St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 December 1886 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT. WITH SUPPLEMENT. WILEa, ENDLEV, Editor. Entered at the WalKerton Postoffice as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION: For One Year $1.50 For Six Months 7 For Three Months . . . .. • .4 XA blue mark across this notice shows tha your term of subscription to this paper ha expired. We respectfully solicit a continuance of your patronage, and trust that you will notify us promptly as to your intentions in the matter. We can not give longer time than six months on subscriptions. Those who have not paid in ad vance will please bear this in mind. W. A. ENDLEY, Pvblisher. WALKERTON, IND., DEC. 4, 1886 Congress will convene next Monday. It will probably save the country all winter again. President Cleveland’s eyes filled with tears as he steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead ex president) Chester Allen Arthur. You can buy a nice Chair for your wife a Christmas present Yes, wife, and a Chair for your husband, at Vincent’s furniture Store. Have you a congested liver?—LaPorte Daily Dispatch. We either have that or religion. We know there’s something the matter of us. My genial friend, Will Endley, of the Walkerton Independent, is publishing an excellent local paper, and his efforts are appreciated from the fact that he lias a fat list, and a plethoric purse. — ]La Porte cor respondent, to the Michigan City Dispatch. On reading the above we fainted dead away from nervous prostration. “Plethoric purse”! We read, says an exchange, of two oysters which woke up and found themselves in a strange place. Said one to the other, “What place is this?” Said the other, “This is a church and there is a festival being held here.” Said the first oyster, “What do they want of both of us?” The question was not answered. DOX QUIXOTE OUTDONE. The editor of the Walkerton Advertiser, in his first issue, began advocating the establishment of two banks in this place. He had seen a notice in the Independent to the effect that a bank was needed here. Dou Quixote will now pale into insignificance so far as his wild, extravagant and ridiculous imaginations are concerned. Friendly criticism and the friendly discussion of differences of opinion is positively a mutual benefit. One may possess a^complete knowlhdge of a subject under dispute and yet he may learn many things from his opponent during such dispute. No one is entirely exempt from liability to make a mistake, or infallible, and everyone may therefore now and then add sparks of wisdom to his stock; yea, even from an altogether inferior. But, when you enter into such discussion and find that your oppo nent, when he sees the evidence of his error piling up against him, begins to grow angry and equivocate, better drop that fellow like a hot ’tater. He “nose” too. much for you! MIND TOUR OWN BUSINESS. Why not everybody attend to their own business if they have any, and if they haven’t, let other folks’ alone anyhow? “If I were Jones, by golly, I’d never done that; if I were Smith I’d done so and so, by jingo.’’ Joe McPeeler has his vices, Bill Bliffner has his shortcomings, neither one of which sees, or pretends not to see, his own faults. Joe says, “If I were Bill I’d be so ashamed of myself that I’d leave the country.” Bill says, “If I were Joe I’d be so ashamed of myself that I’d leave the country.” Here we have an illustration of the disposition which pervades the generality of society from the lower to the upper strata —except Walker ton society, of course. To mind your own business is the remedy for this great evil. The truth is, everyone of us has and knows our own fault or faults; but man seeks to divert attention from his own faults and shortcomings bv Joudly proclaiming those of his neighbor. How often do men and women fall into the same or wor-e vices over which they have spent days and days and ruptured their gullets in howling at others for falling into. Minding your own business will cure this malady. The greatest preacher and ductor that was ever upon this earth taught this doctrine ami advised this remedy. He, however, was modest and used milder language, viz.: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” Our advice is, mind your own business until the mote is out of your own eye, or your own dooryard is swept, and then go to flinging brick bats, anti not until then.

