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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-07-02
Parents Unable to Care for Her.

Minneapolis, June 2S.-Additional
circumstances surrounding the early
days of Edith May Thompson Woodill
became known here today.
When Mrs. Writ, her mother, mar
ried her second husband, Albert Right,
the Rights were unable properly to
care for the child. Accordingly the
girl, before she was years old, was
sent to the home of DR.. Roup of Kan
sas City, Kan. DR.. Roup's wife becom-
ing i'll, he sent her back to Minneapo-
lis to Mrs. Green, niece of DR.. Roup.
1t was while at the home of the
Greens that legal contest which re-
suited in the adoption of the girl by
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Thompson
was begun. The Greens had allowed
Mrs. Delos Matteson, friend, to take
the girl to their home.
When the Greens went to get the
girl the Mattesons refused to surren-
der her and writ of habeas corpus
was issued in the district court to de-
termine who should have possession
of the girl.
Mrs. Thompson, stricken with the
child's beauty, determined to have her
for her own, and while the Mattesons
and Greens we're busy with the case
Mrs Thompson found the child's own
mother and was quietly made guar.
dian in the probate court at Elk River
When the court decided that the
Mattesons and not the girls own rel
atives should have her, Mrs. Thomp-
son applied for writ of habeas cor
pus on the ground that she had been
legally appointed guardian.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

fiict over the outcome Of hOtly-con
tested election between William Goebel
Democrat, and WilIihm S. Taylor, Re
publican. Taylor was elected by many
thousands. Goebel contested the eiec
ton vigorously. An appeal TO Demo
cratic election board proved unavailing
As last resort, Goebel moved TO have
the Legislature unseat Taylor and hi:
colleagues. During the ensuing excite
ment. while hundreds of mountain meI
were in Frankfort, Goebel was shot
The next day, by direction of the Legis
iature, William Goebel on his death
bed was sworn in as Governor and ]
C. w. Beckham took the oath as Lien
tenant Governor. Then during the I'm
vestigation of the murder that followed
w. 5. Taylor. Charles Finley. his Sec
rotary of State, and the rest of his ac
tive partisans were obliged to flee.
Caleb Powers was arrested in con
nection with the crime and was foul
times convicted for the murder. bui
just as often the judgment was re
versed, till he was finally pardonet
last year by the Governor
Taylor found an asylum in Indians
since his flight. One after another OF
the Indiana Governors have refused tt
give him up, and he has been able q
defy his enemies in Kentucky. Mean
while the Democratic ma jority I'm Ken
lucky chose its own Governor, and Mr.
Beckham, who was the candidate foI
Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with
William Goebel, was firss chosen by tbs
Legislature. and afterward elected b,
the people chief magistrate.
Beside the pardons issued To Tay
lor and Finley, Gov. Wilson exercised
executive clemency in the cases OF
John Powers brother of Caleb Powers
who is believed to be in Honduras, tC
Holland Whitaker Of Baker County
John Davis of Louisville and Seact
Steele of Bell County, who did not fle,
the State
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

throughout the Canadian north. OF
course our people will have to catch
these animals and train them, but to
people who are building an empire
that Is trifiing matter.
The most active advocate of using
reindeer or caribou i'm the development
of northern Canada is Fred :. Law
renee. who lives mt Fort Vermilion. on
the lower Peace River He has made
his home in the north for twenty-five
years. He suggests that a start might
he made toward dOmesticating Cana
dian reindeer by inducing Laplanders
to emigrate to Canada. The Lapland-
ers. by reason of their pastures becom
ing crowded, owing to the great num-
Der Of their reindeer, are looking for
some part of the world TO which they
can transport their herds and families
and establish themselves anew. The
reindeer is fieeter and can be more
easily kept than the horse A prcgec-
tor coGld maintain himself fo- & year
With ten head of reindeer. II his pro
visions gave out he could eat the rein
desy."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
SHE DIES AT LOG.
Thanks to Family's Magic Beads,
MichIa SchfIotxky Lived Long.

