The St. Johns herald., 1900-12-01

rolled mp her wealth and put CT her hat. 'We'll sperd it al for gum if we want 10. GeoI ga; and we won't treat them, eiile:-see if We Go.''
 They didn't see her again for three weeks. and then she came flying into luneseon at Lilian with lock in her ests.s if she'd just fallen heir to mil lien in gold.
 Eve had the love.iest expz rience in the world!" she announced. You re- member lhat money found? We'll l waited a few days, as Uncle Mae said. and no one aI:ertiseG tle lcss; so put enc in myself To.G hem to acGress X, the hewses per office. you isnow-the way they co. Next Geralg went down to gst the re u.ns. he.e were nine ans. gs, and Of aE t:,e ra,hetic things. Not one of tks peorle who wrote had lost their m.ns5 cB he day or at the p.ace 1 fcaDa z1'ne out they were jatt aS hopeful. fer all that, and they ac- uai.y made me feel responsible for their losses.
 First there was a man who had dropped small, fiat, black book. with a pawn ticket, laundry b.ll and two two-Gollar bills in it. And distressed over it. You'd think he'd lest a gold mine. And he was so sure twas his money I'd found-poor fellow! Then a woman poured out a whole sheetful of her he2rt, and drew picture of the purse she'd lost, and tod me how the money in it belonged to her sister, who was in the hospital and who need ed it dreadfuliy, and how C be blessed forever if I only restored it. Next there was an old man who had dropped two S20 b:,ls. anc he went on in a shaky. feeble hand to explain that the reason he was carrying it was because he couldn't trust the banks; and then another girl, who tod about an alli- gator-skin pocketbook containing latchkey and a time pass over the Cin- cinnati. Jackson & Mackinac road. When I showed that to | ncie Mac after ward Le said that road was a regular joke because it didn't run to any of the places mentioned in its name, and he just shouted over the pass, because it had expired September 90, 1897. But it wasn't funny to me. 1 thought the girl must be in a sad way to be hang ing on to an expired pass over road like that for three whole years. Be- sides. she mentioned in a postscript that there was a fve-dollar bill in her purse.
 ''I got awfully worked up over those letters. Then. suddenly. had bril- liant idea. l just made up my mind to wait week and then, if no one claimed that $50, to send for all those forlorn people and pay them what they had lost out of what had found. didn't dare tell Uncle Mac the scheme until the week had passed and had really writ ten notifying them all to be at his of flee at ten o'clock this morning. Then l just gave him the news all in one piece. I don't believe in breaking things. especially when you've set your heart on doing them. Oh, he thought l was crazy, of course, and wished he'd answered my 'ad.' himself and claimed the money. Said he could have done it through some one else so I would never have suspected, and then could have kept the money for me until this fit of sentimental foolishness had passed off-and all that sort of talk. But the end of it was that he took a chair over by the window in his off, fee and let me have things all my own way with the people I had sent for. They all came, mind you, and of all the surprised-looking beings! Each one was expecting to find the identical purse he had lost, and at first every one looked suspicious of everyone else. They couldn't seem to grasp the situa- tion.
 'I 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 served gold and silver refreshments. It took every cent of the money, and l had 10 put in dollar besides, so there goes our gum. Georgia; but you wouldn't grudge it if you'd been there. Such larks! 1 never felt so much like a benefcent 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 1 couldn't give that back He thinks I've lost him fortune! But the rest were more than sweet. Girls, I've been blessed and hugged, and the old man with the two SEQ gold pieces actually kissed my hand. Think of that will you? And the woman with the sister in the hospital was so happy! And I cried. Me crying-can you see it? And Uncle Mae needn't pretend he wasn't wiping his own eyes, either! But when they were gone he squared around at me, stern as stern, and said, in disgusted way:
 "'Well, of all the girly7girly per formances!'
 ''I looked straight back at him and just said: How would you have girl, Uncle Mac, if not girly? Do you want me manny% And honest fact, he didn't know a single thing what to say."-Chicago Daily Record.
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