Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

Just think I You can become a part owner of the great steel trust for $lO. Speaker Cannon will win a place In the halls of fame if he can think of anything to add to Tom Reed’s rules. Spain is in good financial condition, but, it should be remembered that it has been selling islands at a profit in the last few years. Dowie has shown that it pays to advertise. People who wish to draw crowds must first get their names in the papers. Professions! beggars are working toward St Louis with a view to getting a part oi what the hotel men do not take next year. If Canada feels so bad about losing a ragged patch of coastline which it never owned, how is it going to stand being annexed whole? Only $65,000,000 of aqneous shrinkage in steel stocks to date. Too bad this squeeze could not have been utilized out where irrigation is ueeded. Some r-eople who would like a block of Steel stock are waiting until the shares go for nothing with a chromo thrown in as an inducement for carrying them away. Germany wants to dig the Panama canal. The man who is looking for a sure thing to bet on will make no mistake in acting in accordance with the “tip” that she won’t. Perhaps die Balkan war cloud had to take a rest for the winter in order to allow the Macedonians to recuperate and raise a few thousand more people for the spring massacres.