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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
ORIGIN OF "SUcKER STATE
Farmers Followed Example of Variety
Of Fish-Went Up Stream In
Spring, Down in Fall.

The Sucker State"-this is the
Awakers doubtless know. But the cur
ious circumstances out Of which the
~appeliation grew are now probably
forgotten by eve the Oldest residents
of the state. The record left by the
early settlers of the origin of the
name is as follows: !
1t vas in the outhern part of the
state that the earliest h~omeseekers
built their villages and laid out their
little farms. Here the land was SO
rich that with slight labor an abund'
ant crop was yielded each year. But.
one great drawback confronted the
people. Although they were able to
raise great quantities of grain and veg
etables, hey could find no way to car
ry to a suitable market this wealth OF
produce which they wished to ex-
change for a wealth of silver. The
distance to the nearest market Of any
size was too great to be covered By
wagon, and there were in those days,
of course, no railroads.
Many articles which these brave
pioneers needed badly could be pro-
cured only for money. Accordingly In.
order to save a little cash for times Of
need, all who were able would leave
their farms every spring and go to the
Galena lead mines. where they would
work during the summer. Then in
the fall they would return to their
farms.
Now this custom of the Illinois
formers reminded the people of the
habits of a variety of fish called suck
ers, which always go up stream In the
spring and down stream In the fall
Accordingly. by the freakish Law
which governs the choice Of nick
names, the Illinois settlers began I'd
be known as suckers" The Eame
stuck, as nicknames usually do, and
finally the state itself came to be
known as the Sucker state and its cit
liens as Suckers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Game Bird Rapidly Diminishing in
Numbers.
Driven Away by Settlers In Oklahoma
and Gunners Evade Stringent
Laws and Slaughter Few
Remaining.

Guthrie, Okla.-Hunters of prairie
chicken in Oklahoma this season re-
port them diminishing rapidly in num-
bers. Like the buffalo, the prairie
chickens in the southwestern prairies
do no seem able to withstand the adj
vance of civilization. This is due not
merely to their being ruthlessly
slaughtered. but to their instinct to
seek unsettled regions adapted to their
habits.
Four or five years ago chickens were
abundant in western Oklahoma coun-
ties bordering on the Panhandle of
Texas, beginning in Beckham county
and running north to the Kansas line.
The chicken did not range east of this
western tier of counties, save in Wood
ward and Woods counties. The few
remaining chickens are found now in
Harper, western Woodward, Ellis and
northern Roger Mills, with scattering
punches in what once was mo Mans
Land" now composed of the counties
of Beaver, Texas and Cimarron. Across
the line, in the Texas Panhandle, is a
good chicken range.
Chickens were so numerous in Ellis
county for years ago that late in the
fall it was not uncommon to see 200
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Tihetan Pennl Code.

The Tibetan penal code is curious.
Murder is punished with a fine. vary.
ing according to the Importance of the
slain: theft by a fine Of seven to one
hundred times the value of the article
stolen. Here, again. the fine depends
on the social Importance of the person
from whom the theft has been COM
mitted. The harborer Of a thief Is
looked upon as "A worse criminal than
the thief himself. Ordeals by fire and
by boiling water are still used as
proofs of innocence or guilt, exactly as
was the custom In Europe in the mid
die ages. And II the lamas never in
fict death they are adopts at torture.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
SPARROWS GONE IN A NIGHT
Birds Disappear Suddenly From la.
redo, Tex, During Severe
Tropical Storm.

Laredo, Textile thousands of Eng.
lish sparrows which have infested La
redo for the last 13 years disappeared
from the town as if by magic a few
nights ago. Not a sparrow is left as
a reminder of the twittering, chatter
ing myriads of birds which formerly
thronged the streets. They left the
town flying before the tropical storm,
which whipped up the Rio Grande
from the Gulf of Mexico. Where the
birds went to is a mystery. The dis
covery of Laredo by the English spar
row was made with a suddenness as
great as that of their disappearance.
One night, 13 years ago, the town was
invaded by hundreds Of the birds.
They are supposed to have flown down
from San Antonio. $50 miles to the
north.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
SEE PRAIRIE HENS END

