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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
COST OF STEAM YACHTS.

About s25 an Hour Required from
Owner of Big Vessels.
Twenty-Five dollars an hour seems a
big amount to pay for ones pleasure,
but with the millionaire expenses is of
no consideration where his comfort is
concerned. He has taken TO yachting
with a zeal that is increasing every
year and his floating home Is a marvel
of beauty, says the Broadway Maya
zine.
There are registered In the United
States over 100 sea-going steam yachts
representing. approximately. S60,00O,-
600. or these more than 300 fly the
flag OF the New York Yacht Club. 9th
ers steam under the colors Of the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead,
or the Atlantic Yacht Club or smaller
clubs. There are more steam yachts
registered In this country than In Eng
land or France or Germany.
Probably not one Of the dozen big
Club fleet cost to build and equip less
than 100000. But the cost Of main.
tenance is quite another story. No
one knows. Of course, just how much
it costs Mr.. Morgan to keep the Cor
sair going. But IL such yacht, for
example. carrying a crew of sixty men,
Is kept in commission for six months
out of the twelve, the pay roll will
run close to $4,000. To feed the crew,
to pay for coal and oil, for docking
and other necessary expenses will call
for an expenditure of from $4,000 to
$4,000 or more. Then there is the ex-
pense Of entertaining the owner, his
family and his guests on cruise-a mat,
ter OF 20.000-bringing the total cost
very near the 100000 mark. Never In
all history was another such costly and
luxurious vehicle. Any one of a dozen
American yachts now Swimming the
seven seas is costing its owner from
$4,000 to $4,000 a month. This
means an outlay running from $500 to
500 day, or approximately S25 an
hour. If the owner is entertaining q
party Of eight persons on n foreign
cruise exactly SO day, or $1,000 per
cruise, Is spent on each Individual
guest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
HIGH WAGES IN AFRICA.


Natives Charge Eleven Cents . Day
to Accompany Hunter.
/ had never got an African elephant
or hippopotamus or a rhinoceros. and
1 wanted to try. There is the whole
story, says a writer in Appleton's.
This brought me about the middle OF
last October by ship to Zanzibar. and
thence by another vessel some six hours
to the northward on the east coast of
Africa TO a town called Mombasa, the
southernmost seaport OF British East
Africa and the beginning of the Uganda
Railway. 1t seemed necessary to gath
er together for the outfit about thirty
men, native blacks of all grades. vari-
Gus colors and marvellous types-por-
tiers who carried daily on their heads
sixty pounds Of my own luggage and
whatever each needed for himself be-
able costumes ii has been my fortune to
see They will walk from fifteen TO
twenty miles a day, up hill and down.
through jungle and over. open fats.
with as little trouble as would walk
down 9Th avenue. And in recompense
for all this labor these dusky gentle
men get IL cents per day and one and
a half pounds OF rice for the comfort
OF their insides.
There were porters, personal SER
want, cook, gun bearers and head
man. The latter held the whole motley
crew in the hollow of his hand, and
ran them and me, and cheated us both
with frankness and thoroughness
that was too genial to be irritating He
stole and sold my aluminium cooking
outfit that was the apple Of my eye,
and never so much as gave me a COM
mission
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helmet permitting the whole be instantly
summoned in of need Brussels tells of
airship which have solved all the problems Of
aerial navigation and in Morrstown, n. j.. machine
is coming completion which will write letters talked
into it, thus doing away with stenographers and ypists
hundred years hence the world will be different
place what it is to-day Most work will be done
by machinery, space will be virtually annhilated COM
munication all the earth will be instantaneous
What then will become of national prejudices? The
world will be nation. War will disappear. All peO-
Piles will speak language.
But will poverty be wiped out? Will mans real
GERMS those of his nature be less disturbing? Will
envy hate and all Observation-Disclosures die away? Will
be any happier, any more content?-Chicago Jour-
nal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
Ql!g!gaAR25l9R!GS
~%~~~O~ONON

