Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 April 1895 — Page 3

PEACE IN THE EAST.

ORIENTAL NEWS CONFIRMED OFFICIALLY. Diplomatic Advices Received at Washington Make It Ccrlain that the NeEotiations lletwccn China and Japan Have Kndcd Happily. Terms Aureed Upon. Official confirmation of the report of the signing of the treaty of peace between the plenipotentiaries of Japan and China has been received by Secretary tin-sham. It came from Minister Dun at Tckio, was Tery brief und merely stated that a treaty f peace had been finally concluded. The minister's cablegram pave no information respecting the conditions on which the terms of the agreement between the powers had been arrived at. The Chinese Legation also received advices from Japan announcing the signature of terms of peace between China and Japan. It is understood in "Washington that the terms agreed uion are in conformity with those already published, saving the amount of the indemnity, which was subsequently reduced, probably to an amount estimated to be sufficient to cover all of Japan's war expenses. It is doubted, though, whether i: has been brought down as low as $100,t)O.0UO in gold. In respect of the territory which Japan is to possess it is understood in Washington that aside from Formosa, which is absolutely ceded, the rest will be subject only to temporary occupation, probably until all of the indemnity has been paid. This would leave Japan in temporary possession of the entire Laotung peninsula from Tort Arthur, at the southern extremity, clear up to Mookden, the capital of Manchuria, on the north, and from the Lino river, on which New Chang is situated, on the west to the Corean border on the east. This amounts to about II.OOO square miles and is populated by about 2,000,000 people. The report of n condition that there should be an alliance offensive and defensive between Japan and China is not credited in Japanese circles, where it is not believed to have been even suggested. On the other hand, some of the diplomatic body are inclined to believe that the alliance has really been made with an earnest purpose to execute it. They see in it the realization of the prophecy of an eminent scholar recently made that these two nations would eventually combine against occidental methods and commerce, and their watchword would be "The orient for the orientals.' Li Hung Chang is said to be convinced of the wisdom of such a combination, believing that by a close alliance with Japan, China would secure in return practical control of the commerce of the greatest trading people of the East. Such a consummation as this would mean the destruction of European commercial interests in the orient and it may be that strong opposition will soon develop on the part of some of the powers to this feature of the agreement. It is to be noted that this agreement is not final in all respects, but is simply a preliminary agreement, indicating on broad lines the ultimate terms of a definite treaty of peace which may not be perfected for months to come. TO FOUND A STATE. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin "Would Contribute to Its Territory. It is- seriously proposed to create a new State by taking n part of the three States of Minnesota. Wisconsin and Michigan, which will be known as the State of "Superior," or "the mineral State." This idea is ft modification of the new State plan so often repeated, and its creator is Captain Ale.x. McDougall, the inventor of the whalf-back. Captain McDougall would cut out a territory bounded on the north by Canada, on the west by the Mississippi river, on the south by a line drawn from the Mississiipi river along the southern boundary of the northern tier of "Wisconsin counties and terminating at the extreme tip of the upper peninsula. Of course, the eastern boundary line would lie in the lakes, but that is immaterial to the plan. What is aimed at particularly is to place the three great iron range?, the Vermillion, the Mcsaba and the Ciogobie, in one .State, so that the interests of none of them could be injured by conflicting legislation nnd all might be treated from the same basis. Should the new State, which would be the forty-fifth of the Union, bo considered at nil, it would have the additional advantage, the captain thinks, of solving the diliicultica of long standing between Duiuth and Superior, for, both cities being in the same State, their interests would be in the main almost identical. At least there would be no State line to vex and complicate their relations. A West Superior correspondent, in writing of the matter, says Duiuth and the northern part of Minnesota have no interests in common with the rest of the State. Wisconsin, it can truthfully be said, bears the name relation toward Superior and the northern portion of the State, and as fer the upper peninsula, it Is not, either from a commercial or geographical ioint of view, a part of the State of Michigan. The new State would bo on of the richest in wealth iu the Union; it would have more than 00 miles of water front and contain "the head of the lakes" harbor, which is the gateway for the trade and commerce of the entire northwestern country. "Superior," or "the mineral State," would at once become one of the greatest States of the Union, it is firmly believed by its advocates. a A. R. DEPARTMENTS REPORT. They Show a Net I,oss of About 3,500 Members in 18?1. The national headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic in Kockford, 111., has received reports from forty-one departments, all except those of Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Utah. They show the following figures: Members iu good standing June SO, 1804 2G5.442 Gain by muster in 0,100 Transfers 2,.r18 Keinstatements 21,021 Total 3S7,0fia Loss by death a,41S Honorable discharges 721 Transfers 2.7'IS Suspensions 10,280 Dishonorable discharges C7 Delinquent reirts 1,902 Number remaining iu good standing Dec. 31, 1SDI 3G1.940 Ket loss 8,502

CLEVELAND ANSWERED.

