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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-03-25

3. T. GREEN-Physician and surgeon
Office, Binford Block Room l. Phone
B-9. Hours 9 a. m. to II m. l p.
m. to 5 p. m. Residence 7l5-6th Ave.
Phone 293. Hours 5 p. m. to 8. a. m.
IL m. to l p. m. Calls answered at
all hours.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
Cutting Expenses.

Those highly trained gentlemen OF
the army who prepare the annual esti-
mates have experienced a new sensa-
ton. They have been instructed to
back up and. just to show them
how It can be done, some eighteen
millions Of dollars have been Topped
off the budget strong hint has been
delivered at the same time that cut
of s3e. 900, 900 will be counted upon by
the White House.
The President deserves universal ap-
plause for letting the army feel the
strength of his policy of economizing
In governmental expenses. Since the
Spanish war the service has been de-
handing more and more money, using
politics and family influence and
score of other tricks for getting In
creased appropriations. The army
has surely squared accounts for its
many years of neglect, and ought to
be content now to ride an easier gait.
The estimates for 1911 were $1S9,650.-
900. The acting secretary OF war was
persuaded to cut them TO s171 $780,
900, but this still gave lead of $751;
100000 over the appropriations for
1909-1O.
No one may doubt the sincerity OF
Mr.. Taft's intention to slash expenses.
The examples of his policy so far
given have been extremely pleasant to
the country at large. which could not.
like many persons in Washington look
with equanimity upon the enlarging
deficit.-TOledo Blade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17

number. There are many other houses
of minor importance which would be
starred in the first line If they were
anywhere else.
There, for instance. in Airing street,
a small. narrow thoroughfare close be-
hind the Ritz Hotel, where Wimborne
House casts its great shadow, are a
dozen mansions which contain treas
ures almost beyond belief. The Mar.
quis of Salisbury lives there in a mag
nifcent palace-magnificent as TO in
terror, Insignificant as to exterior.
Sir Alexander Henderson, a great
railway magnate, hides the nobility OF
his possessions behind a modest stree,
frontage. At No. II, a house built $50
years ago by Lord Carteret and now
owned by Lord Marlborough, lives H
Gordon Selfridge, late of Chicago. II
Is simple-looking London residence,
but the vast interior. spread ding out as
you progress, is perfect storehouse
Of beautiful objects of antiquity
Here are the most wonderful Van
Dycks, Greuzes. Rembrandts, Reyn.
oldses. Lelys and Gainsboroughs; gal.
lery after gallery, room after room
filled with them; books OF great rari-
ty. bindings that would make the Gu
rators of most museums giddy with
delight and furniture that one only
finds usually surrounded by chains to
keep on the curious public; and this
is only one of the dozens upon dozens
of old London houses.
AS matter OF fact. this does not
apply to London alone. All over the
country. north, east, west and south.
there are strewn country houses dat
Ing back to other centuries where
great treasures are stored and jeal-
ousy guarded. There is no other coun-
try In the world which contains so
many
The French chateaux suffered 100
much during the troublesome times of
the revolution. They were burned and
sacked and hacked about and their
treasures scattered to the four winds.
Germany never had many. The
Italian works of art were kept mostly
in cities like Venice. Florence, Verona
and Genoa and in its numerous NOR
asteries- But in England, where the
country houses have hardly been dis
turbed since the time of Cromwell. the
work of collecting has gone on unmo-
Tested, generation after generation.
There are still many undiscovered
finds scattered about here and there
in spite of the cry that nothing more
is to be purchased.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
ATLANTIC GARDEN IN DANGER.
Old Relic Of New YOrk's BOvery II
Marked for Destruction.


