Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1890, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C i # SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1890-TWELVE PAGES, ! ! ‘Written for Tae Rvextxe stam. WHOSE WAS THE. HAND? BY MISS BRADDON. ‘Lady Aniley’s Secret.” “Like and Uuliixe,’ mae!” “The Day Will Come,” dea. Se Axthor of [ALL RIGHTS RKSBRVED} —_ CHAPTER XXXL DAISY'S DIARY. “r WILL REPAY.” morning the question was oted, Wio was to give me away? | was jast as breakfast was over and | Mr. Ardeu had not yet gone off to his hermitage on the other side of the Your step-father is of course the proper person,” said my mother, looking at her bus- | nd with her sweet, gentle smile, a look I} understand so well, a loox which means kindli- | ness, esteem, respect, consideration, but which ever yet mear “No.” [eried, hastily; “there is only one per- fon who must give me to my husband, and that person is my mother. . it would be so unusual for a began mother, Arden interrupted her hastily. in the ease of a widow, Clara,” he said measured way, as if there were no ecling to him in my hasty protest. ree with Daisy—you are the fittest person to give your daughter to the man of her choice. The act will stamp your approval of the union; end I is in the right in wishing that it phon!d be so.” Twice he men’ Bame without ned me by my old familiar fainiest emotion, No witness of that scene could have suspected from his tone or conduct that there was any gulf be- tween us. Isat with my eyes fixed upon the th, waiting for him to leave us before ald fecl happy or at ease. Te It was on the morning after this that the dreadful shock came, and still this man of blood was calm and collected, equal to the oc- casic ‘The papers are delivered at River Lawn at about ten o'clock, and on this particular morn- ing we were later than usual at breakfast, and the meal was only just over when Mead brought in his tray of papers ready aired and cut. My stey took the Zimes, my mother the Morn ¢. 1am only interested in Mead’s tray on the mornings thet bring the | Wortt, Punch oz irxth, 60 on sday morn- ing there was nothing to claim my attention, at idly by while the other two read their Xn exclamation from my mother startled me from a reverie. Yb. God.” she cried, rising h diy and going over to her husband with the newspaper 1 . “this must be the hand of . it has come atiast. * is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.’ My husband's ‘murderer will be punish terall these years, Ambrose, do you see, do you know what has happened? Have you r ‘ Al “po YoU KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPE: ve Tread what? My dear Clara. are you : d, looking upat her wonderingly. ax she stood before him with white cheeks and ed eyes. “Have you read the French news? A dread- ful murdér—the murder of a woman by @ man Who is supposed to be her brother—by a man calied Leon Duverdier, alias Claude Morel, the man who killed my husband.” “No. Lhave not seen the French ne answered Alie! 1 "he paper lay under his hand as he I saw the heading of the column— ‘ead the account of the murder and of He is in prison. He was the man. caught at once. this time—taken red-hand The’ police in Paris are better than the le tmy dear love’s murderer go scot-free. Read, read, read, Ambrose.” She was beside herself with agitation. Her husband started to his feet and put his arm round her and held her to his breast; held her against thar false and cruel heart, whose base- hess she knew not. ‘ontrol yourself, Clara, for pity's sake. Re- member we have no sure ground for believing that More! was the murderer.” “Yes. yes, we have; conclusive ground. The use of his sister's name to decoy my husband: in itself, was all-sufficient proof. And the sister is murdered: brutally. ly stabbed to death by the same hand. there has been murder done the mur- er wil! suffer for nis crime, and in that case nd will be aveng enough, That other, . crime must be brought home wretches who } savage more deliberat to him. His judges must know what wretch Le is. French sare so merciful, He will be recommended to mercy. Oniy the murder | of asister on the spur of the moment. There will be the plea of extenuating c Bat let them know how he lu ing man to a lonely room and killed him in cold blood, uid gaiu, and even a French jury condemn hint t death.” you are talking wildly. ster he can murder of Robert Hat- and patient.” ris touigh and find out all nd his crime.’ It would be use- 8 I want to be there in the city where r is waiting for his doom.” © Clara, { cannot allow you to travel conditions, I would not answerfor m if you were to go upon sucha jour- hey. Nor could you possibly leave vour daugh- ter on any such inad errand, ‘Whatever has to be done [will do. I will go tonight and will Yemein in Paris until after this man’s trial. I will who he reuliy is, and if he is iden- Claude More! whose sister sour ed. ely upon me t is necessary or expedient, r God's sake be calm, be reasonable. Remember how p your life and reason are to ro: iter and to me. Remember mobied im the balance years ago in lear mother commanded herself by rt. I could see how she struggled T agitation, how earnestly she strove to “Oh, the wretch, the to strike a strong man down Sage, to cutshort so dear a k of him any more, Am- , answer to a warning look sband. “I will be calm and pa- nd wart for the end. It is coming, in is own good time. You need not be afraid Deisy and I will stay here quietly u goto Paris, And you will seud me TSEY WENT OUT OF THE RoOM TOGETHER. ‘They went ont of the room together, mother leaning on bis arm. con‘iding in him and rely- on him, as if he were the best of men. 0 think over what had hap- 4 to consider how this new phase of ible history was likely touffect the dear Mother. Firs:, [read the account of the murder in the Zines, « Urutal murder, the xet of a thief aed desperado, i will not suily this book by vorts. You will not keep me inthe j admitted that she had once loved him, bat recording it here. sinco its only bearing on my life lies in the fact that this wretch who mur- dered his sister ina villain the Bois de Bou- logne the nignt before last, is in all probability the wretch who killed my father. P read the savage history, and then I thought, and thought, and thought, but only felt so much the more hopeless and miserable, and I saw how futile it was for me to think alone, while the otuer half of me was not by to help'me out ofevery difficulty, So I justran into the Jobby, put on my hat, and went out into the garden to see if I could find my dearest and best, wno would be able to give me wise counsel, and whose very voice