Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 September 1909 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH UNE VOLUME VIII PLYMOUTH. INDIANA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1909. NO. 52

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OLD TIMES NEAR PLYMOUTH

LEROY ARMSTRONG RECALLS SCENES OF LONG AGO. Tells of People, Farms and Roads as He Remembers ,Them. Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 20, 1909. Editor Tribune, 'Plymouth, Ind. George Holman of Rochester came into the office the other day and talked awliile, and I got homesick for Indiana. It is an old time Indiana that appeals to me rhis beautiful September morning out here on the shores of a lake I used to curiously read about in the old Mitchell geography. Ilia the feeding i. strong. and mayo, there are sti'ii sum.. very old men and women in and about Plymouth who will recall some o. the places and people that I shall try to mention. Oi course in tin old !ays it w-s a diltertnt i'h mouth. nz what 1 want to d w is to 0 down to IJiil Mont omen's livery stable, and get i. two-ho:c team, and go ou. across thv "IVwce" railroad, ant: across the bad roads of iha: Ioa land to the ve.t oi town, past thv three liVile houses in which Mr.-, Lampoon and her boys lived, then- past where Dr. Brooks had made a home on a little rise of ground in the prevailing swamp; past Charley Palmer's count r,. home, where there were dwari fruit trees, and a fine cultivation on the north side of the road, and the w-oods on the Other. The next fam to the west was owned b a Burlingarrre who had held county office. What was his first name? It was on the rihthaml side of the road where the road from the old Shoemaker brewery runs north into worlds unknown to me, but always attractive. Somewhere between the Burlingame farm and Qiarley Palmer's house a palace of a house, by the way there was a road to the south, angling through the woods, and coming out near the Pittsburg railroad tracks, where a lot of shanties remained from the early days when the road was constructed. The Fitzgerald boys, and Poulson, anid some other Irish boys lived along there not in the shanties, so far as I know; and they weren't a bit better looking than were we country boys. But they had the right stuff in them, as their good parents must have hal before them, for they grew to be big men, and worth while in the affairs of the large world. But to get back to that ride into West township. Beyond the Burlingame farm and the crossroads was a little house on the right where Mary Jane Dickson married and with another name then lived; arid still farther but to the left was the slaughter house for some Plymouth butcher. I seem to remember the place has been redeemed to seemlv habitation now; but it used to smell to heaven, and we never dreamed there was anything unsanitary or possible of correction about it. A little farther, and on the right was the first Thompson farm. 1 think Mrs. Thompson .was a widow, and married Joe Evans. And she Uid have the handsomest of daughter. Some people called her "Little Dame . Thompson," to distinguish her from the daughter of Jim Thompson who once held me while I slept through what was xloubtless a good sermon at thv Thompson schoolhouse, and then gave me back to my mother, and I didn't suffer the agony usual in my childhood of having to stay awake through service. Seems to me this "Little Dame Thompson" married a Jacoby from east of town. AM the Thompson girls were hamdsome, though. But that is neither here nor there. I want to drive on wst, -across the sand hills that o one ever tried to make passable; past the little house on the right, beyond the woods, and so to Leroy Evans farm. His first wife was a Rogers; 'but that wasn't Dock Evans' farm in the long ago. I don remember who did o"- it And' beyond was h'is father's place the John Evans farm,, on both sides of the road the best farmed land, with one exception :n Marshall county. John Evans was ricfi, and had the best of bank barns, and always the finest stock. There were several Evans girls, and all of them were pretty, too. One married a Rogers. I have lost all the others. But I will newr forget their masterful father the fath .r who paid so dearly for his mistakes; and their hard-working mother. She was a famous cook. Just beyond was the Rogers farm. George Van Home own.d it before that, and had the first icehouse in Marshall county, I think. An'd before that it was the county poor house; but I don't remember it before VanHorne . '-1. there. He had one son named Clarence, and another named

Myron. The latter was a cripple and his father had given him a little carriage with two big dogs to haul it, and he used to go about the country in the finest vehicle ever seen there. There the road forks, and one goes to the right, out past the old General Bailey farm, later the K elver place; past the Clark Thompson farm on the right, an'd then past "OKI Jim Thompson's place." Some of you older people w;ill laugh at, the young fellows who don't know anything about "Old Jim Thompson." But we who know can laugh harder. I don't think memory would be worth much if all of that big, roystering, kindly, honest old fellow could be blotted out and his million fights along with the rest. Beyond him. ami also on the right was the farm of Judge Corse, with his big, cultured,. excellent family. 1 Hiram wenf to the army, and afterward into railroad work. Arthur slippe.d away from school one afternoon and enlisted, ami then rode west to rendezvous at Chicago, and all the school which had known him as the foremost scholar, wept A-toe-n he went past on the train. A little west of the Corse farm but there were other children. Louise married Monroe Thompson, and lived on the Bishop farm it the corner, where the road .Torn Pretty Lake comes north. Alice was another and she helped me write my first stories a ort of older sister who believed n me, and for whom I shall always have the gentlest memories. And Prudence, and Hattie the jeauty of the family; and Alfred. Mrs. Corse was a great mother, though a very little woman. She was the best housekeeper and manager for miles around. They 'iad lots of fruit, and Mr. Corse always had the biggest crops in the county. But I didn't want to drive the Montgomery team out that LaPorte road. I wanted to bend to the left there at the Rogers place, ind across the marsh, where ;very spring the water ros over the grade, and so up the steep hill which ran at the side of the log housvi . where Mrs. Flemon Thompson lived with her family while her husband was hunting gold in California. Merrick was the oldest boy; and then Perry a ml then Fremont who. always was called Colonel; and Jimmy my 'boyhood friend,' who died 'n the promise of a splendid future; mid little Bertie, who was a victim of that spotted fever" epilemic ,rhe spinal meningitis of lbG3, which robbed me of my :ather ?.nd which was so fearfullv Jestructive of life in our nighSothood that year. There were iwo gir's Alice and another, but they have passed from my memory. A Mrs. Nichols of Ohio, bought the farm, and Henry Nichols, her son, who "married my foster sister, Lydia VanCamp, lived there for years, and deared much of the woods away, m l improved the place. Across h road to the north of him was die south part of the Bailey farm, with its great orchard the best "n the township if not in the ounty. I know today right vliere the best apples grew. Grandpa Bailey had a elder mill, md built up his "cheeses" with rye straw. And they had fireplaces, and a great woodshed, ind barns in which it was fine to play. Aunt Olive Taptey lived there with her two daughters, Carrie and Aldaret. Aunt Olive .vas a sister-in-law of Uncle Wm. C. Edwards, long a resident of 1 My mouth one ot the pioneelrsf the county, by the way. Just beyond the Bailey farm, on the north of the road began the ig Jim Thompson fann; and beyond the Xichols land came our vvn farm which Uncle William Edwards cleared, for the most part, for he lived there in the day of Indians. And there is where I want to go. 1 want to go o the bam which my father built. Harrison Xichols was the carpenter and Harrison would have been Charley Leonard's father-in-law if he had lived. Uncle Will Edwards planted our orchard, and there was a crab apple tree forest hack of the garden, and then a maiden blush, and then the rambo, and then a jig white apple that I don't classify, but which memory tells me was the best apple ever ripened in all the world. The trees were seedlings, and most of them were not very good, but they made excellent cid'er at Grandpa Bailey's mill. There is not a square foot of that old farm that is not dear to me today as I recall it. The wintergreen patch down in th'e woods, the huckleberry .swamp in the tamaracs just beyontl t, and the fox dens in the sand hi lball come back with a rush of invitation in this older, this distant 'ay. ' A little farther was the "old red house" on the hill, north of the road the whole hill is now removed. It went to make grading for the Pennsylvania railroad. And the Thompson school house. Do they still call it the Thompson? Why, we had everything there. School was only an inci

dent, for we didn't have long win ter terms, and the summer school

was always an uncertainty. Yet Zipporah Fullen taught there successfully in summer; and Louise McClure, and in the -winter Baldwin and Roach and Dan Grube and John Maxey. Is John Maxey still living? It was a place for spelling schools, where Alice Corse usually spelled down all comers, and where my brother Lucius once had that honor for the everlasting cherishing of our house. And singing schools, at which there usually was a fight in the war time. And on Sunday preaching by any one who wished to come. And once a Methodist minister named Webb walked out from town and conducted a Sund? school for us through the hot Sabbath afternoons. On the hill a little fart!.er was Abe Rinehart's place before he moved still farther west and carved another home out of the woods. And still farther lived the Crowells, who bought the old Rinehart homestead and then the rest of the Rineharts, and the "thick woods" of walnut and beech and sugar and poplar. Doesn't seem possible now, but it was that way then. There was no well on the school grounds, and we used to carry water from Abe Rinehart's place, or from my farm. But let us turn to the left there at the schoolhouse, by the trees Where we used to play blackman, and gobV.ween the Pilcher farm which also was a part of mv

own grandfather's possession ear lier; and the Andrew Rinehart place, where John and George and the .girls grew up; ami then woods and nsardand till yoi came to the big, fine Adam Rinehart farm, and so on across the. Knox road which went past Dunkard settlement and the West school house, where the township held its "elections. Andthen to Pretty Lake. Do you people go tr,ere now? Did you ever see a finer 'beach than that on the east of the lake? Or is there in all the world water so fine for bathing? Can you catch such sunfish anywhere? There are wild grapes on the south shore, and pawpaws and hazel nuts, and the best hickorynut e?r. ,Ve used to .wash Mie :h p th; y at the south end of the 'cal, where the bluff ma a. wall ..or tilie pen, just b?ond Mrs Peter Stevens' - home a place which produced wonderful str.rberries in season, and those radishes which never bite too sharply 1 The apples will be ripe in all the orchards nöw. And they will be running cider mills on half a dozen farms. An'd some-successor Of those okl farmers' will be drilling wlieat'whtre we used o sow it broadcast ;and thee will be a few birds abroad dim reminders of those sun-darkening clouds of blue pigeons that once amazekl and then enriched the people. And somewhere I will hear the sound of flails on buckwheat, and they will be cutting com on every farm. And there will be some man with a watermelon in the corn shock, put there in the cool of the morning to be eaten in the hot of the SeptVmber noon. And in the evening there will be an apple paring in some farmhouse, and all the boys and girls will be there. And we will have fresh cfder, and friend cakes and maybe pie and lorui ioru! wnat a good time we will have. And then we will sleep on straw beds, fresh and comfortable, and listen to the wonderful science, and see the same old stars of childhood and so drift into dreams that will ride straight to the gates of the morning, i l Do you know, T have never seen the sun rise in the east anywdiere since I left Marshall county. I am getting old, little children, and most of your readers will not remember the people ot the places that ciing to my memory. But I want to come bac4c there for a day, and catch the music that 'never ceased through, all the joys and sorrows th were mine.' The music that sings forever blessedlvvof Home. LeRoy Armstrong. RECEPTION FOR PASTOR. Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Wareing and Son Given Reception at M. E. Church. The reception tendered to Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Wareing at the Methodist church on Friday evening was a decided success. Quite a goodly company gathered in the Sunday School of the ed in the Sunday School room of the church to welcome 'the return of Rev. Wareing and to express their appreciation of this most popular pastor and his wife. The room had been beautifully decorated Iby the la'dics of the church. The affair was a very informal on Music was furnished by the orchestra, and by Misses Perrcl Shafer, and Ly!a Overmyer. The address of we fleorn e was given by Mr. S. E. Boys and 'was res ponded to by both Rev. and Mrs. Wareing. After a pleasant social hour the ladies served ice cream, cake and coffee.

TRAINS HIT; TEN KILLED

PENNSY. FLYER DASHES INTO CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE TRAIN. Engine Plows Way Through Caboose Crash Due to Wrong Signals. Chicago, Sept. 28 a. m. Ten men were killed and six probably fatally injured early this morning, when a train south bound for Cincinnati on the Pennsylvania Railroad crashed into the caboose of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul cattle train bound for the stock yards. Sixteen men were in the caboose of the stock train when the passenger train crashed into it in the railroatl yards a few blocks "rom the downtown station. Makes Caboose Funeral Pyre. The engine plowed through the calboose, literally tearing it to shreds and settngi fire to the debris. Six bodies were recovered with in a few minutes alter the crash, while the flames were eating up the splintered bits of the demolished car. Sixteen injured were dragged from the burning pyre of ruin. The passenger train, known as the Cincinnati special of the Panhandle route of the Pennsylvania left the Union Dpot soon after midnight. No signals had been given, so far as could be learned, that any other train was on the tracks. The passenger train increased its speed and wdien at Twelfth street, the engineer saw.the rear lights of the freight ahead. It was too late to avert a collision. He used the air brakes and reversed his engine, but crashed into the caboose, filled with sleeping stockmen, with tremendous momentum. The caboose was cut in two and four cars in front were telescoped. The fire department was summoned, and by the. time the flames were extinguished the bodies of six dead had been found. When the engine struck the freight caboose it threw it across the track and crashed through the middle, pinning the bodies of the victims into the timbers of th e stock car ahead. City Council. At the regular meeting of the council Monday evening, the petition of Dora, Edna and Lura Caprn to tap the Metsker sewer was .granted, as was the petition of Xathan Stout to tap sewer on Pearl street. X. S. Woodward's petition in regard to pavement of alley was referred to city attorney for report at next meeting. The South Bend and Logansport traction company accepted franchise as voted at former meeting of council. WattV Works Superintendent reported that he had tent out notices to boiler manufacturers and recommended the preparation of plans and specifications. Street ami alley committee was granted more time on Walnut street crossing. The petition of Dr. Brown for a light on Wtlbster avenue was referred to light committee. The resolution for street improvement was passed. The bid of J. M. Herman for curbing Dickson, Pearl and Thayer streets was accepted. The matter between the city and the Abrasive Mining . and Manufacturing Co., was settled, the city agreeing to give the company a grade and allow them to build their own walk. The Pennsylvania railroad askevl permission to have their walk which they are building on Laporte street, stop at walk which leads from depot. The city treasurer reported a balance of $441.43 on hands after paying bills to the amount of $10 18. TO allowed at this meeting. Attended Reunion. Mrs. Walter Shivers of Argos has returned from attending a reitn'ion of 1ier father's old regiment, the !th Illinois, at Chicago. Her father is J. N. Lowe of Green fownship, whose lower limbs have been paralyzed for twentyfour years ; but otherwise he is in good health. Two ex-governors who were members of the regiment attended the reunion and sent regards to Mr. l,owe. They were Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and Gov. Nance of Kansas. Culver Has Heavy Schedule. With the opening of the fall ess ion, football practice has bettln at Culver Military Academy. A large number of 'candidates have rq)orted every day during the past week. Despite the fact that but few of last year's team are back, tlieJjedule this year is the hardest Culver has yet attempted.

SHAKES AND KIRK

Chosen Standard Beaters or Pall Bearers of the Democratic Party 'In Plymouth. The Democratic primary elec tion Thursday passed off quietly, the good effects of a "dry town being shown in every stage of the proceedings.- The Kirk-Shakes forces were in the game to win and the result was at no time in doubt. For Mayor, Vincent P. Kirk received 219 otes against 1G8 cast tor Johl K. Jones, giving Kirk a clear majority of 51 For Clerk, Lawrence M. Shakes better known as "Dick" received 'i'17 votes against 1G2 cast for Ed ward R. Dan forth, giving Shakes a majority of Go. There was no opposition to Wd'ham Hahn for treasurer and Peter J. Richard and William B. Kyle for councilmen at large They received all the votes cast. The winning forces attribute their sweeping victory to the bit ter opposition of Clay W. Mets ker. The conservative Democrats say 'the ticket is the weakest ever nominated by the party in this ci'tv an'd was made to show the Republicans that Democrats will vote for the worst Democrats against the best Republican. The Chronicle Contest. The Chronicle contest closed Saturday night and Rev. W. S. Howard got the automobile Most of the contestants realized Saturdav morning that he was to be the winner regardless of how much money was poured into the coffers of the chief gamblers by other parties, Howard was, they believed, slated as chief "capper" for Boys and his manager, and was bound to win. "It was a "skin game" from start to finish and was so transparent that it seems strange that everybody did not see through it. We suppose, however, that like fake foot race, fake horse races and other gambling scheme's of the same nature, several persons were made ro believe that they were on the inside and were sure to win. We have no sympathy for those who "got left," but when preach ers andi -men who claim to be Christians become . parties in fleecing confiding girls, or even people who are supposed to have common sense, the churches and all the best people of the community suffer, because all base people wilNpoint to these men as representatives of what may be expected from those who call themselves Christian. MARRIED. Leonard Pogue. At the Presbyterian Manse in this city Monday evening, Mr. W. E. Leonard and Miss Mattie Pogue were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev. Geo. A. Pflug. Mr. Leonard has long been a business man of Plymouth and is well known throughout this and adjoining counties. His bride is an accomplished lady who has been a resident of Plymouth several years and has hundreds of friends here. 'Hie happy couple are already installed in their beautiful home on -Miner street and have the congratulations and 1est wishes of everybody. i PLANNING STATE SYNOD. Presbyterians of South Bend Expect to Make State Meeting Best Ever Held in State. Presbyterians of South Bend are planning to make the state synod, which will convene in South Bend, Ibegnmin October 11, the best -ever held in the history of Indiana Presbyterianisin. The state synod is composed of all the presbyteries in the state, thoie being the Logansport, Ft. 'Wayne, 'Crawforcjsvilfe, Indianapolis, Muncie, Indiana and White River divisions, all of which will "be represented in the South Bend meeting by an equal number of ministers and pastors. It is expected that there will be two hundred delegates in attendance. The Rev. Dr. Henry Webb Johnson will act as moderator. He was elected to that office at the synod held at Muncie a year ago. Time at the North Pole. At the north pole time is nothing, and if one were residing at the north pole k 'would be unnecessary to wiivd one's watch. You are always at 12 o'clock ami can't walk out of. the hotel without walking south. All times of day meet at the pole, as the meeting place of all the meridians. A man sitting with the invisible mathematical point right under him would be in all twenty-four hours at once. Or a twenty-four hour watch placed on the pole could be made tc point to the correct time in every part of the world.

TAFT TELLS PLAIN TRUTHS

GIVES CRITICS OPPORTUNITY FOR ATTACK BECAUSE OF LOYALTY Says Information Secured by. Corporation Tax Law May Be Otherwise Utilized. President Taft told a number of congressional secrets during his speech upon the income tax at Denver, Colorado and gave his critics another opportunity to "jump on him" because of his frank avowal of party loyalty. The address is occasioning much d cussion. Those who followed the course of the tariff bill last spring and summer probably had no idea that the tax on ea aid coffee came so near incorpora.ion in the measure or that one of the principal reasons the income tax vvas no pushed harder was due to the fact that it wrould have made capital for the. Democrats. In fear of the cry that tea and coffee taxation would increase the cost of living throughout the country the Republican leaders shied off from :e paragraph like a colt from a locomotive and gave the income tax a wide berth for the sake of ving the dominant party's face. If the income tax had been pushed, the presi'dent said, the fact that it had once been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court Of the United States would have placed the Republi-J cans in the attitude of dragging that aigust tribunal into politics and would have made the voters of the country suspect that there was not entire harmony between the aforesaid tribunal and congress. j . I This would never do, Mr. Taft said plainly. So the long heads of the administration were gathered together for the purpose of finding something equally as good as amoney maker for he treasury and at the same time something that would be entirely free from blowholes. Attorney General Wickersham hit upon the "corporation tax ankl all the rest of the long heads agreed that it was just the thing needeld. The presiklen't a'dmits that the corporation tax might be criticised. It takes corporate bodies and lets partnerships go unscathed; it is more of a burden to the little fellows than to the big; it shuts its eyes to the fat bondholders, but gets after the lean stock owner with a sharp stick. But there are compensations even for the stockholders, for they are better iff under the law than rrjere partners in commerical lif and after all when the tax is finally collected the president feels certain that the dividends will not suffer. The howl that went up from the corporations when the cor poration tax was first propose!, will be redoubled when this speech is circulated. The president made nosecre of the fact that the officers of the internal revenue department will do the' prying and if the president deems it wise the secrets gained during the inquisitorial process may be usdl as a dub to make bad corporations" ,goold. The president concluded his' speech with two hints that will probably stir up millionaires' row an'd Wall street. One is that the information obtained fronf corporations under the operation of the corporation tax may be made the basis for further legislation of a regulative character and the other is that the states themselves get after the swollen fortunes existing within their borders and pass laws preventing multi-millionaires handing down their riches in a ma. i i Both Republicans and Demo crats assert that the speech is likely to allign the big corporations against the president and some of the political prophets are reajdv to prophesy that before Mr. Taft finishes his precsnt tour he will have. Wall street as badly scared as during the days that Mr. Roosevelt was engaged m lambasting the trusts. The Democratic Ticket. The Democrats completed their city ticket Saturday night at the band room 1)y nominating a candidate for councilman from each of the three wards. The complet ed ticket is as follows: For Mavor, Vincent P. Kirk; City Ck'rk, Lawrence M. Shakes; 1 reasurer, William Halm; Coun cilmen at large, William I. Kyle and Peter J. Richard, Councilman First Ward, J. E. Bergman. Secoml Ward. Fred Wenzler; Third Ward, Frank VanGilder. Barn Burned. The barn at the home of John Thomas on South Plumb street, . V ft X T A near the L,. v. & v. railway bridge, was burned to the ground before it could be reached by the firemen, about five o clock this morning. A buggy and a few other articles were burned in the barn. The loss is about $150.

JOHN W TALBOT ACCUSED

Leona Mason Issues Pamphlet Which Shocks Society as Well as Members of Owls. Accow.ug to a ! .spater, fr.mi South Bend, Mrs. Lcon.i Mason, a divorced woman and x dichter of a wealthy farmer of St. Joseph county, Ind., has startled South ILml society and has aroused the 1 0,000 members of the Order of Owls by print, d charges against John. W. Talbot, the worthy president of the Owls. Talbot is marrie'd, but Mrs. Mason says he won her love, then cast her aside. Mrs. Mason will be arraigne 1 in court Thursday, charged with shooting at Talbot in South Bend's busiest street. It promises to be the most exciting court day the town ever knew, for Mrs. Mason declares that from accused she will turn, accuser, and demand a jury trial and the privilege of explaining why she fired at the Owl's chieftain as he ran around a corner of the city hall. Some hint of what she will tell, if she gets a. chance, she has given in a pamphlet distributed widely in South Bend. Its title is "The Character and Life of John Talbot, Supreme President Order of Owls, Exposed by an Outraged Woman." TheV dispatch says that Mrs. Mason six years ago employed Talbot, then a practicing attorney, to obtain a divorce for her. After the divorce she returned to her father's home. She says Talbot then began making love to her, and she became enamored of him. though he is a marVied man and has a son. Mrs. Maon takes South Bend intb her confidence and gives all the details of her alleged relations with Talbot. Against the Owls' president she presents many charges. She makes a sworn statement of what shf. says happened after Talbot Obtained her divorce for her. It reads: t i "He sympathized with me, helped me out of my difficulty, got my confidence, threw his charm about me (like a spider or a "snake gets its victims), spent his money freely to show me a good time, ami took me to the theater and other places of amusement. I had never until then had such attentions shown to me. I was dazed by their glitter. Then 'he took me to a Chicago theater.' ' I trusted him, and before I knew it well, you know my fate. It is not necessary to tell you that from that time on I was his victim." 'Scon, Mrs. Mason says, infatuation began to vanish and quarreling began. Then came what she asserts to be the incident which turned her affection into repulsion. She was kq)t a prisoner in male attire for several days, then compelled at the muzzle of a revolver to pose for a photograph in the costume which is conventional in Hast Africa. After quarrels this photograph, Mrs. Mason charges, was sent by mail to her relatives and friends, tacked jtfi conspicuous places on the houses of her neighbors, and used in every possible way to ruin her reputation. Census Supervisor Quits Politics. The resignation of Samuel R. Thomas, as chairman of the St. Joseph county Republican central committee, was announced Saturday. Mr. Thomas is census supervisor for the Thirteenth district an'd the action is in compliance with a letter sent out by Census Direc.tor Durand to the effect that all supervisors appointed for the coming census mnst divorce themselves from everv symptom of political activity ' Receives Highest Degree. Attorney Stuart MacKibbin, of South Bend, well known in this f city, was crowned Wednesday with the highest honors of, tree Masonry, the H.lrd. degree. The ceremony took place in Boston and was attended by Masons from all over the United States. The honor came to Mr. MacKib:ii through the recommendation of members of the fl.'ird degree societv of Indiana. Governor as Bible Teacher. Cards have been circulated about the city of Indianapolis soliciting attendance at the Sunday morning meetings of a nen s Bible class at the First Presbytenan church, which is to he instructed by Governor Marshall, who undertook the work at the request of the pastor. The class will meet everv Sundav at 0:15 o'clock. Orders More Cars. In addition to the order for ,200 freight cars placed with its shops some weeks ago, the Pen nsylvania Railroad comKiny yes terday authorized the Altoona shops $ begin work immediate ly on 200 steel frame automo bile cars. These cars are of the largest type of ibox car made. With the orders now on hand the shops have enough work to keep them busy until late next spring.

