Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 November 1908 — Page 4

'A I *** ' £i)t 3 n dependent. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ^DEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON, INDIANA. 'V. A. Endlby, - Editor and Publisher, ADVANCE. TELEPHONE NO. 2S. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1908, Publisher's Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths .neerted free. Notices for church "or society entertainments, etc., where the object ,1s to raise money, one-half the legular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements, 5 cents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. ' THIS WIDE WORLD. The average annual cost for each .pupil for public-school education in Germany is $12.86. So lately as 1813 the British East India Company decided that trade with worth cultivating. Oklahoma, l altho »ffh the youngest

State, has churches in the care of seventy-six priests. Over $500,000 Is to be spent in Melbourne and Sydney in entertaining th# officers and men of the American battleship fleet. To meet the deficit In the budget the French minister of finance suggests the doubling of the licensing fees of venders of absinth. Tins taxing of the “green peril’’ ‘ will, it is thought, be popular; the minister anticipates that it will bring him in $2,000,000. In a little over two months over SII,OOO was expended by the Salvation Army at Toronto in relieving l»overty, this amount being turned over by the city and the officers of the army gave their whole time without expense to the distribution of the money, over GOO families receiving aid. In restoring the parish church at Fordington, Dorchester, England, there was found a slab of Purbeck marble with a Roman inscription on it that is supposed to be part of the tombstone of Aristobulus, the first recorded apostle to Britain, and said to have been one of the seventy ordained by Christ. India’s government has recently authorized the employment of women telegraph operators. The candidates must be between 18 and 30 years of age, and they must be unmarried or widows. They must undergo a training of twelve months in the telegraph training classes, during which time they receive $6.65 a month, the same allowance that is drawn by male learners. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. The more worthless a man. the more fish he can catch. It takes the shortest time for the worst things to happen. Every man is fierce in his thoughts, and mild in his actions. It isn’t trouble that kills; it's having too - many good times. Nearly everyone has a feeling ttat somehow he has been robbed of hap- , piness. Every girl thinks that all parents should give their daughters grand weddings. A father is more patient with having foolish bills charged to him than ; a husband. When a man is sober, he knows he has no sense, but when he is drunk he forgets it. Every man who is living by his wits should take serious notice that he cannot make that policy win. Most men are cowardly about storms; nearly all the men fear a storm as much as they fear their Wives. In tliis fat country, a man can pay his debts if he really wants to, therefore people do not like a man who fails to do it. If you have ever noticed, it is always the poor who say they would like to be rich for the greater good they could do. Every girl in love thinks she has found (lie only man of his kind in the ' world, but the married women know , that all we men are fearfully alike. A preacher does not feel that he has done justice to the memory of the deceased in preaching a funeral sermon, if, barring the undertaker’s, there is a dry eye in the house. Isn’t It Funny— That your wife will kick like thunder if you overstay yourself downtown a couple of hours, but never says a word if you have to go out of town for a week?

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THE FIGHT IS ENDED A Big National Victory for Republicans Democrats Win Many States and Congressional Districts ST JOSEPH COUNTY GOES RE-PUBLICAN-MILLER DEFEATED FOR CONGRESS Lincoln Township Alf and Alf The 1Z1"" "" ■**

