Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 January 1909 — Page 4

Dje JnbcpenHent PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY IMOEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON, INDIANA. W.A.I hdmt, ■ Editor and Publisher, ADVANCE.TBLBPHONB NO. 25. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1909. Publisher's Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths »nserted free. Notices for church 'or society entertainments, 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. MAKES RAILROAD MEN TIRED. tn teresti ngf Misinformation "Wliicli the Publio Reads and Believes. There Is a whole lot of tommyrot talked about the railroad locomotive that is in modern fast passenger service. It is worse when some one who doesn’t know begins to write about it. Some time ago an extremely interesting piece of misinformation went the rounds of the press. According to the s+ory, a writer was asking a locomotive engineer, as the writer sat in the cab at a 60-mile dip talking, what would the engineer do if suddenly in front of them at a crossing a big automobile, filled with passengers, should run up fairly across the tracks and stick. “You’d shut off steam and throw on the emergency air?” suggested the writer, presumably In conversational tones. “Not on your life,” was the unexpected response of the eagle-eyed man sitting at the right of the cab with his hand on the throttle. “You wouldn’t?” exclaimed the writer, probably a little louder than he had talked before. “No,” replied the engineer, "for If I did so I’d probably kill twice as many people In the train as I could possibly kill In the auto. We’d probably telescope half the cars In the train 1” Old locomotive engineers are disgusted with a story of this kind and from two absolutely unchallenged grounds. In the first place, with a 190-ton locomotive making 60 miles an hour a conversation of the kind could no more be carried on In the cab than conversation could be carried on between tjiis earth and the planet Mars. And, in the second place, the higher the speed of the train, the more safely the throttle may be closed, the reverse lever thrown over and the emergency brakes applied. Speaking of these cab “conversaziones” at 60 miles an hour, there 1b the Btory of a few months ago when Miss Ethel Roosevelt took her seat in the cab, holding the throttle lever, and at elxty-five miles an hour engaged In airy conversation with other visitors present. w hen the cab of a ’ ■-■thrown to the air and a 60-mile clip is indulging. one might take a shot with a 38caliber revolver point blank at the engineer on the other side of the cab, and unless the bullet -passed close to his ear it’s doubtful If he’d know it As to the reverse lever and the air brakes, the faster the train is running the less effect the action shows. At twenty-five miles an hour these emergency- measures might unseat half the passengers, and at twelve miles some one likely would go through an end window somewhere. But under full speed every force that can be employed In stopping is simple and easy. The ordinary man trying to speak of a giant locomotive in passenger service is almost certain to speak of her as a "mogul.” Years ago the mogul type of machine stood for the largest and best In railroading. Some of them are in freight service still, but as the giant racer of the rails, the 194-ton Pacific type of locomotive is standard, looking as little like the old mogul as a Bunbonnet looks like a Merry Widow BITS OF SCIENCE. There are over 5,000 parts to a modern locomotive. Nerve messages In man travel at the rate of 110 feet per second. Argentine Imports 2,250,000 tons of coal a year from Great Britain. In 1' 7 the world produced 8,988,000,UiO million gallons of petroleum. A :■ Hon of properly mixed paint will cover about 600 square feet of surface. A Paris school teaches parrots to ^peak English, German, French and Italian. A wax from the Madagascar rafle pa,in is proving a good substitute for 'beeswax. Six locomotives using lignite for fuel have been placed in service in the Philippines. Hot water will remove grease and dirt from an engine better than wiping It with waste. Benitoite is a recent addition to the list of precious stones. It is found in Alexander County, N. C. A Canadian inventor has patented a combined comb and razor to trim he * r more rapidly and evenly. A Buonos Ayres railroad used & Stea, mp.-opt lied fire engine that It mount d on flanged wheels. umbrella which may be care pocket has a telescoping handle and the ribs are hinged. Har in I. Smith, assistant curator of all ' r 1 - v of the American Museum !r ii History, has discovered in i <rn Wyoming remains of a P l ’-” 1 * ic race of people heretofore believed to have been confined to the southern edge of the United States. “I iu " red habitually from conT” - pation. Doan’s Kegulets relieved and Btrengthe d the bowels, eo that they have beer r ;uhr ever since.” —A. E. Davie, grew • Sulphur Springe, Tex.

