MILLIONS MACERATED.
HOW COUNTERFEIT MONEY
DES 'ROYED.
18
Why Innocent-Looking Devices Are
Seized by tho Government -Author-
ized Counterfelts,
For some weeks an committee com-
posed of clerks of the Treasury De-
ing the counterfeit money which has
accumulated in the storage room of
Mr. Hazen, the chief of the secret
service of the Treasury Department.
Chief Huzen estimates the amount
of counterfeit money which is being
destroyed at $5,000,000. It would
take a pretty big vault to hold all
secrat service chief in a vear.
collection includes not only sounter-
feit money and the plates used to
make it, but advertisements which
against simulating the securities
the United States. And
whole editions of books which
tain pictures prohibited by law—
likenesses of the coins or the paper
currency issued by the government.
A very short time ago there were
seized 1,000 pounds of ‘Coin Guides,’
issued by a concern in Boston. These
“'guides’’ not only quoted the prices
paid for rare coins, but gave wood
cuts of the coin designs. The whole
edition of the ‘‘guide’’ was seize
and at the same time two
‘‘guides’” printed from the
plates were captured and the
were confiscated.
une
counterfeit
These
the
ser
onscious
law
counterfe 8S. Since the passa
the Edmunds counterfeit law
secret service agents have had their
1g advertise
ir devices, which are
of the
i;
hands
ment
plain but innocent vic
For
ago a Dbievele
guarantee in the
of a bond. Any who read this
guarantee and understood it saw
plainly that it was simply a promise
to pay the owner of a bicycle of their
make a certain amount of money if
the machine did not certain
time; but a foreigner, ignorant of the
cnglish language, might have been
persuaded very easily that this was
a United States bond for $1,000
This fraud was practiced on
certain foreigners with bonds issued
by a New York newspaper
teeing its circulati
A few 20 & newspaper in
New York published cartoons in
form of tes bearing
names of certain city
full suppressi
s and othe
ions
statute,
example, some
company issued
form
one
or semblance
last a
in fact
guaran-
On.
Weeks n
the
the faces and
The
used
but
ing
officials,
cartoons could not have been
to
the law is intended
deceive an intelligent person :
more especia
to protect those who are not
gent, So agent
service seized the plates from
the cartoons were printed and tl
ened the proprietor i
prosecution if he repe:
the
The newspaper picture as
is hardly ever dangerous,
if it be a picture of a col
is dangerous j
which the print is made.
graving could be used to reproduce
the design in metal if it should fall
into the hands of unprincipled people.
That is why the secret service bureau
seized the plates from which the New
York newspaper was printed. 1h
feature of the law is s0 well under-
stood now that many publishers sub-
mit designs for engravings to the
chief of the secret service before
having the engravings made.
The latest and amusing
Seizure made by service
agents was a set
Chicago and
water checks.
meatal, and they were 80 like the old
five-cent piece that they would have
deceived a very intelligent person if
handed to him in a quantity of coin
Most of these checks were sold in the
vicinity of Birmingham, Aia., but
some were found in Washington, and
it is likely that if their career had
not been cut short they would have
reached other large communities.
The sode water sellers were notified
to send in all of these checks under
penalty, and the agents in Chicago
seized the dies.
There is, however, a quantity of
counterfeit money which is held in |
the large cities of the United States |
ander special permit of the Secretary
of the Treasury. It is held by about |
twenty-five men, and the limit to the |
amount held by each is $500. These
men are bankers and teachers or pro-
fessors in the art of detecting coun-
terfeit money. There is a regular |
business, not-only in detecting coun
ter‘eits, but in teaching others to de-
tect them. Several men in different
parts of the United States make a
living by this occupation, and some
of them travel from place to place |
filling engagements to instruct young
bank elerks in the art. Incidentally
these *'‘professors’’ work up business |
for detective agencies and get sub-|
scriptions for ‘‘counterfeit detect-|
ors,” which are published in several
cities. All who hold counterfeit
money under permit from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury are required to
report to the secret service bureau,
at least once a month, and, if in the
neighborhood of a secret service
ugent, to report to him in person and
show him the counterfeit money to
demonstrate that none has disap-
peared. An agént in Nebraska not
long ago ran down a man with a per-
mit who had not reported for two
years. All but $10 of the counter.
feit money was found in his posses.
sion and was taken from him, He
claimed to have lost the $10, and no
action was taken against him. But
he will never enjoy the Usorotary’s
is
the
the
of dies prepared in
used for making
These checks were ot
most
secret
soda
Whenever a special agent makes a
seizure he forwards the articles
seized to the bureau at Washington
{ and with them goes an invoice. The
| original involees are putin thehands
| of the treasury committee and are
| compared with the goods in the hands
i of the secret service custodian so us
| to make sure that nothing has es
| caped. It would be a pretty serious
{matter if $5,000 000 worth of counter
feit money was turned loose on the
country. When the committee has
checkea up all the goods they are
taken to the macerator in the
ment of the treasury building or to
the biz furnace at the navy yard.
