People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

A. J. Kitt. late editor of the Herald, left for Chicago Tuesday. A. J. thinks of traveling for a Chicago newspaper. A 1 is a keen observer, wields a trenchent pen. and would make an excellent correspondent. His many Goodland friends would peruse with interest anything with Al's name attached even to the extent of a promisory note.—Goodland Herald.

The new law requiring the publication of reports by township trustees is evidently what was needed. Four trustees have been arrested since the publication of their reports and one took poison rather than face the music.—Goodland Herald. Are you going to cut some corn? You will regret it if you don't. If you can't do any better take four or five acres and tie it up in bundles and put in the hay mow. There are plenty of men wanting work, and next spring you will want the feed badly. There is not going to be enough for the livery horses and others kept in town, to say nothing of the hundreds of farmers who are short. Yes, save all the fodder you can.— Goodland Herald.

The canning factory started up Monday afternoon, canning both corn and tomatoes.—Brook Up to Date. Young Pete Hugert and two other boys, all under 14 years, were out hunting plums the latter part of last week and had two large Pot hounds with them. In the woods one and one half miles east of town, on the Moncell farm, a large lynx attacked them, but the dogs made such a savage onslaughter upon it that it ran up a tree. The boys clubbed it off of the tree and the dogs ran it for a half hour until it was almost exhausted and finally it came back and ran up again the same'tree. The boys, thinking it was a coon, made war on it with clubs, and at last one of the biggest boys climbed up the tree and went out on the limb. The weight of the lynx caused the limb to bend, so that with a little shaking the lynx fell to the ground where the dogs killed it. Next day some men went out to see it and at once recognized its true character. Those boys came off lucky and a great risk of losing their lives, for its teeth were terrible to look upon.—Francesville Enterprise. About 5 o’clock Tuesday evening M. H. Hooker, who is here from Illinois to see after land, called at J. A. Tillett’s drug store in Francesville and had a prescription filled to be used for

a liniment for an injury on a horse's leg. The ingredients were as follows; Nitric acid, quick silver, oil of spike, oil of british and spirits of turpentine, all in separate bottles and labelled in the true name. Hooker then left the store and Dr. Tillett never saw him again alive. Pete Hugert told Dr. Tillettthat Hooker had only mixed the nitric acid, quick silver and oil of spike and then worked the bottle. Dr. Tilllett thinks the explosion was caused by the nitric acid cutting the quick silver while the bottle was corked and before it had time to settle and cool. The mixture was in a beer bottle and tne heat was so great that it burned their hands to handle it. Pete Hugert and Mr. Rohman were with him. Hooker was sitting on a pile of j ties in the barn lot near Hugj ert's house one half mile south !of Francesville. He was shaking the bottle when it exploded, making a terrific noise that was heard all over Francesville. Hooker was cut in thirty-seven places, and an artery in "his left leg was cut off and he bled to death in about fifteen minutes. Hugert ran for Dr. Sharrer. but j life was about gone before Dr. Sharrer could get there. Hugj ert and Rohman were both badly 'cutbut will recover soon. Hookj er’s remains were taken back Wednesday to Chatsworth. 111..

where his family reside. He was about 55 years old and well ! respected where he resided.— Francesville Enterprise. The phonograph or "talking machines” so - ofter seen at fairs and other gatherings now a days, is in many instances but another name for a new contrivance of I the devil to corrupt the morals jof youth. The men who control j theni invariably have in stock an ample supply of lewd songs and which young men and not unfrequently quite young boys are permitted to hear provided they have the price. Fair and other associations will make no mistake by sitting down hard and flat on the "talking machine.”— Morocco Courier.

The ladies who wear bloomers, or wbatever-you-call-’em, while riding bicycles, are now’ getting rapped by the pulpit and the crotchety editor. It beats all how much some men know about what a women should do. Some men will munch tobacco, and spit tobacco juice all over a township, but have no trouble in discerning that riding a bicycle, dressed in a divided skirt is improper and indecent.— Farmers Voice.

Hay at Francesville has been selling at *lO, *10.50 and sll per ton for tame hay and $6 to *7 for wild hay. This is much cheaper than what it will bring before the season is over unless the supply is much greater in other localities than we have yet heard of. Tame hay may go to *lB per ton here before the season is over. It is certainly a mistake to sell at present prices. Oats have no price yet and local buyers prefer not to "buy, as they can t pay enough for it and get out even. It is a sacrifice to sell at 15c per bushel and farmers had better hold for an improved price. Oats can never go lower and stand a good chance to go up soon. The holder of oats has all to gain and nothing to lose. The price is now T so low that it must gain in price. The present is an occasion that is an exception to all ordinary rules, and it is the time rather to buy than to sell oats.—Francesville Enterprise. A bashful girl from the country came into a grocery store the other day carrying some live chickens. The fowls had their feet tied to prevent their escape and the young woman placed them on the counter. The clerk who waited on her is noted for his polite manners, but he is not always grammatical, and he smilingly inquired, ‘-Are you sure they will lay there?” “Oh. no, sir," she stammered, “they’re all roosters.”—Delphi Citizen. Russel Tyler took refuge under a straw stacker one day recently from a shower of rain. The stacker slipped a cog and came down, catching in such a way as to fold him together after the manner of a jack knife. The life was about squeezed out of him w’hen rescued and lie is now just getting so he can move around comfortably.—Winamac Republican. There has been on an average of about thirty car-loads of hay shipped weekly from this place since the commencement of haying in the middle of July up to the present date.—Wheatfield Sheaf.

Several days ago we warned residents of Lake county against the Russian thistle which threatens to obtain a strong foothold in Indiana, if heroic efforts are not made at once to exterminate this weed. Burning the thistle root and branch is really the only safe way in which to bring about its extermination. If the root is allowed to remain it will sprout forth even more luxuriantly the following year. If the crown of the thistle is thrown aside its thousand seeds I will be taken up by the wind | and finally strike into the soil i somewhere, and reproduce the pest a thousand-fold, no matter how sterile and unpromising that soil may be. The people of Lake county should keep a sharp lookout for this thistle, and wherever found it should be torn up by the roots and every vestige of the rank weed destroyed.—Hammond Tribune. It is doubtful whether next season will see any material re- ! duction in the price of bicycles. Studebaker Bros, say that they I have been giving some thought I to the subject of cheapening bij cycles but have not reached , any conclusion themselves, 'much less authorized the anI nouncement that , has been going the rounds of the press to j the effect that they would make ! wheels for £3O next year. The main thing that will operate against a reduction is the constantly growing demand. Bicycle factories have trouble to obtain supplies, especially of rubber tires, and some of the rubber tubing concerns have already refused to take any more orderes for next season. With the demand constantly in advance of the supply it is not 1 likely that anybody will go to making bicycles for their health. —Mon'ticello Herald.

The election of a county superintendent of schools wiki take place next Monday. The trustees will undoubtedly have no difficulty in selecting a good man for the place from the abundant material at hand.