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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. Charles Miles is reported much
improved today, and was taken to her
home.
The long looked-for and much
prayed-for rains arrived today on sched-
ule time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w Parks are
low on their way home from London,
England.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
season. The thermometer registered
l01 at 3 p. m.
Charlie Bushman is down in the
south part of the county buying lumber
for the Novelty company.
Will Young has Just completed a
handsome cottage on West CAIRO
street. 1t is occupied by Sherman
Tuttle.
Lieut.. Fish of Company NJ was one
of the pall.bearers who laid to rest the
body of Lieut.. Charles Slade, of Com
pany G of Goshen, Ind.
Rev. Bell, presiding elder. Of North
Manchester, was the guest of Rev.
Lands today. He preached an elo-
quent sermon last night.
The tramp nuisance at Michigan
City has become almost unbearable.
The police have been instructed to
show them no quarters whatever.
On Sundays parties of five or more
can 60 anywhere ard return within one
hundred miles on the Nickel Plate road
for 81 for the round trip. Ask agents
The thermometer &C Bucks hard
ware store registered 1880 Saturday at
1926 p. m. Mr.. Buck says that was the
highest point ever before marked by
that instrument
Mr.. Jacob Foltz, residing couple of
miles south of the city, has favored
this office with some samples of appri-
cots which he is growing on his farm
The fruit is excellent and is quite a
novelty for this section of the country.
Mamie Harris sold his barber shop
this morning to William Fisher who
took charge at once. Mr.. Fisher comes
we'll recommended. Mamie will take a
much needed rest and will rusticate in
the country few miles north of this
city, for few weeks.
Mr.. John Inks, of Lapaz. one of
Marshall County's best farmers, has re-
turned from a two weeks visit with
brothers and sisters IN Linn County,
Iowa. He says that the crops in that
section are good but that they can't
eclipse old Marshall county.
The wife of Rev. Albert Zeichel died
at her home in Bell View, Ohio, Satur
day afternoon. The remains will ar
rive in this city this evening. Mrs.
Zeichel will be remembered by many
Plymouth people. She was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Suit, and q
niece of Mr.. S. Altman of this city.
Attorney Wise has received the
checks for the soldiers who went down
to Camp Mount with Company M and
were rejected. The checks run from
SO to $40. Mr.. Wise is anxious fol
those who have money coming from
that source to call at once and get their
checks. The checks are signed by Pay
master Durbin.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
MIR. Underwood Corrects An Error.

Editor Independent-Dear Sir: In
your account of Mr.. STEMS dog biting
me, published in your paper of yester-
day, you state that l was on the side.
walk with my bicycle in violation OF
the law. This is false. 1 was not
then on the walk, and am now, and
have always been, even before it's pass
age, in favor of the ordinance for the
prohibition of sidewalk riding. AT
this time | was in the roadway, and to
avoid the dog in question l even went
into the grass and weeds on the oppo-
site side of the road. Mr.. Stein did not
see the affair, and knew nothing of il
till after, when l went in and told him
of it. The publication of this state
ment is respectfully asked that the
readers of your paper may know the
facts in the case. Respectfully,
A. r UNDERWOOD.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29

In state military circles there is q
growing belief that there will be third
call for troops. The men who claim to
know say that this will be the re-
suit if there is no more fighting for six
months. Immense land forces will be
needed in Cuba for long time to come
and with the Philippines and other pro-
posed possessions staring the country
in the face, thousands of other soldiers
will be needed to occupy them.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29

On Dec. IL will occur the eighty
second anniversary of the admission of
Indiana as state. Superintendent
Geeting of the department of public
instruction went to Lafayette yesterday
to discuss with the managers of the
soldiers home an idea he has of max
ing the day one of celebration in the
schools of the state and having each
scholar bring penny toward a cottage
to be erected on the grounds of the
home. The sum of $500 would be
raised IN this way.
Mr. Geeting suggests that the day be
celebrated each year in the state by sp-
propriate exercises In the schools
Should the idea be carried out, the cot
tage will be dedicated on Dec. IL next
year
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
No stamp on Marriage Licenses.

