Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 January 1897 — Page 3

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ABOUT BANK CHECKS

IBB BABYLONIANS HAD BANKS 600

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BBCORE CHRIST.

Vat th* Kam»n« Were the First to De-vlae the Hetkodi That Have Led to Checks and Bills ot Kiohsnge.

The word "check" is a corruption of "cheque," which, in its turn, is derived from the word exchequer—an office of the English government, where the revenues of the government were collected and disbursed, eays the Financier. Exchequer bills are a species of government paper money peculiar to England they are 6imply orders upon the exchequer entitling the bearer to the sum specified therein, together with interest.

Checks and bills of exchange are almost synonymous, the one being an order to pay on demand, while the other fixes the date of payment, with a further difference that the latter is more formal in its phraseology, but to all intents and purposes the history of the check is that of its twin brother also.

We find that banking was known to the Babylonians six hundred years prior to the Christian, era, and a very interesting account of discoveries in that line is to be found in the New York Bankers' Magazine of 1877. However, in its more scientific form it is pre-eminently a Roman institution. Rome, in the heyday of her political strength, was Yisited yearly by great numbers of people from all the tributary coun-

tries of the empire, which embraced the entire world these strangers brought with Commerce being endowed with a new them the tokens of exchange in use in their jprogress can be distinctly traced

Our Debt to Cicero's Korue. Whether the Romans or the Greeks were the inventors of the bill of exchange is still a mooted question. Some historians claim the honor for the fatter nationality, but there is no doubt whatever that under the sway of the Roman empire the highest development of banking as a science was attained. The same fundamental principles that were then established as the basis of the mutual relations of banker and client govern the banking transactions of the present day, and many of the technical terms at present in use have been handed down to us unchanged from the days of Cicero.

With the fall of the Roman empire we enter into the dark ages, that period of the world's history which apparently was retrogressive. Many of the former triumphs of the human mind were lost never to be recovered, and what is true in this respect as to the arts and industries of the people Is also true as to the sciences. The dazzling magnificence of the Roman supremacy appears in its extinction to have benumbed the faculties of mankind to such an extent that even hope seems to have been annihilated, and the only achievement worthy of note during that long and desperate period was thervictory of the Caucasian on the battlefield of Tours in the latter part of the eighth century.

To religious fervor and fanaticism are we indebted for much that was regained after

this reign of chaos. The crusades were commenced toward the end of the eleventh century, and while little was accomplished toward the recovery of the holy sepulcher, much was done for the enlightenment of man. The Saracen being much further advanced in the arts of civilization than his Christian brother, contact with such influences could not but have a leavening effect, while the movement and equipment of such vast bodies of soldiery again opened up the avenues of trade and commerce.

To the crusaders alone are the Italian cities of the middle ages indebted for their marvelous growth and development, and it is in these cities that we see the science of banking revived. Our attention is drawn at this period to the city of Florence, which seems to have been the banking center par excellence of the renaissance. To what extent this is true is evidenced by the fact that at one time during the fifteenth century there were no less than eighty bankera in Florence.

Florence as a Banking Center.

It is difficult to determine the exact character of the business carried on by these soi-disant bankers, who were at the same time, according to history, statesmen and traders. Affairs of state and ordinary business transactions as a rule do not harmonize, but here they seemed to have gone very well hand in hand, and it is a fair presumption that the one was made subservient to the other. However that may have been true it Is that Florence at that time was in 'a most flourishing condition both as to Its prestige as a nation, as well as a trading community. Florence shared with her sister republic, Venice, a practical monopoly of the trade of the world, and not until the crescent had supplanted the cross in Constantinople was their power abridged by the loss of the Eastern trade. It is altogether probable that the hankering transactions of that period were confined to the financing of commercial ventures by sea and by land and to the loaning of money to the •tat®.

The Pittf, the Medici, and numerous other noble families, owed their origin and their opulence more to their business astuteness than to any services they may have rendered the stats, an in ths case of these families the combination of statesmen and bankers stems to have been equally profitable. Their operations were not confined to their own country, but were extended inecessfully into other lands, as a historian

laconically observes that Oiovanni Medici (1630-1429) established banks in Italy and abroad.

own countries, and for their convenience Oermany, the French cities, ol an. an th« government permitted the establishment thence to England, which latter coun ry as of bootihs in the forum where this outlandish money could be exchanged for current coins.

the medium of exchange of that day was in form more or lees bulky and cumbersome, It necessarily required the services of several slaves to exchange comparatively small amounts.

