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The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01

like the girl whose clothes were Gu
the hickory limb and who did not 60
near the water, but were content to
lie and pose on the sand, escaped, for
the iellyfish can neither walk, swim
nor fly, and once ON the sand, speedily
disappears. Bolder spirits, however,
who bravely defy king crabs, clam
shells, and kelp for plunge in the
seas, have been the sufferers. With
singing jellyfish in the water and
singing mosquitoes aud green heads
out of it, lighthouses are not favorite
summer resorts,
Thus kindly Mother Nature finds
some work to do even for her hum
blest children and nothing could be
humber than this fiaccid lump which
has suddenly proved itself to be a
floating abomination. 1t is quite
unnecessary to comment upon the
fact that the jellyfish which makes all
this trouble, like the mosquito, is of
the feminine gender. That can be
taken for granted. The male jelly
fish is an inanimate lump of untaint-
ed innocence Chicago Tribune.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
Absolute Zero.

By absolute zero is meant the low
est temperature compatible with heat
that point of temperature, in fact, at
which body would be wholly depriv-
ed of heat and at which the particles
whose motion constitutes heat would
be at rest. This temperature Is sup
posed to be about 274 degrees c. or 461
degrees F.
The term cheat" is here used in its
scientific sense, for as men use the
word in everyday language its signifi-
canoe depends on the temperature Of
the human body. Men call warm"
everything with temperature higher
than their own and "cold' all those
objects which have less heat than they.
In reality, however, the coolest body
known to man is far from being utter
ly without heat. Ice, for example, has
heat, only in a degree so much below
mans temperature that one can scarce
ly imagine it to be anything but "cold,"
term which actually implies a COM
paratively low degree of heat.
Accordingly the zero of thermometers
is only conventional point marking
certain degree Of heat. There seems to
be point, however, whers, heat ceases
absolutely, and this point it is which is
known In chemistry as the absolute
Zero"
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01

sist of fifty of the smallest size, these
to be followed by twenty each of the
two larger capacities. The market
for this line of goods is large and
rapidly increasing and it is anticipated
that the Plymouth industry will
reach large proportions.
The Clizbe concern has just made a
deal with II. E. Miller, of Chicago,
who makes a large line of grinding
wheels, whereby the output of the
two factories will be sold through a
common agency, thus broadening the
field of both very materially. Five
statesmen from the Chicago factory
will come to Plymouth soon to study
the Clizbe product in the course of its
manufacture so as to present it intel
ligently to the trade and an equal
number from the mill here will 90 to
Chicago for like purpose.
The gradual and certain growth of
the establishment in this city is cause
for congratulation, and especially SO
is the favorable prospect for future
development in both lines above refer
red TO.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
The SUBSIDENCE and EXTINCTION
OF INDIhNR LIKES.

ted there by the action of the prevail
ing winds, and are formed by the de-
cay each year of the great masses OF
spatterdocks, water lilies, ETC.. grow
ing therein. The action of tie ice
serves to push the accumulation to-
ward shore and pack it. The water
area of such lakes as have their bot
toms mainly of sand or mari, lake
Maxinkuckee, is much less subject to
the encrOachment of muck than 9TH
ers and these lakes die very slowly,
The decrease of water supply, re-
sulting largely from the removal OF
timber. and artificial drainage carried
on by the husbandman, have contrib
uted to the lessening or total de-
struction of many lakes. The surplus
water of a heavy rainfall is carried
away more rapidly than formerly and
smaller portion of it seeps into the
ground to emerge later as springs by
which the lakes are fed.
Most of these Indiana lakes are fed
generously by springs about their
rims or yelling up from the bottoms,
and these springs contribute material
ly to the extinction of the very lakes
they feed. The water brought in by
these springs is charged with foreign
matter of different kinds, such as the
salts of lime that constitute mari, the
effect os which is to raise the bottom
of the lake and fill it up with debris.
All of the northern lakes in this
state are geologically young, mere
babes born yesterday and destined to
die tomorrow. AS long as they re-
main they will continue to contri-
butte to the service and delight of
man, but of all prominent features
of the landscape they are the most
changeable and ephemeral. Every
lake has altered or diminished within
the life of a person Of middle age. A
study or conditions at Maxinkuckee
leads to the conclusion that no Ind
lana lake will outlast it or alter more
slowly, if left to the operation of nat
ural forces. It's placid waters cover
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
SAND FOUNDATION
What Experience Has Demonstrated In
in Other Cities.

