Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

James W. Scott. Mr. Scott was personally a most genial ind likable man.—Buffalo Courier. It was impossible to be acquainted with him and not like him. —Scranton Truth. The city was eminently for the man and the man f A the city.—Kansas City Star. Long will his memory live in the arof American journalism. —Springfield News. Fortune failed to change him from the gonial, kindly spirit that he was.—Milwao* kee Journal. There is no man in the profession whose loss could be more severely felt. —Minneapolis Tribune. He intelligently labored to the achievement of the .public interest- Rockford— Register-Gazette. He was a man of high private chara» ter, and this was reflected in his newspaper.—Toledo Blade. He inaugurated a new era and injected a new spirit in the Western newspaper field. —Oshkosh Northwestern. Mr. Scott has been a force in Western journalism and politics that commanded national recognition.—Kansas City Journal. Mr. Scott was a man of great and enterprise and possessed wonderful executive ability.—Rochester Post-Ex-press. He had just attained the zenith of ths popularity and success for which he had striven so long and deserved so welt— Peoria Transcript. Above all he had a high sense of the duties which belong to newspaper work, believed in making a paper of clean character, attractive In its typographical appearance, and edited in its own office.— Springfield Republican. Mr. Scott was a grand type of a true American. He was eminently a practical man, and many editorial conventions have been instructed and benefited by his addresses and instruction. Few knew him but to love him.—Elgin News.

Opinions on Various Subjects. The oil producers can Jive on the fat es the land, If they wish.—Cincinnati Tribune. In any event, Great Britain never Into the handle of the jug get on the farther side.—Detroit Tribune; The author of “Trilby" may come to this country if ho likes, but he must aa* sums all the risks.—Chicago Record. What is needed is not legislation to make the dollar cheaper, but to make It less coy and delusive.—Chicago Dispatch. The counterfeiters of the postage stamp probably excited suspicion by using a good quality of gum.—Kansas City Journal. The Income tax opposition has revealed •no curious sact —the enormous estimate which multi-millionaires put upon two cents.—-St. Louis Post-Dispateh. The Lexow investigation cost $07,000, which is cheap enough, for Tammany would have been glad to pay forty times ns much to prevent it.—St. Louis GlobeDeinocrat. J’hojje persons who hnve positive knowledge that J. Wilkes Booth is still alive should form nn organization of some sort and do their talking to each other.—Chicago Tribune. • •- Russia is growling louder than EngIgjid over Japan’s peace treaty with China, but there are no signa that either of them means to do anything about it.— New York Recorder. Tax on Bachelors. ; The one commendable feature of the tax would be tho ease with which it could bo collected.—Bloomington Bulletin. Illinois proposes to tax bachelors, too. It looks as if a new name would have to bo Invented for single blessedness.—Boston Herald. There Is a bill in the Illinois Legislature to tax bachelors—the theory probably being that married men are already ’■"vertaxed.—Detroit News. A supplementary tax might indeed be levied upon such old maids as should be discovered to have promised once upon » time “to be nf sister” to any young man, As a rule old maids do not require a home other than that which they may provide for themselves, nnd it Is nn insult to them to suggest that they stand in neea of such a retreat. —St. Paul Call. Illinois proposes to tax bachelors above the age of 32, and with the proceeds of ’ the tax establish an old maids' hornet This would appear to be equitable, whether constitutional or not.—Minneapolis Tribune. If either division of the unmarried is to bo taxed it should be the women. Say that each woman refuses the marriage offers of five men, not a very unreasonable supposition; it follows that taxation to promote marriage should be first laid upon women.—New York Sun. Women who receive and decline offers of marriage should be compelled to pay a fine, the proceeds of the same to be turned into the fund created with the tax on bachelors for the support of women who honestly and earnestly try to get husbands and fail. —Cleveland Leader.

Woman and Her Hat. Many men are of the opinion that woman will not deserve the ballot until she gives up big hats and balloon sleeves.— Baltimore American. A Dallas lawyer opposes the bachelor’s tax and insists that women shall go back to sun-bonnets so that he can afford to marry one of them.—Galveston News. The Inflated theater hat flaunts itself triumphantly in public, while the whipping post skulks regretfully back into the shadow of innocuous desuetude.— New York World. There is a future awaiting the theatrical manager who will provide a hat museum near the foyer where women may inspect each other's bonnets between the acts.—New Haven Palladium. The designs for the theater hat thia spring are larger than ever. Fashion is an inexorable ruler. Perhaps since woman’s suffrage .is recognized the women will remove their hats.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr., Cook’s Expedition. It is to be hoped that Frederick Cook will on his expedition to the south polo meet with better results than have the many explorers to the pole at the other extremity.—Washington News. Dr. Frederick Cook will lead an exploring party next September to the antarctic ice cap, which covers a sixth of the surface of the globe. The doctor expects to pre-empt this little tract and make a summer resort at the south pole for effete New Yorkers. —Minneapolis Journal. To Dr. Cook, who is said to be contemplating an exploring expedition to ths antarctic regions, we have a single suggestion to make. It is that he arrange to send out a relief expedition in advance to receive and care for his party when It arrives wherever it is going.—Washing, ton Star.