Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1894, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. CALICOT HAD RISEN SUDDENLY. THE GREAT LARAN REBELLION —_s—_____. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY NYM CRINELE. (Copyrighted. 1594.) CHAPTER XII. T WAS NEARLY 9 o'clock at night when they got back to the Bayou house. ‘The re- turn had been a slow and difficult one, but the rescue was ac- complished. The girl was tenderly cared for, and the next morning Hendricks said: “Our knowledge now, I hope, of wnat is going on in the world is not entirely cut off.” Fenning confessed that he did not under- stand. “I will show you,” replied Hendricks, “but first we must hear from abov It was the same hour at which Mrs. Hen- @ricks and Calicot had ridden away the day before when word came trom the doctor. “Miss Endicott has disappeared,” he said “There has been a search made for her, an+ the men report that an armed force mus have been in the woods last night, as the. ave discovered the fresh marks of horse: hoofs. Two of the marshal’s men have been sent south on the search, but I be- lieve that is a blind.” “What does Mrs. at? “She has not expressed an opinion to me. If the girl has been abducted she will dis- close everything.” “Are you sure of that?’ “Positively. She is a clairvoyant. I be- lieve Caiicot has got her safely in charge of experts. She is the only person who can describe your hidden operation without being with you.” “Then we should not have permitted her to escape.” “Certainly not. I wouldn't give a farth- ing for any of your schemes if she is in their hands. She says her father was mur- dered by the captain, and she can describe the captain in the act. Don’t it occur te you from what is gcing on that there must be treachery somewhere?” “It looks like it. To circumvent it, you Must come down immediately.” “But Mrs. Hendricks will know where Iam and may take advantage of my absence.” : ‘Nevertheless, come down at once.”" “Very good.” The moment the doctor arrived at the det- tom of the shaft Hendricks said: “I have g0t Miss Endicott here. You might have guessed it. If she can be of service to the government she can be of service to us. Can. you put her en rapport with Mrs. Hendricks?” “a you got any of Mrs. Hendricks’ air?” : “Yes; there is a packet of it. The hair ‘Was cut off when she wore the light wig.” After explanations from Hendricks of the abduction, which elicited unbounded ed- miration from the doctor, they proceeded to Hendricks say about the rooms that had been set apart for Miss | Endicott. Hendricks, it should be stated, had provided this retreat with several negro servants. They had their own quarters and geveral of them were women, one of whom had been assigned to take care Endicott. They found the young woman sitting in a chair in a normal condition and indignant. made me a prisoner again in she id, it will kill me.” dear young lad; saki the doctor, ‘ou are not a prisoner. In a few days you will be restored to your friends, if you have a “[ must said. look for my father,” she “He is the only friend I have. “T have cc < You shall n to take care of you. ake a confidant of me. I'm your pne here has the desire to aarm She is Suffering From Shock. ou. We must fir r father. dare say you have neglected your meal, as usual.” “I cannot e: 2 you that you must to not obey me, what can I do the doc agged his at bk aid: “Here, us walk about a bit. the dy big door >mmon wheel door. sald the oper . chair immetiately $ down here had thing in let it eckoned said a sensi “Sh om fre twitched i the doctor from the girl “Oh, tt moa- running in “Do you see nut of the air ne together. of Miss | na-| There is the rail} not | around it. ‘The ground shakes. What is | that awful throb? It is not pleasant here. | ‘De you not see a woman?” asked the doctor. “Look weil. There is a woman— you must see her. “So many men, they will look for m: sound of id the girl. “Perhaps father. There is the the wain—there re more men ler face assumed a painful She gasped, threw up her arms, red a shriek and teli forward. The doctor, who sprang to catch her, found both her hands over her ears and her arms were rigid. One of her hands still clasped the hair and he could not ex- tricate it frum her fingers. For quite an hour he worked with re- storatives over her. Hendricks walked up and down in the arena and waited. At last the doctor appeared. “I've got her around,” he said, “but it's the most extraordinary thing | ever heard ef. She is suffering from shock.” “What de you make of her talk?’ asked Hendricks, somewhat impatiently. “My dear sir,” said the doctor, “I don't | know what to make of it. But I am bound to tell you that these extraordinary crea- tures not only have clear sight but at times prescience. It may be tha: she saw and described something that has not yet taken place. The great Zchokke often did it in very much the same way.” “That may be very science,” replied Hendrick want described is the thing ing at present; that ought to be a much easier matter. The hair trick did not =" interesting “There is no infaliibiliiy abeut it,” sail the doctor. “It may work four times and fail on the fifth.” “Then by all means make the other four experiments !mmediately.”” “Impossible. I wouldn't guarantee her ife if she doesn’t recover from the shock. she acts like a creature who has been in a errible explosion.” Finding that there was po moving the joctor from his decision, Hendricks, with his usual tact, immediately turned his mind to other matters. Close confinement underground was tell- ‘ng upon ali the inmates and even upon | Hendricks himself. He