Marshall County Independent, Volume 2, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 November 1895 — Page 3

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lt 1?v'it her picture! Take a fetch o' skies. With cool shadows in 'em, an' yu hare lirr ryes! Shadows where the sunshine tangles, hut bice Beautiful an' beaniiu' gleaioin sireamin through I Let us paint her picture! Take a midnight drear Deep, an' Mack, au starless and you have her hair! Yet, there's light about it-something you can markLike an April shower twinkl'm' through the d;rk! When you slip the ribbons fron the eurls an' ail. Down tliev come a-ti:nilliii' like a waterfall:" That's ihr time they dazzh silky threads ' iiirht FaHii:' ail around her -shakin oin the light! f.'psV They're like a sunrise to the night o curls. Rosy-red, that mingles with a gleam o' pearls: An two shiny dimples playhi hide and seek In at:i'ii'i the tlowers b'mMiiin' on her J.eek! "Want to paint her picture? Think o all that's sweet - A!! that heart. brat lVr whe'i love makes em beat? Then give love the pencil, dipped in colors i'arr With your heart, nn le hi in paint her p! tui-e there! I'va'tl- L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitute::. nor -rr. wvsM er c m, vv tLe V "I Kin Rasilio, play its a tune on the cornet and wo will dance. It is cool hero under the trees." "Yes. yes, Don Rasilio, play sonicthing "Rriiig him the cornet Joaquin is practicing with." "It's not a very good one, but you'll play for us, will you not, Don RasilioV" "No." You won't?" "No." -lint why?" 'Recause I don't know how." "lie doesn't know how! Did you ever Fee such a hypocrite?" "Come, come, Don Rasilio; why, we know you've been leader of a military band " "And that nobody could play the ornet like yourself " "And that you have a pension from the Government " "Weil, yes ii's the truth. I have been a musician in my time, ami the cornet was the Instrument I played; but it is also true that years ago I gave my cornet away to a poor player in need of one. and since that time have not so much as hummed a tune." -What a pity." "Oh. but this afternoon you must play Tor us." "Remember It is my birthday, grand"And here's the cornet at last." ".Vow, let's have a pretty tune." "A waltz!" "No. a polka." "No. no. a fandango! a fandango! Our national dance." "Don't bother me, children! Have I r.ot said that I cannot play?" "But why can't you?" "Recause I've forgotten the way, ami because, moreover, I have vowed never to learn again." "To wfioni did you make this vow, father?" To myself, to a dead friend, and to jour poor mother, my daughter." All tho bright, childish faces grew Bad upon hearing these words. Oh. if you only knew at what cost 'Tin: stoky! tiik sror.v!" exclaimed THK CIIIt.IRK.V. I leained to play the cornet!" continued the old man. "The story! The story!" exclaimed the children. "Tell us the story!" "Well, yes," .aid Dun RasIMo, "it Is really a. story worth telling. Listen, and you shall judge for yourselves whether I can or cannot play for you to-day." And seating nimself under a tree, surrounded by the wondering children, lie told them the story of how he learned to play the cornet. Let us listen to Don Rasilio: II. It Is now seventeen years ago that our beloved Spain was shaken by civil war. Carlos and Isabel disputed the crown, ami our country men, divided hi two factions, shed their blood In fratricidal con diet. I had lu those days a friend named

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Ramon Gome, cavalry lieutenant In the same battalion, one of the besthearted fellows I have ever known. We were educated together, together we left college, together had we passed .many happy days, and together we were ready to die for liberty. Oh, I can truly say that, he was more attached to the liberal cause than any of us, and his loyalty was never questioned. Yet. even so. a certain injustice committed by our chief, one of those abuses of authority that wreck the most honorable career, made the cavalry lieutenant desert the ranks of his fellow-soldiers, the friend leave his friend, the liberal abandon his cause for that of a hated faction, the subordinate desire to kill his Miperior officer! Neither my warnings nor my entreaties availed to dissuade him from