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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
COOLING AS EASY As HEATING.

Now, when one comes to think of 1t,
there is difficulty in understanding
why humanity has always realized the
need of mitigating the severity of eli
mate that takes the form of cold, but
for the most part still assumes the i'm
possibility of doing anything to tenn
per heat. from which we suffer al
most as much, says New York Times.
AT less expense than that by which
houses are warmed in winter they can
be cooled in summer, and, while the
winter heating, thanks to our strange
refusal to learn the art of ventilation
involves the creation of conditions in
furious to health. those which sum
mer cooling would establish would
probably be in every way beneficial tc
us. At any rate, the thing is per
fectly practicable. OF course, ii
adopted, 1t would add to the cost OF
living. but it would also increase the
general stock of available energy
which would mean an increase OF
earning power to a more than com
pensating degree. Not much of a re
frigeration plant would be required to
bring the air of a bedroom to a TEN
perature in which sleep would be re
freshing, instead of impossible or ex
hausting, and the wonder is that the
rich and the wellto-do, at least, do moi
generally, instead of hardly at all
Utilize benefit which science is ready
to give them for much less money thar
they pay for thousand other smaller
Injuries and conveniences.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
Upsets Salmon Theories.

Several of the well established theo-
ries regarding the habits of salmon are
being upset by facts which have come
to light in the present season.
1t has always been supposed that
salmon returned to the river the
fourth year after being Matched, but
this season not less than fifteen
marked salmon which were turned out
in the Chinook hatchery six years ago
have been caught in the Bakers Bay
traps. Reports from other points on
the river also are that five female
salmon which have spawned have
been caught in the traps, although It
has always been supposed that the fe-
male fish perish Immediately after
having spawned.
These salmon were in fairly good
condition, so that they could not have
assembled to the upper reaches of the
river. and they are believed to have
been salmon which spawned, perhaps
prematurely, in some of the tributa-
ries of the lower Columbia.-Portland
Oregonian.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
CARE I'M SELECTING WOOD
Compound Microscope Used by Mod
ern Cabinetmakers for Exam
nation Of Material.

Not very Ions ago timber was Sc
lected entirely according to its exter-
nal appearance. The diameter and
length of the piece, the straightness
of grain, sometimes the weight sufficed
TO determine both its commercial value
and its destination.
1t is very different nowadays. With
the increase In consumption and the
decrease in the local production of
wood 1t has become necessary to trans
port timber of every variety and of
many places of origin. Furthermore.
the diversified industries of the pres
ent day require a corresponding di-
versity in the wood employed.
1t is evident that very different
qualities are required for an umbrella
handle, barrel stave, billiard cue. a
carriage frame, etc.
The hand magnifying glass, which
was first employed, has ceased to suf-
fee for the exact determination of the
structure of the wood. The compound
microscope is now used for the minute
and careful examination of longitudinal
and transverse sections of a specimen
Of timber the commercial value and
the proper Industrial employment OF
which it is desired to determine.-Sci.
entific American.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
TAFT CONGRATULATES
HARDING ON N0MlNATI0N
President Returns 70 Beverly From
His Ten Day Vacation
Trip

beverly. Mas1 -Returning from has
PATCHED the following telegram to
Maine cruise, President Taft dis
Warren G Harding the Ohio Repub-
lican nominee for governor:
Il sincerely congratulate you on
your noInin alton and earnestly hope
that you will be elected.
WILLIAM H TAFT"
The president IS fully satisfied with
the Ohio platform. He applied him.
self to a reading of It as soon as he
got back &c Beverly The dispatch OF
the telegram to Harding followed.
With a couple of days now in which
to rest up from his vacation, the pres
ident will be ready to buckle down to
a heap of work which Secretary Nor
ton says is stacked up for him. That
there is to be plenty doing here at the
summer capitol from now on is evil
denced by the fact that another re-
cruit to the clerical force has arrived
from Washington. Two came in, In
fact, while the president was absent
in Maine. -
Columbus, O.-Made possible by
a fusion of the Garfield and adj
ministration men, Warren G.. Hard
ing. former Ii eutenant governor. was
nominated for governor by the Ohio
Republicans, Wednesday. His selec
ton came on the third ballot.
F. W. Treadway of Cleveland was
renominated for lieutenant governor
Granville W. Mooney for secretary OF
state.
Despite the efforts of Senator Bur
tors Cuyahoga county delegation to
stampede the convention for Nicholas
Longworth, and George B. Cox's every
effort in behalf OF Judge o. B. Brown
the Dayton man, the combination OF
the "progressiveS" with the national
administration men broke up the fight
ON the third ballot. Then Cox, yield
ing to the inevitable, cast the 81 Ham
ilton votes for Harding, and that
finished it.
The withdrawal CT James r. Garfield
and Carmi A, Thompson, before the
beginning of the vote, made possible
a Observation-Disclosures combination
that "a hours previously would have
seemed to the delegates here an
opium-inspired dream.
All the Garfield votes, outside the
Cuyahoga delegation. and few that
chung grimly to the undeveloped can
didacy Of the ex-secretary of the in
terror were cast for Harding.
The platform which it is expected
will be a model for future Republican
conventions, was adopted almost
unanimously, there being but a few
scattered noes"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
"DoWauero Goinu Out.

