The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-13
THE HsMssEE PENNY.



Every one of the half million or more
school boys aud school girls uf T xus
knows that ten mills make one cent and
ten cents make one dime bat probably .
not one IN u thousand ever saw % cent or
would know one unless formally intro 7
duced to 1t. The cent IL not a western
coin. w stern ideas are big aid cents
are small IN value aud uf humble and
uuprctcutious appearance. Everything
in the west If % cu-hHndcd and the cent
is closc-tisted little fellow. Western
hnbits are broad and generous and the
cent Is u smiling and s'ingy bi Of coin.
| The biography OF the cent was ndmIt ed
! into Texas school books forty years ago,
| but the cent himself has never
| dared to come into he state TIL
| now, and NV Ire comes IN not
AS cunqueror but ~ regular Uruh
| Hoop, crnRiug and sueakug Hnd very
humble, He will excite curiosity, dis.
! trust and contempt ut first, but he has
always held his own wherever lac has
| gain u fuotnDld, and has come to be
| regarded us very reputable and tseful
| member Of society. He is the angel
| whom men sometimes eut rtuiu una
wares.
might have been yet many years
]
| the state q ther on his own accord or by
invitation, had it not been for bit Of
circumstance which pushed him ia. The
last state legislature in passing tine
hree.cents.n-milc railroad bill,nnd MAX
ing it Unable offence to charge more
than three cents mile, put the rail
roads III bit Of dilemma, seeing that
the istuuccs between stations
are not uniform, and the odd DIS
tanccs in miles, multiplied by
three cents, would work out ON the dol.
lar, dime and nickel table. II, for i'm.
stance the distance should be II miles
the fare would be 33 cents. II the rail.
roUd were to charge 80 cents it would
render itself J. uhle to prosecution aud 70
fine of so for charging two cents too
much, il it wcrr 10 charge 30 nts 1t
would lOsc three cents The railroads
saw before them ~ great economical
. problem md the only fellow capable M
solving 1t WIS the cent by means of
which they are enabled t. make the OK
uc' change. they Mt oucc adopted the
cNart change system and brough cents
INTO Texas for that purpose. An entire
& chr loAd was received some days ago at
r Dculsun for use ON the Missouri Pacific
d Ihcir introduction into the state Is al
ready u fixed fuct, aud their in orpuru-
tlOu INTO the current coin NJ the state is
] inevitable. There will he u great dead
81 kicking against admitting the humble
lit e fellow into society, hut he will bu
admitted. He TX II great fellow tu catch
mold aud hang on.
The cent ,nmc into Waco day before
ycstcrduy lie got mt, the good rruccs
~ An innocent and uususpiciuus news
boy IN fnlsc prctcucc4 being passed ON
IA IA l-.l
- bling h morr prctruuous and five times
moro valuable brother WIS puckctrd 10y
the uewsbOy without suspicion. 1T was
only until the e ut WAS offered IN Iuy-
! mout IN II nickel thut the Wud WAS dis
covered. Aud then there Wus a puZllod'
e ,lumhfuundcd boy lie was also disgustod.
{ The boy sworc at him and then suralrd
u off amid the laughter Vt bystuudrr
perhaps 10 throw lac Oiious little beg
3 gar ufu cent uwuy This WIS tine first
i cent We have heard of IN NHco md {
% cannot be said that his reception wUs ana
n u,utiuu DcspIscd and ca scd at, hc
e would hc cNcusahlc IN sinking the dust
IS ot the rity from his feet aud departing
2, to q more hospiHblr cline, hut the cent
" L. not that kind of suidmr. III, is
II here and some euturprislug merchant
70 will pat HIM on the huclt and others Will
D. com, Ii WINS Iity years that the ulrhlr
u relgu,d dcspot in Illinois and Mis-
: isuuri. aud the cuut WIS counted has-
6. turd 1t i. only IN the lj,st five years
IA that the cent hus been alb e to prove
y himself one NJ the five snus of his father
p aud get seat ON the thrpuc But now
It those states bow the knee before hun
Coming down ~ brass TICKS the adj
vent of the cent, M current coin, is
ii worth more to- sta tn one big crop
II 1t brings with it rospority. eco. omy
aud thrift, regard Tor trtcs, clos buy
ing and selling, ana brcuks mp that habit
Of dcspislug small things which makes
! people feel big, but cmptics their pockets
4 10y little uupcrccIvod leaks. With only
/ one exception those IA ions viii h use
/ tine smallest coin are the most pr spcr
. uus aud in that prosperity the use OF
smaller COIN has no insignificant show
The cent liz here. The news hoy uus got
him, Il he did not throw him away and
0 II hr did hris ike he grasshOpper there
are millions behind him.