Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

News that the Arctic ocean is to be explored for undiscovered islands between Alaska and the pole makes us ready to drop the subject of undiscovered fauna in Africa for awhile. Firm of aeroplane makers agrees to deliver a machine to order in forty days. General Accident has been known to deliver one without orders in forty seconds. Sociologists should take note of the amount of individual worry sidestepped whenever a potato patch meets the expectations of the man with the hoe. We can outwit middlemen who put prices up 50 per cent by wearing clothes 50 per cent longer and eating 50 per cent less. Suffragettes may find marrying a man who agrees to vote right as risky as marrying a man to reform him. Better for bathers looking on to be fooled than to see companions drown before their eyes in dead earnest. The corporation can put its income tax on the ultimate consumer just as it does tines and bad bargains.

The yield of the tourist crop doesn’t all go to pamper effete Europe, thanks to our White mountains and Yosemite and Yellowstone, our orange groves and olive groves and our Adirondacks and plain Maine woods. The oil can which hurries up the fire and the candle which finds the gas leak seem woefully out of place In a generation that boasts of having forgotten more than Its daddies ever knew. The fact reported by an exchange that "butter 200 years old is frequently served in India” Is further proof that American ships her choicest products to foreign markets. Baldwin’s scheme to float to the north pOle on an Ice cake probably occurred to him In a summer night’s dream. Some of the satisfaction that the day is over would be lacking after a denatured Fourth. As to a tax on Incomes of $5,000 and over, every man you meet is saying, "I don’t care.”