Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — President Hayes and the Little Old Lady. [ARTICLE]

President Hayes and the Little Old Lady.

They say that President Hayes never forgets a face At Trenton, N. J., the other day, when the Presidential excursion train stopped there for a few moments, a little old lady in black appeared at the door of the President’s car, and though the attendants were for keeping her out, the President, by a word, caused her to be admitted. She walked up to the Chief Executive of the Nation, and, without the slightest embarrassment, took him by the hand, and with the remark, “ President, I want to shake hands with you,” shook it heartily. The President very good-naturedly said: “I believe we’ve seen you before,” and explained to the bystanders that the old lady had ma *e her appearance at the Ohio State Building at the Centennial on the Ohio dav last fall. Having opened the conversation in this off hand way, the strange visitor ran on: “I have brought you a cake, and I want you to take it and eat it; here it in (laying a basket containing a large cabon tire table), and you can keep the basket: and I’ve brought thirteen fans because 1 want every one of you to have one.” She distributed the fans among the laughing spectators, and then in self-justification said: “President. I want you to understand thede presents are the truth; I don't want no office.” This blunt declaration raised a laugh, and the President remarked that"" he was glad to hear it, because she was different from most people who came to see him.— lndianapoU» Jouinal. ■ -*»» —Silver scarf-pius of simple design are the caprice of the moment.