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Franks yard Eggs 45c. the dozen at
Nations. w c. White & Co, Wyoming
Street, Grocery.
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DR.. Hurley, phones 4O53 and 275. Dis
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positions as teachers of Spanish in the
public schools, W. examined fOur ap-
p~licants. Miss Nellie Witt took the
examination and passed with a high
average Friday.
For calling and receptions, ride in
the $4,000 limousine of LongwelPs-
Baggage autOs-they move your
trunks quickest Phone 1. LOngWelrs.
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-Four Are Examined.

Manuel E. Flores and A. Gonzalez,
appointed to examine applicants for
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silver certificates taken, but these are all
murdered and the thieves would be sure
to be identifed. There is a goodly corps
of guards in the Treasury Department,
and these are divided into different
watches They have TO salute each ether
from time to time, and whistle would
bring an army OF guards to any part or
the Treasury at any moment.
Il is now some years since one OF the
United States treasurers attempted TO
sraeak down into the vaults TO see IL the
men were on duty He suddenly found
a barrel OF cold steel II his head and the
guard who held the othe. end of the re-
vclver made him stand still and throw up
his hands. He said that he was the
treasurer of the United States, but the
very polite watehman with the revolver
said that might all be. but he die not
know the treasurer and he would have
to wait until he called one OF the other
guards to identify him. He then gave a
whistle. The other guards rushed up and
the treasurer was released. II IS by no
means q safe thing for even the treasur-
err to 60 around about the vaults at mid
night.
/ remember another scare in the Treas
iiry 1t was good many years ago when
trouble was as to the cash room, where
the vault in which the ready money is
kept refused to open. The vault was set
with time lock and the usual hour was
$50 am. On this occasion something
seemed to be wrong with the mechanism
The steel doors remained closed. Nine
o'clock arrived and still the money was
locked up. Men came to the teilers' WIN
dows and there was no money 70 pay
them. Then experts were hurriedly sent
for. They got out their tools and pre-
pared to open the vault, but before they
could do so the door opened of its own
accord BY accident the lock had been
set for $50 instead of $50 as usual.
But l am getting away from Uncle
Sans catacombs. ] want To tell you
about this five hundred million dollars
IN bank notes which Uncle Sam has
ready in case of panic. 1t is now
several years since they were stored
away and when they We're made "a
hrand-new vault made for them.
This is nothing like the big silver vault
which I have described. II Is more like
& safety deposit establishment. Ii Is a
two-story structure furnished with steel
racks The interior walls are of Harvey
lied steel half an inch thick and outside
them are walls of masonry and cement
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in ten-thousand-doliar notes. IN my soou
right hand. and | saw ninety hlilohS
more in three packages so small .hal
could crowd them into half-pushei pas
ket. You have all heard of the five-hun-
dred- million dollars worth OF treasury
notes which Secretary McAdoo ifted up
and shook in the face of the panic mong-
ers of Wall street. They are all stored
here, and there is one great vault, W1ch
is packed with them almost to bursting.
I have called these vaults catacomps.
The title fits -he whole Treasury Depart
meut The building is the persohlhca-
ton of gloom IT looks like tomp, ana
it would be a fine home for shicloe cluo.
Long and suuatty, with massive roo
and walls OF gray granite man! lee'
thick. IL makes one think OF saicoi'h"
gus of the gods, and its SURROUNDINGS are
those of a cemetery. The treasury
partment lies in q hollow JUST aoio
street from the White Rouse "h1.o
gayety is accumulated by It's siooin ,,,;nh
front yard Is a pit, the walls VI - g.
ORC covered with ivy. The lawn tseil II
as smooth as velvet. but 1t taxes sco,e
of grave-digging gardeners 10 heep o"'
the weeds. ,r., TIM,
The Treasury itself is more drea.! 'h,,,
onv nicture ever painted by Dante As
Io,, look at the cavelike doors Whicl
lead into the basement you are reliinceS
If the quotation of that poet ehsra'eo
above his gates to nell - ,.o,..
"All hope abandon we VINO enter hste.
These doors are covered with iron pals
as thick as your wrist, and the WINDOWS
behind are sad aqd dreary. making one
think of the rheumy eyes or dSihs sldhts
hooking out through the steel network
with which they are yelled.
