Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-06
THE MISSION OF 4 TEN DOLLAR
BILL.

To show what the circulation of a
little money will do and how it will
in a small way make better times, we
start out ten dollar bill on a busi-
ness mission. q The manufacturer who
sells the most of his goods in the
West, pays off his help and lady
who is one of his employees receives
the bright new bill, but parts with it
purchases, giving him ten dollars and
a little margin of profit. The mer-
chant swaps the Identical ten dollars
with a farmer and buys quantity Of
produce, one disposing of his butter
at a low but a market rate, the other
| expecting to realize a cent a pound
profit when he gets returns from his
| commission merchant in Boston. The
farmer owes a bill at the hardware
store and.makes the proprietor lit
tie happier that afternoon by re-en-
forcing his cash till by ten dollars.
The hardware man pays off his help,
and the ten dollars is again set in
motion. The workman owes the
clothing dealer for suit of clothes
! and pays that debt, himself and the
clothier both feeling better for the
| transaction. The merchant has re-
| ligious wife who reminds him that he
ought to pay his minister tax, and he
| bangs his ten dollars into the contri-
button box the next Sunday. The
pastor is surprised at the size of the
last weekly offering and strikes out
early in the week and stocks up with
a line of groceries, which startles his
wife and his pantry when they are
brought in. The groceryman has ten
dollars from an unexpected source
and concludes to invest in some need
ed articles of furniture, which the
proprietor is ready to part with on a
small margin of profit, cash in hand.
The furniture man is hiring carpen-
ters on his house and the ten dollars
is again paid out for labor. The
mechanics owes his taxes and settles
that bill, while the village trustees
! call on the treasurer and draw out
the money and pay for work, done on
the streets. The money next gets to
the milliner, who has waited some
months for it but makes no loss, her
profits being set to cover delays. The
milliner pays portion Of her rent
and lays her ten dollar bill down on
the altar. The landlord pays for a
part of his paint, already spread, and
the paint dealer pays butchers bill.
Next the butcher buys a calf of a
farmer who owes the grain dealer a
bill, already growing old. The meal
Gently done, and he in turn swaps his
ten dollar bill, now getting somewhat
soiled, with the doctor for powders
and pills, which the family reluctant
ly consumed during the sickly season
i just passed. The doctor keeps horses
and buys a ton of hay and out goes
his ten dollars. But the farmer
needed it and drops back to the vii
lage to pay it in toward the moving
machine he purchased. The money
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days, but is soon checked out again
and liquidates the interest on a note.
The note holder accommodates a
neighbor with small loan and the
ten dollars is Gin it'' again. The
business man who borrows some of
his money is using it and it is soon
paid out. This time the poor printer
gets it and is so elated with his con-
dition that he starts out on recrea-
tive and recuperative trip. Then
away goes the money for railroad
fare and other expenses; but it is still
in motion and is doing business in
7 spheres where it is still needed and
| useful.
This ten dollar bill which we have
written about and which is typical of
all money and capital, might have re-
manned in the hands of the person to
whom it was first paid, earning no
money itself, and doing no good.
Once set in motion in the lines of
business and of trade, it pays hum