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The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
USE OF DAMAGED DIMES.
Slot Machines Driving MutuIated Coin
Out of Circulation

Shob AN"NhihNs MutulHted Coin
Out of Circulation.
THE telephone slot machines are
doing an enormous work in the mat
ter OF taking worn-out dimes out of
circulation" said treasury official to
Star reporter. There is nothing to
prevent worn-out. mutilated and al
most smooth dimes from being put
into the slots, and as q result many
persons keep the worn-out dimes for
that particular purpose. Many drug
gists and others who keep public tele-
phones make no objection to taking
mutilated dimes any more for the rea-
son that they keep a supply on hand
to do a telephone business with. When
they see that telephone user is going
to put a new dime in the slot they
simply take ii in and hand a worm
out dime in exchange. Of course the
telephone user makes no objection
and in goes the worn-out or mutilated
coin. After it gets in there the teIe-
phone companies do the rest. Every
time they get quantity on hand for
the government does not care to bother
with sums of less than 500, they send
them TO a sub-treasury and in Wash
ington to the treasury department di-
rest for redemption. The result is that
through the telephone companies alone
over $1,000 worth of mutilated or
worn-out dimes are redeemed each
week Business people have already
begun to notice that the great major
ity of the dimes now in circulation are
in much better condition than they
were even six months ago. In lesser
degree the redemption of great guam
tity of quarters and halves is effected
through the long-distance telephones"
Washington Star.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
ROOM FOR SETTLERS.
COLOMBIA OFFERS A FINE Fi-LD
FOR IMMIGRATION.
The Country Watered by Rivers Is
Covered by Forests of Rare Woods,
India Rubber Trees. Cocoa, Etc
General Reyes Explorations.

That the Colombian rebellion in 1885,
the last big uprising in that country,
was put down, was que almost entirely
to the energy and ability of General
Rafael Reyes, who was the first to ex-
plore that region of Colombia known
as Caqueta, and, with his brothers and
his nephew, he made the first overland
journey ever accomplished across the
widest part of South America, through
region completely desert and un-
known at that time and inhabited by
cannibal savages. They crossed first
the Andes and then explored the riv-
ers which run into the Amazon. After
this first journey his two brothers died
-cne from fever and one was assassi-
mated and eaten by the cannibals.
These two pioneers were sacrificed in
the almost unknown depths of these
South American wildernesses. The Pc
ruvian town of Iquitos, 5000 miles up
the Amazon, has raised in its cemetery
monument to one OF the brothers.
Enrique. Although this town of Iqui-
tos is 5000 miles from the sea, trav-
eler can, as General Reyes pointed out
in a recent address, take a steamer
there twice a month direct to Liver
pool. The general says: "All the
countries of South America, with the
exception of Chile, can be placed in
communication by means of river navi-
cation. The Amazon is navigable at
all seasons for transatlantic steamers
from Para to Iquitos. The tributary
rivers are navigable for river boats,
such as are used on the Mississippi
over radius of between 300 and 900
miles. Thus we have a river naviga-
tion of over $500 miles, of which 5000
are fit for transatlantic steamers. All
the country watered by these natural
canals is covered by forests of rare
wood, india rubber trees, cocoa, ETC.
The expectations of rubber from this
district last year amounted to 0000,>
600 in value. The Amazon at its mouth
from Punta Tijoca to Cap du Nord, has
a width of $50 miles. It's waters are
drinkable up to 120 miles out to sea.
Such is the strength of the current that
it drives back the ocean, This state.
ment Of General Reyes recalls the we'll
authenticated story of the ship which
was once sighted flying signals of dis
tress by another vessel passing down
the Brazil coast. AS the distressed ship
was approached her captain hailed and
said: I'VE are dying of thirst. Send
us water" IF you want water"
shouted the other captain, dip it up,
you fool; you are in the mouth of the
Amazon river" The region explored
by General Reyes is OF immense i'm
portance from commercial and indus
trial point Of view, and would form g
fine field for immigration, for the cul-
tivation of medicinal plants and for
the raising OF tropical products. 1t is
pronounced by the bureau of American
Republics to be "A new world open
ing its doors to humanity" To the
naturalist or sportsman the region Of
fers much to entice, being filed with
endless deer and wild boar, and the
streams swarming with fish in multi
tudinous variety.-New York Press.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
TAXATION IN EUROPE.
italians the Most Heavily Burdene,
People In the World.

