Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — “Living Like Gentlemen.” [ARTICLE]

“Living Like Gentlemen.”

A leading business man of Central New York, finding that he had reached the close of liis life, called his two sons to his bedside, told them he had arranged his affairs so that they would have a million each, and begged them to do nothing, but live like gentlemen on the income from their possessions.

Then he died, and his two sons, in pursuance of tlieir father’s last request, proceeded to do nothing and to live like gentlemen. In twelve months thfe life of a gentleman finished one of the sons, and another year completed the earthly career of the other. Both fill drunkards’ graves, and they own the graves.