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I MASTER OF THE MINE
the simple people; and I, la the fullness
of my fortunate days, am tha maimer of
KIN-CIIAU, WHICH IIAO HLLN ULLMLU IM.'KLOIULL.
Ui mine.
I (Tha and.)
By Robert Buchanan. i
SOME COSTLY SAWS.
CHAPTER XXX.
"Hugh, my lad!" said my uncle,
alretching out hia hands.
. I waded through the water till I came
clone to him. So loud Wan the thunder
on every aido of iia, that we had to ahout
t each other in order to be heard; and
vcn our about a aoumled like mere whis
pers, though w were ao cloae together.
I took a light from my hat, and reach
ed out of the water, looking luto the
young master's face. It wa ghaatly
I'slo, but there waa a mark on the tem
ple, at of blood. I put my hand upon
tiia heart, and discovered that It waa
faintly beating.
"lie Uvea atlll," I aaid; then, without
more parley, I disengaged myself from
the rope, and proceeded to make it fast
to the sonselesa mau. As I did so, the
water almost swept me away, but I hold
on to the rock and kept my place. When
the rope was firmly secured under George
ttedruth'a armpits, I shook htm sharply.
nd. to niy joy, he opened his eyes, par
tially recovering from hia torpor.
Then 1 touched the rope and pointed
upward, making signs that he was to
fce drawn up. He seemed scarcely to
understand; but, lifting him In my arms,
I placed him in positiou, and then tugged
three times, aa a s-ignal.for the men to
haul in.
There waa a momentary pause; then
the rope tightened, and the light body
began alowly to ascend. Still, waist-deep
In the sea, I watched it journey upward
-Max and loosa aa a dead thing, now
raaping against the damp walla, now
quivering and turning round and round,
till it passed the first platform, far. far
bove it, I saw the faint gleam, from the
pot where the men were gathered. At
last it disappeared from sight, and I
knew that, if life lasted, George Redruth
waa saved!
Then I clambered on the ledge beside
any uncle, who waa still lying jn the same
tosition, with bia head leaning back
gainst the dripping wall. I took his
bands in mine, and pressed them eagerly.
A I did ao, I aaw, to my horror, that
the breast of his mining shirt waa sat ur
eter with blood, that hia face waa ghast
ly white, and that there waa on hia lipa
light atain of red.
"Are you hurt?" I said, with my lipa
close to bis ear.
"I doubt my back be broke. A lump
' rock fell on me aa I were carrying
jrouog master here."
Gently and tenderly, I aecured the
rope around him, but he moaned with
pain aa I raised him to launch him up
ward. Aa the rope tightened, he uttered
cry of agony. However, it waa too
late to avoid the ri.-k. and it waa the last
chance.
Supporting him in my arms aa long
a possible, I k.iw him drawn upward.
When bia full weight fell upon the rope
bia agony grew terrible, and I think he
fainted away; for be hung In the air
like a dead man. I watched hiui rise
lowly.
The rope stood the teat, and he waa
drawn safely up the abyss. After a long
Interval, during which I waited in sick
ening terror, with the waters thunder-
lug and the rocks quaking around me,
the rope again desceaded. I secured it
under my arm-pita, and, giving the aig
risl, waa drawn upward.
tMVildly and joyfully, the men aurround
4a, almost kissing me in their rapture at
any reappearance. I looked around for
George Redruth. He had recovered from
bia fsintness, they aaid, and had been
belped by two of the men op to the
mouth, of the mine. But lying on the
tlalform, hia head supported on Michael
1'eumaur'a knee, waa my uncle, white
nd bleeding, like a man whose time bad
come.
I knelt by hia aide, and took hia hand,
lie looked up into my face; and I aaw
that hia eyea were filmy and dim. The
ir of the mine, even up there, waa fetid
and foul, and I aaw that be breathed
with difficulty.
"Hugh, my lad!" he said, faintly.
"Come close I want to whisper to 'ee.
