Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1894, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. quarters here and his mate here, i'm done | with the woman.” “You don’t know where either Mr. or Mrs. Hendricks is at this momen “Yes, I do. Hendricks is underground. | He is building an underground railroad.” Fenning was surprised, but he merely smiled. “What is it?” he asked. “It's at the other end of your mail,” re- mpanion. said Fenning. “Now, then, what do you want to do?" “I want you to write to him and say I'm up to the whole thing—have looked at his underground job at both ends and want him to meet me there. “Your game is blackmail. How much?” “Well, it's worth $10,000 or more to the away, raised one of her ‘ong arms and pointed at Hendricks. It was a ~hatom- like and significant actioa. ‘The next_mo- ment she uttered an audible muan and fell down upon the gras Hendricks jumped over the rail, ran to her, and with some difficulty picked ber up. She was carried upon the balcony limp and silent and laid upon a set‘cs where there was a rug, and the yroup gathered arvand her in pity and wonder. Her garments were soiled and torn as if by contact with the bushes. But in spite of her somewhat hag- gard face, she was singularly beautiful. “Some invalid who has got astray, Mrs. Hendricks with pity. The girl raised herself on her clbow and Stared at the place and the people until her seid VALUABLE COINS a Specimens That Are Preserved in the Philadelphia Mint. a SOME OF THEM OF VAST ANTIQUITY satisfy the gentleman better, as it was humble and republican enough, while the goslings would serve for the subsidiary pieces. This reply made much fun and so irritated the southerner that he challenged the judge to tight a duel. The judge de- clining the challenge, its bearer asked Sf he was content to be branded as a coward. “Certainly, if he please: responded Thatcher, “I always was one, and he knew it, or he never would have risked a chal- lenge.” So late as Is the crime of embezzling any of the coins struck at the mint, or any of the metals brought thither to be coined, by any of the officers of the establishment was punishable by death. The same pen- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNER OF 6TH AND B& STREETS. In Effect January 28, 1894. 11:05 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. Drawirg and 8t: ins and Observation Cars Harrisburg to Culcagoy Ciucinmatt, Indianapolis and Cleveland, Parlor Car to Marrisbang. 1:05 A Mi FAST LINE.—For Pittsburg, Parlow tsberg. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Baffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louise - Cincionati and Chteago, 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman ing Cars to Citeago aud leoniaag oo tek, Dining Car to Cul “i leago. at | uty pias attached to the ‘offense of debas- | 7:10 PS. “SOUTIWESTNAN | EXPRESS. , and then in aj Story of the Pet Eagle of the Mint} ing any of the coins issued. In the wetehe | Sleeping Car to St. Louis Sleeping Irg room of this institution $1,:40.000,000 | ,CA™ Uarrishure tj ‘Clucinuatt wid and Its Melancholy Fate. government or the steamship company, see-| eyes rested on Hendrick: ing that two-thirds of the plunder is un- | soft, clear voice, she sai touched. It ought to be worth $25,000 to “fam Jack Endicott’s dausshter. I have Hendricks to keep both ends of his bur-| come for justice.” row a secret Then she broke down and sobbed piteous- “Then why don’t you go to him?” ly. Mr. and Mrs. Hend: vo, sir."" “Then what the devil do you want to do? ‘This is a ‘as going immediately to bed. The moment | Hendricks may be in the east.” worth of gold has been weighed. Formerly M. PACIFIC EXPRESS.- Pullman Sleep. the silver used by the mint was mostly ov- We Car to Pitusbung. : AM. for Rochester {ained from South America and Mexico,but |" Niagara Felis mane? Canandaigua, | sit | now {he supply comes from Coloraio and | 1264.3. tor Withee ate owe dats, ‘3 clsewhere in the west. The copper is de- cpt, Sunday. | For Wil sort dally, 3.13 PM, ” = x ved mainly from the mines of Lake Su- P.M. for Willinmsport, , Buffalo and ‘ QUEER THINGS FOR MONEY perior, and ithe finest is {rom Minnesota. | S!SKArs Falls daly: except Saturday, with Sleeps jene 3 5 —— > = r Most of t i Py vf Washington a left me L slipped down ‘the stairs, It | “No, he isn’t. You sent him a message | how Endicott got h:s. inform It_ is z county, Pennsyisania.” 1S in Lancaster | 0:40 Tun ase ‘Canaudsiges, Rochester and Wik Wi cletack: one chance in a | Yesterday morning. This is what it said:| fortunate for us that we have poxsecsion . : Kualo tally, and’ Ningara Falls daily, except hundred that the door of the lady's en- | ‘TWo hundred rifles shipped at St. Louis.|of her. Treat her tenderly and well tect The Primitive Method. eae, ith ste Gar Washington | te! trance was not locked. The hall boy had | Barrels and stocks in different boxes.’ ” Soe ae ee The primitive method of coining money | Eimirs, and Saturdays only Washington *0 re am H ad ‘a 7 Mrs, Ler icks not understan: ye = a P sone to the office to repo-t. ‘There was no fuil significance of his words—but the young Ses OY Casting the piece in sand, the de-|?08 PRMANEIONE sew yon ale SE Rekeh Twit one sobiy, The ste acroet woman was conveyed to a comfortubl2 room ins at | 22" Deing afterward imprinted upon it by “OONGRESSIONA ITED,” all Pare | locked. I went out softly. ‘The side street | and all the resources of tie cstablishment collection of coins @t | means of a nammer and punch. In me-|** Cars, oe oie ne ~ with from itimore, | the corner on his box waiting for some one, used to soothe and reassure her. She re- the United States | diseval times the process adopted was that ew York Gail, o Paitedeirne MR days. vei leep. 9:00, r ; t mained, however, taciturn and heart-broken int in Philadelphia | of ham — ‘Dining ot dred feet away. Bs I told him I was tired and Correspondence of The Evening Star. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15, 1894. HE WONDERFUL ‘ Py am satisfied that you have made a mis- or converse were of little av: the has been made at a| sired thickness, cutting the planchets out bere 4 == on take in judgment,” said Fenning “it you third day it was reported that ay- cost to the govern-|with shears, and then stamping them by Cry ft ees jare known as Mrs. Hendricks or as being ing. Hendricks saw her in company with Dining : i ment hardly moreé/hand. The first steam colning press was 4:20, 10:00 and 11 jin comunication with Hendricks, this is Dr. Pellissier, who had first callel her a Por only,’ Past week, than nominal. It was | invented in 1833. ee . where they will look for you. moelEriee eI a eT ee begun in 1888, but] In various ages almost everything imagin- dase Fy : But they need not lind me. Nothing fused genius and madne: stantly pro- previously a custom | able has been used as money—soap in Mex- , ; Will be done ti!l morning. I locked my paueed Ha Oane of ues nab pha had been established | ico, sugar in the West Indies, codfish in 4 | room door and they belleve Tam in my bed. lighted beyond mensure. Hare the cous vee ; rving what | NeWfoundiand, bullets in Massachusetts, A+ We have got the night before us. Remem- left in his hands, as other and moze urgent _ logwood in Campeachy, tobacco in the early 7:20, ber, this officer may have a requisition.” events were demanding ? cks' stten- are termed “master | settlements of Virginia, salt in Abyssinia, 2:01, Nonsense,” replied Fenning. “You have tion. ez Es coins’—that istosay,j} bricks of tea in ‘Tartary, silk in ay, done exactly expected—acted But the doctor made a suspiciously. « = J keeping track u. Tl wire to Laran for instructions.” | Fenning got up. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY) yon Waste time,” said the lady, putiing covery which | the first pleces of new | China, nails in Scotland,’ lead in a — _ od Burmah, platinum in Russia, iron issues. Such “proof pieces’ are gee in Sparta, and tin in ancient Britain. The made with unusual care, and retain the | oigest coins now extant were made 800 I. proved of great importance One morning he found in a trance condition a din cir-1C. It is asserted that. no head of human | aod 4230 | : her hand. It proved ve be a small packet | Peauty which is so quickly marre hat no oP M. ae eee everything ‘ipendercr his eee ‘on tat with human halr in it. ‘Pwo more uf taese | culation. ‘Thus the numismatic cabinet had | being was ever stamped on a ecin airll che | Atlantic Covet Line By for Richmond, Jackson- = as | being able to reach Laran. A hundred pos. taining hrir of other eulars -|efigy of Alexander the Great was thus] fille.8t. tine and Tampa, 4:00 A.M., 3:46 P. cre | already a nucleus, which exhibited the his- | fle fA M. datiy, Mpa, 4: -» 8286 P. Grice. | [OWN “Kher bed by rs. Hen- | tory and development of American coinage | Usd. He was so anxious as to how people | jjqiitlll, Flovida Special 5:05 P.M. week aye, : of the future should consider his physical 1 Adanta, 4:52 PM. daily. Rich= te (To Be Continuaa) up to that date. Since then the series Of | beauty that he would permit only three ar- | qsuund uly, 10:37 A. proof pieces has been added to and kept | tists during his reign to make his portrait. The Car Searcher and His Basinens, | Co™Plete, while Congress has supplied mon-| He decreed that no one should represent From the Louisville Courier-Journal, ey for purchasing foreign coins. In 18% petagg yr allgare ot tongiewse hong _ ese} If vou'want to get an idea of the immensi- | $1,000 was appropriated for that ea tvan [stamp his face on coins but Lysippus. ty of American railroading, talk to a car| #4 Since then $300 a year saaclry <tgec! Value of Coins. penrcher: ‘The United States cover = pretty| O° Cotes, such’ small sums)-would S0t/80) 3155 atatel ky Gascge tk iivank to Nag Meese large area, as some one has observed, but | Yor" sladine to sed eee een adopted | whose work on the Philadelphia mint the tng, | home and leave me here. I must <0 out - , - : the railroad men, and particularly the ca>| ‘°F #dding to and enriching the col | writer was indebted, that the following harles Fenning. | o'clock with your goods. When you re-| | Fenning was now amazed. He was at a gearchers, know their way about | A good many coins have been secured by American coins are all rare and command Reat Estate. Office | ceive a visit from the officer it will depend | loss for a moment what course to pursue. . ¥ about It as @ Po”) exchange, while thousands of valuable ones ‘ 5 A "9 € the Laran Sana-| upon, your wit in handling him if T get to How could the man Know all that? Mrs, |}iceman knows his beat. “A car searcher, be | pxchangs, while thousa merely their bullion | Premiums when in a good state of preser- _ $ |the bayou ahead of him ere are Hendricks had seen him on the boat com-/ it said for the benefit of the uninformed. is vation: Cents of all years from 1798 to tactem”* th ‘you ahead of him. Here are three s value by keeping a watch on the foreign saan nap pictures of him I took with a detective ing from St. Louis at the time the dispatch | an official sent out by one of the companies for | 1900; also of 1804, 1805, 1808, 1809, 1811, 1813 It has long been re-| camera at different times, ‘This one was Was se to look for cars which have been borrowed | "one? Of all sorts sent into the mint for} J 14'se58 That of 1700 is worth $5. The marked that Mr. taken in New York, and the necktie is red—| He saw pare vee expedient to feel by other lines and treated ike borrowed melting. In such money every now and then valuable half cents are those of all years - > n't forget—it may help you.” | new course w is visitor, whose ferre : _ a rare and interestin, turns up and is “ Feaning’s mails are | “But,” said Densing, “it te impossible for | eyes were watching him imperturbed. umbrelias, Of course these officials are ex-| Feseued from destruction, ‘United states [270M 1718 to 1802; also those of 1815, 1810, enormous. He £et3| you to’ be boxed.” | book here, my friend; we might as well | perienced men, a great trust is reposed in st na we . 