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Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
(To be continued)
IVORY KEPT IN GOLD STORAGE
Cold Preserves 1t from Deterioration
Due NeteoroloricaI (h.n-e.

1t DPteTlOra
Due to meteorological Chan:e..
Local dealers in ivory goods mention
a new development in the trade. Wits
the opening up OF central Africa tha
elephant will have to go. and with j.
the African ivory supply. 1t seems &
strange subversion of popular assoc a .
ton OF ideas in connection with the
ivory market that the supply of tho
near future will be derived. as travellers
now maintain. not from tropical lands
but from the frozen regions OF the IA.
north. Il is stated that the amount
of ivory that is hidden in the ice fields
of the polar regions defies estimate.
The rapid decrease in the herds CT ele-
plants in Africa has turned the search
OF merchants into other directions. and
the industry is concentrating itself on
special explorations for the finding OF
the remains of mammoths. Reports
are constantly coming in of finds of
frozen carcasses of these huge beasts.
valuable for the mass of ivory in their
tusks, in the tundras of the north main
~ III SIutIld. 11ON lNe giant animals
were able to exist in the climate that
has preserved their remains by freez-
ing. or how they chanced to be over
whelmed. are problems not yet solved
by science. Mammoth ivory, however.
is not by any means a modern discoy-
cry. Ii was known TO the ancients.
and for centuries it has been used as
an article of commerce and manufac-
tGre. Eighty years ago the record of
one years sales of ivory in the Yakutsk
market exceeded 100000, and the an
nual sales in that city from 1925 to
1881 averaged over 90, 900 pounds. In
1910 it was estimated thar the annual
output of Siberian ivory reached no.
600 pounds, representing at least 100
individual mammoths. and in 1879 it
was estimated by Baron Nordenskjol
that the worlds ivory markets mad
been enriched by the remains of fully
10000 Siberian mammoths since the
conquest of Siberia.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
ANOTHER SET OF RULES.

4 set of rules for young men to fol-
low are those laid down by a man who
built up an immense business, the ram
fications Of which extended all over
the United States. They will bear pc
rusal, and are as follows:
Keep good company or none. Never
be idle
If your hands cannot be usefully en-
ployed. attend to the cultivation of
your mind.
Always speak the truth. Make few
promises.
Live up to your engagements. Keep
your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to person, look
him in the face
Good company and good conversa-
ton are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things
else
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
If any one speaks evil of you let
your life be so that none will believe
him.
Drink no kind of intoxicating
liquors.
Ever live misfortune excepted)
within your income.
When You retire to bed think over
what you have been doing during the
day.
Make no haste to he rich. if you
would prosper.
Small and steady gains give compe-
tency with tranquility of mind.
Never play at any game of chance
Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it.
Earn money before you spend it.
Never run into debt unless you see a
way to get out again.
Never borrow, if you can possibly
avoid it,
Do not marry until you are able to
support wife.
Never speak evil of any one.
BE just before you are generous.
Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.
Read over the above G: =, H,s.,s. - - .>:s1
once week.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
BY Author Of "Hetty." Etc.
No, l don't"

I.
Kitty. you're snappish. Your tenn
per was never nice-and it's getting
worse"
| laughed and began to pour out the
tea. Meg leant back in her chair and
looked critically at her blue cup, and
stirred her tea slowly with the quaint
little apostles spoon, then removed the
spoon to examine it.
Il like your silver and your china.
Kitty The sight of your silver and
china would almost persuade me to
marry. if anyone would marry me- But
the sight of you and John counteracts
the rash desire.
How do John and ! look?"
Look ut yourself in the glass. dear:
the glass will speak for one And John
looks worse. Do you keep him on cold
mutton chops. Kitty? Nothing but an
unvarying diet of mutton chops could
account for his profound gloom"
Johns not gloomy-you imagine
that" | declared. with a little sharp
catch in NY breath even as l made the
decisive assertion.
And you're not gloomy" ques-
toned Meg. stirring her tea. and put
ting out her neatly-shod little feet to
the welcome blaze. rs he a tyrant.
nifty? Does he smile deceitfully be-
fore the world, and then in private
beat you?''
Have some more tea. Meg. and
don't be a goose.
Thank you Kitty Turn the handle
of the teapot this way. dear. and let
me help myself-dont be such an off =
cious hostess. Do you know the first
law in the code of a hostess duties >
Cultivate an air OF repose. When your
guest politely asks you, Does your hus-
band beat you?' don't dash at her with
Have some more tea. Take another
piece of sugar Your guest will natur-
ally conclude that your husband does
beat you"
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15

