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Reserves, decrease ................... 4,0S2, 500
Reserve required, increase .......... 624.3l5
surplus, decrease ..................... 4,iVo,of9
The banks now hold ss,OS1, 259 in excess of
reserve requirements under the p per cent
rule
The Financier. says: 'The most notable
feature of the official statement of the New
York associated banks last week was the
reduction of s4.Os2.5OO in cash. the specie
being decreased 1875. 800, and the legal ten
ders 2.107,9O0. The estimates, based on the
traceable movements of money during the
week, indicated that the banks had lost
1853, 200 therefore the difference between
the estimated and the actual loss of cash
was s., 1880 which discrepancy cannot be
accounted for on the theory that it was
the result of the system of averages. In
the previous week the official statement
showed Il loss of only $500, 200 cash, while
the estimated decrease was $1,5oS, 200 Max
ing allowance for the average loss Of cash,
there appeared TO have been about 100000
Of the loss carried over at the end of that
week; this would account for S1,O00,000 of
the above-noted discrepancy between the
estimated and the actual loss last week,
leaving $2,423,SOO still to be accounted for.
Possibly this may have been in a great
part due to large payments through the
banks into the subtreasury after the mid
die OF the week for customs and internal
revenue. and also to the average of the
$4,000 gold exported on Thursday.
THE loans were increased TO S6,S23,2O0,
making 1913, 20O, 300 for the fortnight, indi-
eating revival of syndicate borrowings.
The deposits were increased 81, 49,. 500, which
amount very closely agrees with the gain
in loans less the loss in cash. The required
reserve was increased 1924, 375 through this
augmentation in deposits which amount
representing the reduction i'm surplus re-
serve. This item is now So OBJ, go. against
2O,952,950 at the corresponding date year
ago. This low surplus reserve condition
of the banks will doubtless be regarded as
unfavOrable from the borrowers stand
point, because of the imminence of the
seasons movement Of currency TO the in
this date there was a gradual reduction in
the surplus reserve in the New York banks
10 $6.9l5, $50 by Sept. Z, a loss in four weeks
of $l400G,0O0. Should there be a diminution
In surplus reserve this year 1t can scarcely
fail to have important influence on
rates for money at this center. 1t is note
worthy that the circulation fell off last
week 1908, 900 following more or less decided
increases in recent weeks.
THE daily average of bank clearings
last week was $685. OOO against $246, 600 600
in the previous week. Yehecting a smaller
business on the Stock Exchange. Compar-
ing the changes in loans by the larger
tutions show an increase of S1,5O0OOO. In
the specie item comparisons disclose a net
decrease of 100000, of which amount one
bank lost $1,000, 600"
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sugar-Beet Acreage.
Boston Herald Qnd.)

The last issue OF the Crop Reporter. pub
hshed by the authority OF the secretary Of
agriculture gives the acreage sOwn 10
sugar beets for this country for the cur
rent year. According TO this return eleven
States are interested in this industry, there
being In the eleven about 10000 acres sown
10 sugar beets. The size OF this industry
may be judged by the statement that this
is about the same acreage as f. devoted 10
corn in the single State OF New Jersey.
According 10 this table Michigan has the
largest acreage. with California second and
Colorado third. These three States repre-
sent over 30S.oo0 acres OF the total acreage
OF less than 10000. The figures run as fol-
lows: Michigan, $500 California. q Pa;
Colorado. 80 s4s. The fourth State Is Utah.
with IS COO: the fifth Nebraska. with 1850.
and the sixth New York, with $500. no
other state has an acreage OF over $500
These figures prove that the beet sugar
industry has been given an importance by
Congress which IL does not deserve. AS we
have shown, only eleven States are now
growing beets for sugar and an only two
Of these il the acreage sown 20 sugar beets
only eoaul 10 the acreage sOwn for corn Ia
Massachusetts, and Yet Massachusetts,
would hardly be called = great corn-grow-
ing State.
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Local fractions and IndustriaIs.
Chicago Stocks.
IGranger FarwelI & Co.
MONETAR v.
Rates on Loans and Exchange-CIear-
inEs and Balances.

