Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1895 — Page 3

OMK people may think It the ; easiest thins: in the world to write a letter, but graceful letter-writing is an art; and it Is an undeniable fact that, notwithstanding the superior educational advantages of the present time, comparatively few women of the period can write a well-expressed note. The construction is apt to be awkward, and the whole production lacking in that indescribable stamp of culture which the note of a well-bred woman ought to possess. It is hard to say just how thia state of affairs has been brought about, for certainly this most essential part of a young woman's education has of late been apparently neglected. Thirty or more years ago note-writing was an accomplishment; to be sure, the diction was then somewhat labored and the style verbose, but every well-educated woman understood the art of writing letters and notes. It may be that the higher brandies of education are today deemed of more Importance, and that the student's time is too engrossed "with them to attend to what may be termed the purely womanly accomplishments. In these days, when two or three hastily written pages take the place of the old-fashioned six or eight pages, note-writing should reach a tatc of perfection; and it is to be hoped that teachers and parents will become conscious of this need in modern education, and that the next generation of girls will be proficient in it. Facility of expression and readiness of diction should receive particular attention in a school course, and practice notes on every conceivable subject should be frequently written. Let more attention be paid to composition and less to the modishness of the handwriting. Let that be natural; it matters little whether the style be angular, round, large or small, so long as it be legible. If there are any who doubt that note-writing is a lost art let him New Styles in look over a dozen or more notes of invitation, regrets and acceptances written by debutantes and the average society woman. They are for the most part loose and crude. Verbosity is tiresome, but it is preferable to brevity that amounts to curtness. An ablo rhetorician once said: "If you have not time enough to write a letter or invitation correctly do not write it at all." Higher education has its great advantages, but young women wrote better notes in the daj's of less pretention-; home training and governesses. Tlic Wheeling Women. j VJ I L H'uuy On came they, the loveliest throng in the world, Their banners of faith and allegiance unfurled, Ilent low every knee, upraised every eye To their star of deliverance far up In the sky. American Wheelman. Furniers and Their Wives. There is no question that some farmers wives have a hard time. I am not speaking of farmers' wives as a class. They not only have to do all the household work, which is often too much for one woman to perform, but quite frequently too much outdoor and barn work. I say the farmer should take a great deal better care of his wife than of his team. I am not sure that he always does. There is one thing the husband can do if he Is poor, and tint Is to be kind and affectionate to his wife, -ays a writer in the MIror and Farmer, for even If she has to work "hard the work will seem lighter If she knows it Is appreciated, and that her husband still loves and aDuredates

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The fanner should be courteous to Lis wife, yet sciue are far from being so. you would think, if you could her.r them talk to their wives and scold them. Tluv d.m't appreciate what they do for them and for their comfort. "When going to your won Tor the day, won't a kiss, a loving smile or a few affectionate words cause her to have better spirits all the time she is alone, and won't she be glad to see you when your work is done? I think so. It is well worth trying. Let r.s try to make life more cheerful and happy for our wives. Then we shall lind more enjoyment and prolit in farm life and farming. There is no place where kindness and gentle words pay as well as in home life. The farmer should be kind and gentle with all of his stock, but his wife claims more and should receive it. Won't she appreciate it, though! The Wide Skirt Must Go. Our prayers have been answered! The heavy, widely-distended skirts will very soon be a thing of the past. They are an abomination and ought never to have been allowed to become fashionable. Why, it would take four hands to manipulate the folds in such a way as to keep the skirt out of the dust, and when a woman tries to accomplish the task with two her gown is soon forgotten in her cramped lingers, and she gives It up in despair. How anything so totally limit to be worn in the street ever became a fashion is a mystery to everyone, except, perhaps, those who manufacture the hair-cloth. But physicians have denounced the heavy linings s injurious to health, and this, with the