noticed that | long deprivation of sunlight made every- | body gloomy and doubtful. Up to within a week his men had all taken regular turns |in the air. In this respect they had noth- | ing to complain of. They had gone out at the western exit in groups—had and fished and enjoyed themselves, and he had lost none of them. The privilege had | away, and the one, hundred men left be- j hind, althougn made up of the workmen and help of the establishment, were be- coming restive under the restraint. In spite of the fact that the ventilation had been Improved very much and the varia- tions of temperature were scarcely ap- Preciable in the rotunda, which was not only the mgst spacious, but the most en- | Joyable part of the Laran, the doctor found that he was encountering a new group of complaints, and he had the good sense to | attribute them to the condition of confine- | ment. | ‘The dey after the failure of the doctor's experiment with Miss Endicott, the gen- eral, who had been away on a mission of importance, suddenly returned. He came in at the bayou entrance late at night, but he reported to Hendricks, who got out | of bed, and the two sat in consultation un- til morning. Whatever the nature of their conference was, its importance and the | urgency of events were made apparent by the general's words at its close. “We have just three days to get the rest Sit Dows Here for a Moment. of our men out—that leaves them five di to assemble. They must be in St. Mary's on the Sth. You have no suspicion, have you, that the new move is known in any Way to these officers above ground? “I know absolutely nothing as to what these men suspect. For some reason Mrs. Hendricks is reticent. The only thing to do is to go ahead and disregard them. They have got no posse in the neighborhood, for I have been over the ground.’ At this point the doctor came in and an- nounced that Miss Endicott, who had not been out of her bed since the shock, was in one of her trances, and they might, he thought, renew the experiment in a guard- ed way. Hendricks excused himself to the general and went to Miss Endicott’s bedside, where, after turning out the negress, the two men sat down. The doctor then proceeded as before, and when the girl's eyes were fixed upon vacancy, he said: “Tell me what you see.” “Yes, I will tell you,” she replied, as if in some terror of the doctor. “Let me be sure. I see a woman. I know her. She is stand- ing in the curtains at the window. She— she has\the curtain pulled about her. e is listening.” | “Look well. What is she listening to?” “I cannot tell. Yes—some one is walking | on the baleony—the window is open—it is Miss Laport and a youne man. They sit | down on a bench near the window.” “Can you hear what they say?” “No, I cannot hear. Some one is coming into the roo; | “Who ts it? “I feel it is a man, but I cannot see him.” “Can you not hea’ cannot hear w what at he says—I can only the woman says.” hear ted from her. “Oh, » the soldiers coming. The air is They have not taken down the iron Miy God--that is the train. I hear will all be killed.” Then, with a she threw up her arms and Ider put her hands upon her to all appearances, life- am oozed from the cor- I's eyes little her mouth ? was puzzled and annoyed. air to the girl's ut- fected him in a manner pe- to himself. He may be nted the intimation of pre: le, avoided and disliked mysteries. not like to acknowledge to himself hing was going on above ground suspicious, and that Mrs. Hen- nad him at a disadvantage. He turn- * matter over in his mind and viewed very conceivable point. There Way out of the growing Was to take a body of rouse, and make the of- nd i the un ind ler. he had about Mrs. hone, nt to warn settled to this con- Hendricks summoned him w " she said, “if any nes through this instru- er it. They are ail away this moment and I can not tell if suspect at apparently go out on the tion, but they ° to use ther at some moment. They narks about the } chimar nd have omin usly about Miss Endicott's > B hey found yught in th Medf. pitate matters now, St. Mary's scheme. [ icot knows some thing about your past—how much T ecan- learn—he may know something of “aran it T guessed the truth w the hor: * hoof marks n end bre flask which smelled of rum you If you pre- nay wreck your I choke. The light huris my eyes, but it is rk.” the | hunted | been shut off as soon as the regiment got | | your future pians. I believe he is the only man who has put together the threads of your career. In a personal encounter he may get away. If you entrap him there will be an armed force quartered on us. ‘The best plan is to keep him here in lux- urious ease by every blandishment I can offer until the St. Mary's affair is over. He will prefer this place to the Bayou house, if indeed he suspects that place. He is a shrewd man, but 2 susceptible one. Leave him in my hands. Hendricks was not led by this communi- ‘cation into a moment's inadvertence. He could not tell if it were an honest convic- tion or part of some scheme of the wo- man's. He did not dare tell her his own | conclusions and thus put her on her guard. He gave her no intimation of his fast ma- turing plan. He merely asked questions. The result was that he obtained from her further acknowledgments to the following effect: icot is no ordinary man. I fear him beeause I cannot read him. I have a grow- ing belief that he has industriously put to- gether your whole career—made his own theory—kept it to himself and is staying here ‘to corroborate it before putting the | machinery of law in operation, or making his plan public. He has. shown an ummis- takable