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FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.
Sia&m Copy 5 Cents,
VOL. XVII.
PLYMOUTH, N, 0.. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, i906.
NO. 5;
THE MAN THAT BLOWS HIS BUGLE.
The man that Mows his Initio, you may not admire his stylo;
You may claim lie is conceited and condemn him all the while;
Yoi: may toi in his method brazen or may even call it '"brass,"
And the language that lie uses you may designate as "gas;"
" 011 may disapprove his man tiers as you pass them in review.
For no gentleman would burrow to the deeds that he will do.
Rut I think I ought to mention, for to nie it's very clear.
That the man that blows his bugle is the fellow that we hear.
I've known some men whose bugles made a cracked, discordant note,
Somewhere between a peacock's yell and anthem of a goat.
And the people who first heard it aiways seemed to shrink and quail.
"While they said, "Of course he's bugling, but he ought to be in jail."
lint these men kept blowing, blowing, till the anxioue, hurried throng
Said, "There must be merit in it or they "wouldn't blow fio long:"
So they sort of paused to listen to the discords that they made,
And the men that blew their bugles won the game that they had played.
This world is not exceeding Avise; we're not so very clear
3f it's a heavenly anthem or a discord that we hear,
And so we listen sagely to some bugle as it yells
lit a doleful jubilate that its owner's glory tells;
And many an artist's honored because his bugle blew,
And many a poofs lauded for his self-laudation, too.
h, I tell you o'r and o'er, for I've v etched this earthly groove,
That the man that blows his bugle is the fellow we approve.
Don't deem me pessimistic, for this thought in me hag birth.
That somewhere is a standard that will place ns at our worth.
Our human judgment erroth. and we're apt to judge a bird
T.y the feathers that it weareth. though we shouldn't, I have hear?,
And while this fact is still a fact we'll be inclined, I know.
To "size" the bugler's merit by the vigor of his blow,
And so I'm still insisting, for to. me it's very clear.
That the man that blow's his bugle is the fellow that we hear.
Alfred J. Whitehouse, in Sunset.
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HEN he was yet a small lad
)( mmv )t he had earned the name of
O A O "Lone Boy," because of sol
J J? itary tramps which took
. "50 W him a long way from his
.own Sioux village. lie
was, in fact, best content when wander
ing among the breaks and canons of
the Smoky Hill River.
At eleven years he met with an ad
venture which gave him another name
among his people.
He had learned to set snares for
wild animals, and one day discovered
the fresh path of a doe and two fawns,
which were in the habit of going to
drink at" a certain point ou the river.
ATicr several attempts Lone Boy
succeeded in snaring one of the fawns.
Kul when -he came up with his game
a pair of baid .eagles had already at
varked and killed the fawn.
The young Sioux was very angry,
lie had intended, if he should take a
young deer alive, to carry the animal
home for a pet. For some time he had
known where this pair of eagles at
least, as lie believed had their nest.
He had indeed planned to watch the
growth of the young ones, and to lie
in wait to shoot them upon their first
unwary descent from their aerie. It
M as sometimes quite easy to secure the
modi prized tail feathers of the bald
-auie in this way.
However, there was always the risk
that another hunter might be on the
watch, and so secure the prize at the
opportune moment. Upon reflection,
Lone Roy determined at once to at
tempt a capture of the young eagles,
and so to revenge himself upon the
parents birds for the killing of his
young deer.
More than once, from an opposing
height, he had marked the position of
ih" eagles' i:est. The huge pile of
siicks was built upon a cleft rock near
to the top of a cliff which overhung
1I.t sandy bed of a canon.
This (Tiff Avas nearly a half-day's
Journey u; the river, but Lone Roy
net out at the coyote's gait, and before
noon had reached the crest of the
height directly above the nest.
Here he seated himself beneath a
pine and watched. Presently he saw
both the old eagles sail away into the
blue ether.
Then Lone Roy rose and began the
descent a perilous business. Hitherto
ue had refrained from attempting it
niy because of the apparent impossi
bility of bringing the birds back, even
should he succeed in reaching their
perch. Now - he had determined to
descend upon them if he could, and to
pitch them off into the canon, where
be could pluck the coveted feathers at
his leisure.
