Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1881 — A Soldier who Found $130,000. [ARTICLE]

A Soldier who Found $130,000.

Ezelot, the soldier fvho found the £26,000 which M. Pages lost in the Northern railway station in Paris, has communicated to the Courier de I’Aisne the particulars attend*ant on his good fortune. They are very interesting, and show how some men are lorn to fortune, some achieve fortune, and some have fortune thfa'st upon them. Ezelot was walking through the railroad station with two comrades, when .they noticed on the floor a packet wrapped in a newspaper. They kicked it along liefore them for some distance, and when Exelot was getting into the train, going home on short leave, one of his comrades, picking up the packet, thrust it into the canvas forage bag slung at his side, Ezelot going on his way without having perceived the little pleasantry. Arrived at Neuilly, where his parents live, his mother, emptying the forage bag, discovered the bundle, and thinking it was a packet of old newspapers, put it on the table in the kitchen. There it remained for four or five days, till a married sister, calling in and seeing the packet; was moved by an unwonted curiosity. Opening it, she discovered documents representing, the £26.000, the loss of which M. Pages had advertised throughout Europe. The European papers are not, however, read at Neuilly, where the- Courier de VAiene doubtless has still its own.way. The soldier and his parents not knowing what else to do, followed the provincial Frenchman's instinct, and had recourse to the Maire. That functionary communieating with , Paris, speedily brought M. Pages, who, gratefully paying the promised reward of £I,OOO. went off with his oddily recovered treasure. It would be an interesting supplement to the narrative if we could have record of the feelings of

the soldier who thrust the pockets Upon Ezelot, when he heard the-sequel to the little joke.— London News.