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A he Bulloch •I Herald
Vol. I.
OPENING LETTERS.
SOME SECRETS OF THE ENGLISH GEN¬
ERAL POSTOF c lCE.
Uethoda by iviaioh the Officials Be.
t’ome Acquainted With the Con
•eat* of Suspected Communications.
Private Tests Which Pail.
is somewhat ... x remarkable fact
a
that the general public of England
knows very little concerning.the secret
service of the general postofflce, al
though the service is probably the most
To coxuplete of its kind in the whole world
the outsider the secret service is
known as the postal secret inquiry
branch, and not one in a hundred of
those in the employ of the pcstoffice
knows the exact workings of the secret
So e ;“;,'t being „ d T in r :r the n charge f b “’ "i* of cer- ai, ‘
prime minister for the time
Once, and once only, in recent years
• n *“ I8ter of the government allow
e himself to be drawn into making a
statement which admitted tbat the
creta of the pcstoffice were used for po
ltical purpows.
dn^of 1 ".k 1 A “.‘w™ 6t dyDamite "?»' “ 8Car ,ae f’ ta ™ he A" “
ftn'rri an Irish member made a general charge
against the government of tampering
ith the correspondence of certain Irish
Jo M ? nner9, >n reply,
evaded the question . in ambiguous
an
anner, tut indiscreetly called atten
ion to a ciauBe in the postoffice act
which empowers the postal authorities
o open and even confiscate any letter
or package which they might reasons
Oiy suspect covered some infringement
tie rales of the department.
ie secret service is divided into two
distinct branches, the higher and the
lower, and the duties of tbe latter are
°a th ® ?J\ b .! iC V8ry
reqneutiy. as it has to do with tbe pros
ecution of dishonest men in tbe em
oe Ikk!^ ronoenea 0 * 10 committed ® 88 • b !, grMt inside . bnlk the , of
aite of the poato ffice is a t tempted b y
the youugw nam» B «mmr « iui ^u,
reason that every newcomer is occasion
ally subjected to keen watching from »
quarter that he ieastsuapecfe
Quite unknown to him. he is kept nn
der the observation of a keen eyed
watcher, who is securely hidden from
view in a secret alcove, almost within
touch of the sorter, messenger or whal
ever the employee may be Every move
ment is noted and analyzed, and it
would take a very expert man to try on
any underhanded game and escape de
tection.
On the continent the correspondence
of private individuals is liable to the
acratinycf the police or other govern
ment agents, and no secret is made of
tbe fact; but, on the other hand, on*
officials write indignant letters of de
toial and repudiation, while all tbe time
they are perfecting the fine art of open
ing letters without leaving any traces
of the operation.
Like most clever arts, that of opening
a letter without causing suspicion is
simplicity itself. A glance at the qual
ityof tbe stationery decides the opera
tor on the means to be adopted. Some
kinds of paper will bear the steaming
process without leaving any traces, and
in that event the operation is very
simple. The contents having been ex
smined. and. if necessary, copied, they
are restored to their envelope, which is
regummed, the flap burnished with a
bone instrument. »
Contrary to generalbelief, the sealed
envelope presents no difficulty to the ex
pert. A piece of new bread, kneaded in
to a firm ball, is pressed on the seal and
the facsimile ia obtained. Various other
methods have been attempted in taking
the design of seals, but the cne we have
quoted has been declared to be far away
the best for the purpose, the bread be
ing clean and leas liable to leave any
trace of tampering behind. This dough
matrix ia hardened as soon aa the seal
baa been modeled, and when tbe con
tents of the letter have been obtained
the envelope Is closed and reaealed with
thedough mold.
When U is deemed unsafe to moiaten
a n envelope, it ia cut open. The opera
tion is « delicate one aud to any but
Srmlv an e*P«^ b^tw^n very difficult two'fla^n^S^fwood^ to perform prop
S! ^entf«th h nart^aS iiJh fhe^x- Zhtml
ths twentieth partof aninch. Theex
p®* th^nd'ro^he'ifi^and^ttenfnp nnfrk ^Ifwith
v thi the
When the contents are replaced the
edgesof the envelope are stock together
with $ hairline^of ijowerful gum, snb-
Statesboro, Ga„ Thursday, June 22nd, 1899
mitted to pressure Tor « f ( . w minutes,
and no on a not in the secret would
guess what had been done.