To go directly down the face of the
ldge was impossible; so he made his
way along the seams and crevasses of
the crowning rocks, keeping in view as
much as possible the top of a leaning
pine which stood beside the eagles'
31 est.
For some lengths of his body the
descent was easier than the lad had
Thought, and he was already calculat
ing with much satisfaction that he
:ould really bring those young eagles
np. one at a time, when he came to a
liorizontal crevasse which he knew
to be the main obstacle to success.
Eagerly he stretched his length upon
.1 sharp crown of rock and peered down
upon a shelf some yards below, where
the leaning pine had Its root Near the
tree jjrai a heap of sticks, bones,
feathers and refuse, and two great
squabs of birds, feathered yet downy,
sprawled upon the pile.
It was such a little way to drop, and
yet, crane his head as he might. Lone
Roy could see no shrub nor projection
which he might lay hold upon.
He crawled along the rim of the
crevasse, looking down from every pos
sible point of view; but everywhere the
incline dipped inward, the edges of the
rocks projecting like the lim of a basin
above the eagles' aerie.
Finally, almost despairing, the lad
let himself down, clinging with both
hands to the edges. Then cautiously
be felt with his rnoccasined toes the
face of the ledge, seeking for some
niche or coign of vantage.
While he was thus dangling over the
rim of the ledge he heard a shriH, pierc
ing scream directly overhead, and
looked up to see both the old eagles
hovering along the scarp, not a bow
shot above his head.
One of them had poised, flapping its
great wings, the tips of which almost
brushed the rocks, and he could see
the craned neck and angry red eyes of
the bird as it stooped for a swoop.
The lad made a frantic effort to draw
himself upward, and in the same in
stant the eagle shot downward like a
hurled missile, with a hissing scream
that set Lone Roy's nerves all a-tiugle.
He had drawn himself half-way up,
and was about to fling a knee upon the
rim of the rock when he got a fierce
buffet from the eagle's wing. He was
flung backward, and his hold upon the
rock was broken.
Like a falling stone he dropped to the
shelf below, and would have tumbled
headling into the canon but for the
friendly leaning pine, Avhieh stretched
:;ome limbs across the path of his de
scent. For a moment Lone- Boy hung, cling
ing to these boughs, half-suspended
over the depths; then he scrambled to
safety under the sheltering pine. He
did this just in time tocseape a fresh
onset from one of the eagles, winch
swooped at hirri, screaming wratbfully.
The leaning pine had grown a net
work of small limbs, and its foliage
was very- dense. Crawling under the
drooping boughs, Lone Roy was able
to bide himself completely even from
the keen eyes of the eagles. Yet the
birds continued to wheel about their
aerie, noisily excited for a time.
The lad lay very still within his
shelter, peering from under cover at
the pair of newly fledged eaglets, which
had flopped awkwardly off their pile of
sticks when the intruder dropped upon
their perch.
These young birds now hugged the
rock ledge with bodies flattened and
wings drooping, evidently much de
pressed by the descent of this strange
creature aud by the worried screams
of the parent birds.
However, as Lone Roy continued In
hiding, the old eagles became calmer,
and after a time seemed to have forgot
ten altogether the cause cf alarm.
They finally sailed away in search of
fresh prey.
Lone Roy now crawled cautiously
out of his hiding place. His first move,
boy-like, was to pounce upon the young
eagles, giving them uo opportunity to
flop off their perch and into the canon.
In a brief time, sitting astride the
two, the lad had cut strings from his
buckskin leggings, and made fa&t a
leg of each bird to pine shrubs which
&m close to tUeir test, H UnA thsm
just far enough apart so that they
could not become entangled.
When this was done, he began to
take account of his situation; and very
soon, upon keen scrutiny of the lodge
above and below, he discovered that
without rescue by some passing hunter
or person in search of him. there could
be no hope of escape.
