The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 05, 1890, Image 7
m .
RESURGAM.
Vt MRS. J. V. H. KOON8.
In the garden of the god?'ilong
the flowers and poppy pods.
Wandered Prospeiiue.
Pluto, from his throne of night,
6aw the virgin pure and bright.
rMad witb love's hot wine,
Seized her in her happiness,
Bore her in a strong caress
To his dark abyss.
Spirit, fresh from fields of light,
What couldst thou iu mornloss night
Feed of life or bliss*/
How, on that pomegranate seed,
Couldst thy loftv nature feed,
Lady, yu-eu of Dis?
Brave witb lovo of laughing yoars,
Wild witb buriiing wine of tears,
lyoue. uitreconcilol.
Armed with flaming brand of truth,
Thro' the haunts of age and youth,
Ceres sought her child.
Fonnd; but, oh, most cruel fate,
Those who enit-r Pluto's gate
Never know return I
Wilder now her anguish grew,
Proserpiuo should learn
That her priacoly palace Joor
Opened then and evermore,
Once in every year.
Joy of hope 1 Oh, hope of joy I
Works of love tho hours employ,
Music lills 1 ho car.
Light, the mystic lcck at last,
Touches, wintor days have past,
Ceroa claim* her own
Half the year. While l'lutonow,
Those who bring a goldou bjugh
Unto Proserpine,
Welcome gives ami liberty
Subterranean caves to soo,
Upward tbon to rise.
Old, yet now. tho talo unfolds,
Hope the yearning spirit holds
s That reaches to tha skies.
And all tho oarth with glory tills.
Hope, that dawned ou sacred hills
Around .lornsnlctn.
And crystallized into a fa'th
In that grand Heart ot Nar.aroth,
The Star of Bethlehem 1
A SONC OF PLEASURE.
At, mo I for tho snows of winter;
And oh! for tho wiuds of Mavcn,
The crocus in the garden,
A Lid tae whorl upon the larch.
There has been no timo for mourning,
There is a!l time now for mirib,
In the sweo: fair face of heaven
^ A >d tho doav close face of earth.
There is laughter in tho snowflake,
V The wind sings a roundelay,
And the preen, groen grass is luscioui
In tho i.fo of a summer day.
Then ah I for tho snows of wintor,
\ And oh I for the winds of March,
; The crocus in the garden.
And the whorl upon me larch.
-i*-Scribiier'a
LOLA PULASKI;
? OR ?
The Victim of Circumstaaf
tial Evidence.
t
) <4 Story of Nihilistic Fiottings and Crimes,
^ BY LEON EDWARDS.
i CllAPTER XXXII.
r THE BOMBS.
Ivan Berger hacl already learned of
I the arrest of General Paul. Indeed,
all St. Petersburg rang with the news
of this arbitrary act.
The citizens spoke about it with
uppivsaed indignation, and even tho
tni tln>ir t--ot.1i as flipv wliis
uered to each other the disgrace that
nad bei'allen their idol.
Ah, if all the people could liavo
shouted out their feelings that day, it
k would have b^en better for the freedom
and the future of Russia, and it
ou'tIi have made the throne of the
' .czars mure secure bv making it more
? 'iberal.
p ' But fear struck t'no people dumb,
L and an exaggerated confidence in his
L -unlimited power made the autocrat
W -confident.
i As Ivan hurried along the streets,
r Jbe suddenly and unexpectedly found
I -himself face to face with his mothei
I and his beautiful lister, Elizabeth.
Even their loving eyes could not Bee
through his masterly disguise, and
iV . ..IT 1 J 1-^.1 I. - jl
wiey wou:u nave passeu on nau ne nut,
with marvelous presence of mind and
'toe skill of a born actor, touched his
hat, and said, in the -whispering tone
which beggars &o skillfully assume:
"Charity, ladies; charity for a pool
crippled soldier that lost his arm fightling
under the gallant General Bergei
gainst the Turcomans in Asia."
The ladies stopped, and Elizabeth
waked:
' j\lv poor fellow, did you know General
JLkger?"
uAs well as I know myself; and ]
knew his son, Ivan. I know him now.
If you promise to m&ke no outcry, 1
will take yo x where ho is at this moment."
"We shall make no outcry. ?ee,
Sood man, we are very calm," said
[adame Berger, concealing her agitaI
tion with an eflbrt. UI am Ivan lJer(
ger'3 mother; he has provoked the displeasure
of the Czar, but he is the noblest
of sons. This young lady is his
Bister. Tell us where we can meet him
f without danger, and. although we are
/|>oor, we shull pay you to the best ol
.' J our ability."
"Ivan Berber is forced, for his own
~J protection, to go in disguise; if 1
jr ghould take you to him, you would
make an outcry and try to embrace
? him, so bringing peril to him and yourselves."
* "No, no. We are very calm," said
Elizabeth. "Only let us see him, and
we shall not even try to speak with
him."