The Elkhart Review editorially
commends the use of sand foundat ions
for brick paving and publishes With
approval the following letter:
EDITOR REVIEW:
noticed in the Review of Friday
statement credited to South Bend
contractor in which he says in effect
that it is throwing mouey away to put
concrete or gravel foundation under
brick pavement.
/ beg permission to say that my ex-
perience with street paving in Elk
hart as chairman of the street COM
mittee led me to the same conclusion.
Let the street be thoroughly rolled
after excavation and a good clean sand
foundation will answer every purpose.
This is especially true in Elkhart and
in localities where there is so much
sand on the surface Of the ground.
/ would 90 further and eXclIde
crushed stone. All the money invested
in crushed stone under the brick pave
ments put down under the Kinney
contracts was, in my opinion so much
money thrown away. Sand makes a
perfectly secure foundation, as can be
shown i'm many instances, like the ele-
walton of the railroad tracks in Chi
cagO. 1t has been shown i'm Elkhart
where pavements were put down on a
stone foundation. Besides this it is
inexpensive and comparatively easy to
open pavement made on a sandy
foundation in case of any improve
ment or repair work. l came to this
opinion during the last year / was a
member of the Elkhart city council,
after giving the subject considerable
study, and 1 am confident that sand
| foundation under brick is better than
concrete, gravel or crushed stone.
GEO. VINNEDGE,
ST. Joseph, Mich, July 20, 1901.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT
Sam Morse Tells the People
About Dan Mcdonald.

The editor of the indianapolis
Sentinel, in signed editorial, de-
votes four columns to a consideration
of the critics of that paper who have
objected to its policy in dethroning
Bryan and calling for another Tilden.
OF Daniel Mcdonald it says:
LAST, but by no means, least, APP
pears on the scene Uncle Dan Nc
Donald. the veteran editor of the
Plymouth Democrat. Uncle Dan is
really a good fellow, as hard as he
tries to make himself and others be-
lieve to the contrary, and we honest
ly believe he wouldn't hesitate to
loan Parks Martin matter of seven
dollars or SO at any time, even ii the
latter did prefer younger man last
year as secretary of the state COM
mittee."
ssWe think Daniel Mcdonald is un-
duly excited. He is too old CAM
paigner to assume that every conven-
ton which acts as he wants it to
represents the people, and that every
one which doesn't is packed. l." And
he has had too many hOnors and emol-
uments from the democratic party &c
permit his real or fancied personal
grievances to make him ''kicker" OF
a ''diSorganizer. Men are nothing:
principles are everything. Men come
and 90; principles are eternal. Uncle
Dan and the editor of The Sentinel
will both become, one Of these days,
members of a permanent and ever
increasing majority Gust think of it,
Uncle DanielD but the democratic
party will 60 right along after we
have disappeared, getting a hard
Knock now and then, but standing
firm, we hope, all the time for conSti-
tutional government and the rights
of the people. "
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01

The doddering dicky of Marshall
county journalism would have its few
readers believe that respectable lady
of mature age and in the full posses
sion of her faculties is indignant be-
cause she was not stunned by light
ming and left in precarious condition,
wholly disabled. THE EVENING NEWS
told the exact truth about the acct
dent to Mrs. Koontz, thePlymouth in
dependable to the contrary notwith-
standing. Instead of being confined
to her bed for many weeks, the lady
is up and about the house as usual
and was down town to see the show
Monday.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
TO hBDU6T DAUGHTER
THREATS OF BLH6kMfiILERS h6hlkST
An ILLINOIS MIN.

