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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

The action of the school board at
San Francisco in segregating Japan
csc from white children has raised a
storm of protest in Japan. Indeed,
the Japanese government has gone
SO far as to instruct is minister at
Washington TO enter formal COM
plant to the United States govern
ment. The action of the San Fran
cisco school board was taken in re-
Spouse to the demand of labor union
lists, who, to large extent, dictate
the government of that city. The ex-
clusion of Japanese from equal rights
with white childen is in violation of
the treaty between Japan and the
United States, and japan is justified
in protesting. There are in. the stu
alton grave possibilities of strained
relations between the two countries.
President Roosevelt has sent to San
Francisco Mr.. Metcalf. secretary of
the department of commerce and la
Dor, who is from California, to en-
deavor to secure an adjustment that
will appease the Japanese. The situa-
ton illustrates the perils which may
be caused by the extreme demands
made by organized labor in some
places and the attitude assumed by
some labor unions of superiority over
the government and contempt for its
agreements with foreign nations.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
How to Raise Fine Peaches.

The Wenona CID Index says: A
farmer residing south of Pontiac has
turned his attention to peaches, and
has succeeded in raising varieties that
have heretofore baffled the skill Of
Illinois people. In the fall he uses
solution of lye sprinkled on the
ground about the roots to kill the in
sect enemy of the peach. In the
spring he uses some more, and
washes the trunk of the tree with
the same stuff He has raised
peaches of fine quality and recon-
mends planting seeds in October, us
ing those that have not been dried
too much Illinois is not bad peach
state, though the trees winter kill
easily On the other hand they grow
fast and constant planting insures
plenty for table use.
Pontiac is in the same latitude
with Plymouth, and the conditions
which apply in that section are iden-
teal with those here.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

Passenger officials, especially those
of western lines, are concerned over
the spread and increase in strength
of the agitation for a two cent pas
senger fare. There are few northern
states east of the foothills of the
Rocky mountains in which the rate
is more than two cents in which
there is not well organized effort / J
get it reduced by statute.
A, deluge of two scept rate laws Is
expected to come with the meeting
of the state legislature this winter un
less a decided change is wrought
meantime in public sentiment.
In order to allay the. popular de
mand for two cent rate in Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana the central railways
will put all their rates east of the In
diana Illinois line on. basis of two
and a half cents or less. Few officials
believe, however, that the reduction
will prevent the legislatures of these
two states from passing two cen!
rate law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
boucher Case at Kokomo.

Concluding his divorce complaint
with a sensational paradox declaring
in one paragraph that his home life
was a "hell on earth" and in the next
that his home was "an iceberg which
froze. his very life and SOUL" Ferdi-
nand Boucher beseeches the Howard
circuit court to grant him relief in a
suit which he filed on change. of ven
tie from Grant county against Mrs
J. Boucher Boucher further charges
that his wife twice shot at him and
to preserve his life he had to flee from
home. His wife in cross complain
does not admit that her liege was
favored by her conduct so as to bea'
the coal trust in winter and the ice
trust in summer, but charges that
most OF his woes proceeded from too
much drink, and while intoxicated he
threw dishes at her head.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Our Fool State Committee.

In frantic hurry the Republican
State committee flooded Indiana
newspapers with kilograms Tuesda,
afternoon, seeking to correct an error
whereby voters who desire to vote :
straight ticket were practically in
structed to stamp the rooster"
The committees Press Bureau sen,
out to every Republican paper in the
State several days ago, page oil
boiler plate" political matter. Two
columns were devoted to instructions
on how to mark ballots. These con-
tanned the following:
If you want to vote a straight
Republican ticket make a cross with
in the circle at the head of the first
column of the ballot"
The word first" was the error,
The committee went on the assump-
ton that Republican candidates
names would be in the first column
when the Indiana law requires that
Democratic candidates occupy the
hrst column on every ticket.
The mistake was discovered only
after half of the Republican news
papers had used the misleading mat
ter and George Lockwood, head OF
the Press Bureau. Immediately wired
to every newspaper to scratch that
word first"
In many instances the matter had
already appeared. Even Lockwood's
paper, the Marion Chronicle, used it
conspicuously on the first page. Gen.
orally followed, the error would
cause many Republicans to vote the
straight Democratic ticket.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