The word "dowager" seems to be
going quite out of fashion, and many
who should so style themselves prefer
to use instead their Christian names.
Strictly speaking the mother of a mar
ried peer or baronet is the dowager,
but 1t has become the custom when
two ladies bear the same title to call
the elder one by her Christian name,
the distinction dowager being dropped
altogether.
At court, however, all widows of
peers and baronets are styled dowager
when the peer or baronet regnant is
married. The Christian name was
adopted some years ago in cases
where there were more than two la
dies bearing the same title in order
to make a distinction between the
dowager and the wife of the holder of
the title, and the innovation has be-
come so popular that peeresses and
baronets' wives who should style
themselves dowager elect to be known
by their Christian names. Thus the
widow of the late earl of Dudley Is
known as Georgiana Lady Dudley, but
actually she is Dowager Lady Dudley.
Court Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
SpA|N'S VATICAN
ENVOY RECALLED
Rupture Between Government
and Holy See Probable.
POPE'S NOTE BRINGS CRISIS
After Conference Between King Al
fonso and Premier Canalejas
Ambassador Ojeda is
Ordered Home.

San Sebastian. Spain.-At the con
ciusion of "A conference between King
Alfonso and Premier Canaiejas, Fri
day, it was announced that the Mar
Quis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish am
bassador to the Vatican, had been re-
called.
At the same time the opinion was
expressed that rupture with the
Vatican was inevitable.
Senior Canalejas told the king that
the government could not accept the
conditions of the Vatican's last note
and that the Vatican would be SO in
formed.
Premier Canalejas will continue his
anti-clerical program, counting upon
the support of King, Alfonso.
Ominous reports are received fol-
lowing the publication o. the news
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
Nominated BUT Not Elected.


Its getting harder every year for a
faker tc get by" remarked Attorney
NJ. B. Excel. Whatever line mans
In. whether its politics or selling gro
ceries, it doesn't pay for him to try
much four-fiushing. always think
Of the case of man knew in town
near here who ran for county Office
one year and had bright young chap
there to write a speech of acceptance
for him, to have ready in case he was
nominated.
He did get the nomination, and de
livered the speech in great shape,
without the use Of manuscript of
notes. The speech was wonderfully
we'll put up, too-so good. in fact. that
everybody wondered who had written
it, for the speaker himself was re-
garded as a person who would have
difficulty in writing letter asking for
4 seed catalogue without getting some.
body to help him with the spelling and
the grammar.
when he had finished and sat down,
there went up a wild tumult of ap-
plause above which could be heard
shouts of Author, Authorv just like
they do after the first performance of
play in which the actors have de-
livered their lines we'll.
And that cry was the thing that de-
feated the candidate" - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04

Finland, in so far as the autonomy
enjoyed heretofore Is concerned, has
practically been wiped off the map,
the Douma first and the Council oi
the Empire finally having enacted the
law which turns over the administra
zion of Finnish affairs to representa-
tives Of the car. Finland was form
erly a grand duchy, and, though un
der Russian control, had large meas
ure of self-goverument. The Firms
are a sturdy, self-reliant and intelli
gent people and have made great
progress in education and otherwise
But the policy of Russia is to central
ize control at st. Petersburg, and the
disposition Of Finland Is the latest
exemplifcation of the existing ten
dency.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04