"Kppn vniir nromisft and vnn pan
J- J V 1 1 / ~?
apeak with him."
r "Where?"
"Hero."
"But we do not see him," said
Madamo Berger, looking eagerly about
1 her.
"Mother! Sister! lam Ivan! There,
be calm. So?, I am safe. In a few
days I may be free. I shall be here at
the same time to-morrow. May Heaven
guard and bless you, mother and Elizabeth-"
"With this, spoken in his natural
f voice, Ivan raised his hat to the ladies,
and on the instant turned and walked
on ia his character of a crippled sol|
dier.
Before he had seen his mother, his
strong feeling of humanity so led him
to deplore the dangers that threatened
*i.h9 life of t> e Czar, that he would
[ have saved him if he could.
But now, as he recalled the infamous
wrongs his own dear ones had suffered
at the hands of the tvranfc; a? he realr
izo<? that ho wa? himself a fugitive,
with a price wi on his head; as he pic* j
tared to him.-;e]f the suflerings of Lola
Tulaski, the smoldering fir js of hate
y in hi3 heart blamed up again with volk
canic fierceness, and he hissed between
jr his set teeth:
"Cnrse the Czar, and ctirse all the
Ehoose of Romanoff! ' May the brave
sons of liberty, who have doomed him
io death, destroy him, life and limb,
with the first bomb, as the lightning
blaato the oak*1'"
ne went to the Neva prison?or
rather to a point from which he^ could
look at the gloomy pile, with here and
there a little grated window that resembled
the embrasured in a fortress? , i
jv5ri.
and he wondered, as he walked back
and forth, if Lola was in a position
from which she could see him.
After a time he wont into the little
wine vault nearly under the prison
walls, nnd where, it will be remembered,
he met Maux on a former occaeion.
The proprietor was a Nihilist, and
knew Ivor.
jne p:ace was a favorite rendezvous
for the most desperate section of the
Nihilists; men who delighted to call
themselves "The Brjtherhood of
Death."
"What news, my brother?"asked the
J proprietor of the wine vault, as he
cirew Ivan into a recess at the further
2nd of the apartment.
' Do you expect news?" was the replv.
"By ?St. Isaac, yes, ami good news,
too. ' Why. I thonght you were in the
band that to-day rids Russia of the
tyrant."
* "I was not drawn."
' No; but when t bore is such work
on hand the son of General Birgei i
should be the first to volunteer.
Have your nerves weakened now that
the ordeal hascouie? You are cold;
take a glass of brandy, and it will
rekindle the fires in your heart, and
y arm you up," said the man, motioning
to the slielf on which ho kept hie
liquors.
"No, my friend, I want no stimulant.
I do not know why I came here, unless
it was in hopos that you might
have seen some of the turnkeys, and
that you might be able to tell me in
what part < t the prison Lola Pulaski
is," said Ivan.
"Which is the stronger impulse?
Tr\TTn r\-r rovnnnrn9 Ymi lifltTA floHA
perate things in that prison, my frit'ml,
and you would do still more desperate
things to free liev. Put it is impossible."
"Thou von bavo learned something ;
about her?" said Ivan, eagerly.
"I have."
"What is it ?"
"Lola Pulaski nnd General Paul are I
now in the quarters of the exiles." j
"In the quarters of the exiled ?" re
peated Ivan.
"ifos."
"Then they are condemned to Siberia
V"
"Condemned to Siberia!"
"My God!"
"Condemned to Siberia." continued
tlxe man. "Count Linwold has drawn j
up the order; of this I have positive!
information from our friends in the i
Count's ollice."
"L*ut the Czar has not signed the '
order?"
"He has not, my brother; bat, should |
j he live to reach his palace, that will he
among his first acts. Now you understand
the situation V
"I do, I do," groaned Ivan.
"You see both sides V"
"Both sides! What do you mean?"
"I mean, my brother,that if the Czar
lives, the wuuiau you love will be banished
to Siberia. If the Czar die to-day,
she*will be free. Mark my words, sho
will be free."
This was said with intense earnestness.
"Why do you think so?"
"Because it has ever been a. custom
in Russia to roleaso all political prisoners
whose sentences have not been
signed by the royal hand, whenever an
Emperor dies. It was so whoa Nicholas
went to his grave, and Alexander succeeded
him.
"Nicholas was bad, but he had a
heart; this man has neither brain nor
heart. But do not tarry here! If you
would strike the Mow, now is your
time, for the opportunity will never
come again!" said the keeper of the
wine vault, and hy motioned Ivan to
the door.
With a feeling of savage desperation
in his heart, Ivan ran out, and at once
retraced his stops to the point where
he had left the conspirators.
He blamed himself f'?r his timidity.
From looking upon tho proposed assassination
with horror, liis feelings so
changed, that now ho felt the destruction
of the tyrant would be the most
praiseworthy act in liiatory.
