WANT CLEAN NOTES
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OBJECT TO
HANDLING DIRTY MONEY.
Consequently Uncle Sam Is Kept Busy
Destroying Old and Making
New Bills—Barometer of
Country's Prosperity.
“The redemption of wornout paper
money is now averaging $2,000,000 a
day. During the fiscal year just closed
the government redeemed and de
stroyed the enormous total of $040,
000,000, Which is easily the largest
amount redeemed in any single year.
These figures show that there is great
activity in business circles through
out the country.”
The foregoing statement was made
by United States Treasurer Treat. He
says that one of the best barometers
of the state of national prosperity is
to be found in the daily reports of the
redemption division of the treasury
department. When trade is brisk
throughout, the country and people are
buying_aOd merchants are selling, the
medium of circulation passes rapid
ly from hand to hand. When paper
money, worn and ragged by rough
usage, finds its way to the treasury
for redemption, it is tin unfailing sign
that times are good.
All records have been broken in the
redemption division during the past
few months. The value of bills turned
in to be exchanged for new ones has
been running over $2,000,000 a day for
a long period. About six years ago
the daily redemptions were less than
$1,000,000. The great volume of worn
out bills now being presented are in
denominations of $1 and $2. The ac
tivity of business is further shown by
the frequent requests for the ex
change of $0 and $10 notes for ones.
During the past six years there has
been an increase of B0 per cent, in the
total number of $1 bills iu circulation.
"The people of the United States,"
said a treasury official, "are growing
more fastidious every year in the mat
ter of h.^ndling money. They have
gradually become accustomed to
fresh, crisp bank notes or treasury
certificates, and don’t care to handle
soiled and dirty looking money, sug
gestive of microbes. The government
has encouraged this tendency to de
mand clean potes.
a mg money iaciory is maintained
here for the purpose of renewing the
supply, and it costs very little for
batiks to get it. The only ehajrge In
volved in the exchange is 40 cents per
$1,000 for transportation. The banks
have learned that their customers like
clean money, and they do not hesi
tate to return, crumpled and worn
notes and demand new ones. Tt is a
rare thing for the department to send
back these notes with a statement
that they are still fit for circulation.
The average wear of a $1 treasury
certificate is 14 months. Formerly a
note would stay out for three or four
years. Roughly speaking, the body of
the circulation is entirely renewed
every 244 years.”
The business of redeeming paper
money has grown to such proportions
that the government, recently found it
necessary to improve its machinery
for destroying notes. For more than
half a century paper money for re
demption was destroyed by being cut
In two by a giant steel blade operat
ed by a strong-armed employe. Now
the noleg are mutilated, first by an
electric punch, which puts four holes
in each bundle of stacked up bills.
Then they are pushed under a knife,
also operated by electricity, which
deftly cuts them longitudinally
through the middle. Between 600,000
and 1,200,000 individual notes are thus
destroyed every day.
After the Honeymoon.
•Tulin W. Brooke tells a good story
at the expense of a local man who
married a couple of years ago.
“He lias a most attractive wife,
too,” said ’Air. Brooke, “and I con
gratulated them both when it hap
pened. Not long after that I was
walking along the street with this
chap and we saw a mighty pretty
girl. I am more or less esthetic in
my tastes and things that, are beau
tiful appeal to me. I commented upon
the pretty face in appropriate terms
and asked my companion if lie didn't
think the lady was dazzling.
“‘No,’ lie replied shortly. ‘I don’t
notice girls on the street. I think a
husband’ should have eyes only for
liis wife.’
“Well, that sounded pretty good,
and 1 didn't say anything more. Not
long ago, however, it chanced that
several of us were on the street and
this very fellow was in the crowd. A
corking good looking girl passed by,
and it was lie who made the com
ment that she was extraordinarily
good looking.
“ ‘Look here,” I said, seizing him
by the arm, ‘I thought you said you
didn’t believe in looking at any wo
man except your wife.’
"That sort of nonplussed him for a
minute and he looked the least bit
sheepish. Finally lie said,’ 'Well, 1
did say that, but the truth is i'vc
changed my mind.’”- Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
Restful.
With his parents a small hoy at
tended a religious revival and was
greatly impressed by the vast amount
of singing.
“Did you understand the sermon?”
he was asked. “Do you know what
that was for?”
“I didn’t know what the minister
was talking about,” he replied, frank
ly, “but i guess he spoke because he
thought the singers needed a rest."
| LC:.M ROUTINE AT AN END
Ha; py Bridegroom Was Puzzled as
to Disposition of Time Hither
to Easily Made.
A Trenton couple were married ti e
other day, ami all their friends re
marked, “They will certainly be very
happy—they have waited for each
other a Very long while.”
'i hey had. Having a strong Yankee
strain, the old-time young couple l ad
decided that they would not be mar
ried until their aggregate savings
amounted to enough to buy and fur
nish a house, and their earnings had
never been large. Every evening
through the years, however, the young
man had arrived at his lady love’s
house promptly at eight o’clock and
remained until eleven—his coming
was as sure as the coming of the
night.
