The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02

hand clothing store, or you find it upon
the most fashionable avenue of the town.
For small bills the poorer quarters are
chosen and the richer ones for the larg-
er denominations. The bills are sent to
some one who is the recognized head, and
he distributes them to his different
branches in the most secret ways.
A very skillful detective of the secret
service tells how he repeatedly tracked
counterfeit bills to one asistocratic neigh
borhood, and finally suspicion pointed to
one man. He was a Well-dreSSed, hand
some fellow, passing as a law student.
He had a room in fashionable boarding
house
The secret service detective took a room
in a rear house and fitted telescope in
the blind. For many days he waited in
vain, though always hearing of new coun-
terfeits in that part of the city. The
blinds opposite were always closed. One
morning a gust of wind blew them open,
just in time to reveal a swagger group
standing before the table in the young
mans room.
There was a fashionably dressed young
woman, a very dapper young man and a
tramp, all receiving an assignment of
bills. The young woman, 1t seems, pass
ed as the sister OF the young man and
came to his room at will The dapper
caller was friend, and the tramp was
none other than a boarder in the house,
who was also one of the gang, and who
disguised himself as a tramp and got in
and out of the house protected by his
coat collar and his friends. Their plan
was to paste" a certain neighborhOod,
then move to another, Each day the
gentlemanly head of the concern, the
bogus law student, bought cigars with
a bogus s. bill at the different cigar
stores and received handful of good
bills and silver in return. In a wealthy
neighborhod a bad bill goes unnoticed,
until time to deposit it at the bank, when
the cigar dealer has no idea where he
There is a 81 bill with the head of Wash
ington upon it, in which the face of the
Father of His Country is so poor that
felt bill And there is a $40 bill that has
Iincoln's face upon it, badly drawn. The
eagle, the emblem of liberty, is a sorry
s stead Of being spirited and clear.
There is a $40 of Gen. Sheridan's face.
The star on his epaulet is four-pointed
S1OO bill in which the eagle bird has al
most no tail. 1t is thought that in mount
ing the plate the eagles tail did not come
up WE'LL" as printers say.
If a list of all the known counterfeit
bills were given, it would look so long
that eyes of suspicion would rest upon
every bill, for the game of counterfeit
ing has been going on ever since money
began. But in the United States coun-
terfeiters are pursued as nowhere else,
and the bills are tracked and gathered
up before they do half the damage they
"oiA - O''0 James Barton.
Robert Burns. fourth. the great-grand-
son of the poet, died recently at Blachal.
near Edinburgh, and by his death, which
happened exactly 100 years after the de-
cease of the Ayrshire bard, the direct
male line of Burns has come to an end.
The deceased was born in 1874; his father
was a shcoolmaster, from whom he re-
ceived a good education, but, being of a
rowing disposition, Robert Burns, the
Fourth enlisted before he was out of his
teens in the Scots Fusilier Guards. After
serving as a soldier for seven years, he
engaged in various employments and was
FOR some time a railway employs, and
finally q gardener. sii