St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 February 1892 — Page 4

Jn&cpcnfoent. WALKERTON, INDIANA. Feß. 18, 1892. W. A. ENDLEY, IJditor. From reading Hm Kosciusko County (Standard one jy.ould be led to think that it was ^lightly prohibition in sentiment. The fire department troubles at Mishawaka are ended, and everything is now lovely between the fire laddie® and city council. Edison has invented a sea telegraph ■so that electric signals may be transmitted without wires. What won’t the AVizard invent? There is but one Edison in the world. The AVariatah News “pointedly” observes: “AVe know some people who are like carpet tacks. They point heavenward when they are intent upon the greatest mischief.” Memphis, Tenn., was the scene of a destructive fire Monday night. One structure after another was a prey to the fierce flame,s, and all efforts to stop the fire were unavailing. The loss will * amount to about a million dollars according to present reports. Blaine steps aside and practically gives Harrison a clear field. Mr. Blaine in a letter to the Hon. J. S. Clarkson, chairman of the republican national committee, delcares earnestly that he is not candidate for the presidency. Mr. Thayer, who stuck to the gubernatorial chair of Nebraska like an adhesive plaster, has finally given up the struggle and turned the office over to Governor Boyd, the latter’s eligibility having been established by the decision of the United States supreme court. It is said that a colored man took an oath in a Kansas court the other day that he was 170 years old,. There is probably no truth in the report. It is evidently the production of some correspondent with a healthy, robust imaginatkm who writes for the metroThe Indianapolis Sentinel of Febu- 1 ary -U i y What city, the I'

■PBBMBWutna numerous jjublic impr. ments are to be credited to the energy And enterprise of this organization. ^A kerosene oil war is on at Walkerton, and the natives up there are getting illumination at fiye cents a gallon.—Avilla News. We rise to inform the News that the term “natives” decsn’t apply in any respect whatever to the citizens of Walkerton. We are up with the times here, and don’t you forget it. With fine, large stores, elegant brick blocks, cement pavements, beautiful and pleasant homes, extensive flouring mill and pickle works, and various other industries, two railroads, a bank, two heavy grain dealers, excellent hotels, large lumber yard, two first-class livery stables, five churches, fine schools, several societies, an opera house with a seating capacity for five hundred people, and an intelligent, progressive, sociable class of citizens, Walkerton is no “cross-roads,” we would have you | understand, but one among the very j best towns in northern Indiana. A few years ago the “fiddle” was held in abhorrence by a great many •k people who thought such music sinful. They believed that instrument to be almost the very incarnation of evil -w-And its tones the voice of the devil. This aversion to the violin, however, ' has almost, if not quite, disappeared t and the sweet tones of that instrument ' now mingle with those of the choir and | J organ in many a church in the land. The onep much condemned theatre, 4 which a few years back was regarded as an awfully wicked institution, is - gradually emerging from the cloud of Stigma with which it was to a large extent unjustly surrounded, and a large per cent of the Christian people of to-day attend and are enthusiastic Q admirers of the stage. This, of course, Jias reference to the legitimate theatre. And to-day then* are other harmless w amusements- dancing, for instance condemned as sinful, which in a few years hence, probably, will be looked MHkupon wjth favoi by the very people who denounce them. 'Prue Christianity, | L*S^>rn of its superfluous isms, can in no aMMH^Ay cunfiift wi’h ih<- modefate par \\ V a1 ' d •< in i. , iWs Os the present day. z-

It is currently reported, says the ♦ Fa Porte Herald, that a case, showing 1 the worse than follv of the so-called ~ faith cure, has lately occurred in LaPorte countv. It is that of a voting i married man who became ill, but for whom no physician was called until he i was past help, his relatives believing y j that God would heal him in answer to < prayer.—Kosciusko County Standard. - j Another life sacrificed upon the altar of superstition. The authorities t 1 should take cognizance of such matters r and inflict the severest penalty pos- ■ j sible in cases of that kind. Such n state of things should not be allowed to go unnoticed in this enlightened i nineteenth century. , If every foreigner who comes to i America, was compelled to wait as ? long as the native born sons of America are made to wait before they are permitted to have a hand wielding the destinies of this country at the ballot > box, it would add to security, purity t and perpetuity of the government.—- ' Kosciusko County Standard. There is a great deal of good common sense in the above observation. 1 Foreigners carry things with too high 3 a hand in this country. A large per } cent of them, it may be said, are here ’' too short a time too become thoroughly 1 , Americanized in their ideas when they are allowed the full privileges of citzenship. They leave the old countries under whose despotic sway they have learned to be natural haters of governmental authority, and it requires years of education before they can learn to love and appreciate our free institutions. This, of course, applies to the gub-str-atum element of our foreign population, among whom the anarchist finds a fruitful field for the dissemination of his dangerous doctrines. SOCIETY AND DANCING. Rev. Pratt, the evangelist, who has been warming things up in South Bend, attacks the customs of society, and the dance in particular. He says: “Many a young man and young lady began in society and finished in the saloon and brothel.” Evidently the Rev. Pratt is an extremist. No doubt many a young man and woman in society have finished in the saloon and brothel, but more have come to that end who were never in society. Society itself is innocent, and it would seem that people who aro so weak as to allow itlo cause W^tnoral stamina to Refrain

