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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
First voters In 1905.

Each year in the United States near
Iy a million men attain the right to
vote. The great majority of these first
voters are young men who have
reached their majority. This element
In elections is scarcely given the weight
to which it is entitled In fact. few
realize that in each presidential year
at least 20 per cent Of the vote is from
this class. In the closely contested cleo
ton Of 1896. which brought out total
tote of about 100000, more thai
100000 were cast by men who had
never before appeared at the polls in
a national election. 1t seems but a
short time since the election of 1904,
but in the choice of Congress this fall
over 100000 first voters will be quail
fed to participate. Outside Of natu-
ralizations this vast number Is COM
posed of young men who will have
passed the age of 81 between Novem-
Der, 1901. and November. 1906. 1t Is
the most interesting and potential OF
all additions TO the electorate. These
young men are entering upon much
more than their political duties. Their
social and business careers are In the
formative stage. They should grasp
clearly the value OF the ballot to young
Americans. Their heritage Is the Uni
ted States, for upon them must fall the
responsibilities In the course OF .he
next quarter OF century.
A young voter is generally Influenced
In politics by family environment. but
inany of the ancestral rGlitical impress
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
LEGAL INFORMATION.


A decree of divorce is held, in Nolan
VS.. Dwyer (Wash.). L. II. A. IN. 81
551. not to be subject to be vacated
efter the death Of one of the parties.
Refusal to pay money admitted to
be due. except upon receiving certain
kind of receipt, is held, in Earl VS..
Berry Or. L.. L. r. a. (N.S.) SGT.
not to constitute such duress as to rem
der the receipt void
Property conveyed to a railway COM
pany for right Of way by a general
warranty deed. is held. in Abercrombie
VS.. Simmons (Kan.). l L. r. A. IN. Sd
SOC, to revert to the adjoining owner
upon the abandonment of its use for
that purpose.
The authority conferred on a board
Of commissioners to fix the credits to
be allowed to convicts for good be-
havior is held, in Fife VS.. State ex rel.
Snider (Tenn.), L. II. A. On. 50 500,
to be an unconstitutional iesegation of
legislative power.
The right of State to revoke the
license of foreign insurance company
for refusal to perform its agreement
not to remove suits against 1t to the
Federal courts Is upheld in Prewitt VS..
Security Nut. L. ms. Co. (Ky.). L.
r. A. On. So 1919.
One who took possession Of prem
ises under an arrangement with the
grantor and subsequently agreed to pay
rent to the grantee for certain period,
Is held, In Hodges VS.. Waters (Ga.),
L. Z. A. IN. 81 1881, not to he
sstopped to deny liability to the latter
for rent after the expiration Of the
term of such agreement, although he
remained in possession of the premises.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

While on the march from Frederick
City, Md, to Gettysburg. in the sum-
mer of '63, Sergeant Jordan of Com
pany 9, Nineteenth Maine, carried an
unusually large knapsack, which was
the occasion Of many sarcastic and
teasing remarks by the boys. One very
bot day, when the dust and blazing
sunlight were almost binding. Jordan
was trudging along beneath the weight
of his mammoth knapsack, bis hat
pulled down over his eyes for protec-
ton. when some oase ON horseback rode
mp and called out:
"Say, sergeant, how far are you 90
ing to carry that knapsack"
Farther than you can drive your
old horse If you swap three times, y
yelled Jordan, whose patience had
been already pretty thoroughly ex'
hausted by a thousand such questiors
The horseman with his scabbard
gently raised the rim OF Jordan's hat
locked him 10 the face, and replied
"well, you win do, by thunder!"
Imagine the surprise Of Jordan wher
be recognized General Hancock in thu
person who had spoken to him
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
HE WORKED.


