St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 June 1891 — Page 1

St Jofert aUh. iWepenftent

VOLUME XVI.

THE EDITORIAL MOB. K About The Northern Indiana Editorial ■ Association. The gang of cultured gentlemen of the pencil that gathered at the beautiful, thriving, and leading city of northern Indiana one week ago last Thursday and Friday, and from everyone of •whom great volumes of knowledge naturally oozed, constituted an astounding body. No body of men probably ever received a more cordial greeting than did the editors of northern Indiana who ’collected there. The local editors, the Studebakers, the Birdsells, the Olivers, other large manufacturers, the merchants, indeed, business men of almost all branches, and not least by any means, Mayor Longley, all vied Av it 11 ench other to outdo in their adminiatxations of kindness to the visiting editors. Fine carriages were provided in which the editors were hauled from place to place of interest. At St. Mary’s academy a cordial reception was met and the sights shown up and clearly explained by the good people in charge. The vocal class, numbering about 30 handsome young ladies, rendered some excellent music, so fine indeed, that few, if any, mortals but editors could appreciate it. At that famous headquarters of learning, Notre Dame, President Walsh, the genial Col. Hoynes and other members of the faculty extended a warm greeting to the visitors. At this place the gang was assembled on the great stone steps and Ed McDonald photographed the whole business. Whether or not the production is intended for the rogue’s gallery, we do not know, THE WATER W IKS DISPLAY. A display o( the water works and fire department was made in the evening of Thursday at about G:3O o’clock. The court house was thoroughly drenched, the old clock at the dome receiving such a scrubbing that it actually’ held up its bands in astonishment. AT THE BANQUET. Now comes that which always deeply interests an ordinary country editor; namely, supper. The royal Jwmq uet mln amt manufacturers of the Queen City, was given- at the rink, which was beautifully decorated with flags for the occasion. The hour for the banquet was 10 o’clock, and at’which time more than two hundred people were gathered there to participate in the festivities which lasted for more than three hours. Hon . B . Frank Shively, Col. William Hoynes, and Hon. C. H. Reeve made excellent speeches, in the order in which they are named above. In order that the reader may have some idea of the neatlyprinted menu card for the occasion, we give two samples: Case noir, Sans Cognac, a la Tribune; Limonade et Ginger Ale, ala Times. Two business sessions were held, one on Thursday and one on Friday, at which session considerable business pertaining to the good of the association was transacted. President Jernegan presided at both sessions. It was decided that the next session, to be held one year from this, should be held at Plymouth. It is impossible for us to go into detail concerning the sights seen on the march through the great manufacturing places of that city. Suffice it to say that some editors saw on their march through those places things which they had never dreamed of to say nothing of never having seen the like. The factories are simply immense, the largest of their kind in the world, having everything in the way of modern inventions, improve- ' merits, and facilities for doing both rapid and good work. Clark Burton, a Revolutionary soldier, who accompanied Ethan Allen to Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775, and assisted in the capture of that fort "In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental congress,” is buried at Door Village, LaPorte county. Simeon Wheeler, another soldier of the Revolution is buried at a cemetery in Coolspring township.—South Bend Times. The Boston Courier asks: “Are we making progress?” And an exchange says yes; if not, how comes 1,800 lbs. for a ton of coal, four inches of froth to a glass of beer, and what’s the bottom of a strawberry box doing in the middle anyway? Progress' we should say x” 400 yards of Satteens at 121 cents, .orth 20 cents. Philadelphia Store.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTS^ (pIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 20. 1891,

