Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 December 1897 — Page 4

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CLAY W. METSKER. PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One 1 ear. - turn Si "Mouths, - . .75 hree Month, casta. .60 r Copy, .03 atered at the post office at Plymouth. Indiana, as matter of the second class. Friday December 31, 1897. Iin.jci at l, Convention 13th, District. The Democracy of the 13th, Congressional District of Indiana, frill meet in delegate convention, on Tuesday, January 11, 1898, at the opera house, in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of select lng a member of the Democratic State Central Committee for the ensuing two years, who shall also be ex-ofticio chairman of the 13th District Democratic Committee, and for the transaction of any other business that may come regularly before the meeting. According to an order of the Democratic State Committee each county in the district is entitled to the following representation : COUNTIES. DELEGATES Elkhart 45 Fulton 23 Kosciusko 30 Marshall 32 Pulaski 14 Starke 11 St. Joeeph 60 TV1 'lr If LÜ1 .... 1 Kach county should be sure that they tead none but true and tried democrats ac delegates to tbiB convention. Peteu J. Kruyek, J. W. Morrow, Chairman. Secretary. Call for DeinoTMtc Convention. The Democrats of the several town ships of Marshall county are hereby called to meet on Saturday, January , 8g8. for the purpose of selecting delegates to the 13; h. District Convention, to be held in Plymouth, on Tuesday, January 11th, 1898 at which district convention a member of the State Central committee will be elected. The number of delegates each township will be entitled to is as follows: Union 3 Center 8 Creen 2 Bourbon 4 Tippecanoe 1 Cerman 4 North 2 Polk 3 West 2 Walnut 3 Total 32 Said i .ace of meeting in each township shall be at one o'clock and at the following places, to wit: Union, at Culver. Ceuer, at Plymouth. Creei. at Whippoorwill School House. Kouibon, at Pourbon. Tippecanoe, at Tippecanoe. German, at Bremen. North, at Lapaz. Polk, at Tyner City. West, at West School House. Walnut, at Argos. At said time and place each township is requested to select a member of the County Central committee from each voting precinct, and said committeemen so appointed will meet at the Demo cratic etob rooms, in the city of Plymouth, on Saturday, January S, SgS, at 1:30 p. m., to electa chairman and secretary of the county committee lor the ensuing two years and the transaction of any other business that may be presented. S. N. Stevens, Chairman. K. F. Brooke, Secretary. Congressman Royse, during the re cent memorial exercises in the house over the late Congressman Cooke, of Chicago, paid an eloquent tribute to the dead congressman's memory. The two were very close friends serving together on the eomnittee on elections. Josiah Quiocy was elected Mayor of Boston by a majority of over 4,000. Be was assistant secretary of state during Cleveland's last administration but resigned after serving but little more than a year. He is a member of the gold wing of the Democratic party. President McKinley is in no manner responsible for the interpretations plaetd on his message by those persons who are interested in having it mean what they happen to desire. The fall in wages at Fall Hirer looks like a preconcerted attempt to embarrass Mr. Dingley's explanation of the return of prosperity. Since Col. Watterson has taken up hit positir n in the rear ranks the major portion of the noise emanates from that viclaity.

The irrepressible Orth Stein is reported in trouble again down to Georgia, This time, according to the reports, bigot too hasty with bis gun in a court room, and came near snuiiing out the light of a legal luminary with whom he was engaging in some ditVereno" or another. It is further rertetl ttiat 5J duel, a la code, will be the outcome, all of which makes verj good and entertaining Christmas reading Hooaierdoqj has turned out m3ny in treating chai acters, but few more interest!! ig thai that of Orth Stein, whose lofty and undoubted talents were wont to excite the admiration of his friends in this region, who have so often been called upon to deplore the perverted use of thoc talents. He has a happy and lingular facility for getting out of trout ie ol the most serious character, and this latest brush, according to the Georgia