good sense of long-suffering and heroic women who have patiently tried to endure the burden for fashion's sake, has brought about a decided reaction against them and the heavy skirt must go. First of Her Sex to Get the Office. Miss Celine Gray, of Cuthrie, Ok., has the honor of being the lirst woman Bathing Dressen. appointed as a United States Commissioner. In business circles it is well known that Miss Gray is in every way capable. T mf ;. Spotted esprit net in loth black and white is used for i?ck rull'es. Skirts remain straight and round, with godet and organ pipe backs. The newest materials for costumes are alpaca and bareges of the old kind j revived. Double-breasted traveling capes when opened and thrown back reveal re vers of velvet or corded silk. A fetching cotton fabric, showing fancy stripes on dark and light blue grounds, is known as marine twill. The general revival of wash material for gowns will be an Interesting phase of the summer world of fashion. All bouffant effects should be left entirely to the thin woman, who needs them and can wear them with good re- ! suits. Patent-leather shoes, with black stockings and tan shoes with stockings to match, are the reigning styles of the season. Hats of combination straw and satin braid are trimmed with bands and ro settes or standing bows of the same pliable fancy braid. Tall women may wear long capes with good results, but those who are short or of medium height should wear them much shorter. (Jarden hats for the coming summer are better named than ever, since on top and sides is a horticultural diss, play marvelous to look upon. Lace on the. stylish shoulder capes by means of stiff linings is made to stand out after the manner of quills upon an offended porcupine. White duck suits are to continue In vogue, but not the cheap, domestic duck. The material that comes over the sea will have the preference. New silk waists of Rob Itoy plalded taffeta silk are made with plaited I ironts, mas yoite uacss, iuu eiuow sleeves, and velvet stock collar. A recent Imported French grass efcdh Id made over a china rose silk, the Intense glowing hue of the lining giving the entire cown a roseate tint

COST OF OUli GOLD.

ABSURD THEORY ADVANCED BY YELLOW METAL MEN. The Favorite Stock Argument of the Single Gold Standard Advocates-In-tcmatinnal Bimetallism la Dead Time to Drop Such Talk. Cost of Gold. The favorite stock argument of the advocates and defenders of the single gold standard is what may be called '"the cost of production" theory. It runs about this way: First, that gold is a commodity, the value of which Is governed and fixed by the same factors which control the values of ail other commodities, to-wit: cost of production and supply and demand. Second, that gold would have the same exchange value it now has if it did not have coinage privileges and was not used as money. Third, in Prof. La ugh -liu's language: "If this explanation of value be kept clearly in mind, it will De easy to see why a government stamp on money cannot fix its value. The stamp, certifying that a gold coin contains Jo.'J2 grains of pure gold, is not all that is needed to give to the gold an exchange value; nor is it oven an essential. Hold would have a value even if it were never stamped. The stamp Is only a convenience to save weighing and assaying at eveiy use of gold." It would seem unnecessary to continually expose this absurd theory, and yet such a course seems unavoidable, from the fact that the argument thus advanced Is the citadel of the? money power the "last ditch." as it were. Noticing, very briefly, the "supply and demand" argument, it will be sufficient to state that for the past ten j ears we have produced an average 'supply" of 0,000,000 ounces annually, while the "demand," for use in the arts, has been about one-half, or 3,000,000 ounces annually. With no other "demaud" except that of the useful arts, gold would be worth less than the cost of production; but hero it is that the "demand" for monetary purposes intervenes, and by affording an unlimited market, at a fixed price, for all surplus "supply," renders it impossible for any gold to be obtained for use in the arts at less than its money value, as fixed by the coinage laws. So much for "supply and demand." And what about "cost of production?" Relative to the cost of producing a gold dollar, W. F. Kendrick, of Denver, Col., says: "The cost of producing one dollar, coinage value, in silver from some of our great silver mines of Colorado has been so often given at from cents to ."0 cents that I give the following as the, in most cases, actual, and in other cases closely approximated, cost of producing one dollar, coinage value, in gold from a number of our great gold mines. Since the 1st of January the cost of producing one dollar in gold from the Independence mine is 4 cents; the Victor mine for the past two years, 29 1-3 cents; the Portland mine for nine months, including heavy