Can you forgive me?'
"Forgive you?" I cried, greatly moved.
"What have I to forgive r
"Listen, lad. and Til tell Ve!"
"Yea," I answered, fairly sobbing
'Tut down your head and listen. I be
dying, aure enough, and afore I die I
want to ha' your forgiveness. They
would ha' hung Ve, lad, for what I did
"fwii I that killed the overseer!"
f had guessed aa much, but when the
truth came from my uncle's own lipa,
I atarted in horror. He clutched my
band, aa if fearing tbat I would shrink
way.
" 'Twer
face. When I looked np again, I aaw
George Redruth and hia mother standing
near me, and with them Madeline.
"Trelawney," the young master aaid,
"this ta a and affair. Well, 1 owe you
my life."
"No, sir," I replied. "You owe your
life to the poor martyr lying yonder, and
he
you know best what cause be bad to
lovs you!"
With an Impatient exclamation,
turned away.
"Come, mother! Come, Madeline! You
see how this fellow hatea me. I would
gladly own my debt to him, but It la u
lesa. Perhaps, when he Is cooler, he will
permit me to be of service to him. If
uot why, I cannot help It! Come!"
Mother and son walked alowly away,
but Madeline did not stir. She remained
where she had beeu, with her gentle eyes
fixed on me. George Itedruth turned aud
raw her.
"Come, Madeline," he cried; "we are
not wanted here."
"I think 1 am wanted," she replied.
"Mr. Trvlawney, shall I go?"
And as she spoke she held out both
her bands to me with a loving gesture. I
looked at her in wonder. Then auddenly
the whole meaning of her attitude dawn
ed upon me, and taking her hands with a
joyful cry, I drew her to my bosom.
Tale and trembling, George Itedruth
returned and confronted us.
'Madeline, what doea this mean?"
'It means that I have found my love
where you found your life, in the anus
of this brave man!"
all on account o' my Annie,
my poor little laaa. We met out on the
Cliff beyant the mine, and he said sum
mat that made me murdering mad. He
aid ahe were bad; aud afore I had time
to think, I struck at 'un wi' my knife!
Then he staggered back 'twere
on Hie very edge of the crag s
nd the earth seemed to give way under
liim, and be went o'er screaming he
went o'er to his death, on the rock be
low. That waa how it cam' about! I
didn't mean to kill 'un, but 'twere done
like a flash o' lightning and the next
naming the next maniitig
they found un lying, dead and
Moody, on the shore."
"May God forgive you!" I murmured,
till bending over bim.
Ilia eyea were fixed on vacancy, hia
band clutched mine like a vice. Hudden
ly he leant forward, drew hie baud from
mine, and pointed.
"See there!" he cried. "Tie hlsself
II bloody, and beckoning wi' hia finger.
And wlia be that standing by 'un, all in
white? Annie! Annie, my lass! apeak
le father! apeak to speak to father!"
The last word died away In hia throat,
where It met the death rattle; there waa
struggle, t last convulsion, and b fell
back like a lump of lead.
e
I think I too must have loat my sense
fur time. The next thing I remsml
was standing in the open sir, ana stag
leering like drunken man, with kindly
rma aupporllng me on either side. An
kclted crowd of women and men sur
rounded me; and close by, the dead body
of my uncle lay In the sunlight, with
Annie and my sunt bending over It and
bitterly weeping.
I tank down upon t rock, and hid my
CHAPTER XXXI.
Thua it came to pate that I, Hugh
Trelawney, a man of the people, became
the accepted lover of Madeline Graham.
Looking back at it all now, after a lapse
of so many years, it still aeema an in
credible thing, unreal and viaionary; but
raising my eyea from the paper whereon
these lines are written, I see beside me
the aweet assurance that it la true.
Love la by nature selfish; and In the
first flush of my new joy I almost forgot
the sorrow in my poor home. But when
I quitted my darling, and joined the lKtle
procession which followed my poor uncle
across the heath, I reproached myself for
having felt ao happy.
