St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 May 1893 — Page 4

JJlje Jnbepen^tnt. WALKERTON. INDIANA, MAY 27, 1893, W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. A subscriber recently stopped the New Albany Tribune because he had trouble with one of the advertisers in that paper. The Chicago News-Record no doubt comes close to the truth when it says that bank failurers are more attributable to the lack of confidence on the part of people who deposit money, than by the mismanagement of bankers, or words to that effect. Said a philosopher the other day, “Did you ever notice that while it is necessary to ring church bells to bring people together to worship and blow whiles to get workmen to the shops at regular hours, every one gets to an opera house in time to see the curtain go up on the first, act.” Human nature seems to make it hard for people engaged in the same industry to be friends.—Wanatah News. That observation applies more especially to a certain kind of human nature. There are men who are broad enough to comprehend the fact that they are not the center of the universe and that other people have a right to live and thrive as well as themselves. An eastern editor says a man in New j York got himself in trouble by marry- | ing two wives. A western editor re , plied that a good many have done the j same thing by marrying one. A northern editor says that, quite a number of his acquantances found trouble through barely promising to marry ami didn’t go any farther. A southern editor says that a friend of his was bothered enough when he was simply found in company with another man's wife. James Gordon Bennett on account of debts has been compelled to transfer his paper, the New York Herald, into the bands of a stock company. This is the first time since it was founded, about 50 years ago, by the senior Bennet, that the name of James Gordon Bennent has not appeared at the head of the editorial column of that paper. Ty,«.v i-. t ■■■ •- • What makes one town grow into a city ■while others with equally as good location remain villages? An exchange puts lots of truth in its an swer to the above question when it says: “It is because in one case there are men of push and energy who are I not afraid to spend their time and money to boom their town. They erect substantial buildings, organize stock companies and establish factories, secure railroads, work for public improvements and use every means in their power to induce people to locate in their city. Wherever they go they tell of the advantages of their city, they write about them in every letter, they send circulars and newspapers to every acquaintance whom they think can be induced to visit the city, and when any one visits them, show' him all the attractions and treat him so kindly that he falls in love with them and their city at once.” The brief of the whole matter is that in a growing town, enterprising men are in Hie lead, while in the dead town dead heads hold the balance of power.” The following from a contemporary is well worth careful perusal and thought. Let these truthful words and noble sentiment impress a lasting lesson upon your heart: “Jt i S when they die, and to write long I •proving them saints uncanonized. It is a good thing to pause—we who must all die some day —for a moment, to do honor to the dust and ashes that were yesterday a man. .But while we do this can we ' not also give a little kindness to the I hving? (Jan we not be generous and just and forgiving to those who still have ears to hear and hearts to throb with pain and anxiety? How man; hearts might, have been saved from breaking by a perusal of their obituary ' notice; how many might have been - comforted by an anti-mortem perusal I of the verses on their tombstones! It is after he is dead that we say so of I the man, “He was brave and good;” of 1 the woman, “She was pure and pretty.” : The abuse, the sneer, the malicious j Whisper, the coarse carieat are - these i are for living, breathing, bleeding hu ; man bosoms. Any amount of tombstone praise and funeral pageants that you like, but would it harm us to be a little kinder to the living?”

