Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 July 1902 — Page 2

Gbe tribune. Established October 10. 1901.' HENDRICKS & CO., Publisher.

I'elepnone So. 27. OFFICE la Bissel! Block. Corner Center and Laporte Street. HIVcüTlSlNÜ KATES will be mad knows on application. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth. Ind.. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance ii.50; Six MonthsS75 cents; Three Months 40 cents.dellverei at any postoffice. Plymouth, Ind., July 31, 1902. THE STATE TICKET. Secretary of State. DANIELE. STOKMS. Auditor of State. DAVID E.SHEUR1CK. Treasure: of State, NAT U.HILL. Attorney General. CHAKLE3W. MILLER. Clerk Supreme Court. ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. A. COTTON. State Statistician. BEN J. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist. W.3. BLATCHLEY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District, JoUNH.GIi.LETT, Judges AppellateJCourt, FRANK R. ROBV. U. Z. WILEY. W.J. I1ENLEY, JAMES K. BLACK, I V. COMSTOCK. W. E. BOBINSON. COUNTY TICKET. Representative in Congress. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK ' Representative, PETER HEIM. s Auditor. PETER D. BURGENER. Clerk, FOSTER GROVES. Treasurer, WM. H. COXGER. Sheriff. ELMER E. "WILSON Surveyor. MILTON BECK. Coroner, DK. NILS S. LINDQUIST. Commissioner Fi-st District GEORGE SVOCK. Commissioner Second District, JOSEPB COAU The new Chinese diplomate's name, Liang Tung, is pronounced .Lying Tcngue. Curious how appropriate some of these Chinese names are, isn't it? The coronation is to be much less elaborate than orginally planned, but still parliament has been asked for another grant of $125,000 for expenses. A pretty good show ain be had for this amount. There must be exceptions to every rule, and we haye just demonstrated by the way are capturing the new market in South Africa that trade does not always follow the flag perhaps the rule only applies to the American iW. "Cy" Seal, 'insurance clerk in the auditor of state's office; says that financially the state was a heavy loser by the death of Clem Studebaker, the South Bend millionaire: lie figured this way. Studebaker carried life inu ranee policies amounting to $300,000. It is the law that the insurance companies shall pay 3 per cent tax on the excess of the premiums over the losses paid. So while Studebaker carried the $300,000 it meant $9,000 a year to the state in taxes. Seal says that the life insurance companies, which are now making their semiannual reports, show big gain earnings. This week's issue of the Reflector, a weekly paper published by the inmates of the State Reformatory at Jeffersonyille, contains and editorial on "Prison Contract Labor," in which it is argued, first, that union labor is not and cannot be seriously injured by prison contract labor is necessary for the welfare of convicts. "Every stroke of a hammer," says the article, 'every drop of toil-wrung sweat is a beatitude to the incarcerated man because it helps him to fulfill that most essential requirement of his solitary existence self-forgetfulness-" .The writer says the abolition of contract labor without the .mbstitution of some other "means each man locked jin his cell twenty or twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four," with an inevitable tendency to disease and madness. This presentation of the case is at least entitled to consideration as coming from a convict. The anthracite miners now on a strike say they do not average more than 15;days work in a month and their wages do not average over $1.37 a day, while the day laborers get only 90',cents a day. That makes pretty slim picking for the support of a family. If these men were sensible and ndependent as they ought to be, they would quit mining and gi to farming or work at something that would give them a good living. So long as men think they can only do one thing and strike and fight for places that are not worth having, they will have to work for iilmost nothing. If the miners and other employes who do not receive fair wages would, quit work and go elsewhere instead of striking, great corporations would have to pay good wages. Unions and lack of independence and Individuality make hard times for working men. The man" who can do only orre thing is poorly equipped for the battte of life.

