The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-12-25

fees had been reduced we'll toward the
vanishing point. The sheritf'S sale is
n american industry that republic
can legislation does not foster.
1t is said the members of the preSi-
dents cabinet are as much perlexed
Over what to get him for a Christmas
present as the ordinary woman is TO
decide upon the kind of a gift to get
her husband. The cabinet has dis
cussed everything from a gun TO a
broncho, without arriving at an agree
ment.
The four bordering county-seatS-
Goshen north, Columbia City east,
Wabash south, and Plymouth west
have paved streets and are preparing
to do more of it. This is the only
time of year when Warsaw can boast
of ''paveo streets" Yes, they're
ice-paved. Wouldn't that jingle your
Christmas change?-Warsaw Times.
The will of Elder D. G. Ullery, of
South Bend, who built a church of his
own, endowed the same and made pro-
vision that DO member could belong to
a secret society, has been declared in
valid. He left $780, 600 to the church
and diSinherited his children. The
will was broken after a contest of a
week in the st. Joseph circuit court.
John w. Baker, publisher of the
Columbia City Commercial, has dis
covered that the attempt to issue a
daily paper at less than two cent is a
snare and a deluSjon. He ought to
have known this before he entered up
on the experiment., but some newspa-
per people learn only in the school of
bitter experience South Bend
Times.
At Fulton, Michigan, a new hotel
was built and the landlord was going
to open a bar. There was no saloon in
in the little town and the a%nti-Saloon
people purchased a vacant lot across
the street and at once converted it in
to a cemetery. The law Of Michigan
prohibits saloons within so rods of a
cemetery, and there will be nU bar in
the hotel.
According to statistics compiled
from the last United States census,
the claim is made by the New York
World that this country leads the CIV
ilized world in longevity, and it is
shown that the United States, with a
population CT rs, 600, 900 has more than
twice as many centenarians as are in
Germany, France, England, Scotland
and Servia, with a combined popula-
tion of 1873, $50, 900.
There are more mysteries at La
porte than the hairs Of Eusa would
number. Mysterious deaths. mvsteri-
Gus murders, mysterious attempts to
poison, mysterious disappearance all
seek record from Laporte almost daily.
1t is a wonder that Laporte is not the
center Of the chaldron for the eternal
fires OF torment. And it is all due to
the over.active brain OF a correspOn-
dent.-Elkhart Review.
A committee from the Howard
county agricultural society has draft
ed a bill which will be presented to
the legislature asking for special laws
empowering counties and towns to
build and maintain market houses and
public halls. The society has found
that, though cities are empowered to
set aside money for this purpose,
counties do not have the power. The
proposed does not make such
an institution compulsory.
AS the result of an official inquiry
instituted by the Hungarian govern
ment with regard to the use of the
typewriter for official documents, it
has ben established that such docu-
ments cannot be depended on for more
than eight or ten years, at the end of
which time the characters become in
visible. The orphan courts have there
fore been directed to discontinue the
use of the typewriter for documents
requiring to be kept a long time.
The state board of education has
ordered that the textbooks now used
in the schools Of the state shall be
thoroughly revised. The order of the
board was made Wednesday afternoon
after the entire day had been spent in
exhaustive discussion. The Indiana
series of readers, the Cook-C ropsey
arithmetics, Frye's Biographies and
the New Era copy books will be SUBJ
jected to a process OF revision design
ed to eliminate all Objectionable feat
ureS and to make the texts in harmony
with the advance In ideas of educa-
ton.
Rev. belong and the Methodist
people are to be congratulated on Sc
the services of the gentlemen