Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 August 1902 — Page 4

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Established October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers, teiepnoue Ho. 27. OFFICE In Bissel) Block. Corner Center and Laporte Street. tiiVLBTlSING RATES will be made knows on applicationEntered the Postoffice at Plymouth. Ind.. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance f.5J Six Months'75 cents; Three Months 40 cents.iellvered at any postoffice. Plymouth, Ind., August 7, 1902. The commission appointed to reapportion Oklahoma has announced the total population of the territory to be 600,000, with one representative for every 22,000 people, and one senator for every 45,000. Hotel English, on Monument Circle Indianapolis, is now the headquarters of the republican state committee. It has a large number of front rooms, all the modern conveniences and is one of the coolest hotels in the city. The agricultural book of the northwest territories show that In four years the production of wheat has increased from 5,542,478 bushels to 12,S0?,447 bushels, and of oats from 3,040,307 bushels to 9,716,132 bushels. Forty per cent of the entire crop of cotton or 4,156,000 bales, is retained for American consumption this year and of this total northern mills will take 2,290,000 bales, while 1,865,000 bales will be taken by southern mills. After a search of two years, the democratic party can find no issue and it should begin to see that the republicans hare the rigiit side of every public question at the present lime. It is awkward, of course, but facts are facts." A battleship complete in these times costs $6,500,000. The Georgia and New Jersey, now under construction, will reach this amount, and the Louisiana and Connecticut, for which bids have been advertised, are of the same class. Since 1860 the republican party has been in power in Indiana duriDg three different periods. During each period the state debt was largely decreased. During the same time the democratic party has also been three times in power. During each democratic period the state debt was largely Increased, This statement of facts carries its own moral. Pension Commissioner Ware declares that legislation enacted by the last session of congress will result in. the addition of at least ten thousand new pensioners to the government rolls. The number of pensioners on record July 1 of this year was 999,496. This shows a steady growth of the roll for a number of years. The campaign In Vermont is attracting attention from the fact that a bolting republican, pledged to submit the prohibitory law to the people, is making a canvass. The democrats have a ticket la the field. As the republican candidate received 48,441 votes of 67,099 in 1600, the republicans can divide into two parties, either of which will be larger than the democratic. General Fitzh jgh Lee said at Indianapolis Sunday night: "I believe that the crisis in Cuban affairs is now. The Cubans were promised an Independent government and they got it. 2sow they will have to prove that they can give security to property and maintain order in the island. If they do not come up to the mark the island must become either a part of the United States or a dependency of this country. The trouble with the democracy Is, "it has no issues and no man." These are the words of that eminent democrat, the Hon. William C. Whitney. Here we are within almost three months of the congressional elections and the democrats are not agreed what the issues before the country are. And search the whole country over, what real leader can the party point to? Only a few years ago Indiana had more democratic leaders of possible national importance than can be found now in the entire west. Senator Mark Hanna was invited by the trades council at Muncle to deliver the Labor .Day speech In that busy Indiana industrial center. The senator has written aletter expressing regret on account of his inability to accept the invitation and says: 'I feel a great interest in this all-Important question, and am glad to find that the efforts I am making are appreciated by organized labor. It Is a great work, but of course we cannot accomplish everything at once. By further work I hope in the end that capital and labor may be brought into a relationship which will be for their mutual benefit. The laboring men of the country have discovered that Senator Hanna i3 the most maligned man in the country, and that If all employers were as reasonable, labor troubles vrould be reduced to a minimum.

The Indianapolis Journal referring to the statement that Mr. Bryan says be prefers a higher place than that of the presidency of the United States, says. It was folly to suppose that he would wish to be a candidate for the office again, now that he has become an editor.

