Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 June 1901 — Page 6

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3i Hax)e Our Eng tries F a led t The Midland Railway ( ompaay of En land has a :nrnistered a cold douche to our pride of industrial conqu st by announcing that the American locomotives tested by the road bar coat from 20 to per cent more a the British la fuel, 50 per cent e ll oil, and W per cent more in re: tira Against tbese fatal defects r. re to be cosmted oaly the trifling offtets the American locomotives w- ile'ive; c-.I in a few months loft . ! or in fbrs years and that their was less than th it of the British by J5.000 apiece It i- i x plained . th i in American railroad practice engines are made to be worked to death an J thrown on the scrap heap. Eng- ; lis; : . unotive are expected to become h oonts. But tin :. is probably foj more than teat behind ÜM Midland's figures. In all neutral markets the Amerhan machines give perfect satisfaction and are crowding the V. giish oat. That bj Ike ease even on the state railroads of British colonies. Before our manufaetorers ßdm:t that their products are failures on English roads thej would probab'? like to se thena tested by American enginei 1 9 and firemen. The "ShamrocK" Countess. The beautiful eottnteas of Limerick hi.- well earned the title of 'The Shamrock Countess," for. thanks to her efforts, one of tha British war funds has acquired this spring a substantial addition to its funds owing to the sah1 of the ' dear little shamrock"' so cleverly organised by the mistress of Dron ore castle. The young countess before her marriagf Miss Bnrke-Irwia, the daughter of one of Ireland's most popular sportsmen, and herself, both as a ?irl and since her anarriage, one of the straightest riders to bounds in the Emerald isle - SV ; ,-v'..; ' ' ' COUNTESS OF LlftlTSRICK. early joined the group of those energetie peeTfnafli who da all la their power to Improve the lot of rheir poorer friends and f&igDOre, The Shamro- k Ieague 1j;ks succeeded beyond t:ie wlldeat dreams of its promoters, and during th" day- which preceded March i Lady Limerick and her friends worked hard all day tyins up tiny RMMegajS of Ireland's national green btaasoifl and despatching it to all corners of the world. The Sfebu Exptosi-de. If the claims made by officials of the war department concerning the fficacy of a new explosive aie borne out by subsequent test.-:, the tidied Stares may possess a secret which will have important bearing on the inters' i'ional politics of the futur. Warships and fortifications which have heretofore been regarded Impregnuble will be at the mercy of American guns. It has been demonstrated that the thickest Harvyized armor will not withstand the new projectile v.on hurled by one of the great gun, and, what is more Important, chat the explosive with which the projectile u toadad will be discharged Immediately tue armor is pierced. Maxiinite, this new death-dealing i xplosive, Is called after Mr. Hiram .Maxim, its Inventor. Mr. Maxim .s the inventor of atnokeless powder and has made a spsclalty of high explosives. It is announced by the offi' ials in charge of the tests which have been made on the Sandy Hook proving grounds that the results far surpass anything heretofore attained !n any ountry. Experts express the opinion that the building of battleship, and fortifications may be revolutionize.! M the result of the discover:'.- made : Maxim. jy ttnff m.oo r or ariac is a pretty picture of the little uoy king of Spain and his queen moth81 i ken shortly before the 16th birth day of Alphonfco was c e 1 e b rated last, month. According to the Spanish law, a boy comes of apro when he has c o m p 1 eted fifteen years of life, so that the little boy king Is now practically h i s own master, though it is said the queen mother will retain her power for another year. Within a few weeks it Is expected that King Alphonso will start out on a grand tour of the capitals of Europe. On this tour he is eocpected to select a bride to share with him the ancient throne of Spain, and royal mammas with marriageable daughters ar consequently

