Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 20, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 28 September 1898 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Nappanee, Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. By GORDON N. MURRAY. All that our neighbors at Milford now lack to attract attention is a Mr. and Mrs. Leutgert. ,The hobos are fighting shy of Elkhart and in consequence the patrolmen's job is getting monotonous. We believe that pumpkin show at Indianapolis is out of date. It ought to be turned down by the next Legisture. The man who acknowledges himself to be somewhat of a liar in poli-. tics is not a’very sa£i>- one for the voters to receive instructions from how to cast their ballots. When Attorney Erick made his speech in Nappanee a few evenings ago he perhaps had not heard that the Utah Republicans had declared for McKinley and free silver. Grant Tank, the genial traveling salesman of Walkerton, who is so well known here in Nappanee, was last week nominated for sheFifl by the Democrats of St. Joseph county. IT Is now figured out that it cost this county for coal at the poor farm for three months about $7 per day, and a. little Hess than $lB per day during the session of _the circuit court for bailiffs. Tiie Goshen Democrat has been recently looking up the number of the commlsssoners’ allowances as certified to and published by the auditor and finds such publication decidedly irregular. The Goshen Daily News appeared Monday in a complete new dress and changed form. The improved condition will be appreciated byTts large number of readers. The publishers are subjects of fraternal congratulations. Blanco must soon walk the gangplank. The President has decided that Blanco may pick up the ashes of Columbus and go. But go he must from Cuba, and his going must not be extended over into 1899. Ta, ta, Blanco! According to report, Gov. Mount does not,-Intend to allow the Roby gang to pull o(T the Conbctt-McUoy light on Indiana soil if It requires a whole regiment of soldiers to prevent it. The governor’s Intention is worthy of applause. The enforcement of the law is what the people want. ' J - There Is considerable speculation i rife among the correspondents and newspaper writers in general as to what will ba the final verdict of the peace commission in l’aris. There has been nothing said by anybody of the commission or in touch with it that would indicate in the least what the commission will do. The county Democratic central committee met at Goshen oil .Saturday last to decide on when to open and how the county campaign should be conducted. As this lathe business of those who are engaged in the work, it may be that the public will begin to suspect that, the campaign has been in progress several weeks. - When a man has once worked his -paws intrUthe county treasury" under cover of the board of county commissioners it is not at all astonishing that he will defend his own theft by a defense of the men who allowed him to perpetrate it. Especially is this expected where the man looks upon a falsehood in politics as a legitimate means to an end. It is shouted to the four winds that the affairs of Elkhart county have been extravagantly managed during the last four years,— Goshen Tinas. Not more than a year ago the 'Times was doing the shouting. It not ouly accused the county board of extravagance', but of corrupt practices. What’s the 'limes going to do about it now? Was it, or was it not true then?.

An ltnterprlitluK DruggiNt. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than J. S. Walters, who spares no pains to secure the best of everything in his line for his many customers, lie now has the valuable agency for Dr. King’s New Discovent, for Consumption, Coughs, and Colds. This is the wonderful Jgjggdj Jhat.il producing a furor ait over the country bv its many startling cures. It absolutely cures Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, aud all affections of the Throat, Chest, and Lungs. Call at above drug store and get a trial bpttle free or a regular size for 60 cents and SI.OO. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.

