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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-04
Decided Stand Taken by
Secretary Before Cot
ton Men.
Points to Decrease in EX-
ports to China as
Example.

Secretary straus took u decided stand
upon the tariff question IN a speech de-
livcred today before the convention
in washington Of the National Associa-
lion of Cotton Manufacturers, declaring
that this nation had already run against
a high wall in other countries on ac-
count OF the high tariT wall in this
country.
The Secretary said in part:
If ycu build your tariff walls too
high in this country you VIII encourage
high walls ON the other side, which are
known by the name OF discriminating
duties we are striking that wall now.
No one foresaw this more clearly than
president Mckinley. ard no one has
shown thc way more clearly how TO
overcome the existing and increasing
obstacle that lay in the path OF our
foreign commerce. He recommended reel
proclty and q revised tarim 70 meet the
changed and changing conditions ir or
Clr 10 gain our proper share OF the for
t5l markets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-04
English Greatly Frightened.

English residents are almost in a
panic and openly voice their fear that
the country is on the verge Of another
Indian mutiny.
1t is no secret that Lord Kitchener.
commander iu India, has made elaborate
plans TO instantly call out the army 10
Quell an insurrectiOn at the first sign Of
a general uprising against the English
kier Hardie, the labor leader il, the
British parliament Is largely blamed
for last nights outbreak. He has been
touring India making innamnatory
speeches comparing the relations Of
England and India TO those Of Russia
and Armenia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-04
GIRL s FATHER
UNDER ARREST,
MULLEN TALKS
Wounded Man Accuses
Member OF Family.
Sends for Sweetheart and
Urges Her to Tell
Truth.

Jacob Weiss was arrested at his nome
In Rosslyn this Afternoon by Omcers
Field and Collins. OF Alexandria county.
Weiss is suspected of shooting John
Mullen in Dead Mans Hollow last sun
day afternoon
Neiss Is the father o. the girl who
was with Mullen at the time, and While
the young lady vehemently maintains
that q negro shot Mullen and attacked
her. she went over 70 Georgetown I'M
Versity Hospital this afternoon AT the
request of Mul' en-, who says that no
feels sure that if he can have a tax
with the sirl he can induce her to tell
the truth Of the whole affair.
Weiss Not Surprised.
Weiss was not at al surprised az his
arrest He had been waiting around his
home al the morning evidently expect
ing the officers to come for him
II is said that last Sunday afternoon
Weiss was seen walking from the dircc-
ton OF Dead Mans Hollow at very
rapid gait. and from all appearances
was very much excited. This was short
ly after the pistol shots were heard He
stoutly maintains his innocence, how
ever. and says that he can prove that
he was at his home the whole OF last
sunday afternoon. and knew nothing -
the shooting until his daughter came
20 the house and told him.
Sends for Girl.
Mullen, who is confined 20 the George
town University Hispiyal, Is emphatic
In his statement that he was shot by a
member Of the Weiss family. ant re-
Quested that Amelia Weiss. the goung
lady who was with him at the time. be
hrourht TO see him this afternoon and
that they be left alone He said that DE
IS sure that If he has a long talk with
her he can induce her 10 tell the truth
Of the affair
The girl expressed her willingness 10
go 70 the hospital. but still SAYS that
negro fired the shot and that Mullen
oldnt have tho Oup0rtU~ 'fv n rce
that she did and thar She should know
who committed the crime
The outcome OF their conference IS
awaited with luJrTest both by the po-
lice and the family
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HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Oct. A.
Roth rivers muddy,
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TENIPERArI-PE
SIN TABLF.
TIDE TABLE.

High water today. 500 % m
Low water today ay-..--..-.-........12:lS % n1
High water tomorrow. ga a. m. $40 .. m
Low water tomorrow, 1888 am, 1;0O IN
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Just So it is New.

