Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — A Spider’s Web Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

A Spider’s Web Newspaper.

Among recent novelties that of a newspaper printed on the web of a sacred white spider is chronicled. It is a sheet about 11x14 inches, contains two columns of matter, Including an English story, and is excellently printed.

It looks as though the action of Farnham post G. A. R. in da-, manding that the pensioi. roll be made a roll of honor, will, after all, be approved by the G. A. R. Gen. H. Y . Boynton takes the ground that pension reform it an absolute necessity and insists that the G. A. R. should lead in the movement to bring it about. “The reputation and honor,” he says, “of the Grand Army of the Republic are now at stake in tb.s matter. By the action of its highest officers it has been committed to the remarkable proposition that G. A. R. posts shall not openly discuss and uphold pension reform. It is idle to make answer to this charge by pleading technicalities.

The Grand Armv now owes it to itself to support a searching examination of the pension rolls. When this is done not only the Grand Army but the whole country can be relied upon to insist that none | but unworthy cases sha’l be drop--I,ed from the rolls of honor. “Under the present administralion it is believed the pension roll can not be fully reestablished as a roll of honor until uch investi*. gation has been thoroughly and honestly made. And when the country is satisfied that the roll is a worthy one, and not until then, will the feeling pass away that the pension expenditure is, in considerable part, an unjust burden.