Drought.
Why <lo ws pity those who weep ? Tho pain
That finds a ready outlet in the flow
Of null and hitter tears, is Moaned woo
And does not need onr sympathies. The rain
But Alls the thorn fifthl for nnw yield of graiu,
While the rod, brazen skies, the sun's fierce
glow,
The dry, hot winds which from the tropics
Mow,
Do parch and wither the unsheltered plain.
The anguish Mat tliro' long, rcuioraelaMa years
Looks out upon tho world with no relief
tit suddtn tempests or slow dripping tears,
The still, unuttered, silent, smiling grief
That ever more doth ache, and aclio, ami ache,
ThiH is the sorrow wherewith hearts do hrtak.
- Ktla WheeUr.
VI'MiLNT PAItiHKAI'HS.
Although the hand orgaus have re
tired from business, there arc still lots
of cranks turning up.
Tho watchmaker can't afford to do a
rush business, because he makes all his
profits on time.— W< and Witdnm.
La 1 1 words of the balloouist; "It's
all up with me." Last words of tho
gosling: "It's all down with me."
An exchange wants to know " whether
our colleges tarn out gentlemen." Cer
tainly not; the gentlemen are allowed
to go on and graduate.
Customer—"You say that those fig
ures ure life size? My dear sir, they seem
very small." Artist—" Perfectly cor
rect, sir; you know • life is short.' "
"Live within your income," shouts
the philanthropist. That's easy enough,
old boy; it isn't living within one that
bothers s fellow half as much as living
without one.
A plumber went forth to plumb
To s kingly paUoo l.v the w*y.
And when his bslf-dsy's work was doti
Presented his bill without delzy.
The king brought forth his bags of gold,
H is diamonds and bis jeweled crown.
The plumber gave credit for them,
And took a mortgage on tho throne.
The question is raised in the Paiis
Figaro whether a roan 'should bow on
entering a railroad carriage. If he
wears a silk hat, and the car door is the
regulation height, the probabilities aro
that he would bo compelled to bow.
No man who has over written a book
can comprehend tho awful joy which
tills the soul of tho author as ho dis
covers the offspring of his brain sand
wiched in among a number of other
discarded volumes, and marked " Your
choice for ten cents."
" This buttor, Mr. Spicer," said the
dealer, " carried off the prizo at the
farmer's fair;" an 3 Soth spat out a tasto
of the compound, and remarked; "Un
less the prize was a ship's anchor and
chain cable, I should think the butter
could have carried it off easily."
Arabella (on her toes in a chair,
clutching convulsively at her Bkirt)
"Oh, Bridget! A mouse ! A mouse I
Come and catch it, quick !" Bridget
" Shure, mum, there's no hurry. If
this one gets away, I can get plenty
more for ye, mum."
H" was asking the conductor how ho
managed to build a house and buy a
fast horse out of his 850 s mouth.
" You see," said this noble roan, "some
times wo got away passenger who pays
a quarter or a half dollar for his fare.
Well, wo flipibe money up—heads for
the conductor, tails for the company."
" But," persisted this investigator after
truth, "sometimes it most turn up
tails. What do yon do then ?"' "Oh,"
replied the conductor, with an ineffable
contempt, " then we flip it up again."
So that p*senger went home and sold
out his railroad shares.
The >rcret Out.
A reporter dropped into one of our
largest retail establishments yesterday,
and held a conversation with the pro
prietor. " You havo a great rush," re
marked the reporter. " Yes," replied
tho proprietor, "a big rush—mainly on
account of advertising." " How can
you tell whether advertising pays and
what papers are good medinmsf' "I
can tell that advertising pays by stop
ping my advertisements. I've tried it
Trade drops, not at once, but the tide
of purchasers flow some other way.
The cash receipts tell the story."
" Hnpposc yon should give up adver
tising?" " You mnst koop the boilers
heated if yon wantateam. If you bank
yonr fires too long it takes time to stsrt
up. Advertising is the steam which
keeps business moving. I've studied
the matter."—Boston Journal.
