Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 June 1903 — Page 4

Ube Gtibtme. Established October 10, 1901. Only Republican Newspaper, in the County. HENDRICKS & CO., PcBLisnEBS. OFFICE BJssell Bulldinjr, Corner LePorte and Center Streets. Telephone No. 27. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Ore Year, in adTance. 1.50; Sil Montb. 75 cents; Three Month, 40 cents, delivered at any postofflce ADVERTISING BATES made known on appllcatiob. Entered at the postofflce at Plymouth, Indiana, as second-clas9 mall matter. Plymouth, Ind., June 11, 1903. Clergymen of all denominations in New York will f jrm a union to check alarming tide or divorces. Figures fchowiog that 500,000 divorces have been granted in the United States in twentyyears. IL is encouraging to read that a jury at Cartbae, Mo., convicted and the court gave ten years in the penitentiary to a white man who led a cub that lynched .a negro. The world does move. The finding of an indictment is not conclusive evidence of guilt, but the grand jury at Washington has furnished a strong presumptive case against Machen, late superintendent of free rural delivery. Some of the democratic papers have been talking about "Hanna's waning power in Oiiio politics. M They must hare been looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Seen from this distance, your Uncle Marcus appears to have a good deal of a cinch. Marshall Field, the great Chicago merchant, predicts commercial disaster if there is not not a pronounced change in the attitude of labor. Mr. Field takes the position that most wage earners are being paid as much as the average employer can afford. Congressman Robinson, of Fort Wayne, wants a short democratic national platform in 1901. It might be condensed into four words: 4,We wait -the offices." or "anything to win." Either of these sentences would express all that a democratic platform usually meats. President Roosevelt, during his Western trip, has done much for the cause of irrigation and forestry. In Arizona, New Mexico; Wyoming, !NeTada and California he dwelt upon the value of these gieat agencies of agriculture and emphasized the importance ol extending the area of irrigation and the preservation of the forests. The administration is showing a most commendable disposition to push the investigation of the scandal In the Postoffica Department to the furthest limit, to find every rotten spot, and provide a drastic cure. It forms a striking illustration of the progress of political methods in the United States. Two or three decades ago, no matter which party had been, in power, the chief concern of the administration vould have been not to get at the lxittom of the matter and clean it up, but to smother it as quickly as possible. The idea that the chairman of the republican committee of Marshall county will succeed Walter Brown as district chairman seems to be prevalent. Gosheu Democrat. The democrats of this district would be glad to have the dlsorganizer who has placed a club in their hands to disrupt the republican party of Marshall county and add hundreds of votes to the democratic ticket in exery county of the state, made chairman of the district committee; but they will not be gratified. A man who has some political sense and who -will not work to divide republicans, will be ' chosen chairman. In a talk at Washington Monday jjUerflooD, President Roosevelt derJared his intention to smash maChine rule by congressmen. He ttnds that in many districts congressman are taking the same course that Congressman Brick has taken in this district and have attempted to build up a political machine to renominate and re-elect themselve regardless of the interests of the public The president's views are given in another column and will make interesting reading for the machine men and incompetent postmasters. The people will sustain the president. , The decision of the court of appeals

,of the District of Columbia in regard to the classification of mail . matter is a very important one. A few months ago a lower court ia Washington decided that the postmaster general has no authority to decide what constitutes second-class matter, it being the function of the courts to construe the jaw. The court of appeals reverses that decision and says the postmaster general is free to classify mail matter according to his judgment and discretion as to the true meaning of the law, and that he was not bound by any decision of his predecessors in accepting matter under what the present postmaster general considered a wmoag classification. Under this decision the postmaster general may and asdoubtediy will exclude from secondcli niailipg ritca a terse nucibsr of putliccticn3 which cava heretofore clilzl and atuccd th3 privilege.

