St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 April 1896 — Page 1

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A Picnfc on the Foot-hills of the Sierre Nevada. Visalia, California. March 23. 1896, Last Saturday I attended a school picnic on “Rocky Hill,” then earest mountain. Some of us rode over on our wheels the distance is about fifteenmiles —and I climbed up and down the mountain all day and stood it about as well as any of them. We rode home, however, in the big wagon as the hill was too steep to ride down the rest of the way, although level as a floor, the same as all of the great Tulare valley, yet in many places it is too sandy to make easy wheeling. We had a grand time. They know how to enjoy themselves at a picnic out here in California in spite of such annoying trifles as intense heat, dust, insects, etc. Now is the time of the year when the tarantulas and rattlesnakes eome out of their nests and they were crawling around anywhere among the rocks and in the grass. One boy took one of the girl’s hat pins and in just a little while had it strung full of tarantu las. When we sat down to dinner I actually sat down on one a tarantula, not a hat pin and killed it but didn t discover it until we were nearly through eating. While we were at dinner two large rattlesnakes crawled out from under a large rock about three rods away and began sunning themselves. Os course we jumped up, grabbed rocks and after them, but they quickly glided under the rock and out of our reach. Th? people here don’t mind them, oven the most timid girls will wade through the grass they know is liable to be full of tarantulas and snakes too, for that matter. It would be useless for me to attempt to describe th? view from the top of that mountain, or foot hill as they call it, but just imagine yourself lifted up in the air about half a mile over the most beautiful country the sun ever shone upon, and you can have some idea of the scene. The green fields of wheat and the or chards stretch away to the dim horizon where they meet the distant coast range of the Pacific. Then turn around and by raising your eyes see some of the highest peaks of the Sierre Nevadajvhite with snow and almost dazzling in the sunshine. I had to enjoy these views alone as all the others were born among them and have gazed upon them all their lives and think the whole world just that way, and usually say when I call their attention to something especially grand, “Pshaw that is noth ing”. J. P. Jones. Don’t Be Envious. One of the most contemptible spirits in man is envy. There are men who are so envious that they hate to see anybody have anything that they cannot have. They envy the successful man in business and wish him all manner of ill luck, going even so far at times as to try to injure him in his business. This same class is usually composed of people who have made failures of life. They have started in the race probably with better advantages and more financial backing than their neighbor but through lack of ability or shiftlessness have made shipwreck of their business while their neighbor has attended strictly to the details of his business and has been successful. It takes hustling these days of sharp competition for a man to make a success of anything and it illy becomes the business wreck to be envious of the man who has made success by his hard work. Every successful man is a benefactor to his race if he has become successful through honorable means.—Warren Independent. Spring Fever In The Feet.

If that very painful and troublesome complaint, spring fever in the feet, is pre sent, the hot foot bath should be used 1 every night, adding a spoonful of alum 1 to the salt and mustard, and rubbing the ' feet afterwards with alcohol and lemonjuice in equal proportions, or with a weak solution of carbolicacid. This treatment will speedily reduce the swelling, and the tired feeling and soreness are at once relieved by either lotion. They are so valuable remedies that they ought to be on every toilet-table.—From “Spring Ailments,” in Demorest's Magazine for April. FEMALE LOVELINESS May be obtained by intelligent women. A well regulated system must of necessity show its fruit in the face. To regulate the system and keep it in perfect condition there is nothing so good as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Constipation and indigestion absolutely cured. 10 doses 10c. Large size 50c and sl, at B. E. Williams’. Envelopes printed with your return card on are a very nice and convenient thing to have, especially when they only cost 50 cents for a hundred, printing and all. Try a hundred at the Independent office.

WALKERTON. ST. JOSKBH COUNTY. INDIANA. "SATURDAY. APRIL 11 imm.

