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VOL. XXI. NO. 50. . TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APItIL 10, 1889. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM.
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France needs no colonics, becnuso she
has no surplus of pooplo.
An over-production of draft horBos ii
not probable scarcely possiblo in ten
years to como.
Lord Wolseloy, Commandcr-In-Chicl
of tho British Anny, declares in favor ol
cotnpulsory military sorvico.
Wh:lo Vermont is almost stationary,
Nevada is tho only Ftnto in the Unior
thnt is actually declining in population
, Tlio Emperor of Japan is tho firs'
Asiatic ruler who has promulgated aeon
stitution punrnntccinji certain rights tc
his subjects.
China irtjmlling upon oilier rations to
aid her starving millions, and vet $IV
000,000 are to bo spent on her young
Emperor's marriage. .
About ?10, no:,000, 01)0, or ono scvonth
of our total national wealth, is invested
in our railway system, which comp iles
more than halt tho total milcngoof the
world.
The Courler-Jmirmt' ?ncot:ously an
nounces that "tho King of Samoa is dis
oriented, not derail- e li is salary is only
f 'iu a month, but hecauso he has to take
part of it in cocounuts."
All European Govormnents acknowl
edge that Undo Sam has tho strongest
weapon of war in tho Xnliuski dynamite
gun. A French paper says every one
such gun is e iual to five iron clads.
. Ft. Lru' rev set tin tts claim to be
tho leading marl for the tale- of staple
cotton goods in the country, not except
ing cither New lork or I blcago.ntid
her newspapers present facts and tigurcs
to provo it.
Leprosy is dying out in Canada. Tho
rcprt of tho Agricultural Department
shows that there are nineteen patients,
eight males and ilo.cn females, in tlic
I.aarctto at Tweed o,. New Brunswick.
f- . ' In its early history iho institution con
tainod twice tho pieseut number oi
lepers.
, We have all hoard of buildings in
Eiiropo which are cpici in stone, but it
iftaiucd for an eccentric l'hilndelphiau
to construct a remarkable structurr
which he calls a "poem in brick." '1 he
style of ihe architecture is a mixture ot
arabesque niul very early American. Ant
"It is tomplctcly covered with stiicer
work, representing eagles, animals, (low
ers, fruit and go. Messrs of liberty.
The great Eiffel tower at the Bnris T.x
position stands USI feet high and wcighi
8000 tons. The committee have selectee
thictf dilTerentnodc!s of elevators. Tw(
elevators wilj go UK to tho first plat
form, two others to tiro second, and an
other lift willjuove between the secont
a ud third plutfo.m in a vertical- line
Tho wfsolo trip will lake five miuulei
and tho cages will bo able to takc'up To(
persons an hcnir.
There wcro 19:5 accdentsvon the
railroads of the United States during
l-s; Thero wero ;01 collisions, lOUi
derailments and li!) other accidents. CI
tlijj collisions -101 were from thu rear,
Sill were butting and 89 on closings,
-Defects in road caused IS dcruilmeiits
ilcfepts of equipments 'caused Ji, and
neglect in operating caused 117. The
killed numbered ill?, of 4'houi 434 were
employes and hiS passengers.
, No Government on the European Con
tinent, according to tho New York
fJTiine; has dono moro for tho develop
" tticnt of heavyotdnaiice f jr naval pur
poses than that of Italy. Tho national
policy for twenty years hat been to ob
J tain great war ships, arm them with
monster guns and give her vessels en.
--- giues of prodigious powers. So well has
Italy suieeeded in carrying out these pro
' jWi that her naval, strength is of vast
ortiong, cnibud in
war vessels
Nm K17A Anil fmiii
ha o but few
so latcU'lea rianters (I.im
iw Hit 1 UUUVU I ilHIU. 1 ail
undents iatf with a capital of J ."0,Oi;o in
5 shure'n, whose object is to establish
. markets in theVnitcd Males of America
'and iu Canada for the bale of tea grown
ion, .plantations iu the East,, Indies. It
does not appear that anylhiiiga the
shape of puichaie money is to bo paid,
bjit intending investors will reijuiro to
know the nature of the agrcomout u Inch
hat been entered into with Mr. W,
Macgregor, "a gentleman who has been
extensively connectjfkwitli the tea trade
' in Jew York
Despke all tho means of popular
education, asserts the San Eraucisce
t'nun 'c'e, illiteracy is increasing iu this
touutry, and, what 4u a far worst
. symptom, the ratio of criminals con
victed of giave crimes is growing every
year. The epiicial figures show thest
facts: In 1850 there were 2 no piisoneri
In our penitentiaries to each million ol
population. Iu ten jears thii ratio ban'
grown to 007, and iu anotheV decade t
, l!y 1880 this ratio had been swollen
uni if thn h.iliif! iwrfi-iittifrA i.
, .... 1 "-ow
iued the opening of tho nel
will c-a tho rati) reach tl.
' n nouiber of 1D0.
MOTHER'S SONO.
Bleep, Baby, deep! .
Fear not the night-bird's rail.
