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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
JUST THIS ONCE.

Innocent Little Act that Caused a
Young Lady Much Regret.
1t was late when Louise closed her
typewriter, sighed. and rose from the
chair where for long hours she had
worked steadily at the unusually heavy
correspondence of the day.
Tired, Miss Everett?" asked Mr..
Barrett. looking up from his desk. the
only one still occupied. for all the
earlier. at the usual closing time.
"A little tired, yes" admitted Louise.
and then added brightly. Bat I'll be
all right as soon as l get something to
eat. You know / didn't 60 out this
noon"
Il tell you what We'll do we'll have
little treat tonight. | think after
the way you and I have toiled to-day
we deserve some recreation. and we'll
go and have a bang-up dinner some
where. Louise. What do you say?"
She did not say anything. She stood
with her back to Mr.. Barrett. pinning
on her hat in front Of the office mirror,
and was glad not to have him see the
color that rushed into her face. 1t was
the first time he had ever addressed
her as Louise. and her impulse was
TO resent 1t. But remembering his
usual courtesy and the important fact
that her position was one she did not
care TO lose, she remained silent.
Surely you won't decline some hot
oysters on cold night like thls?" con-
tinued Mr. Barrett. "It's pretty late
to get anything to eat at home now"
Louise thought Of the cherries
boarding house which was home to her.
Saying to herself that 1t was no worse
to dine just this once with her en-
| ployer than ii was to take luncheon
with him as she had on various oc-
caslons when he had wished to discuss
some new work, she accepted his in
vitation.
Any misgivings she felt were quickly
forgotten when she entered the bril-
Handy lighted restaurant, made gay
with music and flowers So pleasant
indeed was the place and the hour that
she was startled to find when they left
that they had fingered over their coffee
and dessert until nearly ten o'clock.
They were ringing you up on the
telephone all the evening" said the
woman with whom she boarded when
Louise entered the house. Zone of the
clerks from your Office wanted to know
if you knew where Mr.. Barrett was.
His wife was taken suddenly lots
worse, and they were all In a great
state trying to find him. I guess from
what that clerk said she was crying
for him awfully"
Louise made no reply. Miserable and
fearful, she crept to her room. AS
she lay sobbing in bed, she recalled
with sharp pain having heard that Mrs.
| Barrett was confirmed invalid. and
wondered how she could have been so
reraiss as to go out with man whose
wife was in constant need of his love
and care.
If it hadn't been for me-" she cried
''he would have gone struight home
from the office!"
She passed the night in vain regrets
that were not quieted when In the
morning she read in the paper of Mrs
Barrett's death.
Its too terrible" she said to herself
ever and over again. "And I never
meant to do any wrong, 1 never meant
to do any wrong. Com
panion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
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In Brussels there is clock which
is wound by atmospheric expansion In
duced by the heat of the sun.
Thuringia. Germany, exports $780,
600 worth of dolls and toys, Of which
the United States gets nearly $1,000. 900
worth.
The United States ranks sixteenth as
a wine-producing country. Our annual
output is but fiftieth part that Of
France.
Even the tailor sometimes makes a
mistake in taking the measure Of q
man.
Girls dressed IL. gaudy red. black I'D
white uniforms are selling butter ard
cheese In the streets of Berlin for a new
company.
Missionaries are well treated in Siam.
and the King, Buddhist. is giving the
site for new Protestant church in
Bangkok
The fact is. my husband doesn't
seem to know his own mind" <'0h.
that's a very small matter."-Cieveland
Plain Dealer.
American archaeologists have secured
concession from the Turkish govern
ment to make excavations on site to
the northeast of the old city at Baby
Ion.
In Massachusetts the illegal sale
street railway transfers is made pu
ishable by fine not exceeding $5e
Imprisonment for not more than thiri
days.
The number Of murders per mil "a
inha oitants is in England BIB; in Ger
many. 5.45; in France, 11.55; In Aus
tria, 1912; in Italy. 76.11. and In Spain.
A4.70.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

as haunted. No doubt the white popu-
lation fostered the belief in this among
the Ignorant and superstitious blacks.
1t Is only among the latter, except In
single case, that any persons have
claimed to have seen an apparition of
headless man stalking the road over
the hill.
The belief of some OF the older
darkies In this ghost is so sincere that
nothing would induce them to cross the
hill at night. A character among the
local colored population a few years
ago was Uncle Ephriam, and he claim.
ed to have seen the apparition In sew.
eral different forms When / lived
neac there. accosted the old man one
day on the subject.
''Uncle Eph," said /, ais it true that
you have seen the ghost on Triplett's
hill?"
Deed has. sub; deed has. =
he replied. =
Tell me about It." 1 urged.
Use done seen dat liant free times
sub; free times In my life, sub; and
de last time was de worst, de last time
was de worst. don't 20 over dat hill
no more nights. sub. Use ben follered
free times, an de mex time he gets
me. sub, shot,"
How was it the last time, Uncle
Eph? That's the time you say is the
worst. What happenedy
swell. sub, Use ben In ter Warren
ton in de evenin' ter get my ole oman
some caliker, an Use comm home
long bout hour befo' moonrise. It's
mighty dark, sub, mighty dark. an
Use feelin' mighty suspicious long bout
de time l comes ter Triplett's. Use
nearly up de hill. sub; nigh JUS bout
opposite d.. spring. an Use feelin'
plenty lonesome, wen big black 'houn'
dog comes lopin' long up side Of me an
stops an wags his tail an looks up at
me. Use kinder glad TO comply, sub
an 1 tells him good dcggie' an pats
him, an he's a'nuzzling my right ham
wen l says ter him. It's n ce night,
doggie, it's a right nice night, Amt
III? AN JUS den he looks up an speaks
right plain 1t shore is Well. sub. |
runs an runs an | runs; an never
quits runnin' till l gets to de cross
roads an into Buck Johnson's sto'. I
don go over Triplett's no mo-. It's a
warnin' ter me. sub. Wen 1 goes ter
town now. sub, 1 goes down by Cyar-
ters' an back o. Mo- Blackwells'."
Ridiculous as this seems to most of
us, 1t was real enough to the old man.
whose Wild imaginations were no doubt
actual so far as he himself was con-
cerned. 1t was fact that at the store
run by the johnson brothers at the
cross roads he had burst In one night
a year or two before, almost exhaust.
ed with running, and had poured out
the story, the same as given above in
detail.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
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The earliest known directory is thai
Of London. published i'm 1917.
A barrel of beef, a barrel OF porb
and a barrel of fish each weighs 2OC
pounds.
Samuel Evans, British soldier. died
at Plymouth in 1909, having lived for
sixteen days after being shot through
the heart.
Prince Eitel Frederick, the German
Emper0r's second son, while at college
performed the difficult feat of swim
ming across the Rhine at Bonn. where
the river is very broad. swift and full
OF dangerous eddies.
Laennec discovered the stethoscope
in 1916, but $50 gears before Robert
Hooke had shown knowledge of its
principle. The theory OF the stetho.
scope, which is regarded as a compar-
atively new invention. was known to
Euclid.
High prices continue to rule in Daw-
son city, which is probably the most
expensive town in the world. 1t is a
thriving place with a population of
over 5000. with warehouses, churches,
banks, electric lights, wholesale and
retail stores and two up-to-date news
papers. The newspapers themselves
are worthy of consideration in the light
Of expense. for they cost % cents a
copy. 1t this time of the year three
eggs ordered in restaurant cost $1.50
while a caribou steak costs ST.
One Of the old schoolmarms of Sails
bury, Mass, was Elizabeth Eastman,
who received ten cents per day for
tuition. An old bill for twenty-four
weeks ($2.4O) with a deduction of
twelve cents for absences was found
recently, dated 1924. 1t was the GUS
tom In those days for pupils to carry
their fuel with them. and 1t was prob
ably done in this case A bill of MAS
ter Walsh" dated ten years later, for
tuition of the same pupil, gives the
price as $4.33 for schooling of thirteen
weeks.
"Idiot" is a word with a curious his
tory. In Greek "idiotes" began by
meaning private individual, as op-
posed to the state or to a state Off
cial; then it meant a non-expert or lay
man, and finally, an ignorant man or
an awkward fellow. 1t was left TO.
English to carry the meaning further
to mental deficiency. In "Piers Plow-
man" an Idiot" Is an ignorant person
and as late as 1893 1t could mean a
person who knew only one language
Wycliff and Jeremy Taylor used it In
the sense Of "layman," and the latter
also in that of private person" And q
professional fool" or jester was al
one time an Idiot" too.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

A lady living in Wellesley, like many
other young girls during the Civil War,
used to knit socks for the soldiers.
Into one pair she put little note CIV
ing such items Of Northern news as
she thought would be Of interest. The
soldier who received the socks greatly
appreciated this and a correspondence
followed. After several letters he ask
ed for her picture. Thinking that 1t
might give pleasure TO a brave patriot
she sent him daguerreotype In the
course of a most grateful acknowledge
ment the soldier wrote:
"A lady like you has little idea of
the evils and temptations of camp life.
But when l am tempted to do wrong
I get out your picture and, gazing
earnestly al it, l say, Get thee behind
me. SATAN"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

thing like 200 miles of it the hardship has turned him
into another of mantle sort that reigs. This
may go indefinitely. unless find way TO cut 1t
short and that is not easy.
1t recently been suggested that IL should
absent himself for a while and then come back and
say he had the pole. the agony would abae.
don't believe Science would overhaul his data and
find lacunae in It. The search for the pole would be
renewed Or if science believed him, fresh expeditions
would verify his findings and enlarge their
scope Thus we why Arctic explorers don't lie, why
they one all confess their failure fbs would
do a bit of good, whether swallowed or not.
But don't imagine that it's scientific enthusiasm
alone that lures men to the Polar A genial
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

halted by the difficulty of financing 1t is we'll
known that the published rates for money do not by
any means tell the story Money, like any other CON-
modify is worth what it will bring lender
nor borrower Is likely to take the public into confidence
into transactions far above the scarcity
of money Is one disagreeabe phase of prosperity
great enterprises IRE hampered and scarcity of labor
another Here toe enterprises hampered and
delayed by the circumstance that to be had
to do the manual labor They be secured even
by Offering extravagany high wages There are simply
not enough men in the country to do the work of the
try. The tide reacts upon itself agan.-Chcago
Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
The Right Slogan

Tom Reed once said that it was easy
enough to frame Il satisfactory tariff
bill In your own mind, but when you
came 10 frame 1T in Congress 1t was a
different proposition. That is the stu
.aIion exactly, and we had better be
content with what We have rather than
lfs ny to evils we know not of. Every
one is prosperous, and attempted tariff
irevisions might prove disastrous and
upset our whole kettle Of fish. So for
the present LET well enough alone
would seem to be the real patriotic slo-
gan on tariff matters.-Meirose Mass. }
News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
Explained.

Say. paw" said little Tommy Tod
dies, "this paper says Uncle Johns
wedding was a very quiet affair. What
does that mean?"
Its one way of calling attention to
tie calm that usually precedes storm,
my son." answered Toddles, Sr.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Knight-How did your new comedy
90?
Wright-Oh, you mean my tragedy.
Knight-But thought 1t was COM
edy?
wright thought so, too, until l
saw the box office receipts.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
conscientious.

Patient-That's very conscientious
nurse that you selected for me. doc
tor.
Physician-Do you think so? 1 am
very glad to hear it.
Patient-Yes. She walked me up
three times last night to take the reg
ular dose of the sleeping potion that
you ordered. -Somerville Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Maecenas finances the venture when you get home
you can write $4,000 book and 60 on a 100000 lee
ture tour. As your Arctic experience has fitted you to
live on shoe strings and candle ends this means wealth
financially pole hunting is bound to become and
more attractive Wireless teegraphy will permit
an explorer to fash home harlfting dispatches at the
rate of $50 a syllable.-Boston Transcript
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
CnnScienffOun.

Are you willing to swear that the
defendant was under the influence OF
Iiuuor at the timer asked the lawyer
who was doing the crossexamining.
NO" replied the witness. II never
swear. But I'm willing to bet you s;
to a nickel that he was"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

The elderly man had evidently loved
and lost out
II suppose" he said, that my gray
hairs do not appeal to you"
"Oh. I respect the few gray hairs
you have" rejoined she Of the refriger-
ator heart, "but somehow 1 am unable
10 generate any respect for your bald
pate"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
Receixed Assistance

HE said he was going to propose to
YOU and that he thought perhaps If be
got embarrassed you would help him
out"
"He was helped out, all right, but II
was papa who helped him."-Houston
Post
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Tragedian-And you say that dra-
matic critic roasted my acting? Why,
j have proof that he was not even at
the play.
Comedian-Then you should be
thankful, old chap. Perhaps If he had
been there he would have roasted 1t
even wor.,e.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Newed-When you say anything
that makes your wife angry what does
she do-threaten to return to her par
ents?
Oldwed-Worse than that She re-
peats some of the fool things l said
during our courtship.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Miss Ascum-Do you mean to say
you weren't In church at all during the
summer?
Miss Sweilman-Of course / wasn't
A wedding In summer is an unheard-
II thing in our set-Philadelphi Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
In seIf-Defcnse.

Gars-I'm sorry. old man. but l
haven't time IT, listen to your fish story.
Bates-Haven't timei Why, you are
not doing anything.
Gates-I know but I've just as much
right to tell lie as you have.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

When your feet grow cold during
your hours at work. take the tip.oe
exercise rising slowly on the toes, hold
ing the position q minute and then
slowly lowering the heels to the floor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

IL the opening chapter of Miss Ida
NJ Tarbell's serial on THE Tariff In
Our Times" which appears in the
american Magazine. Is indicative of the
spirit and purposes Of the whole work.
its measures may be taken without
awaiting additional installments Miss
Tnrbell is evidently thoroughgoing
progressive" She displays about as
much affection for the American sys-
tenn of protection as the average tariff
ripper cares to confess. Her purpose Is
evidently to arouse and intensity p6pu.
lar feeling against protection, and In
doing this she Ia not always careful as
IN her facts--Des Moines Capital.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

About the best luck that can happen
to an old woman Is to have for a con-
temporary some one who recalls that
she was very pretty as Z young eiri
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
Ar II Again.

He-what a lovely complexion Miss
Pinkleigh hasl
She-yea That girls q born artist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
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UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR
THE HOME DkESSMAKER
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Business women and housewives both
find separate waists Indispensable.
There is a pretty fashion of wearing
plain cloth or silk waists with plaid
skirts. and plaid waists with plain
skirts that is attractive Yokes are
being used again on many Of the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
Real Boss.

Neighbour heard your wife givin:
you Hail Columbia this morning.
Homer-Huhi That wasn't my wife
it was the cook.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Mercy! Just think OF the marriage
fees Mormon has to pay! ~
~Oh, probably the minister allows
Him excursion rates."-Boston Tran
script
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
ANOMALIES OF PROSPERITY.

Ii entails certain penalties as we'll as pleas
ures- The very force of the swelling tide
tends to react upon itself. Thus business
activity Is great that money commands
high prices. 1t is not only the stock gam
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
HUNTING THE POLE

HE unapproachable North Pole has been a
nuisance about long enough. 1t has caused
innumerable chilbiains. bronchitises and dis
appointments, much popular boredom. and
not a few deaths, TO say nothing Of the
financial waste. Nobody gets there. for
by the time q fellow comes within some
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07


II the President had desired 20 open
the tariff question he would not have
!hesitated to do SO in his recent mes
sage. But we find one of the longest
messages on record without a mention
OF the word tariff. One paper, the Des
Moines Register and Leader, is of the
opinion that the President suppressed
his tariff views because of fear that
sosne one would thwart his other re-
forms II he opened the tariff. This is
the most igneble motive that has so far
been attached to any one Of the Presl-
dent's acts. Mr.. Roosevelt Is not that
sort OF coward The paper I'm ques-
ton simply makes him appear as a
coward In order to sustain its own con-
tentions on the tariff.-Cedar Rapids
Republican.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
A Happy Ending.

Upon his knees he begged of her:
.'OI be my wife, my darling, please y
Her answer you may all infer;
She answered him upon his knees
Philadelphia Press
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Weary Willie-I see dat de cost Of
livin' has increased 80 per cent in ten
years. Dusty Rhoades-Just t'ink Of
de money man save BY bein' = hobo.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

his committee lever asked the government or the Presl
dent to adopt the plan.
ment has snubbed the President and refused to adopt
1t the situation remains exactly what it before
These simplifed fellows can't spell themselves
g.leyes them to know that anybody can do So They
pretend to like new code of spelling but that only
bluff What they are trying to do Is to make good
spoilers abandon their ways and thus bring about a
state of anarchy then they will get up be
as good spoilers anybody. Ii does not seem likely
that they will succeed Coed spoilers naturally proud
of their accomplishment and do think any of them
will be bamboozed into abandoning it for the benefit
of any person who has difficulty in spelling welKan-
City World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
POIfCl| Comment.
Money in CampaIrns.

The bill which has Just passed the
House to prohibit corporations from
contributing to the funds of parties in
political campaigns is certain to be-
come law. Last summer the Senate
passed bill on the same general line.
The House bill makes one change in
The Senate measure. and that proposes
an Increase in the penalty for viola
ton quick agreement on the bill
will be reached between the two
branches AS the President, in several
messages, has urged a law covering
this ground. the bill will be promptly
signed when he gets hold of it.
Under the bill as it has passed each
branch, national banks and all other
corporations organized by any law of
Congress are forbidden to contribute
money to be used in any canvass in
which ofrcials are TO be elected. And
corporations of all sorts, whether char
tered by nation, state or municipality,
are prohibited from giving any money
IN connection with an election i'm which
presidential electors or members Of Ell
ther branch OF Congress are to be voted
for, or in which Legislatures are to be
chosen which will elect United States
Senators. 1T is not easy to see how
Congress could go any farther than Ii
has now done in its work of shutting
or the financial supplies from cam
paign managers. for the penalties pre-
lscribed for violation of the law are
heavy, and they are to be dealt out to
the giver and the receiver Of the con-
trfbutions
This law will undoubtedly diminish
the use of money in elections. As there
are no good reasons to suppose the
money which has been used heretofore
was employed to corrupt the voters. the
reform which this act will bring may
not be quite so large as Its projectors
Imagine Campaigns under the modern
rconditions cost good deal of money.
Somebody has to put this money up.
The legitimate expenses of running a
canvass are necessarily heavy, and if
the cash supply for paying the ex-
penses Of campaign managers, for send
ing out literature, and for putting spell
binders on the stump is cut off we Will
have to revert to the primitive meth
DDS OF the anterebellion days VIII this
transformation improve politics? We
are inclined to think that it will not.
lIntermixed with the honesty of many
OF the advocates of this change there
has been good deal of demagogy and
hypocrisy in this crusade against cor
poration contributions to campaign
funds--St Louis Globe Democrat
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blouses, making quite change in
styles. as they have not been much In
vogue for some time. Here is a smart
design for such q waist Two single
tucks turned forward and two turned
backward gives the effect Of double
box plaits on each side. over which is
applied gracefully shaped yoke The
plain shirt sleeves are finished with
straight narrow cuffs. 4 pretty effect
is sometimes gained by making the
yoke and cuffs of contrasting material.
The above pattern viii 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
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following coupon:
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Combination Lndersuit-
Combination drawers and corset COW
ers, and petticoats and corset covers
have long been in use and have been
found q great convenience. but the idea
OF combining all three pieces In one
suit is a novel one that IS sure to be
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
AMERICAN MICH COW
SHE rs DRAINED FOR THE BENE.
FIT OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Enormous sums of Money Sent Each
Year by Foreign-BOrn Wage Earn
ers i'm the United States to Needy
Relatives in Old Countries.