AFTER THE STORM.
The maTls In the hickory
Was wnrblhig of the weather,
The rnln had passed, the oMcs were platted,
And Hoj.c mid I together,
Stood wnltntr by the pasture fence, .
Where tangled vines tcrc cllulng,
To listen to the melody,
To hear the mavis singing.
The ralu-drojvs In the buttercup",
Th" inlft upon the clover,
Still lingered there In beauty rare
To show the storm was oer,
And from the woods a breeze eaine past
A breath of (lowers bringing,
But o'er It all, and jmsslng sncet,
J heard the mavis singing.
A eummcr glory filled the air,
The grass waved low before me,
The sunlight fell and like a spell
A fong came flouting o'er me;
In Nature's untrained harmony
A bird's clear notes were ringing,
"While leaped my heart In one long thrill
To hear the mavis singing.
Emcsl McUttJU'ej, in the t'urren
Sander's
Reven
p.
SEQUEL TO MATHtAS RlNDOItF
DOUTOIt A.VTKIvmiT.
"Oy .Jul o.s Vcnic,
AUTiion or "joiniNr.Y to tub centos
OF Till! J!A1:TII," ' TIUP TO HIK MOON,"
"AllOUNIJ TJtK W011MI IN 1JIHIITV
I)AV3, "Mlf'IIAKrj BTHOHOI'F,"
"twuvtv tiiowhand miaouus
vkukii tui: kka, " i;m, Km
Trantlallon couiol'lctl by a. ir. Uanna, tssi.
CHArTKIt XX!I-CoN-TiNi;i:i).
Suddenly tlie JJootor mopped up fo n
Bmnll biasero which stood on u tripod in
a corner of tlio room. In tln'H brasero
wcro u fow iragnieiitH of paper t)mt liad
been destroyed by lire, but tho inciner
ation of which hud not boon completed.
Hud Suva written them ? And tnir
priscd by the hurried departure had sho
burnt tho letter before she left Totuau ?
Or rnthor und tlmt was posHlblo had
tho letter been found on Suva and dox
troyod by Sarcany or Nuniir 1
Pierre hud wutelied the Doctor's look
63 ho bent over tho bnisoro. Wluvt hud
ho found?
On tho frngtnonts of paper that a
broftth would reduce to dust, u low
words stood out in black-among others
these, unfortutiiituly iucomplotu :
"Mad- ISutli "
Had Suva, attempted to writo to her
as tlio only person in tho world to whom
bIio could appeal for help not knowing
nnd not being able to know that sho hud
disappeared from Kagusa ?
Then after Madame Hathory's name
nnother could bo deciphered that of
hor son. '
Pierre held his breath, nnd tried to
find some other word still legible. Hut
his look wiia troubled. J In could see no
more.
But thoro was ono word which might
perhaps put them on tho girl's track
n word which tho Doctor found almost
intact.
"Tripoli 1" ho exclaimed.
Was it in tho Bogoiioy of Tripoli, his
native country, where ho might bo
absolutely safe, thatSaru.ihy hud nought
refULfo.'' Was it thither that the o.ira
van was bound ?
"To Tripoli I" said tho Doctor.
That evening they were again at sea.
If Sarcany had already reached the cap
ital of tho ltegenoy they were in hopes
that they would bo only a fow days bo
IuliI him.
GIIAPT12K XXIII.
Tnu ri:A8T op Tint ktoiiks.
On (ho 23rd of November tho plain of
loung-Uttolate, around tho walls of
"ripoli, ii Horded a curious spectacle.