INDIANAPOLIS.-Co paper. 4d6
per cent; time loans. 5Gt6 per cent. Clear
ings, H,47S, 1850; balances, $206, S65. 10
NEW YORK.-Cau money nominal. Prime
mercantile paper, 4s4d5 per cent. Sterling
exchange nominal. with actual business in
bankers bills at Sass for demand, $4S52kI
4.S512 for go days; posted rates, $4.S6 and
SISSY; commercial bills AS42464 $50
Clearings, SCISSOR, SS2: balances, $1O,55 1874
CHICAGO.-Sterling exchange S4S6 for
60 days, A.SS for demand New York ex-
change, nothing doing. Clearings S23 COS, =
25l; balances, $3.50 713.
PHILADELPHIA.-Mo per cent
Clearings, $l5,O3S. 4i9; balances, 81 991. 96S
ST. LOUIS.-Money, sac per cent. New
York exchange par. Clearings, S., 794, 100 ;
balances, $96i,199.
BALTIMORE.-Mon 4a4k per cent.
Clearings, $3,HO,S5S; balances, $685., 671
CONGRATULATIONS S1kd6 per cent.
New York exchange, par. Clearings s., 349-
$50.
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in his palm. He went up TO the motorman
and back again, stopping TO tell an &C
quaintance sitting Immediately I'm front of
the countryman of the agriculturalist who
carried pennies. Then the acquaintance
thought he would have some fun with the
countryman. Winking TO all about he
turned to the old man, asking:
Say. old man, did you ever get up I'm
the night and shoe horses?'
Without a change Of countenance, but
most promptly, the old man replied:
NO: but l have shoOed chickens in the
daytime"
Everybody roared. except the acQuaint-
ance. who Immediately called on the con-
ductor for a transfer to the crOss-town
line.
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USE OLD DIR. GOLFERS
QUIT QUIVERING, FOR MALARIA
FORTY FAMILIES IN THIS NEIGH
BORHOOD CURED INSIDE OF
A WEEK


The day before the excursion the town BOOM
ers came out 20 make preparations for the big
auction sale The first thing that struck them
was the sign on old Dunes barn.
They held conference and finally offered old
Dune 70 10 take the sign down But the old
man refused. He declined all compromises and
wound up by selling the entire place 10 the boom
ers at his own figure. $4,000
The old man took his three horses 10 New
Orleans with the money. got them in winning
shape ana has been on Easy street ever since
hes got fifteen horses in his stable now ana
tracks,
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Age Is Relative.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
The idea OF old age is relative dependinv y,
one point or view. New Yorker in1pris5nsd
IN tonsorlal studio fell victim 10 the gar
rulousness OF the artist executioner ana vvss
informed that the latter. recently married Vas
about 70 set forth on a visit 70 the old countrv.
Il suppose you'N take your wife along - sue,
gested the victim helplesslv. rs
mo, sir. I'm not going for pleasure this tin,e
want TO see nv father before he dies 0'
Isn't he well2"
''Oh. he's we'll enough. but one never can tan
How ola Is hep
ssEOrty-nfuef
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But n Very Poor Verse.
New York Mail and Express.

New 1ork Mall and Express.
On the 10th OF last April Mrs Richard
Henry Stoddard, who died in New York
Aug. l, just eleven days before she was
taken seriously i'll, composed her last poem
1t was only single stausa and was writ
ten on the corner of a big sheet of paper.
in a remarkably clear hand for one of her
age The verse reads:
Life is not hurried. nor delayed
The wheels of time run on and will
Never since the world was made
Have they yet turned back or one stood
still"
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neral. The Kentuckian wept like child
at this recital, and even I'm recalling the
story he could not keep back the tears. IL
was his fourth and last meeting with the
great leader Of the Federal forces. once
they had met at college. once at the hotel,
once In the sixties. once at the tomb. Told
by General BuclNner il was one Of the pref
test stories 1 had ever heard"
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Man who VIII Paw

Lafayette Qnd) Times.
When a man owes you and sees Won co-,,- :.
down the street and will 20 down a cellar o. rs
a stairway 70 avoid meeting you IL Is only a
question OF time when YOU will get your money
because he hates 10 owe Bu. the man Nho 49,
you and sees you on the other side OF the street
ana VIII cali you over and make you walk
through the mud 20 get 20 him ana tbsr ,sIia
you he intends 70 pay next week. doesn't hare 10
owe and you may Just as wen credit him in full
and stop anxiety. " --'
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Money Rnfes Ahrnnd

LONDON.-No market; holiday
PARIS.-Three per cent. rentes 1OOf soc
for the account Exchange on London 25f
zoe for checks.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on London 2Om 49pf
for checks. Discount rates Short bills H.
per cent; three months bills, l%c.
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The Old Man Came Back.
Brooklyn Eagle.

