Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — His Motives Were Selfish Ones. [ARTICLE]

His Motives Were Selfish Ones.

A Bostonian, who often gives money anonymously to various altruistic enterprises, was asked by a lady the other day to put his name down for a certain large sum he had contributed, says a Boston paper. “It is very noble and unselfish of you not to wish to trumpet your generosity abroad,” she said, “but I think people ought to know.” “Noble, unselfish! Heavens and earth!” he exclaimed. “Why, my dear woman, I keep dark out of pure selfishness. I don’t want all the charities in town to pounce down on me at one fell swoop!"