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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03

Fatigue has been shown to be a
poisoning of the body through the ac-
emulation of waste products under
certain conditions, and some 20 years
ago Prof. Mosso of Turin found that
the illness sometimes following the
eating of the flesh of game or cattle is
due to overfatigue of the animals at
the time of slaughter. The active
agent was found to be specific tOx-
inc, instead of an alkaloid, like the
strychnine and brucine produced by
plants. The toxine was insulated by
DR.. Weichert, and proved to act as an
anti-toxine in small injections, while
large injections produced the symp-
toms of fatigue, followed by doath. A
firm of German chemists mas now pro
duced al antidote for fatigue by \
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03
Opera the Great ,LeveIer.

At one of the Wagner operas few
days ago a woman nudged her friend
and said: who's that distinguished
man bowling to you over there?" Her
friend looked in the direction desig-
mated and smiled in return greeting.
That's my butcher" she said. Il see
him here quite often. When l go mar
keting in the morning we always dis
cuss the opera. He's a German, you
know, and really knows a lot about
other things besides cutting meat
New York Sun,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03
Polsons Dangerous to Make.

A good many poisons are dangerous
to manufacture. Mercuric methide,
for instance, brings madness to those
who work too long at making it. A
gas rises from it that is not imme-
diately fatal, but which causes tenn.
porary insanity, which may, of course.
become permanent.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03
DyoIa Is Far SUPERIOR

to any dye have ever used. 1t colors
silk, cotton and wool as nicely as other
dyes color either alone. That's what
Mrs. Simmons writes us, and she
knows. If you have any dyeing to do.
use Dyola Dyes. 10c a package at
your dealers. Direction book and
color card sent free by writing to
Dyola, Burlington, vt.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03
Az = StandstlII-

Hewltt-"How is your wife getting
along?" Jewett-"She isnT getting
along; she is the same age che was
when zaarried her"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03

Aim at excellence and excellence
will be attained. This is the greatest
secret of success and eminence-Mor.
timer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03

Many a man has kicked himself ou.
of a good job.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

The eyes of the world are directed
at the matured women who are doing
things. The exclusive society woman
and she who has only good looks to
recommend her are rapidly becoming
a thing OF the past. We are living in
an intensely practical age. So rapidly
are we living that all forces are ANAL
gamating and evolving type of wom-
an such as the world has never seen
before. She is not fedgling, nor a
merely pretty thing. but a woman OF
gracious tact and wide sympathy, who
has lived down many a bitter disap-
pointment and crushed many a sor-
row, but who is imbued with the OPP
timistic spirit of Young America; she
knows that in order to do her best
she must look her best; she inspires
old and young with her youthful en-
thusiasm; she is sincerely interested
In every humane question of the day;
thus unconsciously does she cultivate
those endearing qualities of the heart,
the daily exhibition of which, in the
course of years. imparts an atmosphere
of soft. sweet femininity. and gives to
woman when she reaches middle life
that delightful subtle spirit we call
charm" This is perhaps what the
satirical Bernard Shaw meant when
he asserted that no woman is possible
until she has reached her thirty-flfth
year. and not worth talking with until
her fortieth- Delineator.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Economy in Inning.

Comparatively few housekeepers ap
preciate the economy of buying house
hold supplies in large quantities at
wholesale rates. Try it COR a while,
keeping strict account, and at the end
of year you will be surprised at the
amount of money saved. When il is
impossible for one to buy in large
quantities. owing, perhaps, to a small
family, let several housekeepers club
together, one woman who has business
ability attending to the ordering. or
they can take turns In doing that part
OF the work if they choose. OF course,
IT is some trouble, but it pays well for
the time spent.
Many articles in daily use. as dried
fruits, canned goods, spices, etc, can
be kept for a long time if properly
cared for. Soap is much better kept
a long time-the longer the better
Butter if put up in prints or, small
packages. can be wrapped in a clean
wet cloth or wet butter paper. and
put into Jar of strong brlne-as
much salt in the water as 1t will dis
soiye-when it will keep indefinitely
II care is taken to keep the butter
always covered with the brine. Per
ishable food will, of course. have to
be ordered oftener.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
A DOCTORS EXPERIENCE.


