Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 August 1898 — Page 2

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Thru :m3 Now. Mr. Zangwill tells me. writes a correspondent of the Westminster Budget, that many ars ago. when an obecure lad. teaching in a Jewish school In London, he sent a short poem to one of the best known of the American monthly magazines. The poem came "back with the first mail. But Mr. Zangwill kept it by him, and quite recently he sent it on again to the -ame magazine. This time. immediately on its receipt, he received a cable from tho proprietors of the magazine offering to buy the "world's rights.' and almost immediately they issued a huge poser intimating that their next issue would coma in a poem by I. Zangwill. The poem was the same poem, word for word: but in the interim Mr. Zangwill had achieved fame, and his signature was worth money. (iood Kxcuse. A western teacher in a town in which the women have the right of suffrage, ret eived the following note accounting for the absence of one of her pupils on election day: "Drre Teacher Please be so kind as to excuse Lizzie for not having went to school yesterday. I kept her home to mind the baby while I give out votes glad I kept Lizzie home and done w hat I could to elect the right man, who. as you will see by ;he morning paper, got theie by a big majority. So I am glad I kept Lizzie home an done what I could at the poles." Harper's Round Tat le. An CMS P:tir. "I want a pair of socks, Jane." said the mast and Jane came up sniffling with one r d and white striped sock and one brown one. "There's only this pair of odd one." she said. -Pick-Me-rp. COSMO BUTTERMILK TOIL KT SOAP makes the skin soft, white and healthy. Bold everywhere. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. warning ol winter So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of age and declining power. No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless it may seem, you confidently expect leaves again. And why? Because there is life at the roots. So you need not worry about the falling of your hair, the 5 threatened departure of youth and beauty. And why? Because if there is a spark of life remaining in the roots of the hair AYER'S HAIR VIGOR will arouse it into healthy activity. The hair ceases to come out: it begins to grow: and the glory of your youth is restored to vou. fc'e have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. The floft Adwtce Free. If tou do not (.Main all the beneflti yeu expected frnu the me of tbe Vigor, write the tedOT Unit it. 1'robably ther 1 some diffloultv with your general system wl.nli may hts eaaily reainreU. Addr-i DB. J. C. AYKR, Lowell. Mail. McCRAY'S MODERN

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ARMY AND NAVY SURGEONS.

H;ie Kank and I'osition on Land bat Not on Water. In the United States army things in regard to relative medical rank are in an entirely satisfactory condition. The rank of medical officers from a second lieutenant to a brigadier general is clearly defined, and a doctor is treated exactly as are the officers of the same rank in other parts of the service. The beist of feeling obiains in our army between the line and the staff officers; doctors, of course, always being members of the staff. This is not so, unfortunately, in our navy. We think, before the w ar is over things will be very much improved there, perhaps wholly righted, and engineers and doctors will have rank conferred upon them which will cause them to be treated with the same respect as are thoee who are, strictly speaking, naval officers. Certainly in the navy, even more than in the army, the doctor shares the dangers of the fight fully with his nominally more warlike comrade or superior, atlhough he is deprived of the satisfaction of firing back. Try to Find Out. All ought to try to find out what they were made for. Every one has a place and purpose in God's plan. That purpose should be understood and fulfilled as far as possible. Every saved man is saved for some specific service besides his own happiness. God made no man simply for his own happiness, and he saves no man simply that he alone may be happy in h'aven. He has a nobler end ip both cases than the gratification of a selfish spirit. There is some service for every one in God's vineyard. Idlers are not wanted. Let us find what God wants us to do and do it. Iet us do it in earnest and do it well. Then Gcd will say. 'Well done, good and faithful servant.'' Shake Into Tour Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, nervous, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoo stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Hume, Sweet Heme. '"I've had a delightful time on my j holidays. No regular hours for meals. ! A large, airy room. No charge for hot j and cold baths. All kinds of fruit and vegetables. A well-stocked wine cellar and no charge for corkage, and, above all. no fees for the servants." "Delicious! Where is this ideal spot?" "I stayed at home." Tit-Bits. Beauty Is Blood Xeep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. t'ascarets Candy Civthurtic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by stirring up the la.y liver and driving all impurities troiii the body, liegin to-day to baniu pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly biliouscomplexion by taking Cuscarets beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfat tiou guaranteed. lUc, J5c, 50a The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world is in Galicia. Hungary. It is 550 milee long, 20 broad and 250 feet in thickness. In China to salute any one by taking off one's hat is a deliberate insult. Xo-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tob&cro habit eure, makes tneu strong, blood pure. 50i-.fl. All druifgintaV 1 The less heart a man puts into a task the more labor it requires. Halt's Catarrb Core Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75a Ninety reporters are employed in the gallery of the house of commons. Coe'a Coach Balaam If the oldest nd best. It will break up a rold quick than ai.vthintr trlM-. It it- alwaya rttttftla Try M. One may smile and smile and be a villain still - Shakespeare. PisO'S Cure for Consumption has been a God-send to me. Win. B. McClellaa, Chester, Florida. Sept. 17. 18t5. The empire of Japan comprises today about 4.000 rocky islands. For a perfect complexion and a clear, healthy skin, use COSMO BUTTERJfUJL so.P. Sold everywhere. There is no danger in truth. REFRIGERATORS

