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they probably will not be found until dry
rot has made them unrecognizable Never
theless. every few years some of the gov
ernment's old securities turn up at the
treasury for redemption. 1t was not very
many years ago that the owner of a very
large amount of Texas indemnity stock,
who considered himself very poor collected
from the government on them many thous-
and dol lars. There is Still $20GU0 worth Of
the Texas indemnity stock outstanding
None was presented to the treasury last
year or the year before. None of the very
old bonds came In last year, and of the
debt prior 70 the 1871 loan none has come
in since 1869. though there is $15i 745 % out
amount, and it can be figured as part Of
Uncle Sans bond profits.
OF the loan of 1S45, S47.30O has been re-
deemed since 1869, and there is only $3.50
outstanding. OF the loan of 1853 there is
Only 5000 outstanding. The government
did not do any heavy borrowing until the
civil war. and its fifst big bond issue was
what are known as @the '5-2ts of 1862"
There were s39l .990eO0 of these issued,
bearing 6 per cent Interest. It was not until
December l, 1871. that the government felt
like beginning to pay It's war debts On
that date it called 500. .959600 worth of the
Sos of 1862, and most of these were pre-
sented at the time named in the call But
a great many thousand dollars worth of
them We're held for many years, drawing
no interest; and today there is outstanding
S1S500 worth of the bonds called In 1871
Few, If any. of these will ever be presented
Tor redemption. Meantime, the interest
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THAT TERRIBLE BOY.
He Explained Matters Which HI
Mother Did Not Want Known

He Explained Matters Which His
Mother Did Not Want Known.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A woman. accompanied by her son. who
was about nine years old, was passenger
on the Staten Island boat the other day,
She was a very nervous woman, and he a
boy who wanted to see what was going on
He wanted to see the boat leave the slip,
but the mother seized his arm and said:
Harry, what did 1 tell you? Now, you
sit right down and keep quiet"
Later on he wanted to see Castle William
and Ellis Island, but she gave him cuff on
the ear and exclaimed:
Harry, must I whip you before all these
people?"
But can't see something's" he pro-
tested.
Yes, you can look around the cabin"
He was quiet for five minutes and then
edged away to look at an ocean steamer
He had only reached the window when the
mother was after him, and as she shook
him and Topped him down she said
Il don't know why brought you along"
Il dor he answered.
1.-THE idea Of your. acting as you dor'
You brung me along" he continued, in a
voice which reached every part Of the cab
In. because you was going to get married
and give me new pa, but when we got
there he didn't show up, and 1 hope he
never will"
During the next ten minutes that boy had
the range of the boat, while his mother sat
bolt upright and kept her eyes fastened on
the ceiling.
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A LITTLE COMPLICATED.
hut One Woman Managed to Clear Tn
the Obscurity.

but one Woman Managed to Glenn Tin
the Obscurity.
From the Chicago Post.
1t was their first meeting in several
years and' OF course. they had a great
deal to say to each other
L have been SO busy that haven't had
time to study it out" said the one in blue
but l think we are related in some way
now. are We not?"
NO. l think not" replied the one In dark
brown. Where did you get that idea?"
Why, 1 had an impression that the Sec
ond Wife of your first husband was the
flrst wife of my present husband, and that
would make a sort of connecting link, you
Possibly you are right; but we could
hardly call that relationship We can
come closer than that through your second
husband, who was cousin, two or three
degrees removed. of my present husband,
put even that does not make any relation
ship. 1 think, perhaps. that you have be-
come confused on the subject of aImony
which constitutes the most direct connec-
ton"
Il never could get those complications
through my head" said the one in blue.
Well,' exclaimed the one in dark brown
'the alimony that you get from your first
husband is really just enough to pay the
alimony that your present husbands first
wife gets from him.
Yes. 1 let him have it for that pur-
pose"
Then his first wife," continued the math-
husbands second wife, and, as he is pay
ing me the same amount of alimony the
money Is simply transferred to me- That
iS where the connection comes in"
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vidual issue Of stamps of thirteen de-
nominations; and in Siberia, Tonga, the
Cook Islands and other small countries
the designs OF stamps are changed when
ever additional revenue Is wanted. The
philatelists protest, but their protests avail
nothing.
