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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
PAIRING OF AGE AND YOUTH.
Rarely Does a Young Man Marry ar
Old Woman Except for Money.

Rarely Does a Young Man Marry an
Old Woman Except for Money.
The Countess of Ravensworth, Eng
land, aged 80, has married her coach
man, who is young and smart This is
her third venture in matrimony, and
her friends will opine that it is not her
best. Women of her age are not sup
posed to be consumed by the passion Of
Juliet, and ROmeos do not tumble
head over heels in love with matrons
Of wide experience, who are old enough
to be their mothers or grandmothers.
There is veal love, to be sure, which
attacks the subject at the necktie age,
and Is commonly disclosed by becom-
ing enraptured with the school teacher,
or with some woman cousin a dozen
years older than the admirer. This is
transient, and is almost never discov-
cred in case where the schoolmarm
or the cousin is gray-haired and has
rheumatism. There is, frankly, but one
construction to put upon wedding Of
this sort, and it is that the man has
married for money, and the woman has
married because she is susceptible to
fattery.
Youth and age never paired well in
the marital relation. If the matron is
to;erably well preserved at the lime
of marriage, there comes a time, ami it
IS not far, when the young husband
winces for cause. He probably absents
himself often at his club, if he can
find one open to him, and waits In such
patience as he may for his wife TO die
and leave her money to him. In mar
riages Of this kind, which are fortu-
nately few, it will generally be found
that there is social disparity be-
tween the couple as wide as their
years. Self-respecting men do not mar
~ for money, any more than they sell
their honor for money. Unless. of
course, they are brought up as they
are in Europe, to look on marriage as
a commercial convenience, and hail the
arrival Of an American pork packer to
pay their bills. We hear a good many
excuses for the commercial or the state
marriage; that the cases of dissatis-
faction which follow such are no more
numerous than they are in marriages
Of love, and all that sort of thing.
which is shown to be untrue by the
conduct of kings; but in our own land
we have Our opinion Of the man who
takes wife for the sake of her dol
lars, and it is not an opinion that he
cares to Brooklyn Eagle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
Fashion Notes.

French blue is notable among fashion
able colors.
The fashionable gloves are champagne
or pure white.
Spotted and pastille materials continue
to be popular.
Tiny spangled fans in the geisha size
come for the hair.
The lace and linen suits are two-thirds
lace and one-third linen.
Plain shirt waists are the only kind
invored for outdoor sports.
Bolero Jackets Of Irish lace are worn
with any handsome linen skirt.
Colored silk gloves. showing white be-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
Eastern and western so,d;ers.

''The thing about the man from the
Potomac that the Westerners thought
most peculiar was his persistent ad-
miration of Mcclellan" writes Capt
Henry King in the Century. They
could not understand why he should
thing man n great soldier who had
organized so much victory that never
came to pass. and avoided so many
defeats by reversing the theory of HUI
dibras, that military honor is to be
won, like a widow, with brisk attempt,
not slow approaches, like virgin
1t seemed to them that while their
Eastern brothers McClellanism, as
they denoninated it, included certain
technical virtues that were undoubt-
edly worth having, it also tended to
confuse and hamper him in the pres
ence of circumstances to which they
were always superior He excelled
them In drill, they frankly acknowl-
edged; he wore his uniform as If he
had never worn anything else, and in
all his actions there was a distinct
and self-conscious air OF martial pro-
priety. 1t was not true, as was gro
tesquely asserted, that he wore cor
set, used cosmetics and slept with
gloves on. But it was true that he
was remarkably fastidious, and at
tached much Importance to his ward
robe. The deprivations of the siege
of Chattanooga would probably not
have vanquished him had he been there
to bear them, but his endurance would
have lacked the capital cheerfulness
which was displayed in that extremity
of hunger and raggedness. Certainly
he could not have surveyed himself
in patches and tatters and found it
possible to explain, as did Western
soldier under those conditions: oh.
no. amt sufferin' for clothes, but ny
hearts breakin' for q diamond breast
PIN He was not so constituted. His
home life had not qualified him for
sacrifices of that kind. He could and
did make them, let it be remembered
to his honor but he never learned how
to do it in the Western mood of ready
and tonic buoyancy."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

