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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
SHIPS END BLOCKADE
ALLIED FLEETS WITHDRAW
FROM VENEZUELAN COAST.

Commander of British Cruiser Re.
ceives Instructions From London.
Claims of UnalIied Powers Now to
Be Taken Up.
LaGuayra, Venezuela, Feb. 16.-The
blockade has been officially raised.
The commander of the British cruiser
Tribune, the only British warsh1p
here, sent an officer ashore yesterday
morning with the announcement that
the Tribune would leave in the after
noon for Trinidad. The populace is
wild with JOY.
Since Saturday morning the Vene-
zuelans were awaiting impatiently the
official information that the blockade
had been raised. They knew that the
blockade was to be raised, but no
notification came. The government
was puzzled until II o'clock, when
news reached Caracas that the captain
of the Tribune had notified the au-
thorities at l4aGuayra that the block
ade was raised. At 3 p. m. the Tri-
bune left for Trinidad. The news
from all the Venezuelan ports. except
Coro and Higuerote, is that the for
eigr warships sailed away yesterday.
The government Immediately on re-
ceiving the news that the blockade
had been raised, took military meas
ures and sent troops in all directions
to crush the revolution without giving
the rebels a moments respite.
Wiilemstad, Curacao, Feb. 10
There is great rejoicing among all
classes here at the end of the Vene-
Zuelan blockade. Many sailing YES
sells that are lying in this port with
cargoes for Venezuelan ports will
leave today A number of steamers
are loading for the same destination
A great amount of coffee Is awaiting
transportation from Venezuela to the
United States. No one apparently is
more glad at the raising of the block
ade than those on board the blockad-
ing squadrons.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
Venezuelan Blue Book.

Tendon, Feb. ia feeling of relief
that the Venezuelan business is set
tied before parliament reopens In
clines the press not to be captious in
their examination of the blue book.
The comment Of the newspapers con-
Germs rather the reticences than the
revelations in the Official dispatches.
The cenciliatory attitude maintained
throughout by the United States gov
eminent is cordially recognized, and
the British government is taken to
task In some quarters for having de-
layed taking Washington into its con-
hdence until Nov. II, when Great Brit
ain and Germany had agreed already
In July to coerce Venezuela. 1t is
alse remarked that there is no indica-
ton of any attempt having been made
by Great Britain to obtain from Ger
many an assurance that the Monroe
doctrine would be respected.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
DeWitt's Witch Hazel SaIye

The only positive cure for blind, bleeding,
itching and protruding piles, cuts, burns,
bruises, eczema and all abrasions of the skin.
DeWitts is the only Witch Hazel Salve that is
made from the pure unadulterated witch hazel
All others are counterfets DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is made to cure-counterfeits are
made to sell. Nick Doffing & Co
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
PORTE PREPARES FOR WAR.
Relieved by Powers Assurances, Still
Makes Ready to Mass Million Men.

Constantinople, Feb. 16.-In official
circles it is asserted that the porte
has received from the powers assur-
ances regarding Bulgaria's pacific In
tentions and that it has been greatly
relieved thereby. The military coun-
Gil has completed the plans for the
mobilization OF the Second and Third
army corps and has decided that In
the event of it becoming necessary
to take the field in Macedonia Marshal
Edham Pasha, the generalissimo in
the Graeco-Turkish war, will have the
supreme command of million of men
who would be available there.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
The Boston Roy.

Mamma-Johnny, did you wipe your
feet on the mat when you came in?
JOHNNY couldn't get my shoestrings
united. They were in hard knot.
Mamma-But what have shoestrings
to do with it?
JOHNNY couldn't wipe my feet with
out taking off my shoes, could I?-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19
A Double nar.eled Joke.