One thing already is plain that

there will be no material change in Great Britain's policy because of the change of premiers. Balfour does not mean protection, as so many people seemed to fear. The government has decided to abandon the dynamite guns for de fending our coasts and harbors. A few years ago great things were expected from this method of national defense, but it has proved a failure and been abandoned. President Roosevelt is very much annoyed over the distribution of a circular naming Billy Mason of Illinois as his running mate in 1904. He doesn't relish the idea of the jolly Illinois senator being associated with him. The export of a few millions of gold causes no alarm at the present time. The volume cf gold has been so in creased during the past six or eight years that . governments and banks have ceased to cling to it as if there were not enough to meet all demands. The Indianapolis Sun says Floyd A. Woods, son of the late Judge William A. Woods, is taking a very active part in American ccanty politics. His latest move is to request the county chairman to postpone the opening of the republican spetking campaign un til October IOl Seely is a man of fine nerve. When he was arrested for stealing Cuban postal funds, quite a large sum of the stolen money was recovered. Now Neely is demanding that this money be returned to him. The next thing we know he will be suing the govern ment for damages for defamation of character. " . A SENSIBLE PLANIt is announced that President Roosevelt has authorized if not requested several members of theCabinet to make some speeches during the coming congressional campaign. This will elicit criticism in some quarters. but there is much to be said in favor of it. The president is said to take the vie w that the country has a right to know what the various departments of the government are doing, and that the heads of the departments are bet ter qualified to enlighten the people than anybody ' else can be. This is undoubtedly true. A speech from the secretary of the treasury regarding government finances, one from Secre tary Hay on its foreign policy and diplomacy, and one from Attorney General Knox on trust legislation and the trust question generally will cer tainly be instructive. Indianapolis Journal. Retiring Generali: When war was declared in 1898 there were three major generals in the regular army. Of these Meritt went to the Philippines, and Brooke be came the first military governor of Cuba. Of the five brigadier generals in 1898 Otis, promoted to major general in the volunteer army became the first military governor of the Philippines, Shafter commanded the army that first set foot in Cuba, Wade went to Cuba, Henry to Porto Rico. Of the major generals commission ed under act of April 22, 1898, Arthur Mac Arthur and John C. Bates went to the Philippines, while Fitzhugh Lee, Sumner, Ludlow and Wood went to Cuba, and Henry W. Lawton, Joseph Wheeler, and Adna R. Chaffee went first to Cuba and then to the Philippines, and Guy V. Henry went first to Porto Rico, then to Cuba, and then back to Porto Rico as governor. Most of these officers, so prominent and active in the war of 1898, are now on the retired list. Merritt was retired on June 16. 1900; Otis on Maren 25, 1902, and Brooke on Mon day, July 21. Anderson, Shafter, Lee, Wheeler, Wheaton, Schwan and Smith, all of whom saw hard service in Cuba, and the Philippines, have been retired in the last two years. Lawton, Henry, Ludlow, and others of the civil war and Indian war veterans are dead. In no department of public service have there been so many recent changes as in the army. Retirement from the regular army is compulsory at the age of 64 years, so that we have on the retired list many men who, while they have earned in forty years' service the right to rest, are still equal to all the duties of high position. These form a distinguished group, Including veterans like General O. O. Howard and Daniel E. Sickles, as well as officers like Lieutenant General Schofield and Major Generals Merritt, Otis, and Brooke, men of the old confederate army likeWheeler and Lee,' and of the old Union army like Anderson, Wheaton, Wilson and Smith. In case of war hot a few of this group would find their way to the front, and all would be of service in an advisory or administrative capacity. . ' . The ranking officer of the regular army next to General Miles is Major General Henry C. Corbin. Then follow in order of commission Major Generals S. M. B. Young, Adna R. Chaffee, and Arthur MacArthur, all 0 them veterans of the civil war. .

