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rnrERAxcE NEWS AND NOTES.

New York's reform Police Commissioners
declare that SALOONS are not proper places
to frequent.
Thirty-two Irish members OF the House OF
Commons are directly and indirectly inter-
estei in the liquor traffic.
In one year over one million dollars worth
of property was destroyed by the failures OF
beer drinking engineers and switchmen.
Miss Kate Lunden has organized Woman's 8
Christian Temperance Unions Of Scandina-
Wan women in Brooklyn and New York.
Vital force, heat force, motor force. nerve
force and muscular force are all impaired by
the influence OF doses Of alcohol.-Dr. N. s.
Davis.
Expert bartcndors estimate sixty-three
drinks to the gallon. On this estimate there
we're 5,G04 0G2 ,S91 drinks Of whisky made in
this country last year.-W. c. T. U. Bulletin.
At 4 recent important public ceremony, Of
which the Duke and Duchess of Teck were
the central figures, three ladies OF the aris-
tocracy drank her Najesty'S health in cold
water.
On the cornerstone OF the London Tem-
perance Hospital, laid by Sir Wilfrid Lawson,
is this inscription: sin humble dependence
on Almighty God for euro in the treatment
Of disease"
The report on temperance OF the General
Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church con-
tanned declaration that tho "unfermented
fruit Of tho vino fulfllls every condition N
observing tho sacrament" Also recon-
mcndation that everything be done to, keep
drinkers out of Government, State and
municipal Offices, and resolution declaring
that 1.-THE time has now como to make our
influence felt directly and with power, and
voters are urged to vote against the granting
of licenses
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Surprising as lt may seem, however,
IN view Of the fact we have mentioned,
Mr.. Stanmore was entirely unknown
personally on Wall street, and he never
visited the Offices of the business firms
we have mentioned.
All Of this smacked Of mystery, and
there was much more in the doings Of
Mr.. Stanmore that seemed to be mex
plicable.
Very much to Mr.. Garrison's surprise,
the day following the night Of the muir
der and robbery drew to close, and no
one from Pratt & Weeks called upon him
to demand the money he owed them.
In view Of the fact that Mr.. Pratt had
insisted that the $4,000 must positively
be paid that morning at an early hour,
If the debtor wished to avoid unpleasant
consequences, Mr.. Garrison thought it
was remarkable that he had not heard
from him.
Pratt had hurried away from the
brokers' Office without exchanging q
word with Mr.. Garrison.
Edna had been Informed by her father
of Stuart's imprisonment, and the de-
voted girl received the evil news bravely,
for she was sustained by the belief that
innocence would triumph.
Jason Garrison was in state Of in
tense nervous excitement and alarm.
He shut himself up in his library, and at
every unusual sound he started appre-
hensively, as though he was in momen-
tary expectation Of the occurrence Of
some terrible calamity.
At nightfall, as he was looking over
the evening paper, he suddenly leaped
to his feet, and exclaimed, excitedly:
Can this be true! Can this be truel"
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''Not at many as you would think, ~

'Not at many as you would think, ~
replied the guide. "We have coined
422, 600, 900 of these dollars, and the
number in circulation isnow only 53,
600, 1000. The people don't seem to
want 'em. We've done everything we
could to induce the people to take the
standard dollar. Congress has appro-
priated money nearly every year to
enable the Secretary of the Treasury
to send out silver dollars in exchange
for other money without expense to
the people, but it doesn't seem to
make any difference. They don't 60.
Why, the number of standard dollars
in circulation now is much smaller
than it was few years ago. Instead
of inducing the people to take more
of the dollars, they have actually been
sending them back to US.
"Do you know how much the Gov.
eminent has paid out for silver?"
asked the stranger.
ITO cent" replied the guide, con.
sulting a little notebook which he
drew from his pocket. "We have
bought SOB, ,0O3,811 fine ounces, for
which we have paid S516, 623, OIL.
That is an awful lot of money"
By this time every man and women
in the crowd was listening intently to
what the guide had to say.
"Now, if you have seventeen oi
these silver dollars" he went on, "you
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THE GOLD VAULT.

with this silver. The boxes burst and
the bags get rotten, and then when a
new Administration comes in we have
to we gh it oil. 1t takes US about
three month to do the job, and it's
dreadful hard work" L"
"Does this vault contain all Of
Uncle Sans silver?' asked the
stranger.
"Ob, no, bless you, no" responded
the guide. "Here We have only SlO3,
240, 900 IN coined dollars. That is
less than fifth of all the silver the
Government owns. In vault Nc. .
vou passed that on your way in-we
have S4S, 100000. In smaller vaults
We have IL few millions more. We
never could find space tor oil Uncle
Lam's silver here. We are frightfully
crowded as it is. In all We have
here 16O,OOO,OO0 or 170,000,O00 of
silver dollars. The remainder of the
37O,OOO,OO0 of coined dollars owned
by the Government is in tbs subtreas-
uries at New York, Chicago and other
cities"
"You say Uncle Sam has more than
500, 900, 900 of silver dollars on hand?'
eyes, sir. Standard dollars, 37O,-
600, 900, and silver bullion enough to
make IT'S, 900. 900 more; grand total,
s54s, OOO,O ,OOO."
"But there must be a lot OF silver
dollars in circulation asked the
stranger.
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The TaTantula.

