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MR. DOOLEY THE LABOR TROUBLES. By F. P. DUNNE. Copyright, 1904, by McClure, Phillips & Cos. "I see th' sthrike has been called off." said Mr. Henr.essy. "Which wan?” asked Mr. Dooley. “I can’t keep thrack iv thim. Someboiy Is sthrikin’ all th’ time. Wan day th' horseshoers is out an’ another day th' steamsters. Th' Brotherhood iv Mo lasses Candy Pullers sthrikes on’ th' Amalgymated Union tv Pickle Sorters quits in sympathy. Th’ carpinter that has been puttin’ up a chicken coop f’r Hogan knocked off wurruk whin he found that Hogan was shavin’ him silf without a. card fr’m th’ barbers’ union. Hogan fixed It up with th’ walkin’ dillygate iv th’ barbers an’ th' carpinter quit wurruk because he found Hogan was wearin’ a pair iv non-union pants. Hogan wint down town an’ had his pants unionized an’ come home to find that th’ carpinter had sthruck because Hogan's hens was layin' eggs without th’ union label. Hogan injooced th’ hens to jine th' union. But wan iv them laid an egg two days in succissyon an’ th’ others sthruck. th’ rule iv th’ union bein' that no hen shall lay more eggs than th’ most reluctant hen in th’ bunch. "It's th' same ivrywhere. I haven’t had a sandwich f'r a year because ivry time I've asked f'r wan, ayether th butchers of th’ bakers has been out on sfhrike. If I go down in a car in th’ mornin', it's eight to wan I walk back at night. A man I knowed had his uncle in th’ house much longer than ayether iv thim had intinded on ac count iv a sthrike iv th' Frindly Broth erhood iv Morchuary Helpers. Afther they'd got a permit fr’m th’ walkin' dillygate an’ th' remains was carried away undher a profusyon iv floral im blims with a union label on each iv them, th' coortege was stopped at ivry corner be a picket who first punched th’ mourners an’ thin examined their cridintials. Me friend says to me: Tnele Bill wud’ve been proud. He was very fond iv long fun’rals an’ this was th' longest I iver attinded. It took eight hours an’ w r as much more rio chous goin’ out thin cornin' back,’ he says. "It was diff'rent whin I tvas a young man. Hinnissy. In thim days capital an’ Labor was frindly. or Labor was. Capital was like a father to Labor, givin’ it its boord an’ lodgins. Nay ether intherfered with th’ other. Cap ital wint on capitalizin' an’ labor wint on laborin. In thim goolden days a wurrukin’ man was an honest artisan. That’s what he was proud to be call ed. Th' week befure iliction he had his pitcher in th’ funny pa-apers. He wore a square paper cap an’ a leather apron an' he had his ar-rm ar-round Capital, a rosy, binivolint ol' guy with b plug hat an' eyeglasses. They was goin’ to th’ polls together to vote fr simple ol’ Capital. Capital an’ Labor walker ar-m in ar-rm instead iv hav in' both hands free, as at prisint. Cap ital w'as CQntint to be Capital an’ La bor was used to bein’ Labor. Capital come ar-round an’ fekt th’ ar-rm Iv Labor wanst in awhile an’ ivry year Mrs. Capital called on Mrs. Labor an’ congratylated her on her score. Th’ pride iv ivry artisan was to wurruk ns long at his task as th’ boss cud afford to pay th’ gas bill. In return fr his fidelity l)e got a turkey ivry year. At Chris-mas time. Capital gathered his happy fam’ly around him in th’ prisince iv th’ ladies iv th’ neighborhood give thim a short ora tion. ‘Me brave la-ads,‘ says he. ‘we’ve had a good year. (Cheers.) I have made a millyon dollars. (Sinsatton.) I atthribute this to me supeeryour skill, aided be ye’er earnest efforts at the’ bench an’ at th’ forge. (Sobs.) Ye have done so well that we won’t need so manny iv us as we did. (Long an’ continyous cheerin’.) Those iv us who can do two men’s wurruk will remain an’ If possible do four. Our other faithful sarvants,’ he says, ’can come back in th’ spring,’ he says, ‘if alive,’ he says. An’ th’ bold artysans tossed their paper caps in th’ air an’ give three cheers fr Capital. They wurruked till ol’ age crept on thim an’ 50 YEARS OF UNEQUALED SUCCESS. iwith true merit as its foundation it has been possible for the celebrated HOSTEXTER’S STOMACH BITTERS to establish a record of cures of Stomach, Liver and Kidney ills unequaled by any other medicine. For fifty years it has been driving out disease and restoring perfect health. It therefore appeals very strongly to every sufferer from POOR APPETITE, HEARTBURN, INDIGES TION, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, BILIOUSNESS. INSOMNIA, NERV