italians the Most Heavily Burdened
People I'm the World.
Britishers are not so heavily taxed
as other European peoples, says a
London paper The taxes which the
Italians pay are a positive nightmare
An Italian pays in taxes 22 per cent
Of his earnings, compared with the
Britisher's 9.3 The population OF
Italy is 100000 less than that OF
Great Britain, and yet the income tax
in the former country is made to pro-
duce as much as in the United King
dom.
An even more striking comparison
is that between Russia and Italy. Rus
STA has population of SO ,000, 900; Italy
has only 30,000,000, and yet the total
amount of the income tax Is the same
in both countries. Italy has a. debt of
e5000O0,000, which is growing at the
rate OF e14,000,000 year. The only
way the Italians can escape the tax
alton is to emigrate. and this they are
doing in considerable numbers.
In France each inhabitant pays lis.
a year more than anyone lucky enough
to be living in the United Kingdom.
Moreover, an Englishman's earnings
are greater than those of a French
man. The latter devotes 49, per cent
Of his income TO maintaining his
country.
The German is much better off than
his Gallo neighbor. He pays in taxes
nearly 30s. year less, or only 10.4
Of his earnings. Another proof OF the
prosperity of Great Britain is that,
whereas each subject or the fatherland
contributes e year less to the rev.
enue than an Englishman, he really
parts with one per cent more of his
wages.
Hollanders are more heavily taxed
than Britishers. Substantial taxes are
imposed on such necessaries as sugar.
salt, soap and beef The result is that
each resident in the country of canals
must needs set aside 1871 per cent of
his income to meet the requirements
of the national expenditure.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
ROMANCE OF A BANK BOOK.
savings Accounts That Have Lain
Dormant for Many Years.

savings Accounts That Have Lain
Dormant for Many Years.
The Bank for Savings, which is S2
years old. has the heaviest dormant
account in New York, about $SO0,000,
in which 1000 accounts are tied up.
OF these the ownership of about 200
are solved each year, and to this ac-
count are added about fifty, which,
after the lapse of twenty-one years
without being touched. are entitled to
enter the dormant class. But in these
days the bank does not allow accounts
to rest so long. and after ten years
have elapsed a search is made and the
depositor located. After that the bank
keeps informed of their whereabouts
each year. In 1879, the year when the
bank first opened its doors, church
mission in New York made deposit
in the name of Mission to Jerusalem" q"
The amount deposited was small, but
it was sixty-one years before that
amount and interest was paid to the
proper church authorities. "One of the
oldest cases which | have seen since
took hold of this work." says Mr.. De
Lisser. of the Bank of Savings. was
that of colored girl who lived four
miles from Jamaica. The pastor of the
family. while making a call one day,
saw the children playing with a soiled
and torn bank book. They had serib-
bled over the leaves and were tossing
the book about. No one in the family
seemed to understand what the book
was, and the pastor, looking at it and
seeing that it was one of our pass
books, advised them to bring II to the
bank. This girl, who was IL or Is
years old, brought IL to me, and on
looking up the account l saw that IT
called for several hundred dollars, de-
posted by woman who afterward
proved to be the girls grandmother.
Eventually the girl got the money, and
the incident, thought, was closed
But several months afterward she came
in and said I was just goin' by, and
l thought I'd drop in and tell you
how much good the money did us. And
say, do you know, I've been married on
it. And she left beaming all over as
| congratulated her. New York Press.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
OCCASIONALLY AMUSING.
Hopeiessly Ignorant British Critic Has
Been ut 1t Again.