The ruling of the collector of inter-
nal revenue of this district is that mar
rage licenses will not have to be
adorned with war tax stamp. These
licenses are not considered by the de-
partment officials instruments and dc
not have to be attested. Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
Farmers Break the Buggy Monopoly

1t is claimed that for years buggy manufac-
turers have secured exhorbitant prices for their
goods, but recently, through the combined as
Sistance of the farmers of Iowa. Illinois and
other states. SEARS. ROEBUCK q CO.. of Chica-
go. have got the price of open buggies down to
Sl6.50; Top BuggieS. S22.75; Top SurrieS. 1875
and upwards and they are shipping them ia
immense numbers direct to farmers In every
state. They send an immense Buggy Catalogue
free, post paid. TO any one who asks for II.
This certainly is a big victory for the farmer.
but severe blow to the carriage manufacturers
and dealers %
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29

To whom it may concern: This is to
certify that / saw Mr.. STEMS dog just
as it jumped onto Mr.. Underwood yes
terday morning, and can state positive
ly that Mr.. Underwood was clear over
to the opposite side of the roadway at
the time, and was not on the sidewalk
Signed,
II. A. ARMSTRONG.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
Band Concert.

The Plymouth City band gave one of
the finest musical concerts Thursday
night, corner of Michigan and Laporte
streets, that was ever heard in Ply
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29

Get particulars from agents regard
ing 81 excursion tickets offered for sale
by the Nickel Plate road on Sundays
to parties of FIVE or more.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29

Business and professional men recommend
Halls Business College,
Because il is an old school,
Because it has done excellent work for over
thirty years.
Because it places its graduates In good po-
SitionS.
Because its graduates give satisfaction wher-
ever employed.
Because it is financially and legally reSpOn-
Sible.
Because 1t progresses with the times and
gives its students the best there is.
School the entire year. day and night.
NOTICE: Beware of INSCRIPTIONS persons
pretending to represent a branch of Halls Bust
ness College. We have no branch school ia
LOgansport.
Hundreds of our graduates are holding good
positions.
Write for particulars.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-29
Hollis Business College.
Established 1907. Incorporated 1904

Gives Thorough Course in Bookkeeping.
Penmanship, Shorthand, Typewrting and
Kindred Branches. Latin, Algebra and Ge-
ometry are Taught.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-21
LEAKS IN THE POSTAL SERVICE.


tWasb,ngton Correspondence of the
New York SUM-
"There is one point" said an old in
spector of the postofilce, department,
that the Sun has not yet brought out
in connection with the consolidation of
the smaller postoillces around New
York with the New York office. Never
theless, II Is one that concerns every
postofiice, large or small. II is TINT by
consolidating the smaller postofilces
with the larger ones the department eX-
poets to do away, to great extent.
at least. with the systematic robbery
which II IN now unable to prevent. l
mean by this the traffic in stamps by
which the gross receipts of the smaller
offices are swollen to undue proportions
and The postmaster's salary cores
pondingly increased, while the larger
offices do the work.
This practice Is carried on around all
large cities, but especially In and about
New York, and II results in great
Injustice to the postmaster and the
postofiice OF New York. As II we'll
known, in the smaller fourth-class off,
ces the postmasters are paid In proper
ton to the stamps Cancelled. In the
larger fourth class offices and the presi-
Dental offices the salary Is dependent
ON the receipts. Take a small Office in
the neighborhood OF New York. The
postmaster depends on his cancellations
for his revenue. In the same town lives
the secretary of a large insurance corr
poration. who happens to be II persona,
friend OF the postmaster. The latter
goes to the secretary and explains that
his salary IL dependent on the cancella-
ton of stamps, and says that IL would
be very easy for the secretary to bring
down at night, on his way home from
his office, all or large part of the let
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-21

