Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — Kept His Promise. [ARTICLE]

Kept His Promise.

Some minstrels recently started on a tour, and advertised in a town to give a performance for the “benefit of the poor. Tickets reduced to 25 cents.” The hall was crowded, and. the next morning a committee for the poor called upon the treasurer of the concern for the amount the said benefit had netted. The treasurer expressed astonishment at the demand. “I thought,” said the chairman of the committee, “you advertised this concert for the benefit of the poor!” “Well,” replied the treasurer, “didn’t we reduce the tickets to twenty-five cents so that the poor could all come?”