Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 February 1898 — Page 7

A BLACK NAPOLEON.

ST. HELENA AGAIN THE HOME OF A WARRIOR. tlni7i:lii. ChieT of Zulus He Led a C:impaisn Acninst the BasMsh Surt fsjHj I'ntll He Wa ("nptureil ISulU rp th- lirent AMMh Km pi re. N THE Island ot Helena, where the white Napoleon ended his days a prisoner to the B n s, I ih, a black IIU . ULM il ' oner. And .-insularly enough there is a chapter of toIneidc nts which KM to unite the fortunes of the house of Bonaparte and the house Chaka. Early in the eentury. when Napoleon was overrunning Europe with his armies and dazzling the minds of men with bifl genius an English sailor was wrecked on the African coast and wandered inro Zululand. He was taken lefore th voting chief Chaka. and to him he i old of the wonderful outside world, of which the chief had heard rumors, ami as ail the world was then filled with the name of NapoUon he told of the rise of th Corsica and how he had conquered nations and hsriH np for himself a great empire. The story of Napoleon raptured the fane of Chaka, and he resolved to he an African Napoleon. Then began the rise pf the great Zulu power in South Africa, and Chaka spread hi" conquests over great territories and subjugated neighboring tribes and bnilt up lor himself an empire. It flourished until it Broke itself to piece against the English just as the empire of th1 DINIZULU. man whose name had inspired its building did before it. The empire established by Chaka stretched along the whole southeast seaboard of Africa, from Limpopo to Cape Colony, and extended far inland. When the English landed In Natal in 1824 the empire Ol Assam hi was the most powerful in Africa. Chaka made a treaty with the English allowing them to live in Natal, and for this he was killed by his brother. Diagaas n 1828. Then began the straggle jetweea Che white man ajuj the black man which was to end in the destruction of the empire founded by Chaka. Peace and war alternated, and all the time the Zulus lost ground. Finally, in 187N-S0. the British felt bound to blot out the Zulu power. Then it was that Cetewayo. the heir Ol Chaka. summoned forth his whole force and hurled his "impis." or regiments, on the British. At Isandulu Mo Zulus broke the British squares and routed the redcoats, but the and was the capture of t'ie chief and the breaking of the Zulu power. In this war the house of Bonaparte again b -ame mixed up with the fortunes of the house of Chaka. The prince imperial, grand-nephew of the man whose example had inspired the building ! th ?m)iro of the Amaznlu. went out to fight in the ranks of he HEngHvh and was kilted by a Zulu spear. In 18S4 Cetewayo died and the quarrel was continued by his son. Dinizulu. Dinizulu was conquered and now he has been Bent to St. Helena to end h's days on thn spot where he man whose example caused the building up the black king's empire died. As becomes the head of a grat and war-like line. Dinizulu is accompanied in his exile by a numerous retinue. His two uncles, several chiefs, a physician and a clergyman, with their wives and children, mak" up a household as numerous as was that of the great Napoleon when at St. S lelena. The haplain of the royal exiles is t'aul Hitimkula. s "catechist" from Cape Town, who was invited many vears ago by Cetewayo to come to Zululand and teach the people. He is called by the Zulus "Doctor Paul." He accompanied the exiles to St. Helena of his own accord. Dr. Wilby. an Englishman, is the physician to the exiled household. All the Zulu attendants who wait on the exiles wen to St. HH'-na of their own accord. Dinizulu speaks and writes English fluently and a man of more than ordinary intelligence. An effort is now being made to procure the release of Dinizulu. It is argued that his return to his own people would convince them that the English intend to deal fairly with them. freilnc BeSSmatC in India. Elephant! in the Indian army are ted twice i day. When mealtime arrives they are drawn up in line before a row of piles of food. Eaeh animal's breakfast includes ten pounds of raw rice, done up in five two pound packages. The rie is wrapped in leaves and then tied with grass. At the command "Aatention" eaeh elephant raises Its trunk and a package is thrown into its capaeious mouth. By this method of feeding not a single grata of rli i wasted

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TEMPERATURE IN TUNNELS.

