Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1909 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PERT PARAGRAPHS. Money is said to be the root of all evil, and many people are quite philanthropic enough to sit up nights to devise schemes to root the evil out. The winter of discontent that the coal and ice men suffer untold pangs from is sweet, warm and pleasant for the rest of us. It takes a lot of courage to secure a rich wife, but it is by no means certain that it doesn’t take greater to annex one that isn’t. In this world of contrarieties there is no use in trying to have the, other fellow get your point of view, for if he were to it wouldn’t be yours. It is a touching sight to see an old acquaintance, and in some pathetic case it is your pocketbook that is hardest hit. The fellow who gets the worst of it, being wise, swallows fils discomfiture, denies its existence and proceeds to claim the victor’s laurels through the pages of the magazines. SHARKS6ETGQVERNOR’SSI3O Eberhart Falls In With Two Card Experts on a Train. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 10. —Captain Stol of the Pennsylvania railroad police has word that Governor A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota had been made the victim of card sharps on the Manhattan Limited, losing 1130. The local police wired after the train left here asking whether the two sharks, who are here, should be arrested. A reply was received stating that nothing could be done. Tobacco Planter's Bam Burned. Cynthiana, Ky., Dec. 10.-—The bam of Edward Judy, together with 5,000 pounds of tobacco, near Beaver Baptist church, this county, was burned, presumably by night riders. The Democrat for sale bills.