On the evening of the marriage a
friend observed the briddgroofw wan
dering about his new front yard in a
restless manner, and with a very de
jected expression.
“Wl V. what’s the matter, old man?”
he asked. "You should be the hap
piest man alive, for to-day at least,
and you look like a mute at a funeral."
The bridegroom started.
“Er—of course. 1 am very happy!”
he asserted.
“Then, why those glooms?”
“Well, to tell you the truth, Dill,”
the bridegroom said in a burst of con
fidence. “i was just wondering where
I am to spend my evenings hereafter!"
Easily Managed.
Tim contract for keeping the church
and town hall docks in order was
given to a new man, says Tit-Bita.
Unfortunately, from the start he ex
perienced a difficulty in getting the
clocks to strike at the same time. At
last the district council requested an
interview with the watchmaker.
‘‘You are not so successful with the
clocks as your predecessor,” lie was
told. "It is very misleading to have
one clock striking three or four min
utes after the other. Before you took
them in hand we could hardly tell the
two were striking. Surely, you are as
competent?”
“Kvery workman has his own meth
ods, gentlemen,” replied the watch
maker, “and mine ain't the same as
H-'s were."
"Uni decidedly of opinion that it
would he for the general good if they
were,” remarked one of the council
lors.”
“Very well, sir: in future they shall
bo," came the reply. "I happened to
write to him last, week about the trou
ble 1 had with the clocks, and—but
perhaps,” he added, as he produced
a letter and handed it to the chairman,
“you'd like to see what he said.”
“Dear sir." ran the letter, “about
them clocks. When you get to know
what u cantankerous lot of busybodies
the council consists of you'll do the
same as I did for 15 years—forget to
wind up the striker of the town hall
clock, and the silly owls won't be able
to tell that both clocks ain't striking
together.!”
Collectors of Specimens.
Students of/the crustacea often find
the cod a useful assistant collector.
Thus the circular crab seems to be a
favorite food of cods and rays, and it
was chiefly from the stomachs of
these fish that some of the older
naturalists obtained specimens.
Another hunting ground of the
naturalist is the sailing ship which
has been in foreign parts. In this
way Dr. Clark has been able to add
a liny Chilian crab to the Cornish
Crustacea. It was obtained by Vallen
tin on the sides of a bark from Pata
gemia in a coating of seaweed and
barnacles.
The crab itself may become a col
lector of specimens for the zoologist,
for it is often covered with various
species of sponges, hydroids and bry
ozoa. Sometimes the species found
thus are such as are not easily ob
tainable otherwise. One species of
crab, indeed (mala squinado), is re
garded in\Cornwall as the provider of
material for the naturalist.—The Zo
ologist.
Woes of an Artist.
Workemer Smeargent, royal ac
ademician, was painting the portrait
of Lady Anstruther Anstruthers, and
Lady Anstruther Anstruthers was
very plain—well, as a matter of fact,
she was only ugly. And, though she
was paying him 300 guineas merely
for painting the portrait, and was go
ing to pay him 000 more for the por
trait itself when it was completed,
Workemer Smeargent was not satis
fied. He felt he might he going blind.
Looking at her face so much hurt, his
eyes. "Now, what 1 want, Mr. Smear
gent," said the unfair lady, "is for you
lo do me plain, simple justice." "My
tear lady,” replied Smeargent, “what
you require is not justice, hut mercy.
When I tell you to look pleasant you
don't look natural, and when I tell you
to took natural you don't look pleas
ant.”
Contradictory Evidence.
"Ur. Kan," said the office patient,
»my name is Griddle. Kin troubled
lately with headache, and I'd like to
get relief. It can’t he from my eyes,
for they're all right.”
"Let. me see, what is your voca
tion?”
"I'm a baseball umpire.”
"Say," rejoined Ur. Fan, "are you
the man that umpired the game yes
terday?”
“Yes.”
“I was there, and I’ll tell you right
here, Mr. Ump—or Mr. Griddle, rath
?r_that there's something the matte*
with your eyes!"
THE SUPREME HOUR
CALCULATION OF THE DATE OF
THE CRUCIFIXION.
Prof. Weston Has Delved Deeply Into
Ancient Records and Is Satis
fied as to Correctness
of Time.
Prof. L. H. Weston of Portland,
Ore., makes a very Interesting calcu
lation, fixing the date of the cruci
fixion of Christ on April 18 at noon, in
the seventy-fourth Julian year, or the
twenty-ninth year A. D. He does it by
computing the position of the sun and
moon.
According to Prof. Weston, the full
moon occurred at 7:41, Jerusalem
mean time, on the 17th day of April,
74 Julian. This was a Julian Sunday,
and was the thirteenth day of the
moon by the Jewish calendar. It was
a rule or law among the Jews that tha
day began at sunset; hence the calen
dar of Calippus invariably called that
day following the sunset immediately
after full moon and a Sunday (sun’s;
day). Thus the frill moon occurred at
7:41 in the morning of the 17th of
April, Julian year, and that In the cal
endar of Calippus was the thirteenth
day of tlie moon, or the one before the
fourteenth, and was a Jewish holiday.
