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"Everybody likes bright money," said
the cashier In an uptown restaurant to a
friend and customer, who, picking up a
handsome new quarter from the change
the cashier had Just given him, had said:
"My, that's a bright one."
"it's pretty to look at," the cashier
went on, as the customer lighted a cigar,
"and plenty oi people would save it, lor
a time anyway. Tney single out all the
bright coins tney get and put them away
till they get Dusted, and tnen away they
go.
"1 know men I guess we all do, for
that matter wno give all tne bright
money they get to their wives; when tney
get a bright uime or quarter or naif tnei
uun t pass it out, but carry it home, ana
tneir wives treasure it up ull some little
Household emergency arises, a milk bin
lumes in si an unexpected time, or
something ot tnat sort ana sweeps away
me collection, xim-m: I guess tne man
mat gives. an the uright money he gets to
ma wife uoesn t lose mucu Dy it.
"But we au Hue ongnt money, old and
young; are the ennuren not ail migntiy
p. eased to getu bngnt cent? And, speait
nig ot brigitt cents, maKes me trunk ot a
collector l Know wno never gives out any
oiner kind m cnange. iivery mouth oeloie
lie starts on ms rounus collecting he gets
u.n dollars worth oi new cents irom tne
oank, and when ne nas occasion to ma&e
cnange witn pennies in it he gives out
tuose brignt ones; tne uull ones ne takes
in ne keeps in ms pocket.
"iiuslne&s men sometimes give out in
cnange brignt silver only as an advertise
ment. 1 used to know a store keeper up
'rniru avenue wno aid this. No matter
how much or how little you bought there
wnatever silver change was coming you
got in brignt silver.
"People wno didn't know about this,
and who on their hrst purchase theie,
which might be. say, 15 cents, got in
change a bright dime, a bright quarter
and a bright half, thought as they looked
admiringly at these three handsome coins
that it was funny they should have hap
pened to get all three bright, like that.
Hut of course if they kept on going
there they at once discovered that there
they got nothing but bright silver in
change. The storekeeper simply kept
himself supplied, and passed out that
only.
"There used to be, as you will yourself
remember, a man down Broadway who
gave out, when he had occasion to give
out bills in change, new bills only. lie
carried these new bills of the several de
nominations in as many pockets; the ones
In one pocket, the twos In another, and so
on; and if you gave him a larger bill, he
would without an instant's hesitation and
apparently without looking at the bills he
gave you, hand out from one pocket or
another the right change in those hand
some new bills.
"That sort of paper money is what we
call and rather fondly, too, crisp new
money. But while we certainly do like
those crisp new bills and of course
there's a good deal more In them than
there Is bright sliver I am inclined to
think the bright money, the bright coin,
appeals to our fancy more than crisp
bills do.
"It Is upon money In its metallic form,
the actual coin, that we look as the em
bodiment of money, to begin with, and
-re is something about coin with the
silky lustre of newness on It that pleases
us greatly. This brightness attracts us
even in copper, as well as in silver; how
much more does it appeal to us in shin
ing gold?" New York Sun.
a- a-
"What Prosperity Hails From
Those cheerful philosophers who feel
so sure that prosperity Is going-, to con
tinue because the prices of stocks are
so well maintained in Wall street will
do well to look a little further than
the lower end of Manhattan island
when taking their observations.
It Is a fact that many persons seem
to forget that all the material wealth
comes out of the ground. The pathetic
stories from the large cities connected
with the fresh air aids have told more
than once of little children who had
never seen green grass and who had
no idea of the open country until given
these outings. There are grown-up
people of abundant wealth who are
equally Ignorant of what the country
is in Its relation to general business
Interests. They assume that when
stocks go up ten points the country is
richer thereby, and that when a great
syndicate takes $50,000,000 worth of
property and capitalizes Jt at $500,000,
000 this paper performance has created
$45,000,000 of new wealth.
They buy and sell and go speculat
ing through life on this sort of as
sumption and do not stop to think that
It is only as the Iron and coal are dug
up and as the sunshine and the rain
bring the grain to the harvest, that
anything Is added to what already Is.
If we should find at the end of the
season that the early droughts and the
later floods that have been so prevalent
have resulted In a serious crippling of
the crops, if investigation demonstrates
that we have consumed more than we
have produced, then no amount of
booming can keep prices up. And yet
It Is early to determine as to this. We
have an Immense agricultural territory,
and the flood destroying everything In
one valley may bring needed moisture
to thousands of square miles of other
fields and prove vastly more beneficial
than injurious. It is the destructive
flood we hear of rather than the fructi
fying showers.
But meanwhile It is well to bear in
mind that while speculators can grow
rich in their big deals and the world
can watch with wonder their great
achievements, still they are not pro
ducers. Somebody else gives up what
they get, and it is the unnoticed pro
ducer who furnishes the tangible ma
terial elements of prosperity. Even le
gitimate buying and selling, what goes
under the general name of trade and
keeps so many people busy, adds noth
ing to what already Is, When two men
trade horses there are still only those
two horses at the end of the trade.
Hartford Courant.
Miss Beacon Why did you
him if you love him?
refuse
Miss Beanly lie asked me to say
"yes" and I simply could not settle so
Important a matter with a word of
one syllable.
Subbubs I'm willing to admit that
tints have some advantages.
Backlots What ure they?
Subbubs The board of heulth will
not allow your neighbors to keep hens.
Soft
Harness
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stand tna wratner.
Bold everywhere
In cans all alxM.
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NEW IDEAS IN UNDERSKIRTS Z
A VERY EXTENSIVE SHOWING THIS WEEK AT
Lincoln's Progressive Store
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