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p4 tiELt TRI-WEEKIY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. MAY 26, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 NIORT. ot what the Daf may bring, TlNlgl;t.is all my own; . A thousan-. lanicies round me fling Their oharn I aalono! - Alone with Night and bttid,o The world's great wheel is still; No vagrant sounds nor voices rude 'ile happy silence fill. Oh, charned hours! that, all too fleet, Specd on to bring the Day, When shall the Night come, tender, sweet, W hen faney hath its way? Love loves the Night for Night brings Love To Love that counts the hours. And tonderost tonga betwixt. thon move In love-Illumined bowers. Nor care I what the bay may bring, So Night but bring to me The charms its fancies round me fling, Sweet Solitude, with Thee! FOUND AND LOST. - In a corner of Madame Froissart's brilliantly - lighted drawing - room, watching the gay scene being therein enacted, sat Gertrude Meyer. For the moment she was alone-with her, indeed, a rare occurrence, since he was a belle an{l beauty; but a slight sprain to her ankle a few days previ ous, had prevented her joining in the dance, and the little throng of men who all the evening had gathered around her had for the instant disappeated, mntuty of them at her express command. The last had lingered, reluctant still to go, when-"I am tired," she said. "I want to be alone." He bent then, from hissplendid height and, with a glance from his dark eyes few women could have resisted, whisp ered a few words in her ear; but neither glance nor whisper brought even a mo mentary flush to the lovely cheek. "Elsa is without a partner," she re joined. "I like to see you dance to gether. Ask her for this waltz. " An angry light kindled in Frederic IIoughton's eyes, aiAd he turned abruptly away. The next moment, Elsa, with a pleased flush, was leaning on his arm, and withi a half- igh, though she knew not wherefore. Miss Meyer sank back in her cushioned corner. Was she always to receive love, never to'return it? . Gertrude asked herself. - True, Frederic ioughton had never, in words, declared his passion; but every glance every accent, had been replete with its intensity. She felt sure that he loved her. How poor and meagre was the cold friendship she might offer in return! But if she determined to smile at least nore kindly, lie gave her no oppor tunity. Other men ilo.^ked back to her side. She had sent hliui to Elsa; by Elsa he renained. One dance followed another, but he would resign her to no other partner; and only on amused glean crept into Gertrude's eyes as, she watched him, and fancied she read the pique which prompted his action-a pique which in part reflected upon herself, as the next day and the next passed, until the week had gone, and still she neither saw nor heard from him. At the end of that period she again shrugged her shoulders and told herself that she had forgotten him. It was froit Elsa, a fortnight later, that she learned his regiment had been ordered upon active service, and was to depart in three days for the seat of war. What should she say to him when he came to bid her farewell? She need not have questioned. She waited, but Ie cane not. lie left with his good-bye to her un spoken. It caused her no real grief, nio heart pang but a sort of restless surprise, which stirred some depths whose ex istence hitherto had beeni unknown. TIhree or four (days later Elsa camne to her with a shy blush. She had always beeni the child's friend andI conlidanite. TIhough in reality but twelve months her senior, she felt herself thle elder by long years. " I have a favor to ask you, Gertrude," she began. "Frederick asked me to 'write him. T1his morning I received his first letter. 1 am ashanmed to send him my poor little scribbling, and at school 1 re membered how beauti fuli always were your exercises, and1( 1 said to myself, '11 will go to Gertrude-she will tell me what to say.' "'1 love hmim so much-so very much Gertrude! "I think that he, too, loves me. I w~anit to breathe into .my words . just enough of ipiy heart's perfume that lhe maay knowv where to seek to Ilid the Iih wer itself." G ertrude looked up. amazed. *"Is it this love whitch .makes you'so poetical, lsa?" she asked. "1 niever iheardl you talk like this before." "It is one of your own thoughts 1 borrowed,'' Ellsat answered. "But tell meB, will you do for me what I ask?" "You think it will lie honorable?" "Yes, yesi Why not? You can tell -l imn nothing L do niot feel-only you will paihit the picture so that lie may love to loo0k at it.' A little longer Gertrude (demurred and then, (rawing to her pen, ink and p)aper, sihu wrote. As she did so, her reluctance van Ishied. She fanicied herself in Elsa's p)lace. She liaginied how some rosebud, wooed by the sun, woul oiie by one openi its shurinking petals, quivering 'twvixt ecstasy and1( pain, to meet the p)assionlate )(iss of the (lay