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UNCLAIMED Lots of Them in the TJ The treasury of the United States, next to thc English court of chancery, is probably the mont extensive de pository of uuclaiiucd wealth iu thc world. The secretary of thc treasury bas in his possession in cash alone over $1,000,000, and there are many other millions in his custody in the form of bonds and other securities that seem to have no owners. Maybe you have some (dd papers left behind by a miserly uncle or an eccentric aunt. If so, it might be worth your time to look them over and lind out if by chance they include documentary evidence of a claim for one of the snug little fortunes which now lie in the treasury payable on demand in gold or treasury notes to their proper owners. Should you come across anything of the kiud it will be readily recognizable, because it will bc in thc shape of an expired bond. Somewhere, in just such situations -one here, two or three there and a package of them in another place-u lot of bonds of this description are lying about, mislaid or hidden. They have ceased to draw interest because the terms for which they rau h.ive ex pired, but, as promises to pay by Uncle Sam, they are aa good as ever for their face value. More than $150, 000 worth of them dato back to 1830 and earlier. Thu total is $1,200,820 -surely o. big sum to be withheld from tho pockets of perseus who aro rightfully entitled to the money. Of course, when bonds are called in al the end of their interest-bearing term, it is expected that tho holders will send them to tho treasury, through the bankB or otherwise, and reoeive their face value in cash. So they do, but not always. People somotimes hide their bonds and then die, or other accident!! happen, and, as a re sult, tho documents never turu up. If they aro not fouud they remain uu paid and the governmeut is just so much in pocket. Every now uud thcu, however, a fow of such expired bonds aro discovered io some odd corner or biding place and are sent in for re demption. They are just as good as ever and nothing is lost except the interest on the money. There seems never to have been a loan issued by the United States that has not had a hang-over balaooe of this kind. Sometimes it has boen very small, as in the oaae of the loan cf 1882, whioh was all paid'off but $200, and the loan of 1863, whioh ehows only one $100 bond missing. On the other hand, the largest out standing claims of this nature against the government are for the 5-20 notes . of 1862 (equivslent to bonds), whioh inhibit on the scoount of books of the voaBury an unpaid balanoe of $215, 3>0< What, in goodness's name, oan hive became of all those 5-20 interest UPUTtUg QOCOBf fosss?inpiioB I ! Silt pork is a famous old 1 fashioned remedy for con sumion, " Eat plenty of :? pork?* was the advice to the ...CA'?nsViptive 50 and 100 yearsVo. SalVork is good if a man can stViach it. The idea behincftt is that fat is the food til consumptive needs most. 1 \ ^cott'kmulsion is the mod ern, methli of feeding fat to thevconsuiptive. Pork is too rough for Insitive stomachs. Scott's Emjsion is the most refined oflfats, especially PrcP%ed fol easy, digestion. Feeding Km fat in this way,vihich i?often thc only way, 'is^half fcc battle, hut Scott's Emulsion does more than that.; TAere is some thing about theVorabination . of cod livcrbil an% hvpophos phites in Scott's Emulsion that puts, newJife' into thc weak parts and has a ?pedal ion-on the disced lungs. m*SmTL A Sa?)Ple will be v VJ^ sent frceuipon request. dWBL ?ure, that thb picture H JR) *ne 'omi ol ? Uabsl t* on Hi? #l! ' ' as ?CX^O?VNE:; FORTUNES. nited States Treasury. Nearly all United States boo?!? now aday H are registered and track of their ownership is kept in such a way that it is hardly possible for one of them to remain unpaid. Of the bonded debi ol'tlic nation at thc present time I about $200,000,000 is held by private individuals, and of this mun sonic thing like $100,000,000 is owned by ],()i)o persons, approximately. If one j could obtain a list of these fortunate 1,000 rich men it would be worth al great deal ol' money, but thc treas ury keeps their names most carefully secret. A ledger account i.s kept of all hold- ! era of registered bonds, and, as theso holders buy or sell, they arc credited or debited, as thc case may bc, just as in thc business of a merchant who keeps tab on his customers. It re quires seventy-eight large ledgers, each couta; ling over 7?l) pages, to contain thc accounts of thc owners of thc I per ccut loan of 1K?J7 alone. Yet RO expert is tho beekeeping that ali of these books arc kept by oue ! clerk, who, in addition, prcpareB the bonds for transfer and reckons up the interest to bc paid to each hold<:r each