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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-25

Furnished by Ed. 5. Hogarth & Co.
From Mondays Daily.
The streets are geeting to be passible
The thirteen club met in the office OF
Sam Parker Saturday night.
Thomas Ralson of Valparaiso was in
the city today on business.
The churches in Plymouth were well
attended yesterday.
Spring work has commenced in ear
nest with the farmers.
The small boys are laying in a sup
ply of eggs for Easter.
Nj. NJ. Harding of TT. Wayne was in
the city today on business.
J. U. Heiniger returned to his home
in Lima, o., Saturday night.
Weather: Partly cloudy Tuesday
and colder.
Virgil Candy is reported seriously i'll
with lung fever.
The saloons will be closed next Fri
day the day the primary is held.
David Redding is feeling little bet
ter today but he is still very feeble.
Landy Redding went to South Bend
this morning TO work in pillow factory
Mrs. Arnold went to South Bend to
day to visit her daughter Mrs. Hoy.
Several new and handsome awnings
were put up today on Michigan street
"Johnstown" is not a very desirable
place to live when Yellow river is on q
rampage.
The Wet u will meet with Miss
Stacy southeast Plymouth Monday
March 81 at o'clock p. n.
Why not scrspe the stress before
another big rain makes them almost
impossible?
Another party will make trip to tn,
ksnkakee this week and try their luck
at duck hooting.
Ed Sands of Logansport spent TIT
Sabbath in Plymouth visiting hi
mother.
Joe Bennett says that his son Role
is doing a good business in Columbia
City.
The residents of South west Plym
outh do not care about the river raising
any higher.
Miss Pearl Turnbull left today fol-
Bellbrook Ohio for visit with her par
ents.
Harry Vinnege of Chicago is in tht
city visiting his father, Adam. lie viii
remain about week.
Frank Mckinney was in the city to
day on his way TO Galveston on bust
ness.
Surveyors English and Butler wen
to the country today to do some worl
surveying.
A new man made his appearance al
the Plymouth Steam Laundry THU
morning.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. I
church will meet Tuesday Afternoon
with Mrs. Cole on Walnut street.
Candidates have on their hustlinl
clothes and are doing effective work TO
themselves.
Liberty street between Sophia ant
Laporte streets is in a very bad cOndi
ton caused by the recent heavy rains.
The first ward democratic convention
will be held in the free silver club room
tonight to nominate q candidate TO
councilman for that ward.
1t is the talk on the streets today tina
the next city council elected will favo
street paving. Politics in this particula
will cut no figure, so the story goes an
only those that favor street paving viii
receive any consideration.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
IN OLD ENGLAND.
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF THE
ENGLISH PEOPLE.
Evil Effects Of the Race of the Crowd
Ing Together In Cities-Some Inter-
eatin. Figures from Statesman's Year
Book.

According to the Statesman's Year
Book for 1897, the number of paupers
in receipt of relief in 1892 was ISL, 375,
at an expenditure of clos ,916. The
number receiving relief in 1896. only
four years later, was 1,O25, 1854. at an
expenditure of ell $40, 324. in addi-
ton to this, a large majority of the
children of England, instead of being
reared Ia the open country, under the
dome OF heaven, are being huddled in
crowded towns under a pail of heavy
smoke. among the SCOT begrimed walls
of narrow courts and alleys paved with
cinders, without a blade of grass or a
green leaf to be seen. The foul air and
crowding Ia ill-ventilated houses must
be Affecting the physique and stamina
of the race. and the day will soon come,
IL 1t has not yet come, when England,
in defending her national existence. will
no longer be able to rely npon a great
rural population of the type of those
yoemen who drew the IONS bow al
Cressy, Poictiers and Agincourt, or OF
those armers sons and village lads
who in their solid squares hurled back
the prloe or france in our last great
struggle at Waterloo.
An Englishman can not appreciate
The intensely depressing effect of the
manufacturing districts upon the Can
Rdian tourist. Accustomed as we are
to the clear, pure atmosphere and bright
blue skies OF our native land, the Black
country OF England seems unnatural
and uncanny, reminds one of the in
fernal regions and arouses a sad sym
pathy for the poor human beings who
have to live under such conditions.
was at the depot of an English reg
ular regiment this summer. There
were about 200 men drawn up, and |
walked up and down the line to EXAM
inc them closely. l found l could cas-
lily look over their helmets, and that
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

