Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 December 1902 — Page 2

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SUBSCRIPTION: One Year in Advance $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 40 cents, delivered at any postoffice. The Only Republican Paper in the County Plymouth, Ind., December 18, 1902. The career of the late Thomas B. Reed is another instance of how quickly an American boy born poor can develop into a famous man. With the, memory fresh cf the "little war" in South Africa, BrJtish taxpayers will not welcome the prospect of hostilities with Venezuela. Statistics showing the enormous coal deposits and railway mileage of the United States have an ironical appearance at the present time. Walter Wellman, writing from Dublin, says the Irish peopie are united for self-government, but do not seek separation from Great Britain. In several large cities the schools are closing for lack of coal. American progress and enterprise take a back seat when it comes to the fuel question. The Venezuelans have not had a very-large experience and are noted for their foresight, therefore they cannot see their finish as plainly as it is indicited to other people. The steamer Empress of India, which has aarivedat Victoria, B. C, from the Orient had the largest silk cargo ever brought across the Pacific. 3,100 bales, valued at over $2,000,000. Judge Peter S. Grosscup, in a speech at Lincoln, Neb., argued that trusts are economic necessities, but should be regulated by the government. He qolds that tbe Sherman act is useless and should be repealed. Great Britain and Germany having seized the Venezuelan fleet, .and Venezuela having arrested all her German and English residents, probably both players had better make a careful study of the board before they make anolfaer move. The world is learning that natural forces may be utilized by opposing other natural forces. With this idea in view the great Nile reservoir has been .opened and another step has been taken in recivilizing Egypt, the oldest country in the world. The supreme court has decided that the taking of one's own life does not invalidate an insurance policy in any class. The man who holds a life insurance policy and wants to do a good thing for his familymay now go ahead with a clear conscience and put himself out of the wav. Congressman Hobt. W. Taylor of Ohio, is urging legislation providing for a national uniform divorce law. He thinks that 4i the remedy for the present national disgrace of our present divorce laws" is a federal Jaw defining marriage and prescribing the terms upon which it may be dissolved. The Indianapolis Sews says there seems to b no reason why the Treasury department should bg particularly hard on its Seventh Day dvtntist who refuses to work Saturday, when it is common report that the göV'erhmeht offices are full of men who don't get in more then one really full day 's work ä Week Thomas B. Beed is dead, but the Reed rules remain. They have been proven to be absolutely necessary in the House of Representatives and the democrats under Speaker Crisp, who opposed the rules when advocated by Reed, appropriated them when they got into power. This code will always be a reminder of the courage and sanity of the great speaker. St. Louis Globe Democrat. During the nineteenth century London grew from a city of 800,000 people to one of 6,500,000 that is, increased eight fold, New York increased from 60,000 to 35,000.000 nearly sixty fold. London is now increasing 17 per cent, in a decade, and New York 35 percent., or twice as fast. If this rate should hold good for fifty years more, New York would have over 15,000,000 population and be a million ahead of London. It is said Jo be a fact that more than twenty millionsilver dollars in circulation now are counterfeit that is while they contain just as much silver as the genuine dollar and look exactly like it they have been made by private parties. At the present price of bullion the value of the silver in a "daddy dollar" is only 38 cents The profit of counterfeiting the dollar is therefore enormous. The counterfeit silver coin is so skillfully executtJ as to make it next to impossible to detect the fraud. Government officials are said to be in a quandary as to what may be done to relieve the situation.

