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NATIONAL N
Possibility of Their Being Wound Up In
Seventeen Years.

Washington special The fiscal year
will close with the total number of Ma
tional banks reaching to three thous-
and. The exact figures are lot yet
made up, but the total will not be much
above and not below that figure. The
steady growth of this system is some
thing remarkable. Even now, with
dissolution staring it in the face, it con-
tinues to grow. For, unless the in
genuity of the national fnanciers shall
enable them to invent u new system, it
is easy to see that the days of the Ma
tional banking system are numbered.
There are but little over u billion of
dollars of national bonds now outstand-
ing.
We have been reducing the debt this
year at the rate of $50, 900, 900 a wear,
so that at this rate it will take only sew
enteen years to call in every bond put
standing. In some former years the
reduction of the debt has been much
more rapid, but supposing that it may
run on at this rate it will be but sew
enteen years before the last vestige of
foundation for the system will be called
in. OF course the holders of the bonds
need not tender them when they are
called for if they choose to keep them,
but they will lose the interest from the
date of the call. So ofcourse they will
have to give them up and give up their
banks, unless some other means is found
for continuing their existence. The
banks now hold about one-third of the
bonds outstanding, securing their cir
culation by this means.
So that there remains but about six
or seven hundred million dollars of the
binds that can be taken up before the
foundation of the banks must &C. This
will be absorbed in ten years at the
present rate of paying off the National
debt. Even now. at every bond call
some of the bonds held bv banks are
being called for, but ut present the
banks may replace those called with
others bought on the markets. But by
and by the number left over will be so
small that there will be nothing to be
bought to take the places Of those
called. Yet with a possible life of but
little over a decade, the number OF
banks goes steadily on increasing until
1t reaches 5000, with a capital of be-
tween five and six hundred millions.
The number of banks organized this
year will not be quite SO large as last
Year. Those OF last year ontnumbered
those of any preceding year. The
growth in amount of capital in the past
two or three years is not SO noticeable
as in some other years, for the privilege
given them some two OF three years g
OF organizing with a capital as low as
$4,000 has lessened the aggregate cap
tai put into the new banks. Probably
three-fourths of the new banks organ
lied now have capital not exceeding
$50.0 0e.
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Punishment of FaIs1fers.

During the fourteenth century there
a be no doubt that the companies
exercised a very effective superintend-
ence over trade and manufacture. The
city records abound with the accounts
OF the exposure and punishment of
fraud ut the instigation of the compa-
MES, whose representatives seem to
have used their powers of scrutiny and
search with considerable vigor. Some
OF the cases reported with all solemni-
ty in the ''Rembrancia'' are very
quaint and afford a curious insight in
to the n of the times. thus in
1911 we read of scrutiny of '.false
hats, being prosecuted sat the re-
quest of the ''hattcrs," with the result
that fifteen black and forty gray hats
We're seized as false, and condemned
to be burned in Chepe; while certain
other hats of the bona fides of which
there was some doubt. we're post
poned for future consideration" In
1916 'the good folk of the trade of
potters' denounced to the mayor and
aldermen diverse persons, and es-
pecially one ''Aleyn lie Sopere," who
busted themselves by buying '.in di-
verse places pots of bad metal, and
b g put them on the fire so as to re-
semble pots hat have been used and
are of old brass, and them the record
continues. they expose them for sale
In West Chepe on Sundays and other
festival days to the deception of all
those who buy such pots; for the mo-
ment they are put upon the fire and
exposed to great heat, they come to
nothing and melt. BY which roguery
and falsehood the people are deceived,
and the trade also is badly put to
SANDER" The magistrates of the
fourteenth century were not restricted
to the dull monotony of $40 shillinus
or a month";" and they seemed in devils.
ing penalties to have given scope to
their powers of invention. For exam
pie, n Quilnogge having bought a
putrid pig, which had been laying a
long time by the riverside. for 4pence,
cut from it two gammons for sale, and
sold part thereof Sin deceit of the ppo-
pie" He was sentenced to stand in
the pillory while 1.-THE residue of the
gammons was burned beneath him.
In the same way a seller Of bad wine
was condemned to stand in the pillory,
to drink a draught of his own stuff and
to have the remainder poured over his
head. We may we'll envy our ances-
tors the protection of this excellent
law, and sigh that the solace of its dis
eliminating application is denied to
us.-Quarterty RerieW.
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Gen. Clusters Confederate Friend

Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth b. Custer.
The Seventh Cavalry were sent to
guard the engineers of the Northern
Pacific while they surveyed the route to
the Yellowstone. This party Of citizens
joined the command a few DAYS out
from Fort Rice. Gen. Custer wrote me
that he was lying On the buffalo robe in
his tent, resting after the march, when
he heard o voice outside asking the SEN
tinel (which was Gen. Clusters tent"
The General called out: "Halloo, old
fellow! l haven't heard that voice
! n thirteen years, but I know it.
Come in and welcome!" Gen.
Rosser walked in, and such a reunion
as was had! These two had been
classmates and warm friends at West
Point, and parted with sorrow when
Gen. Rosser went into the Southern
army. Afterward they had fought
each other in the Shenandoah Valley
time and again. Both of them lay on
the robe for hours talking over the
campaign in Virginia. In the varying
fortunes of war sometimes had got
possession Of the wagon train belonging
to the other. knew of several occa.
sions when they had captured each
others headquarters wagon, with their
private luggage. If mi drove the
other back in retreat, before he went
into camp he wrote o note addressing
the other as "Dear friend and say
ing, "You may have made me take 6 few
steps this way to-day, but I'll 9
with you tomorrow. Please accept my
good wishes and this little gift" These
notes and presents were left at the
house of some Southern woman as they
retreated out of the village. Once Gen.
Custer took ali of his friends luggage,
and in it he found new uniform coat
of confederate gray. He wrote q hui
mcrous letter that night thanking Gen.
Rosser for setting him up so many new
things, but audaciously asking him il liz
would direct his tailor to make the
coat tails Of his next uniform 4 little
shorter" as there was d differencesin
the height Of the two men. Gen. Cus-
ter captured his herd Of cattle at d
time, but he was 50 holly pursued ~
Gen. Rosser that he had to dismount,
cut 9 whip, and drove them himself an.
til they were secured.
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Minor Topics,

1t is said that the Baldwin apple has
seven synonyms, the Fallawater sew
-enteen, and some others as MANY as
thirty different names.
1t is said that eggs from hens in
close confinement seldom hatch well.
1T is also advisable in selecting fowls
to breed from not to take the largest
Half a PINT of sunflower seeds given
to a horse with his other food each
morning and night will keep him in
good health and spirits and his hair
will be brighter. Horses soon be-
come very fond of the sunllower
seeds.
There is nc better investment for
farmers than in draft horses. They
are as much a staple in the markets as
wheat, pork or coffee, and can as
quickly be turned into cash.
An experienced dairyman SAYS
"Never churn your cream till the but.
ter m in chunks as bic as YOUR
hist. Stop churning when the butter
grains are twice the size of a pin head.
Such butter has good grain and brings
more than greasy butter"
Potatoes should be planted, as far
as possible, on new soil, for natural
vegetable refuse, such rs grass or
clover sod turned under, is better
Il stable for this crop.
floW deep. so as to encourage the
growth OF tuber rather than of top.
From a single kernel of wheat /. O2O
pounds of grain have been produced
IN three years in Grass Valley, Cal.
The hrst year there were TWENTY-FIVE
stalks and heads, yielding $50 kernels.
These were planted and yielded one-
fifth of Il bushel, and last season there
was raised from this seventeen bush
els.
For the early fattening of lambs pro-
vide small troughs IN a yard adjoining
the sheep fold, with entrance a little
too small for the old sheep to 90
through, put a few oats or a little corn
meal or cottonseed meal every day.
The lambs Will begin to eat when three
weeks old and grow rapidly.
Sheep %husbandry is well worth con-
slderlng on account of its peculia
adaptibility for association with all
branches of agriculture. A well Sc
lected flock will, in a majority of in
stances, add to the value Of grain and
grass crops, while adding in other d.
rections to the potit side of the balance
sheet.
An Ohio farmer expresses the opin-
Ion that if a person takes proper care
OF his land, uses clover, occasionally
blowing a good crop under; keeps
sheep and feeds them clover, hay and
corn fodder in the barn. and spreads
1hp mamma II, mic H,1I, L. -I
good crops of grain and grass without
the costly commercial fertilizers.
Objections are raised to plank floors
tor hog houses, on the ground that
they are colder than the warm dry
soil. Protection over and around the
hogs will keep them quiet, while they
would be constantly squealing on a
plank floor. Rheumatism, catarrh and
lameness, froE knotty legs. are also
said to be caused by plank flooring.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-21
O M
Some of the Advantages They Present in
South America.