development work and new machinery, 30 cents; the Bogart mine for the month of March, when they first encountered ore, 3 cents; the Isabella mine for the year 1804. including the expense of labor troubles, doing development work and new machinery, 31. cents. The cost of producing gold in the Union, Klkton, Moose, American Kagles, Little Johnnie, Tom Hoj and a number of other mines of the State, will average with those above given. Ookl is produced from our large gold mines at much less cost on the dollar than silver from any silver mine ever opened in Colorado." Confronted with these facts, our goldbug friends come to the front with a statement like tins: "Old miners -men who have had from thirty to forty years active experience 'ti gJd-mining say that to take all the money received from gold mines and place it on one side of a pair of scales, and take all the money that has been expended in prospecting and working unprofitable mines and place it on one side of a pair of scales and very nearly a balance would result." What nonsense! Why not apply the same argument to silver? or fish? If all the fruitless efforts expended and time wasted in fishing were computed and taken into account in affixing the price of fish, none but very rich people could afford to cat fish. And if the cost of all the labor and seed expended in the fruitless efforts to raise wheat, In casts where the crop fails, were added to the price of the wheat that is produced, to what heights would the price of wheat soar? There Is nothing In the gold-bug's argument. Silver and Prices. A Western man writes to the New York Herald that an Alabama mechanic recently gave him something to tllink about in connection with the silver question. It seems that the tourist put this question to the Alabamian: What is the difference to you If we have the single gold standard? The prices of all the staple commodities needed by you are reduced in price in proportion to the reduction in the volume of primary money, the measure of values. Cutting silver out has reduced the price of Hour here to $3.73 per barrel, and here, where It is raised, you can buy cotton at 5 cents per pound. These are the chief staples you require for food and clothing. In reply the mechanic gave his views as follows: When Hour was from $10 to $14 per barrel and cotton worth from 10 to 12 cents per pound I always had plenty of money with which to buy flour and clothing; now It Is difficult for me to raise sufficient to bti a barrel of Hour when needed, and I have to gc short on

clothing. When prices were high money was plenty and everyLody was constantly employed nt goof wages. Now employment is very uncertain. Mechanics not altogether cut off from work do not have steady employment, and they find it uillicult to secure- the bare necessaries of life. The manufacturers and agriculturists who favor the reduction of the life Mood of commerce, real money, to the smallest volume possible, are cutting their own throats, for they are reducing, in proportion, the consumption of their products, and the same may be said of the mercantile class, who have the handling of these products. The Western man says that his observation convinces him that the mechanic Is more than half right. Undoubtedly, the Alabamiau's statements will be indorsed by wage workers all over the country. Their experience has taught them that under the gold standard they have less money, less work, fewer comforts and hard times all the year round. It is impossible for a theory to wipe out the condition which confronts the people.

Wc Have Them. We mean the "dollar the daddies." We have one of 1710. one of 1S0O and one of PSiXJ. On one side is the head of the national goddess, over which is the word "Liberty," under it the date, and surrounding on the sides seven and six stars. On the other side is the spread e;igle, equipped with shield, arrows and olive branch, and bearing iu its beak the motto, "i: pluribus unum," overhead being thirteen stars and surrounded by United States of America." On the edge instead of the corrugated milling of the present coin are the words sunk in the metal in this form: "One dolIarorunit IIuudred cents." These dollars settle the question for our specimens cover ten years of coinage after the enactment of the law. It is a well-known axiom of law that "profert" is the highest form of evidence, as in the case of the fellow who was brought before the court for stealing a hog. The defense set up a question as to the age, color and other description, and of course great uncertainty was created. At last the hog itself was brought into court and that settled the case. Or "profert" was made of the hog. It will be remembered that in the debate between "Coin" and Prof. Laughlin the question was discussed as to what was the unit of value under the first coinage law of the United States. This question was tried to be settled by the terms of the law, and while to silver men