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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-04
From Fridays Daily.

Walter Fox is home from FIT. Wayne.
Miss Tillie Klinghammer has return
ed to South Bend.
Clarence Slater returned from Terre
Haute today.
Mise Mary Weaver is visiting Miss
- % Miller, of Bourbon.
And now they claim to have found
gold in Miami county near Peru.
Mrs. Baylor Is visiting friends in
Warsaw this week.
Harley Logan is transacting business
in Frankfort.
Uncle Samuel Mlller's condition re-
mains the same.
Mrs. Thomas Walker is visiting with
friends in Ilibbard.
Charlie Turner transacted business
in Rochester today.
1t will soon be time for Sunday ex-
cursions.
Miss Laura Eurit of Macy is the guest
of Mrs. Bailey.
The Modern WoOdmen of America
had ten limitations last night.
L. H. Johns of Laporte is in the city
today on business.
Students and newspapers are trying
hard to work up a war spirit in tits
country.
The drays were busy all day hauling
the goods of +. NJ. Axe to the depot to
be shipped to Newport.
David Redding remains about the
same There has been no change In
his condition for the past week.
Donaldson don't want saloon, and
the people are doing all they can to
prevent one locating there.
Solomon Mayer and Sidney ROsen-
haup left for Muncie today to visit MIR.
and Mrs Maurice Lauer.
Oran smith of Valparaiso is in the
city Cd business. He will return Satur-
day.
The exercises at the M. +. church
tonight promise to be quite in eresting
and it will pay you to attend.
Adam Ebert has about recovered
from his recent injury which he receiv-
cd at the Novelty. He will be able for
work next Monday.
Miss Ethel Wiltfong and Grace Axe
will leave this evening for Chicago
where they will visit Charlie Wlltfong
until Sunday.
Plymouth has more lodges and insur
ance societies than any other town il
the state and they are all In healthy
and prosperous condition.
The west side of Michigan street was
the resort for the people who discussed
war topics and other matters of impOr
lance this morning.
There will be two vacant rooms or
Michigan street in few days. The!
will be vacated by Messrs. Mckinne!
and Axe.
The funeral of VIM. Edwards took
place today from his late residence OF
North Center street and was largely at
tended.
Julius Borne was made member o
the Americas lodge last night.
large number were present and the ses
sion was veiy pleasant one.
The Chicago morning papers ar
eagerly sought every morning by tn
people of Plymouth. The war cloud i
still in the sky and the people ar
anxious to hear the latest.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-04
From Saturdays Daily.


Frank Crane. of Peru, was in the city
today on business.
Aug of the churches will give you q
hearty welcome tomorrow.
The thermometer was knocking close
TO zero last night.
The Foresters lodge IF this city had q
good meeting last night.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Zumbaugh yesterday.
Mrs. ID. Frank Redd is visiting her
mother in Bourbon.
John Butte. went to Argos today on
business.
David Redding was reported az feel
ing worse this afternoon.
BE sure you are right before you fire
the first gun,
Miss Bircham of Rolling Prairie is
visiting VIM. Conger and family
The accident talk is not believed any
where.
The three youngest children of Geo.
| Ninall are still quite sick.
Miss Hulda Stromback entertained Q
number of her friends last evening.
The monthly teachers examination
was held at the court house today.
Vanscoik has new light wagon to
convey the mail to and from the depots.
The w. e. II. u will meet with Mrs.
Eva Blsin Monday afternoon at 2 p. N.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-04
Popular Lady contest.