sTrayeler" in the Lancet.
Beds are occupied night after night
year after year, by divers persons il
sickness and in health. in summers hea,
and winters cold, and as to when bed.
ding is remade and purified, each one
can Judge by his W experience. Com
pare tins with the use of the South
American hammock, which requires
only n stout blanket inside, and in win
ter a wooden sleeping dress as well OF
suitable make, i. e., drawers, socks and
a loose jacket, all periodically washable.
The sanitary difference becomes at once
startling to those who have never con-
sidered the subject before. The South
American hammock is made of the
tibres of the young leaves of the tia
palm (Mauritia ~feXuose), so woven that
it yields to every movement and
projection of the body in every di-
rection the weight Of the body estab-
llshes its own support, the same as in
chairs with the loose canvass backs.
Hanmocks are very easy to get into
and out of, and one cannot fall out of
them when asleep. They should be
swung 1ue Shu1o Instance from the
ground as the seat of q, chair. They
form an excellent seat. Sitting down,
n draws the back of the hammock up
as high as one may desire. The proper
way to get into o hammock,-for there
is a proper ways first to Sit down on
it and then throw the legs up and the
back down, wrapping yourself up in
its soft, elastic and ample folds. The
best way to lie is crossways. The posi-
ton can be varied in three or four ways.
The writer has passed several nights in
such a hammock and blanket, exposed
to the damps Of a South American for
est, and risen perhaps more refreshed
than if he had slept in q bed. For
bedridden people their use would be in
valuable. Those who have been con-
fined to q bed or water bed for three or
four months know how fatiguing and
disgusting they become. In many
cases in hospitals such hummocks would
be real sanitary appliances. The ham
mock l have comes from the Essequibo
Indians in British Guinea. I do not
know why a similar mode of open weav-
ing more like knitting, without the
knott Of some material having the mel
low feeling Of the rush used in rush
bottomed chairs could not be managed
in this country.
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Earl Cairns.

Lady Cairns announcement written
on a h%alf-sheet of note paper and af-
liked to the outer gate of Lindisfarne.
which informed the inhabitants of
Bournemouth somewhat abruptly that
Lord Cairns had ''entered into rest at
$40" on Thursday morning. took
everybody by surprize. He had taken
horse exercise on three days before,
and was walking about the cliffs on
Tuesday. His health had for some
time caused his friends considerable
anxiety, and he had been for the past
month under the care of Mr..
MAXWELL, a local homeopathic practi-
toner. On Wednesday DR.. Kidd was
summoned by telegraph. but Lord
Cairns was already sinking. The ex-
lord chancellor will be much missed
at B~ournemouth. 1t is somewhat re-
markable that both the conservative
and the liberal lord chanccllors should
have devoted themselves in private so
energetically to church work. Like
Lord Selborne, Lord Cairns was an
lndefatigable Sunday-school teacher;
regularly, when at Bournemouth. pre-
siding over the bible class in connec-
ton with Holy Trinity church, the
young men crowding to his teaching.
he was also a popular president at
missionary and other religious gath
erings, and he cordially sympathized
with the evangelistic work of his SON
in-law, Hon. and Rev. Neville Sher-
brooke. He was also a firm support
er OF Rev. Canon Eliot, vicar of HOLY
Trinity, the Evangelical church of
Bournemouth. a place of worship
which had, n Sunday during the re-
CRIME of the late government. the
singular distinction to include four
cabinet ministers in its congregation.
London World.
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Bullets and Biscuit.

Mr.. Sweete-Here is an account OF
a st. Louis woman, only a few weeks
married, who shot her husband.
Mrs. Sweete (bride of a month";
On purpose?
"Yes; and the bullet landed in his
stomach"
ooh! Then probably she only want
ed to prove to him he was wrong"
"In what wayp"
HE probably asserted that her bis
cults were heavier than lead"-Phila-
dClphi0 Lhu
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The Jersey Cattle Boom.