Our cheerfully, carefully, completely.
densely and hopelessly ignorant Brit
ish critic has been at it again This
time his foolish little brain spread it's
drippings in the columns of the Lon
don Leader in this no less witty than
accurate remark about a newly discov-
cred old-rooted dietary habit of Amer
leans: 'Dagonet' was at Stratford-
on-Avon last week. He had an excel
lent lunch at one of the hotels, and he
met some Americans. Apparently he
had not met many before-at any rate.
at the luncheon table His surprise at
their mixed menu was great They
ate hot meat and drank iced water.
they had cheese and jam and pots of
hot tea. Nothing extraordinary in that
for Americans. That is why they
are such dyspeptic nation. There is
hardly sound digestion among them.
But where were the molasses and
treacle which go to make up every
Yankees meal? II they were missing
the meal was indeed incomplete. IL
is simply indispensable in the States
A story is told of an American lady
travelling to India who insisted upon
a jar OF golden syrup being placed on
her table at each meal. The vessel had
to be searched high and low before
this soothing syrup could be found
At first 1t amused her fellow passen-
gers. Bv and by they grew sick of
the treacle and the lady, and there was
an exodus from her immediate vicinity
to other tables until she was left Sc
varoiv aIona"
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
PERFORMING

sizes and shapes, looked like typical
surgeon. When Cy was ready to pro-
ceed with the operation it was a pa
thetic sight to see the look Of trust in
the monkeys eyes and the courage and
tortitude which it displayed were we'll
nigh human. At the first touch of the
knife it pressed its head hard against
tie knee Of the assistant and grabbed
the forefinger of each of his hands
with its paws, just as a person does
who is about to undergo painful OPP
Grafton. The monkey sat upon the
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
Test for relenhone Girls.

When girls are being chosen for the
new government telephone service in
London the educational examination
sinks into insignifcance before the
physiological test. No girl will be
employed IL she is below 5 feet 2
inches high in her stocking feet. She
must possess good hearing, have no
defect Of speech, and must be tested
by viva voce examination, in which
particular attention is to be paid to
articulation, pitch OF voice and gen.
eral self-possession. Any candidate
showing any indication OF nervous
ness, hysteria, want of self-possession
Or strongly-marked twang is re-
iected.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bes and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form Of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's SwamP-Root is not rec
commended for everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it viii be found
just the remedyyo need. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing ngmenton reading this generous
offer in this paper and fIF
send your address to 6saTEssE1 az ::!1cgg:ss
DR.. Kmer & Co., Bng- n s,'ssSE
hamton, N. Y. The -s>-ssisis hslsssssSeEEsS2nn I'D
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-RoOt
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

She-"How nice tobe at home again!
What crowd there was. don't sup
pose Mr.. Banker knew one-half of his
guests He-"Didn't he, though!
Why, he had four detectives in even
ing clothes there. Life.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

First Boxer-Every foreign devil
who's been here is now writing book
on China. Second Boxer (shudder-
ing)-Suppose the powers sentence as
to read them!--Sondags Nisse.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
BiddleCOnlb'S
Art Studio ! / 1 I
MeIsel Block. PORT HURON

Having had years of experience in
she Photographic art, we are prepared
20 do your work right and at reason
able prices. Ask any of our patrons
what kind of work we turn out: ask
EN- If we don't save them money.
They can tell as much as we can.
The've tried us and are our permanent
ustomers. You'd be too if you1l ask
m.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

you said you we're going to marry
an artist. and now you're engaged to
a dentist" We'll, isn't he an artist?
He draws from real life. Fun.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
caltriumph Of the nine-
teenth century; dis
covered after years OF
scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer. the emf
nent kidney and blad-
Iar r~o.tal,-k \
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

Operation an Entire Success.
Frim every viewpoint the opera
tion was successful, and it is probable
that John" will live to delight hun
dreds of children with antics as in the
past. The money never uttered sound
from the time the knife first touched it
till it was put back in its cage, and
then it chattered few words, which
DeVry said meant that the animal was
glad it was over.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK /?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure TO know Of the wonderful
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04

A childless marriage isn't a bowling
success In one Eense OF the term.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
Operation an Entire Success.

called remarkable by the animal
keeper.
The Yale expositor., 1901-10-04
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

