Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — What You Might Call Calculating. [ARTICLE]

What You Might Call Calculating.

Lewiston Journal: I never hear an instance of meanness mentioned without thinking of an aged man whom I met one day last summer on the Kennebec Valley camp-gronnd. In speaking of the late war he dwelt upon its horrors so pathetically that T was led to inquire if he had participated in the struggle. “No,” he answered, “I wasn’t in the army, but my son was a soldier. He was drafted and wanted me to get him a substitute. ’Twould have cost |4OO. I couldn't see any money in it, and there's where I was short-sighted. M v son was killed before he’d been a month at the front, and I’ve been hiring a man ever since to help carry on the farm. It’s cost me hundreds and hundreds of dollars over, and above the prioe of a substitute, and, besides, my soa was a master hand to * work, and the smallest eater I ever saw.”