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to making plates for counterfeit five
dollar notes. Davis is an old offend
er and the illustrative case which l
have in mind was one in which he
was the central figure years back.
It was known as the Bank of Eng.
land plot. Davis had manufactured
in London and had planned there to
lay down counterfeit Bank of Eng
land notes representing a value IN
excess of 100000. His scheme was
to have his confederates in each OF
the great money centres, London,
Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg
and New York, simultaneously ex-
change the notes at foreign money
exchange brokers' Offices.
The workmanship of the product
was almost perfect. The notes were
the closest imitation to the Bank OF
England notes that have ever been
discovered. Perhaps I might explain
here that the notes of the Bank OF
England are made today in practical
ly the same manner and the same
material that they were one hundred
years ago. They are merely litho-
graphed printing on a finely and in
tricately water-marked bond paper.
Well, everything was in readiness
for the grand unloading-except one
thing. The conspirators had not
tried out the money to learn how
readily it might be accepted. Ac-
cordingly two of the men assigned
to the New York end of the plot
went over to the State Bank, on
Grand street, and offered counter
felt notes representing a value OF
$3.50. The conspirators erred IN
presenting so much foreign money
for exchange at one time to bank
in that neighborhood. The officials
of the institution compared the offer
ed notes with genuine notes OF the
Bank of England, but could find no
difference. Still the officials were
suspicious, bade the conspirators
wait a few minutes and called up
the secret service office, which hur-
ried men to the bank.
A close examination of the offered
notes by the government agents
showed the color of the printing to
be true; the color, ply and size of the
paper to measure accurately with the
Bank of England requirements, and
the strong main features of the etch-
ing represented in the print were
true to a shading.\
Yet, as always, the detail was
there to prove the counterfeit work.
The water-mark of the spurious
notes was more pronounced than the
genuine. Further, and to me more
wonderful still, a tiny guard, care
fully placed on the genuine note,
was lacking in the counterfeit. 1t
was a little thorn-shaped protuber-
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Progressive.

A clergyman had taught an old
man in his parish to read and found
him an apt pupil, says London Tit
Bits. Calling at the cottage some
time after, he found only the wife at
home.
"How's. John?" he asked.
"He is well, thank you,' said the
wife.
"How does he get on with his
reading?"
Nicely, sir
"Ah, 1 suppose he can read his
Bible comfortably now?'
"Bible, sir! Bless you, he was out
of the Bible and nto the sporting
papers long ago."
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WHY COUNTERFEITERS FAIL.
(Continued from page 2, column 81
tain coins or notes as the particular
wnrk inf certain individuals?

tain coins or notes as the particular
work iof certain individuals?
About a year after the acquittal
Of the jeweller the secret service
men were supplied with information
that a quantity of counterfeit half
dollar pieces were in circulation IN
and around New York, Long Island
and Jersey City. A peculiar feature
of the case was that the coins were
such an accurate duplicate of the
government article that sub-treas-
ury officials could not detect the de-
feet in them; they were of the same
fineness, weight and size as the gov
ernment coin; in q number Of other
ways they answered the require
ments of the government standard.
Yet the inevitable detail was
there to prove the imitation. When
the secret service men examined the
coins it was found that the rims were
rounded, exactly in the same fashion
as the ten-dollar gold piece of the
Italian jeweller. We called on the
latter in time to find him busily en-
gagged in the manufacture Of coins.
When we entered the rear of his
jewelry store we found a number OF
the spurious fifty-cent pieces and the
material and tools for the making OF
many thousands of them.
Then there was the well known
Philadelphia-Lancaster case, in which
the scheme was to print $4,000, 900
and unload it simultaneously
through exchange at the different
sub-treasuries throughout the coun-
try. There were imperfect cheek
bones on President Monroe on the
500 notes of this particular enter
prise. TIE deficiency gave an 'en-
tirely different expression to the face
of the counterfeit as compared with
the genuine bill. Another detail, and
an important one, that the principals
of this enterprise overlooked was to
properly manage the engravers en-
ployed by them. The men backing
the scheme we're not sufficiently
lavish with their funds Consequent
ly two of the engravers took $1Q,-
600 in the counterfeit notes and
went to the races with the money to
make killing" They laid the
spurious notes at the track. This
was prior to the date set for the
grand coup. The notes at the track,
however, were sufficient to set the
secret service at work in time to
frustrate the conspiracy.
And so many other cases there are
to illustrate the point. But the one
which particularly appeals to me is
that of John Davis, who recently
pleaded guilty in New Haven, Conn.,,
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PARDONED BY THE KAISER.
Two Belgian Women Who Aided
Prisoners to Escape.