The scene was a Brooklyn rapid transit
car. working its way TO the Manhattan end
OF the bridge. Uptown In Brooklyn a pas
senger got aboard-One who bore in his
tanned and scanned face, brown and gnarled
hands, bent shoulders. whiskers growing
from his neck. not his face and. in his
clothes, the evidence that he was a country
man from the agricultural "deestricts."
The conductor was flip and smart. To him
the countryman handed five pennies as his
fare. The conductor. Disguised, showed his
feelings in the way he regarded the pennies
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Sins as He Knew Them.


Recently a neighboring pastor was
preaching 10 the children in our church
After asking many questions and Impress
ing on the minds Of the children that they
must be saved from sin, he asked the uues-
ton, What is SIM" A bright little hoy
six years old quick thought replied:
Chewing. smoking, cursing and tearing
your pants"
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Treasury Statement.

WESTINGHOUSE statement Of
the treasury balance in the general fund
exclusive of he Sl50.60o000 gold reserve in
the division of redemption. shows:
Available cash balance. .S2o6 2Z7, s7s
Gold NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l03 $50 q6I
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NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-Imports of dry
goods and merchandise at this port for the
week were valued al S12.1S4705.
Exports OF specie aggregated S451 467 in
silver and S544. AS in gold.
Imports of specie were SOS, 749 in gold and
1851 in silver.
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SUCCESS N N SPECULATION

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Stocks by our Safety Valve
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10000 within 80 days. Write for particulars
and send for our free book Modern Methods
Dor Safe Investments"
X. d oliver * Co.. Bankers and Brokers
Chicago stock Exchange Bldg, Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
Markets for SILVER

NEW YORK.-Bar silver, 521sc; Mexican
dollars, 41Ac.
LONDON.-No market holiday.
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GEO. BRIDENBUCBER, BROKER.

- GRAIN. PROVISIONS AND STOCKS -
Rooms IA and Is Board OF Trade.
Trades executed. Any quantity Also receive
and deliver any commodity with immediate set
Elements Both Phones $50
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
i. s. Scale Co.

TERRE HAUTE, IND. Established 1878,
Manufacturers OF all kinds OF large Scales.
ANT1-FRICTION BEARINGS Preventing
wear upon the pfvots. great Improvement
over any others. The MOST DURABLE
Wagon and Track Scales made send far
circulars. references and prices before buy
ing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
HEAVY LOSSES In CASH
MOST NOTABLE FEATURE OF THE
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
Banks Have Their Surplus Reserves
Cut Down to the Extent of $4,7O6,-
Ss5-Other Monetary Features.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The statement of
the associated banks for the week ending
to-day shows the following changes:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10

whatever person saves from his revenue he adds
10 his capital -
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December's Names.

December. so called from being the
tenth month when the year began in
March, has probably had more names
conferred upon it than any other Of the
twelve into which our year is now di.
vided. Among the early SaXons it was
called Winter Monat, or winter month.
After their conversion to Christianity
they called it Heligh Monat, or holy
month, in honor Of the birth of Christ.
In later days in Germany it was called
Christ Monat for the same reason.
Fires used to be lighted for warmth in
this month, and the want Of chimneys
used to cause too obvious inconven.
fence, which led to its being called Flu.
mosus, or smoky. It was also dubbed
Canus, or hoary, from the SHOWS or
hoarfrosts which then generally whit.
ened the higher grounds.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-03-20
FLOWER AND TREE.

