St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 July 1894 — Page 7

^ljc 3nbrpcniient. WALKERTON, INDIANA. AIAIICH 20, 1894. W. A. EXDLEY, Editor. Councilman Ginz, of South Bend, announces himself as a candidate for congressman, subject to the action or the democratic convention. A tapeworm measuring 120 feet was removed from a citizen of Richmond, Monday. It is said to be the largest known to the medical world and was removed alive. The Thursday morning’s papers report a heavy snow storm in Nebraska, Dakota and other parts of the west and northwest. The snow at Deadwood was six feet deep in places. The Inter Qcean of Monday gave a biographical sketch, with portrait, of I. Mattingly, editor of the Bourbon Mirror. Mr. Mattingly was 83 years

us the oldest editor in Indiana. He is said to be remarkably well preserved. He has been a fine editor in his time. Attorney General Green Smith has distinguished himself ag in by whipping an Indianapolis reporter about half his size. Green can be depended upon for furnishing the public with something sensational about every so often, but the pugilistic arena is an entirely new departure for him. It is the theory of some great scientists, among them Camille Flammarion, of France, that the future man will be very diminutive in stature but far in advance of what man is now intellectually. In ages to come it is possible that the present inhabitants of the earth may be looked back to as a race of giants. The postponement of Prendergast's execution was granted on the grounds of the questionability of his sanity, there being a special statute to provide for such emergencies. It was supposed that the question had been pretty thoroughly canvassed in all its phases in the long and expensive trial given the culprit, and that his responsibility mentally had been settled beyond doubt. But the lawyers for the defense perhaps see something fees-ible in the obtaining of a further hearing for their client. Mr. Voreib, superintendent of public instruction of this state, is not in favor of placing the bibie in the public schools, as is being agitated, and expresses himself as fqjlows on the subject: “Personally I am in favor of keeping the bible out of the public schools. The churches should be left the duty of attending to religious matters ami the schools, being secular institutions, should attend strictly to secular culture. Often prayers are made in schools by atheistic or non religious teachers and the pupils cannot but comprehend that such service is hoi low mockery. In cases like that prayers always do more harm than good to religion.” A project is on foot to establish a railway museum in Chicago. The leading spirit in the movenu nt is Major J. G. Pangburn. It is proposed to equip the museum with everything! of interest pertaining to railroads from every country on the face of the earth where railroads are operated. The time required for collecting all these things will be about two years. The establishment of such an institution could not but be vastly beneficial in promoting the interests of railroads and bringing the system under which they are conducted to a higher stale of perfection. Concerning the endowment recently made to the college at North Manchester, the Religious Telescope gives the following facts: “The conditions " of the gift are that the College should be conducted on the university plan, that it. should be under the control of some Christian denomination, and that it should be an exponent of the Y. M. C. A., Y. P. S. C. E., and especially Y. P. C. U. organizations, in building up Christian character. To insure a fulfillment of these conditions, the donor gives the income of the fund for five years. If the conditions have been kept to that time, the income continues for fifteen years. If the conditions are met in the twenty years, the fund becomes permanent. The gift is bound in perpetuity if the donor dies inside of twenty years, or if another million is secured. The donor’s name is to be kept from the public. The in'erest is to be used solely for the education of worthy young persons without means to educate themselves,especially young ministers of any denomination and the children of active ministers of any denomination. Such may have their entire way paid.”

Gen. Coxey and his army of civilians are to start for the capital to mor- - row Sunday. Coxey expects to have . a half million men in line by the time : he reaches Washington, where they are to peaceably demand of congress - that certain legislation be enacted for , the relief of idle laboring people. The r whole business is the most monumen- • tai piece of crankism of the century. It is, if possible, as ridiculous as any idea ever conceived by the erratic George Francis Train. General Jasper Packard, editor of the New Albany Tribune, who is himself a candidate for the office of secretary of state, gives each of the other candidates for that oflice, live in number, a nice, pleasant mention in his paper, and says that he could cheerfully support any one of them, but being a candidate himself the circumstances forbid it. He extends the assurance, however, that whoever is nominated will be from that moment his candidate. That’s the kind of mtifU to show-

