Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — His Donation. [ARTICLE]

His Donation.

The queer looking, shabby old man, who for months had been going to the library and spending most of his days in the reading room aimlessly scanning the pages of magazines and books with his dim, ineffectual

eyes, walked up to the librarian the other morning and announced that he had something to say to her. “What is it?” she asked. “I want to make a donation to the library,” he replied. “I’d like to feel that I done something for it. I ain’t got no money to give, but I guess books is always acceptable. These here pamphlets,” he continued, handing out two back numbers of a wellknown magazine/ “I’ve been keeplu* for the last fifteen years and I guess they’re pretty valuable, bein’ so old. Es you’ll jest put ’em in the readln' room, I’ll be glad. You don’t never need to say who give ’em to the library. I don’t want no fuss made about it.”