Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 February 1899 — Page 6

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A REMARKABLE MAN.

LOUIS BETTS, KING OF KASKASKIA ISLAND. Ill rrm VTa Wtf!icil Auay Twentjrlie Years As ly a Change in the Mighty 3Iisitsipii'a Course He Saw Gen. Lafayette. Perhaps the most remarkable character in Illinois today is old Louis Uetts, an inhabitant of Kaskaskia is- j land. iVtts is in the eighty-fourth j year of his life, ami is spending his latter days in the one habitable room :f one of the few tumble-down old hon? es that form what is left of the j historic old village of Kaskaskia. Louis Helta is the lat living individual of a pvuliar type well known in :he vicinity of Kaskaskia in the early j art of the nineteenth reutury. His n: other was a mixture of negro and Indian, while his father was a full-blood-iC French man. The old man's skin is ; LOl'IS HKTTS. almost copper-colored. His hair is ecmbed back from his forehead and falls in little ringlets about his ears. which are as small and neatly molded as some beautiful young woman's. He has a sharp, well-set nose and his lips are thin and now drawn by old age. His sharp, piercing blue eyes blink expressively from his shriveled little face ; ud in no way does he resemble a negro save in his hair. The Indian show? itself in his skin. Hetts speaks French fluently 0 he does English. He was born in IS 15 and was to years old when General Lafayette visited Kaskaskia in lS2-. The old man says that he can remem- ! -v the occasion and is always ready Tf give an account of the great event. In 1V"1 Hetts. with a party of prospectors, made the trip across the plains In a prairie schooner to the gold fields cf California. Hut Betts came back in r. very short while, and he says today that "there wa'n't no chance for a 1 oor man out there then." lie has not been off Kaskaskia isle ml for more than twenty-five years. Yar after year he has remained in the tumble-down obi village and watched the constant efforts of the mighty Mississippi river to completely wash away the historic ypot. Betts was at one time .walthy ami owned a fertile farm near thQ junction of the Mississippi and Ka.-kaskia rivers, but when the former stream decided that her course had been cut out wrong and changed her current to the channel of the Kaskaskia h.- lietts farm went floating down the river and helped to form ti e great Mississippi delta. During the ..ng summer months the old man Fits :r. the river's hank, near the spot formerly vcupied by the famous Kaskaskia tavern, and tells stories of vents in the bygone days of the eld town. He wac one of the members of that remarkable funeral train when, in 1844. fluting the flood in the Mississippi valley, the remains of Pierre Menard, the first lieutenant-governor r.f Illinois, who died in his mansion on the opposite side of the river, were taken r. cross to Kaskaskia in a rowboat. During the winter the old man seldom leaves his home, and it took much coaxing to get him far enough from the door to take his picture. He was re ver before photographed and to him It was a novel experience. Hp wanted one of the pictures and thought it strange that they had to he put through a process before they, were je-rfected. Iterrr I gi ltrk lit Word. Congressman Herry of Kentucky, alio said on the floor of the houe that the Cnited States might have to whip dermany as well as Spain, is six feet four inches tall, weighs 21o pounds, and feels entirely responsible for his remarks. The Herman ambassador is raid to have inquired officially regarding the man who made the statement ief erred to. .lewelecl l'iff. The women are wearing little pigs this j-enson carved out of clear rock crystal or opaque stones of the nature of agate, and suspended from the neck by a ring inserted at the top of the animal's back. These charms never measure mote than an inch, and some vculd stand on the thumb nail.

AN EDUCATED SMALL DOC.