quarter. Inasmuch as thc hold ings are constantly changing thc in terest duo frequently al tersan amount. Thc mos. luxurious of all occupa tions is supposed to be the clipping of coupons for government bonds-an employment commonly attributed to the envied multi-millionaire. As a matter of faot, however, rich mou do not bother with coupon bonds; they prefer to have them registered, inas much as they aro much safer and equally negotiable. If you lose a bond anybody can convert it into cash SB cattily as if it were a treasury note. A registered bond, on the other hand, is non-negotiable except by its proper owner, and if lost or stolen will be promptly replaced by tho treasury. For generations past the Vanderbilts havo been large holders of government bonds. William H., et tho time of his death, owned $48,050,000 worth of 4 per cents. Ono of bia quarterly interest obeoks, canceled, for $480,; ?0?, is exhibited today as a curiosity at the treasury. He got one liko it every three months from Washington. The interest on his personal loan to Uncle Sam amounted to $5,265.75 every day. For every hour of the cay and night the treasury? paid him $219.40. He drew $3.65 for every minute, or a little more than six cents a ocoond throughout the year. The registered bonds held ten years ago by Cornelius and W. K. Vanderbilt ran up to thirty odd millions of dol lars. Quite a large sum now doo to bond holders is held by the treasury of the United States in tho form of checks. Interest on registered bonds is paid by obeok in every oase to the person whose name appears on the faoe of the seourity. But people are constantly changing their addresses and frequent ly fail to notify tho treasury, so that their ohcoks fail to reach them and are returned to Washington. They are filed away and kept indefinitely, being good forever, deliverable and cashable' on demand.^Knowing that they arej} always good for the money they represent, people often keep these interest checks, putting them away and hoarding them, just as if thry were so much cash. Every now and then somebody dies and bis execu tor linds a lot of old interest checks in a ?drawer or tiu box and senes them to tho treasury for redemption. Washington ^correspondence Chicago Chronicle. Tollt les a Disorder. Representative Edward Hamilton, of Michigan, recently wont for a walk iu thc country. The road was bad and the day was hot, and when ho bad gouo a few miles he sat down on ? fence to rest. "Want a ride?",] asked a teamster who came by. "Yes, thank you," Hamilton re plied. "1 think I will take a lift." Hamilton was thinking of a plan to get a bridge for tho Paw Paw river and ?aid nothing. Finally the teams ter asked: "Professional man?" "Yes," Hamilton replied. The tcamatcrTeeemed disappointed. He wanted further information. A few mint., es later he said: "You ain't a lawyer,tor you'd be talking; you ain't a dootor, or you'd have a satchel; you ain't a pre a ob cr, because you ousaed whon you barked your skin get ting into the wagon. Say, mister, what ?B your profession, anyhow?" "I am a politician," said Hamil tor. "Huh!" ?snorted the teamster.! "Politics ain't no profession. Politb sj is a disorder."^Philadelphia Post. / -^Iarria^e ien't a sotte/;; when L ^^^.a^blaok io ^W^j^if THE LIBERTY CAP. Itn Qriniri g r; d Significance and Th??C i Who Have Worn lt. The liberty cap, that ba;: shaped headgear so often seen on thc head of thc Goddess of Liberty, owes its origin to tho Uomon empire, where it was favell lo slaves us a sign of their manumission. Thc principal j significance of tho liberty cap to! thc American mind is not, however, j its Jioman origin, but rather its use | ns thc official cap of tito successive doges <>f republican Venice, that "model of the most stable govern ment ever framed by man." in tho doges' palace at Venice there is a gallery tull 'if portraits of the men v. ho ruled th?; republic for 700 years, and the conspicuous place oc cupied hy the- liberty cap in these portraits shows its importance as a nal ional symbol of freedom. ii. rather heightens thc signifi cance ol' this ancient symbol in the minds of good Americans when it is remembered that the Emperor Fred erick Jlarbarossa humbled himself before a wearer of the liberty cap lind that Andrea D?ndolo wore it on tlie four)h erusnde and ?it the con quest of Constantinople. It occu pied a place in the forefront of the advancing hosts that in the early part of thc fifteenth century swept thc Dalmatian towns .'ind conquered thu entire coast from the estuary of tile Po to thc island of Corfu. While Columbus was discovering 'America the wearers of the liberty caji were acquiring Zantc and Cy prus, and when the first half of the half starved settlements on the Mas sachusetts coast were battling for existence the republic from which wc borrowed our liberty cap, having successfully resisted a league of all the kings of Christendom, was at the zenith of its glory. The liberty cap is not as conspic iious in our national signs and sym bols as it was in those of tho rulers of tho Adriatic, yet in a modest way it immortalizes the greatest repub lic of carly times.