He forgot his own wrongs for the
moment, in thinking uf Lola Pula?ki's
danger. ,
To save her from the fate that '
threatened her he counted lite as noth- 1
ing. i
As he hurried on. lie nude up h.s ;
mind to lind Manx, iui.I to procure
from him a number of lire fatal bombs.
As he was crossing a street, a sleigh,
rriat was tiein'g rapTlIy driven, Would ; (
have run over him l.iul not the driver
pulled suddenly up. ,
The occupant of the sleigh was the
Countess hlviru Linwo'd.
She saw and rccognized the oneirnied
soldier, ha-.* called him to her.
4"You are the man," she said, when
[van appeared, hat in hand, beside the
ilcigh, "you are the ma:i who once bore
me a note."
"I had that honor, my lady."
"And voukaow Colonel Michael Orloff?"
"I do, my lady."
"Could you find him this evening?"
"If you desiro it. my lady."
''I do desire it." She produced a
note and a gold coin, and, Landing
both to Ivan, she continued: "Keep
the money, and give Colonel Orloff the
note."
"I shall do so, my lady."
"And you will be sure not to hand
him the note in the presence of
another?"
"Yes, my lady."
"Good; do thi< work faithfully, and
in the future you shall w uit for neither '
money nor employment."
Ivan bowed obsequiously, and the j
lady motioned to tin: astonished driver, I
who at once started hi* horses off atj j
that dashing, reckh sa speed that i* one j
of the many privileges of Russian nobles
iu the great metropolis.
There was that in the manner of the
Countess Elvira Linwold that 'jed Ivau
to believe that the letter which she had
intrn3ted to him was of more than
usual importance.
He kr?ew that Colonel OrlefF 1
this woman's lover. { i
He further knew that Colonel Orloff ]
was a Nihilist, who had joined the j ]
order to seek revenge ou the few rather | '
than to work far the liberty of the '
many.
Ivan had nover liked Colonel Orloff;
dow he hated him, and something told (
him that tho letter then in his posses- 1
sion contained some damning proof of (
the man's treason and perfidy, and that
tho daughter of Count Linwold waa '
associated with him in his villainies. 1
"I shall fight the devil with fire, and !
I won't deliver the letter at present'
this is how Ivan reasoned a* he hurried 1
on.
He waa within a hundred yards of
the place where he had left Maux and
tho others, two hours before, and he *
waa about to cress the street to join ?
sS&sk -
4
thorn, when he was brought to a halt
by the blare of trumpets around the
corner, that told the imperial coctege
was approaching, and which warned all
people not to attempt to cross the
street.
Ho drow back, but he could see the
Nihilists in a g:oup near the burned
building, the giant Maux standing on
the curb with a paper in his hand.
On came the advance guards, resplendent
in sieel and gold, but as they
turned the corner, the sun, which had
been shining brightly, dropped behind
a cloud.
On came other mounted men, and
passed where the Nihilists were standing.
On came the royal sleigh, with the
Czar still sitjing prondlv erect, and
evidently as secure as 11 "the seat of
tiiat sleiun were ins liirone.
With the fierce bound of a tiger, the
giant Maui leaped into the center of
the street, seized the bits of the
horses, and threw them back on their
haunches.
Then he sprang to the side of the
sleigh with his right hand upraised,
as he shouted:
"Oh, tyrant, who has slain so many,
thy hour of death has come."
As ho spoke, the bomb fell into the
sleigh aud exploded.
CHAPTER XXXIfl.
DEATH AND J-IBEUTT.
So sudden was the action of Maux,
the ex-recorder of the Neva Prison,
that the driver of the C/.ar's sleigh, and
the cavalcade of horsemen in front and
rear, could not surmise what had happened,
much less offer an v resistance to
the swarm of desperate men who
sprang forward on the explosion of the
first bomb.
The bomb shattered the sleigh to
piece*, but, wonderful t> relate, it did
not haim the principal occupant of the
vehicle.
Did the Czar tbiuk in that awful
moment of the myriad murders he had
himself porpetrated in the name of tlio
law?
Did a vision of the dead and dying
in Siberian mines flash across his
mind ?
Did he recall the warning given
him by Lola Pulaski that morning,
and the cruel way in which he had repnid
her?
No one can tell what lie thought; the
world knows how he acted.
Tyrants and monsters the men,
aye, and the women, too, of the houso
of Romanoff have ever been, but it
was never truthfully said that even
the meanest of them was a physical
coward.
The explosion of the bomb thrown
by Maux dashed the Czar from the
sleigh to the hard, snow-covered road,
bat in an instant he was on his feet,
with his fur mantle thrown aside, and
his hand on the jeweled hilt of his
sword.
ui*aok, traitors! murderers!" he
shouted, and with his tall form drawn
up, and his col.l eye< ablaze, he looked
for the instant like a hero.
But more daring and dosperate than \
the C/ar and all his followers were !
the men n-jw pressing forward to take j
his life.
They had struck one blow, > Mious- I
and other l?low3 could not add a whit
to their crime.
Quick a-;.the lightning's flash, every
Nihilist threw a.s;de his disguise and j
formed between the Czar and his j
guards.
"Oh, merciless, tyrant!" shouted old
George Nevski, "thy end has comol
? 11?- I I V-.4. -1. _ 1 1
irass irom uus wortu, uui \vu aiiau uw
with thee a3 accusers anil witnesses to
thy crimes before the great white
throne!"
"Liberty for the i>eople!" shouted
Lance.
"To death with all kings!"
"Brothers in Siberia, we arenge
you!"
A.s those cries rang out a raiu of
bombs fell about the great White Czar,
and the next instant the life-blood of
the Emperor crimsoned the snow.
{to be continued.]
IXTEnESTiNO statistics gathered by a
prominent English physician indicate
that consumption is very greatlv promoted
by a damp soil, and its presence
lias been abated, even to the extent of
10 per cent., where suitable drainage
lias been introduced. Researches of
afcher physicians, iiu-ludiug the wellknown
Dr. Bowditeh, of Massachusetts.
confirm this conclusion and determine
that the amount of moisture
fn the soil is a fair criterion of the proportion
of consumption among the
residents. Local causes are becoming
more and more disregarded, and the j
infectious nature of consumption is j
receiving increased attention from ,
hliTsiciaua.
A Scranton man who gives his attention
to raising pigeons says that the
only bigamist he has ever seen among
oigeons i3 a male now owned by him.
During the breeding season the bigamist
maintained two separate wives
and households, devoting just about na
mnch attention '.o one as to the other.
He helped raise the broods of each
female, and his affection for each was
equal. The double duty kept him very
busy, but he seemed to take pride in
having so much responsibility.
Wf. observe that somebody has been
writing to the Philadelphia Press to
inquire the names of the six most
famous diamonds in the world. It is
always wise when one is in search of
knowledge to apply to headquarters.
Why, then, did not this curious person,
instead of sending a letter to a
newspaper, address his query to some
representative hotel olerk of the period
?
I? k V 17 H 1 TP.1Y 13 a TTT1\ 1/>m A 1VIAV1. 1
;an. He commenced life as a news30y,
and was Postmaster General unJer
the administration of President
Arthur. He has been everything on a
lewspaper, from newsboy to editor,
jnd would rather be the editor of a
live newspaper than President of th?
Uusted States
Last year Germany granted only
1,921 patents, against England's 9,779, i
ind 20,420 in tbe United States.
THE ASSAY OFFICE.
HOW GOLD AND SIIA K11 OKI' IS
KEFINUD.
A Full Description of the Profess ami
the Instrumenth Used? $100.000,000
in Bullion in
One Koom.
Oil Wall street, to the easi of the massive
and imposing Sub-Treasury, stands
in odd building of white marble. Hush
with the street. In architec tural design
it resembles one of those colonial wooden
structures that are still to be seen in certain
parts of New England. Its staid
simplicity seems out of place, situated as
it is in the very ccntre of all financial activity.
The quiet elegance of its front is
in singular contrast with the rear of the
building, which is of brick, and built in
the style of an old Dutch burgomaster's
house.
SUPERINTENDENT MASON.
In this peculiar building on Wall
street is located the plaut of the United
States Assay Office, a branch of the Government
the importance of which cannot
be overestimated. It is the Mecca of all
the tourists aud sightseers who visit the
metropolis, aud its workings are matters
of the keenest interest to every government
of civilized people on the face of
the earth. Its tests, when officially announced,
stand in all parts of the world
without a challenge, and in the domain
of business, wherein the precious metals
hold much sway, its word is incontrovertible.
But if the famous old house is curious
/Mifai^n ifo vnrirms rlnn.irtmrmts within
VUW.XV, x
are still more so. Superintendent Mason,
who has been in charge of the
office almost since its inception, is the
authority for the statement that no photograplis
have ever been taken within its
walls. True, magazine articles have
been written about it, but the illustrations
used therein were simply sketches
taken here and there of some particular
objects upon which men were at work.
THE EOfLEIl DEPARTMENT.
Through Superintendent Mason's kindness,
however, the photographer of this
paper was allowed to take all the pictures
he wanted save one. In the Assay
Office, as in Bluebeard's palace, there is
one room into which the public must
not look through the medium of the
camera. Of course, that was the room
of which a photograph was most desired,
but Mr. Mason thought it best that it be
psssed. He thought it would be ill advised
to furnish enterprising burglars
with photographs of a room containing
over $100,000,000 in solid gold and
silver which is only protected by half a
dozen massive steel doors and a small
army of watchmen, fully armed. But
for the information of such as may con
template trying to force their way
into this impregnable stronghold, it
might be well to say that the bars of gold,
piled up like building stone in a wall,
are so heavy that they could not be
moved, if the opportunity to try to take
them away were allowed; so it is safe to
presume that they will remain where
they are, well guarded and in absolute
security, as they have been for thirty
years past.