code, is considered bat a mere basrat It has served, however, to brir g ' again the singular character of the whilom Hoosier man ol letters am', many accomplishments. Logansport Reporter. So far only one county Johnson has nominated county officers. The nominations were made by primary, sad the challenging of some ol the Franklin gold democrats who appeaged at the polls is causing comnunt all over the state. Uadical tree silver men were put forward as challengers, and the right of every representative of the party who was known to have been actively identified with the gold democrats last year was challenged. Such men as lohn W. Kagsdale, who has represented the party in national con vention, were stopped and their right to vote questioned on the ground thai they are no longer democrats. All Lh men challenged were finally permitted to vote, but not until the situation had been made very embarrassing for them. Populist were permitted to vote at the primaries without question. At a New England society dim n some years ago, acc irding to a fj it paragraph, Mark Twain had j'ist tinisheda piquant address when Mr. Eva arose, shoved both ol his hands dow in his trousers' pockets, as was his habit, and laughingly remai . it strike this company as a little unusual that a professianal humorist should be xunny ?" Mark Twain waited until the laughter exelted by thi sally hsd subsided, and then draw out; "Doesn't it strike this eom as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets ?" The news coins from the seat of national government that tin- President has notified senators and represontatives in his own good way that all appointments will be held up until certain legislation on the currency reform shall have been disposed of. Currency reform, to far as this congress is con cerned seems to be a matter attendant with aa much uncertainty as the job ol a Democrat under a Republics administration. information comes via Indianapolis that those physicians who have neglected to takeout a county license will d w be prosecuted. The State board was in session lsst week and decided that the law had been violated long enough. Many of the doctors of the State have always practiced with out a license and mean to continue to do so, it seems. Tbe services in all the churches yes terday in Plymouth were of loo presstve as well as interesting character and be it said to tbe credit of the people of Plymouth that the attendance was good and a good many extra quarters found their way to the contribution box. John Ferguson, near Boon vi lie, bur ied 8900 und'-r a rose bush., as a piecau tion against robbery. 11 is treasure was discovered and carried away and Fei guson brooded over the loss until he was declared insane. Cotham custom house officers com plain that there is so much kissing done every time an ocean steamer lands that it seriously interferes with their business. No man does his bebt work, you know, when another man is kissing a pretty girl in his immediate vicinity, There is a member of the Kansas Legislature who has the nerve to charge that Jerry Siinpnon has become a representative of the hated railway corporations, lie is evidently a warm member. In the announcement of the practical freedom of Cuba, (Jen. Blanco scored a heavy scoop on the people down there Chris Merry has plead "not guilty." He has sufficient nerve to make a num bar one politician.

The Hartford Pity Telegram puts it about right when it says Indiana has thirty BOttVsCtS WbO are in I 0 Columbus, I), penitentiary for violating the federal laws .lohn P. John son, of Logansport, who swindled tne people out ot 8900,0001, is one of them, lie does not have to wear a convicts garb and lives on the fat of the pent tentiary. Stephen Lyons al-o of Logans port, found a counterfeit $10 bill in the road, and passed it iguorantly, if ioelieved. He wears a felon's garb and is put to hard labor. Jostles would seem to say that Johnson's and Lyon's situations should be exchanged.

Li Hung Chang has appointed is his family physician Miss Ilu King Lng, Who Studied some years ago in an American medical eoiledge. She has practiced for some time as a mission doctor in Too Choo, and lias been a Christian since her childhood. It is believed that her appointment Will do much to overcome the prejudice pre vailing in China against the female physicians. Next year Miss Ilu King Eng will represent China at the London congress of medical women. The McKinley Administration through the secretary of the treasury proclaims that it will have the go'd standard pure and simple, no matter if such a policy builds up or tears down the republican party. The old line party managers of the republican party now see that the organization is in the hands of men who care more for the wishes of the financial barons of the country than they do for thy perpetuity of the party. From all accounts there was much of Christina Cheer in Plymouth. And this is well. There are few communities in the west in which the conditions Conducing to good cheer are more favorable than they are in Plymouth, and it is believed that the people as a winde properly appreciate This sta-'e of things. Health and prosperity are with tlii community in vry large measure. This is cause of good cheer. Commissioner of Tensions Efraos estimates tNat it will cost about $300.0X10 to publish the names of all the pensioners, living their ailments and posroflice addresses. lie thinks, however, it is a good scheme, and Will ask Congress to authorize it done, it is not likely Congress will look at the matter in that light. It is said that Ceorge Vanderbilt, who has gone tier hunting in thti'ingles of India, left his native country in disgust because he found after spending ten millions on his lordly castle of Biltmore in North Carolina he could not get a drink of water on the place. He has probably sought the proper climate, but it seems like he has gone a long way to thaw the pump. Charles L. Kurtz, the visible leader of the anti-Ilanna movement in Ohio, behind whom lurks the ample shadow of Governor Bushneil, declares thai the arch boss will be neaten for the senate and promises to make public next week tne names of republican members of the legislatue who will vote againsl Hanna. A writer says that a new occupation has been found for women, namely, that of being jockeys. An owner of horses says it would be a great advantage if young women could ride race horses, not only on account ol their light weight, but on account ol the devotion the horses shows to them. A wild story comes from Kentucky that a "Democratic gold-bag judge" in "a county near but not adjoin ins Breckinridge1 refused to let the ad vocates of free silver sit on a jury t try a case affecting a business concern. If Richmond, Va., wants an Indiana preacher it would confer a favor b taking one that is not efficient as a lish commissioner. We have plenty of lish ers of men, but not many men of whom unlawful lishers would stand in terror. The Cans police have gathered statistics to pp've that murder does Do! pay financially, Of coarse it, does not. If it did it would have been in the hands of a trust long ago. The great wheat deal engineered by Leiter is now causing as much anxiety as a presidential election. Coal oil sells for 15 a gallon at Dawson City. What a miserable Christ mas it must have been for the Stand ard oil truit in view of the fact that it was uot in this dual.