and 800 prairie chickens fly over the
town of Grand. Out in the thinly set
tied country, prairie chicken were a
pest. The few farmers were delight
ed when hunters appeared, and en-
couraged the shooting of the hardy
birds that were devastating their
meager crops. Often 400 and 500
chickens would rise from a single
small field.
Notwithstanding its stringent game
laws. enacted since statehood, Okla
homa has been unable to protect its
prairie chickens. The tragedy has
been that the birds were most nu-
merous in the remote regions, where
game wardens rarely went, and where
they would have difficulty in overta-
king law-breakers. The result has
been hat in addition to the native
gnnners, others have poured over the
border from other states, and helped
hasten the destruction OF the prairie
chicken.
The chickens are trying hard to
stay In their old haunts in the new
county of Harper. Two hunters
secured the Harper county prairies
for two days last week, and got only
forty chickens. This, in all conscience,
was enough, but a poor showing com.
pared with other years. when that
many birds could have been killed
easily in half a day.
These two hunters had the good for
tune TO see a species of game that is
disappearing more rapidly than the
prairie chickens. Coming suddenly
over a sandhill they saw four antelope
and a fawn in the distance. They saw
four antelope on the same range
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
OLD PAPER IN NEW HANDS
Harrison Family Loses Control Of
London Gazette After Tenure
of 100 Years.

London.-"Old Subscriber" has plen-
ty to think over these days. There is
to be a jolt In the career of the Lon.
don Gazette, England's Oldest news.
paper, which, established 243 years
ago, now is nearing it's thirty thou
sandth number. For more than 100
years the Gazette has been printed and
published by Messrs. Harrison of st.
Martins Lane, but the government re.
Gently put up the contract for public
bids and the prize has been taken by
the firm of Wyman G. Co.
The paper was started by the court
when 1t fed to Oxford to escape the
great plague in the reign of Charles
III. 1t then was called the Oxford Ga
zette. On the return of the court to
London the name was changed to that
which the paper has borne ever since.
Copies of the paper are in posses
sion of the Harrison family bearing
the name of the MISREPRESENTATION
er of the present manager, Thomas
Harrison. the issues being dated as far
back as 1850. The paper prints all
the official announcements and adver-
tisements under acts of parliament.
1t also especially all state
events.
Years ago. before the war office and
admiralty and other government bu-
reaus gave out news direct to news
papers as is done today, it held all
other news publications at its mercy,
for it printed exclusively all such re-
ports. In those days it was the first
to publish war news and to obtain In
formation on such events. 1t has yield
en- an ample profit annually to the
governmental treasury.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
FLIRTING IS A DANGEROUS PERIL

discoveries into practise. Thus fiirt-
ing undermines the home; and when
home life with its sanctities, its calm
and deep joys and sorrows. ceases to
have its charm for us in America, the
greatest breakup and catastrophe in
history will follow.
In respect to this menacing evil, a
good rule for youth is: Resist the be-
ginning of flirting. Filtration is the
first step toward self-degradation.
THE man or woman who fiirts is
Matching a serpent's brood that will
one day wake into life to hiss and
sting; he is rearing wild beasts of
prey that afterwards will turn upon
him and rend him. Shake it at its
birth. Flirtations dwarf mans view of
life far more than they broaden them"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
ToyIand.

There is no country in the world
where there are so many toy shops
as in Japan. In all the towns and In
most of the villages there is a chill
dren's bazaar, and the neighborhood
of the principal temples is crowded
with stalls containing things to
amuse children. At the great relig-
ious festivals even the poorest are
to be met with their arms full of
toys to take home, and the number of
men and women who carr a livelihood
by itinerant street shows got up sole
ly TO amuse the children can be
counted by hundreds. These enter
tainments include theatricals where
brave deeds are performed by heroic
warriors, story t~ellers. song singers
and c~onjurers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
NEED GIRLS WHO CAN TALK

She could go home and write an
essay on a beautiful sunset.
Parents at home can often teach
chiidren TO read and to read right.
Galvanized methods of reading are
quite unnecessary.
ii child as a baby likes to talk
1t Is his nature. When the children
nhu language a bore, 1t is not their
fault-it is ours.
AS a rule a course of study tends
10 pigeon hole a child's activities; but
MS course is mapped out to stimulate
useful sensible. profitable co-opera-
ton.
In the high schools. sad to say, the
oeacher OF English does not find all
the cooperation she should have. The
teacher OF science uses slang and muir
ders the English language.
The pupils in our schools particu-
larry in the lower grades. are like
Iennyson's brook they fbabble on
forever
"A principal of a Chicago school
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

