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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

Writing of the campaign against cen
sumption in the June Everybody's Maya
zine, Eugene Wood says that there is
nothing particularly new in the medical
or scientific side of the problem to report,
pending the outcome of Won Behring's
experiment with tuberculosis, substance
separated from the growth of the tuber.
culosis bacillus. He thinks il quite gen.
orally accepted now that people with light
hair and blue eyes should not 1--we out of
doors whore it is always bright and sun.
ny, because they lack the pigmanetation
to absorb the light rays, which become
source of irritation and idgefs. A
cloudier climate is better for blondes, and
there is nothing dangerous in damp eli
mate. The statement is also made that
those who don't care for mea. are very
likely to die of tuberculosis" Referring
to the effort of the consumption fighters
to enlist the American Federation of La
Dor, Mr.. Wood says that the disease is
essentially a social problem, and he con-
cludes that something Is wrong with the
way we live now. We know its causes
and how to stop the spread, but, never.
theless, great majority of the people in
homes and factories are so living as to
be unable to resist tuberculosis. and the
social gulf between the people and the
better classes is not wide enough to sep
arate us from the disease that decimates
He believes that when this fact is square
ly faced The people will find social
remedy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

SECRETARY WILSON. up 10 the new law.
A number of letters have reached him
from packers. all expressing willingness
to counsel with him and uphold his hands
in meat inspection administration.
DIR. A. ID. Melvin. chief of the bureau
of animal industry. will accompany Sec
rotary Wilson. 4 week or more will be
passed in Chicago looking over the plans
and comforting with the packers. Coop
Grafton between the government and the
packers. Secretary Wilson said, was to
be the watchword in carrying out the in
spection law He will advise the packers
that the time is at hand for the greatest
campaign ever made for the promotion
and exploitation of the American meat
business.
Backed by thorough government inspec-
ton. Secretary Wilson will tell the pack
ers they can conquer the worlds markets
more fully than ever before and have lit
tie to fear from Australia or Argentina.
The Secretary proposes TO use all the
powers of his department TO push the sale
of American meats abroad and President
Roosevelt will back him. He is conf
dent an era of unprecedented prosperity Is
dawning for the American meat business.
corn and thoroughly inspected, American
packers, Mr.. Wilson says, can overcome
nearly all competition. In having an adj
equate corn supply TO fatten cattle and
other stock the Secretary says America
has an invaluable asset which other ma
tons have not.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
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Judge A. w. Benson, the new Kansas
Senator. has taught a Bible class for
twenty-six years.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman has
twice been within an ace of becoming
Speaker of the House of Commons.
The appointment of William Pinkney
Whyte by Gov. Warfield of Maryland to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator German has pleased the indie
pendent, or anti-Gorman, faction of the
Democratic party in that State. Whyte
is a former Governor of Maryland and
former United States Senator, who is
frequently referred to as Maryland's
Grand Old Man." being now SO years
old. He was also unanimously elected
Mayor of Baltimore in 1882, after having
finished a term in the Senate.
Hon. William Pinckney Whyte OF
Maryland, who recently became United
States Senator for the third time, is the
only man living who was a member of
that body and voted against negro sui
frage when the fifteenth amendment &c
the constitution was passed by it.
The Republican State convention OF
Minnesota resulted in the nomination of
A. L. Cole for Governor. He had been
regarded as one of the weaker candidates
The platform approves pure food legisla.
ton, direct vote for Senators, 2-cent rail
road fares, abolition of passes and read
justment of freight rates.
John ID. Long, ex-Secretary of the
Navy, is much opposed to the proposed
new system Of spelling. He says: ITO
spell well is the distinguishing mark of
scholar, as much as good manners are
of gentleman"
Mayor Mcclellan of New York City
was among the recipients of honorary de
gress at Union college and was the prin
cipaI commencement speaker. He urged
the students to enter the profession oil
politics, which he distinguished sharply
from the trade of politics. But he in
sisted that but for the bare necessities
of life, fortunes could not be made in
this profession, and there was no such
thing as honest graft"
President Roosevelt has expressed it az
his opinion that William Jennings Bryan
will be the Demo, ratio nominee FOR the
presidency in 1908, and that the or y man
the Republicans can put up against him
successfully is VIM. III. Taft, the present
Secretary of War. This new tack of the
President has stirred up intense interest
as it had been expected that Secretary
Taft would be appointed to the Supreme
Court bench in the fall.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

