Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — THE HONEST NAN HAS BEEN FOUND [ARTICLE]

THE HONEST NAN HAS BEEN FOUND

Brings sl, Which He Found, to This Office to Be Advertised And Wants No Praise. . FOUND —$1; inquire at this office. That is the way a clasified advertisement reads in today’s Republican - : : : -It is no joke; the money is really here, and the party that lost it can have it by calling here, proving property and settling for the advertising, which will be but a small charge. The advertisement does not say whether the dollar was silver or paper, or in various denominations aggregating 100 cents, but the proprietors of the Republican have been informed about this and also as to the place where the money was found, and there are certain things that make us believe that the person to whom the money belongs will call for it s The man who found this dollar is -apoor man, and has none too easy a time to get along, but he wants nothing that is not honestly his own and he figured that the person that lost this dollar may need it far more than he and If he don't, why, it is his anyway, and he ought to have It on that account. The man who found it was making no grandstand play for notoriety when he advertised it, for he pledged the Republican man to secrecy as to who found to Within a few hours after the dollar was turned over to us, we had learned of two persons who had lost a dollar, and a third said that members of, his family had lost seventyfive cents and might be able to make it a dollar before evening. The person , that gets this dollar must be prepared to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the money belongs to them. • It is possible that a special corps of clerks will have to be employed to wait upon the claimants of the dollar, and usher them in one at a time to the sanctum of the editor. "If the right party don’t call for the dollar," said the finder, "yon may do the best thing on earth with it; apply it to my subscription account.” ' Such combined honesty and excellent judgment we have not found before; no, not in all Rensselaer.