There was an astonishing contrast
between Mr.. and Mrs. Payette. Mrs.
Payette was the thin, shabbily clad,
overworked mother OF nine children,
and certainly looked the part. Mr..
Payette was a sleek. robust person or
leisure. and wore his adequate clothing
with a pleasing air of jauntiness- AL
though Payette looked the picture OF
health, and although the doctors whom
his wife consulted anxiously could find
nothing wrong with him, this indolent,
easy going Frenchman declared that be
was too much Of an invalid to work.
cit ees the heart" he would explain,
when kindly disposed but skeptical per-
sons carried cast-off clothing to the al
ways destitute little Payettes. II have
too large the heart. Listen! Hear
how she ees palpitatel 1 mos not be
hagitate. l mos remain of calmness
within my hinside. / mos myself car
ry with a softness lax the basket of
haig."
"Oui," loyal Mrs. Payette would af-
firm. Mon Adolphe, she mos nevaire
be hagitate. She ees not of sufficient
ssrongness 10 do no work."
One year, during the berry season.
the Payettes borrowed an old tent and
camped out, children and all, on the
berry fields. Afterward Mrs Payette
tired but beaming with satisfaction,
told about it.
AT last, madame" confided she, tri-
umphantly, there ees work that mon
cher Adolphe can do. He ees work
hard, for seek whole week. Me, l am
proud, l am for up my haid. Me,
am tole evairbody, Mon bon Adolphe
she ees now man lax odder man-she
| ees work y"
But surely" replied the interested
listener, "he didn't pick berries? There's
nothing easy about that"
"But, no, madame. 1t ees who
peek the berry, but, madame, behoP
Il ees Adolphe, mon bon Adolphes VINO
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

General Serrell, who has lately died.
was one of the most prominent mill
tary and civil engineers in the coun-
try. 1t was he who planned and con-
srructed the famous suspension bridge
at Niagara. Another piece of his work,
not so well known and on less pre-.
tentious scale, but ingenious and OF
great service, is described in various
accounts of the siege of Charleston
The Federal troops had captured Nor
ris Island, tract of sand-dunes. aud
marshes, but commanding good range
Of Charleston
Colonel Serrell, one of the voluntary
engineers, was informed of the great
desjrability of establishing battery
on this bit of marsh land. He and an
assistant started out to see If there
was any hope of fipding a foundation
firm enough to plant gun upon.
They carried with them broad
plank. When the mud would not bear
them, they sat upon the plank and
pushed it toward. The examination
was made in open view of three Con-
federate forts, and on a day Of intense
heat
At last a spot was found in plain
sight of the city where the mud did
not seem as deep as In other places
SerreIl reported that he considered II
feasible TO construct a battery PLACED
upon sand-bags, which, in their turn
should rest on grillage platform. He
thought guns, weighing not over ter
thousand pounds, might be put on skids
and taken across the marsh. Twenty
three hundred men could carry in one
night enough sand-bags to form the
foundation for the battery. y
Soundings showed that the mud wa:
In places twenty feet deep. Grass grew
ON the top, but the turf had no resist
ing power. 1t was quite easy for 9
man on plank TO start waves of mud
across the surface of the marsh. This
was the bed on which Colonel Serrel
had the foundation If his battery.
A grillage was built of pine logs. Or
this the sand bags were placed. 1t was
discsuragblg task. Tue platform
would suddenly tip. letting the bags
into the mire, where they would sinh
out of sight. One officer gave out no
tice that Colonel Serreii had sent in I
request for twenty men, eighteen fee
long, to work infifteen feet of mud =
Nevertheless, the FORK progressed.
A mock mattery had been construct
ed at another point to draw off thu
Confederate fire from the working
parties. At last the platforms were
established and weighted with thirteen
thousand sand-bags. An eight-incl
PARROT rifle gun, two-hundred pound
er, was successfully placed, and imme
diately christened by the soldiers ths
Swamp Angel"
On August %, 1868, the first shell
was fired from Morris Island. Tn,
noise of the whistles and bells in th,
city tod the soldiers it had reached
its. mark. On the second night, after
firing thirty-six shells. the .SwamI
Angel burst.
After the war, among a LOT of OLD
guns sold as junk, some one recognized
the Angel of Morris Island swamp
and rescued it from an ignominiou!
fate. The gun now rests on monu
mental foundation built by the town o.
| Trenton, y. j.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20