admiration for me. He professes to have never met a woman whose int | sifts so impressed him. But IT cannot tell |how far this is his s&sceptibility or his game. Yesterday he said my gifts would be of inestimable value to the socin! system if arrayed on the side of the normal forces of | society. I tried all my arts to get him to say how far he thought they were arrayed | against the conventional order, but I could er get him to divulge anything. At an- other time he said: ‘You are in consiant communication with Mr. Hendricks.” he changed the subject adroitly: when [ tried to find out how he knew it. This will show you that if he stays here it is only a question of time when he discovers our means of intercourse And how necessary it is that I should sparingly use it. You know me too well to think for a moment | | | | | Remove This Gentleman to the Shaft. | that I am superstitious or visionary, but this cool, plausible, mysterious maa some- how stands in my instinctive feelings for | the slow, inevitable, dispassionate, solidar- ity of man that we have raised our hands against. I have exhausted all my woman's ingenuity in trying to discover the weak spot in his nature. He has, so far, baffled me. I cannot tell if he has a weak’ spot or is only the cleverest man I ever met in hiding it. It would be a supreme triumph to outwit such a representative agent intel- | lectually. It cannot be done in your way. You must handle events. Leave me to deal | With motives. In any case, trust me.” - The result of this was just what we might expect in a man cf Hendricks’ unplastic will and aggressive nature. Me wes not convinced. He did not like the woman's weak admission of something august and invincible in the social order. He saw noth- ing in the statements ani arguments that might not be put forward as part of a sub- tile scheme to gain time and to keep him helplessiv out of the way till hes own se- | curity was attained. He did not, however, confer with his associates, but went to the | office and plunged into a deep consultation with the general and Fenning upon the to- pography of the country arcund St. Mary's. They had county und township maps with a every road and house marked upon thi and they tere engrosced in the details oF military campaign. But that morning the doctor had ssid that there were six of the men who had demanded to be let out for a few hours. They had pledged themselves | to keep away from the roads and merely go into the bush to hunt squirrels and would be back at night. The doctor advised their release for a time, and as they were men in whom the general hud every confidence, the permission was given with a warning. ‘These six men went immediately north, hung about the grounds of the Laran house, encountered the two deputies who were in the woods and killed them. They then re- turned at night feeling assured that they had removed the obstacles to their, liberty, aiigndricks heard of it first trom Bits, Han: ricks. “The two deputies,” she said, “have been killed at the edge of the blue-grass opening on the Smoky Hill stretch. They were kill- ed by your men yesterday afternoon. Cali- cot sent their bodies on to Clinton in a wa- gon, and Lieut. Stocking has gone with them. They had not been gone an hour when four mounted men arrived to take thei> place. I saw them from my chamber window. It had a peculiar effect upon me. They seemed to be the advance guard of the race. Calicot is as suave and uncon- cerned as ever. We ate breakfast together. I expressed the greatest amount of concern and womanly horror at the deed. He mere- ly remarked that it was an incident caleu- lable and of small weight in estimating uit) mate results. ‘A mere skirmish.” a reedhirperion ish.” Then He Ject. We shall now have six men instead of four. Something tells me that {f you suc- ceed in getting rid of these men, twelve more will take thei> place. It’s Ike fight- ing an incalculable machine.” Hendricks’ plans were decided upon in five minutes after this communication. He called in the general and explained the sit- Uation to him. “We must take this bull by the horns. Pick twenty-five of the be: st men; stock them with thi vé aye cee ie best horses wé They are to be timed t e at the Laran house at 9:30 tomorrow mere ing. Have twenty-five more men ut this shaft. There is no telling what Stocking will bring back with him. I will go up and meet Calicot at that hour. I don't want him killed. We must make him our prison. er. As for the rest, let them take the chances. I shall probably hear from Mre Hendricks tonight, but I shall not tell her of my plan. We cannot use Fenning, for he go to ,e lary’s. ve stu Ga y Have you got the “Yes,” said the general, went last night.” “the last boxes CHAPTER XIII. The lift, which was kept at the bottom of the shaft when not in use, carried Hen- dricks up at precisely 9:28 the next morn- ing. He had five men with him and they all got undisturbed into the signal room. He secured the floor and then waited at the little western window a moment until the half hour had expired. There was evidently some kind of signal made from the wood, for he said: “All right. You are to wait here and guard the entrance until you hear from me.” He then opened the door with a latch key carefully and step- ped into the passage, him. Calicot and Mrs. Hendricks were tn the northern parlor, used as a breakfast room. As Hendricks approached the door through the passage he heard the voice of one of the maids singing in the kitchen. He stop- ped at the door with his hand on the knob. He heard the singing changed suddenly to a ery of surprise, and the floor vibrated