)n that day no ouo could tell if tho
lain were barren or fertile, for its mir
aco vum hidden beneath multi-colored
cuts adorned with feathers ami tings,
jiisevablo gourbis with their roofs so
tattered and patched nu to givo very
iiumflloiont bhelter from that bitter dry
wind tho "gibly," which Hweops across
tho desert lrom tho south; horo and
there, groups of horses in rich oriental
trappings, moluiris stretched on tho
Band with their Hat heads like half
empty goat akin bottles, small donkeys
about as big as largo clogs, largo dogH
ns big as smnll donkeys, mules with tho
enormous Arab saddle that has tho
catitlo and pommel as round iui a camel
hump; horsemen with guns across their
shoulders, and knees tip to their stom
achs, and feet in slipper-like stirrups,
and having double sabres at their belt,
galloping among men, women and chil
dren, careless of whom they might run
down us they dashed along, and natives
almost uniformly clothed in tho llarbary
"haouly." beneath which tho wommi
would be indistinguishable from tho
men, if tho men did not tlx tho folds to
their waist with a brass pin, while the
women let the upper part fall over thei.
faces so that they can only see villi the
loft eye a oostumo which varies with
tho classes, tho poor having nothing on
but the simple linen mantle, the more
iifllucut having the wuuttco.it of tho
Arabs, nnd the wealthy having splendid
patterns in white and blue over a second
iiaouly of gauze, a glossy silk above the
de.id-whito of tho gold-spangled shuL
Went tiiey only Tnpolitnns that had
gathered on the plain ? No. Tho
environs of the capital were crowded
.nth merchants from Ghadames ami
Solum, escorted by their blaul; slaves ;
Jews and Jewesses of the province, with
uncovered facet ; negroes from the
neighboring villages, who had oomo
from their cabins of rushes and palms
to asbist in the general gaiety, HXrer in
liuon than in jewelery, large brass
bracelets, hholl-work collars, strings of
teeth, rings of silver in their ears ami
thoir noses; and Boiiouliox mid Awa
guirs, from the bhores of the Sjrrtoa, to
whom tho date-palm of thoir country
ANI
BANDOItK KINDS Till'. Jll.'ttNT I.KTTIIIt IK THE HOUSE AT TKTUAN.
yielded its wine, its lruit, its bread and
its piesorves. Among this agglomera
tion of Moors, Berbers, Turks, Bedouins
nnd Muzullirs, who aro Europeans,
frero pashas, sheiks, cadis, all tho lords
in the laud walking through tho crowds
of raayns which opened, humbly and
prudently, before tho drawn swords of
the soldiers. r the truncheons of tlio
police, or the zaplies as ihero passed in
haughty indifference, tho governor-
general of this African eyelet, of this
piovinco of tho Turkish empire, whoso
administration belongs to tho bultan.
If there are more than 1,500,000 in
Tripoli, with (iOOO soldiers 1000 for tho
Djebel and GOO for tho Cyrenaio the
town of Tripoli itself has not moro than
lrom 20,000 to 21,000 souls. But on this
occassion it appeared as though tho
population hud been at least doubled
by the crowd of spectators, coming from
all parts of the territory. These rurubj
had not, it is true, entered tho capital
of the llegencv. Within tho walls of
the fortilicatioiiH noithcr the houses,
which through the worthlessness of
their materials soon fall into ruins, nor
tho neighboring mole with its consulates,
nor the western quarter inhabited by
the Jews, nor the rest of the town
inhabited by tho Mussulmans, were
equal to such nn invasion.
But the plain of Seung-EUolato was
large enough for the crowd of spectators
attracted to this feast of the storks,
whose legend always receives due honor
in the enstorn countries of Africa.
This plain -a small fragment of the
Sahara, with its yellow snnd often
invaded by the sea, during tho vio'ent
winds from the east -surrounds tho
town on three sides, and is about
1000 yards across. In strong contrast is
the oasis of Menchie, with its white
walled houses, its gardens watered by
tlio leather-chain pump worked by a
skinny cow, its woods of orange-trees,
citrons, dates, its green clumps of shrubs
and flowers, its antelopes, gaxelles,
fennocs and flamingoes a huge patch
of ground in which live not less than
30,000 people. Hoyond is the desert,
which in no part of Africa comes nearor
to the Mediterranean, the desert and its
hiftiug uand hi'ls, its immense carpet
of sand on which, says Huron Kralft,
"tho wind raises the waves as easily as
on tho ocean," tho Lybiau ocean with
its mists of impalpable dust.
