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VOLUME XVI.

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■! 1 I II I «—My - ,- - ROSS & BOSE, DEALERS IN Mware,Jim, Stere K • Raving put in a new and complete stock of Hardwa re with a full line of Stoves, Tinware, PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES PLAIN & BAB,BED WIRE, Grasolnie stoves? etc we are now ready to make some very LOW PRICES Hoping to be favored with a share of your patronage we are. Yours respectfully, ROSS & BOSE. FRY-DOUGHERTY BLOCK. — THE-BEE-HIVE Is a Lively Place for all Seekers of BIG BARGAINS DRY GOODS, MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, Carpets! Are Lower than Ever Before. BEST EXTRA SUPERS, - - 55 cents jOOD CARPETS at - - 25 cents It looks as if NOW was the opportunity for years to come for Cheap Carpets, Lace Curtains, Shades, Curtain Poles, all kinds of housekeeping goods. Many Bargains are going out every day from the BUS!, Beil! Brtit LA PORTE, INDIANA, JULIUS BARNES & CO.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 5. 1890.

Many people feel aggrieved because their coinings and goings are not mentioned, while those of others are, and wonder what the matter can be. The explanation of tho matter is, that tho editor means to be impartial, but some escape mention. The likes and dislikes ot an editor have nothing whatever to do with it, and while itis not pretended that the editor is more than human he knows that the success of his journal depends on his fairness and impartiality to all. It i 8 the best way always '' hen a notice is desired to mention it to the editor or communicate through the postoffice. No one feels worse about any seeming neglect or partial performance of duty than tho editor himself.-—Ligionior Leader. Wo have, been aiming to say something like tin; above for some time, but didn’t know how to get at it. •ww.xx.ew43Mie-.n- narwr «n XV e counted in one of our exchanges no loss than twelve editorial paragraphs clipped from The Times and reproduced without a particle of credit, except in one, and there tho credit was given to an esteemed contemporary.” Wo don’t complain about the appropriating of our editorial productions; the brethren are entirely welcome to anything turned out from tiiis sanctum. But when they do credit one item among a dozen, we would prefer to have them name The limes outright instead of doing it in a roundabout way. South Bend Times. Bet you dollar it wasn't the Independent. In our last issue we clipped an

item from the S. B. Tribune and failed to give credit, and for which failure was going to apologize in this very one. I he item referred to was the Tribune’s “A Lonely prisoner." This paper despises a literary thief equal to the one who steals acorns from a blind pig. Save the item above referred to, we do not remember of another solitary transgression of the kind of which we have । been guilty. »Indeed, we usually add the word exchange to paragraphs, not , productions of our own, which arc regarded as public property, so modest is the Independent. Seriously, it is a matter to which every editor should pay the closest attention, always giving proper credit. Nothing ruffles au editor more than to see his editorials, brilliant or otherwise, stolen by contemporaries or going the rounds credited to some ether journal. Sensible, Sensible, Gentlemen. The dry goods and clothing merchants are going to do the sensible, thing and close their stores during the months of July and August at 6 o’clock. The demadd for this movement has been recognized for a long time and all the merchants have felt that early dosing would prove a benefit. No one, however, has taken the initiative step until, Thursday, when Henry Porter and Lloyd Weaver prepared a proposition and circulated it among the dry goods merchants. Every firm in the city except one willingly agreed to the proposition. This move on the part of the merchants is to be commended. There is no use of working one’s self to death in this world, and there is certainly no class of people who are more deserving of shorter hours during the summer months than dry goods clerks and their employers.—LaPorte Herald. The above article is the first and only thin thing we ever saw in the Herald, and we usually read it pretty carefully, for we consider it one of our very best exchanges. Close the stores during the months of July and August at 6 o’clock! To hear the editor of the Herald argue that that is a sensible thing forces one to wonder what sort of an attack of dementia it is. The editor is certainly too young to have an attack of the senile variety of dementia. “Six o’clockI” “Sensible 1” Farmers, you know that you are up and at your labors during those months about as early as you can well see to perform your labors, and you know the occasion demands a continuance as long as you can see in the evening to save your crops and perform other necessary labors. You also know that you are compelled to go to your trading point almost every day during those months for this, that and the other indispensable, and that in the evening from about half past seven to nine or ten o’clock is about the only time you can possibly find to do those errands. Do you believe it would be a sensible thing for merchants to close their stores at 6 o’clock? However, it is hoped that Editor Molloy’s case is not altogether hopeless. The force at the Herald should see to it at once that a first-class physician is called, and a good nurse procured, and all the attention given the patient possible, for if permitted to run too long such attacks are usually fatal. The Plymouth Democrat says the Republican told a He that fell as fiat as a pancake.

