Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

• An Indianapolis dispatch announces that all the defeated democratic candidates on the statet ticket last year desire to make another trial next year. Most of them have suffered defeats and think they are now due to WlD ' a The common council of Michigan City has passed an ordinance providing that all dogs in the city shall hereafter be either muzzled, locked up or killed. This action is the outgrowth of a mad dog biting a person there one day this week. Forty pupils in the Evansville schools have gone on a strike because their various teachers took passage on street cars which were being operated by “scabs,” or non-union operators. The school authorities have notified the parents of the absent boys that unless they returned to school they would not be promoted. No little excitement has been created at Indianapolis on account of Chief of Police Metzger firing at an automobile which was exceeding the speed limit and which refused to come to a halt when he called to the driver to stop the machine. Sam Dowden, a prominent attorney, was in the automobile and was shot through the leg. Eight hundred freight handlers employed by the Illinois Central railroad went out on strike at 7 o’clock Wednesday, and it is expected that employes of other branches of the service will join them unless their demands are acceded.to. The cause of the strike was the discharge of four union men, two of whom were foremen. In the office of the attorney general, preparations are being made to rout the belief which prevails, evidently, in a large part of the dry territory in Indiana that “near beer” and similar malt liquors can be sold without a retail liquor dealers’ license. The question is to be settled in the Supreme Court in a case which has been appealed from the Clinton circuit court. Governor Marshall called a meeting Wednesday of the new state accounting board members. At this meeting he requested the board to notify all sheriffs and county clerks in the state to not hold fees allowed them Under the fee and salary laws passed in 1907 and 1909. Governor Marshall has found both these laws to be unconstitutional and demands that this money be paid into the treasury. As a matter of imperative necessity Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to discontinue the new green special delivery stamp and return to the familiar blue stamp showing a special delivery messenger boy on a bicycle. In the great rush with which the mails must De handledmany ters bearing the new stamp have escaped treatment as special delivery matter because of its similarity in size and color to the one-cent Stamp. They say that everything comes to him who waits, though a waiting attitude is not one for the advertiser to assume, as these lines will show: “He didn’t have a dollar, he didn’t have a dime; his clothes and shoes looked as though they had served their time. He didn’t try to kill himself to dodge misfortune’s whacks. Instead, he got some ashes and he filled five dozen sacks. Then next he begged a dollar. In the papers in the morn he advertised tin polish that would put the sun to scorn. He kept on advertising and just now, suffice to say, he’s out in California at his cottage on the bay.” Among the schools of Indiana that have been turning out graduates by scores and hundreds in the last few weeks is one that has done remarkably good work under adverse circumstances. Its graduating class numbers 104, of whom 22 took mechanical drawing and the rest a common school course. Probably no other school in the state equaled this one for punctuality and regularity of habits iu its pupils, and yet we would not recommend a boy to enter there if he can avoid it. It is the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, and W. H. Whittaker is the Superintendent. His school does excellent work but bus no solicitors on the road and does not seek to increase its enrollment. It has no alumni reunions, and in fact the chief purpote of the school is to make a boy feel when he graduates that he never wants to come back. Yet the boys who go there are greatly benefited. The influences of the school are humane and civilizing, and many of its graduates become useful and honorable* citizens.

Prophesying his own death and writing a series of melancholy poems, Charles N. Ettinger, one of the founders of the Chicago university, was found drowned in Lake Michigan. No doubt he committed suicide while mentally deranged. Ettinger’s family disregarded his requests that he be placed in a sanitarium, thinking his brilliant mind could not be clouded. This is the time of year when because of recurring national anniversaries we hear a great deal of talk about being ready to die for one’s country. Fortunately there is no demand now for that sacrifice, but to live for one’s country is always in order. That is best done by obedience to its laws, reverence for its institutions, the cheerful performance of the duties of citizenship, and a clear, upright and useful life.