Lincoln township was | a quiet affair, although good, hard voting was kept up from the opening to the closing of the polls. A full vote was cast, which showed the interest in the local and general elections. The township elected a mixed ticket, J. J. Devery, democratic candidate for trustee, and D. W. Brubaker, republican candidate for assessor, being elected. The republican county candidates received a majority in the township, but notwithstanding this the vote for congressman gave Henry A. Barnhart, democrat, a majority of 31 over Charles W, Miller, republican. Miller failed to carry his own county, which is largely republican. The vote in this township was as follows: First Precinct. For Trustee. John Devery, (dem ) 118 Geo. P. Roes, (rep.) 122 Ross’ majority, 4 FOR ASSESSOR W. T. Rogers (dem.) 97 D. W. Brubaker (rep.) 142 Brubaker’s maj, 45 Second Precinct. For Trustee. John J. Devery (dem ) 107 Geo. P. Ross (rep ) 87 De very’s maj., 20 For Assessor. W. T. Rogers (dem ) 85 D. W. Brubaker (rep ) 109 Brubaker’s maj, 24 Devery’e total maj , 16 Brubaker’s total maj, 69 Cocnty Ticket. The republicans elected ♦ v, eir entire ticket in St. Joseph count, ’’he vote for congressman and county < rs was as follows: For Congress—H. A. Barnhart , iem ), 228; Chae. W. Miller (rep ), 197. j For Judge Superior Court—Henry A. Steis (dem.), 224; V. W. Van Fleet (rep.), 185. For Joint Sen. LaPorte and St. Joe counties—A. J. Miller (dem.), 204; D. L. Crumpacker (rep ), 210. For Representatives—G. E. Knoblock (dem.), 195; W. E. Snyder (dem.), 187; G. A. Elliot rep ), 221; W. B. Schafer (rep ), 223. For Joint Rep. St. Joe, Starke and Pulaski counties—L. E. Bernethy (dem ) 197; H. C. Miller (rep ), 213. For Prosecuting Attorney—J. E. Talbot (dem ), 165; U. E. Pattee (rep.), 202 J. W. Kitch (ind ), 50. For Sheriff —Henry Hartzer (dem.), 203; Millard F. Kerr (rep ), 213. For Treasurer—W. C. Stover (dem,), 206; Marshall Hughes (rep.), 209.. For Coroner —H. T. Montgomery (dem ), 202; S. A. Clark (rep ), 211. | For Surveyor—J. M. Rush (dem.), 203; Ralph E. Keller (rep ), 210. i For Com. Middle Diet.—M. A. Gorski (dem ), 189; John Layton (rep ), 223. I For Com. Western Diet,—D. A, White (dem ), 181; Isaac Reamer (rep.), 236. | Taft had a majority in the township of 12 and Watson 13. The vote of the township shows unmistakable symptoms of strong temperance feeling. In the national election the electoral vote is now estimated as follows: Taft, 327; Bryan, 156; giving Taft’s majority ! as 171. Marshall carried Indiana by an estimated plurality of 15,000. The democratic legislative tickets were carried in the majority of the counties of Indiana.

UNFAMILIAR TACTS. At a recent exposition In Lucerne 12,000 different stamps of various countries were on view. An Egyptian paper says that the native families pay an average tax of $4.65 an acre, or 25.5 per cent of the ciop. foreigners and laud companies hold 655,000 acres. Stiffening of the brain, a rare disease, was given at the inquest as one of the causes of death of a boy 17 months old, on whom an operation was performed at St. Thomas-’ Hospital, London. , The new electric Fastnet light, off Cape Clear, Ireland, is of 750,000 can-dle-power. The cost was $420,000. The local plane of the flash is 150 feet above high water, and theoretically it is visible sixteen miles. XV ithin two years since the great earthquake, which undid San Francisco, that heroic city has put SIOO,000,000 into building operations, of which, according to trustworthy statement, all but $4,000,000 came from local sources. Since the United States Government began to patronize expositions, down to the Jamestown Fair, Congress has appropriated a total of $28,752,251 for world’s fairs, of which only $485,000 has been spent west of the Rocky Mountains, at the Lewis and Clark ExThat great and prolific English painter, J. M. W. Turner, bequeathed to the British nation when he died, in 1851, pictures of his own, the value of which was in 1902, estimated at $5,000,000. These pictures consisted of 3G2 oil paintings, 135 finished water colors, and over 20,000 studies and sketches. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT CATS. The blood of a black eat will cure a spavined horse.