Large amounts are made every year by
the government through the destruction OF
stamps and stamped envelopes which have
not been used. How few take the trouble
to remove stamp from q mis- addressed
envelope? There is a good margin of profit,
too In excess payments on postal matter:
for the Post Office Department, while 1T al
ways collects on underpaid mail, never re-
funds when there is too much postage Paid.
To reckon all the profits which the gov
ernment has received unearned, 1t would
be necessary to go over the records OF
Congress and get the list of claims which
have been pronounced just by treasury
officials, and by Senators and members who
have investigated them. But those are
not profits yet for Congress may develop a
conscience some day and pay them.
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THE DISCOVERY OF QUININH.
Production of the Present Day md
Methods of Use.

AouS VI A8cs
From the New York Independent.
In a company of prominent physicians
each was asked to write the six remedies
that he would take on board ship for a
voyage round the " orld, IL his life were to
depend on the III mber who should return
alive. The first entry was "opium," unan-
imously indorssd At the second entry the
vote was a tie between mercury" and
"quinine," and now that bichloride of ner-
curry has been found to be the most efficient
of micrope killers. probably that would
have second place unanimously, and the
third would be unhesitatirgly given to the
various extracts of the bark of the several 1
varieties of the cinchona, of which the
most familiar is QuiEile, a name derived
from that used by the Peruvian Indians
who call the trees kina. The old-fashion-
ed method of administration was nv macer
ating the "quiils'' of bark in wine and the
great tonic in the early part of this CEN
tury was bark and wine," and as in these
later days it has been demonstrated to be
directly fatal to the bacillus malaria, we
can easily understand what a boon 1t was
to the settlers" in the undrained and
"fever-and-aSue" regions of this country
when new. At last, by the advance Of
chemical skill, the secret of extracting its
aikaloids was found, and of these no less
than thirteen ere known and used, and
some OF them produce a valuable medicine
at less cost than quinine itself
In 1854 the Dutch government undertook
to raise the trees in the Island of Java
and now they have most prosperous plan
tations. but the most extensive and sue
cessful of what may be called intelligently
conducted plantations are TO be found on
the slopes of the Himalayas and in British
Burmah. In South America the bark is
obtained by first stripping the trunk, then
Telling the tree, but under English botan-
lists in India a way is found of partially
stripping the trunk and then surrounding
1t with moss, causing fresh bark to be pro-
duced. The botanists have even found a
way of making the bark fuller OF the de-
Sirable alkaloids.
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90 inform himself concerning congressional
discussions on great historical subjects,
Is often sadly disappointed by the meager-
ness of the reports The only record he can
find of famous debate Is often brief and
crude summary. Worse than this, he finds
that frequently whole speeches and even
the names of those who made them are al
together ignored.
A New Era.
The adoption Of an official system OF con-
Eressional reporting in 1889 was due to
the one fact, more than any other, that the
phonetic shorthand OF Isaac Pitman, in
vented in its crudest form in 1885, and rap
idly improved during the years immediate
ly following. furnished reporting instru-
ment vastly superior to the prior steno-
graphic systems in simplicity, in ease of
acquisition, and In adaptation to rapid note
taking. The Introduction of this system
into the United States about 1884, In con-
nection with the spelling reform" agita-
ton. was the means of educating a new
brood of reporters. most of them bright,
progressive young men. who were soon able
to surpass in shorthand skill the represen-
tatfves of the older systems.
So 1t happened that when, through con-
gressional subsidies to leading newspapers
Of Washington. quasi-official corps of re-
porters were introduced into the Senate and
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From st. James Gazette
"a Legend Still Extant in the West Of England }
Drake he was Devon man, an ruled the Devor
seas,
(Capten. art tina sleepin' there below0,
h0vin' tho his death fell, he went wi heart at
ease,
An dreamin' arl the time O. Plymouth Hoe
lake my drum to England, hang ct by the shore,
strike ct when your powders runnn' low
II the Don sights Devon, I'll quit the port of
Heaven, -
An dram them up the Channel as we drummed
them long ago.
Drake lies in his hammock still a thousand mile
away,
(Capten. art tha sleepin' there belowD,
Siuns atween the round shot in NOinbre Dios Bay.
