Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — Where They Pinched. [ARTICLE]

Where They Pinched.

There arc a good many pooplo who prefer old things to new things, sometimes. perhaps, without as good reason for the preference as an old beggar once showed in the matter of shoes. This man called' at the house of a Indy and begged for a pair of shoes. Sho gave him a nearly new pair of her husband’s, which he had laid aside for some reason. A day or two afterward tho beggar returned. “Mum,” he said, “can’t you give me a pair of shoes—somo old ragged ones!” “But, ” said the lady, “I have just given you an entirely new pair; you have them on now. ” “Yes’m,” ho said; “but there’s the trouble. They are so now, you see, that they hurt my business."