Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Will Not Go Begging. trustees of the stale soldiers’ home will meet at Lafayette on the first Thursday in October to receive and consider applications for positions as commandant and adjutant of the home. The trustees say there are enough applies tions for the two places to fill the home. The board has decided that every applicant must appear before the trustees in person at this meeting. Card of Thanks, The undersigned desires to publicly express thanks to the members of the Mosonic Lodge, of Rensselaer, the County Officers and others, for their presence and assistance at the funeral of the late William Dabncke. Henry C. Dahncke, For the Frmily.

JJig and Little Babies and Other Things Besides. Rochester, Sept, 16th, 1695. Mr. Editor:— l have no desire nor disposition to pluck Dr. Altar’s laurels on baths, but must say he is a little out of date. In *6B there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh a boy weighing 14J, an<l “y own ,ittle in ’ 91 weighed only 24, and lived seventeen days, 1 wish to compliment Kate Rodgers, whoever she is, on her poem “Glimmering Lights." Whether she is aware of it or not, she certainly receives aid from the Spirit Realms, which is inspiration, as much so as &Dy in the Bible.

. One criticism. We are not Adam’s children. Mankind did not spring from one ‘ man any more than the vegetable world canne from one seed. But how blind a man is until he reads sotaething outside the prescribed Mne el his churdh. How strange it is that man has ever striven individually in every avenue open to him for his physical and intellectual development, making his reason the pmpirc of facts for himself, aid yet, without a protest, submitting his spiritual nature for enlightenment to the care and dictum of his priest or preacher. I am sorry, indeed, to know that the intelligent pedple of Rensselaer are erecting a Temple for the propagation of supersition, in this closing decade of this proud century. Yours, F. "P. Bitters.