Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1913 — Helping a Poor Soldier. [ARTICLE]

Helping a Poor Soldier.

When Parson Brownlow was lecturing in Tennessee a good many people grumbled about the high price he charged for admission. A very rich but stingy man, who had been all the time very profuse with expressions of his patriotism, exclaimed: "Give Parson Brownlow half a dollar? No, sir-reel I'd a good deal sooner give it to a poor soldier.” "Well, then,” said a bystander, ‘'give your half-dollar to Captain Henry (an officer dismissed from the army for cowardice). They say he’s a mighty poor soldier.”