St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 October 1895 — Page 2

SHE AND HER PARENTS. There's a house a few miles from the city I frequently linger outside; "T'is the home of a maid who is pretty, A maid I would like for my bride. + I fear that I never shall win her, My passion is hopeless and mute, I'm sure that her pavents would skin her . If they thought that she smiled on my suit. Her eyes are the purest and brightest That ever encouraged a hope; Her skin is the softest and whitest That ever shed luster on soap; Her hair is the richest and goldest That ever a hairdresser dressed; And her parents are surely the coldest A hercine ever possessed. Her voice, it's a mezzo-soprano, Would make even Patti afraid, Anud the way that she plays the plano Puts Rubinstein quite in the shade. More perfect she is than perfection; Resign her T can’t and 1 won't! And she looks upon me with affection, But her parents—oh, bother them!— don't. They intend her to marry a title; | " They want to address her, “Your grace.” They've made up their minds this is vital, Which scratehes me out of the race. ‘ . Novdo 1, tn,themg;,‘ blazlne them; , . Bhe's worthy a duke, I aver; =~ " Aduke who is worthy of her. 08, I know she's beyond and above me; . Ideserve to be hung, 'm aware, ~ For presuming to think she could love me, But I don’t altogether despair. For my heart undergoes an expansion When I think, what I'il tell yon about, Os that night when I called at her mansion And her parents, God bless them, were out, ‘ When I think of the way she received me, Os the way and the words that I spoke; l . Os the way that she blushed and believed me; Os the sixpence we solemnly broke; Os the mutual hopes we confided, As we blended our voices in song, % And that ropturons kiss we divided— t Well, her parcntsean go to Hoong Kong! f —ldler. ; g ’ s ! : n SURVIVAL OF | Y THE FITTEST. Dragging itself westward across the ! dreary plains of Utah, the overland | train, from a vantage point in the sky, | looked like a small horsehair snake | erawling over the earth's surface. The | earth—almost the alr—was white with | the heat of the summer sun. All was | vastness, immensity, silence, loneliness; | above, the flawless blue: below, those | seemingly illimitable plains of reddish | yellow, streaked with alkall white, that | swam back and forth before the eyes | in parallel lines until far off they melted into a long, low streteh of shivering | Hlght, the mocking water mirage at the base of the mountain range hundreds .of miles away. Encompassed within . that horizon there was no thing of life _except withds at desuliory meving . Stocked In the emigrant or third-class - car of the train was a crowd of tired, - miserable and dirty people. They loocked out listlessly at the passing landscape, or stupidly at each other, or twisted themselves into all sorts of uncomfortable positions on the bard wooden seats in vain efforts to secure a little sleep. Perhaps the most unprepossessing of them all was a darkfeatured, roughly dresaed man. Deside him was a very little girl in a blue dress. His lowering, repellent face had a scowl upon it which suagested the convict or the desperado, but he was nelther. The scowl and the unconscious sneer about his ugly mouth were born simply of a long and thoroughly fruitless struggle with misfortune. Although pretty, It was easily to be geen that the little girl was his ehild. She was the solitary ray of sunshine in that railway steerage. Even the dull faces of the people In the car took on an expression of tenderness when they looked at her, for she had cheered them during the last three weary days with hier joyous laughter and murry play. Just now sbe was lying asleep on the breast of the ill-favored looking man, one chbby hand pressed against his rough, unshaven cheek. It was un necessary to ask If the child had a mother. She was a momentous factor In a ~ migaty probiem to the man twhoese arm was about her aud whose knit brows - and troubled face showed how hard .it was be studied it. A crazy letter had | PRI % Bhoee the confinent, and ~he had left the tenements of New York “#o fry and reach the golden land of Californin, He had starfed with hard- | Iy sufficient money to take himself and child more than half the distance, but he Liad a confused sort of an idea that he would in some way reach his desti N il. Better v as, al all events, than to remain in the noisome [{ester gtreet den, v nert ithout work or the prospect of any, sii »st of inoney wotuld soon be g X, Fhe station to w 1 his scanty purse had cnabled him to Duy a ucexet for himself and child had been passed hours before. and he was wondering how goon the conductor of the train would discover the shameless Imposition he was practicing upon the railway cem pany. He had not much longer to wait,

