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Show AN ODD LETTER. It Wm Written on it Iti'.nk Note nucl Ao-couipli-tlieil lis .AlisHlon. A writer in Corah ill tells si good story illustratin the important part played sometimes by bank notes in the ordinary ordi-nary affairs of life. About sixty years ng-o. the cashier of a Liverpool merchant mer-chant had received, in tender for a business payment, a ISank of England note, which he held up to the scrutiny of the li?ht, in order to make sure of its genuineness. lie observed some partially indistinct words traced in red on the front of the note beside the lettering-, and on the margin. Curiosity tempted him to U-y deciphering- them. They were so faintly faint-ly written and so nearly obliterated that he found great ditliculty in doing so, but finally he was able to combine them into this sentence: 'If this note should fall into the hands of John Dean, of Longhill, near Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers." Al-giers." Mr. Dean was shown the note, and he lost no time in asking the government govern-ment of tiie day to make intercession for his brother's freedom. It appeared then that during- eleven years, while his friends and family had believed hbu to be dead, the latter had been a slave to the (ley of Algiers. With a piece of wood, he had traced in his own blood, on the bank note, the mes-. sage which was eventually to secure his release. The government exerted itself to the utmost in the matter, and he was set free, on the payment of a ransom to the dcy. |