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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Favorfte Sport i'm New south Wales
How the Animals Are Broken.

Favorfte Sport i'm New south Wales
How the Animals Are
Whether 'brumby" is a survival of
the aboriginal name for n wild horse
or a corruption of unbranded" appears
TO De a question which biologists have
left undecided, but brumby hunting is
still a favorite sport IN New South
Wales. says the London Standard.
Districts like the Clarence and Ste
phens and Manning river watershed are
still the home of numerous droves of
brunlbies, and hunting them is declared
to be a very exliilarating pastime. The
first step taken is to stake out a corral
and make all secure except n narrow
entrance, which can subsequently be
gated. On either side of the entrance
and projecting from it funnel-wise a
booty fence is prepared.
To the supplemented brumby IL pre-
sImably looks like a stockade and
pieces of futtering cotton make II look
i~mpregHable. When this is ready tire
young blOods, well mounted. gallop out
ana r0uhu up the VIII horses, driving
them with shouts and much loud snap
ping of stock whips toward the mouth
of the funnel.
In a group of brumbies there is al
ways a leader, and when once the hTlt-
ers have got the leader heading for the
corral they are pretty certain or the
rest Of the drove. The f~luttering cotton
rags of the sham fence are sufficient to
deer the brumbies from breaking
through the fimsy barriers md in less
time than it takes TO tell the wild
horses are safely cOrralled and the big
gate shut on them.
Then they are left for four and TWEEN
ty hours without food and water to re-
fleet ON the situation and after tina
they can be broken In without much
difficulty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Among the River Drivers

Great endurance is demanded of the
r~iver-Inan. 1t is characteristic of them.
says q writer In the Outing Magazine.
that they accept whatever comes ms a
matter of course; or, perhaps more
truly, it is their pride never to show
emotion of any sort.
One man was dragged out by the col
lar from a very dangerous predicament
between two parts OF a breaking lam.
To gain safety. his rescuer. ~burdened
by h victim of the accident. had fair
ly to scale the breast of the falling
logs For ten seconds it looked like
sure death 10 both, but by a combina.
tion of audacity and sheer luck they
reached the bank.
Most persons would have paused for
congratulations and to ak it over. Not
they. The rescuer, still retaining his
grip on the mans collar, twisted him
round and delivered one good kick.
There, take that" said he; and the
two fell to work without further com
ment.
One February, during a thaw, Jimmy
Downing, a foreman, fell over a dam
into the eddy Below. He could not
swim. and, owing to certain sets of
current, growth of timber and lay of
ice. no one of his men could get to
him.
The water was cold, and sucked with
terrific force beneath a shelf Of ice at
the lower end. Sure death again! But
Jimmy, befriended of the gods, hit his
knee against a single little ledge. Al
though half-drowned, he managed to
cling there, and after a moment to DRAG
himself out.
Jimmy coughed up Il quart or so of
water, shook himself and gazed back
at the whirlpool whence he had been
so ~miraculOuSly eXtricated.
'Confound it all :" said he. II lost
my peavey"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
His Alternative.

1t is best to keep ones personal dig
nifty at whatever cost. A BETTING
sense of what is due one never comes
amiss, eve within prison precincts.
This truth was appreciated by an Irish
man whose expression of 1t is quoted
by Michael MacDonagh, in Irish Life
and Character" The prisoner, refrac-
tory and obstinate, fatty refused to
work In the treadmlll.
The man was brought before the Gov
n of the prison for d~isobedience.
The Governor asked him what reason
he could give for not following out his
orders.
"Me go on the treadmill :" exclaimed
the prisoner, drawing himself up to bis
full height of offended dignity. Never,
sir! I'd rather lave the Jail flrst!"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24

