Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 23, Number 35, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 6 November 1901 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. •-- - ..... .7 V. %;■; Nappanbb. Elkhart Coujhrtf, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. By GORDON N.MPKBAY. TERRIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year f 1 50 One copy six months 78 One copytbree months ...y... 40 ADVERTISING RATES. Columns 20 In. Long-*-Quarto Form. One column one year • ...SBOOO One-half eolnmn one year 40 00 One-fourth column one year 20 00 One-eighth column one year. 10 00 Shorter time than three months, 10 cents per Inch per week column width. Local reading notices per line weekly 05 Obituary notices,cards of thanks, perline.. 05 Marriage, birth, death,and chnrch notices free. Sunday hunting at S4O a hunt comes rather too high for most people, but a couple of Bien in the Kosciusko county jail indulged in the sport. A Distinguished European scientific society says that a premium should be offered young people of sound intellectual, physical and moral character as an inducement to matrimony. He thinks a governmental examination and diplomas would held the scheme along, to be followed by rewards for extra children. Here is where the Old World differs from the New. All that is necessary In this land is for the parents to oppose the wedding—and let nature take its course.

Saturday several lawyers about the court house engaged In a dispute as to what would become of court park in the event of the county seat being changed. To settle the matter the records were investigated and it was found the county owns the land, it having been deeded by the United States, Stephen Crane acting as agent for the government. A man named Gordon was surveyor at the time Elkhart Truth. “The matter” was settled a good a many years ago, gentleman, and it really does not seem worth while for Elkhart lawyers to worry about it now. More alleged “history” is to be unmade by a suit by Richard Harding Davis and Casper Whitney against General Alger for libel in his book, “The Spanish-American War.” Alger says the writers ran away at the first fire and boarded a government transport, where they wrote an Imaginary account of the battle of Los Guasimas, whereas they claim to have been in the thick of the fight. These little differences come from not having battles properly rehearsed beforehand, when everybody could be “spotted” In his proper position. With an apparently healthy understanding that marriage is a lottery, Rosa Bell, of Clay Center, Kansas, wrote her name and address on an egg, which she packed with other eggs for an unknown market, being first careful to inscribe thereon her candidacy for the matrimonial yoke. A young man in Wyoming got the egg—where the chicken got the ax—but the girl stuck in his craw, so to speak. He wrote to her, a short correspondence ensued, ana they will now go into the chicken raising business together. Moral: The main thing Is to get ’em into the boat, as the man said when he caught a fish by the tail.

The scenes or violence and bloodshed enacted in Louisana during the past week are a disgrace to civilization. By these so called “race wars" in which a lot of innocent negroes are slaughtered, burnt at the stake and driven from their homes, southern people not only nullify their own claims to social superiority but briug discredit upon the whole American nation. Mob law is a state of barbarism and those who habitually appeal to it are little above barbarians. It is a tacit confession that such a people are unfit to govern themselves. The record of certain southern communities is one more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of modern civilization. Even turbulent Italy or degenerate Spain present no such shameful travesties on civil government. It is not pretended by those who thus blacken the name of the Republic upon which the eyes of the civilized workfare now fixed that the laws of their own enactment cannot be enforced. There is no excuse hiR. in the perverted minds of a people permeated with false fundamental ideas of government. That Throbbing Headache. Would quickly leave you, if you used Ur. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands of suftererers b&vfe proved their matchlessauerit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by J. S. Walters, Druggist.

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The question as to whether a kiss without it ao assault M to be decided by the highest court In Indiana. It will come up on an appeal from Greenoastle, where a young man has recently been convicted of assault and fined $5 and costs for putting bis arm around a pretty girl and pressing his lips to hers. The decision In this case will, be regarded as the settlement of a vexatious question. Precious few kisses are distributed in this world upon formal application. Yet the possibility of having to fork over a five dollar note and court fees to double that amount for the mere act of crowding things is discouraging. Here is an opening for anew woman movement. The Elkhart papers complain of an influx of thieving boys from Goshen and other points who are worrying shopkeepers. Elkhart naturally concludes that she has enough Dative material in that line. This product is chiefly the result of the laxity of supervision on the part of parents. Boys that are permitted to roam the streets at all hours of the day and night with no other restraint than their own sweet will are open to all the temptations that beset youth. They are to be pitied rather than condemned. Why boys who are predisposed to youthful deviltry should naturally gravitate towards Elkhart, however, is one of those local mysteries which perhaps only Elkhart people can explain. It has been thus for the last fifty years.