The tarantula is a giant spider,
sometimes measuring four inches in
length. 1t is fawn.colored above, with
white sides, marked with whitish
lines.
It has four pairs of well-developed
legs, in addition to the msndibles or
jaws, which contain the poison appara-
tus. These are grooved, aud the pois-
onous secretion, which is. similar in
composition to the venom of snakes,
is contained in q gland at the base of
the mandibles and is forced through
the grooves when the spider is angry
and grasps its victim. The body and
legs are thickly covered with hair.
Although the bite of the tarantula
can hardly be classed as deadly, it is
always extremely painful, and has
probably IN some cases caused death.
The tarantula is remarkable both
for it's ferceness and its e1traordin-
ary swiftness. By the use of eight
long and vigorous legs it flashes over
the ground, and as these legs are sharp
and prehensile, it can run up per-
pendiculur surface with great ease.
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How to Make a Novel Mouse Trap.

Mice are very knowing little ani-
mails and are often too shrewd to be
caught by even the best steel trape.
To make a very effective mouse trap
take large jar-the kind used for
jam and preserves--and tie over the
top piece Of stiff brown paper. In
the center of this cut Cross. Set the.
jar in closet and suspend by string
piece of toasted cheese or bacon,
rind over the centre. If the mice
cannot easily reach the top of the jar,
a runway may be constructed by plac-
ing one end of a board on the edge Of,
the jar and allowing the other end to
rest on the floor. If there are any
mice about the bait will attract
them. Just as soon as the first mouse
reaches the centre of the paper he
will drop through into the iar, and the
paper will fly back ready for the next
conner. rs
The same kind OF trap may be
used for catching rats, only barrel
must be substituted for the jar. A.
rat will soon gnaw out Of such trap
if not prevented. The best way to
avoid this is to fill the barrel partly
with water. This trap is great fa-9
vorite with country people. They lay
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can easily hold them in your hand
They weigh just about pound. But
if you have thousand dollars you will
have about all you could carry, OF
sixty pounds weight. Now suppose in.
stead of thousand silver dollars you
have a million. That means thirty tons
of silver. To haul it through the
smooth streets of Washington in our
big Treasury. wagons would take twelve
or fifteen wagons. Now, do you grasp
what million means? And then re-
member that Uncle Sam has 548, 900,
900 of silver.
"Let us look at it in smother way.
Take eight silver dollars and place
them in row on the table, flat, rim
to rim. They will reach just foot.
If you have thousand dollars placed
in the same way they will reach 125
feet. But suppose you have million.
Then they will make white streak
more than twenty-three and one-half
miles long.
"Having now secured better ap-
probation of the magnitude of mill
ion," the guide continued, "let me
give you some figures have made at
odd moments about the 5000, 600
silver dollars Uncle Sam has in these
and his other vaults.
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IF all of these dollars were placed

IF all of these dollars were placed
rim to rim, fiat, they would reach
nearly 13, 900 miles.
"They would cover oil the space be-
tween the rails on a railway line clear
across the State of Iowa, distance OF
$50 miles.
"The weight of all Uncle Sans sill.
yer is l6, 40 tons. If it were loaded
into railroad cars, 10000 pounds to
the car, we should have S22 car loads.
This would make twenty trains OF
forty.one cars each, and these trains,
with their locomotives, would have an
aggregate length of six miles.
"The coined dollars arc packed in
boxes containing $4,000 each. 1t is
about all q man can do to carry of one
of these boxes. Suppose we want to
move all of Uncle Sans silver by man
power ut the same time, we should
need at this rate 274, 900 men. Civ
ing each man five feet of room, they
would make single procession more
than $50 miles.
eff the Government were forced to
carry all the silver across country IL
wagons probably 1000 pounds woulG
be fair load to each two-horse team,
taking good roads or bed roads. Six
teen thousand teams would be re-
quired, and when on the road close
together, one after another, they
would make q caravan considerably
more than hundred miles long.
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against sneak thievery, tunneling ant
other forms of burglary.