|news letters^ g Items of Interest From Our Able <3 to Corps of Correspondents. » KNOX. i The cold wave reached Knox on Christmas day but came without any snow. Miss Ora Pierson, daughter cf Wilbur Pierson, died of quick consumption Friday morning, Dec. 25. She was in the third year of high school and one of the brightest and best girls of the town. Everybody loved her, and all share the bereavement with the family. The town is continuing to improve its streets and walks. We are keeping pace with the surrounding country. Already Starke county is said to have the best roads of any county in the state, outside of Marion county. The Indiana Sand Lime Brick Co. have added new machinery and expect to put out next year 5,000,000 first class brick, besides a high grade of sills, caps, lintels, window cases and many other needed articles for building. The factory is located at North Judson, but many of the parties interested live at Knox. The children of the Knox Christian church gave an entertainment on Christmas eve. The old folks enjoyed themselves very much in witnessing the cleverness of the “kids.” They are like we used to be, only more so. The Starke County Bar have prepared a bill which will be introduced at the coming session of the legislature. The object of the bill is to remove the judges of the circuit courts from political influences. It is a needed reform. There are too many litigants who have a “stand in” with the courts, which in many instances amount to little less than corruption, Homer Rogers, former resident of Starke county, has been chosen superintendent of the public schools of Pulaski county. Thus answering in the affirmative that some good may come out of Starke county. Court sets at Knox on January 4,1909. We have a new judge of the new or democratic persuasion. We generally believe that the people have done well in making the swap. The outs are beginning to go in and and the ins are politely stepping down and out. There is plenty to do by the incoming officials. Building is still carried on here, but no vacant houses are to be found. We are slowly gaining in population and soon will put on metropolitan airs. Dr. D. O. White of Teegarden visited here on Monday of last week. People whom he has treated have great confi. dance in hie ability as a physician. STILLWELL. Having by the engineerthey would stop and let him off, Harri, son Winchell, 17 years old, boarded a light engine here at about 11:50 p. m. Friday night to ride out to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Dan E. Winchell, who live about two miles west of here near the Grand Trunk rfght of way. Instead of stopping to let the boy off as promised they only slacked up and according to the boy’s story the engineer gave the engine more steam just as the boy was about to try to get off. It was very dark and no doubt the locomotive was running faster than the boy thought, but he jumped and in the fall which followed he was hurled along side the engine and his left foot was in some way caught beneath the heavy wheels and badly crushed. The scene of the accident was probably eighty or a hundred rode from the boy’s home, but being alone and at midnight he was obliged to shift for himself. From the tracks and blood stains along the railroad it seems that his first effort was to walk, which he did to the road crossing which was only a short distance. By this time the pain was eo severe that he was obliged to sit down and remove what was left of the shoe. But after the ehoe had been removed from the in jured foot he found it impoeeible to resume his course on foot and it is said that the boy crawled on hands and knees from the railroad to hie home. Hie father at once started with him for Stillwell where Dr. Walkinshaw dressed the foot temporarily and sent him on to Holy Family Hospital at LaPorte. Dr. Walkinshaw said he did not think it would be necessary to amputate the foot—but it was badly mangled and will be slow to recover. Had the shoe not given way and allowed the foot to crowd out on the opposite side the wheel would have crushed it off completely. Harrison will probably never forget his Christmas adventures of 1908. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wherrett of Chicago have been spending Christmas with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs, Corwin A. Keene of Indianapolis are visiting at the home of Mrs. Keene’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Quinn. Several of the young people of this place attended the dance at Mill Creek last Friday night. O. O. Replogle, operator and ticket clerk for the Grand Trunk at Flint, Mich., ate Christmas dinner with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Replogle of this place. Howard Wherrett and wife of Chicago spent Christmas with the former’s parents. Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Wherrett of this place. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Loring of Walkerton were in our town Friday visiting ‘ativee. Ora Bosserman and wife of LaPorte were the guests of Mr, and Mrs. C. .M Jones Sunday. Joseph Manlove and wife are spending

