Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — THAD STEVENS' GENEROSITY. [ARTICLE]

THAD STEVENS' GENEROSITY.

It is related of Tbaddeus Stevens that shor.ly after his removal to Lancaster in 1842 he heard of a sad prostration of an old friend in York, a lawyer, who pressed hard by necessity, had diverted to his own use S3OO due to a certain widow client, hoping. soon to regain Lis financial footing and repay her. But “unmerciful dis aster followed fast and followed fast er,” untiljthe poor fellow’s mental distress was actually killing him, Mr. Stevens hunted up the old client, paid her from his own pocket ‘he S3OO obtained her receipt, and went to see his friend. “Helloa old lellow,” he exolaimed, on Jentcring his office, you must wake up. Don’t be so down-nearted Say, don’t you sup pose you’ve really gone and paid that woman and then forgotten all about it?” A deepairiug shake of tho bowed head was Ihe only reply. “Well I believe you did. and I’m going to look through your papers and see if I can’t find the receipt.” Then he pretended to ransack some pigeon-holes, and a moment later exclaimed: “Well, if you’re not the biergest fool I ever heard ot. Look here, old man What s this?” £o saying he showed the receipt to his astonished friend, who tbereuDon recovered his spirits, and, happily, kts business fortune also. Afterwards he repaid Mr. Stevens.

The Indianapolis Sentinel says: “OU Ben Butler took the top off the pot of Mas«achus tts tadicalism just long enough to show what a vile mess they were coekiug up there. One more year and he would have driven ihe Republican leaders into exile. He made tilings lively for a tirao, and now the old Pilgrim Fathers can get back into their graves again.”