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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Tragic Mark on the Steel Skeleton
Of the SlsyScruner.

Tragic Mark on the Steel skeleton
of the SkyScrapcr.
See that big blob of scarlet paint?'
girder high up in the skeleton of the
new skyscraper. That red spot means
that one of the men working on the
building was killed by the girder
sweeping him Oft the structure while
being put in position"
The visitor craned his neck and saw
a rough patch of vermilion paint on
one of the floor girders up on the six
teenth story. 1T must be danger
Gus life" he said &c his engineering
friend.
Yes. Those men up there are work
ing under the chance of instant death
at any moment They'll walk along
the topmost girder, 800 feet above the
sidewalk little path of slippery iron
five inches wide-and will lean out
ward against the wind. You or
couldn't do 1t for a second.
Now and again there's an accident.
A chap slips A worker gets hit by
swinging girder and flung off. Anoth-
er man takes an incautious step and
falls eff into eternity. The men work
ing near by do their best TO get at
him If he manages 10 grab the girder
he's falling from, and there are some
swift and reckless races with death TO
get to their comrade at any cost in the
five or ten seconds allowed them while
strong fingers are slipping away from
a slippery beam fiange. If the worst
happens and the man falls in spite of
their efforts, then they apply the dab
of red paint, and the ironworkers call
it day. They don't speak much of
the man that is gone, as a rule. He's
soon forgotten. The men consider it
fate.
You'd think. by the way" went on
the engineer. that the higher up these
men worked the more careful they'd
become. They arnt particularly care
full. but they do guard against the
hypnotism of height. One of the men
working on a high girder gets para
lyzed now and again by sudden fear
that HOluS anu Obiii
on his iron beam.
THE men look out for this sort OF
thing, and the remedy Is to distract
his attention by a rough blow on the
back or In some cases by exciting him
to anger through any means in their
power. When the man gets fighting
mad he Is freed from the paralysis OF
terror or whatever you may choose to
call 1t. He gets up from his girder to
make a rush for the other fellow to
do him up, and the moment he is safe
he is restrained by the other men.
whenever you see skyscraper
framework" concluded the engineer,
each dab of scarlet paint on the iron
means that some man has come to his
death. Every skyscraper and every
bridge is the monument to some little
group of unknown workers, laboring
at dizzy heights and dallying with sud-
den death as part of their dogs work"
New York Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The surface of the earth is said to
be 196,971,9S4 square miles.
1t is said by anatomists that people
hear better with their mouths open.
The average hen will lay 400 eggs,
nearly one-half of them in her third
year
A watch ticks 157 100000 times in a
year, and the wheels travel 3,55S%
miles.
Almost any flower can be bleached
white by exposure to the fumes of
sulphur
1t takes 1000 tons of coal to bring
one of the modern liners across the
Atlantic.
Lavender and rose perfumes are
credited with the virtue of being mi
crobe killers.
Thirty-eight of every 1000 English
men marry after they are more than
so years old.
The earliest coinage that can be
called American was struck off in
Massachusetts in 1862.
Ten ships, each a century or more
old, are still in active service in the
Danish mercantile marine.
There are about 5000 weddings ev-
cry twenty-four hours, taking the en-
tire world into consideration.
Experiments with the ultra-violent
light appear to show that it is more
effective for sterilizing liquids than
ozone.
Paris has thirty-two miles of under
ground railways and the construction
of twenty-three more miles has been
authorized.
The amount of carbon exhaled from
a mans lungs each day, If it could be
solicited. would equal that in lump
of coal weighing half ton.
Up to 1889 the chief water works of
New York City was in Chatham street,
now Park row. The water was carted
about the city In casks and sold from
carts.
High atmospheric pressure in the
case of persons not doing manual la-
Dor has been found to act as a mental
stimulus, increasing the impulse to
talk
Prof. Lowell announces that he has
discovered a new canal 1000 miles in
length on Mars. The canal developed
between May and September Of last
year.
1t was so cold IN New York part of
the winter of 1779 that residents i'm
the vicinity were compelled to cut
down the tall trees that stood at what
is now the head Of Wall street to
make kindling wood.
A French scientist has invented an
apparatus for sterilizing water. which
passes in 1t in spiral tubes around a
long mercury vapor lamp, to utilize
the meteorological properties of the
violet and Ultraviolet rays.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