TIIE ORE AT HYDRA CMC PRESS.
There was a quantity of Mcxican silver
bullion received at the Assay Office the
other day, aud its peculiar shape and the
size of the bars were such as to call forth
comment from those who handled it. The
bars, or slabs, were about twenty inches
long, au inch or more in thickness, and
eight inches wide. Each of the bars was
curved like a barrel stave. This pecularity
in sjiape, Mr. Graham of the
weiirhinir room said, was to facilitate the
packing of the bullion on the backs of
burros. The bars contained silver and
gold in unequal weights. They were
very heavy, some of them weighing eight
or nine kilogrammes. The process of refining
and assaying this metal is an interesting
one.
Iu the weighing room, which is in
charge of Mr. Graham, stand an immense
pair of scalcs, towering up to a height of
perhaps ten feet and stretching out their
gigantic arms fully as far laterally. The
scalcs, although immense in size, are so
delicate that they will accurately weigh
1 -100th of an ounce or 10,000 ounces.
Alter the silver bars had been weighed j
tiiey were taken to a number of furnaces
in another department, where the weight
of silver was added to half its weight of
gold, making a mixture of cne-thirdgold
and two-thirds silver. When iu a molten
state the workmen drew forth the white
hot crucibles from the furnaces, dipped
into them with a shallow ladle, and with
a deft twist of the hand tossed the
molten metal into vats filled with water.
So expert are these men in this work
that the metal, when removed from the
water tanks, is in thin, curly shavings,
much like the turnings from a lathe.
After the silver and gold shavings, if
such they may be called, have been allowed
time to cool they are taken to the
top of the building, in the rear, where
the boiling vats are located. They are
great cauldrons of copper, set in masonry,
and contain perhaps, forty or fifty gallons
of a solution of sulphuric acid. The
metal shavings are placed in these boiling
cauldrons in proper quantity and
boiled for a long time. Then the decoction,
which is of a bright bluish-green,
is syphoned off to vats on the floor below,
where it is put through another and another
boiling until it has been thoroughly
cooked seven times. Then it is decanted
off into other receptacles lined with copper
and haying suspended across tnem
bars of sheet copper. The copper collects
the sulphur from the bath and precipitates
the gold while the silver, still
in solution, Is carried off to other vats. <
It is put through a number of chemical j
processes until it is finally precipitated, !
and the solution in which it last was is
decanted off. The gold precipitate looks
like coarse dirty building sand, and if a
pile of it were dumped in the street in
front of the Assay Office it might lie there
for a month before any one, other than a
minei-al expert, would think of touching
it. And if the silver precipitate were
THE MELTING BOOM.
! . -i
dumped side by side with it,Superintendent
Mason would as likely as not be ar-1
rested for throwing ashes into Wall street.
But the golden sand and the silver
ashes have yet many nanas to pass |
through before the office is ready to re-. I
poit as to the quality and fineness of the,!
metal. It is next saturated with hot I
water and allowed to stand half an hour.: j
Then it is shoveled into a copper-lined !
box on wheels, and carted off to the i
press room to be made into cheese.;
Queer stuff to make cheese of, it is true, j
but if the average corner grocer had just!
one of those cheeses in stock, he could,
well afford to retire from business.
In the press-room is a hydraulic-hydro-, j
6tatic engine of immense power. Be-. j
| side it stands the hydraulic press, whose; I
| power is so great, yet so delicately ap--i
! plied, that a man's skull might be gently j
crushed and no abrasion of the skin be
perceptible. The terrific power can be I
instantly released as w< II as applied. It j
I is a dangerous machine to handle, but in !
skillful hands it is a faithful servant and \
does its work well. C. G. Brunner, a
veteran in the service, and who has been
|
jSu **i
THE ASSAYING FURNA'ES.
in charge of this department from the
day the Assay Office was instituted, stood |
at the throttle of his engine. He had
just filled the drum in the press with the.
saturated gold sand and was in the act,
of applying the power when the visitor
entered. The drum in the press is twelve
inches in diameter, and fourteen iuches1 '
deen. It was filled to the top and packed |
tightly when the solid piston head en- j
tered it. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, j
the drum ascended and the piston was
forced into it. The gauge on the engine
began to register the pressure.
Assuming the cake of metal to be j
a trifle less than a foot in 1
diameter and to contain 113 square in- j
ches of area on its upper surface, the '
gauge showed that it was receiving a 1
frightful squeezing. The hand pointed j
at 6000 pounds to the area when the
machinery had been in motion half a i
minute. Thirty seconds later 10,000 !
pounds pressure was recorded, yet the !
engine ran merrily along without a i
squeak or a jar. There wasn't a sound !
to indicate that the powerful machine j
was doing anything beyond running its j
own fly wheel. Then 20,000. pounds !
and 30,000 pounds were recorded and
still the steel finger moved ou. It was
almost agonizing to watch it. The pressure
ot that terrible engine can almost
be felt in one's imagination; 4u,uuu, tnen
50,000, and the grim engineer lets his
hand steal ffen'iy t > the throttle of tho
great machine. It is now running a
trifle slower, but just as quietly as before.
