Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, April 15, 1901, Image 2
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Pa., • as Second-Class Mutter, Ma ke all money order.", checks. etc.,pay able io the Tribune J'rmting Company, Limited. Another Paris journalist has been Wounded in a duel. It is noticeable lhat no Tarls Journalist ever gets hurt badly enough to i ake him quit writ ing. Perhaps there is something in the code of honor which forbids the wounding of an editor in such away j as may interfere with his holding a j pen. | Unquestionably cheap fuel is a large j factor in American supremacy, thinks j the Pittsburg Dispatch. But the man 'behind the machine is the most impor tant factor in the whole equation. The [ educated, self-respecting, well paid 1 workingman is responsible more than I anything else for putting American j products ahead in the markets. He j not only puts out his wares cheaply, j hut weaving in his intelligence he ] makes them adapted to their uses— ! the best. The Medical Press and Circular, of London, declares that the tendency to j obesity depends largely on racial and individual predisposition, but occupa tion and personal habits are also po tent factors in determining this prone ness to the deposition of fat in exces sive quantity. The multiplication of cheap modes of transport unquestion ably favors the tendency to obesity, so that with the rapid development of underground and above-ground elec- trie traction in London and other j large cities the next generation must ! he prepared for an evolution in this direction. The practice of raising heavy build ings by means of jackscrews has been in vogue in this country for many years, but has never been imitated by Europeans until recently, and only then when an Austrian who had re sided in this country several years j prompted a resort to it. No one will retort that Americans are equally slow j to adopt foreign practices that have j had their usefulness demonstrated, j Perhaps this difference in methods j may explain why the United Stales is | making such astonishing industrial j progress. It certainly makes clear one | fact, and that is that if Europeans | traveled as much in this country as ; Americans do in theirs, and at the j same time observed as closely here as 1 our people do when abroad, ther® would he less talk of "Yankee ingenu- j ity" and a larger exhibition of the 1 quality in other lands. A RUSH FOR FREE HOMES. Homesteaders Making Itrady for the OPENING LRI Oklahoma. By virtue of an act of congress passed last June, a tract of land sixty miles square in Oklahoma Territory is to be opened for settlement some time this year. Just when President Mc- Ivinley will issue the proclamation en titling the public to race for home steads in what is known as ' Beautiful Land" cannot be definitely announced at present. But officials believe that all preliminary work will be com pleted by the middle of next August This will be the last great struggle for free homes in America. Descrip tions of the wealth and fertility oi Oklahoma have e.: it d much int.rcst In the farms in that part of the coun try, and already Intending settlers arc camping on the border line waiting for the President to proclaim the grounds open. Many young lawyers, physicians and enterprising business men may be found who are making preparations to go to that part of Ok lahoma Territory to se?k their for tunes. There are r ports of new rail way developments in tin territory, and the establishment of new banks new nnilding as oeiations and in 3 r | ancc companies is advertised; In fact, everything points to a boom in that region as soon ac tie Tarn rush" be s\u* Otic of the probable reforms under] the new n gimc in England will be the 1 serving of luncheon at the palace to la- ] dies attending drawing rooms. Hith crto a sandwich eaten in a carriage, un dcr the eyes of a curious crowd- has been the only refreshment obtainable at the j most desirable, but most tedious, o> j functions. I j MICHAUD'S EXPLOIT. * I i % BY FRANKLIN WELLES CALKINS. \ 0 (t Trapper, boatman, interpreter, trad er and freight-captain by turns, Felix Michaud bad. when I knew him, spent 40 years in the Upper Missouri and Platte countries. Short, stocky, of great breadth of shoulder and uncom mon strength, he was of iron endur ance at 60. He was a man of singu larly placid and even temper, yet of most adventurous spirit, cool, de termined, alert, seeming never to be taken by surprise. He was my captain in a wagon march from the Northern Pacific road to the Black Hills when every mile of our route from oid Fort Fctterman was beset by hostile Sioux. Three times they attacked, only to find Michaud ready to receive them. The close order of our march and the un remitting vigilance exacted by our leader undoubtedly saved the band of 35 adventures. When Felix Michaud went to Fort Bridger from the Missouri country in 1840 or thereabouts, he was a young man, untried among the trapper com panies. Some weeks after his arrival, and in the time of revels at summer rendezvous, he had the misfortune, unwittingly, to