How to bleep In a bleeping Car.
1. Get a berth in the fore part of the
car. This is because the pure air comes
Tn at the front end and windows and
goes out at the rear end and windows.
I always take the upper berth. My
reason for taking the npper berth is,
beoanae it is freely ventilated and away
from the hot pipes. 2. Have yonr
berth made up head toward the engine.
This will keep all drafts of air from
yonr hesd and prevent taking cold. If
the car is very tight put a lead pencil
under the window at yonr feet in case
of a lower berth ; or, in oave of the
upper berth, open the hind-sky window
at your feet. 3, Fix your pillow in one
corner of the berth, and yonr feet in the
other By laying crosswise you will
not roll in your berth.— A Traveler.
A CITY WITHIN A (ITT.
A ('•rrrapoutlrnt Kxplerc* Ihr Olntlal
qunrlrr of Hon frnnrliro Hluki* nnd
Hrensa of on Alton I'llr.
A correspondent who bun visited tho
"Chineso quarter" of Ban Francisco,
describes tho strange SCOUOH BH wit
nessed as follows: We see signs of civ
ilization older than the Fharoahs; we
hear tho twaug and squeak of a (lddlo
of rude workmanship, whoso music was
heard in tea gurdens two thousand years
before tho three stringed rebec (sire of
our violin) was heard in Italy; we bend
at doorways that bar our path at sud
den turns, peer into dark dens that line
the way; hero is a shrine, with gold
and saffron legends and scarlet stream
ers round the door through which
floats tho scent of burning sandal wood
in the josg sticks, And we catch the
gleam of tinsel, flare of a lamp before
an ugly image; and this is what men
are left to do I These garish figures
are actually worshiped by human beings
in their blind gropings for snperior
prowess! We have meat shops whore
everything is sold from pork to rata;
restaurants or chop (stick) houses whore
wc see companies feasting, possibly
on shark's fin or bird's nest
soup and tea; were tho royal
Hamlet with us he would
say, "And smells so I Pah 1" Hero is
a group of fellows in a wash-house play
ing fl-ti to see who shall pay for a treat
of tea, a game I have seen before but
power fails me to describe. Next is a
barber shop, where many are undergo
ing dainty cleaning of eyes,
nostrils, trimming and penciling of
eye brows and lashes. The streets are
narrow, crooked alleys, whereon are
crowded strange buildings, and crowd
ed, quaint shadows. We see roofs
towering in the air as if striving for
spac<j to breathe; we meet women with
broad fans, red silk handkerchiefs, and
wide bacx sleeves waving like bat
wings; their heads are adorned with
stiff outworks of shining bair, bright
with tinsel and paper flowers. The
blnc-blonsed men swarm along the side
walks with an easy, swinging swagger,
bred of an independence unknown to
them in the place of their birth, but
arguing the appreciation of the advan
tage they here enjoy.
Wc enter stores and see huge jars the
size of men, wrought silken screens,
giant dragon kites, and baskets and gay
china; there are qneer foreign scents
lingering in every corner; from half
open basements comes the rsttle of
dice; among the curbstone dealers are
pipe cleaners, cigarette rollers, cob
blers, vegetable and sweetmeat venders.
One of them accosts u portly gentleman
of our party in a private and surrepti
tious manner, with tho words: "You
likee cigar? Me sell belly cheap." As
curiosity tempted the one addressed to
wink at this contraband business, the
almond-eyed, blandly-smiling Chins
man 'moves in a mysterious way his
wonders to perform," and in a manner
worthy of the magirian Hart7. calls
cigars from the vast depths of his loose
sleeves, and sells five for ten cents.
" Vile things," remarks the purchaser,
as he pitches tbem into the reeking
gutter, whence they are deftly rescued
by the blandly smiling quondam seller.