But as most of these must be discarded
altogether so soon as the cool weather
whistle blows, cloth is a wiser choice.
The former grade were lavishly trimmed
with embroideries and hand work gener-
ally. numerous ard wide bands Of the
latter being REINFORCED by rich laces, and
like garnitures will still prevail, though
In lesser quantity. While the fall wrap
will not be so highly wrought as the sum-
mer garment. it won't be plain or plan
ned chiefly with a view to inconspicuous-
ness. In the second of these pictures is
one model, an ecru colored cloth affair
trimmed with silk and passementerie in
fancy design. Original ideas for trim
ming these garments will be at a pre-
MUM, for nothing like sameness is to be
permitted by fashionables, and some of
the wraps are sure in consequence to run
to fanciful extremes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
The Army HaYersack.

Last night l dreamed the shouts came
back:
What have you in your haversack?'
I'm hungry, comrade, as can be,
Have you some bareback left for meY'
ut looks as though we boys at last
Must keep our forty days of fast"
wakened, and my thoughts went back,
To rummage through my haversack.
weary march, hopeless fight,
A sad retreat at dead of night,
And then we all, at dawn Of day,
Lay down, like cattle, by the way;
The pangs of hunger and of thirst
Were rending us like things accursed;
A comrade shouted at my back,
Come, open up your haversack."
Each spread his treasures at his feet,
In lieu of something there to eat:
A story book, testament,
A housewife by his mother sent;
And one a picture fair TO see,
A baby on its mothers knee;
And so sweet scenes Of homes came back
Around the empty hayersack.
A comrade broke into a song
Twas Home, Sweet Home''-and soon
a throng
Had gathered around us where we sat,
OF home and home delights to chat;
OF tables laid with royal fare,
And served with woman's loving care
Zip, zipi" a volley swept our track,
And each man grabbed his haversack.
stricken comrade strove to rise,
The film Of death wasin his eyes,
MY sack-take-there's some
bread.
A letter-home, was all he said
We caught him ere he sank to rest,
We crossed his hands above his breast,
His mothers picture, some hard tack,
We found within his haversack.
We broke the bread, and as / live
1t seemed the Lord was there to give,
The morsels were so magnifed
By love Of him who just had died:
Whose spirit fingered around US there
To solace US in our despair;
And fling ray Of splendor back
To rest on memory's haversack
0 glad am | for a dream that brings
So many half forgotten things
The comradeship that closer grows
When sorrow darkest shadow throws:
The comradeship that until death
Is breathed with every soldiers breath
And shares its crust, in JOY or wrack.
From that old army haversack
Kate Brownlee Sherwood
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

paradise plumes. These are costly TRIM
ming in all the better grades, and since
there Is small danger, in consequence. of
their being overdone. they are held in
high esteem by exclusive dressers. Whole
birds-of-paradise will be employed. too.
the head placed well toward the front of
the hat, the plumes sweeping down over
the back TO well below the edge of the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

fall and winter
preference is given
in the matter of
hat t ri m m j n & S
through the favor
shown during sum-
mer for ostrich
plumes. T h e s e
were on the list Of
fashionable medi-
ums from the first,
and from then on
gradually grew in
favor. AS they are
quite as we'll suit
ed to winter mode
it is clear thai
t b e l T stylishness
will be continued.
OF even higher
grade than at least
all but the very
finest Of ostrich
feathers will be
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

The bodies of men who have per
ished In sandy deserts become SO thor
oughly dried by the sun and wind as
to be reduced to 30 per cent of their
weight in life.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

The light Of the FREELY is produced
by some combication Of phosphorus,
though In what manner has not yet
been determined.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