off; I can't, for one And that's why
we are here this afternoon. Chiawas
see can blow in again and stay in blast
if we've all got nerve enough to hang
on. If we start UP and go on making
pig. it'll be on a dead market and Wen
have to sell it at loss or stack 1t in
the yards. We can't do the first, and
I needn't tell you that it is going to
take a mighty long purse to do the
stacking. 1t will be all outgo and no
income. If"
Spit ii out" called Ludlow. from The
forefront OF the miners division. Il
reckon we all know what's comm"
It's case of half loaf or no bread.
If Chiawassee blows in again. 1t will
be on borrowed money. If you men
will take half-pay in cash and half in
promises, the promised half to be paid
when we can sell the stacked pig. we
so on. If not, we don't. Talk it over
among yourselves and let us have your
decision
There was hot caucusing and fair
imitation of pandemonium on the foun-
dry floor following this bomb hurting.
and Tom sat down on the edge OF the
platform to give the men time. Caleb
OOruOn sat WllHlH arm > iSdCii' nun S'iio
his knee, diligently saying nothing. III
was Tom, undoubtedly, but Tom VIVA
had become a citizen Of another world,
a newer world than the one the ex-ar-
tilleryman knew and lived in. He
Caleb-had freely predicted riot as
the result of the half-pay proposal;
yet Tom had applied the match and
there was no explosion. The buzzing.
arguing groups were not riotous-only
fiercely questioning.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
SCIENCE,
AND
INVENTION
CLOUDS TO PREDICT WEATHER.
Forecasts Made by Or. A. de Quervain
of Zurich, Are of Utmost Scie1-
tific Importance.

Cloud weather forecasts made by
DIR. A. de Quervain of Zurich are of
the utmost scientific and practical i'm
portance. His deductions are based
on the familiar cumulus cloud of warm
summer days. When reaching heights
of six or seven miles it becomes &
trundle cloud. The high floating top
assumes the shape of a fleecy ice
needle cloud and extends sideways in
anvil shape. The ordinary cumulus
cloud undergoes similar transforma-
tons at level of three to four miles,
and so does not lead to the forma-
ton of thunder storms but merely to
the production of fleecy clouds.
This sort of cloud can be regarded
as a presage of good weather. The
veil shaped hooded clouds have mot
been sufficiently explained. Often
they encompass the top of a quickly
rising cumulus cloud, and until re-
Gently were thought to be instrument
tai in the production of hail. They
are always found to be intimately con-
nected with existing feecy clouds, and
on the other hand presages bad
weather. occurring previous to thun-
der storms.
Even such reliable presages Of
thunder storms are the remarkably
delicate varieties of feecy clouds
which are mostly found floating about
four miles high. On a darker layer
there are superposed delicate white
heads. These lofty curly heads, gen
orally in the morning, safely predict
a thunder storm within twenty-four
hours. BY balloon ascents it was
found that the occurrence of these
clouds comedies with a violent drop
in the temperature.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