provoke one of Bridg ets fire-eaters, a hot-headed trapper who could not brook to bo crossed without fighting. Felix was immedi ately challenged to fight,thechailenger naming his own weapons—rifles at 60 paces. The peaceful Canadian, however, not only refused to fight, but attempt ed to explain that he had meant no offense. This breach of frontier eti quette could not., of course, be over looked, so Michaud was branded "squaw" and promptly cut by most of his new associates. Some days later the offended trap per, somewhat in liquor, attacked Michaud with a pistol, declaring he would blow the "squaw Kanuclc's brains out" if he did not immediate ly get a gun and fight, whereupon Felix promptly disarmed his opponent, seized the astonished trapper by the telt, bore him outside the fort's de fences, and flung him, neck and heels, into "Black Fork swimming-hole." This matter raised such a laugh against the trapper that he did not re new his attack. In fact, when sober, hs laughed as much about the affair a 5 any one. Nevertheless, such was the mountain c ide that Midland's reputation was not fully established. "Kanuck," as ho came to be called, was tolerated merely as a good man at taking beaver, and handy about the camps. Two years later he was trapping with a small band near, or within, territory now included in the National park. Among these little-frequented mountains he and his companions gathered so great a harvest of peltries that when spring came their small outfit of ponies was found inadequate to pack all to the fort. Months of hot weather must elapse before the expe dition could return, and no cache would preserve the furs from spoiling so long. It thus became necessary to leave a man behind —one who could bo trusted to caro for the furs, and also to hold the ground against invasion from a rival company. The choice of a man was determined by lot, but Michaud was loft out of the drawing. Some thought be wouid re joice at this, but the young Canadian was niueh hurt at his comrades' lack of confidence in him. When the un lucky member, "Haze" Fonton, ex pressed a conviction that he should never see Fort Bridger again and mndo some final requests of a friend, Michaud promptly volunteered to stay with him. The trappers were sur prised, but ottered no objection to bis remaining. Thus Felix and the big, raw-boned Yankee, Haze, were left in a mountain wilderness to guard some thousands of dollars' worth of furs. As their winter dugout was getting damp for the peltries, they fell to work with their axes, and built upon the bank of a small lake a pine-log shack with a rough wareroom overhead for stor age. Weeks passed into months. The trappers fished, hunted, picked ber ries, or lounged about in enforced idleness, Notwithstanding there were hostile tribes at no great distance, they saw no man, red or white, for four months, and were looking for ward to the return of their friends, when Haze came in one evening from a ramble about the lake, wearing a sober face. "Kanuck," he said, setting down his rifle, "we've got comp'ny on this lake, and a mighty poor sort. Lope Vas quez and bis gang, six of 'em, arc camped down here away." Michaud said nothing, but his face must have shown tho concern he felt at this piece of unwelcome news. Lope Vasquez, a cousin of Bridger's Spanish-Mexican partner, had been employed by the trader. William Sub lette, but had been whipped out of two camps for steal In v. Subsequently ho had gathered, f'-om the unprincipled sort, a band of free trappers, who were more than suspected of being free booters as well. Haze watched the effect of his news. "Guess you'll be elimin' out of these mountings right sudden, Kanuck," he said. "Mebbe so, mebbe not," replied Michaud, in his terse and often non committal fashion. They ate a supper of jerked venison and berries in siienco. Then Felix got somo c'ry deerskins and tied them up along the e.-osspieces overhead. "That's a good idea," admitted Hazo, "hut 'twon't do any good. They know about the beaver. Some fellow got drunk at the fort, and let it out amo ig their friends or spies. They saw m as I came by their camp, but I didn't let on to see them. They've got u under close watch, and we've got to cave or fight—which? "Mo—l t'ink fight," said Michaud. cooliy. "Three to one is big odds," said Haze, dubiously, "and they'll just simplv watch for a chance to shoot us, IIMO rhc sneaks they are, when we stir outside." "All the same." replied Michaud, in his slow, imperturbable way, "me, I weel not run till eet ees nccessaire." "You talk brave enough," said Fen ton. doggedly am. doubtfully. "Guess I 11 stay around here as long as you will. We'll be served like two rats In a trap, that's all, but I*ll stay just the same." The trapper's apprehensions were, indeed, well founded, as Michaud was soon to discover. The attack came sooner than they expected, and like a lightning stroke. Fenton lay sleeping upon his blank ets, while Michaud sat upon some skins with his back against a wall and rifle across his knees. The Canadian had removed a couple of boulders which filled a hollow under the logs