APPEARANCES WERE AGAINST HIM.
A well-known newspaper reporter in San Francisco (says the News Letter J lately oame into possession of a 20dole, gold piece. It matters little where he got it or how, but he had it. « Twas bis, and perhaps had been slave to thousands, and he took it into a broker's office to change it into silver. The clerk, knowing his customer was a reporter, merely shook his head, and remarking that he did not care to get into trouble, declined to chaage it. The saddened journalist thought of his restaurant, where he owed six dollars, and tendered the donble eagle to the proprietor in payment of his bill. To his suprise the man of mutton shook his head and pushed the gold piece back witb an observation abont its being unnecessary for him to liquidate his indebtedness. Then he got mad and tendered it is toa barkeeper for a drink and the whisky dispenser sighed and shoved it back at him with a look of pity. Finally he sought out a friend, and begged him to convert the obnoxious cartwheel into silver and keep the discount. The friend shook hia head doubtfully, butslowly cashed the money, and as he leaned over the counter he whispered, "Say, old man, I don't want to ask any questions, only it is evident you have money, and it is also known that you write for a daily paper. If you have been accepting any bribes from contractors, or doing anything crooked, don't let on that you changed your gold here, because I might have to make it good. I hope you have not shown it to any one, because public confidence is a little shaken just now, and your being seen with 20Jola. would not
strengthen it." The reporter hung hia head, took up his money, and went home, feeling, poor fellow, that newspaper writers with money in their pockets were just objects of suspicion. Then he wrote a note to his employer, and asked him to pay his salary for the future in dimes, so that he might regain his character for honesty aa time rolls on.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 138, 13 June 1877, Page 4
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358APPEARANCES WERE AGAINST HIM. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 138, 13 June 1877, Page 4
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