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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
John f1enry's
Sea Shore Visit

himself. He looked like a steam roll
er wrapped up in a red ~undershirt.
dis makes a nice bath-tub, ain'd
i'd" he said. Bud doan'd o dink
der waves vas pud on a leedle too
loose. yese"
gave him the mackerel glance, but
missed him by a foot. He grinned at
Clara ]. and said, You hat a nice wife.
Is she yours, alretty?"
We moved on up the beach, but he
trailed along after us, chatting pleas
antly in the manner of an easy con-
versationalist.
Gould | swim herr" inquired the
pretzel builder. Il am much of a
swimmist nit a lady. / could also
float her, because my own wife is noe
a chealous woman. She is now ub on
der beach eading peanuts for der ben
eft of her hanger. PERHAPS your vife's
name is Lena, yes?'
He simply wouldn't let 60, so, in or,
der to avoid an ambulance call, I took
Clara j. by the hand and We ran to
cover.
a OIL nun ldlCl VIC WCAO oilAllS III
the sand quite close to the sea when
something in q yellow makeup began
to beat the waves in front of us.
IT'S a sea lion." 1 explained to
Clara j.
mo. john" said she.I "it's a man."
"A man wouldn't dare take a face
like that in the water" | said. Its
4, e.,,Trso <..& -lo& "a - r.
it's a mermaid's foolish brother"
The thing kept coming nearer to US.
and l began to feel uneasy.
Presently Clara ]. laughed, and at
the same moment the horrible truth
swept over me.
1t was Benedict Murgatroyd. the lad
with a map like a>cowi The only and
original Brother of the Ok.
He saw us and let a yell out of him
that set the beach front back about a
foot.
Then he danced up to us and all
around US, gibbering like a dub with
an unbuttoned brain.
isn't this a surprise, though! John
Henry and Clara j.! Here! Why.
six of us just ran down for two or
three days-Sid D'Brie and some OF
the other boys. Won't they be delight
ed to know you're here! Where are
you s~topping?"
Were not stopping, we're simply
sliding through" l said.
But you'll be here this EVENING""
he chirruped. "P1l get the boys to-
gether and we'll serenade you-with
our mandolins. What hotel are you
att"
The Hifalutin house." / said. Civ
ing Clara ]. the sneaky elbow. Well
be glad to see you any time after
eight o'clock"
"Fine." said the human menu card.
dancing a two-step around us to the
amusement of the beach gang. "Spuds
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

When feeding the calf by hand.
feed oftea and in small amounts.
On many dairy farms the produc-
Eion of meat can be made a profitabls
side line.
The heifer carrying her first calf
! should be we'll fed and otherwise web
cared for.
The dasry heifer may, and should
BE-, bred sooner than the heifer of q
beef breed.
When the calf is about four weeks
old offer 1t shelled corn. and new corr
if you have it.
Where milk or butter is produced
there Is decided advantage in raising
the calf by hand.
The dairyman of necessity must
produce calves in order to have his
COWS freshen every year.
One of the chief causes of trouble
In growing calves by hand is feeding
them from unclean pals.
There is less cost in marketing q
veal calf than in marketing the m!lE
that 1t takes to produce 1t.
During the third week of the nor
NAL calls life 1t will begin to nibble
at hay, if any is in its reach
The beef calf, in order to make
quick and profitable growth, must re
ceive an abundance of nourishment.
The calf, or any small animal run.
ming with its mother. takes nourish.
ment many times a day. each time in
small amounts.
Butter or cream and meats of all
kinds are concentrated finished prod
ucts, hence they are easy to market
and bring the highest prices.
The flesh of chickens fattened and
finished on skim milk as the principal
diet. in connection with crushed
grains. is very light. tender and
juicy.
Combining meat production with
general dairying is a good combina.
ton. and one which will leave the
largest proportion of fertility upon the
farm.
In starting 10 grow the calf by
hand feed 1t whole milk fresh and
warm direct from the COW for the
first week and give no other feed
during the time.
Some breeders of fancy beef cat.
tie provide nurse cows for their
calves in order to supply them with
sufficient food to make them grow as
fast as it is possible for them to grow.
Where the farm is large and there
is plenty Of good pasture, the male
calves are often saved for steers. be-
ing forced for baby beef or held and
marketed az two or chree years O.
aga
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Lovers Wedding Cake.