health resorts many women in fashionable
attire were at play. while the children
were colrting the goddess of chance at
the slot machines. One guest jumped
through a second-story window, but was
captured by the deputy sheriffs who sur
rounded the buildings. None but the at
tendants were arrested, but the gambling
machinery, valued at thousands of dol
lars. was confscated.
While the raids were in progress, the
State of Indiana, through the Attorney
General acd on instructions from Gov.
Hanly, filed quo warranto proceedings in
the Orange County Circuit Court against
the French Lick Springs Company, ask
ing that their charters as corporations be
revoked, that they be enjoined from per-
uniting gambling on their property, that
receivers be appointed and that admin
istration of the assets be made among the
defendants and their creditors. The suits
and the raids are the result of a long
standing campaign of The women of In
DIANA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

ucation, knowledge of the science OF
government, arbitration as a substitute
for war, appreciation of the dignity OF
labor and high conception of life. He
styled as false that conception of inter.
national politics which made the pros.
perity of one nation depend upon the
exploitation of another.
President Roosevelt and King Ed
ward were praised by Mr.. Bryan fol-
their influence in behalf of peace and
the cause of arbitration.
Mr.. Bryan declared the odium which
rests upon the work of the hand has
exerted a baneful influence on the
world and this theory, he said, was
largely responsible for The creation OF
an almost impossible gulf between the
leisure classes and those who support
them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
PRESIDENT ON TRUSTS.
In Fourth of July Address He Be-
speaks n Square Deal.


President Roosevelt delivered nOta.
bic Fourth of July address at Oyster
Bay, in which he discussed trusts and
the attitude of the administration 10
ward them. He advocated a square deal
for the corporations. as well as for the
people. His hearers were his friends
aud neighbors of Oyster Bay and sur.
rounding country. During the delivery
of the address, which was in the open
air, heavy rain fell and the Presi
dent was drenched.
When the shower came umbrellas in
the crowd were raised. The President
remarked good-naturedly
Il am sorry for you ladies, but
ashamed of you men, because you are
afraid you will melt"
In his address the President Said:
This year in Congress our chief task
has been TO carry the government forward
along the course which l think it must
follow consistently for number of years
to come-that rs, in the direction of seek
ing on behalf of the people as a whole
through the national government which
represents the people as a whole, to ex-
ercise measure of supervision, control
and restraint over the individuals and es.
pecially over the corporations of great
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

