Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 November 1908 — Page 1

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PAYING AN ELECTION BET. Dad Shirley Takes Dan Brubaker a Wheelbarrow Ride Last Saturday afternoon an election bet was paid in full by “Dad” Shirley who lost on Bryan. Dan Brubaker, who bet on Taft, was the winner. The conditions of the bet were that the one who lost was to take the other a wheelbarrow ride down the main street of the town. About 3 o'clock the parade formed in line with a horse hitched to the front of the wheelbarrow to lighten the task of the man pushing it. Riding on the horse’s back was Willie Augustine who acted as pilot of the strange caravan. Dan sat in the front part of the wheelbarrow facing forward and mak- -< himself as comfortable as possible I ler the circumstances. “Dad” Shirley had hold of the handles of the barrow and presented quite a unique appearance with a flag gaily floating from his hat and a big card board sign on his back which revealed in large letters the inscription, “I bet on Bryan. Dan won.” The line of march was from the Dailey corner to the flouring mill on Avenue F, a distance of over four blocks. A large crowd lined the way and yells of delight filled the air. Dan managed to stay in the wheelbarrow the entire trip and certainly stood it well. It would be hard to tell which one had the worst of it, but both men bravely stuck it out to the end and were game to the finish. The Rea! Story of the Russian Empress. Kellogg Durland, who has spent many months in Russia, is writing for Woman’s Home Companion the life story of the Russian Empress. In the Docember number of that magazine he writes: “When a certain Count Tolstoy was Minister of Public Instruction he once appealed to the Empress to aid him in extending the educational advantages of the empire to the girls and young women of the country. (I have Count Tolstoy’s own permission to relate this incident.) “The Tsaritsa listened to the Minister attentively as he set forth the needs of Russia in this direction, and when he had concluded, she replied that she thought all young girls should be taught to sew, to care for their homes, in short to become helpful wives and good mothers, but as for granting them the privileges of so-called higher education,’ knowledge of history, philosophy and cue sciences—to this she was : entirely opposed, 'because these studies, when offered to women, only resulted in such terrible times as Russia is now passing through.” “This, surely, is a remarkable tribute to the women of Russia—the Tsaritsa holding them responsible for the great movement toward liberty as a result of their education and culture.” The December American Magazine. In the December American Magazine, Ray Stannard Baker begins his new series of articles on "The Spiritual Unrest," which is to be a complete report of various movements in America, to regain for the church its diminished influence and usefulness. The first article in the new series is entitled “Healing the Sick in the Churches,” and it includes the story of the Emmanuel movement in Boston. The article contains a mass of new facts and ideas. Stewart Edward White begins a new aeries of stories of boy life. “Mr. Dooley” writes on “A New Literary Light.” This is a satire on the autobiography of John D. Rockefeller. Ida M. Tarbell writes the story of the traction war in Chicago, under the title “How Chicago is finding Herself," Professor Thomas of Chicago University, contributes a n article on “The Mind of Woman.” “The Letters of G. Q.” is also a new series begun in this number. David Grayson, author of “Adventures in Contentment” contributes a character sketch of an old maid. “The interpreter's House” and “The Pilgrim’s Script" contain plenty of good reading. Other notable contributors are Geo. Madden Martin, author of “Emmy Lou," Harry Kemp, a wonderful young Kansas poet, Octavia Roberts, Inez Haynes Gilmore, William J. Locke, the most distinguished novelist of present day England, and W.G. Eggleston. The Local News. It is possible for people to make themselves as ridiculous by trying to keep their names out of the paper as those who constantly want their names in the paper, says an exchange. The news of a local paper is largely made up of goings and^doings of peonle. It is for such news th. oeople take a local paper. There are u v things in a paper that are not of mu a importance. If they were left out or put in it would make but little difference to subscribers generally, but of all such items go to make up the general interest of the paper, and while one personal does not interest one reader it does interest another. It is on this theory they are sought, and the newspaper reporter has about as much respect for the persons who seek to have their names in every issue of a paper as they do for the per- ) eon who is unduly modest about such . things. I Mrs. May Case of Lansing, Mich., visited with her aunt, Mra. Mollie Wolfe, a few days of last week and this week.