The one is used for the destruction
of mutilated and worn-ou paper
money and the other for the destrue-
tion of obsolete plates from the bu-
reau of engraving and printing.
These two destructive agents render
the secret service seizures quite harm-
l
1088
base-
AMERICAN PEARLS.
Morn Than $500,000 Worth
Found in Wisconsin.
Mr. George F. Kunz, the New York
expert in precious stones,
| that pearl-fishing is becoming an im-
portant industry in Wisconsin, and
that more than §
states
£500 O00 worth of ex-
cellent pearls have been taken out of
the Sugar river, down in the south-
western part of the State, during the
three or four years. But he
thinks the legislature ought to pass
a stringent law t«
which will otherwise
stroyed by the improvidence of tl
who are work] The
» found |
last
x .
} protect the flisher-
18, SO0n He
hermen
and destroy all
whether
when it
to pry it
strumen
a pair of
the indus
being.
into his bed
stream to breed
definite ly By it
#els from which the
been from that
borne a poorer quality, and p anting
them at yield
has been most t would
possible to improve the pearis b
in size and quality. Experie
it that oysters can
; or
ie
Kunz believes that t
n doing the
taken those
: ' :
the spots where the
ve
ith
prolifie, i
be
catiie
nere w
horses
ficulty ir
ari-bearing
It i
tain extent
the co
nas aire
nditions 1
are pe
He has pr
fisheries
mitigsel
z, or rather Mrs,
liscovered that what
vide-wite
Kunz
diamonds
y rare and come fr
in Brazil, are reservoirs of
will not only show
in
JUL
when entirely at rest.
nZ was wearing a dinmond of
1-3 i i: 8
kind and one night hap;
tice the phenomenon whi
up
She called
in the dark by friction,
sparkle
Ku
sned to no-
e hanging
dark closet
husband's attention
to it and he made a thorough in
tigat But of all the grades and
colors and kinds of diamonds that he
had access to, the blue-white variety
alone seemed to retain and emit Hight
in the dark. While Mr. Kunz had
never known of this peculiarity be.
fore he thought it must have been
discovered by some one, and began n
search through all the authorities
that treat of precious stones. Finally
he found a reference to the fact in an
old English work, but the adthor
evidently regarded it as of little im-
portance. Those who happen to own
blue-white diamonds can make tests
for themselves.
some clothes in a
her
sel,
VEE»
ion.
$
Raw Eggs.
Raw eggs are frequently ordered,
as when they can be taken and re-
tained by a sick person they ure ex.
tremely nourishing, simply because
the albumen, not having been hard-
ened, is the sooner digested. Many,
however, cannot take raw CEES ne
usually given, that is, beaten up with
milk or wine. The following mode is
a good one; the appearance of the
dish is =o mice that an invahd will
often be induced to try it It is free
from oilinets and clean to the palate,
Put the yolk of an egg into a basin
with a teaspoonful of white sugar
and a tablespoonful of orange or
lemon juice, and beat lightly togeth-
er with a fork. Put the white ona
plate, add a pinch of salt, and then,
with » broad-bladed knife, beat it to
a stiff froth. Then, as lightly ns
possible, mix all together in the
basin. and as lightly transfer to a
clean tumbler, which it will nearly
fill if properly made. This must not
stand in a warnr place, or it soon
becomes liquid and loses its snowy
look. ;
Galloons of every width are made
great use of. They are sold in all
the dark and neutral colors, match.
ing plain dress fabrics or showing
shot, checked and other fancy mix-
tures and combinations in keeping
with the new and beautiful color
schemes brought out in the rich dress
confidence ugain,
materials of the season.
DIPHTHERIA CURE,
A MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY DE.
SCRIBED IN DETAIL.
The Highest Medical Authorities
Concedes Its Efficacy-- Adcnted in
European Hospitals.