this rash step. It was a thing decided. He would change the helmet for the cap. despising as he did the rebels ami their cause. At that time we found ourselves in the Principality of , three miles from the enemy. It was the night In which Ramon was to desert a cheerless evening, cool and wet. on the eve of a battle. At midnight Ramon entered my tent. I was asleep. "Rasilio." he whispered in my ear. "Who's there?" I asked, waking with a start. "It is I; good-by." "You are going already?" "Yes; good-by," and he grasped my hand. "Listen." he continued; "if tomorrow there is a great battle, as Is the rumor, and we come face to face in it " "I know, I know." I Interrupted. "We are friends." "(lood we clasp hands and light afterwards. 1 shall die to-morrow surely, but not until I have fought my way to the side of the Lieutenant Colonel. As for you. Rasilio. do not expose yourself. (Jlory is but a vapor!" "And life?" "Well said! Make yourself a commandant. The pa j- Is not etherealthat is. not till one has smoked it away! Ah. but all that lias now ended for me." "What melancholy thoughts!" I cried, not without a sinking at the heart. "To-morrow we shall both survive the battle." "Well, if this be so. let u.i now appoint a meeting place." "Where?" "In the Hermitage of St. Nicholas at I o'clock to-morrow night. He who Is not there by that time shall be given

up for dead by the other. It is agreed?" "Agreed." "Well, then, good-by." ":oodby." We embraced affectionately and parted. Ramon disappearing under shelter of the darkness. III. As we had expected, the rebels attacked us the following day. The action was a bloody one and lasted from ',1 o'clock In tho afternoon until nightfall. About Ö o'clock my battalion was roughly set upon by a party of Alaveses, led by Ramon. He then wore the uniform and decorations of a commandant and on his head was the white cap nf the Carlists. I ordered my company to lire upon Ramon's forces; he retaliated: and soon o tr battalions were engaged in a hand-io-hand struggle. We were victorious and Ramon was forced to retreat with the scattered remnants of his band; not, however, before lie had slain with his own hand our lieutenant colonel, who opposed a desperate but vain resistance to the fury of his antagonist. Toward sunset the fortunes of war turned against us and part of my unfortunate company was, with myself, cut off from the main body and forced to surrender. I was taken prisoner to the little village of , which the Carlists then occupied, and as tho war was without quarter on their side I expected to be Immediately put to death. While- confined, disheartened and weary in the village jail I heard the hour of 1 ring out, the time for my meeting with Ramon. I asked for my friend and was told: "He Is a hem! Killed a lieutenant colonel with his own hand, but he must undoubtedly have icrished in the last hours of the battle." "Why do you think so?" 1 asked. "Rocauso he has not yet come back to camp and those he commanded can give no account of him." Oh! what I suffered that night. Rut one hope remained to comfort me that Ramon was still awaiting nie at the Hermitage and for this reason had not returned. "How troubled he will be when he finds I do not come," I said to myself. "He will believe me dead, and, indeed, am I very far from being so? My last hour cannot now be far distant." At daybreak a chaplain entered the prison. My companions In misery were sleeping. "Death? I exclaimed upon seeing the priest. "Ye," he replied softly. "Now?" I asked. "Xo; within three hours." A few minutes later my fellow-pris-oners had awakened. Sobs, cries and blasphemies tilled the prison. Every man about to die usually has one idea that is ever present in his thoughts and to which he clings. So it was with me; and weakness, fever, or madness. I know not which, tilled my mind with thoughts of my friend of Ramon living, of Ramon dead, of Ramon waiting for me in the Hermitage, of Ramon waiting for me in heavenand so powerfully had these ideas taken possession of my mind that I thought of nothing else during those hours of agony. They took off my captain's uniform and wrapped me in an old soldier's cloak, placing upon my head the Carllst euiK Thus I marched to my death with my nineteen companions lu misery.

