Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 42, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 January 1895 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Nappanee, Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Hy GORDON N. MURRAY. It has been estimated that fully 1,000 Republicans in Indiana arc seeking positions in the Legislature: The tlhs, men tell in praising their wives’ Christmas rakes, are not recorded against them—at least, they ought not to lie. ■ - PortuhAl is going to build a'new navy,-hut it is not likely that the Carnegie company will get- the contract for making the armor plates. •It is suggested that, if the State of Texas succeeds in exterminating the wild animals that are preying upon the stock-raisers, it might try its hand on Congress-. The attempt to raise the price of horses by means of the sausage 'machine or by adding horse meat to the rcellar bill of fare can not as yet be considered a brilliant success. The idea of putting the-meat trust against the v sugar trust, which somebody recently suggested in Washington. is only reversing the method heretofore practiced in making sugarcured hams. It is as easy to make water stand on a thick's hack as it is.to fasten an indictment tin a Chicago alderman. A Chicago grand jury will soon tic con-sidered-as great as any dime museum in the city. Because- thrfre is a prospekt of a successful llyirnVliiaehine, according "to the experimenters, is no good reason why all the politicians should prepare for a successful (light. Some of them will at least need a parachute. Tins year should he oiwtobe remembered ill Nappanee's prosperity. Every individual shoulder to the wheel will make it revolve with the usual good results. What the year will tiring forth depends on what the people go after. • . It is said that Liverpool, England, has an official rat-catcher. We didn't learn that the Englishman who visited Chicago said any thine about ;l ratcatcher, although he must have known that the labor organizations were desirous of disposing of some rats. A letter from Capt. W. A. Judkins in Texas to the Mishawaka Entcrpiht, indicates a scarcity of rain and Uepuhlicans in that state —two things in the estimation of some people necessary to the raising of successful crops. Yesterday was a day of vast opportunities. Many people took advantage of it, presumably, arid “swore off”. The country printer hopes always for the best, and consequently, trusts that the majority of subscribers have “sworn off" allowing their subscriptions going delinquent. Mas. Dkmokest doesn't see much reform in one respect in the change of municipal government in New York. She said at a rncent temperance meeting: “I despise men who talk' of noil-partisan reformation. They don’t reform any-thing. They.dare not^imlcTr'the saloons, these, non-par-tisan reformers.’’ The Democratic clubs of'lndiana, will hold a “love feast" at Indianapolis on the Slh ••Jackson Bay”. , A banqhet will be given with plates at *5. This would indicate that there is placed by themselves considerable confidence in the financial standing of the Democrats of this statelf they are a little-off politically. It is announced at this time With no little gusto hy the liquor dealers’ league that they control 75,000 votes in Indiana. You will perhaps discover the significance of this, if you watch the antics of the corning Legislature, as they get between the neither mil 1-stones of the temperance element and the liquor league. Oun contemporaries at Albion, the Democrat and New Era, are having a tilt over typographical errors that happen in those papers, and yet those editors have been in the business long enough to know that such things will occur in spite of every precaution. Life has already sufficienUcares without borrowing from such troubles, at least, one would suppose so. Backluiia Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cores Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale bv 8. Walters. r

Ciian Fassett, the publisher of that excellent paper the South Bend Sunday News, announces that it is to be an all-home print beginning with the first of the year. The publication has attained a circulation of 2,000, and is one of the several good mediums of that city, through which the business men reach their patrons, In all probability people-will again have to learn how to vote the Australian system, as it is thought there will lie some changes made in the election law as to the manner of marking the ballot. The idea with those who have iy. view such a purpose, is- to. make it easier for voters to vote a mixed ticket by simplifying it. A great many people now refrain from their independent inclinations for the reason of being fearful that they might make ;j mistake; and thus, the very thing the system seeks to guard against is manifest. The pay of the governor of Alabama is only *3,oo*Ut year, out of which the governor lias to find himself a home and furnish it. Yet Captain Kolb was Willing to take the office. • Governor (lutes says: “There is not a state in the union of equal wealth with ours that does not furnish the governor with a mansion or with a sufficient sum to rent one.” The governor is mistaken. Indiana does not provide much better salary and our chief .executive is compelled to rent his own house. Few states, however, are like Alabama and Indiana. Nearly ail provide the governor with a home during his term of office.