GENERAL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
WHr ne DID NOT PLEASE


From the Louisville Tunes: About
the greenest apple ON the Dough Is the
young fellow whose fond mamma is
trying, to introduce him into society.
He is as awkward as bear, all hands
and feet, and when sent to call on a
girl he glares around her parlor for
some means OF escape, and looks like
he was sitting on a porcupine-
One of these young fSllows paid q
party call on a beautiful girl in So
ciety" z,4r.s -
Had a mighty pretty party. Miss
Bee" he said
Thank you." was the reply, ST am
glad you were pleased"
1T was real handsome party
Again the hostess smiled affably
Ma said she heard it was splendid
party" .; IA
Now. tell you what, Miss Bee" he
continued, irrelevantly. don't you
know, when call on a girl I don't care
whether she's pretty or not. No; just
call anyhow. 1 don't care II she's as
ugly as SIM 1a E
Had the hostess been homely she
would have slain him for that, unless
she possessed a sense of hunaor. As 1t
was she put her fan before her face
and history has never stated whether
the conversation and visit ended there
or not.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
There's q Pipe"

Do you know there is much fake
business about the pipe-smoking and
pipe-offering host? So long has the
earth been flooded with rot and rub
bish about the pipe" that ordinary
men must live fifty years before they
can break away from the idea that a
briar or cob, packed with long-cut or
granulated at 20 cents a pound is the
very quintessence of comfort and hos
pitality. Tut-tIt, Who wants to put
between his lips a guttapercha stem
that others have slobbered through? l
have in mind several acquaintance
who keep on hand from ten to dozen
rancid old pipes to hand around when
friends CALL Such men are practicing
economy for economy's sake They
are too mean to offer you 10-cent
cigar. and pretend that their dirty
old pipes are good enough for any
body. Catch 'em outside and ask if
they'll have smoke Why. certain
ly. And they order quarter cigars I
have had much experience of these
chaps.-New York Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
LESSON IN JoURNALIsar.

Professor of JournaIism-"Mr.
Spinks, what would you do If. man
fell down in front of the Office and
stubDed his toe?"
Mr.. Spinks-"I should think the cir
cumstances too trivial to be noted"
Professor-.Mr. Spinks, there you
would be wrong. In old times, say ten
years ago, your course would have
been eminently proper, but the larger
Journalism of today demands larger
methods In the circumstances men
toned your first duty would be to
write half column on the humorous
possibilities of the laws of gravita-
ton Next, a column on the different
methods of laying sidewalks, with a
glance at the brick industry; then half
a column of the history of that par
ticular street, and, finally, reference
to the enterprise of your own paper,
with quotations from applauding read
ers- And, by the way, Mr.. Spinks, you
might find out the mans name To-
morrow the class will present a 1000
word account of a dog SIGHT in the
street, including a 2,O00-yord consid-
Grafton of the dog in human sociology
from the earliest times."-Boston
Transcript.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
HAar,roCk MENroKsrs.

1t was this way. Brown, putting it
plainly, is fat Some of his friends
with canniba1istic imagfnations say
that he is fat enough to bhteher But
let that pass. He is fat, and the other
night, shirt open at the collar, damp
hair spread at will, and fan going like
a pendulum of a grandfAther's clock,
he served notice that he was going to
stretch a hammock in the back yard
and sleep there. Mrs. Brown made the
foolish suggestions of burglars, Group,
and neuralgia, but he was fixed in his
purpose.
Brown is the best and most reliable
sleeper in town. The storm came with
it's deluge. The swaying hollyhocks
banged him in the face, and the swing
ing branches of the big maple tried to
bat him out of the hammock But
they only rocked him, and the rain
cooled him. His visions were a charm
until he dreamed that he was Cadillac,
standing at the prov of his bateau and
going for the foot of Randolph street
as though pursued by a sea serpent
of the New York yellow journal breed.
All would have gone well, as a
nightmare, but he sprang.s to his feet
with a valiant shout waved an i'm
aginary sword, pitched about like a
dusout in a maelstrom, went over
board head first, and came down hard
on a sidewalk se
Brown is all right unless complfca-
lions set in, but one side of his scalp
is trying to grow on again, his left
ear fiops, he has an arm IN a sling,
and there is a towel over one eye. The
moral he draws is that once in 200
years is great plenty.-Detroit Free
Press. sszss
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
MID-AUGUsr.


