Show unfortunate an antei trav cling agent for a cleveland tombstone manufactory recently made a visit to a small town in a neighboring county hearing to that a man in in a part of tile the township had lost his wife he concluded to go and see dimand liim and offer consolation and a gravestone grave stone on oil his usual reasonable terms he started the road was a frightfully bad one but lie persevered and arrived at tile the bereaved ones house bereaved banys mans hired girl told the agent that bereaved man was sp splitting littin fence rails over in tile the pastur about two miles off the indefatigable agent mounted his horse and started for the pastur 11 after fallin falling P into all manner of mud holes and scratch scratching ilig himself with b biers and tumbling over decayed logs the agent at last found the bereaved man in ili a SU subdued voice lie he asked as ked the man if he had lost his wife the man said ile he had the agent was very sorry to hear bear it and sympathized with bereaved man very deeply in his great sorrow but death was an insatiate archer and shot down all of both high and low degree he informed bereaved man that what was liis his loss was her gain I 1 ind and he would be him a gravestone the spot where the beloved one slept marble pr common stone as ho he chose at prices defying 0 competition bereaved man said there c was a slight difficulty in the way you lost your w buo 1 I why yes iliavi but no grave aint necessary you bob sc 0 o the cussed critter aint dead slid icom scooted ed with avih ani n ill 1 i ti c ali awe other 1 r 4 in j L r |