Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Pulse of the Press [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pulse of the Press

Fear of a Japanese-American war pervades aH the nations except America 5 and Japan.—New York Mall. The names of the new Spanish Cabinet are faipiliar to thosewho. buy the ; two-for-a-quarlqr brands.—-Washington Times. If men spent half Trsrtnielr money on philanthropy as they do on politics, this wouljjd be a pretty nice York Press! ’ What’s the matter with Kansas? This time it is that. the ears of corn are top long to go into the shelters.—New York Tribune. , i ,' ■ President Roosevelt said that if the simplified spelling did not prove acceptable he would abandon it. Well?—Chicago Tribune. When there is an appetite there is a way 7 . In prohibition Kaijsas, it is said, they sell beer in plugs, like tobacco. — New York Tribune. . 1 -■ ■ , ■ i It’s astonishing what a lot of money a mati could have made if he had trusted to luck instead of relying on judgment.—New York Press. They are arresting • Couneilmen in ■ Pittsburg for bribery. Well, if that’s going to spread what a time there will be I—Philadelphia Press. -•Eight McCarthy's ran for office in Rpsion, buWmly three were elected. The Hub should create more offices at once! —New York "Herald.

There is no question of race suicide with the head of the Mormon Church, with his five wives and forty-five children.—Philadelphia Record. Marie Corelli is convinced that modern woman is not ready for the suffrage. Certainly not; If she was she’d have it.—Philadelphia Inquirer. If the President uses the big stick on the Lumber Trust lie may make it abandon its “say nothing, but saw wood” policy,—New York Herald! The woman who boldly declares that slie ; . will find the North Pole is well aware that there isn’t a mouse in the Arctic Circle. —Philadelphia Ledger. It is easy enough to become famous. All you have to do is heave a rock at marriage, the family or the Ten Commandments.—New York Evening Sun.

The name of the new postmaster of Honolulu is Kapohakimolieva. It beats everything how those Irish grab off all tlie political plums.—New York Herald. So rapid is the inarch of prosperity in the States of Washington and Nevada that the supply of fuel is uuable ’lu ’Keep -tip tvifn It—¥Wfiadelpifia Re/i----ord. To spend $200,000 a year oh clothes is an accomplishment, but it does not compare with the accomplishment of spending only S2OO a year.—New York American. _lt is beginning to be suspected they are manufacturing some of those highwaymen stories in Pittsburg just to enable the tqwn to show off. —Philadelphia Press. At any rate, President Roosevelt having seen it, we can at least feel assured that the Panama Zone has not been moved from its anchorage.—New York I’ress. Justice doesn’t travel on leaden heels in Center, Texas, where a criminal was arrested, tried, convicted and executed within the space of two hours.—New York Herald. The undertakers at Butte have formed a combination and advanced the price of funerals. That is running the trust business iuto the ground.—Wash, ingtou Times, • „

A couple of hundred French Deputies ‘ left the Chamber when Boni de Casteifane came in. It would seem much simpler to put Boni out.—New York American. Boni de Castellane says his “matrimonial entanglement” has not lost him a single friend. Of course, to lose anything one must first have had it. —New York American. Andreas Dippel. the tenor, has been robbed of $3,000 worth of jewels. With this and the Caruso episode tin* opera season may consider itself launched.— New Y’or|; Mail. Life seems to be made up of mowing the lawn when there is no furnace tc be stoked, aud when there is no mowing to lie done of stoking the furnace. —New Y'ork Press. President Roosevelt has nominated a manufacturer of tabasco sauce for Civil Service Commissioner. Going to make it hot for the spoilsmen I—Philadelphia North American. Secretary Bonaparte says that the annual cost of the \navy represents only $1.33 per capita. By that method of calculation a 28,000-word presidential message' divided among S3.000,(>00 men, women and children looks like too short an allowance.—New York World. '

It now transpires that Seqator-eleci Davis’ name is not Jeffer%m, but Jeffrie's. Perhaps that accounts for his pugilistic proclivities, conversational as well as otherwise.—Washington Herald. The war In Brooklyn over the extortions of the Beef Trust takes a queer form. Tlie mob smashes the butcher’s windows and then throws kerosene on bis meat You can't seem to bust one trust without boosting another.—New York World. \ . '* •*. ** *