Chairman Harvey of the Bimetallic League Keplies to the President. W. II. Harvey, chairman of the executive committee of the Bimetallic League, has prepared a reply to the President's letter to the Chicago committee of business men. It says in part: "In reply to your letter addressed to the committee of business men of this city, we wish to say that the committee that waited on you, and the persons who attached their names to the invitation did not represent the majority of business men and citizens in this city who take a deep interest in the welfare of the republic. They represented that class that owns money and securities payable in fixed incomes. We respectfully submit that your letter does not present the true merits of the controversy. You call the attention of the farmers nnd the wage earners to the fact that the rising rrices, while enabling them to sell their products and labor at higher prices, will also cause them to pay equally more for what they may purchase, but you neglect to say that your statement is not applicable to debts. With prices coming down regularly and steadily since the demonetization of silver, our merchants, manufacturers and people generally have been doing business on a falling market, so that the time :itervening between their purchase of their merchandise or raw material and placing it months after on the market, removing the margin they would have had otherwise. This shrinkage in values added to the ordinary risk and expense in business, has led to the ever-increasing volume of debt to the money lending period until it has-increased all told, public and private, to about forty billions of dollars, or about two-thirds the total value of all the property in the United States. Money, and those debts payable in money have been steadily increasing in exchangeable value with the property of the people. Taxes have increased as expressed in dollars and have doubled and quadrupled as measured in the property people surrender with which to pay it since 1ST3. We have constantly pointed the people to the ever-increasing exchangeable value of the creditors' dollar, and tc the reason why it was increased, but the influences of these creditors have dominated your administration and you insist on such currency as they have established as a sound currency. We respectfully 6ubmit that it was the intention of the founders of this Government that it was safer that all people should do the thinking for it than that any one class should do it for them. We but express your own opinion ns President of the people when we say that all people should have an opportunity to investigate and intelligently pass upon this question." TALK FREE SILVER. Advocate! of Unlimited Coinage Pre sent Their Views. The Denver open air meeting addressed Tuesday afternoon by the silver champions was the largest ever assembled in that city. Congressman Sibley was the first speaker, and plunged deeply into the subject at the very beginning. He advised the debasement of partisanship and the elevation of patriotism. Frantic appeals have been made to educate the people in regard to "sound money," but he thought there were so many people who needed education in that way that the goldites had a hopeless task and one that was daily becoming more so. The speaker told many amusing stories illustrating the points made, but the burden of the entire speech was that it was necessary to unite if hope was to be entertained for the ultimate redemption of silver. "Shake off party spells," he said, "nnd unite under the free silver banner, not as Republicans, not as Democrats, nor yet as Populists, but as free-born American citizens." General Warner was the next introduced. "We are face to face," he said, "with the question what is to be our moneyhow is it to be supplied?" lie undertook to show how the money question is the dominant one in politics to-day. "The line of battle is drawn, monometallism on one side and bimetallism on the other. He proceeded to analyze the chances of the restoration of silver within party lines and attempted to show its impossibility. lie warned his hearers against putting their trust in an international conference. "As well," he said, "for our protection friends to prolose an international conference on tha tariff. America must and will take care of itself." Both speakers were frequently interrupted with bursts of applause. HAVOC ALONG THE MERRIMAC. New England Kivcra Overflow and Spread Destruction. The most terrible flood since that of 1S01) has inundated the valleys of Connecticut and the reports that have begun to come in show that it has been particularly disastrous. More than fifty families in Concord alone are practically homeless. The waters that have overflowed the banks of the Merrimac are eddying through their homes and they have been abandoned. A score of buildings have been washed away and carried down the river cn the flood. More than 300 persons were taken from upper floor windows in boatjj and carried to the uplands. Along the lice of the Concord and Montreal Railroad enormous damage has been done by the washing away of tracks and rolling stock. Twenty-five houses in the village of Iluntonville have been