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THE DIAMOND DOLLAR, "Worst thing in the world foi weak eyes, young woman." The young woman looked up from the magazine in her lap and smiled at her gray bearded mentor on the opposite side of the street car. She smiled with her whole face?dimpled chin, red cheeks, full hps; even the eyes behind the con vex glasses of her pince nez twinkled. "Thank you," she said, shutting the book softly, "I know it. I was merely glancing at the pictures." Then she turned her amused glance toward the 'ront part of the car, and met 'the eyes of the driver staring straight at her. His face lighted up when her glance met his, and with his rough glove he . patted the left side of his coat, as though it shielded something which concerned her. The car was one of those little wheeled boxes locally known as the "Pound Gap Bob-tails," which ply between Cincinnati, 0-, and its Kentucky suburb, Newport. The driver, sole autocrat, dividing his time among the mules, his passengers and the small boys who everywhere mark bob tail cars for their own, was muffled to the mouth in an old oilskin coat, belted at the waist with a leather strap. His cap was pulled down to shield his face from the rain, into the teeth of which he was forced to drive, and when he entered the car to collect the fares his heavy cowhide boots completed a grotesque picture, which would have attracted attention even in Castle Garden. Evidently he cared less for style than for comfort. "What is the fare to Newport?" "Ten cents, please." I started at the musical voice, and looked at the man closely. "Wh-a-t:'" I said, "not Ferguson, of The Gazette!'" "Same party, dear boy, same party." He laughed in the honest, whole-souled way that I knew so well, rang the bell of his punch twice, smiled at the pretty girl, who seemed to enjoy my surprise, und then clattered out to his place at ihe brake, where I presently joined him. "This is rough, Ferguson, deuced rough?!? 12 a week and seventeen hours a day: Can't yea do better than this:'" "Classical occupation, dear boy. One of the children of Greek mythology, you will remember, aspired to drive a car?his father's car, but while his route was a trifle dryer than mine" "It was not necessary for him to make a guy of himself in cowhide boots. That girl inside is laughing at you." "I know it. She always does when she rides with me."' He looked through the glass door of the car, and again patted the side of his coat when he met the young woman's eye. The gesture seemed to please her. "Another ease of the maiden and the coachman," remarked Ferguson as he slowed up to take on a passenger. Evi dently he had lost none of his high spirits since he had drifted out of journalism into street car service. "But seriously now, don't you know her:'"' ."No, I canuot say that I do," I said, severely. "That's Virginia." I looked again at the girl. She was as charming a specimen of young woman hood as is often met with even in the cul tured parts of Kentucky. The infantile ' cheeks and dimpled chin toned down the severity of her eyeglasses, and from the brown plume in her hat to the narrow toe of her shoe she was what is popularly known us "stylish." Du Maurier might have copied her pose for that of one of hi3 high-bred women. "Yes, sir, that's Virginia. You have laughed at my verses toiler for three years, and if we drop all the passengers before the end of the route is reached I will take 'you Inside and present you. She knows you by name already. I have talked with her about you a hun dred times. She likes that little story of yours, 'The Cruise of the Mermaid,' im mensely, and always looks up your col umn the first thing in The Clarion." Then he seemed to drift into another line of thought. "Yes, sir, it is rough," he said; "eight teen hours a day, seven days in the week, is too many hours for a man to work; but, thank God, I am done! This is my bast trip. I have something here"?he tapped the left side of his oilskin coat again?"which has put me on my feet. Virginia and I had several blocks, alone, together, this morning, and she knows. That's what we are so gay about. You remember that 'Diamond Dollar?' " Did I rememl>er it? It was that "Dia mond. Dollnr" that cost Ferguson his desk on The Gazette. Not more than two months ago he was as dapper, well dressed and apparently as successful a man as there was in the Cincinnati repor torial fraternity. His duty was the cover ing of the news along the river fronts of the Kentucky towns facing and above Cincinnati, und, lx?ng a graceful writer, he managed to get in a column or two of . breezy special mutter on miscellaneous subjects each week, every column of such matter being a clean addition of $H to his not princely salary. It was !