THE PRESIDENT TALKS

Congressmen Responsible (or Bad Postmasters and Pojtoffice Department Must Be Taken Out of Their Hands. Politics is to be eliminated from the postofflce department and that vast organization hereafter will be run as a strictly business enterprise. The president said this Monday to a number of visitors, who, while paying their respects to him, took occasion to mention the scandal that has been unearthed in the department and to speculate upon the political effect t the coaciug campaign. .The president told these visitors that he did not regret that he had started the investigation, no matter if its political effect were doubtful. He maintained that Mr. Bristow bad developed the fact that the department was an immense political maChine that it was run in the Interest of politicians rather than the public. If "the politicians resented his efforts to drive them out of the department he was ready to measure swords with them, even on the eve of a national campaign. He said that from what he had been told by Postmaster-General Payne it seemed as if members of congress had more to do withthe executive management of the d5partment than the president or the postmaster-general. In the future, he asserted, congressmen would be given the same treatment in the postofflce department they were in the other departments. AssistantPostmaster-General Wynne first called the president's attention to the political work done in the department, and the results of the investigation have substantiated all that Wynne charged. To these who have suggested to the president that members of congress might be less liberal with the department !n case it was less liberal with them, he retorted": ''Let congress hamper the work of the department and then go back and face the public. That is one thing the people will not stand and the day has gone by when congress can shift the blame for its acts. The people know too much." The last congress created 11,316 new offices and employments, at an annual compensation of $7,927,630. As the congress also abolished 1,815 offices, the net Increase is 9,201, with an aggregate of $6,986, I08 in salaries and wages. The re cum of Judge John II. Baker to Goshen, after an absence of a decade or more, will mean a good deal politically. lie has the confidence and respect of the leading members of the republican party throughout the district and will therefore be a commanding figure in the councils of the organization. As he is not likely to again become an aspirant to office, he will have more Influence than would be credited to him under other conditions. South Bend Times. The action of the United States court at Chicago in issuing a-perpetual injunction against a combination of Indiana coal operators to put up the price of coal in Chicago does not create a new situation. The operatars had already decided to abandon the combination, and the order of the court only confirms their action. It is useful, however, as Indicating to manufacturers and producers the line beyond which they may not go in their efforts to control markets and prices. 11 Democratic Harmony. The Chicago Chronicle notices the i chatter about harmonizing the two wings of the democratic party to remark that "as a matter of fact there are not two wings, but two separate and distinct parties the democratic party and the populistlc party." If that is true, there is reason to believe that there is a good deal more populism than demöcrary. The Law of Chivalry. Mayor Falkenstein, of McKeesport, Pa., has Issued an edict giving women right of way on sidewalks, says a dispatch. He says there is no rule ordinance on the matter, but that the law of chivalry demands that women shall have preference over men while on the street. He has ordered the arrest of men who violate this rule of street decorum, a charge of disorderly conduct being preferred. T'he mayor's order is chiefly directed against street loafers and mashers. ThU May B Interesting. It may be interesting to many to know that there were slaves in Detroit before human chattels were known in New Orleans, Savannah or Louisville, says the Kokomo News. New Yorkers sold their negro slaves to the Wolverines in the first years of the life of Detroit. Slavery has existed for centuries among the Africans themselves, and the stalwart hunters of men and women sought out the weaker members of their race and sold theci to the white men of the other shores. Today every man of note in central Africa owns slaves, his station in life being rated by the number of Etevcs, be? 0T7C3 and the wives he pesLZZZZ3. When the girls reach the e cf 13 they are, tea rule, wedded.

Yellow Journalism in Russia. Authorities agree that the atrocious outbreak against the Jews at Kishineff was suggested, fomented and finally precipitated by a wretched yellow newspaper under the control of a fanatical Jew baiter. Those who are familiar with the methods of yellow journalism in the United States will have no difficulty in determining how the atrocity was brought about. The Kishineff organ of murder and plunder was a new thing. It addressed an element which had not hitherto devoted much time or thought to newspapers. It catered to the most brutalized of the class through coarse illustrations and exaggerated headlines. Such of its perverted patrons as could not read found amusement, inspiration or,tempatijn In its hideous pictures. Those who could read to spell out some words in glaring tvpe. For the few degenerates who were ''educated" there were dilute paraphrases of the writings of various speculative anarchists and revolutionists. Having prepared the way for massaci, the rest was easy. At a time carefully selected a fraudulent telegram from St. Petersburg was printed probably in red ink, In which it was stated that the czar had authorized the slaughter of all Jews on the Easter holidays. The world Is familiar with what happened. Yellow journalism in the United States pursues the same methods, but it has not yet gone quite so far Yellow j'ournalism in America preached assassination, advised asscissication, defended assassination, justified assassination and gloried in assassination in the abstract until one of its dupes stepped from the crowd at Buffalo and killed the president of the United States. Yel'ow journalism in America is now encouraging and defending strikes and riots. It is pushing on the poor fcols whom it influences to violence, to prison, to the gallows. It is assailing authority, belittling law, libeling the ministers of justice, falsifying conditions, engendering hate and providing violence. No doubt It will pursue these methods until its practices shall lead to some peculiarly tragic denouement, ! when for a few days it will do as it did in the presence of the Buffalo horrorbeslobber its victims with praise aud overwhelm its dupes with censure. Chicago Chronicle.