god ; and so hecr imaigination found vent in words5. She coverced the sheets, with closely filled lines', and as she read them Elsa pressed them to her lhips. "Aht, they will make him love me!" she cried, as she ran with them to her own honme to. COPY them in her own handwriting. M1y the next post camne his answer. Elisa had beena right. -iThe letter had strangely stirred his heart. .Pulses lie had tjmought dlormenit, lie wrote had leaped into mad, exultant aP eh iilo t rjl hd, wikI (hie ai netrude ficrt ,adytaa until she looked for his replies almost as Elsa. She who had never loved in her life, found a strange gnd satisfying delight in pou:g -lpon tffe 8hiti J, ngry soul, while her own soul knew no hunger, the passion she had never felt the ecstasy of a love at which she scoffed. "So might I feel," she whispered to herself, "when, like the sleeping prin cesg in fairy lore, the magic prince would bend and kiss my lips." And so to this unknown king she wrote. The replies became more frequent, more ardent, until at last there came a letter when Frederic Houghton asked Elsa to become his wife. With tes,rs of joy in her bright blue eyes she brought this, like the others, to Gertrude. "Answer him," she said, "and tell him yes! yes! yes!" Slowly Miss Meyer read the letter through. From hence came this dull pain at her heart; A mist swam before her eyes. The written charadters were blurred from her sight. By a powerful effort she controlled herself, and spoke with some degree of calmness. "Not this, Elsa," she said. "This you must answer yourself." ''Oh, n1o, no I cannot! "Make it yet more beautif ul than the others, Gertrude. "The regiment is ordered home again he writes; so. there will be no more letters atleast, until after we are mar red and then there will be no more need of poetry. IIe will not miss its absence." "No need of poetry?" "Ah," thought Gertrude, "thon was love's perfect fulness but prose?" "Let me be alone," she said aloud. "This evening I will send you your letter. Giving orders not to be disturbed, she seated herself at her desk, but one by one two scalding tears fell from the beautiful, proud eyes upon the blank page spread before her. They were the unconscious baptism of her awakened womanhood. Then she wrote, but it was her heart's blood, rather than the ink, which spread itself upon the sheet whereon she im pressed her soul. "I give you all," she wrote, "my past my pre.;ent, my future. "'o me I see but two words-hus band and wife!" "They are emblazoned in letters of gold within the shrine where my soul kneels and worships. "Frederic, I love you!" Her pen dropped from her hand. Had she lIdeed written the words, or was it her heart which had cried then aloud in the stillness? A hundred mocking demons took up the cry and echoed it. She heard it everywhere around about her. She saw it blazoned in the air. She sank trembling on her knees, and buried her face in her shaking hands. She and her secret were face to face at last. She had sold her birthright for a mess of pottage. In the evening, true to her promise, Elsa received the letter, but unfinished. "Add to it what you will," wrote Gertrude, "I could not close it fitting ly.'' But Elsa sent the copy with no added words. Another fortnight and the regiment had arrived. 'A month passedl but Gertrude aiid Frederic Iloughton had not met. Once lhe had called with Elsa, but she had1( not been at home. By a singular coincidence It was at another of Madame Froissart's recep) tions that fate threw them again to gethier. For a monu....ta he hand had rested in his and his keen eyes searched her face. - Then Elsa camne to claim him for a dance, and they sep)arated. Midnight had sounded, wheni some one asked Gertrude for a song.. Many joint in the plea. Giving a somewhaut reluctant consent, she took her seat at thme p'iano in the -little music room, thme curtains divid ing that from the drawing-room drawnm aside. She hesitated a moment, then struck thme. chiolds, anmd soon the rich, sweet voice filled thme space. "It was a dream," was the song she hmad chosen, and( the pathos of voice and words-brought quick tears to many eyes. As the last choe (lied away, amid a murmur of applauslie andl admiirationi, a man btm1 close boside her. "Comc Iito thme conservatory a mo mnent," lie said(. "I wish to speak to you." She let hhn place her hand within his own anmd lead here where lie would. Among the plants anid iowers ho turned to her, "I miust speJak," lie said(. "You shall know how I have loved "In aniother month to tell you would be sin." "Is not your betrothal, then, as sac redl as your marriage?" she questioned. "No." lie answered; "for sometimes, Gertrude, I feel it would be greater sin to redeem thanm break my pledge. "Listen to me." "You knew the 01(1 love I bore you, though I never spQke in words. "Oh, heart of ice! haid you not one throb for the anguish I endured? :"Coldly you sent me from you to an other. "She