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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Saloons in Indiana.

Of the 1,010 townships ia Indiana
Col are without saloons In sixteen
counties there are saloons only in
one place and thirteen counties have
saloons only in two places. In Tip
pecanoe county for example. there is
not saloon outside of Lafayette,
and farmers of the county are re-
CURED to pay the burden of the cost
of the crime and insanity caused by
the saloons in Lafayette. During the
last eighteen months there have been
% murders in Terre Haute and 27
of them were connected directly with
saloons.-Rensselaer Republican.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
MARRIED.
Metsker-Long.

Raymond l. Metsker and Miss
Emma d Long were married Satur-
day evening, Dec. 90, at the home
Of the brides aunt, Mrs. Susan Jhl,
Akron, Ohio
Mr. Metsker is the city editor of
the Plymouth Independent and his
bride has been a resident OF Ply
mouth since she was child, having
made her home for the past eleven
years with her aunt, Mrs. Sreishoffer
She is graduate of the Plymouth
schools, class of 1906, and had been
visiting her aunt in Akron, during
the past month Everybody in Ply
mouth knew her as Dollie" Long.
and Ray and Dollie viii receive a
royal welcome when they arrive in
Plymouth as husband and wife, al
though the telegram announcing
their marriage was a surprise to rel
atives and friends.
The happy couple will spend
Christmas at the home of the
groom's parents in Monticello, Ind.
but will return to Plymouth in a
few days to make this city their
home.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27

Druggists are finding that the pure
food law and drug law is working a
hardship on them this year because
it will take effect Jan. 1, 1907. In or
der to place themselves on the safe
side it is necessary for them to make
a complete invoice of their stock un-
der the law.
Not only druggists are affected but
grocers and others who handle drinks
and drugs and also fruit. These men
are advised by those who have made
study of the law to take an inven-
tory of their stock Immediately and
get it so arranged that they can
prove by witness that every article
in the store of this class of goods
was in stock before the first of 1907
A stamp must be used to mark the
goods with the date on which they
were invoiced.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Decency a Business Asset.

1t used to be an accepted theory
that the business world has nothing
to do with the private life of business
people. AS long as a man attended
honestly to his business occupation
was true to his obligations and paid
his debts, that was considered suffi-
cient. 1t is no longer considered
sufficient. The business world, before
it will accord to any man the highest
rate of credit, must be shown that
the man is not only faithful and re-
liable, but is not addicted to habits
and occupations which may impair
his standing. The Wall Street Jour
nal recently went SO far as to de-
clare that the business world has .
right to know of any business man
mot only where he spends his days
but where he spends his nights. Ii
has right not only to know his f.
nancial standing, but also his status
in the society of social decency. The
man who is faithful to the duties oil
his Office and false to the standards
of domestic decency must have his
financial credit marked down and the
business confidence of his fellow-mer
owered to the class of extra hazar-
duous risks. baltimore Sun.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27

Engineers for the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn have turned the Gibson yards,
the s1,000,o00 railroad project of the
Chicago, Indiana & Southern, over
to the traffic department of the road
and it will be put in operation i'm
mediately. 1t will take several
months to complete the yards. but
they can be put in use Immediately
for assembling trains.
They are built on the eastern boun-
dairy of Hammond and are the
second largest in the United States.
1t has taken nearly 1000 men a year
to complete them. They will suffice
for handling the business of the sew
eral roads interested, which are the
Michigan Central, Chicago, Indiana
Southern, Indiana Harbor and Lake
Shore suburban lines. They will en-
ploy 700 men, have trackage of forty
miles and car capacity of $500 to
5000 cars. The gravity system OF as
sembling trains and classifying cars
is used
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27

The successful termination of the
boys corn contest conducted in La
porte county by H. w. Henry and
County Superintendent Bunneil, as
we'll as the demonstration that the
ideas of these two pegarding the
teaching of agriculture In the county
schools are practical, will result in
the introduction during the coming
session of bill for the establishment
of county agricultural and domestic
science school in various counties OF
Indiana. 1t has been shown in La
porte county that the farmer boys
are anxious for instruction in farm
subjects and in order to provide
means for such instruction, the bill
provides for a small tax. In addition
the bill provides for the instruction
of the teachers in the district schools
and for others preparing to teach ag
riculture. The bill has the unquali-
fed endorsement of F. A. Cotton
state superintendent of public in
struction, the Laporte County Farm
ers' Institute association and the La
porte County board of education.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Standards Hand Seen.

