Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — Newland. [ARTICLE]

Newland.

The United S at. s cupreine court has dismissed the suit brought to test the constitutionality of the Indiana m rtgage exemption, law. This leave? in force the Indiana supreme court decision upholding the law. The U. 8. court held that there is no .criers! qne.-t : on involved and tic. [ jt:‘. threw l!ie case out of court.

The l\ minimum therm un eter re<-i«t r red 12 decrees al ove aero It I i ;ih'. and early this mon«rfn». L ea-< not the coTdeet Bight oi t'ieg-eai'u, /or it «ot d yvttx to Liiuc above l i't Frid ty night. Last .night rn*v-ver was redly maoh sever r weaVher b- cause of the stiff wind, while last Friday night was calm.

An illustrated article in Pearson's Magazine is devoted to sketches and pictures of the remarkably large number of young men now in Congress, in both houses. It is a different conditipn than has existed for the past twenty years or so, but really, as s regular ruse, young men are numerous in Congress and all other legislative bodies in this country. The reason why they have been comparatively scarce in such positions for some time past can. as we believe, bo easily explained At the close of the great civil war practically the entire body of ambitious and patriotic young men in the north were ex-Union soldiers, and in the

e x Confederate - soldiers These young soldiers, whom the people t'f each section to honor, rame right to the front and soon practically all the politics in the country were in their control, and practically all ixditicnl positions were held by thorn. Thus thirty years ago. old or e’derly men in Congress were the exception and young men the rule. As the years passed these same soldier elements still retained their prestige and still continued to till most -of the uflicos. and of course as they 'grew eider, it came about that the country was ruled mo.-d.ly by elderly men. and it was hard fur young men to reach high positions. But during the past six or eight years there has been a great change, and men who were young children during the war or have been born since then, far outnumber all other voters, and naturally enough and properly enough, the young men are beginning to again take their proper share in the-government of the country. This same condition of affairs has followed, to a greater or less extent, after every great war in this Country. Thus after the

Revolution the soldiers of that armv took practically, the entire ©ontr J. and thus there was at first, agovenment of young men, which, as after the. civil war. gradually became a government of elderly men, t ina ly, as now, a sudden re-1 turn of young men to power. The same course- of events, only in a much less marked degree, because there were a comparatively much smaller number of soldiers, followed tbe war of 1812 and the Mexican war.

Francis Hullihan was at Reus s a laer Saturday on business. A: B. JDjiufee of Kersey, i« repairing drtdgoJNo. 2, which broke down Thursday. Tt will be in order again fids week. O. Callahan is on the sick list Geo. Betdy made a business Irip to Rensselaer Saturday, CJi t** a good many onions were fr. z t. during the cold £p*l! last week. •• ✓ Geo. Beedy and Byron Nevcland each ptiFoiiFoed > n■ w wsgohs of Gitfoid k Callahan last wet k. James’Snider of Laura, visited friends htre Sunday, Miss Minnie Hemphill visited her parents at Rensselaer over John Altera •‘and wife visited their daughter-, Mr-. Chaft Page at DeM i/te a few days last week. , •John Riciiatotid of Piessmt Grove, wks a caller here one day 1 ist week. Corn gathering is about all done in this vicinity. There will be a box supper nt -theschool house Wednesday night. John Bowen sprained his ankle while playing ball and has to walk on cru'ches. f~.

The annual LaPortecounty wolf hunt, along the snores of the Kan kakee, took place Wednesday. About 50 persons participated, but only one wolf was killed and another wounded. Three annual wolf hunts have been a regular institution for time cut of mind It is stated that in such a hunt in 1842 so many wolves were killed that no one tried to oount them. Abont 50 deers were also kiUed that time. .