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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-02-05

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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-02-05
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-02-05
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1896-02-05
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lamentable farces indulged in to-day are the stories that have been printed of late of the extraordinary strength of these reeeptacles for gold, and the length of time it would take profess sional bank burglar to open one. It would consIfme about five minutes of "Old Bill' Vosburg's time, with his trusty kit of safe-cracking tools, to get into the strongest specie room on board of our transatlantic steamers; for in truth, they are but little stronger than those in which the delicacies in charge Of the head steward are stored.
 Until about a decade ago all specie rooms were located within the mail- rooms of ocean steamers. These mail rooms, almost without exception, were located well astern, just abaft the stern hatchway and between the first and sec ond decks, or just above the hold. The specie rooms were generally made of thin boiler iron, with door of the same material secured with two wrought iron cross-bars, which were padlocked at the ends into sockets. The mail-room was as usual thing linedwith sheet iron over timber on three sides, while the third side was generally the surface of a bulkhead, or one of the solid iron par titions which separate the hulls of all modern steamships into water-tight compartments, for the sake of safety. The Fuerst Bismarck, of the Hamburg line, is about the only vessel whose specie-room is located within it's mail- room that can make any valid claim to security so far as this is dependent on steel walls and bolts and bars. The mail-room on this vessel is located abaft cf the after hatehway, pretty well to the stern of the vessel, under the intermedi- ate saloon. The speaie room is of steel and the door is we'll sacured, while the mail-room itself is stronger than usual. The heavy steel door of the latter opens directly into the after hatchway, and the gold, which is invariably shipped in boxes 15 inches long by 12 inches wide and 10 inches deep, is lowered by means of block and fall, upon the end of which is a common sling, which as itreaches the door of the mail-rooIn is quickly pulled inside and emptied of it's precious bur den; then it returns for another box, while the former one is stored away within the strong room in ship-shape fashion.
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artists and belonging to the sane social circles, these young ladies looked upon their sittings as a huge joke, and wor- ried the life out of their depictors by the levity with which they treated the subject. Giggling, wiggling and wrig- gling, interspersed with any amount of gossip and airy persitlage, have com pelled many an artist to spend hours in merely getting an idea of the style of the gown, carriage and contour of his model. Then, if her features were not indelIibly impressed upon his brain, he secured her photograph and sketched in the head.
 Before long, however, posing became a more serious matter. Competition became sharp, and rivalry ran high. This accounts for the rupture of many friendships, for bitter backbitings and cataraets of tears shed in the privacy of beautifully appointed apartments. But the lnodistes and miliiners rejoiced and were glad Each young heiress model strove to outvie her rivals in the cut and variety of her costumes, just for the pleasure of seeing herself in print exactly as she appeared in the mirror at least 50 times before leaving
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The specie and mailrooms on board the Lucania and Campania, of the Cum ard line, are entirely separate, the former being located amidships on the lower deck under the grand saloon. while the mailroom is in the extreme stern of the vessel on the same deck. The writer by special permission re- gently visited the gold repository aboard the Lucania, which holds the record for quick passages at present. The location of the entrance was much of q surprise.
 The guide, who was one of the off, cers, after procuring the key from the captains cabin led the way-not down into the bowels of the big hull where the freight is stored, but into the grand sa- loon, with it's magnificent fittings and its stained glass sl1ylight many feet above. Pausing before the elaborate sideboard at the head of the central table, laden with its sparkling array of cut glassware, the officer stopped and seizing the corner of q costly Persian rug gave it tug that tore it from it's temporary fastenings, while waiter did the same to the opposite corner. As the rug was thrown back the bare deck planlsing was diselosed; and there, di- reetly under the spot where the head waiter dispenses rich wines during the voyage, was trap door about three feet wide and four feet long, swung on stout T hinges, while on the other edge was big ring sunlsen into it's socket. Fitting key which was no longer than one used on m ordinary door into the keyhole, he threw back the bolt, and with the assistance of the waiter raised the trap, which was of oak. heavily armored with iron on the inside. <
 We descended by means of a short ladder, and the great treasure house of one of the finest vessels afoat was dis closed. It was a room about 12 by 12I feet, three sides of which were of iron and one of wood-deal, which in Eng-i land corresponds to our pine.
 The floor and ceiling were of iron, for both are decks There were no bristling safes with massive doors and eombina- ton locks--a great disappointment to one who had expected to behold specie
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One on the Doctor.

A well-known physician tells good story on himself He had just arrived in town, and, not feeling we'll, had left his grip at the hotel and started out for stroll about nine o'clock, wear ing his travelling cap and with his coat we'll buttoned up. In the shadow stood a ragged man.
