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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1903)
HOW TO FIGHT GAPES. "Regain Their Health by Gding Without Clothe Vccullar Method of a JVelv Jersey Colony of Inva lids "Sac, to jVaturt' Their Motto. HE quest for health may drag a man around the world: It may tempt him to )WUJ drink the waters that Bmell n1s t0 llcavcn aml laflt0 ot a natant medlclno repository; It may lead him to set up n health-food oxneriment ntntinn. it mav nlunco him into tho whirlpool of athletic fads and now fangled physical exercises; It may make him a barefooted dlsclplo of soma German doctor, or the hare-headed fol lower of somo other school of health promoters. In fact, there Is no telling -where tho man who has loBt the com panionship of his good friend Iloalth will not go in seeking him or what ho -Will do to regain his hold upon him. Health Is a priceless hoon. Tho poet ox claims: "Ah! what avail the largest gift of Heaven, "When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can ho given! Health lfl tno vital principle of bliss, And excrclso of health." Tho man who has lost his health real izes tho enormity of that loss, and Is willing to go to any extreme In tho hope of regaining it. And hocauso this Is true, a curious colony of "no clothoa" men aro found In New Jerseymen who EURY1NQ THEMSELVES belloyo that Naturo's clothing and Na ture's food are suro health winners., A visit to tho colony at Milton brings curious sensations. To sit down at tho dinner tnblo with all tho othor dinors wearing less than nothing, Bavo per haps a tan which has been generously 'spread on tho skin by tho friendly sun und the shifting breezes, and to par tako of nutB and milk and graham bread, the latter the only cooked food supplied, Is certainly unique, but after several hours" spent with tho inhabitants tho Im pression grow that there was a good deal of common sense In going back, at least for a season, to tho prlmltivo conditions of tho prehistoric days of the human race, as they were doing. Tho "doctor" who conducts this novel health resort has run the placo now four years, and during this past summor has had GO persons as patients spending more or loss of tho time of tho open sea son In its suniy.conflncs. Between No vember 1 and! May 1 tho placo Is closed. Thcro are 7& jicrcB Inclosed within high hoard fencing. Entrance Is gained through a gate that Is built high and closes tight. As ono steps within tho park, for thlB Is what It really Is, a small Jako is seen shimmering In tho sun Bblno, Its edges covered with Illy pads, and two hills rising on either sldo. On tho creBt of ono of thceu hills could be Been a small wooden house. ThlB was the common dining hall, and surround ing it were grouped beneath tho pine trees a number of frame structures cov ered with weather-worn canvaB. Each wgh entered by means of a screen dpor, and ventilated further by triangular transoms at either end, just under tho ridge. A glance within Bhowed that each was occupied by two slnglo Iron beds. But these Bheltors are not used at night except during Inclement weather, for tho health-seekors prefer tho open air and tho lap of nature beneath tho sweet-smelling pine trees to tho luxury of Iron beds and confined atmosphoro of tho canvas houses. One of tho oddest features of tho grounds was tho burial ground at tho Iront of tho tents. A burial ground, wo Bay, for we can think of no more fitting term to uso in describing tho hollows In which tho inhabitants daily take part of their treatment. Into these hollow places In. tho ground tho patients crawl and cover themselves with tho earth piled up loosely on each side. It was a startling almost shocking sight to seo hero and there a human head protruding from the mounds of black earth. It was very suggestive of tho graveyard where tho hollows are dug a little deeper and tho head sinks from sight forever. But these sun-browned patients seemed to enjoy tho novel burial, and claimed It did them good, i "We believe in getting as near to na- Can ii I in into 9T turo as wo can," said tho "doctor," aa ho pulled a basket of nuts townrds tho guest und heaped up tho nuts about his pinto. Alroady novoral nut crackers woro at work. "Nuta aro not indigesti ble when eaten in this way," ho con tinued. "Wo have no cooked food, ex cept broad. Will you have somo buttor mllk or somo fresh milk? Take cither you like." Tho pitcher of fresh milk was passed along and a cupful poured out. ''Animals llvo on this food and aro rarely sick. Thoro Is no other kind hero. The only uso wo have for flr,o Is to heat water for washing dishes and for heat ing tho building. It solves lots of prob lems. There Is no bother about tho menu. Whonovcr you corao homo your meal Is ready for you. It's no trouble