St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 November 1893 — Page 4

(Sljc Jndepcndcnt. WALKERTON, INDIANA. NOV. 4, 1893. AV. A. ENDLEY, Editor. Adlai' Stevenson has finally showed some traces of having back-bone. Now the country may look for a crank epidemic of the Prendergast type. The silver repeal bill has passed the senate and received the signature of the president. The Michigan City News has moved into handsome new quarters of its own. Congratulations with a big C. Ex-Sheriff Williams, of Noble county, is reported dangerously ill. He is an old and influential citizen of that county.

The gates of the world’s fair will remain often to visitors during November. Exhibits are being taken away but there is still many grand and interesting things to be seen there. Qnincy A. Hossler, of the Warsaw Indianian, has been suffering with rheumatism for several weeks. He has been quite bad and, it is said, is still far from well. The Jackson wreck, it is estimated, will cost the Michigan Central road about a half million dollars to settle. Three persons were offered $5,000 each in settlement, but refused. Elias Thompkins, aged GO, placed himself in front of a passenger train at Elkhart the other day with suicidal intent. The injuries he received are likely to prove fatal. It is strange the means people will take to end their lives. We read of them taking “roughon rats,” paris green, shooting themselves, cutting their thoats, etc. Why not take a quicker and less painful route. Let them try tying a knot in a mule’s tail.

The Indianapolis Sun sums up Bob Ingersoll as follows: “He is a Voltaire without Voltaire’s genius; he is a l’aine without Paine’s originality; he is a master of alliteration, an adept at framing epigrams and funeral orations and at worming large fees from clients; but the influence of one ignorant .mother in Israel teaching her child tw lisp its first prayer to God counts for more than all the applauded utterances of this extensively and too often answered disciple of loose logic.”

The editor of the Wolcott Enterprise lives five miles out in the country, says the Monticello Herald. He He goes home every night, carries the mail for the neighborhood, runs a huckster wagon, and does his share of the farm chores, besides hustling for news, furnishing all the copy, and doall the book keeping and collecting, part of the type setting and all the job work of the oilice, taking all the cussings and paying all the bills. A rich reward is waiting for the young man—in the next world if not in this.

The Evansville Tribune wants the Indiana legislature to pass a law making it practicallyimpossible for a man of dangerous disposition, or any one who drinks intoxicants to excess, to carry a pistol, dirk or bowie knife, without peing guilty of a penitentiary offense. This seems like putting it a little strong, but there is certainly need of greater protection to society from cranks and others of a dangerous character. People, and especially those in public position, are to much exposed to danger from chaps like Prendergast. Free America is too free in this respect.

ITere is a bit of truth from an exUm publication: “If a mischief-making tattler and liar could ' see his or her history written and published, they would discover that better men and women are serving sen-

tences in our penitentiaries, and the i sentiment of the community in which ' i they live would cause them to seek seclusion as they would force a small pox patient to seek it. AVe have people in every community who delight in doing people injury who have never laid a straw in their way but have treated them with the utmost kindness and spoken 01 them as if they had never violated the laws of society or decency. How much good a person may do by speaking good wordsand finding excuses for tlie misfortunes of neighbors, no one can tell until he has tried it. A Worthy Cause. A ten cent social will be held by the Epworth League in this place next Wednesday evening, the place of meeting to be made known later on. Let everybody attend, as the proceeds of the social will be used in a worthy cause helping the poor.

Harris, the composer of “After the Ball,” has made over SIOO,OOO out of - his song. He publishes it himself at •i cost of four cents a copy’, and makes : ten cents on every copy sold to music dealers. Prendergast, the wretch who assas--1 sinated Mayor Hharrison, plead not guilty when arraigned in court. The craven coward has no lawyer and is without friends or money. He is beginning to taste a little of the hell that is in store for him. The Elwood Free Press says: Elwood tin plate is wholly made of the raw material. No thin sheets of steel are brought here and given a tin bath, but the entire output is from the raw material and worked into tin by a large force of skilled workmen. The factory here is the largest and most successful in operation in this country. Governor Hogg, of Texas, refuses to sanction the arrest of inboringmen who are tramping through that state in quest of work. 'The governor wisely discriminates between a workingman thrown out of employment and a tramp who is such from choice. During times like the present hundreds of honest workingmen are apt to be tramping over the country from necessity. Under the circumstances

