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teSt, winch we would urge everybody
to use, caused Gilbert's undoing." said
Capt. Moran In speaking of the case.
No matter how carefully counterfeit
bill Is made. whether engraved or
etched. certain portions of it will blur
when dampened. This is especially
true in regard to the numbers on coun-
terfeit bills. The government bills from
the bureau OF engraving and printing
do not blur.
Gilbert went into liquor house on
Courtlandt street. in New York, one day
In 1896. He had been a successful maker
and shower of the queer for more than
whisky and rendered In payment fifty
dollar Franklin head note of his own
etching. He got his change from the
cashier and left the store
A few moments later the cashier,
dampening his fingers on sponge.
picked up a pile Of bills, the Franklin
fifty among them, and started to count
them, stripping them through his fingers.
looked back and found that the fifty
dollar Franklin head" was blurred.
The cashier yelled for the clerk to run
after Gilbert and stop him, because the
bill was bad. The clerk caught sight of
Gilbert about two blocks down the street
and followed him to the Erie ferry and
aboard one OF the boats. When the
clerk located Gilbert there he calledsthe
police and gave him In charge
THE queer part Of 1t is that when the
police notified u.s." says Capt Moran,
that they had a man for passing coun-
terfeits we never dreamed that it was
the pen note man.. as he had come to be
known in the service. and the two chaps
who went to talk to him and found out
who he really was were some surprised"
I'VE didn't have much trouble in con-
victing him. He got six years. and with
his time off. has been out for good
many years. He's living straight. and
that is why l have suggested that his
alias be used He's pretty old man now.
He was when he was working. too.
..Oh, yes; there have been other in
stances of pen-etched work. But Gilbert
was a genius at it. No pen-note man ever
even Appropriated the accuracy Of de-
tail and the clean-cut work he did. And
he used only ordinary bond paper, too,
but, Of course. a good quality. The silk
threads of the government paper were
simulated by lines, and it really took a
government expert to catch his work.
And this is why the government won't
let you display a painting of money or
use the design of dollar or stamp on
an advertisement
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The southern states ought to feast on
mushrooms the year round. There are
many ways to cook and use mushrooms
and many books describing how.
One can commence at any time Of the
year. even in winter. to learn the food
values Of mushrooms. The market mush-
room is the proper species to start with.
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7-COLLYB1A .PLATYPHrLLA)
EDIBLEl
EDIBLEj

fish. vegetables, fruits. etc. "overrpe"
when cooked
People DESTROYS of making trial OF
mushrooms as food should get into COM
munication with their state botanist and
let him decide on the matter of edibility
when in doubt. If possible. send to him
ONLY s-recimens which are fresh ana
which have not commenced 10 decay.
Pack in wooden box or basket ana con-
slider which will deliver quickest, man or
exnress The mails are now so heavy that
it is no longer possible Ia forward any
thing in pasteboard boxes without GER
tain crushing 1t is best TO CRY h.nsn
rooms in the oven before intrasting them
to the mail or express. exercising care not
to scorch them or injure any or their
identifying characteristics. In New YORK,
mushrooms Of the state. the state botan-
list, Prof Charles II. Peck. At Corneit
University, Ithaca. is another, Pror
George +. Atkinson. AT CINCINNATI, ONO,
is c. q. Lloyd. at the LLOYD Linrary.
open to all DESTROYS of information or
identificauons from anywhere on eartn'
the only living pure mushroom phllan-
thropist At Iowa City, at the state
Macbride At the Depauw University.
Greencastle Ind. is Prof. Howard j.
Banker. great specialist on hydnums:
those fungi that resemble the backs or
hedEehOgS. Al MlIdlepuiy, - 10 itoi'
E A Burt. In other states II should be
sufficient TO address simply the state
botanist at the capital or state university
or state agricultural college
In conclusion. IL the reader desires
mushrooms TO eat only, never pick one
with a bulb at the bottom Of the stem.
set in q cup or in scales in the ground.
These are characteristic both Of the dead
~ amantas and the edible amanitas
Leave the amanitas alone until you know
the exact differences, which often puzzle
an expert If you even think you have
swallowed a poisonous mushroom, lake
an emetic at once and consult a physician.
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professors and their families-form
class In many communities OF this type,
led by the professors in botany. Among
the people generally are some observing
Americans who have been abroad and
know with what care many foreign ma
tions gather and eat mushrooms that are
edible and who have learned what types
to leave alone by reason OF their poison
Gus. woody or favorless condition. 1t
would not be characteristic OF crowded
Europe and England to neglect such
enormous food resources or to fail TO
search daily every nook and corner.
We are called an extravagant people, but
for other reasons than those above.
-.
When consider our waste Of peat and
mushrooms / feel like adding that we
are reckfessly and criminally extravagant.
Is Is not criminal when we have a mil
Hon people In poverty to let millions OF
dollars worth OF food and fuel to cook
it with perish before our eyes for the
want OF the smallest exertion? I say be-
fore our eyes. because edible mushrooms
grow right In the cities and villages as
well as In the country.
How is the question to be met? We
have schools of all descriptions through
which we educate the rising generations
on what to do. instruction must be ex-
tended to teachers Of all grades. say. on
twenty or thirty spe les Of common mush-
rooms, presenting the most edible quail
ties. Every state has a big department
OF agriculture and agricultural colleges
with corps OF trained botanists. These
departments devote their attention to
plant diseases. all well enough in a way.
but should be made to instruct teachers
on edible mushrooms. I would call the
attention of these botanists to the fac.
that many OF these so-called plant and
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ONE kind OF ma
tional movement 10
prevent the enor-
nous annual wa ste
of shrooTas in
the United States.
estimated to be
equal in food value
To the entire a g
ricultural product
OF the country, IS
not only essential.
but is a { tn Ally
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Queer Collection Of Relics at Secret Service Office


