Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 February 1899 — Page 1

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Mar edepeedeeto 7Tl Vol. 5. PLYMOUTH, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1899. No. 10.

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and odd End Sale The remarkably successful business had in the sixty days just passed has left an enormous quantity of Remnants and Odds and Ends in every department. We have placed these articles on a separate table and marked them way down below cost.

Overcoat Sale. Preparatory to taking stock which will be February 1st, we will make exceptionally low prices on every Overcoat in stock.

While the stock there is yet a very good o OUR CHILDREN'S HOME. tat Agent Wm. B. Streeter teil what lie Know About It. Wm. R. Streeter, State Agent of the board of elate charities, visited the new Julia E. Work children's home Wednesday and inspected it. In an interview with The Independent he says: "In many ways I found the new home a model in arrangement and adaptability to the use for which it is designed. Among the things that I would specially mention are the location of the dining rojms, kitchen, and children's sitting room. These are so arranged that the service can be rendered with the least possible expenditure of strength; the food be placed before the children hot, and the movements of the children be constantly under the eye of the manager. When at their meals, while the superintendent is in her private diningroom, the children are constantly under her eye. These rooms are all on the main floor of the building. I noticed, too, that provision has been made for plenty sunlight, numerous windows having been provided. This is a fine sanitary measure. Numerous exits and stairways enable a quick emptying of the home In case of fire, a necessary precaution, considering that the building is located outside the city fire protection. The dormitories are well arranged, well ventilated, well lighted, and commodious. The sleeping apartments of nurses and children are so arranged that the children are Deter left alone. Each dormitory la applied with a toilet room containing the belt of plumbing. The bathing facilities are ample and the tubs are of the best. The thing I noticed especially about all these arrangements and the one I would specially mention is that plenty of light and ventilation is provided in every room, and there are no dark corners to escape the eye of the housekeeper and to catch the odds and ends of dirt. I also no- ' Heed hat every foot of space is utilized. There are no ?show rooms." While the superintendent's apartments are neat and commodious, the children's quarten have In no wise been sacrifiVd. Evidence of constant thought for their .welfare is seen on every hand. In the fcMtiaect are the laundry, heating ap

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paratus, and store-rooms. The method of heating is by hot air and Mas been planned so carefully that there was no trouble whatever in keeping the building perfectly comfortable during the severe weather of the last two weeks. I made careful examination of the children's dietary and found that an abundance of good, wholeesome food and in good variety is lurnißhed them. For dinner yesterday each child had a portion of rich soup, bread, crackers, potatoes, and sausage. Meat is furnished but once i day. The drinks furnished are cereal coffee for breakfast, water or milk for dinner, and milk for supper. The children's clothing is abundant, tidy, and comfortable. Further improvements are contemplated, among which are the refitting of the cottage now cn the property with a view to its being used as the home for the smallest children, and another cottage is contemplated for the purpose of securing a complete separation of the sexes. In the spring, I uuderstand, a school-house is to be erected on a por tion of the property by the township for the accommodation of the children of this home. When these im..ro?ements are completed, this home will stand as one of the model institutions of the state. Perhaps it would be well for me to mention that I found the tables in tbe children's dining room covered with neat, white cloths and each child supplied with a napkin. This is as it should be. The children in the care of the public come int the home, as a rule, with no ideas of refinement; half-civil-ized, as it were; and tbe clean tablecloths and napkins help more than any one other thing to change their crude ideas and fit them for lire in families. The purpose of this heme is that of a temporary residence only, the ultimate destination of every normal child admitted being some good family. These refining influences mentioned assist greatly in fitting the child for placement. There are a good many children that can not be placed in private families successfully. These must find a home in some good institution. Thh institution is designed to care for many of these. At. present the population of the home is male up of nnn-placeahle children, I find that faoilitiec are being provided to render these children, when they are old enough, as nearly self-sup porting as possible."