The SuowC invrffl Alp Have Very Warm Hearts. !t is very curiou.- that the great obstacle encountered in tunneling unuV r snow-coveied Aljs is the excessiveiy high temperature, says the Boston Transcript. In the const met km of the Mont Cenifl tunnel, according to statistic? collected by M. Victor Brandicourt, the highest temperature recorded was S degrees Fahrenheit, which was reached at I point near the center of the tunnel, about .",100 feet beneatb the mountain summit, on which the mean temperature is 27 degrees. Tiie Si. Got hard was still hotter, a temperature of :" degrees having bei n obm rred In the center for sever.. 1 days. Such a heat in a moisture-laden and impure atmosphere, could be endured but live hours a day for two days in three; and so prostrating was the labor at Mont Cental and St. Gothard that the physician who attended the work- ! men ten years reports the number of invalids to have been as many as GO in 1t". Stranger still was the appearance of a tropical disease due to intestinal parasites -that is known only in the hottest regions of the earth. Even greater jock temperatures are expected in the great tunnels projected ir. recent years those of the Simplon. St. Bernard and Mont Blanc experienced engineers predicting that under Mom Blanc a heat considerably greater than 1(M degrees possibly above 125 degreeswill be reached. Improved methods Of ventilating, cooling and working will all contribute, however. toward overcoming the difficulties of working. WILD BIRDS SEEK FARMYARDS Turkey in irgiiiia Roosf with the DoMStlc Fowls. Tnrkeyi are so plentiful that it i.s nothing uncommon to hear of their : coming to roosl at farmhouses, alongj side the domestic birds. Mr. P. hL Veager. living at Traveler's Repose, W. Yd., and twenty-five miles west of Monterey, has. according to the Richmond Dispatch, six wild ones running with his 'ame flock. These, however, have a little romance connected with them that does not often come into the lite of a turkey. One My last spring Mr. Yeager and his daughter, Miss Peuti. went from their home to a "clubhouse" several miles distant and situated in the solitudes of Cheat mountain. Pishing down one of the mountain streams (or trout, they unexpectedly Bushed a covey of wild turkeys, consisting of the mother bird and a nestful of little fellows. The old one Bew away to a safe distance, while the little ones, true to their nature, scrambled away and hid among the ferns. Six of them were made captives, and it was decided to take them home, but how was it to be done sucesafully Miss Pearl dropped them into the capacious and mysterious depth of her bonnet and bore them in triumph to the farmyard, where they were again to see the light and make heir future home. The tiny fellows took kindly to their new existence and soon made fast friends of new neighbors. Months have come and gone and they are now full-grown, noble fellows, fit to grace the table of a king. AN ORIENTAL BEAUTY. While we are all willing to acknowledge the Japanese as the most thoroughly artistic of all Orientals, fewwesterners believe in the beauty of Japanest women. "To be beautiful botn ;ü reality and in pictures, the woman must be somewhat !' pale completion, with thin, oval face, prominent nore, small oval eyes, and a small riouth. Her body niiif iie slender i.nd the movement graceful. Although the Ja ,IH.()I,IÜ 2 HER PACE IS PALE. IHIN A OVAL. 1 . 1. panese women do not disfigure their feet as the Chinese do, yet they must be naturally small and turned inward IB walking. Using the native figures or speech, the body must be slender and graceful, 'like i weeping willow branch.' " '.Iii.- Hint. William Dean Howells' father, who emigrated to Ohio half a century and more ago, used this formula to get rid of an intrusive visitor who had worn out his welcome. He would be . ailed out on some business and would say to the guest. '"I suppose you will not be here when I return, so 1 wish you good bye.'' This was not bad. except in comparison with the superb stratagem ascribed to Gerrit Smith in such emergencies as that he used to say in his family prayer after breakfast: "May the l?rd bless Brother Jones, who leaves us on the 10 o'clock train this morning." Second t'roM of Ii rape. Second crops ot grapes have been raised at Belleview. Florida, this sea i son.