through the New York subtreasury un-
detected, and caught at the Treasury
Department
The unintentional application of a
test. which we would urge everybody
to use, caused Gilbert's undoing," said
Capt Moran in speaking of the case
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- National Mushroom Movements

W ASTE of Enormous
-" Natural Crop. Ample
to Avert Famine and Hun
ger, Has Started Wide Ac-
tivities Looking to Their
Conservation-M Mus broom
Growing in This Country
and France = Tree Killing
Fungus-How Italians Make
a Business of Gathering
Wild Mushrooms.
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INETY- NINE per cent perfect.
a one-dollar bill. struck off on
the top OF a tin box lies con-
fiscated at the United States
secret service headauarters. In
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Copyright. 1911. ~ The Nev York Herald {
All rights reserved
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fish. vegetables, fruits. etc, "overripe"
when cooked.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23

IF John H. Snodgrass, consul-general
at Moscow, ever kicked about his
laundry work in Cincinnati, Washing
ton or Indianapolis, he begs the par
don Of every steam cleaning estab-
lishment, every slant-eyed Celestial,
and every colored washerwoman in
those and other cities. What they
are doing to his collars, his shirts and
uncomfortable wearables over there
in the land of the car is something
awful to relate. Besides that, the
way they are soaking John in the mat
ter of price is enough to make any
American citizen utter loud walls Of
distress. For instance. they charge a
nickel to do up a collar, and "the
work is unsatisfactory and the finish
ing is crudely DONE" he insists.
Chatting under the collar-frayed to
q saw edge by the ruthless Russians
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23

NJ the question
w of legislation relative to canal
tolls and regulations and the govern
ment of the canal zone VIII come be-
fore congress at the very outset Of
the session and that it will be one of
the most important matters of the
winter in legislative way was the
view expressed by Senator Bristow of
Kansas. He Is member of the COM
mittee on inter-oceanic canals and re-
Gently returned from a visit to the
canal zone.
Senator Bristow summed up his i'm
preston of the canal and the work be-
ing done on it with one word: Great"
He commends in the highest terms
the efforts of those in charge of the
construction of the canal. He expects
to see it opened in 1913.
"The matter of tolls and regulations
should be settled this session." said
he. "Those who are looking forward
to the use of the canal want to know
what they can expect. The fixing of
the tolls is the chief problem. 1t is
the most important question relative
to the canal to be worked out. And
the tolls should be fixed by legisla-
ton. II they are left to regulation,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23
Postal Savings Bank Proves a Success

. Y Jan. the trustees Of the postal
- savings banks expect to have a
postal savings bank established in ev-
cry first, second and third class post
Office in the entire country. All Of
the first and second class offices have
already been so designated, and the
designation of third class Offices Is on
and will continue at the rate Of 100
day until exhausted. This means
that more than 1000 postofiices in the
United States are now resolving de-
posits in their postal banks for which
the government pays per cent per
annum interest. or, il the deposition
chooses to buy government bonds with
his deposits, 21s per cent. The off,
Gals in charge of the work in the post
Office department know that the sys-
tenn has been tremendous success.
far exceeding thier expectations, and
they are bending their time and ener-
gy for the present to an extension of
the benefits of the service.
On Jan. 3 last, the postal savings
bank system Of the United States was
started by the designation of one Sec
ond class Office in each of the As
states and territories of the country
as q postal savings bank. Progress
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23
Schools of Nation Show Marked Cain