WISE MAKES A HIT.

WHAT OUR REPRESENTATIVE THINKS ON THEEDUCATIONAL QUESTION. A Synnpsta of Ills Recent Address in the Lower House Does 'ot Think the Qu stion Should be Dragged into Politics Favors the Minority Report. I3elow is a synopsis of the recent address given by Repreeentative Wise on the educational question, Mr. Speaktr and Gentlemen of this House: In the beginning, I desire to pay that 1 am not a graduate of any institution of learning and am theiefwre free from prejudice and bi is tor or against any institution. I want to say further that I am not opposed to the State institutions, non State institutions, sectarian, parochial nor to the common district school system as it exists in Indiana today. I love and admire all instrumentalities of learning, however powerful, however insignificant that institution may be. That man or body of men who think that they possess all the facilities of education and who think they have a mom poly on education are a menace to public society and enemies to free education. 1 want to remind them that it takes every agency of human society, working in the atmosphere of freedom, to generate and preserve that popular wisdom, virtue, and common sense which is the soul of all progressive civ llization. Yes, my fellow representatives, it takes all agencies of education from tbe highest university down to the home family reading circle to accomplish the objects and purposes of this Republic. Neither the original nor the substitute bill meets with my approval, but in this case, I must choose between them. The original bill provides for a reorganization of the State Roard of education ad follows: State superintendent of public instruction, three superintendents of city schools of three largest cities in the state and three men of prominence, possessing certain educational qualifications, at least one of whom shall be a county superintendent of Ecbools to be appointed by the Governor. Tbe substitute proposes the same thing and adds more by placiug the governor and the three superintendents of the State institutions. Roth admit that the State Roard of education should be reorganized. Tbe supporters of the majority report have charged the supporters of the minority with trying to drag politics into the State Roard of education. I am also opposed to dragging politics into the educational institutions of tbe etate, and want to remind the gentlemen that they have gone one step further in this direction than have the minority by leaving the governor on this board as he always secures his election by reason of his affiliation with some political party. Tbe? also say they don't want to drag religion into this board. I wart to remind them that that is already prohibit ed by the Constitution of Indiana. So there is no danger of having any particular religion taught in the schools of the state. However, a position on tbe State Roard is an oüicial position, recognized by the laws of the state, and as there is no religious test for office, a man who possesses religious convictions is as much entitled to be appointed on this board as any person who has no religious convictions. I believe the common district schools have been sadly neglected in the past few years under a pretense ot higher education, and I now appeal to you, that we reorgan ze this board in such a way as to give as great a representation to the common schools as is possibly consistant with justice to all concerned. I do not favor this reorganization because I have Bome grievance with the individuals now composing the board as has been intimated on the floor of this House, but I am in favor of it because I believe it is a step in the right direction, and because justice demands it. The children in the common dibtrict schools of the state need the state's protection more than any one else, and and it is for these I speak. It is in these schools where the first principles of citizenship is taught and is the only possible way for training every pen-on for sovereign citizenship In a Republic like ours, and any one who would injure them under a pretense of higher education is striking a blow at the very foundations of this government. On the other hind, every attempt to strengthen it, should be hailed with delight. Let us settle this question now and for all time to come by recognizing all

these different agencies ot education. I am a firm believer in that old adage "United we stand, and divided we fall" and we should keep this adage in view wben we effect this reorganization, thereby more firmly uniting all these agencies of education. I hope and trust that the minority report will prevail.

