The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-09-29
Our Young Folks.


Uncle Sam has money house in Wall
street, New York, called the sub-trea-
sury, which old King Cresus would
have liked to visit. 1t contains, at pre-
sent, in gold and silver coin, about one
hundred and five millions of dollars all
neatly packed in bags, or slowed In bins,
in vaults which are supposed to be burg
lar preof.
In fact, they are burglar proof else
some gentleman of the profession would
have attempted them during the last
forty years.
They are deep down in the bowels of
the earth, under a building the most
massive and solid in all America. The
building was builtas for eternity, COW
ering the whole basement with arches
as strong as stone quarry. Down in
that marvellous understructure, Uncle
Sam keeps the bulk of his gold. Doors
beyond doors of solid steel protect it,
these secured by locks that are wound
up every night like so many clocks,
which no key of man can open till they
run down.
The silver vault is a spacious under
ground hall forty-seven feet long,
twenty-eight feet wide and twelve feet
high, divided inte bins of various sizes.
Here are nine hundred tons of silver
coin, with thirty-three millions of dol
lars.
The gold is all kept in bags, each
of which contains five Thousand dol
lars, and the bags are piled one upon
another in even columns twelve bags
high.
When the sub-treasury bill was
before congress, Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, and the wings generally
saw in it certain ruin of the republic.
Since the sys. em was adopted, how.
ever, the sub-treasury has received
and paid something more than bill
without the loss of dollar, and
without disturbing the course of bust.
ness.
A lady of great ability, Mrs. Lamb
editor of the Magazine of American
History, has been looking into the
vaults and offices of the sub-treasurN
recently, and gives us a pleasing view
of its excellent and easy oiking. Tn,
sub treasurer, however, has any
thing but an easy time. In one dal
the office has paid eleven thousand pen
sion cheeks, averaging twenty six dol
| lars each, and ii is not uncommon fo
the treasurer to sign his name three
! thousand times in one morning to bon,
4 and gold certificates Youths Com
panion.
Keep the Children Happy.
Invent every possible amusement I,
, keep your boys at home in the evenings
3 Never mind if they scatter books AM
pictures, coats, hats and boots Neve
l mind if they do make a noise arount
3 you, with their whistlmg and hurrah
! ing We would stand aghast if W
s could have vision of the young mel
t who had gone to utter destruction TO
4 the very reason that, having cold, disa
Q greeable, dull, stiff firesides at home
t they sought amusement elsewhere. Tn
v influence of loving mother or sister
| tfNna1puIahIn fbn ~, g.,
by casting a stone in the water, it goc
| on and through a mans whole life
d Circumstances and worldly pleasure
:. may weaken the remembrance for
It time, but each touch upon the chord q
q memory will awaken the old tim
It music, and her face, her voice, and he
It loving words will come up before hir
e like revelation. The time will come
before you think when you would Civ
~ the world to have your house tumble
"a by the dear hands of those very boys
10 when your heart shall long for the nois
40 steps in the hall, and their ruddy cheel
ar laid up to yours; when you wOul
n rather have their jolly whistle than I'll
# songs of Nelson when you woul
# gladly have dirty carpets, aye, lily
q without carpets at all, but to ha,
70 their bright strong forms beside yo
+ once more. Then play with and pr
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