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3355S55S3SSR55S553S5S! WHEN BIRDS, LEASTS AND FISHES ARE ON OUR COINS Ltmnw raw Ny 'TIGER MONEY. (HdT POPULAR N TV5nimUN OR OHIO; 6 -.--" Kb X-.VjJJ Jr7l i xafaaB so V" THE 3'T wnc2a-,, " - n i .JSftvAli "tf Ma"?' CAUSE , or ALL I TROUBLE - ftl IFFA1 fil COIN TO RERLACE GODDESS OFjLlBERTY. O0SE.V Mnwrvi ONE CENT PIECES' BLEPHANT MONEY (NO GOOD IN HEW JEJ?i HSO el M?y 'fXafJd' A DILEW HONEST MAN V(HO BROUGHT BUFFALO.MOOSE, DOiMKtT, WEASEL AfiD ELEPHANT MONEY ALONG, BUT-LEFT GOAT MONEY AT HOME! 5V Js."i"i"-3fv ASTKE PURSE BP APDOADITn: viu look 7'f :: " .;r .:"T IN THE FUTURE LWE- "LR SEE ANT; INOSAURS OTHFPi fefTIMCT ANIMAL WOULD' FOR GOLD COINS; "A buffalo of ice cream, -please!" Something like that the sweet summer girl will tell the soda fountain young man if Secretary-MacVeagh goes to the finish with his idea of yanking the Goddess of Liberty off our nickels and plac ing buffalo heads on 'em. Maybe the government will wind up by putting the bull moose head on the pennies or will they coin a 30-cent piece just for the bull moose? i ' And something like the dodo or dinosaur would be appropriate for the gold coins they're so extinct, you know. Or happy second thought! put the G. O. P. elephant on these fast-disappearing coins ! The currency reformer hasn't picked out a proper position for the justly celebrated donkey, but why wouldn'jj: the silver dollar do? And why can't they put the big fish the amateur fisherman catches on the new half-cent pieces? o o Tramp I jus' dropped in to of fer my cure for indigestion and kindred ailments, mum. I charge nothing for the prescription. Housekeeper What's the cure? Tramp Live on plain food and give your rich and indigestible dishes to the poor.