welcomed me with a smile-you had dismissed me with a frowin. "'She warmed me in the sunlight you chilled me in thme shiadow. "For a little time I sought diversion and forgetfulness. "Inm thme latter I failed sadly. "Withi gladness I hailed the outbreak which brought my regiment into servie again. M'Ehsa's regret-at my leaving her soft ened and touched me. "1 begged her to write to me. "Through har I thonuht I shoul hear news of you; but, instead, her let ters gave me a-wondering glimpse into a nature whose depths I had noter sus pected, "ftA( ]owtill, how true they were 11 iia1d to you. "I iead, and re-read them. "My heart cried Qut for more and more, until I know that its longing and its nqd were satisfied at last. "H ow rich and exhaustless must be the mind which stored such jewelsl "With man's avaricious greed, I longed for its possession. "Is it sonly the fulfilment of the wish which lmakes me fancy its treasure al ready is exhausted? "It was Elsa's letters, not Elsa, that I loved. "She gives' me food, but my heart still is hungry. "Gertrude help me! "Tell me the right!" They were alone. The sweet scent of the flowers filled the air. A murmur from a little mimic stream rushed past them. Through the dim light she saw the white impassioned pleading of his face. She heard his quick, agitated breath ing. her own heart beat so loudly that unconsciously she pressed her hand up oi it. 11er secret seemed to enwrap her in a tangled cloud. She loved, and here before her stood her king-'I lhe magic prince had come at last. For this only she had given up the birthright of hoe soul. One word, one little word, and she might reclaim it. One word, one little word, and her heart and his would know hunger never more. Ile temptation stifled her. She gasped for breath. "Then the mist cleared-she saw clearly. "Let us return to Elsa, Mr. Iough ton," she said calmly. "She will wonder at our absence; and as for what we have been speaking of, remember the words of my song, 'It is a dream.' You have your letters-they are realities. One cannot always live in dreamland." "For the second time," he answered, "you send me from you." "For the second time, and the last." "Oh, IIeaven ! that a soul so beautiful in outward form should wear a case of ice 1" Thus, man-like, and in a man's blind ness he judged her. IIe went forth, in his weakness, to redeem his pledge. She, in her strength, took up her double burden, bet, that she bore it, gave the world no sign. Painting Houno Wals. If a plastered wall be new and has not been whitewashed, it will do to size it with glue water; but if it has been calcimined or whitewashed, which is often the case, no glue sizing should ever touch it. Any preparation of that kind is liable, sooner or later, to peel off and spoil the surface for any future finish. A safer way is to take oil and coat the whole surface before painting which makes a fast union of any wash to the wall. On such a base oil paints will ad here perfectly. . But the principle trouble in painting walls is found in the defective character of the plastering. If one is building a house, he can place the studding twelve inches from center to center, so that strong laths will not sW~ing and break upi time mortar at every p)ressure. The laths, too, should be sp)read one-fourth of an inch apart, and the mortar have twelve pounds of hair to the barrel of lime. This -will make a wall that will stand like thne walls of the houses p)las tered a hunidred years ago. The reason why the plastering falls off from our modern houses is because the laths are laidl so close that the imnmediate swell ing cuita off the t'nh, and the mot is usually too sandy, annd has but six pounds of hair. On such a surface are laid three coats, wvhenx the clinch will fail to hold one. Professional lathers or masons themxiselves ought to lay thie laths and be sure of a large spread; then if the mortar is strong or rich, with plenity of hair, there can be no falling off. I have seen many houses so p)oorly lahsteredl that thme entire surface had to be cleaned off and rephtstered after a fewv years. A person coming into pos session of such a dwelling, no sooner gets the walls wvell p)aintedl to his taste than they begin to break ump and disfigure the whole wvork. If you are sure the work is well donie, the ceiling as well as thme side walls nmay be painted to advantage. When any portion becomes soiled or smuoked, it wvill thena be an easy matter to wash it off. Rooms once thoroughly p)rep)ared ini that way last for a life-time and always look sub)st4tmtial and neat. In case of cracks, make some p)utty of time samne color as the paint and hill up). An Accurate Timeo-pacco. *** While on the subject of Wal tham wa chos, we may mention that we have seeni a letter tromt the Commander of the Gordon Castle (Castle line of Steam Packets) who wase fortunate enough to save life at sea, and who .for his gallant conduct was pre seted in September last with a Gold Keyless Waltham Watch by the President of tihe Unmited: States, on be-. half of the London Local Marinas Board. Iteferring to this Presentation Watch, he s ays: "When I left L'ndon the watch was sir seconds fast, and on my arrival at Singapore it was only three seconds slow, a most extraordinary perfo'rmance for a watch, as I ' arred it on my person the whole %t:me. I compared it every day with my chronometers on the passage out, and it seldom or ever differed one second from them; in fact, I found it almost, if not as good as m.y chronometers, which is a good deal to say for a watch carried about and subjet to all kinds of jolts."