Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — A Moral Story. [ARTICLE]

A Moral Story.

• One day a beggar-man asked a pass-er-by for a quarter, with which to buy food for his starving family. The passer-by threw him a coin, and was hastening upon his way, when he heard a voice calling him to pause. It was the beggar-man. “Sir,” cried he, “the coin you gave me was not a quarter. It was a five-dollar goldpiece. Here is four dollars and sev-enty-five cents change.” Was he not an honest beggar?—New York Commercial Advertiser