THE FALLS Cltv TRIWJNH , FRIDAY , DECEMBER JO , J900 ,
FEAR FOR THEIR TREASURE
How the Millions In Qold Stored in
English Banks Arc
Guarded.
Officials of tlio Bank of England
arc saitl to bo worried for tlio
Biifel.v of tlio hoards of wealth
stored in tholr strong boxes. The
bank station of tlio now underground -
ground railway in London is closet
to toll \anlts of the world's grcnl-
csl institution of llnanoc. At a
recent meeting of the ban ) ; dim1-
tors it was suggested that some
bin\c but wicked iiorson mighl
set oil a quantity of explosive in
the bank station , wrecking ( ho
foundations of the stately build
Ings above and sending the bar"
of bullion and streams of gold
leaking out to the station plat
form. The feasibility of I hi. *
schonio has boon conceded by th-
bank governor. It is llguiod ,
however , that the "tube , " as lit- '
umlergionnd railway is culled , 1 °
a little too deep at this point. T >
reach the bullion vaults of the
bank the conspirators wouUl him
to drive a shaft nearly 100 feel.
and then they would f icr > " . inn
AT concrete , thick masonry j.i" !
steel. At one time the P.ank o
England was the object of coi :
spiracy. From a church ( owe
close by the bank was bombauled.
Afterward the authorities had
the church and its threatening
tower destroyed. OlhVnils of the
bank do not like the tunneling go
ing on in the clay beneath tlioi *
foundations The constant pump
ing of water has afl'eelod oven the
solidity of the clay , and from thi
cause one of the wells which is
within the three acres comprised
within the bank's precincts has
dried up.
Those three acres are valued at
about ? n,000.)0 ( ) ( ) each , and the
treasures within them are guarded
od in lilting fashion. On either
side of the main entrance to the
bank are two small glass houses.
In the one reposes a stalely
beadle. In the oilier are two wide
awake detectives. Oilier detec
tives are in and out of the rooms ,
but always unobtrusively. At
night the police force is a heavy
one. Every evening a compact
body of men , commanded by a lieu
tenant , and including two ser
geants , two drummers , a bugler
and 510 privates , marches from
Wellington barrack to the bank.
They are in full marching order ,
and before they enter the tech
nical limits of "the city" exercise
1hat privilege of the guards of fix
ing bayonets. They are on duly
for 32 hours , and but for the recur
ring spells of sentry-go have an
easy time.
Olllcials of the bank provide
moderate refreshments for these
guards. In the guard room.
which is of regulation pat tern , are
the usual shelf and blanket , suf
ficient accommodation for a sol
dier's intermit tent doxing when on
duty of this kind. The olllcor has
a suite of rooms at his service
the dining-room of paneled oak , a
neat bedroom and a bathroom.
There is hidden away in ( ho center
of the bank one of the most pleas
ant gardens in London , whore an
after-dinner cigar may be enjoyed ,
on a summer evening to the full
while the roar of the great metropolis
olis around has died away to in
articulate murmurs.
A King's NOW Palace.
King Leopold of Uelgium ha
taken possession of the now Japanese
aneso palace in the Royal parka
Laoken. It is divided into sovera
wings. Each of them contain
half a dozen of tlnely decorate
drawing-rooms. The fnrnitim
the ornaments , the sculptures , th
paintings , the screens and th
roof were executed at Tokio by th
best Japanese artists. Mor
than -MWO electric lights illumii
ate the palace , where the king it
tends giing some gorgeous recc ]
tions in honor of the shah of Pe
sia next siinulier.
Blessings of Speech.
The victim of the niitomobi
accident was plainly dying. 11
was just do.livering a touehii
speech about the "wife and ch
di < n" when he caught sight of tl :
man who had run him down ,
voi oo , choice expressions are
from the dying man's lips. Th
apparently relieved him greatl
for he got up and walked home.
1ml
A > I stnke.
i i > o ior man to li
a'oin-- i- wants to sa
ii , ii Dnilv News.
ROPING BIG BEAR NOT EASY
i Urulu Chases Ranch Owner and Lat-
I tr Narrowly Escapes with
I His Life.