to got It, and you don't ncod servants." After dinner tho "doctor" led tho way acroBR the open spaco occupied by the "graves" to tho brow of tho hillock and down a pebbled path. "This Is tho path to tho Rockaway river," ho said. "Tho first thing In tho morning, each ono comes down here for a bath. Somo people don't like the hath. This morning I had to persuade a now patient that it was tho thing for him to do. It was so cold, ho said. I told him it would be all right. Thon I gave him his bath, and ho folt so nice that he IN THE GROUND. was perfectly sdtlsflod. Spmo people think it shameful to go about undressed. It Is moro shame to bo sick. Of course, if people want to bo sick,' why, no one can do nnythlng for them." As ho talked ho passed along a path through tho plnos to another bathing placo some distance down tho stream. "This tho bathing placo for tho women," ho said. "Thoy hnvo another part of the air park. Thoy havo all gono home for tho season now." Climbing the hill from tho river through tho woods, the section set apart for tho women who tako tho treatment was reached. "After the bath," ho continued, as he went down tho hill toward tho head ol tho lake, "tho patients walk around until thoy aro dry. Wo never uso soap, If Nature had Intended that wo should uso soap sho would have provided it Thqro is no morning meal. Tho first one is the meal at noon. Some of the men ONE OF THE SLEEPING TENTS. recolvo clay packs. Tho moist clay Ig put on tho parts of tho body which are diseased. Tho patients Ho down In the 'graves' for a couplo of hours, a thin covoriug of earth over them. About 11 o'clock thoy got up and go down to the river and wash off tho clay. Then they aro ready for dlnnor. About three o'clock those patients who rccmiro it rocelvo clay packs again and He down In tho 'graves' for an hour or two. Sup por Is at six o'clock. Thon games are played until bedtime. Most of the pa tiontB sleep out of doors on tho grass with a blanket and mosquito hood over them. Tho sloop you got out of doors Is different from that you get In a bed. That is a dead Bleep. Out of doors, when ono wakes, ono is wldo awako all at onco. When It rains in tho courso of tho night you can see ovory ono taking up his bod and making u bee lino for his tent." By tho time tho visitor was ready to lonvo tho Btrangnncss of seeing porsons naked had worn away, and ho went away impressed with tho thought that health was worth having, oven at tho ex pense of tho heroic "back to iiaturo" treatment Preventive Mennure anil Kemedlei Unually .Produce the Kcatalt Mont Desired. It mny bo well to call attention again to snaio of tho less known causes of and remedies' for gapes In chickens. As Is well known, gapes aro caused by a small whlto worm In tho windpipe. Theso worms breed In dirty or stag nant water and In damp or flluy yards, especially old chicken yards that havo been used a long time It has also been noticed that strong, woll-fed chickens aro able to cough up the worms. It is only tho puny chicken that keeps trying without success. Un der all theso circumstances It will bo seen that this is only another caso whero an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure. Generally the first step, If thero aro many cases of gapes, should be to obtain a fresh, high, dry ynrd, and plow up tho old ono and uso it for somo othor purposo for awhile. Tho chickens should havo free range in tho daytime, if possible, and bo con fined in coops or houses with clean board floors at night Sprinkling tho yards and floors well with llmo will help destroy the worms, eggs and oth er disease germs. To a certain ex tent, tho trouble Is contagious when once started. It Is thought that eggs aro coughed up Into tho food or drink ing water by tho ailing chicks and then absorbed by tho others. To rem edy this, add a few drops of carbolic acid to their drinking water. Ono suc cessful poultryman keeps gapes away hy giving drinking water tinctured with tar two or threo times a week. Green garlic or onion tops cut fine and mixed with their food is a help; to both sick and well chicks. Another remedy and good preventlvo is powdered asa fetlda, a teaspoonful to a dozen chicks, mixed with their food. Sometimes tho fumes of burning sulphur will kill the germs so the chickens can cough them up. Putting a grain of wheat which has been soaked in turpentine down tho bird's throat is said to bo a suro cure. Another remedy is to place the birds affected in a box and blow amongst them, so they must inhale it, a powder composed of equal parts of pyrethrum and powdered camphor gum. Prairio Farmer. CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE. J nut the ThlnR for an Orchard Where Powlx Have Plenty of Green SnrliiK Pnuturc. Who can accommodate 100 fowls bet ter within a