Senator Hanna' s Warning. Senator Hanna made a telling point in his address to the Ohio republicans when he said: "Party affiliations do not always govern Judgment. Loyalty to party may be all right when indifference seems to rule, but when the people are aroused to their own true interests and that which most affects their own affairs voters judge for themselves and select fcr themselves that which is best and discard that which is not good." The republican party music remember that when It fails to come up to the standard that its history has written in letters of light it will lose the following. which good judgment now compels. This is as true of the party in the state, county and towo. as it is of the party in the nation. To keep abreast of the movement of the age, to foster the good and to restrain the "bad In policies of government and its administration in social and industrial development and theory, is the function of party leadership and an element in party success. Elkhart Review. Saturday Club Picnic About 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon last could haye been seen members of the Saturday club wending their way toward the pleasant farm home of the secretary, Miss Alice Kllnger, whera they were privileged to enjoy their final meeting, which closed a very enjoyable and profitable year. Miss Klinger, assisted by Miss Esther O'Keefe, had the long dining table and several smaller tables prettily decorated and the guests were served to a sumptuous repast. After the first course, cards headed "A penny for your thoughts, "were passed and some of the answers to the twenty questions afforded much amusement. Through the kindness of Miss Anna Dunn some flashlights were taken and just before departing, the rain having ceased, -some kodak pictures were taken of the club on the lawn. The guests departed in the evening shades after having spent a most enjoyable afternoon.- all hoping the vacation may be a pleasant one and that we may assemble again in the fall an unbroken circle. Hock Penetrates the Chin. Thomas Campbell, of Elkhart, aged 45, employed in a livery stable, stepped on a trunk to reach a bridle barging on a high wall hook. The trunk turned and in falling he caught by the chin on a sharp pointed harness book. It went through the flesh and penetrated the roof of the mouth. He grasped the rope with one hand, raised his body and with the other dand disengaged the hook, releasing hiccslf, dropping to the floor exhausted. There will bo do permanent injury.

GLORIES AT CULVER.

Incidents cf the Military Academy Com mencement Mimic Warrare on the Shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. There is no boom of evening gun to stir the echoes on Lake Maxinkuckee njw. Culver Military academy has ended its gay and attractive commencement program and closed for the summer. A Culver commencement is an elaborate affair. For five days in a military or social way there is something doing. Every sort of drill has been In progress. One hour it Is artillery drill; the cadet cannoneers serve their pieces as nimbly as cats. Now they simulate going into action. "With blank cartridges, load!" "Beady!" Fire!" There Is the click of breech blocks, the spurting flames, and deafening roar. Now a cannoneer falls wounded, and then another, and another, and the duties of all these are still performed by the few that remain. Over on the range we hear the sharp, distinctive crack of the ball cartridge. Competitive target practice is in progress. Several signal squads arc wigwagging messages with their red and white flags. A detachment across the parade ground is receiving instruction in litter drill and first aid to the woundad. After a bit we see marching to the cavalry stables a squad of lithe, muscular youngsters clad in khaki riding breeches and loose b!ue shirts. Directly we are to see a daring exhibition of blanket riding that has gained for the youthful members of the Culver Black Horse troop the reputation of being the most remarkable boy riders in the world. Each year new and daring stunts have been added, and this commencement the exhibition has been unusually fine. In addition to the riding standing, the vaulting, mounting and dismounting of galloping horses, and the spectacular Graeco-Roman riding, there has been riding standing with folded arras, with back turned to the horses' heads, riding with feet pointed skyward and but a shoulder and hand resting on the horse, dismounting be-1 tween two flying horses and mounting 1 to stand with a foot on either undulating back. These and many other startling feats have entertained the hundreds of Culver visitors during the past week, bringing from the crowded riding hall galleries alternately the hush of excited suspense, and the deafening clatter of enthusiastic applause. The afternoons this year were occupied with the splendid drills of the infantry battalion, and the pleasing Butts manual. This latter is a beautiful series of exercises in which the cadets, without woid of command, gracefully lunge to left or right, to rront or rear, swinging their rifles in perfect rhythm to catchy airs from the band. Thursday afternoon the cadets engaged in mimicry of war, giving a realistic and thrilling sham battle. The battle opened with a surprise attack on the outpost, which fell slowly back under a hot fire. A section of heavy field artillery was pushed forward to cover the retreat, which, under a hot cannonade, was withdrawn under cover of an exciting cavalry charge. The battle was then opened in earnest with a thunder of cannonading. The bursting of shells was simulated by bombs placed in trees and burled in the earth, and exploded by electricity at each shot from the field pieces. The advance was taken up by rushes with alternate volleys; the litter-bearers bore . the wounded to the rear; then came the buzz and rattle of rapid fire, and then with a wild whoop and yell the final charge and the cadets In blue shirts drove back their pro tern enemies, the cadets in khaki. She Caused a Sensation. The other night at a reception in Brooklyn a beautiful young woman created a sensation by exhibiting shoulders most exquisitely marked in pink and tan. It was evident that an artist. had done the tatcoing, for it was the most delicate tracery, resembling the lace that our proud families hold as heirlooms. It ; finally developed that the young woman had placed a bit of grandmother's precious argentan over her and lain out in the sun for a few hours. The result was a ping and tan print, and no tatoo at all. Ever since the night of the reception the. beauty has been laid away in poultices, but she caused a sensation, and that was enough. Liit of Unclaimed Letters. The following letters remain uncalled for in the post office at Plymouth, Ind., for the week ending June 9, 1903. ' GENTLEMEN. J. n. Barnand Fred Kaufman Chas. Watts . O Mulr Richard Gray John Pieper U.O. Metzger W.K. Keeper John tlerriorer - LADIES. Miss Cora Oolms Hiss Mary Bollinger Kiss Bessie Llghtmond . Please say advertised when calling for these letters. A fee of one cent will be charged oa the letters advertised." , J. A. YOCUEY, P. II.