Thanks to Family's Magic Beads,
Michla SchfIotxky Lived Long.
Mrs Sfichla Schilotzky died recently
Mt the Home Of the Daughters of
Jacob, at 3O2 East Broadway. at the
age Of log years, says the New York
Sun. She came to New York from
Asiashuf. in the state of wilma, Russia.
twenty-four years ago. and had been
ut the home four years.
The last year of her life she spent for
the most part In the hospital Of the
home About Christmas time, how
ever. she attended an entertainment
given by the home at the Grand Gen.
kral Palace. where she served as
Judge of q casotzOsky. a dancing con-
test in which the dancers were men
who had passed their hundredth year
Mrs. Schilotzky came of a long-lived
family. She left nine brothers and sis
tiers in Russia. the youngest Of whom
was % when he died. Her father and
mother also lived long. The reason for
this, they say at the home, is simple
THE family for more than 300 years
has owned a string Of amber beads.
Very common beads they are to look
ut giving TO the unframed eye no hint
bf their power. Always the eldest
haughter OF the house has worn the
oecklace. and while she wore 1t death
was warded Off The beads were pos
Sessed Of marvellous healing powers
and circulated as freely among the
children Of the east side who had the
whooping cough or the measles as gen.
frations ago they did between the huts
Of Russian village
On Sunday. when her daughter. Mrs
Fannie Kowner OF So East Doth street.
visited the old woman. the beads were
given TO her.
Take them" said the mother, "for
II is not well that should bear them
longer"
Then she talked Of the beads. which
pever before had left her neck for
more than twcnty-fOur hours.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

ed, when an automatic spring releases
them and they assume their former ill.,
operative position.
The concave form OF the bucket ere
ates greater pressure against the wa
ter. The position of the buckets while
out OF the water and moving concentric
with the wheel shaft edgewise through
the air diminishes air resistance. The
manner In which the buckets enter the
water edgewise avoids the loss of pow
er involved in the downward pressure
OF the water. The automatic fitting of
the buckets leaving the water throws
off the back wash and eliminates dead
weight. All Jar or conclusion from
the buckets entering and leaving the
water is avoided. In starting the wheel
without a load the buckets are only
thrown into working position by it's
movement either forward or back.-Se-
attic Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
SPRINGTIME.

Lot already a fern new born
Curls in the hedgerow his mimic horn,
And the primrose hourly edges aside
The leafy driftage of wintertide:
Far in the vale. where the woods are still,
Stands a delicate daffOGil
Hasting brooks in the prime of the year
Murmur merrily-April's here.
With gentle rains and westerly vanes,
Buttercup buds and daisy chains.
Between moist meadow and sunlit sky
The sad-voiced plover is circling high:
Sudden and loud through larch and fir
Rings the laugh of the woodpecker;
And the wagtai flirts his plumage pied
In snatches of flight by the waterside;
Garden voices that late were dumb
Whistle and warble-a time will come
For shade of leaves and pillage of
sheaves
And swallows a-twitter in last years
caves
LO. she comes, in the old sweet ways,
The happy April of other days,
Maiden April. merry of mien.
Trips afield in the meadow green;
Sick or sound, or sorry or glad,
Utter 1t. echo ii, lass and lad.
Lad and lass in the youth of the year
Echo it, utter it-ApriPs here;
Then comes May, pleasure and play,
Holiday-dance and roundelay.
-Armine Thomas Kent
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
Prosperity Notes.

The idle car test brings prosperity
nightly report shows that 1885
freight cars which had been weather
Ding on the side tracks had been put
into service There is still left some
thing more than 100000 cars lacking
cargoes, but this is not considered a
discouraging number when to the de
preston are added the quiet times
that ordinarily prevail at this season
The big point is that traffic conditions
have so improved that nearly $4,000
cars can be called into commission in
the course of two weeks.
The mild winter has kept a great
number of coal cars empty, yet 1000
more were transferred from the idle
column to the active lists. The eff
cheney committee of the American
Railway Association reports that on
many of the lines conditions have been
restored to the normal A few roads
actually have been short on means of
transportation, though the shortage
has been Insignificant
Another prosperity item is the news
that the Westinghouse plants from
San Francisco to London have made a
restoration of wages amounting to a
half million dollars monthly. The in
creases became known from slips
placed in the envelopes of the employ
es. The company displayed admirable
restraint in falling to take advantage
of this fact to gain credit with labor
to the injury of an uncompromising
competitor.
The Steel Corporation has made the
declaration that ii cannot hope for an
increase in business until the revision
of the tariff has been finally decided
However. the trust maintains its
prices, though the Independent COM
panies have made cuts and thus placed
several large orders. 1t would seem
that the Steel Corporation is deter
mined to make its SIS per ton on its
production, or nothing.-Toledo Blade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