A mouse seldom lives longer than
three years.
The annual fish catch of England Is
valued at S53,96O,O00.
The factories of Japan close on the
1st and 18th of each month.
The absorbing capacity Of brick
is about sixteen ounces of water.
There were 1SS banks In Germany
at the close Of 1906, with capital Of
SS5O,OOO.OOO and reserves Of $233. 475,
600.
The Methodist Conference at Mil
waukee adopted resolution asking
President Roosevelt to stop United
States army men from playing base
ball on Sunday.
Lord Brampton (Sir Henry Haw-
kins) celebrated his nineteth birthday
recently. when he gave this character
istic advice: Never get mixed up in
lawsuits or the law. think l know
something about it."
coal MINING MS DecOlue one Oh III
dia's great industries. The output
last year was 9.7S4.250 tons. whereas
the average annual production for the
decade ending 1895 was only 275S.-
GAO. The coal now being worked Is
near the surface. and with the cheap
labor employed. India Is able to deliver
IFS coal at the pits mouth cheaper
than any other country in the world
The average price q ton delivered on
board freight car was S1.4O i'm 1906
and 1907.
Probably in no other State in the
Union does big ranch constitute a
district. family the members OF a
school board, and the son of the fam
i.v the only pupil in the school dis
trict. Such conditions exist on the
Woods ranch, near Hardin. Colo The
president of the School Board Is
Charles Allyn. manager of the ranch ;
the secretary Is his wife. the treasur-
er young woman living In the home,
and the pupil of the school the nine
year-old son of the Allyns.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
Thing. to Think About.


The German Emperor is good book.
binder.
Bromide of potassium often prevents
seasickness.
In the time of Henry VII. pepper
cost So an ounce.
You don't save whole lot Of tine
by going at full speed
Abroad dessert means raw fruit
only. Pies and puddings are called
sweets.
About two hundred oysters would be
required daily to supply sufficient
nourishment for one person.
Wood in building is used much more
sparingly in France than in America
hence danger from fire is less.
In fifty years the average height of
British men has risen an inch, to five
feet eight and one-half inches.
George Lycurgas, the manager OF the
Volcano House on the island of Ha-
vail. is having Il telephone line ex-
tended into the crater For warning in
case of eruption.
n consul at TrebiZond writes that
recently it took eight months for some
stylographic pens to come by express
from America to a port on the Black
Sea.
The startling calculation is now made
that the worlds Methodists are BOW so
numerous that by joining hands they
could girdle the earth. They number
100000.
The increase of the rice crop in this
country has been the means Of booming
q great portion of Texas land, 50 that
1t is now worth ten times what it was
valued at ten years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
P)IiCQ| comment.
Putting Roosevelt mt the Hea I

Putting. Roosevelt nt the Heed.
The United States is glad of tn p
probation which it is receiving at The
Hague conference. VI. Nelidoff. the
head of that gathering. has approved
'the draft of the conference which was
submitted to him by the special COM
:mittee, in which President Roosevelt is
mentioned as the chief author and pro-
.mOter of the gathering. This is very
agreeable to us, and better still, it is
true history. Every member of the
conference has given his signature to
this tribute which has accorded TO the
UNITED States executive the chief hon
:or for the holding of the present Hague
gathering.
1t was during the st. Louis worlds
fair of 1904 that the present conference
had its origin. The Interparliamentary
Union met in st. Louis that year. and a
Missouri man, Hon. Richard Bartholdt,
was the president Of the union. That
body was composed of members of the
'parliaments Cf all the principal nations
OF the world and of many of the small
er ones. Our Parliament, necessarily,
was represented by many Of its laein-
bers, and Il Missouri man was put at
the head The union asked President
Roosevelt TO issue a call for new
Hague gathering, to supplement the
work done by that of 1899, and TO con-
slider new questions which have arisen
since that body adjourned. and to take
note of other questions which were be-
fore that body, but which assumed new
aspects afterward Mr.. Roosevelt is
sued the call. and the conference which
is closing at The Hague is conse-
quence.
The compliment which The Hague
has extended to the United States is
bestowed on the country to which ii
belongs. The conference of 1890 orig
mated with Nicholas H.. but it did
little, and in the lapse of year or two
was forgotten. Europe seemed to be
anxious to let rs memory drop out
when the United States stepped in and
injected life into the tribunal. The
United States did this by referring to
it a dispute which we had with Mexico,
and thus the worlds attention WAS di-
rected anew to The Hague. That issue
was settled satisfactorily 20 both par
ties to it, and then Mr.. Roosevelt took
the steps which led TO the present goth
ering. When the Nobel prize was given
to the President a few months ago for
his work in the cause of world peace
the world applauded the act. The
world will also recognize the correct
ness of the tribute TO the President
which The Hague has now rendered,
and the United States wins a new vic
tory in the cause of peece.-st- Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
AN ODD SUPERSTITION.
British Fishermen Bnlk mt the Name

