Weekly Republican, Volume 57, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1911 — Page 7

The Kind You Have Always a use lor over 30 years,

All Counterfeits, Imitation and" Just-as-good" are trat; experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Xrops and Soothing" Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation ftad Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach -and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GrJUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS

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Volley and Tether Ball New and Vigorous Games Recreation in the CountryChicago's Playgrounds and Their use by the People.

In "Good Health" for May is a very fine artiele by Henry II. Curtis on the subject "The Revival of Play as a "World Movement." The author deseribes two games which might well be appropriated by the citizens old and young", of Plymouth. Speaking; of volley ball the author says, nIt i3 the very best game we have for the correction of bad postures of the school, keeps the shoulders baek and the head tip, and corrects the posture made by leaning; over the desk. It is a good team game, and just about as vigorous as most people can stand, and is in every way an admirable game for school purposes." "Tether ball is also one of the very best- games, and one of the most vigorous games we have. If you have a dooryard ten feet square, you have enough space to play tether ball jn. You can get just as much exercise out of fifteen minutes of tether ball as you will out of one hour of tennis, even when you are playing tennis, very hard. A tennis ball is attached to a 3trong string at the top of a pole, and the players stand on opposite sides and try to wind the ball around the pole in opposite di rections. It involves much running

and jumping. Sometimes the hjound o 2 were closed within one

rill strike the ball back and forth for fifteen minutes without once winding it around the pole. 'The movement for playgrounds is not merely a city movement for the country child needs the playground just as well as the city child does. Xhe'city child lacks space which the country child has, but the country child laeks recreation far more than Joes the city child. The city child has temptations far more than the country child has, but he ha? far more thmgs to divert his mind from them. - Chicago's Playgrounds. Curtis describes the Playgrounds of Chicago as follows : 'Chicago has spent $11,000,000 in the last five years on playgrounds, and is spending $500,000 every year : to maintain them. Each cf "these playgrounds in Chicago is divided by a -high - picket fence into three parts. Ore cf these is for little children un ten. . It is provided with wading pools, sand bins, swings. sceav.s, and other things of tUs kind Besides this ' playground for tho i;m. -children, there is cn play-.-round for &vls over tn. ar.4 one, 5.. Ka.-c m-pr fpn. each separated by! otii picket fence, and each pro--red to make them absolutely pcp - -C " Tn ach of .these plr rl 1 tX2 fcur athletic directors

yid'ed with every conceivable piece oi ; ju. Uldsanrt niece Jtliss -MM -ppnratns ingenuity could deviso forrarv.andMss Sarah. Eckert

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Bought, and which has bcea has horno the signature of

and has been made under his personal supervision since its Infancy. Allow no one to deceive vou in this.

Signature of : D ployed by the year, and a field house director in eharjre of the whole field house. The swimmimr pools are exceeding! v popular. Children are allowed to stay in the pool an hour, then a bell is rung and all those children have to come out and another set of children go in. They go to the place where they change their clothes: then they must take shower baths bfcfore they are allowed to go into the pool. The work of these playgrounds is indoors from the first of November until the first of May, and outdoors from the first of May until the first of November. They are open seven days a week. In the new playgrounds on the west side they are making the gymnasiums larger. The rooms are not nearly large enough for the number of children who want to make use of them. Besides having gymnasiums, there is a Targe auditorium in each of these field houses, and these auditoriums are used for dancing and other public entertainments. The secial value of these rooms is indicated by the fact that all the dance balls which were in connection with the saloons, which were within tne-half mile of "West Park playyear after the playground was open ed, for the reason that the young people found that they had a xnne'i better dance all in the field house t?n they could get i;i connection with the saloon. There is aio a brnnct of the public librory an! four vhh rooms in each of these field houses, and they have a delightful ic?la?:rant where anybody can go ard ftnd at cost. They say thnt tbe ver? test dish of ice creau vou can got in Chicago you can get for five nts at the counters of one cf these rctn:irants in the fhM houses of Chief jro. Here from Denver. Will Corbin of Denver, Col., is her for & vit with friends. Mr. Corbin is wall Irnown in 4hU city, having lived here many year. Will Build New Cottage. J. R. Losey is having his barn moved over to the south side of the Vt. '.nest to the- blacksmith hop, ! nnd Trill build a nice cottacre frontj jn erL GarroVrect. : Celbrai!3 7Cth Efrlhda: Mr. niia Mx-3.-D. C. Cole. -Mrs. & re a j orient to an anto iwlre they will cckbrate Mr. Colo's ! TClj tlrllay with Mr. Cole's dangh-