In the second and third stories the
windows are cleaner, but they are oeep
set and gloomy Entering the puiio-
ing YOU find the interior quite as de
nreesing Tie narrow corridors are
So dark that they have 70 be hgn1eo
nv electricity throughout the day me
lower passageways make you reel as
though YOU were in burial vault. ana
when the doors silently open you snuu-
der at the thought of the collins whlcn
one feels must be piled up within.
is the same throughout the building
from the basement to the attic, and II
is only the south rooms on the second
floor. where Secretary McAdoo mas MS
offices. that are at all CHEEKY.
| shall not discuss the job OF the
Secretary of the Treasury in this let
ter. | may write of that in the fu-
ture. So far Mr.. McAdoo is in good
health and spirits His eye is bright,
his step firm and he looks ten years
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yAnger than the half century which
hi modest autobiography in the Con
gtssional Directory puts to his credit
Stl let him beware! He is now be-
tween the upper and neither millstones
of this mighty department. He is IN
tn mill which killed Secretary Folger
witch ground the life out of Daniel
mining and which when Secretary VIM
don in the pride of his strength Crap
pld with it laid him low. 1t did the
sane with Charles w. Foster. the lusty
treasurer under Benjamin Harrison. and 1t
has just succeeded in sucking out what
little juice Franklin Macveagh had In his
bnes
shiver when l think of the job. When
NJ McAdoo first came, Treasurer Burke,
Unf Sans new watchdog who lies at
the hoors of the vaults and takes charge
of be moneys. wrote out a receipt Tor
the sums then on hand. That receipt
givd some idea of the responsibilities or
Sec&tary McAdoo. 1t represents the
larast sum ever taken over by mortal
mani at one single time. 1t represents
almst one thousand five hundred mil
lion dollars. and its actual figures were
S1,43, 40 G51.4S %. Yes. two-thirds. The
monty was figured out to the thirds or a
cenaand Secretary McAdoo has to make
the accounts come even to the smallest
pretd upon the minds of his predeces-
sor9
HE you any idea how much fifteen
hunIred million dollars means? 1t repre-
send more than one-tenth of all the
monty value of all the gold taken out or
all he mines of the earth since the dis
covfy of America. and of the vast
amtnt thus receipted for, the greater
part was in gold. Much of the gold is
not Stored away here at the Treasury
DEPARTMENT. 1t is kept at New YORK,
Denjer or San Francisco, where it lies
in tie vaults of the subtreasuries and in
thob of the minis in tons of golden
brits ready for coinage at moments
notte. The gold in the Treasury proper
is bt in bullion. 1t is only bagatelie
of a4few million dollars, and these millions
are mostly in the shape of eagles and dou-
BILE Eagles I saw little box of them in
the cash vault this afternoon. 1t was
made of steel, and seemed to be only for
sfpN 1t was not bigger than a cigar
b&. and still it contained five hundred
duble eagles ] took both hands and
r4sed it from the table. 1t weighed
thrty-eight pounds. and you could nave
pa its contents into a one-quart measure.
STU, its value was ten thousand dollars.
Th3t will show you how heavy the pre-
ciojs metal is. l can hold thousand
dolbrs in loose gold coins in one hand,
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toned up his pocketbook and went away
sorrowful.'
The question as to whether the money
in the Treasury is safe has often been
discussed. This big vault is practically
burglar proof 1t is guarded hy the iron
bars and Is also walled in cement and
stone, with a wide aisle running around
it. which would prevent any one attempt
ing to remove the nlorey without being
seen There is no doubt that some of the
other vaults are behind the times In
their safety appliances. I remember that
one of the treasurers became alarmed as
to their condition some years ago. lie
went to New York and asked for the
most expert safe breaker and lock picker
on earth All of the banks recommended
the same man. He found him and
brought him to Washington. The man
wrote out a report. and as he presented
ii said:
'.I have here detailed account OF the
vaults. but before you read 1t | want 10
give YOU a practical demonstration that
know whereof / speak. If you viii go
with me into certain of them 1 will leave
my workmen on the outside. we VIII
enter the vaults and your men can then
lock the doors and my workmep Will let
us out inside of an hour.
