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or The Secret SerYice.

and sold, while the rest of the stuff, in
cluding the base metal, such as dies,
stamps, etc, is taken either to the navy
yard or to a foundry and there de-
stroyed in the presence of secret serv-
Ice officers, who make affidaVits of the
destruction to the Secretary.
There has not been a house-cleaning
Of this kind since November, 1902.
Valuable Counterfeiting Machinery.
At present the contraband includes
in addition to counterfeit notes, coins,
postage and revenue stamps, valuable
and costly type, by means of which
counterfeiters print the Latin numerals
on queer" notes; inks, paints, acids,
Photographic apparatus, dies, molds,
stamps and other accessories of the
art of making fictitious money.
This year large batch of the John
son-Hancock notes will be burned.
They are. known as the Hancock 2s."
They were made by the celebrated coun-
terfeiter Johnson of Detroit and were
so nearly perfect that the government
suspended the issue of this note. No
doubt many of these counterfeits are
still in circulation and performing the
functions of real money.
A number of notes made by the no
torious but now reformed" counter
feiter Brockway will be destroyed.
Even Pennies Counterfeited
In the store room of the Secret Serv-
ice Bureau are many boxes of bad coins.
Every coin of the United States from
cents to $40 gold pieces has been i'm
itated, counterfeit nickles being found
more frequently than silver or copper
coins.
In the collection is some gold coin
that has been sweated. Sweating is an
ancient and simple trick, long practiced
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
The Woman's Side of It-Converse of
the Proposition That the Wife
Sho Id Not Burden Husband
With Household Duties.

Beginning away back with st. Paul
who admonished the women to keep ST
lent in the churches, the so-called
weaker sex have been exhorted, ad-
vised and ridiculed; and a long list
of conduct of the negative sort mapped
out beginning with DON'T, and an
equally lengthy array of the positive
sort, starting with DO.
And all this sage advice applies in
turn to maid and wife, debutante and
dowager.
Now what's sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander. Why not some
ADVICE to men?
Are you one of those men who con-
tinually leave their personal belong
ings, their hats, canes, coats or slippers,
wherever they've happened last to use
them?
Do you smoke your cigar in the par
lor and let the ashes fall wheresoe'e 'er
they will, and that, too, after the regu-
lar Friday cleaning? And you en-
deavor to placate your wife with that
superior sophistry about cigar ashes
keeping out moths.
Do you bury yourself in the morn
ing paper, even reading while eating,
while your wife sits silent at the head
of tn table? Do you exclaim, or
chuckle, or swear softly at the latest
news, without sharing your informa-
tion with her?
Do you compliment the little wo-
man when you are enjoying one of
your good dinners, or do you find fault
if the morning coffee is just the least
bit below standard, though the pre-
vious twenty-five mornings you have
drunk the amber liquid of SURPRISING
excellence?
Do you notice the new gown that
has cost her days of thought and eff
fort? Or do you say you women
spend a whole lot of unnecessary
thought and time upon clothes," and
then take your new top-coat back to
the tailor the sixth time because at
doesn't set just right?"
Do you surprise your wife occa-
sionally by getting seats at the theatre
and giving her a surprise party of
two? Or do you say 'Aw, go to the
matinee if you want to see the show.
I'll go to the ball game?
Do you tell her of your plans, your
work, your perplexities? Do you
share with her your hopes and fears?
Do you let her know of the real life
you lead so many hours each day?
Or do you turn her questions with a
brief Women know nothing ABOUT
business. 1t will only worry you?
Do you sometimes take her in your
arms and say Little woman, you are
a good wife-a real help-meet"? Do
you ever tell her the things you did in
the sweetheart days? Or do you let
it go, thinking "She knows that any
way"
The woman's field of labor, big man,
is narrow and circumscribed. It is
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls of
the house and the needs of the chill
dren. This is her province and she
glories in it. But know that she
also longs for contact with the big
world, for the mental stimulus that
comes from daily association with men
and affairs, for the joy of recognized
compensation for services rendered.
Because she is your wife, because
she has entered into the domestic life,
these things are denied her.
Can't you be generous to the little
Can't you welcome her into
your larger life? Can't you make her
your real comrade-your true help
meet?
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
4 SEQVOLA GIGANTEA.
Restoration In Government Grounds
Of Tree Twenty Feet Thick.

