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Show ALL SORTS OF KLOND1KES. S"Wtit Conntttutrn a XoKuct Depratla Upon ()n'i Expectations. There are Klondike nearer home if people could only have the luck to strike them. At a down station on the elevated road, says tho New York Sun, there got off a trnlu, late in the afternoon, after-noon, about a dozen passengers, jnelud-ing jnelud-ing one woman. Tho woman passenger had In her right rm three or four bundles and a book; with her left hand she carried n sizable telescopic travel- ing bag, with straps around it, and a handle. At the head or the stairs leading lead-ing to the street the woman stopped, set down the bag, gathered up her skirts with her free hand, and then picked tip the. bag again nnd started down. At the foot of the stairway Btood a very slim newsboy, offering papers to the passengers as they came down. Three steps up stood another slim boy without nny papers. As the woman approached the second boy pointed to tho heavy telescope bag she was carry - ing, and said: 1 "Ten cents." , He would really have, enrried it for five, but she never asked him to; sne bunded It right, over. I He stepped down the three steps nnd I out upon the side; and when she had stepped out, too, and started, he swung the telescope case up on hia shoulder I nnd stepped promptly along beside her. nib face wns immovable, but there was joy in his eager step. ' k He had found a nugget. |