The Roman citizen, in common with his fellotar-man in all ages, ever bent upon the discovery ol methods tending to facilitate comm«roial intercourse, hit upon the expedient of leaving his wealth with such of the money changers as, through upright methods, had succeeded in gaining his confidence.

The official title of the money-changer was Argenitarius, and the method of disposing of the two. When admitted to the institu of the money left with him, primarily for ^on several months ago Warner, safe keeping, was either by verbal direction or by means of a written order. At first the mutual relations of money-changer and customer were very simple, the former being only a custodian, and it is only at a later day that such relations evolved into the present ones of banker and depositor, with their respective rights and duties toward each other.

Rome properly may be called the birthplace of the 'banking system. Written orders for the payment of moneys were first used about the year 350 B. C., but it is very uncertain whether such orders could at that time be transferred to others probably not, as such a practice would imply the highest development of the mechanism of banking in its very incipiency. As the Roman domain was extended still further, these money changers established correspondents in foreign cities upon whom they would issue bills of exchange in favor of travelers and traders. That this system wits well established in the time of Cicero is evidenced by the fact that we find in one of his letters considerable anxiety expressed as to whether his son, who was proceeding to Athens to complete his education, would have to take actual money with him, or whether he could procure bills of exchange.

The Jews, that much maligned race, against whom every hand was lifted in persecution, were prominent actors among the revivifying influences of the commerce of the middle ages, and it is to their sagacity that we are indebted for the reinvention of instruments of credit. They were quick to grasp the advantages offered them t" fconceal their property and to take it with rchem when forced to fly from their persecutors at a moment's warning. Prescott writes in the history FerdinaiS^

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erence tQv the expulsion of the Jews from JranadaSunder the eiict of March 30, 1492: -•"As ttfey' (the JevrtO were excluded from the use of gold and silver, the only medium for representing their property was bills of exchange."

Sir Walter Scobt informs us that they were familiar with this medium at a still earlier period, and, speaking of the Jews at the time of Richard I (1190-1199) he says: "In spite of every kind of discourage ment, and even of the special court of tax-, ations already mentioned, called the 'Jews exchequer' erected for the very purpose of despoiling them, the Jews increased, multiplied and accumulated huge sums, which they transferred from one hand to another by means of bills of exchange.

While these instruments of credit were primarily employed only under the stress of circumstances, Christian merchants began to see that it was not necessary to send their money in payment for goods purchased but that instead they could with greater se curity send a letter directing some one of their debtors to effect the payment for their account. Thus was gradually developed a system which has been a boon to the commercial world and without our present intercourse with nations would be impossible

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retained the supremacy over all other coun tries down to the present day.

TOMATOES ARE RESPONSIBLE.

Said to Cause a Troublesome Affection of the Heart. Epicures especially and the public in general should be warned by the fate of Paul D. Warner, who was yesterday discharged fx-om the city hospital, not because he was entirely cured, but because, afflicted with two diseases, he decided to seek a different climate, beneficial to the mere fatal

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showing symptoms of consumption, was also suffering from a peculiar heart affliction, which, after repeated examinations by the attending physicians, was pronounced to be lycopersicum. cardiopathia, or tomato heart.

Curious as it may seem, says the Cincin nati Enquirer, the man's debilitated con dition and the weakness of that important organ was due to the patient's love for that luscious vegetable, which he ate at every meal. It was not until the beginning of the civil war that the acceptance of the tomato as an edible became general, and Europe, up to'the present time, has not given welcome. Analysi&ts have prftced it among the vegetables consisting of over 85 per cent water, and its fluid element has been found to consist of an acid called by some acidum lycopersicum and by others an acetic and mailic in combination. Scientists have long ago discovered, however, that to some persons the tomato is a veritable poison. In some cases the symptoms develop immediately and are alarming and in others the results are.cumulative. In the latter, as in the case of Warner, an abnormal hypersensisiveness of the heart and circulatory apparatus is discovered. First, a simple heart irritability, with a latent inflammation of the inner wall, especially about the oartic roots and valves. The heart passes out of the condition of equilibrium into the habit of irregularity and inequality of rhyme and force. Difficult breathing supervenes and limits the capacity of exertion.

