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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

Work on New York City's new Cats
kills reservoir and aqueduct is employ
ing $4,000 men,
New York City has condemned and
disposed of as waste 10000 tons OF
food during the last year.
Austria>s government has brought
forward q bill I'm the Chamber OF Dep
uties making insurance against illness
and old age compulsory on all WORK
men and domestics and those employed
whose annual income does not exceed
$780,
In order to prevent elder children
being kept at home Ito look after
baby" the London County Council Is
trying the experiment of appointing
"baby-minders," who will take care or
the babies In the school buildings dur
ing school hours.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association Of Baltimore Is looking into
a project to build great bridge across
Chesapeake Bay, to connect directly
tho civ and the eastern shore section
of the State The association has APP
propriated funds for survey.
Bromine, useful In medicine, photog-
raphy. the manufacture Of dyes and in
certain metallurgical operations. Is pro-
duced commercially i'm only four States
of this Michigan, Ohio, Penn
sylyania and West Virginia. Last
years output was 1879, 1876 pounds.
The street traffic of Paris has be-
come so dangerous since the introduc-
ton of motor care that underground
passages are being made at several
places where accidents have happened.
notably in the Avenue des Champs Ely
sees and the Place de la Concorde.-
The Queen.
On Dec. 8 the State of Illinois was
ninety years old. Already Chicago
newspapers are talking Of big CEN
tennial celebration i'm 1913. On Dec.
3. 1918, as school children may learn
from their history books, Illinois was
admitted into the Union as a State.
Two years later the census gave her
population as 1921. Chicago, chiefest
among her daughters, was born in 1893.
]. Pierpont Morgan and Waldorf As
tor are ON the advisory committee OF
the Golden West, an American indus
tries exhibition which is to be held in
Earlscourt, London, next May, for
which extensive preparations have al
ready been made. Associated with them
on the committee are about every one
Of note In Burke's peerage and other
distinguished men, including Alfred
Austin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
MOUNTAIN SLIDING.


Hawaiian Snail Boys Simply "Drop
Down the Edge of the Scenery"
Water sports are by no means the
only vigorous athletics INDUCED in by
the boys of Hawaii. Mountain climb
ing is a favorite pastime. for there are
peaks 1900 feet high within easy walk
ing distance Of any part of Honolulu,
and on the island of Hawaii there are
two mountains fully $4,000 feet in
height Not infrequently the Honelulu
schools give picnics on the mountain
sides that the pupils may gather land
shells. 1t is on these excursions In
search of land shells that the Hawaiian
schoolboys revel in the once national
sport, mountain sliding.
A very steep mountain side is Sc
lected, where the grass is long and
slOping downward. Every one gathers
his own I'll leaves. The I'll leaf is some
thing like the banana leaf, but not
nearly so long. With a bunch of I'll
leaves in his hand the first boy steps
to, the edge of the side, grasps the
places the leafy part under him and
sits down, gives himself a start and
drops down the edge of the scenery
like fash I was assured that it was
an easy matter to regulate the speed
of descent by merels grasping the ii
stems firmly and lifting them upward.
this acting as brake. | longed for
| the thrill of dropping down over the
edge of a mountain and upon my brief
sled of I'll leaves began the descent
went like the wind. 1t seemed rs
though my breath would be taken away
from me or that l would plunge head
over heels, to be dashed to pieces
/ among the trees below. / thought of
my brake and drew up on the ii leaves
with all my might and came up with
| n jerk that Jared every bone in INV
| body There | sat, looking downwal".
almost perpendicularly. held in position
| only by few leaves resting on the
smooth, slippery grass, but the sliding
grass is nearly foot long, and it is
| only otter it has been repeatedly slid
den over and beaten down that II APP
| proaches perfection in the eyes of the
| Hawaiian small boy and sometimes
leads to accidents. When, for instance,
| the thin layer OF ii leaves wears out
| beneath the slide a gentle tug at tire
| stalks parts the sled and sends the
| slider whizzing downward in a most
| uncomfortable and ungraceful manner
| all arms and legs. Lucky is the vic
tim of such an accident if he is not
stopped in his downward career by the
| trunk of a tree.-St. Nicholas.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
CURED GREEN CORN.
Maine Hunters Sample an Early
Dutch Idea and Like It.


