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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-14
YOUNG
MOfheTS

NO young woman, N the Joy OF
coming motherhood, should neglect
to prepare her system for the phys
ical ordeal she is to undergo. The
health of both she and her coming
child depends largely upon the care
she bestows upon herself during the
waiting months. Mothers Friend
prepares the expectant mothers sys-
tenn for the coming event, and its use
makes her comfortable during all the
term. It works with and for nature,
and by gradually expanding all It's
sues, muscles and tendons, involved,
and keeping the breasts In good con-
Gition, brings the woman to the crisis
in splendid physical condition. The
baby too is more apt to be perfect and
strong where the mother has thus
prepared herself for natures supreme
junction. No better advice could be
given young expectant mother than
that she use Mothers Friend; it is
medicine that has proven its value in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-14
MINERS TO HOLD FIRST
AID CONTEST ON

MD JUNIEST UN 4.
Trinidad, Colo. Sept. 1.-THE mine
operators OF the Rocky mountain dis
trict announced today that a first aid
contest will be held in cooperation with
the government bureau OF mines and
the American Red Cross association
here September 23. Every mine oper-
ating in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming,
Arizona and New Mexico will be en-
titled to send one team of six MEM
bers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-14
INVESTIGATING MINES IN
THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS

Las Cruces. n. NJ, Sept. 14.-F. c..
Huber of FL Paso, is in the Organ
mining camp with a party of capital
lists making examinations of several Of
the best mining properties in the camp.
with a view Of taking up the sale OF
some Of them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-14

thou s ands of
cases. Mothers
Friend is sold at
drug stores.
Write for free
book for expect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21
The Army Canteen
Before and After
By LOUIS DUCHEZ
Ex-Cavalryman. L. S. Army.

From the New York Press.
hid Congress make a mistake In TAX
= ing the canteen away from the sol
diers? Does this account. in part at
least, for the remarkable increase in
assertions during the past five years?
Is the canteen a detriment or a benefit
TO an army post?
These questions have been asked many
times since the enlisted man lost his can,
teen. But they are now being asked
oftener than ever The great increase
IN assertions and in drunkenness and the
spread Of dangerous contagious diseases
throughout the army not only nave
alarmed army officials, but cltizens as
well. Also the extensive use or cope
In the form Of morphine, cocaine. opium,
etc, with the resulting Increase OF lnsan-
ity in nearly every army post, mas
aroused the heads Of the nation TO the
fact that there is something radically
wrong in connection with the regular
army Of the United States.
What are the facts? What 10 the can
teen, anyway? What part did 1t play In
the social life of the regular? Finally.
should 1T be restored?
Few people outside Of the army seemed
to know exactly what the canteen was
Many thought 1t meant that the govern
ment had a large StorehOuSe Tor all SortS
of intoXicants, where the soldier could go
with his canteen. get 1t filled. then drink
booze" to his eternal satisfaction. Few
citizens thought it meant anything else
but a grand place for soldiers to carouse
and disgrace themselves AS a matter OF
fact the canteen was the social club or
the soldiers. It was conducted solely for
enlisted men along the same lines that
the officers club is conducted today. Only
beer and soft drinks were handled: the
stronger alcoholic beverages. such as
whisky, were prohibited in the canteen.
The canteen was the general gathering
place of the post. Cards. checkers and
the afternoons and evenings the men off
duty gathered in these canteens, played
games. chatted and met their friends. In
this way the dull routine of military life
was made less burdenSome. Those who
cared to read could look through the mag
azines, which were furnished also. Those
who wished to spend hour so in the
gymnasium which was located in the
same building. were privile ged to do that.
Often there was a piano In the same
building and. with the assistance of
musical talent of which there is consider
able among the regulars. harmless fun
was furnished for entire gathering.
The glass SO of beer which the SOL
diers drank rarely intoxicated any of
them. 1t was more as a social club, as
as medium for social intercourse rather
than a saloon" that the regulars valued
the canteen.
A commissioned officer was placed in
charge of every canteen. Under him was
a non-commissioned officer Ca sergeant or
a corporaD, who had immediate charge
and attended to the clerical work OF the
institution The profits made from the
canteen were divided among the various
troops and companies, and used to swell
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valuable food crop has gone to waste,
much Of it right before the eyes OF
masses OF people to whom the food prob
lem is very serious one, people who
have to scrape and suffer to get the
commonest. coarsest provisions, not to be
compared in any respect TO the despised
'toadstools'' perishing before their eyes.
