St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 October 1891 — Page 4

J?ndcpciidctit. WALKERTON, INDIANA. Oct. 3.1891. BOSTON Du Ms Ste New Fall Dress Goods AND— Wraps and Jackets —AT THE— To our friends and patrons: We announce With pleasure that our ' New Fall Dress Goods ^BNbre now open and ready for inspection. Never before were such an array of colors or beautilul * combinations ever thrown over a counter. The designer as well as the weaver have eclipsed every former effort. We are showing Plaids. Checks, Cashmeres, Serges, Almas, Magnolia Suiting, Cecilia Suiting, Cheviots, Flannels, Habit Cloth, Henriettas, Cheron, Camelets, Bedford Cords and Boucle Cloths. Our Black Dress Goods Department is larger than ever, filled witli the newest things found in every market; our values cannot I e EQUALLED; our prices the LOWEST, Fall and Winter Wraps & Jackets Our Fall and Winter Wraps and Jackets areal of this season's goods. We are fortunate to statel po old stock, but goods made for the coming reason. Cloth Jackets ju endlegs Resigns, vest fronts, rolled collars, trimmed in furs and Astrachau. Children and Miss Garments fa all the latest novelties. Plush Sacques and Plush Jackets. When in our city make our store your home—pome see our goods, and learn our LOW PRICES. CHILLAS, ADLER ; & COBLE. 127 South Michigan St. SOUTH BEND, IND. Store opep Wednesday and Saturday evenings. When Caught in a Lie. Another question which The Woman jias often wished the etiquette books would settle is the proper behavior ou being caught in a lie. This would interest persons of both sexes. It is the custom of one woman whom Hhe Woman knows to play a brave hand on such occasions. ‘'l've found out that lie you told about me.” said an irate person to her one day. “Have yon? Really?” she promptly answered. “Which one?” This is sure to strtgger. But it takes nerve to do it. Another person—a man, this time —had an acquaintance rush in upon him one day like a cyclone. “Look hear, you rascal you,” Jie shouted, “you’ve been lying about me!” ‘•Then thank your lucky stars, man, z that I haven’t told the truth about 1 * you,” answered the other coollyIt was a woman this time. Another woman had said to her: "Is it possible that you have been lying to me?” “Lying, my dear child? Lying? Why, I am self-confessed and sei [-approved the worst liar in the world. I have lied a great many limes to you. If I hadn’t lied all the years of my life religiously ami consciously I should have been untrue to all my friends amt all the obligations that life has brought to me.” Gail Hamilton somewhere tells this story about a friend of Mr. Lincoln, who, in the first convention, that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, had both worked and spoken with great effect for Mr. Lincoln. Afterward, in thanking him for his enthusiasm, Mr. Lincoln said to him: “But I am afraid, Colonel, that when you spoke for me you prevaricated just a little.” “Prevaricated. Mr. Lincoln?” said the other: “prevaricated? Why I lied like the devil!”— N. Y. Sun. Shade of Crook—“An oid pal of mine is in trouble in New York.” Satan —That’s all right. I’ll look after him when I go up to-morrow. You know I have a pull with both the police and the Aldermen.—A’cw lurk Jerald.

