The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-06
aLucINoA's EXPERIENCES q
She's Always Finding Things, bu,
She Never Finds Anything ~
Valuable.

NaludpIes
'1'm the greatest one TO find things
that ever was" said Lucinda, but
never find anything valuable. And
Why do you suppose that is?
"People must lose valuable things,
don't they? Why certainly, but 1t
doesn't seem to be my lot to find that
sort. Other people find the valuable
things and all that get is what my
brother Claude calls the junk.
"And the way find the brass
things is astonishing. It's mostly
baby pins that i find. and / discover
them on the car tracks. on the side
walks and in the street; everywhere
in fact. .os. U,y
81 see something glistening under
the edge of a fence and pick IL up,
and it's another, baby pin. Beauti1
fully carved, and all that, but worth
nothing. t...P t,# lc,s Il
Sometimes the pins find thus, are
new and bright, sometimes old and
battered; but always they are worth
less so far as actual value is con-
cerned. Why do | never find a gold
baby pin? did find one once that
a jeweller said was ten karat tilled.
the nearest have ever come to it, but
even that was OF no money value.
"Rings? Why, yes, I've found rings
too. Sapphire rings and turquoise
rings and emeralds, and once found
a diamond ring, but the precious
stones in these rings were all of the
same material, namely. glass, and like
the rings In which they were set, OF
no value whatever.
"And 1t has always been just the
same with the various other miscel-
laneous items of jewelry have found.
The good things appear all to have
been picked up before i come along
and all the brass goods left for me,
and / certainly do find them.
"And when 1t comes to finding
money it's just the same. Somebody
else appears to find all the money.
Don't you know how you read in the
papers how somebody found a pocket
book containing seven hundred and
eighty-two dollars and ten cents9
And how somebody else found pock-
etbook containing eleven thousand
dollars and things like that? But
nothing like that ever happened to
me-somebody else always finds the
big sums of money.
naua,. found anu T,annay btf tufaa
In my life. and once 1t was a cent,
and once dollar The cent kept;
the dollar l was very glad to he able
to give up within two minutes after
| found it,
81 was walking along q street when
found this dollar. ! spied it ahead
OF me lying on the sidewalk, and
when had come to 1t and picked 1t
up and found that It was really and
truly good dollar bill laughed to
myself gleefully, l couldn't help 1t; /
had finally found something of value
actual good money. And then I
wondered where the dollar came from.
Walking on along the sidewalk
ahead OF me was a little girl carry
ing pitcher, and OF course all
could see OF her was her back, but
she seemed to me pleasant little g!rl
and she seemed to be walking along
cheerfully, and then all of a sudden
she stopped short and seemed to get
sort of stiff all over right in jiffy,
and then she turned around and
started back toward where was, and
now she was crying and about as
distressed little girl as one could
ever expect to see; and OF course l
knew what was the matter with her
now, she had lost a dollar. a"t
when she came along to where
was | said to her. What's the mat
ter, my dear?' and she answered very
tearfully and solemnly:
I've lost a dollar
Well, don't you worry any more
over that, my dear said to her,
here II is.'
"And / handed II over to her: and
my graciousl I've seen a few quick
changes, but l never did see shadow
succeeded by sunshine quite so SUD
denly as It was now on, this little
4 girls face; and know that 4 gpl
4 more fun out OF giving the little CIR
u back her dollar than ! ever did ou'
of any little thing In my life. tN
4 "But really. now, why is it. do yoy
suppose. that I hnd 30 much OF thai
stun that my brother Claude calls th'
junk but never anything OF yalue?'
| ---Naw Yarlx Sun efiIH' 80 IHH