He was trapped as the wolf is
trapped, or even as he had snared the
fawn. The narrow shelf upon which
the eagles' nest had been built, and
from which the leaning pine had
grown, was only some ten steps in
length, and but a pace or two in
width at the widest. It was a hollow
trough, enclosed by a basin-like rim,
and was filled with pine cones, needles
and other rubbish. And this little shelf
suspended in mid-air was half a bow
shot above the bottom of the canon.
In vain Lone Roy scanned the face
of the ledge from which he had
dropped. There was no possible hand
hold within reach, and the bushy pine
had leaned so far out to catch the sun
light that its flimsy tops came nowhere
near the rock dim above.
If within a very few days some one
should pass within hailing distance,
there would be a chance of rescue;
otherwise not.
Again the lad crawled within the
tent-like shelter of the pine, where for
a time he watched the uneasy eaglets
flop about and peck at the annoying
strings which hampered them. Toward
night the old eagles returned, and one
of them bore a cock sage-grouse in its
talons.
Lone Roy was near to laughter when
the dead bird was deposited upon the
nest, for the tied eaglets struggled
spitefully, jerking the quarry back and
forth, flapping their wings, and pulling
against each other for possession. In
the meantime the old eagle sat with a
solemn look of inquiry upon its face.
and finally flew away, croaking in ap
parent disgust.
The boy crawled from hiding. Some
of that grouse he must have, and he
secured the leg and a portion of the
breast for his supper. This, of course,
he was force! to eat raw.
That night he slept fitfully, and be
fore morning his throat was parched
with thirst. When an eagle brought a
rabbit to the aerie, and he had secured
a portion, he was unable to eat more
than a mouthful or two. So he lay
within the pine's shelter, watching the
eagles, and listening for any stir of life
which should betoken a hunter within
sound of his voice.
The eaglets had grown sullen pulling
at the strings-, and each lay or sat
upon its own side of the nest, sourly
dozing, except when a parent bird ap
peared. Then there were strange con
tortions of the body, with wings raised
aloft and gaping red maws. Lone Roy
now noted, too. that the old birds fed
their young separately, apparently ac
cepting the situation without furiher
inquiry. After bringing some small
bird or animal, either eagle would sit
for a time perched and preening, upon
some near-by crag, wholly oblivious of
its rapacious, gorging offspring.
Watching these birds. Lone Roy re
tained his interest in life for another
sun; then the fever of thirst consumed
him. For several days lift lay under
the pine in a semi-conscious state.
Half the people of his village might
have passed through the canon looking
for him, and he could r.ot have heeded,
much less have answered, (heir calls.
Then, on a cool morning, when a
heavy dew was glittering upon the
pine needles, he came suddenly into
possession of his faculties. Feeling
strangely light of head atid body, but
with every sense alert, he came out
from hiding.
Tie felt as If walking upon air, and
stood upon the rod; rim, looking down
into tli canon, feeling that he was
quite capable of jumping down there
upon the sands without taking hurt. If
only he might jump far enough'. He
looked down at his hands and bare
arms, which appeared to be noUiing
but L.kin and bono, and a startling
thought came into his mind.
Why not take the young .agles and
jump! They would help to bear up
his lightened weight!
No sooner thought than put in ex
ecution. He tumid to the eaglets, un
tied the hissing, pocking birds, now al
most full-grown and full-f'-athcrod. and
cut the thongs which bound them.
They flapped their wing? strongly, and
nearly wrenched their legs out of bis
weak hands.
Then, in a sudden, desperate rush,
he bore tluni over the verge of the
rock shelf and dropped into the spaces
of the canon. Down, down. they
dropped, the boy's arms wide-spread
and the eaglets flapping their untried
wings.
The descent was appallingly swift,
but the vigorous efforts of the birds
carried the trio forward in a slant
which plunged them into the sand at
the canon's bottom. Lone Roy stag
gered to his feet, alive and Avhoie.
Still dizzy and feeling very queer,
the lad saw the earth spin round him
for a moment. Then again tying the
eaglets' legs, he staggered to the river
bank, a half bow'shot's distance.
There he quenched his thirst after the
cautious manner of his kind.