a few days with the former's parents I who live at Grovertown. Mrs. Fred Hupp who has been on the sick list for some time is rapidly improving. Mrs. B. Rigney of Chicago is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Amel Draves of Stillwell. Johnny Ryan, the grandson of Mrs. August Draves has been in Chicago since Thursday visiting hie parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ryan. F. A. Mann was in LaPorte Monday. J. H. Taylor & Son shipped a car load of stock to Chicago Monday evening. SHILOH. Mrs. L. C. Miller of near Walkerton spent a few days of last week with her niece, Mrs. Wm. Rennelle, at Culver. Mr. and Are. Chancy Pippinger of Walkerton spent Sunday with Mrs. Julia Davie. The Mieses Callie and Ethel Miller spent Christmas with their sister and other friends at Culver. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Head and family spent Christmas with relatives at Plymouth. Mrs. Julia C. Davis and daughter, Effie, spent Christmas day with Mre. John Barber. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse McKesson and Mrs. Lucinda Davis and family ate Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. James McKesson. Milton Garner spent Christmas at Teegarden. Clyde Miller spent Sunday with John Freed, Jacob Freed is visiting with relatives at Wakarusa. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse McKesson and son spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Lucinda Davis. COUNTY LINE. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Reed of Knox spent Christmas with Mrs. Reed’s father, Dan Koontz. Mre.Patterson of Wabash visited with Mre. S. R. Dingman from Thursday until Monday. Mr. and Mre. John McCormick and daughter, Marie, of Hamlet visited Saturday and Sunday with Tillman Snyder and wife. Mise Marie will remain the rest of the week with her aunt. Mr. and Mre. Hoyt Masterman of Walkerton epent Chrietmae on the county line with the latter’s parents, Mr and Mre. Will Suders. Glen Rose of Michigan City is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Jessie Kellogg, this week. Mr. and Mrs, Ira Reneberger enter tained at a Christmas dinner. Their home was tastefully decorated in ever green and holly. The Christmas tree was enjoyed by all, especially the children. The day was passed in a general good time, and the fine dinner was enjoyed by all. The following were present: Mrs Ed Goodrich and daughter, Luella, of Valparaiso; Mr, and Mre. ChaS Goodrich Burr, —sE?Aroid7 of South Bend; and Mrs. F. I. Dren nan and son, Darrell, and Grandma Reneberger of North Liberty; Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Goodrich, Walkerton; Mr. and Mrs Simon Rsneberger, Alta and Johnnie Reneberger, Mount Vernon; Mr. and Mre ‘Dan Kellogg and daughter, Mildred, and Mrs. S. F. Rose, County Line. BARBER~ Alfred Sheake and daughter Wilda of Chicago are visiting Sanford Sheaks ahd family. Marvin Morrie is spending a few days with friends in Mishawaka. Wm. Waiterhouse is very ill. The Barber Sunday school elected new officers last Sunday. The Christmas exercises held at the Barber church were a success and were largely attended. Mrs. Jane Weight has returned from an extended visit at Benton Harbor, Mich., Elkhart and LaGrange, Ind. Deputy-Surveyor English was in this vicinity last week in the interest of the Chas. Rupel ditch. KOONTZ’S LAKE. Skating is fine. Ice boating is all the go at Koontz’s Lake. U. S. Lemert of Plymouth was here Monday. Mies Stella Culp is visiting in Goshen. Miss Tessie Duckett has returned home from the South Bend business college. Mies Emma Schroeder is at home for the holidays. Mr. and Mre. Ellen Burnside visited at Breezy Point Sunday. The Morris Packing Company of Peaceful Valley have moved their sausage factory to South Bend. The Tyner Aero Club was at Koontz’s Lake Monday testing one of their iceboats. Dan Sheneman spent Christmas with Mr. and Mre Alex Warner. Henry Herr of Nappanee is visiting at Mr. Culp’s this week. Elizabeth Young of Nappanee is visiting with Mr. Culp and family. Get your sale bills printed at this of flee. Best work and lowest prices. New type insures good work. Kodol for Dyspepsia, Indigestion weak stomach, sour stomach, gas on the stomach, etc, is a combination of the natural digestive juices found in a healthy stomach with neceseary veg etable acids, and is the only thing known today that will completely digest all kinds of food under any condition. It is guaranteed to give prompt relief from any form of stomach trouble. Take Kodol and be convinced. It will cure your dyspepsia. Sold by Red Cross Drug Sture.