~ ! gationa church is falling off rapidly. The
fact is attributed to the small incomes that
&44EHv paid to pastors and to the broader and
k&tXSl freer field for Christian service offered by
the Y. NJ. c.. A. On the subject of salaries
the Rev. W. f. English, of East Windsor. Conn.,, who was
instrumental In securing the information upon which
the dispatch based has the following to say:
During the past ten years In every other trade and
occupation salaries and have enjoyed substantial
increase but during this period the salaries of Con-
gregatonal ministers have been actually reduced 10 per
cent although the wealth the country has increased
enormously and the cost of living has greatly advanced
There Is confusion in speaking of salaries and
together because it is certain that there has been
general Increase in salaries to correspond to the
eral increase in We may doubt, too If the sal
airy plays quite important part in the medtatons
Of divinity student 1t does in those OF youth who
Ia serving apprenticeship In business But certainly
large to men with genius for money making. From
report conditions at the beginning of the year it ap
pears that the Congregationasts then had nearly 5000
church establishments in the country and that only about
thirty of their ministers received $4,000 per
year The highest salary paid $4,000. and there
only two three pastors who drew that amount
There two at SS000 there at $1,000 there
$4,000 and most of the others in the class
mentioned drew $4,000. After those exceptional cases
there long drop, and doubt hundreds of the
pastors have incomes that would be considered wreched
E inadequate In other professions than theirs in bust
ness.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

In Valparaiso all the conductors on
trolley cars are women
Sew-Sew Is the name O! ladies'
club in Glasgow. Scotland.
England's bill for sugar to make into
candy is 100000 every week.
The gold mined in Mexico is now ap-
proximately $25.0O0.coo annually.
The annual consumption of wine IN
France averages twenty three gallons
to each person
Japan has an avenue of trees fifty
miles long, extending from the town Of
Namanda to Mike.
The Portuguese ore X eat consumers
of wine, owing to its extreme cheap
ness. but there is nor much drunken.
ness.
The peanut crops IT. German Eas,
Africa are threatened ny new disease
which makes the plant Turn black a,.i
kills it.
Tooth brushes are % bt supplied in
the future by the government OF India
to all British soldiers seIsing In that
country.
The finest army Y. NJ. c. A. building
in the world is to be erected at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. the largest military
post in the United States. 1t is gift
of a woman who withholds her name
from the public, and 1t viii cost SIS.
600.
According to Berlin letter in Lon-
don journal there is a growing prob
ability thet the demand for the pay
ment of members of the re:ehstag-a
demand which has been refused by ev-
cry chancellor from Bismarck to Prince
Won Buelow-will receive the consent
Of the authorities at o. distant data :.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
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Pattern Department
UP-TO-DATE DESi ms FOR
THE HOME DRESShIAKER
- -
Graceful Combinafion suit.

Here is an ideal suit fer lot wea .her
"a combination OF corset cover aEi
drawers. which are gu: very fuil and
plated onto a smooth-G.ting yoke NJ
lie waist The leg portions are made
If white embroidery. with a fril CT
narrow edging up each side. which is
led with bows Of wash ribbon. The
size of the waist and CT the low cut
neck are also adjusted By ribbons run
through bands of beading. This IS AZ
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

scrbed for patients deserve the widest publicity possible
They summarize briefly the best advice modern science
give.
Though many of these rules are already known and
generally accepted, they be repeated often
The first commandment is for patients TO live in the
air a the hours of ali the days of all the years. The
other rules are simple They call nutritious
diet of meat and Bread milk and eggs early diagnosis
determined spirit and confident submission a good
DOCTOR For his sake we'll for the safety of his
neghbor the patient must take all precautions necessary
to prevent his becoming danger to Others
Equally important for the welfare of the general public
are the rules Evans prescribes for the community,
calling for the abolition of the filthy habit of promscu-
ously splitting and for campaign of education against the
evils from which tuberculosis originates and spreads The
public if fight the great plague effectively. must
see that there hospitals for patients in advanced
stages of the disease those in early
stages II learn adequate methods of supervision
sanitation and hygiene In general cultivate
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20


What they can do:
Poison the baby.
Kill the canary.
Carry disease.
Destroy a nights rest.
Make front porch mockery.
What you can do:
Avoid malaria, swampy, mosquito
infested region.
Screen your windows.
Mosquito-net the baby and the canary
both day and night.
Employ tobacco fumes on the front
porch and oil of sassafras or cloves In
the bedroom
Draw the heat from the sting by
bathing in spirits Of camphor mixed
with pure alcohol.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

The task Of keeping small boy ap
propriately dressed i no light problem,
as any mother realizes. for style and
cut show as much in his suits rs In
those of bis elders. A blouse suit Is al
way jaunty and comfortable and Is 4
great favorite with the boys them
selves Made Up in wash materials.
these are one Of the stan1bys for sum
mer wear. and all sorts Of material are
used for them-crash. duck. linen. AMI
even heavy ginghams and galateas. for
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
sToEssEL. THE scAPEaoAT.