The facetious boarder had the plot
laid for Il killing joke.
ITS wonder he said, that you
didn't serve up this hen. feathers and
all"
The next time.' said the landlady,
with marked emphasis, I'll serve her,
bill and an :.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19

He-Suppose should ask your ia
Their if | could marry you. Do you
think | would stand any chance?
She-No. Your case would be hope
less.
He-Do you think he would really
say MOI
She-Not that; but he would leave it
to me.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-02-19

J.J. Lane of Keokuk county is here
this week visiting his brotner-in-law
Ben CASTOR and looking at the
country about here.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

A meeting of the representatives of
the Blackfeet tribe of Indians and OF
the Sioux tribe was held few days
ago at the Blackfeet's reservation in
Montana. This gathering was the re-
suit Of the accidental meeting Of the
representatives of these two tribes in
Washington about year ago. The
Siouxs visited the Blackfeet tribe for.
peace conference. They talked over
the wars between the two tribes and
displayed the scars which each lad
received In conflict with the other.
After some days they resolved to
ssbury the hatchet'' and henceforth
for all time to live in peace. These
tribes are acquiring civilized habits
and are manifesting spirit which
shows the OBJECT Of Christian civiliza-
tion upon them. AS an expression of
their brotherly feeling, the BIackfeet
presented the Sioux tribe with two
carloads Of horses, numbering forty
five, and large quantity Of blankets
and clothing.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

According to the latest census, In
the spring Of 1908, the population of
London within the bounds of the met
ropolitan police district was 6, $50, Gle,
an increase of 307, 746 over April, 1901.
The population has doubled within
the last fifty years. being 2.363,274
by the census Of 1851. The city is
now fourteen miles in length eight
rules in breadth and covers 122 square
miles of ground. There are 5000
streets, which, If continuous, would
form line I, 200 miles long; ST., 76S
registered buildings, l,ols, SAC resi-
dences and tenements, 800 churches
and 1883 saloons, or one saloon to
every 400 inhabitants.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15


Prof. C. G.. Hopkinson, who has
been experimenting with wheat grow
ing in Illinois, shows that the soil can
be strengthened and it fertility great
ly increased by growing crops instead
Of decreasing its fertility. The ex-
periments were conducted at Cutler,
Odin, Vienna and Mascoutah, in
Illinois, aud the methods employed
are simple ones. lying within easy
reach Of farmers everywhere. In gen.
eral, they consist Of a crop rotation,
which includes liberal use of the
legumes- clover, cowpeas, soy beans,
Yetch, etc.-whlch supply nitsogen to
the soil, and generous applications Of
phosphorus and potassium, and, where
the soil is acid, the employment CT
line in quantities varying with the
degree OF acidity in the soil treated.
So long as sufIicient potash, p9os-
phorus and nitrogen are in the soil And
available as plant food, crops aree Sure;
to increase their contents in TIE soil
means : steadily Increasing calfaeity
FOR crop production.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Gues,.s From the Outside.

Here is an incomplete list of the
people who make guesses from the
outside.
The minister who overhears po-
liceman talking about some leyee re-
sort and who then tells his coDgrega-
tion that women'S clubs are addicted
to cocktails and cigarettes.
The reformer who frequents radical
meetings and who comes to the con-
clusion that the capitalists of the
United States are sitting about a
green baize table conspirlng against
the education and elevation Of the
working class.
The business man who reads a
chance editorial in an anarchistic pa
per andwho becomes convinced that
trade union and socialist agitators are
organizing subterranean conspiracy
for the purpose Of despoiling and per-
haps guillotining all persons who now
ow property.
The socialist who reads the newspa-
per accounts of few sermons against
socialism and who announces to the
world that ministers are f}pocrites
and grafters" and that they have en-
tered into conscious conspiracy With
capitalism to maintain the present 70
cial system and to share the profits.
The temperance lecturer who fol-
lows the cartoons in the Rams Horn
and who seems when he is on the plat
form To believe that the chief feature
of every saloon is little ragged child
begging father TO put down his glass
Uf distilled damnation and come home
to his starving family.
The college boy who knows that the
members Of his own fraternity are as
helplessly innocent as lambs but who
can't believe that the members of
other fraternities are In the same pre-
dicament and who, therefore, hates to
go to bed because he can just see those
other fellows gathering around the
oaks on the campus and laying horrid
plots.
The man who has never been inside
a newspaper office, but who never be-
lieves anything he sees in the newspa-
pers because, as he says with know
ing look, You can't fool me. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Our State Militia.

