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NEED FOR- NEW COINS. Cents and Nickles no Ix>nger Subserve Proper Functions. Seven and eight cent pieces are proposed as a method of helping the overworked nickel and its poor relation, the penny, in these days when so many things that used to cost a nickel have jumped two or three cents in price. Senator Frelinghuysen, who sponsored the bill in the congress, thinks the new coins would do away with much making of change. \ It has been so long since Americans have known anything but the nickel and the penny, in the smallest change line, that it might be hard to get used 'to the new coins, should they tre adopted. Jn fact tne united states has as few coins now as at the beginning of its existence. In 1792'con^ gress authorized the following coins for circulation:The eagle ($10), halfeagle, ($5), quarter-eagle ($2.50), the dollar, the "disme" (old spelling for dime), half disme (five cents), the cent, and the half cent. Double eagles came into being in 1849, the year of the gold rush to California. In 1851, a new coin-, the three-cent piece, three-quarter silver and one-quarter copper, was introduced, and two years later the threedollar gold piece came into being. In 1857 they dropped the half-cent, but minted a new piece, a two-cent coin, in 1864. In 1865 the old three-cent piece was dropped, and a new threecent piece, without any silver in it, was coined. It was made of copper and nickel. In the same year the old familiar motto, "In God We " Txroc nrrlorpff hv pnnfrrpcc tn A A. IT MtJ V X UVl V\A M J VW V V be placed on certain coins of the realm. It is still there. The nickel of today came into being in 1866. In 1876 congress overhauled the entire coinage system, and decided upon the following coins: All the gold coins as they now stand; silver coins, the dollar, half-dollar, quarter and dime; minor coins, the five, three and one-cent pieces. The five and three-cent coins were made of copper and nickel, and the cent was i of the humbler composition of copper, tin and zinc. Since that time the j three-cent piece has fallen by the wayside. All the minor coins are known as "token" coins, because they made | money for Uncle Sam. That is, the metal they contain is not equivalent to I the value the government places on them. A double eagle is worth exactly twenty dollars, and so is a half eagle and the rest of them are worth their iaee v^ue, but if you melted a silver half dollar you would not have a halfdollar's worth of silver. A Dull Season. "Say, what's the idea of the pistol?" the theatrical press agent asked, noting the young cannon protruding from the pocket of a friend. "Going to kill myself," was ?t.he gloomy reply. "Oh, I say, old chap," the press r agent began in a tone of remonstrance, but caught himself and concluded: "Well, if you are bound to do it, leave a note saying it was because of a hopeless love for our leading lady, won't you? I'd appreciate it, old boy. It's a dull season and every little thing helps." How it Happened. "When I was over to Mount Pizgy, tuther day?" began a resident of the Straddle Ridge, Arkansas, neighborv hood. "What did you go there for?" interestedly interrupted an acquaintance. "You don't know nobody at Mount Pizgy, do you?" "Nope! I aimed to go to Tumlinville, but wasn't paying no attention to what I was doing, and sorter got started in the wrong direction.- And it was easier to keep going than to (yaw-w-w-wn!) turn around." Ancient Accidents. Prof.?"What happened to Babylon?" Fresh?"It fell." * * \X7Vk ft 4- r? rvr\i^r\ 4- ? ?.? O ' * jLiv/x. u nai iiajjpcucu t\J JL j I . | Presh?"It was punctured."?The St. Cloud (Minn.) High School Mascot. For Information Only. A farmer lived on a lonely place \ and eventually a railroad was run through the district. There was one train a day and it stopped at the * farmer's station on signal. i The farmer one day set the signal | and the train drew up. But he did I not climb aboard. I "Well, get on!" shouted the cont ductor. "Get on, can't ye?" W "Excuse me," said the farmer. "I B don't want to get on. I only want to B say that you are to stop here at this H time tomorrow as my wife is going to m town to do some shopping." ||H ???????? ??B The Herald Book Store can sell BB you ledgers, cash books, etc., at prices HB cheaper than elsewhere. Our stock life: was bought more than a year ago. ! r^h:??i ! I LP^lllIlg* | I I > Just Received a Large Shipment. f f V > 2, 4,6, 8 AND 10 INCH. T f T V Y Y A n I _ _ A & uenume ^onaor a t t |G. 0. SIMMONS | X BAMBERG, S. C. ! <: A A A AWA. A^? A#A A#A AVA A#a A#A A#,k AVA AVA AVA "OW This is your ' delicious cake." 7,I "How do you make such lovely cake? \ j It's wonderful. Everybody envies you ^ ' your cake, my dear. I have no luck with ^ .pjjyWPW f mine, i follow the rules very carefully, ^ BlfXiSsllSSSffmm but I can't make cake like this." . -] "It's the flour, dearie, I'm sure. You can / ! ly^l! Ijlj| IHl bake just as good cake as anybody if ' rlHa the finest flour^I ever used. They ^ fine that it is sifted through silk. v'v S - \ Your grocer probably sells Valier's k.^r-r2U^acJurC<l.? | Dainty Flour. If not he will get it for ? **JtD WINTE" .^Y 't i you. Phone him today." AS- "t BEJiT Daintu Flour requires less lard. C. E. SHUMAKER FLOUR CO., Wholesale Distributers Augusta, Georgia *\ Alabama Minister Relieved Stomach Troubles Made Him Feel Sick at Meal Times, But Now Always Enjoys His Meals. DO YOU enjoy your meals? Eat Ala., who writes: "I had stomach'trouwithout the dread of the after- When I would go to eat, I would w . 7 turn sick. I took one bottle of Ziron, enects. it cured me. Am always ready Lack of appetite, and a disgreeable, for my meals and enjoy them. I think ?lck-at-the-stomach feeling after meals, it is a fine medicine." usually indicate that your digestive If your food hurts you, if your appe .. . . tite is poor, if you are pale, weak and organs are not working properly. As run^0^n_ ^ haye 0?er 8ymptoffi8 a result, you will feel weak, lose weight that indicate your system needs help, and lack the energy that is to be de- try Ziron. It will put iron into your rived from well-digested food. blood and help build you up. Take lit according to directions, and if not A valuable help in correcting such benefited by the first bottle, the moneyeonditions is mentioned by the Rev. back guarantee will protect you. ?. K. 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