mtl°Z
acd. Now and then ra.picj,,™
s Pondent8 place sand, powder, hairs or
other minute objects inside the envelops
y way of test, but this does not trou¬
ble the expert a little bit. He Is on the
lookout for that kind of dodge, so is
careful to open the envelope over *
large sheet of pure white paper. When
*' liefie “ te9ts " fall out, they are careful
ly collected and restored.
m £ S e can ° fficlaJa teil in tl,e detective funny depart
‘ beirown * soule Tories of
astuteness. When the charge
g !u n de by the lrhh
^“ lber “- one of * the w Moderate party de
f govermnent and declared
of irSSlliM 9atl f llJWseJf ™“Si b - v « series
“«"« tavloJato. H e
ignorant of the fact however
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{^“untTn" ‘ T ““ “* b “ 1 '
j ^ STROKE U Kfc OF UF GENII GENIUS. IQ
|t Elici.ed th* tnbonnded Admim
I u<m»( ib« Fanner,
' °"'T • faw .nn,me,. ago , m „„g , he
.
biany others that visited the wild re
g i on adorned by one of Michigan’s in
j aBd lakes, was an artist. He had a
health of scenery from which to select
and cbo8e a picturesque view with a
hill of rocks and jack pines as a back
ground. The owner of the property
transferred to canvas did not think
much of tbe enterprise or of the man
who would dawdle away his time in
Bnch an undertaking, but tbe artist
t he summer rates without a iuur
mur and never entered any complaints
against the accommodations The next
season th* painter was again amomr the
gnests
“How did that there picter of yours
come out. anyhow?'' asked the curious
landlord. ‘
“Oh. fairly well. You know that I
to sve my name to make yet. Isold it
fijr #1.000. “
ly. -not $1,000. ■ ■ lou — :-—„•—'.T re ebaffln me.
“Not a bit of it. ” langhed the artist.
‘‘I got $1,000 for that httle view before
there w as a frame on it.
“Shake, stranger. I alius thought I
was pufty aUck on a dicker, but 1 11 b,
doggone if you don t take tbe pnza
You skinned that feller slick «nd
clean.
“How so? indignantly, for his pride
was touched.
“Oh. don’t play innercent with me.
It won’t go no further. But you done
him brown. A thousand fur that spot
where you couldn’t raise a bean to the
acre ? If the critter that bought that
picter had teen uie. I’d a sold him the
hull durn farm for $375.’’—Detroit
. F re6 Press.
™ Triwi. of a Writer.
Why should the young, aspiring asuiring an- an
thor be discouraged -
in welldoing? We have a letter from
one of them m which he says.
“Five years ago I submitted a short
efcory to a certain magamne. it was re
turned immediately.:I senill; o
er. It came back. All told, i nave s i
that same story to 27 magazea.g
and small H has been five yea ^ e
road, going and coming. Hut y
I sent it to the magazine 1hat firstt de_
clined it. and it was ac ^ ep “’
thanks and a satisfactory ch«kl Of
course m that time the old editors of
this certain magaaine ew er e -
signed, and it must na
bands of some new ma .
seen it before. H i ?
the postage < J n tba [ ^ t arun „ nt ,
fd to $17.50! n 1^got tnrice x h fi«, J ure f or
it ad ^X. sc► I am aotp ^
One will gather from t , {
the litera y and
*t means a “ y * “Patience
.huffle the cardsl ... -Atlanta a tbant a Const tonatitu it u
tion.
s.rlna BU Pr«r«r..
The foUo wing story of tbe old king of
Hanover is told in “Foreign Courts and
Foreign Homes” by A. M. F.:
“My father went to the door of the
^ apar tment« (with some dispatches
London), knocked loudly once,
twice. No answer. He knocked louded
and louder. Thedoor was opened, and a
P a #« c an)e ont > and in9ide tbe kin * 9
, 0 ; ca waa beard, naing oath after oath,
winding up by asking: ‘What the
blank blank blank did you want?
“Tbe page, with a frightened look on
his facei took the dispatches, saying.
nmjesty was not to be disturbed,
as ne w« was saving his prayers.”’