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A. MAN OF THE PEOPLE

Francis Bellamy.) I X C O L X, thou shouldst he living at this hour; America hath need of thee!" Thus to apply the opening ( lines of Wordsworth's famous '"Sonnet to Milton to the great President whose birthday falls th'3 week seems a not unpardonable violence at this peculiar period or" our history. England, at the time Wordsworth wrote, a century ago, was "a fen of stagnant waters;" the true English, liberty-loving spirit, which Milton a century and a half before had voiced at is best, was paralyzed by commercialism; the plain people were down, Toryism was up. Tiie closing years of this present century in American politics seem in some respects not unlike that unhappy, unillumined per'od In England. Abraham Lincoln embodied the growth of the people. The pictures of his early homes and haunts are vocal with suggestion of whence his impulses were drawn. He grew with the people through the varied stages of their growth, from the humblest poverty known amid the poverty of the frontier to a mastery of the most bewildering financial complications that have ever confronted this nation. But he was the man of the people to the end. He never lost the initial impulse. He never was uncertain how the common man would regard a measure. The common man knew that his opinion had weight with the homely President. Lincoln was no faster than the plain people could follow. Herein again he embodied their history. He and they seemed to develop together. He held back till he felt their impulse unmistakably pushing him. Radical men complained at his Itownesa. Wendell Phillips raged at him with frenzied abusiveness. But 4 i Lincoln's birthplace: JOSIAH CRRWF0R.DS HOUSE WHERt" LINCOLM WORKED flSfl FARMHAND. Lincoln could not move until his people were ready to move with him. What profound leadership was in this leaning hack against the people! For Lincoln was leading most when he seemed to he moving forward least. He hated slavery no less during Iii. senatorial fight with Douglas than when he signed the Emancipation proclamation. But during those exciting debates before the voters of Illinois he only asserted the rudimentary principle that a house divided against itself His position the aholitionists ean not stand, was regarded by as nil ifullv inade quate. But it set the people to thinking and reasoning, while the vehement abolition leaders had been chiefly successful in arousing them to rancor. When inaugurated as President, amid the unutterable gloom and fear, while state after state was passing its ordinance of secession, he seemed to many as willing to sacrifice the main idea which had lifted his party to power if the South would consent to return. Nothing so plaintive, yet so manly, was before heard in a speech by the head of the nation. The Northern radicals called it weakness, and groaned for the stronger tones of Seward. But it won the people. It broke down party walls and almost created unanimity. Republican und Democrat as names were dropped for a time and men called themselves only Unionists. Out of a divided North, so divided that the Southern leaders calculated upon its inaction, Lincoln made a compact mass. The success of the war hung upon this judicious leadership of the people. Seward's high band would have made a gulf where Lincoln's subtle sympathy made a nation of a single heart. His secret was that he loved the pet -pie from whom he sprung, and knew them so well that they stood before him, with all their var .tions, as one individual. Because ol this he led them from the start to the end. not once out-pacing them, not once losing patience, yet steadily drawing then on while they believed they were thomselva the l'ulers and were pushing him. They trust ed him through the blind era because they saw that he was obeying them. Bui this implied no deceit by him. As a man In his solely individual relations he had decidedly individual convictions. But as a man who stood as

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the representative of the people he hil another consciousness. As the servant of his countrymen he enveloped himself with their convictions as they grew. Consequently he did not rule them. Clothed with new and almost dictatorial power, he used it solely at th?ir own unquestionable pressure upon him. Never have we had so strong a President; never was one who ruled less. It may not be fair, altogether, to compare present leaders with him and to condemn them for falling below his standard. Xo other statesman In the world has possessed such fmeuess of human instinct coupled with such unsurpassed experience of men and such extraordinary judgment of values as constituted the outfit of Lincoln. But on the other hand no such confusion of circumstances surrounds our modern executives. What we have right to demand in this day no less than in 1SG1 is leaders who, without hypocrisy, love the people, know the people, obey the people.

