Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1906 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

The Panama canal has too many bosses and too few diggers. The surprise is that the Castellanos remained married so long. Give the Oldest Inhabitant a wide berth. He remembers a Warmer one in 1797. The Russians are now sowing the bombs for the early spring crop of revolutions. Considering the responsiveness millionaires showed to Col. Mann’s fine “touch,** it may be supposed that he will find it difficult to break himself of the "borrowing" habit. When the mine workers secure a 10cent advance in wages the mine ownera pull a quarter more out of the eonautner. y As other avenues of easy graft are closed, the gentlemen adventurers turn their eagdr dyes toward the Panama canal. Perhaps the beef packers thought Commiwstoner Garfield was just a nice young man who was giving them a compliment ary "write-up" It begins U look ns if it may be necear »ry to enlnrg» the sea ntom so that out ' WAF«lhi|MI Mil atouad without bumptag fata each albsx.