The indianapolis Journal, referring
to the splendid record made by In
diana's militia in the Kentucky army
maneuvers, which reflect great credit
on the state, significantly asks,
"How much does the state of Indiana
do for the organization that protects it
SO efficiently at home and wins for it
such gratifying fame abroad? Mighty
little! Appropriations for mainten.
ance that look utterly insignificant
when compared With those OF some of
the other states, permission to hustle
for their own funds for armories, and
an outburst of newspaper intolerance,
such as the paragraph on militiamen
that smoke cigarettes, first printed by
an obscure Indianapolis publication
and reprinted in nearly half the news
papers OF the State-theSe are about
all this splendid militia organization
gets. The state owes big debt of
gratitude to the officers and men
whose enthusiasm, patriotism and pa
tient work, very largely unappreciat
ed by the public, have given it, at al
most no expense Of money, a citizen
soldiery that measures up most favor
ably with those Of other states, and
has nothing whatever to be ashamed
of when thrown In contact with the
regular army.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
RELIGION As a Business.

No other religious leader than Dow
lie in this country could charter eight
or nine special trains, load on them
5000 followers and trundle them to
New York ia blind and fanatical SUBJ
mission to his every order, unless it
might be a successor of bis prototype.
Brigham Young. Dossie may be re-
ligious impOSt0r, but he is financial
reality who has coined the devotion of
bis deluded followers into millions of
of money, as he is said to be worth
over $4,000, 900. The man must be
genius, since not many years ago be
went to Chicago, fresh from an Aus
tralian prison, with less than 500 to
build up great and complicated bust
ness, schools, institutions and $780,
900 house for himself, besides the
large organization of infatuated adj
herents. The closest parallel to him
was Brigham Young.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Mrs. Cleveland Not Strong.

Former President and Mrs. Cleve-
land have taken a cottage at Lake.
wood, n. j., where, it is expected,
they will spend much of the winter
season. 1t is for the benefit of Mrs.
Cleveland S health that the temporary
change has been made. She has mot
regained her strength since the birth
Of the baby, Francis Grover, and the
family physician decided that a stay
at the Pines, Lakewood, would be
beneficial. Mrs. Cleveland has left
Princeton with the children, includ-
ing the baby. The cottage is the one
they occupied in the winoer Of 1928,
prior tc the second inauguration. and
has since been known as the sslittle
white house. -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

The statement of the government
postoffice department giving the re-
ceipts at fifty OF the largest postoffices
In the country for the month Of Sep
TENDER shows the total to be s., $685.
492, gain Of nearly 9 per cent. over
the receipts for the same month last
year. New York's receipts were ST.
l53. 161, a gain of per cent; Chicago,
1898, 875, gain Of 10 per cent; Phila-
delphia. s4l6, ls2, a gain Of IL per
cent, and Boston, $3.50, 00S, gain of
2 per cent. The largest gain was made
at Omaha, Neb.. where the receipts
we're S44, 057, which is 81 per cent.
more than Che receipts for September
1902. This is wholesome sign.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Drinkers Went to Laporte.

Sunday was the dryest Sabbath
known in the history of Mich
igan City. Every saloon front
and rear entrance. with one or two ex-
ceptions, was closed and no appeal, no
matter how persuasive, served to Sc
cure a drink.
This city has been "wide open" and
the action of the police commissioners
is the most radical act taken. Those
who failed to observe the edict were
arrested.
The closed doors drove hundreds of
persons to Lsporte, where the back
doors were open and as result. the
interurban line did the largest Sab
bath business of its history.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

MORTUARY
Mrs. George h. Mckinney!

Alice, wife of George III. Mckinney
died at her home on William street in
this city Tuesday morning, October
ID, aged % years, months and 3
days.
Deceased was born in Starke county
near Cedar Lake and was the daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah ScCtt. Her
death was caused by consumption after
an illness of several months which she
bore patiently making a heroic fight
for life for the sake of her husband
and three small children, the Youngest
being less than one year old.
Short funeral services will be held
at the residence Thursday morning 1T
eight O'Clock conducted by Rev. Z. G.
Epson after which the remains will be
taken to Cedar Lake cemetery near
her old home and interreda at O'Clock
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15


