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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
WHALES AS RAMS.
Two Resolute and Effective Attacks
Upon Vessels.

While cruising in the south seas the
whaler Essex on November 20, 1920,
was furiously attacked by n cow sperm
whale supposed to have been the mother
of calf which had just been harpooned.
The whale had not been wounded herself
and her attack was very determined AT
her first rush she passed under the Es-
sex and carried away Il great length of
her false keel; then coming to the sur
face q considerable distance away she
appeared to take bearings and deliberate
ly charged the vessel again, ramming her
with such violence that she stove in the
bows. while the ship rolled so heavily
that the captain thought she must be
dismasted. The case is memorable be-
cause tie crew lad to abandon the YES
sci, and one poa' was never heard of
again.
A more singular instance of whale
alta cking Il vessel occurred in 1895; the
singularity lies lit the fact that in the
case of the Handa Isle the attack was
entirely unpIOvOked. This vessel, a
brigiEtine Of $50 tons, was on her way
to Sydney with cargo of timber. On
August "A. about noon, a couple of
sperm whales rose very close to the YES
sci. and while the crew watched them
sporting" a,foss her bows the pair sud-
denly slowed around and came straight
for he-. Ora tfought better sof it and
dived below tie Handa Isle. the other
struck her fair and square on the beam,
crushing in her timbers. Having rammed
the ship in this resolute fashion it
sheered off terribly damaged about the
head. and precently sank tail first.
Fortunately there were some packages
of rawhides on board and the crew were
able to keep the vessel afioat with the
pumps until rough and ready collision
mat had been iasaIoned out of these and
drawn over the lcak.-Baily's Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
TWO KINDS OF MISERY.
Both Are Suffered by Authors, but One
Has Compensations.

"Among the acutest of the small mis-
cries of my existence" declares Hall
Caine in The Book Monthly, ''has been
that of seeing a man. or more frequent
ly a woman. take up and lay down. in
the midst of running fire of desultory
conversation. in the trains, on the steam
ers in the halls of hotels or on the sea-
shore q story on which l might have
spent all my strength and have written,
as | supposed. with my hearts blood"
Now. that's all very wel,' comments
Keble Howard in The Sketch, but Mr..
Caine must remember that there are
a good many novelists also writing with
their hearts blood who never see their
stories taken up at all. When they do
see them taken up there is often large
fly in the ointment.
"a week or two ago, for example, I
spent FIVE hours in railway carriage
with a wealthy gentleman, unknown to
me save by name and reputation, and
who was actually reading one of my
own humble works.
'When he had finished he handed the
volume t. his son. The son remarked
that his mother had read the same copy.
1t was sixpenny edition. sold at four
pence halfpenny. l got the halfpenny."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
Mary James Reason.

One Monday morning some time ago
two colored women happened to be sit
ting next each other in a u street car,
when one of them turned in surprise
and. looking at her companion up and
down. said:
Law May Jane, is dat you? What
in de name er gracious is you all dressed
up so fine fur dis soon in de mornin'T'
"Is gwine ter cot" she proudly re-
piled.
''Gwine ter cot? Is you been en- got
inter fightT
mo. indeed. 1 dom neber get in no
'sputes en- quar'ls."
Den is you been cotch' takin' any
thing?"
Me cotch' takin' anythin'! No, in
deed. l dom neber lay my hans on
nothin' dom b'long ter me-"
Den what you gwine ter cot ferY'
"Ps gwine ter git divo'ce fun jim" "
"Git a divo'ce FUN Jim! Why, what
is Jim done? Is he beat you"
"Jim beat me! No, indeed! Dat he
amt. Jim amt neber spuck q cross
word ter me in his whole life"
Den don't he spot your
Jim spot me! l reckon Jim do. He
come home de minute he gifts his wagins
en- lays 'em all ret in my lap. Spot
me! Why, Liza, Jim would tex his shirt
off'n his back ter glib ter me-"
Den in de name er goodness, May
Jane, what is you gwine git divo'ce
fun Jim ferT
"Weli, Liza, 1 tell you de trufe-I jes'
natcherly los my tas'e fer Jim. Lip
pincott's.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
WIT OF The YOUNGSTERS.
NN

