The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-28
ROMANCEs OF BANK NOTES

On one occasion the Bank Of England
had pre- ented TO IL for payment
hard ball of paper.
It was Is note which had been
given by a prominent artist 10 MS
sister for payment Of a bill.
The young woman had placed II In
the pocket Of her dress and promptly
forgot it I'LL the same dress made
it's return from the laundry
Washing. starching and ironing had
not improved the bank notes appear
ance. but when the ball OF paper was
carefully unrolled there was sufficient
to see that II had been q bank note
and the bank paid the money without
hesitation, says Pearson's Weekly.
More than once the Bank Of England
has paid twice for one bank note On
one occasion they lost in this way ESQ.,
600.
II happened that one of the directors,
DESTROYS of purchasing an estate, drew
from the bank a single note for the
amount mentioned This. on returning
home he placed on the mantelpiece,
when, Immediately on doing so, ne was
called from the room.
a few moments later he came into
the room again, but alasi the note had
mysteriously disappeared. To the
directors mind there seemed little
doubt that the valuable piece Of paper
had fallen into the fire Robbery was
out of the question for M one had
entered the room
! His coIlea CUES at the hank. believing
this story. gave him a second note on
/ the understanding that the first, if
} found. should be returned.
/ 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.
It was learned afterward that a build
er had bought the bankers house, and
/ in the course of the demolition had
1 discovered the note. hidden in a crevioe
/ of the chimney
/ How a bank note once saved mans
life is a. most romantic story.
In the ordinary course OF business
many years ago Bank OF England
note-now in possession of a famous
collector-was paid into a Liverpool
/ merchants office
! On coming into the hands of the
cashier he found, while examining it
TO discover its genuineness. that there
were faint traces Of red writing upon
! IT. The note had been in circulation
! for years. and il was only by the dint
OF extraordinary pains that the partly
| obliterated characters We're finally
! deciphered-
This was the message it bore: IF
| this note should fail into the hands of
John Dean of Longhill. near Carlisle,
| he VIII learn thereby that his brother
1 is languishing a prisoner in Algiers.'
Mr.. Dean was communicated with
and he appealed to the Government TO
/ endeayor to obtain his brothers release
from captivity.
/ Interesting themselves warmly in the
/ matter, the Prime Minister and the
/ joint Foreign Seer etariss af er the most
! arduous and determined inquiries
4 learned that the unhappy prisoner, who
/ had traced the above sentence with q
/ splinter dipped in his own blood. had
I been a slave to the Dey of Algiers for
about eleven years.
Eventually. the Government sue
/ ceeded in ranzoning Mr.. Dean from the
Dey. but the poor fellow had endured
so much privation and hardship while
wing ne galleys that he lived
i but short while after his freedom
An elderly couple living in Paris
have recently met with a sad misfor-
tune. Inside dilapidated old hatbox,
which the most experienC ed burglar
might have ignored. they had placed
! their entire fortune sheaf of bank
notes. amounting to over 5000.
/ 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 go
! ing to it the other day. not d single
note vas to be found-only a little heap
Of dust
Rats had entered the box and de-
voured every scrap of the precious
paper
More fortunate was an old Belgian
peasant woman. although at first she
was thrown into Just as hopeless de-
SPAR She had laid on the grass a
/ jacket containing bank notes worth
f4s altogether, and then set about ner