Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

’j-A.sTomA. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Big T 6 MONEY ON FARMS AT 5 PER CENT. A special fund to loan on tai ms for five years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Also loans on CITY PROPERTY at low rates. Call or write to tho COMMERCIAL STATE BANK, North Side Public square. Rensselaer. Ind.

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS. One Per Cent Commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, has a special fund to loan at 5 per cent interest and one per cent commission. No delay.

Paris and Snails. Some alarm is by certain Paris epicures because the supply of snails of the finest quality seems to be falling off to a serious extent. This apprehension, however, will cause no distress upon an extended scale, as the taste for the deliberate creature that carries his house upon his back has not been worldwide. In fact, it has never gained much ground outside of the Latin race, and beyond the borders of France itself the number of gourmets who have extolled the snail as a table delicacy of the most desirable sort has not made a long list. But snails are clean feeders. Why should there be anywhere a prejudice against them among the eaters of lobsters and crabs, of sty fed pigs and of the bulging legs of goggle eyed bullfrogs?

Sinking Creek Has Sunk Again. The disappearance of Sinking creek, a large mountain stream in Pendleton county, W. Va., has mystified the people and has caused financial loss. It furnished power for several mills, but has suddenly disappeared. Some weeks ago the water in the stream began to fall and now the bed is almost dry. There has been plenty of rain, and the only explanation of the stream’s disappearance is that it has worn its way through into a subterranean cavern and joined one of the underground streams. Old citizens say that the creek disappeared in the same manner many years ago by finding a subterranean outlet. This incident gave the name to the creek.