St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1897 — Page 4

€Tjc independent. SISUED EVERY SATURDAY OLKERTON, - - - INDIANA. A. Endley, - Editor and Publisher. Cl .25 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. SATURDAY, MARCH 1.3, 1897. Vanished Hopes. BY AKVIELA KYLE. ©li! where are the hopes of the vanished years. The castles so grandly reared. While life was young and no thought of defeat Tooar confident minds appeared? ■'&#, where is the sweetness of love’s young dream, Xnd the joy we knew should be ours? Sone! gone’, with the. castles so frailly built, All vanished by time’s flitting powers. ■Rut still -we hope on, for something of life To yet gladden ourspirits forlorn, £nd make us again happy a* when We budded in life s rosy m >rn. *Oh! for the touch of a vanished hand,” Or a word from a voice now stilled, To t?U us that there, beyond the dark strand, Some hope of this life is fulfilled. Where sorrows, and heartaches, and t ars. Shall not be our daily review, Where He who strengthens the weak, Will not fail to carry us through. Where after long years of toiling and pain, And struggles for virtue and right, Jesus will ctown us gladly his heir, For winning so glorious a fight. The above poem was composed and lotted down in about ten minutes expressly for the Independent by Mrs. Arvilla Kyle, of Benton Harbor, Mich. She is the author of “The Baby Across the Way,” “The Lost Chicora,” and many other fine poems that have appeared from Sime to time. When but 19 years of age she wrote that beautiful poem, “You Kissed Me,” which the poet Whittier pronounced one of the finest poems in die English language. Like many others jf genius her path has been a rough one, and now with failing health and a family so support it is no wonder that “heart- । aches and tears” are her “daily review.” ■ Yet, as she expresses herself in “Vanished 1 Hopes,” she struggles and hopes on and the brave spirit and true genius may yet receive the reward she so richly deserves. Her mother was Mrs. Schammehorn, a poet much admired a generation or so ago, among the best known of her poems being “The Captive Indian’s Lament,” vhich was in one of the readers. The stanzas ending with the refrain, “Oh, white man, let me go,” were familiar words to the children of that day. Only four more days till that great went at Carson City. The startling news comes that Spain is seady to give up the Cuban strife and billing to secure peace at any terms. President McKinley has decided to call an extra session of congress March 15 in order that work may commence immediately upon a new tariff bill. Envy is one of the most insidious evils ©f the present day. It only requires opportunity for this trait to manifest itself uj a very large per cent of the people. It sxt nds to all ranks and conditions of men. When misfortune comes it seldom aver fails to come out and when evil reports gain circulation the envious man isthe first to grasp and publish them.— S, W. Adams. Hiram B. Ritter, a prominent resident North Webster, has brought a $lO,AX) damage suit in the circuit court of Xosciusko county against Rev. John F. ^fockman, pastor of the Evangelical ehurch at North Webster, for alleged dienation of Mrs. Ritter’s affections. Soshen News. ' Isn’t that a little high for that kind ©f affection? Wouldn’t ten cents be nearer the market price? The Republican Sound Money Club, located at 111 West Washington street, South Bend, desires to extend a cordial invitation through the Independent to republicans and all others in this part of the county who are in sympathy with । tKe views on IKo financial ques ’ *ion to visit tliein at their headquarters ' vhen in the city. Business meetings are held at the Club rooms on the first and third Tuesdays of each month and on every alternate Tuesday evening there is public speaking. The subject for discussion next Tuesday evening is as follows: Resolved, “That that Republican Sound Money Club of South Bend, Ind., place itself on record as being in favor of a law which shall secure to depositors in State banks their deposits in full in case of failure of any such State bank.” Therefore be it, Resolved, “That a committee of three be appointed by the president to collect information, draft a proposed bill and create public sentiment in favor of such proposed legislation.” The law as suggested by the Club would be a right and just one and a protection to which a suffering people are entitled. The press and every friend of good, equable laws should endorse this proposition and encourage the Club in its worthy aim. Births. An 11% pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Elwood McDaniel March 8. To Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jackson, a girl, ilarch 6. Try the American steam laundry, of SaPorte. Work first-class. A. E. Cripe, agent.