slightly as if several persons had run to the windows. Almost at the same mo- ment he heard the sound of horses’ feet, and he knew that the house was surround- ed. Then he opened the door suddenly and stood in the room. Calicot, who was facing the entrance, had risen suddenly and was standing ih an attitude of defense. Mrs, Hendricks, with admirable self-possession, half turn- ed, with a look of reproach. “Pray be seated,” said Hendricks. “What we have to”say need not disturb the air of tete-a-tete,” and he pulled, as he advanced to the table, one of the chairs with him. Calicot remained standing. “I beg that you will be seated,” Hendricks with politeness. Calicot strode to the window and pulled the curtain aside. He saw the mounted men on the lawn. Then he dropped the curtain and came back to the table. “There is a lady present,” said Hen- dricks. “There is no necessity in our in- terview for her retirement.” Calicot sat down. He was looking at Hendricks with curiosity. “In the little conflict between us,” said the lattes, “I assure you, sir, that if you eaid had made it plain that you represented the inevitable, I would have gracefully succumbed. That is all 1 ask of you now. There are twenty-five men guarding the house and a suffictent force inside. You, my dear sir, are my prisoner. “You are certainly,” said Calfcot, “the mest extra requires brai inary man I ever met. It as well as audacity to play Claude Duval suceessfully on a modern stage. It may be necessary to the ends of justice for me to succumb. The agents of the inevitable scarcely count. They may delay—they do not alter the result. I am very glad, sir, to have met you at last, even to my disadvantage. How many officers of the law have you killed this morning?” lectual | Bat | conversation to a trifling sub- |, closing the door after | | “It will help to preserve your own com- fort and my good will,” said Hendricks, “if you will try and understand at the start that you have got to deal, not with crime, but with war. I am not a malefac- tor, but.a_ revolutionist. Society in month will have to treat with m2 under the conditions of armned conflict. It would be well if you could advance your position ,and your language to that point without | waiting for events. At present you ure | my prigoner. [ intend to hold you. There jought to be no good reason why your cap- | tivity should be uncomfortable.” ' Calicot smiled. “You fight the inevitable | with sophistry,” he sa “There is but one other means after that. It is violence. | 1 ‘do not accept your argument and I do |not recognize your authority, but I am | deeply interested in your hallucination. “Encugh,” replied Hendricks. ‘May I ask | you to give up your arms? a give you my ‘ord as a gentleman that I never cangy any and am unarmed at this moment,” said Calicot. : “Then pardon me a moment,” said Het dricks. “You will have to accompany me. He went to the door and spoke to one of his He thought, as he turned to come back, that both Mrs. Hendricks and Calicot made a motion of their bodies as if they had ‘leaned forward to speak to each other. “Will you accompany me, sir?” said Hen- dricks. “Certainiy not voluntarily,” replied Cali- cot. “I am an officer of the law. Y: .resisting the due process of that law. “T regret exceedingly,” said Hendricks, | “that you should insist upon force.” | “That is your responsibility—not mine, ‘observed Calicot. . | Hendricks called in two men. ‘Remove i this gentleman to the shaft,” he said. The men stepped on either side of Calicot. “That is sufficient,” he said. “You need | not drag me.” ; | He then made a bow to Mrs. Hendricks and walked to the signal room. |_ After a consultation with the gencral | Hendricks followed him. The shaft was open and the lift was waiting in the room, It was impossible t the mechanism of the floor, for the w w had been dark- ened by a closed shut Jusi as she two men stepped into the elevator the shai} re- Tr upon, air jport of a rifle rang out cie and was almost imme least half a score of au foliowe by at The two men in the elev: jeach “That is the return of your Heutena: | said Hend: “Yes,” brave fellow and a warm friend.” : “Let us hope that there is no bloodshed,” said Hendricks, “and that we shall eajoy | his society.” (To be continued.) iene = DON'T FEAK FATHER TIME. The Woman of Toduy in a Position to Be Accurate as to Age. Is it worth a woman's whiie to be inac- curate about her age? Does she not rather lose nowadays by lessening the number of ‘her years? Assuming that her object hith- jerto in setting back the hand of time has |been to render herself more attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex, it must be ob- vious, says the Lady's Pictorial, to close observers of the men and manners of today | that it is not the maiden of “bashful jif- teen” nor the girl of sweet twenty who finds favor in the sight of either the gilded |youth or the man of the world. The threshold of womanhood no longer invites them, sweet seventeen is out of date, im- /maturity is not attractive. It is nowadays only the woman who has “arrived’” who can fascinate the weary, pessimistic youth of the period; it is only the expertenced matron who, understanding the faults and follies of man, can render herself a suffi- ciently reasonable companion to him when he comes to years of discretion. ‘The “bread-and-butter” miss, the comparatively Imexperienced maiden, nay, even the very young matron, are hopelessly “out of it” at the present. It is the hour of maturity, and |the woman has triumphed over the girl. |She may now be anything over thirty to hold sway, provided always that she keeps