Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-17
A CORNER ON ECONOMY.
BY MANpA Ii. cnocKEx.

BY MASDA Il. CROCKEH.
And it has come to pass that whenever
Sou pick up a newspaper. lie it religious,
secular, literary. or non, pro or con, about
the first thing-well, the very first, generally,
-FOUR eyes light on. is achapter on economy.
Now, if there's any one thing that makes
no feel like getting down in sack-cleth
and ashes, to pray for small remnant of
unchristianized solitude 10 srecurerate in,
That one thing is economy.
Oh! the creaking of the rusty old guilty
guillotine of save, save" there isn't as
much mercy in this pinch penny biz, as
turks around the cold steel of another in
vention bearing the same name. That in
strumcnt shuts off the victims appetite in q
twirkling, but the torturous subject under
consideration just takes its own time,
which is usually from the cradle to the
grave. TO operate in. There arc good many
things about as uneasy on the stomach
as this medicine of judicious investment,
but when you Gene To get right down to
the genuine article there isn't bitterer
the other side either, as know of; it will
pass when you measure it out for the neigh
bors. but when you undertake to worry
down mite of it yourself, it hugs around
the palate like castor lie.
But again, economy would be we'll enough
if it could be kept from getting over the
traces, but, as the time Of miracles has
gone by, We see it driven often in the
traces, oftener outside the traces. but
oftenest it goes on the gallop. and under
whip and spur, SO far ahead Of all the
harness, that Judgment sits down and
goes to sleep with the traces. holdtack
straps and NIL in his clutches
That is why this "crctur" comes before
the reading community. sway-backed,
knock kneed, banged, bruised-up, used-up,
dilapidated, pegged-out. old wash-board
of an affair, that disgusts the bcholder, and
instead of being revercd and vcncrated for
the good it has done, or is liable to do by
mistake, it is kicked out into tho bone
yard by the excited recipient, who taltcs II
dreamed of before.
Too much preaching by the non practical
is what dopes this wandering quadruped
with corrosive sublimate. The reader isn't
half as easily gulled as these pestiferous
quill-d1ivers think he is--these pencil
pushers, who have oll the brass and per-
sistency Of whole line Of purtanic fore
fathers, without inheriting a smthereen Of
the grace and application of practical
ability of said progeniters. The nine
tenths of these wiseacres of economical
cut are really noted for nothing but the
long winded efforts of their finely polished
brass mouth pieces.
Nobody believes the fortieth part of half
the articles on economy now extant. And
those that do imagine they believe, and
fall into line and march double-quicl
after these extremists. find that by
the time they could sing long
meter tune clear through they are up to
their necks in the mire, and are as hope
lessly done for" as the slab sided bovine,
silly enough to let its appetite get ahead
of its judgment while fooiing round the
smash, " in early spring. You see the
four-footed animal is prone to economic
also, and thinks it is the supreme height
of poor management TO 60 diminishing oil
over solid terra frma for it's daily bread,
when it can economic on time and
strength by gathering infant hay, luxuri-
ant enough, just weeks length ahead.
Well, the descendant of bessie starts in
with whereas, economy is good thing,
ETC., and brings up in the course Of The
day with resolve, that the whole bust
ness is o blank delusion. all except the
"mash,' and that it acquired by economy
But somebody jumps up on q back seat
and asks, What is economy" Well, We
are led 10 believe that The clear grit is ju-
dicious management of affairs in which
profit is hoped for, and loss is to be "shied"
around. II this isn't q good definition
don't blame us; we never rugged out q
dictionary, nor don't ever expect to. But
we have gone through the book OF economy.
from the simple addition of two parts OF a
shoc-string to save penny, to the compli-
Gated brain racking problems of gain and
loss mostly loss, as figured on our black
board.
We've Teen kept in the training school
of this close listed niggard until the out
line of our copy looms up before our dis
couragcd vision not unlike the gigantic
sphinxes of the deserted garden strip,
loiling alongside of tho Nile; and this mis-
cradle silhouette impresses us with sense
of about as much common use as we pre-
sumo the half-woman, half animal, hard
hearted things would inspire had we the
chance to cavort around the corner stone of
barbaric art. Our childhood entered the
penumbra of its influence when we were
old enough to want two slate-pencils per
annum, or o half-sheet of fooiscap to
scribble nonsense on. from that trying
period We hive struggled on through