THE 8EMI WEEKLY TRIDUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
FOUR WEEKS
IN HOSPITAL
No Relief Mrs. Brown Fin
ally Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio. "For years I Buf
fered bo sometimes it seemed as though
ix coma not stand
it ony longer. It
was all in my lower
organs. At times I
could hardly walk,
for If I stepped on a
llttlo Gtono I would
almost faint Ono
day I did faint and
my husband was
sent for and the doc
tor came. I was ta
ken to tho hospital
and stayed four weeks but when I camo
homo I would faint just tho eomo and
had tho same pains.
A friend who is a nurso asked mo to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I began taking it that very day
for I was suffering a great deal. It has
already done mo moro good than tho
hospital. To anyono who is suffering
as I was my advico is to stop in tho first
drug-store and got a bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham'o Vegctablo Compound beforo
you go home." Mrs. W. C. Brown,
2844 W. 12th St, Cleveland, Ohio,
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INDIVIDUAL'S NEEDS IN FOOD
As to the Suitability of the Diet Every
Man, Woman and Child Is a
Law to Himself.
One condition of good digestion Is
that the food presentd to the stomach
be suitable to the Individual, that It
be sound, well cooked and not execs-'
slvo In quantity. As to the suitability
of the sort of food, every man, woman
and child Is a law to himself, and
much of the Indigestion deplored Is
caused by kindly tyrants, who Insist
on their family and guests eating what
suits the tyrant and not tho victims.
One robust and genial head of the
household of active habits and out
door occupations thrives on a largo
allowance In which meat Is a chief con
stituent. This diet he most generously
wishes to Impose on all his family,
but what Is to happen to the over
wrought financier, the exhausted
schoolmaster or the woman who gets
much mental stimulus nnd llttlo exer
cise? Their digestive apparatus can
not be Immediately adapted to a sup
ply so unwonted In quantity nnd qunl
lty, and If they weakly consent so to
overtax their stomachs grief Is assur
edly not far away. Exchange.
LIFT YOUR CORNS
OFF 'WITH FINGERS
How to loosen a tender corn
or callus so It lifts out
without pain.
Let folks step on your feet hereafter;
wear shoes a size smaller If you like,
for" corns will never again send electric
sparks of pain through you, according
1 to this Cincinnati authority.
Ho snys that a few drops of a drug
called freezone, applied directly upon
a tender, aching corn, Instantly re
lieves soreness, and soon tho entire
corn, root and nil, lifts right out.
. This drug dries at once and simply
shrivels up tho corn or callus without
even Irritating the surrounding skin.
A small bottle of freezone obtained
at any drug storo will cost very little
but will positively remove every hard
or soft corn or callus from one's feet.
If your druggist hasn't stocked this
now drug yet, tell him to get a small
bottlo of freezone for you from his
wholesnlo drug house. adv.
Prefers Home.
"Mamma, If I should go up to heav'
en nnd be an angel how would you
feel?"
"Mother would bo very sorry to lose
her llttlo girl."
"Oh, but mamma, I don't believe
they would haye me up there when
they found out that I can't sing un
less you play for me. I think I should
get ter'hle tired singing nil the time,
nnywny."
DUualoal ImnnsRlhllttV-
"Write him a sharp answer, dear."
Cnn't do it, pet; I haven't any but
stun pens.
a Granulated Eyelids,
Hfc mu Evei inflamed bv exoo-
Eyes inflamed by cxpO'
" vm v .uretoSaa.DBSlandWiBd
Eyes!
quickly relieved by Marine
EvcReaedt, No Smarting,
tmt Eve Comfort. At
Druggists or by mall SOc per Bottle. Murbw
r. For Book al the Eve
IflEB ask Mwlsi Eye Reaedy Ca., Chlcage
Iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiini
WHERE OILED HIGHWAYS PAY
Better on Sand Than on Clay or Loam
Soils Oil Sometimes More Sat
isfactory Than Water.
Oiled earth roads should not bo re
garded ns n permanent Improvement
but nro much better thnu common
sarth roads, In tho opinion of W. S.
Genrhnrt, professor of hlghwny engi
neering.
"Oiled ronds do not require so much
dragging as ordinary earth roads,"
said Professor Gonrhart. "They shed
water better and do not become so
dusty. Although oiled roads aro not
so satisfactory as gravel roads, they
may bo a help In developing good
roads sentiment."
