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ture.”
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Sure Enough Poetry.
“Of course, you’ve read Shake
speare?”
“Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I
read him a little once in a while. But
somehow I’ve lost my taste for poetry
and such since my boy went to the
war. A page or two in Josh's own
handwriting somehow beats all the
Hamlet's soliloquy and Marc Antony’s
orations that was ever written.”
It sometimes happens that children
tell the truth, just as grown people
tell lies—at the wrong time.
A halting step may be a physical
weakness or a half admission of de
feat.
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can is tied to liis tail, he runs to u
saloon.”
Proper Place.
“Pop, where are they going to put
the bulls they are driving on the ship?”
“In the steerage, my son.”
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Consult Dr. Pierce by letter, all cor
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Natural Supposition.
Arctic Explorer —And at last we
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gins.
Girl—Oh, and then the food specula
tors raised the price of them, I sup
pose?
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NORTHERN WISCONSIN ADVERTISER, WABENO, WIS.
The First Savings
Bank
Depoiiti About SSOO First
Year Overcame Poverty la
Little Scottish Village
By S. W. STRAUS
(Prsnlßest New Ywk u 4 Ctucagt Banker)
One hundred and ten years ago there
were no savings banks. The savings
bank is an institution which was
founded in the year 1810 by Rev.
Henry Duncan in the little Scottish
village of Ruthwell. Before that time,
poverty seemed to be the normal con
dition of half the population of the
British Isles. Pauperism was so com
mon as to cause no comment. Hun
dreds of thousands in Scotland alone
lived on charity and it was generally
accepted as a hopeless fact that “the
poor we have always with us.”
Doctor Duncan was of sturdy Scotch
covenantor blood. He was a man of
unusual strength of character, origin
ality and resource and extraordinary
talent for making friends. The dis
tress of his parishioners preyed heav
ily on Doctor Duncan's mind and he
felt if there was some way of teach
ing them to be thrifty he would have
an effective remedy for the poverty he
saw all around him.
The chief trouble was that the small
est sum the public banks would ac
cept was £lO and comparatively few of
the Scottish villagers had so large a
sum. about $48.75 in American coin.
So, Doctor Duncan conceived the idea
of a poor man's bans, as he called it,
which w r ould receive deposits of any
amount, however small. After study
ing the subject long and carefully, he
published a pamphlet to call attention
to his project, so, as he said, as to
render this measure suitable not for
one locality only but “for Scotland and
the world.”
The only banks the poor had in
those days were a stocking, a chink in
the wall, or a loose board in the iloor.
They were often robbed and the temp
tation to use a portion of this precious
nest egg was often too strong. Doc
tor Duncan argued shrewdly that if
their funds were transferred to a bank,
they not only would be safe from theft
hut the owners would hesitate to break
into them except in cases of urgent
need. In his pamphlet he says:
“If any method then could be de
vised for giving to the artisan a place
of security, free of expense, for that
part of his gains which the immediate
* “WAMPUM”
Indian Money
How Indian Deities Were
“Tipped;” Origin of Term
“Bucketshop*’
By S. W. STRAUS
(Prominent New York uid Chicago Banker)
Here is the story of “wampum,” the
first money to be used in the United
States.
It consisted of clam shells, little
tubes made out of clay, beads and the
like. All these the Indians called by
the general name of wampum, and
when the white man set foot upon
these shores he found the wampum
convenient for ,his use, not only in
trading with the Indians but with
other whites. The Indian name was
sewan, but the European immigrants
gave this legal tender the name of
wampum, by which it has been known
ever since.
Wampum was not entirely devoid of
intrinsic value. Most of the shells
from which it was made were rare.
These were made largely into beads,
highly polished and strung on strings.
Chiefs, sachems, and medicine men
wore great strings of these beads on
ceremonious occasions. Every treaty
was corroborated by laying down belts
of beads. Friendships were cemented
and alliances and marriages were al
ways solemnized with an excliauge of
wampum.
Wampum was chiefly of two kinds,
white and dark purple. The white
was made from the edge of the clam
shells and the purple made from the
shell’s heart, and was worth double
the white. Considerable labor cost
went into the manufacture of wam
pum, for a writer in the year 1714 tells
us: “All wampum is made of shells
which are found on the coast of Caro
lina. which are very large and hard,
so they are very difficult to cut.” He
adds that “some English smiths have
tried to drill this sort of shell money
and thereby thought to get advantage,
but it proved so hard that nothing
could be gained.”