british Fishermen Balk mt the Name
Of Graham.
One of the most curious of British
fisharmen's superstitions, the one which
perhaps TO this day has the strongest
hold upon them. is that connected with
the name of Graham. No fisherman
will go to sea If he has heard this
narLe mentioned, nor will he do any
manner of work upon that day. He
will refuse to sail in q boat with any
one bearing the name, and a house
painter from Newcastle called Graham
who had been sent to do some work
in one Of the large houses, found his
life made SO miserable by the villagers
that he incontinently returned to the
town, leaving his work uncOmpleted.
The women who bait the lines in the
winter will unbait every hook and re-
bait the whole length-the labor OF
hours-if they hear 1t mentioned. A
local tradesman bearing this nnfortu.
nate patronymic is never referred to
save as Puff :" another, an lnnkeeper
Is known as Lucky Bits" No ration
al explanation Is to be found. On one
of the most intelligent fishermen being
questioned on the subject he laughed
the idea to scorn. Why, his daughter
was married to Graham. But. be
added. strange thing happened two
years ago when he was off at the her,
ring fishing and had not been home
for some weeks. Having received q
letter at Shields to say that his son-in-
law was III. he hailed passing boat
which had come from the north. ask
ing If they had heard how Jack Ora
ham was. "And, wad We beleev't, ne
sooner had IA syed the words than
theor ives a crash, and the mast went
over the side!" None Of the crew
spoke to him for the rest of the day
New York Post.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
'':3 + ! =


When the young woman who had
been called to the managers office got
out Of the elevator she was wearing
her hat and her jacket was on her
arm. AS she passed the Perfumery
counter the girl with the Topping bang
called to her and she stopped.
Folks sick. Manner" asked the girl
with the bang.
They amt now. but they will be rs
oon's get home" replied Name. IL
expect they'll have s'teen different
kinds o. fits. I got leave O. absence
without pay"
you're kidding met"
mo. honestw
"Was you making a roarY"
mot me. l got Ii by the complaint
route, oil right, but 1t wasn't me max
ing the complaint. customer
didn't turn handsprings to wait on her
and then get out in the aisle for her 70
wipe her feet on me-"
"Pshaww
Don't you never think It," said
Name. at amt pshaw nor yet pish-
tush. It's what. If you want to
breathe, you wait till the customers
got his check and his change and then
do 1t easy"
90 course, you don't want to get
too Hossy. Name" said the girl with
the bang.
"Was l too fiossyY demanded Name.
"Well. IL was I'd like to know 1t. I
was talking to Annie about something
when the customer come I'D and l
didn't notice her. She didn't blow no
horn or even sound a gong. First
thing 1 know she says. Are you very
busy, II you pleaseY
"Was l busy! 1 guess she knew
whether l was bury or not. Huh. And
5000 polite. Well, | didn't say moth
Ing. l just went on finishing what |
was saying to Annie. 1t wouldn't have
taken me more than a minute but she
was i'm rush. Her time was worth a
dollar and half a second. If you
will please wait on me- she says.
"Well, l broke off right there. I'd
like to know what more she could have
wanted than that Was there some
thlngY l says.
81 want some hairpins,, she says.
Right In that tray l says, point
Ing to it,
$50 she went to missing around IN
Il and l went on to finish what | was
saying to Annie. Presently she coughs.
Well, l amt any lady throat doctor
and 1 didn't take no notice OF it, so
she says, as if ! was dirt: Il wish you
could find time to wait on me. If yon
haven't time l must ask for some
young lady who has,. What do you
think of that?
"Theu she takes n hairpin out of her
hair. Il want some like that she
says.
"'We don't keep EN- | says.
"Don't you think you could tell bet
ter II you were to look at itY she
says
Haven't got EN- / says.
"What do you think she done? Went
right up and complained to the mana
ger that l was inslent and Indifferent;
and | get word that I'm wanted
Seemed there was some pins In stocs
like she showed me and she'd been get
ting 'em right along. but they wasn't In
the tray and how was l to know that!
As far as the other went. | says &c
Mr.. Blggs, Il treated her like lady,
/ says, but she just wanted to be snip
! pety and make trouble | says.
"'We expect our salesladies to be 20
lite and pleasant to customers he says
We expect 'em 10 take pains to be
agreeable and assist purchasers and tC
keep In mind that they have no social
obligations to their fellow employees
during business hours He gave me
that kind of talk for about ten min
utes and then he put me on top Of the
toboggan and let CO."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
TAKE THEM OUT