A "GEM" PROPERLY AXAL1ZED. The Ilusiness Men Hare 11 ad Our Experience with the Liars on the Republican Dally Hand Rill. The Daily Independent quotes below one of the reflections of the "Glory, Hallelujah," specimen who labors without salary for the love of venting his spleen to the annoyance of every body in the community: "When the statement was sent over the country months ago that the Rrethren Publishing Co., had decided to move to Plymouth and the story. was published tha its weekly had a circulation of 250,000 copiet whe.i it was only 17,000 The Evening News told the truth and said no one knew whether tbe concern would come here or not. It is always better to state the facts. People will always take a sensational paper for a short time but soon return to the one that tells the truth." We reprint the above article in order to give it circulation. We think the above gem is entirely too good a joke to be permitted to spend its force without the citiztns of Plymouth knowing that it has been afloat. It says that the Evening News told the truth that is a farce to tbe main performance. Think of the News telling the truth when every citizen knows that it has under the present management repeatedly sacrificed truth for the sake of scoring what it thought a political point. It has repeatedly sacrificed truth in its accounts of tbe Rrethren Publishing Co. Rut with all its lying efforts to depreciate the magnitude of the publishing plant, the business men informs that the influence of the News' dastardly efforts to prejudice the minds of our people against endeavoring to secure the plant were wholly ineffective. Our people know about what the opiniocs of the writers on the News are worth and they also know of their lack of veracity. Rut the depreciating articles in that sheet, which the publisher was careful to have reach the Rrethren committee, did cause that committee to feel like there was not the kind of a welcome for them here that they could wish. It was this feeling more than anything else that kept them from Plymouth and ti,e cause of it all is traceable to the men who have 6poken through that sheet disparagingly of the Rrethren publishing concern. Not only has this "Glory, Hallelujah" specimen wantonly misrepresented time and again in the paper for which he writes but he and the alleged proprietor took to the streets and buttonholed every man that was not ashamed to be caught in their company, and in this wise sought to back up their lying misrepresentations of the Rrethern plant. Our business men have learned in this experience what kind of a gang the Daily Independent has to contend with in business every day. The Independent bears from various business men that one of the News gang has told them that it, "The News" has a circulation as large as the Daily Independent. This is annoying to us, when we find men who happen to give credence to their circulation lies. We have been honest with the business men and it is annoying to be obliced to compete with a paper with a fictitious circulation, bolstered up by lying assertions. Our business men who have learned tow the Rrethren Publishing company has been misrepresented by the News, ought to swallow tbe circulation lies of the News' gang with the proper allowance of saltz. In conclusion, let us say that there was no misrepresentation by this paper regarding the coming of the Rrethren plant. It fully intended to come, as the Independent reported and would have done so but for the efforts of the News to belittle the plant. The Dunkard committee did not feel like comiDg after the impression they got from the News that they were not welcome. The article from the News concedes that the people will take a eensatioLal paper (referring to the Independent) for a short time, but prophesies that its subscribers will return. We deny that the Independent is sensational but we agree that the people subscribe for it. And furthermore we do not believe that the former subscribers of the News who are now reading the Daily Independent, will return to that second class publication in the knowledge of tbe travesty on varacitv of which they know the News gang to be guilty. At any rate none have so signified their intentions as yet.

