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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
Saved by His Manners.

The superintendent of the National
Geological Park at Washington tells
Of an amusing act Of apparent polite
ness on the part Of a monkey that had
a most peculiar effect upon a dog be-
longing to the superintendent.
The official in question says that one
day, while he was walking down Penn
sylvania avenue, accompanied by his
favorite fox terrier, an Italian street
piano player, with a trained monkey,
pulled up at a cross street and began
to play.
The monkey was attired I'm the regu-
lation jacket and cap, and seemed to
be an unusually bright little fellow.
While the man was grinding out the
music. the monkey hoped down from
the piano VIII re he had been sitting.
This was enough for the fox terrier.
He Immediately made a dash for the
monkey, which awaited the onslaught
with such equanimity that the dog
halted within a few feet OF him, evil
IDENTITY to reconsider. Both animals
gazed long and steadily at each other:
then, with a sudden movement the
monkey raised his paw and gracefully
saluted the snemy By raising his CAP.
The effect was magical. The do4y
head and tail dropped. and he retired
In confusion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29

Dack Iurtner Jnan usual, anu Wnen, On
resuming his work, he put his hand up
he found no spectacles. This was dis
concerning and irritating, and he
shouted. Orderly, orderly, come here,
SIR The orderly had been sound aslep
for two hours, but he jumped up,
wriggled into his clothes, and present
ed himself to his absent-minded colo
mel. Burke looked him over in dis
approval Of us unusual appearance
and snapped out, My glasses
1.-The orderly turned On his heel
without a word and in a minute placed
before the colonel two glasses, a pitch
er Of water, and decanter. Burke
looked at him In amazement and roar
ed, My glasses, you fool. Ny specta-
cles, my s~pectaclesr Then the worm
turned. 'Yure glasses, colonel said
the orderly, are on the top Of your
head, sor. An We call me from me
bed to tell We that?' The colonel In
high dudgeon put his hand to his head,
but found the glasses, and then said,
Having found the glasses, go to bed
at once. I never would have found
them myself Any reference to Hotel
Lafayette, or Bastile Lafayette, or
Fort Lafayette always brings to my
mind the figure of quaint but soldier
ly Colonel Martin Burke."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
Railroad Timber Supply.

AILROA men are worrying themselves a good deal
over the future supply Of timber, recognizing, as they
rightly do. that available supplies within the present
commercial areas are gradually subsiding. They
should take courage, however, in noting the prospective
Development Of timber supplies at remote points. Northern
Mexico offers vast supplies of timber, but at points now
beyond reach. Means probably will be found whereby the
timber supplies of that country and Of certain localities
in British Columbia will ere long be available CONNER
cialy.
The explorers who have been looking over Siberia find
enormous timber supplies, which, in their opinion, will yet
be available for use along the Pacific Coast. This seems
to be a rather faint hope, but the engineers who have gone
over the Siberian timber field, and have examined the ways
and means whereby supplies could be carried from that re-
mote part Of the world to our coast, say that feasible
plans can be adopted for its delivery.
At any rate, we have steel, and when we cannot use
lumber or get lumber, we will find steel at our hands. The
drawback at present is monopoly control. When this con
troll is broken by the discovery Of new sources Of ore sup
ply, as is not altogether improbable and this discovery is
followed up by the erection Of enormous steel mills, as has
been done near Denver and at Durango, Mexico. and Is now
projected near Fort Worth, Tex, the high cost Of steel will
cease to be an obstacle. The civilization Of the world calls
for SIS per ton crude steel. Steel can be made at a good
profit at that figure, and it Is Lot beyond the bounds OF
probability that this will be the ultimate figure at which
crude steel will be old.-Internationa Railway Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
Longevity i'm Virginia.

mine Is the prize state for longevf
ty," said a vfrginian, who was regis
tered a. 8 Chestnut street hotel, &C
cording to the Philadelphia Press. 81
can produce a list Of nineteen former
citizens and slaves Of my State WHOSE
years when they died aggregated
2,241. OF the nineteen persons named
the youngest when he died was 11(
years old. Two lived to be 40, n to
be 126, two to be 121, n to be 116
two 115, three la, N 113, two 112
two Ill, one 10, one 40 and one, Q
negro lived to the ripe old age Of 13f
years. OF the nineteen persons only
six were negroes; all the others e
whites.
while I am in the humor l will tel
another one. There is, or WAS. a few
years ago, standing on the banks OF
Neabsco Greek. Virginia, a tombstoM
carrying probably the Oldest monu
mental inscription in the United States
The date is zoos and it is thought that
the decedent was one of John Smiths
men. This Is the inscription: 'Hers
lies We body of Lieutenant William
Herbs, who died May We 10th, 1908
aged 65 years; by birth a Briton; Q
rood soldier; a good husband and
neighbor.'"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29