....... jMMMMMi — n •• JMMHMMMMN ! FOUR COUNTIES! ° News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Starke and S o Marshall Counties Boiled Down. 3 1° to An amateur detective from Oglesby, 111,, was in LaPorte recently and is determined to find Mrs. Gunness if she is still alive. The legal fraternity of South Bend has prepared a petition and submitted it to Congressman Barnhart asking that South Bend be substituted for Hammond in the federal court bill. Mr, Barnhart has -promised to give the petition his hearty support. Jacob Ackerman, of LaPorte, and a former member of the city council, has been sued for breach of promise in the sum of §IO,OOO, by Mies Georgia Ann Cadwailader of that city. The defendant was married to a New Carlisle young lady December 15, and the couple are now in Texas. Jay Wareham, a young man of Bremen, fell under the wheels of a B. & O. train at LaPsz last week and his left leg was so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. He was attempting to boara J a mm mg freight train when he lostl hie hold and fell under the train. ’J^he accident occurred at the same place -.Jesse Stull, a young man from NappaTue, was killed a few weeks ago. Fred Kassabaum, living northeast of town, and Mise Cairie Hesburn of Lakeville, were married during the holidays and on their return to their home near town received an unexpected visit from about 40 friends and neighbors, who gave them an old fashioned belling. Mr. Kassabaum invited hie friends into the house and after introducing his bride, forked over a nice little sum of money for the friends who went to town and returned with a nice treat for all. A pleasant evening wae enjoyed and the bridal couple received the congratulations and well wishes of their friends. A play that has met with success both in this country and Europe comes to iludelmyer’s opera house Wednesday evening, January 6. It is called “A Race For a Widow,’’ and, as its title implies, it is a laughable comedy, although at times the play becomes dramatic .The company presenting this piece is said to be an unusually strong one composed of well known metropolitan players, headed by Arthur Wilber in the principal comedy part and Nina Wilber as the “Widow.” Only one Indiana general was killed in battle during the whole war and he was Gen. P. A. Hackleman. Two years ago the legislature was asked to make an appropriation of #30,000 to erect a monument to commemorate his bravery and memory, but did not succeed. The G. A. R. veterans will renew the request and hope to be more successful with the incoming legislature. - - ar Too Mmfi Dr. : r < ’ anti-vivisection^A York, said that their sympathy for animals was as misplaced as the^mpathy of Aurellen Scholl’s Frenchm:?’ This Frenchman, he exclaimed, unluckily bought an almanac that gave the dates of the world's chief events. From that day on he lived a life of mourning. Thus, on April 80, he had crape on his hat. “Have you lost a relative?” a friend asked. “Not exactly.” said he. "But to-day is a sad anniversary for the French people. On April 30, 1524, the Chevalier Bayard died.” On May 2 he had the crape on again. "Still mourning Bayard?” said the friend. “No,” said he; "but don’t you remember that on May 2 a great and charming poet, Alfred de Musset, breathed his last?” On the sixth of the same month with the same crape on, he was asked: “Whom are you mourning for now?” For an honest man; Gen. Cavaignac.” On the 30th, crying terribly, he said: “Ah, Joan of Arc! On this date, in 1431, a handful of Englishmen and a miserable bishop put the gallant maid to death.” On July 13 he took a bath in memory of the assassination of Marat. On the 16th Beranger’s death gave him an awful shock. On the 18th, having read of Napoleon’s departure to St. Helena, he felt better, but on the 23d the bombardment of Dieppe by the English, In 1694, conflred him again to his bed. He was taker with a fever and died on the 22d, muttering: “In a month, the massacre of St. Bartholomew I” The Home Tok trait Gallery. The two followin'; stories are sufficient aptly’ to UKistrate the homely frankness and primitive simplicity to be found in the negre mind: On the library wait of a Southern home there hung- black silhouettes of revolutlonail ancestors of the family. One day flora, the maid, in dusting the pictures,'turned to her mistress and asked: “Miss Mary, who *s dem folks in dot picture?” "They are my gresit-gra nd father and great-grandmother, iiora. He was one of the signers of the! Declaration of Independence, and a great man In his day,” proudly replied the woman. “Lawd, Miss Mary'” responded Cora with wide open ey^Hiid in an awestruck whisper, “was dey black folks?” Cora must have been a near neighbor of Susan, who was the author of an original opinion' of Rosa Bonheur. Susan’s mistress ha^mong her photographs one of the famous animal painter, taken in Iqer usus( working costume of bloomers and blov^.. “Miss Jennie,” asl Susan, “who Is dat quare lookin’mA “That is not a man, Susan,” replied the mistress; “it is fiosa Bonheur, the great painter.” “Well,” replied Susan after a prolonged inspection, “iL s ho’ do faior her pa.” 31 — icl Soothes itching 8:^,1, Heals cuts or burns without a if ’uroa piles, eczema, salt rheu’ • ‘hing, Doan’s Ointment. Yov 0 ^ Telle it.

! ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Some people might as well be crazy; they have no sense. What some men enjoy would cause 1 others to commit suicide. Parents ami turkeys are always , treated well before Christmas. When a woman Is not in a dry goods store she Is at the dentist’s. No man is as good to his wife as lie 1 expects his father to be to his mother. When you have seen one celebration, 1 or one circus, you have seen them all. It Is as natural for a boy to have dirty hands as it is fur a eat to have fits. Every man we ever knew had ambition, but only a few had application with It We occasionally meet a man who ought to stay at home and send his wife out It isn’t proper to bring a baby downtown until it is at least two weeks old. A man can’t tell the truth so truthfully that a jealous woman can’t tangle him up. If you have no reason to expect a letter with money in it, hope will do you no good. We don’t remember ever meeting a girl whose shoes were not a mile too big for her. We have noticed that in every conversation there is something about “finding out” people. It always makes some people’s fingers tremble to hear a child talk impudently to its parents. As soon as a woman marries a man of means, the fortunes of her family begin to look up. Next Thanksgiving day we propose to fast, and see if we can't feel decent the following Friday. When you And a good husband, the women nearly always say: "His wife does not care much for him." A man doesn't regard bls children as kin; cousins, aunts and uncles, and that sort of thing, are kin. WITH THE SAGES. That life Is long that answers life's great eud.—Young. Have the courag to dare to be true at all times.—Mansfield. The Ue of an action Is greater than the Ue of a word.—Crawford. Get justly, distribute cheerfully, and live contentedly.—Thurston. Wliat ought not to be done, do not even think of doing. Epictvius. To be Ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. Sprits. 1 All life Is music If we but ton. h the 1 notes rightly and in time. Ruskin. ’ Uifless you bear with the faiths of a * friend you betray your own.- Syms. Stones and idle words are things ’ never to be throwq at random—Bo- ; carrL 1 Speak’as you think; Iw what you are; pay your debts of all kinds.— Montfort. > Let im nm.:if-- ' . I sure that be can govern himself.— 1 Garibaldi. 1 Keep ever In the path of duty, but • fall not to climb the steep of kaowl • edge.—Newton. He is a man who thinks for himself, 1 says what he thinks, and does what he 1 says.—Hitchcock. । ‘Example is more powerful than precept ; whereof you reprove another be i unblamable yourself.—George Wash- ; ington. , I look upon the simple and childish . virtues of veracity and honesty as the ■ root of all that is sublime in character. ; Carlyle. , Do not consider any vice as trivial, ’ and therefore practice it: do not con--1 sider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it. —Bonar. Rightness expresses of actions what straightness does of Unes, and there : can no more be two kinds of right aeI > tlon than there can be two kinds of ■ straight Unes.—Herbert Spencer. > ' ALWAYS “JUST GOING TO.” 1 He was Just going to help a neighbor ’ when he died. He was just going to pay a note when it went to protest । He meant to insure his house, but it burned before he got around to it. He was just going to reduce his delvt . v hen his creditors "shut down” on him. He was just going to send some flowers to a sick neighbor when it proved too late. He was just going to repair his sidewalk when a neighbor fell on it and broke a leg. He was Just going to stop drinking and dissipating, when his health be- ( came wrecked. t He was just going to quit work a I . | while and take a vacation when nervous i prostration came. : He was Just going to introduce a bet- ; j ter system into hia business when it . went to smash. • He was just going to provide proper I ■ protection for his wife and family 1 ; when his fortiw® was swept away from : him. ■ lie was Just going to call on a customer to close a deal when he ’nu'i.l his competitor had preceded him anil secured the order. ■ He was just going to provide ins wife with more help when she took to her , bed and required a nurse,’a doctor and i a maid.