The age-herald., 1900-03-18
"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"

Of the several dozen children, (hish! a se- cret, children: Some grown up folks wrote I t incorrectly number of them, too One learned man whose writings en- tertains your papa every morning and an- other man whose name is familiar to every l public school child in the state) who tried to write our familiar little baby prayer only two wrote it correctly Nearly all wrote it thus:
 i "Now I lay me down to sleep,
 I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If l should die before I wake
 I pray the Lord my soul to take"
 Isn't that alright? No certainly not. This is the way two boys wrote 1t: "Now I lay me down to sleep
 pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep If I should die before I wake
 I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take"
 Correctl You may go up head, boys. Strange that we should forget this i'm portant rule: "All appellations of the Deity must be written with capital letter, ec.
 Mamie:-I find that New Orleans far ex eeeds my expectations. As I remember it when here seven years ago. 1t possessed great attraction for me, but now l am still more delighted with it.
 The city itself is not beautiful. No, far from-very dirty and smoky. But 1t has an attraction. a charm, and it's admirers overlook its many faults New Orleans Is built on the eastern bank of the Mississippi river where the waters flow swiftly around a projecting point on the western side, thus forming a crescent. The city takes its name, "the Crescent City" from the fact of its being built the outer ruin of the imperfect crescent. The ground that the city is built on Is low and to dig down two or three feet ne tA trA enft 1irt md and afar a very poor foundation, you will say Yet this foundation supports some immense buildings, such as the great postoffce and the sugar refinery
 Canal street is the great avenue of the | city. It extends from the river up through | the heatr of the city and on land many miles. At it's other end are the great cemeteries. These are noted as beautiful spots and are the resting place of Jefferson Davis. the president of the Confederacy, and General Johnson, one of the great Confederate leaders.
 There are many other places of interest. One is the United States mint, one of the few hints in our country Here they are now coining from sSO,OOO to sS5, 900 a day. The process of making the money is similar to the making of wire rods in the Birming- ham rolling ills. The bricks of silver. weighing obtu 100 pounds, are melted and mied with a certain amount of copper, to give the coin hardness. This hot metal is
 
 twelve inches long. These bars are then again heated and rolled out to the proper thickness and width. Then these strips of silver, which are now over two feet long, are fed through a machine which cuts out round discs the size of a dollar. These discs are the tnempered by being heated and then plunged into sulphuric acid. They are dried in a revolving cylin- der filled with dry saw-dust. Next the tempered discs are miled and stamped carefully in large machines operated by ladies. Every coin Is carefully weighed and tested before leaving the mint, and Uncle Sam may well be proud of @is Al mighty Dollar"
 There are many other beautiful things about New Orleans but one must be there some time before they are able to fully appreciate them.
 But pray forgive any hot-headed enthus- iasm, for you know every ones city is the best. Although not a resident of the Crescent City, yet think gree. aeal of It. J. DON GGILL
 New Orleans, La, March s. 1900