Four pounds of our of love, half a
pound Of butteres youth, half a pound
of good looks, half a pound of sweet
temper. half a pound of self-forgetful-
ness. half a pound of powdered wits,
half an ounce of dry humor, two table
spoonfuls Of sweet argument, half a
pint Of ripping laughter, half a wine
glassful of common sense.
Then put the -four Of love. good
looks and sweet temper into a well
furnished house. Beat the butter of
youth to a cream Mix together blind
ness of faults, self-forgetfulness. pow
dered wits, dry humor into sweet argu-
ment, then add them to the above.
Pour In gently ripping laughter and
common sense Work it together un-
til all Is well mixed. then bake gently
forever.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
SOME ODD BELIEFS
LUCK OR MISFORTUNE AscRIsED
TO THE DIGITs.
Second Mineral Acquired an Evil Rep
utation Among Early Christians
Because the Second Day
He'll Was Created.

The number l is esteemed as very
lucky by h Japanese, who allot but
one day to each of the several opera
tons of ~husbandry, leaving that por-
ton of the crop that could not be
gathered In one day, an exchange says.
The second digit acquired an espe-
cially evil reputation among the early
Christians, because the second day hell
was created, along with heaven and
earth. 1t also seems to have been a
number unlucky in English ~dynasties.
Harold III. was slain 10 battle; William
III. and Edward ii. were murdered;
Ethelred H., Richard H., and James II.
were forced to abdicate, and Henry III.
Charles II. and George II. were unfor-
tunate in many ways.
The number 3 has an abundance of
superstitions connected with 1t. 1t
was the perfect number of the Py-
thagOreans, who said ii represented
the beginning. middle and end.
Little mystery was attached to the
numbers 4 and 5. In folklore the four
leaved clover is considered especially
lucky.
The cabalists asserted that the num-
Der 6 was potent in mystical proper
ties. The world was created, in six,
days. the Jewish servant served sir
years.
The number z has been invested
with more mystery than all the other
digits together, and to it were ascribed
magic and mystical qualities possessed
by no other number. Several learned
treatises have been written on this
number. and septenary combination
have been sought everywhere. tt
seven days of creation led to a sep
tenary division of time to all ages. Sew
eral of the Jewish feasts lasted seven
days. Elisha sent Naaman to wash
in the Jordan seven times, and Elijah
sent his servant from Mount Carmel
eve times to look for rain. For sew
en- days priests with sever
trumpets invested Jericho, and on the
seventh day they encompassed 1t
seven times.
There were nine earths, according
to medieval cosmogony; nine heavens,
nine rivers of hell and nine orders or
angels. The number. being perfection.
since it represented divinity, was
often used to signify a great quantity.
as in the phrases. "a nine days won
der" "a st has nine lives" and Nine
tailors make a man" In Scotland q
distempered COW was cured by wash
ing her in nine surfs. To see nine
magpies Is considered extremely lucky
Nine knots made in a black WOODEN
thread served as a charm in the case
of a sprain. 1t was also believed and
is still by some, hat IL a servant girl
finds nine green peas in one pod anf
lays them on the window sill. the first
man that enters will be her beau
Nine grains of wheat laid on a four
]eaved clover enables one. it Is said
20 see the fairies.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Pasteurized Cream.

During recent years the ~pasteurixa-
ton of cream for butter making seeras
10 he gaining favor in our best
creameries. In fact this practise has
become almost a necessity in those
localities where cream of all kinds
Is gathered from various sources. The
butter maker has come to realiz>
that IL he is to have control oyer his
finished product. S o that he shall have
some assurance of the constant and
'iaiform quality OF the output. he must
resort to means by which he can elm
mate the variable factors in his cream.
namely, those undesirable bacteria
and disagreeable navofs which will de
velop later on and make their pres.
ence manifest In the finished article.
BY heating the cream from 10 de-
grees to $50 degrees F. and cooling it
at once nearly all of the bacteria are
destroyed and many of the objection
able doors are driven off.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
HOW SEPARATOR is WORKED
Pulls Milk Away From Cream as II Is
WhirIed Around BowI-Speed
Is Big Aid.

