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"Tr"T ' r V - --jar 1 H J VOL. I. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1888. NO. 2ft t A SKATING SONG. Skate, skate, skate, Early aad late, While the ice is sparkling and strong; And the air is gay, In its winter array, As in summer with flower and song; "With the laugh, and the shout, And the dazzling quick rout, And the musical click of the skate. Skate, skate, skate, Keep your knees straight, And your arms from a windmill sprawl; . For the "outer roll," And the firm "cross roll" Strike out, with no fear of a fall; With the head quite upright, And with grace and delight, And the rhythmical glide of the state. Bkate, skate, skate, The "figure eight," And the -figure three" in both ways; And the "doable three," : Back and forward free, And "loop" in its serpentine maze; With the laugh and the shout, And the dazzling quick rout, And the musical click of the skate. Laura Sanfordt in Independent. WINNIE'S FORTUNE. The handsome dining-room in the May berry mansion wan all a-glittcr with floods of gaslight and the genial glow of the hre lor JSlr. .Josiah Mayberry was a very 'queer man," according to his wife's opinion, and this fancy of his to have nasty, ashy fires all over the splendid mansion before the weather became cold enough was one of his 'eccentric freaks," ! Mrs. May berry called it, with a curl of her lip, a toss of the head and a smile, almost of contempt, directed at the hale, honest-faced old gentleman who had 'married her for her pretty face ten years ago, when he was an immensely rich widower, with his handsome half-grown son for a not undesirable encumbrance, . They were sitting around the hand-! some table, discussing their seven o'clork j She went up behind him and leaned dinner, with the solemn butler and his j her hot cheek caressingly against his, her subordinate in silent, obsequious atten- i sweet, low voice whispering her answer: tion these three May berrys, father, son j "Grandpa, I want to tell you sorae and the haughtv, well dressed ladv who i thing. I Mr. May we Ernest has was wearing1 a decided frown of dis pleasure on hCT face a frown she had barely power to restrain from degenerat ing into a verbal expression of anger while the servants were in waiting, and which, as the door finally closed on them, leaving thea little party alone, burst forthj'inipctiioiisly : '1 declare, Mr. Mayberry, it is too I have gone over the list of invita you have. made, and to think there bad! tions is not one no, not one of our set among them, and such a horrid lot of people as you have named!" Mr. Mayberry sipped his wine content edly. 'I told you, didn't -I, Marguerite, that it was my intention to give an old-fashioned dinner.' Ai.d by that I mcant,and mean, to whom it will, indeed, be caus .' for thankfulness. As to making a grand i usb, ;uul seeing around our table only yv,! to v. horn a luxurious dinner is aiT"-,'ic-urrence I shall not lo it. Ana a'eyuests on my list being 'horrid' and VoWaon you are mistaken, my dear. None of them have a worse failing than poverty. 1 here is not a, common,' mi gar person amon ".hf tn nnnu'Q nn li?it- nnrinp -r-r i i-i i i -i , from his decision. And this was one those times. "We will have dinner ordered for 12 o'clock, as it used to be when I was a boy.j "SVe will have roast turkey with cranberry sauce, find mashed potatoes and turnips, boiled onions and celery, and all on the tab'e at once. For des sert, pie and cheese and nothing more. Marguerite, shall I give the order to Lortou, or will you attend to it?' . Mi-r. Mayberry twisted her diamond . rings almost roughly. "Oli, don't ak me to give such an in ane or-ler to him. I have no wish to appear as a laughing stock before my servants, "Mr. Mayberry. It will be as severe a strain on my euduranc as I am capable of to le forced to sit at a table with such people as the Ilurds and the Masons, and that Thy rzra Creen and her lame brother, and that little old Wil mington and his granddaughter, and"- - Mr. Mayberry interrupted her gently : 14 Old Mr. Wilmington' was a friend of mine long before he went to India. Since ho came home with his son's infant daughter and 1 ved in such obscurity comfortable, although plain,, for Winnie earns enough as daily governess to sup port them loth cheaply I regard him as more worthy than ever. Ernest, my boy, I sliall call upon you to help entertain our guests, and especially at table, fori shall have no servants about to scare them out of their appetites." And Mr. Mayberry dismissed the sub ject by arising from the table. " " Would I like to go ? Oh. grandpa, I should! Will we go, do you think ?" The little, wizened old man looked fondly at her over his steel-rimmed jrlasses. " So you'd like to accept Mr. May- berry's invitation to dinner, eh, Winnie" ? lou woulun t be asnamea oi your oiu fashioned Grandfather, eh, among the fine folk of. the family? IJemarkably fine folk, I hear, for all I can remember when Joe was a boy together with my self. Fine folk, Winnie, and you think we'd better go ?' "I would like to go, grandpa. I don't have any recreat ions I don't want many, for I think contented honest labor is the grandest thing in the world, and the best discipline but, somehow, I can't tell why, but I do want to go. I I can wear my black cashmere, and you'll be so proud of me." 