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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
The Wild Boar,

The wild boar never loses his head
or his heart. Such courage | have
never beheld in any four footed crea-
ture. He has all the cunning COM
monty accredited to his Santanic ma
jesty and in his rage is a demon that
will charge anything of any size.
have seen a small boar work his way
through a pack of dogs and his smaller
brother, the peccary, in Brazil, send
a man up a tree and keep him there.
The boar looks ungainly, but the In.
dian species is as feet as a horse for
about three-quarters of a mile. He be-
gins with flight, shifts to cunning and
finally stands to the fight with magnifi-
cent courage, facing any odds. AS,
riding upon him. you are about to
plant your spear, he will dart-"jink,"
as they call it In India-to one side,
repeating the performance several
times, until he finds he cannot shake
you. when, turning suddenly, with ears
cooked and eyes glittering, he will
charge furiously. If not squarely met
with we'll aimed and firmly held
spear, he will upset horse and rider.
Hurting himself again and again
against the surrounding spears, he
will keep up his charge until killed,
when he dies without a groan.-Out-
ing
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Soldier True to raining.

During the period of the second en-
pire" in France the Gent Gardes'
were one of its sights at the Tuilleries.
1t was hard to distinguish them from
statutes. Their commander, Col. Yer
ly. once declared to Empress Eugene
that nothing" could make one of his
men move when on duty. The empress
laid a wager that she would make one
OF the giants stir; so. with her charac.
teristic impetuOsity she went up to
one of the guards and boxed his ears.
Not a muscle moved The empress
then acknowledged that Col. Verify
had won the bet, and sent a solatium
to the soldier, who, however, proudly
refused it. saying that he had been
sufficiently compensated by the honor
of having had his sovereign lady's
hand laid On his cheek
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
In m Strong Position.

A prominent New York lawyer. who
was formerly high treasury official
at Washington, has returned from a
two months tour of Europe, and states
that merchants and others he met
abroad said the United States put it
self in a strong position by the new
tariff law. The gentleman also report
ed that there were no indications OF
tariff retaliation, as foreign producers
recognize the fact that attempts of that
sort will result only in cutting them
off from a market which is highly val
liable. This will be sad news to free
traders and advocates OF low tariff.
who are constantly insisting that pro-
lection damages us abroad. but 1t Is
not surprising to those who believe
that American interests have some
claim to consideration. and that an
adequate tariff is helpful and not hurt
full to our Unsatisfactory Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Political Comment.


Those Republicans who are inclined
to favor the income tax should bear
this important fact in mind: If the
proposed constitutional amendment
authorizing the levying of an income
tax should be adopted, and the Demo
cratic party should ever come into
power, it would at once proceed, as it
always has done, to attack the pro-
tective tariff Every free-trader would
get in line. Under existing conditions
a protective tariff is absolutely neces-
sary as a source of revenue. If an in
come tax were constitutional, addition
al revenue could be provided without
imposing a customs duty on foreign
made goods, and the Republican party
would be responsible for having given
the enemy such an opening.
Authorize an income tax and, with
the Democratic party in power. the
first thing it would do would be to
levy an income tax and reduce the
tariff, on the ground that customs du-
ties were not necessary for the sup
port of the government. This is al
ready announced as the program of
the party's discredited. but not dis
carded. leader, William ]. Bryan. If
this program be carried out, as it sure
ly will be with Democratic suprema-
cy, the American people will pay the
BILL The goods of the foreigner will
come in free, or lightly taxed, Ameri-
can factories will close once more and
the soup houses open. Let no working
man say, therefore, that he cares moth
ing about the income tax because it
will be paid by the rich. When the
protection tariff has been undermined
and the income tax established, and
when foreign goods supplant the prod
ucts of home labor, either American
wages must be reduced TO the low lev
ell established abroad. or American in
dustries must shut down.-Leslle's
Weekly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Value of HStOOping.O

