Show TOO RAPID MONEY MAKING The Imperfect Gold Coin Because of Which a Texan Was Imprisoned That was an interesting and instructive instruct-ive little paragraph in The Star which told tho story of a 5 golclpiece suspected sus-pected of being counterfeit which was sent to the director of the mint by a special inspector of customs at El Paso The piece was defective and upon its appearance a man was arrested at El Paso and charged with the circulation of counterfeit coin Director Preston says The Stars I report observed that the coin lacked sonority and from its general appearance appear-ance suspected that owing to too rapid rolling of the gold strips preparatory to cutting the planchettes an air bubble or blister was formed jusij at the spot in the strip from which tht coin was cut JI Very little investigati n showed the diagnosis of the direct j to be correct and it was then stated thj it these slight imperfections occur oc Isionally especially espe-cially when the strips are rolled rapidly rap-idly The explanation will doubtless be regarded re-garded as perfectly satisfactory by thoughtless folk and will be greeted with delight by the unfortunate person who has been held in custody at El Paso and who has suffered much indignity indig-nity and real injury because there was carelessness in tho mawiug of the coin The matter however is one of more than little interest for no one knows whose turn it will next bo to be arrested on account of the overhasto or lack of skill of a government employee in one of the mints Why should the rolling be done too rapidly Everybody knows all about the extreme poverty of tho government gov-ernment but the republic is certainly rich enough to make its money resemble resem-ble so nearly a given standard that no one will be jailed for attempting to put n legitimate use Washington Star |