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0 Tr sidsnt of ffetdt ycrX Central ni it. Newman, who has just actively enteral upon the duties of his Dew post as president of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, is. as may easily be imagined, one of the cleverest and most thoroughly trained railroad men in America. Ho has worked ":is way up practically from the bottom. It is more than thirty years ago since he began his career in his profession as local WIUJAll a NEWMAN. ticket agent on the Texas and Pacific. In three years he had bees promoted to the post of general freight agent, and he v,is next made third vire-presi-dent The Chicago and Northwestern ffered him a similar pot. which he at once accepted, and in 1 SOG the Great Northern rood e'ected him its second vice -president. Three years apo c was elected president of the Lake Shore, in which position lie was serving When called to the presidency of the New York Centrai His knowledge takes in all d : u tmcnts of a railway. Arbitration for Ch na. If the International tribunal established by the eoafereace at The Hague baa any practical usefulness the dispute among the powers at Pekin afford.an opportunity to pn. it to Ao test. The BungesAioa of the United states to refer the question of indemnity to this tribunal is worthy of civilized nation. Its adoption is scarcely probable unless the powers should find it impossible to reach an agreement in any other way. jXII Oucr a Tosfcr. Is it possible to lie driven insane by a poster? This U a question which i being much debated at present la Des Moines, la. Miss Hertha Atkinson or" that city believes that she will go mad if i poster opposite her window i not removed. So real, so vital, so appalling has become her horror of the painted placard that her friends have come to share in the apprehension. Accordingly a protest has been n-;ile to the municipal authorities, and 1., s y . rrv Jkm! er ' THE OBJECT i ON ABLE POSTER, the poster may be removed. Meanwhile Des Moines is agitated by intense feeling. The contagion spreads daily, No epidemic of disease, the authorities say, ever spread so rapidly. The island of Chios, In the Aegean sea. has an oak the age of whic h if : believed to be twenty-two centuries. much excited, while all the subject! of the youthful monarch are greatly interested. When he leaves Madrid King Alphonso will go first to Rome to receive the blessing of his venerable godfather, Pope Leo. He will then proceed in state from one capital city to another. Already, it is said, preparations have been begun to receive him. In Paris, especially, a series of magnificent fetes will be given in his honor, though Prance has no royal princess to offer asi a candidate for queenly honors. The only contingency which may delay or even prevent the coming tour Is the fact that both the Carllsts and the Republicans are watching for an opportunity to rise. for when the first of the saloonkeepers arrested was called up for trial the other day he promptly pleaded guilty, and was assessed a heavy fine. Miss Berry says she will continue her work until all the saloons of the town are closed on Sunday and are kept closed. Maltlamd, Nova Scotia, was a woodon shipbuilding center many year ngo ago, and it is aaid that the industry ! to he revived atr I : B

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DIED ALMOST INSTANTLY. TWoofttat o' llothor RUN Son While Die tiitlüB Hit KlofrapIiT. A distinguished public man of Indiana, who ha3 died recently, was engaged at the time of his sudden death in writing his biography. He was narrating to his daughter, who was writing from his dictation, the story of a terrible temptation which assailed him in his youth. "By attention to business and correct deportment I had won the implicit confidence of all who knew me. This confidence was shown, whea on one occasion before the day of easy and rapid communication by means of railroad and telegraph I was entrusted with $22.000 to deliver in the then far-distant Cincinnati. Day after day, on my long horseback journey, I guarded rns treasure without a thought of dishonesty. But there was a moment, a supreme and critical one. when the voice of the tempter penetrated my ear. It was the old tempter that sung in the ear of Eve. It was when I reached the crown of those imperial hills that overlook the Ohio river, when approaching Lawrenceburg from the interior. The noble stream was the great artery of commerce at that day. before a railroad west of Massachusetts had been built. What a gr.y speotacle it presented, flashing in the bright sunlight.covered with flat boats, with rafts, with gay-painted steamers, ascending and descending and transporting their passengers in brief time to the Gulf of Mexico, the gateway to all parts of the world. I had but to Pell my horse and go aboard one of these with my treasure, and I was absolutely beyond the reach of pursuit. I recall the fact that this thought was a tenant of my mind for a moment, and for a moment only. Thank God, it found no hospitable lodgment any longer. And what think you were the associate thoughts that came to my rescue? Away over rivers and mountains, a thousand miles distant, in a humble farm house, on a bench, an aged mother reading to her boy from the oracles of God." At this point hi? voice suddenly choked, his emotions overcame him. he said to his daughter, 'We will finish this at another time," laid his head back on the chair and died almost instantly.

