Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 August 1903 — Page 2
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Entered at the po-toffiee at Plj mouth, Indiana, as second-class nail matter.
Plymouth, Ind., August 6, 1903. a stay iu Euiope convinced liourke Cock ran that Mr. Cleveland Is the man fur the presidency. Mr. Bryan
is goiug alroad, but the trip will not
affect him the same way.
Lafayette may have her little fail
ings, but her protest against the
street fair is worthy of all praise. There are enough demoralizing influ
ences in our cities and towns without
imposing or manufacturing any. The. agreement of the miners and operators of the western field on all questions of .difference is' cause for congratulation to the public as well as to the parties directly concerned. Every strike averted is a public benefit.
As long as Brazil continues to grow 15,500,000 bags of coffee, which was nearly the amount of her last year's product and about the estimated amount of the world's consumption, there is no probability that coffee will "advance in price.
Probably the largest can factory in the world is that of the Standard Oil company at Long Island City, at which "0,000 five-gallon cans are made from Welsh tin each day for the export kerosene trade. Three men have made 24.000 cans io one day.
So far from being prosecuted, that Buffalo clerk who . speculated successfully with his employer's money is likely to achieve the position'of a Napoleon of finance. A man who can "beat the game" these days is too valuable to be shut up in the penitentiary.
There is no route around the world in which railway and" steamship lines make an effort at close connection. The matter of a through or, rather, a circular ticket and connected time table is now being considered by companies which expect to make the time for the circuit forty-five days.
The best calculation that can be made shows that the average number of children to the white native family a century ago in the United States was more than six; in 1830 it bad fallen to less than five; in I860 to less than four; in 1872 to less than thee; in 1900, among the 4 upper classes" to less than two.
The Indianapolis Journal says the Indiana National Guard is making a showing of military efficiency in camp that would be difficult to excel. When one considers the small appropriation with which this organization gets along, and the lack of armory facilities for the companies located in the smaller cities, the work it does is remarkable.
Only threa of the fifteen members of the famous electoral commission of 1877 survive ex-Senator Edmunds, Senator Hoar and General Eppa Ilunto'n of Virginia the two last having been chosen on the part of the house of representatives. All of the five justices of the supreme court who sat on the commission long since passed away.
Sheriff Whitlock, of Danville, 111., has leaped at once from comparative obscurity to national prominence, first by his fight against a mob and now by the determined offorts he is making to bring the lynchers to justice, He has sworn out warrants against a number of the rioters, and many arrests are being made. The The people trill find ä way of rewarding Sheriff TYhitlock. 1 Organized labor at Indianapolis demonstrated the other day that it has some conception of propriety. A letter from William It. Ilearst's political manager was read at the meet-" ing of the Labor Union Monday night asking the support of Ihe union in Hearst's presidential aspirations. The letter was consigned to the waste basket. The mere mention of Ilearst's came in connection with the presidency of the United States is an intuit to the intelligence and decency of the American people. South Bend Times.
The populist leadeis who have been making an effort to reunite the various factions of that party at a conference in Denver have issued a preliminary statement of principles in which free silver, the Initiative and referendum and public ownership are made very conspicuous. In the preamble to their confession of faith they declare that as 'experience hss demonstrated the futility of any attempt to secure th3 enactment, of XXizzz principles through the republican or democratic prti-s" thoy cpc;; bereifter ij cCIli-tin vrith cither cf th::e
Russia has just agreed to open a few more ports in the far East, It tickles the other powers and Russia doesn't intend to lose anything by it.
The federal grand jury at Washington, has reported four more indictments against A. W. Machen, the former superintendent of free delivery, on charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government in connection with con tracts. Others are also named.
Again we would ask: Why fritter away your time and money jolng to expensive .resorts in search of cool
weather. Patronize home industries,
and see how much better terms you will be on with the coal man when the katydids prophecies begin to come
true.
German trade with the United States last year was enormous, accord
ing to Consul General Mason, who, re ports that the value of German ex
pcrts to the United States during the fiscal year ended July 1 last was $119,-
778,626, or a net Increase of 18,064, 561 over the preceding fiscal year.
Five hundred stone cutters and
stone masons were locked out at Pitts
burg, Pa., Thursday by the contractor's in accordance with the
action taken by the Builders League.
This is the first step taken in the im
pending fight between the Builders' League and. the building trades coun
cils.
