A FOOLISH MAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2014, 25 February 1907, Page 3

A FOOLISH MAN.

A veteran soldier of 94, Richard Anderson Sylowavne, of Waverly place, New York, who claims to have been one of Abraham Lincoln’s political advisers, has offered himself for sale for 50 dollars. He says ho is compelled to take this step through the poverty that has made him and his agel wife miserable for years. Sylowayne makes it a condition that the 50 dollars be given to him at once so that he may hand it over to his wife anl pay the landlady for money due. He will, for this sum, give himself to his purchaser for the remainder of his days. He alternatively offers Ins remains to any physician who will pay over a similar amount to liis wife; and says ho would even commit suicide it any doctor cares to purchase his body. The sum, however, must be paid before death, “and the money must go to my wife, my little sweetheart, ho continued. “From the 50 dollars she would deduct what is, due to the landlady, so that none may say we have not paid ou just debts. “If no physician cares to accept this offer,’’lie added, “I am willing to sell myself to the highest bidder in public.”