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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
THE ART OF LETTER WRITING.

1t is a common remark of literary
critics that the art of writing, that
is, of graceful and elegant letter-writing,
seems to be steadily on the decline.
There are, it is true, plenty of persons
who can pen terse and grammatical
epistle on any subject, bat few of the
present day correspondence which come
to light bear any comparison with the
famous ones of the past. As literary
study the art of letter-writing is certainly
on the decline Doubtless most persons
of middle age have had opportunities of
noting the same fact within the range of
their personal experience. Not that there
are. fewer letters written now than
formerly; on the contrary, as everybody
knows, there are vastly more. But
business letters are less full and exact,
and social letters, if more frequent, are
much shorter, less elaborate, less care
fully written, and, as a rule, have less
literary merit than those written even a
generation or two ago. Hardly anybody
nowadays, we fancy, writes social let
tiers of eight, ten or twelve pages, full of
social news and personal condolences, the
whole arranged with as much regard to
finish as fullness of information. Yet
this was the sort of letters our fathers
used to write Under the high rates of
postage which prevailed forty or fifty
years ago the writing of letter was
quite an overland by the way, money
was money in those days, and man or
woman did not spend a half-dime without
looking at it twice, if not oftener. And
when the postage on a single letter was
% or 30 cents, the writer felt the need
of getting his moneys worth out of the
affair. If writing business letter, he
would be pretty sure to make it full, com
prehensive and exact If a social letter,
he would naturally feel inclined to get in
as much as possible, and in as good
shape as possible. Cheap postage. has
done wonders in the way of multiplying
the number of letters, bringing the peo-
pie close together, and diffrsing intelli-
gence but it can hardly be doubted that
it has also contributed in some degree to
the decadenco of the art of letter-writing
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
SUFFERING IND PRIvATIoN.

The Baltimore Sun Publishes an in
teresting story from one of the men res
cued from the ice off the coast of New
foundland, and brought to that port by
the steamer Nuremberg. The party are
all Irishmen, or of Irish descent, and
comprised nearly the entire able-bcdied
male population of the little town of ST.
Mary's, Newfoundland. When return
ing to the shore, on the evening of the
day on which they boarded the ice
bound brig, they found the ice had
parted about mile from shore, leaving
space of half a mile of clear water, with
night coming, in storm OF rain, sleet,
and, finally, snow, incapacitated several
of the party, and when the morning
dawned several corpses were counted. A
heavy mass of ice, twenty feet square,
foated near, upon which nine of the
party got, hoping that it would drift
toward the shore ice and they could thus
save themselves. When it had foated
300 feet from the Ice upon which were
their comrades, it grounded, and the I'M
fortunate men, remained upon it for
three days and nights, during which
time six of them died. All the food they
had in that time was small white fish,
which was frozen in the ice. The
eighteen men remaining after the nine
floated off made their way back to the
abandoned brig All expected to die in
her, md some of them had lost their
senses before reaching her. The brig
was moored in the ice for a week, in
sigh of land, and the fishermen were on
her ten days. The narrator says he has
family of six children. and some of
those who died leave families equally
large. The ten men were taken in
charge By the British Consul and sent
: hnn,n
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
A RIG WHEAT FARM

A Sacramento paper says that DR..
Hugh ]. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa
county, California, has raised and har-
vested the past season on his own farm
600, 900 bushels of wheat. This would
load eighteen 1,0OO-ton ships or three
hundred canal boats. All this wheat he
has now in his own warehouse, ready for
shipment when the water of the Sacra-
mento river rises sufficiently. The Doc
tor is a wonder to the agricultural world
and to himself. He runs ninety gang
plows and whole county's population
in the harvest field, with dozen
threshers. His farming is not confined
to wheat alone. He markets 500, 900
worth of stock each year. DIR. Glenn is
q practical farmer, and manages all his
immense business himself. He can
mend trace and make key to an OK
bow with his jack-knfe just as easy as
drawing his check for 800, 900, which
he can do every day in the week. DR..
Glenn was born in Augusta county, Va,
and does honor to the 'Old Dominion. :"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
LEPERS IN THE SANDWICH IS
LANDS,