The Senate does not intend to pass
the bill championed by the President
and the Attorney General giving the
Government the right to appeal on
questions of law in criminal cases.
The bill has been recomnitted to the
committee on the judiciary. Senator
Clark, of Wyoming, chairman of the
committee, when asked why the bill
was recommitted, said certain Sena-
tors desired to consider it further
before it was acted on He said he
did not know when the COMMITTEES
would take up the measure
A story is going about to the effec;
that the hand of the Standard Oil
Company is behind the Senate's atti-
tude on the bill.
The administration has been using
every effort to obtain action on the
legislation before Judge Lands a,
Chicago decides the point that ha.
been raised in the oil prosecution
The point that the rate law repealed
the provision of the Elkin, rebate
law under which the Standard is be
ing prosecuted before the resolution
postponing for sixty days the going
into effect of the rate law was signet
by the President. 1t is known thar
the Standard proposes to appeal tc
the Supreme Court if Judge Landi.
decides against it, and if it can pre-
vent the passage of the administra
ton bill the Government will not BIZ
able to appeal in the case the cour'
decides in favor of the oil company
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27

A little factory girl at a religious
meeting held fer those OF her kind
cried out: Some of us is goodl" The
girl was probably iIliterate; she may
hardly have known what she said.
but she uttered a great truth just the
same 1t is a fact that IN this day
there are those who would have US
think that most everybody is bad
Your pessiniistic friend will tell you
that everything is goig TO the dem
milton bowwows and that the moral
tendency is downward The carpine
critic sees no good whatever and in
his narrow crude way he offers no
hope for the future. Indeed, it's
dark unpromising time we have
ahead. Then here and there is a re-
former who hands out uplifts at so
much handout.. His uplifting
thoughts partake of much of the
same questionable optimism as those
of the pessimist. Now, the entire
question can be simply stated as fol-
lows; one can find i'll in plenty if one
looks, and one can find good. but one
seldom cares to look Looking for
the bad is more profitable.
As matter of fact there are about
as many good people as ever. 1t is
a question whether there are not
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Prof. Moulton's Second Lecture.

Prof. Moulton delivered the second
lecture of the educational course at
the Washington Auditorium in this
city, Friday evening, to a large au-
dience, all of whom say it was better
than his first lecture, which pleased
all who heard it.
He discussed the eartn-like planets
Mercury, Venus and Mars and gave
his hearers much valuable inSorma-
ton in very pleasing language The
stereopticon views were splendid and
no one was tired. 1t is Christmas
time and we shall not give a synopsis
of the lecture, but all who have not
heard him should hear the remaining
three lectures and get valuable and
interesting information about "other
worlds than ours"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
ATTEND THE INSTITUTE.
Farmers Should Arrange to be Pres
ent on that Occasion.

1t is scarcely necessary to remind
the progressive farmer OF the fact
that the annual farmers institute will
be held at Plymouth December %
and 30. They are making their cal
cuiations to be present and carry
away as much information as possible
from the lectures and discussions OF
those two days. But there are still a
few individuals, even in as progressive
a county as Marshall who do not real
ize what benefit these meetings are to
the farming population and who, con-
sequently care very little for them.
Those men and their families, how
ever, are the ones who most need
the instruction which is to be had
there and who ought not fail to be
present Their special attention is
called to the coming institute and
they are urged to attend both days
and to endeavor to profit by the in
formation which will be gained by SO
doing. Remember the date then, Fri
day and Saturday, December % and
90
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
SHOWS PITY FOR DEAD.
Roosevelt Carries Out Wish of a
Woman Suicide.