> o'clock one Thursday night when word came over the telephone wires from the tiro chieftain's office that the towboat Greyhound was burning at her landing, three miles above Newport. In fifteen minutes came the supplementary report that her entire tow of seven barges was doomed, and that John Stacey and "Stumpy." the cook, were missing?pre sumably burned with the wreck. "Ferguson can have two columns for that," complacently remarked the city editor. "Here, Newport, get a rig: jump out there: lind Ferguson and help him. Get in iis much as possible before 12, and, if it promises good matter after that, wire the facts. We will dress them up." At 1^:-I0 o'clock I was again at the office with the skeleton article. The lire had taken place early in the afternoon. Three lives and $??,UUU worth of property were lost. I had seen nothing of Fergu son. But while I was making a hasty oral report to this effect Ferguson strolled into the office. He was at pence with himself and the world, and his stiff, white collar lifted itself immaculately above his black lie and unruffled shirt front. "Nothing moving," he said, airily, as he placed the day's report on the editor's desk. "Everything deud along the river to-day." "No lights nor fires?" usked the city editor in bis blandest tones. "Nothing; but here is a little special that will ItK-k well in the Sunday supple ment. I have been up at the library look ing up points for it all afternoon. * With a scare head?first line, -The Diamond Dollar!'?it will prove as gu<id matter as actiud news, and-" "There is no actual news, then-"' "Nothing of importance." By this time the telegraph man, the managing editor, half of the local force, and even one or two of the brevier writers, had drifted into the city room, where they floated about aimlessly, waiting for the J (explosion that was to lift the unfortunate j Ferguson But, suspecting ucrtliing, he| continued his panegyric on the diamond dollar. "Unless you call this piece of special matter news, there is uone. But it will be news to most of the readers. It deals with the subject of rare coins, giving the date and the vah e of all United States coins worth more than their face value. There are hundreds of pieces in daily cir culation for which collectors would give twenty times their value as bullion. This article will serve to tell the people what dates of coins are in demand, so that they may watch the money that passes through their hands and sell the rare coins tit a premium. There is one dollar, of the mintage of 1^04, which is worth $500. For the past few seconds the city editor had been rapidly writing upon a slip of paper, and here he interrupted the enthu siastic remarks about the valuable dollar. "You know the rule of the office, Mr. Ferguson," he said, in an icy tone; "no man with us gets a chance to be grossly scooped twice. You have failed to catch one of the most sensational fires of the year, although you had twelve hours in which to do it. Here is an order on the counting room for your money up to Saturday night. You have my best wishes for your future. Good night!" That was how he lost his desk on The Gazette, and, breezy writer that he was, in three months he had found it necessary to take up the lines of a street car driver's life or starve. "You remember that diamond dollar?" he stud again, after answering the sharp clang of the bell above his head by bring ing the car to a stop long enough for the grny-lx'tirded talker to alight; "well, curiously enough, I have found one of them. I should never have known its value had I not collected the data for that unfortunate article of mine; and?" "Do you mean me to understand that you have found a dollar of 1804, actually worth fcSOO?." "Precisely so, dear boy. Drivers handle a great deal of silver, and among the money in my pocket last tUght I found this." He had unbuckled his belt, unbuttoned his eoat, and with some difficulty brought out in his gloved lingers a worn silver dollar, without the milled edges which characterize the late issues of the coin. He was singularly excited. He looked at the piece of silver as a doomed man might look at an unexpected reprieve. It means another start in life, a chance to build up . wealth and reputation on a journal of his own; it meant a wife: it gave him Vir ginia. His hand tremble d slightly with the tumult of his thoughts. Due of tho car's front wheels struck a stone, jumped the track, and for a few seconds tho vehicle jolted violently over the cobble stones. Ferguson's face suddenly turned to the color of ashes. He leaped over the dash board surrounding the platform, groped in the mud under the car