the world would save Them from sin. Society does not injure such people, but they injure society. There is no doubt that the great majority of people who enjoy the privileges that the social world affords are elevated and ben sited by this communion of soul and intellect. The Rev. Pratt also says: “According to the statistics of the police courts of New York city, nine-tenths of the fallen women were brought to their shame through the dance,” If these women bad not been brought to their shame through the dance they probably would have come to ruin in-some other manner, as there arc always plenty of ways open for such people to come to shame in. But it is questionable whether the dance was the real cause of their downfall. A consuming desire for dress and riches is the source of mischief in the majority of such cases. The dance is a refined and beneficial form of amusement, and there are more things to be said in favor of than against it. The finest people in the world attend and find innocent pleasure in the attractions of the ball room. The dance is all right, but some people need their moral backbones braced up considerably. “On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.” An Old Time Relic. [South Hand Post.] Quite an interesting relic of the early days of South Bend is in the shape of ■. an account book used by Alexis Co- - ’ quillard in his dealings with the Ini dians nearly 60 years ago. The book • covers a period of almost three years, > the first entry being made October 23, I 1833, the last august 26, 1836. 5 Among the names entered are In--1 dian chiefs well known at the time by J men now living in the county. A few 1 of them must have been dressy for a J black silk handkerchief, tine hat and : calico shirts are entered as items, as , well as many articles of a plebeian • ’ nature. > I A few of the names are, Pitchiko, I Old Bull, Mignissawbait, Kitchikukito, ' the speaker, Old Owl, Lewis, the ! schoolmaster at the mission, and '' Miguishnash the eagle, pon Sale. Two good top buggies, one brand new; one fur lap robe and set of single harness. -Mii*. J. F- Enpujy,

— ——— .....—...1 e A dispatch from Garrett,’dated (Fob. " 9, says: ‘‘Miss Moua Morse, of this city, fatally shot herself through the r head yesterday afternoon about two r o’clock. Her little sister, who was 8 playing in an adjoining room, heard the * report of the revolver. She at onee 3 called a young man who boards with the family. He was asleep upstairs, but bad also been awakened by the re- ' port. When assistance arrived Miss Morse was found lying upon the floor writhing in agony, in front of a mirror. It is supposed, from the position in I which she was found, that she stood ; before the mirror, placed the revolver to her fore-head and shot herself. The

affair caused great excitement. Miss ' Morse was a highly cultivated young i lady. She moved in the very best of , • society and was respected by every- ■ I body. The cause of her rash act is shrouded in mystery. She appeared to be in her usual health and spirits, was always jolly and cheerful. TUe fuerHy are all prostrated with grief over the sad affair.” . LOJ4I. BRSEFS. Bill Brown’s saloon at Hamlet was burned down recently. Mother Gorseline, aged about 81, is

quite low with grippe and its attendant complications. If you want anything in the clothing line it will pay you to read Tom Wolfe’s new ad in this issue. John Baugher has sold his land in Marshall county, and contemplates moving his mill tofsome other point. John Fuller, of LaPorte, brother inlaw of S. A. Robbins, has moved to Walkerton and will make this place his home for the present. Protracted meetings "are in progress ■ at the U. B. church. Rev. Hunt, । brother-in-law of Rev. Mattox, is in I

charge, assisted, by, Rev. E. IT mmiuger. Silas George, ' administrator, will hold a publimsale’of the personal property of the late Otis "'Williams, at ten o’clock Thursday, Feb. 18. Sale will be held at the Williams farm near town. The Ligonier Leader says that the most persistent.opponents to adopting a city government for that place pay thc^kastotaxes. The Leader man met an individual tlmralbe other day who t the'] ■■■ > I iabi ’ ~ ■ ■ 0 n iO p; m .1 siderable attention at present from the press all over northern Indiana. Good roads'are'of vital importance to the welfare of every town and farming community, and the question is one that may be discussed with profit by the press, the townsman and the farmer.