In nine cases out OF ten the reason
one woman looks better dressed than
another is that all the component
parts OF her costume are In harmony
with each other. With US you have the
opportunity of comparing skirt with
waist and then selecting what accords
with your complexion and physique.
The styles we carry in these lines are
many and varied, and you are certain
to be suited.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-21

John Meyers of the Chicago fire de-
partment has contracted with ship
builder of Portland for the construc-
tion of n steamer for the Yukon river.
There are fifty who will go to the
I;londike with Meyers, and all belong
to the fire department OF Chicago. The
steamer is to be completed May 18th.
and will be sent to the Yukon In
knock down shane,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-21

The Times of Laramie, Wyo.. says:
President j. T. kingsbury of the
state University of Utah was visitor
in our city Monday. He was shown
through the university here and ex-
presses himself as much pleased with
everything. President Kingsbury in
tends visiting the most prominent uni
versities In the country during the
next six months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

that here was another once important
industry passing out of existence, I'M
der the pressure of new commercial
conditions. But my authority assures
me that this is not at all the case.
The best part of the business is not,
however, in the selling of ordinary
cloth-bound books. In that one depart
ment, infer, it may have lost ground
a little, for ordinary books are now
to be had of any dealer at prices SO
much below what was formerly asked
in the first-hand shops, that the induce
ment to resort to the secondhand
dealer is much less. Rare books-such
as books out of print and early editions
and books of fine buildings, are the
secondhand dealers best commodities.
In these the margin of profit is always
good. and often it is large. The rare
books, of course, he can secure only
now and then; but the frequent sales
of private libraries entlemen's libra
rieS''-enable him to maintain a fairly
constant stock of books in fine bind
ingS. In no business does prosperity
depend more on skill and ShrewdnesS
in buying And, indeed, you don't need
to go often into a secondhand book
shop to discover that the men in the
business themselves understand this
very we'll One who has seemed almost
listless and Indifferent in the work of
selling, may become, if you propose to
him to buy, most alert and interested.
While rare books and books in fine
bindings are of best promise in the
general way, the secondhand dealer
has a few chances in the ordinary
books that he prizes above anything
else in his trade. The best of these is
a connection with some periodical that
maintains a widely-recognized review
department. When the dealer can Sc
cure to himself from such periodical
most of the books sent in for review,
he considers himself almost a. made
man. and, 1 may add, that periodicals
now quite often have an agreed-upon
relation with the secondhand man and
send their review copies" off to the
secondhand shop at a contracted per-
centage off the list price, the moment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

England, a novel of contemporary life;
and it is borne by a novel published in
this country, a novel of Virginia colo
NAL life: .and between the two, if you
follow reviews and publishers an
nouncements with any closeness, you
become pretty familiar with it in time.
For myself, I never see it Wi q out
thinking of Anthony Hope and the
Prisoner of Zenda,,' and have won
dered whether in the minds of the two
ladies who have chosen it for their re-
spective creations this previous assoc
citation Of the words "Hope" and "Pris-
oner" had not had an influence.
The American Prisoners of Hope" is
proving a. distinct success. Everybody
agrees that in it, Miss Mary Johnson,
the author, makes her first appearance
before the public with unquestionable
distinction. She writes, if not of her
own time, at least of her dear, native
land, in writing of Virginia. She lives
there now, and she has lived there most
of her life; but for quite a While she had
her home here in New York. Her ia
Their. a descendant of one of the old
Virginia families, was active here in
large business enterprises, but he suf-
fered reverses finally; and then it was
that the family returned to Virginia
Miss Johnson has. always been, I I'M
derstand. of a bool1ish inclination, with
a settled indifference to social diver
sions; and it is no surprise to her
friends that she should have taken to
writing, nor, indeed that even her first
book should be a notable one.
A young Japanese woman, writing
successful stories of Japanese life in
very good English. may, / think, pass
for something of a literary novelty.
Such a young woman we have among
us in Miss Onoto Watanna. She has al
ready published stories in well-known
periodicals, and she is announced to
publish others during the coming year
How much English Miss Watanna
knew before she came here. 1 don't
know: but her own account of herself is
that she has had VERY little school edu-
cation" and she has been in this coun-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18
Trade In Them Has An Enduring
Prosperity.
THE REVIEWERS PROFITS
THRIFTY ALLIANCES BETWEEN
THEM AND DEALERS.
An American Author Who Has Trav-
eled With the Best of the English
Young japanese Authoress In
America-Author of prisoners of
Hope"
Csnecial Corresnondence.N

