Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 February 1899 — Page 6

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Tk? discomforts of this month can r?e escaped by taking advantage of he winter excursions of the Louisville k. Nashville Kailroad to one of the many pleasant jrsorts of the South This line öfters unsurpassed facilities j for reaching. the cities in the South, j The winter resorts of the beautiful gulf ras, of Florida, of California, and ; f the West Indies. Write C. 1. Airs ore, (ler.eral Pas-ng-r Agent. Louisville, Ky.. for fobh-rs !eft 1 iptivu of yior'.ia or the t.ulf Coast. Code i;Mk on a ifli 1 1. AU ode hooks carrh d on warships lave leaden bat !-.s, to make tiieni sink ij lost ov rboaid. The Hicis in the Ook", morco r. ate printed with a peculiar ink, which l'nd.s away when ;t comes in contact with the water. To r.iakc things still more .-ale. the bters arc changed c-ry fVw months by the navy department. Kvr-r. their vesü I's oflw ial code is chanaed. Oli 'I li:it ion I ofTee! its tut lc per !t. lo Kio-.v. SuIzt ha it. t-trd. (itiman ."o!TV Herry, kjc. h'.'; Jiva .!Tcc i. k. 1;V. S:i!z';r"s New Amtrican t.'himiy iOe. .'ut ibis out and sfiiil iU; Jur any or above pacKages ur send hi :tl Kt uN 3 pKs. ar.d great t'atautrf fr- lo JOHN A. fc'ALZKi: SKKü U.. iTrt--. Wis. Iw.n.J A MiiiiHirtf antling. Lawyer Then, 1 undei stolid you to in ear, witness, that the parties came ! tc high words? Wilne.-s No. sir; wot . fjv is. :cw. the words, was particularly i A healthy baby increases to treble its weight at birth in th. cour.-e of the 2rst three months. Your heart beats over one hundred thousand times each day. One hundred thousand supplicsof good or bad blood to your brain. Which is it? If bad, impure bloodt then your brain aches, iou are troubled with drowsiness vet cannot sleep. You are as tired in the morning &s at night. You have no nerve power. Your food does you but little good. Stimulants, tonics, headache powders, cannot cure you ; but will. It makes the liver, kidneys. skirt and bowels perform their proper work. It removes all impurities from the blood. And it makes the blood rich in its lifegiving properties. To Hasten Ftooovorym You will be more rapidly cured if you will take a laxative dose ot Ayer's pills each night. They arouse the sluggish liter and thus cure biliousness. WrKm to cur Doctors onto of tltu njokt fUilnrnt plirririiina In H the Ur.ttea SlU Write frt:ly all th II p&rticulxrk In Tnrra. II Address. UK. J. C. AVER. II Lunci;, Man. II

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its economical feature. It is well known that rails wear rapidly on curves and where these are short and traffic heavy, the cost of renewal is very large. Manning has evolved a section, which, he asserts, will reduce the cost 27 per cent per ton per year. He adds materially to the life of the rail by placing additional metal in the head and on the side r.pon which the wear comes. The new rail will be Riven a thorough test on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the receivers havrng ordered 5.000 tons from the Carnegie Steel Co. The Pittsburg & Western has also ordered COO tons. "Our Southern Shtriu" A hand.-om. ly illustrated booklet hearing this title has ju.-l beu issued by the PasscKKtr Department of the Chicago tc Eastern Illinois It. R. It is replete with descriptive, matter of interest to tourists goiDg to Cuba and Prto Rico and contain many illustrations of places of note in the West Indies-. An important feature of the booklet is description, of the two fast daily through trains run ly this company and the route traversed, choice of which is given to tourists. Copy will be sent free on application to C. L. Stone. (Jeneral Passenger and Ticket Agent. Chicago. Ou-Iliuc uii 111-Itreü !'