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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14

JaVob H. Hess a highly respected
citizen of Bremen, died at his home
last Wednesday evening after a short
illness of pneumonia and pleurisy
Mr.. Hess was confined TO his home
little over week ago, and his con
dition became alarming last Sunday
although he showed some improve
ment Tuesday, but Wednesday he
grew rapidly worse, and peacefully
passed away at 1870 p. m. Mr.. Hess
was born in Marshall county and was
the son of George and Salome Hess
deceased His age was So years. Mr.
Hess was employed with the Holland
Radiator company, and was held in
high esteem by his fellow workmen
and the management He was an ar
dent worker in the Easonic order oil
Bremen, and held the office of Senior
Deacon at the time of his death. Mr.
Hess was united in marriage on Sept
&c, 1880 to. Zylphia l. Bennett One
child was born to this union which
died in infancy. The deceased leaves
to mourn him his sorrowing wife, two
sisters, Mrs. John Barts, of Bremen
and Mrs George Johnson, of Notre
Dame The funeral services were hello
from the residence on east South
street at one o'clock, Saturday, the
Masonic fraternity having charge oil
the burial. Interment III the Bremen
cemetery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
A Great Birthday Party.

Mrs. Julia Cox, widow of the late
Robert H. Cox, was 10 years old,
Saturday, February 9, and her daugh-
tiers Mrs John Bowel and Mrs.
Frank Lamson gave in her honor one
of the best dinners ever given in Ply
mouth The dinner was given at the
home of Mrs. Cox just south of the
Ross house and eleven ladies, old
friends and acquaintances, were in
vitcd, making twelve who sat down
at the table at this birthday dinner.
The eldest of these ladies was sc
and the youngest IS years of age.
They were Mrs. Wade, SO; Mrs
Pearce, 81; Mrs Morgan, 81; Mrs Fl
c. Thayer. 20; Mrs. J. NJ. Klinger,
GO; Mrs Clifford, 6s; Mrs. Brundige
Mrs. John Boss, Mrs. Burroughs, and
Mrs. Mueller. each 81 Mrs. Judge
Hess, IS. Mrs. Cox being 70 as stated
above. All of these ladies are wild
ows, except three, but happier mer-
rier crowd of ladies never assembled
in Plymouth, and as they all wished
Mrs. Cox many more pleasant birth
days our reporter felt that the same
wish would be extended to every lady
present by hundreds of friends in Ply
mouth Long may they live, happy
as they were Saturday conscious OF
having done their part in making this
world better.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Death of ]. G. Beckley.

John Cooley Beckley, who bought
the Samuel earn farm FIVE miles west
of Plymouth, four years ago, died
suddenly Saturday evening OF apo
plexy He came in from his work,
sat down and a few minutes later
remarked that he did not feel well
and would lie down on the bed. He
did so and was dead in a few minutes
He was very industrious, energetic
farmer and had the respect of all who
knew him. He leaves a wife and one
daughter. Funeral services at the
Dunkard church near where he died,
Tuesday at 2 O'Clock p. m
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
BIG GRAFT CHARGED.
Prominent Indiana Men are Placed
on Defense.