THREE FORMIDABLE BASES. Franch JUan for Worrying Kn-ln,l Are Oulte C'omprehenfive. Apart from Bizerta and other Mediteranean stations, which are Intended to get the mastery over the Gibralta; and Malta route, says the Engineer, the French are creating three formidable bases on the Cape route to India, and the extreme Fast. The first of thSM is Dakar in Senegal, for which a fresh grant of 10,550,600! has been B&ada. Dakar is to be the headquarters of a fleet of cruisers which will sweep the Atlantic along the West coast of Africa, and it is also proposed to constitute a station at Pore de France, in Martinique, so that the commerce destroyers will be able to patrol the ocean east and west, and extend thei. operations northward across the path of merchant vessels ; running between Fngland and the West Indies. The second basis is at Diego-Saurez. In Madagascar, which commands the route between the Cape and India. The work of equipping this port is regarded as one of the most urgent and necessary, and the Chamber voted an additional grant of 10,000,0001 to allow of the construction of a dry dock. Diego-Saurez is becoming the most formidable naval station in the Indian Ocean, and is likely to be a perpetual menace to South Africa. The works at Saigon, for which a further sum of :i.o00.000f has been voted, are being carried out for the protection of the Indo-Chinese possessions), and affording a basis for the ships of war which will operate in the Chinese seas. Relative Text of Public Lighting. New York city will pay $3.22 each minute for its street lighting this year, which means 78 cents for each inhabitant, or $2.7 15.000 in all. A big bill, the largest of its sort in the country, but not the largest in proportion to population. Of the great cities of the country, Baltimore comes next above Chicago, and pays CS cents for each of its "09,000 inhabitants, or $50,000 in all. Then comes San Francisco's 343.000 population, paying $245.000. or 71 cents for each one. Next above that is New Orleans, where each of the 287.000 inhabitants pays 80 cents, or $230,000 in all. Washington follows with 83 cents for each of its 279,000 residents, which equals $233,000. Each ClevelandeT pays 2 cent3 more than each Waahingtonian, or $325,000 for the 382.000 inhabitants. We then jump to $1.10 for each of the 561,000 Bostonians, or $050.000 In all. Another jump makes the 324.000 persons in Cincinnati pay $425,000, or $1.30 for each one. New York Herald. To Care Halter Palling. A correspondent of the National Stockman and Farmer describes his method of curing a horse of the habit of halter pulling. Take a half-inch rope, put it through bridle bit ring either side and tie to other ring so as to draw under the jaw. then throwover hitching rail and tie other end around front pastern, and the harder the horse pulls the less power he has, for the first thing he knows he is off his front feet. Tie the same to a strong halter and put rone through hole in manger so it will slip. I think any person that ever tries this plan will never think of any other. Sn m mur C'oM. If there is one thing more than another that causes bitter complaint, it is a bad summer cold. Perhaps It is not nearly so had ns many winter colds, but on account of the season it is very disagreeable. When this particularly affects the eyes, nose, and throat, think of euphorbia officinalis. Put half a drachm or more in four ounces of water, and take a teaspoonM four or five times a day. Sn Feet. Three In III Nocks. Prince Edward of Sav YVeimni who entered the British army nearlv ixty years ago, is one of tne tallest princes in the world He stands 6 feet 8 Inches "in his socr.i ' and in addition is a man of ftT bulls and weight

Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock has requested Secretary of War Root to send into the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations, in the Indian Territory, a body of United States troops to clear these reservations, which are soon to be thrown open for settlement of squatters, or "sooners," as they are known on the frontier. More than 1,000 of these "sooners" have entered the Wichita mountains and taken up mineral claims. The district, which to be divided into homesteads of 160 acres each, is in the Oklahoma country, and is regarded as the most desirable farming land in the southwest. The department is determined that there shall be no Injustice done to the settlers of this new reservation, and it does not propose that the scenes enact

