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J. L. Boeahans. Circulation Manager ot The
Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn,
says:
The foregoing statement of The Adver
tiser’s circulation for the Month of Jan
uary, 1917, Is true and correct and complied
after returns and spoiled copies have been de
ducted.
THE ADVERTISER CO..
» J. L. BOESHANS.
Circulation Manager.
Bworn to and subscribed before me, this
Third day of February, 1917.
(SEAL.) R. C. PHELPS.
- notary Public, Montgomery County, Alabama.
▲ VOLUNTARY REDUCTION.
It is gratifying to the people of the State
to note that the Alabama Power Company
announces a reduction In Its lighting rates
of about It 2-8 per cent, for the points served
by- the company. The company has filed a
petition with the Alabama Public Service
Commission announcing thexnew schedule.
Thomas W. Martin, vice-president and gen
. eral counsellor of the company, sets forth In
- the petition the following:
The. Alabama Power Company an
nounces the reduction In Its lighting
rates from It cents with discounts, so
that the net rate under the new schedule
will be 9 cents per kilowatt hour. The
, net minimum bill will be 91. This re
duction will be effective In all of the
■communiUejs in -which thfe company
operates. the benefit of which will be
felt by all user* of eleotrtc lighting. ,
Schedules of the new rates have been
tiled with the Alabama. Public Service
Commission at Montgomery.
This reduction in rates la made in pur
suance of the policy of the Alabama
Power Company to extend to the users
ef Its Ught and power the lowest rates
consistent with the various class of pub
lic service 'which this company Is under
taking to render to the various com
munities in which It operates.
* As stated In The Advertiser a few days
ago the new schedule will affect consumers
In the following - cities served by .the Ala
bama Power Company: Albany, Anniston,
Ashland, Attalla, Austlnvllle, Camp Hill,
Decatur, Dora. Gunteravllle, Hartselle, Hob
son City, Huntsville, Jacksonville, Leeds, Lin
coln, Llnevllle, Oxford, Montevallo, .Pell City,
Ragland, Smith Hill, Talladega, West Bloc
ton, and other users of the “white fuel." The
new schedules will provide that the mlnlmuiy
rate shall be 91 a month, that users of 200
kilowatts a month ahall pay 10 cents per
kilowatt, 200 kilowatts 7 1-2 cents, 500 kilo
watts B 1-2 cents, and over 1,000 kilowatts
5 cents A reduction of 10 per cent addi
tional will be allowed by the company if
bills are paid within ten days after they are
rendered.
"This voluntary -reduction," mmmenti The
Birmingham News, “itemi to be in com
pliance with President Jamea Mitchell's
stated purposes at a time when the Ala
bama Power Company was struggling; for a
foothold In this State. The policy of the
company has been to work out a schedule
of service which will give the operators a
fair profit on the Investment and to supply
energy to consumers at reasonable rates.
There Is no reason to suppose that as pa
tronage Increases there will not be still fur
ther reductions. Clearly, some of the blatant
critics of corporations merely because they
are corporations would do well to revise
their fixed opinions In the matter of the
Alabama Power Company."
It is very unusual for a public service cor
poration voluntarily to reduce its rates,
especially when that corporation's profits are
all in the future. The'Alabama Power Com
pany, it is generally understood, has not
made money yet. but it is building up a great
enterprise in the State, winning the good will
of the people, and in time will no doubt
reap those profits which the enormous in
vestment of the company and its earning
capacity Justify.
The development of the latent water
powers of the State means better and larger
towns, and more attractive country life.
We tremble for Germany. China breaks
off relations.
% -.-. .
It Is beginning to dawn upon our people
that It Is the United States which is block
aded by Germany. Most of our ships.are in
port, afraid to venture out lest they be sent
to the bottom and the livea of their crews
menaced. No nation owns the ocean, it is
as free as the air. Whoever Interferes with
that freedom Is a usurper. It 1s not like
. America to submit
We suppose North Carolina will feel all
puffed up again when It reads The Advertiser
of this morning. Spriglit Dowell, who will
become State Superintendent of Education in
October,.by appointment of the Governor,
was born In North Carolina, but talks like a
Charlestonian
TH* OQPRBE OF MB. FEAGIN.
