Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — She Looks Out for Mean Men. [ARTICLE]

She Looks Out for Mean Men.

Chicago Journal. I lunched with a friend to day at an establishment which enjoys a very heavy patronage every noon hour. I handed the young lady cashier a silver dollar in payment of my bill! Before giving me my change she looked at the ’‘dollar very critically, snd finally cast it into the money-drawer with apparent reluctance. I endured the ordeal without com plaint, .but told my friend afterward that I hated to be mistaken for a counterfeiter, and asked why that girl should look with suspicion on coins that I gave her, as I distinctly remembered her doing several times of late. His reply was prompt and to the point, “ Because, my boy,” said he, “ihat girl has to make up out of her own pocket the. losses of all kinds that she may sustain, either bv accepting bad coins or otherwise. You, in your innocence, may not believe it, but there are lotsof men mean enough to try and pass off .on that girl, who, as you saw, was rushed to death, any ‘queer’ dollars and half dollars that come into their possession. She is in a position where she has to give out change for coins sixty times to the minute, so that unless she is exceptionally sharp she is good game for snch mean men to experiment upon. Let her examine yonr good dollars as long as she likes but see that you don’t give her any bad ones.” I promised to do so, inwardly forgave the maid and went my way.