Dutch Idea and Like 1t.
Because fifteen acres of sweet corn
which James Aver, a farmer of Unity.
Me, had planted for filling the farm
silo was permitted to stand until the
ears were in the milk before cutting.
Miss Mildred Aver, the farmers
16-year-old daughter, was able to earn
1925 by husking and boiling the unripe
ears and curing them for winter use
after a method practicnd by the early
Dutch settlers of New York.
Having husked her corn and boiled
it in the ear, she cut away the fat ker-
nels with a thin knife and placed the
shelled green corn on screens covered
with mosquito bar netting above the
family cook stove, where 1t remained
until the kernels became hard and had
shrunk more than one-half in bulk
from drying. All that remained to do
was to tie the dried corn in stout cot
ton bags and find market.
Owing to the fact that the Maine
corn Gamers rise much sugar in putting
up their corn harvest hunters and tour
lists who go into the woods are averse to
canned corn as 4 regular diet. to say
nothing about the extra weight and
bulk OF the tin cans and the watery
ingredients. The old-time hunters pre-
ferred the dried corn because 1t was
not only light and water proof and
easy to handle in toting. but it weighed
about 20 per cent less than the same
amount of corn in cans.
To prepare canned corn for eating
required a can opener and other fix
ingS, while handful of dried corn put
in a dry pan with pinch Of salt and
q dab of pepper, and perhaps little
butter or oleomargarine, with hot water
enough added 70 give the mass the con-
sistency Of canned corn. made meal
ready to serve upon the camp table in
n few minutes. Then the bag Of dried
corn was tied up and ready to be taken
in canoe or by pack horse to any place
that could be reached by man.
year ago a party of hunters from
New York came to Maine after moose
and brought a bag of home-cured corn
along, and the ancient method proved
to be so valuable in saving the bulk
and weight that other hunters resolved
to add dry corn to their supplies on flu
ture hunting trips. Green corn that
has been boiled and dried cannot be
purchased at any of the supply stores
In the hunting districts of Maine, so
the contribution from the Aver farm
proved godsend, Miss Aver selling out
her entire stock for cents pound. or
double the rates charged for canned
corn and four times the price received
for the ordinary hrosetooth corn from
the west.
Meantime the earless cornstalks went
into the Aver silo to be eaten by the
dairy cows, as was planned when the
field was planted in May.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

CUFF HOLDLR. ends. The metal Is
slipped through the buttonhole Of the
cuff and two loops are passed over it.
One loop congresses the end to which
the cuff is attached and the other CON-
presses the clasps and holds the device
in place on the wearer's shirt sleeve.
When the cuff is soiled on one end it
can readily be reversed and the clean
end, which has been protected by the
coat sleeve, can be turned out. thus
getting as much wear out of one pair
of cuffs as one would ordinarily get
from two pair. BY this device, cuffs
may be put on and off and adjusted
with ease and rapidity. and there is
no breaking of finger nails in button
ing and adjusting them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

debts was only S2340H-an acreage of
less than 60 cents each
James Bell. keeper Of the debtors
jail in New York, in a document sub
mitted to the State Senate. stated that
in 1916 729 persons were confined in
the Jail under his control for debts
under $50 each. Nearly all Of these
would, he asserted, have starved ex-
cept for the bounty of the Humane So
ciety. Bell himself was compelled to
beg for fuel to keep them from freez-
ing.
He specifically mentions the cases Of
Dins Lyman, imprisoned for three
years for debt of less than $50, and
Of George Riley, imprisoned for six
years, also for a debt of less than $50
Both Of the men were supported while
imprisoned by charity. In other States,
as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the
creditor was required to provide for
tie board Of the imprisoned debtor
When this was not Forthcoming the
debtor was discharged.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
WHEN WE HAD DEBTORS JAILs
Men Had to Serve Time for the Crime
of Owing 60 Cents.

