Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Kindness Rewarded. [ARTICLE]

Kindness Rewarded.

A young mechanic passed daily over London bridge. Occasionally he tossed a penny to a beggar who held his seat towards the end of the bridge in sunshine and in storm. One day the mendicant stopped the mechanic and said to him, “I’m going into the country. You have been kind to me and I want to make you a present. There is a fortune in this little piece of paper. lam a Waterloo soldier and I got the paper in the army. Follow the instructions faithfully and you will be rich.” That paper was the original receipt for “Day & Martin’s” blacking.