v HARE COINS FORGED THE COUNTERFEIT PIECES DO NOT FOOL THE EXPERTS. Date Are t'hnnirod nnd Mint Marfca Are Imitated, but Tlirre Are Alway v Llltle Thing Tiuit Heveal the Frnad Kven lent t'lecra Altered. Rare United States t'oins i-au't 1 counterfeited fo as to pass muster," Haiti nu old coin donler emphatically. "Tuoro Is no more oliance of die mak ers liolnjj able to make an exact coun terpart of a coin than there Is to Imi tate successfully the Impression of a mnu's thiiml). "That there are Imitatlous Is true enough, nut they are clunisy. Most of thoin are simple alterations of date. They cau lo told at a kmiiioxj ly sipns as unfailing as the sun. "While tin- rolus of a series of years may soeiu at first Rlauee to le all of one exact pattern, yet close observa tion will reveal distinct diliereucos. No heller illustration of this c:ui lie Known than the rare cent pieces of 1704. "Fifty-six distinct varieties of ceuts were Issued In that year, and all of them closely resembled one another. Careful study enables experts to tell them apart. It was in Ciis way that coin experts found that there wore so many diflViv..t dies made for the cent In ITiit. for i.ie mint records make no mention of the fact. "The favorite coin with those who al ter dated is the rare 171'. cent, which is worth S'Jfti and more if in uucirou- j Inted condition. The 17PK cent is the Issue that most cloely resembles this cent, and this is the coin that Is used i for ult .'ration. Xo collector should I).' I .taken iu by one of these altered speci mens, for there were only two varieties ot the 17!H) ce:it, and each lias marked differences from the coins of the previ ous year. ! "The ISO 4 dollar Is another tine ex ample. That Is the rarest American coin. Yon would naturally suppose that there would be many attempts to counterfeit this dollar, for It Is worth from $1,000 up. There has never been a single attempt to counterfeit this fa mous coin, but a number of coins have been turned out with the date altered. "The design of the 1Si4 dollar Is the same to all practical purposes as that of the year preeeuliiK It and In fact as far back as IT'.iS. The silver dollars of 17!18. 1700. 1110. 1801, 1802, 1803 and 3804 ore all supposed to be alike, with the exception of the date, and they do look as much alike ns two peas to the novloe. Yet the die makers each year have left trifling differences that make ..the" variety and the year of Issue ns clear ns daylight. "In almost every case when attempts -..v. r",--''rrri nave been made to imitate me irttn date the dollar of 1801 has been used, n specimen of which Is only worth a couple of dollars. To all appearances an 1801 dollar Is precisely like the 1804 coin, with the trll!lic,' difference In date, and thus the person making the alterations seems to think lie has noth ing to do but simply change the 1 Into a 4. Yet the reverse of the 1X01 dollar bears little variations that show the year In which it was struck. "Plauslblu tales are nearly always told by persons with such altered coins to sell. Not Ions ago a man came Into my place from the far west. Out of a chamois bag which he carried around his neck he took two coins carefully wrapped In tissue paper. "Tenderly he laid the coins in my hand, lie was not a coin collector, he said, but had heard that these two pieces were very valuable and had bought them at a low figure. "One of (he coins was supposed to be an 1S04 dollar and the other the rare 1853 half dollar, without the arrow points alongside of the date, which ought to have been worth from $75 to $100. They were certainly beauties, both of them, and the old man told their history, which went something like this: "Hack In the early forties a farm seeker, with his family and all his ef fects In a prairie schooner, came to a halt at a ferry landing on the eastern side of a river in Kansas. The man vas at the end of his financial re i nirccs, and the only thing In the way r money he had left was a largo silver dollar of 101. "lie persuaded the ferryman to take his outfit across In his llatboat and left with him this dollar, which the pioneer naid was a rare one. worth $10 or S1J back iu the states, and ho made the ferryman promise to hold the coin until he called for it and paid the price of the ferriage. "The owner of the dollar never call ed. After kwping the dollar for many Jears th'.' ferryman died, and his son disposed of it to the present owner, who had picked it up for the bargain price of S.700. The ferryman's son, who was a good natured fellow, gave the buyer as goad measure the 18.T3 half dollar, which, ho said, was also a rare cola. "Now, thut was a very likely story and ought to sell any coin, but not here In the east. Tbey were both very fine specimens, and they looked good to the rye, but they were both Imitations nnd not worth any more than the metal of which they were made except as curi osities. "The 1804 dollar was one altered from 1801 'vhlch n jdanou at the re verse showed, although the substituted '4 would have given the thing away, for this last figure was raised very per ceptibly higher than the '180. "As for the 1S.T3 half dollar. It bore no arrow points on either side of the ?. for the verv slmnle n-r.snn that A Big, Soft Umber Always moist, sweet and juicy. Best of all, it's dean exactly what you want your chewing to be. Not a scrap of scrap in The Clean Chewing Tobacco Choice, long leaf, pressed in big packages like sponge" cake goes three times as far as the five