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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Frenchwoman from Guadalupe, Marie
fesicite Merlande, nee Nadau. The
graves of other emigrants from that
lovely Isle clustered about ii, but they
were those of exiles, driven from home
by the terrible uprising of the blacks
Marie Felicite, daughter Of French
officer, wife of merchant. made the
voyage for her health, but 1t was
fatal one. Her husband sailed back
alone; but the strangers among whom,
In the bleak New England winter, the
young wife died had been kind, and to
one of them he wrote. begging her sad
ly to visit the grave In spring and
plant upon it two roses, I'm memory
OF the pains which she has suffered
Even as that flower, her life has been
beset with thorns."
The lady did so but the roses died
Then, by touching chance, In their
place sprang up. implanted by any
hand, wild thorn-tree, which grew
tai! and flourlshed, and became the
haunt Of singing birds and bees, putting
forth, In the words of Miss Gould, ev-
cry year clouds Of white blossoms pure
and beautiful, and standing like an
armed sentinel over the grave Of
Marie
That, too, has disappeared; but on
Arbor day of this year new thorn tree
was fifty planted among the lovely lit
tie group of foreign graves, with their
crumbling stones and quaint French
epitaphs, alike in memory of the half
forgotten writer OF 1.-The Grave Under
the Thorn-Tree," and to mark once
more the forgotten resting-place of
Marie Felicite.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

ave some bad news for you, VIII.
bur-" said the mans wife as the man
composed himself for his after-dinner
cigar. 1--WE been expecting it for
some time, and now it's happened"
swell. let's have it," said the man.
Don't try to break it to me gently"
"Myrtle's going to leave"
"What?v
"She isn't satisfied and she's going
to leave at the end of the week, and
now we'll have to find new girl and
I've got all my spring sewing before
me-"
whats the matter with her?
"Well, she's di satisfied"
az suppose she. wants more wages.
What did you tell her? Did you say
you'd speak TO me about it?"
mo. 1 didn't think it would do any
good"
why not? I've thought all along
that We might pay her little more
a dollar a week more anyway. 1 think
l suggested it. You women are funny !;
you'll suffer any amount of inconven-
fence and pay out money for registra-
tion offices and advertisements and car
fare till you can't rest, but y,sii
wouldn't think Of raising girls wages
to keep her If she was the best that
ever happened. That wouldn't be econ
omy, of course. Well, you have your
self to blame for it,"
Il think we were paying her enough
as far as that goes
Certainly you think so. You'd
think that IL we had been paying her
So week instead of So. 1t isn't bust
nesslike, my dear. OF course, don't
like TO interfere with the household az
fairs or I'd have insisted on that How
long do you suppose our concern would
last if we tried al the time to pay an
employe less than he was worth? II
there's a man in my department who
Is doing good work / recommend him
for more salary. l don't wait until l.e
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

