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\ N JANUARY 1 1910 , the Bank of France surprised the finan
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cial world by hastily issuing a new type of $20 bill , marvelous
O j. in its melting of soft variegated tones from the four colors , '
. blue , yellow , rose and green. It was at once called the "rain-
1" bow , " being a great work of art , of novelty and of modern pro-
_ J . cess printing. A French collector paid LucOlivierIerson
$3,000 for his original large-size water color "maquette" \ of the
labor and fortune side of it ; and Mr. Pierpont Morgan , with $5,000 and a
cablegram , secured from Romagnol , the engraver , his first proof "before the
letter" ; yet its money value is nil , it ' having neither the signatures nor num-
- bers of ' its millions of successors now flying through France.
At the same time , in the Golden Gallery of the bank's old palace , gorge-
ous with historic tapestries and old masters , the greatest detective organ-
izers of Europe continued to pass hours over a vast map. They still con-
tinue. Telegrams rain on them. When one has a list of numbers . it is com-
pared with long , ever-changing lists by : specialists at desks and tables in a
far end of the old gilt banquet hall. A technician is ready with his enlarg
. ing camera and darkroom closet ; but they seldom use him. Unfortunately . ,
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, Twenty times a day quiet men slip in for conferences , dressed like : tour-
ists from Geneva , London or Madrid , or seeming business men , or clerks , or
racing touts or gilded youth or crooks , or honest artisans. They are all de
tective operators. When they whisper numbers , when the specialists com-
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pare194G. 1237-30906194 , " or " 072 - M. 232 - 05786072' : - the organizers
stick more little red flags in the vast map.
How Counterfeit Was Discovered.
Here is the greatest counterfeiting story of modern times , told by a Paris '
correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. France enjoys clean paper
money. They have $10 , $20 , $100 and $200 bills , the rest being gold and sil
ver ; and for every soiled bill that returns to the bank a brand-new one is is-
sued. Before destroying the old ones with caustic soda their identifying
numbers are written off the registers. Each bill has its individual number ,
its alphabet's letter , its alphabet's number and its comparison number. .
No two bills are numbered alike. Yet , a short time ago , the Bank of
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France began to find bills numbered alike. They had been accepted by its
branches at Marseilles , Toulon , Nice and Avignon , over the counter , from
runners and from other banks. They had passed perfectly through the vari-
ous departments of the Bank of France. Only when they were being writ-
, ten off the registers previous to destruction was the ominous facts discov-
ered-there were quantities of duplicates. They were counterfeits. But
which were counterfeits ?
The bill counterfeited was the 100 franc , one of the type of 1889 , sup-
_ ' _ posed to be counterfeit proof by reason of the rose-colored backgrounds
7 ' " Which Dupuis and Duval had added to Baudry's marvelous blue vignettes.
I The paper , though it does not possess the American thread , was also
considered inimitable. It was made by the bank at its own works at Biercy ,
which produces no other kind of paper. True , the Bank of France obligingly
sells Biercy bank' note paper to French colonial and even foreign banks , but
the sheets are always numbered , and it is taken as certain that all can be
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New counterfeits continuing to rain on the bank , another formidable
detail was noticed. The counterfeits did not bear . . a single set of numbers ,
such as lone counterfeiters are often content to put on their unique galvanos.
The first duplicates disclosed any quantity of duplicates. But , as the dupli-
cates continued showering on them without a single triplicate , the experts
were forced to one of two outrageous conclusions : ,
Either the counterfeiters possessed the bulky : , complicated , exact and ex-
pensive numbering machines of the bank itself , or they were in presence ' of an
utterly new.type of direct color-photography that merely reproduced each
note a single time ! To make sure of such an explanation would be equiva-
lent to reinventing the unknown process. Photographic enlargements showed
unmistakable photographic exactness of all di tails , but , on-the other hand ,
traces of printing pressure were said to be found on the "paper.