An dreanin' arl the time O. Plymouth Hoe
Yarnler lunes the island yarnlcr lie the ships
WI sailor lads dancin' heel an toe
An the shore lights fashin', an the night tide
dashin,
He sees ct arl SO plainly as he saw ct long ago.
Drake lies in his hammock till the great Armadas
cone,
-, (Captes. art tina sleepin' there belowN,
SlunS atween the round shot, listcnin for the
drum.
An dreamin' arl the time o. Plymouth Hoe.
Call him OH the deep sea, call him up the Sound
Gall him when Sc sail to meet the foe;
Where the old trades plying an the old flag fyn'
They Shall find him ware an wakin us they
found him long ago.
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dollars every year, despite the fact that the
treasury makes every effort to redeem all
the currency 1t Issues. A special corps of
experts is employed in the redemption
division to examine the mutilated currency
presented. 1t comes in, sometimes. In pulp,
in ashes, in tatters, worn and torn. The
experts work on 1t with microscopes, pull it
apart and piece it together, making every
possible effort to identify it. If part of a
torn bill is presented for redemption the
owner receives for II an amount propor-
TONED TO its percentage of the area rf the
entire note If torn, burned fragments are
sent IN with satisfactory evidence that they
are the sole remains Of certain sum Of
money, the entire amount is refunded
The government even sends special agents
IN some cases to investigate claims for the
redemption Of money; 1t redeems money
has been in stoves; money which has been
in goats stomachs: money which has been
IN babies mouths; money which has been
used as pipe-lighter: money which has
been at the bottom of the sea-fn fact.
everything which is recognizable under the
most minute scrutiny as a goyernmant
promise to pay" At the time her Newoort
palace was burned Mrs Vanderbilt sent
some charred bills to the office of the re-
dempticn bureau, and the treasury experts
succeeded In getting more than $1,000 out of
tnem. But, in spite of all it's efforts the
treasury grows richer by half a million
dollars every year in unredeemed Daper cur
rency.
Profit on Money Orders,
Another source of income to the govern
ment is its unredeemed money orders. All
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VIEWS ON CATS.
Leaves From Little Tommy's Com.
position Book.

Leaves From Little Tommy's Com
position Book.
From the San Francisco Wave.
This is an oil subject which is liked by
girls. but not by boys.
The proper name for cats is, I believe.
felines. 1 don't know what they call them
felines for, but they do Just the same.
You can find cats all over the world,
with the exception Of our back yard.
Some cats live on milk. fish. meat, mice.
ard that kind OF stuff. but all cats that
I've ever seen seem to live on the back
fences.
have heard of cats of nine tails and
cats OF nine lives, but I've never met any
of 'em. All The cats that ever had any
thing to do with had only one tail and one
life. and a mighty short life at that.
They say it's good luck to have a cat fol-
low YOU. I suppose they mean it's good
luck for the cat; for ninety-nine times out
of one hundred when a cat follows you,
you remember about it's being lucky to
have q cat follow you; and you pick the
cat up when no one Is looking take 1t to
your house and give 1t a good home.
I know Of cat that was fooled once.
any luck afterward. Neither did the cat
He went where all sc cd cats go-over in
the vacant lot.
Some people stuff their cats after they
die. We tried to keep cat more times
than 1 have marbles. But they all died.
The majority Of them were stuffed-in the
ash barrel. Nobody seemed to know what
made the cats die but Skinny Sniggies.
Brick Taylcr and l.
Cats like to rub up against a fellow, but
1 never saw a cat that wanted to rub up
against me more than once.
would rather be dog than a cat. Dogs
don't like cats.
don't believe in sicking dogs on cats.
believe it's cruelty to animals to sick q
dog on cat. The hest way to do is to hit
the cat with a club. Cats like to yell all
night. To see your little cat in the house
before the fire and to hear him yell at
night you would never believe il to be the
same cat, and you can't find anybody that
can make you believe II, either. It's al
ways the other fellows cat that makes the
noise.
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Q7s9-119D which first appeared in the news
papers, make four volumes of the Con
gressional Register" Another name Of
distinction In connection with the early re-
porting Of Congress is that of David
Robertson of Petersburg, Va Both of these
gentlemen appear to have possessed what
in their day was regarded as enviable short
hand skill. Prior to their congressional
work. Lloyd had reported the debates of the
Pennsylvania convention upon the ratifica-
tion of the federal Constitution, and Robert
son the debates of similar conventions in
Virginia and North Carolina.
