On the other hand, if the would be rascal of a countryman keeps awake he will be introduced to one or two other jolly good fellows, and a transaction will be made in the aforementioned room. The two or three thousand dollars in real money (which the countryman supposes to be excellent counterfeits) will be wrapped in a package and sealed. Then the jay will be asked to produce the $300 or $500 that he is to pay for the pile. While he is doing this, one of the confederates adroitly substitutes another package for the one on the table, being exactly similar in outward appearance and weight, but filled with sawdust. Mr. Wayback doesn’t see all this, and the crooks are very clever withal. About the time that he has his good money counted to pay over, one of the gang looks out the window, whispers that two detectives are approaching, and they suddenly skip, one of them, of course, grabbing the countryman’s payment, and hastily suggesting that he take his package and get out of the city as soon as possible. This he will do, and ultimately find out how he has been swindled. But what can he do? He intended to be dishonest, and if he complains to the police he will be liable to arrest. The swindlers have got his money, he has obtained the experience and goes home a sadder but wiser man. This game is worked all the year around and it is astonishing how new “suckers” are obtained so readily. Police and post office officials use all sorts of methods to kill the business but their success is limited. The “green goods” men make large sums of money and live high. To all who are looking for counterfeit money let us say, “Don’t.” You cannot get it anyhow, but even if you could, the chances are nine in ten that you would soon occupy a felon’s cell. Seldom a counterfeiter goes free for long, no matter how clever he may be. Frequently the styles of “green goods” invitations are altered, and to one who is bound to be dishonest, it might appear that, after all, the special scheme offered him may be all right--that is, dishonestly all right--and that the counterfeit money can be obtained after negotiations. But it can’t. We do not deny but that spurious money is passed, but only in the inner circle of crookdom are such things arranged, and it would be as easy for a camel to walk through a key-hole as for any but a “cut and dried” old time crook to get an “inside” on the counterfeit money business. Be honest; it pays. The writer sincerely hopes that this little volume may be the means of saving the money of many a man, and of diverting his ideas in a more legitimate direction. Let such as are tempted by the “green goods” monster, and who have money that they could invest, put such money in the savings bank at a small per cent. The result will be a fair income, but better still, a _clear conscience_. Extensive Mailing.