London, Oct. 22.-Emperor Will
liam has notified King Alfonso that
he has pardoned the Countess De
Belleville, Mile Thulier, and the
other Belgians condemned to death
in Belgium for aiding in the escape
of prisoner soldiers, says dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
from Madrid.
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ance extending from a certain letter
in the word denominating the value
of the note. The tiny little sentinel
could be observed only with the aid
of fine magnifying glass. 1t would
be found only accidentally except by
one knowing exactly where to look
for it.
The New York members of the
conspiracy we're arrested, but re-
leased when they stood on the asser-
ton that they had found the notes
in the street.
However, that was not all for the
conspirators. Later Davis was ar
rested in London. He turned king s
evidence, received a suspended SEN
tence and reward, and came to
this country to try his hand. His
confession resulted in Is of the con-
spirators going to prison.
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The Proper Thing.

"Canvasses?" said the artist, fiat,
tered by the presence of the million
aire in his studio. Eyes, sir, l shal!
be happy to show you my best can
vases. Something -allegorical? Oh
do you prefer landscape?"
What l want" said Mr.. Newrich
the eminent contractor, with decls'
ion, ''is something about a yard and
a half long and a yard wide, to cover
some cracks in the frescoin'. Chi
cago Daily News.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-26
STUPENDOUS FRAUD OF BOSSES WELFARE
WORK" KEEPS WORKERS FROM ORGANIZING
BY Jane Whitaker

by Jane whitaker
A ten per cent cut in wages and a
hall on Milwaukee av. in which tired
employees are directed to spend their
evenings reading, playing cards and
dancing is the welfare work
of the employers in the tailoring in
dustry in Chicago.
It is the welfare work in all indus
tries, the sop employers throw to the
workers to keep them quiet, and for
which the employees themselves pay.
Whoever originated welfare work
should have a hall of fame erected by
the bosses. It is the most stupen-
dOus fraud ever fOisted on labor, and
labor is just awakening to the fact.
At the time of the O'EIara senate
investigation into low wages l visited
the heads of each department store IN
the loop to ascertain their feeling
toward a minimum wage for women,
and in every case after they had
stalled or been insulting or threat
ened what they would do if a mini
mum wage should ever be put into
effect, each and every, one of them
called my attention to their welfare
work to prove what deep and abiding
interest they had in their employees
and how unnecessary it for the. en-
ployes to get a living wage since they
were permitted by their gracious en-
pIoyers to buy their lunches at cost,
to dwaddle around for ten minutes
on a small space of waxed floor and
have a woman in charge of the de-
partment act in the capacity of spy
on the girls and detective for the
store.
In the tailoring industry the same
welfare work is carried on. The work
is seasonal and the season is, at the
longest and in the best of times, only
of nine months duration, which
leaves three idle months and some
times five, during which these work.
IL II
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lively stopped in the past any great
attempt on the part of the workers
to organize. They have been drugged
by the bosses.
See what we have done for yOu,"
the bosses have said. I'VE have
given you place in which you may
go each evening and where we shall
expect you to go, and you can read
nice books, and you can dance on a
bit of waxed floor, and you can play
card games, and in some of our shops
we will even have an orchestra of
your own numbers, if any have tai
ent enough, to play while you eat
your lunches.
Don't you see how much we care
for your welfare? Why should you
regard us as your Oppressors? True,
as you say, we have cut your wages,
but we have made it up to you in the
personal touch, in our great interest
in your welfare. If you organize you
will make of us your enemies, we
will throw you out of employment,
we will fight your attempt to get any
increase, but if you refuse to or
ganize we will go right on giving you
welfare work"-for which you more
than pay.
They stop there, but they might go
further. The price they ask for that
welfare work is the yielding of the
individual to the system. That is just
the beginning but it is the beginning
of beggary.
No man and no woman can be OBJ
hgated for so-called charity, even
when they pay for the charity them
selves, without losing the feeling of
manhood and of wOmanhoOd. There
is something cringing in thanking the
boss for the thing he has given you,
even though you know he made you
pay for it, and more when you know
he made you pay for it, because you
q
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

