Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 December 1895 — Page 4

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SEMI-WEEKLY INDEPENDENT. lleginniiis; this week the Marshall Coi'XTY Ixdki'Kxdkxt will be issued senn-weekly instead of weekly as heretofore. The semi-weekly editions will issue on Thursday and Saturday of each week at the price of the present weekly edition, pel year. Sub scriptions . ill also be received at 1.h), when paid in advance, the same as for the present weekly I xdkit.n oknt and all present and new subscribers will heivalter leceive two papers per week

instead of one. We believe Iniu:i'j:n-;

1knt readers will generally appreciate this change which will involve considerable added labor and expense but

believe thai this appreciation will more!

than recompense us for the extra effort necessarily involved in improving the news service f the paper. We shall make some liberal clubbing propositions among which is our offer to send the Thrice a-week New York World and the Skmi-Wi:i:kly Ixii:i'kmkxt an entire year for sjrl.fö. Subscribers may, on this proposition, receive live papers a week for a fraction over 3 cents per week. We also offer the i:.mi-Wi:i:kly Ixiuxkxdknt and the New York Weekly Tribune at only $1.2" per year. Tor details of these oilers see our advertisements in this paper. We also propose to supply almost any regularly published magazine or newspaper in the world, in combination with the Daily or Soii-Wkkkly Isdi:im:M)i:xt at considerable reductions from regu:ar subscription prices and it will pay Ixi)KPi-:xii:xT readers to call at this office before renewing subscrip tions to any paper or magazine published in this country or Kurope. Tell your friends about the Skmi-Wekkly Indi.puxdkxt.

liM-nming; Popular. The Winnamac Republican in its issue of last week in speaking of ltev. It. C. Wilkinson, of Kewauna says: "Rev. It. C. Wilkinson, of Ke wanna, preached at the M. K. church Sunday morning, afternoon and evening. I"ev. Wilkinson is a traveling evangelist for that denomination and also the author of a book that is i.aving quite a sale." The bok the Republican refers to is entitled 4The Kingdom of Love," and its author in giving it to the reading public, has through its eloquent, silent power touched a responsive chord in the hearts of those who have been fortunate enough to pursue its interesting

! pages ltie Kingdom or l.ove is

DON'T READ THE NEWSPAPERS-

Men Wliu Don't Care for Thin;1 of Content porunrou Interest. It may seem strarge, but it is a tact,

Personal. Mark Twain says the Arabs will take anything but a joke. The piessure brought to bearon Kuy. yard Kipling to force him into the dramatic lields has been very strong of

nevertheless, that jou occasionally find J jate.

a man who, by Ins own admissi m, never reads the newspapers not because he doesn't know how, nor of dimness of eye-sigh", but for the simple reason that he has no desire to. If an observing student of human nature will study the mental qualities of such men he wil with few exceptions ti:id them to be narrow-mmdeu in the extreme. The horizon of their ideas is often circum

scribed by their own dooryard, and sei-

founded upon the bible, the characters dorn extends beyond the limits of the

of which ire closely connected with the Savior. The book in its construction is written similar to Lew Wallace's werk of Mien Hur." Mr. Wilkinson in this work steps out boldly and assumes a position that many a man of his cloth would hesitate to take, owing to the perjudice thatsur-

immcdiate community in which they live Ask such a man what the distance is from .Harvard to Chicago, or what state borders Illinois on the south questions that the average school boy can answer and the prospects are he has forgotten, if he ever did know. Why, I Siave in mind a person in liar-

rounds this kind of literature. Hui he ! oard who thinks himself u mighty heavy has, with one bold stroke met thepopu-1 (I mean intellectually), man who was

;ar demands of the people for religious reading in the "Kingdom of Love"

heard to ask theq'iestion a few years ago upon hearing a commercial salesman

We wish lev. Wilkinson unbounded recount some of the daring deeds of the success as an author. I great confederate leader, ('eneral Lee,

in the war of the rebellion, "if the crit-

THE PLYMOUTH DEMOCRAT.

lrnuM-r;it it- or I nIeHiileiit, w liioli ? oiiie IMiio-ratH are I'l.tlewivetl.

