Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 22, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 October 1900 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Nappankb. Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Bj GORDON N. MURRAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year $1 50 One copy six months, 75 One copy three months, 40 ADVERTISING RATES. Columns In. Long—-Quarto Form. One column one year SBO 00 One-half column one year 40 00 One-foarth column one year— 20 00 One-eighth column one year. 10 00 Shortertime than three months, 10 cents per inch per week column width. Local reading notices per line weekly 05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, per line.. 05 Marriage, birth, death,and church notices free. The Nappanee liquor cases will come up in the circuit court Monday before Special Judge State, of Elkhart. The Bourbon News wants the street labels put up before the fair comes on there. If those “labels” are put up we will attend the Bourbon fair at the risk of getting lost in the town. It is said that a fair prospect is ahead for the miners in the anthracite coal fields to win their strike for an advance in wages. If this should prove to be true, a national campaign will become a Mecca for organized labor to put on a strike. The Wakarusa Tribune last week came out as a full-fledged Republican paper. The Tribune was a trifle late, but then it requires more or less time to digest everything in sight, and our Wakarusa contemporary will yet have an opportunity to get in a few McKinley shots, all the same. The Nappanee Prohibitionists who attended the party rally at Goshen on Monday report a good time and everything enthusiastically bright for the Prohibition party. Those from Nappanee estimate the afternoon attendance to have been all the way from 3.000 to 4,000 people. “TheTideof Life” company played to a good house at the Auditorium last Friday night. The company is an all-around good one, and the play, while not particulary heavy in the plot, is well staged, and the specialists are above the average, furnishing a sufficient diversity from the coldblooded portion of the performance. According to the program as announced intentionally by Republican papers, the “full dinner pail” racket will be worked from now on to a finish in the campaign, the Rough Rider end of the program, perhaps, to tell the truth, not being a drawing card. People who care little about how political matters are going, and even those who do, will look on this as a profitable change for Republicans. In spite of all etlorts to overcome the disinterested attitude of people in general in this campaign, the average voter goes along about his business as though nothing had happened to attract his attention. There is every indication that the voters are thinking for themselves and will cast their ballots for the right as they may see the right. Regardless, of results, whatever they may lie, this sort of feeling is desirable. “ The Nappanee Orchestra entertained before the footlights at the Auditorium last Friday night. This was their initial performance of the season and they did themselves proud. The orchestra is made up of the following persons: Miss Treva Rickert, piano: Dick Frazier, Ist violin: Aaron Jacobs, 2d violin: Harley Rickert, flute: Pilman Kickert, clarinet: Will Rosbrugh, cornet: and James Gentzhorn, slide trombone. The Pueblo miners are not the only rampant, excitable people over politics to the extent oFTorgetting common decency. Right over our border line in Kosciusko county, the Rev. Jesse Calvert was egged, it Is said, by a gang of hoodlums because he made a Prohibition speech at Cook's school house. It becomes respectable people of all political parties to place the seal of condemnation on such acts wherever committed. Story of a Slave. To be bound band and foot for years with the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. Williams, of Manchester,' Mich., tells how such a slave was made free. He says: “My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over in bed alone. Alter using two bottles of Electric Bitters, she is wonderfully improved and able to do her own work.” This supreme remedy for female diseases quickly cures nervousness,sleeplessness, melancholy, headache, backache, fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle working medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly and rundown people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by J. 8. Walters, Druggist.