New York, Dec. 10 was talking
the other day with a man who is pref
ty familiar with all the mysteries of
the secondhand book trade, and he
told me what was news to me, and
what, 1 fancy, win be news to the pub
lie at large-that the trade in second
hand books is generally profitable, and
often profitable by large per cent. 1t
had rather seemed to me that in the
course Of years the secondhand book
shop had taken on a sadder and more
struggling aspect, and as several we'll
known and almost historic establish
Vents of the kind here in New York
@sad. within the last two or three years,
Changed hands and undergone a sort of
absorption, l was about concluding
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

they are finished with them. Thus, the
tender young poet, whose own relation
to these things is so beautifully remote
from anything commercial, may, if he
will take to his soul the added agony
that the reviewer who cuts him up so
ruthlessly has the hardwood, after pro-
nouncing his book of no account, to
carry it out and sell it.
We are apt to think of English au-
thors as great men to run about ana
American authors as great men TO stay
at home. But, after all, this is one of
the many reflections that the facts,
when We come to examine them, hardly
justify. l had this brought home to me
a few days ago. in looking over Mr..
Hezekiah Butterworth's new book on
South America. We don't especially
think of Mr.. Butterworth as a great
American traveller. When his name is
mentioned we first think of him as the
author of New England stories-storles
that he had not to no from home to get
his material for; anad next we think OF
him as the man yri1o for twenty-five
years or more had an editorial connec-
ton with the Youths Companion that
must have been more or less combining.
But, after all. he has been a diligenr
and far traveller, and his journeys have
supplied the matter of many of his
books Pretty nearly all parts of the
western hemisphere, except the tips,
and no small section of the eastern
have, at one time and another, come
under his eye. But, in spite of it all,
Mr.. Butterworth is pretty exclusively
a man Of New England. He was born
in Rhode Island in 1899; he removed
rather early in life to Boston, and there
he has had his home ever since. Even
the gravitation of the literary center
from Boston to New York Gf it has
gravitated-I have no desire to be dog
matte on that point, added to his fond
ness for travel, has not persuaded him
to a change of residence.
A much advertised title just now is
that of 1.-The Prisoners of Hope" 1t is
borne by novel recently published in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

three long stories for young people. His
"Phaeton Rogers" everybody knows.
And, even with these, his time, appar-
emily, was still not all gone, for ne is
the secretary of the executive council
of the Authors club, and is the man
especially charged with attending TO
the business and affairs of that organ
ization. There seems to me to be a
special fitness in this last relation Of
Mr.. Johnson, apart from any consider
alton of the skill with which he I'M
doubtedly discharges it. He represents
in himself what one may call the two
grand divisions of literary work-frst,
that of investigating, gathering and
sitting, and, second, that of pure COM
citation of literary men he is most
naturally the man to be looked at from
ali sides to keep the thing together and
moving.
The fact of the payment of S27.5OO for
a controlling interest in the English
Saturday Review has several points of
interest, The Saturday Review has
changed hands several times within a
few years, and, in addition, it has given
signs lin its pages of finding the tide
rather set against it and of wanting,
and not quite knowing how, to recover
its old place in the swim" Moreover,
it has as property nothing but sheer
good will 1t has no valuable press
franchises, like many a newspaper, and
no exclusive hold on a circle of popular
authors, like some of the magazines,
and it has no mechanical equipment.
The purchaser simply buys a name-a
trade mark. This name, it is true, has
been we'll before the English public for
upward of forty years. and under its
earlier editors the Review was highly
prosperous. But in the clear uncer-
tainty of the position it has held latter
ly, the size of the purchase price in the
last sale would seem to be Indicative
rather of the wealth of the buyer than
of the real commercial excellence of the
property. The man of money, who
Graves the distinction of connection
with a periodical is not an unfamiliar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