Marked for Destruction.
The Atlantic garden, one of the few
remaining buildings binding the Bow
cry OF to-day 20 the old Bowery-the
Bowery which saw the wealth and
fashion of the town go nightly to the
len next door for a bite and a sip be-
tween the acts-celebrated its fifty
first birthday Friday evening under a
shadow. The shadow was cast by the
Manhattan bridge. already looming
large to the east and projecting itself
nearer and nearer TO the spot that
still has the SAVIOR of the old days.
rumor to the effect that the city.
DESTROYS of making a fitting approach
to the great bridge. had already mark
ed the garden for destruction. brought
the oldtimers there In droves Friday
night. the New York Sun says. They
told stories of the old days, the days
when II you wanted to hear German
liza, where Conried worked as supe
and where Nine Geistinger drew her
crowds. The old passageway between
the theater and the garden is still
there
The garden was opened on May s.
1853, by the father Of the present Kra-
mers. and part of 1T is the original
Bulls Head tavern Of the Revolution.
one of Washington's many headquar-
ters 1t was the center of the German
life of the town, and there Kramer first
showed the great orchestra, the won
der of its time. which he bought from
the grand duke of Baden. There, too.
the German regiments of the Civil
War made their headquarters and re-
cruiting station. and there played all
the famous bands Of half century
ago All this those at the long table
recalled Friday night as they drained
their schooners Of Rhine wine and lit
the candles one by one.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
Hard to XIII.

A distinguished entomologist, ]. G..
Warburg. writes: when / was still
new to collecting. In the south of
France l discovered one day, to my
great Joy. large female of Saturnia
pyri hidden away In some bushes. The
specimen was the first / had ever
caught. and ! decided. on account OF
It's large body, TO stuff 1t Ga quite I'M
necessary operation; have kept doz
ems since unstuffed). The moth was
first apparently killed by being forced
into a cyanide bottle. where 1t was
left about an hour. The abdomen was
then emptied and the cavity filed
with cotton wool soaked in a saturated
solution of mercuric chloride. The in
sect, pinned and set, was discovered
mex. day attempting to fly away from
the Getting board"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17

time, and the soldiers of Uncle Sam
had to hold in check the madness of
the men that swarmed into the new
Ell Dorado. Few of those who started
across the mountains and the deserts
that fenced off California knew of the
hardships they must face Each new
arrival brought tales of horror from
the trail. Lost and starving, the i'm.
migrants struggled off their paths, I'M
til sacrifice of life made terrible the
days.
Finally Rucker was ordered east.
He left San Francisco in a steamer
for Panama. with Lieutenant Sherman
-afterward General Sherman-as one
OF his companions. They made the
trip across the isthmus of Panama
by ponies and small boats and then
sailed for Jamaica. where Sherman
and Rucker paid friendly call on
General Santa Ana, whom they had
worsted at Buena Vista. Major Rucker
saw several years of comparatively
peaceful service in the East and then
he was again sent out to the frontier
This time his battlefields covered New
Mexico. in constant warfare with the
Apaches. While he was in this work
the civil war broke out and he was
ordered back to Washington.
In September, 1861, he was pro-
NOTED to Colonel of volunteers and In
May. 1863. President Lincoln made
him Brigadier General Of volunteers.
In 1865 he was made Brevet Major
General of volunteers and In 1866 he
was mustered out of the volunteer
ranks.
But he was made Colonel and as
sistant quartermaster general of the
regular service and served as such un-
til February Is, 1882, when he was
made Bllgadier General and quarter
master general. At that time he had
seen forty-five years of service and
seventy-one years of life. He was
then placed on the retired list as
Major General.
He is still hale and hearty and de-
lights in walks In the beautiful por-
ton of residential Washington, near
his home; but he Is leading a quiet
life, and even the excitement OF recall
ing the hard days of fighting is too
much for his strength. With him ives
his daughter. Miss Sarah Ruclyer.
Another daughter. Mrs. Philip II.
Sheridan, widow Of the hero Of Win
chester. lives but few blocks away.
where she can see the statue of her
husband that grateful nation erected.
In all his years of service General
Rucker was never wounded. What Is
more remarkable. in all the years of
service and hardship he was never
i'll for a single day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
|kms> science