August, Sweetheart of the sun,
Summer work is nearly DONE
While the idle days are going
List thy ardent lovers wooing.
Now the year is in its prime
Take thy brief vacation time.
Stubbly fields are brown and yellow.
Pippins ripe are growing mellow
Ranks on ranks of shining corn,
Jeweled by the dew of morn,
Whisper in the evening airs
Like legion saying prayers.
Farmer boys on loaded wains,
Harvest moons on gathered grains;
Tender hearts a bit forlorner,
Summers turned another corner.
e c. Tompkins in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly
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Aav,c- r. evils w-o r----,.

The young girl who is travelling by
herself should seek information from
the train people rather than from her
companions on, the train No girl in
travelling should make confidants of
strangers of either sex, disclose her
name. her destination of her family af-
fairs or make acauaintanees on the
road She may, however, show kind
attention to a mother travelling with
little children, amuse a wearied little
one, and politely thank anyone who
does her an unobtrusive kindness
Margaret E Sangster in the Ladies
Home Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31

tanned by the graceful slip of girl
with golden hair. who seemingly came
from nowhere-the Angel of the Graz.
This was an before Dan Beard hap
pened in Dan was from the Colorado
hills and no angel They had put him
first on the little bunt line that runs
crafty over the hills to Santa Fee
Then he was shifted to the main line
for relay work and became fixture at
Lamy. Dan was six feet one, brown as
leather and as tough. and incidentally
eould drink more whisky than any
man this side of Phoenix. He spent
his mornings against the bar IN Ger
man Joe's place. cursing out the road,
from the president down. Then about
ten minutes before his run began he
would shuttle over to his machine and
get his orders When these were duly
scanned Dan would open up No. 20
gently and sneak out of Lamy like a
snake. but before the whistling post
was passed he had her galloping over
the rails like a frightened thing and
believing like a bull He became no
the road. and everybody said that
sooner or later there would be smash
somewhere up in the hills and Dan
Beard would get on the line forever
But the smash didn't seem to come,
and Dams mad way continued. Then a
change came 1t was almost imper-
ceptible- But gradually Dan dropped
away from the whisky and babe fair to
quit it altogether He didn't take the
grades SO fast and slackened up on the
curves almost like the rest Some said
it was Mobile Some said the Divi-
sion Superintendent Nobody ever
really knew.
1t was a morning in the early June
the great event occurred A dispatch
had come over the wires saying that
special was coming from the east and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31

The conflict between the Germans
and Czechs in. ,Anstria-Hungary, which
deserves Secretary Stewards appella-
ton of 1.-The frrepressible conflict
makes interesting a study of the ele-
ments composing the army of that
country, which consists of 42S. 900
Slavs, 227. 900 iAEemands, 120. 0C0 Mag
vars. 49, 900 Roumanians and 1900
Italians The Slays are made up CT
174,0O0 Czechs, 5000 Poles, 5000
Ruthenians. 5000 Croatians and Ser
vians and rs. 900 Slavonians-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31
EXPECTING MORE COMPANY.

An Irish servant girl of recent i'm
portatfon was preparing the ice cream,
tea and cakes for a Brooklyn evening
party when her employer remarked to
her daughter joculariy, apropos of the
heat:
I'm afraid those mosquitoes will
come in tonight over the back fence"
Going downstairs to the kitchen la
ter she was surprised to find several
gallons of tea more than she needed
already made.
you've made too much tea, Norah,' %
she said. 81 told you the big kettle
full would be quite enough"
Sure, that's so, ma'am," replied the
girl, but that was before you said
anything about the other gists.''
What other guests inquired tho
hostess in establishment
why, the Mosquitoes, ma'am, you
said were comm over the back fince.''-
New York Commercial Advertiser.