4 other citt- | 281. 1881, 1836, 1840 to 1848 and 1852. The | sometimes as many) “Nothing is impossible just now,” she re- | be frank with each other, Assuming that | them, end they have RORY Welgnt of has) erg oe etn eeeinaee ane Ce OM SS leer bs mie Shoes ae 1794, zs five hundred letters | plied, calmly. } You are Not a monomaniac and that all you | sponsibility to carry on thei> shoulders. zens have presented numerous coins to] icj4 1938 1n30, 1851, 1852 and 158. The = day. It is not |, At 5: o'clock the next morning a mule Say is true, Hendricks would naturally ac-| “One of these men whom I mete tea even-| Uncle Sam for this collection, valuable half dollars are those of 1794, 1796, _, ms & Oe. truck was loaded with three large and | Cept your proposition if he had any sort} ings ago talked of one cat ‘somewhere The Japanese Oban, 197. The valuable quarter dollars are those | known that most if not all of these go tO! ghout twenty small boxes at the side en- | Of Teason to believe that you would keep | around by Eagle Pass,” or a chance of find-| One of the most interesting of the coins | of 1823 and 1827, a specimen of the latter Laran. But it is known to a few persons trance of Fenning’s place and driven away. |Your word on the payment of the money. | ing another at Portland, © Py as if these| is an oval plate of gold four inches long, | being worth $25. The most valuable dime | in Memphis that he has a private wice to/It was a familiar scene to those in the Assuming, I say, that you don’t turn out | places were only a few squates the cues | i a pase provee pres ae one branch of the Laran establishment, and | Relghborhood. Just before the two men j sibilities may intervene before tomorrow. | You must ship me from here early in the morning.” — | “Ship you? “With your goods CHAPTER IX. fenning considered a moment. understand you, oe , IGHT MONTHS | ie Tom” Be sald. “It may be elapse. There is an “tt is imperativ she replied. ‘Teil office in Memphis | Miss Laport that she must change dresses whose sign reads:| With me and lend me her veil. Take hi Wopyrighted. 1994.) She Came Toward the Group ina Glid- is that of 1804, being worth $250. The half that he ships great quantities of goods in boxes and carts and barrels. The fact is, Mr. Charles Fennirg is Hen- dricks’ most confidentia! lieutenant, and un- der the simple guise of real estate opera- tions and an agency for the furnishing of information about the Laran sanatarium, stands as a close connecting link between his hidden principal and the world with which that principal is carrying on active operations. | His business is so pressing that he works | late at night in his‘ office. He has two as- sistants; one is a messenger and office run- mer, the other is a confidential secretary, | assistant and telegraph operator. She is a/ very pretty young lady and her name is Cornelia Lapert. Fenning has three rooms on the ground floor: one is a public office, another is a smaller and private office, the third room | who were to drive it left the place Fenning gave them these instructions: is to Hendricks’ interest to meet you?” “He must come here.” fou are not reasonable. If he is the man who robbed the steamship, he has too much at stake to take that risk. Why not | So to him? I should like to see the thing out. I'l go with you. I'll wire him and ask aim it he'll meet you and have a talk.” Fenning was still more astonished the | same afternoon when the man returned to hear him say: “That was a risky piece of business sending that woman off in a box. She was half dead when they took her out under that catalpa tree.” | ‘There was no possible reply to make to this. It was incomprehensible to Fenning, and he had that kind of misgiving that an inscrutable mystery creates. “I have received two dispatches from | Hendricks. He says that I am to bring | you on and talk the matter over.” | “What did the third one say?” “There wasn't any third one. there was. It said ‘get him here at all cost.’ “Well, it costs something to get you be a crank, how can it all be arranged | side of Broadway. He had been sent out by one of the big lines that cover the territory | between New York and Seattle to find cer- tain freight cars that had been running up jong bills for “demurrage” against their borrowers. “bemu:rage” is a charge made by the owners of a car, at so much per day, for the time the car is kept away from its own line. “They'll take a car,” he said, “somewhere down south, and, instead of sending it back when they're done with it, will use it for some other work. That goes on and on un- til, first thing you know, the car gets in a smashup.”” “Then you have no more chance of. finding it.” I interrupted. This was where I dis- Played my ignorance. “Haven't I, though? I go to where the car was sent and make them show me the | books. Let me tell you about