AS substitute for the baby carriage
a French inventor has brought out a
portable hammock by which an infant
can be carried between two persons
by straps from their shoulders.
A new type of electric locomotive.
Of which the New York Central Rail-
road will soon have twenty, is capable
of 1000 horsepower at high speed. the
armatures being mounted directly on
the driving axles.
The new field gun of the French
army requires one less man to oper-
ate it than its prototype. as the recoil
opens the breech block and elects the
cartridge. the block closing automat-
ically when new cartridge is in
serted.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is ex-
perimenting with heating ordinary
passenger coaches which are run over
its electric lines by steam secured
from boilers mounted on baggage cars,
to which electric heat Is supplied from
the third rail.
English experiments In the sponta-
neous combustion of stacked hay In
dictate that the phenomenon Is due to
bacteria, as hay that would not ignite
when sterilized did so after being
sprinkled with water containing earth
or ordinary hay.
The Hon. c. A. Parsons says that at
the beginning Of his experiments with
turbines. In 1884, high steam velocities
had to be avoided because of the cut
ting action on metals of minute drops
Of water entrained by the steam, and
hurled against the surfaces at a We
locity of $500 feet per second. This
was sufficient to erode a hard file one
thirty-second of an inch In las hours.
But In the compound turbines now
used this erosion is practically elm
mated, so that brass and copper blades
can be used. Advance has been made
in the reduction of steam per horse
power. In 1897 the Turbinia con-
sumed 16 pounds per shaft horse
power; in 1901 the King Edward con-
sumed the same amount: but In 1907
the Lusitania consumed only II
pounds and the Mauretania liz
pounds. In large turbines there Is a
loss of about 80 per cent in the total
energy. but It may be possible to re-
duce this.
The growing use Of metallic fila
ments for electric lamps. formed of
the rare metals tantalum and tung-
stem, attracts much attention to those
metals. Tantalum is pure white and
as hard as the best steel. When hot
II can be rolled, hammered and drawn
out into wire. Its tensile strength
exceeds that of steel. For lamp fla
ments it is drawn into wire hardly
more than one five-hundredth of an
inch In diameter Its electrical resist
ance is much less than that of carbon,
so that the filaments have to be much
longer than the ordinary carbon fila
ments when they are used with the
usual 110-volt lamps. Tantalum lamps
have high efficiency and long life. and
give brilliant white light. Sometimes
when a fllament breaks 1t can be
mended by tapping the lamp while
the current is on. The ends coming
into momentary contact are welded.
Tantalum melts at 1900 degrees Cent?
grade. Tungsten melts at 5000 de-
grees Centigrade. Like tantalum, 1t
has a much lower resistance than car
bon. Tungsten filaments are some
what delicate, and must be handled
carefully.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
TRAMP COLONIES FOR AMERICA.
Bill for system in New York state

Bill for System I'm New York State
Likely to Become LAW.
The first step toward the establish
ment Of tramp colonies In America has
been taken In New York. Such public
spirited men as Edmond Kelly, r. Full
ton Cutting, Robert W. de Forest, Sam
uel J. Barrows and others have joined
with all Of the charitable societies and
the railroad lines in drawing up a bill
which has been introduced In the Leg
islature That this bill will become a
law, eventually, is regarded as certain.
says Review Of Reviews. Railroad cor
porations which have so powerful an
influence at Albany have enthusiastic
ally pledged their support. In fact,
their attorneys assisted In drawing up
the bill and suggesting some OF its
most important features The New
York Central, the Erie, the New York.
New Haven & Hartford and other rail-
roads have definitely and specifically
given assurance that they will do their
utmost to have the colony system es-
tablished. 1t is more than likely that
it will be introduced throughout the
United States.
What are the provisions of this bill?
The measure appropriates $3.50 900 to
establish three tramp colonies, one
near New York City. the second in the
neighborhood OF Albany and the third
l the vicinity of Buffalo. Part of this
ind, it is proposed. will be used in
buying sufficient areas of waste land
for the colonies. and the remainder for
the erection of necessary buildings.
The Governor is to appoint five men
who shall constitute a board of trus-
tees OF labor colonies, and who are to
serve without pay This provision is
intended to obviate purely political ap-
continents and to secure competent of
ficials. These colonies, the bill sets
forth, are to be devoted to the deten
ton, reformation and instruction of
persons convicted of vagrancy, habit
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17

