Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-08
CASTOFF CLOTHING.
1T PAYS TO SEARCH TIE POCKETS
AND THE Innings.
Bills, Coins and Letters Have y.nv
of Hiding emselvc~-Exrcrien
of Man Who Buys Discarded Gar
menfk-Hints to the Careless

"one cant buy castoff clothing for
roany years without meeting SON,
queer experiences" remarked an old
clothes man the other day as he fun.
bled through the pockets Of q s,3it
which he had just purchased for 10
cents. "of coQ"se dent expect to
nnd anything nothing except naybo
some old letters. But it paws to run
through the pockets and fepl tie lin
ing. II man who lets his Wife soil
his CASTOR clothes only knew vi. I
got lost i'll the lining Of his coat some
times he wouldn't feel SO easy about
parting with them. \ man sticks inn
portant letters in his inside coat pool.
ct, and some day when he wants. thnla
they are not there. lie hunts Ht.j
fumes around, but tie letters dansf
turn up. Then lie thinks they must
have been torn UP or burned uId he
for2ets tile matter.
"But important letters don't go iaat
way generally. They turn up some.
times TO accuse a man. They tind their
way between the lining Of the coat o!
vest, nj Ec ffteWs cct hold of them
If l wanted to 20 into the blackmail-
ing business | could make plenty Of
money. I've fo1ad letters end papers
in castoT clothing that would make
pretty startling reading for some poo.
pie. OF course when we get the clothes
by hunting Hp the sddress il the al
Tectory we can locate either the writer
Or the one receiving il.
Il don't think that, as rule, women
sell their husbands castoff clothing
any more without going through all
their pockets Maybe they've got into
the habit of searching them so that it
becomes a second nature 10 them. SO
1T is net in the pockets we lind things.
It's in the timing, where they have
found their way gradually.
"Yoa know how easy it is for small
coins to work their way through hole
In the lining OF Il vest and snuggle
down in tile corner of the cloth. Well.
and nickels In this way. Usually a
vest is small silver mine, Probably
the wife of a man feels something
there and thinks 1t is only button or
some such thing, or maybe Il penny.
and SIZE won't bother in trying to fish
it out But pennies don't work down
there nearly as readily as the dimes do.
In the same way q bill viii get mix
ed up in the lining of the inside pocket
and finally disappear. The man prob
ably misses five OF ten dollar bill
and thinks he must lave lost It or
spent it foolisHly Tie matter escapes
his mind, the ,ujt is thrown to on" side
and some day il is sold 20 the 'oIG
clothes man II doesn't escape Us.
We 90 til3.4--h every zach of the lining
aud examine the earners and inside
carefully. The bills we frd IN l,.e
course of day Will often more than
pay us for what wc have gwen for II
Of III" ciut,Ies.
Many men are cXtrHV"@2ni IN fect
TIM rid Of their castolf clothing Tuev
have 50 many that they becomes i HGs
eance TO tll,ln. Sell thern t. tbe first
man VINO comes along is the easiest
Way for them to dispose Of tkeir Use
less belongings. If the servants, don't
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For from 30 ccnts 10 a dollar You get
o suit chat will when brushed, stealn-
ed. cltaued and pressed easily bring
s. to 50 Tie ciothe. are not worn
much, but just soiled and mussed a III
tie The trousers are stretched iittie
SO they will bag at the knees when
use(; q few days at Il time. man
3 ~ nh 1f C n nd
He Will order his Wife or valet to sell
them.
The greatest amount | ever found
In money in one coat was ten dollar
bill, bat several times I've found two
and five collar bills and one dollar bills
by the score. Once found check
for 500, but as that was no good to
me | returned il to the owner and re-
ceived dollar reward for my honesty.
The best lind, however, Was sevcra!
years ago. when ! discovered bunch
OF railroad coupons between the lining
and inside cloth of one of these fancy
vests. suppose I might have cashcd
the corpons and received $1,000 for
them. but there was some risk to such
a proceeding. SO | concluded to turn
them over to the owner and tr,l%: to
his generosity. He gave me 500 In
bills and commended nc for my hon-
esty- He had missed the coupons and
had advertised for them. Later
found that he had offered reward Of
$500 for their return. You can bet
was mnd then that | didn't gel alore
for returning them
AS for important letters. MIGHT
say that they come TO us in ,lroves.
Generally we read them aud chuck
them in the fire. It. the best wa r
man has lost letter which would
incriminate him he doesn't like TO lave
Il turn up. II will always worry him
littia but he lives in the hope that il Is
ios1 ION good and gradually forgets it
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