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Show LITTLE COINS OF SENTIMENT. Immense Amount of Treasure That li Stowed Avay. A little girl Just convalescing from a fover had grown tired of seeing the assortment of curios that happened to bo In tho possession of tho family, nnd begged for something now to look upon. Finally, after diversions failed to divert, tho tired mother-nursa brought out a llttlo pockotbook which yielded an old-fashioned thrco-cent pleco, a two-cent plcco, a nickel and two pennies. "This," said tho mother, "belonged to my llttlo brother, who died when ho wns 8 years old. There wero threo sisters in our family, and tho other two each had a quarter of u dollar dol-lar to keep In remembranco of our llttlo brother's frugality. I remember his savings were all In anticipation of buying n horso. Nothing could Induce mo to part with this treasure, hoarded hoard-ed away by llttlo hands long slnco passed to tho great unknown." This leads ono to think of the money that In llttlo amounts lias been stored away as sentimental treasure monoy thnt exists to-day, but has dropped out of tho great circulating money current. Hundreds yes, thousands of dollars nro stored away becauso their dates correspond with certain events. This woman has a silver dollar that represents tho dato of her marriage; that man has a quarter that was presented to him tho day ho first saw tho light of day. Why, thoro ore even faithful lovers of chronology chro-nology who hang all tho links of history his-tory In consecutlvo order on an old box full of coins that would not fot their Intrinsic vnluo buy ono saunro meal at an East Sldo Hungarian restaurant. res-taurant. Yet how many of these collections col-lections aro there which In tho aggro-goto aggro-goto amount to a goodly sum. Human naturo being the same, It would be a difficult matter to estlmato In bulk tho amount of money that today to-day lies dormant, without refcrenco to coin collectors, but speaking only of "sontlmont" money that Is treasured through at least ono generation, and maybe longor. If this hoarded money could bo collected col-lected and applied to some worthy causo the result would probably bo ono of tho great surprises of tho day. |