When farmers turn to "bulling"
wheat the spectators in the grain
exchanges hardly know where they
are at. There seems to be something
like a combined effort on the part OF
the big wheat-growers of the north
west to keep up prices, says Milwau
kee Evening Wisconsin. Delegations
by trainioads are going to some of the
large trading-centers like st. Paul and
dealing in heavy lots Some of these
farmers are rated as millionaires, hav
ing made fortunes in grain growing.
and they also seem to understand the
bull and bear business. At least the
professional spectators in the wheat
pit" find the tillers of the soil foemen
worthy of their steel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04

The first passenger airship to be
operated for regular transportation
purposes has been put In commission
in Germany. 1t is a Zeppelin dirigi
bic and will run over a course that
will include Friedrichshafen, Stuff
CART, Mannheim, Cologne and Dussel
dorf. At first Count Zeppelin him
self, inventor of the machine which
bears his name, will be at the helm
The airship has capacity for twenty
passengers, for whom accommoda
tons as luxurious as those of Pull.
man palace car have been provided
AS the enterprise is backed by a ship
ping company of undoubted standing
there seems to be ample faith in the
success of the enterprise and belief
that aerial navigation has come &c
stay.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
RACER DARES DEATH
GRIM NERVE OF MECHANiCiAN
AT RivERHEAD CONTEST.
When the Steering Geer Becomes Dis
abIed He Climbs Out Over
Autos Hood and Rides
on Cranking Shaft.

One of the nerviest spectacles ever
seen on an auto raceway, says Hamp-
IONS Magazine, occurred in the Long
island stock car Derby at Riverhead-
Herbert Bailey, mechanician for Louis
Disbrow and his No. literary shook
uands with death.
When the car had passed the stand
On its fourth lap and was two miles
from the repair pits the pin fell out of
the reach rod, disabling the steering
gear. The machine threatened to be-
come unmanageable.
What did Bailey do but climb out
over the hood, lower himself down on
the little cTanking rod and sit facing
the radiator with his feet propped
against the front axle With one hand
oe prevented himself from being dash
ed under the wheels by holding on to
the little water cap on the top of the
hood.
The other hand held the disabled
steering gear together. Bailey rode
twenty miles in that manner, with the
car going full speed. until the circuit
was completed and the repair pits
made.
George Robertson had an expert
ence in the famous backstretch of the
Merrinac Valley course which might
have had pretty serious consequences,
I'VE were making seventy miles an
hour" said Robertson in telling the
story, when suddenly heard a crack
The next second i fell through to the
floor of the car The seat had broken
under me. There / lay with my hands
on the wheel and my feet sticking W
In the air.
II could not see the road In front
of me, and did not know where the
car was going. Just before Glenn
Ethridge, my mechanician, grabbed me
by the shoulders and pulled me up
the car tilted perceptibIy. 1t almost
tipped over. / tell you, ! thought We
were goners, No, l haven't said any
thing about 1t. Why should u"
Smiling George they call him, and
his sunny countenance certainly bears
out the nickname. Robertson is big,
solid, good looking youth, who gives
the impression that nothing could
move him. lie fairly radiates vitality
! In everyday life he is an easygoing
merry, careless chap.
In race he is another man. Al
times he acts like a maniac. He has
been known TO strike the men in the
repair pits when they did not work
fast enough to suit him. On the road
he is absolutely fearless. The other
drivers turn out" for him. On more
than one occasion Robertson has
scraped the paint off car that was
slow in giving him leeway.
A story is told of Robertson's be
havior during the Briarcliff race. II
was said that he had hurled monkey
wrench at another driver who DELHI
erately t-.sd to block him. When Rob
ertson Vas asked about this ne ap.
peared high ilcensed.
Honestly, do you think I'd throw
my wrench at any one? Why, it's
absurd! Suppose ! should need that
wrench during the race. If 1 threw
anything, / throw spare nuts"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
SUICIDE HINT IN RAWN CASE
Heirs May Have to Sue to Recover
Insurance.

