Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — Still, He Adhered to His Principle. [ARTICLE]

Still, He Adhered to His Principle.

A clean, shrewd-looking gentleman stepped into a street car on Pennsylvania avenue yesterday afternoon, and took a seat inside. The conductor, who was in a conversational mood, turned to a gentleman who stood upon the platform, and said: “You saw that man who just got on ?” “Yes.” “Well, I saw him do the foolest thing one day last winter that any man ever did.” “What was it?” “He got on my car and gave me a dime out on the platform. I hauded him a nickel and in trying to put it into his pocket he dropped it and it rolled off into the slush. He made a dive for it, and in jumping off the car fell down and daubed himself all over. I stopped the car, but he said to go on ; that he was going to find his nickel. So he pawed around in the soft snow till he found it, hopped aboard the next car, paid the nickel to that conductor, and reached home one car later and a good deal madder and mussier than he would if he had stayed on my car and let his nickel go”.—Washington Post.