'Froud of you, indeed, my cniiu, no matter what you wear. Yes, we'll go.V And thus it happened that among the ten guests that s,at down at Josiah May berry's hospitable, overflowing board, that cold, blue-skied day, Winnie Wil mington and tho little old man were two-and two to whom Ernest May- jur. iuayoerry s gooa oui iace ugni.eu . "oum uu u:e piouui-ai, jiappicbt uuur oi , wnicn tne bags are made, ana lias a up warmly as he spoke, and Ernest my life, sir, for I should have asked you j wonderfully calming effect on old Nep Maybcrry's handsome face reflected the to give me Winnie for my wife. Instead, j tune. The Only trouble in these cases, satisfaction and pride he felt in his ! I must be content to tell you how dearly j say the skippers, is thai the oil is apt to father's views. il love her, and how patiently and hard j clog up the canvas of the bags and so Mrs. Mayberry flushed, but said noth- ; I will work for her to give her the home i prevent perfect percolation. This Capt. ing. ; which she deserves because; Mr. Wil- j Lord of the American steamship Ad- She knew from experience that, kind mington, this morning the house of May- j vance found out when he was caught in and indulgent as her husband was, there berry A: Thurston failed and both families ': a severe storm between St. Thomas and .were times when he- suffered no anneal are beggars." i-the Barbadoes last mouth. So he risrsred berry paid more devoted attention than even his father had asked and expected. Of course it was a grand success all ex cepting the cold hauteur on Mrs. May berry's aristocratic face, and that was a failure, because no one took the least notice of it, 60 much more powerful were the influences of Mr. Mayberry's and Ernest's courteous, gentlemanly at tentions. "I only hope you are satisfied," Mrs. Josiah said, with what was meant to be withering sarcasm, after the last guest had gone, and she stood a moment before the fire; "I only hope you are satisfied particularly with the attention Ernest paid to that young woman very un necessary attention, indeed." Mr. May berry rubbed his hands to gether briskly. - "Satisfled Yes, thankful to God I had in my power to make them forget their poverty, if for only a little hour. Did you see little Jimmy Kurd's eyes glisten when Ernest gave him the second triangle of pie? Bless the youngsters' hearts," they won't want anything to eat for a week." "I was speaking of the young woman who" Mrs. Mayberry was icily severe, but her husband cut it short. "So you were pretty little thing as ever I saw. A ladylike, graceful little girl, with eyes beautiful enough to ex cuse the boy for admiring her." 'The boy. You seem to have forgot ten your son is twenty-three old enough to fall in love with and marry even a poor, unknown girl you were quite quix otic enough to invite to your table." "Twenty-three? So he is. And if he wants to marry a beggar, and she is a good girl! why not A little gasp of horror and dismay was the only answer of which Mrs. May berry was capable. "Grandpa I" Winnie's voice was so low that Mr. Wilmington only just heard it, and when he looked up he saw the girl's crimson cheeks and her lovely drooping face. "Yes, Winnie. You want to tell me someth'ng" asked he wants me to oh, errand pa, can't you tell what it is?" He felt her cheek grow hotter against his. , He reached up his hand and caressed the other one. "Yes, I can tell, dear. Ernest has shown his uncommon good sense by wanting you for his wife. So this is what come of that dinner, ch, Winnie?" "And miy I tell him you are willing, perfectly willing, grandpa? Because I do love him. you know." "And you're sure it isn't his money you are after, eh?" She did not take umbrage at the sharp question. "I am at least sure it is not mv money he is after, grandpa," she returned, j lai.ighingahd patting his cheek. . j "Yes, you are at least sure of that -A there, 1 hear the young man coming himself, bhall I go, AY muiei'r It was the "young man himself." Ernest M lyberry, with a shadow of deep trouble and distress on his face as he came straight up to Winnie and took j her hand, then turned to the old geutle-j man. j "Until an hour ago I thought this j 1,11 il ,1T i 1 . C ins nanasome iace was paie, out nis eyes were bright with a determination and braveness nothing could daunt. Winnie smiled back upon him, her own cnt-eits puling. "Never mind, Ernest, on my account. I can wait, too. " Old Mr. Wilmington's eyes were al most shut behind the heavy, frowning foreheard, and a quizzical look was on his shrewd old face as he listened. "Gone up, eh? Weil, that's too bad. You stay here and tell Winnie I am just as willing she shall be your wife when you want her, as if nothing had hap pened, because I believe you can earn bread and butter for both of you, and m v 1 m nunc -is a contented little girl. , 111 hobble up to the ofiice and see your fa ther; he and I were boys together; a word of sympathy won't come amiss from me.' " . And off he strode, leaving the lovers alone, getting oyer the distance in a re markable time, and piesenting h's wrinkled, weather-beaten old face in Mayberry fc Thurston's private office, where Mr. Mayberry sat alone, with rinid face and keen, troubled eyes that never theless lighted at the sight of his old friend. "I'm glad to sec you, Wilmington. Sit down. The sight of a man who has not come to reproach me is a comfort." But Mr. Wilmington did not