Tripoli a country almost ns largo aa
Franco is bounded by Tunis ami Egypt
and by the Sahara at a distance of one
hundred and ninety miles from tho
Mediterranean coast.
Jt was in this province, one of tho
least known in Jsortheru Africa, and
which will be, perhaps, one of the last to
be thoroughly explored, that Sarcany
had taken refuge after leaving Totuau.
A native of Tripoli, he had returned to
the country which had been tho scono
of his earliest exploits. Alllliated to tho
most formidable sect of Northern Africa,
ho hud sought the powerful protection
of tho Seuouuists, whoso agent for tho
acquisition of arms and ammunition in
foreign parts, ho had never ceased to bo.
And when ho arrived at Tripoli ho had
taken up his quarters in the house of the
nioquddein, Sidi llazaiu, the recognized
chief of the sectaries of the district.
Aftor the capture of Toronthai in tho
road to Nice a capture which still
remained inexplicable to him-Sarcany
iiiul lott .Monto Carlo. A few thousand
tf on was not shaken. Neither tho threats
of Namir nor tho rage of Sarcany had
had any effect on her.
At its doparturo from Tetuan tho cara
van already numbered fifty of tho
brethren, or Khouuns, under tho leader
ship of an imuin, who hud organized it
in military fashion. There was no inten
tion of crossing tho provinces under
French influence, or the journoy might
givo riso to dilliculties.
Tho coast of Algeria and Tinis forms
an arc up to the western coast of tho
grand Syrtes, whero it drops abruptly to
tho south. Tho most direct road from
Totuau to Tripoli is along the chord of
this are, and that does not run higher
than Laghouat, one of tho most distant
French towns on tho border of tho
Sahara.
Tho caravan, on leaving tho ompiro of
Morocco, skirted the boundary of
Algeria, and in Heni Matun, in On lad
Nail, in Churfat-ol-IInmol, secured a
goodly number of recruits, so that when
it reached the Tunisian coast at the
Syrtes Magna, it numbered moro than
three hundred mou. Then it followed
the coast, recruiting Khnunns in tho
different villages, and on the 20th of
November, after a six weeks' journey, it
reached tho frontior of Tripoli. On tho
day, therefore, that this feast of tho
storks was taking place, Sarcany and
Namir hud only been tho guests of Sidi
Huzum for three days.
The moquddon's house, which was
now Suva's prison, was surrounded by a
slender minaret, and with it white walls
pierced with loopholes, its embattled
terraces, its want of exterior windows.
and its low, narrow doorway, had very
much the appearance of a small fortress.
It was in reality a regular zaouiya, situ
ated beyond tlio town, on the skirt of
the sandy plain and tho plantations of
Mouelue, with its gardens defended by
the high wall running up on to tho
oasis.
Its intonor was of the ordinary Arab
design, but with throe courtyards instead
of one. Around each of these court
yards was a quadrilateral of galleries,
columns and arcades, on to which opened
tho rooms of tho house, which for tho
most part, were luxuriously furnished.
In tho second courtyard tho visitors or
guests found a vast " skifa," a sort of
hall or vestibule, m which morn than
one conference had bcou held bv Suit
Ilazam.
The house was naturally defended by
its high walls, and the defence was
further assured by the number of ser
vants who could be summoned in case
of an nttack from tho wandering tribes,
or oven the recognized authorities of tho
province whoso efforts were directed to
keeping the Sonousists in check. There
wore, in fact, lifty of the brethren, well
armed and equally ready for tho defen
sive or tho offensive.
