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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

miasms and infection the noted ply
siologist Negri received the full prize
and gold medal.
The Brambilla Industrial prizes
were strongly competed for, and
three first and four second prizes
were awarded. These Brambilla
prizes are only given to further and
encourage the industries of Lom-
hardy. A prize was also given for an
essay on the division of TIE mental
activity of the brain.
Among the themes for the next
year are researches into the following
subjects: Certain rock formations Of
the Apennines; modern psychiatry;
phenomena of catalysis; modern
knowledge of neurology; centres of
vision of the higher animals.
Unawarded for a long time, and
therefore still on the list is the spec
ial prize by Commend for the discov-
erer of hydrophobia poison. DR..
Henri de Rothschild has given two
prizes to the Scientific Society for
Nutrition Hygiene of Paris, $1,000
and $500, respectively, for the best
treatises on the most rational nutri-
ton of man. The essays. written in
French, must be handed in before
December 80, 1905. The award OF the
prizes will take place next year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
The Child's First Grier.

'Oh, call my brother back to me!
l cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee
Where is my brother gone?
The butterfly is glancing bright
Across the sunbeam's track;
/ care not now to chase its flight
Oh, call my brother back.
The flowers run wild-the flowers we
sow'd
Around our garden tree;
Our vine is dropping with its load
Oh, call him back to mer'
He could not hear thy voice, fair child,
He may not come to thee;
The face that once like springtime smiled
On earth no more thou'lt see.
GA roses brief bright life of joy,
Such unto him was given;
Go-thou must play alone. my boy!
Thy brother is in heavenr
"And has he left his birds and flowers.
And must / call in vain?
And, through tie long, long summer
hours,
Will ne not come again?
"And by the brook, and in the glade,
Art all our wanderings DER?
Oh, while my brother with me play'd,
Would l had loved him more"
Mrs. Hemans.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
The Track Walker.

II you have nothing else to do,
some day when you are passing
through the vast network of tracks
of, for example, the great railway
running northward out of New York,
give thought to the man who walks
them for you, the man on whom your
safety in this particular place so
much depends.
He is a peculiar individual. His
work is so very exceptional, so very
different from your own. While you
are sitting in your seat placidly won
dering whether you are gonig to have
pleasant evening at the theatre, or
whether the business to which you
are about to attend will be as profit
able as you desire, he Is out on the
long track over which you are speed
ing, calmly examining the bolts that
hold the shining metals together.
Neither rain nor sleet- can deter him.
The presence of intense heat or in
tense cold has no effect on his labors.
Day after day, at all hours, and in all
sorts OF weather, he may be seen
placidly Flooding these iron high
ways, his wrench and sledge crossed
over his shoulders, his eyes riveted
on the rails, carefully watching to
see whether any bolts are loose or
any spikes sprung. Upward of two
hundred cannon-ball flyers rush by
him on what might be called a four.
track bowling alley each day, and yet
he lodges them all for perhaps as
little as any iaborer is paid. II he
were not watchful, If he did not per-
form his work carefully and well, If
he had a touch of malice or a feeli,
of vengefulness, he could wreck your
train, mangle your body, and send
you praying and screaming 10 your
Maker There would be no sure way
of detecting him.-Tom Watson's
Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
PRIZES AWARDED AND OFFERED.
Encouragement for Invention and
Useful Study.

