St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 September 1891 — Page 4

I, A PAZ. Rev. D. C. Linville went to the AV. M. Conference at Cicero, Hamilton County, last w '/k, ami his not yet returned. Dr. J. J. Hamilton and Leonard Logan were there the greater part of two days ai <1 returned on last Thursday not very well pleased with the, work of the conference. Lydia sherland and her sister, Mrs. Alarshall Hosttetter staid until the close of the conference, and returned on Monday. The Rev. Brown was sent back on this circuit by the conference. There is a protracted meeting in progress at this place conducted by the Rev. J. H. Swihart, of Rossville. Ind. It has been continued since the harvest meeting which was held on Sunday, the 23d ult. Have you heard of the sensational report that Swift & Co., of Chicago, intended to erect a slaughter house at . this place? Look out, you may hear something “drap.” George Plake is erecting a house on iMiehigan street for a barber shop and dwelling. Cy Bondurant’s new house is up. and will soon be ready for the roof. Billy Bessler has opened a meat market. His shop is clean ami tidy. Miles Plake and wife, of Michigan City, visited with George Plake and family a day or so. W. L. Johnson is buying a large quantity of wheat, both here and at Lakeville. The houses of Dave Rodenberger and Howard White are nearly finished.Mrs. Dr. Aloore and Airs. Ltd her Sherland are attending the State Sunday School Convention at Logansport. Vinedresser. Alilford is without a saloon. Alurder! It is said that the population of the earth doubles itself in 260 years. General Jasper Packard is being talked of for Secretary of War. Keep it before the people. The Alilford Alail and Syracuse Register have been trying to establish old fashioned stage routes. They’ll be running their papers off on cheese presses next. And now there's an awakening of the spirit at Chesterton. There’s a high old campmeeting in progress there. It is hoped they will give the editor of the Tribune a rousing shaking up that he may be led to enquire. An old chimney was torn down in Dekalb countv, this state, recently and . Ii thirty ten dollar bills found hidden therein. The money is said to be in a good state of preservation. No clue 1 to the singular business has been ob- 1 tained. Indiana produced a larger wheat ; crop this year than any other state in ( the Union. Ohio came nex., Illinois t next, lowa next, Michigan next, Missouri next, Pennsylvania next, Wis- ] cousin next, the latter's crop being ( 21,000,000 bushels as against that of Indiana which is 60,000,000 bushels. < The balance of the states run from ( 14,000,000 bushels down as low as , 1,500,000 bushels. Hurrah for Hoosierdom! Os a correspondence consisting of fourteen very interesting news items | written to one of our exchanges, the first seven are of more than ordinary interest: “Hello.” “Seeding next. ” “News is scarce.” “Rain enough now. ” “Almost corn cutting time.” “The Hicks boys drive a flip rig.” “Some of the boys went to the park I last Sunday afternoon.” “Topsy” A VERY BLANK VERSE. The boy stood on the front door ( step nor thought of danger near; hej cared not for her father’s boot—in' short he had no fear. He took out his pocket mirror and paused for an instant there, to remove Lis nice new derby hat and smooth Lis oily hair, then grasped the handle gently and timidly rang the bell, for he knew that her harsh old father hated him worse than —well. A moment of painful waiting, a moment of anxious doubt, and- the door flew swiftly open while a foot flew swiftlv out. A moment of quiet agony, a moment of great suspense, and the young man lurched through the atmosphere and lit on a picket fence. A terrible shriek of anguish, a loud obstreperous whoop, and the young num flew down the avenue with Ins sore heart in the soup. — Unchained Poet.

