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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
Mother, May i Go?

"a letter written by young man &c
his mother asking permission to enlist
1t was written in February. 1922
I am writing to you, mother, knowing
well what you will say,
When you read with fearful fondness
what 1 write to you to-day
Knowing we'll the fame of ardvr on
loyal mothers part
That viii kindle. with each impulse,
with each throbbing of your heart
I have heard my country calling for her
sons that still are true,
1 have loved that country, mother, next
to God and you;
And my soul is springing forward tc
resist her bitter foe;
May go, my dearest mother? Tell me,
mother, may I go?
From the battered walls Of Sumter, from
the wild waves of the sea,
I have heard her cry for succor, as the
voice of God to me.
In prosperity loved her-in her days
of dark distress,
With your spirit in me, mother, could
l love that country less?
They have pierced her heart with trea-
son; they have caused her sons to
bleed,
They have robbed her in her kindness
they have triumphed in her need
They have trampled on her standard
and she calls me in her woe;
May / go, my dearest mother? Tell me-
mother, may 1 go?
I am young and slender, mother-they
would call me yet boy,
But 1 know the land / live in, and the
blessings 1 enjoy,
am old enough, my mother, to be loyal
proud and true
To the faithful sense of duty hare ever
learned from you.
We must conquer this rebellion, let the
doubling heart be still;
We must conquer it or perish. We must
conquer and we will.
But the faithful must not falter, and
shall be wanting? No!
Bid me go. my dearest mother, tell me
mother, may l go?
He who led his chosen people in theil
effort to be free
From the tyranny of Egypt will be mer
ciful to me,
Will protect me by His power whatso'eI
/ undertake,
Will return me home in safety, dearest
mother, for your sake,
Or should this, my bleeding country, need
a victim such as me,
/ am nothing more than others who have
persisted to be free.
On her bosom let me slumber, on her
altar let me lie,
l am not afraid, my mother, in 80 good
a cause to die.
There will come day of gladness, wher
the people of the Lord
Shall look proudly on their banner which
His mercy has restored.
When the stars, in perfect number, on
their azure field of blue,
Shall be clustered in a Union, then and
ever firm and true,
1 may live to see it, mother, when the
patriots work is done
And your heart, so full of kindness, will
beat proudly for your son,
Or through tears your eyes may see il,
And may love it still more dearly for the
cost it won from you.
I have written to you, mother, with o
consciousness of right;
l am thinking Of you fondly with loyal
heart tonight;
When l have your noble bidding, which
shall tell me to press on,
l will come and kiss you, mother, come
and kiss you and be gone,
In the sacred name of Freedom and my
country as her due,
In the name of law and justice l have
written this to you.
1 am eager, anxious, longing to resist my
country's foe,
Shall l go, my dearest mother? Tell
me, mother, shall go?
From loyal woman's" scrap book
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

OF the three brides now offered to
King Alfonso, the daughter of the
Archduke Frederick is approved by
the queen mother, Princess Maria OF
Mecklenburg is preferred by the
Kaiser and the Princess Patricia Of
Connaught Is favored by the Spanish
Cabinet.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

Avoid poorly printed books with poor
paper and poor type, and do not read
when riding in cars or carriage, nor
when convalescent from . protracted i'll
ness, nor when the whole body ID in Z
weakened state.--Health.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

The on,ciaIs of the German State rail-
ways are henceforth to wear helmets In
stead of the present peaked caps. They
have been jealous OF the military look
ing headgear Of the policemen.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
Those Russian Names.

Crimsonbeak-Is it wrong to talk
with the mouthful?
Yeast-Why, certainly it is.
swell. how is a man to talk about
those Russian generals, then? You
can't speak their names without hav-
ing a mouth full,-Yonkers Statesman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
RUBBER STAMPS.

All kinds Of Rubber Stamps Made 60 Order.
Self mixing Daters--scr,ething new. Ink and
linking Pads. Send for Catalogue to Lock Bos
zfo. Port Wayne. Ind
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
Blood win Tell

Her Father-So you want to get mar.
ried, Ell? Tell me why, pray?
His Daughter-Oh. l suppose it's one
Of the traits l inherited from you and
mother
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
salrer,. Home Builder Corn.