Salmon seeking to scale the I'M
pounding wall at Gibraltar dam, on
the Santa Ynez river. to reach the up
per canyons and spawn. are reported
70 be exhausting their strength and
win die.
The city has reared q wall over ten
feet above the bed Of the stream, over
which the water is flowing. On the top
OF the wall Is a slight shelving where
the fsh, seeking to make the long leap,
land, and they are carried BY the flow
back down the stream again.
Engineer Pyzel, who is in charge
OF the city's reservoir works, reports
he has watched dozens Of big salmon
or salmon trout try to make the
leap and fail, and he Is Of the opinion
that all will eventually die. When
the impounding wall was built the
city did not provide for a FISH ladder,
hence the trouble.-Santa Barbara
Dispatch to Los Angeles Times.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
PAIL OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Where Clean MIX 10 Produced Small
Top Receptacle 10 Necessary
70 Exclude Bacteria.

The United States department OF
agriculture has this to say about
milking:
TN modern dalries where clean
milk Is produced the small-top milk
pail Is a necessity, as such a pail pre-
sents only a small opening into which
dust and dirt may fall from the air
or from the cows body. II has been
found by experience that the use Of
the small-top pail greatly reduces the
number Of bacteria in milk from aver
age diaries. Many types Of milk pals
are for sale, but any timer can con-
vert an ordinary pail into small-top
pail by the addition Of a hood, as
shown herewith.
Mixers should be allowed to milk
only with dry hands. The practice
Of wetting the hands with milk is a
filthy habit and is liable to cause the
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
Rsnzlne Frsm ceaI.

II is reported from Sweden that a
Stockholm engineer. NJ. Vidstrand,
has lately succeeded in perfecting an
electric process by which he extracts
benzine from coal. The method is not
as yet made public. and the details
viii be awaited with interest
It is claimed that the cost Of pro
duction on the electric method will be
considerably less than for the custom
airy benzine processes. The resulting
produce answers all the requirements
for a good fuel for automobile OF other
motors.
The inventor has applied for pat
ents in 1S different countries, it is said,
and is making efforts to operate the
system on an industrial scale. Where
electric current can be had at a low
rate, for instance, from hydraulic
plants. such a method can be used
to advantage.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

EXCELLENT RATION FOR COW
n Farmers Would Depend More on
sllaqo and Less on Pasture Herds
Could Be Doubled.

A good ration for COWS giving milk
Il silage twice q day, corn fodder once
a day and all the bean forage they viii
clean up. with about one pound grain
or concentrate to every three pounds
milk the COW gives. II the beans we're
pulled before becoming too ripe and
secured without much rain falling on
them, the forage makes good feed.
Roots are valuable 70 increase the
flow OF milk.
II we would depend more on Bilage
and less on pasture. our dairy herds
might easily be doubled and the farm
enriched accordingly. Many farmers
have been slow to awaken to the fact
that dairying brings excellent returns.
Many improbable crops are still
raised where the land might better be
growing feed for live stock.
Permanent pasture is q waste I'M
less the land cannot be plowed. Every
acre should be made to raise feed for
stock to the limit Of its capacity, and
this should be fed right on the farm.
returning the fertility to the soil.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
CAN'T PRAISE
CARDUI ENOUGH
Thi, Lady Was Very Nervous, On
Account Of Serious WOmanIy
Trouble. But Now She
Praises Cardui.

Murrycross, Ala.-The following is
from Mrs. w. J. Daugherty, this place:
4 will write a full statement Of my
condition before / had taken CarduL
/ was very weak. I had not any nerve
at all and could not stand any noise,
and had female complaints.
At last my doctor told me to try
Cardui and did so, and can say, It
sure has cured me sound and well, and
am glad to tell anyone what it did for
me, and 1t win help any suffering
woman.
cant praise Cardui enough. wish
every woman would believe what say
and give Cardui trial. and they will
find my word to be true.
Cardui is all I take in the way Of
medicine. We always keep It in the
house for my benefit
When I was told to try Cardui did
not think I would. but my friends kept
on at me until I got one bottle, and 1t
did me so much good that I kept on
taking It
Ny back has got well, my nerve is
all right and my old tired feeling has
gone, and I am stout and strong as a
woman can be. am glad to say Il
was Cardui that can praise for my
health"
Your druggist sells Cardui. Try IT.
Adv.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16