house 14 by 10 feet and six feet high, than tho one hero shown? Tho iloor 13 two feet from tho ground, and tho roost platform two and orte half feet from tho floor, four and ono. half feet wirlo and the whole length of tho house. The floor Is divided Into DURABLE POULTRY HOUSE. three parts by a 12-Inch board set edgeways. Under tho roost Is kept 'chaff. In tho middle alslo Is kept ear corn and water vessels. The door goes In from tho north side, the nest drawers aro made on both sides of the door, which makes It handy to gather tho eggs. Tho front or south sldo has a big window ni the middle above the floor. There aro two small windows extend ing out two feet from tho houso and 11 inches high from the outside A small opening in the middle of tho east side is for tho fowls to pass in and out. This is a nice houso to build In the orchard whero tho fowls havo plenty of green pasture in tho spring. Or ange Judd Farmer. TIMELY SWINE NOTES. Don't keep 'em In a narrow, nasty lit tle pen. At ruling prices tho breeding up of choice droves should be given a great Impetus. i Keep tho sow for a breeder until Bhe becomes awkward and too heavy if she produces good Httors. Next to grass nothing .grows pigs so fast with skim milk as cornmeal, says the New ork experiment station. Ring the pigs that are in the orchard. Then protect tho tree trunks If they manifest a disposition td peel them. If the pigs root out dig a trench one foot deep besldo tho fence and tack poultry net to tho posts. Their sensltlvo noses will avoid it. Sure Stn of n Fnllnre. Last winter I passed a field whern $15 plow was standing In the last furrow made. Thoro It had been standing for months, reu with rust. Stock and ban dies were black with mildew. The man'; wacons wore left In the vard. An exnnn slve reaper was divided, part In tho yard am; part in. tho Held. HIb farm was un der mortnago for tho fertilizer ho had used to make cotton enough to pay for tho tools and Implements ho bought T. J. Cupstld, in Farm and Home. , The JSforthtvet Mounted "Police of Canada A A A Villlant "Body of Men Who Hatfe Feared "Promi nently in the Development of the Country. IKE tho Texas rangers of our southwestern frontier tho northwest mounted polico of Canada has for years stood between the widely scattered settlementoftheblgCanadlaa territories and the roving bands or In dians. Not that the Indians hayo caused trouble, as they never have, save in tho Instances of the Rell rebellions, but It is what they might have done had the pro tection not been there. The northwest Is a land of romance and adventure. It Is mixed with tho soil, it javors of tho fur trader and the trapper, but none of this romanccand adventuro Is more Interesting than that contributed by tho mounted police. Hero Is the story of its first encounter with the Indians of what was then a no-man's land, bb It wan told to me by one of its old commanders Borne time ago: In 1874 tho Blackfoot nation had camped upon the Cypress hills, and from that eyrie their warriors kept watch upon the Canadian plains. Far to the eastward thoy saw the smoke of camp fires at dusk, and by day the herds of buffalo disturbed, while scouts rode In reporting a new trlbo of the Long Knives, the American caval ry, on the war trail, rapidly advancing. Tho Blackfect sent their women to the rear, painted for war, performed the solemnities of the war dance, appealing to tho Almighty for aid in battle, then 1 MOUNTED POLICE BARRACKS AT PlfsCHER CREEK. set their ambush ready, while they watched the enemy vedettes, advance guard, transport, rear guard winding like a little snake over the waves of the golden grass. Could these bo Long Knives? The strangers had no "long knives," no swords, so they were not hostile American cavalry to be wiped out. Then It was seen that they wore red coats so they belonged! to the Hudson's Bay tribe! That scarlet coat, worn by a Hud son's Bay company's officer when he sat in judgment, was known to all the. red Indians as the symbol of stainless honor and of fearless justice. Because of tho sign of tho scarlet coat the terrible Black foot nation came out of ambush, and gave a brotherly welcome to tho northwest mounted police. The Hudson's Bay company had ceded all Rupertsland, 2,000,000 square miles or so, to the Canadian Dominion. The government hardly knew how to enter upon and occupy so gigantic an empire, A NORTH-WEST MOUNTED FOLICE. but acted under tho advice of a retired chief commissioner of the company. This was Donald Smltty, now Lord Strathcona, and at his suggestion 300 hundred young Canadians were enlisted and drilled to form a body of cavalry, the Northwest mounted polico. In 1874 they marched acrosB the plains, met tto Blackfoot na tion, and formed that nlngular alliance which enabled them to seize