Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-09-12
SOME PECULIAR REWARDS.
watches for valor In Battle Given 10 jap
aneao Soldiers.

watches for vaior In Battle Given 10 jap
anese Soldiers.
The intelligence that the Japanese
government have given orders for 49,
600 half-guinea Geneva watches where
with to reward their valiant warriors,
reminds us that gratitude has frequent
ly taken some very curious concrete
forms We were conversing the other
day with one of the Royal Humane 90.
ciety's men In Hyde park, and he told
US that on one occasion, when he had
dragged out of tho serpcntine very
wealthy gentleman whose boat had
upset, the latter Immediately made
over to him q couple Of eco shares In
. johannesburg gold mine, assuring
him that they would turn out ''rcal.
ly good thing" They did; for the
donor months afterwards called upon
his rescuer and offered TO buy the two
shares for R170.
A member Of the metropolitan po-
lice force, who once stopped q runaway
horse attached TO smart dog-cart In
George street, Portman square, was
actually presented OH the spot with
the vehicle, horse and all, by the CRATE
full proprietor, who was seated in the
dog-cart with his wife.
We often see, In the agony columns
Of the daily papers, an advertisement
proclaimiug the loss Of q purse con-
tanning money; and the reward offered
to the finder is not unfrequently all
tho money in the purse-provided the
finder returns the purse itself, with
which certain tender associations are
probably connected. We saw once In
tho Daily Telegraph IN advertise
ment setting forth the loss OF q very
valuable diamond necklace; and on
the finder bringing 1t to q certain
aristocratic house In Charges street,
Piccadilly, he would be allowed to re-
tain the largest stone.
There Is curious case on record In
which parish official was offered very
nice house, to be built from his own
design, provided that he gave big
contract to an INSCRIPTIONS builder,
who had rendered for II.
Members of the metropolitan FIRE
brigade are constantly receiving offers
Of more or less extraordinary rewards
from those whose houses or shops have
been saved from destruction; and one
OF these gallant fellows himself in
formed the writer that, on one occa-
sion, o big firm Of shop.keepers had,
under these very circumstances, offered
TO set himself and his wife up in nice
little general" shop in q rising To-
cality.
A very extraordinary csse OF pecul.
lar reward was related recently by q
famous surgeon who practices In one
Of our great hospitals. One OF this
gentleman's patients in the hospital
ward had been run over In the street,
and was in great danger Of losing his
life through blood poisoning. Under
the surgeons provisions, however, q
successful amputation OF the leg below
the knee was made, and the grateful
patient Immediately offered the limb
to the surgeon.
But perhaps the most unique case on
record of q peculiar reward is con-
tanned In the following: Little more
than o year ago barrister, who has
made something Of speciality Of
breach of promise cases, won case for
an sggrieved maiden, the damages
amounting TO fi,75o. This was salts.
factory enough, but you can imagine
the legal gentleman's amusement ON
receiving q letter from his client few
days afterwards, offering, by way OF
reward, herself rs wife and her dam.
ages rs dowry!-Tit-BitA