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middle foreground. He's the leader.
 Every gang has a leader, big or little, and he is always fellow who looks like that, wiry and alert, rather than muscular, and with head for plan
 hing. 1 suppose everybody knows that gang must have leader, but every body doesn't know, perhaps, that each gang has an official clown, whose busi- ness it is to make sport for the others when they are out on an expedition. if any other boy tries to take the clowns place and do funny tricks, all the other boys sit down on him imme- diately-just as quick as they would if he tried to lead when he wasn't the leader. That boy on the left in the picture of The Gang is the clown. Painted from life? Yes. indeed Every one of the portraits in this pie ture are painted from an actual boy, clothes and all"
 MT. Brown not only has boys to pose for every picture which he paints, but he has Tn his studio a great heap Of shoes-oh! as many as 40 or 50 pairs, should say, so that when boy who has been standing up for so long that he can't stand still any longer begins to fdget and wonder when he can get away, Mr. Brown can say to him: "Well, you can go now, I've got down to the shoes" Then, as the boy shoots out of the door like an arrow from bow or d pebble from bean-shooter, MT. Brown hauls out from the heap the dirtiest and patchiest and '4foxiest" pair of shoes in it, and finishes the picture from them.
 which was really what I started to tell about. MT. Brown may know more about street boys and about gangs than any other man In New York, but he doesn't know as much about them as a boy; so nfter leaving the studio inter- viewed a boy upon the subject. He was q red-hcaded boy, and of course, every body knows that is the smartest kind of boy there is, excepting, perhaps. the tow-headed boys, and those with black hair, and few other kinds. Anyhow, this particular boy was bright enough to add considerably to the gang" facts which Mir. Brown had given me.
 "How does a gang elect its leader?" I asked.
 q never heard of gang electing leader said the red-headed boy. CT don't know just how he does get to be a leader. Isuppose he just leads, and all thss other boys get used to his being d leader and let him lead, (Which is about the way leaders in real life, polit- ically, socially and other, get to be leaders. Big folks being simply boys and girls grown up.
 q suppose that the leader of gang is usually one of the biggest boys in it, D said I.
 "No," said the red-headed boy. '0The leader of our gang is the smallest boy in it, but I guess he's about as old as most of lem. He's an Italian, and some how Italians never seem to grow very fast. But he can throw! You just ought to see him throw! He can hit Q boy on the other side at almost any
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and, finally, record for the principals