. The Advertiser cortratulatei the Board of
Education of Montgomery County upon the
Inspiration which led It to make the au
dacious move which will take Hon. William
F. Feagin from the ofllce of State , Superin
tendent of Education and make him County
Superintendent of Education for Montgom
ery. The Idea was audacious because on
"first blush" It would seem that quitting a
high State office for a" county office Is a
come down. Actually, however. It la not a
come 'down, but in the circumstances Is a
merited promotion for Mr. Feagin. Mr.
Feagin regards It In the nature of a pro
motion: the County Board so regards 1C
It may be said that the best part of Mr.
Feagln's work as State Superintendent is
about completed. Fo^ three years he nas
given all of his energy and brain to the
leadership of the educational forces of tne
State. In that time he has .wrought a work
which will stand as a monument to him.
Modern^ educational laws—In some respect*
the best In the Union, according to one au
thority—have been written upon the statute
books.! The educational amendment, itself
the most far-reaching stroke for education
made in Alabama In a decade, was adopted
under the leadership' of Mr. Feagin.\ The
main work now ahead is In the counties,
where consolidated schools are to be worked
out. where compulsory school attendance
laws are to be enforced, where moderu
county superintendence Is to be inaugurated,
better buildings and equipment provided for.
and better teachers engaged.'
From an educational standpoint Montgom
ery county can be made in a comparatively
short while the model county, certainly of
Alabama, and probably of the whole South.
The county ia lined with good roads, the
soil is generally fertile and attractive to the
eye of the investor. While the city of Mont
gomery has built up an excellent school sys
tem, while white illiteracy ia not a problem
of the first Importance in the county, it is
a fact that our rural schools under the old
educational system have not kept the pace.
The result is that in the comparatively thin
ly settled white communities, tl», investor
hesitates to cast his lot. But with the ma
terial 'at hand and with the new syste.n
available, a trained, practical and imagina
tive school man as county superintendent,
the rural life- of this county can be made
more satisfactory for those already on our
farms, 'and can be made more attractive to
home-seekers from other States. Thus the
problem of Montgomery county is "economic,'’
as Mr. Feagin points out; and thus Is a rare
opportunity for a great work presented to
the right man. A modernized county school
system will go far to solve the economic j
problems of the Black Belt, for It will fci
vlte the new home-seeker with money to
Invest and will quicken the work of cut
ting up the large cumbersome plantation,
increase the per capita wealth of the county
and strengthen our whole social system.
This is the thing that caught the imagina
tion of Mr. Feagin and induced him to ac
cept ‘the invitation of the County Board
of Education. He will go Into his,new work
on the first of next October actively sup
ported by the forward-looking citizens of the
county. He is no stranger to the county,
having been a resident of Montgomery for
fifteen years. A teacher by profession, Mr.
Feagin is also a trained executive and ad
ministrator, enthusiastic and level-headed.
The example of Montgomery county ,n
this action is a hint to the other counties of
the State. It is a challenge to the other
counties, too, to a race educational.
The Advertiser is gratified again at the
prompt and wise decision of Governor Hen
derson that it Is his intention to appoint, as
successor to Mr. Feagin, Mr. Spright Dowe l,
who is director of institutes. Mr. Dowell
has been in the State Department of Educa
tion for some time and is thoroughly familiar
with the work into which he is going next
fall. Mr. Dowell is peculiarly fitted for the
post in every way, is young and energetic
and in full sympathy with the new educa
tional policies of the State.
LINCOLN AND KENTUCKY.
Monday was the anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln. who came into this
world February 12, 1809. The.dispatches re
late that in Kentucky the first celebration
of this occasion was held yesterday in ac
cordance with the spirit of the Kentucky
Leglslature, which sit#lts last meeting desig
nated February 12 as a legal holiday. The
redeemed Lincoln birthplace was unveiled a
few months ago. On that occasion Presi
dent Wilson and other distinguished Amer
icans journeyed to the Kentucky spot to
honor the memory of this amazing figure.
While singular that Kentucky should have
waited so long to make a legal holiday of
the anniversary of so famous a son—he that
was born in the satjie State with Jefferson
Davis—it is not surprising that Kentucky
should make its first celebration one to seize
the interest and enthusiasm of school chil
dren and adults alike.
it is appropriate here to recall the famous
peroration of Col. Henry Watterson'e speech
before the Lincoln Union at the Chicago
Auditorium, February 12, 1905. It Is not
only appropriate to reprint the tribute of
the Kentuckian to the Kentuckian; but it is
useless to undertake to say anything more
beautiful and fitting of Lincoln than the
words of Colonel Watterson, which follow:
“Born as lowly as the Son of God. In a
hovel; reared in penury, squalor, jvith no
gleam of light or fair surroundings, without
grades, actual or acquired; without name or
fame or official training; It was reserved for
r' . '‘v ; > i
this at range being, late in life, to be snatched
from obscurity, ftlsei to supreme command
ad a supreme moment, and entrusted with
the destiny of a nation. The great leaden
of his party, the most experienced and ac
complished public men of the day, were made
to stand aside, were neiyt tp the rear, while
this fantastic figure was by unseen hands
to the front and given the reins of power.