A half-hour later he was able to visit
a patch of ripe raspberries, and despite
his swollen tongue, to eat heartily, of
the luscious fruit.
A half-eat?a rabbit, wWc& lie . bad
kicked off the eagles' perch, still
further renewed his vigor, and after a
ha If -day's rest he was able to go
slowly homeward, dragging his cap
tives after him.
At the Brule Sioux village, in honcv
of this exploit, he was named Wambii
Yuza. Catches Eagles, by which name
he is know; to this day. Youth's Com
panion.
.SCIENCE
AND
NDUSTRY
Is the sense of smell excited by gases
or particles? According to Dr. John
Aitken, an English specialist, gas i
the fundamental basis of the sense of
smell.
Glass bricks, a German product, are
translucent, but not transparent, and
possess the advantage of being acid
proof and of harboring no disease
germs.
The celluloid wind screens of antomo
biles give great risk of fire. Very fine
copper gauze is said to have proven a
satisfactory substitute, being easily
seen through and non-inflammab'e,
while it does not crack like celluloid.
Silver has been thrown out by vol
canoes in two instances recorded by .7.
W. Malet. Ash from an eruption of
Cotopaxi in ISSo showed one part of
silver in S3.000 and that ejected in 18SG
by Tnngurague, in the Andes of Ecua
dor, contained one part of silver, in
107,200.
Electrical currents constantly traverse
the earth in a general but varying di
rection from northwest to southeast,
at an angle of about seventy degrees
with the geographical meridian. A
Belgian astronomer, M. Guarinl. eon
tends that these currents are due to
the action of the sun and the earth
with its atmosphere as a gigantic
dynamo, the sun being the magnetic
inductor and the earth the revolving
armature.
Some months ago a well-known rail
road company experimented with a
train of steel cars to determine their
value in cases of collision. The test
was such as might have occurred
through accident; that is, no special
conditions were provided to mitigate
the force of the impact to which the
steel train was subjected. At a speed
of about fifty miles an hour the steel
cars were thrown into collision with
other cars. The result was the emer
gence cf the steel vehicle in a com
paratively uninjured state.
In the rabies treatment of Tizzoni
and Rongiovanni, Italian physicians,
radium has had effective action both
upon the virus and the animals. Ex
posure to radium rays has converted
the virus into very active vaccine, pro
tecting animals against deadly inocula
tions with virus; and exposures of sev
oral hours daily for six days, begun
from ten to 100 hours after inoculation,
have reduced the fever and caused the
recovery of the animals experimented
upon, while all untreated animals simi
larly inoculated soon died..
An Arehileclur.il Wonder.
Agra, where the Prince and Princess
of Wales stopped the other day, is the
second city in size and importance in
the northwestern provinces of India.
Of local wonder there are many,
chief of all being, of course, the Taj
Mahal.
This mausoleum was commenced in
!k'0 by the Emperor, Shah Jehan, as
a tomb for his favorite? queen. Arj
mand Rami. Her body was brought
to Agra, and laid in th? garden where
the Taj now standi, until iln.' famous
ti'iuisoleuai was complete.
Some authorities .set down its cost
at 18.fl(KMH)0 rupees; others name a
on.-iderabl.v higher figure as much
as :j(),(H!t).(HKi rupees. It is certain,
however, that a great deal of the cost
remain-: UMuaid to the present day.
There were originally two doors of
solid silver, bui those were taken
away and melted by Suraj Mail and
his .Tats. The Taj and its surround
ings are unequalod in beauty, a poem
in "marble. The heroic size, the won
derful contrast in colors in the mate
rials employed, the setting of noble
trees, sweet :ihrubs aud clear water
all form a combination that .no would
seek in vaiu elsewhere.
4)M WBlklmt Match.
Recently a turkey :-nd a goo-- were
imuehed to walk a race of 100 yards
in Ixuidon. There was great excite
ment, hundreds of people witnessing
th affair. After one false start, the
goose sot well away, leaving the tur
key at the post, and, following his
master in good atyle, won easily amid
great applause. Before and after the
race the goose, with, a bos on his back,
ciHegtei latjuej fox a lQCfcl liOSjlUl.