and, finally, record for the princip pais' accounts.
 What do you think" asked of Mfr. Thiry, ''of the stamps savings fund in- stituted in several cities"
 q don't think so well of it," said Mir Thiry. "as our own system. The child is father to the man and likes to do things in man fashion, with real bank book and deposits of real money. Collecting the stamps appeals to him for a little while, but he is apt to get tired of it as child is of a new toy. It is not in manner close enough to the actual realities of life to please his fancy long. l may say that the stamp system has been tried in Baltimore where it was begun shortly after our own; two years later the Bank PFovi- dent fund of New York was begun by the Charity Organization society. In 1890 something like the stamp system was begun in Detroit, Mich, West Bay City, Mich, and in Boston. In these cases, however, the system was not con fined to he schools, and in none of them have the amounts collected been so large as we have to show. In Potts. vile, Pa, system entirely different from either was introduced by Prof. $. A. Thurlow; it is really more like a building and loan association than bank The scholars who deposit money are stockholders and have to make de- posits with some regularity. The sys- tenn as we have worked it out in Long Island City is the oldest Hof all, and think the simplest and most efficient. Chicago is about to adopt some form of school savings bank, and it will be worth watching. Chicago does things on pretty big scale"
 "What is the smallest deposit which Is received?" I asked.
 Any thing from enc cent up, replied MT. Thirty, as he called my attention to the regulations which follow:
 Order to withdraw money for sums less than three dollars will be received and cashed by the superintendent or principal on deposit day.
 Any depositor who has not depositef money during the three months following their last deposit will have to return the weekly card to the superintendent or prin- cipal, who will refund the money due.
 One cent or upward VIII De recelVed Dy the teacher. When pupil has a deposit of dollar or more bank book will be given free of charge from the bank. De- posits should not be withdrawn till the amount reaches three dollars except hl case of sickness or removal from the city but if the deposit should be withdrawn, and the amount has been less than three dol- lars, the bank will charge ten cents for the bank book.
 Deposits of one dollar and over will bear interest quarterly.
 During the summer vacation of the school deposits may be made or money withdrawn from the bank direct the cashier acting during that time for ths teacher.
 MT. Thiry is not officially connected with the school government of Long Is land City, and never has been so con- nented excepted for brief time under Mayor Petrie in 1884 and under Mayor Sanford some ten years later.
 'I don't like the feeling of 1t, he re. marked, sentent;oIsly.
 JOHN LANGDON HEAToN.
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would Eound him md rip his clothes half off him and put him in charge of two or three of the boys as jailers. A feller needed to have eyes on every side of his head just then. But the fight didn't last long. because just as we were in the middle of it, two or three policemen came up, and the boys on both sides began to yell, cheese it, the cop as loud as they could"
 Did any of you boys get caught?" asked.
 "No,' said he, they had gone down towards the avenue to get help from the avenue gang, and the policemen came from that side, so we could see him com ing; but we didn't any of us begin to yell cheese it!' until they got quite near, and then we all turned and ran up the street as fast as we could, and they didn't know what the dickens was the matter of us, until the first thing they knew the policemen were right Tn the middle of them from behind, gathering n both hands full, and that was the end of that fight
 Well, you got rather the best of it ?'' I said, didn't you?"
 "Naw." said the boy, in tone of deep disgust; that is. we think we got off best, but they say 'at they licked be- cause we ran away from 'em. We didn't, though. We ran away from the cops. Nine-tenths of the fights end that way, pn' then both sides always claim the best of it.''
 Some of the Brooklyn gangs are big ger than any of those in New York. Last winter there was a snowball fight in upper Brooklyn so big there were several gangs combined on each side that there were regular little armies engaged. Each side had general and os many division commanders as there were gangs, with aid-de-camps and messengers. One general even had some war maps," but as the battle ground vas simply four or five ordinary city blocks, I can't see that they were of very much use. But no doubt almost my boy could appreciate them better.
 OWEN I.ANGDON.
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set as sentinel over beautiful garden, the only fresh and green thing any
 where about, if one might except the Vineyards across the street, which, like the house and the garden behind it, be-
 long to MT. Thiry. The man of slight Frame and nervously impetuous manner who met me at the door does not seem by 20 years to bear the age he has, yet he is "A, and has gathered about him in bis great house grown-up children and grandchildren. Although he has been 40 years in the country, he greeted me with decided foreign accent.
 # Scratch the school enthusiast and you will find a lover of children. Mr Thiry as no exception. It has been the delight of his retirement to fill his house with zchildren, to take them through his gar. |dens, to feed them with grapes and stuff Them with cake, to tell them stories of fhe old world and the new, and to thinl; sup little ways of pleasing and benefting them. It was this trait which induced him in March of 1885 to establish in 4bhe Third Ward school of Long Island elty, near his home, and presided over |lpny Mrs. Mary E. McGee as principal, the Arst school savings bank in the United Siates. The idea was not original, but game, like so many other good ideas (which result from the dwelling of the Poetic mind upon practical problems, 1rom France, where beginning in that saarection was made so long ago as 1884. # You sec" said MT. Thiry, as I sat in nls cool library adjoining the green nouse and looking out through a rear Wlndow upon the trimly-kept garden sWalks, "here l have about me all the Mlppings from newspapers which have 5peen written about the school savings pank, and all the books. and reports and sother sources of information, so that I ean put my finger upon precisely what '4as been done, and I will tell you any 1nlng you wish. The school banks of Aohg Island City are 115 in number. Every schoolroom where a teacher takes eharge of the savings of her pupils con Atltutes a bank. These 115 banks have slnce their introduction registered 2yo1S 4e eposltors, nearly one-third of the total number of scholars for the same time. ano In recent years, as the experiment. 3aas been extended from the Third Ward school to others in the city. the propor- lon IS very much larger. The banks nave collected over S3o, 900 in small sums ano the pupils have withdrawh money rom tune to time as they needed it, but suere suli remains to their credit $19,- 'sso.o4, very considerable sum for the .4ttle children. This is an average much
 her than would appear, as many of '*pe s'ols accounts have been closed, the %eposltors having graduated. There are R clues and towns in this country here the experiment. has been intro
 *uced In 323 schools by 1,579 teachers.
 ne school in Brooklyn, that of Prin-
 pal Marc r. Vallette, one in Philadel-
 ma the Penn Sewing school; five in
 'haca, one ins Portland, N. D.,
 Ven In Norristown, Pa, and others in Eery part of the country have adopted
 The largest school department to
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adopt it is that of Grand Rapids, Mich.