The Indiana legislature adjourned Saturday night. So far as important : business is concerned it had better never I . met. — Goshen Democrat. i Indiana, like many other states, has been afflicted with useless legislatures, but the assembly just closed, we believe, j has proved an exception. While, like most bodies of men, it was not perfect, ' and perhaps may have allowed itself to 1 be swayed too much in some cases by I partisan motives, yet it was a fairly de- I cent legislature and reasonably faithful . in the discharge of the important duties devolving upon it. The test of the legislature’s usefulness is the important measures which it passed, there being 1 a number of excellent and much needed laws, or acts rather, standing to its credit. Among them we enumerate the following: Change of time of paying spring installment of taxes from the first Monday in April to the first Monday in May. Assessing transient stores at the full rate of assessment for state, county, township and municipal taxes, providing said stores have not paid taxes in some other county in the state. Legalizing appropriations of commissioners to auditors and treasurers on salaries not provided in the fee and sal ary law of 1895. Providing for the payment of the sal aries of the auditors and treasurers of the several counties without regard to fees collected by them, leaving clerks, sheriffs and recorders entitled to ho more as salaries than they have collected in the way of fees. Making it the duty of clerks, auditors and recorders to administer oaths, etc., in pension papers free of charge. Now in force. Extending the terms of all township ’ trustees until the November election in • 1900. ’ Providing that schools in towns of less than 1500 shall be governed by the township trustee, thereby abolishing the board of school trustees in such towns. Making it the duty of all land owners, through or along whose land a public highway runs, to cut all briars, thistles, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing on such highway, along its whole course, through or past his land, j between the first day of July and the ; twentieth day of August each year. For doing so lie is to be allowed the sum of $1.25 for each day of eight hours, the work to be done under the direction of the road supervisor, and the compensation credited on the road tax. If the owner fails to cut the weeds along his own land, the road supervisor may em ploy any other resident property owner I in the district to do it, and shall give j him credit on his road tax at the rate • above mentioned. Repealing the special verdict law. Defining what is the legitimate fishing with, hook and line that is permitted in the streams and lakes of this state by providing that the “line shall be held in the hand or be attached to a pole or rod. which is held in the hand, and no line shall be used which has to exceed three hooks attached." The act forbids the taking of fish in any other manner whatever. The compulsory education bill, which applies to children from 8 to 14 years of age and permits additional tax levies by loeal boards to meet its provisions and establish parental homes for incorrigible children if necessary. An act compelling township trustees to make report to the county commissioners and have their accounts audited by them. To a considerable extent it transfers the purchase of supplies to the commissioners. Providing that the terms of county treasurers shall begin in every ease on the first day of January following the term of the present incumbent. Took effect March 8, 1897. An act to suppress quart shops: It provides that it shall be unlawful for any person directly or indirectly to sell, barter or give away for any purpose of gain any spiritous, vinous or malt liquors without first procuring from the boards of commissioners of the county in which such liquor is to be sold, a license to sell the same. Nor shall any person not having a license sell or barter any inI toxicating liquor to be drunk or suffer i such liquor to be drunk in his house, I outl»>usw>, yard, garden or the appurte- ■ I nances thereto belonging. 'The fee for a license to sell any kind of intoxicating liquor is made SIOO. This act does not apply to wholesale dealers who do not sell in quantities of less than five gallons at a time. It took ' effect March 8, 1897. A measure relating to the sale of mortgaged property. It provides that morti gaged property must be sold by an order i of the circuit court and limits the cruel- ; ty of the chattel mortgage shark. ESTATEOF PHILIP WELLER. Notice of Final Account. ; By Direction of Maria Weller. Administratrix, of the Estate of Phil'p Well ,r, late of St. Joseph couniy. in the state of Indiana, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the heirs, legatees and devisees of said decedent, and to all other persons interested in said estate, that said AdI ministrator has filed in this Court his account i and vouchers for the final settlement of said estate, and they are therefore hereby required to be and appear in said Court on the 29th day of March, 1897, when the same will be heard, and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate, and show cause if any there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. Witness the Clerk and the Seal of the St. Joseph Circuit court at South Bend, Indiana, this 6th day of March, 1897. GEO. M. FOUNTAT N, Clerk. John C. Richter, Atty, for Admr.

