St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1897 — Page 1

COUNTy St rrt JSh Iwioenftent

VOLUME XXIII.

A HOOSIER EDITOR ON AN OUTING. \ Baltimore. Md. ? Sept. 11, 1897. A street ear ride through the market and shipping portions of Baltimore is a novel experience to one used to the rapid car service and wide streets of C hi cago and other western cities. In Chi cago we are accustomed to seeing the teams get out of the way of street cars but here the streets are so narrow and crowded that the street ears have to stop every few feet for the vehicles. If a loaded truck gets the center of the track, which is much smoother than the cobble stones at the side, it will jog along leisurely till it gets ready to turn out, while the patient conductor keeps ' ringing his bell and stops along as a matter of course. We have ridden along this way behind a loaded truck for more than a block where there were no other teams and plenty of room to turn out, but down in the thickest portions of the city there is hardly room to pass, and once we passed so close that our car scraped the side of a horse. We expected the animal w'ould be badly hurt or killed but the car was running f lowly and no harm was done. Wo seemed to be the only ones that noticed it. The poor horse and everyone else seemed to take it asja matter of course. What strikes the stranger here is the rows of residences built like business buildings right out on the street, with a little flight of white marble steps, or at the cheaper residences, wooden steps painted white, leading down from the front door. We rode miles and miles on the street car and upon dozens of streets and all the residences we saw were like this, even to the lonely blocks out in the suburbs. There probably are houses in Baltimore with front yards but we didn’t see any. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon everybody or their nigger is out scrubbing these steps and after 6 o’clock the whole population of Baltimore are sitting on their front steps. Fort McHenry, situated on the Chesapeake bay, is one of the places of special interest here. It commands a fine view of the bay, the great cannon pointed in .trecry direction from the breastworks. As we stood at the edge of the water watching the vessels of all sizes and descriptions that dotted the bay, we looked up toward the threatening mouths of the cannon and thought of the warm reception a hostile war vessel would meet with should it attempt to run the gaunt let of this formidable fortress. This fort has been immortalized in song, it being the scene where Key was inspired to write one of the greatest of our national hymns. “The^Star Spangled Banner in Triumph Still Waves" from the fort as it did “by the dawn’s early light” on that memorable morning. Druid Hill park is one of the celebrated parks of Baltimore. It is a beautiful national park and contains an artificial lake from which^the city gets its water supply. Around the lake, a distance of about three miles, is a drive way and bicycle road. Druid Hill park was formerly the estate of Mr. Rogers, who bequeathed it to the* city in 1859. The old Rogers mansion still stands in the park.

* * * Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 15, '97. The “City of Brotherly Love” possesses a number of points of historic interest. As the home of^Benjamin Franklin and William Penn, and the place where the best part of these illustrious lives were spent, and also as the scene where the Declaration of Independence was de- , dared, Philadelphia will always hold an 1 important position in the history of our ; country and a warm place in the heart of every American citizen. But it is not ' alone upon the traditions of the past 1 that this city depends for its importance and greatness. It is really a great city in the modern sense. It occupies third

place in point of population with the cities of the United States, and for many u years was the second city until Chicago usurped her title to this proud distinction. Its fine large stores, grand buildings, progressive newspapers and great commercial interests remind us more of the “Windy City” by the lake than any city we have yet visited.

It looks a little odd to see some of the antiquated buildings of the colonial style standing in many parts of the city, sometimes right on the busiest thoroughfares and along side of magnificent structures of modern style. But this is the penalty that a city like Philadelphia must pay for its antiquity. Yet these old buildings are interesting to look upon, breathing of times long past and being silent witnesses to some of the great events which marked the early struggles and birth of the nation. Who would wish them away? They speak eloquently of the past and an air of poetic senti ment surrounds these old and treasured structures. . . Yesterday we visited the little old building where the first American flag