Palms and ferns should never be nj
lowed to stand in draft.
When moss Is seen on fruit trees, 1t
may be taken as evidence Of lack Of
thrift in the trees.
The ideal soil In which to set plant
is one that is moist, without being wa
ter soaked, neither too dry nor too wet.
Dust is great enemy Of window
plants in connection with dry heat
Care must be taken to keep the air
moist.
In India the tea plant Is naturally a
tree, but by means of pruning it is kept
80 small that 1t seems to be only a
bush.
For setting in dry soil the plant
should be well rooted and stocky, as it
must depend on the roots it already
has to make a start.
Vines Of all kinds flower and fruit
freely only after they have reached the
top Of their support. When they have
ARRIVED" they set about blooming.
Peonies should be planted in October.
Once planted they should not be dis
turbed. but should be allowed to form
strong clumps. Thus treated the flow.
ers Increase in size and beauty with
each succeeding season.
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Old Mr.. - has an only daughter.
They are of lowly rank, but he is hon
est and industrious. BY trade he is
puddler in foundry, and he earns
$3.50 day. Twenty years ago the
wife and mother died, and the child of
five became the old mans pet. Twelve
years ago he sold his property and
spent all his money IN sending her
abroad to study music. She came back
two years ago famous singer and
matchless beauty and refused to own
her father. He has moved to the east
side in order that by living on Il pit
tance he may have 500 every week to
give her to buy clothes. Every week
he sends it, and every week she spends
1t, though she neither sees nor writes
to him. Week after week he grows a
little prouder and also a little sadder.-
City Missionary in Ladies' Home Jour.
nal
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OFFICE-MASONIC BUILDING
East Nam Street.
Church Directory.

Reformed Church-Rev. G.. A Whitmore
as or. Sunday School $50 q. m. Divine
Services alternate Sundays, 1880 am. and
7:45 .. m. 49,,
Guild every Sunday evening, Gas. Mid
week services, Wednesday 7:45.
Lutheran Church-Rev. w. 8. T. MetEger,
pastor Services, Sunday 10 A. NJ. and 8.OO r.
in. Sunday Schools P. u Prayer Meet
ng, Wednesday,
United Brethren Church-Rev. William
L. Martin, Pastor. Regular Services by
appointment from the pulpit.
Glass Meeting every two weeks AZ ~ q. M
Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening.
Sunday School Pm.
Mite Society S.mi.monthly. "Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock. W. Ms. Meeting
Monthly at Parsonage.
Moravian Church Rev M. F. Oerter, Pas
tor. Sunday School every Sunday, . a; AL
Preaching services will be held every other
Sunday as heretofore, alternating morning
and evening at 10 AID $50 respectively.
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev.
w. l.. Orem Pastor. Services every alter.
nate Sunday at 10 A. M and 700 P. M.
Sunday School at 8 A. NJ. Prayer Meeting
every Wednesday evening at 73O m. Ep-
worth League at $50 everv Sunday.
st. Stephens Church, Protestant Epscoal
Rev Ernest McGill, Rector. Services
every Sunday at 400, p. NJ, at Walkers
Vile at 1890 a. M, at ThurmOnt,
Service saturdays at 400 p. m.
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Rrafu WEIGHTS.

The average weight of Scotchman's
brain is sixty ounces, an Englishman's
forty nine, Frenchman's a little over
forty-five. The weight Of Dutch, Frisi.
an, Italian and Lapp brains come near
that of the Englishman, while the Ger
man brain is In many instances heav-
Ter. The Polish brain Is forty seven
ounces. Among Hindoo and other races
In India it is from forty-one to forty
four ounces, but Mussulmans average
more and the Khonds, one Of the abo-
riginal races Of India. much less-not
quite thirty-eight ounces. Travelling
toward China, the brain weight of the
tribes there settled increases. In Afrl-
ca the average weight is from forty
three to forty-eight ounces; in America
that Of the Indian averages forty-seven
ounces; in Australia from forty to for
ty-two ounces.
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ORIGIN of Word Gringo.

The word "gringo," which Mexicans
apply to Americans when speaking Of
them with contempt, is said to have
had its origin thus: During the Mexi-
can war our soldiers got into the hab-
it of calling the simple Mexican SOL
diers whom they took prisoners green
ies," to signify their ignorance Of
things in general and Of military tac-
tics especially. The Mexicans retaliat-
ed by calling the Americans "greenos,"
and this word finally degenerated into
"RrinROsn
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Western Maryland Railroad.

