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Show A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial Com-mercial gives the following incident, illustrative of the value of two classes of investments: An instance of tho value of faith in Uncle Sam was brought to my attention in an eastern stale. In lSii5 two rolatives received each 5SOO0 in paper currency-greenbacks. currency-greenbacks. One built a house and the other put his into United States bonds, which he bought at par. Theso bonds, including gold interest, compounded havo more than doubled, so that now lie has as a not result the value of $1,000 currency. The one who put his $$,000 into a house building it in the ''tluarv' times, when labor and material were high has a building that could be dtto-liealrd dtto-liealrd to-day in every particular ror t,UO0! The case was such a striking oa? of dulVrent results from investments of the samo amount at rhe same time that I made a note of it. |