The dome full of golden sand has risen
almost a foot, and it seeuis that there cannot
be a drop of water left iu it, yet that j
merciless maclunc keeps on, and the flu- |
ger on the dial marks more and mora j
pressure. It has reachcd 56,000 pounds, \
or more than 500 pounds per square !
inch. What steam boiler was ever made'
that could withstand such pressure, yet
this little brass cylinder in the press had
withstood that awful powfcr of twenty
tons thousands uuon thousands of time3.''
The engine was stopped and the drum !
was released. As it dropped down of its ,
-
utvii ntijui u jjiiutiiug v.iijv- Sviv?. j
r<?vecle.l beneath it. It looked for all the j
world like a bright, rich cheese. It was j
weighed and placed in a drying oven to j
destroy the last traces of moisture.
"Thatcheese," remarked Mr. Brunner, j
"you can have for $36,000 if you will I
carry it home."
The silver granules are treated in the j
same manner in this room, and when all j
are thoroughly dried and baked they go
to the melting room on the first floor of
the main building, where the beautiful ,
cheeses are broken up with a sledge
hammer aud melted in gigantic crucibles
of plumbago. The molten metal is run
into bars, weighed when cooled, num- j
bercd, stamped and registered, and at j
last, after a portion has beeu assayed iu i
the room above, is stored away in the
big steel vaults to remain until it is <
needed at the mints for coining or by
manufacturers for making watch cases or
jewelry.
Iu the asaay rooms everything is conducted
upon a very minute scale. The
small samplee, taken from various lots of
metal in the melting room, are here submitted
to the teats by which their fine- '
WESeWife/-' . 'I: , . _ Xt,
The Natural Home of tlie Human Race.
Man instinctively turns to the tropics
with a sure inspiration, for his body'
know9, if his brain does not, that here,
under the brilliant sun, here in the warm
southland, man originated. It was Grant
Duff, I think, who recently wrote that
no man had been liberally educated till
he had passed some part of his life in the
' ropics. Here one feels as if admitted to
nature's laboratory; here she began her
experiments which we call evolution, the
result of which was man. Down in the
ticrra caliente, the hot country, air,
earth and water teem with life. There is
inexhaustible vitality derived from the
ardent sun. Aijassiz records that the
Brazilian tribes are models of perfect
human form, for the sun is a sculptor,
shaping everything to beauty. One sees
how true this is when looking at the men
and women of the tierra caliente. Even
a little higher up in the tierra templada,
or temperate country, one sees clearly the
effects of the constant sunshine. How
supple and strong are the shapely women!
How broad chested and vigorous the
well-nourished men! Where grow the
sugar cane and the coffee tree, where
flourish the fig and platano, there man
also increases iu strength and in physical
perfection.
In the tropics the existence of "nerves"
is uuknown. What a jolly good thingit is
for a tired Northerner to lie for hours on
a bench in a sun-warmed Mexican plaza
and breathe in the perfumed air! And
how, after days of this most pleasant
regimen, a man begins to feel that it is
good to live.. He forgets the cares of his
business or professional life; he learns,
under the magic influence of the tropics,
that human speculation in philosophy
and theology are not worth the price of
the paper they are printed on, and he
finds his night's sleep sweet and refresh/
iug.?Boston Herald.
seea torn auuu lears uiu.
During the season of 1889 a most remarkable
crop was raised by David Drew,
at Plymouth, N. H. In 1883 Mr. Drew
came into possession of some corn grains
found wrapped with a mummy in Egypt,
supposed to be 4000 years old. These
were planted and grew. It had many of
the characteristics of seed corn; the
leaves were alternate; it grew to be over
six feet high; the mid-ribs were white;
but the product of the stock, there is
where the curious part comes in. Instead
of growing in an ear like modern
maize, it hung in heavy clusters at the
top, on spikclets; there was no tassel;
no silk; each sprig was thickly studded
with grains, each provided with a separate
husk, like wheat grains.?St. Louis
Republic.
Odd Wandering Rocks.
Near the village of San Jose, Peru, on
the shores of the great Lake Titicaca?
the loftiest lake in the whole world, are j
three large pillars of stone, of which we
give a picture. They are of unusual
height, and the condors that perch on
the top of them add by their gaunt figures
and black plumage to the weird effect of
the solitude.
