Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

To keep plows from rusting: To three pounds of tallow mix one pound of white lead. Melt the tallow in an old iron pot; stir in the white lead. When using, heat the mixture and apply it with an old paint brush. In the spring just put the plow in the ground. This will clean the moldboard as bright in a few yards as it was before. The same applies to any farm tool used for cultivating. * - J. It helps the wagon-maker to let the mud freeze to the wheels when you come in from a trip. You don’t need to do it, though. By taking a little pains you can get most of the mud off while it is soft, and so save the wagon many years longer. What a lot of strength there is wasted chopping with dul) axes! Spend a few minutes at the grindstone and see how nicely the world wih go,after that. Hot water on the grindstone will spoil it after a little so that it will have no grit Use warm water, not hot, for taking the frost out of your stone. . Some folks make themselves so lame kicking about things, that they tire themselves all ■ out and never make anything out of life. It doesn’t pay- - You are better than you seem; better than you believe yourself to be. So don’t give way to discouragement \ Funny. Church—"ln nearly all of the cities In Chile women are employed as street car conductors.” Gotham —“It must look funny to see a conductor out there get off bwf backward.*