An excellent wheat crop, an excellent corn crop, an excellent oats crop, an excellent clover seed crop, an excellent hay crop, an excellent onion crop, an excellent potato crop, an excellent peach crop. This is the record for northern Indiana this year. Nothing failed but the apple crop. —Milford Mail. And somebody to tell what became of that *5,900 the Elkhart school board should have had.— Elkhart Truth. Not unlike the “misappropriated” county funds, perhaps, the *5,900 has “gone where the lost pins disappear to.” ' The quarter’s allowances of the Noble county commissioners as published last week show an expenditure of $529.50 for bridges. This ratio of expense for bridges would average a little over $2,000. In this county, the grand jury found that the commissioners had paid over and above wl&t the contractor was entitled toon one single bridge, the sum of $1,750. In one year it has cost the county $12,909.50 for bridges. Notwithstanding suit is pending to recover $1,750, the same contractor is building bridges for the county without competition. It is now understood that there will be no more attempts to charge other infamy upon candidate for auditor John W. Brown, until Just before the day of election, when it is expected that the liar can’t be headed off in his purpose. An attempt will be made, in all probability, to hire some sorehead Democrat, if one dirty enough can be found,' to shoulder the responsibility of the next attack on Mr. Brown. The News is of the opinion that it will require the raking of a fine-tooth comb to find ode, if at all. The people are going to elect John W. Brown auditor—for they need just such a man in their business—and any amount of kicking through personal enmity will only increase the number of his supporters from nowon. The voters are making preparations for the correct business move irrespective of party affiliation in the selection of an auditor. Ik all the returning soldiers from Cuba, Porto Rico, and the American camps of fever and pestilence had been officered by such men as Major Neff, of the Bth New York, the horrible scenes of suffering on the transports and on tile railroad trains would not have occurred. When the- Bfh New York regiment was on its way home from Chlekrmiauga the train was stopped at several places for slipplies which people brought. At one of these stops the conductor roughly informed Major Neff that the train would start in half an hour. “If you start Before these supplies of milk, Ice, etc., for the sick men arc on hoard,’’-said the major, “1 give you my word that I’ll shoot you dead.” The train remained for over an hour. A little Jacksonian firmness on siyih occasions has a salutary effect.— South Haul Times. Despatches announce that Cos). W". J. Bryan, of free silver fame, thinks he can serve the people better on thd stump than in the army and will soon sesign his command to engage in campaign work. After all the fuss he made to get into the army as an officer this is pretty good evidence that it was notoriety and not patriotism that inspired him.— North Manchester Journal. No evidence at all. Every man who entered the government’s service did not do so with the intention of following a military life beyond the needs of his country. The Journal's. statement is an Insult to every man who now wishes to get hack to the business pursuits of life because no longer needed In the army. These same small-bore fellows who didn’t have the courage to offer themselvgs to their country in time of war, mado the same howl when Mr. Byran asked permission to raise a regiment. They said lie didn’t intend raising a regiment; that lie couldn’t if he wanted to; that he wasn’t capable of commanding one if he raised It, etc. Just-how it came to he called a banefuet, is more than the ladies of the Relief Corps who gave the members of Company C a lunch when they arrived here from Goshen Wednesday uight, can tell. The ladles had not expected to furnish any supper so late in the evening. But, when they found out that the soldiers of the Spanish-American war were to come from Goshen to give an exhibition drill, they just hustled around and got out what was not consumed during the day ; and did the best they could to give the boys a lunch. They frit as though theTf attempt to meet the situation^on the spur of the toornent, was-lT'poor apology for a mealr Now that it has been published in the papers as a banquet prepared for the soldiers especially, they are fearful lest an opinion. go abroad among

tbe Goshen men tbat Nappanee banquets are tolerably tbin pick! ng. Tbe fact Id tbe case is, tbe ladies knew nothing about tbe intention of tbe Goshen men to come until a abort time before they arrived. Thb post-office inspector who is given credit for turning the office over to John Brown’s successor, may be tbe inspector who inspected tbe post-office on other occasions. For instance, be inspected a certain woman for having seDt defamatory matter through the mails to this paper, and to another individual who lived here. When the proof was furpjjshed him, be agreed to attend to the matter. He charged the ilvoman with the crime, but after visiting her the second time, never came back nor returned the letters and proof furnished him, none of which belonged to him except in the transaction of the business in hand. This inspector’s name is Leatberman, and be has been too sneaking to ever put bis foot in the News office door since he'declared to the writer that be knew positively who wrote the card and letters. So much for one post-office ins]pectpr that we know of. There are oth&r things koown by other people.

THE state school question. [Elkhart Review.] The next legislature will be called upon to make some modifications of the laws governing our state schools. The issue has been raised between the schools supported by the state, known as the state schools, and including the state normal schools, and those supported by the religious denominations. The contest is not over the allowances made by the state to its universities and normal schools, but to the constitution of the state board of education and the precedence given the graduates of those schools in securing state licenses. The ground taken by the non-state schools is that the state board should be constituted on broader methods, not made up of certain men simply because they hold positions in state schools, or happen to be superintendents of city schools In the three largest cities of the state. As now constituted, the state board is make up of the state superintendent, presidents of the state schools, and school superintendents of the three largest cities in the state. The result of this system is as bad or worse than it possibly could be under political control. It has created a practically perpetual, hoard made up of theorists whose purpose seems to be the furtherance of pecucullaritles and fads in the system of public schools. The examinations have, under them, beeome monuments of stupidity, the laughing stock of the best educators, and the objects of ridicule by practical men outside of the schools. The non-state schools are not assau 1 ting the prerogatives of the state schools in the matter of state support, though It ought to be frankly confessed that the returns hardly justify the great expenditures in these institutions. But it is the failure to recognize officially equally deserving graduates of other schools, or rather the recognition officially of graduates of the state schools over those of other equally good schools in the state, thus creating a prejudice against l other good schools because they cannot confer equal privileges. The denominational schools, and with them a very large proportion of the Intelligent people who study the question at all, feel that a graduate of the technical andoftcD very superficial training given at the normal school, should not-have any advantage in the policy of the state in reference to the great common school system. They object, and very properly, to the right of these schools to any priority In the effort for license to teach in the public schools, and demand that the life liccuse granted by the State Normal be abolished, and that applicants for such a license be placed on an equal footing, dependent upon scholarship, experience, and positive ability, not upon the school they choose as their alma mater.

