Bellefonte, Pa., May 24, 1907.
THE MOST CURIOUS BLUNDER.
A National Bank Note Which Is For
$50 on One Side and For $100 on the
Other Side—How the Error Was
Made and How It Was Discovered.
Imperfect or misprinted bank notes
sometimes, though rarely, slip past the
eyes of the inspectors in the United
States bureau of engraving and print-
ing. It is said that a fifty dollar na-
tional bank note was the most remark-
able misprint that ever escaped the
government employees and found its
way into circulation.
It was discovered in a peculiar way. |
| fastened with a buckle, which in no
A clerk in a Chicago hotel in making
up his accounts one day found a dis- |
crepancy he couldn't explain. He
placed the pile of bills on his left hand
side, and as he counted each one turn-
ed the note over and deposited it on a
pile at his right.
He found that when he counted from
left to right his cash exactly balanced,
but when he counted it back again a
shortage of $50 was shown. After
spending two hours in a vain endeavor
to find out what was the matter he
called in the manager.
The manager had no better success.
Backward and forward he counted the
bills, but always with the same result
—one time the cash balanced and the
next the shortage was developed. Fi-
nally each bill was examined separate.
ly, both obverse and reverse.
And then the mystified men discover-
ed the cause of ‘their trouble. One of
the bills had the design of $50 on the
obverse and that of $100 on the re-
verse. .
The clerk had received the bill as
$100.
The United States treasury was com-
municated with, and it was admitted
that such a bill was out and that the
department had a record of it. It was
discovered In 1800 that one sheet of
bank notes of the denomination of $50
and $100, printed for the Aetna Nation-
al bank of Kansas City, Mo., had been
reversed in the press. One plate bore
the obverse of a fifty dollar bill at the
top and the obverse of a hundred dol-
iar dill at the bottom. The other plate
bore the reverse of the two notes.
After each sheet was printed it was
laid aside to dry before being run
through for the obverse printing. In
some way the pressmen turned one
sheet upside down, with the result that
two misprinted bills came forth, one
with a fifty dollar obverse and hun-
dred dollar reverse, the other with a’
hundred dollar obverse and a fifty dol-
lar reverse.
The cashier of the bank was the first
to become aware of the error. He
found that something was wrong after
he had paid out the note with the fifty
dollar face and the huntlred dollar
back by coming across the one with
the hundred dollar face and the fifty
dollar back. The note held by the
cashier was returned to the treasury |
and destroyed, a perfect note being is- |
sued in its place.
| tences, there being none;
The other note is now in the posses-
sion of a collector of paper money, |
who values it at several thousand dol-
lars. .
In the sixties an error of a s
nature occurred in which a bank note
was printed with the ten dollar ob-
verse and a twenty dollar reverse.
While this bill is not as great a rarity
as the other, still its owner would not
part with it for a sum much less than
that at which the fifty dollar bill is
valued.
The reason why it is less valuable
than the other in the eyes of the col-
lectors is the belief that more bills like
it were issued, and probably some of
them are still in existence. Of the for-
mer denomination the owner is abso-
lutely certain that his specimen is
unique, its companion error having
been destroyed, but there is no known
record of the redemption of the error
with the ten dollar face. It is reason-
ably certain that at least four of them
got into circulation.
Errors were found in the design of
the 1880 silver certificates. These
were rathor the fault of the engraver
than the printer. ,
On the 1880 notes is found a treasury
seal entirely different from any other
ever used by the’ government. The
key, which is one of the most impor-
tant symbols of the seal, shows a han-
dle at the left hand side instead of to
the right, as on all others.
The shield is of different shape and
the stars are larger. The two ends of
other instance plays a part in the de-
sign of a treasury seal. This is the
only issue of notes on which the pe-
culiar seal was used, and collectors of
paper money include them among the
errors or freaks,
The one, two and five dollar certifi-
cates and the ten dollar legal tender
bills of the present issue occur with
what are known as Inverted backs. As
® matter of fact this is a wrong de-
scription, as they are really Inverted
fronts, for the backs of all bills are
printéd first. These bills are sought by
collectors, who pay a premium for them
when in fine condition.
Another curiosity is a one dollar note
of the Second National bank of Raven-
na, O. This lacks the signatures of
both the president and cashier, al
though it was generally circulated and
never challenged.
A one dollar national bank note of
the First National bank of Fall River,
Mass., also lacks both signatures, which
seems not to have interfered with its
being offered and accepted as money.
Still another one dollar note of the
First National bank of Indianapolis,
Ind., lacks the signature of the presi-
dent only.
Slight as are these errors or omis-
sions, they give additional vajie to
such bills in the eyes of collectors of
paper money, who are always glad to
pay a premium for them.
It is not known how many of the
bills of the present issue are in ecircu-
lation with inverted design, but it is
not thought that there are many.
