Show fr LAKE WOMAN RECOVERS LUCK PIECE LOST YEARS AGO IN A WAY STRANGER I. I romance of ot a half hait 1 a fairy tale but is none iU because of its strangeness s for by Mrs latt n h ILves a at SOI 1 East Seventh half do balt-do dollar e t She has the r o 0 t Mrs Miller years ago with rattle lattie lived Jived S Williams Judge Buries Buckles In Muncie daughters ers Judge fudge had 1 e ewas was t treated in every way the theL ConsequentlY when Consequently L jy presents to his daugh- daugh was as not forgotten forgotten- ch ck 1 a a Half Dollar money was as some- some days ays silver Buckles Buckle thought and Judge ce gift to pre- pre an gitIS a new CW half- half four I ro maan o fh the at it ear year ear to keep leep as a Miss WIlliams thought so 0 soh that she took it h her h. st r. r expensive Expensive jeweler In Mun- Mun half- half to have her hei ald rd 50 cents with Mith the inscription Disappears in Indiana in 1816 and Is Found in Califor California Cali Call for fornia ia Two Tv Weeks Ago by Nephew of Man I Who Presented It to Mrs Miller Judge Judge Buckles to Mattea Williams ISH Two T years ears later Miss Williams married married mar mar- ried ned harry Miller and they settled down downin in Indianapolis In One day abo about t two weeks after her marriage Mrs Mis Miller gave gaye the he souvenir half dollar to her husband In the evening of that day Mr and Mrs Miller went down town and in rn changing his trousers before goIng goIng going go go- Ing out ut with his wife Ife Mr 1 left 1 the half dollar halt dollar in one of the pockets Souvenir Had Disappeared d. d Mrs Mis Miller twitted her husband for courting ill III luck luck- by leaving his pocket- pocket piece at home so the first thing he did didon didon didon on their return was to go In search of the half dollar But it had mysteriously disappeared Mrs Miller 1 felt quite I vexed at its loss as she valued it highly I on account of its associations The house was as searched from cellar to garret but not a clue was found of the missing coin and believing that one of the servants had purloined It they at last r reluctantly abandoned the search But Mrs 1 Miller l was alwa s 's hopeful that any anyone one Into whose hands it passed would send it to Judge Buckles who was known all over Indiana At last the incident passed out of ot h her r mind Thirteen years ago the Millers l came cameto cameto cameto to Salt Lake City and five live years ago Mr Miller sickened and died leaving his wife a son Claud W W. now in California California Cali Call fornia and a daughter now Mrs Wright wh who iv's with her hr mother Piece Luck-Piece Was Found Time passed on until three weeks ago when Mrs Miller received a letter from Judge A A. J J. J Buckles of the Superior court of ot Fairfield Cal a n nephew phew of Judge Buckles of Indiana lIe He said that thata a friend of ot his had picked up cp p a half dol half dol dollar lar lr on one of the wharves at San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco which bore the the- Inscription Judge Buckles to Mattie Williams 1874 The tinder finder had taken aken the coin to Judge Buckles ving that he might know som something of ot its ts hIstory It happened happened happened hap hap- that the Judge knew nothing of the story of the pocket piece but he did know who Mattie Williams was The Widow Wido-w Is Overjoyed Mrs s Miller eyes opened wide nide as she se read the California jurist jurists jurist's s letter She was overjoyed at the recovery of her souvenIr and at once wrote to Judge Buckles telling him that the coin com be belonged belonged belonged be- be longed to her the cir circumstances of the gift and how highly she prized 11 It Her pocket pocket piece w was as returned to her by the next mail accompanied b by a kind letter let let- ter Thus after it had been lost for twentysIx twentysix twentysix ty-six ty years Mrs Millers Miller's s pocket-piece pocket came back to her through a nephew of the donor She is overjoyed a and ld feels feel as if it were a good omen She ha has written to her hei son in California telling him that she will lea leave e her money to him |