It Is immaterial whether we were for him
or against him; wholly Immaterial. That,
during four years, carrying with them such
a weight of responsibility as the world never
witnessed before, he filled the - vast space
allotted to-hlm In the eyes ..nd actions, of
mankind, la to say that ho was Inspired of
God, for nowhere else could he have ac
quired the wisdom and the virtue. Where
did Shakespeare get-his genius? Where did
Mosart get his music? Whose hand smote
the lyre of the Scottish ploughman, and
stayed the life of the German priest? God.
God, and God alone; and as surely as these
were raised up by,God, Inspired by*God. was
Abraham Lincoln; and a thousand years
hence, no drama, no tragedy, no epic poem
will be filled with greater wonder, or be
followed by mankind with deeper feeling
than that which tells the* story of his life
and death.”
OUJt LIVESTOCK &E80UBQE3.
The table published in The Advertiser Mon
day, as furnished by the statistical depart
ment of the Southern Bell Telephone Co.,
should he clipped and preserved by those
interested in the livestock industry. The
table Is of data which will ’prove of incfl
culable value to the' Montgomery Chamber
of Commerce In promoting the Industry in
the Montgomery territory. The figures pre
sent a revelation: they afford "a substantial
and definite basis for all livestock calcula
tions by persons and interests in this sec
tion.
The ' telephone company's Investigator
undertook to ascertain the livestock holdings
of those farmers In this territory who have
telephones in their homes. He found, as
an example, that farmers, line subscribers
numbering 480 had average holdings of 52
. hogs and 45 rattle per subscriber. Mr. Smith,
who made the Investigation, foughly esti
mates that the proportion of farmers hav
ing telephone connections to farmers whit
have no connection is about 1 in 20. There
fore, basing his estimate on this per centage.
Mr. Smith calculates that the number of
hogs In the territory contiguous to Mont
gomery. Selma. Tuskegee, Prattville, Dothan
and other points, is about 500,000 and the
number of cattle about 400,000.
In hia report Mr. Smith devotes consider
able space to statistics of carload lots of
stock shipped by such roads as the Atiai.tlc
Coast Dine, Atlanta and West Point Route
and the Southern Railroad.
We not only can raise stock, but we are
already engaged In It. The industry Is grow
ing faster than any other Industry in the
South. It means more wealth for us than
any other Industry in prospect. It means
economic independence. It U the livestock
country that becomes great. I tls the-city
In America which draws its wealth from
livestock that has made the soundest and
most rapid progress
Alabama's conditions and soil are peculiar
ly adaptable to stock growing.- Dr. Claxton.
director of the Federal'Bureau of Education,
said something Americana should take cars.
to remember when he said recently: "If.
for Instance, by scientific methods the pro
ducing power . of an acre of land can be
doubled, the effect Is the same as If we
doubled our territory." It Is better; for
automatically we become conservationists;
we get away from wastefulness In the han
dling of natural resources.
The Tuscaloosa News in its daily grist
yields this morsel of wisdom and righteous
ness: “Plant pigs."
Editors are holding a meeting at New
Orleans. It lends tone to an ancient fish
market like New Orleans to be visited J»y
editors.
If Lincoln were living today He would be
invited to return to the land of hia birth and
Invest his pension In a stock farm.
THE PLEA OP A Bl'GLEg.
Lear Alabama People:—
You. the parents and kindred of us 1
dlers, the Alabama Brigade, are Judging as
wrongly. We are miles and miles e.way and
cannot verbally correct those false and even
cruel accusations that are being created in
the minds of our own people. I tell you It
Is an injustice and hurts us to the quick.
Over two-thirds of our number were quick
ly and unexpectedly dragged from our work
—the work of supporting our brothers syul
sisters, mothers and helpless fathers. Even
in some cases where there was a large fami
ly, the son played an important part In the
support.