HOW TO KEEP FROM DROWNING. ’ One Noedu*t Know How to Swim—Sim* ply HTread Water.” To keep from drowning it is not ' necessary to know how to swim, says the N. Y. Advertiser. This may seem pt first a strong assertion, but much depends on the meaning that is aG I tached to the word “swim.” A man I may be able to “tread water.” yet he I may not know how to swim. When a I man swims it means one thing; when a dog swims it means another and somewhat different thing. In the main, the difference is one of position —of standing upright or of sprawling in the water. Os course the dog can not swim as the man can and does, but a man may swim on ihe first trial as a dogswims, if he will only do as the dog does. In what follows the object is to show how drowning may, under ordinary circumstances, be prevented even in the case of persons wholly ignorant of what is called the art of swimming. In the first place it is perfectly natural for every human being to'float. With the lungs inflated and the body below the water, one can not possibly sink. There is no easier method of keeping afloat than by simply treading water. The operation is just like running up-stairs, and about as difficult. It is perfectly natural for animals to “swim,” Throw a dog into the water, and at once lie begins to walk the same as when out of water. Why should a man. woman or child do differently under like circumstances? Clearly there is no good reason why any human being who can not swim should make a few helpless struggles, raise an outcry, throw up the hands, and sink out of sight. The trouble is that nine persons out of ten lose their presence of mind when for the first time in water beyond their depth. If, instead of struggling, people would do more thinking, fewer would be drowned. Oddly enough, i people have to do just what the aui- ; mal does instinctively in the water. The dog, the horse, the deer, and even the cat tread or walk the water at first attempt. Man's ignorance of so simple a thing as treading water is a little remarkable. It is nonsense to say ' that animals have anv advantage in the water over men. On the contrary man has the further advantage of pad- : die formed hands, and of being able to rest himself when tired by floating, a thing which the animals never do. The man who can not swim must follow the example of the animal, and should go on all fours. He must strike alternately with hand and foot, exactly as the dog does—one, two.oue, two. Ail the human beings can walk in the waler without any preliminary practice if they will simply keep coolheaded. In order, then, to keep from drowning it is necessary only to tread or walk the water. The most simple way to preserve life if out of your depth is to limit, which consists simply in lying 11 it on your back. This is easily accomplished by keeping the lungs inflated, the head thrown well back, the limbs extended, but flexible, the arms placed cluse to the ears, with the bauds over the head. The majority of people prefer to float on the back rather Umu tuointru nrright. Yet any man. woman or child who can walk on dry lain! can also walk in the water with safety. It is surprising how long animals and human beings are capable of sustaining themselves in water. In uue well authenticated instance a dog swam ashore with a letter in his mouth at the Cape of Good Hope, while Ihe I crew of the ship to which the dog be- ! longed all perished. The sailors need ] not have been lost had they treaded ' water as the dog did. Although un- ‘ able to rest by the way animals swim I immense distances. Last year a dog j was washed overboard during a gale off Cape Hatteras, and yet made his ' way safely to shore. Only a week or ] two ago some cattle were swept from a i vessel during a storm off the Maine ] coast.and more than half of them were saved. — The German Emperor. William 11. has been for three years emperor, and in this time has succeeded not only in winning the respect of foreign cabinets but in strengthening himself at home. He succeeded a i father idolized by all who came within i she sphere of his gentle and generous nature; his grandfather left behind a warlike fame so great that only the age of Frederick 11. can afford a parallel. The present Emperor has had, therefore, no easy task before him, for it has been necessary for him both to remove prejudice and to give the country confidence in his intentions as well as in his abilities. The secret of the Emperor's power with his own people arises mainly from three causes: First. lie has courage. Second. He is honest. Third. He is a thorough German. If the whole country had to vote tomorrow for a leader embodying the qualities they most desired their choice would fall unquestionably ou their present constitutional ruler. Perhaps the virtues 1 have specified appear eommon-place, and will be taken for granted by the reader; but an emperor must be compared with others iu the same trade. His honesty’ has been the cause of nearly all the malevolent criticism that outside papers have accorded him, for he has said freely what older or more politic people might have placed in a different way. He has made many minor mistakes from acting upon the impulse of the moment, but these mistakes have never betrayed to his people a want of sympathy with their development. He has made his share of minor blunders iu handling large masses of troops at the grand manoeuvers, but the army would be happy to see him make a thousand times as many rather than to miss the active interest he takes in keeping the military machine in working order.— Poultney Bigelow in the Century. ihe first thing a man does on reaching the rural regions is to loudly rhapsodize over the beauty and purity of i untrammeled nature. The next is to . start back to town, “where there is ; some fun going on.”— Indianapolis Journal.