-Londfon, .Rngland The Watchmaker, Jeweter and ,Slverarmith, Feb 6, 1888. Ortblei61 stool is made by molting in a pot, blister steel arLd wrough$ iron ,or unwitoight iron and charcoal and loran Birds on the Marm. The crow regulates its food from necessity, and not from choice. To him strictly a grain-feeding,and not an isect. ,i eating bird, corn is his favorite diet. It a is not true, as some haVe claimed, that st it picks out weevil-oaten or imperfect i kernels from the hills. He eats all he st can get, good or bad, and though lie is p also a great. scourger, the balance is t< rather against his being beneficial to the t farmer. The robin is an insect-eating t bird. It prefers insectij in the larval, i pupal, and adult stage to:any other food. w Few persons have any idea of the enor mous, the incalculable mth-ber of insects til that robins eat every y,Mr. A young al robin in the nest requireo a daily supply I of food equivalent to coi iderable more q than its own weight. To supply the - millions of young birds hatched each 9 year, this requires an enormous number n of Insects. The service of these birds, f during the time they are engaged in rearing their young alone, would entitle them to protection, were the parents li1 themselves to feed exclusively upon gar- tlI den fruits dtjring the whole period. But lh at this time the diet of the old birds is at very largely of an animal nature; nor is of this the only season during which the i1 destruction of insects goes on. It does h not harm to put scarecrows in your trees a and gardens to drive off the robins, but ti it hardly pays to kill them. Yet when PI killed they make very delicate eating. 43 Swallows may geneilly be found di where there are grain-fields. The Sum- w mer range of these birds includes nearly o? all the central portion and the great tl grain-growing sections of the West. h. They are more or less migratory, and St spend their Winters in the South. As 01 pestiferousas the eave and barn swallows tl are with their chatterings, and the an- ir noyance they give the farmer in various T other ways, they are natural enemies of T the midges and similar small insects that (M prey on grain, and pursue them with un- A remitting vigilance. It has been esti- 1 mated that the nesting of a single pair st of swallows will in twenty-one days con- $ sumne 500,000 insects. Their benefit is lii simply incalculable. in Blue-birds have largely superseded fr swallows near houses, and protect fruit trees from insects much better than the C( swallows do. The martin is too lazy to r1 do much good, and has been largely ft driven away from New England. The of King bird, or bee-martin, has been voted Pc a terror to bee-keepers; but it has been te found thdt the immense number of in- tl sects it destroyed more than balanced pi this evil. Again, the king-bird drives si away the other birds from fruit trees, m and is useful for this reason. If suitably w baited with scraps of cotton, string s, t and loose material to complete a nest o1 the king-bird will soon accustom itself tl to building in and abk4 the orchards, di gardens, anti even the houses of our far- ai mers, and thus protect thousands of dol lars worth of vegetables and fruits. It p1 is strictly an insectivorous bird, and will not destroy, on the whole, that pl which condupes to the interests of the it' farmers. Altogether the king-bird is p, one of the most valuable species for agri- a culturists. The legislation in regard to ni this bird should be of the stnetest kind. "i Another species doing an immense st amount (of good in its own quiet way is the yellow-billed, as also its ally, the n1 black-billed cuckoo. These birds build in apple and fruit trees. They are 1f strictly insect-eating, while they make l terrible raids upon the caterpillar. They se should be encouraged in every possible ti way. i The blue Jay does much benefit, but se so much direct damage that it is almost of absurd -to class him as a friend to the 13 farmers. The Baltimore oriole is very destructive to pea-vines early in the tl: season, but he eats a class of insects not (e( touched by other birds---the leaf beetles 'm and the larvie of many species of insects jp] inhabiting the tops of olm,. oak, and fr apple trees. At the end of thme season a 13 balance