would enable me to keep up my courage were I hemmed round by diffi- cuities, It is wintry weather everywhere in this last of the year, but our gardens are so in conifers, iaurel and arbutus that the never look bare or cold. and the shrubbery is so sheltered by deodar and cupressus that an invalid might walk there even on tho coldest morning. Iknew it was Gilbert's habit to smoke his after-breakfast cigarette on the other side of the fence, and that I was most fikely to find him within call. Mother has allowed him to make a gate of communication between his shrubbery and ours, not many paces from the arbor where I first discovere that l adored him, I found him this morning standing close by this gate, with a very grave countenance, evidently on the watch for me, and Isaw at a giance that he bad read all about the murder. He had. and we talked the hideous story over together. How will it affect Mr. Arden?” I asked. “It he is the guilty wretch you think him it may affect him most terrib! ‘The man Morel has been taken red-handed and cannot escape condemnation, If he is the murderer of Den- mark street, if your step-father prompted that murder, as you believe, he may, out of sheer deviltry, make a clean breast of it before he goes to the guillotine and denounce his accom- plice.” Pp ‘And then my mother will know everything, and the rest of ‘her life will be made miser- able.” said L My step-father left us this evening. I felt sick with appreuension and misery when I saw mother bidding him good-by in the hail, while the carriage waited to drive him to the station; fuil of kindliness and concern for his comfort on the cold night journey, he pale and somber, speaking with evident effort. “You are looking so ill tonight, Ambrose,” she said. “I fear you are hardiy equal to the journey, and the trouble that may come after- ward, “I must face both, Clara. M; is about you and your peace of swered, gravely,” “If you will on! yourself { fear nothing. Yon hav ter and her husbaud to think of; new ties, the beginning of a new existence Itseemed to ine as if he were renoun ailshare in her life, all claim to her affection. He looked at me carnestly, questioningly, and then as I made no movement toward him he said, quietly: “Good-night and good-by, Daisy.” ¥ Yon the threshold and took my mother in his arms and kissed her forehead and her lips with a sudden fervor that trans- formed him, ‘The pallid, careworn face flushed and smiled, the dull and sunken eyes brightened. It was for a moment only. His valet warned him that there was no time to lose, he stepped into | the brougham, the door was shut and he was gone. chief anxiety md,” he an- be true to your daugh- new duties, CHAPTER XXXL DAISY'S DIARY. It is the eve of my wedding day, the eve of St. Valentine’s day; Gilbert is to be my Valen- tine, tomorrow and forever. And now in this deep silence of after mid- night I will close the record of my life as an unmarried woman. The lite that will begin tomorrow will mark the opening of a new vol- ume in my history; but the otd book shall be my friend and confidant still, for { shall be able to praise my husband in these pages as Ishould never dare to praise him to any liv- ing listener, least of all to his modest, unpre- tending self. shail close the record of my girlish years, and with it I hope closes the tragedy of my own tmy mothers lif 1d graut that biood- shed and guilt and treachery may have no fur. ther influence upon her life and mine, an that the road that lies before us may pass through a peaceful anda smiling land, where crime and sin will have no part in our destiny. he interval between my step-father's jour- | to Paris and the end of the year was a time of keenest anxiety for me and for Gilbert, who shared and lightened all my cares. We | watched the three principal Paris papers, which | Gitbert ordered to be sent to him daily, and | watched with intense expectation for any notice of the murderer Morel. The actual | facts recorded were few beyond the particulars | of the murder which had appeared in the first instance, but there was deal of deserip- tive writing bearing more or less upon the crime. Something of this kind appeared in one or other of the papers nearly every day. Sometimes there was a paragraph about the prisoner's antecedents, the part he took in the riots and brutalities of the Commune, the man- ! ner of his escape when the Versuilles troops got | possession of Paris, and ¥ other facts or fictions about his past life. Gilbert told me | that [ must not believe more than one-fourth | of any such articles or paragraphs in a Parisian newspaper, One day there appeared a long account of | the ja Which was the seene of the murder, | an article in which tue Juxury and splendor of | the house were minutely described. Another article in the same ve a glowing de- | scription of th @ beautiful | ch men in Paris, al about this young woman and her mother was freely pablished, cruel im- | putations against their characters; but there was not one line in any of the papers which hinted at Claude Us identity with the mur- derer of Denmark street. “The police know ail about him,” said Gil- bert, “but they are keeping dark. "A man ean- not be tried for two crimes at the sume time, Were there any chance of Morel’s acquittal he } could be arrested and brought to London to be | confronted with the witnesses who could iden- tify the murderer of Deumark stree My step-father remained in Paris for nearly a month, during which time he wrote at least twice a week to my mother. She read portic of his letters to me. He had seen the poiice, | and they had toid him that there was very litue | doubt of the prisone: a Th was too utterly bru’ ofe guilty without extenuating circumstanc He would perhaps appeal to. the court of cassa- tion, but his appeal would be rejected, In a later letter my step-father wrote that he had with great difficulty obtained an interview with the prisoner. He had taxed him with the murder in Denmark street, but Morel had | denied all knowledge of that cr: ‘The letter | jeseribed him as an obdurate villain. ‘The trial took place ia the second week of December. ‘The prisoner's cousin, Madame | Perez, was the chief witness against him, She | deseribed how he had appealed to her for | money. or for jewels to convert into money, within two hours of the murder; and how she | had refused to give him either money or ewels, upon which he left the house, angry | and menacing. She cribed how she was | startled from her sleep by the sound of foot- steps in her room and on opening her eyes saw the prisoner standing before her toilet table, dchberately filling hts pockets with her