Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 August 1901 — Page 6

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Veteran Consul's 'Record. Horatio J. Fprgue, United States ftQQSul at Gibraltar, died recently t that place, aged 77. lie was tiie eldest of the American representatives abroad and had been consul at Gibraltar for fifty-thre years. He was very popular among the residents. Mr. Sprague was the dean of the ixierJcan consular service and his record at Gibraltar was altogether unique Jl HORATIO J. S PR AGUE. zsii most eminently gratifying to the department ar. Washington. The aged rcr.su! was hern at Gibraltar, Aug. 12 11Z2. Ills father was a Eostonlan, T7ho srttird in the groat fortress town &cer. a: tor the war i;? 1S12 and became t j.ermauc-nt resident, in IS IS young prag::e was made consul and reKalned in that ofice for fifty-three cvr. lie served under fourteen presents ami personally entertained tirec of thorn v.-ho visited Gibraltar tr leaving the White House. These war? Fillmore, l'irtrce and erant. The ct.rul was u wenn friend of Admiral Dwey and wh-n the "hero of Manila stopped at the Rock on his way home Jlr. 3 pragma trwd: charge of him for sl tlrae and hospitably entertained the teznow:-. sailor. During the war of the rebellion Mr. Spra'jc was in a most r.elicate position, hut ho carried It off with great cr.v'.it to himself and to th ru;.?e of the North. In the late Fnni.-h war ho was placed in even a more exacting situation, but he met it cpab'y and well. Although he haa visited thi country Tut once he was a patriotic and enthusiastic American. The Man on HorsebacK Sept. 14 is said to have been set as the date for springing a conspiracy to cverthrow the French republic and install Prince Louis Napoleon as an emperor Extract from cablegram from Pa ris. I d-Vertising as Educator. Advertising is a mode of education by whieh the know'.' 'dire of consumable goods is Increased. It sets forth the peculiar exceli'-nce of novelties, keeps In mind the merits of staple articles, sind thus incn-asfs the genera! demand for commodities. This method of making the public acquainted with goods has been resorted to because the modern system of distribution requires that px:1s be sold in large quantities. Production increass.competition becomes more fierce, and puchasers must be fv-und. Business men recognize that ttdvortislng can increase sales by increasing the people's familiarity with goods. This better knowledge not only helrrs to educate the Individual, but trains him In other ways. His powers of discrimination are exercised and developed by the necessity of making a choice between the articles. Even the abuses of advertising aid him for he learns by his mistakes. Advertisement eo me times creates a demand, voraetlmes direct it. What greater Btiraulu3 can there be for an inventor than the fact that a method is In vogue by which a useful article can be immediately placed before the public, with tie probability of large and immediate returns? Advertslng flics new staples. Tea was one of the earliest articles advertised In England. Recently the "blending" of teas has become customary, and the value of the different blend3 made known. Jour nal of Political Economy. Is a MoxJing Spirtt. The pretty and charming wife of J. F. de Assis Brasil, the Brazilian minister to the United States, is a moving spirit in the younger set of the diplomatic circle of Washington stty. Young, brilliant, possessed of many accomplish ments, she is much sought after. Minister and Mme. 1 1 s-; I came to the Pnitrd States f orn the Brazilian legation jn IJsbon SM several years ago. Eoth arc rotabb? lir.gitl.s. They have two childitn, daughter?. As early rs KOC there were 40,000 Operatives in th English silk mills and cocoon ho'i?-s. The lotie?t run ia candy has been cade by chocolate creams and cara-tnela.