Charity and personal force are the
only investments worth anything
Walt Whitman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
Il DON'T SNOW anything-indeed, do

Il don't know anything-indeed, do
not"
There was a savage look about him. as
though he would have liked to have
squeezed something more out of my
throat. Then he took out Of desk be-
side him small gold locket, and passed
it to me, saying, ''This was sewn up
in your frock when you were brought
here. / don't think she who brought
you knew anything about it."
1t contained the portrait of a very
beautiful young woman-a foreigner
should have ina gined; dark hair, olive
tinged complexion, also lock of brown
hair; and upon the back was engraved
the initials ''F B." and e. NJ" joined
together by a true levers knot.
'aThe woman who brought you here, "
he went on. twas tall; and big-boned
thin, white lips; & nose like a parrots
beak: light gray eyes, as cold as stone.
She wore front of dark brown hair,
dressed in small fat curls, and bound
round the forehead by band of narrow
black velvet; she was dressed in black
silk, and wore a muslin handkerchief
crossed upon her BOSOM"
from my memory: the woman seemed to
stand before me. l had trembled be-
fore those cold. stony eyes. That por-
trait. too-my heart told me it was my
mothers, and a shadowy remembrance
came upon me that. had been at some
time fondled by such face.
The Rev. Obadiah Porter was evident
ly disappointed at the result of his reve-
lations. He snatched the locket out of
my hand. and then locked it up in the
desk again.
well, well, if you can't remember,
You can't" he said, irritably. But
when you are alone. or in bed, try and
think. Who knows?-you might be the
child of some great or rich people," he
added, cunningly. Think what an adj
vantage it would be II you could find
this out! But we won't talk any more
of this at present. / have something
else to speak to you about. Silas, it has
much troubled me. for some time, to see
youth Of your appearance and proba-
BILE prospects doing mental work. I've
long been thinking whether 1 couldn't
more profitably employ you; and, after a
talk with my daughter. I've come to the
conclusion that You sh~n. henceforth,
assist her in the care OF the boys"
My duties as tutor were to commence
on the next day. l really felt very CRATE
to him for what appeared, to my unso-
phisticated mind, great kindness; and
so l told Martha when 1 went back to
the kitchen.
well, don't know about being CRATE
full, Silas,' she cried. depend upon it,
masters serving his own turn. Miss
Judith's getting very tired of the work
and If she was to go away, what would
he do? 1t wouldn't suit him to have a
stranger in the house. Now don't you
see that he couldn't do without you
that you're the very thing he wants:'
Martha's worldly view of the matter
somewhat dashed my exalted feelings of
gratitude; vet, for all that, 1 still felt
very thankful for the change.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

The Japanese system Of letters IL
called Iroha. from the names Of the
first three letters. 81" "ro" and 'sha.r
on precisely the same principle as thar
which gives to our own system the
title alphabet"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

Ernestine- Yes, indeed, Jack brought
me box of the most delicious candies
i ever tasted
Eva-You don't say! Did you smack
your lips?
Ernestine-Oh, he attended to that.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01
STYLES FOR MY LADY.
FALL STREET DRESSES WILL BE
PALMER I'M DESIGN.
In Afternoon Costumes Fashions for
Autumn Are Much Like Those of Past
Summer-'Tis Thought Silks VIII Re-
appear in Course of Winter.

New York correspondence;
1871, INDICATION
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01