jewels, which she had worn in great profusion upon that particular evening. She told the court how sho had sprung from her bed, intending toring for help, but before she could reach the electric bell the accused strack her to the | ground. She remembered nothing «fter that Dlow, which had inflicted a permanent injury upon the sight of one eye. She had only just recovered from a nervous fever which had fol- lowed upon her return to consciousness, r pearance of this witness in the court and her evidence excited a profound interest, said the papers. She is described as a very beautitul woman. Her evidence was given in some parta reluctantly, at other times with a h of indiguant fe . When asked by the prisoner if she Lad not once been his mistress, she passionately repelled the accusation, She that was before se knew the worthiessuess of his character, She spoke in the highest terras of the murdered Louise, She denied any knowledge of the fact that the brother and sis- | ter had adopted names which were uot their own. She had never heard the name of Morel in association with either of them. ‘The evidence of the gendarme who ar- rested the murderer red-handed was conclusive, ‘The blood of his victim and the jewels which he bad stolen were found upon him. There was little need of deliberation. The verdict was guilty, without extenuating circumstances, The Sentence was death, 1 cau never forget my mother's face when Gilbert told her the doom of Ciaude Morel. We went together to the morning room, where she Was sitting at work, her great basket of flannel and calico on the hearth rag it front of her chair, her pale, anxious face intent upon her ching. In all this time of suspense she had empioyed herself chiefly in visiting the poor and working for them. She told me that it was only by constant occupation, useful and “Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord.” How often and how often in the time pastshe must have repeated that solemn text. She received a letter from her husband the same evening, but it could tell her nothing which the paper had not told her already, ex- cept that he intended to remain in Paris for a few days to see if there were any likelihood of & reprieve, or commutation of the sentence. _ Five days afterward my step-father walked into the drawing room at 9 o'clock iu the even- ing, unannounced and unexpected. He had come from Paris by the morning mail, “I waited till the eve of the execution, Clara,” he said, when my mother had welcomed him—Gilbert and 1 were sitting at chess ina nook near the fireplace, and stood up to greet him, but aloof, as if he had been a jtranger, “ft is decided, then. There will be no re- ve,” said wy mother, one.” “Then there will be at least one villain less in the world.” said L. Hie looked at me. Never to my dying day can I forget the agonized reproachfulness of that look. It wasa look that made me feel as if I were the ingrate and the traitor, and he only the injured. I saw the picture of my happy childhood —as they say a ogi man sees ail his past life in the moment betore death, I eaw myself with my arms around that mau’s ueck and my cheek against his breast; saw myself soothed and watched over in hours of childish illness; taught and counseled, and amused and trained by that keen inteilect; loved and petted with an inexhaustible patience and an uuvarying tenderness by that grave student. for whom all the world of thought was an open book. How often, how continually, day after day, had he laid aside his dearest occupation to de- vote himself to the education and the amuse- ment of achild. Yes, he had dono all this, he had sacrificed his inclinations, he had made himself a slave for my mother’s sake, and to win her he had plotted my father’s murder. My eyelids fell and my heart beat fast be- neath that mute reproach, but for me his crime was an unpardonable crime, I dared not pit n, even in his agouy of remorse, for suc y would have been treachery to my dead prie ment after his journey, and gave her orders to the butler to that end, but he declared that he had dined in London. “You must have had some time in town be- tween the arrival of the Paris train and the de- parture of the 7:50 from Paddington?” said my mother, “Yes; I had nearly two hours; time enough to dine and to transact a little business in the city.” In the city? But all the offices would be closed at that time?” ‘Not the office I wanted.” He was looking very ill, and had grown thinner in the few weeks of absence. saw my mother observing him anxiously as he sat in front of the fire warming his wasted hands above the blaze. He talked with some show of cheerfulness, asked about the preparations for the marriage, and for Curistmas, Was it to be a gay Christmas at River Lawn? “Gay! echoed mother; “how could I think of gayety at such a time? My thoughts have been fixed upon one subject. Every effort of my mind has been not to think too perpetually of the man who is to die tomorrow.” “Of the man who is to die tomorrow,” he repeated solemnly. *‘Death cancels all wrong- doing—at least the law thinks so. The worst that can do to a murderer is to kill him.” He rose slowly and moved ubout the room in his old restless way and then came over to my mother and bent over her and kissed her, Don't sit up for me, Clara,” he said; “I have letters to write, proofs to look over, the umulations of a month. I have sent Ames to the cottage with my dispateh box;-I ll sit there very late, most likei: ut tonight, Ambrose, surely not tonight. will be plenty of time tomorrow,” re- monstrated motie 0, 1 have left everything to the last. There will be no time tomorrow. Good-night, dear lov He nodded to Gilbert and me, a cool, curt nod, and was gone before my mother could re- monstrate furth “Slow dreadtuly wan and haggard he looks,” she said. “I was wrong to let him go to Paris upon such a ful business in’ his wea health, What would Sir Audrew say to me if he knew how his advice had been disregarded?” Sir Andrew recommended rest, I suppose,” said Gilbert. “He told my husband him to take life quietly. “Ah, doctors tell us that—but will th and t biddiny My mother sighed and sank into melanchuly silence, and our game went on slowly, quietly, in the silent room, where there was no sound but the light fall of wood ashes on the hearth. My mother came tome at 7 o'clock next morning and told me that her husband had been at work all night, She had watched his lamp trom her bed reom window, being too agi- tated to sleep or even to lie down for more than halfan hour at @ time. The lamp had been burning till daybreak, when she saw it extinguished, too, had watched that lamp, wondering what the guilty