: ;
concentration StOeSSel
Russian commission appointed to investi-
\ gate the surrender of Port Arthur is not
surprising when measured by the Russian
uENM1Hv standards of duty but it indicates that the
kESGSGy empire must pass through baptism of
blood before 1t is purged of the old tradi-
onary policies that have long since been discarded by
the enlightened nations of the earth.
General Stoessel made valiant defense at Port Ar
thur He his soldiers by the hundreds die of disease
and of japanese assaults His had been reduced
extremity where further plain butch
cry There relief in sight there nothing in
the conditions north TO show that by sacrificing the rest
of his he could give valuable aid to the Russian
Hence he chose the alternative of the humanta
rian and surrendered
We have General Nogis word for it that Stoesse did
all that any human being could do TO keep the japanese
Port Arthur Nogi has declared that the Russian
commander made brave defense and that instead of be-
ing Inundated and disgraced he should be honored. But
Russian discipline is not to be denied. Some
be made scapegoat fer Russian defeat aud Stoesse has
been marked.
1t is the prevailing opinion that the sentence of death
imposed the commission will not be executed but whet
er the of Russia has gained moth
ing in the estimation of the world by this unjust attack
ON brave sodier-Toledo Blade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

sources. Yet she is fifty times slower Why: Because
she lacks the power of free press She unite
or harmonic her forces But when want to do any
thing in America the newspapers take 1t up Everybody
reads newspapers everybody the situation
we all act together This is attering free press
and several large grains of truth: yet
ness be recognized that there other impor
favor. Free institutions With all that
these include and imply universal popular education
der free schools ia which Is blended the strength
of many nationates, more varied climate, and many
unrivaed natural NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

The contents Of a reference library
as they are conceived by the modern
youth in search of important informa
ton, are suggested by the Kansas City
independent.
The names of the great men who are
the objects of the search may be altered
to suit any part of the nation.
"Here, Johnny" said the father
"what are you doing in that bookcase? 2
II want to find history of the Unit
ed States"
"What for?
swell, Billy Jenkins says Tim Riley
pitched for the Nationals last year, ant
I want to find out if he did"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
Not a Hard Eight.

Miss Prim-The idea of his trying t
kiss you! Why didn't you slap him?
Miss Koy--I did-the first time
Philadelphia Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
MIR. Bryan's speech.


We believe in Mr.. Bryan when he
talks about himself He was right when
he declared he had not changed, and
that he stands where he stood in 1896
and 1900. His speech at Madison
Square Garden proves this. OF course
he has dropped the free silver issue,
for he knows it is dead.
His proposition for the government
ownership of the trunk line railroads
and the State ownership of the smaller
lines seems like somewhat radical
departure, but is at once modified by
the declaration that it is not necessary
to do this at once. but it should be done
ultima ely" This may mean in hun
dred years, a thousand years or million
years. 1t was merely an adroit politi-
cal play, of which art Mr.. Bryan Is a
past master.
The speech was not marked by that
boldness of utterance expected from
Mr.. Bryan. He has become more eau
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