adopt it is that of Grand Rapids, Mich. where the experiment is in full force in & schools and where over $10,OoO have been deposited. Taking all the 3a3 schools together, the deposits have amounted to about half million doi- jars although most of these deposits are but just begun and are small. Fer instance, the depositors in Grand Rap ids have been more than twice as nu- merous as those in Long Island City, but the total deposits have been only about one-third as large That is not because the experiment. works any less we'll in Grand Rapids, but simply be i. cause it is newer there and the children have not had time to make such large deposits as here.
 Here are the blank forms which most of the school savings banks in tie United States use, and which have proved simple and convenient in our experience" and MT. Thiry showed me the following blanks:
 First, the deposit sip which is given to each individual scholar, a simply folded paper with ruled columns for figures on the inside, with the regula- tions plainly printed on the back leaf and on the front page this title:
 SCHOOL
 SAVINGS BANK
 LONG ISLAND CITY.
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Upon this deposit slip are printed the following notices:
 '"Take care of the pennies and the dol lars will take care of themselves"
 Good principles and good habits are in themselves a fortune.''
 ''The habit of saving is an essential part of true practical education "
 "The masses know better how to earn than they know how to save"
 The other forms are the teachers de- posit slip, ruled for names and amounts, withdrawal check, which must be signed by the owner of the book, his parents or guardians and by the princi- pad before the bank will honor it. There is an ordinary narrow cash envelope in which the money received is sealed up,
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NUGGET OF GOLD WORTH A MILLION.

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THRIFT IN THE SCHOOLS.
Ioha H. Thiry, the Founder of the
 School Savings Bank

u.,f Million in small Coins-Long island City's Experiment of Eleven Years Ago Now Success in
 Eighty-Three Cities.
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THIRD WARP.

Account with
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06
What "a CombinatIonI

Herr Most, the leading anarchist in
the United States, bowls that he is
Tor Mckinley and against Bryan; that
he wants diamonds used as the meas
ure OF values; that gol1 should take
the place Of silver as money, and that
silver should be used in the manu-
fdcture of horseshoe nails. The Re
publican and Democratic goldbugs no
doubt wish that Most and the balance
of the anarchists in this country
could be transported to London, but
they are in the United States to stay,
and will fight under the gold banner
and the red flag. Rothschild, Sher-
man, Cleveland, Hanna, Mckinley,
Villas, Eckles and Most. What d
combination Of goldbug leaders,
Belmont Courier.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06
A Rosy View.

Senator Faulkner of West Virginia
Chairman Of the Democratic Con-
gressional Campaign Committee,
takes very rosy view of the
political situation and predicts the
triumphal success of the National
ticket. In an interview at Wash
ington on the 4th, he said: %
lit is the fashion in these
days to point to straws to
show how things are moving.
and if they may be taken as an indi-
cation Of the actual condition of
affairs, / have only to point to exist
-ng conditions i'll my home county of
Berkeley. This was the only county
in my State that sent a sound
money delegation to the convection to
select delegates to the Chicago Con-
vention. This was only a month or
go ago. and ut that time the senti
ment appeared to be all on the side
Of the gold men. How is it to-day?
a man could not be nominated and
elected to the position Of Constable"
said Mr.. Faulkner, "unless he stood
squarely on freeeilver platform.
I'm my mail this morning ! re-.
ceived letter from Canton. D., an.
nouncing the organization right in
the home Of Major Mckinley OF a
Republican Bryan Free Silver Club,
and the election Of prominent
Republican and wealthy manufac-
timer us It's Temporary Chairman
From another county / have received
advices that after Bryan Club had
been organized thirty Republicans
and tbirty-eight Populists enrolled
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06
READ AND PROFIT THEREBY.

Every American citizen should
read and study the following editorial
from the London Financial News and
profit thereby.
There is plain moral in the re-
mark that if the United States would
venture to cut herself adrift' from
Europe and take outright to silver
she would have all America and Asia
at her back and the command of the
markets of both countries. The bar
ner OF gold would be more fatal than
any barrier of custom house. The
bond of silver would be stronger than
any bond of free trade. There can
be no doubt about it that if the
United States were to adopt silver
basis Tomorrow british trade woulu
DO ruined before the year was out.
Every American would be protected
not only at home, but in every other
market. OF course, the United States
would suffer to a certain extent
through having to pay her obligations
abroad in gold, but the loss of ex-
change under this head would be a
mere drop in the bucket as compared
to the profit to be reaped from the
markets of South America and Asia,
10 say nothing of Europe. The mar
vel is that the United States have not
dong ago seized the opportunity 1t
has been u piece of luck that it has
never occurred to the Americans to
scoop us out of the worlds markets
by going on silver basis, and it
might serve us right if, irritated by
the contemytible apathy of our Gov
eminent towards the silver problem,
the Americans retaliated by freezing
out the gold. 1t could be done.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06

themselves as members, and are
doing good work for the Democratic
ticket. Up in Pennsylvania / have
received word that the silver senti
ment is spreading rapidly, and In
the Eleventh Congressional District,
one that has always been heavily
Republican, we are assured that we
have an even chance of carrying the
district for the Democracy"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06
Notice to Creditors.
Estate of George }
Bird, deceased. {