Chairman Walter Brown shows a
very self-sacrificing spirit when he offers to accept the district chairmanship for another term to the neglect of bis business interests. There is a
limit, however, to the claims a party may make of an individual, and in Mr. Brown's case that limit was passed long ago. It would be positively
cruel to ask any further sacrifice of
brain power and muscle from him. Nappanee Advance. The Government Printing Office. The recent scandal relating to the attempts of the labor unions to throw Book-binder Miller out of his job in the bindery department of the government printing office may have excellant results. It has attaacted popular attention to the monopoly, the extravagance, the mismanagement and profligacy of the present system of public printing. According to admitted facts the government printing . costs almost twice as much as it would If performed by private enterprise under contract, and poorer service Is received. Until very recent years the printers and bookbinders in the government office were selected bv congressmen from ajl parts of the country. They were paid higher wages than employes received in any private print
ing establishment and did less work.
It was the 4 'softest snap" that a con
gressman had for the payment of his campaign debts to the country printers of his district.
Then the unions got possession of the establishment and even the in
fluence of a United States senator could not get a job in the government office for a printer who did not belong
to the union. A condition of politi
cal terrorism was created. The un
ions controlled the congressmen and the terms of appointment in the print
ing service. The adoption of civil service rules did not create a great Improvement. Owing to this condition the archaic system of hand typesetting is still retained in the government printing office. Itcosts twice as much as typesetting by machine and three times as many men are required to perform the same work. The entire institution is rotten with lizlness, idleness, "soldiering", mallnging and with every other vice in a system under political control y which the entire effort of thousands of men is to get all the money possible amount for the least amount of work. This is a system of government ownership of a "public utility." It is extravagant, inefficient, corrupt and shelters a nest of conspirators who threaten to strike if there Is an innovation on the least of the privileges which they have usurped and established through the labor union terrorism in politics. The employes in the government printing office run the government as far as that department is concerned; it is regarded as a great piece of impudence for Jhe government to try to run its own printing office. The government printing office should be abolished and the printing for the government, like the construction of public buildings and harbor improvements, should be let to the lowest and best bidder. Millions of dollars would be saved each year and better work would be performed. Chicago Chronicle r.:r.my Cave cf AlrXa. Prof. Edmund S. Meany of the Smithsonian Institution, is the first scientist to visit the mummy caves of the Aleuts of Alaska. Many mummies, to be sure, have been sent from Alaska, from time to time, but no man of learning has ever examined the caves themselves. ' The report vrhich tha prcfccccr will doubtlecs prepare trill be locked for with eome int:r::t. ...
By Turme! to Russia. During the last few years, and especially since the rapid, development of Alaska began, there have been occasional hints of the possibility of the construction of a railway, connecting the United States with Russia, by way of Alaska and the Bering straits. The idea seemed chimerical, butothers that seemed quite as much so at the beginning have become realities, and this one may. It has at least taken root in the minds of some practical men. Secretary of the Interior Uitchcock recently received a petition from the Transalaska-Siberian Railway Company ifor bis approval of a route across Alaska to a certain point on the coast, from whence it is proposed to tunnel by the way of certain islands to the Russian coast and connect with the Transsiberian Railway, which is already completed. The company which has asked for a hearing from the secretary of the Interior is -com. posed of French, Russian and American capitalists, and Is organized under the laws of Maine, which are very liberal towards corporators, and the list includes the names of prominent European and American capitalists. The petition now in the hands cf the secretary of the interior bears the names of former Solicitor Conrad, of of the Department of Justice, and of Attorney Charles II. Aldrich, formerly of Fort Wayne and now of Chicago. These gentlemen would not knowingly lend their names to any "fake" enterprise. The attorneysfof the company have asked the secretary of the interior to fix a day for a hearing when they will appear and explain its plans and establish with the department the good (faith of the enterprise. It is said the application to the secretary for a right of way will be followed by an application to congress for a land grant through Alaska, conditioned somewhat after the Northern Pacific grant. His Time Expired. C. E. McPherson,a son. of Mrs. S. C. Falconburg, and well known to our people, arrived at his home here last Sunday evening, uc-having just been discharged from tho U. S. Navy
on account of the term cf bis enlistment having expired. Mr. McPherson enlisted in the navy at Chicago on the 24th day of July, 1899, and embarked on the warship Resolute and sailed to the West Indies. lie was afterward transferred to the Dixie, then to the Oresron and afterwards to the Quios. lie saw service In the Philippine Islands and China, and helped to
carry raen and supplies to many countries in Europe, even touching
Africa. lie says that he went through no special hardships that while he was never in any regular battle yet he had a considerable experience in the
skirmish line having been on guard duty quite often. He was glad to get home but has not decided just
what he will do in the future. Bourbon News-Mirror.
He Did Not Sell. An exchange tejls the story of a
farmer who had decided to sell his property and listed it with a real estate agent who wrote a very 'good de
scription of the place, When the
agent read it over to the farmer for
his approval, the old man said, "Read that again." After the second reading, the farmer sat for several minutes In a thoughtful mood, and finally
said, "I don't believe I want to sell.
