Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-14
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mental-looking man with the thin side
whiskers.
"What's wrong with him?" growled
the double-chinned citizen with the
shaggy eyebrows. HE don't need any
of your pity, does he?"
Didn't you hear about it," asked
the sentimental-looking man. Hes
dead. He died last Wednesday, Took
pneumonia"
He'd take anything he could get his
hands on if the owner wasn't looking"
said the double-chinned citizen. "Well,
If he's dead, he probably is to be pit
led"
Hes Dead" demonstrated the senti-
mental-looking man.
$50 you told me-" said the double
chinned citizen. ''It's a long lane that
hasn't any turning. So he died a natu-
raj death, Ell? 1 never expected it.
why"
HE took out an accident policy for
q year less than nine months ago" re-
piled the double-chinned man.
"He left quite a good deal Of money,
1 heard" said the sentimental-looking
man.
'"Thc first time in his life" said the
! double-chinned man. II don't see how
he brought himself to do 1t, at that.
He must have lost consciousness at the
last"
''Tut, TUT" said the sentimental
looking man. when a mans dead we
ought to forget his faults and remem-
Der his virtues"
81 can't remember any that he had"
said the double-chinned citizen, "and
my memory is a pretty good one"
ct was at the funeral" said the SEN
timental-loolzing man. "The SER
did they give him funeral?" asked
the double chinned citizen.
"Of course they did"
'I didn't know. l thought perhaps
Il beg pardon. You were going to
say something about the sermon,
weren't you? 1 think he was good
subject for a sermon. Anybody there
besides you"
and a few of his friends"
ST thought he had always lived in
Chicago"
"What do you mean?"
"Where did his friends come from,
then?" asked the double-chinned citi-
zen. "I'm mighty sure he didn't have
any here"
''Well, he wasn't a man who had
many intimates," admitted the senti-
mental-looking man. IL can't say l
knew him intimately, myself"
"If you had you wouldn't have at
tended the funeral" said the double
chinned citizen. 81 knew him fairly
we'll. About 5000 worth, exclusive of
attorneys fees. Still, don't know
that 1 wouldn't have gone If 1 had got
an invitation, just to make sure.
You're positive that he was dead, are
you? You aren't just telling me he is
to please mel"
az should hope that you wouldn't
any fellow creature" said the senti-
mental-looking man. 81 know you are
not in earnest, though, when you say
things like that. He was good hus-
band"
"He had to be-" said the double
chinned citizen. "You saw his widow,
didn't you? A man would have to be
good to her, unless he preferred the
society of a trained nurse and the hos
pital atmosphere. So they preached a
funeral sermon! Did the minister men,
ton his watch?"
mo-" replied the sentimental-lOok-
ing man, wonderingly. why should
! he?"
Its customary to speak Of mans
| good works on such an OCCASION" said
the double-chinned citizen. 81 supposed
that he would have to make the most
of Ganby's."
"You must have disliked the poor
fellow" said the sentimental-loOking
man with the thin whiskers.
''What makes you think that?" asked
the double-chinned citizen.-Chicago
Daily News.
/ A Curious Tablet.
A steamer from Shanghai recently