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Andrew Carnegie is continuing in Scotland the munificent generosity to the aid of education as he began in the United States. We were told recently of his donation of 1500,000 to establish branch libra-ies in Glasgow upon the same plan tor which he gave $,000,0U0 to Creator New York. Last week came tue news of his gift of $10,000,000 to establish free scholarships in the historic Scotch universities for poor youn? Scotchmen. Of course, his is a materialistic ags, and no one, on this side of the Atlantic at least, pays any attention to euperstititions. But there are folks in Scotland (no insinuation is meant against the Scotch, but their old legends have greater influence than in this new country, especially among the folk on the country side) who believe that by these donations. Andrew Carnegie will lift the curse from Skibo Castle, the old estate which he has purchased as his home in the Highlands. Every one north of the Tweed is cognizant of the tact that a bloodcurdling curse rests upon Sdiibo Castle, and the Scots are asking whether this curse will work against the American owner in the same way that the curse pronounced against the third Lord Byron (who made a drinking cup of the Skull of one of the old Abbots of Newstead Abbey), continued to blight not only all the subsequent owners and occupants of Newstead Abbey, including the poet Lord Byron, until the late Colonel Webb a few years ago found the long lost drinking cup in an old curiosity shop in London, and by restoring it to the Abbots tomb at Newstead put an end to the curse that rested on the place. The ban resting upon Skibo Castle

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One of the most striking inventions recently made is the telegraphone, which may be described as a combination of telephone and phonograph. It was devised by Mr. Poulsen of Copenhagen, Denmark. The telegraphonic distributor, as the instrument is called, enables any one to send a mes 5ecuo- e$ receiving a repeating Maqneta-

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the Latest Wonder. Sig. Marconi, the inventor of the wireless telegraph, has perfected lately an ingenous adaptation of his invention for use on automobiles. On the roof of the motor car in which he is touring t h r o ug h England is carried a tall funnel, which, when not in use, lies down flat a 1 o n the roof. When he desires to communicate with the hotel which he has left or that to which he is going the funnel is raised to a perpendicular position, and the wireless telegraph Is set to work. Thus Senor Marconi by means of the wireless telegraph and without leaving his automobile is able to order his lunch at a hotel thirty or more miles distant. The first practical use of this adaptation is to be made on automobiles fitted up for use in war. A party of scouts might make a quick run in one of these machines Into the enemy's country, make their observa

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ed when Oklahoma was thrown open to settlement shall tee repeated. A plan has been devised whereby each claimant will have an equal chance with every other claimant, although only a small percentage of those filing claims will secure homesteads. Already the applications on file exceed by many thousands tho number of tracts of 1C0 acres each which are to be disposed of to claimants. The town of Duncan, Okla., has made a protest against the location of 20,000 acres of grazing land directly opposite and adjoining the military forest reserve, because it raises a wall against the town in communicating with the new reservation when settled. It is claimed that the land is too valuable for pasturage and could be easily settled with a prosperous population.

SS'7'SA -2 TlS dates from the early part of the eighteenth century, when by some foul wrong the Grays, who had owned the castle for several hundred years were deprived of their ancestral possessions by the family Of Doul. Misfortune overtook the latter, and since that time the curse has been fulfilled in this that no family has possessed Skibo for more than one generation. It has passed through many hands, including the Maekays, the Gordons, the Dempsters and the Chirnsides, illluck pursuing them all. until the place was acquired by Andrew Carnegie, who SKIBO CASTLE ANDREW sage to a number of destinations by speaking once. The instrument depends for its action upon the fact that the variations of the magnetic field of an electro-magnet are so accurately represented by the magnetization of a steel wire which is drawn through it, that if the wire be again passed permAnsnt tymnets. tions, raise their funnel, and communi cate the result to their headquarters, and then start back before a successful j pursuit could be organized. Several I cars fitted in this way are to be used in the next English military maneuvers. Uhe Tan-American Fair. The Buffalo Exposition, in most respects still incomplete, will some time 1 be a very instructive exhibit of the resources ol the American continent. ' While a.s yel it is chiefly interesting at right when ;t is a dazz'mg glare of light, made so by the electricity which is wired in from the Niagara Cataract, there is really a good deal aneady in place in the various buildings, and it Is s'ated that the last Inavy wagon with goods has passed over the roads inside the grounds, so that the pavements may now be built. In two or three weeks, therefore, the show should be worthy of close inspection. It is regrettabis that the mansgement should be so far behindhand, but it is th" common fate of those who visit expositions prematurely to have little but trouble for their pains