There are about 800 prisoners in the Northern prison. 'The cost of feeding each per day is 11 cents. Now that the United States government has decided that “the- Chinese must go,” it is more than likely that the Chinese will adopt a policy of retaliation. And who can blame them if they do? A person who finds money or other valuables is amenable to the law if he appropriates the lost property to his own use without first making a reasonable effort to find the owner. As an illustration, David Yoder found a sum of money last winter in Ligonier belonging to Albert Blake. He appropriated the amount to his own use, was detected, arrested and sentenced to three months in jail for the offense. The Knights of Pythias of Cincinnati are having some trouble. The following dispatch explains itself: “The Knights of Pythias of this are stirred up over thu—prominent member in revealing the secrets of the order. Through carelessness he left the secret ritual in a street, car, where it was found and read by many. A person not a member of the order was seen by a knight copying certain things from the book and trouble ensued.” The cholera epidemic is spreading rapidly in Russia and is prevalent in some parts of northern France. Even with our rigid quarantine service on the Atlantic coast, this country is in imminent, danger from the scourge ■ and it will only be by the rarest good fortune that we escape it during the present summer. As cholera is a disi ease that thrives on dirt, the Importance of cleanliness as a safeguard against it will readily be seen. An exchange suggests that our roads be narrower and made better. The width of our roadways is ridiculous. It wastes land and the very width of the road—though the whole width is j never improved actually has the effect. to prevent permanent improvement. If anybody dots not believe i that, let him secure the narrowing of the road, and see how much easier it will seem to improve it, and the easier to accomplish a thing seems, usually the sooner it is done. A meeting was held by an assembly of Christian nt I Christian centennial at Jerusalem in 'I9OO. All Christian sects willbesolic ited to take part in the promotion of the project, A great convention of this kind held in the >aered City would no doubt be of vast benefit to the church and go a long ways toward bringing in to closer and more friendly relationship the multifarious Christian denominanations of the world. An exchange says that the idea of opening a window from the top is an exploded one. The carbonic acid of the breath must be carried away from some point below the pillow of the sleeper. Those who stand will not see the effect of impure atmosphere as soon as they who sit or recline, because carbonic acid is heavier than air and fills the room from the tloor up. Windows should be opened at the bottom, and windows should be built as near the door as possible—at least below the level of beds or couches in the room which has not a stove fire burning constantly to draw' away impurites by its force. When we see an individual walking along the street, suddenly stop, and hurriedly stoop and pick up something of value (however small the value may be) and as hurriedly thrust it into his pocket, and then move away as fast as possible, we cannot help but wonder if it is the instinct of a thief look about him to discover, if possible, the rightful owner of the lost nronertv —Albion New Era. A man of the above stripe is practically a thief, because he is willing to appropriate property belonging to oth- | ers to his own use. All that prevents him from being a thief out and out is his fear of detection and the law. Here, is something from the Warsaw Republican that is the experience, undoubtedly, of every newspaper man: “I ery often we arc requested to say ‘ something about this or that thing i that needs reformation. Quite often! ■ urged to call attention 'to the violations of the fish law of the State,' and we sometimes wonder if the indi-1 vidual who has made the request takes I she time or trouble to defend the । editor when he hears violators of the 1 ; law call him “a d—d meddlesome busybody, who could employ himself better by attending to his own business.” We have never heard of such a defense, though we often hear of the curses we get behind our backs.”

SPIRIT OF OUR EXCRANgF^ Demorest’s Family Uagazin^l P» tains a group of nineteen Leaders of Indiana.” Those t?^ are devilish rich when you com« ? sift them down.—Goshen Demod V. [ciety Carlyle Harris, the last mannings trocuted” in New York, not onhfe to claimed his innocence with his pt. breath, but he left a written stat|„ in which he said: “Face to faa ’jY the greatest mystery known toj d R _ knowing that no concealment ? truth can mitigate my end, I A v - (h emnly declare that I am innoif ' ‘ the crime for which I am condL un ’ to die.” The people who be^ go j capital punishment are quite w o f to all the satisfaction they can^ emned of this event. Yet some peoplej eve j n the sentiment in favor ofhhar e growing. They do this in ou a fact that one branch of the N4?tell ns legislature recently voted j g ly to repeal the capital /pun rPf law, and the same is true ‘with’ ®f O rk Indiana legislature,—L-lT o'^ 0 '^ nnous- _..... ' Ice cream social at ] a t e I hnnw .Ma»niPgt <krgns ! 15 cents. *«*.>■< :|uo pc:

" 11 1? —■■ JEWEhM. w We will never cense hA ling to win custom, throl , 1 open, honest and industri<| s efforts to meet your ev& want and continue to g e rock bottom prices, at 1 times and in all cases. . . ■ f < ■ IDA A. HUTCI^GS. rq

I "'- ~ WE 1111 *rc *W' SPECIAL SALE! f> FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS '\ JCe propose to Cut Prices in two on everything. Though we are JMEi||fe hut out year old in the busi- 7 ness our sales have far exceeded our expectations. y/ Still they increase. T OUR SPOT CASH f BUYING pJlf I Wl 1 ?; A ' v t 1 *SS da ing^ ’ri Kit - H enables us to male you lower prices than our Cd^ipetitors. W^|f I BEAR IN MIND, JjJ ®f On our purchases uns Spring we got a I‘ai^er Discount than ever before, the benefit of which we give to you. ^gHOW OUR OOWETb n TORS HOWL! K ^ aK t touch us on Prices. Cal’ and see. KOONTZ, SWANK & CO. SIGRi OF TRIE GLOItE. Always the Cheapest. MAY 27, 1893.

INDIANA SOCIAL STARS. Indiana has reason to bo proud of its beautiful and accomplished women; no state in the union has greater warrant for such pride. All citizens of Indiana, therefore, should feel special interest in “Society Leaders of Indiana,” published in Demorest’s Family Magazine for June, which includes superb portraits and authentic biographical sketches of the best known and most accomplished and beautiful women throughout the state. These representative portraits are from photographs collected especially for this purpose, and each picture is a superb specimen of the highest style of modern reproductive art. The article is a graceful tribute to the mother, wives, and daughters of Indiana; and this gallery of the state’s beauties and celebrities is one which every Indianian should possess and preserve, especially ■ when the collection (that would cost, even if procurable, at, least $5 00 in ■ any other way) can be got for only 20 cents, together with many other fine i attractions with which this number of 1 “Demorest’s” is crowded- Published Id’. T ^"” 15 East

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