Fond of Coffee and Chocolates and Takes Whlnky When III. Dandy is a very small, plump little canine, who resides uptown, and who will go down into history as an animal with very human tastes, says the NewYork Times. He is fond of chocolates takes coffee every morning and has been known to take whisky. That, however, is not intended to imply that Dandy is given to tippling or looks with pleasure upon the wine when it is red upon ordinary occasions. Perish the thought! Dandy's excellent complexion, bright eyes and general activity and interest in the world at large would give the lie to such a thought. Dandy is a tiny black-and- tan terrier of the variety usually known as the "toy dog." He resides with a member of an old New York family, Miss Criffin. on Twelfth street, when he is not traveling with his mistress and he has nfver been known to take whisky but once in the. five years of his life. That was the only time in bis existence that he was ever ill. He had taken dinner, with fresh pork as the piece de resistance, and it did not agree with him. He gi:e evidence of having a very human pain in his small interior and his mistress gave him the only thing sho knew that might relieve him a little whisky. "He semed to like it," said Miss Griffin, "and it eally did him good. 1 had one dog die in the train whun I was coming from San Francisco. He was twelve years oid and the doctor said the motion of the train affected, his heart. I think, though, I might 'nave saved him if I had had a little whisky." Miss Criflin is noted for her ret'She is one of the last of her family, has always been fond ,f pus. r.ml has come now to consider them better companions than human beings. She has a nice little terra- otta colored German squirrel, chipmunks, gold fish, and turtles, as well as little Dandy, her favorite pet. For a Christmas present Dandy had a big basket, like a covered market basket, with red flannel for a mattress, which serves him at present for a bed, and later will be l is traveling carriage Dandj has been quite a traveler, but he has not covered as much territory as his mistress, who has traveled all over this part of the world and through a great part of Europe. In l;HU she expects to go abroad again to cover the part of the continent she has not seen yet, and Dandy, in his basket, will go along. He is a comfortable traveling companion, and no objections are ever made to his presence on train or boat, owing Iiis mistress thinks, to his being such a little fellow. His greatest misfortune, and that of his mistress as well, is in being stolen and then brought back when a sufficient reward is offered. Dandy takos his meals very much as his mistress takes hers. In the morning sho has oatmeal and milk and so has Dandy, and, as she has coffee. Dandy also has a little coffee poured into his milk. For dinner at noon he has meat, and at night he takes milk again. Chocolates he takes at all times of the day, and they do not hurt him at all. his mistress says. He takes a chocolate wafer at one swallow, as he would a pill, and a big square chocolate he disposes of with a bite or two. Miss (Jriffin was born on Beach street, in Niw York. Her father was Charles Alexander Griffin. a lawyer, and her grandfather, George Griftin. was a prominent member of the New York bar. HELD FOR DAMAGES. Never in the records of the American admiralty courts does there appear any entrv of such a heavy suit as that which has been made against the Eng lish ship Cromartyshire, now lying at Snvder avenue wharf, Philadelphia. rhe vessel was recently attached under a writ filed by the Compasnie Generale Transatlantique tr recover damages for the loss of the steamer La liourgogne, which was sunk in collision with the Cromartyshire off Sable is land on July 4 last. THE CROMARTYSHIRE. Under the attachment the security was lixej at $200.000 for the release of the ship. The owners have asked for a riction of this amount, and admi. Alty surveyors appointed to assess the value of the craft have fixed it at When Don the Century Knd? The opening day of the twentieth century is still a matter of inquiry. It will not he January 1st. 1900, but January 1st. UK)!. It takes a full lOO years, not ninety-nine, to complete the century. The first decade did not end with the close of the year I), but year 10, and the seiend decade began with the year 11. The first century ended with the close of the year 100, and the nineteenth century will end with tne close of 1900. not with 1899. Anyone having doubts can count back year by yea from 1900 to 1. Relative Slw of Armlet. In Germany there U one soldier foi every seventeen civilians; in Franc the proportion is one to 15; in Russia one to 17; in Great Britain one to 72; in the United States, one to 445

