Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 January 1902 — Page 4
®|je JnOepcnOcnt. . j- ' i SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1902. . ~~— — ] ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY , AT WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. W.A.Endley, - Editor and Publisher. ADVANCE. STARKE * ST. JOSEPH PHONE 25. TO SUBSCRIBERS. f Subscribers to the independent will find after their respective names on the wrapper or margin of the paper the date to which their suitscription is paid... In this way they are enabled to keep posted as to the exact amount of theli subscription. The regular price of the paper is 51.50 per; year or 51.25 if paid in advance PayZln advance and save 25 cents. _ _ Publisher.* Maclay now threatens to enter the lecture field. Help! Help! The newspapers are going after Madden proper, and will have his hide on the fence if he doesn't take it back.
Andrew Carnegie’s donations to date c amount to_about $82,000,000. This c ■prbtnpts'T^Jhicago Record-Herald to i say that at last accounts Russel Sage’s grand total was 38 cents. An appalling number of railroad wrecks have been happening of late all over the country, being almost of daily occurrence. For some unaccountable reason such mishaps seem often to come in epidemics. South Bend stands next to Indianapolis among the cities of Indiana in the amount of the capital invested in manufacturing interests. This is a fine showing and means great things for the future of our county seat. Selfishness is its own punishment. The misery that a selfish, jealous man brings upon himself amply repays him for his indulgence of such a spirit. The only cure lies within the man himself by the careful and conscientious cultivation of a more liberal and sensible disposition.
“When a newspaper tramps on a man’s toes, it is a dirty sheet in his estimation,” says the Columbia City Post. “When it fails to expose some other fellow it is a cowardly sheet in the aforesaid man’s estimation and doesn’t amount to anything. AU newspaper men meet with such characters, but pay little attention to them. It isn’t worth while.” Gov. Leslie MlShaw, the newly elected secretary of the treasury, is no swallow tailed coat man, and when, he gets to Washington will live a quiet life and attend strictly to the duties of the • great office with which he is entrusted. The governor’s wife is also of plain, quiet tastes. There should be more like
We can euuui«> me following from an exchange: “Just at this time the country needs a new religion that will make a man pay his debts. Shouting and giving testimony doesn’t settle accounts with God or man. We bounce right into a fellow and put him out of the church if he goes to a bailor theater, but never a word to the pious scamp who never pays his debts. The latter I are doing the churches more harm than dancing or drunkards, for there are more of them in the church.”
Edwin C. Madden, the incompetent third assistant postmaster-general, is making himself obnoxious by arbitrary and unreasonable rulings in postal affairs. His latest freak is a ruling which will deny the right of a publisher to extend credit to any subscriber for his paper, under penalty of forfeiting the privileges of the mailing service. This Would affect most seriously the circulations of country weeklies, religious and agricultural journals. The object of the proposed measure is, of course, to curtail the expenses of the postal service, but in order to accomplish this end it doesn’t seem necessary that the postal department should invade the domain of private business and assume to dictate in what manner a man shall conduct his own private affairs. The proposed measure must have emanated from a very funny brain, which has been suddenly turned and made dizzy by the endowment of a little brief authority. Madden, you understand, hasn’t been there very long and he was only recently picked up out of obscurity and raised to
the dizzy heights of eminence. This has seemingly had a bad effect upon him. We do not believe in calling men hard names because they may happen to differ from us, hut th&. author of the proposed measure is by prima facie evidence an enigma, a curiosity in obtuseness. He presumes to say whether or not the publisher of the Walkerton Independent or any other pub lisher shall extend credit to a man who is perfectly honorable and good pay, or whether he shall present his paper to a friend for reasons that may be best known to himself. A ruling of this kind will hardly be sustained, however. It will not because it is too autocratic, too senseless. There are other ways that will be found to reduce the expenses of the postal service without enforcing such an obnoxious, despotic measure against the bona fide newspaper publishers of the country. The Prairie Farmer is a large weekly farm paper at $1 a year. It is one of the best and most popular farm papers published. We have made special clubbing arrangements whereby we can fur I nish the Independent and this splendid I farm paper one year for $1.50. A snap that every one of our farmer readers should take in at once. Old subscribers can get this rate by paying all back subscription and $1.50 in advance.