 Look here, mister" said he, T haven't had anything to eat tonight, Can't you help fellow7"
 Strange" replied the doctor, clap ping him on the shoulder. q haven't had a morsel, either, and do not know where will get my supper"
 The tone of his voice had such Q pathetic ring that the ragged man was touched.
 "Cheer up, old fellow" he said; "stick to me and I will see that you get good. square meal"
 The physician was now touched, and invited his new-1nade friend into the best restaurant in town, where the two sat down together and ate fine sup prr.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
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A MID-ATLANTIC HOLD-UP.
An Unthought-Of Risk Connected with Large Shipments of Gold.
Strange Lack of Precaution-what a Gang of Bold Adventurers Might Accom- plish- Millions Beneath the
 Head Walters Feet.
fcoPYRIGHr. 1896. l

Billions of dollars in gold are annually shipped across the Atlantic It is known to everybody; no attempt is ever made to conceal either the fact, CT the names of the ships which carry the precious burden.
 On the contrary, whenever a large shipment of gold is to be sent to our English cousins every paper in our principal cities ascertains the exact amount day or two in advance and publishes the news to the world When large amount of gold is to be shipped from San Francisco to New York the greatest secrecy is maintained until il has reached it's destination. No such sums are ever brought overland at one time as are sent across the seas. and yet men risk their own lives and delib- erately sacrifice those of others in hold ing up trains supposed to carry this golden treasure; and there is not q treasure train running in the country that is not more carefully fitted up with a view to disappointing train robbers than the fastest Atlantic steamer afoat.
 In fact, to anyone who has paid q visit to the specie rooms of any of OUT modern ocean greyhounds and seen the insecurity of the same it seems almost surprising that there has not come out of the west some enterprising gentle man of the Capt. Kidd stripe who, in- stead of holding up express trains for comparatively small paltry sums, would equip a steam yacht with Maxim and ether rapid-fring guns, and make q business of holding up transatlantic liners. After breaking open the specie rooms few times he might reeale him. self with enough American gold to al- low him to pose as a second count oe Monte Cristo for the remainder of his life. But this, in the whole history of navigation, has never been done ;; strange as it may seem, not a single gold coin or brick has ever been lost from a specie room on steamship in transit between the eastern and west. ern hemispheres, except by wreck CT collision.
 There are in reality but few steam ships afloat to-day which are provided with specie rooms that so much as de serve the name of "strong rooms, " to sa, nothing of vaults, and among the mos
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against the brown rocks or the white sand, are doubtless cut dowr by pru- dent mammas from cast-off uniform jackets.
 More legitimate as an instance of the effect of military environment is a bicycle costume I noted yesterday, blue flannel blouse and skirt bound with soldier red cord and girt about the waist thereof by broad sash of the same vivid hue; or the tennis jacket, so commonly adjusted after play in the cool Bermudan breeze, a jacket often fiery red with bright brass buttons; or flaming red golfng jacket, or even a ne1e red strap tucked as a compliment to Mars by Venus somewhere in a blue bodice. As for yachting costumes for Hamilton had a regatta of little sloops last week-the Ravy blue worn for the sailors) is almost as commonly trimmed with soldier red as with the traditional white. Why, even the sloops are red, though much darker, being built of the native cedar and finished in shellac.
 But I think the prettiest yachting costumes are those of pure white duck or pique, not more white than the pale green surf as it spends itself upon q beach of coral sand and steals it's tint; not half so bright as the surf-breaking on the coral reafs nine miles out in the apparently open sea.
 Something with a more individual note was worn by little brunette lin the signal service (by marriage). For it's skirt was creamy and its facings warm rose pink, prettier than any red, and the snug jacket pink, and the un- clerwaist cream chiffon, too cool look ing for water fete in the north.
 We have had tennis tournament in Happy Valley, too, though the season is rather too late for that; and the pret- tiest tennis gowns were white or al- most white, sprigged with small flow CTS, pale blue or pale pink, or with no flowers at all. Though one beautiful girl won admiration in Lincoln green and gold facings and one in scarlet and brown, and one in yellow and white. But pretty girl looks well in anything.
 Still, it will be so far a white summer that a white suit will be quite appro- priate for nearly any outing purpose.
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THEY POSE FOR PIN MONEY.
How Impoverished Bellies of High
 Rank Replenish Their Purses.
Fair Faces on Fashion Plates-For Society Scenes Society Girls Are Indispensable MOdels-some Pose for Fun
 and Some for Cash.
