Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-29
CASTOFF CLOTHING.
v PAYS 70 SEARCH TAE POCKETa
 AND ThE INNINGS.
Bills, Coins ana Letters Have a Way of Hiding The ep,relves--Ex per lie nceE of Man Who Buys Discarded Car ments-Hints to inc Careless.


 of a Man Who Buys Discarded Car
 ments-Hints to the Careless.
 "One can't buy castoff clothing fer many years without meeting some queer experiences remarked an old clothes man the other day as he fun. bled through tue pockets of suit which he had just purchased for 90 cents. "Of cou"se don't expect to tind anything nothing except maybe some old letters. But it pays to run through the pockets and feel tue lin Ing. If man who lets his wife sell his castotf clothes only knew what got lost in the lining of his coat some, times he wouldn't feel so easy about parting with thcin. A man sticks i'm portant letters in his inside coat pOck ct, and some day when he wants them they are not there. He hunts and fumes around, but the letters don, turn up. Then he thinks they must have been torn up or burned. and he forgetS the matter.
 But important letters don't go that way generally. They turn up some times to accuse a man. They find their way between the lining of the coat or vest, and we fellows get hold of them, If I wanted to go into the blacknaH, Ing business I could make plenty Of money. I've fonGu letters and papers in castofr clothing that would make pretty startling reading for some peo- ..Jo nE inI1o by hunting up the address in the di- rectory we can locate either the writer or the one receiving if.
 II don't think that, as rule, women sell their husbands eaStof clothing any more without goi"s through all their pockets. Maybe they've got into the habit Of searching them so that it becomes 8 second nature to them So 1t is not in the pockets we find things It's in the lining. where they have found their way gradually.
 "You know how easy 1t Is for small coins to work their way through hole in the lining of a vest and snnggle down in the corner of the cloth. We'll. we pick up quite d number of dmes
 
 vest is . small silver mine. Probably tue wife of man feels something there and thinks it is only d button or some such thing. 0, maybe penny. and she won't bother in trying to fish it out But pennies don't work down there nearly as readily as the dimes do.
 "ln the same way bill will get mix tl,n i,,iy, OP and finally disappear. The man prob. ably misses 6 five or ten dollar olil and thinks he must have lost 1t o' spent it foolshly. The matter escapes his mind. the suit is tbrown to osle side and some day it is sold to the 'oia clothes man. IL daesnt escape ,1s. We go through every inch of the lining and exaMin" tue corners and Inside carefully Enc bills we find in 1lia course of day will often more tbaE pay us for what we have given for sE of tl.e clothes.
 Many ,pen are exty"vagant in ge1 ting r.. of their castoff clothing. They have so niai,y that they become nui SC nc.A to them. Sell tiic'n te the first
  way for thcm to dispose of their use less belongings. If ,l,e servants doD's take shent, we get fine pick nt them For from .0 cents to a dollar you get q slat that will when brushed steam cd. cleaned ana pressed easily bring S3 to s. The clothes are aot Worn much. but Just soiled and mussed lit tie. The trousers are stretched ilttle se they will bag at the knees when used a few days at time. A man with plenty of money won't stand that He will order his wife or valet to sell them s'
 "The greatest amount ever found In money in one. coat was ten dollar biI but several times I've found two ano five dollar bills and one dollar bllis by the score. Once ] found a check fc, $l0O but as that was no good 10 me 1 returned ii to the owner and re- ceiyed dollar reward for my honesty. The best find. however, was seVeraa years ago, when discovered bupch. of railroad coupons between the hnAng and inside cloth of one Of these Iancy vests. l suppose l might have casheo tue coupons and received $l.OOV TOT. them, but there was some risk to such a proceeding. So ! concluded to turn them over to the owner and trust to his generosity He gave me $lOD fn bills and commended me for py hon. -->--------e. ----e.--.-....----->=-=--=----