St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 January 1896 — Page 2

hrs IS A SOFT SNAP. HOW THE AVERAGE MEMBER OF CONGRESS KILLS TIME. » la Pen Picture of Uis Daily Life in 1 Washington-Tells Stories, and Is an All-Around “Good Fellow” —HI® Secretary Works. The Daily Grind. ^Washington conespondence: THE work of the average member of Congress is very

1 V. ’ v » light this session. Only the leaders have the slightest prospect of hard work before them. Most of the committees will have nothing to do. The ComJmittee on Ways ami f Means, which is usually hard worked, Jhas finished its la- . bors, as far as any lone can see, and can " look complacently upon tho future. The

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committees on elections have a great deal to do, but the work is divided up. and it is expected that all will be soon over with. The Appropriations Committee has its Usual work, and those other eommrttees having appropriation bills cannot enjoy immunity from labor, but beyond that there is hardly any work in sight that the committee will have to do. unless, to get campaign material, they lake up investigations. Billh are numerous enough, but very few of them demand attention, or are likely to receive any. Upon two or three members on the Democratic side and half a dozen or so on the Republican side will fall the labor of looking out for party politics. The average member of the House has ample time to think over his own affairs, or to study and prepare himself for a career, or to devote to theater going and pleasure. He does not have to get to the Capitol much before 12 o’clock, unless he happens to have been assigned to one of the few working committees, ami he does not always have to go to the Capitol at all. The average man breakfasts about I* o’clock. Half an hour before this his morning’s mail is brought around. It |will consist of maybe half a dozen news papers, a lot of pamphlets, tracts and ad vertiscments, and from ten to twenty-live letters. All the newspapers except the local paper of his own home goes into the waste basket promptly. These are followed by the pamphlets and advertisements. and finally by some of the letters. iMost of the latter have to be answered. Home of them require something to be looked up at the departments or elsewhere, and involve work before they can be answered. Generally the reply can be bnade at once in a line and all of the writing is done by the Congressman's stenographer, provided at Government expense. After the letters are seen to, the member reads his home paper and looks over the principal features of one of the Wash Ington papers, and then sets out for the ’ day. If he has a committee meeting at the Capitol, all this morning work will be Shortened and much of it postponed until later in the day. If there is no meeting of this sort demanding his attention, the hour of his arrival at the Capitol is regulated largely by his fondness for being Been in his seat, or for mingling in the gossip ante-session assemblage. At the Capitol. Whatever time lie has to spare between tiis arrival and the hour of prayer is devoted to gossip with bis colleagues. Near the elevator, by the basement entrance principally used, is the House postoffice. Here the member stops on his way to the ball of the .House and gets his second morning mail. He may get from two to balsa dozen letters. These he usually reads during the session of the House. If be did not have a clerk, he would have to answer them as he read them, but, as it pow is, a note on the back will remind him of their contents, and he puts them away until he can get hold of his stenographer. If the member has any bills he has been asked to introduce, or which he has had his stenographer prepare for him. he hands them to one of the clerks at the desk or puts them in the recepta le designated for bills at some time during the day. If he has a bill or resolution he wants unanimous consent to have considI I KILLING TIME IX THE CORRIDOR. > *red during the morning hour, he endeaWors to see the speaker before the House meets, to arrangq.for recognition, and if 81^ does not succeed in this he takes his place in the semi-circular space in front »f tho speaker's desk immediately aftei prayer, and, with bill held iu the air. • waits the speaker’s recognition, mean /while making frantic efforts to catch that (evasive orb, the speaker's eye. When the recognition has been arranged beforehand, he has but to stand in bis place on the fioor and address the speaker. During the session, after the morning hour, the member seldom pays any attention to the reg mlar proceedings unless they personally Interest him. His time is then demanded between reading letters or the newspapers, looking over the Congressional Record, disicussing some question or exchanging gossip and stories with some of his colleagues, at his seat, in the cloak room or In the speaker’s lobby; receiving visitors Jn the lobbies, going to lunch and making »n occasional visit to the other wing of She Capitol to see his Senator. If he is »asily entertained, and not given to talking, he may lean back in his chair most ®f the day, with his hands folded, and listen in an abstracted, inattentive sort of >ay to what is going on about him, with

