Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1904 — Rural Free Delivery. [ARTICLE]

Rural Free Delivery.

One of tbe beneficent results of J a Republican administration is :?onnd in the maenifioent rural free delivery system that has bees established in iho various-states of the Union, and th,, work of establishing additi-uU roules to tbe system is'cow in "progress. [Tbe ♦onderfui eifiJee of the r tree delivery system in four or five years is tbe most marked feature of reoent national growth. Id 188& only 200 routes were in oper ation. At tbe close of the present Ssoal year there will be over 25,000 Yoates running, bringing a daily mail service to more than [12,500,XX) people residing in rural dis triots The appreq riation for this tsrvioe during the next year is JK80,816,000. It is impossible tc estimate the educational that will acorue from this magnificent system whiob, as an aid tc 'the higher civilization, will outrank any agenoy now in operation for the betterment of conditions and the uplifting of tbe human race. While primarily for the -benefit of farmers, it really confers benefits upou every man, woman and child in tiie Uuion, and no .money was ever so well spent at ahat stt aside for the extension jtnd improvement of this great agent sot the extension • f intelligence and oommu iication the mss^-s —Ex

The rumor ih t< ISt-uamr Fairbanks intends to r< s'gn Ms s^« f in ■iSth6 Senate in a eh jrt ti me to sh >u ikat he has the utmost ojufidence iftifc bis election to the vice prasi denoy had a very slight foundation t« rest on. Suoh a thing may have Vbeen talked of arnjug Senator fiiehd', but that any understanding w« 3 r, soiled looking to suoh aotion is highly improbable. There is no necessity ;Jor his resigning. The people do _aot approve it. •«Our school children work more laours than the laboring man or the <&ity official,” said Mrs. John IT. .Hedge, of Kentucky, before the Sofor political Study ia New 2?«rk, ‘‘School burdens are crushtaagliheir existance. We are trying tfo oram matter into the children oftat is of no earthly use to them, “The three royal *hV are loit and forgotten. The educitiou that profiaced our great men his been swept -®cide. Books aud education have JsGoome a disease. Give the cliil. a little rest and a little rust,” Now is th<. time to cau pine* apples, fixtrs lar»fauoy pine2 spies 90 oentii a doz-m at John gers, 4 -

It is unnecessary to state that Warren G. Sayer, of Wabash, is a candidate for U. S. senator, to snooeed O. W. Fairbanks. Uncle Wasren G’ is as perennial a candidate for everything good that comes along:, in tbe Republican party, as Nelson J. Bozsrth of Valparaiso, is in the Den; ooratio party. Like all ohronio candidates for everything. *hey are consummate nuisances, and there ought to be some way of sitting down on them so hard that they would stay sat on.