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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Fish Fights i'm Siam.

The favOritc sport in Siam is fish
fighting. Betting on fish-fights is such
a passion with the Siamese that they
will stake, not only all their money and
their goods but even their wives and
children. The right to keep fighting
fish is bestowed only by the King and
is so highly paid for that the royal cof-
fcrs derive a large revenue from grant
ing the requisite licenses
The fighting fish are little things of
four or five centimeters long and not
thicker than n child's finger. but they
are full of fight" and fly at each other
with the utmost ferocity as soon as
they are let into the same water In
AMMAN, too, the same amusement pre-
walls. There the fish are kept in large.
clear glass bottles of water and il one
of the bottles is placed before a mirror
the vicious little fish, seeing his own re-
Election and taking it to be the enemy.
goes nearly mad with excitement ut his
inability to get ut his adversary.-Ex-
change.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14

Grand totals. -. $40. A.. 079 $41J, 7G0 943
The changes of interest in these esti-
mates present rs compared with the ap-
preparations for the current fiscal year are
as follows:
In the Legislative branch: Salaries and
expenses are increased about 22J,000,
public works about 100000, public print
ing about $11J0,C00.
Treasury departments: Salaries and ex-
penscs are increased about 100000, ter
ritorial governments are decreased about
$4,000, internal revenue increased $751;
coo, of which S460, 600 is on account Of
the collection of the income tax provided
for by the act of Aug. Is, 1894.
The estimates for public works are near
ly $4.0O0,O00 in excess of the present ap-
preparations of which about s., 100000 is
for the continuation or completion of pub
lie buildings rs follows: Allegheny. Pa,
to complete. $4,000; Buffalo. continue
ton. 100000; Chicago, repairs, SOC, 600;
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, completion, $4,000;
Fort Worth, Texas, completion, 1000;
Kansas City. continuation, 100000; Lit
tie Rock. Ark, additions, $4,000; New
ark. y. J., completion and additional
lands. $500 600; Norfolk, Va, completion,
100000: Omaha, continuation, 5000. 900;
Portland, Or, continuation. 100000;
Pueblo, Col, continuation, $4,000; st.
Paul, Mimi, continuation, $4,000; San
Francisco, commencement. $4,000; Sa-
vannah, Ca. completion. 100000; Sioux
City, Iowa, continuation, $4,000: Wash
ington. ID. c., continuation, $500. 600;
Worcester, Mass, completion, $4,000.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
any degree the quality Of elasticity IL that

any degree the quality Of elasticity Ii that
issued by the national banking associations
and Ii Is now generally conceded. | believe
to meet the requirements of the situation at
some of the most critical periods In business
affairs of the country"
The National Bank Question.
With regard TO the Baltimore plan" for
national banks the Secretary says:
LAS the plan suggested proposes to exempt
the Government Of the United States from
all liability for the redemption cf national
bank notes and pace the sole respOn sibility
upon the banks themselves. q guaranty fund
of not less than 80 per centum upon the out
standing circulation Is regarded as q very
proper and necessary feature of the system. ="
Then coming down to the tariff he says:
The raw materials used In the production
OF commodities for the use Of the people In
their homes and in their various Industrial
pursuits should be free from taxation. II
our Industries are to bc probably conducted
reduced cost of production must precede or
accompany reduced prices Of the finished
product.
The late act, while ii places upon the free
list a considerable part Of most important
raw materials used in our manufacture, left
iron and lead ores and bituminouS coal, to-
gcthcr with sever Z other articles of less con-
sequence, still! dutiable, thus not only failing
To put in force Il consistent system of reve-
nue. reform but leaving some of our most val
liable Industries at a great disadvantage as
compared with their rivals differently To-
Gated"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Hysteria and Women's Rights.

