St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 February 1891 — Page 1

QOtNTy St inlwoMnt

VOLUME XVI.

Great Closing Ooi 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, Ou all Onn^R. in except t Rubber Goods, Knit 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 I Which will reduce many goods to COST, and some to less than COST. T. J. WOLFE, Fifteen different styles of Heating Stoves! Can now be seen in stock at td oq q p td /A otr nUbo & dUoLo ' ' ■ * ■ ■ ■' •' " • HARDWARE STORE. Chief among our large and sp! if is the Radiant, Home and Splendid coal stoves, and the Splendid base heater wood stove. / . ' * ■» Our line of Cook Stoves consist* of the very best grades in the market. Among these is the PRIZE STANDARD! We carry a full and complete line of Hardware, Taints, Oil and brushes, Oil Cloth Tugs, 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 STORE.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1891.

The Middlebury Independent don’t capitalize “bible”. You sacrilegious rascal. It is said that a man living north of Nappanee had to kill six head of horses on account of glanders, and also that he has been ordered to burn his barn. Now since we have got in the hal it of reading the South Bend Daily Post, we would rather have it come every day than to have a peck on the head. A lady who had lost her voice took a hard sneezing spell which restored that indispensible to the female sex. Ever since recovering her voice, she is said to have talked twenty miles an hour. Any man could tell with one hand^ —"J linonn r» of f democrat party in Indiana if every county seat had a New Albany Tribune. “There is but one in the state,” however. That sparkling and vivacious paper, the Walkerton Independent, has moved into a new office, and feels as proud over it as a girl does with her first beau. —South Bend Daily Post. Or her first long dress. Editor Murray is dead down on drug store liquor. That’s right. It is usually nothing but a plain article of corn goods pregnant with "germii snakeii" and is a dangerous commodity to monkey with . Give us the genuine old rye, that runs down like oil. We will take back our first thoughts concerning the Wanatah News. When we first heard that a paper was to bo started there, our impression was that it would be a soap-stick of a thing. It’s nary a soap-stick, but thus far shows up to be one of the brightest sheets that comes to this office. Congratulations, Br’er Atwater. The great speech delivered by Congressman Shively not long since in the lower house, was delivered by that gentleman. There is no use of denying it. Anybody who ever heard him speak or ever read bis writings will see Shively all the time he is reading the recent famous speech. Boys, give ’er up, it’s . epcecl'. sure"B’bx gaud but wg’ve got to stand it. ik The humane society of South Bend ' is getting away up ol its ear, and those g ntlemen (?) who are'iu the habit of licking, their wives would better keep their eyes peeled hereafter. It is all right to teacfi your wife to build fires mornings, feed the hogs and other stock, L and do other out door puddling things while you run up street and discharge your duty of bolding down hitching racks, soap boxes, etc. But moderate means should be employed in teaching your wife these little duties. About four hours valuable time was spent by Freman Kelly, of DeKalb Co., a democrat, and other of the senators who were republicans, last Saturday at Indianapolis, talking tariff. The matters in our state legislature are of a state and local nature, and we hope our represenatives will so consider them. The tariff is a national issue between the two great parties, and can only be changed or modified at the national capitol. To discuss these questions in our state legislature is stealing six dollars a day from the tax-payers of Indiana. —Milford Mail. For heaven’s sake let them discuss the tariff to their heart’s content. No better thing under the sun could be done than to encourage the members of the Indiana legislature to put in about all their time in discussing the tariff and other questions over which they have no control. It would keep them cut of mischief and probably save Indiana. The Goshen Crystallizer, a temperance paper, made a sweeping and unjust attack upon the Knights of Pythias because a few who visited Nappanee on the occasion of organizing a lodge there became a little “funny.” About three hundred were gathered there on that occasion and not more than a half dozen, the News alleges, could be considered intoxicated. The News ably defends the Knights of Pythias as an institution, but severely reprimands those who were so indiscreet as to become intoxicated. But when one considers that there were about three hundred present on that occasion, and that they were all young men full of vinegar and inclined to hilarity, and not more than a half dozen were intoxicated, it must be admitted that it was an exemplary crowd. The Crystallizer should be careful about straining at gnats.