wheels, and then, with his lips set tightly together, handed me a battered and bent piece of silver. It was the diamond dollar. It had slipped from his uncertain grasp, and the sharp flanges of the car wheels had ground the date and figures from its face and bent it almost out of resemblance of a coin. Then Ferguson took up the lines again, and from hLs present prospects the people who ride behind him will continue to laugh at his odd dress and associate him in their minds ?with the mules he drives for mouths or perhaps years to come. He knows that there ore half a dozen morals to be extracted from this little story, and has given me permission to publish it.?Henry Newport, in Cincin nati Enquirer. Men Who "Fleece tho Tallora. The merchant tailors of New York keep a large book containing the names of 2,000 fashionably dressed men who seldom or never pay their tailor bills. These two regiments-of ?ie fashionably dressed are divided into three classes: "The Slow Pay Class," "The Undesirable Class," nnd "The "Worthless Class." Each merchant tailor has a ledger containing a copy of t his list and frequently consults it. In each fashionable tailor shop from 5 to 150 per sons get clothes for nothing in the course of a single year. The names of these peo ple would make a large "elite directory. The Merchant Tailors' association, it is said, proposes to advertise for sale in the daily newspapers the tailor bills of this brigade of fashionable but non-paying I customers. "Most of the men who fleece the tailors," said a New York merchant tailor, recently, "are idle and fashionable young men who are sons of rich fathers, and manage to spend ?10,000 a year out of an annual allowance of $2,000 or $8,000. They have no property of their own, noth ing we could levy on, except collar boxes and bootjacks."?New York Cor. Argo naut. Hessian Langnagcs on the Typewriters. The Russian is the most difficult of the languages now represented on the type writers. There are thirty-eight letters, but the punctuation, accents and other characters necessary bring the number on the keyboard up to ninety. Next to that is th Bohemian, which is a crooked thing, because one must frequently strike two keys to produce a character. There are thirty primary characters, and eighty six required in all. The American key board has twenty-six primary characters and seventy-six in all.?San Francisco Argonaut. One Way to Startle Society. A charming woman, who has decided it is best she should live apart from her apparently unappreciative husband, star tled society a short time ago by Inviting a number of her former fashionable friends to call at her house on a certain day to purchase her little-used ? finery. They called of course, and silks, laces and jewels were sold "below the cost of im portation."?N. Y. Mail nnd Express. Thinks They are a Bad Set. Dr. Marshall, the evangelist, an Ohio man, ex-soldier and ex-dentist, who is now laboring for the evangelization of Denver, says he regards the Pacillc coast as the worst part of the country, and that in that section an exceedingly rare thing to find is a native young man who is a Christian.?Inter-Ocean. A Cemetery Called "Boot Hill." The first cemetery located tit Newton, Kan., is known throughout that locality its 'itoot Hill.*' on account of the large number ol perrons who were buried there with their li.?.t.. on in the wild and early days.?Chicago I lerald. Israelites In the U?5f??d States. The Hebrews, who form such a public spirited and wealthy chu> in every city, numberless than 200,000 tn the United States. Most people in Dw7.iu.gu guess would say a million or two. In tho Freshman class at) Talc college J there axe thirty negro studin' ??? THE LIME KILN CLUB. Some Chances in the Labels of the Fa mous Archaeological Collection. When the lights had been turned up strong, and Elder Toots had coughed a pea nut shuck out of his throat, Brother Gardner arose and Faid: "I find henh on my desk a heap of mottoes, watchwords and maxims which hev bin gathered together by do committee on judi ciary wid a view of rcplacin' de stock now hangin' on de walls. I has bin keerfully considerin' de matter in my mind fur a week pas', an' I doan' like de idea of a change. Do pusson who can't stick to one motto fur mo' dan six months can't bo depended .on to stick by a job fur mo' dan one. "If I was out o' cash, friendless, laid up in a garret wid a sore heel an' a carbuncle, an' spoctin' obory day to be toted off to do poo' I house, I doan' know but I might furnish de world wid some watchwords an' sayin's, but it would hev to be under some sich sorcum stances. About a month ago I began tradin' wid a butcher who had hung up in his shop de motto, 'Live