Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Better than a Deed. [ARTICLE]

Better than a Deed.

When the Virginian who lived In the wretched log cabin with a family of ■even had told me that forty acres of his land was a solid coal bed, 1 asked him if his deed was all right. “Never bad no deed, sab,” he rather proudly replied. “But have you no papers at all?” “No paper 'tall, sah. I jest squatted down on this yer land thirty years ago, •nd hev bin yere ever since.” “But if you have no papers won’t the owner come along some day and bounce you out?” “Not skassly, sah—not skassly. That Is to say, sah, that the real owner has come along three different times and tried It, and every time he got killed ind had to give up. Deeds and slch things are all right ’nuff In their way, but my old gun, with a bar’l seven feet long, is a heap better right around yere.”—Washington Post. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp’s Balsam Will stop the cough at •nee. Go to your druggist to-day and get • sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Important to Chorus Girls. "And what does the story of the prodigal son teach us?” asked the teacher. “It teaches us hOw to get the fatted calf,” was the prompt reply of the bad boy at the foot of the class.—Chicago ' Post. Dyeing Is ns simple as washing when you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Spain Is threatened with a strike of Schoolmasters, some of whom, it la •aid, receive • salary of culy >ls a year.