St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 January 1896 — Page 1

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A WESTERN LETTER. A Fish Story and other Interesting Notes from California. Visalia,Tvlake Co., California. January Sth, 1896. The Advocate, Galien, Mich. Perhaps a line or so from this part of the country would be of interest to some pf the Advocate readers, , I left Denver Monday, December 2d, ■and arrived at my destination here at Visalia the Friday morning following, having made only a few stops of scterat hours each at Salt Lake City. Ogden and Sacramento. It was my intention when j I left Denver to spend considerable time at the different places of interest along the route, but the tediousness of such a journey, together with the poor accommodations that passengers are subjected to on the Central & Southern Pacific Route came so near "knocking me out” that I was glad to hurry through to my journey's end. The item in last week's Advocate as to the effect that this country and cli mate was having upon me is I think a trifle misleading and dot s injustice to this country. While it is true that upon my arrival here I noticed a decided check in the steady advancement of the improvement of my health, which has been going on since the time I left Galien, I think it was due entirely to the sudden change from a high altitude and a dry, cold climate to a very low altitude and a warm but damp climate. As soon, how ever, as I became a little accustomed to the change the trouble disappeared. This is so considered and 1 believe it to be a most favorable climate for those with a tendency to lung trouble, and especially so during the winter season. Those of my friends who advised me to avoid Southern California in the win ter because as they said it rained half of the time and was foggy the remainder will be surprised to learn that the annual average rain fall in this county (Tulare) is only 8 inches and that during the entire year of 1895 less than 2G inches fell —not much more than we get in one shower in Michigan. Fogs are of quite frequent occurrence, but seldom last during the entire day. When they speak of fogs in this country they don’t mean those little hazy mists that sometimes hover around the tree tops in our country, but a great dark heavy cloud of mist that shuts out all light and is almost inpenetrable, and leaves the ground and foliage after its disappearance as wet as a shower. It is told for a fact here that certain kinds of fish from the ocean swim about with ease in these fogs. I would not care however to vouch for its truthfulness. This is indeed a tropical country. The number of trees that are entirely unknown to a northerner and the number and variety of foliage trees and plants that remain green the year ^around, prove at । once to a newcomer that cold is unknown here. The days at present are of that most delightful^variety, that one can say of them that they are neither too warm nor ■ too cold. Just a trifle chilly, perhaps, sitting in the shade and a trifle too warm if one exercises much in the sun. The thermometer will vary from 55 to 70 degrees perhaps during the day and drop considerably during the night. The orange crop which was very heavy in this vicinity has been about all gathered and shipped to points in the east. The seeding of wheat is about completed, but is needing rain to insure a good crop. I find a very pleasant pastime in shooting the jack rabbits that abound in this country and find the sport equalliner if not excelling the excitement of the hunts that were so popular last win 1 ter in the Weesaw swamps. A few j years ago the jack rabbits were so plentiful and such a pest in this country that the farmers would hold general I round ups or rabbit drives, as they are called, and as many as 10,000 have been killed in one day. The mode of proceedure in these drives is for those who take part to form a line ! a mile or so in length in the form of a I half circle and to gradually close in the ■ ends of the line as they proceed across ■ the country, and so completely surround the rabbits or drive them into a corrall built for that purpose. The people then despatch them with clubs that have been used in the driving to scare them from the brush. Dogs and guns are not allowed in the drives. Yours, etc., J. P. Jones. |From the Galien, Mich.. Advocate.] Notice. I want to trade my saloon, meat shop, dwelling, barn and ice house for a farm or a stock of merchandise. Call on or write A. D. Johnson, Tyner, Ind. That Lame. Back can he cured wits Or. Miles' NERVE PLASTER. Only 25c.

