Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1915 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILES

MONEY TO BURN. “Economy has Its pains as well as Its pleasures,” says a Washington preacher, “if the experience of an old darky of my acquaintance in Virginia counts for anything. “One spring, for some reason, old Mose was going round town with the face of dissatisfaction. When questioned, he poured forth a voluble tale of woe in these terms: “ ‘Marse Tom, he come to me last tell an’ he say, “Mose, dey’s gwine to be a hard winter, so you be keerful, an’ save yo’ wages fast an' tight” “‘An’ I believe Marse Tom, yassuh. I believe him, an’ I save, an’ save, an’ when de winter come it ain’t got no hardships, an’ dere I was wid all dat money just thrown on my hands!”*