Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 April 1903 — Page 2

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ADVEKTISING RATES made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Plymouth, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. Plymouth, !nL. April 2. 1903. A shake-up is promised in the postoffice department at Washington. The resignation of General Tyner and George. W. Beaveis are forerunners of se feral other resignations or dismissals "W. H. Jilodgett, stall correspondent of the Indianapolis News, says Gov. Darhin's friends are authority for the statement that be has given up the idea of aspiring to Senator Bevendge's toga. Ilalf a dozen trained postoffice inspectors, including practically all of the fcrce which successfully exposed pused the frauds in the Cuban service, are now busily at work endeavoring to trace the ramifications of the conspiracy, the existence of which is admitted in the department at Washington. ' When the war revenue taxes were repealed experts of the treasury and in congress estimated that it would reduce tbe annual revenues by at least 115,000,000. Sow, eight months after the repeal, it is found the revenues have only fallen off 128,000,000 as Compared with the corresponding period of last year. The Chicago Chronicle, the democ a.ic organ of Cblcago. Is making a strong fight for tte election of Mr. Stewart, tbe republican nominee for mayor who is opposed by Carter Harrison. There is after all very little politics in Chicago elections. The Harrison ring regardless of politics, will vote for Harrison, while those oprxed to the Harrison regime will vote for Stewart. Senator Teller, of Cobrado, was one of five senators who voted against ratifying the Panama canal treaty, and his main reason was that nature never intended to connect tbe two oceans on the line of the Isthmus. It modern progress had not attempted to dj anytbing that nature left undone it '.vould have made little headway. It is also quite likely that Mr. Teller could not go to his seat in the senate in Washington by a railroad had nature aloae been consulted. Bishop Spalding, who has j?st returned to his home in Peoria, 111., from his labors on the anthracite s:rike commission, gives it as his opinion that the period of strikes in the United States has passed forever aadtbat arbitration will be adopted to settle all labor difficulties in the future. The bishop thinks the pre cedent established by the commission will do much to bring about this state fif affair. It will be found a much less expensive means of solution by both sides to a controversy. When Senator Tillman held up the senate in order to get his bogus claim for over 147,000 into an appropriation bill it was generally assumed that the 47,000 was the amount obtained. Such is not the case. The Tillman amendment provides for 4 per cent, interest since the date of the claim years ago so many years ago that the interest amounts to over $41,000. Tnus Tillman gets for his state, by senatorial courtesy, more than $S8,000 for a claim which a board that adjusted similar claims of other states bald amounted to 34 cents. "Old men in the public service at Washington musi go," is an edict th it has issued from the white bouse. Hardly a week goes by without some veteran office-holder in a responsible place losing his position. In nine cases out of ten the gray-beard is succeeded by a young man. This policy has been inaugurated in all of the ramifications of the treasury department and it is gradually extending to all of the departments. It is the president's idea that old men who are no longer capable of attending properly to their duties shall be succeeded by active, virile young men. Many people seem to think and n j doubt believe that a political macMne and a party organization mean the same thing. There is, however, avast difference. Party organization is created and maintained to further the interests of the party as a whole. A political machine is an organization In the interest of one, "man or a clique of men that seeks to. control the party for selfish purposes.- This paper has always opposed" äntKwiir continue to oppose machines which, exist not to seiYJ the party, hut to advance the interest of an Individ ml or a grcap of office bölderj'and tboce who wish to profit thereby.! . A . party ;irachin3 is powerful only Jn organization where it has gradually built itself up, and captured the means of a party expression and action. It is not powerful at the polls except by the aid of the votes of the members of 'the party in vrccs namc3 it profccccs to act.

The first sale of sugar for Europe in twenty-five years, was made recently at-navana, 3,000 tons of raw sugar was purchased for the English market at 1.85 cents per pound, j The popular vote in New Hampshire on woman suffrage was light, but the proposed constitutional amendment was defeated by 35,000 to 13,000. It is only in the far west that states have been willing to confer equal political rights on both sexes.

