Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — An Economical Citizen. [ARTICLE]

An Economical Citizen.

A Galveston man in his shirt-sleeves, without any hat, and in a condition that showed he must have run about three miles in as many minutes, stopped a policeman and told him to hurry up and come along, as there was a tramp at his house who refused to leave. The policeman suggested that, owing to the distance and the exhausted condition of the other party, they had better take a street-car. “Take—a—street-car! Pay 10 cents to ride ! Why, the tramp will go off himself for a nickel. Why, bile my lights and. liver if you ain’t worse than the tramp ! Since when have they put highway robbers on the police? T-e-n c-e-n-t-s! For 10 cents apiece I’ll furnish the city with all the tramps they want!”