In a small New Jersey village the
writer saw a tramp fall. faint with hun
ger, under a tree covered with mush-
rooms (PleurotD from the base far up
among the limbs, enough to have fed
the sympathizing coterie OF villagers that
gathered round him. He had only to
stretch up his hand for food that in this
particular instance would have been good
enough raw. We can only poorly COM
pare the extraordinary wastefulness OF
our self-propagating mushroom crop to
that of our vast deposits OF untouched
peat. far vaster and more valuable than
our coal beds. The comparison Is poor
because the peat will stay where 1t Is
and even grow until wanted. while our
mushrooms soon die and rot like q straw
berry left on a vine.
1t must be admitted. however, that
there has been quite a growth Of peo-
pie in this country who recognize the
value OF mushrooms springing up in
their vicinity and gather them The uni
versity and college element-that is. the
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have a fit II they knew the contents OF
the cans were common field varieties As
a matter of experience. however. IT would
be easy to find d hundred species within
a radius OF a hundred miles OF city
hail. New York. quite delicious to eat
as our own costly cultivated mushroom,
the AgaricuS campestris- We also import
tons of dried mushrooms in barrels from
China, which are largely collected from
the fields in the same way as in France.
No fungus, so far as Is known, Is
poisonous to handle. New DIRK has
Welded to me several hundred species or
fungi the woody or bracket types OF
which in ten years have destroyed about
tbree-cuarters OF all the trees the city
formerly had I have gathered some Of
the rarest, most gorgeous and most saudy
species from trees in the business streets
OF this type are certain big hydnumS OF
snowy whiteness or gaudy yellows and
the polypore genera. in which have cap
tured caudicinus weighing more than
Mound and frondoSuS weighing more than
thirty pounds. too large 10 get INTO any
basket 1 possessed.
II is to be hoped that our governments.
state and national will soon cause the
establishment of free schools. not to In
duce people to become mycologlsts, Out 10
eat the mushrooms with which they are
surrounded Different species fruit every
day all during warm weather. Let us
stop this criminal waste OF food. Mush-
rooms are as life sustaining ana as satls-
fying to the taste as any of the meats,
vegetables and fruits, or as much so as
all of them combined. They digest as
easily, IL cooked properly. They cost
little or nothing. They propagate them
selves. They sell in the markets They
can be dried or canned or evaporated for
future use They can be made TO pay
big revenue. They thrive because all
other forms OF lite die. Let us as a ma
ton have sense enough to realize our
good fortune. give up pursuits that don't
pay and poverty which is unnecessary,
and turn to a new wealth producing in
dustry. One takes no more chances in
being poisoned by them than from meats,
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MUSHROOM PLEUROrU5,
EDIBLE

Fins get familiar with its appearance and
methods of cooking 1t. The best way to
begin is 10 purchase mushroom book.
Most OF these teach how and where to
find one hundred edible species and how
to prepare and cook each one.
The Italians in America, who persistent
Is collect mushrooms during all the warm
months of the year test doubtful species
by cooking them with p silver coin or
with garlic If the coli or garlic turns
black the dish is thrown away as poi
sonous This test will also turn certain
edible species black in cooking as we'll as
the poisonous kinds. In consequence, I
am often amused on collecting trips to
see the Italians rejecting some of the
very best edible species. 1t is really no
test at all. The poisonous symptoms OF
the deadly species of Aminitas do not
disclose themselves for several days. until
it Is too late to help the victim. In case
of poisoning the victim should at once
take an emetic and then see a physician,
who will administer atropine.
The Italians alone, perhaps. make
business of collecting wild mushrooms in
this part of the world. Men and women
go about with enormous clothes baskets
These mushrooms are placed on sale in
New York's big Italian quarter. in both
the fresh and dried forms.
The French people have established
great business In wild mushrooms. Many
factories exist In France where the mush-
rooms are canned for the worlds market
Hundreds of j. ople find employment in
gathering the crop in wood and field
These canned mushrooms are on sale IN
New York in every grocery store, ana
no doubt their many purchasers Woulo
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dlscardins we'll known types Of CONNER
cial mushrooms because of the expense
of cultvating them, picked out it's most
delicious edible species, the "shiitake,
and not only taught its general use at
home, but introduced its culture into
Formosa and other colonies to maintain
an ample food supply. The shiitake
grows on dead oak limbs and requires
little other effort at cultivation than to
place its mycelium in conjunction with
them, keeping the spawn supplied with
rice water. IT is now on sale in the Chi
nese stores of New York. DR.. w. A
Murriu. assistant director of the New
York Botanical Garden, has identified 1t
as Armillar ria edodes, first named by Ber-
kelley.
During our warm-weather months ma
ture produces crop OF deliciously edi-
BILE mushrooms which should have an
annual cash value to the nation far larg-
er than that Of the wheat crop Why
pay more or less for a pound Of Guilt
waited mushrooms when you can find
basketful in your yards, pastures, mead
ows, plowed fields, woods and groves.
many of them far better eating? From
time immemorial our greatest and most
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money could be made by II, and SO the
swindlers could not be charged with coun-
terfeitng. Therefore because a die cut
to resemble a twenty-dollar-gold piece
was part of the paraphernalia. the gov
eminent confscated the machine and
prosecuted the sharps under the law OF
1896.