Indianapolis, Feb. 9.-When James
Noel, special counsel for John Bill
heimer, auditor of state, drew from
w. E. Mick, a local real estate agent
the reluctant admission that Andrew
Sweeney, president of the State Life
Insurance company, and Samuel
Quinn, the vice-president and agency
manager of the company, each re-
ceived $4,000 for their votes as di-
rectors of the company in consum-
mating the sale of the old Stevenson,
now the State Life building, he
reached part of the milk of the cocoa
nut that has been SO long in the
opening.
w. E. Mick, who was the real es-
tate agent in the deal whereby the
million dollar building was taken
over by the insurance company, said
that he spoke whereof he knew. He
was on the stand practically all after
noon yesterday and his evidence was
very direct and very conclusive as
to these two directors having receiv-
ed these side gifts, which were paid.
ultimately out of the moneys of the
policy holders of the State Life AT
the close of the hearing both Mr.
Sweeney and Mr.. Quinn denied that
they had received the amounts that
Mick said they received.
I The testimony that Mick gave was
not involved Stripped of its verbose
ness, it was to the effect that the
State Life, as company, paid the
Churchman heirs, former owners Of
the Stevenson building, the sum of
s950,O00 for the building the company
now called fter its name. The money
was paid out of the assets of the
company, the policyholders' money.
Of this money the Churchman
heirs, six in all, got $s50,0OO directly
and 100000 was to be accounted for
OF this latter amount, Mick says that
Quinn and Sweeney told him that
Churchman gave them $4,000 apiece.
he, Mick, got $4,000 for himself and
son, one of the Churchman's got $10.-
900 and the remaining $4,000 went
to pay some of the debts of the
Churchman estate
In other words, according TO the
witness understanding, the building
itself cost $4,000 Sweeney and
Quinn picked up $4,000 and the 9TH
err $4,000 was divided between one
cf he Churchman's and the two
Micks.
The testimony made sensation
here. Even in the little stuffy room
of the state auditors Office those
present realized the importance of
the testimony that the little real es-
tate man was publishing TO the
world.
There is some talk that the state
auditor will demand the return of the
$4,000 that Mick alleged had been
diverted from the company. If the
story is proven substantially as it
was given, he will make this demand
undoubtedly. Meantime, he is not
saying anything-just keeping his ear
close to the ground of the investiga-
ton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
EVELYN Neshit,s Betrayer.

What was Evelyn Nesbit's mother
doing while her little girl was falling
gradually into the meshes of net
spread for her and others by Stan
ligious and moral counsels, the pa
ternal solicitude, the motherly watch
fulness and care with which child
of 16 has the right to be surrounded?
What could she possibly have sup
posed man of the world, married
man at that, meant by showering at
'entions on her daughter and other
girls of her age?
The answer is that Mrs. Nesbit
was intent, not upon doing her duty
by her child, but upon her own self
indulgence She suffered White to
send both her and her child to the
dentist; to lavish expensive presents
upon them both; to send them here
and there at night in carriages; to
take the girl, she knew not where or
in what company to suppers after
the theater. Then when he consid-
cred thai the time was ripe she COM
placently stole off to Pittsburg, leav-
:ng her at his disposal, with the part
ing admonition to her, not to beware
of temptation, bu that White was
"a grand man"
1t is a good deal as Homer Daven
port says. There is no telling what
Evelyn Nesbit might have been IF
she had been properly protected al
home" And wiien he adds that il the
sermon involved in her tragic story
could reach the heart of every 10
year-old girl in the land 1T would
save many an innocent life,' he Of
fers a hint of the great service that
may be rendered to society by full
publicity for all distressing and re-
pulsive stories such as this 1t is bet
ter for every mother of girl just
budding into womanhood to know
that the base betrayal of her mater
nal trust may some day be blazoned
to the world, while she faints at the
telephone in full knowledge that So
ciety, though it may sympathize with
her child, will only point the finger
of scorn at Observation-Disclosures
StaA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
PLYMOUTH MINISTERS SPEAK.
Resolution of the Ministerial Associ-
alton on the Marriage of Di-
vorced Persons.

Whereas the word of Christ is the
snail law for all Christians in matters
pertaining to moral, and religion, and
whereas Christ in the nineteenth
chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew
and the ninth verse says: Whose
ever shall put away his wife except I
be for fornication and shall marry an
other, committeth adultery: and who
so marrieth her which is put away
doth commit adultery
Therefore be it resolved: That we
the undersigned will not marry any
parties having a divorced husband OF
wife living unless the party be the
innocent party as above specified by
the law of Christ Signed,
Rev. w. s. Howard
Rev. G. A. Plug.
Rev. J. S. Crowder
Rev. o. F. Lands,
Rev. N. H. Sheppard
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Mr.. Cleaveland's New Job.

