The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16
CORRESPONDENTS.
, the Editor of the Herald.

To the Editor of the Herald.
WAsHINGToN,D. @. Sept. l3, 1885, Washing
ton continues to respond generously to calls
ior ala rom charleston. Thousands of dol
lars nave already been contributed and for
warded, and more are in prospect. The
government employees, many of them
drawing small salaries, nohly step up and
give their mites in the good cause In all
the Government departments there is q
standing order that no canvassing for sub.
scriptions shall be permitted, but the order
was temporarily suspended and in a short
Time the contributions of the employees had
run up into the thousands.
The scientific bureaus of the Government
have been much exercised by the suddenly
developed earthquake belt and tho Geologi.
cal Bureau. specially charged with the in
vestigation OF the the subject sent its best
agents to examine into the changes in the
natural formations OF the land, and to in
stltute diligent inquiry into unusual ap-
pearances in nature for some time before the
earthquake. Several of the agents have al
ready returned with considerable data, and
IL is confidently expected by the off GERS of
the bureau that the subject of earthquakes
will be much better understood hereafter
The National Banks have been rather in
dependent of late, but they will find to their
cost that the National Government will
have its laws respected. The law requires
the banks to submit reports of their finan-
cial condition to the Treasury department
annually but the failure for some years past
to enforce the law has caused banks in diff.
ferent parts of the couDtry to almost wholly
ignore 1t. This state Of affairs has DELAYED
the work of the Comptroller's Office and
coused the Comptroller to make close
scrutiny of these banks that have been
most persistent and fragrant in violating the
law. AS the result he decided to fino such
banks at the rate OF $780, as provided for by
law. for every days delay in making the re.
port. The banks will soon find themselves
in trouble, and mulcted in heavy fines If
they longer delay In performing their duty.
The government is fitting up large space
in g. handsome manner in the National
Museum for the permanent exhibition of
the Grant relics. now temporarily provided
for in an obscure corner of the large build.
ing. The exhibit case is being made, and
will consist of heavy French plate glass
handsomely set in walnut and cherry. The
watchmen have been instructed TO keep q
careful watch over the relics, to see that WIS.,
collection.
For the first time in many years the foil.
age along the streets Of this city has been
almost entirely destroyed this summer by
the caterpillars. and a peculiar worm
which infests the trees by car loads. On
some streets, for many blocks, the trees
have had all the leaves eaten off them, so
that the limbs are perfectly bare. The dam
age is irreparable, and in money amounts
to thousands of dollars. The city authorities
in the past ten years have spent fabulous
sums in setting out raret trees, and in their
care, and have have had large corpse of
men consts ntly employed the year round ::
triming them in the spring, watering them
in summer in times of drought, repairing
the protecting boxes the year round, and
bandaging and wrapping the younger and
m ost delicate ones in the winter TO protect
them from the severity OF weather..
With the view of checking the advance of
the worms and insects the Engineer Com
missioner of the District has ordered that
the boxes be removed from the trees and
the latter whitewashed, but ii is feared by
many that the action has been too long de.
ferred. and it row looks as If Washineto ton
would be without her greatest beauty in
the fall-the loneliness of the great variety
ofhues in the aut umnal leav es. H.