out participating in it or fully realizing what it is. Sometimes, seized with a fit of industry or with t'he view of having his evening free, he may retire to the speaker's lobby or to a committee room, with bis clerk, and finish off his correspondence. An occasional trip to the restaurant may relieve the monotony, or he may saunter through the corridors, seeing the croud and being seen, or he may sit for awhile with a visitor in one of the galleries. Usually as much time is occupied in going to the corridors in response

to cards as in any other way. It is seldom that lie pays any attention to the business of the House, except on some special occasion, or when he has a direct interest in what is up. After adjournment he either gets another mail at the postoflice or it is delivered at his lodgings, and this again demands his attention. All told, he may have a dozen letters during the day. or he may have fifty. The lighter mail of the afternoon he may dispose of before dinner or he may lot it go over until morning. After dinner it Is n call, the theater, visitors, an evening in the parlor with the ladies, a loaf in the hotel corridors, or a hunt, through volumes in preparation of a speech held in contemplation, to be delivered at some time, according to sentiment and circumstances. The theaters and the hotel lobbies are the

I! 1 r GETTING THE MAU.. most common places of resort in the evening. THE G. A. R. CITY. Vcternns of the War Founding a Town In Southern Georgia. Many veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic are again “marching through I Georgia." says an Atlanta correspondent. > Ibis time they are coming on a peaceful ! mission, and are coming to stay. They ' have started in to build a city in the southern part of the State. Thirty five thousand acres of tine rolling land have j been purchased and options have been ' secured on GS,O(M> more. Tho co-opera-tive colony, for such it will be, is located in Irwin County, on the ground made historic by the capture of Jefferson Davis after the fall of Richmond. Tho colony now has a population of .’ljmmi which it is believed will increase to 25,(W before tho close of the year. A town site has been laid off covering lassi acres. I'ho streets are being graded, sowers put in. and a water supply is i being provided by iv system <>f artesian i wells, it was not intended for the »v' tiers to go in until alter tin hist of tho year <>r along toward spring, but the “sooners" could not be held back. However. upon their arrival they were corralled in one corner of the reservation and given permission to put up any temporary buildings they pleased. Hundreds of ' shacks made of rough pine boards have i been nailed together, and the immigrants ! are roughing it. Rui they are all contented and believe thoroughly in the fu- I ture of their experiment. The idea of a Grand Army colony was ! started by Philip Fitzgerald, a pension attorney and capitalist of Indianapolis. He says that he found the old soldiers complaining of the cold in winter. The exposure of their campaigns is telling on them in their old age ami they cannot stand what they once could in the way of enow and ice. There was a very prevalent wish aniongjdie veterans for a home amid congenial neighbors in a mild climate. So a co-operative colony was projected. Thus far the members of the colony represent a population of 54.<*m>, the most । of which is expected to migrate southward and settle a? and around Fitzgerald. It is a thoroughly organized movement. । and has a great deal o’ significance not only for the South, but also far the Wes’. I Many mechanics from Pullman. 11).. have i joined the movement. They come for work and a home which they can get for very little money. The land costs only $3.50 an acre, and it is good land, too, । covered with the long-leaf pine and tho ! best fruit soil in the South. Sparks from the Wires. A. 11. Brownley, of London, Canada, was held up on the beach at Santa Monica, CaL, and at t'he point of a pistol forced to sign ten American Express Company's checks for SSO each. A. Chicago executions aggregating $27,041 in favor of S. D. Kimbark, the Iroquois Furnace Company ami J. J. I’arkhurst, were levied on tho property of the < 'bi. j o Stein and Axle Company. I In the Church ol Hur Lady, Brooklyn, j there Ins been enthroned a sacred relic of St. Stephen, who was stoned to death on the day following the crucifixion. Assistant Attorney General Newell of Illinois, in reply to the query, “Can a young man 20 years of age or under be examined for and appointed a mine manager?" holds that he cannot. All such candidates must be legal citizens. Thore was a largely attended meeting of Irish Nationalists at Wexford. John Redmond addressed the meeting. Reference which he made to the British invasion of the Transvaal brought forth loud and continued cheers for the Boers. James Newman and wife, aged between ’>o and iU years, were found in their homes near St. Paul, asphyxiated from coal gas. Both were dead. They had no children, but a brother of Mr. Newman is said to live in New York city and is u cal thy. An important order for the expedition of the mails across the Mexican border has been issued by Assistant Postmaster General Neilson, providing for the first exchange of the mails of railway post* offices of the United States and Mexico. This does away with the stopping of the mails at the postofiice of both countries along the line and effects a saving of twen-ty-four hours and more in some instances. The mail allowed to pass without interference is restricted to unregistered letters, postal cards and periodical publications.