Always be civil. Try to treat rich
and poor alike. Is not the poor mans
20 shillings as good as the rich mans
pound? The working mans wife, with
her basket on her arm. says Sir Thorn
as Upton In the Strand. Is entitled to
as much respect SIS the lady who comes
in her carriage. When Benjamin
Franklin was ambassador at the
French court. speaking to young
man, he said: The last time | saw
poor father he received me In his
study. AS | was leaving he showed
me short way out OF the house
through a narrow passage crossed by
beam overhead. Suddenly he cried:
'Stoop, Stoop,' / did not understand
what he meant until / felt my head
bump against the BEAM He was a
man who never failed to give good ad-
vice. You are going he said, and
have got to go through the world
Stoop as you go through it, and you
will miss many hard thumps.'" 1
have never failed to be impressed by
this lesson OF humility.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

The unaccountable ailurement which
the rushing waters of Niagara Falls
hold for persons having suicidal in
clinations, has raised a controversy
between the United States and Canada.
Enough of these suicides take place
every year to make the matter one
that needs to 5e dealt with. A large
number of those taking their own
lives are identified by clothing or by
letters, but the plunge is so great,
the rocks so numerous and the churn-
ing, obliterating effect of the countless
tons of water in motion at terrific
speed so great. that in most cases 1t
is very difficult to assure a true iden-
LITIGATION.
1t is a somewhat curious fact that
the bodies of those Who have per
formed the act of combined bravery
and cowardice follow sort of beaten
track. When the authorities learn
of suicide they first &c to the land
ing where the little boat, the Maid OF
the Mist. comes in and goes out on
its trips, and in almost every case the
battered. swollen body will be found
there. Those which do not stop then
go on through the rapids and bring up
further down the stream in the vortex
of the whirlpool
Both fthese points, the Maid OF
the Mist landing and the whirlpool.
are nthe Canadian side. Hence the
Queen Victoria Park commission.
which controls the river front all the
way from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
has been in the habit of bringing
these melancholy derelicts to the top
fthe bank at an expense to itself of
$50 or $40 apiece and of interring
them separately in Fairview Cemetery
In a site that has been set apart for
such cases.
The Canadian officials have ad-
dressed a request to the American
park commissioners to pay at least
proportionate share of the expense.
There is one very good argument ad-
vanced in favor of this position. Most
OF the suicides take the plunge on the
American side. 1t Is only the action
Of the current that carries to the
shores OF the Dominion the legacy of
death.
The American park commissioners
concede the justice of the Canadian
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Florida.s 7o-Foot bamboo.

Possibly the tallest bamboo in Amer
lea grows in Arcadia, Fla, and is
about 20 feet high. The clum9 has a
spread of SO feet and the diameter at
the ground Is IL feet. The specimen
is only years old.
This is the common bamboo of In
dia. probably brought to south Florida
from the West Indies. In Jamaica it
has become naturalized and is popular
ly supposed to be indigenous. 1t
makes an astonishing growth during
our rainy season. the canes often at
tanning their full height in six weeks.
after which they begin to put on
leaves. The canes are from four to
five inches in diameter at their base.
Unfortunately this species cannot
stand low temperatures. and the spec
linen In Arcadia has frequently been
damaged by cold.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

f. z. Williams of Kirkwood, Mo-.
suburb of ST. Louis, related to friends
in the Masonic order in Washington.
remarkable story of the Civil War
which demonstrates how seriously Ma
sonry was regarded in those days.
Il have just been on a visit to nv
father, L. J. Williams, whose home is
in Harvard. ~ Y" he said. MY faith.
err served in the Civil War as a mem
Der Of the One Hundred and Four
teenth New York volunteers. He is a
member of the townsville blue lodge.
No. AGA.
When the war broke out the En-
tered Apprentice and Fellowcraft de-
grees had been conferred on him in
New York. He went out in the de-
tense of his country, without having
been raised to the degree of a Master
Mason. 1t was his misfortune to be
taken a prisoner of war while at or
near Savannah. While he lay In the
Southern prison he communicated
with some of his friends in the North.
His lodge in New York, through
the proper officials, got In touch with
Zerubbabel Lodge in Savannah, and
made the request that the Savannah
lodge. as a favor to the brethren of
the North, confer the third degree on
Fellowcraft brother, L. j. Williams.
"One night my father was taken
eno,, t;y pricon ond cnpductad 70 tbo
Savannah lodgeroom. 1t was a re-
markable occasion. He wore his be-
draggled blue uniform, token of his
sympathy with the cause of the North
He was surrounded by men who wore
the gray. All the chairs were occu-
pied by Confederate officers. They
were on opposite sides in a struggle to
the death. but they were brethren
Then and there he was raised to the
sublime degree of a Master Mason and
acclaimed a friend and brother by his
enemies.
But the more significant feature of
the story was yet to follow. For on
the same night my father escaped
from his prison and rejoined his com
rades of the North. / have visited Sa-
vannah since then and | looked up
the records of his raising. In red ink,
on the same page that records the fact
that the degree was there conferred,
Is the brief annexation: On this night
Brother Williams escaped from pris-
on
Il have talked with my father about
the matter a number of times. When
asked about his escape he always
smiles peculiarly. You may put it
lOwn as an escape, he told me, but II
wasn't an escape, strictly speaking.
For on that night some men came to
Jay prison. They put me in boat
and carried me off some distance.
Then they deposited me on neutral
soil between the lines. From there |
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

Every calling has its technical vo-
cabulary, and those who are familiar
with it are often surprised and irri-
tated at the difficulty other people
have in understanding 1t. A writer
In the New York World tells Of an
old horseman down in Maine who had
run over a man, and was being sued
for damages.
The court asked the defendant IL he
was driving fast. He answered: Il
was going a pace" The court then
said: Now, kindly tell the gentle
men of the jury just how fast You
were going"
WELL" said the defendant, Il reck-
on l was going a clip"
We'll. will you tell the jury how
fast clip is?"
We'll, it's going a dite."
Now, will you tell the jury how
fast a dite is?"
We'll, dite's dite. Anybody
knows what a dite is"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
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.seSGMgJ 51c[sRk

A motor-driven sleigh, developed dur
ing last winter, was propelled by
pair of legs resembling in their opera
ton those of a grasshopper.
An alloy of 20 per cent OF cerium
and 80 per cent of iron has the re-
markable property Of giving on
shower of sparks when struck by steel
At the woman suffrage bazaar. re-
Gently held at the Hotel Martha Wash
ington. In New York City, the receipts
for the two days and evenings were
over 5000.
French walnut growers In the neigh
borhood of GrenoOle have formed an
association to maintain the reputation
and guarantee the quality Of the wal
nuts commonly known as "Grenobles."
There are 157 900 models In the Pat
emit Office which are about to be lodged
IN the National Museum. Many of them
are of historic interest. They will be
under the care of the Commissioner Of
Patents
Telephone companies are endeavor-
ing to collect part OF the telegraph
tolls where the messages are delivered
nv telephone. The telegraph companies
claim that they are entitled to make
this use of the instruments and resist
payment.
Consul Julean II. Arnold, of Annoy
reports that a native company at that
port, capitalized at 100000, is getting
ready to operate coal and iron mines.
which are said to be valuable, In the
An Chill district, 100 miles from Annoy,
for which it has held concession for
some years.
Since there is no tide in the Medit-
erranean, the inhabitants OF Marseilles
were greatly astonished on June Is.
when the water Of the harbor began
suddenly to oscillate, and continued In
movement for a quarter of an hour
Some observers say that the first waves
wereabouttwo and half feet in height,
but others put their height at half that
amount. Many thought that the cause
was an earthquake, but Mons. Louis
Fabry, after a study of the phenom-
ena. ascribes Ii to a sudden increase
of the barometric pressure of the air
On the surface of the sea in the neigh
borhood Of Marse.iles. The puzzling
question remains, What produced the
sudden increase of barometric pres
sure?
At Koutchino, near Moscow, Russia
possesses the most complete laboratory
for researches pertaining to aviation
now In existence. The work is under
the direction OF Mr.. Riabouchinsky,
and the money was furnished by a
wealthy Muscovite. 1t has become the
center of much interest since the re-
cent achievements In aerial navigation.
Here investigations are made of all
questions relating to aerodynamics. and
some remarkable results have been OBJ
tanned, especially in regard to what Is
called the authorization" of bodies of
certain shapes when placed In currents
OF air. 1t has already been made evil
dent that there are many phenomena
of an unexpected character which,
when they have been thoroughly in.
vestigated, may materially aid invent.
ors and engineers in the construction
OF more effective flying machines.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Armed with a Saber Hit.

When William L. Royal of Eau
quier County, Virginia, was II years
old. he became a Confederate soldier.
In his "Reminiscences" he says that
the feats performed by the Confeder-
ate cavalry in the early part of the
war we're remarkable. because not one
company in ten had any arms that
were fit to fight with.
When l joined my company, he
writes, they gave me saber which |
think was used in the Revolution. and
this was the only weapon l had One
day. while my regiment was standing
in road, l Dantered comrade to see
which of us could cut the largest twig
from a tree | made a powerful cut.
and the blade of my saber broke off
at the hilt..
In a short time we were dismount-
ed and ordered to clear the Yankees
out of a piece of woods in skirmish
formation. We marched through the
woods, but fortunately no Yankees
we're there. l have often wondered
what | should have done, armed with
that saber hilt, if | had met IAN
kee armed with Springfield musket
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
THE DIFFERENCE.
Coffee Usually Means sickness, but
Postum Always Means Health.

Coffee Usually Means sickness, but
Postum Always Means Health.
Those who have never tried the ex-
pertinent of leaving OF coffee and
drinking Postum in its place and in
this way regaining health and happi-
ness can learn much from the expert
ence OF others who have made the
trial.
One who knows says: 81 drank cof-
fee for breakfast every morning until
i had terrible attacks Of indigestion
producing daysof discomfortandn nights
of sleeplessness. / tried to give up the
use of coffee entirely, but found it
hard to 60 from hot coffee to a glass
of water Then / tried Postum.
1T was good and the effect was so
pleasant that / soon learned to love 1t
and have used it for several years. 7
improved Immediately after | left on
coffee and took on Postum and am now
entirely cured OF my Indigestion and
other troubles all of which were due
to coffee. / am now well and content
ed and all because changed from cof-
fee 10 Postum.
Postum is much easier to make
right every time than coffee, for 1t is
so even and always reliable. We never
use coffee now In our family. We use
Postum and are always well"
There's a reason" and 1t Is proved
by trial.
Look in pkgs. for a copy OF the ia
nous little book, ''The Road to Well
VILE
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, 1909-11-04
Deafness cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. There Is
only one way TO cure deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infiamed condition OF the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube IL infamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing. and when il is
entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out OF ten are caused by Catarrh,
which Is nothing but an indamed condition
of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) thar
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars. free.
r. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

West held a conversation close beside
me with an utterly pallid and exhaust
ed mother, which perhaps deserves
narrating more fully. / never saw a
woman more utterly exhausted. while
the child seemed as fresh at sunset as
at dawn. 1t was when the through
trains on the Boston and Albany still
stopped at West Newton, and the con.
ductor had just called with vigorous
confidence the name of that station.
After pause, the child exclaimed as
vigorously. Mother" to which the
mother responded. perhaps for the two
hundredth time that day, In a feeble
voice. What, dear?" when the follow
ing conversation ensued: what did
that man say. mother?" HE said
West Newton" A pause for reflection.
then again, Mother" "What?" what
did that man say West Newton for.
mother?" To this the mother. with an
evasiveness dictated by despair, could
only murmur. II don't know" This
was too we'll tried an evasion, and
the unHlncnlng answer came, Don't
you know what he said West Newton
for, mother?" Thus demanded. came
the vague answer, Said 1t for the fun
OF 1t. l guess" By this time all the
occupants Of the car were listening
breathlessly to the cross-examination.
Then came the inevitable Mother.
and the more and more hopeless
"What? did the man say West
Newton for the fun of 1t, motherw
YES" said the poor sufferer, with an
ever-increasing audience listening to
her vain evasion. The child paused All
atom longer. and then continued, still
inexhaustible, but as If she had forced
her victim into the very last corner,
as she had, "What was the fun Of 1t,
mother?'-Atlantic Monthly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04