Moved to pity by the simple trust
of the aged Mrs. Lulu B. Grover,
who committed suicide several days
ago in Harlem by taking chloroform
and who aroused national interest by
leaving all her properly TO him, Pres
ident Roosevelt, it is learned, took
personal interest in the case and saw
to it that the last wishes of the aged
woman were carried out.
Acting under the Presidents or
ders, United States District Attorney
Henry L. Stimson personally super
vised the cremation of the body and
forwarded the two pet Angora cats
to the White House. Secret service
men also saw to it that all the prop
erty left by Mrs. Grover was taken
in charge by the public administrator
and advertisements inserted in the
newspapers notifying her relatives OF
her death.
Behind the pathetic story of the
woman's death comes the news that
she was a mysterious donor of gifts
to Theodore Roosevelt Jr., for many
years and had at times caused his
father no little concern because OF
her vagaries. In the opinion of Unit
ed States District Attorney Stimson
Mrs. Grover was weak-minded and
imagined she was on friendly terms
with President Roosevelt. The lat
ter, through Mr. Stimson, denied ever
knowing her except through the gifts
sent to his son.
1t was while the President was
Governor of New York State in 1895
that shotgun, compass and watch
arrived at the capitol addressed to
young Roosevelt. Inside the package
was small slip of paper which bore
the words, From L. B. Grover, No
pose Lexington avenue, New York
City" The governors son showed the
gifts to his father, who ordered him
to write note of thanks. Governor
Roosevelt, however, also sent note
to Mrs. Grover asking her not to re
peat the donation.
Mrs. R. c. Conner, friend of Mrs
Grover, said that the woman had of
ten spoke of he; friendship for the
President and said she had met him
in Dakota when he was young man
This was denied by Mr.. Stimson.
Mrs. Grover died on Dec. after
taking a dose of chloroform with sui
cidal intent She left a note men
tioning the President and adding thai
nobody was to blame for the act but
herself.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
TEACHERS SALARIES.
New Legislation Not Needed, Pres
ent Law Is Sufficient.

The report of the state educational
commission, appointed by Governor
Hanly. under joint resolution pass
ed by both branches of the last legis-
lature, shows remarkable state of
affairs as regards teachers salaries.
1t shows, in effect, that present laws
are not SO deficient as regards teach
ers' salaries as has been supposed;
but that the maximum salaries that
may be paid under the present laws
have not been paid in the great ma
jority of the cities, towns and town
ships of the state. TIE report is in
the hands of the governor.
The report points to the moral that
higher salaries may be obtained un-
der the present laws, if each local
community only wills it. Under these
circumstances the report, in a meas
ure, puts the matter of better salaries
up to the teachers themselves. On
this point, the report says:
1.-THE remedy, it seems to us, Is
largely in the hands of the teachers,
who should direct more effort toward
the cultivation in their communities
of healthful public sentiment in ia
vor of fair compensation to teachers
and by frightening of the school
term. Many counties with large
valuations and relatively small school
population, pay into the state fund
more money than they receive back.
and others, having low property val
uations and large school populations,
receive back for the support of their
schools more money than they pay
in. Since the tax levy is uniform
rate, the distribution of the fund
raised is based on the school popula-
ton. There is no obviating thts
slight inequality"
In bearing out the statement that
the maximum salaries are not paid
now under the present laws, the re-
port presents the following:
"A study of the report presented
the Teachers Association and adopt
ed by it, discloscs the fact that only
two of the eighty-four cities OF the
state, were, at the time paying the
maximum salaries to teachers pos
sible under the law; only twenty
nine of the 224 towns of the state,
and only 81 of the 1,016 townships
of the state were paying the maxi
mum salaries to teachers possible
under the law.
In many corporations the officials
refuse to pay more than the mini
mum rate of wages and even insist
upon employing teachers of inexperi-
ence or low qualifications, command
| ing the smallest rate of pay, and do
this, not because of any scarcity of
I funds, or the lack of means to raise
| them.
I'm numerous localities where
there is most complaint of low SAL
aries it is shown that under the law
salaries could be raised twenty-five
percent, and in many cases fifty per
cent. Hence, the true statement that
teachers salaries are largely matter
of local public sentiment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Engineer Burke Not in Asylum.