Nor fitful shadow on the moonlit wall;
For angels still their watches keep,
And guard sweet Irinoconces sleep
Bleep, Baby, sleep lkk.
It.
Bream, Iinby, dream 1
As yot no shadows riso.
To mar the beauty of thy dreamland skies;
Apd angel-faces fairstill seem
To shed their lustre on thy dream
Dream, Baby, dream!
III.
Post, Baby, rest!
W'hilostill somo rest Is found;
Before thy cradle is the silent ground;
Bctjre tliou hast no mother's breast,
No angel -smiles to calm thy rest
Peat, Baby, rest I
Jama Cameron.
A ROMANTIC AFAAIR.
V M.IUAUKT EYTIN'GE.
"Yes, my dear, it's n case a decided
ono. Heart, or whatever stands in its
place, very much atrected; but, let us
hope, not incurably so," said Kalo Gor
don, shaking her head with mock grav
ity, to her cousin Lilian, who turned
from the window, out of which Bhe had
been gazing, and looked inquiringly at
tho speaker.
""1 saw him over your shoulder," con
tinued Kate, "as he Wjdkcd slowly away
up the slrect, and 1 also saw the blush
that instantly crimsoned your pretty
face (how do you manage to have that
blush como at your call?) and the light
that sprnnit to your lovely blue eyes.
Again, you'ro in love, or fancying your
sclf in love, Lilian, having ulrcady for
gotten the young artist that sailed for
home only a inouih ago; and this time
it is with a poor professor of music iu a
great city, where there are sullicieut of
his kind to convert a great country into
a muni al Iiedlnm."
"Why, Kate!"
"I'm sine I don't know why," said
Kate, pretending to take tho exclama
tion for an interrogation, "unless it is
because he has large, dark eyes, a fine
form, an aristocratic face, a relined air
generally, and !at, but uot least, ap
pears to 1)0 highly sensible of your fasci
nation. And, then, you've always been
ready to fall in lovo with any interesting
person that came ii your way since your
lirst teen, especially when 'distance lent
enchantment to the view.' "
"What a romance, or semblance of a
romance, to adopt your own mode of
speaking, you nre making out of noth
ing, Kate," Bays tho younger girl, with a
toss of her chestnut braids.
"Out of nothing." repeats the other.
"Given, a preUy, a very prctiy girl,
watching at her window, half hidden,
in tho regular poetical style, by its luce
curtain?, at nine in the morning and
juur in me aiiernoon ; a linndsoiue, a
VrrV ItHlllI tfimn Vmini mnn aa...1h a...
"at the door of a dv-'ellinir opposite punc
tually at the lirst hour and going in
punctually at the la-t, eucu time casting
profoundly respectful but unmistakably
tender glunccs at the watcher in tho
window. A pinlrrosebud in her light
tWiwn hair in tho morning is duplicated
in his buttonhole in the Evening. Sho
stops one wintry day at tho corner of
the street to buy a bunch of violets, apd
unconscious, of cour'so, that she is ob
served, presses ihem to her lips. That
tamo night a mysterious messenger
leaves aft exouisite basket filleil with
the fragrant things at her door. No
doubt l he young professor went without
his lunc h for a week to buy thcin.for hot
house violets a:;d ex ,uisiU baskets"
"Kale!. How can you? 1
"Hecanse I can," answers ICute coolly.
"And what's moro, I can ask how is it
all to end t I know it is nothing but
romance on your part, but it mav be
reality on his, and allow mo, if'your
delicate seusibility will admit of it, to
recall W your miud the fable of tho boys
and tho frogs, whero what was fun on
ono side was death on tho other, and to
kindly suggest that you tind somo new
ore patiou at the hours of i) and 4."
I "Kate, I never was more deeply im
pressed in all my life, that is, never as
deeply impressed th at is -oh, pshaw!
you know what I mean. Don't you be
lievo mo.''
Disregarding tho question, Kate went
on: And Jiinting that your aro in
earne-it this time, which I -don't grant,
by the by, nothing could como of it.
1 our positions in life aro far apart that
is, society decrees that they are and
being a-ve!l bred foreigner, he no doubt
accepts such a decree us inevitable, and
unless you meet him half way lyuu have
already taken the first stepi, he will
go beyond the tender glance and the
basket of Towers. Aud besides all
that, you will remember that 'J.ady
flare ere cle ere' did uot monopolize
all the pr.do. Tho yocman had hU
shine, and the bettor part, to my way to
thinking. And, if I'm not mistaken,
your handsome professor is just as
proud."
"Kate, how do you know all this?"
asks Lilian, ri-ing and coming to stand
beloro her, "Vou say 'no doubt' unci
'if I lim not mistaken, but tho tone of
your loite 6iiys jpVkuuw."
"Because, uiy Vr, while you have
been (beaming 1 Tmo been acting. I
felt a sorrowful interTt in the poor fel
low as soon as I discovered that you had
made up your mind to look at him, and
so I went lo work and found out all,
abcJut him."
Down on the floor beside her sank
pretty Lilian, saying as she soied one
hand: 'noon, Kate; that's adarliug."