it is clear and certain, yet the gold men resorted to quibbling and higgling over words, so that all who didn't want to be convinced took advantage of the manufactured confusion in the construction of the words. But when the old dollar was discovered, designed and coined by the men who made the law we find the dollar, like the hog, settling the question beyond controversy by profert of the dollar in court. No honest man can now higgle over what the law of 1793 meant when it said an eagle of gold should bo the denomination of "ten dollars, or units" for the unit by superscription of Caesar was the silver dollar so stamped upon it and there to-day. This fact, too, emphasizes another fact: That the transfer of the "unit of value" from the silver to the gold dollar, and creating -a gold dollar coin at tne same time, was, as charged, the result of a conspiracy. It could not, with this "unit" silver dollar staring them in the face, have been anything else. So much has been gained to the discussion of the question by the production of the coined dollar itself. It is now simplified to the issue of setting aside deliberately the unit coin of the nation for eighty years and placing the money of the people in the hands and control of the usurers of the world, who own the gold of the world. It robs the people of their money. Kansas City Journal. Silver and Prosperity. The improvement in business reported from various portions of the country has had its natural effect In leading to increase of wages In many factories and mills, but this increase la still tar short of making up the reductions of the past two years. As the prospect for the reinstatement of silver to its historic place continues to improve, business keeps pace with It step by step. The claim has been made by goldbug organs that better time; will kill the agitation for free coinage. They are mistaken, for the masses of the people well understand that to the agitation is due the more buoyant tone manifested in the business world. Could the announcement be made tomorrow that free coinage of silver will never be established there would be an Immediate collapse, and within six months we would probably witness another financial crisis as disastrous to the country as that of 1S03. If silver sentiment continues to advance with the giant strides that have marked its progress during six months we shall see a measureable rise toward prosperity even before a free coinage law can be actually enacted. Time to Drop It. The time has come to drop the talk of International bimetallism. That Is all right as far as It goes, and every blmctalllst favors It, of course, but before wc reform Europe and attempt tc dictate a financial policy to the rest of the world, let us begin our reformation at home by the establishment of an American policy. Kven according to the gold me4i such a course will force Europe to follow our policy. Wc cannot do better than to proclaim a program of America for the Americans In finances as well a3 in other matters.

RUNNING THE MONADNOCK.

A Memorable Trip with the Monitor to the Pacific Ctast. Commodore Puuce, or, as he will bo known while ho commands the North Atlantic station. Hear Admiral Dunce, made a very remarkable voyage away back in 1SGU It was just after the Mose of the war, and monitors were not very well known iu thu Foafarkig vorld; iu fact, they had never been used, except In the United States. Mr. liunce, then a lieutenant commander In the navy, had command of the monitor Monadnock, which sailed from tho Delaware capes around Cape Iloru to Pan Francisco. She was not the Monadnock of to-daj, for she was a wooden hull, and of different dimensions, although the present ship is modeled i after her, and is the old Monadnock re built. This vessel was convoyed by the Vauderbilt, a big side-wheeler, loaned to the Government for the purpose of running down and destroying the rebel ram Merriuiac (but which never got the opportunity), the Pow hattan and the Tuscarora. This fleet was under the command of Commodore John Kodgers, and was quite a for:niI-able-looklng squadron for those days. At every point on the route where the fleet stopped the monitor was the marvel of the people, and especially of ihe eanien. The British sailors had heard something- of monitors, but had never seen one like this. She was only abut eighteen inches above water, and her heavy armament looked as if it might sink her in a gale. An officer who was aboard the Vauderbilt said that in the heavy seas and gales off Cape Horn they would occasionally loe the Powhattan and Tuscarora, but they never lost sight of the Monadnock. Lieutenant Commander Bunce answered every signal and handled the craft like the true seaman he was. Mr. Bunce, and iu fact all the American sailors, lost an opportunity for a nice little brush with Spain which they hoped to have and which at one time looked as if they were to enjoy. Spain had never recognized the