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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06
Death Knen OF Spanish Powers.

The recent declaration of war by the
American Congress clears the air and
sets the presidents hands free. Be
fore this he was-or might have been
confined by technicslities but now
he will not be hampered by the tricks
of diplomats and sea lawyers. 1t is
his duty now to force hostilities with
unrelentlng vigor until Spain capitu-
lates and makes a satisfactory and
lasting peace, The condition during
the few days since the outbreak OF
hostillties was unsatisfactory from
technical standpoint. War existed,
but not in complete nor general
sense. 1t was authorized for a partic-
ular purpose and not authorized out
side of time nor territory in which
hostilities could be made to conduce to
the accomplishment of that purp oss
The object was the expulsion of Spain
from Cuba, and although the expulsion
of Spain from the Philippines nigh.
have been an indirect aid, quibblers
would have had their chance to object
that Manila was little too remote.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06
From Mondays Daily.

The churches were we'll attended in
Plymouth yesterday.
When in Argos, eat your meals at
Had's restaurant.
Plymouth will not get left this sum-
mer. A circus is coming.
"Buldozing" tactics have ceased to be
factor in politics in Indiana.
When you go to Argos stop at Had's
restaurant. He will use you right.
The city campaign has been con-
Quoted in clean and friendly manner
Miss Edna Hall is home from Bre
men where she has been teaching
school,.
Commodore Dewey's name has been
spoken hundreds of times today in
Plymouth
Yesterday, was a great day for mush-
rooms and hundreds of them found their
way to Plymouth.
Ed Lenfesty has been elected Orderly
Sergeant of Company NJ 3rd Regt. Ed
will make good officer.
Had's restaurant in Argos, is the
place to take your girls for meals, lunch
or ice cream soda. His parlor Is up
stairs.
There were some mighty fine catches
of fish made yesterday by "the boys. p"
Bass weighing three, four and five
pounds were exhibited on the streets
this morning.
Charlie Kinsel has accepted posi-
ton as clerk in the "Klondike" grocery
store. AS clerk, Charlie is as good as
any in Plymouth; and as a man, of
course, he is solid.
Leu M. Kendall passed the medical
examination at Indianapolis and has
been promoted to third sergeant of
the company. Will j. Laukenan was
advanced to second lieutenant.
Capt. John Capron came over from
Indianapolis Saturday night and re-
turned Sunday morning. Capt. Capron
is proud of his company and says it is
one of the finest in the regiment.
Hammond Uniform Rank knights
of Pythias received consignment of
thirty Springfield rifles last evening
from the government and it's command
or has been advised to keep himself in
readiness to be called to the front at
any time.
Beer will be advanced in price from
$4 to Sc barrel next week if the pro-
posed war revenue measure becomes a
law. Congress proposes to put tax of
81 barrel on beer and the Brewers
association have combined to add
another dollar, so the price will be the
anne as last year.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06

reach his home in California. 1t was
evident that be was a fraud and he
was turned down He didn't remain
long in Plymouth.
Ii afflicted with diseases of the eye or
ear, consult DR. Paul of Chicago, at the
home of Mrs. Yockey, Wednesday May
IL. Examinations free. Poor treated
free. Patients admitted by ticket.
Have your eyes treated now during the
fine spring weather.
Chaplain GOss of the Third Regi-
ment, yesterday rendered his resigna-
ton to Col. Studebaker as he cannot
enlist in the federal service. Col. Stude
baker expressed his regret at the nee.
essity for Chaplain Goss to resign, but
accepted it and referred the resigna-
ton to Gen. Mckee.
Marshal Meyers gave a gentleman
lodging last night who claimed Peru as
his home. This morning he asked the
officer for ten cents to buy a drink but
MIR. Meyers failed to comply. He then
made tour to the business houses in
search of the coveted ten cents but he
was turned down. The poor man was
total wreck.
EX-Treasurer Holdeman, the Elkhart
county embeZzler, is teaching in the
school recently established by Warden
Harley in the northern prison for the
education of illiterate prisoners
Whether he will be retained in this pos
ition permanently is not known, though
his early experience as school teacher
fits him for the work.
Prosper Mickey has recovered from
! his attack of rheumatism and is now
able to be out doing some good hustllns
for the Republican nomination for The
office of sheriff. Prosper is hustler
and the chances are that he will lane
the nomination without much effort
His acquaintanceship throughout tn,
country is number one.
L. j. Winnings returned home from 6
business trip through Kansas, Nebrask;
and Iowa, last night. He is travelling
salesman for the Edgerton company o.
this city. He reports good sales, ant
business generally good. The war fever
he says, is raging in the West and hun
dreds of young men are joining the
ranks to fight for Uncle Sam. Mr.
Winnings called in company with A. II
Cory, who has been with the Edgertor
people for seventeen years.
Cal. Sininger, formerly publisher OF
the Bremen Enquirer, now at the heaC
of paper in Huntington county, has
| enlisted as private in a company from
that locality, He is very anxious tc
get to Cuba. Ii that fertile island
comes up to his expectations, he may
locate there permanently. He expect.
Cuba to become a permanent republic
largely controlled by Americans. A
small sugar plantation would suit his
purposes. Daring Mr.. Sininger's alb
sence his paper will be published unde
the auspices of his wife.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06
Tally One for Company M"

