Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1909 — "WORKS WHILE HE SLEEPS." [ARTICLE]

"WORKS WHILE HE SLEEPS."

Like a highly advertised patent medicine that works while you sleep, chickens theives entered Uncle Marsh Warner’s “henery” one night last week and made a successful getaway with forty of his choice Plymouth rock chickens. The hen house is only a short distance from his window, but never r a squawk did they utter to give him warning, and Uncle Marsh vows that he has a likely roostef that he will train to make a noise like a locomotive every time the latch is rattled. By the way, the chicken theif is the most contemptible skunk on earth. “Chicken money” usually belongs to the wife of the household, who looks after the chicks from the time they are hatched until ready

for the market, and the miserable whelp who will steal the housewife’s pin money deserves a coat of tar and feathers and then sentenced to the penitentiary at hard labor or the rest of his natural life. It is the most contemptible of all thievery, and vre hope that when some of these miserable hounds are caught here red-handed, as they will be sooner or later, our courts will make a “shining example” of them.