IF you want an exhilirating bever-
age buy the NJ. & M. Tea. Hewlett
Bros. Co., sole agents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

type even among US, and there has
been good reason to believe that he was
a yet more familiar type in England.
In neither country, however, is he quite
numerous enough to go round. There
are still in both lands a few embar-
raised editors and publishers who
would like to find some one on whom
they could unload-at least, 1 suspect
tina: there are.
The fact that DR.. Samuel Smiles has
lately rallied from an illness which
all his friends felt that he could not
survive, shows from what a good per-
sonal endowment of tenacity he wrote
those books which have made him Pc
culiarly the prophet Of resolute living.
In few days now he will be sc years
old. He lives in London, and his man
ner Of life is very quiet and domestic.
He had already had a long and varied
experience of life before he undertook
to become the guide of others by writ
ing his famous book, "Self-Help." Edu-
Gated for a surgeon, he practiced that
profession for some years, then became
editor of q newspaper at Leeds, and
then the secretary of a railroad COM
pany. 1t was when he was 46 or AZ
years old, and after he had been rail-
road manager for four on five years,
that he wrote ''Self-Help.' Like many
another successful book, it had to beg
at first for d publisher Within a year
10000 copies of it were sold; and liter
ally hundreds of thousands of copies
have been sold since, and it has been
translated into something like twenty
languages. Since DIR. Smiles furnished
the model any number of writer's have
tried to repeat his achievement with
books of practical advice on the con-
duct of life, enlivened by anecdotes
from eminent biography. but none of
them has really succeeded. "Self-Help''
stands alone, there is no second Of its
kind. E. c. MARTIN.
IF you want an exhilirating bever-
age buy the NJ. & M. Tea. Hewlett
PrOc n colo ononfc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

try only something over a year. In q.
few weeks she expects to bring out an
English book. She is still young-only
25-and as she adds to literary y net
the instinct of address, don't see why
she should not have a prosperous ca
reer. AT present she is living at Chi
cago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

Few men have devoted themselves to
literary pursuits with more energy and
constancy than Mr.. Rossiter Johnson,
who placed the reading public under
special debt of gratitude twenty years
ago., when he originated the idea of
collection of the best short stories writ
ten in English, and carried it out so
,acceptably in the series of handy, low
priced volumes entitled Little Class
les" The work had a novelty then that
it would not have now, for since then
largely, no doubt, because Of the sue
cess of Mr.. Johnson's project-such
series have become as common as bar
gain gloves and neckwear. 1t has
been largely in compilation and editing
that Mr.. Johnson's talents have been
employed. In work of this kind there
is never much of general fame. and yet
only a man of rare equipment can do
it capably. At first he was a newspaper
editor, beginning the work in his native
town of Rochester, n. Y, and continu-
ing it at Concord, n. II. But at so, or
a little past, he became associated with
George Ripley and Charles A. Dana in
can Cyclopedia," and has held a con-
nection with that publication ever
since, having been since 1889 the editor
of the Annual" which is issued at the
end of each year as a kind of appendix
to the cyclopedia proper Then he has
edited no end of other books and Sc
ries; and if list were made of all the
important works he has had a share in
producing it would be long one. and
would testify to a degree of industry
and a range and care of investigation
of which any man might well be proud.
But even all this has not fully occu-
pied Mr.. Johnson. He has, in addition,
written several histories, and two or