Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1902 — Republican City Calls. [ARTICLE]

Republican City Calls.

The Republican voters of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, will meet in mass convention at the Opera House, on Wednesday, March 26, 1902, at 7:30 P. M. for the purpose of nominating candidates to be voted for at the City election to be held May 6th, 1902, for the following offices: City Mayor, * City Clerk, City Treasurer, City Marshal. By Order of the City Republican Committee. 11 J. Kannal, Chairman. George E, Murray, Secretary. The Republican voters of Rensselaer will meet in ward mass conventions at the Court House on , ■ Friday, March 28, 1902, at 7.30 P. M., to nominate, candidates to be voted for at the city election to be held May 6lh, 1902, for the following offices: Two Councilmen for the First Ward. Two Councilmen for the Second Ward. Two Councilmen for the Third Ward. The places of meeting in the various wards will be as follows: Ward One in the ladies’ waiting room. .Ward Two at the Sherift’s office. Ward Three, in the County Assessor’s office. t By Order of City Republican Committee. H. J. Kannal, Chairman. George E. Murray, Secretary. lewwmi— iu n The British army after long and c<*iu lusive teaiß of the value of the Khaki color for uniforms has decided to, discard it for the gray tiiat has long been used by the Austrian army, and by the London Scottish Volunteers as their deslinctive uniform.

One of the best New Year resolutions made was that of a number of companies, including many railroads in the United States, to voluntarily, increase the wage scale of their employees. Heine, the poet, is said to have made a will ki which he bequeathed everything to his wife on the condi tion that she would marry again. He said that he wanted one man to regret his death. \ In many European countries a con flagration is a very expensive item even if the flames do little or no damage, because the owner of the endangered property Ijaa to pay the expense of the run made by the fire department. The Democratic members of Congress who are objecting to anti anarchy legislation because it is against state rights are putting that doctrine to a bad use. Actetnpts on the lives of national officers can be construed only as crimes against the nation. Not long ago there were many accounts of a contemplated European alliance against the United States, but just now it looks as if there were a number of countries that would like to make alliances with this country against some of their European neighbors. An Indianapolis statistican points out that the American baby has thirty million chances to one agatnst his becoming president of the United States, while the chances that he will not go -insane are only about 500 to 1. These figures will not, however, reduce what sociologists call the “beneficent fallacy” of parental hopes and pride. Many papers do not see the value of the Hoar resolution providing for 1 the presidential succession, in the ■ light of the act of Congress in 1886, ! which was supposed to have settled I the question. The Hoar resolution provides for the contingency of the removal of the president-elect, while I the former act had reference only to . the succession while the President was actually in office.

It is gratifying to note that among the famine conditions said tef be threatening other countries of the world, there are only two that are menacing the United States. One is a famine of railroad, to haul the cars, in spite of the increased mileage of the past few years, and the other .is a famine of cars to haul the produce, in spite of the fact that the shops are working night and day to make up the deficit. Secretary Gage served longer as ; the head of the Treasury Department' than any other man except Albert Gallatin and Alexander Hamilton. He held office nearly five years i Albert Gallatin served longest, nearly I twelve years, from 1801 to 1813. ' Alexander Hamilton’s term was a little over five years, from 1789 to 1795. Under Secretary Gage the revenues and expenditures in one 1 week exceeded those under Alexander Hamilton in a whole year. London furriers have discovered a way to make an almost perfect imitation of seal skin from the fur of a musk rat. It will be news to many : persons that the beautiful “seal , brown” of the popular seal skin coat is not the color of the seal at all, but a product of the dyer’s art. Seals are gray, and have long hair above the fur, which is plucked out by being pulled through from the under side the hair roots being deeper than the roots of the fur. The Hudson Bay Company, one of the most powerful factors in the colonization of America, is still in ex istence, and carrying on a profitable business for its members al ng the old lines of trapping, fishing and mining. The region around the great inland sea of the North still has twenty seven different kinds of fur bearing animals, and while these have formerly constituted the chief value of the country it is predicted that the country will soon be the scene of agricultural, and fishery interests. A Guilford, Me., young man, who has been in the way of writing a large number of letters for a special purpose within a short period of time had been in the habit of signing them, “Yours truly, George P. Jenks,” was called upon to make a prayer in social meeting. He made an eloquent appeal to the throne of grace and closed with, instead of the customary “Amen,” “Yours truly, George P. Jenks.” A man at the barber shop the other evening said that if he had a boy who was so “ornery” that he couldn’t do anything with him he would buy him a bronco and let him break it. After he had the horse broken he would either be a better boy or ho would be dead.