A NIGHT OF MISERY.
rio,ng in a lockeo eox CAR WITH
Tw0 SCAREB MULE «
An [Oipcrlenee Which. According- to
•hi* Victim, Made Sherman’* Defini¬
tion of Wttr Seem Like the lleacrip
tion of A Sunday School Picnic.
,.tr- „ said the Footprint ^ . to Slug
.
c e " as 10 settled down on his stool
Brul , be p n to tbrow * n « handful of
J ypt 7 ‘‘ lf 1 didn’t have a time of it get,
t,n « down here out of those meun
tains.’’
“ Bcen np ,n the ***'***1'’ Inquired
Sing Seven,
“Yep. ” replied the Footprint. “Just
came cat. Footed it from Angels to
Milton J-Mtertay and rede into Stock
ton on a side door sleeper last night. A
ssr—— is cot the most comfortable "» *«*■
-ode of ttnveiing. Perto»„,, y I peefer
to ride on a red cushion, but the heart
less and exorbitant demand of the rail
rcod trust for spot cash compelled me
to walk or come as freight. I came as
“Sure," said Slug Seven,
“The nn^leneant featnro of the trip. ••
«> ut, » n ed the Footprint, “wae the base
betrayal of confidence on the part of
the brabeman with whom I negotiated
fcr undist urbed passage. For a cash
consideration of six bits and a drink of
liqnorhe verbally contracted to waybill
rae irova Milton to the division end at
* Ctoc kton. We went up street to take
the drink and—well, you know bow one
word brings on another. By train time
the $ 4 1 h >I d sank in my J eans bad been
fiahc<J to tb e surface and sent across the
bar for red liquor.
“The brakeman was full when be
Parted for the yards. So was I when I
started after him. The brakeman con
fided to rae on tbe way through the
y arda that he owned the whole train
and I could ride anywhere and anyway
I Wanted to. I told him that I was aur
ronQd,D 8 at least a quart of Milton
whisky would and shipped unbroken
1 be as an
cri g iDa i package. He agreed, and we
where tbe train was stand
ing U)ade np t0 find fchat empty. The
brakeman ran a door open, gave me a
hnrried boQpt in 8I)d ran the door shut
flnd l0cked u After a bit I struck a
“^ k ^ { and v . bat do you
r, tbat cngfi liad doDe r
Give it np . •• gaid Slug Seven.
.. Bilkd me aa H ve stock, by guru I
p act! q b » re i wag locked in a box with
|o0fiei an d all of
, tQ c any to tbe division
® tl)at g^erman said
nd Wba{ wag
abont war v Said it was hades, didn’t
be? Weli j t H in’t. It’s onlv an imita
’
tjon Th e or tUodox, rose colored
b ades is to spend a night in a lbcked
ho* car with two mountain ranch mules,
“It isn’t a long run from Milton in,
and I concluded, after tbe train had
bumped t along about three miles and
aMred mnle9 bad begun to charge
around aroun and a kick a rat-a-tat-tat-tat on
^ ^ ^ that the only p Jan
* flank
cainDO j„ D ] P f t to me was a
mounting of
tbe anim gi s . it wouldn’t be a
dream of pleasure on that mule's back,
but it wot , ld be safet than dodging four
rap v id fire hind heels unlimbered for ac
j * . on th0 mnle all r ig ht , and
iitue^o bucking be steadied down
^ evi .
dentlv scared to ‘^Veing death and seemed to
straddled by a
^
•«vFel], I was just chuckling to my
oVer tbe 8ta te of affairs in the live
6tock dep ar t meni of the Eapee railway
and figuring tbat another hour would
see us in the division yards, where my
friend the brakeman would open tbs
door . wb en the train stopped, evidently
^ # eidjng aa x knew W0 aren’t neat
a station. We bumped about a bit and
I ixoo took a double wrap in the mule’s ears;
^ bumped >t|n about wbi , 0 and'then 80UJe othe; I
cars were and
heard two short tcote of the whiatls
a rumble that gradually grew fainter
Tbe train had pulled out and we wer«
sidetracked.! morning, too.
“We staid there till
and I rode that son of a jackass, with a
backbone like the ridge cf a church
roof, up and down and ar( ] n ” dth “ t ^
every weary minute of all that wm^
night To quit riding “f 81310 8 ® 1
and have the liver and .
sleep, fail eff
high lights and hatf
and kicked out of me by two scared
mountain mules.
