St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 October 1891 — Page 4

Clje JnScpeniJent. WALKERTON. INDIANA. Oct. 24.1891. SWEEPING REDUCTIONS AT THE BOSTON Du Gils Ste During the next mouth we have decided to । make sweeping reductions in all our departnients. I Dress Goods Department. 1 ] In our Dress Goods Department we have made 1 such reductions that it seems to us every lady . could have a new dress. Our Cashmeres, Storm Series. Cloths .Bedford Cords, Flannel Plaids, Henriettas, ( Silks and Camelets ‘ J have all been reduced to such low prices as wo I know will please you, 1 ] Cloak & Jacket Department. i i Here we have put the knife into high prices | and before you purchase a cloak or jacket just ( inspect our line as we know the goods will . please—the prices suit. Underwear Department. We are showing the best of everything found in the market in Underwear and you do not consult your own interests by buying Underwear without first having seen our stock and learned our prices. Furs! Furs! Furs! We have laid in our immense stock of Furs, and we are told are 25 per cent under the regular prices. Blankets & Comforters. Here it is that we know we have such goods as i will please you. everything you may need in this line can t>e found in our immense stoef Our elegant line of Gent’s and Ladies’ Gloves, Saxony Yarns, Corsets, Handkerchiefs and Housekeeping Goods* CHILLAS, ADLER & COBLE. 127 South Michigan St. SOUTH BEXD, IXb. The Leaders of Low Prices. Store open Wedi e d°y and Saturday evenings. OOITT FAIL TO SEE ‘Ahorse 1 ! B LANKO 31 _ j \ "" EVERYBODY AVANTS ONE. for a 5 £ Horst Blanket will save double its cost. You; horse will eat less to keep warm and bi worth fifty dollars more. our mammoth line of ROBES & BLANKETS, The 5A in all grades and styles. 1 am prepared to furnish you with the finest line of Horse Clothing e^er brought to JFalkerton. F. M. AKE.

John Shifaly has in his possession a family heirloom in the shape of a miniature barrel which is more than likely 300 years old, and has been handed down from family to family. It was brought to this country with the Plymouth colcnists. —Kendallville Sun. He should display it among the historical relics at the World’s Fair. “It is quite noticeable,” observed a society man, “that the girls are beginning to wear their skirts so tight around their limbs that they have to grab them above the knee-caps with their thumbs and fingers, and pull them up like a dude does his breeches before he can sit down. And when they do they are compelled to twist themselves out of shape to keep from bursting their skirts, caused by the heavy strain upon them. Fashion has succeeded at last in sewing the pretty girl up in a tight sack, making locomotion difficult and climbing over a fence to escape a billy-goat an impossibility.” “Os all sad words of tongue or pen tiie saddest are these, it might have been.” Every day we hear people tell of what they might have done had they known then what they know now. About every other person would now be a millionaire and the balance of the population lords and ladies. The Elkhart Review tells of a man who missed his opportunity, in the following: “Uncle Dave Simingtou relates that when he first came to this part of the country to set up his wigwam, ho was, after a time, imbued with the desire to take a trip west. He set out