Apply the freshly removed skin of a eat as a remedy for shingles. The skin of a black cat worn in one's clothing will cure rheumatism. The black cat also makes “good medicine.” Here are some specimens of “cat-cure'' lore: Blood from the tip of the tail of a black cat, without a single white hair, will cure a sty. The heart of a black cat, applied as soon as killed, will stop bleeding from a wound. In Massachusetts it “brings good luck” to throw a dead black cat over the left shouider and turn twice. The belief that it is bad luck to kill a cat is general, and in Pennsylvania and lowa is found the superstition that if a farmer kill a eat some of his stock will die. In ancient Egypt the cat was sacred to the Goddess Isis, ami was held in 1 the highest reverence. Temples were erected in its honor, and sacrifices and devotions offered up to it. In Alabama the spirit of an old maid after death takes possession of some black cat. In the same State to cut off the end of a black cat's tail and bury it under the doorstep is to keep sickness out of the family. When the family cat of an Egyp- ! tian family died the members of the ( household were required to shave off their eyebrows. And in the City of Cairo there was within very recent years an institution for the care of ’ destitute cats. SPLINTERS. Light work—putting in window i panes. . Some people don't need a wind mill to put on airs. You cannot judge a man by hjs ; clothes until you look into the pockets. A barking dog never bites, but you can't tell how soon he may stop bark- > lug. 1 All the world is a stage in winter, but the most of it is bleachers in summer. Just as soon as a man gets a smell of gasoline he wants to buy an auto- , mobile. Dog and man both bark, but the ' dog usually knows what be is barking about. Mike —It must take an awful lot of gas to raise a balloon, Pat. Pat—- ; Shure, an' that it does; they ought to try dynamite. Bills-—Did you say that Smith has a happy scheme of stopping the phono- । graph in his next door neighbor’s bouse? Wills-—Yes, he pretends to start a scrap with his wife. A Wireless Electrocution. A man came to me with a rifle which, he declared, could speed a , bull “more an' faster” than anything ever heard of in the gun category. He was asked to produce the evidence. It was a small affair, about as big as a Siebold 500-shot airgun. “Fire at that live wire,” I demanded. “It’s 1 dangerous, but I’ll chance it,” he re--1 plied, taking quick aim and pulling the trigger. The bullet struck the , wire, and w’hen I looked at the man he was dead. The electric current had passed through the hole in the air made by the bullet, reached the muzzle of the gun, and given the death stroke. It was as a lightning bolt from a clear sky.—N. Y. Press. Power of Sacred Song. The power of song to sway the feelings of man was illustrated the other night, amid the garish surroundings of a Summit street barroom. About 11 o’clock about a dozen of Uncle Sam’s tars from the Wolverine entered the bar. Fully a hundred men were seated at the tables drinking. One of the sailors stepped over to the piano. A whispered word to the pianist, and the prelude to the “Holy City” was played. As the sailor began singing a man near the center of the room rose to his feet and bared his head, and in an instant every man in the room had followed. —Toledo Blade. London . .. . post offices and the mail delivery amounts to 727,- j 000,000 pieces per year.

ATCHISON GJ OBE SIGHTS. A good vvoman’gLconsclence is the best religion. Is a moan man meaner in a crowd, or when alone? W hat is a musw ibox good for, except to be rallied off? I f you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law. A man who is really religious ought to consider dying f. pleasure. The •‘blues” are never interesting in people over sixteen years of age. Men complain of having to sew on their buttons ofteser than they do it. As a rule, the one who makes the most money in the family spends the least. There are so many fools in the world that you do not dare say much about them. Our idea of a shiftless woman is one who makes a cherry pie without seeding tlie cherries. When it is said of a man that he is not a saint, it ma y also be added that he is not a fool. Every man believes he is an ideal man. That’s the! reason he “talks” so much about men. When we enq^htter a sign reading, “•Close the doo» it rattles us so that we forget toe' M tie door. Eyery ooe i wxJ mistakes, but the weather bureau njdysTi monopoly on having all misty's published. A girl might well be retired in a convent as to LWe a younger sister grow up who Is’letter looking. We are all prune to wrap a sheet around a pin scratch to give it the appearance of a serious wound. Probably not due man in a hundred can give a man a present without wondering what he will get in return. Pray too longyor a blessing, and you will find, while Jou are praying some