washed away and the Merrimac nt that ioint is six miles wide and sixty feet deep. Much stock lias been drowned. The Granite Railroad Company has lost all its tracks and rolling stock. The twia bridges at lioacawen are gone nnd at Seawall's Falls the water is thirty feet deep. Haverhill, Mass., which is on the banks of the Merrimac, has suffered severely from the Hood, the foundations of at least twenty of the largest business blocks having been washed out and the whole business section of the city being inundated. Many of the shoe factories are closed nnd fully 10,000 operators are out of work. At Nashua, N. II., the-water is twelve feet deep over the dam nnd nil business is suspended. The railroads are all tied up and telegraph nnd telephone service is suspended; the river, running through the center of the city, is twenty five feet above high water mark. Every bridge over the river at Manchester is under water nnd several have gone out. Millions of feet of logs are piled up against those still in place. Not a spindle or loom Is working along the whole length of the Merrimac rirer from its source in northern New II amp. shire to Newburyport, Mass.

YOU often see girls launched upon the sea of society and for a. season they prove eminently popular and pleasing. Then their hold upon public favor somehow glows weak and you wonder to yourself what manner of woman is she whoso popularity is of the lasting quality. As regards the individuality of society women apart from surroundings, what qualities are best suited for winning the race and reaching the goal? Does the vivacious and merry, animated and demonstrative woman, or the reserved, self-contained and composed one come most to the front and gain the greatest number of social laurels? Placing them side by side and judging by the results the permanent gains are to the latter. Women of this order are pre-eminently successful on various counts; whatever is lacking in them of brilliancy and animation, and oven of brain power, is counterbalanced by an amount of persistent porsevorence that produces a slow but sure effect. An amusing woman is led away from her point by the talent she possesses; she Is delightful company, but she does not inspire the reliance upon her or the belief in her that the less clever woman does, while from a marriageable point of view a woman who sees the humorous side of every situation in daily life is not the one a man desires to make his wife, and a woman without a scintillation of humor in her composition is chosen before one who is dangerously bright and clever. Tor why? Most NEW STYLES men look for a haven of rest when entering into matrimony, and prefer a placid and reserved woman, even to insipidity, to one whoso conversational powers are undeniable. It is tho placid woman who scores tho greatest success in society. Her husband is under the spell of her influence, and never attempts to evade or contest it; her will is law, and all that she projects or desires is carried out if within the region of possibility. Perhaps the secret of her supremacy is that she is an unknown quantity; she suggests the probability of there bvuv n depth in her character not easily fathomed, of there being so much in her if the right note were only struck to sound it. As a girl this placidity and unruffled composure attracted many suitors; as a woman it secured her a firm footing in society, and the circle to which she belonged believed in her to any extent and was not surprised at the strides she made in popularity and to see how easily she grew towards the light. Woman Is the Pow.r. Men are only leaders from outward appearances; close scrutiny will almost invariably reveal a woman's power, n woman's encouragement, a woman's love behind them. She is the power of the world to-day. As she points, so events will tend not as a leader herself, but as a creator of leaders. Let her shape sentiment; men will sec to it that her sentiment is known, adopted and recognized. The literature, the dramatic art of the world is hers; in her hands, too, rests the surest power to uplift man from moral degradation and intemperate principles. IM ward W. Pole in Ladies' Home Journal. The Oodet Skirt nnd the Knee Coat. The godet skirt will remain in vogue, and the fashionable modistes are inserting steels that reach up almost 1o the knee, setting them in the scams lengthwise to cause it to Hare, writes Isabel A. Mallon In tho Ladies' Home Journal. Pacings that are light, and which, at the same time, are put in the back breadths qite up to the belt, and in the front ami side breadths to just above the knees. What afe known as "knee coats," and which button across the bust, but are cut out at the throat and below the two buttons which fasten it, so that the fancj" waistcoat shows, are much

liked. Very often, if the waistcoat is detachable, three or four will accompany one gown, and then for a change, and to be assumed in place of tho waistcoat, there will be a loose silk shirt-waist. In the coat designs there is also a new cutaway coat which is only long enough to reach between the hip and tho knee. This is generally bocoming, and very smart when developed cither in broadcloth or mohair.

