St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 May 1893 — Page 4

Qlljc Jntwpcnbcnt. WALKERTON, INDIANA, MAY 6, 1893. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. A tax is imposed upon every voter! in Kansas City who neglects to vote. Kendallville presented the flag that । waves over the Indiana building at the world's fair. At the present writing it seems probable that the world's fair will be open on Sundays. More legislation is enacted in bell ilf of agriculture than any other one branch of industry. The. railway trains run faster and occn^^'Emrland than The new votin^Sa^me was tried in the recent New York town elections with satisfaction. It is said to be ac- . curate and speedy. Erastus AV Iman, the New York millionaire philanthropist, has made an assignment. This failure is the cause of great surprise in financial circles. There are three states in the Union in which the colored population exceeds that of the whites. They are South Carolina, Mississippi and Louis- * iana.

Prof. Clarence King, a well known American geologist, calculates from a scientific basis that the age of the earth does not exceed twenty-four millions of years. A Kansas bridegroom killed two men who were in a gang of tin pan serenaders. Grown people who haven't any more sense than to engage in such performances ought to be killed. ‘Tis better to be brief than tedious. —Shakespeare. If some people could only get that pounded through their thick skulls how much happier the world would be. Youfig girls are being enticed to Chicago by the hundreds lor immoral purposes. The sharks induce them to . hr advertising for girls to do mosphere over the removal of the railroad shops from that place to Ashley, the new town on the Wabash extension. The 13. & O. railroad has won the condemnation suit against the Illinois Central and will now have an entrance to the world's fair grounds. The Illinois Central has heretofore had a monopoly of the right of way. Hagenbach, of Hamburg, Germany, has opened his great menagerie at the world's fair. This is one of the largest shows of the kind in the world and consists of 1,000 trained animals which perform in a caged arena. The building is an amphitheater with a seating capacity for 10,000 people.

True economy and a cowardly business policy are widely different. In the former benefits are considered as well as expense, while in the latter nothing can be seen but the expense. A parsimonious policy has been the cause of the retrogression of many a town and business man. A soap wagon was decorated to carry the Liberty bell in the parade at Chicago last Saturday. The decora.the an advertisement telling the people along the line of march what kind of soap to use. Among the historical Washington papers is a contract entered into between the father of His Country and the foreman of his farm. There is a clause in it which provides that the foreman may get drunk a certain number of times each year without suffering the displeasure of his ! employer.—Macy Monitor. Gossip is the business of the feeble- j minded, and it enfeebles any mind it : captivates. It takes root in misdirected ! and unhealthy minds concerned with: trivial aspects or our neighbors’ lives. Its characteristic arts are in the nature of an invasion of the domain of privacy. It develops into an endless struggle to know what goes on behind the closed blinds of other people’s houses, and it becomes scandalous j mainly through a habit of making large and unwarranted inferences from facts. People who have abundant oc- ; cupation are not apt to troub’e them- j selves about the privacy of others. Ex,

Fort Wayne is agitating the matter of raising her saloon license from SSO to $250, the legal limit.

An eminent medical authority maintains that lagrippe is communicable from one person to another. Any kind of a meal in the restaurants on the world’s fair grounds costs sl, and there is said to be little of it and poorly cooked at that price. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, has just passed bis 83d birthday. He is, we believe, the oldest member in point of service of the United States senate. An exchange says that “some one has figured out that in a series of years an average sugar bush will earn 10 per cent net on land valued at SIOO per acre.”

■‘"“TUerepublican state editorial association has accepted an invitation to attend the world’s press congress which convenes in Chicago Maj’ 22, and will attend in a body. Charges of “offensive partisanship” have been filed by Congressman Conn | against four postmasters in this district. They will no doubt soon take a shoot down the political toboggan. Hon. O. M. Packard, of Plymouth, has received the appointment of national bank examiner of Indiana. He is well qualified for the position. The salary is $3,000 a year. A Washington correspondent predicts that Frank Beane, son of Billy Beane, editor of the Goshen Democrat, will be sent to Washington as senator from Idaho some time in the future. ______ Since the Maxwell incident Congressman Conn,according to a dispatch, says that he will not now ask his constituents to hold elections and chocse postmasters, but that he will name them himself.

The old Liberty bell, which was hung in the belfry of the state house at Philadelphia in 1753, bore the following inscription from the book of Leviticus, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” Those words were cast in the bell before the independence of ■■■■■■■■■■■EMM William Burbank, a crazed believer in the Carterite doctrine which has gained a strong foot-hold near Coloma, : Berrein county, abused his children I and so neglected them that the anti- । Carterites took William out into the j stilly night recently and after giving him a ride on a rail deposited a coat of tar and feathers on William’s hide where they thought it would do the most good. The authorities have , done nothing in the matter.—Elkhart ■ Truth. Edward Eggleston, a noted literary man who was formerly a resident of ': Indiana, in writing to a friend in this state, gives the following wholesome advice in regard to the education of pupils: “If any word of mine can have weight with your pupils let me give this advice: Read mainly the best books. Good general reading goes for more in education than even school studies. If your teachers can wean their pupils from reading merely' for excitement and make them love the best books, they will render the highest possible service. And any boy or girl in Salem who learns to put , away trashy and sensational reading, I and to make the xn&tfiLAlltel, the May Weather. Indications are that May Avill open with cool, fair weather in most parts, with frost in northern directions. A warm wave will pass eastward across ILe country, giving rise to reactionary storms, central on and next to the 3d. After a few days of cooler, clear weather, about the 7th it will grow warmer in the west, and during the Bth to 11th the warmth will increase as it advances eastward over the continent, resulting in many storms about the Bth, 9th and 10th. There is a marked tendency to frost, as a rule, from about the 10th to 15th of May, especially when storms occur on or just preceding those dates. But the indications for this month are that, the frost period will reach its crisis at the close of reactionary storms central about the 15th. From the 18th to 22d falls a marked j storm period. A very warm wave will | pass over the entire country during the ' period and dangerous storms are 1 liable to result. About the 25th to 26th there will be anothoi rise in the temperature, resulting in reactionary storms. The last day of May is the center of a regular storm period which runs into the opening days of June. ;

SPIRIT OF OUR EXCHANGES. Two philanthropic newspaper men who are office-seekers have started to walk from Washington to New Orleans, not because they had to, Imt merely to encourage those office-seek-ers who have no other prospect of getting away from the National Capital. —Nappanee News. Health authorities everywhere should reflect that it may' be too late to clean up after the cholera finds a fonthold. It may appear without heralding. The people depend on the local boards of health. They cannot shift the responsibilities. If officials or citizens refuse to carry out the instructions of the board, they have the law and public epinion at their back to enforce their orders. If an epidemic of any filthy disease should overtake any Indiana city, the people will put tlie blame where it belongs, on the local boards of health.—Evansville Journal. Reporters are often asked why they do not write up the bums, the question is accompanied by^f gestion that it would make f item. The motive of the is kindly enough so far as t™Bp°rters are concerned and it origin;iMp»hi an appreciation of the fruitfulln^. of the subject in the hands of a graphic writer, but the suggestion is never made by one who lias a bum in the family, and the fact that that sugestion is not acted upon indicates that the reporters have more consideration than the one who makes it. The opportunity is not ignored out of regard for the bums, for it matters little to them what the newspapers do or do not say about them, but in consideration for the feelings of those who suffer for the faults of others. What could it profit a reporter to dip his pen in bleeding hearts that the thoughtless and unfeeling might laugh in derision?—South Bend Sunday News. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Joseph county. State of Indiana, Administrator of the Estate of Samuel Klinganian late of St. Joseph County, deceased. Said Estate is supposed to be solvent. BENJAMIN F. RINEHART, May 3, 1893. Administrator.

