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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24

From the Avenue des ChaIlps- Elysees
to the Boulevard DIES Capuchins in
Paris Is but step. but there the tune
Is even merrier, says the Bohemian.
1t Is a place Of noises. blare, glare.
the perfume Of women, the raucous
honk- honk OF automobile horns; by day
the street Of costly shops, by night the
promenade in chief OF his most satanic
majesty. 1t Is at its best-or worst
In February. during Mi-Careme. when
the air Is thick with confetti and the
denizens Of the boulevards are beside
themselves
No use then to sit at one of the little
kables on the sidewalk, thinking to en-.
Joy the swiftly changing panorama of
the festival. In moment you would
find that book or porrIdge of confetti
your hat damned over your ears. the
chair jerked from under you and your
erstwhile happy self fiat on your back
It Is marvellous. the penetrating quality
Of confetti. have shaken II ont OF
my innermos pockets, out Of NV shoes
1 have even found 1t In my socks, and
hobnObbing with the francs In nv
purse. 1t fits everywhere, and wher
NIL areme Is over the streets are thick
with 1t. multi-colored snow. You buy
1t at so many sous the package from
vendors on the boulevards, until the de
sire for more Of 1t becomes an obses
sion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
Far from sensible.

Here are two extracts from the last
speech of President William Mckinley,
delivered in Buffalo in September, 1901,
ON the day before his assassination.
These extracts are almost invariably
omitted when the speech is quoted by
the advocates of more foreign trade"
by means of reciprocity in competing
products:
by sensible trade arrangements
which will not interrupt our home pro-
duction We shall extend the outlets for
our increasing surplus.
1--WE should take from our customers
such of their products as we can use
without harm TO our industries and Ia
bor."
In a reciprocity" arrangement with
a single European country, entered into
July l, 1907, our purchases of Compel
ing products have increased nearly &c.
100000, while our sales to that coun-
try in the month of August just past ac-
tually decreased by nearly 100000!
Was this sensible trade arrange
ment? Has it been carried out without
harm TO our industries and labor?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24

The dear girls were comparing notes
on subjects of more OF less Importance.
your beau seems rather bashful,'
said Stella
"Bashfulw echoed Mabel. Why,
bashful Is no name for it,"
why don't you encourage him?'
queried her friend.
at have tried" answered Mabel, but
the attempt was a measly failure. Only
last night I sat all alone on the sofa
and he perched up in chair as far
away as he could get. 1 asked him If
he didn't think 1t strange thai the
length Of mans arm was the same
as the distance around woman's
waist, and what do yoa think he did?'
"Just what any sensible man would
have done-trled it, / suppose"
.Not any. thank you He asked il
could find a piece of string so we could
measure and see If 1t was a fact. Ain't
he the limitf'
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24

Massachusetts has elected four Dem
ocratic Governors in the last fifty
years. The Republicans are united this
year, and they are running Gov. Guild
ON his record as a platform. On the
other hand. the minority party Of Dem
ocrats Is split 50 seriously that two
State tickets have been nominated.
With a situation well-nigh hopeless to
start with. the Democrats gave their
convention day to such bitter fighting
within the party that two conventions
resulted. with all the acrimony, assault
and battery and wounds usual to such
an issue of a political meeting. So
Massachusetts is likely to show with
the usual Republican majority In the
coming November election--Indianap-
oils Sun.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
SKIN SORE EIGHT YEARS.

Spent $500 ON Doctors and Remedies
but Got No Relief-Cutfcura Cures
I'm Week.
Upon the limbs and between the
toes my skin was rough and sore, and
also sore under the arms, and I had to
stay at home several times because OF
this affection. Up to week or so ago
l had tried many other remedies and
several doctors. and spent about three
hundred dollars, without any success
but this Is to-day the seventh day that
l have been using the Cuticura Rene
dies Costing dollar and a half),
which have cured me completely, SO
that / can again attend to my bust
ness. l went to work again tonight.
I had been suffering for eight years
and have now been cured by the Cuti-
cura Remedies within week. Fritz
Hirschlaff, "a Columbus Ave. New
York. N. Y, March % and April 6,
1905"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24