Inside the windows of tho dimly
lighted shops are pasted strips of red
paper bearing those remarkable regular
hieroglyphics which are an open letter
to four hundred millions of the human
race, but look to the eyes of the an
inisted balance like a series of photo
graphs of dislocated skeletons on a jam
boree.
The name" of Hop Wo, Bhan Tong,
Shun Wo, Wo Ki, Yen On, Cheng Lun,
Wing on Tsiang are DODO of the moat
familiar inscriptions over the store* of
business houses. I have learned that
these are not always the names of par
ties engaged in business, nor do they
indicate the trade pursued, nor the
kind of goods to bo found within, but
are mottoes of savings adopted by the
firm. In the original they are sugges
tive and poetical, however void of
euphony in the English. When Shun
Wo, the cigar maker, hangs out
his sign, it does not follow that
his name is Wo, and he ia
impelled by conscientious motives to
utter this warning against himself, bnt
he merely proclaims that his shop is
the seat of faith and charity. Here are
a few free translations of some signs:
Hip To over a wash-house signifies
" Mutual help and concord." Here a
doctor proclaims Chai Lang Bhung,
which means "Abundant relief." Man
Li, a synonym for " Ten thonaand prof
its," ia suggestive both ways; exceed
ingly so when surmounting tho door of
a lawyer. Equally pertinent is Foo
Ling, at the entrance to a gambling
dec on the corner there. Restaurants
proclaim themselves: Garden of the
Golden Valley; chamber of the odors
of distant lands.
The butcher announces: "Wo re
ceive tho golden hogs."
The apothecary shop is • Hall of rc
relief; promise of life palace.
Dry goods and grocery atores mod
estly aak: ''Let the East and West as
sist our plans," or boast: "Customer*
coming like cloud*; merchandise re
voiving like the wheels," or give gentle
warning and admonition to buy; "the
pr ce in the morning may not be the
price in the evening;" upon their scales
is written: "Bo busy and bo prosper
ous;" oil the safe: "Hoard up gold;"
upon tbe goods, perhaps: "Once seeing
and onoo speaking fixes *tt— not two
prices."
Over the doorway of dwellings: "Let
tho live blossings como to this door ;"
or "Old and gaining in health and
peace."
Above tho theaters is ascending lu
minous dragon, and everywhere we 800
one or tho other of tho Six Companies
into which the population is divided;
Nino Yung, which owns tho most men
in Han Francisco; Ham Yap, which
scuds tho most men to tho Htates,
Hong t how, etc.
I am told of story under story bo
neat h the sidewalks, damp, dirty cel
lars whore tho coolies flit around like
gnomes, where no window lots in light,
no drain boars off bad air ; I am told
of the pent, fnll workshops and board
ing houses, each story rofloorod onco
or twice between the first tloor and
ceiling, and their lodgings where the
inmates are shelved in tiers; of their
courts of justice presided over by tbeir
six-headed chief j>ower, the strong Six
Companies; from whose joint decree
there is no appeal; of the theater,
grotesque in the extreme; of the
gambling dens, with dice, dominocs (
dragon or demon-pictured cards, where
Fan-Tan holds sway, of nndcrground
depths like the abysses after death ; of
long passages with a strange smell, a
smell that makes one faint, a smell of
death, where ghastly figures cursed
with leprosy cross the slimy rotten
floors ; of—bnt enough ; let us out from
China and enter America, under a starry
sky, and breathing an air fresh and free
from beyond the Golden Gate.
Harvest Time In Italy.
At harvest time there is feasting and
rejoicing. Ham, eggs and wine are
consumed in great quantities. During
" mietitnra " scarcely any one stays at
home, and all other work is neglected.
The harvest home is usually celebrated
by a dauce, and it is at this time that
marriages are chiefly arranged. The
vintago is a quieter proceeding, for,
although the soil is favorable to the
vine, it is not so extensively cultivated
as corn. For some time before the
grape gathering peasants, chiefly
women and girls, may be seen guarding
their vines, and forming picturesque
groups beneath the festooned tree*.
