Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Band Concert. [ARTICLE]

Band Concert.

Well, if the country is warm, it has at least also made it warm for the weather bureau. Perhaps Mr. Bryan would rather talk* than eat but it is certain that most people would rather eat than listen to him talk. Possibly it is true that the Boers are burning and looting, but it beats us to imagine what the British can have left for them to destroy. It is now possible to send eight messages at once over one wire, and it is hoped that it will soon be possible to report women’s conventions verbatim. Mr. Bryan now gets his reward for stumping Ohio for the state ticket on several occasions. The people there have gotten to know him and act accordingly. General Kitchiner reports that he would have captured President Stevn, if, etc. We all remember what would have happened, ‘‘lf the dog hadn’t stopped, etc.” Minister Wit has asked recompense lor outrages on his countrymen by white boxers in this country. Fie! Fie! Mr. Wu. You ought to know too much to try such a bad joke on us. Edward Atkinson has abandoned his amateur politics and taken up amateur theatricals. Probably he is wise. At least he cannot know less of the latter than he do&s of the former. Pat Crowe is said to be in South Africa. We thought that people went to Africa for gold instead of taking it there. There is a sort of “Coals to Newcastle” air about the latter proceeding. After all, the British ideas of Boer resistance were not much more at variance with facts than those of Secretary Seward, who said the South would be whipped back into the Union within ninety days. The experience of Hawaii is not encouraging for the advocates of entire self government for , Porto Rico and the Philippines. The island is practically bankrupt, besides being involved in numerous disgraceful rows. Texas is pointing the finger of sco'rn at the doctors who told her that oil would abolish mosquitoes. She has provided the oil but the mosquitoes seem to revel in it. They worse there this year than has been known for years. The kissing bug has come to the front again and the wail of his victims -is beard from Beersheba to Dan. The Weather Bureau discourses eloquently as to his identity, but most people

don’t care a d—n about being introduced to him; what they want is to abolish him. Secretary Wilson says that the damage done by the hot spell in the West is almost certainly exaggerated. Of course, it is great, and every day without radical relief makes it worse, but all the same, he does not believe that the stories of utter ruin telegraphed from the west are accurate. Let us hope that he is right. Republicans can afford to watch the conflict in the Democratic party with resignation. They know that not until the Democracy gets rid of the incubus of free silver does i i stand a chance of having its other heresies forgotten by the voters and of winning a return to power. So when Mr. Bryan, in answer to the omission of the silver plank from the Ohio platform, calls aloud that he will not permit this example to be followed without a fight, he insures a battle royal between the two wings of the party that Will keep the past mistakes of the Democracy from being forgotten and will assuredly prevent the Democrats from meddling effectively with the great colonial problems whose solution is now being worked out by the Republicans. Truly, there seems something providential in this. *

The following is the band concert program for this evening: March Across the Pacific. Overture The Bridal Rose. Cornet Solo lone. John Ilealy. March Chicken and Possum. Waltz Ensueno Seductor. Selection Popular Airs. Manzanillo. Final .Our Flag. There is said to be a growing sentiment among the promoters and owners of the proposed Toledo and Chicago Transfer railway to shorten up the present hunglesome name to “Tippecanoe Route.” This would be a convenient name, an euphonious one, and one easily remembered. It would be appropriate and suggestive, too. The Tippecanoe river is one of the most beautiful in the state, it is skirted by picturesque and productive bottoms, and, altogether the name would be just the thing.—Winamac Republican. Arbuckles of New York have arranged three ships for hotol purposes, and placed the rates low enough that clerks and others in poor circumstances can take advantag of a sea voyage each night. The vessels leave the pier in the evening and sail out to sea until midnight, then turn about and reach the dock at 7 next morning. The rate for the trip is only one dollar, and doubtless thousands will take advantage of the opportunity for a coni voyage during hot weather.