the Hepburn act Is ii. having given the
commission absolute control over the ac
counts of railways. The commission has
Just issued order to the effect that on
July i next all the railways OF the coun-
try, subject to the juriS diction OF the CON-
mission, must standardize their accounting
methods. and the commission Is now organ
izing bureau of special examiners, whose
duty IL will be, among other things TO
that the books of the carriers are kept In
conformity with the rules laid down by the
commission.
Thus the means are already at hand
and the machinery already created which.
when perfected, will put the public m po-
sition To know the facts. SO that the small
investor can exercise an intelligent judy
ment when entrusting his money to tie
promoters of great railway enterprises We
hope as one OF the chief means for bet
torment OF conditions 10 secure as con-
plete publicity In the affairs of railroads
as now obtains with regard to nation al
banks.
There need be no fear on the part OF
Investors that this movement for national
supervision and control over railways will
be for their detrlmeat. If they doubt
| this. let them study the history of the
railway-control movement In such a State
as Iowa 1t would be hard to find any
where more prosperous or more intelli-
gent community; a community of thirty
Ing farmers and thriving townspeople.
Iowa did its share In the work OF build
ing railroads when the business was one
that demanded men OF the utmost daring
and resourcefulness men like that gallant
soldier and real captain Of Industry. Gren-
Vile NJ. Dodge; men who ran risks and
performed feats for which Ii vas difficult
TO make the reward too high; men who
staked everything on the chances of bust
ness which to-day happily involves no such
hazards.
Iowa was at length forced to undertake
the work OF regulating the railways with
In her borders. There was great cutlery
against it. 1t was proclaimed that such
effort would ruin roads already built, ana
prevent building more. But Iowa proceed
ed With the task, and it resulted, not In
ruin and stagnation, but in increased safe
ty and profit to the honest investor. In
stead OF putting roads into the hands OF
receivers, 1t was followed by a prosperity
that rescued many of them from receiver
ships.
No State, Of course. can do for the rail-
ways what the national government has al
ready done for the banks, and that govern
| ment should do something analogous for
the railways. National bank stocks are
OF character which the government, as
result OF its examinations and supervision,
gives TO them.
Grave Abuses.
The grave abuses In individual cases OF
railroad management In the past represent
wrongs not merely TO the general public,
!, but. above all, wrongs TO fair-dealing and
honest corporations and men or wealth.,
because they excite popular anger and
dlstrust which from the very nature OIL
| the case tends to include In the sweep or
| its resentment good and bad alike. From
| the standpoint OF the public | cannot too
| earnestly say that as soon as the natural
| and proper resentment aroused by these
abuses becoIles indiscriminate and unthlnk-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
sergeant and General.

Every one who was at Antieta1a eth
err saw or heard about the Dunkard
Church, and all who have read Of the
battle have learned something about
the old church. Hundreds of bullets
were fired into it by the contending
forces. Two days after the battle
delegation of several women examined
the church and lamented its misfor-
tunes. One of the young women, q
Quakeress, was so deeply impressed
with the wrong her church had suffer
ed that she wrote upon spot of the.
white wall that had not been bullet
pierced this sentence: ~This Is the
work of misguided men," Large NUM-
bers of union soldiers visited the little
church. some of them fresh from buri-
al parties, and read that young WON
ans opinion; 1t was not very inspiring.
Some of the comments were Of 4 char
acter that would not have been music
to her Quaker ears. Sergeant Nate
Malloy broke forth with: BLANK the
little wretch, Ii Is asking too much
for man to wade through hades, as
we did day before yesterday, for the
benefit of people who say we are mis-
guided in our work of saving country
for them"
Poor Nate MalIoy. He served three
years and then re-enlisted for three
more. The spring of 1864, while his
regiment was lying near Culpepper, be
was taken sick and started for the hos
pital, since which time not a man of his
company or regiment has ever heard
a word from or about him. While at
home on veteran furlough he became
engaged to most lovely young woman
living near Fond du Lac She was at
the station when his thirty days were
up and he was ready to start back to
the army. They had clasped hands and
slyly kissed each other and Nate had
entered the coach. The young lady
stood near the door weeping. Just as
the train started he bounded from the
car, Jew to the side of his sweetheart,
embraced and kissed her, said good-by
again and jumped onto the rear car,
and these two. lovers looked at each
other for the last time through eyes
swimming In tears 1 suppose the poor
fellow died on the way to hospital and
was buried by the roadside ia an I'M
known grave, like tens of thousands OF
brave men on both sides of the line.
Poor Nate Malloy, Whatever became
of him?" is question his company
comrades ask whenever they meet.
Who can tell how much the war cost
that young womanf She remained
maiden for many years, hoping and
watching for his return. but now she Is
a wife and mother; but IL you ever
meet her refrain from speaking Of gal
liant, loving Nate Malioy.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
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asks for 1t, even. What's the result?
I've got q man who understands that
he is appreciated. / can give a man
an unsolicited increase of SO a week
and he'll be tickled to death, whereas
If L waited until he kicked for 50 and
got it. he'd be wishing that he'd ask
ed for 50 and be disgruntled at that.
1 think Myrtle's worth 81 to us, but if
you had gone to her some morning and
told her that you were pleased with
her and were going TO give her So, I'll
bet wild horses couldn't have dragged
her away from US. Do you think you
would like me to talk to her? think,
perhaps, Il
81 don't think ! would, dear
''Now, why?" asked the man.
well, think you hurt her feelings
by what you said about the dinner last
night"
II Why, l didn't mean"
Il know you didn't mean to. But
you've complained several times late
ly and"
only when 1 had darned good
cause for it. You don't expect that I'm
going to put up with food half scorch-
ed or raw. the way she's been giving
it to US lately?"
''Of course not, l think you were
right. But she thinks-well, she says
you have been asking so many Of your
friends to meals unexpectedly and 1t
has given her SO much extra work
and"
The man choked. $50 I've got to ask
her permission before l invite my
friends to my house, have II" he de
manded. well, If she's got that idea
she can't pack her trunk any too soon
She does not need to wait till the end
OF the week. We can get somebody
else, and It's a cinch she can't be a
much poorer excuse for a cook than
Myrtle is. l don't think we need pay
So, either. Five dollars is plenty for
the work she has to do."-Chicago
Daily News.
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Ing 1t also becomes not merely unwise and
unfair. but calculated to defeat the very
ends which those feeling Ii have In view.
There has been plenty Of dishonest work
by corporations In the past. There will not
be the slightest let-up in the effort to
hunt down and punish every dishonest man.
But the bulk OF our business Is honestly
done. In the natural indIgna ton the peo-
pie feel over The dishonesty II Is all-essen.
tial that they should not lose their heads
and get drawn into an indiscriminate raid
upon all corporations. all people OF wealth,
whether they do well or ill. Out OF any
such wild movement good will not come.
cannot come, and never has come On the
contrary, the surest way TO invite reaction
Is TO follow the lead OF either demagogue
or visionary In a sweeping assault upon
property values and upon public confidence
which would work incalculable damage In
the business world, and wor "a produce such
distrust OF the agitators that IN the re-
vulsion the distrust would extend to hon
est men, who In sincere and sane fashion,
are trying to remedy the evils.
The great need of the hour. from the
standpoint OF the general public, OF the pro-
ducer consumer and shipper alike, Is the
need for better transportation facilities. for
additional tracks, additional terminals and
improvements in the actual handling Of
the railroads: and all this with the least
possible delay. Ample, safe and rapid
transpor facilities are even more nec-
essary than cheap transportation.
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Pattern Department
UP-T0-DATE DESIGNS FOR
THE HOME DRESSMAKER
New Tailored blouse.
- - -