Profane as well as legal oaths have
been the subject of many parliament
tary measures in England. No fewer
than five separate bills having the
prevention of swearing for their OBJ
ject were presented during the reign
of James L., but it was not until 1923
that an enactment was finally carried
defining and controlling the offense.
In 1886 a public department was es-
tablished to collect the fines enforced
by this law. The officials Of this de-
partment, of whom n was appointed
in every parish, were allowed IS. Cd.
In the pound On the money thus col
lected, and the balance was paid over
to the bishop for the benefit of the
deserving poor. These penalties ceased
to be enforced after the restoration,
but were revived by a statute of Will.
lam and Mary and still further in
creased under George II.-London
ScranS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Preacher Says Coquetry Is Door
to Divorce Court.
Potent Cause of That Coarseness and
Bestiai vuIsarity Which is Do
ing So Much to Diminish
Home Power.

Chicago.-"If the true life story o.
the 1888 C~hicagoans divorced in the
last ten years were written, it would
be found that the first station which
led toward the divorce court was fire
quently a romantic Irritation at ar
amusement park or fashionable sum
mer resort"
This was q of the Introductory
comments made the other evening by
Rev. Percival H. Barker in a sermon
on The Pace That Kills at the First
Congregational church, haywood.
Flirting is a potent cause of that
~coarseness and bestial vulgarity which
Is doing so much at present to impair
the beauty and diminish the power OF
American home life, degrading mar
riage to the low lever of a convenience
and to the still lower level of sen.
suality. Flirtations foster the social
evil" he continued.
The mother who permits her six
teen-year-old daughter to sail about the
city In an automobile until two o'clock
in the morning with a counterfeit
sport of weak jaw, M weaker mor
ais, opens the front door to grief and
disgrace. If you don't know what
company your daughter keeps or what
time of night she turns in, your roar
when gossips get busy will sound
about as pathetic as the wheeze from
a jewsharp.
This is the time for the modern
minister to shun idle and toothless
generalities and speak in unequivocal
language. There is something almost
criminal in the blank ignorance OF
parents concerning the whereabouts OF
their children during the evening
hours.
1T is more difficult to marry off a
girl who has been paved over by
every chap in the community than 1t
Is to fatten sheep on pineapple ice.
And should they come to Hymen's al
tar, they assume the responsibilities
of wifehood with the enthusiasm of a
one legged nan at a society club
dance, for they have firted away their
heart until they are incapable of
truly loving their husbands.
The firt is likely to discover af-
hnltles in other homes and put the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
FIRST DAILY NEWSPAPER
The Courant Started I'm London zoo
Years Ago by a Woman.

The Courant Started I'm London 0
Years Ago by a
A woman published the first daily
newspaper in the world. 1t was called
the C%ourant and made its first appear
ance in London on March IL. 1902. Be
fore that time the news had been dis
pensed weekly, or, in a few cases Oh
very progressive editors, semi-weekly.
1t was said that it was issued by e.
Mallet, against the Ditch at Fleet
Bridge" Behind that non-committal
"E' was elizabeth" 1t was the
imagination of a woman that first con-
ceived the idea that man would want
to have the news every morning with
his breakfast, and with the character
istic impulsiveness Of her sex she put
the idea into operation.
The Cohrant contained only two
columns, but they were devoted entire
ly TO news. For centuries a single
COPY of a bulletin has been posted on
the walls of the royal palace in China,
a v Advertising and Selling, but that
cannot be called a newspaper. and
there was once a sort of daily market
report in Germany; but it lasted only
a few days.
The Courant's two columns were
printed on only one side of the sheet
and contained such items as the fol-
lowing:
"'Tis believed that the earl of Port
land is by this time at Paris"
Here is talk as If 100000 pistols
were transmitted hither from France
for bribing some persons to favor the
designs of that crown. e.
There were no pictures nor adver-
| tisements. The Courant lived several
| years, and since it's appearance the
world has never been without a daily
newspaper. A copy. the very first
| issue. in fact, is preserved in the Brit
ish Museum. Elizabeth Mallet had a
| style and a mind of her own, as is ap-
| parent from the following paragraph
| from that first issue:
1.-The Courant Gas the title shows)
| will be published daily, being designed
| to give all the material news as soon
as every post arrives. and is confined
| to half the compass to save the public
| at least half the impertinences of or
binary newspapers"
She also promises that the editor
| will not take upon himself to give
any comments or conjecrors OF his own,
| but will relate only matter of facts,
| s~upposing the other people to have
| sense enough to make reflections for
themselves"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Too Much by Book-New
Course Is Remedy.

Chicago.-"The girl gets her Ideas
as to how she should act when she Is
proposed to from the books she reads'
She has no other way to get them
Social standards our young peopie
are getting are obtained from the III
erature they read"
James F. Hosie Of the Chicago Nor'
ma school made the statement the
other day at the first monthly meeuhs
of the Head Assistants association VI
the present school year. His supJec'
was The New Course of Study 5us'
introduced in the schools.
up to a year ago." lie said, 'no'
one out of forty girl graduates from
the high schools that entered the nor
mai school could get up before her iei
low students and tell in a pleasing
manner what she was asked to tel.
She could lot tell how to make bread
row to make a dress.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

Who built M of his war--esseIs
in twenty days from trees growing Ga
the banks Of Lake Champlain?
Commodore Marlborough.
OF whom 1t was said. Providence
left him childless that his country
might call him father?"
George Washington.
What is known as the Monumental
City?"
Baltimore, Md.
What is known as the Garden
City,"
Chicago, Ill.
What is known as the Half
Moon?"
The exploring vessel of Henry
Hudson.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

year ago. The herd apparently had
been able to add one to its number,
despite the constant danger of ene-
mics that lurked at every crossing and
gap.
The hunters found in the small, mar.
row creeks of Harper and Woodward
counties the best bass fishing they had
ever seer in Oklahoma. The streams
in this prairie country are mostly
pools, many of them scarcely ten feet
wide, yet twelve and fifteen feet deep
No man knows when or how bass first
reached these upland waters. They
have spawned and Matched unmolest
ed for ages, and grown to their maxi
mum size, feeding on the abundance
of grasshoppers and other insect life
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

once told me that he was satisfied il
his pupils could find an excuse for
using words. | hope he is dead-dead
to the schools.
Our reading has been too much of
the prescription sort-not enough YER
satility in 1t. There is too little read
ing to get the gist of a matter.
I'VE say, Now, in this coming
semester. | will set so many hurdles
for my pupils to jump over Suppose
life does not happen to set the
hurdles in just the same way. The pu-
pills go out into the world and fail to
make good"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
.Rut my dear sirl Mr. Farley con-

bul, H. uCdl SlA AL
trolls Go per cent Of the stock!'
That is where you were lied to ore
more time" said Tom, with great COOL
ness. THE capital stock OF Cdiawas
see Limited is divided into one thou
sand shares. all distributed. Ny faith
er holds three hundred and hrty
shares; Mr.. Farley and his son togeth-
er own four hundred and fifty; and the
remaining two hundred are held In
trust for Miss Ardea Dabney. to be-
come her property in fee simple when
she marries. Pending her maria &C.
which Is currently supposed to be near
at hand, the voting power of these two
hundred shares resides in Miss Dab
news grandfather. and my father holds
his proxy"
This was the thunderbolt Tom had
been forging during those quiet days
spent on the mountain side; and there
was another pause while n might
count ten. After which the man from
| New York spoke his mind freely.
Your row with these people must
he pretty bitter, Mr.. Gordon. Are you
willing to see your father and these
Dabneys go by the board for the sake
| of breaking the president and his SOM
Il know what l am doing" was the
ouiet reply. Neither my father no
Miss Dabney will lose anything that IS
worth keeping"
Have you figured that out. too? The
field is too small for o down here
MT. Gordon-much too small. You
| should come to New York"
You will fight u.s." he asked.
The short-circuiter of corporation:
laughed.
We'll put you out Of business, IL YOU
insist on 1T. Anything to oblige-"
you have it to do. Mr.. Dracott. Oh
the day you hav hammered Chiawas'
see Limited down to a dead PROPOSE
ton. you can have my pipe patents
II you will meet me at the office o.
Hanchett, Goodloe & Tryson to-mor'
row morning at 10 o'clock. we will pr
Il in writing" Good-nisht"
ITO he c~ontfnued.)
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
A DovetaiI Joint Puzzle.

