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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

they do not of themselves or in their
carriages increase the weight in the
ratio that the projectile is increased.
The powder charge for these guns will
be from 500 to $40 pounds. The muz-
zle velocity in foot seconds will be
1900. With a trajectory sufficiently
high their range might be, as is often
claimed, % miles. For good, every
day fighting. however. they will do
some good hitting at eight or ten
miles.
Dc you want to have some idea of
the terrible fighting efficiency of these
new Dreadnoughts-the most powerful
that the world has yet seen? Well,
for a comparison, take the Connect
cut. which only few years back-say
ten--was our greatest ship. She has
four 12-inch guns and can throw in
five minutes 40 shells weighing $40
pounds. That is $4,000 pounds, or over
16 tons of death and destruction. AS
suming that the service OF the 14-inch
gun will be somewhat slower than that
of the Pinch, 1t is doubtless safe to
say that the ten 14-inch guns on either
the Nevada or the Oklahoma will de-
liver 50 shells in five minutes, or H.
600 pounds of projectiles. with their
deadly load Of high explosive. any
pound of which detonated in the psy-
Geological place on the enemy's ship
would sink 1t. You can rake the sta
tistics of the navies of the world and
you will nowhere find anything APP
preaching the force of this fire. 1t is
nearly twice that of the Rst Dread
nought in the British navy to-day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

fired. The cats and dogs sustained no
injury from the conclusion, although
the former were somewhat shaken by
the contact with the latter once or
twice. Then a few midshipmen were
put in the turret and again he big
guns were fred, and again with no bad
results. Then, to make a final and
permanent test of the matter. three
tough old rear admirals were put in
and fired over. and when they came
out all right the principle was held
to be established that heavy guns
could be fired in an engagement over a
neighboring turret without any dis
tress to the inmates. That test has
been of incalcuiable value to our navy,
and as a consequence the two new
ships will be so arranged that they
can fire four of their huge guns ahead
or astern.
The 14-inch rifle weighs 63.5 tons. or
1870 pounds. With turret and
mount each turret of the new ships,
including the two guns, will weigh
about 600 tons. About as much more
is to be credited in weight to the ar
morplate. 1t is calculated that the
26,000-ton ship will carry ten 14-inch
guns without difficulty. Remember
that in the matter of ammunition the
increase of weight Is as the cube of
the calibre. Where the 12-inch gun
throws projectile weighing 500
pounds. these monster guns will hurl
shell weighing 1.400 pounds. This
calls for storage capacity and weight
carrying ability in the new ships. But
tho 14-inch guns are made SO that
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

One of Lord Kelvin's fayorite expert.
ments while teaching natural philoso-
ply at the University of Glasgow was
to spin an egg which was suspended
in the air. If the egg were hard boiled
it would spin a long time; otherwise,
owing to the friction between its con-
tents and the shell. its motion would
soon cease. Lord Kelvin inferred from
this that the interior of the earth can
not be a fluid, or the globes rate of
rotation would have been checked long
ago. Once the students substituted
raw eggs for the hard-boiled ones pro-
vided for the experiment. Not one
would spin properly, but Lord Kelvin
was not to be fooled. None of them
boiled" was his only comment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
THE KNOX PEACE PLAN.