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KxpeiirncB "With the Ovum purtoi-
I have a neighbor w!k lias long in
sisted on the usual way of sotting his
milk in a cool house and skimming if
for butter-making. lie used a 15a It
rock cream tester and found that his
milk from the cow averaged a butler
fat test of 4i per cent., which he
knew ought to give him in three days
over fifty pounds of butter. Rut he
got only twenty-eight pounds of but
ter out of it. He had an excellent, cool
milk-house, and let the milk stay be
fore skimming it till it was becoming
sour, and as he fed the skim milk to
pigs aud calves, when sour it gave
them the scours. He finally came
over to my house one evening aud
asked me what was the trouble and
wanted my experience. I told him that
I quit the old way of setting and .skim
ming milk three years ago and now
use a cream separator, and that I find
that it increases the cream and butler
a great deal, but not quite as much as
lie has been losing, but enough to pay
for a separator iu a little time. Rut I
want to say also here, that I have
found the sweet separated milk even a
bigger thing than more cream and but
ter, to feed calves and pigs while it is
sweet and good. I would never think
of going back to the old way of skim
ming, nor to feeding sour milk. L. II,
Jason, in Indiana Farmer.
Tlio Farm Ice H ou?p.
Every farmer should have a supply
of ice. There are but few localities
where ice cannot be obtained with but
a short haul.
An expensive house is not necessary,
as all that is required is a building
with sides and roof, situated on ground
well drained.
The blocks of ice should be cut of
n uniform size with smooth edges, so
that they will back closely. The best
tool to cut ice for small houses is a
cross-cut saw with one handle re
moved. There should be no floor under the
ice. A thin coat of sawdust or chaff
should be spread on the ground and
the ice-packed in-evep layersr'eaving
a space of a foot all around, which
should bo packed full with sawdust
or chaff.
To keep well the ice should be at
least eight feet deep, exclusive of a
foot or more of sawdust or chaff, which
should cover it.
Plenty of ventilation should be fur
nished, being careful not to have a
too free circulation of air.
In taking out the ice. care must be
taken not to dig out holes in the ice.
but commence at one side or corner
and remove a cake at a time until a
whole layer is taken out, and at all
times see that the ice is well covered.
When neighbors are close together.
It is an excellent plan for several to
go in together and put up an ice sup
ply, as the larger the quantity packed
in one house the smaller the per cent,
of waste. It would certainly be econ
omy to build a company ice house at
a place of supply so as to save the
expense of hauling in putting up.
National Fruit Grower.
fr;iiii Separator.
The keen competition which is mak
ing itself felt in practically every ar
ticle of manufacture which is brought
on the market to-day has had the
effect of taxing human ingeuuity to
the utmost in order to invent aud de
vise new machines and apparatus
which will lessen the cost of produc
tion in large manufacturing plants.
An Ohio mau recently patented a ma
chine which performs two operations
at the same time the cleaning and
separating, of grain. The grain is
placed in the hopper in the usual man
lier and motion imparled to the driving
Cleans and Separates the Grain.
wheel, which causes the chaff shoes
and the air-blasts to rotate. The grain
passes from the upper chaff-shoe into
a sieve, all the larger particles of dirt
being thus eliminated. It next passes
to the screen directly in line with the
air-blasts, and any dust or dirt remain
ing is blown out by one of the air
blasts, the chaff being discharged at
the rear of the machine. The grain
finally reaches the separator and is
separated into two grades, the larger
grain remaining on the top screen and
passing off at wie side of the discharge
chute. The smaller grain passes
through the upper screen of the sep
arator on to a lower one, and is de
posited 011 the opposite side of the dis,
charge chute. Means are thus pro
vided for collecting and effectively sep
arating the grain from the chaff -ant!
foreign matter, as well as separating
the cleaned grain into grades. Indi
anapolis News.
Value of Clover.