I've been looking for that kind of a place all my life, and it never occurred
to me that I had it until you describ
ed it to me. No, I don't want to sell
out. "The same is true of vour home
town and county. Many people do not appreciate their surroundings un
til they get away or hear and ste
others appreciating their advantages
and they suddenly realize that they
are 7ery well situated.
Monty in Sugar BeelJ. -R. J. Brown, of Bay City, Mich.,
who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. A..P, DeLung in this city, is impressed with the idea that the soil cf
Marshall county will p"odiice excellent
sugar beets.
He says Bay County, Michigan,
furnishes beets for. the four large
sugar factories of Bay City, and farm
ers are getting rich. Over $350,000
were paid out in cash to farmers on
the first payment fur beets last year
and the second payment was almost as large. . ,
Pish Killed by Thonsandj. Under the supervision of the secre
tary of the board of health of Ander
son, countless numbers of fish, weighing between 12,000 and K,000 pounds, were taken from White river and burned The fish were of many varieties and were killed by the refuse from strawboard factories getting into the rver. The state authorities will take up' the matter. r. As It Apptars i.v.Jtecuri. An editor works 365 üiya per year to get out flfty-tp'o issues of I Js, paper that's labor. Once in a while somebody pays him a year's subscription that's capital; and once in awhile some sneak takes a paper a year or two without paying for it-that's anarchy. But there is a plrice prepared where the last-named creature will get his juet deserts that's hell. G raham Pect. I
Shall Hard Time Be Invited? Lieutenant Governor Haggard In
dulges In some observations that ought to lead to pretty solid thinking
bv all who know what .hard times
mean. There is much food for thought in these sentences. "If a long period
of national prosperity is to end in ge.i
eral demoralization of industrial and
mercantile Interests through the ma chinations of demagogues and agi
tators, who sow the seeds of discord and discontant. then what's, the use
of prosperity? -If its fruits cannot be preserved because some are dissatis
fied with their share, then we might as well abandon the factories and
milis to the bats and owls, and the fields to weeds and briars. But these
things will not oe. The demagogue
and the agitator must go. The strong
arm of the law, backed by the moral
sense of a courageous and Intelligent
people will have ample power to re
store and perpetuate peace and order,
and preserve to every citizen both his
natural rights, and the rights guar
anteed to him by the con; titution of
his country." Expenses Can Be Reduced.
It is reported to be a part of the
forthcoming policj of Speaker Cannon,
of the national bouse of representa
tives, to introduce many features of
economy in the work of the house and
among tbera he hopes to curtail or drop off entirely the river and harbor
bill, where so much of the people'
money is generally wasted in useless
improvements or no improvements at all. The administration will make
friends and do the country a great ser
vice by seconding the attempts of the
speaker to pare down the appropria
tion bills. The business of congress
can just as well be conducted on a fair
and just, economical basis, as the business of a private individual. The appropriations should not be niggardly, neither should they be needlessly extravagant. South Bend Trioune. Rockefeller Had to Pay Cash. Mr. John Lane, , of Logansport, recalled an incident that occurred in which the late C. F. Thompson, of that city, - missed a favorable opportunity to become wealthy. Thompson had a cooper shop near the Wa
bash passenger station, in Logansport, and one day he received an order for barrels from John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate who was not then rated very high. The bill amounted to $1,500, and Thompson turned the order down. Rockefeller offered him a big bunch of stock If he would furnish the barrels, but the cooper did not fancy Standard Oil stock, and he held out for the money, thereby securing full payment in cash, but refusing stock which would have made him a millionaire.
Mow to Run a Newspaper; To run a newspaper all a fellow baa to do is to be able to write poems, discuss the tariff and money question, umpire a baseball game, report a wedding, saw wood, descilbe a fire so that the readers will shed their wrps, make a dallar do the work of ten, shine at a dance, measure calico, abuse' the liquor habit, test whisky,' subscribe to, charity, go without meals, attack free silver, defend blmetalism, invent advertisements, overlook scandal, appraise babies4, delight pumpkin raisers, minister to the afflicted, heal the disgruntled, fight to a finish, set type, mold opinions, sweep the office, speak at prayer meetings, stand in with everybody and everything.
MARRIED
Manuwal--McClurg.
Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock,
Mr. Lewis Manuwal and Miss Grace
McClurg were united in marriage by
Rev A. P. DeLong at the residence
of Christian Manuwal in this city.
About eighty guests witnessed the
impressive ceremony and after con-
gratulating the happy young couple
enjoyed a splendid wedding supper.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McClurg, of Wolf
Creek. She is an estimable young lady not quite seventeen years old.
She received many beautiful useful and valuable presents. Her husband
is the son of Christian Manuwal of this
city and is in his twenty-first year.
