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Show "JOKE" DROVE OLD MAN INSANE. Prank Played by Thoughtless Youths Has Sad Result. D. XI, Messer, farmer, 65 years of age, who lives near here, Is hopelessly Insane, due to nn alleged Jok.e flayed upon him by his grandsons, says a dispatch from Huntington, W. Va. Recently he gave a dinner, to which his children and crandchlldren were Invited. While at this reunion six of his grandsons, ranglag from 16 to 30 J ears of age, who reside at a distance dis-tance from the Messer liomcitead( 'planned, as a Jok, that each ono should write the oln man a letter thp following week. Each letter was to express solicitude for his safety, since tho writer had dreamed that his grandfather grand-father had died, nnd also was to nd-Juie nd-Juie the old man to tako extra care of himself The letters arrived one by one On Monday the first was received; Tuesday Tues-day the second; Wednesday and Thursday like letters followed each other with tho samo dark foreboding. The result -was thaUthe old man allowed al-lowed the matter to prey upon his mind h" heavily that by Saturday ho lost his reason and will be confined le an nsjlum |