At first they pursued the usual policy of secrecy to catch the counter-
feiters. Thus , until hands were laid on them and their plates , the world .
heard nothing of the aristocratic crooks who successfully , emitted , $1,000,000 .
worth of .1:5 : : Bank of England notes from Moscow last November.
The / Bank of England , the . German Reichsbank , the' Bank of Italy , the
Bank .Austria-Hungary and the Bank of Spain sent to Paris an unequaled
lot of sleuths * and experts , acquainted with the faces , whereaboutsand style
of work of most of the counterfeiters and honest engravers and photograph-
process specialists of Europe.
. In the golden gallery of the bank's palace the detective organizers have
their seat. v
. Map System of Tracing.
At once they set up the map system , used with success by the Bank of
England. A vast map of Europe , tacked to a vast table , fills one end of the
gallery. In whatever town counterfeit 100 franc bills appear they plant a
small red flag. It is the system that discovered the Moscow crooks last No-
vember. Little by little , without a working theory , merely by planting in-
dividual flags where counterfeits appear , the flags come to form converging
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lines toward one spot - that of issue. Also , in every town where counterfeits
appeared , sleuths trailed mysteriously. They trailed all right ; but as soon
as they trailed the counterfeits ceased to appear. On the great map similar
phenomena was noticed. Not twice or thrice , but ten times the flag lines con-
verged to a well indicated center. Here the counterfeiters had been dis
tributing to many agents. But they were here no more. They had skipped ,
to start up elsewhere.
And the Bank of France continued paying gold for green goods. They'
would have become panic-stricken and notified the public to cease accepting
100 franc bills but for the promise . of Luc -Olivier Merson's new bill , well
called "the rainbow. " On Jan. 1 1910' it
' , , was ready for distribution . in every
one of the 128 branches and sixty-nine auxiliary bureaus of the Bank of
France. And on Jan. 3 , 1910 , the checkmating of the greatest counterfeiters
of modern times began.
Meanwhile the mysteriously capable counterfeiters of France have al
ready made many millions , one one knows how much. Will the gang that
proved itself so astute have courage to quit business next week , when the
100 franc bills they are imitating begin to be really scarce. The great de
tective organizers hope not. They still sit over the great map in the golden
gallery. And their emissaries are everywhere.
= ' d - EXTENT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
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Jhe ' map ; in twenty-five additional states marked Stars
, with , school suffrage for women prevails ; in Seven-
[ een states and the territory of New Mexico.
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'resting r the Run of Golf Jlalln.
There is a capital '
way , which we
have discovered only lately , of testing
the running of a golf ball off the
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ter. It can only be adopted
, on a day'
when the green or lawn is coated over
with drops of moisture on the grass
blades , either from white frost , dew or
the deposit of a sea fog or Scotch mist.
The difference in the way of
run-
ning of halls ' of different make , and of
some balls of the same make , Is very
marked and curious. ' We can assure
all the sundry that it is a test worth l
trying , because the knowledge of the
ball that will run true on the putting
green is knowledge that
will ;
serve us
well. - Country Life.
A Different Individual.
"Ah , " . said the pedestrian leaning ( J )
over the fence where the old farmer "V
was feeding his turkeys , "raising some 1.
birds to satisfy the" cravings of the "
inner man , I see. " a
"No , " replied the farmer , thinking c :
of the 11 cents a pound the turkeys 11 )
would bring as against the 30 cents a g ;
pound the consumer would have to pay "
for them , "I . '
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THE LIMIT FOR PRODUCTS.
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Two Desirable Results May Be At-
tained in-Making Period Not
More than One Year.
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If we are to be thorough in dealing
with the food problem we must take
up the matter of cold storage which
is not merely an indispensable part of
the packing combination , but may be
a most formidable weapon of extortion.
The consumer has lost some of his
appetite for food , thanks to the quali-
ty and cost of the food lIe has been
getting. The hideous insipidity of
fowls and fish which departed this
life in 3908 or earlier is enough to re-
duce him to plain living and high
thinking. He ought to think to some
purpose right now.
