Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — PULSE fo the PRESS [ARTICLE]

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Chicago is still worried about what to do with its water. Why not wash it?—Memphis Commercial-Appeal. By means of his oscillator, Tesla can change a Chicago girl’s kiss Into a clap of thunder. —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. It looks as if Picquart’s enemies are about ready to select an island for his future residence. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Spanish bishop of Porto Rico, who resigned when his salary stopped, went on the principle of no pay no cure. —St. Paul Dispatch. Oh, what a glorious opportunity for Prof. Norton! Let him go down and see what happened to the Maria Teresa.—St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Corbett can give Spain pointers on the art of fighting. Mr. Corbett can get licked and make a big profit on the job.— Washington Post. According to Dr. Sternberg’s diagnosis, the trouble in the army can be best cured by congressional appropriation in allopathic doses.—Philadelphia Ledger. Nikola Tesla should either rein in his imagination or spur up his inventive genius. The distance between the two is becoming rather magnificent.—Kansas City Journal. News reports say the Maria Teresa is stuck on Cat island in a bed of sand, and truth requires the statement that it war lack of sand that permitted her to drift there.—Philadelphia Times. It would be easier to believe that Lord Beresford has agreed to pay Jockey Sloan $25,000 for his services next season if Sloan wasn’t so anxious to have the figures published.—Boston Herald.

Feer or Crank? The Keely motor must now be packed away with other monstrous conceptions of the human mind, like Symmes’ Hole. Those who examide Mr. Keely’s workshop, if such examination be permitted by his will, are likely to find nothing but involved mechanisms that lack the essential element of practicability,—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Many great inventions have resulted from trifles or accidents by patient students, who had seemingly exhausted every resource. Keely is therefore not to be ridiculed. His idea may seem chimerical now, but his purpose was beneficent and the time may come when posterity will call not him but his critics the foolish ones.—Galesburg Republican Register. The difficulty with Keely was just this —that he made a wrong distribution of his abilities. If he had put as much energy and sheer power into perfecting his motor as he put into organizing his financial support, he might have thrown Tesla into the shade, and made Edison hunt cover. As it was, he only lacked one thing of being a great discoverer—the making of a great discovery.—Kansas City Journal. But he worked on and died leaving his invention uncompleted. His partners in the enterprise hope that the Keely motor has been pushed to a point of development where it can be taken up by other hands and brains and advanced to practical working. Let it be hoped so; for science has done so much for the race that Americans look upon things once regarded as wild with imaginings as plausible and practicable.—St. Louis Republic,

The W. C. T. U. Temple.

The hard times and not the women are to blame, however, and the chances are that any organization of men would have been forced to throw up its hands long ago.—Peoria Transcript. It is hardly surprising that women unaccustomed to handling large business enterprises should have become dismayed at the magnitude of the Temple scheme, but they might have drawn inspiration from the courage of Mrs. Carse instead of listening to the timid counsels of Lady Henry Somerset.—Minneapolis Tribune. The action of the W. G. T. U. convention in dropping the Chicago Temple creates no great surprise. It was too big a scheme for that organization to undertake, and even if it had been succcssftal, it has never yet been made clear how (he cause of temperance for which the W. C. T. U. is working would have been benefited. —Bloomington Pantagraph. That most women are confirmed hero worshipers is shown in the strife of the W. G. T. U. over the proposition to make the Women's Temple a monument to Miss Frances E. Willard. The sentiment which inspired the Temple contemplated the erection of a noble memorial to the cause for which many labored with equal head of the movement led a considerable portion of the workers to idolize the leader above the cause.—Springfield Journal. North Carolina Race Riots.

As to the outrage In Wilmington, it may be said that there was no plausible excuse for the revolution of Thursday. The white leaders bad only to wait till Majch to come into power in the city government. Waiting so brief a period would not have brought disaster.—lndianapolis Journal. The whites, not the blacks, are the rulers of this country. North and South, Bast and West. That fact should have been established long ago, and is, we believe, well understood in every other State in the South except the unfortunate eastern portion of North Carolina, and when terrible work of yesterday is done the fact will be thoroughly established there. —Nashville American. The negroes in the South cannot stand against the whites when it cpmes to a question of physical force. They may outvote the whites in some States or localities, but in time their victories will surely be snatched away from them by the shotgun or rifle. Their only safety lies in abandoning the race issue and dividing in politics, as they naturally would if there were not two separate races living side by side.—Minneapolis Tribune. It seems in North Carolina they want many negroes there to leave and also wish to prevent those outside from entering. This is like the Southern coon trap that caught them going and coming.—Philadeuphia Times. The accounts of the wholesale and unprovoked murder of colored men in the South may well make an intelligent person reflect as to whether or not certain Southern States are a part of the American Union. For a few years there was less of this barbarism, but of late there has been a remarkable revival of It— Philadelphia Press.