The Third Regiment, Col. Stude
baker commander filed its official report
as to the number of men in its camp
who did not want to enlist. 1t was
found when the wedding out process
had been completed that 1S4 men de-
sired to return home and Gen. Mckee
was 80 notified. The companies re-
ported the following numbers who did
not desire to enlist: A, 23; Ii, 6; &, 10
ID, Is; E, 3; FL; G, Is; ii, 30; l, II; X, To-
l., %; M, none. There are still S53 men
in the regiment and Col. StudebakeI
says he will have all the men needed to
fill up his regiment.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06
en-. Mckee Issues Proclamation
Against the Road Houses.

Against the Road Houses.
Gen. Mckee Friday evening issued the
following proclamation, which will exc
cute the orders of intoxicating liquors
in the camp and within one mile of its
limits:
HEADQUARTERS L. n. g.,
"CAMP MOUNT. near Indianapolis,
"April 20, 1898.
"To Whom 1t May Concern:
"YOu are hereby commanded to
Immediately cease the sale of spurious
or malt liquors within one mile of the
boundaries of Camp Mount. which
coincide with the limits of the state
fair grounds of the Indiana agricultural
society, pursuants to sec. SO of the act
of 1895, approved March 5, entitled an
act to regulate the Indiana militia,
whica section is as follows
The section is then quoted and
authorizes the commandant of my
camp, of the Indiana national guard to
take such steps as are deemed necessary
to enforce the act. Gen. Mckee will have
copies of the proclamation served on all
places within one mile of the limits of
the fair grounds. The copies were
served this morning.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06

Obituary..

Daniel b. Marks died at his home in
Green township Sunday after an ill
ness of several weeks His death oc-
cured at s p. m. He was SO years old,
and had been a citizen of Marshall
county for half century. The funera.
took place Tuesday at l p. m. from
the Jordan church in Green township.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

Then ne had been asleep. he had had
q terrible dream. Thank God, he was
awake now! He carried Becky back
upstairs, feeling every step as he went,
with slow care. Then he tucked her
into bed among blankets and quilts, and
kissed her.
His lamp was Pickering out, and he
got another and carried it down stairs,
The big book on the high corner desk
lay open at page 40
What!
Abel Tappan could hardly believe his
eyes. He took eff his glasses and
rubbed them on the lining of his coat,
But when he put them on again, he
could still see two wavy, criss-cross
lines meandering from corner to corner
of page 4G.
Mrs. Wyncoop's page. opposite. was
clean and uncrossed
well, now, who'd We believed It'll"
he laughed, in loud delight. His heart
felt light and glad. 81 did it myself,
instead O. crossing out Mis- Wyncoop'sl
And it can stay, too It'll remind me
that l amt going to press that poor
McKie woman mite-not mite-not
II she can't ever pay up, She's got a
poor little spindling, crooked-backed
girl, and the Lord knows that's enough
afHiction. That's more'n could stand"
With careful painstahng, he retraced
the slanting lines, his pen splutterirg
tiny fecks of ink upon his intent face.
"There!" he breathed softly, 81 guess
they're black enough to remind me if
amt stone blind Now I'll turn over a
new leaf"
At the top of the clean, new page he
wrote, in his small, unsteady letters,
the word Lemons"
"Tll send Becky over with 'em first
thing in the morning-if can find 'em, y
he added, laughing again. Then he
slapped his thigh in sudden spasm OF
recollection.
why, bless your heart! they're in
the money drawer this minute, holding
their sides, like as not. I raked 'em all
in to get 'em out O. my sight"
A sleigh load of belated jewellers was
crunching past. Their gay voices rang
out, and their laughs chimed in pleas
antly with his.
He hurried to the door, unlocked it
and shouted after them at the top o.
his voice, little Becky's "Wisher Happy
New Year!"-Annie Hamilton Donnell
in Country Gentleman.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