Mr.. Isaac Brock. of McLennan county,
Tex. has attained the great age of III
years, having been born in l7oS. he IS an
ardent friend to Peruna and speaks of 1t In
the following terms:
During my long life l have known
great many remedies for coughs. colds,
catarrh and diarrhna. L had always sup
posed these affections to be different dis
eases, but | have learned from Dr. Hart
mans books that these affections are the
same and are properly called catarrh.
"As for DR.. Hartman $ remedy. Peruna,
have found it to be the best, if not the
only reliable remedy for these affections.
"Peruna has been my stdnd-Jy
for many gears, and attribute my
good health ant my extreme age to
this remedy. 1t erdc1y meets all
my requirements.
81 have come to rely upon it almost en-
tirely for the many little things for which
j need medicine. l believe it TO be espe-
cially valuable TO old people. >
Isaac Brock.
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age.
A person entirely free from catarrh is sure
TO live to a hale and hearty old age A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi-
cine Co, Columbus, q.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Kitty"

Kitty"
Meg was as serious now as l. She
came round To where | sat, and seated
herself on the elbow of my chair. l
put my head against her shoulder and
sat in silence. looking perfectly hope
leSsly before me.
He loved her" ! said at last. still
speaking in quiet tone still looking
before me into the glowing fire. Some
one should have told me. No one told
me; did not know d;d not know!'
And | did not know it until after
wards" said Meg gently. Il had heard
of her, but | had only heard half the
more fully"
Tell me-
But JOAN has tol0 gou"
No"
How strange. IT. long story; /
scarcely know where 10 begin. Ten or
eleven years ago Madame Arnaud-she
was Lucia St. John then-was an
actress. a singer-but you know that ."
Il know nothing"
She sang in opera: they said she
was the coming prima donna. She
Gang for two seasons; then her voice
failed her
Go on. Meg"
She had been engaged to John
how strange it is. Kitty, that | should
know this and not you,-did you know
she had been engaged TO John?"
No"
John ought to have told you.
think. Wei. she had been making a
big income. and the income dwindled
down to nothing suddenly. and John
was poor. He was very poor. You
know. in those days: he was only a
solicitor with a precarious sort of
practice. with reputation yet to be
made. Then he was struggling to pay
off his fathers debt-he was poor.
hopelessly. She had made him promise
that. after their marriage. she should
not give up her career-she was to be
allowed to go on singing. She had
been singing in Paris; she was coming
home. 1t was midwinter, and she and
Miss Mortimer, who was always with
her, chose to remain on deck when
sensible people would have been sleep
ing in their cabins. She took cold
When she got we'll again her voice was
gone-gone as far as her profession
was concerned. That's her story"
But not all. Go on
(To be continued)
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Question Finally Admitted.

A story is told of the late Chief JUS
tice Cockburn. He was once counsel
for the plaintiff in a certain case, and
Mr.. d. was for the defendant. Cock
burn called a witness, and proceeded
to examine him. Il understand" he
said, that you called on the plaintiff.
Mr.. Jones. Is that SOP" Yes" re-
piled the man. What did he say?"
demanded Cockburn. Mr. B. prompt
ly rose and objected. The conversa-
ton could not be admitted as evidence.
But Cockburn persisted, and Mr.. B.
appealed to the judges, who thereupon
retired to consider the point. They
were absent for nearly half an hour.
When they returned they announced
that Mr. Cockburn might put his ques-
ton. We'll. what did he say" asked
counsel. Please. sir, he wasn't at
home" replied the witness, without
moving muscle-Irish Independent.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
CHAPTER Y.