buckets and tin cups. that they might
will never forget the eagerness with
which these Confederate prosiners
formed in line for ~rations. l can never
forget the good comradeship that pre-
eminent Java coffee.
"On the second days march there
was no complaint about fatigue, but
some of the men had become stubborn
marching. they were s0re-fOoted and
discouraged and dismal, and the rear
guard had great trouble in keeping
them afoot. At one time several men
hulance and no instructions to parole
them. there was considerable excite
ment. The case was stated to a group
of the C~onfederates in front and three
sergeants went h%urrying to the rear.
Each one took hold of n straggler and
hustled him forward. From that TO
the end of the march the prisoners
themselves looked after the insubOrdin-
ate men of their own companies. |
have met in business life n half dozen
of the men who made that trip with
us as prisoners. We date our ac-
quaintance from that time, and we take
great comfort in reviving the memories
of the trip from Lookout Mountain TO
Bridgeport Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Negroes I'm the Army.

1T is not necessary to revert to the
civil war to prove that American ne
groes are faithful, devoted wearers Of
uniforms says a man who has seen
service In both the army II the navy.
There are at the present time four
regiments of negro soldiers in the reg
ular army of the United States-two
outfits of cavalry and two Of infantry.
All foul of these regiments have been
under fire in important indian cam
paigns, and there Is yet to be recorded
q single instance of a man In any of the
four layouts showing the white feather
and the two cavalry regiments of ne
groes. have on several occasions found
themselves in very serious situations.
While the fact is well known out or the
frontier. I don't remember ever having
seen ii mentioned in the East that an
American Indian has q deadly fear If
an American negro. The most utterly
reckless, daredevil savage of the COP
per hue stands literally in awe of a
negro. and the blacker the negro the
more the Indian quails. | can't under
stand why this should be. for the In
dians decline to give their reasons for
fearing the black men-but the fact re-
mains that even q very bad Indian will
give the mildest hammered negro i'm
aginable all the he wants, and to
spare. as an old regular army soldier
who has frontiered will tell you. The
Indians, | fancy, attribute uncanny and
eerie qualities to the blacks.
The Sioux will hand down to their
children's children the story of a charge
that a couple of the negro cavalry
troops made during the Pine Ridge
triubles. Ii was at the hight of the
fracas. and the bad Indians were regu-
larry lined up for battle. These two
initial swoop upon them. You know the
noise one black man can make when he
gets right down 10 the business of Yell
ing. Well, these two troops of blacks
when they were a mile away from the
waiting Sioux, and they got warmed
up and in better practice with every
jump their horses made. | give YOU
my solemn word that in the ears Of us
Of the white outfit the yelps those two
negro troops of cavalry gave sounded
like the carnival whoOping of 10000
devils. The Sioux weren't scared a
little bit by the approaching clouds of
alkali dust, but, all the same, when
II two black troops were more than
n quarter Of Il mile away the Indians
broke and ran as If the old boy him
self were after them. and It was then
an easy matter To round them ND and
disarm them. The HE afterward
confessed that they were scared out by
the awful bowling If the black soldiers.
Ever since the wal the United States
navy has had a fair representation of
negro bluejackets, and they make first
class naval tars. There is not n shin
In the navy to-day that hasn't from six
to a dozen, anyhow. of negroes on It's
muster rolls. The e sailors names
very rarely get enrolled on the bad con
duct lists. They are obedient. sober
men and good seamen. There are MANY
petty officers among Them
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
build n Root Cellar.

In general feeding we often forget
that the animal body is about three
fourths water, and that any animal re
quires a large proportion of water In
the feed ration. Green feeds Of some
kind should be given at all times of
the year for animals to do their best.
If one has a silO then silage will fill
the bill. Pumpkins can be fed from
early fall till the middle of winter.
and roots-carrots, turnips or sugar
beets-should be grown and stored to
carry the stock till grass comes.
AS evidence Of the value of water i'm
feeds and green feeds we refer to the
rapid growth and good health Of ami
mails on good pasture. Animals of all
kinds will gain flesh and fatten on food
grass pasture, and green grass is from
rs TO 90 per cent water.
Nos, II we will remember this in
feeding and supply some green feeds at
all seasons, our farm animals will
make greater propOrtionate gains and
turn all :he feed to greater account.
Every barn should have n frost-proof
cellar or other room where the roots
and other perishable green feeds could
be kept through the winter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Getting Its Strength Ont.