will be found in the oriole's 11 favor. The nut-hatch is eminently an f insect-eating bird, living largely upo si grubs which hide under the bark of oak 1E chestnut, elm, maple, and other rough- pli barkeel trees The black titmouse, or chickadee, is of direct benefit to forests ol by the great number of Insect larvie conl- B siuned during the year. It eats insects gi too small for the nut-hatch. Tihe wood- gi pocker hooks out larger insects than be either of the two preceding kinds, but A can hiardlly be saidl to be an cocially valuable aid to the farmer. Thec wrens are strongly benefIcial to bi gardlens anid p)lants about the houses ai because of the number of caterpillars they eat. Thie fly-catchers are benanialis fe andl so are the thirushes, warblers, and Il vireos, ofi The Figure,, vest. t(J al4 In 1819 Mr. Rockwell, of Conniecti- em cut, went as a carpenter on a wnialer. bI In the course of fifteen years lie sailed te on many voyages, on an .English man of-war, in .the American service, tihe st mnerchan t mnarline, enduring maniy hard ships and privations, without hearing L from his wife and "family, lie was E giveni uip as (lead and lisa wife married ait again, lost her second husband, and M and was left with three children. On m the 4th of July, 1835, lhe camne back to TI his old home. About a week before mi Zelinida, the youngest child by the to second husband told her mnother of her w strange dream. She dreamed that her cm "other p)apa" hadl come home, clad in im sailor costuim, except that he wore a lo Peculiar vest miade of handsomely figur ed silk, such as she had never seen bef "re. She was laughed at, and no more was thought of it. A thundler storm was approaching as Rockwell M reached lisa old home, iIe knocked andl at asked fbr brief shelter from the Impend- Ui ing storm. lie was bidden to enter. qT The widow and children were just sit- -W ting down,- and lie was asked to shiare t their meal, lie was unrecognized, but ti lis sailor costume attracted attention- til and the vest lie wore! All eyes observ- N ed and all remembered Zehndas' dream! R The widow exclaimed: "You remind m me of the mani who was once my hus- S barid!" "Dmn't you know mie, Esthier?" $i the 'long lost husband re lied, as they ic embraced each other. 'iIxpaiations N followe4, and fMye .days later the two 1( were reunited in marriage.. He died O( about a weelk since, age 836, and lia t1 wife 800nn followed hinm.. Stamp Collecting. "Where did we get that quantity of amps in the window? Why, it is only 1 sample of what we have inside," a a amp dealer said. "Look here,"open- tl ig a large ease closely packed with amlllps, "and at these," displaying a le of albums more or less filled. "I'll ti 11 you where we got them. We buy it iein from every civilized country in it o world. Only this morning we got s a quantity of rare Belgian stamps, . hich cost us three thousand dollars. ro have agents and correspondents iln 1 is capitals of every country, who are ways on the lookout for anything rare n our l&tne. Besides. we pmhllitaO large 1 tantities from .siall collectors in tll ilted States, many of whom make at Or living nosing about iiiporting t uses and begging the stanps froim l >reign letters." "Do you have nany customers?" i.' "I should1( say we dlo. Besides se rge number of retail dealers through e United States to whom we soll, we e tye valuable customers in the army of 1 amp collectors which hats sprung up ni late. You would be surprised at the i tnmb)er of persons absorbed inl the lu >bby. Stamp collecting is no longer 1school boy pastime. It has become e. serious occupation of thousands of it rsons, the most of whom, as I find by ri perience, are far past their youthful 11 Lys. You have no idea of the avid ity r ith which they scrape together these ld-looking stamps, and the large prices Cy are willing to pay for them. I es t,e heard of some who keep their li amp albums lulder double lock, and v others who even keep them under i eir pillows at night. Stamp collect g is the most alluring of holbies. hero are 0,500 ditfer stamps known. t lie value of certain single stamps is 1. tul to many a1 person's yearly income. C; loading banker, whose residence is in o adison avenue, hats --anl albul of amps worth at the lowest estimate 0,000. Another albun, wne(ld by a dy, is valued at $25,000. 1 could i 11e several more, varying in value 11 om11 $20,000 down to $5,000." 41 "Well, some are enthusiastic, an.1 .hey b) flect stamps from pure love of the re andia( curious. Just as m1anv expend rtunes on rare manuscripts a11ad works fl art. Others, and I believe they con- l ise the larger class, have more chatrac- al ristically American views. They see sl e almighty dollar behind these tiny sl etures, and they buy them up for the .me reason that 41 keen Wall street 0 an buys up stocks which he knows ti ill bring profitable returns. From T so to five years will double the value nearly every one of these stamllps, anl(d ese collectors know what they are )ing when they invest largely in the ticle," fl "Are corners in the stamp market u )sible?" "Certainly; many collectors are at 'esent buying up all the match box id medicine revenue stamps which dl iss out of use in J uly. They hope in ) few years to create a corner in the t< arket and get them off their hands att i liense prices. We sold 41 match-box amp yesterday for $15." P "What collections have been sold at P )tably large prices?" 