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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

Going to Make Matters Bettere
The dispatches tell us that ninety-one
head of Iowa steers sold at seven cents
pound, or SO head, in Chicago a
few days ago. Getting the matter near
er home, the Keosauqua Republican
says that JOHN A. Ferguson of Van
Buren, county recently marketed seven
teen head of steers in Chicago which
brought him $107.S0 per head at 81 a
hundred, while another bunch of sew
enteen brought $3.50 a hundred VIII
liam Fritz, another farmer of the same
county, recently sold a single wagon
load of wool for $72S.0S. There was a
time about fifteen years ago when cat
tie and wool were doing pretty nearly
as good as that. Along came lot of
country something better if they could
only get "a change" Enough Of the
people were fooled by their talk to
bring about the change The cattle fell
to SO and 81 a hundred. wool from %
cents pound to 10, anG sheep from So
and 81 n head to 81. And it took a
long time to get prices back to those of
the good old time. Now there is an
other lot of fellows, in these days of
good prices for the farmer and general
prosperity. telling how they are going
to make matters better If they can cut
down the tariff and give away home
markets to the foreigner. How many
of the people are going to be fooled
this time?-Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
The Retfer Trade.

If time ever arrives in which Ger
man and American manufacturers shall
be on the same footing, and the neces-
sity of hunting foreign market be-
comes as imperative in this country as
it is in Germany, the American pro-
Queer may be depended on to give a
good account of himself. When that
contingency arises United States ex-
porters will be as ready to extend long
credits as the Germans, ant will proba-
bly, take as much pains to please as the
latter, but it Is idle to expect them to
bother themselves about a comparative
ly Improbable foreign trade when their
chief energies are engrossed in the busi-
ness of supplying the domestic demand,
and while our foreign trade In many
lines consists wholly Of SURPRISES pro-
duced to meet an American demand
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

Ants are really very long lived, con-
sidering their minuteness. A naturalist
had two queens under observation for
ten years and one Of Sir John Lub-
books ant pets lived into her fifteenth
year. Ants are very tenacious of life
after severe injury. Following loss Of
the entire abdomen they sometimes live
two weeks. and In one case a headless
ant, carefully decapitated by aseptic
surgery lived for forty-One days A
carpenter ant after being submerged
eight days In distilled water came to
life upon being dried. so that they are
practically proof against drowning.
They can live long periods without
food; In one case the fast lasted nearly
nine months
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
POIiCl| Comment.
Can't De Tnken ont of Politics.

1t is all very we'll to say that the re-
vision of the tariff, being strictly a
problem of commercial science, ought
to be taken out of politics. Undoubted-
ly; but how is it to be taken out of
politics when for years the tariff has
been, and next year is likely once more
10 be made presidential issue? The
ideal procedure would be through the
creation of such a non-partisan body
rs the National Association of Manu-
facturers proposes. assuming, of course,
its fidelity to the protective principle;
but as things stand it is at least ques-
tiOnable whether the formation or a
non-partisan tariff commission comes
within the range of possibility, and 1T
is not questionable at all that Re-
publican Congress would refuse to par
ticipate in the formation of such a
body. The day may come when the
tariff will cease to be a political issue
just as the gold standard bas ceased TO
be such an issue already. but that day
has not come yet. nor is it yet in sight.
Fortunately there is no immediate
hurry about the tariff. The country is
doing very nicely 1t is enjoying all
the prosperity it could expect or de-
sire. Indeed, It's only complaint is that
there is more business to be done than
there are facilities in the way of cur
rency and transportation for doing it
SO that the community is suffering
from what the doctors call plethora.
This is an inconvenience, but, on the
whole. the situation is one to which
the remark applies that it is generally
prudent to let well enough alone
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
"BAY OF FUNDY DAYS"


