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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
RHYME OF THE PUMPKIN PIE.

It's dish that the gods Mars, Apollo and
Jove,
In their palmiest days might be envious of !:
Where the milk and the honey OF plenty
combine
To fashion a dish most deIiciously fine.
When the spell OF November Is gray upon
EARTH
And the bowling storm spirit comes out OF
the north
Then the heart is made glad, tho forbid
ding the sky,
By the taste and the sight of the rich
pumpkin pie.
Dear time-honored dish that our grandmoth-
ers made,
Ere the red man was gone or the forests
were laid;
When the sound Of the warwhoop was heard
in the land
And the Puritan toiled with his musket at
hand,
When towering Wantasquet saw to ascend
The silent smoke signals that spoke OF the
end;
And the bear and the panther, the lynx and
the fox
Held revels of blood In its storm -snltten
rocks.
You are dainty as then. in those autumn's
With crust crust like snowflake and center Of
With the spices Of india lying deep In your
heart,
You are jewel and crown OF the housekeep-
er s ART.
Let the anglomaniac wall. II he will,
The homage, yours justly, well Offer you
still;
And ever this toast we'll repeat till we
die
"Ail bail and long life to the brave pump
kin pie -
Though your hills. November, are bar
rem and bleak
And wailing the winds IN your forests
which speak.
One charm we will cherish-yes. keep till
we die
The pride of New England-the good pump
kin pie.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Railroad. i'm BraxiI.

American and Canadian capitalists
have secured a more or less perfect
control over the system of rail and
water transportation forming a belt
line" around the most productive por-
ton Of Brazil, says the New York Sun
In report to the bureau OF manufac-
lures Consul General c. K. Anderson
at Rio Janeiro says that this belt
line" with the help Of the government
railroads and subsidized steamship
line, practically reaches every import
ant commercial center in the whole re-
public.
The ''belt line" system OF railroads
is distributed over the republic In
three main lines, as follows: The Sac
Paulo-Rio Grande Railroad lines, which
cover the southeastern part OF Brazil.
reaching into the coffee and live stock
districts: the Amazon Bolivian line.
which connects the republic OF Bolivia
and the great rivers of the northwest
ern part Of Brazil. which Is principally
grazing country.
American interests are now organic
Ing a syndicate for the further devel-
opmsnt Of the Paraguayan and Boliv-
ian connections. The amount Of money
at present invested aud which VIII
soon be invested In several enterprises
now being begun. including the Boliv-
ian development, Will probably exceed
$150,000,O00. The movement Of Ameri-
can railway and other material to Bra
I'll, he says, represents the most active
and the principal element In the export
trade OF the United States to Brasil
and Bolivia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

warned me. / rose and said that |
must not stay too long. for L would not
weary him or add to his suffering. AT
parting | said
"Oh, general, how much ! wish /
could do something 10 help you. But
You can always command me if it
should occur TO you that | could do
anything" / then asked, doubtless
with some show of emotion, as / held
his hand: rs there anything, gen
eraI?"
He answered slowly and very kindly +:
Nothing more, Gen. Howard nothing
besides what you have been doing
''GoOd-by. Gen. Grant May God
bless you"
Thank you; good-by." 1t was our
last Interview.
The general had the same complete
self-pOsseSsion as always. was cheerful
without a hint of impatience or com
plant under alIliction. His was the sub
mission of a great heart. in its own
unstudied way, to the Heavenly Father,
the Eternal Friend
lie had confidence in himself, it is
true, but ii was because he knew of a
power beyond self. because he was
helped AMI strengthened by that power
beyond self. You may call it spirit.
Providence or God. The name is not
material. 1t is all the same
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