sit down. He crossed the room to the table at I which Mr. Mayberry sat among a hope ! less array of papers. ' "There is no use wasting words, May- berry, at a time like this. Did you ! know your son has asked my Winnie to marry himP Mr. Mayberrv's face lighted a second. then the gloom returned "If my sou had a fortune at his com- j ma ml, an 1 thought he had yesterday at ! this time, I would say, 'God speed you in vmir ivnr.inor nf V inmp AVilminrfAn ' As it is for the girl's sake, I disjirove." "So you haven't a dollar over and above, eh, Mayberry?"' "There will be nothing less than nothing. I don't know that I really care so much for myself, but Ernest it is a terrible thiDg to happen to him at the very beginning of his career." Mr. Wilmington smiled gleefully. "Good. Neither do I care for myself, but for Winnie, my little Winnie! I tell you what, Mayberry; perhaps you will wonder u 1 am crazy, but I'll agree to settle a quarter of a million on Winnie the day she marries your bov. And I'll 'llend you as much more if it'll be any use, and 1 11 start the boy lor himself, if you say so. Eh? Mr. Mayberry looked at him in speech less bewilderment. Wilmington went on: "I made a fortune out in India, and it's safe and sound in hard cash in good hands a couple of millions. I deter mined to bring my girl up to depend on herself, and to learn the Talue of money before she had the handling of her for tune. She has no-idea she's an heiress my heiress. Sounds like a story out of a book, eh, Mayberry? Well, will you shake hands on it and call it a bargain?" 3Ir. Mayberry took the little dried-up hand almost reverentially, his voice hoarse and thick with emotion "Wilmington, God will reward you for this. May He, a thousandfold I" Wilmington winked away a suspicious moisture on his eyelashes. You see it all comes of that dinner, old fellow. You acted like a charitable gentleman, and between us we'll make the boy and Winnie as happy as they de serve, ohJ . And even Mrs. Mayberry admits that it was a good thing that her husband gave that, dinner, and when she expects to see Mrs" Ernest Mayberry an honored guest at her board she candidly feels that she owes every atom of her splendor and luxury to the violet-eyed, charming girl who wears her own honors with such sweet grace. Calming Waves With Oil. When hydrographic students first sug gested to skippers who had sailed the seas for years that pouring oil on the troubled waters might save both vessel and cargo, the proposition was laughed to scorn. The wise old heads knew bet ter. Some of the younger skippers thought the scheme might be worth try ing, and so put the theory to the test. They found it to work exceedingly well, so well, indeed, that in port here they told their brother masters of their suc cess. Stories of vessels having been saved by the method were told at fre quent intervals in the South street re sorts, and were received with much of the doubting Thomas spirit. Finally wrhat were looked upon as yams took on a color of verity with a vengeance, and even the oldest of the skippers began to believe in the oil story. The result of this has been that there is not a week passes, in fact hardly a day, but the master of some vessel drops into the United States Hydrographic Bureau and inlorms Lieut. Cottman or some of his staff of the benefits he has derived during the stormy weather which now prevails from the use of oil. So efficacious has it proved in a number of instances that the attention of ship owners has been called to it, and they have fitted up their craft with" special fixtures for the purpose of fighting huge waved with oil. The British steamship Kate Favvcett is one of these. Tanks are fitted upon deck for the special purpose of carryingoil, and from them pipes lead through the ship's side jusb above the water line. .. In case the waves became particularly threat ening Capt. Young has the stopcocks in the pipes opened and lets out a bit of oil. lie has found the pla.i to work extremely well, and when running finds it necessary to send out but one gallon in four hours. He uses linseed or varnish oil. The British steamship Earn well is similarly fitted, and its officers have found that the loosening of even a small quantitv of oil has kept the water from breaking over the decks of the steamer, In cases where vessels are cot specially fitted for fighting mountains of water -with oil, skippers sling over the bows bags filled with coarse-heavy oil, which oozes through the coarse material of ii -. -i i j up a Lig water filter over the weather j board, and treated the waves which threatened to engulf his vessel to a copi- j'ious bath of oil, and so kept the cross seas lroni waslung over tne deck ot ins steamer. Most any kind of oil seems to do the work required, but Capt. Peters, of the British steamship Lyon, has proba bly used the strangest mixture yet re ported, one of cod liver oil and linseed oil, both of which he happened to have a big consignment of in his cargo. A co;.p!e of gallons of fish oil, says Capt. Shultz, saved the schooner W. H. Jones from losing a single stick of logwood from his deck cargo, Avhile he was try ing to weather a gale off Hatteras during his last trip to this port. J$ew York limes. Slaking Old Hickory Nuts Fresh. A New Yorker prizes highest among the stores for the winter the stock ol h'ekory nuts that are sent- to him from t le