The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-17
DID YOU EVER USE
 A CANADIAN D|ME2 Binks Tries For Oas Week To
 Pass 0no THEN HE GIVES IT AWAY Without Noticing, He Receives It, But His Conscience Will Not Let
 Him Spend It-Waiter Gets
 1t, But 1t Comes Back.
From the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
 Have you ever found a Canadian dime In your pocket? They are as hard to &C., count for as the descent of man. When Binks found one among a pocketful of change he swore by the doctrine of spe cial creation that some mystic mint must have coined It right there. But when he jarred his front teeth putting it to the orthodox test for all coins suspected of supernatural origin he abandoned his faith and cursed the missing link.
 His first thought had been to cherish the mysterious little stranger. but the Darwinian hypothesis knocked all the TO- nance out of it. He began to reason with himself and reasoned himself down step by step to the depths of meanness and ultimate superstition.
 Do others as they do you," that sound ed like the maxim his mother taught him long ago. He would be another missing link in the descent of the dime. Besides he would probably pass it along by mis- take before evening
 But he didn't know the character of the Canadian dime abroad. It'll creep into your pocket with all the modesty it has In its Canadian home. Once there. however, it becomes as obtrusive as buzz-car among buggies. The good American dimes seem to fly from it. Every time Binks pulled a dime out of his pocket. try as he would to treat it indifferentiy, his eye was caught by the royal smile of King Edward. It seemed to catch other peoples eyes too. Every body seemed to look at him as if he was a professional counterfeiter. So he car ride it home that night.
 The boy with the laundry followed him into his room. Here was an opportunity. He had often noticed foreign coins. slick nickels, clipped quarters and other doubt ful pieces among the handful of change that boy pulled out to break his bills with So he put the exact amount of his debt together, including the Canadian dime-he didn't have to look for it-and handed it to the boy. The boy looked it over carefully.
 .Give ye a nickel for this" he said, holding up the dime with a smile.
 This made Binks mad. Was such dis honesty possible? To deliberately buy bad money cheap. with the obvious in" tention of passing it at It's face value! He couldn't encourage that. So he took the dime back.
 But he was a changed man. No thoughts of unconscious gain were in his mind The wicked designs of that youth had undermined his proud virtue. He de- liberately put the dime aside In a sepa- rate pocket, resolved to use 1t for tip to the waiter at lunch. It was mean ana he knew it. but the case was desperate.
 ''Thank you, sir,' said the waiter as he slipped 1t in his pocket.
 Binks never knew whether the man looked at it-that was what worried nm in the sequel But he was so pleased with himself that he loitered at the pay counter and bought himself a good cigar While he was lighting it the cashier ap- preached him with an apologetic air.
 "Tm afraid I short changed you" she said. and gave him 10 cents. You see, the bill vas and she went through disconcerting calculation.
 s'When I got home that night Binks tells. .I nearly had fta There 1t was a Canadian dime. I remember that walt CT smiled ominously as I left the restau- rant but I don't think that accounts TOT it. Canadian dimes are epidemic. l car ry one about with me now-vaccinatlon, you know"