Gales and SeatOn as Reporters.
Two names still more eminent In connec-
tion with the earlier reports Of Congress
ara those of Joseph Gales, jr., and William
w. Seaton, both familiar names to the older
residents of Washington. Their partner
ship of Gales C Seaton. as publishers of the
National Intelligencer. began in 1872; and
for some years they made with their own
hands the congressional reports for their
paper, Gales reporting the Senate and Sea-
ton the House. lexington, the former
country seat of Mr.. Gales, is now the heart
of that closely settled suburb of Washing
ton bearing the same name.
But for the skill of Mr.. Gales the histor-
ical reply of Webster to Hayne on the floor
of the Senate would have been lost to pos
terity. On that occasion Mr.. Gales, who
after long and honorable service was about
10 dDanuOn dctiVe Work IN reporting, was
present at Webster's special request for the
purpose of taking notes. His original notes
of Webster's masterpiece, the transcription
of those notes, in the handwriting of Mrs.
Gales. together with Webster's rough notes
made In preparing the speech, and also the
revised version of the report in Websters
own handwriting, were bound together in
volume which Mr.. Gales sacredly pre-
served until his death. In 1877 this precious
relic was purchased from Mrs. Gales by
Robert G.. Winthrop. and presented to the
Boston public library.
But whatever may have been the steno-
graphic skill of Robertson and Lloyd and
Gales and Seaton, and the reporters who
appeared in Congress at somewhat later
periods. the historian exploring the annals
OF the government prior to 1S4S, and trying
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which the government has not paid for the
use OF this money amounts to $264OO at
single interest alone. What it would ag-
81 1egate at compound interest I leave any
one who Is interested to determine.
Never VIII Be Presented.
Altogether, of the amount borrowed in
1862 cnearly four hundred millions), $780,
200 has never been called for, and proba bly,
never Will be called for To be sure, this
Is only about IL of 1 per cent of the loan,
which Is not very big discount. The
treasury officials do not look on the bond
profit as considerable. Even the 81, 700, 600
now outstanding would not pay per cent
OF Uncle Sans running expenses for a
year. 1t would not keep the government
machinery going for more than week.
The $2a, 900 outstanding on account Of
the loan of 1862 is the largest amount to be
credited to any one loan, except the $4,000
balance of the funded loan of 1891 out
standing at the end of last year; but it is
much too early to calculate on the profits
OF that loan. The treasury received s36 200
worth of bonds last year, and more are
coming in all the time.
The Oldest bonds presented for redemp-
ton last year were part of the loan Of July
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tomorrow. he would pay you very promptly
the s1,7OO,OO0 which he owes to the people
who have bought bonds now overdue But
no one can present all these securities, be-
cause most of them, it is quite evident,
have been destroyed. Some have been dis
solved in the ocean; some have been con-
sumed by fire; some have been eaten by
mice; some have been torn up by babies:
soms have been hidden so securely that
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the House, they were composed almost en-
tire1y Of Pitmanie writer's, who represent
ed In their work a new era in the history Of
shorthand. Subsidies soon gave place to
formal contracts for complete reports, and
the Globe, which in the days Of Andrew
iitical organ, became in 1s4s-s. and con-
tinued until 1873, under what in those
days were deemed liberal contracts, the Of
fcial repository Of the debates.
Reporters not strictly officers Of Congress,
but hired by the publishers of the Globe
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till 1881, and last year s7,4GO worth were
presented at the treasury. They had
drawn no interest for nearly twenty-fo II
years while they lay hidden in somebody's
strong box. If they had continued to draw
the original interest, they would have
brought an income of $444 annually to
their owner. The government has made
more than $4,000 in interest ON these
bonds, reckoning at single interest only.
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Their Different Opinions.

From the Bel Air Democrat
"The little dear is lost again." she said,
as soon as he got home.
"Oh, that pug!''
'+Yes, that pug, If you must talk like a
brute, and want you to advertise for
him.
