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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
A Generous Gift.

Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete al
msnac. 1t contains no. only all the sci
entihc information concerning the moons
phases, in all the ATTITUDES, but has illus
trated articles on how to read character
by phrenology. palmistry and birth
month. 1t also tells all about card read
Ing. birth stones and their meaning. and
gives the Interpretation of dreams. 1t
teaches beauty culture. manicuring, gives
weights and measures and antidoteS for
POISON. In fact. it is Magazine Al
manac. that not only gives valuable i'm
formation, but will afford much amuse-
ment for every member of the family.
especially for parties and evening enter
tainments. Farmers and people in the
rural districts will find this Almanac al
most invaluable.
1t will be sent to anyone absolutely
free on application to the Munyon Rem
edy Company, Philadelphia. Pa.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
CHEAP CREDIT FOR WORKERS.
No Reason Why Wage Farmers
Shouldn't Organize for 1t.


American wage earners and small
producers have formed unions for the
protection of wages. for sick and death
benefits and for many other purposes,
but not as yet, to any extent, for the
loaning of money to one another. Those
who are able to save have to put their
money in savings banks, where it is
practically unavailable to those of their
associates who need to borrow. Nor
is ii any reflection on the savings banks
that this should be so, for they are
performing their particular function
with rema rkable success and fidelity,
Golfers Weekly says.
In Europe. however, for fifty years
unions for savings and credit have
been authorized by law. and in some
of the countries have had marvellous
growth.
Through the medium of these banks
an avenue of credit has been opened TO
persons to whom credit was formerly
inaccessible The credit is purely CO.
operative. offered directly Though i'm
personality from one TO another. with
ont the intervention of any outside
stakeholder or middleman TO take his
profit from the transaction. and with
out any Of the degradation and en-
barrassment connected with borrowing
from an individual. There being no
middleman, it is also cheap credit, and
this is essential. for the aim of
cooperative banking is to make
the rates for loans as low as
may be done consistently with
earning Il fair dividend for their
shareholders, many of Hhom are also
borrowers. Cooperative credit may
also be said to be friendly credit. Most
of the members are strangers TO the
managers of the banks of discount and
hesitate to have transactions with
them. But at their own cooperative
bank they feel at home. They are
among friends who are interested in
them, and their relations with the bank
are of an entirely different kind from
any relation which could exist between
them and the ordinary bank of dis
count.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Building Up Worn-Out Soils.

Probably the most rapid way to build
up a WORKOUT soil, when barnyard ma
nure is not plentiful, is to give it "A
course of treatment, such as described !:
then grow only forage crops. buy grain
to feed with them, and return all the
manure thus produced to the land
Dairy farming permits such system
to be followed. and-no other type of
farming builds up land so quickly.
Prof. " ]. Spillman. agriculturist.
in charge OF farm management investi-
cations. United States Bureau of Plant
Industries. says another type that
gives quick results is to grow {;
succession of pasture crops for hogs.
keep the hogs on these pastures. and
feed them 4 fourth 10 a half ration of
grain. In middle ATTITUDES the follow
ing system is adapted To this type of
farming: Grow corn enough for the
pigs on part of the farm. sowing either
COW peas or crimson clover or rye in
the corn yearly. TO keep up fertility
The two latter crops furnish winter
pasture for the pigs. On the remainder
of the farm run the following. three.
year rc-rtion: Sow oats in early
spring: follow by rye early in August !:
follow this by sorghum the following
spring: in September or October SOW
rye again, after the sorghum: late the
next spring SOW either sorghum or COW
peas, and begin over again with oats
the succeeding spring.
This may be made four-year rota-
ton by inserting artichokes or sweet
or Irish potatoes between the August
sown rye and the sorghum If these
crops are all pastured down. the hogs
being fed little grain meanwhile. the
soil will improve.
With such n system, at least on clay
soils. the hogs must not be allowed on
the fields when the soil is wet as they
will puddle 1t to such an extent as to
do serious injury. TO avoid this diff
Guilty there should be an additional field
of good sod for the hogs to run on in
wet weather In sections where alfal-
fa tnrives hogs may be pastured on
| this crop in summer. and fed little
corn. In winter such crops as rape
and kale may take the place of the al
falfa. and the grain feed may thus he
mere; sed. Such a system takes moth
ing from the land. but care must he
used not To puddle the soil by pasturing
in wet weather.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
IniprONed Ere cdinC.