Grover Clevelann has been elected
Chairman and chief counsel of the
newly organized Association of Life
Insurance Presidents. He is to re-
ceive salary of $4,000 a year. We
do not know what Mr.. Cleveland
powers and duties will be in his new
Office, but the association of which he
is chairman was organized ito pre-
vent hostile legislation" and we are
fairly familiar with the life-insurancs
method of preventing hostile legisla-
ton. If Mr. Cleveland can keep his
clients straight the policyholders and
the public can easily afford to double
the salary which the life-insurancs
presidents are to pay them.-New
York World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14

Rank injustice has recently been
done the druggists of Indiana by sun
dry newspapers in discussing some of
the measures before the general as
smbly in regard to the regulation of
the liquor traffic. Under the laws of
the United States all firms or persons
selling liquor of any kind are required
to pay a special tax of $25. Every
body knows that in carrying on the
drug business liquors and alcohol
must be kept in stock in order to fill
prescriptions. To speak or write of
drug stores as blind tigers" on this
account, is manifestedly improper, un-
just and insulting. Because one drug
gists sell liquor otherwise than pre-
scribed by law is no reason why the
entire trade should be classed with
the individuals who conduct blind
tigers" South Rend Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Money Earned by eonvicts.

1t is not generally Known but it is
nevertheless fact that convicts in
the Ohio penitentiary earn as high as
$50 or $50 month for themselves,
working overtime. They have GER
tain task to perform in eight hours.
and all work they get out above their
tasks is credited to them. In the bolt
shop alone more than 200 men divide
5000 for work accomplished in over
time. The convicts are no allowed
to work more than eight hours a.day.
One man in the bolt shop earns near
ly 500 every month running what is
called perfect MILL A large number
of convicts clear for themselves more
than $50 a month.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
The Canal Bids.

William K. Oliver, the lowest bid
der for the Panama canal contract
Processes to be entirely confident that
he will be able TO meet the conditions
of associating othr parties of financial
responsibility with himself in man.
ner perfectly satisfactory to the adj
ministration.
If he succeeds in this it will appear
that in the opinion of financially re-
sponsible men the bids OF other par
ties were high beyond all reason and
would, if the lowest of them had been
accepted, have made multimillionaires
of the bidders.
The Oliver bid was 6 "a per cen,
of the entire cost of the work. Even
that low bid would give the firm
simething like s27,OoO,oOO figuring on
the estimate of cost on which the bid
was based. From all that Is publicly
known of the conditions required by
the government this would have been
about the profit. AT any rate, if re-
sponsible men associate themselves
with Mr.. Oliver and undertake the
work the fact will mean that in view
of all the conditions they are convinc-
ed that their profits would be salts
factory if they SHOULD get the con-
tract at 6 "a per cent.
What, then, is to be thought of the
next higher bid-that of the MacAr-
shur- Gillespie Company-which was
i2 1-2 per cent of the cost, or nearly
twice as high? Unless Mr.. Oliver and
the associates he has secured or ex-
poets to secure are far astray in their
figures there would certainly be mil
lions in If at the higher figure.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Death of James Hill.

Word was received here this week
of the death of James Hill, who owns
the farm known as The Section" at
the north end of the Lake of the
Woods. 1t seems that he was in
Iowa, in company with his brother, to
look at some farm land, and while
sitting talking in the house of the
man with whom they expected TO
trade, Mr.. Hill fell from his chair,
and expired in a few minutes. He
was in the neighborhood of sixty
years of age, and very strong,
healthy appearing man. He was ve-y
highly respected here by all who had
come to know him. His home was at
Francesville, Ind.-Bremen Enquirer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Liquor and the Law.