Bettah oganize a humane society. Organize in behalf of the dumb animal. Hurry up with those street lamps, please. Fourteen hundred men are employed at the Studebaker wagon works. The protracted meeting at the M. E. church closed last Saturday night. Do your business throug i the Walkerton bank. It is simple, convenient and safe. Walkerton is fully recognized as being an excellent trading point. Don’t forget that. notice it on us, but we are consi ’eiL--*3tuck up over our new office. The Middlebury Independent began its fifth year with its last issue. It is a breevY 6 quarto. What “might” your popuiation be, Jim? Thb great find at Chesterton in the way «f oil (?) was knocked hades-west-and-epoked the other day by somebody spiking the well. Walkerton knon? how to sympathize with Chestertcti. Walkerton had its coal mine (?) s|iked. Tip Independent force took dinner at tire Hotel Florence on last Saturday in response to an invitation from the genii! hostess, Mrs. Hannah Sheatsley. As Io the excellence of the meals furnialied by that popular hostelry, said fores can readily testify. C»me to Walkerton to trade. Onr merchants, all of them, carry quite full and complete stocks, sell as cheaply as asy town's merchants do, are as accofltynodating, pleasant, genial, etc., as merchants can be. Come to Walkerton to trade. Npw what on earth does the present legvlatnre of Indiana want with u com- * mi tee on temperance?—New Albany t Triiuue. . Manta it to see that Indiana's corn ; isn'lconverled into soap, as recommendr ed L the careless editor of the Valt paruso Messenger. 1 C>; account of the Mardi Gras, the vs ■ pun r Nell excursion tickwle 01° lb. Bth, 9th, 18^1. fro? ^.^r--1 ItAiuJod., to Npw O;leans, La., p-- re- ’ tnitl at rate of f25*00; and to i Mobile ‘ Alt, and return at rate of $25 00. Tick- ’ ects will Ihs good for return passage 1 until February 24th, 1891, inclusive, j Why don’t yur leading merchants run . delivery wagons? It would pay at j least a hundred per cent, in the way of , advertising their business. A bar of , soap or package of saleratus could be , delivered in any part of town in less than twenty minutes.. Os course an ordinary delivery wagon would not be । expected to carry the trimmings for a dress, but the dress itself could be sent by the wagon and a dray called to deliver the trimmings. Pennington flew his air ship last Sunday in the exposition building at Chicago. It went round and round like a hawk hovering over a spring chicken. Pennington was ecstatic. All lovers of music may be well entertained by attending the concert at Jordan school house, Saturday night, Feb. 14. Come and hear something new in the music line. We will be assisted by the Walter Sisters from Lakeville and Mr. Alvin White, from LaPaz. The famous duet, entitled: Mrs. Doctor and ^lrs. Proctor, will be executed by Missus Linn and Linnie Walter. One tftul-forty minutes entertainment cents. Wm. Clem, L General Manager. At^bout half past 8 o’clock last Monday tsht, the yell of fire resounded Uirotwh the Egyptian darkness which previHled at that awful moment, upon the ears of the pious citizens as Walkerton, and fora few minutesit appeared that a conflagration might occur to the extent of justifying an Independent reporter in once more describing the “lurid” flames of a seething, raging heli of fire. But alas! the reporter was doomed to disappointment. Anyhow, Mr. Jessie Reed, an all around Land at the double store es Rensberger & Fitzgerald, a verdant young gentleman, undertook to blacken a hot stove with the explosive agent gasoline, and which explosive exploded damaging goods to the fjmount of about fifty dollars. A fire extensive and disastrous to the towii of Walkerton as the one long to Lp Remembered by our citizens of a couple of years ago, was barely averted. J

A Farmer Opens the Rail. Editor Independent : As yon have kindly tendered space in your paper for the discussion of the tariff question, and having an anxiety to see the question fully discussed will open the ball by expressing myself as against protective tariff. I have carefully perused the literature for and against protective tariff and have also listened to many able speeches bearing upon the subject during the past six years and am coerced to the belief that a tariff for revenue only is the correct solution of the problem. It appears to me that protective tariff advances the price of the protected article, if not, it seems ItO nw that it youl»U^-fIL-no ace unt and there would be no meaning t the word “protection,” and would fail to encourage American industries. Certainly none but those engaged in producing or manufacturing can be benefited by protection. While one man is engaged in such manufacturing many are engaged in the consumption of the article, and while one gains many must lose. But they tell us that the tariff collected on foreign importations assists in defraying the expenses of running the government. In that event we find many poor men having large families and therefore being heavy consumers paying the bulk of the government’s expenses. The rich, it is true, live much faster ami are heavy consumers, but they are so largely in the minority that the burden after all falls upon the laborer. They tell us that it wil keep out foreign labor. How can that be so long as foreign immigration is not prevented? Again the high protectionist says “let them come and we will feed them.’’ What do we gain by that? Nine out of every ten that comes pro-

