HOSPITALS CROWDED
MAJORITY OF PATIENTS WOMEN \
Mrs. Plnkham’s Advice Saves Many
From this Sad and Costly Experience
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true fact that
every year
brings an in -
crease in the
number of ope ra
tions performed
upon women in
our hospitals.
More than three
fourths of the
patients lying
on those snow
white beds are women and girls who
are awaiting or recovering from opera
tions made necessary by neglect.
Every one of these patients had
plenty of warning in that bearing down
feeling, pain at the left or right of the
womb, nervous exhaustion, pain in the
email of the back, leucorrhoea, dizzi
ness, flatulency, displacements of the
womb or irregularities. All of these
symptoms are indications of an un
healthy condition of the ovaries or
womb, and if not heeded the trouble
will make headway until the penalty
has to be paid by a dangerous opera
tion, and a lifetime of impaired useful
ness at best, while in many cases the
results are fatal.
The following letter should bring
hope to suffering women. Miss Luella
A dams,of the Colonnade Hotel, Seattle.
Wash., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—
“ About two years ago I was a great suf
ferer from a severe female trouble, pains and
headaches. The doctor prescribed for me and
finally told me that I had a tumor on the
■ womb and must undergo an operation if I
wanted to get well. I felt that this was my
death warrant, but I spent hundreds of dol
lars for medical help, but the tumor kept
growing. Fortunately I corresponded, with
an aunt in the New England States, a™3 she
advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound, as it was said to cure tu
mors. I did so and immediately began to
improve in health, and I was entirely,cured,
the tumor disappearing entirely, without an
operation. I wish every suffering woman
would try this great preparation.”
Just as surely as Miss Adams was
cured <*f the troubles enumerated in
lier.letter, just so surely will Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cure
every woman in the land who suffers
from womb troubles, inflammation of
the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous
excitability and nervous prostration.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all young
women who are ill to write her for frea
advice. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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A BARREL FEED RACK.
An ideal way of feeding a few sheep or
calves is to take a large barrel, such as
crackers are packed in and cut openings
in the staves between the two layers of
hoops making these opening Just large
enough so that the animal can get its head
in and out readily. Place the barrell in
position and hold it in place by driving
several stakes into the ground and fasten
/ng them to the barrel. Or course the top
of the barrel is open. The hay or other
roughage is thrown in the top and the ani
mals eat through the holes cut in the
staves as described. This Is a simple
feeding rack which any one could make
and one which will save much waste of
roughage. The illustration shows the idea
so clearly that no further explanation is
needed.
DO THE FATTENING NOW.
On the average farm there is a sufficient
quantity of material to be gathered as
gleanings from the fields to fatten quite a
lot of stock. There is no need to use the
food that Is being stored away for winter
use, just carefully garner the odds and
ends, sort it over so that the animals will
not be disgusted and their appetites weak
ened by eating decayed stuff, and you
will find enough to fatten the stock that
is to be marketed so that the better food
may be saved for the stock which is to
turn in cash during the \vinter. Often
times it Is cheaper to fatten the stock that
is to be marketed on the material specified
at a lower price by considerable than it is
to give them the better food, and the care
neded later in the season to properly pre
pare them for market. This morning the
writer traveled about 150 miles through a
farming section where the corn had been
gathered and there was enough material
rotting in the fields on almost every farm
to fatten a dozen small animals so that
they would bring a price which would pay
well for the labor of gathering this ma
terial leaving the manure on the farm as
payment for what would be otherwise al
most a waste.
COMFORT IN THE HOG HOUSE.
In repairing our hog houses we found
that a roll of building paper and one of
tarred paper were the best investments
we had made in some time; the one was
used on the walls and the other on the roof
so that much more expensive repairs wCre
saved. Hhen wo found it was policy to ar
range the sleeping corner in such a way
that it was Impossible for it to get any
of the filth or the wet which the swine
gathered during the day. It was placed
so that none of the slop got Into it and
about the only way it got soiled was when
the swine trampled through it with their
muddy feet. Even then by taking it out
Into the sun each day it made a good bed
for a number of nights. A hog* is a
strange animal, stubborn of course, but it
will not long muss its bed if the latter is
clean and comfortable. Much of the nasti
ness of hogs is due to the neglect of their
owners. We also arrange the sleeping
corner so that is out of the draught al
though the house is properly ventilated;
as a result there are few if any cases of
chills and colds among our swine. All this
extra good care means healthy swine. It
is not well to work on the plan that if the
hogs escape cholrea they are doing well.
There are other troubles of swine which
prevent them from growing as they should
and cbnscquently make them less profit
able. One of these is the hog louse, a for
midable insect which, while it can be
eradicated by any of the best sheep dips,
makes life miserable for the animal and
prevents it from taking on flesh. There Is
too little profit in swine at best to warrant
leaving anything undone which will enable
It to make a steady even growth from
birth to market.
