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T Ik* < ry- Baby Hoy. Tbtrc au osco a boy who did nothing bst Ho cried from mors till soon; He cried for s dog, he cried for a gcah He cried for a big balloon. ** r 4 In It rbe tied him. hard and fa*l. And eent him 'war up to the moos. when the moos le bright— 'way up In the

jw every sight when the r ,,*iri\rSj."ssr

Knapper. One day when Bill and Joe were being driven through the wood*. Ui9 boys heard a Cltle dog crying and yelping. They hurried their dogs along and (hey found a black and tan lying by th<* road with two legs'broken. They took him up very carefully and drove Bill and Joe to the doctors. He set ^the broken leg. and the boys took the ‘black and tan home and nursed him UU he. got well. ' They called him little Snapper, for he was a pert little dog. and If anybody made faces at him or did anything he did not like be would run up at them, and dodgw about them so fast, snapping at their shoes and ankles. until the boys haJ to call him off. • At first Bill and Joe were jealous of him, but after awhile they came to like him. -and he was a great favorite cl theirs. ’He often rode with the boys in the wagon, and sometimes he would Jump on Bill's back, sometime* on Joe's, and ride along, sitting as safely as if he were on the wagon seat. Pretty soon people began to expect Snapper whenever they saw Bill and Joe. One night Snapper kept the boys' father's house and barns from being burned. All the people were in bed. Joe and Bill were asleep in the shed between the house and barns. Snapper was out running around. All of a sudden he began to bark and bark. The boys cried "shut up." but he kept ft up more wildly than ever. They thought he must be craxy. Then Joe and Bill began to bark writh him and went out and then he found the barn on fire. He and the boys just managed to put it out. A few moments more and the fire could not have been stopped, and all toe buildings voud have zone. After the fire was out all patted Snapper on the head and told him what a good dog he had been, and Bill and Joe stood loking at him and wagging their tails, as if they were also very proud of him and of what be did to save their home.—Brooklyn

Eagle.

ttlll. and by and by the people would give up hunting for him. and when they had gone away, he would Just rare back to his mother. Then wouldn't It be fun to tell his brothers and sisters how smart he had been, and what a gay time he had been en

Joying?

But that wasn't at all what hap

pened.

Just as he was thinking how smart he was. Mr. Bates reached under thi> ■ hay. and. taking hold of Piggy's hind leg. pulled him out. "Now," said Mr. Bates to the children. "we must drive Piggy back to his mother." So they started Piggy down the road and they all came on behind him. 1 But Piggy Whitefoot didn't wish to ; be driven home. He knew bis broth ers would make fun of him; ao he stood still and wouldn't go. Then Papa Bates took a whip and whipped Piggy, but It didn't hurt much so he didn't move. "Whai shall we do with this bad pig?" said Papa. Then he whistled for DUIy. Dllly was the puppy. His name was Daffy Down Dilly. but they called him Dllly

for abort.

Papa knew that Dilly .wouldn't bite, so he said to him. "Chase the pig.

Dllly. Go for him!"

Dllly rushed after Piggy Whitefoot

with a very loud bark.. Piggy didn't like this, bm still he didn't want to go home, so he ran round and round again, with Dilly at his heels. Papa Bates trying to make him start down the road, and the children all laugh

ing and clapping their hands. Papa soon saw that something more

must be done if they were to get Piggy in -the sty that night; so he

brought a rope, which he tied to one | that the science of counterfeiting toot Piggy's hind feet, and down the i day Is as far ahead of the science of road they started. counterfeiting In the days of the Bible But Piggy Whitefoot was very ! as the science of genuine coinage Is; naughty; so Papa had to lift him : but it Is not even today so nearly peralong a little way at a time. Piggy ] feet that Its most skilled adepts can

would Vun a few steps, and Atop abort.

Tfce Amiable Cmaewtrary.

