The age-herald., 1898-01-21
GAVE HIM A NEW START IN LIFE.
How Ben Butterworth Once Settled Case of
 Couuterfeiting.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 One day when Maj. Butterworth was in a reminiscent mood he told the following story, which is a fine illustration of the trend of his whole life:
 "When I was district attorney in Cincin- nati.' he said. "a man was brought before
 mo who had been arrested for passing counterfeit money. The man was a plain working man, evidently country-bred, and when looked into his face I thought: If this man is a rogue, the Lord is a very bad writer He stood before me with misery painted on every line of his countenance and depicted in every bend of his body, and so I took him into my private room and said to him.
 |" You can tell me your story, if you wish, my man. and will try to do whatever is best
 ''''Well, it is no use for to deny it,, he began; flor 1 done it. But never me ant to be dishonest
 And then he went on and told me how he had worked and saved up his money till he had enough to pay the first install- ment on a farm out west, to be home for his wife and seven children. He lived in a small town in Ohio and had left them there while he went to secure the home; and on the boat he had met a stranger, a smooth, spacious individual, well-dressed, well-man- nered and plausible. This man showed him some new bills, and told him that while he had made them himself, they were not counterfeit because they had been printed from the genuine dies which had been ab- stracted from the treasury department, and told it in such way as to make it seem to this simple-minded man but venial fault, just a sharp business trick, in fact, rather commendable than otherwise, for its enter T l.o soil hay to h 1fr,1f half price. Here was enough in his very grasp to pay for his farm, and he could all the sooner have his wife and children with him, thought he.
 "He was simple-minded man, as I said not an acute reasqner, and the glamour of the situation, together with the cease less arguments of the stranger, hindered him from thinking over it as he g2ould, and he gave the man all the money sxs had laid up to buy his home for twice the amount in worthless paper. The man left the boat at the next landing, and then his victim began to think in earnest about what he had done. He wanted to see some- body to ask about it; somebody who would know whether this pretty new money was really good before he got any farther from home, so he took the next boat going back, giving the last cent of-good money he had for his passage, landing in Cincinnati again without cent in his pocket, nor an idea what to do in his head.
 ''At last hunger assailed him, and he thought he would try his new money, as that would be the best test of it's value, after all, and in his simplicity he thought that dollar or two could not make much difference when he had paid several hun dred, for if the money turned out to be bad he could make that small sum good when he got home and at work again. So he offered 50-cent currency note in pay ment for his dinner and another for his bed. He was detected at once, for the counter felt, far from being made on real plates. diately arrested. Alas! he had no chance