. The miner had procured a . rude
stretcher, often used when accident took
place in the mine, and the dead body waa
laid upon it, with a cloak thrown lightly
over it, to hide the piteous disfigured
face set In Its sad gray hair; but one
hand hung uncovered, and this hand An
nie held, aa we walked alowly homeward,
four of the men carrying the load. I fol
lowed, helping my aunt, who waa simply
heartbroken.
"God baa taken him!" I aaid, solemn
ly. "He ia happy now."
"Ay, happy wi' God," sobbed my aunt.
"Forty year we ha' dwelt together l this
house, and he ne'er gave me angry look
or crass word. He be gswn, where I'll
soon gsng too. W alt for me, my bonuie
man, wait for me wait for her that
lovea 'ee, and is coming to 'ee soon!"
W hy ahould I linger over this scene
of sorrow, why ahould I turn to other
scenes which followed It? Time and
Death have healed all those wounds; to
speak of tbein is to opea them again.
A year after the flooding of the mine
and the death of John I'endragon, I mar
ried Madeline Graham. The ceremony
took place quietly In London, whither
we had gone together; and when it waa
over we apent a brief honeymoon abroad.
One spring morning, in a hotel by the
lake of Geneva, I read In the paper an
announcement that filled my heart with
surprise and pain. It waa an advertise
ment of the approaching sale by auction
of Redruth House, St. Gurlott'a, Corn
wall
A abort time before tnis the mining
company bad passed into liquidation,
and l knew that George Redruth waa a
ruined man. Little or no communication
had passed between the cousins, but.
when the crash came, Madeline, with my
full consent and sympathy, had written
to ber aunt, offering her a considerable
portion of ber fortune for George Red
ruth'a use and benefit. This offer had
been refused. The next thing we had
heard waa tbat mother and son were
living together in London, and closely
following on tbat bad come the news of
the mother's death, an event which filled
my darling with no little distress. To the
last Mr. Redruth had refused to forgive
ber niece, whom alie unjustly held re
sponsible for all the misfortuuea which
bad fallen upon ber son.
I ahowed my darling the newspaper.
and we forthwith determined to Journey
down to Cornwall. Thua It happened
that, ahout a week later, we arrived In
St. Gurlott'a, where we found 'Annie and
my aunt, ready to receive u at the old
cottage. I then ascertained that George
Redruth had left England for America,
where be intended to remain. Annie, who
wa my Informant, told me that before
leaving the village be bad sought ber out
to say farewell.
"And, oh, Hugh," she cried, "he asked
for my forgiveness, and I forgave him,
with all my heart. I think, if I had
wished It, be would have taken me witb
bim as bia wife."
"You did not wish It?"
She shook her head sadly.
Within another year a fresli company
wa formed lor the mine, with llugn
Trelawney, Esq., a projector and chief
owner; large auma were expended In the
Improvement which, If carried out,
would long before have aaved the con
cern; the aea waa gently persuaded to
yield up possession; and before long the
old mine wa flourishing prosperously, a
source of prosperity to sll concerned in
It, slid of blessing to th whole popula
tlon.
Another fact remains to be chronicled.
We bought Redruth House, and It be
came our noma. There my aunt ana
Annie joined us. dwelling happily with
us, till, In due season, my aunt died. An
pie lived on, and atlll Uvea, a pensive,
gracious woman, full of ons overshadow
Ing memory, and devoted to our cbll
dren. The last time ahe heard of George
Itedruth. be was a weIlto-d merchant,
living In the West -
Thus, through the goodness of God, I
remained In the old home, able to help
tkoec woe In time of a4 had helped
Those I'aed la Pennsylvania. BUt
Qaarrlea Have iHsmind la. Them.
