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A trade dollar is slightly larger
than a standard dollar, but it is not
surrent coin, and ita metal value is
only about 40 cents, though coin
joluctors will pay 80 cents for it.
Bo many o f these mongrel dollars
were in circulation a generation ago
that most parsons wars watchful to
avoid getting one, but in recent
years they have been so rare that
many people never have seen one.
Trade dollars were authorized by
congress in 1873 for the purpose o f
stimulating commerce with the ori
ent. For many years the Mexican
silver dollar had been a highly val
ued coin in nearly all far eastern
countries. Hundreds o f millions o f
them were shipped to China, Japan,
the Philippines and other countries
in that part o f the world to pay for
the products exported from them to
Europe and the United States,
American lawmakers thought
that a coin o f practically the same
weight and size as the Mexican dol
larhearing the imprint o f the Unit
ed States could be used advanta
geously as a substitute for the Mexi
can dollar.
In the five years beginning with
1878 the United States mint pro
duced nearly 36,000,000 of these
dollars. Most of them ware export
ed, but enough o f them remained
in this country to be embarrassing
because of their similarity to the
standard silver dollar, and in 1887
congress provided that for six
months thereafter all trade dollars
presented to the treasury should be
exchanged for standard silver dol
lars, and after that time the trade
dollars were left to shift for them
selves, being worth only their metal
ralue plus whatever premium coin
collectors might be trilling to pay
for them. Nearly 8,000,000 o f
them were redeemed, and when the
period for redemption ended only
£84,587 of them remained in this
country, less than 1 per cent o f the
number that had been coined.
The trade dollars have on one
side a sitting figure o f the Goddess
of Liberty and on the other an
eagle o f a different design from that
on the standard dollar. The inscrip
tion is “ United States o f America,
Trade Dollar, 420 grains, 900 fine.
The standard silver dollar weighs
412.5 grains. The weight o f the
Mexican dollar is 417.79 grains, but
97.27 per cent o f it is pure silver,
that though it weighs leas its
metal value is about 7 per cent
more than that o f the old tn d e dol
lar. Probably this is the reason
that the trade dollar never made a
hit with, the people o f the far east.
There is ground for suspicion that
the originators o f the trade dollar
thought the orientals might be
duped into taking it in preference
to the Mexican dollar because o f its
slightly greater weight, notwith
standing the fact that ita silver val
ue was about 7 per cent less. But
the oriental money changers quick
ly learned this difference in value,
and the deception wouldn’t work.
The trade dollar was authorized
by the coinage act which became
famous under the designation o f
“ the crime o f *73” in the free silver
agitation which began a few years
later and continued for more than
twenty years.— Kansas City Star.
D a .h .d H i . H o p ...
W ON
BY A D R U M .
Th e Battle of Areola a Romanti. E p i-
—
f t #* sf Rrsmh Hiatary.
There stands in the French town
o f Cadenet, his native place, a mon
ument to the memory of “ The Lit
tle Drummer of Areola," Andre Ea-
tieune, the hero of one o f the moat
romantic episodes in French his
tory. It was an episode that illus
trated the extraordinary military
value, so often attested by the
world’s greatest generals, of what
Othello called the “ spirit stirring
drum.” It may be said, curiously
enough, that Napoleon Bonaparte’s
great career was built upon a drum,
for the battle of Areola waa won by
the beating of Eatienne’s drum, and
the Corsican himself always dated
bis confidence in his own fortune
from this battle, won in 1796. The
circumstances were these:
Bonaparte, hemmed in with a
small army at Verona, between two
greatly superior forces, sallied out
at night, made a forced march, and
with 14,000 men fell upon the rear
o f 50,000 Austrians. The battle
lasted seventy-two hours. On the
second day o f the fighting the Aus
trians obtained such a position that
they completely and murderously
swept the bridge o f Areola, which
the French had gained and which
they must hold if they expected to
win the battle.
It was an unlooked for move
ment. Mo officer was near, but An
dre Fatten ne, the little drummer,
was there. ~ He went to hit sergeant
and told him that he should cross
the bridge with his drum and beat
it on the other side.
“ But,” protested the sergeant,
“ before you place one foot upon the
bridge you will be killed. No
on earth could live on that bridge.