esting facts and the constantly Search
ing for more, says an exchange; Fine
hair is said TO dehote gentle BIRTH. and
the, amount of care the hair shows
will determine the mode of life. 1t is
also claimed thai the closer the ends
of the hair cling together, that is, nat
urally, without artificial force, the
greater is the intellectually the owner
possesses. A tendency to curly denotes
inherent grace and a poetic nature.
Straight hair is the sign Of a firm. posi-
tive and practical disposition. Such
bad qualities as treachery and jealousy
are generally found in people with
black. lustreless hair. The lighter the
hair the more sensitive and 'touchy"
the ownef generally Is: Blown hair
must be a very desirable thing to pos
sess, for the hair readers say it is al
ways found on people having in a high
degree common sense, good judgment
and reason. Red hair is d sign of hon
esty and also of c~leverness: Nothing
whatever is said about freaks of tenn
per as an accompaniment to red hair.
1t may therefore be safe to conclude
that another popular idea has been
dissolved by the searchlight Of science
and investigation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

Lord Kelvin estimates the time'
since the earth became sufficiently
cooled to become the abode of plants
and animals to be about 20, 1000, 900
years, within limits of error ranging
between 5000, 900 and 10000, 900 years.
From similar physical date Clarence
King has made an estimate nearly
agreeing with this. Warren Upham
says that biologists generally regard
this period as too short, Dana, VOL
colt and others compute that the dura-
ton of time since life began on earth
is from GO, 000, 900 to 100. 900 900 years.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

Most Of the anti-fat compounds That
are of any value whatever have fos
their basis the berries of the common
poke root. These figure under the
somewhat high-sounding title of Ply
tolacca tablets. They contain about
one or two drops CT prepared berry
Juice to the tablet. That they are USE
full in reducing flesh has been proven
beyond the shadow Of a doubt, and this
without injuring the health In any way
whatever. In fact. a number Of per-
sons who have tried them have dis
covered that rheumatic and other
troubles have been decidedly decreased.
These tablets are not a proprietary
remedy-at least there is no mori0p-
oily in their manufacture any more
than there is to q~uinine or witch-hazel.
but that they are a worthy addition to
the pharmacopea is admitted by those
whose experience gives them the right
to be heard. There are few things
more distressing to the possessor than
abnormal fat, and any simple and
efficacious remedy would be hailed by
them with delight.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
He NIiStoOk the nOnse.

From the Boston Traveller: A man
well known in State street circles found
himself in front of what he supposed
was his Back Bay residence late one
evening recently. He had a great
many dollars worth of wine under his
waistcoat and could not gain entrance
through the medium of his latch key.
Becoming enraged. in a drunken fash
ion. he kicked the door, broke the glass
and used language that is unfit for
publication. Finally the door was
opened and the owner of the house.
who is athletic and irascible, proceed
ed to kick the State street ~financier in
to the middle of the street. "Wazzer
you-ris-mean-his?" inquired the as
saulted party Indignantly, as he sat
upon the curbstone and held his throb-
bling brow with both hands. And
what do you mean by trying to break
into my house?' inquired the other
a "You-hic-house?" exclaimed
the State street man in bewilderment.
"How-hie-long-washit you lived
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

Among the theories Of scientists isF
one regarding the original unity of the
moon and the earth. 1t Is believed that
out Of a mass of rapidly revolving ele-
ments molten fluid or gaseous, the
earth and the moon took such shape
that the mass was divided into two
parts. They continued their revolu-
ton and became the earth and thel
moon. Each had its own axis on which
it spun, each also revolving about thes
other. The months were but a few
hours long, and the days not much
shorter. Then the gravity mutually
exerted by these rapidly revolving bod
les disturbed them. tidal friction held
them back, and the earth moving more
rapidly of the two held its course. while
the moon slowly receded. During ages
OF time, the earth took on its present
shape and hardened. thus paving tRIn
way for such conditions as would make
it habitable. 1t is thought that the
moon has never become entirely SYM
metrical, and that one and the Same
side is always turned toward the earth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

