Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — When the Tramp Turned. [ARTICLE]

When the Tramp Turned.

Senator Norris Brown in an ad-* dress in Washington, praised an lowa millionaire. “His success is a lesson to us,” said Senator Brown. “There are men in Maquoketa who still remember him as a tramp, a common, homeless tramp.” The speaker smiled. “One afternoon in New York,” he said, “as the millionaire and I were walking in Fifth avenue, a beggar stepped up to him and whined: “ ’Boss, I guess you ain’t never went cold and hungry, sleepin’ in wet fields and gittin’ kicked from’— “Oh, yes, I have, though,’ said the millionaire. He looked the tramp up and down, handed him a quarter and said as he passed on: “But I had .the decency to wash myself once or twice a year, by George! You make me kind oi sick.” —"Washington Star.