Plymouth Republican, Volume 45, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 August 1901 — Page 4

The Republican.. WM. O. HENDRICKS, Editor mm A Proprietor. OFFICE in Biss.;II Block. Corner Center and Laporte Street. Entered at the Plymouth. Indiana, Post Office as Second-Class Matter.

SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance $1.50; Six Months 75 Cents; Three Months 40 cents, delivered at any postoffice. Plymouth Ind., August 1, 1901. The Republican is "he oldest newspaper in Plymouth, it was recently enlarged and attired in a new dress, and is thus enabled to appear in style oecoming us age ana dignity, it is one of Northern Indiana's best week lies. Laporte Herald. The excellent Laporte Herald,which dates back to 1838, celebrated a birth day Tuesday by issuing an illustrated description of its very complete printing plant. It says that its constant endeavor is to please the public, and in this it has surely succeeded admir ablv. There are three propositions upon wnicn ine limes would nice to see a test of public sentiment at the con gressional election of next year These are: Regulation of trusts by government supervision and regula tion; reduction of tariff on commod ities produced by trusts; getting rid of the Philippine Islands. If the Democratic party would go before the country w ith these three propositions, holding all other questions in abeyance, and making a straight issue upon the former, it would be safe to wager a good sum that the party would achieve an overwhelming victory. South Bend Times. THE CROPS NOT WHOLLY RUINED. Looking the country over it is clear that the crops in a large majority of states are in fair condition and that the outlook is far better than has been represented. When fiery blasts are raging at a temperature of 107 in the shade it is easy to imagine that the situation is desperate. But this is a large country, with innumerable variations of weather within its limits. A drought is always more or less localized. Up to the end of the wheat harvest the crop conditions in all the states were first-class. Many states have not suffered seriously, and those where the heat has been excessive and rains scanty can not tell just where theystand as to crops not yer matured. But the picture of destruction has been completely overdrawn even in the sections where the drought is worst. Abundant rains would put a new face upon affairs. Corn is, as the secretary of agriculture says, a hot weather plant. It will not come to anything in a cool climate. A threefourths yield would go beyond 1,500,000,000 bushels, and a crop of this size is still quite possible. The story of the hottest month on record la this country has been largely colored by intense physical discomfort, and a list of prostrations. The vegetable :aarket has suffered in a few states, but the loss in general crops has been immensely exaggeratec. 2sot one state in six has suffered any excessive damage. When the complete returns come in affairs will brighten up wonderfully, even in the worst drought centers. The talk of total destruction anywhere has been guess vork. But pimistic conjectures, no matter how slight their basis, tend to injure business. Great tiers of states have had no unusual drought. A few have been injured by dry weather to an extent as yet unknown. The size of the wheat crop is known, and it is the largest on record. Just w.it for the facts. They are not likely in any case to interrupt the high lide of prosperity. One soaking rain will drive the pessimists to cover. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A NEW SEA PERIL The land not halving contributed sufficient summer pests, the sea has begun to add to the number, and its first donation is an apparently innocent creature which aggravates human misery to a greater extent than the mosquito, the flea, or the brown-tailed moth. It is the jellyfish. Every one who sails or bathes in the sea or roams the beaches at low tide knows this monster, bowl shaped, gracefully fringed, of about the consistency of blanc mange, drifting rather than swimming with the incoming tide, and going back with it, spending its frail life like a lotus eater, doing nothing but drifting aimlessly about, the ideal of Nirvana. ,: ... This seemingly harmles?, lifeless lump of marine gelatine . which, stranded on a beach, melts away in a jiffy, is proving a terror on the Atlantic coast. The jellyfish, like misfortunes, never come singly. Myriads of them come in and go out with every tide. Heretofore they have been considered harmless, but recently they hare come in extraordinary numbers, and the bathers have been bathing in a compound about half surf and half jelly. In one day at a single beach more than- a1 hundred bathers found themselves poisoned by contact with j2llyrh, and their arms and les fretfully E"cIIcn. Of ccur:2, tic: 2 rho tithed in the orthodox, fichicn,