It is hard to convince some people
that coffee does them an injury. They
lay their bad feelings to almost every
cause but the true and unsupported
one.
But the doctor knows. His wide ex-
perience has proven to him that, to
some systems, coffee is an insidious
poison that undermines the health.
Ask the doctor if coffee is the cause
of constipation, stomach and nervous
troubles.
Il have been a coffee driplker all
my life. l am now AZ years old and
when taken sick two years ago with
nervous prostration, the DOCTOR said
that my nervous system was broken
down and that l would have to give
up coffee.
II got so weak and shaky I could
not work, and reading your advertise
ment OF Postum, asked my grocer IL
he had any of it. He said. Yes and
that he used it in his family and it
was all it claimed to be.
so L quit coffee and commenced to
use Postum steadily and found in
about two weeks time / could sleep
soundly at night and get up in the
morning feeling fresh In about two
months l began TO gain flesh weigh
ed only lac pounds when commenced
on Postum and now weigh 167 and
feel better than ! did at 20 years OF
age
Il am working every day and sleep
well at night. My two children were
great coffee drinkers, but they have
not drank any since Postum came into
the house, and are far more healthy
than they were before
Read THE Road to MELVILLE"
found in pkgs. There's 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, 1910-06-16
Marriage.

This mating business is much more
serious than young people can ever
be made to realize, and, while / be-
lieve young people should be left to
make their own selections l believe
also that they should be made to see,
before critical stage is reached, as
nearly as possible what marriage
means, says Erman ]. Ridgway in the
Delineator,
What does marriage mean? Not in
transports, high spots, purple days, but
in terms of every day. 1t is generally
believed that the most successful mar
riages follow .he mating of contrasts,
nervous with phlegmatic, sunny with
solemn, light with dark, and so on.
There is probably something In the
theory. though if the contrasts are
too marked the result is likely to be
misery. The. chasm is too wide to
bridge.
A perfect mating is hardly attain
able There would be fewer misunder-
standings and more successful mar
riages if<more people realized that a
marriage can be successful without be-
ing perfect. Perhaps, too, there would
be easier shedding II more people real
lied that marriage IS an attempt at
three matings: The mating of two
souls; the mating Of two minds; the
mating of two bodies Two people fair
ly mated In any two of these can make
very happy marriage of it, even if
the other mating is hopeless. as long
as they understand the situation and
decide to make the best of It, -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

Justice Monkey ate all the cheese
that he was called upon to divide
equally between two joint owners, be
cause at one time he bit a little too
much from what was in one scalepan
and the next time a little too muoh
from what was in the other Some
what similar was the predicament in
which a guest at the table OF c. H.
Mccormick, the inventor of the reaper
found himself. The story is told in
the recently published book. Cyrus
Hall Mccormick"
A very dignified and self-centered
military officer was taking supper with
the Mccormick family. The frs
course. as usual, was corn meal musn
and milk 1t was served in Scotch
fashion, with the hot mush In one bowl
and the cold milk in another. The
practice was so TO coordinate the eat
ing of them that both were finished
at the same time.
The officer planned his spoonfuls
badly, and was soon out of milk.
Have some more milk to finish your
mush. colonel" said Mccormick Sew.
eral minutes later the coloners mush
bowl was empty, at which Mccormick
said, 'Have some more mush to finish
your milk" And so 1t went, with milk
for the mush and mush for the milk
until the unfortunate colonel was hope
lessly incapacitated for the four or five
courses that came afterward
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
CAT CENSUS IN YOKAHAMA.

