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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-10

Rev. John Roger In Found Guilty By
Ministerial Committee.
Rev. John Roger of Switzerland coun-
ty was tried by committee of nineteen
Methodist ministers on charges of kissing
member of his congregation against her
will and was suspended from the ministry
for one year. The charges were prefer
red by the presiding elder of the circuit
and were prosecuted by members of the
defendants church.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-10

The world is too small for the covet
ous.-Latin.
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island is a 25-cent boat ride. To any
Of the resorts about the city the fare
is prohibitive to majority of the res
idents of the east side, the people who
are most shut in and who most need
the benefit of little air that does not
come down narrow light we'll or up a
sewer. Blackwells island would rem
edy all of this. "A short walk from
almost any part of the east side would
bring it into close connection. Sea
bathing could be enjoyed there as fine
as anything at Coney. The big build
ings could be altered and used for all
kinds of settlement work and the hu-
manitarians of New York have Become
thoroughly aroused to the possibilities
which open out to them when the city
decides to abandon this island as a
place to keep its paupers and its Grim
inals: At the same time the CONNER
cial spirit of the city is wide awake.
l. Already a syndicate of politicians
has been formed to take the island off
the city's hands as soon as it is ready
to vacate. This syndicate proposes to
cut the place into town lots, erect
great apartment houses all over it and
make it another section of the east
side. Greed and humanity have en-
tered into a-battle for possession of
the desired plot and no person yet
knows which will win the victory.
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it has developed that policy playing
has been growing astonishingly. The
gamblers have worked in the face of
great dangers, for the penalties are
severe, and had runners busy in
scores of East side tenements. In
some instances investigation has
shown that, as in the long ago when
the game fourished, credulous men
and women, particularly the latter,
have been selling their few belong
ings, the necessaries of daily life, and
even the clothing of their children
for which there is not much need in
this season-to buy slips with the
hope of getting big earnings.
The Anti-Policy society has made
many arrests of late, but it has been
had to fasten the crime on anyone.
for it is apparent that the gamblers
are scattering the supervision, which
heretofore was centralized, to lessen
the chances of discovery. y
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I department come into the office OF
his assistant and friend, DR.. Beverly
T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of
plant industry, who is also deeply in
terested in the plans for the building,
and in the course of their conversa-
tion the pediments were considered.
These are in full view of DR.. Gallo
ways Office.
In glancing at them and in looking
at the photographs that had just been
taken Secretary Wilson asked:
Doctor, what do these words mean?
'Fructus,' what on earth is that?"
why, that's Latin for fruit, and the
others mean cereals, flowers and for
est" replied the scholarly Galloway.
well, why in - don't we say so,
then, and cut out this foolish Latin?"
was the prompt reply.
Orders were then and there given
that the stonecutters erase the offen-
sive words and substitute up-to-date
UNITED States"
DR.. Galloway closed the incident by
remarking that it was just as we'll to
change them, as there was no such
Latin word as forests" anyway, and
that, at least, would have to be
changed.
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MAY TURN BLACKWELL'S
ISLAND INTO A RESORT
NEW YORK. -Blackwells island

Vk 0"% AOlA. - OldChWcl4S &S"-lo10AO,
~ which is known the world over as
the site of New York's penal institu-
tions, poorhouse and city hospitals,
may soon be a thing of the past 1t
has become too small to accommodate
the hordes of petty criminals and mis-
erably poor and sick of the metropolis
and larger establishments are proposed
somewhere outside of the city, where
the prisoners and patients may be
made in a measure self-supporting by
farm work. x In place of the prisons
and poorhouses will be established
pleasure palaces for the teeming mil
lions. of the. great east side. Within
another year the great YBlackwells
island bridge over the East river. will
be opened for use and this will render
access to the island easy for the east
side poor. The proposition is to turn
the big prison and almshouse buildings
into buildings for pleasure and make
the island a., popular resort to be
owned and conducted entirely by the
city,. ,~
No city in the world possesses so
many magnificent pleasure grounds as
New York and yet there is no city in
the world where so large proportion
OF its population is unable to reach
these fresh air spots. To Central park
is five-cent care fare. To Coney
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
PRESIDENT CREATES NEW
RESERVATION FOR BIRDS

