The daily Alaskan., 1909-11-24
S8M'S
 MONEY LIST

Officially there are just ten kinds of money n circulation n the United States. Could you name them all or. hand? Do you know which of those besides gold coin are legal tender and in what amount? lt may be that "all money looks alike to you," but there's a difference, and below Is che list:
 Gold coins. standard silver dollars, subsidiary silver, gold certificates, sil- yer certificates, treasury notes QS9O), United States notes lgreenbacks), no- tlouaI bank notes, nickel coins and bronze coins.
 Looking upon th's formidable cIassI- fcaton of United States money as made by the treasury department, 1t becomes more formidable when 1t is considered from thc highly technical point of view as a legal tender Some of the most imposing of the paper cur. rency Is not a legal tender Gt all, while, as to the minor coins, they are legal tender lD such small amounts as to startle the average luyman. It may be well to recall Co this layman that the term legal tender owes Its slgnif- canoe to the fact that in payment of debt or obligation of any kind it can be forced upon the creditor "in full of all demands"
 Gold certificates, silver certificates and national bank notes, of which such enormous numbers circulate everywhere. are not legal tender. If you have plenty of money and if you have forced Jones to sue you ln order to get Judgment, Jones can turn down every one of these bills rendered In payment and force you to dig up some thing better.
 Should Jones do such a thing you might conceive the Idea of fixing hlm by unloading a whole lot of silver coins upon him. But you want to know what you're doing there. too, for he'll take only SIO worth Of halves, quarters and dimes, while of ulckels and cop per cents only % cents value is legal tender
 But as to the standard silver dollar there's DO limit upon your shoveling them out to Jones. This old dollar of our dads" still is the real thing in all business transactions unless some clause in a contract has provided oth- erwlse. Jones may refuse the silver certificate, but when you dig up the metal dollar they go unquestloned at their face value And 1000 of them weigh JS02 pounds.
 Treasury notes Of the act of 1890 are legal tender to their face value in pay ment of an debts, public and private, unless expressly stipulated in the con- tract
 Strictly speaking, the United States notes or grecnbacks are legal tender, with the exception of duties ou im- ports and interest on the public debt. Practically. however, since the resump- ton of specie payment in 1879, green backs have been received freely and without question by the government, though the law respecting them hasn't been changed.
 While the gold aud silver certificates are not legal tender as between indl- yiduals, both issues are receivable for all government dues of whatever kind, in this respect legally more acceptable than is the greeubaCk.
 National bank notes, while not legal tender and not receivable for duties on imports. still may be paid by the gov erument for salaries and all debts of the government except interest dues aud in redemption of national currency.
 By especial enactment no foreign coin of any kind or denomination shall be a legal tender in the United States, so that if some time the street car con- ductor does balk at the chance Cana dian dime 6shed from your pocket keep cool aud dig for something that is United States It's your move.-ChI- cago Tribune.