An Interesting Scene. The Xew York daily journals gave an account of a competition which took place on Lincoln's birthday between the children of the public schools. A prize had been offered by the Patria Club for the best "salute to the llag" and original patriotic song. The most dramatic feature of the exercises was probably the appearance of six hundred Russian children, who are being educated by the fund given by Baron de Hirsch. Most of these boys and girls had been less than six months in this country, but with the extraordinary facility of their race in learning a language, they already speak and understand English, and show an enthusiastic admiration for their adopted country. They marched into the great auditorium of the Educational Alliance building, each child wearing an American flag pinned to his or her breast. Their superintendent said to them. "You are no longer Russians; you are Americans. Let us see whether you can give three good American cheers." The cheers were given with sparkLINCOLN 3 INDIANA HOME! . iWmSSm r m WELL DUG- BY LINCOLN OM CRAWFORD PL R C E . ling eyes. Thirteen boys carrying national colors marched for ward, escorting a little girl dressed as Columbia, who carried a large silk flag. As she unfurled it the six hundred üttla Russians repeated in chorus: 'Flag of the Republic! nspirer in battle, guardian of oi;r homes, whose stars and stripes stand tor bravery, truth, purity and Union:- We salute thee! We. the children of many lands who find rest under thy folds, do pledge our lives, our hearts and our sacred honor to love and .protect thee, our country and the liberty of the American people forever."' At the words, "We salute thee!" tlue arms of all the children were stretched out to the Bag, and then folded upon their brea: s. An original patriotic song and the " Star-Spangled Banner' were thon su::g with great enthusiasm. The scene was described as a great object-lesson which touched the heart of every child and every spectator. There la much meaning in the old story of the woodsman who s.tid, ' If LINCOLN IN lSGiL (Brody, Wash.) I am to raise pines lit for masts, I must begin with the seed." If we are to 111! this country with intelligent, patriotic, honorable citizens we must begin the S'ork with the children. The earliest complete clock of Which an accurate record exists was made in the thirteenth century by a Saracen mechanic.

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ONE OF LINCOLN'S STORIES.

The Fate of the Man Who Tried to Advertise ;un pander at I'rayer-Meetinc The following anecdote by Lincoln is recounted by General Horace Porter. It was told daring Lincoln's visit to the front at City Point: In the course of the conversation that evening he spoke of the improvement in arms and ammunition, and of the new powder prepared for the fifteen-inch guns. He said he had never seen the latter article, but he understood it differed very much from any other powder that had ever been used. I told him that I happened to have in my tent a specimen which had been sent to headquarters as a curiosity, and that 1 would bring it to him. When I returned with a grain of the powder about the size of a walnut, he took it, turned it over in his hand, and after examining it carefully, said: "Well, it's rather larger than the powder we used to buy in my shooting days. It reminds me of what occurred once in a country meeting-house in Sangamon county. You see, there were very few newspapers then, and the country storekeepers had to resort to some other means of advertising their wares. If, for instance, the preacher happened to be late In coming to a prayer-meeting of an evening, the shopkeepers would often put in the time while the people were waiting by notifying them of any new arrival of an attractive line of goods. "One evening a man rose up and said: 'Brethren, let me take occasion to say, while we're S-waitia, that I have Jest received a new inv'ice of sportin' powder. The grains are so small you kin sca'cely see 'em with the naked eye. and polished up so fine you kin stand up and comb yer ha'r in front of one o' them grains jest like it was a lookin'-glass. Hope you'll come down to my store at the crossroads and examine that powder for yourselves ' "When .ve had got about this far a rival powder-merchant in the meeting who had been boiling over with indignation at the amount of advertising the opposition powder was getting, .at.: .-' ir'': r. LINCOLN'S FIRST HOME IN ILLINOIS. STORP fT SALEM ILL., ONCE KEPT BY LINCOLN . jumped up and cried out: 'Brethren, I hope you'll not believe a single word Brother Jones has been savin' about that powder. I've been down thar and seen it for myself, and I pledge you my word that the grains is bigger than the lumps in a coal-pile; and any one of you, brethren, ef you was in your future state, could put a bar'l o' that powder on your shoulder and march squar' through the sulphurlons flames surroundin' you without the least dan gt.r of an explosion.' " An Heroic Character. Heroic characters are immortal. The memories of rare deeds and noble virtues never die. The names of Savonarola, Luther, Mehmet lion, Peter the Hermit, Joan of Arc, Cromwell and John Brown are carved upon the iinmcrtal tablets of everlasting fame. John Brown was one of the mysteries of the human. No man has ever explained the philosophy of his life and character. We simply know him as a rare example of bravery, of moral worth and true manhood. His character was remarkable for moral purity and invincible tenacity of will. He displayed the deepest devotion to an idea that of war against human slavery. He believed that "who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." He was a stern, uncompromising hater of human bondage. Slavery to him was a heinous crime, it meant the everlasting blighting and blasting of manhood. Upon the gallows he declared that slavery was "the sum of all villainies," and must speedily perish from the land. He possessed the will of a Hercules, the faith of an Aaron. He defied formal law and the sluggish public opinion of his time, in the interests of the one cause "justice to all men." There is nothing grander in history, more sublime, than the lif of this strange man. Aye, truly "His soul goes marching on." Illfl 1 - i ik. "Did he leave his wife much when he died?" "Well, I don't know as to that, but he used to leave her about every night when he was alive." 1 i.i in 11 1 1 u from H.i 1 T Um. Over 400 diamonds are known to have been recovered from the ruins of Babylon. Many are uncut, but most ars polished on one or two sides.

