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AUCTION SALE.

One cent word for each insertion. i've cents wore for flu. weelS. seven times.
 R. B. MALLORY, Auctioneer, sells at IS Lyon street. (near Bradley) Tuesday, 10 a. m., good goods: Parlor pieces, pier mirror, bookcase and desk com sewing machine, chiffonier, bureaus, iron bedstead, tables rockers, cham Der furniture, carpets, rugs, draperies, pictures featherbed gas range, par Tor stove, fine range, refrigerator, crockery, trunks, coal, wood, etc.
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 R. D. MALLORY, ADCTIONEER and 'Appraiser, I1z3 Chapel &. Telephone 2S60. House e- hold sales speciality. a4 If
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WANTED for the U. S. Marine Corps; men between ages 21 and S5. An op- portunity to see the world For full Information apply In person or by letter to 1Ss Church street, New Ha- ven, Conn. n5 2st
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FOR SALE.

PIANO. good upright, in fine condition, only Sl25, with stool and scarf. Will take s monthly. Address L. S, Cou- rier office. d10 1t$
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WANTED FOR U. s. ARMY.
 unmarried men. be- tween ages 21 and 25; citizens of United States. of good character and temperate Habits. who can speak, read .an4 write English. Apply Re- cruitlng Officer 890 Chapel street, New Haven; 75G Main street, Hart ford: 1922 Main street, Bridgeport: 19a Bank street, Waterbury. Conn:
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FOR SALE-Hammond typewriter. $15. 37 Howe street d5 It FOR SAIEe--t,00O set Patent Stove Brick. Every set warranted one year.
 Orders received I03 STATE STREET.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
That $17s.ooo Robbery.

A shaft of light Tuesday shot
through the mystery enveloping the
$4,000 subtreasury robbery at Chi
cago and it is now confidently expect
ed that within thiry-six hours the
thief or thieves will be under arrest.
By process of gradual elimination
it has been established that the rob-
'bers who appropriated the money
Feb. 20 are employees of the govern
ment. 1t also has been pretty well
proved that George w. Fitzgerald
asserting teller, is an important link
in the chain of discriminating evil
dence.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, from whose cage
the $4,000 was distracted, went
through a grueling examination at
the bands of government officials
Tuesday, and at night he announced
that he was to take leave of alb
sence.
He maintained that Captain Porter
chief of the Chicago branch of the
secret service, had given him unqual-
flied permission to absent himself
from the subtreasury, and that he
Fitzgerald, no longer felt any appre-
hension.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Texas Fayorite Son.

Texas IS clearly to have six more
years of Joseph w. Bailey as senator
That is no surprise, since such a
clever trickster as Bailey could GER
tainly have found some way to wrig.
gle out of his promise to resign in
case the investigation of his dealings
with the Standard Oil company had
resulted in vote unfavorable to him
He has handled his defense during
the last two months in what may
well be called a mastery manner
from the point of view of those who
believe that success with disgrace j.
next best thing to success withou,
disgrace.
A year ago Bailey had as spotless /;
reputation as ever paraded the street.
of Washington under a fine coat o.
whitewash. He could hold hands will
the wicked trusts" in a dark cornei
of the corridor and assail them pub
licly in the Senate chamber, and no
body winked as he did it. He coulc
even lecture his betters in a most SUI
perior way. Since then he has beer
shown up in his true colors; he ha!
been caught in falsehoods, he ha'
given up all his energies to blocking
investigation and he has been "vindi
Gated" by a snap judgment of tn,
state senate, passed before his inves
tigators made their report, and with
out chance being given for fire,
discussion. The lower house of tn,
Legislature is yet to be heard from
but that makes no difference, for an,
kind of vindication seems goot
enough for Bailey, and half vindi
cation would certainly make him fee
warranted in holding on to goo'
job as long as possible.-Record
Herald
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Forsaken by its mother since Fri
day noon, a four-year-old child was
found in the rooming apartments on
the second floor of an old building,
northeast corner of Main street and
Lexington avenue in Ell1hart, b, HUI
name Officer Miller, on Sunday, says
the Elkhart Truth The child had
been left there with Mr.. Shick, an
aged gentleman, by its mother, who
promised to return for it within an
hour
Although scarcely able to talk, the
child made known to Officer Mile
that its mothers name was Mrs.
Jesse Hartman and that the fathe-
was Otis Hartman, a resident of Ell
ma Green, Kosciusko county. The
child, who said its name was Jimmie
was unusually bright for its age and
offered no objections when it was
taken to the Woman's Rest Home in
Elkhart. The mother had been leav'
ing the child with Mr.. Shick at var
ious times, but only for short periods
When last seen she was with a WON
an of questionable character and it
is believed that she left Elkhart.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

