Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — He Ordered Oyster Stews. [ARTICLE]

He Ordered Oyster Stews.

One of those toii-hardened, true-heart-ed chaps, often read of in romance, made his appearance od the Campus Martius yesterday, and his sympathies were at once aroused by the sight of three or four old men standing around with their bucksaws and waiting for work. ■“I’ll be hanged if it isn’t tough,” he replied when they told him that they hadn’t had any work for a month. “ How would you like some oysters ?” They smacked their lips by way of reply, and he gathered up a crowd of eight, marched them to a restaurant, and ordered oyster stews for each one. “ It. just does my soul good to see them eat I” he said to the owner of the place, as the eight got to work. “Yes; it’s a beautiful sight,” was the reply. “It makes me feel good in here,” continued the stranger, laying his hand on his heart. • “ A good deed brings its own reward,” was the soft answer of the restaurateur, as he calculated bis profits. “ I can’t rest here —I must do further good,” said the big-hearted stranger, and he rushed out and brought in three negroes, a chimney-sweep, two boys and an old woman, ana ordered more oysters. The fifteen people went for oyster soup in a manner to amaze, and their guardian nudged the restaurateur in the ribs and said: “ See the gentle lambs! Oh, that I could feed the poor of all America!” “You are a good man,.and Heaven will reward you,” replied the proprietor, as he filled the dishes up again. The stranger said he wanted to bring in just five more, so as to say that he had fed an even score, and he rushed out after them, while the restaurateur sent after more oysters and crackers. The stranger didn’t return. He was last seen climbing into a farmer’s sleigh on State Btreet and guiding his team to the west. The fifteen in the restaurant licked their plates clean and departed in joyful procession, and the last one had passed oat before the man who furnished the soup had got through waiting for the return of the bighearted stranger. There were oaths aqd slang phrases and watchwords and expressions, delivered in the purest of English, but what mattered it to the fifteen soup-devourers who drew up in line opposite and Resolved, That them oysters just touched the spot —Detroit Free Frees.