Chicago. Jurors at the inquest
over the body OF Ira Griffith Rawn,
slain president of the Monon rail-
road, returned verdict. finding
that he was killed by bullet fired
from his own revolver, held in his
own hand" and that circumstances
in connection with the death made the
theory of suicide seem probable.
The verdict was reached after a
three hours session and after much
lively debate in the jury room.
That the insurance companies will
contest the payment of policies is said
to be assured. and it is declared that
relatives of the slain railroad presi-
dent will bring court proceedings to
collect the insurance.
The general consensus of opinion
among those present at the close of
the inquest was that the jury had
taken the only course open to it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04

1t is a well-known fact that theat,
rical managers have no pity. Here is
story-probably an untrue one. for
he is sal dto be one of the kindest of
men-which is going the rounds about
NJ Jules Claretie, manager of the
Theater Francois. The actor, who was
playing the part of Nathan In
"Athalie," had the misfortune to lose
his father, and sent message to M.
Claretie TO say that he could not play
that evening. There was no under
study in the theater.
"Oh, surely he can be persuaded"
said M. Claretie to the stage man
ager, I'VE can't return the money. Go
and get him to play. Point out to
him than Nathan is quite sad part"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
Train ,Plunses into Burning TrestIe

Train ,PIunges into Burning TrestIe.
Augusta, Ga.-A passenger train on
the Charleston & Western Carolina
railroad ran into a burning trestle
about mile and a half from Wood
lawn, resulting in the total destruction
of the train, the death of Engineer
Taylor and Fireman Dunbar, colored,
of Augusta, and slight injuries to six
teen passengers. The train had just
rounded curve when Conductor W.
b. Vedery saw that the trestle was on
fire. Immediately he pulled the sig
nal. The engine had run onto the
trestle and plunged through to the
front of the first passenger coach. The
fire on the trestle was communicated
to the baggage car and in less than ten
minutes the entire train was ailame.
Engineer Taylor and Fireman Dunbar
went down and were caught under the
tender. Both of these were either
mashed or burned to death. None of
the passengers were injured beyond
minor cuts and bruises.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
CAR RIOTS DESPITE TROOPS.
Resumption of Trolley Service at Co
IuTnbus Causes Trouble


Columbus, O.-Rioting broke out
with the resumption Of traction serv-
ice here, following the calling Of
troops. Shots were exchanged by
rioters and strikebreakers and a doz-
en- victims are in the hospitals.
The police, Charged with the
handling of trouble by Governor Har-
mons ultimatum, on his return from
Michigan. aided by the troops, dis
persed at least a hundred rock-throw-
ing crowds and made so arrests.
Durand. Mich.-The attempt to
make a military event of the quarrel
in this town between the Grand Trunk
railroad and its trainmen appears to
have fallen painfully fat. Four COM
panies of the National Guard reached
here from Detroit and went into camp.
Meantime indignant citizens were ar
ranging for mass meeting at which
demand was made on Governor War
ner to withdraw the troops. I'VE are
here because the sheriff asked for
troops and We had no option" is the
explanation given by General McGur-
rim, in command of the state soldiery.
New York.-Two men were shot
and killed and four seriously wounded,
one q policeman, in riot of strike
sympathizers at the plant of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company in Will
liamsburg, where a strike has been in
progress for month.
Crowds of sympathizers threw
bricks at the strikebreakers, and
when the nonunion men started out
with their trucks to deliver sugar a
rush was made for the wagons.
The police on the trucks returned
the fire of the crowd, and two of the
rioters were shot.
The employees struck a month ago
for an advance in wages.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
SAYS I. C. HEADS SPLIT GRAFT.
Former Car Inspector Declares Bills
Were Padded 40 Per Cent.

Former Car Inspector Declares Bills
Were Padded 40 Per Cent.
Chicago.-"High officials of the ILL
mis- Central railroad, who were in
terested in car-repairing plants, en-
tered into an agreement among them.
selves to divide profits grated from
the railroad. These profits amounted
to as high as 40 per cent. Of the total
amount paid by the railroad coiu-
panyP
That is the charge made on the
witness stand by Harold A. Sims. in
his continued testimony concerning
the grating from the Illinois Central
railroad. His testimony was given be-
fore Master in Chancery Mason, in the
suit of the railroad to. recover 100000
from the Memphis Car company. Al
Though he was on the inside" and
knew in detail the method used to rob
the railroad, Sims says that he realized
only $3.50 for his share in the work.
Illinois Central lumber was used to
repair Illinois Central cars. and then
the road was charged for the lumber,
was another of his charges.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
BRYAN LOSES 70 .WETS"
IN HOME STATE CONTEST
Pleads In Vain Ger County Option
Plank In Nebraska Democratic
Convention.

