Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1915 — His Eulogy. [ARTICLE]

His Eulogy.

An old farmer who was widely known as the crassest, closest and most generally nonlikable citizen in the whole state died. “Now it is customary, in the case of rural funerals, for those who attend, as they stand by the coffin, to murmur some eulogy of the dead. A number of farmers came in and said things which didn’t square at all with the old man’s life. “Finally an aged man, who had known the deceased all his life, hobbled in and stood by the coffin. The aged man was known as the most truthful man In the county. Hence the other people present waited with interest to hear what he would say. “The old man gazed down silently for a while. He paused. Finally he spoke: ‘Wall,’ he said earnestly, ‘nobody kin deny that he was a great hand for closin’ his stable door o* nights.’ ”