REATER progress has been made
" in education in the United States
during the last ten years than an any
previous decade in the country's his
tory. A study of this development,
just completed by the federal bureau
Of education, shows that during the
years 1900 to 1910 the annual income
Of the public schools has nearly don
bled, having increased from S220, 00O,-
600 to s425, 000, 900, while annual APP
preparations to normal schools for the
training of teachers have grown from
s2,769. 900 to $6,63o 900. The value of
public school property in 1900 was
$550,000, 900; in 1910. 1t was more than
a billion dollars.
During the same period the average
length of the common school term in
creased from IA to 156 days and the
average attendance of children en-
rolled from 80 to ia days. The num-
Der of public high schools advanced
from 6,0o5 to 1928 and the number
of teachers therein from about 10000
to more than 1900. while the total
of public school teachers increased
from $4,000 to $4,000. Salaries Of
teachers als> Gre larger than ten
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23

without doubt-Consul-Ge General Snod-
grass Che is no relation to Snodgrass,
of the New York Giants. who snagged
Baker. Of the Athletics during the
worlds series game), writes to the de-
partment of commerce and labor q
fiery report on the wash subject and
begs some enterprislng American cap
italist to hurry over to Moscow and
start real United States laundry.
There isn't modern establishment
Of the kind in the city. he states. In
fact, the only steam laundry open to
the public in the entire empire is at
st. Petersburg, and that is too far
from Moscow to send collar with
any hope of getting it back before
another consul7general comes into Of
fee.
I'm the private hand laundries," he
states, "only women and girls are en-
plqyed. They work in deep. dark cell
lars, without ventilation and poorly
lighted, and the work is unsatisfac-
tory, as injurious chemicals are used
to break the water and fragile CLOTH
ing lasts only few washings. The
proprietors have no thought of time.
and usually an ordinary weeks wash
Is not delivered under q fortnight"
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Panama Canal Tolls Up to Congress

the executive can change them in
twenty-four hours. They should be-
put on permanent basis and it must
be done by congress"
Just at what figure to fix the tolls,
Senator Bristow pointed out, is some
thing difficult to work out. Many in
teresting and important factors enter
into the solution. 1t is expected that
the canal win cost $4,000. 900 or more
a year to maintain. This sum ought
to be made up by tolls, II feasible, he
says.
THE problem is to put the tolls at
the point where they will bring in the
most revenue" said the senator.
"Ships. for instance, between the east
coast of the United States and the
west coast of South America naturally
will use the canal. But il the tolls
are fixed too high vessels starting
from or going to points far down on
the Pacific coast of South America
will go around the Horn in preference
to using the canal. If the tolls are
sufficiently low most of the business
will pass through the canal.
1.-THE same thing is true as to yes
sells between Europe and the west
coast of South America. High tolls
will drive many of these vessels
around the Horn. while low tolls will
bring many of them through the canal.
On the rate of tolls will depend, too.
whether vessels from Japan bound for
Europe use the canal or go by way OF
Suez. Many points have to be con-
sidered, therefore, in fixing the tolls"
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beyond this point was slow at first
but now that the system of administra-
ton is well in hand, designations are
proceeding as rapidly as investigations
can be made, instruction given and
supplies furnished. There is no long
er any disposition to hang back-the
system is demonstrated success
It is the intention of the board OF
trustees, just as soon as they get
around to it, to devise a plan for an
extension of the postal bank system In
the larger cities. At the present time
Chicago, New York and other of the
larger cities have only, one bank.
The next move will be to permit the
branch post Offices, of which there is
at least one In all large cities IL prox-
unity to each branch of foreign popula-
ton, 70 receive deposits and also to
redeem deposit certificates.
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years ago, the average salary of male
teachers now being $65 a month, as
compared with $4650 in 1900. The av-
erage salary of women has increased
from $34 month to $50.
A jump from $166,175, 900 to $273.-
AS, 900 is shown in the productive
fund of universities, colleges and tech
meal schools; and an increase from
$2S.500,000 to $77,S00.000 in the an
nual income of these schools from
sources other than endowment. There
are now 183.600 students In these
schools, as against 10000 ten years
ago. and 1900 instructors. as COM
pared with $1,000. More than 100000
high school pupils were enrolled in
1910. as against $4,000 in 1900. The
total average increase in schools OF
all kinds has been about 30 per cent
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-12-23

