Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Although then may be no war between Japan and Russia, no one can say that Japan waa ’fraid.-—lndianapolis News. Gen. “Freddie” Fnnatoa ought to have anticipated the frost be got In Nome, Alaska is a cold country.—Washington Times. The concert of the powers will probably not be moved to do anything until “Hiawatha’" is played.—Cincinnati Timee-Stur. Can Senator Morgan talk as long In favor of the Nicaragua route as he spoke against the Panama route?—Cincinnati Tiraes-Star. Mr. Carnegie predicts that England and America will eventually be one nation, but fails to tell us which one.— Washington Post. The Saltan is thankfnl for the breathing spell afforded by Manchuria being temporarily forced into the limelight— Washington Post. If we have really loaned Russia SIOO,000,000, it is now obvious why Russia is so positive we will not go to war with her. —Boston Advertiser. Parson Dowie has invaded New York, bnt Wall street being too dead to skin, the game is probably hardly worth the candle.—Los Angeles Times. King Edwnrd is not the only royal mixer. The Russian czar and the Italian king are reaching out for his laurels.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The publicity department of the Bulgarian war seems to be working shorter hours. Is the press agent taking a vacation? —St. Louis Republic. Secretary Wilson thinks that foot and mouth disease has been eradicated. Wait till the big campaign gets fairly started next year.-—Minneapolis Times. The powers of Europe are evidently preparing for a grand concert, at which the menu served after the performance will be Turkey.—St. Louis Star. King Peter of Servla has promoted the assassin who placed him on the throne, but it isn’t clear whether he was grateful or merely afraid.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is characteristic of Russian methods that the discredited Governor of Kieff has been allowed to retire through 111 health —to a higher office. —New York Sun. China is patiently waiting for the conclusion of the Russia-Jnpan negotiations before deciding whether she will buy fireworks or crape.—Washington Post. The flying machine may arrive, bnt It will be a long time before passengers cease to regard the parachute as its most important attachment. Washington Star. What a pity that the eighty insurgents who are reported to have repulsed 2,000 Turks couldn’t have been present to defend the pass at Thermopylae!—Boston Globe.

Rumors nre renewed that President Roosevelt carries a gun. But even that won’t renew Uis popularity in certain Southern circles. —St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat. Our national treasury surplus is an awful temptation to combines that need the money. The ship subsidy bill is showing signs of life again.—Minneapolis Times. Of course, if the iron workers like a man of the Sam Parks stripe, why, then, doubtless Sam Parks is about the sort of man that the iron workers like. —Kansas City Journal. Hon. Dave Hill ought to restrain his tendency to take up the role of a Jeremiah. This is no time for lamentations, but for lamming the other fellows. —Atlanta Constitution. Even though the government scientists prove that people eat too much, It will be a difficult task to effect a reformation unless hard times return. —Portland Evening Telegram. The Sultan of Turkey has levied a heavy war tax. Thought the old bird hadn’t even a pluckable pin feather; but Abdul knows how to use tweezers. —Atlanta Constitution. Oh, horrors! We spend more on chewing gum than on missions' Ah, but by keeping some jaws busy, otherwise than hi talk, we do the best kind of mission work. —Brooklyn Eagle. Premier Balfour is finding that it’a harder to run a cabinet of diverse opinions than it is for a right-handed man to play golf with left-handed clubs. —Seattle Post Intelligencer. At any rate, Uncle Andy Carnegie wasn’t so blamed anxious to die poor that he accepted United States Steel “preferred” Instead of first mortgage bonds. —Augusta Chronicle. If the Czar suppresses race persecution in the Sultan’s dominions who will do the same in the Czar’s empire? It la very inconvenient, this living in glass houses. —St Louis Dispatch. The Turkish outbreaks nad massacres are taken very seriously by people who do not pause to reflect that murder and carnage are to Turkey what golf and tennis are to America. —Judge. There is a strong probability of a war between Spanish Honduras and Nicaragua. We wouldn’t advise th# United States to begin on earthworks in the latter country till the unpleasantness is ended.—Boston Transcript. The University of Michigan has put on a course in journalism jnst to show that a newspaper man can be developed outside of a newspaper office. They can raise potatoes in a hothouse, too, but they don’t, usually.—Boston Herald.

Here’s Arthur Chamberlain saying that his business would be ruined U Joseph Chamberlain tariff ideas were to be adopted. Arthur and Joseph are brothers.—Detroit News-Tribuns. It is stated that bridge whist is suffering from a decline in popular favor. Perhaps the bridge sharps hare succeeded in harvesting all the other fellows’ money.—-Cleveland Plain Dealer. With Mussulmans and Christians slaughtering each other and Christians tilling Hebrews by the score, tt is evident that religion has a great deal ts learn from peace.—Columbus Dispatch*