;‘m* presently the autocrat of the train, I in a hurried passage through the ecar, | stopped suddenly before him and glanced at the check in his hat. i “Fello! Where are you going?” l The man looked up in what was intended as an humble, respectful and piteous appeal, but his lip curled up over his teeth like that of a harried dog. He could not help it. His volce was mild enough, though, as he said: | “I am going to California, sir, with my little girl.” The man's looks seemed to lrritate

m the not too even temper of the railway offictal. | “You are, eh? Well, where's your ticket for the rest of the way?" “If you would please let me go through the train with my little girl,” replied the unfortunate one, falteringly, -| “I think I could raise the money."” E The baby girl was now wide awake, her big, round, dark eyes fixed wonderingly upon the conductor. “Go through the train? Not much.l Third-class passengers stay in this car. You get off at the next statlon,” said t the conductor In a volce of flerce warn- l ing as he passed on. The man looked despairingly around , at his fellow passengers. 'There was a | gllmmering of sympathy and pity fm" him in some of their whe-begone faces, | but there was little money In :hohfii pockets even if they desired to help | him. In about an hour the conductor came into the car agam and gave the bell | rope a viclous pull. The engine re-i sponded with two short whistles and | gradually the traln slackened i speed ‘ and stopped. | “Come, now, you get off here,” said | the conductor roughly; “‘we're behind time already, and you want to hurry about it.” ~ Again the man’s }ip curled In ap ugly | way, but he made no answer, except to | gather up the few paper bundles or, bread and meat on the seat before him. Then taking his child !n his arms, he followed the conductor to the platform ! and stepped off the train. Before It was under way agaln, however, a hn- z mane brakeman on the last step called | out to him: % “Say, partner, ther ain't nothin’ here, | This Is only a flag station. The east- | bound’ll be along in a few hours. Stop her and board her. The conductor on that train'll let you on. It's = shame to put that kid off In such a place!” % In truth, little about the place indk | cated a rallway station. There was a ilitth- clogsed sentry box looking affalr ? beside the track, and fAfty yards behind |it the remains of an old dugout. Not | { even a trail showed when 1t was that | ]an,\' human being had visiied the spot, { And around the dreary waste of bil { lowy plains and the burning sun over i head. z In the rear ofthe centry box its pro { jecting roof had cast a little shade, and | here the man sat down upon the ground ! with his child still in his arms. Strange { things, for him, came to his eves -lears, | The little one looked up at bim in a t puzzled way, and he hastily briushed Lise | hand across als face and left a broad { smudge of rallway soot upon his check, { She clapped her hands and laughed | with glee at his funny face : Then thirst came to them--that aw | ful, torturing, unreasoning thirst which :Xilu' desert alone can give., The child { eried for water and the father left her i in the scanty shade and stepped out i into the glaring sun. Neither in the ifik_\’ nor In the parchied ground was { there a drop of moisture, and he knew i it. He returned ané tried to-comfort i her, and then he sat down agaln, buried his face in his hands and tried to think. | The evening was coming on when he ! rose to his feet with a new resolve, { Away off in the far wesat a thin, al { most {mperceptible streak of smoke told { him that the east-bound traln was ap | proaching. Near the track he found a dirty shred of a flag hanging to a stiek, : fl'i".‘fl-‘ placed It ia the socket of the up | right ast standing In front of the house. Nervously his fingers fumbled in his pockets until he produced the stump of & lead pencil. Picking up a 'piw-'st of pasteboard he wrote upon {t, | in great, rough letters: -«*@--. - ° . v ® | *SOMEONE TAKE THIS CHILD® i * SHEHASNOPARENTS. . ! - & - - - - @ - » - - |? With a string he placed the pia 3 ‘:lZ'H;‘.:‘.d the neck of the litile girl Fhis { done, he took her In his arms, Kissed her again and again, pointed to th smoke that was becoming blacker and coming. When the rails begon t ne tof the approach of the comhig train, he placed bher near the track, and then ran and hid himself in the dugout. ! From this hiding place he looked out | and eagerly watched the child, while the rattle, and elamor, and thunder of the train grew louder in his ears. On it came with a rush and roar, and flew | past the station {n a gale of wind and {dust. The man's heart died within | him, and then 1t beat wildly agaln. The { train had stopped several hundred ?yards past the statlon and was coming { back to the sentry box. The engineer | had seen the tattered flag. As the long train rolled slowly baekward curlous and Inquiring heads pro- { truded from the car windows The i zold-emblazoned econducior stepped off and looked about him in wonder. Not Ibout it, and the placard was passed from hand to hand. A white-jacketed porter came out of a Pullman car and placed a wooden step on ti eround before it lie was followed by a lady |in black, who descended from : ¢ar and joined the throng. A pah yearn ing, eager, besceching eyes watchod it all from the dugout. To the man in { hiding it seemed that the determination of his child’s fate never would be reach ted. Finally, he saw the lady in black tanke the child in her arms, kiss it and

