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ALL ABOUT COUNTERFEITERS
There is a fascination about the
whole business of counterfeiting; in
fact most people harbor a desire to
create money out of nothing. For-
tunately ately few attempt it. Astonish-
ingly low is the amount of spurious
currency in circulation. In the United
States it is estimated that there are
only three bad bilis in circulation for
every hundred thousand dollars of
real money.
Read what John E. Wilkje, formes
chief of the United States Secret
Service, has to say about counterfeit-
ing in the American Magazine:
Among counterfeiters themselves
there is a sharp line drawn between
the specialists in paper currency and
those in coins. The coiner is not ne-
cessarily a man of any special mental
-ability. And the process of manufac-
ture, when base metal is used, is com-
paratively simple. Plaster of Paris,
or some similar material is used to
make a cast from the genuine coin.
When this cast has been baked,it
forma the Mold into which the base
metal—usually of tin and antimony—
is poured. A thin silver plating and
a little work with a file complete the
process.
The ease and inexpensiveness of the
:method are responsible for the fact
that ninety per cent. of the counter-
feiting cases are those of coiners.
You might think that when bullion
silver was as cheap as it has been at
times, the genuine metal would be
used. And it some -Wes was. We
used to get perhaps half a dozen cases
of this kind every year.
But silver cannot be successfully
molded except under tremendous Pres-
sure. It must be struck; and to do
this an engraved die must be used.
I do not believe it possible for any
engraver, no matter how skillful, to
reproduce exactly a die for any of
our coins. The engraver at the Phil-
adelphia Mint, who cuts the master
die for use at all the Government
mints, could not reproduce his own
work with a graver.
In striking "all silver" counterfeits
a. stamping press is used, and such
machinery is too expensive for the
ordinary counterfeiter. The greatest
safeguard, rowever, against the cir-
culation of even perfect counterfeit
coins is the fact that no great
quantity of such currency could be
_ marked without attracting attention.
The counterfeiters of paper cur-
rency are the aristocrats - among this
class of criminals. Twenty-five years
ago the making of a dangerous count-
erfeit note involved its reproduction
By expert steel engravers. But with
the perfection of the photomechani-
cal process, the work of years is now
compressed into weeks.
Moreover, under the old method,
there was an individuality about each
.man's work. An expert in the division
could look at a counterfeit and say.
with reasonable certainty that it was
the work of Ballard, or of Boyd, or
of Ogle, or one of the • other famous
counterfeiters of forty years" ago.
But the camera has no individuality,
and this makes it difficult now to fix
the origin of the work.
a series of
At one time, through
inquiries to. thousands of banks, the
a'mat�n at tht of e timeitmoney in cir-
was pretty ac-
.�yl
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..THE won") "CAMOUFLAGE."
Origin of a Recent Addition to Our
Language.
The word ''camouflage," "employed,
impartially as substantive and as
verb, has become as much a part of
colloquial English as words such as .t
"strafe" and the homely but ezpres»
sive "Blighty," Also, -'Its significance
is in general better comprehended.
No one person in ten has the vaguest'
idea why "Blighty" is employed" as
an alternative to home; and "strafe,
as colloquially employed in Britain
to -day, has a number of meanings,
all manifestly applied at hazard. But
nearly everybody who makes use of
the word "camouflage" has a toler-
ably definite impression of its signi-
fication. .It is fairly generally under-
stood that it is synonymous with
"disguise"—a disguise of ships, for-
tified positions, guns, gun positions,
wagons, motor lorries, even indivi-
dual soldiers, in order to deceive the
ene;iy. It is deliberately intended to
proritice confusion.
