The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-31

fully, and how I'd be blessed forever
If | only restored it. Next there was
an old man who had dropped two $50
bills. and he went on in a shaky. feeble
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 allgat-
or skin pocketbook containing latch
key and a time pass over the Cincinna-
ii, Jackson and Mackinac road. When
l showed that to Uncle Mae afterward
he said that road was a regular joke,
because 1t didn't run to any Of the
places mentioned In its name, and he
just shouted over the pass, because it
had expired Sept. 80, 1897. But it
wasn't funny to me. l thought the girl
must be In a sad way to be hanging on
to an expired pass over road'like that
for three whole years. Besides. she
mentioned In a postscript that there
was a So bill in her purse.
Il got awfully worked up over these
letters Then. suddenly, | had bril-
liant idea. Just made up my mind to
wait a week and then. If no one claim
ed 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
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 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 | 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 chair over by
the window in his office and let me
have things all my own way with the
people | had sent for. They all came,
mind you, and Of all the surprised look
ing beings, Each one was expecting
10 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.
81 had the money all changed into
the right amounts and lying in tempt
ing little heaps on Uncle Macs desk.
First made a little speech and then
served gold and silver refreshments
1t took every cent of the money, and
| had to put in 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 a
benetfcent fairy in my life. Oh. dear,
fun, Naudevilles 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 fortune. But
the rest were more than sweet Girls,
Eve 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 happy.
And | 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 Disguised way:
"'Well, of all the girly Girly per
formances"
Il looked straight back at him and
just said: How would you have a girl.
Uncle Mac. if not girly? DO you want
me nanny And, honest fact, he
didn't know n single thing what to
say."-Chicago Record.