Probably the moat expensive saw In
use anywhere In the world are those
lu the factories of Pennsylvania,
where various article are manufac
tured of slate. In one of the fac
tories there are 3tW borttontal aaww,
twelve feet In length, each of which U
furnished with seventy-five cutting
diamonds, each aaw being worth
fo.OtO. The slate land which furnishes
the material for thee costly saws to
work upon wa once ao little valued
that the tract npon which the famous
Chapman quarry tu Pennsylvania la
situated was sold for a pint of whis
ky. Its subsequent owner have
taken millions of dollar from the
land.
The most valuable slate deposits In
the world are- found lu the central and
eastern parts of Pennsylvania. In the
nelghlorhood of the Pennsylvania
quartiea there are houses "whose walls
are entirely of slate. The blocks of
which they are made are smoothly
suved, and are certainly most substan
tial. When slate Is blnswd lu the
quarries the rough slabs are taken to
the shanties of the "splitters." Th
stone forma naturally the layers, aud
the "splitter." following the grain or
"ribbon" with bis large cblsel, aepar-
ates the Mocks Into strip. Then these
strips are passed through a trimming
machine, where by the Mow of
heavy knife they are tut Into reetangu
lar "shingles." Then they are plied
up Into "square," ready to be used for
roofing purpose.
When slate is cut up for use In other
ways the procedure differs. The huge
horizontal saw, with Its scores of dia
monds. In the factory, la called Into
play; It Is lowered upon one of the
blocks of slate by a ratchet at the rate
of a quarter of an Inch a minute. The
aaw would cut through Iron or eteel at
the same rate. The workmen play a
stream of water upon the slate to keep
It cooL and wash the dust from the
cut. After the sawing the block la
planed by being moved back and forth
by machinery under a firmly flxed
chlseL It Is afterward polished, ranch
aa marble and granite are. Tbe value
of the slate quarries runs Into the mill
ions. Philadelphia Ledger.
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A Hl'MCNlXll) KIOAT QV ARMS.
One of the moat splendid feata of anna In the present war In the Eaat waa the battle of Kln-Chau. In which
;he Japanese charged and captured the helghta held by the Russians, thereby establishing their place among tbe
foremost uilltary people of the world. The height were atrongly fortified and were deemed practically Impregna
ble. Nevertheless the Japanese, after alleuclng artillery Are, carried them by the Iwyonet, driving th Russian
from the trenches and sending them n quick retreat toward Port Arthur. Our Illustration Is from the Illustrated
London News.
Animal Characteristics.
"Most animals are afraid of Ore, and
will fly from It In terror," say a mem
ber of the fli-e department. "To other
there Is a fascination about a flame,
and they will walk Into It, even though
tortured by the heat. Some of tbe men
were talking the other day about the
conduct of animals during a fire. A
burse In a burning stable, they agreed.
was wild with fear, but a dog wa as
cool In a Are as at any other time. A
dog keeps his nose down to the floor,
where the air la purest, and sets him
self calmly to finding his way out. Cat
In fires howl plteously. They hide
their face from the light and crouch
In corners. When their rescuer lift
them tbey are, a a rule, quite docile
and subdued, never biting or scratch
ing. Birds em to be hypnotized by
lire aud keep perfectly still; even the
loquacious parrot In a fire has nothing
to say. Cows, like dogs, do not show
alarm. They are easy to lead forth,
and often find their way ont thein
slves. Rodents seem never to have
any difficulty In escaping from Ares."
Washington Star.
SAILING.
Wind and wave and gold-washed weath
er,
Wind fling loose and wave aet free;
She and I aloue together
Sailing on a sapphire sea.
Clang and clamor of th crowded
City street is hesrd no more;
Only billows, foam enshrouded
Freighting music to tbe shore!
Sail full blown and sloop prow flinging
Floods of song on elrhsr aids:
White gulls in the wide blue winging
Gipsiss of th roving tids!
Peaks afar that know the splendor
Of the sunsvt'a waste of wins;
Twilight sky grown strangely tender
Liks the eyes that look in mio.