N>tics is hereby given by the I'm
dersigned, Executor of The last will
and ties ament of George Bird, de.
eased, TO the creditors of, and to al.
'iersons having claims against tn,
SAID deceased, to exhibit / EN- with
the necessary vouchers within fou.
months after the fl st publication o.
This notice, to the said undersigned
executor at his office at tie Town O.
Elko, Elko County, Nevada the sam.
being his place for the transaction OF
business OF said estate.
e. s. HARRINGTON.
Dated ut Elke, Nevada, July 81
1896.
[July 81 WI
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06

A Gard
Having sold ont my stock Of grocer
lee. etc.. to George Bruce, I respect
fully request all persons owing me to
settle their bills promptly at the
store.
Thanking the people for their iber.
al patronage in the past, / ask q
continuance of the same to my sue
cessor in the business.
- B. CRA1aHEAD.
Elko. Nevada, August /, 1895.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06

Meeting OF the Democratic County
fCentraI Committee.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
~ that there will be meeting OF
the Democratic County Central Com
mlttee at the Court House, Elko,
New, at seven o'clock on the evening
of August 8, 1896, for the purpose
# considering the matter Of holding
/ Democratic County convention
Nj members are requested to b.
present.
GEO. RUssIIL, .
... Chat. man.
JNo. HENDERSON.
Secty.
Elko, New. August l, 1896.
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06

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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-06

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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcements under this head will IL.
published up to tho General Election fol
$40, payable Invariably In advance.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-15
TILE WAY OUT.
UNEMPLOYED LABOR A RESULT
OF THE WILSON TARIFF.
ssstistlos from Detroit Msnufsctoriss-
Free Lands Co the Poor . Menace TO
Farmers Protection and Reciprocity
the Remedy.

We have already made some refer
cnce to the losses which the Wilson
tariff act brought to the farmers OF
Michigan by its depressing effect upon
other industries, notably upon the lum-
Der and mining interests.
Statistics recently gathered IN De-
troit point to another class Of indus
tries that have suffered In the same
way. The following table shows the
number of hands employed in the va
rious classes of manufactures Nov. l,
1892, when the Mckinley tariff was in
force, and we were at the height OF our
prosperity, and Sept. 10, 1895, when
the Wilson tariff had, for two years,
exerted its blighting influence, and the
agitation for free coinage was exercis-
ing its disturbing effects upon all kinds
of business. Under miscellaneous
are grouped the manufactures about
Milwaukee Junction not included in
ha al
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-15

Here Is a falling off of 1910 employees
in the industries mentioned. In all
the manufactures of the city in 1892
there were nearly $4,000 persons en-
ployed The same proportion OF reduc-
ton in force would probably not hold
in all the others as in some of those
mentioned above, but it is safe to say
that there are from IL, 900 to Is, 900 less
persons employed in the manufactures
of all classes in Detroit now than there
were in 1892. Similar results, on a
smaller scale, can be seen in every
manufacturing city in the state.
What does this mean TO the farmer
and retail merchant?
1t means in every case smaller pur-
chasing power.
1t means that in many cases people
out of employment have moved to the
country and have themselves become
producers instead of consumers of farm
and garden products.
1t means that large number of 9th
ers who remain in the city have become
producers on their own lots, or on land
donated to them.
Much has been said about the dona-
ton of land for the poor people of De-
troit to cultivate in small tracts, and
many hundred such tracts have been
set apart during each of the last three
summers. This was a movement
that grew, almost of necessity,
out of the melancholy industrial
conditions existing in the winter
and spring of 1894. But every Pin
gree potato patch was not only sig
nal of distress from wage Garner, but
it was sign that the wage Garner and
his family had curtailed their buying
to the lowest possible limits, and every
farmer and market gardener in Wayne
and the four contiguous counties felt
the effect in a contracted market or in
diminished prices.
Itwould be good thing for the farm.
ers and merchants il every man
who is now working mendicant
potato patch was at work in the
factory, earning good wages, and buy
ing his supplies at the corner grocery
Republican success, sound money
protection and reciprocity will opeI
the way to that coveted result.
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