Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — Cheap at the Price. [ARTICLE]

Cheap at the Price.

It Is told of Bishop Williams, oi Connecticut, for igany years a presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in, America, who lived all his life a bachelor, that he was talking one day with a young man from the West about a tax a Western State was trying to impose on bachelors, the tax to be increased a certain per cent, for every ten years of bachelorhood. “Why, bishop,” said the young man, “at your age you would have to pay about SIOO ft year.’-’ “Well,” said the bishop, quietly and in hi 3 old-time vernacular, “it’s wuth it”—Pilgrim.