like the girl whose clothes were cn

the hickory limb and who did- not go near the water, but were content to lie and pose on the sand, escaped, for the jellyfish'can neither walk, swim' nor fly, and once on the sand, speedily disappears. Bolder spirits, however, who bravely . defy king crabs, clam shells, and kelp for a plunge in the seas, have been the sufferers. With stinging jellyfish in the water and stinging mosquitoes aud green heads out of it, bathhouses are not favorite summer resorts, Thus kindly Mother Nature finds some work to do even for her humblest children and nothing could be humbler than this flaccid lump which has suddenly proved itself to be a floating abomination. It is quite unnecessary to comment upon the fact that the jellyfish which makes all this trouble, like the mosquito, is of the feminine gender. That can be taken for granted. The male jelly fish is an inanimate lump of untaint ed innocence. Chicago Tribune. STUDIES OF MODERN MAN Some Conclusions of Investiga tors Over the World. Results Found to be True in Most 0! the Gases Studied and There lore Generallu Applicable. . Maximum growth in height and weight occurs in boys two years later than in girls. First-born children excel later-born in stature and weight. Healthy men ought to weigh an adr ditional 5 pounds for every inch in height beyond 61 inches, at which heiffht they ought to weigh 120 pounds. Chest-girth ' increases constantly with height, and is generally half the length of the body. Chest-girth and circumference of head increase in parallel lines. The relatively larger size of head as compared with body in children may be due to the fact that from birth on the child needs its brain and senses as much as when it is grown. Boys grow more regularly than girls, but the growth of girls during school years is greater than that of boys. In boys in school the muscles of the upper extremities increase with age as compared with those of the lower extremities, because of their sitting more than standing. Children born in summer are taller than those born in winter.j . Bovs of small frames often have large heads are deficient in repose of character, and when the chest is con tracted and mental action slow, this mental condition is due probably to lack of supply of purified blood. Delicate, slender people are much more subject to typhoid fever than to consumption. Isome defective children are over normal, that is, they are taller and heavier than other children. Growth degenerates as we go lower in the social scale. Dull children re lighter and pre m cocious child 1 en heavier than the average child. As circumference of head increases, mental ability increases; it being un derstood that race and sex are the same. Urban life decreases stature from five years of age on. Truant boys are inferior in weight and chest-girth to boys in general. City children are more vivacious but have less power of endurance than country children. Among United States naval cadets there is a great preponderance o blonds. The insane show an excess of 5 per cent of light eyes with dark hair and criminals of 10 per cent of dark eyes with dark hair over the general pop ulation. In Germany 40 per cent of the children of the well-to-do classes are blonds and less thafulO per cen brunettes. The endurance of boys is greater than that of girls at all ages. Doddering Dickey Agiin. The doddering dicky of Marshal county journalism would have its few readers believe that a respectable lady of mature age and in the full posses sion of her faculties is indignant be cause she was not stunned by light ning and left in a precarious condition wholly disabled. The Evening News told the exact truth about the acci dent to Mrs. Koontz, thePlymouth in dependable to the contrary notwith standing. Instead of being confined to her bed for many weeks, the lady is up and about the house as usua and was down town to see the show Monday. Kirbintr-tbirj. Married, in Laporte Tuesday after noon July 30, by J. N. Harmon, John "W. Kirteinger, of Nappanee and Mrs Fannie A. Bobbins of Laporte. For a number of years Mr. Eirtsingcr has been a well known famcr near Den n.

FOUND A MOTHER.