row® i uIL is Ibis biT/ rr op £ • ’ b ’U? ■® o 131 w Used in Millions of Homes—-40 fears the Stands —__ . _ •« . ■ - 'V,- \ _ I O .j Hr BYHdffH ^=9s^ I E ARETIiE i i yj s —/ | feL -h ... ~i 1■" ■ V. AFTER ONE BEFORE THEY ARE ALE SOLD. Two or three dollars for a%. Horse Blanket will save double its cost. Your horse will eat less to keep warm and be worth fifty dollars more. Call and see my large stock of Horse Collars, Sweat Pads and harness. No. 1 sweat pads at 60 ct§,, formerly 65 and 75 cents. Also I bargains in robes. Yours resp’y, F. ffi. AKE.

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T general banking business; , aMls exchange, makes collec- , ™- in pM» •* •7*’’ J A honnt» ot individuals .»* colons solicited. Restate and Insurance. Late bought and soldon d. insure your property m th o] Lle Springfield Insurance U HILSON, agent, writes 1 . „ iejre, thereby avojdm D gog P olic >’- _____ - !

'ordinance L 1 BE IT ORDAINED by 5 £ eS o f theW W nofW«W^. t - ■ ot Joseph, State of ,Ud, and established, by- „ s de t E lh ere shall be built..l , c Avenue K and extending along ofevenlh street to the east in , , f>t . and unship Thirty-Mve (35 . R J tbc , Xce south, on the west side of the ; , upon not than damages, be cliar^jd t respective I. such default, .n;d cellede.l a- --If Tjebts~ collected. SECTIONf3 This'ordit nee .1 • . i n f . 8 from and after its pass.:,,-? and legal p; '. ’ .iti . : । all ordinances conlln.ting wni. tins oidii hereby repealed. - Passed and approved tl :- v ' i r tßs?. U. E. Wil l l,\M. P , Attest: Geo. H. I.KsLh-. Clerk. 3 - Don’t suffer from dyspi ys a. Tak - Simmons Liver Regulator. 1: ah.,; cures. 111 LIL I t rrTrwr-r- 1-.. g-”

An exchange truthfully remarks: If | t doctor makes a mistake, he buries it;. i ls a merchant makes a mistake he never tells it; if a lawyer makes a mistake | he crawls out of it; if an editor makes a mistake he puts it upon a large sheet of paper for the world to look at, and in every community there are cranks who think they are the models of wrs- ! dom because they occasionally discover i tbc m and for a week keep their jaws

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/ l c < (j/ iit LULLO (J (J i Candee Bobber Boots 9.56 .Ven's Bootssize 6 to 10 1.00 Men's buckle Mreties gy Mrblldde and Lion coffee 20 । a ct s too awfully bad that .Noah didn't commence .!..s o.'.smcss sooner. He could have saved the people lots of hard earned money. Just try him. Why, the nearer J ci. op, store the oigger your dollars get. ^c is going to move before long. It will pay you to keep \ track cf him. SIGN OF THE RED FLAG. ■ DO YOU KNOW? That the Place to Buy Dry Goods, NOTIONS, GROCERIES, BOOTS #SHOES IS AT BRUBAKER & HUDELMYER’S. PRICES AT A LIVING PROFIT AND GOODS ALWAYS AS REPRESENTED. Experience has shown us that there is only profit in trade when customers are pleased. We take a personal pleasure •.n e.n Ocxmess, and aerivc a profit therefrom, but we also take a real pleasure in suiting our customers and thereby lo.u, ibufing to c..e:: profit. We pay spot cash for our goods on which zee get a discount and share the benefit with ou/ customers. Yours to please, Brubaker & Hudelmyer.

Sale bills and horse bills printed water-proof paper jit thisjdhce. I sutured ^^biliousness, indige«« tion, etc. Simmons L ^ er ^AY 'I) cured after doctors faded. Bird. _ A PBOMINENT G. A. R- MAN W Says since I came ord onh^Ann.^ 1 had been trouukj w derive d more • Liver Complaint. I^ er fronl 1 benefit from Sw»mp-Ro°t than ' u other medicines combined, and at l all other nn u an> '! rW „t a mleeW I qw. Spencer, I

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