Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

No doubt Mr. Rockefeller needs tho money. Still, we don’t hear anybody making a noise like digging a canal. Those British women suffragists arc not only strong-minded but strong-fisted. President Baer of the Reading Rail road Company acts like his name sounds. The Rockefeller college is becoming almost as frequent as the Carnegie library. The Russian generals can fight each other much fiercer than they fought the Japanese. * Ministers are divided as to whether Mr. Rockefeller's great gift should be called philanthropy or restitution. Marie Corelli says she cannot resist the impulse to wrtie. It must be territls to have a Corelli novel in your system. With some of the statesmen it is not so much what are we going to do about Cuba as bow are we going to do Cuba. The effort to raise the pay of government clerks is being heartily seconded by the Washington boarding house keeper. To restore public confidence the tailroads might print testimonial* from passengers who have ridden on their trains a number of times and never have been hilled.