son the day before, and with whom he
had made a wire appointment before
leaving Boston. The attorney was
waiting for him. and Tom stated the
case succinctly. adding a brief of the
interview which had just taken place
a the hotel.
GU say they agreed to your pro-
posal?" observed the lawyer. Did Mr..
Farley indicate the method?"
No"
your company?"
Tom produced the packet OF papers
received that morning from his father,
and handed the required pamphlet to
Mr.. Croswen
"Hm-ha. the usual form. y stock
holders meeting, with resolution,
would be the simplest way out Of it;
but that can't be held without the pub
lished call. You say your father is a
stockholders"
He has four hundred and three of
the original one thousand shares. l
hold his proxy"
The attorney smiled shrewdly.
You are very remarkable young
man. You seem to have come pre-
pared at all points"
The conference in Room 327, Fifth
Avenue Hotel, held while the carriages
were waiting to take the steamer party
TO the pier, was brief and businesslike
Something to Toms surprise. Major
Dabney was present; and n little later
he learned, with a shock of resentment.
that the Major was also a minority
stockholder in the moribund Chiawas-
see Consolidated. The master of Deer
Trace was as gracious to Caleb Cor
don's son as only a Dabney knew how
to be.
Nothing could give me- greateh
pleasure. my deah boy. than this plan
OF having youh father in command at
Gordonla." he beamed. shaking Toms
hand effusively. II hope you'll have us
all made millionaihs when we get back
home again; / do, for a fact. suh.''
Tom smiled and shook his head.
1T looks pretty black, just now, Ma
jor. I'm afraid we're in for rough
weather"
The leave takings were brief. and
somewhat constrained, save those of
the genial Major. Tom pleaded bust
ness. further business, with his attor-
ney, when the Major would have had
him wait to tell the ladies good by;
hence he saw no more OF the tourists
after the conference broke up.
Not to lose time, Tom took a noon
train back to Boston, first wiring his
father to try and Ike things in order
at Gordonia for another week at all
hazards. Winning back to the techni-
cal school, he plunged once more into
the examination whirlpool, doing his
best to forget Chiawassee Consolidat-
ed and it's mortal sickness for the time
being, and succeeding so well that he
passed with ,colors flying.
But the school task done, he turned
down the old leaf, FASTING II firmly in
place. Telegraphing his father to meet
him, on the morning OF the third day
followino, at the station in South Ire
degar he allowed himself a few hours
for a run up the North Shore and a
conference with the Michigan iron
king; after which he turned his face
southwark and was soon speeding 70
the battlefield through a land by this
time Shaking to its industriar founda-
tons in the throes of the panic earth
quake.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Air and Mental Activity.

1t Is a matter of common observa-
lion how a turn in fresh air often has
the effect of stimulating the activity
Of the mind as we'll as of the body.
Yet, ellen III. Richards at the recent
meeting of the American Chemical as
ISOLATION, said there are few parts of
the borderland of science less known
than that which pertains to the air
we breathe. The proper ventilation of
rooms preserves still unsolved prob
lem, not theoretically, but practically.
What is fresh air" for one is a
draft" for another, and the problem
Is to reconcile both. Heat and hui
midity are the most dangerous prod
ucts of still life, and the mixing in
of fresh air is prime necessity. For
this purpose of a window opened an
inch at the top is more effective than
one raised foot at the bottom
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
In the Desert.

Here is glimpse of the horrors of
western desert taken from the Gold
fild New News: Another desert
victim is reported, and Archie Camp
bell, manager of the Last Chance
mining property, near Death valley,
came to Goldfield yesterday to en-
deavor to establish the identity of the
unfortunate.
"Mr. Campbell encountered the I'M
known man on the desert in a fright
full condition. He was in the last
stages of desert exhaustion, devoid
of clothing, sunburned. blistered and
crazed, with his tongue swollen enor-
mously, a pitiable object, and unable
to speak
He was tenderly conveyed to camp
but kind aid came too late, for an
hour after he had absorbed the first
cup of water he expired"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Device for SteriIlzinq Water.

Ar apparatus for sterilizing water
has recently been put on the market
In France, in which ozone is used to
destroy the bacteria. The ozone is
generated by means of electrical dis
charges. and the gas is introduced into
the water by means of an aspirator
The ozone is led into mixing tube
screwed 10 the water faucet, and the
water is forced by a small pump
through several compartments. so that
IL is divided into a number of fine
Jets. In this way an intimate mixture
of the gas and water is obtained. The
device is so arranged that the ozone
Is generated only when the faucet is
opened.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Keeping Il Dry.

