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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

Many of the Democratic pap
ers OF the Indian Territory are
telling the Indians that they
Ought to vote the Democratic
ticket because the Republicans
in congress killed the project to
create a state of Sequoyah, com
|prising the present Indian Terri
tory. 1t is declared that the In
dams wanted separate state for
that community SO as to- "avoid
being swamped by the whites"
The Republicans, they charge,
defeated that scheme because
the state of Sequoyah would be
Democratic"
All this is folly. The $4,000
Indians actual and constructive,
in Indian Territory. or the pro-
posed state of Sequoyah, would
be outnumbered six to one by
the whites. They would be
"swamped" there by the white
vote SO completely that they
owuld have comparatively little
sway in the state. In any way
that the ingenuity of the Sequo-
yah advocates could shape their
proposed state the white inhabi-
tants would be in the majority.
The red men lose nothing of any
consequence. by the merger with
Oklahoma territory, while they
gain much. They get favors in
the school fund. They become
residents of state which will be
the twenty-second on the roll,
and which will enter with a pres
tige which will advertise it all
over the world. Every acre of
ground in each Indian allotment
will be worth so per cent more
to its owner in the state of Okla
horna than it would have been in
the state of Seouovah.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
earns Title in Doubt.

Francis +. earn, who was in
stalled as chairman of the Re-
publican central committee at
Plymouth some time ago by ],
l.. Norman of Knox, Republi-
can district chairman, apparent
ly did not get a clear title to the
place and is having lot of
trouble to hold it. Last week
he brought suit against William
G.. Hendricks who claims to have
been regularly elected last win
ter, to have Hendricks ousted
from the craftsmanship and his
own title to the place Quoted.
Mr.. earn also asks for a change
of venue from the county, claim
ing that Hendricks' influence is
so strong that fair trial of the
case cannot be had there. Evil
IDENTIFY the Republicans of Mar
shall county do not submit to
Mr.. Norman leadership or
dictation so patiently as those in
this county-Knox Democrat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Income and Inheritance TIA,

In England a man with All in
come of $4,000 year pays $G2.5e
in hard cash to the government
each year as income tax 1t his
income is $500 he must pay
|$175, and for all incomes over
that size the rate is the same
|one-twientith of the income. On
lily incomes of less than $500 are
entirely exempt.
Also in England there is an
inheritance tax so heavy that il
absorbs per cent of all estates
|of $5,000,000 value or over, de-
creasing, however, for smaller
estates, SO that for the smallest
lit takes only l per cent of their
value.
From the inheritance taxes
| the British treasury gets up
ward of $4,000, 1000, and from
the income taxes upward OF
$110,0c0,000 a year. Indeed
with higher tax rate, the yield
of the income tax has been as
much as $4,000, 900.
In Germany over 10 per cent
of the income of the states comes
from the income tax. In Italy
lover 16 per cent. In France over
u per cent. In Japan about 5
per cent. In Sweden over IL per
cent.
The inheritance lax, which
gives England about 8 percent
|of its total revenue, gives Bel
GUM over 4 per cent, and is said
to be in practical use in almost
all of the European countries
except Russia and the Balkan
states.
The income tax is forbidden
to our federal government until
the constitution is amended or
the supreme court reverses it.
self, but the inheritance tax is
within the power of congress to
impose.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Begin Reform With Bows.



