St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 March 1895 — Page 4

(Jljc Jnbcpeniicnt. WALKIiUTON, INDIAN*. MARCH 23. 18S5. W. A. RNDLEY, Editor. “Cleveland has gone duck hunting,” Should be stereotyped by the metropolitan papers. It. would save type set t ing. It is claimed by good authority that the business of the country has improved since congress adjourned. This is not to be wondered at. Kev. Dr. Hickman, of Terre Haute, favors the inter marriage of negroes ; and whites as a means of solving the । race problem in the south.

The Nicholson bill having no emergency clause will not go into effect, immediately. It will become operative about the first of June, it is said. Ex Congressman Holman, of this state, served in congress thirty five years. Ho claims that lie is poorer ”ow than when he begun his public service. Thomas Starr, editor of the Goshen News, has purchased a controlling interest, in the Toledo Daily Bee. He took charge of his new property last Monday. It is reported that Senator Sam Parker, of Plymouth, has formed a partnership with Senator Wishard, of Indianapolis, and will remove to that city soon for the practice of law. 1 he spectacle of law makers becoming law breakers is one that must necessarily have a demoralizing effect on society. Jhe low and vicious elements are encouraged in their wicked ness by such examples being set before them. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl

vigilant m darkness and never seeing noble game. The cynic’s criticisms and inuendoes fall indiscriminately upon every lovely thing, like frost upon the flowers.—Tacoma Herald. The Civic Federation of Chicago proposes to make it warm fora certain weekly paper of that city alleged to contain improper reading matter. The Federation will appeal to the postal authorities to exclude the objectionable publication from the mails. The recall of Mr. Thurston, minister from Hawaii to the United States, has been demanded by Secretary Gresham. Mr. Thurston is charged with a breach of etiquette and undiplomatic conduct. Thurston was one of the pioneers in forming the provisional government of Hawaii and is said to stand very high in th£ esteem of his countrymen. The principal charge brought against Thurston by Mr. Gresham is that he gave official information to the newspapers before communicating with the department of state. It is said that there has been a strained feeling between Gresham and Thurston for some time. Some of the business men of Westville have awakened from their Hip Van Winkle sleep and begin to realize the fact that they have a local newspaper and that they must advertise in it if they wish to keep a large amount of trade from going to other towns. The business men of Westville have agreed to take a certain amount of space in the Indicator providing all advertisements from competing towns are excluded from the paper. Bro. Martin has accordingly “ousted” all foreign ads and opens his space to local merchants only. We hope the Indicator will make the new “departure win, but it is somewhat

doubtful. Die Independent has j found that loyalty to home merchants is not always appreciated. It is little use for the local editor to waste his lungs and sprain his spine in trying to boom a town when the citizens all stand around with their hands in their pockets and indifferently wait for something to turn up If the capitalists or business men do not put their shoulder to the wheel and do a little boosting it is useless for the editor to try to boom things. He can write “boom” articles till he gets bald-headed, but if the citizens themseves do not take hold and push, the town will forever stick in the mud. Os what use is it for the local paper to suggest improvement and new enterprise if the suggestions are never acted upon. One man can’t boom a town. It requires the concerted action of all citizens. When one man shoulders a. town and attempts to carry it, there are always a lot of cranky kickers ready to jump on top of the load. Unity of action is Khat is needed.

A reputation for good judgement, fair dealing, trufh and rectitude is in , itself a fortune.—H. W. Beecher. 'l’he following from an exchange will do for some peopha to ponder over: Whether you fight or work don’t make so much fuss about it. 'l’he noise and sizzle of the locomotive are not force. AH force is silent. The bee haw of the mule may startle you, but it is not nearly so dangerous as his hind legs. Bear in m I that it is the empty wagon that rattles most when in motion. The noise of the drum is due to the fact that there is nothing in it. Bear in mind that you can’t startle the world by jumping up and hollowing “boo!” Thought is the great motive power, and don’t you fall into the mistake of believing

