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Show Rewarded 1 The other day a boy received one dollar for restoring to the loser $50,000 of gilt-edged bonds. Surely this la not a premium on honesty. A porter found JSO.000 of diamonds and pearls in a Pullman car, nnd got $2.1 for returning re-turning tho trinkets. A prominent man lost a letter that might embarrass em-barrass him and advertised "Ample Reward!" Re-ward!" That letter was not worth a cent to the finder; but when he gave it up ho got $300 in cash, much to his astonishment. "I'm a poor man, all right, all right," he said, "but this is too much. What? Just for picking up a letter in tho street? Say, mister; here's your $300. Givo it to some other charily. I read it, of courso; but I'll never peach on you. Gimme six dollars dol-lars to buy my kid a suit of clothes, and we'll call tho Incident closed forever." for-ever." New York Press. |