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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 ~ {^“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 ------------