enough? Have school people done all
their duty when they have admitted
the school physician and the school
nurse to the sacred precincts of the
schoolroom, when they have sent out
the warning notices to the parents?
"Supposing that all defects have
been discovered and remedied, so that
school life goes On without its aches
and pains. Must We go all over 1t
next year and tle next and forever?
The Massachusetts, law says that every
child shall be examined annually for
defects and disabilities. There is no
statute of limitations. Is there any
hope of limitatiOne Is there any mode
of limitation? Or Is the social mill TO
go on grinding out diseased and en-
feebled children by the thousands in
definitely"
Dealing in he advance In personal
and domestic hygiene, Mr.. Martin re-
cords signs If hopeful progress. He
finds chat the ignorance of the laws
o. health AMI conditions of health is
less dense than it once was is un-
doubtedly true" The educational
forces that have brought about this
change are many-the medical pro-
fession. the press, discussion in
women's clubs and the influence OF the
public schools. The teaching of physi-
ology and hygiene in many schools he
thinks Is good.
To-day the physicians, general and
special. are more alive to the needs
of the times than are the school peo-
pie. No permanent results of the pres
ent agitation for better sanitary con-
ditions. domestic and public, can be
hoped fo- unless the schools cooperate
with all the other agencies. The uni
versal reed Is for the higher order
of intelligence respecting the things
that make for health, and the founda-
ton of such intelligence must be laid
in the schools"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17

graph, much less of their revolution
airy use in actual warfare.
When General Rucker was born Alb
-aham Lincoln was a 3-year-oid babe
IN the backwoods of Kentucky. Gen.
eral Rucker was 10 years old, minus
just one day. When General Grant
saw the light of day. April 81, 1922
Only one President of the United
States died before General Rucker was
born-George Washington. He was IA
years old when John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson died on that same
Fourth of July in 1926. When James
Monroe. the fourth ex-President to die,
succumbed. on July 4, 1881, Genera.
Rucker was 10 years old. And out of
the nations twenty-six ex-Presidents
General Rucker has survived all save
one. Theodore Roosevelt.
General Rucker was but boy when
his parents moved from New Jersey
to Michigan. 1t was there he got his
first taste Of army life, at a frontier
Michigan army post. His father was
averse to his joining the army. and
his mother even more so; but the flu
ture general won out, and he applied
for a commission as second lieutenant.
There was plenty Of work for Uncle
Sans soldiers in those days, with the
boundless West just opening it's
wealth to the onward march of civil.
ization- He was assigned to the First
dragons, then on duty at Fort Leav-
enworth. Lieutenant Rucker made his
way overland by stage coach until he
got to the nearest point which the
stage coach service of those days could
bring him to the Kansas outpost. He
was then still 200 miles from his desti-
nation.
He had hardly settled down to The
comparative ease of his frontier post
before he was ordered into the heart
OF the Cherokee country, and for half
dozen years he was kept busy with
his soldiers driving OF marauding In.
dams, protecting settlers and emf
grants caravans and holding the hos
tile reds In check He was still busy
In this hazardous campaigning when
the First dragons were ordered off
to Mexico as part of General Zachary
Taylor's expedition. He took part in
the battle OF Buena Vista, and dis.
tinguished himself by an act of per
sonal gallantry in the field 1t was
an act of bravery under the eye of a
commanding officer. who recommended
him for brevet commission as major.
When peace was declared Major Ruck-
er's command was sent across the
continent to Los Angeles.
The discovery Of gold brought the
rush of 40. and then there was more
than plenty to do. 1t was a feverish
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
LoNDoN'S TREASURE HOUSES.
Many Private Mansions Could Rank
ms Museums Elsewhere.

The men who built the great man.
sicns OF London which endur \ this
day prepared them for the Dtion
year after year of the most u autiful
objects, so that now hardly anything
remains to add to them. There are
hundred great houses In London of
which the least important could be
taken to any other great town and
proclaimed a wonderful museum.
Dorchester House, the present home
Of the American ambassador; Bridge
water House; Chesterfield House.
built by the great author of polite
letter writing; Apsley House, the
home of the Duke of Wellington:
Devonshire House; Grosvenor House.
the custodian of vast treasure In pic
lures, manuscripts and sculpture:
Lansdown House, with its great gal.
lery of busts and statues; Stafford
House, whose great staircase alone is
worth kings ransom: Wimborne
Housewives are only a few of the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17

