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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
mitch Encfs.

John Walker, an English chemist,
was experimenting in 1927 with an in
flammable mixture for use on ship
board. One day he happened to rub
a stick dipped in this mixture across
a table. There was a report; the stick
took fire, and, because John Walker
was no fool, the match was born.
John Walker, the matchs inventor.
put his wonderful invention on the
market in April, 1927. The Walker
match was as big as a lead pencil,
and it cost shilling a box. Because
it could only be lighted by drawing it
through piece of sandpaper folded
in two. the Holden match supplanted
it in 1888. The Holden was lucifer;
it ignited more easily than the Walk
er; so it put the Walker out of bust
ness. Sweden is to-day the home of
the match industry, and exports annu-
ally about 1000 5000 boxes of in
comparable matches.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Healthy HOGS.

Ia most sections hogs have been gen.
eralAs healthy for the past two years.
During this time corn has been very
high IN price and farmers have been
careful Id feeding IT, We have not
seen many places where whole wagon
loads of cogn have been dumped in the
feed rot or pasture for the animals to
eat at will.
Corn ID itself Is not an impure feed,
and there Is no conclusive evidence
thai 1t Will directly bring on disease
How ever, 1t is well known that hogs
fed on an exclusive corn diet are not
as healthy as those fed on a mixed
diet Tho reason is that corn is not
balanced ration, and the animal
takao on more fat during the early
period Of growth than the frame can
well support. Consequently the sys-
tenn .Yeco.iies weakened and the animal
is not SO resistant to disease.
The prevailing high price of corn is
com. ceiling stock growers to rely more
upon pasture and supplementary feeds
for groging their hogs. This is al.
moss suee to have a general beneficial
effect ;G the physical powers and re-
sisting qualities of hogs. Pigs in pas
ture not only secure variety of easily
digeNihie food, but the exercise in Sc
curing their food develops strong
heafs and lung power, making them
less susceptible to the attacks of dis
east Also pasturing leads the ami
malo oyer wider and cleaner grounds,
henfe they escape the baneful effects
of o:ercrowded and more or less filthy
quarters where disease is likely to
breed.
Tske man who studies the question of
swieo feeding will find that hogs will
eat ard thrive on a wider range of
con -alSn farm crops than is usually
glvyn them. They will eat clover and
alfasfa either green or dry; they will
eat sud thrive on variety Of grasses
ane weeds of pastures; pumpkins and
mos} root crops are consumed with q
reltb; and Stops, milk of all kinds.
anG waste fruits of the garden and
orc:nrd are eaten by them as readily,
If nat more so. than high priced
grains. With right management, pork
can De produced as cheaply as it ever
cou-i, the hogs remain healthy, and
corr. be fed only for finishing for mar
ket
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23

Not In many years has there been
so light a demand from the farming
communities for loans as now" said
a banker from the interior to a New
York Post correspondent. "The coun-
try banker has long depended on the
farmer as borrower. and has re-
ceiged no small part of his dividend
earnings from this source, as 1t was a
steady and profitable one. With the
high prices of grain and stock and the
gaining of the farmer in wealth, this
demand has fallen off steadily until to-
day the country bank has fewer loans
of this sort than ever in its history.
In it's place has come the new form
Of handling products of a perishable
nature The creamery industry, which
forvaerly lad little to do with the
banks, has become important, and the
butter shipments are enormous. The
egg shipments. which, when there
werS no celd-storage facilities in the
couetry towns. had no meaning for
the Sanks. now are important. In my
town. for instance, a little city OF
5000. 200 miles west of Kansas City
there Is one firm with forty carloads
of eggs In the local cold-storage house
Other firms have been as large buyers
and the dealings of a firm in another
smaller town of the county will reach
larger proportions. both of eggs and
OF poultry"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
ROBERT ADAM.
He Created New Era I'm English
Architecture.