which would do business at Duncan. On the other hand a protest has come from Texas because the location of the main pasture of 400,000 acres on the Texas boundary Interferes with free intercourse of Texas people with the new settlement and likewise rears a wall against the people of that state. Secretary Root has directed that a troop of cavalry from Fort Sill, L T., be sent into the reservation to clear them of the lawless element that has entered. The soldiers will probably be kept there until the day the lands are thrown open to settlement. In the meantime the Kiowa Indians have sent a representative to Washington asking that the opening day be postponed until Congress can examine the treaty umler which the act was passed.

apparently is not superstitious, as he assured his tenants and neighbors the other day that he intended Skibo to be the home of his family "for many generations." He is very popular in the district by reason of the money he has brought 1 into the country, and is known there as "Skibo," in the same way as most ! other territorial magnates are known ' by the name of their land, rather than by their patronymic. There are eight submarine cables of i over 2,000 miles In length. CARNEGIE'S SCOTTISH SEAT. I through the field, currents exactly similar to thoe which reproduced the magnetization of the wire are reproduced in the coils of the magnet. A steel wire is wound In spiral grooves, on a revolving non-magnetic drum. Upon this wire rests two poles of an electro-magnet connected with a microphone transmitter. Any sounds such as vocal speech, or instrumental music, actuating the diaphram of the transmitter, are transferred as magnet impulses to the electro-magnet, which, when the drum is set in motion, at once communicates them to the rej volving wire. The two poles of the magnet gripping the sides of the wire are carried along a sliding rod laterally, until the end of the coiled wire is reached. Thereupon a device shunts the carrier i. e., the traveling elec- ; tro-magnet on to another mechanI ically revolving spiral, which quickly takes the carrier back to its original position. The instrument Is now ready to reproduce all that the wire has received. Connect the magnetic-carrier to an ordinary telephone receiver, and, traveling over the same ground as before, the poles will be actuated this time by the magnetized wire, and will retransmit to the receiver what they had' previously imparted to the wire. The result is that the telephone receiver now speaks everything that had been spoken into the microphone transmitter. In the distributor a number of electro-magnets take the place j of the second (re-transmitting) mag net. Home's Reifining "Beauty, A recent engagement of interest il that of Donna Yittorla, the acknowl ..-IV eSj8SS3iTOglfo e DONNA VITTORRIAedged beauty of Rome, to Prince Teano. Donna VHtorla is a granddaughter of Lady Walslngham, and thi prince is the eldest son of the Dues dl Sermonetta

