Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — Most Too Good To Have Died So Young. [ARTICLE]

Most Too Good To Have Died So Young.

,A clergyman, who was not adverse to an occassional glass, hired an Irish- —“ Burn to clean out his cellar. The Irishman began his work. He had brought forth a lot of empty whiskey bottles, and as he lifted each one, looked through it at the sun. The preacher s who was walking on the lawn, saw him and said: “They are all dead ones, Pat/’ "They are?’” said Pat. "Well, there is one good thing about it—they all had the minister with them when they were dying.”