independence of Chili, and out of t Iiis and a hot-headed .Spanish admiral grew a difficulty which brought on the now almost forgotten Chilian-Spanish war. The squadron commanded by Commodore Ilodgc-rs was in Valparaiso when tho Spanish fleet bombarded that place. It was just before the bombardment that the admiral iu command of the English fleet and Mr. Ilodgers determined that it should not take place, or that the combined American and British fleets would lie between the city and the Spaniards, and if hostilities were begun attack the Spaniards. Before this plan was carried out, however, the British Minister advised the Admiral not to Interfere, and he so notified Ilodgers. The Commodore pulled his fleet out to sea, and a very disappointed lot of officers and sailors saw the bombardment. It has always been a very delicate question whether the Commodore should have attempted to prevent the bombardment. Without the aid of the Englisji he would have had what sailors term a "bully tight," and peiiiaps have lost his fleet. The most disappointed of the officers was Lieutenant Commander Bunce. He wanted very much to try his little monitor. There was metal worthy of him in the Spanish fleet, too. the Numancia, an iron-clad, heavy for those days. Four to six inches of iron over her made her look quite formidable. But the Monadnock carried fifteeninch guns, and the plan of her battle had been carefully arranged. She was to get right under the Spanish ironclad, where she would be out of range of her guns, and then fill the Spaniard with heavy lifteen-inch cannon shot. However, he was not to have the honor of testing a monitor on a foreign foe in ins younger days. Perhaps before his present command expires he may have an opportunity to try some vessels of our new navy in actual warfare. The officers on board the Vanderbilt expected to have a part In the fight. The plan for the ship was to run down one of the enemy's vessels. It was I thought that if she accomplished this much she would have done well. It was not believed that she would stand for a moment against any heavy firing, but she couldhave been put to the use for which she was originally loaned to the Covernment. The Vanderbilts afterward gave the ship to the (Jovcrnment. The Government kept her for a short time and then sold her to a firm of three brothers in San Francisco. This firm called her "The Three Brothers," shipped a cargo of wheat in her to Liverpool, and made enough on it the iiit trip to pay for her. She is said to be tied up somewhere now on the Pacific coast and used for storage. Commodore Bunce, also on this voyage, with the others of the squadron, saw Spain bombard Calloa, Peru. Spain was in the business of bombarding the Spanish-American towns In South America in those days. The men who were with the squadron say that Mr. Bunce was the ideal young officer of the navy in those days. He was never so cool ami collected, and yet so eager, as when discussing the plan of battle and suggesting and accepting the share he was to have In it. The survivors of that trip around the Horn are very glad Mr. Bunce is to have the best command afloat In the navy, and In memory of the days when he took the monitor around Cape Horn they are glad that he has in his squadron the fastest and best ships afloat In any navy. Washington Post Wyld See that woman sitting alone in tho corner? That's Miss Antique, the lecturer. The women rave about her. but I don't think she thoroughly grasps her subject. Mack What Is It? ! Wyld-Men.-Brooklyn Life. (J rant Can it be possible that HawLtn 1 In Wo with that fat trirl? Whr. I she weighs 300 at least Hobbs No; 1 I don't believe he's in love; he's Just laI fatuated. Boston Courier.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. IThat Oer Neighbors Are Dolnj Matter of Jfriieml and Looa! Interest Marriages and DfAths Accidents and Crime. Pointers About Oar 0cn I'coplo. Minor State Nrnrj. Jonx rUAiv. a school teacher ol Hockport, was drowned while l.athin- ia the Ohio Ilivcr. Jonx C. IIi:ir:i: of N'yir.our, shot himself in the head witli a Uvcaliber revolt er. Financial troubles. Hkxmucksox Ii: .steck barns at Kewanua burned, together with a famous stallion. Loss $!.".OG0. Du. S. W. L'mviNs of Klwood. lias ben appointed medical examiner of the Indiana militia for Madison County. Miss Ci.ai:a IJ. Xkm.v, cf Ft. Wayne, was turned sevoreh . Her clothing caught fire from a living bit of burning pajer. Mns IvTi::t :c Prr fy of Wabash, was fatally burned by her clothing cat eh m. lire flora a gas stove, she is TÖ tears old. Tiiim:e valuable horses N-longing to Jesse Heard, i:ear Xeedliam's Station, were poisoned one night recently by unknown person. K. .1. Com. ixs, colored, of Indianapolis, was kilkd by an Erie train near NobLvsville. He is supposed to have fallen from the train. j CorxTi:nri:iT silver dollars of umisally I good finish are circulating in several towns j in Montgomery County, a:il