The President's - Address. President Roosevelt is. as fond of

talking of the duties of citizenship as President Cleveland used to be, and occasionally the little speeches of Mr. Roosevelt suggest very strongly those of his predecessor. In hir talk to the national guardsmen of New Jersey the President said that "a man is of use as a national guardsman for just exactly the same reasons as he is of use as a citizen, and that .is if he sets to work with his whole heart to do his duty for the time being, to make himself thoroughly profi cient in the iine of business he has" taken up." This is the thought that runs through the whole of the little address." In both military and civil life the thing is for one to do one's duty. It does not matter what the duty is. And the qualities that lead a man to do what he ought to do are the same in the civilian as in the soldier. But it seems to be very hard for some men to do their duty except in the presence of an army ofjspectators. Some how we want the world to know that we are doing what is expected ot us. So here, too, there is a lesson to be drawn from the life of a soldier. The President told of a man who enlisted because he wanted to right, but was set to the' prosaic task of digging sinks. War is not all parade, and flying banners, and desperate struggle. It has its humble and unromantic work, which is quite as important as the righting itself. It is so in ordinary life. The President said: Just as it is in the army so it is in citizenship. If you are content to go through life waiting for a chance to be a hero, you may wait and the chance may not come. The way to be a good citizen is to do well, the ordinary, every day, humdrum work that comes to citizenship. Indianapolis News. Maxinkuckee Assembly. The address given by Dr. Smith, of Buffalo, N. Y. on John Milton, the poet, at the ten o'clock hour Thursday was one of the most unique and instructive lectures given yet by the Assembly. His historical references, apt quotations, profuse illustrations, chaste thought and high ideal withall. cause the student of literature as well as the average listener to hunger for more of the good things that were placed upon the intelluctual table by this eminent teacher of men. Dr. Smith gave his famous lecture Friday afternoon on "Astrology and the Bible." This address has caused much comment by educators and common people in other, cities. The afternoon address Thursday was delivered by John Baptiste, the Armenian, to a large and interested audience. His subject was 'Christ was Born in Palestine, Why is Palestine Not Christian" today. This young man has his information well at hand and held his audience for an hour and a half in a most interest ing manner. He spoke of the ignorance that prevails, tenacity of the Turks for Mohammedism, the general condition of the country and their custom of taking üp.the modes, prac tices, beliefs and habits of their grandfathers and great-grand-fathers. These things having obtained for so many generations among Eastern races makes it difficult to inject into the veins of any people or nation a new thought which is tending not only to reform but to transform. He spoke of the marriage relation, manner of marriage, mode of life, which is largely under the old patriar chal system, as for example, a father who would have ten sons, and all hav ing wives picked out for them by the parents of each family, bring, these daughters-in-law home to live under the father's roof, and then the vast horde of parents and children mingled together undgr one common roof, dom inated and governed by the father and mother of all the family, who became the patriarchs and heads. v At the eight o'clock hour Lulu Ty ler Gates, of Chicago, who has become eminent for her. ability in the delinea tion of descriptive and character read ings, entertained a large audience for nearly two hours with selections from Kipling, Dunbar, Field and others. The eangelistic congress ended in a blaze of glory. The closing address was delivered by Dr. Scoville, A. M., L L. D., of Chicago. His subject was "The Plan cf the Ages." He referred to America as the last, greatest and best of all the lands, held- in reserve by Providence until the last great age of man should be ushered in. Civil Service Reform. Miss Rebecca Taylor has under taken to give a new application to government by injunction, naving been dismissed from a clerkship in the War Department for insubordination and conduct deemed prejudicial to the public service, she has obtained from a local judge in Washington a rule Ordering the secretary of war to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not be issued requiring him to reinstate her. If Miss Taylor succeeds in getting back into the civil service by this route her next step will probably be to have the secretary of war removed by writ of ouster. Indianapolis Journal.

