Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Too Old to World at Ninety-six. [ARTICLE]

Too Old to World at Ninety-six.

A delightful story of poor-law administration comes to me from Thlrsk. At Carlton Husthwalte, a small village In that neighborhood, lives a veteran of 90, who was at the battle of Waterloo. For some considerable time he has been on the union books ns a recipient of outdoor relief. But recently a great doubt arose In the minds of the guardians, why the old man did not earn his own livelihood. So the expense was Incurred of sending a medical officer some miles to examine the nonogenarlan, and report whether he was tit for work or not. It is needless to say that he was not. The doctor might Indeed have been more usefully employed in Inquiring into the state of mind of the Bumbles who sent him on such an errand.—London Truth.