COPYRIGHT. f896.1

have often wondered where the cley- CT artists who design the great fashion cuts and society scenes, now so popular a feature in our best newspapers, find the really beautiful faces and poses which make these pictures so attractive. For long time fancied that they drew from imagination simply. Finally I in- yestigated the matter. It is not so.
 Posing as models for artists who de pict the society scenes of the metropolis is the latest branch of industry adopted by the daughters of the former Croes- uses of the Four Hundred. In almost every number of the most prominent and reputable periodicals may be seen the features and figures of some of New York's most charming blue-blooded belles. These young ladies commonly belong to families which have suffered
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in the past, and those-many of them my old subjects-who sit for pin-money in the present. The former fad was only one of those passing fancies which temporarily serve to divert the minds of the satiated seekers after pleas ure. Now the conditions have changed In the turn of fortunes tide many q belle has had her income considerably curtailed, and being unused to lack of lucre, casts about for means of re- plenishing her scantily-provided peck etbook. Of course there is not fortune in the business, but it keeps the young woman in bon bons, flowers and car. fare, without worrying papa dear for cash. In any other role than society figures they would be complete fail use, but in that branch they are indis- pensable."
 A charming young debutante, who has had considerable experience in pos ing, says that it is harder work than bargain hunting. But she naively adds, 'sit is easier than making bonnets or missing a matinee"
 The first systematic instruction on scientific principles for the deaf was begun by Bonet at Madrid in 1920.
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receptacles as strong 9s those of our new clearing house, which are said to be the finest in the world. A rap on the wooden sides gave forth a hollow sound, and it was very evident that boss-car- penter would have little trouble in get ting in with his ordinary kit of tools.
 It is not, however, the construction of the specie-room on board the Lucania that makes it secure, but it's location, which really renders it one of the safest imaginable. Situated directly under the feet of the walters who are in attend ance night and day, it would be impos- sible for anyone to enter through the trap-doors without alarming all on board. On the other hand, as there is water-tight bulk head on each side of it and the man-holes are always se- cured, it would take a very clever cracksman to gain entrance to it through the floor or sides without be- ing detected i'y the quick ears of tho custodian of the silver ware, who IS directly over the trap as he lifts about the buffet in the grand saloon. How ever, there is no telling what might have happened if, during that Septem- Der voyage, little over two years ag,, when $S,50o,000 were in that modest vault, a well-organized mutiny had been concocted among that vast crew of 409 able-bodied men, which, if successful. would have made everyone of them in- depencSntly rich for life
 Such thoughts as these, however, never seem to enter the heads of the bankers and g2ld shippers who are con- stantly sending such vast amounts back and forth across the Atlantic As was said in the beginning, when a large amount of gold is to be shipped overland the greatest secrecy is maintained un- til the treasure is safely housed within the almost impenetrable walls of the subtreasury. But when great amount of gold is to be shipped abroad it is at once reported on change, and in less than an hour it is in eyerybody's mouth. Even he name of the steamship is given, and the news is cabled to the other side in ample time for any bold buecaneer to head off the richly-laden vessel on the high seas. hold her ups and wrest from the hands of her off: cers the rich prize.
 Taken as whole, specie-rooms about trans-Atlanticl liners are not in strength one-half what they are thought to be.
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GLEN OSBORN.
AN OFFER.
The queer Proposal Addressed to the
 Mother of His Lady Love.

The Queer Proposal Addressed to the
 Mother of His Lady Love.
 4 quaint offer of marriage, written more than 100 years ago, is carefully preserved in the family of the young wooer's descendants. It was addressed not to the young woman herself, bua most respectfully and decorously to her parents. The father of the Betsy" re- ferred to had ten daughters, and as he was clergyman for 50 years in a small New England town, it may be surmised that his affirmative answer to spare his seventh" was as quickly assenting as it was final The wooer was also Q cler- gyman, and hn and his Betsy passed their entire married lives in the same pastorate, ministers of those days liv- ing and dying with their f1oclls. Here Is the lover's plea: Both reverend sir and worthy maiden, Soft wedlock's bands first was talked in
 Heaven
 When happy man In Eden dwelt alone, The smiling God. spouse did form of
 bone
 That friendship might their joyful souls
 inspire
 And knit their hearts in a seraphic fire. With wedlock chain wish myself to bind If from your lips the answer should prove
 kind
 Betsy, your seventh, I wish you to impart That we may join our hands as we'll as
 hearts.
 And live in love and share each others
 cares.
 While feeting lime whirls on with rolling
 years
 Till grizzly death dissolves the silIen chain That we may rise and mingIe souls again.
 Indianapolis Sentinel.
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home to keep the appointment at the

home to keep the appointment at the studio.