When an Indian was buried, strings
of wampum were always placed in the
grave with him for convenience in
purchasing the necessary supplies in
the next world, and for use as tips
to various minor Indian dieties, who
the Indians believed were as greedy
as modern head waiters.
In 1641 the use of wampum was le
galized by the common council of New
Amsterdam, now New York. This was
next followed by an epidemic of coun
terfeiting, which caused a great deal
of difficulty and led to the rapid de
preciation of wampum as a medium
of exchange. Old Peter Stuyvesant
pegged around on his wooden leg and
did his best to solve the problem by
wants of hi family <Sv not require
with the power to reclaim all. or part
of It, at pleasure, it would be a most
desirable thing, even if no interest
should be received.”
Of course there were pessimists and
suspicion and prejudice to overcome,
but at last in 1810 the bank was opened
in a little shingled cottage. There
were no vaults, but a large iron strong
box, too heavy to move by hand, an
swered the purpose. In view of the
suspicion which he says was enter
tained by many. Doctor Duncan pro
vided three locks for the strong box.
He held one key and two elders of
his church each held the others. Of
course the box could not be opened
without all three keys, in the presence
of all three trustees.
In the first year the deposits
amounted to £lsl. In the second year
£176 was deposited. This grew to
£241 in the third, and £922, or more
than $4,000. in the fourth. For a
poverty-stricken village these deposits,
aggregating more than $7,000, were re
garded as remarkable, since it must
be remembered that ali deposits were
in small sums.
The effect of the opening of the
savings bank on the village was all
that Doctor Duncan hoped for. With
in a year there was a remarkable de
crease in jhe number of those who
sought charity. Thrift and happiness
replaced poverty and discontent. With
in a few years there was scarcely a
pauper in the village, as Doctor Dun
can records.
In the meanwhile the fame of this
remarkable little institution began to
spread and Doctor Duncan soon found
that his labors as a minister were
swallowed up by those of a banker.
His correspondence increased day by
day; letters poured in from all over
England aqd the continent of Europe
and from America asking for informa
tion.
In 1814 he published a hook on sav
ings banks, which was widely circu
lated, and savings banks began to
spread throughout the British Isles. It
seems strange at this time to read that
savings banks could have aroused op
position. This, however, was a fact.
There was a bitter fight in parliament
before the first savings bank act was
passed in 1817. Cobbett, the best
known editor of his day, used his
powerful intluence against the plan,
but Doctor Duncan was a fighter as
well as a philanthropist. He went
before the committee of parliament
himself and so impressed both lords
and commons with his sincerity, the
force of his personality and the jus
tice of his cause that the hill was
passed. This was in 1817. Savings
banks spread rapidly over Great Brit
ain and then over all the rest of the
world.
declaring unstrung wampum no longer
to be legal tender. This was going to
the opposite extreme, and the little
Dutch colony came near a financial
panic. Six months later loose and im
perfect wampum had to be declared le
gal tender.
In Massachusetts wampum became
legal tender in 1640, hut twenty-one
years later the coining of silver was
authorized, and this more stable me
dium soon drove wanapum beads out
of circulation.
After the Revolutionary war money
was so scarce that wampum came
into use again. It persisted here and
there as money until the nineteenth
century, and, indeed, wampum in va
rious forms, including pipes and
moons, were considerably used in the
United States until as late as 1830.
The financial requirements of the
Revolutionary war resulted in the es
tablishing of America’s first banks.
The initial undertaking was tbe Bank
of Pennsylvania, which was started in
July, 17S0. It was described by the
well-known financier Morris as “noth
ing more than a patriotic subscription
of continental money for the purpose
of purchasing provisions for a starv
ing army.” In the decade 1780-1790,
three other financial institutions were
launched; the Bank of New York,
Massachusetts Bank and the Bank of
North America. This latter is general
ly considered to be the first hank in the
United States and was capitalized at
$10,000,000. Actual subscriptions, how
ever, were very hard to secure and
only $70,000 was obtained. The gov
ernment contributed $200,000 in specie.