A new indictment ha- been found against Mrs. Emma Mollov by the grand jury al Springfield, Mo., for being accessory to the killing of Mrs Sarah Graham. J. J. Hebei has lea—<l the Sree bakery ami is now biking bread. He intends to fit up to do all sorts of baking, pies, cak^s, buns, etc. He will also manufacture candies. Slip in and see him. Next door to feed and flour store. Cora Lee s trial for murder in Tie first degree will b< gin at Springfield, Mo., Dec. 21. She is charged, it will be rem-mb ied, with being accessory in the murder of Mrs. Sarah Graham. She is at present in jail. A respite was granted ilm eight condemned anarchists, seven •t' whom were to have been hanged yesterday, Friday. The argument for a new trial will be made in March. The readers of The Independent will please remember the prediction made in this paper concerning the matter, some time ago—that they would not hang Dec. 3rd ; 1886. MARSHALL, COIXTI SOCIETY NEWS. A reunion of the family of Mr. Henry Skinner occurred at his farm house near Teegarden, Marshall Co., Ind., on Thanksgiving Day, bringing together quite a family of sons and daughters, who en joyed themselves eating of the good things such a day and occasion brings forth, and passing a glorious time telling stories of their girl and boyhood days, and making glad the hearts of their aged parents at seeing them all together once more It was a time which will long be remembered by all who were fortunate enough to par tioipate. There were present Mr. and Mr*. Henry Skinner, Teegarden; Dafaye Skinner ami daughter, Kalamazoo, Mich.; A. B Wright, Minneapolis, Minn; I Eugene Skinner, Westfield, Wis.; Mr. ami Mrs. C. 0 Skinner and son, Chicago; Mrs. D. C. Broadway, Chicago; Master Bernie Broadway, Teegarden; Grand-daughter, Mis. Ten Eyck, and hu-ban l, Chicago, and Mr. R. W. S. Cuyler, Chicago. A WRITER comes to the front with a lengthy article in the Medi cal Brief, St. Louß, Mo., taking exceptions to the doctors of the laud urging the enactment of laws regulating the practice of medicine He urges that the people will eschew the unqualified, quacks, etc., and send for the good doctor, and also -that passing laws prohibiting those not up to a certain standard in medical training from practicing medicine, will lessen the competition for those who are up to the prescribed standard and thus check study and investigation, and that therefore medicine will retrograde. Oh, what grounds for an educated M. D. to take! There are many reasons why stringent laws should he enacted all over the United States regulating the practice of medicine. In the first place we would like to ask what encouragement a physician has to spend years of hard study and a heap of icuud dollars to fit and qualify himself to practice medicine ration ally and ac cording to piinciple- of science, and then have a big mouthed, windy yahoo, who can scarcely spell apple pie, write a legible hand, tell the medical prop ertits < f a dose of castor oil, or the difference between typhoid fever and the mumps, stick stakes by his si le, and because be is right windy, portly and wears a beard twenty two inches long, and says that be has a specific for this, that and the other disease, that the other doctors don't know anything about, get two-thirds of the business in the community? Such instances do actually occur, to the truth of which, many qualified physicians can te^liiy. The people, as a rule, cannot tel) who the efficient physician is, for they have but little, if any, means of knowing. The modest and qualified physician dues not blow his bazoo all over the country about the wonderful cures he can perform; but on the other band, he answers his professional calls, studies bis cases thoroughly, prescribes rationally, and keeps his mouth shut. But, not so with the portly gentleman with the flowing twenty iwo inch beard, he is eternally Si eking opportunities to be the centei-pole in a gaping crowd where he can dilate (using tall words whether right or wrong) upon the wonderful things HE can do. As we have said, the people, as a rule, are not expected to be competent judges of who is the real doctor ami who is the quack, because they have not, neither can they have, the. means of knowing. So Windy Bloodsucker keeps up his jargon and takes the cultured as well as the uncultured in out of the wet. We say pass laws to put such fellows where they belong, at the other end of a cross cut saw. See those nice reed chairs at Vincent’s furniture store.