We have determined ; to close out every doli lars worth of heavy win fcer Broods and i irercottts.

i a f 3 I f i f prices will move ; them out, they will go as we will sell every dollars worth of I I envy goods ;r a er rent s.uri- ; je. Ail we ask that you call and see the prices we are making on every ! thing. LIFE IN SMALL CITIES. Slort' Comfort Happiness and Sucres I ii in in tlit r..- Centres. "The higher salaries of the larger cities is. perhaps, what attracts young men more potently than any other factor." writes Bdward v Bok in the Otober Lad! Home Journal, Rotating out "Where Success Awaits foong Men' in the smaller cities. "But, unfortunately, he says, "as thousands of young men hat found for themselves these salaries ar- not so high as they wen- led to believe, nor will the city income buy as much in LlsS metropolis as they bargained for. A salary of tv.-o thousand do liars a year in the big city will not bring a young man the comfortable living which one thousand dollars .1 year moans to him in the smaller c immunity. With a far more moderate salary tin; vising young clerk, manager or business man In the small city lives like a king la comparison to the man of equal position In ths large 11 Qter, Ii !ir earns a thousand or two a year he has his own little home ry lease or purchase. For twenty-five dollars per month he can have his own pretty cottage, with God's pure sunand make living a comfort. His friends have their own grass plot for their play-ground. His porch Is his evening pleasure and his Sunday delight. Trees shade his street, cool his rooms, and make living a comfort His friend live all around him. He knows the man who lives next door. His neightors' children are his children's playmates. His social life has a meaning to it; it is a joy and exhilaration to him. "When he goes out in the evening it is into a home gathering where every fii e is familiar, and where he is known and welcomed. He has time to read, something which the man In the larger city, whom he envies, has not. His church Is to him like a famUy gathering every Sunday morning. The man in the pulpit is his pastor, who, perhaps, has baptised him. married him, and will baptize and marry his children. Respected in his circle of friends, every step of progress in his business is known to them, and is th rause for congratulation. He is with I asy walking distance or trolley ride of his place of business. To his wife his home is her joy. and not her care. She has time for her children, her home, her social duties, her reading, and her church. The blood of health rushes through the veins of his children as they sleep and play in an unpolluted atmosphere. Life means something to such a man; It means happinessthe true measure of all success." Clever Children. The Church Standard waxes Indignant and severe over the common practice of repeating in a child's presence his alleged smart sayings, and warns admiring relatives who Indulge in this, to them, agreeable occupation, of the serious consequences thai are likely to follow. As a matter of fact, then, when these "smart sayings" are looked at dispassionately most of :hem are found to be nothing but stupid blunders, just such blunders as a child with its as yet undeveloped powers would be expected to make. Of course there are a few prodigies in the world, but they are not always unmixed blessings. There is but one Mr. Gladstone, and-to put it mildly he has made some very serious mistakes. But let us suppose that a child has said something very clever, what must be the result of repeating that saying to somebody else when the child Is by? It can only minister to vanitjr sad selfconceit, and of all utterly tftfustlnf and unendurable creatures on God's earth, a conceited child is the most disgusting and most unendurable. Not only does this vicious habit make children unpleasant, but it sows in their hearts seeds which will grow and best In pftcr years the bitter fruits of disappointment. Parents and aunts and uncles who Indulge in this habit are though tiessljr, perhaps, but none the less really corrupting their children's morals with pride, vanity and brazennses, and also are cruelly wronging, them by leading them to live in a fool's paradise, the dispelling of which will give them lcn pals and mortlUcation. Ktpana Tabules cur hsaoaaaa.

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