Pleasantville weekly press., 1898-07-06
WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1898.
IT was q great Fourth, wasn't it?


IT was great Fourth, wasn't it?
MD your hat fit you on Tuesday
~ morning?
THE scream of the American Eagle
was heard all over the country
on Monday-yes, all over the world.
SENATOR TILLMAN says he is
- willing that we shall take and
hold all of Spain Colonies and leave
her to "stew in her own grease, in
one little corner of Europe.
TT is believed that the third call for
volunteers will soon be issued by
the President, and that the number
of men asked for will not be less than
one hundred and fifty thousand.
THE new war tax went into effect
i last Friday morning, and all
hands must now "whack up" for tea
and kilograms, beer and chewing
gum, and the other necessaries and
luxuries of life.
THE quarrelsome German Emperor
seems to be itching to get into
trouble and he would probably soon
succeed in doing SO if it was not for
some of his more level-headed advis-
ors who have succeeded in holding
him in check. Ii he gets too obstre
preous at Manila, or elsewhere, Eng
land will gently remind him that she,
too, has Navy.
GOAL is the great factor in modern
~ naval warfare, and the Nation
that expects to cut much of figure
in the future, has got to provide
coaling stations for it's ships in
various parts of the World. This
necessity will count in the settlement
of all questions growing out of our
war with Spain, and in the PROPOSE
ton to annex Hawaii,
TT is reported that out of party of
1O1 that started for the KlOndike
to get suddenly rich, only 4 survive
a greater loss of life than there was
in our entire army and navy in the
first sixty days of the war with
Spain. The war news has SO attrac-
ted the public attention that Klon-
dixie is almost forgotten At any
other time such tragedies as the one
noted would horrify the nation. In
their haste to acquire gold, thous-
and of men have forsaken their Judge
ment and commOn-sense, to be de-
luded by thefairy- tales of spectators
and to lose their lives as the penalty
of their greed. Undoubtedly there is
considerable gold in the Klondike
fields, but the terrible climate and
the difficulty of getting there, makes
it cost all it is worth. Up to the
present time there has been more
money lost than made in the KIon-
dixie campaign.
TH E doctors who have charge of
. the examination of the recruits
for the United Statesregular army in
Chicago, have caused sensation by
their announcement that the bicycle
''scorcher" is physically unfit to serve
as a soldier in the army. "Habitual
and excessive fast riding of the wheel
has tendency to enlarge the heart
and thus interfere with it's proper
action, says DR., Stanton, who
further says that "the riders would
be unable to endure the hardships
that army life imposes, and should
not bepermitted to enter the service.
This news is neither new nor start
ling, for it is known by all intelligent
persons, that the excessive strain of
prolongedfast riding must necessarily
weaken the action of the heart. 1t
is one of the characteristics of an
American that he can do nothing
nationally. If he rows a boat, he
must do it until he faints or dies. Ii
he walks or runs it is just the same,
and if he rides wheel he is not salts
fed until he has scorched himself into 1
a condition accompanying the obi
cycle heart, The riding OF the wheel
affords q healthy and delightful pas
time, and tits an invaluable aid to a
great many men in going and return
ing from their days labor but should
not be ridden to excess, for Nature is
most unrelenting creditor and col
lects allits debts with more certainty
than sheriff, Sooner or later the
s'scorcher" is bound to pay the pen
atty OF 0yertaxing his physical
powers. |