Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — The Ancient War Chest, [ARTICLE]

The Ancient War Chest,

, Once upon a time there really was a w r ar chest—an actual, literal war chest. Kings of England respected the demands of that chest to a greater extent than they were wont to respect the requirements of a good many other deserving institutions, and all the gold pieces that they felt they could spare from their own pet enterprises they dropped into it as a child put pennies in his little tin bank. Government officials say when I ask them half seriously if the war chest is to-day hidden away in some burglarproof vault, that no such thing now exists, that in these days of blue books and public reports that any one can buy for a cent, there is no chance for any such secret fund. Germany, however, is popularly supposed to have a strongly guarded war chest, and so it is believed, have Italy and Austria.— Atlanta Constitution.