The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1900-10-06
Baton Rouge Items.

BATON Rouge.-The State Superin-
tendent Of public education has is
sued circular letters to the parish su-
perintendents Of the State notifying
them that hereafter examination for
white applicants for positions OF teach
ers must be held Thursdays and Fri
days of the second week of April and
October. Examinations are to be
held upon printed questions pre-
pared by the State board of educa-
tion. Certificates OF the first, second
and third grade are to be awarded 40
Cording to the ratio of correct answers
returned by applicants and to the evi.
dences Of qualifications arising from
other standards Of Judgment. Certif-
icates thus issued are to be valid as
follows: First grade, three years; Sec
ond grade, two years; third grade,
one year. The district court
convened last Monday, with an inter
essing docket. The grand Jury also
met on the same day and took up the
Garig- Reddy case, in which Walter
GuiOn, Attorney General; Lionel Ad-
ANS and @. J. Bostner appear for the
State, and L. D. Beale and Thomas J.
Herman for EAe defense.
IS bravery an l0eRl when Ii reacneu
By cultivation2 In other words, Is 1t
an intellectual conception? If 1t Is not,
how does 1t happen that real bravery
Is 30 common among boys? Impulsive
acts Of courage, such as jumping into
the water to save a drowning COM
rade, are not uncommon among boys.
but they belong to the emotional con-
duct of our species. Cool, determined
facing of odds Ii not often seen among
boys. On the contrary, cowardly con-
duct, too often prompted by vindictive
feelings, IL altogether too common.
One sophomore never goes forth to
haze a freshman, and when the youth
full mind conceives the idea that Ma
tional wrong should be avenged, the
outcome is generally On assault by a
crowd Of boys on some one or two in
offensive persons. Such performances
DO not encourage belief In the natural
bravery Of our species.
Our cities seem destined to spread
out, until the concentrating Of NUM-
eipal life, as 1t now Is, will be practi-
cally ended. Electricity will cooperate
in other ways, by making transit much
more rapid and supplanting steam pow
or. As q consequence manufacturing
will be carried on leRs and less in huge
factories and congested centers. We
may fairly foresee q new sort Of city
az we'll as a new sort Of country q
city disseminated or thinned out over
q vast territory. This will be fastened
on by the fact that the coal famine has
come sooner han expected; and the coal
age will carry with it the steam age.
The use Of steam power began about
1880; and, according to Professor Or
ton, It will barely last till 1880. he tells
az that the known coal de-
POSTS Of America are rapid
" nearing their exhaustion.
The exhaustion Of European beds be-
Ran last winter to be felt with revO'
lutionary force. The draft on Amerl'
can coal will as a consequence be much
more serious and will shorten the
steam age. We have harnessed cleo
triclty none to soon. The full conse.
Quences cannot be estimated; but we
DO not count ourselves among the
prophets when we say that we are sure
that country life will hereafter not
mean remoteness from the best evo-
luton Of the age, thinks The New
YSck IndspendenE
Burglars Bullet was FATAL
Atlanta, Gs.-Hon. Charles Collier,
former mayor Of Atlanta and United
states commissioner to the Paris expo.