Cassowary now has a home In Bronx park, where he and Mrs. Cassowary enjoy life and love In a cottage and take dally exercise In their front yard. Mr. Cassowary, however, is not a native American. He and his ancestors have always lived in the islands of the Malay archipelago, especially the Moluccas and the Isle of Papua. While. Mr. Cassowary does not entirely approve of American ways, he seems to be trying to cultivate a cheerful and amiable spirit un-

der all conditions.

Mr. Cassowary is not handsome. He has rather short, thick legs, a body like a big black sheep, with long wool, for his feathers resemble long, smooth strips of wool as much as anything. He has no tall feathers, and his wings are small. He has a long neck, and his bead Is really handsome. His eyes are big. brown and sparkling; his nose Is sharp, and on his head he wears an impressive homy crest. He also wears a handsome necklace of red and blue beadllke wattles, and he dally gay and festive mood: and he danced about with a step that would have won him a prize In any cakewalk. He poised on one leg and executetT a Highland fling, and then went gayly dancing across the yard and hack again in high glee A family of peacocks occupy the cottage next to the cassowaries, and while Mr. Cassowary was dancing so merrily one of the young peacocks lifted up his voice and sang a dirge. If you have ever beard of a peacock sing you will wonder that it did not take the spirit out of Mr. Cassowary. But It didn't. He gave one bright and scornful glance at Mr. Peacock and went on dancing as joyfully ap ever.—New York Trl-

’ as ever.—Nei

rixxr /Whitsfwwt's Piggy Whitefoot lived down by the edge of tile meadow with his mother and broGters and sisters, who all stayed at hpsne quietly, hot Piggy Whitefoot running oa It! Waa ever One day. whan his mother wasn't looking, he acraadflad over the aide of the sty and away he ran. It was

great fun!

What was this ions, sandy place la front of him? Truly, be believed K i real road-fad Piggy

How far be could * before that roads

anything ao f go! He dl

Then he heard a great ahontiag: “Piggy Whitefoot is oat! Piggy Whitefoot is oat!" Then the cbUdra came rushing toward him. waving their haada. aad •ae boy had a stick.

Piggy was almost frightened tc death Some of thr children wgre In the yyad in front of him, to he could n't run thnt wgff an J, owe boy had raced down life road and was behind

way to find bis home. So he squealed and squealed as loudly as ho knew how. and ran round and round, and at Iasi, all out of breath, be rushed In at the open barn door. Just where Mr. Bates, the chll dren'a papa, had hoped be would go. On he ran through the ham. away Into the corner, where he crept under

Mime hay.

The piggy thought he waa safe. No

FALSE; COINERS’ TRICKS. MODERN METHODS OF COUNTERFEITING SHREWD AND SCIENTIFIC.

•I»w. Appvaraac i * Marina* Whlrb li

r Hava round a Eabatllal* far Cald hlrh I* tiaagaroualv l**rf*<t !■

a and Metallic «'»* a a Sui* llalactor.

In all countries and In all ages of the world some men have been rascals and as prune to seek underhand advantages of their ftllowmen as the sparks are prone to fly upward; and. among the earliest manifestations of this disposition. we find men's efforts to gatbwhere they had not strewn and to

body could see him now. and he would reap whet* they had not sown by mak-

r il

log spurious money and passing it for the genuine article. The ensnaring allurements of promised gain tbroi the flim-flam methods which line devious paths and tunnel-ways of fraud and deception have always been too strong tor the cupidity of such men to withstand, and hence spurious money is jus. as old In the world's history (barring a space of time too Inconsiderable to mention) as the gen-

uine crticle Is.

Coin was the first permanent idea of money that took abiding root in the

night follows the day. that counterfeit coin is the oldest species of dishonest money known to man—it Is found all the way back througfr the traces of history, and that in all ages

as well os in all climes.