There is a class of people in this
country that will eagerly embrace any
proposition, suggestion or doctrine
that is new to them.
These people care little for the
teachings of history, else they would
be aware that as matter of fact
most of the things, apparently new
and novel, have at some time, some
where, been experimental with and
discarded by reason of their imprac-
ticability
Demagogues invariably lend coun-
tenance to these new theories, new
doctrines new plans "for benefiting
mankind" To catch the popular
breeze. these rainbow chasers cham
pion anything and everything that
bobs up from time to time.
Duly analysed. comparatively few
things applicable to popular govern
ment can really be called new. In
one form or another the things
sought to be injected into our system
of government have been put to a
test and found wanting.
Wonderfully wise were the men
who formed the government of the
United States. In the course of one
hundred years it needed but little
patching. Properly administered, and
its powers defined in the spirit oil
Marshall and Wilson, it proves equal
to any and all emergencies. As the
country grows in population and
wealth, wise laws in restriction oil
excuses will be needed. A good be.
ginning has been made in this direc.
ton. If the people are true to them.
selves and don't get too far away
from the teachings of the founders
Of the Republic, we'll get along all
right. But let the people beware Of
fads and wild experiments These
! lead to destructron.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
The Fruit Outlook.

George Milburn of Bristol is the
greatest fruit grower of Northern In
diana. He says, in the Goshen Dem
ocrat: There are SO many different
reports in regard to the effect of bad
weather on fruits, that l will give
you the condition as / see it.
We had two weeks in March that
the weather was more like June than
March. The result was that by the
first of April fruit buds were swollen
as large as they usually are by the
first of May.
The freeze of April 1st, injured the
cherries very much and this crop
will be very light.
This last snow and freeze killed
some of the fruit buds of peaches and
plums, but there are yet enough
sound buds of the latter two to make
fair crop should no further damage
occur. Pears, apples and grapes
show no injury. / cannot speak about
the smaller fruits as ! do not grow
them"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
ORATORICAL CONTEST.
Earl Mclaughlin Wins Fist Place
in Marshall County.

About FIVE hundred high school
students and their friends attended
the first annual oratorical contest,
at the opera house, Friday evening,
Large delegations were present.
from six high schools of the county.
The schools represented and THEN
orators were: Miss Lulu VAIL of
Bremen, who spoke on Tariff for
Revenue Only" Miss Ethel Slayter
of Argos had for her subject DO
the Times Make the Man, or Does
the Man make the Times" Bourbon
was represented by Fremont Frib-
ly, who spoke on Realizing our OPP
portunity." Ernest R. Zechiel of Gull
yer spoke on "Our Nations's Peril"
The subject of Earl McLaughlin's
Grafton was "The Independent Vot-
err" Lapaz was represented by Miss
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Woman Pleads her Own Case.

Mrs Benjamin Bauer, arrested for
provoke a Elwood, took the court by
surprise whenshe announced that she
would plead her own case. Mrs
Bauer is only eighteen years old, yet
she twisted the witnesse up IN such
a manner that they made damaging
statements, and then spent two hours
in an argument before the jury trying
to convince them of her innocence
By slip of the tongue she admitted
that she was willing to pay a fine fol
the experience she had gained and
the staid judge promptly fined her 81
and costs. In Difference to the wit
she displayed in handling the case the
judge RENTED the fine and her hus-
band, from whom she had been sepa-
rated for several months, paid the
costs.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Dreamer's Life Brings Ruin.

Sunday morning DR.. Polemus H
Swift spoke at the Austin M. f.
church on visions and Life"
"The coming of great truths and
new ideals always results" he said
in quickened faculties, wider hori-
IONS and keener visions. You can
not read a great poem. a great book
or a great GRAFTON without feeling
the thrill of new ambitions and loftier
aspirations.
when one has seen Jesus he will
have a vision of an unsatisfactory
past and of inadequate attainments,
but he will have vision of hope, for
he will see how lost sovereignty may
be restored. He will have a vision
OF a divinely inspiring example OF
sacrifice that fails into harmony with
the great revelations OF history.
'In view of all this there is one
supreme question, What is your life
Vision without action eventuates in
utter ruin"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
April Snow Not Unusual.