duce more than they consume. I am a farmer, producer and consumer, seeking for the best market to sell in and the cheapest to buy in. Secretary Blaine’s reciprocity scheme is certainly good as fur as it goes—but is it broad 1 enough? The tendency of the voters seems to be that in ’92 they will demand ’ a letting down of the bars. J. W. Lanning. w Era: ike LaGrange] ’ Register, seeing that the snake story * season i» not at hand, tells the folio** * ing fish story. It says that ten years B ago a young lady of Milford township, ‘ that county, while boat riding on TurB key Lake, dropped her ring into the water and it sank to the Ixrttom. W« j will let the Register tell the sequel as I follows: f Time brings wondrous changes and f almost miraculous events. After a 3 lapse of ten years, a period of time s which changed that lovely girl to the i better estate of wife and mother, a fishj ing party- was angling through the ice, t one day last week, on the same lake, t w hen one of the fishermen hooked a . very handsome pike, which with great skill and dextrous movements, he succeeded in landing on the ice. This ' beauty of the lake weighed thirty pounds. It is not the weight of the 1 fish that contains the thrilling germ of > this story, but it is its internal developments. When the pike was disembowelled, there lying in its capacious - stomach, was this self-same diamond , jewel, blazing with the same lustre that f it did on that day, ten years ago, when ■ from the lady’s finger it dropped to the ■ bottom of the lake. It is needless to ■ say that the lady is again exceedingly ■ happy in the possession of her dearly prized diamond. j — Girls and Slang. One needs only to keep his ears open on the street, the cars, or any public place to observe how a portion of young womanhood is given to slangy speech. Words, which even men, except acer--1 tain sort, would hesitate to use in the presence of ladies, are used by these fair damsels and fall from their lips with a glibness of utterance quite surprising. Possibly girls of this stamp will not lack 1 admirers. Men like spice, but the right kind of a man would rather hear slang । from some other young lady than the one he intends to marry. Although amused by the slang-user and, for a time, perhaps, very much entertained by her, a time comes when it falls very flat and he shrinks from the idea of making such an one his wife. Girls, The Post gently, but firmly, advises you to abandon the use of slang. It is a masculine “accomplishment,” and not praticularly desirable even in men.—South Bend Daily Post. The Independent is in hearty accord with the Post in condemning the use of slang by young ladies, and shall assist the Post in every way possible until | every last girl cheeses the racket.

NUMBER 31.

Tlie South Bend Daily Tribune. This paper realizes that it is under many obligations to the South Bend Tribune for the many favors shown it from the moment of its first issue until the present time. That excellent paper, one from which we have drawn numerous batches of inspiration, has never failed for a single day since we took charge of this paper to find its way to onr sanctum. From the time the Tribune learned that we had purchased this office it ceased to solicit job work from this locality, at least, so we are informc I. It also ceased to encourage correspondence from this ])lace, \ thus generously yielding this entire field to us. The cere thanks for the many favor extended from time to time during the entire period that we have devoted our feeble efforts to giving this community a circulating medium. A farmer who told his boys to burr every bumble bee’s nest they found on the farm, and who was complaining of the failure of his clover crop, was surprised when Maurice Thompson, the naturalist, said: “That is why yonr clover seed fails, your bumble bees make your clover seed.” It is a fact, we are told, that a strong nest of bumble bees is worth S2O to the owner, for these insects are the chief agents in fertilizing the blossom, thereby insuring a heavy crop of seeds. In Australia there are no bumble bees of onr kind, and they could not raise any clover seed there until they imported some. The farmers ought to cut this out and paste it in their scrap books. — Ex. And if they are wise they will go to gathering bumble bee's nests at once. See Tom Wolfe’s offer of special discounts for cash, until March 1.

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