GOLDEN DREAMS. A short time ago, says the ’’orte Herald, two youg ladies from AHchigan City came over to visit and the last night here, they in company with six La Porte young ladies occupied one room as a sleeping apartment. To insure the right kind of dreams, they tied all their big toes together with a yellow string and then went to bed and awaited results. One of the visiting ladies led off in a very pleasant dream, of a- very sweet your - man with red hair and a squint in one eye: but she was rudely awakened by the snoring of a La Porte girl who was struggling in a dream with theghostof Brigham Young, which was endeavororing to carry her aw ay to his harem in the sweet by and by. Just then another LaPorte girl started in on a dream that exceeded in the beauty of its make up and trimmings, anything in the line of dreams she had ever experienced; while the second visitor from the Lake City was wrestling with a nightmare j in which a large dog with a crazy quilt ( skin and tin ears, was beating a bass I drum with the leg bone of an imaginary i kangaroo. Another LaPorte lassie, feeling the chord tightening around her toe, dreamed tnat a grizzly bear was hugging her and trying to pull her out of a wolfe trap, but just then the next girl screamed so loud in her dream that the bear was frightened away. Then the biggest girl of the lot dream-, ed that she was swimming away from a large fish, but just as the fish was about to swallow her she gave a kick and snapped I string and the charm was broken. The last one of the young ladies dreamed that herself'and a verynice young man of this city (who lias been patted on the head by various young ladies until he is nearly baldheaded), was sitting in a hammock in an arbor, when suddenly the dock struck eleven and they parted at the front gate. Then they awoke and it was daylight. A gentleman was standing at the depot a few days ago when a train came in and a half dozen tramps piled off. He heard one of them say to the others. “This is a place where we can get lots to eat and you can always bet on getting plenty of grub hen l .” It is this reputation that brings so many tramps here, and it is a most unfortunate thing that our people will feed them at all. It is a sadly mistaken charity, and a positive injury to the tramps and to the morals of the community-. Wherever this | tramp question has been investigated, the vagabonds are found to be dead beats and frauds, without an exception. There is absolutely no CAMiMrt for a tramp in this country, and .to feed them only encourages them ami makes their wrong doing possible/ About one-half of them are ex-convicts j and a menace to every community they visit. Anybody who will apply the tramp question to their own town will see at once how absolutely mine cessary it is for turning one's self into a tramp. Take, for instance, LaPorte. What possible excuse can there be for anybody, sick or well, to have this city to go on a begging tramp through ' the country? There can be now whatever. Any citizen here can get honorable work enough to keep him comfortably and well if he will do it. If he is' sick or unfortunate in any way and is worthy, the people will cheerfully help him/ All that is needed is to let his wants be known. If he goes away from home to beg for ■ his living, it is positive proof that he is , unworthy and a dead-beat. Whyshould the people of other places give to such a man? To give to him only en-1 courageshim in his evil doing and prob- I ably makes a confirmed villian of him. The case is exactly the same with all other towns. Their needy citizens 1 will be taken care of at home, and i their dead-beats should not be fed by ; anybody. When LaPorte quits feeding these loafers and dead-beats, the loafers and dead-beats will quit coming here. —LaPorte Argus. We notice that three-fourths of the ! presidents of the Alliance party wear j only chin whiskers. AVhat does it I mean? There’s Frank McGrath, presiI dent of the Kansas Alliance, L. T. Livingston, president of the Georgia Alliance, Alarion Cannon, president of the California Alliance, and T. W. Force, president of the Indiana Alliance, all ।of whose portraits are before us and showing the three former to have nothing but small chin whiskers, while the latter, a young looking rooster, j wears the regulation mustache yet. : This surely must be significant of I something, and the public, or the two old mossback parties, as they call them, : should be on the lookout for breakers .: of some kind. So emy in its action, harmless and “ffeeimil in r<'lwvh:g is ^amnions Liver ’ Regulator.

2 WAS A VALUABLE STRIKE EOR WALKERTON. More favorable comments from the i , brethren of the press which arrived too ' . late for our last issue: Bro. Endley, of the Walston In ' PEi ENnEX’r, issued a genuine boom paper last week. Its home aide of four' six-column pages are entirely devoted ■ to the write-up ot Walkerton ami its , surrounding country, together with the I portraits of leading citizens and biogißpliicul sketches of their lives. Uhere i is also ii full dcsoiiption of the Lu siness houses, several of which are illustrated. Ibis special edition consisted of five thousand papers, and if judiciously distributed by the people of that town will result in much good ' Bro. Endley deserves credit for his en- I terprise, whether he gets pay for it in ' dollars and cents or not., 'ppis edition does not contain a single local mention, and if the regular edition was issued we did not receive a copv, sure.— Bristol Banner. No regular edition was issued that week. The Walkerton Independent gives ' I its readers this week an excellent illus-1 | tinted write up of that Enterprising | city. It covers the four pages of home print of that paper to the exclusion of; : all other matter. —Kewanna Herald. j Wo acknowledge the recipt of a copy of the Walkerton jND^rENDENT’s I boom edition. It contsin# a careful, I “write-up” of Walkerton'^ nylons in ! ' dushies and in our opinion'll the best kind of an advertisement (or the town. —Mishawaka Democrat. Correct. It is an excellent advertisement of the town and its surround- ' ings. The Walkerton Independent’s boom edition comes out this week. It is a beauty’ and shows up the town in line shape. Among the illustrations of the important buildings of the town the L DEPENDENT office looms Up ill all its st deliuess. But if wo were permitted to oiler a suggestion it would be that the editor should have corded up that big subscription wood pile before the recent rains, ami when yon have your picture “took” igain you should have ' those three little printer’s <’ Is hide themselves bit ter behind the - r. - Mentone Gazette. Never mind about those printer’s d Is. What was Horace Greely once? What were wc once, for instance, eh?; The Walkerton INDITENDNNT g> t I out a special edition last week contain- i ing a lull and complete write up of the town and its busim ss, which was a credit io the town, the paper, and the business men there. The business en terprise of her people made such an issue possible. —Albion New Era. The Messenger inadvertantly failed to mention the boom edition of the Walkerton lxdi iimuxt. It was an ^undertaking which reflected great credit on the promoters. The In; i ■ pendent is in every respect a newspaI er. \ .5;- z ; M . The boom edition got oil In the IValkcrtoll I.NDEI’ENDENT Ui^’.Cli h' .e too late for mention in last^^ue- B * is a great thing, howi ver *W;' ! ke;- ( ■ Ido not appreciate their )-R- r E i I should emigrate to some inonDsalubriI ous clime, stark County Ledger. ; T'he Walker! a In i u rrxni ni '< write-up of that i<<wn was a nmet cred I itable piece of literary and m- ehanu al ' work. Bro. Undley and the e:!iz> ; < are equally to be eongn’dulated. Nappanee News. M'e neglected to refer to the splendid write up of Walkerton which appeared in the last number of the Independent. It contains an account of' the early history of the town ai d interesting biographical sketches of some of its leading business men. Asa ’ piece of composition the write-up would l>e difficult to excel, while t)po- j I graphically it nlh ets great credit on I the Independen r. The illustrations; are first-class. Five thousand copies of the paper have been sown broadj east, ^uch seed is sure to bring forth a bounteous harvest. IxiPorte Herald. Billy Beane, tditor of the Goshen’ Democrat, is up north trying to get! rid of the hay fever. Draining Okofenokoe. Capt. Harry Jackson is back from Okcfenokee swamp, says the Atlanta Cun.'-ihilioii. He is locating the line of a canal that is to drain the swamp into the St. Alary’s river. He has had two i or three surveys made, and the present ! survey is to determine where he will I locate the canal, lie expects to be able to drain a large part of the swamp ! with a canal nq^ more than seven miles i long- .. I (’apt. Jackson says he hn« discov- ‘ ered some of the most valuable timber in the United States in this swamp. He has taken samples of it and will be able to show it before long. It contains inexha stible quantities of cvpress of the best quality. Capt. Jackson’was in his office talk- ! ing to Col. D. C. Bacon, who is the ' ; best posted man in the state on timber, yesterday, and was showing him some of the samples of his timber. Col. ; Bacon picked up a block of very white , wood and said to Capt. Jackson: “Do I you know’ what that is.” "Yes,” said Capt. Jackson. “I only j know the name given to me by the people who live about the swamp.” i ‘•V'ell,” said Col. Bacon, “is there I much of this in the swamp?" 1 ; "Thousands of it,” said Capt. Jack- ) ; son. “Well,” said Col. Bacon, “that is : more valuable than mahogany. It i s 5 ' culled ivory wood, and is used for | piano keys, inside decorations of the I finest kind, etc. The Pullman Car |i Company uses a quantity of it for inlaid work and other line work in their 1 i best cars. Yon have a fortune if you have m ■ . ; . .. . irober.”