1t may be reassuring though hard
ly comforting to be reminded by the
indianapolis News that snow in APP
ril is not an unusual phenomenon
The News says the records Of the
weather bureau at Indianapolis show
there was really nothing wonderful
abou. this weeks fall Of snow. Ii
says. 40 be sure, there were no
traces of snow April of last year, but
there were traces on April Q, z, "a
and Is, in 1905: on April ., 10 and
~, in 1904. and on April 3 and 4 in
1903. Further research into the an
nails of the bureau show similar con-
ditions earlier"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Possibilities of Peace.

There is much good common sense
in the words which were spoken by
Secretary Root at the peace meeting
IN New York and in the suggestions
contained in the letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt read before the same
assembly. The subject of peace" is
one which readily lends itself TO ora
tory. White winged doves and the
change of spears in pruning hooks
are always attractive 1t is easy
enough for imprisoned speakers in
meeting of earnest and enthusiastic
souls to be carried away by imprac-
teal sentiment 1t is bv no means
so inspiring 70 undertake calm con-
sideration of the possibilities of max
ing some definite progress toward a
far away state of society for whose
actual realization the world will con-
tinue to hope.
The. practical problem is not what
ought to be done, but what can be
accomplished That is the thought
brought home to the convention by
president and secretary. Progress has
been made in recent years along
definite lines There are other for
ward steps which may be taken. Too
much must not be expected. To seek
the practical and work toward its re-
alization is far more to be preferred
than idle dreaming about the millen-
MUM. The advice is sound. 1t is
given in plain words. Its value lies
in its quiet common sense.
The presidents sentence is full oil
meaning: "The peoples of the world
have advanced unequally along the
roads that leads to justice and fair
dealing one with another, exactly as
there has been unequal progress in
securing such justice by each within
its own borders and the road stretch
es far ahead of even the most adj
vanced" The secretary of state is
equally sound in his statement: The
path to universal peace is no,
through reason or intellectual appre-
citation, but through the development
of peace loving and peace keeping
character among men, and that this
development, slow though it may be
as measured by our short lives, is
proceeding with steady and unremit-
ting advance from generation TO gen.
Grafton no student of history can
question"
There is good to be gained from
every meeting where the problems
of peace are considered. There is
much to be hoped for from arbitra-
ton. Commercial treaties have their
influence. Mutual acquaintance will
be effective. The "here little, there
little" theory is the real one to be
advocated. Peace will be the result
of slow gains made from time to time
as conditions make them practicable
Chicago Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
INFANT FOUND DEAD.
Body of Male Child Found Near
Railroad Sunday Morning.

Sunday morning, Frank Burkett,
who resides in what is known as the
Dennie .O'Brien house just west OF
where South street crosses the Van
dalia railroad, saw in the snow back
of his barn near the railroad, an OBJ
ject that attracted his attention and
body of male child, entirely naked
evidently having been thrown there
soon after the child was born.
The authorities were notified and
investigation by physicians made it
certain that the infant was born alive.
How long it had lain there cannot be
accurately told, but it was evidently
placed there before the snow fell Sat-
urday night. The body was covered
with snow and no tracks could lie
seen.
Marshal Jacoby, who has been in
vestigating the matter, thinks it was
left there about 7:3O Friday evening.
He says woman was seen at that
time near the place where the body
was found.
Coroner Kizer came up from Tip
pecanoe Sunday afternoon, but re-
turned home Sunday night and will
make further investigation Tuesday
or Wednesday. Marshal Jacoby
thinks he has clew to the identity
of the mother, but is not certain ard
very little can be said until the coron-
er finishes his investigation and gives
his verdict.
The storm of Friday night and Sat
urday and Saturday night was severe
and it would not have been strange Il
the body had lain where it was plac-
ed, several days before being found
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

bessie, wife of P. B. Wiltshire. the
telegraph operator at Groveftown,
died Monday afternoon, after an IL
ness of several months of consump-
ton. She lacked few weeks OF be
ing twenty years of age at the time
of her death. Deceased was daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Uncapher
of Grovertown and was young lady
esteemed by all who knew her. She
had many friends and relatives n
Plymouth, and she is the fourth
member of her family that has died
within fifteen months. Funeral SER
vices were held Wednesday after
noon. Among those in attendance
from this city were Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Butcher, Mrs. Hiram Ream,
Mrs. II. B. Allen and Miss Edith
Wyland, Mrs. Mary A. Taylor and
daughter, Elsie, Mrs. Edward Jolley
and Miss Espich.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Pays Boy Big Damages.