Were it not for this precaution all
those fine clusters of grapes would dis
appear as if by magie, respoct for tbeir
neighbors' property not being among
the virtues of these Arcadians. After
the gathering wagon loads of grapes,
some ss line as any in hothouses, are to be
met, drawn by the slow oxen along the
road*, on their way to be deposited in
a vat with a hole in tbe bottom. This
is placed on the top of a cask, and on
it m nuts a man or a boy, who begins
treading the grapes, the juice of which
falls into tbe receptacle beneath. This
is hard and very unpleasant work, for a
a warm of wasps follow tho grapes, and
severely sting the naked feet which
tread upon them. The sight of the
muddy feet increased my distaste for
tho wine of the country so much that,
in deference to my prejudices, our
wine-treaderv were made to wash their
feet before hoginning their work— a
ceremony they considered superfluous
Cortihill M-igatiitr.
What They Kat ia Africa.
An African correspondent of t\od
ami lhalfh, speaking of the people and
incident*, says:
Of course banter's food, anch as ele
phant foot, buffalo hump, aea oow,
giraffe, and the hundreds of different
kinds of deer that abonnd in various
parts of the country, are all more or
less good citing, especially when you
have a good supply of Dame Nature's
sauce, hunger, on hand. I also found
the coney or rock rabbit a fair dish, al
though too much like a large rat to
look pleasant on the table. The natives
of tho country are not, aa a rule, great
meat eaters, living generally on corn
(called there meehea), milk, pumpkins,
and a sort of sugar cane, now and then
going in for a feast of meat. I have
often considered whether to this way of
living may be ascribed tho really won
derful manner in which they recover
from wound*
In the Zulu war I saw four persons
wounded in the legs with bullets, one
of them especially having received a
bullet joat below the knee, smashing
all the bones, and leaving a bole that
you could see through. The doctors
said the only hopo for any of them was
amputation. This they refused to
allow, and they would do nothing but
pour cold wfpir from time to time.
When I laai saw Ibera all but the worst
could walk alone, and fa a wound looked
healthy, the bone having grown togeth
er and knitted quite strongly. No
white man could have lived without au
operation. On the other hand, thca
men soon succumb to illness or diaeato.
How lo restore oil pair.ting*-Carry
thorn back to the owner.
Novelties of the Law.
A Chicago boy only four years old,
whose father had gone to his day's work,
and whose mother was sick abed, slipped
out of tho house and wandered along
tho street, where he fell in company
with older boys, who coaxed him to
frolic with them on the "swing bridge,''
over the south branch of tho Chicago
river. A swing bridge answers the pur
jKJse of a drawbridge, but tnrns on a
pivot instead of being hoisted. The
men in charge of this one had just let a
vessel through and were swinging the
bridge back into place, when tbe chil
dren begun jumping bock and forth,
and the little fcur-year old fell over
the narrow space between the bridge
, and the abutment, and bis right arm,
which hung down, was crushed. Thccity
| was sued for damages. The judges
said that they did not consider the fam
ily to blame for tho child's being at
| play in the street; working poople ran
! not always keep governesses. But
| neither was the city to blame. A city
I must keep a swing bridge in reason
ably safe condition, and if a person
crossing it properly is hurt by a defect
l of the bridge he can recover. But per
sons who use swing bridges must lie
careful. The city is not bound to keep
a gate or a watchman for preventing
persons from stepping upon tho bridge
at an improper time. Bridge* are not
playgrounds for children, and if chil
dren wander from home unattended
' and are hart while playing about a
bridge this must be caile 1 a pure acci
dent.
A Mai viand girl wrote to the preai
dent of the Illinois female college ap
plying for a situation aa teacher, and
was at length engaged at a salary of
$3OO, besides "home and washing."
