Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 May 1895 — Page 4

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Entered at the Plymouth Post Office as sei-oml-clats matter. A.Ii.ZlMMKKMANKiiToit am Pkovkiktok. sri:( iuption riMci:. One Year Six Months Tin: sugar trust has advanced the price of sujrar, anil Mr. Ilavcmeyer is kept busy explaining the reason. YV. II. IIauyky's address before the Illinois Club in Chicago, was the utterances of a patriotic American. Tin: chief thing which is bothering the democrats just now, and for that matter republicans too, is to decide of the "atness of their where," on the silver question. A (JliKAT deal of time has been spent to discover some remedy to exterminate the chinch bug. It now devolves upon the Ameiican people to discover some adequate and swift remedy to quash the gold bug. Tiik Wabash News, a populist paper, published by W. O. Shaffer, retired from the field of journalism last week. The 'ews stood up to the rack and fought for the populist party for seven months. The plant has been purchased by a syndicate, and a daily and weekly republican paper will be issued. It will be known as the Tribune. The Chicago Times-Herald seems to have a good time cartooning the poor workingman loaded down and bending under heavy loads of silver. How considerate these syndicate newspapers and capitalists are of the interests and feeling of the workingman. Their greatest fear just now is that he will have too much money, and he won't know what to do with it. Kx. Wi: have always been taught that in all things, "honesty is the best policy;' Yet we see those editors who are opposed to the free coinage of silver, reiterate Meek after week, a falsehood, in the statement that those in favor of free silver, are nionemetallists. We believe in, and advocate, a double standard. Tell the truth gentlemen, then your arguments may have some weight. Tiinni: should be nothing in the mere condition of party opposition, to cause personal animosity between political competitors and inspire contesting candidates with personal hatred. If any man of any party is put up for a public office, is what he ought to be, he should command the respect and esteem even of those who do not agree with his political views. Certainly there is no justification for the scurrility and low and personal abuse, which is so common with some people and some papers, against honorable men who are aspiring to positions of public honor. It is time this method of campaigning was shut down upon, and that the mudslinger was made a back number. It is time that men and papers who berate decent men who are candidates, as thieves and drunkards, etc., should be considered and made disreputable and unworthy of countenance or support Jas. R. Teller, commenting upon statements made by Prof. Laughlin, in the debate with W. II. Harvey, Friday evening last, gave some wholesome truths in Sunday's Inter Ocean. In closing his article he says: "The professor chooses to ascribe the present demand for bimetallism to the selfishness of mine owners and the dishonesty of debtors. If from his chair in the university he has obtained no broader view of the subject than this, he has sadly missed his opportunities. If he is honest in his opinion, it must be that he is ignorant of the world-wide movement toward bimetallism. Or does he think, perchance, that Ualfour, Lidderdale, Archbishop Walsh, and the host of statesmen and financiers in England and on the continent who are demanding the re-monetization of silver are in the pay of the mine owners? Are the British Parliament and the (ierman Reichstag also "bureaus for bulling the price of silver V" And what shall we say of those misguided economists, some of whom enjoyed a world-wide reputation as teachers, while our professor was an undergraduate, who are fighting the battle of bimetallism V Are they in league with the silver barons or with the dishonest debtors? Truly the cause of gold is weak when its defenders must needs violate the elementary principles of monetary science, deny facts which are patent to the whole world, and reduce the great question of standards to a matter of personal interest and motive in order to make a case in its support." What Is Sound Money? We are not among the misanthropic multitude who believe that all human beings, and especially those of the opposite political party, are selfish schemers. Uut we do believe that unless a man be exceptionally broad minded and liberal, his business associations and interests have a tremendous influence in shaping his views. This is especially

true of a man's views of the financial question, and yet there are many absolute sincere believers in the single standard who are not influenced by selfish reasons, but who, from lack of study and keen discriminative thought, have