at his side, thus making away of es cape, if escape should become neces sary. Primarily, however, ho wanted to listen, with his ear close to tho ground, for any sounds of stealthy ap proach. But the attack did not come in that manner. Michaud was aroused toward morning by a sudden rush of feet out side. and instantly there was a crash at tho door. Its puncheon slabs— they had been pegged to crosspiecfcs— burst into the room, followed by a crowd of dark figures tumbling in at tho opening. Instantly Felix ducked into the hole he had made under tho logs. :i:ui was outside in a twinkling. So Haze was the only "rat" found in the trap. Michaud waited only long enough to hear n short scuffle, and to know that Fenton had been secured and was be yond his present assistance; tli. n he sped away among tho bush and rocks. No one pursued, however, or came out to look after him. If the outlaws knew of his presence—and he felt sure that Haze would not en I .:*-'..ten them— they did not con:-icier his escape as dangerous to their enterprise. Michaud did not believe they would kill Fen ton if they could in any way use him. Tho Canadian posted himself upon a height where he couid overlook the shack, and waited for daylight. There was no stir among tho men until about sunrise, when the whole party march ed out. Hazo Fenton among them, each man bearing a pack of beaver upon liis shoulders. Michaud at once made an accurate guess at their plans. He waited until they were well out of sight and hearing, and then descended to the deserted cabin. Tho marauders had taken nothing but the more valuable bales of beaver and otter peltries, in packs of some (50 pounds each. Michaud furnished him self with a blanket, as much meat as he could easily carry, and leisurely set out upon their trail. He had little difficulty in overtaking them, loaded as they were. He was very wary in his approach, watching them from cover and at a distance. As the country was exceedingly rough, he had not much trouble in keeping out of sight. Once ne got the general direction of their course, he had no need lo trail them. They traveled to the northeast, and Michaiifl knew they had come without ponies. They were packing their booty to the big lake of the Yellowstone, where they had canoes hidden, or if not., could hew them out of logs. Once on the great watercourse, they could easily drop down to the Missouri and sell their plunder for enough to give each of them some six or eight hun dred dollars. All daj Midland followed, at one time getting close enough to see that Haze Fenton, with hands tied behind him, was packed like a burro, his sturdy shoulders bent under the weight that was strapped upon them. Michßiid hepod lor no greater success than to set. the unwilling toiler free. To that end he was ready to incur any person al risk which did not involve obvious foolhardlness. That nisht he watched Vasqucr.'s camp as an. owl watches the 1... rows of whistling rabbits. But the men slept in a row, with their feet to their camp-fire. Ilaze lay in their midst, and a man, gun in hand, stood guard. Evidently they were running no unnecessary risks. In the morning so near was Michaud that he could hear the men's voices as they cooked a breakfast of young "fool hens" which they had knocked over the evening before. He could see the grinning face of their black Mexican leader, who appeared to be in high good humor. tho Canad'an followed through a day's slow march. Another night passed, and the vigilance in the camp proved unremitting. On the following forenoon the route lay across a long stretch of rough, ex ceedingly tumbled bench lands which, from the description Michaud gave me, I think must have been ancient Java beds. In crossing these arduous stretches, the outlaws followed on old elk or buffalo trail, and toward noon their line bad become stretched out over a considerable distance along the path. A high wind was blowing nearly in their faces. Mere Michaud saw his opportunity for a bold stroke. With the stealth of an Indian and the daring of Boone, he wen. swiftly forward, keeping under cover of rocks Kid crawling rapidly over exposed uramocks, until had overtaken the ?.!• straggler. Keeping softly be hind until the man descended a little pitch, Michaud sprang upon his bur dened shoulders, and the '.'ellow went lown with a smothr*ed yell. He was quickly convinced of tho uselessness of a struggle, and a gentle. >rick from Midland's knife brought hio band 3 across his back, where they were tied with the strings of his own pack. Michaud then tied the man's 'egs, smashed Jiis gun upon a rock, and sped on. He caught tho next man carrying his load upon his head, and gave hira i stunning blow in the back of the 'icck. To tie him and break his gun was the work of a moment. Then seeing a fellow, who was but •i short distance in advance, go up on a little ridgp and drop his pack to rest, Michaud covered him with his rifle and advanced rapidly along the trail. The man did not happen to turn around imm u lately, and when he did ;o was looking into the muzzle of the Canadian's gun at less than a dozen