no. Brother Norwood, you must permit
me to finish. "hen one society and an
other, by some strange coincidence. con-
ceived the thought of giving the pastor
pleasant Thanksgiving surprise 1t is
needless to say that we have surprised
each other quite as well. But best of ali,
/ find that in the few days of unconscious
cooperation, we have increased the
amount paid on salary to just five hun
dred dollars. This shows what we can do
if We all work together. / move you as
a congregation, that We increase our pas
tors salary from six hundred to eight
hundred dollars year"
1t was carried with a rush, even Broth
er Cook asserting. Pastor Norwood arose,
and with tears of joy trucking down mis-
cheeks, thanked them simply. Some said
they sang the doxology as never before !;
at least there were two voices that rang
out with a new inspiration of faith.
When they were once more at home,
and the children in bed. Wesley Norwood
again took his wife in his arms and open
ing his Bible at place much marked and
worn, they read together with the guile
less faith of children, And it shall come
to pass that before they call, | will an
swer; and while they are yet speaking,
will hear"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

aplomb OF the great orator, so it is as well
to take the precaution to have the knife
sharp.
The turkey should always be served on
O platter large enough TO hold the differ
ent joints as they are carved. 1t should
be placed on the table with the breast to
the left of the carver, who commences
operations by first getting firm grip OH
the fowl by sticking the carving fork deep
down through the upper part of the breast
bone. Now, holding the fork securely in
the left hand, take the knife in the right
and remove the legs and the second joint
together by passing the knife around the
joint next the body. Then take of the
wings in the same manner and disjoint
them, cutting through the ligaments.
Before carving more from the turkey
it is we'll to separate the leg and cut 1t
into two pieces. After this the breast of
the turkey can be carved in thin, delicate
slices with the knife held fat against the
breast bone and faced away from the
carver. Then the point of the knife can
be inserted under the wishbone and 1t can
be lifted, pressed backward and removed
Good carvers now turn the turkey
slightly and without removing the carving
fork cut the shoulder blades from the I'M
der side Of the carcass. Each helping"
should contain q piece of both white and
dark meat and a generous spoonful Of
dressing.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
THANKSGIVING GAMES.
Jolly Diversions for Afternoon and
Evening.


Evening.
1t is wise to provide some sort of en-
tertainment for Thanksgiving guests, for
jollity on this anniversary of good cheer
can never come amiss.
At the table the place cards, the pass
ing of jests and the general hospitality
all tend to entertain the guests. so that
it remains only to devise some novel fea-
ture to fill in the awkward pause be-
tween dinner and the time for departure,
with perhaps some inexpensive but ap-
propriate prizes to make little excite
ment.
A hilarious form of entertainment Is for
each person to be given a subject and
made to write a Mother Goose rhyme OF
more than two lines containing the given
word. This is difficult thing for many
people to do, and many absurd verses
are the result. while clever rhymster
can convulse the entire party. After all
the people playing have written their con-
tributions these are all collected in a
bowl and drawn forth one by one and
read TO the assembly, who try 70 guess
the author.
Where there Is blackboard within
reach it is very amusing to make each
person, with eyes blindfolded, draw q
given subject thereon. At Thanksgiving
such subjects as turkeys. ducks, pumpkin
pies, and so forth, might be given. The
results of the unfortunate artists worh
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Thanksgiving of the Chinese.

AS we learn more of this curious peo-
pie, we are inclined to think that down
in the narrow streets of Chinatown there
is more real poetry than one would sus-
pect from the matter-of-fact appearance
and actions of the. inhabitants. The aver
age American, in the rush of metropolitan
life, forgets all about the moon unless
there is an eclipse, and even then there
are ten chances to one that he knows
nothing about it until he reads the paper
next day.
With the Chinese Il is different, says
Leslies Weekly. As their fathers did
before them, so do they, and so will their
children-for it takes more than a CEN
fury to eradicate deeply rooted belief
pay tribute to the sun and the moon and
the stars.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth
month in the Chinese calendar, which,
according to the American method of COM
putting time, was this year about the first
week in September, the Chinese celebrat-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
dignity md Danger.