As a matter Of fact these complaints not
They made in England as well in this country,
ard the real basis of them is that both countries get
their soldiers by voluntary enlistment and by
scription.
The probability is that neither country could procure
the kind of desired by the army officers unless
scrpton should be resorted to. few Englishmen have
suggested the continental system for their army but
political party would dare sustain the method in
this country there is who has the hardhood
suggest CONSUMPTION
Moreover there is some doubt whether intelligence
above a certain level Is of any value a consd-
cred merely fighting animal. Especially there
be a highly developed, sensitive, and imaginative
AS to pay the ordinary soldier Is often laborer In
uniform and his stipend, with free food larger allow
for clothes than he spend free lodging and
free medical attendance Is the best laborers pay in
the country
When come to the experts for the coast artillery,
there Is different question raised.
make good artflersts the government educates
them to point where they become valuable
civilians than they are to the government If
judge from the pay which the gives them
But is the government really inclined to pay of its
$27amontb gunners the So that civilian employer
glad to pay? There are complications Weekly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
E1FDITORIAISRZ


tia that seven-tenths of all diseases with which hui
mainly Is afflicted due excess. The paunch
to be seen almost every 40, matter how
lean the of him may be- is evidence overeating
and the fact that many women of the age
Selfrestraint.
High prices will be beneficial to Americans II they
will induce study OF the subject of eating and the
reduction In the amount Of food consumed that will fol-
low. We should be much healthier, happier stronger
intellectual and onger-ved people IL should all
resolve to eat hereafter not to satisfy the demands of
pampered and spoiled appetite but the
needs Of the body.
Also we should be richer for food is the greatest
pense of most of II cut down household
bills not only without injury to health but actually
to its benefit should be grateful to the which
brought about the change though be greed
Of purveyors.-Indianapolis Sun
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
In Time of TrouhIe.

That the folds of "Old Glory" afford
good shelter in any land Is the obvi
GUS point OF this New York Times
story:
During one of the frequent revolu
tons In Haiti a party of Americans
made a riding tour of the mountains
One morning q member of the party
suddenly drew rein with an ejacula
ton, and pointed to lone ridge wher,
an old tattered Stars and Stripe:
futtered on a bamboo pole.
I'VE must pay our respects" some
one said.
After some search they found a patti
that zigZagged up to the wild place
They followed it, and at last discover
ed an aged negro sitting before hi!
waited hut smoking his pipe, Will,
he kept an eye on the flag.
whats the flag forl" sol e on,
asked.
Perfection" said the old man, qui
city. II heah dey done begin anuddel
resolution, SO l put hit up. Yah. sub
/ come heah twenty-five yeahs ago, an
hab dat wiz meh. I'm Georgy, as cool
on q steamer out o. Savannah.
LAX de place? Vas, sub. Plan
yam an coffee an cassava. Resolu
tons doan' trubbel dis niggah. Eber,
time dey resolute down yander up goe
de flag, an OATS all dere is to hit"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
The Tariff Didn't Do This.

No doubt counsel and all others with
: In hearing were surprised at Mr.. John
G.. Milburn's frank statement on Thurs
day about the placing of Standard Oil
pumping stations on the border lines
of New York and Pennsylvania, ana
also Of New Jersey and Maryland, to
evade the requirements of the inter
srate commerce law. In each case there
was no necessity to file transportation
rates because the oil was sent 20 n
part within a State. When it went
over an invisible line into the next
State it was again pumped to a point
within State, and 1t made all its trips
to tide water under these short line
consignments. Mr.. Milburn, who is the
Standards chief counsel i'm the pending
case told the referee that the schen,.
was his. He advised it, land thought
it was excellent advice" he added.
Probably it was. at the time it was
given and for the purposes of the
Standard Oil Company. Mr.. Milburn
always gives good advice That is why
he gets such well-to-do clients as Stand
ard Oil. The fact that he served his
client to the best Of his splendid abili-
ties calls for no comment here But
when from familiar quarter cry
goes UP that the tariff is father or
mother OF the trusts and responsible
for all their exactions and expressions,
let 1T be remembered that it was not
the tariff that did this, nor was it a
defender of the tariff that promped or
devised it. Mr.. Milburn is well known
as an eminent free-trader and merl-
Der of the Democratic party which all
hors the tarifi-0r thinks 1t does.
That's all.-Buffalo News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
VICTORIA A MIGHTY CATARACT.
African Waterfall Far Eclfpses Our
Own Niagara I'm Grandeur.