T@HE wonder is indeed that Austria does not have
more race troubles. When we consider what an
amazing pot-pourn Of races that Empire represents
Germans, Hunga-ians. Czechs, Poles, Italians and
EnrksLthe continual marvel is that 1t should hold together
1t all 1t would not have held together II 1t had not
adopted the principle of Federal Home Rule. These vari-
lus populations hate enc another, but they are held togeth-
n by the common liberty OF managing their own affairs.
Thus it is that the Poles Of Austria are happier than the
Poles either Of Russia or of Germany. The Czechs are a
troublesome element I'm the Austrian Parliament, but in
heir own country they are gaining liberty and are settling
aown. 1t is the same all through that vast Empire, and 1t
supplies the reason why all the prophecies of Austrian
disruption come to naught. The arrangement may be weak
tor Imperial purposes, but Austria is one Of those happy
countries that has no Imperial Mission. Her whole object
% a nation is concentrated on the happiness of the people
within her own dominions. That she achieves beyond any
pther Power In the East Of Europe. On that rock she
u securely built, and we believe that she will survive many
Powers who play a more bouncing part in the world to-
2ay.-London Daily News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
The Anoloeetic Chinam.n.

In China an in japan custom requires
that one who has performed a meri-
torious service should belittle 1t, and
one who has been selected for honors
should declare himself unworthy. Who
can imagine an American ofice-holdez
writing such a letter Of acceptance al
this, which the b~iographer of Ii Hung
Chang quotes from Tseng Kwo-fan,
appointed vicerey of Marking?
"Being of no ability, and having,
Notwithstanding, been entrusted with
the most important uuties, l have, as
tottered along, failed to do anything
meritorious.
when, some years ago, l went to
Shantung, 1 did not succeed In sub
DUNG the Nienfei, but returned to
Marking, and was ever after ashamed
Of myself. Last year l was g~raciously
nominated viceroy Of Chilli, but
made unsuitable appointments, mis-
managed the army, and failed to d.
any good for the Yellow River.
tremble as / think of my blunders
and in consequence 1 am overwhelmed
by the gracious order which directs
me to resume my former important
post and thus displays your majesty
confidence In me, instead, as would b
Just, Of reprobating me for my worth
lessness and Diminishing me-"
As it happened, this was from one
Of the most honest and best beloved
Chinese who ever governed Marking,
and was almost worshipped by the peo-
pie Of that province
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
PROPER WAY TO WALK.
A Physical Instructor Gives Advice on
the Subject.

fnys1cal l~nstructor Gives Advice on
the Subject.
The way to walk straight Is not To
think of the shoulders at all, says a
physical instructor. Hang your arms
loosely at your sides and hold yourself
erect by moderate tension of the back
and abdominal muscles and the mus
cles of the neck. Then your shoulders
will have to hang right.
Don't throw OUT your chest The
chest that is inflated properly by deep
breathing is bound to be thrown out,
and thrown out not like that Of u
stuffed figure, but naturally, because
1t can't help 1t.
Don't walk with a stiff neck. Hold
your head erect the way an animal
does. Watch a deer. It's neck Is al
ways in motion, yet it is always held
beautifully. Your head poised on o
stifly held neck is no good for either
balancing or looking around you. Pols.
ed confidently on strong but plant
neck muscles, it becomes what a head
should be.
Many clsases of men who do much
walking, such as Indians, guides and
trappers. walk with their bodies in
clined forward a little bit. But they
don't round their shoulders or stoop
their heads. They incline forward
from the hips. This throws their
weight a little ahead and gives the lea
muscles the chance to exert all their
power in the best directions. But the
upper body is never bent by these
men. 1t simply is held forward from
the hips at a very slight, barely per
ceptible angle.
Even if correct poise in walking had
nothing to do with other forms of ath-
letics it would be invaluable in itself.
The man who walks right is going ia
keep his organs-heart, kidneys, liver
and lungs-in splendid form. But, be
sides all this, it helps wonderfully in
all outdoor sports.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
kkfDIIoRIALS& !
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. .

