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The Old Banking System.

Inc paleAlag system in vogue previous
to the aee 9t 1864 was simply that which
placed the Charter of all banks of issue
and depoSt N the hands of the several
States. mise and 1857 there were
about /, 4eDW these State institutions;
IN New EIsaand alone there were 507
banks and Branches, with a capital of
Sll4, GIL, f5z AT that time an important
feature IN sNe# England banking was the
"SuIoik banking system" through
which the noEes of all New England banks
were eolIsfted and redeemed at the Suf-
folk BaniA Boston, each bank making
stlpuia deposit for that purpose,
amountl the aggregate to $500, 600.
The oldetHsn snking system of the United
States sE4 back of the State banks.
/ DIIrinGM evolutionary war the eonn-
try a bly, poor, with few indus
tries NE#agriculture, and with no
preciouSS wal TO speak of. Congress,
May 0.H5, made preparation to issue
ContineISE paper, s., 900, 900 of which
! were pufYcirculation on June % fol-
lowing. %fese issues aggregated $780,,
600. 600, and deprecated so much that
eventually hey became valueless, al
though lawswere passed making them a
/ legal tende for the payments of debts.
Then a plan was submitted to Congress,
May IT.. l51, by Robert Morris, for
National Bak, the principal provisions
of which wee: The capital TO be S400,
600, in shaus of $400 each, each share to
have a yote that twelve directors be
chosen from those entitled to vote, who
at their frs meeting shall choose a pres
ident; that the directors meet quarterly;
that the board be empowered from time
to time to Den new subscriptions for the
purpose of increasing the capital of the
bank: statements to be made to the Sup
perintendeIt of the Finances of America;
that the balk notes payable on demand
shall by Law be made receivable for du-
ties and taes in. every State, and from
the respectse States by the Treasury of
the UnitedStates; that the Superintend-
ent of the finances of America shall have
the right atall times to examine into the
affairs of tIe bank. This bank became
an important auxiliary in aid of the
finances of he Government, and so con-
tinued to the end of the war. Then fol-
lowed the Bank of the United States,
commonly called Hamilton's bank, which
was chartered IN 1871, and continued till
1911. From that time to 1916 the fiscal
service of the Government was performed
by banks perated under the State law.
In 1916 the second Bank of the United
States was created; its capital was to be
S35, 600. OOd in 100000 shares of S100
each; s., ,0G, 900 of the stock to be sub
scribed by the United States, and the
remaining SOS, 900, 900 by individuals,
companies or corporations. The bank
went into peration Jan. 7, 1877, and
continued Gil 1886, when it ceased to
act under ihe charter granted by the
United States, but the same year was re-
chartered by the State Of Pennsylvania,
with the sane capital. On winding up
its affairs in 1910, after paying its debts
there remaihed nothing to the stock
holders, thsentire capital being sunk.
.f5y.sr-. .,x- <ieefry1
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"HEzEKIAH JONES,
Official Salaries.