selfishness there. TO DRAIN THE MARSH. Indtanians Will Reclaim Land. A special telegram to Chigago from Indianapolis under date of March 13 says: “Agents for a number of Chicago people who own vast tracts of marsh land on the Kankakee in this state have been quietly making an attempt to raise a fund of $500,000 for the purpose of draining the Kankakee swamps and making over 400,000 acres now under water almost the year round available for cultivation. All told it is said not less than 1,000,000 acres will be benefit ted. “The removal of the great Momence rock in the Kankakee river, for which work the Indiana legislature appropriated $65,000, has produced such beneficial results that the marsh land owners are more than ever enthusiastic over the scheme to redeem that great stretch of country in northern Indiana, the state land office there has no correct record of how much land there is which can be brought into cultivation. A Chicago man owns 50,0*10 acres of this land, another at Crown Point has 25,000, and other persons and estates own tracts of from 1,000 to 40,000 acres. These large land owners are the most interested in reclaiming the land. To do the work would require, according to the estimate, $500,000. “The plan is to straighten the Kankakee river from English Lake, Ind., to Momence, embracing the swamps of Lake, Porter, Newton and Jasper counties. The present channel of the river is nearly 150 miles long. The change would reduce it to 65 miles. The Kankakee i i ver has its origin in the marshes southeast of South Bond, and until it reaches Momence its course is through a valley of marshy or sub merged land from 10 to 20 miles wide. When the spring rains come it is not unusual for the river to spread over the entire valley, rendering it valueless save as a haunt for wild ducks and geese, which are sought by many huntersin the shooting season. For about six months in the year about 100,000 acres of this hind are little better than a lake. “The movement to drain (he land j meets with objection from bind owners along tne lower Kankakee. The j erooked course of the upper river ami | the large area over which the waters J spread have caused an even flow’ of water in the lower portion of the stream nearly the entire year. The swamps serve as reservoirs for feeding the river in summer and to hold the rains of spring. It is thought by the Illinois land holders that the improvements would turn the Indiana water onto them, causing as much damage in Illinois us benefit in this state.” The Lake Erie & Western R. R. has arranged to run a series of land ami i home seekers’ excursions on February j Btb, March Btb, ami April 9th, 1891, at j the unprecedented low rate of one fare j for the round trip to points in Alabama, ! Kentucky, Georgia, Eastern Louisiana, | Mississippi and Tennessee. This is an excellent opportunity for; all those desiring to seek homes in the South, as there are millions of acres ; of cheap lands inviting settlement with- i in the territory covered by this series ! of excursions. Be sure your tickets read via the “Natural Gasß mte,” tho great through line traversing the wonderful gas and 1 oil regions of Ohio ami Indiana, furn- , ishing elegant Reclining Chair Cars ! j between Sandusky and Missouri river free of extra charge. For tickets, rates, time ami general information call on any ticket agent of the above route. : ; Gentlemen’s business or professional I cards neatly printed on flue stock at • ■ 75 cents for 50, or 50 cents for 25, at ■ । this oflice. Sizes and styles to suit I your taste.

- ’’".e"' SI —' i A Kindly Protest. J Dear Editor: The follo<» remarks taken from an article id Sie of my educational periodicals, Public School Journal,” so so juy express my views that I cann ’ refrain from requesting you to give '4iem a prominent place iu your investing paper. 4 “If parents could only real® that, when they keep their children out of school or allow them to be tn^y, they are not only injuring their o.vu children, but that every day orwsence and every case of tardiness isj* direct injury to forty other childrenWj think the golden rule would impr« itself upon them and there would h®ess absence and less tardiness. Ido not refer to those eases^f necessary absence on account ofMickness ami other equally good causes but to ti day for skating, u half-dayjn a dancing lesson, or even to atten®6hurch, when all of these things cotilßbe done on some other day. Will wmebody say tiiat lam advising par^ 1 ^ not to sond their QftU

rnu tl^n I said that they should hoi allow them to go skating or to dancing whool. What Ido say, is that tfey should not, for the interest of theii4chiklren, allow any thing to interelere with school. School is the business of the child, if you please; and he would bo in his place of business five diys in the week. How long could a c|erk who was habitually five or ten mitiuG-s Lite at the store ami away one or tyo afternoons in each week to attend a dancing class or a church service ‘of some kind, hold his place? Ask some of our merchan ts. These same boys ami girls who are responsible for much of the absence and tardiness in our schools are form* ing habits that will cling to them when they become clerks or business men and women. They will be the men who will always be behind hand at their offices, if indeed they are fortunate enough to have offices, and the women who will keep their husbands waiting for dinner." Respectfully, A . E. Jones, fi.ipt. “Snakes in the Grass.’' There is a species of relined Tticlly practiced by some so-called civilized people occasionally, that puts ap the blush of shame the most barSarous savage. There is a species of l» cunning that masquerades under thaguise of friendship and waits for the qpporlune moment to stab that back. There are wounds inntetA4 by the idle tongues of human devil sLakeg that carry more virus, venom] and damnation, than the poisoned point of a brigand's poniard. The open enemy who uplifts his stiletto in plain view can be met ami Ids blow warded off; but the fiend in tinman guise who has planted vmr destruction ami stabs you flumgh the heart <>f your loved ones, is too insidious to be met Os all things on earth tl.e reptile is the lowest! Os all moving things the snake is the most despised! Os all human beings the snake in the grass is the most despicable! There are human snakes who out devil the devil himself. From their slimy tongues drip the drops of venom which find lodgement in trusting hearts ami finally breed dissensions and estrangements and result in disiupting families and planting the arrows of death in the hearts iof once loyal friends. <»f all creatures I made by God, the lowest is the human ' who would wantonly assassinate character by planting the daggers of distrust in the heart of a friend. The slimy ooze of hell befouls everything these people touch and it passes the understanding of ordinary mortals to assign a reason for their being spawned into (his world.—St. Joseph (Mich.) Daily I’ress. Call at the Independent office get a free sample copy of “WomauI kind.” Your Watch Insured Free. ■ A perfect insurance against theft or accident is the now famous

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