. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ages and seal them with the special seal of the Issue 246 BEGINNING ITS CAREER. Division of the Treasury of the United States. They thengo to the vaults, there to await the call of the Treasurerand the mandate of Uncle Samuel. Thus our dollar is fin-ished. After all these processes and
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ages and seal them with the special seal of the Issue 246 BEGINNING ITS CAREER. Division of the Treasury of the United States. They thengo to the vaults, there to await the call of the Treasurerand the mandate of Uncle Samuel. Thus our dollar is fin-ished. After all these processes and all these counts, whichone might think would have worn it to shreds, it is at lastready for its adventurous career in the busy world. Someday, when the doors of the great vault open, our new dollargoes out and into the outstretched hands of some one of thetens of thousands who are clamoring to obtain possession ofit. Its unsullied purity will not last long. If it endures the hardships of its public career, if it isnot burned to ashes in some conflagration, chewed up by someanimal, or lost in some place never to be found, it will re-turn to its birthplace in about three years, possibly sooner,looking very shabby and very wretched. By that time itwill have grown tired of the world and returned home CHAPTEE X1I1. EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST COUNTERFEIT-ERS, BURGLARS, AND THIEVES— WOMEN AS EX-PERT COUNTERFEIT DETECTORS —THEFUNERAL OF A DOLLAR. Coming Home To Die — Ill-Smelling Companions — A Dirty-Looking Mobof Dollars — The Experts Secluded Corner — Among Shreds andPatches of Money — Chewed by Pigs and Rescued from a SlaughterHouse — Taken from the Bodies of the Dead — An Iowa Farmers Experience — A Michigan Tax Collector and His Goat — Womens Skillin Restoring Worn-out Money — Bills Reeking with Filth — DetectingCounterfeits — A Womans Instinct—Thats Counterfeit! — Howthe Treasury Was Swindled by a Woman — An Ingenious Device —So
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