on foot. Before starting, he purchased a pair of boots. Ho had not gone far when his feet got sore, and he took off ! his boots and went barefooted. Final- ! ly he reached Chicago, then a little village in the mud. He bad his boots, one on each end of a hickory stick, over his shoulder. He bad no sooner ; got into Chicago than a fellow bantered him for his boots, and eventually of- | sered to trade him thirteen acres of | marsh, now in the heart of the great . city, for bis boots. Uncle Dave i : thought the man ought to know better ' than to offer him a chunk of marsh, not | worth a tax title in his estimation, for I a good pair of boots, and told him to go to Halifax.”—Rochester Republican. KITES OF TH® FAR EAST. At Once the Envy and Despair of Civilized Western Youth. One might wander about the National Museum for half a year without onlinarv kite** winch tiro pended overhead in the middle of the west wing. Nevertheless, they are well worth looking at, exhibiting as they do a versatile ingenuity of device in flying apparatus undreamed of by Europeans or Americans. The small boy of the United States, born as an inventor because be is a Yankeee, thinks he is performing a feat if he succeeds in causing to soar a simple pentagon of sticks and paper of ■ most primitive shape, with a tail of | rags. Such a contrivance, in com- । parison with the scicutitic kites of China and Japan, is the merest crudity, unworthy of a civilization that vaunts I itself superior to a hoary ami effete j East. Can the youth of this continent afford to confess a mechanical inferiority to Chinese and Japanese of equal age? Assuredly not. And yet it must be I admitted that the adolescent intelli- ■ gence ot those races would regard the : kites one sees in this country with au ; utter and superior contempt. Tae Caucasian kite bears the same j relation to the Chinese flier as is borne by the flint hatchet to the : modern ax. It represents the acknowledgement of a primary principle, ! improved upon by thought. In the collection spoken of are kites in the shaue of frogs, lizards, cranes, owls, gigantic Ilies, and enormous locusts. Speaking of locusts, one is reminded of a certain novel, translated from the English into French, in one chapter of which there was mention of the hero’s tying his horse to a locust tree in front i of the heroine's dour when about to her a visit. 11 i said that in ilm ITi .

Ic,^ States '•icsize that they were stuffed and utilized at the curbstone for fastening I horses to. However, that was nothin’ | to do with kites. Among those described at the ;£ museum are human figures of all sorts, IT as well as many queer animals of paper X and sticks, besides the ones already mentioned; but by far the must extraordinary of all is a kite thirty feet or more long, in the shape of “a snakelike dragon. No one but a Chinaman or a Japanese would suppose that such a thing could be flown, and yet it is known that they float them with aston- * ishing effectiveness. । Such a kite does not in the least re- । semble any plaything of the sort known m this part of the world. It is comi posed of a number of pasteboard disks, f each a foot in diameter, fastened together with spaces between by a cord ' running the length of the dragon, With a ferocious-looking head. Jhe string held by the manipulator of this extraordinary toy is attached at three or more points in its length, so that it may be controlled in the air. \\ hile afloat the long tail has an nnduiating and serpentine motion, thus producing a very realistic effect. Kite flying has been reduced to a ^science in China, where many ■■ . thousands of people will gather upon a hili on a holiday for the purpose of en-

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joy’ l ’- ”’ P sport. Many ot the kites are cut loose and let go, because it is imagined that they float away with misfortunes that are threatening. The Japanese are not less superior to Europeans in the art of top spinning than in that of flying kites. Their skill in this latter sport is al once the envy ami despair of civilized Western ' youth.— ll 'anhinijton Star. ~TYNER ~cff Y~ Miss Clara Knott is at borne on a short visit. Expects to return to Minneapolis, Minn , next week. A. D. Johnson is going to have another dance Nov. 3. John Baugher went to Chicago on business yesterday. A choice line of carries and fresh lon hand at S. J. Haag’s. S. J. man- ! ufactures cigars also. I’rof. Spangle, the great optician, । met

I hotel last week. x j The young folks are talking oft* organizing a literary suciety hero. A. Heller died last Tuesday ami wa> buried at Walkerton Thursday at 2 p s ni. Cyct. xe. I NORTH LIBERTY. Services nt the Episcopal church on next Sunday evening. John Jolly and family, of Hamlet, Stark county, vi.-ited icl.Uivcs lien ■ , last Sunday. William H. Hoffnian is nt home again after a week’s com ting at South I Bend. See G« o. 11. Flood for collections, insurance ami pension work . E S. Fulsome, state agent, for the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance eom-’ pany recently made lull settlement for’ ' the $2.G00 insurance on the life of the ; late D. I’. McKenzie. ’ Mrs. M. J. RiJgwny and her tuo ’ ''children, of LaPorte, spent lust Su - ; duv in this place. They were tin , gut sts ot Dr. and Mrs, X unci . " TheM. E- Ladies'Mite Society wns entertained nt the home of Mrs. Geo. i I Goodiieh on last Tuesday afternoon. . ' A goodlv number of the dwellings in ' f this tillage are being ornamented with s ' paint. ' Mrs. John Lee and children, of Elk- ’ bait, and Xlis. John Irvin and children, ■ of South Bend, visited relatives in this ■C village last w» ek. ’ OTi i. .. .I --- -- -j .. „..J XI. .