Grand Island, Neb.-WiliianA ]. Dry
an spoke before the Democratic state
convention Tuesday tight for az hour
III an effort to prevent the elimination
Of his county option plank from the
state platform.
Mr.. Bryan had labored hard in the
committee in an effort 70 have his
ideas written into the platform, and
after being defeated in the committee.
he appealed to the convention and in
this appeal made the speech of his
life to convention already instructed
against him.
He pleaded to his old friends,
begged them not to repudiate him un.
less they found him untrue to Demo
cratic principles; he threatened state.
wide prohibition if county option was
defeated; he denounced those Demo
Gratis whom he charged with being
subservient to the liquor interests
and he cajoled the uninstructed dele
| gates to vote for him and his plans
| And then standing aside he listened
to the most bitter words directed al
him that he has ever heard.
No attack made against Bryan by
| Republicans or others, in any of his
| campaigns, was ever so bitter as were
| the attacks made by Bryan's ole
| friends against their old leader. AS {
member of the committee on resolu
lions, Mr.. Bryan returned a minority
! report on the county option plank
This minority report, signed only by
Bryan himself, was short and to the
point, saying simply: I'VE favor coun
ty option as the best method of deal
| ing with the liquor question"
1t was in defense of this report thai
Mr.. Bryan made the speech which vii
be called the greatest effort of hi.
| life.
| The sentiment towards Bryan was
| shown when, for more than an hour
the convention called upon differen
leaders to address il, but not a single
one was made for Mr.. Bryan. Wher
the final vote was taken, Bryan!
plank was turned down CAS- to 49,
| and a direct anti-county option planl
inserted.
| Lincoln, Neb.-Philosophical II
the face of his decisive defea
| in the Democratic state conven
ton, William J. Bryan returned L
Lincoln, content, he says, to becom'
an humble worker in the ranks of th'
party of which he had been for man.
years the acknowledged state leader
Mr. Bryan made it plain that he haf
no intention of boiling, but at th'
same time he said he had not retreat
ed one inch from his position on cour
ty option and his attitude against III,
liquor interests. He will use his n
fiuence, he minated, to secure thu
nomination of Richard l.. Metcalfe TO
United States senator. but if Mr.. Met
calfe fails at the primaries he viii
give the party's nominee at least nom
inal support.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
Accused Wife SLAYER Taken

Chicago Heights, Ill.-One a lonely
road six miles south of Chicago
Heights a posse of citizens and police
surrounded clump of woods in which
John Barcha, supposed wife MUIR
derer, was hiding Tuesday, and after
fight succeeded in arresting him.
Barcha, few hours before, haG, it is
charged, shot and killed his wife,
Margaret. in their home. He fled and
the neighbors Joined in the pursuit
When he was found in the woods he
drew a knife and fought the posse
before ne was finally overpowered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
LOCAL OPTION PLANK ADOPTED.
Iowa Democrats Meet and Ratify
Nominations on State Ticket.

Iowa Democrats Meet and Ratify
Nominations on State Ticket.
Ottumwa, Ia.-After bitter
wrangle in the resolutions COM
mittee, the Democratic state conven-
tan adopted local option plank,
thereby putting the liquor question
which has been a thorn in the flesh OF
both parties for years, squarely up to
the people.
Jerry B. Sullivan of Des Moines,
former candidate for governor. acted
as temporary chairman, and scored
Theodore Roosevelt numerically In
his speech.
Tie platform contained IS planks.
The tariff bill was denounced as a
masterpiece of injustice involving
remorseless exactions from the many
TO enrich the few"
The nomination of Claude r. Porter
for governor was ratified, and the en-
tire state ticket. A. Vanwagonen of
Sioux City and Judge Wolf of Clinton
were nominated for judges of the SUI
preme court.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-04
Disastrous Forest Fires Rauinu

MiSsoula, Mont.-With a wall of
flame eight miles long eating its way
over the Montana-ldaho divide into
this state, with another fire raging at
the head of Cedar creek, and still 9TH
lers reported in various sections, cry
for help was raised here by the Off
cials of the forest service. The Cedar
Creek fire is rapidly eating into the
heavy forests of the Trout creek dis
trict and has spread to such an extent
that it will be almost impossible TO
stop its progress unless more men can
be secured.