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The only road to the Great Hot Spring
of Arknnsa. Pullmak Slkkpkrh ani
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City Tkt Agent, Gcn'l Agent.
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WAITED!
Everybody to examine the
nns and standing of the Un
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Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
before insuring. It has the
lowest continuous death rate
of any company. Realizes the
highest rate of interest on in
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to pay large dividends.
Policies incontestibfe a n d
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The Union Central issues
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the family and estate during
the younger years of life, and
the insured in old age at regu
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policies issued. Call on us or
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J. 31, EDMISTON, State Agent.
C. L. MUSHIER, .int. State Agent.
0. T. POMPELLY, City Solicitor.
Itoom 3 Ilurr Illock,
LINCOLN, NEB.
Drayage and Moving
QLI.VER, MAGGAUO
Delre to inform the public that hi equip
ment for moving Household Uoods,Ptano
Safe, Marfchandlse, Heavy Machinery
etc., U the best. In the city. Special men
and wagon are kest for the removal o
Pianos and Household Goods,
Which are always handled by compctant
and experienced help, and the (atet appli
ance tued for handling Safes and other
heavy good. Call, address or telephone
OLIVER MAGGARD
Telephone 111 917 O it.
CAPITAL filTY COURIER,
BILLIONS OF SIGNATURES.
THE UNITED STATES TREASURER
MUCH SOUGHT AUTOGRAPH.
A llllllon nnd a Ititlf of "Spinners" J, N.
Huston's Will flmin Adorn Undo Rum's
Mniiry It .Mint lln Dona by Machinery.
Interesting Aulnjraplis.
Wariiinoton. Mny 10. In n few days
tho pinto printing 'Jrcsaesof Undo Sam's
big money mill will lcgln grinding out
crisp, beautiful bank notes nnd silver
ccrtlllcntca with n now nnino signed to
them. J. N, Huston, tho now treasurer
of tho United Unites, will soon tnko pos
session of the ofllco to which ho has boon
npiolntod by tho president, and then his
nnino will lo sent thundering down tho
ngca by means of tho signing of his auto
graph to all tho paper money used by the
pcoplo of this country. Immediately
Mr. Huston's autograph will becomo 0110
of tho most vnluablo nnd populnr known
to tho common people. It Is for his
nnmc, signed at tho lower right hand
corner of smnll pieces of pnper, that
03,000,000 of human beings will do mora
or less struggling, mako monv sacri
fices, and often will thoy mourn becauso
they get It not. To accommodate nil
tho peoplu who want his nutogrnph Mr.
Huston will bo compelled to sign his
nnmo n great many times n day,
nnd, work ns industriously as ho
may, tho chances nro that oven
then somo poor mortals will ho dis
npKlnted, while others will get much
moro than their share. This Is not Mr.
Huston's fault, nor Undo Sam's, for
theso worthy gentlemen would bo much
happier if they could mako enough
money so tlm( no ono need go without.
Probably if they wcro to print 11 thou
sand times as much money ns thoy do
print, n fow men would succeed In hog
ging tho mnjor sharo nnd in leaving but
n smnll portion to bo divided nmong n
great many millions of tho loss fortunntc.
If you should bo lucky enough to get
hold of a fow of Mr. Huston's nutogrnphs
and to retain them long enough to mako
a study of their nppearnnco, do not Im
nglno that Mr. Huston mado them In tho
good old way, with pen and Ink. Mr.
Huston'Js nn accomplished cnmnn nnd
nn industrious sort of person, but if he
wero to sot out to sign with pen nnd ink
all tho money which Undo Sam puts in
circulation, it would tnko him about
thirty years, working with nil his might
ten hours a day and doing nothing elso,
to sign tho now notes thnt go out in a
slnglo year. If wo had to wait on Mr.
Huston's pen, nirnblo though it is, in
about six weeks thero would bo very llt
tlo paper currency in tho country, ex
cept a lot of old bills, bo worn nnd rot
ten as to bo barely ablo to hold together,
and such growling about tho scarcity of
money as was novcr beforo heard of.
