Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Unexpected Thanks. [ARTICLE]

Unexpected Thanks.

A correspondent sends the Youth’s Companion a “true story” of street-car politeness, and we publish it with much pleasure. An “electric” was passing down a suburban thoroughfare, when it was hailed by an old woman, evidently from the country. The car stopped, and after much bustling and puffing the woman got in, at the same time asking the conductor to please take her to a certain street. By a circuitous route the car soon reached the street she had asked for, and the conductor gruffly announced the fact. Overcome with joy to find herself at her destination, she squeezed out, saying to the conductor as she passed him, her face .beaming with gratitude: “I- thiankee very much, sir. I’m very much obleeged to ye. I hope ye didn’t have to go fur out of yer way to get me here.”