then? is nuch complaint. L. I). Kr.PTiNfiKi:. employed in a sawmill at Loogootee. was dangerously hurt by a flying fragment of wood thrown o:f a circular saw. Tin: work of erecting Hie North Baltimore glass factory buildingsat Albany lias commenced. There will be eight buildings mid two smelters. IirnoLAn entered William Sumption's residence at Muncie w hile the family were seated in front, and stole diamonds and jewelry valued at 510). FKF.n Wfidkli., aged IS, was killed in a Michigan City saw -mill, by a piece of timber which rebounded from a circular saw and struck him on the breast. Tiik orchards in Washington Township, Harrison County, are bending and breaking so heavily are the fruit trees loaded. The estimated value of the lruit crop is placed at S"i"0,(!o0. Mns. Thomas Li:wi, wife of a coal miner of Ilrazil, has been notified that she is heiress to $10D.0;:) l,y the death of an uncle at San Francisco, from uhonisl.e had not heard for CO years. Capt. J. F. Fi:i: of tlreon castle. hasleen appointed by ov. Matthews Major of the First liattallion, First llegiment Infantry, I. X. (;., to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major 11. P. Corniek. Mf.i.i. IJmoxk, jr., aged 22, a brakoman cn the middle division of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, was struck by the spout of the water tank at Brownstown, knocked from the car, and his skull fractured, lie will die. llr.xr.v Kmmf.i.max, a clerk at J. L. Moore's wholesale grocery, in Indianapolis, was literally scalji'd by a freight elevator. He was leaning over the shaft when the elevator descended. His skull was laid bare from his forehead to the back of his head. Bkx.iamix Dcoi.ixo, of Vincennes, fooled with a revolver, and there was an accidental discharge of the weapon, the lullet lodging in the shoulder of Bichardson Davidson. Davidson was dangerously hurt and he was removed to Kecnsburg, 111., where Ids ieople live. CitAHi.F.s Tiikxxks of Michigan City, who operated a saloon in his hotel with the door opening on a small alley, and who was ii i rested under the Nicholson law, has been acquit'.ed, the jury holding that the alley was a highway sufficiently within the meaning of the law. W. F. Bnow x, of Bochester, and Lyman Evans, "trusties'' in the prison South, upon being sent to the prison gar Jen for Vegetables, took advantage oftheoppoitunity to escape. They were accompanied to the garden by Cal Arnistrcng, the defaulting County Treasurer of Tipton, but he refused to join in ihe 1'ight. Tin: Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Prison have p.sad the following appointments: Chaplain, the Blv. A. L. Curry of Noblest ille: ) hys;ci;:n. Dr. Spinning, Covington: steward. D. S. Dutbin, Indianapolis. Warden ilariey is authority for the statement that United States convicts w ill net be remoted to Leavenworth prison. Batkxi.s have been issued to the follow ing Indiana inventors: Bussel W. (iuilford, assignor to Auburn iron works, Auburn. Ind., steamer engine; Harvey B. Harris, Michigan Citv, moistener and paper weight; Frederick T. Wright Foit Wayne, assignor cf one-half to J. X'. X'eal, Cold Waier, Mich., wire fence; .lohn F. Snapp, Frichton, lire alarm device; Wm. S. Taylor, Benssebur. hog ringer; .lohn A. Wright, Indianapolis, tack catch r for bicycles. Isaac Ooodmax. leader cf the notorious floodman gang, was released from the Prison North on a pardon by (lov. Matthews, and returned to Anderson. He is now OS years of age. He received his training under the guerrilla Quantrell, iu Kansas. In INiVJ he came to Indiana and organized a gang. He educated his son Dick in this line, and they headed the gang, which made nightly raids, and plundered everything within fifty miles. His house was made a depository. He entertained no one, and hi house, which set back oiX of the roads, was not invaded by callers of any kind. His fortune continued to grow, Tintil he was worth $RK),000. The-gang was roundi'd up at Summittville two years ago, a ml in the light that followed Dick Coodman wps shot and all were taken prisoners. The gang was sent up for nine years. Isaac's year3 and failing health, and the fact that his w ife was rapidly sinking, secured the pardtm. He cannot last long. Dick, w ho w as shot se veral times in the Sunimitlville tight, is in the hospital, dying. TiiFiin is a hermit living in thr Pat ok a Biter bottoms, near Heyden, who calls himself Bill Cox. He tells a story in offen that years ago his family died until none was left but himself, and then . mysterious voice whispered ia his car that his life was in danger, and that he must leave the State at once. Thereupon he returned to Indiana, and finding this secluded spot in the Patoka Biter bottoms, he erected a rude little cabin, and thero he has remained in seclusion ever since, subsisting on roots, berries and small garnet lie belivcs that his hermit way of living is an atonement for crime, cf which ha refuses to speak.