There was only one door to tho
zaouiya, but this door was very thick
nnd solid, and bound with iron, and
could not be easily forced, and onco
forced could not bo easily entered.
Sarcany had thus found a safe refuge in
which he hoped to end his work success
fully. His marriage with Siva would
briug hun considerable wealth, and if
needod ho eould count on the assistance
of the brotherhood, who were direotly
interested in his success.
The brethren from Totuau and tho
vilayets on the road had been dispersed
francs that he had kept buck from his 1 in tho oasis of Menohie, ready for action
earliest winuings had ouablod him to
pay his passage, and defray his espouses,
lie had good reason to fear that Toron
tliai would be reduced to despair, and
utged to ceek vengeance on him, either
by revealing his past life, or giving
information as to the whereabouts of
Suva. The banker know that tlv girl
was at Tctimn, in charge of Namir, and
hence Sareany'a decision to leave
Morocco aa soon as uossibla.
He resolved to take refuge in Tripoli,
where he eould avail himself, not only
ot the moans of notion but of the means
of defence. Hut to go there by steamer,
or the Algerian railwav- as tlio Doctor
hud Mispeotod -would have been too
dangerous. And so he joined a oara
hu of Senousists. who were oti thoi
way to the Cyioimio, recruiting as they
went in the chief ullage of Moroooo,
Algei ia and Tunis. This caravan,
which would quickly travol tlio 800
leagues between Totuau and Tripoli,
following the northern edge of tho
dehert, hot out no the 12th of Ootolwr.
And now Save was entirely at the
mcroy of her captors, hut hor rosolu-
at the that signal. The feast of the
storks, as tho Tripohtau police know
J well, would be most convenient for tho
j Senousistd. On tho plain of Soung
j Ettelato, tho Khouuns of Northern
I Africa could receive their orders from
tho muftis as to their concentration in
I tho Oyrenaio, where thev weio to found
a regular pirato kingdom under the nil
powerful authority of n caliph. And tho
circumstances were highly favorable,
for it was in tho vilayet of Hen (thazi,
in the Grrcnaic, that the association
already had its greatest number of
adherents.
On this day of the feast of storks,
three strangers were strolling through
the crowd ou the plain of Souug-Ettelatc.
These strangers, these muz.iftlrs. would
not have been recognized m Europeans
under their Arab dress. The eldest of
them wore his with tUjit perfect ease
which only long custom gives. Ho was
Doctor Autekirlt, and his companions
Pierre Hathory and Luigi Ferrato,
Point Pesoade and Capo Matifoti were
stopping in the town, whom they were
engaged iu certain preparations, and
probably would not appear on tho scane
until they wero wanted.
The Electric had onlv como in tha
afternoon beforo and nneJiorcd under
shelter of the long-rocks wl ich act as a
natural breakwater to tho harbor of
Tripoli. The passage had been as rapid
as the voyage outwards. A three hours
fetay at Phillippeville, in the little bay of
Filtila, mid no longer had been all that
was necessary to procure tho Arab
dresses. Then tho Electric had departed
immediately, and its preseuoo had not
even been detected in the Numidian
Gulf.
When the Doctor and his companions
camo ashore, not at the quay, baton tho
rocks outsido the harbor, they wero no
longer five Europeans entering Tripoli
tun territory, they wero tho Orientals
whose garb would attract no nttentiou.
Pierro and Luigi dressed up in this waj
might betray themselves to the eyes of n
oloso observer, but Pcscado and Mati
fou, nccustomed to tho many dressos of
tho mountebank, were completely at
thoir ease.
When night came tho Electrio moved
round to ono of tho creeks on tho other
sido of tho harbor, whero sho ran littlo
risk of being observed; nnd there sho
remained ready for sea at any moment.