Romance of an Orphan Girl Brought to Plymouth Twelve Years Ago. About 12 years ago a car load of orphan children landed in Plymouth from the Home of the Friendless at Boston, Mass., and the most of them ound homes among strangers in Marshall county. Among the num ber was a bright and handsome five year old girl by the name of Lillian Rhodes, who was taken into the home of John Overmyer, who lives near Hibbard, where she remained one and one-half years, when owing to circumstances, she was taken into the home of Harvey Norris, who is proprietor of the Maple Grove Place on the east fide of the lake, where she h is lived contented and happv ever since. The girl, who is now 17 years of age, could not give a very distinct ac count of her ancestors, or as to whether her parents were alive or not. But she stated that for some time she had lived with a woman she called"Aunt" in Revere, Vermont, and out of curiosity, Prof. Allen Xorris, wrote to this lady and in few days received a letter stating that Miss Rhode's mother is alive and lives at Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. To confirm the really romantic af fair, the mother has written to her long lost daughter, and it is expected that a reunion will take place in the by and by. In the meantime Miss Rhodes, who is a beautirui and cn arming young lady, is waiting with great anxiety for that important , meeting. Culver Herald. AN INDIANA INSTITUTION Gratifying Growth In Popularity of a Home Enterprise. Indianapolis, July 31 The new insurance written in Indiana in the month just closing by the State Life of this city exceeds in volume the business ever written in the state in any month by any company and it exceeds that written by all other companies combined in the same period. The gratifying suceess of this home com pany, making it one of the greatest single financial institutionsof Indiana, is due to the results secured by its conservative management along scien tific lines of life insurance practice, bringirg a low death rate, low expenses and high returns on absolutely safe investments. The official deposit of the State Life with the auditor of state, guaranteeing the policies writ ten, Is now nearly a million dollars. 1 THE SUBSIDENCE

OF INDIANA LAKES.

The lakes of northern Indiana, says State Geologist Blatchley in a late report, are the brightest gems in the corona of the state. They are the most beautiful and expressive features of the landscape in the region wherein they abound. With the fertile soil, the great beds of gravel, and the myriads of bowlders, large and small, they are to be classed as mementoes of those mighty ice sheets which, in the misty past, covered the northern two-thirds of our state. Out side of the counties in which they, occur but few of the citizens of Indiana know of their presence, their beauty,, their value. Their origin, their fauna and flora, the cause of their gradual diminution in size and final extinction are likewise known to but few. These lakes all owe their origin to the irregular deposition of the drift brought in by the glaciers and all found in the state have what scientists term drift basins. Some are kettle-hole lakes, having caldronshaped basins, such as Pretty Lake; others are channel lakes, with long and narrow basins, still others are irregular lakes, complex in outline, like Maxinkuckei and most of the large lakes in Indiana. These lakes begin to die the moment they are born and there are today in northern Indiana more beds of extinct lakes than there are existing lakes. All of those now in .existence are In the visible process of extinction, the progress of which in many cases, as in the lakes at Laporte, is . very rapid. . The agencies operating to destroy these beautiful bodies of water are several in number. The effects can Lc measrued by comparison with old meander lines, by observing the timber and fixed marks on shore or near by, by the recollections of old inhabitants of their experiences in fishing, swimming and boating, and in other ways. . - The most general cause of the extinction of these lakes is the replacement of the water aria by muck, formed by the decay of aquatic vegetation. Th:3 muck beds are usually found on the south and west shores depos