30 named because so acres produced SO
heavily, that its proceeds built lovely
home. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in
Ind. Isl bu., Ohio l60 bu., Tenn. l9s bu.,
and in Mich. go bu. per acre. You can
beat this record in 1905.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
PRACTICAL POULTRY POINTS.


When lot of fowls become roupy
and diseased, it is or rar more i'm
portance to remove the cause than
to doctor your stock. Damp, exposed
houses, with foul, wet surroundings,
are highly prejudicial.
Chickens should be reared upon
fresh ground every year to insure
success, and coops often shifted.
A hen that lays three or four eggs
per week, at a cost of about two
cents for food, is probably the most
profitable stock upon your farm.
Poultry keeping involves close at
tention and considerable labor, and
that it is far better to be understock-
ed than overstocked
Keep some simple debit and credit
account to see how you stand at the
end of the year.
Hens in windy weather and without
shelter will not lay, and soon become
"roupy. Chopped raw onion is a
valuable and simple remedy to give
to sick and dropping fowl.
Crushed green bone is cheap and
valuable food to give to both hens
and chickens.
Hen manure is a valuable fertilizer
and should not be wasted.
Underfed fowls lay but few eggs,
and overfed ones often none at all.
The best layers are early risers and
early morning LAYERS and of an ac-
tive disposition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PTLEs
1sching- Blind. bleeding or Protrudfng PLEA
Your druggist Win refund money u PAZO ONT
HENT fails 20 cure y0u n 70 n dayA 600.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02

When you are bilious
and have headache, back
ache and bad taste in the
mouth, send to your drug
gist for the best cure for
biliousness-Celery King,
the tonio-laxative. It only
costs Is cents to get well.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
.S%s lzSR Azxg III
M=GzAgIE1 lbs w
FOOD PREJUDIES.

The Japanese with all their free
dom from superstition, shudder at the
sight of milk, and would sooner fore
go breakfast than mix their tea
with cream. Their Chinese neighbors
fill up on almost anything digestible
enough to dodge the risk of a coron-
er's inquest, but insist on boiling hot
beverages. What! Does he swallow
cold water like a dog? They gasp at
sight of a foreigner patronizing a
fountain The school of uncompro-
missing vegetarians boast about 300,-
100000 converts, or nearly 20 per
cent. of the human race, and pork
ophobia is by no means confined to
the devotes of Islam and its sister
creed; the Parsees have it and the
Druses of Mount Lebanon, also sew
eral tribes of the semi-Christian
Abysinians. And those same Abysin-
ians will not touch rabbits meat,
though they have no conjunction
about cutting a steak out of live
steer and penning him up for future
reference.-Health Culture.
BEWARE OF TIN RECEPTICALS.
Some friend to humanity should
have a large sign printed: DO not
put mayonnaise in tin receptacles"
and hang it in every kitchen where
salads are prepared. 1t is only re-
Gently that several ladies in Rich
mond, Va, were made seriously i'll by
eating salad at reception. Investi-
cation showed that the mayonnaise in
which was considerable lemon juice
had been allowed to stand all day in a
tin pail According to the physicians
enough poison was generated to kill
forty men, and had the ladies eaten
the mayonnaise from the bottom OF
the pail it would have. ended serious
". Ptomaine poisoning develops
through the action of acid on tin.
That is why every can of meat or
vegetables or fruits should be turned
out into an earthen bowl or crock inn
mediately upon opening the tin can.
The air we breathe is a vital force
filled with gases which enter into
chemical combination with foods and
change their composition, more than
the average housekeeper who has not
studied chemistry dreams.-What to
Eat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02
necessary. she will not be a success"
POINTERS ON MILK.

yin EIlO Yin mlllh.
A bulletin issued by the Storrs sta
ton in Connecticut en- the food value
of pound of milk gives the follow
ing conclusions:
These experiments were made with
young animals, in which the digestive
fluids were not in full and active
operation.
To produce one pound of gain in
live weight in these young animals,
more total solids were required with
the milk rich in butter fat than with
the milk poor in butter fat.
Later in the trials, with pigs fed
on rich milk ad libitum, serious d.
gestive disturbances were noticed.
The failure of a pound of milk
solids in rich milk to make equal OF
better gains was not due apparently
to lack of heterogeneous material, but
rather to the excess of fat or to the
character of the fat.
Larger fat globules were found in
the richer milk, and this fact, in con-
nection with the digestive disturb
ances, would seem to indicate the
reasons for the larger gains from a
pound Of solids with the poorer milk.
Fat globules in human milk are
smaller than the fat globules in cows
milk. If it is safe to reason by anal
ogy from the brute to the human,
then whole milk containing low per
cent of fat would seem to be better
suited for infant feeding than whole
milk high in per cent of fat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
HEAVY SHIPMENTS TO JAPAN.
Portland Vessel VIII Take Cargo
Worth 100000 TO Japan.

