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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01
Plans Ills Own Cremation.

George Hendel, of Royal Center,
aged IS, has perfected arrangements
for his cremation after death. He has
constructed large coffin, lined with
sheet iron, and has given instructions
that his corpse is 10 be placed in it
and set on high platform, built of
cord wood, soaked with ten gallons of
kerosene, and on this funeral pyre he
is to be burned in public.
He has also arranged for the funeral
ceremonies, but declines to make his
plans public. His relatives and friends
are protesting vigorously. but the old
man is firm and declares that the dis
tribution of his property depends up
on the faithful observance of his in
stiuctions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01
President Will Treat All Men Alike.

President Roosevelt, in statement
to union labor leaders Tuesday night
refused positively to discriminate in
favor of union labor. He said:
81 thank you and your committee
for your courtesy, and l appreciate
the opportunity to meet with you. 1t
will always be pleasure to see you
or any representatives of your organi-
cations or of your federation as a
whole
"AS regards the Miller case, l have
little to add to what have already
said. In dealing with it / ask you to
remember that / am dealing purely
with the relation of the government
to its employees. l must govern my
action by the laws of the land which
1 am sworn to administer. and which
differentiate any case in which the
government Of the United States is
party from all other cases whatsoever.
These laws are enacted for the benefit
Of the whole people, and cannot and
must not be construed as permitting
discrimination against some OF the
people. am president of all the peo-
pie of the United States, without re-
gard to creed, color, birthplace, occu-
patton or special conditions. My aim
is to do equal and exact justice as
among them all.
In the employment and dismissal
of men in the government service /
can no more recognize the fact that a
man does or does not belong to un-
ion as being for or against him than l
can recognize the fact that he is
protestant or a catholic, Jew or a
gentle, as being for or against him."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01
Brush Was ProbabIyMu rdered.

A Rochester dispatch is as follows;
cit is now thought that the man
named Brugh, Of Hanna, Laporue
county, found ground to pieces on the
Erie railroad, west Of Monterey, may
have been murdered and his body
placed on the track. He is said to
have had $50 the evening before he
was killed, and none of this was found
in his pockets. This makes four mys-
terious deaths in the vicinity of Mon
tereY within year or two, and the
suspicion is growing that murderous
robbers are located in that vicinity,
and that the three bodies found on
the railroad and one on Tippecanoe is
land are victims of murders.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01

Gust Carabin and wife, who have
spent the summer near Seattle, Was,
where Mr.. Carabin has business inter-
ests, returned to Plymouth Saturday
evening.
Miss Pearce, of Chicago, came down
to Plymouth Saturday evening with
her uncle, Delos Manufacturing, and
visited over Sunday with relatives in
this city.
Laporte Argus: Judge Biddle, who
recently went to the Pacific coast, had
a pleasant visit with Mrs. Calkins,
idow of the late Congressman Calk-
ms, formerly Of this city. Mrs. Calk.
ins is living with one of her sons and
is In excellent health.
Mrs. Michael Flanagan, who has
been the guest of her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Athony Molter and other rela-
tives in this vicinity. returned to her
home at Lafayette, Monday. Her bro
Their, Peter Molter, who recently re-
Gently returned from Detroit, accom-
panied her home.
H. G. Thayer has moved his office
from the room overHartle IS store to the
Novelty factory. For twenty-five years
people have been going up the stair
way on the west side of Michigan
street to see Mr.. Thayer and it will
take several weeks to break them of
the habit.
A lighted match was dropped into
a barrel partly filed with oil in the
paint shop in the rear OF. Shaded IS
drug store this afternoon, and for a
few seconds it looked like there would
be big fire, but the flaming barrel
was thrown into the street and the
damage was light.
The Brethren, or German Baptist,
protracted meeting, will commence at
the Blissville church about seven
miles northewest of Plymouth on the
LaPorte read, Oct. 18th at p. m.
Everybody invited to attend those
meetings. S. N. Eyersole is the
preacher in charge.
Rev. John A. Maxwell, presiding
elder of the South Bend district, held
quarterly meetings at Letters Ford,
Monterey, Culver and Argos. Friday.
Saturday and Sunday and drove from
Argos to Plymouth Monday to
take the 11:4s a. m. train for South
Bend. He is looking quite well and
strong.
Plymouth Chapter, No. %. o. E.
S. had called meeting Tuesday
evening, Sept. 20 for initiation. La
porte Chapter has extended an invi-
tation to Plymouth to attend BAN
quet. Oct. IA. given in honor of the
Grand Matron, Mrs. Goltra. All the
members should be present to accept
the invitation.
The seven sisters dinner, which is
given annually by seven ladies who
grew up together almost three-quar.
tiers Of century ago at Canal Dover,
Ohio, and afterward moved to Mar
shall county, was held this year at the
home Of Grandma Sponsler. The
eldest of these ladies are Mrs. Spons-
Ter and Mrs. Wade, who are 80 years
old.
Stephen Bagley died at his home in
this city Wednesday aged go
years. He had resided on South
street, in the west part Of the city for
more than thirty years and was a
quiet, industrious citizen. An obitu-
airy will be given in our next issue.
Funeral services will be held at the
Catholic charch at O'Clock Friday
morning.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01
Plymouth. Ind. October I. 1903.