Robert Adam (172S-92) was to EV.
lisa architecture what Benvenuto Gel
lini was to that of Italy. He was ar
chitect to the King, beloved at court
member of Parliament, and 1t wal
said Of him that he could not help
adjoining all that he touched" Those
of the English people who dwell in
Adam houses prize them as rare jew
els.
Adam introduced into English ar
chitectUre a lightness, delicacy Of
touch and charm of proportion which
1t had never before possessed and
which gave his name to that splendid
period of architecture the style Of
which lasted over century. Every
thing in house, from the panel in a
ceiling to the vases and gilt wood tri-
pods and branches for lights. from
hangings at the windows to woman's
hairpin holder, Adam designed him.
self
Adam got his rich, beautiful and
distinctive style from the ruins of the
Emperor Diocletian, at Spalato. AS a
finish to interiors he conceived the
idea of using figures in relief upon
walls. colored and adorned according
to Raphael's Stance painted fat upon
the walls of the Vatican. His idea
was as bold as its result was beauti-
full. He also adopted Pompeiian styles
for decoration.
Adam was artist as we'll as archi-
tect, and his walls, ceilings and inte-
rior adornments are marvels of har-
monious colors.' says an architect.
''He employed no less personages than
Angelica Kaufman and Zucchi to paint
many Of the panels and medallions let
into his ceilings. and 1t was his habit
TO have carpets woven to match the
pattern overhead and harmonic with
the color there employed. The key
note of Adams style is movement
combined with perfect artistic fitness,
and 1t is peculiar for its grace and
stateliness" New York Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Sand Dunes Along Lake Michigan

Along the borders of Lake Michigan
shifting sand dunes are causing much
trouble. The dunes are formed by the
on-shore winds. which sweep the beach
sand beyond the reach of the waves.
The sand accumulates in low mounds
about any distractions, such as stones
or bushes; thus started the dune Is
sufficient cause for its own growth.
The wind keeps piling the sand up
from behind, the dune grows, and the
sand on it's crest is blown over to the
leeward side of the mound, so that the
dunes gradually march inland
On the east side of Lake Michigan
the dry west winds have heaped up
numbers of dunes, ranging in height
up to 200 feet. In Indiana the dunes
hove moved inland across a forested
area, burying and killing trees, leav-
ing the dead trunks as skeletons be-
hind them in their march onward. A
famous instance of dune migration is
that of the Kurische Nehrung, a long
sand bar off the coast of Germany,
where dune ridge marched over a
church, burying it for thirty years, at
the end of which time ii was gradually
uncovered by the progress of the dune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Worth Reading.

Pre- milk. when frozen. preserves
its original properties unchanged for
week..
NChammed was so abstemious that
taadful of dates and a mouthfui of
wale- was all he required after a day
of card riding.
Sa thousand feet below the level
of st's ocean the water Is Of uni
form temperature. just above the
freezing point. irrespective of the lat
ituGe.
1'hr inventor of melinite has Of
fereG the French ministry of war a
new nigh explosive, which he claims
is equally as powerful and safer to
handle.
Bungent and acid tastes are per-
ceised by the tip of the tongue; the
Middle portion tastes sweets and bit
ters. while the back and lower part is
fitted to taste fatty substances-butter
and the like.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
spoiled in transmission.

"Algy. here's good story" said
Percy. "A man named Swords had
been arrested for assault with dead
ly weapon, and his case was on trial.
"'AIr Swords asked the judge. how
will you be tried?'
"And Mr.. Swords said he wanted to
be tried by jury of his spears Seer"
Sure" answered Algy. That's q
good one"
Later in the day Algy tried it on the
boarders at Mrs. Irons hashery.
Il heard good story this morning"
he said "A man named Swords had
been arrested for assault with dead
ly weapon, and his case was on trial
The judge asked him how he wanted
to be tried.
IT want to be tried, your honor
said Mr.. Swords, by jury OF my
peers See?'
But the boarders gave him the stony
stare, and Algy doesn't know even yet
what allied his story.-cnicago Trib-
une.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
London street Beggars.