"That he is a professor of music you
discovered yourself at the LuttreU's,
wnere the dull-haired and envious-com-lilexioncd
Mi-s Gertrude condescends to
Lo taught by him. To me belongs the
credit, if it bo a c redit, of iindiug cut
all the rest, aud at the risk of shocking
juii. i win proceed 10 leu you How X
did it. I made frieuds, at the confec
tioner's one day, with Ids landlady, that
funny little i renchwouiau with the
corkscrew cur's and the very much up
tilted nose, and I told her :' J ilian
madca geotu'e of impatience. "Well,
I'll skip that find come to what she told
me. Now. what should you guess his
name was.' ilia lirst name, of course,
for it 1014) J n't be expected that you
could guest, his last."
"Wultc, Hubert, Lcginuld, Boderick,
Sebast an,"
'Wrour, tvery one. It's Robert
not a bad name as names go, that is if
they don't shorten it. to Bob and it
harmonizes Tory well with his last name,
which is bear. And he's poor, as I said
boforo, so poor that he and the tra
ditional church mouso might Bhake
hands and call each other 'brother, if
the mouse happened to bo that kind of
a mouse is pnrt French, part German;
goes nowhere but where duty calls;
sings rn the solitude of his own shabby
room 'Achl wars't du nur mein eigeu'
and songs of that ilk, as you have heard,
and is fast falling head over heels in
love with my gentle cousin Lilian nn
exceptionally prcyy girl, who really
don't and never would rare two straws
about him, being at the core of her
heart devoted to the purple and fine
linen of life, and only uumarried as yet,
because, as she horsolf has confided to
me, none of her admirers could oiler a
million."
"Stuff and nonsense," says tho "gen
tle" cousin in no gcntlo voice, as she
rise! from her lowly position, and lenn
ing her elbow upon tho mantle and
her head upon her hand, looks down
where she has I ecu looking up. "Vou
know nothing about it, Kate. I never,
never, never was so attracted toward
any one as I am toward Hobert why
couldn't it have been Kudolph or
lieuinald so much more poetical, you
know toward Bobcrt. Lear. He's just
like some one out of a poem Sir Lance
lot, for instance so handsome, so
melancholy, bo graceful."
"Lilian, what would your father and
mother and sisters and brothers say if
they heard you? They'd shut you up in
your room and give you nothing but
beefsteak and fried potatoes for a monih.
Think of that? What a dreadful pun
ishment for one who is as fond of broiled
birds, roast turkey and cocnanut tarts
as you are."
"Vou may laugh as much as you
please Kate," says Lilian with a frown.
"Vou always were a matter-of-fact
creature, with not a bit of sentiment
about you. You cannot understand the
feeling that sprang up in my heart the
first moment that 1 Belaid him. Had 1
your fortune "
"It's only a few thousnnd, my dear,"
interrupted Kate, "and you know your
own is a million. But, to he serious, if
you had it you'd bo looking for two
million instead of one. There, there,
don't burst into tears. I will, I vow I
w ill be serious this time. And I ask
you, granting that you are willing to
admit him into the favored circle that
pays you ho:nage, how is that admit
tance to be managed without your over
stepping the bounds of maidenly pro
priety? To be frank with you, ho be
lieves as I know you needn't shrug
your shoulders as I know, I say, that
your interest in him it only a girlish
fancy, and the little Fren hwoman tells
me, jjio is in his confidence, being an
old friend that in a month or so, to
broak tli6 fetters your witchery has
thrown around him, he returns to his
own country."
"Kate, have yop no feeling? Do you
want to break my heart? Yes, brik my
heart. You need not look at me in that
incredulous way. When you speak of
his going ruvay forever I feel as though
all the light and beauty were faded out
of my life. And if at this moment he
and a millionaire stood "
"No rash vows, I ilian," interrupted
Kate.
"I must and will bid him hope. I
must nnd will, I say. Kate, how shall I
doit?'
"l-liith.I don't know," says her cousin,
with a delicious mimicry of tho brogue
and an air of meek resignation, "unless,
mo dear, vnu semi him r vrI pn t inn 't
There was a largo aud fashionable
party at tho Luttrel's. And "queen rose
of tho rosebud garden of girls" was pretty
Liiiau C'reighton.
So thought, though not precisely in
thoso words, for he read no verses with
tho exception of comic ones: Allen
Ingram, owner of theyacht Farewell, tho
fast horse Neverbeat, a town-houseuu-rivalcdt
magnificence a country-houso
unequitTed in splendor aud thousands at
his banker's and elsewhere.
With a world of admiration in his very
light blue eyes, he followed tho "queen
rose' about, happy to play, for the timo
being, tho part of her slave.