c. E. Smith is sick with pneumonia.
WILDER Pontious, of South Bend,
visited in this city Sunday.
Mrs. Kendall spent Sunday in Chi
cago with her son. Lee NJ. Kendall.
Miss Mary Schlarb and Miss Effie
Clancy are Chicago visitors this week.
Noah Hoover has gone to northern
Ohio for business trip of two weeks.
William Burnside and family have
moved from Plymouth to Mishawaka.
II. G.. Thayer attended the funeral
of Martin ". BIGGER at Mishawaka
Monday.
Oliver Chase. wife and baby return
ed to their home in Chicago, Sunday
evening.
Mesdames H j. Mitchell and Mon
roe Ream are visiting relatives at
Mrs, George Riggens, of Etna
Green, visited over Sunday with rela-
tives in Plymouth.
Mrs. Nancy Gilbert and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lily Guyer, of Chicago, are
visiting in this city.
Ed. p. Rogers, the jeweler, has
moved his family into the rooms up
stairs over Miiler's grocery store.
Miss Swartz9las returned to her
home at SoDth Bend after visiting
relatives in this city and Bremen.
Mrs. j. D. Chaplin who has been
visiting her daughter. Mrs. ]. A. Gill
more jr.returDed to Bourbon Monday.
Mrs. Walters who has been visiting
her sick sister, Mrs. Thomas Sponsler,
returned to her home Monday.
Mrs. Charles Boris has returned to
South Bend after visit of several
days with relatives north of Inwo0d.
Mrs. Elizabeth MIltenberger has re-
turned to South Bend after visit of
two months with relatives in this
county.
:. Mrs. Joseph Andrews has returned
TO Peru after visit Of week with
: her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Bergman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnap, of Chicago,
are visiting Mrs. BIS mother. Mrs.
Harriet Unger and many old friends in
Plymouth.
: Mrs. James Lawrence and Mr.. Will
lard Lawrence and wife. of Bourbon,
visited Will Lawrence and family in
: this city Sunday.
DR.. Borton went TO Cleveland, O..
Saturday night to spend week with
relatives in that city and other points
in that section of Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oates, of
Huntington, and Mrs. Aurora Ben
nett. of Chicago were here to attend
the funeral of Harry WiItfong.
Miss Rena Rhodes has returned to
Hanna after a visit of week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. w.
Rhodes, southeast of this city.
Dowie. the prophet, has faith larger
than a mustard seed, for when be an
nounces a collection in Zion he sets
out barrel to hold the money.
W. F. Herrold and family visited
Fred Bell and other old friends at In
wood Sunday, had a splendid dinner
and met many old acquaintances.
Mrs. Ellen Roberts, has returned
to her home at Dayton, Ohio, after a
visit Of two months With Mr.. and Mrs,
George Koontz Of North township.
Misses Stella Brink and Idona Cor
din, Of South Bend. attended the fun
eral Of Harry Wiltfong. They grad
uated with him in the class Of 1900.
Mrs. Price, who had been visiting
her daughter, Miss Delta Price. q
teacher OF the Plymouth schools. re-
turned 70 her home at Nappanee
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01