News and Views

Troduclion of Gold, Commenting upon the decrease in tho world's output of gold last year as compared with 1S99, the Bankprs' Magazlno is undoubtedly right in saying that but for the Boer war the gold product probably would have more than maintained itself. It is almost as certainly wrong In saying that "the virtual demonetization of silver as a standard of value has within the last five years given a great impetus to the discovery of new gold deposits and the development of gold mines." Gold production may have been stimulated in Colorado and some other parts of the United State3 by the fall ia the value of silver which has been going on for much more than five years, and which cannot have been largely due to demonetization of silver The greatest of recent discoveries of gold that in South Africa eaunot be regarded as due in any degree to silver legislation, and the output of the Transvaal mines undoubtedly would have been quits as great if no country on earth had legislated in regard to silver since 1S70. It is probable enough that the continued great output of gold will again arouse apprehensions of a decided fall in the purchasing power of that metal, such as were expressed by the distinguished French economist Michel Chevalier after the great gold discoveries in California and Australia. Wo may at least reasonably anticipate a cessation of the insensate clamor or free coinage of silver and that contradiction of terms known aj a "double standard." So long as the go!d stock is increasing at the rate of $200,000.000 to ?230,000.C00 a year it will hardly be possible to make political capital by raising an uproar about the impoverishment of debtors by increasing the value of gold. With gold demonstrably falling in value that kind, of uproar will not promise good dividends to any adventurer In the world of politics. Olt-Cc Schreiner a "Prisoner. Mrs Olive Schreincr-Cronwright, who has been confined in a wire netting OLIVE SCHREINER, reservation by the British in South Africa and there kept an isolated prisoner, was one of the warmest sympathizers with the Boers during the early troubles in 1S09. She was more bitter than her brother, William Philip Schreiner, who, as premier of Cape Colony, openly advocated the cause of the Dutch Afrikanders. Mrs. Cronwright is descended from Boer ancestors and she showed her blood in the book she wrote and published in the defense of her people, just before President Kruger declared war on Great Britain. ThLs book was entitled "An English South African View of the Situation," and contained some very free expressions of opinion on the justice of British rule or attempted rule in South Africa. "Royal tSom fooleries. Hereafter no woman will be a genuine snob unless she wears a garter on her arm. Edward VII. has conferred upon his royal consort, Queen Alexandria, the most noble Order of the Garter, and on the first formal apjuarance she will be expected to wear it upon her arm instead of elsewhere. William E. Curtis' London Letter. -A Vigilant Taslor. Rev. H. A. Smoot, pastor of the Baptist church of Areola, 111., believes in watching as well as praying, and has offered two little girls a cent for each person they find aeleep and awaken during services. The offer was made from the pupit. In reference to this novel scheme Rev. Mr. Smoot said: "Most of my congregation are wide awake people, but occasionally two or three of them drop off to sleep, and it is annoying tc me to try to preach and be cornpel'ed to faco one who is wrapped In slumber." Said one of the deacons: "Mr. Smoot preaches good sermons in an entertaining way, and the man who sleeps during services deserves a prod." Our metallic products this year are rained at $"27.218.084.

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Gambllae; In England Soma Two XTnndrad Yearn Ago. After the advent of the House of Hanover, the favorite games at court were "quadrille," an improvement of "ombre," and "commerce." The gains and losses of the kings and queens wer is a rule restricted to 100 guineas, but on twelfth nljfht it was customary for thousands to change hands. On one occasion Lady Cowper, a lady in waiting, refused, for the sake of her children, to take part in the game, as none sat down to the table with less than 200. About the year 1740. a rage for "whisk," or whist, set in, but at first it was considered too wise a game for ladies to Join in. Hume, the historian, and even the great Johnson regretted that he had not learned to play cards. In 1742, "Horry" Walpole finds it absolutely necessary to learn "whisk," "having waited in vain for Its being left off." We find him in another letter threatening to build an altar to "Pam" to commemorate the escape of his charming Duchess of Grafton, who, it appears, had been playing cards in Roaae, when she ought to have been at a cardfnars reception, where the floor fell in and all the mons'gnors were precipitated into the cellar! Cards were so very much In evidence in his time that even Inritatlons were frequently Lssued and notes written upon the backs of playing cards, which on that account wero usually plain without any design. The chevalier's famous order to retreat at Culloden was written on the back of the nine of hearts. A fresh attempt was made in 1739 to remedy the state of gasibling in England, by passing an act which provided that "any person keeping a house or other place to game in forfeits 200, half to tho prosreutor and half to the poor of the parish." Whereupon two ladies cf title, Mordington and Cassrlis. who kept open houses for gambling, claimed their privilege of peerage In order to intimidate the pence officers from doing their duty and suppressing the public gaming houses kept by them. Longnnn's Magazine. THREE AMUSING GAMES. Read AUout Them antl See flow Much Fan They Ar. The game called water sprite affords children a lot of fun. Players stand in two lines facing each other, with a large open spaco, representing a river, between. The child called tin water sprite stands between and becl:ons one to cross. This one signals to on on the opposite side, and they run across to exchange places. If touched by the water sprite, the water sprite and the one touched exchange places, and the game Is continued. Last pair pass Is another amusing game. The children stand in twos, one behind the other. One who ia catcher stands in front with his back to the others and calls, "Last couple out!" when the last two in the line run around to the front and try to join the hands before they are touched by the catcher. The one touched becomes catcher, and they take their places as first couple in the line. To play red lion, one player, the red Hoa, stands in a den. The others venture near to him, calling: Red lion, red lion, come out of your den; Whoever you catch will be one of your men. He runs out and tries to catch one. The first one caught Joins hands with him, and together they try to catch the others, each captive being added to his line. Only the two persons at the ends of the line can catch the others. The Krlleloa Dance, Seville. Seville is the one place in the world where dancing is a part of religion. The daaclng of the Seises before the high ftUar, as I saw it at the feast of the Immaculate Conception, to me, was not simply a curious thing, but a thing perfectly dignified, perfectly religious, without a suspicion of levity or inde-coru-a. This consecration of the danc, this turning a possible vice Into a means of devotion, this bringing of the people's art, the people's passion, into the church, finding it a place there, is precisely one of those acts of divine worldly wisdom which the Catholic church has often practiced in her conquest of the world. And it Is a quite logical development of that very elaborate pantomine, using the word in all seriousness, which the ceremonies of the church really are, since all have their symbolical meaning, which they express by their gestures. Already we find in them every art but one: poetry, (the very substance of the liturgy), oratory, music, both of voices and of Instruments, sculpture, painting, all the decorative art, costume, perfume, every art lending its service; and now at last dancing finds its natural place there. In the one city of the world where its presence Is most perfeotly In keeping. Spectator. Don't It Morbid It 1 Catching. A morbid state of mind, If long continued, produces a like condition of body. One should shun a morbid state of mind as much as one does smallpox or any other contagious disease. The People's Health Journal says: "Figuratively speaking, morbidity Is a highly contagious disease, and a whole household may become Infected by one morbid-minded individual. Such conditions of mind, which are often cultlyated, do far more harm than epidemics of smallpox or yellow fever. While these diseases destroy lives and homes of many people, tho other, destroying mind and heart, affects the multitude." Vjircln i tine the !c'According to a paragraph which has been going the rounds of the French newspapers, M. Wal deck-Rousseau, the French premier, has all his dogs vaccinated to prevent them from having distemper and has never lost one from that disease. Dr. Jonner, who introduced vaccination, proposed that all the dogs In England should, be treated In this manner, but was laughed at for suggesting It If labor Is divine, the man who roba labor robs divinity.