and L*t Live.' It struck mo dat de idoah was a good one. He wanted his dues, an' he would grant do same to odders. In about a week he slipped a plugged quar ter into my change; two day3 later my two pounds of beef was short three ounces; de nex' week he charged me up wid forty-eight cents' worf of pork which I nobber had. I doan' trade dere any mo', an' my res peck fur his motto has dropped fifteen pegs. "If dar' am any membars of dis club who can't keep to work widout some motto 'bout industry behind' em, who can't pay deir honest debts widout some motto 'bout honesty above 'em, who can't be good husbands and fathers widout some scriptural qnotashun pasted in deir hats, such pussons had better sever deir connexun to ones." TBK MUSEUM. The quarterly report of the keeper of the museum was then submitted and accepted. Prom it is extracted the following matters of interest: The museum now contains relics of his torical value asgivon below: Name. No. Cleopatra. 0 Napoleon. 3 Ceesar. 5 Cromwell. i Washington.140 Diogenes. 2 iioSoto. 4 Queen Elisabeth _?. S Jefferson. 10 Lafayetto. 0 Gen. Jackson.?. 5, Plato. 3 In addition to the above, which range all the way from quarters to brondsword?/-th? museum has a fair display of curftSities from foreign lands and remembrances of great events. The keeper reported that two of the three skulls which had formally been labeled "Skull of Capt Kidd" had lately been relabeled?one for Marc Antony, and the other for Nero. While this move did not detract at all from the reputation of Capt Kidd, it added increased value to the collec tion. In these hard times one skull per man should bo tho limit Tho committee on tho interior, through the chairman, Judge Chowso, then reported back tho case of Professor Ashfoot Smith, an honorary member residing in Milwau kee. Ho had boon charged with being an Anarchist, and an investigation had re sulted in the discovery that he believed in and contended for: "No taxation." "Death to the rich." "Equal division of all property." "Neither laws nor prisons." The committee were unanimous in recom mending that His name be stricken from the rolls. "Which tho same will be did to once," said the president, "an' it may be sot down as de sentiments of dis club dat do gov' ment should tako sich ackshun as will pre vent conspirators, Nihilists and criminals from Yurup flndin' a safo asylum in de United States."?Detroit Free Press. Unfinished Business. A congressman's daughter had been re ceiving a young man's attentions, until the father thought it was time ho was knowing something about it "Cclestine," ho said last night, when the young man was an nounced, "isn't it about timo somo definite conclusion was boing arrived at in this matter." "Quito time, papa," she replied, in a matter-of-fact way. "Well, daughter, is there any prospect of a conclusion?" "1 can't say, really, papa. You see, ho is on the calendar as unfinished business, and"? "Enough, daughter, enough," ho interrupt ed, putting up his hands, and tho girl went down stairs to complete the quorum.? Washington Critic Storyottcs. All the world has heard of Bill Travers, the Hood of Wall street He> stutters ter ribly, but tho stammer embellishes rather than detracts from his stories. It was Travers who silently surveyed the Siamesa Twins for a quarter of an hour and then said: "B-b-b-brothers, I p-p-p-presume?" A story is told that a clergyman of tho Church of England, on accopting a country benefice, urged a friend to mako him a visit as soon as hu got settlod, remarking, in per fect good faith: "L have a nice little green field attached to the rectory. I mean to keep a couple of sheep, and we shall have mutton kidneys fresh every morning for breakfast "?Argonaut Tho Latest Thing la Cigars. It occurred last week, and is a slight vari ation from the ''telephone" relic: "Isn'i that an interstate cigar you're smoking I? he asked. "An interstate cigar? What's that!" queried tho stranger. "Why, o:iu that you can smoke in Maine <ind make the people in Toxas hold their noses."?IVushlnglou Hatchet. One Was Quito Enough. "No," said the henpecked husband, as he scratched his bald head, 'T am not a believer in Mormonism, not by a long chalk." "Why not!" asked tho Mormon sympa thizer with whom he was conversing. "Because," replied the henpecked man, "I don't believe in having two wives. 4Jfo ?-,n can serve two masters.1 "?Boston Courier. I A EEMEDY NOT FOE A DAY, BUT POE s&~ HALF A OMTUEY -?a EELIEVrNG BDTFEBIE? HITMANITY! s.s.s. sss sss sss BBS AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY. ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. JOHN C. WHETSTONE, ROWESVILLE. S. 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