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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Unfa miliar Coin.

The returned traveller smiled remin-
iscently. Il was mortified" she said,
when / was in South America to find
that I did not know our own GOLD
money by sight. We are so accustom-
ed to checks, greenbacks and silver
and so little gold passes from hand to
hand in our daily shopping that when
United States gold pieces were offered
me abroad | always had to stop and
examine them carefully before l could
tell how much they were worth. This
greatly amused the foreigners. whose
gold currency circulates much more
freely among all classes than ours
does"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
COMPLETELY GoLD-BRICKED.
Iowa Farmers Will Lose S5,OOO,0O0
n Year on Free Hides.


1t is settled that the 10 per cent duty
which has heretofore been imposed up
on COW hides imported into the United
States is to be removed.
New England was simply frantic 10
secure hides free from duty. New
England feels justified now in the car
rying on an eight years campaign for
tariff reform. New England, undoubt-
eddy, had free hides in mind in the
old days when the reform campaign
began. The results would seem to in
dictate that every man before entering
upon the reform campaign had a par
ticular purpose which he desired to
accomplish The threshing machine
manufacturers wanted to get into Can
ada under more favorable circum-
stances. Foss. the Boston manufac-
turer of patented articles, which were
independent of the tariff, wanted
cheaper food products from Canada.
Van Cleave, the stove builder, his ar
ticles being protected by patents
wanted cheaper iron ore. The entire
| list could be gone through with and a
selfish reason found for the work OF
practically every one of the tariff re-
| formers. Our Western friends went
into partnership with them and were
made tools Of The West lost a duty
| from hides and gained nothing else 10
take the place of the same. IL the
| duty were taken off manufactured
products of hides the proposition
would look different The shoemaker
and saddler of Massachusetts will con
tinue to have protection on their man
ufactured products. Our Western
branch of the reform establishment ap
pears to have been completely gold
bricked. They have nothing to SHOW
for their work except that they have
made themselves known politically.
| The State of Iowa contains almost
100000 head of horned cattle. The
remova! of the hide duty, we sho1lt
think, would reduce the price of every
steer the amount of one dollar Il
this is true, free hides will cost the
producers of Iowa s5,O00,00O per year
Nothing will be given in return fol
this sacrifice.
1t has been a grea; game from star
to finish.-Des Moines Capital.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

foot of the terminal tracks and as
they work at a. long switchboard ar
rangement they see suspended above
their heads. hanging from the ceiling
and tilted at an angle, diagram OF
large dimensions showing the tracks
and the many signals which dot the
terminal grounds. There are no great
pumphandle levers TO be swung. In
stead, the levers are only a few inches
long, giving the idea of keyboard.
But they do their work so cleverly
that aot even small lump Of coal or
silver no larger than the end of a
lead pencil can lodge between the
rails at a signal point without the
knowledge of the operators in the
towers.
The work is of the most important
nature and the operators are men who
have been long in the employ OF the
company and trained especially for
their duties said Edward billiard.
who is connected with the signal de-
partment of the company. Every
route is protected by a signal and II
is impossible for the operator in the
tower to give a conflicting signal, be-
cause the interlocker is so arranged that
no two conflicting routes can be given.
1t is important that the public should
understand this point. The electro
pneumatic machine is so constructed
that in setting up route for an en-
CINE all signal levers that control a
conflicting route must be In a danger
position before any switch can be
thrown. Switches are so adjusted that
an opening of the points even one-six
teenth of an inch would lock their
lever and automatically call forth the
repair man from his place in the tow
er. In the meantime the leveEmen are
at a standstill as far as that particu
lar routing is concerned"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

races has been made often that it can be taken
having least foundation in fact. yet
two. the Japanese undoubtedly the to orr
sympathies and comprehension the reader accept
what is called civilization and the likeler both
and to initiate the occidental world.
The apparent lack by the Japanese commercial
honesty has been well explained by the circumstance
that until recently their trading class low and
despised while the fighting highly hon.
ored and naturally developed the virtues that
much the effect as the of general respect. In
China the conditions reversed the merchant being
there the noble and the soldier the parah Soon the
Chinese soldier will learn that it is shameful
away from the enemy and the Japanese merchant that
it does not pay to break contracts-New York Times
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Up Against 1t.

Pardon IL. -e4.~rAA~O. said the
lady passenger to the captain of the
big ship. but how do you manage to
find your way across the tracklesS
ocean,"
answered the captain. THE needle in
variably points to the north
But" queried the l. p. suppose
you wish to go south?"-Detroit News
Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
IRoNLESS SHIP BUILT TO
SURVEY THE WORLD

Destined for a fifteen-year cruise to
ell accessible parts of the world. the
non-magnetic yacht, Carnegie, recently
launched In Brooklyn. ~ Y, Is expect
ed to become prominent figure In the
maritime hall of fame.
Built for use in a magnetic survey
OF the earth, the Carnegie is expected
to encounter experiences such as no
other vessel has been through. She
will wrestle. probably. with ice packs
in the Arctic, and may meet terrific
typhoons off the Asiatic coast. Her
crew may shorten sail before the
storm king of Cape Horn and whistle
for breezes In the sultry Sargasso sea.
Even in her construction, the yacht
differs from ether vessels. No steel
Of iron has entered into her construc-
ton, except about 600 pounds neces-
sary for certain parts of her machin-
cry. She will be nearer all wood than
than any other modern craft afloat.
1t Is hoped that the voyage OF the
Carnegie will bring not only fame to
herself, but lasting benefit to all the
great multitude who go down to the
sea In ships. The scientists to sail
in her hope to discover. among other
things, the location and characteristics
OF the North magnetic pole.
The Carnegie institution of Wash
ington. which built the vessel about
Eve years ago, undertook to make a
series Of systematic surveys. There
was organized department of re-
search in terrestrial magnetism, which
was placed in charge of DR.. L. A.
Bauer. who was formerly in charge of
the magnetic survey of the United
States under the coast and geodetic
survey. Since then valuable work has
been done In the Pacific Ocean, the
yacht Galilee making three voyages
aggregating $4,000 nautical miles.
1t is because of the peculiar char.
tended that the vessel was built with
out the use o. iron or steel Her beams
and planks are held together with
wooden treenails, and spikes and bolts
of copper and bronze. Her engine and
other machinery are of b ass and
bronze, and even the propelle- is OF
manganese bronze.
Those OF us who recall our early
history lessons remember, probably
tho statement that at one time on the
great voyage of Columbus his sailors
rnutinied because the compass needle
failed to point to the North star. Such
eccentricities of the compass have
bothered mariners ever since. Perhaps
they did before.
II Is a well-known fact that the
compass In certain parts Of the earth
does not remain true to due north
On some localities the variation may
be several degrees. on the coast Of
Oregon and Washington the variation
is as much as twenty to twenty-five
degrees. This variation Is found or
land as we'll as on the ocean.
There are a number of lines along
which the compass needle always
points due north. One Of these line:
of mo variation" begins in the east
arn part Of Lake Superior, runs
through Ohio. about midway between
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
AMERICAN FIRE WASTE.

ONE impressively unpleasant figures. bear
ing upon the annual fire waste
> in this country are given in the report Of
the National Board of Underwriters. re
uEfTv Gently made public. The ordinary fire
vS9SsG0l losses, apart from such exceptional and
largely non-preventable disasters that
at San Francisco are than 5000 10000 a year.
In the months of 1909 they 100000
average of nearly three quarters Of million every
day The aggregate loss in five years is than the
amount of the national debt
American city fire departments recognized SUI
perior to those of European cities and although In
this country much larger proportion Of the buildings
consists of infammabe wooden structures than Is the
IN Europe that does account for the fact that
fire losses from to thirty times greater than
those OF European countries
The National Board of Underwriters declares that
the is careessness and reckessness here.
as against care forehought and wise supervision
In Europe More dsheartening still Is the fact that
American fire loss steadily increasing by
1t Is annually nearly two and half times great as
$780, rate increase is almost twice that
of the increase in population in the same period.
The widespread movement for the prevention of un-
necessary waste In natural resources and In mate
rial is commendable but 1t is desirable
to check waste by fire When buildings burned
there is lost than the actra money value of the
buildings themselves for business Is usually interrupt
ed and the communities deprived of taxable prop
erty. The problem of preventing this waste. since
much of it is declared by experts be prevenable is
which well the serious attention of the
American people-Youth's Companion
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

