People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

An exchange tells a good story of a father and mother who were trying to find names for their twin babies, who, by the way, were girls. It was decided that the father must name them. After casting about and funding no names that exactly suited him, he determined to end the strain on his mind and call them “Kate” and “Duplicate.” In the course of time another pair of twins came, and they were boys. This was .the husband’s opportunity to get even, and he wanted his good wife to christen the boys. Immagine his feeling when the mother one day told him she had named the boys “Pete” and Repeat.” A majority of farmers with whom we have talked place the average yield of oats in this immediate vicinity at fifteen bushels per acre. —Goodland Herald. Riner and Houseworth, the gentlemen who recently purchased the Milk and Pogue ranches, are making arrangements to build about forty new dwelling houses on their land, some of which will be erected during this summer and coming fall. We are told .that it is the intention of the owners to divide these ranches into farms of 160 to 320 acres. —Morocco Courier.

An exchange says “the farmer is the most independent man on earth.” You bet. See how hard he works all summer with no one to molest or make afraid, and then behold him as he proudly steps into the bank next fall and liquidates the interest on the mortgage. Yes. when it comes right down to real dignified independence the farmer is “in it” to a right smart extent. — Morocco Courier. Parties from north near the river, and northeast towards Rensselaer, were in town Tuesday and reported that oats were threshing to the acre.—Goodland Herald.

The examination for the West Point cadet-ship took place at Logansport Wednesday. The appointment was won by a young man in Porter county. His alternate is Charles Borders from Pulaski county. —Wolcott Enterprise. The law forbids any pensioner from bargaining, selling or promising his quarterly pensions, to any dealer or other persons, before due and paid; and also on the other hand, all persons are forbidden by law to accept the same in any manner as security for credit or otherwise. The fine is fixed at SIOO for any violation of the act and is equal upon the soldier or dealer.—Ex.

Statistics show that there is but one divorce in four hundred and seventy nine marriages. The chief object in giving these figures is to show the great amount of patience exercised by the four hundred and seventyeight.—Wolcott Enterprise. Harry Staub, three miles east of tow... was during last Friday night, notwithstanding the rain and high winds—relieved of about thirty nice, big. nearly full grown chickens by party or parties who left neither a name nor address. Parties who do such “night work” should be found out and placed for a time where they have no chickens except on Thanksgiving and Christmas days.—Kentland Democrat. Oscar Marley, of Morocco, in getting off a train at Logansport Tuesday evening was struck in the side by a passing train and sustained serious injuries. He was at once taken to his home in Morocco where he lies in a critical condition. Another man, said to be from about Wolcott, who left the train with him was killed.—Kentland Democrat.

Threshing has gone merrily on during this week—no rainy weather interfering—and good luck the work will be finished in a few days in some localities. In many sections east and south'of this place oatswill yield only between 5 and 20 bushels per while in other parts it will average 35, going as well as 50 bushels in some fields.—Kentland Democrat.

The Panhandle is discussing the feasibility of working out her land tax in this connty. believing that it could be done cheaper and to better advantage than is now done by paying in the money. The idea is not a bad one ,as a genuine section hand is worth half a dozen ordinary farmers when it comes to building good road beds.— Winamac Republican.

Horse traders with a lot of old pelters only worth about the price their hides would bring have been pestering some of our streets with their presence. Marshal Coftnan has been hustling tnem around quite lively recently. What a pity there is not some law under which a horse or mule whose days of usefulness are gone by and whose owner refuses to keep it in good condition could be cared for or put to a painless death. They are oftentimes the agent by which' contagious .diseases amongst horses are carried from one community to another as they are trafficked back and forth and hustled from pillar to post in an effort to realize cash in the way of “boot” for them.— Winamac Republican. The devil was cremated at the Salvation army tent Monday night. Many of his friends will be sorry to learn of the fact, because he has given them steady employment even in dull times. —Hebron Leader.

Apricots are usually considered a California product. This market. however, has been lately supplied with apricots from Bristol, Ind., where they do not grow so large as the California article, but are better flavored. It may surprise our readers to know that even nectarines have been raised in this vicinity.—South Bend Times. Just as a gentleman was regis.tering in a hotel in Boswell the other day a huge bed bug appeared on the page. The gentleman paused and remaiked: “I have been bled by Lafayette fleas, bitten by Logansport graybacks, but I’ll be darned if l ever was in a place before where the bedbug looked over the register to find where your room was.”— Exchange. Last week the Tribune made a small local about women wearing big sleeves in their dress, and in connection we referred to a passage in the bible —a mistake on our part —and the desired result is obtained; it caused a good many to read the bible who have not been in the habit of pursuing the good book. The following is what acomibutor to the Tribune has to say: “Woe to the man that makes mistakes. We read in last week’s paper an item which told, or tried to tell, of a passage of scripture concerning ‘women wearing pillow slips in their arm holes.’ It said it was to be found in Hezekiah 13:18. As this is a mistake we are glad to have the opportunity to correct it. Hezekiah is not a book, but he was the twelfth king of Judeah. Now as we know you want the women to read about those sleeves we will tell that this passage of scripture is found in Ezekiel 13: 18.

Yesterday a young man asked me if it would be safe for him to marry on five hnndred dollars and a salary of fifty dollars per month. I told him I could tell better when I saw the girl. There are girls who have grown up in ease and who have kicked great black and blue welts in the lap of luxury, yet who are more ready and willing to accept a little rough weather than the poor girl who has stood eighteen years looking out through the soiled window of life waiting for the rain to rinse it off and let the sunlight through that she might see her approaching lord.—Goodland Herald.

Experts, whose names will not be give at present, have been examining the pink clay that lies so plentiful about Goodland, and are of the opinion that it is a good quality of potter’s clay. Samples have been shipped away for thorough test, and if it proves to be all that is anticipated, a new enterprise will be installed here next spring that will embrace not only the manufacture of pottery, but of building and vitrified

brick. About ten or twelve years ago, when the people here claimed that there was no good tile clay near Goodland, we sent a sample of this same pink clay to the tsate geologist, and he pronounced it a good quality of material for the manufacture of pottery, pipes or tile. Through the publication of that letter the tile factory was secured, and we sold to the promoters of the enterprise one of the lots where the pond is now located, and from which the first clay was taken. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if the town is again sleeping on a mine of wealth.—Goodland Herald.