cents' worth. Neatly wrapped in clean . wax paper inside envelope stire it's clean! . lig Package 5c. Sold Everywhere i i they had been rubbed away. The work had been done very cleverly and thor oughly. One would hardly auimect that It had ever borne arrow heads, for there was uo Indication left to show this, but the Industrious workman had forgotten to rub away the rays behind the eagle on the reverse of the coin. "There were two varieties of half dollars made In 18T3. One, the com mon variety, had arrow points on ei ther side of the dale, while on the re verse rays shot out In all directions at the back of the eagle. The other va riety, which Is the valuable one, had neither rays nor arrows. "Attempts have been made to Imi tate (he cent ot 1815. No cents were issued Iu that year, anil yet 1 have seen a dozen specimens bearing the date. "Now the latter day imitators havo taken up the task of adding mint let tors to certain coins to make them re semble rare varieties. The accumula tion of coins bearing these mint marks is taking a good deal of the attention of collectors nowadays, and the Imi tators think they have an easy Held, but their time Is simply wasted, for their productions meet with no better success than the Imitation of the earlier coins and can lie singled out In a mo ment. "The coin most often Imitated Is the half dollar of 1H3S, made at Now Or leans. There were only twenty of these coined, and each one Is worth from $7." to $100. To all appearauces this coin is Just the same as many others Issued at other branch mints during the same year, with the excep tion of the tiny 'o' beneath (he bust. "I'roni time to fiiue person have taken an ordinary half dollar of tliM date and with iiilinile have sup plied it with this mint letter. In the majority of cases the work has been done so skillfully that the letter has every appearance of genuineness to the novice, l'.m almost invariably the let ter Is located hi a spot different from that occupied by the 'o' o.i tile genuine coin. "Even if the Imitator took care to place the mint letter In Its proper po sition there are other points of differ ence in the dies which reveal the fact that the coin has been tampered with." New York Sun. THE MEXICAN RACE. It la a Blending of the Indian With the Moro-Spnnlnrd. The Mexican Is a blend of the strong ami sober Indian race, melancholy, se rious of thought, with the Moro-Spau-lard, who for elxht centuries v.-ar ed war In the Iberian peninsula. The Moors left ill Spain something of their blood, much of their speech and not a little of their habit of thought and cus toms. It Is a good stock, that old Ara'i race administrators, wonderful culti vator. .Q.f the soil, chlvalrlc as becomes Package the riders of horses, i-ottrteoiiu, with an oriental graclousness. The blend with ihe southern Spaniard made the Auda lusian race which profoulidly Intlu ottccd the first Immigration into Mexi co. We hear their words, the relics of their speech, and we note often the vest bios of their customs. The Moro I'pmtl.trd ha made hl Impress on Mexican architecture and customs. Often liie Moorl h eyes la souio Mexi can woman's face, proud, yet mourn ful, arrest attention la fay, crowded Ktl .-els. The Anglo-Saxon Is the newer man, as 11 wore. He Is a man of positive achievement:!. To him lire due the rail way ami the steam, hip. the telegraph and Ihe telephone, the consolidation of ;nisi!ies: the active co: i!iurc!al cou nties t of the world's t'larliels. 11a In our modern age tmitclici the old Ro mans iu many deed::, Iu world adven ture. He la the younger brother In the great Aryan family, which came Into l'.iii'ope ages into from northern India. Spaniard and American. Mexican and Henna. i, are all relatives, kinsmen long time unaware of their blood rela tion. Spanish. Ktulls'i. French, Italian I'. ui Herman, (lie li:is!: of Aryan and the Sanskrit Is the common storehouse of the word roots, which we all em ploy every day. Curious that v.e should Imist on our differences when we are all essentially the siiiic. Whatever Is Aryan In us l.iud that Is the greater part) Is not Semitic. We are bloo l bro ilers and not strangers. The Moor Is Arabian and therefore Semitic, as are the .lows. Hut most of til Mood in Spanish veins is Aryan, and hence relates whatever Is Latin hi the M'.slcaii. the Central or South American, to tint tieriiiin, I'.ng lish iiaii and American. liy magnifying our differences, after all but our dlsi motive family tr.ills, wo draw apart. If we stopped to trace our origin we should see Unit wo are not strangers, but I retliren. Modern Mex ico. YOUTHFUL WARRIORS. I'lxnrro completed the conquest of Peru at thirty-live and died at forty. Cortex effected the conquest of Mex ico and completed his military career before the age of 'tMrty-slx. The great Conde defeated the Kpan lurds nt Kocrol at twenty-two and won nil his military fame before the age of twenty-five. I'eter the Croat of Kunsia was pro claimed cKifi' nt ten years of age, or ganized a Inrgo nnny at twenty, won the victory at Hmhach nt thirty, found ed St. Petersburg at, thirty-one and died ot the uge of fifty-five. The Question. "A politician should strive t be a representative man." "Certainly," answered S".ilir Sor ghum. "The question Is whether you are going to represent tie pv.bllc or the boss." Washington St.