Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Would Be Liberal. [ARTICLE]

Would Be Liberal.

A writer in Harper’s Magazine says that the summer residents of a Cape Cod town made up their minds that they must have a casino. The building was intended pretty strictly for their own use, but it seemed wise to enlist the interest of the natives in the project, especially as the projectors wished to secure a site at as low a figure as possible. A building and finance committee was -appointed, and an old resident, a Mr. Buff on, was made one of the three members of it. He was owner of the lot on which the summer cottagers had set their hearts. At the first meeting of the committee the matter of contributions was broached. Mr. Buffon left his colleagues in no doubt as to his position. He declined to contribute a cent Then the two cottagers labored with him over the site. Fifteen hundred dollars was his lowest figure. They explained to him the advantages that would accrue to the place through the erection of the casino, and the inevitable enhancement of the value of his other property; but he held out for fifteen hundred dollars. Finally one. or the committee said: “Mr. Buffon, you shall either knock off something from the price of the lot, or, if we buy it for fifteen hundred dollars, you should make a handsome contribution.” “Well,” said Mr. Buffon, “I’m ready to do something for you. I can’t let the land go for less than fifteen hundred dollars, but if you make the figure sixteen hundred dollars, I am ready to contribute one hundred dollars to the fund.” The meeting was adjourned on motion of one of the summer visitors. Mss. Gumshun calls her children “stars" because they-don’t know how to act— Boston Transcript.