People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

The balloon whistle is heard everywhere on the streets now, and the average party with any nerves has been exasperated to the point of demanding a town ordinance against them. No person can go about town creating such a disturbance in any other manner without being arrested. Why in the name of peace are the youngsters of the town allowed such freedom.—Goodland Herald. The Big Four road has formulated and will put into immediate effect a profit-sharing plan with its employes. The plan is first to take care of the fixed charges and then to give the employes a fair share of the profits. It is believed the plan will forever. do away with strikes or serious trouble with the employes.—Remington Press. The drilling for oil on the Rund farm, four miles west of Monon, is progressing rapidly, and they are now down about 100 feet. If oil is discovered the west side land owners will all have oil on the brain.—Monon News. At Crown Point Tuesday a jury in the circuit court gave Rosetta Haselbach a judgment for $1,500 in her damage suit against Frank Hess. Miss Haselbach claimed a promise of Mr. Hess to make her his wife and a subsequent refusal to keep that promise.— Hammond News. The state fair should either be abolished or placed in entirely new hands. It is hard to think that the men managing the fair would lend their encouragement to such vile and indecent exhibitions as the Indianapolis papers say were behind the canvass on “Midway.” The people of Indiana do not care to be taxed to support such enterprises.— Delphi Journal.

A Helena (Mont.) paper says that a boy in the schools there has been suspended for reading the following essay: "Pants are made for men and not men for pants. When a man pants for a woman and a woman pants for a man. then it is a paii of pants. Such pants can't last. Pants are like molasses, they are thinner in hot weather and thicker in cold. The man in the moon changes his during the eclipse. Don’t you go to the pantry for pants, you might be mistaken. Men are often mistaken in pants, and such mistakes make breeches of promise. There is much discussion as to whether pants is singular or plural. When a man wears pants they are plural, and when they don’t wear pants it is singular.” Quite a number of Brookston citizens were on hand Monday morning to attend the trial of the Brookston bank case, known on the docket as the State vs. Andrew J. Barnes and Valentine Seib. The proceedings soon came to a temporary close by the defense asking a change of venue from the judge, which w’as granted.-Monticello Herald. The law seems to be plainly against the loaning of public funds by treasurers and trustees, but all the same the borrower who takes advantage of this law to evade payment after seeking and obtaining such a loan is practically a thief.—Monticello Herald. "My good man,” said a severe lady, "have you ever stopped to think how much money is wasted each year for rum and tobacco? "No mum, I hain’t,” answed the object; "it’s takin’ all my time just now to figger out how many families could be supported off the price of the extra cloth

women putin their sleeves.”— Redkey Times. Trustee W. H. Clark has experienced considerable difficulty in procuring teachers for all his schools, by reason of so many failing to secure license. Those who never failed before missed the mark this year, the examination being unusually severe. Mr. Clark has three vacancies to fill, but this will probably be done in a day or two.—Wolcott Enterprise. The work of excavating for the foundation for the new Presbyterian church was commenced Monday morning. The edifice is to be fifty feet in width and seventy feet in length; to be built of brick, and the work thereon to be pushed rapidly along until completed.-Kentland Democrat. The difficulty with this climate is that a man who may be suffering from climatic conditions can never be quite sure whether it is the heat or the cold which is afflicting him.—Delphi Citizen. One of the effects of the Nicholson law, it is already observed, will be the establishment of “joints” where the worst whisky is sold without the payment of a tax and in systematic violation of law to take the place of business places licensed and regulated by law. The best saloon system is not without evils. The illicit joints are nothing but evil. Under the operation of the law four saloons have been denied licenses in this county, yet not one of them has been closed, but are running as “quart” shops under a governmentpermit. The Sunday and holiday, the anti-slot machine and gambling features of the law have already worked great reforms, but the local option features of the law have already worked great reforms, but the local option feature, which was intended to close the saloons in certain localities, will require further time in this county to prove its efficiency.-Delphi Citizen. The recent issue of $12,000 in bonds will fail in taking up the floating indebtedness of the county by about $4,000, besides the running expenses of the present term of court and the ac counts that are being incurred all the time in the ordinary transactions of the county.— Winamac Republican.

Kentland needs telephone con nections with the outer world. A line from here to Goodland would give us connections with almost all of Newton county. We understand a line that would answer all practical purposes can be constructed for fifty dollars per mile.—Kentland Enterprise. "I’m about to be married,” writes a girl, "and instead of receiving congratulations I am aware that I need a defense and take this means of making it. I am 27 years old —old enough to know better and do better, but I have no choice. The man is a widower with one child. He liked his first wife better than he does me. I liked a man years ago better than I like him, so we are quits on that. He wants a housekeeper. I want a home. I was brought up to sing a little and play a little, but have no trade. My parents will be glad to see me settled. I would be happier earning t 5 or $6 a week and taking care of myself, but I was not taught how. There are thousands of women in my position. Every man who brings up his daughters without starting them with the means of earning a livelihood is responsible for just such a mistake as I shall make next week.”—Exchange.