The eure for diphtheria, discovered
by Professor Behring of the Univer.
sity of Halle, seems to have passed
the experimental stage, and the Lhich-
est medical authorities now concede
its wonderful efficacy. The French
Budget Committees has recommend-
ed a Government appropriation of
$20,000 for the purpose of serum to
be distributed among the
of France Berlin
to obtain a sapply for all it
als, while in Vienna, Dresden,
other Continental cities the
ment has already been adopted.
New York, too, t
be in
Cyrus Edson having declared his be-
hospitals
has tak
the remedy will soon
use, Health Commissioner Dr.
lief that it is the most remarkable dis-
covery on record in the
medicine,
Professor
rapeutic
lehring began in 1890
the experiments that resulted in his
discovery. Prof-
3 He is a disciple of
whose experiments with
essor Koch
he cure of consumption
attention of the whole
Professor
of Koel
blood with
bie
harmless
ing the doses,
and at
gnougn to kill
1s ¢
IRSE
lated animals into one guinea
and it remained as healthy and brisk
Professor then
before,
a step and
ns
advanced further
overed that
d He
as bacteria are
the disease,
are they needed in order to
proof aginst |
in the flui
cultivated, so
sought for in
inocuiated,
ction may lie
were
be
such is
and that that element of
the blood which ean thus render an
organism diphtheria proof is
rum.
Speaking loosely, the serum is the
transparent part of the blood. Pat
some drops of blood on a saucer, ad
in a very short time they coagulate;
that is, it assumes the appearance
of a mass of jelly, on the surface of
which drops of a yellowish watery
fluid ace visible, a red, semi-solid
mass lying undeneath, This latter
is called the clot, and the former is
the serum, and in this serum Profess.
the case
the se-
of defending mankind from the fur-
ther ravages of diphtheria. He pour-
ed into a bowl a quantity of serum |
taken from the blood of an inocu
lated animal, and found that the
diphtheria poison, if mixed with it,
became perfectly innocuous.
mixture be injected under the skin,
the organism is not only not deleteri-
ously affected thereby, but is render.
ed secure against the future attacks
of the malady.
Another series of experiments left
no doubt in Professor Behring's mind
that Pastear’s notion that the effic.
acy of the inoculation depended on
its being weakened was erroneous.
It is a question of quantity, and noth-
ing more. Every Infectious disease
leaves behind corpuscles in the blood
which protect the patient from =»
new attack; and this fact opens out
a wide perspective to contemporary
and future medicine. The next and
last step was to try the efficacy of
serum on human beings, and the re-
sults of the application confirmed the
Professor's wildest hopes.
Professor Ehrlich, in Berlin, took
1
the matter up with vigor, and having
first verified Behring’s observations
| by inoculating animals snffering
{ from diphtheria, treated human pa
{tients exactly in the same way. Of
[the difficulties he had to contend
with at the first, the chief was that
of obtaining the serum in sufficiently
large quantities. The problem is
more or less satisfactorily solved. In
| five hospitals in Berlin diphtheria
treated with serum and
the results are as follows: First of
all, und by way of a standard by
which to gauge their significance,
Professor Ehrlich mentions that sey-
enty-two cases of the malady having
treated by the usual methods,
twenty-five ended fatally. Then come
soventy-eight diphtheria patients who
-elaht hours of
has been
been
g the frst forty
their ill
to their blood
fied
he conclusion to which
had seram injected in-
and of these only two
this Sig
nificant fact points is that the newiy
remedy,
rovered if applied at
infection
an
is prac.
cure. In two
spitals of the same city (the
Elizabeth's Hospital)
re deaths out of eighty-
] result which will
ar itl more encouraging when
is stated that of these twelve, sev-
to the most rant
kind of diphtheria known, so mr al
that there
‘stage of the
an infallible
Charite
there we
nine patients a
appe
it
snoed
malig
§
1
nant }
Was no nh
4
cov 10d very first.
{f serum was |
: ££ as
vera, and
ary diseases
it Grew Lmid Dangers.
In visiting Silver City. New Mex.
ico, in the course of a tour made last
month,” said the ex-Government In-
tor I was particularly
pressed with the vigorand transform-
ing power that marks the impact of
our American civilization upon the
regions we acquired by the Mexican
war. The town was planted twenty
years ago by American mining men
in the very heart of the Apache coun-
try, far from any other civilized com-
manity, and it was necessary at times
in its eurly history to call the citi.
zens to arms and to picket the town
in anticipation of an attack from In-
dians. The year I first visited Silver
City, 1877, there had just occurred a
murderous Apache raid, in which the
savages had come so near the town
4s to sweep away horses from the
overlooking hills. It wasa central
point in the vortex of Indian wars,
raids, and massacres until the Apache
spec ime
and deportation of Geronimo’s band
in I886; yet under such conditions
it grew and prospered.
