Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

In the matter of Culm it is well to remember that the American people also owe something to themselves.- Scranton Tribune. Gen. De Wet is teaching England the lesson the Russians taught Napoleon, and the Spaniards impressed mi Marshal Ney —that long lines of communication arc very weakening and very dangerous.--lowa Register. An adventurous contemporary lias printed an alleged picture of Col. Carrie Nation’s husband, if there are ax-marks on him he is posed and his hair skillfully arranged so as to conceal them.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Uncle Sant lias refused to buy from ttpain the big floating dock in Havana harbor, and Spain may lie asked to remove it. The dock ought to have been annexed as one of the spoils of war.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. An American merchant of Manila, who “possessed the confidence of Maj. Gen. Otis,” is under arrest for giving nid ami comfort to the insurgent Filipinos. The man after the dollar tights under ull flags and honors none.—Brooklyn Times. It is well to remember thnt the United States did not intervene iu Cuba for that island's independence, but for the establishment there of a government according with United States ideas of what government should be. —New York Tribune. The famine in China introduces a new and difficult complication In that distressJ iug country. The powers, instead of considering how little or Imw much they | will take by way of indemnity, will bare to face the work of relief.—New York ISveniug Sun. Bargain counter rushes mgy be sought for by some department stores, but when the erush crowds tin* life out of a little 1 0-year*old child, which lias separated | from her mother, it is a misfortune thut is not a good advertisement for trade.— Providence Telegram. The Supreme Court of the United State* decided Home time ago that the railroads could not "pool” their freight traffic. But when there is only one ruilroad In the country, which Is not n very remote prospect, of wliat practical value will that division be?—New York World, j A variation of the Mrs. Nation method la that of n Massachusetts wiflnqn, who ■ labels saloons with texts from Scripture, the favorite sentence being, “Wine is a mocker.” The Eastern plan ia the milder oue, certainly. Possibly, It may be tha more effective, for thnt reason.—Richmond (Va.) Dispatch.