Mrs. Wickcrsham had advertised foI
an experienced cook. The first appli-
cant who came in answer to the adver-
tisement was n stout. red-haircd young
woman. Mrs. Wickersham propounded
several questions to her. which she an
swered i'm a fairly satisfactory manner
Then she asked her:
How long do You boil tea Z"
"Well, men, said the young WON
an, "some folks biles it longer. an some
shorter. It's all n matter o taste"
But you do boil ii, don't your
"Oh. yes, cert'nly but I've allu
thought that two hours was Ions
enough to bile any tea. You can git
all the stren'th out of 1t in that time
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
A TranslatOr's Error.

An antiquary laid down with a laugh
the book he had been reading.
Its 'IEspion,'" he said, "a French
tr %lnslation of F'ennimore Cooper's Spy
| bought ii from De Sagan's valet.
What makes * valuable is an error 1t
contains.
Cooper says in the book that a
lorscman tied his horse to a locust.
He means q locust tree. But the French
translator thought he meant an insect,
and wrote that the horseman hitched
10 q 'sauterelle.'
HE stuck all asterisk at the end of
the sentence, and In a footnote said:
"'In America the locust grow to an
enormous size--ten feet or more. 1t is
customary to place dead and stuffed
ones, as hitching posts, before the doors
Of American mansions, for the coHven-
fence of visitors on horseback"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Value Of Experiment stations.

In the address on the development of
the experiment station and its work,
Doctor Ii. j. Walters, Of the Missouri
Agricultural College, recently said 1T
has been said that farming Is a per-
petual trying of experiments with soils,
manure, and crops; with cattle and cat
tie foods with milk, butter and cheese (;
with plows, harrows and harvesters !;
with an almost endless list of things.
The most successful farmers-those
who get the most out of their land,
their cattle and their crops, their fer
tllizers, their implements and their la
bor-are those who experiment them
selves most i~ndustriously, most skill
fully and most intelligently. and who
take tho fullest advantage Of the ex-
periments of others. The best agri-
culture IS that, which. in old countries,
on the worn and intractable soils, has
learned, by long-continued and varied
experiment, to make the gain of farm
ing sure.
yet the farmer finds that experiment
on any considerable scale is n costly
business ia point Of funds, time and
patience, and that there are many prob
lens that he cannot solve, even after
infinite experimenting. on account Of
lack OF suitable facilities, the neces-
sary scientific training and funds. Be
sides, it is in the interest of econom
to have the fundamental principles es-
tablished once for all by an institution
equipped for such work, and to this the
experiment stations owe their exist
ence.
a little more than fifty years ago
Il company of farmers joined them
selves together in a little German vii
lage under the influence of the Uni
versiiy of Leipsic, and organized the
first experiment station, and called to
their aid n chemist. and a little later
on scientific assistance. This was the
first organized effort along the line of
scientific research as a necessary and
permanent branch of agricultural i'll
dustry.' The seed there sown has
brought forth many fold, for in 1886.
FIVE years after the organization of the
first experiment station, there were
five in active operation. In 1861 the
number had increased TO fifteen; in
1866 to thirty and to-day there are
over 800. In each Of them from one
to twenty Investigators are engaged In
the discovery of the laws that under
lie the practice Of farming, and lbs
methods of applying them.
The first experiment station in
America was established in Connect
cut I'm 1875. They grew rapidly in
number, until In 1887 there were some
seventeen such institutions, in fourteen
States. In that year Congress made
the enterprise national by passing what
is known as the Hath act, founding one
such institution in every State and
Territory In the Union"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
AFRAID TO EAT.
lrI Starving ON IIl-seIected Food.