The treasurer consented They picked
out a vault which had SS,0O0OO0 in it
They went inside and the doors were duly
locked although the time lock was left
off 1t took just twelve minutes to throw
the doors open. This was done without
the use of explosives of any sort and
merely by driving wedges in between the
doors and safe. In company with this
man the treasurer then went to the COM
mittees of Congress and by their repre-
sensations the matter was remedied
There is no doubt but that the vaults
are absolutely safe now.
Anyhow ii would be very brave man
who would try to rob the Treasury. A
tunnel might be dug from somewhere
near the Treasury building, but the rob
bers would have to drill. and they would
have to have a railroad TO carry away
the silver After they had taken few
thousand dollars the bags and boxes con-
tanning the remainder would tumble
about with such noise as to apprise
the Treasury guards of their action, and
as these guards are on hand day and
night it would be almost impossible to
get anything to speak of without dis
covery.
There might be combination with the
guards, and fortune In greenbacks or
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and juggle with Uncle Sans finances. ]
refer to the vaults in which Uncle Sam
money is kept and where are stored away
more real hard coin and valuable paper
than in any other place upon earth. The
vaults contain millions IN gold and sill
yer. and their coin and securities, all
told. win run considerably over billion.
They have so many silver dollars that IL
YOU should load them upon four-horse
wagons. and put the teams nose to tui-
boards the train required to haul them
would reach from New York to Cincin-
natl The currency alone runs high into
the hundreds of millions. During my
stay there today | held a million dollars,
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Lost Its Sparkle.

~OL. COCKTAILS. who as chief en-
~ gineer of the Panama canal has be-
come worhi-famous, recently told Canal
Zone story.
I'VE ha6, in Ancon.'' he said, IAN en-
gineer who was in constant dread of dis
ease He also was a crank on the SUBJ
ject Of microbes.
Boil everything you drink. no matter
where you get IT. This was his creed,
and he made his raw native cook observe
1t vigorously
Zone day. while on at tour of inspec-
ton, the engineer was presented with
bottle OF champagne by sea captain.
Managing also to pick up a piece OF ice
on his return to town, he hurried pacK
to quarters with his prizes.
"A temperate chap. this was the nrst
wine that had come his way since his
arrival in Panama He said to his native
cook, as he handed over his precious
burden:
Get up something extra good today,
for have asked q few friends IN TO
dinner to help me drink this superb wlne. :
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in the parlor just two minutes by the
clock. She had been talking to Nine
Calvo just one minute, when all her
theories of the home life of the minister
from Costa Rica were verified.
In came two sturdy boys. Big, sun
burnt clear-eyed fellows they were Both
children rushed up TO Mime. Calvo. hug
ged her tight and kissed her hard.
Mother. dear cried two excited voices
almost in chorus. father says we can
have our bicycle. We are going TO get
it next week.
Nine Calvo smiled affectionately al
her happy young sons, dismissed then
laughingly, and remarked;
They are two of my eight children.
Oh, no; l could never never tell you all
their names. The total would ill q page.
Wen, If you will be so polite as to pre-
tend you truly are interested. I'll have TO
confess that there are five big sons and
three daughters An active family? Oh
my, yes. I have no time for woman suf-
frage or things of that sort. When O
woman has reared a family like mine.
don't think she actually needs the vote
to prove her place in society"
Madame shrugged her shoulders and her
brown eyes twinkled.
"A mother of a large family has not
much concern for outside interests Il
that sort My music? Oh. please don't
say that I am very musical l used b
play But now l have forgotten. l couh
not keep up my practicing when TIE
babies were young. When they wete
awake they needed me. and when thtS
were asleep / WAS afraid my playing
would disturb them You see. one cam
not keep up her maidenly accomplish,
ments under such trying drawbacks,
and madame laughed again. Moreover
she did not look as though she greved
one bit over the eXactions of these sons
and daughters that had made her music
rusty"
slight. dark haired woman is thu
wife of the Costa Rican minister. Large
of eye. with an intellectual face and =
sensitive mouth. her mobile face is in
tensely interesting. At first her mannSl
was just a bit shy.
