Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 October 1908 — Page 4

£ljc independent. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY INDEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON,INDIANA. W.A.Emdliy, - Editor and Publisher, ADVANCE. TKLBPHONK NO. 28. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908. Publisher's Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths .nserted free. Notices for church "or . society entertainmeats,, etc,, where,,the object is to raise money, one-half the tegular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements,Scents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt, nor hie wife a widow. —John Neal. The heavy artillery of the republican and democratic parties is bombarding Indiana and New York, the two most doubtful states, this week. The time has come* when the labor vote cannot be exploited by political parties as it once was. The laboring man is a reader and a thinker and he knows how he wants to vote without party leaders telling him what to do. Success and happiness, which all desire, come to us by ordinary rather than extraordinary means. Whatever is great is an aggregate of little things, and he that neglects or despises the little will never attain to the great—Rev. St. Clair Hester, Brooklyn. F. M. Wickizer has retired from the editorial chair of the Argos Reflector and is succeeded by E. O. Wickizer, wbo was formerly at the head of that paper. The Reflector, under the management of the Wickizers, has always maintained a high standard among the country weeklies of the state. President Roosevelt quietly celebrated his 50th birthday anniversary at the white house Wednesday. He is still a young man in the full vigor of health and strength and has well earned the period of rest and recreation that he is counting so heartily upon after his retirement from the chief executive’s chair next March. John W. Kern, democratic vice-presi-dential nominee, is back again on the stump after an absence of several days on account of the serious illness of hie eon, who is now greatly improved. Kern, like Beveridge, is making a whirlwind tour of the state on a “talking train" which is making brief stops at the more important points in Indiana. CyrueE.Pattee, republican candidate for prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph county, is making a strong campaign, with apparently bright prospects of success. So much dissatisfaction exists under present conditions that numerous voters in the opposite parties are demanding a change and are rallying to the support ■ of Mr. Pattee, without regard to party affiliations. Under the circumstances, Mr. Pattee’e campaign is largely that of an independent candidate. He has made a pledge to the people that if elected to the office of prosecuting attorney he will see that all violations of the law

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brought properly before him will be honestly and fearlessly prosecuted. Mr. Pattee will, from present indications, receive a heavy democratic vote in all parte of the county. The Reflector, published at the Jeffersonville Reformatory, issued a 12-page souvenir edition last week which was an exceptionally fine number. It contained handsome half-tone illustrations of that fine institution, some of them being colored, and a large amount of reading matter of that high moral tone which is always characteristic of the Reflector. This publication must be a great help and an elevating influence for the inmates of that noted reformatory. Henry A. Barnhart, editor of the Rochester Sentinel, is making a fine race in his candidacy for congress. The democrats of the Thirteenth district have never presented a better man for this high office, and, whether elected or not, Mr. Barnhart will make a race that he need not be ashamed of and one that will leave its strong impress upon the district for a long time to come. After the ballots have been counted the people will know that Mr. Barnhart has been in the race. ■JI — .'J y—BB A meritorious movement has been inaugurated by the Chicago woman’s club. The plan formulated is a practical one for the relief of the city's poor. It is proposed to create a special fund which shall be placed at the disposal of workers furnishing proper credentials for brief periods. No interest will be charged on the loans and no disagreeable publicity will attach to those who avail themselves of these loans. This plan is certainly expedient and will help to carry many worthy people through trying emergencies. There is a lot of rot talked on both sides about “destroying the trusts." The News, for instance, is suffering much in its little bowels, because President Roosevelt has not wiped the steel trust from tbe face of the earth. Practically all of organized labor and much labor that does not belong to unions, is employed by tbe trusts and corporations and anybody with a thimbleful of brains ought to be able to see that if we destroy the employers of labor we also ruin their workmen. The man who set Are to hie barn to get rid of the rats was a statesman of high degree compared to tbe fool politicians who are running over the country demanding the destruction of trusts indiscriminately.—lndianapolis Independent. The demand of the people is for the control and curbing of the trusts rather than for their destruction. We want no wanton destruction in this country but we do demand a sane and reasonable control of great trusts and corporations that there may be no restraint of trade nor an unjust infringement of the rights of the people. We want fair and square competition, with no one class of men having more rights under the law than another. Unless we can have a fair competitive system in the United States, where one man may have as much right to conduct a business as another, we had better be under a socialistic form of government, where centralization of power at least would be in the hands of the people instead of in the absolute control of a few capitalists, as would be the case under the unrestricted control of trusts and corporations. Couldn’t Do It. "Are you raising your baby scientifically?" "No. That would be Impossible. His grandmother lives with us." Watch for the B. & O. Drag.

