Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — A Passenger That Paid. [ARTICLE]

A Passenger That Paid.

The late L. Q. C. Lamar, former United States senator from Mississippi and at the time of his death an associate justice of the United States supreme court, was a very absentminded and abstracted man. One day he entered one of the old horse cars that ran in Washington years ago, walked up to the box at the end where passengers were supposed to deposit their fares, put his hand in his pocket, took out a coin and dropped It in. “Why, senator,” said a friend, “you put in a quarter instead of a nickel!” “Did I?” said the senator. “How very stupid of me!" Then he put his hand in his pocket again, took out a nickel, dropped that in and sat down with a satisfied smile.—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post