The agricultural colleges and eXpe-
riment stations are accomplishing a
great work for agriculture and live
stock industry by encoura ging better
breeding of animals and plants. The
Importance of the farm to national
prosperity was recognized in the en-
dOwment of agricultural universities
ard the establishment of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. with the secre-
tary Il member of tle Presidents cab
met. The farming interests of the
country depend on these institutions
of learning to blaze the way to sci
entific Improvement in husbandry.
Farmers have lost their prejudice
against scientific husbandry in the
achievements of the agricultural col.
leges in nearly all departments Of
plant and animal industry. If greater
profits are realized in animal husband
ry ii is because farmers are paying
more attention TO better breeding and
early maturity of live stock. Fruit
and cereals increase in yields per
| acre because better seed is used in
the production of the crop decade
ago there were no corn exp0sitions
and improved seed breeding was a
subject considered by few progress
sive farmers. To-day corn breeding.
with view of improving its quality
and yield, has become as prominent
dustry. When $1,000 is awarded for
the best exhibit of six ears at a corn
exposition, it means that agriculture
recognizes the Importance of i'm
proved plant breeding.
Scientists announce that the prin-
cipal laws of breeding plant and an
imal life are homogeneous-that the
principles which will improve animals
will also increase the quality OF
plants when methodically applied
There is at intervals spontaneous i'm
proved production by nature Of animal
or plant life. If one inspects the pro-
ducts of nature in plants and animals
| he discovers q wide variation in the
same species. One animal Is OF
greater beauty of conformation than
its pf rents or immediate relatives
and these more symmetrical specimens
are selected for breeding purposes.
In animal husbandry a great speci
men is produced that becomes the an
cestor of an improved breed. Rys
dyk's Hambletonian is the primogen
itor of the American trotter. and by
methodical selections and improved
breeding the trotter has reduced the
| harness record to ] :5S15. The Short
horn traces back to the Duke of Air
drie and the English thoroughbred tC
the barley and Godolphin Arab sires
To improve the breeding of animals
and plants the best specimens should
be reserved for seed and breeding
purposes.-Goodall's Farmer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Eacf and Fiction.

Fiction is stranger than truth, IN
spite of the proyerb. A writer in the
Atchison Globe gives striking ex'
ample of the contrast between 1.-THE
way it is in books and real life. liz
the books this is the method used:
Outside the wind moaned unceasing
~, its voice now that of a child which
sobs with itself in the night, now thai
of woman who suffers her great pair
alone. AS women have suffered since
life began, as women must suffer til
life wears to its weary end. And
mingled with the wailing of wind. rair
fell, fell heavily, internationally. like
tears wrung from souls of strons
men,"
In real life we say:
'It'S raining"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

Put to the test Of the thermometer
1t appears that the normal tempera-
ture of the body is almost invarable
regardless of latitude or season. Put.
ting the bulb of the thermometer I'M
der the tongue Of an Eskimo at the
frozen north or of a man under the
blazing sun of the tropics, we find that
i'm each case, the body being in state
OF health. the temperature is about the
same, the difference not amounting to
a degree. We may say absolutely that
the average normal temperature Of il
human being is about 9S.5 degrees f.,
just as we may say that at sea level
water boils at 212 degrees F.-New
York American.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
THE ADAM OF ZULULAND.
Native Legend Gives His Name rs
the "OId-OId-One.''