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Pee, Ie You Have Heard of. । The man who could not trust his feel- ” ings is supposed to do business on a cash principle. The gentleman wb went too far in an ’ argument was brought home on a stretch er. The man who wrestled with adversity ! wore out the knees of his trousers and got worsted. i The man who jumped upon the tqnh‘ of the moment was soon glad to sit down again. i The girl who burst into tears has been put. together. The young man who flew into a pas * sion has had his wings clipped. । The yoling man who was taken by surprise has returned. The man who painted the sighn of the times is now out of a job. । It is rumored that distance lent en ' chantment to the view and now the view refuses to return it. ! The man who was moved to tears com I plains of the dampness of the premises and wishes to be moved hack again. i Life. New York World. The twice a week Edition of the New York World has been converted into the Thrice a week. 11 furnishes 3 pajiers of 6 pages apiece, or eighteen pages every week, at the old price of one dollar a , year. This gives 156 papers a year for one dollar and every piper has 6 pages eight columns wide or 48 columns in all. The Thrice a week World is not only , much larger than any weekly or semi j weekly newspaper, but it furnishes the news with much greater frequency and promptness. In fact it combines all the crisp, fresh qualities of a daily with the i attractive special features of a weekly. The Thrice a week World and the Inde pendent one year for 82. Sure Cure for Diphtheria. According to the Valparaiso Messenger. a scientist makes the announcement that the odor of the skunk is a sure cure for diphtheria, and we have no doubt that the scientist is right. Diphtheria is caused, it is said, by a living microbe, i and while the microbe is unprincipled rind Moentially depraved, as wecan prove by “eminent” Iwai authority, there must i be some where it will draw the line in the matter of associations: so it is our belief that a skunk could knock out any mi crobe, provided, of course, that the skunk j was feeling well. Only One "Easy Place.’’ Henry Ward Beecher once received a letter from a lad, asking him to find "an 1 easy place.” This was his reply: "You cannot be an editor: do not try the law : do not think of the ministry: let alone all ships: shops and merchandise: abhor politics: don't practice medicine; be not a farmer nor a mechanic: neither be a soldier nor a sailor: don't work: don't study; don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a i hard world. 1 know of only one easy I place in it and that is the grave." Levying of Kankakee Talked. It is said there was more water on the Kankakee marshes after the late rains than there has been before at one time since 1869. The river was not blockaded at all at Momence, and from this it is argued that the removal of the rock at I that place has had very little if any ! effect on the river above the state line. It is now said the engineers in charge of the work never believed it would. They ■ think the only thing to do is to levee the river or to deepen it with dredges. Nearer fly God to Thee’s. The LaPorte Republican says: Most i eminent physicians are giving it as their j opinion that the excessive use of cigarettes are not only conducive to insanitv > but many times death itself. The news * I papers in this vicinity have reported i three deaths within the last two or three months not far removed from LaPorte by the excessive use of those vicious weeds. ' Local Briefs. Paul Seifert, house, sign and buggy I painter, is prepared to do all kinds of ‘ painting and graining in first-class style. I Prices to suit the times. Satisfaction ! guaranteed. Shop over Groshans’ blacksmith shop. On January 28 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will sell Excursion Tickets to points in Virginia on the Harper’s Ferry A Valley Branch, south of and including Winchester, at rate of one fare for the round trip, plus 82. Tickets will be good for return 30 days from date of sale. Meehan’s Mon thy says: “Possibly the largest experimental orchard of apples in the world is owned by Benjamin Buckman, of Farmingdale, 111. His collection embraces over 550 named varieties. It seems almost impossible that in any one fruit there could be so much difference that each variety could be surely identified, which it seems is really the case.