One Of the secret service men worked It
planning the scheme. The swindlers sent
an advance man into a little village to be-
come acquainted After he had done so
he announced that he had friend who
had perfected a device by which twenty
the necessity of putting real gold into
the mold. The price set on the machine
was $500. A few days later the friend
would appear, and, when properly urged,
would demonstrate the machine.
Before the experiment the device was
carefully prepared. Of course. genuine
twenty-dollar gold piece. coated so as to
resemble white metal, was laid In one OF
the two exactly similar dies inside OF
the cylinder The boob" was first shown
the empty die. the box was closed and
molten white metal was poured into IT.
apparently going into the empty ole. III
reality the white metal fell into recep-
tacle in another part Of the box. A con-
that when the box was opened the other
die containing the coated twenty-doilaI
gold piece, was brought to light When
the gold piece was immersed In weak
acid solution the acid. instead OF coloring
the supposed white metal cast. ate away
the coating.
When the fall guy was sent to spend
the $50 and found II passed easily there
was little trouble In getting him to pur-
chase the machine.
The career Of the old counterfeiter with
the big hands Is classic in the annals OF
the secret service. because he Is probably
the greatest example of the criminal In
fluence a painting Of a United State:
certificate can WELD. as we'll as because
he was perhaps the pioneer OF counter
letters who have etched their queer
with a pen instead OF depending on en-
graved plates.
Framed. as examples OF the nearly per
feet and most dangerous OF counterfeits
a "Farragut' and two Lincoln" hun
dred-dollar bills, one Hamilton" twent!
and one Franklin" fifty-dollar bill hans
in the secret service office.
While Capt. Moran. who Is now tn
acting chief Of the United States secre
service discussed his curious collection o
paintings and advertisements. of which
the candy box is the most unique. he re
called the history Of big Hand Gilbert.
1t was due to this counterfeiter's worl
that the custom OF confscating painting
Of money was established.
Capt. Moran does not believe In telling
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the name Of a man who has done his
bit and is living straight" And so when
he told of this counterfeiter's career and
arrest he asked that one Of the counter
feiters aliases-"Ed Gilbert'-be used.
His real name wouldn't mean so much
anyway for 1t was as Gilbert" that he
operated most OF the time:
Gilbert was ostensibly German FARMER.
living over on the Jersey side. He made
bi-weekly trips to New York city. and on
every trip stopped at little bar where
above the long rows OF bottles nung
painting Of two one-dollar bills. When
ever Gilbert, who at that time really was
q farmer, stopped for his drink the paint
ing, with every line OF the bill accurately
followed. stared him in the face
That was in 1882. Two years later
Gilbert, whose hands were 80 large and
apparently clumsy that they won him
the nickname OF THE Man With the Big
Hands," recalled that when boy in
Germany he had been proficient with a
had been predicted for him.
So one night, after gazing for an hour
at the bill while he drank his beer. Gil
bert went to his little farm across the
river and told his wife. a hard working
woman that he had conceived the idea
OF an invention which would make them
rich. He fitted up room in the attic.
He said that he wished to keep the ma
ture Of his device secret. and refused
even to tell his wife. There. after night
fall. he labored for months before he
produced his first bill-a Hamilton
twenty dollar certificate
1t took him long time to make this
first note. The second he tried was a
Franklin head $50 Soon he became
expert at the etching. and turned them
out rapidly. His wife never knew the
nature Of his work. and Gilbert was
so secretive that he did what a coun-
terfeiter seldom does. He worked alone.
Most makers OF the queer are con-
tent to turn out the spurious coin or
bills and dispose OF them to men who
are quite ready to undertake the risk
Of passing them. Not SO with Gilbert.
His work was so perfect and his
hands so large and clumsy in appear
ance that no one ever suspected him.
and while he went about New York,
making small purchase here and there
at different places. he was floating
quite goodly number OF bad twenties
and fifties.
There was absolutely no clue to fix
the identity of the maker. The Treas
ury agents were at a standstill, and
then Gilbert. having progressed in his
hidden occupation. hundred dollar bills
began to make their appearance. and
three of these-two "Farragut heads
and a Lincoln head"-fell into the
hands of the agents, having passed
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Gus operations of the man with the huge
hands to bring the government to real
iZation OF the true significance that a
painting. box or advertisement might
have TO a mind capable of taking a
criminal turn.
This led to the passage OF law In
1891 which makes the reproduction OF any
obligation Of the government-coins. bllls
bonds revenue or postage stampS-a mis-
demeanor and attaches a heavy fine
From time to time this collection has
been added to. 1t is growing every day,
for wherever a member Of the secret
service sees a painting or drawing, a sign
or advertisement, which accurately shows
the pattern of government oblgatlon.
he confscates IT and the producer Is
warned If he again offends. he Is prose-
over the mantel In the office Of the
service hangs a framed five-dollar bill.