-.' n gr. The captain of an Atlantic steamship was at a loss how to induce a j passenger to desist from the filthy habit tf spitting on the deck. Among the passengers was a gentle- ; man well known in Toronto forty years ago. who undertook to stop him j if a quartermaster were placed at his disposal. The captain closed with the I offer, and the man was directed to j letch a bucket and a mop, and to follow th offender up and down the ; deck. The result was completely satis- : factory. j 100 Krwartl, 100. The reader of tlws paper will .? plr-atcd to . Jeurn that there is at lea-t oi.e tir atieU ill-ease ! tKut .-cit-me has l n alIe to i i:n: in all its I stages ar.d that is Catarrh. Rall s Catarrh ; Cure i; the tr.ly i)sitivt cure now kiif.wr. t the iti.:ii-al traten.iiy. l atarrh l-iütf ;t constltutional di-eas-p. r-iiiir-s a constitutional ircnt- : n:eiit. Rall s Catarrh Cure is tak n internally, ; artibg directly vku the blnod ar.d mucous surI fares of the syMem. thereby destroying the j foundation f ibdis-ue,uiiügiviutflh patient streiitfth ly building up the constitution and . ussiMiiit' ijatuio in doinp its work. The pro- ! prietors have so much faith in its curative j powers that they ?er one Hundred Dollars tor i any case that it fails to euro. Seed tor list of Ter- tiuionia 1. Address r. J. CRF.NKY L CO.. Toledo, a Sold Ly iruK'its T.V. l.'ail fc I'unaly l'ills are the bcM. Fftther r All Steam r.nc ! There was released from active serv- ! ice in Kngland tho other d:.y the old- ; est working engine of the world. It ' had literally been 120 years in the i lu?dness. It was made by Jame.s Watt ; and Uoulttui in Uirniinj;ham in 1777 ; for the Uirminghani Canal Navigation ; Company. It had a thirty-two-iuch ' cylinder and an eight-foot stroke and ; was by no means small, but a low pres- : sure of st -am was used. The engine has been pumping water ever since, but is now "rclcased" and will go into I a mu.-eum. j CRKSl'KNT ITOTF.r. r.TREKA SPKIXCS, ARKANSAS, i Open February lrd. In theOark Moun- ! tains. Delightful climate. Jteauliful scen- ; err. Cncqualed inediciiial waters. Cheap : excursion rati-s. Through sl'ers via : Fri"-o TJne. A dress J. O. J'lank. Jinn- ; api'r, Uoom 1!. Ar. atie, Centorv Building, or Frico Tit ket Uth. e, N. tS. Hroailay. t. I.ouis. l!emiriiiK Iter I)l!v. j A little girl, whose mother left her I alone at night, after telling- her the i room was full of angels, was heard ; saying to In r doll: "Now, dollie, you ; mustn't b afraid. The room is full of I angels. It beats the devil how I am i afraid of angels." A physician calculates that it takes dght times the strength to go upstairs that is required for the same iistance on the level. A beautifully illustrated paper called "The Corn licit" is published every month and contains a qurntity of interesting information about the farm lands west of the Mississippi Kiver. Pictures of all sorts of farm scenes in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. Personal cxperfrom the Kast years ago. The handsomest year s subscription to Ttili CORN IlhLT, Establish A Home of Your Own. The Perfect CIGAR

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LINCOLN'S ONLY DUEL, (By Col. T. 15. Thorpe.) UK memory of Mr. Lincoln will always he popular. Kmhodying wit h i n himself tho humanitarian triumph of one of the most tremendous revolutions that ever convulsed tho world and therelore posm . t -ossin; uii mo grandeur of association that is accorded to the most noted personages in history, htlll he has never been, in any puhlic act of his life, devated above the understandings and affections of the masses of the people. Kind-hearted and overflowing with sympathy by nature, yet he was controlled by an honesty of purpose that kept him unyielding where principle was concerned, making him self-poised amid opposition, and perfectly self-reliant