Chesterton Tribune: All the papers
in this part of the state and many
city papers have been printing an
Item during the past two weeks to
the effect that Tony Burke, the engi
neer of the freight train that was in
collision with the immigrant train on
the B. & o. at Woodville on Nov.
IL, in which So people lost their lives
was confined in an insane asylum at
Mineral Point, Wis, having lost his
reason from worry about the wreck.
This item does not contain a particle
of truth. Mr.. Burke is still confined
in the hospital at Garrett, and has
been there ever since the day of the
wreck, suffering severely from the
scalds and injuries he received. His
mind is and has been as clear as it
ever was, and he expects to be dis
charged from the hospital In few
days and will go to his home, which
is also in Garrett. He has never been
in the Wisconsin town.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
NEW WORLD POWERS.
Germany and Japan are Nations to
Be Feared.

America soon must bow to Ger
any and Japan as world powers if a
revolution is not effected in the
methods of its commerce, Hamilton
w. Mabie prophesied in an address
on Works and Days" at the 61st
convocation of the University of Chi
cago held last Tuesday in Mandel
hall, Chicago.
Remember that the trained man
commands the situation today and
that the trained race will command
the situation in the future" Mr. Ma
bic told The graduates. "The race
which combines science with invent
iveness and ability to work will rule
the world of the future Unless we
awake to the fact that the business
man of the future must take science
as partner we lose in the struggle
Fifty years ago Germany was the
schoolmaster of the world When the
war with France came it was possible
for Germany to sweep everything be-
fore it. After the war France sent
some Of its ablest men to Germany
to find out the secret of the German
power. These men summed up their
observations in a phrase: at was the
thinking bayonets that went to Paris.
There was time wnen English
men and Americans regarded the
Germans as nation of idealists, but
of late years there has come an omin-
Gus change During the last 20 years
many young Enghshm-n who have
gone to Japan, China, the East In
des, have written to London papers
protesting that they are being driven
out by the Germans.
Germany is sending out to the
ends of the world young men thor
ouhgly trained and prepared The
man who has four languages with
which to aid him will drive out the
man with only one language.
"The Japanese for centuries have
been learning that every man is but
part of larger organization, and
the value of obedience and discipline
when Japan was opened to the
world and the Japanese began to OBJ
serve other civilizations they sent
out their young men to study the
schools, the navies, the armies, the
mercantile systems of other nations,
and then chose from each its best
features. Hence their extraordinary
achievements and growing import
ance in the modern world Fifty
years from now it will make all the
difference in the world what attitude
we take, and whether we train our
selves to meet the Japanese and the
Germans.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27

History sometimes is made rapidly
George Tyler of Elkhart, is among
those who believe in the speedy ar
ticle He is man of action. AT
o'clock Wednesday afternoon ne
was putting on his hat and overcoat
at the Shafer & Schultz store to go
for supper At the same time in the
cloak department of the Warren Hill
store, pretty Miss Clara Smith was
adjusting her hat and jacket for her
supper hour.
A few minutes later Miss Smith
and Mr.. Tyler were at the Trinity
M. E. parsonage, corner Second and
Franklin streets, and few minutes
after that Rev. L. A. Beeks had
transformed them from two individ-
uals into one person in the eyes OF
the law At 500 they were eating
supper together. At O'Clock both
were back at their respective posts Of
duty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Don't Go About Moping.