The prizes having the largest
money value of which the world has
any knowledge are those provided by
the will of Nobel, the inventor of
dynamite. Three are for scientific
research and invention and two for
other kinds of achievement. All are
bestowed annually, and each amounts
to trifie less. than $4,000. 1t is an
interesting question how much good
they do, for they are not given with
any idea of stimulating competition.
In fact, man who wants to get one
hurts his chances by seeking it. On
the other hand, the world undoubted-
ly derives great benefit from the
award of much smaller sums of
money, which are offered by special
societies with the distinct under
standing that they are to be COM
peted for. Industrial and other
guilds in Europe have often adopted
these means to secure such discov-
cries as the best method of making
matches without phosphorus There
are a few prizes of that class.
German papers report that the
Lombardy Institute of Science, Liter
ature and Arts has distributed the
scientific prizes for 1904, and has
announced new themes for 1905. A
gold medal for industries, which Is
only given once in three years, was
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wagon springs and wagon axles. The
Cagnola prizes for essays with refer
ence to the velocity of cathode rays,
for steering apparatus for airships.
and for an investigation to prevent
counterfeiting or forgeries. had to re-
main undistributed as well as various
other prizes. An award was made to
Dr. Cent for cure for the corn
disease (pellazra). For an essay on
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
FAR FROM TIE FIRING LINE
Place of the Com handing General In
Great Modern Battle.

To-day circumstances place a COM
mander completely out of sight of his
army. He is usually located at least
ten or fifteen miles from the firing line
and in many instances is even farther
away. He sits in room whence radi-
ate telephone and telegraph lines to
the remotest portions of the field, plac-
ing him In instantaneous communica-
ton with his principal subordinates.
The famous painting of Napoleon at
Austerlitz represents in the popular eye
commanding general directing a
great battle. But it belongs to the
warfare of the past. The artist who
aspires to depict the direction Of
modern battle must show a man seated
at a table on which Is spread huge
map, dotted with little flags, indicat-
ing the location of the opposing
forces, with an ordinary desk telephone
at his elbow. In an adjoining room
is a switchboard, where sit alert ope-
rators ready to connect the comman-
der with any of the field headquar-
tiers. From this room also comes the
steady clicking of score of telegraph
instruments, busily receiving and send
ing messages.
But for the military uniforms Of the
messengers and the going and coming
of staff officers the man at the table
might be stock operator directing,
through his brokers, a deal in steel or
railroad securities. Even the stenOg-
rapher at his elbow Is not lacking but
sits quietly taking messages under die
tation to be transmitted presently by
telegraph. Other officers copy these
messages and file them away after put
ting them under a time-recording
stamp to show the hour they were
sent so that afterward delinquencies
may be located and responsibilities
fixed
Thus, apart from the excitement and
horrors of the battlefield, general sits
at a desk and calmly directs the bat
tie. He hears that this attack has
been repulsed and that reinforce
ments are needed here, that ammuni-
ton is running low there, that this d.
vision has been cut to pieces, that those
troops have been two days without
food and so on along his forty miles
of front, and takes his measures ac-
cordmgly. This picture Is not fanciful.
| With due allowance for the fallibility
Of all human devices when subjected
to the strain of abnormal conditions,
it is substantially correct.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
PRACTICAL POTATO RAISING.

For the benefit of farmers interest
ed, am going to tell them how
manage to raise good crops every
year, from $50 to over four hundred
bushels per acre. My potatoes for
the past twenty-three years have
averaged me seventy cents bushel.
The first thing 1 do is to look my
ground over and see that it is free
from witch grass or very nearly SO.
1 do not care how poor the soil is.
The land must not be too low, or
with too much clay in it. Potatoes
do much better on loamy or sandy
soil. 1 plow eight or ten inches deep
and try to have the burrows meet.
1t makes very little difference wheth-
er the land is plowed in the spring
or fall, but il have time l plow in
the fall to save time in the spring.
I like to plant quite early as the
early planted field generally proves
the best. But l never plant till the
ground is in good condition to har-
row.
The narrowing Is very important
feature. Some men will harrow two
or three times and call it good
enough, don't harrow till the
soil is like an ash heap, because it
pays to work the ground in good
shape. / mark out the field 31a feet
wide and about six inches deep,
either with a potato planter or with
a horse hoe. If a horse hoe / drop
the fertilizer by hand about sixteen
inches apart in the row, being careful
to run a chain through the rows in
order to mix the fertilizer well with
the soil; for a good fertilizer will
kill the seed If it comes In contact.
For the past twenty years / have
raised my potatoes wholly on COM
mercial fertilizer without any other
dressing. If asked what kind of COM
mercial fertilizer l used and consid.
cred the best should say Bradley's
complete per cent potash.
Good seed is necessary, and / con-
slider the Green Mountain the best
ail-rOuld potato l nave ever planted
and least liable to rot. There is
more in cutting potatoes for seed
than most farmers think. Some will
cut without looking to see whether
there are ono or five eyes on cut.
I start on the stem end and cut up,
being careful to get at least two eyes
on a piece, and when l get up to
where the eyes are close together !
cut the seed smaller, but have no
less Than two or more than four eyes
on 81 piece Of seed. As fast as cut
the heed / sprinkle plaster on them
80 that they will not bleed. ! cut
the s4pd SIX to ten days before
plant.
wAea(r am ready p plant I drop
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
STORIES ABOUT EAGLES.
A Battle With a Stag-knocking a
Sheep Over a precipice.

