People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — [To BE CONTINUED.] REPORTING A SLANDER. [ARTICLE]

[To BE CONTINUED.]

REPORTING A SLANDER.

This Son of Rest Took Advantage of a Freak of Woman Nature. “Madam, I have every reason for believing that the lady next door is greatly mistaken concerning your real disposition toward those to whom fate has not granted the golden opportunities others have enjoyed for winning success and happiness in life. lam led to this conclusion by a remark she made a moment ago. “As I left her door she said to me: ‘lt’s no use for you to call there; she was never known to give anyone a bite, and she is sure to send you away hungry.’ In reply I said to her: ‘lt may be you are mistaken. I’robably if she felt assured that she was feeding a worthy but unfortunate man she would do as much as anybody.’ ‘No, she wouldn’t,’ she insisted. “Then 1 said to her: ‘Well, you just peep through the blinds and see if she doesn’t treat me as a worthy man deserves to be treated,’ and I haven’t the slightest doubt but she is now watching to note the result of my call. ” The speaker was what the ordinary observer would call a tramp. The lady at the door of whose home he had called replied: “Did she say that?” “That’s what I understood her to say, ma’am.” •‘l’ll prove to you that she is what all the neighbors know her to be—a false, good-for-nothing creature. Sit right down here on the porch, where she cannot help seeing you, and if you will do your part we will make her feel ashamed to ever show her face in this community again. ” When the sun went down an hour later the tramp was still there doing his part to refute a neighbor’s slander, and a smile on his face indicated that he was well satisfied with the result he was achieving.—Chicago Times.