Bessie Cat church why do so many.
people put those little envelopes on the
plate? Elmer-Oh, that's to keep the
pennies from rafting.
And every living thing was drowned
except what went into the ark" ex.
planned the Sunday school teacher.
"Fishes, tooT queried a small pupil.
What makes you so bad, Tommy"
asked an old lady of a precociom
youngster. "'Cause the good die
young" answered the incorrigible
Tommy.
Teacher-Harry, can you tell me why
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration
of Independence? HarryICause he
couldn't afford to hire a stenographer,
1 s'pose.
Mamma" said Flossie. "this old mir.
ror isn't any good" "Why, what's the
matter with it, dearT asked her moth
er. Every time l try to look In II"
explained Flossie, my face gets In the
way"
yisitor-What are you going to be
when you grow up, James? James-A
bricklayer. Visitor-Why are you go
ing to be bricklayer? "'Cause there's
SO many days when bricklayers can't
work"
Flossie, aged 3, wanted more cake,
but was told that it would make her
sick. She was silent for a moment,
and then exclaimed: "Well, mamma,
dest dive me anuzzer piece an send for
ze DOCTOR"
Small Bobby had met with a slight
mishap and was crying bitterly. Come
here" said his mother, 'and let me
kiss away the tears" "W-wait a m-min-
ute," sobbed the little fellow. II a-ain't
done c-cryin' yet"
II want a hairbrush for my mann
mas birthday present" said little John
ny, as he approached the counter.
what kind of a brush would you
likeT" asked the clerk. "Oh, any kind
so 1t has a soft back" explained the
youthful philosopher.
Sunday School Teacher-Now, chill.
dren, we have read the story of Re
becca at the well. Who can tell me
why she was waiting there? Little
Johnny Wise-I guess her sweetheart
was a milkman and she knew he was
bound to show up there.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
FAMOUS FOLKS SAYINGS.

He who is easily satisfied with his
work will never achieve greatness.
Sorrow is school in which the
schoolmaster is very stern and in which
his rules are very strict.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship
and coquetry by true love.
Friendships sown in youth furnish
the sweetest fruits for old age.
Great women belong to history aad
self-sacrifice
Let man pray that none of his
womankind should form just estimate
Of him.
The secret Of success is simply doins
what you can do, and doing well what
ever you can do.
In danger, mind you, woman behind
you, can turn your blood to fire.
1t is not what he has, nor even wha,
he does, which directly expresses the
character Of the man, but what he is.
Silence never makes blunder, and
once In while makes splendid hit.
When we are happy we seek those we
love; in sorrow we turn to those who
love us.
Some women only require an emer.
gency to make them fit for one.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
USE MADE OF PARIS SEWAGE.
Waste Flow from French Metropolis
Turned to Practical Account.

A German contemporary in discussing
methods of utilizing sewage for agricul-
ture gives considerable space TO Berlin's
successful enterprise already dealt with
in these columns. and then speaks of the
Paris venture. making feature of the
sewage farm at Acheres, says the Phil
adelphia Record.
The inhabitants of Paris number over
2.500.OOO, ard the total flow of sewage
is stated to average Tin our terms of
measurement 17,66O,0OO cubic feet per
diem. This is collected in intercepting
sewers. which convey it by gravitation
down TO Clichy, where it is raised lis
feet by powerful pumps and distributed
by gravitation through the farms. The
pumping engines are capable of indicat-
ing 5000 horsepower. 1t is stated that
experience shows that one acre of suit
able soil can take 1880 cub feet of sew
age daily, so that an area of about H.
200 acres would be needed to deal with
the whole of the discharge of the Paris
sewers.
A very high degree of publication is
reached. the effiuent containing fewer
bacteria per cubic centimeter than most
uncontaminated streams. The land also
has been greatly increased in value, be-
ing now worth five times as much as 1t
was before being made receptacle for
the sewage. AS a natural consequence,
nelgnDOrlnS lanu owners, WHO OrlSlnaily
had fercely opposed the establishment
of sewage farm in their midst, are
now demanding to have the sewage ap-
piled to their own farms.
The farm at Acheres is 2741 acres in
extent and is under the control of civil
engineer. who in the main raises beet
root, though his crop will ADMIT of much
less sewage being passed on to the land
than certain others. The main convey
ing the sewage from the pumping sta
ton is A inches in diameter, while a
secondary system of pipes, ranging from
81 to Is inches in diameter, serves as
feeders to the irrigation trenches, into
which the sewage passes through II
inch valves. The ground is laid out and
the irrigating trenches are so arranged
tPet the only service needed in regulat-
the flow is the opening and closing
OF the regulating waves just mentioned.
The crop which can stand the most
sewage Is grass, a meadow, it is stated,
being uninjured by a flow of 2,43O,O
cubic feet per acre per year; lucerne
car take 1.79000O cubic feet per acre
per annum; artichokes, 593, 900; flowers.
parsley, sorrel, etc., $4,000 cubic feet;
leeks. cabbages and celery, 325, ,OOl,
while beet roots, carrots and beets will
take only 1871 900, and potatoes, aspara-
gus and peas only 141 900 cubic feet per
acre per year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
A DARING SEA CAPTAIN.
Raised Sunken Ship and Reaped
Rich Harvest.