The president's letters stated that each
teacher would have a well-furnished
sleeping room, but did not say on which
floor it would be. The teacher wrote,
j asking if she might have a room on the
aecoud floor, and the president answered
at first that it would )>e on the second
floor. Subsequently he wrote again,
1 saying that he fonnd that he would have'
to asaign her a room on the third floor.
Bhe declined this, liecanse " her people
were very much opposed to her sleeping
on the third floor." Then the president
engaged another teacher in her place,
and lastly she sued him for her damages
in losing tho year's employment. The
decision was against her; the court said
that as the letters forming the original
contract did not express or stimulate
for a second-floor room, the president
was only bound to award a comfortable
room. And he had the right, if needful,
to move a teacher from one room to
another; because he assigned her a
second-floor room at first, it did not fol
low that she was entitled to keep it the
whole year.
A street ear passenger asked the
driver to let him off at the Palmer
house, Chicago, which the driver prom
ised to do; and when the ear drew near
the spot the driver 1 reckoned to him and
said: " Here is your place," and slowed
up tbe car, as if to atop. The passen
ger went to the rear platform, and,
when the ear war moving very alowly,
stepped off; but at that inatant the
driver, who apparently thongbt the
passenger had already alighted, whipped
his horse, the car gave a jerk, and the
passenger, who had not yet Jet go tho
iron rail, was thrown violently to tho
ground, crippling him for life. He re
covered $5,000 damages from the com
pany, and the court aaid this was not
too much. As a general rule, the driver
ia bonnd to atop the ear entirely, and if
l*saengors jnmp off .while a car is
moving, they take the risk of being
hurt; but this does not apply where the
driver slows tho car enough to render
stepping off appareutly safe, and invites
the paasenger to do ao, hut atarts tbe
car forward without giving him time.
The arrangements of a railroad termi
nal iu Austin, Texas, are snch that the
train makes a short stop in a freight
depot first, and then rnns onward to tho
passenger depot. One paasenger, not
understanding this peculiarity, alighted
from the cars while they wero in the
freight depot, supposing that to be tbe
proper place for him to get off. There
were no lamps in or about the freight
depot—none were probably needed for
the work done there—and the passen
ger, groping bis way along the platform
as well as he oouid, had a fall of abont
six feet, sustaining serious dislocations
and bruises. The company said he waa
not entitled to damages, for a railroad
is not bonnd to light np its freight
depot, nor ia it nnder any obligations to
take care of a passenger after be has
left the train at bis place of destina
tion. But the court said it is bound to
provide safe, convenient accommoda
tions for jwvasengers to get fairly off
from the platform and grounds of the
station, and thst therefore the suit
would hold.
A man in 8t Louis aat watching stone
masons laying a cellar wall, when be
suddenly arose, approached one of
them, aimed a pistol at him, and shot
him deed. Pointing his pistol et the
other workmen, he said: "If you do
not stand still I will shoot yon, too."
Ho then walked leisurely swsy, and
was arrested a few blooks distant. The
defense wu insanity. There ess no
proof of hereditary insanity, nor much
of prnvions mental disease, hut the
lawyer for the accused argued that the
lack of any motive for the shooting, the
defiant publicity of the act, and the
total heedlessness of consequences
shown; also the fact that the aocused
gave various contradictory and absurd
accounts of his reasons for the deed,
showed insanity. But the court held
that these are not sufficient gronnds.
'I he law presumes every person to IMS
sane; if any one is not so this must he
proved. It cannot be inferred from
the extraordinary malice, wickedness,
recklessness or uselestm HB of the ret,
nor from ahuormal insensibility to con
sequences.
To the Pole by Hal loon.
• onimnnder Cheyne, who i* trying to
interest prominent persons in the
United Htates and Canada in bis scheme
for reaching the North pole by a I*l loon
expedition, says: The ship of the < xp
dition is to bo called the Oritinell, after
Mr. Orinnell's father, the celebrated
patron of Arctic exploration. Lieuten
ant Bchwatka has to accom
pany the exjiedition, provided ho can
obtain the consent of the government.