\ beautiful woman, about whose
beauty there could not be two opin-
ions-of goodly height yet so full of
grace that she was rarely described as
tall-with certain gentle stateliness
tnat no words can quite describe-with
a head we'll poised. gray eyes that had
more tenderness. more passion in their
depths than any other eyes l had ever
seen, mobile lips as expressive as the
eyes. d face d perfect oval clearly. deli
cateiy cut bright, brown wavy hair.
growing gracefully around perfect
brow-the most beautiful woman | had
ever seen. ever dreamt of-Madame
Arnaud
she had the gracious ways which q
beautiful woman learns by the time
She is thirty years OF age. If thirty
years had taken the first soft. peach
like bloom from her complexion. that
was but.a small loss. With her queen
ly way. her slow yet radiant smile
she was far more charming than any
mere girl could be- In her presence
even Meg's pretuness seemed mex
pressive. l. who had scarcely any
claim to prettiness. was overwhelmed
with a sense of my own insignificance.
We saw much of Madame Arnaud.
She came often. and she generally
came III the evening when John was al
home Ostensibly. her calls were on
me; but when she left the drawing
room. John accompanying her across
the little hall, she fell at once into
setter. more familiar tone; sometimes.
half an hour after she had hidden
goodnight to ME, she was still talking
IN a subdued, confidential voice to
John in the hall or in his study: and
now and then John would go with her
the short distance that lay between
our houses. and if the evening was
quiet | could catch the sound of their
footsteps as they passed and repassed
up and down the pavement. until at
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15

The Indians had bound their captive
to the stake, when the conventional
happy thought struck the latter. If
You burn me" he explained, the sun
VIII be darkened tomorrow" You
Will find" replied the Indian. IF YOU
calculate the parallaX to the forty
third decimal place, that the eclipse
does not take place until the day after
tomorrow Saying which, for these
simple children Of the forest were all
graduates Of the government schools.
they proceeded with their barbaric
slaughter.-Deroit Journal.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Solid Trains to Northern Michigan.

The Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway IS now running solid trains
OF palace sleeping cars, dining cars
(serYing meals a Ia Carte) and first
class day coaches, through from Chi
cago to Calumet. Houghton. Hancock
and other points in the Copper country
without change of cars. with direct
connection for Marquette, Negaunee.
lshpeming, etc. and passengers from
the East, South and Southwest Will
find this a most desirable route.
All coupon ticket agents sell tickets
via the Chicago, nilwaukee & St. Paul
RAILWAY.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Triumul of ReaIisn

Brushe-"I suppose you have heard
the old story of the artist who
painted grapes so natural that the
birds came and pecked at them" Penn
That's nothing. friend OF mine
painted a tramp so true to life that he
couldn't get rid of it. People wouldn't
have the thing in their houses. New
York Journal
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
No Cauaa for Worry.

Mrs. Hennessy Patsy, dar-
lint. it's afraid Oh am that Oi'll over
slape meself in tn marnin' an be too
late fer early mass. Hennessy-Don't
worry a tall. "a tall. Mary Ann. Av
ye fo.nd yourself overslapin jes tech
me an Oil wake ye at wanst. Ohio
State Journal.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
A Bargain in Guitars.

All music lovers will be interested in
the ''ad" of John VI. Smyth Co. shown
in another part OF this paper, in which
they offer an elegant guitar for $3.50.
The firm is thoroughly reliable. Get
their catalogue of everything to eat,
wear and use.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15

Ella-"When 1 refused Fred he
said l had sent him to his death"
Stella-"But he has since proposed to
me and 1 have accepted him" Ella
Then he meant a living death"
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Retrogressiou.

Spriggs-How much older is your
sister than you. Johnny? Johnny |
dunno. Maud used to be % years,
then she was 20. and now she AIM
only 18. Well soon be twins.
Marshall County independent., 1899-12-15
Here's the whole Winter Problem.