lected. In this connection, too, a pleas
ant habit of his fails to be recorded.
The first few prizemen received from
him a copy of the examination paper,
with the words inscribed upon it: I'm
neutrality-suspicious. praeteritorum"
Tin memory of ills that are gone). On
the last day of his last session, when he
had probably a faint premonition that
he would never speak to a class again,
with the tears streaming down his
cheeks and his head only half turned
from the class to hide them, he Joined
in the "Auld Lang Syne." After all
his friends he made anxious inquiry,
and if he thought any old student was
lonely in his lodgings in a distant town
he would dispatch to him a big, bulky
letter, which was as good as a CONVEX
sation with him.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

Experiments in this direction have
been in progress in France. One
method is to have an electric tricycle.
the electric horse" as it is called
move along the tow-path. actuated by
double trolley, there being, of COURSE
no possibility Of using the ground for
a return circuit, owing to the absence,
Of rails. Aloe fibre tires are used.
Another system involves the mounting.
of an electrically driven propeller on
the rudder at its rear lower corner.
1t is actuated by curreut from over
head trolley connections. The govern
mcnt concession allows a speed OF
about 3A miles per hour in the straight
reaches, and IA miles on bends and
critical places.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

harness room or hanging on the
hook in the barn when 1T is most
needed. One objection to- all such
attachments is the necessity for
an extra line or cord by means OF
which the check is to be operates. A
simple appliance consists of a cotaniA
Of small pads attached to the sides
of the bit and connected over the nose
Of the horse by an appropriate and sim
pie band. These pads bear directly
upon the nGstrils. When not in use
they nfSrely touch or rest lightly upon
the nose. The extra rein when pulled
upon steadily pxesses these pads into
the flexible skin O yer the nostrils. and
partly shuts off the a 7lmals breathing
powers. No horse can run any us
tahce without taking bre, Hh' ana the
result is almost immediate CONFUSION
and suffocation that brings the animal
to d slow gait or a complete stop. Inc
greatest care must be taken not to p,V'
too long on this line. as the horse may
empty his lungs and fall from ex-
haustfon. 1t is desirable that the pads
be SO arranged that the nostrils will
not be entirely closed, as, in inexperi-
ehced or excited hands, the animal
might lose his life before the driver
could recover sufficiently to release
the strain on the shoppers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

The ingenuity of inventors has. been
exercised to the utmost on bicycle tires
that cannot be p%unctured in the ordi-
nary way. Various combinations of
springs, plates and rubber have been
made, and the number Of devices regis
tered in the patent Office in this line
run up into the thousands. One of
the latest models shows a series of
springs placed underneath small metal
plates and covered with a heavy rubber
casing. 1t is claimed that a greater
amount of elasticity is secured with
much less danger of injury to the rub
Der. In passing over very rough sur
faces, the springs yield to sudden pres
sure, and thus insure more safety to
the more fragile outer portion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

they were slight, short lads, almost all
In their teens. They looked like a lot
of schoolboys. l suppose they will be
kept at the depot until they are old
enough to join the regiment and I'M
til good food, regular habits and physi-
cal exercise will improve and strength
en- their constitutions. l could not help
thinking hat the prophesy of the his
torian Froude, written a dozen years
ago, was being rapidly fulfilled. Speak
ing Of the crowding into manufacturing
towns, he said:
THE native vigor of our tempera-
ment might defy the influence Of such
a life for a quarter or for half a CEN
tury. Experience, even natural prob
ability, declared that the grandchildren
of the occupancy of these dens must be
sickly, poor, stunted wretches, whom
no school teaching, however excellent,
could save from physical decreptitude."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
The Aptartic Region.

