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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Can Your Own Vegetables.

The successful canning of vegeta-
bles depends largely upon their fresh
ness. If you are forced TO depend
upon the markets, try to get them
when first received. If you can secure
vegetables fresh from your own gar
den or the country, so much the bet
ter. Before beginning canning be sure
than your cans are absolutely clean,
that the tops fit perfectly, and that
can rubbers are new.
More canned fruit and vegetables
are lost through a mistaken idea of
economy in trying to use old rubbers
than in any other way. Now, hav-
ing fresh vegetables, and scientifically
clean cans, wash the asparagus, trim
it If of the large variety, to equal
lengths, and pack neatly, heads up
The straight-sided jars are better for
this purpose.
Having filled the jars full hold I'M
der the cold water faucet and let the
water run in with force until the veg
etables are covered and no air bubbles
SuON. II there are uOuDlS ABOUT the
water being pure, you had better boil
IL, then cool before using. In this
case pour into jars from a pitcher,
filing full.
Now adjust the tops without the
rubbers and stand in a wash boiler
or large kettle, protecting them from
the bottom by a rack and from each
other by n coil of clothesline or hay,
says Emma Paddock Telford in the
New York Telegram.
Now fill the boiler or kettle with
cold water and SET over the fire. The
water should reach about half way up
the cans. Bring quickly to the boiling
point, cover the boiler and cook stead
lily an hour and half from the time
the water in the boiler commences TO
boil.
Then scald the can rubbers, lift out
the cans. one by one. put on the rub
bers and quickly screw down the lid
and stand back In the boiler Cook
fifteen minutes longer. Some good
cooks prefer 90 repeat tho cooking
three days in succession. unscrewing
the top each cay when put into cold
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26

Thigh prices for foodstuffs in the
United States can not be justified"
said Secretary Wilson of tie Depart
ment of Agriculture, recently, "but If
you want to know the real inside ex-
PLANTATION / will give 1t to you.
1.-The farmers can't get help. While
the population of the United States
has been steadily increasing through
the usual additions at home and from
immigration, the cultivated area Of
the country is decreasing. Thousands
of acres formerly raising products
that made the food of the country
have gone back to pasturage. The
farmer simply can not get the men
to raise crops.
"The city draws not only the Ia
borer who might go to the farm, but
the boy raised on the farm. Outside the
fascination of bright lights. amuse-
ment and the excitement of mingling
with people, there are the shorter
hours and the better pay. The farmer
has doubled his wages In the last
fifteen years, but the farmer In his
busy season must work sixteen hours
day, while in the city eight hours
has become the rule.
ut would seem TO be a wise policy
to get the immigrant away from the
large cities and out into the country
where his services are needed and
where he has a chance TO grow into
property owner. So the government
employment agency. as 1t has been
called. Is a good institution. On the
other hand, many of the immigrants
arriving would be of no use in the
western country. They are from cities
of Europe or have farmed in print
tive way and would not know what to
do with our modern machinery. 1t is
pity that our laws will not allow
American farmers TO import real
farmers from Europe who know how
to do the work.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Making Americans.

Outside the big public school lat. on
Henry and Gouyerneur streets the
other day, several thousand alien
mothers stormed the gates and scolced
the police and shrieked for their chill
dren. 1t was an hour of hysteria.
Inside the building the children
were marshaled TO their classrooms,
where the habit of order asserted IT.
self. Sixty boys, constituting the po-
lice force of No III, took the situa-
ton in hand, some of them guarding
the yard from intrusion, while others
sailed through the gates to reassure
the hysterical women. Within ten
minutes the disorder was over. Event
ually such mothers as insisted after
the others had gone away were taken
to various rooms to see their children
at work.
Nowhere else in the United States
Is an event possible just like this at
No. 147. The shrieking mothers out
side the school, the quiet children in
the classrooms, the steady-voiced mont
tors at their appointed work of restor-
ing peace and order-these went in
their several ways to form the most
striking spectacle possible in these
days of a new American in the max
ing.-New York World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
THE NEW TURKISH WOMAN
Schools with American and English
Teachers Wanted.