An old woman Of a wealthy New
Jersey family was going visiting. The
coachman, who had not been in this
country long, had just been equipped
nth a new uniform and new silk
hat Before they had gone far it be
gan to sprinkle, and the old woman
told the coachman to fasten down the
side curtains of the wagonette.
He drove w to a hitching post be-
side the road and. dismounting, hung
his new hat on the post, and began to
fasten the curtains.
The old woman noticed his bare head
and asked him where his hat was.
"Oi took it of me head, mum, SO as
ii wouldn't get Wet" the coachman re-
piled.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Another Tradition Exploded.

Two Englishmen were resting at the
Red Horse Inn" at Stratford- on-Avon-
One Of them discovered a print pic
turing a low tumbling building under
meath which was printed: "The House
In Which Shakespeare Was Born"
Turning to his friend in mild surprise
he pointed to the print His friend ex.
hibited equal surprise. and called q
waiter, who assured them of the &C
curacy of the inscription.
Pom my word" said the observ-
ing Englishman. shaking his head du-
biously. II thought he was born In q
geri"--Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

Improved Beef-Juice Press.

operating the piunger for each piece
of beef, the device is arranged to take
a number of layers of beef, which are
separated by disks of corrugated and
perforated metal, as shown in the
cross sectional view. says Scientific
American. The press is provided with
a spout at one side, through which the
juice is drained out into a cup or
bowl. After the plunger has been
forced down the press may be hung
up on nail, allowing the beef juice
to drain out thoroughly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
A Cynical Statesman.

The saying that "all men have their
price" is ascribed to Sir Robert Wal
pole. While speaking of a faction In
parliament which bitterly opposed
some of his measures he said, You
see with what zeal and vehemence
these gentlemen oppose me, and yet
know the price of every man in this
house except three"
OF some who called themselves pa
triots he said: Patriots, / could
raise fifty of them within four and
twenty hours. l have raised many In
one night, IT'S but to refuse an I'M
reasonable demand and up springs
patriot"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
PNEUMATIC HEEL FOR SHOES
Expression "Wali<ing on Air" Hither-
to Used MetaphoricaIly, Now
Has Real Meaning.

The expression walking on air,
hitherto used metaphorically, has now
a real meaning A New York man
has invented a pneumatic heel for
shoes by means of which the wearer
of the shoes will actually walk on air.
The leather heel of the shoe has a
circular opening into which fits con-
ical metal body open at the bottom,
thus leaving an air space around the
apex of the cone. Across the bottom
of the cone is an elastic rubber heel
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
And They Wondered!

Judge Nicholas Longworth, who used
to sit on Ohio's supreme bench, looked
unnaturally grave, and a neighbor. in
recognition of his facial depression.
named pet owl Judge Longworth-"
1t was the very next day that an ex-
cited maid broke up his wife's garden
party. "Oh. madam" said she. Ma
DAM Judge Longworth mas laid an
egg"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Odd SuDerstitionS

There Is a popular tradition that
lightning viii not kill anyone who is
asleep. According to one school, the
spllnters OF tree struck by lightning
are an infallible specific for the tooth
ache. An amusing superstition used
to be cherished by the boys of a York
shire village, who believed that If
they mentioned the lightning imme-
diaeely after a flash the seat of their
trousers would be torn out. No boy
I'D be induced to make the crperi-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

Doctor" called little Bingle, over
his telephone, my wife has lost her
voice What the dickens shall / do?'
why" said the doctor. gravely, IF
were you I'd remember the fact when
Thanksgiving day comes around. and
act accordingly"
Whereupon the doctor chuckled as
he charged little Bingle 81 for prcfes-
sional services.-Harper's Weekly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Making Tasks Easy.

There are lots of magazines printed
for the purpose of telling women how
to make their work lighter. But you
can't reduce labor by reading about it.
All the philosophy and theory in the
world won't help you out on wash day
unless you use Easy Task soap. which
lives up to its name and makes wash
ing an easy task by doing half the
work. Get it at your grocer's.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
IMPROVED BEEF-JUICE PRESS
French inventor Arranges Device for
Securing One of Best Foods
for lnvalids.

