Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — A LECTURE ON ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

A LECTURE ON ECONOMY.

A stupid-looking tramp knocked at one of the finest residences in Austin, and was received by the lady of the house. “What do you want?” “Please’m give me a dime to buy a glass of bread; ’sense me, I mean a loaf of beer.” “I haven’t got any money.” “Haven’t you got no money? Then, madam, I would suggest that you move into a cheaper house; you are evidently living beyond your means. Economy is wealth. Economize in the matter of clothes and house rent. Out your expenses, and then, perhaps, some day you will have a dime to spare—a dime, madam, that may be the means of preventing a hungry and thirsty fellowmortal from committing suicide; or it may be a quarter—a coin of the value of 25 cents—that will upholster the dark clouds on the horizon of his dispairing sold with a silver-plated lining, and fill his stomach with Bock-beer. Good-day, fair lady.” —Texas Siftings. The law forbidding Jews to have Christian servants is revived in the Government of Eleff. It is perfectly proper and right soma man to kill all his enemies by converting them into friends.