Judge Ross, an attorney for the
Pennsylvania Railway company, on
Saturday placed in the hands of
County Clerk John d. Ferree GER
tilted check calling for $23,s76.65,
says the Marion Chronicle. This
amount represents the judgment
awarded little frankie Simons, son
of William Simons, of Gas City
whose legs were cut eff by the
wheels of a Pennsylvania train. II
represents the biggest amount ever
given as damages for personal injur-
les in any case in the state of Indi-
ana. After legal battle of almost
four years the Pennsylvania railroad
has been compelled to give up the
fight The clerk will retain the mon
ey until a guardian for the boy is
appointed. The decision of the ST..
preme court, sustaining the lower
court, was on Saturday spread on
the docket of the Grant circuit court
and application for the appointment
of the guardian was filed.
frankie Simons was less than eight
years old when he was caught by a
train as he attempted to cross the
railroad tracks at Gas City. One OF
his legs was cut off below the knee
and the other was severed near the
hip. He filed a suit asking $4,000
damages. The hearing was continued
on October %, 1903. and continued
until October 2o. The jury awarded
the boy every cent he had demanded
The Pennsylvania railroad company
carried the matter to the appellate
court The circuit court was sustain
ed all along the line. There was a
fine point of law involved and the
case received state attention. frankie
Simons is now alb ut twelve years
old. He is daily attendant at the
Gas City schools. He already has
one artificial limbs and with. the aid
of crutches he is able 20 walk.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Billiards and the Fruit Crop.

Twenty or twenty-five years ago
the newspaper humorists used to an
nounce at irregular intervals during
the spring months that the Delaware
peach crop had been killed again. The
killing of the Delaware peach crop
became a stock joke, but in reality it
was serious matter when it actually
occurred, beause Delaware produced
most of the high-grade peaches in
the country. 1t is different now
AS the country has grown and di-
versified horticulture has become an
exact science, no single locality has
a monopoly in the production of any
specified variety of fruit There is
probably no state in the union where
peaches, for instance, are not Guilt
waited successfully.
From one ocean to the other there
are orchards of deciduous fruits and
the cultivation of citrus fruits, I'M
known a quarter Of century ago, is
now conducted so extensively in the
southeast and southwest as practi-
cally to exclude foreign oranges and
lemons from competition with the
home product.
The United States have progress
ed in fruit culture as in everything
ele. The secretary of the Missouri
Valley Horticultural association re-
port millions of dollars of damage in
the fruit districts of Missouri and
Kansas owing to the recent blizzard
Twenty years ago-even a decade
ago-there were no fruit sections in
the states named. Kansas was pure
ly agricultural sta'e; Missouri raised
corn and some cotton. The failure
of staple crop meant disaster Now
adays it signifies only insignificant
loss. If one crop fails another is GER
tain to turn out we'll.
This is the lesson that has been
Learned over all the country. The
up-to-date farmer has more than one
string to his bow. The nation itself
benefits, because the failure of a crop
in any single section does not now
involve much inconvenience. though
it used to spell disaster
So far as the fruit crops is concern
caused great damage in some sections
while other localities were not affect
ed at all. With Texas producing the
highest grade of peaches and Arkan-
sas growing unexcelled apples to say
nothing of the orchards of Georgia
and Florida, the disaster to fruit in
the north is regrettable but by nc
means fatal-Chicago Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Lena Myers. Her subject was "Cour

Lena Myers. Her subject was "Cour-
age for the Duties of Life.
The judges were NJ. w. Deputy of
Tie judges were, M. w. Deputy of
Columbia City, County Superinten-
dent Terrell of Valparaiso, and A. A.
Hugharr, Superintendent of Schools.
Valparaiso:>
The first prize gold medal, was
awarded Earl Mclaughlin. The sill
yer medal was won by Miss Lena
Myers, and the bronze medal by En-
nest Zechiel
All of the orations were pronounc-
ed exceptionally fine
An interesting program was rend-
cred by the assistance of the city or
chestra, the High School chorus,
Miss Louise Crate and the High
School Female Quartet.
Earl Mclaughlin will represent
Marshall county at the Northern In
diana Oratorical contest, to be held
at Notre Dame, May IL.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

