Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 January 1904 — Page 4

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Established October 10, 1901, Only Republican Newspaper in the Couaty. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. OFFICE Bisseil Building. Corner L Forte and Center Streets. Telephone No. 27. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. In advance, 11.50; Slot Monthü. 75 cents; Three A K a Jik ante r)cHvnn1 t. u n v nTMtnffi( ADVERTISING RATES made known on irEntered at the po-to5ce at Plymouth, Indiana, as second-class mall matter. Plymouth, Ind., January 28, 1904. ' Says the Boston Ilera'd: "The Bryan Dollar Dinner out at Lincoln seems to have been a sort of a fiftycenter." Well, isn't that about what a Bryan dollar is worth? In the absence of huv other issue, the Democratic party will be reduced to the extremity of predicting another four years of hard times and universal distress. Mr. Bryan's latest phrase in bidding for immortality is: uTbe plutocracy of wealth," That is excellent; it sounds almost as well, as ,',The democracy of the people," "The monarchy of kings" or "The asinlty of the jackass. A few weeks ago we were told that the country was trembling upon the brink of a financial and industrial crisis. . But the country has quit trembling and sotneone has removed the brink. It takes something more than a few alarmists crying "fire" to start a commercial panic in sucb times as these. and claims that snakes are indigenous to Ireland, St. Patrick to the contrary notwithstanding. Tbis "higher criticism" is knocking all the props from under our most cherished traditions. But perhaps the Dublin editor had been drinking Scotch whiskey. n It is believed now that the inquest Id the Iroquois Theater disaster will condemn the city Inspection methods and perhaps locate the main responsibility on the city government. It would be a fitting culmination of the era of incompetence and corruption under Mayor Harrison. Walter Brown, the indicted bank wrecker, and ex-chairman of the I3tb congressional district, was one of the principle backers of the newspaper staited to injure the Tribune. He bad considerable trouble in furnishing bonds. His old time friends of this county the Yockey Pickerl combina tion who were ably ample (?) to fur nish the $10,000 bond were not on hand to sign the necessary document. The latest report from Washington announces that eleven democratic sen ators will vote for ratification of the canal treaty. Well, that is more than enough to pass it, but nevertheless it is probable that even more of them will get on board the canal boat. They will throw a sop to the antis by sup porting a resolution of inquiry into the Panama revolution, but this will not delay matters. It will be in the nature of a courtesy to Senator Gor man. The Hon. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four railway system, has made a speech in which he intimates that business is paralyzed and labor is unemployed. If anyone Is disposed to take Mr. Ingalls seriously, let him try to locate a few Big Four box-cars with nothing to do or tempt a brake man off of one of Mr. Ingalls freight .trains with an Invitation to join the kind of military maneuvers the Coxeys and the Kelleys were conducting dur ing the only period of disenthrallment from the galling thraldom of tariff taxation this country has enjoyed dur ing the lifetime of this generation. The Parker, presidential , boom has suffered a killing frost as the result of the refusal of the Tammany society to cive it endorsement. Our Indiana democratic friends may as well get .ready to accept the inevitable, whose , name in this instance happens to be Senator Arthur Poe Gorman. It is true that the name of Gorman was given the boot contemptuous at the Indiana democratic state Convention of 1894, but President Cleveland's name was applauded at the same con Tention. and times have changed. With Gormai at the head of the democratic jarty, Wall street tack of It, and a ha'ikering for the flech-pots extending all the way between, iscucs uiil cake üo particular diTerenc3 any

That $500,000 appropriated bycongress may not exterminate the boll weevil, but it is a dead certainty that the boll'weevil will Exterminate the $500,000. . i ,A ' New Albany reports daffodils peeping out of the ground on Silver Hills, Friday, Jan. 22. They promptly withdrew, however, when the mercury dropped to freezing point again.

