Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 January 1907 — Page 1

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THE YMO VOLUME VI PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907. NO. 14

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THEN AND NOW.

Hundred Years Compared With the Prospect of 1907. When on his death bed Benjamin Franklin said he would like to come to life a huudred years later, so as to see the changes which time would bring, he was talking to a leisurelv age. We do things quicker today. More things of consequence in thi social ami political world take place . in a week now than did m a year then. Perhaps in one point in the comparison a century ago has something to say for hself. Not even William II., the mikado or President Roosevelt is shifting national boundary lines so swiftly or tumultously in 1907 as Bonaparte was changing Europe's map in 1807. But we-are keeping the map makers busy, nevertheless. Only a little over a. year ago the mikado swung his boundaries outward so as to take in Manchuria and Korea, and if there is any truth in the tales which some of Europe's gossips tell us, he is preparing now to gather the Philippines and Hawaii in. We saw, about four years ago, the two, little Boer republics painted a British red on Africa's map. And in the canvass which is now raging in Germany to elect a new rcichsta to take the place of the one vhich the kaiser recently turned out of doors, a large portion of the German electorate are working to take their country out of Africa, and let the black man there bear his own burdens. Possibly before another New Year's day appears Cuba will be as permanently and as officially under the stars and stripes as is Oklahoma or New York. But it is in other fields than that of political map making that the world of today surpasses that of the ag? of Franklin, George III and Bonaparte. Mexico has opened its railway across the Tehuantepec isthmus, and a dream of a short cut between the world's two big oceans which has been dreamed of by every generation since Balboa an J Cortez will become .et In New York, the railroads, banks and other big corporations are beginning to distribute $180,000,000 in interest and dividends. The disburse ment of this vast sum of. money would have been as incomprehensible to the 'people of a century ago a? would fhe spectacle of the steam horse which will be racing today across Ferdinand VII's isthmus. The money which New York is about to pay out for tF.e earnings of a small firt of the people of the United 9tates for a part of a year is a larger sum than that which, would have rep resented the entire available real and personal property in the United States when Franklin, Samuel Adams Patrick Henry and their associate's were beginning to lay the foun datrons of the United States government. There are enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic who take literally Santos-Dumont's prediction tha the day is very close to us when an tomobiles of the. air will be as plen tiful as those of the land are now. Lynchings of 1906. There were seventy-two lynchings in the United States in 190G. This was seven more than in 1903, büt fifteen less than in 1904 and thirty-one less than in 1903. In 1901 there were 135 lynchings and in 1902 the number was ninety-six. Fourteen States were represented in last year's list of lawless executions, Maryland being the farthest north. The distribution of lynchings was as ionows: Alabama, 5;. Arkansas, 4; Florida 6; Georgia, 9; Indian T-.ritory, 1: Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 9; Misissippi 13; Maryland, 1; Missouri, 3; North Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 6; Tennessee, 2; and Texas, 6. Of the victims of mob vengeance according to a summary prepared by the New Orleans Picayune, one wa killed because he carried a pistol, one for stealing a calf, one for stealing a silver dollar, one for disorderly conduct, one for robbery ,one for improper proposals and one for misce ge-iation. Murders and assaults, attempted and achieved, were charged in the other cases. Seventy of the victims were negroes, one of them be ing a woman. In North Carolina anl in Louisiana each a white man was hanged. As indicating the influence of the weather, on the mob, it is noted that ten lynchings occurred in August an.1, only one in December. The white man hanged in Louisiana was a murderer whose case had come to a mistrial more than two years after the crime. Dissatisfaction with the court proceedings here moved a mob to deliberate action. Passion due to racial feeling is traceable in the lynchings for trivial causes. Criminal assault by negroes furnish the gravest provocation to summary vengeance. Yet only fourteen of the seventy-two lynchings were for the "usual crime," While nineteen were for alleged attempts at criminal assault. More than half of the cases of mob violence had nothing to do with attacks upon women.

