Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1914 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Secretary Bryan hopes to have thirty treaties of peace ratified by ( hristmas, “thus assuring the peace of the United States with all the world. as he expresses it. Good enough—if they stick. But treaties of peace are easily torn asunder, as wjtness the little unpleasantness of our neighbors across the pond. The rulers of Europe are all linked together by piarriage, which is proof positive that a family jar is about the worst brand of scrap on record. If Turkey gets too promiscuous in this international wallop she may find herself furnishing the spread for some other nation’s Thanksgiving dinner. Some men make an awful noise, but nobody ever hears them.