Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — A Social Fall. [ARTICLE]

A Social Fall.

An English gentleman and his wife, who had been traveling in Sicily, fell into conversation one day with the driver of the vehicle in which they were riding. “I was not always as you see me, ” said the driver sadly. “I once occupied a much higher position.” The travelers lent their ears at once for a romantic story of nobility in distress. “Yes,” added the driver. “I was once a brigand, and all the men of my family occupied the same honorable position, but I became engaged to a girl whom I loved to distraction, and she disliked the profession on account of its risks, persuaded me to give it up, so now, alas! I am only a carriage driver," — Troy Press,