One of the best foods for invalids
into fragments and pressed out by
means of small hand press. An in
ventor in France has recently devised
a very simple press for this purpose,
which allows of expressing the juice
of a large amount of beef at a time
The press is similar to the ordinary
type, being formed of suitable recep-
tacle with a plunger, which is forced
down by a hand screw. Instead of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
BIest Be NOTHING.

Wife-The doctor writes that in
view of our poor circumstances he
will not present his bill Immediately.
Artist-We are lucky that our cir
cumstances are no better; If they
were, we might have to pay at oncei
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Initiate Automobile Tires.

To initiate automobile tires with a
minimum OF effort there has been
brought out tank to be carried on
car to receive portion of the ex-
ploded gases from the engine. which
thus are compressed and may be
turned into the tire through a flexible
tuoe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Less Lavish.

81 saw Uncle Toms Cabin played
recently"
"So?"
Il think I'll read the book"
you may be disappointed. The
book mentions only one little Eva and
one Lawyer Marks. louisville Cour-
ier-Journal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
The Summer Girl.

How'd you like to be engaged to a
millionaire"
Il was engaged to one all last sum-
mer, and he seldom spent a dime. 1
want to be engaged to young man
who is down here for two weeks with
about $500 in his roll"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Opinions Aired.

Were the commencement exercises
interesting
Very. The time was divided be-
tween advice from public men on the
selection of a career and suggestions
from graduates on how to run the
government"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Didn't Follow Directions.

Putin seems rather sore on you.
Old man."
Yes; he annoyed me yesterday, and
| told him to go and take a back seat"
And he took affront, eh?"-Boston
Transcript.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

to-daya well woman Mrs. WILLIAM
AHRENs, 9SS w. 21st ST., Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
Of female diseases Of any similar medi-
rine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, Inflammation, Ill
ceration, displacements, fibroid tuners,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
Indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a trial.
If You would like special advice
about your case write a confiden-
6al letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
You Know Them.

els that new hobby he is riding?"
mo; same old frayed boss. It's
the new bit and bride that attract at
tention."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
LOW ONE WAY COLONIST RATES
WEST VIA NICKEL PLATE ROAD

August 25 to Sept and Sept. Is to
Oct. 10. Full information of Agent or
write F. p. Parnin, I. p. A, Ft. Wayne,
Ind. 36
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

The Creditor-Will you pay this bin
now, or never?
The Debtor-Mighty nice OF you to
give me my choice, old scout
choose never.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Included Her

why did she get angry at the
stranger in town."
"She asked him If he had seen her
daughter and he answered that he
had seen all the sights of the place"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

China's capital, Picking, has supplant
ed its insanitary wells with a thor
oughly modern waterworks system, in
Guiding a filtration plant.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
DR.. MARTEL's FEMALE PILLS
Seventeen Years the Standard

Seventeen Years the Standard.
Prescribed and recommended for
Women's Ailments. A scientifically pre-
pared remedy of proven worth. The
result from their use is quick and per-
manent. For sale at all Drug Stores.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
At the Shore.

Polly wonder how Cholly man
ages to keep that wide-brimmed straw
on in a wind like this.
Dolly-Vacuum pressure-Judge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
WaInuts From France.

From the Bordeaux district OF France
10 SOC. 900 pounds of walnuts were ex-
ported during the fall season OF 1909,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

A business mans leisure is simply
the time he doesn't know what to do
with
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

Trees In New Brunswick.
New Brunswick has about 100000
acres Of fir, spruce and pine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
Pneumatic Heel.

piece, thus leaving an air space inside
the cone. These two pneumatic cham
bers act as cushions and give a resil-
iency to the step.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

A woman tells her troubles to a doc
tor: man tells his to a lawyer
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

A rapid growth of the finger nails ID
onsidered to indicate good health,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething. sofens the gums. reducestn
dammation, allays pain. cures wind collie. Csc bottle
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-08-18
GOOD HoUsEKrEPERs.

Use the best. That's why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers cents.