Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — A STORY OF THE STREET. [ARTICLE]

A STORY OF THE STREET.

Account of a Newtbay'i Gratitude for O Kindness. **l chanced to be walking down Liberty street,” said a well-known artist, “when the recent hurricane scooped his stock of evening papers from under a wee and wan 8-year-old newsboy’s arm, made a free distribution of them In the mud and rain half a block away, and came near serving him in like manner. Aa he fought his way to his feet I heart! him tecgEly summarize the extent of the ruin in the remark, ‘Dat busts mel’ and he heard me laugh. “Turning on me and assuming a suggestive Terrible Terry pose* he savagely asked, ‘Wotyer laffln’ at?* ' “ ‘Not at you, my boy,’ I hastened to explain, ‘and here’s half a dollar to start you in business again.’ “ ‘Money talks’ with the gamin as well as the goldbug, and In this case its charming eloquence moved its recipient to remark witli flattering sincerity, ‘You ain’t such, a bad guy, after all,’ as he scooted In the direction of Park Row. “But this was not the last I was destined to see of my pigmy purveyor of the latest news, for, as I was hustling to reach the ferry, I heard the quick patter of pursuing little 'feet, and he overtook me to make the breathless inquiry, ‘Say, mister, does you go by dis way every night?’ “ ‘No. Why do you ask?’ said I. “ ‘Coz,’ explained he, ‘I wants ter give you a paper every night till I squares de debt’ “Now,” continued the artist, “Is there a man here who does not feel in his heart a desire to give such a boy as that a lift toward a better life, or who does not believe that granted half a show he would develop into an hooorable and successful man?" New York Times. '