The balloon Centaur, having ON
board Leo Stevens, Captain Homer,
w. Houge and Lieutenant F. M. But
Ter, all of New York, which made an
ascension from Pitts6eld. Corn at
1870 Saturday afternoon, landed at
Short Beach in the town of Crawford
at Z o'clock in the evening.
The trip was remarkable in the
fact that the speed attained has not
been equaled in this country. I,r the
airline distance of 1876 miles was
covered in two and hdif hours, and
also of note in the fac. that the aero
nauts, sighting Long Island, dropped
the balloon a distance of 1900 feet in
one and half minutes. The balloon
landed on the very edge Of the water
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Woman Roasted Alive.

Paralyzed to such an extent tina,
she could not help herself, Mrs Rich
ard Hunter of Button, was LITERAL,
roasted alive Wednesday while seate
in her chair at her home. The fire
was started by match which she
struck on the bottom of her chair ir
an effort to light her pipe and she wa.
unable to extinguish the flames which
were communicated to her clothing
Her aged mother who heard hel
screams was unable to lift the suffer
ing woman from the chair but dashed
water upon her until the flames were
subdued. Nearly all of her clothing
was burned from her body and death
was inevitable.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

Governor Beckham and United
States Senator McCreary are having
a red hot time of it over in Kentucky
Both are aspirants to the senatorship
both are delivering speeches to large
audiences, and both indulge in un-
sparing denunciation of one another
Each affects to feel confident of Sc
curing majority of adherents in the
legislature. That, az result of this
bitter warfare, the party is badly de-
moralized in Kentucky, goes without
saying. But for the fact that the Re-
publican forces have been very badly
handled during the past six or eight
years, Kentucky would no longer be
a Democratic state.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

A legal document more than 100
years old which was found necessary
in the probate court of Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, to complete
the record in the division of the es-
tate to Abraham Hill of Cambridge
was mailed Thursday by Edward A.
Hill to the clerk of the probate court
of Middlesex county, Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Hill, who is secretary of the Chi
cago Grain Door Company is d.
rect descendant of Abraham Hill,
who died nearly two centuries ago,
and the paper mailed by him is the
commission of Judge Danforth, who
appointed commissioners to arrange
a division of the estate of Abraham
Hill.
The property owned by the elder
Mr.. Hill at the time of his death en-
bracs a large tract of land near Bos-
ton. The commission is dated April
4, 1746. Some weeks ago Mr.. Hill
furnished the same court with the
original report Of the commissioners.
which was dated Nov. 21, 1746. Both
papers are yellow with age.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

The time of year has come when,
in accordance with the wise custom
of our fo-sfathers, it becomes my
duty to set aside a special day Of
thanksgiving and praise to the AL
mighty because of the blessings we
have received, and of prayer that
these blessings may be continued.
Yet another year of widespread
well-being has passed. Never before
in our history or in the history of any
other nation has people enjoyed
more sbounding material prosperity
than is. ours-a prosperity SO great
that it should arouse in us no spirii
of reckless pride and least of all a
spirit of needless disregard of our re-
sponsibilities, but rather a sober
sense of our many blessings and a
resolute purpose, under Providence,
not to forfeit them by any action OF
our own.
Material well-being, indispensable
though it is, can never be anything
but the foundation of true nationa.
greatness and happiness. If we build
nothing upon this foundation then
our national life will be as meaning
less and empty as house where only
the foundation has been laid.
Upon our material well-being mus
be built superstructure of individual
and national life lived in accordance
with the laws of the highest morality
or else our prosperity itself will in
the long run turn ont curse instead
of blessing We should be both rev.
erently thankful for what we have re-
ceived and earnestly bent upon turn
ing it into means of grace and not
|of destruction.
Accordingly hereby set apart
Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of
November next, as a day of thanks
giving and duplication, on which the
people shall meet in their homes or
their churches devoutly to acknowl
edge all that has been given them
and to pray that they may in addition
receive the power to use these gifts
fright
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this twenty-second day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and six, and of the indie
pendence OF the United States the
one hundred and thirty-hrst
Theodore Roosevelt.
By the President:
Elihu Root, Secretary of State.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Presidents Message.