"Ill the winter of JSK ! ! , " said
Tim Kinney , a ranchman of Hock
.Springs . , Wyo. , to a Washington
I Post reporter , "the bears in nil-
iter creek were surely a nuisance
to the stockmen. I lost so many
calves that I got lighting mad ,
and declared war on the four-
footed despoilors.
"One day my foreman and I
were out rounding up a herd of
beeves when in a low , maishy
sjiot we came across one of the big
gest bears I over saw. Unluckily ,
we didn't have either rifle or re
volver , but as I looked at the beast
and thought of my dead calves my [
dandorgot up , and it occurred to
me that we might throw our lari-
jats over him and hold him until
some way of executing the death
penally could be found.
"We thought it was a picnic , an
far as throwing a rope over Air.
Uear was concc'i nod. My man got
his rope over ( he enemy's ne''k
and I got him abound one leg. It
looked ns though wo had him. Pis-
mounting , I made the end of my
lariat fast to the slump of a tree , |
but the foreman stayed on his
pony. Grabbing a huge rock , I
got quite close to Iho brute and
dealt him a terrible blow on the
forehead. With a howl of rage ho
gave a mighty lunge that broke
the rope from the tree and started
after mo.
"Hut for the tremendous efforts
of my companion , who still main
tained his hold , I would have been
caught and killed before I could
have boon able to reach my pony.
As it was the shave was extremely
close , and the bear was right at
my heels as I got in the saddle.
All this lime the foreman was lug
ging and hauling manfully , and if
ho hadn't boon strong and skillful
I'd have never lived to loll this
yarn. In a few minutes I man
aged Io gel another piece of rope ,
and tills time old Silver Tip was
unable to break his fastening.
T'.olh of us ( hen assaulted him
with stones and beat him into in
sensibility before administering
die con ] ) do grace with a hunting
knife. "
SAILOR'S MARRIAGE YARN.
j Tells Party in Ice Cream Parlor of
Customs Which Are Peculiar to
Andaman Islanclo.
1
Thc day was warm for .March.
The sailor sat in the ice cream saloon -
loon eating ice cream and lady
take.
"Tho queerest marriage I ever
scon , miss , " he said , "was in die
Andaman islands. Rut maybe
you ain't interested' in mar
riages ? ' '
He laughed as men always
laugh over this joke , and thoprot-
ty waitress permitted herself to
smile.
"The islanders in ( hem islands , ' '
he said , "is dwarfs. Four feet , on
. the average. Very fierce and
'If a young islander wants a
girl for his wife he asks her par-
outs for her. They never refuse.
Tht\\ hike the girl and hide her in
. j the forest. There the lad must
i find her before morning. If he
finds her she's his. If he don't slu
ain't.
"Of course I don't need ( o toll
is : you that if the girl wants the
\oung feller she sees to it that he
l finds her all right.
al "And vice versa.
us "Hero is how the marriage cere
.MlV ) mony is performed. The lad
, climbs up a slim young tree .iml
lie the girl climbs up another close u
lie him. Her clothes don't bother hoi ,
lie In climbin' clothes never botlioi
re an Andaman islander. Ye . , .j !
in- they go , and as they near the luj ,
in- their weight bonds the slim i
over toward each other prettily
The ( roes bow and bend and cour
tesy , and finally the hid'M
touches the girl's and from ' ov ,
ile n shout goes up , for the , n
touching has done the biiMmsc
The ceremony is finished. 'i'h |
oung folks' troubles IMVC In ,
un. "
he
heA
A Egg-Swallowing Record.
DSO A singular story of egg swn
his lowing comes from Mnrit 1 -i.
the capital of Natal. H
known cilizon made a h < hli 1
local auctioneer that o '
swallow raw eggs it "n
live utos. Ho performed I i
ave ight minutes , and t <
to swallow 00 raw eggs n. . -HI
utes.
OUR HISTOHf' IS MASCULINE
IDvrd and Uncolorcd Is the Chronicle
of the Events Connected.
with America.