Schools with American and English
Teachers Wanted.
In ConstantinOple a few weeks ago,
before q room full of English and
American women, a young Turkish
graduate living in STEAMBOAT was ask
ed to say something about her fellow
:ountrywomen. No nervousness was
exhibited by the small, black robed
figure that rose to speak to such an
audience for the first time. With
yashmak (veil) thrown back-there
being only those OF her own sex pres
snt-revealing a girls pale, delicate
looking, oval face. whose fascination
lay in the large hazel eyes and ex-
pressive mouth, she spoke without
hesitation in the purest English, her
low-toned voice having but the slight
est indication OF an accent
Il feel / should apologize to you,
ladies, for speaking in your own
language, but l have been commanded
to speak by an American lady-and l
am accustomed to obey Americans,
having been educated at the American
College for Girls in Scutari. First,
the women of Turkey must be awak-
ened to their need of education-al-
though this is necessary for the men,
too she added. smiling, las they
have received almost as little educa.
ton as the women; then we shall es-
tablish head schools in Constantinople
with English and American teachers
after which we shall have our own
instructresses, who will be sent to diff
ferent towns throughout the empire
For years the teaching of Mohammed
has been wrongly construed; but now
we shall go forward, giving justice tc
all, as we are commanded
This young girl-the only holder OF
a degree for women in Turkey-was
permitted by her husband 10 spend a
night at the house of an American
woman and speak to her friends. the
only stipulation being that there
should be no men present.-Englisf
Mail of Frankfort.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
More Small Farms.

A survey of agricultural operations
reveals a great evolution in progress
in the average size of farms of the
country There is no longer the am
biticl to own a multitude of broad
acres, because it is difficult to obtain
help to properly cultivate large hold
ings. The great stock ranches and ths
immense cotton and sugar plantations
are being subdivided into small farms,
where owners operate them under the
latest methods of scientific agriculture.
The reclamation of vast acres of deS-
ert land by government irrigation
works has started the fashion of small
farms unGer a system of intensive cul-
tivatiOn. Reclaimed desert land when
irrigated is proving marvelously pro-
ductive and admirably adapted to
fruit, vegetables, nuts and alfalfa
~le irrigated districts of Texas, Colo
RADIO. Washington, Montana. Idaho and
California have produced crops OF
fruit and vegetables valued at upward
can only be achieved by intensive cul-
tivation. which Drecludes the POSSIBLE
| ity of large holdings of land and err
courages concentration of labor on
small farms
In the fruit belts OF Texas. Wash
ington. Oregon. Colorado. Idaho and
Montana an acre of apple orchard will
yield Of 81 900 to 1900 worth of apples
that are unrivaled in appearance AMI
! favor. American apples are in large
| export demand and an oversupply Is
not apprehended. as consumption Of
| apples is equal to production at very
remunerative prices. In favored local
tiles farmers can realize a gross In
come Of $500 per acre for fruit or
garden vegetables when the small
farm is operated to its full capacity
under modern scientific cultivation.
The future agricultural development
| of the country will be characterized
by small farms operated by system
of intensive cultivation. The farmer
with a son inclined to agriculture may
not be able to buy for him quarter
section farm in the corn belt. yet he
~ purchase ten-acre farm in the
irrigated district. where the gross in
come from fruit or vegetables may
equal the revenue of the 160-acre farm
In the corn belt The advantages OF
social life and the time of recreation
and self-improvement are greater in
a district of small farms than in To-
calities featured by large farms de
voted to live stock industry or grain
production. The small farm is in
creasing in popularity and promises
TO revolutionize future agriculture.
Small farms will eliminate the pres
ent tread OF migration from the coun-
try to the great cities and intensity
| the national prosperity by increasing
the number of land owners and enlarg-
ing agricultural Observation-Disclosures
and Drovers' Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
His Forte.

One of the characteristics of H. H.
Rogers was his love of a joke, even
at his own expense. The humor lost
nothing by that in Mr.. Rogers opin-
ion. This was one of his favorite
stories:
He, William c. Whitney and sew
eral other friends were discussing the
succession to the presidency of Yale.
then vacant before the election of
Prof. Hadley, who then held the chair
of economics. Another professor,
longer at the university than DR.. Had
ley, was a candidate, and his chances
of winning the honor were under dis
cussion.
We'll" said Mr.. Rogers. IF / had
been as long around Yale as Prof. So
and So. I'd be president"
mo, Henry" retorted Mr.. Whitney,
you would probably own the ground
and the buildings, but you would not
be president"
Mr.. Rogers always told that story
with a chuckle.
"You can print that some time," he
said to q Detroit Free Press man.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26

Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women / am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter" Mrs. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RID, Graniteville, VT.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such widespread and un-
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
1t costs but little to try Lydia Il.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. and,
as Mrs. Barclaysays. it is worth noun
tains of gold !" to suffering women.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Value of Wood Ashes.