trees he climbed as a boy. For more yi.irs than he 'cares to admit it has been nis unshakable conviction that no other nuts in the world can approach them in richness and flavor. But in the warm, dry closet of his flat, they do not keep until holiday time. Indeed, they were a source of deep disappointment to him some time earlier in the season. He had produced some before a visitor, to whom he had bragged 4n advance of their quality, only to be chagrined by finding them hard, drv aud tasteless. His dis tress was so evident that the visitor sujr gested an experiment. Some whole nuts : were soaked for half an hour in hot j water, and cracked as soon as they were i dry enough to crack well. The result was a surprise and delight to the host. The kernels were found swelled fat and smooth until they again filled the shells, and the flavor ana iresnness had come back to them so fully that he was able to say again: ."There never were any other nuts like those on the big trees back of the old farm house at home." Hew Yorl Sun. Portraits on American Currency. One dollar, Washington; $2, Jeffer son;"!"?, Jackson; flO, Webster; $20, Hamilton; $50, Franklin; $100, Lin coln; $500, General Mansfield; $1,000, De Witt Clinton; $5,000, Madison: $10,- 000, Jackson. On silver certificates $1, Martha Washington; $2, General Hancock; $10, Robert Morris, Thomas A. Hendricks; $20, Commodore Deca tux; $50, Edward Everett; $100, James Monroe; $500, Charles Sumner, and $1,000, W. L. Marcy. On gold notes $20, Garfield; $50, Silas Wright; $100, Thomas H, Benton; fouu, A. Lincoln $1,000, Alexander Hamilton; $5,000, James Madison; $10, COO, Andrew Jackson. A LAND OF FESTIVITIES. MEHEYMAKING IN SI AM, HOME OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT. Celebrating the Religious New Year in March Superstitions and Cu rious Customs of the People. The Siamese, the people of that won drous country of perpetual summer the land of tV lotus and the white elephant ara "pre-eminently a race of holiday -keepers, says the New York Commercial Adtertiser. And, not content with innumerable religious and civic festivals throughout the year, they must have, not one, but two New Year's-days one the begin ning of the civil, the other the begin ning of the religious year, each of which is celebrated with great pomp and with a total surrender of business for pleasure for a period of from four to eight days. They have two eras, the religious and the civil, the latter dating from the ascension to the throne of a renowned monarch, named Somdetch Para Rooang, exactly 1,244 years ago. They also have two cycles, one within the other, the greater being twelve years in duration and the lesser ten. Each year in each cycle has its own specific name, such as the year ofihe Rat, Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Great Dragon, Lesser Dregon, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Cock, Dog and Hog. The Siamese "Choola Sakarat,'.' or re ligious New Year, generally falls on the day after the first full moon in the month of March. The Bramin astrologer, whose sole duty it is to point out the aspect of the sun, moon and stars, heralds the ap proaching full moon by setting in motion all the multitudinous gongs and temple bells in the city far and near. The peo ple who are always ready, waiting for this signal, have generally finished their business for the year; debts have been paid off, accounts closed, merchandise disposed of, and all actual traffic of buy ing and selling suspended three days previous to the expected event. The an nouncement made by the many-tongued instruments is received by the vast popu lation that inhabits the valley watered by the beautiful Menam river with fear and trembling, for they firmly believe that this is the witching hour when the very atmosphere of the world is alive with gods, demons, genii and hobgob lins, and forthwith the anxious and su perstitious people hasten to frustrate their evil designs. They bind unspun cotton thread, consecrated by the priest, round their doors and "windows, as the sacred thread is supposed to prove an effectual barrier in keeping out the malicious spirits. This done they jlace by the doors of their houses and huts a platter containing a pig's head and a bottle of arrack, as a conciliatory repast for the wondering ghosts that may de sire to regale themselves during the night; after which the whole city, like the snail, draws in its horns and no con sideration will tempt a mortal soul to venture out of it until sunrise the next morning. At, sunset every family offers to his own household erenn an oblation or candles, perfumed tapers and roasted ri e. As lor the royal palace, 7,000 balls of unspun cotton, of seven fibres, conse-. crated by twenty-seven priests, are reeled round and round the walls, aud from sunset until dawn a terrific aud continuous cannonading is heard from all the forts of the city to rout the evil spirits that infest the departing year. But, once this dreadful night is passed, the terror-stricken inhabitants, with a long-drawn sigh of relief, prepare to welcome the new year. Dre-sed in many-colored silks, they repair first to the temples to offer praise and thanks giving for their deliverance and to make handsome gifts to the priests, and not until they have propitiated Buddha and Buddha's earthly representatives do they think of their own merrymaking. Now