St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 April 1894 — Page 4

Stye independent. WALKERTON. INDIANA. APRIL 11, 1894. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. What a walkover Coxey’s army is having. The next state encampment of the G. A. It. will be held at Muncie, An herb has recently been discovered in Mexico called Jicama which is said to be a certain cure for typhus fever, smallpox and yellow fever. In Switzerland 360 inhabitants in the 1,000 have money on deposit in the savings banks; in Germany, 180; in France, 170; in Great Britiau, 135; in the United States, 67. Senator Justin 8. Morrill, of Ver——will be 84 years old Saturday next. He is the oldest man in the United States senate, with which body he has been identified continuously since 1867. He first became known to fame as the author of the Morrill tariff bill. The Indiana Watchman, published at LaPorte, has suspended, and the personal effects of its editor, A. W. Becker, have been sold at auction to satisfy creditors. The Watchman was a populist paper of the rampant order. While it told a great many truths and was ably edited, it was too extreme and fanatical in its advocacy of certain things and was therefore often misleading as a guide in politics. Whenever the country newspapers find foreigners invading the field of the home merchants with goods and merchandise and selling them to farmers they are asked to arise and whack the intruders and advise the farmers to buy their goods of the home merchants, says an exchange. And when foreign printing houses send their representatives among the merchants and business men, these same merchants give them their orders and get inferior work for their money. That’s reciprocity. St. Joseph, Mich., celebrated her victory in the county seat matter last Saturday in grand style. There were several bands at the head of a parade of about one thousand people, and flags and banners were flying in all quarters of the city. Housing speeches were made by citizens in the evening. The Daily Press.is in ecstacies over the victory, which it had a large part in bringing about. The Press has a perfect right to feel good, and any queer little capers that it may cut up should be excused under the circumstances. Here is a piece of advice taken from an exchange that might come handy if followed; Don’t judge a man by his clothes, God made one and the tailor the other. Don't judge him by his family for Cain belonged to a good family. Don't judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat often inhabit the grandest structure. When a man dies those who survive him ask what property he left behind; the angel who bends over the dying man asks, what good deed he has sent before him. Judge a man by his acts. Walkerton wants a system of waterworks. It is what the town should have. The Independent, however, is in error in supposing the rates of insurance would be decreased. In New Carlisle rates are higher than before a system of water works were put in.—New Carlisle Gazette. The Independent is unable to see how a good system of fire protection could possibly increase the rates of insurance. The safer the risk the less the insutance, generally. We are not disputing the Gazett’s statement as to New Carlisle, but is it auro that the water works have had anything to do with increasing the insurance rates there? Without water works New Carlisle might be paying much higher rates than it is at present. If you could stand on the moon, so an astronomer is quoted, the earth would appear to you to be sixty-four times larger than the sun appears to the residents of this mundane sphere—this because the earth has eight times the diameter of the moon, therefore she must necessarily show the moonites sixty-four times as much surface as the moon shows us. The sun, on the other hand, would appear no larger to you from your observatory on the moon than it does from the globe. The earth’s atmosphere being blue, it has been decided that the earth must appear as a blue ball to the outside onlookers. What a glorious sight it must be to our lunarian neighbors to look upon a bright, blue, swift-revolv-ing b^U sixty-four times larger than Hie sun!