otherwise. t Social Problems. As I look from my window I see men . working on the railroad, as section $ hands, at sl.lO per day. Some of these men have families of considerable sise. Sometimes the families consist of a wife and a number of small children. All out go, no income, except the father’s wages, and that only sl.lO per day. The weather has been cold, the winds have been piercing, the exposure on these especially windswept railroads has been terrible. But the laborer has toiled for this mere pittance. I step into a Chicago bank and find the officials comfortably seated in a warm room, doing preferred work; no exposure to wind and weather; labor confined to five or six hours, ami receiving wages at $lO o> sls per day. There is disparagement—great disparagement I This disparagement of wages has not passed unnoticed. From conversation with many people, of different ranks in life, I find a general unrest, a sense of great injustice, deep rooted, wrangling in the breasts of the millions. This feeling is turbulent. It is not passive. There is apparent acquiescence, but it is only forced acquiescence. 1 here is no complacent accep

lance of things as they are. Strikes, Coxey movements, outlawry, characterized the past year. What may we experience the present year? Have we any reason to expect the seething caldron to cool down while the fire burns? May we expect the great nua>bers of discontented people to carry their burdens in docile humility, while the burdens are apparently becoming no lighter? Business firms, corporations of different kinds, are looking, eagle-eyed, to see where another man can be spared. Men are discharged, turned loose, without even the small pay which they had; turned out in the great field of idleness and want, What is to be done? To this question I’resi dent Eliot gives the following answer: “I am sorry to say that I have little idea what ‘the coming solution of the social strife between capital and labor’ is going to be. My impression is that this strife, which has been developing for hundreds of years, will be removed only by gradual processes in 1 operation through hundreds of years.” C. B. Gillette. A Street Battle at Bremen Jacob Miller, a farmer, who stepped into a bar room at Littleton, a new town in St. Joseph county located on ’ the Wabash railroad, vas held up and robbed by a gang of toughs last Wednesday. After committing the robbery the gang made their way to Bremen. Miller and nui iber of others followed them to Bremen where warrants were issued for the arrest of the toughs. The city marshal and two constables started to make the arrest, and found the thieves on the street near the B. & > O. railroad. In attempting to make the arrest resistance was made by the * thieves who opened lire on the officers. > Shots were exchanged rapidly and armed citizens were soon on the scene and touts part in the baffle wt.toi.

waged hot and fierce. Marshal Kauffman had a close call, several bullets passing through his hat and clothes, causing a number of slight wounds. The gang, when they saw they were getting the worst of it, took to their heels, with the officers and citizens in close pursuit. The thieves attempted to board a B. & O. train that was just, moving out of the station, but the train employes succeeded in keeping them off. The men were then chased to a swamp and six of them captured, two escaping. The six captured men were placed in the town jail at Bremen. They will be taken to South Bend for trial. Who does your job printing? Before buying a cook stove examine the Steel H inge Majestic atT. J. fleece ' & Co’s. If you have a local item of interest t hand it, to the Independent, or slip > ; it into the item box at the postofficej , All druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters.

• Those Horrid Verbs. 1 The verb to get i 8 oue of onr mnch misused words; it means to a Oquire > win, obtain; and, primarily, it signifl^ . the putting forth of effort to attain something. Consequently it is not only superfluous, but incorrect, to speak of a man as “getting drowned”or “getting Sick”; and you may, unfortunatey, ‘have a cold,” but it is impossibie that you “have got a cold.” At this moment no exceptions occur to the writer to the rule that got should never be used in connection with have, which alone, sufficiently expresses possession. Say “I have the picture.” not “I have got the picture”; “The dog has a broken leg,” not “The dog has got a broken leg.” Tne irregular verbs lay and lio are frequently confounded. Lay is au active, or transitive, verb, and lie is pasHive, or intransitive. We lay things down, or have laid them down; but we and things Heat rest. You lie down, have lain down, will lie down, or are lying down; shp lay down yesterday, and is going to lie down this afternoon. A frequent error is to confound the past tenses of these verbs. One should say, “Mary laid the book on the table, and lay down herself;” but the book lies on the table—From “Common Errors in Speech,” in Demorest’s Mag azine for April. An advertisement in the Independ- 1 ent is a paying investment. Try it and be convinced. Notice of insolvency. 1 _ 1 In the matter of the Eestate| f„ t h e St. Joseph Cir- ! Ot.e WUliams. Deceased.) ' Nonce i. hereby g lven that upon petition filed in < said Court by the Administrator of said Estate setup the insufficiency of the estate of said de- < cedent to pay the debts and UabUmes thereof, the 1 Judge of S. tH J Court did on the 15th day of March. 1 18»5. find said estate to be probably insolvent, and order the same to be settled accordmiHy. The I creditors of ,aid estate are therefore hereby notified of such insolvency and required to file their claims against said estate for allowance prior to the 17th day of May, 189 s. w due,, the Clerk and Seal of said Cour! at South Bend Indiana, this 16th day of March, GKO M FOUNTAIN, Clerk, Anderson & DuShane, Atty’s for Adm'r.

