Banking Announcment
The First National Bank and the First Trust & Savings Bank
take pleasure in announcing their removal on June 12thto their
new eight-story bank building. The patrons of these institu
tions will now be enabled to enjoy the advantages of one of the
most modern and up-to-date banking rooms in the west. These
institutions are equipped for all business safety deposit boxes,
savings accounts, investments and commercial accounts.
It is the policy of the management to extend the same
uniform courtesy to the small and the large depositor. All
classes of business respectfully solicited.
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" ESKIMO FAMILY LIFE.
A Glimpse of the Home When White
Guests Are Present.
The usual sights on entering an Eski
mo habitation are: On the way oppo
site you a stearaer-like berth covered
with skius the sleeping quarters of
Jthe family; underneath, or in front, sit
one or two women, busily sewing; to
the right, a man making bunting gear.
Never will you And an Eskimo family
Idle. All occupants are naked to the
waist, sometimes only covered with
a loin cloth. Along the wall on either
side burn several lamps. These lamps
are shallow soapstone basins filled
with the oil of the seal, whale or wal
rus; along the edge is placed a lit
tle :ridge of moss, which answers
the purpose of the wick in our lamps.
The lamps do not smoke, and, besides,
illuminating, throw a great heat.
Above the name hangs a piece of blub
ber, to replenish the oil, also a tea
kettle. You are cordially invited to take, off
your things and stay awhile. This
means disrobing to the same extent,
for the air Is foul and the temperature
that of a Turkish bath. If you come
during meal time, which is at any hour
of the day, you are cordially invited to
partake; you' decline and no offense is
given. If the meal consists of frozen
fish, blubber or something they know
the white man abhors, some joker will
especially entreat you to join his dish
and then there is a great laugh all
around. The Eskimo loves to laugh,
play practical jokes on his friends,
respond In witticism, and is of a
happy, childlike disposition. Treachery,
stealing and lying are practically un
known among them, the two latter
only since some of them have imitated
the white man. I am not including the
Siberian, Greenland or Labrador Eski
mo. Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt In
Tacific Monthly.
ILLICIT DIAMOND BUYING.
Dodges the Traders Worked In Kim
berley's Early Days.
There are as many stories of I. D. B.
i. e.. Illicit diamond buying in South
Africa as there were of smuggling in
England a century ago. Louis Cohen
tells of some of the dodges in bis
"Reminiscences" of Kiinberley's early
days, "Dogs were enlisted in the traf-
fic and used as" carriers. Often the
poor animals were first kept without
food until they were on the verge of
starvation and then given lumps of
meat containing diamonds, which they
bolted. Safely arrived at Christiania,
across the Vaal river, the faithful
dumb friends of man were immediate
ly rewarded for their services by hav
ing their stomachs ripped up and the
imbedded baubles taken out. Horses,
too, were utilized, being fed with balls
of meat containing diamonds and driv
en across the river under the very
noses of the police. Carrier pigeons
were requisitioned to fly through the
air with the greatest of ease' laden
with the brigands' booty. Hollowed
heels inclosing diamonds sealed down
with wax were also expedients em
ployed with decided and profitable
success."
One lady had an ingenious way of
getting out of a scrape. She was
cooking dinner when a Cape boy
knocked at the door and sold a forty
carat diamond to her husband. "It
was a trap. A detective immediately
rushed In to arrest the buyer, search
ed the house, but no diamond could be
found. The good wife had placed it
in the stuffing of a goose she was basting."
The Use of Esquire.
The recovery of a letter which had
been sent to a little town in Germany
and never delivered tothe person ad
dressed cured the writer of the cus
tom of adding "esquire" to a name
on the superscription of mail matter.
The letter in question would probably
have been promptly delivered had the
address read simply "Mr. John
Brown." But the sender had addressed
it "John Brown Esquire," and the
communication rested comfortably in
the "E" compartment of the poste res
tante department, waiting to be called
for by "Mr. Esquire." One of the pop
ular guide books warns against the
use of "Esq.," saying that it might be
mistaken for a name.
Real Leghorns.
Little Willie was taken out into the
country on a bright spring day. As he
played with his sister in the farmyard
a group of Leghorn chickens ap
proached, led by a Leghorn rooster.
"Willie." said the little girl, "why
are those chickens called Leghorns?"
their ankles?" "Willie" re
you see the little horns
Very Much Alike.
The late Frank Work once defined
humorously the difference between a
curbstone broker and a legitimate
broker with a seat on the stock ex
change. "It is much the same difference." he
said, "as the one between an alligator
and a crocodile." Buffalo Express.
Traditional.
Prison Visitor To what do you at
tribute your downfall, my poor man?
Convict To procrastination. Prison
Visitor Ah, yes; procrastination is
the thief of time. Convict Exactly.
I stole a watch. New York Times.
Why, Indeed?
He What would you say if I should
kiss you? She Why ask for a mere
grjess when you can so easily get the
exact facts? Boston Transcript
The fine art of living is to draw from
each person his best Whiting.