Thoro was a tlmo when greenbacks
wcro signed by a pen, and what a task it
wasl That wns at tho beginning of tho
lato war, when tho specie had tun out
and something had to bo provided for
payment of tho soldiers nnd contractors
who wero carrying on tho glgantlo opera
tions of civil hostilities. As overybody
knows, tho greenback was tho devlco hit
upon, and sixty millions of dollars of tho
old "domand notes," ,wcro Issued as fast
as they wero wanted. Theso notes wero
signed by 60veral men, authorized to do
so as tho representatives of tho treasurer
of tho United States nnd tho register of
tho treasury. For nlno months they did
nothing elso. Occasionally when tho
needs of tho government roso to nearly
a million dollars n day they had to work
twenty hours out of twenty-four, In order
that thero might be funds to pay tho men
who wero fighting tho battles and tho
commissaries who wero feeding them.
Ono of tho men who signed theso notes,
J. W. Wholploy, still lives and worka in
tho samo ofllco ho then occupied, though
now as assistunt treasurer of tho United
States, IIo could sign up to flvo thou
sand notes a day, and by working lato
into tho night could work off as many as
soven thousand. Dut thero wns on tho
scriveners' forco rt man named Evans
John Evans who was tho mainstay of
tho soldier as pay day approached.
Evans was u phenomenal penman, and
when tlio authorities got into tight
places, in tho calls mado on them for
ready cosh, as they frequently did, thoy
would go to Evans and ask him to put
on steam. When pushed to it Evans
could sign 15,000 notes In twenty-four
hours, and get rest enough to enable him
to start in again tho following day. Dut
in order to do this ho abbreviated his
already short namo to "J. Evans," and
wrote that with a moro dash of his pen,
leaving an autograph which n 6trangcr
could never decipher, und yet ono which j
nobody.coulu counterfeit. It is a curi
ous faclt that although $00,000,000 of
theso notes wero Issued and put into cir
culation, many millions of them to sol
diers in tho field, nil but $50,000 hare
been redeemed at tho treasury, showing
that not a great deal of currency wns
lost or destroyed oven in those troublous
times.
Of this $80,000 outstanding, a few hun
dreds dribble into tho redemption bureau
every year old bills which mjujo soldier
tvas paid oil with down in Dixie, and
which ho has hoarded till this day for
tho sake of tlieir associations. The
money counters in tho redemption bureau
say they occasionally get hold of old
"demand notes" of the issuo of 1801, nnd
greenbacks of 1803 nnd 1803, which nro
discolored by blood, but otherwise almost
llko new, Theso notes, say tho clerks,
wero sewn in the lining of the uniform
of somo soldier who was wounded, and
who, on recovering, brought the blood
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SATURDAY, mJtt fa,
atalncd greenbacks homo an Hottvcnlnt of
his part In tho war, carefully preserving
them till compelled by adversity to pay
them out for the necessities of Ufa.
As tho wnr progressed tho needs of tho
government in tho wny of pacr cur
rency boenmo so enormous thnt even tho
nlmblo Evans nnd his co-workers wcro
unnblo to move their pons rapidly enough
to keep titi With tho demand for green
backs, and tho names of tho treasurer
antl register wcro then printed tiKn tho
fnco or tlio bills. Mr. Huston is tho
seventh man to gain tho honor of having
his nnmo printed upon tho paper mouoy
of tho country as tho rcsponslblo Issuing
olllcer tho man deputed by tho govern
ment to sign In Its nnmo its millions upon
millions of promissory notes. Tho first
of tho soven was F. E. Spinner, general
ly known ns "Old Splnnor," who, ns
treasurer through tho war, and up to
1870, had tho pleasure of seeing his namo
go UK)ii tho most nxtonslvo issue of pa
er tnonoy over mado by a government
In n similar tlmo. No fewer than ono
billion and five hundred millions of dol
lars of money went Into circulation In
fourteen years, bonrlng tho famous slg
naturo of "Old Spinner" that signature
which for many yenrs was ono of tho
standing jokes of tho country.