If you are going to do any
thing permanent for the average
man you have got to begin be-
fore he is a man. The older
man is almost impossible to re-
form. OF course, there are ex-
ceptional individuals, men who
have been completely changed,
not only after they have reached
years of manhood but after very
adanced periods of life.
But speaking generally, the
chance of success hes in working
with the boy and not with the
man. That applies peculiarly to
those boys who tend to drift off
into courses which mean that un-
less they are checked they will
be formidable additions to the
criminal population when they
grow older. 1t is eminently
worth while to try to prevent
their becoming criminals, to try
to prevent their being menaces
to and sores in society while
there is chance of reforming
them.
"A year ago l was approached
by the people interested in Col
orado in their juvenile court and
they set an example which
wish could be followed all over
the country and particularly in
the District of Columbia. To the
peope of Colorado l expressed,
as | express to you, my earnest
belief in their work and told
them that of course, so far as my
very limited powers here go,
those powers will be at your dis
posal.
Il think people rather often
completely misapprehend what
are really the important ques-
tons. The questions of the tar
lift, the currency or even the reg
ulation of railroad rates are all
subordinate to the great basic
moral movements which mean
the preservation of the indiv;du-
al in his or her relations to the
home because if the homes are
all straight the state Will take
care of itself"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Diseases in Swine.

The heavy loss from disease in
hogs is largely due to transmits
sible diseases. The organisms
that produce this class of disease
usually enter the body in the feed
and inspired air. Hence, muddy
or dusty yards, especially, if ov-
er-covered and filthy. filthy feed
ing floors, troughs and hog
houses are largely responsible for
the prevalence of hog cholera,
swine plague, etc. AS young hogs
are less able to resist these dis
eases than healthy, mature ami
mails, the necessity of using pre-
ventive measures at this season
of the year is of double impor-
lance.
During the spring and summer
wallop holes are formed in the
yards and pastures. In case the
hogs run in a large lot or past
ure during the summer, it is Of
ten considered unnecessary to
clean and disinfect the small
yards and hog houses and they
become filthy and dusty. Mud
DIV yards are especially objection
able, as they become filthy.
If necessary, the sanitary con-
ditions of the yard can be inn
proved by draining them, keep
/ ing the wallow holes filled in and
taking the hogs out for few
months every year. The unused
|lots can be cleaned and put to
good use by blowing and sowing
them to oats, rape, cow peas, etc.
In no place on the farm are
disinfectants so necessary as in
the hog houses and yards.
Whitewash should be used about
the houses at least once during
the year. Every two or three
weeks the houses, feeding floors,
troughs, etc, should be sprayed
with disinfectant. The tar dis
infectants are the most conven-
lent to use. These should be
used in not less than two per
cent water solutions. An occa-
isional spraying or dipping of the
hogs in one per cent water sol
ution should be practiced.
The entrance of disease pro-
ducing germs from outside sour
ices should be carefully guarded
against especially, if hog cholera
lis present in the neighborhood.
The danger of carrying the
germs in the mud and filth that
may stick to a persons shoes
who has walked through yards
where hogs are dying of "chol-
|era" should be recognized. Dogs,
|llorses, cattle, stray hogs and
wagons may also act as carriers
|of disease. The opportunity for
rows, buzzards- and dogs TO dis
tribute disease is not great in
sections of the country where the
carcasses of the dead hogs are
disposed of by burying. Hogs
from other herds should be
placed in quarantine. for three
weeks before allowing them to
mix with the herd.
Keeping the hogs under the
best sanitary conditions possible.
md using the necessary precau-
ions in preventing infection
from the outside, is the mos sat
:sfactory method of avoiding loss
from this class of diseases.-Pur-
| due Bulletin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Stricken While Asleep.

G. X. Smith of Silver Lake,
went to bed in good health.
When he awoke he noticed a pc
culiar numbness and prickly SEN
sation in the limbs and the en-
tire left side of his body. There
is no sense and feeling in the
left side even to the face and
head. While he has felt no bad
results other than the peculiar
numbness, there is no doubt but
that the attack is of paralytic
nature. He has the use OF his
limbs the same as usual but the
sense of feeling has not return
ed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
The Creed of Physicians.