Mr. Ingram was small and ignoble in
person but his fcrtune was grand. His
eyes were faded; but the diamonds that
awaited his bride were bright. His
brain and voice wetto weak but his
family was strong. Only for a few
moments that evening did he le.etho
enchantress, and then it was to ok the
supper room. ,
At that time Hobert Lear left nis scat
at the piano. Lilian's companions were
clustered together before a piefhre at tho
other end of the room aud sho stood
alone and with his proud faco all aglow
he sought her sido aud in a deep, rich
voice he said: "Blessed forever bo ho
postman. He brought mo your precious
message this moruinir. and mv hoart has I
danced in my breast ever since 1 read
these words :
"Nay. fly not from the spell of love
Le.t 1 should pine 111 vain regret, 1
But stay an con this lesson o'er j
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady yet."
It was a verse from a valentine a ;
violet scented valentine that ho had re j
ceived that day. j
1 ilian t'reigbton looked at him with j
haughty surprise in her face, wraiif ed 1
her white satin cloak about her as though
she felt a sudden chill in tho air aud
turned away. j
Back to his place the pla'ce he was
pain 10 occupy tne young man went
while all the brightness faded from his
face and the beautiful dream that he had
been dreaming so long died out iu utter
darkness.
"Could I have been mistaken?' ho
murmured. .
Not about the valentine," said a low
sweet voice, and looking up he met Kate '
uoraous lovely, pitying, brown eyes, j
"not about the valeutTue but about I
everything else. What to you has been ,
so serious, to her has only couuted as i
one of her many romantic nffairs. The j
reality of her life will be Mr. Allen In- j
gram or one very like him." j
As she ceased speaking and turned '
away, Kobert I ear flung back the long '
hair from bis brow aud striking with
firm, powerful touch tome graud full
chords, burst into a triumphant march,
a march that said to ut least two listen
ert. "Slight was the wound that I
feared would be so deep, for feeble,
most feeble was the hand that struck it.
And though for one short moment I
faltered, 1 lost no strength, but, strong
iu heart and spirit as ever I again take
my place in the grand army of the battle
of life."
And fitting reward awaited so true a
soldier, for in n year he held a beautiful,
brown-eyed woman in his arms, close to
his heart, and whispered "many a griel
is joy in disguise. Had it not been foi
false Lilinu's false valentine, I should
have never won true Kate for my wife.'
Delruit Fire iVe.i.
WISE WORDS.
Nypocracy is sin in tho worst form.
It is easier to lay plans than to hatcl
them.
1 ho world at largo judge of us by oui
success.
Work like a man, but don't be workec
to death.
Tho web of humnn fortunes is wovet
for elcrnity.
Never intrude ill health, pains, lossci
or misfortune.
Spend .less nervou) energy each daj
than you make.
Tho reward of one duty done is thi
power to fullil another.
A grave, wherever found, preaches i
short, pithy sermon to the soul.
No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon tho vantage ground o)
truth.
Tho poorest education that teaches
self-control is better than the best thai
neglects it.
Thero is no (It seArch aflpr truth which
! does not, first of all, begin to live the
truth which it knows.
! 1'urity of heatt is that ipjick and
! sensitive delicacy to which even the,
I very thought of sin is offensive.
L'nlcss we can cast off the prejudices
of the man and become as children,
doeilo and unpervertod, we need never
! hope to enter the temple of philosophy.
1 Nothing is so narrowing, contracting,
hardening, as always to be moving in
tho same groove, with ro thought be;
yond what we immediately see and heai
j close round us.
1 What needeth a man to seek things
that are above him, whereas he knovvcth
. not wh it is provable for him in his life,
in all the days of his pilgrimage, aud
tho timo that passes like a shadow.
Men are made to be governed by thcii
ideas, the r conduct should be the elTtcl
and exponent of their creed, and where
the creed is really believed and not
J merely nominally held, this is ever the
I case.
j Victims or Hie N'aplitliu Habit.
I The latest female vice is intoxication
. by naphtha. It is not drunk. The fumes
of it are simply inhaled, inducing, sc
the inebriates say, n particularly agree
able exhilaration. Not even hasheesh,
it is understood, begets more fascinat
ing dreams or moro gorgeous visions ol
splendor. The girls in the rubber fac
tories, of which there ai9 a great num
ber in Boston nnd its neighborhood, ar
greatly addicted to this novel form ol
drunkenness. In such establishments
. naphtha is used in enormous quantitiet
to cleanse tho rubber, being kept in big
boilers closed against the air. To th
valves of these boilers the young women
employes' readily obtain access and
! breuthe tho exhalations therefrom, 501111
I unlucky accident having betrayed to 1
, cbanco experimenter the abomirnbh
: secret. The notion is sjiid to have beer
brouirht oriiriuallv from Germany hi
immigrant laborers iu petticoats. Now
the manufacturers propose to nut a stot
to the evil by keeping tho valves care
1 fuller Inr-Woil.
fully locked.
j An overdose of naphtha fumes bringi
! on hysterical convulsions and 1 ther un
j pleasant symptoms. The habit, lon
; followed, causes a swelling of the fac
i and other pints of tho body, with drops)
j to follow,and sometimes epilepsy. n tin
I whole, It is diMcult to know which ol
i these new fangled vice3 for women tc
I re ommofid. There is ether drinking,
j laughing gas and tea eating, beside th
; naphtha. The conscientious pursuit ol
any one of them wi.l surely lead to the
1 lunatic asylum. You pays your mono)
! as ono might remark--aud you take!