tops. His own rifle—like those of his .'ellows—was slung under his arm. He prang to liis feet, stared wildly at Michaud for an instant, and then put up his hands in token of surrender. Me was made to lie upon his face while Felix, with a knife in his teeth, made him fast as he had done the others. Michaud now carried two cocked rifles, one in either hand..as lie hurried forward on the trail. He hoped to overtake Haze Fenton next. The ground was very rough in front, and he could see nothing of the men in advance. He had gone but a short distance, however, when he came face to face with Lope Vasquez, at the bot tom of a rock-worn waterway. The Mexican liad dropped his pack and turned about, apparently to look after his fellows, or to give some direction to the next behind. In a twinkling the outlaw's gun was at his face, and his bullet whistled through Midland's skin cap, cutting, as he afterward dis covered. the skin upon his left ear. Michaud returned shot for shot, dropping one rifle and raising the other with mechanical swiftness, and the freebooter fell in his tracks. Be fore Felix could recover from aston ishment. at his own success and the narrowness cf his escape, lie heard a ioyful shout close at hand, and saw Haze Fenton stumbling toward him. Haze was almost ready to drop with fatigue and the weight of his load, lie had been with Vasquez, and as the latter turned hack, had seated himself to rest when he heard the shots. In stantly upon seeing the Mexican fall, he bad divined the situation. His exultation must be imagined as the faithful comrade freed him from fet ters and burden. An extra rill© was quickly reloaded, and the trappers hurried on together to overtake the other two of Lope's men. They wore found at the foot of some rocks awaiting their fellows. The stiff gale that was blowing had carried all suspicious sounds away from them. They were surprised to see the big Yankee coming, unloaded, but his hands were behind him, and apparently one of their mates wa3 at his heels with a rifle in either hand; so they were caught off their guard. Haze enjoyed their discomfiture im mensely Their guns were broken, and they were made to carry their packs back to their fellows. Then the band of five were set free, given what provisions they had, told to care for their wounded leader, and take them selves out of the country as best they might. The trappers guarded their furs for a day or two, and then, certain that the miscreants had taken themselves off for good, they cached the bales and returned to their shack. The peltries were recovered two or three weeks later, after the coming of the band from Bridger's. As for Felix Michaud, he could not bo induced to take pay for the service he had rendered, but when he was chosen captain of the company he ac cepted joyfully.—Youth's Companion. Workmen'* Cora Tort unci Efficiency. The introduction of steam power into the manufacturing world drove the little blacksmith's shop, shoe shop, the country dairy, and weaver's loom from the village into the city and opened many new problems. In those early days the small workman found it best to consider carefully the phy sical, moral, and mental welfare of his apprentice and his assistant. If it paid the small employer to do this, It will pay the great employer many fold more to have the same thoughful ness for the hundreds of thousands in his employ. The difficulty will be to determine what is needed for this ad justment, and how to accomplish the arrangement even with the needs rec ognised. It would seem, however, that all will agree that among the essen tials to economic production and a proper adjustment of relations are op portunity for thorough training of the workman and his co-operation in sav ing and in perfect manufacture. Attention to personal comfort Is an other of the essentials in the recogni tion of the needs of employes. By this Is meant thoughtfulness for com fort In work —proper arrangements for lunches and food—opportunities for rest, for baths, and for all those things which add strength and en courage contentment. It is not suffi cient, however, to think simply of the physical wants. To accomplish one of the great aims of all such plans—that of securing Intelligent operatives—lt is necessary to afford mental training and mental growth.—The Engineering THE TEN MASTER MINDS. THESE MEN HAV-I BEEN PROMINENT IN TnE WORLD'S PROCRESS. It Is By lis Sclentmr Achievements lllnt the Mnefventli (*uitir.v I> 31ot Dintln — Hi,. Muh t Valuable l>i*covr --1 it-s—lltf (.real Work of a Delicate Boy. j If the nineteenth century has been marked by progress in any single di rection it is emphatically tint of science. Standing now at its voiy close a glance at the personalities who did most toward the shaping of this tendency and the molding of men's minds is timely. There have been greac men in other departments of human endeavor—great writers, great scaieamen, artists aud musician.? -i t it is by its scientific achievements that the century wiil be marked o'ut from all preceding centuries. No les3 a man than Alfred Russell Wallace has pointed out that