OUSNESS, WEAK KIDNEYS OR MA LARIAL FEVER. For your health's sake we urge you to try the Bitters at once. You’ll be thank ful for taking our advice, which is backed by prominent physicians and grateful people everywhere. TWO splendid letters: H. A. Wagner, Brooklyn. N. TANARUS., saysl “I angered very much from Dyxpcpala, Indigestion and other Stomach Ills, but after using your Bittern I am now entirely well.” L. <l. Derher. Bayou, Chicot, La., say.: “I regard your Bitter, as th. bet remedy In the fcorld Cor Stomach trouble.. I have used It and don’t hesitate In recommending It.” THE GENUINE HAS OUR PRIVATE STAMP OVER THE NECK OF THE BOTTLE thin retired on th’ wish bones an’ kind wurruds they had accumylated. “Nowadays “tis far diff’rent. Th’ unions has desthroyed all individjool Mtort. Year be year th’ hours iv th’ misguided wurrukin’ man has been cut down till now it takes a split sicond watch to time him as he goes through th’ day’s wurruk. I have a gintleman plasthrer frind who tells me he hasn't put in a full day in a year. He goes to his desk Ivry mornin’ at tin an’ sthrikes punchooly at iliven. ‘Th’ wrongs Iv th’ wurrukin’ men mus’ be redhressed,” says he. ‘Ar-re ye in thrested in thim?’ says I. ‘Ye niver looked betther in ye’er life,’ says I. ‘I niver felt betther.’ he says. ‘lt’s th’ out-iv-dure life,’ he says. ’I haven't missed a baseball game this summer,’ he says. ‘But,* he says, ‘I need exer cise. I wish labor day wud come around. Th' boys has choose me to carry a life-size model iv th’ Masonic Temple In th’ parade,’ he says. “If I w'as a wurrukin’ man I’d sigh fr th’ good ol’ days whin labor and capital was frinds. Those who lived through thim did. In thim times th’ arrystoeracy iv labor was th* la-ads who r-run th’ railroad injines. They were a proud race. It was ’a. boast to have wan Iv thim in a fam’ly. They niver sthruck. ’Twas again their rules. They conferred with capital. Capital used to weep over thim. Ivry wanst in a w'hile, a rilrdad prisidint wud grow' red in th’ face an’ burst into song about thim. They were a body that th’ nation might well he proud iv. If he had a son who asked f’r no betther fate, he wud ask f’r no betther fate fr him thin to be a Brotherhood iv Locymotive Ingineers. Ivrybody looked up to thim an’ they looked down on ivrybody, but mostly on th’ brickfayers. Th’ bricklayers were niver th’ bulwarks iv th’ con stlchoochion. They niver conferred with capital. Th’’ polis always ar rived jus’ as th’ conference was be ginnin’. Their motto was a long life an’ a merry wan; a brick in th’ hand is worth two on th’ wall. They sthruck ivry time they thought iv it. They' sthruck on th’ slightest provocation an’ whin they weren’t provoked at all. If a band wint by, they climbed down th’ laddhers an’ followed it, carryin’ ban ners with th’ wurruds: ‘Give us bread or we starve,’ an’ walked till they were almost hungry. Ivry Saturdah night, they held a dance to protist again their wrongs. In th’ summer STOCK MARKET SCRAPED THE BOTTOM; NOW BUMPING THE TOP End of Business Depression in Sight and Signs of a Business Revival. By W. G. NICHOLAS. New York, Sept. 10.—It looked two weeks ago as if the top of the stock market had been reached. The rather sharp advance caused many to predict that prices were "bumping the top.” These same persons during the long decline would predict at each new low level that prices were ’’scraping the bottom.” Just as the market at that time went through the bottom to a new bottom, so after the break of Tuesday, a week ago, it proceeded to climb and bumped through the top to anew high level. The last Tuesday in August saw a sharp decline, while on the first Tues day In September there was an ad vance equally ‘as sharp. Prices closed at the highest of the year. The aver age prices of twenty active railroads was ten points higher than the price for the same roads on the correspond ing date of 1903. Down and Then I p. The swing in the market then was downward, while the swing now is up SSVVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IT. 1904. time, th’ wails iv th’ oppressed brick layers wint up fr’m countless picnics. They sthruck in sympathy with anny body. Th’ union wint out as wan man because they was a rumor that th’ superintindent iv th’ rollin’ mills was not nice to his wife. Wanst they sthruck because Pofand was not free. "What was th’ raysult? Their un raisoning demands fin’lly enraged cap ital. To-day ye can go into a brick layer’s house an’ niver see a capitalist but th’ bricklayer himsilf. Forty years ago a bricklayer was certain iv twilve hours wurruk a day, or two hours more thin a convicted burglar. To-day he has practically nawthin’ to do an’ won’t do that. They ar-re out iv wur ruk nearly all th’ time an’ at th’ sea shore. Jus’ as often as ye read ’New port colony fillin’ up,’ ye read. ’Brick layers sthrike again.’ Ye very sildotn see a bricklayer nowadays in th’ city. They live mostly in th’ eounthry an’ on’y come into town to be bribed to go to wurruk. It wud pay anny man who is buildin’ a house to sind thim what money he has be mail an’ go live in a tent. “An’ all this time, how about th’ arrystoeracy iv labor, th’ knights iv th’ throttle? Have they been deprived iv anny hours iv labor? On th’ con thry, they have steadily increased on til to-day there is not a knight iv th’ throttle who hasn’t more houis iv wur ruk in a day thin he can use in a week. In th’ arly mornin’ whin he takes his ir’n horse out iv th’ stall, he meets th’ onforchnit, misguided hrick layer cornin’ home in a cab fr’m a sthrike meet in’. Hardly a year passes that he can’t say to his wife: ’Mother, I’ve had an increase.’ ’ln wages?’ ’No, in hours ’ It’s th’ ol’ story iv th’ ant an’ th’ grasshopper—th’ ant that ye can step on an’ th’ grasshopper ye can’t catch. “Well, it’s too bad that th’ goolden days lias passed, Hinnissy. Capital still pats Labor on th’ back but on’y with an ax. Labor rayfuses to be threated as a frind. It wants to be threated as an itiimy. It thinks it gets more that way. They ar-re still a hap py fam’ly but it’s more like an Kr.g- Ush fam’ly. They don’t speak. What do I think iv it all? Ah. sure, I don’t know. I belong to th’ onferchnit mid dle class. I wurruk hard an’ I have no money. They come in here undher me hospital roof an’ I furnish thim with cards, checks, refrishmints an’ money. ’Let’s play without a limit,’ s;ays Labor. ‘lt’s Dooley’s money.’ ’Go as far as ye like with Dooley’s money,’ says Capital. ’What have ye got?’ ’l’ve got a sthraight to Roosevelt,’ says Labor. ’l’ve got ye beat,’ says Capi tal. ’l've got a Supreme Coort full on injunctions.’ Manetime I’ve pawmed me watch to pay fr th’ game an' I have to go to th’ joolry store on th' corner to buy a pound lv beef or a scut tle iv coal. No wan Iver sthrikes In sympathy with me.” “They ought to get together,” said Mr. Hennessy. "How cud they get anny closer to gether thin their prisint clinch?’’ asked Mr. Dooley. "They're so close togeth er now that those that ar-re between thim ar-re crushed to death.” w'ard. A year ago, every one thought prices were too high, to-day a ma jority still thinks so, but conditions have changed. Then the business de pression showed no signs of ending, while to-day the end is in sight and in fact the close observers of conditions find on every hand general signs of business revival. These men are dis counting this revival in the stock mar ket, as they discounted the depression. They believe that the country is on the highroad to greater prosperity, and consequently are buying stocks expect ing to sell them, not at prices a dollar or two higher a share, but $lO and S2O per share more. Market Bare of Stock.. These big men have been buying for some time with (he result that the stock market is almost bare of stocks around the present prices. Purchasers are forced to bid Above the market to get stocks. The layman asks: "How do these men get their advance In formation of conditiohs?” The answer Is simple. They send out special agents to study conditions. Bankers learn through their correspondents, seatter- ed throughout the country; railroad men through their agents; manufac turers through their salesmen. The banker has the use. not only of the Information of his correspondents, but of that gathered by the railroad presi dent and the manufacturer. An example in point: A rich man Looking to the Future. has purchased, during the last two months, 50,000 shares of Steel common and 30,000 shares of Steel preferred. Upon being asked why he had done so. he replied: "I sent a specialist to every steel plant of the corporation. Another visited the big consumers; an other made a trip through the Cotton Belt; another through the wheat and corn sections, and others made studies of different railroads' needs. Their combined reports proved to me that I could double my money by purchasing these stocks. The condition of the steel trade is better than