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The Stocking Bank

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
December
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mauy of tho Germán Pennsylvania iarmera have long had a saw, "The stooking is 1 letter than the bank." Theystill contiMiii' to make deposita in theformer rather than in the lotter, for which they certainly have had good reason of late, since, whilë a stockiug may be cariiil oft', it never steals the money intrusted to it.s keeping. An old Leliigh county farmer wno 'lied reccntly had iaif.h in atockings. After his death his children mourned the fact that nothing had neen left thero, and began raming about to iind :i will. In their h iluy discovcred Mindry stoekings full of gold and silvor ooin, amounting to, over $2,0(10, wliich had been put away, niainly in half dollars, from soon after the beginning of the century to the farmer's death, shov'ing by the dates they bear that he liad begun hoarding in childhood. It vas evident that he had sccreted only nciv coins, fearing, no doubt, that tilosa that had beon any time in circulatiou might have lost something in weight. Fifteen years ago the wife of Dr. Capel, of Charlotteto-wn, PrinoeEdward island, got a cKvbíce í'rom him, with alimony of L50 a year. Eather than pay tb.is, he went to jail, and ther? reraained tül his death last week,

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Old News
Michigan Argus