Progress in the South. In 1906 the south built 3,035 miles of railroads, produced $2.000,ooo,000 on its farms, dug 84,000,000 tons of cal from its mines cut at least 13,ooo,oootooo feet of lumber, gave $700,000.000 worth of merchandise to the American export trade, manufactured $2,000,000,000 worth of goods in iron and steel and wood and leather and cotton and wool and other materials, and added $2,650,000,000 to the value of its real wealth.

Obscene "Advanced Thought". There is no possible objection to a man's rolling himself in a muck heap. That is his privilege. But there is every objection when the man insists that other people shall join him in the proceeding. He then trenches upon other people's rights and becomes a nuisance. . Some scores of people gathered in a hall the other day and welcome J back to Chicago a man w'ho has been spending some time in the penitentiary for sending obscene matter through the mails. These people loudly applauded the returned prisoner when he declared that he meant, to repeat his offense. They talked loudly about the right of free speech and a free press. What they really meant was that everybody must join them in a roll on the muck heap. That is the effect of promulgating printed filth. It besmears and contaminates people who detest it and it forces foulness upon the young. The right of free speech and a free press does not mean and never did mean that people are free to scatter a contagion more deadly than smallpox. That is not freedom but criminal license. Why should these children of freedom insist upon spreading their nastiness broadcast? Why should they seek to roll everybody in their muck heap, to force everybody to partake of carrion with them? Have other people no rights as against the propagators of moral pestilence? Is all the freedom to be on one side of the matter? If these people really enjoy wallowing why should not they do their wallowing in private or at least why should not they keep themselves to themselves in their convocations? Why not let the general public alone quit assailing the noses of people? There i. no tyranny involved in such z policy. It is simply a matter of personal liberty and independence which ought to be enjoyed by those who have no sympathy with peop'e who get into the penitentiary for circulating obscene literature. The amount of it is that the community has a right to be protected against the nastiness of a clique of people who teach obscenity in the guise of "advanced thought." Ii these people desire to befoul themselves let them do so, but when they insis: upon befouling others they will and should find themselves in jail. Any person who sends obscenity through the mails ought to be im

prisoned. Chicago Chronicle. Postoffice Irregularities. We beg the people's forbearance for dereliction of duty but at this late day we desire .to report the letter advertised Dec. 25, for Verna Shafer, belonging on Route number one, she being the daughter of Hugh Shafer. The letter was received in the postoffice here Dec. 8, and Mr. Shafer called for it at the window Dec. 29. just three weeks after it should have been delivered to her at her home. You have all seen the picture öf a 1m called a blunderbuss with a muzzle like a horn that scattered the shot all round and didn't amount tc anything. How would it do to call our postmaster a blunderbuss. You all remember how, during the late campaign, the "rumpers" proclaimed the good graces of Jones Grant and his peculiar fitness for county treasurer. Well this is how Yockey served him ip a dish. Mr. Grant sent out to his many friends & iirtle self advertisement addressing one to Wm. Harrington. In the multiplicity of his multitudinous duties drumming a-itendance at .Brick gum-shoe mjeetings and hotfooting between Parks' office ,the Chronicle office and the postoffice, Mr. Yockey forgot where William lived and of course advertised it. William lived two mile? east of town on route 3 but by the time he received it, Mr. Grant's little batch of self-rising had already risen and . fell "kerplunk" again. Now what do you think of that. Let's have him fired and get a man that cn and will attend to business. Patron. South Whitley's Postoffice. South Whitley people who have al ways felt rather chesty over the large business done by the Atoz printing comran at that place are getting a practical example of what prospe.ity means to the town. The printing plant is a large patron of the postoffice. It buys sttamps at the rate of $1,000 a day some times and at one time paid $30,000 for stamps to mail three million catalogues. The South Whitley office is the best one in that congressional district outside of Fort Wayne. Ho?ever the recent government order regulating the price of postoffic box rent does not strike a similar chord of joy with the people of that place. The rental price is fixed according to the amount of bus iness done by the office and South Whitley being a good town will have to pay good box rent prices. The lowest priced call 'box will be 45 cents a quarter and the highest price is $1.50. To Make Engagaments Public. State Senator Smith will introduce a bill in the Kansas legislature providing that all marriage engagements must be published in local papers and churches at least thirty days befor. the wedding ceremony is to be performed. Mr. Smith claims such a law would tend to prevent divorces, unhappy marriages, and declares it is a highly satisfactory rule in several European countries.