One notices in too many things which
women do the touch of hysteria. Take
the more or less neurotic novels which
certain ladies have recently issued
from English presses. In every one of
them one finds a suggestion Of the hys-
terical inclination which is an inevita-
bic accompaniment of certain forms of
anaemia. l know nothing of their
authors. but l should be disposed to
wager, from the evidences which peep
out from between the lines, that the
large majority Of them are childless
women.
Go where you please among the
women who are Shrieking out for this
or that and you will find that - per
cent. of them are, in some way or other.
the victims of their sex. From the
point of view of modern femininity it
is wOman'S right to be man. Ii they
would only be frank, it is nature they
quarrel Nftll-they envy man-All the
Year Round.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14

Maj Gen. Stephen G Burbridge died
in New York.
China has accepted the English offer
of a ~ per cent. loan of II. 100000.
Six murders in two months in Michigan
have resulted in agitation for capital pun
ishment.
Capt. Mckenzie, of the Cleveland fire
department. has fallen heir to one-ffth
of 1923, 900 fortune.
Chicago and New York Congressman
will cooperate to secure appropriations
for new postoiiice buildings.
The first rain for four months fell in
Arkansas, putting out the forest fires
which had done great damage.
-Four men who robbed the postoffce at
Ticonderoga, y. y. were captured by a
sberif's posse after q desperate fight.
Rev DIR. Henry NJ. Storrs, who defend
ed Prof. Briggs before the Presbyterian
general assembly, died at Orange, \. ].
William Brandt, q blacksmith at Free
landsyille, Ind, committed suicide by
hanging on account of financial troubles.
Avalanc.les of snow, ice and earth and
appearance of Mt. Rainier in Washington.
Judge McMaster set aside the allow
ances made by Receiver Failey and his
attorneys in the Iron Hall case at Indian
apolis.
Gov. Waite is continuing his war on
Denver gamblers. He charges that the
clergy are in league with the worst Gle
ments.
The proclamation Of amnesty issued by
the Gar includes the Lutheran clergy
men who were arrested in the Baltic
provinces.
Fire which started from unknown
causes did $4,000 damage to the boxing
department of the Cudahy Packing Com
pany at South Omaha.
Judge Mcconnell of Fargo refused to
annul the marriage of Aaron Hirschfield
to Dell Hogan, and declared his witnesses
to be unworthy of belief.
Robert G. Ingersoll, said to be ne
phew of the great New York lawyer, is
under arrest at Minneapolis, charged
with having stolen law books.
The Anderson Qnd) paper mills were
sold at receivers sale to Crawford Fair
banks, president of the American Straw
board syndicate, for 5000.
Many roads are suffering from a car
famine owing to increased local business,
while others are sending "empties" East
to accommodate west-bound traffic.
Missouri River packers are stirred up
over the advance in rates on live hogs
and packing-house products and may re-
talate by shipping via gulf ports.
A negro killed A. Il. Leigh, a farmer,
near Newman, Ga, and had revolver
drawn to shoot Mrs. Leigh, but Lila,
daughter, seized her fathers shotgun and
drove the man from the house.
Cincinnati ministers are fighting Sun
day theatres. Two of the ministers went
to Havlin's Theatre and stayed long
enough to qualify themselves as wit
nesses. The police refused to arrest the
actors until the performance was con-
Guided.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14

Carolina, when she had $4,000 less
voters than now, cast 183,621 votes
for Hayes and Tilden. The total vote
this year, however, was not much over
60, 900 or about o fourth of the full
vote"
There can be but one conclusion
drawn from this statement of facts.
There are about 100000 voters, OF
Populists, now in the United States
who have no faith i'll either of the old
parties. If we add to them the ,, 600,
900 Populists there is already o major
ity who desire the Government placed
in entirely new hands. The problem
to solve then, is not how to persuade
the voters away from affilia ion with
the old parties, but how to unite them
in one party. Can these 100000
voters be brought to support a plat
form two columns long, containin gde-
mands for woman suffrage, single lax,
nationalism, land loans, referendum, a
new system of eleciing the President
and Senators, sub-treasury, non-in-
terest-bearing bonds, good roads, im-
perative mandate and twenty other
'-isms" besides some sound princi les
concerning finance and the corpora
tons? Now is the time when every
reform editor ought TO open rapid
firing battery on the platform cranks
and create a sentiment SO strong that
when our next convention is held, the
man who proposes the ten-toot plat
form scheme will be hooted on of he
back door. As far as l am concerned,
1 will join the hosts of silent sufferers
before | will go into another campaign
loaded down with another ten-foot
platform. These cranks who want
their "isms" put in our platform have
no votes TO back them and every ism y
added drives away thousands.
If the trenchant pens of reform edi-
tors are directed to the eradication of
the platform thinkers, they can soon be
overcome. Let every editor from
Maine to California and from the Gulf
to the Lakes open out on them. Be-
fore we can do anything to help the
people, we must down the corporations
and the money power. That is the
enemy thai this generation must con-
quer. Let the coming generations at
tend to the other things. They will
have more money tc do it with. 1t
may seem to be strange statement
but nevertheless it is true statement.
The wider the platform the fewer are
the men who can conscientiously stand
upon it. And the narrower it is the
more there are who can find footing
there.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Changes significant.