New York, Feb. 21.-The magni-
tude of John d. Rockefeller's fortune
was developed in an inquiry here to-
day In reply to a question Freder-
lex T. Gates, Mr.. Rockefeller's bust
ness representative, said:
There has been great many
amusing statements on this subject.
Several years ago Senator Hoar in
the senatcf credited Mr.. Rockefeller
with a fortune of $1,000. 0oo.O 900. Quite
recently a statement has been made
and published widely throughout the
country that his annual income ex-
ceeds $100,000,000.
"Now the facts ARE that Mr.. Rock
efeller has at various times himself
authorized. a statement that his for
tune can not exceed $250,0O0,o0o to
5000, 200, 900, Furthermore, his in
come, instead of being 100000, 900 or
anything like it, can not in his most
prosperous year have exceeded $751;
600. 900 to $20,0OO,000.
"The public generally is under the
impression that he owns a majority
of the Standard Oil stock. The facts
are that Mr. Rockefeller's holdings Of
Standard Oil stock are about 20 per
cent" ~ ssat
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Japan is Buyinp Steel Rails.

A cablegram received in New York
on Saturday from the Japanese gov
eminent called for the immediate
shipment of the largest tonnage of
steel rails ever made to the far East,
and for which premium will be paid.
have been ordered from the United
States Steel Corporation. The rails
will be rolled in the Carnegie mills,
and will weigh sixty pounds to the
yard. So anxious are the Japanese
TO get the material as soon as pos
sible that $3.50 ton at the mills
will be paid. The ruling quotation
for domestic rails is $2s, free on
board Pittsburg. The rails will be
used for laying the first sections of
the extensive network of railways to
be built in Manchuria by the South
ern Manchuria Railway Company. In
addition to the rails all the large
contracts for locomotives, cars,
bridges, etc, will be placed in this
country, negotiations being now on
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Restricting the Traffic"

1t is interesting and shorld per-
haps be of value TO us at this time
to know that South Carolina has
abandoned the state Idispensary sys-
tenn of dealing with the liquor traffic.
says the Indianapolis News. That
experiment. was indicative of the eff
fort that is making everywhere to
bring this traffic further under con-
troll. A man may have what opinion
he will on the best way 70 do this.
We speak here simply to the fact
that the effort to do it is making all
over the country, and the general di-
rection of this effort is restriction,
both by higher license fees and by
local option and prohibition, that is
as to partial or total abolition. South
Carolina's dispensary effort was
simply to confine the evils of saloon
ISM To this end the state monopo-
lized the liquor traffic and "dispens-
ed" liquors under certain conditions
Now after many years of trial it has
abandoned the plan, but it has gone
to the local option plan-that is to
prohibition in places according to the
preponderance of public opinion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The House refusing to accept Sen
ate amendments tackled on the meas
ure recognizing the institutional
boards of the State the presiding Off
GERS of both branches of the Legis-
lature Thursday appointed confer
ence committee to consider the am
ended measure. Speaker Branch ap-
pointed Representative Condo, White
and Hanna. The Senate conferees
are Senators Kimbrough and Tyn-
dali.
The Objectionable amendment to
the bill provided that each board
should be composed of three menu
beers instead of four.
The House also refused to concur
in the Senate amendment to the bill
reorgamzing the State Tax Board, a
measure introduced by Representa-
tive Slimp. When the bill left the
House it provided for a salary Of ST.
500 year for each of the tax COM
missioners The Senate added $500
to the pay of the commissioners The
author did not know this had been
done until the bill was handed down
by the Speaker Thursday.
Speaker Branch appointed con-
ferees Friday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The case against w. H. Sharpe,
editor of the Wabash Times-Star.
who refused to pay dog taxes on an
animal which he asserted was too
young to tax VIXEN the assessor made
his rounds, was decided Tuesday,
when the jury found that he was not
guilty of evading the tax law. The
case has attracted considerable atten-
ton and has a strong bearing on To-
cal politics.
Last year Charles H. Brewer, then
prosecutor, had about 100 arrests
made of people who had dogs which
became three months old after the as
SCISSOR had made his rounds, holding
that the tax must be paid at any time
a dog becomes of taxable age, with
out regard to March /, the assess
ment time.
The case attracted much attention,
for the dog case was one that had a
bearing in the landslide in the recent
election in Wabash county There
was much objection to the enforce
ment of this feature of a dog tar
law, and many lawyers contended
that the tax should be paid only at
the time of the assessment The 100
people who paid their fines did so
without a contest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
For Indiana Farmers.