Three Arkansas citizens are dead from drinking ginger ale flavored with lemon extract. Arkansas people should stick to their original ''fortyrod" and not experiment with "soft drinks" Korea has two names, "The Hermit Nation" and "The Land of Morning Calm." It is so very far from deserving either one of these titles nowadays that to refer to it thus were a grim, sarcastic jest. An Oklahoma railroad president has been fined for swearing at a ne gro, isow, ii UKianoma gets an tne Southern senators down on her by such unheard-of proceediogs as that, how can she expect ever to be admitted as a state. The gentlemen who are running the democratic party in Indiana will permit Mr. Bryan to make speeches n Hoosierdom hereafter, and they will allow bis followers to support the democratic state and national tickets at the polls, providing they do this decently and in order, but theslxteen-to-oners will have no more to do with controlling the party hereafter than a locomotive fireman has with hand ling the throttle of his engine. The reorganizes are in the saddle, the par ty machinery Is theirs, and Mr. Thomas Taggart, the urbane and as tute dispenser of politics and 11 u to water, who was denounced by Mr. Bryan two years ago for burning in cense at the Cleveland shrine, will see to it that the long-haired and loudlunged gentleman who were foolish enough to believe in the last two nat ional platforms of the democratic party, are permitted to make a gener ous contribution of silence to the cam paign of 1904. The Indianapolis Sentinel remarks: "The time has arrived for an inquiry into the expenditure of money in the management of state affairs. We feel that the people of this .state would like to look into the books and see what has become of the taxes they have been paying." we know of nothiog but sneer indisposition to prevent the author of the outbreak quo ted from burrowing into the books to his heart's content and bringing to light the figures that would otherwise corroborate or discredit the suspicions of the Sentinel, if suspicions are gnaw ing at its esteemed vitals. The oflcial reports are to be found at Indianapolis. the bxtks are there, the vouchers are there, the facts are there, but we advise the Sentinel, in all charitable ness of spirit, that the less it talks of state issues during the approaching campaign, and particularly and espec ially the less it goes into comparative figures, the better service it will be performing for the party of debt and disaster. . Why Roosevelt- Smile. By the way, a lady of tbe official circle claims she has m adeadiscoverv as to the origin of one of the Presi dent's best known traits. It is the habit of keeping a smile or the sem blance of a smile on bis faoe on all oc casions. ''If you ever saw the presi dent when be was forced to banish bis smile," this lady confided to a friend the other day, "you would understand why it is he has acquired the habit of wearing it on all possible occasions, I never saw him without it until tbe other day at Mrs. Hoar's funeral, and I give you my word, J. don't want to see him without ! it again. No one can call bis face handsome or attractive, even when he looks his best and smiles bis genialist. But when,, bis face is in absolute repose, and not only serious but solemn weli it's enough to startle a timid person. It's the most solemn human countenance you ever saw. , He probably found that out long ago, and that's why he wears the smile that doesn't come off. He is entitled to wear it." Washington Letter in Pittsburgh Post. ' The editor of a weekly . newspaper in Australia offers himself as a prize to. the woman who writes the best es say on the duties of a wife. I pays no taxes I pays no rent. Often busted without a cent; But a king anoc-r menfrom dis cziz I'm Ires, Tis tetter than wealth F.ocliy Ileus tain Tea. People's Drug Gtcre