The Indiana Senate has done we'll
in passing by SO decisive a majority
the bill raising the liquor license fee
in the State from 500 to $1,000 a
year. 1t is a revenue measure, and in
accordance with the principles OF
sound political economy it puts a
| heavy burden of taxation upon the
luxuries of life, thus tightening it
upon necessities, upon industry and
| upon thrift Whether the money goes
directly to the schools or indirectly
to them by giving them direct taxes
and turning the license funds over to
official salaries or the maintenance of
public institutions is a mere matter
OF bookkeeping or convenience. There
is no more reason why the salary of
Governor Hanly or the administration
of our courts of justice should be
paid out of the proceeds of LIQUOR
trade than that the schools should be
so supported
Perhaps there is a measure of po-
etc justice in using the funds of the
liquor traffic to teach future genera
tons the evils of intemperance, just
as the hoardings of bad women have
sometimes been devoted to saving
girls from degradation.
In casting about for sources of rev.
emu the consumption of liquors and
tobacco has invariably caught the at
tention of government The British
government raises beteewn $3.50 OOO.-
600 aid s1s5,OoO,O00 annually from
liquors. The United States raises
S200,000,00O a year from this source,
and $50,000,000 year from tobacco.
The theory is that nobody need use
liquor or tobacco unless he does SO
voluntarily and that taxes laid upon
these articles are not burdensome.
but are in reality optional with the
consumer who pays them. 1t is inn
practicable to reach the consumer d.
rect, SO we tax the dealer
The Prohibition position-that the
liquor traffic is an outlaw, that it
should be legislated against with the
aim of its destruction, that the more
saloons community has and the
lower they are the better for the COM
munity-is not only at variance with
the economic experience of mankind.
but in Indiana It is illegal.
We have the Nicholson law, and
it is good law We have the Moore
renoistrance, and that is a good law.
But neither of them is any more the
law or more entitled to pious rever-
ence and ecstatic veneration than the
law that takes money from the liquor
traffic to support the schools. We
may get high license law, and if we
do it will be entitled to the same
recognition and respect from the Pro-
hibitionist that he invites from the
rest of us now for the Moore remon-
STRANGE or that he would require from
us in case the prohibition position
were to prevail over the license sys-
tem.-Indianapolis Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
TESTING SEED CORN.
Farmers are Interested in Prof.
Christie's Talk.

Prof. George l. Christie who a.
reefs the seed corn specials that are
travelling over Indiana, has spoken in
Plymouth twice as the trains passed
through this city. He is a corn ex-
pert, a rapid comprehensive talker
and practical reasoner, not faddist
A few of the many good points pre-
scented in his lecture are: Seed corn
grown in your own neighborhood
should be planted for main crop, be-
cause it has adjusted itself to local
environments of soil and climate, but
use the best yielding varieties suited
to your individual conditions and that
conform to the test card" that ex-
perts have decided best for your To-
cality- If seed be imported from
where soil and climate vary much
from yours you will likely have
| trouble of some kind until nature ad-
justs it to its new invironment and
then it is likely to be similar in most
respects at least, to some of your old
home varieties. Improvement of your
most suitable home varieties is the
better plan.
Testing by careful germ examina-
ton may tell us what will sprout and
grow, but too often fails in determin-
ing the necessary vitality to start and
maintain a healthy plant that will
grow good ear instead of growing a
low-vitality, non-earing, robber stalk
Sprouting in test box is safer way
if moisture and heat for all the grains
be uniform during the entire test. A
shallow box partly filled with soil and
divided into about two-inch squares
by crossing wires makes a good test
er. This cover with cloth, numbering
the squares and place in each square
3 to 5 grains taken from differen.
parts of ears numbered the same as
the square in which the grains are
placed and cover with heavy wooden
or cotton flannel cloth. If temperat-
ure and moisture are kept right in
about eight days you can determine
by the vigorous sprouts which ears
are suitable for seed.
Grading to get uniform drop from
the planter necessitates discarding all
small tip and large, irregular butt
grains; also if there be much varia-
ton in shape and size of grains on
different ears they should be shellled
in two lots, grains in each lot as uni
form as possible. Adjust drop-plates
to plant the number of grains per
hill best suited to soil and for variety
of corn By these methods of select
ing, testing and grading you will best
meet the conditions for uniform
stand of the right number of ear-pro-
ducing stalks per acre, thus increas-
ing the yield of corn, so more acres
may be devoted to pasture and stock
to maintain soil fertility IN harmony
with natures ways which we should
study and try TO initiate.
To the question: Is there any differ
ence in the feeding value of white and
yellow corn? The answer was Chem
ical analysis shows no more difference
between white and yellow corn than
between varieties of the same color,
but stock may prefer some kinds be-
cause more palatable. Does white
corn outyield yellow? was answered:
1t is generally admitted that on poor
soils it does. This is probably more
a question of variety characteristics
than color.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Senator Wood Trembled.

