Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1899 — Husbands To Burn. [ARTICLE]

Husbands To Burn.

A railread conductor tells this one: “I found a lady in black grieving) profusely. I asked, “My poor madam can I be of any help to you and what is the matter? ’ She replied, “O conductor, I have pay busband’s remains in the baggage car, carrying them to Baltimore to be cremated.” A little farther down the car a lady just as handsome as the other said to me, “Conductor, what ails that sister?” “Madam” I replied, “she is carrying the body of her husband to Baltimore to be cremated, and I am surprised at her grief as it is her fourth husband.” Lady No. 2 began to weep very loudly and in great surprise I said: “Madam you are worse than the other sister. What ails you?” “Oh, conductor, the Lord is not good, I have trusted to the Lord for forty years, and never had any husband, and there is a woman with husbands to burn.