.The Indianapolis Journal is right when it declares that It is time to restore to the precinct committeeman his prerogatives. It might have added that it is time also that bebe made to feel more fully his personal obligation to the party, and that the party stands above its servants no matter in what capacity the latter act. Mr. Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland, estimates that the new Iris i land scheme will involve $f00,000,000 and possibly $850,000,000. This will not be a gift, tbe assisted tenants paying Z per cent, per annum on the loans from the government, but it will be. much tbe must liberal and stupendous scheme of the kind ever Inaugurated by any government. Tbe forerunner of home rule in Ireland is tbe bill introduced in the British house of commons proposing loans to Irish tenants for the purchase of the landlords holdings. The government is to advance tbe money to tbe tenantry at Z per cent to be repaid in easy installments. Tbe scheme involves $750.000,000 and tbe first grant will be $60,000,000 if the bill becomes a law. , The total value in round lumbers or exports tor the three montbs ending February 28 was $407,500,000. Tbe nearest approach to tbls was $395,200,000 in 1901. Last year the total was only $367,600,000. Tbe increase over last year, therefore, was over 10 per cent. In 1893 there was a total of only about $215,000,000, or not very much more than one-half the total for this vear. The fifty-eighth congress will have 386 members in the house or 29 more than in the fifty-seventh. No third party will be represented in the next congress. This is the nrst time in fourteen years that the third party has not had a representative in the house. The republicans will have a majority of 30, Of tbe 3S6 members, 127 are new men while 259 were re elected. The territories of New Mexico, Aiizona, Oklahoma, and Hawaii each have a delegate, but they are not counted as thev have no vote. Senator Allison thinks it is unfair to criticise tne senate for its failure to complete the reciprocity arrangement with Cuba. "While we did not ac complish all that we desired and intended in that direction," he said, "we accomplished as much as was pos sible under the circumstances, and in the discussion of the subject all tbe conditions must be taken into consid eration. At no time since tbe Cuba reciprocity project has been before congress baye we had two-thirds ma jority in its favor in the senate, and we were prevented from passing the bill that came to us in tbe first session of the Fifty-seventh congress, as we were prevented from ratifying the treaty in its original form, beca ;se of opposition that could not be overcome. This opposition was so strong that we were compelled to abandon tbe bill and to modify and amend the treaty, but I repeat that so far as human wis dom and foresight could guide us we carried out tbe policy of the adminis tration and the republican party and attempted to fulfill their pledges to Cuba and to tbe people of the United States in good faith. Sermon Prompts Return of Money. A peculiar case of a quickened con science is revealed in a remittance of $10 just received by Mrs. Mary Will iams of Kewanna, from the Rey. L. O. Herrold, pastor of the Cbistian church at San Jose, Cal. The minister wrote to Mrs. Williams that at the close of bis service a week ago last Sunday a young man approached the pulpit and handed him $10, remark ing that the sermon bad so appealed to him that he was moved to make amends for a wrong done to Mrs. Williams many years ago, when he was a clerk in a store at Kewanna. Mrs. Williams was a customer, and in mak ing change he defrauded her of $5. He , wished to pay the money thus taken with Interest for the entire per iod, and the pastor consented to send the cash to Mrs. Williams. She has no recollection of the occurrence, but gladly accepted the money. , i Shut Out cL Heaven. Prof. Dallas L. Sharp. Of Boston University, at the' First Methodist church, Sunday, said: " ; "No woman who wears a seagull or a sorg bird in her hat can eyer get to heaven. If you need an Easter bonnet, get it. Wear it to church. , It is an honor to God and a benediction to "the soul to hare and see' Easter bonnets. Get' the bonnets, however, without robbing .and killing. . Thcc3 who take the lives of the song bird and the bird cf beautiful plu-c can hot Lz2 for heaven. " ' '