The Purdue University Agricultur-
al Experiment Station is preparing to
furnish limited number of interest
ed farmers in Indiana with a few
leading varieties of corn. oats. cow
peas, or soy beans to test on their
own farms. Four or FIVE varieties
which seem to be suitable for the 10
cality where they are to be, tested
will be furnished, free of cost, in suf-
ficient quantities to plant an acre Of
each variety of corn, and tenth acre
of each variety of the other crops
on condition that an honest effort be
made to conduct the test according
to Instructions and report results al
the end of the season.
Last year about 600 such cooper
alive. tests were conducted by farm
ers in all parts of the state. A sum
mary of the results will be published
in few days. Copies of this report
may be had upon application. The
reports received from experimenters
show clearly that these local tests
may be of great benefit as, through
them, many farmers are made &C.
quainted with varieties that are bet
ter suited to their conditions than
the ones they are using.
Anyone interested in this offer may
secure full particulars concerning the
Stations requirements by writing to
At. Wiancko, Agricuiturist. Exper
iment Station, Lafayette, Ind.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Trusts and State RIGHTS.

Senator Beverage finds out that
all trust attorneys have blossomed
out as ardent champions of state
rights. State rights" he says, is a
very polite creature, and seldom be-
come excited for liberty except
when some financial interest is en-
dangered by the assertion of nation
atty" He recalls the fact, that when
Cleveland ordered troops to Chicago
during a violent strike, in the face OF
opposition from the governor and
other state officials, "the great hnan-
cial interests were all for national
ity'-all against state rights Yet
to-day, when control of interstate
commerce is proposed and the gov
eminent is insisting upon equal and
fair treatment of the public, grea
many of the Interests" turn ato1t
and raise hue and cry against Cen
tralization" and "usurpation."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Will Stop Chain Prayers.

After nearly four years, during
which time letters containing "chair
prayers" have been sent through Inc
mails to persons all over the coun;rs
with the request that the one who re
ceives it send similar letter to nine
friends under penalty of having some
misfortune befall him, the postal au-
thorities are beginning to see Their
way clear to put stop to the prac-
tice
Recently Postoffice Inspector Viii
liam T. Fletcher received one of the
prayers, which had been held by Z
postoffice clerk on account of INSULT
cient postage. 1t was signed by
Laura M. Ferris. Later another Of
the prayers was found in the mails
also another one signed by the Ferri:
woman was found.
The postal authorities can not pros
ecute those who send the prayers
but every one who is found out i:
brought before the Inspector and rep
rimanded Both the postal authorize,
and the police have been appealed t
by persons who have received these
letters and who are afraid that unle I
they comply with the request tina
they send out nine similar ones some
calamity will visit them Assurance
have been given that the practice will
be stopped as soon as the persons
who are sending the letters out cal
be found.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Defeat Insurance Bill.

