The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-11

one point, and that was that we should not surrender the gold bag to the propri- stcr of the rug bazaar. A number of ex- periencEs that we had had throughout Russia. and particularly while visiting that Nijni-Novgorod fair. had not served to give us a good impression of the hon. esty of Russian tradespeople
 We hurried out of the bazaar. sum- moned a public drosky and drove about while we rneditated upcn what we should do with the gold bag. searched the bag to see If 1t contained card or other means of placing its owner, but there was nothing of that sort. The bag contained a Lumber of beautiful diamond ornaments a bracelet of the most magnificent en- eralds had ever seen, and large sum of Russian bank notes.
 "As we drove about. leaving our route to the will of tn edriver of the drosky we passed the office of the police depart- ment, and that decided us as to what we should do with the gold bag One can not remain in Russia long without con- ceiving great admiration for the Rus sian police-for their integrity as well as their efficiency
 We found the police chief a very civil and courteous man. He took the ha Q from us. and commended our judgment in not leaving 1t with the proprietor of the rug bazaar. in whose establishment We had found 1t.
 We were about to leave Russia. and the chief of police took the name of our Paris bankers and told us that he would return the gold bag. with all its con- tents to us, should he be unable to find the owner within stated time. He also took our address in Nijni- Novgorod so that he would be able to notify us in case he found the owner of the bag im- mediately. before our leaving.
 We returned to the fair and remained there for a couple of hours. When we reached the hotel the charming woman who had found my jewelry at the Worlds Fair in Chicago, was in the reception room, awaiting our return. l was de- lighted to see her. but I could not con- meet her with the ownership of the gold bag until she spoke,
 |" I am too grateful to want to appear axiomatic.' she said with a smile. but one good turn deserves another. doesn't it?'
 And sine held up the gold bag She had driven to the hotel straight from the office of the police chief, to whom she reported the loss. and who gave her the bag when she named it's contents. togeth- CT with the address of It's finders.
 We met her husband the next day, and we journeyed to Paris together, had very poor opinion of the worlds size since the termination of that in- cident."
 "1 was seated one evening few years ago in tea garden in Nagaski, Japan, chatting with our manager out therc," said New York business man whose firm is in the Oriental trade, when d man strolled in whose face seemed very familiar to me, although couldn't place him. He sat down at a table close to ours. and noticed that he eyed me as if he, too, found my countenance familiar one.
 Our Nagasaki manager spent most of his life in Now York, and he asked me great many questions about the growth of the little old town. I expatiated at some length upon the expansion of Hdr- lem, where I live.
 At the mention of the world Harlem the man at the other table whose face was such a puzzle to me, got up and walked over to the table at which we sat.
 Don't think have been consciously rubbering.' he said. good-naturedly. ad- dressing me-and am bound to say that the New Yorkese sounded good Tn my ears, after having heard you use the word Harlem. Been on the go for half year-'but Twill you pardon me for in- uuiring whether you are adverting to Haarlem in Holland, or to Harlem, New York?'
 "New York, of course.' I replied. and even as he was speaking I remembered why his face was so familiar to me. For years he had been taking the same down. town express from One Hundred ard Twenty-flfth Street elevated station that 1 took every morning. There's no down. town express from One Hundred and Twenty.fifth Street, 7:25 in the morning in Haarlem, in Holland. is thereT
 "' By George, now I've got it. the man standing in front.of our table exclaimed. giving his thigh tremendous wnack: and then he told me how my face had been bothering him.
 "Often on winter mornings we had stood on the l. platform. up there in Harlem, and growled to each other when the express train was late on account or icy rails or for some reason Or other he sat down with us. Comparing notes we found that we lived within block of each other in Harlem, and had been for fifteen years.
 He was a lawyer and on a trip around the world for his health. He had belong ed to the Harlem Republican Club and I had been a member of the Harlem Democratic Club since its beginning. We knew all about each other, as Harlem folks generally do, but we had never hap pened to met formally.
 
 to me after we had introduced ourselves. Only fellow I ever knew of that name was a shaver that I used to play shinny and duck-on-the-rock with up in little old Lockport, N. Y, way back wonder in the eos His name was Jack, but We called him Smoke because he was always smoking corn-silk and dried leaves wrap ped up in weller manila paper. and
 Well, guess that wasn't another queer feature of that meeting. For I was and am that Smoke of Lockport, N. Y. I fear thai we were pretty sad dogs together, that Harlem man and kidhood playmate of mine. during the remainder of our foregathering in Nagasaki.
 'I went out to San Francisco the year of the Knights Tcmplars' conclave," sad another business man. and one evening. while riding on crowded car out toward the STtro baths. sharp-faced fellow. typical pickpocket. grabbed my watch chain. broke It. got the watch and leapct. from the car.
 "I leaped right after him, turning sey- eraI somersaults in the sand dunes, and. when I picked myself up, took after him. am rather long-legged. and I got him. He handed me my watch. l was content to take him by the shoulder and give him a good kicking. which l did. Then I boarded the next car that came along for the Sutro baths.
 Last fall I was riding on the rear platform of an electric car in Budapest. Some man beside me asked me. in Eng fish, what time 1t was Without turning to look at him, l pulled my watch out of my pocket.
 |" Uh-huh-it's all right-I only wanted to see If you had the same super the AI mi ha