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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1897)
',5- A' - - " T4 r- - i- -pv -3?Hfr THE COURIER. II !? kVi ?:. SE ! . ? . f- n- m :x r.-i- fe. HIS RECOMMENDATION. "He dance well," so said the fookers on, Who-watchtd him in the mazy waltz, Fair women smiled and waved their jewelled fans, "He dances well, whatever else his faults." And all through life he danced his thoughtless way, as welcomed by the idle laughing throng, The open sesame "He dances well," As o'er the flower-strewn path he tripped along. But death reached out and clutched the dancer's feet, The merry music changed to dirge and knell, And to the gates of heaven he carried in his hand The verdict of the world "He dances wells" St. Peter eyed the dancer's character, And slowly scratched his good right ear, Then said, "You'd better take a lower birth, Through oversight we have no dance hall here." William ReedDunroy. GERMAN SAVINGS BANK Municipal Control is Likely to Be Supplant ed by National Authority. William E. Curtis writes from Berlin to the Chicago Record that in Germany the savings-banks system is managed by (he municipal government, instead of the national authorities, as in England, France, Belgium, Italy and other Euro pean countries. The 6) stem dates bact for nearly a century and, with the ex ception of some ucimportant details, is uniform throughout the empire. Ger man thrift is proverbial. There are no other people in the world who can do without luxuries and things that they do not actually need with to great a de gree of contentment. From the cradle Ihe children are taught economy. It is as much a matter of education as tho catechism. In some of the schools tho children are instructed to gather during their play hours and on their way to and from their homes all such appar ently valueless objects as old bottles, tin cans, refuse metals, etc., which are sold to the junkshops and the proceeds deposited to the credit of the child in the nearest savings bank. The same spirit that inspires this economy has caused the number of depositors in the savings banks of the empire to exceed the number of households. It is often the case that every child and every ser vant in a family has his or her own ac count at the bank, wLicb. when it amounts to a certain sum, is withdrawn for permanent invejt-nent. The usual rata of interest paid by the municipal savings banks in Germany is 2 per cent and," although their manage ment is intrusted to the municipalities, the banking inspect Jrs of the general government exercise a supervisiou-over them. There is usually a general office, with a director in chief at the city hall, whose principal duty is to receive remit tances from branch offices that are established in every ward. These funas he invests in government bonds or in securities of equal value. The latitude of investment is much greater than is allowed the pDstal savings bank author ities in England or France. The funds may l9 invested in gilt-edged real estate mortgages and even in the erection of buildings. But before this is done the proposition must be submitted to the committee of the comtucn council which has jurisdiction over the savings banks. This committee, which is composed of practical financiers, bankers, merchants and manufacturers and men who are in tne habit of handling money, acts as a sort of board of directors for tho system. In Berlin there are seventy-nine branch offices with 4S.t.O0O depositors out of a population of 1,SOO,00 and the total deposits are a little more than 810,000,000. In Dresden the ravings banks show a etill larger utility in pro lortion to the population. Although the number of people In Dresden is only about one-fifth as many as in Berlin, there are half as many depositors in the savings banks and the deposits exceed $22.('00,00O. In gome of the other cities the proportion is much larger. In the town of Aix-la-Chapclte, for example, wtth'only 110.189 population, theic are over 100,000 depositor, with credits of more than $20,000,000. In Altona. a city of 140,000 people, there are over 130,000 depositors, with nearly 820,000,000 to their credit. This illustrates the extent and the value of the service; but there is a great deal of complaint from the agrarians that no provision is made by the govern ment for receiving the savings of the fanning papulation, and an agitation has been going on for some yt are in favor of a transfer of the municipal syn tern to the postal authorities and the adoption of something like the French system. The Kolnixche Zeitnmj of a recent date contained an interesting ar ticle on this subject in which the ad vantages of such a transfer were set forth at .length, and the necessity of making provision for the farmers as well as the mechanics in the cities and the larger towns was demonstrated in forci ble language. "It cannot be denied,'" the writer 6ays, "that hundreds of thousands of people in the empire would gladly lay by a part of their wages every month if they were nut prevented by insufficient opportuni ties. An imperial post savings Bystem would be of the greatest advant age, particularly to the agricultural classes, for there is a postoffice within convenient reach of every farmer, the postal system is everywhere trusted, and would not only furnish a convenient op portunity for depositors, but an easy method of payment." The late Emperor Frederick xas a great believer in the postal savings bank system, and if he had lived it is probable that it would have been adopted in Ger many long ago. CHEAP RATES TO TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL AND EXPOSITION ' At Nashville, Tenn., May 1ft to October SO. Beginning May 4 and on each subsequent Tuesday the Missouri Pacific will sell tickets from Lincoln to Nashville and return at $35.15, good 20 days from date of sale. The Kantas and Nebraska limited, leaving Lincoln at 2:30 p. m., makes better time by from two to five hours each way than any other line. Maps, time tables and further infor mation at city ticket office, 1201 0 street. I P. D. CORNELL. C. P. & T. A. Painting Cow Home Is amatter of man, brush and paint more or less. The paint is not the least important of the three. You want paint that sticks and paint that has color. The main point in paint besides prettiness is perfect body and paint that holds on. "We sell the famous MOUND CITY HORSESHOE BRAND. I w3 , t .-s U f. and pride ourselves on selling the best paint in the city. We warrant it to be the ideal paint. Of course we sell brushes and everything for painting purposes. We also line up in the front rank with the largest glass and paint houses in the west. Esti mates cordially furnished. V. Standard Qlass ard Pairt Go Wliolesnle cmcl Retull. 1312 to 1310 O Htreet. Flllllr Arrittex-, J. 13. Meyer, Proprietor. Manager. J. V. MITCHELL. 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