soul was suffering in that long night whether he wished himself in the con- demued cell where that vulgar villain was wait- ing the dawn of his last day—whether he would have welcomed the knife as a short, snarp cure for the pangs of a guilty conscience My step-father had never before spenta whole night at the cottage, and, indeed, had seidom ecupied himself in his library of an evening. ‘This unaccustomed night-watch made my mother uneasy, und she asked me to go across the road with her to see if there were anything that it was essential for heart n cease from troubling at a physician's ave fallen asleep at his desk,” she cold room: for I daresay he has ful to keep the fire burning all in Ne had dismissed his valet when he went over to the cot! and was alone there, ex- cept for the exi of anelderly womau who lived in the back premises, cleaned and aired the rooms and made . We went across the road together, mother and I, in the bleak win- ter morning. The sky was red over toward London, but gray and’ gloomy in ‘y other direction. The neglected garden and the cot- tage itself looked very dull and dreary in the chilly atmosphere, tie sodden creepers hang- jug from the walls, the plaster blotted with damp. “What adisinal house! To think that Am- brose and his son lived in it for ever so many years,” murmured my mother. She had only to turn the handle of the door to go in; there was no bolt or lock to exclude us. I followed her into the dark passage and into the roém on the right of the porch, the room which my step-father called his den, a room lied with books from floor to ceiling. .”" whispered my mother, “he has fallen asleep. ‘The room felt close and hot and faint with the odor of lamp oil. A pair of candies had burned down to the sockets and the ashes were gray in the grate. My step-father’s head had fallen upon his arms and upon the table in front of him there was a i oficial envelope directed in a large firm hand— “Por my wife.” Iread the words across my mother’s shoulder as she bent down to speak ‘to her husband and I guessed what dreadful thing had happened and what new horror she would have to bear. “Come away, mother, come away,” 1 cried; folded “COME AWAY, MOTHER, CoME AWAY.” “he is dead, I know he is dead.” She bent over him still and lifted the heavy head and looked at the ashen countenance. Yes, it was the end. Death cancels every wrong. Ambrose Arden’s words of the night before came back to me as we stood there in that awful silence which his voice could never break again. Vain now all hope of keeping the truth from my mother. That meg no doubt, con- tained the admission of his guilt. She would pred and she would suffer from that knowl- edge. Sbe burst into tears asshe hung over the lifeless clay, “Oh, 'y.” she sobbed, “he has gone from us forever, — Our voices cannot reach him now. I was never half grateful eaough for his love or his goodness to me. “Dou't lament him, mother—he not worthy,” I said, but my tears were streaming too; and I saw the dead man as he seemed to me in iny cuildhood, before my father’s death, before Le had begun to plot marder. mechanical work, tat she could steady her nerves and prevent herself from dwelling in- cessuutly upon the tragedy of her life. She listened quietiy while Gilbert read the verdict and the sentence, and then with her head bent and her hands clasped she murmareg those awful words which she had spoken te her husband in her agitation when she firgt read of Morel’s crime, We know before that day war ended that be bert — — ts t peslers of chloral. He had ad strengtia of will and purpose to throw the empty bottle under the grate, where it was found broken among the cinders, Thus it was that mother and I did not suspect a suicide, when we found him cold and lifeless at his She has not told me the contents of the packet, but I know from her manner that she has noth- FBS More to learn about my father's death. She as been full of sadness since her husband's funeral, in spite of her brave attempt to symi- [moa with Gilbert andme. The ding has een delayed for nearly two months in defer- ence to my step-father's memory and the bien- seances. The coroner's inquest resulted in # verdict of “Death by misadventure.” (To be continued.) Peae one dtninseorese Pwd A WARE HOUSE FOR CASH. Uncle Sam’s Treasury and How it In- terests Thousands of Visitors. LARGE SUMS IN SMALL PACKAGES--THE GREAT MACERATOR AND HOW IT DOES ITS WORK—IN THE VAULTS—INNUMERABLE QUESTIONS AND READY RESPONSES. UNDER the jurisdiction of the Treas- ury Department are two places that are visited by thousands of people each month, and these are, first, the place where the government's prom- issory notes are made and the other where some other firm's notes are destroyed. It is a case of nip and tuck between theso places as to which one is the most powerful attraction, but the truth is that those who go to one place think that they have not completed the rounds until they have seen the other. It is the old story of the love of gold. If people cannot have jots of mouey of their own they want to see other folks’ money. and there is always a certain sort of attraction about the vast sums that are kept in stock by the gov- ernment in the large ware house on the corner of the avenue and 15th street. People like to let their eyes rest ou thousands, or millions, even if their hands caunot touch them. In this light the large sums of money are as much of an attraction asa rare animal at a menagerie; there is something about it that gives itan atmosphere of rarity and that is always a draw- ing card, either in money—that is, exhibition money—animals or spring bonnets. ‘There used to be a large sum of money done up in avery small package in the Treasury Department, a million dollars or more, it may have been, which the guides used to show to Visitors to the vaults as aspecimen of how much wealth could be put intoa small space. Folks used to look at it, handle it carefully. rub their hands over it in a caressing, loving manner, and then put it down again with a long sigh that spoke of regret at parting. Some of them were incredulous as to the sum that was in the bundie and would show their skepticism by asking some rather ridiculous questions, But most of them swallowed the statements of the guides without a murmur and went home to tell as a marvelons tale how they had had a million dollars in their hands all at once, just think of it! THE STREAM OF VISITORS to the Treasury isconstant. It begins at 10 in the morning, when the doors are opened to the public, and it does not cease until after 2, when they are closed again, It is estimated that 30,000 people went down through