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. koutsi i.ihertv. Reported by thefindependen Correspondent. Oysters at ullar & ;ea s s James Ibu m has r tuin d Arkansas. The sick in the John Pla fam ' ily are all better. Wallace Nelson is clorkh g for L M Houser & Co. The Guy family have m ) e to the rural districts. John Rupel ba^ retn :ed to th \ par iso scboM At Harvey Vanscoik’s, a new babe, Nov 30. Allen Nelson is to resume work he Liberty harness shop. Fr iday of eg ch week is buckwheat day at camuel Dreibh b:s’s I mill. We are informed that. Capt. G. A. Bettcher will ret. rn in a short time to remain permanently. S. B. Beusecker, lately in the , employ of Geo. Flood, has started . a harness shop “on his own hook" at Lakeville. F. J. Reece wa- ba-‘ll\ shaken i . by a congestive chill a sea dy. since, but is getting along o. k. now. , James N Reece returned to I Rush Medical college, Chicago, last Sabbath evening , Several parties from here attended Episcopal services at Wolk । I ertun last Wednesday evening. , The Randall house was insured . for SSO instead of $175, as we . w< re informed. Henry M Smith has the agency I for this county for sale of the A- . merican mowing machine knifi- । holler See him. । Noah Davenport ami John Stutsman from Elkhart, lost a new dress, new bat, valise, ami a box out. of their wagon a f-w days sim-e while passing along the road. The find er will please leave the aitides a M Iron’s meat market. LAPAZ. • Reported by toe hidepmclenfM Correspondent. El Reed ami \maml Wh t I 1 other weie mat tied Thanksgiving Day. Mr <’olfax Shidler and wife, ot South Bend, were visiting with J 4m Wamr Sunday. Miss Marv Stockman h s rttsrmo turn Markle. Ind , to re ; main with In r blotte r. C. F. Stock I mao, ex < i w liter. Mr h iii Wilhelm is on the sick list. Mr. Pete Eorney is clerking! at Mr Johnson’s in his stead. Mr. 1). L. Reynolds went to Chi ' cage Tuesday. He is doing a rat- | tliog busimin buying fat hog-! in this community The religious class ot people, at last, obtained enough money to purchase seats for our new church. They purchased them from an In dianapolis agent. Jolin Halt says: “He thinks he is old enough to get mamed.” We think so too, John, or get in on Monday mornings earlier. ISIA3D ITEMS. Reported by the Independent's Correspondent. Johnnie Date left for I wa lust Monday morning. Frank Barnhart and wife moved to South Bend last week. Frank will be found at Oliver’s plow factory James II Taylor, P M. of Siill--1 well, and wife, ^undayed on the Island. Miss Carrie Cook, who has been attending school at St. Mary’s, ! near South Bend, came home last Saturday on account of ill health. Mr. Link Rupel, of Marshall Co., dropped down on the Island last, Munday. If you have any hedge to plant just wbteper it to Link. Mis. S. S. Busserm-m and daughters Lillie and Minnie spent Sunday ou the Island with Isaac Smith’s iamby. Prof. G. W. Redding, of Misha waka, will assist the Itland Sab bath school with their entertain meat Christmas eve. Don’t forget it. The Two Brittons Behind. We acknowledge utter inability to explain why two buttons are placed on the rear of a man's coat, or what the original purpose may have been. There is a theory that the custom of wearing these beautiful ornaments began in the days when men considered it necessary to carry big swords around with them I to get them into cutting scrapes and trip them up when they went home drunk late at night. The sword was , suspended from a belt or sash, and the buttons helped to keep the stomach band in place. The custom is continued, perhaps, because the buttons re- । lieve the drearin.- sos a man’s back, i but we say we are not certain about it. Anyhow, the r abs. nee, or the absence., of one of the pair, is ■ noticeable, and apt to cause the remark, if the remarker is a woman, that if that man were her husband she would give his coat an overhauling with a needle and thread. — Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. । The squib in this msm about the j friendly oiscu-’Hiou <f differences of , opinion, means us as well as tie i other feJLw.

WIT AND HUMOR. Lawyer—‘-You say the four prisoners broke into y< or room, ami. after taking positions in the corners, each pointed a pistol straight at your heart. Now, while this was taking place, where were you?” Plaintiff—“O, I was simply nowhere.” •‘Going widing to-day, A ./thaw?” “Naw. Got to work, demmit.” “Sc sowy, dealt boy. What is the —aw job. eh?” “Maw's witten me a letiaw and I’ve—aw—got to wend it bofaw I can make anothaw dwaft on haw. Did you evaw heah of such a boah?” “Nevaw, dealt boy, nevaw.”