re-enter the car with it. The passengers scrambled back inte the cars, the conductor waved his hand and the train moved on. Then the father came forth and gazed longingly at the departing train— gazed at it untii it became smaller and smaller—until it became a dot in the plains—until it vanished-—and he knew he was alone. ~ He stretched himself on the baked }ground that night to sleep, but couid l. not. Two little stars in the firmament —modest little stars very near togethler——remlnded him of the eyes of his

RTSR 5R S R 3 R R P B A VS T Ichfld, and he tried to fix his thoughts on them and of her, but 1t was in vain—- ’ he could not forget his thirst. | l The terrible sun rose the next day and llook(\d down upon him as its vietim. | He endeavored to eat some of the bread { he had saved, but the dry crumbs were } torture to his throat. One thing only ' was there to do—to follow the track un- [ til an inhabited station was reached. { It might be fifty miles—it might be morq | —but there was no salvation away ’ from the railroad. | He started off bravely enough, his | Jonging eyes fixed on the ever-receding ' point where the glistening rails met in | the far perspective. But sometimes | his gaze wandered even further on te | where it surely seemed that blue-green | trees were bathing their feet in cool, still waters. ' At noon, when resting for awhile, he heard the rattle of an approaching freight train. Hope welled up within him as he stocd on the track and made frantic motions to stop the train. The Ctrainmen merely langhed at him. IHe did not know he had employed the favorite ruse of tramps. [reight trains were not for the accommodation of such ' gentry. Nor was it a supposable ;' that a wayfarer in the desert ' provided with food or drlns" a l would he be there? el 4 After this his progress was very slow. ! On the third day he came to the end ofy

|his Journey. He may have been d ‘ous or he may have heen quite sane. A train stopped for him and took him | on board. This they always do when | they kill a man.—San Francisco Ar} gonaut. ot Sanitary Science in Chicago. | The Chicago Inter Ocean sets forth a | striking sanitary theory in these words: | Don't spy your drinking water through | g a microscope. Drink it down and trust . to the gastric julee, just as yvour fath-| f ers and grandfathers have done.” This | - advice to Chlcago drinkers ought to be | - sccompanied with some notes and com- | | menis. For instance, it should be | pointe ] out that when his grandfather | I “drank it down™ he did net get it cut iof Lake Michigan. e perhaps got it § oui of some elear spring in the rocky « hills of New England, and that is very !t different. But this adviece to drink {t down hardly goes far enough. This morely’ i toucking upon the affectation and ef- ¢ femiinacy of a race of men who am{ such craven, cowardiy feliows as tai I want pure water narrows the adviee | to @ pitiful point, The true-born Chl- ' eago man should be taught the same s contempt for many other modern deas that he is thus taught for the pitiful notion that water is better when it ts! i clean, ' For instance, why not teach him that L 1f Le bas his knee shot to pleces In & little dispute with pistolg the right : thing to do is to lie down and have it - eut off, but not to let any fellow come i fooling around him with chlommm’ ' and such modern nonsense. Just-make ! ¢ him lie down aud have it hacked off i ; and never mind. For that is what & Monmouth, Fe e And then if there Is any small-poy t around, kick out of the house all imper ! tinent fellows that come on vaccination | errands; but just emulate your grand- | daddies and have a good eld honest | - small-pox, and die with it, as he did.— | | New York Journal. | ~ The Clock Industry. i | Tue manufacturers of clocks have not ; | been so busy at any time during several years past as they are at present; the | | factories devoted to the production uti | silver plated ware are running full§ ‘ time, with large complements of opera- : tives; the watch manufacturers have | | this year given their hands shorter vas | catlons than usual, and are increasing | their aiready large forces; the jewelry E manufacturers of Providence, New } York., Newark., and other centers are: running their factories to their utimost : eapacity: the importeys of art goods, | pottery and bric-a-brac are I'vceh'ingl extensive shipments of goods; makers | of ent glass are producing many new | patterns and are working every frams 1 in their plants. Thus the anticipation | of a goiden shower during tae fall sea- i son is evident throughout the manufac- | turing branches of our industry, anu} . that the manufacturers will not be disappointed all signs indicate. | Making Fun of Bloomers. i One man has found a cure for the | bloomer craze. He Is a shrewd Ver- | monter, and his wife has been addicted | to the bloomer habit for several weeks. In vain he coaxed, expostulated and- | threatened, but his better half refused Ito give up her swagger costume. Afier ? this sort of nrging had gone on for o { while, the wife went out for a spin one | day e¢lad in her favorite togs. While she was absent her husband sat doywn | to the sewing machine and made a pair { of bloemers for every hen on the place. | Ile drew them on the hens, and when ! hiz wife returned he called her to the I barnyard. “They look exactly as you | ! do,” he said, “only they are a good | ¢ deal more graceful.” You ean depend ! i upon it there were some lively words | for a few moments, but the woman has | , not worn bloomers since, and, what is : | more, she deelares she will never be ! | seen in them again. | e | ’ Out of a Burial Mound. i i Near the battlefield of Marathon, at i Kotrona, a prehistoric burial mounga l recently opened yielded eleven oid ! Mycenaean vases, two of them — { and some gold earrings. At a 5:;;’ i called Krikeila, where the Gauls were i | driven back by the Greeks in 279 before Christ, and over 20,000 of them slain, & bronze helinet has been found, and at Lycosura the Mosaic floor of the temple of Despoina has been laid bare. In the center two life-like lions of natural size are depicted, surrounded by successive ernauental borders.

