Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — OLD GENTLEMAN’S MISTAKE. [ARTICLE]

OLD GENTLEMAN’S MISTAKE.

He I a tended to Be Kind bat Wu MU* understood. He Is a fine old gentleman, every one who takes daily trips on the street car line will say so. He is kindly considerate of the righta of his fellow passengers, and, though he usually occupies the end seat. It is not because he insists upon having, but because his fellow passengers insist that he shall have It. His politeness is of the old, old school, and his deference to the ladies Is beautiful to behold, says the Indianapolis News. lie has been seen time and again when the conductor was slow or remiss in his attention to women with babies and washerwomen with baskets to assist in taking them, with their incumbrances, off and on the car. In view of these things, the happening of yesterday was pathetic. A young woman, indeed an extremely haudome and well-dressed young woman, was seated before him. The old gentleman whose eyesight is no longer of the clearest noticed a bug in tb« knot of hair bunched above the white neck of the fair young woman—a shining, green bug, nearly as large as one’s thumb nail. He leaned forward to perform an act of kindness; he would brush the Insect away. lie brushed. The bug. to his view, but took a firmer clasp on its lodging place. The old gentleman made a second attempt. With thumb and linger he seized the Insect and pulled vigorously. The young woman turned at this; Are was In her radiant eyes, anger In her voice. She uttered but one word “S-i-r!" It was enough. The old gentleman was parlyzed. He attempted to explain, but his tongue refused to make an articulate sound. Covered with confusion he touched the electric button and alighted at the next crossing. A few of the passengers smiled; one or two even laughed. The bug was a Brazilian beetle attached to a long plu in the young woman’s hair.