Don't s for Wives. Don't expect impossibilities from your husband. Don't snub him In the presence of strangers. Don't henpeck him just because you know he is quiet and will stand it. Don't treat him as if you had come down oi'f a pedestal to marry hi in. Don't worry him to death because you cannot have your dearest wish granted. Don't think that now you are married he doesn't care whether you curl your hair or not. Don't have cold suppers. Remember the nearest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Don't run to your mother with all his faults; rather keep bis good qualities to light and hide his failures. Don't exp'ct him to be amiable with a breakfast of tough steak, greasy potatoes, cold rolls, and muddy coffee. Dou't sit up waiting for your husband. Go to bod; got all tho sleep you can. In the morning when you are IN WAISTS. looking and feeling the best, if you have anything to say. say it; nine chances out of ten you will win. Not a Modern Piece of Sensitiveness. Somebody has discovered the curious fact that the reluctance of women to tell their age is no piece of modern sensitiveness. It is as old as the hills. In the Old Tetamcnt, although great numbers of women are mentioned, there is but oneSarah, Abraham's wife whose age is recorded. IvideH Astride. Mrs. Morton, of Roseland, N. J., ha put some dross reform and other idea Into execution. She takes her daily canter attired in a dress made with a divided skirt and sitting astride her horse. Her daughter, similarly attired and mounted, frequently accompanies her mother. The engraving is from a photograph of Mrs. Morton ready for her ride. Save old dress linings and wash them and stiffen, then be sure to iron them straight, to use for the garments of the little ones. Yon can seldom use old linings to advantage in a gown for an adult, as it is of importance that linings bold their shape iu a good gown, and washed linings will not do that. The best dressed women are not those who have the largest amount of clothing, but those who keep on hand only enough gowns to meet their needs, and can consequently get new ones each season as the fashions change, or make the old ones over. A fresh little pink gingham gown has a skirt opening over a front of piuk embroidered Id black.

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BLUE LAWS ALL GONE. Repeat of the Sunday Act Which Caused Connecticut Annoyance. The Legislature of Conectlcut has repealed the old Sunday blue law, under which many prosecutions have even recently been pressed. At Southington last fall Sunday newspapers were suppressed, livery stables were closed, barbers pounced upon and various other alleged Sabbath violators driven under the ban. In Hartford drug and tobaoco stores were closed and various other steps of a like nature taken. The repealed law was as follow; "When any justice of the peace shall have personal knowledge that any person is guilty of drunkenness, profane f wearing, cursing, or Sabbath breaking, such knowledge shall be sufficient evidence for such justice of the peace to render judgment against him without previous complaint and warrant, having lirst caused such person to be brought before him." Only one vote was east in opposition to the repeal. Despite the fact that Connecticut in the olden days enforced many of the so-called blue laws attributed to her they were never on her statute books. They were figments of the mind of Samuel Peters, who wrote a history of Coneeticut about ITS-". This history was studied in the schools for a long time, and gradually came to bo accepted as gospel. Some of the laws, which did not exist, but which were quoted by Peters, are as follows: Conspiracy against this dominion shall be punished with death. Whosoever says there is a power and Jurisdiction above and over this dominion shall suffer death and loss of property. No one shall be a freeman or give a vote unless he be counted and a member in full communion of one of tho churches allowed in this dominion. No one shall hold any cilice who Is not sound in the faith and faithful to this dominion; and whoever gives a vote to such a person shall pay a line of 1; for a second offense he shall be disfranchised. No Quaker or dissenter from tho established worship of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for the election of magistrates or any officers. No food or lodging shall be offered to a Quaker, Adamite or heretic. If any person turn Quaker he shall l)e banished and not suffered to return but upon pain of death. No priest shall abide in the dominion; he shall be banished and suffer death on his return. Priests may be seized by anyone without a warrant. No one to cross a river but with an ant ho ri zed f erry man. No one shall run on the Sabbath day or walk in the garden or elsewhere except reverently to and from meeting. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make bods, swoop houses, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath clay. No woman shall kiss her child on tho Sabbath or on fasting day. To pick an ear of corn growing in a