Philander Knox, deposer Of desDots
and opener of commercial doors, has
a plan by which the war dram shall
become the plaything of the child and
the palm of everlasting peace shall
sway gently over the habitats of all
men
The scheme calls for a permanent
court of arbitrament. A dispute be-
tween nations shall be taken before
this tribunal and according as 1t is
adjudicated the nations in controversy
shall abide. a new system of interna-
tional law will thus be built UP grad
ually, but it will differ from the pres
ent so-called international law since
it will have the power to compel ODE
dience. No hint is given of a method
of disarmament. but, of course, if the
court proves to be the right thing the
powers will proceed to lay up their
navies and the armies will be dis
banded.
There is a fine quality about all
peace schemes, for il is pleasant to
dream of a state of being where men
are brothers. national prejudice is I'M
known and hate is TO be found only
by study of the histories They are
to be welcomed, for presently that
common sense of most" of which
Tennyson wrote might thus be made
real. Yet we cannot ignore the true
situation unless. mayhap, we are of
those TO whom ideas are more than
facts. There is a great, empire which
is working with unresting energy to
obtain a navy which shall be greater
than al others. That empire is not
only pursued by a relentless ambition.
but the pressure of circumstances de
mands further territory, room, expan-
sion. The pace is set there and every
nation of consequence must spend
money. must build and build and put
aside thoughts of universal and per-
petual peace, because it must obey,
above all laws. the law of self-preser-
vation.-Tole&o Blade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
KING OF KINGS COOKS.
How British Sovereign's Meals Are
Prepared by $4,000 Chef.

How British Sovereign's Meals Are
Prepared by $4,000 Chef.
Mr.. Menager. the head cook at Buck
ingham palace. occupies an important
post in the royal household. His sal
airy is $4,000 per annum and he is
recognized as being one of the greatest
culinary artists in the world. The
royal kitchen and the whole kitchen
staff are under his complete control.
Opening of the main kitchen at one
side of it are half a dozen smaller
kitchens, and on the other side there
are four Offices, where the clerical
work in connection with the kitchen
department are attended to- One Of
| these Offices is Mr.. Managers private
room.
Mr. Menager does not live in Buck
| ingham palace, but has his private
residence close to 1t. On arriving at
| the palace-usually about IL o'clock in
| the morning-his first care is TO in
spect the lunch menu for that day
| which has been prepared by his first
| assistant, and also the menu for break
| fast the following morning. He then
prepares the dinner menu for the fol-
| lowing day-a task that occupies him
| usually couple of hours.
No. two dinners at the royal table
are ever the same Certain dishes are
from time to time repeated. frequently
by special request of the king. but
| what may be termed the general
| scheme of each dinner is always diff
ferent One of the side kitchens is
reserved solely for Mr. Managers use.
where he carries out experimental GU
/ linary operations and Is constantly
celebrating and working out new ideas.
Some dishes have taken him months
of preparation before he has decided
| to put them into the menu. There Is
one particular sauce which Mr.. Men
! ager invented some years ago to which
the king has particular liking. Mr..
Menager was making experiments for
over three years before he served this
sauce TO the royal table.
! There are many dishes. by the way,
! which can be tasted nowhere except at
the royal table The secret of their
preparation is known only to Mr.. Men
sger. and he guards such secrets with
great care. None of his assistants has
4 the least notion of how these special
dishes and sauces are prepared They
simply have the handling of the raw
materials and each assistant carries
out different directions in its prepare
ton for the table
The dinner menu is submitted every
day TO their majesties for approval /:
but this is a mere matter of form. for
neither the king nor queen ever thinks
of altering or interfering with Mr.
Managers arrangements
At 9 o'clock a report is laid before
the great chef by the order cook OF
the various meats that have been or
{. dered in accordance with Mr.. Men
ayers instructions of the day before
and also what Is called kitchen re
port is given to him by the head as
! sistant cook-which is a detailed state
ment of the manner in which the din
ner for that night TO be prepared
After seeing that everything is IN or
! der for their evenings work, Mr.. Men
! ager generally leaves the palace abou
4 o'clock. returning at $50. when b,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
THE FIRST CLOCKS.
One at Padua That Was q Wonder

of Mechanism.
1t was, we are told, in 1909 that the
first clock known to the world was
placed in the tower of San Eustargio
in Milan.
The greatest establishment and adj
miration were manifested by crowds
who focked to see the timepiece. In
1914 clock was installed in the pal
ace Of the mobiles at Padua This was
a wonder of mechanism indeed, for be
sides indicating the hours il showed
the course of the sun, the revolutions
of the planets the various phases of
the moon, the months and the fetes
of the year.
The period Of the evolution from the
clock to the watch was seventy-one
years-not so very long. all things con
,sidered-and the record of the first
watch Is 1880 A half century later
an alarm clock made its appearance.
This, We are told. was looked upon
by the people of that age as "un in
strument prodigieux"
The fortunate possessor OF this clock
was Andrea Alciato. a councillor OF
Milan The chroniclers have placed
on record that this clock sounded a
bell at a stated hour. and at the same
time a little wax candle was lighted
automatically. How this was done we
are not told. but il must not be over
looked that until about seventy years
ago We had no means of obtaining g
light other than the finder box, so
that the Milanese must have been cen.
turtles ahead of us in this respect.
Not much progress was made with
the watch until 1740, when the second
hand was added.-LDndon Globe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
Why This DeIay3

We are unable to understand the at
titude of Congress with reference to
the much discussed and long delayed
proposal to raise the wreck of the bat
tleship Maine which for twelve long
years has reposed beneath the waters
Of Havana harbor. Several months ago
it was believed that affirmative action
was about to be witnessed. Now Con-
gress has reduced the appropriation 10
100000, which the experts are con-
vinced will be inadequate for the pu:-
pose.
Congress should appropriate $780,
900 If necessary to accomplish this
work We do not believe that single
protesting voice would be heard
throughout the length and breadth Of
the nation. There are bodies undoubt-
eddy still clinging to that historic and
long water-soaked hulk which are en-
titled to honorable burial al the hands
of the federal government. There are
secrets in connection with the cause of
the blowing up of that battleship
which might be revealed and have an
important bearing upon the tragic hap
penings of that unhappy May morning
in 1898, and the stirring events which
Immediately followed.
Congressional action-action which
means something materialize
without further delay.-Des Moines
Capital
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

With the policy of building two
ships year we have adhered to the
plan of building them by divisions
The North Dakota, Delaware, Utah
and Florida will constitute one feet
division, and they are one in type
The Arkansas and Wyoming, and the
two ships authorized by this Congress
will complete another division, and
will be essentially of the same general
type. In the interval however, since
the North Dakota and Delaware were
planned new factor OF improvement
has been furnished by the Bureau of
Ordnance in the demonstration that
We can maze 14-inch gun that will
lead the world for power and penetra-
ton. This was the idea of Rear AID.
miral Mason, and on his authority
Congress year ago appropriated
100000 to make a 14-ipch rifle and
test it. This was done in the course
or a few months, and the gun proved
to be successful beyond all that had
been expected of 1t. 1t necessarily
follows that the next ships to be built
must carry 14-inch guns.
The new ships, the Nevada and Ok
iahoma, will be 554 feet long and 90
feet beam. Their draft will be 2S.5
feet. Their displacement will be at
least $4,000 tons. and probably 1000.
The speed will be 81 knots. the coal
load 5000 tons, and they will carry a
complement of IS officers and 1,5OO
men. The armor will be 11-inch on
the belt and on the barbettes and g.
inch on the sides. There will be, in
addition to the ten 14-inch guns. sew
enteen 5-inch guns AS a floating
fortress the ship will thus have two
guns for every sector and with over
tapping ranges. A 5-inch gun has been
placed at the stern to protect from
torpedo attack. A similar provision
would be made at the stem but for the
difficulty of putting a shutter there
that will keep out water In heavy
seas.
There will be no superstructure for
turrets- The middle turret aft and the
rear turret forward are raised above
their neighbors so that their guns
may fire over them This is an Ameri-
can idea. Foreign navies are just be.
ginning to adopt it. Years ago the
superimposed turret was believed to
be good thing, but it was doubted IL
heavy guns could be used in the super
imposed turret. And there was douht
If they couId be used in turrets raised
above other turrets, although not SUI
perimposed over them To determine
the matter once for all in the presence
of much debate about 1t, practical
trial of the matter was made
1t was claimed that the conclusion
from the Pinch guns would kill any
living being within the lower turret.
At first cats and dogs were placed in a
turret on the old monitor Florida, now
the Tallahassee, and the big guns were
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
That Hearst Endorsement.

William r. Hearst's so-called in
dorsement of President Taft does not
wash. When examined in the laundry
it is found to be composed of two
thirds hits at Roosevelt and cna-third
jabs at the Republican party. 1t does
not indorse the President any farther
than to say that Mr.. Hearst prefers
him to his predecessor, and that the
Republican party will not follow him
in his path of progressive legislation.
There is nothing in the Endorsement
that will preclude Mr.. Hearst and his
bunch of publications from drubbing
the administration. Their editor
would very likely put it on the ground
that, while Mr.. Taft was all right, his
party was all wrong, and must be dis
possessed Mr.. Hearst would be verv
sorry that Mr.. Taft did not have s
party as good as his own, but, never.
theless, he would have to consider
that the party took precedence of the
individual Hence he would strive to
shunt the President to one side, and
castigate the component parts of the
Republican organization. The Presi-
dent can do very we'll without that
kind of Endorsement
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
A Neat Parry.

The subject was not before his
honor for the first time when the fol
lowing dialogue occurred:
What brought you here?' asked
the court
Two policemen, Your Honor said
Pat.
Drunk, | suppose" remarked the
court. fixing his frown on the figure
before him.
"Yis both av Thin said Pat.
me humor of the situation worked
another chance for Pat. as the court
thought the defence emanated from
something better than drunk.-Na-
tional Monthly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

never fails to make personal inspec-
tion Of the various ranges, ovens and
stoves and takes careful note of the
temperature in each.
The preparation Of the royal dinner
is then begun. Mr.. Menager remains
in the kitchen while the work Is 60
ing forward. keeping a keen eye on
everything and everyone, and issuing
from time to time instructions to his
first lieutenant Cat $50 exactly a bell
is rung and the servants who are to
bear the dishes TO the state dining
room enter the kitchen.
At 3 o'clock dinner is served, and
Mr.. Managers work for the day is
over. He remains in his private room
until 10 o'clock, when he receives a
message from the king commencing
the dinner. This is a ceremony his
majesty never forgets to perform
London Answers
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
Stage Supersfffions.

An umbrella opened on the stage Is
supposed to bring bad luck, and many
actors would hesitate about wearing
new shoes on the first night Of play.
Tee evil effects of new shoes are said.
however, TO be averted by wearing
them on the wrong feet. In fact, any
player who makes this mistake in the
hurry of dressing regards it as a good
omen not to be disturbed Whistling
on the stage during rehearsals is be
lieved to insure frost on the night OF
production, and in operate circles a
Fellow clarinet in the orchestra 10
held to bring about the same dire re-
suit
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
Unusua..

Corporal Of the Guard-Sentry. port
arms. Give up your orders,
Sentry proceeds to give over his
orders until he comes to the hack
neyed in case of fire or any unusual
occurrence Immediately alarm the
guard"
Officer Of the Day Ito sertry)-
What would you call an unusual oc-
currence, my man?
Sentry-Well, sir. IL I r1ere to walk
to the far END of my post and turned
round and found the sentry box mark
ing time / should call that an unusual
occurrence.-l-ondon Answers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING.
Way to Defeat Present System of
High Prices, Prof. GoOdnow Says.

Way tn Defeat Present System OF
High Prices, Prof. Goodnow Says
There Is very little Improvement Ia
sight toward lowering the high prices.
declares Prof. Frank j. Goodnow OF
Columbia University in the Delinea-
tor. When eastern farms were Guilt
waited at profit prices of agricultural
commodities were much higher Cal
| lowances being made for the then pur-
chasing power of a dollar) than now.
And prices will have to go consider
ably higher than now before those
farms can again be profitably cult
waited.
II would appear that In the mean
time the people will be Obliged to ad-
just themselves to the changed condi-
tons. This will probably involve a
lowering OF the standard of living, the
increase Of the rural as compared with
the urban population. the developm emit
of eastern agricultural lands and Of
local markets everywhere throughout
the country and the abandonment of
our present expensive system of dis
tributiOn.
1t will inevitably be accompanied by
considerable distress, particularly in
the cities. The suffering due to this
process of adjustment may undoubt-
eddy be somewhat alleviated by erer-
getic action on the part of the govern
ment with reference to the violation
of laws prohibiting monopoly and re-
straint Of trade. and by the removal
at once of all duties on food products.
But. until the adjustment has been
made. prices will probably continue to
increase, and. after 1t has been made.
will remain higher than they used to
be- For it is hardly conceivable that
agricultural commodities can perma-
nently be sold at the prices to which
the present generation has been ac-
customed unless some almost revolu-
tionary changes in agricultural meth
DDS are made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
From Our own Dictionary