The Passover was always celebrated
on the fourteenth day of the moon
next following the solar ingress into
the lirst degree of Aries, the vernal
equinox, and it must always, by law,
be celebrated on the fourteenth day of
Hie moon, as shown on the calendar
calculated by the priesthood.
in the Julian year 74 tlie sun en
tered Aries at 25 minutes after 5 p.
in. on .March 22, which was a Tuesday.
The new moon following was at 19
minutes after 1 p. ni., April 2, a Sat
urday. Full moon, then falling on the ,
seventeenth at 19 minutes to 8 a. in.,
shows Tertullian, the Latin historian, j
to be correct in affirming that the
Passover feast was' on the eighteenth
of the calends of April.
Again, says I rni, wesion, iiiuuern
ecclesiastical authorities on chronol
ogy find it impossible to assume that
Christ was born Inter than 4 B. C.,
and Tertullian clearly states the nativ
ity occurred in the forty-first year of
the Augustan monarchy and the twen
ty-eighth after the death of Cleopatra,
thus in the seven hundred and fiftieth
year of Rome, or 4 B. C., Christ was
more than 32 years of age, for his
ministry began the third year before
the crucifixion, lie was 3,1 years old
in 29 A. I).
Irenaeus says the crucifixion was at
the end of Daniel's 70 weeks of proph
ecy. This ends, about the commence
ment of the sixteenth year of Tiberius
and the second year of the two hun
dred and second olympiad. More ex
actly, the sixeenth year of the reign
of Tiberius began on August 19, 74
Julian, and the first year of the two |
hundred and second olympiad ended
on July 14, 74 Julian, and this date
also ended Daniel's 70 weeks. But the
crucifixion was at the passover, three
months before the end of the olym
piad. Irenaeus used round numbers
and the fractional year is one-fourth
minus. Accordingly, says Prof. Wes
ton, it would seem impossible to set
any other date for the crucifixion of
Jesus Christ than Monday, April 18,
Julian year 74. at noon (sixth hour),
Jerusalem.
The Stork and the Eagle.
"A West Philadelphia teacher was
talking about wild animals and birds
to a class of little girls,” said Secre
tary Dick of the board of education in
relating some of the amusing inci
dents that hitppen in (he public
schools.
"She had told them about the car
nivorous animals and beasts of the
jungle and began asking questions
about hi ids of prey.
'Can anyone in the class toll me,’
she asked, what bird it is that is so
, strong that it. can fly down out of
the sky and carry off a small child
with ease?'
"There was a moment's pause, and
then a little girl In the mar of the
classroom lrantically raised her hand.
" T know,' fairly shouted the bright
pupil, under stress of great excite
ment, it's the stork, 'cause one of 'em
brought a baby to our house last
night!’ "—Philadelphia Record.
A Royal Baby Carriage.
Princess Juliana of Holland has
joined the ranks of the caravanners.
A marvelous construction—should it
he called it "carambulator” or a “car
apram?”—has been devised for the
little Dutch princess wherein, when
the weather is cold and the sun shines
only in certain parts of the Het Loo,
she can be conveyed from the palace
to the sunshine.
It is, as a matter of fact, a giant
covered perambulator containing a
stove and seats for nurses, besides
the bassinette for the? royal baby; and
it is, of course, drawn by a horse. If
she were an English princess she
would at once be nominated patroness
of the Caravan club.
The Queen of Holland herself is
said to have invented this new baby
carriage for her daughter. It is not
the first time she has displayed in
genuity of an inventive character.
Alt the Same to Her.
"i must warn you, dearest," he said,
"that after we arc married you will
very likely find me inclined to be ar
bitrary and dictatorial in my manner."
"No matter,” she replied cheerfully,
“I won't pay the slightest attention to
what you snv." Presbyterian Stan
dard.
It is only natural that everybody enjoy the Holi
day Spirit. You live this fife only once and we
well know it is more blessed to give than receive.
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None of us would take away the pleasures of
Christmas. The happiness of wife and little ones
is inspiring and brings true joy to the hearts of
men. It is our wish that Old Santa Claus will
find time to fill every stocking in Falls City and
vicinity. R. A. Dittmar extends to you Holiday
Greetings. We have been in business here but a
short time but our methods have been endorsed
by an ever increasing patronage. We want you
to visit this store during the Holidays; you will
find an extensive display of up-to-date goods that
will make any home happy on Christmas Eve.
We have a few Ladies’ choice Suits and Cloaks
and a complete line of Furs. Select what you
want and we will make price to SUIT YOU. Every
thing new for Christmas in Neckwear, Combs,
Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Embroidered and Hem
stitched Linens. Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps, and Gents’ Furnishings. Groceriess at all
times, the best the market affords.
Wishing all a Tlerry Christinas and a Happy
New Year, we are very respectfully yours,
R. A.
DITTMAR