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Show The Treasnry's Coin Detective. For many years I wondered whenever I met him who an extraordinary man could be. He was a man of advanced years with an enormous white mustache and a gray imperial. He had a little, stubbv nose which was as red as a bit of fire, and his eyebrows grew together in a bunch His figure was tall, corpulent, and his manner man-ner martial. He was usually accompanied accompan-ied by a little, dark-haired man, and was one of the hardest drinkers in New York It was said at one time that it was impos- sible to go into a bar in any part of New ork at any hour of the "day omidit without finding the Colonel, "as he was called, already there. , He died not long agoand then I accidentally acci-dentally found out that he was a coin detective de-tective of amazing ability. He was in the Treasury, and was usually discharged seven or eight times a year. The cause Swl .d'8Charge rWas intemperanee. enough he was so frequently dismissed 1 he never had any difficulty in getting i back again, as it was impossible to replace re-place him He could run his haSl ! hrough a barrel of coin and pull out al 1 the counterfeits with his eyes closed J He was never known to make a mS"-3 |