The evolution of the term is not
curately estimated; and it was found altogether clear, but there are sun
that, for every hundred thousand dol- gestive indications. In recent French
firs in notes in circulation, there dictionaries the verb "camoufler," to
were less than three dollars of spuri-• riis'uise or bedizen, takes its regular
ons bills. place; but in older works it is not
An expert%handler of money has al- to be found. In its place we find a
A
most a sixth sense which enables him substantive, "camouflet." In Napo -
even when he is handling bills at the ' iconic times this word implied a
small mine—not the huge affairs,
rate of a hundred a minute, to throw
gun -
out a suspected one. He may not be ; charged with many tons of able at the time to say why he does j powder, with which breaches were
made in hostile ramparts, but a small
it; but almost inevitably the discarded contrivance intended to blow- sappers
note will prove to be a counterfeit. out of an underground cutting — a
When a new onappears, the fact "puffer" rather than a violent de -
la reported to Washington and "a care- tonator. Feeling backwards, we find
ful description of the note is sent ' that in the seventeenth century
out through the news agencies, so ' "camoufiet" had a perfectly definite
that the public may be on its bguard, --meaning. It signified a puff of smoke
and cashiers and money handlers ' blown into the face of someone with
may be on, the lookout. I the malicious intent of blinding and
Usually, however, when the des- , confusing. It was employed in this
cription of a new counterfeit has been sense by the poet Scarron, -the first
sent out, scores of similar notes are ff husband of Madame de Maintenon.
picked up within a comparatively 1 The word as it exists seems to have
first inbut
short time. The work of "running Littrebeen va; traces i ltd to two eWallo n
out a counterfeit, of tracing it to its , words, "ca" and "foumer,o to smoke:
source, covers the widest sort of range, '; From these a substantive, "cafou-
Shipments of paper and of ink must : ma," was formed, equivalent to a
be traced. If there are several men "puffof smoke." • Anyone who has
in a gang, the paper may be sent first experienced the feeling of dizziness }
to A, who holds it, for a time, then and mental confusion occasioned by
.ships it to B; after ,a while B sends a' sudden puff of acrid smoke in the
it to C, who may return it to A; and face will perfectly comprehend how
so on.n I "camouflet" came to imply a decep
t, no matter how long the hunt tive disguise intended to -produce
may last, the Secret Service never - confusion and bewilderment.
gives up! The officers of the division # - In modern Italian there are two
may'change, agents may come and go, verbs and a substantive similar to
but the search proceeds unrelentingly i "eamouflet" and "camouflage," all
until the offenders are brought to , connected with a primary sirnifica-
justice. There are scores of men in ; tion of deception or cheating. A
Federal prisons, or who have come ' secondary meaning; clearly derived
out of those prisons with blackened ! directly from the annoying smote
reputations and wrecked lives, who puff the face, was that sort of
could answer that first question, as unpleasant surprise which is collo-
to whether it pays to be a crook, with quially termed .a 'facer" ora "rep'
over the knuckles. In this sense it
an even more emphatic negative than was employed in- early eighteenth-
my own. century ;prose. •
Once in a while chance plays a On the whole it would seem that
c irious part in the detection of these "camouflage" is a perfectly logical
crimes. A letter carrier in Chicago development y from • the seventeenth
century ;'camoitet." - The earliest
ideas of •"camouflage" were undoubt-
edly to mask and confuse with a
smoke semen. At Flodden -the Seots
"camouflaged" their advance down
Braunton Hill by firing the rubbish
in their camps, so that the English
were confused and blinded by.a denim
rolling bank of evil -smelling smoke.
,Another "camouflage" was the set-
ting up of ,dark -colored cloth screens
to mask unfinished gaps in entrench-
ments. The concealment of troops or
guns by leafy screens is very ancient.
The motive was always the same—
not to protect the troops, guns, or
what not by actual defences, but the
bewilderment of the enemy by de-_
vices which would deceive the eye,
was making his rounds one day when
a bright new silver' dollar fell onto
the grass beside him just as he was
leaving a modest apartment house.
He picked it up, but dropped it again
—for it was piping hot. He waited
a minute for it to cool off, then car-
ried it away with him, As soon as
he could he took it to the local Secret
Service office, where he told his story.
An investigation showed- that three
counterfeiters had a plaint on the third
floor of the apartment house. Evi-
dently the coin had dropped out of
the window ,without their noticing its
loss. They were arrested, pleaded
guilty, and were sentenced. But
things do not; often come as easily
as that.