A legal tender note of 1869 shows an
oddity. On the face of the note is a
portrait of Webster, while to the right
is a representation of Rolfe presenting
Pocahontas to Queen Elizabeth, At
the bottom of the center is a small
eagle. Upon inverting the bill the eagle
presents a very faithful resemblance to
the head of a donkey.
Whether this was intended by the en-
graver as a joke is not known, but the
resemblance is so close that it indi-
cates premeditation on his part.—Wash-
ington Post.
A FAMOUS SERMON.
Dr. Dod’'s Compulsory Discourse From
the Text “Malt.”
Dr. Dod was an old time English
clergyman, incumbent of a parish close
to Cambridge, who had made himself
very unpopular with a certain class of
the university students by his forcible
sermons against drunkenness. A short
time after the delivery of one of these
philippics the good doctor was walking
toward Cambridge when he met sev-
eral undergraduates, who thought they
saw a chance for revenge. According:
Iy they stopped him and with mock
politeness urged him then and there to
deliver a sermon. They insisted on his
preaching to them from a hollow tree
on a text of their own selection, the
one word “Malt.”
Resistance being useless, the doctor |
quietly obeyed and, assuming his pul-
pit manner, delivered the following
sermon:
“oeloved, let me crave your atten-
tion. I am a little man and come at a
short notice to preach from a short
text to a thin congregation in an un-
worthy pulpit. Beloved, my text is
‘Malt.’ 1 cannot divide it into sen-
nor into
words, there being but one. I must
therefore divide it into letters.
“M is moral. A is allegorical. L is
literal. T is theological.
“The moral is to teach you good
manners. Therefore, M—my masters, A
—all of you, L—leave off, T—tippling.
“The allegorical is when one thing is
spoken of and another meant. The
thing spoken of is malt; the thing
meant is the spirit of malt, which you
make M—your meat, A—your apparel,
L—your liberty, and T-—your trust.
“The literal is, according to the let-
ters, M-much, A-—ale, L—little, T—
thought.
“The theological is according to the
effects it works: M—murder in some,
A—adultery in others IL—looseness of
life in most, and T—treachery in many.
“I shall conclude the subject, first by
way of exhortation: M—my masters, A
—all of you, L—listen, T—to my text.
“Second, by way of caution: M—my
masters, A—all of you, L—look for, T—
the truth.
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OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES,
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THE REGISTRAR,
State College, Centre County, Pa
“Thirdly, by way of communicating
the truth, which is this: A drunkard is
the annoyance of modesty, the spoil of
civility, the destruction of reason, the
robber’'s agent, the almshouse benefac-
tor, his wife's sorrow, his children’s
trouble, his own shame, his neighbor's
scoff, a walking swill bowl, the picture
of a beast, the monster of a man.”
Then Dr. Dod descended from his
arboreal pulpit and resumed his walk,
leaving a very shamefaced and crest.
fallen congregation to follow at a re-
spectful distance. He was never way-
laid again to deliver extemporaneous
sermons.—8crap Book.
Nonsense Literature.
I believe it was De Quincey who
sald, “None but a man of extraordi-
nary talent can write first rate non-
sense.” He was right. And he might
have added that none but a man of
extraordinary taste can fully appre-
ciate first rate nonsense.—Japan Times,
Two Failures.
Homely Man—I married for beauty.
Sarcastic Man—You remind me of a
friend of nine who married for mon-
ey. Homely Man—How's that? Sar
castic Man—He didn't get it.—Chicago
News.
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one to deceive you in this, Counterfeits,
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Grinding Forests into Pulp.
The work of the Forest Service in gath-
ering statistics of forest products for the
last year has furnished the basis for a pro-
visional statement of the wood consamed
in the mavufacture of paper pulp. Re-
tarns from 159 firms, controlling 232 pulp
mills, give over 3,000,000 cords as the total
amount of wood used. The wood used was
divided among the various processes as fol- |
lows : Salphite, 1,538,000 cords; soda.
410,000 corde; ground wood, 1,068,000 |
cords. The total pulp production by all
processes by the firms reporting was 1,993,
000 tous. According to the census of 1800,
the consumption of pulpwood was then
1,986,310 cords, so that there has been an
increase of more than fifty per cent. in the
last six years. This demonstrates, in a
striking manner, the drain npon the for-
ests caused by the pulp industry.
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ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNA.
Condensed Time Table effective Dee, 3, 1906
Ress poww | Reap or.
