Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — Hero of the Hour. [ARTICLE]

Hero of the Hour.

Hurrah for Gen. Funston! He richly deserves his promotion.—Kalamazoo Telegraph. Hail to Col. Fnnston. the unoscnlated Hobson of the Orient!—Detroit Free Press. It is Gen. Funston now. No American volunteer ever deserved better of his country.—Washington Times. Ten to one when Aguinaldo gets his last ditch ready that man Funston will be on hand to swim it.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Col. Fred Fnnston is so small that it will be easy to Hobsonize him when he returns to this country.—Springfield Journal-. In the race for fame the Kansas colonel who bites is several laps ahead of the Ne-

braska colonel who only barks.—-St. Paul Dispatch. Col. Fred Funston, the Kansas cyclone in the tropics, is not a Chicago man. He didn’t stop to boil the water. —Omaha Bee. Col. Funston can have anything he wants in Kansas when he gets borne, even Jerry Simpson’s socks, if he can find them.—St. Paul Globe. If the people of Kansas do not elect Col. Fred Funston to something they will miss a great opportunity to honor a real hero.—Baltimore American. The Ball Teams. The New York team is the laughing stock of the country.—New York Evening World. Pittsburg has won a game. This is a notable occasion on account of its rarity this season.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The ex-prides of Van der Ahe haven’t as yet had their batting eyes forwarded from St.^Louis. —Cleveland Leader. It looks now much as if Manager Hanlon had taken the wrong batch of stars over to Brooklyn.—Brooklyn Citizen. The Boston nine continues to emphasize the brilliant success with which it can lose games this season.—Boston Herald. Can it be possible that this is the beginning of the end that has marked the playing of the Phillies for several seasons past?—Philadelphia Times. The chief trouble with the Colonels this spring does not seem to be that the men are playing poor ball, but they do not appear to work together.—Louisville Post. What is wanted is a team run by Mc» Gmw and Robbie and owned by gentlemen who not only live in Baltimore but stay in Baltimore, are at Union Park to see their team play, and who have not superior financial baseball interests in any other city on the circuit.—Baltimore News. Latest Achievement of Science. Wireless telegraphy gets here just in time to announce the arrival of cowless milk.—St. Paul Dispatch. Wireless telegraphy is evidently one of the solid scientific achievements of the day.—Springfield Republican. The Hawkeye believes the wireless telegraphy is a demonstrated event and that it will find its practical utilities in the commercial as well as the scientific world. —Burlington Hawkeye. The successful experiments in Wireless telegraphy are said to be causing some concern to the managers of the telegraph companies—but not enough to cause them to stamp messages, as yet.—Tacoma Ledger. Samoan Sitnation. Mataafa probably begins to realize what is meant by “the power behind the thrown.”—Louisville Post. •' Admiral Kautz’s ready-made king is a subject of the American people. Consequently we can all reflect that, though we have no king ovffr us, we have one under us.—St. Paul Dispatch. It has already been the boast of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain that he has never taken physical exercise. Now he is reported laid up with the gout. Serves him right.—Boston Herald.