The Livj Merchant. ; A trade journal before m has a chap- , ter on the merchant and his business from which we extract the following sensible and practical suggestions: The business man wants trade. He ' can’t do business without trade. He I rents a room, places his goods in the room I and waits for his customers. Unless his customers come to him he can’t do busi ness at all. He stands about and won ' ders why they do not come rushing in. He does not stop to think that no one may know that he has “set up a shop” and wants customers. He hasn’t told any one. He has kept it strictly to himaelf. He may have nice goods. No one has hoard it. His goods may be cheap. No one has been so informed. He rearranges his goods to make them look attractive But this does no good as no one cnL » to see them. No one has been inv^L i•* Rent becomes due. The man ca«T * n ' it. He hasn’t sold enough to casdß pay tomers, the only kind he can get Jy, CUS to get without advertising, to rent. He must and does soon g*i n ' business, blaming ure when he himself is to blai^pr* md doing business on business preppies. A business man wants to W* business on business principles^^yter he has established himself in a build ing, in a good location, with gool goods, ho must proceed to let the peop^ -know the facts and go out after the Igisiness. 1 He must convince the people tuat it is decidedly to their interest to,fit least call and inspect his goods, andl when he gets the people there he must mln make them his friends by fulfilling every pledge made in the advertisements. In selecting a medium for letting the people know about his business he must select the most popular, the most attrac tive and the most read newspaper. Such a newspaper goes into the best families, and it is the trade of the best families that he is after. Call and see sample copies of the Chicago weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Thrice a Week World, with which the Independent is making liber al clubbing terms. The arena in which the Corbett-Fitz simmons fiirht occurs has a seating capa city of 15,252, and the cost of the tickets very from five to forty dollars. If the seats are all occupied, the receipts will be $284,000. TH Fl tars’ - Baal, Walkerton, John E. Johnson, Pres. Moki;an Johnson, Vils' Pres. Thompson twiner, Cashier. Doi's h general banking Inisim-sH; bins ami soils exchange, makes col lections on all points at lowest possi bin expense. Accounts of iuilividimls and corporations solicited. IV ANTED several faithful men or women to ’• travel for irquisiNe eMablifch&t house in Indiana Salary >7BO. payable Sls weekly and expense* Position permanent Referent e Fi> dose self-addressed stamped enveloped The National, Star Building l.'hicgu.

I My Spring & Summer Stock of — — Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s SHOES i Is the banner ssortment of the season. \ allies were never so marvellously low at right now. Come and see the choice selection and learn why ecodßh^il people prefer to spend their money with me. M Rensberger. Lewder in Low Prices. I Positively no goods sX] on Sunday except in case of sickness. ^HE RED STAR | ...FOK... GROCERIES ANO NOTIONS? Highest Market Pricefor Country Produce. ... J. A. Williams.

TEEG ARDEN. Miss Lonie Loga i is at Bremen doing I house work for her aunt, Mrs. Clifford. Frank Shroll has moved into one of Fitzgerald’s houses. He will move onto his own farm as soon as he builds a house. Charley Johnson made a trip to LaPaz Saturday night to be appointed subagent for “The Murder of Pearl Bryan.” Jacob Long, of North Drkota, is visiting with neighbors and friends here. Elmer Cutshaw has gone to Chicago to secure a job of work. Levi C. Myers, living near this place, has accepted a position from the Tornado Bluing Co. to act as traveling salesman. He is worthy of the position, and Ive wish him success. Mrs. Sophia Carlson, of Chicago, attended the funeral of her brother last Sunday. Mrs. Benjamin West and son, of Knox, are visiting friends in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Culp, of Nappanee, were present at the funeral of Chas. Peterson Sunday. Walter Davis went to see his girl Saturday night. His horse got tired waiting and wont h«m« Walter did likebut went af<x>t. Gideon Dogan has purchased a huxter wagon of Bennett & Collier, of Tyner. He proposes to be a peddler too. Ed Furgerson went to Whiting Mon day "where he will work this summer. Jerry and that other fellow had better ' quit carrying cider-jug sacks on their • backs. It is hard on their spinal col , umns. Some one said we were going to have a new postmaster. Since the train wreck Teegarden has । changed its name to Coffeegarden. OBITUARY. Charles Peterson, who has been an in • valid of a complication of diseases for : two years, died at his home March 5, ’ aged 46 years, 7 months and 7 days. He I leaves a wife and two small children to ' mourn his loss. He made a confession of Christianity about three monthsago, and united with the Dunkard Brethren I church. Funeral services were held at I the Center church on Sunday at 10 a. in., and the burial at the Morris cemetery, Rev. Hillery officiating. J. Insanity Prevented. “ I feel it my duty to tell you what ; your Wonderful ‘OAK BALM’ has [ done for me, os it may be the means oi j

