Cochise review., 1900-10-25

reason he was carrying it was because
 he couldn't trust the hanks; and theT
 another girl, who tod about an ali 1 gator-skin pocketbook containing l latchkey and time pass over the Gin. ] cinnati, Jackson X Mackinac road l When l showed that to Uncle Mae after.
 ward he said that road was a regular l joke. because it didn't run to any of the i places mentioned in its name. and he l just shouted over the pass. because
 it had expired September %, 1897. But l 1t wasn't funny to me. I thought the
 girl must be in a sad way to be bang ing on to an expired pass over a road
 like that for three whole years. Be.
 sides, she mentioned in a postscript
 that there was a tive-dollar bill in her
 purse.
 Il got awfully worked up over those
 letters. Then, suddenly, I had a bril-.
 liant idea. l just made up my mind tc
 wait week and then, if no one claimed that $80, to send for all those forlorn
 people and pay them what they had lost out of what had found. I 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 breakinp things, especially when you've set vour heart on doing them Oh. he thought l was crazy, of course and wished he'5 answered my ad' 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 lit of sentimental foolishness ha6 passed off-and all that sort of talk But the end of it was hat he took chair over by the window in his of hce 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-looking beings! Each one was expecting 10 find the identica, purse he had lest and at first every. one looked suspicious of everyone else They couldn't seem to grasp the situa. ton.
 Il had the money. all changed into the right amounts and lying in tempt ing little heaps on Uncle Macs desk. First 1 made little speech and then 1 served gold and silver refreshments. It 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 it if you'd been there. such larks! never felt so much like 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 l 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 S2O gold pieces actually kissed my hand Think of that will you? And the woman with the sister in the hospital was so happy! And l 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 at me, stern as stern, and said in disgusted way:
 Well, of all the girly-girly per formances!
 T looked straight back at him and just said How would you have a girl. Uncle Mac, if not girly? Do you want me manny| And honest fact, he didn't know single thing what to say."-Chicago Daily Record