change In character, the books and newspapers will lose
their distinctive appearance, the decorative art will be
robbed Of much Of its Identity. Already Japan's artists are
studying and applying the tenets Of the European studios,
with a not altogether happy effect
This suggestion Of Prince Fushimi naturally raises the
old question Of the ultimate adoption Of a universal Ian
guage. to be used by all the commercial nations. English
is now much more widely employed than ever before, and
as the tongue Of trade has In some parts of the world dis
placed the language of the soil. French, which was once
the usual medium Of communication in distant parts. is less
used for that purpose. On the continent Of Europe 1t Is
still the customary medium among those of differing ma
~ionalites. But Germany's repugnance to the study Of
French has seriously set back the tendency to employ that
tongue, and the German people are being educated widely
In the use of English as q trade speech.-Washington Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
Fiv, or Six Hours at a stretch and ps-

~ a aAA III
visions Up to "Eighty-sixthIy.v
Nc English congregation would have
listened to such sermons as USED to
be popular in the Presbyterian
churches of Scotland. There is indeed
n story told Of a dissenting preacher
named Lobb in the seventeenth CEN
fury who, when South went to hear
him, being mounted up ia the pulpit
and naming his text, made nothing OF
splitting it up into Stwenty-six diNi-
sions, upon which separately he very
carefully undertook TO expatiate in
their order. T%hereupon the doctor rose
fpp, and. Jogging the friend who Dore
Sp company, said, Let us go home
andk<<Sfchso gowns and slippers. Tor
| find this man will make night work
Hof it,"
But Mr.. Lobb himself was humane
in the pulpit al compared to a GER
tain Mr.. Thomas Boston, to whose SER
mons Sir Archibald Geikie has drawn
attention In his Scottish Reminis-
cences." Mr.. Thomas Boston, who
wrote a book called "Primitiae ct u
tma," was minister Of the gospel at
Ettrick. In a sermon on Fear and
Hope, Objects Of the Divine Com
p~lacency," from the text Pslam
cxlvil, IL, The Lord taketh pleasure
in them that fear him and in those
that hope in his mercy" Mr.. Boston.
after an introduction in four sections,
deduced six doctrines, each subdivided
into from three to eight heads, but
the last doctrine required another SER
mon which contained a practical i'm
provement of the whole arranged
under eighty-six heads. A sermon on
Matthew XII, %, was subdivided into
seventy-six heads" On this text, in
deed, Mr.. Boston preached four such
sermons.
1t is more than doubtful whether
any brains or hearts south Of the
Tweed could have stood the strain of
such 6~iscourses. But a Scotch preach
er, not In the present degenerate age,
has been known to preach from five
to six hours at a stretch, and some
times when n preacher had finished
his sermon another would begin and
there would be a succession of preach
ers delivering sermon upon sermon
until the unhappy congregations were
kept listening to 1.-The word" for as
many as ten hours without a break
Bishop Wildon In the Nineteenth Cen.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
LETTER FROM CHAPLAIN HALE.
The Accusation Against Gen. jaime
Wilkinson-Spelling of Kansas.

The Accusation Against Gen. James
Wilkinson-Spelling of Kansas.
E. A. Kilian, of Alma, Kas., recent
T. wrote to DIR. Edward Everett Hale,
the eminent minister and historian,
who at the advanced age of 50 is still
an active man, says the Kansas City
Journal. The Kansas gentleman wish
ed to know more about a historical
statement made by DR.. Hale. The re-
ply is published in the Alma Enter
prise, and from 1t we quote as follows:
1.-The great American authority
about all these things was Gayarre.
It was he whom the State Of Louisiana
sent to Spain and France. I had the
pleasure Of meeting him in 1876, when
he was well and strong. But l do not
know what became Of his collections
Of papers. 1t was he who discovered
III Spain the absolute evidence that
our Gen. James Wilkinson was in the
pay Of the Spanish government, from
whom he received $1,000 n year while
he was in the service of the United
States. When my mugwump friends
talk to me about the purity Of our
early government 1 am fond of asking
them to beat this transaction II they
can"
The discovery to which DR.. Hale al
ludes proved conclusively that which
had been suspected of Gen Wilkinson
for several years before he was dis
missed from the American army in
1915. He was mixed up in a conspir-
acy to form a southwestern republic
under the protection of Spain and
Spain was regularly paying him a pen
sion or a subsidy while he was hold
ing a position Of responsibility in the
United States army. 1t Will be remem-
bered that Aaron Burr declared that
Wilkinson was a party to the success
sion scheme, but q court-martial trial
held In 1911 did not regard the proof
as conclusive and Wilkinson was ac-
qutttsd. only to be dismissed on anoth-
er charge four years later.
In commenting on one Of the let
tiers written In territorial days By the
late John J. Ingalls,, the Journal NOT
e ~ Ingalls, spelled the nans -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
Thirteen-Year-O Soldier.


