People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

An exchange asserts that a man who won’t take a paper because he can borrow one has invented a machine by which he can cook his dinner by the smoke from his neighbor's chimney. Although Jake Watkins is twenty-seven years’ of age, and has lived here nearly all of that time, his first ride on the cars was taken July 4, when he went to Goodland. Few young men here can say as much.—Wolcott Enterprise. The vaudeville circus that gave entertainments here Friday and Saturday nights “went broke’’ after the show Saturday night. Tuesday enough of the combination walked to Coal Bluff to give a show at night.— Rosedale Herald.

The trolley railroad, running for fifty miles along country highways and connecting six Indiana tow r ns with Chicago is soon to be built. It will be the longest trolley road in Indiana, and one of the longest in the country.—Valparaiso Vidette. The professional “growler” is one who sits in the shade on a store box finding fault with everybody, complaining of city improvements, abusing the city council, talking hard times, always suggesting, earns nothing and eats and sleeps at other people's expense.—Delphi Citizen. Editor Gregory of the Jonesville (Mich.)lndependent ordered a new wheel a short time ago. but for some unknown reasons the dealer sent him a lady’s small-sized wheel, with fenders, skirt guards, etc. Whether he makes his appearance in bloomers or short skirts is a question. —Newspaper Union. You can judge a town by its newspaper,says the Inter Ocean. Never buy town lots where a half-starved newspaper is published. Newspapers these days are a necessity, not a luxury. They are so cheap that the poorest man can have them—unless he is running a bill at a saloon. It matters not how many others he may take he should support his own home paper. Anent the use which Chicago society women made of the bloomer as a midsummer ball costume, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that Nestor of equal suffragists, remarks that “women’s legs are very much more graceful and pleasing to look at than men's; so why should they not expose them if they care to?” Elizabeth should have given up long ago her quest for the ballot and taken up the ballet.—Hammond Tribune.

Eight honest, conscientious Seventh-day Adventists of Reah county, Tenn., have been condemned to serve terms of from seventy-five to ninety days in the county jail at Dayton, Tenn., for the offense of doing common labor on S.unday—labor which disturbed no other person's private or public devotion. It has also been decided to work these honest men in the chain-gang, and by the time this reaches our readers this will doubtless be accomplished.—American Sentinel. Here's, to the kicker, the treacherous kickei, the kicker who never is true; who always is crying and never is trying some good for his own town to do. No use to correct him nor need you expect him to get to the front like a man; while others hustle he'll sit down and rustle objections to raise to each plan. But when the brute dies we’ll pause with dry eyes, on his fortunate condition to dwell, and we’ll envy the devil that handles the shovel when he roasts the rank kicker well. Rosedale Herald.

Wheat is rapidly nearing the bottom of the toboggan. With harvest at hand it was not to be expected that the city speculators were going to let the honest farmer enjoy even a taste of the higher prices which for a time ruled the speculative market. That the high speculative prices which almost invariably rule the market just when the farmer hasn’t a bushel to offer are not

only a snare and a delusion to the grower, but an actual detriment to his legitimate enterprise there can be no denial. The boards of trade are the worst enemies of the farmer.—Hammond Tribune. A smooth swindler is said to be abroad in the land selling a box of soap with a rubber door mat thrown in as a prize. He delivers the soap, worth about fifteen cents, collects the dollar and promises that the door mat containing the initials of the purchaser will follow soon as can be manufactured. Watch for him with a gun. The door mat never •comes. —Remington Press. A fond mother may not be able to comprehend a syllable of Latin, Greek or Choctaw, and yet when her babe throws out its hands and yells “Gwow ahwb wowbdgwow filwaugf aughwaugh!”she will translate every word with a readiness simply astounding to the Latin scholar and which will cause the Greek savant to feel that his life of laborous research has been so much labor wasted.—Morocco Courier.

Newspaper men know more than they write; they always shield more than they expose. The man who trusts a newspaper may rely upon the fact that he will be treated fairly. It is the hypocrite that the newspa pers are after. No manly man was ever hurt by a newspaper. And no man is quicker to see the manner of man is than the newspaper man who studies men and their actions day unto day. —Exchange. Mr. Harry, superintendent of the Brook Canning Factory, is engaged at the factory getting things in readiness prepartory to starting up when the tomato matures. The run this season will not be as extensive as at first anticipated, on account of the continued dry weather. The plant will not be run to its fullest Capacity, as not more than half the plants took root hotfo* ever fifty people will be employed when operations commences.—Brook Up to Date.

An exchange wants to know what makes one town grow into a city while others with equally good locations remain villages. It is because in one case there are men of push and energy who are not afiaid to spend their time and money to improve the town. They erect substantial buildings, organize stock companies, and establish factories, secure railroads, w’ork for public improvements and use every means in their power to induce people to locate in their town. Wherever they go they tell of the advantages of their town; they write about them in every letter; send circulars and newspapers to every acquaintance whom they think can be induced to visit the town, and when anyone visits it they show him all the attractions of the place and treat him with such kindness that he falls in love with them and the town at onue.—Kentland Democrat.