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was madj by Betsy Ross. The place is now occupied as a cigar store but the room where the flag was made is re served for visitors, and the tire place, windows, woodwork and some other : things about the room are still kept in j their original condition. The building is 215 years old and was the second brick house built in Philadelphia, Will iam Penn’s, which now stands in Fairmount park, being the first. The idea of the stars and stripes was suggested by the coat of arms of General George Washington’s family. Colonel George Rose, Robert Morris and General Washington were a committee appointed to devise a new flag. Betsy Ross was noted for her skill in needle work and the com mittee called upon her and engaged her to make a flag from a pencil drawing furnished by Washington. The story goes that “General Washington explained his drawing to Betsy Roes directing that I the stars should be six pointed. Mrs. Ross obieeted to this and argued that the stars in the sky seemed to have but five points; following her argument by a practical demonstration, she folded a piece of paper and with a single clip of her scissors cut out a perfect the pointed star. This was too much for the com mittee and without further argument the idea of Betsy Ross prevailed.” Willow Grove park, about nine miles, from the central part of the city, is one of Philadelphia’s most popular resorts. We went there yesterday, taking an elec trie car, riding for about nine miles on the Old York road through the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Wr passed one beautiful suburban home after another, terraced lawns with old fashioned stone walls and hedges, smooth, shady avenues, queer shaped old stone houses, ivy covered churches, the spacious grounds of some public institution and quaint little suburban towns, until we came to the beautiful grounds of Willow Grove. There is a lake with a fountain, merry go round, scenic railway, “shoot the chutes,” a bicycle race track, a fine hotel and all the summer resort paraphernalia. When the fountain, buildings, trees and shrubbery of the spacious grounds are illuminated they form a fairy picture, resembling a miniature World’s Fair. But the great attraction that draws thousands of people every day to this resort is the open air concerts given every afternoon and evening by \\ alter Damrosch and his New York symphony orchestra. Their music is superb any where but to hear it in the open air sit ting by the lake, by the cools placing fountain, beneath the trees, with the Chelten Hills all around and the blue sky overhead, is a delight never to be forgotten. Within a few feet of the busy traffic of Arch street in an old cemetery enclosed with a brick wall, is the grave of Benja min Franklin. As you pass by on the sidewalk you stop at the first gate; it is locked but you can look through the iron barsand right at your Jeet flat on the ground, lies a plain stone slab bearing the inscription: “Benjamin \ Franklin Deborah / 1790”

That is all that marks the last resting place of the printer, philosopher, scientist and statesman. Deborah, his wife, was buried there several years before, and it was Franklin’s request that there be no display over his grave, and this slab is just as he ordered it. But Franklin needs no monument over his grave. In the great cities of the United States and even in those of Europe are countless monuments erected to the memory of this great American. His name is written in imperishable letters upon the scroll of fame. With what reverential feelings does

the true American stand within the walls of Old Independence Hall, the “cradle of i American liberty." With uncovered ' head lie hows before the old Tjibertx 1 ; Bell, which on .July 1, 1776. at 12 o’clock i I noon, obedient to its prophetic inscrip । tion, “proclaimed liberty throughout all > the land unto all the inhabitants there of.” The bell stands upon a beautiful

: pedestal and occupies the center of the s old congress room. The original table upon which the Declaration of Indepen dence was signed and many of the chairs ' are still standing in their old places. The old original chandelier still hangs from the ceiling. There are to be seen here a great many articles which were used and costumes worn in “the times which tried men’s souls.” At Cramp’s ship yards we saw them i making two large war vessels one for the United States and one for the Japan ese government. This is one of the t largest ship yards in this country and 3 employs 3,900 hands. 11 is located on the 1 Delaware river where the new boats are . launched for trial. Philadelphia has two rivers—the Dela > ware and the Schuylkill, the latter be ing the source of the city’s water supply, The slurs on Chicago w’ater are nothing to those cast upon this river water. A 5 I [CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 ]

