The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

talong the continent from Maine to Cal ifornia, and from the Atlantic to the Pa' | cfic coasts.
 Lady Visitors Largely Predominate. These pilgrims. the majority of whom are ladies, of course, see as much as they l can of all the wonders that Washington contains. but when it comes down to watching other people at work the shows of skill and labor depicted in the shops of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing surpass all others. There is something so attractive about money, and, then, again to see with their own eyes so many young women--whole armies of them-engaged in aiding to manufacture 1t. is alluring in the extreme.
 Just imagine a thousand of them, near ly all young girls. sitting at presses in l one long room, quiet and attentive to the labors. assisting in the process of get- l ting notes ready for use in the marts of the country! It is positively tempting | tempting enough to persuade any of the pretty girls among the pilgrims to make | up their mind to bone" their Congress l man as soon as they get home for place in the Bureau. They want to be money-makers in a double sense of the word.
 They also get an idea of how the post age stamps they put upon their letters are backed with mucilage.
 Making Postage Stamps.
 This is done sheet by sheet and in very quick order. There is a machine which pours a supply of mucilage on the back of the sheet as it goes through a series of rolling devices and comes out dry at the end of it's roller route, as dry as they will be when they go to the window of the country postoffiee where patrons lay T,o for fa ta carry their letters to their destinations.
 And just think of the cleanliness of the money, they see coming through the press and of the specimens thereof hang ing on the walls of the rooms in the building, ineIoSed in great frames and covered with glass. The notes, bonds. certificates of all kinds stamps, etc. TO most of the country folk who visit the various public offices in Washington clean. crisp, new money is like angels visits-few and far between. To strangers in the city it has a most wholesome att tractiveness, and many are the com | ments concerning it.
 It would appear from the remarks of these sightseers that there was no clean money in the country districts. Apropos of this is a story told of one of the bureau officials. who in enjoyment of his vacation a short time ago was so- | Journing in pretty country place not a hundred miles distant from Washington, and in the neighboring State of Virginia.
 Costly Joke on Bureau Officials. l He met an old friend residing in the locality where he was enjoying his holi-
 day, who was a rather prosperous coun- try merchant. This friend applied to him one day with his fists full of the dlrtiest. raggedest greasiest old veterans of one and two-dollar notes, and said, calling him by name:
 Have you any large notes that you can give me for ones and twos? have a note to pay at the county bank tomor-
 row, and I would like to surprise them
 with a good clean note. You, being in
 the Treasury Department. can easily get
 this redeemed"
 The bureau official gladly accommodated him. He gave him a good clean fifty
 and took in exchange the old soldiers