Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-03-07

he was himself ''poor clerk" who wrote
these additional lines, or only an employer
of clerks. The following also passed
through the same gentem ans hands on
f1 notes:
You ugly, dirty little scrap,
To look at hardly worth rap;
An vet I'll gle my hearty vote
Name can produce a sweeter note.
With this may be comrared:.
It's odd that any man should wish
dirty scabbit rag like this;
Yet m0nv n ane would cut q caper
To get a wheen sic bits o. paper.
What seems most to strike the banS n ,ss
scribe is the transformers of all human
pleasures. l have seen a note from Burns
pleasures are Like Poppies Spread"
adopted i'm this way:
Pound notes are like poppies spread
You get them changed, and 10, they've fed;
Or, like the flies upon the river.
One moment there, then gone forever.
''The trail of the serpent is over tiiem
ALL" says another melancholy moralist,
but an optimist wisely adds:
'Tis better to have had and lost
Than never to have had at all.
That last couplet is another of the COM
monplaces on bank notes. This is better,
though less generous:
Inc ueVll mas power
To assume pleasing shape.
And better still
They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of
the time.
Prohibition catch my sonl.
But do love thee
has been met with, and also "This is the
very ecstasy of love-" "Not of an age.
but for all time" does not, it may be
feared, mean that the uri ter is to put his
bank-note out to usury.
Perhaps the most interesting bank.
notes are those whose inscriptions are au.
TYPOGRAPHICAL. AFTER keeping this for
ten years." said one that / was told of
lately, sit is gon at last. Such is life ("
''There is the first f5 note l ever earned, %
appeared in a handwriting that was not
boyish. ITO pay the rent" is brief but
sufficient So, perhaps. is the Scotch al
will be married to- morrow; God help m Q
j. D." The most dismal story / ever
heard of being read on a bank note, how.
ever, was: "The last of large fortune
spent ON drink"
A historical interest attaches to the in
scription: "Where shall we three meet
again" which used to be common on
bank notes. Who the third of the trio re-
ferred TO was has puzzled some people.
but no drubt it was Abraham Newland.
Newland was cashier of the Bank of En-
gland ninety years ago, and In that
capacity signed the notes OF the bank.
he was much talked of and written of on
that account in his own day, which is an
other proof that people had then more
respect for bank nctos than they have
now, or at least more time to scrutinizs
them. How many persons could tell off,
hand who signs the Bank of England
notes to-day Newland was lite a
famous character, and is immortalized in
verse in THE Whim of the Day." pub.
lished in 1900. He was "Invinc bic Abra-
ham Newland." and there were
No arguments found iH thu world half so sound
- the logic OF Abraham Newland.
The logic so well spoken of was, of
course, bank note, specially referred to
in these lines:
There ne'er was name SC handed by Fame
Through air, through ocean, or through land.
As the name that is wrote upon every bank
note.
And you all must know Abraham Nowland.
Abraham Newlandl Notified Abraham
Newlandi
] haxe heard people ssy sham Abraham Won
may,
But you mustn't sham Ab-sham Newland.
10 .-snam AUraram" was to pretend to
be needy and debiiitsi ed when one wa,
able to work, and shamming Abraham
is still in vogue. Abraham Newlapd,s
name disappeared from the notes in
1907 -
AoAPhtN MAESALADE.--Peel and steyy the
pumpkin. then rub through a sieve. ada ~
.ne pun kin an equal quantity Of tart apple
kuip' and 10 six tcacups Of this measure add
,lree teacupa OF sugar. two lemons and one
large orange cut very fine, also the grated
rind OF same; stir constantly: stezy sntiI
saS I.ch ana thick, then put away in covered
jelly glasses. -
SALMON SALAD Two punches of celery
and one very small head Of cabbage chopDed
ine, then add one can of salmon with the
bones picked out For the dressing take
one tablespoon Of butter, four talllespoons
sweet milk, four tablespoons vinegar. salt
pepper and little French-made mustard.
one egg. Cook like custard, and. when cool
put over the chopped cabbage, celery and