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on the subject was rather vatjue, iu fact I 

 had a sort of idea that the coins were nm iu 

 mold- somethiugaa fatlier used to run bul- 

 lets iu a mold, and it is true that the met- 

 al is run into a mold, but it is in the shape of 

 a bar a foot long, half an in thick and wide 

 enough for making silver dollars. These 

 bars are passed between rollers until they 

 are reduced iu thickness to that of a dollar, 

 and in the meantime they have beeustret h- 

 ed out to a length of perhaps four feet. 

 Tliese thin strips of silver are then passed 

 nnder a die that " chanks, chank*, chanks, " 

 out the smooth, round cart wheels. The 

 strips from which the blank dollars have 

 been cut are, of course, remelted, and so 

 perfect is the system of weighing and check- 

 ing that theft is certain to result in detec- 

 tion. The blank pieces of metal are 

 placed in a tube from which they are fed 

 automaticF.Uy into a machine that stamps 

 both sides at the same time. It will be 

 seen that that the whole process of coining 

 money is done while the metal is cold, if we 

 except the first melting and running into 

 bars. Perhaps one other point ought to be 

 excepted, and that is the rolling, in which 

 the friction is so great that the rolls some- 

 times become so heated, especially in hot 

 weather, that work has to be stopped until 

 they cool. 



Strange feelings came over me as I entered 

 Independence H^ll. Here is where was 

 signed the Declaration of Independence. 

 Here may be seen a /ac .s?»u7e copy of this 

 wonderful document. The original ie in 

 Washington and is being preserved with 

 great care as it is becoming badly faded, 

 some of the signatures being entirely gone. 

 To think that it is only a little more than 

 100 years ago that this country was declared 

 free and independent — what a wonderful 

 growth and improvement ! In Indepen- 

 dence Hall are many relies, such as furni- 

 ture that belonged to the Father of his coun- 

 try, the cracked old Liberty Bell, etc. 



\fter dinner Mr. Hahtnau and myself 

 ski(iped out ten miles on one of the electric 

 roads to the Wyncote apiary of Mr. Selser, 

 where we found perhaps 2.") or :{<l bee-keepers, 

 a goodly number of them being ladies. We 

 gathered on some benches under a large 

 awning that Mr. Selser had put up at one 

 ^ide of his factory. It was the nearest to 

 being a picnic convention of any I have 

 attended. I gave an informal talk on "The 

 Production of Comb and Extracted Honey, " 



touching brietly upon the most important 

 points and answering as many of the ques- 

 tions as I could. Hy the way, the questions 

 put into the question box were some of the 

 best I ever found at auy convention. After 

 the convention there was a general opening 

 of hives, and examining of bees, brood, 

 queens, queen cells, etc. 



The next day, Sunday, I attended church 

 in the morning with Mr. Selser, his mother 

 and sister, and in the afternoon accompa- 

 nied him and his wife and little daughter 

 to one of the city cemeteries where Mr. and 

 Mrs. Selser have a little baby boy laid to 

 rest. 



Monday morning I started for home, and 

 all of the forenoon enjoyed a treat in pass- 

 ing through the mountain region of Penn- 

 sylvania. Sometimes a mountain would be 

 so near and so high that the top conld not 

 be seen from the window, while on the other 

 side we could look down on tops of trees 

 a Za balloon. Sometimes the track was so 

 crooked that by looking out of the window, 

 the two engines could be seen tugging and 

 puffing along on the shelf cut into the 

 mountain side. Then we would dodge 

 across some bridge, and into a tunnel, and 

 then perhaps climb up another gorge, I 

 could not help thinking of what a lot of en- 

 gineering must have been required in laying 

 out the road. After passing the mountains 

 and getting over into New York, there was 

 one other nice bit of scenery, or, view, rath- 

 er, and that was in passing along on the 

 high bank of Cayuga lake. This lovely 

 sheet of water is quite narrow. I should 

 think that it was not more than three or 

 four miles wide and perhaps twenty-five in 

 length. Over this lake we could look off 

 over a fertile farming country to a distance 

 of perhaps thirty miles. There was hill and 

 valley, forests and cultivated fields, farm 

 houses and villiages, all spread out in a map- 

 like picture before the eye. 



I reached home Tuesday morning, only to 

 find Mrs. Hutchinson suffering from nervous 

 prostration. The long strain of caring for 

 Ivy so many months, the worry and work, 

 had worn her out both mentally and 

 physically. She had to go away awhile 

 for rest and treatment and Ivy went 

 to grandpa Hutchinson's for a visit. They 

 are both home now, and greatly improv- 

 ed, but the Review is a few days later than 

 it would have been if had not Mrs. H. been 

 sick. 