of Owing 60 Cents.
In 1929 it was estimated that 10000
persons were annually imprisoned for
debt in the United States, and at that
date the practice had been abolished
in at least two States-namely. Ohio
and Kentucky, says the Yale Review.
In 1890 the estimated number of indi-
viduals imprisoned on account of debt
was In Massachusetts. 5000; in New
York. 10000; in Pennsylvania, 1000 /;
in Maryland 5000. or total of $4,000
in four States.
The average of the debts for which
persons were deprived of their liberty
were small-under S.. In the Jail at
Dedham. Norfolk County Mass. out
of a total of fifty-two debtors confined
within its walls only nine owed more
than $50 and sixteen owed $40 or less
A local society for the relief of debt
ors confined for small debts procured
the release of fifteen persons whose
debts added together amounted to only
1872, an average of less than So.
In a jail located at Hudson. n. Y.
in the course of the year ended Sept
| 20, 1880. total of 100 persons were
committed for debts: of this number
| forty-nne were held for rum debts
In Philadelphia forty cases were re
corded In which the sum total of the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

As l walked into the dining room
F1do and Peter striding behind me and
pretending not to see each other-l no.
ticed with growing alarm that Alicia S
air Of preoccupation grew ard grew,
until at last, not being able to stand it
any longer, l suddenly asked, Every
body well?"
why. George," exclaimed Alicia.
"Why, George, what a strange ques-
ticni"
And Alicia looked at me reprovin gly,
while I noted with new alarm that she
had discarded the little white frill that
she usually wears round her reck, and
| that instead of her customary pompa-
dour, her hair was combed back and
parted on one side,
Whereupon, not knowing what else
to do. / sought to cover my confusion
by giving Fido bit of meat, which he
pi oceeded to eat with such an air of SUI
| periority ard disdain at our other pet.
that Peter. looking inexpressibly pirat-
| ical. snatched Fido's morsel, and made
his exultant way to safety behind our
kitchen range.
whatever is the matter with Fido
and PeterT' l cried, quite aghast at
such scandalous behavior.
PAY no attention to them, George,
said Alicia. ''They have been that way
ever since / returned"
Returned" | asked. Returned,
Alicia:'
YES" said Alicia. From the So
ciety."
From the society?'
Eyes, the society. And I was elected
secretary
Peter, having finished bis meat be-
hind the range. came out from his re-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

Let us see how men killed each other
IN the past when firearms were not
modern or did not exist, and when the
opportunity to kill In battle was much
greater than it is at the present time
Edward III. and Philip VI. tilted with
each other at Crecy Aug. 20, 1916, and
the killed and wounded and prisoners
amounted in all to $4,000 men. The
English, although victorious, lost H.
600. This was right royal fighting and
would have given war correspondents
remarkable material for bloody dis
patches. At Hohenllnden Dec. 3, 1900.
the French loss was approximately
1000. while the Austrians In killed and
wounded lost 5000 and 1900 prison
ers were taken. Thus the killed and
wounded of that one day equaled the
total losses In the Transvaal war of
both sides in 120 days. One might in
fer that the craftsmanship of 1899 and
1900 was Of poor quality. This is not
true. The fact is that armies meet
less IN hand to hand conflicts to-day
n
Il, 1900, the French losss was 1000
and The Austrian loss between 10000
and 1900, or 10000 in all, while fig
ures for a single twenty-four hours of
lighting make the battling at the Tu-
geIa and Modder rivers seem like q
skirmish. But greater carnage than
this has been recorded. At Chancel-
IorsvilIe May 2, 3 and 4, 1863, the
Union loss was 5000. The Confeder-
ate loss 12,2S1. In other words, 2S,3OC
men were put out of active service in
three days. At Chickamauga Sept. 19
and 20, 1863, the Union loss was 15,-
s51 and the Confederate loss 1854, an
average of about 1900 a day. Still a
human life Is of more value in 1906
Van it was In 1868. The work value
OF a man Is greater to-day than it was
then, and it is said to be law Of tho
Fates that as work value Increases the
mortality wrought in warfare decreas
es. Which may or may not be so.
July 1, 2 and 3, 1868, at Gettysburg
the Union loss was, killed 2,S:,4. wound
ed 1900, missing 6.643, and the Con
federate loss 31.621, so there was II
average loss per day on that battl,
field of 1900 men. At Antietam Sept
II. 1862, the Union loss was 12,469
Confederate loss 1900 to 1900. or ;
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