Bro. Madden, third assistant postmas-ter-general, seems to be very dilligent in looking after the interests of the newspaper men of the country. He is afraid that they will do too much ctedit business and bust up, so he proposes to enforce a ruling making all subscribers pay in advance. This is very kind of him, but rather unnecessary, as the average newspaper man is somewhat interested himself and is not unduly anxious to burden his subscription list with dead beat subscribers. Now that it is barely possible that Secretary Long may leave the cabinet, Washington gossip attests that many persons in official circles will be glad to have him leave because he has never entertained. Thus it appears that entertaining is one of the qualifications of an able secretary. Secretary Long is a man of limited means with an invalid wife. For more than a year a daughter was an invalid and finally died. Instead of thinking meanly Jof the secretary of the navy for not assuming expenses for entertaining which he could not meet with- । out harming himself, most people will respect hie manly independence.—lndianapolis Journal.
Dr. A. C. Jackson, of Goshen, calls attention in a communication in the Democrat to a few points about appendicitis, closing the article in the following pertinent manner;
“Ever since the days of Adam (no doubt inclusive) people have supported the little piece of useless {anatomy called the vermiform appendix. Adam ate apples and no doubt grapesjtoo, his whole posterity has eaten them, seeds and all, but there was little said or written about appendicitis until within a decade or two. Now most every derangement of the abdominal viscera is called appendi citis. It is very doubtful if more than two per cent of the so called cases are rightly named. The medical science is all right, but its votaries are too apt to run wild on an idea or a name—nervous prostration, blood poisoning, heart failure, appendicitis.” Attorney Reeves, counsel for the plaintiff in the Stevenson-Dowie case on trial at Chicago, closed his speech with the following scathing arraignment of “Elijah:”
"Several years ago confidence men were accustomed to take the unwary to the lake front to see the place where the steamboat exploded and then rap them over the head with a piece of lead pipe. Times have changed. We now have a tabernacle on the lake front where they sing a song and preach a sermon and then a modern Elijah says ‘presto change and your change is gone. He does not leave the barrel of meal and the cruse of oil like the Elijah of old, but instead leaves vacuum.J “This modern Elijah will one day have to stand before the great white bar of justice and give an account of his acts and on that day he will say in the words of Wolsey, ‘lf I had served my (rod with half the zeal I have served Mammon, he would not in my day of adversity desert me and leave me in mine old age naked to mine enemies!’ Sewerage AIM utely Necessary. Water must fil|’r down thr< ugh the earth 75 feet befoi it will r "self and a stream 4jj| ly purified. 3S have
been reached by the latest scientific investigation. In the case of a vein of water under ground the 100 mile theory may, perhaps, be subject to more or less qualification. Being underneath the ground there would be a possible chance that the water might in the course of several hundred feet become purified by filtration through sand or gravel. This, however, is but speculative: and it would in many instances be a task attended by many difficulties to ascertain the exact nature of the strata or the
probable distance it would have to flow to become purified. The only sure and safe way to guard against possible contamination is by having sewerage. There are (two veins of water, one about 16 feet and the other about .30 feet down, which supply the wells of Walkerton. The vaults located in different parts of town are made from 10 to 12 feet deep. From this it will be seen that the danger from contamination is very great, and that we are in constant peril from dangerous epidemics 1 so long as we are without the protection of a system of sewerage. J
We must not lay down and go to sleep on this question but wake up and give our united interest and hearty support to the promotion of this necessary improvement. The health of all is involved, and no one can afford to treat indifferently a question of such immediate and vital importance. We must not wait for fatal epidemics to drive us to our duty in this matter. An ounce of prevention, etc. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
1 An Indianapolis man has invented an i automatic doorstep. It was in Indian- । apolis, also, that the dancing key hole was discovered.—lnter-Urban Sunday Post. Admiral Schley’s cousin, who lives in Indianapolis, does not know what the naval hero’s politics is, and the admiral himself says he has no politics. It would be rather difficult for a party to write a platform for him to stand on, especially if previous national platforms were reaffirmed.—lndianapolis Independent. Removal of Saw Mill. I will locate my Raw-mill in the south east part of town on the old Irwin mill site near the Lou Paul farm. I will do custom work of all kinds, cut pickets and lumber. Will he them in a short time' J. H. Peddyc ORD. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Foley’s Kidney Cure makes kidneys and biadder right.