There is no question that cold stor-
age has become a necessity for supply-
ing our big cities , the Wall Street
Journal says. With the conditions
which 'obtained well wifcfrin the mem-
ory of many of us it would be im-
possible to feed cities like New York
or Chicago. We should be alternat-
ing between periods of wasteful plenty
in such commodities as eggs and poul-
try and times when they would be un-
obtainable at any price. But this is
no reason for saying that where we
can regulate the interstate distrib
utors of produce , the railroads , we can-
not take the same means to prevent
the instrument of cold storage from
being abused. -
We have arrived at a stage where ,
for all but a fortunate few , really
fresh eggs do not come on to the mar-
ket at all. They are bought at their
cheapest and when they are most plen-
tiful. They are stored , and even at
such times the market is supplied with
eggs which may be anything from a
year to three years old. The bakers
who manufacture the cheapest kind of
pastry are supplied with the garbage
which is actually five years old - eggs
which could not even be used for po
litical purposes outside a South Amer
ican revolution.
The question of whether beef will
keep for longer than one year or I i
whether one commodity will keep
longer than another , is beside the
point. ] All that is required is to pro-
vide such cold storage as will distrib-
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ute } the year's product evenly through-
out ( the year. There would be two re-
sults from such legislation. One would t
be ] an immediate improvement in the
quality of food and the other would
be a reduction in its price.
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The pictures shown . above are
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hose : of the Count and Countess de
Beaufort , who are known more or
ess to the sporting and snortsman '
vorld of Europe and America. The
Uount is a .Frenchman and the Coun-
ess was formerly Miss Kilgallen ,
laughter of a Chicago millionaire.
Chey are familiar figures at Monte
Darlo , in London and in the capitals
of Europe. Recently they became in-
volved in a dispute at Hot Springs ,
Ark. , because they would not pay $500
vhich the owner of a gaming house
tHeged they had lost at roulette. They
laim to have believed they were
laying with 10-cent chips , but the
; ame keepqr : said they were $1 chips.
iVhen ; the game was over they offered
350 in settlement , but $500 was claim-
ed. : Hence the dispute.
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baby were plunged 10'J ' foe down to.
the bottom of the Blanco Canyon and. '
then burned to a crisp amid the debris '
of a wagon that contained all her
household goods near the little plains -
town of Floydada , Tex. Mrs. Breck
was moving across conutry ; in a heavj ; .
wagon. The horses became frightened
and backed over the precipice. As the
wagon turned over and over in its - . .
descent a stove in the outfit set fire to
the goods and a can of gasoline ex
ploded. The struggling woman with
her baby and the horses , unable to ex-
tricate themselves from the wreckage ,
now a mass of flames , landed in a heap
at the bottom. The charred remains ,
of the mother and baby clasped to her .
breast were found later by a ranchman
who had witnessed the tragedy from
the other side of the canyon , but who-
had to make a detour of many miles
to reach the scene.
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A certain Chicago boy has all the
hardihood Vhich polar exploration re-
quires , if a writer in the Chicago News : -
is to be believed.
"Tommy , " asked the visitor/'what :
are you going to be when you grow-
up to be a man ? "
"I'm going to be an arctic explorer , " "
responded the bright little boy. "And : -
now will you give me a quarter-
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"Gracious. Tommy ! What do yoir :
want with a quarter ? "
"I want to get five ice-cream' sodas - . -
and find cut how much cold I cattr
stand. .
His Ucu ! > Con. . . .
Circus \Ianager-'Vhy did the dog - - :
faced boy run away ?
Side Show Propri'etor-He muse ' :
have heard me tell the new cook : to.
prepare sausage for breakfast. - Cleve - -
land Plain Dealer. .
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Bill-Did you hear the- story about. : .
the bottomless kettle ? " .
Jill - No.
Bill-It wouldn't hold water-- !
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some time ago gaming was abolished . ,
Then the town found its income was . '
not equal to its expenses and an ,
agreement was reached whereby : the
gamblers were permitted to conduct
their business in return for being ar- '
rested and fined certain amounts at
stated intervals , the fines to go to-
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