There is one sound piece of advice
that should be repeated from Maine to
Oregon every year when winter ap-
proaches, and that is-if you want to
go through the winter without catch
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30
It'd BITS.

A Milwaukee firm has contracts Tor
| machinery worth about $2,5OO,O00, 70 Dc
placed I'm Great Britain.
Ap ST. Thomas, Michigan Central
trackmen now earn $i.2O a day-a VOL
untary increase Of 10 cents.
AT Cleveland on first -class boats en-
gineers get $1l0. on second-cfass S9o,
and on third -class. from 500 To $50.
Thirty years ago there were only two
dozen explosive compounds known 10
chemists; now there are over 1000
The total displacement OF ships now
under construction for the British navy
amounts to no less than 4Ss,oOo tons.
Every boy in Germany, from the
Crown Prince TO the meanest subject,
is obliged TO learn some useful trade.
OF the worlds annual yield of pc
troleum. amounting to 5000 100000 gall
Ions, the United states produces half.
Interest in the diamond "mines' In
Waukesha county has been reawaken-
ed by the recent discovery of two small
gems.
In the course of the last decade the
manufacture OF cotton goods has be-
come firmly established industry in
Brazil.
According 10 tradition. Arabic figures
were derived from Solomon's seal, upon
which they can all be traced with
little care.
An analysist has made the discovery
that California roses contain 20 per
cent more perfume than those grown
elsewhere.
Live poultry commands high price
and ready sale in the Hawaiian islands.
and Missouri figures largely in supply
ing the demand.
A new process introduced in the pro-
duction of mirrors has lessened msf-
curry poisoning among the workmen
over so per cent.
The leading Southern states are pre-
pairing TO give a grand Southern expo
sition i'm New York city from October
81 to November 20.
The warehouse men employed at the
st. Paul and Duluth docks In Duluth
struck for 81 a day and 20 cents an
hour for overtime.
The frieze in the Paris Pantheon left
unfinished by the late Puvis Chavannes
is TO be completed by Cazin. the French
landscape painter.
Belgium has the largest amount Of
railroad. in comparison with its total
area. the amount being 1922 miles TO
each square mile OF area.
At Fairibault. Mimi. all laborers are
asking an increase of wages. The Chi
cago Great Western In paying 81 75 for
day laborers and 50 for teams.
A new Italian gas, said to be 30 per
cent. cheaper than acetylene. is COM
posed OF 90 parts OF quicklime and
3 each OF colophony and calcium car
bde.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30
MONEY IN THE GOAT.
Al Least So Says the Experts Of The National De-
partment OF Agriculture

There may be great future for the
goat in this country yet-and outside
the pages OF the comic papers. too.
The Department of Agriculture has
taken the goat up seriously .. SAYS
there is big money in him. He can feed
himself in summer on uplanos worth
less at the start off for any other use.
and in "A few years he will have cleared
the ground of all the underground.
bushes, briars, mullen, dock, ironweed.
etc. leaving n ready for ti.e aimothy
and cother. In winter he will thrive
on cornstalks. He is a much harder
animal than the sheep. the Department
OF Agriculture says Is much less trouble
and much less expense.
All the farmers who have gone into
goat raising are contented and even en-
thuslastic over the results. Dry goat
skin is I'm brisk demand in the New
York market at 40 cents a pound. The
Angora goats are good mixers" their
fceces bring a good price. their flesh is
good eating. II have raiseda eve goat"
writes a South Carolina man TO the
department, that will give four quarts
ner day OF as good milk as any COW on
my plantation. and the feed OF one OF
my cows will keep twelve goats" Like
reports come from Texas Missouri, KEN
tucky, and either states "To "A person
who has never seen the results of the
presence OF Angoras on brush lands"
writes an Iowa goat raiser. "a ride
through my pastures ls revelation.
Where three years the ground was
Censely covered with underground Of
hazel. crabtree. oak buckberry. and
other brush. IL is nov growing the An
est blue grass I have over COO acres
which have been recla mel ana the
value OF the hand has been enhanced at
leset $40 an acre" one of the depart
meuts correspond nts ,macks his fps
over Angota) goat nesh. pronounclng
u finer than moiiniain mutton.
There are qSW about half million
goats of All SORTS in the United states.
according 90 the departments census.
most Of them In Texas. Isn't there a
field. 80 20 speak. for the goats on our
Yankee hill fsrms-tha rundown.
abandcncd. or seni.abamioned ones?
Certainly fhc<''s store of fooi for them
there. lite worth considering. Hart
ford Courant.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30
MUST REPORT TO HER.
Young Woman HAS Charge Of 0mahas Frsmsn
and FoIcemen.