jumped to the conclusion that what is so widely advertised as "sound" money must be sound. There is nothing the average business man detests so much as insecurity, and the gold advocates made a sharp, unpraise-worthy, political move when they appropriated the name "sound money" for their industry-destroying millionaire breeding plan. Uut there is no currency less stund inj reality than that which enables our private and national creditors to demand twice what they loaned, whether m products or in labor. The plan by which the "llim-Haur operator gets live hundred dollars for a gold brick may be eminently ''sound'' to him, but is is hardly sound for his victim. The hors-3 jockey who describes his wind broker., spavined horse to the unsophisticated purchaser as "absolutely sound" is not holding out any more elusive hopes than the man who describes the single gold standard as "the only sound money." It mav be sound enough for the man who has gold to keep locked away waiting for a rise, or loaned out on mortgages which he can afford to foreclose at a large profit, but there is no soundness in the continually appreciating basis for anyone else. The charge that the advocates of bimetal! i5ni are trying to "legislate value'' into anything is absolutely baseless and untrue. Value cannot be legislated into a thing. If anyone is trying to legislate value it is those financial tinkers who are trying to "maintain a parity" under conditions which make a parity impossible. The logical bimetallist desires nothing of the kind, he wants natural laws to govern the money supply of the world, and that is what he is working for. It is the golditrs who talk about making a dollar of the silver subsidiary coin "equal in purchasing power toany other dollar." The bimetallist does nothing of the sort. If anyone wants to give a horse or a diamond ring for a gold dol lar the bimetallist has no objections to offer, that is a matter of agreement and choice between purchase and seller. What the bimetallist claims and demands is that the debt paying power of each and every dollar of our currency shall be equal to that of every other dollar. So that having entered into an obligation a man may rest assured that his debt will neither increase or decrease except by the terms of the contract. Then when he has bought a horse or a house or a farm and agreed to pay for them in a certain length of time, he will know that, barring accident, by frugality and hard work at present prices of products he can pay his debt. This is sound money in the strictest sense, and the only sound money,andthe only way to attain it is by restoring our natural monetary system and the natural ratio established by many centuries of experiment. From the Farm, Field and Fireside. PLEASURE TRIPS. Whether the tourist's fane directs him to the Xew England States or the Atlantic soahoard; to the South; or to the lake region of the North: or to the Kot-ky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will he given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this year. There will be low rates to Baltimore over the Pennsylvania Lines iu May. account the American Medical Association; to Decatur, 111., account the ierman liaptist (Dunkard) meeting, and to Pittsburg for the Presbyterian (Jeneral Assembl . There will also be low rates over these lines to Meridian, Miss , account the (;eneral Assembl Cumberland Presbyterian Church the same month. In Juno excursion tickets will be sold over the Pennsylvania Lines to Omaha, account the National Jr. O. U. A. M.; to Chattanooga. Tenn., for the Internationalconvention of Epworth League; to Cleveland, Ohio, account the National Kepubliciin Ieauo Meeting, and to Hoanoke. Va., for the (ierman liaptist meeting. Excursions for duly include low rates over the Pennsylvania to lialtimore for the P.antist Y. 1. Union Meeting: toAsbury Park for the L. A. W. meeting, and to lioston for the Christian Endeavor Convention, and to Denver. Col , account the National Educational Association meeting. In August excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Poston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to meinWrs of the organization mentioned, but the public generally maytake advantage of them. The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Ing Pranch, and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pensylvania Lines, hence tins will be a desirable opHrtunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt through the far West, sis tickets will be honored going one way ami returning a different nude through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded lioston excursionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Kalis, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Kapids. the White Mountains, the Hudson ICiver territory, and to return by steamer on I-ong Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cane Cm1 resorts to New York, and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over tho Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve through historic Johnstown and the coke and irons of Western Pennsylvania, it Is also exiwotcd that lioston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via lialtimore and Washington if the so desire. In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions lu rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fa't may readily be ascertained ujMin application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing P. Van Di skv. Chief Assistant (ieneral Passenger Agent. Pittsburgh, Pa. Money to Loan. Am still prepared to loan money and furnish abstracts. Money at G and 7 per cent L. M. Lauer.

FROM MANY FIELDS.