the vaults and other places of interest last month alone, and this is but « sample of other mouths inthe year, ‘There isa regular route over which the guides, who are furnished at the office of the treasurer, take their charges—aloug the corridor, past the rooms where the ladies are counting money, both new and old, and then the questions in, Everybody’ wants to know what the wire cages are put up around the counters for; if itis to prevent them from gett ng away with some of the government’ cash or whether it is to ward off a possible ra on the rooms by mobs of burglars, Then the parties, numbering from five to fifty. descend into the basements, where the d vaults are to be seen, pecring out vaguely from the hatf lights of the gas flames that dance and flutter at the approach of visitors, The mysteriousness of these huge doors, por- tentous with their charges, impresses the by- standers, and they are silent for a moment, but they soon break forth into questions about the exnet amount of money stored away there, which the guide can tell them toacent. They get themselves into trouble sometimes, how- ever, by being too accurate, as on one occasion one of the number, a bright. quick colored man, pointed to « paper pasted on the wall and read from it the amount of cash turned over to the present treasurer by his predecessor, It happens that the totalends with a fraction of a vent on account of the exactuess with which the calculation of bond interest was carried out. Some one in the party expressed a disbelief in the idea that there was any such sum in the ‘Treasury us two-thirds of a cent, and demanded to see it, No amount of argument could per- suade him of the trath, and he went away with the most firm conviction that the accounts of the government were being manipulated by the guides. THE INTERESTING MACERATOR But the main point of interest is the macer- ator, which is the name for the great machine that grinds old money into shapcless, valueless ulp—the financial ogre, as itmight be called, ‘tis in the sub basement of the building im a room facing the court yard on the west side, and any day from this'point can be heard a irring and moaning, as if the monster was ghashing his teeth for more food, Until lately it has been impossible to run this | machine during office hours, owing to the fact that the fittings of the belts and other gear that turned it were fastened to the roof of the room, and the revolutions caused th utire building on thatside to shake and tremble so that work was almost impossible inauy of the offices above it, A force of men has’ been work for some days remodeliug the machi in order to avoid the necessity of do: maceration of the old money after office hours, aud this has been accomplished, so that now the giant can do his chewing without making auy one at all nervous who isa few feet away. Posts of iron were placed on the ground and on these were put the belt pullies and the shafts, so that everything is now clear of the roof, and ail the vibration gocs into the ground, ‘The mon to be destre ; that is put into thie hungry thing ed is that sent back to the T y national banks, after it old mouey issued by the goverument that has become limp and ragged, and other forms of the buying power that has seen better days, In short, this is the grave of the cash. It is a huge kettle, closed on top and on all sides, with a lot of pipes running into it andau amount of gear reaching | almost to the ceiling. A large, smooth engine in one end of the small room slides back and forth with noiseless motions aud starts a wide belt that turns and twists several times betore it finally goes around the shaft of the macerator and gives toit a spinning motion that is al- most dizzying. THE GREAT KETTLE is about three feet decp and six feet in diam- eter. The upper half only is to be seen, as the lower part is buried ina square base of bricks that has been buiit up so that in order to reach the machine itself one has to go up a few steps. On the side near the door is a hole cut into the metal and covered by a plate of steel about a foot square, perforated by little round holes through which the attendant or the visitor cau peer and see the mass of muti- lated money flying around at lightuing pace in a flood of seething water which has assumed the color of a soiled handkerchief, if it is very much soiled, This plate is locked down with three large brass padlocks, one for each of the offices that have acecss to the machine. The money is put into the kettle every day at 1 o'clock and again at 2 under the eyes of 1 com- mittee of three officers, one from ‘the office of the Secretary, one from the office of the treas- urer and the other trom that of the controller of the currency. Each of these men has a key to one of the locks, and it will fit no other, so that it is necessary for all three to be present when the macerator is opened, This prerents any possible fraud, which is not an unwise pre- caution, as the money that is put into the pot is quite good at the time, It takes about five hours to grind the money quite into a pulp so that it is entirely devoid of financial value except as a curiosity, and when it is taken out the next morning it has the con- sistency of rather hard mud that is still moist. ‘The water has all been driven from the kettle d drawn out by means of a tube attached to a blower on the engine. The pulp is then taken to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where it is put through a process to extract the ink, and is then used to make more paper. A small amount of it gets into the hands of pri- vate parties, who use it to make curiosities for sale. ‘The kettle will hold a large sum of money, the day's meal for it being an average of about three or four hundred thousand dollars, The cutting is done by a series of large knives that revolve ata high rate, being occasionally re- versed in order to throw the money into a dif- ferent position. eee —___ Wasuixoton’s Train Senvice.