islands are placed under the charge of
the secretary of agriculture, who ap-
points wardens whose duties embrace
frequent trips to them, putting up
warning notices and otherwise pre-
venting trespassers from molesting
the birds, either out of curiosity or to
collect plumes or eggs.
The recommendation for this re.
serve was indorsed strongly by the
National Association of Audubon soci-
eties for the protection of birds and
animals, whose expert ornithologist
and field agent visited the islands
and filed an exhaustive report on the
bird breeding qualities and feeding
ground of the native fowl along that
section of the coast. The creation of
reserves of this character is strongly
encouraged and supported by the
League of American Sportsmen and
similar societies.
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NO FOOLISH LATIN ON
STATUES, SAYS WILSON
vuASHINGTON.-Plain, everyday
w harvard English. and no high

WAsHINGTON.-Plain, everyday
w barnyard English, and no high
falutin' Latin for Tama Jim Wilson.
The secretary of agriculture has given
a rude shock to the sculptors who
heretofore have been wont to embel-
lish architecture and allegorical de-
signs and inscriptions suggesting lin
guisitc association with the old mas
tiers and the classics. He has even
gone so far as to compel the stone
cutters to rechisel the inscriptions on
the new agricultural building, the
wings Of which have been constructed
ahead of the main portion.
The new home for the department
which, when finished will have cost
about $3,000,000, is now nearing COM
pletion, and the secretary is taking
as much interest in it's progress as
though it were designed for a country
home for himself.
On the north shore are four pedi-
ments, in each of which are male
and female figure, seated with a
shield between them. On these shields
are inscribed the four words "F'ruc-
tus,' "Cereales,'' Forestes' and
'Flores.'
A few days before leaving Wash
ington for the summer the head of the
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

THE farmer who, on his first visit to
! New York, had room at the Wal.
@dorf-Astoria and later explained his
failure to put his boots into the shoe
closet so the night porter could polish
them while he slept by saying: Gosh,
I was afraid he'd gild EN-" doubtless
was greatly impressed by the splendor
of that famous hostelry, but it is con-
ceivable that had he remained there
long he would have been obsessed
by that visional feast.
There has been more or less fault
finding with the astonishingly mag
nificent decorations of most of the
big New York hotels, and the man
ager of large new one now being
built has announced that, the. walls
will be ~ wholly devoid OF paint
ings as well as other superfluous
sadornments.sg He says that, ""the bet.
ter class Of hotel guests have q
preference rather for simplicity than
for ornate things"
+ It has been said by travellers that
though the New York hotels are splen-
did they do not approximate to the
idea of normal dwelling place; in
fact, that the managers seem to have
made them as unhomelike as posi-
sgble. Mr.. Mallock, here recently from
England, complained that in the mod
Sern New York hotel it was impossible
to find resting place for eye or mind.
He remarked, among other things,
that in the place where he lodged he
could not@even enter his private apart
sments without encountering Art at the
door and to- open tll door :, was. var
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
ROMANCE in FASHIONABLE
LIFE OF NEW YORK. CITY

are spending the summer.
Mrs. Garfield is decidedly beauti-
full, talented and gracious young wom-
an, and there has been no more highly
esteemed and popular hostess in So
ciety than she. She is a fine horse
woman, rides to the hounds, handles
the ribbons with the skill of a man
and will make a most congenial wife
for Mr.. Griswold, whose tastes, as all
his friends know, also run in the way
of horses and outdoor sports.
Mrs. Garfield, whose first husband,
Mr.. Augustus Cass Garfield, died more
than three years ago in Aiken, S. c.,
when member of the winter colony
there, was before her marriage Miss
Josephine Houghteling, of Chicago.
She went abroad last spring, and has
spent the greater part of the time in
Paris and London, where she is we'll
known and much admired in society.
Mr.. Griswold. is one of the best
known bachelors in fashionable life
in New York and is a great social ia
vOrite.
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the old-fashioned pancake caps. These