',, R S s b e Ko 'ESTMENT. | ANOVEL INVESTMENT. {, 4 \ | "SANGE COMMERCIAL FAITH. ! A 1 " Cast Upon the Waters of ‘Bde Comes Back After Many Days gnormous Investments in Modern Winess Methods — “ What's in a | : | me?” — Trade Marks and Their ( n.e. \ l ~Ppur forefathers could lock down on | .v"_ pn business methods they would at ‘ Imfll‘st glance conclude that mmh-rn; thants were as mad as March hares. | or they had become thoroughly ac(\l‘nted with the magnificent systems ‘ jth are used by our great railroad cor- \ | wats pnß and mammoth trusts, they | | 2l conclude that the age was an age | hi agicians, and not of fools. The ma- ! :::hb vy of business has kept pace with | sl proved machinery of our mills. Inil' the merchant of to-day avails of no § . “2 machinery in the conduct of his | e; ¥-day office work. Patented systems }O% Qpying, of duplicating, wonderful let ter 8 and huandreds of neat aids to ! officd ork have multiplied very fast dur- | ing ¢F past few years and within the last mong, T'he Graphophone has gone into Actid yge in business offices, so that the €] it can dictate all his correspondo a machine which records it on a A ted cylinder, fromg yhich, at a , ir, the eh riter can reproduce a #Fhe mail. e L e o g T U e

