Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1891-09-27
Plates ON The Q
Hlsssr:e spe<s In Qua Libby Prtsee Marie.
By nrAaa Plate.

By nrAAs RlAteA-
About . year ago the idea WINS sur.
gested 20 thu management uf- Libby.
lpHs6noxnx Museum Of placing 6rnsa
plates, on the floor. Of, theyoLl prison
With the name, rank and regiment Of
extprisoners, REd designating the spot
where they slept. The suggestion, SAYS
the Chicago Journal, was Carried out.
and now there are nearly three hundred
plates nailed to this old flooring In
various partsof tho building, and they
form an interesting feature. One bears
the name Of Brigaiier General Neal
Dow, the. great temperance advocate of
Portland, Me-, and another desfgnates
the spot wheEe Colonel Thomas L. Rose
slept Another bears the hameeui GeN-
eral w. IL. Powell, of iBellcyillc- III
u there Is also one for Captain Gallo
way. There are brass plates for Cap
tains Flynn and Sawyer. two Union
officers that were held as hostages and
condemned to be shot at one time in re-
taliation to the Pedcrals, who held n
nephew of General Lee. and another
prominent young officer Of tho Con-
federaey as prisoners o. .SSr ,.nacr.tha
same sentence. A com.promise In this
matter was effected. Captain Francis
irsch, of New York, also has a plntc on.
the hoor OF the Gettysburg room that
tells where he slept Beside II arc four
other plates bearing the names of his
comrades, now dead. Another plate
shows where Colonel A. D. Strcight, OF
Indianapolis, used to sleep before his
escape through the tunnel. On the
night THAT Streight went out, he. y,,s.
seereted with hlcouples of comrades hy
'airs. Van levin the garnet Of her resi-
dence in Richmond. In n few days 'aannc
other plate will tell where General
Pavey, OF Bloomington, slept. This
well-knorYn old veteran was confined in
one of the, filthy dungeons Of Libby for
several months.
SIMULATED VIRTUE.
Tho Value OF Hypocrisy NJ n Social
Elevator.
When atrabilarious Hamlet. In hi,
choleric interview with his mother in
the cabinet, iDprudcntly advised her
Assume o virtue II you have It or not,
he unwittingly laid down a general
rule OF high value to individuals and tho
community, says John McElroy in the
Popular Science Montsily.
Stimulation of virtue, though far in
fcrior to the real article, Is still tho
next best thing to It, just asiwhitrSvush.
though much inferior. to marble, is vet
greatly superior to dirty nnkedness.
1t is very dcSira BILE that all men md
oil women should stand together on
the very highest plane of goodness; but
tho largest portion of them do not
probably will. It is
bic to expect that the mass of humanity
will be steadily aligned on the most nd
vanccd standards of morality, especial
ly when those standards arc pushed for.
ward as rapidly as tiley have been in the
more recent centuries. Ethics is q con-
stantly developing science. What wa,
n high grade of morality in the cir.,-
teenth century would BIO o very ordi-
nary ono to-day; just Us the man who.
IN our colonial times, would have been
regarded as neat and clearly in his per-
son, would seem a good deal of a sloyen
to-day. Them as now, men and women
would assume to be much cleaner, NOR
.nty and physically, than they really
We're, and by. sheer force OF persistence
and habit became really cleaner thar
they at first pretended to- be. Persons
withithG bump Of appropriateness high
ly.deyeloped constantly forge to tho
front on lines which they think wilt
>vin-them tic esteem Of the!r fellows.
and the latter follow with UNEQUAL
steps, 1rstshowing outward respect and
conformity TO better ideas and practices.
II then making them moro or less OF
realities in their lives.