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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, OA.
TRADE DOLLARS.
Authorized In 1873 and Demonetized
by the Act of 1887.
A trade dollar is slightly larger
than a standard dollar, but it is not
current com, and its metal value is
only about 40 cents, though coin
collectors will pay 80 cents tor it.
So many of these mongrel dollars
were in circulation a generation ago
that most persons were watchful to j
avoid getting one, but in recent
years they have been so rare that
many people never have seen one.
Trade dollars were authorized by
congress in 1873 for the purpose of
stimulating commerce with the ori
ent. For many years the Mexican
silver dollar had been a highly val
ued coin in nearly all far eastern
countries. Hundreds of millions of
them were shipped to China, Japan,
the Philippines and other countries
in that part of the world to pay for
the products exported from them to
Europe and the United States.
American .lawmakers thought :
that a coin of practically the same!
weight and size ns the Mexican dol-
ue was about 7 per cent less. Hut
the oriental money changers quick
ly learned this difference in value',
and the deception wouldn’t work.
The trade dollar was authorized
by the coinage act which became
famous v»!*W the designation of
“the crime of ’73” in the free silver
agitation which began a few years
later and continued for more than
twenty years.—Kansas City Star.
PNEUMONIA.
lar bearing the imprint of the Unit
ed States could he used advanta
geously as a substitute for the Mexi
can dollar.
In the five years beginning with
1873 the United States mint pro
duced nearly 3(5.000,000 of these
dollars. Most of them were export
ed, hut enough of them remained
in this country to he embarrassing
because of their similarity to the
standard silver dollar, and in 1887
congress provided that for six
months thereafter all trade dollars
presented to the treasury should be
exchanged for standard silver dol
lars, ond after that time the trade
dollars were left to shift for them
selves, being worth only their metal
value plus whatever premium coin
collectors might be willing to pay
for them. Nearly 8,000,000 of
them were redeemed, and when the
period for redemption ended only
284,587 of them remained in this
country, less than 1 per cent of the
number that had been coined.
The trade dollars have on one
side a sitting figure of the Goddess
of Liberty and on the other an
eagle of n different design from that
on the stundard dollar. The inscrip
tion is “United States of America,
Trade Dollar, 420 grains, 900 fine.”
The standard silver dollar weighs
412.5 grains. The weight of the
Mexican dollar is 417.79 grains, but
97.27 per cent of it is pure silver,
eo that though it weighs less its
metal value is about 7 per cent
more than that of the old trade dol
lar. Probably this is the reason
■that the trade dollar never made a
liit with the people of the far east.
There is ground for suspicion that
the originators of the trade dollar
thought the orientals might he
duped into taking it in preference
to the Mexican dollar because of its
slightly greater weight, notwith
standing the fact that its silver val-
A Yankee Commission.
Since the golden age of the New
England trading skipper Yankees
have had a reputation for being
commercial. Few of them, however,
are so eager for a bargain as this
one. celebrated in the Louisville
Times: He was touring the south
for pleasure, but could not dislodge
from his tnind the customs and
phrases of his business life.
“Here,” said a guide to him one
day. “right here in this room, sir.
Washington received his first com
mission.”
The Yankee brightened up.
“What per cent commission was
it?” he asked.
A Witty Comment.
One night several years ago two
young men were dining with two
ladies at the Iluvlin hotel, in (’incin-
nati. The two ladies were members
of Miss Marie Dressler’s company,
and Miss Dressier herself happened
to be dining at the next table. As
the party of four arose after dinner
one of the men's sleeves brushed a
glass from the table and it was shat
tered to bits on the marble floor.
With a twinkle in her eyes Miss
Dressier leaned toward him and
said. “1 beg your pardon; you’ve
dropped the stone out of your ring.”
—Town Talk.
A Puzzler.
At an examination in an English
school the teacher was so pleased
with his class that he said they
could ask him any question they
liked.
Some were nsked and replied to.
Seeing 'one little fellow in deep
thought, the teacher asked him for
a question. The boy answered,
with a grave face:
“I'-piease, sir, if you was in a
soft mud heap up to vour neck and
I wns to throw a brick at your head
would you duck ?”
The answer is not recorded.
Th* On* Who Wasn’t Whipped.
