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uNCLE SAM'S Larger Treasure Bo: rowed ! A firs am Washington, September 8.?I'nclc | Gain's treasure boxes are undergoing some important alterations. They arc not at all up to date in the mode of their construction, nor burglar-proof by any means, and it might be a good thing if they were torn out altogether and replaced with vaults of the proper kind, such as the safe deposit compa nies have nowadays. But that would cost a great deal of money?perhaps as much as a million dollars?and the Government would prefer to avoid such an expenditure. Away back in 1892 this question was agitated and Congress went so far as to appoint a special committee, with an appropriation of $3,000 to make an examination of the vaults in the treasury and report on their condi tion. The report was decidedly un favorable, condemning the arrange ments as practically obsolete, but nothing was attempted in the way of substantial improvements. It was in the same year that an expert came on from New York and, at the request of the Treasurer, with only a few ordi nary tools of tho kind used in safe repairing opened one of the big strong rooms in a few minutes. Seventy-five thousand dollars have 4)een appropriated for the present alterations, which consist in part of a -new vestibule and strong doors for the great silver Sworagc vault. This vault cost $H0}000 originally and extends under the terrace at the south end of the treasury Building. It .contains a mighty box of steel lattice-work, 89 feet long, 51 feet wide and 12 feet high, filledohock full of silver dollars. Visitors are .permitted to walk around the mass of treasure, following a nar row passage which runs between the aides of the box and the steel walls of the vault. This lattice-work receptacle holds 101,000,000 in silver, whiehis packed irr wooden boxes, two bags of standard idollars to a box, and each box weigh ing 120 pounds. Formonly t/ho coin was simply stacked up in bags, but, notwithstanding the walls of steel, dampness rotted tho bags and the .money ran out of them. This made extra trouble, requiring fresh counts, [c -and it is no small job to reokon over d Buch a gigantic sum in metal. Hence p it was deoided to pack tho stuff in n boxes. Each sack contains $1,000 and o so long as the Treasurer's seal on it is 8 intact its contents do not have to be a verified on occasions when recounts 1 arc made. b 'Jhe hood vault is to bo enlarged .-greatly, doubling its capacity?a n change made necessary by the inoress- v, ing number of national banks whioh * deposit bonds in the treasury. Many c private and State banks, taking ad- n vantage of the recent ?ot of Congress, v, are coming in as national banks. A k new and thoroughly modern strong ti .room is to be built for the register's b office, to hold cancelled paper money c that is awaiting destruction in the ? .macerator. Meanwhile the sub-tress- I ury in New York is putting in two n additional vaults, one for gold and the n .other for silver, the latter measuring fi 47 feet in length by 28 feet in width e .and 12 feet in height. Gold and sil ver are pouring in there by tons daily, p -and there is no place to put all of it. o At the present time the sub-treasury f< has on hand $170,000,000 in gold coin g and $58,000,000 in silver ooin. tl There are now 153,000,000 silver o dollars in the treasury at Washington, li ibotDtily $6,000,000 in gold coin. The o treasury never keeps much gold on v hand here, the great stock of the yel- r low metal being held in New York t .and at the mint in Philadelphia. If t one wants - to see orudo gold in masses t lie should visit the mint in the Quaker < City, where he will -find it stacked up l dn heaps of bricks?itons.on tons of it \ ?all ready for conversion into ooin. \ At the present moment there is $53,- * 000,000 worth of gold bullion at this I mint, with 437,000,000 in gold coin not to mention #150,000,000 in silver bullion and coin. j i Notwithstanding the fact that the j < treasury vaults compare so poorly with the impregnable steel-clad struct ures now used by great private con corns that have valuables to protect, the Government feels fairly secure as to the safety of its stored wealth. The best safeguard for ooin is its weight. Jost to illustrate this point it may he mentioned that the $162, 000,000 in silver dow held in the strong rooms at Washington weighs nearly 6,000 tons. A million dollars gold coin weighs about two tons, and it would take a very strong man to -carry off $50,000 worth of the yellow etaff. Though a gold brick the shape I and siso of an ordinary building briok represents $8,000, its "hoff* is some thing astonishing. Suggestions have NEW VAULTS. tes to I-Iold his 33or Money. / < 'ouricv. been made that it might be practica ble to burrow beneath the treasury by tunnel and thus