— Town Topics. Uncle Jake —“Peter, 1 hears you pays your specks to my darter. Now, es you means bizness, wot is your bizness?” Peter—-‘Tse keepin’ books for Dobson & Co.” Uncle Jake—“Um! Ah! Does you keep ’em in single or double entry, Peter?” Peter—“ Ain’t no sich fool chile as dat. I puts ’em in de safe down cellah ebry night Tink I'd keep walybles in de entry?” “Ma, we’ll ha ve to cut Sue Filzpercy,” remarked Ethalinda De Wiggs yesterday afternoon. “Why so?" asked Mrs. De Wiggs. “Why, you know she is getting her dresses made for her wedding. Well, she invited me to look at what she called her ‘traveling dress.’ ‘Traveling dress,’ indeed! Why, she ought to know that the English term now is ‘goingaway dress.’ ” “Yes, indeed; if she’s that vulgar we shall have to cut her, certainly.”— L'ittsburg Chronicle. A young married lady, who moved no the country from a city home, considered keeping hens a pleasant and profitable duty. As site became more absorbed in the pursuit her enthusiasm increased, and “hens” made a favorite subject of her thoughts and conversation. During one c’ her animated descriptions of success a friend inquired: “Are your hens good bens?” “O, yes,” she replied, in a delighted tone, “they haven’t Juid a bad egg yet.” — Catskill Mail. A well-known ex-Senator of stately mien walked into a down-town restaurant the other day. ordered a certain dish, ami partook of it. The next moment his features were despoiled by a frown. Calling the waiter, he asked, indignantly: “Do you know what the difference is between the Broadway Railroad scandal and this dish?” “N-no, sir,” stammered the affrighted waiter. In icy tones the ex-statesman said: “The one is a fricassee of fraud; the other a fraud of fricassee.”—A’. K, Tribune. A fable: An estimable old groundhog, wishing to ascertain the. opinions of the neighbors about himself, had a bogus congestive chill, and. felling on the ground, pretended to be dead. He was buried the following day, but scratched his way out of the grave and went in disguise to hear his own funeral sermon preached. The discourse was so complimentary that the ground-hog was puffed up with vanity, ami, having bought a cane and an eve-glass, he beI came a dude. Moral —This fable teaches the danger of flattery. — Life. “Let me tell you a good little story about a young man down our wn^, ’ said a Brownville gentleman the other day. “The hero of the story is a wellknown citizen of Tecumseh. He was married not long ago and started on a । Southern wedding trip. When the train I stopped at Topeka for dinner a waiter j rushed out ami began pounding a gong, i The young man from Tecumseh, think- ) ing it was intended for u charivari. 1 rushed upto him and exclaimed: ‘Hold on. there! How did you fohows down j here get on to this ^ekvl! Stop her! I Til set 'em up for the boys.’ ' — Omaha Addition?! Local News. “Buck’’ Tccples ha g. n 1 blind hi <ne eve— lhe left. Dcn'l sleep cold when you can get cotnforlt rs so cheap at \ iuCt Hl’s. Interesting Episcopal k rvim s were held at ibe M E. ditneli V\ cduesday evening. \\ e see i y exeb o ge- that scarlet fever prevails in both Kyi iuii vilie and Ligonier. Yes, get one ul those parlor suits for your wile a Cluistinas prevent. Thty arm ne and ch<ap, a. Vin cent’s. It is a fact that Vincent sells cheaper than any other hou.se in 1 udiana. For Sale. — I have a new Euiunk steel plow, the retail price of which is sls. A live dollar WiiImtn buys it. J F. Endley. The residence oucup>ivd by Lou Paul, the tinner, near J. J. Millers, burned down ou last Friday forenoon. The file is said to have started in the roof. All the household goods, exoest the organ, were i saved. While tens of tbou>ands of citizens ot Chicago, were happy and free on the niomitig of Thank-giv-ing day, giuoniy and di-eonsolutc sal the eight condemned anarch ists in their dingy ceils bowed with hopelessness regarding their sad future. But a few more days, according to decree, seven of their bodies were to swing in mid-air and their souk launched into ihe dark beyond. Surely, sad amt heartrending mns. have, been the spei taele. But the scene changes When Gen. Parsons, a brother of the combinned Albert Parsons, reached within hearing distance the cells ( on'aining ihe condemned men, and at the lop of his voice pioclaimed ihe glad tidings that a supersedeas had been obtained. A gleam of hope Was seen to creep over their dejected couu’euances as they were made to understand that a res; it • bad been granted and one more chance for their lives had been secured. There has been a revolution in the popular mind upon t his niomentotis question. Thousands i>f nvelioib ones who clamored fir blood dining that great trial, in harmony wi h the setdimcn’ of ihe pi e-s, have changed their minds since the smoke and rubbish have been cleared away and they have had time to give the mr.t'er sober ibotfgb'.