ELOQUENT FIGURES

They Relate to School Teachers, Normal Schools and Colleges. Much credit is due to Superintendent Jones for his carefully prepared statistics relating to the public school teachers of Indiana. It is, so far as I know, the first attempt to gather such valuable information, and as it is profitable sometimes to publish statistics of illiteracy, with a view to stimulate educational enterprises, so this table may well be called "Eloquent Figures," as the Indianapolis Journal does in referring to it. The first revelation that is eloquent is that only one teacher in fourteen is a college graduate; ,and the second is even more eloquent, namely, that onlv one in seven is a graduate of any normal school, as his figures show. But in his tabulation the grjduatesof thejseveral training schools in the state are left out of this class. Thus the 460 teachers in Indianapolis who are graduates of our local training schools and are second to none in efficien cy as teachers, and, so far as informa tion is obtainable, half as many more in other cities, are not counted as trained teachers. Classifying them with the normal graduates, as they certainly should be, and no doubt will be hereafter, it shows that one in five of the public school teachers are graduates from normal schools. His figures are eloquent in another way. By his table 52 per cent, of these normal graduates are from the State Normal and 43 per cent, from the private normal schools, But, adding the graduates from the several training schools which are attached to the public schools of several cities, the ratio is 60 per cent, from the private normals and local training schools and 40 per cent, from the State Normal. These, too, are elo quent figures. But to obtain the real eloquence of these figures they must be read togeth er with some important comparison figures. First, as to the humiliating paucity of college graduates. To un derstand its significance we must re member that during the first twentyfive years of our statehood there were established only four colleges. The old constitution commanded the legislature to provide for a state university at the earliest possible date. True, it never attempted to, but with the prospect of the state going into it at any time, the people did not take hold of college building. But when the new constitution of 1651 had all this eliminated aöd competition with the state's treasury was not to be feared, they took hold of college buildwith a will, and within ten years there were colleges begun in eighteen counties. Some of these built large and commodious edifices and they were so well attended that in 1861, ten years after the abandonment of colleges by the state, there was one college student in the state for every 338 population. In 1902 there was only one for every 657, though the state had spent meanwhile nearly $3,000,000 in crushing out most of the embryo colleges that were begun in good faith that they would not be competed with by the state and in greatlv dwarfing those that have yet survived the unequal competition. These figures are eloquent when read with the figures that show li.ow few teachers are college graduates. There are other companion figures that are eoually eloquent, We have one of the foest state normal schools, if not the very best, m America, whose graduates are as well equipped for service as the graduates of any normal school arej and every lover of education is justly proud of them, but as a class they tire ill nö respect more efficient than the graduates of our local training school or the graduates of the private normal schools of the state; and we have not been niggardly in our care of it, having given it from the state treasury in the thirty-six years of its existence the handsome sum of $1,462,300.35, an average of $40,619 per year from the beginning, the amount increasing annually, until last year it was $96,950. Besides this, the cost to every student is not materially less than at any of the private normal schools, and much greater than at our city training school. These are eloquent figures. There is still another class of companion figures that must be read in connection with the figures given in the excellent table of the superiDtendent, as showing the imperative demand for more state normals or none at all. From the very necessities of the case all such institutions must be local In their patronage. Thus, in the first twenty-eight years of our state normal, there were 2,023 students enrolled from Vigo county to 244 from ' Marlon county, though the population of Marion is more than three times the population of Vigo. Sullivan county had 248 to 70 from Switzerland county and Clay county had 220 to 16 from Adams, and 1 from Porter, and 24 from Allen, and so on. These are all eloquent figures, but they will strike different minds in a variety of ways. . Some will read in them the imperative necessity of appropriating the $200,000 asked for by the state normal to enlarge its plant though it furnishes only 40 per

