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Show DEFENSE OF THE STINGY MAN. Wherein He Differs Occasionally from the "Good Fellow." "They Bay l am stingy. All right, ljt It go at that: I AM stingy. Hut did you over hear that I was a dead Lcat7 Tliero was a tlmo when I threw my money away, and stood off my creditors, In order that I might bo known ns n good fellow, but now I save my money and pay my debts. Thoro waB a time when I spent ten dollars In nn evening, bumming around with tho boys, and owed the tailor for the clothes on my back: when I wont riding every Sunday with a livery liv-ery rlg, nnd did not pay my board; when I thought It nn ovidenco of smartness to buy cigars and drinks , for other people, but now I think It nn evidence of sound sensd for a man to save tho money for which ho Is compelled to work, In order that ho may realize something from It. For this I am called stingy, but I can stand It; In fact, I rathor enjoy tho title, for there arc so many shiftless fools In this town who Imaglno that they are good fellows, hoping to leallzo on their wanton waste of money, that I am glad I cannot be -classed among them. Ask tho bill collectors about tho good fellows. Tho bill collectors col-lectors will tell you a story worth listening to and they will also tell you that tho stingy men pay promptly. There aro a lot ot old good fellows In Atchison who havo not money onoush to bury them, and thero nre stingy fellows fel-lows In Atchison who began life under more unfavorable circumstances than tho good follows, and tho stingy follows fol-lows aro rich. I recommend that the young fellows deserve the name of being be-ing stingy, for a stingy man seldom stints himself or his family, but he often refuses to throw his hard-earned money away, and very properly. A stingy man Is seldom bothered for donations, and. "altogether, I like tho name." (Found among the papers of an Atchison man who died rich.) Atchison Globe. |