James Fl. Eckels was man of fine
talents, great industry and lovable
character AS controller of the cur
rency he successfully discharged the
onerous duties resting upon him in
the financial crisis of 1893. OF the
165 national banks that failed then,
he reopened rs. As president of the
Commercial National Bank of Chi
cago he increased its deposits from
$10,O00,000 in 1898 to 100000 in
1907. A monument to his memory
will be the new bank building, prac-
tically completed, at a cost of $780,
600.
His death was in some respects
pathetic, almost tragic. While he lay
dead in his room Sunday morning,
servants were busying themselves
about the house, preparing break
fast for several OF his friends, who
were even then getting ready for the
occasion and arrived only to be
shocked at the dread news. His
dearly loved wife and only child were
away in France, whittier he was pre-
pairing to go and join them. One of
his last acts Saturday night was to
write them letter. His last act was
to read his Bible as he did every
night They found it open by his bed
side when they came to call him. He
was a religious man, and consistent
On his last visit to Ottawa, his home
town, he spoke by request of his old
friends from the pulpit of the Presby-
terian church Sunday night One oil
the many projects interrupted by his
death was the rebuilding OF the Or
tawa church, project on which an
architect was working at his expense
He was constant and unobstrusive
dispenser of charity and an active
supporter of the Y. NJ c. A. ard SIM
liar agencies of good.--Indianapolis
Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
State Health Report.

The Monthly Bulletin of the State
Board of Health just issued. for
March says: More sickness and more
deaths are to be recorded for March
1907, than for March 1906. For deaths
the actual figures are. respectively.
1902 and 1890. Measles have prevail
ed in SO out of the 90 counties. In
some counties, the disease has been
extra prevalent, and for the whole
state, it has been unusually fatal Is
deaths from measles are reported. A
| few schools have been closed on ac-
count of this disease. However, in
| fuenza was more prevalent than
measles. 2O4 deaths from this cause
are reported this month while only
46 were reported in the correspond
ing month last year The order of
prevalence of certain diseases was as
follows: Influenza, tonsilitis, rheuma-
tism, measles, pneumonia, bronchitis,
diphtheria and Group, scarlet fever.
pleuritis, intermittent and remittent
fever, typhoid fever, diarrhoea, small
pox, whooping-cough, inflammation
of the bowels, eryspelas, dysentery,
typho-malaria fever, cerebro spinal
meningitis, puerperal fever. cholera
morbus, cholera infantum.
Pneumonia was reported from
every county and the deaths reported
numbered SIS, as against 400 in
March last year. By the same com.
| parison there is an increase of G
deaths by cancer, and 81 by violence
There also appears an increase in
deaths from consumption, typhoid
fever and diphtheria.
Tuberculosis killed 431. OF which
number 100 were males and 241 fe-
males. OF the males, 33 were mar.
ried in the age period of 1910, leav-
ing &c orphans under ~ years of age
OF the females SO were in the same
age period, leaving TIA orphans under
~ years of age. The disease, there.
fore, made in this one month, PAP or
phans under 12 years of age and in
vaded 392 home
276 cases of smallpox were report
ed from 20 counties with no deaths
In the corresponding month last year
OF cases reported from II counties
with no deaths. There is also an in
crease to be noted in connection with
smallpox, and it may be here men
toned that doctors are still finding
difficulty in differentiating between
smallpox and eruptions due to indi
gestion. 210 cases of typhoid fever
were reported with 40 deaths from
80 counties In the corresponding
month last year 211 cases from g.
counties with "a deaths
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Dispatches received from St. Pet
ersburg, Toxic and Pekir show that
the evacuation of Manchuria by the
Russians and Japanese as agreed o
under the Portsmouth treaty by
China, has been accomplished under
the terms of the agreement between
Russia and Japan fixing April Is, as
the limit of time for the actual trans
fer
All military movements have ceas-
ed ard the Manchurian towns which
were under Russian and Japanese
control have ben turned to the Chi
nese authorities.