— Liijiniifr Jiunnjef. There. -is now an indication that the Washinton Times will become known among the other newspapers atr tiie capitol city. Congressman Conn in his paper has stirred up his colleague Enloe. a Ten (lessee.congressman. who it, seems; got: drunk and threatened the bartender with extermination because he wouldn't sell him any more whisky. The, Times “cut loose'-' on Enloe the next day, and now that individual lyunts to transfer his exterminating job to Mr. Conn. The Times may not lie able to shape legislation, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it would have an inlluencc in shaping up some of tile congressmen who are addicted to “tangle foot”. It seems that the presidents of Indiana colleges made the first “touchdown" against the present, rules governing foot-ball. In a recent meeting at Indian'apoiis they decided--with the consent of the facflilty—that foot-ball should be discarded from the athletic sports of the Indiana Collegiate Association until satisfactory revision and modification of the rules governing the , game shall have been made. Provision, however, is made not debarring exhibition games where rules may ifc mutually agreed upon. The now existing semi-civilized rules is fast bringing the game into disrepute. This is one of the things which colleges can govern, and the sooner they take the proper steps to hri-ng college athletics within the pale of tinman endurance the more marked will he their usefulness for physical as well as mental training and culture. The County Auditor is distributing the proper supplies to township trustees with which to take the regular enumeration of male inhabitants who have reached their majority, says the Goshen News. This i's in accordance with the State constitution which provides that such numeration shall take place every six years and upon which legislative anrTJßdieial apportionments are made. It is this fact that raises the question of the legality of the almost inevitable reapportionment by the'coming legislature. The reapportionment will he made before the enumeration upon which it can properly tie made will have been completed, as the trustees have from Jan. Ist to July Ist to do the work. The legislature will have no official enumeration to base its action upon and will have to rely upon the last official enumeration and the estimates of interested statesmen.. The report of the Michigan City prison directors shows that 150 men have been let to contract to work in the Allen bicycle factor-at 42 cents, and that the contract does not expire until 1904. It goes without saying, that those employes in other' bicycle factories must come in contact with this 42cent prison labor. Herein is a much needed reform in prison regulation. With the minute discipline under which convicts are worked in the prison north; there is more finished product to the man than can he turned out by free labdr. There should be a minimum price for contract labor fixed by law, and based on the scale of “V

wages paid free labor, or so closely' to such scale, as would allow of attracting bidders ot contractors; and which would prevent any marked reduction in-TRc'-priee of prison-made goods put upon the market. Besides this, the prison would show a much handsomer surplus beyond the maintenance of the institution than is now shown. This scheme would admit of the Suite’s turning back at the end,of each year of a convict's term a certain percent net earnings for the prison, which should,-hy rights, go to thoseWtio were dependent on him at tt) time he was .incarcerated. Os Juiving none such, should lie* given Ifi-n i .at tiie expiration of it is term. Tiie scheme, or some such scheme, would satisfy those who are opposed to cdnvlct labor, and aside from that, would prevent contractors becoming rich off convict-labor; would induce convicts to execute their work well, and give them a start in the reformatory life which they are expected to lead when they have satisfied the State. Now that “Sim f '.Coy is dead, it will lie expected that to find something bright in his nature, and worth commending, will.be an easy.task. Politics were his worst enemies, and in that line while wielding h+s-seeptre in Indianapolis he. knew no honor to gain and hold ids advantage over political .opponents. His tally sheet forgeries for which he. served 18 ■ months at the