Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — A Merited Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Merited Rebuke.

At the age of eighty-six Madam Reynolds still found much zest in life, and having retained all her faculties, she felt that a few of the physical disabilities of her age were of small account knd portending nothing. Her nephew Thomas was a man of much worth, but of a certain tactlessness of speech which always roused the ire of his aunt. A few weeks before the old lady’s eighty-seventh birthday, Thomas, who had been overweighted with business eares for years, started on a trip round the world which was to consume two years. “I’ve come to say good-by,” he announced, when he appeared at hia aunt’s house, in a town fifty miles distant from his home.. “I’m starting round the world next week, and as I’m to be gone two years, and perhaps longer, I thought I might not ever — well, you understand, I wanted to be sure to see you once more.” The old lady leaned forward fixing him with her bead-like eyes. "Thomas,” she said, imperatively, “do you mean to tell me the doctor doesn’t think you’ll live to get back?"