One nSy had been pardoned, and this because he was a musician. The Carlists at that time spared the lives of all musicians on account of there being a great scarcity of them in their battalions. "And were you a niu!ian. Don Rasilio? Did yon save yourself by that?" exclaimed his hearers with one breath. "No, my children," responded the veteran. "I then knew nothing of music." Well, the execution squad drew up 3u line and we were placed facing it. I was No. 11 in the row- that is to say. I should be tie eleventh to II-. Then 1 thought of my wife and my child of you and your poor mother, my daughter! The tiring began. Those awful death volleys maddened me. As my eyes were bandaged I could not see my companions fall one by one. I wished to count the discharges so as to be able to prepare myself for the last moment, but at the third or fourth volley I lost count. Oh! the echo of those shots will reverberate in my heart and brain forever, as they rang out that fatal day! At one moment they were a thousand leagues away: the next, their thunder seemed to peal within my very car. And the volleys contined. "Now!" I thought. The sharp report followed, and 1 was still olive. This will be it!"I said, and then I felt myself seized by tho shoulder and dragged out of the ranks, while voices sounded in my cars. I fell unconscious to the ground, the last thought that passed through my mind being that I had been shot and was dying. IV. Afterwards it seemed to me that I was lying stretched on my prison cot. 1 half raised myself and looked around me, trying to pierce the darkness with

J7 mi 'ramo.v!'' "what is it?" kktliki tiif. SHADOW. my eyes. A shadow more obscure than the others appeared to detach itself and bend over me. It had the outline of a man. My lips murmured mechanically the name of him who had been so much in my thoughts. "Ramon!" "What is it?" replied the shadow. I shuddered. "My Oodl" I exclaimed, "can I be in the other world?" "No," replied the same voice. "Ramon, you still live?" "Yes." "And I " "Also." "Where am I? This is not the Hermitage of St. Nicholas, and I still a prisoner, or has it all been a dream?" "No. Rasilio. you have not been dreaming. LisVn: "As you know, yesterday I killed the Lieutenant Colonel in fair light. Afterwards, mad with the excitement of the battle, I went on lighting desperately until the close of the action. Then, as the moon rose, I thought of you ami of our appointment, and directed my steps to the old Hermitage, with the intention of awaiting you there. It was about 10 ocloek wlfn I arrived; so. as the hour agreed upon was 1, I lay down to sleep. At the stroke of 1 I awoke with a start. Two, three, four, the hours rang out. and still you did not come. 'Without doubt,' I said to my self, 'he Is dead,' and with a heavy heart I set out at daybreak for the rebel camp. All had given me up for lost, so I was received with joy ami the Ceneral showered distinction upon nie. "Afterwards I learned that, some prisoners were to be executed that morning. A presentiment tilled my mind. 'Can Rasilio be among themV I thought. I ran toward the place of execution. The toldlers of the tiring squad had already taken their position. I heard the report of their lilies as they rang out lu v:ileys on the still morning air. At length I reached tho scene; I cast my eyes rapidly along the line of victims, but can see nothing. Anguish blinds nie; fear unnerves nie. At length I distinguish you; but two places removed from that of death! What is to be done? I go mad. give a shout, break through the lino of soldiers, and rush to your side. und. Hinging my arms around yo.i, exclaim, hoarsely: 'This one. no! This one, no. my (lenorair "The general who was In charge of the execution, and who knew me so favorably by my behavior in the previous day's battle, asked, curiously: "'Why, is he a musician?' "That word was for me what it would be for a man born blind to suddenly see the sun in all its splendor. The light of ho' fell on my eyes and dazzled them. Musician!' I cried. 'Yes, yes, my (icneral. A musician, a great musician!' " 'What instrument does lie play?' inquired the Heneral. The the er that Is why. of course, the cornet! He plays the cornet!' 'Are we In need of a cornet player' said he, turning to the leader of the band. Five seconds, live eternities, before the answer enme: " 'Yes. (leneral; one '. needed.' -Well, then,' continued the General.