Raised Sunken Ship and Reaped
Rich Harvest.
"A story of heroism of the sea has
Just been enacted in the Pacific Ocean"
said San Francisco merchant. cit is
the story of an intrepid sea captain
who resurrected sunken ship that had
been given up for lost, and put her In
such good condition that she has broken
all records for sailing craft around the
Horn
This sea captain lived at San Diego
until a year or two ago, having retired
on a modest income. His name is
Thayer One day he read In the papers
of an auction sale of the hulk Of ship
In the South Seas. He went to San
Francisco, where he found that the ship
had been valued at $250OOO and had
been grounded in q storm, deserted by
the crew and supposedly pounded into
shapeless mass upon the rocks. But
he thought he would take a chance, and
lawyer In Oakland to take a half In
terest.
Getting together wrecking crew,
he travelled 1000 miles to the Island of
Manga Riva, where, through heroic eff
forts and after many months, he got
the ship to the level and towed her back
across smooth summer seas to San
Francisco, There the vessel was re-
built into three-nested bark. Captain
Thayer went to Washington and got the
government to register the British ship
Fyrenees, for that was its original
name, as the bark Manga Riva. Then,
after the refitting had been completed,
he sent her to Swansea, Wales. The
bark made the fastest time ever at
tained by any sailing vessel between the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Captain
Thayer is now enjoying the income
from his daring
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28

When the first fire company, in re-
sponse to an alarm, reached the long row
of tenements, the fire captain at once
jumped from his engine and endeavored
to locate the fire. When he had ineffec-
tually hunted through three or four struc-
lures for it, he deserted an old woman
sticking her head out of a window of
the topmost floor of an eight-story tene-
ment, little farther up the street.
ANY fire up there!" he yelled, when
he had reached the pavement beneath
this building.
In answer, the old woman motioned
for him to come up.
Accordingly, the captain, with his men
Juggling their heavy hose behind them,
laboriously ascended the eight flights and
burst into the room where the old wom-
an was.
where's the freY demanded the cap
tain, when no fire nor smoke became
visible.
"Oh, there amt none here" replied the
old woman, flashing an ear-trumpet "I
asked y up cause L couldn't hear a word
you said way down there!'-From the
Bohemian,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
LIVE AND LEARN.
There are 500 ways to cook eggs

There are 500 ways to cook eggs
The Chinese like fried wasp soup.
The melancholy always have dark
eyes.
Certain Partisan decadents drink pc
troleum.
A single crow destroys 100000 in
sects year.
Vermont's marble quarries are the
best in the world
Adulterated radishes now-they are
dipped in aniline dye to give them a
pink, fresh look.
In Tibet. In greeting a friend. 1t is
polite to hold up the hard and stick
out the tongue.
The perfume of the California rose
Is 20 per cent stronger than that of
any other rose in the world
Asparagus is the oldest known plant
used for food.
The Persians have different name
for every day in the month.
Few New Workers are aware of the
fact that the East River was known
as the Salt River 200 years ago.
The Danes seem most addicted to
suicide. Their average is 256 self
murders per mllion persons per year.
The blood thrown out by the heart
travels seven miles in an hour, or
4,292,OOO miles In lifetime of seventy
years.
The meteorites which hurl them
selves at this sphere add about one
thousand tons to its weight every
three years.
Rio de Janeiro has only artificial
Ice and only one factory to make 1t,
with an equipment that is not up to
date. The Ice is sold by grocers at
about 21A cents a pound.
Licorice root grows wild In the fields
of Asia Minor, and until fifty years
ago was practically unused To-day
the annual exports to the United
States alone are worth about $3.50. 900.
A monument has been erected to
Anna Holzel, in the Schlossgarden at
Mannheim, Germany. She was the
wife of carpenter who, in 1884, saved
the poet Schiller from debtors pris-
on.
The Pilgrim Congregational church,
near London, founded in 1916, is the
Oldest Of the denomination in the en-
pire, and 1t was from it that the Lon
don contingent of the men of the May.
flower was recruited.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
Beautifying the Baby.

Nature may have cruelty denied the
be3y classic perfection Of feature, but
tere are some things that can be done
to improve the infantile adventurer into
world where beauty is a tremendous
asset:
Prominent ears can be made to lie
close to the head if the child wears an
ear cap regularly at night.
A nose that is broad and shapeless IL
gently massaged every day with thumb
and forefnger, working always down
ward toward the point, can be improved
In a few months out Of all knowledge.
If baby's eyebrows are very thin and
skinny rub in very gently twice a week
a little vaseline. This encourages the
growth, and as good eyebrows are an
enormous improvement to even an other
wise good-looking face, they are quite
worth taking a little trouble over.
Never neglect the weekly shampoo, and
see that the child's hair is cut and singed
at least once in six months.
II the hair is at all inclined to be
weakly, do not on any account allow it
to be crimped or curled, as this is almost
bound to injure it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
MARRIAGE Is A FAILURE, If

Meals are ill-coOked and badly
served.
The income, though we'll managed
and made the most of, cannot cover the
expenditure.
Both parties are absolutely resolved
to see only the worst side Of each 9th.
er's character.
Neither husband nor wife has mar
ried for love, but merely for money, OIL
any 5.hor mundane motive.
When dA.rls dayC sme. husband and
wife forget they too; each other for
better, for worse, for richer, for poorer
The husband be faddy, fidgety mar
perpetually prying into household mat
ters and II he thinks he knows more
about them than anybody else.
Two young people rush into matri.
mony and take unto themselves all the
burden of married life when too young
to realize the awful responsibility of 1t.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
Missed His Vocation.

Reginald de Koven, the composer, tells
did not please them, they began talking
ON music in general and on Wagner in
particular.
Another example of the fact that
every man wants to do something out of
his line" said the druggist.
That's right" assented the grocer.
"Now I'm a grocer. but I've always
wanted to be banker"
YOU'D probably fail" added the drug
gist Look at me. Pm q success as
druggist, yet I've always wanted to write
q book. This man Wagner tries his hand
at music. Just listen to it. And yet we
all know he builds good parlor carsw-
Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
SPLINTERs.

Painted In water c0lOrs-Ocean
scenes.
1t may even take a lot of rocks to
build frame house.
The literary man always thinks that
he is on the write path.
You don't have to drop dollar very
heavily to break Ii.
The bird with the brightest feathers
doesn't always have the sweetest song.
Boyce-That fellow is always the
loudest in the argument. Joyce-I sup
pose he thinks his train of thought has
the right Of way.
People shouldn't dive into the social
swim unless they can keep their heads
above water.
Benners-JOnes has very open
countenance Jenners-Yes, I have
heard his yelp.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
A Holiday Box

To pack a box that will be certain TO
meet with the full appreciation of a boy
there is one important fact that must be
remembered, says The Delineator. The
box must contain good proportion of
substantial viands.
In the first place, there should be
turkey or chicken, either boned. and
roasted, or boiled and pressed into q
mold from which it may be removed
easily to be cut into slices. A well-boiled
smoked beef tongue also makes a good
substantial morsel to put into a boys
box, while an attractively decorated
ham--or even half a ham, when it has
been carefully baked and garnished-
will not go to waste.
There should be one or two samples
of homemade pastry; and as mince and
apple are about the only kinds that can
be packed with any great degree of
safety, these should be selected. There
should also be large loaf of pound cake,
with plenty OF raisins and citron, as well
as a good big batch of cookies. A
package Of fried cakes or doughnuts will
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
A Dog Detective.


In 1920 peasant was found murdered
in q wood in the Department of the
Loire, France, with his dog sitting near
the body. No clue could at first be
gained as to the perpetrators OF the
to live in the same cottage, accompanied
always by the faithful dog. In Febru-
airy, 1887, two men, apparently travel
ers, stopped at the house, requesting
shelter, but no sooner had the dog seen
them than he flew at them with great
fury, and would not be pacified. As they
were quitting the house one of them said
to the other: THAT rascally dog has not
forgotten usw This raised the suspicion
of the widow who overheard it, and she
applied to the gendarmes in the neigh
borhood, who follow and arrested the
men. After long examination one of
the criminals confessed.-From "a Few
Dog Stories" by Ralph Neville, in The
Outing Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28

Fire Commissioner Lantry, Of New
York. apropos OF his movement toward
the establishment of a firemen's roll
of merit" told q reporter fire story.
ut takes pluck" he began, Ito be n
fireman. A young fellow Of only aver
age pluck was serving ut his first fire,
and the chief rushed up to him and
shouted:
"'Shin up that ladder to the eighth
story, crawl along the cornice to the
fourth window, drop down three sto-
ries and catch that wooden sign you
see smoking there, swing yourself
along to the second window that the
red glare is coming from, break the
glass and so in and rescue those three
old ladies. Well, what the deuce are
you waiting forP
For g pen and ink, SIR said the
new man. L want TO hand in my
resignation
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
His Brothers Forethought.

A Tammany man tells a story in con-
nection with a caucus held in Troy some
years ago as illustrating how fully alive
the Celts of that city were to the oppoI
tunities of American citizenship.
During the caucus in one of the lower
wards of the city, certain Michael
Mulcahy was nominated for minor pO-
sition on the ward ticket to be voted for
at the charter election. Some inquiries
were made of Thomas Mulcahy as to
might be, as no one in the neighborhood
could call him to mind.
Hes me brother" explained Tom,
with cheerful alacrity. "He's not arrived
in the country yit, but he TUX ship av a
Wednesday, an III be here in tonne for
the election. n."-Lippincott's.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
Old Frames.

Nothing more readily sells worthless
and spurious ''old MASTER" hideous with
all the blatant tricks of the fabricator,
than an old frame. This is the bait
which is most killing. But dealers them
selves often buy pictures for their
frames. At the celebrated sale of the
Sellars collection. most of which were
copies and were of little value as works
of art, the dealers were actually biddi,,s;
for the frames only.
To the experienced eye the peculiar
patina which age has impaired TO these
old frames cannot be initiated. But the
old styles have, ON account of the enOr-
nous demand, been repeated in modern
days as copies sold as such, or as
''faked" frames having spurious sUg-
gestion of age artfully impaired to them
By skilled workmen.-London Opinion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
EUROPEAN MIGRATION.
There Has Been an Enormous In
crease Every Year since 1850.

Iner6 HAS been Enormous
crensc Every Year since 1850.
Between the years 1860 and 1880
from 300. 600 to $4,000 people, tired of
Europe, looked for better conditions
and new home on the other side of
the Atlantic every year.
Since 1900, according TO the statistics
Of the European ports, about 100000
persons have left their native lands to
settle beyond sea every year.
The greater part of these emigrants
have adopted the United States as their
country. Several nations, in which
twenty-five years ago there was only a
slight tendency to emigration, now
show q considerable annual loss by de
partures for other lands. This is par
ticularly true of Italy, Austria-Hun-
gary, Russia, Spain and Portugal. In
the years between 1870 and 1880 some
10000 Italians, 5000 Russians and
1900 Austrians OF Hungarians emf
grated to America, since the number
has Increased to 10000 Russians
and 157, 900 Italians. These figures are
taken from European sources, and GER
tainly in the case of Italy they are too
low.
Spanish emigration has also in
creased considerably since 1880, and
amounts to-day TO $4,000 year. Lit
tie Portugal sends out from 10000 to
25,OO0 of her people annually.
The English and Scandinavian emf
grafton has changed very little in the
last ten years. German emigration has
heavily declined. Between 1870 and
1890 the number of German endgrants
each year exceeded 100000 (maximum
OF 221,OOO in 1SS1), but since 1898 the
number has fallen off very much, and
to-day only about $4,000 Germans an
nually leave their native land. The
present commercial development Of Ger
many, no doubt, explains the change. In
Switzerland the conditions are similar.
In 1883 the annual emigration amount
ed to 1880; to-day 1t is only 5000 or
1000