= ether forms of burglary.
The most interesting part of the
show is the big silver vault. There
are in all seven vaults in the Treas
ury, and the total amount of gold, sil-
yer, notes and bonds in them is nearly
00,000,000. But it is "the big sil-
yer vault" that all the visitors want to
see. They have heard oft and its di'
mensions, and they are curious to be-
hold it with their own eyes.
"Great Jehosophat!" exclaimed q
stranger, with bulging eyes, as he
stood at the door to this vault; ''csn't
be possible all that stuff in there is
silver? Why, it is as big as a meet
ing-house.
Eyes, it's all silver, replied the &C.
commodating and intelligent guide.
"This big vault occupies all the space
under the northern courtyard of the
Treasury building. Its exact measure
ment is eighty-nine feet long, fifty.
one feet wide, and twelve feet high.
Behind the iron grating you see
wooden toxes. They are all full of
silver-s2O00 in each box. The boxes
are piled all around the edges, and in
the middle are bags of silver piled in
q great heap. We have lots of trouble
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Don't Foil to Twirl Your Thumbs.

A physician in charge of we'll
known asylum for the care Of the in-
sane recently said: 'There is one in
fallible test either for the approach or.
the presence of lunscy. If the per-
son whose case is being examined is
seen to make no use of his thumb, II
he lets it stand out at righ: angles
from the hand, and employs it neither
in sslutation, writing. nor any other
manual exercise, you may set it down
as q fact that that PERSONS mental
balance is gone. He or she may COM
verse intelligibly,, may in every re-
spect be guarding the secret of mind
diseased with the utmost care and
cunning, but the teltale thumb will
infallibly betrsy the lurking madness
which is concealed behind plausible
demeanor. 1.-The Scotsman.
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eff these teams were lined up side
by side in solid phalanx, as the wagons
of settlers were on the borders OF the
Oklahoma strip, they weuld make o
column thirty miles long.
"Suppose all this silver was coined
and stored away loose, so you could
get at it easily, and you were set count
ing it, dollar by dollar. How long do
you suppose it would take you to
count it all? Yell, if you ran the
dollars through your fingers at the
rate of 100 minute and worked ten
hours day, excepting Sundays, it
would take you about thirty years to
finish the Job. It's now u o'clock,
ladies and gentlemen. and the vaults
will have to be closed, under the rules
Of the Department. Chicago Times
Herald.
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TREASURE VAULTS.
WHERE UNCLE SAM KEEPS HIS
GOLD AND SILVER.
An Enormous Quantity Of Bullion
and Coins In the Treasury Build
ing-Odd Figures as to the
Bulk Of the Silver.

TN the National Capital there is no
spot more attractive to strangers
! than the big vaults of the Treas
ury Department. These vast re-
positories of gold and silver are
among the curiosities of the town.
They rank in interest with the Wash
ington Monument, the Dead Letter
Office and the echo stones of the Capi.
tol. Every day, between the hours OF
10 and 12, swarms of strangers descend
the damp, dark staircase in the big
Treasury building to the realms OF the
precious metals. A guide accompanies
them, and as the visitors peer through
the iron grating at the steel safes
holding gold, or the wooden boxes
containing silver, the guide delivers
for their benefit a most entertaining
lecture. He tells them how much Of
each kind of money in each vault, the
nature of the precautions adopted
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be-. He replied that II we did So he was
ruined; that his aunt was particularly
opposed to stock speculating, and that
she had often warned him against it,
saying that her money should never be
risked in that way. In fact, Harland
stated that he feared his aunt would dis
inherit him Il she found him out.
1T was my wish to give the young
man time, for I pitied him, but my
partner is hard man and he was mex
orable. Mr.. Harland had mortally Of
Tended him in some way, and hevowed he
would have his money or he would make
the exposure Harland dreaded.
"Harland declared that he had no way
to pay the money, but he obtained my
partners promise not to move IN me
matter until to-day. Now, 1t seems to
me almost certain that his motive for the
murder and the robbery was to obtain
the money to pay US, and thus save him
self from the loss Of his aunt's fortune,
which might have resulted from an ex-
posure.
Thus Pratt concluded.
Harland had listened In silence, but
his eyes flashed, and his rage was be-
trayed in his face.
You are liar and scoundrel, Dan
Pratt!" he exclaimed. You are con-
spring to ruin me. You hold my note
for thousand dollars. If it purports to
be for more, it has been tampered with.
Moreover, the note I can meet to that
amount, as have the money on deposit
in bank and meant to send you cheque
to-day"
Poor young man. He is plunging
into the depths Of falsehood and decep-
tion," said Pratt, in mournful tone.
. ave have found out his motive. The
case is clear now," muttered the police
sergeant
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q good-sized stone or brick in the bot
tom of the barrel, and pour in just
enough water to come level with the
top OF this. The first rat that tum.
bles in. of course, climbs on the brick
to get out of the water. As soon as
another victim arrives there is fight
for possession of the only dry spot.
The noise attracts other rodents, so
by morning dozen or more may be
swimming and squealing and fighting
for dear life.
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TEMPERANCE.

