Show TWO OBLIGING MEN jacb vl ohp victim in n street car fare it was in a boston street car when the car stopped at a crossing a lady got up aud went to the ioor As ehe there was the chink of a coin on the floor but before it occurred to any one to stop her she was out of the car and across the street two ladles who had sat next to her looked with anxious indifference on the floor one of them leaned slightly forward but said nothing justas just as the conductor was reaching for the bell rope a young man paled the coin and dashed out of the car he caught toe lady who had left the car banded her the coin ran back caught the step of fhe car as the motors began to sing in crescendo and sat down one ot the two ladles opposite him leaned forward and said coldly young man what did you 10 lo with the nickel I 1 dropped the passengers tittered an old man at the other end of the car turned to his neighbor that reminds me he said of something that happened to my wife years ago it was before the days of conductors we used to drop our nickels into a slot and they ran down a groove to the box behind the driver my wife had started out with a little change and one of those troublesome five dollar which used to be more commonly in circulation than they arc now her eyes were not good and so ehe was nervous about her and bad it on her mind all the way downtown when she took a car tor home she met a friend and grew interested in conversation with her she put her coin in the slot absentmindedly the driver turned as it struck the box you remember the coin fell into a glass compartment first and then the driver pushed a lever which sent it into the trong box below As my wife heard the click of the lever she thought of her five dollar she looked in her purse aure enough it was gone she went forward and gjoke to the driver he said he looked carefully but be thought there were only three in the glass receptacle when ho pushed the lever my wife insisted the driver said if she would ride to the end of the line the cashier at the station would open the box this meant a journey of two miles beyond our street and my wife was in a hurry an old gentleman who sat by the door sald he was going to the end of the line and offered to give her cents and get the at the station my wife thanked ahlm and took the money when she got home she found the ive dollar the lining of her purse next day I 1 went to the station the cashier anil n nd inan I n had made him open the box there was no gold piece the old gentleman had left in a rage refusing to give hla name he eald lie had been swindled and did not want to be known for a fool we advertised in the paper but we never heard from him youths companion |