The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20
ROm0nceS OF
Bank Notes
! Peculiar Payments Made by the Bank
Of England.

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On one occasion the Bank Of England
had presented to 1t for payment a hard
It was a e5 note which had been given
by prominent artist to his sister for
payment OF a bill.
The young woman had placed II in the
pocket OF her dress and promptly forgot
Il till the same dress made It's return
from the laundry.
Washing starching and ironing had not
improved the bank notes appearance but
when the ball of paper was carefully un-
rolled there was SUFFICIENT to see that IL
mad been bank note, and the bank paid
the money without hesitation, says Pear
sons Weekly.
More than once the Bank Of England
has paid twice for one bank note. On one
occasion they lost In this way G3O.0OO.
IL happened that one OF the directors,
desirous OF purchasing an estate, drew
from the bank a single note for the
amount mentioned. This. on returning
when, Immediately on doing so. he was
called from the room.
A few moments later he came into the
room again, but alas! the note had mys-
teriously disappeared. To the directors
mind there seemed little doubt that the
valuable piece of paper had fallen into
tion, for no one had entered the room
His colleagues at the bank believing
this story gave him a second note on the
understanding that the first, II found,
Thirty years afterward when the Di-
rector had been dead a considerable time,
a stranger presented the missing note.
Being payable to bearer, the bank could
not avoid their obligation, and they had
to be the losers OF the sum. 1t was learn
ed atterward that builder had bought
the bankers house and In the course Of
the demolition had discovered the note
hidden In crevice OF the chimney.
How a bank note once saved a mans
life Is a most romantic story.
In the ordinary course of business
many years ago a Bank Of England note
now In possession of a famous collector
Office
ON coming into the hands OF the cash
Ter he found. while examining it to dis
cover its genuineness that there were
faint traces of red writing upon it, The
note had been in circulation sor years,
nary pains chat the partly obliterated
characters were finally deciphered.
This was the message it bore: IF this
note should fall into the hands of John
Dean of Longhill. near Carlisle, he will
learn thereby that his brother is lam
gushing a prisoner in Algiers.
Mr.. Dean was communicated with. and
he appealed to the. government to. en-
deavor to obtain his brothers release
from captivity.
Interesting themselves warmly in the
matter, the prime minister and the joint
foreign secretaries after the most ardu-
Gus and determined inquiries. learned that
the unhappy prisoner who had traced the
above sentence with a splinter dipped In
his own blood, had been slave to the
Dey OF Algiers for about eleven years.
Eventually. the government succeeded
In ransoming Mr.. Dean from the Dey, but
the poor fellow had endured so much
privation and hardship while working in
the galleys that he lived but a short
while after his freedom.
An elderly couple living in Paris have
recently met with a sad misfortune In
side dilapidated old hatbox. which the
most experienced burglar might have ig-
nored, they had placed their entire for
tune-a sheaf of banknotes, amounting to
over eS000
Periodically either the husband or wife
opened the box and counted the notes to
see that their wealth was still intact.
Imagine their surprise when. on going
10 it the other day, not a single note was
to be found-only a little heap Of dust.
Rats had entered the box and devoured
every scrap of the precious paper.
More fortunate was an old Belgian
peasant woman, although at first she
was thrown into just as hopeless despair.
She had laid on the grass a jacket con-
tanning bank notes worth eaS altogether,
and then set about her work in the nelds,
accompanied by a pet goat.
To her horror she suddenly caught sight
OF the goat munching something that
looked like her precious fortune.
Examination proved her surmise TO he
true. The goat had been browsing on her
bank notes.
That same evening the pet was killed
and the chewed paper removed from It's
stomach 1t looked a sorry mess, but the
old woman lost no time in submitting II
to the National Bank at Belgium. which,
after verifying the facts and proving by
chemical analysis that the paper had been
notes issued by them, paid the woman the