LAP’IHE LI7ITEI?. F < M 0 R REGULAR < ORRE PONDEAA Dr. R ! b rt, of H na, has invent •. i obtained a ten on an impr- ved railway switch. The convicts at the Northern I peniunduty were feasted on turkey Thanksgiving Day. The ilbur i ramatic Co. are playing to in m se audiences at .Jal s opr ia house his week. 8. M. Clo ser lost 52 hogs last week iyeh It ra. The lavages of Lis disease ;<ie said to I e terrible hrougboui the county; LaPorte will bore for natural / gas. An association has been j formed for that purpose. Mr. E. H. Scott is the prime mover. The Herald' Chronicle says that an important ca*e, involving the title tt> thousands of dollars worth of property in this city, is likely to soon come up in the courts. 'frinity church, otuMicbigau (?ity, celebrated its semi-centennial this week. The services were partici paled in by the rector, Rev J. J. Earnie ami Bishop Knickei bocker Sunday afternoon in Memorial hall, erec <d through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. John Barker, in meni- ‘ ory of their diseased children. The semicentennial concluded with a grand banquet Tuesday night. , The Inter Ocean say.-: “The Indiana Republicans have now io or ve tbems< Ives men; what they have now they must maintain They must not only demand a fair count, they must enforce it. The grading of the Chictigo & Indiana coal railway is completed and the rails are being laid Tliiroad is an extension of ihe Chicago it M< S' Michigan, running from I LaCro.-.-e, this county, to Fair Oaks, { Jasper county, Illinois, where direct | cor oection is made with large co d fi. Ids. I Uhesterton Tribune: Henry] Spuig'on, w 1.0 lives southeast of Burdick, was kit ked by a louse in ! th bad Monday afternoon The ] injuries sustained were a broken mse and acim In d skull. 'Die injuries are not thought to be fatal The following from the Milwui-! k-'e Sentinel i- ihe “God's truth” ot ihemnttci: “When labor fiumulales its reasona! le demands it will bare the support of the best eleo'ents of c ty: but ’h it when it i attaches ttSe t to the policy of “.-mashing things” generally and revofutiot'zing ■ ;.. ie'y bv meanof class enactments, it will have the steady and efi etive opposition of the intelligt nt forces of society out: ide the lain t < ig*i.:z nil us." A DISASTROUS FIRE. The large bib k factory owned and occupied by the Loomis Co., manulaci u era of cuttt'rs and buggy bodies, was dcstrcxed by fire Sunday night. Felix Ktio-. tie ni^ht waicLman, pcri-he I in the j names, his charred r-mains beit g Hound Mond y [ni"t uiitg about 11 j o’clock. The loss is about S3O, 000, wdh an insurance of unlv $7,000. 65 num are thrown out of employment, many of win tn are I in destitute ciieumstuncr'. An Indiana polis corn-'.-pendent t< legtaphs to the ( bicag > Tiilainc that \\ m B;iuk■ , , d< niecratic r* , - rescntattve elect tu the State Leg- ' islature is not eligible, not having taken out his second papers. litis of English birth and did not i teke out liis last panels till a few weeks before the election, ! ut Mr Blinks is well informed on the qu’-s*.ion and is confident no ease can be made again.-t ijim, if he is dealt justly with. Warden Murdock is strongly iu favor of prison reform. Here is what he says iu his last annual report; “A prison without reformatoty influence is but a nursery if i crime, and its graduates will go out into the world to prey upon ihe community with increased vin- ! dic'ivem^s for revenge — will stimulate and aid their depraved nature. lam sure the object of the law in sending men to our prirams is not alone to punish, but to reform them: not to make them worse, but to reclaim them, if pos sible, and restore them to a place in society again; and we think that classification will go far toward th.? accomplishment of that end’’ In j another place he says: “If we ex-j peel our discharged convicts to ■ lead a new life, we should give I them a fair chance. The statv should see that they are given employment, and make tlmm feel that they can yet w in for themselves in the world again.” Teacher B. A. Bvo rs handed iis an mtetestiug communication, detailing Thanksgiving exercises at tin* Mt. \ rruon school-house, over which lie presided. Want of space crowds it out. The third institute for Lincoln township will be held on Batnr- ; day, Dec. 18, instead of Dec. H. | There will be regular institute work in the -o eiiooi ; but, in the jaf'ernoon I will hold an examiuai tion in the Reauing Oin-le work B. F. Resfe ‘

Bankrupt stock! Having bought (of the creditors) the entire stock of Clothing, Hats Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Jewelry’ satchels, and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, recently owned by Dr. H. A. Woodworth, and sold by the UNITED STATES MARSHAL in Walkerton, October ^the 9th. I will sell the same at 25 Per Cent Discount! jOome with CASH, and get bargains, as I will trust no~man. ' ZTjrrWolfeT «-«.r—-nn n— —ir iiamwiriiniiß iinm*""*»**» J. Wilis Cotton, j WALKERTON, IND., | SELLS — u I * ; I and Two-Horst and ■o u g 1 g i e So . . N /Ct Eiaall Improved. Chilled and Steel Plows Fair-Held and Toledo Chilled and Steel PlowsROLLER GRAIN DRILLS, SUPERIOR HOE AND SHOE DRILLS. PICKET WIRE FENCE MADE TO ORDER, AND READY MADE, FROM 40c to 65c PER ROD. Sewing Machines AND SUPPLIES. Mauhiiio GHa, (IIA.uI IGN MG\ALRS. KcnicYs and BIN LEES. WHEELBARROWS & ROAD SCRAFERS b. IE • Koss & Co., DEALER in — GSKEEAL HARDWARE, ives, -G"lass, Sash, 13oor Blinds of all kinds, Wood and Iron'' Pumps, Tinware, Oils, PAINTS Os an colors and shades. In feet everything found in a first-cass Hardware Store. PRICES Low as the Lowest.