Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Object Lessons in Economy. [ARTICLE]

Object Lessons in Economy.

Ban-lera (Texas) Bugle. We now sport a nice milch cow. H<?-w di, tS^ et EajiUia ■ftn* her; the fen cents a day, saved since March 6, 1886. On that day a friend of ours insisted on treating us to a smoke, as it was our birthday, but we refused the kindness, informing him, courteously, that we never smoked a cigar, to which he replied that he averaged from one to three per day, at a cost of five cents to twenty cents each day, and that he never missed the small change. We told him then that from that day on we would lay away ten cents per day as long as we able to do so, and see how much it would amount to each year. Wfe have kept it up to date, and, as a consequence, we have a fine Durham cow and calf bought with four hundred ten cent pieces.