Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — The Miser and the Widow. [ARTICLE]

The Miser and the Widow.

A notorious old. miser, who was near his last end, was visited by a widow who entreated him to lend her a small sum of monef to keep her children from want, and added: “You are soon to go to the grave, and you can’t take your gold with you.” “Exactly, ma’am,” piped the old man, “but if I don’t leave enough to ereet a grand monument to my memory men will remember all my faults and none of my virtues. Give me a note at sixty days with a good indorser.” Moral—You have only to visit the cemetery to realize that the old chap was level on the top of the head.— Detroit Free Press.