That the skilled beggar can make
q larger sum a week than the average
Industrious workingman was one oil
the opinions advanced by the chair
man (Robert Pierpont) at the annual
meeting of the London Mendicant So
ciety, says a writer in Reynolds News
paper.
1t was probable, he said, that in the
streets of London alone something like
100000 a year was given away In
causual charity by persons who knew
nothing about the conditions and cir.
cumstances Of those to whom they
gave.
The total number OF begging letters
received by the society during 1905
was 1858, which, with those already
in their possession, made a total OF
10 fewer than 23S.93S. He pointed out
that about % per cent of begging let.
ter writer's were utter impostors and
only about Is per cent were deserving
of help
Mr.. Pierpont reminded those present
that the society was originally formed
by the first Duke Of Wellington, owing
to the number of beggars who, pro.
Tossing to have served under him al
Waterloo and in the peninsular wars
continually accosted him in the stree.
for aims.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Wire Worms I'm the Corn.

A Michigan man writes that he
cleared his ground of wire worms after
he. as we'll as several of his farmer
neighbors, had lost their planted seed
entirely and had to replant two or
three times on account of the pests.
He never had any more trouble with
them.
His method requires hard work and
time, but better leave the ground idle
than plant garden crops to feed to the
wire worms and grubs.
AS soon as a crop is removed from
the ground cultivate Immediately by
spading, or blowing If the tract Is a
large one.
Roll, drag and roll again to hold the
moisture, so all weeds will at once
start to grow.
In September give it another very
thorough working, which destroys all
the weeds that might grow in the next
spring.
Wire worms thrive in weedy, dirty
soil, but after following the above
plan one may plant anything and have
no fear of the worms getting the crop.
Farmers and Drovers' Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
THE DOCTORS WIFE
Agrees with Him About Food.

Agrees with Him About Food.
A trained nurse says: I'm the prac-
tice of my profession | have found so
many points in favor of Grape-Nuts
food that l unhesitatingly recommend
it to all my patients.
1T is delicate and pleasing to the
palate (an essential in food for the
sick) and can be adapted to all ages,
being softened with milk or cream for
babies or the aged when deficiency of
teeth renders mastication impossible
For fever patients or those on liquid
diet | find 'Grape-Nuts and albumen
water very nourishing and refreshing
This recipe is my own idea and is
made as follows: Soak a teaspoonful
Of Grape-Nuts in a glass of water for
an hour, strain and serve with the
beaten white of an egg and a spoonful
of fruit juice for favouring. This af-
fords great deal of nOurishment that
even the weakest stomachs can assimi-
late without any distress.
My husband is physician and he
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders it
many times for his patients.
Personally regard dish of Grape
nuts with fresh or stewed fruit as the
ideal breakfast for anyone-well or
sick"
In any case of stomach trouble, nerv:
Gus prostration or brain fag-a 10
day trial of Grape-Nuts will work won
ders toward nourishing and rebuilding
and in this way ending the trouble.
There's Reason" and trial proves.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read tho above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, trse, and full of
human interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
COVERED WITH HIVES.

Child "a Mass of Dreadful Sore, Itch
ing, Irritating Humor for Two
NOnths-LittIe SUFFERER In Terri
BILE PIight-Cured by Cuticura.
''NIy six year old daughter had the
dreadful disease called hives for two
months. She became affected by play
ing with children who had it. By
scratching she caused large sores
which were irritating. Her body was
a complete sore, but it was worse on
her arms and back. We employed a
physician who left medicine. but 1T did
not help her and l tried several rene
dies, but without avail. Seeing the
Cuticura Remedies advertised,
thought would try them. / gave her
a hot bath daily with Cuticura Soap
and anointed her body with Cuticura
Ointment The first treatment relieved
the itching and in short time the dis
ease disappeared. Mrs. G. L. Fridhof,
Warren, Mich, June 80 and July Is. 'OS. y
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Feeding Grain to Cows.

There is a wonderful sight Of specu-
latien as TO whether or not 1t pays
to feed grain to COWS out on grass.
Many of the states have thought 1t
worth while to conduct experiments
for zhe purpose of settling the ques-
ton. The national government has
brought the results of these trials to-
gether and published them ia bulle-
tin we may any of us get. The gist
OF IL is that it does not pay to spend
money for feed to use while cows are
out on pasture unless prices are high
for 3utter and cheese.
Sgt while this is so / know of some
farmers who do feed grain right along
through the summer months and find
1t profitable. These farmers buy the
grain feed and pay big price for It,
too One farmer l know of, and a
woman. too, has for years kept up
that practice. / have talked with her
mors than once about 1t, and she is
sure 1t does pay. She gets her money
baca and more. too.
TIE point seems to be with those
who follow this practice that IL they
can keep their cows from falling off
in rsilk and can hold them in good
flesh they are on the winning side.
l believe there is something in that
Where We miss 1t is In letting our
cow get thin. so that they fall off
hnfh In nuonfifxy nd ~ nil
Gra:A prevSnts this. and in that way
brings In Z profit.
The best way to settle this question
is fa9 all To do little investigating
on orr OWE account and keep careful
records Of everything done-cost of
feed. money taken In and all about It.
Tha. will be something we can depend
upon. no matter what others may
thinf.-Agiicultural Epitomist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23

Cleopatra which is to be sold
with other Swinburne rarities at
Sotheby's. was described by the poet
IN letter to T. j. Wise, as trump
cry ephemeral," and he added,
George Meredith, remember,
strongly (and no doubt JUSTLY re-
monstrated with me for producing
such farrago of the most obvious
commonplace of my ordinary style
as it was in &c, or thereabouts. The
verses were never intended for repro
duction or for preservation, but sim
ply scrubbed of as fast as might be
TO oblige a friend whose work | ad-
mired." Mr.. Wise, however, was quite
content to pay 10 guineas for coup
of the poem, on which Swinburne re-
marked: If l were not a bit of a
bibliomaniac myself, / should be
shocked to think of your wasting
good money on it."-London Chron-
icle
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23

Tie ordinary laying hen seldom
pays her keep after the second or
third year, and to say the least old
hens are not as profitable as young
ones. Now is the time to weed out
undesirable specimens. Beginning
shortly now. for several months the
mott will practically stop egg produc-
tion. and so, of course, the birds will
return NO profit. Consequently 1t is
better to sell the dead weights at once
thar to hold them for the cent or
two advance in price they will obtain
In the fall or winter.
Old hens can not In the very ma
ture OF things, be expected to return
very fancy price on the market
Still, If they are properly fattened,
they will bring from so to so cents
each, according to the market, and
that is an amount that certainly can
not be despised II one has enough Of
them to sell.
Even though they bring less than
the figures mentioned, 1t Is still ad-
visable to let them go at once, for
the room they occupy Is needed by
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
TRIAL MARRIAGES.
Land Where This Custom Has Been
Pract;ced for Ages.

Practiced for Ages.
Sociologists who view with alarm the
growing interest in trial marriage as
an institution and conservatives who
condemn its advocates for having toe
advanced ideas, due to twentieth cen.
tury freedom of thought and speech.
should go to the Philippines, where
mating on the installment plan has
been practiced for ages among the
primitive tribes, such as the Igorrotes
The igorrotes live on the sides oil
almost perpendicular mountains, and
the rice fields are built with stone
walls dug from the highly hills and
dirt hauled from afar. The one pur
suit is raising rice, and in its weed.
ing and gathering children are most
useful, therefore the woman who bears
children is respected. Motherhood Il
glorified. The woman who bears nc
children is an object of pity, If not oil
scorn.
The Igorrotes marry at an age when
white children are scarcely ready to
leave the grade schools. The wooing
is simple and direct If child prom.
ises to bless the union within a year
this is taken as a sign of compatible
ity and future domestic happiness, and
the permanent marriage follows. Ii
within year no promise of mother
hood is given, the couple are summon.
ed before the village council, and the
man is given his choice: Either be
may leave the woman and seek bride
elsewhere, or he may take chances on
a childless marriage. But once trial
marriage is made permanent, the idea
of another love affair never enters the
Igorrote's head. Not only does he take
it as sign from heaven that this
woman is to become the mother of hi;
children, but he knows that any out
side entanglements with the fair seq
will end his career, matrimonially and
physically.
In that land they have trial mar
riages, but no divorces. The seventh
commandment is seldom fractured
There is no kindly jury to listen tc
the fair wife's tale of how she needed
human sympathy and comranionship;
no skilled attorneys to paint with lurid
words the sufferings of the injured
husband. Collision is unknown. There
is only one verdict against the offend
er-death.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
BEAUTIFUL MANcHURIAN CITY.
Dalny's Streets, I'm the Administra-
ton Section, Like Those of Paris.