Feline Infant Mortality Lessened
by Bonus on kittens.
Yokohama. which prides itsel: upon
being the most fourishing pert in
Japan, received shock last year. 1t
believed that its cat population was
decreasing alarmingly.
With the painstaking care that char
acterizes Japanese oficialdom the ON
GERS of the kencho, or city hall, set
their agents to taking census OF the
cats Of Yokohama. There were about
1000 able-bodied adult cats in all the
confines of the city. these enumerators
discovered; they even established the
fact that less than one-third of the cat
population was males.
Something must be done at once to
encourage the growth of the feline
members of Yokohama society, the
kencho officers decided. They were
quite sure by observation of the family
habits Of certain cats selected from the
proletariat that race suicide was not a
factor in this decrease OF the popula-
ton. On the contrary, they found It
to be fact that in too many instances
human intervention during the infan-
cy of the cats brought about the les
sening of the. population by violence.
In all japanese cities bubonic plague
is an ever present menace. There have
been times when the plague has swept
through whole districts and only by
the most rigorous efforts OF the sani.
tary officials could it be stamped out
Rats are\the chief disseminators OF
the plague. On occasions such vigor.
Gus campaigns have been waged
against the rats that the governments
of various cities have offered a quar-
ter of a cent bounty for every rat car
cass. Men went into the trade of rat
catching with handsome profits In
sight
But Yokohama decided that the most
potent means OF rat determination lay
in the city's cats. Hence the alarm
felt at the discovery of the decrease In
the number Of rat catchers. So after
the completion of the cat census a year
ago the kencho officials decided to of.
fer bonus of so sen (25 cents) for
every kitten raised to maturity.
Complication followed fast In the
path of this spur TO cat culture. the
New York Sun asserts. Citizens flock.
ed to the kencbo with cats not their
own and cat chasing became one OF
the most serious pursuits of the street
boys. The kencho officials finally had
to rule that preliminary claim for
the so sen reward must be II ade at
the nearest police station upon the
birth OF every kitten and that the bo-
nus would not be paid until such time
as 1t could be shown that the same
kitten had advanced to sufficient ma
turity TO be considered a rat catcher
Consequently for year past one OF
the chief duties of policemen has been
the inspection and registration of the
adolescence of cats.
Yokohama is breathing easier now
The last cat census showed that there
were was In round numbers $4,000 cats
in the city. Yell 1875 (s9S750) has
been paid out in bounties.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
possible that you don't know the war

possible that you don't know the war
Is over?"
With roar like that of a maddened
lion the Major bowed himself, caught
his man in a mighty wrestler's grip
and flung him broadcast into the coleus
bed. The words that went with the
fierce attack made Ardea crouch and
shiver and take refuge behind the great
dog. Japheth Pettigrass jumped down
from his step ladder and went to help
the engineer out of the flower bed.
"The old frebrand," the engineer
was muttering under his breath wher
Pettigrass reached him; but the fore
man cut him short.
You got mighty little sense. looks
like. to me. Stove UP any,"
Nothing to hurt. l guess"
We'll. your hawss is waitin' for We
down yonder at the gate. and 1 don't
to stay to supper"
When the engineer had mounted and
ridden away down the pike, the fore
man Strengthened himself and faced
about The Major had dropped into his
big arm chair His hands shook. Pet
tigrass moved nearer and spoke so that
the child should not hear. IF you run
me off the place the mex minute, I'm
goin to tell you you ort to be tolerab
'shamed OF yourself. MAZE Dabney.
That po' little gal Is scared out OF a
years CROWN, right now"
Il know, Japheth; I know I'm an
old heather, For insultin' as he was,
the man was for the time bein my
guest, suh-my guest"
I'm talkin' about the little one-not
that railroader. So far as / know, he
earned what he got / allowed they'd
make some sort Of a swap with you
so I didn't say anything when they
was layin' out their lines throo' the
hawss-lot and across the lower corn
field this mornin'-easy now; no more
r'arin' and tarin with that thar little
gal not a-knowin' which side o. the
earth's goin' to cave in next"
Laid out theyuh lines-across my
properly? Japheth. faveh me by riding
down to the furnace and askin' Caleb
Gordon If he will do me the honor 10
come up hear-this evenin', If he can.
lifts twenty yeahs and mo- since
I've troubled the law cou'ts of Duh po',
Yankee ridden country with any affai-
an of mine; and now-well. don't
know" with a respondent shake Of the
leonine head.
(To be continued
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Health and Beauty Hints.