S atTelous developments ol modern g S 8 show more strougly in the matter oL Wgvertising than in most other branchS (YASt sums of money are apparently LT WA in this direction. When a BTeSk comniercial house spends two hundred thousand dollars during a single yeanin newspaper advertising, there is Rothing in the inventory at the close of the Sear which will represent the outlay. Lheßapers have been printed, distributed, eadt and again reduced to pulp in the i mill, while the merchant’s good o ¥ has been paid to the publishers. uflent men, even of the present generAo , hardly comprehend it. Thousands hale their heads, and invest their own ‘ ol®y in bricks and mortar, feeling as- ! ure that they can depend on possessions which they see rather than invest their mondy in building up something which to hemgseems visionary. ! A jrue philosopher of the olden (imn,r put gver his door the legend, “Things in- i visibl deceive not” The bankers and ; builders of his day sneered at him as they connted their gold and reared their solid % ‘)lfigm\ But he had Scripture for his ‘ ~ yarmaut, and modern advertisers are the | | fil’eé followers of his philosophy. He | laboréd to show men that gold might be i - sto buildings might burn, substantial § ons turn to dust and disappoint- i - mentgwhile skill, education and character, | - though invisible, could not be stolen nor | Edcst ed. The modern advertiser goes | much further, and proves conclusively | | that & mere name may be worth a million | AL i B 8 well known and well respected. ; . “What's {u a name?” finds forcible an- | | swer in the columnas of our daily papers. | i The sipewd school boy, who puzzied his | ; compifions by daring them to spell | | honseleoning in seven letters, and then | | solved it by spelling Sapolio, must have | ‘ pcoghized the intimare connection be- | tweel these two ideas which bas been | i buil» st a vast expenditure of money. g The five letters, P-e-a-r-s, though valucless ' singlg.ag@te worth hundreds of thousands |of da lggehon used in connection with - - The ™inted matter, painted signs, W countless devices to make the name dpniar away annually, almost as ust as tg:?nn paid for; but if properly flmgvd‘ the trade pame accumulates and carries forward the value as a per- } manent investmen{ An article of real | worth, cleariy named and widely m:\doé i known to the publie, is sure of a brilliant 3‘ ! suceess, Sapolio affords abundant evi- | ¢ dence of this. Its great usefulness, its | i distinet but descriptive name, and its al- | ! most aniversal use Lias resulted in as great ; | success to its manufacturers as in assist- | ' anee to the housekeepers of the world. | i “Such an investment as the trade-name ' Sapolio needs no fire insurance, and can- | ! not seeretly be cenveyed to Canada. lf’; | tampered with or infringed upon, it must i he done openly, and modern law with each | suecceeding vear recognizes more forcibly i than before the rights of trade-name own- | ers, snd punishes with greater alacrity i attempts at infringement. The manuifac- ! surers of Sapolio have successfully over+hrown congtless imitations, and we un- | derstand that they are now prosecuting i denlers who silently pass another article i gver their coputers when the customer has ! plainly asked for Sapolio. This is » pew ' departure in law, but is clearly equitable. It promises to add another link to the laws { which assist in the defense of trade marks i aud trade names. - { Anattempt to imitate is always despicai ble, except when monkeys or stage mimics { are thereby enabled to amuse an audii ence. Yet although the history of trade { furnishes no instance of a really success- { ful imitation, still hundreds attempt it | avery year. } In the office of the Sapolio manufactur- ! ars there is a Chamber of Horrors where | the proprietors keep samples of the many | cakes of imitation stuffs which have been ! vainly put forward only to meet with | prompt failure or to drag out a profitless i existence through a few years. 'l‘_iwv {'n.)l)i Je is too discriminating to buy an inferior { article on the assertion that it “is just as | zood as Sapelio.” . : ’ Tiie man who attempts to deceive by imigkiing the name or appearance of anathe man's geods \ i ‘w"xZipZ‘nh‘f:!:Zi‘l«‘u 5 hfl"i‘\» L :I,:\ is a fact 1.;”\3,..‘_‘,53_14;::1\;‘5 T R . cathy for one of their kind. & i \‘%““‘fl “11\“ !;:r better frie of of infs XA'i TheSghan that the goods are pushed forP oritvi@Bder the cover of a better reputaFwer 23 the Chamber of Horrors in the 0" 4Building tells in plain terms how | \"Pnblic recognizes and despises such | atteAPtS. L e { It'is not an emply faith or visionary i sruecnlation that leads these well-known | manufacturers to expend hundreds of | thoneands of dollars in constantly re- | mindine the worid of Sapolic. . Years of ! intimate acquaintance lrave taugh? tiiem | that the public knows a good article and | is willing to pay for it; that the market ! for fi“("‘;f!tnq!\" whether it be butter or | fruits, or laces or diamon 1~ yes, n{“%':m.l :M'm:rinf.: soap. is never giutted. Fhey i have become intimate with the people. . - 1.1 -y " ~arve «@n - ! Sapelio is &t !!H’.l.\t‘ht‘-‘l. ‘\\v“-*!- always j-yk- | ,-\n‘“.;,h good will, as 1f 1t were a .":‘-.i!!}'}‘l:U‘ ! friend. The thousands who pass i:."_““‘ i Sun building on ’thx-n' \:':l,\' tu.'nlxrz ::“-:l‘h | the Brooklyn Bridge, look up with a smile i as they recognize the great sign '“‘“"}' | now overhangs the ruins of If 1'«:'.1«-_1‘1 g }'ln— | tel and say: ‘There it 1s agam, when | they recognize the seven letters .’i['!‘:lli;::\“;‘ | under the seven days of the week, with | the brief statement that “if 1150«1';""“{:]‘}" i week day it brings rest on Sunday.” The j zreat white wall looks as though it had ! been cleaned with Sapolio, :l}!d a verse unl derneath gives the comforting assurance | | that— - . i This world is all a fleeting show, Tor man’s illusion given; But woman, with Sapolio, Can make that show a heaven. Poets, artists, designers, clever writers, ! many of whom would not condescend to

