Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

Fruit jars have advanced in price. Doesn’t that jar you? If Cuba isn’t careful Congress may decide that it has rejected its independence, and that it shall not have another chance. Another Illinois judge has declared that the blacklist is lawful. If this is so, the sooner the law is changed the better. After experimenting with the “Wave of Reform”, New York has decided to make it warm for Sunday golf players and let it go at that. The Commoner is said to be running boiler plate instead of warmed over rear platform speeches nowadays. Well, it’s an improvement, anyway. Rightly supposing that kleptomania was about played out, the New Jersey girl who was caught stealing from her classmates has -pleaded insanity. What next? It now seems that the Sultan hasn’t paid France yet; he has only promised to pay her at some date unspecified in the future. The United States can therefore breath again. Ninety old Philadelphia trolley ■ lines were incorporated in one day in Pennsylvania under the new law. That is pretty good for a sleepy hollow like the City of Brotherly Love. A georoia sheriff has earned the approbation of the country by shooting some would-be lynchers. The chances are, howeyer, that he has also earned his defeat at the next election. Now that the Department of Agriculture is meeting with such success in fighting pests with their parasites, it is in order for another fool society “For the prevention of cruelty to insects” to be formed. Cuba has accepted the Platt Amendment at last. It might just as well have dome so first as last and probably would have, had the delegates received a lump salary instead of a per diem arrangement. A California college professor got into trouble by talking politics, and a Chicago college professor got laughed at for talking “Degeneracy”. The only thing left for the professors to do seems to be to talk about their studies. The president shows his characteristic frankness in his recent announcement about a third term. No one will question that he is right—as no one will question the fact that if any man should have a third term, it should be William McKinley. At a meeting of the Democratic Carter H. Harrison League in Chicago last week, one of the principal speakers, John J. Coburn, as reported at the time in Chicago papers, said: “We are not of the silk stocking variety. Yon must know that to be a successful Democrat you should have a little Dievil in you. There is no place in the Republican party for the hobo, the saloon keeper, the burglar and the horse thief. They will have to find rest in the party of the people—the Demooratlc party.

I shot an arrow into the air. It. f<*ll to tin* earth; I know not where. Longfellow. Some of the trees that have the sweetest smelling blossoms produce the bitterest kind of fruit. ’ We wish we had all the money that i has been wasted by p< ople trying to' grow trees. ' The bigger the town the bigger chumps those are called “sassb ty.” Half the things that people oppose, they oppose because somebody else ! wants them. Lots of people fail to appreciate things that others do for them merely on account of ignorance. . Yoh can get but very little advice that is worth listening to. The trouble in a country town is that even if the streets are numbered and named, nobody knows where they are. A man whose footsteps sound like a woman’s does not likely amount to much. An agent selling things around town needs to be careful about whom he quotes as having bought, or his testimony will do him more harm than good. It is incalculable the time that is wasted in this world. Everybody has a grudge at the man who is accused of being a hog. People who think they can imitate women talking, think the way to do it is to talk in a real squeaky voice. Very few women have squeaky voices. The trouble with accident insurance is that you hardly ever have it when you need it. Most any man you meet nowadays has his pockets full of circulars advertising some fool scheme on other. You have no idea how tough a man can look till you see him without his collar. We do not see how a woman who has anything else to do can keep herself in clothes. The time when peoples’ mortgages show up worst is when they try to show oft. Just because a man stops a paper is no sign that he stops reading it. When a woman marries her second husband she often changes her place of buying groceries. When a fellow goes to see his girl in the afternoon on a week day, you may expect the invitation to appear any time. Shiftless men always know about the law tor certain offenses that only no account people are guilty of. Our advice to a preacher would be never to allow his parishioners to see him without his collar on. It is a mighty big man who can acknowledge a mistake. A green streak in people can be traced for three or four generations. A good many people quiet their consciences by lying. Every time yop*go visiting you have to pay the penall.) when you got. home hy the extra amount of work that has accumulated. canteen question will not down and Secretary Root is going to make a determined effort to restore it, and with backing of all the army officers and the National Association of Military Burgeons, he ahould succeed in reestablishing it. Just think! Jerry Simpson was robbed by a bunco artist the other day. Is Jerry determined to work hla way back into the hearts ol the rural voters?