Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — FORGOT HER CAR-FARE. [ARTICLE]

FORGOT HER CAR-FARE.

lire. Gladstone Helped Out of s Predicament by a Poor -Woman. Even the moat distinguished women sometimes find themselves fax from home and without money, having forgotten their pocketbooks. This incident happened to Mrs. Gladstone one day when she was traveling on the Underground railway: -Her companion for the trip was a woman who said, in the course of the conversation, that she and her husband were in a tight fix. Hehadheld a high position it the civil servioe, but had been compelled to resign. Nothing which he could do presented itself, and he resolved to go out to Australia, but his wife end family would have to be left behind.

The woman told her story without guessing who her listener waa. When Mrs. Gladstone came to get off she found she had not a penny to take her the rest of the way home. “I should like to help you,** she said to the wife, “but I must first consult my husband. If you will call on me at II to-morrow morning, at No. 10 St James square, I will see what can be done for you. fin the meantime I have come out without my purse. £have not a penny to pay my return fare, so please lend me six-pence.” Though this Bounded somewhat like the hold-up of a confidence woman, the almost destitute wife gave of the little money she had with her. Next day she called at the Gladstone house. Mrs. Gladstone gave her £SO from Mr. Gladstone ana added £lO more on her own behalf.-—N. Y. Press.