it is best for people to use judicious discrimination in their treatment of the “tramp element.” Sunday School Convention. The St. Jeseph County Sunday School Union will hold its annual convention in South Bend, Nov. 27 and 28, and we not only expect to see every Sunday 7 school in the county represented but we want every one who is interested in Sunday school ! work to attend and partake of the good things freely. A splendid program is being ar- ; ranged which will include a splendid opening address Monday evening by our state superintendent, C. D. Meigs, entitled, “The scholar’s heart and how to open it. No one should miss hear- ■ ing this address. Each and every Sunday school in the county should arrange at once to send as many delegates as possible, the more the better.

Entertainment will be furnished to all visitors who will send their names to their township president, cr direct to C. O. Wilder, county secreI The wspaptrs lain. Rarely in the United States have the j newspapers had so important a task to ' play as they have had, and now have, j during the days of what will pass into history as the “Panic of 93,” says the Knoxville Journal. It has fallen to their lot to ealm the public mind, to run down and expose rumors that might be dangerous—in brief, to quell fear and uphold reason. Ami it has not been easy. Mau is a superior animal ; but in a panic ho is as wild and dangerous as a herd of stampeding Texas cattle.

With few exceptions the newspaper has been faithful aud vigilant. None but a newspaper man will ever under stand or appreciate the temptations, from a news standpoint, that have assailed every editor and manager in the United States. News interesting, important news, has come to all of them that for prudential reasons had to be “killed” —not because it was necessarily harmful; but because in the condi tion of the public mind it was imperative that nothing should appear iu print that might be distorted by the unreasoning.

The power of a newspaper in such a period us we have passed has been gigantic in its potentiality for good, but more especially for evil. The weakest aud cheapest paper imaginable has had it within its power to magnify the trouble very greatly. The best and most influential has had only limited power to stem the tide of distrust. But ' all have done their duty, aud to do I more is impossible.

Those people who prophesied that the World's Fair would depress business and concentrate the surplus currency in Chicago, were not false pro- i phets. —Milford Mail. The income tax proposition is steadily growing in favor at Washington. It will come in due time. —South Bend Times. The execution of the two negroes, Barker and Me Allee, now confined in the prison north has been postponed until Jan. sth next. Very few people will be allowed to witness the execu-

tion. Warden French hates the job of sending the fellows into eternity, and little can he be blamed. Hanging is barbarous. Confinement until death comes and takes them off naturally is as far as man’s duty extends. Capital , I punishment in a Christian country is | I out of place. Life sentences should be ' | beyond the pardoning power of any I ' governor except on proof of innocence, i Chesterton Tribune. “Buy the best” when you purchase rubber goods. T. J. Wolfe always has 1 them.

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iTHE TIME HAS NOW COME when thi.t body of yours needs protection, MORE CLOTHING. Are you aware that in the past few weeks we have closed out nearly one-half our SUITS and OVERCOATS We are closing them out, every one of them. Must go at some prices® After once gone positively no more at such low prices will be offered. MARE DAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES. il Word to (lie Wise is Sflicieiit. CLOSING ’ out sale of CATE'S, mT t —r > ®'ak;U A & Ot dh h h H gHTDEEPg ADD BA PTS' 'OWy Slices il Hosiery, THIS LINE OF GOOLS IS El |M Nearly M M I^oonte, & (Jo. SIGS OF THE GEOBE. — BIG SALE OF—--5 and IO Ct. == ARTICLES,== Including Holiday Goods. CI US. M STEPHENS. A GOOD STOVE IS A LUXURY! THIS IS WHAT THE Rml Oak i' Peiiinsiila HAS PROVEN TO BE. | The Round Oak is a combination stove, burning either wood or hard and soft coal. The Peninsula is cm I store and a favorite. These stoves are ^8; economical in fuel, easy to operate, ■’ great heaters, and the cleanest stoves _ i' to lake care of 1! e [guarantee them to _ ” . be second to oom. . ' mmA ' A full line of these stoves Jor sale by T. J. *’ ”