Kascallty requires more ingenuity than honest dealing, and this particular class of parasites has never been without cleverness: but there have always been more than one way of doing things. It is related of Andrew Jackson that he once said. "A man's a fool who cannot spell a word more than one way:' and these clever tricksters have found more than one way of preying upon ihe public—they have devised many ways of achieving the same desired end and have achieved various degrees of proficiency and skill in applying these various ways. But the popular idea that practice makes perfect In any and all things is equally- applicable here. Hem*, we And that the modern methods of counterfeiting coin are much more shrewd and scientifically skillful than the more primitive ones were. They have kept pace with the science of making real money for Investigation demonstrates the fact

until Papa lifted him along again. Llttk* by little they came to the sty. Then Papa took the rope and tied two of Piggy's feet together, and

put him in with his mother.

which are appl their handiwork.

The results of many of Ae processes by which counterfeiting has been attempted have been so crude and bung-

ling that any one (though 01

caslonal handler of metallic money) could detect their faults; but two of these processes have become so well established an-J so universally known as to be aptly called the most popular methods used by those who want to -put Into the channels of trade false money, to wit: the process of striking them from dlej aid that of casting them in molds. Of these two processer. that of striking them from dies is decidedly the more dangerous to the general public, since the results are much more nearly- perfect In every essential respect, when compared with toe genuine coins, and corresponding-

ly more difficult of detection.

While every kind and denomination of our national coin have been counterfeited by the one pr the other of these two popular methods, the dies are gen-

walked with ,hla feet tied together. | His mother told him she hoped he had I learned a lesson, and would mind her i after this. Piggy- Whitefoot didn't like all this ! at all; so when it was dark he began biting the rope. He worked all night at it. pulling and nibbling the rope untp before morning he had broken It In two. Now. you wouldn't have thought he would try to get oat of his sty again after all his trouble the other time: but Piggy wanted to show his brothers and sisters that he -was smart, after all: so he scrambled over the side of the sty once more, and away

he ran.

Not up the road this time! Oh. no!

He remembered what happened when he went there, so he ran quite another erally used mostly in counterfeUtag way today, out into the green mea gold coins only—the molds being used dow. In counterfeiting silver coins and those How lovely and soft the grass was made of nickel and copper. This is He put bis little pink nose down -. largely so because dies are more cumatnong the grass roots, and orertuVaed J bersome. bulky, expensive and difllsome of them and took a bite. They ; tult to conceal than molds are. and were atf sweet. Oh. his mother and ; knaves deem It too risky to hazard brothers and iliters were silly not to ' the desperate -.-hances of being "plnchget any of these nice things to eat cd" for such small gains as result from and race about in the big meadow. the circulgtioo of spurious silver, nicBut what was that big thing running? kel and copper coins. But. while the It wasn't a pig. for pigs were never , larger denominations of gold coin only so tall; and It waa brown, too, and It are struck from dies by counterfeiters, had funny things like branches grow some of these spurious manufacturers Ing out on the sides of its head; an-1 are almost perfect in weight, ring and oh! hear! dear. It wv running right general appearance. Indeed, they are toward him! sometimes so perfect that they baffle Piggy Whitefoot was scared. He any detection except that of a patent squealed and ran as fast as he could : machine made for hat purpose. The go. He could hear thoee big feet 1 general appearance is not only decepburrying after him. What ever should Uve. but It almost defies all other agenhe do? Louder and louder he squealed clek of detection; the milling and the Nearer and nearer came the feet. He ! lettering are perfectly sharp and clearlooked back just once, and he saw the 1 cut, and the real metallic ring Is almost

big brown head down almost ' ground, and right at his heels. n»

curly tali hung dow if as straight as a ! The weight of the false coiner's prostring. he was ao frightened: and ho ' duct Is. however, generally a trifle shy. rushed up to the sty, squealing: ‘ Now. the most distinctive ear-marks "Quick, mother; oh. quick! open the of counterfeit coin are inaccuracy of door and let me in!" j weight, deficiency in the ahgrprcut. His mother couldn't think what in ! clearness of the reading and the abtke world had happened, but aho i woce of Ae characteristic, metallic pulled and pushed at the door as hard | of tke real stuff, but all of these -as she coaid. i « r * sometimes so nearly perfect in the

can't move this spurictas article as to defy detection

by comparison in the bands of even a metallic adept; and It requires a ma-

"Piggy Whitefoot. I

door an inch." she squealed; "you'll

have to get in

e way y ou went

out."

