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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05

should not be approved. And the
heirs ofsaid estate and all others
interested therein, are also hereby
required, at the time and place
aforesaid, no appear and make
proof of their heirship or claim
to any part OF said estate.
Ella NJ Luty
Done May 3, 1910.
Witness, the Clerk and seal of
(seaI said Marshall Circuit
Court, at Plymouth Indiana. this
3rd day of May 1910.
]. c. Wllitesell, Clerk
John d. Thomas. Attorney
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05
Death of Anna Warner.

Anna Warner. an old resident
OF Marshall county died at the
inhrmary at 9:30 Wednesday
morning, aged 70 years. She has
been a resident of this county for
over 40 years and has been at the
infrmiry for eight years. She has
no living relatives. She will be
buried at the cambridge cemttery
in Bourbon township Thursday
morning.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05
Farmers Take Notice.

The Canning Factory at Ply
mouth has been bought by new
company, and those wishing to
take contracts for tomatoes and
sweet corn please call on DR.. Ste
phens, Jerome Ball and John
Palmer on or before May
14th. 7ld2t W.T.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05
$50 Men Wanted.

Two hundred and fifty men
can find steady employment in
Michigan City factories right
now.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05
Marriage License.

Harry Davenport OF Montana
20 to Olive Iced p Lapaz.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05

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John d. Thomas. Attorney
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Fighting for Two New BattleShipS

The Senate has passed the naval appro pration bill, including the section that authorizes the construction of two new super-Dreadnoughts to cost about s11 60o.Ooe each Other amendments were, however made in the bill, and it will now go to a conference committee. AS both houses have voted in favor of build ing two ships of 29,oo0 tons displacement each, this addition to the navy may safely be considered assured. The indications now are that the fleet increase to be au- thorized will be two er-Dreadnoughts, two colliers, five submarines and six de- stroyers.
 The cost of keeping the navy up to the mark is great, but if England, Germany and Japan can stand the expense surely the United States can, especially when a big navy means peace, not war. No one will sail across a wide sea to attack this country if it has a reasonably strong navy. At some time, perhaps, England, Germany and Japan will be ready to call a halt in naval expenditures, and then this country should second the nation. Until they do this we cannot afford to let our navy drop behind. The Panama canal and the Monroe doctrine forbid.
 The British government recently ex- plained in a parliamentary paper how the chief navies stood March 31 last. The letters at the heads of the columns have the following signification: E.. Eng land G., Germany; l., Italy; L., United States, and J., Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Baseball By Wire

The Chattanoogans are piled with flying stories about the amount of booze their players drank in a dry state, and these stories are intermixed with other yarns of individual discontent and intentional pebbles It never seems to occur to them that the Coal Barons are playing in good form very much as their team did in the first month of the season. Good bail playing is not confined to one team or to one mountain. Red mountain has as good a right to overshadow a game played with accuracy and efficiency as even tow ering Lookout mountain has a monopoly in that respect.
 The home team has left it's adopted heath, and it will play before it returns r games It cannot secure half of the number because game cannot be split been adopted f. however, the Barons win eight games on the road up to the time of their return their percentage of victories would be 800 and that would be glory and winning enough to satisfy all but the most exacting fans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
DrEIING GIN FRANCE