“I estimate that I rode that mule 130
miles and three furlongs in that car.
and the car traveled 17 rmle^before bt-
ing sid« tracked. The remaining three
miles of tbe 20 between Milton atod
Stockton l made on foot, thus complet
ing a journey of 150 miles 8 fur
lungs in u straight line between two
given points tbat are hat 20 miles
apart, a mathematically impossible feat,
.«on,pH,b«l by jack.* with to.
aid of two relatives on the male side of
tfae boose.”
The Footpi’int sighed as be paused to
bite off chew of tobacco, and Slug
Seven took advantage of the opening to
rental k that a man who bad traveled BO -
far under such circumstances trust be
dry.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Biew York a City of Auctions.
New York is the city of auctions
There are 300 reputable auction Lenses
and three times that number of auc
tioneers in New York, and they do a
ye«ly knaiaaaa of .boot *75.000.000
tills does not take into consideration
the transactions of scores of small auc
tioneers who devote themselves entirely
to the wants of the east side.—New
York Herald.
Stirrups were unknown to the an¬
cients. They were first used in the fifth
century of our era. but were not in
common use even in the twelfth cen
tury.
" ow Bank. t«e Their Million..
Many people wonder how banks use
f tbe money deposited in them and
bow they manage to pay interest there
on aud yet come out at the end of the
ye ?£ with a big profit on the business.
What they do is trade with, the mon
® y> To tb e depositor they pay between
and 3 P er cent * but the money they
, * end brin them in »• 5. 6. 7 and
8« even
8 P? r ce ut
For tnatence. . they give loans on all
!°^ t8 securities, such as rhiiway
debentures, government stock, public
con ) P an y shares, dock warrants, bills of
,ad !f . g ’ e J c
I hey also , lend . money on the
bouses and land, but not to a grea£
X^l7l, 88 re P ayiM S»*<|tWfe^ional men
_-rw tne bank often lends with
out any security *lt hnr now ruinous and
- have heavy and
l089e ] J ese loans
™ ban a however, have large sums
^ “ W,e. for they
t keep sufficient cash at tbe various
"re to nay checks and even to be
m differ^ce or less prepared for panics. Still,
entbeypaj between the 1 or 2 per
^ f S andthe Sto 8 they re
“ j^ense on a 2 i on8 of do] i ara leaves them
* profit P on tbe year’s bnei-
Two Dangerom Trades.
File cutting and glass polishing are
the two trades in which tbe operatives
are constantly subjected to the slow arid
stealthy growth of industrial disease,
The danger in their case is even more
alarming than in those which have been
previously dealt with, as tbe power
which daily menaces them is that most
pernicious and treacherous evil lead
poisoning. In the case of file cutters
the mischief is contained in the bed
upon which the file is placed for cut
ting. This is composed of metallic lead,
for. although other substances have
been tried, it is -declared that none of
them give the deeired amount of re
sistance without resilience obtained by
a lead bed.
Glass polishing is dangerous in that
the powder with which the edges of cut
g i aS9 are treated contains 60 to 70 per
cent of oxide of lead. Here, again, tbe
same remedies are demanded, and for
tuuately they are not so difficult of at
tainment. In both these cases the poison
pursues its victims with a malice as ra
lentlesa as it is appalling, which kills or
maims as surely as does any explosion
.or accident by violence.—Fortnightly
Review
A vtte WoMe Than o«th.
id that Dr . Tuffier of tbe Hos
P , , p eti0 p ar ig, succeeded in
br * n gl ng ^ man to life temporarily. Souiie. Tbe
n o R
. bd b it^iTalleged. , nmnounced dead Dr
in the presence of
’ the
, large B DUmber of students, took
body andi a f ter the application of sev-
eral recognized methods of proving the
total cx tinction of life, exposed the
njan , g beart and bo i d ing the organ in
bi8 hand pressed first one side with tbe
,
finger and then on tbe other side with
tfae thuuib . and . keeping it up continu
ously. caused an artificial action, and
Q t imo there were unmistakable
evidences of life. It is said tbat tbe man
wefed oQe or tWo questions put this to
him. It wae impossible to maintain
, artificial action very i ong . an d the man
( k b k to bis 8econd death
No. 21
A DARK SHADOW.