Cream rises from milk by gravity.
The fat in the milk is lighter and
rises to the surface. but 1t takes a
long time to do it.
Tie separator pulls the milk away
from the cream as 1t Is whirled
around the bowl. 1t acts just as o
stone tied to a string and swung
around the head. The faster II is
swung the harder the pull.
When the milk is placed in the
bowl and the latter is whirled around
At a tremendous speed the heavier por-
tons of the milk are drawn to tho
bottom and the fat and lighter por-
lions to the top. The whole volume In
the bowl becomes arranged in layers,
the pure milk separated from the fat
goes to the very bottom, that lot per-
.ectly separated rising toward the top
and the fat or cream slipping OF the
surface.
Now, the faster the bowl Is re-
solved the cleaner the milk will be
skinned" because the centrifugal
force is greater. The slower the bowl
Is revolved the more fat there will be
left in the milk. Simple. isn't it?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
MeDAIM
USE SANITARY MILK PALS
Have Small Opening and Some Pro-
vided With Strainer to Keep
Out All Dirt.

There are a great many different
styles of sanitary pals used In the
production of certified milk, any of
which are an Improvement over the
old open pail which has no provision
for keeping out dirt and which should
not be used in any dairy.
Generally speaking, the sanitary
pals have a small opening. Some are
provided with a strainer through
which the milk passes in entering the
pail. This strainer consists in some
cases of metal wire, but is not so sat
isfactory as a cheese cloth strainer.
Aside from the strainer used in the
pals absorbent cotton is generally
preferred. This is usually Enclosed
between two thickness of cheese
cloth, a method found to be very
practical.
The pail shown on the left in the IL
lustration IS a good, sanitary milk pail.
The height is convenient and as the
opening is on the side there is but
little chance for dirt to fall in. The
seams are all we'll flushed with solder.
The objection to this pail, if any. is
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Discovering woman's age.

We wonder what death the man will
die. or what tortured life he will be
caused to lead. who has just discov-
cred the little trick" by which a WON.
ans age can be ascertained beyond a
doubt-that is to say, while her health
is normal. The only instrument re-
CURED Is an ordinary watch. The
wrist of the lady whose age is in
question is the tell-tale. For when
you count her pulse, and 1t registers
60 beats per minute. you know that
she is between twenty and twenty-five
years old. During the next five years
II beats go to the minute. and the
femme de trente ans" and over is en-
titled to 20 throbs. 1t Is a pity the
man of science who has established
these facts is not more exact when
dealing with the women of ripper age,
for, according to rumor and tradition,
it is only after she is thirty that a
woman begins TO leave of having
birthdays.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Dairy Cow as Machine.

A high-bred dairy COW is an ex'
tremely complicated organism. You
may regard her as a machine which Is
being worked to its highest efficiency.
For this reason the Importance Of
ministering to her needs is not sc
much a humanitarian problem as 8
question of dollars and cents. The
better care we take of our cow the
more profit we gat from them. Re
peated tests have shown that there is
an appreslable difference in the yield
of milk from COWS that are worried or
annoyed by children, dogs. flies, and
so on, and from those that are kept
quiet and undisturbed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
STOPPED SHORT
Taking TONES, and Built Up on
Right Food.

The mistake is frequently made of
trying to build up a WORKOUT nervous
system On so-called tonics-drugs.
New material from which to rebuild
wasted nerve cells is what should be
supplied, and this can be obtained
only from proper food
Two years ago I found myself on
the verge Of a complete nervous col
lapse, due to overwork and study, and
to illness in the family" writes a Wis
consin young mother.
MY friends became alarmed be-
cause 1 grew pale and thin and could
not sleep nights. / took various tonics
prescribed by physicians, but their
effects wore off shortly after !
stopped taking them. My food did
not seem to nourish me and I gained
no flesh nor blood.
Reading of Grape-Nuts, I de
termined to stop the tonics and see
what a change Of diet would do.
ate Grape-Nuts four times a day,
with cream and drank milk also, went
to bed early after eating a dish OF
Grape-Nuts.
In about two weeks ] was sleeping
soundly. In a short time gained 20
pounds in weight and felt like u
different omar My little daughter
whom / was obliged to keep out OF
school last spring on account %
chronic catarrh has changed from a
thin. pale, nervous child to a rosy,
healthy girl and has sgone back to
school this fall.
"Grape-Nuts and fresh air were the
only agents used to accomplish the
happy results"
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" in
psgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
Interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
The Paying Cows.