The DtcidmJ Vote. Did you ever think what a large responsibility may rest on that small section of society which holds the "balance of power.' In this country, where numbers alone are supposed to count, the change of only a very few votes may overturn long-standing policies. In the presidential election of 18S0 Garfield had a popular plurality of only 7,018 over nancock in a total vote of over 10.000,000. In other words the margin was only 1 in about 1400. Half a century ago Vermont adopted prohibition by a majority of less than 1500. .Recently the state overturned this verdict and declared in favot of local option by an official majority of only 729 votes. By the change of only 2100 people the policy of the hole state has been changed. The staid, stolid voters who vote their party ticket in season and out are like pawns on a chessboard: the one side merely offsets the other and none of tnem count much except in tbe way of neutralizing an equal force on tbe other side. It is tbe floating vote, the restless, changeable element in society, that turns tbe scale The advantage of this is that any good movement has only to convert this very small changeable element in order to gain the balance of power and win. The disadvantages of it is that bad men and bad measures may likewise win merely by the manipulation of this balance of power. We say then that tbe responsibility of that portion of society whose views are unsettled is very great. They cast the deciding vote. Tbe political managers understand this principle thoroughly, for they always do their most active, campaigning in the close districts. 'Presidential candidates are regularly chosen from the states or sections' rhere tbe vote is close. . Tbe states which are irrevocably either democratic or republican are thought little of. They are like the sheep that are safe in the fold; it is the wanderers that are worried about. Not only in politics but in everything else do the independent thinkers buld unusual power eitber for good or for evil. The skirmish lines decides the fortune of battla. If it is given to thee to see things somewhat more clearly than thy neighbor, then is thy duty so much the greater. It

is the discriminating few that converts minorities into majorities. Insignificant reinforcements have turned the tide of many a battle. Pathfinder. A Field for Corrupt Combination. Washington dispatches indicate that certain officials of the postoffice department have been carrying on a sys tem of peculation that may reach considerable proportions. The officials said to be implicated are the heads of the divisions of postoffice supplies, of rural free delivery ar,d of salaries and allowances. All of these divisions are attached to the office of tbe first assistant postmaster general. The division of postoffice supplies furnishes the necessary books and blanks for postal business, marking and rating stamps, canceling ink and ink pads, letter balances and scales, wrapping paper and twine to all offices of wuicb the gross receipts are $100 a year and upward. The division of salaries and allowances regulates the allowances to postoffies for rent, fuel and light, clerk hire and miscellaneous expend! tures. The rural free delivery divi sion has to do with establishing and extending that branch of the service, though it does not furnish supplies. These three offices furnish a field for a corrupt combination in the purchase of supplies and for utilizing political influence to cover up such transactions if the heads of tbe diyisions are dishonest. That remains to be seen. Tbe charges call for thorough investigation, and it is said' the president has already ordered it. Indianapolis Journal. The Wheat Lands of Canada. Americans of all classes are rapidly awakening to the industrial possibilities of Canada, a fact that is well illustrated in one field by the 40,000 American farmers who emigrated to the Northwest territories, last year. Nevertheless it is with recurrent surprise that one receives the reports and statistics that show the extent of these possibilities. In an article on ' 'Canada and Its Trade Routes" in the Fortnightly Review, Colonel G. E. Church gives some of these striking facts concerning the wheat lands of Canada: The area available for raising wheat in the Canadian Northwest is 400,000 square miles, or four times the area on which the United States wheat crop' is grown. The average product of an acre in Canada is double the average product in the Un ted States. Although only 1 per cent of the Canadian wheat territory Is under'cülthation, the yield .' Is already one-tenth that of the United States. -.-"The North'westerritories.Coionel Church holds, will provide t Great' Britain's future, food supply, both in times of peace ttd of wart and he says that the region worth more to th3 empire than half a dozen South Afri can gold fields.";, . ; ; : ; Urs. Austin's Pancake Flour makc3 lovely Pancakes, muCics anp gems. So cccd yea alvray3 aIor more. JL...J