for religious reasons be regarded exceptionally
ormal? The does not prove that the Oriental is
per Sc more dangerous than the Caucasian; it simply
shows that he is subject to the passions and
furie as the white
In France. Germany. there could be Sigel case
for the simple reason that only in America would a
wife daughter successfully defy more worldly
husbands and fathers wellknown wishes concerning
the daughters friendships among young To this
extent the New York tragedy is perhaps peculiarly
American the Berlin commentators avow, and there
is good for the social shock which the affair
causes.-Sprngfeld Republican
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

real business. you understand, he
asked me how was my razor, and be-
fore could say anything he went on
to say that he didn't want to be
hacked, as he was going to a party
and wanted to be recognized.
We'll. / thought that was getting
pretty close TO the limit. but / acted as
il | hadn't heard what he had said ]
was doing my best 20 give him clean
shave when he said he thought II
would not be a bad idea for me to
strop the razor on a joint of stovepipe
o" the sole of my boot, so as to give II
an edge.
Il never had anybody say a thing
like that to me even when / was an
apprentice. What would you have done
under such an insult?
That was an insult" replied the
boss; still you must remember that
we have to put up with all sorts. !
would have considered the source
We'll, l didn't say anything even
then. l kept right on until | got
through. and he had as good a shave
as he ever had in his life
You had done nothing to him up to
that timer" asked the boss.
Not a thing" answered chair ..
Just as / was about to hand him the
bay-rum act he looked at me and said
! was about the worst he ever saw. |
simply smiled. Never made any re-
ply.
Then he asked me for a match and
| handed him that. AS he was light
ing his stump of a cigar he asked me,
What do you think of the tariffY he
says. Then l picked up the razor and
slit him under the chin. i won't stand
for that"
The next day he was promoted from
chair to chair 1.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
IT WORKS.
The Laborer Eats Food That Would
WrecD. nm Office Man.

The Laborer Eats Food Tint wouIa
Wrec,. an ONCE Man.
Men who are actively engaged at
hard work can sometimes eat food that
would wreck a man who is more close
ly confined.
This is illustrated in the following
story:
working actively and drank coffee all
the time without much trouble until
after l entered the telegraph service.
There | got very little exercise and
drinking strong coffee. my nerves grew
unsteady and my stomach got weak
and l was soon a very sick man.
quit meat and tobacco and in fact
stopped eating everything which
thought might affect me except cof-
fee. but still my condition grew worse
and / was all but a wreck
Il finally quit coffee and commenced
to use Postum a few years ago and I
am speaking the truth when / say, my
condition commenced to improve i'm
mediately and to-day -am well and
can eat anything / want without any
bad effects, all due from shifting from
coffee to Postum.
Il told my wife to-day believed I
could digest brick IL / had q cup Of
Postum to go with It,
We make 1t according to direc-
tons, boiling it full 20 minutes and
use good rich cream and 1t II GER
tainly delicious"
Look in pkgs. for a copy of the IA
nous little book, The Road to Well
Vile"
There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full Of
human interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Amending the Constitutiop

The tendency of an amendment to
the Federal Constitution for the first
time in generation lends interest to
the discussion of how amendment is
brought about. The language of the
Constitution itself is vague on this
subject. Article V recites that when
ever two-thirds of both houses shall
deem it necessary, Congress shall pro-
pose amendments to the Constitution,
or on the application of two-thirds of
the States shall call convention for
proposing amendments, which shall
be valid parts of the Constitution
when ratified by the Legislatures of
three-fourths OF the States.
Congress has proposed the income
tax amendment by the requisite vote.
and it is thus referred to the States.
The question of how long they have
to act upon it is uppermost.
Apparently there is no time limit
upon the Legislatures. The first ten
amendments were proposed in the
congressional session of 1889 and were
ratified in 1871. The eleventh amend
ment was proposed in 1894 and de-
clared in 1898. The other amend
ments were proposed and adopted
within a year. IL the income tax
amendment should fail to secure the
approval of three-fourths of the States
within two years, when every State
will have had an opportunity to vote
upon it, is it dead? Not necessarily.
For anything to the contrary in the
Constitution, it could be kept alive
indefinitely.
1t Is an interesting question whether
the defeat of the amendment in any
State would kill it in that State, or
whether subsequent Legislature
could take it up and reverse its prede-
cessor. 1t is another whether, one
Legislature of a State having ratified
the amendment, a later Legislature
could retract the action.
Evidently, we are about to learn
some things about the Constitution
Minneapolis Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Political Comment.
still Reading Them Out.

The last issue of the National
Monthly, the new Democratic organ
established at Buffalo by Norman E.
Mack, contains lengthy arraignment
of Senator S. D. McEnery of Louis
lana.
Senator McEnery voted for protec-
ton on sugar, rice, lumber-in all OF
which his state is deeply interested
as we'll as a large number of things
in which it is not Immediately con-
cerned.
For this reason the Democratic Ma
tional Monthly reads the Louisianian
right out of the party. All that is
necessary to make the excommunlca-
ton complete is the assent of Senator
McEnery, the people of Louisiana and
a number of other leading Democrats
over the country.
Now, We have no desire to NEEDLE
in these delicate questions which arise
in the Democratic camp. However,
we have an idea as to what consti-
tutes the wisest policy for large and
hopeful Democratic national organ as
| we'll as for Democratic national states
| men.
The idea is that the time has come
to realize that nothing can be gained
and that much can be lost by devot-
| ing too much thought and energy to
| the heretofore favorite occupation OF
| reading people out of the party There
may possibly be occasions when these
distinctions may profitably be en-
larged on. But that occasion is en-
phatically not now.
What Democratic national organs
and Democratic leaders should look
| for and pray for and study TO attain
| is not grounds of disintegration and
discord, but a formula of reconcilia-
ton and cooperation. They should
spend more time getting men in the
party and less throwing them out.
OF course. it is difficult to resist
| the habit of years. Ever since Mr..
BRYAN came to the front the proscrip-
ton or would-be prescription has gone
merrily on. Sometimes, as in the case
! of Mr.. Sullivan of Illinois, the pro-
| scription decree has been graciously
| revoked Sometimes it hasn't. But
the habit has apparently survived all
chance and change.
AS to whether Senator McEnery is
| or is not a Democrat we express no
| opinion. 1t is not necessary. Com
pared with the important issues that
| confront the party, this question is
| unimportant. II is so unimportant
that a national monthly which aspires
TO be a national Democratic organ
might very profitably postpone it I'M
I'll other and weightier matters are
disposed of. This, from present pros
poets, will take some time
| The motto of Mr.. Bryan's Common
er ought to be: I'VE read them out. "
| The motto of a Democratic journal
which aspires TO do real service
! should be. though unexpressed in type,
I'VE get them in
| Society, government, party, all the
| practicable forms of social and politi-
cal cooperation, are compromises on
a grand scale. No party can be re-
I duced to absolute uniformity. Tolera-
ton and intelligence in their leaders
can alone make them large enough to
eount.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Times Changes.

at seems strange" remarked the OBJ
server OF events and things, that a
man and woman can 60 out and make
frantic love under the blue sky, and
yet they can't live long together under
the same roof"-Yonkers Statesman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
A had Guess.

A lady. passing along the street one
frosty morning, saw a little fellow
scattering salt upon the pavement for
the purpose of melting the ice.
We'll, I'm sure" said the lady
that's real benevolence."
"Oh, no, ma'am," he replied. 1T
amt benevolence-it's salt."-The De-
lineator.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Fair Protection or None.

A protective tariff cannot endure in
this country except upon the principle
of fair protection to all interests
worthy of protection. Especially II
cannot endure If the farmers of the
country are compelled to buy well-prc-
tected manufactures while they are
themselves deprived of protection on
the plea that raw materials must De
free. Raw materials for use in pro
tected country ought to be as well pro-
tected as tie manufactures, and as for
the export trade there are ways of as
sisting the exporters without depriv'
ing the producers of raw material o!
their legitimate advantage within
their own country. If there are strong
industries or populous sections which
expect protection on what they have
to sell without allowing equal protec
ton on what they buy they will be
disappointed. The followers of every
industry which is thrown to the dogs
will become the most energetic free
traders in the country.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
"Bettacan, Fantole-"
FREE LANDS IN WYOMING.


Chicago a Northwestern Hallway
Send for booklet telling how to -
cure 800 acres of U. s. Govern
ment lands in Wyoming free of cost,
and describing various irrigation pro-
jects and the most approved methods
of scientific dry farming. Homeseek-
ers' rates. Direct train service from
Chicago. w. B. Kniskern. p. T. NJ.
Chicago, Ill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
BATHING WITHOUT WATER.

stftute for the Tub.
The conditions and conventions OF
our civilization demand frequent bath
ing. 1t is popularity supposed that this
frequent bathing is essential to health.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

Is at your house he acts just like
one of the family.
Henpeckke-Yes; he seems to b
Just as much afraid of my mother
in-law as / am.-Philadelphia Record
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Typical Decoration.

"How appropriate for the Comeups
to have their ballroom decorated with
growing vines"
Appropriate in what way?"
Because vines, you know, are
climbers, baltimore American,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
The Literary Mans Wife

Her husband is a literary man.
isn't he?"
II guess so. She imagines it's
something wonderful to get q new
dress. Detroit Free Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02

You want to divorce your husband?
You say you cannot agree? What evil
dence can you give of incompatibility
Of temper"
why. / want a divorce and he
doesn't."-Rire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Studio. of the vernacular

"Hulloi"
"Hullo. Oozat?"
"Smee-Mayme. Thatchoos Molls-
"Yeh. 'tsmee. Wotsup. MaymeT
"Saymoll. wajja mean b'telIinfanboue
can yeer me. MollT"
'Yeh, herja. Telliner vot?"
Gore shoe dunno."
Gore ST don't Ocozbinstufhn yuh =
"Nunna yerbiz- Betcaacant guess
90 -
"Bettacan, Fzntole-"
"AwEit out, daintseeenersince-
"Yesh r., Yoon her wuz-
"Aw 7evvin sake caf.choo lemr
"Lo-,keer. Maymel oxbcut BIZ
you Summinover@
"Nuthindoon. Gee. 1 gottastoppen
blackstone, Goo by"
"AWflllsorrvgoobv"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
Do We Want Mere Cheapnesss


II Ii is mere cheapness we want, we
can get our cotton goods and our
other wooden and all-knit goods from
Japan fror one-half of the money We
have to pay Americans. Japan can
make such goods cheaper than any
other country. They are skillful and
they work for low wages. almost for
nothing. But if we get shiploads of
goods from over there. what are we
going TO do with the American labor
ers who are now employed in such in
dustries? Put them on farms? But If
every one is a farmer. who is going
to be the consumer? Send the farm
products abroad? But how much can
Japan pay us for wheat and corn.
when the consumers there receive only
% cents wages a day?
But the craze for cheapness is on
and the men who are talking about
cheap things in Congress are the very
men who wear 500 suits of clothes
and whose neckties cost as much as
a whole suit for a Chinaman costs in
China or for a Japanese in Japan
Cedar Rapids Republican.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
The Crime of the AIdrsch Bill.

Summing it all up, it would seem
that Iowa has been especially badly
treated in the new tariff act. The
boot and shoe men of New England
and the users of leather generally
escaped with slight reductions on their
manufactured products. The New Eng
land papers. aided by the Chicago
press, has proclaimed the wonderful
reduction made on the products of
leather such as boots shoes, harness.
etc. But We regard those matters as
a farce. The tariff reductions on the
products of leather amount to nothing
according 10 our way Of thinking The
noise was made to cover up the free
hide proposition, which is the crime
of the Aldrich bill.-Des Moines Cap
ital