The leading aim of the best breeders
now seems to be to breed for the but
ter record. This IS so much the case,
that the great majority of jersey cows
that have a record below fourteen
pounds of butter a week, are compare
lively cheap, while those with n record
Of fourteen pounds a week, upwards
to twenty-five and thirty pounds a
week, are comparatively high. Those
atthe top of the scale arc sought for
and bring fabulous prices, or what
would be called such a few years ago.
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Great emphasis is put upon their but
ter record, and tho conditions of the
tests, as to ~rations and previous feed
of cow, continually grow more precise
and satisfactory. The aim is, to show
the value of a given animal on a speci-
he'd value of rations, as a machine
Tor making butter, or what the COW
Will do on grass alone, in flush feed.
These tests are made under the super
vision of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, or under the direction of such
witnesses as secure impartially and
give entire confidence in their correct
ness. These butter records of the Jer-
seys are quite remarkable. compared
with the average yield of other cows.
They are remarkable especially. as
showing the prepotency of bulls
-1NleTlca1l .dgrtcXLt2Jisk.
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scions in the box-car. The horses were
ruined. And how long do you think
we were making that sixteen miles :
we ran two miles up the Lake Shore
track. Just twelve minutes from the
summit to the spot where we stopped.
A plumb eighty miles an hour, not
counting the time lost getting under
Roadway and stopping beyond Broc-
ton"
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The ups and downs of the grain
market should operate as q warning
against speculation. 1t is a fact that
should be laid to heart, that only two
per cent. of the vast number of specu.
lators, come out ahead in the end.
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Specimen Orchards.

OF all classes of business men, fruit
growers should be the slowest to take
things from hearsay. Nothing but
demonstrable facts should satisfy
them. Their business is dealing with
futures" too far remote to be trifcd
with. They plant trees to bear fruit,
not next autumn, like a field of corn.
but five or trenty years from now.
Hence they must be very sure that the
tree they plant this spring is not only
OF the best age and shape, but of the
variety best adapted to their
How are they to know this? Only in
one way-by actual experiment.. A
grower sees a beautiful specimen of
fruit, and finds 1t highly recommended.
The fruit pleases him; as a specimen
1t seems perfect; but unfortunately it
was grown many miles away, or in an
other state, and how is he to know it
will succeed on his farm? The soil
may be different. perhaps the climate
is also. His only sure way will be,
to buy five or ten trees, plant them in
a specimen orchard and see. In due
time he will know whether to plant
that variety by the hundred, or dig up
the trees he has. If every one of his
neighbors also had a few trees on trial,
their united testimony would be con-
elusive for that locality. This should
apply to small fruits as well. The
big Bob" may be the biggest of
Strawberries, but how can we know it
is the best for us, if not by actual
trial? Let each grower set apart a
plot of ground for a specimen orchard,
and each year add several new varie-
ties. Give an average mount of care
and cultivation. and carefully note the
growth. habit and pecullarlties of the
trees, and finally the fruit of each.
The writer has such an orchard of
trees, gathered from four States. 1t
comprises new varieties and .'promis-
ing seedlings" The trees are not vet
large enough to bear, but if the future
profits equal the present pleasure of
comparing the different trees, the ven
ture will be a very satisfactory one, to
say nothing of the information gained.
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FARM AND GARDEN,
Grating the Grapevine, and Other Topics of
Interest.
Grating the Granevine.