V n General Packard, of the Albany Tribune, disposes of a few hundred more car loads of American tin plate, then we expect to get a chapter from him on tramps. Ev*** life worm will turn —when it is put onto a fish-hook for bait—Goshen Democrat. And that’s just why the worm is better than twenty out of nineteen of you sinners. Editor Groves, of the Milford Mail, did not, as some tried to make it ap* pear, oat for two and a half hours at the banquet at South Bend. Two hours was all the time he occupied at the banquet board —but he didn t miss a stroke during that time. The editor of an esteemed contemporary wonders how he will get his clothes on over his wings when he gets to heaven- Don’t you worry on that score. You may sometime find difficulty in getting your boots on over your . cloven hoofs, or making your hat cover your horns, but don’t you worry about the wings.—Ex. A man in Kansas committed suicide by hanging himself in a red barn. The inquest held over his body developed the fact that his farm was mortgaged, his wife cross-eyed, while his dog had been whipped by a neighbor's. In view of these circumstances the jury returned a verdict of "justifiable suicide.”—Ex. It is claimed now that during the last fifty years the amount of whisky consumed per capita each year has fallen oil from two and one half gallons to a little more than one and a half gallons, but that the use of beer has increased from one and one-third gallons to that of thirteen and two-thirds gallons during that period. The question arises : Is there more snakes in the twelve gal lons of beer than in the one gallon of whisky? The above is a question of vit: 1 importance, and the press should at once take cognizance of the matter. For somewhere from twenty-five to fifty years we had an ardent desire to see Billy Beane, editor of the Goshen ~...r iwa Hm-week nt the editorial association was that desire gratified. We met the famous editor at St. Mary’s and were in his company during the march through that magnificent academy of learning. He appears to be the plain outspoken don'tcare a durn sort of a man that one is led to infer he is from reading his paper. He is genial, pleasant, and will make friends wherever he goes. The Nappanee News hints that the tramp element is in part due to lax immigration laws. Listen to the News: ‘‘Our portshave, and arc even now. in spite of efforts to the contrary, virtually making this country a receptacle for the “stuff” to fill the said institutions maintained by the taxpayers. We have shut out every other competition from the old world but that which furnishes us tramps, paupers, and criminals.” This in the face of the fact that the South Bend Times claims that we have “stringent” immigration laws. Then, if our immigration laws are no good, let us by all means pass a law to imprison tramps, and thus force them to labor and pay their way. The South Bend Daily Tribune of last Friday, following a detailed account of the editorial convention held in that city Thursday- and Friday, had some “Notes” among which appeared the following; “The genial Dr. Endley, of Walkerton, thought a bottle of champagne had accidently reached the banquet table last night by mistake,and Charley Goetz fostered the mistake up to a point where Dr. Endley shook the fluid, “just to see the bead rise.” It rose. Sc did the cork. So did the ginger ale. It rose and came down on the table, a fizzing fountain of liquid that cheers, but does not inebriate.” The above is true except that Dr. Endley did nothing of the kind. The Tribune can find out who shook the supposed bottle of champagne by inquiring of Editor Rheubottom, of the Middlebury Independent. HARMERS! Examine your Empire and Peerless Binders and Mowers, and if they need any repairs, let me know at once. 1 have just received a large line of repairs for these machines, in addition to stock on hands, but may not have the part you want. This may save you a great deal of time and trouble in harvest. A. Cunningham.

I.OCAV. BRIEFS. 1 ' For carpets go to Vincent’s. | A nice line of Bedroom suits atWincent’s. J LaPorte is about to get a buttey and cheese factory. The Rochester S< 1 claims that the jail there is er. _ . Wonder if it can be thy fault, of the authorities? The Lake Erie & Western has a contract om-Xyr fifteen hundred new box cars. They arc getting twenty-firq a day now. L* B. A. Pratt, a Walkerfes^^tn^glm came up Monday morning to sdg horses worked out. He drivqa. nJ. ly Duroc mare.—LaPorte Herafm'y** If Walkerton wants to gain a reputation far and wide as the handsomest town in the state of Indiana, she can do so with little expense by making a park of the Lake Erie & W. grounds. Argos don’t care for a band stand. The Reflector doubts the. utility of such a structure, and argues that the green grass as a floor and the canopy of heaven as a covering, is the stull. Have it your own way. Michigan City, according to the Dispatch, is likely to have an industrial parade the fourth of July, and says it will be a new thing for that city. Walkerton has tried it, and it proves to be one of the principal factors in enlivening the day. “Protection or Free Trade,” is the title of a 21G page pamphlet by Henry George, published by the “Haud-to-Hand Club,” N>w York city. In this little work Mr. George discusses the tariff question ably and in an impartial manner. Price of the book 25 cents. The members of the Fair Ground Association of South Bend are making great preparations for a big time there July 4th. They are fixing up their track in such a manner that they claim it will be the fastest half-mile course in the country, and are expecting a large turnout of quick horses. Major Bitters, editor of the Rooff ster Republican, lUQurpj little jRTfIWIi who died last week an (Twas decently burled in a cigar box. pilly was a canary bird, and had been in the editor’s family for thirteen years. The I s dEr eN D ENT sympathizes. Aex Populi Kecti, Vox Omnipotens, is the motto of the New York Voice, a paper published there, now in its eight volume. Now that should have been the motto of the Independent. Everybody in this Kankakee and huckleberry region would have semi the “pint” at a glance. Some fellow writing to the LaPorte Argt q one of tlie very best papers in Northern Indiana, says: “lam much pleased with your paper, but differ with you on many things.” Whether or not the Argus can rally from such a stunning blow as that, is the question. Wo would apologize for the INDEPENDENT not being a South Bend Times or a New’ Albany Tribune by saying that our field is too limited ; but Bro. Atwater or Bro. Groves or some of the other brothers would come back at us by saying that the limited field is in our cranium, and therefore we refrain from making any excuses. In the little cemetery at Leesburg, Kosciusko county, with plain headstones to mark the location of the graves, rest the remains of John Wanamaker and wife, father and mother jpf the postmaster-general. The sanW burial ground also contains the remains of James S. Blaine, who is supposed to have been an uncle of James G. Blaine. A wooden slab only marks the mound of earth.—Goshen Democrat. The Walkerton Independent of last week contains some sensible comments on the tramp question, which only lack of space prevents our repeating. You are right Bro. Independent, the existing laws are not sufficient, something more stringent is demanded, but of course our lawmakers will put this off and wrangle and quarrel over things of no importance whatever until an outraged public can stand it no longer.— Wanatah News. If the public can be taught the necessity of electing legislators who realize ' that something must be done in the way of making laws to punish tramps, then, and not until then, will we have a remedy. Here’s to you on the tramp problem, Bro. Atwater.