wealth, in so far as the business use of
that wealth brings it within the reach OF
the federal government.
I'VE have accomplished a fair amount
and the reason that we have done so has
been, in the first place, because we have
not tried to do too much, and, in the next
place, because we have approached the
task absolutely free from any spirit of
rancor or hatred.
I'm any such movement man will fine
that he has allies whom he does not like
You cannot protect property without find
ing that you are protecting the property
of some people who are not straight You
cannot war against the abuses of property
without finding that there are some people
warning beside you whose motives you
would frankly repudiate. But in eact
case be sure that you keep your own mo
tives and your own conduct straight.
when it becomes necessary to curb G
great corporation, curb it. / will do my
best to help you do it. But / will do il
in no spirit of anger or hatred to the men
who own or control that corporation and
if any seek in their turn to do wrong &c
the men of means, to do wrong to the mer
who own those corporations, / will turn
around and fight for them in defense OF
their rights Just as hard as fight against
then when l think they are doing wrong
T lie President then added a few warn.
ings as follows:
'Distrust as a demagogue the man who
talks only OF the wrong done by the men
of wealth.
"Distrust as n demagogue the man who
measures iniquity by the purse. Measure
iniquity by the heart. whether a mans
purse be full or empty, partly full OF
partly empty.
IF the man is a decent man, whether
well off or not well off, stand by him il
he is not a decent man stand against him,
whether he be rich or poor.
stand against him in no spirit of ven.
geance, but only with the resolute purpose
to make him act as decent citizens must
act if this republic is to be-"
On other evils in general that menace
the country. the President said:
WAR with the evils, out show nc
spirit of malignity toward the man who
may be responsible for the evil. Put II
out of his power to do wrong; if neces
sary, punish him where he has done
wrong, but do not let this nation ever get
into the frame of mind which under in
fnitely greater provocation Abraham Lin
coin strove to prevent its falling into al
the time of the Civil War;"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
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The schools of Bloomington, ILL.,, take
great pride in their flower culture.
In Sweden the school children, led by
their teachers, plant 100000 trees annu-
ally.
OF thirty-seven county superintendents
in the State of Washington, ten are
women.
The New York City schools use yearly
100000 pounds of pads, blank books
and paper.
Emerson G. Taylor, an instructor at
Yale, has resigned TO devote himself to
literary work.
The teachers of New York City viii
give per cent of their salaries in aid of
those in San Francisco.
A fully equipped Teachers College of
high professional grade will be opened at
the Ohio State University, probably in
1907.
Many Georgia school districts and coun-
ties have voted to supplement the State
school fund by local taxation. This is
done under the local taxation law passed
last year.
lie ItpOIlS VI TIC hcpuDlAC VI SdDo
show for the month of December last,
1860 teachers, of whom 2,256 wer, wom-
en- and 1,4O4 men 1852 were white and
| 208 colored.
Iowa county superintendents must here
after hold certificates to teach. Their
salary has been raised $40 a year and
they are required to visit all the schools
of their counties.
J. Pierpont Morgan is an alumnus Of
the old Cheshire school in Hartford,
Conn.,, which has trained many Wall
street man since the financier was gradu-
ated with the class of 1850.
Jacob c. Goldsmith has done more ths n
| any one else TO make American letters,
life, and history known to the Poles Of
Europe. He has come to Boston to live
as refugee. At one time he was lee
turer at the Warsaw university.
In many counties in the West there are
organized among the girls in the schools,
Home Culture Clubs, the object of which
| is to emphasize the Importance of good
| housekeeping, and TO teach the practical
| things with which woman has to do. In
some of the counties prizes are given for
| good bread-making, neatly made garments
and other articles of handicraft. More
importance is attached to these than TO
fancy work. although that may come later.
Chancellor McCracken of New York
university declares that the teaching pro-
| fession is every year becoming more pop
uar as a calling for college graduates,
and that there is corresponding falling
| off in the attraction of law and medicine
| The school board of Racine, Wis.,, has
recently adopted the policy of withhold
J ing 10 per cent of the teachers wages
each month until the end of the school
year in June. The purpose is to prevent
| teachers who receive offers of better po-
sitions from breaking their contracts in
the middle of the term. Teachers and
principals have objected to this rule, and
threaten to resign in body If it is en-
| forced.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