This picture represents the biggest
tree in Washington and one of the
sights" of the National Capital. II
has strong attraction for strangers
from afar and especially from the
east and the south. This piece of a
tree stands in the grounds of the De
partment of Agriculture, east of the
building.
The giant came from the Sequoia
National Park in California and was
exhibited at the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago. AT the close of the fair it was
brought to Washington. 1t is twenty
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
A SINGULAR COMBINATION.
7 RIDER HAGGARD. WELRD FICTION
WRITER; MODEL FARMER AND
POLITICAL ECONOALLST.
Makes Official Report on Salvation
Army Colonization Work. Would
Direct the "Maste Forces of Be-
neVoIence."

II. Rider Haggard is man of gem
ius. At one time, he is writing such
impossible creations as ''She" and
"King Solomon's Mines" calling into
play a most vivid imagination and
settings, in weird and unreal color
ings; at another time,. he is actively
superintending the work on his mag
nificent 2OO-acre English farm; next
he is studying over some new imagin-
ative creation, wandering about his
home, and not speaking to the mem
bers of his family for week at
time; and again he is making an eco
nomic study, under government
commission, of the social conditions
of the poor in America. In a short
interview with him, as he passed
through Washington this year, on his
way west l found that he possessed
eminently practical bard sense, while
the imaginative streak of his charac-
ter did not manifest itself in the
least and 1 see now, that he has
just made his report to the British
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
on his inspection of the three land
settlements, which have been estab-
lished in California, Colorado and
Ohio respectively, by the American
branch of the Salvation Army.
Colonization Work of Salvation Army
At these three points the Salvation
Army has established rural settle
ments, taking worthy poor from the
overcrowded cities, furnishing them
with small tracts of land, sufficient
money to get start and make homes
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Rockefeller Scores In Japan.

The British steamer Monarch sailed
with a cargo of 2,47O. ZOO gallons of
refined petroleum, one hundred barrels
of lubricating oil and 1900 cases of
wax. This is the greatest oil cargo
ever shipped out of the United States,
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17

feet in diameter and is called The
General Noble in honor of the Secre-
tary of the Interior under whose ad-
ministration so much good was done
for the big tree reservations of the
Pacific coast. The cost of it's trans
portation to Chicago was $4,000.
The interior is hollow and a spiral
stairway leads to the platform at the
top.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
LmDroViSi1g.

81 admire that last piece you
played, professor, immensely" said
Mrs. GasweTl. "It had a kind Of wild
freedom about it, you know, sort of
wierdness that touched me. Was it
your own composition
Madam coldly responded the en-
inent musician, who had been hired
for the occasion, 81 was putting q new
string on my violin"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
sold ProbabiIifies'' In Lapan.

While Japan has had meteorological
stations on some of her very high
mountains since 1899, these were only
in use during the summer. An all the
year station will now be opened on the
summit of Mount Tsukaba, near Toxic
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Longest Bridge In the World.

The longest bridge in the world is the
Lion bridge, near Sangong, China, sup
ported by over 800 huge stone arches
and extending five and one-quarter
miles over the arm Of the Yellow Sea.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one Th01nsand
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
DOUBTFUL ON FIRE.
This Wife Tried Hot Water Without
Good Effect.

Senator Blackburn gives this good
story about heaping Goals of fire;
Il heard of a fellow in my State who
was rather quarre1some and made his
home anything but pleasant His wife,
1t is sai,:, was a good deal of vixen,
and one of the church ladies, fun IF
charity and the doctrine of the law of
kindness. attempted to reconcile the dis
turbed family
The peace-making lady called at the
home of the fussy family and address
ing the better half, said:
- Now. my dear lady, how much
pleasanter it would be If you and your
husband would live together without
these family jars. Your children would
be happier and these ugly stories about
frequent quarrels would cease It may
be that you are not altogether blame
less in this matter. Suppose you try to
find out what the law OF kindness prac-
ticed toward your husband will do in
effeeting a reconciliation. 1t certainly
can do no harm, and you may succeed
in touching the tender chords fof his
heart, and he may renew his old at
fections. You should try it, and II you
do not succeed you will, at least, heap
Goals of fire en- his head.
Il don't know about Goals of fire,
was the answer. but I've tried bllin
water and 1t didn't do a bit of good
1T is, perhaps, needless to say that
the efforts of the peace-mdNlng Etdy
ceased then and there and the job was
| declared q bad one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