From the Washington Post.
 Two needless unesthetic gentlemen of France, Count Ismael de Lesseps and Count Just de Poligny, have gone and done it." They engaged in duel out side of Paris the other day, and vlo- lating all the sacred traditions of the national sport, each slightly wounded the other and spilled his blood.
 For downright, cruel carelessness this contretemps has rarely been matched. Rarely in all the history of Frances royal recreation have the rules of the game been broken in so slipshod manner. Here in America spiking has been frowned upon in our national game of baseball In England the great derby is we believe, run on the level.
 Yet here is France standing idly by while two blunderers engage in the great national game, and through sheer carelessness-we cannot believe it was by design-violate all the noble tradi- tions that hover, like halo, over the delightful French duel.
 Nations have sat enthralled before the spectacle of previous personal en- agreements conducted with great cere- mony and eclat. Thousands have thrilled at the word pictures of valiant knights of France standing at 12 paces, deliberately aiming. fring-and miss ing! What a glowing picture was made $ the gentlemen of France seeking to satisfy wounded honor, thrust and parried with their rapiers in the gray dawn-thrust and parried and graceful ly missed the mark
 If there is any repetition of this carelessness, we look to the great French nation to call halt. Its glor ious and ancient institutions must be preserved. If duelists cannot use the usual weapons without bloodsh ed, let them choose feathers and let each tickle the other. The one who laughs first loses. It would be a drastic innova- tion, but would save the traditions of France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
THREE BOLD SAILORS

From Tit-Bits.
 Prof. Thomas Nixon Carter of Harvard was talking about socialism "Social- ism is no world panacea,' he said, put in the future it is to be reckoned with. Socialism will, in the future, protect the noor against injustice and hypocrisy. It will expose fraud Yes, socialism, like old Higgins Wentworth, will bring out the truth Higgins Wentworth was hoelhg one April morning when three rough cooking men climbed the fence and crossed the field to him. They had just been shipwrecked, they said, on the brig Maria. They had lost even their clothes. would
 Higgins help them? Higgins Wentworth looked closely into the sailors faces, for he knew the ways of men. Then he said You. the bow-legged one, go stand 20 yards to the right, and I'll get ye to help me minute with the seedin.' You baldly there, you stand 20 yards to the left The two men compiled, and then Higgins wentworth said quietly to the man who remained: What did you say your captains name was? Williams, Captain Williams, was the reply. The old farmer sauntered to the man off on the right What was your captain 8 name? he asked. Everett, sir the man answered Higgins Wentworth crossed the field to the third man. What was your captains name?' The name was Captain Jones'. Higgins wentworth leaned on his hoe and gathered the three men about bim. "A fine lot of sailors you are,' he snorted, to go to sea in ship with three captains! No wonder you were wrecked It served you right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Iron Market Improving

The pig iron market is gradually inn proving. Even a slight improvement IS encourag ging, for the market has been extremely dull for weeks past. But TOW that inquiry is increasing every day, a brisk buying movement in the near fu- ture may reasonably be expected. Mat thew Addy & Co.'S weekly letter, just received, says:
 'sThere seems to be general feeling that the affairs in the iron trade are in better shape Certain it Is that there has been much more liberal buying and fur mace order books are fuller than they were at the beginning of the month. The fact is that a few weeks ago consumers were not interested In iron at any price, But now they evidently feel the policy of waiting into worth while, for when attractive prices are made orders are forthcoming This week there has been buying al lalong the line, and every kind of iron has been in fair demand Prices apparently are at the bottom. There is nothing more that can possibly come off northern prices unless the furnaces market their product at a heavy loss, and only the most favorably situated of the southern stacks can come out ahead on the quotations that prevail today. In the past few years the cost of making iron, owing to the steady advance in labor and the fact that the more available raw ma terials have been exhausted, has steadily gone up. This has been the case in both the north and the south, so when con- sumers talk of the phenomenaly low prices that were made 10 and 12 years ago they are referring to conditions that can- rot be duplicated. So while prices are not ct all satisfactory to producers, yet it may be said in broad and general sense that conditions are slowly shaping them selves in the direction of an improve ment '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
 On no subject is ignorance so dense, in- vincible, imperturbable and pathetic as on strawberry shortcake. The recurring sea- sons bring new disclosures of it and new additions to it until the sum mounts to frightful proportions.
 The most presumptuous manifestation of the unforglvable ignorance is when some confident and self-assertive indi- vidual, obsessed by the remembered joy of strawberry shortcake as a culinary and paatal effect essays to speculate as to the cause and tell how 1t is produced. Nothing is so repellant as a recipe for this compound of heaven-sent ingredients. To reduce it all to type-to attempt to transform into measured parts and DOT tions that which enters into itzis more than sim 1t is crime beyond divine power of punishment It's colossal dere- fiction is invariably demonstrated by some invidious and barbaric declaration that the cake should be cold, the berries hot or the combination unused up with eggs there be idiots who think nature can be improved on.
 A proper recipe for shortcake that is shortcake begins thus: Take woman Beyond that man cannot go. The rest is mystery. It becomes snared with genius, which Is the faculty of reaching into the empurpled beyond where suggestion am- plities reality to bring heaven and earth together As we said, there be idiots who think they can reduced such as this to words.
 To the initiated-to those who have been carried up the heights and shown the Olympian joys which turk in the unmeas- ured. undefined, immeasurable and inde- inable conglomerate of natures finest product and~art's most splendid achieve ment. there comes patronzing smile over the discussion. The pity of it is that there are so many thousands who under take to defy the impossible by defining it.
 Looking down the vista of the centuries to the millenniai realization when ideal ism has come into it's own; when the cur tajns have been rolled back and the mys- teries have all been revealed-even then' we suspect, someone will come forward to proclaim that strawbrry shortcake can be eaten with fork.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
NOT MUCH USE. ANYWAY