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FOR SALE OR TRADE. No 180 seres in Center township, 3 Oi'.lea Booth of Plymouth. 70 acres im proved, 5 room honee. barn 20x40, wsgon phed and corn cribs, s pood orchard oi all kinds of fruits; price $37.50. No 280 acres in West township, 6 miles weBt of Plymouth. 70 sores improved, balance in timber. House is uasrly new, with 7 rooms, onteide cellar, 'sir barn, twe good orchards, all kinds jf fruit. Will trade for good residence property in Plymouth. N'o 3 02 sans in Weet township, 43-g miles from Plymouth. 52 scree in ooltivatioD, balance in timber, a good house and barn, a fine orchard, black walnut and; prioe $2,600. No 4 120 acres 5 miles west of Argoa ) acres improved, good hones with 7 rooms, barn 22x50, other oat bmldioge iod good orchard; will trade for smaller farm and give longtime on difference. No 5 116 acres miles from Donaldson . 79 acres improved, balsnoe in meadow and timber, fair house and s jood barn, with other ont buildings; will jell for $21.50 per sere or trade for 01 rv property. N06 100 acrse 7 miles west of Plymonth. 85 acres in cultivation, bslanos in timber, 1 mile from Donaldson; will '.ell cheap or trade for bnsineee property No 7 80 acres 4 miles west of Plymouth. 70 acres in cultivation, balanos in timber, good boose and barn, good orchard and wind mill; will trade for 40 acres or town property; price 140 per acre. No 8 100 acres 8 miles from Plymouth with tins improvements, fruits of all kinds, heavy timber land; will sell oheap if sold soon. Anyone wsnting a farm ?heap can get it b- calling at once. No9 A $4,000 stock of general merchandise in a village near Plymouth, doing a good business; will trade for an improved farm. No. 10 A fine farm of 135 acres mile from Donelson, Ind. miles fr m Plymouth, with flu-, large house, two big barns and all other outbuildings needed on a farm, with a big orchard of hü kindc of fraits, wind mill, stone milk house, etc. together with horses, cattle, hogs, poultry implements and (rain. Will sell cheap 81500 cash, balance ou time to suit purchaser or will trade for Chicago improved propertj. No. 1150 acres on Michigan road be tween Plymouth and Argos. Well improved. Will sell cheap er trade foi town property. No. 12 60 acres in West township nesr Donelson, with good improvements. Will sell on term' to suit buyer. Cheap. No. 13 80 acres in Polk township near school house, with good improvements. Good and. Will trade for 120 acres and pay oash difference. Must be within 3 or 4miles of Plymouth. No. 14 217 2 acres nesr Sligo in we-,t township. A good two-story house good barn and other outbuildings. Will trade for smaller farm or towu property. No. 15 1 have a new house on West Garro street, new barn, a corner lot; will sell oheap and on monthly payments. No. 16 K nss snd two lots on Walnut street near c nrt house and school. For ale ut a bargain if taken soon. No. A fine house near the new school building on south side of river. Will trade for 40, 60 or 80 aore farm and as sums inonmbrsnce from $1,000 to $1,500 Now is your ehanee. It you want to buy a farm, trade for a farmt sell a farm, or buy or sell town property, I can suit you, having property of all kinds in any part of town, or anywhere in or o Jt of the state. We will try to suit you if given a chance. Will be at Law Offioe of L. M, Laust eaoh Saturday, and all business during the wash will receive attention at said offloe. Yours for business, S H. JOSEPH.