Great Britain maintains an active
army of a quarter million men. She
bears also the cost of keeping up an
organization of $4,000 reserves. Fiji
ty-hve battleships, 1913 cruisers. 325
torpedo boats and destroyers. sixty-one
submarines, nine scout ships and sew
enteen gunboats absorb their millions
of taxes annually.
Lord Roberts has made an eloquent
appeal for an army of one million
trained and fully equipped soldiers
and the admiralty has petitioned for
an appropriation with which to build
six new Dreadnoughts.
The Board of Trade Labor Gazette,
London, publishes the following:
The general decline in employment,
which began during the second half
of the year 1907, continued in 1908.
and although there was some slight
improvement during November and
December, employment at the end of
1908 was, it is stated, worse than at
the end of any year since 1892. The
prolonged disputes in the engineering
and shipbuilding trades and in the cot
ton trade adversely affected employ
ment at many establishments not di-
rectly concerned in the disputes.
Returns relating to over 100000
members of trade-unions show that the
mean of the percentages of members
returned as unemployed at the end of
each month of 1908 was rs, as COM
pared with 81 in 1907, Sc in 1906, and
so in 1905
The Hague Peace Conference. the
pesce societies, the lessons of the cen
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

conductor for the purpose of learning
how the collision had been averted. To
my surprise, he had no knowledge of
the Old Tartar's being wild He con
sidered me a fit subject for an insane
asylum. and did not hesitate to tell me
SO. even began to doubt my own
sanity.
"A message of inquiry was forward
ed to Bartson, and the following reply
received:
"'Hines was ordered to ditch the Old
Tartar. Did he do it,
Not one of us could offer any ex-
PLANTATION until suddenly the conductor
exclaimed:
"'She must have jumped the track .
Such proved TO be the case The
an embankment about a mile and a
half east of this station. Near by were
found several ties, most Of them pretty
we'll smashed up.
you doubtless wonder how this ex-
traOrdinary thing happened. 1t was
explained about a year later by Pete
Scully. member OF n notorious gang
OF outlaws who had infested this re-
gion. 1t seems that they had planned
to hold up the accommodation train.
They had lanterns, eft cetera. with
which to signal the train; but fearful
that the engineer would recognize them.
they placed several ties on the track
SO that II he failed to heed the signal
his train would be derailed.
They had just finished operations
when the Old Tartar appeared OH the
scene. She knocked the ties a-fiying.
but they did their work, for she jumped
the track and rolled down the embank-
ment. Fifteen minutes later the ac-
commodation passed that very spot un-
molested. The gang had decided that
under the circumstances II would be
best not to hold up a train.
THAT was the Old Tartars last run.
And now, stranger, that you have heard
the story. / want you to answer the
question Was 1t a miracle" -Waver-
ley Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
neenlx Interested

The play was one Of Shakespeare's
tragedies. Mrs. Simmons and her little
boy. having been unable TO secure seats
in the parquet, were well located IN
the front row OF the first balcony.
where they could see better and hear
almost as well as IL they had been far
Their forward on the main floor.
Mrs. Simmons was agreeably sur
prised at the interest that Bobby ap-
peared to take in the somber drama
He sat leaning forward, with his elbows
on the cushioned railing in front OF
him, resting his head on his hands.
deeply absorbed. As the curtain went
down on the first act he Strengthened
UP.
We'll, dear, how do you like Shakes
peare?" asked his mother. Are YOU
enjoying the playT'
Mama" said Bobby, with the air of
one who has made a great discovery,
there are slxty-nine men here that
have got bald spots ON top OF their
heads I've counted 'em five tlmesr'
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
DOCTORS IN THE SCHOOLS.
Medical Inspection Spreads Here,
America still Behind Europe.

In the United States, Boston seems
10 be entitled To the credit of estab-
fishing the first regular system of med
teal inspection of schools This was
done in 1894 but two years before this
the sanitary inspector of New York
had appointed medical inspector "
schools. who was probably the first
medical officer of the public schools APP
pointed in this country.
In 1894 30 physicians were selected
by the Board of Health to inspect the
public schools OF Boston. In 1895 nine
such inspectors were appointed in Chi
cago. In 1897 the Board of Health ut
New York appointed 134 medical in
spectors for the public schools, with a
chief. at II salary of $500 year.
In 1898 the bureau OF health I'm
Philadelphia passed resolution di-
recting that each of the ID assistant
medical inspectors shall visit one public
school in his district each day, inspect
ing Ii according TO the methods EN-
ployed In Boston, New York and Chi
cago. Since 1894 medical inspection
OF schools has been largely adopted
throughout the United States, and in
some states has developed from mere
inspection for detecting contagious dis
eases to systems calling for the most
thorough physical examinations Only
four general State laws providing for
or allowing medical inspections of
schools have been passed, says the
Medical Record. There is. so far as
can be ascertalned. some form Of med
ical inspection of schools In vogue al
present In 20 cities In the United
States outside of Massachusetts. but
the United States Is still behind Ger
many, and for that matter. number
OF foreign countries. I'm this important
mOvement.--New York Sun
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

1t is primarily the peoples inability
or indisposition to buy that reduces
the value of imports and the govern
ment revenues from them; and les
sened duties do not operate to stimu-
late imports If the people haven't got
the money to pay for them. If the
tariff-revisers in Congress can select
lot Of schedules whose reduction
would actually stimulate imports and
thus increase the government imports
and at the same time properly protect
American interests as they ought to
be protected, they will do much bet
ter than most conservative and
thoughtful persons expect With the
existing treasury 6eficit already big
one. their job is not a delectable one.
New York Commercial.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
REMARKABLY PADDLE WHEEL.


New Device Feathers the Water
Like an Ooarsman's Blade.
An automatic feathering wheel for a
paddle-driven steamboat has been in
vented and perfected by W. ~ Cruch-
on of Seattle, who has patented the
invention. The new wheel has an au-
tomato fitting contrivance, so that the
buckets enter and leave the water
without depressing or lifting it In the
operation. The new buckets are
shaped corresponding to a spoon oar.
which enables them To exert a great
er force in propelling the vessel. BY
means of lateral wings on the outer
edge they are able to enter the water
with the least resistance. and held BY
a stop pin while the pressure is exert
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
Starting an Endless Chain.

Beth father and mother struggled
valiantly To teach little Ellie to repeat
the letter A" The child emphatically
refused to pronounce the first letter Of
the alphabet ana after many vain eff
forts the father retired from the fight
discouraged. The mother took the lit
tie girl on her lap and PLEADED with
her affectionately.
"Dearie, why won't you learn to say
Az" she asked
Because, mamma" explained Effie.
''des as soon as | say A you an papa
will want me to say B. "-IIarper's
Weekly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

step from intense mental concentration 70 madness
He said he could hardly describe what he felt the
moments when his sensations were abnormaly acute
and intense, that everything about him seemed be
alive that he seemed To be raving and scarcely
tain that lie really existed
Analogous the impressions OF st. Paul Netzsche
and Dostcjevski. And the iusriOus Beethoven says:
Musical inspiration is that mysterious state in
which the whole world appears shape Itself into
vast harmony where every feeling and every thought
have seems to resound within where Ill the forces
of nature become instruments for me- where my
body is seized with violent shivering my hair
stands up end
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

dian northland," said Albert L. Steele
Of Ottawa, Canada. according to the
Washington Herald. lone has to hoof
it or use dogs up I'm the arctic stretches
now, and 1t is conceded that civiliza-
ton will move slowly il Nc better
means Of transportation is found.
''The United States imported rein
deer into Alaska and taught them that
they could 1--we Just as happily and use
fully in Alaska as in their homeland
81 2J,OC0 are now in Alaska and
til are more than earning their keep.
Can. In need not go to the trouble Of
importing reindeer She has herds OF
reindeer all ready up in the northern
regions. All that Is needed Is TO train
them. for they are very wild.
These Canadian reindeer are really
caribou. but Canadians say they Will
do as well. The caribou are plentiful
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
MAKING THE CARIBOU USEFUL.