Independent
naugurates popular lady which all subscribers
conditions will be allowed participate Who the
popular Marshall
of will
He lady residing
lady residing in Marshall outside of Ply
mouth The Independent will send young lady residing Ply
the residing
of
Fore will
S. advance total of $3.50 He will be
Distribution of and will also lee
popular lady Marshall
Plymouth If Sam Jones subscriber he will S. so
and will be in the popular lady
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-04

One Road Wagon.
One Dress Pattern.
One bed room set.
One Set Dishes.
One Pair Boots.
One Pair ShOes.I
One Pair Pants.
One Set Silver Spoons.
One Ladies' Hat.
So worth groceries.
lone prize
One Rocking Chair.
5 Boxes Cigars IS prizes,
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-03-04
The Distribution

will occur at the Opera House June SO. and will
be conducted by the subscribers themselves.
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

raise their voices about this matter, and hence we are impelled to pass few re- marks on this latest of combinations
 Ihere has sprung up in the iron trade in the last year or so new and insldious Idea which is all the more dangerous to the public veal because 1t is cloaked. as if were, in Sheeps clothing and with an air or lngenous common sense that must hide all sorts of deadly designs on the consti- tution and liberty of the citizen. In oldea times trusts and combinations were rel atlVely easy to combat because they made no secret of their methods and of their oDJects, which were to secure by combina- ton the highest possible prices for their product, whatever that product might be Such were the aims of the wire nail pool and the steel rail pool of infamous mem ory. or course, 1t was easy to destroy this kind of thing. If we remember right the World or the Journal, or both were solely and individually responsib,e for the downfall of these wicked combina- tions: At all events, they said they were Whlch Is or course the same thing. We presume that what they did was to hire MT. Carnegie to cut loose from these ne- Iarlous organizations, thus breaking m the whole system,
 NOW, however, we have the Illinois Steel company suddenly looming up on the hori- zon, With the Minnesota Iron company con trolling its supplies of ore, and with com panies providing transportation for that ore in its pocket, to say nothing of sey- eral other companies manufacturing steel. also in leash, and body and soul to the Illinois Steel company. Furthermore, the end is not yet, for the heartless capitalists who direct the affairs of the Illinois Steel company are preparing to absorb a small- CT octopus of recent birth, namely, the American Steel and Wire company thus adding to its own bulk and importance. Nor Is this all. Worse remains behind
 This new trust announces in the most casual and matter-of-fact way that 1t pro- poses to cheapen the cost of production of Iron and steel to the consumer at home and abroad. and that this Is the object of the combination. It says with devi,ish plausibility that in order to do this suc-
The age-herald., 1898-09-11
What It Has Cost Spain

One of the independent Spanish news- papers, La Estafeta," publishes an article about the expenses incurred by Spain on account of the war with the United States and the insurrection in her colonies just preceding the war. The report, which gives the official figures, is dated June 30, and the expenses incurred since then must be added to the amount here stated The amounts available for war expendi- lures were as follows:
 Pesetas Sale of the so-called "Billetes de
 Cuba" ....... ..... 124 211 174 Sale of Cuban notes (treasury notes)... ........ ... ..... =. ... 2S 924 ASA OO,0OO,000 loan secured by customs
 revenues..... =. =. ... ...372 OOO ,OOO Profits of transactions at Paris sil-
 yer sales, ect... =. ... ... 4,S31 ,691 Loan of Bank of Spain, secured by scuban bonds.... ...292 O0O 900 Loan of Bank of Spain, secured by
 customs..... ...2F 900 900 Loan of Bank of Spain, secured by
The age-herald., 1898-09-11
NINA GOODWIN.
The New "Iron Trust"

From New York Commercial
 The peoples guardians and protectors appear to be very lax in their duties. The last few weeks have seen the formation of another giant octopus to strangle the working man and the consumer, and in spite of this we have only the most per fupctory warnings from the World and the Journal regarding the matter. Of course allowance must be made for the fact that these great organs of public opinion have had something else to think about since the war broke out but even allowing for this, 1t is strange that with the passing of the nations great emergency these dis interested papers should not have found a little time to pulverize and utterly destroy the fell monster at its birth.
 Reference is, of course, to the Federal Steel company, which is in process of en- gulfing in its voracious maw a number of smaller companies, thereby forming an other trust" to harass the soul of the people. It behooves all good citizens to
The age-herald., 1898-09-11
THE KLONDTKE
 OF THE TROPICS.