Three Letters Written Demanding $4,000 I'm
der.Penaity of Burning Girls Eyes Out and
Killing Fathsr--ssvsraI Suspected by the
Police.
NATION, Ill, 30-Two thous-
and dollars is the price demand
ed by unknown persons from
Richard Hearn, a wealthy retired
farmer of this city, for the safety
of himself and only daughter
Maude, aged thirteen years. A
week ago Hern received letter
in which the writer demanded
the money be placed in tin can
at the southeast corner of the
Episcopal church. Hearn treat
ed it as joke, but a second mis-
sive stated that failure TO comply
with it would result in the girls
abduction and his own death.
When both letters failed to bring
the money a third letter was
sent, which so alarmed the father
that yesterday he revealed the
affair to the police.
The last letter said that this
was Hearn's final opportunity,
for he and the girl would both
be captured and the former would
witness the horrifying spectacle
of his daughter with her eyes
burned out and heart cut from
her body. Then he would also
be killed.
Hearn is worth $3.50 but
thinks best not to accede to the
extortioner's demands. Several
persons are suspected by the po-
lice
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
POLICE in Il Brittle
CHIEF SHOOTS DOWN ONE OF HIS Of
TIGERS.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 30-A
special from Crossville tells of
the killing of Policeman Pink
Pass and w. E. Knox and the
fatal wounding of Shirley Pass,
son of the policeman. in a street
fight at Isoline, Tenn. a mining
town eight miles north of Cross
vile. Policeman Pass went into
section of the place known as
Negro Town to quell distur-
bance and became engaged in a
row with Knox. who pulled an
ugly-looking knife. The police
man then shot him dead.
Chief of Police Hill p. Lowery
and E. E. Swofford started for
the scene of the disturbance to
arrest Policeman Pass, but were
met by Shirley Pass and told not
to go. They had words and the
officers were ordered back by
Pass, who flourished a pistol.
Swofford then shot Shirley Pass
through the left lung, fatally
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01

There are three propositions upon
which The Times would like to see a
test of public sentiment at the con-
gressional election of next year.
These are: Regulation of trusts by
government supervision and regula-
ton: reduction of tariff on commOd-
tiles produced by trusts: getting rid
of the Philippine Islands. If the
Democratic party would 60 before the
country with these three propositions,
holding all other questions in abey-
ance, and making straight issue up
on the former, it would be safe to
wager good sum that the party
would achieve an overwhelming vic
tOry.-SOuth Bend Times.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
THE BIG SHOW
Robinson's Biggest Prior Efforts
Surpassed
II Quiet Sunday at the Grounds Fol-
lowed bu a Bush Dau With Fine
Parade and Great Crowds.

Shortly after l O'Clock Sunday
morning the first section of Robin
sons show arrived from Michigan City
and two hours later the other two
sections were in and the unloading
began. A couple of hundred curious
people were on hand to see the work
of unloading the forty cars composing
the trains.
Because it was Sunday the opera
lions were conducted rather more de-
liberately than usual. The heavy
vans were hauled to the Molter
ground. going alternately by way of
Center and Fifth streets and thus
emphasizing the fact that forinearly a
mile there is no way for team to
cross the Pennsylvania road. At the
grounds the cook and dining tents
were first erected, followed by the
stables, the menagerie and then the
dressing tent, the main canvass being
kept dry until today.
Hundreds of people visited the
grounds and also the cars in the Van
dalia yards during the day, and the
show people were at leisure and good
natured. The heavy rain was taken
as matter of course and did not dis
turb their equanimity in the least.
Today the streets began to fill early
with people. Every train was crowd
ed and a great many came in from
the country. The parade at 1890
was truly magnificent. The cages,
chariots and trappings were clean and
bright and the horses were in the
pink of condition. Everybody. was
de lighted with the pageant and pro-
no lnced it fully equal to any this city
ever saw before. Mr.. LowloW, the
gentlemanly and accomplished press
agent, who has been with the Robin
son show for an entire generation,
said that it was better street parade
than airy circus ever gave here, and
we could not argue the matter with
him for want of facts to the contrary.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
STUDIES OF MODERN MAN
Some Conclusions of lnvestiga-
tors Over the World.
Results Found to be True in Most
of the Gases Studied and There
fore Generally Applicable.