Our history is hard and masculine -
line ; colored with few purple
liglitsjtoolittle related to our ten-
derer sentiments and deeper pas-
sions. When older peoples have
paused , as we did then , they have
looked upon far different scenes ,
says William Garrett Drown , in
the Atlantic. Fairer companies
have stood about moro stntel. )
figures' of triumph or of tragedy
than that America and the world
now gazed upon. The common i
chamber , the gaunt , pale pros !
dent , the strong , bearded counsel '
ore at his bedside thin was tin I
like the scones which European' '
peoples have fixed in their mem-1
orios. Ciwilos Land Mary Stuart |
on their scaffolds , the barons ami
the king at Run.iymede , Maria
Theresa appealing io the nobles
of IIungAi-y to take up then j
word * for iior child , Marie Antoi I
neite and Mirabeaii. and many another - ,
other pago'inl ' of human Jmeandl
sacrifice are Ire.i.siifed up by other )
people as wo have treasured up
this crude , unlackeyed martyr
dom.
Even the great' personality of
Lincoln , now potent in so many in
dividual lives , intimate and famil
inr of so many of our hidden
moods , was not , H't fully revealed
to his follows , it was the eman
cipator only that had fallen , the
loader and shepherd of men. Out
wardly at least his experience was
limited as theirs was. Dying in
the midst of multitudes , mnsterof
armies and of navies , he was still
of the frontier ; as , indeed , all our
American life was still , in a sense ,
only the frontier and western
fringe of European life.
True , Lincoln also leads us back
to the princes whoso peer ho was ,
but we can pass from his death
bed with no irreverence , no sense
of shock or change , to look out , hi
the plain light , of day , upon the
whole wide field of work and strife
und progress which was always in
his thought , and glimpse the atti
tude and state of the republic
when "his summons passed , like an
nngelus , across the continent.
LACE-BARK TREES ARE FEW
But Half n Dozen of This Species Now
Exist Reason for So
Naming.
There are in all about half a
dozen lace-bark trees in the world
>
so called because the inner bark
' yields a natural lace in a ready
made sheet form , which can bi
made up in serviceable articles of
apparel. Only four of these cm i
ous species of trees are of mud
practical value. Tourists win
have slopped at Hawaii or Same :
, may recall the lace-bark clothing
of the natives clothing of a noa
1 brown color when now , of remark
' .
able strength and of a fragrant
' odor , like freshly cured tobacco
leaf. The native tapa cloth , as it '
i is called , is made from the bark
! of the brusonetia papirifera , but
it is not usually included among
the real lace-bark trees.
In its natural state the real lace
bark is of a delicate cream-white
ei ( tint. It is pr.obably a kind ol
librous pith. V\ hen the outer bark
is lemovod it can bo unfolded and
! unwound in one seamless piece ,
i having a surface of a little more
than a square yard. Washingand
sun bleaching give it a dazzling
white appearance. The fabric is
airily light. It is used in the West
indies for mant 'Ias , cravats , col
iars , cu 1's , window curtains in a
II'
; word , for every purpose that or
. dinary lace is used. In making u [
, . shawls , veils and ( he like it is ens
' tomary to piece two sheets of lace
u '
, bark t'ogothor. Delicate and ap
; , parent ly weak as it is in singh
! | -nosh , a bit of lace-bark , if rolloi
rj into a thin string , will all but re
( sist human strength to break it
\v | Despite its practical use then
1(1 ( is no essential demand for lace
0a
> bark. It has been used by the mi
u ' tivesforhundrcds of years andyo
L . is compaiativoly little known t
this day. A few specimens of lac <
buck articles exist in ditVoroti
i countries of Europe. These wor
' ' made hundreds of years ago , ye
' < although their ago is consider :
" ble , they are said to bo in a goo (
' state of preservation.
ini i Nothing Left.
in { A political reformer is a polit
r O.MI who has managed to gc
' -iKolf disliked by the mnchiu
News.
CIVILITIES ' AT THE FRONT.
On Christmas Day Japanese tuul Rus
sians Agree to Suspend Fight
That All May Feast.
A .Japanese ollicer serving on
the } Shuho has a strange and inter
esting ( story to tell of intercourse
and civilities between the two
J armies.