not bare cliffs, but are low undulating hills. The term mountain is applied to them in distinction from lowlands upon which the city Is built.
 'The coffee industry fiourished in Cuba in 1S6O and great fortunes were made; but in 1868 the Cuban rebellion checked it and the insurgents tramped over the coffee fields of Santiago de Cuba. They were re- planted in 1880 and were again doing well when the present war destroyed the plan tations. Today there Is not a coffee plan tation standing in the east end of Cuba. The farms have been destroyed and the houses in which the farmers lived have been leveled.
 FORTUNE IN COFFEE.
 'It takes three years to grow a coffee crop, but after the third year the yield is continuous. The highest grade of coffee can be raised here, such as retails for sixty cents per pound. A bushel can easily be reaped from a square foot of land in the fertile parts of the hills.
 Cuba has primeval forests in which the axe of civilized man has never resounded.
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

the Cuban planters are landpoor and are unable to plant their crops. If young American with s5.OOO or s1O,OOO were willing to go there and cast his fortune in with a Cuban land owner, he could undoubtedly come home wealthy at the end of three years. Cuba just now is, to the ambitious farmer, what the west Was a few years ago; and the Horace Greedy of today would say Go to Cuba. young man., as old zGreely advised the young men of twenty years ago to Go West
 i'dThe cost of living just now is almost nothing. Land can be purchased in Cuba, this is in verity almost as cheaply as the public lands which are opened up along the western railroads. For a few dollars have your fortune for life. you can get a few acres and there you
 CHEAP TRAVELLING.
 ''It costs only about $40 to get to Cuba. After you get there you can live on g per week and maybe less, for money is pretty scarce in Cuba now. The only railroad that Is in operation runs from Santiago to San Luis, with a twelve-mile branch run ming to Alto Songo. The fare upon this road is cheap as there are few passengers. Very soon the railroads will be extended and no matter how far in the interior of Cuba you buy, you can reach your do- main by rail.
 "There is a great deal of unclaimed land in Santiago and other portions of Cuba. This land was owned by Spaniards, was confscated by the Cuban government and is now for sale. Acres and acres Of land stretch out in every direction over Cuba
The age-herald., 1898-09-11
BLOOD BALM CO.,, ATLANTA, GA

cessfully 1t has taken into it's own hands the whole process of making iron and steel, beginning with the ore in the ground and ending with the finished product in it's various forms It alleges with an appear ance of frankness that 1t proposes to save a cent wherever possible at all stages of the process, whether mining, transporting or manufacturing. The result 1t affects tH believe, will be cheap steel to domestdi6 consumers and large exports to all parts of the world, with steady employment for all concerned. :
 Now, what are you to do with trust like that? It is an admitted axiom that all combinations of capital are wroflg and sub- versive of the constitution, but when a combination comes along as this one does and tells you that it is going to do these things, how can you meet 1t? By some extraordinary accident the constitution omitted to prohibit partnership and other forms of capital combinations. It is strange that the fathers of the country overlook it, however, and the result is that the country suffers today.
 Things look pretty bad, 1t must be ad- mftted. If we are going to have this kind of a trust in the iron trade. we are going to have a repetition of the Standard oil combination and all the dreadful things that were entailed thereby on the consum- CTS of petroleum in the United States. If the trusts are going to cheapen products port trade for the United States, how are we ever going to shake off their yoke7 This is a question that we feel ourselves unable to answer. It is high time that some of the "great newspapers took 1t up and settled 1t once for all, as they have settled other and equally important ques- tions in the past. It is too much for us.
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