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New Industry in Worms Several of the old fishermen of this vicinity who regularly spend their summers on the lakes in Michigan and the northern part of this state, where the flehworms are scarce, have been busy after the recent rains picking up the worms that were crawling over the ground. They will be packed in moss and preserved until the fishing season for trout in the northern streams and for all kinds of lake fish opens, when they will be sold to city fishermen where the worms are only used when they are brought to the lakes by the dealers who make a business of selling them. The worms have been known to bring as high as a dollar a dozen when taken to Michigan, as they are excellent bait and in the sandy soil of the northern states are unknown.—Warsaw Union. Forest Restoration. Unless the partial restoration of the forests begins at once it will be only a question of a few years, the scientists say, until the Indiana legislature will be compelled to take control of the watershed along the White and Wabash rivers and other streams and prevent the pollution of the streams so that the water supply of the people of the state may be drawn therefrom. This will mean the building, too, of reservoirs and dame The time may come when Indianapolis will have to tap Lake Michigan for its water supply. That the underground supply is fast wasting can not be denied There is too much indisputable evidence of it. And when it is wholly gone, then the people must turn to the neglected streams. Indianapolis has long ago ceased to depend on wells. Will Urge $2,000 License Law. Senator Arthur J. Bowser, of Porter county, has announced that he will introduce in the next session of the legislature a bill requiring saloon keepers to pay an annual license of $2,000, making the measure operative immediately after publication. Senator Bowser is anticipating that the county option law will be repealed, in which event a determined effort will be ade to secure the passage of a high lie bill. Attired immaculately Imost elegantly, with garments eh, ing long hours of patient and loving work, an infant babe, abandoned by its heartless parents, was discovered on the doorstep of the David Foutz home at Wabash one evening recently. All about the child were evidences of care and of neatness and the child showed appearances of coming from a home of real refinement, but it was abandoned to a cruel world with every lack of love and responsibility. WASHINGTON IRVING. — He Was an Utter Failure as an After Dinner Speaker. Washington Irving was not a ready 1 after dinner speaker. The author of “American Bookmen” says that he shunned public appearances. Yet when 1 Dickens came to New York in 1842 Irving could not escape presiding at the 1 great dinner in his honor. They had already become friends through corre- ' spondence, for Irving’s delight in Little 1 Nell had to be expressed in a letter to the author, and Dickens, in his enthusiastic response, had said: “Diedrich Knickerbocker” I have worn to death in my pocket, and yet I should show you hie mutilated carcass with a joy beyond expression.” The night of the public dinner came, and Irving’s dread of the introductory speech kept him murmering throughout the repast, “I shall certainly break down.” At the proper time he rose to his feet, began bravely, but could utter only a few sentences, and ended by taking refuge in the announcemsnt of the toast: “Charles Dickens, the guest of the nation." The applause was generous, and Irving took his seat. “There,” he said, “I told you I should break down, and I have done it! Later, while on his way to Madrid, he found himself called upon at the dinner of the literary fund in London to re epond to the toast, “Washington Irving and American literature.” All he could say in acknowledgement of an enthusiastic reception was: “I beg to return you my very sincere thanks.” Ooe Englishman at the table was heard to make the laconic comment, “Brief!” “Yes,” said another beside him, “but you can tell the gentleman in the very tone of his voice.” The United States has the largest number of crematories and incinerates the largest number of bodies of any nation in the world. One of the large Pittsburgh glass companies is manufacturing grave headstones of glass. The most unique feature of the new tombstone is the fact that in i many of the orders executed the photographs of the deceased are blown in the glass. Courts have power to eave us against ourselves, A fanatical woman who set out to fast for sixty days was ordered by the judge, to whom her hueband ap pealed, to eat. Upon her refusal to do so, the judges’ order to feed her by fcce was carried out by doctors and nurses.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1908.