prison north while a member of the city council, gave him a national reputation as a political trickster in the Democratic fold. After “serving his time” he affiliated with tiie Uepuhlicans, so'he.claimed pt times. He was a saloon keeper, and said to have been one of the few in that business who. never drank a drop of liquor for twenty years. It istsaid of the man, that, he was honorable and just in business relations yind liis word was as good as a bond, excepting in politics. The Lafayette Sunday 'Times says “the man who thinks only of himself 'hnd is forgetful of his obligations to others does not count for very much •either in this world or the next. A purely selfish man who wants everything and gives nothing, lives in the sulmrlisof purgatory and will not, have to go far'Mhen lie dies. To recognize your rights and ignore your duties is to pursue a policy that angels deplete and deviisjrejoiee. God can use a man to the best advantage when the soul that is prone to selfishness evicts its tenant and makes foom for. thq oc£upancy of heavenly visitants. The man who seeks for this world’s goods exclusively, whose chief possession is a. hank account, will find himself out of’ place in heaven, a stranger in a strange land. Money is a good thing to work for, but it is not the only thing nor the best thing. It is not well to despise money, but you should remember that while it will purchase much that is desirable, it will buy neither character nor happiness.” Secretary Morton AdviffCH Farmers. “Recent consular reports to the state department,” said Secretary Morton, “bear out the statements made in my annual report that the prospects fo# better prices for wheat are very poor indeed. I advise farmers to grow more corn and less wheat. In my judgment, the price of wheat will have a.tendency to go lower all the time, while I believe the value of Cdrn, owing to increased uses, will remain about stationary. The Argentine. Republic is our most serious competitor in the foreign wheat markets. A consular report just received com, firms my prediction that the exports .of. wheat from the Argentine this year will-bc thrice what it was in 1895. Ts is a fact that twice as much Argentine as American wheat is now sold in Germany, and in time i fear the proportion will be equally bad for us in Great Ijritain. The people of the Argentine are able to undersell us because it does not cost them as much relatively to raise wheat. I hear t)f farmers out in Oregon and Washington who are aide to raise wheat and put it to market at a cost of 20 cents a bushel, but certainly the farmers of the great wheat belt cannot do this nor anything like it.” “It is a fact,” said Secretary Morton, “that in every month of the year a wheat crop is narvested somewhere on the face of this fruitful earth of ours. We begin in June out in California, in Oregon, and in the southern states where they have wheat. In that month also the crop is harvested in south Russia, in Turkey, in Roumania, Bulgaria and the south of France. In July and August the great wheat crop of the northern states of our country Is harvested, and at the same time the farmers of the south of England, the major part

of France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, Denmark and Belgiiim rake in their yield. In September and October there is a wheat harvest in the north of England and Scotland, in Sweden and northern Russia. In November they cut their wheat in South Africa,. Peru and northern Australia; in December, in the (southern part of AustrallS,. in Chile and the La Plata country; in January it is harvested ,in New Zealand, the Argentine and remaining countries of South America; in February and March, in India diiif'Kgypt. In April they have their harvest in Persia. Syria, Asia Minor, and Cyprus, and May is the harvest month- in China, Japan, eentml Asiat XlAria and Morocco, * So,' you spe,Nrtierc\ is probably not a day in the whole, year in -which wheat is not being harvested in the world.”. . Funeral Kcforin. “The Ministerial Association of Northern Indiana is taking steps looking to the abolishment of Sunday funerals. The .pastors contend that the custom makes serious inroadson their own time and labor, and it cuts down attendance at Sunday services and detracts seriously from the proper, in 11 lienee of the day.,. The idea is.one Unit merits careful consideration.” There are 'other ideas along, the same line t hat,also merit equal consideration, says. the. Argos Reflector, notabljstho practice of displaying the corpse to public view, and the preaching of set sermons upon (he death of children, and over the remains of those who never gave any of their time or thought.to tiie serious side of life, or recognized the church or their God during their existence. There is abundant room for reform iri matters funereal, But because of the delicacy of the situation in which preachers find themselves, and tin; slavery of “custom”, the era of pew and more sensible ideas'is slow in the ushering in. CVnirul HoHpital For Insane. The trustees of the Central hospital, for the insane fix the value (if the hospital as follows: Real estate” $1,475,000: personal property, $205,878.80: total, $1,078,878.80. The annual appropriation for maintenance was $260,000. Balances remain as follows: Maintenance fund, $57.49; clothing, $91.55: re’jiairs $207.57. The trustees say that the repair fund should lie increased to $25,000. The. number of patients in the hospital October 51st was 1,498. During the year 452'were received and 52 discharged, There are sixty-six patients, in.