From the Philadelphia Times.
 The young man who asks semi foolish questions was talking to pret- ty young actress who is staring" for the first time this season in a Chestnut street cafe.
 If you knew" said he. that this notices have been written was going to strike this little old earth of ours and knock it to kingdom come tomorrow, what would you do?'
 The pretty young actress toyed with the rose in her hand and thought much and deeply. Finally she spoke.
 q think I would scrape all the money manager for the privilege of putting on Camille for just one night. Then would hire a company, pay them tn cir salaries in advance and start the big show. I would play the title role. I would put all the feryor into it I could and I think the thought that the world was coming to an end would make me 'emosh' some. Then I would time the performance so that the comet would come tearing through the roof just as the climax in the play was reached Wouldn't that be a screaming finish ?'
 That's all very we'll" said the young man, but stop, look and consider. Con- slider that there would be no newspa- pers on the morning after and there fore no favorable notices"
 How very true" said the pretty young actress. Tn that case" she said, pensively, "I don't think I'd play Ca mille at all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Cron Conditions

While the cool weather is keeping back the crops the crop outlook Is by no means gloomy. The cotton belt has been fairly well supplied with rain. And the Wall Street Journals crop statistician says that in spite of backsets vegetation has advanced this weeN even if slowly.
 Soil conditions Are still favorable,' the Wall Street Journal says "and the main desideratum now is higher temperature. In these respects the current season is not abnormal and follows the lines of some recent years. There have been few localities in which the weather has hin- dered field work, while there have been many in which rains have fallen in timely quantities to give the crops a consider able lease into the future.
 Among the crops which have made most gains should be noted the valuable sugar cane crop of Louisiana and winter wheat in the southwest. Over the Pacific coast the weather has favored the ripen- ing of wheat, and every preparation for cutting is under way in California.
 'Whatever else may be said against the low temperatures in the closing por- ton of May, there has not been a season in many years in which outdoor work has been given better opportunity than in this one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Through Cotton Bills of Lading

Through bills of lading are under q dnoud. They have fallen into disrepute, and if they are ever to regain their former credit and standing there must be a thorough investigation of the af- fairs of Knight, Yancey & Co., and if t be shown that fraudulent bills of ladng were issued then steps, both legal and commercial, must be taken to render repetition of such practices impossible. 10 Investigation can do as much damage = interior dealers and interior banks as Ao the thousand and one rumors con- narning the affairs of the Decatur firm.
 It has come to be fight between the , interior towns and the ports. The latter naturally think all cotton should be ship oed to middlemen in the ports and that portg bills of lading should supplant the hailg issued in interior towns. Heretofore t1e mills both at home and abroad have neen dealing largely with interior buyers nnd bills of lading have been issued from 1>o initial shipping point to the mill wfether it be located in Fall River or in lnoan. The ports now say this must be E ntopped The cotton must be shipped to fho ports and the ports will proceed tc frue through bills of lading. This simply moans that the farmers is to be saddled v1th the charges of an additional middle
 n.
 { I3lis, however, can be avoided by a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Summer Concerts.