Uncle Joe Cannon has been telling
some of the Wall street spectators
that the quotations of the New York
stock exchange are not a trustworthy
barometer of the financial condition
OF the country. This is correct. While
most of the counIry's speculative
properties have been falling, as meas
urec by the prices on that bourse. the
West is highly prosperous, and is be-
coming more so. Most of the coun-
try's great industries are thriving.
The railroads have more business than
they can handle readily. There are
not cars or locomotives enough on the
big trunk lines to enable them to do
all the work that is offered to them,
and the shops are not able to turn out
rolling stock quick enough to meet
the demands. Wall street may be
shaky, but the country's great indus
tries are all right.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

A voice from the tOmbS comes in
the form Of an interview with Hon.
John H. Reagan, ex-member Of the
United States Congress. ex-member of
the Confederate Congress, ex-post-
master general Of the Confederate
States, and x",several officers. Mr..
Reagan, who has just entered on his
eighty-sixth year, sees nothing ahead
Of the United States but the black
ness of darkness. He predicts the fall
of the Republic, followed by mon
archy, and thinks that when the final
breakup comes Texas will be the hope
of the world.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
SPOT On the Sun.

One of the largest spots that has
appeared on the sun in recent years
has Just been discovered by John A.
Brashear, chancellor of the Western
university of Pennsylvania. Its area
is SO great that it can be seen by the
naked eye If smoked glass is used.
1--WE call the comparatively dark
areas spots," said Prof. Brashear,
"but some of them have many times
the area of the earth. This one has
an average width of rs, 900 miles. In
square miles its area is twelve times
that of the earth. The spots on the
sun indicate great solar storms. The
present spot is probably the largest
that has been seen for many years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Juries for October Term.

GRAND JURY-D.. A. Ross, VIM.
Bullenfacher, of Center: ]. d. Gordon,
Green; James Barton, Bourbon, Levi
May and John Sheaks, Polk.
PETTY JURY-D. L. Dickinson, j.
Wesley McCrory. Jacob Ringer, Gen.
ter: William Worries, Green: Benz.
Meredith, Tippecanoe; Jacob NJ.
Deisch, Philip Heckaman, John Berg,
German; S. j. Burgener. West; jacob
j. Hoffman. Walnut; Samuel Iden,
August Weissert. Bourbon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
A few wears AGO there was consider

A few years ago there was consider
able comment ON the fact that the
Russian government had 'salted
down" an emergency fund of $780,
O00.0 to be used in case of war
Now it is discovered to have dwindled
to considerably less than half the
amount named, and the Car has ap-
pointed a commission to investigate
the matter. The lack Of an ample
war fund may tend to bring about
peaceable solution of the Manchurian
question.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

Hon. G. HI. Dietrich. United States
senator from Nebraska, and member
of the senate committee on public
lands, has just concluded a four
months visit to Alaska. His object in
visiting the territory was to familiar
ize himself with the conditions there.
He does not attach much Importance
to the glowing reports Of Alaska s
great agricultural possibilities that
have been heralded for years past.
Senator Dietrich says that the many
thousands OF dollars expended at the
government agricultural experiment
station at Sitka have not established
any facts shout the agricultural possi-
bilities of the the territory that have
not been known for fifty years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
A coNTEMpTIBLE BULLDo2ER.