the scientific achievements of the last hundred years have been greater in extent and num ber than those cf all previous cen turies combined. And it has been not only in theoretical, but practical, science as well that most has been accomplished. In the lifting of the burden of labor by machinery, the speedy transit of men and goods and the alleviation of human suffering this has been the century of centuries. This has been the age of steam. One of the pathfinders in this direction was James Watt (1736-1891.) The delicate boy who could not play the rough j games of his fellows was to startle the world by his discovery that water, so long considered one of the elementary substances, was really made up of two j gases—oxygen and hydrogen. .But he i did not stop here. He invented the j condenser of the steam engine, and the closed cylinder, which has made the locomotive possible, opening the j way to all the progress which the rail way has brought with it. In 17G9 he ! constructed the first steam engine that , would work satisfactorily. It was he who suggested the metric system, 1 which has been adopted all over Eu ' rope. Next to steam it is electricity that has done most for the advancement of the race during this century, and fore most among the original miiuls that solved the preliminary problems mak ing advancement possible wa3 Michael | Faraday (1791-ISG7). He may well he j called the first electrician, for his dis | covery of the principles of voltaic and magnetic induction laid the basis of j the science of applied electricity. Be | fore his time scientists knew that | there v. as a f-ree which they agreed | to call electricity, but what could be done with it remained to be proved by Faraday's experiments. That elec j tricity was possessed of a chemical quality had not even been suspected ' until his experiments in what has since been known as electrolysis. John Ericsson (1803-1889) was a ! competitor of Stephenson in the trial I of locomotives in 1829, but his work ( was to be connected more with the de ! velopment of locomotion by water ; than on land. By the time he was 10 j years old his inventive genius had J commenced to work, but it was only [ alter his coming to the United States j in 1839 that his most famous work was dene. He had previously invented | the hvit air engine which has been so j well utilized in our modern gas ma chines. but he will live longest in the j memory of men as the inventor of the screw propeller for ships. Tho first vessel to which he applied this original device was the Princeton in 1843. His place in history will be always con nected also with his conception of the Monitor which played so great a part in tho naval engagement in Hampton Roads. Th type or vessel modeled after this first example is called a j monitor even now. In the later years i of his life Ericsson devoted his in- I ventive genius to the perfecting of tor pedoes and torpedo boats. I Natural science has progressed mar vellously in these hundred years and it is to the mi ml of George Cuvier (1709-1832) that much of it is due. What Linnaeus had done in the previ ews century toward the classification of animals was now put upon a scien tific basis. Cuvier established the his tory of the animal kingdom in the light of comparative anatomy, and laid the foundations of tho study of prehistoric animal life by his wonder ful restorations of extinct species from single fragments. It is a common place new to speak of the age of the mammoth or the plesiosaurus. Cuvier was the first to grasp the fact that our ago is only the latest in a long series of geologic ages. I The natural successor of Cuvier, profiting by his researches and at the same time bringing to bear a new theo ry by which he explained the rela tionship between tho different species in the animal kingdom was Charles Darwin (1809-1882). It seems strange to us that it is less than 50 years since the publication of the "Origin of Species," in which the principle of evo lution was laid down explicitly for the first time, for it has been so generally - accepted that it is as familiar almost as our A, B, Cs. Others had dimly per ceived something of the universal law. but Darwin made it clear, and furnished the key to the many prob lems of zoology which had been con sidered unsolvable before his time. His work crowned that of Cuvier. Medical science has progressed along the pathway of bacteriology chiefly during the century and among tho leaders in this work has been Louis Pasteur 1822-1895). As a young man he succeeded in solving more than one difficult problem in chemistry, interesting the world of science by his discoveries in the field of bacterial life. He devised a method of filtration of water which has stood tho best tests, based as it is upon solid scientific principles. His work best —„ known to the public, however, is his discpvery of the virus by which rabies is prevented. If medical science has made some steps ft rward surgical scic nee has ad vanced by leaps and strides. Much of this hn3 been made possible by the dis covery of anaesthetics and antiseptics, but chiefly