the old-fashioned pancake caps. These
caps are said by all seamen to be USE
less on a windy day, as they cannot
be kept on the head. They give no
shade to the eyes and seem to exist
merely as relic of the past.
The protest over the blouse is con-
sidered justified. In the first place
the seamen object to the wide collar
which blows up around their ears on
windy days. They want shorter neck
erchiefs and coats cut like those of
the marines.
Should the sailors demands be
granted seamen we'll wear coats for
the first time in the history of the
American navy. The proposed
changes would affect the 10000 sea-
men in the navy and would entail a
large outlay. 1t is believed that a
change in the trousers will not be
made at once, but that the tars will be
supplied with coats and visor caps.
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CONVERSATION in the fashionable
~ clubs the other night had touch
of delightful excitement when the
news went about that that general So
ciety favorite and "all round good fel-
low Mr.. Frank Gray Griswold, and
that charming and wealthy young wild
ow, Mrs. Augustus Cass Garfield, were
engaged to be married. Naturally, So
ciety everywhere will be tremendously
interested in the news, but the engage
ment after all is in no sense surprise
to many men and women in society
who have known of Mr.. Griswold's ad-
miration for and devotion to Mrs. Can
field.
Mrs: Garfield and Mr. Griswold have
been in Europe for several months
Their marriage is to be solemnized
within the next few weeks on the con-
tinent, and soon afterward Mr. Girls
void is to bring his bride to New York
and without fail will proceed immetli-
ately to Narragansett Pier, where his
mother, Mrs. George Griswold, and his
sister, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,,
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A N official investigation Of the coffin
"A trust must be deferred until the
department of justice can find a few
spare moments in which to give it at
tention. No inquiry has yet been in
stituted, and none will be undertaken
for several months
1t has become known that practi-
cally every coffin manufactured in the
country is turned out at factories own
ed and operated by trust almost as
remunerative as the oil trust. It is
declared that the men who head the
coffin trust have made millions out of
the business, and that their dividends
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
How Roses Took Their CoIors. r

How Roses Took Their coIors. r
'The roose in his radness is richest
of t1owres," sang one of the old-time
poets. The legends generally assume,
however, that roses were originally
white. But one day Cupid, who, we
know, hath oft disturbed life's wine,
upset the nectar of the gods, spilling
it over some roses, and Immediately
their petals were stained red, says
the Circle.
According to another story, roses
were white until Venus stepped upon
a thorn, and her blood stained her
favorite flower.
This last tradition lives in Sponsors
verse:
'White as the native rose before the
change
Which Venus blood did in her leaves i'm
press.' 80
Still another story is of Bethlehem
maiden as pure and sweet as a white
rose. She was falsely accused of
crime and condemned to be burned.
When fires were lighted about her she
appealed to heaven to save her and to
proclaim her innocence. "a Miraculously
the flames gave place to yellow roses
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has sign
l ed an order creating the Tern Is
lands Bird reservation. This is the
eighth reservation for birds created
by the president. 1t embraces all the
mud lumps," so called, in and near
the mouths of the Mississippi river.
The mud Jumps" are islets more or
less temporary, and created chiefly by
sedimentary deposits from the river
They seldom exceed an acre in size
and are elevated from five to eight
feet above high tide. They are occu-
pied during the breeding season by
large numbers of brown pelican and
other terms. Many thousands of the
verious species breed in these places
every year.
These islands are useless for COM
mercial or agricultural purposes and
are reserved to protect the birds. The
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
The Enterprise.
w. E. HANNAFORD, Pub.
VIRGIN A, MINNESOTA.
Increase of Gold.