Native Legend Gives His Name as
the "OId-OId-One."
Now that so much attention is di-
rected toward the situation in Natal
many readers will be interested TO
know that the Zulus are race of an
cestOr worShipers, who believe in the
TRANSPORTATION OF souls from the hui
man body 20 snakes. y warlike, no
mantle and picturesque race. their the
DRY of the creation is quaintness itself.
Their tribal legends presume the exist
ence of the first man. known as Unkul-
unkulu (the Old-old-One). and of him
they say: I'VE no longer know him.
We do not know his WIFE and the an
GENTS do not tell us that he had a
wife,
This primeval Zulu is credited with
having broken off the nations OF the
universe from a reed, which typifieS the
source of being The Tthlanga or reed
really represents father from whom
the children are broker off. Their eX.
PLANTATION of what brought death int
the world and all its Woe is weird and
intensely interesting. Unkulunkulu sent
this message by the chameleon: Go,
chameleon. go and say: Let not men
die" This chameleon accordingly set
forth. but unfortunately it lOitered OF
the way and ate the fatal purple fruit
Of Ubulwebezane. Then the Old-old-
one dispatches a lizard after the cha.
melcon. The lizard ran exceedingly
fast and made great haste. for it bore
the message. Let men die!'' And it
accomplished its mission ana returned
to the Old-old-one before the chameleon
reached its destination and shouted
LET not men de- 1t was too late
for men answered :."Oh, we have heard
the word of the lizard, and through its
word men will die"
To this day the Zulus entertain n
profound dislike for the chameleon. II
is killed whenever seen and used as
a medicine. Among other things the
maize gardens are doctored with it tc
keep the birds from spelling the corn
The chameleon may be an object of dis
ike, but the lizard is loathed and detest
ed. and when Zulus kill il they shout
This is the very piece of deformity
which ran in the beginning to say that
men Should die.'-London Standard.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

"Now. Peters, said the teacher
what is it makes the water of the sea
SO saltyT'
Salt" said Peters.
Next" said the teacher. what is
it makes the water of the sea Sc
salty:"
The salty quality of the sea water
answered Next" lis due TO the ad
mixture of sufficient quantity OF
chloride of sodium to impart to the
aqueous fluid with which it commin
giles a saline favor. which is readily
recognized by the organs of taste.'
Right. Next" said the teacher. sc
up one.''
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18


given me. anu | am recommending it
to all my friends. Mrs. W. s. FORD,
1883 Lansdowne St., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It has
stood the test of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. 1t has cured
thousands OF women who have been
t-oubled with displacementS, inflam-
nation, liberation, fibroid tumors, ir-
regularities. periodic pains. backache,
that bearing-down feeling, flatulency,
Indigestion, and nervous prostration,
after all other means had failed.
Ii you are suffering from any of these
ailments, don't give up hope until you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health, free of
charge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
EOrestalIed.

An cid tale is related Of a family
named Wood. whose younger members
were collectively called the "Splinters. =
There was certain propriety in this
nomenclature. Just as there is il the
suggestion made by the learned sci
enlist in the following story in Pick
Me-Up:
Now, what shall we name the
babyt" inquired the professors wife.
why. this species has been named :.
answered the professor, in astonish-
ment. This is a primate mammal
Homo sapiens."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

There is more Catarrh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
Gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurabe. For a great many
years doctors pronounced ii a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment
pronounced it lncurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by r. j.
Cheney Co, Toledo, Ohio. is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t Is taken
internally In doses from 10 drops to tea
spoonful. IL acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They oner
one hundred dollars for any case 1T fails TO
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
Address: f. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, U.
Sid by Druggists 15c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Mutton Birds.

During six weeks every autumn the
900 inhabitants of the Australian Fur
neaux islands make enough money to
support themselves i'm idleness the rest
of the gear. They do this by catching
the very fat young mutton birds"
which are Matched there in such num-
bers that the focks when they migrate
extend for miles. They furnish food
and oil, which is used for lubricating
purposes and also as substitute for
cod liver oil.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Dfstenper.

