Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

If the corn hasn’t escaped by this time It deserves to be caught. From all reports Panama is a magnifi: cent place to stay away from. The Baltic fleet seems to be getting there about ns rapidly as a new airship. Gen. Stoessel at least can point to the fact that he fought it out ou that line all summer. Can’t the scientists train an army of gophers to dig. that t\ve}ve-mile hole into the earth? Another reason for approving mimic war is that it is the only truly civilized form of war yet known. The Minneapolis millers are too busy grinding wheat to know much as yet about the wheat shortage. George Meredith’s self-acting, adjustable divorce will hardly satisfy the lawyers or the boarding house keepers of South Dakota. When a Chicago woman can get a divorce in twenty minutes why should we bother our heads with Mr. Meredith's theories about a ten-year marriage? The report that watermelons are growing wild in California is likely further to complicate the problem of keeping the negroes at work iu the cotton fields of the South. The honest farmer is being advised to sell his wheat and not to wheat. The honest farmer usually has pretty much confidence in his own judgment and probably will use 1L