over the snow. Eleven-quarter past
-half-past-how close they were, al
most touching hands!
A little voice reused Abel Tappan 3y
and by-Becky's-but he had never
heard Becky's voice from such dis
tance before. He seized the lamp and
hurried upstairs, where he and his little
beloved, motherless Becky and old
Nance lived.
The child was tossing on her bed, fret
ting plaintively. Her little face, in the
lamps feeble glimmer, looked unduly
flushed and thin.
"My back aches SOL" she whimpered.
Becky's back ached so! Becky's lit
tie straight-no, o! Lord have mercy,
| it was crooked! 1t bowed out pitifully
against the little white sheets. Becky's
face was sharp with pain.
Abel Tappan shuddered from head to
foot. The lamp shook in his hand un-
safely. Through the blur on his glasses
the little tossing head on the pillow
seemed strangely far away from him
Was it his little, plump. rollicking. dan
cling Becky-his straight Becky he had
been so proud of always?
"I'm so thirsty in my throat"
moaned the little crooked Becky on the
bed.
He bent down unsteadily and kissed
her. His heart broke in the kiss.
"Daddy'll fetch you drink right off, q"
he faltered.
But she thrust away the glass he
brought her.
"It don't taste good-take it away,
daddy, I'm so thirsty in my throat!"
"Yes, yes; daddy'll go get some nice
fresh water, right out of the well. You
wait, Becky"
Becky lifted up her small, tangly
head and gazed up at him reproach.
fully.
''Take it away, daddy" she cried.
"Put lemon init don't taste good.
want a squeeze O. lemon in, an sugar
I'm so thirsty!"
Abel Tappan's grizzled head bowed it,
self beside the child's.
"Yes, yes; daddy'll fetch lemon
right away and make it taste good,
he mumbled in an agony of grief
against her cheek. "Daddy'll see to il
all nice"
Back in the store again, he could
find no lemons, though he searched and
researched with dogged insistence
Where could they be? There had beer
plenty of them, over there on the sec
ond, right-hand shelf. in row.
He moved boxes and cans, he cleared
whole shelves with sweep of his arm
Becky's little wall sounded on, unceas
, ing, in his ears. lie must find them! HI
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

her bill tonight, you see if she amt,
Becky says I--set down here by The
fire, do-and here you are! Well, all
is, wish there were more like you in
the world! Those shiftless McKies,
now-that little scamp of Jot's been
in trying to get trusted again, but I've
struck! guess it's about time, too"
He got down his big book from the
high corner desk and spread it open on
the counter, turning the pages labori-
ously. Abel Tappan was his own book
keeper and had his own peculiar fash
ion of keeping" the great, leather
covered book-a fashion that would
have first puzzled, then foored the dap
FER, precise graduate of commercial
college. But it sufficed for Abel Tap
pan very well.
"Forty-two, forty-three, forty-four,
forty-fve = Wyncoop; that's your
page" he said. sand declare if Page
46 amt the McKie page, right across
from yours. I'd forgot that, Twenty
nine-twenty-nine dollars and eighty
three cents. There you are, Mis- Wyn-
coop! You better reckon it up yourself
and make sure it's all right. We're all
as liable to mistakes as the sparks that
fly upward" -
He tilted up and down on his toes
mildly inCredulous of any possible er.
ror in his reckoning, while Drusilla
Wyncoop went over the columns from
the top downward, Her lips chippered
audibly over the task
"Yes; that's just right, Abel, and I'm
only thankful it isn't any more. Lord
of liberty! who'd believe nutmegs an
pepper n salt would cost most $3O!"
Her eyes rested on Page 46, still lying
open on the counter. Her own page, op
posite, looked almost empty in compari
son.
From top to bottom and from side t.
side, Page 46 was full of minute, un
steady words, traced with crampet
painstaking and flanked by relentless
column of figures.
what pageful!" she exclaimed
"You don't say the McKies owe tn,
whole of that? Land of liberty! I dom
see how they get wink of sleep, ant
New Year right on the verge, tool
couldn't"
II guess it don't keep them awak
any. Shiftless folks can sleep pwith thei
heads under water"
Mr.. Tappan's voice, loud with scorn
echoed back from the high rafters.
Mrs. Wyncoop shook her head re
monstratingly. The words issued lit
tie twisted out of shape by the ia
shawl pin between her lips:
30, no, no, Abel; you shan't call ther
shiftless. l don't know about Jerom
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