The Punishment of lepers is vigorously
carried out in the Sandwich Islands.
There was a cent official search for
persons affected with the incurable
malady, many having been secreted by
their relatives. Hundreds were found
and put into a vessel for transportation
to the leper village to be kept there until
they die. Their families gathered on the
beach and expressed their grief In
loud lamentations. A talented half
breed, called Bill Ragsdale, has long
held high place In the regard of Sand
witch Islanders. He is an orator of great
natural power, a leader in the district of
Hilo, and man of VIGOROUSLY bad
morals. He discovered that he was
leprous, although the indications were
so slight that he had escaped official
notice, and at once gave himself up to
the authorities. A procession of natives,
singing and carrying flowers, escorted
him to the vessel which was to take him
and the others to their living graves. He
made speech to the assembly, urging
submission to the measures for eradicat-
ing leprosy by Punishment, and express
ing his hatred of missionaries.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

The prediction of Prof. Tice, of st.
Louis, in a paper on meteorological
cycles, published in the early part of
February, to the effect that our earth
and the atmosphere were about to be in
fuenced by the then approaching eqm-
nox of Venus, which would occur on or
about the 9Th of March, and that during
the perturbation we should have "heavy
rains, fierce gales, possibly tornadoes,
and probably earthquakes, especially in
earthquake countries" has been singu-
larly verified by the actual facts. Two
shocks of an earthquake have been felt
In Tennessee, one In California and a
dreadful one in Mexico; tornadoes of
the most destructive character have swept
over different parts of the country; gales
and shipwrecks are reported from ali di-
rections, and there has hardly been day
during the month of March that snow
or rain storm has not prevailed in some
locality on the continent. The extraor-
binary character of these phenomena is
indisputable. The question is, are they
the sequences of special physical cause,
as Prof. Tice maintains, and can they be
foretold so far in advance of their occur
renee, and with such clear, particularly,
as he contends? 1t is subject worthy
of close investigation by scientists.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
BRITISH SrATIsTICs.

The total receipts of British revenue
from April l, 1874, to March 6, 1875,
were EOS, 1854, III, against e7O, 464, 800
corresponding period of last year. The
Postoffice receipts on the 9th inst. were
exactly the sum stated in the budget es-
timate-e5, 100000. The expenditure
up to the 9th inst. was f6S, O54, 976,
against go, 100, 514 last year, and the
balance In the Bank of England on that
day was e4,639, 1913. The weekly re
turn of London or metropolitan pau
perism shows the total number of pau
pers In one week was 1881, of whom
SO, 7S5 were in warehouses;, and 81, 500
received outdoor relief. Compared with
she years 1874, 1873, and 1872, these fig
ures show a decrease of 1858, %, 107,
and q, 979 respectively.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
GRAMMAR.