The Ohio experiment station has
found a man in that state who is a
thrifty farmer of the smaller class.
owning but a small bit of land, xho
commenced 20 years i with a single
o Even 10 he has but ten ccw
but they individually produce from
10000 to $4,000 pounds of milk per
year. The gross income from his
COWS varies from $3.50 to 1919 per
cow per year. Average feed bill is
about $55 per COW per yea This
dairyman kept a record of what hin
COWS and their ancestors had done
for the whole 20 years of his expert,
ence as a dairyman. He bred his best
cows to the very best sires he could
secure, and looked more to the per-
Torrance at the pail than to dairy
type or conformation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

IL, and he was so earnestly engaged in
tanning mosquitoes that we didn't
have the hear to disturb him.
The hotel push called them mosqui-
toes, but they looked more like crows
that had lost their bread-winners.
I never acted as a meal ticket to
hungrier birds.
One big brute by the name of Hec-
tor drove his drill through my hand
and broke 1t off In me. Then he gave
me a loud New Jersey laugh and flew
the coop.
The only way to protect life and
property when a flock of those mos
quitoes lights is to pull a revolver
and shoot to kill.
As we strolled out to size up the
shore, we saw, leaning against a tele-
graph pole in front of the house the
hungriest looking specimen of a sea-
shore newsb boy l ever put my peeps on.
Somebody must have offered him a
dinner at the Paradise house, and the
invitation gave him dyspepsia.
Say, mister" he piped, "gi'me a
dime, willie? amt a nuttin' fer
two days"
you amt, amt your" I said. well
what are you doing with that TOOTH
pick in your MOUTH"
I'm JUS playin' a joke on my stom-
ach," he answered.
After that crack 1t was up to me TO
stake him.
The next day Clara ]. and ! put on
our chorus rags and went out to push
the ocean back from the shore.
The first wave l went up against
hit me a bat in the eye and then tried
to pull one of my arms off.
/ started to tell Clara j. to look ou'
for the undertow, when another wave
came along, saw my mouth open, and
went right downstairs. 1t tasted ex'
actly like the clam broth they gave
me AZ the hotel.
Just then a little old Dutch pickle
flousdered out where we were and be
gan 10 bite the top off the surf
After a bit he stood up and revealed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

A Chicago editor has brought from
London an amusing story about Hum
phrey Ward
"Humphry Ward he said, was in
his bachelor days. a really wellknown
art critic. But now!
Il met Humphrey Ward at a dinner
IN Soho, and he said to me. with a
sour laugh:
when a girl wants to retire from
the world and be lost in oblivion. she
has to enter a nunnery. But a man.
&c achieve the same end. need only
marry a famous woman"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
cIothespin Saves Life.

With a clothespin kept constantly
between his teeth for Is days, to pre-.
vent the jaws from locking while suf-
fering from lockjaw, Renaldo Capilane,
Is year old. is nov on the road to
recovery at Plains, Pa, successfully
responding to antitoxin treatment.
Capilane is a miner. Recently in a
mine accident he had both arms crush
ed, necessitating the amputation of
one. subsequently he contracted lock
jaw.
AS soon as signs of the malady were
apparent DIR. A. A. Barton administer
ed tetanus antitoxin and persisted in
the treatment for a period of Is days
before success was guaranteed. Now
the swelling in the arm is reduced and
the tension of the muscles in the jaw
and other affected places has relaxed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
uncrackabIe Glass.

Glass that "a be heated white hot
and then plunged into cold water
without breaking. while In APPARENT i
possibility, has yet been made an
complished fact
This glass is derived from BrazN.
ian quartz pebbles heated red hot and
then thrown into distilled water. The
purest pieces are selected and welded
with the oxyhydrogen blowpipe into
long stems like straws. from which
glass vessels of any shape can be man.
ufactared. Thus far this quartz glass
has been employed chiefly for making
laboratory apparatus. A test tube
made In this way will not break when
a white-hot coal is dropped into 1t.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