—The city of Washington enjoys the advantages of the fast- est train service in America if notin the world, The time via B. and O. railroad to New York is five hours, to Philadelphia two hours and iifty minutes, and to Baltimore forty-five minutes, This is quicker time than is made via an} other line, and the finest parlor cars ever bi : ny are part c: rb trains. * by the famous Pullman com) equipment of these super! The invigorating tonic par excellence is Quina Laroche; ithhas the advantage of = 2 - tion with the gastric juices without deranging the action of thestomach. For estion, malaria, fever and agus, poorness of the blvod and re- tarded convalescence it is yey, by the and hospitals of Paris. | “cock,” PLAYED FIRST BY INDIANS, A Game Once Popular in Boston Bor- rowed fromthe Nishinams, How “Ha” WAS PLAYED ON THE NonTHWEST COAST AND “PROPS” BY THE BOYS AND GAMBLERS AT THE “HUB”—CRUISES O¥ VESSELS A CEN- TURY AGO EXPLAIN AN INTERESTING FACT. R. ROBERT FE. C. STEARNS pre- sented some interesting facts before the last meeting of the Anthropolog- ical Society in a paper “On the Nish- inam game of ‘ha’ and the Boston game of ‘props.’” He said: Stephen Powers in his description of the games of certain Indians of the west coast of North Carolinasays: ‘The ‘ha’ isa game of dice played by men and women, two, three and four together. The dice, four in number, consist of two acorns split lengthwise into haives, with the outside scraped and painted red or black, ‘They are shaken in the hands and thrown into a wide, flat basket, woven in ornamental pat- terns, sometimes worth $25. One paint and three whites, or vice versa, score nothing, two of each score one, four alike score four. The thrower keeps on throwing until he makes a blank throw, when another takes the dice. When all the players have stood their turn the one who has scored the most takes the stakes, h in this game are generaliy small, say a As the Indians © This is a quick one can very soon THE BOSTON GAME, Fifty years ago a similar game was played by boys in Boston with dice made of the mone cowry, cyprea moneta, The shells to the num- ber of four were selected as nearly as possible of the same size and the backs ground down so as to expose the interior, The Was filled with red was kno’ “props, same as in the Nishinam game described by Powers, ‘The shelis as prepared, or “props,” were shaken in the hand and dropped or east from the hand with a some- what twisted motion of the wrist so as to Scatter them a littie. When thrown if the props turned up two sides one way and two the Other or two and two the count was one; this ck;” if all four came the same coun: was four and wis called a “browner;” if the shells or props fell three one side and one the other it was called an “‘o: and the props were passed to tae next player. The props continued with the same player until he made an oat, and the number to make a game waa agreed upon before the playing comment Occasionally when the playing or throwing was on the ground a shell would stand or lodge on one e ‘Thais was called a ad the player was allowed to keep on, ock” not counting one way or the other to his advantage or detriment, IN THE HANDS OF GAMBLERS, The game of “props” was played by boys for marbles, Subsequently it became an out and out gambling game and was piayed by men for money. Cheating im this simple game was made possible and was practiced by filling the side up ti cavity tirst with a portion of sealing wax, then with some lead, then finally with wa: ol concealed the lead. With these so-calle loaded props the player could make a winning throw nearly every time. Professior abiers carried two sets of props, the Letter to deceive their victims. ave them by professionals with props became s non at one time that the law intervened and the game and its implements were made uniawtal and prohibited. WHO ORIGINATED THE GAME ‘When we consider the fact that the Nishinam game of “ha” and the white man’s game of “props” are one and the sume, differing only in the character of the dice and in this respect only in the material or objects of which the dice were made, the question naturally arises whether the games so played had a common or separate origin. it will be noticed that the time referred to of prop playing in Boston was many years before the great migration to set as opportunity blin 1844, following the discovery of go farshall in 1848, the at Sutter's mill b Returning to questions: Did the pale | faces of the Atlantic side learn the game trom the red men of the Wess coas: or vice versa? Did the little invention hav separate and in- dependent birth im each of these widely remote | The fact of commer the people or individuals of th gions fitty years before the “prop” playing date | in Boston warrants the eduction that the kuowledge of the game was borrowed of one from the other, and also argues by im- n against the presumption of independ- ent origin. THE CRUISE OF THE COLUMBIA. * On the Sth of June, 1791, we are toid. the ship Coiumbia, from Boston, Mass., Capt. Robert Gray, arrived on the west coast at a place called Clyoquot,near the eutr: to the straits ot Faea te down the coast | during th owing SP and summer, It! was while on one of ti | to buy turs trom the Indians that | on the 7th of March, | Columbia river, which ip, th report of this discovery and the collection of furs Capt. Gray carried to Loston created considerable excitement and a number of expeditions were planned for making a set- tlement ou the western coast. It would oceupy too much time and space to recite in detail the various ventures, expeditions and yessels which followed the lead of the Columbia in the fur, hide and tallow trade from 1791 to 1840, or to specify the varions poiuts touched at by the numerous vessels from Boston and vicinity during what may be called the first period or era ot west coust trade. In Dana's ‘Iwo Y Before the Mast” we have an entertaining description of some of its charateristics, In- cidental to this early intercourse a traffic with the Indians the pursuit of fur-bearing animals and the purchase of peltries led trap- pers and traders into the interior of California and the valleys of the Tulare, San Joaquin and Sacramento, which in those days, as we are told, abounded with beaver, otter and other animals. SET of Ott FOR PRYING HAT Swaerine Ca¥ THE GAME OF “Ha.” Without seeking further to inquire whether the game of “ha” was played by the Indians of other tribes than the Nishinams, as specially mentioned, which is not improbabie, it will be perceived that there was direct contact by the white man of the east and the California red men of interior localities within the general region inhabited by the Nishinams and geo- it “em aide und tallow trade, in which Bos- 1c . hic Low wi ton led the way, was largely controlled by its ships and ship masters for many years, and this traffic was so generally identified with the vessels and men from that city that Amer if not white men generally, were ~hemaere were called ‘‘Bostons” by the Indians of the northwest,a name whith is soapplied toa limited instead of not the shells of the money-co: which is an Indo-Pacific species. yet the ways available “‘kol-kol” shells, olivella cata, which were so extensively used for at oor hapa raedehae ay If the Indian had learned the game of white man then