And this Is the ad. as 1t appeared:
'Lost-A sausage-shaped yellow dog, an
swering. when hungry, to the name of
Baby. A reward will be paid for his return
to No. 81 Blank street, dead or alive"
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Of the congressional Record.
r When the reporter has taken down
about 1000 words he retires, his place being
filed by another to continue the work. The
, first man goes into room and dictates into
. phonograph the English of his steno-
graphic notes and returns to the floor. An
dmanuensis then transcribes the report of
the speech from the phonosraph to type
written paper. which Is revised by the
etenographer, and goes to the government
printer to be printed in the Record. The
routine Is thus continued among the five
reporters.
!, This. in brief, Is the system of reporting
, speeches. the most perfect of any system in
: use In any national legislative body in the
world.
= The honor of being the first shorthand re-
+, porter Unofficial of course.) of congression-
a debates belongs to Thomas Lloyd of
philadelphia His reports of the proceed
ings OF the first House of Representatives.
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HOW HE MhkESM0NEY
-
d Of
Bonds Issued by ssUnole Sam Never
Presented bt Redemption.
DUE TO CARELESSaaEsS j \ OR ACCIDENT
I
Money Orders, Stamps and Bills
Which Are Lost.
URGES OF INCOME
URGES OF INCOME

NCLE SAM OWES
millions of dollars
which he will never
pay. Still, his credit
Is good. not only at
home, but abroad; he
can borrow all the
gold he needs for al
most any emergency.
He has not refused
to pay the millions
which are overdue.
If you could present
his I. o. US at the
Treasury Department
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HOUSE REPORTERS
They Are Marvsls Of Accuracy
and ofsPromptness.
'HOW 4 RECORD OF DEBATES Is MADE
Able to Take Notes Under Any
Circumstances.
SCENES OF CONFUSION
'HOW 4 RECORD OF DEBATES Is MADE
GENES OF CONFUSION
wv 7 HEN A MI
wv of the House

HEN A MEMBER
of the House of Rep
resentatives rises in
his place to deliver a
few remarks, which
he intends later to
distribute among an
admiring constituent
cy, an official stenog-
rapher Is at hand to
take down the words
of the statesman,
which next morning
appear duly set forth
on the printed pages
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These illustrations serve to show what
the government profit Is. The treasury
viii make no less than q million dollars
on bonds issued before 1895 never presented
more in unpaid interest I'D to date.
OF the issue of 500 O0O. 600 worth of bonds
about to be made, 1t Is probable that $40, 600
or $4,000 worth will never be presented.
The government will make several times
that amount In unpaid interest on bonds
presented long after maturity. This is not
the fault OF the government. The officials
OF the Treasury DepartmenI woai1 be very
glad to have every loan paid within week
OF its maturity, for under the present con-
dition the loan account is never closed.
With a view to keeping in touch with the
governments creditors, these officials en-
courage bond buyers to take registered
rather than coupon bonds. Very few reg
istered bonds are lost: and when there is
loss the government seeks out the loser
and encourages him to make application
for the issue Of a duplicate. When
coupon bond is lost the government will
not duplicate It,
Money in Currency.
The profit made by the government on
bonds is very small compared with the
profit on unredeemed currency. OF course,
no one will ever know just what amount of
currency has been destroyed, but the treas
ury experts made an estimate for the ben
eft of Congress in the last administration.
and expressed the belief that about $l2,-
500, 900 profit had accrued to the govern
ment up to January l, 1891, from United
States notes, gold and silver certificates
and national bank notes which would not
be presented for redemption.
This amount the experts distributed as
follows:
National bank notes. $8,394, ,555
United States notes. ......... 5,41O,54l
Silver certificates. I41,GO4
Gold Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Total ....................$ $12, ,452, 100
This amount, these experts now estimate,
has been increased to about $4,000, 900 In
proportion to the amount of currency in cir
culation, the amount destroyed is not so
great now as it was in war times. but there
is much more in circulation now. The pres
ent estimated profit of the government on
paper currency destroyed is half a million
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their appointments. however, requiring the
approval Of the Speaker. or Of the printing
committee of the Senate), were admitted
to the floor to take full notes of the pro-
ceedings, which were printed at the Office
of the Globe, in building on Pennsylvania
avenue between Sd and 1-2 streets, which
Is still standing