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NAPOLEON'S DAUGHTER. Maae Chanßsenot Claims She Was Changed for the Prince Imperial. ' — M idespread sympathy was elicited in Paris for the Empress Eugenie during her late visit, says a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, in view of the peculiarly painful annoyance to which she was exposed bv the claim made upon her by a person named Albertine Chaussenot. This woman \thom I have interviewed—is employed as cashier in a small restaurant in "the I Faubourg St. Denis. She makes the sensational allegation that she is the daughter of the empress, and professes to be in possession of certain proofs, that it was she who was born at the lime that the young Prince Napoleon came into ttie world; that it was she, and not the young prince’ who was the child of the emperor and empress, and that the substitution was made because the emperor, for political reasons, desired a male child. I was not able to gather very clearly what might be the nature of the p ofs referred to. Aime. Cbaussnot has a romantic story to tell of her childhood and of a certain mysterious visitor, who on his ; death-bed told her that the empress alone could reveal to her the secret of her birth. She shows in supposed Confirmation of her story various tattoo marks on her hands and face, a T on one of her thumbs, anil a mark which she imagines to resemble an imperial crow non her chin. According to her statement she has on her body other tattoo marks—an eagle, a T surmounted with an imnerial crown, and

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so forth—Nvhieli she declares were made at the time of her birth to facilitate her recognition by her imperial mother. T she presumes to staud for Teba, which was the Empress Eugenie’s maiden name. During the Empress Eugenie’s stay at the Hotel Continental under the name of Countess de Pierrefounds, Mme. Cbaussnot made repeated attempts to see her. This is not the first lime that Aime Chaussnot’s absorb claim has been heard of,for about a year ago, at the time of a visit of the empress to Paris, the papers published her statement. It is to be hoped that an end will be pul to the lady cashier’s dreams of greatness. The Empress Eugenie has enough to suffer in life without being subjected to annoyances of this kind when she pays visits to Paris, where she was once so happy, and where she is now so sad. It is fair to Mme. Chaussenot to say that she does not seem at all prompted in this matter by pecuniary interest, but by a desire to know the truth about her parentage. She is a fine - looking woman, but as far as I can judge, does not bear the slightest resemblance to the beautiful Countess de Moutijo. An Eye to Business. Laura —“What a clever girl Jennie is! She had sixty-seven offers of marriage within a week after she left colIlege.” Clara—“lndeed! And she is not very good looking.” Laura —“No; but the subject of the essay she read at her graduation was ‘How to Keep House on sl2 a week.”’ — Munscu's