Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-11

Short Sketches OF Incidents and Api-
sodss that Mark the Progress Of
Events ct the National Capital.
The popularity Of the Lincoln one-cent
piece, marking a coinage departure from
the Indian design Of former years, prompts
the Treasury department to extend the
innovation TO coins Of larger deuomina-
tions. Engravers at the United states
mint at Philadelphia are preparing designs
for a new five-cent piece which will bear
the head Of George Washington. 1t is not
yet certain whether the government will
accept any Of the designs. Many hundred
dies have been made for coins never
accepted, but II this portrait coin follows
the new Lincoln penny it will be the first
coin in actual authorized circulation to
carry the head Of Washington. Yet several
pattern coins bearing II have been circu-
lated.
Washington himself refused to allow such
a csfn to be issued during his lifetime. He
said II was a "monarchical' custom, not
fitting in a republic.
Yet his head has adorned pattern coins
issued In small numbers, but never
adopted officially since 1888. when some
5000 to 10000 by a ~well-known designer
named wyon were struck off. AS late as
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his head was made, and In 1856 a series
Of pattern five-cent pieces with his head
upon them was designed, but never cir
culated.
This particular coin has been designed
either by Engraver Morgan or Barber, Of
the mint. Specimens to be struck off soon
will be submitted to the Treasury depart
ment in Washington. The adoption Of the
coin rests with the Treasury department.
"Of course we don't have any elections
Of our own" said a Washington man, in
an interview, but we have election init
nations. II I may call them that, which
can't be duplicated anywhere else in the
country.
you see when we washingt6nians want
to vote we've get to do It somewhere else;
and as most Of us have "a lingering fond
ness for the franchise we are pretty likely
to hans on to a residence somewhere out
side the district.
we especially like to do it because 1t
makes us feel as II we had some sort of
weapon to flourish before the observing
eyes of the politicians who may have
something to say about our hold on our
Jobs. And when the time comes to go
home to vote we visibly swell with i'm
portance.
Naturally a national election is the one
that catches us all at once, and 1t is
then that the limitations 1 spoke of do
most abound. The papers are full Of adj
vertisements Of loans for election expenses
Department clerks can be accommodated
with sums covering their railway fare, new
clothes for the trip and a substantial mar
gin over and above necessary items. The
interest is a bit high, but . clerk who is
pining to go back home to splurge a bit
is willing to mortgage his resources for
the pleasure.
These offers Of loans fill columns of
the daily papers. Alongside of them are
other advertisements, all turning on the
one theme, the election. Blu yourself >
new suit to go home and vote in! TIN
grammar is a bit off, but the prices are
asserted to be all right.
I'm the shop windows there are dozens
Of election placards: Just the hat to wear
when you go home to vote Specials in
suitcases for the election; Take a souvenir
hatpin to your best girl when you go home
to vote; Swell suit for the election; only
81 a week; and in a shoe store window,
4Trampy1tramp tramp, the boys are march
ing-home to vote; wear IS shoes and
you won't get sore feet!'
The railways offer special rates to
NOAClSt anu ~ II bcNS'
anything like 1t in any other town"
IA wife can't command her husband to
live with his mother-in-law,' declared
Judge DeLacy in the Juvenile court OF
Washington the other day. Every man
is entitled to a home Of his own, and no
less an authority than George Washington
has said there is no house in the world
large enough for two families"
Mrs. Ella Johnson sued her husband for
alimony, asserting she would never again
live with him, as he made offensive re-
marks about her mother. johnson pleaded
he had no home life whatsoever and that
his mother-in-law would not allow him %
even come down and sit in the parlor; so
that he was obliged to stay shut up in his
own room OF go to the club. He offered
to provide a home for his wife and child
il she would leave her mother. This she
refused to do and the court dismissed the
case.
Government employees falling in fits must
take the precaution to have a government
doctor at hand or cause awkward compli-