. Ralph's scrap book . \^0(rAfi/tlKcin<t ncQiikinn J ^iTii/sundt^tiutd iir</ifii/i J THE HEN INDUSTRY—? NEW MASSACHUSETTS INN twent)- ilollar gold ]iieces, unless he asks for [laper money. \ery little paper money is in circulation thatbrought here by tourists. ()n the counter and in moneytills of the banks are seen tier after tier of five, ten and 305 twenty dollar pieces of that miKh-talked-abimt i;i)ld standardrepresentative, and I have \ct tn learn nf a siKcr man whoscorns to look at or take it. The silver dollars are there inlarge numbers, but ni) one asks for a hundred siher
. Ralph's scrap book . \^0(rAfi/tlKcin<t ncQiikinn J ^iTii/sundt^tiutd iir</ifii/i J THE HEN INDUSTRY—? NEW MASSACHUSETTS INN twent)- ilollar gold ]iieces, unless he asks for [laper money. \ery little paper money is in circulation thatbrought here by tourists. ()n the counter and in moneytills of the banks are seen tier after tier of five, ten and 305 twenty dollar pieces of that miKh-talked-abimt i;i)ld standardrepresentative, and I have \ct tn learn nf a siKcr man whoscorns to look at or take it. The silver dollars are there inlarge numbers, but ni) one asks for a hundred siher dollarsinstead of five double eagles in gold. The banks all have a strong iron fence between theircustdmers and this despised yellow metal, and I won-dered if it was there to prevent worshippers <if the whitemetal from consigning the nasty yellow stuff to the ashbarrel. A man who is wealthy enough to have five dnUars, hasused all his small change and is famishing fur five centsworth of peanuts, passes nut his f
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