The following are the salaries of pub
lie rulers and public men Of the United
States:
Executive Department: President,
$50, 600; Vice President, $4,000; Cabinet
Officers, (appointed by President and
confirmed by Senate) IS, 600.
The Legislative Department-Se Senate;
United States Senators, 5000; Secre-
tary of United States Senate, S6,096;
Chief Clerk, So. 600; Sergeant-at-Arms,
81, $40
House of Representatives: Speaker.
$S, 600; Members, So, 600; Clerk of House
5,100: Sergeant-at-Arms, House, 81, 500
Official Reporter, $1,000.
: s'lIir,ssieiais Chief Justice, SO, 500sT-1ss-
sociate Justices, (eight in number, SIN
600; Chief Justice. (coUrt claims1 81, ,0G@
Judge United States Circuit Cours
$4,000; Judge United States Distris
Courts, $3, 500; District Attorney, $2Q
and fees.
Consular and Diplomatic Servici
Great Britain, Envoy Extraordinary au
Minister PlenipOtentiary S17, 500
France, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary, ST, 500; Germany
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary. S17, 500; Russia, Envoy E1
ST, 500; Spain, Envoy Extraordinary an
gentine Confederation, Resident Mini
ter, 1880; Austria, Hungaria, Envo
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary, So. 900; Barbary States, Consuls
IS, 600; Belgium, Resident Ministea
$500; Bolivia, Resident Minister, S.
600; Brazil, Envoy Extraordinary am
DIo,,,x~o&o,, csTO fNA.- Fr-a
trail American States, Resident Ministet
$4,000; Chill, Envoy Extraordinary ami
Minister Plenipotentiary, $4,000
China, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary, SO, 200; United
States of Colombia, Minister, 81, 900
Denmark, Minister, $1,000; Ecuador
Consul, 81 900; Hawaiian Isles, Residen
Minister, $500; Hayti, Resident Min
lister, 81, 500; Italy, Resident Minister
$1,000; japan, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary SO, 900
Liberia, Resident Minister, 81, 600; Mad
agascar, Consul, 81, 900; Mexico, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary, SO, 600; Netherlands, Resident
Minister, 300; Paraguay and Uruguay
Minister, S5, 900; Peru, Envoy Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
$4,000; Portugal, Minister, $1,000
Sweden and Norway, Resident Minister
$4,000; Switzerland, Minister, $1,000
Turkey Minister, 800; Venezuela
Minister, $500
Army: General, S13, 500; Lieutenant
General $11,000;. Major General, 81,
500.
Navy: Admiral, 13, 900; Vice Admiral,
S., 900; Commodores, $1,000.
Miscellaneous Employees: Director Of
Mint, 81, 500; Chief Bureau Statistics,
s., 400; Supervising Surgeon Genera.
81, 600; Chief, Bureau Engraving and
Printing, $500; First Comptroller,
Treasury, $1,000; Treasurer. United
States, Sc, 600.
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The Eagle and the Kite.

An eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow,
sat upon the branches of a tree In COM
pany with kite. " Why" asked the
kite. "do see you with such rueful
Ioolt?" The eagle answered, 81 seek q
mate suitable for me, and am notable to
find one." ssTake me, responded the
kite. "I am much stronger than you.
I have often carried off an ostrich In my
talons.'' The eagle, persuaded by these
words, accepted the kite as a mate. At
ter the election, so to speak, was over,
the eagle told the kite to fly off and
bring back the ostrich it had promised.
The kite SCARED aloft and returned In
time with miserable little mouse In an
advanced state of decomposition from
the length of time it had lain ON the
Ground. "Is this" said the eagle,
4the faithful performance of your prom
ise to me ?" The kite unblushingly re-
sponded: " You must know that to ac-
complish any object there is no lie viii
not teIl.v' The only moral to this fable
is that the people should not always send
to the Legislature the man who talks
loudest with his mouth Galveston
NetCs.
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HUMORs OF THE DAY.

WHEN things go to d X how G ID they
B come.
MANY man who thinks himself a
great gun is nothing more than a big
bore
keep cool and you command every
body" remarked St. just. He stood IN
with anice company.
A BOY who won't try is like truth,
because the boy won't endeavor and truth
won't end ever, either.
MONEY men of many minds,
Take 10 !" "straddles" and to blinds"
Many fish come in 10 see;
Many gulls they prove to be
As a RULE bool-keepers are ink-hned
to be pensive. VIII some one kindly
tell us if blushing seamstress is not
flushed sewer2 SGD
Exs.eksE EzxEnsz Is no disgrace in being poor, .
we are told, and we're how1ing glad of
it, for there are enough other disadvan-
tages about it. without that one.
MAID of Yonlxers, ere we buss, tell me,
will you make a fuss?-New York .NetDs.
Man Of Gotham, ere you risk your life,
tell me, will you inform your wife?-
YonIserS GGzctte.a
A RICHMOND physician says that if
people will take bath in hot whisky
and rock salt twice a year, they will es-
cape the rheumatism and colds. But
wouldn't that spoil the whisky?
Discussed man says: "Why don't
hotels find some substitute for the ever
lasting beefsteak for breakfast" Bless
you, lots of em do. Cowhide is the
favorite substitute. - Boston Post.
HER name was Eva, and when Charles
Augustus called the other evening and
asked her to be his darling wifey, she
gently thrust him from her and sweetly
said: 'Not this Eva. Some other Eva
Good Eva"
A RHODE ISLAND clergyman was given
permission to sing ''The Sweet Bye and
| Bye" in an insane asylum. Many pa
tients were moved. So was the clergy
man. A lunatic moved him clear down
/ stairs.
''H1l where did you get them trous-
ers?" asked an Irishman of a man who
I happened to be passing with remark
ably short pair of trousers. 81 got
them where they grew, )" was the indig
( nant reply. '"rnen, by my conscience,
said Pat, you've pulled them a year too
soon~
In Bosrox: Esthetic young lady
''By the wny, Mr.. Gosoftly, have you
+ "N-n-naw. I'm not reading much now
a-days. 1 pass my time in original
I thought" Rsthetic young lady with
much sympathy very dreary, to
/ be sure.
IT WAS their first night aboard the
/ steamer. cat last" he said tenderly,
''we are all one, out upon the deep
/ waters of the dark blue sea, and your
heart will always beat for me as it has
beat in the past?" my hearts all
right" she answered languidly, "but
my stomach feels awful"
''PRIsoNER, you are accused Of having
stolen the com, l,iaisy
you plead guilty or not guilty. "trm1S,
your Honor" 'What was the motive
that irnpelled you to commit the crime?"
Il had note coming due next day, and
could not bear the thought of having my
name dishonoredr dr-EFgaro.
WHEN a husband becomes angry and
swears before his family, he is not SO
much to blame; he doesn't know. how it
sounds. His wife, really, is to blame
she ought to swear, too, to let him hear
how it sounds. Isn't this sound logic?-
kentucky State Journal. Well, well
/ be- ahem-yes- -that-is-we1l be COM
PEELED to say that it s.-Steu6envitte
Herald.
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Beautiful Joke.