~~NS~~~~~~~~~~~~~(
The newspapers lately reported the
finding of rare pearl in the South
Seas. The pioneer Of the Papeite pearl
fisheries, the Pearl King Of Tahiti,
who is about to retire from the bust
ness out of which he has amassed q
large fortune in the last twenty years,
on one Of his last visits to Paris
brought a magnificent pearl valued at
$1,000 A dealer in gems made an Of
fer Of $4,000 for a mate to It. The
pearl king" has just returned from
Tahiti, bringing with him, it Is said,
the desired jewel. This is pearl fish,
ing on a large scale. Much more mod
est, yet no less interesting. was the
amateur fishery carried on by Louis
Becke when he was a boy. and recorded
in Notes from My Sea Log"
When we were boys in Australia we
had holidays which we called bay o.
Fundy Days" The lighthouse-keeper
was a native of Nova Scotia, and he
used to tell us OF the wonderful tides
of Fundy.
Whenever orr tides were particularly
low, and reef two miles away showed
high and dry. We boys had bay o
Fundy Day." and explored the coast
We used to 60 out on the reef to gather
certain shells, IN which we found
pearls. An old curio dealer would give
us from five to ten shillings each for
the larger ones, and for the seed pearls
he paid pound or two an ounce. HI
gave us sum sufficient for pocket
money, but one day we learned how to
increase our small fortune.
All Yam, . Chinaman, lived with a
fellow fisherman In q hut near our
place. One day he broke his leg, and
our mother was very good to him
through a long and tedious recovery.
His gratitude was unbounded.
One Sunday afternoon All Yam APP
peared and asked to speak to our moth
er and father in private. They were
closeted for some time, and then moth
er called us in. She said:
Boys, you will be sorry to know
that All and his mate are going back tc
China, and you will see them no more,
All has brought me very beautiful
present"
"No, missee, no." interrupted All,
mot welly beautiful. Just show you I
like you welly much and I welly solly
to say good-by."
Mother showed US her hand, in which
lay nine really valuable pearls, the
size Of a pea.
These are from the same kind of
shells which you have gathered" she
continued, land All Yam Is going to
tell you secret which will be of great
value to you boys. You will be able to
make nice sum Of money on Bay
o. Fundy Days."
All then told us where to look for
| the best shells, and that we should
pick out those which were the most
coral growth. He said that he and
Gee Foy had received f270 for pearls
in the three years he had lived near us
After that Bay o. Fundy days were
always profitable. We ran great risks
in diving under the reefs and pryine
off the great shells with blunt chisels
We usually came to the surface will
cut and bleeding hands and heads but
we took little heed of suci minor mat
/ tQrS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

friend or acquaintance and q neigh
borly gossip by the way, he repairs to
his place of business. While going he
Will sedulously avoid those signs and
sounds which may augur i'll for the
day.
Should one sneeze, or should he hear
the cawing of a crow or the cry of a
kite. or should he meet an old man. or
one blind or lame, or see a cat cross
his path, he would be greatly distress
ed as to the day before him. On the
other hand. If fox crosses his path.
If he hears q gong or she'll summoning
him to worship. or If he meets a Brah-
man with his head uncovered, he would
rejoice, hailing it as suspicious. Some
are so superstitious that if any evil
portent occurs on the way they return
home, have a smoke or chew q betel
leaf. and proceed afresh.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
- - -
Pattern Department
UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR
THE HOME DRESSMAKER
-


Who could desire a more jaunty gar
ment than this smart little blouse?
Men accuse us of encroaching more
and more upon their exclusive designs,
but with such fetching effect as this.
who can blame Us for admitting a little
masculine touch to new blouse? This
is a very happy combination-the col
lar is a regulation coat collar and the
dcuble-breasted effect in front has
something the suggestion of a waist
coat, but the pretty chemisette of lace.
the trimming straps and the short
jacket sleeves proclaim it. after all. a
distinctively feminine garment. For
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

Local Sunday School Teacher-And
now that we have finished discussing
the lion and the tiger, who can tell me
about the lynx?
. A painful pause. Finally small
hand is hesitatingly elevated.
Teacher-Well, Tommy, can you de-
scibe the lynx?
Tommy-No'm.
Teacher-Then why did you raise
your hand?
Tommy thought Willie Wuggles
could tell.
Teacher-And what made you think
Willie could describe the lynx?
Tommy-'Cause his brothers cad
die-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
SHARKS MADE CONVERTS.
Pagnns on ship Thought Man Wa
Miraculously Saved from Fish.