ROUSING CAMP FIRE-

THE 47TH INDIANA REGIMENT TALK OF WAR EXPERIENCES. Ringing Addresses Brirafull or Patriotism Characterised the Program Comrade Westfall, of Brookstou, the Orator of the 48th Gives Ills Comrades One of Ills Annual Patriotic Addresses and was Loudly Cheered. The camp fire tu Id in Kuhn's hall Wednesday was successfully conduct ed from Btart to finish. Alex. La Piere acted the part of presiding ofiicer and made a fioe introductory address in which he refered to tbe Maine and its crew of 276, which sank in the harbor of Havana, one year ago that day. Rev. Smith pronounced the invocacation which was fitted to the sentiment animating the occasion. The body of exercises consisted in speeches made by different ones present and are out lined in order as follows: Comrade Amasa Johnson. This addrees outlined the moves of the 48th while in service. Comrade Johnson be gan by welcoming the regiment to Plomonth and then stating, "There have been some towns in which you were not welcomed, but you little cared lor that, you went right on and made your way into them with shot and snell." In the speech some of these points were dwelt on: The 43th is tbe only Indiana regiment around here that marched from Atlanta to the sea. It saw most of tbe hardest fights in the war. It lost onefourth of its number atluka. It passed through the Vicksburg campaign, helped drive Pemberton and opened up the Mississippi. It went to tbe rescue at Chatanooga and protected Sherman's rear. It would seem that this regiment could sing "Marching Through Georgia" with greater vim than the majoriity of regiments. They were a part of the men who sentjLincoln Savannah for a Christmas present and were of the number who paraded in the great review before Grant, Sherman and Logan, along Pennsylvania avenue in Washington City when the war closed. Rarney Uline. Mr. Uline began by refering to Plymouth, and with some (act, lifted the6ubject around to Plymouth, Mass. Taking this as a starting point he rehearsed with patriotic fervor many historical incidents of the Colonial period and the Revolutionary war. He was wise in not broaching upon topics relative to the Civil war, for sev eral speakers covered that period thoroughly. After Mr. Mine's remarks Mr. W. E. Peterson was requested to sing "The Vacant Chair" which he did in a touching and beautiful manner. His daughter, Mi6S Gertrude accompanied him on the organ. Mr. Murry the son of Quartermaster Murry read a paper entitled "Reminisenses of Camp Life." Mr. Murry was but a boy when the war cloud descended. His recollections were interesting in themselves, and were presented in a form well written and overflowing with metaphor and wit. He described the characters which had lived in his memory since the time he played around Camp Ellis. Comrade Ringham made the longest extemperaneous speech and one of the most eloquent addresses of the evening. He started out by insuring his audience that he had nothing to say but eoon the contrary became evident. Some of the old battles were refooght, while be held the floor. Many of tne little war incidents and veteran's yarns were recuperated and pictured out in their most comical light. He was heartily applauded when he resumed his seat. Capt. A. R. Austin next held the floor and related to the enjoyment of ( all, many "good ones" on the old soldiers present. He also expressed sentiments of lovd and patriotism. Comrade Kern made a neat and interesting address, refering among other things to the time when the attendance of the 48th reunion would become less and when at last, only two would re main to shake bands. Capt . Rice related tbe story of Alex LaPierre and the mule, which elicited a rousing laugh. Chas. Westfall, a German, rightly styled the orator of the 48th made by far the most entertaining speech of tbe evening. His gestures were earnest, frequent and energetic Some of tbe remarks he made are well worth recording and we only regret we have not space to reproduce the speech. Among other expressions that came to his tongue was: "Geo. Washington was

a great man and I glory in his spunk, but the 48th regiment won the Civil war," and "We whipped England and now we love her, we whipped the South and now we love it, we whipped Spain and it wont be long until we are shaking hands with her too." Capt. Houghton related a short war story on one of his comrades that was rich and good. Comrade Crampton spoke for the boys of today and referred to the late war. He also announced the death of Norman Eddy, who was killed in the Spanish-American war, and that he was the son of their old colonel. H. G. Thayer made a speech which was condensed, however, but to the point. He commented upon our late military accomplishments, referring to McKinley, Sampson, Schley and Dewey. He was heartily applauded. Only one hitch occurred in the exercises. One of the speakers had occasion to refer with a geeture to the American flag, when, to his chagrin, he found that the room was bare of any such ornament. No time was lost in securing one. Comrade Ed Gilten advanced amid the cheers of the

