Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — A Last Dollar Misapplied. [ARTICLE]

A Last Dollar Misapplied.

The other morning, says the Carson QSkti) iippeal, a stranger might have been noticed standing in the rear of the Mint, watching an old woman picking up sticks. She most have been about

eighty J.e*™ ege. .Her old calico dress Mas fuH at holes, her face was as wrinkled as trip* aad as brawn as leather. Every time she stooped to pick pp a stick die was obliged to do so with a painful eflbrt She Yaked over the (fry leavaa with palded hands, aad all the worthless little piece# went into her basket. A heap of garbage and ashes occupied her attention 'for - some fen minutes.;, The man who waa wafehing her finally walked up behind her ana dropped a dollar Into her basket and then stole awar aaneßioed. An attache oi the Mint, who was near, hailed him as he passed. “ I say, did yon give a dollar to the old lady?” “Yes, I did,' although it waa about the last I had. 1 can’t bear to see poverty and old age combined. 1 had a mother once almost 1 ' as old as she, and as weak-and palsied. I feel for an old woman like o»at,jand shR can to adqUar from jp# if its the last I’ve get.” “Do you fee that block over there “Yes:” “With house* op HP’ “Yes.” ‘.‘The houses and lot belong to her.” i* An ex{iletive was all the stranger had to ofer as he turned away and walked rapidly up Carson street. It was his lasi dollar.