Avoid fear in all its varied forms OF
expression.
Keep in the sunlight; nothing beau
tiful or sweet ripens in the darkness.
Simply refuse TO grow old by count
Ing your years or anticipating old age.
Don't allow yourself to think, on
your birthday. that you are a year
older.
Refrain from all kinds of stimulants
and sedatives; they will shorten your
life.
Nature Is the great rejuvenator; her
spirit Is ever young. Live with her;
study her; love her.
Avoid excuses of all kinds; they are
injurious The long life must be
temperate, regular life.
Keep mental cobwebs. dust and brain
ashes brushed off by frequent trips to
the country. or by travel.
Never look on the dark side; take
sunny views OF everything; a sunny
thought drives away the shadows.
Cultivate the spirit of contentment;
all discomfort and dissatisfaction bring
age-furrows prematurely to the face.
Think beautiful th5ughts-harmony
thoughts. truth thoughts, thoughts Of
innocence, of youth, of love and of
kindness.
Physicians claim that sleep is more
refreshing in a darkened room. II is
well to accustom children from infan-
cy to sleep In the dark.
After living for several months on
simple foods, in addition to increased
good health, it would be found that an
increased susceptibility of taste and 4
keener relish have been acquired.
Massage is not only a identifying
agent, but it is a wonderful cure for
neuralgia, II attention is paid especial
ly to the muscles of the eyes and brow.
1t Is excellent also for sleeplessness
and all nervous conditions.
For ingrowing nails wear wider
boots and clip the nails so they curve
down in the center of the top. Nails
as rule are little rounded or point
ed, but by cutting them in the nails
bend little and are less apt to hurt
the flesh at the sides. Keep them short
all the time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
The Cocoon Plantation.

A traveller in South Africa. where
the cocoa tree is largely cultivated.
speaks of the great care with which
the young plants have to be protected
from the sun. which if very strong Is
fatal 10 them. To secure this protec-
ton the planters shield them by ba-
mana trees and plaintain trees, the
broad leaves of which give them the
needed shade. And even when they
are fully grown they need projection.
which is given by trees known as sim
nortels," or. as the planters call them,
"the mother of the cocoa" Thus the
whole cocoa plantation has q sort a
CauopY
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

NEW DUsTPAN. many of her daily
tasks require that she should lean or
stoop over that ii is not long before
this unnatural attitude is responsible
for some serious and chronic illness
which often makes. her an invalid for
the rest of her life.
The stoopless dustpan, which has
recently been invented, enables her to
do the work of gathering up the accu-
mutations on the floor without the
least inclination of her body. The new
implement has long handle by which
II Is carried conveniently, and at the
same time the handle controls the op-
Grafton OF a lid which opens for the
reception of the dust when the pan is
placed on the floor and as it is raised
after gathering up the accumulations,
the lid closes, hiding the contents from
view and preventing their being scat
tered by the wind or by accident.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

my mother used to have a very bad
humor on her head which the doctors
called an eczema, and for il / had two
different doctors. Her head was very
sore and her hair nearly all fell out
in spite of what they both did. One
day her niece came in and they were
speaking of how her hair was falling
out and the doctors did it no good
She says, Aunt, why don't you try
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment? Mother did and they helped
her. In six months time the itching.
burning and scaling of her head was
over and her hair began growing. To-
day she feels much in debt to Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment for the fine
head of hair she has for an old lady
Of seventy-four.
My own case was an eczema in my
feet. AS soon as the cold weather
came my feet would itch and burn and
then they would crack open and bleed
Then 1 thought / would flee to my
mothers friends, Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. / did for four or
five winters, and now my feet are al
smooth as any ones Ellsworth Dun
ham, Hiram, Me, Sept. 80. 1909"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
CHAPTER "