We are not so forgetful that we forget
these duties, and every loyal son doesn’t try
to shirk them, but doeB them with a pleasure.
Some folks may say that a man’s duty to
his country comes first. The trouble with
these people—they are six months behind.
It was with this thought in our own heads
that we Joined so willingly, and were
anxious to come down here. We thought
that we really were needed.
Now our second duty looms up before js.
We didn’t Join the army for a trade, nor for
the $15. It was purely our patriotic Amer
ican blood.
For proof of this statement: There is the
regular army that Is begging-for men—will
pay them. Just as much If not more and ean
certainly offer better inducements in the
way of clothes, equipment and all conditions
in general, besides a broader and bigger field
of travel.
There wouldn’t be a National Guard at all.
The National Guard is a patriotic body and
not a business proposition. And it has done
wonderful work. There were no complaints
the first six months and it was these months
that we suffered the most, the first being
worst of all. (Notice, everything bearing on
the point.) We arrived here on the border
at Nogales. Arlxona, October 25. 1916, three
months and nine days ago. We knew not
how dangerous our Job would be nor did we
care. If we had gone by what we had been
told previously we would be stepping off
In a hell hole. Not so, we found it alto
gether different. Of course we were In a
new and strange land with strange people
and strange weather. Everything different
from the air down.
There were many soldiers already encamped
here, and the situation well under hand.
Maybe there are some two thousand or more
"Greasers" and I want to truthfully gay they
look or at least try to look tame to us Ala
bamians e"ven though they are a wild people.
We encamped nearly *hree miles from the
town. And right there Is* where we’ve re
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The hirst!
To Cut the Tick Army In Half
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—The army
of cattle ticks Is to be cut in half this year
and a wedge of tick-free territory driven
through the infested area to the Gulf of
Mexico By the end of 1917 it is expected
that the entire State of Mississippi will be
released from quarantine and a broad high
road opened for the unrestricted shipment cf
cattle to outside markets.
The effect of this upon the whole cam
paign for the total elimination of the pest
throughout the South Is expected to be great.
In order to secure for the newly-freed coun
ties the full benefits of eradication, it has
always been the policy to plan, as far us
possible, the releases from quarantine so that
cattle may be brought In and out without
bossing through ticky country. The new
Mississippi law, however, requiring all tick
infested counties to begin eradication work,
enables this policy to be carried out on a
larger scale than ever before. Not only will
the tick cease to exist for the people of Mis
sissippi, but the results that invariably fol
low its disappearance will prove a stim
ulating object lesson for neighboring areas
that may still be infested.
These results are too apparent for even the
most prejudiced to ignore. For one thing the
average value of cattle Increases, at once and
almost automatically, to an extent which
mained Isolated from almost the whole world,
though It seemed.
Three months we have stayed here In
watchful waiting, nursing our thoughts and
going through our dally routine.
We think that we have done ohr part and
we see no further need of keeping us down
here
Now, If there is, you, our seniors and our
fathers should know better than we. And
you should try to explain to us. and try to
correct our mistake.
Isn’t it but natural that a son should write
his mother that lie wants to come home?—
and he does, but he would never place one
foot In front of the-other in a homeward
direction it he thoifght that his own State,
his own friends would look on him as the
“Boo Hoo, I want to no home;" kind as 'a
small Alabama paper puts It.
* Certainly the .editor' who published such
an article wasn't a clear thinking mam.
Many fellow soldiers have spoken words to
me conveying the same Idea of this editor
and ajso the authbr.
If my readers have never read the article,
I hope you never will, but nevertheless there
are similar articles and letters published
daily which are influencing public sentiment.
People! It must stop. I repeat, it must
stop. Some may ask: Did they not bring
it on themselves? Who started it?
No! We never started it. An Alabama
paper started the injustice by publishing a
letter some boy had written to his mother.
Every mother had a letter which h^r son
told her he wanted to come home, but she
never thought of anything else at the time
but the presence of that second duty in
her son’s mind.
But when she began to read the numerous
•xaggerated articles in the papers she took a
different idea about her son wanting to come
home, and like all true mothers she set out
to use all in her power to have it so. They
told the men their sons were suffering, beg
ging through pity for their help to secure
our return, which is perfectly natural of a
woman. But the men did the wrong thing.
