People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

Myriads of bugs, somewhat resembling the common cricket, made their appearance in town Saturday evening and for a short time created a good deal of annoyance. Just what brought, them here so suddenly and in such large numbers is a mystery yet to be explained.—Morocco Courier. Rockefeller's ambition is to accumulate afortune of #400,000,000. Keep your hand on your pocketbook and the kerosene oil can corked.-Farmer’s Voice. Gilbert Goff says he has threshed the oats on his farm south of Kentland and the yield was 324 bushels to the acre and the weight 36 pounds to the bushel, the heaviest that has been taken in at the elevator.— Goodland Herald.

Special from Fowler in Tuesday’s Indianapolis Sentinel says: The elevator of O. Barnard & Son caught fire at 6:20 o’clock this evening and burned. The building was insured for #4,500, with * #I,OOO on grain, which about covered the loss on contents. Leroy Templeton built the elevator twenty years ago and it cost $20,000. The cause of the fire is probably from a hot box in the extreme top. Horace Terry delivered the first new beans at the canning factory on Tuesday, and sweet corn Thursday. The factory began operating Thursday morning. Everything works nicely. —Winamac Journal.

There is one law in Indiana tha* is a dead letter as far as enforcement is concerned. We refer to the law relative to traveling traction engines on the highway. The law is specific on this point; and if enforced once, would prove an object lesson to threshers. Let a man and team preceed your horse scarer. by thus doing you comply with the law.—Brook Up to Date.

Of course it is but natural that our citizens should feel grieved over the palpable slight shown by the weather clerk in conferring a great big, costly cyclone on the inhabitants of Rensselaer last Sunday, and ignoring the people of Wheattield. The “clerk” has amply atoned for his dereliction in supplying our town with plenty of “redhot” weather.-Wheatfield Sheaf.

The papers of last week announced the loss by theft of one of Simon Bybee’s best livery rigs at North Judson. Simon was plucky enough to keep right after his man and lucky enough to find him at Crown Point where he was trying to sell the rig. Mr. man claimed to have two accomplices at this place and the Starke county sheriff brough him here last Saturday to identify the parties. Leaving him in the care of the proper officials he went on to Royal Center to trace a stolen rig there. It was found near Headlee and this man was identified as the one who had sold it The probabilities are he will get to do time for the two thefts.— Winamac Republican. The oat crop along the northern tier of townships in this county is averaging about fifty bushels to the acre. It was but a few years ago that the very land these immense crops were grown on was called the home of the muskrat. The atmosphere in that part of Jasper has become perfumed with a sweeter fragrance. —Wheatfield' Sheaf.

One day last week a strange sight was seen by Wm. Kinney at Owen Owens’. He was at work in the yard and saw a hen flopping around but paid no attention to it at the time. Presently Mrs. Owens came out and saw a snake had attacked the old hen, and called Mr. K. to the rescue. He captured the cheeky reptile after a short tussel, and made quick work with it. It was a garter snake about four feet in length and must have had considerable confidence as to its ability when it undertook to swallow a full growr. hen.— Wolcott Enterprise. We have been having some splendid corn weather lately, but as a Kansas philosopher has remarked, “good corn weather, as a rule, is mighty little account for anything else.'’—Monticello Herald.

The sheriff of Lake county is reported to have flushed a gang of silver coin counterfeiters in that county, two of them residing near Hammond and a third near Rob^. Several hundred dollars of spurious coin was set afloat in the county, 200 spurious dollars bearing date of 1879 alone being circulated on one day. It is claimed that the

spurious make* is exceedingly dangerous, so near like the genuine that it can only be told by weighing, it being lighter than the genuine coin. It is estimated that altogether $2,500 have been worked off.—Monticello Herald.

The town board last Thursday night came to an agreement with Messrs. Mansfield & Allen by which work will be commenced on the water works plant within a few days and pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. The plan involves the organization of a stock company composed of the contractors and citizens of the town, and Dr. Didlake, J. E. Loughry and H. VanVoorst have been designated as stockholders in the company. No town bonds are to be issued until the work is completed and accepted, but the company will issue bonds at once, which will be received by the contractors on the engineer's estimate as the work progresses.—Monticello Herald. The citizens of Burlington clubbed together and put down another town well. At a depth of 161 feet they strnck a fine vein of water which raised 111 feet in the well.—Delphi Journal.

Cement sidewalks, water works and electric lights constitute the trinity of improvements that have made Delphi completely over.—Delphi Journal. When the world bows down and worships a hero, how little does it know of the woman's brain that is back of it all, perhaps the mother or the wife whose hand has pointed out the way, who has been the inspiration itself. Truly has it been said, “every good, strong deed of greatness has a woman at its base.” Many a noble, earnest woman whose life hidden, held within her hands the welfare of a nation; how often has the courage of some eminent man, some hero, been kept uplifted by a woman until he has the world at his feet. The good true woman knows well what life is worth, but is content to be the instrument, the inspiration, the shield rather than the sword.—Exchange.

This is great weather—for nubbins. In quantity, quality and prices, Frank B. Meyer’s display of wail paper, was never before equalled. Call and see. F. B. Meyer and B. F. Fendig. hearing of the delightful time the Rensselaer party of a week ago had in Wisconsin, have gone outing with their wheels and will follow the trail blazed by the other party. The People's Pilot has by far the largest circulation in northwestern Indiana. It is all printed at home—in Rensselaer. It is not. in the hands of any foreign advertising agency, so has the say as to what advertising matter shall appear in its columns. E. P. Honan had a fall of twenty feet from the bellfry of the Catholic church Saturday evening while overseeing the repairs caused by the cyclone. He was severely bruised, but fortunately escaped without broken bones, and was on duty at the postoftice the next day.