St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 August 1893 — Page 4

Cljc ^ndcpciii)cnt. Walkerton. Indiana, aig. is, m, W. A. END LIS X, Edi tor. It is pleasant to do business with a man who doesn't whine when he pays his debts. Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.—F. W. Kob pRTSON. Indiana Day at the world's fair, which was proclaimed by Gov. Mathews for Aug. 22, has been indefinitely postponed. —————— The South Bend Wagon Co., has turned its affairs over to a receiver. The liabilities are reported to be ^GO,OOO and the assets §125,000. Offenders when arrested should be pompelled to give their proper names under penalty of additional tine or imprisonment. This “Richard Roe” and ! “John Doe” business is getting old. The Daily Tinies published at Warsaw is said to contain but two or three local advertisements. That fact is not at. all complimentary to the enterprise or sagacity of Warsaw’s business men. The postoflice at North Liberty Changed hands on Wednesday, the old incumbent, Mr. Gullar, stepping down and out and Edward Gushwa, the new postmaster, assuming the duties of the cilice. Gov. Boies,- of lowa, emphatically declines to be a candidate for renomination for governor. He declares that he is going out of politics. This is the first real intimation that we have noticed of the governor’s desire to run for the presidency. The report that 200 national banks of the United States had closed their doors since January first is untrue. There were but eighty-live, and of this number twelve have already resumed.* A large number of the others are still in the hands of bank examiners, and many of them will soon be in a condition to re-open. The Conrad brothers affair will no doubt have more effect in wiping out white cappism and lynching bees in southern Indiana than any authorative power that could be wielded for the suppression of these evils. The Conrads are tough citizens, but they have proven themselves benefactors to the state iu this one instance, at least. The Cincinnati Enquirer estimates that §200,000,000 could be collected yearly from the millionaires by a tax upon their incomes without their feeling it. Such a tax would be no hardship upon the wealth of the country. An income tax is the thing. This comparatively new idea of taxation seems to be growing in popularity with the people of this country, and it will be crystalized into a law some day, as sure as you are born. General Lew Wallace, who says he was a truant at school and was expeMed from college, explains that , where he laid the foundation for his ( culture was his father’s library, and j that the book having the greatest in- , fluence upon him was “Plutarch's , Lives.” Gen. Wallace's example, how- , ever, is no criterion for most boys to follow. Truancy from school will prove a bad thing for ninety-nine out pf a hundred boys. There are but few Lew Wallaces in the world. It is well to be thoroughly versed in the best books and to give them care- j ful study and thought, but too much j delving into classic lore to the neglect of current affairs perhaps is not a good plan for anyone to pursue. We must read the newspapers along with the ( higher class of literature to gain broad and intelligent views of the world. Current literature is of benefit to any man, no matter how highly educated i he may be, and is a constant review and aid to the memory of the student and thinker. In regard to the executive’s health the New York Press says: “A summer neighbor of the president’s at Buzzard’s Bay says that Mr. Cleve-1 land's habit of making nearly every I political appointment himself has dor e more than anything else to wear him out. Often, after an all day fishing trip, lie spends half the night in reading and answering the immense correspondence which his assumption of the work, usually left to cabinet officers, impose on him. Then the financial troubles have worried him, although he has done nothing about them beyond writing the special message to congress/’