More than 100000 worth of the
Araeonia's cargo will be delivered to
Japanese merchants. Until recently
the greater part of he cargoes taken
fro mthis port to the Orient went to
Hone:t, ng and Shanghai The un-
usual demand for flour in Japan is
the cause of the difference in the fig
ures, says the Oregon Daily Journal.
The Aragonia cleared this morning,
and the total value OF her cargo was
placed at s30s,4S1. These figures will
probably be increased a trifle, as all
her freight has not yet been put
aboard. The manifest shows that she
will carry 47,127 barrels of flour
valued at s188,510, while the remain
der of the freight is held to be worth
$119,971. Cotton, tobacco, canned
goods. crackers and small shipments
Of general merchandise make up the
/ freight she will take out in addition
to the flour. She sails tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21

her hammer and tacks to hold down
the state building, so far as the In
dependence Push club is concerned.
We don't want them.
1--WE, only want it known that Inde-
pendence is on the map; that it is
the capital of one of the worlds
greatest hop centers; that it is situ-
ated in the Blue Ribbon country of
Oregon, where fine stock, agricultur-
al and lumber products excel. We
want more. and better roads and tele-
phone service so that the surrounding
country may have access to a live
town. We want more buildings and
can furnish people to lease them in
advance. We want a larger sawmill
and have room for other manufactur-
ing plants. We want a river boat and
the river dredged. AS these are ac-
quired, watch us grow without asking
| for the state buildings or anything
except good will, from Salem
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
SOME FACTS ABOUT ToNoPAH.
Common Sense Explanation of the
Prevalence of Pneumonia.

Roy H. Miller arrived yesterday
from Tonopah to answer to the
charges made against him in the
Sumpter bank transaction and very
promptly furnished all the bonds re-
quired by the court. Mr.. Miller de-
clined to discuss any of the matters
in relation to the case, but when
asked about the conditions in Tono
pah and the Nevada gold fields, said
to the Baker City Democrat:
"As far as the reports of sickness
there are concerned, you can say that
they are correct, practically speaking.
But, so far as 1 know personally, the
telegraph reports have been consid-
erably exaggerated. 1 think there
have been only 80 deaths in Tonopah
and l know that at any one time
there were not to exceed nine bodies
in the morgue. The disease is pneu-
monia pure and simple. You know
what the situation is there. Tono-
pah has an elevation of 6400 feet;
this is the inclement season. Cold
winds blow across the mountains at
night, and there is dampness in the
air from the snow. Men congregate
in the saloons and hotels around red
hot stoves, become overheated, and
then go to sleep in open tents.
1.-The water in Tonopah is not good
and the sanitary conditions are poor
This all helps when disease takes
hold. Goldfield is better situated ir
this respect, and has better water.
"I consider that the Nevada gol6
fields are the greatest in the west
The mineral belt is about 900 miles
long from Tonopah to Search Light
I have been over every foot of it. L
is not all developed as yet and there
are not so many producing mines.
know of one property which, unde
lease and bond, in less than one yea
produced little more than $780, O0'
to the lessees. Another property un
der lease and bond produced owe
$500, 900, and the first shipment o
ore contained over $4,000.
Eastern Oregon gold fields are a
right and there is an immense min
| eral zone here, but up to the preser
, they have not seemed to push deve
: opment with the same vigor and un
5 ty of home backing that they wor
: with in Nevada"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
DON'T WANT THE CAPITOL.
Independence West Side Refuses tC
Be Honored.