DR 0L P B NI K YNO B o S A i .e 5 S touch on tmade topics in an ordhmry_wayi ¢ do not hesitate to set forth the merits of , Sapolio. It is a simple solid cake of ; scouring soap, but the sun never sets upon | its sale. From New York to San Fran- i cisco it is found in every household, light- | ening the housewife’s care, and, like ‘the | great men of the world, wasting itself to ' make everything aroiind it brighter. In | Honolulu, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Bombay, | Ceylon, Calcutta and Alexandria it forms | a chain which binds the West of cn‘ll-! ization with its Eastern edge; while over | Australasia, the African colonies, and the | - countries of South Africa its sales are l very extensive, | This slight record of its successes and

| sSystems is a good proof of the valne nfi modern advertising, and we have coupled it with some facts relating to the disas- | ters of those who have not followed the | broad theory of advertising and created | a name and reputation for something dis- ‘ tinctively their own, because we would ! not by painting a tempting picture of suc- | cess lure thoughtless pecple to make the | mistake of supposing that servile imita- | tion would lead them to the same ang. ; Josh Billings covers the ground, “Never | oppose a success. When 1 see a rattle- | snake’s head sticking out of a hole, I say | that hole belongs to that snake, and I:go | about my business.” | | A UNIQUE TOWN. Probably It Doesn’t Exist, but It'a ' Perfectly Feasible. ~ “I live in a town,” said the gentle- , | man at the hotel to the reporter looky | Ing for an item, “that is unique in its 2 | way.” “What'ssthe town?” inquired the reg [t et G i —————

porter. W ok “It doesn’t make any difference what g the town is; it is unique.” ; “In what does its uniquity consist, | then?” asked the reporter, seeing that ’ “he was balked on the previous question. ! ~ “It is self-supporting and there are no taxes.” 5 “Geewhillikins!" exclaimed the re- | porter, “give me its address. I want' to go there right away.” l ~ “No,” said the inhabitant of this Ar-} cadian vilalge, “I shall not do anything | of the kind. We den't wantany more ! people there at present. We may after ; a2 while, but as yet we are not ready | for an increase.” ‘ | “What kind of a town is it?” ~ “An excellent town, of course.” l - “I should say so. Why den’t you put it in a dime museum*” | .~ “We don’t have to; we can support | | ourselves easter than that.” i | “How do you do it?’ ; ‘ “Simple enough. When we laid out | i the town fifteen years ago we made it a corporation that could carry on its iown busivess. In this way the towi | | In the disposal of lots sold only every | ! other lot, so that now it owns half the K i ground it occupies. These lots it gave ‘ { long leases on at ficures which enabled ! | lessces to build good houses on for | | business and dwelling, and on condi- | | tions quite as favorable, if not more so, | { than those had who bought outright. | We had the country around us, good in agriculture, mineral, water 'and i:r:\uspormtion to insure a town, audi | when it was once started it went % ahead, until now we nave between [ 5,000 and 7.000 people, and our ground | rents pay all our expenses and practi- ! cally leave no city tax. Then we have ,' ‘ sowme othier sources of revenue from the | money the corporation put into manufacturing plants and mines, and on‘ the whole we are in clover as a com- ! munity.” é 1 “Now, look here,” pleaded the re- 1 5 porier, “give a fellow a chance. Tell ‘ e the name of the place and let me go | there, too.” | But the visitor was close-mouthed iflnd the reporter went away unsatis- | fied, even the hotel register conveying | no information that was of any value. '} —Detroit Free Press.

