Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — Poor Woman’s Gift [ARTICLE]

Poor Woman’s Gift

A poor blind woman in Paris, we are - told, put 27 francs into a plate at a missionary meeting. • “You cannot afford so much,” said one. ( “Yes, sir, I can,” she answered. On being pressed to explain, she said: “I am blind, and I said to my fellow straw-workers, ‘How much money do you spend in a year for oil in your lamps when it is too dark to work nights?’ They replied, ‘About twenty- - seven “So,” said the poor woman, “I found that I could save so much in the year because I am blind and do not need a lamp, and I give it to shed light to the dark heathen lands.”