OfCs~p OvCS 'tSSstt~S'
Some years ago Sir Charles Nor
daunt witnessed in Scotland strange
which completely dispels any theory
that the ornithologists may put for
ward as to eagles not attacking large
animals. The bird singled out from
a herd one particular buck, which it
succeeded in driving from the rest.
1t struck the animal repeatedly with
it's powerful wings, knocked it down
and finally killed it. Baron Schroe-
der witnessed a still more remarkable
spectacle. An eagle attacked a fawn
which was one of herd in the high
lands. The cries of the little one were
answered by its dam, which sprang
upon the eagle and struck it repeated
ly with its forefeet. Fawn, deer and
eagle rolled headlong down a decliv-
ity, and the bird was dislodged from
its hold and the fawn rescued. But
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie knows more
thrilling story than either of these,
for, according to report, an eagle was
rent in twain during battle in his
forest in Gairlock. Fixing his talons
in the quarters of roe, the bird was
dashed against a tree, to a branch or
which it endeavored to hold to stay
the flight of its captive. The bird
was halved in an instant.
Many traditions are extant as 70
eagles having carried off and devour-
ed children. In the north of England
the legend is perpetuated by the name
of many an inn, the sign "The Eagle
and the Child" being common. The
most recent case bearing close scrut-
my appears to be one which occurred
in South Africa. A Boer farmer, liv-
ing on the veldt just beyond Barber
ton, whose stock had been harried by
eagles, lay in ambush for the aerial
robbers, and saw one of them de-
scend and carry off the five-year-old
Child of one of his Kafir servants.
He shot the bird, which. with the
child still clutched in its grip. fell
into a thorn bush. The bird was dead
when picked up, but the babe was
little hurt. The eagle measured nine
feet from tip to tip of the wings.
Other stories are told to similar
end, but appear less credible than
this one.
Two eagles will stalk a covert in
concert. While one conceals itself
the other beats about the bushes
with a great screaming, driving out
its quarry for the hidden eagle to
sweep down and make an END of it.
An even mere insiduous method has
been observed, when an eagle, detect
ing sheep on the edge of prcci-
pice, flew at it screaming shrilly, and
with forceful beat of wing hurled it
into the valley below, where it could
devour it at its leisure. There is
good reason for believing, after ali,
the ancient legend as to the manner
in which Aeschylus, the Greek poet,
met his death. 1t is said that an
eagle dropped a turtle on his bald
head. Algerian travellers are famil-
lar with the sight of eagles carrying
turtles and tort discs to a height and
dropping them upon rocks to break
the creatures shells and render the
flesh accessible.-The Scotsman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

repeat the circumlocution Of the in
ventor, shows "a device for removing
distractions from between the teeth"
1t comprises a forked handle having
branches provided with slots adapted
to secure a rubber strip slipped there
In. Tiny knobs fixed on said strips pre-
vent the rubber from pulling out and
likewise serve to protect the cheek and
tongue when using the device. The
elasticity of the rubber permits it TO
enter the interstices between teeth.
even when these are abnormally min
,1fo
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
BENEFITS OF LIME.

We do not know who is the author
Of the following; but it is sensible
and timely: There is no preventive
of roup so eficacious as lime. If the
floor of the poultry house. the yards,
and every place to which fowls may
resort. are sprinkled with fine air.
slaked lime once or twice a week, it
is doubtful If roup will secure a hold
on the hens. Experiments made with
lime show that it will destroy the
germs of roup when it comes in con-
tact Herewith, and as lime is SO
cheap. it may be easily applied" We
are doubtful about lime having any
effect on the germs of roup," but we
know it to be an excellent deodor-
izer,, and that it Will keep poultry
houses sweet and clean-Farmer's
Home Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

Poeticus-I want to write a poem
that will express a universal sentiment
something that Is felt not only by
myself, but by every one that reads 1t.
Criticus-You have already done so.
Poeticus-Pm afraid not-when?
Criticus-Your latest sonnet begins
L would that were dead"-CIeveland
lender
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
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The Miller of the Dee.

There was a Jolly miller.
Lived on the River Dee;
He danced and sang from morn to night;
No lark so blithe as he.
And this the b. .den of his song
Forever used to be:
L care for nobody; no, not I,
If nobody cares for mel"
Those lines, no doubt, suggested the
poem of Charles Mackay, here given:
There dwelt a miller, hale and bold.
Beside the river Dee;
He worked and sang from morn till
night
No lark so blthe as he;
And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be:
Il envy nobody-no, not 1,
And nobody envies me!'
'Thou'rt wrong, my friend" said good
King Hal;
AS wrong as wrong can be;
For could my heart be light as thine,
I'd gladly change with thee.
And tell me now, what makes thee sing.
With voice so loud and free,
While l am sad, though I'm a king,
Beside the River DeeT"
The miller smiled and DOTTED his cap:
Il earn my bread" Quoth he;
Il love my wife, / love my friend,
1 lcve my children three;
l owe no penny cannot pay;
l thank the River Dee,
That turns the mill that grinds the corr
That feeds my babes and me-"
"Good friend" said Hal, and sighed the
while,
Farewell, and happy be!
But say no more, if thou'dst be true,
That no one envies thee.
Thy mealy cap is worth my crown;
Thy mill, my kingdoms fee;
Such men as thou are England's boast
o miller of the Deer
Charles Mackay.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
TAKES TOOTHPlCK'S PLACE.

Dentals Cleared by the Use of a Gum
Band.
The dentists have been preaching for
the past decade the virtues of dental
floss and the dangers Of the tooth
picks, but without much avail. IN
fortunately, dental floss is not often
conveniently available, and good SUBJ
stitute that is always at hand is a slen-
der rubber band. The illustration, to
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
LIGHT.

The night has thousand eyes,
And the day but oDs;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of whole life dies
When Love is done
Francis w. Bourdillon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

CARELESSNESS IS EXPENSIVE.
When the winter sets in freezing
cold and you wrap up the beehives
with OLD quilts, comforts, etc., don't
forget to take them Off when the
weather moderates. More damage is
done bees by covering up too warmly
than by not covering at ALL A friend
of mine did this way last winter
piled must stuff about his bees, and
forgot to take it of when q warm
day or two set in. Consequence was,
the bees got a good sweating out, the
water ran everywhere in the hive,
the honey came uncapped, the bees
were all stuck up and helpless, a big
freeze set in and froze up the water
in the hive, bees and ALL Another
friend left his bees out in the cold
and snow. No roof, no protection.
and yet they kept warm and did well
because he had left them fine lot
of honey to winter on. But one Eight
came deep snow, then a rain that
crusted over the snow This man for
got to go out and dig away the snow
so the bees could get breath of air.
They all smothered. Four fine stands
of bees gone to ''Davy Jones' locker"
just because of a little carelessness.
Ida NJ. Shepler in the Episomist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

One reason we don't want an auto
mobile is that we have been called
everything else under the sun and
don't intend to stand for being called
chauffeur. ~ =
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
GOOD COW BARN.