The three balloons which will cost $20,-
000, will ha made in England and will
be shipped in this country. New York
will he the starting point of the expe
dition, and we expect to leave in June
next. We shall go to St Patrick's bay,
where Captain Nares found an immense
hod of fine coal lying on the surface.
We shall build a house directly upon
the coal. We shall put up apparatus
and manufacture hydrogen gas for the
balloons. The place is six miles from
where Captain Nares' ship, the Discov
ery, wintered in 1875-6, and is 496
miles from the pole. When we get the
right wind, it will take us eighteen or
twenty-four hours to reach the pole."
Commander Cheyne says farther that
the experience of the Jeannette is only
another confirmation of the fact that it
is impossible to reach' the pole by
means of vessels. In his opinion the
region of the jolo is sn archipelago
bound in n solid ice pack, presenting
no opening for navigation. Each bal
loon will be provided with a sledge,
boat and provisions for flfty-one days,
and will reel out telegraph wire as it
travels, keeping in communication with
the maiu station. If during the stay
of the party at the pole the gas shonid
escape so ss seriously to impair the
levity of the balloon, the gas
of one can be need to in
flate fully the two others. The
balloons will be weighted so as to travel
low, and Commander Cheyne is confi
dent that he c<n land within ten miles
of the pole. He anticipates no diffi
culty from cold during the balloon voy
age, which is to take place in June of
the summer after the expedition sails.
"The occupants of the cars," says
Mr. Cheyne, '• will havo to work with
their coats off to keep cool."
The expedition will be composed of
seventeen men, who will be joined by
three Esquimaux at Greenland. Or J era
have already been sent from Denmark
to Oreenland directing the authorities
there to aid the expedition in every way
possible.
Hunting Its Hunter.
A lad named B.x, in Oliver township,
Mich., bad an exciting encounter with
a deer a abort time since. He fired at
the deer, a larg buck, and was in the
act of reloading when be noticed the
deer coming toward him. His rifle waa
a mnsxlc loader, and his patches were
not cut any fast.r than he used them,
so that lefore hi could reload the deer
was close to him. He made lively time
around a large tree, with the doer press
ing him too closely for comfort, and
seeing two trees at a short distance that
stood qnite close together he struck
out for them, which he barely reached
when the bnck went rushing by. Here
he could dodge between the trees, while
the bnck would have to go around on
account of his horns. Finally the
baffled beast stopped to study the situ
ation. when the lad, hastily ramming
the liall home, fixed the rap with ner
vous fingers and, placing the gun be
tween the trees and close to the deer's
head, he pulled the trigger, and—kerflop
wont the beauty.
Joined Hi* Wife and Child.
Mr*. Melvin A. Major, wife of Thomas
Major, of Ohioago, died shortly after
having given birth to a child, vhoae
deoeaae immediately followed. "I will
be bnried with her," wan the comment
of Thomaa Major. His brother lived in
the name honae, kept oloae watch of
him, bat the nest morning, after visit
ing a prieat, the former managed to
get away and eecnre a doee of poi.ion,
which he took early in the evening.
The mother and child were to have
been buried Snnday. The next day
and night the watchers aronnd the lied
were s art led by the moana of some one
in great agony, and harrying to Major'#
room, he was fonnd writhing with (win
A physician's efforts proved unavailing,
and the anicide died about 6;do o'ciook
Snnday morning. The three wi
bnried togother.
f'KARLM OP THOOCIBT.
Mfii arft never killed by the auroral
j ties they have, but by the impatience
' which tbey suffer.
Our donbte are traitor*. and make a*
lone the good we oft might win by fear
ing to attempt.
It many time* tall* oat that we deem
onraelve* much deceived in other*, be
cause wejfirst dooeived ourselves.