reported; the crops will be good: sentiment everywhere is better. I know this from my own agents, and I feel satisfied of what the future will bring.” This man Is but one of the many moneyed men of Wall st reet. From every source comes news of improvement. The condition of the cot ton crop is above the average for eleven years. The condition of the corn crop is satisfactory and wheat Is bet ter than reported. The farmer and the planter are tn excellent shape with money to invest. Railroad learnings Well ftp. Railroad returns for July show that business is smaller than in the previous July, but both gross and net earnings have held up wonderfully, and as a rule the dividends of the big companies are more than earned, even when the decrease Is largest. Of course the rail roads in the Southern states have had a good time, having been helped by the high prices of cotton. Many of these roads need new rails and new rolling stock, which they will be able now to purchase. All lines are now busy talking about car shortage and engine shortage. This is a yearly phenomenon, and will prob ably he more marked than ever in a ye’ar. when business is actually short. The busis of the present talk is a fairly good one. It consists of the fact that In many sections shippers have increased their orders for cars on short notice, causing equipment managers on some divisions to sit up late at night devising methods to meet the calls in a hurry. The change arises naturally from the hesitation of a few weeks ago. when shippers at large were inclined to underestimate their prospective needs in the line of equipment. In a period of crop uncertainty this phenomenon always oecurs. Taking the systems as a whole, there Is not a railroad In the West that has not all the cars and en gines it needs for Its present business and several of each left over. The Western Tragic. The best features of the Western traffic situation are the heavier move ment of merchandise and coal. The grain tonnage is slightly better than It was a week or so ago. >and is likely to inc-rease from now on until It reaches Us climax late in the autumn. The prospects are that in the aggregate it will be very heavy over the season. The fruit tonnage from Missouri and the South has been satisfactory to date. The heaviest and most profitable of it does not move, however, until a week or two later, when the apple trains from the Ozark country are a Very im portant factor on the local divisions southwest of St. Louis. The crop was a failure last year, and will this year make a fair showing. Harrlman Rack From Enropa. Mr. E. H. Ilarriman, who has re turned from Europe, is among those who are bullish on the general outlook. He denied that there is any trouble be tween his lines and the Gould roads and refused to say whether he was after the Chicago and Alton. With regard to the political situation he con tented himself with the statement that the country is a foregone conclusion for President Roosevelt, and that he him self has no candidate for the governor ship of New York state. The copper situation Is also clearing up. Europe is taking enormous quan tities of the metal and the majority of copper metal sellers believe that iake copper will sell at 13 cents per pound within two weeks. Big Copper Exports. Exports continue on a very large scale, and many predict thaj. exports for September will reach 20,000 tons. During the first eight months of the present year we have shipped abroad upwards of 330,000,000 pounds of refined copper. If the American production Is 750,000,000 pounds or a figure higher than has ever before been publleally printed—and I believe the American production is now temporarily up to this rate—and If we add to that 150,000,- 000 pounds, which would seem to many absurdly high, sis the tncomtnr of cop per from the Greene and other Mexican mines, and the imports of copper and ores from British Columbia, Canada and elsewhere, we would have only 500,000,000 pounds per annum, or only 600,000,000 pounds for eight months upon which to draw for an American export of 330,000,000 pounds. Such shipments with the better demand In the local markets for copper explains the ad vance in the copper shares dealt In on the New 'York Stock Exchange. !