Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Mr. and Mrs. Abe J/ORg’s infant son has been very dangerously sick, but is now improving considerably. Men’s shqgs from $1 to $4.50, at Hemphill Honan’s. C. C. Starr’s pure Jewel Tea is the most refreshing of beverages. Mr. John Groom, formerly of Barkley tp., and Mrs Ruth Jones of Lafayette, were married a short time since, and have now settled in Rensselaer. They are a lively and evidently happy couple even though they are pretty well ad vanced in years, and have had previous matrimonial experience.

A distressing and dangerous accident occured Tuesday forenoon ing in the burning in a terrible manner of Ben. Tuteur’s little 4 year old boy, Herman, better known as “Booby.” The little fellow was lighting a piece of paper with a match, and it burning his fingers he dropped it to the floor, and then the flames caught in his skirts. He’ ran out doers and into the arms of his mother’s sister, Miss Lena Bensel, a deaf and dumb lady, and she rolled him in the grass and in her own garments, untill the flames were extinguished, burning her own hands quite badly, in so doing. The boy’s left side, from the knee to the armpit, is very badly burned. It is a very dangerous injury, and although be seems to be a pretty tough little fellow the chances that he will recov- ' er are unfavorable. His mother was at Cameron Springs for medical treatment, but returned home yesterday. Please call and settle your account at once. We need the money to settle our bills. Yonr accounts may be small but a hundred such, amounts to considerable to us.

HEMPHILL & HONAN.

Qur reverend and greatly esteemed old friend Elder Shortridge, of Keener tp., was in town Monday evening, and happening to be in conversation with those guileful citizens, Simon Phillips and Judge Healy, he enquired why the people were flocking into the Opera House, so numerously. The ready witted Healy at once assured the Elder that there was to be a “Picnic” there but did, not say it was a “Muldoons’ Picnic,” but did say it was Tor the benefit of the church, and and very religious and deserving of patronage of all religious men. Of course the Elder wanted to help along so good a cause, and in company with the Judge and Mr. Phillips he went and took a front seat; and it is vouched for as a fact that the play was so vastly funny that the good Elder totally forgot to notice the absence of the religious features thereof until the curtain went down after the last act: and then, and not till then, did he realize how greatly his trusting confidence had been imposed upon by the designing and worldly minded men in whose company he was.

We have received from our former townsman, J. LJMakeever, of Osceola. Neb., and are truly thankful for, a copy of a book just published for him. It is a romance entitled “The Wandering Jew”, and is based upon the fanciful legend of Ahasuerus, who must forever walk the earth until the Christ comes again, as a penalty for an insult offered to Him, when weary with bearing his cross towards Calvary. The book is a neat volume of about 140 pages, and is embellished with a fine engraving of the author, as a frontispiece. The book is not published for sale, but only for distribution among personal friends. The book is of powerful and sustained interest, and evinces great literary ability upon the part of its author, albeit it is much in the style of Rider Haggard’s “She” and like that wild, wierd tale, has too much of blood, murder and'supernat-

ural phenomena to suit our some vhat slow literary predelict'ons. But the boo k, as we before remarked, gives evidence of the possession by its author of an unusually high order of literary ability; and still more is this true of the considerable Dumber .of original poems scattered at random through the book. These are the product of a true poetic genius; and especially is this true of the last and longest of It is a poem that would be a credit to any modern poet. Mr. Makeever can attain wide distinction as au author , and poet, if ho < hoses to devote his , attention largely to literature..