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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
A willing Prisoner.

II captured Yankee soldier on the
21st OF November, 1863. who never
ceased TO be grateful to me-" writes
Mr.. AIunson in "Reminiscences OF a
Mosby Guerrilla" "Mosby had about
seventy-five men on a raid below War
renton. We had stopped In piece Of
pines near Bealton Station to watch
for something doing In our line Of
business. 1t was raining. cold and dis
agreeable, and the boys We're ell feel.
ing ugly and impatient.
''Mosby saw a cavalryman and a
man on foot coming along the road
and told Walter Whaley and me to
bring them in to him. We had on
rubber ponchos. which hid our bodies
entirely. We drew our pistols under
them, marched up to the two men, and
spoke only when we were step away,
and then merely said. Surrender.
The mounted mans first impulse
was tc draw his p' .tol and fight his
captors. but he thought better of It.
and gave himself up. Whaley dis
armed him. At the same time seized
the man on foot, Yhereupn his face
broadened into smile.
''Oh, thank God for this.' he cried.
May God bless you, my boyv"
The Confederate troopers were not
accustomed TO being thanked for COB
bling up the boys on the other side, but
when they searched the cavalryman,
whc proved to be a courier bearing
important dispatches and papers. they
discovered that the other man was his
prisoner. and was being taken to A
nearly camp to be shot, according TO
sentence of court martial held the
day before.
When they took the prisoners to Mos
by he found the order to have the man
shot. He was taken back to the Con-
federate lines, provided with suit Of
old clothes. faced northward and turn
eel loose. He started for his home In
Pennsylvania, and" says the narrator
mo doubt he never stopped until he got
there"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
MARK TWAIN ON SLAVERY.
Incident of the Humorist's BOyhOod
Days Revealed It's Tragic Side.

Incident of the Humorist's Boyhood
Days Revealed It's Tragic side.
In my schoolboy days l had no aver-
sion to slavery, says Mark Twain in
the North American Review I was
not aware that there was anything
wrong about it. No one arraigned II
in my hearing; the local papers said
nothing against it: the local pulpit
taught us that God approved it, that 1t
was a holy thing. and the doubter need
only look in the Bible If he Wished to
settle his mind-and then the texts
were read aloud to us to make thu
matter sure; If the slaves themselves
had an aversion to slavery they were
wise and said nothing. In Hannibal
we seldom saw a slave misused: on the
farm, never.
There was, however, one small incl
dent of my boyhood days which touch
ed this matter. and 1t must have meant
a good deal TO me or it would not have
stayed in my memory. clear and sharp.
vivid and shadowless. all these slow
year we nsiu a iittic ciiNc
boy whom we had hired from some one
there in Hannibal. He was from the
eastern shore of Mary land and had
been brought away from his family and
his friends half way across the A-neri-
can continent and sold. He was
CHEEKY spirit. innocent and gentle. and
the noisiest creature that ever was. per-
haps. All day long he was singing.
whistling, yelling. devastating. unen-
durable. At last, one day | lost ali
my temper and went raging to my
mother and said Sandy had been sing
ing for an hour. without single break.
and l couldn't stand it. and wouldn't
she please shut him up. The tears
came into her eyes and her. lip trem-
bled and she said something like this:
poor thing. when he sings it shows
that he is not remembering. and that
comforts me but when he is still | am
afraid he is thinking and | cannot
bear ii. He will never see his mother
again: if he can sing | must not hinder
it. hut be thankful for it. If You were
older you would understand me: then
that friendless child's noise would
make you glad"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Lancia, the Italian automobiles, was
asked by reporter If he did not think
motor racing too dangerous.
'Dangerous-yes," NJ. Lucia replied
TOO dangerous-no. For nothing that
benefits mankind-and automobiles
benfit mankind inexpressibly-is toe
dangerous for man to undertake.
am like a highwayman who held up o
gasoline runabout on the outskirts OF
Rome.
This highwayman stopped the run
about with shot In the air. Then he
ran forth from the tomb that had con
ceaIed him-the hold-up happened on
the Appian way-and found, to his sur
prise, only woman in the little car.
I" Where, madam. is your husband?
he demanded, sternly and suspiciously
"'He's under the seat she answered
flushing.
"'Then.' said the highwayman. 4
won't take anything. It's bad enough
to have husband like that without
being robbed in the bargain"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Worth Reading.

Vegetable life does not exist in the
sea below a depth of 800 feet
Austria never puts women criminals
i'm jail. but sends them to converts in
stead.
4 London cabman has Invented an
automobile that can be used as such
or be drawn by horse.
The discovery has been made that
good paper can be made from the hops
thrown out as refuse from the brew
cries.
by Cape Horn the distance between
New York and San Francisco Is about
1880 miles. The Panama canal will
reduce this to something less than s.
600.
Thc other day In England a woman
was drowned in a pond IN the pres
ence OF four men, One OF them. after
shouting. "Come out of the watcr," ran
to find rope, and could not find one.
He didn't go into the water because he
lad Influenza. Another did not offer
assistance because he had been riding,
and was hot. He might have gone IN,
but one OF the others dissuaded him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Hard to Wreck.

Now that the railroad magnates have
they seem to agree that the country Is
to be congratulated upon the existence
of conditions which prevented the re-
cent furry in Wall street from travel
ing far outside of the strictly specula-
tive belt Melville L. Ingalls,, chair
man of the Board of Directors OF the
Cincinnati. Chicago and St Louis Rail-
road, is quoted as saying:
1T is true, Of course. that the coun-
try is going through a form of crisis
which may turn out all right, or which
may prove hurtful. But one thing
should strike one forcibly: while
stocks have shrunk billions you have
heard of no failures or business catas-
trophies, have you? That would seem
to indicate solidity and a substantial
prosperity which will be hard to
wreck"
Under normal conditions Mr.. Ingalls,
is strenuous friend Of '.tarif reform"
But circumstances alter cases. We
don't believe the gentleman was think
ing much about ripping up the tariff
during those two "Black Fridays in
which stock values went tumbling
down at the rate of hundreds of mil
lions day. About that time, we ven
ture to guess. Mr.. ingalls, was mighty
glad that tariff agitation and the dread
of tariff changes did not concur in the
tendency toward destructive panic
and that tariff stability and business
solidity produced substantial pros
perity that was hard to wreck.-Amer-
lean Economist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
AIR ALWAYS FULL OF DUST.
Particles Not Observed Because Too
Small to Reflect Light.

Particles Not Observed Because Too
Small to Reflect Light.
A most interesting study prom
inent government scientist recently re-
marked, lis that of what might be
termed the foreign elements of the at
mosphere The earths atmosphere
contains an enormous quantity of dust,
and IT. Is everywhere, in the country as
we'll as in the towns.
1.-The reason why we do not see II
constantly is that the particles do not
reflect enough light to, make an impress
sion on the retina. A ray Of bright
sunlight in a dark room reveals in
Vulnerable particles, and yet the mil
lions we see are but a small proportion
Of the whole. being the larger par
ticles.
ut is not at all difficult to collect
these particles FOR the purposes of
study. Probably the most successful
way Is that first used by Pasteur. who
drew stream of air through tube
containing nitrated cotton. The cot.
ton was then dissolved by treating II
with ether and the residue washed and
dried The particles may be meas.
ured by means of fine micrometer. a
late perfection of which enables meas
urements of as little as one-seventy-
mlllionth Of an inch to be made.
allow these particles are loosed in
the air may be readily seen when II
is remembered that all mechanical ac-
ton has a tendency to reduce to a pow.
der whatever substance is In fraction
al contact. even the waves beating upon
the shore make dust. Rain in falling
collects considerable quantities Of this
dust and snow still larger amounts.
This accounts for the red snow some
times heard Of. the color being caused
by mineral particles.
''Of the total weight of the atmos-
pheric dust about 65 to 70 per cent Is
inorganic matter. This portion is alb
s0lutely harmless, but In the 20 to 30
per cent of organic matter are to be
found germs of almost every kind. and
particularly I'm cities Is this percent
age dangerous to humanity.
I'm the inorganic portion have been
found practically ali mineral sub
stances, including the metals sodium
calcium. magnesium. aluminium, nickel
cobalt and iron. Iron appears in much
greater quantity than any other metal,
much of that coming from planetary
space. The rushing of meteorites
through space causes friction which
gradually reduces them to powder con-
tanning much iron. some of which joins
the earth's atmosphere"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Tho.e Day. and our..

Il really do not see" said an old
lady who in spite Of her seventy years
takes an active and lively interest in
present-day foibles, "but that the ways
of our days and the ways Of your days
balance pretty evenly" says the New
York Sun. You tear up your letters
tine moment you get them, and are In
consequence always losing addresses
while we kept carefully everything the
mail brought us and SC had such full
desks that we could never find I'd
dresses, AMI were stupidity swamped
with useless letters. We may have
been downtrodden women. but we
didn't know 1t, while you apparently
are going to be emancipated whetheI
you like it or not. guess we did gossip
about our friends private affairs. but
you buy volumes containing 400 pages
of really unpleasant gossip and call II
modern literature. No. | think on the
whole the balance is even. for Though
we hal simple tastes feven in hus
bands), not to mention good manners
and kindness, all OF which have siYct
gone out of style, You have humor and
automobiles. And / must admit thai
I'm enjoying the two last"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

At last the President has broken ST.
lence after many opportunities from
influential financiers and captains of
industry to give the business communi-
ty "a reassuring word" as to the pol
icy of his administration toward the
great railroad and other corporations
in. the hope OF restoring confidence. His
utterance Is in the form of letter to
the President of the Illinois Manufac-
turers' Association, who had recently
headed a delegation to the White
House to request the President to
speak at Springfield. The invitation
to speak is declined on the ground that
the President could not say anything
new or different from his past official
utterances. In other words. his atti-
tude toward the necessity of Federal
control of the corporations had not
changed. He makes 1t plain that he
will ask the next Congress to deal with
the subject of overcapitalization. but
indicates that existing stock and bond
issues will not be disturbed Nor does
there appear TO be any intention Of
forcing a physical valuation of railway
properties
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

La Milo. the most famous beauty in
Europe. and who artists declare could
have served as a model for Venus de
Milo, declares that physical culture
threatens to spoil feminine pulcritude.
II don't recommend physical culture
which develops muscle and makes one
part of the body abnormal at the ex
pense Of the other" says La Milo. "a
woman does not want to have great
muscular limbs. She ought to go to
the famous statues and study them.
The poetic ideal of the sculptor repre-
sents the highest form of feminine
beauty, and all girl should desire in
the matter of physical loveliness is to
reach, as far as possible, the exquisite
proportions Of the craven gems which
are sheltered in our sculpture galleries.
Physical culture Is against all canons
Of true art for women. 1t was never
intended that a woman should emulate
man, whose glory lies in his strength"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
"soI ! sol p



Visitors to the stock yards of the
West hear the men drive the hogs to
the killing pens with the cry, "Soi.
sol! This word, or some cOgnate OF
it, has been employed, says writer in
the Chicago Tribune. by the swine
herds of many lands. A poet or phil
osopher of ancient Greece, stumbling
upon swineherd in the dale and
frightening his porkers, would have
heard him call to them in some form
of the Greek word sns. pronounced
''soos," and meaning "pig." The same
word appears in Latin.
To begin ut the beginning. philolo-
gists find a root su, meaning to pro.
duce; the SOW is a prolific animal.
That root undergoes so many changes
that the layman would not recognize
the slightest relation between the de-
rivatives and cognates. but the expert
in word genealogy and word physiog-
nomy sees a family resemblance in
words as dissimilar as hog" and
swine" which have no letter in COM
mon.
Students of Greek remember that
the other form of sus is hus, pro-
nounced "hoos." Hus is blood-brother
to the Zend word hu. boar. to the
Welsh hwch.
When there were kings in Ireland
the word for "sow" was suig The
Dutch word is zeug. pronounced
'tsoig." When one recalls the sound
that swine make in eating. one cannot
help wondering if sus and sol and tsoig
do not in some degree illustrate that
figure of speech which the Greeks called
onomatopGia.
The scholar, then, knows that there
Is every reason why the man in the
stock yards OF Chicago should be called
"Soi, soi' to the pigs. Among the
workers there are many Lithuanians,
Slavonians and Poles. who are as near
to the ancient Greeks as they are to the
modern Yankee We are all close rel
atives: Slav. Teuton--the Anglo-Saxon
is in his speech Teuton-Celt and
Latin are members of the Indo- Euro
pean family. To trace our relation
through our words is interesting not
merely to the technical scholar. but to
every one who thinks about the history
of his race. BY studying word we
see the bond between the pig-driver OF
old Ireland. the swineherd of ancient
Greece, and the laborer in the stock
yards of modern Chicago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
ADDRESS
RAILROAD Law ODDITIES.

Montana requires its railroads to
maintain a station at plotted townsites
of 100 inhabitants or more.
Intoxication while on duty is a mis-
demeanor for railroad employee in CAL
ifornia and If death results felony.
In Massachusetts, the illegal sale Of
street railway transfers is made pun
ishable by fine not exceeding $50 or
Imprisonment for not more than thirty
days.
A trolley company in Vermont whose
cars fail to come to full stop and dis
play a signal at grade railroad cross
ing is subject to fine of $25 for each
omission.
In Minnesota railway, telegraph and
express stations must bear th.. local
name of the community, unless II is LA
BILE TO be confused with the names of
other stations on the same line
By the terms of new statute In
Michigan in a suit by or against rail
read company the books OF the COM
pany are subject to the inspection Of
the attorney general OF the State.
California rejoices in a law making
the circulation of fraudulent reports re-
garding the value of the stock of cor
poration formed in the State a felony
punishable By two years Imprisonment
or $1,000 fine or both.
In deciding suit arising from the
delay of a shipment of ,Areshers until
after the season for the sale of such
machinery had passed, the Kansas SUI
preme Court held that common carriers
are charged with knowledge o. seed
time and harvest and the general GUS
toms relating thereto in the territory
In which they do business
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
HOW TURTLES ARE CAUGHT.
The Moonlight Nights Are the Best
Time to Get Them

The Moonlight Nights Are the Best
Time to Get Them.
Turtles are always captured at night
and usually on moonlight ones. This is
the time they go on the shore to lay
their eggs. They select a smooth, sandy
beach. dig holes in the sand, deposit
their eggs there and leave them to be
hatched by the heat of the sand When
the turtles are ON shore for this pur-
pose the hunters come upon them and
they are easily overtaken, for turtles
are slow movers. The hunters have
not a very strenuous undertaking. All
that Is necessary to be done is to turn
the turtles on their backs and leave
them until the next day, when they are
removed
Another more curious way of catch
ing turtles, according to the Washing.
ton Star, is by fishing by the remora,
fish found in tropical waters. The pop
ular name of this fish and the one by
which the children of these countries
call them is the sucking fish. This
name is given to them on account of
disk on their heads, by which they can
attach themselves to any smooth sur
face, like the side of shark. a ship
or the shell of turtle. This disk is
like the soft leather suckers" that are
popular with schoolboys- When this
fish has once attached himself to any.
thing you can pull him to pieces rather
than force him to release his hold.
Turtle hunters go in boats and carry
several of these remoras in tubs. When
they see a turtle and get near him the
sucker is sent after him. He is held
by the ring ON his tail, which, in turn,
is attached by stout cord Soon the
fish is securely fastened to the shell OF
the turtle and turtle and fish are haul
ed into the boat together. Once in the
air the remora loosen his hold and is
dropped back into the tub to rest until
another turtle is sighted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
NEW FUEL FROM BROWN COAL.
II II Made Near Dresden Out OF
bohemian Ptoduct.

=
bohemian Product.
According to a paper by Herr Buch-
ner In the Zeitschrift of the Society
of German Engineers, a new fuel,
Kaumazit, is being made near ORES
den from Bohemian brown coal. says
the New York Post The coal is kept
twentyfour hours In coke-oyen retorts.
The finished Kaumazit is removed
+ from the base of the retorts every
three hours and is cooled The retort
procedure first evaporates the hygro-
scopic water in the brown coal t25
and % per cent?, and then causes the
distillation of the heavy hydrocar.
bons.
The retorts are worked under par
tial vacuum. The gases obtained from
the retorts are cooled and scrubbed
and the purified gases are used part
to heat the retorts. part to drive gas
engines, and a surplus remains for
sale to the various industries in the
neighborhooG The thermal value OF
the Kaumazit obtained averages GAS
kg.-cals. 1t contains 77.S4 per cent
carbon, 14.9 per cent ash and La per
cent hydrogen, with 40 per cent by
groscopic water. 1t is graded ir three
sizes. and is sold for the production
of slow-burning bfiquettes. Analysis
proves Kaumazit to be fuel poor in
gas and high in fixed carbon. 1t has Q
high ignition temperature.
Boiler firing with this fuel there
fore demands closed ashpits and blow.
ers under the CRATE to obtain the best
results. With weIl-designed CRATES q
boiler efficiency of 722 per cent has
been obtained. The air pressure Is 50
regulated that when the fire doors ars
opened there is neither air indrawine
nor fame emission. result obtained
by working with chimney draft Of I
MN. of water and blower pressure OF
about the same value. In the trials
carried out with this fuel the excess
air has only averaged 10 per cent above
that required by theory Cor complete
combustion of the fuel Kaumazit is,
further, smokeIess fuel. and the cost
In Dresden Is so regulated that i'm most
industries IL can be employed so as to
yield saving of from to 10 per cent
as compared with ordinary coal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
No Apology Needed.

The fact that no tariff disturbing
movement IS now in sight Congress
having adjourned without paying at
tention to agitation in that direction,
Is having an exhilarating influence on
business affairs in various directions.
From iron manufacturers and steel
mills come reports to the effect that
new orders are coming in more rapidly
than deliveries can possibly be made.
and In many important lines night and
DAY operation are not sufficient to even
keep up with current requirements.
This is a situation which makes neces-
sary no apologies or explanations so
fur as the advocates of protection are
con. ned--Cadillac (Mich.) Express.