Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — A Calculating Monster. [ARTICLE]

A Calculating Monster.

The wife of a wealthy man died in York County a few weeks ago. Her illness was prolonged, and no doubt expensive. But that was tlie poor womans misfortune and not her fault. Howriver. her thrifty husband cheered the tinal weeks of her life by regularly sitting down by her bed each day and detailing bow much her sickness was costing him, striking a trial balance for' the suffering wife's benefit every evening. At last sfle died, and while she lay in her coffin tlie bereaved spouse, deep in thought, picked up one of the dead wife’s sheets and carefully figured on Its sole with a bit of chalk the sum total of what the sad affair had eotit him. She’s still dead, luckily for her. -Lewiston Journal.