People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — Our Honor Roll. [ARTICLE]

Our Honor Roll.

Rev. T. Vanscoy, of Portland. Oregon? is visiting relatives in this county, the guest, at present, of his sister, Mrs. John Worthington. He is one of the prominent educators of the Pa cific Coast, having been president of Willamette College at Salem and now connected with a college at Portland.—Monticello Herald. Chicago policeman: “Not so fast, my man. Ye don’t take this train." Ohio man: “I’m going home —why 11 stopped?” “Where ye takin’ all •hat money.ye've got?” “Mon i ey! I’ve only got one dollar! aid a scalper’s ticket to get* home—” “Very well—that's what I’m stoppin ye for. Hand over the dollar. If yer ever I caught packin’ another dollar from Chicago durin' the fair ye’ll be run in. Seei’"-*—Ex. “If you have ten dollars to I sjiend,” said Barnum, “spend one for an article and the other I nine in advertising it.” The old man knew a thing or two when it came to advertising. Barnum said some years ago: “I can outtalk any body on earth but a printer. The man who can stick type and talk next morning to thousands of people white I'ui talking to one is the only man I’m afraid of. I want him for a friend.’—Ex.

Isaac Glazebrook and wife were out in the country last Sun-; day. They were in a single top buggy and attempted to ford the river on Wai Robinson’s farm. A few steps from the shore the stallion dissappeared froiv view, but in an instant the top of its head appeared and it began swimming for the shore. The buggy was under water and the water reached the waists of the occupants. The stallion reached shore in safety, and now a thousand dollars would not buy the animal.

The Democratic and Republican parties, of Barkley township, at their rallies four or five years ago, each secured a fine, large silk flag as a prize for the largest delegation. A few days age the flags were wanted to decorate the church for Children's Day last Sunday. The commit tee went to the home of Mr. Renicher, in whose possession the flags had been since last used and were startled to fine that the flags had been torn uj and used for carpet rags. The flags were worth about 812 each.

It is a well established princi pie that the people, not facilities for business, make the place. It is true that an energetic prosperous people may be kept back by the lack of natural advantages, but this is not always the case. A thousand towns are kept in check by the greed and lack of public spirit of the peo pie. where one is kept down by the location. Push and energy overcomes all obstacles; greed and want of energy will kill the most promising locality. So the town is just what the citizens make it.—Goodland Herald.

A little 9-year-old girl in Elkhart sent the following excuse to her teacher, for absence from school: Please excuse my absence to-day, as I am too ill for study or play. Like Johnny Jones and his sister Sue, I ate some fruit that was too new. The pain I had made me feel blue and the pill I took was big enough for two. If I don’t get better I'M have to take another, because I don't like to die like Sue and her little brother. Oh dear. I am in a dreadful plight, but I hope by this afternoon I'll be all right.

Guss Phillips has come home to spend a few weeks before the opening of the dramatic season. He will start out again in August with Ed Anderson’s dramatic company as manager. They will open the season in August in Rensselaer, after which date they will only play in large cities. They’ will carry a company of ten persons, and will play the "Lightning Express,” a piay written especially for Mr. Anderson and copyrighted. They wdl carry their own special scenery. Mr. Anderson and wife are now spending the summer vacation at Chicago. The much talked-about cowboy race from Chaldron, Neb., to the World’s Fair began Tues day evening at 5 p. m. at the crack of a pistol shot. About forty cowboys started in the race of 700 miles. The best opinion is that the man who averages fifty miles a day will win the race. Each man leads an extra horse, must ride in a thirty pound saddle and weigh at least 120 pounds. An attempt may be made by officers of the humane society at Chaldron to

interrupt the race, but the com mittee pronounce all fears of cruelty to horses an idle, and are determined that the great race will be run. Riders will not be. allowed to ride over twelve hours at a stretch, and every precaution will* be taken to prevent cruelty. The following from the Hohart Free Press strikes a responsive chord in the breast of ©v* ery newspaper publisher? A local newspaper is often accused of showing partiality in regard to personal notices, by mention- j I ing some who go and not others. I The fault lies With the people and not the editor. We are wil l ling and eVen anxious to tell Who come and go. if We can find out, but a country newspaper cannot, afford to have a dozen salaried reporters. If yo < have visitors, let us know who they are and where they come from; if anything happens in your vicinity | let us know’ about it-: if ydd get married let us know the number and names of yottr guests; if you know anything let us know’about it. You will always find us ready to mention one as well as the other. Our object is to give, as the name of the paper implies, all the news el the week.

John Eckert-, of Starke county, recently mentioned in these colums as being suspected of murdering Ambrose Rude, was arrested at Valparaiso last Friday on the charge of murder. On the night of May 20th Rude and Echert went fishing at the Kankakee river. About ten o’clock that night Eckert called a neighbor living a short distance from the river and told him that the boat that Rude and himself occupied tipped over and that Rude was either drowned or swam to the farther shore. Eckert started away, as the neighbor thought, for help, but instead w’ent home and went to bed. The neighbor waited all night for the help which he supposed would be furnished and it was not until late in the morning that he summoned help, Eckert not returning. The body was recovered in the afternoon on Sunday. Mrs. Rude and intimate friends claim that her husband was murdered, as bruises were found on the head, nose and over one eye. Eckert was with Rude when the latter drew -51;>0 from the North Judson bank a few days before the fishing excursion and Rude had it with him.

Small copper coins are lost in such enormous numbers that the government is obliged to keep on coining cents at the rate of several millions of them every month. They change hands so often as to be subject to a multitude of accidents, and owing to their small value, they are not taken care of. This is no cause of regret to Uncle Sam, inasmuch as he buys the pennies in blank from a firm in Connecticut at the rate of 1,000 for *l. On reaching the mint in Philadelphia, whence all of them are issued, they have merely to fye stamped. There are 119.000,000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, except that once in a while a single specimen turns up in change. A few years ago 45,000,000 bronze 2-cent pieces were set afloat. Three million of them are still outstanding. Three million. 3-cent nickle pieces are scattered over the United States, but it is very rarely that one is seen. Of 800,000 half-cents, which correspond in value to English farthings net one has been returned to the government for re-coinage or is held by the treasury.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last is sue: