Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 June 1909 — Page 6

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T as a still tropic morning in 1920. The enemy's fleets, by prearrangeraent, appeared on both the Atlantic and the Pacific sides of the Panama canal at the same time. On shore there were no signs of activity; no indications that the enemy wa3 expected, and although the officers on the approaching battleships swept the shores with their glasses they could perceive no fortifications. The sluggish tide of the canal carried on

its bosom no vessels, for traffic had been warned that an attack was imminent. As the vessels approached confidently on the Pacific side, with guns Joaded and their crews at quarters, their commanders foresaw an easy task la forcing the canal entrance. When within twelve miles of the shore line, and under easy range of a group cf islands that were like emerald gems set in a background of sapphire, there suddenly swept through the fleet a hurricane of shells. Many found their mark. Thrown into confusion, the Sagship sought to ascertain the spots from which the hail of destruction came, but the tropic calm appeared to be unbroken. Before the vessels could recover from the panic into which the fleet had been thrown, a second volley swept them. Then they scurried back to sea, broken, and leaving two of their number drifting helplessly on the reefs. Much the same reception met the enemy's Atlantic squadron. However, in-

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ßtead of facing a harrowing fire from outlying islands, the shots wera delivered from tho high hills that overhung the eastern entrance to the big ditch. The disappearing guns on shore, like those on the far side of the Isthmus, were using smokeless powder, and it was practically impossible to discover their position. After firing a few desultory shots in reply, the squadron withdrew. The Tanama canal had demonstrated that it wa3 United States territory and that It would not be taken. 1 This imaginative picture, drawn by the Philadelphia Ledger, of what may happen a few year3 hence if there are attempts to capture the canal I3 not so much out of the way, provided the War Department carries out Its present tentative plans in fortifying the ditch. These plans, of course, depend entirely on the willingness of Congress to furnish the money. It will cost millions to put the Canal Zone into the condition for defense that the department believes Is necessary. On top of the vast sum that will have been expended before the first vessel passes through the waterway, it would not be surprising if Congress were attacked with a sudden and virulent spasm of economy when It Is called upon to vote millions more to protect the work that has cost the nation more than a hundred time3 a king's ransom.

THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD. Sicily lost C0.000 by earthquake In 1693. The output of coal In Japan in eleven years has Increased from 200,000 tons to 11.500.000 tons annually. Electric locomotives can pull heavier trains at a faster speed than steam locomotives of equal power. More than three-fifths of the world's supply of copper comes from the American and Mexican mines. Potatoes, after being steeped in sulphuric acid and pressed hard, make excellent billiard ball3. During the last seventeen years American coal mine3 have killed 22,840 men. made at least 10,000 widows and upwards of 40,000 orphans. In New Zealand, property left by a husband to hiä wife, or by a wife to her husband, 13 exempt from death duty. Part of the Cossack soldiers' drill constitutes the building of bridges with their lances, with cooking kettles u fioat3.

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.t XOCJ ' Vi ÜB 3t esT JS cf London eats 1S0.000 tons of fish each year. Eight-car trains are to be run on the Iloston elevated line In an endeavor to cope with the traffic offered. Of recent years only six deaths occur to each one hundred amputations. This Is owing to the improvements lu antiseptic surgery. As a result of recent aclcdents to various navies the IJritish warships will have their magazines cooled with refrigerating machinery. A vein of lead and zinc ore has been discovered on the grounds of the School of Mines at Platteville, Wis., aud will be opened up by the students. On examination, an ostrich was recently found to have swallowed 113 metal cartridge-cases, weighing over three pounds, besides several stone3 and nails. Of the races of the world, C00.O0O,000 are white, 700,000,000 yellow, 213,000,000 black, 33,000,000 brown, or Malayan, and 13,000,000 red, or North and South American Indians.

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At the prrsent time it is proposed to construct emplacements for batteries, fortifications, military posts and auxiliary batteries at a cost that will range between $8,000,000 and 10,000.000, exclusive or. armament. For the outlying and principal batteries there will be sixty 14-inch rifles, capable of sinking the best battleship afloat nce it comes within range. The minor batteries, which will protect mines and be available for repelling" landing parties, have not yet been designated. The 14-Inch guns alone will cost upward of $17,000,000. Ecch camoa, of rifled steel, costs $33,000; the carriage adds $8,000 to this sum, and the total is increased by the addition of $150.000 for the emplacement. This totals just $288.000 for the big gun in position ti fire, and the cost of sixty is a matter. of easy mathematics. Thee gigantic guns hurl a projectile weighing 1,630 pounds. The heavy projectile, of high explosive power, is effective at a distance of sever, miles, and for anything less than the most modern battleships is effective at practically all anges. Combined with the 12-inch mortars, which will also be Installed, the combined main batteries on both siJes of the canal will be able to fire at one single round a mass of metal far in excesa of 100,000 pounds. The greatest activity hi fortifying the canal will be expended on the Pacific sido. Lying off the coast some ten or fifteen miles are a group of islands. As a matter of fact, they number fifteen, but four have been selected as commanding the channel entrance, and these will be crowned with low-lying batteries, so skillfully constructed that it will le practically impossible to mark their presence from the sea. The huge guns within them will be mounted on disappearing carriages, and it will be next to impossible to locate their deadly presence except by the flash of their discharges. The four island?, selected are Flamenco, Culebra, Naos and Ferico. The last named two are practically one and lie immediately behind Culebra. which, in turn, is shouldered out of a clear view of the sea by the bluffs of Flamenco. The arrangement of the quartet of Islands, however, lends to strategic strength, for they are so situated that each supports the other, and, combined, they command the entrance to the canal on both sides. In addition to the batteries of 14-lnch gun3 the islands' fortifications will include mortar pits equipped with these 12-inch weapons of destruction. The .mortars are sunk in pits, out of the direct range of shells, and have been developed to a point where they are highly thought of by the service. The mortars Are their shells In a great arc, the explosives falling on the enemy's decks, the most vulnerable part of a ship. When hits are made they are even more effective than a shell from a straight shooting gun. And the American gunner has mastered the art of handling the mcrtar. In the past the use of a mortar has been more to carry terror into the ranks of an enemy than in the hope of doing him any great physical harm. Now, however, the art of range-finding has been reduced to such exactness that recently a gunner in the Coast Artillery made a record of eight hits out of nine shots at a moving target, and that at a range of three miles. The batteries of big guns and mortars on the islands will be reinforced by shore batteries at each side of the entrance to the canal. These batteries probably will be built on terraces, one supporting the other, and all commanding the channel. If any warship runs tha gantlet of the outlying fortifications it will stand aa excellent chance of being either sunk or disabled by the blaze of fire from the bluffs. If by any miracle a foreign fleet does silence the

SCRAPS OF INFORMATION. There are 40,000 lakes in Newfoundland. The wheelbarrow Is a Chinese Invention. Ceylon possesses over 300 miles of railway. Greenland's population doe3 not number 11,000. The Rock of Gibraltar is honeycombed with seventy miles of tunnel ing. The finest lead pencil cedar comes from Florida. A hole has been bored in Silesia to a depth of 7,000 feet. Red lights can be seen at a greater distance than green. Women are the most successful fruit growers in California. Watchdogs now help to guard the ti'Dasures of the Louvre. The sperm whale can remain under water for twenty minutes. Switzerland makes about $00,000,000 a year out of its tourists.

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PANAMA ass Twenty-five million squirrels are slaughtered in Russia every year.' Our present punctuation system was established in the fifteenth century. Some of the bats of India measure six feet across their outstretched wings. A greater variety of fish can be found in the Nile than in any other river. Over 23,000 sailing vessels of more tlan fifty tons each are now on tho oceans. The number of bricks U3ed in the Sfvern tunnel la computed to be 77,0)0.000. It is calculated that New York is growing in size six times as fast as London. Six thousand workers are employed on one of the electrical plants in Germany. A Japanese sword used by 01. e of the emperors about 800 B. C. is still in existence. Pompeii will not be entirely uncovered until 1970, if the present rate of excavation la continued.

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forts on the Pacific side and attempts to work its way through the canal it will meet with a hot reception at Pedro Miguel, where strong fortifications will protect the first principal lock. These batteries will be so situated that they will be able to sweep the canal, and, as. the ship3 perforce will have to proceed to the attack in single file, any fleet would be at the mercy of their gun 3. On the Atlantic side of the isthmus the problem of fortifying the coast is comparatively simple. The ranges of steep hills that rise practically from the shore line lend themselves to the construction of batteries that will be able to sweep the adjacent sea. Tlfe batteries will be planted high enough up on the side of these hills so that they will be able to outshoot the guns of the biggest battleships and engage them before they can get within range. It is possible that there will be a' series of these batteries, but all of them likely will be planted on Point Toro. This plan may be changed, however, so that secondary batteries will be built on the Colon side of the canal, and, possibly, a supporting battery back in the hills from the coast to cover the actual approach to the big ditch. Like the fortifications on the Pacific side, the principal batteries on the Atlantic will mount both 14-inch guns and 12-inch mortars. There will be support ng batteries, naturally.' but the location of these will not be determined until the position of the greater guns is decided. In addition to the batteries and forts, there is to be constructed at Culebra a central military station in which will be kept stores and reserve troops and artillerymen. The station will be bo situated that addi tional artillerists or supporting troops can be hurried to whichever coast Is attacked. The barracks and storehouses will be of the most modern type, and will be protected by a complete battery, although none of the big guns will be mounted there. The War Department has determined that every modern appliance of warfare will be Installed 0:1 the Isthmus If Congress can be induced to approve the plan for fortifying the canal. A half dozen electric power plants will be constructed with a view to keeping them out of the range of the guns of an enemy, and these will supply the power necessary for the operation of what are intended to be the most powerful searchlights In the world. , The arrangement Is to be such that If one or two or three plants are disabled the searchlights still will have sufficient voltage to fling their rays out on to the ocean and pick up any enemy that may be seeking to rush the defenses of the canal under cover of night. These power plants also will furnish the power with which to operate the hoists and other appliances in the batteries and furnish light for the gun crews. The plans for a complete defense of the canal, of course, include a system of submarine mines. These will be both contact and shore controlled. The latter class will be charted and their position known to the operator In the fortifications. Whenever a hcetile warship enters one of the squares In which the death-dealing explosive lurks it will be discharged by an electric spark sent from the shqre. All of these plans, as has been stated, depend for their fulfillment entirely on tho will of Congress. Congress willing, the canal will be fortified in a fashion that will make it almost as Impregnable us Gibraltar. The United States will maintain complete sovereignty over the waterway It will build, and this government wiil ask no favors of any other ,ation in maintaTning the Integrity of the great work that was begun by the French and is destined to be completed by the American people.

HEALTH AND LIFE. In the health of the people lies the strength of the nation. Gladstone. The care of the health of the people Is the first duty of the statesman. Disraeli. It is within the power of man to drive infectious diseases from the earth. Pasteur. Without health life Is not life, it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death. Rabelais. Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health II. W. Beedow. Take care of your health; you have no right to neglect It, and thus become a burden to yourself and perhaps to others. Let your food be simple; never eat too much; take exercise enough; be systematic in all things; if unwell, starve yourself till you are well again, and you may throw care to the winds, and physic to the dogs. W. llalL Lode stones Quarry workmen.

SHAKERS PASSING AWAY.

Centnry Old Colony In Ohio I Nearins Its End. The United Society of Shakers, at Union Village, Ohio, is fast being vanquished by the hand of death, and the time is fast approaching when the organization will pass1 into oblirlon. Plans are now on foot for the"3Iethodist Home for the Aired, i Cincinnati, to absorb the society. Of a membership of 500 half a century ago there remain but 29 converts to the faith. Among these only two are younger than 50 years, and but five have not jet reached the allotted three score years and ten. It can be plainly seen that a dissolution is inevitable. Itev. II. C Weakley, president of. the home, in a recent visit to the village, talked of taking over the few survivors and giving them comfortable homes in his institution the rest of their days, and at their death the property would come into the possession of the institution for the furtherance of their excellent work. The Shakers one and all are in accord with the movement. It was in 1S05 that the first mis. sionarios of the Shakers came to Warren County from New Lebanon, N. Y., and a year later founded a colony that grew, prospered and faded Into the century. West of Lebanon, upon 4X) acres of Warren County's richest soil, these people lived and thrived. They created their own industries and fought their own battles for supremacy. Efforts have at times been made to squander this valuable land, but at present, under eflicient management, it Is financially in excellent condition. WILLIAM LORIMER. The Recently Elected l'nlted State Senator from Illinois. Congressman William Lorimer of Chicago by his election to succeed Albert J. Hopkins as United States Senator from Illinois has again demonstrated that he is a politician of consummate skill. Senator Lorimer was chosen on the ninety-fifth ballot by a coalition of fifty-three Democrats and fifty-five Republicans after a contest that tied up the Legislature for over four months. The victory restores to him the Republican leadership of Chicago and Cook County, which he held for many years, and makes him a powerful factor in the Republican State machine. Senator Lorimer was born in Manchester, England, but came to this country when a boy. He got a start in Chicago as a street car conductor and from that developed Into politics. There as Inspector of plumbing he progressed rapidly. By 1S94 he had entered national politics, being elected ta "William e. Loetjier-. the House for the first of the seven terms to which he has been chosen. For the last five years or so Senator Lorimer has been the ex-boss rather than the actual boss of Chicago and Cook County. His control was broken when Charles S. Deneen was first nominated for Governor in 1004. The new Senator is about CO years of age, and his private life Is said to be above reproach. 2,830 SCRAMBLED EGGS. John Elmwood, a Tassalc County, N. J., farmer, while driving down the steep slope of Claremont avenue, Montclalr, N. J., upset his wagon. Six crates of eggs, containing forty dozen each, several barrels of potatoes and turnips were all mixed in a heap. EoyleNow that there 13 less material in a woman's gown I should think they would save money In dressing Coyle No; when the dresses get smaller the hats get larger. A dutuchable clothes rack, made of metal rods, which may be clamped to the foot of a bedstead, is a recent Invention. The average importation of tea Intc the United States each year Is about 80,000.000 pounds, a pound to each In habitant. England has a lighthouse to every fourteen miles of coast, Ireland one to" every thirty-four miles, and Scotland one to every thirty-nine miles. The supreme court of Indiana ha? upheld tbe right of telegraph compa nies to make an extra charge for th delivery of telegrams at points more tuau a mile from the receiving office. The mill occupying the most north era location in America i3 a flour mil! at Vermillion, 700 miles north of the United States boundary and within 400 miles of the Arctic Circle. The Mexican goverrment i3 experi menting with various methods for obtaining the best results from lrrlga tion. The dry-farming method Is also to be well tested. It ha3 cost one transatlantic cabl company over $123,000 so far this yea to repair cables broken by travelers.

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If Mr. liryan Com to the Senate. Mr. Bryan Is a declared candidate for the United States Senate. Ha wants to succeed Senator Elmer J. Burkett, a Republican. What effect would hi3 success have on his position in the Democratic party? Would it still leave him preeminent and a possible presidential nominee? We think not. We suspect that Mr. Bryan understands the probable consef;uence3 quite well. Mr. Bryan, the Senator, would not appeal so powerfully to the imagination of people as the Mr. Bryan of today. He might be a much more useful roan. But the loss of prestige would be great. In the. Senate we would have the real Mr. Bryan. Thousands now see the mythical, heroic Mr. Bryan. We mean no reflection on Mr. Bryan by this. It follows from what every one knows of human nature. For years he has occupied a position admirably calculated to make him a striking, a dominating character. He has had no chance to make errors in public service. He has been able to speak dogmatically without being contradicted by any one of equal authority In his party. He has had no rivals. He has been "the whole show. In the Senate the" landscape would aave other figures. His admirers would hear his utterances challenged by men equally capable. What he said would be subjected to the acid test Df criticism. The very qualities which nake him a great popular orator might prove defects in the Senate., He would no longer be a single, striking figure. He would be one of several. Could hero worship be expected to survive these scenes? Hardly. The prophet who discusses Is lost. Tie idcl that forsakes its pedestal Is broken. The figure on the 'mountain top Is lost in the dusty level of the plain. The hero surrounded by equals, buffeting and buffeted, changes complexion. Mr. Bryan presumably will always have a large reputation. But in the iry light cf real public business the myth and glamour would be lost. There would be little to fetter the Imagination nothing to inspire a popular demand for his leadership. On the day that Mr. Bryan becomes Senator the presidential stock of Gov?rnor Johnson, Judson Harmon and certain other able and Intelligent leading Democrats will take an upward shoot. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tickling a I'artr to Deatb. The ' conservative" Democrat Is a rare study. This session of Congress, including the regular and special terms, has shown us Democrats in both Houses who haye opposed the Republican platform claim that, in revising the tariff, a "reasonable profit" for the American manufacturer should be added to the rate found after estimating the total cost of foreign goods to be imported. This opposition is not sound, since admitting foreign goods into domestic competition on an absolute equality would be practical free trade, and no Democrat will admit that he Is a free trader. But It is one which Democrats might be free to maintain If only it were possible for them to be consistent In maintaining it. Some of them are, but they are Invariably of the "radical" wing of the party. The Inconsistency of the "conservative" Democrat Is, seen in the fact that, while he denies the wisdom and justice of laws to assure the manufacturer a reasonable profit, he is most Insistent In demanding that no law, state or national, shall deprive railroad corporations, or other corporations, of such a profit. He Insists that all laws shall be drafted with a 'view to making it possible for corporate Investors to make a reasonable profit upon their Investments. And while he denounces a plan to vest the officers of the government with power to determine what a reasonable profit In manufacturing should be, he denounces, with equal heat, every effort made by officers of national or state governments to ascertain the legitimate cost of corporation management and to lay down laws drawing lines between that figure and the one they shall charge the public for their service. He contends that none but the experts of corporations themselves can know the actual difference between cost and cost price, and they won't tell. Wherefore he says, in effect, that all we can or should do Is to pass such laws as will assure them a reasonable profit and let it go at that. Such inconsistencies as this have made the Democratic party a joke. The men guilty of them seem never to see them, or to realize their grotesqueness and absurdity. Meanwhile their party is dying, being tickled to death with laughing at them. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Il?tnrntnfr Pro perl ty. That the piping times of national business prosperity will soon be as good as they ever were, if not better, is in iicated by dispatches from Pittsburg Reports compiled at general headquarters in that city show that the num ber of surplus freight cars in the Pittsburg district has been reduced two-thirds since January 1. Coal op?rators are worrying about the lake seaman's strike, which is said to be delaying shipments to the northwest and already there are predictions ol :ar Shortages and congestion, notwithstanding that many of tho big lake boats are already shuttling back and forth, some with non-union crews and others manned by union sailors to whose terni3 the vessel owners have agreed. In anticipation of greatly Increased rail business, orders for new freight and passenger locomotives placed dur ing the last ten days exceed those ol any two months In the list two years The Harriman lines alone are receiv Ins bids for 145 engines. Thirty streets and open places in Paris are named after eminent chemists, tlie latest being Place Berthelot; aid thirty-two are named after famou physicists. Nearly 120.000 infants under a jeai old die every year in England. Over 100,000 of these are victims cf the Ignorance and carelessness of theli mothers. The total annual capacit for tn production of pig iron by toe UnUeJ States Steel Corporation at the present time is about 2."i.000,H)0 tons. Germany is the princlprl competitor of America in the exportation of locomotives, and Italy Is her principal customer.

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Thier aa at Prompter Among the anecdotes related by tba Marquis Massa in his "Souvenirs et Impressions" is one about tbe first president of the French republic It runs: "A short time after young Thiers had been elected es a legislator a number of our. set arranged to give a performance of 'Roman chez la portiere at the house of a mutual friendOn the evening of the performance our prompter deserted us, and without a moment's hesitation the new fledged deputy volunteered to take the place, and despite the protests of some of the party, who feared that his dignity might be everlastingly injured, ht Jumped Into the box, where he remained ready to help us in time of need until the curtain descended oa what proved to be a highly satisfactory performance." SUFFER NEEDLESSLY. Mer 3I-sterloas Aches and Pain Are Easily Cared. Backache, pain through the hips,, dizzy spells, headaches, nervousness. bloating, etc., are troubles that commonly come with sick kidney. Don't mistake the cause. 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