl who has been traveling
as Evangellna Cisneros has abandoned her
western trip and returned to Washington.
It appears that the Chicago exhibition was
a financial failure, and the good people
in other western cities who have invited
her to appear under their auspices, can
celed the engagements. While there was
a good deal of sympathy and admiration
for the girl, she was not a drawing card.
People would not pay to see her. Her
future Is in doubt. Her chaperons say
that she has received several advantage
ous propositions, but before accepting any
of them thinks she ought to consult her
father, who is still a prisoner in the Ca
banas at Havana. There has been so
much humbugging of the public by the
managers of Miss Clssio that people here
are very cautious about believing any
thing that is said of her. It was entirely
unnecessary for her to take a nom de
guerre. She would have been quite as
much of a heroine as Evangellna Cossio
as she was as Evangellna Cisneros, but
it was thought that she would draw
larger crowds if she was advertised as the
niece of the president of the Cuban re
public, with her veins filled with noble
blood instead of an ordinary mechanic’s
daughter, as she is.
—Seeking Objects.—“l understand they
are going to move the medical college.”
“Yes; they want to got a little nearer the
foot ball field.”—Chicago Evening Post.
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The Ladies Appreciate Merit.
Bargains are not made to order, they grow. Real bargains
follow great movements of merchandise, like tilC eddies, Wbicb
a swift river leaves behind it. A ‘‘Bargain Store” D-V€T has
any real bargains, how could it? This week there are SOilie
bargains here so important as to claim the espccidl attention of
wise buyers. Judge oi the great volume ot the business that is done here.
FCKSTEINS.
MMaS.in' 7" —I "'"7"' 'M—
We are terribly overstocked! The season is still
backward! We must unload at any cost! No
sacrifice will be spared, in order to force sales.
49 Cis. SILK SALE, 49 CtS.
Including Pure Silk Black Brocaded Silks, 49 cts.
Pure Silk Changeable Brocades, 49 cts. Checked and
Striped Taffetas, 49 cts. A Miscellaneous lot Silks, 49 cts,
A $4.00 Beaver Cape $2.29.
One hundred All Wool Beaver Capes, Tailor-made,
Black and Blue —Empire Back, Trimmed with Satin,
Slashed Collar, value $4.00 Now $2.29.
Deep Gut in Dress Goods.
Fancy Dress Goods at 10c, 15c, 19c, 25c, 39c and 49c.
All Novelty Suits are to be sold; name your own price.
Absolute Bargains in Black Goods of All Descriptions.
Domestics Are Demoralized.
Heavy Fleece Cotton Flannels, 4c; Fancy Outings, sc.
Yard wide Heavy C. Island, Twilled Crashes, sc.
Ready-made Sheets, all sizes, 30 cts, 39 cts, 45 cts, 49 cts.
Blankets, Comforters, Rugs,
Lace Curtains, Art Squares, Table Covers.
Tailor-Made Waists, Skirts,
Flannel Waists, Silk Waists, Warm Wrappers.
Stylish Jackets. Plush Capes,
Misses’ Reefers, Infants* Cloaks, Sweaters and Jerseys,
Go at Decided Reductions.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
A FLOATING LEAF.
It Carried n Woman Weighing 217
I ’on ml N In St. Louis.
From the Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A green leaf, no thicker than ordinary
cardtioard. floating on water five feet
deep and bearing the weight of a 217 pound
woman.
This was witnessed at Tower Grove
park Monday afternoon, when Bupt.
James Gurney sought to determine the
carrying capacity of the leaves of the
Nymphaea Victoria Regia, more common
ly known ns tho Royal Water Lily.
"I saw that kind of lily in Rome this
summer, when I was making a tour of
the Old World,” the woman said, “and
I would like to stand on one of those
leaves. Over in Rome they were afraid
to let me try it, but here in America
the people are braver. I’leasc, sir, may
I walk out there?"
"How much do you weigh?" Inquired
Bupt. Gurney.
"Two hundred and seventeen pounds.”
"Well, 1 hardly know about that. You
will not get nervous, will you?”
