The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-25
A DRUMMER's BRILLIANT IDEA.

of raising the ancient masculine Juve.
ME. The get folks who are minding
their own business and merely want
peace and quiet in to all sorts of scrapes-S
This fact is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the
commercial tourist, usually referred to
as drummer He's the man that makes
love to all the pretty servant girls in the
hotels, and gets their notions so high
that they won't notice the porters, and
it makes the latter want to "slIg" the
drummers. One of this class of gentle
men was at an up country railway sta
ton some days ago and discovered, while
waiting for train. wasp's nest. An
idea at once struck him. How he
achieved the feat without getting hurt
we don't know. Probably the wasps
were dormant with cold. But at any
rate, he got that nest down and tied It
to the tail of a large yellow dog that was
fooling around the depot. The dog star
ted to run and that SO stirred up the
waspes that they sent a courier out to
investigate, and as he did SO in manner
disagreeable to the dog, he only ran the
harder and made three wild circuits of
the depot. The train meanwhile came
in, and as trains stop long at country
stations, it was just starting as the dog
came round the third time. Wild with
pain, the dog leaped aboard the train and
plunged into the crowded car just as
the brakeman closed the door. The poor
brute got beneath seat and tried to curl
up. The car was hot and it warmed up
the wasps and they came out. and. in
about half minute the men in that seat
jumped up so hard they nearly stove
holes in the roof, and the way they claw,
ed at their legs was a caution. Every
body looked. Then others became inter-
ested. And the dog started on run
through the car. The wasps went for
him and every person in the car. A
wild scene took place. Men cursed and
clawed wildly. Women got up on the
seats and danced, and the dog, which
every body thought to be mad, tore up
and down the aisle, bowling. The con-
ductor came in, thinking the people in
sane. He promptly joined the show.
As the train was fping, folks couldn't
Jump off. No mad house ever saw such
a scene. There was profanity enough to
sink ship, and the brakeman gazing
in at the door said it beat anything he
ever saw in variety show. Finally the
conductor stopped the train, folks got
out, and the car was cleared of wasps
and dog. But the passengers didn't get
over it. They were an awful mad set,
and occasionally after they got started
again man would find stray'wasp in
his trowsers and rise yell. They talked
of suing the railroad, and if they could
have got that drummer his death would
would have been frightful. But he had
gone on the train the other way.
The principal points of the Senate bill
for extending the charters of the Nation
al banks are as follows: "Any National
bank upon the consent of the sharehold-
ers of two thirds of its stock can renew
its charter for twenty years at any time
within two years before the expiration of
its existence under the present law. The
institution will then have all its old rights
except that legal proceedings against
it can be carried on in the State courts.
Any shareholder who does not wish the
bank to continue is entitled to receive the
value of his stock. The banks notes un-
der its old charter must be destroyed
within three years or the institution
must deposit in the Treasury money
enough TO redeem the remainder. Banks
having capital of s100,0O0 or less will
not be required to keep on deposit with
the Treasurer Of the United States bonds
in excess of one>third of their capital
stock as security for their circulating
notes; and banks having no deposit
bonds in excess of that amount, are auth
orized to reduce their circulation by the
deposit in order to withdraw its circu-
lating notes will be entitled to receive
any increase of its circulation for six
months from the time it made that
deposit; provided, that no more than So
000,0 900 shall be deposited during any
for this purpose. The Secretary