Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Progress and Poverty. [ARTICLE]

Progress and Poverty.

Mr. Bilgate (entertaining a Western friend at his suburban home) —I haven’t much elegance to offer you, but this modest little home is the result of years of self-sacrifice, and it is very dear to me. His Guest—Oh, this is delightful! By the way, who owns that elegant mansion across the way? Bilgate—Oh, that belongs to one of my traveling men.—Clothier and Furnisher. The wise husband never advises his wife to give the dry-goods stores the “go by,” for fear that she does not spell as he does.