some sharp but good-humored banter
over political differences, the crowd
evincing its enjoyment Of the sport with
cheers and shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Reid, in responding to Sir W. B.
Richmond's graceful proposal of his
health, said with reference to Mr.. Bry-
an: "As the official representative Of
the American people, without distinc-
ton as to party, am glad to welcome
him here as typical American, whose
whole life has been lived in the day
light and one whom such a great host
of my countrymen have long trusted
and honored."
In discussing 1.-The white mans bur.
den" Mr.. Bryan declared the chief duty
of the Christian states is fivefold-to
carry to the remainder of the world ed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
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Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime,
S40O to $6.10; hogs. prime heavy. $500
TO $3.50; sheep, fair to choice. $500 TO
5000: whes !. No. ,, SIC TO S3c: corn,
No. .. 51c TO 52c; oats. standard. 3Sc 10
39c: rye. No. ?. Csc to 64c; hay, timo-
thy. $3.50 to $1,000: prairie, 5000 to
S14.00: butter. choice creamery, 16c to
zoe: eggs. fresh, lac to 1Sc; potatoes
new, Coo TO Soc.
Indianapolis Cattle. shipping. $500
TO $3.50; hogs, choice heavy, 500 10
S6.SJ; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2, SIC to SEC; corr,
No. > white, sic to 53c; oats, No. 2
white, Soc TO 40c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $5S5;
hogs. $500 to 500: sheep, 500 to
5000: wheat, No. 2, 76c TO 77c; corn,
No. 2, soc to 52c: oats. No. 2. 36c TO
&c: rye, No. 2, CSC TO 64c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to S5.35:
hogs. $500 to $6.S5; sheep, $500 10
$40: wheat, No. 2, SEE to Sac: corn,
No. , mixed, 53c 10 55c: oats, No. 2
mixed, 40c to Ale; rye, No. ?, CSC TO
64c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
S400 to 500; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. ,, Sc to SIC; corn, No. 3
yellow, 53c TO 55c; oats. No. white.
41c to 42c: rye, No. 2, 65c to 66c
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
see to Sac; corn. No. 3. Ole TO SIC;
oats, standard, Soc to 40c: rye. No. ],
CSC 20 64c: barley. standard. 54c TO soc;
pork. mess, S1I-35-
Tcledo-Wheat, No. ? mixed, Sic 10
S3c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 4Sc;
oats, No. . mixed. Sic to 33c; rye. No.
., 66c to &c: clover seed, prime. $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping Steers
$500 TO 5000; hogs. fair to choice, $500
to $685.; sheep. common to good mixed,
800 to 500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York-Cattle. 500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to S7.25: sheep, $500 10
$500: wheat, No. , red, soc TO 90c;
corn. No. 2, SIC to soc: oats, natural
white, 42c to 44c; butter. creamery, lie.
to Die; eggs, western. 14c TO Ice.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
Spark. frop. the Wires.

Albert Lewis, aged %, of Springfield
Ohio, was caught under circus train al
Peru. Ind, and killed.
Atlantic City was chosen as the nexl
place of meeting of the American Or
der of Steam Engineers.
A. Gross & Co.'s candle factory at Pro-
vost and First streets. Jersey City, was
burned. Damage. S125,0O0.
w. H. Imbler, % years old. farmer
Of Colwick, Kan, was struck and killed
by switch engine in Oakland. Cal.
"Dr." Theodore White, who conducted
correspondence ''school of science and
gave diplomas in spiritualism, hypnotism
and sorcery, was convicted at Baltimore
of using the mails to defraud.
A. r. Ireland, formerly national vice
president of the American Federation OF
Labor, was released from the county
Jail in Winfield, Kan, having served six
months for assaulting non-union ma
chinist.
The committee on rules OF the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives recon-
mended the expulsion of Frank G. Gethro
of Boston, who is accused of trying to
brihe fellow members to vote against the
so-called bucket shop bill.
The grand jury at Cleveland indicted
ten of the most prominent coal dealers in
the city. charging them with being in a
conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Fire at the plant of the Union Wad.
ding Company, manufacturers of cotton
hating at Pavtucket r. DESTROYED
stock valued at $4,000 and damaged the
building to the extent of $4,000.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka,
Kan, author of in His Steps," is urging
a new plan for the celebration of Fourth
of July, recommending that instead @.
spending money for fireworks and othey
useless things fund be collected in each
of the various towns and cities with
which to build Q public hall.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

Toledo was an example of what rig
orous enforcement Of law and the eiu-
cation of its citizens can accomplish.
For days Mayor Whitlock preached
sanity, and the result was that only
two persons were injured, one of them
being in runaway.
The fool with revolver, or other
life slaughter, the STRAY bullet being
particularly destructive. The deadly
toy pistol followed as the instrument
of death, but its harvest simply was
sown, and will be reaped from lock-
jaw.
The cities where lives were taken are
as follows:
Chicago ........2 Grand Falls, n. d.
Cincinnati L Jersey City. ..... i
Catskill, n. Y....1 New York ...... =
Elkhart, Ind. 49,. L Negaunee, Mich. y
Fall River, Mass. 4 Niagara Falls. Il
Kenosha ......... L Pittsburg $1,000. i
Memphis ...... L South Bend 49,. j
Newton, Iowa >. Il Wanamie, Pa. q
New Bedford, Mass.1 Springfield, Mass. j
Oswego, n. ". Il Fond du Lac, Wis. i
Cleveland ...... I New Albany, Ind. j
GAINESVILLE, Ore. Il Stevens Pint, Wis. ]
Fulton, n. w.. i Vincennes, Ind.
The publication of the lists of persons
injured by the use Of powder in various
forms has proved an effective force
toward ultimately gaining the object
desired, the elimination of the useless
waste of life and limb. The figures
presented merely are suggestion OF
| the total Of such accidents. In every
community small proportion reach
publicity, especially in cases which al
first appear of minor Importance. in
| juries from the use of toy pistols. These
are the most prolific cause Of subse
quent tetanus which yearly costs 400 oil
more lives.
The array, small as it is by compar
son with the real total, Is sad ore
when it is considered that each death
or injury has been useless and born 0.
an almost criminal license granted to d
mistaken exhibition Of patriotism. Il
becomes more startling, however. wheI
| a month later the returns Of dead be
| gin to swell and the extent of the
slaughter becomes apparent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

