Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-17

/ TVS Government, and not with the Post.
MASTER
=" But about the drawing out: If paw
money to you must look to you for it
again, +" urged John.
Indeed it is not So" said Mr.. Lowen
=" give three days notice, and you can
draw your money out at any Postoffice Saw
ings Bank in the United Kingdom"
ANY POstOff1ce Savings Bank! can't
see how they work that" said John.
| But it is worked" said the Postfnas-
ter, land works well. You have no
! bother, no trouble; your money is perfect
! ly safe, and if you leave it there YOU get
~ per cent. for it,
g only gettwo from my present bank ,,
thought John, land the trouble and bother
of getting money out is almost as much as
the money is worth. I'll try this Postoffice
| Savings Bank
He had few shillings in his pocket,
and wisely opened ar account at once,
and, returning home, told his wife all that
| had transpired.
1ou never saw such a civil fellow as
this Postmaster" he said; eff he had
been at all cross and surly should have
come away as wise as | went, and then we
should have gone on in the old muddling
way, always afraid Of losing the money,
as we did before"
But are you sure you can pay in your
money anywhere?" asked his wife.
Quite sure; and beside, 1t is all print
| ed in the book" replied John; nothing
could be palmer. Amy postal town in the
| United Kingdom, was what he said, and
| the book says so too.''
On the morrow John, during the dinner
hour, gave his mates quite little grafton
on the merits Of the Postoffice Savings
Bank, and the pOliteness of the Postrnas-
ter. The book was handed round and in
| spected with as much curiosity as a great
marvel in natural history would have
been by body of savants. 1t was quite
| new to the men, but the advantages of
| the system were seen at once Navvies
may lack education, but they have a
rough-and-ready instinct which often leads
them right, where education would be of
little or no service. Several, already de-
positors in the old form of savings bank,
resolved to pay visit to the "polite
postmaster" and many who had never
saved penny, grew interested in what
they heard, and from a sheer love of nov
city resolved TO open an account.
The result was that on the following
Saturday great number of men, after re-
office. As the Postmaster had been to
one so was he to all, and although the
business of receiving and entering tie
amounts occupied considerable amount
OF time, and brought in no profit, he WAC
amiable throughout, and joined in with
the men, who were full of quaint Jokes
0pT0D0S of the Savings Bank.
Fancy Tom Denny having an account
with Her MajeStyl'' said one, pointing to
a NAVY whose general air was that of a
reckless, Indifferent man q wonder
Tom doesn't go off his head with the nov
city of saving shilling"
Tom turned a good-natured look upon
his companion, and, shaking himself, re-
marked that I" A man couldn't be anv the
worse for putting little by, and he
might be deal better''
Hundreds are BETTER" said the Post
master Il could tell you many stories
OF the blessing this savings bank has been
10 the poor Once man starts putting
money by, he goes on; but the difficulty
with many is TO make the beginning. Our
friend Denny here has made start with
shIlIing--n0t much, but it is something,
and | shall see him again"
Il should have liked to have spared
more, muttered Tom, turning his book
H. Il
in another shilling, master?"
Certainly" was the immediate reply.
"Thank you"
tom Denny will be as rich as Jack
Harling before the year is out" said
another Joker. q should not be sur
prised if they took a couple of mansions
side by side, and lived all their lives reg
ular sWells"
"A man with an account at his bank
er's can put up with chaff," said John
Harling, quietly; land if Tom should
ever build house near me | won't ask for
better neighbor"
''Thankee Jack" returned Tom Den
ny; "and if | do, shan't forget that it's
all owing to you that made a begin
ming"
"And / won't forget that got upon
the right track through the kindness of
the Postmaster here" said John; "but
come, mates, we are stopping up the
gangway. Let this lady come in with her
letter.
There was deal Of talk that afternoon
about the money deposited, and the beer
house had fewer men in it than it had
since the cutting for the railway was
begun. Many shilling was saved, and
few OF The most reflective saw that more
than the mere saving of money would
arise from that days work. Tom Denny,
hitherto a careless man, at the close of
evening, was struck by the great fact that
he had not only put two shillings into
the bank, but that he was still shilling
or two richer than he generally was.
Tom was not fool, and having started
IN the right direction, he went on. He
was thinking all Sunday, and thinking
saved him little money. On Monday,
during the dinner-hour, he went to the
Postotfice and put in two shillings more.
MIR. LoWen smiled as Tom left the shop.
and remarked to his wife:
6 If the Postoffice Savings Bank never
did good to man before, it has, by Gods
blessing done something fundamentally to
save that one from RUM
He might have added that he himself,
by his amiability, had given the savings
bank very good helping hand; but his
klndllneSs springing from the heart, and
being entirely natural, he never even
thought of his own share in the transac-
ton.
Now suppose a surly man had kept Mr..
Lowen's shop, and john Harling had ap-
piled to him for information, what would
have been the result? The good effect of
the savings bank would in the case of all
the navvies have been retarded, and with
some efectually checked. Money put by
under the influence of kindness would
have been squandered in the pot-house.
and an immense amount of moral and
physical evil wrought in the men. 1t is