St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 July 1896 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXI.

Harry Owen and the Cow. Thursday forenoon Harry Owen and WOT Mason went to Silas George’s field to lay off the diamond for the baseball gamme July 4. Before commencing busi- . men Harry took off his coat and vest a mud tm ng them on the fence. In anodWr part of the field was an innocent j trying cow. After they had laid off the 1 dsaimond and returned to the place ' wWre the above mentioned garments j had been left they found Harry’s vest ' nrissing. Looking over the field they saw the cow chewing something with apparent relish. Upon closer inspection they found the animal trying to make a square meal off of the vest, which contaimed ass bill, a check for S7O and a gmJd watch. They tried to rescue the imperiled garment, half of which was down the cow’s throat but the cow did j not propose to surrender her choice j morsel without a struggle. The cow started off on a swift gait and they after it. The race was a fine exhibition of' •peed and would hare put Nancy Hanks to rihawe. It lasted for about 15 min-, utes. It would have been a very attrac-' tire feature for the 4th of July celebration. and it is a pity that it could not have been postponed for that event They finally caught the cow and res cued the vest which had a very forlorn appearance, about one-half of it being chewed up so that it was no good. The S7O check. $5 bill and gold watch were unharmed. THE MOUNTAIN CHAUTAUQUA. Mmatain Lake Park, Md., on the Main Une of the Picturesque B. & O. The most superb and sensible summer ' resort in America. $300,000 expended ‘ in improvements: 200 beautiful cottages; ' hotel and cottage board at from $5.00 to * $12.00 per week—cheaper than staying at home. The mountain air and the ’ mountain views simply indescribable. 1 Session August sth to the 25th. Three superb entertainments daily. The best ' f music and the best lecturers which money can procure. Dr. T. DeWitt Tai- ‘ mage, Gen John B. Gorden and Bishop * J. H. Vincent already secured, with 100 1 others. Dr. W. L. Davidson, the great 1 Chautauqua manager, in charge. Summer schools.—2o departments of ' important school work in charge of lead- ' ing instructors from the prominent 1 universities. A wonderful chance for j teachers and students desiring to make up studies. Tuition insignificant. Wishes of students gratified. Low J rates on railroads. For full detailed information and illustrated programme, f address A. R. Sperry, Mountain Lake ‘ Park, Md. DON’TSTOP TOBACCO. ' i How to Cure Yourself While Using It The tobacco habit grows on a man un j til his nervous system is seriously affect- ( ed, impairing health, comfort and happiness. To quit suddenly is too severe a ’ shock to the system, as tobacco to an ; inveterate user becomes a stimulant that j his system continually craves. “Baco- ( Curo” is a scientific cure for the tobacco habit, in all its forms, carefully compounded after the formula of an eminent ' Berlin physician who has used it in his . private practice since 1872, without a failure. It is purely vegetable and guaranteed perfectly harmless. You can use 1 all the tobacco you want while taking ; “Baca Curo.” It will notify you when to stop. We give a written guarantee to cure permanently any case with three boxes, or refund the money with 10 per 1 cent interest. “Baeo-Curo” is not a substitute, but a scientific cure, that cures without the aid of will power and with no inconvenience. It leaves the 1 system as pure and free from nicotine as the day you took your first chew or smoke. Cured By Baco Ciro and Gained Thirty Pounds. . From hundreds of testimonials, the originals . of which areon fi!e and open to inspection- the following is presented: Clayton. Nevada Co.. Ark.. Jan. 28. 1895 Eureka Chemical & Mfg., Co., LaCrosse, Wis.— 1 Gentlemen; For forty years I used tobacco in all ( its forms. For twenty-five years of that time I wash great sufferer fn-m general debility amt heart dis- ase. For fifteen years I tried to quit, but couldn't. I took various remedies, among others "No-To-Bac.’ -J he Indiana Tobacco Antidote.'' ‘-Double Chloride of Gold " etc., etc batnoue ofthetndidme the least bit of good, i Finally, however, I purchased a box of your -Baco Curo” and it has entirely cured me of the habit in all its forms, and I have increased thirty pounds in weight and am relieved from all the numerous aches and pains of body and mind. I could write a quire of paper upon my changed feelings and condition Yours respectfully. P. H Marbury. Faster C.P. Church, Clayton. Ark. Sold by all druggists at SI.OO per box; three boxes, (thirty days’ treatment), $250 with iron clad, written guarantee, or sent direct upon receipt of price Write for booklet and proofs. Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co., LaCrosse, Wis., and Boston, Mass. Personal. Free—64-page medical reference book to anv person afflicted with any special, chronic or delicate disease peculiar to their sex. Address the leading physicians and surgeons of the United States, Dr. Hathaway <fc Co., 70 Dearborn street, Chicago. To Picket Growers. Andrew Cunsingham^handles commercial fertilizer and landplaster, in connection withjhis farm machinery.

WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. INDIANA. SATURDAY. JULY 4 096. - _g

CAMP LIFE IN ARIZONA. toeKatttt., Arizona. June BA, a BWI ! We left Minnehaha Flats cm Tuesday ■ immediately after the arrival of the stage., having tor our objective point far the day the Crown King mine, seven j miles away. As we passed the little ' store we glanced at the thermometer and raw it registered 105 degrees on the ' shady side of the building. Tins is ! consi derod quite warm far so high in the mountains but is cool when rom pared with the heat, down on the desert and at Phoenix. The average temperature in Phoenix last week night and day i was 115 and reports from there say that people go staggering along the streets with the heif as though drunk and all business except saloons, during the day is suspended. This has been an unusually dry year even for Arizona, not a drop erf rain having fallen for eight months. Cattle are dying by the thousands upon the ranges for want of feed and water. In our travels we have seen droves of them dying for water and re-; duced to a skeleton for want of food. The range cattle are usually as wild as deer but their sufferings have made them tame and we have had them follow us for miles, just able to walk, their wild eyes pleading stronger than any words for relief from their suffering. 1 have been tempted many times to share from our canteens our little supply of water with them, but Foster would not permit it. Several times we have been directed to a point where we were told we would find water but upon arriving found the spring or stream dried up and at these places the great flocks of buzzards tell us how many of these poor cattle have dragged themselves there starving and thirsting, expecting to find water but finding none sank down ex hausted to become an easy prey for the vultures. The road frem Minnehaha to the Crown King mine is a steep ascent for five milesand then a sheer descent for two miles. The view obtained from the top of this range is well worth the trou ble to climb it and this peak being so much higher than those surrounding, it makes the other great mountains look like hills when you look at them from above. Our little burro with its JUKI pound load jogs along sturdily in front and we follow in single file behind. The heat of the day produces a pleasant drowsy feeling and falling into the mo tion of the saddle we jog along with half shut eyes all unmindful of the scenery around us that would excite an easterner or drive one w ild who was see ing it for the first time. 1 would have liked to have Nel! on the top of this range and taken down her exclamations in short hand. In traveling along these mountain roads it is necessary to listen closely for the bells which accompany all freight teams and pack trains. There are only a few places where teams can pass and it is a very serious thing for these trains or teams to meet on a narrow road where there is hardly room for one. More than one man has been killed in the quarrels resulting from such a meeting. We met few teams and arrived at the Crown King mine shortly after sundown and in a very few minutes were “at home” under a friendly pine. We made a fire of the cones to boil our coffee, and some cold game left over from our last cooked meal with our invariable pot of mush was to us a feast. Scraping together a few boughs we spread our blankets and the sound of the satisfied munching of the animals as they enjoy ed their grain, and the soughing of the wind among the pines soon lulled us to sleep. The sun shining in our faces awoke us the next morning at 7 o’clock. This was unusual as we had been camping in a canon where the sun didn’t rise over the top of the mountains till after 10 o'clock. Our stiff joints and the looks of the sun which predicted a very hot day decided us to lay over a day or so before continuing our journey. The mine here gives employment to alxmt 100 men and the little town that has grown up along the canon is of the true western type and all kinds of vice under the sun are going on in full blast ■—law and order unknown. The condition that these people are in is really deplorable. The little girl who was moving with her parents from an eastern state and wound up her prayer with, “Well, good bye, God, we’re going to Arizona,” wasn't fax out of the way. In traveling about this territory 7 it is difficult to find any evidence that God ever bothered himself about this part of the globe either in its original make-up or in the rearing of its people. The next few days of our journey were uneventful, the distance traveled each day depended upon water holes or places where we could obtain water for ourselves and animals. Usually during the heat of the day we would rest for a few hours. About 6 o’clock on the evening