Then. when she had talked for fec
moments. she grew animated and en-
thlIsiastic. She is the sort of woman
who will not admit stranger to hei
friendship until she has tried that stran-
ger and found her worthy.
Senior Ca,vo has been stationed In Wash
ington longer than any other diplomat
now here. TWENTY-FIVE years ago the Sc,
nor brought his young wife TO the United
States.
II was during President Cleveland's sec
ond administration. Mr.. Cleveland had
not been married so very long, but Mrs.
Cleveland was already the idol of her
husbands people.
IL have such pleasant memories of Mrs
Cleveland,' said Nine. Calvo But. then
every one has. She was truly the most
lovely lady. When she came here OH q
visit last year was so glad to talk ovel
the old days with her Two of my chill.
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Gen were fortunate enough to go TO the
White House kindergarten.
l"You know, Mrs. Cleveland had Kin
drgarten under her own supervision Ior
Ter two daughters, Esther and Ruth. MY
arturo and Marta were in the same little
lass with them It was lovely privi-
kge.'
The Arturo of the kindergarten days Is
! grown man now. More than that, he
has taken unto himself wife, an Amer
lean girl, the former Miss Flora Benedict
Bristow of New York. They were mar
ried in June
.sThey are so happy fixing up their
hpartment now" said Arturo's mother.
land what blessed time in life 1t is
that they are experiments Mauaiils
herself has that serene look tnat tells OF
hnapy happy days in her own life There
jcouldn't have been many spare ihihutes
flor discomfort or brooding
Though she says she Is not sunragfst,
madame is easily one OF the most modern
lof mothers. Her three Oldest boys went
Through West Point and studied englneer-
ing there. They now are employed IN
New York.
i The two younger daughters, Senortas
Selma and Marta Calvo We're educated
lat fashionable girls school In wash
Iington. In fact, Selma is still school
| girl.
Marta Is quite the young lady of the
family. She, madame confessed naively.
lis .in society," The Oldest daughter
has recently entered the Convent or the
Sacred Heart In New York. She is now
going through the beginning Of her two
years of novitiate
az am so proud that Marie was al
lowed to join this order. You know. it is
q privilege TO be nun of the Sacred
Heart" Like most people Of Spanish ex-
traction. madame is a devout Catholic.
..Only the most intellectual and cultured
vorng women are received into the Sa-
Grad Heart One must have the real
aim. the true vocation. There must be a
call. a sacred call, to become such a
i MN The novitiate is made as hard as
4 nossih,e. 1t takes pious zeal to brave its
4 rigors.
1 what name will your daughter take
I u,ben the enters the convent finally?"
was asked.
"She will keep her own name. 1t is "A
dignified custom, is 1t not! During the
firsf seven years of her sisterhood the
nun at any time may change her mind
nhout entering the convent for life. At
the expiration of this period. If she yet
feels the eagerness to be religeuse, she
slowed when she SPOKE of her first-born
daughter Her pride in her child's chosen
life is pretty TO see.
..The rest of the family, have they
PLANNED their careers? 1t seems that
from such large household many tai
ents should be DEVELOPER
Zone of my boys is doing newspaper
work" said madame. I'VE had planned
something else for him. But he would
NOT have 1t so. Just two years ago, when
he was eighteen, he decided that he
would be a reporter or nothing else. So
we are content
The interviewer yentured d remark
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SgSH11 NOM m MON

bore them. that they much prefer TO stay
at home and superintend the housekeep-
ing learn to make new dishes and enjoy
domestcity to its fullest.
II think there Is a pleasant medium,
said madame Il enjoy both society and
my home. 1t seems TO me that persons
of refinement always keep to that same
pleasant medium. Some ladies worry so
over the new dances. get SO excited about
the new styles in clothes. That is foot
ish. when the dances are done in mod
Grafton they are not disgusting. When
the new styles are chosen discreetly they
are not immodest. | think the whole
difficulty is in the careless selections
made by the women themselves
That is safe, agreeable theory. ism M
tt is so unusual that 1t seems radical. But
the wife OF the Costa R.can minister IS
not that. Her understanding of life rs
too broad. her humor too keen. IN fact.
she is just what has been said all along
a wide awake. generousm minded mother
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Her Large Family
and Her Home Are Her
Chief IntereSts-She Is
Fond of Society and
Is Not Interested in
Woman Suffrage--One
Daughter Is TO Become
a Nun and One Son Is
Already in Newspaper
Work.