| THE FOUR COUNTIES. | | NEWS OE ST. JOSEPH. LAPORTE, j ’ STARKE AND MARSHALL COUN- | TIES BOILED DOWN. | | There is some talk of building a new hotel in Mishawaka. The South Bond Department Store, which recently failed, employed 100 clerks. The Argos Reflector issued an interesting Christmas number in magazine form. It consisted of 24 pages and was embellished with illustrations of local interest. It was a commendable stroke of enterprise. Hiram Barnes was killed by a train at the Lake Shore crossing in New Carlisle last Friday. Hie wife was also seriously injured. Two years ago Mr. Barnes was struck by a train at the same crossing, his horse killed and he so badly injured that he received damages from the railroad company.
Mrs. Dudley L. Wadsworth, formerly of LaPorte, died recently at Honolulu, Hawaii, where her husband represented the Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing । company. Mrs. Wadsworth’s maiden name was Addie C. Buchtel and she was born in South Bend 30 years ago. The burial took place in Honolulu. Eleven samples of water used in dairies near LaForte, have been analyzed by the state health board to discover the cause of typhoid fever. Os the 11
samples five were found grossly polluted and condemned, two were suspicious and were condemned and the remaining four were fairly good water. Robert L. Braunsdorf, one of South Bend’s best known architects, died last Saturday of uremic poisoning. He was a man of superior ability in his line, having superintended the construction of some of the finest buildings in that city. He was directing the work on the new St. Paul’s church when taken with his fatal illness. He was a resident of South Bend for 30 years.
A special from Knox of January 1 says that Miss Mayme Swartiell and Emery Zeider, prominent society leaders, eloped Tuesday to Donaldson, near Plymouth, where they were married. The bride’s father is very indignant, and threatens to disown them. The elopement was due to the fact that the young people would not grant the father’s demand that they be married by a catholic priest. The bride is a daugh ter of A. W. Swartzell, a prominent merchant of Knox. The Secret ol Long Life
Consists in keeping all the main or- । gans of the body in healthy, regular ac tion, and in quickly destroying deadly 1 disease germs. Electric Bitters regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purify the ' blood, and give a splendid appetite. ■ They work wonders in curing kidney troubles, female complaints, nervous diseases, constipation, dyspepsia, and malaria. Vigorous health and strength always follow their use. Only 50c, guarp anteed by B. E. Williams, druggist. —Qutyhis out and take to 1 ^iams’ drii^g store ?f Chamberlain’s ‘ stomach and Liver I J ablets, the best physic. They also cure ! disorders of the stomach, biliousness, and headache. A GOOD WARM MEAL For 25 Cents at the Crescent Restaurant and Bakery.
Oysters .... served in any style. o Nice line of Cigars, Tobacco and . . . Candy . . . Fresh Bread, Cakes, Pies and Buns Daily. Board by the Day or Week. o F. E. Walter, Prop.
