Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — The Honest Young Man. [ARTICLE]

The Honest Young Man.

‘While strolling the beach at Asbury Park a few days ago a New York newspaper man found a small gold watch half buried in the sand. A chain ana charms were attached to the watch. JThe finder, upon returning to the city on the following day. causod an advertisement to be inserted in the “Found” columns of his favorite newspaper. He described in his advertisement the locality where the watch was found. Within twenty-four hours from the time that the advertisementr appeared in print the finder of the watch had five responses. Strange to say, the writer of each letter claimed, in apparent sincerity, to have lost a gold watch in about the • same locality, on the day named, but not one of the five descriptions of the lost watch applied to the timepiece found by the newspaper writer. “It is curious that so many gold watches should have been lost in the same neighborhood and on the same day,” mused that honest young man. "I wonder who found the others. ”-r-New York Times.