Tlio Japanese being desirous of
Lonu\\ing ( Io iliu Russians news of
the fall of Port Arthur , volun
teers were invited to carry the let
ters. ( Two non commissioned of-
( ( leers and ( wo privates undertook
the task. They rode out toward
I ho enemy's lines with the inten
tion | or delivering the letters di
rectly ] into the hands of the Rus
sians , instead of depositing them
at some midway point , ns had been
the custom hitherto. There was ,
great danger that this-
. -ow mod-oil might bo fatal to thr
ill lie pai ttv.
But they i ode off stoutly to with
in a thousand motors t > < the one
iiy's outpost , waving white hand
kerchiefs. The Russians did noi
( ho , and the , Jnpnno ; > o wen I
stoadilv on. When thr-y were
only about 'M or 40 yards away , a
party of Russians lay down in tir
ing positions , but si ill the ser
geants and soldiers rode on , ener
getically waving their white flag. " .
Presently the Russians motioned
them to lay down their arms ,
thinking they had come to surren
der. The Japanese , however , re
gardless of risk , pushed on to
within hand-shaking distance.
Then the Kussians saw that they
carried several bottles of wine
and boxes of cigars. On the latter
was inscribed in big letters : "To
morrow will be your Christmas
day. We shall not attack if you
do not. Drink and smoke to your
heart's content and have a , good
time. "
Atfii'HttheRiissiansdidnot wish
to accept the presents , but when
they read the hearty sentences
written on the boxes in their own
language , the.\ were much over
come , and there ensued an exchange -
change of the friendliest greet
ings.Then
Then the visitors handed in
their loiters and spoke of the fall
of Port Arthur , the news of which
was received with profound dis
couragomont.There is no fur
ther object in the war , " said the
Russian soldiers. Eager ques
tions wore asked about Gen. Stoes-
Bel , and the men were much inter
ested to hoar ho shortly would been
on his way home. The Japanese
then presented tlio Russians with
some "pictorial postcards showing
how well Russian prisoners were
treated in Japan.
Finally the four men rode away
in safety with the rousing cheers
of the grateful enemy ringing in
their ears.
THE BOOTMAKER IN CHINA
Common People Very Rarely Wear
This Sort of Footwear Cus
toms In the North.
Boots are only worn in China i
by officials , servants , soldiers ,
sailors , and special hob-nailed
boots , occasionally in wet weath '
er , by die common people. The
universal form of foot-covering is
a shoe , while coolies and the
poorest classes have to , content f
themselves with straw or leather
sandals , or go barefoot. Women's
shoes are made at homo and , except
copt in isolated cases in Shanghai ii
are never exposed for sale in
shops. This remark does not ap
ply to the peculiar form of shot
worn by Mnnchu women , which is-
perched on a sort of small stilt. In
( he noi th , during the wintei
months , the ordinary boot or shot
is often wadded or lined will h
sheepskin , and of late years ropro
duct ions of Chinese boots am
shoes in Sndia rubber have beei
imported from the United States
d and Germany , and found fa voi
with Chinese at the treaty ports
Woman's Progress in Rounmnia.
The post of ofUcinl shordmnt
writer in ( he Roumanian parlia
meiit has for the first time beei
won by a woman. It was a com
petitive appointment and the lad.
o applicant boat all her male rivals
ill Since the now government took u
re the reins women have made grea
strides in Koumania in the matte
a of competing with men. A shor
Hi
time ago the finance minister ha
no fewer than lf > women employe
, is secretaries in the central o ,
lices. There is a great outer
against the minister's manifcs
nardalitv for women clerks in bi
department.
SOME RICH ARE SLOW PAY
Notorious Fact Declares Writtr That
Many In Society Haggle Over
Their Bills.
_ _ _ _ _ _ i
It is notorious that th" rich arc
> f ten scandalously slow in payinu (
their bills , i recall one ins'tano < '
where the wife of a multimillionaire
aire ( she was afterward divorced ) , '
took no notice , month after month , '
of a bill amounting to over § 20 ,
000 for her daughter's wedding
trousseau , and this bill was noi
paidformcu'o I ban a year after the
'
ceremony , and only then because
a resourceful collector "hold up" ,
the multimiliionnireliimaelf in th't t
street one d.iy : , i nd finally s.ot hi :
check , 'jo-lares Cleveland MolVolt. ,
in &ii > . c-d. |
f ha\o b'MMi told of several rich i I
women iu the smart set , ( wo ofi j I
diem very rich , who are wont to ]
haggle over prie-s in the shops a * |
if they were in genteel povet ty.
one of those ladies , whose showy
Newport fetes arc widely pro
claimed , tried on a certain occa
sion , to "boat down" an estimate
for candle shades , favors , elc. ,
that she wanted in a hurry t'or a
dinner dance , and. having failed
in her effort , she ilnally exclaimed :
"Why , you oughtn't to charge me
a cent for these things ! Think of
the advertising you can get out of
it ! If you treat me right I'll se
that your place is mentioned by
all the reporters ! "
And another , whose husband is
one of the richest men in the
world , actually wept before a
Fifth avenue dressmaker in her
pleadings for a reduction of § 153 on
the price of a certain garment that
she simply had to have but could
not afford , she declared , out of the
small allowance made her by her
husband.
When 1 was in Newport last
summer people were laughing at
the latest potty economy of this
same husband , who is certainly
one of the "closest" of our idle mil
lionalrcs. lie had heard of a now
aluminum paint , warranted to'
keep shiny without much rubbing ,
nud ho bad forthwith given orders
that the brasses on his beautiful
yacht be smeared over with this
paint so that it might reduce his
pay roll by the wages of two sail
ors previously -needed to clean
those brasses ! This gentleman's
income must be at least § -J,000-
000 !
WASP BECOMES A HUNTER.
Intelligent Insect Proves a Vcritaulo
Octopus In Preying on
Its Fellows.
When summer warmth has
awakened the maternal instincts
of the insect world , the mud-
dauber wasp may be soon gather
ing mortar at the margin of
stream , pool or puddle , writes C.
LI. McCook , in Harper's Magazine.
! Pilling her mandibles , which servo
as both spade and hod , she bears
the load of mud to some rough sur
face , rock or wall , or board or
beam. She spreads and shapes
her mortar , until , after many visits -
its to the mud-bed , she has built a
tubular cell about an inch long
and three-eighths of an inch wide.
Then her huntress instinct awak-
ens and her raids upon the spider
realm begin. For within this cyl-
iiidcr the mother mason will put a
single egg. In the course of time
this will hatch into a ravenous
larva , whose natural food is liv-
, ing spiders ; and these the mother
proceeds to capture and entomb
within the mud-daub nursery.
> On this errand she may bo seen
- hawking over the near cobwebs of ,
various sorts , venturing within
the meshed and beaded snares ,
" that prove fatal to most incomers
and sometimes oven to herself
If the occupant , expectant of prey
d sallies forth to soi/.e the intruder
.
n it finds itself a captive , not a cap
tor. The wasp shakos the si Ikon
l > filament from wings and feel (
. turns ujion the spider , seizes am ]
stings it , bears it to her cell , am ,1 ,
] thrusts it therein.
' It's Not Unlikely.
" "Some marriages may be made
' in Heaven , " observed the I'ohicl
. philosopher , as ho kicked the gro
. t > e.y , ca ( ou" d,0 , cracker box. "bu
'I' t'Z I glance around the ranks o
aassioty it occurs to mo that tlu
devil manufactures quite a few. '
r' ' Chicago Sun.
id
( | Her Tender Heart.
( . "Why do you supposed woinai
rv usually cries at tier wedding ? "
' ( -Out of sympathy , probably , foi
ik the men she could not marry. "
Houston Post.
OCTOPUS < UNCANNY THING.
Cuttlaflsh < Have Been Found \vlth a
Reach of Thirty-Eight Feet
Kill Victims.
