Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-03

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now gone from her possession.
Tony ransacked the house, still think.
ing to find her precious charm. 81 feel, u
she would insist, 'that I dropped it in
my house and that I must find it."
Two days after, when the whole party,
Pierre and Tony, Jim and Jenny, had been
out sight seeing till they were tired and a
long distance from home, they decided to
take lunch at the nearest cabe. They
were all hungry, and no one, at first,
noticed a copy of the Figaro which lay
on the Table. The Figaro is the news
paper of Paris, indeed it is almost to
Parisians what our World is to us.
Presently Pierre opened the paper and
glancing down the advertising columns
saw that one advertisement was marked
with pencil. he read it down carefully
and then exclaimed in French More Dieu!
"Give us United States, or Patois. :"
said Jim, stopping him.
Pierre held the paper before his wife,
pointing to the marked advertisement.
"From Mary, mother of Godr' said bis
wife devoutly. "My blessed amulet,
Jenny. The proprietor of this restaurant
has found it, and can get it. He gives
the description except the word. Call
him Pierre, quick. Tell him it's NINE"
A waiter was sent for the proprietor, to
whom Tony described the jewel, and
wrote the English word on the margin of
the paper for him.
"Ask him where he found it." Jim
whispered to Pierre.
The man was, at first, little 10th to
explain how the jewel came to him. But
four pairs of questioning eyes made him
feel that to set himself right before them
it were better to made a clean breast of
the whole affair so far as he knew it. He
accordingly told them that he was in
the habit of buying toasted crusts, or
powdered toast to garnish his meats and
omlets. Yes, he reluctantly admitted the
crusts were thrown on the streets by the
householders, were refuse from the
kitchen; that these crusts and scraps
were gathered up at night by the street
cleaners, who brushed off the dust,
washed them and sold them to the res
aurant people, who used them to garnish
meats and omlets, thicken buildings, or
for use in hundred different dishes.
The amulet was found in a bag of
toasted crusts, in burnt crust, in fact
which had been broken open by the cook
to see it there was good in iabefore it was
powdered, otherwise the charm might
have been crushed.
It happened that the cook was more
honest than Lizette and turned the Jewel
over to his chief, who decided to adyer-
tise it in the Figaro. To further show
his good will the proprietor had kept
marked copies of the paper on his table
hoping that chance guest might read
and claim the jewel.
Pierre wished to pay for all tho trouble.
at least for the advertisement, but the
proprietor would take nothing from a
guest, and declared. with true French
politeness that to witness Madame's
pleasure was compensation enough"
Jim did not understand the whole CON.
versation but afterward it was repeated
to him.
He wildly declared, in defiance to the
ladies present, "by the smoke of his own
cookin machine, that while French cook
in tasted purity good. if You didn't know
nuthiD' about it, he'd ruther live in a
country where the folks did't talk glib
berish an signs, an where they didn't eat
their own scraps, much less the second
hand leavins Of the hull creation"