“To-day it is a city that in pro-
gressiveness compares well with any
fruitful regions of the West, Its
rich brick blocks contain banks,
large mercantile houses, and manu-
factories; tasteful residences and
grounds border its streets, and, seen
the stately building just erected for
the Territorial Normal School, shows
that the cause of enlightened educa-
tion goes hand in hand with 168 come
wercial prosperity. This, mark you,
in a country where twenty years ago,
except at the few military stations,
the language, customs, and instita-
tions of the civilized ple were all
inherited from the old Spanish colo-
nization.”
——
AS ME FINDS THEM.
Jones—~There goes * man
takes things as he finds them.
Robbins—A philosopher?
Jones- -No; a ragpicker,
who
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Mountain climbing is a great sport
and a dangerous one. According to
the Appenzellar Zeitung the past
year alone, seventy-thiee tourists
and guides met with violent death in
the Alps. while twenty others rezeived
serious injuries, and four more were
lost, never to be heard of again,
Tue United States now have about
forty vessels engaged in whaling
the remnant of a fleet which
numbered 500 ships The demand
for whale oil has so greatly decreased
that the industry hasdwindled away
It is now supported chiefly by the
demand for whalebone,
once
Tue longest distance
be carried within the
United States is from Ke 3 1
6,271
t, Fin,
and iil
People who would
money will at start
Key West or Ounalaska and
y %
(ress their corresnondence tha nk
to Ounalaskn, miles;
for
gave
3 ents!
WO cents
onee for
ad-
: 4 .
shall get their full money’s wi
Tus
that the
enthusiastic stamp collector
marked a New Yorker who
ested in the
"Some years ago I received
newspapers refer to the fact
late Czar of Russia was an
’ ro.
is inter-
stamp-selling business.
an
from the Czar for a complete ussort-
nis
them to him and received a very large
sum of money in return
“Lospox E
nentof U ed States stamps. | sent
naval
¥
soted
in
recognize thie infin ¢ yi Lhe
this,
tarian j
to anybody who had ever tasted
it was so delicious tha staid
Lh
wwinciple of
IOUS scruple
who knew its te,
1 3
Gia wae
of
it
inside
“i % Yo 1!
voked it and
in the open air, and in
ate
and
rdinary
special
CoOORIng
but used the
ones
11 these
Because beef was unclean.
cleanness into our nouse wherin tl
and into our or.
dinary utensils, which might be used
in making offerings to the gods. The
day when we ate beef my father did
not offer lights to the gods nor say
evening prayers to them, as he did
usually, for he knew he was unclean
and could not approach the gods.”
ie
‘gods-shelf ’ is kept
NEVER were the physician and
the chemist more dismayed by the
meagerness of their knowledge—
great though the resuits of their la
bors have been—than now. Taking
the apparently simple questicn of
water analysis for example an Eng
lish chemist observes that ‘the in
tellect of the civilized world for fifty
years or more has been unable to de.
vise a process (physical, chemical,
microscopical or biological) which
will enable the operator to say with
certainty, ‘this water is wholesome.’
There are several processes which are
capable of detecting a bad water, but
in many cases this cannot be done by
the senses alone, so recourse must be
had to indirect methods, such as as.
certaining the mortality and sickness
amongst the people who use the
water, or examining the source as to
the probabilities of pollution.” A
striking illustration of the uncertain
evidence of chemical analysis alone
is afforded by the history of the
Hamburg cholera epidemic, The
neighboring city of Altona was com-
paratively free from the disease yet
{amburg's water supply came from
the Elbe above the city, and that for
Altona from the same river after re-
ceiving the sewage of a population of
about 800,000. The Altona water
was chemically more impure than
that of Hamburg, but the former was
filtered and the latter was not.
Oakland, Cal., has a fashionable
i —
AN OFT REPEATED STORY OF TRUE
PHILANTHROPY.
What Chas. 11. Hackliey Hus Done for
Westerns Michigan,
( From Grand Rapids, Mich., Evening Press.
The most beantifel spot dn all this city je
inseparably assoefated with the aamo of
Huckley, Chas, YH. Backley has been in the
lumber business continuously
1806, and in that time has amasond a fortune
which gives him a ratiog among the wealthy
men of the naticn, Bat with wealth fhers
did not come that tightening of the purse
strings which is generally a marked charac.
he-o sinens
teristic of wealthy men.
It is no then that
Charles H, Hackley is known
His
alone represents an outlay of nearly half »
For the nas {went'y yours he has
unt sufferer from pouralgia snd
numbness of the lower
limbs, 50 mu it it bas seriov«ly Inter.
fered with his pleasure in life, For some
time past bis friends have notiesd that
has seemed to grow young sain and
have recovered the health which he had in
youth,
" To a'reporier for the News Mr. Hackley
expinined the pecret of this transiormation,
“1 have suffered for over 20 years,” he suid,
“with paios in my lower jimbs 80 severely
that the only relief I could get nt night was
by putting : water cOmpresses on my
mis, Iwas bothered more at night than
in the day time, The neursigie and rbhen-
matic pains in my limbs, which had been
growing in intensity for years, flaally be
came I made thres trips 10 the
Hot Springs with only partial relief, and
then fell back to my original state, |
couldn't sit still, and 1 sufferings began to
make look very bine, Two years ago
last September noticed an sceount of Dr.
itis tor Pale People and
and
the namn of
at and
to Muskegon
wonder
home
abroad, munilieenes
million,
been nu cous
rheumatism, nn 80
hi wo 11
fies
45
eold
ehronic,
ay
for others, EOE
@ red
and am
heathihr
ful medicine,
what It has do
Dr. Wi
elements
Liegx 10
nerves
Or mr
Hass
DeCesBa ry |
“A THING OF DEAUTY.”
Mammoth Edition »f lHeod's “alendar for
INOS,
Fa gets Hood's Calendar
’
ing of
ron
' The eal.
a heart and
beautiful! child
charming
ilendars, On the right
of “Winter,” the sweet
Hitle face with light browa eyes peeping ont
irom a dainty while the snow flakes are
inliing all abou he face onthe jeft is nn
picture of “Sun rr,” and is lighted with
blue eves and yvered with a hat
decorated with bright flowers, The shades
ure perfectly blended asd the whole picture
is surrounded Ly a tasty border. The de.
sign wns made by Miss Mande Humphrey,
one of the most gifted and osletrated water
rolor artists in Toe esiendar
gives the usual information concerning the
naar changes, and upon the back is printed
a table of astronomical #vents especially cals
wintad for C, I. Hood & Co,
The calendar is issued to advertise the
preparations of the firm, and is regarde] ase
most difficult 10 manufacture, its novel
shape being such as no other concern has
ever undertaken to produce in large quan-
tities. During the five months when the cal.
endars were being made there wore actually
employed every day in this part of the work
«ix prioting presses, one bronziog machine,
four eve-jeiting machines, seven wire stitches
ery, eight large paper cutters and 162 por.
The sdition for 1895 was 10,500,000,
or anout 2.500.000 more than last year, If
the calendars were jald down In a single
hme, they would reach aimost 1000 miles,
and If the different pleces in the calendar
pads were aid in this way they would extend
simost 3000 miles, or irom New York to
Liverpool,
Those who are
Ihe besuty.
widar in 1 in the shape ol
with two
siways
is Oras
which 1
satures of Hood's C
ina os hiny Loan
isa representation
the country,
On,
unabie to obtain IHood%s
Sarsaparilia Calendars at the drug stores
should send six e-nts in Stamos lor one, of
i0 cents for two to C, L Hoo 1 & Co., Lowell,
Mass,
No man is good who beliaves himsell
ply because he has 10,
sim.
The Best Men Coming to the Front.
Splendid business opportunities are offered
men and women of the highest and best chars
acter to represent B, F. Johnson & Co, of
Richmond, Va. No capital needed Even
pure time may be used to good advantage. [#
will be worth your while 10 write to them,
»
Have nothing to do with the thing that bad
nen are in favor of,
“An Ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of eure.” Ri
pans Tabules do not weigh an ounve but they
contain many pounds of good. Une tabule
gives relief, Try for yoursell the next time
you have a headache or bilious attack.
‘But yet” is as a jailer, 10 bring forth some
monstrous malefacior
He was treated at the Children's Hospital,
Boston, and when he came home had SKV.
EN RUNNING SORES on his lag. Could
not step. We have been giving him Hoods
Sarsiparilla n year, and he oun walk, ran,
and play as lively ns any boy. He has no
spores and 8 the PICTURK OF
HEALTH, Joux C. Bove, Ware, Mass,