As soon as they had landed, the Doctor
and his companions ascended tho rocks
that skirt the coast until they reached
the quay leading to Eob-cl Bahr, tho
raariuo gate, and entered tho narrow
streets of tho town. Tho first hotel
they came to seemed good enough for n
fow days a few hours perhaps. They
seemed to be respectablo folks. Tuni
sian merchants, probably, taking advau
tago of their journey through Tripoli to
be present at the feast of the storks. As
tho Doctor spoke Arabic as correctly as
ho did tho other Mediterranean lan
guages, thero was no danger that his
speech would bo'ray them
A MARINE COFFER DAM.
Tho AVork of KcpnlrinK tho Stcnrn
ulilp AVcrrn nt outli ltoston.
The ocean steamship Werra, which
was disabled in her recent passage to
this country by the breaking of her
shaft, is in the New England dock at
South Boston for repairs, says The Jlos
Ion Advertiser. The shaft was broken
short oil' at tho outside of the stern
post, and tho propeller and that part of
the shaft which extended outside the
stern post fell out nnd were lost. The
repairs to be made, accordinply, con
sist in putting in a new propeller and a
new shaft of the full length, which is
twenty-four feet.
The shaft has been ordered by cable to
be shipped at once from Germany and
the propeller from Liverpool. The
fonner is on board the steamship
Donau, which is due in New York on
the L'oth ins!., and the propeller is ex
pected to arrive on the Liverpool steam
er duo on the 28th. It will take at
least one day more to forward these from
New York. Tho intervening time will
not be more than comfortably sullic'ont
to remove the remnant ot the old shaft
and make such adjustments as will bo
necessary for putting the new appar-
iius into place expeditiously. Jen or
twelve days from the present time will
probably elapse before the vessel is
readv for ih 'oa.
This work of restoration is of special
interest because it is to bo done by
means oi a ooner dam. iSotwithstand
inir that Boston is praised, and justly,
f.r the ninny facilities which the port
oners lor ocean steamer tralhc. ono
very important matter is lacking, and
that is a dry-dock long enough to con
ta'ai a first-class ocean steamer. The
Werra is -J.OO feet long. The longest
dry-dock is that belonging to the
united States government at tho Char-
Ihe iimheeper with great cordiality 0StOn navy -yard. This is but !)70 feet
received the live travelers who did him
the great honor of selecting his house,
no was a largo man and very talkative,
And so in encouraging him to talk, tho
Doctor soon learned cartain things that
interested him greatly. In tho llrst
place ho heard that a caravan had ro-
contly arrived from Morocco in Tripoli.
that bureau r, who was well known in
the Iti'goncy, formed part of tho cara
van, and that ho had availed himself of
the hospitality of Sidi nazam.
And henco that evening tho Doctor,
Pierro nnd Luigi takingsuch precaution
as ensured their not been observed, had
mixed with tho crowd of nomads en
camped in the plain of Souug-Ettelate,
As they strolled about they took careful
notes of tho moqaddem's house on the
skirt of the oasis.
fill i 1 r-v -
j.nore, men, oava aandort was a
prisoner, bineo tho Doctor had been at
Kugusa tho father and daughter had
never ueen so near together. JJut now
an impassable wall lay botween thorn
lo get her awav Pierro would have con
sented to everything, even to agree to
Sarcany s terms. Count Saudorf aud
ho wero ready to abandon the fortune
which the scoundrel coveted. And this,
although ho did not forgot that justice
ought to bo done on tho betrayer of
Stephen Bathorv aud Ludislas Zath
mar.
to nn coNTiN'ur.D.
The Nation's Demi.
A recent report shows that
tion s dead are bur'cd in 7)
cemeteries, of which only 1:
the n.i-
national
are m
the Northern States. Among the prin
cipal ones in the North are Cypress
Hill, with its :J,7.VG dead: Finn's l'oint,
N. .1.. which contains tho remains of
L'.u'l 1 unknown dead; Gettysburg, I 'a.,
with its 1,1)07 known and 1,0'OS mv
known dead; Mound City, III., with
2r)0,r) known and 2,721 unknown graves;
Philadelphia, with 1.1)09 dead, and
Wooillawn, FIiutu, N. Y., with its 3, 090
dead. In the South, near tho scenes
of terrible eonllicts, are located tho
largest depositories of tho nation's he
roic dead:
Arlington. Va., 1C.2G4. of whom 4,3-19
are unknown;
Beaufort, S. C., 9,211, of whom 1,193
are unknown.
Chalniette, La., 12,511, of whomo,G7l
aro unknown.
Chattanooga. Tenn., 12.9G2, of whom
1,903 are unknown.
Va.. 15,2o7. of
long. Jt was planned and its construe
Hon was begun in 1827. and at that
time the idea that the merchant service
would over surpass the naval service in
the length of its ships was doubtless
quite out of the range of the mind's
vision. In the absence of a dry-dock
a poller dam can be made to servo very
well in the work now to bo done, but
the use of it is somewhat of a novelty,
to the general public at least, and a
good many people visited tho clock yes
terday, prompted by curiosity about
the coll'er dam.
The dam is a structure of strong
timbers and planks, and its shape or
form is that of the bottom, two sides,
nnd one end of a souaro wooden box.
The bottom is settled low enoii"-h in
the water to pass under the keel of the
ship as she lies alloat. It is set under
the l.eel about half the length of the
puller dam. Chans arc dropped from
the after bulwarks of the ship, and are
jioohuu 10 i iu sicies oi uie nam near
the upper olre. and drawn pcrfectlv
nun iv means ot a combined shack o
nnd screw attached to each chain. All
being well secured, the operation of
jmttinir in the bulkhead of the dam is
beun. J Ins, when in place, will make
the other end of the 1 o already de-
r ued as having two sides and only
one end.
1 his end or bulkhead is built in two
parts and the ini or c dge of each part
i siiapeu 10 in exactly the convex and
concave line ot tho vessel s hull below
the water. Jn the present instance
this shape has to be ascertained by tak
nig molds ot the intcr.or ot the hull at
the proper d stance from the stern port.
liiaiving allowance ror th ckness ot the
eseis iron piaiing. home aid in
making a tight joint against tho ship's
smooth side comes from putting a lay
er ot sail cloth or like material into the
bulkhead as apart of its construction
this part ot the work of shaniiiL' the
, - ..... . , i .
cciges oi mo bulkhead was well clone,
inci bom pans wore soon put into
place and held there by the diagonal
inriist oi umbers or loist secured
igainst the inner sides of the dam. Be
fore the work of pumping out was be
gun, or beiore it had progressed far,
shores were set resting at one end upon
the bottom and what mav be called the
gunwale of the coffer-dam and against
I... , i.:..'., i. ..ii ... ,i. . ,
nn- .-.uiji a nun ui i in; ouier enci.
I lie tug-boat! William Sprac-no bo-
gan the work of pumping out, and
latter in the day tho tuir Curb W V!1
also engaged. Tho water in tho dam
is drawn out through huge pieces of
suction hose, these bcinrr connected
with tho pumps of the tug boats.
With the withdrawal of the water with
in the dam. an iiiiiucn.se imwaril nnl
whom 12,770 are unknown.
Jellerson Harrncks. Mo., 11,190, of lateral pressure is himIo In- n,o ..!..,.
wiioiu ,;nru are uiiKiiown. without, and t in if.int ,,f i,n-
mini' iwi h, Jim,, d,uuj, ui wnom .- ilCi ll airailist tlie s im's di n hi- t h ,i,.c
.,.- I ...j- ... , ..it,,, no
ooi sue unknown. sure becomes nvnot ivilH- n..ii.,..,io-i.f
City Point, a., 5,122. of whom 1,374 When the colfer dam is hoe of water
a ho-o attached to nun nf Ihn
Mm.;.. it., tin m ir.i nfi,,i,n, oiiM Li ! , .. . ' .....,.:
" -.i'uo nu- Mcuinsiiip win Keen it clear without
.i hi . .1.
