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TAKING OUT MONEY. The world of fianance feels the first flutter of distrust. Depending upon the circumstances sometimes it is to a high degree and sometimes lower. In Chicago the result of the Stensland bank scandal has been a falling off in deposits in the other banks to the amount of three per cent. Going out through hundreds of different persons it is hard to tell what is being done with it. This is the time of the year when the savings on deposit begin to increase, but under the abnormal conditions in Chicago the unusual results. Some of it may be placed in the strong boxes, some may have thought it safer to invest in real estate than to place money in the banks, and some may have concluded that they might as well spend it themselves as to have somebody else spend it. But it is gone from the vaults and the books of the banks. Perhaps the wonder should be that more have not withdrawn their deposits, but the greater portion of the people are reasonable and have an ordinary amount of business sense. They know that where there is one who would steal their savings there are a thousand who will protect them. The run on the Pullman bank was stopped by the action of some of the "kings" of the foreign element in the car shop town, who had faith in the institution to such an extent that in the face of the mob that was demanding its money they went calmly in and laid down more that was to be placed upon deposit to their credit. Example was better than precept and was sufficient to convince the more ignorant, who follow their leaders, who are depended upon to know better the ways of the American, that there was nothing to fear.