1: "There owas one sold in London in '1 170 for ?8,000. Another sold in Paris tl, st fall for 40,000 francs. We our Ives have sold several $5,000 collec :ns. This mnay surprise you, but re- g ember that some of these little stamps tI 11 for more than $200. There is one i the old local stamlps issued by the r rattleboro, Vt., post ofilce ill 1846. r would 'not sell it to-day for less l an $200. We have mnany othIers of of [ual value. Th'1e stamp11s which arie ii oat in demalnd and1( bring thle highest cc - iere the pr1ovliiona4l stamilps issuedl , 01m 1844 t.o 18463 by the Postmasters of 1ltimor01e, St. Louis and Blrattleboro, 41 ere is the Baltimore staImp--a simplle si 11111 of single lines~ enclosing a fac- o: nile of the autograph of James10 1 ulchana4n. T1hie St. Lou01is stamp11 dis-: atys tile armsll of the State of Missouri ith 'St.. Louis' and1( the large lnmber vailuie above, and 'P. 0.' below. The ~ rattleboro stamp consists of the auto- b) -aphic inlitils 'T1. N. P.' inl an1 octagont ir otund of verticall lines, with ']Brattle- j >r~o' above anid 'P. 0.' at the sides. .1 nty of these can1 be sold1 for $200." '.It is sa1id,"' the rep)orter reaarkedI, t' halt mnly rareI~ stamp11s halve their dl rthiplatce in stampil factories in ChIicago I 1(d other enlterprisinlg towins.' '"ThIatI la ot true. Stampll counlter.. iting 114s been entirely broken up in .0 United States since we overturned e of the concerns ini Philadelphia ini a 70, and1( had the proprietor seniteneedn State Prio for twenty yearn. 2e- hi los, the stampll dcailers are. genlerally A parts, and( can1 110 more be deceived couniterfeit, stamps1) than11 the ban11k 0 11er by couniterfeit ban11k nuotes." "When and where did this Imainia for r 111mp collectinIg begini?" v '"It may be salid t,o halve originated in b andon in 1802, wvhen Mount Browni, sq., pullisheOd the fIrst list of p)ostage Flmpls. D)r. J. E. Gray, of the British useum, followed with a1 simiilar and1( ore complete work in the same year, bieso works wore widely road excited ' uch curiosity, anld caused diousandlsr become stamp collectors. The malnia p Lint on1 increalsing unitil aIt p)resenlt I a1 n safely say~ there ar1e more thanl a Illion persons seriously devoted to col 001n1 stamps.I c< It appears Irom some statements on exieo in 1882 that some of the gold id silver mines there have been worked ci ainterruptedly since the Spanishi eon- s iest. During the time that Mexico vi is a Spanish colony, that is from 1587 et 1821. the mines produced silver to 111 e value of $2,086,268,708, and gold to p e value of $68,768,411. Since the exican independence was established ~ 1821, down to the year 1880, the 1P nes produced silver to the value of w '00,658,809, and gold -to the valdie of tI 8,418,788. Tis yields a grand total 01 r the production of silver and gold in I exico between 1587 and 1880 of $8.-i 5,110,219, or upwards of ?600,000,- a" 0. Another computation, based on ki .e report of the Mexican Mint, gives a ph na ewhat higher total than this, w A Lost Professlon. The astonishing exploit of the safe. plunderers who hltrrowed through the wall of a buildihig into a bank in. New Orleans, gagged and bound the watch man and robbed the strong box was the theme of a conversation recently With a veteran detective. He said there.was a pal,tllel to this in the adventure about four years ago of Charley Adams and George Mason, who is now under indict ment In this city for a recent conspiracy to rob a safe, and that happily Philadel phia banks had not been exposed for several years past to the danger pf an onslaught of the same -kind., 4.damns and Mason ha4 turmeled through waill into the Cnlbridge (Mi.ii 7t%int1gs I mud building when they were attacked by watchmen and policemen *d were taken after a desperate tight, in which * Mason was shot. "Do you think it would he possible," he was asked, "to repeat the Kensing-' ton Bank adventure, for instance?" "I don't think so although it is al ways the unexpected that happens. I say no for the principal reason that the , old generat.ion of desperate men who / organized and formed the bands are either dead, in prison or have refor . The smantrtest man by all odds I the profession of bank robbing was orge L lloward, knownit as Sheeny G orge. Ile had all the science, skill and lowl edge necessary to make such enies successful. IIe knew as much bout hocks as the safe manufacturers hem selves. 