Show MADE MONEY HIMSELF An employee ee of the bureau of ot engraving engraving engrav engrav- ing inS and printing Is not s so o much prone to jolting Joking as he was before he took his annual leave during durin the past vast summer ummer This particular r employee of the Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment Is a plate printer and for or twenty years he has ha been engaged In the thc work o of makin making mone money He has made an nn estimate es estimate estimate es- es of or the tha number of oC millions of oC dollars dol dol- lars larA he hill has turn turned d out but the figure figUN Is ha Isso Isso so large larse that It Is only expressed b by aling a aling aling ling line of ciphers Before going on hi his vac ac Lion tion he received his months month's salary l In Ih crisp treasury notes note and without fol folding them placed them in his wallet lie He happened down town In New York and upon making a 0 purchase presented one of his new new- notes The rhe cashier looked at it t with Interest h be because because be- be cause of Its newness You Yo 1 o need not be he afraid of that note sugs suggested ted the ece of the bureau of engraving and printing That will pass anywhere This caused a thought of suspicion to pass over the mind of the cashier who took another r look at the note and at his customer before reaching to his cash drawer for change The plate printer was enjoying the situation Say he said leaning closer to the cashier Th That t note Is all right Ive I've seen the plates It wa was printed from In from ln In fact he continued confidentially ItIs it It Itis Is ID all right I made it myself myself myself-I I printed It it Ill have to send out for tor change a aI as asI I am a little short said the cashier r pressing an electric button as he spoke Then he wrote a n brief note hastily It was addressed to the manager who was was' at the rear of oC the restaurant and asked him to telephone to the police poUce lieutenant In that precinct Ive got a tipsy fellow at the desk who confes confesses s he is a n. counterfeiter he wr wrote te f I The plate printer had to wait walt several minutes for his change Before he cot Pol It a couple of oC officers were at his side and the they took look him into custody a as soon as the act of oC shoving sho the queer had been completed The plate printer then lien repented He gave save the officers his name and told them it was only a little Joke that plate printers like to perpetrate but he didn't think his words would be betaken betaken betaken taken seriously s Before Defore the they would accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac his explanation they escorted him to a n nearby arby bank in order to have an expert pass on of the nature oT of that suspected suspected suspected sus sus- note That examination cleared the plate printer of suspicion and he went away a wiser man man Washington Washington Star |