neighbor's garden shall be deemed theft. A drunkard shall have a master appointed by the selectmen, who uro io debar him from the liberty of buying or selling. Whoever publishes a lye to tho prejudice of his neighbor shall sit in the stocks or bo whipped lift ecu stripes. No minister shall keep a sehoul who ever wears clothes trimmed with gold, silver or bone lace, above L' shillings by the yard, shall be presented by the grand Jurors, und the selectmen shall tax the offender a .UM estate. Whoever brings cards or dice into the dominion shall pay a fine of .". No one shall read common prayer, keep Christmas or Saints' Day, make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music except the drum, trumpet or jewsharp. The selectmen, on finding children Ignorant, may take them away fron their parents and put them Into better hands at tho expense of theii parents. No man shall court a maid in person or by letter without first obtaining consent of her parents; 5 penalty for the lirst offense, 10 for the second, and for the third imprisonment during the pleasure of the court. Married persons must live together or be Imprisoned. Every male shall have his hair cut i omul according to a cap. The Iletort Quick. Speaking of the young man w ho talks in public places I heard a retort madu to him last Thursday night which was so good I was surprised never to have heard it before. It was at the theater, and the young man had soon the day before, lie let everybody for four seats around know that, ami lie kept telling; just what he was coining and Just how funny it would be when it did come. He had a pretty girl with him, and he was trying to amuse her. At length ho said: "Did you ever try listening to a play with your eyes shut? You've no idea how queer it seems." A middle-aged man with a red face sat just in front. He twisted himself about in his seat, and glared at tho young man. "Young man," he said, "did you ever try listening to a play with your mouth shut?" And the silence was almost painful. Washington Post. A Terror. Hulkots Don't yon think your sister will be awfully sorry to marry and leave a nice little boy like you? The Pet Yes. She said she'd a' got married a dozen times over If it hadn't boon for me. Smith, ilray & C'o.'s Monthly. Wo scarce get rid of Congress, With all its doings sad, When, presto! comes a baseball club That's really most as bad. Washington Star.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOGER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Samutary of th More Im. portant Dold; of Our Neighbor Wed. dings and Deaths Crimes, Cuouultio ituj General New Notes. Condensed Stute Xfwi. iMmi CUM v' talking alxmt buying the toll roads. Er.wooi gas company will lay an entire new system, costing $."o.o.n). Thuki: towns in Miami County are named Chili. Klenozer and Ci'.ead. FuANKFoitT has decided to put down brick pavement on its principal streets. Tim: resilience of .John Frcisheinier, a pioneer of Delaware county, was destroyed by tire. Mi:. Sai;i:, near I.oogootoo. accidentally fell in a barrel of water and was drowned. I!i hai:i IIakt. a Panhandle brakeman, was crushed to death by a switch engine at Pichmoud. .T. K. Worn-:, editor of the Terre Haute Journal, was found dead iu a bathtub. Heart disease. Cfouim: W. Kioai:. in Warren County, was alniot instantly killed in an accident at his saw -mill. Hf.xuv Ukp.mno. an Allen County farmer, was fatally injured in a runaway near Port Wayne. ) ai: H am. laborer, fell from a wagon at Lebanon, and was impaled on an iron rod, fatally injuring him. Siiienr.x Ini:.o;:v, a farmer east of IJrookhn, was found insane wandering over the streets at Hrooklv u. Aiimox Ai.ukktson, a fanner near Muncie. fell under ;i wagon loaded w ith tiling, and was instantly killed. Thomas lit "KT, a prominent Miami comity fanner, committed suicide by banging himself in the barn w ith a log chain. A i iiii.i of