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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-16
DANGEROUS SPORTS AT FAIRS.
Statistics Show Long List of Accidents
for Season Just Closed.

County fair accident statistics gath.
cred by the Chicago Tribune for the sea-
son just closed point to the driving Of
trotting horses by amateurs as the most
common cause of injuries The most
dangerous injuries are received by aerial
performers. For children attending fairs
the danger is in riding on merry-go-
rounds and in standing close to the run
ming track.
Taking the States of Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, the Trib-
une asked 40 county seats for informa-
ton as to accidents to performers and
spectators at county fairs and street car
nivals. Fifty-ive counties reported q
total of seventy persons injured, the re-
naming 800 counties reporting no acct
dents. OF the injured forty-fve were
performers, professionals or amateurs,
and twenty-five were spectators. The in
juries range from broken ribs and legs
to bruises. Of the forty-fve perform
ers injured, twenty-six were hurt by the
collision of sulkies in driving races and
in being thrown from running horses.
The most serious accident to a driver
took place at Atlanta, ILL.,, where Ed.
ward Stubblefeld, president of the Lo-
gan County Fair Association, was
thrown from his seat in a collision with
a sulky, and for time was near death.
THE slide for life,'' a feat in which
the performer slides down a wire from
the top of the court house dome or other
high elevation, laid up three men, and
''leaping the gap" and looping the loop"
claimed five victims.
Five of six aerOnauts injured have
faulty parachutes or bad luck in landing
to blame for their injuries, ranging from
a crushed shoulder to a sprained ankle.
One woman dressed in red tights landed
near bull, and another fell into tree
top.
The crush of vehicles at the gates to
fair Enclosures and the frightening OF
farmers horses by the noise and unusual
sights at the grounds were responsible
for the overturning Of buggies and wag-
| ons and the resulting injury of six per-
sons.
The following table tells the nature of
the work in which performers were en-
gagged when injured:
Number
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-16

Phfladelphia.-The local fight In
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-16

Advices from the Philippines say the
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-16


injured.
Drivers and riders in horse races ...... e
Aeronauts, in making parachute descents 3
Leap the Gap" on bicycle ............ .
"Slide for Life" on wire ............ 3
Looping the Loop ......---.-...--.. 3
Diving into tank I
Trainers lacerated by lions ............ 2
Hit by falling tent pole ................. ]
Tight rope performer ..--......---.....
Spectators were injured as follows:
Number
injured.
In driving accidents while entering and
leaving grounds ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .
By race horses breaking through fences
and into crowd ..................... 9
Eyes injured by confetti at street
carnlyalS
Thrown from merry go round ...-....
Cored or kicked by animals on exhibit
Falling over seats ......................
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

Ject of human existence, according to Mrs. Besant and theosophy
 recent book by Mrs. Besant Is call ed Ancient Wisdom" a resume of the doctrines advocated by theosophists In lengthy introduction to the volume the author shows the points of resem- blance among all the worlds great re- ligions. such as Zoroastrianism, Ve- dantism, Judaism and the theology taught by the priests of ancient Egypt. The record goes as far back as the history of man has been traced
 Far more interesting to the general reader than the history of ancient re- ligions of any kind. however. Is the story of AQnie Besant herself. She was born in London, October 1, 1847 Her mother was too poor to educate the little girl. so shc was taken in hand by Miss Marryat, daughter of the novelist Miss Marryat was rich and was good friend of the child's fami- ly. Annie was brilliant and precocious Intellectually and of d deeply religious nature besides. In early girlhood and up to her marriage at the age of 20 to Rev Frank Besant she was an Epis- copaliar of the most high church type
 Here is the kind of husband she got: "A man with very high Ideas of q husbands authority and a wife's sub mission. holding strongly to the mas ter-in- my own house theory: think ing much of the details of home ar engagements. precise. methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased." On her part she says: T had never had a harsh word spoken to me, never been ordered to do anything, had had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