which pretends To be republican in its
politics and such tactics toward
man who is honorable are contempti-
Bile in the extreme. The editor who
uses his paper or permits 1t to be used
for such purposes is lacking in those
courtesies which are supposed to gov
ern good newspapers and displays a
quality of smailness so diminutive
that nothing sufficiently Insignificant
can be discovered With which To CON-
pare it.-South Bend Tribune.
The above is the comment which
the South Bend Tribune makes on an
editorial from the Plymouth Tribune
in waich we said that the egotistical
statement made by Mr.. Boss that the
district craftsmanship was conceded
him seemed to have squelched his can
didacy.
The unadulterated gall of the
South Bend Tribune surpasses any,
thing we have eyer seen.
1t seems that any editor with two
ideas above an idiot would have
seen that his own language that The
editor who uses his paper or permits
it to be used for such purposes, abus-
ing a contemporary for opposing a
candidate, sis lacking in those cour-
tesies which are supposed to govern
good newspapers"
The pigmy. who thinks he edits the
South Bend Tribune seems to have
lost his head entirely.
1t is only a few weeks ago that he
made a bitter and uncalled for attack
On all the supporters of Senator Bev-
eridge in Indiana because democratic
paper intimated that somebody was
trying to interfere with the Tribune's
machine.
The Tribune'S machine has been
sending all sorts of statemente to In
dianapolis papers and is terribly in
censed because the Plymouth Tribune
was not deceived by the machines
hypocrisy.
The Plymouth Tribune is republi-
can paper it stands by republican
principles, opposes snap conventions,
demands fair play in politics and be-
lieves that men who are republicans
from principle and for the best well
fare Of the country should be placed
in command.
For more than a year the ring of
which the South Bend Tribune is a
member, has been trying to crush our
paper. During that time we have
pursued the even tenor of our way and
promulgated more true republican doc
trine than the South Bend Tribune
would give its readers in thousand
years under its present management,
and We shall continue TO preach re-
publican doctrine until all papers,
which like the Tribune, oppose gov
eminent by the people are converted
or brushed out of the way.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15

Even Greenland's icy mountains
have. their plutocrats. One Kor-ko-ya,
of East Baffinsland, literally stupefies
his fellow tribesmen with his luxury.
He lives in a wooden house, owns a
table and paraffin lamp, and recent
ly, to celebrate the fortieth anniyerS-
airy of the foundation Of his business,
be stood cod liver all round to his en-
ployes. Such a scene of unrestrain-
ed reveIry had never besn witnessed in
the country before:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
THE INDIANAPOLIS ELECTION.

Hoffman, democrat, was elected
mayor of Indianapolis Tuesday, but it
was not a democratic victory. Mr..
Bookwalter refused to let his party
pass on his candidacy in nominating
convention.
1t wanted to do this so much that
a petition signed BY more than 1000
Of the best republicans of indianapolis
was presented asking that the snap
convention called more than six
months before the day of election be
postponed long enough to give the
members CT the republican party a
chance to bring out some other can
didate il they wished to do so. but
these men were told that this would
not be permitted, that the ''snap"
would come of on time land you will
vote for the candidate too. :"
These machine bull dozers now see
the result. The republican party was
organized by the people and for the
people and any men or set Of men who
cot mn a machine TO deprive the peO-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Council Proceedings.

The city council had lengthy ses-
sion Monday evening. After the read
ing of the minutes and transaction of
routine business. a petition numerous
ly signed by persons residing in the
west part Of town, was presented re-
questing council to require the Van
dalia and L. E. s. w. Railways to
D ace flagmen at the Jefferson street
crossing.
The petition was referred to the
committee on ordinance and police.
but it seemed to be the opinion of the
council that the request should be
concurred in.
The construction of the Webster
avenue sewer extending from the Sec
ond street east of the Webster school
building to Michigan street. was let to
G.. Gordon for s662.S2, being about 10
cts per foot.
The construction of the following
walks was ordered: E. H. Durham,
Ellen B. Simons, Susan Johnson, and
the stretch of walk on the south side
of Sophia street between Grove Love S
and the Pennsylvania railroad.
1t was reported that the foundation
of the pavement being put down on
Sophia street was not thick enough
and the council ordered that about 200
feet just put down be taken up by the
contractors, Hatch & Son, and the
thickness increased.
The tax levy for the year was then
made as follows.
General Purpose Fund 81. 90
School House Bonds. - .O23
Water. Works Bonds. 80
sl.32l
The poll tax was fixed at s1.0o and
and a tax of $3.50 was ordered assess
ed against each male dog and $500
for each female dog.
An ordinance was passed declaring
that the council will pay only 60 cents
per square for first insertion and 40
Gus per square for each subsequent In
insertion of legal advertisements.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-15
Great men will differ: He

Great men will differ: Here's Gov
ernor Durbin saying that it was a
favoring Providence that flung an
ocean between the continent we oc-
cupy and the source Of American
civilization just after Andrew Carnegie
wished it was prairie. The Govern
or's view, perhaps. based on the theory
that whatever it is best. is supported
by the physical facts, however.