Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Mighty Expensive. [ARTICLE]

Mighty Expensive.

Two old farmers sat talkiuglu a ppblie office, and any one who passed by might have heard the following highkeyed conversation: "Pm 72.” ..-dl *‘l can beat ye; I’m 75.”< „ J “I’ve had eleven children." n‘ “I’ve nad thirteen' and lost all but sour 1 . ' I’ve got more'-money t coffins and boards in Hickory Green graveyard than any other man in the township! Them last two caskets cost me $95 apiece, and that’s not saying anything about the price of graves and other et-cetters. I tell you, it comes mighty expensive on a man—buryln* a family!"