-Exchange. Mr. Fox's Toilet. On ono trip through thc Ken tucky mountains performed by John Fox, Jr., in pursuit of "local color" ho stopped overnight at a cabin, where he slept up next to tho clap boards and went down a ladder to breakfast. Ho washed his face in a creek below thc houso and dried it on a jiJing of coffee sack hung against the logs for family uso und combed his hair with his own comb before a piece of broken glass stuck between thc chinking and daubing. As bc was making his toilet he was closely observed by thc small boy of thc family, who was clothed in a pair of cottonade pants hitched to a hickory shirt> with ono "callus" fastened by a nail. Shoes and hat were lacking, and his hair hadn't been combed for six weeks. He watched tho visitor BO closely that Mr. Fox thought he was making an excellent impression on the young* barbarian. As he put on the last touch the boy, unable to contain himself longer, broke in. "Say, mister," ho inquired, "ain't you a good deal of trouble to yer self ?"-Header Magazine. In n Dutch Port. Along the quay in the busy har bor of Rotterdam tho quaint Hutch boats aro crowded, creaking rhyth mically with the rise and fall of the water, side by side, stern to rudder post, jostling one another in a great confusion of picturesque lines and gay carvings. At all the little cab in windows aro clean lace curtains, and on thc deck brass and copper pots are drying in tho sun. Hang ing from spars and ropes the fam ily Avash flutters its many hues ogainst tho windy sky. Chubby, red checked children climb in and out of the cabin doors or press their round noses against thc tiny window panes. Thc women gossip in the sun or clatter around in pursuit of their household duties, while the men lounge about, their hands in thc pockets of their baggy breeches, and through clouds of tobacco smoke turvey this scene pf nomadic house keeping with phlegmatic content. Edward Penfield in Scribner's. A Money Loving Rat. A rat luis recently caused consid erable consternation in a Fre?icl* family. A gentleman on leaving his office in Paris locked up in bis cup board for temporary safety a can vas bag containing about fifty gold coins. Next morning when he went to fetch Hbo money to put in tho bank the clipboard was as bare as that of Mother Hubbard. Thc po lice were called in and sot to watch certain suspected persons, but in tho meanwhile some one noticed a small hole in tho cupboard, suggesting a four legged thief. So small parcels of meat wore locked up in thc cup board for two nights. Those also disappearing, some of tho woodwork was taken up, and the remnants of the meal showed the way to a rat hole fonr feet away where the re mains of a canvas bag and the miss ing coins wero duly discovered. Golden Penny. Steps Couflh and Works sir tie Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tableta cuco a enid in one day. No Cure, No Pay- Price 2ft cania. - You will always notioe when s girl wears an extra big hat that i*he tilts it op in front 00 that her face can be got at if necessary. - It's the alimony that enab'e? ?oms men to figur? ip a divorce suit.* - A woirisU c not whee a man h ai!.A fruin if b.Je is pot m i ti ed to. Dynamiting Sheep. - ; . . i he great secret ft the tortunes wade in the Block industry in ? ii e lau few years has been frey range. Over a vast territory, extending from the open plains ol'Texas up through Okla homa, Kansas, Kantern Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming to the States j along the northern border, reached un endiog leagues of grass. Most of it even went to waste because there was none to take it. On this the herds and flocks fed, and there was plenty for all. But thc settlers pushed further into thc West; Oklahoma added other areas of Indian lund, irri gation took from the lands at the base of tho foothills -the stockman found that he was being limited io his free pasture. [Ie tried to drive out the settler, but in vain; persecutions and the destruction ol* crops were met by laws-like the "two-mile limit," statute, keeping tho agriculturist safe. The sheepmen went on with his flock and took thc range as he came to it-thc cattleman could not follow, for the I cattle would not eat after thc sheep. So thc cowboys declared war on thc shepherds and sought to limit their range. To some extent this haBbeen done; but tho conflict is bitter, result ing in