Pagnns ship Thought Man Was
Miraculously Saved from Fish.
AS missionary agents a school of
| man-eating sharks have proved a sig
nal success, aided and abetted by the
Christian officers of the freighter
Atholl.
When thirty-six Chinese aboard She
steamship saw Fourth officer f. W.
Ness, who had told them the Bible
story, pulled from the ocean by Third
Engineer Cairns in safety, although he
was surrounded by huge sharks, the
pagans prepared to attend chapel SER
vice, and did so.
|. Second Engineer McGibbon and
Third Officer Stevens had been acting
as missionaries on the 12,000-mile voy-
age to Singapore, and almost had CIV
en- up hope of making any converts I'M
til the shark incident.
1t was at Singapore that Ness de-
cided to take plunge. Third Officer
Stevens was sitting on shore watching
bis fellow officer In the water when the
cry of shark. - came loudly from the
quay where native fishermen were as
sembled.
About the same time that Mr.. Ness
heard the cry of warning he got a
cramp and was sinking when Third En-
gineer John Cairns went after him and
brought him ashore, fighting off the
nearest sharks as he swan. Twelve
sharks were caught later.
OF the thlrty-seven Chinese aboard
only Chips, the Atholl's carpenter,
withstood the missionary work of Nc
Gibbon and Stevens. The other thirty
six. including Won Hon Sue, the cap
tan's boy. held a daily prayer meet
ing ever since the Atholl steamed out
of the Suez Canal, March 81.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

trust which has than hundred millions the pockets of
exTloiter making
that has enabled Of the
which
re
1t cost great deal the little fellows this levied
the
OF John Rockefeller making big gift public institution then
by the contingent
OF business those would
thread nabo carrying things with high their profits
$32O0OOO
will do millions
All United to spool
may De bought FOR and In stores the price has the
t The s
in
creased in and also that-it money
they not getting enough The
enough in
with aching
and working perhaps dim light until
In the opinion of the Utica Globe combine
that ruling the
uge profits and they seeing to it that squeezed to
limit before the law designed punish
is enfor -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

who Is your unfaillng friend with
the fat memorandum book?" inquired
the cashier.
who told you he was my friend?'
asked the bill clerk
Il inferred it from your joyous ex-
preston when You saw him sitting in
wait for you on the BENCH
IF your references hadn't been any
better than yo1r differences are you'd
never have got the job you're holding"
said the bill clerk.
rs he protege OF yours?" asked the
cashier.
"A how much:"
IL beg your pardon" said the cashier.
Il should have said protegy. Don't get
It, eh? Is he some worthy young man
IN whose career you are interested and
to whom you extend assistance Of a
pecuniary nature? l don't wish to pry.
but l saw you hand him what appear
ed to be two spot. Charity Is beau
tiful thing-the rarest gem in virtues
casket-very rare In young man. l
notice he calls around about every
mouth"
You're great noticer," said the bill
clerk. i've noticed that Did you
ever happen to notice how much fool
ishness you talkY
~He looks like a collector" observed
the cashier.
We'll. l guess you ought to know
pretty well what they look like" said
the bill clerk
Don't be snappy, my son." said the
cashier. There isn't any disgrace in
having a collector call around. He
might simply be coming to collect an in
stallment on a diamond engagement
ring. When a young man gets engaged
he naturally presents his finnacee with
q ring If he is a whole souled and
generous young man and thinks q great
get her a good enc and If his accumu-
lated capital is insufficient for the ext
gencies of the situation, why should he
not, IL you please. try the installment
plan?'
-why not" said the bill clerk non
eommittally.
"Of course said the cashier. "It's
the finest thing in the land. When you
get your ring paid for you can buy q
house on the installment plan and fur
nish II on the installment plan. You
can have an installment piano and ar
instalIment photograph and an Install
ment library In instruments. You car
dress the family on the installment
plan You don't have to wait until It's
paid for to enjoy what you get. That
necessity for annoying delay is the
curse of the cash system"
You'd only be spending the money
that you pay out for some foolishnes:
or other. wouldn't you?" said the bill
clerk. And then you wouldn't have
anything to show for it"
That's right said the cashier, land
you'll never miss the dollar or so {
week or a month or whatever it Is 1t.
only matter of few cents day fol
each article"
'sThat's ALL said the bill clerk. This
book costs less than 6 cents a day an(
its one of the most useful and instruc
tive works ever published You ough
10 get it. You need it Honest, you'd
and 1t would help you a heap. I'll pu
you next to the agent IL you Ike"
ITO tell you the truth, rather favoa
xhe cash system, in spite of its disad
vantsges," said the cashier "Of course
i haven't much to show for 1t. but ny
bank account hud some trining real -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
RiSe of the LQhOrer

According TO many labor leaders
and economists. workers to-day are bet
ter paid by from about 10 to 40 per
cent, and in some cases almost as high
as 20 per cent, than two decades ago.
Their hours are shorter, and il is as
serted they are better fed, better
clothed and better housed; that their
environment is happier, and that they
have more leisure to enjoy the benefits
of all refining influences
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Order Coupon.
New walking skirt.

The new styles show no very radical
change In cut and material-smoothly
fitting hips with a wide flare ar the
bottom characterize the spring skirts
now being shown. and as this style
proved so becoming and consequently
so popular last year. we are to be con-
grateulated upon its temperance.
This model illustrates the tendency to
plat the back as well as the front now ;
the style of the two cores being almost
identical, while the sides are plain.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
UP TO THE REvIsIoNIsTS
To Give Us Better Tariff if They
Know How.

The country is prosperous. 1t is not
necessary that the revision be made to-
day. Tomorrow will do. If the coun-
try was panic-stricken, if the furnace
fires in factories and mills were bank
ed, If there were idle men everywhere
looking for employment, buc looking in
vain, if the people were living on the
fruitage of 1S93-1s96, there would be a
hurry up" call for immediate action,
as there was after the 1897 Inaugural
ton of Mckinley. But not so. Where
there were idleness, hunger and want,
then, there is now a days work for
every one who wants TO work, and at a
living wage. There is a demand for la
borers everywhere, in the factories and
mills and on the farms, that cannot be
supplied. There has been a plenty
and to spare" ever since the furnace
fires were relit in 1897 The mill own
ers and manufacturers have been una
bic to fill their orders. There is no night
in the mills. Twenty-four hours a day
the factories have been beehlves of in
dustry. Our commerce, inland and for
eign, has so far outgrown the dream of
the dreamer that he has quit dreaming
and is enjoying restful sleep. while
the doors have no time to rest only as
they steal away from their business and
its increasing demands. But it is posi-
bic, we are told, that we might have
better tariff, one under which the coun-
try would be more prosperous than
now. If so, let it be enacted" No
human law is perfect, and the people
are entitled to the best there Is. 1t is
up to the Tcyisionists to give US some
thing better if they can, and when they
do the stalwarts will help ring the
bells day time and night time" until
every one joins in the jubilee.-Marion
(Iowa) Register.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05


ocean? Yet here is achievement that to be
celebrated by the whole world and no more noticed
than the passing of trolley car.
Ten ago who would have said that the
day would come when could sit In this country
and communicate instantly with man in England with
no wire, even, connecting the two would have been sent
to the insane asylum. That thing. however is being
done to-day One Aareon pole at Clifton the
OF Ireland and another is at Cape Breton in Canada
and messages leap from to the other surely and
as swiftly as though they were not six feet apart
This flashing of three thousand miles
around the earth will be commonplace using
the telephone Is now and will make of the
vice and think nothing of It, Yet such communication
was beyond the widest dreams of mankind only few
years The world moving fast in these latter days.
and will move faster yet. Though the earth has
inhabited for millions of years it only within the last
century that natures secrets be dis
covered.
We at the beginning of discovery and knowledge
What the next century will bring forth guess
but may he that it will be full of wonders I'M
observation-disclosures City World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
PuDctul1fty.

Never put off till tomorrow what
YOU can do to-day" said the man who
quotes proverbs when he ought to be
at work.
THAT'S right answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. "you can never be sure that the
grand jury isn't going to get to work
tomorrow and spoil the whole scheme"
--Washin2ton Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
At Dinner.

Mrs. John--John, why are you eat
ing so fast? Don't you know it's inju-
rious?
John-Yes, but l want to finish the
book I'm reading.
Mrs. Whats the name of it?
John-Why. er. "IIow to Aid Diges-
ton by Properly Masticating the
Food ~ lex Me-Up.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

tate and per cent bonds, but might
find 'em handy some time. What's the
name OF this ultra-useful work which
you seem to think | need. Johnnyy
"'How to Mind Your Own Busi-
ness" said the bill clerk. IL gave my
copy to another friend of mine who's
always sticking his nose into other peo-
pies and IT worked great."-Chicago
Daily News
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Order Coupon


A new French Order of Merit is or
the point of being instituted.
Dover has become one of the first
favorites among English health resorts.
India railroads have just adopted a
standard time. which is five and half
hours ahead of Greenwich.
Oil or fat is said to destroy Portland
cement, causing cracks and even dis
Indignation. in few months time.
The empress dowager of China is
going to have her landmarks in the
palace tnught TO sew. spin and weave.
Boiling tar is to be poured upon GER
tain roads at Llandudno with the OBJ
ject of forming a film. which will obvi-
ate dust.
There are $500 Smith of full age In
New York City. and ESQ of them have
telephones.
Switzerland sells to the United
States more than twice as much every
year as it buys here.
DunuAlcs INV tiiitu Df SOl. De- cry
W. Dunn. of the Sandy Hook station.
is said to be the most powerful explo-
sion known.
Princess Irene, wife OF Prince Henry
of Prussia. was christened as a child
at the close of the war in 1866. Irene
means peace"
An English journal notes the CO.
riously even sex distribution of measles
in twenty years at Aberdeen. There
were 20,2S7 males and BOOST females.
For burns solution of boric or bor-
acic acid is excellent. Drop two ounces
of the acid crystals in quart glass jar
and fill with water. This makes a
saturate solution Take a piece Of
gauze or cheese cloth, saturate with
the solution and lay on the burn. APP
ply very moist, covering with absorbent
cotton and then with oiled silk. This
will keep moist for hours, as the oiled
silk prevents evaporation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
- fDT 7 ORIAIS[EE


the amount to be spent the rate fixed,
and the revenue produced under 1t depends cOndi
tons outside of the control CT Appropriations
are made against which has be estimated. The
estimates may be far wrong that there will large
deficit large surplus. Unforeseen conditions have
produced the large surplus this year-Youth's Com
panon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Garfeld's Wit.

AT one of Proctor's lectures q lady
wished for seat, when Gen. Garfield
brought one and seated her.
''Oh, you're a jewel" said she.
"Oh, no." replied Garfield, I'm a
jeweler; I've just set the Jewell
Judge
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

"This," said the party with the I'M
barbered hair as he pulled a manu-
script from his pocket. ''is fugitive
poem"
"Why do you call 1t q fugitive
poem?" asked his friend.
Because" explained the versifier.
every time / hand it TO an editor
have to run for my life"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

omitted. and. with the short sleeves.
this makes charming little blouse for
mornings and afternoons at home. Ii
may be of the same goods as the skirt
or of any of the many beautiful materi-
ais shown for such waists. Either
effect is pretty.
The above pattern Will be mailed to
your address ON receipt of 10 cents.
Send all orders to the Pattern Depart
ment of this paper. Be sure to give
both the number and size of pattern
wanted. ana write very plainly. For
convenience. write your order on the
following coupon:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
PLAYING Safe.

Meeker-It seems to me that you are
always asking advice. Do you ever use
any of it?
Bleeker-Certainly not. l ask adj
vice because people like to give 1t away,
but l never ask it until 1 have fully
made up my mind what l am going
to do.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Enough Said.

Il wonder" remarked Nervey. casual
ly, 'if kissing really is injurious"
We'll" replied the athletic girl. mean
ingly, I've known men who have found
the mere attempt at kissing is injuri-
us.--Philadelphia Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Financially Fixed.

81 can't expect" said Scribbles. ito
be as successful poet as De Ritter He
has wealth on his side"
Nonsense. He isn't very well off,
"He isn't? Why, he has money
enough to buy all the postage stamps
ne needs. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Cot the Bexf of Them

ST Oatcake-Did amy av them bum
ko .ellers git yore money the las time
yew wuz few tn city?
81 Harix-Yew bet they didn't. I
lost my pocket book on tn way, an
there wasn't Eothin' feS 'er, tew git,
hv r1.9SSi