1t is a curious fact that while enor-
nous sums of money, and property of
great value, have been appropriated
and used in exploring the more north
erly portions of this globe, little or no
attention has been given to the extreme
southern part. OF late, however, the
eyes of explorers have been turned
Antarcticward, and expeditions are be-
ing sent out to determine various de-
batable questions that have arisen con-
corning this country. No human foot,
as far as known, has ever approached
nearer to the south pole than 720 miles.
The ice is said to far exceed that found
in the north pole, and greater diff
cuIties are apprehended than Arctic
explorers nave ever encountered. Vege-
tation ceases at about SO degrees. no
man has yet been met with south of
Sc degrees. and the country is desti-
tute Of land animals south of 6s de-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

The present system Of road building
in most states is not only expensive,
but absolutely ineflcient. Road build
ing is a science, which cannot be 9
eessfufly applied by men who have not
made 1t a study. THE trained road
builder" says the New Jersey commits
%sioner, "is just as necessary as the
trained doctor, manufacturer or educa-
tor" When this fact Is recognized and
a system of scientific roadmakins be-
comes established by proper legisla-
ton, the advantages hat are sure to
follow will make the rural population
wonder how they could have been so
shortaighted as to have put of a use-
full reform so long.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

The suit for divorce just filed at
Shelbyville, Ind, by Mrs. Theodore
Jaco illustrates anew the inadvisability
both of a marriage in haste and Of a
union bewteen persons of widely di-
vergent ages. Early last spring Jaco,
who is 70 years old and rich, told his
attorneys that he wanted a young wife.
The firm set to work to find a suitable
woman, and decided on Miss Blanche
Whitman, IS years old, a good looking
domestic employed at a hotel. At their
second meeting they were married in
the lawyers Office by Squire Andrews.
Mr.. Jaco had reared a family. For a
number of years he has not been well.
For a while the home seemed to be
happy. 1t is on a picturesque knoll,
200 acres of fine land being one of the
properties of Mr.. Jaco. Last week
Jaco had a brother of Mrs. Jaco ar
rested for %trespass. The brother came
to visit his sister and after staying sew
eral weeks, the old man asserted. was
trying to make trouble between him
self and wife. He ordered him to
leave the place and when he refused
to go Jaco had him arrested, but on
his promise to go the suit was dis
missed, Jaco paying the costs.
Wednesday afternoon Jaco appeared
before Squire Kenton and entered a
plea of guilty to assault on his young
wife. He said that Mrs. Jaco had as
saulted him with an iron and a stick
of wood. He then pushed her and
kicked her. The e morning the suit
was filed for divorce, in which Mrs
Jaco charges Mr.. Jaco with crual and
inhuman treatment. asking for 4 d.
vorce and demanding $4,000 alimony.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

The shortest sermon on record was
preached by an aged clergyman in Aus
tralia, who had been engaged to preach
a charity sermon for some orphan chill
dren. On rising to deliver his dis
course, he found his falling strength
would not enable him to proceed as he
had intended; so. turning to the audi
ence and stretching his feeble arm over
a group of the orphans, he addressed
his congregation in these words:
Whence shall We buy bread that these
may eat?" The sermon was short, but
to the point, and the words went to the
hearts of the people, and resulted in a
large collection.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
Food from the KatSE

From the Philadelphia Inquirer 1t
has been demonstrated that an acre OF
water may be made to yield more food,
with less labor, than an acre of land.
To clothc an old proverb with a new
dress. it may be said that there are
as good fish in the sea as ever came
out of it, and with a proper crganiza-
ton of the apparatus for fish hatch
ing the world would become acquaint-
ed with a greater variety Of food fish
than it knows of now, and even people
who live far from the water would
have a delightful variety added to their
daily bills of fare. In Maryland much
anxiety is being felt as to the probable
extinction of the terrapin. The latter
has its uses, but only a comparatively
few would regret its loss, while In tens
of thousands of homes of toilers a
plentiful fish supply would be a bene-
fit. 1t is to be hoped that the fish
cries congress at Tampa will do some
thing to educate people as to the i'm
portance of our fisheries.
Presidents Signatures on Blottine Paper.
1t is reported that d Philadelphia gen.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
Minor Csek of Electricity.