total OF at least 81 800. The second
1862 The Union forces lost $1,000 men
and the Confederates 500. In the
battle of the Wilder S May and
6, 1864, the Union sit was crippled by
the loss of $4,000 men and the Conred-
crate by a loss of 11,000 men. The
Germans and French did equally as well
at Mars-la-Tour Aug. Is, 1870. The
German loss in killed and wounded was
10000. The French loss In killed
wounded and prisoners was 1900. One
regiment lost fOrty-nine officers and
1,736 men, but this regimental loss does
not compare with the Union loss at the
time of the first discharge of the Con-
federate batteries and musketry at the
battle Of the Wilderness, when it is
estimated that In five minutes 5000
Union soldiers were wounded and kill
ed Gravelotte, Aug. Is, 1870, was
carnage to be remembered. The Ger
mans left upon the field 20, 100 dead or
wounded men. The French lost be-
tNctA l-fOOO anu lO,bOO. Il ltNiids SIT
uated in the SHOWS of Bulgarian noun
tains, was battlefield in July, 1877,
where the mountain side ran streams
of blood and Turk and Muscovite died
with their teeth fixed in each others
flesh. The total Russian losses in ten
days fighting were $4,000. The Turk
ish losses have never been accurately
known. They have been estimated ut
10000.
Last but not least of the fierce bat
ties of the world where life was treat
ed as a bauble comes Waterloo. June
IS. 1915. The loss of the English and
Prussians was 22,OO0 and of the French
$4,000. Wellington's army could not
have survived the ravases of the
French guns but for the support of
the allies, and England as an empire
has never come SO near humiliation cn
the field of battle as it did at Water
loo.-H. /. Cleveland, in Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
SCARED THE ROBBERS.
Odd Incident I'm England I'm tn
Eighteenth Century.

Odd Incident I'm England I'm the
Eighteenth Century.
For a time during the eighteenth
century in England there was lull
in the robbery industry owing to an
odd incident. Shortly after the execu
ton of an English burglar named Ellis
ton a curious communication purport-
ing to have been written by him was
put into circulation. "Now, as l am
dying man." it ran, II have done some
thing which may be Of good use TO
the public l have left with an honest
mantle only honest man I was ever
acquainted with-the names of all my
abode, with q short account of the
chief crimes they have committed. In
many of which l have been the accom-
plice and heard the rest from their
own mouths. 1 have likewise set down
the names of those we call our settlers,
of the houses we frequent and all OF
those who receive and buy our stolen
goods. l have solemnly charged this
honest man and have received his
promise upon oath that whenever he
hears Of any rogue to be tried for rob-
berry or HOUSEKEEPING he will look
into his list and If he finds there the
name of the thief concerned to send
the whole paper to the government OF
this I here give my companions fair
and public warning and hope they will
take it." 1t is said the hint was so
effectual that for long time pick
pockets and burglars in that part OF
England went into panic stricken re-
tirement. And. this being so, 1t is just
as well they did not know that the let
ter was a clever forgery, the work of
that prince of wits and humorists.
Dean Swift.-New York Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
OPPORTUNITY.

They do who come
When L knock and fail to find you in;
For every day 1 stand outside your door
And bid you wake, and rise fight
Wall not for precious chances passed away,
Weep not for golden the wane!
Each night burn the records of the day
At sunrise every soul is born again!
Dos thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?
Dost reel from righteous Retribution's blow?
Then turn from boed archives o past
And find the futures pages white
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell;
Art thou sinner? Sins may forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell
Each night star to guide thy
Laugh like a splendors
To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with its dead
But bind yet %
Though deep in mire, wiring not hands
1 lend my to all who say
No shame-faced outcast
But yet might rise and be again man
ter Malone
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