the coast Indians would been the first to have learned it, and we have | nothing to show that the maritime or litvoral tribes bad any knowledge of it. SHELLS FROM OCEANTCA. The year 1791 was on the west const made wander over brief sojourn Capitol satisfied with the prowess of ate boys, but very much discontented their own. They all wantto be Senate a 2 Supreme Court jes are generally still further notable by the beginning | boye tha those ph ee Poy meme but even of the sperm-whale fishery. In that year | the; deign to dro the gymnasium occa- six vessels sailed from Nantucket ‘and | sionally. Their judicial dignity gives be- one from New Bedford, and this fishery and | fore the surrounding circumstances. Rot dental intercourse with fur traders Je droghers,” as the vessels en- je and tallow trade were called, gazed in th continued for many years, } The whaling vessels often remained one or two years on a cruise before returning, and during this period were frequently obliged to put into some port or to touch at some of the | islands for fresh meat, vegetables. water and | fuel. For many years after the sperm-whale | y was at its height Honolulu was the chief | and general refitting and repienishing piace, Other groups and islands im the Indo-T’ac' waters were sometimes visited. At these plac and on such occasions the sai! amused them- selves by collecting on the beaches or among the reefs, or obtained from the natives for some trifle—a plug of tobacco, perhaps—sea shells, conchs, cowries, &c., and other so-cailed curiosities, New Bedford, Nantacket, Provinc were the chief sources from which the older collections im the museums and priv: i nets were supplicd. My own cab’ menced at the age of seven years, contai many of the shells of the coast of California and from the Pacitic islands that had been brought from these regions by the hide ships aud whalers, Of the various shells inhabiting the Indo- Pacific islands none are more common or abun- dant than the moucy-cowry, of which the props were nade. 4 SURSTITUTE FOR ACORNS, We may assume that as acorns were not avail- able at sea, unless a stock was obtamed from the natives expressly for the purpose. some substitute would be found and used, that such substitute would be some nate form casily manipulated and conveniently at hand; and, further, that the more intell white man would improve upon th: r plements of the savage when he cou with less trouble to himself than would result from exactly or specifically following the forms used by the Tudi The comm familiar money-cowry turn. stitute for the acorn, and the red sealing wax then in common use am availabic substitute for red paint. NO SHELLS AMONG THE INDIANS. ‘The foregoing, it will be seen, carries the im- plication that the whites learned the game of “ha” from the Indians, To sustain this view we may further assume, and itseems to me rea- souably so, that if the red mau had learned the kame from the white man the latter would not have been slow in playing it for all it might profit him, in winning from the Indians any- u tter might possess that was of any value, and we might expect to find idence of the white man’s superior im- plements among the red man’s possessions. It may be noted in passing as a matter of pe- culiar interest, if not of importance, that no in- stance of the occurrence of any form of Indo- Pacific shell has been detected among the In- dians of the west coast, or among the trinkets, &c., in Indian graves, it may be remarked that the questions before presented ure inferentially answered by what immediately precedes this, to the effect that the paletaces or --Bostons” learned the of “ha” from the Indians of the west coast, this also answers the question as toa separate and independent birth, Another point bearing upon the question in a general way is this—thut the game of “props,” so far as I can learn, waa restricted toa very limited area, viz: Boston and vicinity and that region around the coast of Massachusetts which had the monopoly or control of the west coast fur, hide and tallow trade and the sperm-whale fishery of the North Pacitic waters, In the solution of questions of this kind it would seem that an answer may sometimes be found by pursuing the same method that is found to be generally satisfactory in determin- ing the relations or identity, say, of fuaviatile moiluskan forms—the locality or habitat of the specimens in hand being known, or baving been ascertained. then to trace out and follow up the drainage system to which said locality or hubitat belongs or in which it is situated. Now, between the Pacific cozst and the Atlan- uc seaboard « continuous stream of intercourse was in operation and its movement continued for about fifty years and prior to the great migration of 1849 and °50. This stream in- eluded ‘extending from the Straits of de Fuca at the north and southerly to San Diego, a reach of over 1,200 mules on the west consi, with tributaries or minor streams extend- ing into the interior. while its debouchment on the Atlantic side was confined to the limited region heretofore stated, soe THE PAGES’ some e 3YMNASIUM, A Small Section of the Capitol Devoted to the Culture of Muscle. "s them pages in their gym- calls it.” It was onthe Senate side of the Capitol and away down in the sub- basement, not far from where the new commit- tee rooms give an air of comparative comfort to the somewhat damp regiou immediately be- neath the terrace on the west front. A STar reporter was wandering tirdugh the subter- rancous corridors, when be heard muffled sounds that for awhile were inexplicable. The rev. tion of fact was made by a passing laborer and interested by the information and guided by the sack-thumping noises he repaired to the scene of action. ‘Two sturdy boys. one of them much larger than his antagonist, were havirg a real good time with a set of boxing gloves that was much too heavy for juvenile practice. Their facial features were not at all damaged, for there w: a tacit understanding that any hit above the collar button would be unfair and perhaps paintu) the little fellow caught it just where his vest joined his tice breeches—but he was not at all discouraged, and before his longer- reaching rival ceased to amile over his tempo- rary success he planted three or four bai on his ribs that had in them an astomshing amount of geuuine force. Round and rouw the big vault they pranced, now and then clinching d occasionally slipping down, a regular boyish circus, aud all in the best possi- ble humor. THE PAGES’ GYMNASIUM. The pages’ gymnasium is a new feature re- cently introduced by Col. Canaday, sergeant- at-arms of the Senate. Three