The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-01-10
HIS 1000 WOULD BUY NOTHING.
So the Hobo Hunted Up the True
Owner and Won Fame.

'I've slept under shed with the ther-
mometer way below Zero" said the
tramp, "and I've gone two long days
with nothing to eat but I'm telling you
straight that when l once had $1,000 in
my pocket was worse off than at any
other time | can remember. l had just
been let out of the Bridewell in Chicago,
and was begging on the streets and being
turned down on every hand, when l
picked up a $1,000 bill on the sidewalk.
| thought it was a dollar, and you bet l
made hustle to get down side street.
When l lodged into a doorway, and
made out that l was 81 900 ahead of the
game, the sweat started from every pore
and my knees knocked together. | was
regularly seasick for ten minutes, and
my heart thumped away until thought
it would break out.
"That 81 900 meant heap for me, you
understand, but / was so excited that 1T
was two hours before l could do any
planning. The first thing was to buy
new suit of clothes, and / entered store
and picked them out. When l exhibited
that 81 900 bill, the clothier ran to the
door to call policeman. l got away by
close squeeze, and then l realized the
situation. Tramp that | was, l couldn't
get it changed at a bank nor use it to
make me more comfortable. If it had
been ten, l could have had lodgings and
a bed, but I'm telling you that walked
the streets as hungry as shark and
slept Mt police stations and in lumber
yards.
"Under the circumstances the bill
might as we'll have been a piece of brown
paper. | tried all sorts of lodges to get
it busted, but it was no go. Every time
/ showed it l ran the risk of arrest. l
offered a butcher 500 to get it changed,
but he refused to have anything to do
with it. I'd have sold it for half price
and been glad to, but there was no such
thing as making a deal. Finally, in de-
spair, went to one of the newspaper Of
fees and looked up the advertisements
for the week past. The loser had adver-
tised, and / went to his Office in big
building and gave up the bill. The re-
ward was $50, but he counted out $40 on
| top of that and said:
az wouldn't have believed there was
such honesty in the world. You could
have kept the bill as well as not
''He took down my name and all that
and gave the affair away to the reporters.
They wrote me up as the Honest Tramp
and had my picture in the papers, but
you may guess | didn't enjoy it over
much. had $50 in place of 1000, and
as for my honesty, it was all bosh. | re-
! turned the bill because l had to, and
though Pm hungry and dead broke and
don't know where TO turn in for the night
I'm not looking for any more big finds
Something with figure '2' on the corner
will just about fit my vest pocket. y
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