A traly great and noble mind is al
ways humble in it* feeling and 'modest
in ite deportment
We Hhould alwaya keep a corner of
onr head* open and free, that we may
make room for the opinion* of oar
friend*.
Life ia bat Might, and when tbey oemno
'tw over.
The pnreHt'water run* from the hard
est rock.
No ache* are lighter than'iDeense, and
few thing* barn oat noon or.
Neither a man woman ia entire
ly tafe until he or the can "end are blame
and receive praise Without excitement.
I am not among thoae that fear the
poople; they, and not the rich, are onr
dependence for continued freedom;
and, to preserve onr independence, we
must not let onr leaden load as with
perpetual excitement.
Do not ray: " I will help thee to
morrow." Perchance the poor *oul
may not need thee to-morrow; perehanee
thou mayeet have nothing to give to
morrow; perchance there may be no
, anch day aa to-morrow.
boarding the Treaaere.
" It would not pay robben te make a
raid on one of our par eel wagons," said
the *aperintendent of a New Tork ex
press company to a reporter. "The ag
gregate value of all they eoold secure
would not be enough for the risk. With
rwapoct to the wagons for money de
livery, however, the case ia very differ
ent. There the driver and his assistant
have in charge sometimes hundreds of
thousands of dollars—a rich haul for
thieves if they oould get at it Ba
that ia what tbey cannot do. In the
flrat plaae, the region where thane
money wagons are generally used is in
the most crowded part of the city—the
down-town part—where there are tbon
' sands about all the time, and it would
be impossible for thieves to make an
attempt on our drivers without snob a
struggle as would call attention, and
net only frastrate the* purposes of the
| robbers, but ia all probability insure
their arrest. There are'al ways two men
in those wagons when tbey are out on
i dutv, and care is taken in their selection
that they shall be yonng, vigorous,
quick-witted and csurageont fellows
They are armed with revolvers, and
they know how to use them, but my in
structions arc that they shall put more
confidence in their voices than their
pistols. A pistol, even the best, might
snsp, bnt s yell is bound to go off.
80, if attacked, tbey are expected to
make all the nproar they can. Any
body with any knowledge of New Tork
street crowds an imagine what would
be the consequence.
" Beside, our wagons are arranged so
ss to put the greatest obstacles in the
way of unwarranted intrusion compati
ble with convenience. Look at this one
for illustration. It it a one-horse vehi
cle with only two wheels, and the only
way of getting into it is over the seat
in front, where the driver or his part
ner, or both, will be on guard. Exter
nally it is a solid aurfaoe ef varnished
wood on sides and back, exeept where
that small window of thiek glass, high
up in the rear, admits light. Internally
it is lined with heavy wire netting.
Inside, filling the space behind the seat
and fastened there, is a heavy wooden
box, with a safety lock. That box is
never opened, except when the driver is
taking out a money paokage. When he
leaves the wagon to deliver a package
he locks the box end carries the key
with him. His partner, who ia left ia
the wagon, has no means of opening the
box, and it would take thieves, even
with axes and a clear field of action,
several minutes to get at its contents.
When the driver takes a package out
for delivery he i* instructed to
either eerty it hidden or ia a bag along
to his left wrist, while bis right hand ia
freest© use his pistol. Where we have
occasion to send money uptown, where
there are comparatively few persona ia
the streets, a wagon is sent with a single
package, or perbeps two, and the mea
are cautioned to extraordinary vigilance.
The system is the same in all the eoa
paniee. Wherever an improvement for
greater security can be devised by one
it ia immediately communicated to
and adopted by all the others, aa
all are equally interested in keeping up
the common reputation for absolute
safety. Then another feet may have
some influence in our favor. The
thieves know that our o impastes are
very rich corporations, and that we srill
prosecute to the utmost anybody who
makes an attack on the good* under
our care, regardless >f oe*4 sad trouble.
\ prosecution by an xi>ns>s company
would not be the per far ft-try eervioe t
an ordinary prosecuting aitomay."