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-ri’“^Hoosier’s Experience in Western Europe,” by Hon. John S. Bender, of 1 lymouth, is a very interesting book, confining entertaining descriptions of historic spots in Europe and incidents of travel which cannot fail to delight the reader. This book ami the Independent for one year only $1.75. Call at this office and see satnple copy. On Feb. l^March 5, April if and April 30. The I. I. & l will seJ] round trip tickets to nearly all points in western and southern territory Tiejets good 20 to 30 days. On Feb. 18 to 26, will make the following low nite to New Orleans and return: From Wmkerton, $24.25. Tickets good two in each direction with final limit March 20. For further information caltbn or address F. A. Short, Agt., Walkerton. of Administration, i» hereby given that the undersigned has ^JJt^PP^inied by the Circuit Court of St. cbttnty, state of Indiana, Administrator AKthe will annexed of the estate of William M^Riate of St. Joseph county, deceased. ***iW<«tatc is supposed to be solvent. BENJ. F. RINEHART, Aoministkator with will annexed Mweh 1 9 , 1895. brdinance No. 3 1. A ydinance to provide for the building of a side^k in the town of Walkerton, Indiana. S « Be U orda,n ed by the Board of trustees of tlnown of Walkerton, m the county of St. Joseph, state of Indiana, that there shall be a substantial sidewalk built, in said town, and completed by the Ist of June, 1895, as follows, to wn : Commencing at th* northeast comer of Avenue F and sth itreet, and extending along the we side of sth street to Avenue D; thence from the northeast corner of Jib street and Avenue D along the northeast side of Avenue l> to Bth street. SEC. 11. Said walk shall be four feet wide, either of Soft or hard wood lumber, laid up n three hard wood stringer*, a by 4 inches, and the boards plated closely t .gether SEC. 11l This ordinance shall be in force from and after its legal publication. Passed and approved this Sth day of March, 1895 Fx CLEM, U F TOWNSEND, Clerk. President. Success follows the use of Hall’s Hair Renewer for grayness and baldness.

PURITY In Food is the basis o Good Health. We aim to furnish only Pure Groceries, Teas, Coffees, etc. Our Prices are as low as - Elsewhere. WE LEAD IN CANNED GOODS. CHAS. M~STEPHENS. FRV-OOFGHERTY BLOCK. HE-U 1 g NEW SPRING GOODS! — . . . RECEIVED DAILY - • . Inspection will prove that my Prices ate the lowest in town. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP! Satisfy yourself by thorough examination of goods that you are doing well iu buying. HANG ONTO YOUR DOLLARS! . . . Until you have seen my New Goods . . . Noah Rensberger, THE STAR BAKERY! Is the Best Place in Town to get A Good Square Meal. ONLY 25 OELTTS- | Frosti Bread LDaily. also Pies, cakes and buns Oysters in a.ll styles. J. M. MYER, - Prourietor. Lincoln Medical aml _ Surgical Association, OF CHICAGO. ONE OR MORE OF THE STAFF WILL BE AT THE NICHOLS HOTEL, Walkerton, Indiana, Saturday, March 30, ’95. Advice, Consultation and Examination Free. Exclusively Devoted to the Treatment of all Chronic and Surgical Diseases, Private and Nervous Diseases of Men and Women. WHEN OTHERS FAIL. TO COUNTRY_PAT! ENTS Hundreds of cases piven up as incurable. Too sick to leave their homes to call at hotel “We Often Cure.” Incurables absolutely re- the day the doctors are advertised: Address fused. Call and be examined. We may save Lincoln Medi :al Staff, care above HOTEL and | you money, and we may save your life. ! one of the staff will call FREE of all charges. Dr. E. R. LINCOLN, President. Business Offß? 235 State St., CHICAGO.