To fall with all wounds RI front is
the ambition of the hero, and this am
bition inspired the worthy chaplain of
a Federal regiment during the civil
war, commemorated iy Gen. Otis in the
Springfield Republican. The situation
of the chaplain may not strike the
reader as quite as romantic as that of
the knight going to the fray with spear
and shield. but the spirit OF facing the
foe is fully as commendable.
During q battle a small house near
the field was taken and occupied as a
hospital In one OF the intervals be-
tween operations some one discovered a
stone jar pushed way under the stairs.
The fight was at its hottest, and pieces
of shell and bullets were constantly
striking the house.
The chaplain volunteered to get the
He crept up under the stairs on his
hands and knees, then started back sud-
denly. and came to an erect position.
Thinking he might be i'll, the surgeons
inquired with solicitude what the mat
ter was.
why" explained the chaplain. sup
posing one of the bullets passing
through should kill me with my head
nT.der the stairs?"
ut isn't half as likely to strike you
there as where you are now" replied
one of the doctors
81 know, but how would 1t look?
What would the Tenth say IL their
chaplain was killed skulking in such q
position during an engagement"
The good man soon contrived way
TO hook out tile Jar without comproniis-
ing his soldierly dignity. The recep-
tacle was found TO be half full of de-
licio5s honey. When work was over,
the surgeons enjoyed a feast OF sweet
amber fluid spread upon bareback.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
The Orphan Brigade

Eighteen hundred and sixty-one;
There in the echo of Sumters fun
Marches the host of the Orphan Brigade,
Lit by their banners, in hope best ar
rayed,
Five thousand strong. never legion hath
Might as this bears it forth in that
morn:
Hastings and Cressy, Naseby. Dunbar,
Cowpens and Yorktown, Thousand Years
War.
1t writ on their hearts "a onward afar
They shout TO the roar of their drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-two:
Well have they paid TO the earth its due.
Close up, steady! the half are yet here
And all of the might for the living bear
Tie dead in their hearts over Shiloh's
field.
Rich, o God, is thy harvest's yield
Where faith swings the sickle, trust binds
the sheaves
To the roll of the surging drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three;
Barring Sherman's march TO the sea
Shorn to thousand: face to foe,
Back. ever back, but stubborn and slow.
Nineteen hundred wounds they take
In that service of He'll, yet the hills they
shake,
With the roar of their charge as they
onward go
To the roll of their throbbing drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-four:
Their banners are tattered-and scarce
twelve score.
Battered and wearied and scared and old,
Stay by the slaves where the Orphans
hold
Firm as a rock where the surges break
Shield of land where men die for His
sake.
For the sake Of the brothers whom they
have laid low,
To the roll of their mufled drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixtyfve;
The devil is dead and the Lord is alive.
In the earth that springs where the heroes
sleep
And in love newborn where the stricken
weep:
That legion hath marched past the setting
Beaten? nay, victors; the realms that
they won
Are the hearts of men who forever shall
hear
The tbrob of their far-of drums.
N s. Shaler.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21


Certain Partisan decadents drink pc
trOleum.
About 100000 people are always
afioat on the seas of the world
In 1890 the world contained but 90
miles o. railway: now there are over
10000 rliles Of line.
Mexico is very musical, and a great
deal of the demand for musical instru-
ments is taken care Of by the United
States.
There is being built i'm the City of
Mexico the largest bull ring in the
world. When completed it Will seat
22.OOO people The framework is of
steel and the cost will be 100000.
Munich, with a population Of over
$4,000, has, ON an average, one estab-
lisment for the sale of liquid refresh
ments to each $40 persons, exclusive of
the floating population, which is a
large one.
The Greenwich observatory will have
to be moved. From year to year the
magnetic observations made there have
become unreliable because of the in
creasing traffic, and the impending es
Establishment of large electric works in
the immediate neighborhood Will make
II necessary to make the nautical cal
cuIations elsewhere.
DR.. A. Graham Bell has erected al
his place at Baddeck, n. s., a tower.
eighty feet in height, built Of the tie
trahedral cells which he invented to Sc
cure great strength and lightness IL
the construction of kites. The engineer
was f. W. Baldwin, of Toronto. 1t is
said that the tower weighs less thai
five tons and will carry a weight OF
$4,000 pounds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Centuries Odd.

Days Of festival thanksgiving have
been celebrated for many centuries. On
der the old Mosaic law the Hebrews held
an annual harvest festical under the trees
and in tents Of palm. The German Prot
estants have an annual Harvest Home
festival, accompanied by religious SER
vices, and this custom was brought to
America by the early Dutch immigrants.
Thanksgiving for us to-day is a time
or rejoicing that life has been spared to
and that we have escaped many dan
ars, overcome many trials and enjoyed
amy pleasures during the last year. II
also time when we should remember
indy those who have been less fortunate
and should put forth some special effort
20 make them happier.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Order Coupon.
All over the World.

At Fulbourn, England, the poor re-
ceive sixpence each for regular church
attendance.
Great Britain is rich in mosses
There are 800 varieties found on the
British islands.
The county of London covers 49,
442 acres. but the London police area
Is 443.421 acres.
The ratio of pauperism in London
has risen from 21.S per 1000 in 1890
to 26.4 in 1905.
The Mexican government is giving
attention to the problem of irrigating
on large scale.
In Swiss restaurants natives gener-
ally pay a few cents less for food or
drink than tourists.
The value of diamonds as fancy
stones can be materially increased by
the action of radium.
The first circulating library belonged
to Pamphilius, prebyyter of Caesarea.
who lived in the third and fourth CEN
fury A. ID. He collected $4,000 relig-
ious books.
The first cotton mill in the South
was built near Lincolnton, n. c.. on
the south fork of the Catawba river,
in 1915. and operated by water power.
1t had seyenty-two spindles. and Vet it
was the beginning of the great fac
| tories that are to-day busy turning out
products of the fieecy staple. This mill
vas enlarged to 1900 spindles in 1919.
The progress Of cotton manufacture
was slow in the South for many years,
until long after the civil war. In 1906
Southern mills manufactured 80 per
cent of all the cotton used in Ameri.
can mills.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

are extremely ludicrous, as may te sup
posed.
clever woman recently led her guests
after cosy little dinner to the drawing
room, where large table had been clear
ed and chairs arranged round it. The
guests sat in couples, and on the table lay
pile of slips of paper. Each slip was
numbered and contained quotation from
famous author or poet, and it remained
for the participants to guess the writer's
name. The guests were each furnished
with a card and pencil, with the numbers
written out to correspond with the quota
tons, with blank beside for the author,
whose name was supposed to be supplied
by the owner of the card.
BY playing partners the fun was all
the merrier, and for a Thanksgiving en-
tertainment the individual cards or tai
lies may be decorated with hand-painted
turkeys in the upper right-hand corner.
The couple securing the largest number
of correct answers each win a prize, and
the couple who guess the fewest should
receive some comic gifts-any of the
Thanksgiving novelties would do.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Conservative and sanes

Grover Cleveland's voice is for con
servative and sane tariff reform" This
in letter indorsing II. Nj. Whitney as
one of the two Democratic nominees for
Governor Of Massachusetts. Conserva-
tive, sane? Those are elastic terms.
What one man calls conservatism an
other regards as outrageous radicalism !;
sanity Is equally matter Of relative
estimation. The last time Mr.. Cleve-
land had a chance to define himself his
idea of conservative aud sane tariff
reform" was so much more radical and
so much crazier than the shape ulti-
mately assumed that he turned his
head and held his nose when the Will
SON German bill passed by. What Is 1t
to be conservative and sane in tariff
reform? How big is piece of chalk 7?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