when the hour of action arrived, yet in small, as well as in great matters the inherent humor of hi?! mental composition prevailed. It is easy, therefore, to imaging that if Mr. Lincoln deemed it necessary to appear as principal in a duel, he would naturally attract to himself such surroundings as might turn all the intentions of a tragedy into the realities of a fan-p. The year 1 S 42 was one of great political excitement in tho etat- of Illinois, and conspicuous among the master spiii.s were Mr. Lincoln and (Jen. Shields. Hcth at the time were practicing lawyers at the Springfield bar. both held pjominent oflieia! positions, and both were accepted leaders in their respective parties. These gentlemen were warm personal friends.though opposed in politics, and differing as much in their mental qualities as they did in their personal appearanc(Jen. Shields being of medium height, Mr. Lincoln of unu.ujal altitude. What eventually brought about a disagreement between these gentlemen, that made (Jen. Shields feel it necessary to send a challenge to Mr. Lincoln, was never certainly known. When it is recollected, however, that these gentlemen, as party leaders frequently t ame together ou 'the stump," it is not difficult to imagine, that Mr. Lincoln may have got off one of his telling stories at. the expense of his friend that might have ben at the moment construed into a persona) affront. Whatever was the oau.ve, it is certain that the "cartel" was seriously written and solemnly borne to Mr. Lincoln by (Jen. Whltesides, a gentleman then holding a prominent place at the b;ir and an important command in the Illinois militia. Up to the time of which we write there had been but one duel fought within the limits of Illinois, and that occurred in her territorial condition. Orit? of the combatants was shot dead on the field, and the survivor was instantly hanged to the limb of a neighboring tree by the friends of the slain. Such summary punishment made the "code of honor" unpopular, and a provision was consequently engrafted upon the state constitution rendering principals and seconds engaged in a duel ineligible for any political office. This made "affairs of honor" impolitic and unfashionable, and all personal difficulties were deemed honorably settled .by a rough and tumble light, or by an appeal for justice to the sood sense r.t the oomnmi'.ity. In society, therefore, where dueling had been for years morally and legally offensiv, it was not easy to Und a "friend" possessed of the requisite knowledge to conduct such a proverbially delicale affair; in fact, at this time therw was but one person in or about Springfield who was supposed to Lave the required experience, and the reputation was founded upon vague t radii ion rather than from auy absolute, knowledge. The gentleman alluded to aa this expert was Dr. Merryman, a popular physician, distinguished for Iiis Rood nature, professional skill and varied literary and scientific attainments. In his youth he ran off to sea. Trained in this rough school, he naturally, in his maturer years, after obtaining Iiis diploma as surgeon, accepted a professional position on board of a South American privateer. The djctor was fond of a joke, and iiot Indisposed, while attending to his business calls, to lighten the gloom of the skk room by detailing to his patients hl terrible experiences on the "Spanish main," all of which the honest "inlad people" received Ith due awe

