St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 January 1891 — Page 1

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v OLUME XVI.

Great Clow Dirt Sale Being over loaded with Winter Goods, and wishing to convert same into money, I offer until MARCH 1, 1891, 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT. FOR CASH. On all Goods, in my stock, except Rubber Goods, Kni‘ Boots and Worsted Suits, and on those 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT. I mean just what I say, come and see for yourselves. The above discount will be given Regardless of Cost ’ Which will reduce many goods to COST } and some to less than COST. T. J, WOLFE.

Fifteen Different styles of -O * • -Seating Stoxesl »tn 11.^ ♦ — Can now be seen in stock at ROSS & BOSE'S HARDWARE STORE. Chief among our large and splendid assortment is the Radiant, Home and Splendid coal stoves, and the Splendid base heater wood stove. / * Cur line of Cook Stoves consist of the very best grades i the market. .Among these is the PRIZE STANDARD! We carry a full and complete line of Hardware, faints, Cil and brushes, Oil Cloth Rugs, carpenter’s tools, cutlery and GUNS AND AMMUNITION. Hoping to be favored with a share of your patronag we are. Yours respectfully, ROSS & BOSE. FRY-DOUGHERTY BLOCK. At ENDLY’S DRUG STORE. Books, Stationery, Notions, &c. J. ENDLY’S DRUG TORE.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 1891.

The Chicago Herald says that Benjamin Harrison is sour and snappish. There is a family in Mentone consisting of seventeen members, including the old man and woman, all of whom are said to be web-footed. There is a large, poor but respectable family living in Macy, Ind., all of whom are bow-legged and toe in a little when they walk. The Monitor man 'ooks after their spiritual welfare. The Chesterton Tribune is ecstatic over the enterprising strides the butcher shops are making in that town. Good beef, sixteen ounces to the pound, (but a sixteen ounce pound of beef would be a novelty) is a good thing, that’s a fact. The largest piece of finished glass in the historv of the world was made in the Kokomo glass works last week. A plate perfect in every particular, measuring 113x197 inches.—lndianapolis Sun.

That’s just like Indiana. She’s bound to scoop the world in manufacturing. Consider the Studebaker wagon works and the Oliver chilled plowworks, for instance. Soap can be manufactured out of corn. One bushel of corn, with the proper amount of alkali, w ill make two hundred pounds of soap. Valparaiso Messenger. IK^When will wonders cease! Here we have the astonishing statement from a democratic editor that soap can be made of corn, and that al the very risk of lessening the supply of whisky! Some editors are altogether too careless about what they say. Representative Shir el v delivered a rattling speech fn the House of Representatives the other Friday, the same bring favorably commented on by a r • _ 2 .. e A I Y T

fair portion of the press. lie was vehement in denouncing subsidies, ‘bus being consistent with his former writings when an editor of a newspaper. He has always written and talked against subsidies in no num i.-d likable •’’“l- fa take warftine Milford, Ind., a town of six or seven hundred inhabitants, is without a saloon. There’s a location for some enterprising saloonist. Walkerton Inde- ) pendent. Not much, the .Apostle Paul could not manage a saloon in Milford, successfully with protit to himself. Mail. Apostle Paul! Well wo should say not. It requires a conservative, evenly tempered individual to run a saloon successfully. Tani, we are coerced to L believe from perusing a book which shocks Editor Brooke, of the Phil outh Republican, if not capitalized, called the bible, was altogether too radical a man to undertake to run a saloon. . We don’t remember of hearing that he

ever tried it, either, raul was an extremist, and whatever he went at went at it with hi-; sleeves rolled up and did it day and night, and saloons have to be closed promptly at eleven o’clock, p. in., in Indiana. Job, according to accounts, might make it a success. 7 The editor of the Bremen Enquirer says that several of his subscribers have discontinued their paper because he raised the price from $1.25 to $1 50 per year. The editor should feel complimented when losing a subscriber if the difference in the price is the only cause. If a man will discontinue his home paper for twenty-five cents, he is of but little benefit either to the editor or community.—Milford Mail. A man who discontinues his home paper might be said to be of little, if any, benefit to the publisher, yes. But to say that such a man would on that account be of no benefit to his community, appears to us, to be putting it too strong. There are plenty of excellent men, exemplary men, men of whom a community might well be proud, who will not submit to what they might look upon as extortion. We do not mean to say that the Enquirer is not worth the $1.50 charged for it by Bro. Sinuinger, not by any means, for we think it is worth even more money. But here is the point; many excellent men have no conception of an idea what it is worth to make, a newspaper, and it must be remembered that the Enquirer had been running at $1.25, and those men who cut loose may have been honest in thinking the advance in price to be extortion. How do they know that it costs more to publish a quarto than it does to publish a folio? It is quite likely that when Brother Sinuinger , cools off a little every subscriber who j stopped the Enquirer through the ini- j pression that it was put too high will I renew.

