The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-25

cRANKs AT The MINT.
Weak Minded Men and women
Hunting for Mythical Milton

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Hunting for Mythical Milton
Lots of cranks visit the PhiladefpA ua
Mint. The majority look sensible, ann
are well dressed, but some can be-
identified as insane at the distance OF a
block, and the attire of these are in
keeping with their intellects. Men and
women who are little ''gone in the
upper story" as the poet puts it, go to
the mint usually with but one errand-
to collect thousands of millions of doll
lars which they firmly believe is there de-
posted to their credit. Most of them are
from the city, or vicinity, but once in
awhile one puts in an appearance who
has come goodly distance by rail
to get money supposed to be all
ready. BY long and painful expert
ence the jolly chief usher of the mint
has been led TO adopt one unvarying
mode of treating his cranky visitors.
He don't fling tAem into the street.
He don't even order them away, or adj
wise them to 60 to place where intel
lects are cheaply repaired, but, instead,
he agrees to all they say, acknowledges
that there are tens of thousands of
millions of dallars, as the case may be.
waiting for them, and then gets rid of
them by some polite excuse for tenn
porary delay in payment of their
claims, or sends them upon FOOLS err
rands to see Government officials who
exist only in imagination.
Yesterday lady with wall eye, a
ragged black cloak and a bushy head
of uncombed hair, walked up the Chest
nut street steps of the mint and de-
manded to be introduced to the Treas
urer of the United States"
"He is out, said the chief usher,
who had had a painful previous expe-
ricnce with this visitor
when will he be imp she asked,
fierccly.
Il don't know, madame"
''Show me the chief clerkP'
''He has gone to lunch"
when will he be mp
SIN couple of hours. Call again"
'I'll watt said the lady with the
unfurnished skull. II have twenty-five
thousand dollars here on deposit. I'm
going to draw it to-day. No nonsense,
young man, and she sat firmly down
upon q leather-coyered chair.
BY persuading her to let her money
lie day or two in order to draw in.
terest, she was induced to depart.
Not long ago clean-shaven gentle
man, forty or forty-fiye, well dressed.
looking the typical man of business,
came to the mint and asked to see the
cashier. He was taken to that officials
Office.
II am General Jackson, said the
visitor, "and have several millions on
deposit here, placed to my credit by
my friend, the Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild, of Paris. y
''Ah, General. glad to see you. Be
seated. Your moneys all right.
"But / want to take it away"
"Nowp"
Right off"
Il am sorry" said the official, ''but
the fact is we have nothing we could
give you except silver Your deposit
would fill several wagons. Leave your
address and we will send it,"
General jackson" thanked his in
formant, wrote John. IL --Girard
avenue; and left in the confidant ex-
pectation of seeing his three millions
carted home
Some years ago, when the chief
usher of the mint hadn't very much ex-
perience with cranks, a wild-eyed gem
tleman, with spare body and fierce
mustache, strobe into the mint and
asked for one hundred thousand dollars
which he said he had left there.
Get out. You have no money
here"
s.Do you think I'm foolP Don't /
know what's what? / tell you the
money belongs to me. Hand it over,
or I'll And the visitor stepped
forward. glowing with Indignation,
with his fist upraised. he was pacified
and told to go to Chestnut street wharf,
where his money wasdue at two p. m.
by a Trenton steamer. - Philadelphia
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