tiff the 21st we -came apsm a little- lag cabin nestled ccizily among the pines bearI ing toe pn'emmptoons name of Palace Station.. The stationa is kept- by Mt. AB. Spence arad he and his wife have lived here far over 3v» years. From tla« xoomenlt aS otut arrival re were toe reripkemite exf unusual Loggatality and I could hardly account far the r-uriosity diejdayed by the children erf the family until Mr. Spence told me that toe women folks had been crapariagme with > : . the picture .trf Lord Shodto Douglas pub- ; lished in toe San Franrasco Examiner j ( and had decided that I was he. Lord I . j Sholto has bet® traveling incog through j . this country and has written arlicieis far ) several of toe leading papers off toe i I country, which these pieople laid been । reading. It was in rain that I tried to ; assure him aS his mistake- Nothin would convince him that he was not m-' tertaining a lord in disguise. We had been here but a few minutes when LeRoy, Mr. Spence's eleven year old boy rode in with a fine buck deer strapped , on his horse. The deer had been killed about half a mile from the house. The i generous slice of venison steak, the fresh eggs and the “sure enough” milk , that Mr. Spence brought out to us in the morning 1 believe would have been given just as generously had he known us to be the common people we are instead of the lord and his escort he persisted in believing us to be. It would greatly repay anyone traveling in this country to go miles out of their way to enjoy the hospitality that is sure to be given at the Palace Station. On the third day from this, about noon, as we came around a point of a mountain we were surprised but unspeakably glad to see lying lx-fore us and away down in a basin below us the laMutiful city of Prescott From our elevated position every hou.se was visible. The thoughts of a bath, clean clothes, our mail and comfortable quarters, made us hustle down the trail, our animals even catching the spirit. By 3 o'clock we had removed most of the traces of our trip, and under the cool veranda of our inn were greedily devouring the news from the latest papers and enjoying our mail, some of which was over three weeks old. Since leaving Pbrenix April 25 we have traveled alx>ut IHO miles overland (5 milee l*eing made in a wagon and the remainder on foot and hor»el>ack. have done our own cooking and in part lived from the resources of the country. We feel now that we will be satisfied to live at the mercy of a hotel cook for a few weeks. 1 have been spinning this off by the I yard and am afraid it will hardly interest you but it is so deliciously cool out here on the wide veranda 1 like to sit here and I've read till my eyes ache. Our inn is on the highest point of the city ami by raising my eyes I can see the entire city with its background of towering mountains. J. P. Jonhs. The Use of the Hand or “Baby” Sep । arator on the Farm. During the past few months numerous communications to this station indicate that Indiana farmers are becoming much interested in the use of hand separators on the farm. Many wish to know if it will pay them to buy such a machine, to replace hand skim ming of milk. The hand separator consists of a small metal bowl, which is revolved with great rapidity by means of cog wheel connections. Milk turned into the Ikiwl separates into skim milk which accumulates in the outer portion of the bowl, and cream, which gathers near the center. After the separation in the bowl, the cream and skim milk escape from it, through outlets into separate tubes, from which they are conducted into cans. This action of separation is continuous so long as the Ixnvl is revolv I ing at suitable speed. Separators are now commonly sold on j the market, that do satisfactory work, j practically removing all of the butter fat from the milk. On the average farm, probably every 100 pounds of skimmed milk secured by the old fashioned methods, contains from one-fourth to one half pound of fat. More is left in the milk than farmers are often aware of. The properly run separator removes nearly all, if not all of this. The writer believes that every person who keeps five or more cows, with the object of making as much butter from them as possible, who makes gilt edge butter, and who is interested in progressive dairying, would find in the hand separator a money making machine. Other people are likely to be disappoint ed, if they buy a hand separator. The following are some of the im portant arguments in favor of this separator: It effectually skims the milk, thereby saving all the cream or fat. Where impurities have fallen into the milk, such as hairs, dirt, manure, etc.,