one car be- longing to our line that got away down south, and nobody could trace it. The man, all beard. When I showed him the entry on his books and asked him where that car was he id he didn’t know any- | ! It is the “oban” of Japan and is worth $75. It has uw smooth and polished surface, into which an inscription is burned with chem- icals. Formerly it was the law that any- body who took a gold oban out of Japan should be punished with death, supposing the crime intentional; if it were accidental, the offender was to be imprisoned for life. This was one way of preventing gold from going cut of the country, and possibly Con- gress might be induced to regard with favor @ proposition to adopt the same method | here. Recently Japan has adopted the American system of coinage. One trouble that embarrasses the finan- | cial problem in the land of the mikado is that the ordinary working people in that country have no pockets. Without pockets, what is one going to do with coins? To car- | Ty one’s ready cash in one's mouth is not always convenient, parti y agent at that depot was a little bit of a! Lerooigetin eee tmes, though many persons are satisfied to use that receptacle on ordinary occasions as a@ portemonnaie. In Japan the difficulty 3-cent nickels of IS77 are worth 50 cents apiece. The valuable gold eagles are those of 17% to 1798. The rare half eagles are those of 179% to 1798; also those of 1815, 1819, 1822, 1824 to 1829, and 1831. The mania for collecting coins is a dan- gerous one, so great a hold does it get on its victims. Sometimes they become misers and ‘accumulate fortunes in rare pieces, while living in the utmost penury and | eventually dying in want. ——— = FOOLISH VIRGINS, dime of 1802 is worth $20. The 5-cent =] i | | | Girls Make Themselves Sick Prepar- ing for the Wedding Day. From the New York Journal. Every expectant bride wishes to look her very best on her wedding day. It is the red-letter day of her life, the day when, however insignificant she may be, she ts by universal consent of paramount import- for Augusta, also carries through Pullman Buffet Sleeper New’ York to Atlanta, “where an rect connection is made Benes for “Birmingham, Mont. runs over the NEW SH eg car” Cassin «ar, Cour! Pills Sleeper ‘New Atianta and Mom Via Salis Birmingtaua.” Dy Borers. TRAINS OX WASHINGTON AND OHIO ION leave Washington at 9:20 — daily. ‘for Round day, for Herndon and ruing. arrive Washi: 8 — from Round ‘Hill. and os there. Will you go thing about it ‘One night’ ‘h _any- | was got over formerly by making the coins | 22¢e- the observed of all observers. Beside conecting with a side street is a shipping . a night,’ he says, ‘I r . ri ’ a 1 splendor the groom sinks into a es, I will, I never was in a place | jeg, 3 with square holes in the center, through | her bridal sp! room ard is well filled at this time with where I couldn't take care of myself, and | nett nrnie wee, siding. and when T came | which it was easy 10 pass a string wee | mere necessary appendage. e re next morning it was gone. Some of those | rendering it pra SH y e y~ road, Wi Station, Pennayivania Seals walting to be seat t the Geqiet on the | (PRat, (Was, a Misky Ficos of Bast- Win me’ °° BM® interest to make way | treignt conductors must have come in here | ree? shape of ia mecklace. ite stone iss eocnee aan “of tesking ber soeetet| ae CuEEN Gra aS, Wash bayeu. re i ; aaa rt the night, and looking around for a car, | perforations in the modern Japanese cur-| and prettiest on the day which ends her . MW. A. TURK, Gen. Pass. agt. One night in April the door to Mr. Fen- aWhen you yey ie cai Ces lar CHAPTER X toe Taal ree bee ran es 11 aay |e, ae given rise to so much popular | maidenhood and promotes her into a m: L. 8. BROWN, Gen Agt. Pass. Dept.” “G5 ms ~ i les out, you fo leave is * oe ao aig A e Iscontent that a new copper @ iy 1 mepped in quickly and. shutting it after | bewiaer is, in the grove om the right. It | companion to Laran resulted in a way that | rawhiding about a yard ot night time look-| benefit of the masses, and anxiety in her preparations. tant Cation aCT NOW. (1, 1808. her. glided across the room in the direction | contains tools and instruments for the sur- | neither he nor the visitor could have pre-| ing to get cars. They ain't so anxious to coruer of New Of the private office, merely saying in a low | veyors who are to place a new bridge over | _ — i dicted. Hendricks met him in the most | find extfa work as all that. Now,’ I said, The Chinese renee beatnclisn ee Sere ear noone gions For Chicago and Sertherese " Neoriinted Limited | “aie Sonning” the slough. Handle it carefully—place it | gentlemanly manner, told him to make | ‘You just tell me where that car's got to, of money for more then ion cent | of lingerie, and to posseas gowns of every | Seeets estes 1106.0 ome SA5 pee tone: “Mr. Fenning.” under the tree and go on.” himself at home in the hotel (for that was |I will report that you lost it.’ Well,” he | Coined money for more than 4,000 years, ancuroniae noting ary retin ‘Sue thrifty. , for Cincianati, St. Louis and Indlanspolis, Vee Mr. Fenning was sitting at his desk and) “1. knew these mien would carry out his| what the sanitariom nas frequently called); | commenced whimpering about his family, | Many of thelr’ coins are supposed to have reckons that she can have twice as many a - Miss Laport, not ten feet away, was seated | instructions, for they were regularly in his | Save him to understand that he would have | and how he'd lose his job if I got him into magical properties and to operate as charms | by making them herself or by sewing with at another sorting a bundle of letters. service and were well paid. , @ talk with him and fix the matter up satis. | trouble about that car. At last he owned for the protection of the posse: oat feine re gtionmeotiy energy of a party then For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m, Without a moment's hesitation Mr. Fen-| The truck got away just one hour and | factorily when he found a good opportun-| up that one day they were short of cars Pit a ne Dossessor against stress with her home dressmaker. So she| Fer Winckester and Way Stations, 5-30 7 : vate | twenty minutes before Fenuing got a call) ity. He even sent him down into the| in the yard: they took and loaded up our | fever and the devil. It is on this account has ths . th. f her color | hit ,Luray, stural Bridge, Moaboke, ning followed the woman into the private | OT Tis’ ities, | Workshops, and treated him so hospitably | car wiih agricultural machinery for At-| that when a Chinaman dies a small plece | R&S the gowns at the nnd ecee te eke | Chattanooga, Memphis and Sew office and closed the door. He recospized his visitor at once as the | that the man was outwitted at the start. | lanta, Ga.: the train was wrecked and the | of money is placed in his mauch, "Phe wanted Gr cals God ee el eee ye Fe They stood face to face and the woman! man who had been following the woman, | _ He had not been in the cave half an hour | car was ail burned up. ‘If Jou Roald Hace | Custom was followed in ancient Rome, but | unsompurtatin toca ice, orten, with an| For Laray, 3:30 iy . i very. ere was somethi e fellow that | when encountered the captain, who very al re 7 4 youl ave 7 7: ee ee eel Floris told oniine fe ie Ee profemion: | cestau ect it, but Soctnlad ait wie time ix | had to pay $900 or $400, Now you'll bare ce | the coin was intended to pay the passage | tion, Which promises ill for the beginning of | 27:15 (8-00, 45 ainutes), 26:06, that she had been walking rapidly: al detective. He was becomingly dressed in playing eribbage and drinking rum. That | Pay about $7,000 for demurrage, and | of the defunct across the waters of the| her wedded life. 45 minutes), 3:35, 34:28, 4351 “I have beer: followed from New York. I} eood clothes, but they Were not worn with personage greeted him with a sailor's ¢ordi-} you right. As for your family, I've got a| river Styx. Some of the Chinese coins used | , Now" and then a bride is sensible enough | $5.50 5 200, 8:15, must get to the bayou tonight. {the ease of familiarity. His general ap- ality and swore that it did his blasted / family, too. If 1 go back and tell the com-| as charms are covered with mystical char- | to reflect that, fashion being as unstable as | 11:35 p.n, Sundays, 33 Fenning showed no signs of alarm. He | pearance indicated impudence and doxged- | mole’s eyes good to see a salt water man | pany I can't find that car, what is my fam-| acters and symbolic animals. “the Chinese | #9 April day, it is really more satisfactory pg Fe aes ah her a eh “Did you think anyone | Ness, rather then shrewdness. He had one | underground. ily to do” And I was right. They had to| have money of porcelain also. The coin of | to get her gowns a few at a time as she | 550 lene, ti ‘30, SS ri ig < anyone | of those faces, square, immobile and hard, | “the captain evidently knew him, for he| Day about least value in the world is Japarese, 7,000 | Reeds them, and that her utmost physical | =. 10:00, 311-0, saw Jou come in here?” he asked. | that are devoid of ali emotion. His littl | called him Jack Endicott, as tough and — being required to make $1. vigor and menta! serenity are more to be | p.m Sundays, 6:0 am, “f think not, but [ cannot be certain.” | bead eyes were sunken and black and wore | tight a forecastle man as ever ran a block- Parlor Amusements. | Not less curious are the Siainese coins. -cengge — eat —_ of her life | “For Frederick, 1) ” > - “y, ” - s wi = v oc \s u "1 than much purple an ine linen, Pm. “Pray be seated.” said Fenning. “You}a steady, imperturbable st He was a ade or drank a pint of rum between | From the Philadelphia Times. + | Some of them are known as “bullet ~ oR: surprise me. Why should anyone suspect | muscular fellow, with square, broad shoul- | watches. Every one is on the lookout for novelties | Money.” being merely lumps of silver and PML SS Pee Baarea, Se ony nt BO om. you?” : ai is j ders and significant bulges of muscles on! Whatever else Endicott may have been For Hod and way yout, “700 Ce ro jait ‘bat we is, 3 210-00 au, IZ, BS) SS “Dae, Stat » sold hammered into a rudely spherical : he way of entertainments, games, &e., | 2 = P THE HARD LUCK OF AN INFANT. iis arms, but he move without elasticity | he was not proof against the temptation |! ° hes teat th ce ella * Ac. | shape, with characters stamped on them. “ | or celerity. a | of good liquor and an irresponsible life, and sent waste hath lene have | They bear as a device the sacred white ele- | Nopedy Would Even Sign for It at the | 0”. am ne. “Can I see you alone, Mr. Fennin, |he ‘never before encountered liquor quite | olf. Now, as but very few Americans have| phant. In Burmah the peacock iss tecned utsck ot tin Decemee, For Washington Junction and way points, 10:00 asked, in a rasping, but subdued voice. so good as the captain’s,whose well-stocked | mastered the game in its outdoor form, this| animal, and for that reason it appears on . coal cuties ats. San oe cee r * replied ‘Mr. Fenning, buffet in bis cabin made a seaman’s eyes | seems a little like rushing matters. There| S°M¢ of the coins from that country. A | From the Chicago Recon. ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK AND PHIL- . feeee is, however, another equally novel form of | Ye'Y extraordinary Burmese piece of money | Taking one consideration with another the | ADELPHIA. Maleate Endicott in cht way ie net mane | Amusement’ that even the most unsophisti-| ‘$88, OMiinary gravel stone inclosed in @| messenger boy's lot Is not a happy one. Baets dally 3:38. 8500 (00:00 nab. et bane take fs Soe a eee cone weenpost: | cated can indulge in, and which, on that ac.| “ielet of brass, s They are rung up to do all sorts of things | Cary, (12:00 Dining Car), 3:00 %S:00 Dining: Gone “To whom v: dressed" Hendric ; ty this | Lvely, Known. But he hag told Fenning| soont, perhaps, is especially popular. A set Two Thousand Years Old. at so much an hour, but the strangest ad-|$:00' (11:30 pan. Sleeping Car,” open at” 10:00 “To Hendricks, In Washington. Can you| |“! took her to o puivate house early this | before that gentleman left Laran that he | o¢ young women brie ite tte eons even-| There is one small case in the cabinet | ™) hat ever befell one of the boys had | © ‘lock. “| morning,” replied Kenning. vould safely leave the man with him. ing photographs of themselves taken when | which contains only one solitary coin, An | V¢ture that ever befell one of the boys ha: Nn ae ee Get me to the b: tonight Why did she leave the hotel?” want.” aid, “to know how he read | they were babies, or, at least, very young. | on = fal eat Gib pha eu Oa its location on the west side. A woman| For Atlantic City, 10:00 a.m. and 124 Fenning shook his head. “I can get you Because she was annoyed at your in-| that telegram, : These pictures are set up in a row and the| ™S¢ription says that the piece was “struck | came into the office. She was heavily veiled, | Sundays. 12-00 noon. Dan =. on the way,” he said. “It is thirty miles to | suffe_ nce gol dogging her all the | Pour days passed and es eres sed man who identifies the greatest number of | !9 the Philadelphia mint at least 2,000 as are all impetuous females, and she car. ‘Except Ma ~. wane a ‘Tipton county. I must say that I am svr-| Way from New Yor seen Hendricks among the men at work | them receives a prize. Exceedingly cheap| Years ago.” The mint in which it was jed a baby. The manager was out, but one| Raggage called for and checked from hotels and The man was a little surprised at this the furnace and electrical works, but 5 2 aoe ried a baby. es 4 = ~ ~ Transt ‘orders left prised at your coming here. There is noth-| unexpected frankness. He showed it in | the captain told him everything was all | #8¢ imple, is it no Stamped. however, was not in the «uaker | of the boys was there to attend to business, | Tesidences by Unlon a = ing at ail ‘A against you and | pis hesitation right—he could have all the money he want- “One or more of my letters have been in- tercepted.” j Fenning looked grave. “Ah!” he said, as | ask they sat down, “do you remember the con- | a, tents?" ent they were seated in the p » the man said: “Where is Mr “lear n be prov eae oe his black eyes stared steadi- | " Uicket offices, GIY and 1351 Pa. ave., and at Depot, city, Dut in the city of Attalus Phfladel-| “«t want you to take this baby to — Wash-| Ron Geamee” CHAS. 0. SCULL, you run the risk of connecting this office in | ly at Fenning, who had leaned comfortably | SY but he “wished ‘him to, stay lonees An Accident That Spoilt It All. phus, Asia Minor, from which Wiliam! yi ton poulevard’" she said Gen. Mancgee, Geo. Pass Agt. the chain of suspicions, whatever they aze." | back In his chair with the evident purpose | “p_-it_you're the only man with the From Puck. jet a leisurely conversation, but they be. | trayed a kind of blank uncertainty. “She came from the hotel directly here last night “She did,” replied Fenning. “I admire her smartness in getting rid of a nuisance, | “And you know where she is Penn took the mame for the town of| «write a card, leddy,” sald the boy. Ln “brotherly love.” There are also some ‘ou write it.” CHESAPRAKE AXD OHIO RAILWAY. | ES specimens of the gold shell inoney—made | He received the baby and the woman gave . Hed out of gold beaten into the shape of shells} him an extra quarier. It was a well-be- Schedule in effect November #0, 1893. by African natives, who supplied Portu-| haved infant and chuckled at him as he|_ Trains leave daily from Union station (B. am@ guese slave traders with slaves. These | danced it in his arms on the way to the|P.), 6th avd B sts. smell of salt on you that I've seen | since T've been in this subcellar.” ‘Then | they repaired to the cabin, filled themselves with rum and went to sleep spinning yarns. At the end of a week Endicott, in a sober and sullen mood, had an interview with Hendricks and demanded a_ settlement. were worth about $1 apiece, and forty of | house in W or ees in ae the eran omens in 7 with “Yes, sir, 1 do, but you must not expect | Hendricks treated him with the utmost po: them would buy a slave. They were cailed amen came to the door. He seemed sur- | {8° yo — ae ed Besa nae ee cel or anes PF es hegcallrmcptas pv igh ba pom h carat tant tegen this term ohiaa ts overs Sein n id,” said the boy. | ny isn Yoehanen. Donte — tand the object of y annoyan posse igaele to pay ts meeeee Tai rom 1 < “Cineinnat : you will give me one good and sufficient | foclly, Willing, to pay him to secure his dultes,”” meaning money. 2" asked the man at the door, | theighied, Stesiented Traine Pullasea's, test reason why There are also some of the coins, half dol-} ‘‘D' kid de leddy sent me with.” way in which the specie could be transfer- } | late ach puetereoee oe Goce en TAsad Rise ae mae coe ae |? flier Se ae ee * : pata on Gen. Meigs obtained at rota “Here's d’ number in the book.’ ‘ Seine ond aitieheaierr kiwi oa pus Christi, ‘Tex., in” 1870. They vere| “I can’t help that. The baby does not oa const al § S sleeping cars Washingtor to Cincinaatt, Indlay- apolis and St. Loule without. change. car file serving breakfast. Arrives cart, 7:55 am: Inuecapets, 11:50 Sans and Ces. you where she “I guess 1 know |on her way to Hendricks before thi | “So, you're not an officer, Will 4 cage, 5:45 p.m.: St. Locis, 7:30 p. 1 S found on the beach of Padre Island, ard it} long here. We have no babies and never | S60. 3:15 pli; Tt Maas oO Pn ey. Lim “ talk to the captain about it. I'll do what- is supposed that they were washed up| bad any, and I don’t want you to bring any | jad." A wild vestibuled train with dining car and ene ee ever he advises. O, by the way, I got a dis- from a sunken treasure ship, wrecked on | here.” Frilmaa Sieepors fog “Clacianati “Taeringtow’ aot . | What you want? 5 patch from Fenning this morning in which the coast while carrying funds to the army | The boy had become tired of shifting his ‘yithoat ange; arriving ‘at m “How do you know I'm not an officer he says the police are looking for you. If of Cortez, who entered the City of Mexico | tiny burden and was about to lay it on the ; B “Because if you were, the woman you | that is the case, I wouldn’t be in a hurry . are in search of couldn't get out of this your knowing it; that is, if ‘There has | to leave this retreat in 1510, Other coins of the same lot are | Goorstep when the man of the house ob- icott did not dispat> the correctness Sieh chor eho = ei emote Keep It," he said; “take it away.” MARL DAILY—For OW Point Comfort and s statement, as Hendricks expected, cee from another wreck. In 1815 a fleet. was Yon’t you sign for it?" Norfolk. Only rail’ ne. [Nor did any subsequent experiment of | : fitted out in Spain by Ferdinand Wan fer 0, I should say not. Go on away, now. |~s.00 PM. DATLY—Express for Gordonsville, this kind furnish any clew to his former unto me, Miss | the purpose of reducing the rebsllious col. | I don't care to have my neighbors see this” | Caanlottessilie, Wareabeat Btamuton ‘ond privet: knowledge of the telegram. | Flirty—Agnes—on my humble knees I fall—" | gnies in South America, The flag ship San |. The boy stood out in front for a while and | pal Virginia points: dally, except Sunday, for Rich- He went back to the captain—they filled r 7 mond. elty without you understood your business. |no boat left for up river since last night and you would have been at the trains as | they left. I don't pretend to know you, but | I notice y » not wear the red necktie | that you sported ork.” | ! “I Have Been Followed From New ; vith vent back to the oifice. On the way he : . {| fei, Pedro was freighted with a great amount { then wen ay ‘ sn eunane ok emguiate a> up on rum and both of them’ set out to see } ; 2 was overtaken by two other boys, who | | Pullman locations a York.” pane men look a each other in the exes. | the lake, which was to he lit for the first soa of specie. She caught fire off the coas: of fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue. Tenni om -posse —the ‘ vith yowls of derision. — Venezuela and sank with 400 men. The | Steeted him with y ° ne names right of fishing for the money was granted — where did y’ get tt at?” they thirty years later to a Baltimore company, | 25 Be Divers found the wreck In sixty. feet of | , But he was too much worried to enter into | water, on a hard bed of coral. Over this | the {un of the thing. When he reached the there was deposited mud, and again above ei the Se : . this a layer of coral, which had to be lere’s a kid,” said he, placing the baby STEAM! MATTANO ini jerced to arrive at the treasure, What | Ch the counter as te would have dropped | For Muttow Ceek and Sotermediate landings uaa secured of the latter was sent to Phil- pg aul bundle. “D" man wouldn’t sign = aah ee a) dak ah elphia > Z te m0, ‘The pieces | f°, no rates the lowest. For im- Sere much corroded, the loss on that act |», The BAbY began to kick and then let out aj Few, aml fe 1. SHERIFF, Coal Office, count being considerabie. bees ree weal § time and upon which the captain boasted s that he was going to have a good clinker- ght mean weak | puilt boat so that he could keep his shoulder an contempt. | blades limber. “that you don’t | “It is not known whether they quarreled same clothes | on the way o: not. But when in the ro- rd the Corin- | tunda the captain wanted to point out to him the chasm—one of those bottomless pits ion was here tested | which appear to be a feature of all great I don’t know what you're | cay which the captain called the he said. Sp ial Bs *"—they were seen together in t rebbed th mship Co tipsy discussion about twenty feet from its dhe pushed his chair back a|rim by two of the workmen, and ten min- is Imperatively | othe t stolid. His black eyes had } sts that I get to La-| a flicker in them t astonishment or it mi | “And I notice,” he y the same ‘hair wore when we boaré H.W. PULLER. General Passenger Agent. bosom and x and pulling a roll of Fenning’s sel to the utmost. aixing abou envelope and; i's ste inthian oun - = t interesting objects pre- |, “Pick it up.” said the manager. Among the mc Sia to thas Gane ol ‘ WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT CO.. “LIMITED.” © asked. refer-| lite with the impalse of a saania e : served ut the mint are three golden images | COmes back. I don't wane wie ee Woman | WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT OO... “11 an in the outer offic angpnede tg os kar den horror | utes later the captain was si alone. | from