my way smoothed for my feet and never worry had touched me. Harsh ness reused first incredulous wonder. then a storm of indignant tears and after time proud. defiant resistance. cold and hard as iron'
 With tender and gentle treatment. Annie Besant thinks she might in time have made fair imitation of the proper convention clergyman's wife. Then Annie Besant might never have become the high priestess of theoso- phy. might never even have been heard of at all. She would have endured with grim resignation the frightful dullncss of the women who surrounoed her in her husbands parish. But her husbands treatment of her "scared and outraged" her from the first, and al length all the dauntless, independ- ent, intellectual woman rose In rebel lion with u power that even she had not suspected before that she possess ed.
 The first shaking of her theological faith came when she began to wonder whether there could be anything in d church that permitted such a man as Rev Frank Besant to be a minister of the gospel. She began to doubt and was distressed. Then some one ad- vised her to apply to Dr. Pusey Tor advice He told her sternly that 1t WAS not ner uuly tO try to dSCtt tdlh the truth. but to do and believe what she was told. This was the final blow and from that day she thought for herself. right or wrong.
 She refused at length to go to her husbands church and listen to his sermons. To pretend to believe In the public ministrations of a man who Was an evil tempered, selfish. petty tyrant at home was more than her honest. in 1a~ tt began to write: she became free thinker, driven thereto apparently by the treatment of her husband. To cover up the scandal of having wife who would not attend his church and would not accept him as her legal, mental and spiritual director Rev. Frank Besant and his family tried to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
Meadow W-Garrett Party California and Portland.

A limited. select and personally con. ducted party will leave for Colorado. California and Portland, Oregon, in spe, cial sleeper, July sth. via the L. and N., to be gone about 25 days. A few va cancies left. For itinerary and full in- formation, write at once to Mrs. A. E. Meadow, s2o North Nineteenth Street Birmingham, AL
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1 have his wife pronounced insane. Naturally q separation followed. Mrs. Besant took her little daughter ana went out to earn bread for both. For time she did domestic work, was nurse, goverhess and head cook in u family. receiving in return board ana lodging for herself and child
 Neither kitchen nor nursery, now ever. was wide enough to hold Annie Besant. Thsolog gically.y she had been driven from one extreme to another, from high church ritualist to bellev- ing in no creed at all. She became d member of the British National Secu- lar Society. Thus she met Charles Bradlaugh and became his assistant in writing, speaking and working. Next Mime. Blavatsky, founder of the theosophical society, met her and ex- pounded oriental doctrine to her. con vincing her of its truth. Honest to the core. Annie Besant, to the general amazement. 'tlopped" into theosophy. She was thenceforth the right hand of Mime. Blavatsky during the latter lifetime. Since Mime. Blavatsky's death Mrs. Besant has naturally dropped in- to the leaders place. She has crossed the ocean to America many times and then criss-crossed our continent. ex- pounding the doctrines of her cult. which are universal brotherhood, the unfolding of the hidden powers of man and the study of oriental languages and literature.
 Twenty years ago Annie Besant, in England. was jeered at, scorned and persecuted Now her name is men toned at least with respect. Few liv- ing persons of either sex have done more humanitarian work than she has. She is a woman of indomitable cour- hge. industry and perseverance. an en- thusiast through and through. She lives. the simple life, believing that everything beyond a moderate supply Of material things interferes with and retards mans nobler progress.
 Each time she comes to us her hair is a little grayer, but the same fire of enthusiasm is in her eye.
 L.ipan Gray.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

Electric lighted dining cars are on trains 1 and between Birmingham and New Or leans. Lebanon and Cinchnati also on trains 2 to 8 between Montgomery ana Nashyille Service a Ia carte.
 New and handsome chair cars (seats free) operated on trains l and between Cincinnati and New Orleans. High back seat coaches and chair cars are also run on all through trains between Cincinnati Louisville. St. Louis Evansville. Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans.
 Train No. carries through Pullmans from Chicago. Cincinnati and New York to New Orleans. Also through day coach and sleeper between St. Louis and Montgomery through tourist sleepers to San Francisco Orleans and St. Louis to Jacksonville; also
 Train No. carries through Pullmans from Cincinnati and New York to New leaving Montgomery at 3:3o p. m. Tuesday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
Annie Besant THINKER. STUDENT AND WORKER

