Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — Nothing Mean About Him. [ARTICLE]

Nothing Mean About Him.

An old woman sat in the Michigan Central station wiping the tears from her eyes. It was nobody’s business in particular to inquire whether she had fallen heir to a million dollars or was traveling through life with a broken heart, but one certain man s’epped forward after a time and made some inquiries. Thi nhe passed around among the crowd and said: “Gentlemen, here is a poor old wowoman who wants to go to Coiambus to her friends. Let’s t.ikt np a collection.” In the course of four or five minutes a parse of $3 was ma le np, but when he had connted it, the m.m said. “Gentlemen, lets chip in enough more to buy her a new dress. I’m a poor man; But here’s a quarter for the old lady.” The purse was now increased to nearly $7, and the woman had jnst pookefced the money when a man stepped forward and said to the collector of the purse: “Why, Banks, is this you?” “Of course it is,” “And that woman is your own wife?” “Well, Mr. Knickerllocker,” replied the man os he buttoned his coat, “it’s a mighty mean man who won’t ohip in a quart* r to bny his own wife a dress and help her off on a visit I” —Detroit Free Press. A Tennbssfk woman has written a biography of her husband. If he carried a latch keg it must be a dog’s Ufa