■ • The Steel Block Market. In speaking of the price of steel shares an expert says: “Steel stocks are up to above 13 for the common and above 62 for the preferred and even the steel men are asking why? "This, is because the steel men and other trade people have narrow views. What is under the market for steel and steel shares at the present time as susUiinlng factor is exactly what was at the top of the market when steel shares were going down, gnd that Is the bond market. "The railroads consume 40 per cent, of the steel used In this country, when, as last year, the railroads have reach ed the limit of their borrowing ca pacity or rather the Investor has reached the limit of his buying capac ity, the railroads had to shut down In their purchase of steel, but they continued to use up steel to a greater extent than ever before in the history of this country. Bankers’ Bond Shelves Cleared. "Now the Investment markets have recovered their equilibrium, the bank ers’ bond shelves are cleared and In a few weeks, If nothing additional adverse happens to the crops, the country will be making the maximum demand upon railroad facilities and the bankers will be pursuing the rail road treasurers offering money In ex change for bonds. Then a few weeks, say after the election, the steel men of the country will he awakened by a sharp call from the railroads for Steel which does not now exist. The two-days’ holiday last week caused a hiatus In the business world, so that on the whole the news of the week was not up to the usual vol ume. —Frau Coslma Wagner has devoted her widowhood to the praise of Wag ner. fthe has been reared on music, for she Is the daughter of *. great pianist, has been the wife of two composers and tbs mother of a third. Her father was Liszt (who was a Hungarian). Bfee was first married to Hans Von Bulow and swondly lo Wagner. Her son. Rlegfrled Wag ner, was born In 16*4 ftbe lives al Bayreuth In ih* Villa Wahnfried ui4 takes the keenest inters** in the fes tival. H 1 ©Q,® ®@®tJ "Ah! ’The Home Doctor. 11l be my own phyisician aftov this. I’ll cheat those quack doctors out of a few pen nies.” "Let me see. The remedy for the heart is Aeon, 1. x. I’ll take a dose right away." I T “Wifey, send for A doctor, quick! I am dying." NINGER, THE PENMAN , KING OF COUNTERFEITERS Baffled Secret Service Officers Fifteen Years and Finally Caught by Accident. By M. W. PRICE. Washington, Sept. 10.—Chief Wilkie looked around the walls of his den In the Secret Service Bureau in the Treas ury Department and pointed to the photograph of Emanuel Nlnger. *'He waa tha most expert penman I ever knew, or that the Secret Service offi cials ever came in contact with,” said Chief Wilkie, and then he declined to talk further for quotation, because it is the policy bf the Secret Service nev er to do anything to display to the world the criminal record of a man who is apparently trying to live down the black pages of his life. Chief Wilkie was right. Emanuel Ninger was the "Jim the Penman” of real life, and in a way the most re markable criminal of the age. He had no extensive plants for engraving and printing counterfeit notes, and his only stock consisted of paper, ordinary writ ing pens, pencils, red, green, and black Inks. With these he baffled the Se cret Service officers of the government for fifteen years, and was finally de tected by mere accident. The wet fin ger* of a New York saloon keeper came In contact with the Ink upon one of the freshly made bills of "Jim the Pen man,” and the ink blurred. The fact added to the auspicious of the saloon keeper and led to the immediate arrest of Ninger, who has served his sentence and is a free man somewhere, no longer engaged In counterfeiting the currency of Tlncle Sam, but always under sus picion by the organization over which Chief Wilkie presides. Finally fame to Grief. It was in New York city in March, 1896, that “Jim the Penman” of the counterfeiting profession came to grief. He started from his little home in Fl'aglown, N. J., Saturday morning, March 28, 1896. and had in his posses sion six S2O notes and one SSO note, which together were the product of fifteen week's work. His wife and four children did not ask him any questions when he left home that morning. He had been a mystery to them for many years. He forbadj them entrance to the room in his homo in which he worked, and he said noth ing to anybody 'about his business. He had no confederates, and even his wife did not have any idea what he was doing. Ninger experienced no difficulty in passing five of the S2O notes. The sixth one came near to getting him into trouble. He went to John Weyman's grocery store, on Third avenue, New