~ INCE John Howard entered upon
the first solemn, serious contena-
J piation of the object and purpose
Of the Imprisonment of convicts,
it has been but little over a hundred
years ago.
Before, there was a vast system of
safe and. as we know, often cruel places
of confinement. which in a genera way
was contemplated as something FIR the
general welfare.
But since the time of Howard atten-
ton has been given by many to the
work ard care of the misguided human
beings who ill our penal and correc-
tionaI institutions. and while it is recog-
nized that the present methods are by
TO means perfect, yet it is ho.}efui that
earnest men and women throughout the
world are giving thought to the prob
lem.
Washington has number of workers
IN this field, and prominent among them
is the KEY. Joseph I. Mcguire, who
has for the past six years been closely
identified with every phase of the chart
table and correctional work OF the Dis
ri
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He Died Bravely.

The proceedings were stayed. The
warden motioned his men to delay
The kitten was removed from the cell
and 1 commenced the office for the
dying. AS I said, the man was not
afraid. After moment he brushed
his hand across his eyes and straight
e.1ed up His arms were tied and the
curtain drawn back, disclosing the gal
lows. But his composure was entirely
recovered. He walked out with a firm
step and head erect and met death
brave1y.
at is a simple thing In itseif-the
mans sorrow. An iacident In the rou-
tine of affairs at the jails. But In its
settings it becomes a tragedy. You can
not forget a scene like that
''One of the most brutal murders ever
committed in Washington was expiated
on the gallows of the District jail a
few years ago. The murderer was a
man of very inferior mental eapa city.
He was cruel. cunning, and apparently
without remorse for the frightful crime
he had committed. Certainly he was the
last man in whom one would expect
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
HIS SORE THROAT.
Preacher Who Made Excuses for Pos
sible Poor Sermon

preachers give some funny expe-
riences sometimes" says Representative
KftcFfn OF North Carolina.
Il heard of one who had very sore
throat and when meeting day came
round he got up in the pulpit and said:
81 have suffered such great incon-
venience with my throat that feel at
home on the throat question. but would
be without a throat, even very bad
one, II | had tried all the remedies
which have been so lovingly offered me.
| did not try them. and the result Is l
am here this Sunday morning TO try to
fiji my appointment.
"A preacher feels of less importance
than an eyeless needle when his throat
is not at his command and his voice
has gone off on a vacation. You can't
imagine how a preacher feels when he
has an engagement to fight the devil
and throw down the walls of supersti-
ton, and take the city by the blowing
of a sleeps horn. and when he gets into
the engagement to find that the horn
wont foot a little Dit
i" Yes, sisters and brothers. | have
a deuced poor excuse for throat, but
will do the best l can If the congrega-
ton will contribute literally when the
deacons pass around the hat.
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M1ardereF1.
Attachment of Condemned Man for a Kitten
Impressed the Priest With Fact
That Man Was Naturally
Tender-Hearted.