Birmingham Should by all means nave free open air concerts this summer, said an old citizen, land l am glad to learn that the Musicians union will give one without charge early in June as speei- mon of the music we might expect
 "I understand that the Musicians union would furnish band of 20 pieces Tor three concerts week for a series or lo weeks for about 5000. or the same band daily for 10 weeks for about $S5Oo ihese figures are not official. but are, l thlnk' approximately right.
 q believe s25Oo could be raised by pop ular subscription, and if the ciuzens would contribute that much the Cl.y Council might see its way clear to supple ment the fund by appropriating SlOoo- We should endeavor to have daily con certs. but if the cost would be too great we could surely raise the money to pay for three concerts a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
SUNDAY IN THE PULPIT
Reyiyalist "Plays the Game" Just a'
 He Did In Baseball

Dr. Thomas E. Green in June Hamptons.
 On the platform Billy Sunday plays ball." Attitude, gestures, methoo-he crouches, rushes, whirls, bangs his mes- sage out. as if he were at the bat in the last inning, with two men out ana the bases full. And he can go into any city in America and for six weeks talk 10 oooo people twice day, and simply turn that community inside out. He says San Francisco is the wickedest city we have New Orleans next, Chicago third. and New York fourth Over three hundred thousand people have been "converted' under his preaching, and he says 90 per cent of them stick.
 Next to Billy Sunday in popular de- mand and in evangelistic efficiency comes
 George R. Stuart of Tennessee. for 16 years the associate of the late Sam Jones. In many respects Sunday and Stuart are alike They both believe in and rreach the same strenuous, orthodox, in sistent theology. Heaven or hell are the future destination of every soul-and it's a real heaven and and a sure enough hell. Of the two, Stuart is by far the gentler. Sunday is startling, bold, bellicose, grim; Stuart is tender, emotional, pleading, per- suasive.
 The greatest sum Stuart and Sam Jones ever received was $500O, to be divided be- tween the two men, after Excell their singer, and all other assistants had been paid This was for a three weeks meet | ing For ten days their compensation
 varied from slO00 to sSo00.
 On the lecture platform Sam Jones got
 $2O0 for single lecture, George Stuart l n25; Excel could have made his music
 pay him $aO0 week. Billy Sundays in-
 come is reputed to be $20,000 year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Growing Cities

Birmingham rapid growth is regarded as a matter of course" said John C' Meyer of St. Louis, but l was at Gads- den a few days ago and that city was revelation to me My last visit to Gads- den until I came on this trip to Alabama was In 1906. It seemed to be prosperous then. but it had little of the city appear snce. Now Gadsden has metropolitan chara cteristics. It has all the signs or substantial development, and 1t is safe to predict that when Alabama City and Attalla are merged into Gadsden-in time for the census of 1920, the consolidated community will have a population or 50,ooO.
 'As for Birmingham. what impresses the visitor is the solid character of the improvements in the business district and the elegance of the residence sections. Very few cities in this country have such beautiful avenues or such attractive look ing homes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Pensions for Confederate Veterans

Tn the last quarter of the fiscal year the Alabama veterans who had expected to receive s12.5o each will get but s5.6o- This is discreditable to rich and popu- Ions state. The incoming legislature should see that the fourth-class pension CTS get $50 a year in accordance with nrouises made to them The defcits ln the nension fund should be abolished The heroes of the war are fast passing away. and whatever is to be done to
 make them more comfortable in their last years must be done by the next legisia- ture. The Alabama legislatures meet Tar anart. and the veterans of the war are growing old
 Surely the next legislature will put an end to the disappointing deficits in the nension fund. These deficits seriously in convenience many veteran of the great est civil struggle in all history, and the legislature should make haste to put an end to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Last Day Registration