! your choice. AIImiivj Anjut.
j The l'ig's l.'tiiimiuiiHi Career.
The pig, says William Houseman, tho
I well-known writer on domestic animals
! in O'ootttih's Huh, is born to bo a laugh
i ing stock and a butt, to live a priscetrer,
I waiting to bo eaten and whiling away
: his blauk timo in sleep, nnd to die a
i violent death after a few short mouths
: of joyless existence, or, at best, ignoble
enjoyment of his life, tho poor is iu
; deed a most useful servant. If ho can-
I not labor he waits; aud if we reckon up
; all we can get from him the tasty sp ire
rib, tho delicious ham (smoked or mildi,
tho cured slii cs frem his Hitch, his cheek
, (bonedi with a blush in it an exquisite
jiaie pniK nue, ueiicaie as mat o
bliisli-rose right throu
h, to sav nothing
' eoliarcd brawn, with sausages and
their kindred; and then there is tho val
liable help be gives in other matters be
sides food, from saddling a hunter to
greasing a saw. ct not. satisfied with
poking fun at him, laughing at his ab
s rd facp.whiifli our system of treatment
has made so it is terrible in bis native
forests and tickled, too, with his hab
itual snoring w hat else can he do but
snore.' wo accuse him sometimes of a
Perverse disposition to "run to fut,"asi(
he could' run to Hiiythinir, whilst he can
scarcely even walk, and certainly never
can run, in any sense of the word, im.l
melted by liie. .
A Ten 1'ortrult of Itoiilanircr.
When I entered he wus lifting at a
long table covered with b ioks and
papers, but ho immediately aroso, came
forward w ith a pleasant "bon jour" nnd
a heaity grasp of the hand, and led me
to a seat. It was the t'r-.t time 1 had
seen him, and 1 observed with some sur-
prise that he was uot in the least like tho
published portraits that are to be teen
111 every part of I'aris. Ho has uuthinij
of the dapper look of tho photographs
and engravings. His hair is not dark
and nicely combed, as vou see it iu the
"pictures in little," but it is iron gray,
aud it stands "cropped" ami eiect. His
beard, too, is tawny and slightly mixed
with L'ray. Iu physiouu he is of middle
height, well filled, and neither stout noi
slender. He has a stronger face and
more intellectual head than the popular
portraits credit him withal, aud the lines
iu his face aie distinctly marked there
is quito a deep line ruuniug across hit
lorelieaa. 111s eyes are Kteu aud gray
Ilia fftat W:ia Bi'lii i . m i I i t u r a i cut l.nl
not in color, lor, 1 ke Ins trousers, it
was a kind of yellow-brown. --JJito-i
HOW SAFES ARE BROKEN.
THE ART AND APILIANCES
THE MODERN 1URGLAR.
OP
No Safe Can Resist His Tersuaslve
foot Methods of Robbing si
Rank Vault A Cracksman s Kit.
The Boston lleral l gives an interesting
account by a Pittsburg authority of the
burglar's art :
There are in this country just about an
even score of men whom no bank vault
or safe, however strong, can resist. To
reassure society, I will sny that more
than half of these are safe behind prison
bars. Safo breakers have more than
kept pace with improvements in safes,
including time locks, chilled steel chests
of eiphtornine thicknesses and electric
protective attachments. Thcit tools are
made by somo of the finest mechanics
and inventive geniu'esof the world. A
lull kit of tho most approved modern
safo workers' tools costs about g.iOQO.
The modern safe burglar is an exceed
ingly keen, intelligent man. Ho can
open a safe having all modern improve
ments in from ten minutes to two hours
without the aid of explosives, and by
only slightly defacing it. Sometimes he
leaves scarcely a mark.
A first class modern safe, whether
lnrge or small, generally has double out
side and inside doors, with a steel chest
in the bottom, forming really a safe
within a safe, the inside one being the
stronger. The outside door is usually
either "stuffed'' or "skeleton." The in
side one is made of eight or nine sheets,
of different temper, of tho finest ttcel.
These sheets aro bolted together with
conical bolts, having left hand threads,
after which the beads of tho bolts are
cut off, leaving what is virtually a solid
piece of steel, which no drill can pene
trate The best locks are of tho combi
nation type, with time lock attachment.
In both cities and towns safes contain
ing the most valuables have an electric
alarm attached. Any tampering with it
will communicate the fact to the owners
or the safe's guardian, which iu cities is
cither an electric protective bureau or a
central police station. Weeks, and some
times even months, are spent in putting
up a :ob of magnitude, and often a num
ber of smaller jobs are done to carry out
one where the proceeds may run up into
the tens of thousands of dollars.
Keys are fitted to every door which
stands between the street and the bank
vault by means of a thin sheet of brass,
as near as possible the same size as the
keyhole, nnd covered with a thin coat
of carbon, which may be applied with 0
match. A dozen entrances may h ive to
bo mado to the bank before it is finally
robbed. A key is fitted first to the
outer door. This course is confined
until keys are hod cf every door lead
ing to tho vault. Having the watch
man and officials of the bank down fine,
one of tho last things to do is to select
a favorable night.