My wife brought these cakes few
days ago. be said She's a good wo-
man and has been good to rue. / kept
these to eat this morning.
He offered the bag to me and asked
me to share the contents OF course /
did, 1t would have been brutal under
the circumstances to refuse We sat
there on the cot together and ate the
crackers until the last crunlb was gone
Several times before the end he spoke
of his wife affectionateiy and seemed
deeoiv affected by her theughtfulness-
Zone OF the incidents at the Dlssrict
iau which impressed me very much az
ths. time was in the case of man nuhg
for an alleged murder. The evidence
against him was entirely circumstantial
and his defense was not, in my opinion.
conducted as we'll as might have been.
AS 8 matter Of fart the attorney for the
prosecution joined in an appeal 20 the
President TO have his case reconstructed.
There was a strong hope to the very
last that his sentence would De COM
| mLted
ION the morning of his execution the
warden received an order to stay pro-
ceefings to the limit of the law Tf1e
execution had been ordered to take piae
between the hours IF u noon and
O'Clock in the afternoon. The announce
n1eut was made that a delay or two
hours had beer granted. Although not
| a word was spoken on the subject by The
unfortunate man or myself. we both felt
| that it only meant postponemene
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her off. The last thing she said to me
was to take good care of her garden.
promised I would, and put her on the
train That was the last / thought of
the matter until a letter arrived from
the family she was visiting. announc-
ing that she would return on a certain
train and containing message from
her to me in which she spoke of the
garden, and said she hoped to find 1t
in good condition.
4 was overcome By refnorse st my
thong htlessness. Hurry-ng out to exam
inc the garden, I found my fears re-
allied Long, rank weeds had cnoked
the vegetables and everything was des-
olate. Only a few hours remained to re-
pair the damage. and in that time I
could not hope To accomplish nything.
At last had an idea, and going into the
house ] found an apple. an orange,
tomato, an egg and several other vege-
buried and covering the fresh earth
with leaves, went down TO the depot.
ssOf course the first question from my
little granddaughter was about her
garden. I told her that 7 was very
much satisfied with the prospects. That
1t looked rather badly on top the
ground. but that I felt sure it had done
| wei below That it was one of those
gardens that grew better under the
| earth than on top. I warned her that
she must expect to find the first glimpse
disceuraging, but that she must not
say a word until we dug down to the
roots
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my kitten gets a home somewhere?
With people who will be kind to it.
Ills voice broke slightly, and there
was a faint twitching at the corners
of his mouth. 1 promised him that
the little animal should be well cared
for, and the promise seemed TO comfort
him. He held the kitten out before
him for a last look-it was a mute
farewell. The word was given to tie
his limbs; I extended my hands for
his pet: the final moment had come.
Then, for the first time, the man
broke down. In all the time he had
been in jail there had been no COM
plant from him. He had never finch
ed from his fate. And l am absolutely
certain that it was not the thought of
death that broke his stoicism-it was
simply his grief for the seps ration
from his dumb friend. At that mo-
rnent he felt himself cut off from man
kin6-something to be hurried out of
the world. There was no human being
to tell good-by; no friend to grieve
at his departure. But the cat had
loved him through the last few weeks
would miss him that evening He
buried his face in the soft fur and
cried bitterly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
CRAFTY MINISTER.
How Clergyman Got Subscription From
Stephen Girard.

One of the Representatives from
Pennsylvania gives this story about
Stephen Girard:
"A4 the time-a number of years ago
the Methodists were building a
church on Tenth Street, Phiiadelphfa.
afterward bought by the Episcopalians.
the rafnister Of the first named church
WON'T IA Mr.. Gfrard and asked him il he
would tell him how he could make one
Thousand dollars if he would give five
hundred toward the building of the new
church. Mr.. Girard assured him that
he would. The minister told MIN OF a
debt of one thousand dollars which had
long been considered dead, but which
could easily be recovered by taking
certain steps. Mr.. Girard was just the
man to take such steps, and he col
lected the money, giving the church
one-half of it,
The Rev. DR.. s., then at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
ATTORNEY DE FAcTo.
Judge Commits Counsel IN Lieu of Real
Offenders.

Senator Berry of Arkansas Is the father
Of this really good story:
4 number of gamblers were indicted
before the circuit court in q certain sec
ton of Arkansas for engaging IN prae-
tees in such cases made and provided.
The delinquents, finding that the prose-
cutting attorney had "a sure thing on
them, concluded not to come before the
court in person, but retained a we'll
known attorney 70 appear for them,
plead guilty, ard pay the fine
Accordingly. when the case was called.
the attorney said:
IT appear for the defendants and plead
guilty"
The judge eyed the attorney a mo-
rent, and then said:
Mr. Hester appears. pleads guilty.
and is fined
But your honor. have not yet rs-
ceived the money for the hne-expect 20
receive it tomorrow.
1T makes no difference. sir.
fined. and stand committed
1t is paid.
That was the last r
could be secured to
guilty for any OF
nifty.
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Appointed Catholic Chaplain.

