St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 May 1895 — Page 4

@ljc Jndqjcndrnt. WALKERTON, INDIANA. AIRII. 27, 1H95. W. A. EXDLEY. Editor. The New Press This week’s Independent is printed on a New Improved Country Campbell cylinder press, which we purchased in Chicago last week". The growth of our business demanded better facilities in the way of a newspaper press, and while this addition to the office is an expensive one, yet we believe we are justified in making the investment. The Independent will aim to keep abreast with the times and further improvements will follow from time to - time as circumstances may warrant. All this, we believe, will be appreciated in a substantial manner by our constituents. With the addition of the

new press the Independent office, we can safely say, will be as well equipped as most country offices in northern Indiana. Kansas is suffering from drouth. Senator Turpie is opposed to the Nicholson law and is raising his voice against the measure. The Pittsburg Dispatch says: “Increasing freight business on the railroads tells anew the story of awakening business.” Goshen recently extended her corporation boundaries so as to include several suburbs. A census just completed now gives that city a population of 8,250. ' Shipshewana, this state, has |5,000 ready as a bonus for a factory. Shipshewana has sprung from nothing to a good, thriving little town in the last four or five years, and its enterprise has done it. The Michigan City Dispatch has just entered its fifteenth volume. It is a newsy and enterprising daily, in fact it would fully meet the indications of a field larger than the one it now occupies. The income tax law will have a rehearing before the United States supreme court May 6. It is a pack of inconsistencies as it now stands, and the probability is that the supreme court will try to do something to remedy the glaring defects of the law. The countefeiting of government two-cent postage stamps, it is said, is carried on in a wholesale manner. The headquarters of the counterfeiting gang are said to be in Chicago, with branch concerns at Cincinnati, St. Louis and points further west. The counterfeit stamp is of the pink variety. Attorney General Ketcham has written the fallowing to a citizen at Valparaiso, in regard to the fish law: “The law prohibits fishing in lakes be tween the first of April and the fif- । teenth of June. It says nothing about streams and your customers me therefore at liberty to fish in Streams if they can find any place acceptable to them, but they are not allowed to fish iw lakes. One republican paper will condemn Udo’s theory of bimetalism on the Urmmds th U it, i< n »t good republicanism, while another paper of the democratic persuasion refuses to endorse the theory because it is not good democracy. Now such papers can not see beyond the boundary lines of

wlmt they deem party policy. The I „ interests of the people are subordinate, I , in the eyes of such papers, to those of : temporary party advancement. Many partisan papers are too prone to 1 follow merely the narrow rut of party policy, without considering the general weal of the people, which should always be the end and aim fall political endeavor. According to repeated reports (he Presbyterians have dropped Bass lake as the site for their Chautauqua. There were offers from fifteen other places and the choice has now dwindled down to one of three places, viz: Spring Fountain Bark, two miles from Warsaw; Turkey, or Wawasee lake, Lake Maxinkuckee, There will soon be a meeting held for a definite decision between these three sites. Starke county has evidently frittered away a golden opportunity in this matter, Hisstated that this misfortune to Starke county is due to the fact the county commissioners refused to call an election to vote railroad aid. The Three I company offered to build the few miles of railroad required, but the proposition came too late,/t is said, as 100 much delay would be Incurred.

It looks as if the Holler fish law stretches the point a little when it : provides against fishing with a hook and line at a stated period ending J une 15. The mistake of the best men mgh generation after generation i the great one of thinking to I hei t the p >or by an almsgiving, and by w other means, emollient or cotexcept the one through which (iiiTTntas for them.—justice — John Ruskin. A writer in the North American Review, says the Indianapolis Journal, estimates that the people of the United States pay an average of $300,000000 in fire insurance premiums, while the fire losses paid by the companies do not exceed half the sum. If this is so, the people pay too much for in- ; surence. This conclusion is borne out by the fact that the Ure insurance in this country costs four times as much ' as in England, six times as much as in Germany, and twelve times as

much as in France. The editor of a newspaper may not always be on the right side of things, but in the following from the Delphi Journal the public generally will accord with his views: “1 am not in favor of interfering with the religious belief of anyone, but when a pack of fantitles calling themselves Christian scientists, will sit by the bedside of a little child and permit it to die of diphtheria or typhoid fever without calling a physician then 1 am in favor of interfering just, long enough to put the entire pack in the penitentiary for manslaughter.” Au exchange, the editor of which evidently understands the situation, gives expression to a solemn truth in saying: “The paramount question before the people of this country now and at this period of the year is the question of the crops a question so important that in comparison with it any merely political issue sinks into insignificance. With all the growth of our great cities and the develop ment of our manufactures we are still I an agricultural nation. The wealth of the country comes from the soil. The farmer is the great producer. The crops are the measure of the • country's prosperity. We all depend ■ more or less directly on them and on the toiling citizen who produces them." 1 — ...L.. How much does a newspaper man write in a year? An old newspaper reporter has set down and figured it out in the Indianapolis Sentinel. He figures that he writes an average of a column and a half every day, except for his Sunday paper, when he contributes three columns. This makes twelve columns a week, and allowing two weeks for vacation he has fifty weeks in a year, in which he turns out 840,000 words. An ordinary book of short stories contains about 40,W0 words, therefore his year’s labor is | equivalent to about twenty books. At ) this rate of comparison the feat ot Marion Crawford in publishing two books per annum does not strike the - newspaper man as an incredibly bard । task, twen allowing for the extra , amount ol thought involved in story writing. Mr. Howells considers a thousand words a good day's work. Janviers is satisfied with 400 words, or a little over a quarter of a column. The True Sort of Americanism. Under the caption, ‘‘What Consti tutes an American,” the Indiana Baptist says: ‘‘Thoughtful patriots view with some concern the tendency of foreign born citizens to act as ‘Ger. mans,’ ‘lrishmen,*’ etc., rather than as

simply American citizens. We re ceutly saw a significant illustration, and nt the same time a rebuke of this tendency. A prominent politician, Norwegian by birth, being urged to support the candidacy of a certain gentleman on the grounds that thev were both Norwegians, the Senator replied : ‘I was but 14 years old when I came to America, and believe I am an American. I have run for office a good many times in Huston couutv, and always as a Republican, not as a Norwegian. I never asked a living ' man to vote for me because of nation- ' ality. Norwegians and Swedes, Irishmen and Germans and American born citizens as well, have always been my friends. I am an American citizen.’ 1 That is a platform of true American • citizenship in a nutshell. A foreign born American citizen who asks for political support on account of his nativity has no right to complain if he encounters opposition on the same ground. A birthplace in the United States does not make a man an American ; but he is the genuine American who, wherever born, is loyal to Amorcan institutions.” Headache Hfttypetl in 20 minutes by Dr, Miles' Pain Pinos. “Once cent a dose."

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