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; pat in a. inci, and to Jiave hepn asso- ; c-ialed with several in his capacity as surgeon, and he boasted, in his peculiar way, that he had killed a white man. a tugro and an Indian by virtue ! of his diploma, lie was. withal, a good shot on the wieg, a capital fencer and a conscUntiuus believer in the tliiity-six articles of (Ja 1 way. To this gentleman, bis most intimate personal friend, bearing the warlike message put in Iiis hand by (.Jen. Wl.itesides. Mr. Lincoln wont for advi-.. expissin.u" in advsiiu; Iiis radikps.s to meet the denuinti in;.uY upon him if the cause of the mi-understanding ould not be amicably arranged. The doctor, with this authorization, called upon the aggrieved party's "friend." and after all proper endeavors to bring about peace failed, formally accepted the challenge, the principals were officially notified of the result, and the seconds proce-d d to arMR. LINCOLN SAT IN THK STL UN ()!' Tin: 150 AT. range the preliminaries for a hostile meeting. (Jen. Whitesidcs wüs totally ignorant of all and singular of the thirty-six articles of (Jalway. and he therefore naturally dfetred everything regarding details to the presumed experience and superior knowledge of the doctor. It was, therefore, sp edily settled that the belligerents should meet at an early day in the state of Missouri, and opposite to the town of Alton. The weapons, broadswords, United States pattern (then a very heavy and clumsy weapon). The light to be across a, barrier four feet high and four feet wide, and the duel to ease at the "first blood." At the time agreed upon the principals, with the seconds, pursuing different routes, started for the "field of honor." Mr. Lincoln and his friends made the journey by a small stage coach, the interior of which, for want of capacity, compelled Mr. Lincoln to ride with the driver. From his exalted position, sword in hand, he amused himself with hacking at the overshadowing limbs of th trees that lined the road, leaving a swath of green leaves to mark his progress, his second, the doctor, and his friends riding inside, LINCOLN AND HIS ANTAGONIST TOOK THUIR PLACES. applauding vociferously (he firmness of hand and direful exeution that displayed itself when a limb of unusual size came whirling to the ground. Arriving at Alton, the two seconds, in advance of the principals, crossed the Mississippi Hiver and s lected Ihe ground (which, Mr. Lincoln nibseiuently remarked, was in sight if the Illinois Penitentiary), and erected the barrier. These things Et-complistcd,

the seconds leturned to Alton. Tha belligerents then, in separate skiffs, proceeded across the river. Mr. Lincoln sat in the stern of the boat, beside his second. As the stalwart oarsman bif-ated the waves of the Mississippi, Mr. Lincoln said that his situation reminded him of a story. He .suggested that h; thought he felt like a Kentnckian lie knew vho volunteered in the war of 1SH In accordance with the time-honored custom of those, days, his swtethuart embroidered him a bullet pouch and belt, and proposed 'o the incipient hero tliat be would work on the belt the motto, "Victory or Death." "Oh, no," replied the volinit-!-, "isn't that raythcr too strong? S'pose you put 'Viclory or He Crippled?' " Arriving at the p!ace selected for the cor-ihat, the forms and ceremonies in such cases being punctiliously insisted on by the doctor, Mr. Lincoln, and his antagonist took their assigned places, with the arthwrk between them; but before the word was given for the duel absolutely to niramence, what was apparent to the least observing from the first, viz., that, according to the arrangements. Mr. Lincoln had the advantage, now that tho combatants stood face to face, becama doubly apparent. Mr. Lincoln's antagonist had neither the stature nor length of limb fairly to meet his foe; while Mr. Lincoln, with his long body and wonderfully long arm, had nothing to do but reach across the barrier and cut up his helpless antagonist at his leisure, and he could do this with' as little risk of personal danger to himself as he did when he slaughtered the unoffendiug tree limbs that lined his way to the lie'd of honor. The