People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A man was in town last week with a very old game. He was going from house to house selling soap, 3 bars for a dollar and a set of dishes—64 pieces—to be delivered the following week. It is surprising how many women wanted the dishes. Those who insisted on paying upon the delivery of the dishes were not, permitted to try the virtues of the soap. The purchasers are also without the dishes. Yet they afe no more foolish than the men who pesist in paying Al for three sticks of candy.--Fowler Leader. The Goodland Herald seems to be fully appreciated by its live business men, from the following squib which appeared in its columns last week: “Although now printing four pages of the Herald at home, our advertising space is so crowded that we will he obliged to use an inside page for this purpose. People in Goodland have learned that this paper, as a local advertising medium, has no rival.” It might be a good example for our business men to follow.

Walter Blackburn Harte, whose writings in the New Eng land Magazine introduced his name to the reading public, con tributes to the June Arena a paPQJ on Boston's fashionable quarter, which is illustrated . with nine full-page photogarvures from photographic views lake especially for the purpose. Unlike most of Harte’s work, the article contains many figures but the liigures are pregm ?r with raillery and satire. B. F. FERGUSON is now piepared to make farm loans at 6.r per-cent. Interest per annum, coffimission as low as any one else. He does his own abstracting and can save you money there. Be sure and call. We can make your loans quickly. We make it a specialty. Thos. Erwin and family, of near Stoutsburg, spent Sunday hero with friends and relatives. An infant child of Dick Stone and wife was buried on Monday of this week. The Pilot is now on sale a! Charley Simpson's news stand. Come in and see samples o? “America Photographed,”