Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1906 — PULYE of the Preff [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULYE of the Preff

Mrs. Eddy would confer a favor by letting the world know whether she still favors it with her presence.—Philadelphia Ledger. There is some truth in what Gorky says a bout New York, but it is hardly worth diving Into the slush to get it. —Philadelphia Ledger. 'The Supreme Court of the United 'StaWTSeems to relat'd |M PreaJlteut’s reformed spelling as unconstitutional. York Evening Sun. -The average man knows so little about what lie is voting for that it makes him, .crazy mad if he has to explain it. —New York Press.

The Utes scalped a sack of flour and took away the Contents, but otherwise their warpath seems, a veritable path 1 of peace.— Philadelphia Ledger. If there are any other railroads that Mr. Ilamman wants, lie will doubtless buy them from time to time. To date lie has overlooked several.—Washington Times. Some of the defeated Congressmen won’t be as much missed by Congress as Congress will lie missed by them, and we mention no names.—Philadelphia Press; ; Kchiml the solicitude of Russia lest there be a war between this Country and Japan stretches a smile that reaches from the Balkans to the Baltic. - —New York Mail. need not he in a hurry to buy a ticket to Siberia by way of the tunnel under Behring Straits. Why should you want to go to Siberia, anyway?— Philadelphia Record. . Gorky calls New York a “greedy, engorged, loathsome stomach.” Ills experience in getting away to Europe must have been something like Jo'natfs. —New York Tribune. . X Russia's pew Rurik is one of the most powerful cruisers in the world. It will be a valuable addition to the navy of the first nation to fight Russia. —New York American.

“Don’t let me die like a dog,” appealed Boili to his wife. And as the Gould family lias always been fond of dogs, she saved their feelings.—Philadylplda Ami-ricall. A bank-wrecker with a two years’ juli term to serve and a tine 5F to pay is another) good example of the Ohio idea of punishment for offenders higher up.—New York Wold. Pittsburg, with its crop of murders and robberies increasing to a pass where it is likened to a frontier town, continues to make bids for recognition as a metropolis.—New York World.

The United States, says the Census Rureau, is worth $100,881,415,000. This news will grieve Mr. Rockefeller; it shows that there’s quite a lot he hasn't acquired yet.—New York American.

New Hampshire, too, is getting tired of government by railroads. It will get to bq, after a while, so that a railroad . cannot do anything but cany freight and passengers.—Philadelphia Press.

Rosa Hahn was given a medal by the German Housewives’ Society for having stayed at one place for 10 years. Mr. Carnegie's attention should also be drawn to this woman. —New York. World.

If the work of the Panama canal be prosecuted in the future with the same activity as in the last two or three weeks, it is not impossible that this generation may witness its completion. —Philadelphia Record.

James Burton Reynolds, , Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who has on his hands a herd of four elephants seized for undervaluation, should be informed that there are well authorized cases of elephants that lived for 130 years in captivity.—New York Sun.

Chicago’s criminal judges talk of keeping their courts open night ns well as day. Well, justice is blind and should not discriminate against darkness. Besides, Chicago probably needs courts open all the time, at least as much as any other American city.— New York Tribune. Was that sensational and circumstantial story about a Jnpauese spy sketching fortifications at Manila a sheer invention of some anti-Japanese propagandist? It looks like it, seeing that no such sketches were made, no such Japanese existed and there fas no such arrest.—New York Tribune.

The desire of the South to get a large share of tin? immigrants who are Hocking to this country by the million Is appreciated and reciprocated by the North. Nothing would please New York and New Jersey better than for half of those who now settle right here to go to the other side of Mason and Dixon’s Hue.—New York Trijnnie. The list of world’s fair cities lengthens altnost daily. Dublin was one of the latest additions. Now Seattle is placed ui*ou it. One of these days Panama or Colon will be added, with a unique attraction.—New York Tribune. Automobile* cann||t be operated without good roads. And the clamor for good roads that will arise as soon ns they come into general uae will result in a system of highways in erery State comparable to those of European countries. —New York American.