Father Mcguire is Baltimorean and
gained his intimate knowledge of human
nature, as it shows itself under the
convict's stripes, in that city. AS a
boy of seventeen he associated himself
with The St Vincent de Paul Society In
their work of visiting prisoners IN jails
and warehouses;. He entered business
life in the Monumental City and pros
pered. But the life he is now living
appealed to him more strongly. and re-
Ifnauishing the management OF a large
commercial house. he entered a semi
nary and studied for the priesthood, 70
which he was ordained six years ago.
He was at once appointed to act as
Catholic chaplain to the municipal insti-
tutions Of Washington. and among E;s
other work has done much for the
spiritual comfort of the men in the Dis
trict jail and worknotIse.
He has gained to an unusual degree
the confidence and fri endship of these
nnfortunates. irrespective OF their creeo
or nationality. and il was in the hope
of learning the secret of this influence
that q reportev for Tile Sunday Times
sought an interview
when the question was asked, Father
Mas,,;re said that he laiG no claim 10
special influence, but that ne tnonght
the success of anyone 4 engaged IN re
formatory work chiefly ecnss,s1ted III
ability to look at the situation from the
viewpoint of the other man and 10 WORK
upward from that; TO put yourself IN
his place; to do unto b i'm as you would
want some one to do ur to you, were you
as unhappily cireumstanced-
,'The man in prison." continued Father
Mcguire, 'shas his good as well as his
had points, and unlesSs he wants TO
u1ay the part of a hypocrite. is not a
hit DISPOSED to give the one he meets
for the first time his confidence con-
corning the causes of his downfall, nor
is he usually disposetf to listen with
profit TO an unsought tsor advice.
"a man may be an inmate Of a jail.
hut he has a right te5 have his personal
inv respected, just lls much as the man
on the outside. who, would resent unask-
ed for counsel or ifmpertinent questions
concerning his MORAL dispositions
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Murderers Not the Worst Criminals.

No, I do not consider murderers TO
be The worst type of the men have met
In the District 1ai1. The worst men I
have known have not been murderers.
DO not misunderstood me- [ am not
an apoIogist for nnurderers, neither dc
[ wish to offer any palIiation for the
mits a burglary, for example, has done
so with cold blooded generalization and
after due consideration. Such a man
deserves to be called desperate crimi-
nal. But, granted a certain eXcitable
type of man: a cause, jealousy, hate, or
revenge, and a little whisky and you
have all the ingredients of a murderer.
/ believe that few men are normal, III
the accepted sense Of the word. when
they Kill their victim know that when
The murderer has returned to his nor
NAL condition, he often suffers the
keenest remorse which is in no way in
dueneed by dread of the laws penalty.
I'm some parts of Europe & murderer
is treated as a wild beast; thrust into
q cage and his meals passed through
the bars on the end Of a stick. In this
country we are rslore humane But there
is. nevertheless. an attitude on the part
of the public to regard q man who
criminals man from whom TO shrink
with dread. And yet it frequently hap
pens that a murderer under sentence OF
death gives proof that he is exceedingly
tender-hearted. Take the case OF man
who was hanged in the District jail
only a few years ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
SHIFTLESS CRACKERS.
Man Satisfied Because Pine Knots Were
HANDY

Col. Mel Hanna. brother of the late
Senator Hanna. owns a beautiful sum
mer home in the piney woods of Georgia,
Fear Thomasville. A gentleman who
visited Mr.. Hanna last summer tells this
story;
THAT section of the country is very
pretty. but ! saw some of the poorest
specimens of humanity amcng the rural
inhabitants | ever looked at Not far
from the home of my host : aceosted a
man who was sitting IN front OF his
cabin in the sunshine and shaking like
an aspen leaf:
'Got chin?"
Yes. got er chill came the answer.
This Is a fine country. my friend"
Fine country, stranger. did you
say
yes, fine country
~ haven't found it that way, neigh
bor.'
Then why do you stay here?''
See them seven little children out
there in she yard, and the old woman
over there hoeng cotton and there's
four children in the caain there sick
too
That's hard luck. my friend. But
what are the attractions here-why dc
you stay here?'
Don't know unless it's just because
the lightwood knots are so amazin
handy
And I guess there are just lots of this
class who stay In the country because
Iishtwood knots are handy-too shiftlesl
to even hunt something to make ligh
and fire.