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A well know Iowa dairyman, Mr..
E. c. Bennett, recently described a
good COW barn in the Wisconsin Far
mer, to accommodate nineteen COWS.
1t is Is feet wide by So feet long, with
a box stall at one end. He says:
Make the platform for the cows to
stand upon as long as the building
and as wide as from the manger to
their hind feet This depends upon
the size of the cows. Mine is fifty-six
inches wide. A few COWS and heifers
can use a narrower platform, and
some large cows may need one four
feet and ten or eleven inches wide.
The platform can be made narrower
at one end than at the other if cows
of widely varying sizes are kept.
/ have a manger with sloping rear,
so as to give all feed a tendency to
slide towards the cows. Some have
the back part of manger perpendicu-
lar, and some omit the back -was&
but cows will strain after feed which
gets out of their reach, endangering
their muscles, and sometimes slip
ping their hind feet off the rear OF
platform and seriously hurting them
selves.
The usual distance apart of STAN
chions here is three feet. If the cows
are unusually large, two inches more
should be allowed. l find that even
one inch less than three feet answer
for ordinary Jerseys.
AS to the height of platform, have
tried four inches and six inches for
the rear. and one inch higher for the
front My preference is for the lower
-four inches for the rear and five
for front. This slant is to permit
drainage to the rear and into the
drop" if any droppings get on the
platform.
1t makes much difference which
way the cows face. My building runs
east and west, and the cows face the
north. This is so / can let the sun
shine upon them from the rear.
have a small window at the rear o.
each of two cows, and keep the plat
form well bedded. This makes it
pleasant and sunny in winter, and the
windows are opened in hot weather.
ana wire screens keep out the flies
and let the air circulate freely.
This is simple, but means much in
the way of comfort for the cows and
for those who do the milking. IL the
building runs north and south, rec
ommend windows on the west side,
and the cows facing the east, if con-
ditions permit. West windows let in
the light well, but they are colder in
winter than south windows. / use
two-inch planks for floor of platform
and the space in rear of cows. The
space under the platform may be
PLANK or earth, as desired. Some
have earth floor in rear of platform,
but it is too apt to get sloppy with
me. / find that width of two feet
at the top and eighteen inches at the
bottom is satisfactory for the man
ger. The height is immaterial, sc
long as it will hold the feed and not
be inconveniently high. l had mine
thirty inches high in rear and six
inches high in front. l wish to en-
phasize the need of plenty of win
dows. Sunshine is death to tubercu-
losis, and it has been found that COWS
kept in the dark end of barn are
more subject to that and other dis
eases than other cows in the same
stables, but in good light.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
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one thousand pounds of fertilizer to
the acre in the rows, then drop the
seed sixteen inches apart and cover
about four inches deep. If man has
no potato planter, good horse hoe
is a very nice tool to cover with.
After planting 1 watch for them to
break ground, and as soon as | see
a few coming through 1 drop five hun
dred pounds of fertilizer to the acre
between the plants where they are
up and sixteen inches apart where
they are not up and then cover up
the potato and fertilizer tightly. As
soon as the potato shows again
again cover it. l cover three times
very lightly the last time, and at the
same time / run cultivator between
the rows twice week, for the soil
cannot be stirred too much. By fire
quent use of horse hoe and cultivatoi
l keep down the weeds
never use hand hoe, as there is
no need of it. The horses Will dc
the work best if taken in time before
the weeds get start. After the tops
get about eight inches high l horse
hoe, and again when the tops are
about a foot to fifteen inches high.
Checking bugs and blight-The
most important part is to keep down
the bugs and to spray so that the
potato will not blight or rot. l use
a hand sprayer and spray two and
sometimes three times. There are
years when potatoes do not blight or
rot, but we cannot predict those
years so l spray every year.-A. T
Gribbins in Massachusetts, Plough
man.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

nAPadu@tson " - ncnpecK.
Little Willie-I say, pa, what Is an
empty title?
PAN empty title, my son, is your
mothers way Of referring to me as the
head Of the house when there are visit
ors present. Glasgow Evening Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03

When man is with hin wife, he Is,
nearly always uncomfortable. Who u,
to blamel