The material development of 7jtne

country is quietly. progressing at a re markable rate in-one direction which s not givenlmuch popular attention. More than 22,824,299 acres of the pub ic lands were turned over to private ndlviduals last year. This means Lhat an area almost equal to that of the State of Indiana has within that ime been addsd to the productive re gions of the United States. Most of these newly opened lands were homesteaded by farmers, as will be seen from the" following figures: There were 54,365 patents of all classes is sued within thejear. Of this num ber, 47,634 are classed as agricultural, 4,904 as Indian allotments, 1,104 as mineral patents, 200 as,coal patents, 270 as private land claims, 187 as railroad patents, and forty as swamp land patents. The total sum which the Government got by way of fees and commissions for issuing these patents was $11,024,744. Under a recent law the most of the receipts from the sale of public lands will henceforth be set aside for reclaiming arid lands by irrigation. In the public domain there are still unappropriated 380,979,307 acres of surveyed lands, and 591,976,169 acres of unsurveyed lands, or a total of more than' 970,955,000 acres. A great many tracts in this immense area, of course, will always remain unculti vated, and unsettled, but it has been estimated that when the contemplated system of irrigation shall be put into working order, so much good land will be opened that a population as large as the whole nation's present population could find room to thrive prosperously and contentedly. Rapid strides are now being made in the developing of the public do main. The excitement and uproar of former pioneer davs are absent in tbis work, but tbe process is marked and very effective. The passenger traffic on Western railroads is evidence of this fact. Agreeable reflections arise in contemplating that the Uoited States still owns so much arable public land. The dangers of an overcrowded population by immigration or natural increase are still remote. The census for many years yet to come will not show an excess of people above, what the West will need in settling up its Vaiant lands. Kansas City Journal. i - Search for Blue Moons. "Did you ever see a blue moon?" The pretty girl looked at her caller and smiled. It was one of tbe hours when tbe pretty girl, making her toilet, received her friends at the same time. "Invitation hour," she called it, because it was the hour of hours to invite confidences. "If -you never saw a blue moon 1 can show you one now," she went on, holding a pretty finger at the caller. "That finger is just twenty one years old. Yet until this morning it never bad a blue moon. Now you see it shining at tbe base of tbe nail, a little dull, whitish blue thing. "To get the moon out on every finger is a distinct knack. Mine showed On my thumbs and on the forefingers, but it would not come out on the others. Then I went to work - "I soon discovered one thing, and that is that you can not .work at the moons roughly with a metal instrument, nor even with an orange wood stick. The stick can be used ever so gently to hit the cuticle and can be run around the base of tbe nail, raising the skin. But you must not use tbe stick to push back the flesh nor to poke out the moon. "The minute you jab the moon with the stick ycu make a scar upon it. The scar will show in a few days as a big white mark. It will grow larger and larger and larger, and it will stay with you until it grows out at the tip end of the nail." Egg and nigh Prices. The poultryman who has handled his fowls just right is reaping the benefit of the bigh prices at which eggs are now selling. ;if the hens are not laying and they are of an age when they should be, the thing to do is to see that the bouses they occupy are warm and free from draughts; then look into the food question closely, and see that the rations furnish the egg-producing and , egg-making , quaiities, and that they are properly given, that is, not too much , or too little. Supply fresh warm water, plenty of grit and a dust box and keep the houses and the hens free from lice. These things done regularly, for several weeks will bring the eggs. If not, then the hens should go to the carcass market as soon as possible so that tbe expense of feeding them may be cut off. This may be a heroic remedy, but the fact remains that if a hen cared for on the lines indicated, does not lay, provided, of course, that she is well and at a laying age. she has no part in the operation of tne farm for profit and should be.turned into money as soon as possible. Surpri: Psrty. The friends -of Miss Jeanette Becker gave her a very pleasant surprise at her home on Jefferson street last evening. There were about ten ladies and gentlemen present. The evening vr-3 Epent wilh various games, light refreshments were served and a pleasant tiaas t?a3 enjoyed by all.

