Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — A Philanthro[?]ist. [ARTICLE]

A Philanthro[?]ist.

As he stepped out of the theater he stopped to light a cigarette and at the same moment beard himself addressed: “If ye please, sir, ginttne somethin’ fer me little brother an’ Bister; they’re home, cold an’ hungry, ad’ we ain’t got no parents.” He turned and saw a dftntnnOve girl, about twelve years old. He had seen the girl before and had watched her play the same game and had beard her tell the same story to people outside the theater several times and knew it all for a “takft*’ He walked on. "Jest think; no ful sir? Them little children?’ She was keeping pace with hftn. "Go home," he said, noUmfclntfty. "Do yon want to be arrested-tor begging? Go homo." “How kin I go ftotqp with nothin’ fer the kids? Ah, if tfißy only had some parents to look alter 'em! But dere*s only me.” He put his band, in hi&BDChet The child hastened to flinch matters with the old, tiresome tfealk “Jest to think, sir; no Qftrents.” The hand emerged f<i£n (he pocket, and in It was a dollar pill “Here, little girl” he sfdd “1 oughtn't to give you this, but What you have told me touches my befin. Take this —end buy them some ljwenta”--New Sack Times.