The Winamac school board men,
bers have been forced to reconsider
their decision barring the two negro
girls from the high school at that
place.
Can any one tell why persons will
ask their home newspaper to boost
their town and business and never
contribute cent toward the support
of the papec?
DR.. A. G. Holtzendorff returned Sat-
urday evening from his visit at his old
home in Germany. He was gone nine
weeks, had pleasant visit and stood
the trip well.
Delos VanValkenburg, who has been
residing in Chicago, with his sister,
Mrs. Pearce, during the past year has
returned to Plymouth to again make
this city his home.
A number of the German friends of
Mrs. r. G. Kloepfer surprised her Sun
day evening and spent several hours
in social enjoyment. 1t was her BIRTH
day anniversary.
The jury in the trial of Sanford Lee
charged with numbering his sweet
heart, Nora Miller at Marion, were not
able to agree and were discharged af-
te- being out AZ hours.
Mrs. John f. Appleman changed
cars here on her way from Mexico,
Miami county to the home of her
mother IN Hamlet who was reported
dangerously i'll Monday.
The postoffice at Medaryville.
Pulaski county was burglarlzed Sum-
day morning. The safe was blown
open and all the stamps and money
taken. Their booty amounted to over
$500.
A dispatch in the Sunday Journal
from Paris, Ill.,. said that broom corn
cannot be bought in the central Hill
nois district today for 800 a ton, with
indications that the price will go still
higher.
Sunday centennial crowd at Chi
cago was of such magnitude that it
recalled worlds fair days. The num-
Der in Lincoln Park during the day
was variously estimated at from 15O,-
900 to $50, 900.
Fred III. Kuhn went to Chicago
Monday to attend the National Fire.
mems convention. Fred has been a
prominent firemen and a member of
the National association for more
than twenty years.
The South Bend papers announce
that Eugene Pesch, of Plymouth, con-
tributed solo at Sunday evenings
entertainment at Turner hall, and add
that young Pesch is considered by
many coming virtuso.
Peter Hank, Of Whiting, spent SUM-
day with his sister Mrs. Andreas Wade.
1t was her fiftieth birthday and the
family gathered in to help her enjoy
lit. Mr.. and Mrs. Hanna of Laporte
were among the guests present.
Generosity is not generosity unless
offered in the right spirit and without
an eye to future profit. Many people
try to get reputation for generosity
and charity simply to use as market
able commodity for their own self-in-
terest.
Howard. the six-year-old son of
Daniel Dreves of Elkhart, found a
railway torpedo, and in playing with
it used a ham, yer and chisel with the
result that an explosion followed.
which blew away two fingers of the
left hand
1t is hard to find better example
OF the admirable economy of nature
Than lies In the fact that it is very.
comfortable to sleep between blankets
on the cool nights when all the sheets
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-01
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week.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13

There be old maids the South their being
called
where from seventeen to fifty and Of their pupils
assaid
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
The Old est American Tribe.

Are the Mayas, tribe in Southern
Mexico, about which little has ever
been known, Asiatic in origin, and was
there a tribe of civilized people in that
country earlier and more obscure than
the Aztecs?
Professor Frederick Starr of the Uni
versity of Chicago has just returned
from an investigation into these prob
lens, and 1t may be that his research
work of the last four months in Mex
leo will result in an affirmative answer
to these important questions.
A purple spot on the back Of each
baby born into the Maya tribe, Profes-
sor Starr declares, is the connecting
link between the Mayas and the Mon
golian families. He has discovered
that the Mayas are the only tribe
among which new born infants bear a
purple spot in the middle of the back.
The spot disappears about four
months after birth. The same phe-
nomenon appears among Mongolian
families. and this similarity may prove
that the Mayas are in origin Asiatic.-
New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
He Would Take Umbrellas.