The Independence West Side En-
terprise says they prefer not to have
the state capitol. 1t takes "squib"
from the Statesman and says all they
want is good will from Salem. They
have that. The Enterprise quotes,
and then comments, as follows:
1.-THE first thing Salem will know
It will find that the capitol and
everything else has been moved over
to Independence by that Independ-
ence Push clubs energy unless the
Salem Push club wakes up and gets
busy tacking the state buildings
down. Salem Statesman.
Needless alarm. We don't want
the big state house for it would spoil
too much good hop land. We don't
want your governor because he COM
muted the sentence of the slayer OF
one of our citizens on the grounds
of the murderer's bad shape. We
don't want the secretary of states
office, for that official is enrichine
himself at the pace of $4,000 to $780,
900 a year on fees legal and Illegal
while the constitution limits him tC
treasury, for its vaults are empt!
while the money is out earning pri
vate interest.
I'VE don't need your superintend
ent Of public instruction because w
have a principal fully as good; no
your attorney general, because his de
cisions don't decide. We couldn't US
the printing office, for printing jus
as good can be had at one-third tn
cost; nor your land office, becaus
Il has no base. We don't want you
supreme court, for it brings reverEes
nor your library-we haven't time &
read IT. We don't want the lunati
asylum, for Salem needs 1t worse; no
the penitentiary, for its enforcement
OF government without the consent 0
the governed. We wouldn't ask 70
the reform school, for it is admirabl
situated as a retreat for politicians 70
whom there is no other job. W
don't need the blind nor the dea
mute schools. for our eyesight is goo
and our hearing acute. and we ar
able TO shoot off our mouth. Their
is no occasion for Salem to get ou
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
washington Wool Sells.

The first sale Of wool made this
year in Colfax was made yesterday
when 5000 pounds of buck wool was
sold for IS cents. The wool was OK
ford Down, and was unusually clean.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21

Mexico will add the department
Of education and fine arts to her gen.
eral cabinet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
1T WOULD COST $12,OOO,OOO.
Railroad Across Southern Oregon,
From West to East.

Portland, April 20.-"I have no
doubt the time will come when rail-
road into Central oregon will be prof
table" said General Manager Worth
ington, of the Hartman lines, today,
when asked as to the probability of
branches being constructed into that
territory, "but it is much easier to plan
building branches than to secure the
capital necessary for their construc-
ton.
ITO build the east and west line
that has been talked of to reach Har-
ney county, crossing the Cascades from
the Southern Pacific line and connect
ing with the o. r. & N. near Ontario,
would cost approximately $12,00O,OOO,
or II built only into Harvey county
perhaps one-third less, or about sS,-
O0O,0 900. That is a large investment
on which the investor would wait for
returns until the country is populat-
ed and many times the cultivated area
of the present time brought into pro-
/ ductiOn
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-21
Wonderfully Rich Country.

"Harney county has 27O,000 acres
of land that is said to be equal to any
thing in the Northwest for fertility
and when brought into production will
yield considerable tonnage for road
but there is expensive construction
across the Cascades and the neces-
sary period of waiting for develop
ment of latent resources that makes
it difficult to interest capital necessary
for its construction"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-07
TYrant Orchid.

"A veritable slave driver among
Floras children is a certain little orch,c
called nodding ladies' tresses." re-
marked budding botanist. when the
busy bee knocks at her door and asks
for breakfast Mrs. N. L. T tells him
to go to the basement door. Passing
down the raceme Of blossoms, the bee
at length comes to the lowest and Oldest
flower. There she thrusts her tongue In
through the furrowed roste and re-
leases a miniature cargo of nectar. Hav-
ing taken TO heart the lesson that beg
gars must not be choosers,' she goes al
once to the basement door OF the next
member Of this family and pays for IN
other sip of nectar by fertilizing this
flower with the pollen brought from the
other And so she goes systematically
If unconsciously benefiting this family o!
orchid. which would disappear from the
face of tho earth were II not for the fensts
it spreads for the industrious bee. It's
moral seems to be-: If you can't do your
own work. get some one to do II for
you'
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-07
GREAT GERMAN RESORT.
Natural Beauty and Charming eli.
mate of the Famous Ba-
Baden.

