Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-15

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meuta-.iin,S to the Careless.
"Onr can't buN castoH ciothip, Tor
EiNny years without meeting so!ue
queer experiences" remarked au odd
clothes man" tie other day as lie FUN
hIcd through tue pockets Of suit
which lac had Just purchased for -
cents. "Of course don't expect to
ind ANYTHING nothing except maybe
some old lrttcrs. Bat ii pays to run
throu4h the purk cts and feel the lin
ing Ii Il mau who lets his wife sell
+ his r;tStotf clotlrr, ouiy knew what
! got lost IA the lining of his coat some
+ times h~ Wollldn't feel So easy about
parting ilh thrm. \ man sticks i'm
portan1 lntlcrs in his inside coal pock-
ct. and some day WHEN he wantg them
tncy are not there. He hunts and
fumes around, hut the letters don't
turn M. Then he thinks they must
have beer torn up or burned, aud ho
for4etS the matter.
"l;ut important letters don't 20 that
way generally. They turn up some
times IL accuse n man. They find their
way hctw the lining OF the coat or
vest. and we fellows get hold of 'heW
If wanted to go into the black mail
ng business | could make plenty or
mooney. Eve fonmd letters and papers
| III caSton clothing that would make
pretty startling reading FOR some p"o.
pie. or course when We get the clothes
by hunting up the address iu the al
rcctory we can locate either the writer
or the one receiving it.
Il don't think that, as a rule, women
sell their husbands ca~tom clothing
any more without going through All
thcir pockets. Maybe they've xot into
the habit Of searching them SO that It
becomes Il second nature to them. SO
1t is not in the pockets we find things
It's in the lining. where they have
found their WI. gradually.
You know bow easy il Is for small
coins to work their way through hot"
in the lining OF a vest aud snuSGls
down in the corner OF the cloth. Well.
we pick Up quite q number OF dimes
and nickels In this way. Usually a
vest is \ small silver niue. Probably
the wife Of man feels *omst'iihg
there and thinks il is only button or
some such thing, Or maybe penny.
and she won't bother in trying I" fish
il ont Rut pennies don't WORT down
there nearly AS readily as the dunes TO.
"ln the same way bill will get m'1
ed up in the lining OF the inside POCKET
and finally disappear. The man prom
ahlyZ n,isSeS a five or ten dollar hll
and thinks he must hive lost II ol
spent il fo0lishly Tive matter escapes
his mind, the suit is thrown 70 onc sidt
and some dry it is Sold TO the ,os&
clothes man IL doesn't escape ha
We 20 through every iit'h OF the ''h'i'-
and examine the corners Ahd li>'''
carefully The bills we find IN 'h'
course of day viii often more tih'i
pay us for what We have given for al
of the t)t hes.
MANY men are eNtraNagAnt III get
tim. rid of their castof clothing. The,
huyp so mnlly that they become, n nl.t
saI,.,c to them Sell 1hcm To the mrs
man who comes along Is the eHSi"S
way for them to dispose of their use
less belongings. II the servants don
take them, We get a fine pirk al lh''a
For from "a cents TO a dollar you Ge
suit that will when brushed, steam
ed. cleaned and pressed easily hfihi
s. to S1% The clothes are not Wofi
much. but lust soiled and mnssed lit
tle The trousers are stretched Il liiii
so they will bag at the knees whe'
used :, few days at :: time. MAJ
will, plenty of money wont stand thai
He will order his wife or valet to sci
them
"lhr greatest amount | ever f"'ln'
=, In money in one coat was ten ""'ia
bill. but several times I've round wv
y and five dollar bills and one dollar Dill
a nv the xcore. once | found Il cIecl
" for AlU. but rs that WAS no GOOD /
" me | returned il to the owner ana rT
T., ,eive,I a dollar reward for my honest
-, The best lind. however, was several
wears ago. when discovered b'inc
of railroad coupons between the lliiIh
" and inside cloth OF one of these Zane
y vests. suppose might have cash''
ri the coupons and received *'.Wn 10
them. hlt there was some FISK TO sue
~ n proceeding. So concluded to tur
J.. them over to the owner and Trust I
:. his generosity. He gave me *laU !
!" bills and commended me for my nor
n CSty lfe had missed the coupons an
lie had advertised for them. Later
it found that he had offered reward G
r, $500 tor their return. 1on can BET
e was mad then that | didn't get NOR
for returning them.
:" LAS for important letters. mlgi
III say that they come 10 Us i'll droV"
rs Generally we read them and chuc
them in the fire It's the best way.
k: q man has lost a letter which Woui
nd incrininale him he doesn't like TO hay
It turn up. 1t will always worry hinl
little. but he lives in the hope that 1t
- lost for good and gradually forgets 1t
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