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— NORTH LIBERTY, There is very little sickness in this vicinity at present. Mrs. D. IL McKenzie has gone to I’ratt, Kansas, to visit her brother, John B. Travis, who is in poor health. Mr. A Mrs. Jack-on. of Battle ('reek. Mich.., are visiting Win. F. Hoffman’s ] family here this week. '-ervices at the Episcopal church on next Tuesday evening. Mrs. Sheriff Reed and Mrs. Annie Standiford, of LaPorte, visited here < ver Sunday with G. R. Flood's family. Rev. Wm. B. Warren goes to a work near Crawfordsville, ami Rev. J. H Wright will have charge of the work ] here. Daniel Hathaway is engaged io .1 . IL- 1. new is nrrf.v s i completed. A great many from this vicinity to >k in the excursion to Ohio last week. TEEGARDEN. A. Hanson has his store room alH>ut completed. Last Sunday was a very quiet day in Teegarden. as every business Isouse was dosed and the first Sunday for several months that there was no vine staggering around on the streets. Jonathan I.emert. our justice, has gone to LaGrange to attend the soldj iers’ reunion. J. W. Falconbury is attending the reunion of the 2‘Jth at Bremen this week, the regiment in which he served three years in the late war. Geo. Bowers is improving. Mrs. Dr. Neville is visiting in Ohio. Matthew Robinson is able to be about again. II W. I’ord is erecting extensive sheds in which to dry tile. Geo. Sheaks is sick. David Thomas and wife, of Hancock county, are visiting with Wm. < h Brown and family. B. F. Lethennan’s new house is nearing completion. Ed Hartsough and Arnold Rensberger changed residences with each otb er Monday. Mrs. Mary Philij s. of near Laki ville. is ben- stnyinjr with her daughter. Mrs. Frank Barber. On las* Saturday while John Barber was driving home from Teegarden his . horses became frightened at another team jassing them and ran away throwing John and his wife from the ] wagon and quite severely injured both , of them. They are both improving as ■ ] well as could be expected. I Jack.

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SORGHUM Bring on your cans. Inm now pre- 1 pared to make sorghum molasses. 8. A. Ullkry. I — 1 used Simmons Liver Regulator for indigestion, with immediate relief. 0. G. Sparks, Ex-Mayor, Macon. Ga. Mal Walkerton, Inh. UOBATKi NELsoX. I’roß.. W. J. ATWOOD, CaHhier. jef —SZZZZLZZL U ‘"‘'" S ' ■” 11 J” ’™l®A mpx amrrndivLluals tudieited. EEiIL ESTATE. FOR* SALE. 80 acres, 6 miles from Walk-rton:' new bouse of I rooms, good well and stable. Price and terms reasonable. 10U acres, 3 j miles from Walkerton. Good two-stoi v house. 7 rooms, rich soil, 75 acres, cl< ard. good beuiing orchard. Price $ I <M>O. 160 acres, 1J miles from Walkerton, well improved, for sale on terms to suit purchaser. 120 acres, 4 miles from Knox, lo l. Terms one half down, balance in easy pa meats. House ami lol; house of 9 roi.ras. good cellar, cistern and well. I’rice' and terms reasonable. 40 acres, 2 miles from Walkerton. Well fenced, good frame house, tine young orchard in bearing, one acre of small fruit. Terms reasonable. Call or, or address, Horatio Nelson. Walkerton, Ind LEROY BROS.’ . LIVERY & FEED STABLE. W AI.KERTO.V, IM>. First-class rigs and good horses. Horses boarded. Traveling men carried to all adjoining towns. All terms reasonable.

Ross, Be & McDaniel ’ Dealers In—— Hardware, TINWARE, STOVES, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, BUILDERS’ MATERIAL, &cU'e are carrying a full stock of everything usually found in our line of business, and our prices are alway ■ Coqui Hard Wagons Buggies. Champion Mowers and Binders, BIND’R TWINE, BARBED AND SMOOTH WIRE, PUMPS, PIPE. PAINTERS' SUPPLIES, Etc. Please bear in mind that u>e also cany a good line HEATING STOVES! the best kinds noir in use. We have a full line of Radiant, Home, Splendid and Garland stoves. ross, bose & mcdaniel. LTLIIER BLOCK. _ । t ißwwrr n n Tt+E. Gi+ftNGt OF ft UF^-TlM^^ A COLLEGE EDUCATION FREE My young friend, do you want an education? We will give away two grand educational prizes between now and the holidays. One is a full scholarship, in any single course in any college, academy or seminary of your own selec^ tion in the west. The other is a full scholarship in any western commercial school. Either of these prizes is within your reach without the investment of a dollar. Do you want it? If so, do not wait a minute to write us. It is the chance of your lifetime to secure a free education. WESTERN PLOWMAN, MOIIR6, 111