81 was mustered into the service at
Camp Chase, Lowell, on Sept. 3, 1861"
says Storekeeper Edwin b. Gushing at
the navy yard, a resident Of Somer-
vile, land, l was born at Dover, N.
FL. on May %, 1S4S, my age at the
time Of muster was Is years 3 months
and 8 days. My final discharge was
given me at Gallops Island in Boston
Harbor, on Aug. 20, 1865, thus max
ing the official duration or my con-
nection with the regiment just one
week less than four years.
"Of course" says Mr.. Gushing,
there were a great many more boys
in the army. But the larger part Of
these under-age youngsters got in dur
ing the last two years Of the war, and
as 1 began with carrying q musket
and kept right on in that sort Of duty
curing the major part Of the time I
was in the army, the claim has been
made in my behalf that / am the
youngest soldier, with four years Of
active service to my credit, who en-
listed from Massachusetts,.
Whether or not that is so, and the
record may be duplicated several
times in this as in other States, I am
satisfied" said Mr.. Gushing, that I
became a soldier full early enough, and
but for some hardening I had just
received on a New Hampshire farm,
my experience in performing the du-
ties Of a full-fledged enlisted man
might have been much more difficult
than 1t proved to be. Then again,
my regiment, the 26th Massachusetts,,
did not see much real work in the
field for nearly two years and the life
in garrisoning forts and In policing
New Orleans gave me a chance to
grow to the full measure of a soldiers
duty, so that when we reached Sheri-
dan in the Shenandoah Valley, we
were all a toughened lot Of union de-
tenders.
1.-The '26th,'" said Mr.. Gushing was
one Of the Butler regiments that went
to Ship Island with Gen. Butler In
November, 1861, our commander be-
ing Col. e. F. Jones, who led the old
9Th through Baltimore, and Col. Jones
Is now one Of the youngest men in the
regimental association, Of which body
I am the secretary. The regiment was
encamped at Ship Island until April,
1862, our brigade commander being
Gen. j. w. Phelps Of Vermont, who
was recalled by President Lincoln for
issuing those famous emancipation
proclamations, Gen. Phelps being the
first Of the union commanders to at
tempt the freedom Of the slave in gen
eral orders"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
HER IDEA OF x U


Three fine gold medals have recent
~ been struck at the Philadelphia
mint and forwarded to officers Of the
United States Revenue Cutter Service
for a deed Of heroism performed dur
ing the winter Of 1S97-9S. AS it came
at a time when the United States was
interested in records Of wharf.-the
achievements Of army and navy
against Spain-the exploit has not re-
ceived the attention it deserves. The
story has been told before, but it is
well worth the repetition which the
Washington Post gives It.
In November Of 1897 the owners of
whaling vessels Of the Pacific coast
received information that eight whal-
ers were caught by the early closing
In Of the Ice pack, and that there was
danger Of starvation If food were not
cent to them at once. The President
ordered a relief expedition to be fitted
out, and the cutter Bear was chosen
for the service.
The overland expedition was put on
shore at Cape Vancouver. There was
Q train of four sleds carrying supplies
and camp equipment, and drawn by
iorty-one dogs. At the start the snow
was deep. and all the party travelled
On snow-shoes, while four Eskimos
went ahead to break the trail.
The storms and gales were furious,
but the little company pressed on un-
I'll they had completed the journey of
sixteen hundred miles. The travellers
did not, as they are supposed to do,
sit back on a sled and comfortably
crack a whip over the heads Of the
dogs. The men Of this outfit had not
merely to walk, but to push, haul,
and sometimes to harness themselves
to the sleds.
At first the officers found the work
almost killing, but they gradually grew
accustomed to It For half the dis
lance they drove a herd Of nearly five
hundred reindeer, a no light piece of
work in itself. A small Lapp dog
circled round the outskirts Of the herd,
and kept the deer from ~straying.
The last part of the journey was
most trying. ard often it seemed as If
disaster must overtake Them Biz
card followed blizzard; packs Of wolves
troubled the nerd; heavy SHOWS oblit-
Grated beacons and landmarks, an.
the whole company suffered painfully
from tia cold. At one time one sec.
ton Of the party was separated from
the rest Food ran low. and all that
was left for the dogs was a little flour
soup" The poor creatures became "a
ravenous that they ate the lashingz
Of their sleds, and even the cloths
Of the men we're not safs from ttolz
appsdtea-
On March 10th the train dSDW up
ct ths Point Barrow settlemeuk The
o6lcsEU an nsn Of IL svrsc1Dd ~
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29
A War of Giants.