WINTERING SHEEP PROFITABLY
It is not particularly hard to carry the
sheep through the winter on cheap and
more or less poor rations and if one Is
feeding his sheep simply to get them
through the winter alive, then almost any
thing raised on the farm may be fed. But
what about the lambs that are to be born
In the spring? And what about the con
dition of the ewes when they are feverish
and unable to properly suckle their young?
These are questions to be considered more
than all others in feeding the sheep dur
ing the winter and here is where knowl
edge of their needs and intelligent work
will bring results. Probably wheat bran
and oats in mixture is the ideal grain
food for sheep especially those that are
pregnant and clover hay the ideal rough
age. Still, corn may be fed in moderation
and root crops of various kind given to
furnish plenty of variety. Feeding along
this line and giving the sheep comfortable
quarters not too warm, but dry and well
ventilated, with more or less outdoor exer
cise as the weather will permit and plenty
of clean fresh water with the winter chill
removed will enable the sheep not only to
go through the winter, but to bear lambs
that will be strong and healthy.
WOMEN AS POULTRY KEEPERS.
A number of years ago the writer had a
hired man who was one of those ener
getic fellows ambitious to work for him
self. He married a girl In the neighbor
hood and moved to an adjoining town to
go into the milk business. About an acre
and a half of land surrounded his town
home on which he grew some vegetables.
His wife suggested poultry as there was a
constant demand for fowls and for eggs
from among the milk customers. The hus
band agreed and before his wife knew It,
had spent considerable for fancy fowls;
too fancy for utility birds. She was a wise
wife, however, and gained his consent to
have this part of the work turned over to
her. She invited a near-by fancier to call
and see her stock of fancy birds, and
promptly sold him onc-half of them at
• what they had cost her husband. With the
money she scoured the country and looked
up some well bred birds of the utility
kind, bought some of the stock and some
of the eggs from the stock. This was in
the spring and this fall she trikes into win
ter quarters 125 of the finest Leghorn pul
lets we have seen In a long time. In addi
tion to this, she raised in incubators and
brooders for the local trade more than a
hundred common fowls which were read
ily sold as broilers during the summer.
The Leghorns were too small to carcass to
be profitable for such a purpose. The |
woman told me a week since that taking
her investment for everything and putting
against it the investment of her husband
in the milk business, the poultry business*
was paying 50 per cent, more on the com
parative investment. It may be said that
she gets good prices for poultry and for
eggs, but as her husband gets eight cents
a quart for milk the camparison Is a fair
one. Give the women of the family a
chance at the poultry if they are inter
ested and they will make money in it nine
times out of ten.
SUPPLY HOUSE FOR POULTRY.
If In a section where snow lias not yet
covered the ground better gather up all
of the leaves that are obtainable, dry them
thoroughly, pack them away In barrels or
bags where they will keep dry to be used
on the floor during the winter in place of
the more expensive hay or straw. Then
get two or three large boxes and fill them
to the brim with dry road dust; this will
come in very handy during the winter to
supply the dust boxes the fowls will need
so much. In another box throw all the
broken crockery, old flower pots and the
like and also gather a lot of sharp stones
which may be broken with the hammer
later so that the birds can get the food
grinding material they need. These things
cost practically nothing but a little labor,
but they will be very instrumental In mak
ing the fowls healthy, happy and profit
able during the winter. If the floor of the
poultry house is of earth see that it is high
enough above the surface of the ground
outside so that it will no't be damp. A
wagon load of gravel drawn now and the
floor built up with it may mean absolute
health for the fowls.
WINTERING THE FALL CALF.
If the calf Is ^rorth carrying through the
winter it is certainly worth caring for
properly and by properly is meant good
food and water and proper care. If the
calf is strong and healthy it ought to pay
well for the best attention that can be giv
en it; first of all It needs a dry clean place:
not warmed by artificial heat but as warm
as lack of draughts in a comfortable
stable will make it.' The early days of the
calf, just after weaning, are of great im
portance to it and too much care cannot
be taken to see that the milk given it is
absolutely fresh and pure and fed in pro
per quantities. As a rule, the calf will pro
perly take care of eight pounds of milk
per day which amount can be gradually
increased until at a month old it is con
suming twelve pounds daily. About this
time it ought also to become interested
in hay and after awhile will begin chew
ing its cud. A calf built up In this manner
during the winter will be in excellent
shape to turn out to pasture in the spring
and get most of its living until fall when
you will have a.splendid animal, one you
will be found to add to your herd.