were exchanged they would be ready
for immediate service in the Confed-
crate army. But in a few days hum
dreds Of men disappeared from the
camp. III two weeks the deserters
were numbered by the thousand. and
Pemberton appealed to Grant for
guards, complaining that the Union
soldiers were enticing his men from
camp and assisting them to get away.
''The truth was that the Union men
on guard at Vicksburg heard, through
the people of the city, that fully one
half of Pemberton's men were very
much dissatisfied, and that in their
talk with their friends in vicksburg
they had said that if they could get
across the Mississippi river they would
60 so far into the Northwest that no
Confederate officer would ever find
them. The boys of the Union regi-
ments reasoned that every paroled
prisoner who escaped was so much
gain to the Union cause. and it was
soon understood in the parole camp
that if the Johnnies wanted to emil
CRATE the Yanks could give them in
formation as to boats and provisions.
"A squad Of rebels would escape
from the parole camp. would prowl
around the country between the camp
and Vicksburg, would come across a
squad Of our boys in charge OF boat,
and they would be taken across the
river. Neither General Grant nor any
Of his subordinate officers knew any
thing Of this, and they were at loss
to explain how it was that Pember-
tons command dwindled down finally
to about 1900 men. Some people in
the North, among them General Hal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26
THE FEEDING OF CHILDREN.
Take Good Care Not to
Violate.

When child has reached the age Of
four or five years it will be found, in
most American homes, eating at the
table with adults and sharing their food
1t is then time, says Youth Companion,
for the parents to consider rules of diet
Tor the child which shall recognize the
coexistence of q growing body and an
undeveloped digestive system
In the first place 1t is reasonably plain
that children should not have their
heartiest meal at night 1t is probable
that they will have just finished their
hardest playing. Their nerves are
iatigued, and the conditions for good di-
gestion are not likely to be present
Their hunger must, of course, be salts
fed. but not with the heavier foods. They
will soon be alseep, and whatever influ-
ence sleep has on digestion, stomach
full OF milk, for example, is less likely to
cause trouble than one full of hearty
mixed food.
The amount of food that children will
take varies so much with individuals
that appetite must of necessity be the
principal guide. The system alone knows
how much it has wasted, how much it
has built. Why, then, should it not
measure its own requirements? A child
should have all it wants, even though it
may seem voracious at times, and even
though, judging by the variable quantity
OF food eaten, the appetite may seem
capricious. But this LAWS to be adopted
with one important proviso: that the
child be not allowed to bolt its food. The
violation of this rule is responsible for
more digestive disturbances than guam
tity or even quality.
Shall the. child be allowed to eat be-
| tween meals? Yes, by all means if the
food given is plain, and if suitable in
terval is to elapse before the next regu-
lar meal. Here again appetite must be
the guide, for there is no sure and def
mite measure Of those interval pro-
cesses which constitute the mystery OF
growth. The amount that was sufficient
row.
So with children's likes and dislikes
provided they are confined within rea-
sonable bounds of wholesomeness, and
| whims have not been artificially encour-
aged. What the child likes and Graves
it will usually digest; what 1t dislikes
will disagree with it. Few children like
fat, although nearly all like butter
Foods rich in fat, such as gravies, noto-
riously diagree. 1t is foolish to urge
children to eat them.
OF sweets the opposite is true. Chill
| dren crave them because their system de-
mands them. They should have them in
reasonable quantity, but not in the form
of complex CONNECTIONS at all hours of the
! day, or at the expense of other food
Rather let them be given at meal times
and in the simple form Of sugar, strip
or molasses, or good preserves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26
ARTIFICIAL cAMPHOR.
The Aromatic Gum II Now Produced
by Newly Discovered Process
I'm This Country.