In all its FORMS. among all ages Of
horses, as we'll as dogs, cured and al
others in same stable prevented from
having the disease with Spohn's Distcm
per Cure. Every bottle guaranteed. Over
100000 bottles sold last year. 30 cent:
and S1OO bottle All druggists. or SEND
to manufacturers, Spohn Medical Co.
Goshen, Ind.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
The Disturbing Telephone.

The telephone has destroyed all the
privacy of society," said the society
girl. 1T breaks.in on everything. Moth
ing is sacred to it. You may be saying
your prayers. The telephone Or in
the midst of your bath. The telephone.
Or doing up your back hair, or, worst
of all, delightful man may be MAX
ing love to you. when Killing, Killing.
Killing! The telephone breaks off the
thread of his theme and he fails to
resume it,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

The speed of automobiles is CON
troled at crossings in Chicago suburb
with considerable success by the crea-
ton of a hummOck in the road raising
the sidewalk crossing above TIE level
Of the road.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
$4,000 Personally Conducted Ex-

Colonists' one-way tickets, Chicago to
the Pacific coast, via the Chicago
Union Pacific and Northwestern Line
are on sale daily during March and
April at the rate of $1,000. Correspond
ingly low rates from all points. Double
berth in tourist sleeping car only
500. through without change to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland
No extra charge on our personally con
Quoted tours. Write for itinerary and
full particulars to S. A. Hutchinson
Manager Tourist Department. 81.
Clark street, Chicago, Ill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Correcting an Error.

1t was minister's small son, whose
habit was TO ask God to bless each
member of the family after his prayer
Having been put to bed one night in
hurry, he forgot one of them. Kneel-
ing again. with hands clasped and eyes
closed. he addressed the Lord thus
''Oh, Lord, wouldn't that kill you:
forgot grandma. God bless grandma
Amen" -Delineator.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
The stiII, Small Voice

Sure healing is not in the storm. or
in the whirlwind it is not i'm mon
arches, or aristOcracies. or demOc-
racies. but will be revealed by the still
small voice that speaks TO the CON
science and the heart, prompting us to
a wider and wiser manity.-Lowell
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

All the rivers of Italy were frozen
over during the winter of 1874. Ii was
so cold in Denmark that the wolves
could not stay there in 1903. and they
crossed to Jutland on the ice.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

Little Ikey came up. to his father
with q very solemn face.
rs it true, father" he asked, that
marriage is failure"
His father surveyed him thought
fully for q moment.
well. Ikey," he finally replied, ''if
you get rich wife it's almost as good
as a failure '-Lippincott's
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

In Russia there is a cheap reapin:
machine which has a reel, but no au
tomato rake. A man sits on the plat
form and rakes off the grain with 4
pitchfork. The name of this machine
is "lobogreika." and since ''lobo" mean:
throw" and "greika" is "a heater,
the whole can be translated throw
sweater"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

The postoffice at the naval station a
Guantanamo, Cuba, has been officially
named Bagley, after Ensign Bagley, wht
was killed in the SpauishAmerican wac
This paper contains the advertisement
of the wonderful Danysz Virus prepared
by DIR. Danysz of the Pasteur Institute,
Paris. This preparation is in use all
over Europe in Kidding dwellings and sta
bles in cities and villages of rats and
MICE and it is now being put on sale
with all dealers in the United States
where its success will doubtless equal
that abroad
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
RlnodIexs Revolution.