African Waterfall Far Eclipses Our
Own Niagara in Grandeur.
Oozing out of a black. DOGGY depres-
sion in the heart of southern Africa is
a sluggish. muddy stream which wends
Its way southwark, leisurely at first
but it soon grows rapidly in size and
strength until it pours into the Indian
Ocean, 1850 miles away, fourth in
rank among the mighty rivers of AT.
RIGA, says the Scientific American
About 700 miles from its source. and
just beyond the cataracts of Mololo,
the Zambesi, Joined by the waters OF
the Kwando River, spreads out into
what might be termed lake about six
miles long and over a mile in width
This lake is studded with islands and
the surface is very smooth, the yegeta-
ton along the banks being perfectly
mirrored in the placid water. Strange
to say. the lower end of this lake Is
marked not by shore line nor by the
slightest narrowing Of its surface, but
by an abrupt fall beside which our
much Wanted Niagara is mere pyg
my. 1t Is an entire lake that takes the
plunge, and not merely a river.
A comparison of Niagara and Vic
toria falls shows at a glance how vast
ly greater is the African falls. AT
Niagara the river takes a plunge of l6s
feet but the Zambesi falls sheer 400
feet. The crest of Victoria falls is over
a mile long-5,SOS feet, to be exact
whereas the American fall at Niagara
measures only LOGO feet, and the Horse
shoe fall is only 1920 feet across. OF
3,O1O feet as measured along the curve.
To illustrate the magnitude of the AT
it the skyline of New York from Bat.
terry Park to Worth street. Not a build
Ing would project above the crest OF
the falls excepting only the tower of
the Singer building, which Is now In
process Of erection. To be sure, In
comparing Niagara with Victoria. 1t
must be said In favor Of the former
that the Horseshoe fall presents an I'M
broken crest, while the edge Of the
Victoria is divided by numerous ISL
ands into stretches which nowhere ex-
ceeds 600 feet. At the center Is Liv-
ingstone Island, and to the left, as
you look up stream, Is the main fall,
while at the right Of the island is the
Rainbow fall. Buka Island separates
the main fall from the Cascade or Dew
lis Creek.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24

A touch of appetite (which makes
all the world akin" is manifest in the
streets of Bangkok as well rs I'm the
tho-o ughfares OF an American city.
The picture of the crowd of Samese
urchins given by Carl Book in TEN
pies and Elephants" is SO like that OF
parcel of ragamuflins following the
hokey-pokey cart that one is impressed
by the fact that child is a child the
world over
'Isa-keei Isa-kee."
1t Is q queer sound when you hear
it for the first time. A Chinaman
comes struggling along the road carry
ing two heavy pals. swung at the ends
of bamboo poles, bawlins in long, na-
sal tones, "Isa-kee. Isa-kee,"
Presently crowd of little boys col
lects about him, purchasing with avid
ity the strengthening mess-denomina-
ted ''isa-kee." The vender collects the
coppers offered in payment, and places
them in a small leathern purse tied
about his waist with bit of string.
there to lie IN company with a little
rank tobacco or opium.
"Isa-kee" is the Chinaman's repro
duction of the English ice-cream. al
though there is little resemblance be-
tween the commodity he disposes OF
with such extraordinary rapidly and
the fashionable delieacy of Europe.
The preparation is apparently a con-
coction Of dirty water. half-frozen
slush and sugar. Being cold and sweet.
IL is a favorite of native children. and
the ice-cream merchant usually does n
roaring trade. 1t is amusing to hear
the little ones exclaim, as they eager
ly swallow the frozen fluid, How IL
hnsrpo 10
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
OLD SoAKERS