Of all the big game of the deep
sea that have been taken by man
die cuttlefishes are the most dia
bolical in shape and general up
pearance. I have handled < aml
measured one that was US feet in
length , a weird , spiderlike crea
ture with two antem.noliko arms ;
'JO feet in length , sa.\s' . \\riter in
Metropolitan Magazine. Speci
mens of these animis : ! hive been
caught 70 feet in length. ( iK > cap
tors fighting than \\'Ah uu : "X , < rut
ting the arms which seized awi
hold the boat. ,
Off the coasts of ( A : LJ ' i : I
Alaska there is a Ii , : ] P" " . ' > ;
of this animal a i * hi ? . ' 'ike
-topus th.it . : : ; the . p ;
banks , proyifr 11 ] the lis/at- / :
most esteemed by lsl ! mCBt. U1 1 *
found oil' die Kiirrr. ! 'S or. iol ;
bottom and al time's 1
haul in their lircs th tolling
I hey ha.vo fouled n Min ? o rr.vfr.
o lioavy is the woH'f.x ; v. " ' " . : " :
the surface is itT.ci.d ] I < , : sf. iivit'
: : : ; 2' oot r.bovt tlic w.t ( % ? * >
i " , r- bop t ami ( ho r/or. a > * ( ! n
'ight with knives rnd KTP-hvts th"
weird , uncanny game tftsi 3ins .1
-adial siroad ] of 30 fcr-l. its , vii3
nu-kor-lined arms being 1u feel
in length and pos'-c-ssed of e.\
t : : 'o"dln.ry ; po'vor. A specimen
'nkoii off the island of Hau Oo-
nente had a s-c.id ] of : Uout ; 2
feel and gave t ? ' -f. : : : a hiu < !
Lattlo to sever i : \ i. ; L . ? .
Nothing moio iV-il ' i . . ' cn bo
"onceived than thi * ] iilerlik >
giant of the deep sen , liYiamo v
the locks (500 ( to 1,000 i < ( t belov <
the surface. An indi < ! < lual ol
moderate size which I kopl alive
displayed ( he greatest pi ; ; nacity.
The moment 1 approached it
would literally hurl itself at Jin
arm'winding its long lontnclcr.
about it in a manner suggestive
of what a large individual might
' do. Indeed , Tr. ) A. S. Packard ,
i professor of zoology al lirown uni
versity , says :
"An Indian woman at Victoria ,
Vancouver island , in JS77. was
seized and drowned by an octopus ,
probably of this species , while
bathing on the shore. Smaller
sj-ccinr'ns on coral reefs some-
ti'lies seie : : collectors or natives ,
and , fastening to them with their
relentless suckcrcd arms , tire and
frighten to death the hapless vic
tim. "
REYNOLDS AND HIS RIVAL.
Contrast Between the Two Artists
Difference Between Art and
Nature. v.
The contrast between those two
artists is almost the difference be
tween art and nature , says St.
Nicholas. Reynolds was learned in
what other painters had done , and
had reduced his own ait to a s\-
( em. Gainsborough found out
almost everything for himself.
never lost the simple , nntur.il way
of looking at things and people ;
and painted not according to rule ,
i.ut at the dictates of what ho felt.
Reynolds planned out his effect- .
Gainsborough pointed on the spur
of the imp.c.ssi r. which ( he sub
ject aroused. Reynolds' art was
based on safe general principles :
Gainsborough's uas the fresh and
i spontaneous expression of hi <
| temperament.lepending , dm ( is
, i to say , on feelings rather ( ban on
calculation. His temperament ,
. or habit of mind , was dreamy and
poetic , gentle and retiring , includ
t ing a small range of experience ,
' Reynolds , on the other hand , was
, i a man of the world and of busines.s
, capacity ; intimate with Samuel
. Johnson , Oliver Goldsmith and
, other celebrities of the day ; a man
' , \ qf knowledge and clover convorsa
' tional power , whoso pictures b\
I their variety prove his versatility.
i Consequently when the Royal
j academy was established , in 17iS.
! he was elected president by nc
, clanmtion and was knighted by
I George III. , an honor that has
ever since been bestowed on the
holder of this office.
Those two men wore at the head
of the group of portrait painters
who , in the latter part of the eight
eenth century and in the early
years of the succeeding one , added
luster to the new growth of art in
England.
Bunyan in 105 Languages.
One book alone , the "Pilgrim' *
Progress , " holds the record fo
r English litoratuie.havingbeon ie
produced in 105 different tongues