In The realm of hygiene. electricity
has been applied to curing deafness bN
producing vibrstions OF any desired!
rate of frequency. which are found, it.
is claimed, to be cdficacious in improv-.
ing the hearing power Of the partially
deaf. In line with this is the substi-.
tuition of an electric light bath for a.
bath. and the production of ozone
for inhalation by means Of the high
potential discharge. For the insect
collector the incandescent lamp is sug-
| gested as a bait or attraction for noe
,NTnal l%epidoptera and other insects.
It y proposed to surround the lamps.
with a globe coated with a sticky COM
nositions. The light attracts them, aud
once they touch the globe, they are Sc
cured.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

trial globe, the continents colored as
they are in the school maps, and the
countries and principal cities plainly
1ettered. Such a globe is not only a
pretty ornament but an educator as
we'll. Paterfamilias may read his
evening newspaper by the soft light
diffused through the surface, while his
son end heir studies geography from
the same source. This is a decided nov
city in lamp globes, being entirely new
this season. The only wonder is that
some enterprising dealer did not hit
upon the idea before now.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

armored cruisers and torpedo destroy
ers. The unarmored battle ship, he
asserts, does not take a direct part in
the fighting, but is a distributor of
automobile weapons, either III the shape
Of under water t%orpedoes or of other
small vessels, which are shot from
guns, and their aerial trajectory being
completed, keep up their motion Of
translation under water.
His fighting ship is the armored cruz
ser, and he holds that a partly invisible
body, with relatively stronger armor.
so disposed and shaped as to make
slight the chances of hitting and to defy
penetration, Is the type needed in mod
ern navies. He says very justly that
force and rapidity Of movement are the
best projections an army or a fleet can
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

possess, and that the best defense is
the power Of attack. The torpedo de-
stroyer, which, by the way, is subma-
rine in principle, is, he holds, one Of
the most formidable sea weapons, and
its only requirements are invisibility,
seaworthiness, high speed and "agil-
ity," or great manoeuvering power.
Such, generally described, are the types
of ships. He finds the solution of the
gun problem in pieces of very large cal
iber, which, through a secret mechan-
ism are maintained at any required
range, both in train and elevation, in
de%pendently of the motions of the sea
and ship. The armored turret has, as
shown by the pictures, an extensive
latitude of motion, especially in the
horizontal plane, and all the pieces,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

Philadelphia Press. A large majority
6t proverbs are of a satirical eharac-
ter and are ievelea against women. We
find, curiously enough, that the severest
reflections upon the feminine sex eman-
ate from those Nations which AVE the
reputation OF being particularly gallant,
notably the Spanish, Portuguese and
Italian. Widows are invariably made
the butt of ridicule, wives are disniissec
with scant courtesy, and maidens are
treated by proverb makers as though
they were worthy of constant suspicion
only.
"a spaniel, a woman and a walnut
The more they're beaten the better still
they'll be-"
HE that marries a widow and three
children marries four thieves
He that loseth his wife and a farth-
ing hath a great loss of his farthing."
"A dead wife is the best goods in a
mans house"
wedding and wintering lame both
man and beast"
1T is good to marry late or never"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26

together with a number of rapid fire
q and small calibered rifles and
machine guns. Battle ships are of exe
actly similar design to the cruisers.
but-here is a revelation in battleships
they carry no armor. Their weapons
consist only of two large torpedo guns
and a half dozen rapid fire pieces. The
torpedo destroyer, or chaser, is a sub
marine boat about seventy feet in
length. 1t is circular in cross sec
ton, is propelled by six screws, and has
very great speed. Its crew will be
four men. The torpedo gun is about
twenty inches in caliber, and the torpe-
do is loaded much Upon the usual prin-
ciple. In the sketch G is the tube of
the cannon and P the chamber where
the powder gases are developed. AT
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-26
NOVELTY IN WARSHTPS.
MORIZ STOEIR'S INVENTION.

IL the claims submitted to the navy
department by Mr.. Moriz Stoehr, an
Austrian inventor, are justified, many
important, perhaps revolutionary,
changes will have to be made in sea
construction. Pictures showing the
longitudinal and cross sections of his
proposed new armored cruiser are
printed this morning, and when the
oddness of the conception has worn off
it must be confessed that the value of
the design as a fighting machine seems
on the surface of things to be consid-
cradle. The inventors theories, how
ever, clash very much with accepted
notions, and 1t will be difficult to con-
vince experts that his conclusions are
just. For fighting purposes he divides
his feet into three types, battle ships,