Henry Ford, head of one of tae lead
ing automobile firms, predicts that free
alcohol will work revelation in our in.
dustrial situation. He says that an alco-
hol Iaotor tractor will soon be perfected
so as. to be used for all manner os farm
work. 1t will have a speed Of six miles
an hour, with forty initial horse power.
While alcohol may be made fiom every
vegetable and grain, the original product
retains its market or food value after the
alcohol has been extracted. He predicts
that every farmers silo will become an
alcohol distillery by the simple addition
of steam pipes TO heat the fermented con-
tep...,.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
Deadly Slaughter Is Less Frightfu1
than in Previous Years, but rs
Are Dead and 2,.S0 Hurt-Record
of s.Patriotism."

The immediate Fourth Of July death
roll is smaller this year than that Of a
year ago, but unfortunately the thirty
eight slain by fireworks will be but an
infinitesimal part of those who will
lose their lives because of the orgy of
power and noise. Last year forty-twO
lockjaw and other diseases induced by
injuries had completed their work over
400 lives had been sacrificed to patriotic
idiocy.
The number of injured, 7S9-is in
excess of last years figures by sos. The
agencies by which these injuries were
inflicted, as compared with last years
record. are as follows:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12

Willis Miller was found guilty in Up
rer Sandusky, Ohio, of numbering Celery
King Johnston. The jury recommended
mercy.
Gov. Frantz of Oklahoma paroled Ira
o. Terrill, serving a twelve years SEN
tence in the Kansas penitentiary for
murder.
Police of Jersey City. n. J., are in
vestigating the death of Clark Rice. a
son of wealthy Kansas City manufsc-
furer, and it is believed the young man
was murdered.
Charles Campbell, under Indictment
with two others for the murder of Henry
Raisch in Cincinnati, pleaded guilty TO
murder in the second degree and was Civ
en- a life sentence.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has
decided that fraternal beneficiary associa-
tons, conducted for the mutual benefit of
members. are not charitable institutions
and therefore not exempt from taxation.
James j. Hill has bought for about
100000 the Bliss residence at East
Goth street. New York. He will divide
his time between st. Paul. Mimi. and
New York. Heretofore he has made his
home when in New York at the Savoy
hotel
Alexander Mcintosh, half-breed. and
Max Leclair, a guide, were shot and kill
ed at Hazleton, b. c. Simon johnson,
an Indian of the Kipscrex tribe, is ac-
cused. He is still at large.
Lafayette NcMahon was arrested at
Uniontown, Pa. charged with killing Clio
vani Desisto and wounding Nicola Ruz-
zio and Julio Rossi. McMahon's only
reason for attacking the Italians. he says,
was because he wanted to.
The will of the late Senator Arthur
P. German of Maryland, filed for pro-
bate in Baltimore, leaves the estate, the
value of which is not given. in trust for
the six children. the widow receiving q
life interest in half the estate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-12
Higher Price. for Meat.

The beef trust has raised prices of beef,
lamb and other meats and meat products,
to Offset the losses sustained through the
recent exposures. These increases have
been made gradually during the past two
or three weeks TO the wholesale trade,
until the dealer is now paying from three
fourths to one cent more per pound than
before the agitation began, while the
prices to the consumer have advanced
from 3 to cents per pound. One of the
excuses given for TIE retail trade advance
is the higher price charged for years by
the various ice combines in different
cities