This phrase, among mercantile men. is a term well understood to be anything which can readily be converted into money; but it is not necessarily or primarily money itself. McFad-den v. Leeka, 48 Ohio St 513, 28 N. E. 874; Benedict v. Huntington, 32 N. Y. 224; Brigham v. Tlllinghast, 13 N. Y. 213.