Girl Starving on Ill-Selected Food
Several years ago 1 was actually
starving" writes a Me. girl, yet dared
not eat for fear of the consequences.
Il had suffered from indigestion
from Overwork, irregular meals and
improper food, until at last M stom-
ach became so weak | could eat scarce
ly any food without great distress.
Many kinds of food were tried, all
with the same discouraging effects. /
steadily lost health and strength until
| was but a wreck of my former self.
Having heard of Grape-Nuts and
its great merits. | purchased a package.
but with little hope that it would help
mel was so discouraged.
81 found 1t 0 only appetizing but
that | could eat 1t as | liked and that
it satisfied the craving for food without
causing distress. and If / may use the
expression. it filed the BILL
For months Grape-Nuts vas my
principal article of diet. | felt from
the very first that | had found the
right way to health and happiness. and
my anticipations were fully realized.
With its continued use | regained
my usual health and strength. Today
| an well and can eat anything | like,
yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part OF
my bill of fare" There's q Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
ville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Fattening WatermeIons.

Yes, there are secrets in the trade,
just the same as there are tricks In
everything else. If you want to grow
a premium taker or a champion weight,
all you have to do is to artificially feed
1t. The melons are good nurses, and
Will take oil nourishment given them.
The ~favorite way of growing heavy
weights il accomplished by inserting a
flannel string in the stem Of the melon
and running this into an old q~uinine
bottle into which sugar-sweetened
water has been poured. In a single
night a healthy melon, after wound
has healed where the stem was pierced,
will absorb YER a pint of the syrup.
AMI you easily can tell Of its salubrlty
by the rich, green color. All melons
but the one that is desired to attain
%corpulent proportions should be cut
from the vine, as the strength of tho
vine will then go to the one melon.
That, aided by the sugar treatment,
will be sufficient to grow a premium
taker at the country fairs. Last year
my largest melon, fattened on sugar
and water, weighed 90 pounds. HOY
ever, the eating qualities of the artl-
ficially fattened melons are not good,
as the fiber is coarse and hard. But
that does not matter when the judge
at the fair looks at the melon. lie
never tastes the interior.-Carmi o
respondent Peoria Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA.

Could Lay slate-Pencil I'm One
Hands In Dreadful State-Pe-ma-
nent Cure I'm Cuticura.
II had eczema on my hands for
about seven years and during that
time | had used several so-called rem
edies. together with physicians and
druggists prescriptions. The disease
was so bad on my hands that l could
lay a slate pencil in one of the cracks
and a rule placed across the hand
would not touch the pencil. l kept
using remedy after remedy, and while
some gave partial relief. none relieved
"a much as did the first box of Cuti-
cura Ointment. | made a purchase of
C%uticura Soap and Ointment and my
hands were perfectly cured after two
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one
cake Of Cuticura Soap were used. W.
III. Dean. Newark. Del. Mar. %, 1907"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24

The lion was sneering at the awkward,
uncouth. and generally ugly appearance
of The elephant.
Il may not be'as graceful as you are"
observed the elephant, but I'm nearer
akin to the human family than you are.
The knees Of my hind legs bend forward,
as a mans legs do, while yours benz back
ward, the same as a ~hyena's, or a hogs,
or a skunk's. You belong to a lower order
of creation, and I'd rather not associate
with you on terms Of equality if it's all
the same to you"
Whereat the lion, observing that the
elephant was waving his trunk threaten
ingly. went back among the wolves and
coyotes, where he still retained some pres
tige.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Another Kind.

When Johnny Hobbs left his home
up among the New Hampshire hills to
visit his grandmother In Worcester,
Mass, he was cautioned by his mother
that he would find things in the city
strangely different from those at home.
Johnny arrived In the early after
noon, and long before tea time his
grandmother, who lived most simply,
told him TO run out to the pantry and
get a bowl of milk which she had left
there ''for a hungry boy"
A moment later she followed him,
and, to her amazement. beheld her
grandson bravely at work on a bowl
Of spearmint tea which she had forgot
fully put in the place where she had
told him to find the milk.
why, child" she cried, seizing the
bowl from poor Johnny, don't you
know this isn't milk?"
II knew it wasn't like Hillbury
milk" stammered Johnny, with a final
gulp, but | thought maybe it was the
kind folks had in Worcester"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness -you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explainto the doctor. Your
letter will be held III the strictest con-
fdence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
helpyourcase. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es-
tabliSh beyond a doubt the powerof
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
UnseasonabIe BIossoming of Trees