Sigh-"An air of sadness"
Gent-"Vulgar fraction of a gentle
man."
Vanity-"Other peoples love of dis
play"
Kleptomaniac-"One subject to fits
OF abstraction"
Confirmation of our own
decisions"
Ignorance--"Conditi of mind OF
persons who don't know the things we
know"
Philanthropist-"On who is willing
to share the discomforts of his wealth
with others. Boston Evening Tran
script.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
wEAvERS OF NEW YORK.
a ncient AubussOn Looms MaLins
Tapestry In Manhattan Island.

Ancient AubussOn Looms Making
Tapestry In Manhattan Island.
The looms we visited are new in the
city of Gotham They are tapestry
looms Of a pattern unchanged after
centuries of use And the art of the
weaver of these fabrics, We are told.
is far too ancient for record.
The art we beheld is almost abso-
lutely unaltered. The looms are in
stalled In a studio place that was once
palatial stable, says Philip Verrill
Mlghels in Harper's. They are copies
of what are known to the craft as
the Aubusson looms of France. The
men engaged in making tapestries
upon this old device are foreign crafts
men, trained to their guild and won
drously skilled in the art.
1t provided a singular sensation to
leave the busy. noisy thoroughfare of
modernity and ascend to that conclave
of looms so allied to the past. There
were two great apartments devoted to
this enginery of beauty. Enginery
seems the only adequate word. The
huge wooden frameworks. beam-like
| levers, twining ropes and tightening
devices, the whole resembling those
monstrous stone-heaving catapults
inseparable from ancient war
Unlike the tapestry looms at the
Gobelin workshops in Paris, these are
made to stretch the warp horizontally,
about waist high TO man. At the
rear of each loom, on a slanted bench.
sit the weavers who work the design.
Beneath the warp, and readily visible
through Its many tight-stretched
strands, the pattern lies close under
hand. Ii Is drawn on a monster sheet
of paper and colored with painstaking
skill. Above 1t bend the weavers of
the cloth, each softly supported with
pillows. One pillow TO sit on and one
on which TO lean, each workman adj
iusts to his needs His colors (the
woofs) are wound on spoolS. and re-
semble heap of large-sized. brightly
colored and differently hued caterpil-
lars, ready to spin out their substance.
There are frequently as many as TWEEN
ty or thirty of these shuttles beneath
one workman's hands.
1t is wonderful and utterly bewil-
dering to see these craftsmen weave.
Their hands out-machine a machine as
they grasp az the warp, to lift two,
four, FIVE Or any number of strands.
shoot bobbin in and out, and make
singular tie, to drop that particular
caterpillar, clutch up another. tie in
/ It's thread, and pounce upon a third
or fourth, and return, perhaps, TO num-
Der one. They keep those red. green
gold and purple caterpillars in a con-
slant state OF agitation. They grasp
at the warp and play in a strand and
hnger new strings, as If the cords
were the wires of some silent harp on
which they play a ceaseless compost
ton that expresses itself in color. Yet
fast as their fingers seem to play upon
this soundless instrument, it is slow,
hard toll with eyes and hands to stitch
in those units of the scheme.
In 1909 Great Britain imported 49,.
4o6,9OO pounds of rubber and exp orted
l4A,56f 600 pounds, a large increase over
1908 in both.