Maximum growth in height and
weight occurs in boys two years later
than in girls.
First-born children excel later-born
in stature and weight.
Healthy men ought to weigh an adj
ditional pounds for every inch in
height beyond 81 inches, at which
height they ought to weigh 12O
pounds.
Chest-girth increases constantly
with height, and is generally half the
length of the body.
Chest-girth and circumference of
head increase in parallel lines.
The relatively larger size of head as
compared with body in children may
be due to the fact that from birth on
the child needs its brain and senses as
much as when it is grown.
Boys grow more regularly than girls,
but the growth of girls during school
years is greater than that of boys.
In boys in school the muscles of the
upper extremities increase with age as
compared with those of the lower
extremities, because of their sitting
more than standing.
Children born in summer are taller
than those born in winter,
Boys of small frames often have
large heads are deficient in repOse of
character, and when the chest is con-
tracted and mental action slow, this
mental condition is due probably to
lack of supply of purified blood.
Delicate, slender people are much
more subject to typhoid fever than to
consumption.
Some defective children are over
normal, that is, they are taller and
heavier than other children.
Growth degenerates as we 60 lower
in the social scale.
Dull children are lighter and pre-
cOcious children heavier than the
average child.
AS circumference of head increases,
mental ability increases; it being un-
derstood that race and sex are the
same.
Urban life decreases stature from
five years of age on.
Truant boys are inferior in weight
and chest-girth to boys in general.
City children are more vivacious,
but have less power of endurance,
than country children.
Among United States naval cadets
there is great preponderance of
blends.
The insane show an excess of per
cent of light eyes with dark hair and
criminals of 10 per cent of dark eyes
with dark hair over the general pop
ulation.
In Germany 40 per cent of the
children of the well-to-do classes are
blends and less than 10 per cent
brunetteS.
The endurance of boys is greater
than that of girls at all ages.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
THE CROPS NOT WHOLLY RUINED

Looking the country over it is clear
that the crops in large majority of
states are in fair condition and that
the outlook is far better than has been
represented. When fiery blasts are
raging at temperature of 107 in the
shade it is easy to imagine that the
situation is desperate. But this is a
large country, with innumerable vari-
ationS of weather within its limits. A
drought is always more or less local
lied. Up to the end of the wheat
harvest the crop conditions in all the
states were tirSt-claSS. MANY states
have not suffered seriously, and those
where the heat has been excessive and
rains scanty can not tell just where
they stand as to crops not yet matur-
ed. But the picture of destruction
has been completely overdrawn even
in the sections where the drought is
worst. Abundant rains would put a
new face upon affairs Corn is, as the
secretary OF agriculture says, a hot
weather plant. 1t will not come to
anything in cool climate. a three
fourths yield would 60 beyond $780,
600, 900 bushels, and a crop of this size
is still quite possible. The story of
the hottest month on record in this
country has been largely colOreG by in
tense physical discomfort, and list of
FroStrations. The vegetable market
has suffered in a few states, but the
loss in general crops has been i'm
mensely exaggerated. Not one state
in six has suffered an excessive DAM
age. When the complete returns
come in affairs will brighten up won
derfully, even in the worst drought
centerS. The talk of total destruc-
ton anywhere has been guess work
But pesSlmiStic conjectureS, no mat
ter how slight their basis, tend to in
jure business. Great tiers of states
have had no unusual drought. A few
have been injured by dry weather to
an extent as yet unknown. The size
of the wheat crop is known, and it is
the largest on record. Just wait for
the facts. They are not likely IN any
case to interrupt the high tide of
prosperity One soaking rain will
drive the pessimists to covtr.-St.
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01