tho territo ries without tho shedding of blood. The liquor traders had been among tho Blackfeet, so that they wero sorely re duced by hunger and pestilence; but at onco tho sale of alcohol was mado penal, bo that tho Indians are now Increasing yearly In numbers and In wealth. A truce was arranged between tho Black feet and their ancient enemies, tho Crees, which put an end to Inter-trlbal war. These rod Indians of the plains, supposed to be the most formidable savages on earth, and numbering 32,000, wero sub dued by 300 men, and In solemn treaties made allies of tho Empire. A little to the southward lived tho Sioux nation, ruled by the statesman, Sitting Bull, and the soldier, Spotted Tail, ...lit. O AAA Mt.MMlnitn In 1 QTP UnvlMfl Willi 0,VUV UUWIUiOl A" J-U I Jf UUTlUg wiped out Gen. Custer's force of Amer lean cavalry, they found that thoy wen suffering from too much United States army, and retired hastily to tho Cana dian plains. Horo thoy dlscovored a lit tle fort, sat down in front of it, and said; "Hand out your food!" "Come and tako it!" said tho littlo fort, throwing Its gates opon. So tho Sioux swarmed into tho fort, whero thoy saw a couplo of officers armed with switches, who stood smiling blandly by tho guardroom door. All round tho square were log buildings, loop-holed and bristling with rifles. Tlje.Sioux force was neatly trapped by a garrison of 30 men, and at a word could bo massacred. They bolted. Two days later, Sitting Bull sent word from his camp to tho officer command ing: "Who aro you, anyhow?" "North West Mounted Police." "Well," said the big chief, "it's no uso killing men who are not afraid to die." Now as soon as the Blackfect heard that tho Sioux were at Wood Mountain post they camo down for a fight, but were told hy Maj. Walsh to camp and behave themselves. Tho little stockado was now surrounded by 6,000 savages, all howling for blood, and resolved either to fight each other or to Join handstand wipe out the police. To begin with, the Blackfeet stole 30 polnes from the Sioux, and Sit- ting Bull, their chief, brought his com plaint to Walsh. "Walt," said the ma jor; then told off six men with orders tc bring the 30 stolen ponies out of th Blackfoot herd. In those days the Cana dian lads thought no more of red Indian than they did of blackbeetles, so the sij riders romped down Into tho Blackfoot' herd; not knowing one pony from an other, they took good measure, roundec up 180 horses, and gaily drove them pasl tho Blackfoot camp, which seethed out ir. furious pursuit. Then the six pollcemer having robbed and defied 3,000 warriors stampeded tho plundered horses straight for the siockade, and rolled in just ir time. Inside the fort the six troopers were paraded up to seo Major Walsh, and they blushed and simpered becauso they were going to be praised. "Don't you know,' said Walsh, "that you've declared wai against the Blackfoot nation? I've e mind to give you each three months' Im prisonment!" Within an hour the Blackfeet surrend ered their 30 Sioux horses to get back the. 180 which tho police had stolen,. Such were tho beginnings of. this mighty regiment To-day tho numbers of this police force are comparatively small. Numbers arc no longer needed. Civilization has taken tho place of tho painted warrior of the past, but there is yet enough of them.tc preserve order in tho vast territory that stretches almost from Winnipeg on the east to British Columbia on tho west, and from tho American boundary on the south into Dawson city on tho north. Lit tle posts of a dozen men aro scattered here and there over tho broad plains watching tho interests of the settlers and tho government., Ono small hand Is detailed to care for a struggling hord of buffalo around the shores of Lako Athabasca, some 30C mtlflO f Vfm 4r t nn fncf ntiflllrmit AH wui IUU 11VJU1 LOb V.1Y U1U11UJ1 and under tholr watchful cars this herd Is Increasing rapidly, and promises to once moro populate the far northern plains. Another small detachment keeps tho peace at Dawson, still another keeps an eye Qfcvthe Indians at Calgary and the surrouriifJroservatlons, and so on throughout nil tho vast territory. They aro soldierly men, theso mounted police. Thoy aro moro soldier than po lice, and as I talked with ono of their old commanders at Calgary ho impressed mo as tho Ideal American cavalry officer. His life had been spent In the saddlo, per forming by peaceful means what wo ha had to do by force subdue tho Indians. They are a hospitable lot also, and no traveler need fear asking for food and shelter at their posts. With theso quali ties It is needless to say thoy aro gentle men. Soon thero will bo no need for tho ii I.... ..... . . uiuiiiuiiuii, out, nice our American cavalry, Its history will ever remain lu the annals of tho northwest.