By an oversight, merely, the News failed to mention the Butler Prohibition street meeting last week. The News has always given space to Dews items of political gatherings of all political parties. It frequently occurs that items of local news is overlooked just like other business men forget matters; then again for the reason that nobody thinks it worth the while to take the news to the newspapers. In the matter referred to, the News depended on somebody else for the item, and failing to receive it, neglected to make mention of the meeting. There has been no change of policy ojy the part of this paper, whatever. rThts is deemed to be sufficient explanation for the oversight. When the law was passed making it an offense for a man to sell his vote, but providing no penalty for the man who bought it, Governor Mount refused to sign the bill, but did not veto it, and it became the law without his approval or signature. This law makes vote buying easy. It not only protects the buyer but gives him undue influence over the man whose vote he purchases in future years. To commit the crime two parties are required. One party is innocent of wrong, and the other is guilty, and yet one has committed as great a wrong as the other; in fact, the greater criminal of the two is the one who escapes punishment. Such a law is a disgrace to the State. —Columbia City Post. TnE Philadelphia North American, Republican, takes Senator Beveridge to task for his recent speech in Chicago, in which he declared that this country should annex Cuba, and that the resolution of congress in favor of Cuban independence at the beginning of the war with Spain was a blunder. The North American believes that the administration has difficulties enpugh in dealing with the Cuban situation, without the additional embarrassment which the rash and indiscreet utterances of some of its friends may bring upon it. Ex-Secretary Olney, on the other band, holds that the only salvation for Cuba is annexation to the United States. Thus it is again demonstrated that great minds will differ.— South Bcml Times. Mark Hanna has explained. He says now that in his Chicago speech he said there were no trusts in the meaning of the law. He acknowledges that there are combinations of capital that are working injustice to the people, but says that the trust issue is a bugaboo of Bryan's to catch votes. After all is said, it is simply a question with Mr. Hanna whether he can put up a bigger “bugaboo” than the trust issue, failing in which the result will be that he, Mr. Hanna, will have to step down aDd out of politics as a leader of his party. Political explanations are usually as clear as mud, and Mr. Hanna’s is certainly no exception to the rule. It would seem that this is the way it would look to those who remember about a certain non-partisan, antitrust conference. From all sources of information very little if any political capital can tie made by Democrats or Republicans out of the disgraceful Pueble, Colo., incident. The facts, perhaps, in the premises are that the miners were after Candidate Roosevelt’s escort, Senator Wolcott, for be should have said of the miners that they were nothing but a set of ignoramuses who did not know the first principles of politics. Roosevelt “sassed” one of these miners, who had called out while the address was going on, which was the signal for other “hot heads” to take up the matter. There was nobody hurt during the so-called rioting, and, compared with one where pistols and clubs are used, it was a tame “scrap” altogether, and one which was attributable to the presence of Senator Wolcott more than to any othercause. THE- COAL TRUST AND THE STRIKING MINERS. ” Indianapolis Press. It would be difficult to imagine a labor dispute in which the men were more clearly in the right and the employers more certainly in the wrong. Probably at no other place in America do men work at less wagesj, or under more distressing conditions than in the anthracite fields. Low scales of wages, “dockage” for impurities, differences of measurement of which the company is the sole Judge, and extortions in the sales of powder and goods at the “company store,” keep the miner in a state of squalid poverty that is pitiful. The mines are controlled almost exclusively by certain railroad companies, and the companies have a combination

through which they act as one man in dealing with the miners and imposing these conditions of labor. The laborers have formed a general organization to meet this and obtain better conditions. The cost of living has increased, and the profits of the companies have increased with increased prices for coal. Through their organization the men have asked for a conference to readjust wages and conditions of labor. The companies have ignored the request. The men, through their organization, have suggested various compromises. The companies have ignored them. Outside interests have appealed to the companies. The companies have ignored the appeals. Again the men, through the organization, have appealed for arbitration. The companies have ignored the appeal. At this distance it looks like as brutal and cold-blooded an effort of wealth to starve out poverty, of strength to trample down weakness, of might to override right, as was ever inaugurated. The sympathy of the American people will surely go with the miners, not merely because they are the under dog in the fight, but because their cauße is just and their condition appeals to every sentiment of humanity. Col. C. G. Conn, who is one of the class referred to below and knows whereof he speaks, says in the Elkhart Truth: Capitalists in New York City have recently made business contracts involving millions of dollars in which the following clause was inserted: “This contract is to be null and void in case of tbe election of William Jennings Bryan as president of the United Slates.”