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Show svvvvwioMWvWvvivvVv vvvvvwvvwrvvvvvyvvvwwj 933 Ways of Misers efrfe j Hoarders of Money Find Queer Hiding Places for It. It may not be entirely sanitary or perfectly convenient to wenr the same petticoat cloven years without ever taking It off, but there are probably many people who would do It for $1.-700. $1.-700. That Is what Mrs. Lee of Jersey City did, and now her son William, who found tho money after she died, Is trying by law to get It back from the man ho loaned It to. If he had followed fol-lowed his mother's example and worn the pottlcont he would have his money still. It Is not on record that the possession posses-sion of the money did Mrs. I.eo any good. Sho saved her earnings while employed ss a nurse In a hospital In Ilaltlmors and when she loft she put the money In a chamois bag and sowed It Into her petticoat. There she kept It continually, night and day, for the next eleven years, and when she was dying she took the petticoat off, hand-F hand-F s sd It to her son, and said: "Here, William, Is your heritage, i Search It well. It Is worth more than you would think." William searched accordingly and found the funds, but a wily man got them away from him, and now be is poor again. William's mother had a somewhat unusual method of preserving her savings, sav-ings, but she was only following a ten dency which crops out In strange ways in many people. There Is something of the squirrel In half of humanity, A squirrel In a park will catch a peanut from the hand of a bystander, run a few stops, and hide It In the ground so securely thnt the man who saw It hidden hid-den cannot And the place where It was put. So those squirrel people will take odd coins snd hide them so tbst not the bystander nor that professional finder, the burglar sometimes not ths hlder himself can find them. liarcy II. Maclean, who lived In Wheeling, W. Va., for many years, was one of those who cannot And ths hiding hid-ing place again themselves. For ths llrst time In his life he was to leave town. For some reason he could never explain he feared that his bank would fall while he was gone, so bs took ths money he had saved out of It and hid It That was the last tlms bs ever saw the money, though he broke down from worry due to his search tor It and died a year later. He had not been In his grave two daya when his son's wlfs began bousecleanlng. She found soma old shoes In a closet and had her husband hus-band try thorn on before throwing any away, and In the too of one hs found an obstruction. Sure enough, there was ths lost money 1826.1 8 rolled up tight snd securely conccalod. |