Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — The Sweetest Songster. [ARTICLE]

The Sweetest Songster.

Over the breakfast Miss Dorothy, the enthusiastic ornithologist of the boarding house, discussed the merits of the nightingale, lark, thrush and so forth. “And which. Mr. Hunker,” exclaimed Miss Dorothy, “which of all the song-birds are you fondest of?” ”1 prefer the hen, Miss Dorothy.” "But the hen isn’t a song-bird at alii” objected Miss Dorothy. "Well,” replied Hunker, tapping another hard-boiled egg, “it’s the only bird whose lay I care for!” Pastor Julius Dtsselhof, son-in-law and successor of Flledner, was the father of Evangelical deaconry. For thirty-eight years he presided over the work in Kaiserwerth, Germany, and It has grown wonderfully in his hands. "My proud heart never would have desired it,” be said, when they elected him. But when he died, they called him one of the great men of the church, and applied to him Paul’s glory: “I have fought a good light”