The supreme court of the German empire has recently rendered a decision which may he profitably studied in the United States. It is to the effect that a law passed by the German diet prohibiting “picketing” during workingmen’s strikes is unconstitutional. The conditions under which the questions arose were precisely those that have existed from time to time iu this country. Pending labor troubles pickets of strikers were established for the purpose of ntercepting new workers and preventing by argument or otherwise their continuance at labor. Various courts la our laud of liberty have quite recently decided that picketing is an unlawful interference with the rights of property and the right of others to labor. Both women and men have been lately arrested in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York for the violations of injunctions against picketing. It may seem straDge to many that an absolutely monarchy should give us easy lessons in the matter of civil liberty, but In this action of the highest judicial authority of Germany we have an intimatiou of the fact that we do not bold a monoply of the principles or practice of human freedom. The German decision, which upholds the right of workingmen to peaceably persuade their fellow workmen, may well be studied by the jurists and politicians of the United States. It should be added that the right to picket thus sustained by an appeal of German workingmen to the supreme court of the German empire is denied in neither England nor France and the attempt to suppress it here has done much to bring into disrepute that process of law known as the injunction.

The execution of the assassin of the President of the United States disposes of but a single dangerous anarchist out of tens of thousands. It is not much, considering thetremendQU3 Interests at stake, but It la all that one man can be called upon to pay by way of penalty; Under our institutions the individual can be punished only for killing the individual. There is no crime of regicideno special aggravation in a fatal assult upon the chief magistrate of the Republic. Our theory is perfect equality of all men before the law. Even at this short remove from the event which filled the popular mind with fury we must regard *,be legal conviction and quiet execution of Leon Czolgosz as the greatest triumph of civilization. Popular Indignation is a poor guide in the administration of government. Thus, the drastic remedies for the disease of anarchy proposed immediately after the Buffalo tragedy already appear preposterous— infinitely worsjnftao^The disease. Applied without law generally, as they have been applied in special scattered instances -through-, out the country, a modern Reign of Terror would have been inaugurated. One of the most idiotic measures for the destruction of a wasp nest in the ehves is to burn the house; yet this is, practically, what has been proposed by popular voice and by many who court its approval. Fortunately, the liberties of this people are secured by written charter, which cannot be suddenly overturned, or even modi-

fled, except by armed revolution. We have bound ourselves hand and foot to the car Os civilization and are not subject to the whim of ruler or the hot breath of the mob. Undoubtedly there will be various repressive schemes of legislation proposed at Washington this winter. They should be considered with caution. The real danger to civil liberty is not in the anarchist, in the assassin; it is in the restrictive measures which follow bis sporadic deviltry. It is in this way that the “free thinker” becomes the greatest enemy of free thought, that the “free speech” apostles make themselves the assassins of freedom of expression, and the extreme exponents of personal liberty drive nations into the arms of military despotism. A Hnahnnd’a Gnlle. She —After dinner, John, 1 want to havd a good, long, serious talk with you. lie—Lpok here, -darling, would you mind writing it all down? Tell you what! Make it a dialogue; you can easily put in my part, too, you know. She—But, John— He —Oh, don’t pretend, dear! You have a gift that way. And I’ll read it down at the office in the morning.— Brooklyn Life. A Utmsivood Corner* “Ulnae.” “They say,” observed the grocer as he carefully wrapped up half a dozen hemngs. “that Lige Barclovv blacks his boots every Sunday.” “Yes,” replied Uncle Grouty', "he’s a perfect roo, a reg’lar Lothario. I tell ye, so many of our young men failin’ into the enervatin’ vortex of fashion don’t argue very well fer the perpetuity of the race.”—Judge. Os Paramount Importance. “Supposing.” he said, “that we really could get to communicating with Mars, what, in your opinion, is the first thing we ought to say to the people on that planet?” “Well,” he replied, “we might nsk them if they have solved the servant girl problem, and, if so, how.”—Chicago Times-llerald. A Question of Honor. “Young man,” said the young lad’s father, “you have boasted several times that you possess an honored name.” “Yes, sir,” replied,q the suitor, haughtily. “Well, may I inquire what bank it will be honored at, and for how much ?”—Tit-Bits.