THE DEATH RECORD. harden. Died at her home in Walkerton, Friday evening, January 17 1896, Nora E- < Barden, daughter of John W. and Mary t E. Barden. She was born in Marshall county near Teegarden on the first day., of August, 1883. She was twelve years, I five months and seventeen days ukt । Shi* leaves a mother, father, one sister J and four brothers, besides a large num- g ber of friends to grieve her departure. S Her sickness was only a duration of three J or four days. She was always kind and a conscientious and her soul passed to eternity peacefully. Her funeral was « held at the Methodist church in Walker- J ton January 20. Services were conduct- ■ ed by Rev. Jacob Hilderbrand and her • remains were laid to rest in the Barber cemetery four miles southeast of Walker- I ton. * ** " 1 MCDANIEL. Bryan B. McDaniel, died at his home near Teegarden Friday. January 17, of ( intercostal neuralgia, at the ripe old age of 72 years, 9 months and 11 days. Hej was born in Gallia county, Ohio, April 6, 1823. His father died when he was very* young. He was of dutch irish descent* His widowed mother w ith her six child ren fought the wolf from the door until young Bryan was seven years old. Shd then moved (1830) her family to Madison ' County. Indiana, on a small farm of his uncle where they lived for several years. During that time the children went to the district school and received a fair education of that day. By the strict rule of industry and economy the family wived of their scanty means and purchased a small farm and moved onto it. The heavy i.isk of dear ing the heavy timber from the land gate ' the now young Bryan who had grown t«> 6 feet. 2 inches in height and to ISO |M>unds in weight a chance to show his power and skill in helping to provide for a home which he nobly did. He won the affections and heart of Miss Martha Williams and was united in matrimAi . pt. 29, IM 1. and traveled along life a j rugged road with her. until death 'Mu led him as his own, a )>eroid of <>»• years. To the union five children w®re j born, two Imvs and three girls. WlKle i living in Madison they were called to give up two <>f their girls, •■ne an infant and Rachel Elizabeth at the early age of 7 years. One day of the October elee tion of 1856 he with his wife and three children loaded in his wagon and ac companied by his older brother with his team and Wesley Williams started to move to Marshall county immediately, voting for Filmore for president. Land i ing at the Inane of his wife's mother, since known as the old Williams estate, he remained only long enough to cut the logs and build on his land of 160 acres in the midst of the forest. In later years he had need of a new house, moved the old log cabin back where it still standsand in its place erected a frame w here he h; s j lived ever since. Before the New Year of 1857 he was. living on his farm tall woods- in his log ' cabin with his loving wife and three pleasant children with bright prospects and a happy future before them. Among his early neighbors we find the j names of G. H. Williams, C. Watkins. Grandpa Webb. Uncle Billy and Jim Moris, Ja.vob Pippenger. Old Billy Blown, j Grandpa Lemert and Grandpa Moiiroe. ; who have proceeded him to the grave. [ Os the old neighbors yet living are old | Aunt Mary Moris (widow of Uncle Jim I Moris), Uncle John Rensberger and j John Stull and w ife and Wesley Williams. i who came with him to this county. I These were all to the funeral except Old j \ tint Mary Moris. M<iny of the atbove named are almost nr qmtu -unkg**Wn to the middle age of today, so fast af.e Hie changes and so speedy is time. ~ In educational matters Uncle Bryan. * as he was familiarly known and called. , took a very active part, having taught sch<M>l several winters in early days and afterwards serving as trustee of Polk township for eight years or four terms in succession. He adhered very closely to -no licking no learning” in his teaching and urged his teachers to use the same । means, that discipline was a necessary | qualification to the good government of ‘ the teacher and school. He had a great ' respect for law and order, obeyed it perfectly himself and believed in funish ing offenders and evil doers, accordingly giving them justice without mercy- , Being of a strong resolution and • will made his word law and no greater respect for^JMc*— Than he. This made hinr*™^ n ^ ar an d wide as a man of extreir^ P’ractuality and truthfulness. In regaj 1 lf ‘bgion he was a firm believer i.‘ *he bible and was well versed thereir' As a s P° r t sr nan he enjoyed his dog and gun j Y 39 ^nite a hunter when game ■ w'aF^^ en ^^ u ’’ killed many deer and went

hunting-a great deal, which gave tu n a fund and store of stock to draw bospin interesting children of today. „ His estate consists of 160 acres of land, a few notes, a lot of corn, a few hogs, <; hic||bns and sheep, also an aged mare known by everybody called Old Roan, how in her 35th year. The estate will be ■fettled without any trouble or extra Costs. Aunt Martha will live with her I^M*ghter. L funeral services were conducted Hilderbrand at the Center ■kdirch JanTTP. 'HnMajjy, Morris ceme F'T- J. M. S. Local Briefs, f — [ We will give you the biggest and best ‘Joaf of bread in town for the money at the Domestic bakery. Leave your laundry at A. E. Cripe s barber shop. He is agent for the Star Laundry, of South Bend. When your shoes and boots need repairing take them to John Nell. He will do you a neat and first class job. Chronic troubles successfully treated by the Garden City Institute. Consult a representative at the American hotel Saturday, Jan. 25. We shall appreciate your patronage and give you the biggest and best hxif of bread in town for the money. We deliver bread if the customer so desires. Domestic Bakery. A barefooted tramp pissed through Fulton one day last week. Assistance was offered, but he refused it. saying that he could steal what he wanted. A Kan Sas man is nothing if not proud. Kansas City Star.