York city, called for a bottle of whis ky, and gave the S2O note remaining In payment. Shortly after his departure the cashier, In counting up her cash, noticed the hlurred condition of the number upon the note when It passt-d under her moistened thumb, and, quickly realizing that something was wrong, had an investigation made. By that time Ninger had gotten out of sight. He walked rapidly down town to a saloon at $7 Courtland street. There he got a glass of Rhine wine and a cigar and asked the bartender to change the S6O note for him, stat ing, by way of explanation, that he Wanted to pay off hta farm hands. He was accommodated, hastily gathered up his change and hurried out. He seemed to be gome what exrttcd. and the bartender became suspicions • and took the bill from the money drawer for closer examination. Blara-eg by Barkeeper's Wet Flatters In doing so his wet finger paaeed over the serial number and the result aas the blur Pulling on bla hat he alerted In pursuit of Ninger and found blot In Ike New Jersey Central Rail road ferry bowse eeuotlag over the change he had Just received. Ninger displayed no surprise when approach ed by the bar tender and Informed by that Individual that he was going to have him arrested. Ninger told the man he would return the SSO and of fered at the same time to make the bar tender a present of $5 more. The offer was refused and Ninger was turned over to the Church street po lice station, whore he gave his name as Joseph Gilbert, and stated that he lived in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and that he was not married. He claimed that he had received the counterfeit bill from a man in the corridor of the Union Trust Bank building, to whom he had sold two United States SIOO bonds. Secret service officers in New York were notified and when they saw Nin ger and the notes which he had been passing they were convinced that he was the man who had caused them so many sleepless nights. The fact of his arrest, however, did not solve the whole question by any means. That he could be convicted of passing the counterfeit notes there was no doubt, but who was the maker of the notes. Proof of the fact must be secured at all hazards. Deceived Bank Men. I These notes had deceived bankers and business men all over the country for many years, and to be unable to discover the real counterfeiter was los ing more than half the game. Ninger was put through a sweating process which was so successful that he ad mitted his true name and said that he alone was responsible for the exis tence of the pen and ink notes. This (was oroven when the police went to Ninger’s home In Flagtown and secured his outfit, which, besides pens and pencils and three kinds of ink. In cluded some blocks of water colors. Nlnger's arrest and the unique fea tures of the case attracted wide at tention throughout the country and expeeialy among the handwriting ex perta. Nearly all of them were In credulous, and .refused to accept the explanations of the secret service men as to how they were made. One of them even went so far as to offer a SIOO bill for a $lO note that would de ceive a newsboy. One of the prominent New York newspapers accepted the bet and the result was that the expert "crawfished," and went into a long explanation of how he had been de ceived. First Detected by Treasury K Xpert. Nlnger's first work turned up at the Treasury Department in the redemp tion division In 1879 In a batch of notes from one of the sub-treasuries, and was a S2O counterfeit. The expert counter detected tha spuriousness of the note, and at once began an Investigation. A careful scrutiny under a magnifying glass revealed the fact that the note was a free hand drawing with pen and Ink, and tha perfect likeness of the note was so wonderful as to practical ly defy detection at the hands of any but an expert. Secret Service officers were at onee notified, but they were unable to do anything because the tellers of the eub-treasury. from which the note was received, were unable to tell how the note came Into their poeeeeelon. For more than fifteen yeare afterward these marvelou* works of art turned up et more or less frequent intervals, usually arriving nt the treasury In remittances from bsnks. where they had escaped detection. They c*m from nil over the country, every section contributing Its share to these now famous notea. Secret Hervles detectives worked night and day but they could obtain no claw. The