'remote that man from the ranks, anj let the executions proceed at once "Then I caught you in my arms and brought you here." Scarcely had Ramon ceased speaking when I arose trembling, and between laughter and tears embraced him, say ing: "I owe my life to you." "Hardly that," replied Ramon. "What do you mean?" I exclaimed. "Can you play tin cornet;" he asked. "No." "Then you do not owe me your life; rather, it i that I iiave compromised my own safe'y w ithout securing yours." I felt my heart grow cold within me. "And music." he continued; "do you know anything of that?" "Very little. You will remember what they taught us in college." "Little, indeed: or. better said, nothing." replied Ramon. "You will die, without the slightest doubt, and I also, as a traitor. .lust think of it! In fifteen days the band to which you belong is to bo organized." "Fifteen days!" "Neither more nor less. And as yon will not be able to take your place in it (for (bid will not work a miracle) wo shall both be shoj." "To put you to death!" I cried. "You, for my sake; for me, whom you have risked your life to save! Ah! heaven will not permit it. Within fifteen days I shall learn to play the cornet." Ramon burst into a laugh. What more shall I say, my children? In fifteen days oh. power of the human will! in fifteen days, with their fifteen nights (for 1 slept no more than nature compelled in half a month) in fifteen days I had learned to play the cornet! What days those were! Ramon and I left camp early each morning and passed hours with a musician who came from a neighboring village to teach me. Fscape! I can read this thought in your eyes. Ah! nothing more impossible. I was a prisoner they never relaxed their vigilance, and Ramon di-i not wisli to escape without me. It seems to mo now as if in all that time I could neither eat nor sleep, nor think of aught save my cornet. I was insane and music was my monomania. I was resolved to learn and I did. And if I had been dumb I should have spoken; nnd paralytic. I should have walked: and blind, should have socubeeause I willed It. Oh. the will answers for all. Resolution is power, rhildren, learn thi great truth to will is to achieve. I saved thus my life and that of my friend. Rut i went mad and my madness was the art I learned. It might be said that in three years the cornet never left my hand. Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la si. behold my world during that time. Rut Ramon did not abandon me. Together we emigrated to France, and there 1 continued my playing. Tho cornet was myself it seemed to rlt. In my mouth. The people, the notabilities in tho art, all gathered to hear me. It was a wonder, a marvel. The cornet seemed to yield to 1113- lingers; It became elastic: it moaned, it wept. It cried aloud; it imitated the birds, tho wild beasts, the human sob Thus passed two years more. At the end of that time Ramon died. Hazing upon my friend's dead body I recovered my reason; and when, then In my right mind, 1 one day took up the cornet and tried to play I found to my astonishment that the power had left me. Will you now ask me to play a tuna for your dance?

1 dotation ami Politics. The f,ehool question as related to religious instruction has acquired of lato great prominence in Canadian political affairs. Indeed, it at one time threatened to ause a change in the Dominion Ministry, or a dissolution of the Domiti ion Parliament. In the older Canadian provinces, where the population is not very unequally divided between Roman Catholics, mostly of French origin, and Protestants, the system of separable schools has generally prevailed. In Manitoba tho ame conditions at fust existed, and the same system was adopted. Rut now a small minority of the pple of Manitoba are Roman Catholie. A law to create a single national system of schools was passed in l.s'.io. Tlie reoeilt crisis came from an attempt of the opponents of thirl law to have it set asiide through the Canadian courts, and finally through tho Privy Council of Croat Rritain. Without entering into the merits of this particular case. It may be insisted that the common schools of a country should be solely nnd completely under the control of m government. Whether the control over school matters be exercised by the nation, as ie O-reat Rritain, tlje State, as in this country, or the province, as in Canada; however the problem of religion. ? instruction nifty be settled, In every case there should bo unity of plan and mipreinaey of authority. The education of the children of a country is too important to be committed tu the uncertain currents of politics. Wo Lead tho World. The capacity for making iron in this country has now reached an outturn of IS h 1,000 tons per week for 12LM.) furnaces In blast. This Is a jump of 5o 000 tons, as compared with the output of October, lSDt, and marks the permanent placing of tho Fnited States in the lead of all ither iron producing countries. Itotli Had Cause for Complaint. Neighbor I called to say that you must keep your dog from barking; ho won't let our baby sleep. Householder I'm glad you called. I wanted to say that if you don't keep your baby from crying, I shall have to enter a complaint. It annoys my dog awfully.

