The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-24
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Everyone has read of the 1904 dollar.
How it sells for from $1,000 to $1,000.
There has been a story among numismat-
lists for years to the effect that only four
of the dollars of this issue were struck
during that year, and three of them were
accounted for. The latest tale of dis
covery is that a bartender at Helena took
in one of these over the counter in ex-
change for a round of drinks. The 1904
dollar has been written of many times.
1t has been asked for and inquired about.
1t was an interesting old tale
But now comes statement from the
director of the mint which bids fair TO
knock all the romance out of the coin. II
is said by him that after an examination
of the records he has come TO the con-
clusion that there were no dollars coined
in 1904. That while the records show
there was 10000 of them made that year.
and while fairy tales have been woven
showing these 10000 went to TriDoli and
all that sort of thing, as a matter of fact
that the United States had no silver on
hand with which TO make silver dollars
That there wasn't enough to make one
silver dollar, to say nothing of four, or
20 900. The director says If there are any
silver dollars of that date in existence
they were restrikes made after the ex-
Diration of the year. without authority
and by persons who had sinister motives.
The plates were destroyed in 1905 All of
which exemplifies the hard luck story told
in the little bit of verse:
Twas Twas. ever ever thus. from childhood's
Canada has a James Whitcomb Riley,
who is making of the French Canadian
dialect what Riley has of the HOosier eX-
preston DR.. William Henry Drummond
is the man. and while he isn't a great
poet, his verse is pleasing and shows the
possibilities of the field which he has en-
tered. DR.. Drummond has written a book
of poems. of which the Wreck of the
Julie Plante'' is doubtless the most pleas
If. because it Is. TO US, the most IA
ml.iar. The story is descriptive of the
wreck of a scow on Lake St. Peter. 1t is
lengthy, but here are few samples:
De night was dark. lax wan black cat,
De wave run high an fas',
Wen the caDitenne TAX de Rosie girl
An tie her to de mas.
Den he also TAX de life preserve,
An jomp off on de lax
An say "Good-by ma Rosie dear.
l go drown for your SAX"
Mex monning, very early
Bout half pas two-tree-four,
De capitenne de scow and de poor Rosie
Was corDSes on de shore
For de wind. she blow lax hurricane,
Bimeby she blow some more.
An the ScOw bus up on LAX st. Pierre.
One arpent from de shore
The writer points ont the moral of the
tale told in the following:
Now all good wood scow sailor man,
TAX warning by dat storm.
An go an marry some nice French girl
An leeve on wan beeg farm
De win can blow lax hurricane.
An s'pose she blow some more,
You can't go down on LAX st. Pierre
So long you stay on shore
In another poem the writer gets in a
very funny line it being the second:
De boy and de girl dey was readin' its
De cat on de corner. she bite heem de
Ole Carieau he's snorin', de beeg stove is
roarin'
So loud 1 am scare purity soon she bus
up.
But he tells a little tale of love in the
next two stanzas: tells it just as nicely
as it can be told. Listen:
Philomene-dats de oldes'-is sit on de
An Kip jus so quiet, lax one leetle
She says de more finer moon never was
Very fonny. for moon isn't dat side de
house.
But purity soon. den. we hear foot on de
outside,
An some wan is place it hees han on
OATS Is adore Goulay. las fall on de
He's tax it frs prize on the gran
ploughin' match.
O. g o
The official records of the War of the
Rebellion are books which are ordinarily
dry and prOsy and of but small interest
save to those who are studying the inside
history of the late war. But volume XIV,
of series l. is especially interesting in
view of the death of General Kimball.
On Dec. Is, 1864. Colonel Van Duzer, in re-
porting on the battle near Nashville says:
1.-The division commanded by General
Kimball was under my observation and
have never seen better work General
KimhalIs division carried two fortified po-
sitions by assault. with very slight loss.
capturing at one point 400 prisoners and
six guns
Major General Wood. commander of the
corps in which General Kimball served as
chief of the first division in reporting him
for promotion on the Sth of January, 1865.
says:
Il have the honor to submit the follow
ing special recommendation for promotion
in the Fourth corps: Brigadier General
Kimball. to be major general. for gallant
Franklin on the goth of November. for
the skill and intelligence with which he
handled his command in all the conflicts
around Nashville on the 18th and 18th of
December. and for the personal gallantry
he displayed in those conflicts"
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