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Illiteracy Declining in Italy. Thirty years ago only a third of the people of Italy, above 6 years of age were able to read and write. From the most learned country un the continent of Europe invasion and civil war had reduced the Und to the rank of both illiterate and pauper despite its acknowledged supremacy in art and its far from inferior place in science. The latest statistics show an encouraging increase In popular Italian intelligence. Now more than half the inhabitants above 6 years of age can read and write, and the compulsory school law of 177 is said to have had no perceptible influence in effecting so marked an improvement a wholesome sign. It is alsr. noted that hitherto' men have shown more interest in getting schooling than women have shown, but during the past twenty years the progress in women's education has been noteworthy. Marriage Licenses. William A. Sausman ... 19 Margaret B. Martin 18 Mel vln Cook 21 Lucy Reed 21 Jesse Hi veiy 20 Edith Marks 17 Charles W. Town 26 Cora EttaCole - 23 Letter to Mr. W. Pomcroy. Plymouth, Ind. Dear Sir: If you want your paint to last as long as that of otix houseowners In your town is going to last, you should use lead and zinc. . You can mix your own, or buy Devoe, as you like. The results will not be like same, however, Devoe Ready Paint is ground in oil and thoroughly mixed. Machinery does " it. Handwork can't compete with machinework, either In cost or thoroughness. Mixing by band is imperfect mixing: and zinc is peculiarly hard to mix; wants grinding. Lead and oil is honest paint; but less durable. Lead is tender and zinc is tough. The proper mixtnre ground together is better than either alone. French painters use zinc alone; but American painters think it too hard, and mix it with lead. H. E, Buck is Devoe Agent in Plymouth. Yours truly, F. T7. Dsvos & Co.

THIS WEEK we offer two of the graatest Clothing specials that have ever been shown. We must reduce our big stock of suits: 300 Men's Suits, in Homespun, Clay Worsteds, Cassimers -suits that are sold the world over at 8.50, 59.50, 110.00, 1 1 .00-make and fit equal to 4-j any all to go at one price pf 250 Men's Suits (Kirschbaum hand-made) ranging in value 12.50, 13.50, 514.50 and 515.00, make and style equal to the finest tailor made, all go at one rf if . price to close out our overstock plU In our Boys' and Children Suit Department we make a general cut of 33 percent on all knee pants and three-piece Suits. Come to headquarters for your clothing come to the only clothing store in Plymouth. Trading Stamps on all sales M. Lauer & Son One-Price Outfitters

Dress Patterns at 48c 1,000 Percale Dress Patterns put up 10 yards in each pattern, worth actually 75c per pattern; our price this week only 48c for pattern of 10 yards. We do not cut them; they are to be sold as they areten yards for 48 cents. Enough in each piece for a ladies' dress, or two dresses for children. This is a great bargain, so don't miss it. Sale of Pictures, 10c Out of 500 pictures placed on sale last Saturday morning we had left at this writing but 79- They will be sold at 10c each until all are gone. Lots of subjects still on hand. Call and see them and get your supply as this is the only 500 lot we can obtain for some time to come. They are a great bargain and make good decorations for your home.

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iL 3d ii". i '- 4 k 0 i ii ü m m ii i i! ii ii iii iii ii ü ii ii i! iii ii i! ü ii ii ii ii i! iii ii ii ii ill i! i! ii ii iii ii) We WantYevr Product We Pay Market Price Lr r- Lr Lr lt. ur Northern Indiana is said to have immense peat beds which it is proposed .to open up and buck the coal trust. Peat is said to have sixty per cent of the heat units of coal and can be furnished at a much less cost than coal.