Thursday was the banner day in
both the houses and senate. Perhaps
there will not be another day in the
history of the general assembly
which will be fraught with incidents
of the equal of the incidents in the
house and senate that afternoon.
One measure, the high license, which
was passed to second reading, by the
narrow margin of one vote, was a
measure in which the governor was
interested incidentally. but not one
which he gave his strong personal
support. The other measure, the Far
Der insurance bill in the senate, went
down to defeat under the steady on
slaughts of the opponents of the
measure though the defenders rallied
to make as strong fight as could
have been made. This was the bill
in which the governor was interested
more than any other measure.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Council Proceedings.

The commencement met in regu-
lar session Monday evening, Feb. %
Two petitions for sewers were pre-
scented to the council. One, signed by
George Protsman, j. W. Nyhart, F.
w. Kepler, and others, petitioned the
laying of sewer past their premises
on Walnut street, from Jefferson
The other was for the laying of a
sewer on North Michigan street. Thi.
petition was signed by B. B. Sheets
L. w. Hess, Bert Shell. Rev Press
nell, Borton & Aspinall and others
Both were referred to committee or
sewers and drains.
The superintendent of water work:
stated that the cost of cleaning the
wells, would be about $50 for the
work, and about Sc apiece for screens
He was ordered, to proceed with the
work s3.s
Bills to the amount of $26s.39 were
presented and allowed.
Some of the assessments on the
East CAIRO street sewer were amend
ed by deducting 10 per cent of The
original assessment, this 10 per cent
to be paid by city.
The chicken ordinance passed It.
final reading and, will be enforced
from this time
The council received a visit from
two representatives of the gas PLAN
to be These gentlemen stated thai
six miles of mains have been ordered
and as soon as they arrive the wealth
er permitting, operations will be be-
gun.
The city attorney has complained
to the Pennsylvania railroad officials
concerning the need of a watchmar
at the Fifth. ,street crossing, and has
received no resonse. Action viii
probably be taken by the council lat
err.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Patriotism.

Ex-President Cleveland's theme
upon which he dwelt in two or more
discourses on Washington's birthday
was patriotism Patriotism was what
he commended to the youth of our
high schools above all else. Patriot
ism was the beginning, the middle
and the end of his principal address
in the afternoon.
1t is to be particularly noted that
the patriotism he commended SC
strongly was not the patriotism oil
"senseless noise and dangerous explo-
sion, leaving in its train far more Of
mishap and accident than lessons oil
good citizenship or pride of country
Nor is it a bellicose patriotism
There was not from first to last q
suggestion that in order to be a pat
riot a man must be forever ready to
pick fight with some other country
in order to demonstrate that we car
whip all creation. There was not a
suggestion that patriotism consisted
in going out and killing other people
and getting killed ourselves by scores
and hundreds and thousands. There
was no suggestion that there was
patriotism or glory in slaughter and
victory and conquest.
The patriotism Mr.. Cleveland ex-
tolled was of the kind which loves
ones country enough to seek ear
nestly the upbuilding of the characte;
of its people ard the development o.
their intelligence and all their vir-
tues, domestic and civic; the patriot
ism which sees more greatness and
glory in the highest development Of
the people socially, industrially. in
tellectually and morally and in the
perfecting of political and civil insti.
tutions calculated to promote their
welfare and happiness than in mar
tial display and aggression
Such was the patriotism OF Wash
ington, of Lincoln and of all ouI
greatest and best from the beginning
to this hour-Chicago Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Killed Douglas Fawbush.

William A. Spores who would have
been executed at 1905 a. m. Monday
for the murder of Douglas Fawbush,
of Scott county, and who seemed to
be awaiting his end with stoical in
difference, collapsed when the warden
went to his cell Saturday evening
with the information that the Cover
nor had committed his sentence to
Imprisonment for life.
Spores broke down and cried like
child, and, throughout Sunday, he
remained in a dazed condition, as if
scarcely realizing the good fortune
which had come to him. The Gov
ernor based his interference on the
ground that Spores was below the
average in intelligence, and also be-
cause he had been convicted by what
is known as a pickup" jury, COM
posed of men who were not search
ngly questioned with reference to
their qualifications to give an unprej-
udiced consideration of the testimony
which might be presented. Until he
was advised that a reprieve had been
granted Spores was in the condemned
cell, cool and collected.
The murder was committed in Scott
county, under circumstances that
aroused the people of that section,
and when Spores was captured in the
far West he was taken to the Indi-
ana Reformatory and held until the
feeling against him had Gained down
Spores and Fawbush spent that fatal
day in Scottsburg, drinking to excess
Spores but recently had returned
from service in the army and Faw-
bush volunteered to take him to his
old home in the country. Fawbush
failed to report at home, and several
days later his body was found in the
woods, bloody ak nearby showing
how his murder had been accomplish
ed. Spores fed with Fawbush's team
which he abandoned in Crawford
county The widow of the murdered
man is now suing the saloon keeper
who sold intoxicants to Spores and
Fawbush laying claim to $4,000 dam
ages.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Early Effects of the Law.