ARE YOU WEAK
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AND RUN DOWN?
In This -.Condition Only a Tonic
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The - condition of being "run down"
is one that doctors do not recognize
as a disease. The physician of to -day
who gets his training in a hospital
where o ly severe disorders are en-
counters knows little about it. But
those w o are run -down in health
know th t it is not a fancied affliction.
The e1 pression "run down," applied
to health, means a condition in which
all the bodily functions ate enfeebled.
Appetite fails, the digestion is im-
paired, the nerves are impoverished,
the complexion becomes plae or waxy,
there is no animation, but rather
worry and mental depression. Fatigue
is a constant sympton. No particular
organ being affected, you must look
for relief. to the blood. As it circulates
through .every part. of the body, any
improvement in the condition of the
blood is quickly felt throughout the
entire system. As a restorer of the
blood and builder of weak nerves Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills stand at the head
of all tonic medicines. Every dose of
these pills helps to enrich the blood
and strengthen the nerves and thus
the various organs regain their tone
and the body recovers its full. vigor.
Ample proof of this is .given in the
statement of Mr. William Devine, Ger-
rard street, east, Toronto, who says:
"Two years ago while employed as a
conductor on the Toronto Street Rail-
way, I became much run down. I
consulted a doctor who gave me med-
icine, but it proved fruitless as I
was constantly growing weaker. My
appetite completely failed. and I fell
away in weight until I only weighed
125 pounds. I was sometimes taken
with fainting spells, and finally felt
compelled to resign my position. I
tried what I thought was lighter work,
but with no better results. I was
growing weaker and weaker. _ One
day a chum urged me to try Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, but by this time
I was heartily tired of- medicine, as
nothing I had taken did me any good,
.Finally he bought me a box of the
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Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob-
tained through any medicine dealer,
or may be had by mail, post paid, at
50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
"Pidgin" English.
Servants in China speak "pidgin"
or business English to their employ-
ers • and servants from different parts
lof China will use their weird lan-
guage in speaking to each other. The
formation of the sentence is the same
as in Chinese; the language itself is
an extraordinary mixture of English,
Portuguese, French, and Chingse.
Some of the phrases, says Mrs. De
Burgh Daly in "An Irishwoman in
China," are very quaint and amusing.
A bishop is called "No. 1, top side
joss pidgin man." "Top side" means
heaven, "joss" a god, "pidgin" busi-
ness.
There is a story of two men who
came to call upon the King of Siam
when he was staying in Shanghai.
They entered the hotel and asked the
proprietor, a courteous American, if
his Majesty was at home.
"Boy," called the proprietor, "one
piece king have got?"
"Have got, sir," replied the boy
cheerfully.
- "His Majesty is at home, gentle-
men," translated the proprietor.
One day, says Mrs. Daly, a large
party assembled on a steamer to bid
farewell to home -ward bound friends.
Wishing to make certain that the
steamer should not carry us off, we
informed the steward in excellent
Mandarin, that he was to come and
warn us of her departure. He stared
blankly: Some one tried Ningpo dia-
leet—no use; Shanghai—still a blank
stare. At length my husband called
out—
"Boy!" "Yessir."
"Wantchee walkee - can come
talkee! Savyee?" -
"All right, sir; me savyee!"
Servants quickly find out our likes
and dislikes in fend and act accord-
ingly. A friend of mine was fond of
snipe, and often ordered them for
dinner. One evening, when an un-
expected guest arrived, she told Boy
that since there were • not enough
snipe she would not eat one. Pres-
ently Boy nudged her and remarked
in a loud whisper—
"Missee can have snipe; one
pieces man no how ! "
Leather from Fish:
The Government fisheries bureau
says the skin of the codfish provides
an excellent leather, tough as parch-
ment and very durable. The same is
true of salmon skin.
On With the Strikes!
It is evident that people will never
be satisfied in this country until
everybody has more pay than every
body else.
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