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Head of French Republic a Victim of Apoplexy, NO EXCITEMENT IN PARIS. Three Candidate for the Presidency Are In the Field -Feam That C.en. Zurlimiru, .Military (ioifrnor of 1'arU, .May Attempt a Coup d'Ftat. M. Felix Fan re, tanner, shipbuilder, deputy, cabinet minister, and finally president of the Republic of France, died in the Palace FJysee, Paris, on the nifcht of Feb. of apoplexy. He was stricken down at the conclusion of a haul day's work, and breathed his life out in the room where he was accustomed daily to do mere work LACKAWANNA'S AV. II. Trucsdale, th new president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. is one of the Pest products of the western railroad worid. and he carries with him to th:1 east a reputation most enviable. It. is said that titer' is no detail of the great railroad problem with which he is not familiar. Beginning his career in the auditor's ollice of a little western road. than any other member of the government. Mnie. Faure was with her husband at the end. Taris as yet is tranquil .though there is talk of a coup d'etat and interest c nters in Geo. .urlinden, n ilitarr governor of 1'aris. as th man who may try to seize the government. The cabinet will all a meeting oT Ihe assembly immediately to elect M. Faure" successor. Premier Dupuy. M. Loubet. president of the senate, and Henri Hrisson are the leading candidates. THE TRADEREViEW. Trust ami Monopol i-H Have Failed to Itctaril Itusinepii. R. (J. Dun ec Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Beyond question business is expanding, and in many branches it is larger, notwithstanding speculative combinations, which tend to reduce it. Beyond the influence of these there is a genuine and substantial enlatgeinent of business, due to the unexampled prosperity of a growing population. "No fictitious demand has caused the rise in grain, for the exports continue so heavy in wheat and corn that the advance of Ii Vi cents in wheat is abundantly justified, and the rise of cent in corn seems scarcely enough for the occasion. When it is remembered that the expoits of corn are almost as. large as the largest ever known, there is reason for astonishment at the continued foreign demand. That it persists in spite of the strong advance in prices here since Sept. 1 is most encouraging. It is obviously impossible to judge how far it may go. "Failures for the week have been ITS in the Cnited States, against 2'. last year, and IS in Canada, against r, last year Woodmen K.lect llevd Couaul. Representatives of the Woodmen of the World lodges in Kansas. Nebraska. North and South Dakota. Oklahoma ami Indian Territory, elected J. W. Keyzer of Fort Scott head consul. Agoiiclllo (iiiM to Kogl a lid. Agoncillo left Montreal sudden!'. He stated he was bound for P.uglaud, and that he would sail from New York. Nehraftka Wheat Itadlj Damaged. Advices from northern Nebraska Indicate that the winter wheat has been badly damaged by the recent told snap. Mnuorlal Service at llatana. The anniversary f the destruction of the Maine was fittingly commemorated by memorial services at Havana.

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MILLER WINS RACE. Six-Uaj Struggle at 'Frisco Kittled at 14::1 Hour. The big bicycle race at San Francisco was brought to a dose at the end of the 1401 hour. Miller was an easy winner. Every one of the men made over 1,000 miles. The distances at the lose were: Miller. Aaronson. 1M41; Fredericks. I'.OS!); Hale, 2.W2: Gimm, I'.OOO; Nawn, 2.011; Albert. l.Sl'3; Harnaby. 1.7$:!: Pilkington. 1.72$; Lawson, 1,CJ7; Julius, l,."ui; Ashin ger, l,"eo. NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Platform Will He That I'eople ShaU (invent by Direct LegUlat ion. The union reform party of Ohio will hold a national conference at Cincinnati March 1 and '2. It is the expectation to form a national party pledged to the theory that the people shall govern themselves by direct legislation.