When Verlaine, the author died, he
left his friend Bibllapuree, as legacy
to those who had cared for him. Bib
was an inoffensive fellow, and there
was tradition that he had worked,
but the man was not then alive who
had seen him with a pen in his hand,
yet Bibi was looked after for the dead
poets sake. Painters, sculptors and
journalists gave him house room, in
turn, fed him and clothed him, and Bib
was grateful. But one little vice Of his
was incurable; he invariably walked
off with his hosts umbrella. This bad
habit at last produced a coldness, and
his friends dropped off and Bibi expe-
rienced the cold shoulder of neglect.
One day he was discovered almost
starving in an empty house and Ver-
laine's friends reproached themselves
for the unkindness to the poor old man.
A subscription was raised for his ben
eft, and the money handed to him at a
banquet at which the twenty seven
subscribers We're present. Bibis health
was drunk often and he rose to reply.
but emotion so overcame him that he
sought permission to retire. and in his
retirement he was accompanied by
twenty-seven umbrellas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
"On the Side of the Angels"

Commenting ON Mr.. Carnegie's sug-
gestion that public libraries should
be used for purposes of dramatic art,
Sir Henry Irving says: 1--WE who have
given our lives to the cause Of the adj
vancement of our various arts may
well hear with gladness this great
voice coming to us from the hummlng
world of commerce, from the roaring
of mighty furnaces and the thunder
Of ceaseless hammering Of steel on
steel. Even to the successful mer-
chants, the prosperous manufacturers,
the giants of the world of material in
dustry, success in this world is not
enough. There Is something wanting
to make money of the value which 1t
seemed when the purse and the heart
We're light, and when hope, however
great, could only throw its enlighten-
ing and invigorating beams along one
path of life. The graces and the
charms and the sweetness of life have
their own share in making worthy the
heights at which ambition may r,se.
This conspicuous example Is one which
must be doubly dear to you as Scotch
men as well as artists, and 1 am glad
that we may hope to have henceforth
'on the side of the angels so powerful
as we'll as so willing helper"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13

When the young girl could prepare
the crust of pumpkin pie Of such
consistency that it would be tender and
faky, just thick enough to hold the
semi-fuid mass and fluted evenly so as
to present an attractive appearance,
she was held to have begun to be a
skilled cook, writes Ellen II. Richards
in Good Housekeeping. This "crink-
ling" of the pie crust was very i'm
portant point. The esthetic instinct so
sternly repressed by the common creed
found a certain satisfaction in the
cookery of the danes, once they were
released from the harder pioneer work,
so that the innate love of ornament
came out on these various pies. Those
made of cranberry were decorated
with slender strips of crust forming
various geometric figures. Children
expected to find birds nests with the
watching bird on their special indivi-
dual mince pies which they carried
home from grandmother's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13

ported It to the authorities. 1t then
transplred that the couple had wealthy
connections In an Eastern State. But
the extraordinary fact was also
| learned that about six months previous
the father Of the bridegroom became
suddenly insane and shot his wife. He
then carried her body to a nearby lake
and jumped with 1t into the water.
The two bodies, with his arms en-.
| twined around her form. were found
on the following day, and coroner's
| Jury returned the verdict of murder
| and suicide committed by the husband
while in a sudden insane frenzy. When
the coroner's jury, who considered the
| case of the bridal couple, heard all
the evidence, they returned a similar
verdict. On the anniversary of the
tragedy the transparent form of the
brides bust and head appears, accom-
panied by the three knocks. Yester-
day completed the tenth year since the
occurrence Of the tragedy.
GAS for the three knocks. Well, I
remember peculiar incident which
happened at supper on the fatal night.
While we were engaged in general con-
versation three distinct knocks, as II
made on the underside Of the table.
startled us all. Inquiry proved that
no one present had knocked, not even
in joking spirit. But the bride
groom's face blanched plainly, and l
was the only one who noticed it. At
the inquest it was learned that SER
wants of the parents had heard three
knocks, precisely the same as we heard
at the supper table, and you heard last
night. The servant, who was with tile
old couple at the time, said that the
fathers face turned deadly pale. That
night he sent his wife and himself out
Of the world. What a coincidence,
you may say. Aye, it's mystery that
I don't pretend to understand. leave
such things to people cleverer than I
can ever be. Well, 1 have told you the
strange story of this stateroom. I
guess, I hear the mate calling for
me-
"With that last remark he left me
to ponder over what 1 had heard.
knew that that apparition appeared be-
cause I saw it. 1t LETT an impression
upon my mind that will never be ef-
faced. 1 don't attempt to explain 1t.
strong disbeliever In the supernatural
that I am. There exist phenomena
that battle all investigation, that defy
the brightest minds to offer a solution,
that seem to be not part of, and yet
must be, it cannot apparently be other
wise, a part Of the natural. We are
cropping in the dark. Perhaps, some
day we shall see the light and we shall
be surprised at the simplicity OF the
solution. All the workings of nature
are simple when we understand them.
1t is our ignorance that mystifies us"
glanced at my watch. l still had
time to keep an appointment. So bid
ding my friend good night, left him
to the companionship Of his reminis-
cenceS
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
Built Her Nest on War Ship.