"What! A woman like me get nervous?
Why, sir, I can swim as well hs any
athlete In this city. If you are willing
to take chances on your lily being smash
ed 1 will assume all risk so far as I am
concerned.
Enough said. The superintendent knew
his Illy well enough to have faith In Its
ability to take caro of Itself. The gang
plank swayed and squeaked under the
woman’s weight, and it wasn’t a frail
plank, either.
She walked out on the plank to the leaf
that had been equipped with the frame
work. Cautiously she placed one foot,
then the other, on the leaf. Then, with
arms akimbo, the woman of flesh sailed
away as Jolly as any tar. She went as
far ns the cable would permit; then, when
her body swayed by the sudden stop, Hhe
sailed back to the starting point. The
crowd that witnessed the exhibition said
it was wonderful. The fat woman was
accompanied by a boy well along In his
teens. He followed his mother on the
leaf.
MONGOLIAN PHEASANTS.
Fame of Oregon's Gnmest Bird
Causes a Lively Demand.
From the Portland Oregonian.
A
Mongolian pheasants. The fame of Ore
gon’s gamest of birds has spread all over
the United States, and, knowing a good
thing when they see It, the eastern sports
men are particularly anxious to secure a
number of the choice birds for breeding.
It Is not likely that any great number of
the Mongolian pheasants will be sent out
of Oregon. The shipment of these birds
beyond the boundaries of the state Is pro
hibited by law, except under permit. There
have been large numbers thus shipped,
and there has also been'a goodly number
of the birds successfully smuggled out.
The Btate of Ohio now maintained a peas
antry at Van Wert, and is furnishing eggs
and birds to private parties. The pheas
ants were Introduced Into Ohio from Ore
gon, but there Is no record here of any
permits being Issued for the transporta
tion of such birds to that state, and It Is
supposed the first lot was smuggled
through. The fish commissioners of Cali
fornia are attempting to Introduce the
Mongolian pheasant Into that state, and
some weeks ago placed an order In the
hands of a man living in Eugene for four
hundred pairs. Mr, McGuire will take good
care that no such number of birds Is sent
to California, or any other state, as It
would be In clear violation of law to do
so. In order to secure a permit for ship
ment of pheasants out of the state, the
person doing so must make affidavit that
he is the owner and In possession of the
pheasants he wants to ship. He must also
swear that the birds have fully domesticat
ed, and kept for propagation and exhibi
tion purposes.
The persons who have gone Into tho
business of shipping pheasants for the
money there Is in it, have, In some in
stances, an easy conscience, and have no
qualms in making the affidavit after
catching the birds and keeping them lr
confinement for two or three days. In or
der to clr umvent this cla.ss of p ople, Pro
tector McGuire has revised the affidavit to
ho made so that It will read “that said
Mongolian pheasants were bred and rais
ed in confinement,” and the name of tho
breeder will also have to be given. The In
troduction of the Mongolian pheasant la
Virginia Is being taken up with great en
thusiasm by the sportsmen of that state,
who hope for Hs success.
"Very few Imported cigars are received
in this country. There Is a duty of 4(4
cents a pound and an ad valorem duty
of 2o per cent, on Imported cigars. They
are consequently made very light and
flimsy."
FLORIDA
ANI> THE
"THE LAND OF THE SKY,”
Asheville Hot Springs,
Aiken and Augusta.
The winter season at these well-known and
wonderful resorts is now opening a.id the
many Improvements In hotel facilities and
railroad service will draw a larger number
and more enthusiastic pleasure and health
seeker? than ever before.
The schedules and service of the
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
to each and all of them will be unequaled.
i New Tod i3 wo Umifed
will again be operated, commencing
about January 1, 1888.
WINTER TOURIST TICKETS
at low rates from and through Ohio River
Gateways go on sale Oct. 15, 1887. From
other points Nov. 1, 1807.
SIDE TRIPS
are made a feature by the Southern Rail
way Tourists end all patrons of the
Southern Railway have most care ful at
tendon at the hunds of its many repre
sentutives. who are fully Informed on al
subjects Incident to travel
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