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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
One Man ExhiIarated by Noise and
Another repressed.

One Man ExhiIarated by Noise and
Another repressed.
What | like about New York." re-
marked a westerner, lis it's tremendous
energy. The crowds and hustle have
upon me the exhilarating effect of a
stimulant AS | move along among the
masses on the sidewalks and look upon
the perpetual stream of vehicles of all
descriptions in the streets / am con-
scious of buoyancy of spirit and an
increased physical energy | feel like
going all the time, my mind is brighter
and clearer, and in fact, my whole
being seems toned up. New York and
it's crowds are more beneficial TO me
than any resort | have ever struck.
After two weeks stay here | return
home feeling like another man."
We'll, that is strange said the person
to whom this statement was made, ac-
cording to the New York Times do
you know, New York has upon me
just exactly the opposite effect To me,
what [ might term the surplusage Of
life here is depressing. | am by NC
means fond of solitude. | have lived
in a moderate-sized city all my life,
and it bores me to stay in the country
for any great length of time, but when
| come to New York and am caught in
the tides of humanity. see the over
crowded tenements and have my ears
assaulted with the perpetual din of the
streets | become positively melancholy.
| feel what an insignificant atom | am,
after all-no more than a drop OF
water in great river-and the feeling
Expresses me- 1t seems as if there was
nobody here who cared what became
Of anybody. The only relief | find from
the feeling is in the theaters. L go to
show every night while | am here,
and of course. | enjoy that immensely.
But as soon as | have made the
rounds of the shows | am ready to re-
turn home, where | know most every
body and there are many who care"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
Dark Conditions In Turkey.

Briefly stated. the conditions in Tur-
key are these: The Mohammedan re-
ligion has degenerated into the prac-
ticing of dead rtes-mere lip service.
lacking any meaning TO most of its fol-
lowers. The eastern Christian church.
corrupted by centuries of Moslem DOM
nance. has lost its vitality, is down to
par with Mohammedanism so far as
concerns the teaching. or even the COM
prehension of the vital principles Of
living religion: the masses of the
Turkish the Armenian. the Greek and
the Jewish elements OF the population
have actually lost their old and once
mighty MISUNDERSTANDING McIlroy in
National Magazine.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
JUST LIKE CARLYLE.
Tnvase Epistle from the Biographer Of
Oliver Cromwell.

An unpublished and most character
istic letter of Carlyle's has recently
appeared in the London Times. He
had been asked to subscribe toward the
raising, at ST. Ives, of a statue to the
Protector, and his adherence was quail
fed with no little ferocity for the peo-
pie who presumed to celebrate at the
same time Cromwell and King Hud
son." the great railroad Spectator.
The project for the Cromwell mOnu-
ment lapsed, and st. Ives waited until
the other day for a memorial of its
greatest citizen. The dedication, the
Times correspondent assures us,
passed off without the ocean of fun
merry and mere idle balderdash."
which Carlyle deprecated. The BIZ
ographer of Cromwell writes. My
private suspicion, l confess, is that the
present generation of Englishmen-
who have filed their towns with such
set Of public statues as were never
before erected by any people, ugly
brazen images Ito mere commonplace
adventures with titles on them, and
even sometimes to mere paltry scoun-
drels, worthy of immediate oblivion
only, and who have winded up their
enterprises in the statue or memorial
line by subscribing G25,0 900 to a memo
rial for King Hudson-are not likely TO
do themselves or anybody much good
by setting up statues to Oliver Crom-
well. l fear they have forfeited the
right to pretend to remember CrOm-
well in a public manner. Cromwell's
divine memory, sad, stern and earnest
as the gods. says virtually to them.
Forget me and pass on, We unhappy
canaille; carry your offerings to King
Hudson and strive to emulate him,
Nevertheless. | have privately resolved,
If such a thing does go on, to subscribe
my little mite to it or occasion, and
to wish privately that it may prosper
much better than l can with any as
surance hope | think it will be very
difficult to avoid the introduction of
such an ocean Of flummery and mere
idle balderdash into the affair Gf the
public are fairly awaken to it, as
viii be very distressing to any one
who feels how Cromwell ought to be
honored by the nation that produced
him. New York Evening Post
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
FOUND AT LAST.
But the Lady Sincerely Wished That
1t Had Remained Lost.