Ccuncir Proceeding The city council met in regular ses

sion Monday evening with all members present except Councilmen Parker. The petition Of M.- A. O. Packara for adjustment of water rents was referred to the committee on water works with instructions to adjust. The city attorney's report on the exhaust at tbo Pennsylvania pumping station was read andmore time was given in which to complete' his investigation. A resolution was adopted declaring it the duty of the night police to confine his duties to the business districts of the city, except in case of emergency. A special committee heretofore appointed to report on the may or's appointment of night police, recommended that the appointment be confirmed and the council on motion confirmed such appointment and approved to appointee's bonds. The report of city commissioners on the assessment for tbe Sophia street pavement was placed before the council and Feb. 8, is the time fixed for the council to approve, modify or confirm tbe assessments. No other business to be brought before the council on motion they adjourned. , Bird That Kills Snakes, That peculiar native of South Africa, the secretary bird, so called because of the feathers on its bead, which look as if t carried a pen behind its ear, is far more of a pedestrian than a flyer, ranging all day in search of food over a large expanse of country. It seldom takes to wing from choice, but is a great traveler on foot. That wben hungry and bard put to it for food the secretary occasionally attacks, vanquishes and devours poisonous snakes of considerable size is by no means so frequent an occurrence as the old naturalist believed. The bird fullv understands his risk in these encounters and takes his measures ac cordingly. He attacks the snake la a very wary manner, feinting with his wings and waiting bis opportunity. When that comes he buffets tbe snake heavily with his wings strikes it with his strong feet, and, having partially disabled it, breaks Its vertebra witn a blow or two of its forDiidable beak or pierces its brain. Chicago News. Rations For Fowls. One of the most successful farmerpoultry men in the country says that be allows his Uying hens to balance their own rations. That is, he furnishes them with tbe different kinds of grains, cut bone, grit and animal food in the 'proper quantities, each separated from tbe other and permits them to eat -as they will. In this way, It is claimed, each fowl's instinct will teach it to eat of the grain that its system demands. There may be' good objections to this plan, but it isadvocaed there as a compromise for those who are not inclined to go to the trouble of balancing the rations for the hens. The main point in this method is not to give the hens, in the several ingredients composing the rations, more, in all. than they will likely eat clean. The plan is well worth trying, for it can do no harm if care is taken not to permit the birds to overfeed. Freak Newspapers. There dosen't seem tobe very great demand for freak newspapers. However, the many recent failures of newspapers which bad oddity as their chief characteristic does not seem to discourage fresh victims from offering themselves. Now and then a freakish daily apparently makes good, but the appearance is deceiving and the scheme lasts but a brief period and shuts down or, as is sometimes the case, is closed by the sheriff, who is an especially prominent feature in freak journalistic circles. More and more it is emphasized that the newspaper-reading public is turning to quality and is giving its support to quality, which is a healthy sign of the times. Newspaperdom. Installation of Officers. At tbe meeting, Sunday eve, of St, Bon i lice Society held in St. Joseph's hall the following officers were Installed for the ensuing year: John Ed Bergman, Pres; Peter C. Bergman, Vice Pres; W. G. Hendricks, Sec; Edward Wade, Asst. Sec; Conrad Bergman, German Sec; Adam Ball, Treas; Peter Hendricks, Color Bearer; Louis Wickey and Louis Wade, Asst. Color Bearers; Peter J. Kruyef, Trustee; George Nagle, Orator. After the business was transacted the new officers passed the cigars and the remainder of the evening was spent In games aüd smoking. Must Return to Prison. Rev. William E. Hlnshaw, the con: victed wife murderer, spent Saturday in Indianapolis with friends and left for Michigan City in the afternoon and began serving his sentence again Sunday, ne is in good health and said he hoped to be a free man soon and wanted to thank every man in the state who feels kindly toward him." Thn porcupine may have his quills, The elephant his trunk, But when it comes to cpmmca seents,

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Propose to Curb Tramps. ; Several different forces, commercial, charitable and municipal, have combined to wage a war of extermination against tramps.. To that end a conference wbs recently.held in Philadelphia. Representatives of the Uaited Charjty Organization societies and of the great railroads of the country met there and outlined a plan of campaign which should rid the country of the long-standing reproach of mendicai cy and trampdom. It is to be at once a campaign of conquest and of benevolent assimilation. Where the tramp declines tobe benevolently assimilated into decent self-respecting society he is going to be eliminated, either by