SAND FOUNDATION

What Experience Has Demonstrated In in Other Cities. The Elkhart Review editorially commends the use of sand foundations for brick paving and publishes '.with approval the following letter: Editoii Review: I noticed in the Review of Friday a statement credited to a South Bend contractor in which he says in effect that it is throwing mouey away to put concrete or gravel foundation under a brick pavement. . I beg permission to say that my experience with street paving in Elkhart as chairman of the street committee led me to the same conclusion. Let the street be thoroughly rolled after excavation and a good clean sand foundation will answer every purpose. This is especially true in Elkhart and in localities where there is so much sand on the surface of the ground.. I would go further and exclude crushed stone. All the money invested in crushed stone under the brick pavements put down under the Kinney contracts was,' in my opinion so much money thrown away. Sand makes a perfectly secure foundation, as can be shown in many instances, like the elevation of the railroad tracks in Chicago. It has been shown' in Elkhart where pavements were put dowh on a stone foundation. Besides this it is inexpensive and comparatively easy to open a pavement made on a sandy foundation in case of any improvement or repair work. ' I came to this opinion during the last year I was a member of the Elkhart city council, after giving the subject considerable study, and I am confident that sand foundation under brick is better than concrete, gravel or crushed stone. Geo. Vinnedge, St. Joseph, Mich., July 20, 1901. A LOCAL INDUSTRY P. vorable Outlook for the Growi Gasoline EnjM-Otli r Factory News, Final arrangements have now been completed for the immediate manufacture of the gasoline motor invented and perfected by John Hay. of this citv, and the movement of machinery to the Clizbe plant for that purpose commenced today. '' By the middle of next week the factory will le in motion. " The engine, which is to be known as the Crown gasoline engine, will bi made in three sizes, having three, rive and eight horse-power respectively, and the first lot put out will conAND EXTINCTION 1 j ted there by the action of the prevail: ing winds, and are formed by the deCay each year of the great masses of spatterdocks, water lilies, etc.. growing therein. The action of the ice servos to push the accumulation toward shore and pack it. The water area of such lakes as have their bottoms mainly of sand or marl, lake Maxinkuckee, is much less subject to the encroachment of muck than others and these lakes die very slowly, The decrease of water supply, resulting largely from the removal of timber, and artificial drainage carried on by the husbandman, have contributed to the lessening - or total destruction of many lakes. The surplus water of a heavy rainfall is carried away more rapidly than formerly and a smaller portion of it seeps into the ground to emerge later as springs by which the lakes are fed. Most of these Indiana lakes are fed generouslv by springs about their rims or welling up from the bottoms, and these springs contribute materially to the extinction of the very lakes they feed. The water brought in by these springs is charged with foreign matter of different kinds, such as the salts of lime that constitute marl, the effect os which is to raise the bottom of the lake and fill it up with debris. All of the northern lakes in this state are geologically- young, mere babes born yesterday and destined to die tomorrow. As long as they remain they will continue to contribute to the service and delight of

man, but of all prominent features of the landscape they are the most changeable and ephemeral. . Every lake has altered or diminished within the life of a person of. middle age. A study or conditions at Maxinkuckee leads to the conclusion that no Indiana lake will outlast it or alter more slowly, if left to the operation of natural forces. Its placid waters cover cubstaiitially the same area and sound practically the same depth as when the Indian had his villages on the surrounding ridges and paddled his bark canoe over its rippling surface, it is the most permanent as well as ; the most beautiful of all Indiana lakes. O

sist of fifty of the smallest size, these to be followed by twenty each of the two larger capacities. The market for this line of goods is large and rapidly increasing and it is anticipated that the Plymouth industry will reach large porportions. The Clizbe concern has just made a deal with II. E. Miller, of Chicago, who makes a large line of grinding wheels, whereby the output of the two factories will be sold through a common agency, thus broadening the field of both very materially. Five salesmen from the Chicago factory will come to Plymouth soon to study the Clizbe product in the course of its manufacture so as to present it intel