1le was a natural geniu No sooner would a new combinatio safe lock come out than lie would bi one through his agents and at once dis. ct it and discover the weak points o its IItelanism. Ile seemied to 1ind m hy% Instinct. WYhen lie was slain tl was nobody to take up his sceptre. 0 Jiml y 1lope was pretty skilfulat opera. ting locks, as the manipulations of the locks in the Manhattan Savings Bank in New York showed. Ile and Ned Lyons worked the safe in the old Navy Yard, In this city, years ago, and it took Ned Tryon and Ned Carlin nearly a day to pick up the tumblers in the lock and open the door. But Hope is in prison in California for a few years to come. " Ike Marsh is another good one; but he is an old man now being over sixty, and, besides, lie is in the Eastern Peni tentiary for a few years yet, for partici pation in the robbery of the Wollsboro llank. INe was a daring express train robber. Old Allan Pinkerton, who is writing up a book of rogues, wanted Ike's life from his own petn, but Isaac is too fly. lie is one of the nurses in the sick ward and is spoken of as a gentle, attentive one. Broekie George was under his care for a time and died in the P'enitentiary. lie too, was one of the old gang and had a hand in the Kensing ton Bank robbery. lied Leary, Billy Contors, Sitting Draper, yes, and several more good ones might be counted uip who have dropped the jimmy, the drill and the powder can and manage to live now by som e other means. Jimmy Irving has just come out of the Eastern Peni tentiary and his partner, Billy Porter, is in the Brooklyn Penitentiary." The veterat chewed his cigar, reflectively, before he responded to an inquiry as to the cause for the immunity of Philadel phia batnks from raids, such as marked Mayor Fox's adtinistration and the early part of Mayor Stokicy's term. "Greater vigilance, I suppose on the part of the banks. The employment of imtido and outside night wat chmen, tele graphic conmunication, thne locks and stronger vaults. The Kensington Iattnk robbery was a cotuplete success, but I dhon't believe It could be repeated. Then there wias the attempt on the Corn 1Ex chantge Bank, which came ttear to beinig a success. Pote Bhirns putt upi thtat job because the bank had obtainted judgment,L and1( forced htimn to make good several thtousand dollars which had been obtin ed oni forged drafts. The cracksumen were gointg itn and out of the building for nights, attd had their tools and a dummnhty watchman stored In an uppe. rootm. They were waiting for a millhion. "' Two experts, who were not ini the job at all, but wore on their way to Wood bury, .N. J., to do abit of work for thoma selves, were arrested on the street. early itt the mtornintg and wvere run in aned p)ut away on suspicion of havintg designs on the Coirn .1xchtange. Then there was the aittemupt on the Southwark Banik, which was defeated because the mn wvho wats on waitch got drunk and wet asleep1 ott a housetop and failed to signtal to the workmetn when to begin op)era tionis on thte departture of the watchiman. The Consolidation Bank would htavb heeni plundered, too, butt for the j Inglitng Of a dloor-boli. 'JThe thieves had rented anm adjoining building and had Knocked a home throumgh the bank wall and htad. all of their Implements in there. They hteard the boll amid supposed the watch mtan hatd returned and they fled, leaving everythitng behind them. I know of a Chestnut street bank which employed otnly one watchmtan, an old, decrepit follow. I've seen him sound asleep itt a chtair, with the (door wide open, on imyii) a ntight. How that bank escaped being robbed I don't know. There was another thtat had two ancient watchmen. One of them would let the ether omut early tm the mnornhiig to go buy policy slips. There was ani opening here for the muon whio worked the Kensington Bank. It would have been the easiest tlhng in the world for a gatig to rap at the door and get admittance about the time the old fel low was to return. It is a fact not known outside of detective circles that a job was put up a few years ago to rob. the United States Mint. The attempi on thte S3ub-Treasury in The Custom House butilding, In 1879, failed only be cause the cracksmeni maede a mnistake anid got into the vault~ yhieri pennies were stored, hasteadof that'hioldmg gold comns. The goverment-htd to getinew looks and new-safe doorm The kesding banks-all. haye hngde and ota~ige, w tch men now'. Thte latter lport every ou . and have to recoed thei fih6its by iitell tale clock." Witty sayIg are as easily.lost a the pearls slippig off a broktn atting, but a -word-o kinidnesh lsoeo spoken in vain. Itt is a *eed wioh even when dropped by chance, apring up as a Ilower Saimon Canning. Astoria, a little "salmon" town at the touti of the Columbia, on the ocean, Iso makes some pretensions to being to "future great." It is.the oldest >wn hero, having been established as a ading post in 1811. It is a wierd-look ig place, built on the side of a lill slop ig to the ocean. Its chief Industry Is ioncm fishing and canning. The fish ig season begins about the middle of pril mnd lasts four months. Then these talmion towns" go to sleep for the re aindor of the year, like sunmner resorts. ho bay at1lit..ilhmuthl of the Cohunbi Aver is very stormy during the fishing louths, and loss of life is frequent. 