other man went to work and got it. The trouble with treating your inferior like an equal is that he so soon considers himself your su|>erior. PROVERBS AND PHRASES. Help is from on high.—Latin. Avarice bursts the bag.—Spanish. If I rest I rust, says the key.—German. Fair words butter no parsnips.—German. Force can never destroy right.— Latin. Beauty vanishes, virtue endures — German. Impudence and wit are vastly different.—Latin. He who climbs too high is near a fall. —Greek. High blrtlj is a poor dish on the tabic.—lrish. How fading are the joys we dote upon I—Norris. If you would relish your food, labor for it.—Danish. Every mai/is the architect of bis own fortune.—SiWlist. Catch not at the shallow and lose the substance.—l l^ew. lie who sows brambles must not go barefoot . —‘Spanish. Mingle a little gayety witli your grave pursuits.—Horace. Fools will ask what time it is. but the wise know their time.—Spanish. The amity that wisdom limits not, folly may easily untie.—Shakespeare. If we are wrong, the farther we go the farther we are from home.- Italian. He that pryeth into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt.—ltalian. How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips we love.— French. UNFAMILIAR FACTS. There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies. As many as 4.061 muscles have been counted in the body of a moth. The average amount of sickness in human life is ten days per annum. Two other Italian' streams, the Aniene and the Coltenna, are to be harnessed in order to generate electrical power. A school of languages for parrots has been established in Paris. The birds are tau/ht to speak English, French. German aid Italian. Consul James Johnston writes from Algiers that it Is"! roughly estimated that there are 6,500,000 cultivated olive trees in the tree provinces of Algeria. I The American Lrlomotive Company, of Richmond, Ya.,l has just set up eighty locomotives * jind two steam shovels for the , Manchurian Railway at Dalny-J^g ~ Roumania is the i*t illiterate country in Europe. The® st census shows that in a population^ >f about 6.000,000 nearly 4.000.000 ne her write nor read. A statistician, son of odd figures, says that there is a-i Jaily loss of not less than $300,000 I I New York City through thefts and Abating. King Edward haslnt to the British Museum a coll«ion of “passwords" used for theßturt and city in ISI2 and IS2O, and Igned by George IV. Passwords are^lii] used in the Tower of London. n oi V Notice of Fin^ Account. Estate ot Delbert ludelinj'er. By direction ot Ina I f lemyer, administratrix of the estate of Dt >rt N. Hudehnyer, late of St. Joseph Counta, n the state of Indiana. deceased. Moi ice is hereby given 6 he heirs, legatees and devisees of said dece it,, and all other persons interested in sa. estate, that said administratrix has filed k this Court her account and vouchers fore e final settlement of said estate, and they ar therefore hereby required to be and appeal n said Court on the c 20th Day of Noverr ser, 1908. when the same will be^Bjard, and make proof of their heirship, otaLitn to any part of said estate, and show < W;eif any there be, why said account and v ■hers should not. be approved. w Witness, the clerk and seal of the St. Joseph Circuit Court at Sr A Bend, fudiana, this x7th day of October, If ■ Frank P. (Jistoph, Clerk. slick & Curtis, Attorn^Bfor Adm'x.

■ ALLOWS VOTARIES NO PEACE. Unfortunate Indeed Are Those Unduly Superstitious. The superstitious woman started to go down town, but found that, she had forgotten something. It was bard work to get her to go back for it, but i when she did she sat down for a few | minutes to “take the curse off” before ■ going out again. On the sidewalk she passed a cross-eyed man, and had hard work to keep from spilling three times over her left shoulder. The first car i that came along was No. 13. She let it go by, and waited eight minutes for | another. On the way down town she j remarked to a friend that she “had been in excellent health this summer.” Instantly she was obliged to loosen her glove and rub her bare palm on the wood of the bench before her. As ; she and her friend were walking on Twenty-third street some thoughtless person darted between them. The superstitious woman was much disturbed and worried over the thought of a coining separation. That night her husband upset the salt-cellar. She insisted on his taking , a pinch of the salt and throwing it over his shoulder. When she disrobed for the night she discovered that she had been wearing one stocking wrong side out all day. It was a sign of good luck, and it allowed her to go to bed happy. But some time In the night a dog howled dismally under her window. From that moment she has been looking for a calamity. Nothing will make her believe that /here will not be a death in her imjnediate family.—New York Times. TATTOOERS DRINK THE BLOOD. Part of the Operation as Conducted by Expert Japanese. Young Lieut. Marlinspike revealed on his right arm an Uncle Sam, and on his left a peacock, while round his neck a gleaming serpent was coiled, its mouth holding its tail. “This is Japanese tattooing,” the lieutenant said, proudly. “Nagasaki work. I was under the needle 19 hours in all. My two tattooers drank quite a pint of my blood. “Jap tattooers are all blood drinkers. They like it. They get to like ^t in the end as you or 1 like tobacco. “You see, as they work, the blood wells forth; it flows over the design, and then, very carefully, without smearing the wet ink. they lick the blood up delicately with the tongue. Every Jap tatfooT. as tie pi. ks and picks away at you. b - ’ c very few minutes and licks tl.e . rising tide of blood away. "If he is a seasoned tattoo r he swallows the blood. He likes it, he says.” The Paterston AniirclitHt. H. K. Adiair, the noted wesiom detective. was praising In Detroit the President’s onslaught on the anarchists of Paterson. “I onee had an experience with thost dhaps,” he said, smiling. “In plain clothes I attendeil one of their meetings. The speaker said incendiary and terrible things. Finally lie attacked the police. “ ‘Show me a policeman.’ he shouted, ‘and I’ll show you a coward.’ “Somehow I couldn’t stand that. I strode up on to the platform—it was time to stop the meeting, anyway—and I shook my finger under the man’s nose and said : “ ‘I am a policeman.’ “ ‘Well, I,’ he whisperetl nervously, ‘am a coward.’ Now please, please, go back to your seat again.’ ” The Proper Way. “How can you take the measure of a man like that great financier?” “I don’t know myself." but some people seem to think it ought to be taken by the Bertillon system."—Baltimore AmericanDr- G. A. Gaiup OSTEOPATH •• At Residence of J. E. Bose Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. No Charge for Consultation and Examination. CAI CCMAIII WANTED. One good wALLdHIMII bustler to take orders for our gooos in your own county. Full line of Ornamental and Fruit Trees. Experience unnecessary Write for special terms Rochester Nurseries. Rochester, N. Y. LOVE IS BLIND Fit Glasses to Poor Eyes and Guarantee Satisfaction Diamonds Watches Cut Gk?S4 Silverware AT LOWEST PRICES Fine Watch Repairing Charles M. Schuell 218 S. Michigan St. Opposite Auditorium South Bend - Indiana