the late wid.tw Soo:miooro, of Star City, fell from the hotel porch, a dirdanc? of fourteen feet, and sutlered injuries which proved fatal. Tin: third gas company has jut leen organized at Farmland with .lames K. P. Cray, president: P. L. Wilson, secretary; A. W. Corners, treasurer. Pi:of. T. O. Mott. of Kichmond. suorintendent of the U aj :ie County Schools, has been eltcied to the superintend nc of the Madison. Ind., schools for next year. Tin: farmers of Wayne and Henry counties, mar Palion. are making an attempt to head oil robbers and thieves, llloodhouuds v. ill le purchased by popular subscription. Scott Stivfks. insane. Liberty, imagined Cod had ordered him to torture himself, and he gouged 1. wounds into his body with a knife. It tcok several eople to overpower him. May die. Mi:. I. A. Ch i ti k. cashier of the Farmers Hank, of Frankfort, has contracted with an Indianapolis linn for aten-thouaud-dol!ur mauolcun. to l erected on his lot at Crecnlawn Cemetery. .Toiix Ai.r.oMsox. lifty years old. while hauling tile to his farm new Farmland, his team mi away and the loa!-d wagon passed over hi liody. breaking his back and otherwise injuring him. He canu.t recover. " It is announced from Imralls that there are more families in town than there are houses, and some people are living i:i woodheds until houses can bo completed. In galls promises to have a relate of the boom fever. "lire k" Staxt.fv, of Logansport. Ind., is conducting a temperance campaign iu Hoonville. The mee tings have fairly 1k--j;ua ;sid over two hundred have signed the lotid at stanence pledge. A good citizen chili will be organized. 1m. Tnos. p,. I'::iiix; of Newcastle, widely know hi mcthodist circles, ft 11 into a extern, and was downed. IIewasi veins of age and had attained considerable prominence as a scientist. Was formerly a nevvspa'T man and later a law y er. Di:pa::i vi:xt Commander Shiveley. ot the C A. II.. has made kmiwn the following appointments made by him: Senior aid-de-camp, Henry C. Tinney. of Lafavctte: d.'partm.'nt inspector, .Joseph (Jill, of Washington: judge a lvcate, II. F. Williams, of Wabash: chief mustering oilier, A. F. Spaulding. of Wabash; colorbearer, C. M. Sailers, of Wabash. H wtism very much out of the ordinary was conferred on four babe at the First Presbyterian Chuch, Muncie, by l.'ev. Hays. A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. .John II. liaitlcy returned from a twelve months' trip to foreign lands, and while gone viited the Ui er .Tordan. Mr. llarllc secured a quant it y of water from the stream, and this was used by Lev. Hays in administering the sacred rites. lx a gas explosion, three miles north of Flwood, iree mi n. Tom Disler. Frank McCiiiire and William Catcs. were badly burned. It is thought all will recover. The explosion ccurred at a new ly-drilled gas well and the nun were engaged in packing it. The explosion wrecked the derrick and the well continued to burn long after the derrick was in ashes. The foreman of the gang of drillers, w hose names is Clav er, then rigged up some pipe , and connected the steam pipe with the gas well and succeeded in deluging the escaping gas v ith steam, extinguishing tin l'aine. Patfnts have been isued to the following jH-rsons in Indiana: Melvill I. Houdinot, Yiuccnnes, Wagon; Philip C. Decker, Anderson, means lor separating as and water or gas and oil; Wiulicld Dunckel, Terre Haute, tilting hoist: Asa II. Hovand II. I. Harris, said Hoy assignor to V. 11. I.ockwood, Indianapolis, alve lock; Walter A. Scott. Kvansx ille, gig saddle; Charlys X. Teetor, Muncie railway velocipede; Martin Wanner, YoiMovvn, process and apparatus for refrigeration; Dwight W. Williamson, F. .1. Milholland and C. A. Kessler, assignors to P. W. Williamson S; Co. and Adams V WiIliamson.lndianaKlis, pressure plate fer venevr cutting mac hines; .James .1. Wood, loit Wauie, electric fcwitch. .loux Smmii of Kokomo. went insane, and, after burning his clothing and furniture, tried to kill his wife and children, but the prompt arrival of the pelkv prevented the tragedy. Joux II i:r.i, a ycung man of Union City Mas killed by an elec tric light wire, .lust bow the accident happened w ill probably always remain a mystery, but it is supiosed that lie took hold of the cable which hold the street lamp, forming a short circuit, lhs screams attracted attention of pcoph) passing on the street, who say his body wai thrown a distance of fifteen feet. The accident happened only a few yards from hw home.