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The great strike of iron, steel and tin workers sweeps over a stretch of country from the western boundary of New Jersey to the Mississippi river and beyond. It takes in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with offshoots in Wisconsin. Minnesota, Michigan and Maryland. Already the strike is on at phmts in

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Princess Catherine Youriewski, daughter of tho murdered Emperor Alexander II. of Austria by his second wife, Piünecs:i Dolgorouka, has become ofllci ally engaged to the Dukeof Chaulnes, head of one of the junior brandies of that ancient ducal French home, of which the Duke of Luyncsls the chief. T h e Duke of Chaulnes has Russian blood i:i his reins, for h i s mother was that famous beauty. Princess Sophie Galitzin, who, after being treated in the most abominable manner by the family of her husband, both prior to his death, but more especially afterward, died literally of .starvation in one of the most poA erty - s t rieken parts of the Trench capital. PRINCESS Innocent of anything beyond mere coquetry and indiscretions, compromised by the attentions of a man who had no other claim to social distinction than that he was ono of her numerous train of admirers, she was deprived by her husband's will of the guardianship of her children, which were taken from her by a family council. She endeavored to recover them, ard was in consequence thereof indicted for attempting to kidnap them. The court, however, prejudiced against her as a foreigner, though it was, declined to convict her on the ground that she had really done nothing to justify her children being taken from her. Lack of funds prevented her from taking any further steps to establish her rights. The social power of her stern fanatic old mother-in-law, the Duchess of Chevreuse, was too great to admit of any one risking her anger by befriending the unfortunate young Duchess. Every door was closed against her and without a single bad act being proved against her she died of hunger as an outcast in a Paris slum aud without seeing her children. Her eldest boy, the present Duke of Chaulnes, was about five years old when she tried to abduct him from the gloomy castle of her mother-in-law in the south of France. Japanese Ejc elusion Act. According to press dispatches, the Japanese in Xrw York are anxious and alarmed over the agitation on the Pacific coast for an act of congress excluding their countrymen from the United States. The San Francisco labor unions are said to be preparing a formidable petition praying for an anti-Japanese immigration law, and tho advisability of a counter-movement is being considered. General Fitzhugh Lee has decided that the business in which he has determined to engage upon retiring Into private life near Richmond, Va., will be "of an industrial character," but beyond this he has refused to make any statement for publication. Herbert Crombie Howe, for a number of years secretary to President Schurmac of Cornell university, has been appointed professor of English at the University of Oregon. Fads and Figures. Nearly 1,000,000 women in Spain work in the fields as day laborers; 350,000 women are registered as day servants that is, they work for their food and lodging. There is no such class anywhere else. American cottonseed is responsible for a tremendous increase in the production of cotton in Russia, middle Asia, Bokhara, and Khiva. The year 1900 shows an increase of 41 per cent over 1899 in the Asiatic land3, and the Increase in the Russian district is 28 per cent. Mo.t of the former cornfields are now being planted with cotton. The natural fertility of Sicily is indeed remarkable. Without the use of fertilizers three different growths olives, vines and wheat flourish in close proximity. Great sections already artificially watered are among the garden spots of the world. The "Piano del Cappucinnl" at Trapanl, on the western shore, the far-famed "Conen l'Oro." near Palermo, rnd the entire eastern coast north of Catania are sections which surpass In fertility the favored valleys of Tuscany. Already

