Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Excursion Rates. [ARTICLE]

Excursion Rates.

Possibly Great Britain may find that South Africa is a sort of gold .brick after all. Certainly, it can hardly be worth what it has already . cost.

Now automobiles have been introduced into the Sahara desert and soon will be navigating that ocean of sand in place of the old fashioned “ship of the desert. 1 ’ _. .

An Illinois decision holds that the fact that horses have always occupied the streets gives them no exclusive right to these thoroughfares. This is pleasant reading for auto and bike riders.

A Methodist minister has protested against the admittance of ministers to sick rooms, saying that their solemn countenances usually cause relapses in the patients. Shouldn’t wonder if this were so.

Philadelphia isn’t so slow, after all. A physician there has sent in a bill of $190,000 for attending a millionaire in his last- illness. We should like to know what he wouldn’t have charged if he had saved him.

It’s funny to watch Democratic antics sometimes. Recently, the press of that party was abusing the adminstration for turning Russell Harrison out of the army; now it is abusing it for putting him back in again.

The British bonds sold readily at 971 at the same time, however, American bonds essentially similar were selling for 112, this difference measuring with sufficient accuracy the variation between the credit of the two countries

The much talked of commercial war of Europe against tne United States is almost inevitable sooner or later if we go on invading their markets and taking away their trade. Se f preservation will compel it. Starvation will compel it.

The financial center of the world is rapidly shifting from London to New York, just as the commercial supremacy ot the world is shifting from Europe to America. It is a magnificent future that this country has before it in the century just beginning. x

Filth, it has been proved, does not cause yellow fever directly. It does serve, however, to breed mosquitos which do propagate the disease. Therefore, the abolition of filth goes a Jong way towards x eradicating the evil. But destruction of mosquitos would go a good deal further.

Susan B. Anthony maintains that there 'is scarcely a woman in the country who doesn’t want to vote for president and vice-president anyway. We’ll bht you, Susan, that fifty per cent of ,the women of the country cjnjZtjtfven name the four chief candidates in 1896 —and don’t care.

Republicans will do well to take to heart Representative Babcock’s demand for the abolition of the tariff on goods that are made cheaper here than they can be abroad. This is not unlikely to be an issue in the next presidential election, and the Republicans want to be on the right side of it.

British farmers are kicking because their government buys its horses in "the United States insteackofat home. The reason, however, is plain. British farms cannot begin to supply the demand without absolutely de nuding the country. Our British cousins must get a move on in this as in other particulars.

For the Pan American Exposition’ tickets will be on sale daily during the exposition, with limit of 15 days, at $18.95 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Tuesdays only, during the month of May, with limit of 5 days. $15.50 round trip. Through ticketswill be » sold only via Delphi or Lafayette. SI.OO for the round trip to Logans port May 13th, 14th and 15th, good returning to May 18th G. A. R. meeting. $4.40 round trip to Indianapolis May 28th and. 29th. $3 30 to Indianapolis May 20tji and 21st. I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge Meeting. $4 40 to Indianapolia April 23rd and 24th. Order of Easter Star Meeting.