Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

John G. Milburn is said to have aged ten years in ten days.—Buffalo Times. Shaffer is now finding how much sharper than a steel-toothed trust is a thankless union,—Buffalo News. Iu these days a novel, a play and a baseball team are all judged by the gata receipts.—Detroit Free Press. The price of cabbage is going so high in the East that fears are expressed of a nickel cigar famine. —Denver Post. While we did some things with our army that amused eiir British friends, we never neglected to pay it.—Detroit News. It is ciajthed Hint golf will cure consumption; but so far as we know there is nothing that will cure gdlf.—Detroit Free Press. One editor consoles himself regarding the high price of potatoes with the reflection that the scarcity is also hard on the bugs.—Topeka Journal. However, several thousand workmen will regret that. President Shaffer did not decide curlier that there was nothing to say.—Grand Rapids Press, Even if Admiral Sampson is ill, it may eomfort him some to know that all his countrymen are also pretty sick of the whole affair.—Grand Rapids News. With so many Congressmen living in hotels, it is feared that the coal trust problem won't fittingly impress itself ok the lawmaking mind.—Detroit News. The misery of the situation is that by hanging the wretch we shall not get rid of the breed. They persist. They exist in every community.—Philadelphia Record. > Historian Mnolay's government job pays him *2.45) a day, but it is believed the royalties from his naval history will increase it to s2.so.—Grand Rapids Press. After nn Alabama sheriff hud got the drop with a shotgun the mob decided that, after all, it would be better to let the law take its course.—Detroit Free Press. New York draws a wide distinction be-

tween the heeler and the healer. One of the latter class has just been sent to the work house for thirty days.—Detroit Free Press. Considering the size of most country ministers' salaries, it is not surprising that one was caught in Boston trying to steal enough for his family to live on.— Buffalo News. The big mealy Minuesotn potato may not bo as vigorously “promoted” ns the Texas oil well, but it is a thing of joy and n beauty forever, just the same.— St. Paul Dispatch. Admiral Howison tried to make it very clear to the department that he would not have had any opinions if he had suspected that he was talking to a reporter. —Grand Itapids Press. We hare no admiration for Shaffer, but we have no sympathy for those who were foolish enough to grunt him autocratic powers and then condemn him alone for results.—Detroit Free Press. The school book agents have cost the people of Obi* more than $1,000,000 in promoting needless changes of books. The agents are expensive and highly unnecessary luxuries.—Toledo News. Jerry Simpson can’t stand Mrs. Nation’s rivalry in the fair town of Wichita. He will remove to the Klowa-Conianche reservation, taking his Saratogas of silk stockings with him. —St. Paul Dispatch. It scents to l*e beyond dispute that L'nole Sam has stamped out yellow fever in Havana. But will the people whom be has saved go to work, or lie around in the sun, talking fight.—Cleveland Press. China is having the nnnuai floods and drowning people by the tens of thousands. Fortunately, China has the people to drown, or she would have hard leek with the next census.—Pittsburg Times. A St. Louis preacher has disedvered that vice is not confined to the slum*. We should be in a dreadful state of ignorance if it were not for the efforts of the patient ministerial investigator.—Detroit. Free Press. It is all very fine for a strike leader- to say that he will be “responsible for the consequences.” Will he stand for the sufferings of the wives and children of his diqies? Will he stand for the ruined towns?—New York Evening Sun. The church folk of Dickson Tenu., have opened a grogshop and are Belling all kinds of fancy and plain drinks at cost in order to drive a saloonkeeper out of business. That’s a good place for Dr. Parkhurst to visit.—Buffalo Times. That is a very dangerous proposition of the West Virginia steel mill workers—to drill nnd equip rifle companies. To do it Would not only be eoutrary to the laws of the State, but would open the way for civil war and untold suffering.—Buffalo Times.

The mosquito is up against a hard proposition. He must fight the Standard Oil trust nnd everybody knows what that mean*. That organization ha* given SIOO ind an oil wngon to the Staten Island officer who ia making a campaign against the peat.—Topeka Journal. Biidiop Spalding rightly aaya that capital is not the foe of labor, but that its worst eneinlea are vice and ignorance. The future work of the labor unions must Im> directed more exclusively to recruiting nnd purifying their own ranks. This will have the double result of giving them prestige .and influence and of strengthening them when anything more than argument must be used.—Tyledo News. A Chicago woman, annoyed by her husband's continual tooting on a troniisine. drove him from the house with it revolver. Now she is suing him for dt* 2 sertion. Women arc ns hard to please ns in the days of Scott.—Buffalo Times. It is n pity that Gen. Lord Kitchener has no sense of humor. In « dispatch describing s small defeats he apologized for his by saying that they were hi nJt ’’untiwrowWWr Motion.” Musty the Boers nre not expected to select places for fighting which shift, be convenient for the other side.—New York Evening • v >•