Cabins Bidly Mixed. By an odd accident the cabin In which Abraham Lincoln was born and another cabin of loirs, which was associated with the Ufa of Jefferson Davis, have become mixed up, and timbers of both structures now make up a single building. The revelation of this fact came about through tbe efforts of the Rev. Dr Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Plymouth. church, to add to tbe Beecher memorial fund and expected to borrow the cabin in which Lincoln was born tie cabin which was on exhibition at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. It Is owned by Frederic Thompson ahd Elmer S. Dundy, twoaneusement promoters. Messrs. Thompson and Dundy declared they would be glad to lend the cabin if it were all the Lincoln cabin, but they said that as a matter of fact the structure In Coney island Is at present a combination of the but in which the great emancipator was born and the Davis cabin. Mr. Thompson made an explanation. The original Lincoln cabin, he said, had been purchased by Dennett, a restaurant man, from a colored preacher named Bigman, at Nolin Creek, Larue county, Kentucky. . He loaned it for exposition purposes to tbe managers of the Nashville exhibition and afterward stored it in the cellar of a small restaurant on the Bowery. In the same cellar he stored a log cabin connected with some historical incident in the life of Jefferson Davis, the President of tbe Confederacy. When they were brought out the movers mixed the timbers. It is hoped to straighten them out. . Bi g E& and Poultry Deal. Emulating the example of the Armours and Swifts, Nelson Morris & Co. have gone into tbe poultry and egg business on an extensive scale. Tne firm has purchased out right more than sixty branch packinghouses of the Arthur Jordan Company of Indianapolis, located in Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey, and all the eastern branch markets, including those in New York, Boston and Brooklyn. The deal includes the transfer of twenty-two pieces of real estate. Thus Morris & Co. have done at a single bound what Armour & Co. and

Swift & Co. have taken several years to accomplish. The two latter firms established their own agencies over the country developmentally, while Morris & Co. by this deal have become competitors on equal terms by the mere closing of the negotiations with the Arthur Jordan Company, which did an immense business. The In dianapolis plant remains in the hands of the Jordan Company. , The new concern will control the larger part of Indiana and central and southern Illinois, the best poultry pro ducing section of the West. Rival Delivery Highway Law. Tbe governor has signed a bill to require all highways on United States rural free delivery mail routes estab lished to be kept in repair and passa ble condition, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. It shall be the duty of boards of commissionres, townscip trustees and road supervi sors to keep In repair and in passable condition all highways in their respec tive districts or jurisdictions along or on which rural free delivery mail rutes have been or may hereafter be established, and the township trustees shall set aside at least five per cent of the road fund received by them each year as an emergency- fund to be used in carrying out the provisions of this act. It shall also be the duty of such officers to see that such highways are properly drained, are kept free from obstruction of every kind and nature, including snowdrifts, and are at all times in such condition as to be read ily passable to ordinary travel. . v Indiana Needs New Constitution. Senator Dausman, of Elkhart county, says if he is returned to the state senate, he will offer a resolution calling for n state constitutional convention, at which the present state constitution whictf is fiftyiyears old may be radically amended. He . says: "The state of Indiana should make the same provisions in regard to tbe legislature, 5 that Ohio Illinois and other states make. The legislators should be paid an annual salary and the. sessions should . be .held until all the business before the legislature is disposed 1 of. ' Legislators who have private business Interests will not prolong the session unnecessarily. Thev would have no incenti ve to do so. On the contrary, they would be interested In getting through in the least possible time, but we would not then have the rush of business that comes in the last two or three weeks of the session under the present law. . I think a change In the constitution in this re gard would result In great good to the state." " ' " ; " ' -Free, Litrsrits; :- ; - " erybody ' in Indiana' 'should understand tnat provision,, has-been made by,tbe law by which the people in any locality: in the state can have the benefit of free circulating libraries, and that the work of" supplying" them i3 being carried on by the public library commission of Indiana, room 85, stat3 hcuc2, ii Indianapolis, -to which all letters concerning thz matter should be addrceeed, J ' '

PIGEON ROOST MASSACRE.