THE deepest OF the many Impressions made on our
minds by the nine days battle on the Sha-ho is the
immensely of the strength the combatants have dis
played. AS We are Europeans, take the Russian ex-
ample first. In this country we are accustomed to think
and all the defects inherent in autocratic rule; but what a
mighty machine it is! At a distance of six thousand miles
from its enemy, who is only accessible by land, the Gov
eminent OF st. Petersburg hurls upon him a quarter of a
million soldiers as effective as any to be found on earth.
1t Is impeded at every turn by corruption, but its commits
sariat on the spot is sufficient to keep that vast crowd In
health; there has been no lack Of munitions, though from
the character of the war they have to be wasted as they
have never been wasted yet; and, horrible as the slaughter
d. sufficient reinforcements always arrive to keep up the
army in equal strength to its opponent The generals are
selected by favor, are too old, and often enfeebed by a
too luxurious life; but a man has been found for COM
manderin-chief who is as competent as any one In history,
except the few men Of original genius who, 80 to speak,
were not selected, but chose themselves through feats in
val. . .
Out Of an island which, measured by Asiatic scales Of
measurement. is but a little one, a monarch whose very
title a generation ago suggested nothing but comedy, has
poured an army organized within his own restricted domin-
Ion, commanded by generals who never saw a European
foe, and by officers, most Of whom have had only academic
training, and in a campaign Of seven months against SOL
tiers like Kuropatkin's, Sat army has never known defeat.
Its generals, not men CT genius, have fought at least as
well as Napoleon's marshals; its officers have died as read
~ as their opponents, whose superiors they are In train
hg and method Of military life; its men-have they any
squalls as units on the feld?-London Spectator.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-29

Colonel John L. Glenn, chief quarter
master of the Philippine division, who
has been reprimanded by the quarter
master-general for turning into the
treasury $423. 600 as "unexpended bal
ance" without authority to do so, was
known az Little Johnny" when, as q
motherless atom of a drummer boy,
aged 10 years, he strayed away from
Newark, Ohio. in 1852, and was next
heard from beating the long roll for
the Twenty-second Michigan Regi-
ment.
At Chlckamauga he filed the Office
Of marker" carrying the guidon
whereby soldiers form the lines. On
the Sunday Of the battle Little John
ny" picked up a gun that had fallen
from the hands Of a dying soldier, pro-
vided himself with ammunition and
began blazing away. Late In the day
a rebel colonel dashed up and looking
down at the waif ordered him to sur
render. The word Surrender" ac-
companied with an awful line Of pro-
family, was hardly uttered when
Johnny" brought his piece to order
arms" and as his hand slipped down
to the hammer he pressed it back,
swung up the gun to the position Of
charge bayonet" and as the rebel
officer raised his saber to strike the
piece aside the glancing barrel lifted
into range and the proud and brave
colonel tumbled from his horse, and in
a few moments he was dead. The
rebel trops swept along and captured
Little Johnny" but a half-hour later
he was freed by q surge Of Federal
troopers.
After the battle was over General
Rosecrans made him a sergeant and
secured for him q gun more suitable
for his size. A few weeks later q
daughter Of Salmon p. Chase present
ed him a silver medal. His heroism
secured for him a commission In the
regular army and he was advanced
step by step to his present rank.