Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Practical. [ARTICLE]

Practical.

In a dreamy rapture he kissed her golden tresses. “The future,” he exclaimed. joyously, “with Its castles in the air!” She turned with sudden earnestness. “Reginald," she said, decisively, "don't deceive yourself. I tell you once for all I shan't live above the second story under any circumstances.” Pick-Me-Up.

The South is destUied to be. and is rapidly Ik-ebrmng. the "gariti-n of the United States. Here life is easier to live, the rigGrouw winters do not eat up the fruits of the toil of summer, nor are the summers so trying as many Northern people have supposed. “1 used to live only halt the year," said a Northern farmer recently settled in the South, "and I used to work all the time then. Now 1 work half the time and live all the year through.” Homeseekers' excursion tickets will be sold over the Monon Jtonte to nearly all points in the South at the rate of one tirst-fiass fare (one way); tickets good returning on any Tuesday or Friday within thirty-one days from date of sale. Liberal stop-overs are allowed. These excursions start (and tickets are sold) Aug. 17, 18 and 31: Sept. 1. 14. 15: <M. 5.«t1. 1!) and 20. Call on Frank J. Reed, agent of the Motion Route, for further information.