i ARIZONA. * Arizona today presents the most inducements and it is the best field in the U. S. for a young man who has the western fever. It is a good country to go to and grow up in. It has never been ; overrun with settlers and is not very j densely populated and therefore all of the best chances have not been taken up. ’ The experience of the majority of the wealthiest men of the west is that they found a good thing and stayed by it. Arizona with the rest of the western territories, will feel the first results from । the renewed prosperity, and little canqis of a few hundred inhabitants today will ! । be thriving cities tomorrow, when prosi perity comes. Strictly speaking, the industry of Arizona is mining, although it has greater possibilities in the way of j agriculture than any other section in the world. It him today thousands upon thousands of wasteless acres, that lay parching under a burning sun, that even begrudges a living to a cayote or a horned toad, but yet it does not require much of an imagination to look forward a few years and see this all transformed into a garden of paradise, blooming with tropical verdure and fragrance. The mesquite shrub will giro way to the lemon and orange, the cactus to the . palm tree, the burning sands and ant hills to verdant grass, and all that was waste will bring forth abundance. All that is necessary to bring almut this miraculous change is water. The soil is fertile and will produce any thing that grows, and ttie climate is such that all kinds of tropical and semi tropical fruits may be raised. The possibilities of these extentlees deserts have already interested men of capital, and today schemes for storage and subsequent irrigation are being in i vestigated by them as well as nlao by the . iU. 8. government. As soon as tins* ■ schemes are carried out, and they err tainly will be, land that today may be । taken as government land will be as valuable as the improved fruit lands of southern California. All this however, is in our opinion the least of the advantages tiiat Arizona offers. if the truth were known a large portion of the present ruah to Alaska would be diverted to Arizona. It is to day a better field for the gold seeker than Klondike! This is not a rash statement, or one . given without thought, and we might add that we have no mines nor raal eg tate in Arizona to sell, but one based up on a two years practical investigation in the territory on the one hand and a care ful study of newspaper reports from the other fields. Some of the largest ami greatest producing gold mines in the j world are in Arizona today, find the 1 United Verde Copper mine at Jerome, 1 Arizona is by far the largest producer of copper, gold and silver in the world, and i yet the territory has never been fully j pr< ‘Spected. It does not require any particular * । knowledge or former experience to pros • pect. And it often happens that the < tenderfoot will find a mine of great wealth where old prospectors have been I looking for years. Gold is where you find it and no set of rules can be follow cd in prospecting. There are miles of unexplored mouni tains into which a prospector has never struck a pick, and it is reasonable to believe that there lies hidden there even greater riches than have been uncovered. There are places along the mineral belt where one can walk for miles and scarcely pick up a rock that does not contain gold or some other mineral. Every thing goes to show that there is in that territory many ledges carrying fabulous wealth, and a systematic and dilligent search is all that is require ’ to I ' find them. Mining in Arizona and other outdoor ; I work can be carried on the year around ■ ■ and one can live in a tent and be com- I ; sortable at all times. It is a pleasure to j prospect for gold in a country where one may live on a large variety of wild game ’

and should necessity demand it. entirely I live off the resources of the county, and | when night comes your bed is ready when you have found a level spot, and all the shelter necessary is the starlit canopy of heaven. A young man with a strong arm and a willing mind can al ways find employment there. And we believe that a close application to any particular pursuit, will bring greater reward than here. It is our honest advise to every young man in this country, who has no very bright prospects here, and not adverse to breaking home ties, to launch forth into the great south west and cast his lot with a country that has possibilities untold. I will deliver gasoline and kerosene free of charge between the hours of 9 and It) a. m. each day except Sunday. Leave your can. » H. H. Granger.