The democratic reorganizes who talk about the death of tree silver and then propose a tariff for revenue as the issue between the two parties, ought to be informed that the only difference between the two issues is that silver is the fresher corpse by several years. Massachusetts state democrats will meet in convention in September and it is expected they will endorse .Richard Olney as the democratic presidential nominee for 1904. Mayor Collins, of Boston, is one of the Bay state democrats who is in favor of the Olney plan and who is doing all he can to bring it about. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, who has sat in the senate since 1879, declares that "nowhere in the United States is public sentiment so likely to be misunderstood as in the city of Washington, when congress is in session. This opinion is sustained by the observations of other men who have been in Washington. The theory Is now advanced that the Los Alamos earthquakes are not of volcanic origin at all, but due entirely to the efforts of gases in the interior of the earth to free themselves. If this Is the correct explanation, then all that is necessary to quiet the Santa Barbara country is a body of well borers and a properly organized natural gas company. It has been stated in free trade papers that the steel trust sold rails in England last January at $22.50 per ton, which would be 917 a ton after paying the freight. Why the steel trust should sell rails at $17 a ton in England when it cannot fill home orders at 828 a ton is one of the things which the average person cannot understand. There is no sympathy in politics else the method of campaigning the Kansas republicans are going to adopt might be condemned as downright cruelty. They propose going about the state giving graphophone reproductions of Mr, Bryan's speeches, in which he told of the horrible things that would happen to the country as a result of the gold standard. What a heartless affair a political campaign is anyhow. . The census bulletin on the manufacture of liquors does not touch consumption, so not much can be learned accurately of the use and the cost to the consumer when It is stated that in 1900 $350,520,000 worth was manufactured. It appears, however, that the production was equal to about $4,50 to each inhabitant in 1900. That is a large amount, but It Is much larger when the consumer pays for it, even if a large volume of spirits is used in the mechanical arts. A new kind of hero, the Columbia City Post says, has come to light. This fellow hoped to achieve glory by death. He committed suicide, leaving a note saying: "He who dies for his country is a hero; but he who dies for his family 's sake is a greater hero. ' ' The man left two insurance policies, one for $50,000, payable to his mother, and one for $26,000, payable to his wife. It is not at all likely that insurance companies will endorse the sentiment in the note he left. For the Good of the Party. The campaign in Vermont is being watched with a good deal of Interest. The vast republican plurality in that state is threatened with division, but even that it can stand, and win out over the democrats. The republican candidate received 48,441 votes of 67,099 in 1900, so the republicans can divide Into two parties, either cf which will be larger than the democratic. But there is an issue that causes interest beyond the possibility of democratic success. Clement, the bolting republican candidate, stands for high license and local option. The regular republican wing, headed by McCullough, adopted a similar plank, and the issue really is the charge of Clement that corruption has disgraced the party and the campaign. In a state where the preponderance of votes is so large as in Vermont it would be rather surprising than otherwise if the party in power did not become corrupt after a time, and the issue may well be fought out in Vermont for the good of the party in that state. Elkhart Review. A Eifer Pil Congressman Livingston, of Georgia says: "By abolishing the tariff we can dismantle every manufacturing combination in the land." So we can. By abolishing the tariff we can dismantle every industry In tha country and 5,000,000 workingmen can be sent to the farms for a bare living. Mr. Livingston is very frank, but we don't think our laborers are ready to take his medicine. It would be a mighty bitter pill.