It was in n large school, and one
of the boys had committed some
grave infraction of discipline. The
teacher announced that he would
thrash the whole class if some one
did not tell him who had committed
the offense. All were silent, and he
began with the first bov and
thrashed every one in the class un
til finally he reached the last one.
Then he said, “Now, if you will tell
me who did this I won’t thrash
you.” “All right, sir; 1 did it,” was
the reply.
Its Best Friend Is a Bad Cold That Has
Been Neglected.
Pneumonia is not dreaded mere
ly for its power to seize and kill
quickly, but also for its apparent
power to select the most unlikely
victims. Most persons have lived
through the shook of hearing that
some friend had suddenly died of
pneumonia—a friend from whom
they had parted but a few days or
even hours before, leaving him at
wlnit seemed the highest notch of
physical well being and perhaps
protesting that he did not know
what illness meant.
This disease is most dangerous to
the apparently strong, robust peo
ple of henvy weight and hearty ap
petite, although it may attack any
one, for its germs are omnipresent.
The strong and full blooded indi
vidual who is at the same time
something overweight is especially
in danger of pneumonia and should
take particular care to avoid it. If
his diet is too heavy—and that may
safely be assumed—it should be
ruthlessly cut down, especially as to
meat and the elimination of alcohol.
Tim weighing scale is a good
friend to such a person and should
be consulted regularly. The seule
docs not argue about that extra
pound or two—it proves it—and aft
er a weight in accordance with age
and height has been determined it
can bo maintained in most cases by
the exorcise of a little Rolf control.
There are hosts of people who in
dolently permit themselves to get
henvv and even fat in the winter
months. They are the people who
should be constantly reminded,
“The pneumonia germ ’ll git yer if
yer don’t watch out!”
The condition of the man must
bo recognized as more important
than the presence of tho germ, ns
proved by the fact that there is less
mortality among the thin and ap
parently delicate than among the
stout and full blooded.
Some of the phrases used by the
laity on tins subject have, after all,
more sense than nonsense in them.
Tt is said that some one is “threat
ened with pneumonia” or that n
“had cold ran into pneumonia,” and
in a sense it is true, for every one is
“threatened” with pneumonia; that
is to say, the germ is always present
and ready and willing to begin its
work if one only gives it a chance.
The most successful way to give
it a chance is to neglect a bad cold
and thus break down the natural
defenses of the system. If every
bad cold were met with starvation,
physic and fresh air it would de
part in disgust, and the lurking
pneumonia with it, for the large
burglar cannot get in through a
hole which has refused to admit the
smaller one.—Youth’s Companion.
DRAUGHON
BUSINbSS TRAINING
“Right at Your Door’
Draughon’s Practical Business College Company proposes to
establish a branch college in Carrollton so that the young people
or this city and the surrounding country can get the benefit of a
superior business course at small expense.
The Draughoti Company operates about fifty big business colleges, and is
now establishing colleges in some of the smaller cities, the only condition be
ing that as many as thirty students are secured for these branch colleges.
In many places the number ruus as high as 5o to 60 before the end of term.
Scholarships for the Carrollton college vtill be sold at much
bss than the regular rates, and they will be good for life in any
Draughon College.
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For full information, address Draughon’s Busiuess College. Carrollton, Ga.
and Mr A. C. Padgett, one of our field managors will call to see you.
Administrator’s Sale
GASOLINE ENGINE
FOR SALE
3-hp Qas Engine in good run
ning order, will sell at a low
price. Also have several pul
leys to dispose of. Apply to
The Free Press Office
SPINNING ASBESTOS.
On* Thread a Hundred Yards In Langth
May Weigh but an Ounce.
Asbestos was first mined in Italy,
and prior to 1880 it was the only
country that produced it at a com
mercial profit. The Italian asbes
tos is very silky in appearance and
gray to brown in color. Often the
fibers ars several feet iiAlength.
Asbestos upon leaving the cob- 2a
bing sheds is sent to the spinning ~
mills in bags holding about 100
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Saturday June 17th
GEORGIA, Carroll County:
£v virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of said county granted
at the June term, 1911, of said cx>urt,
will be sold on the 17th day of June,
1911, between the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder for cash, at the
place of business of the Carrollton
Garage and Transfer Co., in Carroll
ton, Ga., the following personal prop
erty, towit:
1 Reo Automobile
1 Buick Automobile
1 Gasoline Storage Tank
3 Prestolite Tanks
1 Goodyear Tube
1 Set Taps and Dies
1 Bbl. Folorene Medium
1-2 Bbl. Soap
1-3 Bbl. N. F. Oil
1-3 Bbl. Cup Grease
A lot of Automobile Tools, Fabric, Rub
ber Cement, Scrap Rubber, and such
things as you would find in a garage.
