Show ON A CHERRY STONE AL A talented carves artar lilt 1114 petition for a pardon I 1 anlon gesa herder berger the actor and newspaper man has a picture in calligraphy cali call graphy tant lias a remarkable history kitisin it is in size thirty by forty two inches and is the work of joseph loew tile most noted counterfeiter that the Aut austrian rinn government ever knew when an application I 1 is made for a pardon in austria the rid tape policy of that country compels tile the applicant to address adan s the emperor with all ili his titles emperor or ferdinand had about forty titles locia eD engraved graved all of these names together with his petition for a pardon on a cherry stone thi the letters were so fine that it required the aid a ail of a powerful microscope to decipher them one dy day when the emperor visited vis itce the an on loew in person presented II 11 stone to the emperor and told him U aliat hat it contained the emperor made in an examination andaas and was so ho obaed it at the work that lie gave him an duncon dit ional pardon not only did he pardon him but gave hima him a posit position itri asa as a detective to trail down counterfeiters counterfeit ers Loew wasa well informed man in ill all theart alie arts and sand of counterfeit ers and in less lehs than t to 0 yearn liter his pardon lie he run ran to earth almost every counterfeiter in austria and died a few years ago covered with detective honors the picture although li mcdo made fifty years ao ago is in ili a remarkable kahle kable state i of preservation |