"My wife will be careful hereafter how
she takes liberties with the TRUTH said
Jones with a grin. I'VE had our min
lister with us the other day for dinner,
and the conversation turned upon alb
sent-mindedness, and my better half
had to tel her story. / am dreadfully
absent-minded,' said she. L remember
some six or seven years ago a friend
of mine gave me her celebrated recipe
for making jam. When | reached home
| carefully put it away where | would
be sure to find it when | wanted it.
But. do you know, a few weeks later,
when | needed it, | couldn't remember
for the life of me where | had put it.
and to this day | have never been able
to find it.. After dinner she turned to
the Rev. Mr.. Thirdly and said sweetly:
Would you mind reading a chapter in
the Bible We make it a rule to read
at least one chapter every night This
statement caused me to look at her in
surprise, for it was news to me. The
reverend gentleman consented gra-
ciOusly and she brought the family BIZ
BILE, which she had carefully busted and
placed in a conspicuous spot before he
had arrived. AS he turned the leaves
a paper fiuttered to the floor. Good
ness!' gasped my wife, as she picked 1t
going to sound, after her somewhat
pious statement, 1T is that recipe for
jam.' detroit Free Press.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
Persons, Places
and Things
WAR ON THE COYOTE PEST.

Ranchmen Find That Greyhounds Alone
Can Run Them Down.
The ranchmen of the west, who have
suffered serious loss for many years
from the depredations Of the coyotes,
think they have discovered a means for
their determination. Greyhounds
alone Of all the dog creation are feet
Of foot enough to run down the cow
ardly little pests and at the same time
brave enough TO give them battle.
Ranchers throughout the country are
paying big prices for bloOded dogs. and
the friendless coyote is on a run for
his life. For years the ranchers and
plainsmen have been skeptical of the
stamina and fighting qualities Of the
greyhound in a finish fight with a
coyote. but that idea, unjust to the big
hearted dogs. is now entirely eradi-
Gated.
Clinton E. Worden. an enthusiastic
greyhound man. was the first to give
the dogs fair trial, and his experience
showed that greyhounds can run down
and kill singly and collectively hun
dreds of the marauders of the plains.
At close quarters the coyote has not
the ghost of chance against the grey
hound, and when pack of the dogs
or portion of them overhaul the
quarry it is very quick time to mince-
meat for the coyote.
Packs are now being trained on nu-
merous ranches, and the sport and ex-
:itement of a coyote chase with grey
hounds is adding a new zest to life on
the plains. Incidentally the ranchers
are Kidding themselves of disagreeable
neighbOrS.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
Islands in the Indian Ocean.


IL YOU should want an island-that
is. an uninhabted island-fOr the pur-
pose of occupying it alone, Robinson
Crusoe like. or to use it for romantic
fiction or any other purpose, to the
exclusion of all others in the world
you need have no trouble in finding
one if you see fit to make a journey
to the Indian Ocean. In the waters
between Madagascar and India you
can find more than $1,000 of them
where there is not a human being and
where you can, if you will, be mon
arch of all you survey. An English
traveller has recently been among the
small islands that dot the western end
of the Indian Ocean to make an in
yentory of them and reports that he
counted 16. 100 and found only about
600 of them inhabited Now, there is
a good chance for any one who may
want an island. These particular is
lands are not large. as islands go, but
very many of them are sufficient for
the purpose of Robinson CrusOe or
anv other novel hero, or for even a
small colony of shipwrecked mariners
or other persons who might be cast on
one Of them or seek for the purpose Of
making home pretty much out Of the
busy world.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLES.