DaIny's Streets, I'm the Admiaistra-
ton Section, Like Those of Paris.
If you could lift up 112 of the finest
villas on the outskirts of a European
city, gardens and all, and drop them
down on the slope of hill overlook
ing beautiful harbor you would have
one section of Dalny, writes Frank G.
Carpenter. This famous city of the
Car, built by the Russians at the
southern end of the Transsiberian sys-
tenn, is more like Europe than Asia.
The administration section, devoted
to the railway officials, is made up OF
magnificent dwellings of brick and
stone, running along wide streets
each surrounded by a beautiful gar.
den. There is no Asiatic architecture
in this part of the city, and as one
drives through it he cannot realize
that he is in the wilds of Manchuria
The streets are as clean as the
boulevards of Paris, they are lighted
by electricity, and the houses are all
large and made after uniform style
There is an administration building
with scores of Offices; Greek church
which will accommodate more than
1000, and a big hotel. which is one
of the best in the far east
Dalny is becoming a new city under
the rule of the Mikado. The Russians
spent something like s20,000,000 in
dredging the harbor, in erecting huge
granite docks and in putting up mag
nificent buildings for their Offices and
homes.
When the war closed large part
of the city had been burned. The
roofs were of many of the houses
The Chinese had carried away the
doors and windows and had even tried
to steal the Russian stoves.
In the residence section the most oil
these damages have since been repair
ed and a new town is rising between
that place and the harbor. There are
Is brickyards now making building
material, and hundreds of Manchuriar
masons and carpenters are working
away.
Outside of population of $4,000 Of
the Monaghan race there are in Dial
ny just Sc Europeans and Americans
composed chiefly of consuls and theil
employees and very few traders.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
A Laugh Ginning.

There is a 17-year-old girl in Atch-
ison who feels so good that she al
most screams with joy. In few
years when we meet that girl pushing
a baby buggy and looking as cross as
1t is possible for a married woman
to look we are sure we shall laugh
Atchison Globe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
We Touch One Another on All sides.

No individual can be happy unless
the circumstances of those around him
be so adjusted as to conspire with his
interest. For, in human society, no
happiness or misery stands unconnect-
ed and independent Our fortunes are
interviewer by threads innumerable.
We touch one another on all sides.
One mans misfortune or success, his
wisdom or his folly, often by its conse-
quences reaches through multitudes.-
Blair.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Gas from Crude OIL.

A Swiss experiment for the transfer
nation of crude oil into liquid gas Is
reported by the American consul at
Zurich to have met with great sue
cess. The product is a transportable
liquid. which is simply evaporated as
used, and can be used for lighting,
heating. cooking. soldering and weld
ing purposes. The gas is nonpoison-
Gus, while It's installation cost is said
to be low, and manipulation simple
and without danger. The new gas is
competing successfully with coal gas
and electricity
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Has Passion for Languages.

Friedrich Theil, peasant of Rauda,
in Saxony, whose leisure hours have
been devoted to the study of Greek,
Latin. Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic and
Gaelic, is 20 years old. He is begin
ming to study the English language.
Theil is in correspondence with some
of the leading philologists of the day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
An Offended Artist.

There's no use O. talkin'," said
Farmer Corntossel, as he sat down on
the horse trough. Il can't git along
with some o. these here summer
guests"
What's the trouble?"
Il have jes' been lectured by that
good lookin' young woman with glass
es fur sp'ilin' the color scheme OF the
garden by putin paris green on the
egetables."-Washi gton Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
Youngest Observation-Disclosures.

in the Quarter Montmartre, Paris. Is
held to be the youngest greatgrand-
mother in the world. She was married
at the age of IA. and her first child,
a girl, married at the same early age.
When Edna was 81 she was a grand
mother. Her grandson married at II
a young woman a few days his junior.
On her forty-eighth birthday Nine.
Bertonelle was a great-grandmother.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
o, No! Mother-in-Law."

Are you a friend of the prisoner
Magistrate O'Connor asked a buxom
woman witness in the Central street
police station court yesterday
mo. I'm his mother-in- law" replied
the woman, without any particular
show of feeling.-New York World.