LONDON S WAR SCARE GERMANY AND ENGLAND MAY FIGHT. Srcat Britain Active in Military Prep, uratione Feeling; Against Germany Gaine Intenaity-Emperor Declines to Recognize English Suzerainty. Crisis in African Affairs. London is for war. Jingoism, hysterical n its fierce intensity, has taken possession >f the populace, and nothing will satisfy them but the immediate shedding of GerMan idood. At least this is the tenor of late London cablegrams and newspaper iditorials. The same rash cries that Hurtled and tlji^l^d the.oxvij.ed Frisians In 1870 are awJkemng tbe cchoOs of the murky and fog-enshrduded metropolis. The hoarse shouts are but a paraphrase »f the impetuous Gallic yells, “On to Berlin.” Tory newspapers of tho ultra-coq-lervativc stripe are to blilmo for this montcing tumult. For days they have been

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fuleomcly extolling the buccaneering ex ploits of Jameson against the Boers. The । Times has fatuously stated b n douhle- ; leaded lending article that t e “march : will remain a glorious tradition for the 1 Anglo Saxon race," while the St. James' । Gazette says it relieves to a certain extent the dark odium attaching to Majuba Hill. But the principal otiw of the excitement is a di-qvatch from Berlin that tho il kun Ssh* wlr i " v 1 L KMCEHOn IM! ! lAM, German emperor has declared, in no J ambiguous phrases, that he will no longer recognize the treaty of INM. thus express ing an intent to dash aside the British । flaim of suzerainty over the South Afri ran rept blic. Hardly had this news been publishr ’, ■ when the Globe issued an extra edition announcing under "scare headlines" that urgent and extreme activity prevailed in 1 tho war office and in the naval dockyards, and adding tin following startling tiding*: "A dispatch received from th? military camp at Aidershot says that the general belief, almost bucked by proof, prevails there that the authorities are considering the mobilizing of the army reserves and part of the militia. TTie men employed in tho ordnance stores are all very busy." This announcement simply intensified ;

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the inflamed condition of the popular mind; and John Bull, represented by the average pot-valiant Londoner, shouted in raucous tones his utter detestation and defiance of the German ruler and his p rmy. The activity In diplomatic circle* has seldom been equaled, a correspondent says. It is feared if tho dispatches announcing the bellicose intention of Em-

peror William be true that Europe will be in a blaze in a few days. But there must be no doubt touching the attitude of the Salisbury governn/int. It will most assuredly fight for the maintenance of the treaty, and no diplomatic argument will be potent enough to swerve it from that stern determination. Already Sir Frank Lascelles, tho British ambassador, has been instiueted to demand of tho imperial German minister of state, Von Biebersteln, an explanation touching these astounding reports affecting tho attitude of the kaiser. This demand is expected to counteract in a measure the querulous note of tho Berlin government in regard to the bushwhacking operations of Cecil Rhodes and his ministers in South Africa. Emperoi William’^ Defiance. Emperor William’s declaration to Dr. NV. J. Leyds, Secretary of State for the Transvaal, that ho would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the Boer republic, coming ns it doos so soon .after the note to President Krueger congratulating hijn on the defeat of the English Invaders under the lead of Dr. Jameson, is particularly offensive to British pride. Great Britain boldlj nnncxed the Transvaal to Cape Colony in 1877, at a time