Tho best results from oiling nro to
bo obtained by applying the oil when
Macadam Treated With Oil.
the road Is hard, smooth, dustless, and
without any ruts or pockets, according
to Professor Gonrhart.
Where there Is n pocket In the road,
water will gather ufter every storm.
Oil works better on sandy soils than
on clay or heavy loams. Loam soils
may be helped by sprinkling a light
coating of sand over the oiled surface.
After the first year It Is better to ap
ply from one-quarter to one-third of n
gallon of oil to each square yard of
surface in the spring and the same
amount again In the fall.
For laying tho dust on city streets,
oiling may bo as economical and inoro
satisfactory than water, particularly
If tho soil Is sandy. When city streets
are oiled It Is best to cover the cross
walks with dust or dirt so that they
will not be covered with oil. When
the oiling process 1g finished tho dust
or dirt may bo swept away. Surface
oiled streets aro not satisfactory If the
soil Is clay or loam, for tho oily dust
blows about and is carried Into build
ings und upon walks.
MOISTURE FOR ROAD MAKING
There la Certain Water Content at
Which Soli Packs Hard Remove
All Grass and Weeds.
Road maklug Is largely a matter of
moisture control. When soli contains
too much water It becomes mud, and
when It has too little moisture It be
comes dust. But there Is a certain
moisture content nt which soil packs
hard. And this is just about tho
amount of moisture that n soil will
hold readily. This usually can bo
maintained In a rond that has good
drainage, that is well crowned so the
water will run off when It rains nnd
that is free from grass and weeds.
These If allowed to grow, will soon
draw tho molsturo out of the soil and
so remove the binding material.
CONVICTS ON PUBLIC WORKS
Proportion on Road Improvement In
creased From 1.3 Nearly to 13 ,
Per Cent Since 1885.
Tho proportion of convicts employed
on public works Instead of on lenso or
contract has Increased since 1885 from
33 to 80 per cent and tho proportion
on road work alono from 1.3 to nearly
13 per cent, according to a report by
tho federal public roads olllce based
on a survey of mnny prisons. Stnto
rather thnn county supervision of con
vict labor on roads is recommended.
Easily Converted.
It Is not nt all difllcult to convert
tho owner of a new automobile to the
good-roads theory, If ho Is caught at
the monfent when ho Is trying to
worm Ids way through a fresh sod
Improvement, two miles and a half
long nnd running from fence to fence.
New Position for Goethaio.
Major General Goethafs has accept
ed the newly created post of stato en
gineer of New Jersey. New Jersey Is
about to expend $1,500,000 on a new
highway system.
GREAT NEED OF FOOD
No Danger of Overproduction
This YearDean Mumford.
Any Surplus Which American Farmers
Can Produco Will Be Quickly Ab
sorbed by Hungry People of
England and France.
While tho farmer is being urged to
greater and greater production, ho
naturally considers tho possibility of
overproduction. Mnny farmers in
the stato have advanced this question.
According to Deftn F. B. Mumford In
tho Missouri Collego of Agriculture,
overproduction Is exceedingly Improb
able this year. It has been agreed that
this country's part In tho war will bo
Inrgcly to supply food. "Our food
resources have been depleted by ship
ments to Europe nnd by several poor
crop years," said Dean Mumford re
cently, "nnd now with unrestricted ex
port to tho nllles, the small reserve
which we have will be further de
creased. Any Burplus which tho
American farmers can produco will ho
quickly nbsorbed nt wnr-thne prices.
Millions of people In England, Franco
and other countries nt war with tho
German powers nro In need of food.
They must have food not only for
their civilian population but for their
armies. They are too busy fighting to
provide that food themselves. It then
behooves tho United States to supply
food.
"But It Is not alone for tho nllles
that wo must produce maximum crops.
If we should hnvo n poor crop year
throughout tho country, our own peo
ple may actually suffer.
"If Germany Is able to continue tho
ruthless submarine wrtrfurc unhin
dered, some food will be lost on its
wny to Europe. Consequently tho
losses will tend toward a further short
age and to absorb any surplus even if
there were danger of overproduction."
What would happen If peace should
come within the next few weeks?
Would not tho markets be glutted?