The nation is passing through an
era of political transition just as it did
between 1850 and go.
When thousands of Democrats break
away from heir party as they did in
the recent election, it is evidence OF
discomfort which protends coming
change.
Republicans who abandoned their
party two years ago, largely voted
with the Peoples party this year.
ID ,mocrats who became disgusted
and with q spirit of independence
broke away from party bondage this
year will be with us next.
Those who voted the Republican
ticket expecting any improvement
will be doomed to disappointment.
The needed reforms can never come
through party whose policy for thirty
years has been dictated by the specu-
lators of Wall Street.
These vo ers who have now become
independent voters will not return to
the party of Grover Cleveland, neither
will they again support the Repuli-
cans.
The only logical conclusion is that
these thousands of voters will do Just
what the thousands have done who
abandoned the old parties previously.
Becoming Independent thinkers they
have united with the only party that
in any manner represents the PEOPLE.
Already the south is honey
with Populist theories and on fair
count nearly every state would to-day
be Populist.
The Peoples party is unit in tseir
demands.
In every state, in every county, in
every recinct, it endorses the same
platform.
The old parties have no platform or
declaration of principles on which to
unite.
In the different localities their lead
ers talked to suit the people.
The Democrats fioundered among
governmental problems without an at
tempt to offer solution.
The Republicans make pledges ac-
cording to the locality and promised
everything or anything.
None of these pledges were intended
to he fulfilled.
They were merely intended to catch
votes and the trick was q success.
Thinking people will observe this
and inquire for something more worthy
of support.
The returns indicate that gradually
the voters abandon first one and then
the other of the old parties but they
60 out never to return.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
....-.. 81, 727, 0iS,S6) 81,
Population of the Earth.

The total gold of the world in coin
and bullion used as money amounts to
81. 81 per capita.
The totSl silver of the world in coin
and bullion used as money amounts to
sos per capita.
The total gold and silver of the
world in coin and bullion used as
money amounts to $500 per capita.
If the world is reduced to gold
basis, S2.51 per capita will be our
money of redemption, instead of $500
under bimetallic system.
Read the following tables every
week, Luntil You can tell the world,
from memory, what we have done by
permitting the crime of 1873" to go
unrepealed and UNPUBLISHED, and until
enough true, loyal, patriotic Ameri-
can citizens will vote for only Ameri-
can money for Americans to sweep
from the face of this fair land the YAM
pires and vultures who have been
preying upon us since 1861, and are
now forging the last links of the chain
which makes abject slaves of over sixty
five millions of our people. Keep it
before the people until we have only
American money for Americans, until
we pay all interest to the United
States instead of foreigners and have
true American financial independence
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
JAPAN'S QUEER ROBBERS.
They Are Polite and Require Their
Victims to Be Moral.