II is nearly three feet long and proper
tionately wide 1t was taken from the
Before one Of the windows hangs a
transparency, made from a negative,
which shows two one-do!lar bills and two
quarter dollars The photograph was
made for reproduction on the silk Innings
OF hats sold by a Baltimore firm for That
price Many OF these hats were dis
posed Of before the secret service took
hand.
on another wall Of the room many
paintings hang. Usually they are made
on wood for the bills look much more
natural when they are not painted on
canvas one OF these pictures repre-
sents number OF barrels OVERLOOKING
with gold certificates.
Almost every gold or silver certificate
in use has at some time or other
been pictured 10 just short OF perfection
by the brush OF an artist and has found
its way into the collection.
Then there are records Of seizures of
which no relics were obtainable. as IN
recent instance OF Baltimore merchant.
who caused a huge electric sign to be
candescent bulbs-remarkably faithful
and accurate blazing dollar bill, and also
in the case Of another merchant on whose
shop window was painted a five-dollar
bill seven feet long
One OF the most recent additions to the
collection was placed there not because
il properly belongs to this group. but be-
cause the only way In which the secre,
service men could get to the swindlers
who were using IL to defraud upstate
farmers in New York
This piece of confiscated property wa.
designed to literally appear as money
making machine, and for that reason
none OF the victims cared TO appear ant
confess that they contemplated going intc
the counterfeiting business. In reality M
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tree diseases have a far more edible vaiar
than the plants or trees affected. 1t Is
absurd that mushrooms, with an aver
age market value Of 81 a pound, should
he considered a disease on trees. Tor In
stance the apples Of which are worth
not one-fourth as much Il pound
The mold rusts and rOts do vast dam
age, but lat the same time they prepare
the way for the growth of mushrooms
AS a matter of fact diseased tree may
possibly produce ten dollars Of food value
In edible mushrooms 10 every dollar made
from fruit on a sound tree.
Very little instruction is really needed
by teachers or public on the differences
of poisonous and edible mushrooms. They
have only to take a few DAYS course on,
saw fifty species of good and bad muSh-
rooms that grow in the locality where
they teach They will soon easily become
able to detect these species growing wild
and point them out to scholars, from
earliest spring to latest autumn, and in
southern states all the year around All
doubtful forms may be left alone or pick
ed, dried In an oven or in the sun and
submitted to the nearest expert for
knowledge of them In North Carolina
in midwinter ] have seen tons OF edible
mushrooms go to waste. On single dead
tree ] have seen enough specimens to
feed several families.
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n a one-dollar bill! struck of on
NJ the top OF a tin box lies con-
fiscated at the United States
secret service headquarters. In
ne Treasury Department building.
II is but the latest. although in some
espects the strangest addition to the
most unusual collection Of relics made
" the government. There are many
more such specimens. Each one in some
manner bears the pattern OF bill or
o,n ntnted for circulation In the United
states.
This collection exists because many
ears ago a painting Of three fve-dollar
iii. hung in a dingy Bowery saloon. A
nan with enormously large hands caught
hght OF the delicate and accurate tracery
y the artists brush. Each day when he
vent into the bar the picture was before
Jim. Finally curious freak OF criminal
psychology gripped him. and within year
.ie was pen etching the most dangerous
.ounterfeits with which the secret service
Aas probably ever had 10 deal
THAT painting. innocent IN itself. point
q the way and the ease with which
queer" bills might Re etched with a pen
N bond paper instead II on canvas said
.rvice, explaining why such an appar-
.ntIy arbitrary conhscation should De
made. as in the case OF the tin box
cover.
"Of course, nobody believes that this box
over could ever be passed as money
continued the captain. but you know
,ow Youngsters who read the old penny
.readfuls' go out and try to rob and Kill
because il appears easy IN the stories
This is much the same thing. Only this
: much more dangerous. The man with
he big hands got away with his counter
citing game for a long time.
.Then, too. In the case Of this box top
On which the printed face OF the bill i
- per cent perfect. think Of what dam
age could be done If counterfeit bins were
struck from this engraved plate.
This box was designed for a Christ
mas candy receptacle. | have found tina
I was made in Santander. Spain, for
cuban firm. il was sent from Cuba u
New York, where II was found among
he mail in tha general post office. with
out wrapper or address. II contains wha
ooks TO be guava paste.
No there isn't much counterfeiting o
United States obligations done abroad
but there are lots of boxes like this. onl,
sone so perfect, manufactured. We hav'
,ther boxes here, made 10 resemble stack
Of coins. and the like
In this way it really took the danger