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| NEWS LETTERSg F items of Interest From Our Able jo 1 £ Corps of Correspondents. £ BARBER. Mrs. Alice Beard of South Bend was here last week on business. * Isaac Bussert and Alva Porter of Plymouth were guests of George Sprague recently. Link Rupel of Sumption Prairie has just completed a fine residence on his । - farm. Mre. Frank Reed of Garrett is the gm st of her parents. 'rs Ira N villa of Virginnia who has L: Lt ;he past month here went to Ohio | 1 : > :s week to v it her daughter there. 1 Mi s " armory Masterman and Mrs ■ Let. vei» i> Plymouth Saturday. 1 3 Mi .Sj tvester Unger has been very 1 ill. Ben Gardner painted his new barn , Emanuel Hocker and family were guests of William Waiterhouse Sunday. Grandma Hocker is staying at the home of her son at present. Alva and Ray Barber have boughtout the heirs in the old Barber homestead. STILLWELL. Mrs. Roy Beall is visiting here for a few days with her parents, Mr, and Mrs H. S. Jack. Mrs. Calvin Collins who died at her home two miles south of Union Cen ter last Tuesday night was buried at Kingsbury Friday. The Stillwell high school will give a I box social in the Gleaner hall next Sat I urday evening. Mrs. Ora Jackson of Walkerton was in our town Tuesday and Mrs, Silas Baker was with us Wednesday. It seems that the L. E. & W. Railway Co should allow’ Dr. Walkinshaw a small commission on ticket sales. Lee Fisher, our school superintendent, visited at Waterford, Ind , last Fridaj J evening. F. A. Mann was in LiPorte Monday ■ assisting Ora Bosserman in the Ireas ' urer’s oilice. Timothy McMann of Chicago was I । seen on our streets Monday. j COUNTY LINE, , I Mr. and Mrs B. F. Reinhardt ate Sun-

day dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Snyder. Obe Mitchell bought a barber shop at Syracuse, Ind., and expects to move in about 10 days. Mr. and Mrs. William Suders entertained Sunday at their pleasant home. Mrs. George Bowers and son Clyde of Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Carson Hostetler of North Liberty, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Masterman of Walkerton, Mr. and Mis. Obe Mitchell and son Dwight of County Line. Mrs. Frank Harden and niece and Mary Young visited Mre. Hulda Snyder Friday. Mrs. S. F. Ross has been on the sick list the past week. M. and Mrs. D. R. Kellogg and daugh--1 ter, Mildred, spent Tuesday with I. W. Cripe and family. 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. Seven Years of Proof. “I have had seven years of proof that Dr. King’s New Discovery is the best medicine to take for coughs and colds and for deceased condition of throat, chest or lungs,” says W.V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. The world has had thirtyeight years of proof that Dr. King’s New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and colds, lagrippe, asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemorrhage of the lungs, and the early stages of consumption. Its timely use always prevents the development of pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at B. E Williams drug store. 50c and §IOO Trial bottle free . WHEN WOMAN ENVIES MAN. When he can wear his best hat in the rain without getting the curl out of the feathers. When the children cry, and he can whistle a tune, get his hat, bang the door and go out. When she remembers he doesn't have to twist his arm to hook his bodice up the back. When he gives his hair a neat little slick with a comb, and, presto! his coiffure is complete. When he swings easily out of a moving ear without danger of tangling his heels in his petticoats. When he stows things away in his multitudinous pockets and saunters on ; with unencumbered hands. When he trips up the street on a rainy day with his trousers jauntily j turned up. no skirts to kick, t