They published Boo Hoo tales far and near
which lias not only kept us from coming
home as quickly as we would have but has
caused us to be dubbed. ,
And again our own feelings should be con
sidered some. We are very much hurt by
the false beliefs of our own people.
Still again, yju Alabamians whom we rep
resent should respect your own selves ruov
than to make public such a vital subject for j
public comment when there is no truth in,if. J
only for the Intended benefit of a few who |
thought they might wedge out under j'tai j
such a pretext as that pity stuff.
We may'not.be a high notch on tno fine
technicalities of war, but when It conges to
hard fighting or the man’s part in ar thing,
try us. e
1 am only a bugler, the same as a pa; vat*.
The private* are really the army, ■ ate
giving you things as we really see theiitV’’ W»
ask you the people as privates to cor’ all ’
mistakes and Injustices before _we cor.icitiaok'
home. V I
If you don't, then we will changefyour j
opinions for you when we get there •
(Signed). STANT6n ARMIgTE&£^
Montgomery is*.
i’L.
makes the cost of dipping: negligible. As to
the exact amount of'this Increase opinions
vary. Recently a large nulnber of farmers
In freed areas were asked to give their
opinions on this point, and the average of
their replies was $1.25 a head. This, how
ever, the Federal authorities believe to be a
little high for a conservative estimate for
the entire South, and they have fixed on
17.60 as a safer figure, for general use. The
increase varies, of course. In different locali
ties, and In Alabama, for example. It has
been placed at IS. On this basis, .in the
twenty-eight counties which have already
been freed in that State the cattle are now
worth f6,€00,000 more than In the old daya
Since the coat of eradication Is Insignificant.
In comparison. It is obvious that dipping
vats are an Investment which returns liberal
dividends. .
, That these dividends are real, not theoreti
cal, Is Indicated by a corresponding rise in
land valuea In one Mississippi county the
local,author!ties were not at first convinced
that the eradication of the tick actually had
put money into the pockets of the people. An
Investigation showed that the coming of the
boll weevil and the consequent falling off In
the cotton crop had greatly depressed farm
valuea After the tick had been eliminated. .
the increased profits from livestock were
sufficient to restore the price of land to Its
former level.
THE ALABAMA IDEA
Governor Charles Henderson In The South
eastern Land Show Development Book.
Atlanta., •
Opportunity knocks today at every gate
way leading Into the South. No section of
this or any other country ever faced a future
so roseate of promise certain of fulfillment.
The nation tm prosperous as no other ever
has been. There never was so much money
seeking Investment. There never were so
many Investors well supplied with liquid
capital.
For generations the tide of homeseekers
and investors seeking new and more profit
able fields has been ever westward, but to
day it Is turning toward the Southland. It
Is the logical trend, for the Middle West,
Southwest, Northwest and far West have
been exploited and developed almost to their
ultimate limit, whereas the wonderful re
sources of the South have scarcely been
touched.
It Is the Alabama Idea to go out and meet
this opportunity more than half way. We
do not purpose to wait till Opportunity
bruises her knuckles knocking at our gates
and turns away in disgust; we are determined
she shall not escape ua
Alabama is a veritable empire of agricul
tural and industrial possibilities. Nature
has been prodigal indeed of the riches and
blessings she has lavished upon us. and we
are glad—yes, anxious—-to share these boun
ties with all the world. From the Bluo
Grass country of the Tennessee Valley,
through the Black Belt pnd to the sandy loam
Of the Gulf Coast Plain, Alabama offers a
variety of soil and climatic conditions that
makes almost every agricultural product a
possibility. Livestock, grains, cotton, al
falfa, potatoes, yams, peanuts, peaches, ber
ries. pecans, citrus fruits and what not are
produced on the most profitable basis in re
turn for intelligent and industrious effort,
for in addition to fertile and varied soils we
have cheap labor and ready access to markets
through our roads, railroads and unexcelled
water transportation.
Industrially. Alabama is showing a de
velopment of which we may Justly be proud.