 Like every other fad, this fashion faded, and the buds turned their atten- tion to some new fancy. Then were the artists in despair Not that there was any dearth of models-far from it but they were not of the stamp to which the pencil-wielders had grown accustomed, and whose style had be- come indispensable to the character of the illustrations with which they were entertaining the public. Dress the pro fessionals as they would, pose them as they might, there was still missing that indefnable air of hauteur, insoueience, ennui or tenderness only to be found in those to the manor born. In other poses the professional models were perfection, but in a society scene they were as out of place as an amateur would be in the role of Venus de Mediei. The story of a celebrated artist whose visit to the Riviera some years ago brought him cruel marital disappoint- Inent stril1ingly illustrates this fact.
 While walking along the banks of stream, in search of a subject, he came upon beautiful glrl, in the costume of her country, engaged in the prosaic la bor of cleaning clothes and laying linen,
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Her beauty of face was supplemented by the perfection of her form, whicH was clearly defined in her working cos tune. Not only did the artist promptly draw her as she unconsciousiy posed but fell in love and married her. In his wife he imagined he would not only have a loving mate, but also a model worthy of any painters brush. But in this he was disappointed. Not only was she an uncongenial hostess for $ friends-she failed entirely as a study In her own sphere and unconscious of admiration, she was q success; ill her husbands luxurious studio, attired in garments to which she had never been accustomed her self-consciousness took away all her perfection. Sa, as wiGi. the poets and newspaper nlen, models must be 'born, not made''
 Most of the most prominent sociefy women of the present generation Of youthful matrons have posed for such celebrated artists as Berney, McVicl1a~ and Gibson; and the back numbers of many familiar publications contain the portraits of wellknown wives and mothers, sketcEed while they were stil. in their teens and enjoying the pleas ures of debutante's existence.
 When questioned on this subject, MT. Xerplank Rerney said:
 'The ways of women are past finding out. The society women who have posed for me may be divided into two classes; those who posed for pleasure
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financial reyerses; still, like the water lily, they manage to keep their heads above water-in the social swim Not that posing is a necessity with them; it is done merely for amusement and pin Snoney.
 WiShin the last few years it has be- come quite the custom for comparative ly impecunious members of the Ameri- can ''aristocracy'' to seek various means of self-suoport formerly regarded with scorn-th8 feminine contingent turning their attention largely to the manufaet- lure of hats and bonnets of fetching fashion or gowns of captivating cut The few men who have "gone into trade" except, of course, those who have boomed various brands of champagne in the resorts of the jeunesse doree- have taken to the growth and sale of flowers for those bouquets and bouton- nierres of which they were once the most lavish purchasers; but posing as models seems to be the most popular device with the daughters of the hard pressed financial, and therefore social, leaders in our principal cities.
 The origin of this new idea is easily discovered. Ever since the order called Society Artists" sprang into promi- hence through their pictures in such pa pers as Life, Truth and other periodi- calls devoted to light literature of a re- fined description, the society belle has been in demand as model. At first, being for the most part friends of the
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'rN oSBORN's LETTER.
. land cf Afternoon ana Of lp'ag s,r;res and Daughters.
a.rri.on Town-A Cleopatra q n d a symphony in Yellow
 UT .,e and Outing Gowns D'i fashions in Bermuda.
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 , Mermuda.-We are come 5Ialll'g l'ad where it is always after l'a ,and which hath, like Egypt,
 ' altar to repose," a land where 1n 1,n.situ6e, drifting up from the
 ,lnes si meets the rectangular ln-
 ipu ,airdiee of Britain and yields
 ? aoints while conquering it at land where Briton and West
 seartily agree upon one thing, # Wv wives and daughters. Wives s ,.,sbters, that is, are known not a'as assselves but by their relation
 slh some mere man. It may be s.5,q s but it is true.
 q. '.0, +,o pretty girls who came to din 'go gonnt Erie the other evening in ,. Fnglish dinner froelts of simple Y. rsre Misses Lyons and Erksine, <, hut it was added in a whisper s 's A.r were the daughters of the S ar .g. general and the admiral of the ssoectively. It was Mrs. Moore T. who played Mrs. EecIes" in Y at the military theater last !, evening". but hasten to add that | 1oore.Lane, who played the lead \, is the husband of the lady in s.'o5. r' and that the dramatic critic |Is, local semiweekly says he played |l s,rt splendidly, though the crit, s@ fun at the unhappy civilians ia A s4 who did about as well, so far .s,t what else could civilian expect & ,dicnle in an island whose only isef is in fort, and whose only tele s,slipe connects barracks instead of everywhere in Bermuda, I was
 at the theater, not so much by ,eing as b3 the large proportion of sditors present in evening dress.