could not go back to Becky without
them. The yellow labels ON some of
the bottles Knocked him and led him on
to unavailing hopes. The dim lights
twinkled their eyes and jeered at him.
A merry party going past outside
shouted and sang, and he shook his
tight fist toward them angrily. Where
could the lemons be? he asked himself
over and over in dull wonder. If he had
only remembered to look in the money
till!
I'll go down to the Forks-they'l
have 'em at Denby's," he muttered.
Its good mile, but l don't care if it's
so! don't care if have to wake up the
seven sieepers, neither!"
But how long it took to find his great
coat and get into i'll He tried to hurry.
Heavy weights seemed to hang to his
limbs and drag them back with dla-
bollcal persistence. Would his arms
ever go into the sleeves? Was it go
ing to take till crack O. doom to get
his hat on his head? Big drops of sweat
scurried down the seams of his hac-
gard checks. He set his teeth dog
gedly.
If the lemons in the money drawer
had only logged against the door of
his memoryl
'I'll find one-big one-steal one
anything!" he cried aloud.
Hark! was that the little voice, muf-
fled by the folds of the thick comforter,
still calling to him? Was it growing
clearer, nearer?
"Wisher Happy New Year, daddy"
Why, 1t was Becky said it herself,
standing in the murky doorway?
i Becky! Her voice shrilled out to him,
triumphant and sweet.
Abel sprang forward in sudden hor-
ror and caught her in his arms. Her
little nightgown fell away from her
bare toes, and he felt the chill of them
against his wrists.
Happy New Year." he repeated, me.
chanically, after her. He was hugging
the little cold feet fiercely to his breast
and burying his face in the tousled hair
1t was Becky - Becky = and her
cheeks, against his, felt round and
warm. And she sat on his arm az
straight and strong as little ramrodl
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

McKie, but his wife amt. She's real
devoted woman, and works dreadful
hard. Maybe she don't know how to
make the money spend as wells she
might, but that amt shiftlessness. And
never saw a tenderer hearted mother
than she is to that little sick girl OF
hers. guess she humors her to pieces.
Poor little thing!"
Abel Tappan stirred uneasily. Arcw
of golden lemons on the shelf looked at
him with silent reproach. "The water
don't taste good" boys eager voice
said in his ear.
"She looks like your little grand
daughter, too," Mrs. Wyncoop went on,
driving the shawlpin home with in.
trepid aim-'everyb body noticed it. Be
fore she fell downstairs and crooked
her back the teacher-she boarded with
me then-said you could hardly tell
those two children apart when they
were together. She used to get en- all
mixed up at school. Same colored hair,
with the same kinks in it, and their eyes
just alike, and even their little dimples
matching! The little McKie girl was
fat and well then, like your Becky"
The lemons blinked their yellow eyes
reproachfully. Mr.. Tappan strobe be-
hind the counter and swept them, with
a succession of clatters. into the money
drawer, out of sight. He was mentally
reviewing the items of Page 46. He
knew them by heart. How many, many
of them were little unpretending lux
uries that little, peevish, sick child
might Gravel How few of them--her-
rings now and then, and salt Goldfish
or oatmeal-were necessariesl 1t had
nettled him over and over again to
think of it, but now, somehow, Il
touched hira against his will.
Yes, 0, yes, he knew they used to say
the little McKie girl-Love, Dove, what
was her name?-looked like Becky
His Beckyl His little round, roly poly
happy Becky!
After Mrs. Wyncoop's departure Abe
Tappan took the big brown ledger back
to the corner desk still open. Doggedly
he turned the pages and went to work
With quick steps the little New Yesl
was hurrying to meet the Old Year
his light footsteps made no crealSins
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28
ANOTHER NEW YEAR.
Age ReclOned by Inward Signs-OId
Only ms Our Growth In Manly and
Womanly Virtue Would Show.