cent of the trained teachers of the state. Others will read in them a call

for at least three additional normal schools, equal in plant and appropria tions to tue present one and so loca ted as to give every locality the benefit of the school. There is much plausibility in this contention. Others propose to give the present property to Terre Haute, which has contributed $100,000 toward it, and let that city run a training school of its own as Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and other cities do, at nobody expense except the students', and this is very little, if any, above the cost to every student that attends the state normal. I express no preference. The figures speak for themselves. They are truly eloquent. U. L. See. MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS Their Revenue to the Country and Their Large Sales. The manufacture and trade in tobacco and cigars occupies a very prominent position among the great industries of the United States. It is remarkable to what an extent this narcotic plant prevails, for in its agricultural, manufacturing-and com mercial aspects it plays a leading part in the industries of our land, contributing largely to our revenues and swelling the statistics of manufacures and commerce. The manufacture of cigars alone is one of the largest in American traffic, and affords employment to hundreds of thousands of workmen, and support to thousands of families. Without going into a detai'ed historical sketch of the discovery of tobacco and noting the more import ant improvements of the tobacco bus iness and the purposes to which it has been applied since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which want of space com pels us to omit, we may state that the readers of the Tribune will, no doubt, be interested in the perusal of a sketch of the cigar factory of J. E. ELLIS, located at No. 116, Laporte street, over the Peoples' drug store. A business to warrant success must have at its head a man who is thoroughly conversant with tbe details of tbe same; especially is this necessary in the manufacture of cigars, add in this respect Mr. Ellis fulfills these requirements, having been eLgaged in cigar making and dealing in tobacco in its various forms since 1875. In speaking of the excellency of the cigars he is manufacturing we do so with the conviction that those who have smoked them will bear us out in w hat we claim for them. From the start he resolved to manufacture and place upon the market only such goods as would become popular and gain for them a ready sale, and in doing so he has met the demands of all who are judges of superior cigars. Commencing in Plymouth six vears. ago he has increased his business yearly. He has a large foreign as well as local trade, and has many customers now that have handled his :ood for a number of years. Four regular brands or cigars are made that have a wide reputation, besides several special brands made for customers. The regular brands are the "Ben Franklin," a ten cent cigar; "Curly Head," "Indianola," "Perfecto Straight" and the "Guarded Treasure," all first class goods. THE "BKK FRANKLIN" is a strictly straight ten cent Havana cigar, full trafcucca shape, Sumatra wrapper, and vroad leaf Connecticut binder, sold usually at $70 per thousand, but which is offered now at $65 r thousand. It has the reputa mohg the best judges as "being the best 10 cent cigar on the market, THE "CURLY" IIEAD, " which has had a big run for years, is a high grade five cent cigar, containing first class stock. It is hand. made, and has a blend of fillers of first class tobacco. Its reputation has been built up on its superiority. TTIE "IXDIANOLA, " another 5 cent cigar that has a combination blend of fillers, is practically speaking a cigar that is better than the general run of so-called 10 cent cigars, and it has proved particularly satisfactory to makers. This cigar is sold at $35 per thousand. The "PERFECTO STRAIGHT" which has become a favorite with many smokers is in every sense of the word straight goods, containing as it does straight stock. The "GUARDED TREASURE" is a new brand, just out. which is fast becoming a favorite wherever introduced, by reason of its superiority. It is hand-made has a blended filler, of the best grade of tobacco, and a Sumatra wrapper. , All these cigars are free pleasant smokers are manufactured by expert union workmen from first class stock, and contain the natural flavor of the leaf, not being "doctored," so- to speak, and leave no bad taste in the mouth rifter smoking. Among the PRIVATE BRANDS made tor special customers may be mentioned a few that have become j favorites, the first being "Patterson's 1 099, " made for Frank Patterson, the