MORTUARY

William Klin German. William Klingerman, died at his home in lnwood, Wednesday, July 23, 1902,' aged 75 years, 3 months and 6 days. Deceased was bom in Starke coun ty, Ohio, came to Marshall county almost fifty years ago and resided for forty years on a farm near lnwood, removing to lnwood only a few years ago when he was no longer able to work. He was a good citizen and will be missed from the ranks of old set tlers who are fast passing away. He leaves a widow and an only son who is married and resides on the farm near lnwood. The funeral was held at the church in lnwood, Friday, at 10 o'clock a. m.. and the remains were brought to Plymouth and interred at Oak Hill cemetery. James Wiley. James Wiley- was born in Erie county New York in 1825, and died at his home at Hibbard, Marshall county, July 21. 1902, being in his 77th year. In the year of 1842 he came from New York state to Connersville, Indiana, where he resided until 1862 when he moved to Marshall county, Indiana, where he had since resided. The deceased leaves a broth er, who resides at Holton, Kas., besides a wife and four children to mourn their loss. The funeral which was held Tuesday was attended by a large concourse of friends, interment following in the Maxinkuckee cemetery. Mrs. Susan Curtis. Mrs. Susan Curtis, wife of Clemuel Curtis, of Maxinkuckee, died at Longcliif hospital for the insane, Friday, July 18th. She leaves a husband and two children. Her remains were brought home by Undertaker Easterday and werelburicd in I. O, O. F., cemetery at Poplar Grove Surday. Funeral services were held at the West Washington church, Rey. Mr. Brown officiating. She had been confined in the asylum about six years. Arrr.y Losses In the Philippines. The American campaign in the Philippines against the insurgents extended over 1,181 days. In this time our soldiers fought in 2.561 engagements, an average of two engagements a day. In these engagements, or in three years and three months of service. 69 officers and 936 enlisted men were killed or died of wounds. In the three years 47 officers and 2,335 enlisted men died from disease, 6 officers and and 257 enlisted men met death in accidents, 10 officers and 72 enlisted men committed suicide, and 1 officer and 81 enlisted men were murdered. The total number of deaths was 4,155. Counting the number of men sent to the Philippines, this is less than 4 per cent of loss. Counting killed and wounded there is less than 10 per cent of loss of the men on duty or actively engaged. During the civil war 44.238 men were killed jin battle, 49,505 died of wounds, 186,216 of disease, 26,168 while in prison, the deaths from other causes, including suicides, bringing the total up to 213,000, men, or a loss of about, 11 per cent of the men enrolled during the war (2,850,000). It was estimated that one out of every sixty-five men in the service during the civil war was killed in action, one out of every fifty-six died of wonnds received in action, and one man in every thirteen died of disease. The percentage of deaths from disease in the Philippines is Iowas compared with the loss of civil war. Considering the climate, the exposure incident to the campaigns in the rainy season and the prevalence of cholera, the record is a good one. Lives a Secluded . Life. George W. Scoville, who became a national character by reason of his defense of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was in Laporte this week on legal business. Mr. Scoville is living in retirement in Starke county, having a country home near Bass lake, and here he expects to live in quietude until death lays a chilly hand upon him. Scoville has aged rapidly since that memorable trial over a score of years ago. He figured but little in publit life after the trial, and he later found his way to Starke county where he now lives with 'his second wife. The Guiteau trial brought'about a divorce from his first wife. How Merchants Are "Held Up." Few people realize how much money our merchants are called upon to give to charity in the course of a year. There is scarcely a week that they are not asked to contribute toward some object which may be worthy ,or may not be, but they will make enemies if they don't give. Those who ask these little sums seem to think that since the merchant lives by public patronage he must give liberally to the public. Such, is not the case: The merchants earns his profit, and it is his: He should not be eternally held up any more than anybody else. Ex. -

Ireland Sets Forth the Facts. " Among the prelates of the Roman Catholic church none is more distinctively American in character, training, and method than Archbishop Ireland. A zealous churchman, he is at the same time a zealous patriot. Alive always to the interests ot his church, he is never blind to the interests of his country. Unusual significance, therefore, attaches to his recent interview, in which he rebukes Catholic journals given to misrepresentation of American administration in the Philippines, and criticises the conduct of clergymen and others who commented unfairly On Governor Taft's negotiations