One of the photographs of Annie Besant shows her with her arm around the neck of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Scott. while that daughters arm is about her own little child. Muriel, sit- ting upon Mrs. Scotts lap.
 In the serene. uplifted and uplifting face of Annie Besant. the grandmoth- CT. there is little trace of the rough road over which this stormy soul his travelled to reach mental peace and rest. Lavater would have called that face tremendous one. full of power, courage and illumination. The fea- lures are fine and strong; the white hair Is swept back from the splendid brow. But the eyes are most remark able.
 The high priestess of theosophy be- lieves she has found in it's teachings truth and illumination. At the same time she finds in the ancient religions. among which she has been delving and
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hogs prontably. I am aware that
 there is diversity of opinion among
 swine breeders and feeders as to what
 should be guided mainly by the char-
 .,cter of the soil in concluding what IS
 best adapted to our section, and as am to give what Is preferable for the black lands. after mature consideration. l have put alfalfa pasturage at the top uf the list, but I must admie that the
 In a discussion of this subject at a swine breeders meeting, Geo. r. Lil- lnrd Said h" preferred an oat pasture to any other, but admitted that wheat pasturabt was excellent and Bof- inuda grass plot an essential requisite. Ii. F.. Singleton, the Lone star expert swine bre euer, agreed that oats, Wneat fly sufficient in the production or cheap pork, Illustrating the truth of the as- section by asserting that w. A. Smilh "f Coiin county. when corn was 2oS Ter bushel raised pork at l 3-4c. l cnnsidcr such q thing possibte, put rather think it an exceptional case. It is true that the chances to raise creased by adding alfalfa. especially lN.here it grows su well as on our north T"xns fertile black lands. It cannot be grown where cotton dies. n"r on white rock or gravel
 Perhaps 1 may be excused for giv- ing my experience with alfalfa, wheat.
  deep. rich. black uplands in Collin lCUunty. find that on land that vii! grow fear tons of alfalfa l eau graze twenty head oI hogs per acre for six months iu the year. wheat for five months for fifteen hogs per acre. oats four months for twelve noSs per acre. sorghum two months for seventeen hose per acre and rape. it being my first crop, l can't tell what is approxi, niately correct. Notwithstanding l class alfalfa as a perfect pastute Tor ! hugs, yet 1 would anal could not dis. peuse with wheat. "t, sorghum anu pea pasturase. The farmer who ex- p.rts to raise pork at 2c to l-2c. Is the minimum cost according to my | estimate, will ind that best results are gotten by the greater variety of pasturage and by growing sucn vain- able auxiliaries as rape, manSel brets, artichokes of the white kind and ker- shaws and pumpkins.
 To keep the pigs growing. especially your spring iitters. there Is nothing better than grazing them, first on green oats and ripe pea patch. l SOW my wheat early in the fall and after grazing all winter in our mild climate and all spring until June, l plant one in sorghum; the former l graze and the latter ] cut and feed when seeding. To boil down the whole of the cream in the matter and get the gist of the argument, with ample pasturage, us- ing corn as the main ration in the taTtenIng process. there is sa margin of profit, even at present low prices tor hogs to be realized.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
A Word About cowpens.

A. D. McNair.
 One of the best of crops and one that can be planted later than others. Is the cow-pea It is so good from every point of view that am almost at loss to understand why more attention Is not paid to it. Certainly 1t Is not new crop. for every family has grown a few from year to year. Cowpeas will grow on poqrer land than any oth- CT crop. yet are excellent for rich land. They mature quicly; make hay which Is equal in nutritive value to alfalfa. and produce a good yield of seed when they also fine fertilizer; partly y,d besa1sss Ha,,ss because they leave the land in good mechanical condition: Moreover. they the Lady variety. which have letter flavor than other kinds.
 Why, then, has this crop not assumed commercial importance? I think 1t is principally because t is not handled by the country are planted planted by hand, picked thresher and this method Is not only laborious but expensive. The price for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