VIEWS OF THE PRESS. A Boston clergyman declares that he will never knowingly officiate at a marriage when either party is a consumptive, or where the income of the breadwinner is less than sl2 a week. Yet there are couples who would live comfortably and eave more on 81 50 or 82 00 a day, while others would go beyond their income were it SSO a week “Not what yon get, but what you save," is the measure of thrift.—South Bend Times. rrinrrinnnnn^^ I NEWS LETTERS! ° Items of Interest From Our Abie o o Corps of Correspondents. o KOONTZ S LAKE. The long and short of Pdhceful Valley have risen from pumpkin pedlers to dry goods merchants. Elmer Ullery of South Bend was at the lake Tuesday. A candidate was in this vicinity with a hot-bed smile and was mistaken for a truant officer. The road tax on gravel roads in Starke county is not hurting that county. One farmer bought a farm three years ago for sls per acre, with sand roads. He sold it a month ago for $65 an acre, with gravel roads around it. There were 500 mud hens on Koontz's lake Saturday. Muskrat socials are all the rage at the lake. It is better to be a fool out of office than in. Rebates and graft are danger microbes which lurk in public office. Every candidate should use a good anti septic before the election. There will be a masquerade dance at Koontz’s lake next Saturday. Duckett avenue is being paved this week. The roads from east Koontz’s lake via Peaceful Valley are in very bad shape, also east road in poor condition. । TYNER. Farmers are busy shredding corn. H. L. Jarrell had business at LaPorte last Saturday. Mrs. A. Steele spent part of lasi week at South Bend. Nathan Baker attended Mr. Taft’s speech at South Bend, as he knew him personally when serving a term in The navy. T. Beagles is making several improvements on his town property. Elmer Bradley was assisted to Indianapols by Dr. Thompson for an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. H. L. Jarrell spent Saturday and Sunday at North Liberty. Miss Charlotte Sherwood is suffering severe pain in her eyes. Mrs. Omer Rensberger of Peru was visiting Mrs. A. C. Steele the fore part of this week. KNOX. The political steak is fricasseed and beginning to become stale. We read of rain in distant lands, but have had none here. Our court adjourned until Nov. 5 in order that each party might save the nation. One year ago in Knox, we had six saloons; the business and trade were principally saloon trade. We are now a dry town. One year ago we had a population of only 1,600. We had 25 vacant houses and six vacant business rooms. Not a factory of any kind. Local demoralization from a commercial point of view. We were told by the saloon supporters that to remonstrate the town dry would kill the town. We, regardless of the warning, voted the saloon out. Now we have not a vacant house in town; two factories, all the business rooms are occupied, store keepers are prosperous and happy, a population of 2,500 and the clink of the trowel and sound of the hammer are heard over the town. We are still alive, but do not want the saloon. We are putting gravel on one of the principal streets, and continuing the same to the Washington township line east, and to the Jackson township line west. It will make a great improvement to our already good roads. Our county is coming to the front. A large number went to North Judson to hear Senator Beveridge and Col. R. A. Brown. The listeners were delighted with their logical eloquence. L. E. Bernetha was over, pressing hie claim for votes for joint representative. Bernetha has served two terms from this district and gave good satisfaction. He is probably better qualified than though he had had no experience. Corn is good what we have, although the crop is only about three-fourths of an average yield. WORDS TO THE WISE. What ripens fast does not last.— Shakspeare. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.—Aeschylus. Great results usually arise from great dangers.—Herodotus. No government is safe unless it be fortified by good will.—Nepos. Poverty, like a lamp, shows everything bad and annoying.—Aristophanes. Between bridge and stream the fjord's mercy may be found. —St. Augustine. To fear death Is very great folly, for It is fated to all men to die.—Antiphanes. In some good time. His good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird. —Browning. Not merely to appear good ought man to care, but to be so both privately and publicly.—Plato.