the holiday is begun, .and for days every one surrenders himself or herself to dancing, singing, frequenting the theatre and other public p aces of amusements, and to every conceivable kind of out-of-door sports. Boat racing is a favorite amusement at all tjjnes, and at the New Year festivities the great races of the year are won and lost. Their racing boats are long, light canoes, and manned by from fifty to 1U0 paddles, they fly through the water with incredi ble speed. By -night the river, upon and in which the majority of the inhabit ants of the capital spend the greater part of their time, is one mass of fire. The pyrotechnic display on the Menam river at the Siamese New Year's festivities is probably unequaled the world over. Snakes, dragons, fish of all kinds, birds an 1 beasts and all animate creatures are manufactured by this clever people, and go whizzing through the water," leaving only a trail of light behind, while the set pieces upon the banks represent the taking and burning of the cities of ifcheir enemies,' and the glorification of sovereign and their Buddha. their , All Siamese birthdays are celebrated jat New Years, and at this time the cu rious custom of "hair cuttiDg" is ob served. When a boy reaches the age of eleven or fifteen, and a girl that of nine or thirteen, they are considered no 'onger children. Up to this time a tuft of hair is allowed to grow just above the fore head, and is always dressed with great care. It is twisted into a graceful knot and held together with a long gold or jeweled pin. At the base of this knot is worn a wreath of fragrant white flow ers. The ceremonies of hair cutting of ten last five or six days. It is the "coming out party" of the boy or girl, and there after they are not permitted to mingle with the other sex as children, but arc considered to have arrived at a marriage able age. At the time of the hair cutting of the youngest daughter of the late king, the entire country assembled at the capital to witness the services. Plays and pan tomimes, operas and balls were given the people for a week ; the country was in a state of excessive exhilaration. On the last day a procession of Siamese, Malays, Chinese, Peguans, Burmese, Laos, Karens and Japanese filed past the king and his lovely daughter, seated upon a throne of gold. - Groups of pretty women danced at the foot of the throne with small silver trees in their hands the symbol of maiden purity. Soft music issued from unseen bands, and intoxicating per fumes were wafted from, real and artifi cial banks of flowers. The air was charged with greetings to the happy maid that was that day the recipient of do less than thirty-five offers of marriage from neighboring princes. The hair cutting was done in the king's chapel by the family priest, after which the little lady was bathed in holy water and "clad in more gorgeous rai ment than ever before," proclaimed a woman." Many other rites and ceremonies are observed New Years, such as the both ing of the priests by the king and the bathing of his majesty by the princes of the minor principalities, the offering of special obligations to Buddha by the king for the welfare of his people dur ing the new year, and the building of new temples to his honor. Whatever can be done to propitiate their deity is at tempted, and every pleasure of which, the people can conceive is indulged in by them during this the greatest festival of the year. i i The Shah's Great Wealth. What he terms'his museum is a curious place. It contains a profusion of costly articles and objects of art such as exist nowhere else at the present day, it being the opinion of well-informed Europeans, who have viewed these treasures, that their money value is perhaps twenty-fold that of the contents of the so-called green vaults at Dresden. It is impossible to give exact figures, for they could only be obtained after a long and minute inspec tion and valuation by J experts ; but roughly estimated, it is probable that there is more than $100,000,000 worth of jewelry, precious stones, coined and un coined gold, costly objtU de tertu, fine porcelain and glassware, old weapons and armor, tableware and ornaments of exquisite Persian and Hindu workman-, ship, etc. The so called peacock throne (a part of the plunder Nadia Shah car ried off from Delhi 150 years ago) is alone valued at many millions, even after a number of the large, rough and uncut jewels have been broken out and stolen. It is an incongruous place, this museum. There you will see vases of agate or gold and lapis lazuli, said to be jworth millions ; and alongside of them mpty perfume bottles of European make, with gaudy labels, that can be had at wholesale for about five cents apiece. You will see priceless mosaics aud exquisitely painted cups and cans and vases, which were presented by some European potentate; and side by side with them you will notice horrible daubs, veritable 10-cent chromos, picked up the Lord knows how and where. You will perceive glass cases filled with huge heaps of rubies, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises, garnets, topazes, beryls, of all sizes and kinds, cut and uncut; and cheek by jowl with these your eyes wi 1 see cheap music boxes, Jcwls harps and squeaky hand organs. The Shah must also be in a condition to " bull " the market on pearls, for here is, for instance, a bis glass case, twenty- four