— Goshen News. Yes, but wouldn’t it be more effective in its purpose if Mr. Conn, and the other alleged New York capitalists, would add their reasons for putting such a stipulation in a contract? Os course, it means just what it is put out for, -purely a campaign bogie. For this reason it should carry with it some sort of argument. For instance, if tbe “horn business,” like the “brewery business,” will be increased by the use of an army of one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand men over what it would be at twenty-five thousand men, it ought to be so stated, so that it would be possible for the farmer, merchant, or day wage-earner, to decide whether his condition could be in any way affected by the failure to increase the sale of horns and beer. If the stability of the country in aoy special proportion is dependent on tbe two interests referred to, as against any other individual efforts to sustain life in the business world, then the voter ought by all means to be in favor of a big army or any policy calculated to increase the size of the regular army, against depending upon the citizen soldiers. The small boy who fishes in the same pond one season after another always uses fresh bait, —never attempting to catch the same fish twice without at least spitting on the bait. GOOD RESULTS OF THE ICOUNTy\eFORM LAW. Elkhart Review. The people of Elkhart county have had excellent opportunity to learn the good results of the county reform law passed by the last legislature. The annual meeting of the county council which was held last week cut down the estimates of the various county officers for the expenses of their various offices, an aggregate of nearly forty thousand dollars, but this does not represent all the benefits to the taxpayers resulting from the operation of the law. In the first place the various officers have lessened their expenses and reduced their estimates much below last year. The saving on the various supplies for the various offices has been as great or greater than tbe savings on the estimates by tho county council, and there is no doubt that the good results of the law have thus operated in both directions. In every county where the law has been honestly enforced aDd its provisions honestly carried out, it has been of great benefit In establishing the policy of economy. But there is a strong opposition to tbe law in maDy counties, especially where either party bolds a very strong plurality,and in some of these counties there Is a determined opposition, and candidates for the legislature have been nominated who are avowed opponents of the law, and who were selected partly because of that opposition. Such a condition Is extremely unfortunate and unsatisfactory, aDd the friends of the law and the friends of economic reform in every direction should mass their forces to elect a legislature which will not repeal or destroy the law, but one which will amend its weaknesses and broaden its

application to tbe affairs of county aDd state. Tbe results of the law throughout the State will save millions of dollars of unDecesfary expense, in tbe two years in which It has been applied. And while it has some defects they are minor, and the friends of economy and of reform should seek to correct those defects and enlarge the good results of the operation of the law. This is a matter of very serious import, and one that every good citizen, Irrespective of party, should encourage. To Stop a Cold. After exposure or when you feel a cold coming 00, take a dose of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It never fails to stop a cold if takeo in time. Take nothing else. J. S. Walters. Woman's Christian Temperance Union Elects Officers. Tbe Elkhart county W. C. T. U. convention at Elkhart closed Thursday afternoon. It was an interesting and beneficial session to all who attended. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Laura Phoenix, Middlebury; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. A. Tompkins, Elkhart; recording secretary, Miss E. J. Clark, Bristol; treasurer, Mrs. A. Z. Vail, Goshen; press superintendent, Mrs. A. P. Daub, Goshen. Superintendents of departments: Christian citizenship, Mrs. Ellen Richter, Elkhart; alcoholic medication, Mrs; J. A. Work, Elkhart; Y work, Mrs. A. Kaussman, Elkhart; Sabbath observance, Mrs. R. C. Travis, Elkhart; systematic giving, Mrs. R. P. Burton, Elkhart; franchises, Mrs. C. E. Davis, GosheD; literature, Mrs. Alice Parker, Elkhart; mothers’ meetlogs, Mrs. O. W. Cunningham, Goshen; scientific temperance, Mrs. L. C. Tyler, Elkhart; evangelistic work, Mrs. Swartz, Nappanee; subscription to official papers, Mrs. Travis, Elkhart. Real Estate Transfers. Perry A Early and wife to L A aDd Mary E Hazlett lot in Nappanee *125. A M Long and wife to C A Miller and wife lot in Elkhart *450. Jacob Hartman and wife to Joslah Kreider lot in Nappanee *325. Josiah Kreider and wife to Henry S Sarber and wife lot in Nappanee *2,000. Henry S Sarber and wife to Joslah Kreider 39 a in Baugo tp $2,000. O F Neff and wife to Amanda D Pittman 30 a in Olive tp *2,000. Addie L and George A Bood to Daniel R and Eemeltne Hibbard lot in Goshen *5,000. George E Compton to Fred E Wilson 10 a in Osolo tp *SOO. Frank A Hascall and wife to Sears Gardner lot in Goshen *2,200. Edward A Bumpier to Caroline Rumpler lot in Goshen *75, Francis M Caldwell to David L Miller lot in Elkhart *O4O. Flora E Buss et al to Daniel T Null land in Locke tp *l. Sophia Swovcland et al to Daniel T Null land in Locke tp *I,OOO. Adam Grand and wife to Daniel T Null land in Locke tp *2,000. Elizabeth Frampton et al to Susan R Scott lot in Elkhart *650. Joseph A Bates et al to William T Manroe and wife lot in Elkhart 1,600. TO THE DEAF. A rich lady, cured of her deafnesand noises in the head by Dr. Nichols son’s Artificial Ear Drums, gave SIO,OOO to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 2820 The Nicholson Institute, 780 Eighth Avenue, New York. ,To First Voters. You are young men casting your first ballot. We congratulate you. We also call your attention to Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for consumption, indigestion, sick headache, and stomach trouble. At J. S. Walters’. Marriage Licenses. John W. Darry and Maude E’. Long. Adam O. Smith and Mar/ M. Smith. John M. Eagle and Mary C. Angel. Martin W. Houetnan and Georgia M. Atnan. George E. Stoddard and Alta V. Ritter. John F. Teeter and Alice Shearer. Noah F. Snyder and Florence Rhodes. To Cure u Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tableft. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 26c. 21m12 A Smooth Young Thief. Goshen Democrat: Harry Waters, the youthful thief who took *4OO belonging to Howard Hopkinß, is evidently at liberty until he chooses to come back here of bis own accord. Waters has certainly been successful in evading tbe officers. Ail the eastern city police departments have been on the lookout for him and the police at Paris and other cities In France have accurate descriptions of him, yet be has not been apprehended. Tbe truth of tbe matter Is that Waters If far from belog a green lad. He Is slick and smooth.

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