The Blind Tiger bill which went
into effect last Wednesday was re-
sponsible for shutting out the de-
livery of several gallons of the good
old beverage that has been finding its
way into Hebron, in, c. 0. D. pack
ages. says the Hebron News. When
the town marshal made the irivesti-
CATION he was informed by the agent
that the goods would not be sent
from the station until he had investi-
gated the law as he did not propose
to lay himself liable. There were
three packages addressed to separate
parties and judging by the size of
each box, there was at least three
gallons in ALL
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

There are in the House of Repre-
sentatives 40 Masons, 33 Knights oil
Pythias, 10 Odd Fellows, 10 Elks, IA
Modern Woodmen, Red Men, G,
A. R. members, Court of Honor
members, Eagles, 2 Knights of Co.
lumbus, 10 members who belong to
no secret or fraternal orders. The
churches are represented by: Metho-
dist, %; Christian, ~; Catholic, 8;
Presbyterian, Z; Friends, 4; United
Brethren, 4; Episcopal, 2; Baptist, 1;
Christian Science, 1; and 80 who do
not belong to any church. There are
II bachelors. Thirty-one members
neither smoke nor chew, IA chew to-
bacco, but do not smoke, 40 do not
use intoxicating liquors in any form,
81 like a social glass, 33 drink occa
siorally. The oldest member is sixty
nine and the youngest twenty-fou-,
the average age being forty-four
years. The heaviest man weighs 225
pounds and the lightest 1875. There
are 10 straightout farmers, 81 proxy
OF Telephone" farmers, "a others
who own farms, rs were reared on
farms and SO were born on farms.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
America Leads the World in Wealth
Health and Happiness.

Rome was a nation enormously
rich but it could not compare in
wealth with the United States.
Though we are little more than a
hundred years old, we have more act
ual money, more gold, larger exports,
greater banking facilities, richer
farms, more productive mines, more
rilroads, more internal commerce,
more millionaires, more well-to-do
tradesmen, more independent farm
ers, more highly paid laborers and a
greater distribution of Injuries than
any other nation that has ever exist
ed in the world.
If the United States could convert
all of its assets into money it would
have enough to pay off four times
over all the national debts of all the
nations including its own. In actual
money its possessions are enormous
Last October it assembled in one
room gold to the amount of 1871 $685.
500, the largest amount ever collect
ed in history Its total riches are es-
timated to be worth not less than
$1O7 200. 900, 900, sum too great to
be comprehended. AT the present rate
of increase within hundred years
the American people will own as
much as the entire wealth of the
world amounts to now.
These thing should be borne II
mind by theorists who are perpetual
ly alarmed by fear that the American
people are dissatisfied with their gov
ernmental system, under which thi.
point of prosperity has been attain
ed When they are recollected there
does not seem to be much. danger
that socialism or any other mao
scheme will ever find enough adher
ents to obtain a trial in the United
States.
We can not, of course expect al
ways to be as prosperous as we have
been for the past ten years. Crof
failures will occur, causing distres.
and retrenchment, but they can no
be serious enough to make the coun
try permanently suffer. WHATEVER
setbacks there may be will be over
come in the course of time and tn,
country's progress will in the Ions
run be evenly great. 81
In spite of everything, the fact re
mains that this is the best period il
the history of the world to be born
the best to live in, and that Americ;
is the best part of the earth for hu
man beings who want TO get out o
their lives the utmost that can h
had 1t is not, only the richest, it i
the happiest country.-Chicago Jour
nal.