LANDED IN BREMEN.

Young German With , Family Is Found Destitute. Emigrating from Russia, where developments during the last few years have made life unbearable for the man in moderate circumstances, and eccpecting to find a brother-in-law in this country, Wilhelm Stappe, a young German, who was born and reared in Russia, with his wife and tvyo children arrived in Bremen Thursday evening, after traveling over 10,000 miles .which completely exhausted his funds and left him penniless and without friends. Stappe, with his family, left Russia to seek a home in the land of the free, and expected to find his wife's brother, who has lived in America for some time. The only address Stappe, bad however, was "Bremen, North America," being ignorant of the fact that there ar dozens of towns named Bremen in the United States. Their troubles' began, however, before they left home. The steamship agent, took them in charge aud shipped them to different European ports finady landing them, at Liverpool. Here a British agent for a steamship lien took them in tow and sent them to Newfoundland. With only the slip of -paper addressed "Bremen, North America" to designate their destination they were sent hither and thither over the whole breadth of the United States, being as far west as the Pacific ocean. They were finally returned tq Chicago, where the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shipped them to Bremen, Indiana. There they arrived penniless, discouraged and friendless, until Rev. Roesener, of the Lutheran church, discovered their dilemma anl secured employment for the husband at the Holland Radiator Works, found them an empty house, and purchased the necessary household furniture to start in their new home. Mr. Stappe is a young man about 30 years of age, well educated, and with his family, will receive every consideration from our citizens, who joinin the hope that they may here find the" home they sj long sought in their ' extended wanderings. Bremen Enquirer. Fall Road Work. Chesterton Tribune: "There is only one thing I want to ask you to do. Bowser, when you go to Indianapolis this winter, and that is to abolish this dd fall road work." This request has been made to me by almosi every farmer that I have-seen since I was elected to the senate. And yet, to give the people any relief. means the'.destruction of Ernie Tripp's railroad monopoly, and Ernie has entrenched himself so strongly in the state that it is all but imposs:ble to touch him. He has agents in every supervisor's district in the stale to see that his interests are not disturb ed and when a legislator attempts to remedy the evil he-finds himself up against not Ernie Tripp, but against ihe farmers themselves. The thing to do is to abolish road supervisors entirely, and abolish idl. "road work taxes. Let every man pay his road taxes in cash and then the railroads will not be getting their work done for sixty cents on the dollar, and the trustees can go out and hire good men and teams, and pay them market prices for a day's work, and get a day's work for the money. By doing permanent work on the roads n a few years a township would have something to show for its money. Now, there is absolutely nothing to show for it. On the Way to Heaven. . Some 35 years, ago when Harvey Runnels was the proprietor of a saloon in New Carlisle (on the site now occupied by Frank Quay as a residence) his saloon was robbed of a quart of whiskey and a box of cigars. As there was no clue at the time, the matter was dropped and the incident had long been forgotten by Mr. Runnels. The other day a letter was received from Battle Creek, Mich., by Mr. Runnels from which the following is quoted: "Some 29 years ago when you kept a saloon in the basement at New Carlisle you left your saloon door open and a friend of mine and I went in and took two glasses of beer and he took a quart of whiskey, and a box of cigars and I helped him drink the whiskey and smoke the cigars. Now since I have been converted and am on my way to Heaven, I am willing as the Scri)ture says to make all wrong right. Inform me of the damage. (Signrd'i "Homer Town, Battle Creek, Mich.; Mr. Runnels answered and re;eiel a money order for $4.00. Taylor for Great Waterways. Robert S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, a member of the Mississippi river commission, who is in Washington to urge congress to make a liberal appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi river, is enthusias tic about the future of the Mississippi valley. "I believe the ultimate destiny of the valley would be aided by the building of a fourteen-foot waterway from the great lakes to St. Louis," said he. "The project is entirely feasible. I believe tht the construction and maintenance of a fourteen-foot channel from St. Louis to the mouth of the river is a project that is worth investigating -alto, but the former should be authorized and pushed f.o completion as soon as possible About three years would be required ifor the work. ,

As to Pensions.

