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Show SEEMED APPROPRIATE TO HER Wife of 8lck Man Thought She Had Reason for Appealing to Locomotive Loco-motive Works. One day last winter a feeble Irish i woman cnlled upon us for aid. The case sounded urgent, so I wont with her nt once. Everything wns Just as sho had stated. Xler husband was very 111, she was too old and feoblo to work, their children were dead, there wns no fire nnd their only food ' was bread which their neighbors, al-1 al-1 most as poor as they, had given them. ' I nsked her why sho had not come to us before and sho replied thnt sho had appealed to tho church and to several Individuals without success. 1 "Thin," she wont on, "Ol wlnt to th' big plnco 'round tho strate." Tho only "big placo" near was a plant for tho manufacture of steam engines, nnd I wondered. ; ""nt what mhdo you go to tho locomotive loco-motive works"" I nsked. ! "Well, ma'nm, shuro nn' nln't mo old man got locomotive taxes?" Now York Telegram. |