Then the bank burglar proper appears,
lie has usually three assistants. The
gang neve appears until tho night ol
the robbery, and then not till 11 or li
o'clock. If thero is a watchman, his
habits and disposition have been care
fully noted, and, having access to th
bank by keys, it is nn "easy matter tc
surprise and overpower him. A "crow''
is next planted outside, or in an uppei
window, if thero bo one, to give notice,
by means of signals or a cord reaching
to the workers, of the approach of pa
trolmen or chance passers-by. A regu
lar codo of signals is used, telling when
to ceaso operations nnd seek cover, aud
when to resume work.
Next is brought into use tho simplest
and yet strongest nnd most complete
tool for tho purpose. It is si c inches in
length and two inches in diameter al
one end, tapering to nothing at the
other. It is pear-shaped, and a thread
extends from end to end. It is made of
Muchet's tool steel, the best in the world.
A second wedge shaped tap works insidt
this tool. Whon this tap is screwed
home it exerts a spreading force of many
tons. This tool, "the persuader." is in
serted in tho most miuuto cack or drill
hole, and, prope:ly blocked at tho right
time, will force the strongest safe door
open with a sound no louder than nn
ordinary firecracker will make. The
outer and inner doors open, if thero be a
time lock on tho chest, a small dynamite
cartridge is placed opposite, a detonat
ing fuse lighted and the outer door
closed. Tho nrring caused by the ex
plosion, which makes a noise scarcely as
loud as a pistol shot, disarranges the
works of the time lock, which runs down
and is useless, the clock running down
with exactly a clock's sound, when it is
doing the same. The heavy outer door
of the vault being closed, scarcely an
audience sound reaches tho street.
Whero drilling is necessary a light,
compact machine, which fills tho com
bination handie, and which rapidly
drills a smalt hole above the water rim
of the combination dial plate, is used.
A small steel broach is then inserted and
the combination knob turned uutil the
tumblers are brought ito position, thus
permitting tho "dttg" or bar to drop. A
turn of the h uulle shoots tho bolts back
and the door swings open.
If the operators find on entering the
vault that the steel chest is an improved
one, they then proceed to "strip" it.
Sheet after sheet is taken oil until the
works arc ex posed. This is done by using
a "crow," which is sectional that is, it
may be extended or contracted, as may
be necessary. To an ordinary observer
the "crow" looks like the bar which
holds the "manhole" plate of a steam
boiler iu place, und is worked ou pie
cisely the same principle
Should it be necessary to "wed"e ' a
safe open, a modified form of the old
"drag'' is used. It is a light but rigid
and strong steel bar, sectional, us to suit
different si'ed safes, aud for ease iu
transportation, which clamps tho outer
side of the sale. Through the bar is run
a screw-threaded bolt, w.tha ball joint
at one end for a icreiving wedije. t'n
the other end is worked a railroad wrench
used by truck hands ior tightening rails,
and which cau bo procure ! from auy
railroad section house. W ith wedging
and blocking, uo door can resist this in
strument. Munetl 1 es a miniature rail
road "iack," such as engineers carry, is
substituted. A heavy cleat is firmly
fastened in proper position aud placed ou
the l oor. The wedge in the crack, the
" ack" in place, the result is but a ques
tion of time. t
I be longest railway tangent in tho
world is said to have run from Buenos
Ayresto the foot of the Ande, a distance
of 311 milos,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
llr-storlnjr Whiteness to Dingy Lace.
Lace may 1 e restored to its original
whiteness by first ironing it slightly,
then folding it and sewing it into a clean
1 nen bag. which is placed for twenty
four hours in pure olive oil. Afterward
the bag is to be boiled iu a solution ol
soap and water for fifteen minutes, then
well ringed in hikcwatra water, and tin-
ally dipped into water containing
Might prooortion of starch. The lace ii
then to iie taken from the bag and
stretched on pins to dry.
Corn Starch Illanc Mango.
Tnke one quart sweet milk, and pul
one pint upon the stove to h"at; in the
other pint mix four heaping tablespoons
corn starch; when the miik is hot, pom
in tho cold milk with the corn starch
.thoroughly mixed in it, and stir all to
gctbor until there nre bo lumps and it is
thick; flavor with lemon ; take from the
stove, and add the whites of three eggs
beaten to a still froth. A custard foi
the above: One pint milk boiled with a
little s.iit in it; beat tho yelks of three
eggs with half a cup of sugar, and add
to the boiling milk; stir well, but do
Strawberry Shortcake.
Two heaping teaspooufuls of baking
powder sifted into ono quart of Hour,
scant half teacup of butter, two table
spoonfuls of sugnr, a little snlt, enough
sweet milk or water to make a soft
dough; toll out almost as thin as pie
crust; place one layer in a baking pan
and spread with a very little butter, upon
which spriuklo somo llour, then add
another layer of crust and spread as be
fore, and so on until crust is all used.
