The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-06-02

"And now that you do know me.
you are going to give yourself to me
instcad!'exclaimed Curtis triumphant
ly. "It was only loan, you see."-
New York Ne,os.
ROMANCES OF BANK NOTES.
On one occasion the Bank of Eng
land had presented to it for. payment
a hard ball of paper.
1t was five-dollar note which had
been given by prominent artist to
his sister for payment of bill.
The young woman had placed it in
the pocket OF her dress and promptly
forgot it till 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 unroll. d there was sufficient
to see that it had been bank note,
and the bank paid the money without
hesitation, says "Pearson's Weekly"
More than once the Bank of Eng.
land has paid twice for one bank note.
On one occasion they lost in this way
$50, 900.
1t happened that one of the direc-
tors, dcsirous of purchasing an estate,
drew from the bank single note for
the amount mentioned. This, on re-
turning home, he placed on the man
telpiece, when, Immediately on doing
so, he was called from the room.
A few moments later be came into
the room again, but alas! the note had
mysteriously disappeared. To the dir
ecter's mind there seemed little doubt
that the valuable piece of paper had
fallen into the fire. Robbery was out
Of the question, for no one had entered
the room.
His colleagues at the bank, believed
this story, gave him second note on
the understanding that the first, if
found, should be returned.
Thirty years afterward, when the
director hrd been dead considerable
time, 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 learned afterward that build
er had bought the bankers house, and
in the course of the demolition had
discovered the note hidden in crew
ice of the chimney.
How a bank note once saved a mans
life is most romantic story.
In the ordinary course of business
many years ago Bank of England
note-now in possession of famous
collector-was paid into Liverpool
merchants office.
On coming into the hands of the
cashier he found, while examing it to
discover it's genuiness, that there
we're faint traces of red writing upon
it. The note had been circulating for
years, and it was only by the dint Of
extraordinary pains that the partly
obiiterat.d characters were finally dis
ciphered.
This was the message it bore: "1f
this note should fall into the hands OF
John Dean of Longhill, near Carlisle,
he will learn thereby that his brother
is languishing prisoner in Algiers." :"
Mr.. Dean was communicated With,
and he appealed to the government to
endeavor to obtain his brothers re-
lease from captivity.
Interesting themselves warmly in
the matter, the Prime Minister and
the joint Foreign Secretaries after the
most arduous and determined inquiries
learned that the unhappy prisoner,
who had traced the above sentence
with a splinter dipped in his own blood
had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers
for about eleven yeras.
Eventually, the government succeed
ed 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 sad misfor-
tune. Inside dilapidated old hat.
box, which the most experienced burg
lar might have ignored, they had plac.
ed their entire fortune-a sheaf OF