imprisonment r bv starvation, bvrounding him up or by making things so unpleasant for him by cutting him off from his base of supplies and interfering with his transportation facilities that he will be forced to see the error. of his ways and forsake them. So the knell of the tramp is sounding. Man tramps, women tramps, girl tramps and boy tramps are to iro, never ta return. , System and cooperative governmental science is to make an end of the "yeggs" and the "petermen," the ;,gay cats" and "panhandlers," the "floppers" "tbrowouts" and "jockers." The railroads, acting Jn conjunction with tbe mendiaDcy police forces in the cities, which are under the control of the organized charity associations, are going to close the lines of- communication. Tramps will not be able to move about. They will be kept under the eye and control of the charity organization societies and the police in the big cities. As they drift in from the smaller towns and tbe "road" where thev have been begging and pilfering, insulting and frightening women and children, and committing all sorts of small crimes and depredations, they will be gathered up by the police and the charity society organizations working together. Th:re is to be in all the big cities a special force of police to look after them a mendicancy police, working in cooperation with the local organized charity association. And between the big cities there is to be another special force of police to look after them the railroads are seeing to that. They are going to keep bim off their lines altogether. They are driven to in self-defense. For years tramps have been derailing cars, tampering with switches, burning bridges, robbing and killing lonely towermen and station agents in out-of-the-way places. Tramps are to be kept in the cities. Tbey will not travel to any great extent along country roads. That means walking, and walking is hard work. Cotton Thread. How many women, as they ply the needle, know that a hundred years ago cotton thread was unknown in needlework, and that nothing but silk thread was thought good enough for sewing purposes? x How the change was brought about was told the other evening at Paisley, Scotland, by ex-Provost Clark, at a meeting in behalf of Mr. Chamberlain's project, says the Boston Globe, It seems that Napoleon occupied Hamburg in 1803, and, being at war with Great Britian, he caused all the silk in tbe town to be buried. Mr. Clark's father, being engaged In twine making at that time, was put to bis wit's ends, but was finally obliged to substitute cotton warp for silk. By twisting it into thread be manufactured the six-cord sewing silk that is still made to the present day. The first thread was mad3 into skeins, but tbe manufacture of spool cotton came later. ' This is the simple history of the birth of cotton thread. Necessity has seldom proved tbe mother of a more important invention. -i.t3 ASK YOUK NEIGHBORS Hundreds of Plymouth Citizens Can Tell You About It. Home endorsement, the public expression of Plymouth people, should be evidence beyond dispute for every Plymouth reader. Surely the experience of friends and neighbors, cheerfully given by them, will carry more weight than tbe utterances of stranggers residing In faraway places. Read the following: - Samuel Biggens, section foreman of Pittsburg R. R., living last bouse on Minor St., says: "When I first noticed kidnev complaintsome years ago the attacks were mild, but as time passed tbey became of longer duration and were more acute until about a year ago when they forced me to stop work and go to bed for three, weeks. I knew from the action of the kidney secretions which were highly colored and contained sediment and from their frequency particularly at night .that to my kidneys was to be attributed the sole , cause of the disturbance. That combined with severe pain across my loins which prevented me from stooping or doing anything with any degree of ease, led me to consult a doctor. He told me I was verging on Bright's disease. Things ran along like this for the last few months until I sent Mrs. RIggens to J. W. Rinard's drug store for Doan's Kidney Pills. Tbe treatment positively stopped too frequent action of the kidney secretions and tided me over the last attack of backache. " For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milourn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the United remember the name Dean's and take no substitute,

MORTUARY Dorothy A. Holtorf. Dorothy A., the youngest child of Mrs. Anna Holtorf, of North Center street, died at her home at 5 o'clock this morning after an illness of about two weeks. Deceased was born in South Bend, July 31, 1895, being 9 years, 6 months and 25 days old at the time of her death. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church Wednesday morning, Rev. S. M. Yenn officiating. The remains were taken to South Bend for interment. Chancy Kilmer. Chancy Kilmer was born in Schohorie county, New York, May 3rd, 1820, and died Jan. 25, 1904, at the age of 83 years, 8 months, and 26 days. At the age of 12 the deceased moved with his parents from place at birth to Crawford county, Penn., where he resided 13 years, when he moved to Fulton county. Ind., where he met and married at the age of twenty-five, Elizabeth Whaley. After residing in Fulton county about eight years he moved to LaPorte county, Ind., living there three years be returned to Fulton county. He lived in Fulton county ten years when he came to Marshall county where he resided until 1877, in which year he moved to Barron county, Wisconsin, and later to southern Wisconsin, where he resided until 1893, when he returned to Marshall county Ind., where he made his home until his death. His wife, Elizabeth Kilmer, two sons, George. M. Kilmer, of Hillsdale, Wis., and Wm. Kilmer, of Marshall Co. Ind., five daughters, Mrs. Sarah D. Moore and Mrs. Lois M. Wiseman, in Missouri; Mrs. Effie I. Dawson, of Hillsdale, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Lettie Cast and Mrs. Alice Jackman, of Plymouth, Ind., survive him. The deceased was a member of the Christian church for thirty years having united with that church while living in LaPorte county. Funeral services were held at the residence of C. P. Jackman, Wednesday Jan. 27, at 2 oclock p. m. "Farewell dear one, take your rest, God calls you as He thinks best." Harvey Theodore Huff. Harvey Theodore Huff, son of Harvey D. and Mary I. Huff, was born Dec. 8, 1902 and departed this life Jan. 24, 1904, aged 1 year 1 month and sixteen days. He was the second of this family to answer the Master's summons. The father being called May 10, 1903. The mother and sister, little Marietta