popular restaurant man.of Bourbon,

Ind. This is a first class cigar and the highest grade cigar sold in Bourbon, and has found great favor among his customers during the past five years, its sales steadily increasing. "Leading Grocer," is another favorite cigar, made for George Yinall, one of Plymouth's prominent grocers. This is one of the best live cent cigars on the market. It has a one-third Havana filler, which is something not found in other five cent cigars, and its wrapper is first class. This is a straight 5 cent ciirar. "Pap's Choice," made for L, G. Capron, and "Kuhn's Own," made for John Kuhn, are also two particularly good 5 cent cigais, that are well liked by smokers. The "Pennsylvania Special, No. 28," named after the fast train and made for the lunch counter at the railroad crossing, has recently been put up. It contains good stock and is fast becoming popular. The box contains a handsomely embellished picture of the Pennsylvania special train. All the goods made by Mr. Ellis are strictly pure, no adulteration being used in their manufacture. In short they are clean straight cicars and run remarkably even all through the box, no inferior goods being mixed in, as is often the case amongother makes of cigars. Another fact in regard to the goods is that the quality of a brand does not diminish, but is kept up as the reputation is known. They aje strictly speaking high grade goods. Besides his large home trade, Mr. Ellis has regular customers among retail dealers in Rochester, Kewanna. Monterey, Walkerton and other places in this and adjoining counties. The Tribune feels that it will be to the interest of dealers and others who appreciate first class honest made cigars to call at Mr. Ellis's factorv and examine the different brands on sale. A half million of cigars are consumed yearly in Plymouth the money, expended for the same amounting to about $10,000, and this would employ if they were all made here about 18 persons at good wages and support many familes thus keeping the money at home thereby benefitting the town, the dealer and community in general. Support home industries, say we, for by so doing the money expended is of direct benefit to all. Buying and Selling Votes. No man ever sold his votes for $2 unless some man paid him $2 for it. The offense of the man who sold the vote ended with the transaction. He had debased and dishonored himself. He had betrayed the nation which gave him, the right, to vote on the supposition that he would exercise it in accordance with his honest opinion as to the good of the nation. He had made himself vile and had injured his country to that extent, but there it enaed. On the other hand the offense of the vote buyer had only begun. It is true that he had betraved his countiy by corrupting a citizen and making office a thing of purchase, but that was the start. He still had the workbefore him of getting !ack the $2 with profit to himself. And the chances were that lie would be no more honest about that than he had been about getting votes. Once more his country must suflVr on his account. That is where misgovernmcnt comes from. It is the corrupting class that dots the real injury to this country. One active wealthy scoundrel can do more damage than all the anarchists that ever got within our borders. Indianapolls Sentinel. Drifting Democracy. Watterson is out with another prophecy that Cieveiänd will never again be democracy's standard bearer. The Kentucky prophet pina his faith to the Wisdom of the Creater, the fullness of tWe, JeffersorVlän philosophy, th constitution lud the flag, the names of Washington and Franklin, the rock or ages. and other reliable agencies to put the democratic party on it$ feet again. Certainly if an organization cannot stand on such a foundation it ought never to make a bid for existence again, but it is a great question whether Providence, Father Time, the everlasting hills, and the memory of the first statesmen of the republic are giving any aid to democracy at this time. South Bend Tribune; , Farmers Will Raise More Hogs. Tbe Columbia City Post says indications are that good prices for hogs and cattle will be maintained during the coming year. The supply of both is not great, while tbe demand is. In the South Omaha packing house, as compared with the last year, there is a shortage of 10,500,000 pounds. This would indicate that the supply Is short. It is said that taking the entire country oyer, the receipts of cattle and hogs at packing houses have been 20 per cent, below a year ago. Iligh priced meat, it seems, has come to stay a while. Indiana farmers should give especial attention to stock interests.. . It's the well spring of joy. The center around which happy home life centers. Rocky Mountain Tea, That grea't family remedy that makes home happy. J. W, Hess.

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Men's clothing hints Some

Men's Fine Trosuers,at 1.50, 2, ?2.50, 3 and upwards. Men's Fine Suits, absolutely all-wool, at 5, 6, 7.50, 10, 12 and upward. Men's Fine Overcoats, absolutely all-wool, from 5 lip to 20. The New Swagger Full Back Coats, all colors, at 5, 7.50, 10 and up.

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25 25 25 5 2 25 3 Senor Castro is apparently about to discover that the article of belligerency dished out by Germany and Great Britain is a considerably more strenuous proposition than the common or garden variety of South American revolution to which he has been accustomed. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, It is feared, will never again occupy his seat in the United States Senate. Although he is weak physically and his strength is much impaired, his friends hope that he will be restored to such a degree of strength as will make it possible for him to ride out occasionally. The report of the Senate committee on Territories, submitted by Senator Beveridge, makes a strong case against the proposed admission of New Mexico and Arizona on the grounds of sparse population, lack of knowledge of the English language and of American institutions, and the general prevalence of illiteracy and immorality. A Sood argumüüt Iß favor of restricting immigration is found in the statement of the immigration bureau in New York to the effect that this country pays anually $5,000,000 tor the care of foreign born insane that are dumped on our shores. An immense amount of trickery is played b? all nations in working off their paupers and lunatics on America. A complicated suit is now in progress against an insurance company at Carthage, Mo. The plaintiff, a woman, -was suing her husband for divorce, and while she was consulting her attorney her husband came into the office and attacked her with a knife, whereupon she snob him dead. She now' sues for $,1000 life insurance, the policy for which she holds. As long as the British warships were sinking the Venezuelan fleet the people of England didn't seem to take much interest in the South American trouble, but now that the Venezuelans have seized a British merchant ship, the affair has become serious, and there is a loud demand for the governnaent to make public the details of the national differances which nobody t There is likely to be a movement in the New Yörk legislature this winter to increase the liquor license fee; and as a means of raising revenua one wonders that there has not been a serious movement in Indiana to follow the same path. The present New York law went into force in, 1897, and has been yery much of a success in raising reyenue, reducing the number of saloons and decreasing; drunkenness.