when the republic wa.s in difficulty with tho native Africans. Although the nnnovation w as said to be in response to a request from residents in the Transvaal, tho Boers soon rebelled against British rule. By the treaty of Ixs| the independence of the South Afro an republic was re< ogniz.ed in all matters relating to internal affaim. But Great Britain retained a suzerainty over the eonntry. and it tins through her ministers that all foreign m g :.,i! : * ot the republic were to be conducted. In the eyes of 'ie B 1 i-b, ther •: e, Em peror William is ov< rso ppirg the buunda of courtesy in presnmoig to . ■ tnmunicata with the Gov.-rument f the T ansi an! at all, ex.-ept through Ilie ministers of her majesty's government \\ iam'* d< > latation that he will recogmzi m> * .zerainty over the ’l'ransvaal, nliicb the British claim by virtue of tr<a y is nn added insult that oiar -t be pa--..’ ..ver without i n serious humiliation to thcpiiflcor Great Britain. 't’he situation la fomp’' '.ited. *■> . by th® na»’t led s h Asrica, fr >: l whence trilstn uy HjEain i- : t. mis x .gly tm’iig.T < Rhodes 1 has resigned the premiership «.f (’ape Colony, but the ren-on ■ r Lie m not i yet appnr<- ।’. <c; 0e:..:, , oio n theta was nn •.im’ioti ~f i:>. s-rt- • .me from the home „■> • ' « F e • z of ■ the chartered comp.my i •ob tmg a war of nggre»sion against the M.itabeb s, Rhodes, in threat, suggest, i she p ■ *ibiltty <>f a British South At:, ui republic independent of Great Britain. It is highly improbable that Janns n’s raid into the Transvaal was made w .' > ' H the knowledge atid connivance >f Rhodes. I’osslbly that uncrowned king of South At a hojtes for nn early realization of k t dream* of federniion, mid Ims resigned in order that he may not be imtnje.td by official responsibilities. C' ^s 4 - - ■ : F 3 FY' . ' Os course, we want to tight with the rest of the boys, but we shall not bo moasi nred for a brass mounted suit before spring. Uncle Sum will not permit bull fights in this country, but he isn't averse to taking a hand, if necessary, in n John Hull tight elsewhere. The London Globe thir.ks “the Monroe j doctrine is dead.” W 11, we’re keeping

it yet, and no one will be permitted tc jump on the corpse. After all, do we really need a war? Isn't our supply of colonels large enough? The last revolution in Colombia is said to have cost the citizens of that country i $4 apiece. Dirt cheap' Why, an ordinary Fourth of July celebration in this coun- 1 try costs a fellow more than that