Sixty-Six Years Ago. Daniel McDonald, late editor of the Plymouth Democrat, who early in the spring erected a "shanty," as he calls it, on his property on the south end of the lake. Saturday, celeorated the sixty-sixth anniversary of his first sight of the "beautiful Maxinkuckee." With his parents and many others he arrived in the woods a mile east of the like, near where the residence of the late D. It. Voreis is now located, July 26th 1836. The caravan came from Fayette county, Indiana, in wagons drawn by oxen, camping at night by the way, the young men of the party with rifles going ahead and killing game, of which there was an abundance, for food. The caravan left the Michigan road at the Tippecanoe river, on the mornlnc of July 26th, following the Aubenaube trail to the north-west, coming in sight of the lake, on the hill in the Cromley neighborhood, just as the glorious sun was making a golden set. An enthusiastic hurrah went up from the entire party, as it was to them as the poet has so well expressed it: "A scene for a painter, A gleaming and glorfied lake, With its boldness and grandeur of head, line, And its etchings of thicket and brake." And further because It marked the end of a wearisome journey of thirteen days, over roads, much of which had to be made as they went into a new country, nearly all of whose inhabitants were Pottawatomie Indians. When Mr. McDonald came to the lake it wrs in it its primitive state. The civilazatlon of the white man had not reached it yet. The forest trees and shrubbery had not been disturbed, the woodman's axe had not been laid at the base of a tree, everything was just as the Creator had made it. All kinds of fish in abundance swam In the sparkling water unmolested by the professional fishermen of these days, and the woods were literally full of all kinds of wild animals and fowls of every kind and description. In those days it was not an uncommon occurrence to see half a dozen wild deer come down out of the woods and laye their thirst and swim around in the clear limpid water in the summer to cool off and drive away the flies. Culver Herald.

Bringing Them Closer to Chicago. It is claimed that the cars which are to be operated on the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Electric railroad.now almost ready for business, will be capable of attaining a speed of 133 miles an hour. The managers, however, do not propose for the present to make this the schedule running time. They will be content with running their cars at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour until the public is ready for faster traveling. Making due allowance for stops, the necessity for slowing up in passing throug certain portions of the suburbs where the tracks are not entirely inclosed, and the time consumed in rounding the Union loop, etc., Aurora will be brought as close to Chicago as Evanston has been, by steam, until quite recently. In fact, if this minimum schedule time of seventy-five miles an hour proves practicable and there is no reason to question the ability of the managers of the line to carry out their plans Aurora, Geneva, Batavia, Elgin, Wheaton, and other points in Du Page and Kane countries, to reach which heretofore has involved something in the nature of a journey, will be easily brought under the list of thirty minute suburbs. Inter Ocean. July We&iher Record. There were nö extremes of temperature during July, 1902. The maximum was 91 degrees, on the 17th, and there were only four days on which it reached 90. The same month last year had 22 days of 90 or above, 47 degrees, on the first day, was the minimum. The mean temperature, 73.5 degrees, is one degree below the normal. The precipitation was 4.16 inches, which is 1.70 inches above the average, and was distributed through the month so as to seriously interfere with haying- und oat harvest. There were several severe wind and hail storms in localities which damaged growing crops, orchards and timber. Prevailing winds southwest. Preached Wife's Funeral With no minister present, and surrounded by old friends of his family, Richard Henry Stoddard, the venerable blind poet, stood beside the grave of his wife in Sag Harbor Sunday, and pronounced the eulogy upon her life. Several times the aged poet broke down and wept. So feeble and so crippled by rheumatism that he could not stand alone, he was supported by two attendants at the head of the grave, while, with bowed head and trembling voice, he paid tribute tools life companion. tig&tsl Tree In the World. What undoubtedly is the largest knoT?n tree in the ; world has been discoyered on the government reservation far up in the Sierras in Fresno, county, California. Six feet from ths ground it took a line 156 feet 8 inches lonjjto encircle the tree, making it over tlijizz feet in cliarsetcr. " -

. The Girl From Three Oaks. The Chicago Tribune this week contained the following: A man who carried a raised umbrella with a white ribbon streaming from the handle attracted . attention in the Dearborn station yesterday morning. Waiting passengers wondered where the attendant was. Finally a policeman accosted the fellow. "What are you doing with that umbrella raised," he demanded. "Waitin' fer her," the stranger