Narrow rufiies are conspicuous fea-
ture OF the new blouses and some very
charming effects are obtained with
them. Wide turnover collars and cuffs
edged with narrow frill of the same
material, and this ruftiing used also
down each side OF the front plat makes
as chic and jaunty a tailored blouse as
anyone could desire. The back of this
blouse is plain. and even the shoulders
have no fulness. the cut being severely
simple. These bands of ruffling all
ready made up can be had now in a
variety of materials. and these are APP
piled with good effect and great say
ing of time and labor. if one desires to
economic on these. With lingerie ma
terials the ruffies are usually OF the
same material as the blouse, but with
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
would Ask Nothing Better.

After twelve years OF unexampled
prosperity under the Dingley law,
which emphasizes in its schedules the
policy of protection, platform which
should declare protection not only I'M
lawful. but a snare, would make
mighty Interesting reading" and give
us a text for stirring campaign.
And then the result might afford an
answer to a question which has long
engaged the politicians. What influ-
ence secured the Democratic triumph
In 1892? Who killed Cock Robin that
year? 81" said the Free Trader. 81
did it with my little deliverance
against protection" Grover" said
the ardent Clevelandite. "Mr. CIeve-
land did it with the force of his per-
sonality. He was the platform" The
Homestead strike" said the disguised
Republicans. but for that General
Harrison would have had walkover."
And so the contention has continued
to this day, and still continues.
Now, if it was the tariff plank In the
Democratic platform which did the
work then, why not ask history to re-
peat itself? Why not next year again
challenge protection to another battle
to the death? Tile protectionists would
ask nothing better. They would rush
to take up such a challenge. and then
we should all enjoy the campaign huge
ly. The tariff would make lovely
Issue, and especially in the light of
what happened to the Democratic party
after it carried the country in 1892 on
free trade Observation-Disclosures
Star
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
SHOULD RULE ROAHS.
PRESIDENT ASKS FEDERAL CON-
Troll or RAIL LINES.
would Establish Supervision Anal
oSous to That of Banks-Laws
Needed to Restore Trust-Much of