The democrats who have fondly regraded the Plymouth democrat as their party organ were suddenly and completely undeceived when the Democrat started its position on November 21 Its declaration of principles of that date was summed up in the terse un

equivocal statement: "Independent in all things neutral in nothing.' In the Democrat of last week much space was devoted to the purpo e of showing that il never had been a party organ md matter from its files as far back as 18" was quoted to prove that such was the truth. From this it seems that while for many years subsequent to l) the democrats of this countv have been permitted to believe that the Democrat was to all practical purposes

and intents the parly organ, the paper has never been fully in harmony with or devoted to the party. Otherwise there would have been no obstacle to its being the party organ and receiving the party patronage which it conmlains with a tinge of bitterness that . has received only in part. Hut the question with the democratic party now is, has it or has it not a i.c v.s

paper representative (birring the hair splitting definitions o;' what constitutes a party organ) in this city. In view of all that has been said and done it does not appear that the Plymouth Democrat can nowever be accepted as a reli able representative of local democracy. A paper to be so accented must leave no doubt in the minds of its constituency as to its firmness and persistency in advocating party principles. It can not be democratic one week, independent the next and half way between the next and inspire the confidence necessary to gain admission to any party. When the daily Ixdlpkxdext was started the Democrat referred to it, exultingly and with great apparent pleasure, as a little boy might tease his school fellow, as the Republican daily. It is now evident that coming events did not at that time cast their shadows before. Mr. McDonald had not cast his horoscope. Krino v'l. The old shed which has stood on the lots across the Vandal ia track from O'Keefe's lumber yards, for several years, and which had become a dangerous place and a tramps lodging house lias recently been torn down ana hauled away. The next place should be the old mill which is partially gone now but its absence would improve the looks of that community to a considerable de gree. And people would not need to :ear the place after dark.

i Cliuuu Whatever. For sometime past Dame Rumor has whispered into the ears of the general public that an important change was to take place on the Pennsylvania Railroad the first of the coming month, which would be of considerable benetit to the patrons of that road. Kspecially favorable was this nev time card to be to towns within 130 miles of Chicago. It b ia now been announced that tvie only change that will be made is on the time of Xo. 8, which arrives at Plymouth at )io p. in. The change is only made between Chicago and Crestline and does n.t effect ourt-ervice here. It has been the desire cf thousands we might say, along the line of this road between Ft. "Wayne and Chicago that a better service could be secured between Chicago and Ft. Wayne in the forenoon. Xo train leaves Chicago between 7:30 a. m., and 2:i. p. m., that gives a benefit to the patrons of this road this side of Valparaiso. This service compells an enormous number of people who desire to transact a little business in the city to lose an entire day, which, if even the train that stops at Valparaiso continued through to Ft. Wayne, or even to Plymouth, would not only be of great benefit to the system, but would create a larger railroad patronage. We will venture the assertion there is not a railroad that does not give its patrons an opportunity to leave the city

between b" a. in., and noon, with this one exception. If the train that leaves Chicago at 7:30, was one hour later, it would be of incalculable value. This is a subject that is of no little moment

to the people of Plymouth, and it is to be hoped that in the near future some change will be made that will give the patrons of the Pennsyvania system a later train in the forenoon.

ter was still living." This is no fairy tale, but an absolute fact. The idea I wish to convey in the strongest possible language in this connection is that to deprive an enlightened man of his newspaper, whether it be tin most obscure weekly in the state or the ablest metropolitan daily in the land, is to take away his mental food and he is in torment until it is restored to him. If "ignorance is bliss' the man who never reads mav be as happy as the one who does, but the latter will find no pleasure in the former's society, for the reason that he finds it ditlicult to confine his ideas within the narrow scope of the man who never reads a newspaper. Harvard Herald.

A CliuiH-i for All. We have noticed scores of times the tendency of a certain class of people who always berate a man who has accumulated a large amount of money. Whether these men gained the extra

amout of cash they possess by actual manual labor or not.they generally were shrewd men or they would not have succeeded in accumulating. We, have heard people in Plymouth speak of ihe gift of Rockefeller to the university in Chicago, and yet Rockefeller was once a news boy in the city of New York. Carnegie, the great iron mill owner ol Pennsylvania at one time was what is known as a bobbin boy. (leorge Peabody did service as a grocery clerk, while Commodore Vanderbilt was the owner of a small trading boat which he poled with his own strong arms. Purely thrre is r. chance f:r a!!.

The Trial r a Country Krfitor. Whatever may be the truth or the

falsity of the stories that are told of the scarcity of funds in a country .editors pocket or the scarcity of food in his stomach, the stories are always told, antl neither the progress of edutation nor the growth and development of the press seems to have any effect upon the crop. One of the latest comes from Kentucky, where the mountain editor, at least, rarely develops into Cnesua or an Apicius, and this is one concerning a mountain editor. A subscriber had remembered him very kindly, and a day or two later a visitor called at his ollice. Can I see the editor V' he inquired of the grimy little "devil" on the high stool. "Xo, sir," replied the youth on the stool: "He's sick." "What's the matt r with him'-"

"Dun'no," said the boy. One of our subscribers gave him a bag of Hour and a bushel of peraters t'other day an' 1 reckon he's foundered.." From the "Fditcr's Drawer," in Harper's Magazine.

Mr. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was trained as a boy to become a civil engineer. Later m life he was connect ed with a provincial paper as a reporter Mayor Davis, of Kansas City, having neglected to pay the tax on his house for last year, discovered to his surprise

I the other day that the property had

just been sold to satisfy the claim. Lord Lytton, the novelist, left orders that before lie was buried a long needle should be run through his heart. lie has taken the precaution to tell the doctor of his wish, and it will carried out. Lord Londsdale recently had occa

sion to telegraph to the Kmperor of

(iermany, and the message was directed to "His Imperial Majesty the Kmperor

of ( Jerniany, Potsdam. Half an hour

later the message was returned marked, 'Tnsutliciently addressed." F. Hokinson Smith writes to say

that he left Constantinople six weeks

ago; that while in that city he saw Min

ister Terrell every day lor nearly a

month; that the Minister has not em

braced tne Mohammedon faith and is

not assisting in the persecution and

murder of Aimenians. but is doing a

great deal to protect them.

Probably the most interesting stu

dent at the University of Kansas is Martin Van Kuren Stevens, a lively

old man of 70. He is in his second

year in the law class, and expects to

graduate in the spring. Stevens has

been a soldier in the rebellion, a preacher, and a professor of "phren

ology,' but thinks no.v that his bent is

really for the law.

"We are imformed'" says the Roston

Transcript, "that the heirs of the poet

Whittier, who are his nieces and cous

ins, and would not be backward in

doing their share toward securing a

permanent memorial in his honor The Amesburs Xews mades the admir

able suggestion that now that the Whittier homestead is to be vacated it

is a good tine to make a move to se

cure it as a memorial, to be kept in

its present condition. Tribune.

No other house in this city ever DID-WILL-or CAN sell such

sterling QUALITIES at such LOW prices as WE quote.

.Just receivi'd a full lint-of the very latest

styles and desiens in . .

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Gentlemen, if you want the newest Necktie, call and look over our line. It is undoubtedly the t X largest and nobbiest line ever shown in Plymouth. $ X e stiH have a few more

Neckwear.!

Boys' and Children's

Overcoat

that are marked down to close.

Give us a call. We will be glad to show

you through.

A run. The editor of the Chicago Tribune could not refrain from making the following pim on the Waterbury watch. It was published this morning and is probably a result of the editor's Sunday meditations. "A man in Waterbury, Conn., has been arresteJ for praying

aloud until 1 o'clock in the morning. Hut he couldn't help it. No man could wind up a Waterbury watch meeting

earlier than that.'

Out of rinnilt.

A newly-married young man, having

a desire to compliment his mother-in

law's culinary accomplishments took this manner of doing it: I send you by

express to-day one of my wife's first

biscuits, that you may note theelTect of

your culinary instructions. 1 would

send it bv mail, that you might get it

sooner, but the postal regulations pro

hibit the transmission of articles v igh

ing more than four pounds through the

the mails.

Will Mill Marry?

il is remoreu mat senator Jliil is about to take unto himself a wife. He

his leased a large house on I street, a

most fashionable quarter of Washing

ton, and expects to take possession soon after the meeting of congress, lie is

either going to marry or avoid the dis

comforts of hotel life in the oapitol. C.

I. News.

Iit-i I.hw I iM ut it ill ional. At Winamac Saturday Judge ('apron decided the Indiana ditch law of ISM io be unconstitutional. The law applies to ditches of live miles or longer,

constructed in two or more counties. The court holds that the law is invalid

because it does not provide for the publication of essential notices and does not arrange for a joirst meeting nf the county commissioners interested.

The i:i-t OOW-er. From Tuesday's Dally. The (1. A. I!. Post, No. 20, elected the following ollicers last night at their lodge room: For Commander, Wm. Couger; Senior Vice, Win. Love; Junior Vice, Henry Reynolds; (Mlicerof the Day, J). L. Dickenson; Quartermaster, Dr. (). A. Ilea; Chaplain, Chas. II Wilcox; OHicer of the (Juan!, Kliza Kmmerson; appointed Adjutant, James K. Houghton.

The livening News. Katie C. Ilutchings.j

When winter clothe the earth with snow, And cold north winds begin to blowThen by my lire, secure and warm, I laugh defiance at the storm, And with my feet in easy shoes, I settle down to read the news. I read of hunger, care and sorrow, Of men who loan and men who borrow, Of murderers, ship-wrecks and the like, Of railroads busy with a "strike," Of tariff laws and corporations; Of sid and funny situations; I read from off the printed page The vital questions of this age; Also the many tales of scandal (Which the papers can so deftly handle.) At last disgusted w ith the mess of stuff I throw the paper down und think I've read enough.

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