In answer to these questions, Dean
Mumford said: "It Is doubtful If
there will bo a grent decrenso In tho
demand for food Immediately following
the war. With commerce restored,
every nntlon which Is now at war
will become a market place for Amer
ican farm produco. Those countries
havo no food reserve left nnd they
will turn to tho United States to fur
nish food during reconstruction, and
until they enn feed themselves,"
As nn example of the actual scarcity
of food In America, Dean Mumford
cites tho condition of wheat : "In 1015
tho United States produced 10 bush
els of wheat per capita; in 1010 wo
produced 0 bushels per capita, but
used 0 1-3 bushels for sped and ordi
nary consumption and exported 2Yj
bushels per capita. The present condi
tion of wheat in the United States Is
03 per cent of n normal crop. This
Is 23 per cent below tho nvernge for
the last ten years. The condition In
Missouri Is even worse 59 ns com
pared with the 15-year average of 85
per cent Tho latest reports are that
the world crop of wheat Is far below
average." Other foods nro corre
spondingly scarce.
DEVICE TO HOLD DOOR OPEN
Half-Inch Piece of Board, Eight Inches
Long and Three Wldo Is Easily
Arranged.
(By It. PHILLIPS, Washington.)
A simple device may be made which
Is useful for holding doors open when
the old-fashioned lock Is used. Take
a half-Inch board, eight Inches long and
three Inches wide nnd Bhapo It like the
above cut. Screw It to a 2 by 4 on
the bnrn where the stick on tho lock
"If
Holds Door Open.
projects. Nail It so tho projecting
stick hits tho lock about one-fourth of
an Inch .nbovo tho point. With a llttlo 1
pressure, the slope of tho lock will i
make tho projecting stick move up. t
When It comes to tho notch In the lock j
It will drop down, locking tho door
back securely. I
GROUNDED WIRE FOR FENCES
Danger of Death to Farm Animals
From Lightning May Be Avoided
With Little Work.
All danger of death to farm animals
coming In contact with fence wires
heavily charged may be avoided by at
taching a wire to the strands of the
fence every two or three hundred feet,
running ono end of It Into tho ground
about four feet deep.
This will afford nn outlet for the
electricity and render the wire fence
us safe as any other.
PROPER EGGS FOR HATCHING
Costly Mistake to Use Those From
Unculled Flock Best to Have
Small Breeding Pen.
It Is n costly mistake to hatch eggs
from the whole unculled (lock, nnd
to keep males enough the year around
so thotUio eggs will fco fertile.
Far better get tho eggs from n neigh
bor who culls his hens for hatching
eggs, or send to some breeder who
does. It is not nn expensive thing to
havo a small yard for one's own best'
hens and mute.
t WORK WHILE ITS COOL $
g You'd better speed up on tho
$ work whllo tho weather's still $
cool. Statistics show you'll very
likely not get It done vhen It $
gets hot
T" a ...in .i - .I, rr
i les3 physical work nt 75 degrees
nnd 37 per cent less work nt 80
$ degrees than he will nt 08 dc-
grccs when ho has full cholco of
doing or not doing, quotes K. G.
Smith, extension engineer nt
jd. Ames, from nn Investigation car- J
5 rlcd on by tho New York stato
commission on ventilation. It
J was found that tho power to do
either physical or mental work,
by subjects doing their utmost,
was not diminished by a room
$ teniperaturo of SO degrees. It's
tho inclination that lags when
the mercury begins to rise.
BUYING AND SELLING EGGS
Prominent Dealer In Food Supplies
Opposed to Practice of Handling
Them by Dozen.
A prominent dealer In food supplies
has gone on record ns opposed to buy
ing nnd selling eggs by the dozen.
"I am strongly In favor of selling
eggs by weight," he snys. "It Is tho
only Just way for both seller nnd pur
chaser. As things are now, ono man
may buy n carton of eggs, very good,
hut very small, whllo nnothcr may
buy n carton of fine big eggs. Yet
both will pay tho same price. It Is
not fair. Tlio only fair and Just
method Is to buy and sell them by
weight."
Eggs vary so In size that n dozen
large and a dozen small eggs pur
chased nt tho same price per dozen
Eggs of Various Sizes.
may differ ns much as 25 per cent In
tlio value ot tho food elements fur
nished. Perhaps tho fairest way to
buy or sell eggs Is by weight. Because
of tho wide variations In tho size of
eggs, It Is also coming to bo recognized
that more nccurate results In recipes
can bo obtained by weighing or meas
uring tho eggs out of their shells.
WHY TOMATO PLANTS WITHER
Those Raised in Cold Frame Are Less
Hardy Than Those Grown In
Open North Wind Hurts.