When first admitted Warner exhibited all the symptoms of acute poisoning, and for a while his case ibafflled the skill of the attending physicians. Only when his inordinate fondness for fruit was discovered was a diagnosis made possible. He suffered pain and gastric uneasiness, succeeded by choking, belching and heartburn and vQmiting. Then came" an arrest of the vital activity withing the chest, nd the poor patient suffered as much mentally as physically, a peculiar action of the disease being tht it impresses itself upon the mind, creating depression and gloomy premonitions. Cold sweats appeared upon his forehead, being produced by heart fright. Headaches and a tension about the temples became manifest, ccompanied by languor. At times, also, Warner's speech became impeded, and he found it difficult to articulate, followed by an ineoherrence of thought, several ideas seeming to seek expression at the same time. He also experienced numbness of the fingers and tongue, and general perversion of the senses. During Warner's stay at the hospital he was treated freely with acetanilid and alcohol in equal proportions, and while improving under this treatment he was by no means cured when discharged.

solicitation of the patient himself, as he was afflicted with consumption, as before stated and desired to go to a different climate for

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relief from that disease, the more dangerous with an almost inestimable need of of the two.

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Ill-Luck In Fourteen.

"This matter ot superstition always makes me laugh," said Mr. A. T. Britton when some one spoke of never liking to do anything on Friday. "I made a. trip of 15,000 miles last summer witih a party of twelve others, making thirteen in all, and we started on a Friday and never missed a train or a boat or a meal or had an ache or a pain among us the whole time."

Then he told a laughable story. "It has been the custom of the survivors of the old National rifles to meet each year on the anniversary of our mustering into service in the war of the rebellion and enjoy a dinner and swap reminiscences near and remote. Several years ago I had the boys to my house and had prepared the very best dinner I know how to give. There are usually sixteen or seventeen survivors at such a gathering, but this time, when we were about to enter the dining room, somebody counted noses and d.scovered we were thirteen all told. Now, t! ose other twelve men were brav^e and courageous gentlemen, who had faced cannon unflinchingly and were afraid of nothing tangible, tut not a single man of them was willing to enter that room. At last, after a half-hour's wait, during which my dinner was rapidly approaching the spoiled stage, another man ame and In we went. Xow, that man who made the fourteenth in the party and broke Ihe unlucky spell, according to the twelve ether guests, was Charlie Alexander, and befce the dinner was concluded he had to be carried home and in two months he was dead. All the others are living."—Exchange.

Danger Knviron* I!*.

If we live in a region where malaria is prevalent. It is useless to hope to escape it if unprovided with a medicinal safeguard. Wherever the epidemic is most prevalent and malignant—in South and Central America, the West Indies and certain portions of Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama, Hostett'er's Stomach Bitters has proved a remedy for and preventive of the disease In every form. No less effective is it in curing rheumatism, liver and kidney complaints, dyspepsia, biliousness and aervousntM*

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19,1897.

ST. VITUS DANCE CURED

By the Great Children's Remedy, Dr. Greene's Nervura.

Mrs. Henry Fry, 4 Flint Place, South Boston, Mass., says,:— "My daughter, became affected with St. Vitus' dance. She grew worse until she entirely lost her speech, and the* right arm became useless. I began the use of Dr. Greene Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and before

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finishing one bottle she could talk. She has now used six bottles and she talks as well as ever, bas perfect nse of her arms, and is wonderfully improved in all respects."

If constipated, use Dr. Greene's Cathartic Pills with the Nervura. Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City, the most successful physician in curing nervous and chronic complaints, can be consulted free, personally or by letter.

GREA I c.o OF HAILROADS.

Effect of the Siberian Linn on Soolalani Industrial Intercuts. W There is a familiar' story, perhaps less American citizenship

apocryphal than most good stories are, of a former Russian emperor who wanted a railroad built from St. Petersburg to Moscow. He told his ministers, and they told the engineers, and they went to surveying route after route without finding a satis--factory one. At last the emperor grew tired' of waiting and asked why the railroad wag not built. "The engineers cannot agree upona route," was the reply. "Bring me a maji and I will show you one," returned the em-' peror. Then he took a ruler and a pen and drew a straight line from one city to the' other. "That is the route," said he, "now build the road." And it was built. A truthful companion of this story may be' told, dating back scarcely eleven years, and1 at the present moment being fulfilled. In 1886 the emperor sumtnoned his ministers to him. Without a word of preface, "Let there be a railroad built across Siberia," he said, "by the directest route and as quickly as possible." And then he dismissed the council, says the New York Tribune.