This, according to the San Francisco
ArgOnaut, is an American joke translated
with French paper:
Topnody, fatigued to be led of the end
of the nose by his bitter half, conceived
the resolution heroic to take the COM
mand of the house, to of it be the
boss
Therefore, in re-entering toward mid
day, still all emoved of quarrel of
morning, he called imperiously Madame
Topnody.
She emerged of her kitchen, the visage
dipped a sweat, of which q pearly drop
at the end of her nose; roller OF pastry
at the hand. She responded in tone
few amiable
Eh, welll What is it that there is
yet?"
Topnody feebled; but he took the
courage.
Il wish that you know, Madame Top
nody he struck himself at the
breast dramatically that am the en-
gineer of this chebang."
"Oh, you are it, Assuredlyi Eh, well,
me, l wish that you know and she
lanced at the unhappy look terrifying
THAT | am the boiler which goes to
bust Hear you the vapor which es-
capes itself, Topnody?"
The unhappy heard perfectly.
He is again In the subjugation.
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Baby MONKEYS.

Monkeys are born in almost as help
less condition as are human beings.
For the first fortnight after birth they
pass their time in being nursed, in sleep
ing and looking about themselves.
During the whole of this time the care
and attention of the mother are most ex-
emplary; the slightest sound or move
ment excites her Immediate notice; and
with her baby III her arms, skillfully
eyades any approaching danger by the
most adroit manHuvers. At the end OF
the first fortnight the little one begins TO
get about by itself, but always under its
mothers watchful care. She frequently
attempts to teach it TO do for itself, but
never forgets her solicitude for its safety,
and at the earliest lntimatlon OF danger
seizes it IN her arms and seeks place OF
refuge. When about SIX weeks old the
baby begins to need more substantial
nutriment than milk, and Is tanght to
provide for itself. Its powers are speedI-
ly developed, and in few weeks Its
agility is most surprising. The mothers S
fondness for her offspring continues;
she devotes all her care to its comfort
and education, and should it meet with
an untimely end, her grief is so intense
as frequently to cause her own death.
s"The care which the females bestow
upon their offspring" says Duvancel,
is so tender, and even refined, that one
wonld be almost tempted to attribute
the sentiment to a rational rather than
an instructive process. 1t is q curious and
interesting spectacle, which little pre-
caution has sometimes enabled me to
witness. to see these females carry their
young to the river, wash their faces IN
spite of their childish outcries, and al
together bestow upon their cleanliness a
time and attention that in many cases
the children of our own species might
well envy. The Malays, indeed, re-
lated a fact to me, which 1 doubted at
first, but which L believe to be in great
measure confirmed by my own subse-
quent obssrvations-it is, that the young
siamangsHhile yet too week to go alone,
are ali kried by individuals of their
own sext&by their fathers if they are
males, AZ BY their mothers if females. +"
M. d. Anville states that the parents
exercise Sir parental authority over
their chh IN in sort of Judicial and
strictly &partial form. "Thc young
ones weT& Zen to sport and gambol with
one ano r in the presence of their
mother, yeho sat ready to give Judgment
and punish misdemeanors. When any
one was found guilty of foul play or ma
licious conduct toward another of the
family, the parent interfered by seizing
the young criminal by the tail, which
she held fast with one of her paws till
she boxed his ears with the other
Chambers Journal
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The Two Girls of Frostburg.