1t takes a great deal to throw Sen
ator Will X. Wood off his feet, but
he shook a little when proposition
was made that he introduce Helen
M. Cougar to the meeting OF the SEN
ate and house Thursday The reason
of it is that Senator Wood and Mrs.
Cougar are political enemies of long
standing, and the able representative
of woman's suffrage does not have a
high opinion of the senator from
Benton and Tippecanoe and the SEN
ator does not like Mrs. Cougar any
better.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14

The Legislature of Indiana is consid-
ering the question of high license for
the sale of liquor, both as a means Of
revenue and as a measure to restrict
the evils of the traffic in intoxicants
In connection with the discussion of
the subject, it will be profitable to
consider the results of similar meas
ures in the states where high license
has prvailed for some time.
Ohio has liquor tax law enacted
| as a revenue measure because the
constitution of that state forbids the
licensing of the liquor traffic. This
tax has not only produced large in
come. thus helping to defray the ex-
penses of government, but it also las
reduced drunkenness and crime by re-
stricting the number of places where
intoxicants can be purchased.
The excise laws of New York state
are among the most elaborate in the
country. The license is graded ac-
cording to the locality. The annual
fee for license is $500 in New York
city and little less in smaller places.
There are conditions as to proximity
to schools and churches. and the con-
sent of property owners within a pre-
scribed distance is required. Towns
ard villages have the privilege of pro-
hibition through local option. Liquor
can not be sold between / and 6 =. m.
nor at all on Sundays. except to bona
fide guests of hotels in connection
with their meals.
The law was conceived and origin
ally drawn by l. N. Clements, a dis
trict attorney of Ontario county. He
designed it as temperance measure.
1t was introduced and advocated by
Senator Raines, and has hence been
known as the Raines law. As enacted
it was made a revenue measure sole
~, and the abuses which grew up un-
der it brought it irsto discredit. BY
1900 - oAAA~At3A4A$AtS ~ udS UGH IC-
stored to its original purpose, though
the revenue features have been kept
prominent by the various excise COM
missioners, who sought to use it as 4
political force for the dominant party.
Still it has, from the beginning, re-
stricted the liquor traffic.
Last year, however. Governor Hig-
gins appointed Mr.. Clements excise
commissioner, and he has INDICATED
the original purpose of the act. In
his first report, just published, he
shows that the fake hotels which, be-
ing really saloons, became disreput-
able resorts because of their hotel
attachments, have almost entirely dis
appeared Taking into account DE
relative drinking places to the popu-
lation. there are $4,000 less in the
state than there were when the law
was enacted Pauperism and crime
have also diminished in like proper
ton, while the contribution to the
revenue of the state is annually
counted by the millions.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Hanly and Tappart

Tom Taggart continues to corral
the Democratic members of the Leg
islature at his Indianapolis hotel at
banquets, where he binds them still
tighter in the grip Of his machine
If the Democratic party of Indiana
is willing to be owned by the pro-
moter of wholesale gambling and
violation of law, the Republicans
ought to be satisfied to stand by the
man who has done more than any
one else to kill the French Lick tiger.
Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Can Not End Child Labor.

Chairman Jenkins OF the house
committee on judiciary has submitted
a report in which it IS stated emphat-
ically that the committee is of the
opinion that congress has no jurisdic-
ton or authority over the subject Of
woman and child labor and has no
authority to suppress any abuses OF
such labor or ameleriorate conditions
surrounding the employment of such
laborers." The committee holds that
the regulation of woman and child la
Dor IS within the police power of the
various states.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14
Promotes Greater Industry.

II the absence of railroad passes
serves to keep the members of the
Legislature in Indianapolis at work
during the session that much good
will be accomplished. In the pass
many Of them have been on the road
when they should have been at work
in their committee rooms. The ad
journments on Friday until Monday
have always been too frequent.-Sey
mour Republican.