Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1904 — NEW SHORT STORIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW SHORT STORIES

la U>« “Mountings.” Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell, who toured New England last summer on hl» bicycle In order to gather facta about witchcraft, la an authorlty on the history of superstition and persecution, and he la also an indefatigable wheelman. Professor Burr, with bis bicycle, has penetrated many primitive and secluded parts of the United States. From these Journeys he returns with little stories that are now quaint, now strange, now humorous. A story of the latter sort concerns a visit to Tennessee. j *T arrived one night at a mountaineer's cabin," said the professor, “and aßked for shelter for the night. The good people were very hospitable. They gave me a comfortable bed and an excellent meal. "While I was eating the meal my host watched me narrowly, to see that I had everything I wanted. He kept ordering his wife to fill my glass, to bring me more bread, etc. Finally, when I began to eat u piece of apple pie, be exclaimed In an Indignant tone: " 'Jane, why don’t you bring the gentleman a knife? Don’t you see him here trying to eat his pie with a fork ?’ ** An Improvement Saggeated. The late John It. Procter, the president of the civil service commission, was a student of the University of Pennsylvania In 1863 and 1864, and an old Pennsylvania man said of him recently: “Procter was a great walker In his college days. He liked nothing better than to set out early on a frosty morning and to walk twenty-five or thirty

miles through the country. He would start alone, as a rule, but If he fell In with a teamster, a laborer, a tramp—any one—he was well pleased. He would bring home many an odd bit of talk that he had gathered In this way. “I remember how he once met an Irishman on the road to Norristown, ne and the Irishman plodded along together a matter of six or seven miles. They stopped and read each milestone, as walkers always do, and Procter said: *’ T think that milestones cheer a road up wonderfully, don’t you?* “ ‘Faith, an’ I do that,’ said the Irishman. T find them a great comfort. It would be an improvement, though, if they was nearer one another, wouldn't itr ” . MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. Parties desiring to borrow money and to offer farm lands as security will do well to see us before placing their loans. We have the best facilities for placing loans and we believe we can save you money. Our contracts are from two to ten years with privilege of paying at any interest paying time. While others have either raised their rates or quit business, we still have an unlimited amount of cash at 5 per cent interest. See us, we will do you good. Baughman & Williams, Attorneys & Abstracters, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 329.

“FAITH, AN’ I DO THAT.”