Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — WHAT IS A TORNADO? [ARTICLE]

WHAT IS A TORNADO?

What is a Tornado? is the question you * will hear * Asked by every one you-meet at this time of the year. It seems so awful stupid, that I often feel inclined To Cycldne with my intellect the whirlwind of their mind. Now, a full-grown Tornado, it is very seldom seen. It leaves its tracks behind it, and you know where it has been. It comes so very sudden, and as quickly doth depart, That its coming and its going is impressed upon your heart. Now, I’ve told you all about it, there is nothing more to know. Until early in November, when McKinley’s sure to show A Monsoon and a Typhoon, with a whirlwind on the side. Galivanting through the country, tanning Democratic hide. —James L. “Bromleykite” Pilling. Bryan on Pensions. Mr. Bryan’s utterances about the soldiers of the Civil War are worth repeating. Mr. Bryan, as editor of the Omaha World-Herald, passed this Nov. 18, 1892: “The next session of Congress will have to wrestle with one deficiency of $30,000,000. This is on account of pensions. The appropriation for next year must be not less than $150,000,000. It is therefore easy arithmetic to perceive that the appropriation that Congress must make must aggregate not less than $186,000.000. This tremendous sum would in itself be enough to run a reasonable government. One would not complain if it were an honest debt, but a large proportion is not a debt because it was never earned by any act of patriotism or heroic service. The government is held up nnd despoiled of no mean portion of this and it seems helpless to defend itself. One cannot help being curious to know how many more years it will take to exhaust the generation which feels itself injured by the war. It is safe to say that never did a generation display such remarkable longevity." Isn't it about time that Mr. Bryan was attacking the Spanish war pensioners? Railroad Building Is Active. We built 5,100 miles of railroad in the United States in the year ending June 30, 1900. We built 1,650 miles in the year ending June 30, 1895, when free trade had its disastrous trial.