Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-27
TREASURE TROVE
in REAL LIFE.

ever since. She asked if she could
borrow 81 on it, and was told that
she could borrow $500 on it, as it
was worth about $500. She had TAX
en- it for granted the stone was only
an imitation.
Delaware seems to be a. favorite
place for old treasures of all sorts to
be hidden. Perhaps the people who
did the hiding thought that no one
would think to look in Delaware, as
it is such small state. Recently the
old Lobdell mansion---140 years old
in South Wilmington, was being pull
ed down, to make way for a new
manufacturing plant. The wreckers
found number of old British coins
hidden behind the Dashboard of the
parlor One coin bore the date ITS
and another dated back to 1705, while
the rest were worn so smooth that the
dates could not be read.
Money and other valuables are not
infrequently discovered in old clothes
that are passing through the hands of
the rag-pickers. The lost articles sell
dom get back to the rightful owner,
but once in while they do. This was
the case in Portland, Ore, not long
ago, when the Salvation Army Indus,
trial Home people discovered hand
bag that had come in with a bundle
of old clothing that had been contri-
buted. .E q,
I'm the handbag were SIX $40 bills.
Captain Andrews was unable to trace
up the lady who had donated the
clothes, and the handbag was restored
to her. She had absent-mindedly
wrapped the handbag up in the bun
die, and had not been able to imagine
how it had disappeared so strangely.
As a reward she gave the one Of the
bills to the Army.
Lots of people drop money in diff
ferent ways when they visit Atlantic
City. Mrs. j. II. Lynn of Philadelphia
short time ago made visit to that
resort and while there missed her
$4,000 diamond necklace. The police
supposed. it had been stolen and they
were trying all sorts of sleuthy tao
ties on the case when poor garbage
collector restored the jewels to Mrs.
Lynn. He had picked them up in the
street and had supposed them to be
a 10-cent store purchase which had
been thrown away in disgust. Mrs.
Lynn gave him $50 for his honesty.
Carp are usually considered of
small value as fish-there being
nothing in their favor except their
size. But a story which comes from
Frankstown, Pa, teaches us that we
should not despise eveE the humble
carp since it may be acceptable for
Mike Salonisky, an Austrian quar-
ryman working on the Juniata river,
caught a carp and when he came to
clean it for his supper he found dia-
mond ring in it. At first he suppos-
ed the ring to be of no value, but on
submitting it to jeweler he found
that it was worth at least 500.
From the other side of the contin-
ent comes another incident of a SIM
liar sort. Charles Thompson of Bran
don, Oregon, killed chicken and was
cleaning it for the Sunday dinner,
when he discovered in the craw three
gold nuggets "about the. size of the
head of hatpin."
AS hatpins have heads ranging all
the way from the size of wheat
kernel to that Of pancake, we must
leave this matter othe imagination.
Thompson at once began prospect
ing tour of his chicken-yard, and at
last accounts he had found two more
nuggets.
But it isn't really necessary to
catch fish or kill chickens in order to
find treasure. All you have to do is
to look right in the middle of the
road. At least that is what Richard
Lutte, a farmer at Centerville, Wis
consin, did.
He saw a cloth bag lying in the
road and his first thought was to give
it the go-by, with the idea that it was
"sell." But he concluded il was
worth taking chance on, and he got
out of his Ford and picked up the
bag--which proved to contain nearly
$1,000 in gold money. At last ac-
counts the owner had not turned up.