Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Dropped the Wrong Coin. [ARTICLE]

Dropped the Wrong Coin.

It was a Gth avenue “L” station. Past the ticket box came a portly man with the paunch of an alderman and the mien of a pharisee. The yellow hospital collection box caught his eye, and after fishing through both vest pockets he ostentatiously dropped a single coin Into it. Then he walked up the platform with a smile of perfect contentment. Suddenly his expression changed to one df dank despair and clapping one hand against his perspiring* brow.he dropped upon a bench with a thud that was passably dull and moderately sickening. A train passed, but he heeded It not, and when he had been left alone on the platform again he ambled back to the gate and applied one eye to the orifice In the collection box. Then he returned to the bench and mopped his brow. For fifteen minutes the fat man sat and illustrated the rise and growth of a soul-rending.sorrow; then with a sigh and a parting glance ai the collection box he rose and board'ed a train. “Gee,” snorted the gateman, “I’m glad of that. That feller lives just a block from hero an’ he’s worth twenty million, but he dropped a gold piece instead of a nickel an’ now he’s sufferin’ from a compound fracture of the heart! Gee! I’m glad.”—Commercial Advertiser.