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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
MODERN IDEAS IN TURKEY
Medical Practitioners Are No Longer
Vigorously Excluded from
the Harem.

The attitude of the hanoums to med
cal practi TONERS has changed muck
Of recent years. Twenty or so years
ago no Turkish woman would ever
have submitted to a physical ex-
animation by a DOCTOR All he could
have persuaded her to do would be
to show him Ter tongue through
rent in the yashmak or let him
touch her pulse from behind a heavy
curtain and in presence, of course, of
an argus-eyed eunuch or old female
slave.
Any attempt to apply a stethoscope
10 the chest would have been spurned
as an impertinent presumption of
western "barbarism" No matter
how severe the illness the medical
man could not go beyond certain strict
limits of Islamatic usage and tradi-
tional custom. Even in cases of i'm
hlnent danger to life these scanty
units were never allowed to be over
stepped, and the belief in the incanta-
tons of a priest and the house RENE
lies or old, ignorant and superstitious
women held unlimited sway and was
Always greater than the faith in the
smcacy of medical skill and science.
inns is now changing. and changing
rapidly There are of course still many
exceptions where antiquated views and
conceptions are fanatically adhered to
md practised, but these become rarer
and rarer with each advancia- year.
Many turkish women will now when
iil voluntarily call on a medical prac-
titioner AID never hesitate to submit
themselves to thorough physical ex-
animation.
The general public option on
these matters among the Turks is fast
altering for the better and only in very
rare cases is there nov any difficulty
at all raised as to letting the hanoum
submit to an examination with stetho-
scope or other instrument.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
GOV. HARMON RENOMlNATED
Fan to Pledge Candidate for Senate
Defeated in Ohio Democratic
Convention.

Dayton, O.-The following resolu-
ton, indorsing Gov. Judson Harmon
for the presidency in 1912, was adopt
ed by the Ohio Democratic conven-
ton after the denomination of Mr..
Harmon for governor by reclamation:
I'VE invite the attention of the ma
ton to Judson Harmon and the work
he is doing for Ohio. Two years hence
1t will have been completed, then we
can spare him for larger duties. He
believes that guilt is personals act
ing on that belief at home and would
act upon it in larger fields. A high
sense of duty provides his only mo-
tives for official actions and his sense
of justice alone compels judgment.
Firmness and strength mark him the
man to supplant vacillation and weak
ness. The nation needs q real man.
and the Ohio Democracy here presents
and indorses for the presidency IN
1912 Judson Harmon"
Atlee Pomerene of Canton was nom
mated for lieutenant governor on the
second ballot and the vote was made
unanimous without finishing the roll
call.
The proposition to ipdorse a cand1-
date for United States senator was de.
feated by vote of sac to 254.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30

Practical jokes often are In very
bad taste and not at all as funny as
their perpetrators seem to think. Some
times such jokes invite legal punish
ment. Down in Panama a party Of
would-be humorists circulated the
story that seismologists had predicted
that the country would be visited in
the night by a great shock and that
Colon would be wiped out of existence
by tidal wave. Coming on the heels
OF tn Costa Rican cataclysm, this
prophecy threw the ignorant and SUI
perstitious into terror, and there was
something OF a panic. OF course the
commissions did not occur. But the
Panama authorities took the matter In
hand and the jokers are now in Jail
awaiting the result of proceedings thlt
will be brought against them. And IL
these humorists get round sentence
the general verdict will be that it
served them right
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
POSTAL BANK Bill PASSED
TAFT'S "BlG STICK" POLICY
BRINGS SENATE TO TERMS.
Disposal Of the Deposits Was the Main
Issue on Which Senators
Clashed.

shington.-Lacking only the sig
nature of President Taft to become a
law, the final step toward postal sa-
wings was taken Wednesday when the
senate concurred IN the house postal
savings bank after voting down a
number of amendments.
President Taft's action in assuming
a "big.stick" policy is regarded as
having made the vote certainty
Tbs vote was fl to %. The bill now
goes to President Taft without a con-
ference.
On the main issue of the legislation
relating to the disposal of deposits in
postal banks the house bill concurred
ii by the senate provides that 65 per
cent may be redeposited in the local
banks and 80 per cent may be used
for the purchase of bonds backed by
the taxing power of the national gov
eminent. There is nothing arbitrary
about either of these provisions. how
ever. Five per cent. OF the deposits
Will be retained as a reserve fund
AS security for deposits in local
banks, bonds backed by national, state
and municipal government and other
securities approved by the trustees
may De used.
The house bill creates a board OF
trustees consisting of the postmaster
general, the secretary of the treasury
ana the attorney general, who are
vested with discrimination in the adj
ministration of the system, including
the designation of post offices as
postal-savings banks.
Deposits in these banks by one per.
son shall not extend more than 500
a month, or a total of $500, on which
interest shall be paid at the rate of
TWO per cent year. An account may
De opened with one dollar, but stamps
may be purchased in the denomina-
ton of ten cents for those desiring to
accumulate money to be deposited.
At the request Of the depositor gov
eminent bonds in amount of $40, $40,
500, $50. $500 and $500 may be pur.
chased with his deposit. the bonds to
bear interest at 21a per cent. These
bonds will cover a refunding of the
s64.O00,000 of three per cent. govern
ment bonds outstanding and a new is
sue of Panama canal bonds. The
banks will be required to pay pa per
cen. interest on postal-bank funds de-
posted with them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
In the Chorus.

What's it like to be In the chorus?
Perfectly fascinating," thinks the
shopgirl as she measures of another
yald OF percale and pictures herself in
pink tighte.
Awful" remarks the prima donna
with lock Of disgust that forbids all
reference to her own days among the
spear carriers
"Remunerative," suggests the cynic.
recalling the inexhaustible supply of
Pittsburg millionaires ready to thrust
riches upon the airy little fairies of
the ballet
Dangerous" urges the moralis
with his mind on stage entrances and
champagne suppeTs.
Impossible" snaps the woman in
society.
"A foothold on the ladder to fame"
declares the manager, wisely.
Great" says the chorus girl. That
is translating freely into her own Ian
guage.
It's great if she happens to be in
right with an easy berth in. a good
company. But if she's dashed to a
bum outfit where she has to hustle
to corral three squares a day, it's rot
ten.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30

election, when was astounded by
the Information that l had been elect
ed. l received 50 votes. You must
consider this a good showing, as
did absolutely no electioneering. Mr.
Williams quietly spread the word
around among his acquaintances and
admonished them to say nothing
about it. My name was written Cd
the ballot and even the election
judges did not know what was up, I'M
til they commenced to count after
the polls had closed.
IL was at home all day, while the
election was in progress, little dream
ing that was being elected justice of
the peace. If ever an Office came I'M
sought, this one did. / have since
been busy thanking my friends for
their remembrance. Perhaps if l had
conducted campaign, would have
polled more votes, but 1 am satisfied
and will try to be just Judge for
allNthe people
1T will appear little odd, at first,
to give up household duties and off,
ciate at trials. / may even be called
upon to marry people. will have to
brush up on the marrying code.
ought to do rushing business, as
brides will not object to me kissing
them, as in the case of some of the
masculine justices that l know Of"
Justice Phares is widow, her hus-
band, the late Frank Phares, having
been a well-known and prominent cit
izen of Clinton. Mrs. Phares is un-
usually well educated, is highly in
tellectual and well read and her
friends believe that she will be a
fearless justice
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
1900 IN SHIP FIRE PERIL
Four Dead, Number Seriously Injured
and 400 Slightly Hurt-ResuIt of
Burning of Excursion Steamer.

La Crosse, Wis.-Four persons are
dead, number seriously injured and
about 400 slightly burned in attempt
ing TO escape from the burning hulk OF
the excursion steamer j. s., with 1,500
passengers aboard, which caught fire
Saturday. night in the Mississippi river
10 miles south of here.
The story of the rescue as told is
that the steamer, when it finally
reached Bad AK island, where the pas
sengers were able TO escape ashore,
was burning so fiercely that only 200
of the 1900 aboard were able to 90
ashore on the gangplank. The other
1000 or 1900 passengers were forced
to leap over the-rail into water four or
five feet deep and wade ashore, suf-
fering terribly until they were able to
reach the main land.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
GEN. FUNSTON NEAR DEATH
army Officer Dangerously III of Heart
Disease at His Home In
Kansas.

Leavenworth, Kan.-Gen- Frederick
Funston, commandant of the army
service schools here, is dangerously i'll
with an attack of heart disease at his
home here.
General Funston's condition. is such
that the post army physicians and
the best-trained nurses in the hos
pital are in constant attendance upon
him. Mrs. Funston, who is in Cali
fornia, was notified of the generals
condition Friday.
General Funston is suffering from
angina pectoris. It was learned that
he has been subject to slight heart
trouble for some time, and 1t is be-
lieved that the heat of the last week
brought on the present severe attack.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Spirit-pickied.

Spirits have come into communica-
ton. in strange ways on this mundane
sphere, according to the earnest del
vers into the psychic lore. but Mrs.
Jones, who lives in a western state.
had the strangest revelation OF all. She
was sitting at her work table one day
when her arm felt the irresistible inn
pulse to write. She took pencil and
paper and hurriedly transcribed mes
sage from the other world, which d.
rected the best manner in which
calves tongues should be cured.
picked and canEed. She obtained a
patent on the process and, with ghost.
ly inspiration at her elbow, she built
small factory and for several years
conducted the traffic in canned calves
tongue with distinction and profit.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Women Get Wireless rev.r

Women who are now employed as
operators in the wire" companies are
getting the wireless fever Many are
experimenting with home made ap-
paratus, while others besiege the
commercial wireless companies for
jobs.
The manager of one Chicago station
says he has had to refuse number or
women applicants in the last few
months. They come" he says. with
only smattering of the knowledge
necessary, and are indignant when re-
fused jobs as operators. Even the few
who have acquired sufficient skill I
will not employ because they are too
prone to be temperamental and under
the tension which the operators work
would acquire nerves too quickly.
There is perhaps only one woman
who is a wireless operator on a boat
She is on enc of the Pacific boats run
ming between San Francisco and Sc
attle."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
SinquIarIy Appropriate.

When John Barrett pulled off his
great stunt-the dedication of the
new building for the Bureau of A7eri-
can Republics-among other things
he had a tree planted by President
Taft in the patio, the space in the
center of the building forming a court.
Everybody wanted to see the presi-
dent plant the tree and there was a
stretching of necks and standing on
tiptoes to see the performance. You
may not know" remarked former Gov
ernor Magoon of Cuba to circle OF
friends, that they have very appro-
priately selected a rubber tree for
this ceremony" And those who heard
him stopped "rubbering."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Minister Joins In the LAUGH.

Among the passengers on the moving
stairway at the Thirty-third street
station of the Sixth avenue elevated
railroad one day recently was a man
whose attire indicated very plainly
that he was clergyman. A merry
twinkle in his eye and smile playing
about the corner of his mouth proved
that his serious occupation did not
prevent him from enjoying a laugh
when the occasion offered. The seven
or eight assorted citizens who were
taking the easiest way to the platform
were surprised when he said:
wouldn't it be grand thing If we
could all get to heaven as easy as
this?"
IF we could" answered a fat man,
you fellows would lose your jobs"
And the clergyman laughed as loud
ly as the rest.-New York World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
REGULATING THE USE OF ARMS

That is an interesting and a sugI
gestive proposal which has been made
at Albany-to legislate against the
common use and even ownership of
the ingenious device which has been
invented for silencing the noise of fire.
arms, says New York Tribune. That
device is said TO be so effective as to
make the discharge of a rifle or pis-
toll nearly noiseless, without decreas-
ing the lethal effectiveness of the
weapon. 1t is easily conceivable that
such an attachment to military fire.
arms would be of inestimable advan-
tage in warfare, a noiseless rifle using
smokeless powder giving practically no
Information as to the location of its
aser. But it is obvious that precisely
he same thing would make a gun or
Z pistol a far more dangerous tool for
IL use Of aSSaSsins. 1t may, indeed,
BE said that there is no legitimate use
;or .e silencing device, save in mill
AIRY dcings and in actual war. IL we
grant that citizens now and then need
% use firearms against burglars, high
xaymen and others ii should be OBJ
7ious that the most desirable and
most effective arm for such purposes
ais handicap and hurry. People are
gett' & happier, if they are not getting
.clier, and the former is a GOO omen
Of the latter They have plenty of
me to work at that that is worth
while, or even to play, and it is one of
he wholesome indications of healthy
life that people in this country play
As hard as they work But business
and pleasure have turned their backs
upon the knocker, setting their faces
TO brighter skies. So if you are at
outs with somebody settle the matter
with him; do not bother me with it.
That is the answer of the world to-
day, good one, too. Even in sports
this wholesome spirit prevails; in
Iced it dominates there perhaps more
than anywhere else. 1t takes the form
Of intolerance, it is so pronounced. 1t
is the spirit of manly age, big age
and fast, too big and fast to slow up
for the little fellow.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30

The war against the white plague
will never be effective while contagion
Is allowed to be freely and wantoniy
spread by expectoration in public
places, especially on the streets, where
all lungs are exposed to infection.
Not until measures are taken severe
enough to check, If not to abolish, the
habit, Objectionable both to health and
90 public decency, will the fight
against tuberculosis be taken Sc
riously.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Standard Reduces Oil Prices.

New York.-The wholesale prices
for refined oil have been reduced from
enc and one-half cents to one cent a
gallon by the Standard Oil company,
making the prevailing price through
out the country now seven and one
half cents a gallon. The standard
controls more than seventy per cent
of the refined output of the country
and 1t can readily be seen what such
a reduction in price means to the
great corporation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
.LANDIS OUASHES INDICTMENT
FREES NATIONAL PACKING COM
PANY AND SUBSIDIARY FIRMS.
SuStains Demurrer on Technical
Grounds-Orders Special Grand
Jury for New Hearing.

Chicago.-The indictment against
the National Packing company and its
ten subsidiary concerns charging them
with conspiracy to restrain trade in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, was Knocked out Thursday when
Judge Keneshaw M. Lands in the
United States district court sustained
the demurrer filed against the indict-
ment by the so-called beef trust
A special venire of seventy-five men
was ordered called for July IA. From
this venire a grand jury will be drawn
and a second investigation of the
packing companies begun.
In his decision sustaining the de-
murrer to the government indictment
Judge Lands said:
1.-The most painstaking search of
this indictment fails to disclose the
presence of a charge that during the
statutory period the defendants have
engaged in, or had anything to do
with interstate commerce, or that
they done anything having any effect
upon such commerce, and the court is
not clothed with authority to supply.
entirely by Inference, the. complete
omission Of such a fundamental ele-
ment of the offense.
This fatal weakness might have
been obviated by including the charge,
had the evidence warranted it, that
the defendants, or their respective Of
ficers or agents. did something, as,
for instance, fixed prices, controlled
output, divided territory. or the like,
which effected a restraint of inter
state commerce being carried on
within the three years period.
1.-The general averment that the de-
PENDANTS engaged in a combination in
restraint of interstate trade is. OF
course, mere conclusion, and there
fore insufficient. The demurrer must
be sustained"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
100000 EGGS IN POOL
| Spectators Form Corner In. Product
and Hope to Realize Big Profits
Next Winter.

Newark, n. J.-Forty-five million
eggs have been shipped into
this city since April 1 and placed In
cold storage by the warehousemen. to
remain there until the high prices of
last winter are duplicated. They were
purchased at an average price of 23H
cents dozen. and the total cost is
about twenty-six cents a dozen. If
the eggs can be retailed in New York
next winter at 40 cents a dozen
which they fetched last winter-theYe
will be profit of 10 cents a dozen. or
a total of something over 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
MISS ROOSEVELT NOT TO WE'D
Fer Father characterizes Story of
Her Engagement as "Scandalous
Infan. of a Scoundrel."

New York.-When former President
Theodore Roosevelt motored to town
from Oyster Bay he was not in
the best of humor. A story had
appeared in print to the effect that his
daughter Ethel was engaged to James
Thompson Williams, Jr., who was a
recent visitor at Sycamore Hill. This
the colonel denied, characterizing the
report as the "scandalous infamy of O
ccounG-ol
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
First Need for Humanity.

Without tolerance, sympathy. and
b .oad-mindedness there can be neither
historical equity nor common, every
day justice and fairness, and until we
get these indispensable requisites We
are surely in no position to sit in
Judgment OF our fellow-men.-Balti-
more Sum-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
20 MEXICAN SOLDIERS SLAIN
Four Cars Of Transport Train Are
Wrecked After Wild Dash Down
Steep Grade.

Mexico City.-Twenty federal SOL
diers are reported to have been
killed and many more than that mum.
Der injured when four cars of a train
In which The troops were being trans
ported ON the Manzanillo line of the
national railway In the State of Coli
ma broke loose from the locomotive
and dashed down a steep grade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Welded IN RUNAWAY MATCH
Second Daughter Of Mayor Gaynor
Becomes Bride of Harry vingut
in Wilmington, DEL.

Wilmington, Del.-Miss Edith Au-
gusta Gaynor. second daughter
of Mayor Gaynor of New York city.
ard Harry Kermit Vingut, millionaire
horseman, clubman and society man
of that city, eloped to this city and
were welded by Rev. DR.. George L.
Wolfe of the First Methodist Prot.
estant church, in the Office Of Andrew
C. Gray. attorney general of Della
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
James M. Lynch.

servative tendencies and has shown
remarkable power of organization
since he began, at the completion OF
his apprenticeship as a printer, to take
part in labor union affairs. Born at
Manlius, n. Y, in 1867, he lived many
years in Syracuse. N. Y. where he
was for seven terms president of the
Syracuse Trade assembly and a mem
Der of the city board of fire commits
sioners. In 1S99-1900 Mr.. Lynch was
the first vice-president of the Interna-
tional Typographical union.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-30
Confesses Killing Johnson.

Portland, Ore.-Jesse B. Webb con-
fessed to the killing of w. A. John
son. whose body was found in a
trunk in he Union station in this city
Tuesday. Webb. in signed statement
to the police. said he killed Johnson in
self-defense after brawl between tie
two men in the latter's room in A
downtown hotel. Mrs. ID. w. Kersch,
who was arrested with Webb, is ex-
onerated frcm completely in the crime
by the confessed slayer, who charges.
however. that she conspired with him
In placing tbs body In the trunk.