tlous. He hesitates to tread OH new
ground. He hangs TO old and repudi-
ated theories and lacks the progressive
ness which might he expected of man
having the advantages OF extensive
trlvel. There is nothing in what he
said to electrify the country nor make
the twice defeated candidate for the
Presidency stronger with the Masses
Toledo Blade.
Democrats Were Disappointed.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer. the
Democratic organ of northern Ohio, in
the opening paragraph Of an editorial
on the New York meeting. crowds con-
siderable truth and gives a fair esti-
mate of Mr.. Bryans speech. The Plain
Dealer says:
The Democrats who fiocked to hear
Mr.. Bryan in New York expecting to
hear a call from a clarion that would
combine the potency of Gabriels horn
to wake the dead and those before
! Jericho to cause hostile citadel TO
fall. must have been disappointed 1t
must have occurred to them that they
had heard that same horn before. The
speech contained nothing that had not
previously been said by Mr.. Bryan.
and in much the same way, and little
that could not now be said by Theodore
Roosevelt before an appiaudlng crowd
of Ohio Republicans. AS a reaffirma-
ton Of Mr.. Bryan's well-known views
| 1t leaves little 10 be desired. AS the
basis of a Democratic platform two
years hence it Is open to the objection
| that it deals for the most part, but
with one important exception, with
issues which the Democratic party has
repuciated or forgotten or to which II
is now indifferent, or which the Repub-
lican leader has to all intents and pur-
poses made his own.
Republican Party and Trusts.
In its State platform the Republican
party of Indiana makes the following
declaration concerning trusts:
I'VE favor the enforcement of laws
to protect the people against the en-
croachments of combined capital. We
realize that capital must unite in a
lawful way to conduct successfully our
modern industries and commerce, and
we believe in protecting 1t in its legiti.
mate functions. We indorse the &C.
tons of President Roosevelt In rigidly
enforcing the antitrust laws placed
upon the statute books Of the United
States by the Republican party"
VIII Not Rebuke Roosevelt.
In a recent speech Secretary of War
Taft said:
Not while the American people adj
mire courage, consistency, high ideals
and practical common sense: not while
they believe in energy. honesty and
Americanism; not while they take q
man for what he Is and what he does
rather than for what he says, will
they rebuke the man, who not by words
but by deeds. as President of the
United States. has shown his adherence
TO the principles of equal protection &c
all. by the return of Congress this fall
of an opposition majority"
When Necessary.
Short, expressive and easily under
stood is the tariff declaration of the
! Michigan State Republican Conven
ton:
We emphaticaIly affirm our continued
belief in the wisdom of the Republican
protective tariff policy. Whatever
changes in tariff schedules may become
necessary should be so made as to pre-
serve the Republican principle of pro
lection and to aid the further advance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
FACTORS IN NATIONAL PROGRESS.

HOMAS a. EDISON, looking over the whole
country, has come TO the conclusion that
''the greatest factor in our national prog
ress has been the newspaper press" Rus
sa lie points out, is much bigger than this
country In every way. "She has tremen-
dous nonulation and immense NATURAL re-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

1t may be possible to trace where
one got cold, but 1t Is never possible
to trace where one got a spot on new
clothes 5.,aa
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

for the last five years we have averaged
s.. OOO, 100000 a year more from our
fundamental industry, on which all 9th
ers rest. than we did in the last five
years of the nineteenth century. Where
the farmer then had 800 to live on,
to buy with, or 10 spend, he now has
S2Oo.
Human history does not record a
time when the tillers of the soil, and
with them all others, were so prosper
Gus as in America for these five won
derful years.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
MAKING WAR ON CONSUMPTION.

OR sufferers from consumption and for those
whose duty it is to care for them, the adj
dress which DIR. w. A. Evans, of Chicago,
gave before the National Fraternal Congress
at Montreal is full of hope and encourage
ment and stimulating counsel The mine
nnnna nd ments, which the sneake nre=
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20


playtime The bottom of the blouse IL
finished with a narrow hem through
which a tape is run. for adjusting the
size of the waist. The knickeroockers
are held in at the knees by eiastics.
and are made loose and comfortable.
allowing full play for a boys restless
activities. The suit Is decidedly stylish
The above pattern will be mailed to
your address on receipt Of 10 cents
Send oil orders to the Pattern Depart
ment of this paper. Be sure to give
both the number and size OF pattern
wanted, and write very plainly.
Order Coupon
No. 1906.
SIZE .----...---- --..-------.------
NAME ........
ADDRESS .................. ...-...
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20
DEVOID OF POETRY.

finds for me dose plass where l shall
naoly
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-20

II intend to take you in hand" said
the old maid to the stocking.
"I'll be darned If you dor returned
che stocking, dryly.
Needless to say this Ii only q yarn
Boston Transcript.