Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — In a New Light. [ARTICLE]

In a New Light.

■Detroit Free Press. ' “Mister,” said a seedy personage to a gentleman going along Woodward avenue, “can I speak with you a minute?” - If . The geqtleman could not well refuse so simple a request,: and the seedy one asked him for $lO. “Ten dollars!” was the astonished exclamation. “Of course I won't* give it to you. What do you want with that much money?” “I want to get a feed with it,” responded the tramp, meekly.. “‘You don’t want that much money to get something to eat with?” “P’raps not, sir, but the change will come handy.” “No doubt of that, but you don’t get it.” “Well, gimme ten cents then.” “No; nor I won’t give you ten cents either.” “You refuse my request for a dime, do you?” said the tramp omniously. “Ephaticaliv I do.” The tramp turned away. “All I’ve got,to say to you,” he s*id sadly, “is that I wouldn’t take a dime from a man who didn’t, have business judgment enough to compromise a claim of $lO at one cent on ( the dollar for fear I’d be arrested, for exercising undue influence on a . person of unsound 1 mind,” and lie disappeared in the shadows leaving \ thergentfeifian bewildered,