Victims to Be Moral.
Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, in the paper
"From My Japanese Diary" in the At
lantic tells Of robbery in the house
of his neighbor. the dyer:
He told me queer story about rob-
bers. Dyers are peculiarly liable to be
visited by robbers; partly by reason Of
the value of the silks intrusted to
them, and also because the business is
known to be lucrative. One evening
the family were robbed. The master
was out of the city; his Old mother, his
wife and a female servant We're the
only persons in the house at the time.
Three men, having their faces masked
and carrying long swords. entered the
door. One asked the servant whether
any Of the apprentices We're still in the
building, and she, hoping to brighten
the invaders away, answered that the
young men were all still at work. But
the robbers were not disturbed by this
assurance. One posted himself at the
entrance, the other two strobe into the
sleeping apartment. The women
started up in alarm. and the wife ask
ed "Why do you wish to kill u.s." He
who seemed to be the leader answered,
1--WE do not wish to kill you; we want
money only. But if we do not get it.
then it will be this" striking his sword
into the mating. The old mother
said. BE so kind as not to brighten my
daughter-in-law, and | Will give you
whatever money there is in the house.
But you ought to know that there can
not be much, as my son has gone TO
Kioto.' She handed them the money
drawer and her own purse. There were
just % yen and 81 sen. The head rob-
Der counted it and said quite gently,
1--WE do not want to brighten you. We
know you are n very devOut believer
in Buddhism, and we think you would
not tell lie. Is this all:" "Yes, it is
ALL" she answered. Il am, as you say,
a believer in the teaching of Buddha,
and if you come to rob me now, L be-
lieve it is only because | myself, in
some former life, once robbed you.
This is my punishment for that fault,
and SO, instead of wishing to deceive
you, feel grateful at this opportunity
to atone for the wrong l did to YOU in
my previous state of existence" The
rObber laughed, and said, You are Il
good old woman, and we believe you.
If you were all poor we would not rob
you at all. Now we only want n couple
of kimOno and this laying his hand
on a very fine silk overdress. The old
woman replied, "All my sons kimono
| can give you, but 1 beg you will not
take that, for it does not belong to my
son, and was confided to us only for
dyeing. What is ours can give, but 1
cannot give what belongs to another"
THAT is quite right" approved the rob-
Der, land we shall not take it,
After receiving few robes, the rob
bers said good night, very politely, but
ordered the women not to look after
them. The old servant was still near
the door. AS the chief robber passed
her he said, "You told us Il lie-so take
this" and struck her Senseless. None
Of the robbers were ever caught
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Sterilized Milk as a Preventive

About Behring and his diphtheria
serum you all know, of course, by this
time, but it may be new that Ehrlich
and Wassermann, two other pupils of
DIR. Koch, have carried this same line
Of experiments into another channel.
Their experiences have just been relat-
ed in medical journal, and physicians
claim that these prove that milk. too.
after being sterilized, may be EMPLOYED
just as blood serum has been by Rehr-
ing, as preventive against infectious
diseases. This milk, of course. is swal-
lowed, not injected, and is not to be re-
garded as cure, but as prophylactic.
Still. this discovery greatly widens the
field of observation and of experiment
Evening Post.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Onions Good for Nerves.

Onions arc q kind OF all round COCO
medicine, and evosy housewife knows
this Without exactly know .ng the rea.
son why. She knows that whole
onion eaten at bedt me will by the
next m >rning break the severest cold.
She $50 knows that onions make a
good plaster to remove inhamm tion
and hoar. eness. II any one would take
an onion and mash it % as to secure all
the juice in it. he would have most
remarkable smelling substance tina,
would quiet the most nervous person
in no time. The strength of it inhaled
for few moments will dull the sense
of nell AMI weaken the nerves until
sleep is produced from sheer exhaus-
ton 1t all comes from one property
possessed by the onion, and that is q
form of opium.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
POpuiist Party Not DESTROYED.

The New York Worlds carefully re-
vised returns of the vote cast at the
last general election do not confirm
the claim so recklessly made twenty
four hours after the polls were closed
that "the Populist party has been de-
stroyed anyhow" The great western
and southern third party did lose the
Governorships of Kansas and Colorado
and met with some unexpected de-
feats elsewhere which attracted atten-
ton and gave rise to the belief that
it's growth had been checked, but an
examination of the official returns
shows that the belief. after all, was
not well founded.
In 1892 the Populist party polled
altogether 1,O41, 04S votes for Presi-
dent. Between 1892 and 1894 there
was no general election the returns OF
which can be compared with the year
preceding. This year the Populistic
vote was 1,636,00O, a gain of nearly
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14

100000 votes in two years. How
much greater the vote might have
been had not tie two old parties in
nearly all the western states favored
silver nobody knows. In 1892 the
Populist party cast about one-twelfth
of the total vote. This year the total
vote cast, except in Illinois, California,
Wisconsin, Texas, and one or two
other states, was much smaller than in
1892. 1t is doubtful if it is more than
100000 altogether. In two years,
therefore, the third party has grown
from representation of 100000 to a
representation of 100000 people and
is by no means dead.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
II. H. TIBBLEs,
a Lively .COrpSe."