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IN giving h re.wovs for faxonr.g s:;ver. Chirles W. Creese, in the Chicago I'v. iiing Pro.-, .viys: "l favor silver t '-.uiie I m:m a b'meiaUXt". believing that silver should be restore.! to a position of equality wih g-.d as U money metal, having its relative 7.1 lu? lixed by law and having !h. recognition at the mints as gold. Reeaus; I believe that the experience of centuries has proved the adaptability and advantage of the double standard. Recause 1 do not think that the expeiieut-N of the past twenty years shows any improvement in the condition of this country, or of the world, as a result of adopting a single gold standard far from it. Recause I believe the world had none too much money wh'Ui both were legally recognized on equal footing, and that there has not been more than half enough since one was delegalized. Recause the demonetization of silver has increased ih- demand for gold. c:iusing an appreciation in its value which makes it exchangeable for double the quantities of other property. Recause that appreciation is to the advantage of the wealthy class and a great detriment to the poorer '.misses. and because I believe that ulver demonetization was brought about with a deliberate purpose and intent to benefit the money lender and security holder. Recause I believe the production of silver is a leading American industry. Recause I believe that the intent expressed in the original adoption of the gold standard by I'ngiand was to increase and perpetuate the power of the Oovernmen; : that it ha fully accomplished that purpose to The prejudice of other nations, ours among the number, and that it is a policy inimical to the best interests of our own people I am an American an 1 favor an American policy. Recause the effect of the single gold standard is to compel the payment of twice the amount of lobt justly due to the holders and manipulators' of the worldgold, and the par value of that debt Is already about one-half the assessed value of all the property of the country. Recause the continuance of the gold standard policy is transferring to silver using nations so large a proportion of our manufacturing intereMs a to seriously cripple American prosperity, ami when these industries become tirmly established, as they will by the continuance of this policy. Americans can never wrest from these nations our lost trade Witness Japan. China and Mexico. There are many other reasons. These ought to be surlicient to justify my belief." Twinkling Ronds. Twinkle, twinkle, little bonds. How I wonder when the funds From across the oeeau wide. Come a-rolling on the tide. When the treasury funds are I e.v. When our gold begins to go. Then you show our credit sr ;ig. Twinkle, twinkle for a son-. Into Rothschild's safe you're Ir.i 1. And often are your coupons paid; For you never stop to rest, 'Til the gold is back into jour v?t. Little hoy llorr has blown his hom. And now he's feeling all forlorn; lie's gone back Fast his friends te join. And never again will he taikle "Coin." The gold hugs put him up to blow. Rut brag and Muster wouldn't go; He tried to win on ,vind and gas. Rut only proved himself ;n ass. If you would know the reason why. That all the gold bugs have to li.; And how they fuss and fuiüe jind orate. Just lead the winde of this debate. Morgan's Ruzz Saw. ;io It Alone." Why can't people think or remember a historic fact in their own country'.' One of the cries of the gold nu n against the restoration of silver is that the Fnited States can't restore it alone, but that Fngland. the world's clearing house, must unite. or. in short, that we can't "do it alone," as they phrase it. All that is needed to answer this is that for lifty-sovou years we did do it alone. England became an exclusive gold country in IMC. The Fnited States had free coinage of silver, or made silver a money metal, until 1ST.". thus going it alone for full lifty-seven years. And she became under that policy a mighty nation before the Lord. Nobody can get around the fact for it is true as that the nation itself was. Xor can they get around the oilier fact chat to-day the silver using countries are prospering and the gold countries are suffering from depression and hard times -Russia. India. Japan. Mexico, on the one handthe Fnited States, Knghind and Cermany on the other to please the brokers. Tills is solid fact, and stares the world in the face as the great object lesson of the age. I'rrwperity innl Debt. When we talk about returning prosperity, we must remember we are in debt to foreign capitalists about ?.",- to pay Interest, and to do this we must send cotton, wheat, provisions, etc., on which European financiers tlx the prices. America is in some respects in an unfortunate position. In (Ireat Rritain ami Europe the men at the head of affairs are sharp, shrewd and specially educated men for their positions. They know how to manage.

Us in; .-;1m' ;s d iherer,! -is ver few of our leading men are really c:!pab'e. T'.ey an g-;i. re ;! y lawyers, and of, en lawyers .ho have not brains er-oii-h t,, earn a living at law. It i seii in n as those that are put up 10 m t tiie brainy, trained business men of Kuro'ie. They Try It Ajj;5m. Ren.i tmin Franklin, in ITT'l before 1 . committee of the House of Comm. mm ' was asked: ! "What was th temper of America 10 Croat Rritain before 177.;:" II" ; answered: "The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the g ve:n- ; mein of the Crown, and all their eour'4 paid obedience to acts of Parliament. ; Numerous as tho people are in several : old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies to kep 5 hem in subjection. They were governed by this country at tie ex- ; pense of a little pen. ink and paper. They wer? led by a thread. They had j not only regard but affection for Creat Rritain. for its laws, its customs. jts manners and even a fondness for its i fashions, that greatly increased its : commerce. Natives of Rritain were alI ways treated with particular regard; and to be an old England man was of itself a character of some respect and gave a kind of rank among us. j "The Rritish government took away j from America its representative money. ! commanded that no more aper iei'.s of credit should be issued, that they ! should cease to be a legal tender, and 1 collected tlie tax in silver. This was in 177'. Now mark the conscqe.en.-es. j Tins contraction of tlie circulation ni'dI ium paralysed all the industrial energies of the poolo. Ruin seized up ,n those once t'ourishing coionies; 1:1 most severe distress was brought home to every interest and every fam- ! ily; discontent was urged on 10 do-jper-i atioti. tiil at last human nature arose I and assorted its rights." And Fngland i is trying to do this very thing ag:ii:i. I American Ritnetallisr. Intern itioiial Money. ; We have said repeatedly that thU mney ptestion is purely a national and not an international question, i Every nation has its own money. When j It trades with any other nation and there is a balance to be paid from one : to the other, it is always paid in thj money of the creditor nation. For inI stance, if we buy from England we i have to pay in pounds; if we buy from j France we pay in francs; If we buy j from Cermany we pay in marks, and i our gold is simply melted down to Its j equivalent In the money of the coun try where we pay the debt. The sameIs true when other countries pay a balance of trade that is due to us. It is paid in our own money, nothing less, and this talk that we want a dollar that is good the world over is arrant folly. There Is not a country in the world where a gold dollar is worth anything more than simply its bulii n value measured in the country where j you try to pass It. American dollars I are not current in Lond.e.i any more than pounds sterling are current in thFnited States. Each country must hav its own money. The sooner we stand up squarely and fairly and adopt honest bimetallism the sooner wo shall b" fair and honest to producer and consumer, to debtor and creditor. Cleveland o.) Plaindealr-r. The Hankers' Ilot'ar. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Th" failure of the Standard Wagon Co. and the Davis Carriage Co. f this city has been announced. They were very 1 irg -concerns and gave employment 1 a great number of men. and furnishe 1 .1 market for a vast amount of raw material. The ofiieers mal a h"roie struggle 10 live, but had finally to succumb to the inevitable. One single sentence in the president's announcement of th failure is suiiiciom to account for th i disaster, and for other business trou bles yet to com. The paragraph referred l roads as follows: The hankers' dollar has in üs j-ur-chasing power almost doubled in value, while the manufacturers' and enterprising business men's dollar. Invested in buildings, machinery and merchandise. is reduced . per cent below original COS!. "!y referring to quotations of the value of bank stocks it will be see-i that they have not Ikvh shrinking. The products of industry, the wealth created by labor, skill and enterprise. .! ilowing into the possession of those w ho do not add a single iota to the world's wealth. To bankers are very consistently in favor of loubl:ng the purchasing power of money acl currency, but what is their gain is the enterprising business man's loss. Cold monometallism is daily recording its victories." Some I'nct About Our Morry. There are inly two places In the Fnited Spates whore gold is coined to any considerable extent Philadelphia and San Francisco. Though there is a mint in New Orleans, there Is not enough bullion sent there to make it worth while to keep the mint in operation. These three mints coin all kinds of silver money. The mint at Philadelphia alone eoins the baser pieces copper ami nickel. Nearly one hundred million pennies alone are turned out annually by the Philadelphia mint, yet the supply Is not equal to the demand. The protlt to the Ciovernment In the coinage of these pennies Is JiX) per cent, or $!) on every $10 coined. Tho o-cent nickel pieces cost our Covernmeut only a cent and a half apiece.

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