pillage 1'ncle Sam's coffers by a sort of rat hole method, but even were this accomplished it is difficult to imagine how it would be practicable to remove much of the coin. There was quite a scare a few years ago, when Gilfillon was Treasurer, be cause the vault in the cash room, where the ready money is kept, re fused to open. It is always set for 8.30 a. m. with a time-lock, but on this occasion something seemed to be wrong with the mechanism, and the steel doors remained obstinately closed. Nine o'clock arrived and still the money was locked up. For once Uncle Sam's bank was obliged to sus pend payments. Kxperts were sent for and came with their tools to break open the vault, but before they got. there the big safe had opened of its own accord. It turned out that the time-lock had been set by an accident for ?J.30. In this vault not only gold and sil ver, but many millions in paper money, arc always kept. If thieves could obtain access to it they might easily walk away with an enormous ?um, the notes and certificates being done up in packages and neatly labell ed with the sums they contain in large red figures. Kach parcel holds 4,000 notes and is in size just about a foot jube. If the denomination is $500, a single such package represents $2, 100,000. However, if anybody did succeed in gettiog away with cash in ,his shape he could hardly fail to be saught, inasmuch as the numbers of ihe bills would be advertised imme liatoly and every bank in the eonntry voulu be on the lookout for them. Burglars may be practically ex cluded, but the treasury does not daim to be theft-proof. On an on uoky day in 1870 a visitor came into he Treasurer's room with a large 'anama hat in his band. The Treas ircr's attention was distracted by omc other people who were trying to j' alk to him and the man dropped his ,, > at carelessly over a package which ontained 3,000 $10 notes lying on the ( leak. It was ono of several s-uoh j, lackages and the loss of it wae not ' ( lotiocd until some hours later. Of ( ourse the notes were advertised and ( ome time afterwards a part of them i ] rero deposited in a New York bank. ,, 'he depositor was arrested, but no- !( ody was punished for the crime. I A singular immunity from punish-'j. lent seemed to have attended thieves ! rho have robbed the treasury in su oh ( rays. In 1875 a clerk aamod. Bon ja- ( ?in Hallook passed a package of $&00' j otos, representing $47,000^ out of a ^ rindow in the cash room to a saloon- } eeper nsmed Ottman. For some ime the robbery remained a mystery, ' ( ut later on one Theodore Brown v?ao aught betting on the races at Saratoga ? rith some of the missing $500* notes, j le was arrested, and implicated Ott- j isn and Hallook, but Brown waa { ever tried and the other two ware not ( nally oonvieted. Of the stolen mon- i( y $20,000 was recovered. 4 It has been said that no> trust oom- ;g any would accept the responsibility { f the Treasurer of the United States or the $6,000 a year salary which he | ets. Ho is responsible for all monoya ? hat may be stolen, aad on more thaa> j ne occasion Congresa has been oV ( tged to relieve by formal Act an of?r j ial in that position,, who would other rise have been liable for the repay aent of large losses. On one occasion wo men nsmed Harden and J oka son, | ,he latter an assistant paying teller, ook $62,000 byoollusion. The Gov ernment got baok $12,706? of this ; money and the off endors escaped with ? year in prison for each. There Slave been a good majay thefts in the redemption division, where the temp tations are exceptionally great, the noet famous of them being that per petrated hy a woman who invented a method for making nine notes out of sight, incidentally to the process of putting together scraps of torn bills Bent in to he redeemed. Nobody ever knew how muoh she stole, though it was probably a very large amount, but she gave up a portion of her ill-gotten ersinn ?.nd nnk ??0???n???L. " In 1865 there was muoh ezeitement over the loss of $1,000,000 in paper morcy, whioh had been shipped from Washington to the assistant Treasurer in 8an Francisco. The shipment was made hy a sailing vessel called the Golden Rule and consisted of one thousand $1,000 notes. Unfortunate ly the ship was wrecked on Ronosdor Reef and the safe that contained the cash was lost with it. Nevertheless a conspiracy was suggested and a theory was formed to the effect that the vessel had beet) deliberately cast away for the sake of stealing the money. If this had been true sonic of the notes would certainly have turned up later; but, as a matter of fact, none of them has ever been seen since and it may therefore be taken for granted that the missing wealth still lies at the bottom of the sea. Of course, being only paper money, it was no loss to Uncle Sam. Immense quantities of gold are shipped nowadays across