Frequently It Is found by those who
start tomato plants In a cold frame
that the blossoms which nppcnr so
thrifty and which give such promlso
of future returns wither and drop from
the plant a few days after the latter is
transplanted to tho open Held. Conse
quently a new set of blossoms must
bo developed nnd tho plants lose all
advantage that was theirs In tho way
of an early start.
There may be two reasons for this.
Plants raised In n cold frame nro
necessarily less hardy than thoso
grown In tho open. If tho weather
happens to be sufficiently mild for
two or thrco days after tho trans
planting occurs the plant will adupt
Itself to the change. But if tho wind
veers about into tho north or north
west nnd there is a marked drop In
tomperaturo tho shock is too great
and tho blossoms go. Experienced
growers wntch for what they antici
pate will be n settled spell of spring
Weather oven delaying tho removnl of
their plants to the open for a week or
ten days beyond tho time they feel
tho change should occur, In order to
avoid loss of blossoms.
USING MANURE FOR ALFALFA
Astonishing to See Extraordinary
Growth .Where Strip of Fertilizer
Had Been Spread.
Mnny alfalfa growprs claim that ma
nure mnkes an excellent substitute
for lime for alfalfa. Some have gono
so far as to claim that manuro Inocu
lates alfalfa, says n writer In nn ex
change. However that mny he, wo
have several times been nstonlshed to
see tho extraordinary growth of al
falfa whore a strip of manuro had
been spread across the Held for ex
perimental purposes.
Recently, 020 nlfalfn growers who
had spread mnnuro on nlfalfn, report
ed an average yield of 3.0 tons to tho
ncre, whereas 414 who had used no
manure reported only 3,4 tons to tho
ncre. A half ton of alfalfa will pay
for considerable manure. Moreover,
manure Is applied to alfalfa ground
beforo Beedlng.
GOOD GARDEN SEED FAVORED
Essential 'in Successful Gardening
Best Way Is to Patronize Some
' Reliable House.
Good garden seed is nn essential In
successful gardening. If we nro going
to plant something, we want It to
grow. The worst thing possible Is to
plant seed that won't germlnnte, and
It is almost as bad to find that tho
seed which lias been planted is untrue
to name.
In order to avoid all annoyance it is
best to secure good seed. When buying
garden seed demnnd that It bo fresh;
likewise Insist that; it bo true to name.
The enslest way of avoiding poor seed
Is to purchase tho product of some re
liable house.
' FARM t
POULTRY
MASH FOR FATTENING DUCKS
Mixture of Cornmeal, Wheat Shorts,
Cottonseed Meal, Salt and Gravel
Is Recommended.
A mash that will fatten young ducks
and make ninturo ducks lay Is recom
mended as follows. This mash may bo
fed throughout tho year. .It Is mado as
follows :
Cornmeal 50 lbs
Wheat shorts 50 lbs
Cottonseed meal 15 lbs
Ground lime rock (fertilizer
lime, not caustic) 2 lbs
Sharp gravel or sand 2 lbs
Fine tablo salt lb
Total 120 lbs
On tho large duck farms they add
about 10 per cent cut green or
steamed alfalfa or clover hay, grass,
rape, cooked small potatoes, turnips
or similar vegetables. The green stuff
Is not necessary when ducks nro on i
green range, but It Is beneficial even
then that. It adds bulk, variety and
greater pnlatahlllty.
Mix the ninsh with water or sour
skim milk or buttermilk to u crumbly
moist condition nnd feed twice dally
what the ducks will cat In 20 minutes.
Give a light feed of whole corn at
noon. Plnco water In n wooden
trough or galvanized Iron vessel with
n lnrger bottom than top. Have tho
water deep cn6ugb to rench above
the nostrils and glvo the ducks nn op
portunity to clean out their nostrils
In tho water.
SQUABS RAISED FOR MARKET
Birds Should Bo Graded According to
Size and Quality Pack In Cracked
Ice, Breasts Up.
Squnbs should be graded according
to size nnd quality, ivj dark-colored
nnd small squabs tend to lower the
prlco paid for an entire shipment of
mixed squnbs. They nro usually
packed for shipment In n good supply
of cracked Ice, breasts up, with par
'aflln paper between ench layer of lco
and squabs. Some express companies
havo a special rate for s"quab ship
ments, which should bo secured wher
ever possible. Tho express charges on
small shipments of squabs reduce the
profit materially, making It difficult to
sell the squabs from a small flock nt
a profit If they havo to bo shipped to
commission men. As tho period nt
which a sqnnb Is right for market Is
not over ono week, It Is necessary to
havo a good-sized flock to havo over
one dozen squabs ready for market at
SquabB Ready for Market
ono time. A local market which will
take any number of squabs is a great
aid to tho Binall producer. Whoro ono
has n small flock It usually pays bcSt
to build It up until It Is largo enough
to mnko good-sized shipments of
squabs. This, however, requires a con
stant outlay without any return, for
somo time.