A new industry has been recently been
started in this country. According to
the Scientific American, the secret OF
producing genuine camphor synthet-
ically has been discovered, and is now
being utilized within few miles Of New
York city. Hitherto the chief sources OF
supply have been China, Japan and For
mosa. and the gum has been obtainable
only by destroying the tree in which it
is distributed. Partly on this account,
and partly because the business is now
confined almost exclusively to Formosa,
where a government monopoly exists,
prices have steadily risen for several
years. Competition is now possible
which should check any further ad-
vance, and which may perhaps lead to a
lowering of quotations. The principal
Ingredient of the new product, turpen-
tine, Is found in abundance in the Unit
ed States, SO that the chemical manu-
facture Of camphor may be said to
stand on more stable foundation than
that of extracting it. ready made, from
the wood Of the camphor laurel. The
commodity has SO many uses-in medi-
cine. the making of celluloid and other
materials and in fighting moths-that
the prospect now opened is highly graft
flying.
One aspect of this achievement will
possess special charm for chemists.
They realize as no one else can the
difficulties of synthesis. Hundreds of
the most useful drugs, dyes, foodstuffs
and perfumes are compounds whose
production nature completes before she
turns them over to man. Her labora-
tory is the living plant or animal, but
her processes are usually inscrutable.
The ingredients which she employs and
the formulate she adopts can be ascer-
tanned easily enough. 1t is known just
how many atoms of carbon, hydrogen
and oxygen are contained in molecule
of sugar, but human skill has not mas
tered the trick of combining them. For
half century chemists have been try
ing to make albumen, alcohol and q
host of other such compounds, but their
experiments have almost invariably
ended in failure. Only with indigo,
few drugs and perfumes-in scarcely a
dozen instances altogether-have they
succeeded. Analysis shows that the
only discernible difference between tur-
pentine and camphor gum is that the
latter includes one more atom of oxy-
gen than the former, and yet it has
taken years to find out how to make that
addition in manner that would result
in true chemical union. 1t is rare and
beautiful performance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26
Gold Cake.

One-third cupful butter. 11z cupfuls
sugar. one cupful cold water, three cup
fuls -four. yolk OF four eggs, two tea
spoonfuls baking powder; flavor with
vanilla. Nice baked in layers and put
together with chocolate filling.-Good
literature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26

Vanity makes as do more thingi
against inclination than reason
Rochefaucauld..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26
Porto Rico Coffee Plantation.

Viewed from distance, Porto Rican
coffee plantation looks very much like a
virgin forest of tropical shade trees
The coffee 'tree" is really mere shrub,
or bush; ranging in height anywhere
from four to II feet, according to it's
age and environment. the average being
about six to eight feet. This tender lit
tie tree plant is grown under the shade
Of the wide-spreading Malango, Mocha
and Guava trees-the latter having the
preference, as the famous Guava jelly is
made from it's fruit. These majestic
protectors afford ample shelter to the
frail coffee-bearing shrub, shielding it's
delicate pipe-stem branches and wax
like blossoms from the scorching heat
of the sun, the fierce mountain gales, the
heavy tropical dew, and the terrific thun-
der storms during the rainy season,
while at the same time admitting suf1i-
cient light and air to properly develop
the fragile plant.-From Uncle Sans
Coffee Fields" by J. Caldwell Burnes, in
FOur-Track News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-26
TIMES IN PORTO RICO.
Cotton Industry Being Revived and
Business Prospects Are Grow
ing Brighter.

Wondering groups of natives now
stand hours daily watching the opera
ton OF eight modern cotton gins, being
operated in gin house on the Marina, in
San Juan, from which thousands of bales
OF hlgh-grade Sea Island cotton will be
shipped this year All the gins are work
Ing at full capacity and long dormant
Industry of Porto Rico seems actually to
have ben revived with prospects of rapid
growth. Cotton seems to be doing we'll
in all parts of the island, but the first
years results to the growers will not
be great financially, says recent San
Juan report in the Philadelphia Press.
The president of the company now OPP
Grating in San Juan says: "The great
est drawback to our operations is the
obtaining of competent labor at rea-
sonable price. There are plenty of peo-
pie in Porto Rico who need work, but
they are inexperienced workers. | find
labor dearer here than anywhere else.
Then the people, many of them, do not
want work. They had rather starve''
Coffee men are looking happier. In
many OF the coffee districts of the islands
the crop will be double that of last year
and the quality is superior. The promise
of President Roosevelt to favor reci-
procal treaties with countries which
have been closed by tariff laws to Porto
Rican coffee since the Spanish-American
war has greatly encouraged coffee grow
ers here. /
Orange shipping has begun and a large
crop will be sent north. The sugar cane
acreage is being immensely increased,
and the temporary business depression
seems to be lifting and floating away as
cloud.