An old lady on her seventy third
birthday once said, IL dc not mind
getting old. and / do not fear death.
but live in constant dread o. paraly-
sis"
"For some time have been wanting
to tell you of the great good your Won
derfll Sloan's Liniment is doing here, +"
writes Mr. James f. Abernethy. Of
Rutherford College, n. G. In fact,
all your remedies are doing noble work.
but your Liniment beats all. In my
eight years experience with medicine
/ find none to go ahead OF II, having
tried 1t in very many cases I know
of one young man, brick mason, who
suffered from a partial. yes, almost
complete. paralysis OF one arm got
linn TO use your Liniment. and now he
can do as much work as ever, and he
sings your praise every day. / get all
TO use II possibly can and know there
is great virtue in II. I have helped
the sale Of your noble remedies about
here greatly, and expect to cause many
more to buy them, as know they can't
be beat"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

ed their annual moon festival and thanks
giving. In the country. where the good,
old-fashioned Yankee farmers still con-
tinue to plant their peas and beans in the
different times of the moon, so that they
shall grow right, that body at this time
of year is called the harvest moon; so
it is the harvest moon that determines the
date of the festival. which is much like
the Thanksgiving of America and Eng
land and the Metzelsuppe of the Germans.
The day preceding and the day follow
ing the night Of the full moon the Chi
<nese set aside for the feasting and mer-
rymaking. There is no suspension of bust
ness, for the celebrating is all done after
nightfall. The thanksgiving days are con-
sidered a good time to pay off monetary
debts as well as social, for such a prac-
tice promotes domestic felicity and hast
ems prosperity. 1t IS not unusual during
moon-festival week to see a large party
of Americans entertained by a gayly
CARRIED Chinese host, to whom one OF the
party at some time has rendered a SER
vice or extended a courtesy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21
Thanksgiying Time.

Oh, It's Just before Thanksgiving
And there's something In the air
Making life well worth the living
You can note 1t anywhere.
Something jovial and pleasing
In the people that you meet,
Mixed with incense, wondrous teasir
Permeating room and street
In the kitchen of a nation
They are busy making pies;
And the turkeys red oblation
Forms the barnyard's sacrifice
While our Johnnie's at his station
On the threshold plants his toes
And sends wireless information
To his stomach by his nose
From the cities, sleeps and prairles,
Where "the children widely roam
Wills and Harrys. Beths and Mays
All the roads are leading home"
And the lashes gladly listen,
Hanging loose Is every latch,
As the old folks wait and listen
E'en the lightest step to catch.
Crib and NOW are brimming DER us
With the harvest, safe at last,
And the future smiles before US
With the fuilness Of the past.
Midst the bounty all-suffieient
OF the present and Its cheer
Let us thank God omniscient
For the blessings of the year.
ALeslie's Weekly.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-21

Also Have Things 20 Learn.
For many years l have used coffee
and refused to be convinced of its bad
effect upon the human system" writes
veteran school teacher.
Ten years ago was Obliged TO give
up my much loved work In the public
schools after years of continuous labor.
had developed a we'll defined case OF
chronic coffee poisoning
The troubles were constipation.
gatherings of the heart, humping In
the top Of my head and various parts
OF my body, twitching of my limbs,
shaking of my head and. at times after
exertion, a general gone feeling with
a toper's desire for very strong coffee.
was a nervous wreck for years.
"A short time ago friends came to
visit us and they brought a package OF
Postum with them, and urged me to try
it. | was preiudiced because some
years ago l had drunk cup Of weak,
tasteless stuff called Postum which J
did not like at all.
This time, however. my frienS
made the Postum according to direc-
tons on the package. and Ii won me.
Suddenly found myself improving IN
a most decided fashion.
1.-The odor of boiling coffee no longer
tempts me. l am so greatly benefited
by Postum that II l continue to I'm
prove as I am now, I'll begin to think
i have found the Fountain of Perpetual
Youth. This is no fancy letter, but
stubborn facts which I am glad ID
make known"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek, Mich Read the book. The
Road to Wellville," In pkgs. 'There'l
| q Reason"