Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — A BANKER’S MISTAKE. [ARTICLE]

A BANKER’S MISTAKE.

“I recently he ,rd,” said Mr. Gage, “of a banker in Wisconsin, a msnof iion firmness, who, hearing of bank troubles in many localities, determined that he wo’.a not lend a dollar, bnt would collect every Maim due. He enjoyed the entire confidence of the coffin Unity, being a man’of. undoubted Responsibility. So n after the banker had determined upon thi policy a man of substance applied to him for a loan of $ 100. The banker ref need rough.

ly on the ground that he could not spare the money. The would-be borrower, from whose mind the illusion had not yet been dissipated that aibank was a fountain from which wealth flowed, was shocked and pained. He we .t about amongother members of the community expressing his grief that this banker was in suoh a distressing situation. Certain depositors put their own constrnotion upon the meaning of all this. Within a week the banker hims If was a humble borrower in Chicago, having paid in hard cash 25 per cent, of hie liabilities to the community whioh haa lost faith in him,- Ch oago Journal.