Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — An Ingenious Farmer. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenious Farmer.

An ingenious farmer, sticking a few nails into a clothes-line to keep his neighbor’s cattle out of his pasture, went about his other business, thinking no more of the matter. A sharp fellow came along, saw the rope and began to think about it. He evolved the “barbed wire” fence, and the very farmer from whom the fellow got the idea has to pay him a tribute for an article which he himself originally designed. And the income of the monopoly is estimated at SIOO,OOO per month. Women that have been bedridden for years have been completely cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.