Wednesday and Saturday via New orIean.
 and Southern Pacific Train No. carries through Pulln.. from New Orleans to New York and Cinn,s natl and Jacksonville to St Louis. maS.ns
 connection at Nashville with through slea,,s CT to Chicago eS Train No. carries through PulIma, i, sleepers from New Orleans to New Yorr Cincinnati, Chicago and through day coa.S
 and sieep-r Montgomery to St. Louis with. out change. lat Cincinnati. Evansville, St. LouIs and New Orleans for all points North. South East and West
 For further information pertaining to rates, routes and schedules consult ticket agents L. & N. R. R. or write call on P. Sid Jones' Dist. Pass Agent, and R. u
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
Facts About Alfalfa.

 Alfalfa seed weighs sixty pounds to the bushel. For d hay crop. SOW twen- ty to thirty pounds, Of seed per acre. For a crop for seed, SOW fourteen to eighteen pounds per acre. Sow clean seed.
 Sow alone, without any nurse crop The latter is often just as harmful as the weeds.
 separate the dodder and other weed seeds. Dodder Is the worst enemy Of alfalfa.
 North of the latitude of Washington the ground is warm-fron the middle of April to the middle of May. Sow in drills or broadcast.
 In the South and Southwest and in California SOW alfalfa in spring or autumn. Sow in drills.
 Do not cover the seed too deep.
 Alfalfa does not attain maturity un- til the third or fourth year. therefore. do not sow it expecting to get the best results in less time.
 Alfalfa grows best on a deep. sandy loam. underlaid by loose and per meable subsoil. 1t will not grow In there is an excess of water in the soil The land must be well drained.
 Alfalfa is deep feeder. Flow land deeply.
 appear. If cut in full bloom, the hay will be woody and less nutritious.
 Cut for seed when the middle clusters of seed pods are dark brown.
 To make alfalfa hay cut in the fore noon and let 1t wilt: then rake into windrows. It should be cured in win drows and cocks, and stacked or cut in barns with as little handling as pos sible. before the valuble leaves become too dry or brittle.
 It is not safe to pasture either cattle or sheep on alfaufa, as they are liable to bloat. when it Is fed green. Feed them the hay or practice soiling.
 There Is no better or cheaper way of growing hogs than to pasture them on alfalfa. One acre will furnish pas turage for from ten to twenty hogs per season.
 Horses can be pastured on alfalfa.
 Alfalfa is perennial, clover like plant with oblong shaped leaves and u taproot which often extends eight or more fet downward. The plant grows to height of from two to five feet and its blossoms are purple in color. borne in long, loose clusters
 Alfalfa hay Is not a complete ration. The best result are got by feeding 1t with corn foder, ensilage. wheat or oat straw or roots. Alfalfa contains large amounts of protein.
 Six to ten bushels of seed is the usual yield per acre.
 Keep the weeds moved and raked out the crop.
 Whether or not alfalfa is a hardy, profitable crop in Northern or Eastern States. say north of Philadelphia. is as yet a disputed question. But in some instances it has been grown as far north as Canada.-Farm Journal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
Pasturage for Hogs.

was read before the State Swine Breed CTS Association at the recent meeting of the Texas Farmers Congress at Col lege Station
 shall grow for pasture on the black land, I shall confine mysef to a con densation of certain facts which I gained from observation and practical tests made since I became feeder and latterly breeder of swine. It Is true that as frequent reader of such weekly paper as the American Swine herd, besides being a regular member of the State Swine Breeders Associa- tion, I have become better posted as to the improved methods of raising
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
Twiu (:frt1lern.