We have SO long been accus-
toned to thinking OF physicians
as men almost wholly Tree from
the mercenary spirit that we md
IT difficult to reconstruct our the
DRY. MOI do we mean to SAL that
1t will be necessary to do so, tor
a whole profession ought not to
be condemned for the sins Oh a
few men. Only the other day
we read of the S25, 1000 fee charg-
ed by the physician who attend
I'D Marshall Field in his last i'll
less; this was at the rate of ST.
500 a day. No one will contend
that the services rendered were,
considered simply by themselves
worth what was charged for
them. Last fall a New York den
list charged Prince Louis $1,U0O
for filling four teeth. This, too,
was an outrageous charge. The
Boston Transcript tells of rich
Massachusetts man that had to
pay $4,000 for having leg am
putated. Another man was
charged $4,000 by the physician
who removed his appendix.
But if physicians have been
guilty of this extortion it is good
to know that they are being call
ed to account by another MEM
Der of the profession, DIR. John
L. Hildreth, of Cambridge,
Mass. He says that in too many
instance" the fec charged by
physicians seems to be based,
as the railway magnate said OF
the freight charge, upon what
the traffic will bear" That in
deed is the almost avowed theo-
ry. But there is nothing ito be
said in support of it. The rich
physician would think it a great
hardship if he were charged
more than the poor man for his
books. He pays his coachman
the market wages, and these
have little relation to his ability
to pay. Service is service, and
it ought to be paid for as such.
OF course, we understand that
many physicians do much work
for little or nothing-that they
have large charity practice.
And this is sometimes pleaded
in defense of the practice of
soaking" the rich patients. Rut
what a pitiful plea it is! To adj
init it would be to rob the pro-
fession of one of its greatest
glories-that of succoring the
poor and needy. If the rilysic-
ians compel their rich patients
tc pay for their charities, it IS the
rich patients and not the plysic-
ians who ought to get the credit
for acknowledgements News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

There is held annually at Wi
mona Lake school for the train
ing of Sunday school workers.
The school is under the joint au-
spices of the State Associations
of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan,
Illinois and the Winona Assem-
bly,. This is known as the
Fourth International District
Training school, for all Sunday
School workers. The session of
1906, which is the third annual
session, begins August 9 and
continues until the 18th. 1t was
organized in 1903, in the month
of December, at indianapolis,
and held very successful sessions
in both 1901 and 1905. The en-
rollment in 1905 was over 500
students.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

The essential points involved
in profitable pork production
consists of quality in the breed
ing stock. The pure-bred sire is
the farmers best friend, although
some do not realize this fact and
think that a common-bred sire
will do as well. The pure-bred
sire is prepotent and will impress
uniformity upon his offspring.
Provide range, an abundance of
grass and succulent feed, a we'll
balanced ration, regularly fed
Also charcoal ashes and salt and
an abundance of pure water. Ii
not blessed with natural shade in
summer, provide it; also dry,
clean, comfortable pens, with an
abundance of sunlight. Keep
stock free from vermin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Can He Raise the Dead?

The magicians of India excel
the rest OF the world in their
Inecromancy. In the open air, in
view of hundreds of people, they
will plant a seed in the ground
and cause it to grow into tree
the top of which is out of sight
and by climbing which boy
will disappear into the clouds, to
reappear from behind the magic
ian.
They will shut up an attend
ant in a wicker basket and run
a sword through the basket in
every direction until the blood
of the attendant all runs out and
his dying screams have ceased
and then take him out of the
basket alive, unscathed and smil-
ing.
Varying the feat somewhat,
they will place the attendant in
a coffin and bury him in the
ground for two weeks. AT the
end of that time the crowd of
people that saw him inferred
will meet again at the grave.
The magician will then open the
grave and the coffin and present
his attendant to the spectators
in as good health and as cheer
full as any of them.
Whether this resurrection feat
is real or only hypnotic trick is
disputed, but it seems to have
made a deep impression on the
mind of Victor F. Lawson, who
has conceived the idea of using
it in politics. He seems to think
that if the magicians can bury
man for two weeks and then
raise him to life a political boss
ought to be able to kill a man
politically and afterward raise
him to political newness of life
with equal ease. Chicago
Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
says: "A syndicate of leading
Cleveland bankers and traction
men has been formed to under
ike the construction and equip
ment of the Chicago, Lake Shore
& Soush Bend Railway Com
pany. They propose to have the
read completed and ready for op-
Grafton by Sept. 1, 1908.
1.-THE Chicago-South Bend
electric is one of the most inn
portant links in the trolley chain
that will eventually connect Chi
cago with New York. The finan-
cial plans of the new syndicate
lave not been announced, and
probably will not be for some
time. The participants are veal
thy men, who will furnish the
funds required and perfect the
underwriting plans later. The
total investment is expected tc
reach SO .oOO. OOO."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Mrs. Van Dorstan Suicides.