E Paper Socks. , § The day of tlie paper collar passed | away some years ago, and, though pa- | § per is used to-day In many more forms % than were ever dreamed of a few dee- ' ades back, this cheap article of haber- : dashery has almest disappeared from i the market. But there is promise that it wiil have a worthy successor in the l paper sock, which is the latest novelty | to be ground out of the pulp mill. The | mechanism has been perfected to paper | yarn of such consistency that it is ca- | pable of being woven into fabries soft -‘;euough for wear. A special merit is iglhe cheapness of this newiy devised : l material, socks being produced at a re tail price of about 3 cents a pair. At - l this rate there is no reason why the ) } whole world may not be supplied with | foot coverings. At 3 cents a pair the , | bachelor's life will become giadscme 3 i and happy. It is said that substances - | ean be used in the preparation of this EE material to make the socks so imper- " | vious tc water that they can stand sevf , eral washings before failing apart. ;- : Cowardice of a Large Eagzle. .1 The claim of the eagle to the title of =I king of birds seems to be slightly clouded by an incident reported from | Stafford County,-Virginis..-A-geuntle- | {man down there was watching an un- | | usually fine bald eagle grandiy sailing : | around in the air a few days ago, when he noticed a little bee martin rise in | the air and make straight for the eagle. | lie wondered what the martin’s object i eould be, and was surprised to see it | sail in boldly to tear the feathers out i of the big eagle. But he was amazed to tsee the eagle, after a few moments of | lofl‘m-z at beating off the little bird, sail taway in full fiight, making every eiiort | lto escape from the martin. The mar- | | tin followed up closeiy for awhile, i making a savage jab at the eagle every | { few yards, but was finally left behind ! i!h!‘ullgh the superior retreating pow | ors of the big eagle. ' The only American order ever found- | ed was that of the Cincinnati, in 1783. : It was soon dissolved, a Scciety of | Cincinnati taking its place. It was | composed of the oflicers of the revolu- : tionary war. , There is a loaf of bread in the Agri. ' cultural Department at Washington | made from the roasted leaves of a plant | allied to the century plant Another | kind of bread is from dough of juniper | berries. i

2 R U eO T T TTaS NS o 5.5 ‘ e e : am Ty 71 HUSTLING HOOSIERS. i —_—— —_— ———— ! SR e | TEMIS GAT!<SRED FROM OVER ! THE STATE- | T ! An Interesting Summary of the ore Im. { portant Doings of Qur Neighhors—Wed. ‘ i dings and Deauths—Urimes, Casualties, % and General Indiana News Noles. | e e { . Returns to ilis Family Afier Thirty-

Three Years Absence. © Tharty-three years ago Aaron Swain of Kokomo, went to California, leaving behind s wife and infant daeghier, promising to retern from the gold fields with a fortune. Twenty years rolled by, and, no %tidiugs of the absent husband coming to i the ears of the family, Mrs. Swain married | again and is rearing & second family. The infant daughter deserted by Swain was ‘ mairried to George Conner eighteen years ‘ago, and sihie now has children grown. { The cther day Swain, after 2 third of a {century‘s absenee, reapp2arad on the ! seene, callinz first at the home of his ! daughter, the wife of his youth being %nu\\' the wife of a prosperous farmer in Henry County. On brinz told that she § was presiding over another household and | the mother of a second set :f children, the ! old gentleman manifested no great con- ! cern. ' ‘ “\Well,” said he, *she has got none the ! best of me on that score. 1 have another - | wife and children ia California myseif.”

