Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1903 — WHY HE KEPT HIS CAR SEAT. [ARTICLE]

WHY HE KEPT HIS CAR SEAT.

He Had a Wooden Leg, bnt It Was for His Brother. A woman had been standing up In the tar for ten minutes, says a Detroit Free Press writer, and the two men who pretended- to be so intensely interested In their newspapers realized that she was looking down at them nnd wondering to what breed they belonged. At length one of them grew restive and said to the other: “One of us ought to give up his seat. I'd have done It long ago but for a wooden leg.” “I was waiting for you,” replied the other, “but if you have a wooden leg I’ll get up.” _ __ . The woman accepted the seat with thanks and the men rode for half a mile further and then got off together. “You sem to walk all observed the one who had surrendered bis seat. “Yes; nothing ails my walk.” “But you spoke of having a wooden leg." “And I have one. It’s in this box here. It Is for my brother, poor fellow. I'd have got up In a minute, but when a man is holding a box with a wooden leg In It under his arm his fellow passengers can't help but wonder who lt*s for and want to express their sympathy. If you received the Impression that I had lost a limb and replaced it with an artificial one, you got a wrong idea and I pardou. ,My limbs are all right. I a* happy tit say, but my poor brother ” ■ - “Sir, you go to and be banged to you,” said the other, as he strode off with an Injured look on his face.