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A SKETCH OF LAWTON.

REMINDS ONE OF SCOTT S NORMAN BARON. Giant In Size and reti;rtli No one Has Done .lustlce to the fl iliCBMlblc Pic" tiircsqiK-nrsH of the .Man His I ttc-r Fc'arlt'ssiiess. ( Special Letter.) ilK pa pert hae givMi many short biographies of H. W. Lawton. now a major general oi volnntt era, v.- ii o pommanda one of the divisions ol' Shatter's army ami whose men w re engaged in the ileaperate assault of El Caney. i ney have told of his long years of service, of hov he has work ed himself up through the lieutenancies to his presettl rank, ami of the training givpn him of more than a quarter of a century of experience: hut of the gigantic size, the phenomenal strength and activity, the abnormal endurance, the utter fearlessness and the Inalienable pirturesqueness of the man not a word. I have the honor to know him well. and. since 1 like men whose baric manhood has not been utterly refined out of them. I like him. Lawton reminds me always of Scott's Norman baron, Front de Boeut'. Tie has better morals, of course, as well as a very pretty taste in red wines and reed birds, but he is as big as the giant slain hy Richard of the Lion Heart, is as direct in his methods and. in personal or general combat, every bit as savage. There is plenty of the primal man in him. What he thinks he says. He has a strong sense of justice, but his temper is terrific, and he is not gentle. He requires of subordinates the utmost endeavor and gets it. lie asks no one to do work that he is not competent and willing to do himself. MAJ.-GEN. Naturally a leader, he goes first, and the more difficult or desperate the undertaking the faster he goes. Upon ;he gray granite slab which covers the bones of a Confederate officer who sleeps on the magnolia petalled uplands of Louisiana is an inscription: "He never told his men to go on." That will do for Lawton when he dies. He is 6 feet 3 inches high. He weighs 210 pounds and nearly every ounce of it is bone and blood and tendon and muscle. He is i5 years old and as springy as a youth. His capacity to go without food, drink or sleep is seemingly unlimited. "Macumazahn" the Zulus called Quatermain "the one who has his eyes open." Ifacumazahn Lawton will keep them open for a week at a stretch when necessary, and then walk, talk, eat. drink, or fight a dozen men to a standstill. He has lived a life of peril and hardship. His only rule of hygiene is a tub in the morning. He has taken no son of care of himself. Yet so splendidly was he endowed by nature that there is no perceptible weakening of his torces. Apparently he is as powerful and enduring as when 1 saw him first. That was more than ten years ago. He had completed one of tue most re markable feats of strength and perscerance chronicled in the long annals of the Anglo-Saxon race, but he was as fresh as a rose in the morning. He stood on the government reservation at San Antonio surrounded by the tawny savage band of Cbtlicahua Apaches, whom he had hunted off their feet. Near him, taciturn but of kindly visage, stood young Chief Naches, almost as tall as he. In a tent close by lay Geronimo, the medicine man. groaning from a surplusage of fresh beef eaten raw. The squat figures of the hereditaiy enemies of the whites grouped about him came only to Iiis shoulder. he towered among them, stern, powerful, dominant an incarnation of the spirit of the white man whose war drum has beat around the world. Clad in a faded, dirty fatigic jacket, a greasy flannel shirt of gray, trousers so soiled that the stripe down the leg was barely visible, broken boots and a disreputable sombrero that shaded the harsh features burned almost to biackneaU, be was every im h a soldier and a man. To the other officers at the post the Indians paid no sort of attention. To them Gen. Stanley and his staff were SO many welldressed lay figures standing about as a part of a picture done for their

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amusement, hut the huge, massive man With the stubble on his . hin had sho n them that he was their superior on hunting grounds that were theirs by birthright, anu they hung Upon hia lightest word. For the tenth time Goronimo's band had jumped the San Carlos reservation. The spring grass was "two inches high and the Indian lust for blood was awake. As usual, troops were started upon a perilous chase. For days they followed the trail over a country thai God Almighty made in wrath. Farther and further into the vast solitudes they toiled. Volcanic crests reared about them. Lava tore the leather from their feet. They drank from springs that gushed t lousands of feet above Ihe valleys. They wandered in canons so deep and dark that through the narrow ribbon of white far above them the stars were seen at midday. They lived upon animals no wilder than tiie men they were pursuing, md scarcely more wild than they. Now and then, from a forest of nine far bote them, a shred of blue smoke drifted on the furnace air, followed by the shrill of the bullet's wild singing. The horses long since had been left behind. The cavalrymen were on foot with .awton at their head, his teeth hard set. "We ll walk them down,"' he told his sergeant when the mountains were reached. He was walking them down. Six weeks afterwards an Indian, whose bones seemed ready to start through his skin, came to the camp and said that Geronimo was ready to surrender, lawton went alone to the lair of the starving wolves and received their submission. Cavernous eyes glared at him. Lips black from thirst an. hunger were drawn back over discolored teeth. Skeleton fingers pointed at him. From skeleton jiiws came sounds of pleadings mixed with wrath. The poison of bitter racial hatred was in every glance. "Even the rocks smelled like mad Indian.'' he told me with a laugh long afterward. He lounged among them, their master by virtue of superior courage and strength

LAWTUN. and hardihood, and they followed him like sheep to food and imprisonment. This is the story in outline of the capture of Geronimo. physician, wizard, conjuror, orator and murderer. The man of El Caney is the man of the Mogallons. and the man 'of the Mogallons is the reincarnation of some shining, helmeted giant warrior who fell upon the sands of Palestine in the first crusade, with the red blood welling over his corselet, and his twohandled battle sword shivered to the hilt. The race-type persists unchanged in eye. in profile, in figure. It is the race which in all the centuries the Valkyrs have wafted from the war decks, have hailed from the holmgangs or ht 'met-strewn moorlands the white skinned race which, drunk with the liquor of battle, reeled around the dragon standard of Senlac, which fought Wui Richard Grenville. which broke the Old Guard at Waterloo. wum Ii rode up the slope at Balak'ava, which went down with the Cumberland at Hampton Roads, which charged with Pickett at Gettysburg the race of the trader, the financier, the statesman, the inventor, the colonizer, the reator.but, before all, the fighter. Ilou afSMtlM Is llnrried I p. "An office with a west front is a great thing in the justice line these days," said Clerk Sturgis, as Justice Hawthorne disposed of a half dozen cases in half an hour yesterday afternoon. "The advantage tomes in ths fact that a room fronting the west gets hotter than any other and becomes .mcomfortable for the criminals, the court and the lawyers. The criminals give up the truth more readily, and the court is more rapid in his decisions, but the principal advantage is in the time gained on the lawyers. When they are a little bit more uncomfortable than usual it is surprising how they forget to delay the proceedings and how they can facilitate business. Now, this room is admirably arranged, hot in summer and cold as the mischief in winter. It make- business go with a dash and hustle and we officials get away the same as the rest of them when it is over. You know we are on salary now and only have to do what we can not get out of any way." The COUrt rooms of most of the south side justices are on the east side of 'he street, and so located that they are uncomfortable most any time in the day when courts are usually held. Kansas City Journal.

SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. New Signal System Morse Code of Visual Telegraphy on Luiul and Sa The Apparatus Is lnc pensive Mow It Is Done, Many inventions, most of which have been impracticable from a mechanical point of view, have been placed before ihe public with the object of producing a sensible and ac urate method of signaling at sea from places on land that could not be connected by wire. The need of such a system is cleat ly shown by the difficulty experienced by our army in Cuba and our fleet of war vessels in those wat'-r. Conversation has been carried on hitherto by means of flags representing words and sentences in a code by semaphores and by helioscopes, wigwagging, etc. The communication has been necessarily slow and the exchange of ideas limited. The wigwag is utterly useless at night and the same objection applies to nearly every other system that has been presented. The latest invention, and one that is so entirely practical and simple that it is a wonder that it has not been discovered long ago, is known as "visual telegraph" and was made by Melvin D. Compton of New York city. Ir is effective ether day or night and messages can be transmitted between vessels at sea or between different places on land any distance that the eye can reach with the aid of a field or marine glass. It uses a keyboard containing all the letters of the alphabet and numerals, and is so constructed that when an electric circuit is closed at any desired letter or figure on the board the characters in the Morse alphabet corresponding to the letter at once appear on a standard to be read. These characters can be of any dimensions. On ships these may be made to appear at a masthead or any suitable height from the deck convenient for observation from another vessel or point of land from 10 to 110 miles away. Vessels equipped with this contrivance can transmit messages of any nature by use of the ordinary telegraph alphabet, and war vessels having their own private code are enabled to transmit information from vessel 10 vessel with absolute secrecy and accuracy. It is only necessary to have a telegraph operator. The apparatus is simple and inexpensive, and the cost of maintenance is trifling where a dynamo circuit is obtainable. In isolated' places, whero no electric light circuit can be had, storage batteries may be used. The essential features of the apparatus are a signal board upon which the signals are displayed, a keyboard of the ordinary plug switch design and the proper electrical connection upon the surface of the signal board are arranged a series of round holes and rectangular spaces covered with plain or colored glass, back of which are lights and reflectors. The enclosing glass front is formed of lenses of such materiai and shape as best to projec t to a distance the rays emitted from the source of light. Each lamp is inclosed in a separate compartment, and is so arranged that the rays from one source do not reflect or interfere with those from another. The signal board is arranged in two rows in the following order: Three circles, a rectangle and five circles on the upper line and three circles and two rectangles alternating in the lower line. With this arrangement every character in the Morse alphabet can be displayed in the smallest space. The operator simply sits at the keyboard and closes each circuit required by Inserting a metal plug in such a way that the circuit is made complete, and immediately the characters are flashed out from the signal board. For example, if it is desired to send the command "Advance," the operator inserts the plug in the hole marked A, and lights appear on the board behind a rectangle and an adjacent circle which the operator reads thus o . He next withdraws the plug and inserts it in the hole marked D and the characters on the board o. will appear. 3 CD For V, the next letter from the signal board will be flashed o o o , and so on until the end of the word. The rapidity of signaling is only limited by the speed of the operator, and naturally exceeds that of any system based on semaphores, flag wagging, or helioscope work. A skilled telegraph operator is not necessary, the only requisite buing to read the Morse alphabet. The Navy department test requires that the signals for its use must be visible at a distance of three miles, and for the past few weeks Mr. Compton has been making a number of experiments with his apparatus in order to gauge the exact power of the lights and

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to discover the smallert sized signal board whose characters could be read three miles away. He has flashed signals from the top of the Palisades, near fort Lee. to one of the tall office buildings near the city hall, a distance of six miles, that could be clearly read with the aid of an ordinary pair of opera glasses.