The young couple commence in
time for a long, happy, and prosperous married life and have the best
wishes of many friends. Beginning Irrigation. An event of more than common im-
portance will be the beginning of work upon the Tonto storage reservoir in
Arizona, the first great enterprise un der the new irrigation law.
The Salt River Valley has been
chosen by the government engineers
as most favorable for the inauguration of the new system. The land to be
Irrigated is all in private ownership.
Liens are executed covering every acre to be benefited, and the association of land owners which is formed to
facilitate the work agrees to repay
the construction cost with interest
within ten years. -
Not only does the storage reservoir
water by gravity all the lands below
it, but the fall at the dam is to furo
ish power to pump water to higher
lands, until now practically valueless.
As the money expended upon the
lands of private owners is to be re
funded, and as the irrigation of publ'c
lands will enhance their value, the process of restoring the fertility of arid America will go forward with automatically increasing celerity, and the dry Southwest will thus in time be one great great garden teeming with a prosperous people. New York World.
A Witty Bishop. Bishop Talbott of the Episcopal church has a ready wit. While in Wyoming not long ago a cowboy who was slightly intoxicated rode up and said: "Ilulio! I'm glad to see you. Where in dill I see yod before?" The bishop quietly answered: 4 'I am not sure, my friend. From what part of hades do you come?" The bishop called recently on Archdeacon Radcliffe of Stroudsburg, Pa., and said: ,4Are.you well, archdeacon?" Df. Radcliffe said he never .felt better. "I am glad to bear, you say so." said the bishop, .."'or I want you to work like the devil." The archdeacon looked shocked, but . Bishop Talbott added: "You know the devil is always working." The Latest Thing on Earth. The .latest thing , on earth is the trans-Alaska-Siberian railway which
has been organized by French, Rus-4
sian and American capitalists. The incorporators of tie road set forth in their petition that the route thet propose is along certain portions of the Pacific coast to Junea and thence in a westerly direction to the most westerly point of Alaska, extending into the Berlngsea. They state that is is ths purpose to construct a tunnel under the Bering - straits with a view to making a connection with a view to making a connection with the mainland upon the Sibeiian side. Sculh Bend Ycuth Held for Thdt William Seifert, a highly connected young man of Couth Bend, was arrested and taken to Michigan City on a warrant charging him with the theft of money and clothc3 from a room mate, He formerly held a responsible petition with a large manufacturing company of South Bend but lest it through fernery;
Elephants Pulled Wagon Out. Friday one of the heaviest wagons in the Forepaugh-Sells show, loaded with the heaviest poles of fhe great
canvass, was being puHel by ten
horses along West Jefferson street.
Right in front of NortuD' lumber of
fice the ground was soft, owing to a
recently laid sewer,' and the hind wheels of the wagon went down to the hubs. The five span-of big horses
that were drawing the load were com
pletely stalled. Six more horses were
hitched in, but the sixteen could not
budge the vehicle an inch. Then two
of the largest elephants were brought into requisition. One was stationed
on either sids of the wagon by the
wheels that were down in the sewer-
ditch. The huge animals, with the
intelligence of men, wrapped each a
trunk about the hub, braced their
great shoulders against the load, lifted
the wheels with their giant trunks.
and with shoulders fairly pushed the
vehicle cut oi the ditch and on to hard
ground. It was a great sight to those
fortunate enough to witness this feat.
Macomb Journal.
Slow Orders to Be Observed.
Journal Gazette: Pennsylvania passenger trains entering the city from the west have been running slightly behind time, It seeming difficult to come in on the schedule. The reason for this is the fact that beween Fort Wayne and Plymouth there are seven slow orders, taking iu many miles of track. Engineers religiously observe these orders and when they are able to make a burst of speed to make up time they do it, but if the opportunity is not presented they come into the station late. Construction work is going on at seven different places and new double track. Is being put in. Within a short time the slow orders will be done away with. The Small Grains. A man recently made a fortune by picking out specks of gold from the heaps which the miners had 'cast up and abandoned. They were in search of nuggets and despised the smaller grains which rewarded his perseverance.. And bow frequently the richest findings of philosophy are in the commonplace incidents of lifel In circumstabces and places that seem wholly uncongenial to it the poet's heavenly attuned ear discerns a sweet undertone of harmony which all the hurly burly of sin and misery cannot down.
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Eloped at Eighty. The filing of the report of Isaac Lockard, guardian of Isabel Draper, of Coshocton, brought to light a romance. The '-vard, Mrs. Draper, is eighty-four years old, and'an imbecile In the eyes of the law. A few days ago when her guardian- was attempting to exercise his authority the damsel of four score years coyly eloped with Abrain Dittinger, age seventy-six. They were married, and have returned to claim her estate, valued at $10,000. The matter will bs circa In the courts.
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