LOCAL NEWS. Farmer Jacob Rinehart harvested ten acres of wheat Friday, June 27th. A daughter was born the other day to tho wife of John Curtis. Weight seven pounds. A Plymouth girl, but thirteen years of age, was married one week ago today. Her name was Christina Height. She married George W. Kelly. Pshaw I If South Bend can afford to come down to 21,700 inhabitants Walkerton could well afford to rest at, say, 800, but then its population is way above 800, mind you. Tho St. Joseph County Independent published at Walkerton, closed its fifteenth volume lust week. It is one of our valuable exchanges.—Middlebury Independent. Thank you, Jim. Some time ago our Tyner correspondent expressed doubts about the corn being knee-high by July the Ith, which appears to bo about the height farmers desire it on that date. Isaac Masterman has a field containing about eight acres, five acres of which, he desires tho Independent to say, averaged seven feet high, June 28. What has our Tynor correspondent to say about that?

The village of Walkerton, north of us, is located in one of the numerous mucky swamps adjacent to the Kankakee river in St. Joseph county. The people of that plucky little town are mostly Swedes, Norwegians, etc., and their chief exports are dutch pickles and high-bush whortleberries. The buildings of the natives rest on Tamarack tiling driven into the muck, and from the train they look like that many “Apes on stilts.” There are no “skunks” in the vicinity of the burg, but it is the paradise for Muskrats and Mud Hens. Selah!—Macy Monitor. Hai vo you ever bean bit by a elephant? We take no stock in the Uni versa list doctrine, that all mankind will eventually be saved. We would hate it if the doctrine was true. How would it look for that old sacrilegious rooster and editor of the Walkerton Independent to be safely housed in Heaven with nil his iniquities upon him? However we shall try to visit the “Flowing Well” next Sunday and hear an eminent Universalist minister explain how he is going to get hard "bats" like the editor of the Independent through the Pearly Gates without some reformation on his part here on earth.—Macy Monitor. The demand for plain English is steadily growing stronger—the plainer the better. XX hat’s the use of raking the dictionary for big words when little, plain ones answer the purpose so much better? The great majority of readers prefer the latter. Hifalutin’ flapdoodle is no longer in popular favor.—S. B. Times. You never in all your born days saw a downright flapdoodle in the Independent, not even since it’s a six column quarto. The Walkerton Independent takes a philosophical view of the census business. It says what Walkerton lacks in quantity is made up in quality.—South Bend Daily Tribune. After reading the above item in the Tribune we fell dead for a brief period. It was a stunner to see the word W T -a-l-k-e-r-t-o-n spelled out in full in that paper. Now that somebody has kindly informed Editor Miller that such a place as Walkerton exists, we hope to see it recognized in that paper at least once in a decade. Our whole population is elated over the fact that the Tribune has at last discovered Walkerton. It may be that the Tribune will now conclude to kindly annex Walkerton. Report comes to us from a reliable source that the Honorable Ex-Repre-sentative Thomas J. Wolfe, of this place, by some means learned that his eight year-old boy was the possessor of a quarter of a dollar in cash, and the ring and the gleam of that quarter induced the ex-representative to persuade the little boy that he was an expert runner and by which means got the little fellow worked up to such a pitch that he wagered his quarter that he could outrun his pa. The ex-Repre-sentative coaxed the little boy, so says our informant, into the orchard and won his only quarter in a foot race, which was somewhat amusing to several lookers-on, unobserved by the ex-Representative, not withstanding it was a somewhat pitiful spectacle to see the duped and wronged child groaning in agony over his busted condition.

mi—oil The Plymouth Republican in its last issue nude some awful snoots at the Democrat of that place. D. W. Place, of this place, in the South Bend Times, has announced his intention of becoming a candidate for County Auditor. The Walkerton Independent has just closed its fifteenth volume. It is a stayer.—LaPorte Herald. Those aro our sentiments. Plymouth recently organized a society whose object is tho prevention of cruelty to animals. Good for Plymouth! Let Walkerton go and do likewise. Ono American and one Singer, second hand machines, as good as new, with complete attachments at $15.00 each. Call and see them. Singer Office, Bender’s block. For the King and Franklin circus at Rochester, Indiana, on Saturday, July 5, 1890, tho L. E. & W. will sell tickets for ono and ono third faro for the round trip. For further particulars, call on agent. Sara. Bement says he had a dinner of nice new potatoes raised in his garden on the 19th of June, and he now has plenty of them—LaPorte Argus. Tho 19th day of June is very nearly the longest day of the year, but it is a mighty short, time in which to raise a mess of potatoes. Tom Wolfe has discovered what he calls the “nearest man,” probably, now living. This man, Tom says, is so close or stingy that he kept a fishing party waiting for him about an hour while he hunted all through his house for a chunk of beeswax with which to wax his fishing lino to prevent it from soaking up water, which had a tendency to rot it. Tho man, Tom says, argued that tho line would last two or three more fishing excursions by thus carefully preserving. Tho Nappanee News claims a population of 1,495, based on the returns of the enumerator. Just how tho News squeezed the intelligence out of the enumerator is difficult to decipher, for the penalty for divulging the secret is fine and imprisonment. — Walkerton Indepondent. If the News were in the habit of depending on its editor and reporters sitting in tho office awaiting for local news to come in, the probability is that the News would have awaited for tho report from the census office. There is no law in this country preventing a newspaper man from chasing down any news items that he may think will be of interest to his readers—showing a little enterprise. There are many ways in which a reporter of experience drives news into his net, In the performance of duties to his journal ho must be able to discern the difference between that which is private business and things that take on the cloak of public affairs, when he stumbles onto his information. But, will our esteemed neighbor explain just how he squeezed out of the Walkerton enumerator the following information : Tho Independent has been talking about a population of 1200 for Walkerton. The enumeration will fall short of 1200 a little. We want it understood, however, that Walkerton in reality, has the number. Knowing the sex of the probable enumerator, we must take Editor Endly to task for this squeezing operation. Sir, you must reform!—Nappanee News. Suppose, for instance, we drop it. Carelessness in purifying the blood leaves you at the mercy of that insidious enemy Biood Poison, which sooner or later will strike its fatal blow. Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup has no equal as a blood remedy, and should be taken by every person in tho spring. Its efficacy has been proven by thousands of testimonies like following: Gentlemen: I have been a great sufferer for over ten years. My whole system became deranged from diseased blood, and I was attacked with the worst forms of kidney and liver trouble, dyspepsia, neuralgia and rheumatism. My sufferings cannot be described. The sallowness of my skin disfigured me, and the neuralgic pain was so severe that it contracted the muscles of my face, partially closing my right eye. The ablest doctors gave no relief, but I am now entirely cured by Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup, and wish to recommend it to ail as a wonderful blood medicine. Mrs. A. D. Noble, Cor. Mechanic and Mason sts., Jackson. Prepared only by The Charles Wright Medicine Compaany, Detroit Mich. For sale by J. Endly; Simmons Liver Regulator has never been known to fail to cure ail liver diseases. The bile is removed, the head cleared and digestion restored by Simmons Liver , Regulator.

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