I never ««w uiy mother’* face;
God drew a ehndow o'er my baby eyes,
And there it lie*.
Unchanged by time or place;
^
, —
and felt her kiss
Upon tny eyelids pressed.
I never saw God’s lovely world,
Rut I have listened to the whispering trees
breeze
TUt 8 P rin K’ 8 oneurled.
I never gazed upon a rose,
Bnf I have laid the flower against my check
And heard God apeak
And mysteries diacloee
And he has made me nmjerstn-d.
ThOU |f d “ rk th * “ h * ,dow tfcBt «•
behind, in
God i*
Unueon I feel Hie hand
1 „ 0 „ , to ,.......
The lifelong shadow will bo rolleu aw^y
°°* tklIeiun day
rupturoua 8Urj,rt8 ®’
These My hnppy lips e’en now mmt Mng
Will flpsf, eyes, unclosing in the streets of kcld.
beiiold
The face of Christ, my King.
—Feodors Hell in Good Words.
REPARATION.
A Strange Coincidence In the Lite off
a Fireman.
“Soon after I entered the fire depart
ment,” remarked a hostler of the city
fire department, “it was icy hard luck
in responding to an alarm to run over
and terribly injure a small boy, who
wasplaying in the street. It was an
unavoidable accident, but jnst the same
it had ite effect upon me. and for a
time it preyed heavily on riiy mind and
probably would have done so until to
day had it not been for the sequel,
which righted up matters somewhat.
“I kept myself pretty well informed
as to tbe condition of tbe boy. and was
extremely happy when I saw him on
tbe streets again and to all ajmas-snfnr
fully recoverejife A «ye"boy’s family bav
the bouse where he re
sided and where we took him after the
injury, for awhile I did not see him.
though I ------^-'o*‘»hont occasionally beard-from him.
afterward relqMLJ a
year our company of
to an alarm in tbe northwestern part
the city. On arriving at tbe fire was
sent to one of the upper rooms at the
burning building to rescue some cbil
dren who were in tbe room and who
were terribly frightened, as they had
good reaeons to be. for they were.,
considerable danger. There was a hgb
burning in the room, and the moment
I entered it had l recogDixed driven the and little injured tej
law that I over
If there ever wag a little fellow wha
wag carefully wrapped up in bedclothes
nd with bis little sister taken dowa
gtairs and to a place of safety, you can
bet it was that boy and girl. The same
i 00 k 0 f fright was upon his face, which
p had not forgotten, but I don’t think
my f ace looked as bad as when I bad
pic k ed him np in my arms before I
was supremely happy in beihg able U
return Bome good for the ill I bad done
him. Washington 8 tar.
A ro9t ’m impre»«to«* ®*
S in B i B «.
Nkw Y ohk. Sept. 20. 1870
j went at t o’clock today to hear
Nilg80D> She sang in concert at Stein
way hall; t’other artists were Vwnx
tbe violinist; Wehli. pianist;
s^gnoU, J| tenor, and Verger, baritone
Ue Hilsaon singeth as thou and 1
. and
j {° ^ ghe openeth ? her sweet mouth
ar tb be hea d o’ one side like a
mocking bird in the moonlight, and
8kra j gb tway cometh forth the purest aii
ver tbat ever mortal voice made
Hef pianissimo was like a dawn, which
cregcen do’d presently into « gloriods
noon 0 f tone, which then did die away
into a quiet gray twilight of clear, ine
lodious whisper. She tang nothin* mean
or light or merely taking. flandeU
“Angela Ever Bright and Fair. *
duet with brignoli. by Blangim. and a
noble solo, a scene from Ambroise
Thomas’ “Hamlet” (tbe Insane song of
Ophelia), with “Heme. Sweet Home.”
for encore-these were La
Muai<»l Impreesions. by Sidney
mer, in Scribner a
piu.
“That young man.” said tbe citizen.
panting ^ a sharp featured youth
acro88 tbe street, “has made fame both
for bimsel/ aad this his native Til¬
i aK0> ”
“As to bowl” asked the stranger.
“Simply by sending telegrams of coa
gratn i at io n condolence, as tbe occ»
gioQ called fof, to prominent persona”
—Indianapolis lcaian * po *i* Jouraai ------------