removes them,® toattoeir 1 jsfluenee on toe cream is -mraria diHain- I lE hed. J ra summer, separator eream is foom milk emrds, which Arfte© oeenr in cream skimmed by hand and cause io battier making. The -separator is also a labor saving device when one bfiQOHMffi familiar with its use and care, ^he necessity for caring far many pans ®»d cans is done away with in a large deThere are several excellent forms of separator _cm the market. Prices vary Vwording to size and make, ranging from SBS up. for first-class maehine®. For toe Starve price, a machine can be bought l iuaif will separate 115 pounds ta an boar, i A popular and standard aze, which tells far $125X10, will skim 350 pounds of nsilk per hour. Sitch a machine is used i at this Staik® and gives perfect satis Action. The amount of force required to run a hand separator is not great enough to tire an average man seriously. The use of the tread power is, however, becnm- i ing extensive. Small dog or sheep powers are made, selling for $1507)0 or so, that are used for running hand | aeparators. and a larger tread power, suitable for small bulls or ponies, is also used- Purdue Newspaper Bulletin. J une s.m Local Briefs. One of our short prayers is I hat peo pie who do not keep book account and have short memories will not ask us for credit Walkerton Milling Co. If in need of a good buggy it will pay you to examine the Quaker City at Rob, Jarrell A Co's. Elegant finish- The best of material and prices rightFor Rent. 1 good 7 room house, go. d cellar, cistern, wood house and small lam. Will rent to a small family. For particulars call on J. A. Williams. The fourth quarterly meeting of the U. B. church will be held at Tyner July 11 and 12 Elder F. Thanas will be present and conduct the s'rviccs as usual. All are invited. Chas. Robbins' little son Floyd got a whtot beard io his eye last Tuesday, waaaked..boch iu the eye so tag; • K HHHPI ’ hi# twnwnni difficult to remove. Dr. Arlington plant'd the child under the influence of chloroform to remove the Ix'ard. - An oak tree in Branch county, Mich., was recently cut into five saw logs, four of them were twelve feet long and one fourteen feet long. The largest log was five feet in diameter and the Hinalh'et three feet. It made nearly S,(KHI feet board measure and netted the owner over SSO. Farm Implements. 1 have a full line of Empire binders and mowers and binder repairs, plows and plow repairs, and other articles in the'implement line. Call and see me. Andrew Cunningham.

DR. KI L M E R’S — QW A MP ho o^f KIDNEX LIVER »JS %W.’ o. Dissolves Ciravel, I ORII stone, brick dust in urine, pain in urethra, I straining after urination, pain in the back and ; hipe. =udden stoppage of water with pressure. । Bright’s Disease. Till* casts in urine, scanty urine. Swarnp-/ioo< eunfl urinary troubles and kidney difficulties. Liver Complaint, ■ Torpid or enlarged liver, foul breath, biliousness, bilious headache, poor digestion, gout. ’ Catarrh of the Bladder, ; Inflammation, irritation, ulceration, dribbling, ! frequent calls, pass blood, mucus or pus. i CxMMtw •> contents of One Bottle. « not benefited, OruggSw will refund to -oo the price paid. At ©rngiiists, 50c. Size, ?1.00 Size. »ls»*Bds' Guide to Health" tree- Cooßultatton fee*. Ila. Kilmer A Co.. Bisghjlmtoh. N. T. Farmers! Look here. Remember we are still at the old stand ready to receive your grain and seed and pay yon the highest market price; we also have on hand all kinds of seed for sowing or planting. Have just received a large supply of grain bags, which we will sell at cost. When you have anything to offer in car lots or less on any track call in and let us make you a price. Yours truly, MERCER & NEAL.

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* L. E. DIAL, 219 Mich. St., Plymouth, Ind.

NUMBER 50.

We have just received a large new line of light shades of Dresden and Persian ribbons for dress trimmings at 25c, 35c and 50c. I will sell regardless of cost or value at one half the regular price, TRinnED HATS & BONNETS, Mid-summer Patterns included. Dress Shapes, Short-back Sailors and Turbans in White, Black, Brown and Navy; white and black Leghorn hats, COTTON roses, SILK & VELVET FLOWERS, AN© HIGH grade ribbons* 500 Sailors and Walking Hats in whiteblack, brown and navy, at 25c., 50c., 75c, 81, 81.25 and up to 12.