Today that railroad, incomparably tha greatest in the world, making our Pacific roads seem petty, is measuredly near completion. It is finished and in full operation to a point beyond Tomsk, at one end and from Vladivolosk to Chabarowski, on the Amooj", at the other, while a considerable stretch is at least graded, ready for the ties and rails, in tie middle of Lake Baikal. No less than

men, are constantly em

ployed on it, and it is reckoned that by the end .of this century, four years hence, through trains will be running from *he Baltic— indeed, from Paris, to the Pacific. The cost is estimated at $175,000,000, but will be probably much less, since the actual cost of the section from Urals to the Obi has been $4,5000,000 less than the estimates. Vladivotosk, 4,741 miles from the Urals, will be one eastern terminal, but not the chief one. By th© terms of the new Russian treaty with China, a branch line, so-called, is to run off at Nikolokaya, down through Manchuria and Mongolia to the Yellow sea, with terminals at New Chwang and Port Arthur, where there will be a harbor open all the year round. This "branch" will be 1,208 miles long, 946 miles being in what is now Chinese territory, and it will shorten the distance from theJUrals to the coast 342 miles. No doubt it will really become the main line as soon as Manchuria and Corea become openly and avowedly, as they are now, substantially Russian provinces.

The practical effect of this stupendous undertaking upon Russian social, and industrial interests is already apparent. In 1891 the present Czar turned the first spadeful of earth on the road at Vladivostok: Forthwith, popular migration from European Russia to Siberia began. In 1892 no less than 100,000 permanent tsetlers crossed the Urals. But they were a mere advance guard. A large number was reported in the single month of May, last year, while the total number for 1896 w&s nearly 1,000,000. No other new country ever was filled up at such a rate. At present nearly all are settling West of the Obi. But as the con-. struction of the road proceeds and the still more desirable regions further east are opened up the number ofc settlers may be expected to increase, and by the end of the century, when the road is completed, we may reasonably expect to see the population of Siberia more than doubled. There will be practically a new nation of ten or twelve million inhabitants, in one of the richest lands of the world, with an incalcuable product of raw materials to dispose of, and

factured goods. And its natural commercial outlet and inlet, on the ocean, will be directly opposite the Pacific coast of the United States. There is a fact which American traders and American statesmen may well take into consideration.

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EDWARDS READY FOR TROUBLE.

Colorado Sheepman Declare* the Cattle Owners Cannot Driyn Him Oat. Omaha, Neb., Jan. f8.—Colonel John G. Edwards, president of the Colorado Sheep Breeders Association," which has acQuired fame in armed hostilities to the Cattlemen's Association lately, is in Omaha. Today he said: "That war is not dead nor yet is sleeping, and I suppose it will go merrily on. A score of the small sheep ranchers have been frightened out of the country, but I am still there. It is a common thing for me to have fifty men to protect my interests, and I have received scores of warnings to move out of the country, and letters with a skull and cross bones thereon become as common as letters themselves. The fact of the matter is that I was in the country long'before many of those who are now. seeking to drive me out. They claim that my herds destroy the range. The cattlemen have several times sent word over to me that they were coming over to clean me out, but I have assembled my men an} stayed there. I guess they are still coming, for I certainly have never seen them. I have nearly fifty under arms now, to be ready for the clash when it comes. The Denver papers hav« had me driving herds from my Wyoming ranches down into Colorado. I have done this, as I have a right to do. Sheep have to be moved the same as any other animal. I do not want trouble, but I am prepared for it when It comes. I am compelled to keep a small army about my place all the time, but I will not make the start. I have my place and I propose to hold it until I am ready to move. It is nothing unusual to find the bleaching boaeg of a man around there, and you never knovc

how he met bis dfath. In the papers he was always a cattleman, and the sheepmen are Warned. The feeling against the sheepmen is very "bitter Indeed, and they are accused of all sorts of deeds and sins, and most of these are pure fabrications—the vaporlngs of a disordered mind. The Colorado sheep war is now famdu# in the annals of Western history. It was started by the cattlemen seeking to drive out the sheep ranchers, the latter making a stand, and for a while it looked as though the entire Cblorado militia would have to be called out to settle the differences, but the sheep and cattlemen looked out for themselves, and there are several graves up in the vicinity of Meeker that go to show that they know how to do this."

'NEW ELEMENT IN POLITICS?