Get Saturated with Caffeine.
When a person had used coffee for q
number OF years and gradually declined
in health, 1t Is time the coffee should
be left or In order to see whether or
not that has been the cause Of the trou-
BILE.
A lady In Huntsville, Ala. says she
used coffee for about 40 years. and for
the past 20 years has had severe stom-
ach trouble. II have been treated by
many physicians but all in vain Ey-
erything failed to give relief. Was
prostratedfor some time, and came near
dying. When recovered sufficiently to
partake of food and drink tried coffee
again and it soured on my stomach.
Il finally concluded that coffee was
the cause of my troubles and stopped
using 1T. / tried tea in its place and
then milk. but neither agreed with me /:
then commenced using Postum. had it
properly made and Ii was very pleas
ing to the taste.
II have now used it four months, and
my health is 50 greatly improved that
l cen eat almost anything 1 want ana
can sleep well, whereas, before, sur
fered for years with insomnia
Il have found the cause of my trou-
bles and way to get rid OF them. You
ran depend upon 1t 1 appreciate Pos
tum." There's & Reason" Read The
Road to MELVILLE" In pkgA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
Little Abeut Everything.

Fly time-the balloon season.
The electric chair for executions is
used only in the United States.
The Australian government gives her
aged a pension of nearly $3.50 a week.
A cows hide of average size pro-
duces about thirty-five pounds of leath-
er.
Four thousand and slxty-one muscles
have been observed in the body of q
moth.
England possesses twenty -eight COWS
for every hundred of the populat on.
Australia has $50.
More than 10000 persons are EN-.
ployed in the rock salt industry in
Austria-Hungary.
The Empress OF Russia has hand
kerchief which it took seven years to
make. 1t cost her $1,000.
The first cattle and sheep in the
United States We're introduced into yir
ginia in 1910. The first short horns
and Herefords were introduced into
Kentucky in 1916.
Acre comes from the Latin "ager,'
field. and originally was applied
without reference to its size. the term
being used in England indefinitely fol
a long period.
With silver ut GO cents an ounce, q
counterfeiter can. il is said, make five
quarters from every ounce-quarters
ttat ring true and have every appear.
ance of the real thing.
A bird dealer in Paris raises canarie:
OF an orange-red tint by reedins the
parent birds on cayenne pepper. Ii
time he expects that the eggs will pro
duce birds of bright red hue.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24

DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent Of Columbia University. having
just returned from Europe, thinks he is
in a position to tell what ails the Re
publican party. At any rate, he under
takes to do it. He says we must have
a revision Of our tariff. down, not up
right away, and that the job must be
done in '.fair-minded, scientific fash
ion," and mot in any sense as an attack
on buss.iess or as disturbance to bust
ness" AS theorist Dr. Butler Is fine
So was Wilson and so is Bryan. The
woods are full OF brilliant theorists
which Is to say, tinkerers.-Jersey City
Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
ROYAL MISCHIEF.

Prince Edward of Wales, son Of the
Prince of Wales and prospective heir
to the throne, Is just beginning his
education as q cadet at the Royal Ma
val College on the Isle Of Wight
Prince Edward, little more than H.
is entered as an ordinary cadet, and
shares all comforts and discomforts
with the rest of the lads. If he re-
sembles his father at that age, he Is
capable of getting good deal of boy
ish fun out of life. In a book on the
Private Life of King Edward VII,
some of the escapades Of the present
Prince of Wales are given.
Prince George and his elder brother
were "rare young toads,. as an old
MILDLY remarked. They received their
training ON the sho0l-ship Britannia
and afterward went ON cruise In the
Bacchante. They had to rough Ii with
the rest. and were treated without dis
tinction.
When the Bacckante touched at Der
thorities of the island were anxious t
present a bunch of Bermuda lilies Il
Prince Eddy. aad anxiously inquired
his identity. Prince George. ever ript
for mischief, gave SO misleading az
answer that the embarrassing b0uQue
was presented to several midshipmeI
before 1t reached the proper hands.
When the party went on shore t.
lunch, the two princes got together II
the bow of the boat and occupied them
selves very mysteriously. When the,
landed, the assembled natives were as
tonished to see their future king ant
his brother with noses Of the mos
brilliant yellow. The two had uset
| the pollen of the lilies to adorn them
selves with.
1t was probably their enjoyment o
this joke which led the two not to con
tradict the statement which vas sool
after published to NE world, that tn
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
PROMOTING" AMERICAN TRADE.
How German Explorers Are Propos-
ing to ACCOMPLISH 1t.