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SREAT BEAUTY

AID RICHNESS OFSOUUD

IS TOLD BY A PLYMOUTH MAN WHO HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE WONDERS OF NATURE THERE. SUNSET AND STORM "The First Shall Be "Last, and the Lästerst" Applies to the South Nearly All the Way Through. Brother Boys: That Biblical -admonition "The first shall be last and the last first" is portrayed in vivid outline In taking a retrospective view of this 'The Southland." She ras first in settlement, yet last in development; first in war, yet last in peace; she was first in point of education and still holds that position, for, dotting hill and valley we find institutions of learning which are second to none. First in Bettlement, yet, here we find a slow development in agriculture and manufacture, although even city and hamlet has from one to ten cotton mills; we also find two. hundred million acres' of fertile soil lying idle. The natural resources are a fertile soil, timber, mineral and an unexcelled climate, coupled with an unlimited water rupply, which is rapidly being harnessed to transport power even at a distance of 50 miles for the city, home and factory, as well as electric railways. She was first in "war, for it was at Charlotte, N. C, on May 19-20, 1775 that the 'Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" was made and ot which no event of the American Revolution has J)een more thoroughly written upon, for upwards of four score articles are in print concerning it. . These resolutions were a declarav tion to "dissolve the political bonds that made the Colonies subject to the British Crown" and afterwards adopted Jby thef Colonial Congress which resulted in bloodshed and defeat of Britain. An strange to relate, the very wording of the Mecklenburg Resolutions was used by Thomas Jefferson, yet we dare not say he was a plagarist. The South has a diversity of elevation from sea level to four thousand feet in the Blue Ridge mountains of whose scenic grandeur little is known and I would tell of one particular beauty spot in the northwestern corner of South Carolina, known as Caesar's Head," a strange mountain formation more than 3000 feet above sea level. It was so named because of its resemblance to the bead of Caesar. At tbehighest point on this artistic formation one is confronted with a startling nwe inspiring panorama, lying prone at his feet, stretching away far Jnto the distance and finally fading away as the rainbow. Looking over into the "Big Bend" state Tennessee we drink in the beauty of landscape unsurpassed. Here we find a tiny silver cord that develops into the Saluda river, winding its way through forest and rich valleys dotted with orchards, vineyards, pretty mountain homes and furnishes on its merry way to the Atlantic the propelling.power for the great "wheels of commerce that giyle iemployment tt thousands of honest toilers. To. the left "we see miles of woodHhd of walnut, hickory, oak and poplar encircling and shading a section known as the "Dark Corner ' having a' history of bloody deeds, moonshining and all crimes. .What a contrast as we turn to the sunTkissed fields of golden grain, with sweet scented flowers, the silver rivulet teeming ith mountain jbass and perch, whoso cool, spark ling water rippling over rocks, splashes and foams on its way to augment, tho larger water courses of comroerco. ' Turning again "TaMo Rock" confronts U3 with Jts perpendicular rise of 1000 feet above tha rivor; to the loft of which wo seo in the distance Hirt fall' mountain peaks of Georgia a 'locality made famous as tho hunting grounds of the Cherokro Indians. Nestled far brlow in tbsn valleys oT grandeur we . sic cities ftnd towns with fhoir tall church' towers, - col1p7s. Voantifnl hom?s, factories an3 workshops, wfcilo peering ont from the deep blue clouds we seer feomo of tho trJIeci cf fhe Blrra IHdge group, sen tin ct & ever on guard anil ever Ziloi:3 of tfcsir aiTy. J

Beautiful Smuets. I have seen tbe sunsets of the Rockies, the Shasta and Pacific, yet none are more va ied and beautiful than the Blue Ridge where a reddish tint is given to the small floating clouds passing, overhead, the departing rays making great shadows in the deep ravines lying between the mountains, the tops of which are all aglow from the reflected sun. At the setting of the sun the stars one by one- appear until tbe whole heavens are decked with 10,000 sentinels of the ni$;ht, differing in brilliancy and magnitude, each keeping vigil over millions of the human family. A staging of the more brill'ant of the brilliant; an array soon to be kissed by the -soft rays of the moon extending over sleeping mountain and valley making the scene one of an enchanted garden with its myriads of nymphs, exceptional beauty and grandeur. Here it is that the world is at peace with God and man, communes with nature and the ouietness is only

broken by the occasional hoot of an owl, the music of the nightingale mellowing the soft balmy air with its varied songs; tho barking of the fox or the echoeing notes of the "Bob White". : Nature's . 'demand for sleep and rest ha s come again, so 'Hands of Angels hidden from mortal eye"" :are changing the scenery of the heaven and wrapped in a -mantel of -superb beauty, that sweet lullaby echoed and reechoed until the final fading away finds mother earth in sweet re pose at the hands of the guadian angel and when the "cock's shrill clarion" has echoed the approach ot dawn.we behold the soft-tinged heav ens a deeper tint until old Sol asrain begins to shed genial rays over raoun tain tops down the -.valleys, awaken ing from their slumbers all nature. and living creation, transforming myriads of tiny dew drops inte parklig diamonds gladdening the asselinir corn, making to rejoice the goldenrod the daisy and the but tercup, and giving a tint u red to the pale bloom of the cotton. A Rain otonn. Still another beautiful picture is before us when a heavv rainfall in the vaib.v far below sends forlh the flashes of lightning and peals of thunder echoeing among the inoun. tains. Txoking down through the heavy mist, one fully realizes tbat "above the clonds the sun st'll shines" and that "every cloud has a silver lining." The rainbow in all its grandeurs apnea rs as a token that the world will never again be destroyed by water. The valleys below tbe suntipped peaks reaching far and wide seem as a great ocean dotted here and there by a thousand islands, the waters constantly changing positions and appearance as the sin rises higher and higher in the heavens driving away the soft mist, revealing again innumerable and beautiful landscape, ?Tis then that one begins to ponder over the great handiwork of the Divine and to contemplate his limitles power, goodness and wisdom in the creation of all these beauties of nature and the insignificance of ma" Tis then that we, in gratitud fepl constrained to acknowledz hat by bis omnipotent power an3 forbearance we live. JAMES WICKERSHAM Alaskan Makes Charges Against Attorney General Wickersham. TAFT TO BE AT ENCAMPMENT Signifies Willingness to t.teet with G. A. R. in Rochester, N. Y. Washington, July 13. rresident TaXt told Corporal Tanner of the G. A. R., and Representative Danfcrth of New York that he would be glad to Jota the Q. A. R. veterans in their natural encampment at Rechester, N. Y., on Aug. 23. This is the day of the tig parade of the -encftmi-ment, in which ;it is erected 100,000 veterscs will march. 7ho 'Lnvitötion, engrcscd on parchment and enclosed in a leatli-cr cane, was presenred to the president ly Ccrporal 'Tanr.er. Maine Viüsge Is Oertroved. Portland, Mc, July IS. Vhe little village of South Waterbcro, twentyeisht mili'fi'om tMs city, vas swept by flames nnd in three Lours wiped out cf existent. Ihirty dwellings and nine ether buildings were destroyed and 10Ö persons made homeless. Tn loss la estimated at S3CAMSO.

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EPISCOPAL PICNIC.

Large Crowd Enjoys Annual Event at Pretty Lake Many Cottagers Also Take Part. Wedensday the annual picnic of St. Thomas school and parish wjn held at Pretty Lake. Two large busses took the people out, in addition to the several private tigs and automobiles which were used. There was a large crowd in attendance, and many of the people who are camping out there also ate with tha folks who went out just for the day. They lefc town at about 0 a. m., returning to the city at 7:30 in the vening. Almost all of the younger people enjoyed the various pleasure? of the lake. Reevö's cottage was th center of attraction especially about noon. Of course all had a good time as most everyone does when they visit the Lake. The Star and Stripes. The origiual CoutiDental flag wa adopted Jan. 2, 177. It had thirteen stripes and tbe union of the crosses of St. Georpe and St. Andrew. The lrth of the United States flag occurred on June 14. 1777. congress then reBolvlng "that the flag of the thirteen united colonies be thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, and tbe union be thirteen stars, white In a blue leid, representing a new constellation." 10 HELP THE CHILDREN 'PAMPHLET TOttCH vTZLL S MOTHERS AND FATHERS THAT EXPENSIVE TOYS ARE MONEY WASTE INTEREST THE CHILD Simple Things Rightly Used Cive More Joy and Vine to the Boys and Girls Than We Think. The following is from a pamphlet issued by The Child Welfare Exhibit recently held in Chicago. We quote it in the beilef that it will prove helptully suggestive to the mothers of Plymouth. "It is the right of every child to play. lie needs to play as much as he needs food, air, exercise and sleep. It is chiefly through play activities that the young child strengthens his muscles, develops hist mental powers and makes his social adjustments. j The school is rapidly coming to realize the importance of play as a factor in education. In the kinder garten it is a chief factor. The community,too, should equip play places. It is to the need and vaue of the right sort of play in the home, that we wish to call attention here. That the highest possibilities of play may be realized it is necessary that there be well selected toys and materials, a few play companions and some sympathetic guidance on the part of adults. The usual toy is cheap, easily broken, soon exhausted. What do little children play with during the long hours of the day? Very often nothing. TieQ to posts to keep them from exploring th-s range ot nothrs vision, they fir.a-l icttb down irrtly, acceptia-r tho inevitable. What inexpensive inaUrial. that wr.vld occupy but a .sm.iU prcp rut doors coull be suggested to afford amusement, nd have many possibilities in their use for these little children? Tor the Tiny Tots A box of damp sand, even so small a box as a starch box fronuthe grocery, contains many mud-pies. The sand can be taken from the nearest excavation. An old snoon. a flower pot, little tins, bits of broken china are the' nocwrrics; stones, shells, seeds, for arranger cnV for counting and endless fasclnnrtn?'. problems; sr?iall sticks, clothespin?, spools, for

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fences, people and dolls ; scraps of js-paeo nut'"' of doors. silk, cloth, calico, .hits' of nhbon for .; bring tho faHlr-Itf? n. play stores, and io satisfy lore of) ions ,nnd' nv.Jre for L. color. Box? of every shapo and J pier homos, training

kind are imfaiHng sources of amusement, , in which to trca-nr? articles, make inip''n-- rerr.?$ j.-, r.oms. a 'few bricis for muscular effort will bo carrieJ back and forth lnnnmer-

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Prospect of a Place of Beauty and Value Seen In Grounds Between the WaterWorks and Lighting Plants and the River

able times; converted into chairs, tables, and windows, horses and houses. Soap bubbles, chalk, markpaper, picture books. An old shawl sujr.scsts a covering for a bed, a tent, a hiding place, a house. An old tin spoon makes a fine drum; a broom handle, a gun.- ' A few beans in a box, an excellent rattle. If mother co-operates occasionally coming out to taste the mudpies or pronounce the cup excellent; wraps a bit of colored paper about the elothspin for a little girl; folds a soldier cap from a newspaper for

the young recruit: creeps into tho;n curbinir and to keen a -ool lnu-n

tent house .constructs from bricks a siaoie lor tne 103- pony, content ment will envelope that household! such as it has never known before. For the children of school age, the nature of the materials supplied by the home should be such as would lend themselves to experimentation, invention and construction. Odd bits and shapes of wood, stones or hammer, nails, glue, string ,rope, card board. boards, wooden packing boxes, other wooden boxes. X saw eight children, boys and irirls, .each make a horse, supplying their own material, with which they played for a week. The horses were most crude, but seemed perfectly satisfactory to the riders, who were between the ages of ten and twelve. The body of the horse was a piece of board, four legs of unequal sizes were nailed to the body, a rope tail, cardboard ears, and a whittled nose completed the beast. Reins and whip furnished every incentive to ride to battle, race for "a goal or trot to market. 1 A feather in the hair will change a boy into a wild Indian: a shaving curl or an old skirf. transforms a little girl into a visiting lady. Tn a lot used as storage by a contractor, were old doors, boards and , ladders. Everv dav after school, bovs lived in that lot. They built houses, barns, elevated structures, toboggans flats, trains, sidewalks, bridges, with unflagging interest. If fathers could give a little time and. interest in helping their boys make things, what a stimulus it would be to work. Birdhouses, dovecotes, chicken coops, rabbit hutches, a doll house and furniture, the conversion of a box into an auto, Irish mail cart, with the addition of wheels from an old baby carriage good work and for a purpose, leading to habits of industry and possibly to future inventiveness and selection of a vocation. The desire every loy has to build a fire and cook outdoors" could be easily controlled by the father, requiring but little space and a few coals; potatoes, eggs, corn, molasses candy could be managed. Tn a liny yard T saw eight bottles suspended by the neck, attached to a heavy string, and a boy was absorbed in striking these bottles with a stiVk, working out a melody. The cover of a cigar lox can be easilv converted into an Kolian harp by the addition of elastic bands, and makes a satisfactory tinkle for children. Cigar boxes are a great asset in construction work. Sets of furniture, machines, wagons, cupboards, and innumerable other toys are easily made. Chalk, blackboard, heavy paper, paints, books ,are encouraging factors in a small space, and can better ba used out of doors than in. Old pictures or magazines of any kind, and a pair of blunt scissors, give occupation for hours A mother of my acquaintance used to put her youngest in a high chair on the small porch by the window, where he could .get the fresh air, and she could nod to him occasionally as she bent over the tubs, the "source of her income. On the window sill was a saucer of flour-and-water pate and scraps of papers and pictures. The baby would paste these on the window and ' take them off again rejpcntedly. Tho mother Faid it took but a minnto to wipe ofT the window, and it kept the baby interested. These aro onlr a few of tho many srnrolo, irerrensive, rrateriäls within reach of. tho mnV f.iTil;e?. n r:n' that ccnl-1 be niX rll r'-Ii-.:er. hiTt;e grow ing, boys and girls, through 'interest, play and co-operation, for the perions exertions necsVary fcr futrre occupations, and to be valuable members of' society.

IS FO V AVhat may in time become a very fine little city park, has been begun already, whether by intention or accident. This is on the grounds about the city wells and water Tank. Mnch of the trouble which formly littered this place has been cleared away. The bricks which were at one time scattered about have beei? piled up neatly, and the same is true of the boards. When the dredge removes the debris which has collected about the railroad bridge abuttments . that also will improve the looks of things in this quarter. Mr. Snoebergcr has offered to put about the electric light plant if the j City will do the same by its adjacent grounds. If this were done it would be a step in the same lino. ( If in time, the City should build a wall along the river bank, correspond ing to the private wall on the north bank of the river and should fill in certain parts, things would take on quite a park-.'ike appearence in this locality. The Southworth spring in the vicinity would be an attraction. Some have even suggested that the property lying between tbe Southworth plant and the River and between the Kuhn Garage and the river on the side of the street opposite, could very properly be turned into a public recreation center and gathering place in the future, and what is now an eye-sore to all travellers across the Michigan street bridge, might be changed into "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." What may be done to provide a beaut' spot in even limited space is demonstrated by the grounds about the Pennsylvania Railway pumping station, just north of the railway viaduct on Center street. Here vines, shrubbery, a flower-bed and a wellkept little lawn, are like a small oasis of beauty amid the unpicturesque commercial surroundings. Carl Zook has charge of things here and eat tell anyone how it is done. When, in the n xt ten or fifteen years, Plymouth has become the bustling commercial center which th Commercial Club proposes to make it, when we have a population of ten thousand or more, with a dozen thriving factories adding to the volume of business which the agricultural and manufacturing interests of the community now furish, when scores of houses have been builded, making the size of the yards smaller and pushing farther back the country on the outskirts, then Plymouthites and the stranger within our gates may bo most grateful to sit on the benches beneath the trees in a little down town siesta, or to roam about in the picturesque paths of a little space devoted to nature. Mothers may. bring their babes of a summer evening to play upon the lawn while they meet one another in a social way in some central beauty spot. And those youngsters who find their chief e joyment in playing on our streets might find more pleasure and safety with games and simple apparatus in a playground furnished by the city, than on our public thoroughfares: and incidentally might be spared from the streets with no inconvenience to trade. It is not known whether our City Fathers had some such vision of the future in making the improvements or whether their beginnings of a park is simply due to their natural orderliness and the business-like methods with which they are administering city affairs. At any rate the results are the same. Bank Robbers Not Found. Hammond, Ind., July 15. Posses of policemen and citizens searched In vain for the three men who attempted to rob the Tolleston State Bank, at Gary while the cashier was at lunch. The men are believed to be hiding in tbe woods between Gary and Ham' send. Somnambulist V'a'ks Out . Window, South Bend, Ind., July 15. While In a somnambulistic trance, Joseph Hadtritia walked out cf a seccixL stor window ard. rcMvrd" may cuso bis uoütii. Tnidd!c-cr"u 1 "..in ? nair.tu'lit ciuce Va:' : irv'iie? which H;;Ci.iitis is a. : :'i u2n a scm;ci. . KK;s Wife r-J Tr:--. C::!--Fort Vraync, Ind., July , 9 Nolan, aged flfty-cne, a night va'f man in the TennKylvania rai'reat freight house, shot and killed his wlie and tried to kill himself. The buUet glared his head and .e Kj'TereC k ccalp wound. .