ual drunkenness and violation of Sec
ton 426 Of the penal code This sec
tion, 1t may be noted, is the partIcula,
one covering offenses against railroads
such as trespassing, theft and Other
crimes. All three colonies are to be
places OF compulsory detention. Mag
istrates are to have the full power Of
fixing the duration of sentence, al
though no sentence Is to exceed tive
years. Any inmate will be able &c
get parole upon giving proofs OF
good behavior and If the trustees are
convinced that he will not violate the
Law. But If any tramp attempts to es
cape from the colony in which he Is
confined he is to be subject to a term
IN State prison for period of from
one to three years.
The colonies are to be more agri.
cultural than Industrial. The aim will
be to subordinate the industrial fea
lures to the agricultural. Competition
with free labor will be strictly avoided
Waste land will be reclaimed and cuI
tivated as truck gardens. II is believed
that the large cities are able to absorb
so much produce that these gardens
will not interfere with the trade of
small farmers. Probably the entire
product OF the colonies may be SUD.
piled to State institutions. Every in.
mate Is to be paid for his labor. and
the cumulative amount given to him
when he is released This compensa.
ton. 1t Is provided, shall be based
upon the pecuniary value of the work
performed and ALSO on the willing.
ness. industry and good conduct" of
the inmate" In place OF other penal.
ties and punishments the superintend.
ent of each colony is empowered to
maintain a system of fines to be i'm
posed at his discretion. Any tramp
who violates the terms of his condi.
tional release is to forfeit all that he
has earned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
PATH TO OLD AGE.

Former Mayor Says I'm His Case II
Has Been Paved with Pie.
Everybody with taste for pastry or
a weakness for sweets will hail with
joy the explanation of Smith Ely,
mayor of old New York city In 1877.
IS and now IS years old. as to his pro-
longed life.
Sweets did It," said Mr.. Ely in an
article contributed to Medico-Legal
Journal. Il don't know that this diet
Of sweets has benefited my disposition,
but it has given me strength to under
go the nervous strain and excitement
of a political career in Albany, Wash
ington and New York that would have
shortened the existence of a beef eater.
My parents. like many Others" says
Mr. Ely. thought that sweets OF any
sort were unwhoiesome for children.
and | enjoyed only such things In my
childhood within stric: limitations.
Consequently, when 1 attained the age
Of l6 and found employment down.
town. with permission 10 dine as
pleased. / made up for lost time. My
regular meal for many months con-
sisted of three or four pieces of bak-
ers pie. At all periods of my life the
dessert has almost always been the
better part OF the meal
II resided for more than twenty
years in the neighborhood of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. and during all that pc
Rod it was my regular habit. on my
way home from clubs and entertain
ments. to stop at Maillard's and have
a meringue glace. followed by a cup
of hot chocolate with whipped cream.
1T has been. and still is. my habit
to place a lump of confectionery OF
some sort In my mouth upon retiring
for the uiehf :"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-17
HEALTH AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS:
VIEWS Of VETERAN EDUCATOR.


HAT are termed by the
author some rather
wv sweeping congratulations"
on the subject of medical
VE(|E(1l inspection of school chill
VSAJZ1&II dren are contained in an
article entitled "A Lesson
From Medical Inspection of Schools"
published in the Psychological Clinic.
journal edited by Professor Lightner
Wilmer of the University of Pennsyl-
vania and published in Philadelphia.
The author of the article is George
H. Martin, who has been an educator
for forty-four years. supervisor of the
schools of Boston and since 1904 secre-
tary of the Massachusetts, board of
education
The medical inspection of children
In schools has been so beneficial, ac-
cording to Mr. Martin, that "a COM
munity which has not provided
through its proper authorities for
thorough-goin inspection of its schools
is guilty OF criminal negligence" He
points to the discovery that out of
more than 100000 children examined
In Massachusetts $1,000 were found
defective in vision and $4,000 in hear
ing. and TO the results of other ex-
aminations as throwing much light
on the subject of backward and per-
haps delinquent children.
Concerning the immediate results of
the examinations he writes:
Then we consign the unfortunates
to the care of the family physician,
send them to the public dispensary or
the public clinic, or send the school
nurse to look after the cases in the
home, and by these means We patch
up few. Some glasses are provided.
some teeth cleaned and filled. some
adenoids removed, and many children
begin to know the joy of living
"All this is good. 1t Is worth many
times what it has cost But Is IL