Gold was the substance for which
all the world hungered, and yet when
Columbus discovered America there
was less than $25O,0O0,000 Of it in all
Europe. Surely it has been difficult
substance to find. Centuries had
passed, during which this yellow metal
had been carefully boarded, and yet
all of Europe held less than quarter
of billion of it. That was matter
of 415 years ago. When the great ex-
plorer set sail for unknown shores the
world was increasing its stock Of gold
at the rate of less than $4,000,000 an
nually 1t would therefore take Eu.
rope 60 years to duplicate its gold
holdings. When another hundred
years had passed the output had in
creased to $6,00O,O00 annually. There
was nothing startling in such an in
creare. To bring this about 1t has
been necessary to ransack the treas
ures of Peru, Mexico and other new
countries. Once more we move the
hand of time forward hundred years
until we come to 1700 in which year
the average gold production is only
$7,00O,0OO yearly. Certain there was
no reason to fear an over-production
of gold. Another hundred years
brings us to 1900, in which conlpara-
lively modern time the annual produc-
tion of gold was only $12,00O,O0O.
Thus we find, says Frederick U.
Adams, in Success, that, during the
three centuries following the discovery
of America, the worlds average an
nual increase in gold was $26,666 Had
this modest ratio been maintained for
the next hundred years, the total pro-
ductlon of gold in 1900 would have
been about SIS, 100000. How much do
you suppose it actually was? Double
that amount? Three times it? Make
another guess. 1t was $262,220,915!
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
ReprehenaibIe Habits.

one OF the strangest paradoxes in
human nature is that men and women,
struggling apparently with all their
might to succeed, are yet constantly
doing things, saying things, and think
ing things which drive the very sue
cess they are after away from them.
they are all the time counteracting
their efforts by some indiscretion.
Men work like Trojans to get cov-
eted position, and then, by getting
pulled up with conceit, or by some
foolish or weak act, knock the scaf-
folding, which they have been years
in building, out from under them, and
down they go. Their lives are series
of successive climbs and tumbles, so
that they never get anywhere, never
accomplish anything worth while.
There are thousands of men who are
working in very ordinary salaried DO
sitions, says New York Weekly,
who might have been employers them
selves but for some unfortunate weak
ness, some little deficiency in their
natures, or some peculiarity-some-
thing which might have been rene
died by a little discipline and self
study in youth. Others are always
driving success away from them by
their doubts, their fears, their lack Of
courage, their lack Of confidence
driving it away by reprehensible hab-
its which repel success conditions.
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all his
shed
sh
monthly similar publications
Of the university
But full editor
practiced Japanese
schemes
He league and he who engineered the
civilization
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POLICY CAME REVIVED
DESPITE RECENT CRUSADE

NOBODY ever can calculate, even
~ roughly, how much money has
been saved the poor of New York by
the efforts of Norton Goddard, who
spent thousands of dollars of his own
money and devoted several years Of
his own time to wiping out the game
of policy, the meanest form of gam
bling in this city, 1t is to his great
credit, too, that he provided the
means for an unending fight against
sthe vice. p -. ..n ... =
. Stringent as is the law which he got
through the legislature, and desperate
ly severe as was the campaign to hunt
out the offenders, policy is. such a
profitable game to those who run it
that it was certain it would spring
up at intervals. So the Goddard anti
policy society has been busy ever
since the great reform, and every
now and then has detected and pun.
fshed offenders. Recently, however,
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

One by one Chicago is losing the
laurels forced upon it by jealous
rivals. A few days ago statistics
were published showing that Switzer-
land led us as a divorce center and
now a doctor who has been down on
his knees to see rises to say that the
girls of Great Britain are developing
feet that will make the Chicago girls
trilbys look like those Cinderella wore
when she made her great hit. With
the head of the male Briton growing
smaller and the foot of the female
Briton growing larger, remarks the
Chicago News, We may we'll accept
the deduction that man over there is
soon to be the weaker sex. It is to
be hoped that the girls will be kind
to him when, at last, he has found his
proper place. BY racking his memory
doubtless he will be able TO recall
many times when he was kind to
them during the days of his supposed
superiority.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
TARS DESIRE CHANGE IN
STYLE OF THEIR TOGS