Tho production of squnbs from each
pair of breeders varies from one oi
two to ns high as ten or cloven pairs a
year, but an average of from nix to
seven pairs Is a fair estimate, although
Bomo squab breeders do better than
this. Squabs usually sell at tho high
est prices during cold weather, ns
pigeons do not breed ns freely during
tho winter as during the spring.
TREAT CHOLERA IN TURKEYS
All Fowls Which Show Symptoms of
Disease Should Be Separated
Give Sulpho-Naphthol.
Tlio word Is used to cover a number
of intestinal disorders, but cholera la
u contagious germ disease and is prac
tlcally Incurable. Place all birds which
Hhow any symptoms of the dlscaso In
u house remote from other poultry
buildings .and ono which can be easily
and thoroughly disinfected. Give the
birds a few drops of crcolln or sulpho
naphthol In their drinking wnter, Just
enough to turn It faintly milky. Glvo
tho birds a one-thousundth. of u grain
tablet of corrosive sublimate every
thrco hours. Feed sparingly on soft
easily digested food. All badly affect
ed birds should be killed by a blow on
tho head without drawing blood, and
then burned.
Itnke up and burn all litter used n
the house nnd runs occupied by infect
ed birds. Spray tho runs nnd nil parts
of tho building with creolln or sulphO'
naphthol solution, one tnblespoonful to
two gallons of water. Tho nuis should
also bo plowed frequently.
'TO
W
The Reason for
To!! harges
Leas than one. fourth of the
telephone subscribers make three
fourths of all the long distanca
telephone colli.
The long distance lines are used
only occasionally by the large
majority of telephone subscribers.
For this reason a charge is made
for each long distance call instead
of meeting the expense of provid
ing this tervico by increasing the
local telephone rates.
If we gave free long distance
service it would mean that all
telephone subscribers would pay
the cost of maintaining the long
distance lines which are used
generally by only & few.
IS MOST USEFUL LIGHTHOUSE
Beacon, Known to Mariners as "the
"Eddystone," Is Located on the
Southern Tip of England.
Perhaps the most famous lighthouse
In the world, certainly the most use
ful, is that beacon oft the southern tip
of England familiarly and affection
ately known to the mariners of the
seven seas as "tho Eddystone." It
flashes its warning from the most dan
gerous reef on tho business road of
the seas. Countless thousands of pall
ors have hailed It as England's tlrst
greeting after weary weeks at sea and
numberless passengers, gazing Idly
over the rail, have seen Its friendly
gleams without giving much thought
to tho Interesting story Of It.
Tho Eddystone Is tho pattern nfter
which most modern lighthouses are
built. It wns the first of the typo that
Is now widely accepted for solid stono
construction. The present light Is tho
fourth to crown the dangerous rocks;
Its sturdy defiance of all the storms
that blow Is a mute record of' success
built upon failure.
The Eddystone reef was always ono
of the most dangerous In the world.
The name Itself Is derived from tho
way the water bolls and eddies around
the sunken rocks. Centuries ago tho
need of a light was widely recognized
but tho problem of construction was
too much for the engineers of the day.
Finally an eccentric old gentleman who
dabbled In mechanics announced that
he would build a lighthouse on tho
rocks, and after his own peculiar no
tions he constructed n great wooden
tower, ornamented with all manner of
carvings nnd gliding. It wns the prldo
of his heart and ho boasted that It
could weather any storm that blow.
By n strange fatality ho himself wns
In the tower when a wild night swept
it away nnd ho perished with It
Language of the Mule.
"Tho boy suro mado a flno speech,"
snld tho old man, "an' I'm prouder
than ever of him, but what was them
languages ho wandered off In so fre
quent?" "Well, onco ho slung n llttlo Latin,
an' next he hit her tip in Greek."
"That's good. Thoy'll bo flno to
swear at the mule In, when ho glt3
home."
Thcro Is Just as much kicking In
bascbnll as thoro Is in football, only
It Is not so effective.
MM
A Wise
Move
is to change from
coffee to
POSTUM
before the harm
is done.
"There's a Reason"
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