.• xr ,;x ■’ , J. )r1 V nirrnHn bas mnma Ins fanoi ‘ to this place. He occupied the Fetze ; residence on North Main street. A public sale xxill be held by Hem. Httdeimyer at his place of residence. : f'tir miles west of Walkerton, ot I’hmsday, Nov. 5. 1891. at 10 o’clocl . a. in., at which time horses, catth . sheep, farming implements, etc., wil be sold. Eleven months time will la ' given on all sums over $5. ' I fIDVERTISEBS KSXtS. I . , on advertising space when in Chicago, will f.nd it on file a 1 ibm Y • x j

CAPRICES Baking WLiaPowder Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard.

FACTS ABOUT THE SUN. Not gn When Compared with Arc. turus, Which Ik 550,000 Time* Larger, i 1 There are three well-defined classl es of stars, judged by the quality of light they yield. In the first class are the clear white and bluish while stars like Sirius and Vega. M These are supposed to be the hottest stars and the most luminous in proportion to the extent of their surface. I Then there are tiie golden yellow or ■ 1 1 pale orange stars, of which Arcturus I 1 and Capella are fine examples. These have begun to cool. Finally, | we have the deep orange and red stars । j like Aldebaran and Antares. These ; ' have advanced still further in the cool- I j I ing process. Now the spectroscope informs us ■ that our sun belongs to the orange or । I Arcturus type, and if we could view it. from distant space we should sec a ’ lovely star of a pale goldt n yellow. The question arises, then, how far would our sun have to be removed in ..order to shine with a brightness no , ’k,-K 1 ater than <T A,. to Mr. M mmlor it would t

/iavu be its .presentnee. <ir about Imlf the distanev between us and Alpha Centauri. But Aicturusis 11..500.000 limes as । far away as tin* sun, and if our sun were placed al that enormous distance its diameter would hate to be. eightv-two times as great in order to give a light equal to that received from Arcturus. 1 hesitate to present such figures, implying magnitudes far beyon I any to which we have been accustomed, yet they are but the logical deductions of observed facts. In other words, upon Mr. Maunder’s reasonable as-umptiou, Arcturus must be a gigantic sphere, 550.000 times larger than our sun, with a diameter of 70,000.000 miles, or more than large enough to fill the entire orbit of Mercury. To make this contract clearer let us institute a simph comparison. Jupiter is larger than ail the planets and sat- ; ellites of the solar system. The sun is a little more than 1.000 ! times larger than Jupiter; but Arcturns. if our information is correct, is 550,000 times larger Ilian the sun. By tiie side of such a majestic orb our sun, grand an i oxerwheiming as j । it is in our own system, would dwindle । to an insignificant star. Contemplating a xvorld so vast, endowod with such mighty energies, and j j rushing with such resistless force; through the great deeps of space, we. can not resist the questions: Whence | came this blazing world? Whither is it bound? What is its mission and destiny? Is it simply a visitor to our sidereal । galaxv, rushing furiously through it I ILL-,, „ nnnipt? Is it be ti r coustantix

a comeir is a uuiu^ . ’.i-iumv., ami enlarged by tl to pass through the nebulte or a . cluster? Was the new star whic . sir - <lenly blazed forth in the nebulte <>t Andromeda in 18<6 due to a siiuilai cause?” As this mighty aggregation of ? tractive energies sweeps along b celestial path, thickly bordered wi stellar worlds, how many of tin. worlds will yield forever to bis di turbing forces? I How many will be swerved from i their appointed courses bv his irresis:iI ble power? How many" will pinnge I into his hery bosom and be swallowed up as a pebble is swallowed up by the ocean?— Scientjic American.

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