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No 1 No 5 No 3 No 6 No 4/No2
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A m. p.m. p.m. Lye, Ar. p.m. p.m. a.m,
7 10 % 40 E 15 BELLEFONTE. 1% 15 9 40
741 651) 286 ...... wii Rericssen | B57 502 927
T 26/16 56] 3 01) ..eeecre. 09 cere 18 51 4 57) 9 21
733 703 308 .HECLAPARK. 845 451) 9 15
735 | 4 100... Dunkles......| 8 43 4 48 913
7391 08 314 ...Hublersburg... 8 39 4 44| 9 09
743 713 318 ..Snydertown.....| 8 36 4 40| g 05
7 4817 13} 8 W....... Nittany........|f8 34 4 38] 9 02
74707 181 3 22 .......Huston......\f8 32 4 35 9 00
751 7 23 8 9 ....... LAMAL......... {8 20! 4 32 8 57
T6317 25] 8 28 .....Clintondale.... {8 26/ 4 20) 8 54
757 729 332. .Krider'sSiding.| 8 22' 4 25 8 51
801 7 34) 3 36. Mackeyville....|f8 18] 4 20] 8 46
807 739 1 42..CedarSpring...| 8 12) 4 14; 8 40
810 742 3 45........ Salona....... 810 412 838
815 747 350 .MILLHALL... 8505/4 07/18 33
(XN. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R.)
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Ii = 3 Bl dersey Shore... one 32 152
4 0Arr. ' Lve| 250 17 20
12 29' 11 30/Lve f WMs'PORT bare! 230 6650
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i 730 PHILA... | 48 26, 11 30
| 1610 8 58l........NEW YORK.rooru| |
(Via Phila.)
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WALLACE H. GEPHART,
' General Superintendent,
JBELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAIL-
| ROAL.
p. m. a. m. Arr. Lye. a. m. |p. m.
| 900
Fine Job Printing.
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R THE LADIES.—Miss Jennie Mor-
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used as offices by Dr. Locke, is now ready to
tmeet any and all patients wishing treatments by
electricity, treatments of the scalp, facial mas.
sage or neck and shoulder massage. She has
also for sale a large collection of real and imita-
tion shell pins, combs and ornaments and will be
able to supply you with ail kinds of toilet articles
including creams, powders, toilet waters, ex.
acts and all of Hudnut's preparations. 50-16
OFT DRINKS
The subscriber having put in a com-
lete plant is prepared to furnish Sofl
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SELTZER SYPHONS,
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SODAS,
POPS, ETC.,
for Die-nics, families and the public gen-
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of the purest syrups and properly earbo-
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The public is cordially invited to test
these drinks. Deliveries will be made
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50-32-1y High Street, BELLEFONTE, PA
DF J. Joes
Schedule to take effect Monday, May 29, 1905,
WESTWARD IRASTWARD
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307 10 206 35 ..... Coleville....... 8 40] 12 40/6 10
312 10 23/6 38 ...... Monis,......| 8 87] 12 87/6 07
337 10 416 43 .....Stevens,...... © 85) 12 35/6 03
.. Lime Centre..| {
391 10 306 46 . Hunter's Park.,| 8 2! ._
3 26 10 346 80 ...,.Fillmore.....| 8 28] 12 28/5 55
332 10 40 6 42 ...... Briarly.......| 8 24 12 24/5 50
3 » B # 0 aS addin... 8 20 12 205 45
Jo 8% 7 12. Krumrine..... 8 07 12 07/5 27
I a Clogs: x ES
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415 78 ...Blor~ ng....| 740 1428
t 20 i735 Pine rove M'ls, 7 85 142
¥. H. THOMAS, Supt.
VETERINARY SU
RGEON.
A Graduate of the University of London
has permanently located at the PALACE
LIVERY STABLES, Bellefonte, where he
will answer all calls for work in his profes.
sion. Dr. Jones served four years under
State Veterinary Surgeon Pierson. Calls
by telephone will be answered promptly
day or might. 50-5-1y
Money to Loan.
ONEY TO LOAN on good seoarity
and houses for rent. ICHLINE,
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. in all the courts Consultation in Eng-
ish and German. Office in Crider's Exchaoge,
Bellefonte, Pa. 40 5
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llefonte,
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| tended to promptly.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Bellefonte, Pa,
51-1-1y Practices in all the courts,
C. HEINLE.— Attorney at Law, Bellefonte
Office in Crider's Exchange,
All professional business will re-
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| H. WETZEL.— Attorney and Counsellor at
. w. Office No. 11, Crider's Eachatpe
| second floor. All kinds of legal business atten ed
| to promptly. Consultation in English or Gelman,
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{ Law, le Block, Bellefonte, Pa. Suc-
40-49
i second floor.
| ceswors to Orvis, Bower & Orvis. Practice in al}
| the courts. Consultaiions in English or Ger-
| man. 50-7
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| in English and German. Office south of Court
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prompt attention. 19-5-1y®
Physicians.
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« State College, Centre county, Pa., co
at his residence. 3511
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Dentists.
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Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All modern
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