ligently to the trade and an equal number from the mill here will go to Chicago for a like purpose. The gradual and certain growth of the establishment in this city is cause for congratulation, and especially so is the favorable prospect for future development in both lines above referred to. DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT Sam Morse Tells the People About Dan McDonald. The editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, in a signed editoral, devotes four columns to a consideration of the critics of that paper who have objected to its policy in dethroning Bryan and calling for another Tilden. Of Daniel McDonald it says: "Last, but by no means least, appears on the scene Uncle Dan McDonald, the veteran editor of the Plymouth Democrat. Uncle Dan is really a good 'fellow, as hard as he tries to make himself and others believe to the contrary, and we honestly believe he wouldn't hesitate to loan Parks Martin a matter of seven dollars or so at any time, even if the latter did prefer a younger man last year as secretary of the state committee." "We think Daniel McDonald is unduly excited. He is too old a campaigner to assume that every convention which acts as he wants it to represents the people, and that every one which doesn't is "packed." And he has had too many honors and emoluments from the democratic party to permit his real or fancied personal grievances to make him a "kicker" or a "disorganizer." Men are nothing; principles are everything. Men come and go; principles are eternal. Uncle Dan and the editor of The Sentinel will both Income, one of these days, members of a permanent and everincreasing majority (just think of it, Uncle Daniel!) but the democratic party will go right along after we have disappeared, getting a hard knock now and then, but standing firm, we hope, all the time for consti tutional irovernment and the rights of the people." THE BIG SHOW Robinson's Biggest Prior Efforts Surpassed ft Quiet Sunday at 'the Grounds Followed bu a Busu Dau Wit'i a Fine farads and Great Crowds. Shortlv after 1 o'clock Sunday morning the first section of Robin son's show arrived from Michigan City and two hours later the other two seetions were in and the unloading began. A couple of hundred curious people weie on hand to see the work of unloading the forty cars composing the trains. Because it was Sunday the opera tions were conducted rather more de liberately than usual. The heavy vans were hauled to the Molter ground, going alternately by way of Center and Fifth streets and thus emphasizing the fact that forj nearly a mile there is no way for a team to cross the Pennsylvania road. At the grounds the cook and dining tents were first erected, followed by the stables, the menagerie and then the dressing tent, the main canvass being kept dry until today. Hundreds of people visited the grounds and also the cars in the Vandaliayards during the day, and the show people were at leisure and goodnatured. The heavy rain was taken as a matter of course and did not dis turb their equanimity in the least. Today the streets began to fill early with people. Every train was crowd ed and a great many came in from the country. The parade at 10:30 was truly magnificent. ' The cages, chariots and trappings were clean and bright and the horses were in the piik of condition. Everybody was deüghted with the pageant and pro no meed it fully equal to any this city ever saw before. Mr. Lowlow, the gentlemanly and accomplished press agent, who has been with the Eobinson show for an entire generation, said that it was a better street parade than ary circus ever gave here, and we could not argue the matter with him for want of facts to the contrary

KIMBERLEY CANNOT ACT

Asks to be Relieved from Schley Investigation The Admiral Employs Counsel and Bc gins the Preparation of His Case. Washington, July 31. A letter has been received at the navy department from Admiral Kimberley, asking to be excused from the Schley court of inquiry on account of the state of his health. The admiral is under stood to be suffering from heart trouble. The application was placed in the hands of Secretary Long, who will dispose of the matter from his home in Higham. Mass. When the navy department closed yesterday afternoon Admiral Crowninshield, acting sec retary of the navy, said he bad not seen the letter which Admiral Schley wrote to the secretary of the navy acknowledging the receipt of the court of inquiry precept and making certain suggestions in reference thereto. Capt. James Parker, the former naval officer, who is acting as as sistant counsel in -the case for Admiral Schley, says that the letter was mailed to Secretary Long at 6 o'clock Sunday even Capt. Parker says that he him self deposited the letter in a box at the general postoffice. In the ordinary course of the mails, the letter should have reached Secretary Long Monday morning. The supposition at the depart ment is that if Secretary Long received the letter he took it with him on his departure from Wash ton without making its contents known to the officials of the de partment. It is certain that the letter of Admiral Schley com ments upon the fifth specification of the precept, and, it is believed, makes certain suggestions re garding it. Capt. Parker will remain here several days to com plete his examination of the offi cial papers bearing upon matters which will come before the court. Secretary Long left yesterday for his annual vacation, which will be spent in New England. Until the return of assistant Sec retary Hackett Admiral Crowin shield, chief of the bereau of nav igation, will be acting secretary of the navy. Admiral Schley has already begun the preparation of his case. At his request Mr. James Parker, his assistant counsel, made application to the department for permission to examine the logs and official records in connection with the movements of the ships on the south side of Cuba, and this permission was granted. Mr. Parker was given access to these documents and was examining them today. Both Admiral Dewey, the president of the court, and Admiral Benham were at the department today. The latter, has formally acknowledged the receipt of the order of Secretary Long detailing him on the court. There is no question of acceptance of such a detail where an officer is physically able to serve and Admiral Benham expects to be present when the court convenes Sept. 12. POLICE IN ft BATTLE CHIEF SHOOTS DOWN ONE OF HIS OFFICERS. Knoxville, Tenn., July 30 A special from Crossville tells of the killing of Policeman Pink Pass and W. E. Knox and the fatal wounding of Shirley Pass, son of the policeman, in a street fight at Isoline, Tenn., a mining town eight miles north of Crossville. Policeman Pass went into a section of the place known as Negro Town to quell a disturbance and became engaged in a row with Knox, who pulled an ugly-looking knife. The policeman then shot him dead. Chief of Police Hill P. Lowery and E. Swofford started for the scene of the disturbance to arrest Policeman Pass, but were met by Shirley Pass and told not to go. They had words and the officers were ordered back by Pass, who flourished a pistol. Swofford then shot Shirley Pass through the left lung, fatally