Baden, world-famed for its
It's natural beauties. and in the loving.
artistic care given it by man thfugh
@ long stretch of years. II offers some
thing TO everyone-superlativ natural
beauty TO the lover of scenery, bits OF
quiet Woodland, and ruins rich Ia SAGA
for the student of the past, charming
climate and, while shorn of its former
glamour of wickedness in gaming life,
It's handsome gardens, fine hotels and
gorgeously palatial casino hold quit
enough TO entice the lover Of pleasure
and frivolity for a stay of several weeks.
writes Grace Isabel Colbron, in -Four.
Track News.
The gay life that once flowed up and
down the Lichtenthaler Alley, with It's
broad roadway and splendid prom.
enade, and circulated in and about the
terrace and great halls of the casino
when the gaming tables attracted the
devotees of pleasure from all the cap
itals of Europe, still graces Baden.
Baden during the three weeks of thG
summer racing season. Many crowned
heads of greater and less degree car
be seen there at that time; King Ed
ward OF England, when prince Of Wales
was a faithful visitor. Although thJ
gaming tables have been suppressed, ar
evening in the Baden Baden casino still
bears stamp OF mundane brilliancy
which does no injustice to the traditions
of the past.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-07
JEWS IN ENGLISH SOCIETY
The Excellent Welcome and Stand
ing Which They Find in sa-
Ions at Court.

In England and in London, where so
many different social wheels flt within
wheels, there still exist some very close
and carefully preserved circles. These
are, for the most part, composed of the
members of very old and very proud
English nobility and gentry, and this
coterie of families is as haughtily re-
served and as exclusive as the carefully
hedged about aristocracy of Austria or
old France, says Lady Broome, in
Ainslee's.
Regarded, however, as a whole, do
not think | can truthfully say that Lon
don society Is quite so difficult to enter
or so chary of new blood and newcom-
ers as Is the accredited ana empowered
and established smart set which rules
and regulates, In, let us say, New York.
In the first place London society Is
much too big aud made up of too many
different clements In order painstaking-
" to examine into and consider the an
tecedents and qualifications OF every
man and woman who knocks for admis-
sion to its agreeable circle. II welcomes.
with hearty greeting. all amusing,
cheerful, interesting individuals, who
conduct themselves decorously, and a
great part of its pleasantness lies in the
| fact that IL includes artists. authors. ac-
| tors, statesmen, dusky-skinned oriental
princes. as well as the fairest and gay
est of American beauties. in its dr'wing-
room gatherings.
Nothing. I think, is more distinctive
y Of Nnat We might call ,hc opIn door
| of good fashionable London society, as
/ contrasted with that of America. than
/ the excellent welcome and standing
which the we'll bred and well born Jews
/ end not only in the salons of private in
dividuals. but at court as well.
No descendants of the fellow voy-
ayers of the Conqueror hold better So
cial positions than do the Rothschild
family, for example, the Sassoons, or
the Bischoffeshcms. do not think we
can just find their equals among the So
cial figures in any American cities, and
Lady Jessel and others of the very pur.
est Hebrew blood carry their titles by
Inheritance from distinguished and
hOnored ancestors or by marriage into
high Christian and English families.
How much the Jewish element in Lon
don society makes for charm and va.
Iicty is easily demonstrated Ivy the SUI
Derb entertainments which the heads OF
The Rothschilds and Bischofesheim
families give throughout the season In
London and at their country homes, and
by the dignity, grace, aplomp and
noauty Of many Of the leading Jewish
hcstesses; and in this and In the ready
'r.endliness with which we are apt tc
meet the stranger within our socia
Eates we have had a leader and an eX
ample in our crowned head, not only Of
The kingdom, but of our social worlt
as well
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-07
Resolutions.

"God moves in mysterious way, for
now we see through a glass darkly,
but then face to face; then shall l
know even as am known"
Again it becomes our sad duty to
record the passing away of one of our
beloved sisters, Mrs. Eliza ]. Thomp-
son, Nov. Sd, 1905. All that is mortal
rests in our beautiful cemetery. Her
gentle spirit has entered the gates of
pearls to be with the blood washed
throng who are clothed in white
robes, with palms in their hands. Let
as who are standing in the shadow of
the same great mystery and imml-
nent immortality together say !;
"She will rise again to the bereaved
family"
The Woman's Relief Corps extends
warmest sympathy and mourn with
them the loss of a self-sacrifcing,
true and loyal sister in our order in
grateful appreciation of her worth
and in loving memory.
Let the charter of our Corps be
draped with mourning for thirty days.
SARAH Il. HoYT,
r. AMANDA BROWNING,
CLARA B. STEVENSON