Ml** Cayenne’* Candor. “Wliat did you think of that farewell speech of mine?” said the orator. “Well,” answered Miss Cayenne, “to be candid, I couldn’t quite make up my mind whether it ought to be referred to as a swan song, or as merely one of the customary cackles.”— Washington Star. Organ Chiefly Concerned. “You won’t touch that cake!” his wife fearfully exclaimed. "And I made It on purpose to please you. You have no heart!” “Perhaps not, Maria,” responded the dyspeptic husband, with a weary sigh. “But I am painfully conscious of my liver.”—Chicago Tribune. Love Wn Blind. Clara—Dora has had some sore disappointment. She says that she will never have faith in man again. Marie —I know what that is. She has just learned that the eye with which Mr. Dashley has been winking at her for some time is a glass one. —Denver News. Amateur Theatrical*. Mrs. Montauk (at amateur theatricals) —I should enjoy amateur theatricals more if the actors had a little more self-assurance. Mr. Montauk—Yes; that seems to be monopolized by the people who solicit you to buy the tickets. Brooklyn Eagle. Escape Impossible. Jack—l wish I could get out of marrying her. Fred —Why don’t you tell her she is too good for you? Jack —I did; but it wouldn't work. Now she wants to marry me to reform me. —Town Topics. Promised Immunity. I find a dainty, scented note from Grace Within my morning- mall. It runs like this: "Stolen, last night, from its abiding place Upon two lips, a rather hurried kiss! To owner known Is he who dared to steal; Yea. long in her affections he has basked. So, if no later than this evening he'll Return the same, there’ll be no question* asked." —Detroit Free Press. GIRL LOVE AGAIN.

“He says I Sing more beautifully than any girl he knows. What do you think of that?” “I think he should extend his ac□u|imtance.”: —Boston Globe.

Completely Lost. “I have just been reading n interesting story of two men who were lost In the snow while shooting in Scotland,” said the beautiful Miss Hickins. “Were you ever lost, Mr. Tubbs?” “Once.” “When?” x "When I first saw you I was lost in admiration, and I may add thp.t I have not since been found.” The banns have been twice called.—-Tit-Bits. Corroborative Evidence. “I see that a Chicago scientist has discovered that salt will prolong life. “Yes, and I saw somewhere the other day a statement that there are statistics which prove women to be longer lived than men. This bears out the salt theory." “I don’t see how.” “Look af the way women eat pickles.” —Chicago Times-Herald. A Singular Thing. Her father is a wealthy man, She has a million In her name; Yet some folks think her very poor. For she’s a cash girl, just the same. —Harlem Life. HIS lingering hope.

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Detective (running out of railroad Station) —Where did that fellow go who ran out of here? Citizen (still holding his foot that the-fugitive had stepped on) —I hope he went where I told him.—Brooklyn Eagle. No Trust. Oh, wherefore do they call them "trusts?” ’Tis wrong, it seems to me. Since everything one gets from them Is issued C. O. D. —Washington Star. A Proper Sacrifice. “I’ve been wondering, don’t you know,” remarked Cadleigh, “what to give up during Lent.” “Suppose,” suggested Miss Pepprey, who knew his habit, “suppose you give up your seat in the street car occasionally?”—Philadelphia Press. Just Like Mi. Mr. Meeker —But surely I ought to have some say as to whom my daughter marries? ~ Mrs. Meeker—Not a word, sir! When she gets ready,'* she*'- shall, if she likes, marry any old fool; just as her mother did.—Tit-Bits. Too Well Protected. “They say his heart is in the right place.” “Possibly, possibly,” replied the man who had approached him unsuccessfully, “but that does no good when it is protected by armor plate.” —Chicago Post. Very Considerate. Mr. Crimsonbeak (going upstairs behind his wife, with difficulty)—Wasser matter, dear? Mrs. Crimsonbeak —I’m only stopping to get my breath. “Don’t stop; you might oatch mine.” —Yonkers Statesman. What Rothschild Would Do. “Did you ever think what you would do if you had Rothschild’s income?” said Seedy to Harduppe. “No, but I have often wondered what Rothschild would do if he had mine.” —Family Herald. Requlescat In Pace. Bing—What’s become of your dog? I haven’t seen him around lately. Boker —I took the precaution to try some of the medicines on him that were recommended to me for the grippe.— Chicago Times-Herald. All’s Fair. Abe Snodgrass—l’d lick him, only gals is always sympathizin’ with the under dog. Eben duckweed- —Then why don’t you pitch into him an’ let him lick you? —Puck. Needed Two Coats. Patience —What do you tuink? Mr. Dauber asked me to let him paint my face. Patrice—Didn’t think one coat was enough, I suppose.—Yonkers Statesman. An Explanation. Editor —T wonderwhy Rhymer hasn’t sent us any verse lately? Assistant —I understand the gas company removed his meter. —Chicago Daily News. Autocrat of. the Household. Billson —I understand your wife was an imperialist. Hen Peck—No, she was a Scroggins— Jane Scroggins—but it amounts to the same thing.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Mlaunderatandlng. Miss Black (archly)—l s’pose you doan’ like coquettes. Mr. yes, 'deed I do! ’Specially chicken coquettes!—Puck. Precaution. “What are you doing for that baby?’’ “I’m simply avoiding all the advice my friends have given me.”—Harper’s Bazar. ® Savins; Him. Jerrold—Are you sure she loves yov ? Harold—Quite. She has asked me to keep away from the charity bazar her church gives next week.—Puck.

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