Advent of the Chinese Voters in California Way Work a Revolution. The isolated patter of one pair of Chinese baby feet in

noisome "China alley" a few

years ago would have caused a flutter, comments the San Francisco Call. Almond eyes, olive skin, Jaunty cap, rustling silken garments, snowy white little^shoes, a braided "pigtail" which oscillated like a pendulum, long finger nails—and there was a little pagan wfco pioneered a long array of similarity attired other little pagans out from Chinese hovels into the sunshine and fearless freedom in the open air. A native born citizen, the American eagle seemed not a whit more proud of him a native son, California was ready to repudiate him. Now the patter of one pair of feet is succeeded by the sound of legions. In Chinatown's dirty purlieus an infantile army has been reared. Two years ago the school census takers found 1,500 Chinese children of school age. There are not less than 2,000 natives sons and daughters in San Francisco's Chinatown in wh03e veins Chinese blood flows ,aad w' arc lawful heirs to

Chinese, it is well known, have strong family attachments. The head of a familydirects others, who obey him implicitly Unquestioning obedience gives the ideal conditions required for hench men of a po litical boss. Another flueer feature engrafted upon the American political system in San Francisco will be the influence of aged Chinese, who will have power to insure how numbers of votes will be cast. The Chinese patriarchs with goat-like beards will be the "bosses" of the most ap proved sort. This is certain enough.

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Mongols is marching leisurely along the dusty highway of time toward the ultimate and sure ballot box.

This phase of the Chinese question does not appear to have been fully comprehended.- But not later than the year 1920 at the present birth rate in" Chinatown, and supposing average conditions regarding mortality to obtain, it is as clear as anything can be that something like 2,500 native born Chinese citizens, now mostly young children, will be entitled to the ballot in San Francisco alone. Sacramento, Stockton, Los Angeles, San Jose, and in fact nearly all communities in California, have also their native born Mongolian babies who are on their way to citizenship. Not less than 4,000 native born Chinese voters will be in the field of politics in 1920 in California—enough with an alliance with some large political party and with a united front to carry a state election, enough to settle a presidential election if California should'be the pivotal state, conceding that the strength of partise should be somewhat, nearly divided

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Surely the student of political history must see something serious in this not very remote contingency. Less than one-quar-ter of a century may see dragon flags flying from the roofs of Chinese josshouses from the tops of buildings in which fantan games abide, and from scores of buildings reeking with filth, and "smelling to heaven" in celebration of the election of a candidate of the Chinese for governor or even for president of the United States of America or congressman or mayor or supervisor There may even come a time when bonfires will burn in Chinatown and Chinese gongs and other alleged musical instruments be sounded to catch the Mongolian vote and Svja^ons carry up and down the steep slopes advice to Chinese-Americans to vote for Ah Jow or Tom Lee for sheriff or mayor or som other equally important office.

Dr.

YOUNG GIRL SOLD TO GYPSIES.

Uttle Mable Stacking: Said to Have Heen Bartered Away By Her Stepfather. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 18.—Thirteen-j'ear-bKT Mable Stacking has disappeared from the miserable hut she knew as home and is supposed to have either run away or been sold by her stepfather to a party of gyp

siesMarion Orricks, his wife, Minnie, and four children live in a little wigwam pitched in Winstanley Park, in the north eastern part of East St. Louis. Shortly after their tent was pitched a band of gypsies camped near them. Saturday morning when Mrs. Orricks awoke the gypsies were gone, having quietly departed during the night. She instituted a search for her daughter Babel, but the child had likewise disappeared. Orricks was not to be found. When night came the mother became alarmed and, with her three children, started $ search for the missing girl. While thus engaged she met William Preiffer, who told her that a man supposed to be Orricks had sold Mabel to the gypsies for $25, and, after assisting in spiriting her away, had taken the money and procq^ded to get drunk.

Last night word was received from Marshal J. L. East of Coulterville that a gypsy band answering the description of those wanted and having among them a young girl supposed to be Mabel were under arrest*

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C&rpenters* Open Meeting.

There will be an open meeting held by the Carpenters' union on Wednesday evening, January 20, at Washington Hall, corner Eighth and Main streets, to which all the journeymen carpenters and contractors of the city are invited, for the purpose of adjusting a Bcale of wages for the coming year.

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During a state convention of the Equal Suffrage Association held at Winfleld directly after the election a part of the delegation was'in favor of an immediate attempt at a resubmission of the suffrage amendment which had just been defeated, while the conservative element, led by Mrs, Laura Johns, the president, was In favor of waiting, urging that the time for resbumissiou was unfavorable. Mrs. Stryker boldly declared that the Republican women, by their partisanship, had betrayed the cause into the hands of the Republican party and the whisky element o£ Kansas.

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