Frequently complaints reach the en- tomologist regarding insects that gir- die the, twigs of rrult and shade trees, ing them to drop to the ground. There are several kinds of girdlers, but the species doing the greatest amount of ulatus.
 Tue female punctures the branch, generally near leaf bud or axll. and there inserts an egg. The writer mas mas long and containing thirteen eggs. Tha egg is d fattisn white object which Is pushed through the puncture and thrust from ne-sixteentn to "ne-third of an inch downward between the wood and bark. It Is after egg-laying that the female gnaws groove around the punetured branch. The The matched feed on the dead wood. soon. CT or later these girdled twigs fall to the ground and in them the larvae Ssstties.
 The adult insect is a robust beetle. about eleven-twentieths Of & an inch inch dish band across the middle of the wing covers. The feelers or horns are longer than the body.
 As the insect completes its transfor- nations in the fallen brancnes, the best method for subdulng it is to them. This should be done in winter or early spring. It is sure to got son whe nthe farmer finds most time to do 1t.
 There are other insects called primers" that attack the branches of fruit trees In similar manner, but they rarely become injurious enough to command attention. Instead of girding the twig like the Erdiers Dy beginning on the outside. they begin on the inside. By examining the cut surface the intruder can be recognized before he Is seen.
 College Station, Texas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

SruDDlnB TOT years, an unmistakable correspondence with the teachings of the early Christians.
 Perhaps the corner stone of theosophy is the doctrine of reincarnation -- the same soul being born over and over again into a success sion of earthly bod ies in order that 1t may gain all human exnerience and thus
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03

minous forage plants In most cases these plants are sttil too young for one to judge of their value in Ameri- can agriculture. As showing the pos abilities of improving any cultivated plant would note here that l saw some str.lns of timothy with mature seed while ordinary unselected timothy Was only in bloom. This carly strain was created. made to ordef, for the purpose of ripeniEg at the same time as red clover, a mixture of these two plants being common in Northern hay fields and the dissimil--ity in ther periods of ripening behg an incon- venience.
 l have in mind numbers of plants that need to be improved in the South in order to increase the yield, or im- prove the quality, or to fit them Tor special uses. Already Dr. Wilcox and the writer at the Alabama station are doing sometbing in separate lines in breeding corn and 1 have made Il start in the Improvement by breeding of cotton and oats. To accomplish inucn in plant breeding requires that a man give most of his time to 1t. and th..t means money, thus limiting the work.
 Since extensive plantings of catdlpa trees have been recently made in Ala bania for railroad ties and since still larger pianlings should be made to supply future demands for fence posts. it may be of interest to note that at four years old stand ten to twelve feet high and have very respectable diam- eters. The catalpu lear worm. so niucn prized as fish bat, has done consider able damage 10 the foliage. Prof. Cor. bet. who IS in charge or the farm. will spray the cataipas with mixture pf | ounces of parls green In hity gal Ions of water. At Cncvy Chase Lake. near Washington, one may see how rapidly bare hillside may be mauc shady and parklike ty the planting of catalpa trees. which now aLpear to be seven or eight years old.
 The Arlington farm. managed before the war by its iiIustrious owners by approved methods. mad fallen into sad neglect before It's acquisition by the Department of Agriculture. It has been owned by the Department just tour years and the task Of converting a washed and weedy mule pasture into piesenta6le experiment farm has been a great undertaking. But the cowpea. and the haaalings. from the cavalry stable near by, and drainage, and Uncle Sams generous hnancial support are making good progress Tn converting a semi-wilderness into domain Of productiveness and of pleas Ing appearance. J. E. D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-03
MOBILE & OHIO R. R.

LOW HUNND THIF RATES VV
 DENVER, COLORADO.
 Official Route
 South Ga State League Conference. Special through sleeping cars will leave Montgomery via M. & o. at 1l:<5 e. m. July change. Route going: M & 0. to St. Louis. c. 6 A. Ky. to Kansas City. Union Pacific to Kansas City. c. c A. to St Louis. M. Q. to Montgomery. The return trip Is made stopovers are allowed. Numerous side trips to points of interest at low rates. Visitors are cordially invited to go with and spe- cial attention will be given ladies by Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Howard of Columbus. Ca. who will look after the comfort of the party.
 For further particulars address M. ". Howard, Columbus. Ga. or P. S. Hay. & E. P. A, Montgofnery Ala
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learn it's lessons of spiritual develop
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