The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-06

great many applications for assistance
in getting mutilsted currency re-
deemed, and as he prepares the afi-
davits for the parties he makes him
self thoroughly acquainted with the
circumstances of each, and can narrate
some interesting cases. An old man
living out in this county came in enc
day heartbroken over the loss of sew
eral thousand dollars which he had
placed under the hearth for safe-keep-
ing, and which mice had almost totally
destroyed It took some correspond !
enee. but he finally got new bills for
the old ones Another man had twist
ed up a wad OF paper without looking
at it and lighted his Gig. when he
found that his new cigar-E. liter was a
ten-dollar bill An interesting case was
that of an old negro from down in one
of the adjoining counties, who was at
the Union depot about year ago
buying a ticket home. He had a roll
of bills in his hands and
couple of ST. Louis toUghs jumped
on him and tried 10 rob him
In the scramble that ensued the bills
were torn to shreds and the pieces
strewn over the floor. but the old ne
gro held onto most of his wealth. while
the thieves, failing in their attempt
made their escape The Africans
walls over his misfortune brought the
suggestion from some one that maybe
the treasury officials would help him.
and he went up TO inquire. A few
afidavits and little time brought him
an entirely new lot of bills in exchange
for the pieces Mary Davis, an elderly
negro woman living over on Morgan
street, came to Mr.. Barlow some
months ago in peck O. trouble" She
had a twenty-dollar bill, which she
was treasuring as the apple OF her eye,
and being about to make a visit one
Sunday afternoon she thought the best
place for her fortune would be in the
oven of her stove, where she carefully
placed it Returning late in the even
ing she built a FIRE without thinking
of her treasure, and it was some time
afterwards that she attracted the at
teution of the household and her
neighbors by dashing water over the
hot stove and screaming ~ the top of
her voice. The charred remains of the
bill were nearly destroyed by the
water, but enough was saved to sat
isfy the government as to the truth of
the story. and Mary got brand new
twenty-dOllar bill
Perhaps the most interesting case
that has come up before the depart
ment in St Louis was the one of young
Miss H., which was taken before Mr..
Barlow for an affidavit some months
ago. Her father, who lives out on Dor
cas- street, and as an employee in one of
the Wholesale drug houses, had made
her presents OF little sums till she had
sixty-tlve or seventy dollars saved
up. Her pet dog one day got hold of
it, and when his young mistress came
in it was all torn to pieces and most of
it chewed into pulp. She was in terri
bic distress, and not wishing her papa
to know of her loss, she, at the sug-
gestion of friend, applied TO the sub
treasury. Part of the pieces were
large enough to come within the three
ffths rule, and SO about one-third of
the amount was cashed at once. The
rest had to 20 through the process of
satisfactory proof, bat in due time she
received draft from Washington for
the fSsv. mo-nt.
Instances like the foregoing could be
given in great mum bcrs, though the in
stances in which the losers pocket"
their losses. to use an old but common
expression. are much more numerous
The amounts range all the way from
one dollar bill lover which sum one
man of some means spent two months
of correspondence a year or so ago. up
to packages containing thousands OF
dollars. Perhaps the largest amount
ever redeemed at St Louis after total
destruction was the instance which &C.
CURED about four months ago The
treasury ut Washington had shipped
bv express to the sub-treasury at that
point a package of currency amounting
to forty thousand dollars. The express
car with all it's contents was burned,
and the express company was respopsi-
bic for the loss of the forty thousand
dollars under its contract. Realizing
this, the company took Chief Clerk
Kicker of the 1sub-treasury and
had him present when the safe was
opened very carefully, and the cbsrred
remains of the money examined. The
packages could be plainly seen and
identified as 20 the amounts. as paper
when burned win sometimes retain it's
lettering, and so these bundles of
burned paper were carefully shipped 10
Washington. from which point forty
thousand dollars in crisp new bills
came back.
When we realize the immense amount
of money that is lost or destroyed every
wear, and never found or made good.
we can appreciate what a sum Uncle
Sam has constantly accommodating for
the right side of has profit and loss sc-
count OF course many losses occur
which are total and cannot be made
good. because IL would be practically
irr. possible IN some OF the cases 20 sat
isfy the United States treasurer 70 such
an extent as 70 preclude The posi-
bility Of fraud But there are also
many losses Of money occurring all the
time which could easily be made good
IL the parties were aware o. the law
and the methods Of procedure The
grand total Of these loses, which are
clear profit 20 the government, runs 1p
into the millions. Globe emocrzt
An Opposite view.-'Tf you would
be successful" kaid old FudyKlY 10 bis