TACK TARS of the United States
y have made such a protest against
the headgear and blouse they wear
ashore and on dress occasions aboard
ship that to meet the clamor of the
enlisted men the navy department
has appointed committee on changes
in the uniforms
Capt. Hugo Osterhaus, commander
of the battleship Connecticut, is chair
man of this committee. He has sent
out a statement to the captains of all
war ships in the north Atlantic squad
ron and to the commander of every
ship in the service, asking for sugges-
tiOns.
The enlisted men are desirous of OBJ
tanning coats and visor caps. Many
of them want the wide, flaring trous.
ers, the world-round, immemorial cut
peculiar to sailor men, changed to
the ordinary pattern, but the principal
grievance relates to the blouses and
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
GOVERNMENT TO PROBE
ALLEGED COFFIN TRUST
virtually equal those of the Standard

virtually equal those of the Standard
Oil company.
The prices of coffins, it is stated by
undertakers, have grown higher and
higher each year. The living are be-
ing literally pillaged through their
love for the dead, and funerals have
everywhere become exceedingly cost
ly. 1t is asserted among undertakers
that the growing popularity of incin-
Grafton is due, in a large measure, to
the great expense of a regulation fun
eral. If incineration shoul5 become
cheaper the coffin trust would have a
dangerous rival.
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=
SIMPLICITY TO BE RULE
IN NEW GOTHAM HOTEL

obliged to transfix the abdomen of
Cupid with his latchkey.
= The manager who says the hotel he
is building will be undecorated is tax
ing long chance, because it is so
radical for New York, and the result
will be watched with interest.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
POSTMAN TO POSTMASTER

From letter carrier to postmaster of New
York city, the most important, position in the
postal service outside of Washington Such has
been the remarkable career of Edward M. Nor
gan whom President Roosevelt recently selected
as successor to William r. Wilcox who resigned
to become member of the new York city public
utilities commission.
For "a years he has been an employe of the
post office, for nine years he has been assistant
postmaster and the virtual head of the great or
ganization which handles more mail than any
other post office in America
Mr.. Morgan was born in Marshall, Mich,
November 16, 1855. He entered the local postal
T,,1I IN
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held
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the
Powdey still holding
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10 the clerical force His advancement in this
within
OF Branch He continued that position
IN position Mr. Morgan
anu e which the affairs the station conducted attracted
discipline
He
December 1887
in the
Morgan filled until
ed the
After Mr. Van Colts Death Mr.
the appointment of
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

Automobile sore throat and influen.
"a is the latest disease It is not, how.
ever, as some may think, or even
hope, the person who rides IN an auto
mobile who gets the disease, but the
people who have to breathe the dust
that they stir up. Long Island resi-
dents, whose roads are favorite thor
oughfares for the hated vehicles, are
the only ones so far who are suffering
from this malady, but of course it will
spread
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
ONCE POWER IN LABOR WORLD

Terence V. Powderly, once the leading figure
in the labor world as organizer and general
master workman of the Knights of Labor the
arbiter of innumerable labor disputes and a
power in politics where the labor vote was con-
cerned, has disappeared completely from pub
lie view of late years that when his name ap-
peared in an answer to frivolous request for in
formation by an actress seeking advertising, most
people had forgotten that he has been for years
filling comfortable government job as chief of
the bureau of information for the immigration
department. . :.,s.
His was spectacular career. At the age of
13 he began to earn his own living as switch
tender and hocamo an eYnort noaohinist tho
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30
STRONG FRIEND OF KOREA

Homer B. Hubert, who has come to America
to plead with this country to stand by it's old
treaty of special friendship for Korea, is one of
the most interesting men in the far east He is
an American born, and curious to say, the man
who is upholding the Japanese side of the con-
troversy, W. d. Stevens, adviser to the Mikado's
government, is American, too. 1t has been
duel between these two men, and although HUI
bert is beaten for the time being he is man
who does not know the meaning of the word sur
render.
Mr.. Hubert was a missionary and was sent
to Korea by the United States government when
that country made an appeal for teachers. An
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

and the burning Goals to red ones.
When the Greeks met in secret
councils a rose was suspended over
the table as sign that nothing heard
there was to be repeated. Hence sub
rosa - under the rose - signif1ed Sc
crecy.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-30

: One OF the ministers declares that
woman has no sense when she is
in love. OF course a man always re-
tains full possession of his reasoning
faculties when he has become con-
vinced that some woman with an I'm.
tilted nose and a raspy voice is an
angel.