El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-01
dav or at the place I found mine, but

day or at the place I found mine, but
they were just as hopeful, for all that,
and they actually made me feel re-
sponsible for their losses.
First there was Il man who had
dropped a small. fiat. black book, with
n pawn ticket, laundry bill and two
50 bills I'm it, And distressed over it!
You'd think he'd lost gold mine. And
he was so sure twas his money I'd
found-poor fellow Then woman
poured out a whole sheetful of her
heart. and drew a picture of the purse
she'd lost. and told me how the money
in ii belonged to her sister. who was in
the hospital and who needed 1t dread
fully, and how I'd be blessed forever
II 1 only restored IL. Next there was
an old man who had dropped two $50
hand to explain that the reason he
was carrying 1t was because he
couldn't trust the banks: and then
another girl. who told about an alligat-
or skin pocketbook containing a latch
key and a time pass over the Cincinna-
ii, Jackson and Mackinac road. When
I showed that to Uncle Mac afterward
he said that road was a regular joke,
places mentioned in its name, and he
just shouted over the pass. because it
had expired Sept. 30. 1897. But IL
wasn't funny to me. I thought the girl
must be In n sad way to be hanging on
to an expired pass over a road like that
for three whole years. Besides, she
mentioned In a postscript that there
was IS bill in her purse.
letters Then, suddenly, I had n bril-
liant idea. I just made up my mind to
wait a week and then, IL no one claim
ed that $50, to send for all those forlorn
people and pay them what they had
lost out of what l had found. I didn't
dare tell Uncle Mac the scheme until
the week had passed and i had really
written notifying them all to be at his
office at 10 o'clock this morning. Then
/ just gave him the news all In one
piece. / don't believe In breaking
things. especially when you've set your
heart on doing them.
"Oh. he thought I was crazy, Of
course, and wished he'd answered my
adj himself and claimed the money.
Said he could have done 1t through
some one else so I would never have
suspected, and then could have kept
the money for me until this f1t Of
sentimental foolishness had passed on
and all that sort OF talk. But the end
Of 1t was that he took n chair over by
the window in his office and let me
have things all my own way with the
people 1 had sent for. They all came,
mind you. and Of all the surprised look
ing beings, Each one was expecting
to find the identical purse he had lost,
and at first every one looked suspicious
Of every one else. They couldn't seem
to grasp the situation
II had the money all changed into
the right amounts and lying In tempt
ing little heaps on Uncle Macs desk.
First l made a little speech and then 1
served gold and silver refreshments.
1t took every cent of the money. and
/ had TO put in a dollar besides. so
there goes our gum. Georgia But you
wouldn't grudge IL If you'd been there.
Such larksI / never felt so much like n
beneficent fairy in my life. oh. dear.
fun, Vaudevilles are nowhere. And
say, the man who lost the pawn ticket
will never get over his grudge against
me because / couldn't give that back.
He thinks I've lost him a fortune! But
I've been blessed and Rugged, and the
old man with the two $50 goldpieces
actually kissed my hand. Think of
that. will you? And the woman with
the sister In the hospital was so happyi
And I cried Me crying-can you see
It? And Uncle Mac needn't pretend he
wasn't wiping his own eyes either. But
when they were gone he squared
around Mt me. stern as stern, and said
In n disguised way:
"'Well, Of all the girly girly per-
formancesr
81 looked straight back at him and
just said: How would you have a girl.
Uncle Mac, IL not girly? Do you want
me nanny And, honest fact, he
didn't know n single thing what to
say."-Chicago Record.