Two young ladies for the past four
years have had control of a farm of one
hundred and sixty acres near Frostburg.
They have plowed, sowed, reaped, built
fences, raised hogs and performed the
other countless duties incident to a
pastoral life In addition to their out
side duties the care of widowed and in
valid mother has been tax on their
energies. One of the ladies is q shoe
maker, and all work of that kind used by
the family is executed by her. The
house in which they live is large and
roomy, yet these two girls, whose ages,
by the way, are twenty-five and twenty,
have made all the carpet, and made it
well, too, painted number of farm
scenes and family portraits in oil, and
filed up the otherwise vacant spots with
waxwork, etc. Besides, the fact that
they are good musicians, the fact that
they never shock your refined ear with
ungrammatical remarks, is also note
worthy. Go to that much-abused village
of Punxsuatawney, and, after inquirina 9
for the location of Frostburg, wall
in that direction just three miles and
you viii reach the homemade home
Of Emmaand Marrilla Black. L Pitts6ure
Dispatch.
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A Kentucky Heroine Of Early Days.

A well-authenticated incident of Mel
son county, KY, illustrates the charac-
ter of the early emigrants from old
Virginia In 1857 the cabin of one John
Merrill was attacked in the night by
seven marauding savages. The barking
of faithful dog gave notice to the occu-
pants that somebody was coming. Mer-
rill opened the door to see what was the
matter, when he fell severely wounded,
being shot through the shoulder and
lower limbs. He called upon his wife to
shut the door, but it was speedily demol-
ished by the tomahawks of four Indians.
Mrs. Merrill, being woman of great
courage and of herculean strength,
seized an ak and dispatched all of them
as they entered. Two mounted upon
the cabin roof and were entering by way
of the chimney. Quick as thought Mrs.
NJ. ripped open her only feather-bed and
emptied its contents upon the fire. The
blaze and smoke of the burning feath-
ers so suffocated the invaders that they
fell to the hearth, where she dispatched
them with the ak. Only one escaped,
and he was severely wounded by blow
from the heroine's deadly weapon.
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Tribulations of Amateur Poets.

Rodney Mcclellan has been compelled
to pay a verdict of $500 In breach-of-
promise case at Barrie, Canada, the evil
dence of his promise being the following
verse which he wrote to the plaintiff
Long have loved, but some strange spell
Forbade my heart its tale to tell.
Here take this card, and simply feel
The love my lips dare not reveal
Henry Horace Dade, of San Francisco,
sent an enemy postal card on which was
written an original and highly personal
song. with this refrain
Everybody, everybody knows, knows, knows,
You're the very biggest beat that grown.
Dade's effort cost him a fine of $50.
W. r. Newhouse, of Philadelphia, wrote
some rhymes about the fickleness of
William John and circulated them in
printed slips. Here Is sample verse
If you center your affections youth like william
Youn be likely to discover the foundation they are
on,
For Fascinating cruiser Ike this Individual
Isn't apt to be contented with q solitary gal.
A threat of lawsuit induced New
house to sign an apology, and collect
and destroy all the copies he could find.
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TeIegranhic "reminiscences.

