St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-01

WaS?"
Couldn't guess"
"'Twas will, bequeathing the woman
all the property of the old man, amounting
to sixty odd thousand dollars. I sent for
the woman and gave her the will. When
she read it she tainted dead away, and 1
had TO get doctor to bring her to. She
afterwards told me the story. 1t seems she
had brother, who with herself were the
only children of rich New York mer
chant. Their mother had died years
before, and the daughter had made the old
man mad by marrying poor, but honest
young fellow who worked for him, and he
had discharged the man and willed all of
his property to his son. The son got pretty
wild after while, and the old man got
down Oh him because he kept asking him
for money and gambled it away. After
pleading vainly with him to give up his
fast life the old man made new will, Civ
ing the larger part of his property to his
daughter. When he looked for his first
will he couldn't find it, and it seems he
sewed the second one up in the lining of
his coat for safe keeping. One day he
suddenly died in his chair, and when it
came to a settlement of the estate his son
came to the front with the will and took the
property, giving his sister some of the fur
niture, old clothing. etc. This was several
years before found the will of more recent
date, and the woman got what Of the prop
erty was left, but she forgave her brother
for his treatment and divided it with him
and gave me check for $500, but she kept
the old coat and wouldn't have it cut up.
''Do you often find money!"
mot very often, but occasionally we find
an old bill Wadded up and
tucked away in watch
pocket, or it has slipped through a hole in
a vest pocket and got down in the lining.
We find more letters Than anything else.
Just look here; these all came in in the last
six weeks" and jumping off the table the
man went over to a clumsy-looking old
desk and opened drawer, taking out big
bundle of notes and letters. The reporter
ran them over and found sweet little billet
dOux. notes of appointment and large
majority of bills payable without receipt.
Il expect" continued the man, THAT 1
have saved two barrels of these things, and
it is amusing to read them over sometimes.
Once in while some of our customers will
call to find out if we have found any notes
or letters in their pockets, and we always
return them when we can. In this way we
keep our customers, so you see our object
is not destroying what we find"
docs this business pay well?"
so, we make pretty good living out of
it, and there isn't much responsibility at
tached to it. When business gets dull in
one place we can pack our stock in trade
in a little while and locate some
where else. We're something like
travelling photographer when we take
all we can in one place, we turn our atten-
ton 10 another. There's more money IN
this business than there is in the regular
straight fashionable tailoring business; not
so much in sight perhaps, but more net
profit at the end of the year. You see, the
fashionable tailor is obliged to rent a fine
building and always dress i'll the height of
fashion, while it wouldn't do for us to put
on style, because if we did the people with
whom we do business would be ashamed to
come to us to have their clothes patched,
you know, but they think we are poor.
humble, Woodworking men and are much
below them socially and financially, but,
contidentially, there is hardly a
clothes renovator in the country
who hasn't got pretty good sized bank
roll. All, excuse me, please, here's Gus
TONER" and the man, DOMINIC the same
smile with which he had received the re-
porter, turned his attention to a lady with
ragged urchin. She had large winter
overcoat that she said was her husbands
and he had died, so she would like to have
a suit made of it for Johnnie. The con-
tract was soon made, and when the reporter
saw Johnnie on the street two weeks after
this is how he looked: