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

"Californians have solved the nrob-
lem OF the alchemists and are making
gold out Of sea water" says William
Briggs, writing In the Technical World
Magazine. "The Golden State has taken
golden treasure out of her mountains.
has made her valleys yield millions of
dollars worth of golden fruit. has
amassed tourist gold in exchange from
her sunshine. and now turns to the
great lazy Pacific and ransacks its cof-
fers.
There is no rush of prospectors to
the new field, however, as the gold is
coming out OF the sea in the form of
salts of potassium, magnesium and bro
mide, which would elude the pan and
the rocker Of the prospector.
''Of several 'diggings' of this nature.
one at least is active and prosperous
and one is approaching activity. The
San Pedro Salt Company, which recent
ly entered into the field, has succeeded
in manufacturing a quantity and quail
ity of salt which has found a ready
market and has already assumed a
place among the exports of the port of
San Pedro. The fact that San Pedro
is a lively and thriving port, with al
most no outgoing cargces, makes the
development Of this trade both easy
and important. Since the first of last
year the coasting schooners returning
to the northern coast have taken away
over a thousand tons Of this sea salt
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

The Philadelphia Record says: "Al-
though the new French tariff bill Is
general in appearance. there is little
conceaiment of It's aim at trade with
the United States. Germany's tariff,
too, will chiefly affect the agricultural
exports of this country. But the al
legged difficulty of making tariff conces-
slons to Germany and France is that
like concessions cannot be equitably
denied to Great Britain, by far the
country's best customer. In this situa-
ton why not revise the tariff in the
interest of the American people, with
out regard to Great Britain, Germany
or any other country?" That has been
tie custom of Republicans in revising
the tariff. The Dingley BILL for exam
pie, was revision in the interest Of the
American people. after Wilson-Gor-
man-C Cleveland tariff favorable to for
eigners-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
VIENNA TO SELL COAL.

City Making Radical Experiment. I'm
Municipal Ownership.
There would seem to be no end to
Vienna's new experiments in the field
of municipal ownership. says the Pail
Mall Gazette. Only within the last
few days negotiations have been COM
pleted for the purchase by the city of
the business OF the two largest under
taking companies. and now comes the
news that the City Council is serious
ly contemplating the establishment Of
gigantic municipal wholesale coal
business to counterfeit the manipula-
lions of the coal trust. 1t was at first
suggested that the city should acquire
coal mines, but as that was found to
be impractlcable. the project of buying
direct from colleries outside the trust
was mooted.
Vienna consumes yearly from 1000
600 to 100000 tons OF coal, nearly n
third of which Is taken by the munich
pality for the gas works. electric light
Ing, tramways, heating OF the schools
and public buildings and other pur-
poses. 1t is proposed that after sup
plying its needs in these directions, the
city should sell coal TO small dealers,
thereby saving the public from the fire.
quent increases in price made by the
trust dealers.
Besides getting its coal cheap at the
mines. the city expects that the govern
ment would make special freight rates
for sending coal to Vienna.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
"DIAMoNDFIELD JACK. %

How the Mining Camp bad Man,
saved the Newsboy.
The day of the mining camp bad
men is gone forever. Goldfield has
them, it is true. but they are behaving
themselves nowadays, for the man with
a record Is no longer hero. On the
contrary, he is Stunned.
There are score of men now here,
says Goldield correspondent, who
have got their men before now, but
they say as little as possible about 1t
and stick to faro dealing or bartend-
ing. The bad men are no longer the
bosses of 2 mining camp.
Probably the best known bad man
now in Goldtield Is Dlamondfield Jack
Davis. lie has several killings to his
credit Up in Idaho he was several
times convicted OF the murder of three
sheep herders and was sentenced to be
hanged. It's a coincidence that the
man to whom he owes his life, ex-
Governor Hunt, of Idaho, died here
the other day.
DiamondfieId Jack, like the rest OF
his kind, Is living quietly these days
He has shown only one flash OF the
old spirit that brought him so near the
gallows That was while the miners
were boycotting the GoldheId Sun
early last fall.
A crowd was chasing a newsboy
down the street and the lad ran into
Diamondfield Jacks brokerage Office.
The crowded followed, pell nell.
"Diamondfield Jack" grabbed an au.
tomato gun IN each hand and faced
the mob.
.Get the out OF here you -!'
be roared, "or I'll blow We all to
pieces"
The mob stood not upon. the order
OF its going. Its flight was panic.
stricken Probably almost every man
in the crowd toted gun, but they all
fled before the terror of the name OF
Diamondfield Jack.
For a quarter of an hour the old
time bad man strobe up and down the
street, gun in each hand, roaring
like a wounded bull, and calling on
the vanished mob to come back and gel
killed. But not soul would oblige
him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09


A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his
dreams.-Russlan.
You cannot make a hawk out of a
buzzard.-French.
You should not travel so fast that
you cannot Sc she signboards.
You cannot always judge mans
wealth by the bulge of his pocketbook.
Australians exports of wool TO the
United States have doubled within a
year.
Eskimos, as rule, cannot swim, the
water around them never going above
freezing point.
The electric light is causing a con-
siderable diminution in the consump-
ton of matches.
The vicar of Tuntridge Wells. Eng
land, suggested that during Lent his
parishioners should deny themselves
gloves.
What the London Lancet calls a new
departure in the preservation of foods
is method of sterlizing it with car
bolic acid, invented by Randolph Hem
ming.
1t is estimated by the Commonwealth
statistician that since 1892 the popu-
lation Of Australia has gained 27,55S By
new arrivals and lost 10000 by depart
ures.
Picture postcards are subjected to a
stern ensorship in some continental
countries. In Russia those bearing the
portrait Of Tolstoy have been srp-
pressed.
Experiments are being. made in Char
lottenburg. near Berlin. with device
for lighting and extinguishing all the
street lamps simultaneously from the
sasworks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
FRIENDS.
They Are a Life Prisoner AID Grip
pied Girl.

pied Girl.
Those who are interested in the great
work that Mrs. Ballington Booth IS
carrying on in behalf OF prisoners VIII
remember that every year she SENDS
out through the newspapers an appeal
for aid to carry Christmas cheer TO the
prisoners families, many OF whom are
IN deep want
In recent issue OF Forward is the
story of two letters which came in the
same mail in response to her appeal.
Each letter contained a dollar. One
was from man who had spent already
twenty-four years in Jail, and knew
that the years that were left mrst all
be spent in the same dark walls; the
other frox Il crippled girl, whose
life was S; ent upon a sick-bed-
The girls dollar Mrs. Booth spent in
helping a poor family. but the life
mans, she decided. should be used in
buying something for the little prisoner
OF pain whose letter had come with bis.
The next time that she visited the
prison she found the life" man wait
ing eagerly TO see her. He had read In
the prison paper how his dollar had
been used, and new idea had come to
him. The warden allowed him the use
OF an old shanty. in which he raised
canaries, and he wanted to send one
to the little cripple, If she would care
for it Accordingly, letter was writ
ten to her asking il she would care to
have a canary. Her answer was full OF
delight. She had never had a bird In
!. her life she wrote.
So in the spring a singing canary
went from the prison to the sick-room.
and letter came back to the prisoner
the beginning Of correspondence
which has continued ever since Neither
will ever see the other. but to each has
now come one OF life's grea. gifts
friend From the prisons Of sin and
suffering each soul found its way to
freedom through the same golden key
OF kindness.
The story Is only one OF many Mrs.
Booth can tell countless instances of
courage and unselfishness and even
splendid heroism among her boys
ard no one Will ever know all the
blessings that have come to the world
from lives shut in to pain and suffering
But every such story bears solemn
question . those who are well and
free. II these two. tout Of the apparent
wreck of all that makes life worth liv
ing" could yet give joy to others. what
are we doing with our infinitely greater
oDDortunities2
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

The poet Shelley tells an amusing
story of the influence that language
hard to be understood" exercises on
the vulgar mind. Walking near Co
vent Garden, London. he accidentally
jostled against an Irish navy, who,
being in a quarrelsome mood, seemed
inclined TO attack the poet. A crowd
of ragged sympathizers began to gath
er, when Shelley, calmly facing them,
deliberately pronounced:
Il have put my hand into the ham,
per. / have looked on the sacred bar
ley. / have eaten out of the drum.
have drunk and am we'll pleased. l
have said Knox Ompax,' and 1t is fin
ished."
The effect was magical. The aston
ished freshman fell back. His friends
began to question him. What bar
ley?" Where's the hamper what
have you beer drinking?" and Shelley
walked away unmolested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

General Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning with Grant in The Century.
carries the narrative through the Cold
Harbor campaign. General Porter says
While at the mess-table taking our last
meal before starting upon the march to
the James on the evening of the 18th,
the conversation turned upon the losses
which had occurred and the reinforce
ments which had been received up to
that time The figures then known did
not differ much from those contained
In the accurate official reports after
ward compiled From the opening of
the campaign, May 4, TO the movement
across the James, June -, he total
casualties in the Army of the Potomac,
including Sheridan's cavalry and Burn
sides command, had been: Killed, r.
Cpl wounded, 1899; captured or miss
ing, $500; total. 54,926. The services
of all the men included in these fig
ures were not, however, permanently
lost to the army. A number of them
were prisoners who were afterward ex-
changed, and many had been only
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
HIGH BUILDINGS A MENACE.
Declared Cause OF Increase I'm Death
Rate from Pneumonia.

Declared Cause Of Increase i'm Death
Rate from Pneumonia.
There is possibility that in the fu-
ture science will have some very grave
warnings to deliver in connection with
the increase in the number of very high
buildings. Already there is Gn open
question as to the increase in the death
rate from pneumonia. Until the ma
ture Of pneumonia Is fully understood
1t is impossible to say with scientific
certainty that high buildings cause the
sudden and startling growth of pneu-
monia in the United States.
In 1870 there was no question that
consump ton was the worst scourge the
country knew No other disease claim
ed so many victims, the death rate be-
ing fifty points higher for consumption
than for any other disease. By the
census OF 1860 there is hardly a points
difference in the mortality rate of con.
sumption and pneumonia.
These figures show very significantly
the apparent movement by which, while
consumption is being held in check, the
death rate from pneumonia is increas-
ing in an alarming way 1t Is to be
noted also that the sudden prominence
of pneumonia as a great cause of NOR
tally has been almost exactly coinci-
dent with the rush to construct sky
scrapers. Beyond this there has been
no proven connection, such as science
can yet recognize. There may be in
ferences, but they cannot be said to be
admitted facts as yet
Pneumonia. is disease, however,
that science does regard as more COM
mon among those who dwell in high To-
calities than in valleys. A recent in
yestigation In Massachusetts seems to
prove that much. Whether it be that
the pneumonococcus thrives better in
rarified air or the strain of breathing
at the higher level exposes the lungs
more easily to the att,lck Of the pneu-
monia germ has never been established
positively.
But dampness or the lack Of sun
light are supposed to be favorable to
the growth OF the germ. The sky scrap.
er fulfills these conditions when il
shuts out the light from the city streets
and at the same time takes many peo-
pie to attitudes unusual to the preced-
ing generation. Indeed, science has al
ready collected enough facts to make 1t
49, q H.,
modern sky scraper even If there be not
enough proof to justify conviction.
But until the time comes when sci.
ence can speak positively on this point
1t may be wise for the average man to
consider whether public policy may not
justify at least the restriction that sky
scrapers DE not built in the smaller cit
les, where they are certainly no!
needed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09


THE more see of human nature the
odder 1t seems to me-" observed the
man in the tan flannel waistcoat.
sit wouldn't be human nature II II
wasn't odd" remarked his friend with
the full beard, profoundly. I'VE are
fearfully and wonderfully constituted"
That's what" agreed the man in
the tan flannel waistcoat. Now, there's
my father, for instance. haven't quite
got over feeling afraid OF the old gen
tleman even now"
That's natural enough. should
hope" said the man with the full
beard.
81 should say So He didn't believe
In sparing the rod and spelling the
child. Not that he used a rod to any
great extent. Ever feel his hands,"
IL don't believe 1 have"
81 have. Next time you shake hands
with him you notice how bard the
palm is. and the size OF It, 1t made
quite an impression on me In early
life"
MY father used to reason with me-"
said the man with the beard
$50 would mine" said the man with
the flannel waistcoat. He'd appeal TO
my reason nearly every time. He'd
say: William, it's wrong to smash win
dows with hard rubber balls. and I'm
going TO tell you why. Windows are
put into houses for the purpose of ad-
hitting light and sunshine and In OF
der that the inmates may be able TO
look outdoors without the trouble of
going out themselves. When a pane OF
| glass Is shattered 1t doesn't interfere
with this purpose, l admit, but at the
same time 1t let's in drafts. which are
likely to cause colds and bronchitis
and pneumonia. which in their turn en-
tail doctors bills and even funeral ex-
penses. You understand all that quite
clearly. don't you. William?
"'Yessir.'
"'very good Now, l know it's too
much to expect boy OF your age to
be very careful. AS they grow older
they learn to think before they act
and to take probable consequences into
consideration. Why? By experience
Of consequences-unplea conse-
quences If the result of any foolish
or ill-considered act was in every case
pleasant boy would be doing foolish
and inconsiderate things all his life.
That stands to reason, doesn't It.?
"'Yessir.'
"'Exactly. Then the result OF this
particular piece of mischief will be a
licking. Not a perfunctory padding,
but thorough licking that will make
you stop and consider carefully In fu-
ture every time you throw a ball In
the direction Of house.
"Then the performance would begin
and I'm bound to say that l did stop
| to think what / was throwing at from
that time on. He laid on good and
hard. Mother used to tell him he was
too severe, but he couldn't see 1t. Non
sensev he'd say. When l was a boy
my father used to lick me, and / often
think 1 didn't get half enough That's
the way my father raised me-"
That's natural enough" commented
the man with the beard. II suppose
we all think our children ought to be
raised the way we were. We know we
came out all right"
II wouldn't go so far as TO say
that" said the man in the flannel
waistcoat. Il don't think that I'm q
perfect specimen. but l do think that
there's good deal of bosh about this
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Gratitude to the Veterans.


A recent legislative event marae an
epoch in the treatment of the viz
ing Union soldiers of the Civil Var
and the survivors OF the Mexican War.
After o debate Of two hours the Senate,
without dissenting vote. passed ser
vice pension bill for soldiers over the
age of 62. beginning at the rate of So
month, to be Increased to S15 at the
age Of 90, and $50 at the age OF 20.
This is material advance over the
present rates, and also more directly
recognizes age alone as conclusive
claim to pension, to be obtained with
out any payment to pension agents.
The maximum allowed means that men
who offered their lives at the call OF
the government, and who saved from
disruption what has become one of the
first OF nations, shall not lack the
means Of simple subsistence in their de-
clining days.
In the year that ended June 80 last,
$4,000 pensioners died, and for the
first time since the Civil War the de-
crease in the pension roll exceeded the
increase. Though the whole number
Of pensioners is but little below 1000
900, only two-thirds are Civil War vet
Grams, and the mortality In their ranks
this year will scarcely fall below 40,
00O 1t Is to small remnant this
token Of gratitude comes, and they are
vanishing at the rate OF a hundred a
day. Only few thousand survivors
OF the Mexican war remain--Illus-
trated Home Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

slightly wounded, and were soon ready
counted more than once, as a soldier
who was wounded in a battle twice,
and afterward killed, may have been
counted three times in making up the
list OF casualties, whereas the army had
really lost but one man.
The losses of the enemy have never
been ascertained. No precise informa-
ton on the subject has been discovered,
and not even a general statement can
be made of his casualties. In a few of
the battles Of this campaign his losses
were greater than the losses suffered by
the Illinois troops; in the greater part
of the battles they were less. Our re-
Inducements had amounted to just
about the same number as the losses.
1t was estimated from the best sources
of information that Lee had also re-
ceived reinforcements equal 10 his
losses, so that the armies We're now
of about the same size as when the
campaign began.
All the endorsements organized in
the North and reported as on their
way to the front did not reach us.
There was a good deal Of truth In the
remark reported to have been made by
Mr.. Lincoln: I'VE get large body of
reinforcements together. and start
them to the front; but after deducting
the sick, the deserters. the stragglers,
and the discharged, the numbers seri-
ously diminish by the time they reach
their destination. It's like trying to
shovel fleas across barnyard; you
don't get 'em all there"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

worth than what be Very likely is-to the
employer but the boy the value of the habit saving
was worth much
No one would wish to encourage niggardliness: but
wise self restraint, the rejection
little or nothing to welbeng the disregard of senseess
convenonalies and the cheerful acceptance
expensive thing if it its purpose-these
only steps toward prosperity but constant and i'm
portant accessicns strength character-Youth's
Companion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Looked Into the Wall.

A rather peculiar case of absent
mindedness was that related Of Peter
Burrowes, an Irish lawyer. A friend
who called on Burrowes at an early
hour one morning found him shaving
with his face held close to an empty
wall. What on earth are you assum-
ing that attitude for" he asked
ITO look in the glass;" was the reply
''But there's no glass there" laughed
the acquaintance.
"Bless you! L didn't notice that be-
FORE" said Burrowes, and then calling
his servant he asked him what had be-
come Of the mirror.
'Why, sir" said the man, at was
broken six weeks ago."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09


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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
campaign began.
A Good Head.

When Farragut ran the gauntlet of
Forts Jackson and st Philip, below New
Orleans, the little gunboat Cayuga
was everywhere In the thick of the
fighting. A colored boy of the crew
was passing powder when spent
grs.pe-shot struck a casting near him.
shattered and flew in many directions
One piece hit him on the thickest part
of his forehead. says the author Of "A
Sailor of Fortune" and dropped to the
deck.
He picked it up nonchalantly, put II
in his pocket and kept at work.
When the fight was over and the
members OF the crew were Dragging.
this boy, who was not over fourteen,
stepped up to some of them and pulled
the grape-shot from his pocket.
You hush" he said to the boosters.
dat shot done hit me on de haid an
broke In two. Dere's de shot and dere's
de place it hit me. You can see fob
youSe'f"