A YANKEE OBITUARY NOTICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1008, 17 February 1912, Page 4

A YANKEE OBITUARY NOTICE.

The American papers have been reprinting a striking obituary notice which appeared lately in a country paper published in the State of New York. The principle De mortuis ml nisi buntrm is often carried to such extravagant lengths that it may be worth reproducing for the benefit or British journalists : "Sam Pobdell is dead. Some days ago he was stricken with blood poisoning trom a bile in the neck inflicted while tig ruing with his wife when lie was drunk and she intoxicated, ills only virture was the persistence or his wickedness ; his only excellence the stability of his nnrepentance. Boozer, lighter, liar, wife-beater, chicken thief, egg stealer, profane aud vile ol speech to the point of nausea, he was the trademark of siu, the sentient emblem of vice. But he has gone hence, and it is never our inclination to kick a man when be is down, yet at death his proverbial luck was with mm, He goes below just as the whitening frosts aud chilling winds are ushering in a long and tedious season. He’ll keep warm aud comlortable at other idlows’ expense. Well, so long, Sam, and so long as it is long, good luck.”