Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — PULSE PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Locking children in a house alone ought to be made murder in the Oth degree.— Detroit News. The trusts have more to fear from their own work than anything else. —Brockton (Mass.) Times. Strange that riotous strikers never profit by the sad experience of others who tried the same game and failed.— Detroit Free Press. A new Indiana law makes it life imprisonment for kidnapers. But what good is such a law if the kidnapers are all of the Pat Crowe variety?—Toledo Blade. The next time we get one of those Albany dispatches from St. Petersburg, let us not feel obliged to be horrified at the cruelty of the Czar’s government.— Detroit News. *•' George Washington never held a rank higher than that of lieutenant general in the army of the United States. Gen. Miles has a right to feel his honors.—Omaha Bee. Returns from the national banks I* Nebraska, outside of Omaha and Lincoln, show that the deposits are steadily on the increase. The State banks show a similar condition.—Omaha Bee. Divorces are becoming so common that it is suggested that it may soon be necessary for the applicant folr a lady’s hand to bring letters of recommendation from his last wife. —Topeka Journal. Three terrible Turks have successively come to this country and walked off with the wrestling honors. If sitting crosslegged on a cushion develops this type of physique it Is time for the professors of gymnastics to explain.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

It is stated that Kansas will need 20,000 laborers from outside the State to get in the wheat crop. It will be a busy time out there and fantastic politicians and reformers of various sorts will have to take a back seat until it is all over.—New York Evening Sup. The Niles bank wrecker, who left some $175,000, more or Htra, to be provided by the stockholders, is released on SIO,OOO bail, and will spend the warm months at a summer resort, while his dupes apply thdir noses to the grindstones to meet his deficiencies. —Detroit Free Press. Regarding his appointment as brigadier general in the regular army it will be observed that Br’er Funston “ain’t - sayin’ nothin’." If he continues to hold his tongue as hard as he is holding it now he may yet be President of the United States.—New York Mail and Express. The surgeons think nothing nowadays of taking out a man’s stomach. At Santa Ana, Cal., they have relieved a sufferer of one lung, much to his benefit. They will soon take people’s heads off and leave them more intelligent and more beautiful than they were before.—New York Evening Sun. •

Gen. Chaffee is a positive man and when he said that American and British soldiers would never again face each other on the battlefield he only said in a positive manner what he thought. But it’s ten to one he had in his mind a proviso that if they ever did the Yankee soldiers would always be “face-on.” —Milwaukee Journal. If Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith be right when he says that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is responsible for John Brown’s raid and the Civil War, then it is responsible for Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses 8. Grant, and W. T. Sherman, and a lot of other prominent results—including a good deal of free advertising for Mr. Smith.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The fact that Benjamin Harrison was once President of th§ United States does not interfere in the least with the other fact that he had a right to dispose of his property by will in such manner as seemed to him just and expedient Newspaper comment on lys action in this matter is not only superfluous, but impertinent —Philadelphia Bulletin. In . the action of the Illinois Central Railroad Company providing for a pension to old employes may be seen another development of the spirit that has recently started among moneyed men. The act is further evidence that the interests of employer and employe are bound together on something more than a dollar-and-cents basis.—St. Louis Republican. > The German reichstag appears to have realized that China is a rotten orange, and that far too much money has already been wasted upon the German Asiatic expedition. The Russian plan could be executed if the concert of the powers should consist of absolute monarchies, but not in a world of representative, constitutional governments. Philadelphia Record. It is one of the great advantages connected with the public school system of the United States that it has a powerful influence toward preventing the erection of barriers between different sections of the people and toward promoting among them all a sentiment of community. Here, by far the greater number of parents send their children to the public schools, and attendance there carries with it no social disabilities whatever.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Capital punishment has been restored to the statute books by the Colorado Legislature, in the hope that the deplorable lynching record of the Centennial Stats may be intermitted and redeemed by observance of the laws. Among the fortyfive States of the Union Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin are now the only communities in which the penalty of a life for a life is not exacted under terms of statutory enactment.— Philadelphia Record.