general appaarance of the notes was so good tha< no shop keeper hesi tated about accepting them, and whan they reached the banks the chancks were even that they would again a*ape "Heart dlsdase! Why, I’ve got every one of those symptoms. It’s lucky I bought this book.” sn uV ") 1 WHAT ift Twe r I - . ■ ■ I. . ..I ’a. "My! That gives me an awful pain In the stomach.” "Your husband swallowed enough aconite to kill a town. Lucky I got there In time.” detection, so that the officers were blocked at even.' stage in endeavoring to trace them from hand to hand. Gave the Sleuth* a Merry Chase. The chief of the Secret Service Bu reau and his assistants advanced every theory. One of them was that the maker of the notes was a person of leisure, gifted with the faculty of imi tation, who developed this strange fad as an amusement, and that it pleased him to lead the Secret Service sleuths a merry chase In pursuit. Until Novem ber, 1893. all the notes received at the Treasury Department were s2o's and sso's. Then anew specimen of "Jim the Penman’s" handiwork turned up. It was a SIOO legal tender, Issue of 1880, bearing the portrait of Lincoln, and, like the first, received in a. remittance from a sub-treasury. Warnings of this counterfeit, as of the others, was given the widest publicity. Numerous points were given wherein they differed from the genuine, and how to detect them. One of the suggestions was that by pussing a moistened finger over the se rial number the Ink would blur, whOe in the genuine notes <hts was not so. It was in the accidental application of this test that finally caused Nlnger's downfall. Kept His Own Secrets . The Secret Service officers attribut ed Nlnger's long immunity from ar rest to the fact that he worked alone, having no confederates, and thait he did not attempt to put many bills on the market at the same time. The first thing Ninger did was to secure bond paper of about the same quality as that upon which the genuine notes are printed, with the exception, of course, that this paper was without the silk threads to be found In the genuine. Cutting the paper the exact size of the regular notes, Ninger Im mersed It In a week solution of coffee. This Imparted to the paper the ap pearance of age, and as having pass ed through several hands. While the paper was still wet It was placed over the face of a genuine note, the edges being exactly together. The two were then placed upon a flat glass, and every figure and letter, portrait and vignette, together with the signatures and seals, were brought out in bold relief, and could be plainly seen through the transparent bond paper. The pane of glass was then placed against the window frame at an angle of about 45 degrees. The light shin ing through rendered the tracing of the genuine engraving quite distinct. In this position 'the counterfeiter com menced work, first with an extremely sharp and hard pointed pencil. With It he carefully traced all outlines on the original note. Marvelous Skill With Fen. After the note was thoroughly dry the same ground was gone over with pen and Ink. It was here that tha marvelous touch and skill of the pen man was displayed, testing the ac curacy of his eye and the steadiness of his nerve. The colors on the note were applied with a camel's hairbrush, and these colors so closely resembled the colors on the genuine note as to contribute materially to the appear ance of the counterfeit. Red and blua Ink marks were made to take the place of the silk threads which are worked Into the pulp of the govern ment paper. The treasury seal which Is placed on all paper currency Is al most Invariably placed over a portion of the main design of the note, thus adding difficulty to the tracing of the different lines, 'but Ninger kept, at It with wonderful skill snd fidelity. The same care and attention were not de voted to the back of the note. It waa usually executed with a brush. In do ing this the artist relied mainly upon the coloring to add to the deception. There have been many famous coun terfeiters since Nlnger's time, but he holds ih record sa a penman, and it lit quite likely that the fiecret Service officers will never have to deal again with a man who can be put In hlg elaaa. (Copyright, the Washington Frees As sociation > —"I aln'i got no objection* at all to d* man what assumes to be superior,” said Un<l* Kbrn. "psrvldert he inaksa an hones' effort to live up In his owns repersrntations.'*—Washington dtar. 5