The lakes of northern Indiana, says
State Geologist Blatchley in late re-
port, are the brightest gems in the
corona of the state. They are the
most beautiful and expressive features
of the landscape in the region where
in they abound. With the fertile
soil, the great beds of.gravel, and the
myriads of powders, large and small,
they are to be classed as mementoes
of those mighty ice sheets which, in
the misty past, covered the northern
two-thirds of our state. Out side of
the counties in which they occur but
few of the citizens of Indiana know
of their presence, their beauty. their
value. Their origin, their fauna
and flora, the cause of their gradual
diminution in size and final extinction
are likewise known to but few.
These lakes all owe their origin to
the irregular deposition of the drift
brought in by the glaciers and all
found in the state have what scien-
fists term drift basins. Some are
kettle-hole lakes, having caldron-
shaped basins, such as Pretty Lake;
others are channel lakes, with long
and narrow basins, still others are ir-
regular lakes, complex in outline, like
Maxinkuckei and most of the large
lakes in Indiana.
These lakes begin to die the NOM
ent they are born and there are today
in northern Indiana more beds OF ex-
tinct lakes than there are existing
lakes. All of those now in existence
are in the visible process of extinction,
the progress of which in many cases,
as in the lakes at Laporte, is. very
rapid.
The agencies operating to destroy
these beautiful bodies of water are
several in number. The effects can
be measured by comparison with old
meander lines, by observing the tim.
Der and fixed marks on shore or near
by, by the recollections of old inhab-
itants of their experiences in fishing,
swimming and boating, and in other
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
AN INDIANA INSTITUTION
Gratifying Growth In Popularity Of a
Home Enfernrise
Home Enterprise.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 31-The new
insurance written in Indiana in the
month just closing by the State Life
of this city exceeds in volume the bust
ness ever written in the state in any
month by any company and it exceeds
that written by all other companies
combined-in the same period. The
gratifying success of this home COM
pany, making it one of the greatest
single financial institutions of Indiana,
is due to the results secured by its
conservative management along scien-
tific lines of life insurance practice,
bringing low death rate, low ex-
penses and high returns on absolutely
safe investments. The official deposit
Of the State Life with the auditor of
state, guaranteeing the policies writ
ten, is now nearly a million dollars.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
FOUND A MOTHER.
Romance Of an Orphan Girl Brought
to Plymouth Twelve Years Ago.

About II years ago car load OF
orphan children landed in Plymouth
from the Home of the E'riendless at
Boston, Mass, and the most of them
found homes among strangers in
Marshall county. Among the num-
Der was a bright and handsome five
year old girl by the name of Lillian
Rhodes, who was taken into the home
of John Overmyer, who lives near
Hubbard, where she remained one
and one-half years, when owing
to circumstances, she was taken into
the home of Harvey Norris, who is
proprietor of the Maple Grove Place
on the east side of the lake, where
she has lived contented and happy
ever since.
The girl, who is now II years of
age, could not give very distinct ac-
count of her ancestors, or as to wheth-
er her parents were alive or not. But
she stated that for some time she had
lived with woman she called Aunt
in Revere, Vermont, and out of curios-
ity, Prof. Allen Norris, wrote to this
lady and in few days received letter
stating that Miss Rhodes mother is
alive and lives at Arlington Heights,
Massachusetts.
To confirm the really romantic af-
fair, the mother has written to her
long lost daughter, and it is expected
that reunion will take place in the
by and by.
In the meantime Miss Rhodes, who
is beautiful and charming young
lady, is waiting with great anxiety
for that important meeting.-Culvel
Herald.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-01
A LOCAL INDUSTRY
favorable Outlook for the Grown Case.
line En-. iae-Oth r Factory News.

Final arrangements have now been
completed for the immediate manu-
facture of the gasoline motor invent
ed and perfected by John Hay. OF
this city, and the movement of ma
chinery to the Clizbe plant for that
purpose commenced today. BY the
middle of next week the factory wall
he in motion.
The engine, which is to be known
as the Crown gasoline engine, will be
made in three sizes, having three,
five and eight horsepower respective
", and the first lot put out will cen