Unreasonable BIossomfng of Trees.
1t is not uncommon for fruit trees OF
all kinds to bear flowers in late sum
mer or in the early fall. This ten
dency is more marked IN the semi
arid regions than in the humid States,
but the explanation is simple.
One writer reports an instance wnere
a pile OF weeds was burned under
meath an apple tree. The heat from
the fire was sufficient to shrlvel the
leaves to the top OF the tree on the
exposed side. but did not otherwise
injure the tSee. This was in August,
and a month later the tree came Into
bloom on the parts which had been
injured.
This result was probably due 10 the
drying out CT the buds by the effects
Of the fire. an effect similar to that
produced by the low temperature of
the winter months.
In a somewhat similar way n lack Of
water during the middle of the sum
mer causes the buds to dry out and
TO become mature. Then, if water is
applied later. second growth starts in
and some Of the blossom buds UNFOLD.
These unreasonable flowers do not
often set fruit. However, fine specimens
of the Red June apple were received
at the Agricultural College last No
vember. These specimens were picked
in an orchard in Utah from trees which
produced a normal crop in June. Some
weeks lates' the trees put forth a par
iial second crop of bloom and a few
fine specimens matured.-W. Paid ok,
Colorado Agricultural College.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
Iinseed Oil MRaI.

Chemical analysis shows that old
process linseed oil meal contains IN
average of about . per cent of nitros m.
9 per rent of phosphoric acid and ~
per cent of potash. Nitrogen may be
purchased I'm nitrate of soda at Is cents
per pound, ~phosphoric acid in raw
bone meal at about . cents, and potash
in muriate Of potash Mt Az cents,
these being among the cheapest COM
mercial sources Of fertilizing sub
stances. New process linseed oil con-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
PHENOMENA OF SKY CLOVIS.
Astronomers PUSHED by Strangs
Lights In the

Lights in the
Sky glows, classed. by some of tho
European astronomers as auroral dis.
plays, are now a subject of scientific
discussion, especially in Europe, says
the New York Sun.
These phenomena were first OBJ
served about July 1 at Copenhagen.
Berlin. Vienna and other places. w.
+. Denning, the English astronomer,
says:
Certain features of the CLOVIS struck
me as being essentially different from
exhibitions of normal aurora borealis.
No streamers whatever were seen.
Clouds observed were of peculiar char
acter and some Of them showed traces
of spiral formation. Though thin, they
We're strongly illuminatiye, and stars
shone through them with surprising dis
~tinctness."
The glow was seen in the eastern
part OF the United States following the
break in the protracted heated and dry
spell which prevailed this summer in
the eastern, middle and south Atlantic
States.
Fol some time a peculiar strong
orange yellow light over the horizon,
the color of which was more orange
in its lower part and more yellow In
its higher parts, has been Observed all
owe northern Europe and the United
States. Clouds of spiral streams of
various tints were brilliantly outlined
across the sky, so luminous that few
stars could be e and the milky way
was hardly distinguishable.
Mr.. Denning ard Mr.. Brauner OF the
Bohemian university both say they see
no trace of the characteristic auroral
bands or columns IN this glow. Mr..
Denning says:
Whatever the true nature of the
recent exhibition may have been, 1t is
certain that something in the air exer-
cised the capacity of reflection In a
very high degree. The period was one
Of great heat and thunderstorms."
Accompanying these CLOVIS at night
there were by day solar halos.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
FOR sIcK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia T.. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervou prostration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
LYDIA E. PINkHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

to conquer all female diseases.
3 Mrs. Norman r.. Barndt, of Allen
town, Pa, writes:
> Ever since / was sixteen years of
age i had suffered from an organic de-
rangement and female weakness; in
consequence l had dreadful headaches
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
clan said 1 must go through an opera
ton to get well. A friend told me
about Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and l took it and wrote you
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you / am to-
day a well woman, and / am telling
all my friends of my experience"