The opposition to the study of tech
nical grammar in the public schools
seems to be gaining strength. We read
of it on all sides. The Cincinnati ex-
pertinent made profound impression.
In that city two divisions of pupils,
equally advanced in their studies, were
directed to write compositions. One
division had been trained in technical
grammar, and the other had studied the
art OF language Only] by reading pas
sages from noted books. The second
set made no more mistakes in technical
grammar than the first, and wrote in a
much better style. This interesting ex-
pertinent should be repeated on larger
scale. There can be small doubt that
the trial would show that Goldsmith and
Irving are better text books in grammar
than any and all technical treatises on
that theme. In late number of the
Christian Union, Gail Hamilton quotes
some remarkable passages from gram
mar which has been written for school
use, aud is now, we infer, studied in a
number of schools.
The infant brain is informed that pro
nouns are divided into personal, relative,
interrogative, adjective, compound per-
sonal, double possessive personal @,
compound, double relative, responsive,
indefinite, indirect interrogative, dis
tributive, definite, and reciprocal. The
infant memory, after swallowing, boa
constructor fashion, this absurd list, is
required to digest the fact O. that SEN
fences are composed of elements which
are simple, compound, modified, un-
modified, independent, principal, subor-
dinate, connective, coordinate, correla-
tive, composite, declarative, interroga-
tive, imperative, explanatory, affirma-
tive, and negative. Making child of q
dozen years learn, or try to learn, such
stuff is sheer cruelty, as well as waste of
time. The knowledge when gained is
utterly useless. There is probably no
author, prominent in literature, who
knows or cares to know the grammar :"
his children study so painfully. Must
time be wasted in this way in our public
schools forever2 Suppose 1900, 600
children devote an hour apiece day,
during nine months of the year, to study
ing end reciting grammar. There are
200 school days during the school year.
There is, then, an. aggregate loss of
400, 600, 900 hours of precious time each
year. A great amount of valuable
knowledge might have been gained dur
ing that time. The other studies of the
present curriculum might have been
more thoroughly mastered, or some
new study, such as political economy,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
WHAT LIVE FOR.
l i've for those who love me,
For those I know are true

1--we for those who love me.
For those know are true.
For the heaven that smiles above me.
And awaits my spirit, too:
Tor all human ties that bind me.
For the task by God assigned me.
For the bright hours left behind me.
And the good that can do.
live 70 learn their story.
|ho've suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow IN their wake:
Bards. marty Is. patriots, sages.
The noble OF al ages,
And times great volume make.
live 20 hail that season.
b gifted minds foreto,d,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold
When man to man united,
and every wrong thing righted,
As Eden was os old.
Eve 70 hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feet there is union
Twixt natures heart ard mine.
To proit BY affection,
Grow wiser from conviction.
And fulfill each great design
] 1--we FOR those who love me.
For these who knew me true.
For the heaven that smiles above LIE,
And awaits ny spirit. too:
For the wrongs that need resistance.
For tie cause that lacks assistance,
For the future in the distance.
And tie good that can do.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
IoBByJyG IND LOBByIsTs.

The United States Supreme Court has
recently decided that lobbyists cannot
collect their fees. The following is the
conclusion of this very important de
cision:
''The agreement in the present case
was for the sale of the influence and ex-
ertions of the lobby agent to bring about
the passage of law for the payment of
a private claim, without reference to its
merits, by means which, if not corrupt,
were illegitimate, and, considered in con-
nection with the pecuniary interestof the
agent at stake, contrary to the plainest
principles of public policy. No one has
a right in such circumstances, to put him
self In position of temptation to do
what is regarded as SO pernicious in its
character. The law forbids the inchoate
step, and puts the seal of its reprobation
upon the undertaking.
Sc If any of the great corporations of
the country were to hire adventures who
make market of themselves in this way,
to procure the passage of a general law
with a view to the promotion of their
private interests, the moral sense of every
right-minded man would instinctively
denounce the employer and employed as
stepped in corruption, and the employ
ment as infamous.
eff the instances were numerous,
open and tolerated they would be re-
garded as measuring the decay of the
public morals and the degeneracy of the
time. No prophetic spirit would be
needed to foretell the consequences near
at hand. The same thing in legislation,
if not so prolific of alarming evils, is not
less vicious in itself, nor less to be con-
demned. The vital principle of both is
the same. The evils of the latter are of
sufficient magnitude to invite the most
serious consideration.
eve have said that for professional
services in this connection a just compen-
sation may be recovered. But where
they are blended and confused with those
which are forbidden, the whole is unit
and undivisible. That which is bad de-
stroys that which is good and they per-
ish together. Services of the latter
character, CONTINUOUSLY rendered, are not
unlawful. The absence of motive to
wrong is the foundation of the sanction.
The tendency to mischief, if not want
ing, is greatly lessened The faint lies
in the stipulation for pay. Where that
exists it affects fatally in all its parts the
whole body of the contract. In all such
cases potion conditiO dcfendentis
Where there is turpitude the law will help
neither party.
"The elder agent in this case is repre-
scented to have been a lawyer of ability
and high character. The appellee is
said to be equally worthy.
"This can make no difference as to the
legal principles we have considered, nor
in their application to the case in hand
The law is no respecter of persons.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
AN Indianapolis street-car driver got