—'Success Magazine. Marked For Death 1 “Three years ago I wae marked for death. A grave yard cough was tearing my lunge to pieces. Doctors failed to 1 help me, and hope had fled, when my 1 hueband got Dr. King’s New Dis ovu-',’ eays Mre. A. C. Williams, of Bae, Ki "The first dose helped me and improvement kept on until 1 had gained 58 pounds in weight and my In al th wa-> fully restored.” This medicine holds ' the world’s healing record for coughs and colde and lung and throat diseases. It prevente pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at Red Cross Drug Store. । 50c and §I.OO. Trial bottle free.

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THE C3H3SOH LADY-BERD. s Are twure oi H ■ Sri'vlceß &»• F' rlwtH uuti Gardruert, Everybody knows the common la^> bird, but not every one is aware of ti® Immense services rendered by this ls> ; se ■ to florists and gardeners. Most 1» s are harmful to vegetation, their larvae generally eating the leaves es whatever plant the eggs may be laid on, and it has been calculated that ths । larwe or caterpillars o' some varieties ! cf I gth s eat a hundred thousand times ;• <,\vn weig! ; of vegetable food be- ' fe ■ the. a ain their full size and bo gin to spin their cocoons. The lady-bird, however, is an excep- ■ i, for both the larvto and the beetle !ar carnivorous and feed on other ins; ’. generally the aphis, which is so !i : aful to chrysanthemums and almost all other kinds of vegetation. d he lady-bug lays her eggs on the m lor side of tiie chrysanthemum leaf, ai . as soon as the larva' are hatched th ■ begin to prowl about the leaves sum stems of the plant, looking for 1 io Js or any.other insect smaller than th iiselves. The lame simply hunt for V-. lable tiger among the plant pests, so . but the full-grown lady-bug Is a a:- ’ will tear and slay even after she h: eaten all she can possibly swallow. O: - lady-bird will destroy all the aphis ;rysanthemum In two o’ , e days. Xot one will escape^. -ho s s • m to recognize her/^ their , y ral enemy, and, ^.tb they ha..

never seen a lady-hug before, as soon as one lights on a branch they turn tail and run. with every appearance of the most abject terror. Sometimes, when closely pursued, they let go all hold and : drop off the branch in the hope of geti ting away. But they never do, for, ; once on their trail, the lady-bug hunts ' them down and tears them to pieces, apparently out of sheer malignant ; sport. There seems no doubt that the benefits conferred by tlds tigerish Insect were reeognizi 1 ages ago. The name lady-bug, or lad -1 "d, is a contraction . of "our lady's bird,” for In the tradi- ' tlonal lore of Italy, France and Germany the insert is sacred to the A Irgln Mary, and centuries ago Germ,'in children were taught that to harm or kill one of these insects was a sin. The idea is still prevalent among children, * i for in nine cases out of ten when y" lady-bird is caught it is at once ed after a reeit .lion of the rln/r s 1 ‘ ginning, “Lady-bird, lady birdffoly av • home.” In India, whrt^ rlie sometimes appear im^m’tdvrnble nm bers, as they oc<^h»nally do also in Europe, tbey>* ™ esteemed that in i><olklore of the country when ^mb'-blrd lights on any one he is U^nedlately endowed with saintly 14* ipsEnvelopes with your name and addres printed on them for 50 cents a single hundred. In larger quantities they are cheaper per hundred, Call at the Independent otUce,