by the latter. No one has ('.one such pioneer work in this direction as Sir Joseph Lister, born in 1827. As early as 18C3 he had sug gested the valuable method of guard ing against danger from the use of chloroform in operations by noting the breathing of the patient. His study of micro-organisms led him to present some startling conclusions in ISC7 when he suggested that wound fever was caused by little germs in the air, and that if operations were per formed under proper conditions there need be no fever. Carbolic acid was 4 first used for this purpose, and later other drugs were found useful. The surgeons of Germany accepted the now idea immediately, but it was only after years of demonstration that the con servative British practitioners were convinced of a fact now accepted by every student in the world who knows . anything at all about the subject. The man who did most to alleviate the woes of a certain class of workers was Eiias Howe (1819-18B7), the in ventor of the sewing machine. It may seem that he has only substituted me chanical slavery for manual, but the possibility of cheap clcithipg arose with his invention, and if the machine has been abused it is not the fault of this most useful invention. It is only 48 years since the first machine fac tory was opened in Bridgeport, but what a change it has made in the in dustrial and commercial world. A discovery which has done much for science as well as art during the century is that of photography, duo to Louis Jacques Mande Da guerre (1787- 1851. It is true that it was an acci dent by which he found the combina tion or chemicals which would fix sun-pictures permanently on a p'.ate, but no had been working to find this agent for many years, perfecting the camera obscura, and laboring with might and main toward this end. The accident only hastened a discovery upon which Daguerre was bent, and which has proved invaluable with all of the improvements which have fol lowed upon his primary labors. < In geography the century's advance has been extraordinary. The greatest of the leaders in this work was David Livingstone (ISI3-1873), who be -:;n as a medical missionary to Africa and enned by adding wide areas of the "dark continent" to the map of the world. In 1849 he found the Ngami, the great inland lake or central sea of South Africa; in 185G he had traversed South Africa from ocean to ocean, and by 1859 had discovered Nyassa lake. For 30 long years he had been under constant pressure, fighting his way through the wilds of Africa, not with mighty guns and hosts of car riers, but by the might of entharia-.m and tho gentleness which wins when all other means fail. It lias been a marvelous century, with many marvelous men in it, but these ten may servo as representatives of its scientific achievements.—Wash ington Star. Trigonometry in X-liny Work. "Few people know," said Dr. J. C. Egelslon while performing an o;., ra tion at the city hospital, "that il. takes trigonometry to locate a bullet in the body. But in every X-ray op ration in which tho bullet or foreign sub stance is deeply imbedded a mathe matical computation is necessary to show just how deep the bullet i.. The X-rays make the fiesh transparent, leaving only the hones and foreign substance visible, so that you see just where the bullet is and yet you don't know where It is. You know its lati tude and longitude, so to speak, but those measurements are surface measurements and you don't know how deep the object is beneath the surface. The point on the surface of the body beneath which the bullet is can be readily located, hut how tar beneath that point is the bullet? "This is the question that trigonom etry has to answer and by knowing tiie answer a great deal of unneces sary cutting may bo saved, and what might otherwise be a difficult and dan gerous operation may be rendered comi>aratively safe and easy. If the bullet enters one side of the body, for instance, and lodges within an lilrh or two of the skin on the other side, the other side of the body would be the one from which to operate."—Kan sas City Journal. Knlll. (•punish Titles l'nr Snle. Aii agent in Paris is sending out a circular marked "confidential" to rich but untitled people in Europe offering to sell them titles of Spanish nobility, r Some circulars have been received in this country, but have met with few or no responses. When an American wants to buy a title these days he is mighty particular as to the quality and buys it in the open market after n careful examination of the goods. Not so a European, who will take any old title which he can buy and be thankful. The enterprising Paris broker offers the tille of baron, vis count or count at prices ranging from SSOO to SIOOO, and declares that the let ters patent conferring the title chosen will be attested legally by the Spanish government. One Well-Paid Bunk Cleric. "I tell you. bank clerks are not sufficiently remunerated," exclaimed the broker, quite forcibly. "Oh, I don't know." said the bank president, with a sad smile; "our last receiving teller got about $20,000 a year for six years."—Brooklyn Life.