If the legislative appropriation bill how before the House of Representatives goes through the Board of Pension Appeals of the Interior Depart ment will be reduced from tWentyeight to thirteen men. It is to this board to which applicants for pension may appeal when their claims have been unfavorably passed on by the pension commissioner and when (hey bel'eve that justice has not been done them. That such apeals are numerous is shown by tne fact that a board of such size was considered necessary, to attend to the work Some years ago, when it was com posed of a smaller number, it fell two or three years behind in its decisions and the increase in membership was made in order to expedite business. Now an appeal can be passed on within two months of its filing. As a matter of course the proposed reduction will again cause a conges tion of pension business, when it is more important than ever before that applicants for pension should have prompt attention. Tne Washington Star very truly says that with the veterans of the civil war so rapidly passing away it is a matter of urgent importance that nothing be done to lessen their chances or securing all that is coming to them under the law. A few months' delay may deprive them in their last days of the pittance which should be thetrs. It wll not o do to say that the decision of the Pension Bureau should be sufficient without appeal. Pension examiners are not infallible; they may be indifferent to the ques tions and evidence before them; they may be careless, they are likely to be uninformed as to many points of law and evidence, and it is undoubtedly true that in many instances 'heir attitude is hostile to the applicants. Their effort is not to determine if the claimant has proved his case, but to show that he has not. They are perhaps unconscious that they take this attitude, but persons ramiliar with the workings of the office know that too often they do so. The tendency of the time is to indulge in flippant sneers at pensioners and the careless charge is frequently made that a veteran who appplies for a pension at this late aay is not justly entitled to one. As a matter of fact, the old soldier who makes his 3rst request for a pension now is al most invariably one who has taken a pride in the fact that he has mt needed to ask for one before. He his; provided for himself heretofore, and if fortune were kind he wouldvstU refuse to claim the stipend promised; but old age and poverty have come upon him and he turns trustfully to the Government he fought for and asks for his due. Indianapolis Star. Start the Exterminator. The heartless wretch, who says he murdered Miss Schäfer, ought to be taken at his word and hung on general principles. That's the kind of a race suicide The Herald believes in. Instead of getting more people in the world we should get out many that are in it. The Russian who killed his wife in New York and told the police it was nobody's business but his own is also a fit subject for the hangman's noose. The sooner we get such cattle out of this country, or out of the world, for that matter, the better. Then there is that miserable organization of Italian scoundrels known as the Mafia. Get rid of it by all means. Hang its members as high as Haman, that no more remembrance may be had of its evil doings. Let's make hts country intolerable for deadbeats lrimkards, . murderers, grafters and 'awbreaekrs of every kind. In "that way we will be hastening the milleniim Lapor'.e Herald. Spends Fortune in Defense. Charles Dunn of Allen county, twice convicted of the murder of Alice Cothrell and sentenced to Michigan City for life, has been successful each time in having the case reversed by the supreme court. Wednesday in preparation for a third trial he admitted he had. spent all his fortune on previous trials. He appeared as a poor person and asked ths court to give him a defense. Judge O'Rourke then then ap pointed S. L. Morris and Henry Colerick, who have defended him on former trials. Dunn has been in jail and in prison for five years and is still an innocent man in the eyes of the law. ' Wants a New Constitution. tinder the decisions of the supreme court of Indiana, it is practically impossible to secure the ratification of an amendment to the constitution,, as provided by that instrument, remarks the South Bend Times. People simply won't vote on amendments submitted at general elections. The only way out is to call a constitutional convention and frame a constitution that is adapted to the times in which we live and have our activities. The present constitution belongs to a past age. Better Laws Urged. The State Board of Charities, in accordance with the law has prepared a report on its recommendations to be made the legislature for the enactment of new laws. Employment of inmates of the Woman's Prison is suggested; a house of correction for women; probation for adults; a board with power to condemn unfit county jails; making desertion of families a felony; establishment of colonies for the insane are other recommendations made.