This makes four layers in a pan fourteen
inches by seven. 1'nko about fifteen
minutes in a quick oven, turn upside
down, tako off the top layer ithe bottom
while baking), place ou a dish, spread
plentifully with strawberries previously
sweetened with pulverized sugar, pines
layer upou layer, treating each one in
the same way. and when dono to be
served warm with cream nnd sugar. Tc
have light dough, mix it quickly nnd
naudio as uttlo as possible. Oranges
can be used instead of strawberries; re
move the peel and white skin, cut iutc
small pieces, spiinkle with sugar, and let
stand a short time before using. JStu
iurc Jres.
Meatless Soups.
Soups should be largely used by the
economical housewife, lhey are cheap.
nutritious, and excellent in taste. Most
important arc those made from the dried
bean, pea nnd lentil, the three pod cov
ered vegetables.
Ingredients One pound of the dried
vegetable, ine onion, two tablespoon!
beet lat, salt ana pepper.
Additions To be made according tt
taste. une-ouarter pound pork, or t
ham bone, n pinch of red pepper, or, an
hour before serving, dillereut vegeta
blcs, as carrots or turnips, chopped nnd
ined.
To Make i-'oak the beans over niirhl
in two ciuarts water. In the mormn
pour off, put on iresh water and cook till
very solt, then masli or press turouixh
cullender to remove tho skins, und adJ
enough water to make two quarts oi
somen hat thick soup. Season. Th s
soup may also be mado from cold baked
beans. Jloil half an hour, or till the)
fall to pieces; then strain and season.
The water in which vegetables have
been cooked should never be thrown
awav, with '.ho exception of beets and
potatoes boiled without peeling. Even
cabbage water can be made the basis of t
good soup.
General Method Boil tho vegetables
until very tender, mash or press through
a cullender, tain sumcicnty aud season.
JV:U York JlcialJ.
Household Hints.
A layer of leather on tho iron holdor
makes it cooler to use.
To prevent a door from creaking apply
a little soap to tne hinges.
Soda crackors are much better if heated
in the oven just before using.
To e'eau steel, rub tho articlo with a
p'ece of wash leather dipped in . kero
sene.
A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will
effectually dclach a tish bono fastened iu
the throat.
Mildew is removed by rubbing on
comii.on yellow soap, then a little salt
and starch.
1 he white of two eggs will render the
deadly coirosivo sublimate as harmless as
a dose of ciiloniul.
If pin cushions nre filled with well
dried coffee grounds, inh e or moths will
never touch them
A good egg bus a clean, healthy look
ing shell, wiiilu a bad ouj hai a dull,
porous looking shell
The best thing to clean tin ware is
common soda; rub on briskly with a
damp cloth, alter which wipe dry.
l or ink spots ou floors rub with sand
wet with watei and oil of vitriol und af
lurward rinse with pcarlino water.
Silver ran be kept bright for months
by being placed in an rtight case with
a good sized piece of camphor gum.
Macraine lace is almost as easy of exe
cution as old lime knitting, aud, fortu
nately, is coining again into popula
favor.
By using hot, m jderutcly strong soda
water to c lean ihem, the bristles of hail
brushes will remain white and still' fort
long time.
iiange peel, when thoroughly dried 01
baked, is a in ital thing fur lighting
tires. It bums fiercely and gives out au
intense beat.
A speed eruud cleaner way to remove
the skin of new potatoes than the com
mon practice of M-iapiug w ith a knife is
to "Use a scrubbing brush."
Old stains on carpets can be removed
at once by scattering corn meal upou
them, also by applying a hot 11011
through a heavy sheet of blotting paper.
Boiling 1 milk will take out most
fruit stuiii' :p thu artic les in several
times; another way is to dip iu sour but
termilk and dry in the sun ; wash in cold
water and dry two or tl.r o times daily.
Stains ou marble aie the most obsti
nate. Tako ox gall, a wineglassful of
turpentine, and mix iuto a paste with
pipe clay; spread this paste on the
stained marble ari l let it remain several
days.
AUNT MARTHA'S SPINNINd.
WHEEL..
With spider-welibing tattered ',. '
In trave'ties of lnce,
Slid treasures years have scattered
Onco miracles of grace
imploring Time to spare it
With 1 u'ity tonguo of steel,
Deltoid it in the garret
Aunt Martha's spinning-wheel.
ft ith slow and pensive fingers
I wipe tne webs away,
While loving Fancy lingers
To paint an olden day.
Whon youth and beauty crowned it
What gay songs used to peall
Now crickets wail around it
Aunt Martha's spinning-wheel.
I softly touch the treaJle;
It gives a plaintive squeak;
It be;rs me not to meddle,
In murmurs sad and meek.
Alus! tho feet that lithely
Once twinkled through the reel,
No moro shall pat it blithely
Aunt .Martha's spinning-wheel.
How olT its noisy turning
Hath served a lover's need,
And kept Ago from discerning
What only Youth should heedl
'Twoul 1 drown both vows and kisses
That lovers love to steal;
A dear old treasure this is
Aunt Martha's spinnhrj-wtaeol.