LOCAL NEWS. Great reduction in prices in all goods at Endly’s drug store. Walkerton gets wheat clear from the Burr Oak Flats, and which trade properly belongs to Plymouth. We’re Hying up here. Thtire is something brewing in town of considerable importance, but we are not going to tell what it is. Do you think this paper is a tattler? Woodard has been granted a pei^*^ **’ ll I'-Uera taonth, J ree-z < ba^k pay since the date of apidiAtion, about six months ago. NoMpooks have been seen in the Walkl ion cemetery for a long time, so faria this paper can gather. They will probably re-congregate there when the robins nest again. •TuM as long as people continue to crowd our stores and sidewalks, Satur-

days, hntil there is scarcely standing room left and we continue to run this papet, just that long will we continue to tel| jt. A Himber of the young ladies of Arg<>^ Lave formed a society for the reading and discussing of works of standa rd fathers. 1 hey style themselves the Marguerites."— -Argos Reflector. Hav| you any misgivings as to the decisiep they will arrive at in reference to Dafwin, Thomas Payne and Bob Ingenhll? Wakerton h s st nggled up through darkies into the light ami dignity of ; street, lamps, for w hich the Inpfpendent bleaks forth in pivons of praise to the city fathers. Argos is still groping around in the starlight, with never a thank to the giver of all good for this great privileges.— Argos Reflector. irgos should unite in prayer. Good, bright starlight even is not to be

sneezed at. OurTecg»rden communication con cctniug the kingdom of heaven was entirely too lengthy for this issue. » writer cited many scriptural to prove that the kingdom f^hnipened to eacuew utem. It Th argum int that we want on such matters, the writer's opinion. Everybody has a bible and can read for themselves. Our readers, in our opinion, care but very little about what Mathew, Mark, Luke and John are reprsented as having said, but what C. A. F, knows about the kingdom, is what interests then. Now that our new office is completed and wa’re “in it," as the saying is, the brethren of the press may want to know why we don't give a newspaper reception. We are too modest, to say nothing about the fact that we can’t for lack of cash. Then again, we would be compelled to haveit on the railroad grounds

for lack of room. We have but one room, and the old Washington press nearly tills that. Gentlem , we beg to be excused. However, should any of you ever come this way call upon us. Theie is a hotel next door. Friers reasonable. Would one reader himself obnoxious by inquiring what Solomon, the wise man, meant when he wrote: ‘‘Sorrow’ is better than laughter." ‘‘Theheart of the wise is in the house of n tuning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." Then at another time, whether he'had forgotteen what he had previouslv said or not we do not know, waote: “Then I commanded mirth, belause a man hath no better thing unler the sun than to eat and drink and ikXmerry?” If it is not the proper c.fi er to inquire into such things, and the question is not pertinent, don’t answer it. The Plymouth Republican, of last week, devotes almost a half column to mentioning the fact that our Mr. Dunham of pickle fame, actually was in that town the other day in response to a piteous wail from some of their leading citizens to come up there and start them a pickle factory! Anything, oh Lord, practically says the Republican, to change the dull round of things in that suburb. Bless your life, Brother Eddie, you shall have a pickle shop, if it is in the power of Walkerton to prevail on our Mr. Dunham to puddle around your quiet old place at all. Mr. Dunham is a sympathetic gentleman and may in pity for you consent to undergo the privations of remaining there ■ long enough to start you a pickle shop. ! Now be quiet, don’t worry and we’ll see i what can be done for you. It's lonepome there, we know.