Lealle'a Monthly.
Body Acta a a Mag-net.
Professor Muratil, a distinguished
Italian scientist. Bays that certain per
sons possess a atrunge magnetic or
electric! Influence, which produces curl-
oua results. A few days ago while at
work on some electrical experiment,
one of bis friends suddenly entered
the room, and at the Hume moment the
needle of hia galvanometer moved to
and fro very rapidly. He was sure
that his friend bid In one of bis pock
et either a magnet or some other
electrical Instrument, and in order to
convince him that he waa mistaken
hia friend removed all hia clotbea. To
the professor's surprise the galvano
meter continued to act Just as if a
powerful magnet waa near It, and tha
closer bis friend approached tbe more
marked Its action became. Moreover,
the front of the body acted en It In tho
aame manner aa the positive pole of a
magnet and the back a a negative
pole.
A Uriah: Correspondence,
Mrs. Lamson waa saying an affec
tionate and tearful farewell to her
husband, aa ahe was about to itart for
a month's visit to her old home.
Now, my dear," said Mr. Lamson,
In a pleasant but Arm tone, "I wish
you would try not to ask me for money
every time you write."
"Well, I will try not to," said Mra.
Lamson, wiping ber eyea, "but you
you know, Henry, that means I shall
have to write even ofteuer than
usuaL"
Curious Surgical Operation.
The report of a curious surgical
operation cornea from Dresden, where
a young girl loat tbe third Anger on
her left hand. A surgeon removed a
toe from her left foot and transplanted
It to her hand, where It has grown
and she use It like a Anger. She will
probably be brought to this country
soon, and will play the piano In large
concert at 15 a minute, and all Amer
lea will go to hear her.
No Auto There.
The canton of Valala, Url and Grl
ons, Switzerland, hav prohibited
automobUlng within their tarrltortaa.
A New Cinderella
?ACK BEUK.fSON caught atght of
-jj hT as he wa going to the omee
after lunch. He frequently caught
sight of her. but thi wa the extent
of their acquaintance. Ho bad groan
ed more than once to think convention
ality forbade a more extended one.
She wa not the kind of a girl wim
whom one might scrape up a bowing
recognition, to be later elaborated into
. . . . , .. . . .
an Intercuange or commouym;w uai
might culminate In permission to call.
Indeed, If she had been, it la are to
couclude Berenaen would not cave
troubled W bead about her, for be
bad a aoclal poaltlon to maintain, a
good deal of personal pride and more
than the average sense of exclualve
nea. "Hallo!" be aaid, audilenly, and atop
ped abort.
Tbe girl ahead bad paused. She wa
evidently in some predicament, for she
stooped a though to extricate herself
jr to pick up an article dropped. Al
most at the same lnatant, however, a
tremendous dray, piled with boxes,
bore down upon her, and at the about
of the driver, who waa etrlvlng to
rein In his huge Percherona, she
sprang toward safety and reached the
aidewalk.
Berenaon let the dray pass. Ixxjklng
down directly on the spot where the
Hlrl had beMtated, he saw that which
bad arrested her, and bending quickly.
he pulled out of the thick, black, atlcky
mud an absurdly small rubber, with
tU wrinkles holding tbe arch of a high
little In ate.
"Well!" be ejaculated, "here a luck!
h felt ridiculously elated. So
Dleaaed did he look, in fact, that,
friend Jostling him aa ne reacnea uie
oppoalte sidewalk remarked his satis
faction.
"Wheat gone up, Berenwon?"
jjorubbert" laughed Berenaon.
And bia friend walked off, wondering
what there wa In Ashing footwear out
of the mire to make a fellow look so
Idiotically pleased.
it waa mighty muddy, too!" be
commented disgustedly.
Tbda accusation could not be made
against It an hour later, cleanwed and
poHsbed to the highest possible degree
br the man who kept tne anoeatana in
the office building where Berenaon had
suite. He took Ms prise upstairs,
and deposited It, wrapped In tlasue pa
per, on tha top of his desk.
