Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

And now the dons are alarmed over the report that Vesuvius is throwing out red, white and blue fire.—Pittsburg Post. And so it seems that it was the movement to cut off the pigtails that occasioned the latest squealing in China. —Boston Herald. Admiral Schley has enabled Admiral. Sampson to reach Havana without the loss of a single man. —Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal. For some soldiers to bring home small! pigs as trophies is ho evidence they were living on the fat of the land while away-. Philadelphia Times. The Sultan is such an artful dodger that it may become necessary for Uncle San* to send one of our admirals over to sit on his doorstep.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The rough riders are to have a tournament in New York. At least such a project is—like the riders themselves—afoot. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Before we get around to discussing thelocation of the Schaumberg line again let us ascertain if England is wid us on theTurkey question.—St. Paul Dispatch. Tornado reports indicate that our West India acquisitions can at least compete with Kansas and Nebraska in ability toraise the wind.—Philadelphia Ledger. The idea that Admiral Sampson did nodamage in the recent war will have to be abandoned. Didn’t he destroy the Cristobal Colon?—Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Two Connecticut farmers went to New York and bunkoed a lot of green goods--men. No wonder the papers of that city are demanding more facilities for education.—Philadelphia Times. After he has had a few more meetingswith Dewey and Otis we shall not be surprised to hear of Aguinaldo as candidatefor the position of delegate to the Czar’suniversal peace conference.—MilwaukeeSentinel. Thomas F. Bayard. The late Thomas F. Bayard is not to beranked among the greatest of American statesmen, but he was a man of great ability, whose public service was clean an<B honorable.—Omaha Bee. Thomas F. Bayard deserved well of therepublic, and Americans of every shade of political opinion will breathe over hiw grave a heartfelt “requiescat in pace.”— New Orleans Times-Democrat. In brief, it may be said that Mr. Bayard deserved well of his country in hispublic capacity, and that those who knew him in his personal capacity had every reason to esteem him a gentleman, a man of upright life and courteous disposition. —Boston Transcript. His influence with his own party was of the best. He was consistently true to his own beliefs and to his political and social inheritance. For thirty years he had. filled some of the highest posts in the nation, to the satisfaction of the great party which elected and supported him.—Boston. Journal. Mr. Bayard was the personification of . dignity, courage and courtesy combined. He was truly a chevalier without fear and. without reproach. There have been greater public men in the history of the country than Thomas Francis Bayard, but none more worthy of official trust and public honor.—Springfield. 111., Register. Mr. Bayard held high place in various forms .during nearly forty years, and hewas always competent for the most exacting requirements of his position. Whether as Senator, as Secretary of State or as ambassador to England, he dignified theoffice rather than drew dignity from it.— Boston Herald. The public life of Thomas F. Bayard* was clean, strong and. consistent. Like his chivalrous namesake, slain generations ago on the soil of France in the “Battle of the Spurs,” he was without reproach, and this immunity applies both to his private conduct and his conceptions of public duty.—St. Ixniis Republic. The country knew Mr. Bayard as Senator. presidential aspirant. Secretary of State, and ambassador. He possessed excellent, though not the highest, gifts, and an impressive presence. His personal integrity was far above the slightest question. His claim to remembrance will rest upon his record as Senator.—Washington Star. His remarkable career furnishes a nobleexample to the young men of the land, and is worthy of all emulation by the rising statesmen of all parties in this country, for whatever else may be said of this famous man, all will agree that his life work was shaped by the dictates of conscience and the promptings of the highest character. —Atlanta Journal. The Cretan Trouble. The Sultan is said to be somewhat troubled and impressed by the fact that Great Britain has dispensed with the assistance of the other three powers in Crete and shows a disposition to play a solo where Abdul had hoped to hear the soothing strains of the “European concert.” —Chicago News. « One of the remarkable truths of the day is the fact that 600 Christian men, women and children should be either burned alive or massacred in the rioting which occurred at Candiu. on the Island of Crete, right under the shadow of European civilization, and under the protectorate of the powers. It is a disgraceful episode.—Columbus (O.) Journal. The Dreyfus Case. Esterhazy says he knows the secret of the Dreyfus case. As the only man who knows anything whatever about it, he should occupy a museum.—Chicago Jour* mil. In trying to prevent a revision of the Dreyfus ease "the French military is adopting the foolish policy of the man that stat on th esafety valve.—lndianapolis News. Probably Captain Dreyfus could relieve the French Government of an awkward situation by committing suicide, but probably this will not occur to him.—ChicagoTribune. It is hard to believe that France courts trouble in Africa in ordefe to cloak the Dreyfus scandal. That would lx* welling the house afire to cure a fttnoky .chimney. —lndianapolis Journal. France is again hearing the truth of that old, old saying that nothing is ever finally settled in this werid until it is settled right. The lesson < on.es hard sometimes, bu» il romes.—llo.ito'i Ikfild.