Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — LOST AND FOUND. [ARTICLE]

LOST AND FOUND.

A Little Story About a Pocketbook That Was Told in the Can. “On the cars the other day,” said a traveler to a New York Sun man, “I heard a little story about a lost pocketbook; “ ‘I am goiing to Europe,’ said one of two young men who were sitting together; ‘going to start Saturday.’ “ ‘I hope you won’t lose your pocketbook, as Bonty did,’ said the other, and then he went on to tell how Bonty had lost his pocketbook. “It seems that Mr. Bonty had his return ticket, his foreign money, and other valuables in that pocketbook, and somehow he lost it. He didn’t go on board the steamer until just be-

fore the sailing time, and the steamer sailed promptly, as steamers nowa. days do, and Booty didn’t discover his loss until the steamer was out at sea. He bad expected to sit around comfortably in a steamer chair and to enjoy perfect rest. In fact be had set great store on this happy beginning of bls vacation; but now he had lost bis pocketbook, and, instead of the calm enjoyment which he bad anticipated, he bad ahead of him a week of comparative discomfort. To be sure, he could cable when he got to the other side and .wait and all that, but h 6 had lost bis money and it wasn’t a pleasant prospect. “But among those who went down to see friends off by the same steamer that Booty sailed on was a man who, after waving his handkerchief at the steamer until it was out in the stream, saw upon the pier, as he turned to go, a pocketbook—Booty’s pocketbook, of course. He found Booty’s name in it, but not his address. There was in it, however, the address of a young lady who lived in Forty-fourthstreet, with whom Booty had a slight acquaintance. The find, er of the pocketbook went straight to the young lady. She didn't know Bonty’s address, but fortunately she brought to mind a gentleman in Philadelphia who did know it. Then the finder of the pocketbook telegraphed the Philadelphia friend, and the Philadelphian cabled Booty at Queenstown, and he gave the finder the address of Bonty’s friends in New York. “The result of all this was that when the tender came alongside the steamer at Queenstown, Booty, instead of sending the message which

he had prepared, received a dispatch saying that his lost pocketbook was found and giving the address to which it had been sent in London. “This was a very simple little story, you know, but it seemed to interest the passengers who heard it, and everybody was glad that Booty had recovered his pocketbook.”