An absurdly worded statement OF .
fact which was not in itself remark
able recently tried the gravity OF the
listeners. 1t was on the occasion OF
the funeral of an elderly woman In q
New England town. She had left an
old mother, nearly 80 years of age, and
an only son who was well on toward
3d.
The services were conducted by q
timid young clergyman. recently set
tied over the parish After praying
for many and various things. he said:
And two, we especially pray that
the Lord will comfort and sustain in
their loss and sorrow. One is the or
phan, who, although no longer young.
is an orphan still, and must so con-
tinue; the other is the mother. far adj
vanced in years, who has survived her
daughter, although considerably her
senior"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
One Redeeming Virtue.

Loafer-Can yer spare up 'a'penny,
mate?
Observation-Disclosures want a "a
penny for?
Loefer-'COs | got one, and | wants
another for the price of 'arf pint.
Workingman-Ever done a DAYS
work in yer life?
Loafer-No, guv'nor. oAwn't say as |
ave-
/ Workingman-Well. yer never done
a pore bloke out of a job, any way.
'ere's yer a'penny-Punch.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

II have been engaged in the practice
Of law good many years. said S. s.
Urmy. police Judge of Topeka, Kan,
"and about the most humorous thing
1 ever saw IN a courtroom was in To-
peka.
One day an old negro man was be-
ing tried in the justice court-that was
before the Office of police Judge was
created-and he demanded a trial by a
Jury OF his peers. He could neither read
nor write, and his lawyer insisted that
the jury, to be his peers, as required by
write, TOO. To avoid disputes greed
to it. but we had atime finding twelve
men in Topeka who could neither read
nor write. But we did find them, and
the case went to trial
Before the jury retired / took two
pieces of paper and wrote guilty on
one piece and not guilty on the other
and instructed the foreman of the jury
to destroy the one he did not wish
to be used and to return the other to
me when the jury had reached a YER
dict. The jury was out only few
minutes. when it came in. The fore
man handed me piece of paper with
the word guilty written on it,
We'll, gentlemen, you find him
guilty, do your ] asked
No. sab, jedge, no. sab, we done
found him not guilty spoke up one of
the jurymen- Then he added with dis
gust: i tole that fool niger he was
tearin' up the wrong piece Of paper"
Kansas CITY Star
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
'ound my way back to my friends.

found my way back to my friends.
Who my rescuers were l have never
learned 1t is their own secret and it
has never been disclosed. But in my
own mind l know exactly to whom l
may attribute the escape in question.
His name is Hiram"
The narrator of the story is a mem
Der of Kirkwood blue lodge, asa. He
has also taken the Royal Arch and
the Scottish Rite degrees.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and
in two weeks | was improving. Then
by leaps and bounds / got better until
we'll and back at work. After such
mortal agony this seemed wonderful"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. 80 cents box Foster
Milburn Co, Buffalo. ". Y.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
First Love.

1t is a popular fallacy that the first
love is the true one, unique in it's ex-
cellence, says an exchange AS we'll
ny that the first picture of a painter
is the best of all he will paint in the
course OF his life; that the firstspeech,
the first book, the first statue, the first
composition, will be the best of the
statesman. novelist, sculptor or must
clan, as the case may be. First works
have all the imperfections of uncer-
tainty, of inexperience and ignorance.
And 1t is rather by chance than by
anything inherent in the nature Of Gu
pid's ways that the first love turns
out to be the great one.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

rheumatism and
had to be fed. My
feet swelled, my
legs were rigid.
black spots fitted
before my eyes
and / was sore all
over. Doctors
didn't help me and
/ couldn't raise
hand or foot. To
please nv wife |
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

he can get the best view would be a
hardship.
Uncle Sam and the Dominion of Can
ada dwell too happily as neighbors to
have any serious row over the ques.
ton. But it must be settled, for as
long as Nlagara's roar attracts and
its dancing waters appeal. there will
be suicides to dispose of.