rooms, of no ractical yalue for any other purpose, have een set apart for physical culture as that science 18 understood by the youthful athletes who do the leg work around ‘the Senate. ‘Tho apartments are en suite, but th: the only thing about that looks or sounds stylish. The bare brick stares from walls and ceiling and floors, except where the latter is occasionally hidden by a sprinkling of sawdust. In each of these rooms a carpenter has erected the wo uprights necessary to make operative a hor- rizontal bar, These bars, with one set of box- ing gloves, comprise the entire gymnastic outfit for seventeen or eighteen boys. Incidentally it may be stated that the would-be pugilists are indebted to one of their number—a promising youug “‘sport”—for the use of the gloves, and ifat any time he should feel so inclined his fellow gladiators would have to continue their attentions and endeavors strictly to the heri- zontal bars, As between these two forms of amusement the majority are most favor- able to the fistic practice. All the big boys want to box, and so, perforce, the little ones think they had better stick to the uprights and | cross pieces, WHEN THE FUX COMMENCES, The regular exercises commence at about 9:30 a.m, By that time the pages have gen- infrequently they lay aside the metaphorical ermine and enjoy a good bout with youths of their own age and size. The borizontal bars are not strained to any extent by their weight; they prefer the “pillows,” SOME OF THE THINGS NEEDED, What the young athletes eed now ie addi- tional apparatus —several boxing gloves, par- allel bars. a few more boxing gloves, a ball or bag at which to strike. » tug-of-war . dumb delis, Indian clubs and more Goven the Paratus will soon be there, Some Sehator will see the paucity of the stock in trade with which the youngsters are ranning their health mill, and he will write a reasonable sort of « check and hand it to the sergeaut-et-arms for dis- bursement. Then the boys will have lots of fun, t24b EEE < i718 NATURE AND CURE, BY AP LIGHTHIL, wn, 1017 15TH ST. NORTHWEST, Catarrh mawifests itself by a Gischarge from, the head, someumes of acoloriess elairy Sula, ofa | Urulent, creevish-yellow wat- an many ini Paticnts feel as thi statoof corruption. behind and above the soft palate, requiring al- Moss constant hawking for its removal. Oftem uerustaGous are blown from the Bos trils, either solid or of @ tubular form, The prvath inoffensive, and sometimes revoltingly. nd occasionally the taste, is im T destvoyed, te hearing becomes sf fected, noises im the head make their appear sues, and the eyes are apt to become irritated snd watery. The head feels full, heavy, and compTested, especially above and between the eyes, and severe neuralric pain ts often ex- peri d about the face and head. The patient couche more or less. has acapricious appetite, Joses flesb and stremsth, 8 depressed in apirite and inclined to drowsiness The memory ts weakened and often seriously impaired. Cold ds taken from the least exposure, and step by inflammation spresde Unt it reaches aes and terminates in Cousumption, &e frequentiy has this tstal course been poticed that Catarrh is not orksnated and since carried to scientific per- fection, a complete and radical cure of Catarth can be effected. ‘This we have demonstreted i thousands of cases, representing the disease 1a, every form aud in all its vari tages ot de velopment. Our treatment reaches the dis- eased parts in the most direct and positive Maurer, instantaneously penetrating every cell and cavity of the bead with the most bene- heial results, do effective te this plan of medi- cation that even ® sinwle application i pro- ductive of immediate aud decided relief, ond by continuing this treatment the discharge Ginuiwehes, irritation ws allayed, the inflamme tion sulsiies, ulcerations ere made to heal, Wut Tualiy® radical and permanent cure i established. DR. LIGHTHTL, For Thirty Years Specialist For the cure of Catarrh, Deafness, Asthms And diseases of the ‘Throat, Ear and Lungs. Can be daily consulted from 8am. to 12m, and from 3 to 5 p.m. at No. 1017 15TH BT, NW, Berdice pass the door. QOrrs Aux Noour, For the aconmodatiou of our customers ang the Public we Will keep our store open all night im Of registered Pharuaci«ts. Pik SCRIPTIONS. Our prices for prescriytious have been reduced Proportion to other w the turers. tis We cheerttlly department by plysiciaus, fy Allcock’s Porons Plasters German Porous Plasters, 10 Ay ay Ay rd “ Bull’ Brown's Jum. Gmse: William's Jam. Bensou's ¢ Willianae' Liver Pills Carnnick's Soluble Food, wed. Cornrick’s Sc Food, lance a ri ri Horsford's Acid Horstord’s Acid Phosyhinte Hof’. Malt Fxtr Mult t-xtract (Eaxper’s),.. Williauus’ § ee + PERSEESTSSSS BUSS EUSTSIAeK Us SET ee Sa Warner's Kid Wyeth’s Beet, Witlaus’ Be oe oe SE ES Suyevessesvascseeussesesrst att Witiaius Rose T Willian’ Quinin! Handoline is unequaled ax = hepatitier of Geemm, HOU; au indispensable requisite to the jet, it rende c g88e3 €8 etrsrssEsus ‘hite, sucoth, y should Srerain Crpsules 100 grains Quinine, Powers & Don't mistake the placo-THE TEM! STOKE, under Masousc Temple, cor. 9th apli-cod FS. WILLIAMS & ©0., PLE and F sts. GRATEFUL—COMPORTING. EPPS’S COCOA BREAKFAST. “By a thorough know: of the nstural laws Ferri the operations of digestion apd nutrition, @ caretul application of the hue ‘of weil selected Cocos, Mr jp has. provided our wreaktast lables with a deli Savored, boves ae ey ors’ cas g diet that @ comstituuen ot be gradually built up uutii strome enough to re- sist every tendency to disease, Hundreds of subtle malad: around Us ready to attack where- erally concladed their early morning work,leav- ing them practically without occupation until nearly noon, Before the gymnasium was es- tablished time hung heavily and some of the pages were in the habit of waiking up and jown Pennsylvania avenue for « couple of hours each week-day morning. A small force has to be in the Senate chamber all the morn- ing because no one knows just when a Senator will drop in and wantsomething. The boys alternate, however, and everybody gets his share of brain-whirling or body-thumping ex- Generally in the corridor. Laborers, messengers, com- mittee clerks, folding-room emplo; prima nd np ad goed outside of the in applaud, the ies ure ever there is « weak int, We may escape fatal shaft by Keeping ourselves, welll Tortined with pure blood anda properly nourished draime.” Made ; with boiling water or milk. Sold only inthail-pound tine by grocers mbeiea thus: JAMES EPPS & 00. Homeopathic Chemista, 2ul 7-semétu Louden. England McMoxws ; Isa preperation of the drag by which Sts Indurion