said. "I'm goin' to be married, 'an my bride is coming The stranger drew a photograph of a handsome girl from his pocket. "I'm from Brown county, Indiana," he explained, "and I'm tired of single blessedness. I put an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and Sue Johnson, who lives at Three Oaks, Mich., answered it. This is a picture of Sue. I tell you I worked it slick. I sent her a picture of the best looking man in our county and told her it was me. Well, we got engaged and and agreed to meet here in Chicago. We selected this here depot as a good place, but as we had never seen each other we arranged this umbrella business. Sue will carry one, too." Fifteen minutes later the policeman saw ,two umbrellas with white streamers attached bearing toward one another. He watched them until they were within ten feet of one another, and then both halted. The girl was extremely plain, and the countryman was not the only one who had been fooled. Simultaneously two right hands moved upwards, and a moment later two umbrellas were closed. The man turned to the left and the woman to the right and not a word was said. That was all. Fusciness About Words. A correspondent of the New York Sun objects to the following words and phrases: "coal baron""iron king" steel magnate, " "smart," as applied to women, society, etc., "this closed the incident," "billion-dollar trusts" "week-end," ioot" "community of interest," "strenuous life," "summer girl," "it is said," "held up," "ten tative" and "captain of industry." His objection to these locutions is, not that they are in themselves wrong or Inelegant, but that they "have be come absolutely nauseating." Yet, as the Sun points out, its correspondent in this very letter uses "cons tant reader," "valuable paper," "penny-a-liners" and "gray matter." Thus it would seem that his list might be somewhat extended by adding to it expressions which he himself uses and which have "become absolutely nauseating." But is this test of nausea altogether satisfactory? Some men, as is well known, are made deathly sick by strawberries. Shall the rest of us, therefore, eat no more strawberries? Again, the normal man is made sick unto, death by a small dose of morphine, while there are those who can consume large quantities of it without any immediately fatal effect. Plainly some other test is necessary. This question of words is peculiar. Men are governed here ßlargely by their prejudices. We know of an excellent gentleman who has an absolutely unconquerable aversion to the good old word "moreover." Yet in the Bible we have "Moreover, it U required in stewards," etc., "and moreover because the Preacher was, " etc. The case is clearly one of prejudice, and would doubtless be admitted to be be such by the enemy of "moreover." The truth is that all words become distasteful when they are overworked, and it is an exceedingly difficult matter for a man who is forced to write steadily day after day, sometimes under great pressure, always to avoid over working words. One tends to fall into certain set forms. The tendency should be resisted, but the victim to it should be leniently judged. Formulas sometimes almost force themselves on the writer, so that it requires considerab e courage and selfdenial to put them from him. Indianapolis News. Type Writers Everywhere. A recent census bulletin gives some figures concerning the manufacture of type writing machines which give the Impression that the demand has been sufficient to supply every family in the United States with one, to say nothing of foreign lands. As a matter of fact, however, the typewriter has not made .its way into household use to the extent that was predicted some years ago. In business circles, on the other hand, its use is so universal that reliance upon the pen in office or shop where much writing or correspondence is done is the exception rather than the rule. Too Hot to Work. A party desirous of employing a number of day laborers found it hard work to secure the men this morning, they giving as an excuse for not taking the proffered jobs that it was too hot to work. It is possible that when winter gets here these same men will be early in line as applicants for favors from the hands of sweet charity. It will then too cold to work. South Bend Times.