treat, and sitting ON the threshold of
the dining room, in plain view of us
all, fixed a bland look on Fido. and
began to make his toilet with every
appearance of happy cat who has
had his dinner and Is thankful.
Fido, seeing this hateful sight, wrin-
kled his nose and worked himself into
a temper, punctuating the rumbling of
his thunder by a smart clap Of barking
every time Peter heightened his arm
and drew his paw round the back Of
bis neck.
Peter, seeing that this EN- of his
toilet was particularly irritating to
F'ido. broke forth into his loudest song,
and gave all his time and attention to
washing the back OF his neck. And
the more Peter washed, the louder Fido
barked and the louder Fido barked,
the more violently did Peter wash I'M
til reached down at last to take Peter
by the scruff, as preparatory step to
dropping him out into the night. at the
same time giving Fido sympathetic
and reassuring glance.
! had immediate cause for regret
ting that glance, because the moment
took my eyes off Peter he ceased his
additions. stood up like a bear. reached
for my descending and unconscious
hand, clayed il. waved his tail. circleC
the room, tented at Fido. and Slipped
through the door and up the stairs
with such an insulting ease that
could not help bat remark:
'Drat that cat!"
"Why, GEORGE" cried Alicia. why
George"
| hung my head in shame
"And didn't hear YOU use that sam,
slangy word this morning when you Gu
yourself?" continued Alicia. with ;
touch of her old-time spirit.
hid my face behind the table fern
and could only preserve silence unit
aroused at last by gesture over tn
fern dish. looked up. AMI followed
Alicia's finger as it pointed TO her lit
tie windmill bank that stands upon tn
corner of our sideboard.
Every time you use that word agaii
you must put a quarter in the bank,
said Alicia. And | will keep Il for tn
society; we're out of funds
A week passed. and Alicia still comb
ed her hair back, and was so strict an
dignified with the pets that Fldo spen
his evenings in signs and mournfulnes:
AS for Peter. that independent ca
stayed away altogether, and his histor
became fragmentary. He was hear
one day as fighting a strange dog, an
seen few days later limping alOn
rakishly on three legs. and caring nc
for any man.
"Why, George" said Alicia or
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

At one end of each bar is a pedestal
on which stands uprights, shaped like
the letter "a To the tops of these
uprights the hammock is swung. The
advantages of this support are that
the two ends can be moved as far
apart or as close together as the tel
escoping bar will permit. and the up
rights may be given any slant desired
by means of brace rods, which fit into
holes bored at intervals along the bot
tom. The whole thing can be taken
apart and folded into a small space
when not i'm use, or can be put up in
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

Champ Clark loves to tell of how In
the heat Of a debate Congressman John
son Of Indiana called an Illinois repre-
sentative a jackass. The expression
was supplementary, and in retraction
Johnson said:
while withdraw the unfortunate
word, Mr.. Speaker, I must insist that
the gentleman from Illinois is out of
order"
How am / out Of order?' yelled thu
man from Illinois.
Probably veterinary surgeon could
tell YOU answered Johnson. and that
was parliamentary enough to stay on
the record-Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

LID is SECURE. pan cannot De loSl. III
this device the handle of the pail is
bent into a deep and narrow V at the
top of the arch. In this there hangs
a long triangular piece of wire at
tached to the lid. which Is hinged ut
one side. The whole top of the pail
may thus be opened freely to permit
of the filling or emptying of the re-
ceptacle, but it will always be at hand
when wanted. 1t is no uncommon
thing for working man to lose the lid
to his pail and as this means the ex-
pense Of new dinner carrier. it is no
joke.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

principle is all wrong His theory is
that the spigot should point inwardly
If the flow of water from the ordinary
vertical spigot be very great, the water
Is sure to splash over both sides of the
sink. This objection is overcome with
the improved spigot. The discharge Of
water strikes the sink at an angle, and
is DETECTED to the back and bottom,
practically none splashing to the front
and sides. Whether this faucet would
be serviceable in all cases is very ques-
tiOnable
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

In due process of time the battleship
had reached the utmost limit of its de-
sclopment.
Likewise the manufacturers of deadly
explosives had perfected machines capa-
bic of blowing whole feet out of water
at any imaginable distance.
In great haste the powers summoned u
conference.
What's the use of carrying this thing
any farther" they said. WAR has be-
come so appalling and expensive that we
can't afford to indulge in it any more"
Seeing that the jig was up they reiuc-
family inaugurated the era OF universal
peace-Chicago Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21

vented a hammock
support which not
only has all the adj
vantagesOf the nat
ural support but
shade, but includes
many virtues of its
own. This contriv-
ance consists of two
b a rs, teleScopina
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
A W GLEASON.


An instance of exclusiveness MAIN
tanned under difficulties is reported
from the ladies' cabin OF an Atlantic
liner. All were sick except one lady
and a cat, which wandered uneasily
about. The lady ventured TO stroke
the eat, remarking, Poor pussy" The
eat was inclined to respond and eie at
ed its tail in token Of good will, when
from a neighboring berth came in
choking tones the words, Excuse me,
that is private cat r'-Argonaut-