wounding him. The officers went on and found Policeman

Pass quarreling with a crowd of negroes, but soon left. As soon as he heard of his son's shooting Pass' looked up Lowery and Swofford and opened fire on Swofford. Swofford emptied his pistol and ran, and when Pass turned toward Lowery the latter shot him dead. Both Lowery and Swofford surrendered. TO flBDUGT DAUGHTER THREATS OF BLACKMAILERS AGAINST AH ILLINOIS MAN. Three Letters Written Demanding $?,000 Under.renatta of Burnina Girl's BgesOutud Killing Fattier Several Suspected bg the Police. Mattoon, III, 30 Two thous and dollars is the price demanded by unknown persons from Richard Hearn, a wealthy retired farmer of this city, for the safety of himself .and only daughter Maude, aged thirteen years. A week ago Hern received a letter in which "the writer demanded the money be placed in a tin can at the southeast corner of the Episcopal church. Hearn treated it as a joke, but a second missive stated that failure to comply with it would result in the girl's abduction and his own death. When both letters failed to brir.g the money a third letter was sent, which so alarmed the father that yesterday he revealed the affair to the police. The last letter said that this was Hearn's final opportunity, for he and the girl would both be captured and the former would witness the horrifying spectacle of his daughter with her eyes burned out and heart cut from her body. Then he would also be killed. Hearn is worth $75,000, but thinks best not to accede to the extortioner's demands. Several persons are suspected by the police. Wanted to See the Show. Mishawaka, Ind., July 30 Charles W. Huff, aged thirtyfour, last night drank one o ince of chloroform -because his wife declined to accompany him to a summer theater. It is said by physicians that he cannot recover. Banker Johnson Freed. Washington, D. C, July 29 President McKinley has pardoned John Johnson, the Logansport banker, who was sent to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary several years ago for defrauding depositors of his bank by its failure through his peculations. - Atolnf e Tern. By "absolute zero" Is meant the lowest temperature compatible with heatthat point of temperature. In fact, at which a body would be wholly deprived of heat and at which the particles whose motion constitutes heat would be at rest This temperature Is supposed to be about 274 degrees C. or461 degrees F. The term "heat" Is here used in its scientific sense, for as men use the word in everyday language Its significance depends on the temperature of the human body. Men call "warm" everything with a temperature higher than their own and "cold" all those objects which have less heat than they. In reality, however, the coldest body known to man is far from being utterly without heat. Ice, for example, has r.eat, only In a degree so much below man's temperature that one can scarcely imagine It to be anything but "cold a term which actually Implies a comparatively low degree of heat Accordingly the zero of thermometers Is only a conventional point marking a certain degree of heat TV.ere seems to be a point, however, wber; heat ceases absolutely, and this point it Is which Is known In chemistry as the "absolute zero." Make'a Baiui Peel Itself. A trick which works on a simple principle is to make a banana peel itself. To do this all that Is wanted Is a bottle, a ripe banana and a bit of paper wet with alcohol. Light the piper and drop it into this bottle. When the air in the bottle is well heated, set the banana on end on top and let It do the rest Itself. As the air on the InsWe cools off and contracts the outside pressure pushes the banana down Into iha bottle nnti It has drawn Itself out of Ita skin. Beware of Ointments for Cttarrh tha Conta'n Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell . aod completely derange the whole system when entering it; through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do ia ten told to the (rood you can pocsibly derive from thea. Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured - by F. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ct the cyctcra. In bu jins IT til's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine, It is ts3 intcrnrlly, end c-da in Toledo, Ohio by P. J. Cbssy & Co. Testimonials frea. Cold by Drc icta, pric3 75c. per tottis, ildl'a Fcily Pills era the b"t.