Kingdom of Heaven. Teegabden, Ind., Jan. 2G, 91. Ed. Independent: Inasmuch as you solicit, communications on religious and political topics I have concluded to say a few words concerning the former. I shall aim to not abuse anybody in what I ha e to say, but will make plain, simple statements, and not desiring to banter anyone for argument or contention. There are those who are teaching that the kingdom ot heaven is not to be until after death and the resurrection. - What shall we^mderstand by the following scripture? Mathew iii. 1. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2. And saying. Repent yea; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mathew iv. 17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is

at hand. 'lhis does not look as if we would have to wait until after death for the kingdom of heaven. Christ sent bis disciples out to preach ami told them to urge repentance for the kingdom of heaven was at hand. Again, in Mathew x. 7. Christ instructs his np< sfles: As ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mathew, Mark and Luke make many references to Christ as saying the kingdom ot heaven is at hand, now is and so forth. But I will not introduce any more evidence at present. We frequently hear preachers teach that the kingdom of heaven is not until after death and the judgment. That is not according to the word of God. It is a doctrine of the devil. Christ tells us the kingdom is at hand, and I am satis-

tied with his teachings. I would rather believe him than all the balance of preachers. C. A. Fousyth. Walkerton is less circumscribed, or in other words, has more farming territory tributary to it than any other town in all this section of country. U■’ Tfift FJvrtioubh RepnbUehit kdon that? Or don't it care Toknow it? A friend rushed into our sanctum la. evening nearly out of breath to announce that an Unde Toni's Cabin Company was being billed lor this city and that i’ was composed of the usual number of buck niggers, bull dogs and jackasses. Before we had time to whack him over the head with a poker he had tied from our presence by the back door, and we haven’t seen him since Plymouth Democrat. That company will bill your town no more forever. We killed the advance agent. Six tramps were at the home of John Line last Friday. They were looking for a job of cutting ice, but went the • w rong wav to find it. They will prob-

O - * J ■ ably wait until the weather is wanner before commencing work.—LaPorte ‘ Herald. Yes, you get tramps to cut ice this time of year, will you. If you have any harvest work to do for the next two or three months, that’s different. A young man by the name of Paul Besche and several others got on a razoo in South Bend the other night and Paul came out of the muss with a broken neck. He was buried last Sunday. Paul, it is said, had been a good boy, a faithful employe of the Olivers, of South Bend. A thorough investigation was entered into which lasted several days, and at this time—Wednes-day—w-e have not learned the how of the neck breaking. The South Bend Humane Society it. set ms did not organize just to have the name of it nor for the fun there would be in it, but in dead earnest and to vigorously enforce the law against all violations of the provisions against cruelty of any sort to animals. The officer of the society is diligent in the work, and when he sees unshod horses pulling and slipping along on icy streets, he at once forces the owners to have them shod. If he sees horses badly galled or having other bad sores cruelly driven on the streets he forces the owners to desist at once, all of which is highly commendable, and strictly in accordance with law. One is liable to fine for overloading, overdriving, using unshod horses when the ground is covered with ice, old and crippled horses, those suffering from sores, and for whipping horses, etc, A properly managed institution of the kind would do well right here. See Tom AVolfe’s offer of special discounts for cash, until March 1.

NUMBER 30.

Major Calking. Accused of Bribeiy. Olympia, Wash., Jan. 21.— Intense excitement was created by the statement of Representative Metcalf, a Republican member of the house, stating that he had received ssol)' from Henry • A. Clarke, of Spokane-Falls, with tho express understanding that he (Metcalf) east his vote for Major Wm. H. Calkins for U. S. senator. An adjournment was ordered. At the evening session. W. C. Squire, Republican, was re-elected senator receiving a majority in both houses.—South Bend Times. If Representative Metcalf ever accepted such a bribe he is a dirty^fa^ fqr eo doing, xjfl’lien again, if he^efer made the statement after taking the bribe, j be is meaner than the dog’s mother. Again, it will boa difficult matter to make anyone ] sonally acquainted with Major Cal ns believe that he knew anything about the bribe. Heraldii g such news ia an outrage and an injustice to Major Wm. 11. Calkins, at

least, until it is proven that he himself isparticeps criminis. Dr. A. F. Schafer, at Dr. J. A. Kettring’s old office, Oliver opera bouse block, South Bend. Diseases of eve, ear, nose and throat. Fitting and furnishing glasses a specialty. A ?>lacy doctor told one of the Irish citizens of that town that bis liver was almost gone, when the Irishman responded : “Faith, it’s glad I am, it’s alters bothered me.” Doc Smith, after an absence of two weeks visiting in various towns, some larger than Walkerton, says he did not see one as lively as this. But then everybody says that Walkerton is the liveliest town of its size in this section of country.

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