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WIDOW GOT_H V£RD|CT One Effect of Too Clos E«aminin e an I ly Cloudy Croaa“Never cross-ques *h Witn from the old sod," : ’« Irishman foremost railroad at vises one <>t the ■•Even if he does not neys of the age. he will stumble Into i lnk . of demoralize the court me bull that w n whenever a witn^s Lb"'! J testimony gains vastly hies tjmy h > ••Yes I’m speaking lin nifluenee. The only witness whlrom experience, throw up my hands ]> «vyr made me court-room was a grel and eave the section hand had beenl'n Irishman. A press train ami his vtlkHled by an ex ' for damages. 1 had dow was suing made the mistake of B case, nt lliai n witness inside « Hng to turn the i “In his quaint wayt t. I graphic description oft he h "d given a G asionallv shedding tea the futility. oethe saints. Among c-s and calling on swore positively that ther things he whistle was not sound* the locomotive whole train had pass -d until after the parted friend. Then over h s deI him. [ thought 1 ba<l i •• See her. McGinnis, 1 mil that the whistle bl’ anid I. ‘you ad--1 “‘YIs, sor; it blewedpw Y • Now if that whl. slr -' to give Micluv' sounded in time e fact would ny, wouldn’t “‘YIs, sor. and Mik* , ~ in’ here this day.’ T1 “'Never mind that. • friend, and yon would Y V? t 7 ^ widow out, but Just te . * tO earthly purpose there > / , n °" " * at engineer to blow that ° ’ H Mike was struck.' " h ‘ Sth * af,er “ T preshume thot tl o ~.. for the nixt man on th •> 7 * "I Mt uM the wide ; nsked." " a " 3,1 «
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Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the Third wind of toe town of W ilkerton, Indlnna. i<mi to the citizens of snid town < f Walkerton and Lincoln township, in St. Joseph county, Indiana, Unit I, the undersigned, will apply to the Board of Coniinis-slom-rs oft St. Joseph county, Indiana, i.t Ilie January term of 1902 of said Board for a license for one j ear to sell spirituous, vinoils and limit liquors in less quantities than a quart at a 11 me, to tie drunk on the premises where sold, situate as follows, to-wit: The entire room in a one-story frame buildoe twenty feet In width tie sixty f<sd in length, (routine on A venue s m'.rth westli'ldeLf'r t^' ’t" ' vi ‘" ll * side of tot number My-mL! f,. Line ! I tml r ; county, Indiana. - heYnm .7,'? T"" “ counter, UH Mh or cigars and tobacco and Gb fhZ pm tlege of running a pool amt billiard table. December 14tl>, 1901. hRANK RYDER. w. H. BECHER, Real Estate and Loans, GOOD NOTES BOUGHT. 90 4 Main St., LaPorte, Ind. WANTED -SEVERAL persons of Character and good reputation in each state (one in this county reqm ed) to represent and advertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary Slk.OO weekly with expenses additional 11 payable ,n cash each Wednesdav < r■ • fro head offices. Horse ami carriages w.ten necessary. References. Enclose ‘elf addressed stamped envelope. Mma-'er ria Caxton Buildmg, Chicago. ' lgt '' 31b
Einoleum, « Fine Pattei ns ar d a!I widths, 55 to 65 cents a yard. Enameled Tron Bedsteads From $2 25 up. Begin the New \ ear right by supplying your wants in FURNIT URE at our place. Reliable goods at !o.v prices. H. A. Yearick & Co., LICENSED EMBALMER. IS|llWlWtWlliMllGUWllilillWllk^^
| ’ GRAND ANNUAL | I SEVEWTEEN-DAY I J SPECIAL SALE |g before stock taking at THE LOW PRICE STORE, ten p r cent off B OD ev ery article, (Groceries excepted) E 3 e article in stock I B P t Gr ° cer ' P8 ’ * shade above cost price, 8O don't miss the E H J banceto SI 00 worth of goods for 90 cents. We quote vou a E r; few for example. ’ 1 • g i iMMr™ i । 3 I I SCHOOL I, E H shoes:' 3 msfe - i 775 i! p If**:" ", a Sa 3 WEBSTER t B 2 SJ DICTIONARY Y I !L > 3 WITH Ri T j gr 3 H every pair. 1 b X, g E FROM SIZE II UP ’b 1 ' Men’s Buckle Arctics,. §i 95 , Boys’ Arcties ... X ° PnCe ’ 81 13 E 3 Men’s Shoes V nce, .77^ t > ch c’^.w sale price. £1 80 F—--3 Ladies Shoes Mm , ’ fc r_j- , sale price, 81 80 ■^33 Ladies Shoes.... si -n , XSj Boys Shoes si , fc X 3 Qi.i'i Bale j rice, $1 58 p~~ e -9b. Prints 10 per cent off. Outings 10 per cent off. 110 per cent off on everything for the next 17 days. Underwear at your own price. Hosiery at half price. g DEVERYBROSI j THE PRACTICAL SHOE DEALERS. ’TT' I 1 » wmi jii w w ii, -rrrw umiMiiini- — » . _ 2 - — See he I Jpn t’s h' r dsome line of f'alendn rs.