DR. KI L M E R’S I I KIDNEY.LIVERS B c 4 u^E ß K hrimiat ism, Lumbago. pain in joints or l»ack, brick dust tn urine, frequent calls, irritation, inthimuuition, ; gravel, ulceration or catarrh of the bladder. Iliserdrrcd Liver, ItiHousncss, headache, indigestion or gout. । KU % HP-HOOT invigorates, cures kid key dmicultivs, Bright's disease, urinary troubles • impure Blood, j Scrofula, malaria, general weakness or debility. ; i k« am p*Koot buildsup quickly a run down constitution and makes the weak strong. i <>ußrnntrc Uwcontent® ' One Dottle, if nut benefited, I et® * til refund tn j * -u the price ptud. At Dru^P’is 50c. size, SI.OO Mie. "Invalid®’ Guide to Health** free- Consultation fre< Dr. Kii meh & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. — i Frmers! Look here. Benietnbci we are st ill j nf the <ll.l stand ready Io receive yoill I grain ami so <1 am) pay you the highest ; mmk.t price; we also have on hand ! all kinds of seed for sowing or planting. Have just received a large supply < f , grniu bags, which we will sell at cost. ! When von have anything to offer in car lots or less on any H ack c dl in and let j ns niake yon a price. Yours t i nly , MERCER & NEAL. /- I vvhen^lie Sweepers BESO and up, at Vincent’s. We have also just received a line of Curtain Stretchers, something new for doing up lace curtains.

IOOOOver-| . m _ Arroa+e I - I Gases of from $ 1 up. NEW GOODS Rubber IG ood s. ARRIVING DAILY. w e a ro now receiving our Full and Wintei Stock of clothunto-, hats, oafs, BOOTS- SHOES, TRTJKTKIS, Valises and Ger<s’ Furnishing Goods, «nd are offering I hem nt lower piiees than the amne quality of goods were ever b fore offered in Northern Indiana. LOOK AT SOME OF OUR PRICES: Men n all wool worsted suila $lO 00 Men a half wool suits as low as q oq Men's heavy cotton suits 3.00 Over 75 eases of best quality of Rubber Goods at p.ices others sell sec- ; ends nt. we warrant every pair of our rubbers. Latest Styles of Hats and Caps i at Great Reductions. Full stock of Furnishing Goods in latest slih sand at popular prices OVER 1,000 I OVERCOATS a: J rot;: due up. Ccvie and see, us before you J una you have the C^dSH you can buy goods • cheaper than you ever saw them. B- ys all wool suits (long pants) $ 1 Q() ” " 2 50 (knee pants) 2 00 ' 75 Mens odd coals, all wool (small HZP 2 00 o<ld coals, half wool, small 1 00 Boys odd coals, all wool 1 00 half wool 5Q vests from ip io 50 cents —^LEATHER GOODS-*—-hare gone bn: we put u:eta leaver than ever before. Look at some of our prices: Men’s best calfskin bools $ 3 00 । " <il grain 250 “ kip boots, 81 50 to 250 B’ , y< “ " 75 cis. Io iso Boys’ All f -r । WAI EC JMen’sAll Wool I I • J- HvLIL, |Wooi Suits Suits $4. j |$ 10. SEE OUR ELEGANT I® l’ne of WOOD AND COAL HEATERS, Garland, Radiant Home and Radiant Stewart, for ^rd coal; Marion and Cheerful Oak, for soft coal or wood, Garland wood heatets; Monitor Parlor, Rruno and Ra^ diant Parlor, base-heating stores for wood. LSO A FINE LINE OF RUGS & STOVE BOARDS Paintsand Oils in large variety. We handle the celebrated Home Sewing Machine. ROSS, JARRELL & CO.

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