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Show Tlie Perils of Hidden Treasure. The stove or fireplace still remains a popular but disastrous depository for tho . wealth of people who do not believe in banks. When Mr. James (iaffney, of St. Louis, reached home theother day he ordered or-dered a servant to build a fire in tho heater. She obeyed.and the blaze wasget-tingcomfortably wasget-tingcomfortably started just as Mrs. Uaff-ney Uaff-ney came in from a shopping tour. Sho extinguished tho flames without delay, and reaching among the coals brought forth a charred package of greenbacks, i, Of the $2,H00 in the bundle all but $.100 I ' can be redeemed. More fortunate, however, how-ever, are tho heirs of J. li. Andrews, of South Sheuango township, Pennsylvania. J They discovered in an unused stove pa- ji pers showing that the late Mr. Andrews had $s,0O0 in bonds on deposit with tho treasury department at Washington. 1 They also found $17,000 worth of securi- ties in a tin box under the rafters of a f barn. |