fane of Lincoln's plan of duel now became evident to all present. As might have been expected, the friends of the challenger promptly protested, remonstrated against the self-evident inequality of terms, and demanded a parley. The doctor, the oratio of the field, replied that tho terms were "mo-t solemnly agreed upon" by all t lie parties necessarily interested, and that, according to the "thirty-six articles of (lalwaj'," they could not be amended or altered without commencing the duel over again from the very beginning, and, to reach this point of beginning, the challenge, must first be withdrawn. After much discussion, this practice was adopted, and the way was made, according to the thirty-six articles, for mutual explanations. There-, upon, as might have been expected, all differences were soon amicably settied. Out of "after discussions" sons of the parties connected with the duel as friends or spectators edified the community, through partisan Journals, with "sharp explanatory cards." Ona or two other "similar affairs" wera talked of, but they never came to n htad; and as a consequence the wholg matter soon faded out of the pallia mind; and thus ended Mr. Lincoln's first and only affair of honor. It wa3 Mr. Lincoln's pleasure, long year3 after, to confer a brigadier general's commission upon his antagonist (alleady distinguished for his courage and honorable wounds in the Mexican war), who. in the bloody struggle la Virginia, made a gallant stand against Stonewall Jackson in the valley of th Shenandoah. New York Ledger. .Jmiieft I'artou l'rel u-t Ion. In 1SG2 .Tams Parton. the celebrated biographical writer, made the fol lowing prediction in regard to Abraham Lincoln: History will say of Mr. Lincoln that no man of a more genial temperament, a more kindly nature, ever tenanted the White House; that he gave all his time, his thoughts, hia energies, to the discharge of duties of unprecedented magnitude and urgency; that, hating no man, he steadfastly nleavored to win the confidence and luve of all the loyal and patriotic, and that, lu spite of four chequered years of such responsibility and anxiety as has seldom fallen to the lot of man. ha bore away from the i-apitol the sunny temper and blithe frankness of Jiia boyhood, returning to mingle with his old neighbors as nne with them in heart and In manner, in retirement aa in power a happy specimen of the men whom liberty and democracy train in the log cabin and by the rudest hearth to guide the counsels of the Republic and influence the destinies of the people. Hither the saloon must go, or our boys must continue to -to beil. Hams' Hum.

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HECOrtD OF HAPPENINCS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Oll VT!!. in the State Democratic Kdilor Decide Not to Admit Doltrr to membership Too Vuun; to Oet M.irr ie:. Nc til WeiN in Iixi::iti:i. T:' :lZd.- . Ihd. -Tile jvpert of tt'O i)ri ' ictioM of the India'.ia f.eld !"r ?Lo r.;h o:" .January has just '.n'ou .)!" .! c, and while it .-Iiou.-. ccm1 V-t -ember, a d'-ciea.v n;;:::'vr n;' good wells dii'bd i. .J i.'v.v- a ry grat if;. ;:ig increa.-e. r:i :;.: ; !:;.-; i-:n o crude p-'.'trob i!;:ri; T:.i- month ? 7 J new wells wm-c ccm:-let..! in t':e Indiana Held. Oi f!u.:. ;fiy-six v.cre itlier dry hoIe.s .:i::i ed naught !nt natural ga-. .'-:-ra.ui;i!i2 3 St ranging from live to V.'S" -in !; (- j-.cr day, the Powell w II I'l.v ki'ord county, the best drilled t:: j:ii!tu!is. touching the lait-r iU.t). The daily output of tin IK pr;"1'",t" s U .L'lti barrel.