take two pieces of wood, preferably of
contrasting colors, such as cherry and
walnut or mahogany and lockwood.
about ~ inches square and of any
length desired. Cut the dovetail on
one end of each stick as shown in Fig.
2, drive together and then plane off
the triangular marked A. The
end of each piece after the dovetails
are cut appear as shown in Fig. 8, the
lines marking the path of the dove
tail through the stick.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Teacher Was Ignorant.

Visitor was questioning John.
WELL" she asked. finally. now that
you go to school, how do you like
your teacher?"
Not much" replied the boy.
I'm sorry for that. And why?"
cause she don't know muffin.
Why, do you know, she even asked
me who discovered America"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Large Price for stamps.

The most ardent stamp collector
| would think twice before giving $4,000
for a two-cent blue Hawaiian stamp
1s51-1S52 with its right-hand bottom
corner torn off, | trust! Nevertheless,
that record price has been lid in
Paris for the little red postmarked
thing. But we can all be ex~travagant
| once in a while, and this valued
postage stamp is doubtless destined
for a royal collectors book.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

band ring. and with the edge of a
thin file, make a narrow slit half
way through ii.
Drive a shingle nail into h top
of an old table until only about one
quarter of an inch of it sticks w.
Now, while passing your hand over
the table. find the nail, and, slipping
the slit in the ring over the head Of
the nail, lift up with arms extended,
and your audience will be astonished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

Simple But Very Ingenious Example
In Joinery Is Shown in Illus
tration-How Done.

A simple but very ingenious ex-
ample in joinery is illustrated. In the
finished piece, Fig. 1, the dovetail APP
pears on each side of the square stick
of wood, the illustration, of course,
shows only two sides, the other two
are identical. The joint is separable
and each part is solid and of one piece.
says Popular Mechanics. In making,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
1h26. o66. o22 Rode In Gotham,

a half passengers rode on the various
transportation lines in Greater New
York during the year ended June 80,
1910.
Traffic figures made public by the
public service commission gave the to-
tai at 1,526, $685. SS. as compared with
1896, OS6, 252 for the previous twelve
months. The fares collected by the
various companies totaled s76,224,179.-
6s. Operating expenses of the -oads
for the veal were s43,274.4S7.11.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
LIFTING MAN With FINGERS
Experiment as Instructive as Astonish'
ing-IIIustration Shows How 1t
Is Done.

This experiment is as instructive as
it is astonishing. Two persons place
the index finger of both hands under
the soles of the feet of the mar to be
operated upon. Two more place their
outstretched fingers, as shown in our
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Not the Answer Expected.

A rather pompous looking deacon
was endeavoring to impress upon the
young minds of a class of boys the
importance of living a Christian life
why do people call me a Christian
children?" he asked, standing very
erect. and smiling down upon them.
A moments pause, then a shrilI lit
tie voice was heard TO say:
"Becos they don't know you"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
Expect Severe Winter.

New Castle, Pa.-Rural weather
prophets predict al early and severe
winter. They say chipmunks, squir-
rels and other alternating animals
bear an unusually heavy coat of fur,
which means the early approach of
cold weather.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13

MONDAY-Never put off till to-mor
row what you can do to-day.
TUESDAY-Never trouble another
for what you can do yourself.
WEDNESDAY-Never spend money
before you have 1t.
THURSDAY-Never buy what Won do
not need because it is a bargain.
FRIDAY-Never indulge in too much
food.
SATURDAY-Never indulge In false
pride.
SUNDAY-Never be afraid to oay
no" when you are tempted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-13
a Primer of Life.

THE world owes every man a liy-
Ing" said the Old Philosopher, land
there's nc reason why he shouldn't
collect 1t; but it will be the part OF
wisdom to give other folks the same
chance. and not push the hungry mil
lions out o. the way"