Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 August 1895 — Page 5

ABOUT THE HARMONS

ATTORNEY-GENERAL A HAPPY MAN DOMESTICAL LY. lr. Vlarmnn Will Us nn Acquisition to Capital Society Their Three Pnughters To Live at a Hotel liiso to lame. (Cincinnati Correspondence ) TTOirXHY General Harmon will live at tho Arlington in Washington. Prcsi1 e n Cleveland's selection of s-uch a dark horse- as Judge Harmon n r mi s e d the cunosity and Snr n'j-v- ..f tl-..- i tr.t . V of tli- c .unti-y.ni n t m fröre, party o msideration. to learn something about thnew head of t'.i depart men t of justice. A life-long resident of this city, wlicnho Iia:- won fame and fortune as a !.nvyer. and where ho ha 5. as a citizen. t stablished a public-spirited, reputation. Judge Harmon's career --f nies the old adHRf- that 'a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.' 1U life hat; been a useful and successful one, and in his profession no lawyer stands hi-!. or at the Hamilton county bar than he. lie is the senior member of the law firm of Harmon, Colston. Goldsmith & Hoadly. Formerly a law partner of ex-Governor Iloadly.that connection was brokn up when (governor Hoadly went to New Yorl;, and the present partnership was formed, a s-on of - 4M JUDSON HARMON", ATTORNEY GENERAL. Governor Hoadly becoming Junior member of the firm. Judge Harmon relinquished a seat on the superior court bench to resume the practice of lav,-. The firm with which he Is connecter! has become pre-eminently successful in the courts as railroad and corporation lawyers, monopolizing, indeed, the ?rrc,ntr niinil'iT of cases of this character brought in the Cincinnati courts for adjudication. In ?hort. no law firm in Cincinnati, and few n Ohio, stand higher. Rut It is not alone as a lawyer that Jude Harmon h?s made his impress upon this community. His business, as engrossing as it is. has not prevented ; nim from manifesting public spirited interest in the affairs of the city, county and state. During Governor Campbell's administration he sided with the governor tn his controversy with the board of public Improvements.ar.d won the denunciation of the "gang" clement of his own party. He fearlessly denounced political corruption, though his party in Hamilton county suffered in a spoils foii?p by the exposure he made of prang methods. In this fight, bitterly waged, he won the enmity of spoilsmen, but th contest secured for him the esteem of the better element of his own party and the praise of tho law-abiding without regard to party. It was this contest that first brought Judge Harmon conspicuously before this community, and he became subsequently Hamilton county's "favorite son" for th Democratic nomination to succeed Governor Campbell, but he discountenanced this effort of friends and admirers to politically promote him. He preferred the certainties of the law to the chances of politics. In politics a Democrat, Judge Haimon was led into th Democratic fold through the Greeley movement of 1S72, following Governor Hoadly and other MRS. JUDSON HARMON, prominent Ohioans into the movement, and then drifting into the Democratic party. His first vote was cast in 1SHS. Consistently a Democrat since uniting with the party. Judge Harmon's views on the issues of the day are well known. President and attorney general will be found in accord on the tariff and financial questions, and general policy ,f the administration. Without any ambition to hold office or expectation of preferment at the hands of the President, his appointment being a veritable surprise. Judge Harmon his all along ben outspoken in his indorsement of President Cleveland's stand for dear money. He condemns the present tariff law, seeing in it a distasteful compromise. He favored the Wilson bill as it originated in the house of representatives. He approves of the supreme court's decision in the income tax rase, and declares the income tax "a rder that it was well to unhorse." Having made a reputation and fortune as a corporation lawyer. Judge Harmon If regarded as an authority on trusts, and is credited with views on tMs vital subject that may thus be surnr.'.irized: The law 'regulating as well as "uthotizing trusts Is veil established. Many trusts have been declared legal,

and the mere combination of capital Is not necessarily a breach of the law. Each trust presents distinctive and special features, and must be specially considered that its standing and relations may be established according tc lav. In favor of "tariff reform." a civil service reformer and a gold money man, the new attorney general is a man after the President's own heart, and Mr. Cleveland could not have selected a man mor? likely to accord with his views had he searched the country over. Mr Cleveland and his new attorney general haw met casually, and Judge Harmen"? name was presented to the President for the successorshlp of Judgq Paxtor on th United States Circuit court bench, a position to which Judge Jackson, of Tennessee, was afterwards a p pointed. Judge Harmon is a genial, though dignified man. and very popular. He is : years old and has passed all his life in this city, being the son of a former Btptist (rsyman well known and esteenH.; in this community. In person i: l. strong and healthly. handsome and af'fabl: and. being a large man, with fire head and clean shaved face, with the exception of a heavy iron gray mustache. Judge Harmon presents an attractive and commanding appearance. In his domestic relations, Judge Harmon i most happily situated. He has a wife, a handsome and highly cultivated woman, who will be an acquisition to society in Washington, and three daughters. Mrs. Edmund Wright, of Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth, a young and attractive lady In society, and Marjorie, still a schoolgirl. T. E. HORTON.

.lutia T"Hrl Howe. Few names of women are more widely known than that of Julia Ward Howe. ayist. poetess, philanthropist and public speaker She was born in New York City. May 27, 1819. her parents bing Samuel Ward and Julia Cuttle Ward. Her ancestors included the Hturaenot Marions, of South Carolina, Governor Sam Ward, of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams, the apostle of religious tolerance. Her father, a banker, gave her every advantage of a liberal education. She was instructed at home by capable teachers in Greek, German, French and music, and the ambitious and earnest Rlrl improved her opportunities. In 1841 she became the wife f Dr. Samuel G. Howe and went abroad for a season. She had, when only seventeen years of age, produced several clever essays and reviews, and in 1SÖ2 published her first volume of poems. A drama in blank verse, written in 1S.v. was produced in both New York and Boston. Other works followed, and during the war Mrs. Howe became nationally prominent because of r.?r stirring patriotic songs. In 1857 she visited Greece with her husband, where they won the gratitude of the people of that country because of aid extended in the struggle for national independence. In 1868 Mrs. Howe first to k part in the suffrage movement. She has since preached, written and lectured much, and. notwithstanding her advanced age, still enjoys a life of almost ccawlrsr. activity. AmonR her many works the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is, perhaps, most widely known and most likely to remain a permanently admired masterpiece in American literature, but In all she has written there has been displayed the same earnestness and poetic gift and the same finished scholarship. She 13 almost as well known abroad as in the United States. Catfish Milked the Cow. "When at Colfax, Iowa, recently as a guest of the landlord of the Mason house," said the secretary of the club, "Hill Mason, the proprietor, told me that several years ago the river which flows through his bottom pasture lands overflowed its banks to the depth of eighteen inches. He could get no milk from his seven or eight cows that were pastured on that overflowed land, notwithstanding the fact that he fed them plenty ef hay during the high water season. "A guest of the house asked why he couldn't get enough milk for his table from so many cows, and the reply was that upon investigation he found that the catfish came up with the high water and milked his cows dry before he got a chance to get any. "The interrogator expressed doubt when Rill assured him that he could prove his statement by producing a fellow who caught a twenty-nine-pound catfish two miler. down the river and when he cleaned the fish took from its stomach a nine-pound cheese." Tomlmtone at Second Hund. No people worship their dead moro than the French. Yet there is probably no city In the world where speculation and traffic in matters mortuary are carried to such an extent as in Paris. In several cemeteries concessions of ground are sold for the lapse of a few years only, the ground returning to the city after the expiration of the term of the contract. Useless to add that the city resells the same space for another period. When the leare expires the family is at liberty to take away the stone, the wreaths and other emblems that have decorated the tomb of the departed. In most cases they abandon everything. It is here that the speculator comes in. When anyone is about to order a tombstone an agent of the speculator approaches him with an offer to sell him all he desires at a very low rate. For the speculator has obtained from the city a contract to tear down and carry away all the stone and other ornaments at the expiration of leases in all cases where the family neglects to do so. The concessionaire has still a term of three years before the final expiration of his contract, which he obtained for the modest annuity of $40 paid by him to the treasurer of the city. His profits have been enormous for many years past, for most persons go to the cheapest market. And so it has come tu pass that the same tombstones have served In thousands of cases for two or more individuals. A little scraping, a ;iiew coat of paint on the railings and th trick was played. M. Georges Grebauval is about to bring the matter up before the municipal council, and like a true democratic councilor will no; only demand that the stones be not allowed to serve twice over, but that thay be destroyed at the expiration of leases, thus giving an Impetus to the trade that has been slowly declining fur many years past.

The Church of England College in Montreal, will be enriched by a $100,000 donation from A. Gauit.

IS YOUNG AND TIRED.

?1RS. CARRIE CATT MAY SUCCEED SUSAN B. ANTHONY. tier Presidential rSno:n f.ntinrbed nt Nrw York She I Supported by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Le::dirs of Equal SufTr.tgo. (New York Correspondence.) KS. C A Ii It I E Chapman Cut i to be the next president of tiie National American Woman's Suffrage association. She Will succeed Susan P.. Anthony, who has been president ;-in-e l.W, and who was in turn the successor of Mrs. i:n.abetn Cady Stanton when that lady retired after holding the position sin- the formation of the n.iiation twentyfive years before. Mrs. C-itt lives in a beautiful country home on r.iy Thirtyfirst street, Bcnsonhurst by the Sea. That is where she i- to lx f-jund n the rummer, hut in i.e winter she is away a good part of the time lecturing on the cause to which she devotes her life the emancipation of women from tho thraldom of n:nvotin.; obscurity. She travels from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Lake Superior to th Gulf of Mexico, and her name is known wherever woman suffrage is spoken of. A pleasant-looking woman, with clear-cut features and life'ht brown, wavy hair, is Mrs. Catt. She has eloquent blue eyes, that seem almost black in some of her changing moods, when she becomes interested in her subject, which she is sure to do when that subject is woman suffrage. "I do not know anything about being made president of the Woman's Sufec,V! SUSAN P. frage association," she declared as the writer was ushered into her parlor. "I have not been officially told of it and I did not know that Miss Anthony intended to retire. It Is rather peculiar that tho news should become public before It reaches me." The determination with which Mrs. Catt said this suggested that her force CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. of character would make her an ideal head of a large organization. Then she admitted, in answer to a leading question, that she had heard it whispered that she was to be the president, but that it had been entirely informally. Said she: "A friend of mine, who is a friend of Miss Anthony, told me lately that Miss Anthony had said that I would be the most eligible person for the presidency. I am now chairman of the department of organization. I have worked a great deal with Miss Anthony, but so have wo all. I am sorry that this story has got out. because It may create Jealousies. People may say that I am ambitious and that I am trying to push myself forward, although I a in sure that such Is not the case. The report has been set afloat by a friend of mine, who no doubt means to be kind. Rut often one's friends are one's worst enemies. Anyhow, the election will not take place till next February at Washington, so there Is plenty of time to settle upon a nominee." In Fpenkinrr about her own work n a lecturer and organizer on t tie road Mrs. Catt sail: "I have only just gr.f home from the south, whore I Imvj he ail the winter

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end sp-lnrr. We have just completed our spring work of canvassing and organizing thera and we are much pleased with what we have accomplished. In the fall we shall go to the southwest and push woman's suffrage with all the energy and determination that we can muster." Mrs. Catt is a young woman. She was born in Ripon. Wis., and was educated at the State Industrial College of Iowa, going from that institution into the study and practice of law. She has spent most of her time of late years between California and Washington. D. C. but her husband's business, that of civil engineer, requires him to be in New York, and she has practically settjed down in her present home. She is a charming talker, in the parlor as wMl ns on the platform, ami her eloquenee has done a great deal for the eause of women, in that she does not make ene--,ie of tho men. but rather enlists theni on h-r side by her persuasive manner. Mrs. Flizabeth Cady Stanton is today one of the most remarkable womf n in the world. She is in hr eightieth year, 1 ut is as vigorous in mind and almost as much so in body as if she were na. She was tho pioneer in the woman's suffrage cause and Is still working for it. She was th- first president of the association and it was through her effort that it was formed. When Mrs. Stanton was seen in her pretty home in this city she was in a pleasant mood (but that she always i?). and she entered into conversation with the writer willingly. She said she was very, very busy, but she did not show it in her manner. She was deliberate in her sjM-ech and there was a sparkle in her eye that rofketed the good nature within. She is the kind of woman that would make nervous people forget their hurry and become almost as composed as herself. If she was ever afflicted with the nervous hurry that is characteristic of Americans, and particularly of New Yorkers, she has got entlrely over it. In her white cotton summer wrapper, with a bertha of soft lace

i! !,: i ANTHONY. falling full around her neck and shoulders and a white silk shawl, she was the incarnation of lovely old age, almost without anything old about her except her years and her wealth of silvery white hair arranged in rows of 5;oft curls. In answer to a suggestion that she had not given up all work yet Mrs. Stanton said in a surprised tone: "What? Give up all work? I? No, indeed; I write for the newspapers right along when I have anything to say, and I am busy on my 'Woman's Bible,' that I hope to finish before I die. What is the 'Woman's Bible?' Why, it Is a commentary on the bible in the line of common sense. Women need more common sense, philosophy, and science In the training of their minds and less religious fanaticism. J am trying to analyze passaos that need explanation and to render them clear to the women whom I expect will read my book. It involves much reading and study, and I am always cmployed in some way or other." Talking further about her "Woman's Rible," Mrs Stanton said: "I want to open women's eyes if I can. Women are hampered by their religious views and blinded to many obvious truths because they are afraid of being Irreverent. And yet. does it not seem absurd that the great God of all these worlds should give us this little book, this bible, with all its faults and inconsistencies, and call it His inspired work? It needs revision indeed. I believe in freedom of thought and of action for women as well as for men. Just look at those foolish women who tried to have the Columbian exposition at Chicago closed on Sunday. I worked for four years to have It open on Sunday, so that the many who could not go during the week should have an opportunity to see the great exposition. "Women are such confounded fools! Then, again, look at the art galleries and mureums here in New York that are tightly sealed up on Sundays. Why. they are trying to stop bicycle riding on Sundays, and It is a wonder they allow the parks to be open on that day. Well, you know how hot it was last Sunday. My daughter and I rode about Central park till 11 o'clock at night." Rules fo T' ---.'-. Recruits are not admit tri Into the Infantry regiments of the English army tinder 6 feet C Inches In stature ard a girth around the chest of not less than thlrtv-fotir inches with the arms raised above the head.

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SCIKNCE UP TO DATE.

NOTES OF PROGRESS FROM MANY LANDS. The. Nantic.il Ttiryrle A Wonrt'rfnl Clock An Electric Mull Car TwoStory (an Carriace Without Horses Electrical looking. OX RAMON P.Area. of Madrid, is tiie latest amateur to try his hand at inventing a nautical bicycle. He has perfected .a machine for use upon lakes and livers, with which he has been enabled to make about six miles per hour. This machine Is composed of two cases of steel, which serve as floats, and are connected by cross-bars. Near the stern, in the space between the two cases, is a paddle wheel, operated by pedals something like a bicycle. The machine weighs about one hundred pounds. It is steered by a small rudder at the stern and has heon tried successfully by its inventor, passing over the water quickly and easily. One More. Insatiate. Science is an exacting taskmaster, and he who servos must bo ever ready to give up time, talents, hope, ambition, even life itself at the beck and call of the tyrant. The search for the North Pole has cost many lives and more treasure, and yet there is no lack of enthusiasts who are ready to take up the work where the last victim had laid it down. The latest idea is to explore this region by means of a balloon, which feems quite the most visionary and hopeless of all of the many fruitless efforts that have been made in that direction. The effect of intense cold on the gas in the balloon, the possibilities of blinding storms, the impossibility of getting out of trouble in case of accident, and the certainty that no rescuing hand could reach the party as no one wouVd know whre to find them, should all be considered It may be among the possibilities (,f science to store gas under pressure and at such a low temperature that an amount could be provided sufficient to bridge over almost any emergency that might arise; but In tasks of this kind there is so much to be looked out for and guarded against that only a temperament of the most elastic and daring description would think of going into it. The history of explorations is punctuated with horrors and tragedies and fringed with the bones of martyrs to science. This, however, is no bar to future investigations, and there is not the slightest difficulty in filling up the ranks when the order comes to go forward. A rurlfjing Article. The following communication from M. Giraid of Faris, on the most efficacious way to purify water, will be Interesting to every person who would bke to indulge in what is at times a rerst dangerous beverage. According to this account, a most etlicient sterilizing process has been discovered. "The water is first treated with permanganate of calcium, and th-u filtered through peroxide of manganese. It appears that the calcium permanganate a salt easily manufactured is, in the presence of organic matter and micro-organisms, decomposed into oxygen, maaginese oide and lime, and the organic matter and the bacteria are thus destroyed. Put in order to further increase this oxidizing power and at the same time destioy the excess of calcium permanganate added to tho water, this lattei is filtered through a layer of manganese peroxide. The filtered water is pei -fectly limpid, ar.d is entirely free from pathogenic and other micro-organisms and from organic matter. Tho simplicity of the process tells greatly in its favor. Carriages Without llorse. How far is it necessary, economical, or convenient to continue in our great towns the use of horse-power for street traffic? Here is a question which must be faced sooner or later, and the sooner the better. The only wonder i3 that most people seem quite content to go on with a method of propulsion for carriages, carts, omnibuses, etc.. which to any scientifically minded person is simply barbarous! That may sound rather strong, but it would be quite easy to show that the use of the horse for such purposes is very expensive, inconvenient, unsanitary, noisy; that it blocks up our streets unnecessarily. and causes the pavements to wear away must faster than they need. and. last, but not least, that it is cruel. It is humiliating to think that in a matter of this sort we, who invented the steam engine and tho railway, instead of once more taking the lea i. are being left far behind by France, says a writer in the London Westminster Budget. Last year that enterprising paper. Le Petit Journal, in order to find out which was the best of tb ? various self-moving road vehicles, held a 1 initetitin. Roughly I Fpeaking, about fifty vehicles of the ! 102 entered took part in the trials. Vari- ! 0:1s routes were taken from Paris to i pliers about thirty miles distant, and the whole thing was carefully planned out, the greatest interest being shown In the affair by the public. One linn entered six separate vehh los this is Messrs. los Fils de Peugot Freres. of Yalentignoy tDouhs). who have also a depot at '22 Avenue de la Grand Armie. In Paris. All their vehicles are fitted with the Daimler-Gazoline motor, recently introduced Into England, and ncv beins fitted into several launches In course of construction on the Thames. They are capable of propelling carriages at a speed of from about nine to ciecn mlle an hour on a good level ürii cöWtrv HlTo tr TT rr-- nilf Cn Incline! f one In twelve to one la ten. The vrheeli are of the cycl? type, with pscuiauttc tlrc3, and the controlling lev-

er Is In front. The Daimler motor ! underneath at the back and drives on the hind axle. The framwe-k consist of sterl tubes, and serves as a reservoir

j for the cold water urcd for cooling the cylinders. The price of an electric Victoria for four persons complete Is fTC. The above facts are taken from two long and carefully written reports by the special commissioner of the Engineer. Cot of Klertrienl Cooking. Inquiry is often made as to th ro?t of electric cooking. The exact fleure wer recently given by the Philadelphia Ledger. Four or five cutlets can bo fried by employing the equivalent of five Iamp3 for twelve minutes. This includes the time required for heating the pan. When the electric oven is used. th equivalent of eighteen lamps will rais-e the temperature from 53 degrees Fahrenheit to 120 degrees in five minutes, to 25G degrees in ten minutes, to nr.; degrees in fifteen minutes, and to 4".7 degrees in twenty minutes. At thi? rate, electrical cooking is still more expensive than ordinary methods. Neveyr theless. its use is daily increasing. Its great advantage Is perfect cleanliness. The electrical kitchen hardly seems t be a kitchen at all. There is no heat from the fires, no smoke, and no dirty utensils. As soon as the "current" can be sold at a figure which will command Its use for kitchen purposes it will become universal. Two-Story Car of Pari. There are no trolley or cable car In Paris. The storage battery electric cars seen to have been made a success here. They are much larger thn those which were for a time in operation on the Madison and Fourth avenue line in New York, being literally two stories high. The outside seats are roofed and are protected at the ends by glass screens. The approach of a car or omnibus is not heralded by gongs, as it is In America. Each of the big. lumbering vehicles is provided with a horn, which the driver can sound by pressing a rubber bulb. These toot and toot and toot, wherever one may go. Ex. A Wonderful Clock. One of the most extraordinary mechanical wonders of the world is described by the New Orleans Picayune. It is a clock built by a Russian Pol named CJoldfadon. He was at work upon it two thousand days. The clocl; represents a railway station, with all of its appointments and details carefully carried out. On the central tower is a dial which shows the time at Nn'v York, London. Warsaw and Pekin. Every quarter of an hour the statin begins to bustle, telegraph operators click their machines, the stationmaster and his assistants appear, porters bustle about luggage, and a miniature train dashes out of a tunnel 11 one siae of the platform. All the routine of a tailway station is pone through, after which the train disappeais Into another tunnel, to reappear at tho next quarter of an hour. An Klerlrie Mail nr. It is stated that an inventive genius of Ionia. Mich . has invented an eleclne mail car capable of attaining a speed of two hundred miles an hour, it will make Hie distance from New York to Chicago in five hours, instead of the twenty-three now required for the fa.ctest trains. It is said that he has at last succeeded, and will shortly give a public exhibition of hi device. His ear is made entirely of steel, and weighs some forty tons. It is thirty-three feet long, and is operated ry an electric motor independent of the automatic arrangement for handling the mails, l! is run over an elevated track about eighteen feet above the ground, and made of steel. The apparatus will 10coive and deliver mail automatically with no loss of speed, and each car can take care of thirty-four stations. Onyx nni Tetrlfied Wood. Probably every visitor to the Columbian Exhibition spent seme time In admiiiag the beautiful specimens of onyx ami petrified wood shown on that never-to-be-forgot ten occasion. Of Lite there have been some exceedingly fine slabs of this material worked out and used in wainscotings in handsome dwellings. It is said by an expert that in Ctah are the finest onyx fields in the known woi hi. and that the largest slabs ever cut out have been taken from qu. tries in that State. Petrified worn I Is being med in manufactuies of aiious mantels, brackets and iimilar pieces ate brought out and used with excellent effect. Vain oT o:il-Tr ljr. In the years lSJ and ISS.t nine factories for making dye from coal tar were established in this country. Tho business fiouiished until the tariff act abolished the specific duty and took away the profits, then half of the factories went out of the business. Others kept along as best they could, but were unable to compote with foreign labor. In 1ST! Germany produced J6.0tH worth aniline. ISTS $S.00'i, and in 1SS2 J72.r'0 worth cfdje. This is only one of the many products of coal tar, which is, indeed, a most remarkable substance. Asbestos Clothes for Firemen. At a meeting of the National Association of Fire Engineers at Montreal last summer asbestos clothing as a protection for firemen was advocated, and its utility demonstrated by a practical test. A representative of the company that is exploiting the idea entered a burning frame building specially prepaicd for the test, and remained there several minutes. He also showed the value of asbestos rope for life savins. Vw rat. vor Pelt-lsn't U a day rather bleb, j tor a botel m the mountains? l,ahenrrti tut, m ftei mr, yoa should think of the scenTr. Van Pelt How rouch do vou charge for that?

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