Clara J.. and had finished the first
part Of our honeymoon trip. and had
reached the sad sea waves.
We're all right now, little girl" /
said. when the train finally pulled into
Sprayville-on-the-Sand.
But when / said so / didn't know
that there were some 100000 hack
drivers waiting for us outside.
Did you yer catch that collection
of norse-teasers which invariably SUI
rounds the railroad station at a sea-
side resort?
You begin to miss your change as
soon as they see you.
Most of these human speak-easies
are colored. They fix it that way SOS
they won't have to blush every time
they make an overcharge.
Where shall we go?" Clara J.
asked when we saw the long line OF
brunette pleaders with outstretched
hands inviting us to step into their
wheelbarrows and get toted some
where.
Il wish I knew the answer" / said.
Il think I'll close my eyes and go
down the line while / count twelve.
The hotel hack I stop in front OF gets
u.s."
tried it. but after we reached the
hotel | came to the conclusion that
! must have counted thirteen.
1t wasn't a hotel. 1t was a hold-up.
They gave us a room which they
said had an ocean view, The only
cea view | could find was a t~en-cent
picture in an eight-cent frame on the
wall, and even that was a scene on
some cheap canal.
1t vas called the Paradise House.
II the real Paradise is like that no.
tel, then me for that other place.
1t had one bell-boy 70 take your
money.
There was a large. pink-complex.
Toned diLing-room that took your ap-
petite and treated it badly.
On the doc u room it said, AL
bills must be paid weekly" If you
depended on the dining-room alone for
~sustenance that's the only way you
could pay then-weakly.
After dinner we -sent out to get a
sniff of salt air on the veranda, but
some careless person had moved both
the air and the veranda-
complained to one Of the clerks.
a I'm sorry" he said, 'but they've
got a banquet on at the hotel next
door and they've borrowed our veran.
da-try the back porch"
How about the salt ali? ?" I inquired.
Semi" he yelled to the bellboy,
who's using the air?"
"Ge'man in SO. subj" Sam replied.
Sorry" the clerk turned to me,
"but / guess you'll have to wait till
the wind changes, then you'll get all
that's coming to you"
We went after the porch, but that,
too. was busy One man was using
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Method of Cooling Cream or MIX.

pumped the water into the pail. Is we
all know, the warmest water always
rises to the top SO l had another pipe
on the opposite side of the barrel, a
little lower than the top of the cream
cans for the water to run into the wa
tering trough. pumped the cold wa
ter from the well into the bottom of
the barrel with the coolest water and
did not mix it in with the warm wa
ter at the top of the barrel but let that
run on undisturbed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

1t has been determined that cows
fed on soiling crops alone without pas
ture consume rs to 100 pounGs Of
forage a day. Here the protein con
tent of the forage comes in for con-
sideyation, as a dairy COW in full milk
needs nearly two pounds of digestible
protein per day. Alfalfa contains 3.9
pounds of protein per hundred
pounds; red clover. 20; ssts, 1.8;
sweet corn, 1.5; millet, 2; flint corn, ]:
sorghum. 6. The clover and mi
furnish enough protein while the
IL are short In that element Of food
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Money and EARNING.

Feuds OF this nature. though too fire.
quent in the country, are very fatal TO
the ordinary people. who are so used
to be dazzled with riches that they
pay as much Difference to the under.
standing oil a man of estate as OF q
man of learning; and are very hardly
brought to regard any truth. how inn
portant soever 1t may be, b a is preach
ed to them, when they know there are
several men of five hundred a year
who do not believe it.-Joseph Ad-
olson.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

City Editor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
new about hat suicide In the St Fash
ion hotel?
Reporter-Not much. The man wa
q stranger. about my size. Shot him.
self with a s2-caIiber revolver. Had
on a dress suit at the time. The bod
had been taken to the morgue.
City Editor-Bout your size. That's
lucky. / want you TO report a big So
ciety wedding in an hour. Rush
around to the morgue and ask the
keeper to lend you that dress suit
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10

A sociologist. in conversation with ,
practical person from the middle west
concerning the labor problem in her
part OF the country thereby learned
the lesson of the situation
Are there many men out of work."
he asked.
The lady admitted that there were
quite a number.
What" said he then. do the unem-
ployed do"
Nothing" said the lady. That's
the trouble."-Youth's Companion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-10
Expecting Too Much.

1t was a cold, raw day, but the
Neversweats and the Fearnoughts
were playing a game of ball on the
prairie, just the same.
The pitcher of the N~eversweats, his
fingers half frozen, failed dismally in
getting the balls over the plate.
"Aw,n said the captain, Il fought
ye wus one o. desc cold weather
pitchers"
Il am" said the slab artist. blow
ing on his benumbed digits to warm
them, but amt a ice pitcher, blame
vel"