bloodshed and deeds of intoler able cruelty- nor is it yet ended, lt I i? tempting for the sheepman to move to new pastures at the risk of attack, even though he knows that a cattle man has long been in possessiou and will fight to uiaintaiu his place, for it is well understood that the range is open to all. A western authority says that in the last ten yeurs 000,000 sheep have been wantonly killed by cowboys, at a loss to the owners of $2.000,000. It is also estimated-no one eau tell surely, for all thc tragedies of thc range do not como to light-that five hundred mau killings have annually accompanied the sheep killings. Sometimes the settlers, whose homes are threatened, make common cause with the cattlemen and join in thc slaughter. Only last July a band ol masked men mounted, killed the herd er? cf several thousand sheep in cen tral Wyoming and killed thousands ol the sheep. In addition, 65,000 sheep which were nearby, were left willum herders and were scattered on th hills, resulting in further loss. Hille men surround flocks and kill ever; sheep, driving off the herders. 1 flock of 5,000 Angora goats was killei in western Colorado iu August. Th papers of Oregou describe the terri bl devastation produced by dynamit thrown among the huddled bands o sheep, the explosion ending the exist enoe of whole flocks, and sometime killing the shepherds as well. Th oattlemen throw these deadly exph oiveo from some height, or charge o horseback into the frightened flock for their s?beme of wrath. Floo? have been driven into narrow oanyor and clubbed to death; they have bee hurled over precipices and destroyer. One man fought the battle fer yean finally, after losing 14,000 sheep, git ing np the range for which he coi tended. The oettler who ''homesteads" claim ic the edge of the free range ht one great terror-what if the flooka < herds should come! He knows tnt the crops so carefully tended woul go; the garden would be made des late. Hs bas recourse through tl law, to be sure, but in the wilder po lion of the West it is sometimes slow process. Recently the government has i sued an order that the sheep must 1 kept off the torest reserves, the la refuge of the wandering flocks ar their worried owners. These wei the only lands on whioh the catt were uot geuerully grazed, BO the shc< were turned iu. But they destruye the shrubbery in their efforts to gai sustenance, and so thc order went oi to stop Kuch praotice. There seem* to be no choice but to try coucttiaioi with the cattlemen again, and hostil ties opeued with renewed vigor. Tl minor* und campers and hunters t to keep stock out of ibo uiounta i?.nks, and tho boundaries constant grow less for the. wanderings uf tl flocks and herds. The range is b ' \ ' \ ty coining thin, too. Tho grass is over pastured, and, in the opinion of ex pert stockmen, does not today give wore than half the sustenance that it did a decade ago. Various plans are proponed to reue-/ it, but "bey are as yet in embryo, and do not help the mao with hugo flocks of sheep that must be fed. In tho end there must be a more extensive leasing or owner ship of the grazing- lauds, and the rights of possession must be obeyed. Until that limo comes the conflict for thc free feediug grounds will rage. Outlook. _ English Humor. Senator Perkins, pf California, re turned recently from a tour of Eu rope, says thc Detroit News Tribune. The unprecedented rainfall interfered considerably with tho Senator's pleas ure, but it gave bim au opportunity to sample the humor of Loudon bus con ductors. One rainy day, Mr. Perkins boarded a bus and took a seat inside. Ile be gan toon to feel thc patter of rain drops upon his head. The roof of the bus leaked, and thc American was suffering. Thc conductor just theu came in to collect the fares, and Mr. Perkins said to him: "What s tho matter with this roof? Does it do thia always?" "No, sir, only when it rain9," tho conductor answered smiling. Belonged to Another Profession. They were talking of a point in grammar in the Democratic cloak room this afternoon, and the discus sion reminded Senator Berry of one of Senator Vest's stories. "Two men," Vest used to say, "were riding along in a sparsely settled coun try arguing on a point in grammar. They contended strenuously, and for a timo it looked as if tho argument would end in a fist fight. Finally they saw a man coming toward them. " 'Here,' said ooo of the disputants, 'let's leave it to this man coming up the road. He will settle it, and that is better than fighting about it all the afternoon." "The other man agreed. As tho stranger rode up one of the wranglers hailed him, saying: " lMy friend, are you a grammar ian?' " 'No, said the man, 'I'm a Missou rian.' 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