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HEAR THEM HOWL! OUR NEW SPRING GOODS Catches them and they don’t seem to like it. The so called Barkers and “Small Dealers’’ are coming to the front at a rapid pace tripling their sales at this early part of the season over the corresponding time of one year ago. MERIT ALWAYS WINS. • CAUTION: Don’t be deceived by the “small dealer” scare, for in buying we purchase to the interest of customers every time as they would have us. Quantity cuts no figure whatever with us when there is anything in it in favor of customers. REMEMBER: We have no accumulation of old goods, inferior stock to work off, but all new goods at prices that you have been paving for inferior stock. BEAR JN MIND WE UNDERSELL: U ’■. T-X At the same price we give you a better quality. The same quality we make you at a lower pijce. WE HAVE A HARVEST IN STORE FOR YOU. We refer to our “spot” cash purchases this Spring. Call and see. KOONTZ, SMK & CO. Our Merchant Tailoring is now booming. Are you in it? Fit guaranteed. SIGS OF THE GLOBE.

A CHANCE FOR SOMEBODY[Westville Indicator.] There is a shortage on eligibility in Berrien county, Michigan. A genuine wife famine is parching the fount of love, and A. Valhoon is athirst. He has already partaken of the new strong wine of love, has Valhoon, and this is his plea for recognition : “Benton Harbor, April 15. Mr. Editor. Dear Sir: —Can you to say where I can Reta good wife? I keap the farm and a woman must be wish to work very good and not old like our neighbors and pretend young. My wish for about 24 years. * The other woman was of great temper and uneasy to guide and went to St. Joe to much. 1 got some divorce last year tint she run off of the fellow that throwed ropes on the Ferry boat. The children is only one that goes to school about 14 years old and cuts all the wood except coal for the heat stove. If she is good looking and to cook much would marry some poor, other would be pleased she had circnmstanct s li! e I hold about 3 thousand dollars and a house and lot in St. Joe. Please direct me to know and I will send the ticket that she can come and marry when suited—ls don’t suited to marry she must pay the ticket back — One woman is here but she is soon 60 and not any money—Please to put in the paper and more will discover me. Yours servant A. Valhoon Bx 23G St. Joe is close here about 1 mile.”

JEWELRY. We will never cease hustling to win custom, through open, honest and industrious efforts to meet your every want and continue to give rock bottom prices, at all times and in all cases. IDA A. HUTCHINGS.

WE WANT YOU to call and see us when you want anything in the line of FRESH, SALT OR SMOKED I MEATS,! as we can please you. We deal in strictly first class meats. We pay highest, cash prices for Live Stock, Hides, Pelts, Tallow, etc. We also handle the celebrated RETSOF LUMP SALT for stock. It is far superior to the common barrel salt. BEALL & McCARTY. SAY!

If you want to enjoy the Full pur* chasing power of your Dollar TEABE AT NOAH RENSBERGER’S, DEALER IN

Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Glass and Queensware, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Cloaks, Carpet,Curtains,&c. i All departments are freshly stocked for the Spiing Trade with the. most ! and learn juices. ' — WE “ do not profess to give away goods, nor do we promise to throw in a town lot or small farm with every bill of goods we sell, but we MEAN to treat every one fairly and give them the full worth of their money every time. We guarantee to please our customers. This is BUSINESS. Come and see us. We can suit you in prices and quality in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes and Wall Paper. We always pay the highest market prices for country produce. , HUDELMYER & HENRY, THE “OLD RELIABLE. To be convinced that CHAS. M. STEPHENS has one of the finest and best selected stocks of ^FANCY GROCERIES*ever in Walkerton just call and fake a look at his stock. Uis goods are new and fresh and bis prices I w as the 1 >west. Remember I pay the highest prices the market affords for country produce. Cali an^pt a Pound Pail of rLat Excellent Colored Japan Teu Pail and all 40 cents. ' M STEPHENS. WOODWORTH BUILDING.

BbgSIESI WAGONS! HAKUEgg! I have opened business in my building opposite the Postoffice, and carry a good stock of BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS, and respectfully ask a share of the public’s patronage. I have in my employ two experienced Harnessmakers, who repair aud manufacture harness with skill. Huggies and Carriages Retrim med. N. B. SHOEMAKER.