Mrs. Catherine Van Dorstan
hanged herself to a clothes-line
post at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. ]. I. Wallace, 2 miles
south of Argos, Wednesday
night, and had been dead several
hours when found by the family
Thursday morning.
Mrs. Van Dorstan was the
widow of the late George w.
VanDorstan, of Argos, and the
mother of Mrs. Charles Yearrick
and Mrs. Charles Bell of this
city and Mrs. L. Wallace with
whom she was making her home
at the time of her death. She
also leaves one son, Willis Van
Dorstan, of Chicago.
Deceased was one of the early
settlers of the Argos neighbor-
hood and was an excellent wom-
an who had during all her long
life held the respect and esteem
|of Ill who knew her.
She was 7S years old on the
day of her death. She had been
in failing health for several years
and during the past year had
been quite i'll most of the time.
She had evidently prepared to
hang herself. She buckled a
shawl strap over the top of the
post and attached to it a strong
strip of cloth with which she had
affixed moose about her neck
and then fell forward, choking to
death with her feet touching the
ground.
She slept in the front room of.
the house and when the family
went to bed after she had retired
about 8 O'Clock Wednesday ev-
ening, she requested that the
door be left partly open on ac-
count OF the intense heat. This
was done and as soon as the fam
lily were asleep she went quietly
out and hung herself.
Dependency and i'll health
had evidently impaired her mind
and she felt that death was pref
cradle to life. The relatives
have the sympathy of all in this
trial. She was good mother
and good woman and under or
binary circumstances would new
err have taken her life. Funeral
|services will be held Saturday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

In the preliminary report Of
the Commissioners of Interna-
tional Revenue ON collections
throughout the country for the
last fiscal year, it is shown that
aggregate collections in Indiana
for the year amounted to $685.
342,602.15. The sixth Indiana
district under the supervision of
Elan II. Neal, collected $9,720,-
120.49, and the Seventh Indiana
district, in charge of John r.
Bonnell, collected $15.622,4S1.73.
The report also shows that Indi-
ana stood third in the amount
collected, Illinois being first,
New York second and Kentucky
fourth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

A statement printed in the
South Bend Tribune that the
Democrats of the Thirteenth dis
trict contemplate the nomination
of Mayor Fogarty of South Bend
to run against Brick is very like
ly groundless. While Fogarty is
very popular and would COM
mand enthusiastic support, he
has never even intimated that he
is an aspirant for such an honor
and it now seems to be we'll un-
derstood that Mr.. Shively is to
make the race against Brick
Goshen Democrat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Big Bank Closed.


The Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank OF Chicago, custodian OF
the savings OF S2,OOo persons,
was closed by State Bank Exam
lner (. (. Jones Monday morn
ing.
The cashier OF abe bank, Shas.
W. HerIng, cannot be found. "A
warrant charging him with EN-
Dezzlement IS IN the hands OF the
police.
raul y. Stensiand, president
lot the bank, IS absent from the
city, and his whereabouts cannot
DE definitely ascertained. 1t was
said at his home in Irving Park
that he had been spending va
cation in St. Paul and would re-
turn to Chicago Tuesday morn
ing.
Although no official statement
of the banks entanglements was
made by Examiner Jones, it was
reported that there was a short
age in the accounts of from
$500, 900 to 100000. According
to the banks last statement, the
deposits amounted to $4,08z,S09
of which $3,175, 195 was in the
savings department, represent
ing the life savings of thousands
OF small depositors.
Examiner Jones Monday made
the following significant state
msnt:
Il do not see why the d.rec-
tors of the bank did not cause
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09