FOGARTY PUTS LID ON.

Mayor Issues Sweeping Order for South Bend. The lid is on in South Bend. Not partially on; not tilted to one side; not on for a few and off for others; but on for everybody and on tightly. In fact there is a weight upon the cover emblematic of reform, and woe unto him who dares to tilt it oneNjot or tittle. The reform wave has ar rived. It has swept the city majesti 1 1 i i , .... .iuy anu nas cameo, everytnmg in the way of vice before it. The law's must be obeyed. The order went forth from the office of Mayor Ed ward J. Fogarty and it is to hold sway indefinitely. The lid has not been on long. The reform wave, in truth, did not arrive until Thursday evening. It is far reaching however, and covers every feature that is associated with what is known as a wide open town. The order was given by Mayor Fogarty to Chief of Police McWeeny Thursday night. The orders were issued to every man in the police department at roll call at 7 o'clock. They were instructed to -see that the laws relative to vice are obeyed to the let ter, and to note and report all viola nons. in accordance witn tnese instructions the cty was closed tighter than it has been in years. Even the mayor himself could be seen hustling about the business district afer 11 o'clock to observe the effect of his neworder. The order embraces very depart ment known to vice and corruption. The edict says with all positiveness that the saloons must close in the future at 11 o'clock at night, that they must not be open on holidays or after hours, that the Sunday closing rule must be obeyed, that gaming devices will not be tolerated and that the liquor laws will be enforced to the letter. The order goes further. It declares that bawdy houses will not be tolerated, that gambling must cease, and that all forms of vice must be stopped. Violators will be severely punished, as the various proprietors have been notified. Roulette, slot machines, pool rooms, poker rooms and in fact, everything contrary to law is included in the edict. South Bend will, be a closed town in the future. At least this is what city ailthorties pay is the meaning of the mayor's edict. Following his usua! custom the mayor is non-committal. He declines, to have anything whatever to say for publication. He leaves the public to be the judge. The order recognizes no intermediate stage, it evidently being the purpose of the administration to have either a closed town in every sense of the word, or under other conditions a wide open town in every particular. Berger Case is Dropped. Bedford, Ind., authorities through Prosecutor Fletcher, have notified Elkhart witnesses summoned to appear before the grand jury called to investiga-e George Berger's confession f the Schäfer murder, that they need not appear until further notice. So far as Berger is concerned the investigation has been dropped. Rec ords in the Columbus, O., penitentiary show that he was in prison at the time oi and for six months after Sarah Schafer was murdered. That Berger, the prisoner in the Goshen jail who confessed the crime is Frank Berger the former Ohio convict, has been established beyond question. He has been positively identified by Police Sergeant George Whiteman, who arrested him at Elkhart in 1902, when he was returnee, to the Ohio prison and who again arrested him on Dec 4, last, for attempting to pass a forg ed check at an Elkhart store. Wants Local Option. r. C. E. Scholl, representative for Carroll, Howard and Miami counties, has prepared a bill on the temperance question which he will use his efforts to have enacted into law. It is simply a 'local option measure with a high license attachment. It provides that an election shall be held in each township or ward on petition of onethird of the voters and that a majority of the votes cast shall determine whether the township or ward shall have saloons or not for a period of five years. If saloons are voted in the license shall be $200 to $1,000 as may be fixed by' the city council or town board, and the cost of the election shall be paid by the petitioners. Will Pilot Health Bill. The State Board of Health has placed in charge of Representative G A. Elliott of South Bend the bill for the proposed amendment of the health laws of Indiana and he will look after the matter during the session of the legislature. He has been in correspondent with Secretary Hurty of the Slate Board of Health and material chinj;e3 have been made in the proposed pen eral health bill recently publ'shed Instead of being presented as new measure the provisions desired will be brought up in the form of an amendment to the present law. Sherrick in Business. David E. Sherrick, the former state auditor, who was recently given a new trial by the supreme court, and was released from the state prison, has formed a partnership with Ed. G Sombier, who has just retired from the office of sheriff in Marion county and will enter into the real estate business at Indianapolis. He and his r.arf.er will devote attention to insurance business.