On 18s
S S'As'''s in effect '''s s'' 1901
TRAINS GOING WEST
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:eAMo4N { oosrUMEs. : Z
Made with q Hatchet, . Club ana q
Pot Of Paint.

rot Oh Fh0ts
In the south seas dresses are made
with a hatchet club and a pot of
paint. Every housewife is her own
robe and habit maker. When shefeela
the need Of new gown, she goes and
chops down tree. When her husband
needs a new suit, she chops down al!
other tree. That is easy, for men anu
women are clad exactly alike--a plain
fold OF cloth caught about the waist
and hanging loosely to the knee or
shin. The races inhabiting the islands
Of the tropical Pacific are almost alone
in having no idea Of the loom and the
various arts Of the spinner and weaver.
This lack Is undoubtedly due to the
natural provision Of material which
renders q woven cloth unnecessary to
this primitive people. The only fabric
used in that part Of the world Is o
crude, tough paper made Of bast. The
tree from which the material is derived
is the paper mulberry, or Broussonetia
papyrifera, which is grown in planta-
tions under the sole charge Of women
and Is also found wild in all parts OF
the islands. In archipelagoes 80 high.
ly advanced as Samoa and Tonga,
where women have none Of the coarser
work to do, the entire care of the mul.
berry plantations rests with the won.
On Of each village. J
The trees are planted closely to In.
sure a spindling growth without Int
eral branches. The plant will grow
from seed. In such a climate there Is
no difficulty about getting things to
grow, but experience has shown that
better results follow the planting Of
twigs from the sturdier wild trees. In
about three years from planting the
tree will be in the best condition for
the clothmakers. In that time 1t will
attain height Of twelve feet or more,
and the trunk will have a uniform Ill.
ameter of rather less than two inches.
About four feet Of the trunk Is waste
and not available for the particular
purpose for which the tree is grown;
the first two feet from the base Is too
tough to work well, and the two feet
Mt the top Is too soft. If the tree is
properly grown and left to mature,
there will be available for the cloth,
maker a stick of eight feet in the clear
and as straight as measuring rod,
without knots or branches and Of uni
form girth throughout. y New York
Tribune.
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Thumon Frederick County, Maryland Thursday March 70, 1902
FOREIGN BANK METHODS.


mo Oh0CVOAoESO o1ONCAA - WV -
Continental Europe.
A bank check is looked upon with
suspicion in Italy. Practically no small
tradesman would take a check, and
none of them keeps bank account. 1t
was still more surprising to me to find
that such statement would be almost
literally true of Paris itself. was
studying the mechanism of the Bank
Of France under the guidance of one
Of the officers. We went into one great
room in the old building in which there
were 200 desks inclosed in wire cages,
all empty at the moment. I asked what
these were for.
'"These cages are for our city COL
lectors," was told. "When small
merchant borrows from the Bank Of
France, he does not, as with you in
America, borrow a bank credit and
have his loan merely added to his bal
ance on the books Of the bank. With
us the merchant, when he makes a
loan, gets the actual money and takes
1t away. He probably has no bank &C.
count with us. He writes no checks.
When the loan is DUE he does not, as
would be the case in your banks, come
In and pay his Indebtedness with a
check; instead of that we send COL
lector to him, and that collector Is re-
paid the loan in actual currency. Two
hundred men start out from the Bank
Of France every morning to collect ma
tured loans. Several days each month
It is necessary to send out 400 men,
and on the LIST and the 18th Of each
month 600 collectors go out"
These collectors were uniformed
men, carrying leather pouches, in
which they have the matured notes
and which are later filled with curren-
ey as the collections are made from the
banks borrowers.
I stood at the paying teller's desk as
went farther along In my tour Of the
Bank Of France. AS halted there the
man who happened to be at the win
dow at the moment presented a check
for $4,000 francs. The money was
counted out and handed over to him,
stored away in a big wallet, and he
passed on. l asked If 1t were not un-
usual for a man to draw out SO much
currency and was told that 1t was not
1t was but another illustration Of how
undevelOped Is the banding system Of
continental Europe in its uses by the
general public.-Scribner's Magazine.
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Her Smile.

He looked despairingly into vacancy.
"I have had my misgivings," he said
in a dull, passionless voice, "but now
am sure. Your laugh shows me you are
utterly heartless."
She turned pale.
"Heavens! she cried in terror. "Did
I open my mouth as wide as that"
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The iron pen mentioned by Job in the
book of that name in the Bible Is sup
posed to have been steel graver used
tor cutting inscriptions on stone. -.
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WANTED.-SEVERA PERSONS OF
character and good reputation in each State
Zone in this county required) to represent and
advertise old established, wealthy business
house of solid financial standing. Salary $lS
a week with expenses additional, all payable
in cash each Wednesday direct from head
offices. Horse and carriage furnished, when
necessary References Enclose sell addressed
envelope. Manager, 3l6 Caxton Building,
Chicauo