The question often arises as to the
value of ashes for fertilizer. Profes-
sor Ten Eyck, of the Kansas expert
ment station, says that an average
sample of unleached wood ashes cen
tains about per cent Of potash and
per cent Of phosphoric acid, which at
current prices of these plant foods
would make the ashes worth about SO
a ton. Besides the actual fertiliziag
value, by reason of the potash and
phosphoTic acid contained, there is
some value to ashes simply by the
power which the potash has to make
the nitrogen of the soil available for
plant use by its chemical action upon
the organic matter and humus of the
soil. The potash in ashes exists in
readily soluble form and is thus In
mediately available for plant food.
The grower can well afford to pay IS
to $40 ton for good wood ashes. Coal
ashes are of little value as far as plant
food is concerned, but they can be
used with good effect upon some soils
In loosening them up.
Ashes can be used for any crops
that need potash and they may be
applied at the rate of twenty-five to
fifty bushels an acre. For cultivated
crops they should be applied broad
cast after the land has been narrowed
and then cultivated in by light har-
rowing. They can be used also as
top dressing in connection with phos-
plate fertilizers. AS will be noticed,
Professor Ten Eyck says that the I'M
leached ashes are worth SO ton. As
matter OF fact the leached ashes
rarely have a value of more than 81
to 50 ton, as the potash and phos-
phoric acid are washed out. II ashes
are TO be used they should be put in
dry place until ready for use, much
or more care being taken with them
as with barnyard manure. And in
this connection 1t might be well to
state that ashes should never be
mixed with manure of any sort, as it
sets nitrogen free in the form of am
monia gas. and the quality of both the
ashes and the manure is lowered.
Sifted coal ashes, however, can be
used for that purpose, as they absorb
liquids readily and. because of the
small amount of potash they contain,
do not Eberate nitrogen. 1t would be
a good plan for those who have soils
that need potash TO collect all the
wood ashes they can and use them
for fertilizer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Mermaid for Breakfast.

A stranger meal than any ever par
taken by Frank Buckland or the most
hardened and cosmopolitan traveller
is described by Juan Francisco de st.
Antonio. in his account of his trav-
els and adventures in the Philippine
Islands, published at Manila in 1888.
In this curious little work the author
tells us that he once breakfasted of
mermaid, and he further gravely de-
scribes its flavor as being like fresh
fat nOrk
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Kidding Trees of Scale.

Prof Harlan of California has dis
covered that the ordinary black ant
will remove the scale from fruit trees
without injuring the trees or leaves
In the least. He says their work is
more complete than that accomplished
by spraying or by any of the imported
Insects.
The ants are captured by placing
a plate of sugar near an ant hill, and
when covered with ants the plate Is
put in the forks of the infected tree.
The ants leave the sugar and go TO
work on the scale. AS soon as they all
leave the sugar the plate is placed at
the foot of the tree and as the ants
come down after having cleaned the
tree they again assemble on the SUI
gar and are thus easily removed to
another tree.
Several ranchers near Ukiah have
tried the scheme and estimate that it
will be worth millions to fruit grow
ers
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
RIVER as CARRIER.
When Heavy Material Cannot BE
HnrIcL nrnGtnhI.. h. RaiI

y
Hauled Profitably by Rail.
John Callan OLaushlin gives an in
teresting summary of the report of
the board of engineers appointed to
investigate the matter of a fourteen
foot channel between the lakes and the
gulf.
This report. be it remembered, says
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal,f finds
that the plan is feasible, but recon-
mends against it. The report stated,
as we remember. that s1500OO,O00
would be required to put fourteen feet
from New Orleans to Chicago and So
100000 a year would be needed to
maintain it. In these days of rapid
development, the commission felt that
these figures would show the plan to
be futile.
If we were to get fourteen feet from
Chicago to New Orleans it would be
equal to all the freight a six-track
railway could haul. And a six-track
railway between Chicago and New Or
leans would cost probably $500. 600. 600
The S5,O00,0O0 for upkeep is a baga-
telle. The Illinois Central spends
more than that amount for the up
keep of its lines from Cairo to New
Orleans.
In order TO secure the benefits Of
cheap transportation by water, more is
necessary than merely a channel The
railroads of Germany, France and Eng
land will eventually come to that con-
dition where certain heavy material
cannot be hauled by them at a profit.
In these countries coal, rock, lime,
salt, wood, cement and brick are haul
ed by barges through, canals or on
rivers.
Heavy structural iron is hauled on
the rivers for the reason that cars
in England are not made for the
transportation of this heavy material.
There is established in these coun-
tries. as il were, a community of in
terest between railroads and river
transporting companies. Switch yards
are established on every water front
The unloading of boats is done by
electrical machinery and the transfer
ring to cars is done in the same way.
There is a public warehouse at
every water front in these countries
and goods are carried by machinery
into these warehouses and are distri-
buted.
The time will come in this coun-
try when the conditions will force
traffic into the water and this is the
main reason why the continued work
of the improvement of the rivers
should be pushed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Marshal and the EmperOr's Order

Apropos Of the centenary of the
death of Marshal Lannes a Paris con
temporary tells the following story:
The marshal had a horror of ett
quette and appeared very little al
court. One day when he was amusing
himself by shooting larks on his es
tate of Maisons Lafitte a message ar
rived to invite him to the Tuilleries
where his absence had been much com
mented upon.
The marshal, not the least per
turbed, replied to the invitation in hi,
blunt. soldierly and characteristic
manner:
Tell the emperor" he said. "I am
at his orders to rejoin the army, but
If he wants me for anything else
am shooting larks. London Globe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
JIM'S FIRST SPEECH.