A Noteworthy Incident in Indiana! Pio. neer History. v The legislature appropriated $2.000 for a monument to mark the graves of the victims of the Pigeon Roost Mas. sacre of 1812. The particulars of that tragedy are related by an exchange as follows: Pigeon Roost was a settlement near the paesent site of Vienna, Scott county. There were not more than 35mer', women and children in the settlement. At the time of the massacre Sept. 2, 1812, the Shawnee Indians were rendezvousing fur the battle of Tippecanoe and were in a savage nux-d. Two men of the settlement were hunting a bee tree on the afternoon of the massacre, when they were attacked and killed by a band ot Shawnees. Tne sight of blood infuriated tbe Indians and they set out for the Pigeon Roost settlement. They reached it shortly before sundown, ard in a short time had killed five men and sixteen women and children. Some of the inhabitants escaped by fleeing. After the massacre the Indians set fire to the village and many of the bodies of tbe slain were burned. The sight that met the returned settlers, who had gathered a company to avenge the murder, was one never to be forgotten. The village had been laid low and in addition to the charred bodies of some of the dead, tbe bodies of many of the children were found propped up against trees and pierced with arrows and others wbo bad been held by the feet and dashed to death against the trees or the log houses. Tbe remaining settlers were prevented from avenging the deed by reason of a swollen stream that blocked their pursuit of the Indians. The victims were buried In two large graves, and tbe place Is sometimes called vSodom Cemetery instead of' Pigeon Roost. Tbe graves have had only a simple mark, but a suitable monument will now be erected. Generals of the Civil War. ' William E. Curtis, writing to the Record Herald, has tbe following interesting bit of history connected with the generals of our civil war: "The recent death of General "Baldy" Smith, General William B. Franklin and General Schuyler Hamilton re duced the number of survivors of the 132 major-generals commanded by President Lincoln during the civil war to 17. General Miles is the only one now in active service. The foilowin? are upon the retired list cf the army: John M. Schofield, Daniel E. Sickles, Alexander McCook. Thomas J. Wood. Francis Fessenden, Wesley Merritt, Oliver (X Howard, James H. Wilson, Benjamin H. Grierson, Napoleon J. T. Danner. The following returned to civil life at the close of the war: Cassius.M. Clay, Carl Schurz, Peter J. Osterhaus. Granville M. Dodge, Lew Wallace and Julius Stabl." The Political Sick List One of the oddest features of Amer lean party life is the existence of what may be called an invalid corps in each political army which, it is undcrstosd, is to be nursed along by perennial of fice-holding. There are certain men in this state and in other states and there are certain men in the national arena, wbo have apparent !y a prescriptive right to office. Whatever happens, these men are to be taken care of. The pathos of an electoral overturn, the thing that moves rude, strong men almost to tears, is tbe re flection that tbe political sick list will be turned out of its comfortable haunts into a world where men must work in order to live. New York Mall and Express. Bad tor Indianians. The Indianapolis Sentinel's IfVaehington correspondent writing of Gen eral Tyner's dismissal from the postoffice department says several names have been presented for the office, but none, from Indiana. . Indiana candi dates are not wanted. From . the time of the star route frauds, when E. W. Brady of Indiana was second assistant postmaster-general, - until the present nearly all of the big postoffice department scandals have occurred in branches of the service that were un der the control of Indiana men, and now the Indiana man who ventures to apply for Gen. Tyher's place will be turned down In short order. : To Test Indeterminate Law. The constitutionality of the inde terminate sentence law of Indiana is to be tested at Knox in a case that will be carried to the Indiana supreme court this week. In the .brief it is contended that a board of prison managers is' not ! clothed by law with the power to sit In judgment and pass on cases , vhere an Inmate is held beyond the mlmimum term because of any infraction the rules of the In stitution;'' 1 ! l. . ' Corn HujKing in Mexico, r , Elkhart Review. " Mrs. ,? Frank Adams, who was here from ; Bristol, Friday, said ' she had just received a letter from her husband, who is sup erintendent of Lä -Trinidad planta tion in1 Mexico, stating that he vr os wcrkln2 193 men and was ia the midst cf corn harvest. 0 m V7is bringing 2 a buchel, llexicon ncry or to in United States cicsey, : ! ! !