However, can you swim ?”
“ I can,” said the drummer.
T h e n swim across with your
drum.”
“ Impossible!” returned Estienne.
“ Should the drum become water
soaked I could not beat it on the
other side.”
But the sergeant waa equal to
thw difficulty. Being himself a fine
swimmer, he plunged into the
water, bade Andre mount upon his
shoulders and hold his drum clear
o f the water. In this way the two
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drum lustily all the way. Once on
the other side, he pounded it in s
wqy to wall nigh wake the dead.
near were nearly all raw recruits.
Hearing what they took to be the
drums o f an advancing force o f
French and remembering the ter
rible Frenoh onslaught o f the day
before, they fled. This left the
bridge dear, and the French began
to pour across. Andre w is joined
by other drummers. The Austrian
flight became a rout. The French
swept on, with Andre Estienne, still
drumming, at their head. Soon the
whole Austrian force was retreat-
ing, utterly beaten.
later Estienne’s heroic act
Years lati
was celebrated by being represented
in stone on the front of the Pan
theon at Paris. The fnneral o f the
little drummer o f Areola waa at
tended by a great concourse o f
French officers and soldiers.
Sootoh P iw k ln tH .
A “ positively true tale" o f Scotch
pawldness is sent us by a naval cor
respondent He traveled up to In
verness-shire with a Scotsman, on
whose taciturnity hs failed, after
many efforts, to impinge. The
Scotsman stOl stared dully, fixedly,
from the train. At last intelligence
began to show in his face and grow
to ecstasy, and he shouted in his ex
citement, “ Look here, look here,
that’ s whaur it was I” His compan
ion rushed to the window. "In yor
wee town,” continued the Scotsman,
“ I wus charged saxpence for yin cup
o f coffee.” — London Globe.
At a reception at the Tuileries
the Emperor Napoleon III. asked
Edmund About if he knew Spanish.
About, who had been long sighing
for an important diplomatic post,
answered prudently, “ N ot yet, sire.”
But the very next day he went hard
to work to learn it, and a few
months later he said to the em
peror, “ Sire, I can speak Spanish
now.”
Though
the
sovereign
seemed rather surprised. About con
tinued, nothing daunted, “ I have
learned Spanish because your maj
esty asked me if I could apeak that
M or» Praotioal Th a n Poatioal.
language.” “ Ah, yes,” answered
She brought him out a wedge of
Napoleon. “ I remember now. I pumpkin pie and a cup o f coffee.
] just been reeding *Don Quixote*
“ And you only visit this section
in the original and had taken great o f the country during goldenrod
pleasure in it.”
time r she interrogated innocently.
“ How poetical!”
T h . Bye's Blind Spo t
“ Well, you see, mum, it isn’t ex
The blind spot in the eye is where actly poetical,” replied Dusty Dan,
the optic nerve comes through the with a smile, "but when de golden-
retina about one-tenth of an inch rod blooms it is too late to cut grass
nearer the nose than the oenter. an’ too early to shovel snow.” — Chi
To test it dose your fists with your cago Newt.
thumbs outside end held against
each other. Extend your arms.
Gan ulna Imitation.
Shut your left eye and look fixedly
“ Well, I mad* the sale, all right,”
with your right eye at your left said the new salesman.
thumb. Separate your hands, and
“But you lied to her,” protested
when they are about six inches the proprietor. “ You told her they
apart the right thumb will go out of were genuine Irish lsces” —
business temporarily, for its picture
“ No, I didn’t. She simply said
will fall upon the blind spot.
she didn’t want any 'bogus imita
tions,’ and I assured her ours were
Bunny.
genuine.” — Philadelphia Press.
Borrougha— Mr. Merchant’s out,
Bath Extra at a.
you say ? Well, he had an appoint
ment with me here. That’s very
Customer— Have you any extract
funny. New Office Boy— Yea, air; 1 o f beef? Waiter— Y es, sir. Brown
guess he thought it waa too. Any or white? Customer— Brown or
ways, he waa laughin’ when he went white? Waiter— Yes, sir. Beef tea
out.
or m ilk?— Philadelphia Press.
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