The contention of the non-state schools is sustained by justice and good sense, and their efforts at reform ought to prevail with the legislature. They ask nothing unfair, and they only'demand equality,of treatment In those policies of the state educational interests which should recognize the equality of right of each -<fftkeßy~and-yfrlcfe. should place fit applications for the endorsement of the abate upon merit, without the aid of stato recognition by any advantage conferred by a state school'. The cpntest will be a strong one, and It Is hardly to be doubted that the justice of the position of the non-state schools will be recognized by the legislature.

A CRITICAL TIME. During The Battle of Santiago. SICK ORWELL, A RUSH NIGHT AND DAY. The Packers at The Battle of Santiago de Cuba Were all Heroes.—Their Heroic Efforts in Getting Ammunition And Bations to The Front Saved The Day. P. E. Butler, of pack-train No. 3, writing from Santiago 'de Cuba, on July 23d, says: “We all had diarrhoea in more or less violent form, and when we landed we had no time to see a doctor, for tt was a case of rush and rush night and day to keep the troops supplied with ammunition and rations, but thanks to Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrbiea Remedy, we were able to keep at work and keep our health; in fact, I sincerely believe that atone critical time this medicine was the Indirect saviour of our army, for if the packers had been unable to work there would have been no way to get supplies to the front. There were no roads that a wagon train could use. My comrade and myself had the good fortune to lay in a supply of this medicine for our pack-train before we left Tampa, and I know in four instances it absolutely saved life.” The above letter was written to the manufacturers of this medicine, the Chamberlain Medicine Cos., De3 Moines, lowa. For sale by J. S. Walters, druggist.

School Shoes, Are the things among the family necessities and in this you are interested in gtting the best service for the dollar expended. The inducements we offer you are those of a store which depends on building up and maintaining a trade on one lin —that of shoes. We are in the exclusive business of buying and selling shoes; oence, we think we are in a position to benefit those who patronize our store for boys’ and Misses’ School Shoes. We have shoes for grown up people that will wear well and fit the feet. A stock of rubbers and rubber boots. SHIVELY -- l HESS.

Drain Tile! We are now prepared to furnish all sizes of drain tile at the factory formerly owned by Mellinger & Cos., one mile west of Nappanee. .Nelson Hood & Son.

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Dr. BOLAN’S Success in hie system of Rectal Treatment ami Rectal Medication Is now unquestioned. Blind, Bleeding, Protruding, and Itching Piles, Fistula, Fissure, and Rectal Ulcerations, no matter how bad, or of how long standing—cure guaranteed in every case without the use of knife Or ligatures, and no detention from bnsinets. Constipation, in most every case, is a sure symptom of rectal trouble, and is positively cured by Dr. Bolan's Sjjtemof Rectal Medication. Kidrrcyv BUader, Urinary diseases. Stomach. Liver. Blood and Skin diseases also cured. 25 years in the general practice of. ruedlcine and 15 years as a specialist' in Piles and Rectal diseases, enables the Doctor to treat all Chronic diseases successfully. COISCLTATIOS and EXAMMTIOX FIEE At the Coppes Hotel, Thursday September 29th. At Milford Friday Saturday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

Stoves! r' - If yon are going to buy a stove this fall, either a cooker or heater, we want to say to yon that the old Reliable Comer Hardware is just now fixing the stock to accommodate its customers with the best; and the price will be no more than you may sometimes expend for an inferior article. Don’t make a choice until you see what we can do for yon. Also have Builders’ Hardware and Tools. * , i—X , * -■* ■■ Weiss & Prevert. Perry A. Early, Some Rare Bargains in Real Estate. Do you want an abstract) Qaq II q flgTOf yonr property?) OvU IflUi InonronnJ ani * r^° i^urlllulll uIIUU; ance in the bestof companies - O i_ - ■ -- ------ - Ovep, Farmers & Traders Bakk.

It’s the good will, The pleasant side of the public’s opinion, my store desires. With such a feeling, gives pleasant business relations. I cultivate it by economical prices by furnishing only such qualities as are fully satisfactory in every respect by guaranteeing every transaction to be just as represented on a basis of fair and honest values. A few August specials, such as Bedroom Suites, Rockers, Couches, Extension Tables, Spring Mattresses,.etc. Yours for trade, 3XT. A. LBHDMCAKT .. \ ' •_ L ’ * *• - ... ‘ . .... ■*■l*s Ironstone China means a great many kinds of wares. We have just put in anew line—a good one—from which the buyer can make a selection either of plain or decorated ware, domestic or imported makes. IN GLASSY ARE W e have something new. For instance#Up-to-date Emerald Green glassware—a very pretty thing and cheap. Victoria glassware contains pieces in pretty designs. The bargains in the Quicksale designs are those which will attract the buyers. In all these wares we have made careful selections.

CRAIGE,

Up=To=Date Wagons and Buggies! W hen you are looking for an Up-to-date Vehicle you can find one at our place, either wagon nr hmjgv We reitl f a 'st t( ! y °" tlult w ® 5 sok “ a £ents fw the old wagon, ftttd you How at once the Sf? buj ’ an<l w . here tu buy it. Come in and see the Auburn buggy and me up the make and price. BROWN BROS.

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