The Jacoby-Ray Reunion. One hundred and fifty relatives, and

old settlers attended the picnic and reunion at the Jacoby Grove east of town Tuesday. Those from a distance were: Ephraim Goble and son and Mrs. A. Goble, of York, NeO., Mrs. Thurer and daughter, Mrs. Smith, of Portland, Ind., Mrs. Wyatt and family, of Cherubusco, Mr. and Mrs. Sweet, of Hanna, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Adams and son, Reno, of Cadiz, Ohio, Lewis Suit and family, of Laporte, Mrs. Betty Hause, of Renssalaer, Mrs. William Reynolds, of Westyille, Mrs. William Morrison, cf Indian Territory, and Rev. I. Rothenberger and family, of South Bend. Dinner was served in the grove and there was enough for all and many "baskets full left." John Jacoby was heartily congratulated on having attained his 80th birthday, and his estimable wife on her restored health and over 52 years of married life all of which has been spent on the farm where the reunions have been held for the past two years. In the afternoon there was an hour of social intercourse, intermingling of relatives, friends and old settlers. Then came speeches by Hon. C. II. Reeve, J. F. Langenbaugh. II. G. Thayer and others, giving reminiscences and anecdotes of the early settlement of the county, and an ap propriate address by Rev. I. Rothenberger, of South Bend, who was for many years pastor of the Reformed church in Plymouth. The exercises were cut short by a shower of rain about 3 o'clock p. m., bat the crowd retired to Wieir homes feeling that they had enjoyed a full day of pleasure. Bourbon Drinks Were too Strong. Charles Redd Inger, a resident of Walnut township, who has for thirty years been in the haoit of filling up on the mild drinks dispensed at Argos and Walnut went to Bourbon July 28. The first drink he took in that town deprived him of his senses, and he began to smash things generally without knowing or caring what he was doing. Deputy Prosecutor Chaplin drew up a complaint against him, but before it was filed with 'Squire Devore, Reddinger went beiore 'Squire Chamberlain, entered a plea of guilty and was fined $7.00. The prosecuting attorney wanted his $5.00 and refused to release him. He was taken before Squire Devore, where he asked for a change of venue to Mol ter's court in Plymouth. 'Squire Molter tried the case Tuesday and assessed a fine of $1.00 and costs, the costs being about fifteen times as much as the fine. Reddinger will be careful as to what he diinks when he visits Bourbon again. Geese That Lay Goidrn Eggt. Once upon a time there was a promoter who owned a common, everyday goose who laid the usual, ordinary goose eggs.' He conceived the scheme of syndicating the goose on a gold egg basis and proceeded to do so. He informed the trusting public that soon his goose would lay an egg of gold each day and offered for sale stock In the Golden Goose Egg company, limited, at bedrock prices. There was a wild rush for the stock, and the promoter suddenly found himself wealthy. He continued to sell the stock as long as there were buyers, for he did not want to kill the goose that laid the egg. His goose continued the same orcmary fowl as before. Moral There are featherless geese that lay golden eggs. New York Herald. Big Crops in Nebraska. Crops of all kinds are assured in abundance for the growing sea:on now nearing an end in Nebraska. Wheat, although damaged in quality by the unusual rainfall, is the heaviest crop In the history of the state. Oats will yield heavily, which condition likewise pertains to hay, alfalfa, potatoes and all the products of the orchard and garden. Meanwhile corn, Nebraska's staple product, has been making a slow but steady growth, until now it Is past the danger point, and a yield fairly prodigious is certain. The acreage is less than in former years, because of the increased propagation of winter wheat, but the condition of the crop is so flattering that experts are freely predicting that the fall harvest will nearly top the best record for corn ever scored by the state. In Public Life Over Fifty Years. Judge John H. Reagan has finally been compelled by advancing years to retire from public office the railroad commissionershlp of Texas being the post now surrendered. He has been a public functionary under more varying circumstances and for a' longer time than is often known. He attended the first democratic state convention in Texas as a delegate some 50-odd years , ago, and is the sole surviving member of the cabinet of Jefferson Davis. As United States senator, later on, he continued prominent in public affairs, sectional and national. His is a remarkable life, and must be near it close.

Further Tremendous

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in Summer Merchandise For the Month of August.

We do this to make room for the oncoming Fall Stock, which is the most replete that wascever purchased by us. Note these prices: Wash Dress Goods Still a fair assortment from which;to make selection, at 3c, 4Jc 7c, 10c, etc. Shift UUaists Broken lines and odd lots at very low figures. One special lot, colored, at J29c Another lot, white, at 39c All the others at corresponding reductions.

Summer Corsets All the 50c goods go at 25c. Many other numbers at the same price.