'he fishermon are mainly Greeks,Portu uese, Russians, Finns and Scandinay mns. Some have their own boats and Ats, whi.e others ale supplied by their uployers. These who have their own sits and nets are paid 60 cents a sal .on of eight pounds weight; the hitter 'e paid 45 cents a salmon. A "(war" is also broken out aiiong the canneries. ne large establishineit anin uilicos thatt will give 90 cents a salmon. The se of 50 per cent, creates eonsteriation nong the canning establishments, and sduces their profits to nearly nothing. he man1 who is so extravagant is inter. It('d in eailel'ies on the Materaiienlto iver, where the spring run of fish is my light. This indtcemeinnt will at act independmet fishermen from the teraunento and ',moln competition lere. As fishermleu a le emplloyed near ill the year ont the Sacrauento, they in work ehleaper, amid the reduced price material and cost, of living enables to Sacramento Camner to ean for about ) per eit. less; yet lie sells very little any cheaper than the Columbia can +r. Some of the leading canning trmns Astoria have frona seventy-five to 100 It.. It. is designed to nmako Astoria i hIeah]ta1rters of the Cauinning business it it is chealper to seino saInon there I'n to eIt ch them furt her up the stream lid hring them11 back by boat. Tle nelt are very fat;, and canning smoked nelt. is 010 of the growing ilustries I' that fishy town. ''he spiced trout le wiso Eastenetrs get, from the far 'est aire only a species of salmon. There are thirty-six canneries on the oliubia River. They turn out fr" m 00) to.25,000 cases each. The total >r the season 1882 was 535,000 cases, 'liich at. an average of $5 20 per case oul(1 make the total value of the in ustry $2,782,000. The shipmentt: irect to forign ports were 3344,328 cases, ing about double the number shipped SSaMn Franlcisco, the East and islands i the Pacifle. Several vessels wore dis itched from Astoria direct to Liver >l, with whole or part, cargoes of sal on, one vessel taking 70,000 cases. he est,imated capital invosted in can -ries is $2,000,000, and during the four onithis' fiKhing season employment Is ven to about 7,000 menl. In the (is lit future it is proposed to establish a itcltery, when instead of turning out )0,000 cases yearly three or four times at numiber will 1e caunniec. ''h muni salmon ini the Columbia River Is re arkable, and4 seems to be inexhaustible maiiderinlg the lax ity' of the law in re irdl to the delstruct.ioni of fish by traps idi wvheels. T1his systemi of wholesale auighter and( waniton (destrucetioni brinigs i another "'war'' between the c'annlers idl the free-booter's. T1her'e Is a law 'ohibitiing llshinig from Saturdlay until [onday, in order to allowv the fish to as5 mud to) their nalt,ural spawninlg grounds, it, the b.uccaneer#4, with their wvhoel of on sp)ikes, viohle it with impunity. arg' <Ittantities of tin for' miakiing cansi '0 impijortedl direc0t, from England to uls poinite-4hiis industiry hiaviing Iitro utced a dhirect tirade with England. 'lily oni Lini platte, less 10) per cent, is 'funided to cannercs oni their mnakinig roper enitry at the Portlanid (Custom [ouise at the timie of miakinmg foreign iipmnent,. (Cheimic'als requiiired for canm in g are4 also 11por j))d0(. Sahnoni canin1g is given ani impe)0tus to boat-butildlng at storial. A few years ago nearly all the fishing boats were built1 at Sani ri'i Csco. Severa'~l bioat--shops wereO 'cenitly establhishied at Astoria, and last 'inter turn'Ied out an aggregate of 300) oit s. F'loweru mur Cumting. If 3'o1I car'0e oclit manliy flower's for se ini the house-andl almost everybody hlo loves them wants flowers In every >omn (luring the seasoni-it is a goodl Ian to have aL corneri exp)ressly for "odds id ends," from which you can cut, ithout feeling that you are taking from to beauty of the garden beds. In this wner you can sow such seeds as may be ft, after sowlig In the beds IIero you mi puit out cuttings fromi the beddig ants, and( "strike" the branches you it off from your house p)lanits In the ring when you p)ut them out on the iranuda for the summer. Nothing wIll >me amiss. In a short time you will wve a brilliant bed of miscellaneous ants, and time more flowers youi cut the ore there will seem to be. There Is a culiar charm about those out of the ay corner gardens that I fall to find In iO more orderly beds in the garden or the lawn. P'erhaps It Is because there a total lack of formalIty and prImness, d such a general fraternizIng of all nids of flowers that the .very atmos ere of the place Is- redolent of good Ill amnd ealiy.