AT Indianapolis on Memorial Day
president Roosevelt delivered the prin-
eipai address at the unwilling of a mon
ument to General Henry w. Lawton.
The speech vas devoted TO discussion of
railway problems. and incidentally paid
warm tribute TO Oliver Morton, the
war Governor of Indiana.
The President in his address came out
an favor of control by the Federal Gov
eminent of all railroads doing an inter
state business, and also said that it would
not be amiss to demand Government SUI
.perVision of all purely State roads as
we'll since the latter, as mail carriers, are
IN measure responsible to the national
Government.
1ae President would establish a sys-
ITEM or supervision analogous to that ex-
ercised over natia1Gi banks. and he con-
tends that public confidence in railroads
will not be fully restored until such a
supervision is legalized by congressional
enactment.
The Chief Executive stated that much
of the talk of overcapitalization of rail-
roads now going on in this country is
without foundation in fact. and that. ia
the consensus of opinion of investors, the
total value of stock and bonds is greater
shan their total face value. notwithstand-
ing the water" that has been injected in
certain places.
The Hepburn bill. he said, which gives
sne Interstate Commerce Commission abb
soiute control over the accounts of the
various Interstate roads, is great step
IA the proper direction
The President said in part:
For more than one reason / am pecu-
marry glad that this year | speak on Me-
mortal Day in the State of Indiana. There
IS no other class OF our citizens to whom
we owe SO much as TO the veterans OF
The great war TO them Ii was given TO
perform the one feat with which no other
1eat can be compared, for to them Il was
given to preserve the Union.
Moreover. you men . wore the blue.
Dressed beyond the victors In any other
war or recent times, have left TO your
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
why soldiers Get wet.

The rain fell in torrents on the sol
diers tramping sturdily down the mud
dy street.
"why don't they put up their UNI
brellas?" said spectator.
With a sheer. an elderly man re-
piled:
Don't you know, sir, that soldiers
never carry umbrellas? History records
Just one instance of their having done
50. 1t was in an engagement OF the
Civil War, and group of officers were
holding up umbrellas to shield them
selves from thunder storm when Gen.
eral Grant passed.
"The general frowned at the sight
and sent an aide to the officers with
this historic message:
81 do not approve Of the use of UNI
brellas in war, and will not allow any
of my soldiers to make themselves rid
iculous in the eyes of the enemy. -
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
MeCIeIlan and the Army.