--, o;- a daily awris-: per well of a fraction over t-.w?r:y-.sv:'n barrels. The number of cornplMe.t wils in .1 unitary is thirteen h'An-.f t:j ot Jeeember, but the avT:!gr prod'te:. -f the wells which cam in during the month exceeds that for I December "y '.".". barrel?. Sixteen r7t'?r dry hole.; wer drilled, in January t!:a:t i:i December. ltic;s wer" turn r!c vn .ind raxing drawn from ." of f;I:- old and exhausted producers. Th"t? :v n.i-.v J71 wells diilüng. witU 111 ri.j :::. an increas over December of r .a drliling 'veils and seventeen rig-; :v..i ki v u a net incre;e of tv'?:i: - v. jiev: (!rii;ii:gs Tor .Tar.'.:ar 7. I-iil in i:litr-. in Srion. Ir. '..tü.iwDüs. Ind. T!;e demorrati c:i:L;;ri In'iinua m I h-re Thursday. i'jO-'.rtf c.s .jt sympathy wtrc j.assed i-'-ri: to loss f Mayor Tacg.i.:' ::.:::z':i;;-:- tmd the- deaih sf Kditor v'-..Iik-'s wife of Marion. A declj-i-.it icr. ;;). ni.ide itat nun- but th" editors of dvmo.ralic papers wlw st.and 'y the rt-uiar nominations of thr deritocratic lvjtrty fhouhl be adn:ir.roi to nejubership in the assooiAt5.;i;. V uiloving ar tbe officers elected: P.-rva l.;nt. Dale .1 Crittrnberscr. A::d jrivjt! : vi re-president-. .1. U. Himp-s-::i of i'aoli and -loini ('. (It.rman of i-'rinr'f'io;:: treasurer. John V. Ilarne.-. f.:2far.-j.-rJ : r-orrvpoii!ins: sr cretary. IJ.iyrir.I S. (iray. Ft auk fort. Kiht dls.it-s v r appoints! ui the National Klitorial association, which iv.-.. i in i'ortland, Ore. Madison was r.ycr.cd for tho next stale mfetin.:; in May. It was aree.l that tbe legislature ;-.hc::id take action in regard to erecting i inoriumcri!. njion the TipP" a;:'; '.:a:t!-.' ground. Not Iii First. r-'arc.:-. In.!. John M. i-::iis. a trav-..iK-raan for the J. J.. Whitelie. Dr.-.-- (Jood.A cunip;:iy of New V ;-'-c. ; .i!!.-d to have embezzled a I'Jr;A- nn.o'jiit. ;f the firm's r.iocej. Kii: -h 2:- -c.Ue;-;e:J of merchants here. alsi bit Marion without paying hi hotel bill. Mr. Whitehead, the .-riior rr. .Tab.- r of the firm, is here inves. 'satin:? the ir.attrr. and had Chief of Police Lewis of this city telegraph a description of Klli.; all ovtr the cnntry. Vfrl was retdved from .ie.-ks--.:;. .Mtch.. that Ellis had been cuntured t!:.'re. Chief Lewis vet:t lo J.fkvor. hi-. wfek aiul n-turncd wit "a the pr:.-::::or. Vhitehcad avers thai. tii:s is I. is r r iin.l ou'cTi.-e. and t!:..T M'li.s was -.u r I. ins out a s!ij;riare when r rnbe.v.Ied the Marion roiie--t:ot:s lYi? !::.. a wife and child ar M.h. em Voniis; to :ot Married. ri Gra:i. Ind. -A sensational elvtperant has voiwo to ar. end at Coesiruitine. where Will Niles, ajred !P. i.-. hein rebl Iiv odicers, and Miss r.Iincrvt Wlbler. aed 1-".. is bcini; wa.tci.e-: :;t the hime of her father. The. couple wished to jret mart led. which was nsainst her jtnrents" wishes. They r.iar.aged to leave th vicinity ar.d o to ( 'on tervi lie. the eotraty seat, but v.cre too voting to sec jut jhe necessary l:ecns "i'he country was i in se.irchfti when Mr. Wilder was notifies! it:at !iis youthful daughter ii::d b"er. fvjur.d en the streets of Houth Ilrnd. I i 'T mind was in a bewildered state ard she could hardly explain her action.-. When tbe old borne was reac'ed sh" was in a repentant mood. Fvir l.44 of County S:t. Indianapolis; Ind. A bill has n.ise.1 the house reanlin? places for hoblInA' puperit:r court that indicates a movement to hatipn the county seat of Kike county from (Town Point to Hammond and that of Importe county from Laporto o Michigan City. A delegation is here from Crown Point and other parts of Lake county to register a strong remonstrance agaluvt the proposed cliango. Kmokutri 1'iiHilfr. Indianapolis. Ind. Ansil Moffatt. a chemist f this city, claims to i-,no invented a smokeless powder, the secret of which is Known only to himself aral J. Kichnrd Francis. He claims it to be safer than nitroglycerin "r black powder, and that It ran be exploded in a frozen condition, lie sa3 it can be made cheaper than blatins dynamite, and is cheaper for firearms Ihan any other smol-:r!ess preparation. He has named big new lind "Aza."