THE GHOST OF THE PAST.
It Rose Up to Taunt and Haunt the
Poor Human Derelict.
The small crowd of grimy loafers
lounged weakly in the little circle of
light from the fitfully flickering lamp
about the door. Two or three of them
were .leaning against a many colored
poster, almost unreadable in the gloom.
The door swung open it was never
tfhut and a dapper figure in a red jer
sey and peaked cap of the Salvation
Army appeared with a cheery greet
ing: "Come in, men; come in. Fine treat
tonight; splendid gramophone; all the
latest from the music halls. Come on
in.". ' i . :.
One by one they "went. Comic songs
and Sousa marches rang nasally
through the hall. Then the cheery
voice was heard again:
"Now for some grand opera, gentle
men." One living derelict who had subsided
silently after his arrival from the pub
lic house roused himself at the words.
"Opera grand opera," he muttered
hazily.
The familiar whir of the gramo
phone began again, and then a voice
from the aluminium horn announced.
"Song from T Pagliacci? by ompey
Carlyle, the famous tenor of grand
opera." As the name of the singer
was announced the ragged waif stiff
ened upright where he sat. Then as
the first notes rang out his face held
all the agony of a lost soul. Straight
to his feet he bounded; then, with a
cry, "Stop it, for heaven's sake stop
it!" and with grimy hands pressed
over his face he rushed from the hall,
followed by a storm of abuse.
"What's the matter?" queried the
commissioner.
"Queer bloke," answered another
waif, still gasping from an attack of
coughing which had torn his frail
body. "Sings outside pubs. Used to
be in hopera 'isself. Booze done it" .
"What do you call him?"
"Pompey 5arlyle."
"Heavens, it was his own song he
heard!" London Tit-Bits.
TOBACCO CHEFS.
Experts That Make Sauces For Fla
voring the Different Brands.
"I am a tobacco chef," said the sal
low man. "I make the sauces that
give us smoking or chewing tobacco as
a food chef makes the sauces which
give us sole colbert or poulet creole.
"Take this dark, sweet, juicy plug
of 'navy brown,' so popular among
the more prosperous type of teamsters.
a sauce made 6i sugar, ""licorice, whisky
and honey.
"Here is a mild, cool pipe tobacco
that college boys favor. Smell it.
Very aromatic, eh? Well, it has been
steeped in a sauce composed of the
essential oils of citronella, bergamot
and cassia.
"But it is when you come to the
high grade Havana cigar, the cigar
that sells for 40 or 50 cents, that you
see the tobacco chef at his best. He
doesn't make his sauces then of such
common ingredients as sugar, berga
mot. licorice and so forth. No, he
makes them of bacteria. The flavors
of the high grade Havana tobaccos
depend, you see, entirely on their
ferments. Each tobacco undergoes a
different fermentation, and here the
chef comes in, applying the bacteria
of years which cause these fermenta
tions to the leaf.
"Yes, the tobacco chef of the highest
type, the one who ferments Havana
tobacco, handles the various breeds of
bacterial as an ordinary chef handles
pepper and salt, mustard and cloves
and mace." Buffalo Express.
Punishment After Death.
A negro, already under sentence of
life imprisonment, was convicted of
two charges of assault to murder.
With great gravity the jury sentenced
him to five years on each charge and
ordered the prison officers to keep his
corpse for ten years after he died. Per?
haps a little theology entered the de
cision, the jury feeling as did the man
found hammering away at a snake
after he had killed it and who ex
plained by saying he believed in pun
ishment after death. Judge.
A Statesman's Queer Ambition
The great Lord Grey had an ambi
tion far above politics. He had passed
the reform bill, but that did not sat
isfy his soul.. There was talk of Ta
glioui, and Grey said quite earnestly, '
"What would I give to dance as well
as she!"
The statesman who had been prime
minister and had left an indelible
mark on the history of his country
was actually envious of an opera
dancer! London Globe. .
Right Back at Ker.
"Does your husband allow you to
have things charged at the stores?"
"Oh, I think he would, but"
"But the stores wouldn't. Is that
what you were going to add?"
"fth. no. I was going to say that
he gives me plenty of money with
which to pay cash. Does yours V"
Buffalo Express.
An Unbiased Champion.
"Queer world, isn't it? See that
chap over there, the one who is put
ting up the big holler for individual
drinking cups for public use?"
"Yes."
"He hasn't drunk a drop of water
for seven years." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Very Same.
Howell T can say the Ten Com
mandments backwards. Jowell Yes,
that's the way you obey them. New
York Press.
Encouragement.
"I tell you," said Dottypate. "I'm
nobody's fool."
"Oh, well, never mind, Dotty, dear."
said Miss Cynica. "Some day some
nice girl will come along and take
you." Harper's Weekly.
Cause For Congratulation.
The Boss Mr. Stubpen, when you
came In this morning I detected a
trace of liquor about your person. The
Bookkeeper That's fine, sir! Fine!
That shows how much better your
CQlda, ertr, Pucfc. .