Over every telephone in Omaha,
probably. is posted this notice: "In
case OF fire call up 81" but few people,
even those who are in the habit of
calling up "37'' in every case TO learn
where Il is, really understand what the
young woman who represents that
number Is doing all the time. She Is
really a sort of supervisor OF fire and
police. before whom even the fire and
police commissioners pale into insig-
nificance, according to the Omaha Bee.
She has a long table off by herself in
the east end of the exchange room, and
there presides over the destinies of the
city and keeps tab on the policemen.
On this table are several "nckers" in
glass cases, for all the world like those
found in boards OF trade, and on these
the patrolmen make their mark every
hour when they turn in their number
at the patrol box. There is a whirring
noise in the glass case when ever they
do, and If the proper time passes and
the report is not made, "37' makes a
note OF IL.
1t is at such times that she issues her
orders to the police.
1t is thi, mysterious young woman
who rs also responsible Tor the START
ling sound of the gong, which rings out
like death knell at every fire station
in the city when a shanty down in the
bottom catches fire. When a fire is rung
up she reaches over and touches
black button somewhat after the sim
ilitude of a telegrapher's key. and
at once gong sounds i'm every station
and every office builddn- where fire
gong is located. The same touch of the
button drops the chain from the front
Of horses in the fire department, and
they jump under the swinging harness.
Then. while the men are hitchi the
foreman goes to the phone. BY the
time "37' has connected all the tele-
phones In the station in bunch. and
as the foreman of each stands with his
ear to the receiver she informs them
individually and collectively where the
fire is located Then those who are far
away unhbtch their horses and turn
them back into the stalls. while the
girl who has made all this fuss puts her
lips 10 the transmitter and begins tell
ing over and over again TO reporters
and other inquisitive people where the
blaze is located.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30
A BIGGER NATION.
President Of The Adams Express Co. Says Europe
Has Changed lis Opinion Of Ih,s Country.

New York, Aug 3O.-President l.. c.
Weir of the Adams Express Company,
who has just returned from abroad,
said Monday night.
America is good deal bigger nation
now in the eyes 'of the European world
that il has been in times past-bigger
not only i'm the national sense of the
word, but from business and CONNER
cal standpoint. Dewey did more than
to sink Spain's fleet in Manila Bay. He
opened The eyes OF the world to the pos
sibilities OF this country.
Everywhere in the other land they
have cheerful word 60 say TO US.
More than that, a'hey are coming TO
better realization and appreciation ol
our commercial possibilities. As a con-
sequence OF this, / heard In London that
they were buying there great deal of
our stocks. particularly OF our cheap
stocks.
1T h worth noting that in one traV-
els abroad one no longer hears those
expressions OF fear that this country
may go 10 "A silver basis. whioh were
more or less common some ulmc ago
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30

Another sign OF prosperity is the
fiourishing business of the green goods
gentry. Almost every day or so we read
of new victim from the agricultural
deestricks who has 50 much money that
he goes looking around for bundle Of
old paper or a satchel with brick in Il
TO exchange. incidentally ii may be re-
marked that apparently newspapers
will have to be sold at good deal less
than one cent before they viii reach
the back counties and extend their mis-
sion of Informing the inhabitants of the
wicked things that go on. 1t seems in
credible that the green goods game
should continue to thrive If the victims
read the papers.