UilUCUIlV
are unknown.
Memphis, Tenn., 13,997, of whoniS,-
51 1 are unknown.
Nashville, Tenn., 1G.52G, of whom 1,
701 are unknown.
Poplar Grove. Va., 0,199, of whom
4,001 are unknown.
Uichuiond, Va., (1,512, of whom 5.700
are unknown.
Salisbury. N. C, 12.12G.of whom 12.-
032 are unknown.
Stone river, lenn., 5.G02, of whom
2iS are unknown.
ieksUurir, .Mis., 1G.G00. of whom
12.701 are unknown.
Antietain. Va., 4,671. of whom l.sis
are unknown.
Winchester. Va.. 4.559. of whom 2.-
8 (55 are unknown.
hi all, the remains of 300.000 in..n
who fought for the stars and strii.es liml
guarded graves in our national cenie.
lories. Two cemeteries are niainlv de
voted to the brave men who perished in
tho loathsome prisons of the same
name Andersonville, Ga.. which con
tains 13.714 graves, and Salisbuv, with
its 12.12(5 dead of whom 12.082 are unknown.
Of" the vast nunihor who aro interred
in our national ciimetorios 275.000 sleen
beneath the soil of the Southern States
uid l l.i.OOO rest in graves marked un
known.
Tho work of outline tho poller dam
into position was begun at 8 A. M.
yesterday, and by 4:30 P. M. the dam
was sulhe.cntlv clear of water to ex
pose the ship's stern ncarlv to tho
depth of tho keel. Tho end of tho
broKcn shaft was visible. It was made
with a hollow coro of ten inches di
ameter, and was of rotiirh steel. The
strength was of course, verv p-reat.
but the question was debated somewhat
by tho seafaring men present whether
it would not have been stronger if
wrought solid. The depth of the bulk
head from its gunwale is twontv feet.
its width is thirty feet, and its 'length
thirty-livo feet. The sweep of the nro-
poller blades corresponds to a clrclo of
twenty-two feet diameter.
A Pluin, Simple Man.
"Gentlenion,M ho said to tho report
ers, as the sheriff put tho knot whore
it would do the most good, "will you
grant mo ono last rcmiest before I
die?"
The reporters, to a man. said tlmv
would.
"Then write mo down as havinr boon
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GRANITE.
How It Is Qunrrlcd nnd Prcpnrcd for
Use Where the Stone Comes
Vrotu.
A reporter of The Cincinnati Sun, in
an interview with an old-time contract
or obtained the follow ng information
in regard to granite: "In the lirst
place, granite appears to be the funda
mental rock of tho earth's crust, and is
nearly alwius found in ils perfect state
in mountainous regions. To ho sure, it
is occasionally found as the superficial
rock in Hat or rolling p!a:ns, but most al
ways is found in hills and mountains.
It is the hard, st to get of any of the
moro valuable of the building rocks,
but when uncovered and opened up is
comparatively easy to work into rough
shapes.but polishing is another matter.
"How is it discovered?"
"Generally it crops out on the face of
a clilf high up on a hill or mountain,
hundreds of feet above convenient ave
nues of travel. The lirst thing to bo
clone is to climb up and skin tne quarry
that is, strip off the sod and soil anil
blast out a ledgu for the workmen.
Then the hunt for searns and fissures
to lessen the work of blasting. Some
times acres upon acres have to bo
skinned before a single seam or crack
can be found. But when they find a
seam they have solved the problem' of
quarrjing because tho scams show
which way the granite will work most
easily."
"Then granite has grain?"
"Yes, a sort of grain enough, any
how, to make it split accurately by
proper manipulation. Frequently the
seams traverse in parallel lines, in
which case the workmen have a com
parative picnic. First he drills lonsr
rows of holes from three and a half
inches to ten feet in depth and from
live to ten inches apart."