A rather curious gift has been pre-
sented by Staff Surgeon Beadwell, of
the Royal Navy, to the Royal United
Institution at Whitehall. 1t Is a cor
morant's nest, containing five eggs.
which was discovered in the lookout
on the foremast Of II. M. S. Sybille,
which was wrecked some time ago in
Lambert's Bay, ON the southwest coast
Of Africa.
The nest is composed of seaweed,
somewhat roughly put together, and
bound with stout pieces of wire rig
ging, on which the cormorant must
have expended very great strength,
for they had been wrenched off the
submerged ship and broken into proper
lengths on purpose to hold the nest
together,-New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
eABY'S FIRST WORD.
A Child's Efforts to Make Itself Under.
stood.

The most interesting period in a
child's life is that in which it makes
Its first efforts at understanding and
being understood. A child produces
sounds only for the first few months,
but these sounds are very expressive,
If one is an attentive and sympathe-
tic hearer, and arise from the many
changing feelings of suffering or
pleasure. The scream of child in
pain is altogether different from the
roar Of anger. and both are unlike the
fretful cry of hunger. A little later
the small being begins to practice on
the vocal organs a rehearsal of the
sounds which in time will become Ian
guage.
In this baby twittering the vowel
sounds come first, and notifications
Of the "a" are continuously strung
together, often in odd ways; later the
child apparently becomes conscious
Of amusement in making these noises
and then babbles, because to do so af-
fords him pleasure. An unusually
loud shout will be followed by pause
VI dululTdJlOu, ana tuefe VIII De pam
efforts to renew special sound effects
as he grows older.
The first articulate sound made by
baby is usually the syllable ma" as
every on knows, and the result is that
in almost every language this syllable
Is part of the word meaning mother"
as madie in italian, mater in Latin.
A baby will exert his lungs to the ut
termost extent in order to obtain his
end when in earnest need of attention.
The parting of the lips and opening Of
the mouth to its widest naturally pro-
duce the sound ma" and, as his Ma
jesty's desires are usually attended to
by the mother, the syllable comes to
De understood as her appellatlon.
How many aeons have passed since
first this word was first used none can
know; but there can be little doubt
that it was one of the very eallest in
primeval Observation-Disclosures Pub
lie Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13
Killed the Whole Coyey.

To kill six quail, the total number in
the covey, at one rise, with thirty.
inch double barrelled shotgun, is per-
formance that for this part of the
country is likely to stand as record
for some time to come. 1t was done in
the presence of two witnesses the other
day by II. NJ. Taylor, of Amelia Coun.
ty, Virginia.
With two friends and three pointers,
one of them an inexperienced puppy,
Taylor had been hunting quail since
daybreak, and it was not until after
sundown and with only two shells left
in the outfit that the remarkable shot
was made. The men We're returning
to the village with their game bags
comfortably well filed when one of the
older dogs stood 4 flock of birds that
had conveyed for the night in a small
slump of dense pine scrubs standing
on & slight eminence in the middle Of a
big field of broom grass.
AS Taylor had the two remaining
shells the chance fell to him, and he
had approached to within thirty yards
of the outer edge of the pines when
the puppy broke his stand, and, run.
ming over his field partners point,
flushed the birds. The covey came up
out of the little clump in a compact
ball like toy balloon
There was no opportunity to pick a
bird, and Taylor fired his right barrel
point blank into the mass. Every quail
but one fell, and this one was grassed
at distance of fifty yards with the
left barrel. The entire family was an
initiated in less than two seconds.
The shells We're loaded with three
drains of dense powder and an ounce
and a quarter of No. shot. The right
barrel of the gun was plain cylinder
and the left full choke.-New York
Sun
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-04-13

By John Greenleaf whittier.

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