Use Skull of Murderer in School.

According to the 'account of the first and only hanging at Laporte Ind., written by R. B. Oglesbee and published in the Michigan City NevVS, the skull of the murderer is now be ing used in the city schools of La rnrlp Ttm om f l i-ov. na Heime vji me man was David Scott and that of his victim Joshua Coplin. The crime was com mitted Feb. 1, 1838, near the village of Rolling Prairie, and on the 15th of June, Scott was executed. The hang ing took place out in the open, and was witnessed by an immense crowd of people. "The execution , being finished" writes Mr. Oglesbee, "Scott's corpse was placed in the coffin and delivered to a relative for burial. It is said that Scott, becoming fearful toward the end that his body would fall into the hand of medical men,, made some sort of a confession to this relative on condition that the place of inter ment should be kept secret. The body was accordingly conveyed to a spot in the wood of Galena township six or seven miles from Laporte and there by the side of a fallen tree on land owned by the family of his vie tim a lonely grave was dug and in it the murder's corpse was covered up. But the funeral wagon had been stealthily followed and that night two young medical students in Dr. Teegarden s qffice resurrected the corpse and brought it to Laporte for dissec tion. "The skull was preserved in Dr. Tegarden's office and . later - it was given by him to Dr. George M. Dikin, the present owner. It has twice been used in the physiological class es of the Laporte High school and is at this time loaned to the school for that purpose." Clean Out the Soaks. If we have many more such goingson as the affair at Brownsville, Tex., the act of riotous troops at Leaven worth, Kan., and the panic caused by United States sailors at Cienfuegos, people will bejdn to think that, in stead of being protected by our army and navy, we will need protection from them. At Leavenworth drunken soldiers kicked out all the windows of a, street car, beat the conductor and the motorman locked them in and raced with the car to Fort Leav enworth,' where the rioters were plac ed in the guard house. Several white women were on the car during the trouble, and some of them leaped off, but none were injured. They might as well h-we been injured as to be frightened to death. The panic at Cienfuegos was caused, at night at a concert in a park, by sailors from the United States cruiser Cleveland. They engaged 'i a fight and fired many shots. Nice men to be representing the flag in foreign countries! The excuse given for all this deviltry is that the persons committing it were drunk. If Uncle Sam can't run his army and navy without the as sistance of a lot or drnukards he would better stop trying to do busi ness; for that class of beings are no benefit to anybody, or anything, not even to themselves. Every soldier knows that drunkards are no good in the army. A man needs to be sober and have his wits about him there, especially in time of war.- All the blunders and disasters met with in the army in war are, as a rule, due to muddled brains. Put only sober men on guard. Laporte Herald. Woman Stops Sermon. Before a congregation of nearly a thousand persons, and while the preacher was in the midst of his sermon, at Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. A. B. Sims, a society woman and holder of the national woman's whist cham pionship, arose Sunday morning in the University Church of Christ and denounced card playing as a sin. Mrs. Sims is one of the most prom inent women of the city. For many years she has been an active member of women's clubs which affect whist and other card games. Two years ago Mrs. Sims won the first prize for women in the whist tournament held at Cleveland. Last year at St. Louis she won the national woman's cham pionship. It is said that recent evangelical meetings held in the city are respon sible for rhe change in Mrs. Sims' ideas. She attended all of these meet ings, which lasted for three weeks, and since that time has come to the conclusion that all card game are wrong. During the service Sunday morn ing Mrs. Sims impulsively stood up and renounced card games forever. Her friends in the congregation who knew of her pride in her whist triumphs, gasped in amazement. She had told no one of her intentions. Many Titles for Roosevelt President Roosevelt has received a letter from the sultan of Morocco expressing his gratitude for the appoMtment of Samuel R. Gummere as American minister to Morrocco. The letter is written in Arabic. The sultan addre-'ses the president as "The beloved, the most cherished, the exalted, the most gracious friend, most honored and excellent president of the republic of the United States of America, who is the pillar of its great influence and the director of its most important affairs, the most celebrated preserver of , the ties of true friendship, the faithful friend, Theodore Roosevelt." Minister Gummere, the letter says, will be shown every courtesy and attention by the government of Morocco.