Nunhetous inquiries nave been mad
ms spring as to the method of graft
ing the grapevine, but too late for
reply to be given in time to be usefu
TINS season. Some of the writer's pro
pose to take wild grapevines, and ust
Them as stocks apo which to graf
desirable varieties. This would be
very, poor economy. An old vine o.
any ana IS rarely worth removing nC
least OF all, a wild one. Such vine:
are poorly furnished with roots, anC
would make very poor stocks. If one
already has an old vine of a poor va,
rlety, and wishes to graft it with q
more desirable kind, he a do so by
ulgglhg down and inserting the cions
below the surface of the ground. The
proper season Tor this operation is in
.he iali' when vegetation is at rest. II
tLe ola root Is in a healthy condition,
Il very vigorous growth will follow.
Another method of grating is to in
sert INC clio IN a strong cane, or branch
OF lhe vlhe' selecting one that may be
bent down., and have the union OF
STOCK and con- with a Joint or two of
method known as wh~ip-oraftinp is en-.
} inc cion ana stock being held
'ose.her ny II t.e' instead OF wax. The
siaiteo cane IS then lad IN a shallow
tiench' IN such manner that a bud
VI t"o Oh the cion wlll be above
siouhu. ms, IL VIII be seen, is a
Io~nioiiatioh VI layerlilS and grating.
ny cioh IS hourlshed at ilrst by the
olo vine. put IN the course OF the sea
son' the buried portlon OF the cane
IN Plou'ce apuhuant roots, n IN
inc lall may be separated from the
Paiehl pant. Inns operation should
pe performed early in spring, before
'an Is oanSeroi coplous ~"bleedlng,'"
when mlSht prevent the union. 1t
may also De one upon the new
SSao"'h' altef the moo OF the season
,h; o suihcientiy matured, in
hla oase using c'ons OF similar new
crown. ms method with new wood
we nave not trled, butit is said to be
SUCCESSFUL. Nearly all OF our hardy
grapes are grown so readily from cut
.,hss, ana come INTO bearing so soon,
mat 'l's IS the usual and least trouble
soihc 'ahhef OF propagating them.
-.
living Bees.
some apiarists practice clipping one
wing OF each queen. Then when a
swarm issues IRON the hive, she can
not follow, but crawls about upon the
ground in front of the hive. The bee
keeper catches, cages. and lays her
as'oe IN the shade, moves the old hive
TO a new location, and by the time the
swarm has decided to return, because
IL mas no queen, he has a new hive
similar IN appearance to the old one,
upon the old stand, and the bees,
taking 1t for their old home, enter it,
ana while they are gong in, the queen
Is allowed to run in with them. Thus
the bees hive themselves without being
allowed to even cluster. An objection
! TINS method is, that queens are
sometimes lost in the grass. When a
swarm OF bees returns, it may enter
the wrong hive. and if it makes no
mistake in his direction. it OCCASION
any clusters all over the outside of the
EiVe' II remains there q long time be-
tore entering, If the queen is allowed
TO enter the hive toe soon, she may
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-07-29
signal once Repert.

Following is the meteorological record
Of the United States Signal Office here
Charles Read, Observer the "a
hours ending at 9 A. NJ. this morning:
Mean temperature-70.6 deg.
Maximum temperature-s6.2 deg.
Minimum temperature-53 deg.
Mean relative humidity. % per cent.
Barometer, rising rapidly.
Total movement Of wind for the "a
hours ending at 500 P. M. focal time),
l6l miles.
Maximum velocity Of wind. 81 miles
IN hour.
Minimum temperature this morning.
47.4 deg.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-07-29

IL 10 prime necessity OF health that the &C.
ton Of the bowels should be kept regular. But
the way to overcome temporary At Of consti.
patton, or to remedy chronic costiveness, is
not TO deluge the stomach and drench the bow
els with purgatives OF violent and painful
action. The happy medium between an mop
erAtive end violent cathartic Is Hostetter o
stomach Bitters, which acts just sufficiently
upon the bowels TO relax them without pain,
and which being q wholesome tonic, as well as
apesient, has the effect Of Strengthening both
them and the stomach, and promoting the
well being Of the whole internal economy. The
removal OF bile from the blood, increased ac-
tivity OF the liver, usually dormant In cases Of
costiveness, and sound digestion follows the
use OF this benehcent medicine, rs thorough
and genial In its effects 1t Ii safe and pure In
its composition. Rheumatism, fever and ague,
kidney troubles and debility are also remedied
by L.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-07-29

The casket in which the remains of
General Grant will be deposited was
prepared at Rochester, N. Y. 1t is the
first and only one Of the kind ever made.
The shell was made of red cedar,
covered with fine purple silk velvet,
with heavy solid silver mounting and
handles. The inner casing is of polished
copper. one-eighth of an inch thick, which
is lined with heavy cream.colored satin,
tufted and corded. The pillow, COW
cred with the same material, is EN-.
broidered with the initials gu. s. G."
The full-length cover is fitted with
thick French bevel.edged glass. The
outside box of cedar is heavily lined
with lead. and has solid silver mount.
ings and corner trimmings. The length
Of the casket is six feet, and the weight
$50 pounds.