herself thirty in heart and face. She must lookjattractive, she must have the power to acta She must possess tact and judg- ment, and then she can snap her fingers at time and boldly set down what she likes on the census paper. At all events, she need |no longer dread the attainment of her third decade, for it is then that her reign begins. |Not until then does she begin to under- stand the management of man. He does |not want to be regarded as a school girl's ideal, to live on bliss and kisses, and eter- |nally play the jeune premier. He wants | companionship, he wants to have his faults | recognized and openly discussed, and he | knows that with her ripened experience the woman will not expect too much of him nor invest him with a halo of romance, neither has she mere matrimonial designs upon him..:So has she outrivaled her younger sisters, even her own daughters, and thus need she-no longer fear the taking of the census and the revelation of her age. ——— -+0+- 1 Revenge.. A Celes' From Puck. The Chinaman.—‘‘Melican man velly much smart.” The Naughty Boy.—“Oh, what fun! I'll | give that a pull that'll make him see stars.” The Chinaman (touching the button). “Melican boy no more monkley, you biet! BANK BURGLARS | The House Appropriations Commit- tee is Engaged in Studying Them, NEW VAULTS FOR TRE TREASURY ;No Burglar-Proof Vault Can Be Made Secure. THE FOUR POINTS OF ATTACK Written for The Evening Star. HE APPROPRIA- tions committee of the House has been studying burgiars’ methods with a view to the. reconstruction of the vaults in the treasury here and the vaults at the sub- treasuries in other parts of the country. The Treasury Depart- ment has been try- ing for years to per- suade Congress® to make an appropriation for this purpose. The Secretary of the Treasury does not want the reconstruction done all at once. He wants one vault at a time attended to. So while the ultimate expense will be Very great the immediate appropriation will be compartively small. The — government commission which examined the treasury vaults two years ago reported that vault No. 1—the principal silver vault—is of “ab- solutely no value as a protective construc- tion.” The same commission condemned in almost as strong terms six of the other seven vaults ‘and said that vault No. 2 should simply be kept long enough to get the other vaults replaced or reconstructed. The safes in the redemption bureau, which are used for the storage of small quanti- tles of money at night, are of the pattern of the last generation and they also should be replaced. It is, probable that the members of the appropriation ccmmittee have learned more about burglar methods through the study of this problem of vault construction than they ever ‘tnew before. The Secretary of the Treasury has laid all the facts before them in detail. Usualiy the authorities shroud the methods of criminals with as much mystery as possible in the belief that the publication of the details of their work may help to educate other criminals. The commission which was appointed to inves- tigate the vaults of the treasury told the Secretary that burglary methods were so well known that no publicity given to them could be made to serve any bad pur- pose. So the commission’s report which the House committee has been considering is @ perfect text book in vault burglary. The Four Methods. There are four methods of attack used by the modern vault burglar. The simplest of these is to,drill the walls or door of a vault and obtain access to the locks or bolts so that the door can be unlocked from the inside. The second is to strip off layer by layer the steel and iron sheets of which modern vaults are made. The third is to employ an explosive in some part easy of attack and to destroy the locks, break open a door or break or weaken the walls of @ vault. The fourth is to compel the offi- cer in charge of the combination of a vault to open the door. There is no such thing as a “burglar Proof” vault or safe. Experiments as well as practical experience have shown that there is no form of construction yet de- vised which is capable of resisting burglars’ tools. The principal safeguard against burglary is that on which the Treasury Department has relied for many years— the multiplicity of the guards about the vaults. Next to that the greatest security is in the construction of a vault whose walls will be so difficult of penetration that before the burglar can get clear through he will be discovered. But when a set of burglars equipped with finely tempered drills has an entire night undisturbed in which to get inside a vault there is no vault yet constructed which is proof against them. . The Construction of the Modern Vault The invariable construction of the modern vault is in layers of soft and tough steel or iron. The softer material is intended to give strength and permanence of form to the mass; the tough metal, to resist the drill. The soft metal by itself would yield rather quickly to the drill; the tough metal being brittle, would be shattered easily by an explosive. The softer metal is ually the best of what are known as the “mild” steels made by the Bessemer process. Iron 1g subject to flaws by lamination or cinder- streaks and therefore is not so desirable as steel. The harder metal is either a “high” carbon steel or an iron alloy. Usually it is an alloy of iron and chromium, known as chrome steel. The common method of manufacture is to alternate three layers of iron or soft steel with two intermediate layers of steel capable of taking on extreme hardness and to roli them down together, hot, to form a sheet of the thickness of