Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1890 — She Wanted Small Change. [ARTICLE]

She Wanted Small Change.

She was a sweet-faced, demure little woman, and as she sat in the lsdies* waiting-room of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Jersey City, more than one man had his eyes on her and wondered who she was. By and by a young man in a check suit and carrying a great deal of cheek took a circuit around and sat down beside her. He had scircely dropped into the seat before she gave him a sweet smile and inquired if he would please to do her a great favor. “Ah! with all the pleasure in the world!” he made haste to reply. “I want some small change, and if yon will be so kind as to take this bill and ” “Certainly—certainly—mo3t happy to do c o,” be said, as he received it and started for the ticket office. He handed it in without looking afc.it and asked for the change, but the ticket man shoved it back with the remark: “Wonder how many more fools she will strike before her train goes!" “What do you mean?^ “Look at the bill.” It was a $5 Confederate note; and as the young man stood staring at it with blinking eyes the ticket m in added: “You are the fifth one within two hours. She brought ’em along for just such an emergency, and the proper thing for you to do is to take a back seat'and make yourself as small as possible until your train goes.” The crushed young man did even better than that, he left the depot altogether, and his demeanor was that of h man who intended to hunt up a pile driver and let the hammer fall upon him half a dozen times. —New York Sun.