CRISP FORMS OF THOUGHT. SOLOMON AND TUPPER TWISTED TO SUIT A MODERN TRADE. The Wisdom of the Sages and the Wit of the Masses, Even the Work of the Missionaries, Are Grist in the Mill— They Are Poached Upon by Authors anti Advertisers, Whether Solomon invented all his proverbs or gathered them from many sources \vith a nicer sense of permanent worth than Mr. Tupper exercised in his later compendium is and ever will be an open question. Solomon’s copyright run out long before 1 upper's time, and both are now poached upon with impunity by ail classes, from authors to advertisers. But, taken by themselves, proverbs well repay careful study. Students of ethnology find in the proverbs of the different races the clearest proofs of their real characteristics, for they are the shrewdest and yet most intimate expressions of their daily life. Judged by the comparison of these homely sayings it will be found that all nations are of one kindred, possessing common needs, common aspirations, and seeking similar reliefs from toll and labor. On the dustiest shelves of our libraries may be found collections of till the proverbs of the different nations, quite a large proportion of the work having resulted from the interest which missionaries have taken in their earnest studies of the uncivilized peoples whom they seek to instruct. That the shrewd sayings of the Scotch or the bright hits of the Irish should be carefully collected gives little cause for surprise; but a collection of Abyssinian proverbs, of those of the Tami! language, of Icelandic lore, of the Sanscrit, South Sea Island, Chinese, an I Hottentot Solomons does excite curiosity. 1 he missionaries nave found it a pleasant ns well as a profitable task. Il delves deep into the idioms of the language, tells with unerring accuracy the mental tendency of the people, and by introducing the foreigner into the inner thought of both home and trade shows him the real life of those who adopt them as everyday expressions. It is impossible to read tho well collated proverbs of the Chinese without realizing that a home life exists in that llowery kingdom which tivals that of many more civilized countries. No Solomon, no descendant of Abraham, could eclipse the trade proverbs of tho Chinese. They touch on trade with a keenness and thoroughness which proves thi-m to be masters in that school. The baser life of the Hottentot, the loose morals of the fellah, the imlcpemh-nt spirit of the Briton, are nil crystallized iu their national proverbs. In England and many other countries it was formerly wry usual for a tradesman ’ ’ Sl bs t some proverb as his motto, and thus post his principles plainly over his shop door. It remained. However, for an Arm-r. an house to appropriate the prowrl s of the World in masse, and use them 1 tli> • ou ii advan.-ement. Neu Yorkers wh<» ride on the elevated roads, or people who in h-ss favored localities still jog nhmg in the slow .street cars, are familiar wit a the blue and white proverbs which pf". hum the merits v s Sapolio to the world. Ei cry omnibus in London and almo>i every “tram i ai ' in England is similarly adorned. T hey made ilx-ir first appearance on the Broadway omnibuses, were gathcreil out of over 1.000 pages of the world’s collections, and twisted to -.uit the < a e. Many । of ’hem are beyond easy recognition in their new d. -s, n izy are entirely origI 11131, but these are also printed between in- : > । rt-J uiimas. which l« nds a glamour of | auty to thi in To day we tire told ’hat ..ver 2O,‘HMi of these blue cards are di-played in public c- ni ei anecs carrying over G.’xhi imhi passengers daily. < 'indeusi d thought generally requires padding to make it inteUigibie to the mas,< s. just as the stomach of the horse must be di-tended with hay to make the oats digest readily; but with proverbs it is quite otherwise. Their popularity is only r< ached because they have passed muster as being dear to every mind. They tell their story with a directness and brevity which pleases the public, as the dictionary did the old Scotch woman—- “ They air braw stories,'' she said, “but uu ’o' short.” ruined to tell the practical story of Sapolio, they often acquire new interest. \\ ii > reads th.- advice, “Be patient ami you will have patient children,” without an innate respect for the advice which foli-ois. not to fret over house cleaning, but do it easily with Sapolio? Atul who in repress a smile when the S ip.il, .ni,- artist pii tures the patient father a cd the impatient twins defying tho proverb? But the mother will be back A ■ \ W iTA , •- l kzCO>YM'CKT sooner if site follow the advice. Our familiar “The pot cal's the kettle black" takes a new interest in its Italian forth. The pot says to the pan, “Keep off or you'll smutch me.” The universal toil of the world finds expression in the Catalan phrase, “Where wilt thou go, Ox, that thou wilt not plough?” Almost all nations possess a proverb which declares that “if you forbid a fool a thing, that he will do,” and with confidence in the good will of the public the advertiser of Sapolio puts it in this form: “Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do.” So we say for variety: “Don't use Sapolio—but then you're not a fool.” “A touch of nature which makes all the world akin” springs out of the quaint thought that “A needle, though naked itself, clothes others.” Who can hear it once and ever see a needle without recalling it? Who fails to re-ognize the picture it suggests of the aid given to the poor by the poor, and of the help which is everywhere gained from the humblest of assistants? Slang never can be confounded with proverbial phrases. It seems universal, but it is merely a local form used to express a transient, but popular idea. Years ago, when a general rush at hotel keeping resulted in many failures, the slang ran: “He's a very good man. but he can’t keep a hotel.” All such phrases are local and temporary. They do not survive—indeed, rarely possess merit enough to reach a second year without evident decline in popularity. We have noticed that none of the advertisements of Sapolio make ®se of slang, and probably for this reason. Naturally many of the best proverbs