The carrier pigeon has just been turned to a curious use in Russia. It is to convey negatives of photographs taken in a ballo n. Unc'e Tom Cotton of Ilrown field. Main., attributes his Ool health at ci?hy-six to the fact that he never had one o' them new-fangled stoves in his house. Farm h:nls in Kast Tennessee, staked an I sohl to tenlerfeet in city lots at SI 00 the f ot front, are now plowed airain by the farmeri who attended the forclosure sales. Dr. Fortiner of Camden, X. J., died recently of pnetmon'a. lie was made especially susceptible to the disease by a bunch of to th-bru-h bristles that had lol j.-d in his throat. The total exst of the San Francisco Youn Men's Christian association buiidin? is g.'JNO)). The lot cost $10.-,n.j, the bail linjr 8.'0i,0J) and the gymnasium outiit an I interior furnishing sm, 00 ). In Maryland alone there are twentysix prrain distilleries an I thirty fruit distilleries, all reister .d and operated during the past fiscal year. In the state there were pro lueed 2.1,2'.)$ gallons of apple brandy and 47,231 gallons of pjach brandy. A dog standing thirty-nine inches high and weighing 13. pounds as big as a good-size I calf, is owned by L. T. Wilson of Catlettsburg, Ky. It is a German deer hound, of the same species as liismirck's two favorites and is only twelve months old. According to Invent'on, a building has recently been erected by Herr Wagner, an architect at Limburg, solelj'of materials forme I of ashes, without an' mixture oi sand. It is claimed that hard, natun.l stones of almost every variety have been successfully imitated with this very cheap material. A nine-penny shinplaster, bearing date of April, 1777, a specimen of probably the oldest United States money in exist ?nee, was found between the leaves of an old history recentlj' by J. X. Hooker of liartow, Fla. The bill was printed by John Dunlap of Philadelphia, and has printed on one side the warning: "To counterfeit is death." INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. It is discouraging to a newly married man to sear his conscience praising hU blushing- little wife's first cake, and then have her tell him she got it at the baker's. "The Old Woman of the Woods' is the name given a queer character in Tennessee. It i- a woman who is partiaily demented, and who roams the country at all hours of the day and night, sometimes talking to herself, and then frightening children with her shrieks. A loreigner not absolutely certain of all the shades of meaning in our English words, recently attended a reception at Vassar college, at which the young ladies of tho institution were arrayed in all the bewildering beauty of evening toilettes. Said he to the president, "I have before never seen so grand a sight as those young ladies in their night gowns." The fire department of Jacksonville, Fla., was turned out the other day to put out t2 burning pain in a woman's finger. While cooking the woman mashed her finjer, and ran out of the house shrieking "Fire!" A man who happened to be by started off at her first 3'ell and turned in an alarm of fire, which brought the engine and hose wagons to the scene on a gallop. The firemen helped tho woman swear some and went back to their quarters. A lawyer was cross-questioning a negro witness in one of the justice courts at Macon, Ga., the other day, and was getting along fairly well until he asked the witness what his occupation was. Tse a carpenter, sah." "What kind of a carpenter?" "They call me a jack-leg carpenter, sah." "What is a jack-leg carpenter?" "He is a carpenter who is not a first-class carpenter, sah." "Well, explain fully what ycu understand a jack-leg carpenter to be," insisted the lawyer. "Boss, I declare I dunno how ter splain any mo' 'cept to say hit am jes' the same difference twixt you an' er fust-class lawyer." ANIMATE NATURE. In each wing of the ostrich twentysix long white plumes grow to maturity in eight months. In the male these are pure white, while those of the female shade to ecru or gray. In the whole range of the Alps there are but two peaks which measure more than 15,000 feet in height, and only six or seven that go above 14,000. In the Himalaya range, however, there are thousands of titanic cloud-piercing peaks ranging from 29,000 feet downward. The smallest living colt ever foaled in the United States made its appearance in Hartford City, Ind., in 1SS9. When two days old it only measured nine inches from the mane tcthe root of the tail; was only 21 inches high, and weighed but 27 j pounds. It was of the Shetland breed. Thousands of camels were taken to Western Australia from India and the camel caravan has largely supplanted the bullock team there. They thrive upon tho natural shrubs of. the country, such as salt brush, wattle, acacia and inulga. They breed well, and the native are better than the imported. Sportsmen who have never seen a moose will bo interested in the dimensions of one recently killed near the Ebeerae lakes in Xorthern Maine. The animal measured seven feet high at the shoulders and his body was nine feet long. The measurement from his nose to his hind feet was fifteen feet The spread of his horns was four feet four inches.

H. B. REEVES, Justice of the Peace, OVEK NUSSBAVM & MAYEK. PLYMOUTH, IND. CoUertions promptly and caref ulh attended to. Insurance Ayent. JOHN S. BENDER, Attorney at Law, PLYMOUTH, INI). orr.re over Shofiiuikt'i's INMittirant. Will pro!ii;.i!y.'attc:i l to all Ihin'uu'-s intruded to him in the line of his profusion. The Day Of glittering gold in the mouths of the people is rapidly giving way to the more modern and certainly more harmonious and durable Poceloin Mino and Bi i it. DR. DURR'S Xewly patented System of applying this work is a revelation to all who desire their teeth preserved and restored to theirjiatural whiteness. Call at the Model Dental Parlors, PLYMOUTH.

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ü P J b AVhy will you slave and wear your precious lives away on that old wash board, when I El La L has The Uest Washer on Earth for the small sum of 6.50. lie is sole agent for Marshall county. Deny yorrselves anything else but procure one of these valuable washers at once. lo Porte !ü Genler SM. Itemember, also, when you get this washer, you have the best on earth. The finest line of Canned G oods you over saw, at the lowest prices you ever heard of are found on the shelves of . Ms Grocery, Elegant Dryed Peaches, Apricotts, Apples and everything that is good to eat in that line. Currants, Prunes and Raisins that will make your mouth water. Come and be convinced. sMeat Market A full line of Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats. Try our home made Bologna and AYcinerwurst. Highest price paid for Fat Stock. All orders promptly delivered.

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Corset

We are now prepared to show a complete line of Corset Covers, comprising all the latest designs for the coming season, and at extraordinary prices. We also show an enormous line of Summer Corsets. In buying so largely, we necessarily bought at most advantageous rates at these same corresponding low prices we will sell them.

Qeets

At the beginning of this season, we recognized that this summer would be a regular " sweater " season. With this in view, we provided most amply with a large assortment of Sweaters, durable and desirable. Just such an article that the u bike " rider will crave for.

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The celebrated Coach Horse, will be kept for this season at Porter's livery and feed barn. For further particulars call and see either M. Allman, or Sylvester Lovell.

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