Immediately after the election the
old-party dailies, in every section of
the country, fastened to chronicle
their undisgulsed JOY at the defeat of
the Populists."
The Chicago Tribune published a
leading editorial occupying nearly a
column OF nonpariel setting forth the
great benefits which would accure
from the death of Populism.'
Hoke Smiths paper at Atlanta. the
Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans
and other Democratic dailies through
out the south. seemed to derive i'm
mense comfort from the generally
accepted statement that "Populism
was wiped out"
The New York World voiced the
sentiment of aristocratic Democracy in
closing lugubrious editorial with the
statement "Populism is killed, any
how"
But the World prides itself on being
a newspaper, in every sense of the
term-in giving its readers the pure,
unauthorized facts concerning pass
ing events throughout the world and
especially of our own country. And
its news editors do not seem disposed
to bolster up an editorial misstatement
with facts and figures.
Here is the way the the news col
umns of the World have since the cleo
ton corrobrated the statement made
by its chief editor that "Populism is
dead, anyhow"
l. The Peoples party has increased
its vote In every western and southern
state.
2. The Peoples party IN point of
numbers is the first party in four
states and the second party in thirteen
other states.
3. The Peoples party holds the bal
ance of power in the United States
Senate and has increased is member
ship in the Lower House.
4. The Peoples party rolled more
votes in Colorado and Kansas than
ever before. with 81, 900 votes in Min
nesoa and 10000 in Texas.
3. The Peoples party, according to
the official returns, cast 1 900, 900 votes
at the last election, with several west
ern and southern states yet to hear
from.
6. The Peoples party was mainly in
strumental in breaking "the solid
SOUTH"
Z. The leaders of the Peoples party
seem greatly elated over the results of
the last election and are already enter
ing with enthusiasm into the cam
paign of 1896.
All the above statements were
CLEANED from the news columns of the
New York World previous TO Novem-
Der ooh.
1t is now in order for the chief ell
itor of that goldbug advocate, as also
those other fellows, TO take it back
right away--to acknowledge that Pop
ullsm is not dead anyhow" and that
the Peoples party is, to say the least,
pretty lively corpse" after all
Chicago Express.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
POLITICAL JUMPING JACKS.
or political jumping jacks the country now
is full:

or political jumping jacks the country now
is full:
Their actions are dramatic,
Their cOntortionS acrobatic
When the bosses give the little string pull.
They will dance to any tune the goldbugs
sing:
They always keep in range
BY the mystic presto changei"
When the bosses pull the handy little string.
These jumping jacks abound from shore to
shore;
They jump one way to day
And the next some other way,
When the bosses pull the string little more.
For an office they Jump lively-fairly kick
Jump for silver. jump for god,
jump any way they're told:
For lightning change just pull the string
right quick.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
HOW They RuY ROndS.

Bonds are bonds sold ostenslbly to
replenisll the gold in the treasury but
in reality they do not do this. but
simply afford means of speculation
for the fundho.dcrs. The practice OF
the officials of paying gold for legal
tenders affords the opportunity. The
spectators gather ill the legal tenders
then they swap to the United States
for gold; then they swap the gold fol
bonds. Gold to the amount of 81,
097, 061 was withdrawn from the treas.
ury in this way, and evidently for the
purchase of the new bonds, during one
dav.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Great Army of Disguised.

The official statistician at Washing
ton says that the returns show that
500, 900 men refused to vote ut all at
the last election. He also says:
The stay-at-home vote has increased
in New York from $4,000 in 1883 to
49,, 900 in 1892, and 425, 900 this year.
In Pennsylvania it has increased from
10000 in 1888 to 230, GOD in 1892, and
to 400, 900 this year. 1t has increased
in Ohio from 10000 in 1888 to lis, 900
in 1892 and to 200, 900 ia 1894. South