OUR OLDEST CITIZEN DEAD.

Gilson S. Cleaveland Dies at his Home in Plymouth Aged 94 Years. Gilson Strong CIcaveland died at his home in this city, Friday morning, January 4, 1907 aged 94 years, l month and 23 days. Among the present residents Mr. Cleaveland was the first man in Plymouth. He was born in Ontario county, N. Y. several miles from Canandaigua, Nov. 12, 1812, the son of Willard and Sally Strong Cleaveland. His father was a native of Massachusetts and his mother of Connecticut. Mr. Cleaveland was reared on a farm until seventeen years of age, at which time he entered the employ of Oliver Rose, the proprietor of a hotel called The Temperance House in Canandaigua where he remained for two years when he succeeded Mr. Rose in the hotel business. Mr. Rose came to Indiana in 1834, and settled in Marshall county on the present site of Plymouth and opened the first mercantile establishment shortly after his arrival. He soon returned to New York for his family and it was with them that Mr. Cleaveland came to Marshall county in 1835, at which time there were only three buildings on the present site of Plymouth, all being used for hotel purposes by Grove Pomeroy, who was the first settler of the county seat. Shortly after his arrival, Mr. Cleaveland engaged in farming, teaming and working in Mr. Rose's store. In 1839 he entered the general store of Amzi L. Wheeler, one of the early merchants of Plymouth, in whose employ he continued about three years. He then became local salesman for a Michigan City firm by the name of Carter & Carter who brought a stock of goods to Plymouth in 1842. He was a clerk with this firm for about three years, and then became a partner of the establishment which continued under the name of Carter & Cleaveland for eight years. Mr. Cleaveland then spent several years in settling up the businss of the firm and at the same time held the office of county recorder. In 1834 he removed with his family to Madison, Wisconsin where he remained until the spring of 1855, when he returned to Plymouth and again engaged in general merchandising. He continued the business by himself and with others until 1871 when he removed to Chicago and engaged in the hat and cap trade under the firm name of Cleaveland & Johnson where he remained one year, when he returned to his home in Plymouth. Since leaving Chicago, Mr. Cleaveland has not engaged in business. In the year 1866, he erected the resi dence where he died. He was an active member of the Episcopal church for many years and has been a liberal patron of the congregation in Plymouth. Mr. Cleaveland was first married at South Bend, Nov. 15, 1838, to Caroline A. Rose, daughter of Oliver Rose, his first employer. She was born July 28, 1817 and died March 30, 1868, the mother of three children, James O, who died in New York, September 17, 1903, and Caroline Louise, wife of W. W. Culver, of St. Louis, who died Oct. 2, 1906. The oldest daughter, Mary Ellen, died June 10, 1845. Mr. Cleaveland's second marriage was solemnized in Plymouth, September 23, 1869 with Jane N. Thompson, a native of Connecticut. To this union was born two children, Holbrook Gilson, born August 13, 1870, and Victoria C., born Dec. 12, 1872, who was united in marriage with Franklin L. Sheppard of Philadelphia, less than a year ago and reached Plymouth on the Sunday preceding her father's death. Holbrook Cleaveland, now a prominent attorney of St. Louis, has been here since his father's serious illness. Of a family of thirteen children of which he was the eldest, Mr. Cleaveland is survived by a brother, James L. Cleaveland of this city, and by a sister, Mrs. Mary L. Woodrow, who is now spending the winter here with her son, James Woodrow. It is not necessary to say that Mr. Cleaveland was a good citizen; for 71 years his life was an open book in the city of Plymouth and he was a friend and worker for the success of every good cause. Funeral services conducted by Rev. W. S. Howard at the Episcopal church Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Interment at Oak Hill cemetery. Clean Hands and Pure Hearts. "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully." To the Jew, believing that Jehovah was the actual head of their government, political power as well as worship, was indicated by the "hill of the Lord, and the "holy place." There are indications that the American people are also setting up the standard of "clean hands and a pure heart" for those whom they en trust with authority. South Bend Times. If She Will She Will 4 Now a woman proposes to lead an expedition to the North pole. She declares she will rely on the Esquimaux Indians and dog sledges. The terrors of the frozen north do not discour age her, and she says if success can be won she meant to get there. Tliest are days of feminine triumphs in every line of activity, and if the woman says she will who can gainsay her?