There are certainly times in the
lives of most people when it is very
difficult to avoid becoming despond-
emit; when the struggle seems utterly
hopeless. But a cheerful and hopeful
mental habit will enable you to fight
dependency. The man who become,
a success in life must be a stage" /;
must possess the staying" quality
The man who habitually looks on the
dark side of things is not, cannon be.
a "stayer." Most people start off at
their work, their life task, at great
pace. But, perhaps, results don't come
quickly enough; they get discouraged
and then the pace slackens, they drop
behind. ITS no good" they declare.
They take dark view OF their pros
poets The inevitable happens. They
slip back into the rut. The man who
will succeed, says the New York
Weekly is he who keeps pounding
away, even though he sees not a
single glimmer of the light of sue
cess. He is confident it will cone.
He never despairs. He keeps the
bright side ever befor him. And one
day success does come. Apart alto
gether from the material side, how
much sweeter, happier and brighter
is the life of the man or woman who
consistently looks on the bright side
of things. Acquire the habit of look
ing on the bright side of things in
life, and you will not only increase
your own happiness, but also your
power to make others happy, and
to help those who have given way
to rise from dependency to once
more take their place in the ranks of
the hopeful.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
LEPROSY IN GOTHAM'S 400.
Scores of Cases of Dread Disease
Now in Metropolis.

DR.. A d. Ashmead of New York
city, who is recognized as an author
ity on leprosy, declares that a we'll
known member of New York's 400
has a welldeveloped case of the ter
rible disease The physician will not
reveal the identity of the patient. He
also says there are 100 well-dehned
cases in the city.
Within the last two years a leper
colony has been established on
Blackwell's island 1t consists of five
men-three Chinese, a Russian and a
Dane.
"Leprosy," said Dr. Ashmead, sis a
great menace. The port of New York
is the gateway of this country
through which the immigrants OF the
be carefully guarded. Leprosy fo.-
lows the lepers. 1t does not exist in
races where there has never been any
contact with lepers.
1T did not exist among the North
American Indians, but it spreads
among races in hot and cold coun-
tries alike wherever contact with lep-
ers is established"
The colony is under the jurisdic-
ton of the department of charities,
for Dr. Darlington, head of the
health department, declares that lep-
rosy is not a contagious disease and
that hence he is not required to deal
with it. This view is not shared by
Dr. Ashmead.
at is criminal" he says, ito allow
such terrible plague to get root
here just because boards of health
have not been able to discover. the
medium by which the disease is
transmitted and therefore hold that
it is not contagious"
The FIVE known lepers in the city
live an a wooden sfsanty on the side
of Blackwell's island nearest Long
Island and just east of the Metropol-
itan hospital.
When the weather permits they
spend their days out of doors. Two
women of this city call once week
and read to them.
There is no hope for them. One oi
them, Ole Hansen, was soldier in
the Danish army and contracted the
disease in Brooklyn. He can speak
only a few words at time, yet he
may live for many months.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
The Dead Come to Life.

A man out in Sheridan, Montana
says dispatch in Mondays Chica-
go Chronicle, was Saturday pro
nounced dead by his attending physi-
clan. Sunday morning the undertaken
was about to inject embalming fluid
into his body when Mills threw of
the sheet with which he was covered
sat up on the board ON which he had
been "laid out" blinked his eyes and
offered to shake hands with the di-
rector of funerals. Mills had been
sick but a few hours, heart failure
being the trouble with him.
A peculiar feature OF the case is
that when he awoke Mills appeared
to be as we'll and strong as he had
been before he became sick
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Resolution Time Coming.

The time of good resolutions is al
most here The crop will probably be
as large as ever Those who have
strayed from the straight and narrow
way during the past IL months are
planning to make the coming year
better. Rules are being made and as
usual the intention is to abide by
the rules, but in every case it will
be the same old story. Resolutions
made on New Years day will be
broken.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Predicts End of New York.

A seer, who is making York, Pa,
his headquarters at present and who
claims to have foretold Queen Vic
toria's death and the San Francisco
earthquake, declares that within the
next two. years New York VIII meet
a fate like that of the coast city. He
also predicts a number of other ca
lamities in a list of things he says
will happen within that time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
Near to Death from Hazing.

AS a result of -hazing by fellow
members of the Kappa Alpha frater-
nifty, Floyd f. Allen, student in the
freshman class of the University OF
California, lies in critical condition
at the home of his mother in Berk
eley with fractured skull. Allen, at
tempting to escape being ducked in
d bath tub, was chased to the roof oil
the fraternity house, where he missed
his footing and fell twenty-five feet
to the ground.