AH00SIER AEROPLANE

INVENTORS KEEP IT HIDDEN AND ARE GUARD- . ING THEIR SECRET. Julius, Louis and Harry Johnson Will Soon Have Craft Ready for Trial. Although disappointed because their secret work on an aeroplane became known, Julius, Louis and Harry Johnson of Terre Haute declined to give any details of their work. Further than " the statement that a test will be made within a week or two, they were reticent about their work, ivhieh has been kept from the public. The brothers say they are working along original lines. With a fifty-horsc-power engine, weighing in all but 150 pounds, modeled on the principle of the Johnson motor engine, their oyn invention, the machine builders are basing their "hopes of conquering the air. Machine Kept Hidden. The machine, the details of which are foein kept secret, is being constructed on special lines the chief of which will be ail irigiipl balance scheme. The rudder, propeller, location of the engine and other important adjustments are receiving special attention and will be placed on a different basis than that of the Wright, Latham and other inejhanical birds. The Johnsons, who are motor boat and engine builders, have been working on the machine for the last eight weeks. The fsfct that the barn in which the brothers workeVI at all hours of the day and night contained t growing airsh'p has became known, md the inventors aTe now guarding their secret more zealously than ever. A trial spin will be made in 3 week or so on open land near Terre Haute when the efforts of the Terre Haute men will be shown in the success or failure of the craft. "We have the engine to fix yet," said Harry Johnson tonight. "We shall try the machine out on the quiet first to sec whether we are sucessful and f so shall give a public exhibition. We are keeping secret the details of construction and material used." GOV. CALLS MEETING. To Consider What He Believes Will be a Reform and Save Money. Governor Marshall has called the heads of the state and nonstate colleges to meet in conference with him in Indianapolis the middle of next month. The importance of this meeting as well as the rcaso for the governor's action can le seen by reading the following article from the Indianapolis Xews: . 'That the state in 190S spent 203 per capita for colkge or university education for her young men and women, wliil-J spending only approximately $l.o0 per capita for education in the- common anid high' jfrhools has 1een disclosed by figures which have been complicil for consideration by tle president of the state and non-state schools :n the conference called by Governor Marshall for Oct. 14 and 15, this city. A comparison of the figures supports the declaration made in the recenJL session of the general assembly, when the fight for an increased tax levy for Indiana university, Purdue univcrsitv and the State Normal school was on, that the state was senHling a very small per capita amount for 'common and high school education in comparison with the money paid for hi4gher education. "It was this contention that causeü the governor to inquire into the comparative per capita expenditure, with the result that he decided to call a conference to determine whether higher education in the state could not be maintained at less cost, in order to allow greater expenditures for the common schools without increasing the tax levy. The three state schools spent in i!Mi,s a total ot approximately $1.0-:,000 and the total number of students enrolled for the school year was approximately .",000. Türe approximate cost of maintaining the common and high schools was .$2,500,000. With this sum, r50,000 pupils were care for. Good Common Sense. Dr. Cook has either a large fund of good comon sense or a wise coach. He refuses to be provoked, into saying disagreeable things concerning his rival for north pole honors, and the public respects liim for it. NothvZ is to be gained for science or tire good names of these two famous explorers by an unseemly squabble and nothing can be settled between them until the records are examined and compared.

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