THE CUP THAT NATURE FILLS
Praise the cup that nature fll1
Brimming to the brink;
Giving health and curing ills.
Blessed, precious drink.
Sing against the fiery bowl
Potent to destroy
Health and home. and heart an6Boul,
Every earthly JOY.
Edward CarsWeQ.
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No one need therefore be surprised to
see tarantula run up from the ground
to his chin.
The tarantula catches small birds,
mice and insects. 1t is able to use it's
poison with greater relative effect on
these than on man and other large ami.
mails.
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A JUDGES TESTIMONY.

In an address before tho Minister'S Union,
ut Cleveland, Judge Logue, Of that city, bore
his testimony to the relation OF drink and
crime He had been Judge of the Police
Court for four years, and during that time
10000 cases had come before him. "Last
year." he said, ':of the cases brought before
mo 1897 were cases Of intoxication, the
smallest number for any year during my
term Of 6fflcc. The year before there were
1850 and previous to that $3.50. Four-ffths
of all tie cases brought into court were the
result Of intoxicaton. While the charge on
which the offense was examined may have
been other than intoxication, the evidence
brought out the fact that the use OF liquor Is
responsible for all but small per cent. OF the
crime that is conmitted."
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SAVED FROM LCNACY.

citation, says. in a letter in the London
Times on "Prisons and Sentences" "In
visiting prisons have again and again been
assured that coming to Jail prevents many
offenders from going mad; for 1t is the drink
that chiefly makes them insane. Here they
get no alcohol, and hence many are saved
from lunacy. Certainly they get better IN
jail rather than worse; and thereis no danger
whatever Of cellular separation for short
terms iniuring prisoners minds"
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their SPY, that is clear, he thought.
When he arrived at Garrison's office,
again, he did not Immediately enter the
building, and while he stood before 1t,
he saw Pratt approach and gain entrance
to the office. He then entered himself,
as stated.
At the conclusion Of the inquest, the
mysterious old gentleman, who was Sc
cretly interesting himself in the case OF
John Oakburn's murder, walked to
Broadway and took the omnibus to the
Astor House, for at this date Jacob
Astor had not made his successful inno-
vation, and there were no horse cars on
the great business thoroughfare OF the
great city.
Some weeks previous to the occurrence
Of the incidents thus far recorded, the
old gentleman had arrived at the hotel,
and registered the name, Richard Stan
more"
Mr.. Stanmore seemed to be a stran-
ger in the city, but to have great deal
OF business with Wall street business
men.
Particularly intimate were his COM
mercial relations with the firm Of Messrs.
Marks & Buck, accommodation loan
brokers, who had established themselves
on Wall street q year previous. Also
with Judson, Kirk & Son, another Wall
street firm largely interested in various
mining and railway speculations.
There was another firm, not on Wall
street, with whom Mr.. Stanmore was
evidently on the best Of business terms.
The firm in question was that Of Ben
jamln & Co., a Jewish money-lending
house which negotiated large loans, and
to them in secret many Wall street
operator had been glad to come for finan-
cial aid when the market took long run
"the wrong way"
Almost every evening representative
Of each Of the firms mentioned was clos
eted with Mr.. S.anmore in his apart
ments in the hotel
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DEFMNn< GNltNl..LD.

4. J. Alkuns, OF Milwaukee,, says tho Mur.
dorOd President was LoTRi TO Sherman.
MILWAUKEE, Ort. 9O-To an Ascot.
atod Pres, reporter A. ]. Aiksns, Of the
Evening Wisconsin, said yesterday:
al attended the national RsDublican
convention that nominated james A.
Garfield for president ia 1880, aud was
present at all sessions hoard all the
nomination speeches, and remember
particularly this speech OF Mr.. Garfield
nominating john Sherman in behalf OF
the Ohio delegation. The opening OF
the speech was such that no man who
heard it can forget IL; not ONLY the
matter but the manner OF Mr.. Garfield
In the opening Of hs speech Indicated
great zeal, truthiulncss and oRrnestusss
10 his nomination Of Senator sherman.
There was no sentence in any OF tho
speeches compared in my idea TO the
opening sentence Of that speech.
"Ihe bNllnIIng went on from day to
day until the thiriy.sixth ballot, when
Mr., Garfield was nominated with a
whoop and hurTah, ~ everyone knows.
The night before tho nomination l
called on Mr.. Garfield with view to
securing his consent tn accept the
nomination II rendered to him. MIR.
Gardsld's manner in rejecting all over.
lures could not be mistaken by any
man who heard such an interview as
had with him. And IL is due to tho
truth OF history and the memory OF Mr..
Garfield that he made no trade or ar,
rangement by which no should receive
the nomination. lie was taken M by
the Whirlwind, as autumn leaves. and
carried into the Presidential chair
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