The Good Old Times

-Living was cheap enougn in the olden time. Socate-ï wá 8 supposed to have lived upon ran income oí seventy-fivo dollars; hut hu lived woree than a elave. Ui coat was shabby, and he wore the same garment winter nnd sumracr; ho went bare-footed; hisehieffood was bread and water; anil as he engaged in no business to mond hia estates or incorne, it is not wonderful that his wife scolded. Demosthenes, his sister and their mother, paid ior their board $105 a year, and provided tbe house in tlio bargain.