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Editor The Star: Sir, I have a faint recollection that many years ago there was some sort of a bank—I think, if my memory serves me right, it was called "The Northern Bank & Trust Co."—somewhere about the corner of Fourth ave. and Pike st., where some of us, when we were young fellows doing our best to save a little money for our old age, systematically placed it there for safe keeping, and also with an eye to business on a small but strictly honest scale, to have a little interest added. Most of us sorely regret that we were not so wise as the foolish virgins of old, as to hide it under a bushel. If so, we might have had more of it today, for, apart from one or two trifling payments made long ago, the rest of it is seemingly to be very safely kept from us. It runs in my mind that someone was sent to jail for dishonesty in connection with its management before its doors were closed by state officialdom. But as time goes on, are we to be driven to the conclusion that its management, or mis-