;there is muech speculation as to the cut- - eome of the mairimonial tangle. The old : gentleman is puzzled to know which wile 'to koeep. Theold lady wiil probably de- ' eide the maiter. E DMinor State Items. . | Elwoed is to have a $60,000 theater by Christmas. I The next State turnfest will be held at South Boend in July. ! Hannibal Fleicher aged 73, was found ; dead in bed at Shelbyville. | Oliver O'Neil, a Brazil buteher, fell into a vat of boiling lard, and was fatally ; scaided. | Chiefs of Pclice of Indiana met at Terra ' Hlaute, Tuesday, and effectad a permanent .E organizwion. l Mrs. Marion McKay was thrown from ‘a ranaway buggy at Shelbyville, aad | fatally injured. | During the centennial Fort Wayne will | give bieyele races in which $1,500 in prizes { will be aw arded. i The silverware found in a corn fieid near ; Elwood has lecn identitied as that stoien ! from a Noblesviile jewelry store. i The State Cenvention of the Young ; Women's Christian Association of Cities { and Colicges will be hield in Rickmond, { Oct. 17. ; In trymg to climb on thecarsat Jones- : boro, Raundail Chimitkin fell under the i wheels and lest bothlegs. He was enly 11 | years old. i AJ. Hinkley, aged 64, a patient in the i Central Hospital for the Insane, at Indiani apeiis, committed suieide by hanging him= i self with a towel. i South Bend board of elueation has in- ! troduce:d the teaching of Swedish into the | public schools. A night seboel twice a i week is held for that purpese. | The strike at the plate-glass works at | Kokomo has ended disasirously for the i men. The company put men inthe plaee e again at the old WagEET e “The Elwood Police Board has issued an ! order closing up all the gambling rooms in ! the city and ordering the preprieiors te ‘ keep them closed in the feture, or have ail the fixtures burned in the streefs. The ! order is being obeyed. ! Patents have been issued to rezidents of Indiana as foliows: Edward Brewer, { Greenwood, roiary phetegraph albuinj i George Pederson, neek voke: James Simpi son. Veeqersliwre, gate; James C. Burgess, i Yountzyiile, boit elipper.

i Sheriff Furk investigated the Sheibyvilie | jail and discovered that the bars had been i sawed away from a window, and that a I wiwelesale delivery had been planned. A ! saw and a file were dound in one eeil. { Among the prisoners are two alleged muri derars. g The soven-months-olki child of C.P. ! Kerr of Brazil, who was given a tablet of | corrosive sublimate by ifs grandmother, i who thought it was a tabiet leit by the doctor fur the child, is dead. The aged t]udy who gave the peisen is distracted { with grief. ! The Rev. Nathan Caldwell MeDiil will i have completed his forty-third yearas pasi tor of the United Drethren Chureh, at 3 Riechiand, Rush County, in Novemuber, { fle is now 71 yvears cld, but continues in ! the active discharge of his duties as péstor. i Ile has been married three times. ; The private bank of C. D. Perter, ol i Geneva, has been reorganized under the { title of the Gencva Bank, as a State insti- | tution, with a paid-up capital of $69.600. *i The officers clected are: A. G. Briggs, | President; S. W. Hale, Viee Presiaent: C. | D. Porter, Cashier,and Eagene Ash, Asi sistant Cashier. i i State Gas Inspector Leach gives the ! cheering intelligenee that ihe gas com- | panies will furnish satistactory services : this year. Ile says that exrericneed men ;‘ are at the head of the eompanies now, and ! he does not helieve that patrons will have f cause to complain. Inspecter Leach has ;' begun a nember of prusccu!{«ms against i t«!tz&sc \'i'lhau:ic: gas rec’;}kf;gs in the feld, and will pash them. He has had consid- ‘! erable tmn_fii‘e‘ over themmbemfigk,ahfi | most of his prosecations will be directed : against those who have refuzed to abanden i this practice. ! The people of Posey township Clay i County, are exeited over an eil tind made : there. When the firm of B. Roberts & { Bro. was sinking a waoll on :he Jeff James { farm, a mile and a half sputhwest of ¢ Stannton, the men were suddenly driven i eut of the well by a flow of il which gushed ! up frem the bottom and filled it toa depth |of twelve ivet. The oil was siruex at a | depth cf thirty-five feet. FProperty has ; already tisen to ten times its vaiue. The ;fi.nd was made about a mile from where ' Terre Ilaute people two years ago made an unsuceessful attempt to find il While Jos. Pye was hauling gravel at Qaklandon. his team ran away, throwing him under the wagen, whieh passed over his body, killing him almeost instantiy. Mr. Fye was ason-in-law of the late . G. Hanrna. He was a member of the 1. O. O. F. and leaves a wife and cne child. Clinton Miller committed suicide at the fair grounds at Marion by shooting himself through the head. He left a leter stating that, having spent all of his wil's money as well as his own, and having otherwise grossly misbehaved, he feit that the best thing he could de was to put an end to his existeqze.