Show AUCTION SALE BARGAINS Surprises in Unclaimed Packages Sold by Express Companies Chicago You cant most always sometimes tell said the former hotel clark The original package may be tastefully tied up with pink string but the contents may maybe maybe maybe be of the common or hemp variety This was apropos of the experience of ofa ofa ofa a customer who had told of purchasing a box of the finest Havanas Havana from a swarthy confidential Cuban who had smuggled them in inAnd inAnd inAnd And speaking of packages he con eon continued continued reminds me of a little deal In parcels of my own Once I went to an express company compan auction sale of un unclaimed unclaimed unclaimed claimed matter and while looking over oer the lots picked up a small package which had been sealed with wax and was as heavy as a young oung stove That for me mo said I It cant be lead and it may be gold At Al any rate Ill get getgood getgood good weight for my mj money When It was put up it brought a bid of 5 cents I raised this to 10 and gradually the auctioneer worked it up to 85 S cents at which figure It was knocked down to me I hugged it all nIl the tho way homo home to Galesburg and peek inside until I was as in my room at the hotel I want any anyone one in on the see until I found whether I had drawn gold bullion or a building brick Well It turned out ut to be a set of cut glass plates about 25 2 worth of ot the finest grade gradeI I puffed up with pride in my remarkable ble intuition But what could a bachelor do with a lot of cut glass plates And nd then a happy thought strikes me The wife of oC the proprietor of our traveling refuge was wearing out her wish works for just that kind of table furnishings and I T got solid as marbles with my meal ticket by bv presenting the lot to her Of course I insist on her knowing how howl I got Aol them You bet I scanned the papers for ad advertisements advertisements advertisements of express matter auctions and when one was on I ran down for an another another another other prize haul r I spotted a very package about two feet long flat and about ten inches across It has been beci sealed with wax in half a dozen different places and I noticed that whoever started start started started ed to break the tho seals which is required by law had carelessly left a thin bit of wax intact over the time twine It was a cinch no one had opened it Jt and the con contents c contents n tents of course were untouched Small flat package carefully c wrapped sealed all over overa a good hunch Me for It ItI ItI itI I must have shown hown that I wanted it for several bid against a mo me and I get It until I 1 I had given up for tor the privilege of relieving the express e press company of fur further further ther worry over itI it itI ItI I started off with it as though thol h I had treasure trove under my arm find and when I got back baek home I go tin to my room to open it but laid it on the hotel desk and Rave gave all aU within sight tho the high sign to gather round and watch me gloat I had bragged a whole lot about my abil ability abilIty ability ity to size up a valuable package from rota the outside with my other find as proof and the boys were Interested I 1 broke the seals one by one cut the string and unwound about three fathoms of pf wrapping paper from a bolt of a fine calico as you ever saw real turkey red and worth at the wildest estimate about 25 cents Altogether that piece of Fiji dress goods cost me 7 1 There were tOn ten t n nIn in the crowd and the bar entrance was right beside the desk |