bon. The neck was finished with a fichu of mousseline de soie in paler shade of buff. It crossed at the front and the right end was draped over to the left shoulder where it was held by a full rosette of green ribbon. The broad soft sash was of tissue silk in pretty shade of sage green.
 QUAINT BONNET
 The quaint little bonnet that went with this gown was a regular old-fashioned Coke" of green straw. It was trimmed around with wreath of pale yellow roses and by the way, you see so many odd little bonnets
 Another little silk dress was very sim pie and chic. It was made of foulard in pretty shade of gray blue, with a swiriing little line of white printed over it.
 The waist was made perfectly plain and the skirt was gathered on to the waist with most of the fitness at the back. Broa1 strips of blue gray satin ribbon came from each shoulder seam and were caught down f1chu fashion to the waistband Both edges of the ribbon were finished with double frills of white chiffon. The sleeves were close fitting and the frills from the rib bon trimming gave an effect of epaulettes. The collar was of the ribbon.
 A smart little duck gown was in a pretty shade of subdued cherry red The skirt was gored so that the fitness at the back fell in full folds. It was trimmed about half way down with band of white braid between two bands of black
 The jacket was a straight affair button- ing over to the left side with a single row of black bone buttons. It had broad point ed revers of white duck trimmed with black braid The sleeves were close fitting with finish of the black and white braid at the wrists.
 A COOL SERGE.
 Such pretty little serge gown suitable for the first cool fall afternoons was a plaid of bright red and dark blue. It was made on the bias. The skirt was gored so that it was perfectly plain over the hips and at the back the fulness fell in) three big folds.
 The jacket was an Eton. It had the ef- feet of double jacket with the under one
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

Cost of living in Klondike, s4 and up- wards per day.
 For every 8 invested in Cuba, s1O quick profit.
 For every s5 invested in Alaska, result unoertalr E&+
 Vegetables ripen very quickly in Cuba and several crops can be raised in yes.f Considering that it takes only few hours to get from Cuba to the United States a Yankee farmer can go there and make a very comfortable living on a very little land.
 WONDERFULLY FERTILE
 Tn Santiago the temperature il Bum- mer is S8 degrees; in winter it is S2 degrees The temperature is nearly the same all the var around, and vegetables can be raised as well in December as in June. In planting choice vegetables in crops following each other in rapid succession, the Yankee planter can constantly ship his vegetables to the states, and find a ready market for them.
 "Fertilizers are not necessary in any part of Cuba. The land is so rich that 1t needs nothing added to it. By some curious process of the climate 1t renews itself and each year it is blacker and blacker, and more fertile than the preceding one. Some of the sugar plantations have been pro- ductive for one hundred years, according to family records, and during that time no fertilizers have been added. Just how long they will continue to yield without being fertilzed it Is not known, but it is certain by actual record that they will do so for a century.
 "Cuba's capabilities in the sugar rais-
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

internal revenues. e. =. ... ...160, ,O00, 900 New Spanish per cent. Govern
 ment bonds (popular subscrip-
 iioAAI-s. ...l40,UU New loan secured by revenue from
 EnDlpplne islands,. ...1S5, ,00O,0OO
 All of this money was spent before the date of the report, and there were then due, and not paid, the large amounts for transportation and supplies for Cuba and the Philippines, and the soldiers pay for several months past. The amount of the first is not as yet fully known, but the back pay will foot up to fully S20,0O0.OO0 pesetas.
 According to La Estafeta," even the fund of the national subscription has al- ready been drawn on to the amount of 23000, 900 pesetas.
 If these expenses represent an awful loss for Spain the losses of human lives sac- rifced in a useless and hopeless war are still worse. From March, 1895, until March, 1898, Spain sent to Cuba 1S0,4a men, 6,222 non-commissioned, 615 commissioned o11- cers and 10 generals. There were then 12,- GOO Spanish soldiers in Cuba, making an army of 100000 men altogether. The actual war losses are rather small. One general, 60 officers and l, ,314 soldiers fell in battle; of their wounds; 463 officers and 8.164 sol- diers who were wounded have recovered.
 Compared to these losses, malaria, the yellow fever and other epidemic scourge3 have played fearful havoc in the Spanish ranks; 313 officers and 13,000 men died of yellow fever; 127 officers and more than
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