Samuel Andrews, of Toledo,
Ohio, is visiting in Warsaw, the
guest of his relatives, B. F Rich-
ardson and wife. Mr.. Andrews,
who is past eighty years of age,
lis a veteran newspaper man and
was connected with the Toledo
Blade for 40 years, when that
paper was one of the leading
periodicals in the middle west.
In the publication of the Blade
MIR. Andrews was partner OF
Mr.. Locke, whose nom de plume
i'm series of political articles,
which appeared for a few years
succeeding the war, was "Petro-
leum v. Nasty" These COM
munications, dated Confederate
x Roads," will be recalled by
many subscribers of the Blade
who reside in Indiana. Mr..
Andrews is a gentleman of tire
old school and one whom it S
"a pleasure to meet.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Mint Raising in this Section

1 =
One of the most profitable ag-
ricultural ventures in Northern
Indiana at the present day is the
growing of mint. Owing to the
big increase in demand the past
two years, the number of farm
ers interested in the growing of
mint has increased and the acre
age has been doubled.
Mint growers like Todd, of
near Detroit, who raises from
10000 to 10000 pounds every
year, soon become millionaires.
Todd is known all over the
world as a grower and dealer in
peppermint.
One of the essential factors to
the successful growing of mint is
a soil adapted to the plant. 1t
must be damp but must not be
too wet. A drained marshland
has proven to be the best. The
farmer can get into this kind Of
soil and ground early in the
spring and can also afterwards
keep it weeded.
There are at the present time
in Elkhart county six farmers in
terested in the growing of mint.
There are about twenty-five
acres in Elkhart county in mint.
Michael Mishler, who came to
this county from LAGRANGE and
settled southwest of Goshen, has.
extensive plats in mint. A coup
lie of farmers, including Samuel
Whistler near Nappanee, are rails
ing mint this year. The others
are located in Clinton township,
near the Lagrange and Noble
county line across which lies the
rich mint section of those coun-
ties.
The peppermint grown by the
farmers and cultivated is the
English mint brought to this.
country about ten years ago, al.
least it was first introduced to
mint raisers about 1895. The
American mint, which grows
wild, is much sweeter but yields
only about fifty per cent as much
oil as the English plant.
The old mint is, ripenirg now,
and from this time until October
1st, will be gathered. The new
mint, which was set this spring.
will be ripe about the middle Of
August.
A peculiar thing connected
with the mint industry is the
value OF what is known to the
trade as spear mint. and which
the farmers claim is not really
mint. This grows wild along the
country roads and lanes. The
dealers are very keen for the oil
of this spear mint and will pay
81 a pound for it., The price has
advanced rapidly the past two
years on spear mint. The farm
ers state they do not know what
it is used for.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Heading Off Hearst.

Ex-candidate Alton B. Parker
is given credit for discovering a
way to head off Hearst as seek
er for the nomination for COVER
nor by the Democrats of New
York. 1t is pleasing to know that
Mr.. Parker has been able to rem
der some service to his singu-
larly helpless party. He has not
incidentally. rendered much SER
vice to his state, for there was
no danger that Hearst would be
elected if nominated by the
Democrats. +.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-09
Millionaire as Farm Hand.

One young man millionaire
does not believe in joining the
ranks of the idle rich, and has
gone to work on farm. John
F. Crosby, IL years of age. came
into a fortune of at least $1,000
900 by the death Of Major r.
Crosby, of Chicago. Young
Crosby is student at the high
school, is a good golfer and ath-
lete, but believes that every
young man should do some use
full work. This summer, there
fore, he is working on the farm
of Charles Mcconnell, near Ri
pom, Wis, as a hired man, and
takes his share of what is coming
without lodging.