The daily Alaskan., 1913-10-06
HIS FIND
 By ROXANNE LEE

There was a rattle of a moving ma chine in q field of wheat. A girl stood in the doorway of the cottage on the hill and looked down on young man driving the machine. It was a hot day, one of the hottest of the season. The man, coming to a tree in the midst of thes wheat, rested his sweating horses and himself as well. The girl took a tin cup, went to the spring house, filled the cup with buttermilk and started down the hillside. Upon approaching the man she said:
 Its so hot, Jim, that l thought l would bring you cool drink"
 Its mighty good of you to think of me, Annie" And. taking the milk, he drank It down, then continued: "Thls is my last day of this kind of work. I'm going to the city tomorrow morn ing to make my fortune"
 "Got anything tc make 1t with, Jim?"
 "Only strength and pluck"
 "I'm afraid strength and pluck alone won't go very far toward making a fortune. I've heard my uncle, who was a city man, say that the first thing necessary to make money is to get money to make it with"
 "Then must begin by saving"
 He had no right to spend his time chatting, so he shook the reins over the horses backs as a signal for them to go on with the work. Annie turned away. asking what time of the day he was going, and he said, "On the g o'clock train" She bid him goodby with mist in her eyes and went back to the farmhouse.
 The next morning the young man, Joshua Gibbs, left the house where he was staying and struck a path leading across lots to the station. Coming to stile. he saw lying at its foot with one corner wedged in under the wood which protected it from blowing away what looked like a bank bill. Stoop- ing, he picked 1t up and found that It was what he had supposed It to be, and the denomination was S20. He looked about him for the person who had dropped it, but no one was in sight He was puzzled to know what to do with 1t. While pondertng he heard a distant whistle of the coming train. Having no more than time be- fore its arrival to reach the station, he put the bill in his pocket and proceed ed on his way. On reaching the city he wrote the postmaster of the town he had left of his find and said he was ready to return'it on proof.
 Joshua secured Q place as porter in store, holding on to the bill for claimant who never turned up. One day the owner of a newsstand died, and his stand and stock were offered for sale. Joshua gave the SEQ for 1t and entered upon the work connected with it. He proved to be a shrewd business man, was polite and attentive to his customers, and, having an hon est way with him, rapidly built up the business. He added stationery and gradually increased the variety of bis stock until he was obliged@to take large store. Yhe thororghfare on which he was located -became more and more valuable. The result was that within five years Joshua had what he needed for his private eI- penses and was laying up money. More than this, one of his customers, taking fancy to him, gave him in- formation as to certain investments, all of which brought him good inter- est, and some of them Increased con- siderably in value.
 When Joshua became prosperous he bethought himself that, being a man of business with no bachelor tastes, he would better marry. He had no wom- an in view, his object being to have a home. Thinking the matter over, he happened to remember Annie Saun- ders, who had on hot morning five or six years before brought him that cup of buttermilk. He remembered how cool 1t had tasted and how pretty An nie looked as she hande: t to him. The city, girls cheeks in comparison with hers, made rosy by the country air, looked very wan. He wondered If she were still where he had left her.
 Joshua kept Annie In mind till one day he decided he would go and see her. He did so and as soon as he reached the place where she lived learned that she was still at the farm. He started out to find her, his way leading him across the stile where he had found the twenty dollar bill that had been the basis of his prosperity. Sitting there, he fell to musing on his find, and, suddenly looking up, he saw Annie coming along the path. He rose to meet her, and she recognized him l at once.
 Sitting together, Joshua told her of his finding the bill, how he had writ ten with a view to tracing its owner and how, finding no owner for it, be had invested 1t in business that was making him, If not rich, at least well to do. The morning was pleasant, the