-i'. bites average a sealed TRICKS OF ORATORY DEVICES USED BY NOTED SPEAKERS TO GAIN A POINT. The Effect DeinoHl benef Attntned Ity nilnprnnnnnclnir Ilia Words The Trnp Into Which the Rlnqnent Car. ran Drew n Willies. One wonders of Demosthenes wheth 2r he ever In after yearn resumed of set purpose that habit of stammering which he had taken such heroic moans to eradicate. A stammer Is a most ef fective trick sometimes, and wo know that Alclhladcs found his lisp by uo moans the least useful of his many winning ways. The trick lit oratory combines both the conventional mean ings ot the word. It Is sometimes a habit, sometimes a will, sometimes both. Addison tells a capital story of a trick iu forensic oratory. At Westmin ster hall "thero was a counselor who never pleaded without n piece of pack thread In his hand, which lie used to twist about n thumb or finger nil the while he wns speaking. The wogs of those days called it 'the thread of his discourse,' for he was not ablo to utter a word without It," as a foolish client proved ouce to his own cost, for fie stole the thread, and his advocate came to utter grief. Another clever sort of trick, the "tak ing dodge," to borrow a phrase from the vernacular, Is the more generally Interesting. The classic lnstanco which naturally occurs to every one Is Tturke's famous "dagger scene" In the house of commons when he empha sized his peroration regarding tho reign of terror iu France by dramatic ally throwing a dagger on the floor of the house as an example of the meth ods of the opostloR of liberty, equality and fraternity. One of the tricks credited to Sheri dan was very much on tho linos of a famous "score" of classic times. A member whose admiration for the bril liant statesman was not tempered with discretion greatly annoyed Khcrldau by continually ejaculating, "Hear, hour!" without rhyme or reason. Sher idan determined to give him a lesson. At the close of one of bis speeches, de nunciatory of some Individual, he used the words, "Where shall we And a more foolish knave or a more knavish fool than he?" "Hear, hear!" come as usual from the troublesome enthusiast. Sheridan boved, thanked him for so obligingly supplying the required information aud resumed his sent And long centuries before Demos thenes, Inveighing ngnlnst an opponent who wos suspected of receiving subsi dies from the court of Persia, passion ately asked the crowded audience, "Is he not Mlsthotos a hireling?" Hut ns though Inadvertently he mispronounced the words so obviously that the audi ence shouted out corrections from nil points "Mlsthotos! Mlsthotos"' the ef fect of which wns to muke the citizens themselves apply the opprobrious epi thet. Not very dissimilar In character Is one of the many tricks attributed to Cumin. He was engaged on a case wherein the principal witness on tho other side was a gentleman of position whose evidence. If accepted, would be conclusive; In his opening speech Cur ran Inveighed with all the bitterness and eloquence In his power against the chief witness for the other side, but without actually mentioning his name. When the time came for the witness a Mr. I.egor to he sworn Cur ran Interposed In the blandest wjy that this was surely a needless formal ity. Mr. I.eger's character was such that he felt sure the Jury would accept his simple assertion. Tho unfortunate mau fell Into the trap. "I am glad, Mr. Curran, you have a better opinion of me now than when 3-011 first spoke." "Von admit, thi'ii, sir, that, though I uume.l no names, you recognized my description us applying to yourself?" Another of Curran's oratorical tricks Is not unlike one Sheridan perpetrated on the house. Iu this case the last speaker, It will be rememljcred, had wound up his speech with n classical quotation, which, to Judge from the plaudits It received, made a most ef fective point. Sheridan in his reply re gretted the honorable member had not completed tho quotation. He would do so himself, and the house would then see how fat!jj to the contention of tho honorable ufomber was the nuthorlty he had cited, whereupon Sheridan with magnificent dramatic effect recited a ro:;orous piece of gibberish! And tho house applauded vigorously. Curran's trick was nt the expense of a preternnturally stupid Jury. The judge happened to be n consummate classical scholar and, knowing Curran to be the same, was naturally astound ed on hearing him quote a piece of Lat in as coming from the Phantasmagoria of the historian Ileslod! "You mean Latin poet, Mr. Curran. Ileslod was a Greek, a poet and not a historian, and I doubt whether be ever wrote a work called the rhantusinagoria. The lines are Juvenal's." "Ileslod, ray lord, I as sure you, and Greek, not Latin." "Ton must be out of your senses, Mr. Cur ran, or think I am out of mine. The lines are Latin." "Well, my lord, I can only suggest that we leave It as an la sue for the jury, and I'll bo bound they will find it-Greek." The trick was perfectly effectual. London Globe. A Chesterfleld Retort. When Lord Chesterfield was In bis last Illness and his death was only a matter of a few weeks, his physician advlsod him to go for an easy drive In his carriage, and he went out. As the equipage was proceeding slowly along It was met by a lady, who remarked pleasantly to the great Invalid, "Ah, my lord, I am glad to seo you ablo to drive out!" "I am not driving out, madam," answered Chesterfield. "I nm simply rehearsing my funeral." -AWRENCE READY MIXED PAINTS The kind with the bother of tnUinz left out. Mnde from bent pigment and pur est linseed oil corn lined with r.len- tifc occurccy. 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