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plash of Dirt I lfctl on Horffooi r -rii i ;-. No. She was a most gorgeous personage. She rode in a glittering victoria of the latest build, the chains attached to the horses' outfit clanged beautifully, the coachman, couldn't have .sat up any stxaighter without having a disaster to his backbone, tad not a woman she met could come within a thouand miles of her white tulle hat, with the pink roses under the brim. Her gown was a mass of delicate chiffon frills and lace. Altogether a large pair of gold bonbon tongs should have gone with the outfit to lift her out and into the carriage, because she could not have been touched any other way without spoiling her appearance. Considering all this, she might have bestowed a sweet and gracious smile on lesser atoms of humanity, hut instead of that she wore her haughtiest, aiost disdainful frown. It evidently came straight from Paris, packed in violet sachets, it was so perfect in its way. Women wearing their last year's frocks simply withered up under it and tried to hide behind lampposts and trees till she got by. The queen of Sheba could not have appeared more arrogant, more imperious and dis.-e-gardful of the rc.n of the world. Just then a high tandem cart spun by her carriage, the leader kicked his hee's in equine playful' ess and a large, fat, whole-souled chunk of Pal mount park mud landed squarely on the Up of the untouchable regal In dys nose. After that the women in the last year's gowns felt lots hotter and more ff signed. Philadelphia Telegraph. A PUm oiinty Miracle. Velpen, Ind., June 17.- Wm. O. B. Sullivan, a farmer of this place, and who is a brother of ex-Representative Sullivan of Pike and Dubois counties, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mr. Sullivan Is 49 years of age. and has been a citizen of Pike County for 3o years. For two years, lie has suffered much with kidney trouble and rheumatism. His shoulders and side were very sor and stiff, and bis back was . so bad he could hardly straighten up at all. He had palpitation of the heart, and a smothering which wa3 very distressing. He used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is as strong and well as ever he was. He pronounces his cure a miracle. Mr. Sullivan's statement of his case is startling. "A month a so I was a cripple. Today I can lo a hard day's work every day, and have pot a single sehe or pain." Dodd's Kidney Pill have done some wonderful cures in Indiana, but none more miraculous than that in the -a.se of Mr. Sullivan. Washington rotated Population Washington retains in the 1S00 census the distinction which it had in the 1S90 census of having more colored inhabitants than any other city of the 1'nited States. The explanation of Washington's popularity as a place of residence for colored people is that it is the winter quarters of many thousand negroes who at the beginning of spring begin their exodus to Northern watering places and to Virginia and Maryland summer resorts. The cost of living for colored people in Washington is not high. The climate is equable, the national government d(Ks not. authorize restrictions against colored people such as prevail in most southern states as to residence and means of transportation. There is no discrimination against them in Washington courts add the large transient population of the District of Columbia dining the sessions of Congress and when the public departments are under full headway causes a large demand for colored employes. Chicago Journal. Keiil Pleasure of tho Auto. To any one having the slightest apfitude for things mechanical, the study of an automobile soon becomes an absorbing passion. There is a beauty, a fast iuation about a perfectly constructed and smoothly working piece of machinery that is apparent oven to the unscientific mind. To take control of this materialized energy, to draw the reins over this monster with its steel miLscles and Sery heart the--.- is something in the idea that appeals to an almost universal s nse. the love of power. Add the element of danger, and the fascination inherent in automobiling as a sport is not ditticult to understand. Try ;min-! Try irain-0! Ask your Urocer to-daj to show you a package f CHAIN O, the BOW food drink t tint takes ti e place of coffee. ThecfeOdrea BUty drink it wittioat injury well hs the adiilt. All who try it, like it. GRAIN O has that rich seal DTOU B of Mocha or .lava, but it is made f!n pure grjiins. ami the most delicate Btotnacs leesiwos it wtthoat dia-tr-s. the prire of coffee. LVaud-Jöcts. per packte Bold b ail grocer. Arnerlru satSBg riiiany. The lead pencil industry in (lormany is at present suffering from American competition. It is alleged that our success in this branch of industry is mostly due to the perfection of the machinery. Arc Yon I nine Allen- Paet-SBBsa It is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting. Ihirning. Sweating Feet. Corns and lbinions Ask for Allen's Foot-Kase. a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, !?."e. Sample sent PURK. Address Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy. X. Y. "Snm: t let" Will "lV Kur,MM. Washington's "smart set" is developing a lively interest this season in coaching, and a number of parties are forming for trips through England. France, Norway and Sweden. "The Crisis" is a book every American should know, for il teaches him anew to revere the memory of the men to whom this nation owes its continued existence, to bow in gratitude to e en the least of them who struggled on the hustlnga and in daily life, or later shouldered a musket that this nation, under Cod, should have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, hy the people, tor the people, should not perish from the earth. New York Mail and Express. Female compositors in Paris are not legally permitted to set type at night.