NEW MEN IN COURT HOUSE. Changes Will Be Made The First of the Year. Newly elected county officials are not one bit superstitious and will take office in St. Joseph county, Friday, Jan 1, 1909, says the South Bend Tribune. In the list of newly elected officers but three new faces will appear. Samuel Krueger, newly elected township trustee, S. Wesley Hill, township assessor, and John Layton, county commissioner. There are other changes on the county pay roll, but the men have been seen in the county building before. Millard Kerr, who for the past four years was deputy to Sheriff Schafer, will on Jan. 1 take the reins in his own hands and the living rooms in the jail will be reoccupied. Sheriff Schafer expects to be in hie new home at that time. Sheriffelect Kerr has not yet announced his deputies nor his assistants about the jail. Marshall Hughes, who will take the treasurership which William C. Stover will turn over was township trustee seven years, by election four years and filling a vacancy for three years. Who the assistants in the county treasurer’s office will be Mr. Hughes is not yet ready to announce. Samuel Krueger, who will take Mr. Hughes’ place is a new man to receive honors at the hands of the people. Mr. Krueger was once a member of the court house force He has, however, been out of the building for a time. After the first of the year John Layton will sit with the county commie sioners. Isaac Reamer’s name was also on the county ballot but Mr. Reamer will have to wait until 1910 before he can be initiated into the mysteries of commissionerdom. A new face will be seen at the desk of Township Asssesor Samuel Thomae S. Wesley Hill was the people’s choice and the facte and figures concerning those unfortunate enough to own prop erty will have to come under the eye of the new man. Cyrus E Pattee, will be a new man pleading the state's case in the courts and Joseph E Talbot, who two years ago was e.ected to the office will have to give way. This will also mean a new set of deputies, which have already been announced. Dr. Stanley A. Clark will not have hie office duties to learn and the genial dispenser of medicine will still be the man sought in case of inspected death Dr. Clark starts on his second term when the first of the year comes around. Prevalence of Tuberculosis Among Stock. Accoiding to an official estimate made by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, the losses from tuberculosis among stock amounts to about $14,006.000 annually. This less is almost wholly among cattle and hogs and while the total seems to be very large, it is probably below the actual amount It is estimated that ten percent of all dairy cattle, one per cent of other cattle, and three per cent of hogs are affacted. Up on this basis, approximately 50,000 dairy cattle, 9,000 other cattle and 120,000 hogs are affected annually in this state. It does not folk w that these will be a total loss. Some will die, some will eat their rations and maka no returns, some will be condemned upon postmortem examination and some be useful as breed ers and for food. The total loss from this disease however is second only to that of hog cholera. Tuberculosis is a slow’ly contagious disease. It is spread by the germs of one diseased animal being taken in by another. The more closely confined, the greater is the danger of the disease spreading. For this reason dairy cattle are especially prone to be affected as they are kept close together for a greater part of the time in the stable, the feed lot and the pasture. The germs are disseminated with material coughed up, through the material raised in the breathing but “wallowed and passed out with the excrement, and through the milk. The air in a stable may therefore become contaminated and likewise the food, the belief at the present time being that the greatest danger lies in taking in the germs with the food. No breed of cattle is exempt from the disease; the apparent advantage of beef breeds being due to lees close confinement. The disease will spread upon pasture as well as in the stable, though less rapidly. The disjaeein hogs is due wholly to contagion from cattle. The principal source of infection is from the droppings from tuberculosis cattle and second from being fed unpasteurized milk. The disease could be stamped out of hogs at once by feeding only heated milk and preventing feeding in the same pasture and pens with cattle G. H. Roberts, From the Office of State Veterinarian Mind Your Business. If you don't nobody will. It is your business to keep out of ail the trouble you can, and you can and will keep out of liver and bowel trouble if you take Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They keep biliousness, malaria and jaundice out of your system. 25c. at B. E. Williams drug store. By sprinkling tobacco during the curing with a 2 per cent solution of citric acid the free nicotine, which causes the “bite,” is eliminated. i