half an inch, so that the imbedded steel plates will offer the greatest resistance to a well-tempered drilling or cutting tool. ‘These composite sheets are then built into the walls of the vault, alternating with heavy half-inch iron or soft steel tes until a thickness of several inches {s ob- tained. Absolute impenetrabillty is not to be had and is not expected, but If the walls can be made to resist an attack over night or even over two nights and two days—two holidays or a holiday and a Sunday fre- quently intervene between working days— the result is considered entirely satisfac- tory. Vaults have been made recently of solid masses of the chilled tron used in car- wheels. In ordinary vault construction a set of “tap bolts” is used, each ing through one sheet and screwing Into the sheet be- yond. The second sheet being bolted to the first, another set of bolts fastens the third sheet to the second; the two sets of bolts “breaking joints” so that no bolt hole pene- trates more than two sheets. The walls of the vault are always built from the in- side cutward. Where the method of at- tack is to strip the sheets from their places, ordinary bolts are frequently drawn by clamps or nippers. Door and Time-Lock. The weakest part of a vault or safe is the door. It is constructed, like the walls, of alternate layers of soft and hard steel. In the combination or ordinary time-lock system there is a steel spindle, also made of hard and soft material, which runs through the door, and with which the bolts are moved when the door is to be opened. For a long time this spindle was the weak- est part of the vault construction. In the costliest modern vaults it has been re- moved altogether. These later vaults have an automatic mechanism which works tn connection with a time-lock and throws the bolts at the hour fixed for opening the safe door. The time lock has solved many of the dif- ficulties of vault construction. It has heat- en the burglar completely at his fourth point of attack. He can compel the cash- jer of a bank at the point of a pistol to open the bank's offices and te lead the way to the vault, but the cashier is Just as pow- erless in the presence of the time-lock as the burglar. Time-locks are used in the Treasury Department, and one of them,is a constant object of interest to visitors at the bureau of engraving and printing. There is a time-locék in the cashier's office in the Treasury Department, and one morn- ing some years ago the government sus- pended payment for an hour because the cashier had made a mistake in setting the clock in the vault. At the end of that hour the doors of the vault swung open auto- matically and Uncle Sam resumed busi- ness at the olf stand. Four Clocks to a Vault. The average visitor at the bureau of en- graving and printing, knowing the uncer- tainty of clock work from a personal ex- perienca, “wants to know” what would happen if the clock spring should break or } the mechanism should be thrown out of order while the vault is locked. All of that has been provided for in modern construc- tion. The time-lock now has not one, but two, three or four clocks in train. If one or even two or three of them should get out of order simultaneously, there would still be the fourth to open the vault door in the morning, and to save the owner the necessity of burglarizing his own vault. The poseibidty of four carefully inspected clocks getting out of order within a few hours of each other is so small that it is not considered except In its relation to the burglar. The jar of an explosive used by a burglar might throw the clocks out of order. This would make the burglar’s Success more doubtful, but It would not be an unmixel blessing, for the owner of the vault would be out several thousand dollars breaking into his vault. So this contin- gency is provided for in some cases by mounting the clocks on springs. Where spindles are still used (and they are used in a majority of the safes and vaults constructed) they are sometimes made in two parts, each passing half through the door at different points and connecting in the middle of the door’s thickness by a 5; tem of small gears. In another construc- tion the spindle is made of a series of small cylinders and larger disks along a common axis, on the theory that the removal of such a piece of work will be more difficult than the removal of a straight spindle. But “doctors disagree” very widely on the subject of spindles. One maker uses a spindle of large size and heavy construc- tion in the belief that an increase in size will make entrance by this point more @iffi cult; another makes his spindle as small a: possible in the belief that the smaller the spindle the less useful the spindle hole to the burglar. The Effect of Nitro-Glycerine. The most vulnerable part of a vault now is the edge of the door. It is almost im- possible to obtain an absolutely tight joint, one which will be impervious to liquid ex- plosives. The old method of attack was by powder blown into the crack of the vault door. As the construction of these doors became more perfect this was made im- practicable. Then the gentle burglar turn- ed his attention to other explosives and to- day he uses nitro-glycerine. Nitro-glycer- ine when warm runs as freely as water. If the crack of a door’is not absolutely tight the nitro-glycerine will find some small lodging place in it. When exploded It rips off the door, tears off its outer layers or opens a space where a larger charge of ex- plosives can be used. If the joint is too well fitted to permit the use of nitro-glycer- ine and the vault is in an isolated place where powerful