The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-12-26
A FRIEND IN NEED
Just a Bit of Life as II Cropped
Out on q Railway Train.
A TOUCH OF REAL HUMANITY,
The Rough Looking Man VINO Proved
That His Heart Was Big and In the
Right Place and the Shabby but
Grateful Foreigner he .Betrlended.

"Wheneyer ! hear anything nova
days about mans inhumanity to
man." said Providence citizen the
other day. al am reminded of a little
Ancident. l was coming back from
Boston with friend on the midnight
train. and, getting on board at the
Back Bay station. we found a seat
near the rear cad Of the car
"SGon after tue train pulled out !
happened to look around aud saw the
conductor apparently expostulating
with a rather shabby looking specimen
of humanity who @as sitting In the
Aast seat At first thought the man
was drunk. but as ! watched | saw
that he was foreigner who couldn't
understand English. He was holding
out crumpled one dollar bill to the
conductor and saying New York over
and over again.
"Finaily the conductor shook his
head. said something | couldn't catch
and went on The foreigner, rather
decent looking young fellow, gazed at
, him despairiDgly. then buried his face
In his hands and began to cry. With
the usual calious indifference of the
| travelling public to the troubles of any
one else. ] paid no more attention to
/ the man and prepared to take nap.
II was just beginning to doze when
became aware that a man was stand
ing beside me In the aisle. speaking to
me- ! sat up and looked at him. He
was rough appearing man. far from
preposseSsiug, clean shaven, with
sort of bulldog face
"'Say, gents, he began. L want to
know If yon wouldn't like to help fel-
Ter out
II stiffened instiDctively. determined
to refuse to let him make touch
"'Theres poor young foreigner
back there he went on with jerk of
his thumb toward the alien, still sit
ting with bowed head, and he's up
against 1t for fair. He can't speak a
word of English. and he wants to go
to New York. where he has friends.
''He got the Idea somehow he could
do it for a dollar, all he's got: but. Of
course he can't. and they're going to
put him off the train when we get to
Providence It's mighty hard on fel-
Ter like him, and there amt any tell
ing wbat'l happen to him getting put
off In a strange city at / o'clock in the
morning. thought maybe you'd be
willing to give little to help him
along
HE stopped. looked us straight In
the eye and smiled sheepishiy as If he
were ashamed of what be was doing.
We gave him dollar. and he went on
through the car, and there were few of
the passengers who didn't respond to
the appeal He came back counting
the money and as he got to our seat
heard him say:
"'There's dollar more needed-Pll
make it up myself and he pulled out
a couple of fifty cent pieces and added
them to the amount
"The conductor and the brakeman
were standing at the door of the car
near the foreigners seat.
"'Heref said the man who had col
lected the money TO the alien; give me
your dollar.
fellow handed 1t over, and, giving 1t
to the conductor with the rest, the bull
dog man said gruff1y:
""There's his fare
''It slowly dawned on the alien what
had been done for him. and as the con-
ductor punched the rebate check and
handed 1t to him the gratitude In his
face was indescribable. He couldn't
speak. but he took his cap of and
bowed again and again to the official,
but the latter pointed to the passenger
who was sitting In bis seat across the
aisle and told the youth that he was
the one to thank
THE foreigner crossed the aisle till
he stood sQuarely in front of his bene-
factor. took off his cap and. with tears
of gratitude in his eyes, bowed again
and again. 1t was evident enough that
the benefactor was embarrassed by
this unexpected outburst. At first he
waved his hand around the car to indi-
cate that every body had had hand in
1t. But he couldn't make the foreigner
understand. The latter kept on bow
ing. whereupon the uncomfortable In
dividual in the seat grunted and turn
/ed to look out Of the window,
II have never seen." concluded the
man who was telling the story, IA
kindlier-if | were girl should say a
sweeter-act OF charity in my life. Sit
ting across the aisle. this hard faced
. man had heard the story of the for
eigner. helpless. alone aud frightened
and out of pure goodness OF heart
without any necessity for doing 1t. be
had taken upon himself the ungratefu
task OF soliciting money from the rest
of the people In that car to help out n
man he'd never seen before and would
probably never see again Providence
Journal
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