Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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Some one in Indiana has said that man is a harvester. He begins at the cradle; learns to handle the fork; often has rakish ways and sows wild oats; threshes his way through the world, and when at the sere yellow leaf, time mows him down and his remains are planted on the hillside. Governor Durbin has appointed Parks M. Martin, Democratic member of the state board of tax commissioners, to succeed himself. Mr. Martin was appointed by Governor Mount to fill out the vnexpired term of Judge Thomas Buskirk. His present term of office will expire May Ist, 1905. The salary is $2,000. In addition to requests for permits to witness the hanging of Joseph Keith, Warden Reid received from different parts of the state requests for pieces of the rope as souvenirs. The rope was a brand new one, bought for the occasion, and as soon as it was used it was put in a furnace and destroyed. When the fifty -seventh congress meets next month it will contain no representatives of the populist party, so far as the senate is concerned. Neither will there be any free silver republicans, but the lines will be strictly drawn between the two parties, and each member of the upper house of congress will be classed either as a republican or a democrat. There 'will be no third party represented in the senate. The cigarette fiend must reform or follow in the footsteps of the tippler in the industrial world. The prominent railroads are adopting the rule that no one addicted to the use of cigarettes shall be given employment end a number of cigarette smokers have been dismissed. The Santa Fe is the last road to promulgate this order. The habit is one that certainly dulls one’s mental faculties. Engineman James Covington, of the Monon, with engine 111 made a record run between Indianapolis and Chicago Saturday night. The train left Indianapolis thirty-five minutes late and carried five extra cars, making a train of ten cars, five of them being heavy Pullman sleepers. Covington arrived in Chicago on time, having made up the extra time in spite of several stops. Big 300, the new “battleship” could not have done much better than that,