A Washington telegram says:"With
the exception of few minor mat
tiers the president has completed a
message which goes to congress nexi
month. On account of his trip to Pan
anna next week, the president had a
complete document prepared during
October The menace of inherited
wealth will probably occupy more
space than any other subject"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

The Standard Oil company ha:
bought forty-two acres in the Cadd.
City field, twenty miles north o.
Shreveport, and will begin operations
at once in the development of the
property. There is one flowing wei
on the property and to handle the
product a complete pumping station
a pipe line and storage tanks will b.
erected.
1t is the intention of the Standard
Oil company to ship the crude oil 20
its refinery at Beaumont until the
field is fully developed, when REIN
cry will be erected in Shreveport.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Three Generations of the Hoar
- Family.


The death of Congressman Rock
wood Hoar of Massachusetts take.
out of the federal congress the Hoal
family, which in the last seventy
years has been represented there b,
four members, whose united terms
of service covered over half of tn
period If one could count public
service in Massachusetts, along with
public service in the federal govern
r1ent, one would find that for three
quarters of the period one or more o
the members of the family have beer
in important Office.
Samuel Hoar, the grandfather O.
LIE lockwood Hoar who has JUS
died, was a member of the Massa
chusetts state constitutional conven
ton in 1920, was twice member G
the state senate and was a membel
of congress for one term.
His elder son, f. lockwood Hoar
was. with gap of three years, fol-
twenty years in service as a judge o
the Common Pleas and Suprem.
courts of his state. He served for {
year or two as Attorney General o.
the United States, was then member
Of the high commission which framed
the treaty of Washington in 1871 anc
later served in Congress for term
George Frisbie Hoar, his younger
brother and the most famous membe
of the family, was twice member
of the state Legislature, was. sent to
the lower house CT Congress in 1869
where he served until 1877, when hs
was elected senator, which position
he held until his death in 1904.
His son, lockwood Hoar, hel,
many official positions in Massachus
etts before his election to Congress
which followed Immediately upon hi:
fathers death.
This is one of the unusual record.
of American public life, and is mem
orable even more for the quality Of
the public service rendered blythe
family than for its length.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Brings Suit for $4,000.

Harry L. FARRELL of Walkerton. St
Joseph county, as administrator of
the estate of Edward Hill has filed
suit in the Federal Court against the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for $780,
600 damages for the death of Hill. He
alleges that Hill was run over and
killed by an engine at Walkerton on
January IL, 1906, that the engine was
running in the yards at the rate OF
twenty-five miles. an hour without
giving warning of its approach by
either bell or whistle, and that Hill
could not hear its approach because
of the noise of another engine stand
ing near.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Telephone War to Begin.

Official notice that the Independent
Telephone interests have leased the
telephone franchise of the Illinois
Tunnel company. thereby securing
entrance into Chicago, was given oui
Tuesday by the general counsel OF
the Independent interests This Off
cial notification marks the beginning
of the telephone warfare between the
Chicago Telephone company and the
New Independent Telephone com
pany which had been threatened SC
long. 1t is the intention of the Indr-
pendent company to invest between
ST. 900 900 and $40, 0OO, 900, in devel
oping the automatic plant.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Epidemic Hysteria.

AT the recent meeting of tn. Amer
| lean Association of Railway Sur
geons in Chicago DR.. A. r. Mitchell
of Lincoln, Neb., said that an cpl
demic of hysteria was sweeping over
the country and threatening ~ do
incalculable damage.
DR.. Mitchell did not use the word
hysteria in a fgurative sense. The
educated physician knows" said he,
that hysteria is as much disease as
smallpox. 1t affects all men and wom-
EN- alike Innumerable examples of
the infectious and contagious charac-
ter of the malady are recorded
through all history. Men and women
are but children led hither and thith-
er by emotions which appeal to the
present only. Under such leadership
personal responsibility is cast aside
and in groups under like influence do
things which not one as an individual
would think of doing. This is well IL
Illustrated in the violence of mobs and
in the enactment Of unwise laws
which but for better executive re-
view would still further cucumber our
statutes"
Dr. Mitchell developed the subject
at some length and his views were
supported by Dr. R. w. Corwin, pres
ident of the association, who suggest
ed that physicians should use less OF
the material and more of the spiritual
in the treatment of hysteria- He was
not believer in Christian Science,
but he believed it had done much
good in case of hysteria.
There is undeniably an epidemic of
anger at wrongs which exaggerates
real wrongs and invents imaginary
ones. There is an epidemic of disor-
dered emotions, and the disorder
manifests itself in a variety of ways.
number of which were mentioned
by Drs. Mitchell and Corwin.
The fact that these gentlemen are
physicians may have predisposed
them to diagnose the disorder as hys-
terra, a nervous disease which may
either excite emotions abnormally or
be caused by an abnormal excitement
of the emotions.
The phenomena mentioned as man
ifestations of the disorder, such as
mobs of lynchers, strikes and their
attendant excuses, denunciation of
trusts" and hostility toward those
who possess riches, are undeIiably
present to an extraordinary extent al
present They may be indicative of
hysteria or merely of undue excite
ment of natural characteristics of the
human race. -
In either case the disorder is GER
tainly communicable, and it may be-
come epidemic and dangerous. In
either case it is disorder of the emo
tional nature, which becomes epidem-
ic and dangerous because of the gre
garious nature of man.
Most men are naturally followers
They are easily swayed by appeals 20
their emotions and when their emo
tons are excited they are easily de
ceived and easily induced to do things
which in their calmer moments they
deplore.
Whether they &C wrong or go right
depends on the character and inteli
gence of those who get their atten-
ton and possess the ability to sway
their emotions. In short, it all de-
ponds on the character of their lead
ers. If their leaders are intelligent
and good their emotional excitement
may rise even to hysteria without any
very serious consequences. If their
leaders are bad there is no assignable
limit to their evil excesses.-Record
Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Places for $1,000 Men.

Inability to find laborers is hamp-
ering the railroads all over the Wesi
| in carrying out contemplated ini-
Iprovements. AT least $4,000 men are
wanted, railroad managers say, with
practically none in the market, de-
spite the fact that the railroads are
Wiling to furnish transportation and
in some cases, to pay as high as S259
daily. Here are few systems in TIC
market for help:
Western Pacific, 5000 men.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, g.
coo to 1000 men for its extension to
the coast.
Southern Pacific, 5000 for its exten-
sion northward through California to
| Portland
Chicago e. Northwestern. 1000 to
5000 men.
North Coast Line, large force for
road from Walla Walla to Seattle
In addition to, new construction
nearly every Western road is double
tracking and building cutoffs and
Similar improvements. The North
ern Pacific wanted to double track its
Washington main line in time for the
heavy fall and winter traffic, but failed
through lack of of labor, with the re
suit that it has 10000 loaded cars o.
Its side tracks for lack of main track
| facilities.
Texas, where more railroad build
ling is being done than anywhere else
| in the West, is not complaining Sc
bitterly. because, railroad men think
laborers prefer the South to the
North during the winter, even in Tex
as, however, the labor supply is in
adequate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

Mr.. John Beatty and Mrs. Nellie
L. Miner were married at the home
of the brides parents Thursday even
ing, Nov. 1st at o'clock, Rev ]. ]
Coleman, of the Wesleyan church
conducting the ceremony. Mrs. Mil
ner is the oldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Ritchey, and very
highly respected and accomplished
lady. Mr.. Beatty is bookkeeper ant
stcnographer at the Indiana novelty
a most amiable and popular young
man. They took the ten o'clock trair
for the East, and will visit at Mr.
Beatty's home in Pennsylvania. The,
will reside in Plymouth
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

The handcar on which the Ship
shewana bank robbers made their es-
cape has been found on the Yoeman
farm. a mile and a half from Goshen,
bv the side of the Goshen Battle
Creek line. 1t was covered with
grass. The sextet of bank robbers
evidently walked into Goshen and
caught a Lake Shore freight train for
another point.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

With view of mining diamonds il
Elliott and Carter counties Samue
Pearson of Scranton, Pa, and W. ]
Rice of San Juan, p R., have organ
lied the Kentucky Transvaal Dia-
mond Company with a capital O
100000. Pearson, who scent years a
an engineer in the diamond fields o.
South Africa, says that the indica
tons for diamonds are better in Ken
lucky than in South Africa.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Man Who Had no Hair.

The late John Humphreys, 73 years
old, who died and was buried at Fair
view, Ind, was known as the hair
less man." There was not hair on
his body. When but 10 years old he
swallowed a strong dose of patent
medicine, which resulted in all of his
hair falling off. 1t was never renew
ed. -.-.'
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

elephant Goodrich Carl
Rddk into political 6ts.
is that A.
elephant
they would stand
made these the
lies they prepared and clients had to.
caused Ed earn shaky that he
could not climb meeting of his
few words the elephant that crushed the
boilers county, smashed Congressman Bricks political
and savedt Republican
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-13


people will deny that he is u profess
siona!. There could be no more deadly
Insult to an elevator boy than to stop
him ON the street and ask him IL he Is
out Of Sob"
II the profession Of running an Gle
yatOr ever comes to be looked upon
with contempt and II the elevators
themselves arss&ever removed from all
buildings and the tenants compelled to
walk the boys themselves will have
been to blame fop 1t. Taking my own
experience and the Investigations l
have made during the last year, feel
1t a duty to sound a note of warning.
What the average elevator boy has
got to look out for and steel his heart
against IL falling In love with the ste,
nographer and the typist. Every sky.
ser4per hoids from Ave to twenty Of.
them. aud the FIRST thing they do Is to.
make friends with the young gentle
man who runs the elevator. They want
his Information They want his advice.
They want his candy and popcorn.
was warned when secured my
arst engagement to beware Of the ste
lnQsrppiiers and TWISTS. | was told.
TINT they had soft, sleek and insidious
ways. The boy whose place took
sat down with tears In his eyes and
said TO me:
"sammis. they will smile, they WIN
giggle. they will airt, they will sigh.
they VIII call you Bobby and pile ON
the soft SOAP, but their ways are the
why's OF the deceiver, When your for.
tune Is gone they will throw you away
!, like IN old SHOE
1--WE weeks later, despite this warn.
Ing, | was In love with the golden
haired typlst IN room 24s, ! was call.
Ing her rG0llis" and ahe was calling
me bucky." was an innocent heart
ed boy, and how could tell her that
her hair was bleached and that sho
was working me for lunches and thea
ter tickets?
wanted to die for Goldie.
wanted to pour pll my wealth into
her ian,
Il wanted 10 knock the head Oh old
Saunders for winking Mt her. She was
III my thoughts by day and In my
4 dreams by night.
II bought her candy ! paid for her
lunches sent her bouquets. went
/ unssy IN order that abe might have
J, strvst car fare, I'VE were % good az
I cnGagel FOR two weeks. and was
| Nenderlng wliather we shauld take Ia
] Ylorida Of NlAgara talla on our bridal
tour when tn blow fell. TIA agent OF