ing to Accomplish 1t.
A Berlin dispatch reports that much
is hoped" from the visit of American
treasury officials to that country in the
way Of promoting American Trade"
AS the steamship service is already am
pie, it Is as plain as q pikestaff that
the only way for Germany to increase
her sales to this country is by reducing
prices. Germany is at no disadvantage
under our tariff laws as compared with
other countries, although the United
States is at great disadvantage in Ger
many under the tariff laws Of that
country. The special competition of
German manufacturers is with Ameri
cans in the same line. Now, the Ger
mans are quite willing to reduce prices
to a point which will displace Ameri
can goods, provided that they are per-
mitted to sell at a good deal higher
prices at home.
Unfortunately, that. under our laws.
cannot be done. The price at which
goods are sold in Germany is the price
on which the same goods must pay duty
ON entering the United States. Hither
to those laws have been enforced. What
lis hoped" by the Germans from the
visit Of our treasury officials is that
hereafter they shall not be enforced,
but that By Juggling with the 'regula-
tions'-which are prescribed by the
Secretary Of the Treasury-it shall be
made difficult or impossible to place be-
fore our appraisers the evidence that
importations are undervalued. Reliance
is placed on our executive departments
TO defeat, by change of the 'regula-
tions," the effect of the law. We sus-
pect that they have some reason for
hope" We wish they had not We
favor the enforcement Of the letter and
spirit of the laws-national, State and
municipal-and If they are not satisfac-
tory they can be changed. If the Amer
lean people want free trade or lower
tariff, let them change the laws, but
until they are changed they should be
obeyed-even if by their violation
trade" can be promoted by substi-
tuting foreign for domestic products
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-24
Political Comment.
The Fleet to the PACIFIC.

In his Cairo address the President
made it plain that the big naval
demonstration in the great Western
ocean will take place on schedule time.
This year, l am happy to say, we shall
begin a course which l cope will be
steadily followed hereafter. namely,
that of keeping the battleship feet al
ternately in the Pacific and the Allan
tic. Early in December the feet will
begin its voyage to the Pacific, and it
will number among Its formidable fight
ing craft three great battleships,
named, respectively, the Illinois, the
Missouri and the Kentucky" He added
that it is "a national fleet in every
sense Of the term" the names of the
vessels being representative of all sec
lions of the country.
The American people will be glad
that Mr.. Roosevelt has not been
frightened out of his purpose to send
the fleet on its projected cr1-'Te. A
few Eastern newspapers which are
unfriendly to the President have made
several sorts of accusations against
him on account of the movement Of
the fleet. They assert that he wants TO
provoke war with Japan; that he Is
anxious to make q demonstration in
the Pacific which will impress the
popular imagination about the time
the national conventions meet, and
thus stampede the Republicans over
to him for the candidacy for another
term; and that he wants to create q
navy which will rival that of Great
Britain. Here are a few of the reasons
for moving the fleet which are attrib-
uted to the President by his enemies.
1t is noticed, however. that the great
mass of the people are friendly to this
projected naval cruise. The oiarge
that he wants to provoke war with
Japan is too trivial to get any serious
attention. No person of sound mind
supposes that the President is seeking
another term for himself The charge
that the President would like t. see
the United States have as great a
navy as England's is about as point
less at that atrocious crime of being
young man of which Walpole in
dicted Pitt We need a od-sized
navy in the Pacific, as well as in the
Atlantic. Trouble is much more likely
to come to us from the Western coast
than from the Eastern. The Pacific re-
gion, as the President intimates, is
just as much part of this country as
Is the Atlantic coast. If, in carrying
out this program Of being prepared to
meet trouble when it presents itself
from any quarter means that we will
build up as big and effective a navy
as England's. the country will not feel
downcast on that account.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat