Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — "Overworked.” [ARTICLE]

" Overworked.”

He came home late at night, and his wife woke up and found him with a burning match trying to light the faucet over the marble basin in his dressingroom. “James,” she said, “that is not the gas burner.” “ I know it now, my love,” he replied, unsteadily; “fact is, I’ve been overworked and tha’s reason made mistake.” “ Yes, you look as if you had beqn lifting a good deal,” ahe quietly W~. ewwea, as she returned tq her pfliow. '