graves on the island of Chiriqui, oft | “mes ack. I | 2 “ad St Wakeficld on MONDAYS, WEDNES- =r ~ at such close contact. Endic a3 Never seen a Pease pr ebapiey ge penn The boy was sure he had gone to the right | _ Steamer is. “Yes, you and I had a hand in it, but ether he was p ‘a \ : | : SETURDAYS at 7 a.m... for Nomint nd sent in as bullion to be | number. | He had not taken the woman's | DAYS and SeTURDAYS att ase, fer Somat e » me name, however, and could give no descrip. “ae Returning TUESDAYS, re of pure gold. ‘but the workmanship 18 | tion of her except that she wore e° Grex | Sabieangs Se DATE eee eaaes y crude. The images are in the forms of | Gress and seemed to be “all tighe "Through are tee a reptile, a bird, and a man, with symbols | the long afternoon he cared forthe infant Sat “ of power in his hand ~ * Sometimes he had to carry it up and down | SonyoLK AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT CO, The American Engle. the room or jump it on his knee. ‘The other |> : “i <GTON. A more modern relic in the cabinet 1s a | boys assisted in various ways to entertain | DAILY LINE BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D. Ge | superb American eagle, stuffed and inclos- | the small Eerie a youngster. No wo- FORE i ne. SA, te nein ihe pertait new ben | en CO ening the police were yn ng ed in a glass cas ® Gorivalt has been! summoned and they took the baby that no - preserved on the silver dollars of 1836, 1838 | one would sign for and put it in’a found | SHINGTON AND XORFOLK <OUTH BOUND, eks got the swag.” je man with undis- “Did Mrs. Hendricks Glee over, Hendricks dec he never knew. a y But a marked change came over the cap- He drank more than e t of his time away in an al or, hever coming into the day- said blinded him. astrophe, about o'clock in the evening, as Mr. ‘and Mrs. Hend-icks, with two or three other person were sitting on the western balcony of the sanitarium, the figure of a woman suddenly | | | i r to change Ss with ain't a Miss Flirty (posing in a v. chic atti- tude “{ am quite uncertain, Mr. Lon; whether to { ve } ay yes or no. | | J on his undergr to land 7 a cutee to tell mor nd you run the office in tow Wa = : 7 a Ye nick of 1856. | . < Pa shington dally at 7 from foot ared against the dark masses of shrub- | and 18%, and on the nickel cents of 1856, j lings’ home, and from there it went to a| “eave Washington dally the woman is now—underground. bery about forty feet from the house. It The bird's name was Peter, and he lived at | Wst side woman, who gave it a good home. | Tt! whest. mesive af Giatuas, Seay ot admission that he ' seemed to have taken form at thit spot. vedy saw her previous approach, and her and graceful figure was clad some i: ; of light material which caught all he said. is safe as of the departing light and made » got a tunnel that runs ceedingly phantom-like. All the to the undecgre ns in the balcony saw her at the same put the st and one of them uttered a little “ay w we exclamation as if 1 apparition had ap- dy one. =) . or. 230 n But they never ed " lam. ext day. Arrive at Nor ars. He was known as the | the yelled women ns anything more about | 0. ert nl connections are sade for all | south and souchwest, Packni Et ins at,G:10 pes Teave Pe g we-Carrying Etiquette. | Norfolk daily at 6:10 p.m. Leave Fortress returned before the building was | wom the Philndciphle Time mney at 7:10 pm. Atrive at Washington oF One day he perched on a fly-wheel | There is an eti 6:30 a.m. next ’ Is etiquette of package carry! 1 arek , getting caught in the machmery, wa a > te apie agislarrioe % WS! Did you know it? One must never, ne Tickets on sale ssivania ave, and 6 The first coins issued by the United States | be seen with a brown paper or newspaper | Ask for Ur were half dimes of silver, struck in ran cave the mint six y: to find out just how “mint bird,” and flew about the city as he chose, nobody interfering with him. He al- > been et you with apers 1 and 1421 Penn s via new line. com- you Was there.” | | but it is quite au fait to carry a box JNO. CALLAHAN, os | She came toward the group in a gliding j in which year the mint was established by | or package done up in white paper and tied p14 Gou._Sup —— : id Penning.“ j ine-, but perfectly 1 and as she got | act of Congress. The first gold eagles made | with pink or any fancy strin: tong as its a bene pay hon convince the fi | they all saw that her eyes were | were turned out in 1 When it was first | size is not prohibitive of the idea of pur- NOTARIES PUBLIc. a , oe on and that she was proposed to use the eagle as an emblem on Fn nes HE st 1will) tremely yf chases at the jeweler’s or druggist’s. Any- — thing hinting at groceries chandise {s tabooed, and, 3 are dying to wear your new hat, it is wiser ‘d the king of birds. and jto have it sent, even if thereby you en-| Always. in __ tat was, therefo: not appropriate for a _re-|danger its arrival in e. than run the | Gosngrs bic. In response, Judge Thatcher play- | risk of snubs and cold glances by taking it} A torr lly rernarked that perhaps a goose might ' yourself. 1 orcs not have the yet wh dricks for. “f followed “O, then you doen't t then, "t told | claimed in ter Mrs. | Hendricks, il and Uncle Sam's money the suggestion was op- posed vigorously by a southern member of the House of Representatives. He arguc that it was r bulky IMMISSIONER OF DEEDS AND NOTARY PCB. be for ‘all states and territories a SPECIALTE: by i: EVANS, office Gusement) 1221 F et. n, leaned « He uncons a steeper, ad. Ah BY toon Wi not forget | stiri where he is?” put When I find his head- . there,” he cried. woman, who was 4 ut twenty feet