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It seems to be pretty conclusively determined that Matt. Quay wilJ not have his way in the matter of securing the admission of Arizona and Sew Mexico to statehood. The Unite 1 States has nearly haif the railway mileage of the world, plenty of navigable rivers, unequaled methods of loading and unloading and unbounded enterprise. When, therefore, the fuel supply breaks down almost at the first touch the situation is abominable. There must be manipulation somewhere to produce such a result in one of the great staple necessities of life. Here is a question demanding the attention of statesmen and also the best efforts of inventors. The many should not be called on to suer while business conspirators steer the storage and shipment of coal into such conditions as are now reported from most' of tue great centers of pop. ulation. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Minister Bowen is maklu a great record for himself in the present Venezuelan crisis. His energy and discretion have commended him to our state department, while in Germany and England he is being warmly praised. Mr. Bowen's diplomatic career is pretty well know to his countrymen, but we doubt whether it is generally known that he was a member of the Yale class of 1878, but did not receive his degree because he called a member of the faculty a liar or spoke of him as a liar. The understanding is that Mr. Bo wen can have his bachelor's degree whenever he is willing to apologize for his words. Unless his temper has grown mild with the years he probably said some things to President Castro which that gentleman will not soon forget. Indianapolis News. It seems tobe generally conceded that the ship subsidy bill, which passed the senate at tbe last session and is now in the House committee on merchant marine and fisheries, is dead. It is known that there is strong republican opposition to it., both among the members of the committee and in the House itself. There Is a good chance that it wil not even be reported by the committee. At the last session the committee stood nine to eight against the bill, three republicans opposing a favorable report. It is said that there are now five republicans on the committee who are opposed to the bill. Great efforts have been made to have the bill reportee. but so far Chairman Grosvenof has made no attempt In that direction. Tell your neighbors about the good qualities of the Tribune.

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cum 2 2 2 2? Saturday Excursions. The schools of Terre Haute were offered very cheap excursion rates to Chicago but the teachers refused the offer when they saw that the object w as to get them and their pupils to spend money for holiday goods outside their own citv. It is said that the big department stores and hotels of Chicago give the Pennsylvania company a large bonus to run Saturday excursions to Chicago with tickets good until Monday night at this season of the year. People ought to know that they can buy goods cheaper in Plymouth than in Chicago and ought to protect their homes and their Üresides bv buying alt their holiday goods here; but many are allured by the big adyertisents in the Sunday papers and pay twenty per cent more for goods in Chicago than the same goods would cost in Plymouth. Öü'r merchants, therefore cannot be blamed if they organize and ship all their goods over the Lake Shcre road unless the Pennsylvania agrees to run no more Saturday excursions. Largest Corn Acreage. The largest corn acreage of Indiana was in Benton county, 107,438 acres, with an average yield ot 40.15 bushels. Other counties having over 10G 000 acres were Tippecanoe, with 100,330, and an average of 42.58 bushels to the acre, and White, with 103,041 acres, with an average of 34.31 bushels. Considering the number of acres, Tippecanoe and Benton may be regarded as sharers in the honors of Tipton. The lowest corn yield an acre was in Starke county, where It was 17.98 bushels. Benton county had the greatest acreage in oats 75,593. The yield was 46.06 bushels to the acre. Allen county had the highest average yield, 46.83 bushels to the acre. Thö total acreage was 35,185. In 1902 the yield of clover seed was 382,033 bushels. Riid Diet Killed Reed. Some of tbe medical men of the country seem to thihk that too rigid dieting hastened Thomas B. Reed's death Tbe distinguished ex-spaaker was a very large man, weighing at times over 300 pounds. By rigid dieting he reduced his weight 20 pounds. That did not satisfy him, so he lopped off 20 pounds more by a similar process. Even this did not altogether satisfy Mr. Reed, and he managed to add five nounds more to the reduc tion, making in all 45 pounds. It is thought that if he had proceeded a little more slowly, the effect would not have been so damaging.