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KTrJTEr TT 'pprrrsffivs Oi!0 I vw CtttC.rm r thirty-nine towns, and all of the plants of the United States Steel Corporation in thc.se various states will, it is believed, be seriously affected before the end of the trouble. The leaders of the Amalgamated association are going slowly, but threaten to call a strike on every combination controlled by the United States Stel Corporation CATHERINE YOURIEWSKI. Christened Miss Mary Preble Anderson, who brcke the customary bottle of champagne to christen the battleship Maine, launched at Philadelphia Saturday, comes of a famous naval family. She is a great grand-daughter of Commodore Edward Preble, who having dirtinguiahed himself as a young man In the American navy during the revolution, commanded the Constitution Old Ironsides during the famous expedition against the Barbary pirates. He has always been styled the father MISS MARY PREBLE WHO 10,000,000 orange trees, or two-thirds of the total number krown In Italy, flourish on the island, while cotton and linseed, the almond, the olive, the carob and the mandarin are extensively raised. It Is a fact not generally known that there are nearly 400 women pharmacists in the United States. One of the largest apothecary establishments in New England employs women almost exclusively, giving them precedence over men and assigning as the reason therefor that women can be depended on, or, to use the language of the head of the concern: "No big heads, no mistakes, hence no suits for damages, as the result of careless reading of orescriptlons." Many manufacturing chemists employ women in different capacities. J. A Fillmore, who has resigned the position of manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific railway after almost a lifetime of meritorious service, will be paid $1,000 a month by tho company till the end of the year and a pension of $500 a month thereafter as long as he lives.

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dfc arvr KK$I TMt before they are done. Tho mass cf the men and plants affected are in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as the number of black dots on the map will indicate. The number of mon out now in Pennsylvania is 21,00u, in Ohio 23,000. in Indiana 10,000, and in Illinois 2.CC0. As many more may be involved later in the struggle with tho steel trust. " Hard-Hcartcd "Benefactors." Under this queer but pregnant titlo a writer in the Leipzig Uber Land unci Meer makes what he calls a "contribution to the psychology of Americanism." In brief, he points out that th benefactions of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and the late P. D. Armour are not properly to be Included under the heal of charity, for tho gifts made by these men are philanthropic rather than charitable. That is to say, Mr. Carnegie and the rest have no care fur the poor and needy and thoe who cannot help themselves, the proper objects of charity; but devote their money to the uses of the strong and hopeful in the attempt to raise the lowly and the weak of the coming generation to a higher plane. "This new feature of American life and faith," concludes the writer, "must not be blindly Imitated without further investigation." Jean De Rcszke, the operatic teno", has had considerable sucress as a horssman. At a recent race meeting in Warsaw he started fourteen horses in forty races, winning thirty of them. "Cash" Sloan, a brother of "Tod," rode all the horses and won nineteen consecutive races. Thomas G. Shaughnessy, who succeeded Sir William Van Home as president of the Canadian Pacific railWay system, catered the service of that road as a neral storekeeper as lately as 18S2. the Maine. of the American navy, because it was he who first made it famous abroad. His nephew, Admiral George II. Preble, was distinguished in the war against Mexico and in the civil war, and his grandson, Edward Deering Preble, uncle to Miss Anderson, rose to be lieutenant commander in the navy, and was navigator of the Kearsarge in its battle with the Alabama. Miss Anderson lives with her parents in Deering street, Portland, and is well known socially. CHRISTENED THE MAINE. A Scheme of Socialists. The socialists of Chicago propose to get incorporated as a buying society. The idea is that if 5,000 or more of them combine and do their buying through a single agency they "will be in a position to secure concessions In prices that a single individual cannot procure." Thus they begin by recognizing economic principles which will do more to win converts than any plan based on mere theory. Their proposed organization is not to establish a new socialistic order of society, but merely to take advantage of existing conditions and of economic laws operating under the existing social organization. They propose simply to buy at wholesale prices or producers' prices. Doubtless for fear that brooding over the big steel strike might inspire ßome crank to a desperate deed, the police department in New York Is taking unuiurtl precautions to guard President Schwab of the steel trust. The same Is true of J. Plenpont Morgan, to guard whom four detectives are reported to have been assigned.

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May Wed Hoseberry. The Duchess of Albany, whoa engagement to Ird Rcscberry is made tho subject of reports and counter reports from the headquarters of court gossip in London, is one of tho ccmeliest and most popular of tbe women of the British royal family. When she married Prince Leopold in 1SS2 she was the Princess Helen of Waldeck. Leopold, the Duke cf Albany, died la 1&S4, leaving his widow with two children, Princess Alice and the present duke. The future Countess of Roseberry bears s striking resemblance to .he young Queen of Holland, but thli i . - i 1 DL'CHESS OF ALBANY, is not surprising when it is rem?mbercd that she is an aunt to that interesting sovereign. The duch.ss Is very domestic in her taKtcs, is an excellent needlewoman. fio Vacation fcr Urcmps. A South Dahf.ut r.-.w.-pacr, noting the absence of that transcontinental citizen, the tran.p. t.i.3 summer, declares that th : lcwö ha- L:en spread through the land of the "hoho" that the farming country should be avoided. It is interesting to note that at this screen the iran-p c-!er.-.e::t r mains in th- iwjy K,r;br.:s centers. Along the Mirsissi; pi liver, the great summer gtt'.ie;-!i:g ph.ee of tramps, and from v.-i i' h roo-: ;( phical !!:;. they are wont to dmtribut- t!:en:s've.-, these wanderers herding th- :u.-:.?;vs ia the cities. A:: hi: :ir'-e of the conditions there is '..:r:ii?h--d by a Dubu-i nr-wspaper. whieh d-vhues that dari contractors hud it impossible to SvCUTt men. '"There are plenty of men hefi who are idle," says this authority, - -id although ono ci--::traetor has of.--red to pay thehr ::. : .- s and nive them wage? of frrni ?l."u to ?1.75 a day, ho has been unable to induce them to accept employment. They would rather loaf around the street corners than do work at good war:s. A few days ago a representative of a contractor went down to tbe high bridge, here a ganj of 'hoboes' was swallowing beer in a shed, and said he wanted to hire some men and would pay them good wages. But the reply he received was that they could earn enough around town to buy beer, and that was all they wanted." Would Slop Urcatin. Thomas B. Minahan of Columbus, who has originated a movement for the abolition cf the American custom of "treating." pr-. seated his plans to the central division of the Knights of Columbus at their meeting In Putin-Bay a few days ago. Mr. Minahaa is a prominent attorney of Columbus and deputy of this district of the Knights cf Columbus. This movement is endorsed by eminent divines of the Roman Catholic church and of tha Protestant denomination. He says .. viL THQHAÖ a MINAHAN. that the obliteration of the custom of treating, so extensively practiced by American?, Is the first real step toward total abstinence. Ht is confident that with the active support of the churches the movement will become national. The initial step was taken in the ranks of the Columbus Council No. 1, Knights of Columjjus, which adopted resolutions pledging its member to refrain from the custom. When it is considered that the national organization haa a membership of S0.0OO. the real Importance of this crusade will be understood. Indian Girl's ReJenge. Charged with ore of the most atrocious crimes ?n tiie history of the Indian country Annie Killdeer, a halfbreed Arapahoe squaw, is a prisoner at Darlington. Okla. Jealous bocause Willis Andale, a cowboy with whom s!ia seems to hare te?a Infatuated, preferred a white girl to her, she staked him out on the barren prairie In the burning sun, within sound of a rippling brook, and let him choke to death for want of water. She sat by his side, watching his agony and taunting him with the fact that his proposed marriage with the white girl would never take place. Every year relatives of Robert Loulr Stevenson in Scotland scad a crowa and cros3 of heakhcr from that country, which are placed eu fei grave la Samoa

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