A modern author suggests that if all
record and measurement of time by
hours and days and years could be
abandoned, we should gradually adopt
4 newer and truer standard, and count
our age by inward rather than out
ward signs.
If, by transformation of mental habit
this introspectiye reckoning could sud
denly be brought to bear, in what new
aspect should we see ourselves and
our friends. How old would many
sgem who are yet in the vigor of youth,
and how youthful many whose brows
are wrinkled and crowned with silver
hair. We might not wholly separate
time and growth, but we should meas
ure time for mortals as we do for trees,
by the indications of growth.
Who does not know the difference
who looks back and sees how the life
less years of his past lie half forgotten
while the life of the vital years has pow
er still to set every pulse athrob? These
years count, the others are ciphers. We
are as old as their grand vitality
inwrought into experience and ripened
into character has made us. We are
as old as our thoughts are high and
deep; as old as our love is wide and
warm; as old, and only as old, no mat
ter how many our years, as our growth
in manly and womanly virtue would
show. The brain may have absorbed
facts and theories and PHILOSOPHERS
about goodness and the real self be
learning the alphabet of Gods lesson
OF obedience and trust.
These being the natural food of the
soul, its real growth depends on the
souls power of assimilating what has
been prepared by Divine hand for
its nurture. Yet on no amount of
thought about obedience, or love, or
goodness will the hungering human
nature thrive. No careful analysis of
foods will build up the wasting tissues
or give new strength to the growing
body, only that which enters into the
life becomes part of fiber, and blood,
and bone.--Washington Home Maga-
zine.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

'tEs.gd1GMSI~ rudely sweep;
When snow is on the meadow,
Where the violets lie asleep;
When outward, drifting, drifting.
The Old Year goes forlorn,
In the mystic hour of midnight
The glad New Year is born.
Last night watched In sadness.
The passing of the year,
For 1t bore from me record
That cost me many tear.
But gentle voice has whispered
That the past must forget;
Nor waste this precious season
In useless, vain regret.
o! the coming of the New Year
Fills my soul with thoughts sublime,
Precious seem the golden moments
Onward borne by fleetng time;
And a spirit stirs within me,
Urging me to nobler strife,
With an earnest, brave endeavor,
For brighter. better life.
And with grateful heart and lowly,
thank the Power Supreme,
Who extends my days in mercy
That the past l may redeem;
For His loving hand that keeps me,
For His voice that speaks to me,
For the opening of the New Year
Though its close may not see.
-Gracia Southworth, In Western Rural
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

Getting Ready for New Years Day.
Quizzer-What are you putting cot
ton in your ears for?
Wise-Don't want to be deafened BY
the sound of broken pledges to-moT
TOWN. Y. Journal
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-12-28

Mrs. Cobwigger-How do you know
your husband kept the resolution he
made you last year to give up smoking ?
Mrs Hillaire-I've the best of proof,
/ made him present of box Of ci-
gars and he hasn't touched one of them
the whole year.-N. Y. World.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-28
SAN MATE0 HEARS
FOOTE AND CRAIG
Democratic Gathering Addressed by
sole Bill" and the Candi-
date for Congress.

SAN MATEO, Oct. N.-The Democrats
If San Mateo and vicinity held an enthu-
siastic jollification tonight Addresses
were delivered by w. w. Foote and Will
liam Craig, the latter the regular Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in the Fifth
District. Preceding the meeting there
was a parade, while throughout the town
red fire and rockets assisted the faithful
in a display of their exuberance. The
demonstration almost arose 20 the dimen-
sions of a Fourth of July celebration.
Duncan Hayne presided at the gather
ing, and seated upon the stage were many
of the prominent Democrats of the Vicin-
ity. In his address Mr.. Foote touched
launched upon q eulogy of Mr. Craig,
He and the candidate for Congress were
schoolmates together, and since that
time he had watched the career of his
former chum with keen interest. He re-
garded him as statesman to whom the
people of California could intrust their
be well represented upon the floor of the
House. The career OF the nominee in
the field of politics was reviewed and his
record in office praised. The speaker de-
clared that the voters of the Fifth Dis
trict would be casting their ballots for
statesman, an honest man and a gentle
man when they placed the ''X' opposite
the name of William Craig. The speech
of "Ole BILL as the Democratic war
horse is known to the rank and file of
his party was witty and forcfble, and
plause of his auditors.
Mr.. Craig delivered an extended speech,
dealing with the issues before tlse people
of California in this campaign and his
own candidacy for Congressional honors
He pledged himself, If elected, to work
for the best interests Of the State and
the masses of the people, and declared
that in the future. as in the past, he
would be free from corporation Influences
and control.
At the conclusion Of the meeting the
nominee shook hands with MANY men
prominent in local Democratic councils.
Mr.. Foote declared that from what he
had seen and heard in San Mateo County
the county would roll up 400 plurality for
Mcguire and the balance of the State
ticket, and he was confident that Craig's
plurality would exceed these fislIrea