Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-28

lishman-Was Dated In IS51-Payment
 win Be Requested.
 When little Mabel Ennor of Stevens Point, Wis, was cleaning her dollhouse q day or two ago, she found in an old treatise on mathematics $1 900 draft on the Adams Express company.
 The old book was begrimed and GOV cred with dust, and would soon have met it's fate in the furnace and carried with it the long lost draft if little Ma bel had not given it kick and sent it spinning over into the corner, but that kick tore the old leaves apart and the draft fiuttered to the floor. The engray- ing on the note caught the child's eye and prompted her to show it to her grandmother. The draft was bought by Thomas Woodward ill 1851 in San Fran cisco from the Adams Express company, and was payable at sight to Thomas Woodward in Chicago through the pri yate banking firm of G. H. Smith & Go.
 Thomas Woodward was little Mabel's grandfather, and was an eccentric old Englishman, who was great traveller and genius in finance, but he could never pin his faith toS.banks. He was brilliant, well educated and made many fortunes and AS often lost them. Wood ward was drawn to this country and to California during the gold craze of 1S49. There he met with success, but his re- pugnance for banks continued, and he used hollow logs and crevices ill rocks to hide his treasure. He used to tell his friends how at one time he buried $5,- 900 ill gold nuggets in a hollow log on his claim ill California and left it there.
 h 1851 Woodward decided to give up his rough western life and return east, where he might live and enjoy life more i'll accordance with his aristocratie bringing up in old England He bought five drafts for $l, 900 each, of which the draft found recently was one His wife died soon after returning east, and he seemed to collapse mentally for time, but after few years of travel he came to himself, married again and set tied on a beautiful farm near Madison, Wis.
 MT. Woodward enjoyed telling tales of his western life and his money af- fairs, but they were generally treated lightly, though on several occasions events happened which would seem to prove the truth of his statements. On one occasion his wife came ill from the barn and told him that an old barrel of oats, which stood out there in "a bin, was all mice eaten and worthless and should be disposed of. Mir Woodward took his hat and walked leisurely toward the barn, and after time returned, holding hatful of bank notes, all nib- bled to bits
 Wife, he said, s'there is $l9, 1000 "
 The fragments were sent to Wash ington, and few hundred dollars was realized on the whole amount.
 Another time, when the old gentle man was away from home, his wife fed a barrel of bran to the hogs. When told of it on his return, he calmly remarked, There was money ill that bran, but he never told how much.
 When Woodward came to die 20 years ago he muttered something about $5. 900 in drafts, which were among his papers i'll the library, but careful search was never made. His effects were tossed about, and part of them were brought to Stevens Point several years ago when Mrs. Woodward went to live with her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Ennor.
 The draft, which now turns up so TO- mantically, is the second in the series of five which were bought i'll San Fran cisco A years ago, and since it was made payable at sight it is still as valu- able as the day it was drawn despite its age and the stains of time
 George Smith, the Chicago banker on whom 1t was drawn, died 20 years ago. The draft will be taken to Chicago and presented to the officers of the Adams Express company for payment by Judge Cate, attorney for Mrs. Woodward
 Since the finding of the draft a closer inspection of MT. Woodward's s papers reveals the fact that he was eight years a member of the British house of com mons, and that his brother, who was a member for 1 ? years, was for time it's speaker. Chicago Inter Ocean.