Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — ABSTAINING FOR CHARITY, [ARTICLE]

ABSTAINING FOR CHARITY,

Scheme by Which the’Wife Swalled j the neeelpfa. K * WeSt PhliadAiphla inhn who tfei tennined a few days ago to : abstain t totally from strbng’ drink for a perloA petsbaded by his >vife into a financial arrangement '.which threatened.“ft) j The agreement that very tiine 1 the’ man' refused an itivltation to F a dllioi put the money whieS T b?ve spent In ajiqpliment into ff | hii^ylr^W^' nig|it She jenndo‘u|e.this Ptoney'for ; charing, '■an\£Qr,, jjesr _bu»bapd mtghl.-. jotj have always the exact, ahSfig&ito: ahe provided hhn n wlth. a, number, trf. bean*, to tiered.as-. valued at .5 cents eaehk.ajud , / .tp. J and : Tho. evening ;tbe,man got home he fiouad 45 .cents I»cgsh,in his pocket, andt twentyvthreft. b^aas.; This, hiorkod a very' 'exceptional dwr,-tbe man declared, .hut the .nest-evening he found, tilie pocket carried 1 one dime and-thirty-three beans. - Them be alleged that would probably have-ref used '-some- ofIhei invjtatlonsFfWhteh he-had counted Cveh -if ;hf had -ilot -bee» 0a- fire -wagons- *tthOreupoifc 4ris-wtfe ‘confessed, shh- had;made arritugements. with her father; her brbtherhnd hgr sister's husband to go to the abstainer, every day as soon as : posslt)le' With tm-'ihvitation to drink. ' • • • Since it all went to dmrfty-'the husband* took file Joke, but tiOvv though the arrangement i'9‘ still oil, ■*the r ' Wtie’s receipts from the pocket haye'inateri’-; ally lessened.—PhYladeipßia Record.