The New York Stock Exchange has
been traced back to a meeting of twen
ty-four brokers under a tree opposite
60 Wall street, May 17, 1792. The
purpose of the meeting was to agree
on uniform commissions. Thereafter
the brokers met at “Tontine Coffee
House.” Wall and Water streets. The
final organization of the Stock Ex
change was completed in 1817. The
Philadelphia Stock Exchange also
started in a coffee house.
The malodorous “bucketshop” re
ceived its name from England. On
the east side of London loafers had
a custom of going from street to street
and draining every keg of beer they
could find The liquor was placed in a
bucket. After it was filled these hard
characters retired to some out of the
way corner and caroused, passing the
bucket from one to another. The term
“bucketshop,” at first meaning assem
blages of this kind, came to be applied
to any establishment of doubtful repu
tation.
Duly Explained.
“What are pauses?'’ the teacher
asked the first class in grammar.
“Things that grow on cats and
dogs,” answered the siualelst girL—
Pearson's Weekly.
“A dog is man’s best friend.”
“I think a lot of a dog.” commented
the worried-looking man : “but the waj
things are going now, gimme a oow oj
a hen!”
NEW MS GREETINGS 1
The Heads of Canada's Western
Provinces, and Their
Message.
• The United States having been in
the great world’s war for about nine
months, the touch of war’s spirit has
permeated the great commonwealth,
and in every hamlet and district is felt
and shown the interest that was to be
expected from a people whose love of
liberty and justice rises supreme to all
else. Day by day their appreciation
of what it means to give up uow for
the future happiness of themselves
and the generations that follow grows
greater and greater. There will be
losses of loved ones, but there will be
no badge of mourning to indicate the
great sorrow that will be felt. It Is
realized that the sacrifice is the toll
that is demanded for making the whole
world better, and, sensing this, there
is preparation and willingness to sac
rifice until the goal—the defeat and
downfall of despotism —is assured.
When the people look back, and see
what Canada has done, and learn that
Canada today is bigger aud better than
ever, they will take heart, and with in
creasingly growing vigor carry on with
a greater courage. Canada has been
in the war for three and a half years.
She has sent 400.000 out of a popula
tion of eight million, she has sub
scribed to Victory Bonds over and
over again and there is no sound of a
whimper. At each demand that is
made upon her resources, she meets it,
and gets ready for the next. Recently
her people were asked to subscribe
$300,000,000. She handed over $460,-
000,000.
Having already contributed 400.000
soldiers, Canada was recently asked to
approve of sending another 100,000.
With a sweeping majority, consent was
given.
How the war affects Canada is best
shown by the willingness of the people
to contribute. They, too, realize the
great and noble part they are taking
in this great conflict. They are a unit
on making the world better. Canada’s
wealth was never shown to better ad
vantage than in the present struggle.
It possesses great wealth in the soil, in
its mines, its other natural resources,
and wonderful riches in the tenacity
and courage of its men and its women.
The soil and the climate, and the har
dihood and determination of the farm
ing class to win,'by cultivating and
cultivating, growing wheat and raising
cattle to build up the resources so
necessary to carry on the war, are fac
tors that will count.
Probably the best word of encour
agement comes from the Premiers of
the three great provinces where the
bulk of the food products will come
from. When one reads what these
men, prominent in their country say, it
gives inspiration. If there are any
who may be pessimistic of the future,
the message that these gentlemen send
forward should remove all doubt.
Three and a half years in the war, able
to speak as they do, the future should
look bright to those who may have
their seasons of doubt!
Hon. T. C. Norris, Premier of Mani
toba, says:
“Manitoba has prospered exceeding
ly during the year 1917, and the new
year finds us not only still ready and
willing, but unceasingly able to bear
whatever burdens the fourth year of
the war may bring.
“Manitoba farmers, generally speak
ing, have never been in better condi
tion to carry on. Out of her prosperity
Manitoba is giving lavishly toward the
winning of the war. Every appeal for
funds has met with quick and generous
response. The people of the Province
are well settled into the collar in all
war efforts. There's a spirit of deter
mination. of willingness to make sac
rifices, of confidence in the certain out
come, of which there is no room for
pessimism. Manitoba will carry on.”
Saskatchewan had a prosperous and
successful year in 1917, and when Pre
mier Martin sent out his New Year
message it was filled with an optimism
Ifiat was fully warranted.