Local Briefs. A new lino of baby carriages at Vincent’s. Public sale notes at the Independent •, office. ’ Warm meals served at all hours at the Domestic bakery. 1 Try the hearth baked french bread at ; the Domestic bakery. ■ Next Sunday night special Easter > exercises by the Epworth League. 1 Silver dollars taken in exchange for goods at the Globe clothing store. Hats and frames in all the new shapes. Styles to fit ('very face, at Millard’s. A full line of ladies’ capes and misses jackets for spring at Noah Rensberger’s. Call and get a sample copy of the New York World, with which we are clubbing. _ At O. F. Townsend’s you can get an up-to-date haircut. Next door to the postoffice. The Democrats will meet In Bender’s hall this evening Saturday to nomin ate a town ticket. Miss Ida Beach went to South Bend Friday to aid in a millinery opening given by Mrs. Stevens. The American steam laundry can not be excelled. Leave your orders at Cripe’s barber shop. Do not fail to see the Jones locked wire fence, the cheapest and best wire fence made, at Machine-y Hall. Rev. W. W. Jones delivered his able lecture on free silver ih Bender’s hall Thursday night to a lanp audience. For prices on buggy painting and general repairing write to the Bitner Carriage and Wag »n Works at LaPortc. Deere, Daisey. New Western and Hoke Spring t<x)th and Eagle plaw cultivators. Also Captain Kidd Disip cultivators at Machinery Hall. TheTJ.il M. dub met Tuesday evening with Miss Nellie Stephens. The club greatly enjoyed the “Parlor Picks. Edith Cunningham received the prize and Ida Beach the I mob j prize. Refresh merits and fun. Sec. Sam Huddmyer is pelting the mater ial on the ground to make a very valuable improveibent on his business building occupied by Hudehnyer A Henry. He will build onto the back part a one story brick addition 20 feet long. This will make an ('legant business room SO feet long. The U. B. people are going to com mence a very useful enterprise in re modeling their church in three or four weeks. One side of the church will be taken out and a recess large enough to seat 100 persons will be built. A new tower will also be erected in which may hang a finely toned belli Let us as eiti zens try to encourage every progressive enterprise that will permanently build up our town and attrac others to eome to us. Ida Beach will give a spring millinery opening Saturday, April IS, during the day and evening. Iler new spring goods will be nicely displayed jso that the ladies present can see the latest styles in pattern hats and millinery novelties sho vn to the best advantage. Her millinery store will be beautifully decorated and music will enliven the occasion. This will be an opportunity for the ladies of Walkerton and vicinity to see and Study the beauti ful and stylish goods which are now all j the vogue. A cordial invitation is extended to all.

The Starke County Republican says: Present appearances indicate that Starke county will in all probability improve more and make more general progress the coming year than any past one. Our splendid system of ditching is being pushed to its greatest utility, correspondence from every section brings word of buildings and improvements; an enterprising class of farmers and citizens are coming into the county to help build up, and everything combines for a farward movement. A coal oil stove exploded over Hardenbrook’s saloon on Friday evening of last week. Vern Hardenbrook lighted the stove, which was in his room, to heat some water. He then went down stairs and returning in about half an hour saw the stove all ablaze and the room filled with flames and smoke. Fortunately a pail of water was handy and he dashed this around the room which held the fire in subjection till more aid came. The fire was discovered barely in time to prevent a serious affair. By prompt and hard work the fire was soon put out, but not until the wookwork, curtains and some clothing in the room were considerably scorched.

Hard Earned Wages. I An old church in Belgium decided to 1 repair its properties, and empl°y e d an | artist to touch up a large painting. ! Upon presenting his bill, the committee in charge refused payment unless 1 the details were specified; whereupon he presented the items as follows: To correcting the ten commandmen to • • ■ i W 5.12 Embellishing Pontius Pilate, and putting new ribbons on his bounet -J 3.02 . Putting new tail on rooster of St. Peter and mending his comb.. ~T- -.20 Repluming and guilding left ( of Guardian Angel. • ■ • ■ " •*■lß Washing the servant of th® a priest and putting carmine on ' his cheeks 5.02 Renewing heaven and adjusting , 1 the stars and cleaning up the ? moon ^.7.14 Touching up Purgatory, and restoring lost souls <.3.06 Brightening up the flames of hell putting a tail on the Devil, men ding his left hoof and doing (Hid jobs for the damned 7.14 Rebordering the robes of Herod, and adjusting his wing ILOO Taking the spots of! the son of Tobias 1-30 Cleaning Balaam’s ass and putting one shoe on him .1.70 Putting earrings in Sarah's ears 1.71 Putting a new stone in David's sling, enlarging the head of Goliath and extending Saul’s legs 6.13 Decorating Noah's ark. and put ting a head on Shorn 3.31 1 Mending the shirt of the Prodieal Son and cleaning his ear . *33 ^42 The bill was paid. Ex. A Badger's Query. An amusing correspondence recently took place Iwtwcen a Wisconsin fartor ami a local boiler firm. The farmer wrote as follows: • Dore Sirs I hav a 1 .<*»> akor< of tree* that I want cut. Im non' but Im will ing to pay too hundred dolors for an engin that will do my work. - ' Then he went on to explain just * hat s>Hof an engine ho wanted. The Isj^r firm saw that the engine n(’i*wmar^ to ? accomplish the devastation nt his v^gfh al forest would S3.UUO, formed him to this effect. A week pish I nd, and then the following pithy epistle I came from th> Wi^'onsin w sxis: Dore Sirs w hat in h 1! wud I want of an engin or biler if I bed |3,(W Syracuse Standard. White Cap* at Bourbon, Last week Moses Borkeypile, of Hour ' Ism, received a white cap notice as fol lows: . “Will give you till Saturday m ruing to go and tak< your name off Sam Stow art's bond pajier, or you will be white capped. Ym can’t make laws for this country and we don't want you in our town that bad, Y<»u had better make peace Spite don’t work.’ Mr. Berkeypilo went on the bond | of Samuel Stewart, who a short time j since killed John Swoverland and it is j heliewd this is the reason of the enmi | ty shown against him. Sam after re reiving the notice he tacked it on a lamp |wist after writing on it over his signature as follows: “The d d coward who wrote on the other side, come and get what you want.” Brought an Injunction Suit. Walkerton has under way a waterworks plant operated by a private stock company. As a matter of encouragement the town trustees voted to subscibe for $1,200 worth of st ck. The board is about to issue bonds for this amount, and Mr. Barkley, et al. of that place, have brought injunction pox-eedings to restrain the board from doing this. Anderson and Crabill represent the plaintiffs. South Bend Times. Quick Loans—-Low Rates. Why pay rent when the same amount of mom'y will pay for a home in a few years? Borrow money and build you a home or buy the one you now oecupyand pay for it in small monthly payments. For full particulars see E. B. Hunt, of the Kankakee Land Investment Com- I pany. Office opposite Bank. The 3 I Route. The Indiana. Illinois A lowa R. R. is the shortest and best route to Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, California, and all points east and west. Elegant new equipment and fast time. Through tickets on sale to all points, and baggage checked to destination. Thousand mile tickets on sale at principal stations, good over twenty prominent roads in this territory. If you are contemplating a trip, call on agents for rates and connections, or address, S. S. WHITEHEAD, G. P. A., Kankakee, Illinois. We can sell you shoes cheaper than anybody, at the Globe. Your Job Printing will receive prompt and careful attention at this office.