Ben King, the “Michigan Bard,” died suddenly from heart disease, hist week, in the South where he was giving entertainments with Opie Betid. He was but thirty years old. Ben King was a true poet and no machine productions came from his pen. His verse sprang spontaneous from the heart and breathed a tender sympathy with humanity. All lovers of genius regret that this bright light has been so soon extinguished. The patent medicine fakirs at South Bend tire making a great noise over alleged mail robberies that have been going on for months in or near that city. Dilligent efforts have been made by the postoffice authorities to unravel the mystery, but all efforts have so far failed. Parties in Argos tire among the losers. The letters are carefully cut open and the money taken out, and they are then pasted shut again. If the loser complains, the fakirs send back the envelope that has been tampered with, as an evidence of that fact. Why not extend the investigation so as to include the medicine firms? — Argos liefleetor. It is hard to understand what object the patent medicine fakirs would have in taking the money and withholding their preparations. Many of the patent medicine firms in South Bend are no doubt frauds and the stuff they make costs them comparatively nothing. They could not afford to run the risk of the law to save a little rain water and the like. No, it is quite certain that the patent medicine firms of South Bend have nothing to do with the mail robbing. Daughters of Rebekah. The Daughters of Rebekah were instituted in this place nt I. O. O. F. hall on Thursday evening by Mary Hilton Lodge, No. <359, of Wellsboro. The thirty-three members present, from Wellsboro, were as follows: Mesdames E. C. Clark, J. C. Barney, Mary Hilton, A. Bloomhuff, C. Harts, C. Hendrix, M. B. Wakeman, Mr. mid Mrs. E. A. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ginther, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hense, Mr. and Mrs. F. Steele, Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. White, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ziegler, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Terry, Miss Ella Ginther, Otto Flense, D. J. Linard. Mrs. Parker, ol Garrett, and Mr. and Mrs. Neal, of this place, were also present. Twenty-one were initiated and ns many more would have been if it bad been possible for them to be present. The following were initiated: J. M. Boss, Lulu Nichols, M. R. Burger and wife, E 11. Andrews and wife, Mrs. E. Dillon, Mary Young, William Young, Dr. Abner and wife, M. Bellinger and wife, T. J. Wolfe, J. W. Brown, Rose Nichols, E. S. Nichols, J. N. Curlis and wife, Louis Glass, Minnie Burger. The Daughters of Rebekah, of Walk erton, start with a good membership and bright prospects of a grand success in the future. After the work of initiation, a banquet was given at the Fry hotel, bv the I. O. O. F. lodge, of this place. Reportf.k. Personal Points. Charley Knott, of Sumption Prairie, was in town Wednesday. Will Doudy, of Goshen, was in town a number of days this week visiting with relatives. Theron Wolfe and wife were visiting with Henry Hostetter and family at Knox a few days this week. Joseph Jones, of Whitley county, this state, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Strang a couple of days last week. Rev. Snyder and daughter Edna left for Davis county, Missouri, on Friday of last week to visit a couple of weeks with Mr. Snyder’s brother. Attorney W. A. Dailey attended the ’ department convention of the G. A. R. at Lafayette, last week, as representative of Jesse Coppock post. Ed Hutchings, late of Kansas City, who has been here visiting his sister, Ida, for the past two weeks, left for hie home at Alma, Mich., Thursday. Vern Hardenbrook and Benson Cook were in South Bend last Saturday and Sunday making arrangements to give a boxing entertainment in that city at an , early date. Miss Mamie Hardy, who has been , staying at her brother’s, L. P. Hardy, ,of South Bend, for several weeks on , account of the sickness of Mrs. Hardy, , has been visiting at her home near this place for several days. She received word on Thursday that Mrs. Hardy was some better. She returned to South Bend this week . A mush and milk social will be given Saturday evening, April 21, for j the benefit of the Walkerton cornet : band. An admission fee of ten cents I will be charged at the door, which includes a dish of mush and milk.

News from the North Dakota Colony. Our correspondent at Teagarden has received a letter from one of the colony which went from this locality to North Dakota recently, and kindly furnishes the same to us for pnblica tion; The letter was written at Cando, N. D., under date of April 2, and is as follows; “We arrived last Friday at 2 o’clock. I was disappointed when we arrived as I expected to find lots of snow but all the snow that was here was the drifts. They had a big storm here week before last. It is very muddy now but is drying off very fast. I think just as I did when I was here last fall, that we have one amongst the finest countries on earth, while some of our people are terribly dissatisfied because they have to pay for things they have to buy and see no money flying in the air. Twenty dollars per month is all the farmers are offering to pay but our people that came with us for work think nW win go back to The churches and coUTt hiW were opened for us logo iu until <e could make other arrangements to go into our new homes. The markets are as follows: Wheat, 49 cents; oats, 25 cents; barley, 40 cents; eggs, 12jcents; butter, 15 cents; for hay we have to pay $2 per ton and can get all we want. People do not feed their cattle any more unless there is snow on the ground and that is what makes hay so cheap. What we buy from the store is dearer than where yon live. I will say lam well satisfied so far. From one of the Colony.” Prize Snake Story. I he greatest snake story comes from Hartford ( ity. \\ hile a mason was dressing a stone for the new court- | house he split off a large fragment, in 1 the center of which was a snake four-: teen inches in length, of a milk-white color. To all appearances it had been dead for a thousand years and more, but after being placed in the warm sun it showed signs of life, while its color changed to brown. It was then placed in a glass jar, and kebt alive by occasional applications of warm water. Title clause and sale notes for sale in any quantity at the Independent : office.

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A Telephone Line will be Built. The project to put up a telephone line from the Club house at Koontz’s lake to this place has received warm encouragement from our business men and the line will be put up at an early date. About one hundred dollars have been donated by our citizens to help the scheme along, and the contract has already been made for the poles which will be put up perhaps in about two weeks. The line will be about five miles in length. The telephone at this end of the route will probably be placed in the livery office of the Wolfenbarger Bros., who have the contract for doing the hauling and delivery business for tlm Club. The scheme is a good one and will be a convenience for the Club and a financial benefit to the town. SHILOH’S CURE is sold on a guaranteee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is tl>e best Cough Cure. Only one cent a dose. 25 els, 50 cts , and SI.OO. For sale by Bellinger & WiL -lisims.

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

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