| FOUR COUNTIES | ° News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Starke and ° Marshall Counties Boiled Down, 3 The Odd Fellows’ lodge of South Bend will erect an eight-story otiice building on the present site of the Odd Fellows' building at Washington and Main streets. Dr. H. C. Holfzendorff, a well known phjeician of Mishawaka, and formerly county coroner, has gone to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has accepted a tine position in a hospital. Delia Erances Pride, a little Mishawaka girl, while playing around a bon fire of leaves a few days ago was so severely burned that she died within a few hours from her injuries, John Winboru of Niles, Mich , dropped dead of heart disease on Washington street in South Bend last Saturday. Excitement in getting to the grounds to hear Taft speak is supposed to have hastened hie death, He wae 72 years of age and commander of the G. A. R. Post of Nilee^ Paul Hewitt, a young lawyer of Mishawaka, recently graduated from the Univereit^F Michigan, wae arrested at IndianapolieJ after a charge had been made againtHhim by Miss Leia Shrode of he accosted her on tne s Wrcle” and took from her a diamond bngpeh. Information from Mishawaka > to the effect that Hewitt bears a good reputation there. The Knox wheel concern shipped 12,000 wheels to Indianapolis Friday. The business of this concern is making a strong, steady growth. Already the capacity of the plant is overtaxed and some large orders have been turned down in the past month. Only last week an order for 50,(MX) wheels wae rejected simply because it is a physical impossibility for the concern to get them out. Every person connected with this little plant is pleased with the showing it is mak ing.—Knox Republican. THE GUILLOTINE. The French Method of DlwpateblnK C ri iu inn Im. There is no name in France that has remained longer in the public memory than that of Monsieur Guillotin. Born in tin* year 172 S and elected a member of the Constituent Assembly some 50 years later, he took up the question of capita! punishment, and some thm* years later a machine for dts-apitatjon such as lie suggested Ixsume the reeog nized instrument for the execution of criminals. From all accounts, ^nys the London Globe, previous to Guillotin entering tbe Assembly execution by de capitation was a privilege enjoyed sole ly by iH'ople of rank, tbe lower class criminals being hanged. He promised that "in all eases of capital punish ment It shall he of the same kind, and executed by means of a machine." After many stormy debates it was agreed tUaK^'apitation should bo the state punishment for all criminals, but never a word was mentioned as to any other instrument being used but th" sword. Some time later, however, the executioner pointed out the inconvenience and expense attending such methods, and it was finally decided that an instrument, similar to that which Dr. Guillotin had previously recommended, should be used. The first execution under the new conditions took place in 1792 in Paris. Ami for some few years the guillotine was accepted as a "sure, quick and uniform- ’ method of execution. In 1795, however, doubts were raised as to whether or not death by such means was really instantaneous. Such ideas, no doubt, delayed to a great extent the adoption of the guillotine as a mode of execution in other countries, though the promiscuous manner in which it was employed during the days of the revolution did more than anything to prevent its general use. In England, as in France, it was for many years the accepted custom that political offenders should be decapitated, while all other criminals were led to the gallows. But long before the days of Dr. Guillotin there is good reason to suppose that such au instrument was in geiuyhl use in eastern countries; thei something very like it in Persia . B hundred years ago. Certainly it was not a new form of execution; it .was practiced in England. Scotland and: various parts of tbe continent. As far back as the middle ages it was use in Germany. In Italy, also itSfvas in use as far back as the thirteenth century, though only for the execiEion of criminals of noble birth. | Ahead. “Good-by. nKSnan,” said Wilkins at the church festival. “I guess I can see my finish?*^ “What’s ufo ” queried Bilkins. “Why, Bdtl * udge the prettiest baby at the st flat “Oh, fill J You should have my job.” • gj* “And what are you going to do?” “Why, I am at the fortune-telling booth and have to guess girls’ ages.” For a mild, easy action of the bowels, a single dose of Doan’s Regulets is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. Notice of Final Account. Estate ot Delbert N. Hudelmyer. By direction of Ina Hudlemyer, administratrix of tbe estate of Delbert N. Hudelmyer, late of St. Joseph County, in the state of ludinna. deceased. Moi ice is hereby given to the heirs, legatees and devisees of said decedent, and all other persons interested in said estate, that said administratrix has filed in this Court betaccount and vouchers for the final settlement, of said estate, and they are therefore hereby required to be and appear in said Court oil tbe 20th Day of November, 1908, 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 27th day of October, 1908. Frank P. Christoph, Clerk, Slick A Curtis, Attorneys for Adtn’x,

Cyrus E. Patlee’s Pledge i»||M - ■ |Wg||g sy ; V ' Is , i If elected I shall use every energy and ability at my command to honestly enforce the laws. My word and record of io years in your midst must be taken to judge from. My time—entire—will be devoted to the public in performidg the duties of this most responsible office. My honor shall always be cherished by me and at all times every effort and energy will be honestly exerted to fully perform my duty in office. You can depend on me to do my full duty in office. Cyrus E. Pattee, Xm sh o8 d Republican Nominee for Prosecuting Attorney

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