AN Indianapolis street-car driver got q
drunken man on his car and kept him
all day, allowing him to sleep quietly,
but collecting ten cents every round
trip, and giving a drink of fire-water
every fourth round, he made $1.S0 Of
him, which he put down." The
drunken man thought it was a pretty
long route, but the driver consoled him
by telling him it was slippery and he was
obliged to drive slow.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
LOVE REVE4LED.
By MARIE s. LADD.

Such trite and graceless sinner,
You would wonder 1 could win her,
She, as white and pure as snow.
From my lot of i'll defend her,
For she loved me true and tender,
Her warm bushes told me so.
Heavy clouds may gather DER me,
And the way look dark before me,
As it Outlines viii below;
will pass it all unheeding,
For she loves me f; at my Pleading
Her clear eyes have told me so.
Then DER changeless seas a-sailing.
With our hope and faith unfailing,
In the sunshine we viii go,
All in all, and never parted.
For she loves me, the true-hearted,
Her dear lips have told me so.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

might have been introduced. The classes
should learn grammar from their readers;
not from text books. The change we
suggest will doubtless be opposed by the
innumerable army of writer's, publishers,
and sellers of so-called grammars, but
their self-interested clamor should not
blind educators to the truth. Chicago
Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

HORSE marines should have fleet
horses.
BEFORE you see Yosemite grand
You mighty little TO understand
But when you see Yosemite grand
You seem mighty little, too, understand.
A WAC seeing door nearly off its
hinges in which condition If had been
for some time), observed that when it
had fallen and killed some one it would
probably be hung.
PETER MCNAMARA, of Rochester, who
thought he could mesmerize bull by
looking him In the eyes, changed his
mind when he found himself on the
woodshed roof moment afterward,
and saw his wife coming with step-lad-
der and a club to get him down.
An attorney having died in poor cir
stances, one of his friends observed that
he had left but few effects "That IS
not much to be wondered at" said an
other, 50 for he had but few causes
A MAN who attempted to break into
Norway's smoke-house, Fulton, was glad
to get away with only two hams, and
those had been somewhat injured by con-
tact with sole leather.-ROme Sentinel.
DOUGLAS JERRoLD says, in his '' Hedge
hog Letters" that Responsibility is al
very well for folks who can have it for
ready money but to be obliged TO run in
debt for it, is enough to break the heart
of an angel
"SIR," said the astonished landlady
to a traveller who had sent his cup for
ward for the seventh time, "you must
be very fond of coffeel" eyes, madam,
l am" he replied, cor I should never
have drank so much water to get little. p"
OLD bachelor uncle" Well, Charles,
what do you want nows" Charlie-
"Oh, 1 want to be rich" Uncle
Rich. Why 500" Charlie Be
cause 1 want to be petted, and ma says
you are an old fool, and must be petted
because you are rich. But it's great
secret, and mustn't tell!''
How SWEET is perfect understanding
between man and wife. He was to smoke
cigars when he wanted them, but he was
to give her ten cents every time he in
dulged in one. He kept his word and
every time she got fifty cents ahead he'd
borrow it and buy cigars. And so were
they happy.
"DD you ever see that picture grand
ma 2" asked young lady, as they took
view of the family portrait gallery.
"See it! Why, it's portrait Of myself
when was IT," "I thought you had
forgotten it, or you wouldn't always be
lecturing us girls about modesty In
Dress" Grandma looked over her spec
tacles and declared the girls nowadays
were very impertinent to their elders.
A YOUNG man employed in a concert
saloon, while engaged in cutting cheese
for lunch, happened to cut some Of the
slices too thick and others too thin.
This was noticed by the proprietor, a
Dutchman, who, approaching the young
man, reprimanded him in the following
manner: ''By damn, hafent you got
more eyesight as datl One is noting,
and de oder is little more"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
WHINING.