the ocean and the danger of loss is so small that the precious stuff may be insured at so low a rate as one-tenth of 1 per cent. It is insured just like so much grain and the documents, written in old style legal phrases, guarantee its safety against all perils of the seas, including "men-of-war, fires, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, let ters of marque, reprisals, takings at sea, arrests and dctainments of all kings, princes," etc. Every large transatlantic steamship has on board a treasure room, which is a great steel box built inu >:h like a vault on land. Shipments of gold coin from this country to Europe have been extraor dinarily large recently. The banker in New York buys it from the sub treasury there, receiving it in sacks of $10,000 each. It is carefully weighed, because Europe will accept our gold only by weight, though the quality of the coin?its purity and degree of fineness?is guaranteed by Uncle Sam's stamp. Usually it is packed in casks that are much like herring casks, ten sacks to each cask, which weighs ISO pounds when thus filled. Thefts on the voyage are practically unknown, but in 1804 a cask of gold coin was lost on its way to Paris, be ing finally located on the platform of a railroad station between Havre and Paris. The station agdrn had thought it contained white lead. Rene Bache. Moving Train, "The 'moving train' illusion i? anm?lt?nrv ika .n?la..m?. 1 .O ? ~ "-fx""1 been at work on for years," said an old showman, talking about tricks of the trade. "The idea is to-present 1 the sawie effect one gets in- looking : out of the window of a passenger oar moving at fall speed, and; the-thing i suggested itself almost as- soon> ao the modern eyslorama wae invented1. In the abstract it seems- very simple? merely the matter of seating the spec tators in a dummy car and then-reel ing a long panorama of landscape past I the windows. Nine people out of ton- 1 would say sooh a eontrivanoe would' ' produce an illusion*of motion;, but1 it >] doesn't do anything of the kind. If' i you will stop- to think about it you- ! will remember that' a- real landscape* | seen through a oar window, appears to- j4 be moving past you. at different raftee- it dP speed. The foreground, nearest 3 the train, whiszes by like lightning;. * the middle distance- glides- away Lose rapidly, and; the horizon line reoe?ea- t ?ery gradually from. view. In or&nr < bo 800uro the-same illusion it is-necse- < >ary to observe the same graduations- t in speed, and thabwae-app&rentlysaeb. i v complicated probSsaa that most of ihe oyolorama- people- gave it u>in 1 lespair. But I h ear that it has-fixally 1 ?eeu solved in Paris*.in tbo big Sibe rian Railroad' panotaa?, .and> peepfe ?ho-have seen. the. tknng. teil irae that ihe offloot is so-nealistio that ib is dmostt impoB&ible-t? believe thafcone s- nob actually o? a moving, train. Ohe landscape is- represented;by three nag; rolls- of- canvass of different leighie, the firsthand lowest staring, he rooks and. hushes of< tbe>-fore ground,, the second- the- midofia dis tance and. the third the background ind sky. They, move at speeds-of 30, ?fc and 3; miles a* hour, andithe spec tators are seated in ordinaty. parlorr iara, whioh ara given a sligfrt rocking notion by machinery undeathe trucks*. The result is-the heat illusion in the history of oseloramas up, to the prae snt day. It understand th* show will be broughb to this couutry after the Exposition is over.-?JSfe? Ondfcan*. 7Ym?a-jPegft*craf. Free BM Csre-As ffftr Pruvlsa.Fsjth to Saff^rsrs. Is your blood puss ?- Are you, sure of it $ Bo outs or soratehes heal slow ly ? Poes your skin itoh or. burn ? Haw you pimples, cruptUns, aohing bouse or baok, eeeema, old sores,, boils, eciwfula, rheumatism, fou) breath, ear taj-vh ? Are yea pale ? tf so purify jour blood at mce with KKB. {Bo* tanie Blood Balm.) It makes the blood pure and rich, heals every sore and gives a clear, smooth, healthy skin. Deep-seated ?ases like ulcers, cancer, eating sores, painful swellings, blood poison are umekly ouied by BL B. B., made especially rot all obsti nate blood and skin troubles. B.R.B. is different from other remedies be cause B.B.B, drains the poison and humors out of the blood and entire sys tem and oftonot return. Intelligencer 'readers are advised to giveB.PJS. a trial. It oures when all else fails. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Sold at drug stores and Hill-Orr Drug Co. Wilhitc & Wilhite and Evans Phar macy at ose dollar ($1.00) per. large bottle, $6 large bottles (full treatment) $5. So sufferers may test it a trial bottle given away absolutely free. Write for it. Address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., AtlanU, Oa. Write to-day. Describe the trouble and free medical advice given. ? The tiok ?? a watch is inside, and that of a bed is outside. , The Growth of Animals. It is not generally known that the human baby is smaller at birth in proportion to the size it ultimately attains than most other animals. The size of the young of any ani mal varies iu proportion to the size of the brain, and is significant in mauy ways. The average height of a baby at birth is about 12 inches, and as the average height of a man is generally put dowa at 5 feet 10 inches, the proportion is as 1 to 583. The young rhinoceros is 2 feet long when he its bora, but when he grows up he is 7 feet in length. Thus the proportion ;s 1 to 3.5. The very same measurements apply to young master elephant, though the pachydrem in question is always measured bj the height of his back from the ground. However, tho young one is about 2 feet high, and the average height of a mature elephant is 7 feet, so the proportions remain the same. The same relative measurements hold good in thecase of tho young hippopotamus. ~n case of the deer we find that the young are 2? feet in height, while the full-grown deer is so more than 4J feet, or a proportion of 1 to 1.8. The giraffe's proportions are those of 1 to 3.3, for it is l? feet tall at birth, aad 6 feet when full grown. A lion cub at birth is about 8 inches lon>; while the grown-up Leo meas ures about 5 feet, or the enormous proportion of 1 to 7.5. The tiger's measurements are about the same, and scare those of Brer Bear. The rapidity of growth of anismls also varies greatly. In general, the larger the anima? at maturity the slower its growth. A man is not fully grows octil he is 2& years old, though he at tains his height sooner. So with animals. A colt or calf gets his height at 'S'yetvca, but there after slowly gains in power nntil his 5th yesr?the man's* development being five times as slow. An elephant matures a.ftrtowSj, and lives as long, bb a man. There are fables telling of the extremely Jong Kfeof crows and eagles, baft in- few eases have these been fully verified. ?London Exjpre**. ?vm?of C&rsnie DSarrbeea after ?B*r tj nesrs ef Suffering; "3 suffered for thirty years wrthV ?i arrheea and; thought I was past fc?icg curod," says- John S. Halloway*. of Fro noil Camp, Miss. uiJ bad spent* so muoh'time an mon try and suffered 30 muoh that I had'givee* up-el) hope* of recovery. I was- so Heebie from the affeota-of the diarrhoea that I or old do no kiodiof 1 aboi7,.could) not even travel1, but by accident) Ii wae permitted to fiixJ a bottle-of' Chamber!??'? (Sotte, Ghc4 3raaDd'Diarrho?s< He needy, aad after taking* several bottles- 1 aoa entirely jured ef* that trouble-. I am se> pleaa ?d witir-the result that I am anxious that ibfrein roach-of aSP who suffer aa ['have." For sale- by EE 11 Orr Drug So. ___tm>^mm__ ?"Shear that-youesmahand is very licky Aunt Dlnab.'" "Tea'm," 'Nothing serious, 2 bags-. 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The startling fuilfilment of the pre diction of Mrs. Elizabeth Horstman, of Mishawaka, Ind., made last July, when she was apparently in the best of health, that she would die on Aug. 15, has set the press onoo more to discussing the probability of premoni tion of death. Mrs. Horstman, who was related by marriage to Bishop Horstman, cf Cleveland, is said to have been a person of great piety, ft is not known that she was of melan choly or a superstitious disp*. : ion. Neither is anything known as to the motive that prompted her to make the gloomy prediction. It is known posi tively, however., that she made it, and it waB fulfilled to the letter. There are, of course, numerous in terpretations of this event. One of the commonest is that founded on the fatalist theory. Her day had been appointed and she was informed of the time by some ojoult or supernat tural agency. The spiritualist view, in the broadest sense, is hardly less common. She was advised by some departed near and dear one as to the time when she should die. The rational belief is that advaneed by the J'ittsburg Dispatch. Her death is clearly an example of the remarkable power which the mind exercises over the body. It is known that fatal results fol lowed the experiment of making aman believe that he had been laneed and was slowly bleeding to death. The story ef the practical jote played by a lot ofyouogFreneh medical students on the janitor of their college is famil iar. They aooused him of sow iefei tious offense, gave h?m a mo ok ferial and sentenced him to death by decap itation. Ho was led to> a block. Be side it was en- axe. HS? upper bo?y was bared and his eye? were band aged. His head) was forced* down to'tbr bloefc. One of? the the stcd?ntssmofee him across the aeok with a> wet toweB and*-be was deadX It* was-held that it was not the ilftusage or Ole shook that'ksUed him, but his firm* oonvio tion tiiat his time Hod come. 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