Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — Sympathy that Was Wasted. [ARTICLE]

Sympathy that Was Wasted.

A tired-looking little ' woman, vHth her thin cape spread out to protect her burden from the rain, splashed through the mud and entered a street car the other night. The car was crowded with men who could not find a seat, but they made way for her and helped her into the packed car. Mi e stood unsteadily in the aisle, trying to preserve her balance and the cur went along. “Keep still, dear!” she sighed, in a weak, tired voice, when a slight disturbance under the cape was observance. , “Why dpn't some of you fellows give that woman with a baby a seat?” growled a fgt plan who was hanging to a strap. Two or three men sprang up, and each insistel that she should take his seat. She sank Into one of the vacant places, thanked the man who had made way for her, and a frowsy-headed terrier sprang from under her cape and sat In her lap/while he barked at the fat man.