A.. K. Snead,
emporary) Administrator Estate
W. D.( Hamrick, deceased.
pounds. Upon its urrival it is first
Wicker Basket*. I forecarded by a machine similar to
One of the largest imports from \ the saw tooth gin used in cotton
Russia into America is willow I mills. This separates the tangled
clothesbaskets. The huge hampers j fibers, after which a final carding
so commonly in use are nearly all takes place on a regular carding
made in central Russia by peas-1 machine. When the asbestos leaves
the carding machine it is combed
smoothly and the fibers laid parallel
in a uniform mass. This mass is
ants, although some come from the
Dnnube valley, and there is consid
erable domestic manufacture. The
importations last year exceeded a
million dollars’ worth. Osier wil
low, from which they are made, has
been worked by Russian peasants
for centuries and was formerly the
material from which they wove
their houses. The method of cut
ting, peeling, twisting and manipu
lating tlie withes is handed down
from father to son.—Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald.
As She Would Have Been.
A gentlemon in Paris paid a visit
to a lady, in whose parlor he saw a
portrait of a lovely woman of, say,
five and twenty. Upon the entrance
of the lady her visitor naturally
asked her if the picture was a fam
ily portrait and was told that it rep
resented her deceased daughter. “Is
it long since you lost her?” nsked
the gentleman. “Alas, sir,” replied
the lady, “she died just after her
birth, and 1 had a portrait painted
to represent her us she would have
appeared if she had lived until
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Electric Iron
treated in a rota spinning machine. 0
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The Disenchanting Phonograph.
The best story 1 have heard rc-
cenllv is that told of a well known
Oxford don who was asked to speak
into a phonograph. A little later
the machine was turned on again,
and he was requested to listen to
his own voice. The don then turned
to the assembled company and said,
“It is strange that through this ma
chine I am made to speak in a pe
culiarly bumptious and affected
manner.”—London Tatler.
This first spins it into a coarse
yarn and then draws and spins this
yarn until it becomes fine and quite
strong. Where a bard, strong
thread is required for certain fab
rics the asbestos yarn is put into a
doubling and twisting machine,
where two or more of the yarn
threads are combined. Of course
if the asbestos is to be impregnated
with rubber a smooth, hard finished
thread is not desirable.
The spinning of asbestos for a
long time seemed of great difficulty,
owing to the manner in which the
threads persisted in slipping past
each other. Finally it was discov
ered that under the microscope a
thread of asbestos showed a notched
surface and that by means of spe
cial twisting the spinning could lie
made successful. Now. after much
experimenting, manufacturers are
able to spin a single asbestos thread
of 100 yards in length not weighing
over an ounce.— India Rubber
World.
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Carrollton Electric
Company
Just as Advertised.
Irate Visitor—1 call this a down
right fraud ! You'advertise on your
bills, “'l’lie Most Remarkable Dwarf
In the World.” and lie turns out to
he five feet five inches high.
Bland Showman—Exactly so, sir.
That’s just what’s so remqvkable
about him. He’s the tallest dwarf
on record.
Burglary In England.
Burglary cannot he committed in
the daytime. The Knglish rule is
that if there is light enough to see
the face of the intruder there is no
burglary. This, however, does not
include moonlight, for a house
breaker entering after nightfall,
however brightly the moon may he
shining, is legally a burglar—that
is, if it is reasonably certain that he
lias entered with the intent to com
mit felony, for while a tramp break
ing into a house to sleep may be a
housebreaker he is not in the proper
sense of the word a burglar. Bur
glary, however, may consist in
breaking out as well as breaking in.
for one who hides in a house before
nightfall to steal and after stealing
breaks out to get away is just as
much a burglar as he who to effect
his purpose breaks in.
Excursion Rates.
ASK THE TICKET AGENT
*F. J. ROBINSON
AbltllirfAtMT GEN U PA5S R AGENT
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