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knows how thankful , am. I felt that I should become insane ami eml my days i»i uu HHjlum ; hs. [ every form of female weakness; was si run down could hardly drag mysel , around the house. I am complete!, cured as the result of your OAK BAL.X treatment, l.et me urge every affiicte< woman to give it a trial. I am sure i will cure the most hopelo-s. No om could l>e worse than 1 was ami live ” 1 Mrs. Fred Stevens. West Derby. Vt Trial box and treatise mulled free to an. satTerlnx woman. THE HAGER MEDICAL CO , SOUTH BEND. IND! -NA. For Sale by WiILLIAMS the Druggst. Walkerton, Indiana.

THE GLOBE. ANOTHER BIG FIRE IN WALKERTON! BUT WE ARE STILL ON EARTH FOR BARGAINS. WE ARE RECEIVING OUR —CONSISTING OF— Men’s and Boys’ Suits Hats, Caps, Shoes & Gents’ Furnishing Goods. We will sell you clothing cheaper than ever before offered in Walkerton. You who want C’ ithing come to our store iw&iJwk and see our nice line of new goods and learn the low prices at which we are selling them. We can interest you. ’ A Few of Our Rare Bargains: । Men’s Fancy Bosom Shirts, 50 cents, usual price 75 cents. • Our One Dollar Shirt now for 75 cents. Nice All Wool Clay Worsted Suits from $6.50 to sls. • Other goods will be sold proportionately low. Koontz & Fair. FOR 30 DAYS WE NAME A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE IN OUR —Giirj DwM— Mix- d Ti a, formerly 10 and 50 cents regular 30 cent grade here per lb., 15c. 2 lb. Canned Corn, equal to Elgin, Bc. or 75c. per doz. I 2 lb. “ Yellow String Beans, Bc. or 75c. per doz. j 3 lb. “ Boston Baked Beans. 10c. or $1 per doz. 3 |b. “ Tomatoes, whole stock, full cans, Bc. or 80c. per doz. 3 lb. - Pumpkin, equal to Lake Shore, Bc. or 80e. per doz. 2 lb. li Blueberries, Maine pack, 10c. or $1 per doz. 21b. “ Grated Pineapple, finest pack, 15c. per can. lb. Package Noodles, sc. or 50c. per doz. Best Bulk Coffee in town, for the money, 17c. per pound. We will meet any price on anything you have been buying elsewhere, and offer you all NEW GOODS AT CASH PRICES. Trusting we will see you with us, we are, Yours Truly, Stephens Grider. Produce taken same as CASH during this sale. Butter Makers Should Save T ime and Labor By Getting One of our Churns THE BENTWOOD AND IMPROVED BUCKEYE are the kinds we keep. They are among the best Churns made. GOOD WASHING MACHINES MAkE WASH DAY COMPARATIVELY EASY. WE HANDLE The Beck and Cyclone Washers. A Few Doors, thoroughly seasoned, for sale. j — L.A. REEGE. A LIAR!^*Isnot noeled t>tellabmito:irgoLls;i ilp-icas. You will always find good । honest goods at reasonable prices at our store. We have just received our Spring Stock DRY GOODS AND SHOES, and invite you to consult your own interests by calling and seeing our stock. We have the latest in Dress Coods and ladies’, children’s and m>n’s shoes, which we are selling at the right prices Call and learn something to your advantage. BRUBAKER & BLAINE.

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