Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1904 — Mourning In Real Earnest. [ARTICLE]

Mourning In Real Earnest.

"Death is a sad thing,” said the stranger to' the man who stood weeping beside a grave. "It is, indeed,” sobbed the other. "I suppose.” remarked the stranger, “you are sorrowing over the grave of a very dear friend.” “I am sorrowing oyer the grave of a man I never knew,” replied the mourner, “yet I deeply regret bis demise. He was my wife’s first husband.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.