On one of these huge blocks the features
TIIE ROCKS NEAR LAKE TITICACA.
of a human face are cut, and the others
are covered with designs of various kinds;'
and they all have some reference to sun-;
worship. The pillars were probably en-;
graved by the original natives of the;
Ian J, who are now known only by these
and other relics in this quarter of Peru.*'
They are supposed to have been a highly
civilized race. It is not believed that
the people brought these stones to their
present position. The rocks arc those
? ? nr wnndprinnr stones.
UUllCU. fiiabiu, V* .. ~ o F|
and were probably left by * glacier, w
tSwingine Twins.
| j|
A young man may have the worst
memory on record, but he will not forget
to remove the price mark from the present
he buys for his best girl?if the article
cost loss than $10. On the other
hand, he may have the best memory in
the world, but if the present costs $25 the
price mark is inadvertently overlooked.
?N&rrisloun Herald.
i
The only weigh to be honest?sixteen '
ounces to the pound. ?Wa-shirwUm Stay i
ness in- determined. Little crucibles made
from bone dust are used to melt the
metal. Whatever weight ia used for assaying?usually
only a fraction of an
ouncc?is represented as 1000 parts. The
weight is taken to the 1-lOOOth of a
grain, and after the assay has been made
and the metal tested in the various technical
ways in vogue there, the residue is
weighed. The missing parts represent
base metals or dirt, and are deducted
from the whole as originally weighed.
Gold or silver therefore, that 19 .999fine,
contains but one part in a thousand of
base metal, alloy or dirt. And th?s is
what some of those bars of Mexican bullion
showed when they were put through
the various processes herein described.?
New York Sun.
"tsabbathichool . i
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOI^ ^
MARCH 9.
Lesson Text: ' The Great Physician,^
Lake iv., 33-44?Golden Text:
1\Tn ' t viii 1ft r!/\mtnAn?aiH.
?, . "" .-IV J
33, "And in the synagogue there was a
man, which had a spirit of an unclean deviy ;?
and cried out with a loud voice." Aftel' 'f\
being rejected by His own townsmen of Nas*
aretn, Ho came to Capernaum and taught *in
the synagogue on the Sabbath days. The
first part of our lesson is the record of an in-' cident
that occurred while He was thus teachJ
ing one day. Then, as now, all kinds of peoJ
pie went to church, some with one object] >
some another, and then, as now, Satan went
also among them. As far as we can learn r/A
from the Scriptures there is but one devu
properly so called, the leader of all wicked :
spirits, whose other names are Satan, the old '
serpent, the dragon, the god of thisworldj
the prince of the power of the air, the fatheif
of lies, etc.; but he seems to hav<? associated
with him innumerable other wicked spirit*} 'sjL
properly called demons, and so translated in
the JK. V. margin- and the great business of
the devil and his demons is to enter into and
possess and control people for their destruoj &
tion. A man possessed by one of these demon!
was in the synagogue on this particular. Sab? -.1*1
bath day while Jesus was teacning. i ^
34. "Let us alone: what have we to do.
with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art
Thou come to destroy us?" Thus the demon
in the man cried out as Jesus was teaching.' 3
They hate Jesus, thev hate the Word of Qooc
they seem to know that there is a place 01
torment prepared for the devil and his angels^ :/3|
for in Matt, viii., 29, the demons in the poor f.
Gadarene cry out, "Art Thou come hither to'
torment lis before the time?" We knowthaj
"the Son of God was manifested that He
might destroy the works of the devil," ana
that the time will come when not only the
devil but all his works shall be forever ban-j
ished from this earth?and in this we do rejoice.
"I know Thee who Thou art; the Holy!
One of God." On one occasion when cer-J "V-VjBl
tain men who knew not Jesus tried to cast *3
out demons, the demons cried out; "Jesus I * - 2j
know, and Paul I know, but who are yef'
And the man with the demons leaped on ' -'i
them, and overcame them, and prevailed
sgainst them, so that they 2ed out of that
house naked and wounded (Acts xix., 15, 16)J ' $
The devil and his angels do not know Jesus
for their good in any way, but they know; >
Him as the Son of God, tne Holy One, the
Christ, and they fear Him, and they know A
and fear those who are truly His, as Paul ; ;
was. J
i?5. "And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold . /
thy peace, and come out of him. And* * *. , *
he came out of him, and hurt him not.^
He addressed the demon in the man, and
His word compelled tho evil spirit to leave
the man, and he was healed. There is nd ' "
doubt that the devil and his angels posses^ ' . jra]
people to-day, and through them say and do
cue leanui.inings 01 wmcn we near euiu nau .
and which we see with our own eyee. - $ u'
36. "What a word is this! for with atv .
thority and power He commanded the un; *
clean spirits, and they come out." The lsurt
verso of the last lesson (vs. 32) says that
"His word was with power;" the source olj
the power is given us in Acts x., 38, where . >#
we are told that "God anointed Jesus ofj
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and withi
power; who went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil,]
j for Gof'. was with Him " J 'i
37. "And the fame of Him went out into
every p!aca of the country round about.'i '.Vjj
His name is as ointment poured forth (Cant;
i., 3); and as Saul of Tarsus was chosen to' ?8
bear His name, and to suffer for His name's* -3P||
sake, so we are chosen to bear His name and
to suffer with Him that His fame may be '
spread abroad (Acts ix., 15, 16). If we choose
to please ourselves and prefer our own way ; *
and our own glory, that will disqualify us
for His service, and we shall be set aside as ^
vessels unfit for His service. But if we are
willing to be purified we shall bccome vessels *
unto honor, sanctified, meet for the Master**
use. and prepared unto every good work. 1 .