When student begins to break down
from lack of the right kind of food,
there are only two things to do; either
take him out of school or feed him
properly on food that will rebuild the
brain and nerve cells. That food is
Grape Nuts.
boy writes from jamestown, n. Y,
saying: "a short time ago / got into
bad condition from overstudy. but
Mother having heard about Grape Nuts
food began to feed me on IL. Ii salts
fed my hunger better than any other
food. and the results were marvellous.
| got fieshy like a good fellow. My
usual morning headaches disappeared.
and | found l could study for long
period without feeling the effects OF Il.
"My face was pale and thin. but is
now round and has considerable color.
After l had been using Grape-Nuts for
about two months felt like a new boy
altogether. / have gained greatly in
strength as well as flesh, and it Ia a
pleasure to study now that / am not
bothered with my head. passed all or
my examinations with reasonably
good percentage. extra good in some Of
them, and 1t is Grape-Nuts that has
saved me from years delay in enter
ing college.
Father and mother have both been
improved by the use OF Grape-Nuts.
Mother was troubled with sleepless
nights, and got very thin, and looked
careworn. She has gained her normal
strength and looks, and sleeps well
nights" There's a Reason" Read
"The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
His Service-

A party of distinguished English
men, which included, the Worlds Work
says, judge of the High Court, an ed
itor of the Saturday Review, and a
naturalist, were sitting in the editors
room when a singular spider ran across
the floor and disappeared under some
books.
1t was a giant. one of the largest
species found in England, and the nat
uralist lifted the books instantly. The
spider darted toward the old justice.
He sprang up, and the spiders life end
ed.
1T was g very rare Species" muir
INJURED the naturalist, regretfully.
II made it rarer." said the judge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

If you have a pint jug and wish to
measure off half pint with tolerable
accuracy 1t is useless TO try and do so
by guessing when the jug is half full.
A better way is to tilt the jug until the
contents just reach to the upper end of
the bottom Of the vessel and just touch
the lip at the lower end Of the mouth.
In this way the space in the pint jug
is practically cut into two equal por.
tons, each half representing the space
taken by half pint.-London Graphic.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

IacllOn OF Wnlcn demands immediate indie
pendance the islands, q majority of the fifty
members of the assembly. The total VOTE in popula
ton of than seven millions, about hundred
thousand. In Manila city containing than 2OO
900 people, only few more than O00 votes
The islands governed by the army from 1898 till
1902 when civil commission, created by Congress- took
charge the administration of public business. The
civil commission continued the policy of establishing
self government begun by the military rulers Arrange
made for electng mayors and councils
by popular vote and for the choice of provincial govern
ors by of the councils At present the government
of about Geo towns is independent that of
in America.
The census was completed in 1905 and the creation
of Independent elected assembly assist making
for the whole group Of islands promised at
expiration of years. order preserved in the
meantime. 1t is in fulment of this promise that the
recent election called.
The assembly will be the popular branch of the
Filipino legislature. Its acts will have approved
by the Philippine commission, sitting a legislative
body. This commission containing four Americans and
three Fpinos has the responsible governing body
since the withdrawal the military governor in 1902
Youths Companion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

THAT political boss Is very arbitrary
They say the candidate is completely
his creature and wears his collar with.
out daring to say a word"
Wears his collar! I've only been
surprised that the boss has not been
arrested before this for allowing his
candidate to run at large, without tax.
ing out license. Baltimore Ameri-
can
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
The Old Way and the New.