used in this connection relate to houa* hold cleanliness, and all the original ones are framed to that end. “Dirt in ths house builds the highway to beggary,’* deserves recognition, despite its origin. „ in th « sense of fourailed buildings, lull of furniture, are TJ’tc lacking in many Eastern tongues. AVe believe that no reference to clean housekeeping can be found in the Koran or even in the Bible, except that of the woman who swept the house to find her lost coin. Shakspeare rather slights the subject, but whether because it was not deemed important in that intellectual but dirty age or because he soared to grander things, we will not discuss, but the England of to-day well says of home, “The cleaner ’tis the cosier ’tis,” and our Amerle ■ '-L l l U UM powoe k /—mix -tS? V . can advertiser improves the opportunity to add that humble homes made bright with Sapolio are better than tawdry palaces. Alas, for the thoughtlessness of the man who forgot to ask whether his bride used Sapolio. The Scotch proverb records his case: “Ye hae tied a knot wi* your tongue ye winno loose wi' your teeth.” Coyotes and Cattle. A novel scheme for saving his cattle from the droves of coyotes that infest the region has been hit upon by a rancher of Glen Rock, Wash. He has placed bells on the necks of a great number of cattle in his herds, and the t result has been to scare the coyotes : away. In the two months since he i belied his herds he has not lost a single animal, while previously his loss j averaged at least one steer a day. [ Coyotes are becoming more of a pest j every season iu many parts of Washi ington and Oregon, despite all th® efforts of the cattlemen and farmers to exterminate them. Thousands of dollars are spent every year i i waging war on the beasts, but witli little re- ! suit. Poison availed for a time, but i now the coyotes refuse to touch the poisoned carcasses of steers strewn I about for their consumption. The only way of killing them is by shooting them, and this is a feeble and wholly ‘ inadequate means. Occasionally th® ■ residents of a district combine and have a grand round-up hunt, driving the coyotes toward the center of a circle and slaughtering them there, and thin itu- only means of appreciably thinning them out occasionally. In some regions the packs of gray wolves are as numerous and troublesome as the coyotes. The coyotes are particularly adept chicken thieves, and, indeed, ara a general pest around the farm yards. A Great Financier. An old negro down in Georgia was lately telling something of his condition as a property holder, and seemed quite pleased that lie was so well off. He said; “Ise bought sum ole marster 50 acres er groun’, cn Ise got all dat onder cultivation ’cep’ ’bout 40 acres, eii I bought de groun' for $75. Dat’s all ' paid off, 'cep' 'bout $65. Den I bought me <t mule fur SSO, en I gin mah notes fur dat. But 1 swapped de mule of? fer a steer, en de ole fool steer he goefan’ gets stuck in er bog an fo' I fines ’im . dat steer he je's up cn died dah, sah. Still en all, Ise got de notes on de mule er runnin’ yet, en dey's mos'iy paid up 'cep' ’bout $45. en am giftin' 'long mou- . st'ous well, I thinks, fur dese yar hard times. Ole marse. he say, cf I keep on lak dis 1 gwan to be er rich man fo’ de m’Henimum come—whatsmever dat is, sah—en he say. furder, he did, dat am sich er monst'ous good fiamseer dat I oter be sawtah mix up. some way, wid de nashinul debt. But den Ise got eruuff to ten ter dout foolin' Tong wid other folkses depts.” Thought. Thought of any kind, to be valuable, must be conservative—that is, it must hold with a firm grasp all the truth that the past: has handed down. It must accept humbly and reverently that which the wisdom of the ages has stored up, and so thoroughly incorpor- । ate it that it may form its very bone and muscle. Only thus can it acquire stability or permanence. At the same time it must be expansive, it must have the power of growth, it must be hospitable to new ■ truths and fresh thoughts, willing to pursue inquiries, to attack difficulties, to sblve knotty problems. Thus only can it hand down to posterity something worthy of Its acceptance, and pay to the future the debt it owes to the past. His Memory’s Use. The Philadelphia Times fobs a pathetic story of poor, patient little Ned, who had been kept after school again and again to learn a simple stanza which all the rest of the class had mastered. At last he broke down and sobbed, “I can't do it, Miss Gray; I just can't do it. Father says it's because I have such a poor ” “A poor what, Ned?” “You know what it is," a glimmer of light flickering in his face; “the thing you forget with.” No Doubt About Her Meaning. “Cheer up, old man. A woman's ’No* often means ‘Yes.’ you know.” “But she didn't say ‘No.’ When I asked her if she would marry me she said, ‘I will, I don’t think.’ I didn’t even get treated with respect”—lndianapolis Journal