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Following High Examples. From the Religious Herald. When in Franklin, Simpson county, Ky., a gentleman gave me an account of a negro who played the role of a banker in a very sharp manner; in fact, equal to any of his carpet-bag friends down South. He ran short of funds, and, strange to say, for a penniless man, he proposed to start a bank. He started out among his country friends to "talk up" the bank and get them to take stock, saying: Do you know why the white folks can always get money when they want it and we colored people can't?" "No, we don't know." "Well, I has found it all out since I been living in town." 'Well, how is it, Uncle Jim?" "It's just 'cause the white folks have banks. When they need any money, they just checks on the bank and gets it. We colored people always will be poor and hard run for money till we have banks like the white folks." In this manner he soon talked up a bank fever among the negroes. When they asked: o 'But how are we going to manage it? We don't know how to 'tend to these n things like the white folks," he replied n "I has done learned all about it since I n have been living in town, You see, you y just has to take stock 'cording as you is d able. Some put in five dollars, some a some three, some two, and so on. I'll four, five of manage the bank, and in four or 1, months after the bank gets a good start e you all can begin to check on it when you d need money." of He soon made up seventy or eighty al dollars among his friends, who were much xelated at the idea of holding stock in a d bank. Jim returned to Franklin and lent out his banking funds to the grocers y ufor flour, bacon, sugar, coffee, whisky, and ed other luxuries of life-in fact, he lived it like a banker as long as the seventy dolof lars lasted. n. In the course of time,some of the stockhe holders being "hard up for funds, came ia into town to check on the bank. ImagISine their surprise when Jim coolly said to them: lv "The bank is done broke." nd ns "Why, how is this? Didn't you tell us to you was gwine to manage it just like the If white folks, and we would all have plenty a of money? Now you done cheat us out of of our money, and we've a great mind to not beat you for it, you nigger you." m Why, you fool niggers you, don't you roknow the white folks' banks sometimes break, and does you 'spect me to be ed smarter than the white folks? Where is ghyou been all this time, that you ain't hern ce tell of the Freedmen's Bank bustin' up at ed Washington, and losin' all the colored difpeople's money; and the white folks was me managing it, too."