-the hospital -properly boiongTng to other districts. Os those admitted in the last year, 107 were sjngle men, 159 married men, 72 single women and 1.34 married women; Acute mania'ls the most prevalent ailment, ninety-seven of those received in the year suffering from it. The, percentage of recoveries in all cases treated was 7.89; the percentage of deaths was 7.15, That Vaccihation Order. Secretary Hcatwole, of thei County Board of Health, has issued an-edict as regards the vaccination order heretofore mentioned in these columns. The pertinent points of the Secretary’s paper are as follows: “The order issued hy, this Board making it compulsory for all teachers of public, schools, and pupils attending schools, to furnish satisfactory certificates of vaccination, will remain in force, hut with-some modifications. Instead of excluding pupils from schools who do riot cornpl^ywith this order hy Jan. Ist, 18.95. this will (on account of ignorance and superstition of some patrons) lie modified so as not to exclude pupils who have not 'complied, unless tiie presence or threatened approach.of this disease will warrant to make this order mandatory, at which time it will be rigidly enforced, without further notice, and teachers ambtschodl officers will be individually held responsible for carrying it out to the letter.” Alleged An Klkhart Crook. A Chicago dispatch says that Frank C. Huston of Elkhart, was arrested at Chicago last night on a charge of passing checks drawn on a bank in which he had no funds. Nov. 17th he induced the clerk of the .Saratoga hotel ,to cash a check for S6O for him. Three days after that on his representation that he had a big hank account, he got the clerk to hand him SSO more on his check, and $lO on still another one made on Nov. 224. Huston is further described as a notorious crook and real estate shark and that his family connectifrwowho reside in Elkhart are wealthy and highly connected. It is denied that Huston has relatives in Elkhart. —ls you want to get flrst-ciass job printing it can be had at the News office. —You get all the news here—*l.so

Chicago Leader! 49-51 HALSTEARST„CHICAGO. AT . nn . T ATrv 705 mmst., LipoRTEcity,i. IMArrAJNbb, IND. 111 order to reduce our Stock of Winter Goods Quickly we have decided to sell to the people at 33% per celit Lower than our former very Zoic prices. Our 15c woolen hose at 334 off, now $ .10 15e woollen socks at . “ “ .10 sl.lO quilts and comforters at . .•.. “ “ .65 45c gloves ( see these) at .... “ “ .30 48c men’scaps at “ “ .28 $1 underwear ( best wloolen Vat ... . . “ .58 4.00 men’s heavy overcoats at.... “ “ -3,12 “ 4.00 men’s suits at ““ “ “ 3.12 jtSPjKow do not miss this grand Slaughter Sale. If you arc in need of any of these goods come in and see us first. N. B. -Our ‘Felt Boots and, Rubbers at a Sacrifice. A fine Glass Set free with everp fit) worth of goods purchased. ~ - REMEMBER THE PLACE! UNDER THE NAPPANEE NEWS O^ICE. A Winter’s Entertainment! aiiCAT VAl.Uli WEEKLY NEWS FOR OF jiPk world LITTLE .MONEY. FOIt A TRIFLE. II SI H' WEEEI HUM a twenty-page journal, is Hie leading Republican family paper of the United States. It is a NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER, and gives all the general news of the United States, it givfe the events of foreign lands in a nutshell. Its “AGRIGULTUi:AL” department has no superior in the country. Its “MARK FT EFFORTS” are recognized authority. Separate departments for “THE FAMILY CIRCLE,”“OUR YOUNG'FOLKS;”and “SCIENCE AND MECHANICS.” TtS"“I,I()ME AND SOGIETY” columns command the admiration of wives an.d daughters. Its general news, editorials and discussions are comprehensive, brilliant and exhaustive. A SPIRAL CONTRACT enables us to offer this Splendid journal and NEWS for ' One Year For Only $1.75, CASH IN ADVANCE. (The regular subscription for the, two papers is $2,50.) SI lISC KII’TtONS MAY liEfflN’ A’l' ANY TIME. Address all orders to . The Nappanee News. Write von: name and address on a postal caHd, skni) it to Geo. W. Best, Room 2, Tunicnk Building, New York City, and sample copy ok THE NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE wiu, he mailed to you.

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