The State stands first in natural resources
of Iron, coal and limestone wllhln close
proximity, and in no part of the world is
h.-re to be f^ind such an abun^pnee so near
.together of tWahe materials required In the
oductlon of jfcnl and steel. This means
tfcvt we can produce iron and steel at a less
of <t than they. can be produced anywhere
,*J;-e, and it is a matter of record that the
fettle ranks second In the production of
poite, third in the production of iron and
fourth in the production of pig iron.
l*oi Hand cement, building and fire brick,
to wer pipe, pottery, marble of high grade,
itisphite, bauxite, mica and gold are among
-Vi'.' products, and there has been a steady In
crease in manufacturing in all lines. Cotton
rnUls turning out thread, cotton cloth, can
non flannel, hosiery and underwear; machine
iihdps. furniture factories, carriage works,
<a;<i^tor. gins, cotton seed oil and fertiliser
" these are Irtiuded In this list of
manufacturing industries, to say noth
—all thes
(tip manufactu
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Improvement In the quality of the herds is
also opening up new sources of revenue. In
Mississippi, for example, fifteen creameries
are now in operation, and through these the
sale of more than 1,500,000 pounds of butter
have brought the dairymen over 9500,000.
Baby beef clubs, too, have been organised in
many of the tick-free countlea These are
having a marked influence upon the beef
Industry. One boy said that before he Joined
the baby beef club he did not know what a
fat calf was, for his father never had any
such stock. ,
More profit from a batter livestock Is a f,
prospect that la especially welcome at af 1
time when the boll weevil has demonstrated!'
fits ability to Interfere seriously wjth -.n 5.
agriculture based entirely on the production |
of eotton. Under any circumstances a single
crop system Is dangeroua but with the boll
weevil It Is imperative that there should be
more than one source of income. By de
creasing the cotton acreage but not neces
sarily the production of cotton, it is possible
to overcome, through extra care and labor,
the damage done by the weevil, and In addi
tion more land Is available for the produc
tion of food for the family and feed for live
stock. To make the latter profitable, the
tick must be eliminated. Since the boll
weevil insists on coming In, the farmer in
self-protection, is insisting on the tick go
ing out
Ing of our tremendous lumber Industry, and
the development of cheap water power on
the most impressive scale.
Official government statistics for a period
of thirty years show the following per cent
ages of increases for Alabama: Manufac
tures, 976.9 per cent; capital Invested in
manufacturing, 1,691.2 Jer cent; minerals, 3,
556.3 per cent; farm products, 200.6 per cent:
lumber, 860.8 per cent; railroad mileage,
185.8 per cent; wealth, 397 per cent
In every Instance Alabama has advanced
more rapidly than the United States as a
whole, an achievement accomplished through
well applied effort on the basis of a remark
able store of natural resources and one on
which we Invite and challenge comparison. |
Alabama now has a strong and determined C
association of State officials, public men, '{
bankers, merchants, railroad officials, land
owners, manufacturers, newspaper publish
ers and reliable real estate dealers which id
pledging the good faith of an entire State
in support of the most comprehensive and
skillfully directed forward movement ever
inaugurated. Alabama Is awake, alive, ag
gressive and progressive.^ . .
In her attitude toward her sister States
of the South, Alabama Is neither selfish nor
jeaolus. We realise that the opportunity ■ i f
one Is the opportunity of all, and that the
prosperity of one must be to a certain degree,
at least, the prosperity of all. And there Is
prosperity enough In sight for each and every .
one. Therefore we bespeak their sym
pathetic co-operation, for it Is through earn
est, Intelligent, co-ordinated effort that the
desires we all have in common are to be
realized. •
Let us make the Alabama Idea the Idea
of the South.
THE PAPER DOLLAR.
St. Paul Dispatch. <
In the old days when we didn’t have mucn
money, but hid muscular shoulders and wore
•tout Jeans, we had no quarrel with the sli
ver dollar. When we possessed money it
was a comfort to hear it Jingle, to feel it
weighing on our galluses. But since we have
become prosperous we have put away our
desire for the physical evidence of money.
We want something that does not wear holes
in our modern effete pockets. We want
something which it does not make us round
shouldered to carry about.
And so has spread the custom of the one
dollar bill. The cartwheel was first ban
ished from the East. Now it is possible
to trade almost anywhere in gt. Paul and
get your five-dollar bill changed with paper
ones. In the smaller towns, the towns of
the frontier and the West, the ponderous
coin, supported by the muscular shoulders,
the stout Jeans and the galluses, .is still
tolerated.
But the demand for paper dollars is gr^j.
ually carrying all before it. That is way
the treasury department has decided to cir
culate a new Issue of one-dollar and two
dollar greenback* similar to those of .civil
war dajs. And the day is coming when
even the small boy will look with contempt
upon the money that Jingles but doesn’t buriO
the money that weighs on the shoulders a> J
testa the fiber of the galluses. f