To Follow BteMM a Mile HIc. The United States "Weather Bureat. Is about to make the experiment ot following the course of storms and cold waves, from the Rocky Mountains to i the Alleghenics. at an altitude of a mile from the earth's surface. This is to be accomplished by means of a series of fifteen or twenty high level observing stations. By means of simultaneous observations made at these stations it is hoped that important facts may be developed. At the height of a mile the diurnal variations of temperature, felt at the earth's surface, practically disappear, and the progress of a storm at that elevation is free from the distracting elements introduced by local effects near the ground. A Swift Motor Cycle. Twenty-eight motor cycles participated in a race recently between Etampes and Cbartres, France. Tne distance, going and returning, was about sixtytwo miles. The winning vehicle, driven by an eight horse-pow:r motor with two cylinders, made the round trip in about two minutes and Kn seconds less than two hours. The speed was thirtyone and two-thirds miles per hour. This, it is said, beats the best previous record for road carriages. Ptctera Taken In tlw Dark. In photogaphing without light some curious results are obtained with wood A section of a young larch tree put in a dark place, with the prepared pho tographic plate, transfers its lines, one by one, to the plate. The different rings and layers of the bark are all distinctly reproduced. A leaf with the plate will be reproduced, even to :ts most delicate veins. The result looks not unlike X-ray photography, although it reveals nothing of- the interior structure of ihr thing photographed. Liquid Hydrogen. Professor Dewar succeeded in liquefying hydrogen at the Royal Institution, in London on May 10th last. He produced half a wineglassful of the liquid, the boiling pont of which was found to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit Delow zero. When a tube, closed at the lower end, was dipped into the liquid hydrogen, it was almost instantaneously filled with solid air. so quickly were the oxygen and nitrogen of the atmosphere frozen by the fearful cold! Helium, which, like hydrogen, has hitherto resisted efforts to liquefy it. was also liquefied by Professor Dewar on the same da, the liquid hydrogen being employed as an agent in the process. The boiling point of helium is near that of hydrogen. H. ikth in the National Zoological Harden. Washington. Regular beaver colonies are now established in the garden, and they build dams, erect houses and carry on the processes of their life as if in their native woods. This most interesting animal bids fair to become extinct. In Europe but a few hundred individuals remain, and it is a subject of congratulation that such success has been attained with them in the national capital. They are becoming so tame that their wonderfully ingenious work can be watched by the visitors. specHucles for Hore4. It is asserted in Popular Science News that spectacles for horses Ml among recently patented inventions. The purpose is said to be not to improve the sight, but by causing the ground in front to appear nearer than it really is, to induce the horse to take high steps. After a training with such spectacles, it is averred the horse acquires and retains the habit of highstepping. Kittal to Moainitom. According to the Public Health Journal mosquitoes cannot abide the touch of permanganato of potash. It is instantly fatal to the insects in all their stages of development. A handful, it is averred, will kill all the mosquito embryos in a ten-acre swamp. It is recommended to scatter a few crystals of permanganate widely through marshes in which mosquitoes abound. Water ltne, of Taper. The Japanese make water-bags of rice paper which are said to be more durable, as well as less expensive, than similar articles made of rubber. Between the layers of paper, which is soft and flexible, resin is used, and the outside is covered with lacquer. A Chicago man has patented a crosscut saw which can be operated by one man. a crescent -shaped blade being pressed against the log by a spring and rocked part way around a circle by means of a crank and gear wheels.