81 think, said General Stager, that
j was about the first TO read messages by
sound. Certainly | had so read them be
fore l knew OF any une else doing it.
Erastus Brooks, Just about that time
came to PIttsburg and bought out the
gazette. 1t was very responsible duty
to collect the telegraphic dispatches, and
the chief editor used to come himself to
my Office for that purpose. The markets
were sent IN cipher. One day my regis
ter broke down while Brooks was wait
ing for the report. "A steamer had just
landed in New York, and the news was
important. But the register was in such
a state that patching wouldn't do. Mr..
Brooks was in despair. Nowthe office
call of telegraph station Is easily
learned You have DE, for instance,
for Detroit; 'BU' for Buffalo, and H for
Cleveland-the 'C's' being taken up
somewhere else on the line. The con-
stant reiteration of DE, DE, or Blu,
BU, or whatever the Office call is, makes
it familiar, and as easily recognized as
the sound of mans name. The very
boys learn IN short order. OF course, in
those days, just as now, our office calls
were recognizable TO the ear It was
with this in mind that said to Brooks,
Wait little and I'll try another PLAN
L explained matters to the operator at
the other end, and asked him to go slow.
and between my knowledge of the
cipher and the good-natured repetitions
of each link of it by my down East
friend, / managed to get the whole of the
report 1t came slow, but came in time.
Brooks left delighted man.
s'Now, General, that's historical fact
worth noting.
81 make no claims, continued Gen
eral Stager, ''but I'll tell you my OWL
experience. It was always a question
among us whether Mr. Barnes or Gov
ernoc Cornell was the first to read and
send by sound. Some say it was Barnes,
some Cornell"
.sThe present Governor of New York?''
''The very same. Governor Cornell
was an old time telegraph operator
'sDid the new Improvement take %
Son the contrary" said the General.
''the officers fought against if. Every
commercial message, they said, must be
read from the tapes. They insisted that
they wanted something for a record.
Weused to bundle up the tapes and keep
them for reference, to compare for errors
and find out whether the receiver or
sender was to blame. 1t was long
time before the officers discovered that
such errors would be detected Just as
we'll by taking letter-press copy of the
message. But reading by sound is now
the only thing It has immensely in
creased the efficiency and capacity OF, the
telegraph InterUiesU IN the Detroit
free Press. re.ssfrs.z E}zfs - s+soe
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4 Brave Lad.

An instance of coolness and courage
in boy Is reported in letter from
Wakkerstroom, in South Africa. The
garrison made raid for the purpose OF
capturing some cattle, but were com
PEELED to retreat into camp While fall
ing back, a youngster about fifteen
years old was thrown from his horse,
which ran off and left him Finding he
could not, escape from the Beers, who
were In close pursuit, he lay down be-
hind some stones on the slope of the hill
A lew minutes afterward, four of the
enemy came ,galloping up, when the boy
let let ny; knocking one ont of his saddle.
The three men who were with him,
thinking IN all probability, they were
running INTO an ambuscade, wheeled
and ooited for their lives. The boy then
crept on his hands and feet to the TON
of the hill, took to his heels. and es- @
capped.
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The Howling of a Dog.

To hear dog howl in the night has
been regarded of old with the same dis
like rs in modern times, and arises
from the belief that the dog can see
things which are not visible to other
eyes. In the Odyssey" when the
dogs knew Athene, they Z" fed to the
stalls far side, and the dogs of the
North were conscious Z" wenn Hell
umgeht. RabtSsBechai, In his Expo
sition of the Give Books of Moses,
says: ''Our Rabbins of blessed mem
oily have said when the dogs howl then
cometh the angel of death into the city
but when the dogs are at play then
cometh Elias into the city and In the
exposition of another Rabbi "Our
Rabbins of blessed memory have said,
when the angel of death enters into
city the dogs do howl. And l have
seen it written by one of the disciples
of Rabbi Jehudo the Just, that upon a
time a dog did howl, and clapt his tail
between his legs, and went aside for fear
of the angel of death, and somebody
coming and kicking the dog to the place
from which he had fed, the dog pres
emily died" German peasants believe
that if dog barks looking upward a
recovery may be expected, but if he
looks toward the earth death is certain.
In Cornwall the bowling of dog is
always a sad sign, but if repeated for
three nights, the house against which it
howled will soon be in mourning" In
Lancashire, where the death-tick is still
feared, it is reported as - a curious cir
cumstance that the real death tick
must only tick three times on each oc-
casion. When we remember that Mr..
Darwin says that death-ticks (Anobin1
teSseltat,tn1) are known to answer to
each others ticking, or, as he has per-
sonally observed, a tapping noise arti-
ficially made, it is evident that if a Ian
csshire maid is disturbed by the three
dread ticks, she should wait for answer
ing ticks, or stimulate them by an artifi-
cial tick, before allowing her supersti-
tious fears to get the better of her rea-