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MARRIED Steelc-Weeks. Mr. Oscar C. Steele and Miss Laura J. -Weeks were -married Tuesday evening, March 24, at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. Martin Luther Peter, Lapaz. The groom is the son of Mr. Josiah Steele, of Union township, St. Joe county and the bride one of the most highly respected young ladies of North township, Marshall county. Mr. Oliver P. Bondurant and Miss Frances M. Mishler acted as groomsman and bridesmaid. Tne young couple will go to housekeeping on the Daniel Steele farm south of North Liberty. Unprepared to Fight Life's Battie. Time spent in the school room to impress upon the minds of the boys that no man scores success in life, whatever his calling, except at the.expense of concentrated and continued effort, would not be wasted. This I rinciple should be taught early at a time when the boy looks ahead to the time when he shall become a man. Too many of our boys come upon the stage of action to fight life's battles wholly unprepared to put their energies into the work which they choose. For this reason there is a vast army of young men 'drifting" like the sands of a desert until half a life "passes before they lodge against this obstruction the principle which should be inculcated early in life. Nappanee News. Fowler Chase Found in Pans, Moses Fowler Chase, the grandson of Moses Fowler, a leading capitalist of Indiana, after whom the1 city of Fowler Is named, has been the center of a celebrated lawsuit in the courts of Ohio and Indiaua. He was supposed to be insane and four years ago his father lost track of bim, and all efforts of detectives to find him have beea in vain. ' i ' - Wednesday Consul General Gowdy found him' In a private sanitarium in Paris, and physicians pronounce him hopelessly insane.' The institution has handed Chase over to. Mr. Gowdy 's care. i - - ' - ' - ' if How Mrs. BurdicX LooXs. Mrs. Burdickis a woman, of slight figure like her mother, with the large eyesofber daughter, with a long nose full.: lips' and; 'mouth',.' puffed cheeks, a .receding chin and a lo forehead in a word, homely. She is 42 years of age.- Pennell was 34 and and Burdick 42. " She was as pale as parchment, 'but usually .calm and always resourceful. There were timeS under the stress of District -Attorney CoaUworth 's examination; when her voice died aray b even lie could only iutch a few of her irords. u i : '

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Warn Roosevelt to Beware. . President Roosevelt is receiving a. good many warnings from persons of supposed anarchistic tendencies who . A. A. 1 A. 1 A. l.C 1 f fll represent to uim ioat uis me win De endangered during his coming trip In the west. As the time of his departure grows nearer the communications of this character increase in number. The president treats them with the utmost Indifference. His secret service attendants, boweyer, are givingthese warnings the closest attention and all the letters received are carefully preserved. A most interesting communication of this character was a telegram received by Secretary of War Root Friday. It is quite lengthy and the secretary was left to pay the charges. Id was from a crank at Los Angeles, Cal.r wbo wired that the president will be In dinger of "explosion, railroad accident, tire arms and elevators on three days, especially, west of Washington, caused by eclipse of sun and Mars la their equinoxes." The day's referred to are March 28, 29 and 30, which are not included in the president's itinerary. The president will not leave the white house until April 1. The telegram' was signed "Professor Pfuelr,r which is Interpreted at tbe war department to mean p'ain "fool." . Tyner ia Bad Health. jame a. Tyner, assistant attorney general for the postoffice department has resigned, to take effect on the appointment of his successor, who hasnot yet been named. Mr. Tyner is in a serious physical condition and owingto that fact and his advanced age he has not been able to discharge the duties of his office for a long time, and he will not again visit the postoffice department officially. " The Poet Is Ever With Us. To the gray 'and weary elders there is solace in the thought that the young poets are foreyer renewing the race. Faithfully the peach tree blossoms and the birds come back and shake the boughs with song; spring is green with hope, amid the dead leaves of a lingering winter, and not till these-fail at their appointed season need we fear that poetry will perish in the hearts of men. --New Orleans Times-Democrat. - Clara Birten to be Drpcitd. . , ; The board of trustee of the American :Red Cross association have de-, posed Clara Barton from active head ot the association and will appoint Rear Admiral Van vReypen surgeon general' ;of the navy, , her successor Miss Barton is to be given the office , of, honorary president for, life. It is stated t-at this ' tctica Vrca taken to restore harmony in the ranks of the' ccsociatica. .. . .