Then he sauntered to tne window
to look over at tne skyscraper across
the way, where at a certain window
In a certain tier, be bad often seen
certain bead. It waa a shapely head,
ringleted aa cloae as a baby's with
sunny brown curls. Indeed, ao fre
quently of lata had be gone to bia own
casement to discover If that partlcu
lar bonnle head and roae-leaf face
were within range of hia vision that
bia traatneM began to suffer from such
erratic absence.
Not that Jack Berenaon waa bother
Ing himself about business. During
those mlnote be stood, absorbed
day dreama, staring apparently at the
uninteresting wall of an uninteresting
building, he waa Chinking for the moat
part how atrange It waa that he, who
had come gaily up the road of life,
heart whole and fancy free, until he
had reached hia thirtieth milestone,
ahould all at once be beset by th
moat chimerical hopes, the moat fu
tile dealrea, tha most glorioua of cha
otic Imagining.
It waa lunacy, be told himself
atark, staring lunacy that he ahould
go on hia way with a bounding heart
and a feeling of tbe most senarlca
exhilaration, just because he had pass
ed a girlish figure on tbe aidewalk,
met tbe Indifferent glance of violet,
black-lashed eyea, looking forth from
beneath a white brow, or ranght the
faint, elusive perfume of ber demure
garment. And tbe worat of It was
that he could not bring himself to be
Indignant with himself for being audi
a fool!
"You like to be a fool!" he told him
self angrily, "You're huggtug your fol
ly! And much good It will do you!
You've not got enough sense. Jack Be
renaon, to laat a craiy man till break-
fa at timer
With which Anal ahot he waa apt to
break away from bia vigil, return
sternly to hi desk and plunge Into
work until until he began to wonder
If alie might have returned to her chair
In the window, or by any chance be
going out Though whether out or In,
there had aeemed alight chance of
making ber acquaintance before Kate,
In tbe guise of a treacheroua atreet
rossing, had placed a belonging of
ber In his possession.
But when be had sallied forth with
hia prize bis courage almost failed
bim. And when the elevator man let
him off at the eighth Aoor, aa bidden.
It waa an insane desire to make bia Im
mediate escape by way of the atalr-
case tbat overwhelmed him. But he
pulled himself together and went to
ward tbe suite of doctor' officea,
which he knew occupied that particu
lar angle of the big building. Pome of
the physicians whose namea were In
scribed on the tablet In tbe corridor
were friend of hi.
Hope I don't run Into Norton, or
Rchrlener, or Maclntyre," he said.
Hope I don't."
But he did all three of them. They
and a few of their professional asso
ciates had met In the reception room
previous to attending a medical con
vention In a body. It aeemed to poor
Berenaon, standing helplessly In the
doorway with bia package In hia hand,
that the place was packed with eyea
curious. Inquisitive, mocking eyes!
But a few voices called ont pleasant'
ly enough, ' allo bow d ye do. Be
renson.?" And Maclntyre came for
ward with a smile that made hia ugly
countenance quite charming.
"Your the young lady" stammer
ed Jack. He held out the package
much aa though It were a letter of In
troduction. "Bhe loat this, and "
Oh, I see!! The doctor turned hast
lly. "Miss Meredith!" be called.
A girl the girl came from an ad
Joining room. Hhe looked lovelier than
ever without her hat and coat Her
soft green gown Atted ber aa Its
heath Ate a Aower. And the pretty,
bewildered look In her eyea made
them look more than ever like violet
atari.
Berenaon knew then how a man felt
who perform a deed of daring In the
cannon' mouth,
"I waa behind yon thla noon," be be
gan, "and when yon loat this"
"Oh, thank you!" ahe Interrupted,
comprehending at once, and taking the
offered bundle. "You were tery kind
to bring It to met"
"Vera," Maclntare said, "let me In.
troduca to you Mr. Berenaon. You
have often heard Alice mention him, I
am aure.. Jack thla la Mlaa Meredith
my wife's sister!" And then as they
bowed be went by way of explanation,
"Vera baa been looking after callers
at the officea here during the laat alx
months. Rhe would work you know
what girl are!"