An experienced writer truthfully i says: “To write a column is a matter j of time, but to edit it down into a ! sentence is something more.” 'Two deaths from yellow fever occurred at Pensacola, Florida, last week. 'This is said to be the first reappearance of the disease in Florida since the epidemic of 1888. "■ i ,„,j Judging from the tone of the South Bend Times’ comments on the president’s message, that paper thinks that Mr. Cleveland should have done a little more prescribing along with the diagnosing. Few men are more to be shunned than those who have time, but know not how to improve it, and so spend it in wasting the time of their neighbors, talking forever, though they have nothing to say.— Tryon Edwards. The Findlay Courier asks: How often is justice lost sight of in enforcing the strict letter of the law. Martin Manski was a poor man working in a j pork packing establishment in Chicago. One day while at work a pickled pig's foot full on the floor, and as Martin was hungry he picked it up and ate it. For this he was arrested and although the value of the piece of pickled pig's foot was only 1} cents, Manski was sent to prison for 3 months. When he was released he found that his wife had lost her reason through want, and that his three children were gone—no one knew where. Another case is reported from Cleveland, where a man was arrested for stealing four potatoes from a railroad car to furnish food for bis starving wife and children. It was shown that the man had tried to obtain work before he committed the theft, but he was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse. Yet some rascally politician who steals (or embezzles) thousands goes scot free and is often shielded bi those high in authority. When one learns the particulars of an atrocious murder he feels that he would take grim pleasure in seeing tin murderer strung up or burned at the stake with but little ceremony. That is quite a natural way to feel. It is a savage impulse, however, that springs from the barbarous side of our nature and is fathered by neither reason noi the finer senses of our being. Crime must be punished, and there is m good citizen (opponents of capital punishment included) but what desires to see every criminal brought be fore the bar of justice and made to pay a severe penalty for his offense, but that the law has the right to take human life, even in the name of jus tice, in meting out punishment to a certain class of criminals, is denied b\ a large j n portion of the people. And these people are pot “theorists," “dreamers" and “sentimentalists," as is charged by a certain class of news papers, but practical, reasoning and justice-loving citizens, who believt that capital punishment is barbarous, inhuman and degrading, and has m rightful j lace in the laws of this en lightened age. Murder is the onlv crime for which a like punishment is inflicted upon the criminal. Yet there would be just as much reason in j the law demanding that the property of a man convicted of incendiarism bt burned as a penalty for his offense or that a horse thief’s horse be stolen to expiate his crime. The opponents ol capital punishment take the position they do, not from any sentiment or sympathy for criminals, but because they believe that it is unnatural and contrary to the laws of God that anr human life should be taken except by the Creator who gave it. Capital punishment is founded neither upon reason nor sound justice and will eventually fall before the march of an advanced civilization and become a hideous thing of the past. CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO THE WORLD’S FAIR On August the 22nd the Baltimore &. Ohl., P 11 will s<-U OKCiirMon ticket to Chicago at rate of one fare for the round trip good going on all trains. Tickets will be good returning to and including August 30th. For further information call on or address am B. & O. ticket agent or L. A. Alien, Ass't. Gen. passenger agent, Chicago. On August 22nd the Baltimore A Ohio R. R. will sell round trip tickets . to Chicago at rate of one fare for tin round trip. Tickets will be good going only on excursion trains leaving Walkerton at 4:47 and 5:50 a. m., and will be good returning on all regular trains to and including August 31st. Passengers will be carried direct to the world’s fair grounds if desired. Rolly, who drives the wholesale butcher’s wagon at Chesterton, Ind., for T. T. & J. E. Maroney, was serious- : ly injured in the back by his team I running away. Two bottles of Scotch ! Liniment put him on his feet.

