Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NOTICE We have purchased the General Fire Insurance agency, which belonged to the late Rial B. Harris, are now in a position to write every possible kind of insurance* at the lowest possible rates. Persons having any losses to report or any changes to make in their policies under the. Harris agency, kindly notify us.—OHAS. J. DEAN- At SON, Odd Fellows Building. Phone 31. 06

Use of Barbed Wire in War. The part that barbed wire has played in the war is reflected to some extent by the foreign commerce reports, observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This is peculiarly an American product, the Bliddeu invention having been utilized on a large scale by John W. Gates at St. Louis. The descriptions from the front show the effective use made of this simple invention, which the late Senator Ingalls said was suggested by the manner in which milch cows avoided bramble bushes. It was woven and twisted into a barrier that seemed impregnable until the British developed the use of. artillery in such amazing fashion. The study of fortifications has been followed from the beginning of human history, and it is a singular fact that a. simple fencing device, designated for an untimbered country, should surpass every other obstacle to the progress of a modern army. Art of Egypt. Art history, particularly in the branch of painting, has undergone some radical revisions in the last quarter of a century, as a direct result of Egyptian archaeological research. Painting, as we know it today, is at least 3,000 years old—-and we have found the originals to prove it. The site of ancient Thebes, now represented by the modern villages of Karnak and Luxor, has been one of the richest quarries worked by modern scholarly excavators of various nationalities. Ten years ago the New York Metropolitan museum’s expedition established at Thebes a special school or atelier for the purpose of copying and recording the brilliant-painted scenes and inscriptions uncovered In the royal tomb chapels of Egypt’s rulers of morethan thirty centuries ago.