Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Unknown and Known. [ARTICLE]

Unknown and Known.

Charles Sumner once had an experience which taught him that he was both known,and unknown, even in Boston. He was on his way, riding in a street car, to attend a social meeting at the Church of the Disciples, to which he had been invited by the pastor, Dr. JainesT’reeman Clarke, when two suggestive. incidents happened. While in tbe car he asked a gentleman the exact locality of the church. The gentleman told him, and then said, “Are you a stranger, sir?” showing that there was a Bostonian who did not know Mr. Sumner by sight. But a boy in the car jumped out when Mr. Sumner reached his destination, and said; “Mr. Sumner, will you please write your name in my album?” They stopped under a street lamp, and Mr. Sumner wrote his name.