For fear of house adorner
In search of bric-a-brac,
Far in the garret corner
With si-hs I put it back:
And there just as I found it,
I I -ave for wo or weal
Withghost-i to 'lido around it
Aunt M trtha' spin'iing-wUel.
-Samuel .li' ifiii'i ZVcfc, in ZiicfTyKiiuVuf.
HIMIOR OF THE DAY.
A cold deal Tho ice trust.
Current literature The theory of the
tides.
A pig is well supplied with brains; in
fact, he has a hog's head of them.
Isaac Walton did not spoil the child
at least he didn't spare the rod.
The most melancholy spectacle in tho
world is a cold pancake. t-ir'linj.
Thero aro few brass bands who can
play as many airs as the drum major
puts on.
The mirror, unlike many of its adher
ents, doesn't force its reflections upon
us. L'f.
Many people are still keeping diaries
for 181, but they are stationers. Ncta
A pupil iu a boys' school lately defined
numeration as "the proccs of multiply
ing one number together."
He "Why can't you love me?" She
"Because I hear some other girl re
fused you." Alio Yur.'c ,sp'(i.
When Hismiirck grasps Samoa's Ule,
And fr.un her rulers frees her.
'Tis that hu may in great south seas
Be called the Great South Seier.
1 iitcte Wade.
Now we know why a Jap wears such
a pained look on his face. Tho Jnpaneso
cucumber is over tbreo feet long. Yt.o
' ii .oiirnnL
Malicious. "Tell me, is your wife
curious?" "i-hel I ieally believe she
came into tho world only out of pure
curiosity." FHojen.e llliietter.
Stranger (in the court room) "What
time hive you got, jtleasef" Trisoncr
(at counsel's table "1 can tell you
better nftertho tiial."- J.iccltr'i ll'cJci'y.
lle'tl studied till wiKilotii
1 ad Hiwikeil him elenp thronirh. """V
Yet h-i never cou'd K-uru
When his hoard bill was due.
X 1 Mrivliunt Titivrlt'r.
Mother (to seven-ye tr-oUl daughter)
"Carrie, what m ikes you look so sad?"
Carrie "I'm thinking w hat a bother that
little brother of mine will bo to me
about ten years from now, when I enter
society and have a beau." tfitimja.
It seriptions often tell amiss
'1 he jest.-r shows a wordy tspnrt,
For palest men nre sometimes Hush,
'i he tallest man isotten short.
l.Vr. ht in ZViiiv- r.
Te icber--"What does Condillac say
about brutes iu tiie scale of being."
Seminary li ill "He says abiuto is an
iinpo fcct man." Teacher "And what
is man:'' (-'culinary liirl "Mini ! Oh,
man's a perfect brute!" Sji,lt,,l Cayum:
I'olito (. lerk 1 showing goods) "Hero
is something I would like to rail your
attention to, lady. It's the very latent
thing out." .Mrs. Bounder (absently)
"If there's anything out Inter than my
husband 1 11 tako it, if only for a
curio-ity."
We are never weary of reading a good
epitaph one wh ch indicates tho work
of a lifetime in a few short, rrisp wi r Is.
lure none, ter instance, which ueedsuo
exp ana'.loii. it was inscribed on a tomb
of a cannibal: "Ho loved his fellow-
men ."
Mbs Caenovc "Who is it, 1'nrkcrf"
The .New Man "It's that l.or-id Seven
rich, me leddy. " Missel Caenove
ibreathlcss'y 1 ".-how him upl" The
New Man "AU th daily pipers did that
this mor-rniu', saviu' yurc presence, but
Oi'll do it again, if ye Miy so. " - Tina:
Dealer (to clerk) -"What did lhat
young J lady want, .'nines :" Clerk -
"She asked for anatomical brusse'.s car
pets, und 1 told her we hadn't such a
thing." Dealer "Great Soott, James,
that young lady is from Boston! Mio
wanted body brns-i ls, and we've Jgot au
overstock of 'cm I
Even fowls vt 1 apo humanity; two roosters
iie-t ait I p i.cd
Tho t ine of .1 iv, us .-.a lly as if each breath
u ero I II--H' la-( ;
Each was ton f it lo 1 row; but said "As sure
us 1 am I r 11.
All I can smuv tor my year's work is a good
eri'P ot corn.''
Stl'U,l'IH
"And so," -aid h?, bitterly, when ha
realiid thai shu had rejected him, ' and
so you have been llirting heai tlessly w ith
me all the while. Well, thank Heaven,
1 have found you out at last " "H'S,"
she replied, "you have; and, what is
nmre. 1 think vou will always find me
out heiealter when you call."
The tirt chapter in a novel has the
following: "And so the fair girl con
tinued to sit 011 thu sand, gaiug upou
Ihe briny dci p, ou whose heaving bosom
the lull sli ps went merrily by, freighted
ah! who can tell with how niueli of
joy aud S'lrow, and puitt lumber aud
emigrants, uud hopes aud salt ti-h ,'" .
Mtrr'Jr';,
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