explosives can be used dynamite is laid against a weak spot and well tamped. Its explosion either makes an opening or weakens the walls or door so that tools or other explosives can be used to advan’ With a guarantee of comparative f: iom for operation, a set of burglars can enter a modern vault in cre to tht hours. The shortest process is usu- ally by the use of explosives, and it has been found that the high explosives ere singularly local in effect and produce very Mttie sound. Hammer and sledge are often used, though burglars prefer boring, with the use of a blow pipe to draw the temper of the steel attacked. But the modern con- struction renders this sometimes extremely difficult because of the high conductivity of iron and the close contact of the cold steel adjacent. Burglars seldom attempt to make holes of more than an inch in diame- ter, and the heat from the small flame which can be introduced through such a hole is quickly dissipated. Sometimes the burglar bores through the soft metal and breaks the intervening sheets of hard metal with the blows of a hammer, removing the metal piecemeal. It is estimated that an expert with finely tempered tools will work through an inch of a vault wail in an hour. It sometimes happens, though, that an in- expert burglar abandons a job after pene- trating the outer layer of steel because his poorly tempered tools were all dulled in the attempt. Sometimes a burglar finds it tive- ly easy to strip a safe or vault. If he can cut through the outer casing along a line the wedging off of sheet after sheet is a better method of attack than drilling. A large and well-built safe has been com- ‘econ destroyed by this process in four jours of steady work, with the use of sledge, cold chisels and wedge. Recogniz- ing the fact that a principal danger is from “stripping,” steelmakers say that they furnish a rather poor quality of steel to safe and vault men. In the construc- tion of the new treasury vaults, though, it is likely that only the best quality steel will be used. Dealers in safes and builders of vaults have their little trade tricks, and one of the most familiar of them is to get a piece of work from some rival establishment, bore holes in it and exhibit it as a proof of the insecurity of the other man’s work. This proves nothing to the exhibitor’s advan- tage, because it has been shown by experi- ment that every substance used in as and vault construction can be drt Even “Franklinite,” which was regarded ip 1879 as almost, if not quite, invulnerable, Kes been drilled at the rate of an inch an hour. But the ordinary experiment with materials used in safe or vault construction does not take into consideration the conditions un- der which the burglar must work. What would be quite easy to accomplish in an open field might be extremely difficult in a business building. The favorable condi- tions could exist in burglary in one case only—in case a mob attacked and took pos- session of a building. It would not take that mob very long to break into any vault that was ever constructed. The four-inch wall of a modern safe has been blown in experimentally by a single charge of dy- namite. A second charge of dynamite de- stroys the safe. : ' The Well-Guarded Treasury.” But the Treasury Department does not have to consider the question of invasion very seriously. The treasury is well guard- ed, and an armed force could be summoned to its protection on very short notice. The treasury has to consider protection from the burglar within its walls. There are more than sixty watchmen about the treasury vaults, and they constitute the best possible guard to the millions of bonds, notes and coin. But it is proposed to re- inforce their work by the introduction of vaults of modern construction, made doubly safe by a coating of composition, filled with electric wires, the breaking of which would be plainly shown on dials in the office of the captain of the watch, the nearest po- lice station and the bed room of the treas- urer of the United States. Such a system of electric detection is now in use in the subtreasury at New York. With these pre- cautions against attack Uncle Sam could feel that his treasure was quite safe. He can never have that assurance so long as it is possible for an expert, without assist- ance, to bore a hole in one of his vaults in less than half an hour. — THE PRESERVE CLOSET. It Must Be Cool, Dry and Always Kept Dark. From the Philadelphia Times. Irreverent but forcible the exclamation of the admiring husband before the open door of this receptacle of family sweets: “By her fruits ye shall know her!” Cool, dary and dark are the requirements of this especial closet. Shelved, in reference to height of jars, at the top the distance be- tween for pints, below for quarts and 0 on down until within three feet of the floor, where the space should be left to allow stone crocks, jugs and demijohns to stand | beneath the lower shelf on the floor. This one should go entirely around three sides of the closet. A small inner cupboard should be built for tumblers of jelly. mar- mulade and jams. Corvenience and order suggest that each fruit should be tn a compartment by itself and plainly labeled and dated. How beautiful and tempting the long, shining rows of amber and ruby filled jars, and what a refuge in times of emergency! A wise housewife is she who has a supply ready for not only the needs of her own household, but for the poor and sick, to whom delicacies are not procurabie, however necessary, unless provided by the thoughtful kindness of those more fortu- ate in worldly stores. Preserves and ‘home missionary” work