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walking a little way behind, observed them, and 
immediately picked them up. We expected to see 
him put them in his pockets and run away; but we 
had mistaken his character. “Here! here!” he 
shouted to the man, who stopped, and the honest 
little fellow restored him his property. He was re¬ 
warded with one of the finest of the peaches, and 
went on his way rejoicing—but that was not all. 
Just then he met two of his companions, and im¬ 
mediately divided his peach with them. Was not 
that a noble hearted little fellow ? We could but 
love him, ragged and dirty as he was. The part 
of the peach he had for his own portion, was 
sweetened by kindness, by honesty, and generosity, 
and was more luscious than the most costly fruit 
could have been, if obtained dishonestly. 
The War and Corns.—“How is your busi¬ 
ness now?” asked a gentleman of a “corn doctor” 
who was extracting a troublesome bunion for him. 
“Poor, very poor; the hardest times I’ve seen in 
many a year,” was the reply. “ Why, surely the 
war does not affect your business,” said the gen¬ 
tleman. “Yes it does,” rejoined the practition¬ 
er ; “ people wear their old boots and shoes now, 
and they don’t get corns.” 
About the Treasury Notes, etc. 
As a matter of special interest at this time, we 
present a wood engraving of the face of one of the 
new United States Treasury Notes, now being issued 
oy the Government. The notes themselves are just 
the size of the one here shown, but they are en¬ 
graved on steel, with much liner lines and more 
beautiful than we could print them even on the 
good paper used for the Agriculturist. Those is¬ 
sued by the Government are on the best bank note 
paper. In the notes themselves, the large orna¬ 
mental C’s behind the words United States, and also 
the figures 100 in each lower corner, are printed 
in green color. The four names on our engraved 
note are fictitious ones, put in to show how the 
notes look when complete. On the genuine notes 
and coupons the name of the U. S. Treasurer, or 
his Assistant, is inserted in the place of Stearns and 
Jocelyn, and the purchaser’s name instead of Ben¬ 
nett. * The back of the note is beautifully en¬ 
graved with lathe-work, printed in green, with daily 
rate of interest, etc. Notes of four different de¬ 
nominations are made, viz: for $50, $100, $1000, and 
$5000. This one is for $100. The annual interest 
is seven and three-tenths per cent, that is, 7 cents 
and 3 mills on the dollar, or 730 cents for $100, 
which for 365 days is just 2 cents a day, or 1 cent a 
day for $50. The interest on the first fifty mil¬ 
lion dollars is to be paid every six months, reckon¬ 
ing from the 19th day of August—the day on which 
the loan was given out. This interest is to be paid 
either at the Treasury Buildings at Washington, or 
at any one of the depositories of public money, at 
New-York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, St. 
Louis, etc. To save the trouble of carrying a note 
to one of these paying offices, coupons are attached 
to the notes. A coupon on a note, or on a railroad 
or other bond, is something to be cut off. (It is 
pronounced koo-poug.) These notes run three 
years. At the end of the first six months, the first 
coupon is cut off, and carried or sent to a paying of¬ 
fice, and exchanged for the interest it calls for, in 
gold. These coupons, as they become due, are just 
as good as bank bills, (better than many bills,) for 
they will command gold. They can therefore be 
sold to the nearest bank, for gold, and will doubt¬ 
less be taken by merchants and all others just the 
same as money, so that no one will have to trouble 
himself to go or send to the Treasury for money. 
Any of our distant subscribers can send one of 
these notes or coupons, in payment for a club of 
subscribers, if he have one or can buy one from a 
neighbor. In short, both the note and the coupon 
wp everywhere answer for money. The coupons 
are v,t good until about due. There are five cou¬ 
pons','half-yearly payments of interest. The 
6ixtli cC) V p 0n -win be the note itself, for the last 
payment ox^erest w ill be made when the note it¬ 
self is paid k its maturity in three years. Any 
holder of these - 0 tcs can, at any time, change them 
for 20-year notes, which 
are more valuable 
where one wishes to 
put out money perma¬ 
nently at interest. 
The notes grow more 
valuable daily, because 
<he interest is all the 
while accu mulating. If 
one of $50 is bought to¬ 
day, (Sept. 17,) it costs 
$50.30, because it has 
accumulated one cent a 
day interest since Aug. 
19, which the holder 
will get back on the 
19th of February. If 
bought or sold on Nov. 
1st, it will then be 
worth $50.73. It will 
thus be seen that these 
notes will be a very 
convenient form of 
holding money. They 
are money that draw 
interest every day they 
are held, which is not 
the case with bank 
bills or gold. Besides, 
these are otherwise just 
as good as gold, be¬ 
cause they are to be 
paid in gold; while 
they are superior to 
bank bills, because they 
are secured by all the 
property of the coun¬ 
try. If the government 
of our country could 
fail, nothing else would 
be of any value. So we 
see that these notes are 
the very best invest¬ 
ments one can make, if 
money is to be put out 
on interest. The inter¬ 
est itself is over seven 
per cent, which is high¬ 
er than most other safe 
investments pay. 
But there is another 
even stronger reason 
why every body should 
buy what ho can of 
these notes, even if it 
be but one of the 
smallest. The govern¬ 
ment is engaged in a 
war which concerns 
each of us, aud upon 
the success of which 
depends any future val¬ 
ue our homes and our 
possessions may have. 
Money is required to 
carry on the war—to 
buy guns, ammunition, 
ships, build forts, etc., 
and to clothe, feed, and 
pay the men who fight 
our battles for us. Usu¬ 
ally, money for war pur¬ 
poses is borrowed of 
capitalists—much of it 
generally from other 
nations who are at 
peace and can spare it 
easily. In the present 
case, some of the lead¬ 
ing aristocratic men of 
Great Britain who have 
long been jealous of the 
example of our great 
free country, aie trying 
to prevent us from bor¬ 
rowing money abroad. 