Local Briefs. Elmer Koontsdoes wheel repairing of all kinds. No half baked bread at the Domestic bakery. *Lace for making those lovely neck ruches, at Millard’s. New carpet Hnmplea at Vincent's. A mo, assortment to select from. Call and see them. New millinery goods, hats, flowers, trimmings in all the spring styles, also a full line of school hats, at Ida Beach's. A contemporary remarks that the kick has become so essential to the average man's existence that life would be a very tame affair without it. Barlow, Deere and Stoddard's Farmer's Friend and Tiger Check row drill and hand drop corn planters at Machinery Hall. Prices right. The material in a rod of Jones locked wire fence only costs forty cents: best fence on earth, at Machinery Hall. When your shoes and boots need repairing take them to John Nell. He will do you a neat and first class job. A certain business man in Walkerton i made Rev. Riley a present <>f a beautiful I black cane with gold held this week, I for which he says “thanks." For Sale. My house and ten acres I of land, one mile east of town. Will I take a good team as part pay. Frank Reed. I George F. Steel, house painter, grainer and paper hanger. KaLomining. etc., done to order. Work guaranteed t«> give satisfaction. Address Im»x 27. Walker ton, Ind. Residence near the Pleasant Gmvc chapel. ^. OP KI 1 M FR'c; ool^ XIDNEXLIVERS b W ; Rheumatism, LuniNu; . pnin in joints or lie k, bra k dust !n urine, nt ,»);«, Irritation, intliunination, jnivd, ulceration er catarrh of the bladder. Disordered Idver, Biliousness, headache, indigestion or gout, i \ ril’-KOOT imigorates, cures kiduey : hllicuii!'<, Bright's disca*', urinary troutluk Impure Blood, Scrofula, inuluna. general weakness or debility, su utti p*Ho<>i I uihSup quickly arundoan oonslitution and makes the weak strong. GtinrunL e c< 'titi rU-t T ‘ r>r L Hit'. If I. » * ui rvftUid to yvu the price juJd. At Dru-sUIM, 50c. Mzc, SI.OO Size. "Idn 3l id*’ Guido to IlcAllb ' free- nmlfAUt u free. Dr. Kilmih A Co., Binqh oiton. N. Y. Farmers! Look here. Kememliei we are still ; nt the old stand ready *to receive your grniu ami seed and pnv you the highest mnilo t price; we also have on hand all kinds of seed for sowing or planting. Have just received a large supply < f grain bag*, which.we will sell at cost, i When yon have anything to offer in ear , lots or less on any track call in and let us make you a price. Yours truly, MERCER & NEAL. ; REVIVO r* RESTORES VITAL|TY - M ^ a I Ist Day, Il Wei I Man । 15th Day. of Me. THE GREAT 30th Day. rriEixrcii hemedy produces the above results in 30 days. It arts powerfully and quickly. Cures when all others fail Young men will regain their lost manhood, and old men will recover their youthful vigor by using REVIVO. It quickly and surely restores Nervous ness. Lost Vitality, Impotency. Nightly Emissions Lost Power. Failing Memory, Wasting Diseases, and all effects of self-abuse or excess and indiscretion which unfits one for study, business oi marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of disease, but is a great nerve tonic and blood builder, bringing back the pink glow to pale cheeks and re storing the fire of youth. It wards off Insanity and Consumption. Insist on having RKVIVO.no other. It can be carried in vest pocket. By mail S1 ,OO per pa<*kage. or six for 55.00. with a post five written guarantee to cure or refund the money. Circular free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO., 271 Wabask Ave., CHICAGO, ILL J. F. REID, Druggist, Walkerton, Ind. Take advantage of the Independent ? offer of the Inter Ocean.

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