"Then he blasts it out and that's all
there is of it?"
"Scarcely. When he has drilled
around a section ten or twenty feet
wide by forty to e'ehty long ho" takes
a lot of half round irons, pointed like
the drills, and sets them in the holes- in
pairs. Hat sides together, of course.
Next he sets in his feathers, wh'eh are
nothing but small, slender, and very
tough steel wedges. He goes along
with a light hammer and begins driv
ing in his wedges with equal 1 lvo, so
that the strain increases evenly all
along tho line. Prettv soon there is a
sharp report and the big granite rec
tangle jumps up out of its bed with a
deep hollow on its under surface, there
being no means of getting at the bot
tom center with half rounds and leath
ers."
"Is the granite then hauled to the
cities to be worked up?"
'No. Ho you Mipposo they have
derricks up there on the mountains big
enough to lift two or three thousand
tons?. The same process is renewed
along the 'grain' to break the stone
into long strips, audit is then broken
apart laterally by sharp tools and ham
mers. Of course there is enormous
waste, but when granite is found at all
tliTTe is generally an abundance of it.
so it isn't much of an object to save it.
The dillieulty in working it is what
makes it cost. Tho granite blocks used
in these streets are worked down from
the great rectangular masses just as 1
have said."
"Where does our paving granite
come from, to l.e delin'te?"
"Kockport and Quinev, Mass., ami
the coast of Maine are furnishing tho
most of what we are using here; but
line paving and building granite is
found in the Thousand islands and in
New lirunswiek."
"How is it .shipped?"
"Pretty much as it's laid on the side
walks, onlv not in as great a bulk. A
box-car will hold 1,300 blocks, which
aro worth only about 120 a car. So
you see the railroads get a mighty fat
thing out of the transportation, as
compared with the value of the stuff."
"Where is the finest granite found?"
"Aberdeen, Scotland. That is tho
red granite, which is full quart. It
takes on a mairnilicent polish, but
you'vo probably noticed that they don't
carve it elaborately. If a man wants
a monument of Scotch granite to hold
his cadaver down he must bo satislied
with very quiet designs. Hut it holds
its sharp edges, wheii they're once on.
for ages, almost. The Egyptians had
the granite business down to a liner
point than any other peoplo on the
round earth. They weren't satislied
with shining it up, but they carved it
and worked it as a baker works gingerbread.
'Another thing tho peoplo don't
generally know, is that many of the
so-called precious stones are nothing
but quartz ono of the principal con
stituents of granite. Agate, amethyst,
carnelian, oat's-eye. chalcedony, gedde.
and jasper aro all quartz formations,
and our pleasure traps and garbage
carts aro trundling over acres of such
ubbish cvory day. Yet peoplo call us
Cineinnatians stingy. Science found
a way to counterfeit these stones in
paste, though, just about the same
time sho discovered how common is
the natural article, so that tho market
is surfeited with both, anil neither is
wanted. 'Hrazilian peddle' spectacles
are made from quartz, and California
diamonds, when not artificial, are
worked from large, clear masses of
quartz, which aro found in Madagascar."
Ho Carried the Convention,
"Well, Charley, did you ask for tho
hand of old Slickmore's daurktcr, last
night?"
"You hot I did. I secured tho nom
ination on the lirst ballot."
"So you are to bo married soon."
No," siree."
"What!"
"It's a fact."
"1 thought you said you secured tho
nomination! '
1 did. Tho old man cave me my
cholco between the too of "his boot and
the mouth of his dog, and I noininatod
the boot, but they gavo mo the dog by
acclamation. Fact is 1 scooped the
whole convention. If von don't beliove
it look at mv pants! 'They look like
thev had been through a threshing
1 machine, but thev didn't go near half
way through the dog.'' Newman Jr.
I dependent.