The PEN ANO SufiAßScenaionTur Ut n' Vho l “ ade a halloon as lit in front ( r 6 PerU Btreet fair last week> P a « B »nger train. tiinn o 110 t ra >u was stopped in time to his life. I . l,l ‘' r ded woman in Wanatah walked ° A W°° n °^ er e'ening and oum I J husband playing cards. She didn t doj, thing but lake him by the nape of jie neck, yank him out of his seat and|ell him that his place was at home ■Liwit. 1 Ot » h*” ”** consisting of lanAfcd buildings and 16,000, Eaton 1 kas *l*s* continuous tank glass fact<be removed to the Indiana • gas l^ from Fostoria, Ohio, by Emil Baur. iThe factory will employ 150 hands And will commence operations Chg Merchant, a veteran, aged 75 years, sitie years ago a resident of Elkhart ant business associate of R. D. Braden,Committed suicide at Sturgis, Mich., Wednesday by blowing out his brains. ^He placed a wash bowl in one chair aad seated himself in another opposite After the fatal shot his body sank foward and the wash howl caught the blooL An ex^iange in Indiana says that one of it^aubscrihrra found a spider in his paperand wanted to know if it was i a bad on^n. The editor responded as follows: Nothing of the kind. The spider waz merely looking over the col umns of tie paper to see what mer chants ww n<>t advertising so it could spin its w4b nemss the door without fear of disturUnee.'' “Did yob Observe,” said a merchant to a customerTthe handsome advertisement I have hal printed on the railing of the , bridge?" rNo,’ replied the customer, j “but if yol will send the railing around ' t<> my hows I will try tn read the au mmneemcat. I read the papers and I haven’t ti»e to go around from place to place to |rad bill Ismrds.” And the merchant watched hie head and walked away. L AccnriEw 1” th* l Valparaiso ger. a makes the announce fluent 11 '"l -r .»f the <kunk is a sure ch se- diphtheria, and we have 1 Si .' the wmntmt is Diphthsr^^s caused, it is said, hy a living ai d whib- tie- mir ■ is unprincipled and wscntially depraved, we can prove by “eminent l<-i al auth ority. there tiust i»e mane where it will draw the line in the matter of associa tions; so it is our belief that a skunk could knock out any microbe, provided, ■ d course, that the skunk was fv« ling w ell. An exchange tali’* a story <>f a good i old mother who received a dreadful shock j the other day through a telegram from her boy, who is in New York enjoying himself. As enjoying one's self sometiums cosh money, it is not strange that the young man sent the following some what slarwy dispatch for more funds to his father; "Had ay leg pulled Broke. Send me #s<t by wire.” When the mother read this appeal, she was plunged in grief. “My pair boy!” she moaned. “He must have been in one of those cable car things. Send him sl<X>. father, and tell him logo to the best doctor in the city. Parties thinking of taking a trip south or west should not fail to obtain rates anegood time made via the I. I. & I. and ita&umerous connections. KrJp Up Your Scott’s Emulsion in Ptmmer-time ^*v*Wbat are your resources for the (summer? Have you an abundance of health stowed away for the long, hot, depleting days, or does summer find you low in vitality, run down, losing flesh, and weak? Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil will give you the proper reserve force, because it builds up the system on a solid foundation. A tonic may stimulate; Scott’s Emulsion not only ° boosts,” it sustains. . “ 4 wise precaution always to have at a Sln ^U bottle of Scott’s Emulsion in me house. Unopened, it will keep indefinitety. Tightly corked, after using, kept in a cool w ai remain sweet for weeks. tale by all druggists at <♦♦so Cents and

A ©ood | to Build Is when material is cheap. ‘l'he hard times have made every thin g cheaper, and building material is very low now. 1J yow. think of building now is a good time. Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. I CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF LUMBER, Lath and Shingles. Sash, Doors, Blinds 1 and Mouldings, Lime, Brick. Hair, Stucco and Cement, Hard, Soft and Blacksmiths Coal, Mixed Paint, White Lead and Oil. D. N. Hudelmyer. New Goods! New Goods! S'.',ice the fire in February we have received 'over 7 hree Thousand 'Dollars worth of neiv goods which makes our Hue complete, with all the latest styles of CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES, and the largest and best selected stock of MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, ■■■ ——■ ■' N—--1 e and at the rest prices ever before seen in Walker to 11. Fire Sale! Red Tag Coods! We have about $2,500.00 worth of “damaged goods” on hand yet, which we will leave the old Red Tag Price on, and sell them to good parties on 60 days' time, or give 10 per cent off for SPOT CASH. Come to us for your Goods and Save Money, as you always have done. Thos. J. Wolfe. THE CLOTHIER. [ GENERALJARDWE. | | Paints and Oils, | p Rubber HOSE and all Attachments, 3 H Screen Doors and Window Screens, 3 E A Good Line of Cook and 5 I Caste Sieves, 1 E Barbed and Smooth Wipe, 3 I ROSS & BRADY. 1

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