This is the last day of registration for Birmngham's democratic primary. It is q. new registration and the first for the greater city. It is estimated that there are fully so00 democrats living within the extended corporation limits, eligible to vote, but the registration up to this time has been slow and unless the registration officers are kept busy every minute of to day the vote in the city primary on June % will be lighter by thousand or more than should be.
 As there is place of registration in each ward. the man qualified to register Is put to practically no inconvenience, and certainly civic pride should constrain him to take the little time necessary and be- come voter. Remember. no citizen can vote in June whose name is not on the new registration lists.
 If you have neglected to register, make it your business to attend to this matter before noon if possible. Take no chances. All democratic primaries are important, but the one ordered for June 20 Is espe- cially important.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28

thorough investigation of the affairs of Knight. Yancey & Co. and the taking of steps to insure the genuineness of in- terior bills of lading. The interior mar kets will not abdcate, and the railroads
 and the banks and the telegraphs Will surely come to their aid. The interior towns that have dealt directly with mills for a generation assuredly will not be summanly switched to the ports simply because a Decatur firm went awry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
ENGLISH
From the Kansas City Times

From the Kansas City Times.
 Purists sometimes express the fear that the English language has stopped growing. It cannot be that they read the sporting page of the newspapers. Consider few of the everyday express sions:
 It came on a nice hop to the Cub third packer and McElveen was tagged.
 Graham missed his tenth and eigh- teenth birds, while Crosby dusted his twenty fourth.
 Evers made bluf at sacrificing and then fioated a double between David son and Wheat.
 Steve Ragan grabbed a safety in the second.
 He refused to waive. That stings George to pay $750 cool cash.
 Jude pumped four safe ones in four times at bat
 Brashear is hitting in the cleanup position.
 Acton drew pas and stole second.
 A language that is vigorous enough to produce a new dialect like that Is good for several generations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
From the New York Mail.

fiVhi the NEW OTk h1all.
 nO the plainsman whose knowledge
 of boats extends little further
 A than the skin from which he used to dive at the old swimming hole, a visit aboard mighty man-'o-war Is a knock out blow which leaves him gasping for breath long afte rhe has ceased to be amazed at the other marves of the city
 For the inland furnishes other wonders, to which the plainsman is no stranger, but for him the war monsters have hith- erto been only so many tables of figures on paper.
 As he approaches the great gray hulk, bristlng with its turrets and tunnels and stacks. he isn't particularly impressed because he has seen so many pictures of warships that the big steel thing before him seems familiar.
 And so on the deck he gazes in a dazed sort of way at the seemingly hopeless tangle of wires and rods and rigging. He hears from the petty officer at his elbow that the ship is. $50 feet long, and that the wireless apparatus aloft will send and catch messages several hundred miles, and that the gun poking its nose from that pill box will shoot fifteen miles, still he doesn't become excited, for the in- lander Is used to distances.
 From the edge of Grigsby station on any bright summers day he can look across the praries in an open sweep further than the big gun can shoot. and a ride across the plains in his motor as far as the wireless will carry is one of the amuse- ments of the westerner.
 It is when he has gone down the stairs the hatchway, he is corrected-and junketed around among the intricacies of lower decks that his awe is aroused. The condolences of it all is the thing that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-28
Racing VIII Continue

New York. May 2.-The determination of the Brooklyn Jockey club to carry out it's racing calendar despite the passage of the anti-bookmaking bills at Albany. was expressed tonight by Phillip J. Dwyer. president of the club. The state court of appeals, Dwyer pointed out, has held that oral bookmaking is permissible. and as only such transactions are al- lowed the directors. he argued, cannot be held responsible for permitting it until the new measure takes effect. After that the courts will be called upon to interpret what oral bookmaking really means, he said.