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The low prices will reign throughout this month. While the stock is not as replete as usual, yet a choice assortment still remains. Come in and see the many bargains that will be offerea during August.

if Xt Ball and The Well Spent Life. Russell Sage celebrated his 86th birthday recently by putting in a full day at his office. He enjoys work now just as ever and life is a great satisfaction to him. It matters not what amon's position may be, whether he is rich or poor, weak or strong, he should have some kind of useful employment' and keep at It as long as he is able to breathe and then he will get the most out of his earthly existence. The ones who have the most trouble, who have the most ills and feel the weight of life as a heavy burden, are those who have the least to take up their time; who have no regular employment, who Idle away their days In worrying about their own misfortunes and giving most attention to the affairs of others South Bend Tribune. A Urge Jail Population. An army of men and women numbering 28,013 lived in the jails of Indiana at one time or another during the year ending November 1, 1901. This total is greater than that of the year before. Of this number nearly 16,000 were prisoners serving sentence, almost 750 were confined as insane, and over 5,000 were fed and housed as tramps. Some counties maintain jfdls as boarding houses for tramps at public expense. Tippecanoe county seems to be the tramps' paradise, for over 800 of them were entertained at the jail in that county by the sheriff. Commence Where You Are. 'Commence today to do today's work, " said a man who sees the bright side of things. "Commence where you are with today's ability and today 's light. Don't stop to pity those below, nor to growl at those above, but climb, climb, climb. Do your level best in the light of the unity of all things, all persons, all efforts, in the light of the distinction of each but the separation of none, and you have done your best for those below and above you. Work today, remembering that as you gave so shall it be given you again." Dragging the Lake. Reports came from Westville Monday that the authorities were dragging the lake with the expectation of finding the dead body of Mrs. Tolton, who has mysteriously disappeared. The fact that the woman 's best clothes have been left undisturbed and that her prolonged absence remains unexplained, tends to strengthen the foul play theory. Tolton had refused to buy food or clothes for his wife. Surety on Bonds. The Union Surety Co., Indianapolis, The American Surety Co., N. Y., bonds executed without delay. 249tf John W. Parks, Agent. Strayed. From the premises of D. B. Hamlet, bay pony, bald face, roach mane. Liberal reward for return or any information. Address D. B. Hasulet, IR.R.N0. 2.

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Company Crops In Indiana. Now we are told we ara going to have the greatest crops on record in Indiana, as to three great cereals, wheat, corn and oats. It was not long ago that the much rain and the cool spring and the late summer were killing our crops, according to the ready belief that we seem to accord all eyil things that can be said of the weather. There has never been a total crop failure in Indiana, and now it looks as if this favored land were going to yield more bountifully than ever, and put us all to shame for our little faith, or much impatience, and habit of grumbling. To Ask for a New Law. It is stated that an attempt will be made at the next session of the legislature to get an act through creating the office of fire marshal for the state, something along the line of the Ohio law. The duties of the fire marshal under the Ohio law are to investigate all fires of a suspicious character. The law requires the chiefs of fire departments in cities and towns to make a report of the cause of every fire to the fire marshal and every suspicious fire is investigated. Traction Bond Issue Sold. The Chicago & South Shore railway company, which is constructing an interurban line from Laporte to Michigan City and holds the franchise for a line between Laporte and South Bend, has just sold a $300,000 bond issue, It is claimed that the road will be completed as far as the Pine lake summer resort within two weeks and the line to Michigan City this year. SixThats. There is one word in the English anguage which can appear six times consecutively in a sentence and make correct English. To illustrate: A toy wrote a sentence on the blackboard which read, "The man that lies does wrong." The teacher objected to the word "that," to the word "who" was substituted, and yet it must be evident to the reader, for all that, that that that that that teacher objected to' was right after all. - List' or Unclaimed Utters. . The following letters remain uncalled for in the post office at Plymouth, Ind., for the week ending Aug." 6, 1902. LADIES. Miss Bessie Hope . GENTLEMEN. D H Cuddy H Casad IrvaMlre WMcDaniel Chas Young AC Williams J H Wells A fee of one cent will be charged on all the letters advertised. Please say advertised when calling for thcc3 letters.