Senator Guggenheim. Simon Guggenheim will succeed Thomas M. Patterson as senator from Colorado. He is the Republican caucus choice and that mans that he will be elected I y the legislature. By his election trust representation in the senate will receive a decide!

addition. Mr. Guggenheim is one of several brothers who are the controlling power in the lead trust. The American Smelting and Refining company not only controls the lead industry, but it commands at least 85 per cent of the silver in the country. The concern is also largely inerested in copper and other mining ndustries and comes near dominat ing the western mining world be cause it controls smelting facilities. In this way mines operated by others are really at the mercy of the smelter company. Thus the so-called lead trust is a close corporation, a family concern, wliich doesn't confine its cpations to any single branch of minng. It is a monopoly and is sup posed to work in unison with other huge corporations. ' Mr. Guggenheim is a director in the smelter corporation and his brothers fill the other executive offices. His position on all questions affecting corporate interests will be or the side of the interests. Mr. Guggen heim may be a very fair-minded man, ordinarily speaking, but his business connections are against him. They are likely to keep him from being true servant of the people. True tendency to select such representatives is not encouraging. South Bend Tribune. ' He la' For Reform. Gov. Charles E. Hughes, of New York, in his first message to the legislature, made the following recommendations: A recount of the votes cast for mayor in the New York city election in .1905, when, on the face of the re turns Hearst was defeated by George B. McClclhn; that the courts be em powered to order a recount summar ily in the future' and that the power to bring an action to try a title to office be taken from the attorney gen eral and conferred upon the supreme court. The adoption of a new. ballot whereon the name of a candidate will appear but once. That the amount of money which a candidate may expend to procure his election be limited. That the courts be empowered to review the acts of political state con ventions and state committees in expelling delegates and members. That any general committee of a party may adopt rules for direct nom- , ina:ions ot candMates at primaries. That the -state board of railroad commissrenerf.-and the commission of gas and electricity be abolished and a new board be constituted with power to enforce its orders through the courts. A Unique Political Episode. If Senator Bailey is denied a re election by the Texas Democrats it will, we think, be the first instance in American politics of a candidate being defeated without anyone run ning against him. The case even now is unique. . There is undoubtedly serious op position to Senator Bailey's reelection, but it is not the opposition which whehh as for its center an opposing candidate. The anti-Baileyites are vigorous in their purpose to defeat Mr. Bailey, but they have no one to suggest in his place. A dozen men of more or less prominence have been perfunctorily "mentioned, but not one of them has secured a following. The policy of the opposition seems to be to beat Bailey first and look for a man to succeed him when that has been accomplished. xlt is an impersonal movement in the sense that it is not designed to advance the ambition of. anybody. " Whether a successful political campaign be conducted upon such a basis remains to be seen. The result will be interesting because of the novelty of the issue involved. Many Die by Violence." Rev. Josiah Strong, president oi the American Institute of Social Service, who has been making a study of the subject of death by violence and accident, especially railroads, said: "Fifty-five thousand five ' hundred' persons are under. sentence of death in the United States, to die by violence during 1907. They are hourly awaiting their end which may come at any minute which surely will come before the year is out. Every week over 1,100 persons' will die by vielencc. It may be in a railroad wreck, an elevator Occident, trolley car smash, explosion, fire or any other of the thousand and one terrible forms that death may assume. "Last year on or railways, we killed as many every 37 days, and woundti as many every 12 days as all our killed and wounded in the 2,561 engagements of the Fhilippine war." Gov. Hardy Looks Vcrn. Either Governor Hanly has been a very sick man or js overworking himself on his biennial message which goes to the legislature next Thursday. He looks like a man who had gone through a long seige of sickness and has come out of it badly worsted.. His friends say he does not appear able to go through a year's work' connected with the coming legislative session.