Very. Last Call

Saturday, Jan. 30, 1Ü4

FOR the last time this winter we will sell choice of any Coat, Cape, Skirt or Suit in the Cloak Department at

Worth not less than $10 each and up to $15. If in need of anything in this line and if you know a bargain when you see one offered, take this one in as it is for your own good, not for ours, as we can get more at any auction store. It is simply a ridiculous offer that only Kloepfer is capable of making Remember the day, Saturday, Jan. 30, and only on that day. Don't ask for this offer on any other day as we will positively refuse to accept

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. - SPECIAL SÄLE. of all odds and ends of our Royal Worcester and Puritan Corsets, all of which are $1.00 and $1.25 grades, and wc have put a price of 49c acn on tntm wWcn out to mahe them go quick. Vc also will sell a lot of Ladies' $1.00 and $1.25 Kid Gloves in colors and white at 49 C- making an attractive sale for the last week in January. Vc also add a Remnant Sale to them, which alitocthcr should keep us cn the move. E3;:;3r'5 Neu Yor!i ZtZiZ.

Colli Xire THAT DOES CURE.

iUR White Tine and Tar Cough Cure fails to do what is expected of it about once in two hundred times. At such limes desire to refund money paid for it. On the whole it is the best cough cure we have ever seen tried. It does the utmost possible good with yut possible harm, Pleasant to take and prompt in results, equally good for children or adults. QCZr For Large Bottle. IE, Laporte Street, - PLYMOUTH. Fern left to mourn their depart- ure. The funeral services were conducted at the M. E. Church in Inwood by the Rev. M. Crews assisted by Rev. J. D. Belt in the presence of a large audience. The relatives appreciate most sincerely the kindness of their friends. Another dear one has left us. Another flower from earth has gone. But its bloom hath been transplanted To dwell beneath a heavenly sun. And by the side of Life's deep river, Where sweetest flowers bend o'er the stream, This lovely flower shall bloom forever, More beauteous than we can dream. Farewell, loved one, Thou'rt gone forever, From this unhappy world of ours, Where thorns beneath our feet e'er springeth Among life's best and sweetest flowers. But though thou art gone we will not mourn thee, Nor wish thee back to earth again, Where with life's purest, sweetest pleasures Are ever mingled grief and pain. Mrs. Ernestina Koontz. Mrs. Ernestina Koontz died at her home on East Garro St., in this city at 12 o'clock last night after an illness of several weeks. Deceased was born in Saxon, Germany, Dec. 29, 1844, being 59 years and 28 days old at the time of her death. She came to South Bend in 1850 and moved to Plymouth a few years later. She was married in this city Nov. 7, 1865, to Fred Koontz who died in this city Sept. 6, 1894. To this union four children were born---Albert, Adolph, Wm. Edward and Flora, her son Wm. Edward dying in 1874. Besides three children she leaves three sisters, Mrs.. W. W. Hill and Mrs. Fred Behrens, of this city, Mrs. Jacob Kichler, of Churubusco, Ind., and one one brother, Henry Angerman, of Denver, Col., to mourn her death. The funeral services will be conducted at the late residence by Rev. Howard at 2:30 p. m. Friday afternoon, interment at Oak Hill cemetery.

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