Canadians Plan for Eurnis kiz.<
Transportation In Far North.
The success which has followed che
introduction Of reindeer in Alaska has
aroused attention in Canada. AMI the
suggestion has been made that tise rein
deer Will settle one Of tas proa!ams of
developing the resources % .hc Cana
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13

TO penetrate. Instances have occurred
In out-of-the-way posts In European
and Asiatic countries where the starv
ting herds Of the plain and forest have
not hesitated to approach automobile
parties and coax for food from the
occupants of the machines
This was the case last winter i'm the
thick forests Of Thuringia. Deer. prac
ticdIIy running wild. sometimes APP
preached automobile travellers aud ate
from their stock OF food These par
ties usually were Of the hunting class
and made 1t a point to visit the out
posts with their snow-climbing motor
oars
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
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] PIoL!T!eAL F: (oMMENT |
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Why the Democratic Press Is Weak
Chairman Mack of the Democratic
National Committee is going to start
Democratic monthly. He has already
sent out the prospectus and invited
comment and commentator from the
Democratic press.
This enterprise of Mr.. Mack's
springs from the same idea as Mr..
Bryans suggestion that local weekly
Democratic newspapers be established
all over the country-the idea that the
Democratic party is greatly handicap
ped in national contest by its com
parative lack of partisan newspaper
facilities 1t also embodieS a misap-
prehension similar to that under which
Mr.. Bryan labors-the view that the
trouble of the Democracy can be cured
by merely treating a symptom.
The diminution of the Democratic
press to its present size is not so much
the cause of Democratic weakness as
the result of it, The cause lies deep.
er, and when it is once removed, small
doubt that the symptom will itself dis
appear Even should the symptom be
obscured by the establishment of in
Vulnerable weeklies, as Mr. Bryan rec
ommends, or scores of monthlies, such
as Mr.. Mack projects, the real situa-
ton will not be materially improved.
AS the great contest of 1896 fades
into the merciful past ii becomes evil
dent that the real present disability of
the Democracy lies in its neglect
of its opportunities. We dare af-
firm that no party in our his
tory has ever had and lost so
great an opportunity as the Democrat
ic party had and lost during MIR.
Roosevelt's second term. The Roose-
welt policy of Capitalization was in di-
rect conflict with the views and teach
ings of every great Democrat from
Thomas Jefferson to Grover Cleveland.
The issue was there. plain and unmis-
taxable. 1t seemed that Fortune had
at last played into the party's hands
had compensated its vain wander
ings in the wilderness by the sight of
the Promised Land. But the Demo
cratic leaders shut their eyes to the
situation. They waved aside great
political verify and resumed the un-
successful opportunist tactics of the
recent past
Up to 1908 the Democratic party had
at least had the original and exclu
sive prohrietorship of its catch-vote de
vices. But in that year it even lost
this peculiar vantage. The result was
that 1t played the part of the accom-
modating bird that matches out the
cuckoo's eggs.
Mr.. Bryan's readers may start their
weeklies, Mr.. Mack may start his
monthly, and Champ Clark may even
issue an annual, but the Democratic
party will get small profit from the
enterprises. Let the party once awake
to its opportunities and cease to neg
lect them-once more base itself on
broad political principles instead of
the fancies of the hour-and then not
only Democratic weeklies, monthlies
and ANIMALS, but also Democratic dali
lies. will have a message to deliver
that will be worth while, and they and
the party should flourish together
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
A Di6erence.

Il don't see why that idiotic swell
set should turn down Nuritch."
We'll, he's a self-made man, you
know"
Yes, but SO is Snodgrass. and they
admitted him"
"Ah, yes, but he was made in Eng-
land, don't you now"-Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
zAPERS b 7np PEOPL !

the surface On landing SKINNED along the surface
rather like toboggan. coming to a sandstil a few
yards from starting point.
With regard to the art of flying Mr. Wright and his
machine seem TO work together unit. The mani
agement of machine of this kind in breezy weather is
not at all easy. At the time ii can only require
patience and careful practice before any intelligent man
possessed Of GOODNESS and good judgment can learn it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-13
His Viewpoint.

ut is woman's lot to suffer In ST.
lence." she remarked.
Il should put it differently" re-
Joined the mere man.
"How, prayI" she queried.
"a silent woman suffers lot" he
said.