inches long by eighteen inches wide and high, that is more than half' fi! led with beautiful pearls (mostly from the Persian Gulf fisheries) of all sizes and degrees of loveliness. In a separate long case the orders and decorations of the Shah, coming from nearly every country in the world, are kept on exhibition: but the crown icwels are in a litre box that is always locked and for which the Shah himself forever, waking or sleeping, carries the keys. The contents of this box and. of the several vaults where he keeps his piles on piles of brig at, shining, un used money, he never allows others to view, although the museum may be visited once a year by the European diplomatists and th3 friends that they vouch for. Coiinorotttan. A Wonder Bird. I had not been manv minutes on the key before I discovered a large snow white bird nestling on the ground under a spray of Rhacichallis. Its wings were barred with jet black; its bill was bright yellow, and tapered to a spear like point, which forbade too close familiaritv. This proved to be the yellow-billed tropic bird (Phaeton flavi rostris), and we afterward caught several in' our hand, taking them from the nest. When held up by the wings they strike lustily with their bills and utter a pecu liarly shrill cry. The tropic bird iays a single egg on the ground beneath rocks or bushes. It is about the size and make of the hen's, and is finely sprinkled with reddish-brown, so a? to appear of an almost uniform tint. One of these birds, which mv companion shot and slightly wounded, flew a short distance and then alighted on the water. As we sailed toward it, first one and then an other bird came and hovered over it as if urging it to take flight, which it pres enriy did, and with its attendants soon passed out of sight. These birds resem ble the gulls in many points, but are distinguished from other sea fowl by two long streamers in the tail, which wave behind them as they fly. Popular Science Monthly. A Great Stock Farm. "You people in the East know noth ing about stock farms,", said John Mac key, the California horseman, in the St. James Hotel the other evening." ' 'There's ex-Gov. Stanford's farm in San Mateo County as an example. He - had 348 trotters and thoroughbreds on his farm when I left, and of the lot 285 were trotting-bred brood mares. He runs to trotters and has been wonderfully suc cessful at it. New Yorkers think of the thoroughbred horse as the great animal of the stock farm, but the trotter is in reality the fellow who brings to the breeder the handsomest returns after all." Horses who can trot in 2:23 out there, says this excellent authority, are plenty as three-minute horses in this city, and the price asked for the former there is about the same as can be readily ob tained for the latter here. A 3 or 4 year old that canuot show better than 2 :'40 on the road isn't worth owning in the opinion cf these California horsemen, and can easily be had from $200 to $300. New York Times. Paper "Window Glass." Paper 'window glass" is now said to be an assured fact. As described: "A window pane is made of white paper, manufactured from cotton or linen, and modified by chemical action. After ward the paper is dipped in a prepara tion of camphor and alcohol, which makes it like parchment. ' From this point it can be molded and cut into re markably tough sheets entirely trans parent, and it cau be dyed with almost the whole of the aniline colors, the re sult being a transparent sheet, showing far more vivid hues than the best glass exhibits." 'RBiTlNG PAPER MONEY. AN rWl)TJSTBSr HONOPO"LTZEI BY THE NATIONAL QOYEBNJIMT. Great Heaps of Paper Turned Into Currency at the Bureau of En graving and Priutinjr- These checks with which the Govern ment surrounds the making of paper money begin at one end of the line at the paper mill, where the distinctive paper on which notes of revenue stamps are printed, and at the other end in the engraving room, where skilled engravers are engaged working out designs upon plates of steel. Every scrap of the blank paper has to be accounted for, and it is guarded as jealously as though it already had the seal of the Treasury on it. This paper is kept in the paper room of the Treasury, and is issued in quantities as required by the force under Mr. E. O. Graves, the Chief of the Bureau of En graving and Printing. The little bits of stcolQn which the engravers wok are also carefufiy guarded. An efficiaLof the Treasury Department receives them from the engravers everv evening and locks them in strong vat The next morning they are taken out again and the engravers resume their work upon them. In these vaults there are two of them the Treasury " Department has thousands of plates- and steel rolls, used in printing money and stamps of various kinds. I he vaults are, for convenience sake, located in the Engraving and Printing building, but they are not under the supervision of that bureau. When the bureau needs a plate out of the col lection, it borrows it from the Treasury Department and has to give' a receipt for it. The plates required for use are borrowed every morning and returned very evening. It is in the Bureau, of Engraving and Printing that the paper, the engraving, and the ink come together, and with the aid oi manual skill and mechanical ap pliances are transmuted into the dollars that the American people are commonly represented as struggling for with much avidity. Up m the third story is the room where the paper is received. A portion of the room is divided from the rest by a high iron net-work railing. Clerks are busy at desks and a number oi young women are there rapidly counting sheetX of paper. Just as the reporter enters two large cases are rolled in on These contain paper, for which a requisi tion had been made, on the Ireasury. The requisition, written on blanks pre pared for the purpose, contained many items, each stating the number of sheet3 wanted and what they were wanted for. The sheets are counted and a careful re cord made of the whole transaction. The paper is then moistened by being piled in stacks with alternate layers of wet Dloths. From this division of the bureau the paper is issued to the plate printers, who make requisition for it as required by them. Each plate printer has a young woman as a helper. The helper comes for the paper, signs a receipt for it, and has to certify that she has received the required number of sheets. She has to count the sheets in order to certify to this, and the prate printer has to certify that he witnessed the count. So it is known exactly how many sheets each printer has in his possession, and he has to ac count before leaving the building for everyone. If for any reason he leaves tne building bexore nis day s work is done he has to get a pass-card with a formidable array of signatures on it, be fore it will be honored at the door. This card has blank spaces in which are "filled in numbers showing the amount of paper taken out, the amount of work done, and the number of sheets returned. It has to be signed by the clerk of the wetting division, by an examining clerk, and by others who verify the figures. When the day's work is done the printer returns his plate to the custodian, who has a desk in one corner of the room. In the morning when the printer gets a plate he gives a check bearing his number. The custodian has a rack of little hooks on which he hangs these checks. When the printer returns the plate the check is returned to him and he give3 the custodian the keys of his press, which is hung on the hook in place of the check. Thus by glancing at the rack the custodian can at once tell what printers have not returned their plates. Among the improvements Mr. Graves, the chief of the bureau, is introducing, is the lighting of the press room with incandescent electric lights. Although the building is well provided with win dows, the printers at work at a distance from the windows find .the light insuffi cient on days wThen the sun is obscured. Gas lights are objectionable on account of the intolerable heat made in connection with the gas heaters." From the press-room the work goes down to the examining-room on the floor below. Here the sheets are subjected to a series of counts and examinations. The first examiners throw out every sheet in which they discover any imper fection. These sejected sheets are again examined by another set of examiners. wno retain all the sheets that Will OaSS a liberal inspection or that can be made presentab e by a little touching up. The - sheets, when they come to this division, are still damp, and after the first count they are turned over to a man in charge of the drying racks. Each package ha3 to have on it, in addition to the name of the printer and the various counters through whose -hands it has passed, the initial made with a red pencil of the per Bon who calls out to another person keep ing the books the name of the printer anu ine nunioer oi sueetsmthe package. Ifthisimtia is not on the .package the rack man w.ll not receive it. Th'.s is a precaution to. make sure that the printer receives proper credit for his work. When the drying racks are filled thev are rolled into a drying-room, an apart ment wnere me temperature is kept at 160 degrees by means of steam coils. The sheets remain here over niffht. un der lock and key, and closely guarded. The next day they are brought out again and again counted. Up to this time the work of each printer is kept by itself. Now the packages, having been ex amined, are broken up and re-sorted into new packages of .the required number. The sheets are rumpled and crinkly from the effects of moistening. To cure this they are subjected to hydraulic pressure, and come out as smooth as silk. From this examining division the Treasury and back: note, four on a sheet, go to a room where worsen are operating machines that trim the edges or margins of the sheet. Washington Star, SELECT SITTINGS. " "?"orty-five years ago there was"n5f a postage stamp in the "United States. Mrs. Holloway Evans, of Marion coun ty, S. C, has given birth to five-children inside of one year. . " v""v-r' Andrew Sisson, of Swan Creek, 111., while digging a well found at a depth of iorty feet a petrified orange. - A Petersburg, Ya., patriarch, seventy- five years of age, is now reveling in his eighth wife, and is the happy father of thirty-six children. A Nevada ranchman," to protect his cattle from the effects of blizzards, has painted them all with a mixture dfvtar, red clay and unseed oiL t Adeiina Patti has a small silver basin and a big white sponge, which is set on the outside of the bedroom window to catch dew. It is with this heaVen dis tilled water that the diva bathes her eyes and face. The largest book ever bound is owned by Q!Ka.Vis3KVML measurw-siSfh. teen inches across the back ana weighs thirty pounds. It contains the jubilee addresses of congratulation from mem bers of the Primrose League. The Jeweller? Weelly says that persons who wear glass eyes and can afford it have one for the day and another for the night, because the pupil of the natural eye is smaller by day than by night, and the glas3 eye that will match during business . hours does not look natural by gas light. In China the, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters and tinsmiths form lines on either aide of the public square and wait until they are wanted.. The master, builder comes along and puts a chalk mark upon those whose services he de sires. They follow him and go to work. The least sign of discontent calls for the head of the kicker. All are glad to see it fall into the basket, for it gives a place for one more to work.l Near Danbury, in North - Carolina, stands a log house built by its present occupant forty-five years ago. When ha first built the fire on the new hearth he vowed it should never go out, and it has nbt. v Meantime the owner has not slept from home a single night; has never tasted food from any table but his own ; has never used a candle or other light in his dwelling, yet has married three times, been the father of fourteen chil- I dren, and become a great-graudfathcr. - T-he.dicovery of -.silk is attributed to one of the wives ot the Emperor of China, lloang-ti, who reigned about 2,uuu years cetore the Christian era, and since that time a special spot has been allotted in the gardens of the Chinese royal palace to the cultivation of the mulberry tree called in Chinese the "golden tree" . and to the keeping of silk-worms. The first silk dress in history was made, not f or a so ereign nor a pretty woman, but for the monster in human shape, llelio gabalus. How the Money Cvni is Back. The bank note or treasury note that goes forth from the bureau of engraving and printing, looking so bright and handsome, comes back in time, perhaps ragged, dirty, and torn, like some old tramp, to end its career there. Every day or two one will see a close! van,.-1 looking like a big safe on wheels, drawn through the streets from the Treasury Department " to, the bureau, attended usually by three-or fourmen. This con tains the old paper money that has come back to the treasury for redemption. It is taken to a loom in the rear of the bureau of engraving and printing. In the floor of this room are two circular hales, about two feet in diameter. Looking down one of these holes into the dark depths below one can see a part of the surface of a huge iron eylinder. The cylinder can be opened by means of a round lid or cover. When the old money is brought in it is dumped down a funnel into one of these cylinders. A committee, comprising representatives of the different branches of the Treasury' Department interested, besides one rep resentative, in theory at least, of the general public, gravely watches the" operation. When all the money has been dumped and mixed with the chemi cals used in the process of maceration, the cylinder lid is closed and locked with several padlocks. Each member of the committee takes the key of one of the padlocks. The cylinder is t.en sefr to revolving, and turns and turns until the committeemen come the next day and open the lid. If they find that the mass has been reduced to a pulp and lost all semblance and trace of its original character the cylinder is emptied. If the maceration is not completed the , cylinder is "set in- motion again. From 800 to 1,200 pounds of old notes, aggre gating millions of dollar--, are placed in a cylinder at a time, and what would constitute a princely, fortune is churned away into nothing but a pulpy mass in a night. Wushingron Star. A Chinese Rcstanrant. The pagan restaurant where we ch ot cd but did not inebriate our-e'ves was dain- x:i i J t-.i i A i .i a. x. -.r i rrnin and ii nil fr t .1 1 1 1 .H (ill: 1 1 gold w W ' . . ' ' " - " we had nuts, citron, birds-nest pud ding, and some other preparations mys terious and awful. There was one duh of each kind, out of which all partook harmoniously with little two-pronged brass forks. We. of course, bought the dishes from which we ate, and caused a great deal of giyety among the heathen by refusing to take new ones in place of them. We also have each the autograph of mine host Yum Hum Hum I don't j m-d for j1 bdie;e hc can reb. III,, ' M.nrii.h nam him believe I can quite recall it, but anything self. They could not understand mucb of what we said, but I can't look down ... -. on tne oacrans on mat account, ior u was iust that much more taat we made out from them. Overland. They Were Married. It seems to make very little difference where you are when the marriage cere mony is performed. A young runaway couple in Kansas were driving to the church, but the herses took freight and the sleigh stuck in a snowbank. They were tied right there and then. The next thing will be a marriage on a toboggan slide, with minister, bride and groom traveling at the rate of a mile a minute. There is nothing like novelty in this world, and if an attack of rheumatism is thrown in, why, the interest of the occasion is vastly in creased. Xeio York Herald. 1 Li
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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