But Piggy couldn't get In the way ho went out; that was the trouble. Just as his mother spoke, the brown head caught him up

horns aad threw him right over Into the sty. ao much as to say. “Now. let's

see if you'll mind your mother!" Piggy Whitefoot was frightened ak.!

most to daaih. aad he never triad to i

oc smart again.

Papa Bates often woauarad why Piggy was so quiet ever after that day I

Old Brio die, th« cow. knew mg o-x. .

and

i big I Us

chins to reveal their spurious character. But tbs degree of perfection to which this deception may be carried Is more dependent upon the character

i the skill

In the ef-

jyed in Um

U Is very difficult to find a . substitute la botfi weight and apancs for the genuine meUl which r* Into the composition of

Counterfeiters have found one substitute for gbld which is so dangerously perfect In weight, appearance and metallic ring that, when the work la ■kllUully done, the spurious coin deceives an ordinary "expert, if he hap pens to lie so slluatod that be cannot apply the assay test and discover Its deficiency' In fineness—Its only vulnerable point of attack. But there are comparatively few people who are prepared to resort to the assay test, and not nearly so n any who possess the Information necesary to apply that

test.

Pure gold Is 100 percent (or 24 carats) fine; and our gold coin is 90 percent (or 21.19 carats) One. Borne spurious coins have from 40 to 80 percent of pure gold in them and are from to about 13 carats fine. But thla, well as all other Jnherent defects counterfeit coin, rtflds readily to the mint taat of weflm. diameter, thickness and f.neness. There la absolutely no known substitute for gold that will enable a spurious coin to stand these four testa; the coin made of It la bound to be too light or too heavy, too thick or too thin, too large or too small, if it otherwise stands the assay test, and Its spurious char-

acter becomes manifest.

False coiners and counterfeiters generally cannot long run the gauntlet without being detected by the agents of the government, since there is a perfect mac-bin* (which nearly all banks use) for detection purposes, and the banka co-operate with the agents of the government in trying to suppress these common enemies of

society and mankind.

One of these (latent machines for de- j tectlrg counterfeit coin is infallible; It appllas automatically the three mint tests of weight, size and thickness, so.! that each spurious coin, as well as Its ! ranker, has a very brief career at i

beat.—Collier's Weekly.

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war in Ae world for.

On the otaer' hand Hiram thought he was a pretty bright light, and Just a few notrti^s ahead of the other boys In the village. He had no mere Idea of ■ he valtle of goods than a monkey wrench, and the knowing ones often had a great deal of sport with him. Whenever there was a lack of entertainment they would say: “Let's go town and have som* fun with Hiram." One day old man Stout had to go out o! twon on business end left the store in charge of Hiram. He went away with considerable n isgivlng as he didn't know what funny breaks his son mitfit make while be was absent. Among the first to come in the store after the old man left was a drummer. He knew all about Hiram, and when be learned that the old man was away he determined to Jolly him along for on order. Hiram thought a good deal of himself, but after toe drummer had thrown Him a few nicely worded comI liments he Imagined that he was the. only one left iu the town. The traveling man was selling nails, and of course Hiram pretended that he knew all about them. The drummer convinced him -that he needed some more stock, and flna'Iy asked: "How many do- you want, Mr. Stout?" Hiram reflected a moment and then took a chance. "I guess you had better send me three carloads." This almost took the drummer's breath, as there were not more than a thousand pounds'of nails sold at the store In a year. But he said nothing, and rushed the order in before it could

be countermanded.

Well, when the old rape came home and heard about what Hiram had done tho language he used \. as slmpl)' awful. He called Hiram everything and acted in the most fearful manner. But that night word came that the McKinley tariff bill had' passed and the price of nails had doubled. The nail firm wrote asking Stout Jo countermand his order, but he refused. He got the three carloads of nails, and In the end made amount of money on the Invest-

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