Mcclellan and the Army.
George B. Mcclellan had every at
tribute of a great soldier but daring
His genius for organization was unr;-
vailed and he exhibited a magnetism
that made him the idol of the army.
Neither his own, nor the present gener-
alton realizes the immense debt the
union owes him, and General Grant
shrewdly estimated his career when he
said that Mcclellan came on the scene
too early.
Fate opposed Mcclellan, the best de
fensiye soldier the war produced, 10
Lee, the foremost aggressive soldier the
war produced. If the two armies be
fore Richmond in 1862 could have ex-
changed commanders, and they had
had been left alone by the war offices
at Washington and Richmond, no doubt
there would have been the finest exhi-
bition of soldiership since Napoleon the
Great.
The Army of the Potomac was fash
toned into the splendid fighting ma
chine it became under Grant by George
B. Mcclellan. 1t was a mob, democrat
lied by the rout of first Bull Run, when
he took command. 1t was yeteralized
under his eye in the titanic struggles
Of the seven days. Again it was o
mob when he succeeded Pope after Sec
ond Bull Run. In Maryland he fought
drawn battle that was practical vic.
tory in that it brought Lees splendid
aggressive campaign to naught. In its
consequences Antietam was all that
Gettysburg was, and but for Antietam
there would have been no Gettysburg
but for Antietam there would have
been no Appomattox.
McClellan's letter from Harrisons
Landing sealed his fate as commander
of the Army of the Potomac. The day
Mr.. Lincoln read that he determined
to be rid of Mcclellan as soon as he
could do without him. When Pope was
overwhelmed there was nothing to do
but to recall Mcclellan to the COM
mand. The army demanded it, and
brave as 1t was, it would not have
fought under anybody else. Antietaln
followed. and Antietam saved the un-
ion. Had Mcclellan been as disastrous.
" beaten there as Pope was at Bull
Run. or Burnside at F7rede iicksburg, or
Hooker at Charlottesville, Washing
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York might have fallen and the wal
been ended.
But it is not yet time to fix McClel
lan's place as commander. History
will do that; yet all intelligent meil
know he was beaten by Lincoln and
Stanton, not by Lee and Jackson.
Not failure. but politics retired Nc
Clellan.-Washingto Post
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There are. on an average. 200 pig
cons officially kept in every German
fortress.
About $4,000 tons of dust and refuse
is taken away in barges from London
every year.
Among the yellow races it is
thought unlucky to sleep with the head
to the north.
The English are great apple eaters.
and import 100000 tons OF American
apples year.
Exposed to the air. ton OF coal
loses In a month one-tEird Of its heat
ing power.
At the present moment the countries
of Europe are spending on their armies
and navies as much as $4,o00,000 a
day.
The Japanese farewell. "Sayonara."
means something like IF 1t must be
So" or IF we must part thus SO be
it."
The George Peabody fund for the
erection of model dwelling places for
the poor in London now amounts to ST.
293,00
The cocoanut tree is so elastic as to
withstand the fiercest storms. even on
the seacoast.
The smallestcoin In circulation Is the
Maltese grain, bronze piece the size
Of pencil top, and worth one-slxth Of
a cent.
Japan has one Of the largest steam
ship companies in the world. with serv-
ice to the United States and to Eng
land by way OF Suez.
At Wellington, little town In the
west Of England Of only 1000 inbabi-
tants, no fewer than 5.245 tramps had
to be accommodated last year.
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The Expected.

The waitres- in California restau-
rant had been Informed that her little
mining investment had panned out
million.
"Are you surprised?' they asked her.
'Not at ALL" she responded, laying
aside her apron. That's what was
waiting for."-Philadelphia Ledger.
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ELM AND THoRN-TREE.
Romantic story of an Old Grave I'm

New England.
Some seventy-ive years ago there
lived and wrote In Newburyport a lady
Of much wit and graceful poetic tai
ent, who was to her contemporaries a
distinguished light In literature-Han-
nah Flagg Gould. A few of her verses
yet linger in anthologies. Two of her
tales, among the best known, were the
true stories of two trees: "The Old
Elm OF Newbury," which blew down
but two years ago, and ''The Grave
Under the Thorn-Tree." Of which the
thorn-tree, too, is gone.
1t grew above the grave Of young
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Fishes have been found in
Guatemala with two pairs OF eyes.
One pair does duty above water and
the other below, the fish thus being
able to see equally well in each ele-
ment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Absent-Miuded

Tony-I'm against keeping the lid
on
Jones-Why?
Tony kept mine on when Miss
Sweet passed me the other day and
now she won't speak to me. Detroit
Free Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

A health magazine has this bit of
advice: Practice the art Of deep
breathing. After the morning bath
take deep breath, retain 1t as long as
possible. then slowly expire"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

mourning wife was informed Of the
mistake; a few days later her hero
husband joined herr. A. Watrous,
in Chicago Times Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

For warm weather. night dresses
with short sleeves and low necks are
decidedly the most comfortable. not to
speak of the dainty effects to which
these garments lend themselves Here
il nrefty gown. The tucks in the
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silks, ribbon is often used with charm
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