Reporter-But. Senator. in a govern
ment like ours. don't you believe in the
principle of rotation in office?
Eminent Statesman-I certainly do
young man. That's why l have reyolv.
ing chair in my Office.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

IT you nave pains IN the back, Urin-
airy. Bladder or Kidney trouble. and
want a certain. pleasant herb cure fol-
womans ills. try Mother Gray's Austria
Ifan-Leaf. 1t is a safe and never-failing
regulator. At Druggists or by mail so
cts. Sample package FREE Address
The Mother GRAY Co. Leroy. y. y.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Youthful PHILOSOPHERS

A five-year-old boy on hearing grace
asked for the first time at breakfast
grayely remarked: Il only say my
prayers at night That is the danger
Gus time. Life.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Inorphia

No man ever fell in love with a suf-
fragist. When you find a suffragist
married, her husband fell in love with
her before she became a suffragist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

0ficious Salesman-Wouldn't you like
to look at some of our overcoatings Oh
suitings?
Dyspeptic Looking Customer-No, but
III you will be kind enough to tell me
where the drug department is I'll take a
look at your billings and porous plaster
fngs.'-Chicago Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
The One Thing of Conseouencs

What we think, what we know. or
what we believe. is in the end of little
consequence. The only thing of con
sequence is what we do.-Ruskin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

from rregularl-
ties, terrible drag
ging sensations,
extreme nervous
ness, and that all
gone feeling in my
stomach. / had
given up hope of
ever being well
when l began to
takeLydia E.Pink-
hams Vegetable
Compound. Then
1 felt as though
now ire bod haa,,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms To Pure Food and Drugs Laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
eists for Murine Eye Remedy Try Murine
in Your Eyes. You Will Like Murine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
Money Made In Live stock In Gene

Money Made In Live stock In Gem
trail Canada.
w. J. Henderson, visiting Seattle.
writes to the Canadian Government
agent at Spokane. Wash. and says:
| have neigh5Ors living there, and
raising wheat. barley and oats for the
past twenty years, and are now getting
from the same land 90 to 80 bushels
of wheat per acre, 10 to 60 bushels of
oats.
1t was the first week of May when
| got my tent pitched. but the farmers
all around had finished putting in their
crops. so | only got fifteen acres broke
and seeded. They advised me. as it
was late. not to put in much wheat, 30
| put in five acres wheat and ten acres
oars, one-half acre potatoes and vegeta-
bles. All kinds of vegetables grow
well up there-sweet corn, tomatoes.
onions, carrots. peas. beans. cabbage.
acre, for which | got &c cents, others
got 50 cents; oats threshed 81 bushels
per acre, for which | got 3D. cents per
bushel. You see / was three weeks
late getting them in; still | was salts
fed
From my observation, there is more
money made in stock. such as cattle.
horses and sheep as prices are high for
such, and it costs nothing TO raise
them. as horses live the year around
out on the grass. In fact. farmers turn
their work horses out for the winter
and they come in fresh and fat i'm the
spring. Catte live out seven or eight
months They NOW the prairie grass
and stack it for winter and give cat
straw. Ny neighbors sold steers ut
$40 each. and any kind of horse that
can pillow, from $50 up. l raised sixty
chickens and five pigs. as pork, chick
ems. butter and eggs pay well and al
ways a good market for anything n
man raises. so | have every reason TO
be than. ii. besides at the end of three
years | st my patent for homestead.
| heard of o homestead selling for less
than $1,000, so where under the sun
could an old man or young man do
baf
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

Sore throat leads to Tonsilitis. Quinsy
and Diphtheria. Hamlins Wizard Oil
used as a gargle upon the first symptoms
of sore throat will invariably prevent
all three of these dread diseases.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18
The
Exceptional
Eqzlfprner1f

of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the
scientific attainments of its chemists have
rendered possible the production of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, in all of its
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inal principles of plants known to act most
benefcially and combining them most
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
AS there is only one genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA and as the gen.
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline limitations or to return them
if, upon viewing the package, the full name
of the California Fig Syrup Co. is not found
printed on the front thereof.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

The French law prevents doctors
from receiving money bequeathed TO
them by patients.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-18

To restore normal action to liver,
Kidneys, stomach and bowels, take Gar.
field Tea. the mild herb laxative.