There is class of persons in this
world, by no means small, whose promi-
nent peculiarly is whining. They whine
because they are poor, or, if rich, be-
cause they have no health to enjoy their
riches; they whine because it is too sun
ny; they whine because they have "no
LUCK" and others prosperity exceeds
theirs; they whine because some friends
have died and they are still living; they
whine because they have aches and pains,
and they have aches and pains because
they whine; and they whine no one can
tell why. Now we would like to say
word to these whining persons. First,
stop whining-it is of no use complain
ing, fretting, fault-finding and whining.
Why, you are the most deluded set of
creatures that ever lived Do you not
know that it is well-settled principle of
physiology and common sense that these
habits are more exhausting to nervous
vitality than almost any other violation of
physiological law! And do you not
know that life is pretty much as you
make it, You can make it bright and
sunshiny, or you can make it dark and
shadowy. This life is meant only to
discipline us-to fit us for higher and
purer state of being. Then stop whining
and fretting, and go on your way re-
joicing.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

HOW TO CLEANSE KID GLOVES.
Take little sweet milk and piece of
white or brown soap. Fold a clean
towel three or four times, spread it over
your dress, and spread out the gloves
smoothly upon it. Take large piece of
white flannel, dip it in the milk, then
rub it upon the soap, and rub the glove
downward toward the fingers, holding
the wrist of it by the left hand. Con-
tinue this process until the glove, if
white, looks of a dingy yellow, but if
colored, looks dark and entirely spoiled.
Now let it dry, and put it on your hand,
and it will be soft, smooth, glossy and
clean. Take care, however, to omit no
part of the glove in rubbing it, and see
that all the soiled parts are thoroughly
cleaned.
This process applies only to white
and colored kid gloves. For black gloves
that are soiled, turned white and other
wise injured, take teaspoonful of salad
oil, drop few drops of ink into it, and
rub it all over the gloves with the tip of
feather; then let them dry in the sun.
White kid boots and slippers can also
be restored to their pristine gloss by the
latter method.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

THE expense OF running the New York
Herald averages $4,000 day /; Tribune,
81, 500; the Times, 1000, and the
World, $500.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
BLOODY 4WPHTBI4N.

They must have enjoyed very lively
man-hunt near Fulton, Ark, few days
ago. One James Brown, noted des-
perado, amused himself by the cold
blooded murder of citizen, and nearly
the whole country turned out in pursuit
of the cutthroat. He was driven into the
canebrake of the Red river, ana then en-
sued chase without parallel. The
reckless villain, in his efforts to escape,
took to the water like an otter, swimming
with wonderful ease and rapidity, and
for hours managed to conceal himself In
the river and bayous. Finally driven from
the water re took to the forest, and proved
as fleet as a deer and a dead shot, too.
A special train brought reinforcements
to the farmers, and Brown was sur
rounded, but when the circle closed in
the man WAS gone. Soon after he was
discovered in the river beside log,
swimming rapidly with the current, and
retaining his shotgun. Yolley after
volley IVES fired at him, and without any
further effect than to eventually drive
him out of the water on the other side.
Here, as he was escaping with whoop
of defiance, he met body of negroes;
he fired and tumbled one of them, but a
bullet of the return volley struck him.
He limped into the brush and finally
escaped. His shotgun was found with
the marks of over dozen bullets on the
stock. Brown is described as red
haired giant, and he seems to be just
about the toughest customer on record.
They ought not to have let him get away.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
PLEAS4NTRIES.

To DRAIN farm-Mortgage it.
HORSE marines should have fleet
horses.