Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-13
From THURSDAYS Daily

There are but few idle men in Ply
mouth al the present time.
Cuba is not very inviting country fol-
an American, yet there will be severa
thousand of the boys in blue who vii
visit that country shortly on business
Decoration day will soon be here
and Oak Hill cemetery Will present q
beautiful appearance on that day
Sexton Walters is hard at work clean.
ing up the grounds
There may be some doubt about what
caused the battleship Maine to sink in
the Havana har5or, but there is nc
doubt whatever about what caused the
Spanish battleships to sink in Manila
harbOr,
Spanish newspapers have got down to
Mysteries when they charge that the
American divers at the Maine wreck
used dynamite on the sunken vessel to
give color TO the charge that the ship
had been blown up from the outside.
a bright young man has discovered a
way to beat the Tennessee law against
flirting. He has escaped prosecution
by marrying the girl. But that plan
seems to have certain distinct limita-
tions which will hardly appeal to the
flIrtations.
"A large congregation listened to
Bishop White at the Episcopal church
last evening The bishop set forth the
missionary spirit as being the true i'm
pulse for all religious work at home
and abroad. a class of six received
LoganspOrt has a haunted house
which is causing CONSERVATION down
there among those who believe in
"spooks" I he ghost is singer, and
"DOwn on the Wabash" ane A hot time
in the old town., seems to be his ghost
ships favOrits. LOgansport is said to
be temperance town.
Rev. ). f. Nicholson, author of the
famous liquor law bearing his name,
who until a short time ago was a can
didate for congress In the Eleventh
district, has fOrsaken politics and taken
the field as life insurance agent. He
has received a commission as the repre-
sentative of New \ Ork company for
Howard county.
Mrs Lillian HOLSTERS Grand Com
mander of l.. O. T. NJ. left this morn
ing for South Bend. She was accomp-
anied by Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Mrs. T.
J. Cupp, Mrs. Grant Beltz and Miss
Rosa Nier of this city. The latter
ladies will attend a school of instruct
ion in that city Mrs. Fogle is one of
the best posted ladies of this order in
Plymouth.
a full stomach makes good natured
man they say. But that certainly was
not Dewey's object IN suspending hos
tillties for breakfast at Manila. With
full stomach his men fought with more
vigor and deadlier aim. No doubt the
full stomach quoted their nerves and
relieved them of their excitement, but
1t by no means diminished their desire
to fight or their determination to wipe
out the Spanish fleet.
An exchange says it is proposed to
tag all of Uncle Sans soldiers with little
slips of aluminium, each to bear the
weaIer's official number, the letter of his
company and the name of his battery,
troop or regiment. This will be useful
as means of Identification in case of
death on the field. Serious little details
of this sort are bound To show their
heads occasionally through che wave of
patriotic excitement.
There is considerable truth in the fol-
lowing remark of the Indianapolis
Journal: "The American people should
not be- spoiled by the wonderful success
of Dewey at Manila No more such
blOOdless victories from our standpoint
need be anticipated, ard If they should
occur, they may be ranked as miracles.
along with the one that has just set the
world afire. The next rose we pluck
may have its thOrns."
No section of the country is fur
nishing stronger evidence of loyalty to
the flag and the nation tina that which
was the theatre of the late civil war.
Men who were thirty-five years ago
engaged in deadly strife against each
other are now vying with one another
in evidences of affection for the reunited
country, and the men who wore the
gray are clamoring to enter the service
of the country under the command of
one who then wore the blue.
1t may be fun for the fellow who
thinks he can work a reporter and
this is the case sometimes-to spin out
a long yarn which will be read in the
evening paper, providing the reporter