Power Of Conscience

Man Restores $60 He Picked Up Twenty Years Ago

William Fries of Auburn, N. Y., aged eighty-one, was called on recently by a stranger, who, handing Mr. Fries $60, said:

"Here, take this. It's not mine, and I can't stand the strain any longer. It's been haunting me for years."

He refused to give his name, and Mr. Fries would not take the money unless the situation was explained. The stranger asked him if he had not lost $60 in a State street store more than twenty years ago. Mr. Fries recalled the Incident, and the stranger said he had seen him drop the money and had picked it up and kept it. He had never had a minute's peace since, he said.

The man refused to take a reward which Mr. Fries offered.