NEW PRESIDENT. his first lesions were with tne financial problems of railroadkip. This was in 1 St'.f. the year that President Sioa.:, whom he succe ls. entered upon the e.e ;il ie duties of the Lackawanna. He then he-came purchasing ag'iit. t::miliarizin? himself with 'he .givat question of lT.ilroau si.pp'.ies. From this position he graduated to that ol assistant to the i-cc:er. broadening his knowledge of railroad ünance. NAVY YARD FIRE. KnuJiiecriut; lep:rt meiit of tin- ItrookIjn lust it nt ion Kiinied. The big machine .-hop in the navy yard at Brooklyn, occupied by the steam engineering department, was burned down, and all the' valuable machinery, models, patterns and re-cords of the department were destroyed. The loss at the yard was estimated at over $1.000,000. K-puld an Insursrnl .Attack. The guard of the Fitst Nebraska regiment, stationed near the waterworks at Manila, was attacked by insurgents, who were dressed in citizens' ciothes and in hiding in a bamboo thicket. The' as.-ailants were rciu!.,rd with heavy los. Ilotii Nations Have Protested. It appears that Germany has protected to the Washington government against the action of Chief Justice Chambers in Samoa, while America has entered a ountr protest against the action of the German consul. Our Kxportft and Import. The total exports of merchandise for January. IS!'., were $1 1 ."...",1 .".!.". l. as compared with ?10S,4L'f.;T4 in January, 1S0S. and the imports !f."S.-17:.:n.", against $.'(.827.714 in lSfS. Hat tteship Maine In Itegun. The anniversary of the blowing up of the Maine in Havana harbor was marked with the beginning of work on the powerful man of war which will bear the same name. Kallroad Ar-ldent In Belgium. An express train collided with a stationary train at Foret, near Brussels. Twent-one persons were killed outright and 100 were more or less Injured. Important Lawn to Stand. The decision of the Kan.-as supreme court that the late session of the legislature is legal makes valid the important laws that were then passed. l'reidrient Sign the l'apcrn. The president has signed the papers for the settlement of the government debt tin account of the Central Pacific, railroad. Fire at II uiiiien ell. Kau. Fire wiped out the business 'port ion of Hunnewell, Kan. Ten buildings, with their contents, wer burned. The loss is heavy. Texas f'ottou for .la pan. Texans recently shipped their first car load of cotton for the Japanese markets.