“There is no doubt that the province
today is in a better condition finan
cially than ever before. True, the ef
fects of the town and city real estate
boom have not altogether passed away,
but speaking generally, the farmers on
the plains and the merchants in the
towns are in a better financial position
today than at any previous time. Our
people are industrious and progressive.
“While we have in some portions of
the Province a mixed population, edu
cation and scientific methods are mak
ing rapid strides and we are looking
forward with every confidence to a
glorious future and the development of
a people on the central plains of Can
ada, of which the whole Dominion and
the British Empire will have every
reason to be proud.”
While Alberta has given over to the
war thousands of her virile manhood,
thus taking from the farmer a large
percentage of its producers, It still
stands up big aud buoyant The farm
help thus temporarily removed means
a demand for fafm help and increased
farm effort to till Its highly productive
acres. Hon. Chas. Stewart, Premier of
Alberta, in a message to the people on
the Ist of January, speaks with such
buoyancy and hope of the future and
so highly of the work of the past year,
that his statement is reproduced. He
says:
“The prosperity of the farming com
munities is reflected in the towns and
cities by increased wholesale business
and bank clearances. Wholesalers re
port increases from 20 per cent to 25
per cent and their collections the best
in the history of the Province. Alberta
being essentially an agricultural Prov-
ince at the present time, these condi
tions are a source of great gratification
to our people, and no doubt will be t*
Canada as a whole —taking into consid
eration the fact that Alberta forms a*
small part of the granary to which th*
Empire at present looks as the source
of its food supply.”—Advertisement.
Camouflage.
“I didn't much care about the wajr
Josh's clothes looked down to camp,*
commented Farmer Corntossel.
“Hasn’t he his regular uniform?"
“Net yet. If they’re going to keep
him dressed that way in hopes of de
ceiving the enemy into thinking he’e
just an obscure peasant or somethin*,
what I say is that it's carrying this oew
kemioofling Idea too far!”
swamp-root Tor
KIDNEY AILMENTS
There is only one medicine that realljr
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine foe
curable ailments of the kidneys, liver
aud bladder.
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Roct stands tta
highest for the reason that it has prove*
to be just the remedy needed in thou
sands upon thousands of distressing easea.
Swamp-Root, a physician’s prescription for
special diseases, makes friends quickly be
cause its mild and immediate effect i#
soon realized in most cases. It is a gjea
tle, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at ali
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi
um and large.
However, if you wish first to test thie
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Cos., Binghamton, N. Y., for m
sample bottle. When writing be sure autf
mention this paper.—Adv.
Keeps Peace.
“Is he a peace worker?”
“I judge so. I understand he make*
the beds, and washes the dishes *£
home.”
BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP
will quiet your cough, soothe the
flanmmtion of a sore throat and
stop irritation in the bronchial tube*,
insuring a good night’s rest, free
coughing and with easy expectoration?
in the morning. Made and sold la
America for fifty-two years. A vr***-
derful prescription, assisting Nature la
building up your general health asat
throwing off the disease. Espcdal#f
useful in lung trouble, asthma, onra®,
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all civ]!*-
ized countries. —Adv.
Not Worth It.
“I hear that poor young Cltoliy Fafr
head lias lost his mind.”
“1 pity anybody who finds it."
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.
To half pint of water add 1 oz. li*f.
Rum, a small box of Barbo Compouwi,
and M oz. of glycerine. Any druggist cam
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for mak
ing and use come in each box of Rafft*
Compound. it will gradually dartwfle
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it fb
and glossy. It will not color the scalp.
sticky or greasy, aad does not rub off. Ad.
Just as Good.
She —“I can’t accept your affectloat*
He —“I’ll be just as well satisfied UP
you will return it.”
The Quinine Tint Docs Not Affect He*4
Because of itu tonic and laxative effect, Laratfrw
Bromo Quinine can bo takon by anyone wltJmnp
causing nervousness or ringing In tbe bead. Tbrcn
Is only on “Bromo Quinine.” JdL W. (iBOVW*
signature is on box. 80c.
When a man tells his troubles t# •>
woman the chances are that some etfcr
er woman supplies the trouble.
SKINNERS
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Feverishness, Wormv #
Constipation, il-atf
thaije mark ache, Teething disorders
Don’t accept and Stomach Troubles
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Use any injector, but Cutter’s simplest and straafesr. S
The superiority oi Cutter products is due to oer IS ■
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