The young lady from Boston was ex-
planning.
Take an egg" she said. '.and make
q perforation In the base and a CORE
spending one In the apex. Then you
apply the lips to the aperture. and by
forcibly inhaing the breath the shell Is
entirely discharged of its contents"
An old lady who was listening ex.
claimed:
at beats all how folks do things
nowadays. When | was gal they
made a hole in each end and sucked.
Judge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
Following the Scent.

Talking OF that couple who eloped
in an automobile, l heard the girls
father tried to run them down with
dogs"
Yes. but it failed entirely. The dogs
took up so much time stopping at every
place where they sold gasoline that the
couple were married before the pur-
suers caught baltimore Ameri
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
Several Seconds Enour,,

'Mr Dudley is becoming quite atten-
tive to you, notice." said Miss Knox.
YES" replied Miss Passay, haughti.y,
"but, really, you don't suppose I'd con-
slider a proposal from him for a min
ute, do your
sOf course not; l know you wouldn't
take that long"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

"The last time | saw Galley he was
bound for California. Don't you wish
you could travel the way he did?'
mo, he's dead"
II know he is now, but"
II hope to travel in the opposite di-
rection. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
Doing Good.

The woman crowded into the seat re
served for smokers and shifted omin
ously, contemptuously.
Tobacco" she remarked. is vii,
poison. Nicotine would kill cat"
''That being the case, madam" re
piled an unembarrassed smoker, "If
were you I'd make the cat cut it out.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

The number OF children's Fairgrounds
is increasing rapidly in many cities. Re-
cent statistics, covering n cities be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 population,
show there has been in two years an in
crease of 81 per cent in school play
grounds. 4s per cent in park and NUM-
cipal Fairgrounds, and total increase
of all kinds Of Fairgrounds of 81 per
cent in that period.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

back hurt me terri
bly,; l had sharp
s h o o I'll z pains.
changing to a dull.
dragging ache. I
could not stand for
any length of time
and my hack hurt
me when / sat down.
Ny feet and ankles
were badly swollen
every evening and
my stomach was out
of order. Doan's
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

After all. most of us have pretty
contented dispositions, or else there
would be more unhapplness, consider
ing how often we see our own faces in
the glass.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

The most valuable crop in the Phil
ippines is hemp; rice comes next, fol-
lowed by tobacco. The export of Ma
Mia cigars amounts to nearly $1,000
600 a year and the home consumption
is probably larger.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

Mules are becoming so scarce and
high that finally the newspapers win
print an announcement of the fact
when mule colt Is born
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

In France the average yield of wine
is 112 gallons to every acre of vine
yard; in Spain it rises to $50 gallons
per acre; but Algeria holds the record
with 800 gallons to the acre.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

Seems strange he'd fire you just for
that" said the girl with the bang.
Il guess she must have had some
kind of pull" said Mame.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

elevated railroads eat in the great cities
But the life of those who inhabit the earth hun
dred years hence will be much easier than Our
modern improvements will then be ancient history,
garded regard the stage coach Here, for
example hint of what the future has in store; in
daily newspaper four separate kilograms telling
Of the progress Of inventors in four different parts
the world.
From London the that the British admir-
atty Is considering form of marine engine resem
bling the turbine but with important differences, which
drive ship through the water at the rate of 100
miles hour In San Francisco the city electrician is
working q device that will enable every policeman
to keep communication with headquarters by
OF wireless teegraphy. the receiving station being his
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
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Pattern Department
UP.TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR
THE HOME DRESSMAKER
~~O~OO~~~~

Blouse or Shirt Waist Sleeves.
In the illustration clown here
No. is made of dotted batiSte
with cuff of embroidery, while No.
2 is made of linen and Nos. 3 aud
4 of handkerchief lawn. No. being