The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-18

post of private secretary to a wealthy deputy. . traveling by train with the deputy and his wife he observed that the latter was much annoyed by an illbred passenger who persisted in~smoking in her pres ence M. Delcasse's action was char. acteristically prompt Without word
 he seized the mans cigar ana thre" it out of the window. For that act of courtesy the woman. when her husband died shortly after. rewarded M. Delcasse with her hand and with the fortune that has made his brilliant career possible.
 One of the leading advocates at the French bar owes his present position 70 a similar act of gallantry. In the early 's0s. when he was a young clerk In paris. "passfng rich" on the equivale n of s20o a year. he was traveling from orleans to Paris when he heard screams proceeding from an adjacent compartment.
 Unknown Woman Proves to Re veal
 Opening the carriage door he pro- ceeded along the footboard to the oom- partment from which the sounds pros ceeded, and saw a young woman strus
 gling in the grasp of powerfui ana we'll QreSSSQ tuIItais OpAAhohh9 ANf-O N~-~ commandment the clerk seised the ras- cai and after a brief tussle. pinned
 him on the floor of the carriage. where he held him until the train stopped and he could be given into custody.
 The young woman proved to De the orrhan daughter of one of the wealth. lest merchants In Paris: and her grat- itude to her deliverer made it an easy matter for him to ask her for her hand In marriage. Four years later ne was called to the French bar. and to- day there is no position in >s&ece to which he may not legitimately aspire
 Fortune From Favers ts Poex.
 Only a few years ago a poor soliei- tors clerk in the city of London was amazed and incredulous to learn that Miss Scale had left him a sum of stoo.- 900 for great kindness shown to her In a time of poverty and distress" He treated the matter as joke or an un- happy mistake, until. on taking the news home to his wife she reminded him that Scale was the name. of pow erty stricken woman who had some years before occupied a room in the same house with themselves and whom they had occasionally assisted with food and fuel.
 If appears that some time after they had lost sight of her the woman had come into a large fortune on the death of a bachelor uncle who had neglected her during his life; and her first act had been to make a will leaving large sums of money to the few people who had been kind to her in days of need. CrtppIe's Kindness Meets Reward. A few years ago a shabbiiy dressed and feeble old man entered crowded omnibus in London, but looked in vain for a seat Not a single passenger would move until a crippled girl rose from a corner seat and insisted on the old gentleman taking her place. In vain he protested. for she walked out of the omnibus and mounted the stairs leading to the top. although 1t was clustering day in winter.
 When she left the omnibus later the old gentleman joined her. and after thanking her for her great courtesy, asked for her name and address. Every week for more than a year the girl, who supported an invalid mother by making artificial flowers. received sovereign, neatly wrapped up in an en- velope and left by a messenger who de- clined to say who had sent him; and soon after the weekly sovereign ceased to come the news came that their nys- terious benefactor had left the girl an annuity of $500, payable Nd1ring her life and that of her mother. ''in grat- itude for a touching act of kindness to an old man."
 Appreciates ProtectOr's FrlendlinesS.
 A year or so ago a familiar figure in the streets of English towns was a shabby. down at the heels man of mid- de age. whose half wjtted appearance made him the butt of mischief loving