If Keith Dalrymple. tie missing
Port Allegheny boy. returns home
nov, after an absence Of more than
eight years. he win ind that the for
tune of t365.000 q about eli that
awaits him. The missing heirs moth
ar. whose death occurred e year ago
las a result Of worry over her sons
absence. has been followed BY the
death q Hugh Dalrympie. HIS brother.
Hugh Dalrymple died on bis farm
near North East He vas a Joint heir
with Keith Dairymple Of the Arnold
Dalrymple estates. valued re- 100000.
Before hts death Hugh Dalrymplel
Ike his mother had spent large sums
IN searching Tor Keith. who myBteri.
ously disappeared from the home Of
his grandmother, Mrs. F. H. Arnold
Of Long Beach. Cal Hugh Dalrymple
leaves Eve children. who win inherit
the entire fortune should their uncle
fan to claim the estate.-Kane pal
Dispatch to Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

Fat, even in considerable amounts,
ls not sign OF disease more than
once in a hundred times. and is never
a cause Of disease. On the contrary,
fat is one Of the wholesomest, most
necessary and most useful tissues in
the body. No tissue, not even the
most energetic muscle. or the most
chemically active liver or kidney cell,
or most delicate nerve cell or sense
organ can possibly be healthy without
fat. And the more vitality important
and valuable an organ is. the more
certain it is to carry constant stock
Of fat in its substance,
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
MUD HOLES IN COW PASTURE
Clean shore ls Blessing 70 Fly-Pes-
tered Anlmals-Many Annoyanees
Arc Avoided.

A COW pasture mud hole Is a YER
table nuisance. TO get away from
the fies the COWS viii wade in the mud
until their legs and sven their udders
become completely plastered. Then
added to the annoyance OF stamping
and kicking at fies at milking time we
have the added annoyance Of being
obliged 70 milk cows with chapped
teats
A clean lake shore or river or broOE
IN the pasture is a blessing indeed to
the ly-pestered COWS, but the mud hole
should either be drained or fenced out
Of the pasture. Foul In the foot with
cattle. and grease heel with horses. Is
the result Of tramping back and forth
from mud holes to dusty grounds.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

discovered a vegetable compound that does the
work Of dangerous sickenng calomel and want every
reader OF this paper to try bottle and II It doesn't
Braighten you up better and quicker than salivatng
caome just 90 back to the store and get your money
guarantee that one spoonful Of Dodsons Liver Tone
will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your
thirty feet Of bowels OF the bile and constipation
poison which is clogging your system and making you
feel miserable.
guarantee that one spoonful Of this harmless liquid
liver medicine win relieve the headache blliouaness
coated tongue ague malaria, sour stomach or any
other distress caused by torpid liver as quickly as
dose OF vile, nauseating caomel besides It VIII not
make you sick or keep you from days work want
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

By e. q. WOODWARD. Nebraska Ex-
pertinent staton.)
A Nebraska subscriber writes: rs
the feeding OF cottonseed meal harm
ful to dairy COWS II fed right along?"
II cottonseed meal is fed in moder-
ate amounts along with a variety Of
other feeds, there are no harmful eff
fects
Ordinarily a COW should not be fed
more than two pounds daily Of cotton
seed meal As a usual thing it will
not take this amount to properly bal
anee a ration made up Of common
dairy feeds.
At present prices cottonseed meal
IS very cheap source Of protein and
should undoubtedly be used much
more extensively by Nebraska dairy
men than It now Is.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
STOP CALOME[! TAKE
DODSON'S LIVER TONE
New Discovery Takes Place Of Dangerous CaOme-i Puts You
Liver To Work Without Making You Sick Eat Anything
Il Can Not SaNais DOM Lose a Days Work