Not only do the states quarrel with
in says the National Review, but they
are perpetually fighting with their
a list of South American wars The
most famous was that waged for five
years between Brazil, the Argentine,
and Uruguay, on the one hand and
Marshal" Lopez of Paraguay. on the
other, from 1865 to 1870. In this MUIR
derous conflict the population of Para
quay was reduced from million to a
quarter of a million. and heavy losses
were inflicted upon the other states.
In 1877 the Peruvian navy mutinied
and turned pirate until it was CO.
creed by the British squadron on the
spot In 1879 Chile-one of the most
orderly states-attacked Peru and
Bolivia and fought them for two
years, eventually despoiling them OF
much territory. In the COS there were
two serious civil wars. of more than
usual dimensions. endangering in some
degree the peace of the world. There
was the bloody revolution and war
of 1891 in Chile and less sanguinary
struggle in 1884 in Brazil between
the Peixotoists and Melloists Since
1894 there have been continuous civil
Venezuela and Uruguay. and two Of
these states are at this moment in
conflict
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
PRINCESS DIES IN ILLINOIS.
Mrs Schroeder, Wife of Doctor In
bloomington. Is Dead.

bloomington. Is Dead.
Mrs Herman Schroeder, who died at
Bloomington, H.. recently will be re-
membered as the only princess of the
blood royal of Germany who has ever
died in the state. Mrs. Schroeder was
the daughter OF Prince Baron Won
Buchau. adjutant general on the staff
of General Butcher Of Waterloo fame
Her parents would not consent to her
marriage with DR.. Schroeder, a teach
er of natural philosophy and an archi-
tect, and when she married him she
was baaished from the court. Later
her husband gave vent to revolutionary
ideas and was ordered TO be shot. DR..
Schroeder escaped with his wife to
this country. where he settled in
Bloomington. Dr. Schroeder laid out
the towns of Gilman and Ell Taso. ILL.,,
and built many business blocks in this
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13

In the Dutch town of Alkmar, on
the great northern canal, about twenty
miles from Amsterdam, which is noted
for being one of the biggest cheese
markets in the world, not less than
5 600 tons of cheese are disposed of in
the course of twelve months. The
Dutch cheeSes are made i'm spheres OF
three sizes, respectively. of four
pounds eight pounds. and twelve
pounds in weight, and the best quality
fetches about twenty guilders, or
about thirty-five shllings, per 100
pounds. Immediately after being
weighed and marked off the barrows
are taken to the canal boats nearby,
and then the cheeses which they con-
tain are rolled one by one into the
hold. through wooden chute. to be
transported to their various destina-
tons Before expectation they are
given a coating of vegetable red, and
IL is in this guise they are known and
recognized the world over.
The church that fourishes itsel :
often far from fiourishing.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
Great Britain's Tonnage.

Great Britain, with her colonies.
owns nearly one-half of the total tom
mage belonging to the marine of forty
nations, or 100000 tons out of q
total of $4,000. 900
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13

process has just been patented
for making artificial woods out of
pulp. so as TO initiate such costly kinds
as mahogany and rosewood.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13

II all fools were dad what q babel
Of sound there would be among argu-
ing sages.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13
TWO EFFECTS OF CROWDS.

(To be continued.)
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13

The church that flourishes itsel
often far from fourishing.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15
Green Pntatoes.

Nearly every farmers wife and
other good housekeepers know that
when potato has turned green by ex-
pOsure to the sun and wind it is neither
pleasant nor wholesome for food, and,
in fact it is very poisonous. Fortu-
nately the taste is such that no one is
likely to eat enough to get fatal dose.
This is due to the presence of solanin,
an active vegetable poison, which pro
badly exists in all potatoes, but more
abundant in the white sorts than the
red, it is claimed. In some German ex-
periments, it was found nat old pota-
toes contain more solanin than those
freshly dug, perhaps three times
as much, and if they have
sprouted five times as much
and with very much more in the
sprouts. If peeled before boiling the
water extracts much of the poisonous
solanin, but this is not the case If boil
ed with the skin. Potatoes WREN
spouted should not be given to animals
it is stated, as the boiling does not re-
move the poison. If fed with them ami
mais become lame in tine knees or
other joints and sometimes they die.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15
BEST IN ALL THE UNIVERSE.
American pectacle4 Are Worn in All
Parts of the WOr d.

American pectacle+ Are Worn in All
Parts of the Wor d.
up to fifteen years ago" said an
optician, "four-fifths of all the finer
spectacles used were made in France.
In the past six or eight years French
spectacles have been largely supplant-
ed by American glasses, which are
now sold even in France.
American spectacles are now easily
the best in the world, and their superb
ority is due to the same characteristics
that mark so many American manu-
factured productiOns-namely adapta-
bility to their use, good Workmanship,
uniformity and interchangeability of
parts. There have been made in this
country great Improvements in the
special machinery with which the
spectacles are made, so that the parts
are produced with precision.
"You will see an increasing number
of signs saying that spectacles can be
mended while you wait. This can be
done with these finely made American
spectacles. You break bow, for in
stance, of your steel spectacles any
one out of a thousand bows of the
same style will fit in place of it.
American spectacles may not be
the cheapest produced in world, but
they are certainly the best, and good
proportion of the population of the
world that uses glasses now looks
through spectacles of American manu-
facture.
I've pay much more attention TO
our eyes in this country now than we
formerly did. There are many more
oculists here than there formerly
were. and many more skilled opti-
clans. And of people who ought to
wear glasses, including, for instance,
children, a greater proportion now
than ever before do wear them.
Il dare say that third of the spec
tacles now made in this country are
exported, and our exports of. these
goods are all the time increasing. We
sell spectacles in China, in Australia
and New Zealand, in South America
and south Africa. and some, as | said
in France, and more or less Of them in
Germany and other countries Of con-
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15
1.-Two Converts.

No man, 1t is said, is hero to his
valet. The association Is too intimate.
But a man may be hero to his re-
porter There Is story of two
brothers, shorthand reporters, work
Ing on different newspapers, one of the
brothers being Republican and the
other Democrat, which affords an
illustration of this truth.
The Republican reporter was detail
ed. during the recent presidential cam
paign, to follow Mr.. Bryan wherever he
went, and to take full notes of his
speeches, sending the same by wire
every night to the paper on which he
was employed.
To the Democrat reporter was given
a similar assignment, except that he
was to accompany Governor RoOse-
welt. whose speeches he was to report
in full.
After the campaign was over the
two brothers met at the paternal man
sion for the first time in many weeks
and they looked rather sheepishly at
each other.
well, George" said one of the two,
after campaigning with Bryan three
months I've come back a Democrat.
I'm of your politics now"
Not a bit of it, returned the other.
1--WE been campaigning with Roose-
welt, and I've come back Republi-
CAM
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15

with Rolla what they would do when
father came to his senses" But Jim
Shotwell was not to be deceived and
one bright afternoon some mysterious
shots were heard up at the bend in the
road, and rumor says that .44-caliber
bullets buried themselves in the red
clay close to where Rolla White stood
waiting for the coming Of his sweet
heart.
But the Spanish war came on and
ROlla White volunteered. He was
made a sergeant, promoted for soldierly
conduct He came home with his regi-
ment, was mustered out and brought
TO Corbin with him wound received
in action, which caused the girl to add
compassion to the love which she al
ready bore him. He renewed his atten-
tons under the same protest from Jim
Shotwell.
The other day the boy passed close
by the spot where jim Shotwell was
sitting, his chair tilted back against the
wall of the drug store. A quarrel fol
lowed. How it began no one knows.
A passer-by heard the contemptuOus
words, You don't stand for nothin in
this community, and you can stay
away You understand
With flushed face and uncomfortable
anger expressed in the flashing of his
eyes, the boy flung back the answer,
'If you don't like me, you old scOun-
drel, you had better come and get me
now and stop me for good
jim Shotwell started to rise from his
chair, but only started. Like a fash,
Rolla White had drawn his weapon and
Shotwell fell. wounded in four places.
He was carried to his son Johns resi-
dence across the street, to die the next
morning. Rolla White took refuge in
his brothers store.
The shooting occurred at noon. At q
O'Clock 1t was dark and the Sh0twells
had gathered their clans. Old man Bill
Shotwell brother of Jim ShOtwell, and
his two sons, Dee and Parrish, the
McHargues and other friends, had col
lected. Then the riot began. Who par
ticlpated in 1t the courts will have to
determine. The White store and res
taurant was blown up. Windows and
doors were wrecked and the men in
side dashed to the ceiling Well know
ing what was attempted and what
would follow. the White boys barri-
caded themselves in their back room,
making breastwOrks of -four sacks.
The debris caught fire and Sutton Far
ris rushed in attempting to put It out.
Then the first volley of shots was fired
and continued until eighty or hun
dred bullets had pierced the wall.
There was a respite for few minutes,
and LOach White. stepping into the
main room for other sacks, of -four to
add 10 the barrlcade, stumbled over the
body of Farris.
Then the shots were heard half a
square away. 1t afterward developed
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15

tailors, shoemakers or bakers. and
only | $40 carpenters, butchers and
masOns ont of 10000 were suicides.
Sweden had the lowest average of all
the countries considered, namely,
suicide to $1,000 persons; Russia had
/ to $4,000; the United States to l5-
600; Saxony, | to SAG In st, Peters
burg and in London the proportion
was | to 21,000 If we take the statis-
ties of the fifty years just passed for
France the following results: For
every 100000 inhabitants of France
there were in 1S41-45. nine suicides; in
1860 ten; in 1S61-70, thirteen; in
1S71-75, fifteen; in 1S76-S0, seventeen; in
1889 alone, twenty-one: In 1893.
twenty-five; in 1894. twenty-six. Dur
ing the years 1S2G-1S90 the percentage
of suicides increased In Belgium y
per cent; in Prussia All per cent; in
Austria. 23S per cent; in Franch, 318
per cent; in Saxony, 212 per cent;
in Sweden 72 per cent; in Denmark,
81 per cent.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15

that-the. White home had been fred
into. Mrs. Bette White, the aged in
valid mother of the White boys, rose
from her bed. and calling her daugh-
ters to her side knelt with them In
prayer. She thinks she was spared on
account of her petition to the Heaven
ly Father. But the wait at the White
store was not long. Again the bullets
whistled through the building, and
the volley was repeated time and time
again. Lets fire ino that door and
see If they will answer" a voice was
heard. The Whites crouched lower,
but for some reason the vOlley did not
come. They would have been killed
had the suggestion been acted upon.
Sheriff Sutton arrived at midnight
from the county seat at Williamsburg
with a force of deputies, and spent the
night in the store with the White boys.
From the time of the explosion no one
inside dared strike light, and in utter
darkness the night was spent.
Morning dawned, and outside the
store was found the body of Susan
Cox. The woman had tried to climb Il
side fence in order to reach Rolla
White and warn him. Two bullets had
stopped her They plowed their way
through her brain 'and she fell face
down, to the ground. Two days she lay
unburied She was a woman of bad
character, had left no friends and no
money and the town was bankrupt. A
private subscription finally was taken
up and the body buried in the COM
mons in a plain wooden box.
The Cry for Vengeance.
ROlla White and the ShotweH boys
are in jail at Williamsburg, and moth
ing further is expected to happen until
their release While Sheriff Sutton was
conveying Rolla White to the Will
lamsburg jail fifteen of the Shotwells
boarded the train, armed with shot
guns and rifles and entered the bag
gage car, where the Sheriff had his
prisoner. The train was then just leav-
ing COrbin. Jump and run for your
life" said the Sheriff to White. and
himself faced the intruders The next
day the militia arrived with a Gatling
gun squad and the Shotwells were
placed under arrest.
John Shotwell since his fathers
death the leader Of his faction is about
30 years old, has a robust sturdy fig
ure, cold blue eyes and light mus
tache. Determination is written in
every line of his countenance and he
has said to close friends that he will
not rest until he has avenged his faith
er's death. He says they may put him
in jail and refuse him bond or keep
White behind prison walls. but they
cannot keep him from accomplishing
his revenge lie is something of IA
silent man and expresses himself in a
few words. His brothers rely on him
implicitly, and will support him in any
action he may plan to carry out.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15
In One Word.

1t is by no means necessary for a
man always to enter into an elaborate
explanation of his feelings in order to
make them clear.
Whats the name of the fellow who
wrote the tune of that coon song we've
just been favored with?' asked one
man of another at meeting Of the
Amateur Composers Club.
Jones'" returned the other man.
James Jones. believe. Frank Wal
ley wrote the words"
"Ah, | was about to ask the name Of
Jones accomplice," was the reioinder