Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1908 — Where They Die Only Once. [ARTICLE]

Where They Die Only Once.

A lumbering old stage was winding In and out over a remote road In the Adlrondacks. There was only one passenger and he had chosen to sit outside beside the driver. Several times he had tried conversation, but had met with so little encouragement that he had given up and was silently watching the landscape. Presently they came to a tiny mountain burying ground, containing a few gravestones and a few unmarked graves. The passenger looked at It, struck by Its air of loneliness, which seemed to stir In him afresh the desire for human Intercourse- He turned again to the driver, pointed toward the graveyard, and observed: "People around here don’t seem to die very often, do they?” And without tilnjing his head, "Jest once,” said the driver.

What was probably one-of the largest cargoes of fruit ever carried from any port In the world In cool chambers recently left in the State of Aasmanla. for England. The shipment exceeded 126,000 bushel cases.