with the Vatican. -Archbishop Ireland is well informed as to what has taken place in Rome and he is familiar with conditions in the Philippines. He is confident that the active co-operation of the Vatican has been secured in the task of pacifica tion in the Philippines. He believes that Governor Taft has been successful in his mission to Rome; that he created the most favorable impression and that he made the position and purpose of the government so clear that misunderstanding is impossible. The Archbishop declares that the Pope is satisfied with the situation and has been greatly impressed with the American method of dealing with troublesome questions. He insists that it is the rankest in justice to intimate that the government intended to proselytize in the Philippines. He truly declares that there has never re sided in the white house a man more fair minded and impartial in religious matters than Theodore Roosevelt, and that Governor Taft has not a particle of bigotry in his make-up. He intimates that Catholics fail somewhat in their duty when they fail to appreciate the courtesy of President Roosevelt in sending Governor Taft to Rome. Inter Ocean. Had a Few More. Senator Deboe of Kentucky, who, despite his outward seriousness, is really a perennial well-spring of humor, tells a good story of an episode down in Bourbon county in his. state. A very worthless, common fellow, who was a common nuisance, was arrested and brought into court. He demanded a trial by jury, and the court ordered that a jury be impaneled. On the next day when the court met there were gathered in the jury box twelve of the hardest, most dis reputable characters in the county. "Well," said the sheriff, "I knew that the prisoner was entitled to be tried by a jury of his peers. It was pretty hard work to get them, but in case any of these won't do I have a few more hovering around a whisky barrel outside." The court looked at the prisoner and at the jury. "The case is dismissed," was all he said. Washington Post. From Sea to Sea in Four Days. A citizen of Englewood points out this' possibility in the Chicago Tribunes The schedule is as follows: "Leave New York on Pennsylvania twenty hour special at 1:55 p. m. Sunday, for instance, and arrive at Englewood, 111., at 8:35 a, m. Monday. At this point, Jwhich is only six miles from the center of Chicago, the Pennsylvania and Rock Island have a union station, and by changing here passengers avoid the transfer across the city and make the connection with west bound service, which otherwise would be missed. The Rock Island has a train, the California-Mexico express, by Its El Paso short line, which leaves Chicago at 8:32 a. m. passing Englewood at 8:46, allowing eleven minutes leeway between trains. This trai a arrives at Kansas City at 10:45 Monday evening, at El Paso 7:30 a. m. Wednesday, and Los Angeles at 11:05 a. m. Thursday, the elapsed time being ninety-three hours and ten minutes, to which add add three hours account of change of time en route, makes actual running time ninety-six hours and ten minutes from ocean to ocean, the distance traveled being 3,176 miles. Hearty Grip Costs Hand. Capt. J. N. McClanahan, of Corydon, and ex-grand master of the Masonic order of Iowa, lost bis right hand from the effects of a handshake with a friend. The meeting between the two took place several months ago, and the grip was so hard that several of the small bones were broken and afterward caused a cancerous growth. He was in a Chicago hospital taking treatment and was advised by the surgeons to have the member amputatedr The operation took place Wednesday. Plans for Another Big Canal. Preparations are being made to reclaim most of the yast Kankakee marsh, south of South Bend, by the construction of a drainage canal which will be seventeen miles in length and cost about $85,000.' This drain will require the excavation of 1,366,536 cubic yards of dirt. It will have an average width' of 70 feet at the top and 50 feet at the bottom and in depth will be fron 7 to 9 feet. It is hoped to have the work of coustructioh under way within ninety days.

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comer Michigan and Laporte for past favors we invite you store. ' -:- :- - v.iianM. J I8L: r (0Mi90. innnnnnruiruxrinnrir.Jir The Pardon-Seeking Evil. Governor Durbin has determined upon a suspension of all hearings in regard to pardons (and paroles until after the adjournment of the state tax board, the reason being that his time is almost entirely taken up 'as chairman of that board. The board will not adjourn until Aug. 28. Col. Wilson,- the governor's secretary, said there is hardly a day passes in which half dozen such requests are not "made of the governor. Yesterday four applicationsQwere made, accompanied by requests for personal hearings. "This pardon-seeking evil," said Col. WiLson, "is becoming so great that the legislature ought to relieve the governor in some way, of the immense amount of work and the great demand upon his time entailed by the never-ceasing stream of pardon hunters. The parole boards at the penal institutions were created JTor , the special purpose of affording relief to

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The Dllght is unusually prevalent tr j; year and the botanist's advic.-, thought to be a cure. . Tell your neigh oors about the gi"tr qualities of The Tribune. v'