crowd and planted the stars and stripes in a conspicuous place. Following is a list of those present during the reunion: S. Myere, Co. C, Plymouth. Isaac H. Gilman, Co. A, Mishawaka. J. E. Myers, Co. D, Rutland. E. P. Staofield, Adjt., South Rend. Chas. W. Westfall, Co. K, Rrookstown. C. E. Flyer, Co. A, Nappanee. A. Snyder, Co. I, Plymouth. Chris Sbeik, Co. D, Ft. Wayne. A R. Austin, Co. C, Halches Mills. Ed McCartor, Co. I, Walkerton Albert Michael, Co. H, Waukaiusa. JohnC Coaler, Co. H, Marion. John Clemons, Co. G. Pierceton. Nathaniel Francis, Co D, Warsaw. (i. W. Peternian, Co. E, Marion. P. T. Malleck, Co. D, South Rend. R. Uline, Co. F, Nappanee. Wm. Love, Co. I, Plymouth. A. J. Ciark, Co, 0, Rrookstown. Ed Sauers, Co. F, Plymouth II. M. Kyes, Co K, Valparaiso. 0. L. Motfit, Co. D, Valparaiso. Anderson Stoops Co. C, Castleton. W. J. Rair, Co. R, North Liberty. Corb Spencer, Co. C. Arffoa. Frank Hoke, Co. C, Plymouth. Alex. Newhouse, Co. L, Argot. Abe Carey, Co. F, Volnii. Mich. Ed Gillin, Co. R, South Rend. Ileub Brown, Co. E, South Rend. J. W. Griffith, Co. I. New Carlisle. John Marx, Co. A, Daily, Mich. Chris Klein, Co. H. Goshen. Rent Varney, Co. F, Mishawaka. John J, Fretzer. Co. E, South Rend. Levi Cottrell, Co R, South Rend. John Cline, Co. F, Woodland. E. Vol. Ringham, Co F, Mishawaka. Enoch Ruckels, Co. R, South Bend. Go. H. Clark, Co. A, Elkhart. John Schlemmer, Co. F, Wyatt. F. T. Kenith, Co. E, South Rend. Perry McDonald. Co. E, New Carlisle. J. D. Kollar, Co. E, South Rend. Daniel Slocum, Co. E, Olsigo, Mich. Jas. Kollar, Co. E. Hesperia, Mich. Levi Wilkenson, Co. E, South Bend. Jonas Williams, Co. F. Woodland. Henry N. Hume, Co. E, Arsoa. John Finch, Co. B, South Bend. John Wilhelm, Co. F, Elkhart. Wni H. Hupe, Co. B, South Bend. Samuel Miller, Co. I, Plymouth. Thos. Holler, Co, C, South Bend. M. Mover, Co. B, Donaldf-on. Lafayette Uorer, Co. D. Arpo. Wm. Poor, Co. C, Plymouth. Welcome Rice, Co. C, Indianapolis. John Flafft. Co. C, North Judson. Jas. Lowry, Co. C, Argos, Albert Mosher, Co. G, North Judson. John C. Miles, Co. C, Muxsencukee. A. B. Crampton, Co. A, Delphi. Wm. T. Howell, Co. E, Donaldson. Hen II ur Social. Tuesday night the Ren II ur had an interesting meeting. Four new members were taken in. About forty or fifty of the lodge were present. At the business session tome important figures were given in regard to finances. The debt is diminishing at a rapid rate. The latter part of the evening was given up to entertainment and social gaiety. Delightful music was furnished by the orchestra which is a new departure, and has been sifted from the ranks cf the Ren Hur lodge. At a late hour the company adjourned. These meetings, their attendance and success, show the Ren Hur to be one of the livliest and most up to date organization in the city. Death of Lel O'Dell. Levi O'Dell, aged '6? years and 5 months, died Tuesday at his home in the country near Culver. Iiis disease was of the lingering sort and had kept him confined more or less for the past year. Mr. O'Dell has lived near Culver for the past three years. He is well known in the vicinity and there are many, bosides bis near friends and relatives to mourn his death. Death at the Children Horn. Tuesday morning, Albert Newcomb, five-months-old babe, oiiginally from South Rend, died at tbe Children!' Home. The fatal ailment was inertia, or rather consumption. The child was no larger than an infant two or three weeks old. Its little body was shipped to South Rend for interment.