MISSOURI'S WAR GOVERNOR

Restored by Pe-ra-ni. Govkhnok t. C. Fletcu Etilen. Thomas C. Fletcher, the noted war Governor of the State of Missouri, is a great friend of Pe-ru-na. He writes: The Pe-ru-na Drug MTg Co., Columbus, Ohio. Gentlemen For years I have been afflicted with chronic catarrh, which has gone through my whole system, and no one knows the torture and misery I have pissed through. My doctor has prescribed various remedies, and I have never found any relief until I was persuaded by a friend to use Dr. Hartman's Pe-ru-na. After the use of one bottle I feel like a new man. It also cured me of a dropping I had in my throat, and built my system up generally. To those who are suffering with catarrh I take pleasra in recommending your great medicine. Very respectfully. Thomas C. Fletcher. Everything that affects the welfaro of the people is a legitimate subject of comment to the real statesman. The statesman is not a narrow man. It is the politician who is narrow. The true statesman looks out on the world as it is, and seeks, as far as is ia his power, to remedy evils and encourage the good. Catarrh in its various forms is rapidly becoming a national curse. An undoubted remedy has been discovered by Dr. Hartman. This remedy has been thoroughly tested during the past forty years. Prominent men have come to know of its virtues, and are making public utterances on the subject. To save the country we must save the people. To save the people we must protect them from disease. The disease that is at once the most prevalent and stubborn o cure 13 catarrh. REMARKABLE CASE. Of st Man Who llought and Took b I'atert Medicine. ' Here is one of the most renia: kab!'? testimonials we have ever I'ceiveJ." said the famous ' .anufacturer of patent medicine. "The writer of this letter says he took three uott:.? or our remedy and was cur?d of his ailment." "What is there so astonishing about that'.'"' inquired th? friend, who had just diopped in. ' lie is no the first person who has male well by our medicine." "Oh, But he is the lirst on record to bv.y aal take it. on Iiis own individual Ii ))k an i without solicitation. Accoriin to his own testimony his attention was not called to it, nor was he advised by hns anxious friends to take our wonderful remedy; he simply bought and took it because he thought he n??ded it, and it did not make a new man of him, nor snatch him from the brink of an open grave it simply curel him. and that is all there seems to have been to the entire operation. He writes in such a sensible ami businesslike way about it that I am afraid he is some wag who is striving to have fun with us; but if the letter is genuine, his is the most remarkihla casd on record!" Puck. How Much Salt Is There in the Sea? Some curious statistics have been lately worked out by a welt-known scientific man as to the amount of salt held in solution by the oceans of the world. He mckons that 90.000.0'.000,000.000 tons of salt exists in the j water. These figures, of course, convey no impression, but it wouil be enough to cover all the land of the earth with a solid layer of salt 1,000 feet thick. PuKstl,"' fr Women a to the Care of Dainty Underwear. It is one tiling to have pretty bolmsiiii. au-.l ii not her to keep them s-. f nothing can this be more truly saH than of woman's underwear, so generally ruined in washing with strong, impure soh. and by hard rubbing. Silk in-i woolen underwear should never be washed on a cloudy lav. When ready to do th work, half f.ll a tub with warm water, in which di.-ole a. fourth of a bar of Ivory soap, and wash the articles through it with t lie hands, rlr.se in warm water and squeeze, but do not wring. Hang on the line and press with a hot iron while uaiiip. K.MZA 11. PARKER. Sei f-Protection. Miss Carrie Onn-Oh, there's Cholly Fitzinhedd! And look, Nettie, Just look at that ridiculously funny little dog he has with him. What In the world does he drag that animal around for? Nettie Guy Self-protection. People used to laugh at him. now they laugh at the dog. Wa.OOO for m New Corn. That's what this new corn cost. Yields 13 bushel per acre. Dig Four Oats bushels Salzer's ltape to pasture sheep and cattle at 25c per acre yields 50 tons; potatoes J1.20 per bbt. Uromus lnermls. the greatest grass on earth; Beardless Barley 60 bushels per acre; 10 kinds grasses and clovers, etc. Send this notice to JOHN A. SALZER SEKl) CO., l.A OROSSK. WIS., with 10c Ftanips and recele free great Catalogue; t.iooo Corn and 10 Farm Seed Sample. lw.n.1 An Old City. Chester, in Wales, a city founded 1,500 years before America was discovered, is even at the present time surrounded by a wall from 12 feet to 40 feet high, built by tho Roman legions under Julius Agrlcola.

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Society Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wir II. Co:: er, Y. M. Tohn Corbaley, PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. P. H. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, Xo. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Fridav of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, Xo. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha 'McDonald, M. Mrs. Lou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, Xo. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearer, X". G. Chas. Uushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rehekah; meets every Fridav evening at I. O. O. F. hall. "Mrs. J. E. Ellis, X. G. Miss Emma Zurr.baugh, Y. G. Mis- X. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION" LODGE, Xo. 117; meet-, everv Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 1499; meet the second ami fourth Fridav ever.ings of each month in K. of "P. hall C. M. Slayter,C.R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meet-, everv Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D' V. Jacoby, Com.. Frank Wheeler, Record Keener. 4. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE Xo. :S, L. 0. T. M; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hab. J. C. Jilson, Regent. T. Lauer, Sec. T WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Retzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROYE, Xo6; meets every Friday evening: at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Ilammercl, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays m K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Yenerable Consul. C. L. Swit-ier.-v. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibbetts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIHRETTS POST, G. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kellev, Com. Charles Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Rissell hall. Wert A. Iieldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesdav evening in W. O. W. hall. S. IL Fanning, Pies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President. Novitas B. Aspinall. M. D., Sec.

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