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D HINELANDER WALDO, the police
~ commissioner of New York, wsh
talking at wedding breakfast about .
bachelor who. after a rather crimson ca
reer Of bachelorhood. was going to get
married at last.
He'll keep very quiet now" said Mr..
Waldo. Hell make the very best OF
husbands. A burnt child breads the fire.
He chuckled and resumed:
"A burnt child breads the fire. and
that Is, no doubt, why the newly married
man avoids all his old flames
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NINE. cALso. WIFE OF MINISTER FROM COSTA RIGA.

spring time and flowers meant much JOY
to her.
She spoke entertainingly of the train
ing of children in Costa Rica. Discipline
is severe there. she said. Parents in all
Spanish countries are much more lenient
than they used to be. They are awaken
ing to the knowledge that more freedom
must be allowed il the child is to de-
yelop properly.
..Do they still have bun fghts?" The
subject is always interesting to an out
slider.
Calyo. siust a very few Maybe once a
year a fight is held. And that is not at
tended by the best people, as the fights
In Spain are. When the country people
come into town on feast days they must
he amused somehow. Recently spectacles
of native dancing have been substituted
for tho Aghts. The dances are fai
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about Costa Rica. Is it as truly Spanish
as South American countries? Are
orously as Spanish tradition demands.
',Oh, yes, Costa RIGA Is quite Spanish.
Its people are mostly of Spanish extrac-
ton Our native tongue is Spanish. Our
customs are for the greater part Span
isf' Nine. Calves soft southern voice
proved her own heritage.
1.-THE climate in our home is delightful
Oh. no, It is not SO hot. On the sea-
coast, of course, it is very warm al
times. The most desirable towns are
built inland, high up on the hills Nc
one lives in the valleys. The air on the
hills is balmy and deightfui We have
spring time and flowers always
Madame's smiling eyes proved that
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and that amount of money weighs just
about four pounds. At the same time L
lifted notes, each of which was lighter
than the smallest, feather on pigeon $
tall, whose denomination was ten thou
sand dollars, and held up a bundle OF
them, no thicker than euchre deck, and
so small that you could put 1t In an
official envelope, which was worth a mil
lion dollars. and which would pass for
that in almost any bank upon this big
round earth.
X
But 1 want to take you down into the
catacombs. To get there I was passed
from the Office of Secretary .McAdoo to
that of the treasurer of the United
States, Mr. John Burke. and from him to
the cashier Mr. James A. Semple. who
has charge of the cash J-ncie Sam keeps
on hand He is now carrying a balance
of over $165, 900, 900, and millions go in and
out every day He has charge OF the
vaults as we'll as the cash, and his oTfice
which is lined with marble from the four
quarters of the world, looks like bank
There are great vaults on the same floor
in which the ready money is kept, and We
passed through these on our way TO the
little elevator not more than four 1eet
square which dropped us down into tue
cave of Aladdin Mai. Quaiffe went with
us. The major has been one OF the Treas
ury watch dogs for almost fifty Years
He was appointed by Treasurer Spinner
at the close of the civil war, and since
then he has been one of the confidential
clerks in charge of Uncle Sans treas
ures He carries one of the keys to the
vaults, and he alone knows the combi
ton Cashier Semple carries another to
a different lock, and the two have to
work together In order to open any one
of the doors.
The first vault I looked at contained
s1l1.0o0, 900 enough to give every man.
woman and child in the United States a
silver dollar and leave ten or twenty mil
lions to spare. The door to it weighs six
tons. but it Is so carefully balanced that
a boy could swing it back when the com
binations are properly made. and MAI.
Ouaiffe threw II open with one hand. The
vault itself is about as large as a good
sized garden patch. 1t covers one-fourtn
of an acre and from floor to top is just
twelve feet high. 1t is great cage OF
steel bars riveted together with red-hot
rivets, which were pounded to place. The
bars cross like a lattice work, with hum
dreds OF diamond-shaped eyeholes'