These forests are rich in expensive woods. ble for $10, grows wild there. There are mahogany forests with trees set so close together that an army of men must be put to work to clear wagon track for the transportation of the wood. One acre of mahogany woodland would be a fortune for any man. Cedar grows wild here, also logwood, useful for commerce. Red wood in it's most decorative form makes a shade tree and ebony and lignum vitae are as common there as maple here There is a peculiar wood of Cuba which is useful for foundations. It hardens in the ground and becomes petrified, in which state it is more durable than iron or steel
 These woods grow rapidly; tree in Gu ba can be fully matured in ten years Trees that here take a life time to grow there start up and make a very good growth in five years. The largest shade trees in this country are equaled there in three years. Nowhere in the states can you get the luxuriance of Cuba.
 CUBA-THE KLONDIKE OF THE
 TROPICS.
 Your chances compared with Alaska:
 Cost of getting to Cuba, $40.
 Cost of getting to Circle City, S300.
 Amount of available land in Cuba, nine tenths of the island.
 Amount of available land in Klondike, very little.
 Chances of success fin Cuba, 30 to 1.
 Chances of success in Alaska 1 to 501
 Cost of living in Cuba, $2 per week.
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

10000 men succumbed to other diseases. Of every 1,000 men sent to Cuba but 10 died in battle or from their wounds; 66 died with yellow fever; POI of other diseases and 143 were returned disabled to their homes in Spain and 1O1 remained in Cuban hospitals on March 1 of this year.
 This means that one-half of the Spanish army in Cuba had been lost before the trouble with the United States began. Off, cially the Spanish army in Cuba has been estimated at 1S0,OO0 effective strength, in- cluding 10000 Cuban volunteers This indi- rectly admits of loss of about 100000 men in Cuba alone!
 La EStafeta comments upon this state ment of actual losses If anybody should now, after the loss of 100000 lives and g. 900 0000 GOO pesetas ($400 900 ,000 still desire to continue the war and risk further losses it would entail fearful sacrifices upon the na- tion. It would be necessary to raise all the taxes now existing and to create new sources of income; payment of specie and the interest on government loans would have to be stopped, and all the male citi- zens from the age of IT to 45 would have to be called on for military duty. Such a misfortune never befell any other nation"
The age-herald., 1898-09-11

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 REFUSED A MILLION.
 "A Cuban was in New York few days ago trying to borrow 1000. He owned an iron mine that had been in working order only one month when Santiago was block aded A stock company offered him $1 ,0O0,- 900 for his mine, but he refused to take it., knowing that it would yield him more than finally borrowed his $1 900 at fifty per cent interest and started back for Santiago.
 Back of Santiago and to the northward in the very trenches where the Ameri- cans lay sweltering a few weeks ago-is the best coffee raising district in the world These mountains are covered with lovely fertile soil which grows a foliage so dense that as the American army will tell you, it was harder to cut the way through than to fight the foe This mountainous region is perfectly adapted to the coffee in- dustry and the land in these mountains is worth $1,000,000 per acre.
 "The mountains you will understand, are
The age-herald., 1898-09-11
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simplicity There was such an attractive little model for an afternoon toilette shown me at one of the shops where they cater especially to children. It was of pale pink organdie over taffeta of the same shade. The skirt was gored and the fitness at the back was gathered into the waistband 1t was trimmed around with two bands of English applique lace that formed round- ing points at the front
 A CHILD'S WAIST
 The corsage was a blouse of the pink organdie that opened over a vest of violet accordeon plaited mousseline de soie Orig inal revers of the organdie turned back from the vest. They were laid in tiny tucks for three inches, and then the full ness was allowed to flare into full frin.
 The edges were trimmed with three rows of narrow violet satin ribbon. strip of the lace came from each arm hole seam and formed a point at the front of the corsage.
 The sleeves were close fitting with very little fulness at the tops. They were fin- ished with frills of the organdie at the wrists. broad violet satin ribbon was employed for the sash. It was tied with long loops and ends that reached to the bottom of the skirt. The high draped col- lar was made of violet mousseline de soie.
 The hat to be worn with this gown was dainty affair of rough pale rose straw. It was trimmed around the crown with punches of sweet peas that shaded from the palest pink to the deepest purple. The bunch at the front of the hat was taller and mixed with green leaves and tendrills
 One of the most artistic little gowns was made of tissue silk in a subdued shade of bun with rings of sage green stamped over 1t. It had full, short waist and a long skirt gathered full on to the waistband
 Around the bottom 1t was trimmed with three tiny ruffies festooned into rounding scallops. They were of the printed silk and were outlined with narrow green satin rib