Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — WHAT IT MEANS. [ARTICLE]

WHAT IT MEANS.

Frequently you pick up one of the local papers, and after glancing at the head lines, wearily thrust it aside, remarking, “Nothing in the paper today.” Did you ever stop to think what that phrase —“nothing in the paper today”—means, asks the Carthage Democrat. It means that in the webk jest passed that no misfortune has befallen one in our city, that no fire has wiped out a neighbor’s worldly goods, that the grim angel of death has crost no threshold of a friend, that no man driven by liquor, hatred or fear has taken the life of a fellow human, that no poor devil, .haunted by the past or the misdeed of some other has orost the divide by his own hand, that many things that ought not to happen have not happened. 80 the next time you pick up a paper that doesn’t announce a tragedy give a little thanks instead of grumbling because there is no news.