"Old Spinner," who wns ono of tho
XSfcfS&fa WW
most fnlthful ofilclnls tho government
over had, still lives in Florida, whero it
is said ho scrawls his famous autograph
In the sand nnd with It frightens nwny
tho festive alligators. Yet, even wealth
Is not immortal, antl riches tako wings
nnd fly away, for of that vast sum of
"Spinner money" only $33,000,000 re
main "outstanding" at this day proba
bly not moro thnn one-half of It in ex
istence. Soon Spinner's signature, onco
in tho pocket of every man who owned
ruwULLf
n dollar, or oven a ten cent "shin
plaster," will lmvo becomo tt curiosity.
Treasury ofilclnls say tho avcrago Hfo
of a bank noto of tho denomination of ono
dollar or two dollars is only threo years.
Though for 11 dollar noto many n poor
wrctcl must work from morning till
night, it is after nil but n frail pieco of
paper, and quickly Iwcomes worn and
ragged from usons it goes on Its journey
of good or evil through tho world. A
flvo dollar noto win last flvo times ns
3col
long as n dollar noto, and n ten dollar
noto twico ns long as a flvo dollar.
Over at tho money mill, as tho bureau
of printing and engraving is known, is
a hugo vnult filled with tho steel plates
on which something llko four billions of
dollars of money has been printed. Tlio
plates now in uso nro tho silver certifi
cates, tho national bank notes, tho inter
est checks nnd n fow other minor forms
of collateral. Somo of tbeso plates cost
a thousand dollars apiece, but every ono
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of them must havo tho now treasuiera
namo on it beforo it can bo used in tlio
printing of n slnglo dollar nftcr ho takes
ofllco. Luckily it is not necessary to do
stroy tho old plates and mako,now ones.
Shortly nftcr tho appointment of Mr.
Huston by tho president tho chief of tho
money mill sent to him for his nuto
graplu "Bo careful about It," Bald tho
chief, "for It is tho signature that will go
on millions and millions of money. Mako
it to suit you, so that it can bo left undis
turbed as long as you remain in tho of
fice." Tho now treasurer sat up nights
with his nutogrnph making. Though a
banker and n business man who has long
known tho valuo of an nutogrnph, never
before did Mr. Huston 60 fully under
stand how much tho simplo signing of n
namo might mean. Ho wanted this
namo neatly signed, plainly signed, with
a handwriting that should Indicato char
acter, strength, facility of execution,
gracefulness. Mr. Huston didn't keep
count of tho number of times he wroto
his namo beforo ho found an nutogrnph
which in ills modest estimation was fit
to certify to tho genuineness of flvo hun
dred millions of dollars, but ho will not
deny that In his two or threo dnys of
practlco ho covered a couplo of quires of
piper. When tho autograph was Anally
received at tho money mill tho skilled
uoikmcn there mado short shift of their
part of tho task of making ready for the
isttuo of now money.
Within a fow days bright and pretty
"Huston money" will bo in circulation.
In a fow months tho country will be
flooded with it. If you havo a friend In
tho treasury ask him to get for you n set
of ones or twos, or fives If you prefer,
bearing tho autographs of all tho treasur
ers of tho greenback era, from Spinner
down to Huston. Though tho bills look
much alike and there nro but seven
nines, they represent tho craof marvels
in national growth, constitutional recon
struction, material prosperity and skill
ful publio financiering,
Walteh Wellman.
When snow falls tho first portions in
variably contain greater numbers of bao
teria than the subsequent ones.
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ship Tickets promptly answered.
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C. M. HANDS, Manager.
142 North lltli Street.
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II. SII.LOWAY, Proprietor.
FINEST LIVERY RIGS
In the City all come from the
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My superior advantages enable me to
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nnd to secure desirable cabins In advance of
sailings. The generous patronage accorded
me by prominent people of Omaha, Lincoln
nnd other Nebraska cities attest the popular--Ity
of this office.
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