38. "And Ho arose out of the synagogue'
and entered into Simon's house." Iii Marls i'1 : , J
'29, it is said that Andrew and James and
John went with Him; quite a party to taba
home from church, and especially to a houari
where was sickness. Had Simon's wife been >
somewhat of Martha's spirit she might have -i
been careful and troubled that day, and pen
haps have informed Simon that he shoulq
have known better than to bring company
homo when her mother was so sick. No! ,
knowiug how she did feel or act, we can only
hope that she joyfully received her Lordand
His followers.
39. "He stood over her, and rebuked thi
fever, and it left her; and immediately sh$
arose and ministered unto them." A little
before He had rebuked the unclean spirit, an<J
now He rebukes the burning in this woman'^
body, and as quickly as the spirit fled fron^
the man, so this great fever noes oexore tn? ,
same Almighty Word, and the woman is in-J
stantly well; so well that she is able to minister
unto them, and she does it at once. In
public and in private Satan works: in th?
church and in the home, causing disturbance
and weakness and suffering, but Jesus is
Prince of Peace and Prince of Life (Isa. ix.,'
6; Acts iii? 15), and before Him all the power
of the enemy must fall. j >,=!g
40. ''And He laid His hands on every one
of them and healed them." Tidings from!
the synagogue and from Simon's home soon?
spread through the city, and people sick withj *)
all kinds of diseases are brought unto Kim4
every one of whom is sent away healed. Oh}
the wondrous hand of Jesus! -jjp?
41. "And devils came out of many,;
* * ? and He, rebuking them, sufferea
them not to speak, for they knew that He
was Christ." How many happy homes there
were in Capernaum that night; people now
ruifPAnflv wall xvhn had lnnc been sick and .. c-i
Ca'd suffered much; people now about on the'
streets aud at their work w&o had not been
seen there for many a day; people now meek
and gentle to whom you could not speak be^
fore without being insulted; and all because <3
Jesus had come. His word and His hanq
did it all, and He still lives, and is accessible
ko all who truly seek Him.
4*2. "And when it was day, He departed,' /
and went into a desert place." Mark saysj
that He rose a great while before day andj
went away to pray (Mark i., 35). WTiat
hungering for communion with His Father,]
what abstraction from the things of earth ^
But this is the secret of power. A hold upon
God, a clinging to God, a waiting upon Him
alone, a wholehearted reliance upon Him, d
living in His sight, a witnessing unto Himi
that He may be glorified, a studying to show)
ourselves approved unto Him, seeing no one
but Jesus only. This is for us the way of
power. j
''And the people sought Him, and came
Unto Him, aud stayed Him, that He should
not depart from them." IV hat a contrast to?
the conduct of the people of Nazareth! But
wAr? these neonlo seeking Him for His own
sake or for the blessings to be received at HIS
bauds* A more practical question
you seek Him, dear ren^ C2. tuc aay after
the Sabbilh as well as Oil the Sabbath!1" And
why do foM seek Him? Is it for_HisjLft4
some Vlessing from Him, 61' iS ic
Him, and the power of His resurrection.aaa
tke fellowship of His sufferings? -4
43. "And He said untOtliem, f must preach
jho kingdom of God to other cities also; for
therefore am I sent," The R. V. saysT^i
must preach the good tidings of tho kingdom
pf God.'' Matthew adds that Ho preached
the Gospel of the kingdom and healed all
manner of sickness and all manner of disease;
44. "And He preached in tho synagogues of
GaLiloo." Matthew : ays that He went about
all Gallilee. The commission to all His followers
now is to "Go into all tho world and
preach tho Gospel to every creature;" and it
any believer is content simply with his own
salvation and indifferent to tho great command,
what is he but willfully aud selfishly
disobedient, and how can ho bo filled with thfl
Spirit or have fellowship with tho Father and
the Sou.?Lesson Helper.. - The
"right whale* is tho moat vicious
of all the whalebone whales, and at
times fights desperately for its life.
The finbacks were very rarely cap
tured before the invention of the bomb
lance, as they ran so fast boats oould
not stand the strain.
Justice Lamar thinks that Justice
Matthews died from overwork, and apprehends
that others will break dowa
anless the Supreme Court can be relieved
from some of the strain to which
it is constantly subjected, . j
-V*\r>y