too When the fight was over, and afterward, wnen
some order came out Of the chaotic hell, THIS re-
port turned in by General Sykes: The
Twelfth and Fourteenth attacked by over
whelming numbers. The ranks were decimated,
and Major Citz was severely If not fatally In
jured. Around his fate. still shrouded In mys-
terry, hangs the painful apprehension that a ca
reer noble soldierly, so brave. has termin-
ated on that field whose honor he SO CALAMITY
upheld"
Major Clitz went on the list Of the dead and
what was left of his regiment mourned him as
few soldiers mourned
Suitable orders were issued lamenting the death
of this hero Of Cerro Gordo and Gaines Mills. but
before the period of the real mourning was over.
though the official kind had been over for months.
the dead came to life again. Major Cltz had
been shot through both legs and in two
other places, but on his showing few signs of
life the Confederates made prisoner of him and
sent him to Libby.
Major Clitz paroled. When he went back
into the service again and when the war was
over he put in twenty years campaigning on the
plains. In 1885 he retired after nearly half
century of service, and went to live In Detroit.
Mich Two years later his old command. with
which he had stood in the bullet storm at Gaines
Mills passed through Detroit on it's way to take
station at the posts of the great lakes There
were not many then in the Twelfth who were in
1t in the old days. but it was the same outfit with
the same old tattered regimental banners.
Major (then GeneraD Clitz met the command
and old memories stirred him to tears. The
Twelfth cheered it's old officer and then Detroit
was left behind.
Was 1t the stirring of old memories or what
was it? His old comrades in arms had been gone
but a little while when Major Clitz went to the
railroad station from which the train bearing the
soldiers pulled out, and there purchased rail.
road ticket for lake city which held garrison
of United States troops. From the hour of the
purchase of that ticket has been found,
soldier civilian. to say that he has ever seen
Major Henry B. Clitz. The army records give in
detail the story of his gallantry in battle and at
the end Of the shining record are these words.
"Mysteriousy disappeared in the year 1885,"
There was no mystery of disappearance in the
case of Brgadier General Jasper A. Maltby. He
died as the result of wounds received in action.
His widow who survived him many years and who
died at ST. Luke's hospital in Chicago held the
American flag and her husbands memory as the
most cherished things in life. Neither was ever
long absent from her mind
How many men there today, bar few old
soldiers, to whom the name Jasper A. Maltby
would mean anything unless 1t were coupled. as
is the above, with some specific information?
Yet this man Jasper A. Matby was chosen by
General Grant, on the advice of Mcpherson and
Logan to lead. with his single regiment the most
desperate enterprise at the siege Of Vicksburg
and. as some historians have it. one Of the three
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200. They say
M a ] o r Clitz
I o u 6 ht that
day as he did
at Cerro Cor
do. only a lit
tie more so.
The regulars
resisted siren
uously for an
hour or two.
Finally some
of the men
saw M a ] or
Clitz 60 down.
A big wall Of
gray was fall
ing on them
Just then. and
many : others
went d o W u
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oAO q IL I u r y
known in the darker
days of the country's
history as the Wash
burns Lead Mine
Regiment" Maltby's
name was brought
back not long ago
sharply to memory
by the death Of his
widow in st. Luke's
hospital. Chicago. She
was a little snow-hair-
ed womas x1o had
borne life's burdens
for just the time al
lotted by the Psalm
list. During the days
that this woman lay
Ill at the hospital of
the Beloved Physi-
clan. II her eyes wan
dered about the walls
of her room, 1t Is
probable that for the
nrst time In many
years when within
any room chosen by
her as an abiding
place, they failed to
rest upon the folds Of
an American flag.
The stories of Gen.
erals Clitz and Malt
Dy were stories of
sterling patriotism. of
action and of wounds
received in the dis
charge of duty. Mys-
terry has added its in
terest to the llfe's
story Of Major Clitz.
perhaps one should
say to his deaths
story. though there
is always a possibil.
ity that at a great
age the major soma-
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Wen nigh forgotten him. After the short
omcial story of his service written on
tne now time-stained paper hidden
away In a vault of the war depart
ment' these words appear: "Mysteri.
ousiy disappeared in the year 1885,"
The disappearance of Henry B. Clitz
IL one of the mysteries of army life.
on other records in the war de-
partment are brief official lines, also
on time-stained paper, telling of the
career OF Jasper A. Maltby, colonel
OF the Forty-fifth Illinois infantry.
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' the records OF the
war department appears
the name of Henry B.
Clitz. who was a major
in the regular service,
and who rose to the rank
OF a brigadier general of
volunteers while In the
Union army during the
Civil war. Old army Of
ficers remember Clitz
well, but possibly mil
lions of civilians have