Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1902-01-17


spea.. In New York State.
The r7sa CT leisure frc-a New York
city w..la l1d Leca l2--zg away
fortnight or SO Of his not particularly
valgabie tine at I1gsericiz. in Ulster
count. -. Y. had made ID lis mind
TO relsr-l T. his haunts II tie netrcfc
lis and naachalantly tossed the tayer.
keeper one hundred dollar note ou'
of which 20 take pay for his BILL IAs
landlord coCid not change the noe.
Neither could Deac EumDer, VINO
was ~.
1t wac rot untl il had been sent nj
about the neighborhood that any o1e
was found with currency enough Oh
hand TO .'breal." the bill Farmer
Beacks had jGst received pay for his
seasons later crop and had change for
more than 500.
1T beats all. an it's singular said
the landlord as he counted cut the New
Workers. change. what folks goes an
does with all their ready money. There
don't seen to lie TO currency No more
10 eIrreneF a-cifcuiatin' at all.
This seemed to be Deacon Blimber's
opportunity.
You crto len here. then" said lie,
when my folks settled. somethin' like
seyenty-five years an more ago. There
was currency enough then, | want to
tell ye Il want silver. though. Nor
it want gold. Nor ii want paper. 1t
was peits.
THE circ'latin' meium o. the deestric
in them days run from muskrat clean
up to bar. There was niinks an there
was ottexs. an the man that could
manage TO harvest plenty o them crit
tiers was TIE man that stood way up
in the rlorey market. But it want ev-
cry one that cou,d gcther i'll minks an
offers, an so musk4ats an coons an
foxes an wolves an bars was the real
circ'lat>n' mejum in them days.
.Minks an offers was what you
nlowt call COVER ment bonds. Muskrats
an coons an foxes an wolves an bars
was the peoples money, so to speak.
If you went to the tavern an planked
down your musIrat skin, you'd git your
snifter o rum and tanZy. but you
wouldn't cit no change. If you planked
down coonskin, though, you'd git
your snifter an two muskrat skins
change.
"A Teller that went in with n coon
skin he was torabIe well fixed. but
with a foxskin or wolfskin he could
shop around quite some. \ man with
a b'arskin-oh, well, Nobody didn't ask
no questions about a man that had
b'arskin with him when he went trad
in.
1T didn't seem pertic'lar queer in
them days the way things was run on
that pelt currency, but I've an idee it'd
strike folks a leetle singular nowadays.
Pears to me I'd have to snort out
laughin' my own self if a Teller should
come to me an say:
deacon, I'm leetle financially en-
barrassed today Ken you lend me q
foxslSin for a couple o days or sof'
THAT surely would make me smoker
if l heerd it now. An to hear. some
shoppin' goin' on today like l use TO
hear it many a time l bet would set
me TO gigglin' like all possessed. Some
thin like this, fer instance, over yender
to Uncle SHE'S store:
''IIow much fer them air cowskin
boots. Uncle Silc:'
Then? Why. fox an COON
"Leetle high. Silas. Can't stan it.
Give you three eoons fer EN-
"'No. Can't he did nohow. Best !
ken ) is three cooIls al musl,rat'
.'Tha;'d he funnior to me than Il mig
ger show now. An somcthin' Ike this
would bust my buttons. | know it
would:
deacon. ken you give me change
fer a wolff
"'Yes. but I'll have to give you all
muskrats.'