II you have never had the pleasure
Of meeting a Southern gentleman of
the patriarchal school, / despair of
bringing you well acquainted with Ma
ior Caspsr Dabney until you have
Summered ard wintered him. Bat tho
Dabneys Of Deer Trace figure so farge-
~ in Thomas Jefrerson's boyhood and
youth as to be well-nigh elemental in
these Retrospective glimpses.
1t was about the time when Thorn
rs Jefferson was beginning to recon-
slider his ideals. with a leaning toward
brass-bound palaces on wheels and
6ictatorial authority over uniformed
lackeys and other of his fellow crea-
lures, that fate dealt the Major its
final stab and prepared to pour wine
and OIL into the wOund-though of the
balm pouring, none could guess at the
moment Of wounding. 1t was not IN
Caspar Dabney to be patient under a
blow, and for a time his ragings
threatened TO shake even VI @mmy Ju-
net's loyaIty-than which nothing more
convincing can be said.
"Mistuh Scipio," she would say. Use
Jus erbout wo'ed out! 1 done been
KNOWN Mawstuh CASPIAN ebber sencc
I was or Mistis' tiah-'ooman, and 7
amt new seen him so fractions ez he
been sence dat letter come tellin' him
come get dat po' lii gal-child O. Nav
stub Louis's. Seems lax he JUS gwine
Far round twel he hut somebody"
Scipio. the Majors boGy-servant.
had grown gray in the Dabney service.
and he was well used to the masters
storm periods.
"Doan' you trouble yo'sef more err
bout dat, Mis- Juliet Mawstuh Majuh
tekkin' hit mighty hawd cause Nav
stub Louis done daid But bimeby you
gwine see him climm on his hawss an
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

the ironing-boarc when not in use.
The seat-board and back of the chair
are hinged to a board which extends
across the front legs, and both are de-
tacha5ly affixed to seat rails and back
rails. When it is designed to use the
affair for ironing the chair is turned
over so that it rests ON the ends Of
the rockers and the top of the back
rails. The seat and back are then
Strengthened out till they form one
long board and held in position by
support which is hinged to the back
and folds down behind it when the de-
vice is used as a chair. This gives
a firm, broad surface on which to iron.
the end of the board forming the chair
back being tapered as is the end of an
ordinary ironing-board
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Keeping Up Appearances.

Your everyday toilet is a part OF
your character, says writer A girl
who looks like a fury or a sloven
in the morning is not to be trusted,
however finely she may. look in the
evening. Look tidy in the morning
and after the dinner is over improve
your toilet. Make 1t a rule of your
daily life to dress" in the afternoon
Your dress may or may not be any
thing better than calico, but with a
ribbon or flower or some bit of orna-
ment you can have an Dir of self-re-
spect and satisfaction that invariably
commends you to heaven
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Washing Gloves.

Make a lather of lukewarm water
and good white soap. Add one-half
teaspoonful OF borax. Wash gloves,
squeezing and patting gently until the
dirt is out Do not wiring or squeeze
hard. Rinse in more lukewarm water
and lay them on a soft towel until
most of the water is absorbed. Hang
up to dry, and when almost dry gently
pull and stretch with the hands.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16

"There." snapped Mrs. Vick-Senn.
grabbing him by the arm: with your
recklessness you nearly ran over that
newsboy!"
Catch anybody running over .
newsboy!" he muttered.
We'll, 1t looked as IL you were try
Ing to do It, Running through ths
streets of crowded city at a rate OF
twenty-five miles an hour! You're
nothing but speed maniac. You're
wha tthey call a JOY rider,"
Il may be JOY rider" said her hus-
band. letting the machine out another
notch. but I'm not half as jawy as you
arei"-Chicago Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
To Keep Butter Cool.

Where one has no ice box. set the
butter In a saucer or soup plate and
place In larger dish. Invert coarse
flower pot over the butter and spread
over this a cloth wet In ice water or
strong salt water Let the ends fall
into the liquid in the outer dish. AS
this evaporates, renew. Cloths wrung
out of strong solution of borax and
water. then wrapped around butter
rolls, will keep them fairly hard.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Watch Your REFRIGERATOR.

You'll save many a doctor bill by
watching: your refrigerator. Keep it
absolutely clean all the time. The best
way TO clean it is to take clean hot
water, make suds with Easy Task
soap and wash every nook and corner
in the ice box or refrigerator. Then
the food doesn't get smelly and carry
disease germs to the table. Easy Task
soap, being made of pure cocoanut oil.
borax. naptha and clean tallow, is anti
septic as well as cleansing. 1t is a
wonderful soap-and a nickel cake.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-16
Folding Ironed Clothes.

In folding clothes for ironing each
article should always be folded length
wise, and the reason they should be
so folded is because the thread that
runs in that direction is always strong
loom, while the wool, which goes to
and fro over and under the long
threads, is not so strong, so that iron
ing crosswise will not only draw the
article out of shape, but will cause it
to wear more quickly. This is espe-
oially true of table and bed linens.