The Tramp and Immigration. Our good friend Murray, of the Nappanee News, wants us to understand that he is in favor of overcoming the tramp evil, and in the course of a long article on the subject says: “But no man starts in life as a tramp, any more than a man becomes a confirmed drunkard without having first been a moderate drinker. Perhaps his inability to grasp opportunities in the great struggle for existence has seut him step by step to the lowest degree of degradation ; or perhaps it was from the force of circumstances over which he had no control that gave him his cue. That society will al wavs have ithe tramp evil to contend with, more lor less, is a foregone conclusion, thereI fore, the abolition of the evil is not a d debatable question.” fjo. opportunities does not incajiaciTale a sound bodied min for laboring for an honest living. Every able-bodied man can mako a living by working, and every man can find the work to do. It would be folly to deny that proposition. Society may always have the tramp evil to contend with; it may always have the murderer to contend with; it may always have thieves to contend with, and law breakers of all kinds to contend with, and the law in reference to all but the tramp is stringent and enforced, not with even the hope of altogether stopping such crimes, but for the purpose of punishing the perpetrators and terrorizing others who may be inclined that way. The tramp is with us, thousands of them, born on American soil. Who is to blame? Editor Murray of the News somehow seems to feel that the lack of immigration law is to blame for the tramp evil of this country. We do not care to attempt to discuss that feature of the problem for it certainly cuts no figure in it. Foreign immigration is a question upon which but few minds are thoroughly settled, in our opinion. Just when to close the gates and against whom is a difficult matter to decide. It is not difficult, however, to decide that as long as foreigners are permitted to come they should be compelled to behave themselves and earn an honest living either out of prison or in it. I.et Indiana’s next legislature pass a .. law to imprison in the sWo's prison nil aimless wanderers without visible means of support that tread upon her ' soil and neighboring states would soon ! follow suit, the idea would at once become epidemic and the legislators of the different states could scarcely wait for their next term that they might also do away with the pest. — — - - —- LOCAL BRIEFS. Dr. Kilnin’, of South Bend, Ind., pays especial attention to all kinds of , surgery and female complaints. Call on Chas. S. Robbins & Co. for 1 the celebrated Studebaker buggies, waggons and carts; also a full line of farm machinery. There will be a congregational meeting of the Presbyterian church at 2 o’clock June 20. All the members of • the church are urged to be present at

, that time. ' Did you ever see a batch of soberer editors than was the group at South ’ Bend last week ? But then, it is the ' dull season with editors and intoxicants 1 were not on the free list like many 1 other necessaries. If the potato bug is going to mantain , his reputation as a notorious and de- - stractive nuisance, it is about time he J is beginning his operations. But very - little complaint has been laid in against f him this year so far. The exchange of pulpits arranged for between Rev. Beall, of Argos, and Rev. Prentice, of this place, for Sunday, June 21, is canceled, circumstances making it impossible for the exchange to be made at that date. t A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. * The papers contain frequent notices of j rich, pretty and educated girls eloping - with negroes, tramps and coachmen. The 1 well-known specialist, Dr. Franklin Miles, y says all such girls are more or less hysterf ical, nervous, very impulsive, unbalanced; - usually subject to headache, neuralgia, - sleeplessness, immodeiate crying or laughing. These show a weak nervous system ■ for wich there is no remedy equal to Ree storative Nervine. J rial bottles and a e fine hook, containing many marvelous ! , cures, free at J. Endley’s, who also sells, a and guarantees Dr. Miles celebrated Ne^ p Heart Curej the finest of heart tonics. Cures fluttering, short breath, etc.

81000 Reward will be paid for the detection ot any deceit found in this advertisement. YOUR INCOME will look larger than ever when compared with the Big Values we offer in Dry G-oodsT BOOT^LiIQEg. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES ON Gel tail Bis. We will close out our present stock of White Shirts, colored Shirts, Neckties and everything pertaining to this line at cost or below, as we must close out these goods at some price. We will not quote prices here but -assure you that they will be low enough to induce you to buy. Philadelphia StoreT VISIT T. J. WOLFE, THE CHEAPEST Clfc iiDi Merchant T* IN NORTHERN INDIANA. CLOTHING! CLOTHING!

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