The meetings which Sam Jones. the
famous Georgia preacher. used TO hold
at his bush-arbor tabernacle at Car.
tersville were generally unique and
picturesque. and it was not always
the preacher himself who made them
so. On one occasion he invited a
woman who had established a very
useful and successful school for the
untaught boys from the mountain re.
gions of the South-the poor white"
children-to come and explain her
work 20 his audience.
She came, but she brought with her
one of the brightest of her boys, for
she told Mr.. Jones she did not be-
lieve in a woman's speaking in meet,
ing when man could be got to dc
it. The preacher was skeptical OF
the boys ability to get through with
his speech, for he was evidently very
nervous over the ordeal: but the
young woman insisted. and Jim had
his chance
The youngster started in with the
speech that he had written and learn.
ed word for word. He did very well
until he began to enumerate the
buildings that the school possessed.
I'VE have a recitation hall. three
dormitories, barn and a poultry.
yard he declared Then he paused !;
the next thing he had forgotten.
The only way out that occurred tc
him was to go back and begin his
speech all over again. This he did
and by and by came again to the
buildings.
I'VE have a recitation hall, three
dormitories, a barn and a poultry.
yard" he said. Again there was a
dead stop. Everybody was by this
time deeply interested in his struggle
and there was profound silence in the
tabernacle.
A third time the speech was begun
and third time the fatal poultry
yard was reached. and it proved a,
hard to get by as before. Mr.. Jones
winked at the teacher and smiled al
the audience. He was enjoying ii
hugely.
Blushing furiously, but game" te
the last. Jim began q fourth time
This time the excitement as he ap
preached the poultry-yard was intense
There was no laughter. although q
few smiled.
I'VE have recitation hall, three
dormitories. barn and a poultry.
yard" said jim. The silence was al
most painful, but this time the treach
erous memory became submissive, and
Jim went bravcly on with the rest OF
his speech.
When he had finished, Mr.. Jones
told the audience that they had come
as sheep to be sheared. ard must helI
this needy school. now that they had
heard one of its boys make so elo
quent an appeal.
ut Is making these boys lifters ane
not leaners," he declared Don't for.
get the poultry-yard that Jim has
struggled over Everybody must hell
by giving n hen. If you can't give
a hen, give dozen eggs at least"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
Diplomacy for Retired Capitalists.

Diplomacy for Retired Capitalists.
When, in 1898, a smooth-shaven lit
tie joker was inserted in one of the
multitudinous paragraphs of general
appropriations bill and slipped through
Congress without a word of discus
sion, all the civilizing influence of a
hundred years of shirt-sleeves diplo-
macy was undone, says Henry VI.
Hyde, writing in Success Magazine,
and the privilege of representing the
United States at the great capitals
of Europe took the place of steam
yachting as the most expensive and
ornamental amusement of the very
rich.
Up to that time the rank of minis
ter plenipotentiary was the highest
in the diplomatic service of the ma
ton. Many suggestions were made
that the rank of ambassador should
be created, but no secretary of state
could be found who would endorse
them.
But on that fateful morning when
Congress, unkuowingly, took in that
unfathered founding in it's grocery
basket, diplomacy lapsed distinctly
backward toward the comic opera
stage. Dignified justices of the Su-
preme Court of the United States
quarreled fiercely with Russian counts
pass first into the White House dining
room. Buoyed by the blessed sense
of humor the Secretary of State OBJ
sequiously took his place behind the
personal embodiments of divinely en-
dowed kings and emperors. Official
and social Washington broke out in
blisters and goose flesh.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
MUNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT
YOUR SERVICE FREE.
Not Penny to Pay for the Fullest
Medical Examination.

If you are in doubt as to the cause
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which you will fill out and return TO
US. Our doctors will carefully dag
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
'renrpus Fugit.

Two darkies were engaged in live
Iy dispute about the purchase of q
mule.
Look hea, Mistah Jackson" ex
claimed one, you done tole me, tree
weeks ago, dat mule was young ami
NAL. He haint got a toof in his head
he's so old"
MIR. Jackson thoughtfully scratched
his mead and then replied: Time
shua does fly in dis hea country
Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26

The shrewd lawyer knows when 20
stop questioning, and none is more
shrewd than tie one who, conducting
a case of bribery. questioned a man
the other day, who is rated high in
tae business world.
Have you yourself ever refused a
bribe?' he asked.
NO but"
That is ALL" said the lawyer.
AT latter time he was asked why
he had dismissed the witness so soon.
Because" he replied. Il knew by
the but that he was going to tell me
no one had ever attempted TO bride
him."