Grand Excursions to Plymouth, Ind., AUGUST 30TH, TO SEE RINGLING BROTHERS’ Ms Mssl Slim Now Beyond all Comparison the Largest and Grandest Exhibition on Earth! REAL ROMAN HIPPODROME, 3 Ling Circus, Elevated Stages, Millionaire Menagerie, Royal Aquarium, Mammoth Museum of 'Marvels and Trained Ahimal Exposition. Spectacular Equine Carnival 100—Fine Bred Imported Horses—loo In a Grand Ballet Militant, emn» mR t... Colossal Living Pyramid* ’j 1 11” 1 riotureaqne Tableaux Vivauts. ^Prniii and Equine Congress! SI HASSAN BEN AM’6 TROUPE OF ARABS. Largest Living Giraffe; ft* The Procession leaves the show gronnds promptly at 10 o’clock on the mem t ng of the exhibition. Ten kinds of music. Scores of sun bright chariots. Hundreds of gaily caparisoued.ljmse*. No postponement on account of weather. This stupendous aggregation will positively exhibit in PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. I’wo Complete Performances Daily—afternoon at Iwo; night at eight. Doors open one hour earlier. j OMI 50 CT. TICKET Cdnillts to Ail The COMBINED MIOUS. Children nndrr twelve years, half price. •^TSperlßl Excursion Batea on alt Rallroadx. SLAUGHTER .... ...» CLOTHING, GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, BOOTS AN 1 (SHOES. Conimcncing SATURDAY, AUGUST Sth, ’93, Ending SATURDAY. AUGUST 26th MAKE MONEY Bl TAKING ADV ANTAGE OF IT. We offer no odds and ends, old carried over stock, instead we have all new goods, Honest \alles at Half Price. Boys’ Suits, 65 cts and up ~ Knee Pants, Io cts and up Men’s Pants, 50 cts and up “ Overalls, 36 cts and up “ Suita,..-’...... $2 and up Men’s Suits $5 wortbiiiu never sold before for less Ilian ?8. Men’ Suits, l ine B wk Worsted, Fast Color, SB, worth Sl6. Never sold before for less than sl2. Men’s shoes, sl, former price, $2. Children’s shoes to close, 39 cts and up. Nicu’s M’ool Hats, 18 cts and up. Women’s Fine Shoes to close, 90 cts and up. We except nothing. Space will not permit us to prise more goods. Bear in mind we will not GIVE GOODS AWAY longer than above date. C.'ILL AND SEE BEFORE YOU BUY. KOONTZ, mi & CO.I i SMSN OF THE GLOBE.

w JLxcui'sion ror On^count of the Chautauqua Sumbe beM A aUd ChaUta »<l^ Meetings, more & ISt tO 23d ’ the Baltisell UO Company will ’ sell round-trip tickets from Juh 25th 1 ak.u"T 2 M’ hlChlsive ’ t 0 fountain 1 * lrk > Md. and return, at a rate YiiVb. P”'"''’"'" 11 ''!’' . >; 8 r u ' e retu ™ August 31st, 1893, inclusive. healt h producersDe \S itt s Little Early Risers cure m a l lanous disorders and regulate the stomach and bowels, which prevents headache and dizziness. Bellinger and \\ ilhanis. OIL LINKENHELT’S COUGH COMPOUND. Treats direct the parts afflicted in al] respiratory troubles of horses and cattle, such as catarrhal distemper, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis and epizootic. Prevents heaves and all malignant forms of dyspepsia, spreading of inflammation and allays irritation. It is perfectly safe to administer at any time. 50 doses in a box. The cheapest treatment you can get, It is a pleasure to me to be abla to give to the public the remedy spoken of. I reeom-I mend Kud Kunrentee It in emesa o r reapiewtory 1 trouble. Keep it in your barn at all limes—it will save yon many dollars. For sale by all druggists In Walkerton. DR. LINKENHELT, Plymouth, Ind.

Noah Rensberger, =T ^DEALER IN— ~ DRY GOODS I II eI.VE ^GROCERIESj®' BOOTS,=SHOES,=-NOTIONS,=ETC. I : I " L-ULX-U"— A —-—a-—--—-—-—-----—------IT wilßUay yout~ To take time to look over my Large and well selected Stock of FRESH GROCERIES! and then make your purchases of me. as 1 have the best variety in the grocery line in Walkenon. ’ CHAS. M. STEPHEKS. _ 1 j - - — “ ---- -- DKY GOODS, OROCERTLS, BOOTS. SHOES. NOTIONS. WAI L PAPER AT HUDELMYER & HENRY’S. S S " 5 i 1 « 7 ’ Goods Always as Represented and Prices that will Suit You. fe b s h Hidiost Market Prices Paid tor Country Produce. Trade with us and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Ku Jehtther Henry*

WE WANT YOU to call and see us when you want anything in the line of FRESH, SALT OR SMOKED meats: as we can please you. NVe deal in strictly first class meats. We pay highest cash prices for Livestock, Hides, Pelts, Tallow, etc. We also handle the celebrated RETSOF LUMP SALT for stock. Tt is far siNpcrior to the common barrel salt. D. W. BEALL & CO.