Jack didn't know, but he mentally
decided to remain Ignorant do longer,
He would remedy bia deficiencies In
thla respect as soon aa possible, at
least aa far aa thla one bewitching
maiden waa concerned. And be vowed
that be had never before guessed what
a thoroughly delightful chap Macln
tyre waa until he beatd the latter say
ing before be went off with hi friend:
"Ob, I say, Hereupon! Come to din
ner to-morrow night quite Informal,
you know. Rig o'clock. Alice will be
mighty glad to aee yon!"
Jack looked doubtfully Into the vio
let eyea.
There wa a smile In them, though
the lipa were aweetly aetioua,
"III corner promised Jack fervently.
He wrung hia frlend'a hand vigorously
In the ardor of hia friendship. "Ixird,
yea, I'M come!"
And be said to himself aa he strode
back to the office, with hia bead In a
whirl, that It might not be quit ao
romantic to And a rubber In Chicago
mud aa a allpper on a ballroom floor,
but Hi at It baa its-possibilities! It
would aerve! -Kan Francisco Call.
WOMEN MAKE PAPER MONEY.
Km Osldas at Hams of Kugrsviag
ad I'rtntlonaT sre UlrU,
The government and the bank, and
even the postofllcea, would be In a
hole for a time If all the women In
the bureau of engraving and printing
ahould drop dead all at once. That
abop would have to close up pretty
quick. Why, you can't even go over
there and look around without a worn-
n to show you. All the guide to the
bureau for the benefit of tourlat and
other Ignorant people which Include
II Washington people, for Washing
ton people are the moat Ignorant peo-
e on earth about Waahlngton InaUtu-
tlone ail the guide, and there are
even of them, are women, young wom
en and pretty women at that
And how tbe people do vlalt therel
Three thousand a week, aaid a aulde.
That' 5)0 a day. And that's one a
minute for every working hour of th
day. Pretty constant stream of caller
that.
Not ao many years ago three decrepit
old men were the guide. Now tha
seven are women, which Is significant
and one Uiat typifies the work dona 1n
the bureau, for here, of tbe 8,000 em
ployes, more than half are of th fem
inine persuasion.
These young and good-looking guide
will explain how American money la
printed on the back, then put In cold
storage, where It goes through a dry
ing process; then sorted and tha Im
perfect aheeta thrown out; then print,
ed on the face, and than perforated and
put up In packagea to be sent to tha
treasury for the government aeal.
They generally tell how u soles It
would be for any one to try to rob
the wagon containing thla money. In
the first place, because alx guards al-
way accompany It; and, In the aee-
ond place, because the money at till
stage of Ita manufacture wouldn't ba
any good, anyway.
"It Is seven days after a bill la print-
ed on Its back before It la printed on
th face." aaid thi vUltor'a guide. "It
takes thirty day to make a allver dol
lar bill, and forty to mak a gold one.
Tbe gold one la printed three tlmss,
twlca on on aid, because It has to
have the word 'gold' and a little aploteh)
of gold on this aide be for tha face can
be printed."
Then ahe led tha visitor to tha
framed dollar bill fastened to one of
tha walls In tha ball, and showed these
bill, calling special attention to tho
gold certificate, and than led tha way
back to tha front door and aaid adieu.
It waa all o. v In Un minute. Waah
lngton Poat
Balirroff a Kentriss.
A renneylvanla fisherman baa dis
covered that bullfrog aet aa aentrtea
to fish, and that It la nselesa to try tm
catch base when a deep-volced bellows
Ing frog I watching.
Women live longer than men bacaaasa
they bar ao oua to talk them U
death.