Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — His Self-Respect. [ARTICLE]

His Self-Respect.

New York W< ekly. Tramp— All my troubles come from card-playin', mum. I lost me self-respect, an’ then I didn’t care what became of me. Housekeeper (sympathetically)— Poor man! I should think you would have lost your self-respect. Tramp—Yes, mum. A man can have no self-respect w’en he always loses.