Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-09-30

from robbcr had not precipitated the
! paralysis. We sought the doctors and
examined the mans person. A long
black and blue mark was on his hin:
another was on his forehead. A Silver
Of blue-painted wood was on his cloth
/ ing. We started out to hunt. We
tried the pump, the cloiheS-recl aud
! every thing else. Fina ". down in a
barn cellar among boxes and barrels
came across an old dump-cart top.
! Here the article said l. We turned
the thing out into the light. and there
IN pile of manure we found the pack ct
OF money and bonds where the para
| Iytc had fallen and where the pacl eI
had slipped from his pocket
| MY partner and divided two
thousand dollars between ~ that even
ing.
did YOU ever read Edgar A. Poc's
sale about the search of the Paris Po-
| lSe commissioners after a MYSTERIOUS
I letter? Well. there i good deal of
philosophy in hiding things Eve
/ often thought of the old saving: ii il
had i"en a bear il would have bitten
| you. The very hardest things To find
= are often the plaine>t before YOU. Its
! like PLAYING odd and even. You give
| the opponent too much credit for too
much Tor IL j. not cnough) ,agacity. |
well remember another case where at
! tempt> of all kinds have been made to
! hndthe wealth of an old mis6r i'm j -
! street. Boston, and that after months
and months OF hunting IL was brushed
one day from dusty old shelf above
the, mmtelpiece Uttered with papers.
periodicals and worthless stun He
put it in plain sight. and nobody
thought it possible that it was worth
while To look there.
"A sailor will almost ALWAYS hide
his money about him. Irish women
always sew bills into thrir pctticoats.
once went into New Hampshire To-
hunt for the money of retired sea
captain who had died very suddenly.
lie had been. Il queer sort of man. very
tacilurn. always taking trips out of
town after his money. He wasn't "A
misery man. and concluded that he
hadn't buried it, He slept in no one
particular place. and 80 | was pretty
sure that there was no place i'm the
house where he felt better contentcd
than another. 80 | said. Bring hi,
clothes. We went over them. The
binding on one of them was wide. and
his wife said, ~ | tore it OFF. He al
ways Scwed his clothes up himself.
He was a handy a. a woman with u
needle. Queer She added: WHY.
he always wanted to wear that suit to
the last Poor dear and she dropped
tear In the meantime had pulled
out an oiled silk packet. holding six
bonds for one thousand dollars each.
and we found eighteen more in the
same suit. His trips TO town meant
something, YOU see.
''Of course there are men who bury
money. Such men always have it,
hiding place marked off, and ten To
one. they want il buried where they
can see, a soon "a they can see any
thing in the morning, that some thief
has not discovered its hiding place i'm
the night anil made off with it. You
can put IL down that men who conceal
money like TO have it a. near at hand
a possible. | have known money TO
be concealed in the clock i'm the bed
room. and 50 arranged that no one
could touch the clock without alarm
iEg the household. If man who hides
his money has any special idiosyncrasv
II i safe to look il up. The more To-
norant and crafty your man. the safer
TO 90 by his crankiness"
What sort of places have You
known of money being hiddcu?"
30. everywhere. In the upholstery
and bedding, under carpets. behind the
door castings. between partitions. or
behind the wall paper, in the old fam
lily Bibles. behind mirrors. nailed TO
the walls. in false ceilings, i'm false
bottom drawers. in clocks. stoves. lin
ing> Of old hats. steam radiators dis
uNed). bottle, marked poison. canes.
shoes. vest and coat Innings. tomato
cans, tea cnistcrs. powder horns. old
stocking feet, and in every other con
cevabIe place
The ways Of the covetous are many
and their tricks are dark and pecu-
liar. '-LcwiStOH (Hc.) Jou,Hal.