Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-12

lieve, and wish to pay for another six
months ahead"
"Ah, thank you, Luke; ! wish all my
subscribers acted on your plan"
Don't they ?" asked Luke.
"No, indeed. You would be surprised
| If should mention the names OF some OF
our most wealthy men who owe for from
two to five years back"
Well, hope that won't ever be said
Of me. The rich ones, l suppose, think
such small sums make no difference"
There's where they are mistaken" re-
piled Mr. Quill. "The life OF trade is in
these small sums. And a poor mans dol
lar is worth more than rich mans prom
Use, any time; for material and labor can
not be obtained without money"
Before returning home Luke bought
some delicacies for Sunday dinner,
weekly literary paper and his wife's re-
| ligious magazine. Besides, ne gave ten
cents to little beggar girl, who held out
| hand blue with cold from under the
shreds of tattered shawl. When he
finally reached home his pocket-book felt
| considerably lighter, but his conscience
was clear. OF the trifle over two dollars
which he had left he laid aside two dol
lars to deposit in the savings bank, where
there was already quite respectable sum
| to his credit.
Meanwhile the various divisions of his
ten-dollar greenback, now scattered about
| in different hands, began to chuckle.
| They said, with one voice "This is what
like. I'll see something of the world,
and in all probability do some good"
| Let US see how it was. The three dol
lars and forty cents which he had left at
L batf1 ay ant tn hal N ,1ok a II N
the quarterly rent which Skettle owed,
and which was due that very night He
paid it to Mr.. Balcolm, the owner Of the
building, who, in turn, promptly handed
| it over to some workmen who bad been
making repairs. 1t SO happened that q
portion of it went to a carpenter who had
q sick child, and who was thus enabled
| to purchase some needed delicacies, there
by, perhaps, saving the child's life. A
dollar and half of it went to hod- car
rior, who Immediately took it and bought
of Skettle sundry small packages ofsugar.
coffee, flour, etc. Skettle took this same
dollar and half and gave ii to his wife,
who wished to pay woman for doing
some little jobs of cleaning and scrubbing.
| Now, this woman was the hod-carrier's
wife; and so this dollar and half of
| Lukes greenback went first to Skettle,
| then to the hodcarrier, then back to Sket-
tie again, then to his wife, and then to the
hod-carrier's wife. 1t is not presumable
that it lay long idle in her hands. Gu
rious, wasn't it?
| And the two dollars and ten cents that
went to the butcher2 Why, this was
paid to the boy who tended shop, who
handed it to his mother, who in turn paid
it 10 Carpenter Bailey for some repairs
done on her little cottage. Bailey settled
up his coal bill, the coal merchant paid
| one of his teamsters, the teamster walked
1 straight to the butcher-shop and paid for
his weeks meat, and the butcher put the
money with another pile and paid it to a
| farmer for good, fat cow. And what
| did the farmer do? Why, he went and
bought g wagon at the factory that had
| paid the ten-dollar bill to Luke Preston
over its black-walnut desk.
And the dollar that went to old Gar
| landg He did as he had told Luke he
| should-paid it to John Brady as part of
| the borrowed sum. John Brady said he
had need of the whole amount, but would
| get along the best he could. OF the dol
| lar, fifty cents went for provisions, and
the other fifty to poor old cobbler for
| mending Johnny's shoes. This had to be
Il
| broken awl, and the hardware dealer
] paid it to boy for shoyelipg the snow
| off his sidewalk. The boy ran home in
| exultation to his rheumatic mother to in.
form her ofhis good luck.
And the dollar that went to Editor
| Quill? He paid it to his devil" from
whose hands ii went to poor woman
who had been making him coat, and
L LII n,.I oat,1 fhnr hut na
earnings of her needle. The beggar girl
to whom Luke had given ten cents bought
a loaf of bread, and thus allayed the pangs
Of hunger that were torturing half dozen
brothers and sisters.
And tile thirty-odd cents expended at
the newsroom went into box of small
change. which was Subsequently counted
over and pinned in neat packages of one
dollar each and sent to the News Com
pany where the supplies of papers and
magazines came from. These small sums
from five to forty cents enabled the dealer
to maintain his little stand, greatly to the
convenience of those who depended on IL
for their periodical supplies of reading
matter.
The two dollars remaining Luke de-
posted, as has been mentioned before, in
the savings bank.
| "Ah, hal" exclaims some surly, short
| sighted reader, who begins to see the
point of this sketch, $50 Luke Preston
boards up money too. Isn't it just as
bad, in proportion, for him 10 consign his
two dollars to idleness as for the fat old
fraud to keep his money so closer"
But pause and consider for moment.
The savings bank pays Luke s per cent.
interest on his deposits, and how could 1t
do that If the money lay idle in its vaults?
No, such is not the case. The savings
bank took Luke's money, put 1t with that
of few other depositors, and lent 1t TO q
wellto-do farmer who wished to make
some improvements in the way OF build
ing fences and barns and purchasing
choice breeds Of stock. The farmer laid
out the money to good advantage and paid
the bank per cent. interest, the extra 2
per cent going to defray the running ex-
penses Of the Institution and affording its
stockholders small dividend.
Now about the time the farmer was
ready to begin his improvements busi-
ness was slack in the establishment where
Luke worked, and there was a prospect