Clover. A species of grass, in which
the leaf is divided into three or more
lobes- with an oblong bloom of a red
color. When green, is used by tlm
farmer as pasture. This grass iu the
first bloom is cut and cured, and theu
stacked or mowed away in barns as
hay. It is a food for fattening cattle,
hogs and horses. It is indispensable
to the average farmer of Indiana, as a
fertilizer, pasture and hay. The seed
is obtained from the second cutting,
and if clean will bring from five to
seven dollars per bushel. It will easily
yield one bushel per acre. There is a
great demand for the seed, it is lised
in the dye houses. The blossom is us'edx
as medicine.
The proper time to sow seed for a.
good stand of clover, about the middle
of March. Scatter fifteen pounds 'to
the acre, with soil in good order. The
new or first blooms of clover when
wet will bloat the stock. The gases
front the wet bloom cause the swelling.
The bloom of the small or the white
blossom will cause horses especially to'
slobber. If it was not for the clover
grown in old Rush, her corn crops
would soon fall below the average. M.
II. P.. in Indiana Farmer.
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Oueetion of Arc.
II. A. Ruck, who looks after the in
terests of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in San Francisco, was calling on Prof.
Jenks, of Cornell, at the St. Farnci
Hotel the other dav. Thev were ex
changing raillery and airy persiflage,
and beclouding the ambient atmos-
nliprn with munh smntp whpn A hrnKK-.-
buttoned bellboy cut short their ban
ter b"J handing the Cornell professor
a card.
"Pardon me a moment, Harry." said
Prof. Jenks, as he proceeded to read
an inscription on the card. It read:
"Some years ago, on the occasion of
a visit to Alaska, I enjoyed the pleas
ure of meeting your father, and 1
would be deeply sensible of the priv
ilege and honor of shaking hauds with
his son."
"How old was the man that sent up
this card?" asked -Prof. Jenks of the
bellboy. ;-
'"Aliout thirty, sir," said the bell
boy. A thought clouded the brow of th
professor for a moment. Then' he-
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uoy. .ine soiueuiuig on iuc uacu jl
the card read:
"My father died thirty-seven years
no. Tf von bnvo anv ntbfr nood rea-
nn t'nr wishing tn xee nif I should
be pleased to have you come up." Sam
Francisco Chronicle.
Clocks ltepairetl at Home,
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ill 1 lit: 1.. ill 1. lit- ;i 1 iit Kn M iiv mi..
regalia and his trade cry. You may. be.
a iitlie uncertain as to the latter, but
you can never be mistaken in regard
io me loriuer, wnicn consists 01 a ciock.
buckled 011 to the middle of his breast,
tie savs something font simnris ltk
"Ooo-ee-ah-ee-oc," which, trans.ated,
means, "Clocks and watches to mend."
"I used to keep a lKtle shop down in
Fulton street," he said. "I spent halfi.
my time waiting for somebody to bring
;ne something to do. They didn't
oriog ii. anu 1 siariu 01 c 10 iook ut
work for myself. The trouble is that
people w::l fool along with a disabled
dock or watch and tinker with it them
selves when tlicy wouldn't think of ex
perimenting on anything else whose?
construction is not half so delicate.
It isn't that they oou't want t- spend
the money for repairs; they dread the
trouble of packing tip the clock and
taking it to a shop. If somebody will
just come to them he will get the
work all right. My method of drum
ming up trade may r.ot be so dignified,
as sitting in a sh p all day, but it pays
a heap better." New York Press.
How the Kniaer Travel.
The German State railway is. much,
tempted to encourage the Emperor t
travel as often as possible, for eacl
journey he takes is a considerable gum
in the pocket of the nation. His Maj
esty travels in great splendor. As a
rule there are two special trains, one
for the Emperor and one for the Em
press. These are the property of tlif
Prussian State, but. the traveling ex
penses are paid by the Emperor him
self. The court trains are charged at
the same rate as ordinary special
trains. Thus, the journey from Berlin
to El'uing. near the northeast frontier.
costs rather over $1500, and
fee is. cf course, charged
turn journey. Chicago Journal. . .. J
The Great Salt Lake, iu Utah, is no
crossed by a trestle bridge aver twenf
miles long.
d the snm
for the' i"u-