are not without harmony, and trifles tell in the summing up. “doing one’s duty.” To the average good housewife, and the world abounds in such, given rules for put- ting up fruits and vegetables would be a Uttle like directing an old physician how to write his prescriptions. Ancestral receipts, verified by long practice, give her a su- perior knowledge. She knows that straw- berries inaugurate the spring fruit proces- sion; that raspberries, currants, blackber- ries, &c., follow in luscious lin: Experi- ence, likewise, has taught her that the first fruits, welco! as the face of a long- missed friend, are watery, not so firm as those that come a little later, and are, therefore, less lable to keep. Among her valuable precepts is one that a few dashes of real lemon juice greatly improves straw- berry preserves and jelly;another that rasp- berries and currants cooked together in the proportion of one-third currant to two of raspberry makes a peculiarly delicious | preserve. Again, point worth knowing 1s that if a preserve be made from over- ripe fruit and has not the necessary firm- ness, instead of reboiling set the jars in the het noonday sun, covered with pieces of clear glass, which remove at night an@ wipe off carefully. The jelly will become firm and as it shrinks the glasses be refilled from the others. RAILROADS PENNSYLVANIA FA./.RO\D. STATION = OF 6TH AND Ay 3TREETS. t Janua: 1 15 AM. "PEXSSYLV AN TA “Tis —Posman State Room, Sleeping, Din.ng, < inz and Observation ‘Cars Barrisburg te Chicago, {inclunatt, Indianapolis and Cleveland Buflet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 11:65 au AST LINE.—For Pittsburg, Parlor one. 3:1 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Borsteg. Sor me ond Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Lo’ Cincinnati and Chicago. 10 P-M. WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleep- DR Care to Chicago und Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dining Car to Chi 2 P.M. SOUTHW EXPRESS.—Pullman Jceping Car to St. Louis and Sleeping and Dining Harrisburg to Cincinnati. EXPRESS.—Puliman Sieep- Cars 10:40 P.M. PACIPT Canandaigua, Rochester and ic ing Car to Pi 4 7288 2, 10 Pittatarg. except Sunday. and Renovo da! . for Kamer a ly, ex cept. Sunday. Por waht? any 7:10 PM. for Williaa epee, aally, 3:18 PS Falls daily. thi ester, Buffalo an@ the south arrive Wash- 2:56 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Manas- vision 8: dail; cept Sunda: 8:40 a.m. daily from Chariorvesriiie ar ets, Slee Car reservations and informa forvisbed at Si 1. Penney! grouse, ont at Praseucer St sg p= tread, lagton, D.C. W. H. GREEN, Gen. 4 io. L. S. BROWN, ae eed 4 “T NOV. 19, Leave Washington from tion = FP ee For . Cloctanati, Vestibuled _— L215. Pittsburg and Cleveland, express @aily 11:30 &m. and 5:40 pm. Por Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. For Winchester and Wey ‘ations, 5:30 p.m, ae Luray, a Roanoke, Ketawitte, jempbi ‘Orleans, 11: Sec Cars through. —— Ye:40, (111:35 p.m. For Washington Junction aud way points, °10.00 am. 1:15 p.m. trains stopping at pria- A ae caly.. [480,320 pin. WaL BLUE LINE POR NEW YORK AND PHIL ADELPHIA, Fpliageiptie. » York, Boston an@ the hing Car), 3:00 x Dining Car), S20 @1:30 pm Secpiag Car, open at 10:00 o'clock). Buffet Parlor Care on all day trains. For Atiautic City, 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. “Daily. Sunday only. xi reins, Baggage called for and checked from hotels and CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect November 20, 18%. —— leave daily from Union stetion (DB. and jth the ha and most complete solid train serv- ice west fom Washington. 2:00 P.M. DAILY—"Cincinnati and St. Special”—Solid Vestibaied, Newly Equipped. Eiec- friclighted. Steam-Leated ‘rain. Foliman's nest si care jon to Cine . Indian pole ard Bt. Loale “without change: Dining sor from Mayerille serving Wreakfast,, Arrives Cincin- nati, 7:35 « janapols, 11: Cr -. 5:45 p.m.; St. Louls, 7:80 p.. N10 P.M. DalLY The famous ited.”” F. V. iam- A soli¢ vestibuled train with diving car amt Pullman sleepers for Cincinnati, Le Louisville, without change; arriving at « ineinna tt tle, 9:50 Pits: indianapolis 11:20 pat: Ghlcage, T:30 p-w.; Indianapo! p.m.: . 73 ; j ant St. Louts, 7:48 a.m., cdmnecting iu Union depot - DAILY —For Ol Point Comfort om jiy rail. line. DAILY—Express for Gordonsvilie, . Waynesboro’, Staubton and princt pal Virginia points; daily, except Sunday, for Rich. Pullman locations and tickets at company's of- | ces, S18 and 1421 Penmyivaria avenue FUL 220 General Passencer POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. _ | NEW PALACE STEAMER H. Leaves River View wharf, 7th | Tuesday and Thursday at 7 a.w | Wharves as far Gown ns Maddox creok. Z od Frids ye its., Alex. r . CARPINTER. Gen. Agr “E88 ahi Washington, Dc. fel9-tt STEAMER MATTANO For Mattox Cresk and from 7th erect wharf evers DAY and THURSDAY z Senger and freight rates formation apply G. L. 323 Pa. ave. 0.¥. tutermediate BL i Lama ines x, TUR. DA ry WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT 00.. “LIMIZED. F ith et. ferry wharf. Geld op MONDAYS. landings. ‘and SUNDAY termediat THURSDAYS NORFOLK AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAY oo. AILY LINE BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D, DAILY WINE GRTRESS MONI E aud a o va OE ‘The new and powerful Iron Palace Steaairs. 7:20 all poimte connertions are made for south and southwest. NORTH BOUND. Leave Norfolk daily at 6:10 p.m Monroe at 7:10 p.m. Arrive at 6:30 a.m. next ickets on sale at 518, 611 . and 615 151 Leave F Wastingto