To Guard Temperance Measures Superintendent Hicks, of the South f Bend district o^-tha Anti-Saloon league, left for Indianapolis last week to attend a meeting of the state league. , Mr. Hicks stated a few’ days ago that the league members of Indiana were not in any fear that the new legislature would attempt to repeal the local option law’ but the cry has gone up from several of the counties where the "wet and dry” was made an issue and there is a decided move3|6|t to get after the law and wipe it off the books. In Vigo county, where the democrats made a cleaning qnd secured everything in sight it was U plain “wet and dry” campaign anff^' jr.hat the battle is over the member Aom Vigo have begun a campaign q up other counties of the state irt’ nant to repeal the law. The meeting t Indianapolis, it is unders - !^ 1, v to outline plane to forestall any । ^ement o( this kind. Real Life in^he Country. Life, to the average man, means hard, anxious work, with' disappointment at the end, whereas it ought to mean plenty of time for books and talk. There is something wrong about a system which condemns ninety nine hundredths of the race to an existence as bare of intellectual activity and enjoyment as that of a horse and with the added anxiety concerning the next month’s rent. Is there no escape? Through years of toil I suspected that there might be such ar. escape. Now, having escaped, 1 am sure of it, so long as oat meal is less than three cents a pound, so long as the fish bite and the ca bbage grows, 1 shall keep out of the slavery of modern city existence, and live in God’s sunshine.—Hubert. DROUGHT NEVER EQUALED Protracted Dry Period of 1908 Without a Parallel Without a parallel in the history of the Weather Bureau is the recent drought in Indiana, according to the report for the mouth of October just issued by W.T. Blythe, section director. “There probably was never another drought period,” states the report, “of • qual length, intensity and extent experienced in this state; certainly none during the period covered by the records of the Weather Bumau, which extend hack to 1871. ’{The nearest approaches to it were in 189!f, f 897 and 1901. The period of the drought this year was from Aug. 14 to Sept. 26, inclusive, a period of forty five days. June was deficient in precipitation. Through July the precipitation was about normal; also the first part of August. “From Sept. 28, on which date,” says the report, “the long summer drought was relieved by general rains, up to and including Oct 31. There were only two stations in the state at which precipitation in excess of one inch occurred. One of these stations was Anderson, with a total rainfall of 1.09 inches, and the other Hammond, with a total of 1.46 inches during the thirty four days.” Hog cholera has appeared in Wabash and prevails in several townships though the disease is said by farmers not to be virulent in its character. Animals in numerous droves seem to be somewhat “dopey” and farmers who note these symptoms make all haste to get the hogs which are in good condition off their hands before they become affected. Farmers all over the country are adopting every preventative and it is believed that with the coming of cold w’eather there will bo little loss and that the disease can)be stamped out so effectually there will be no reappearance of it during the winter. D. ARMSTRONG Lock Smith and Safe Expert Umbrellas, Rubber Stamps and General Repairer 130 N. Michigan St. South Bend nmSWMUBBVMMM to? ’ 7 \ \ ' fe sOfe-i s . wLr I Going to Shingle Your Roof This fall? If so, it’s time you got at it, Make up your mind to have really good shingles this time. They are the best and also the cheapest. Get them here. Our shingles are all perfect and i full count. You can use every one, and I you get every one you pay fur. Get What Lumber You Need Here, too. Ours is the kind that works 1 up without waste; the kind that doesn’t shrink or crack because it is thoroughly seasoned before we sell it. Walkerton Lumber Co.

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Never can tell when > ■ ; H ash 3 finger or suf r a cut, bruise, burn . t scald. Be prepared. Dr. I'hotnae Ec lectric Oil t Gladly reiieve-.. th pair, - t quickly cur r the wound,