Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
w ashin gton Life
some Interesting phases
ana Conditions Observed
- the Matters Capital

time from now until November. Som,
of the more fearful members have alread,
/ hustled to their homes and are busy will
the electors. Those who are still in Wash
| ington have extra clerks sending gu
| through the mails literature for home con
| sumption. For fear that some of theii
constituents have forgotten how they look
many Of the statesmen have had new
| half-tone cuts made from their --latest
photos and are sending duplicates to the
papers scattered throughout their districts
The press OF the various states will b,
embellished most likely for months will
| faithful reproductions OF Mr.. Representa-.
tive, who is again seeking the votes of his
beloved constituents
Colonel Thomas d. Murphy. of Augusta
Ca, the only simon-pure democratic post
master on Uncle SANS pay roll, has been
looking things over at the capitol lately
Besides being a warm personal friend OF
the president, Mr.. Murphy is a Newspaper
man of long and excellent standing, and
does not make politics the burden Of his
life. He accompanied the president on his
memorable trip to Panama; made himself
very agreeable, indeed; renewed the &C.
quaintance when the president sojourned in
Augusta last winter-and is now the post
master of that beautiful and charming
southern city. That's all. Murphy is a
democrat, all right-but he is also post
master How did he turn the trick? Ask
Murphy-and he won't tell youl Anyway he
has the job, and he is as fine a fellow
along with 1t as one would care to know.
The clerks In Senator Beverages room
were almost thrown into panic when the
postal clerk brought in a suspicious looking
package for the senator, about ten inches
long. The clerks approached the package
cautiously. They finally mustered up cour-
age enough to carefully open it. Inside
was a part of the bone OF some large ami
NAL, with picture, artistically drawn
thereon, and the following inscription:
"Bwana Kidogo McCutcheon regrets that
he had such poor luck as to miss the Hon.
dog eat given by the esteemed chief of
the Rocky Boys Band of Wandering In
dams in February, but hopes there may
be something doing in the way of eats in
the future He will await in his tepee for
the signal smoke on the hill that calls
the bone-pickers to the crimson feast"
The picture represented a hunter chasing
lion, elephant, rhinoceros and giraffe to
the tall grass, and was drawn in Cartoonist
message is much appreciated by Senator
Beveridge, chief Of the Rocky Boys.
There is one way in which the new
school of doctors with their continual harp
ing on preventive measures to fight disease
in its inactive form has done a great
service to users of paper money and Incl
dentally has cost Uncle Sam a pretty
penny" said treasury official the other
day 1T is in teaching people that money
Is filthy lucre, indeed, when 1t is made
of paper. Within the last few years the
amount of paper money returned for can
collation. has doubled. Now the treasury
redeems and destroys about 81, OOO, 900 in bills
daily.
Most of the notes are of the smaller
denominations the 81 and the 81 variety.
People have learned that death turks
in the dirty currency. They like the idea
of clean, new crinkly bills in their pockets.
The banks have learned that their custom
ers like this, and they are usually ready to
redeem the old bills, because only the ex-
press charges stand between them and get
ting all the clean money they want.
Formerly a note would stay out for
three or four years Now think the aver
age is not over fourteen months SO,
roughly speaking, the entire circulation is
renewed about once in every two years
and half. The government finds it costs
a little more, but it encourages the re-
newal for all that The old bills are put
into an electric machine that punches and
then slices them at a rate of sometimes
100000 notes a day.
And here is an unusual little bit of
information also Do you have any idea
how many new 81 bills 1t will take TO
equal in weight $40 gold piece7 Probably
not. Hardly one out of a hundred you
meet and ask will be able to give even
good guess. Well 1t taxes twenty-six new
ones. After they have been used and solled
and crumpled 1t takes only twenty-five.
You can see how much dirt those notes
must have absorbed to have gained a whole
note in weight"