Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — An Incompiete Landscape. [ARTICLE]

An Incompiete Landscape.

Mr. Kreezus, the multimillionaire, was entertaining a friend at his elegant country home. “I was born and brought up in this neighborhood.” he said, “apd when I was a boy I used to think what a fine thing it would be to have a house on this hill. It’s the highest point of ground, you will notice, within a circuit of several iftilee, and the view from here is extensive.” “It is magnificent!” exclaimed the visitor. ~~ “Yes, and when the time came that tvcould afford It I gratified my boyish ambition by buying the ljtnd round here and putting up this house.” ”1 have been in a great many places, and I have never seeij, a finer landscape than this.” “That’s what I used to think, but I don’t like it now as well as I did when I was a boy.” “What makes the difference?" - “It isn’t complete." “Not complete? Why, you own the landscape, don’t you?” "That’s the trouble. I own all of it but that eighty-acre patch over there beyond the creek, about six miles away. The old curmudgeon that owns It won’t sell it to me at any figure** 1-1-And Mr. Kreezua sighed dismally. When a girl is about sixteen, she knows the only reason she isn’t a queen ti that the king hasn’t discovered her. >