70 zee bottle Of this wonderful liver medicine IN even
home IN the South.
Caomel IL poson-lts mercury-it attacks tie
bones often causing rheumatBm Calomel s dangerous
It sickens-Whle my Dodson's Liver Tone is safe.
pleasant and harmless Eat anything Afterwards BE-
cause It can not sallvate Give It to the children Be-.
cause It doesn't upset the stomach shock the liver
Take q spoonful tonight and wake up feeling hne and
1nldy for a full days work
Vet a bottIel Try III II It doesn't do exactly what
I say, tell your dealer to hand your money back.
Every druggist and store keeper in the South knows
me and knows Of my wonderful discovery Of medicine
that takes the place Of dangerous calomeL
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
CARTHAGE WOMAN
TELLS HAPPY STORY

Mrs. Laura Duke OF Carthage, Tenn,
was a victim Of stomach disorders for
several years. She lost appetite and
her weight fell OF. She could not rest
at night.
She took Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
just a few doses-and found herself
restored.
In fact, Mrs. Dukes recovery was
so rapid she was afraid that 1t could
be only temporary. So she waited
from September, when she took the
remedy, until the following February
to pass judgment. Then she wrote:
q write you in regard to your won
derful stomach remedy that ! took
last September. feel better than
have in i've years.
my weight was 18TH pounds; now
It is 147h, and can eat anything
want I sleep well at night. would
have written before, but wanted to
see how got along"
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives per.
manent results for stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments. Eat as much and
whatever you like. No more distress
after eating. presauFs Of gas IN the
stomach and around the heart. Get one
bottle OF your druggist now and try II
on an absolute guarantee-if not salts.
factory money win be returned.-Adv.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

Some Frenchmen noticed recently
that the leaders of the music bands
Of the French artillery and engineer
ing corps were not going to the front.
He asked the reason why, and was in
formed that they we're being held in
reserve in order to I'LL vacancies oc-
casloned by the killing or wounding
OF the music leaders in the infantry,
all Of whom have gone to the front.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
Doss Eoo Dance At ssvsnty-Elaht

Does Eaa lance = osNehtl-Eihus
Albert Pankopf, seventy-eight years
old, bent and white-haired, danced
bllndfolded among Is eggs, laid in
two rooms at intervals Of q foot, for
several minutes without breaking
she'll. For more than fifty years Pro
fessor Pankopf has been performing
this feat, but at the annual schlacht-
fest Of the Saxonia and General Ger
man Benevolent association he danced
as never before. The years dropped
from him as he danced. When the
music stopped the old man fell into
the arms Of a spectator. Weak
heart" he gasped He soon recov-
cred himself and bowed In response
to the cheers.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
open and smaIl-TOp Pals.

cows teats to chap in the winter
time. Milking should be done quick
ly and thoroughly, with no violent
jerking Of the teats. After each COW
is MIXED the pail Of milk should be
removed Immediately to the milk
house.
The mixer should remember al
ways that he is handling a human
food which is very easily contami-
mated. Soap. clean water and towels
must be readily accessible. The hands
should be washed after milking each
COW.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

= see a stool with a top adjustable
az several angles as well as eleva-
lions has been patented by a Chicago
inventor for pianists." said the pi-
anist
@Wen. II It Tits enough to throw the
man on when he ought to stop play
ing It win prove q long-felt want ="
said the tired man.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
Badly Shaded.

Salesman (at automobile show
You NAV have noticed that the auto
mobile is playing a leading part In
the European war.
Deadhead spectator-Oh, come nowI
You know as well as do that shrap.
mel is responsible for most Of the
casualtiesI Puck
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
CUTIcURA SOAP BATHS
Followed BY LlstIs Ointment FOR
Babys Tender skin. Trial Free.

They afford infants and children
great comfort, permit rest and sleep
and point to speedy heaiment Of &c
Eemas, rashes, feelings, chahngs and
other sleep destroying skin troubles.
Nothing better at any price for the
nursery and toilet
Sample each free BY mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuucurai DapL Az
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16
Busv over Here.

Bacon-My neighbor thinks he could
settle the fighting over in Europe.
Egbert-Why doesn't he go over
there and do it?
"Oh, he's too busy trying to settle
the fighting In his own home"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-04-16

This paper says the ice cream con.
sumption OF the United States is es.
timated at five quarts per capita an
nually, George" said the sweet young
thing.
Eyes, dear; guess that's right
replied the young man.
well, bless you, Georgel You must
be giving me some other girls per
capita, then"