CARE OF THE BREEDING STOCK
As a poultryman of long experience the
writer is not averse ito any plan which w ill
increase the product of his yards with cor
responding profit but, on the other hand,
fights shy of seemingly good things. One
of these things which sounds wrell is to get
a vigorous male and mate him with frou:
twenty to thirty hens for the purpose of
saving the cost of another male. We tried
this once and it worked all right for the
first season solely because the male w*as
unusually strong and vigorous, but when
we came to mate him to a much smaller
flock the second season many of the eggs
lain by the pullets were infertile. The fact
of the matter was, ho was worn out with
his work the first year and utterly ruined.
It is certainly unsafe to give a male more
than a dozen females and, unless he was a
strong bird I would cut it dow'n to ten to
be on the safe side. Then, I would see that
from early fall up to the time he was
turned in with the females ho was given
extra good care; food which would give
him muscle and vigor and a small run in
which to get what exercise he needed.
With decent females to run with the eggs
ought to hatch out chicks of great vigor
and value.
HARDPAN SUBSOILS OF LITTLE
VALUE.
In buying a farm the first thing to be
done is to examine the subsoil thoroughly
for if it lies near the surface and is hard
one cannot expect to get satisfactory re
sults for the reason that it is unproductive,
the water lies too near the surface hence
evaporates readily in dry seasons; on the
other hand the hardpan soil prevents the
growing plant drawing on the reserve
water supply below this hard pan. Of
course such a soil can be greatly improved
by cultivation and the introduction of
humus into it but this is hard and slow'
work. We had a piece of soil like this and
for five years spent double the time getting
it in shape than was spent on any other
portion of the farm. The subsoiler was
used and a number of crops of cow peas,
alfalfa and rye grown on it and plowed
under. After a time it got to be pretty de
cent. soil but it cost too much; therefore,
avoid such soils when buying new ground.
HELPING CLEAN THE STABLES.
Even farmers who make it a business to
groom the cows regularly understand it
is not a pleasant task and they will wel
come any plan which will save them some
of this disagreeable labor. One way of
doing it is to erect a frame so that the
lower part of it is about an Inch above
the cow’s back just forward of the rump.
When the sow humps its back to void the
droppings this frame strikes her back and
she instantly steps back which allows th€
droppings to fall in the gutter just when
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they are wanted and where they cannot
soil the animal when she lies down. This
frame Is attached to one of the crosspieces
of the barn with bolts and by being closely
bolted on can be pushed out of the way
when not wanted yet It will stay firmly In
any position It Is placed. By having pro
per gutters and keeping them clean, and
having one of these frames over each cow
there ought to be no trouble with filthy
cows. The illustration shows the plan
plainly and any one can build these
frames
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Ocean 31,614 Feet Deep.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
The hydrographic ofllce has Issued
a general chart showing tho result of
deep sea soundings, taken by tho Unit
ed States navy In different parts of the
world In the course of the last ten
years. The greatest known depth of
the sea Is in the mid-Paciflc ocean, and
Is recorded at 5,269 fathoms—31,614
feet—or sixty-six feet short of six
statute miles. This sounding was ob
tained on the U. S. S. Nero last year,
and It Is greater than any elevation on
our continent, or, so far as known, In
the world.
Last year the greatest depth in the
Atlantic was found by the U. S. S. Dol
phin, 4,662 fathoms, or five and a quar
ter miles. The locality Is some 300
miles northwest of the Azores Islands.
Previo'us to that tho deepest known
water In the Atlantic,was 3,828 fath
oms, sounded In 1855 by Lieutenant S.
P. Lee with an ordinary lead of great
weight.
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For Instant Relief nnd Speedy Cnre
of Ran and Scaly Hnmor, Itching
Day and Night for Many Months.
“I do wish you would publish this
fetter so that others suffering as I have
may see it and be helped. For many
months awful sores covered my face
and neck,' scabs forming, which would
swell and Itch terribly day and night,
and then break open, running blood
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Still in Trouble.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
"What’s de matter wid de major?
He gwlne roun’ lookin’ kerflummuxed!"
“Well, he hearn tell dat corn linker wuz
good ter snakebite, an’ now he’s huntin'
ter something what's good for corn
licker!"
Of all sad words coined by Boston
heallners this term "whiskers,'’ for
whist players. Is the sorriest.
"Football's Brutal”—Jeffrie*.
From the New York Letter.
Janies J. Jeffries, the pugilist, agrees
with President Roosevelt that football as
played on the American college gridiron is
brutal.
“Can a gentleman play football?” the
former champion was asked.
“Gentlemen can play any game,” he
replied, “but I don’t see how any gentle
man can feel at home In a game of foot
ball as it is played today. Football is far
more brutal than prizefighting.
“Everytime tho ball is put in play eleven
men aro lined up to fight eleven men. It's
all well to say tho sido with the ball is
trying to rush It across tho line by using
speed and skill, and that the enemy Is try
ing to prevent this by using speed and
skill, but, as a matter of fact, tho two
teams slug each other from tho start to
finish, and if they didn’t slug people
wouldn’t go to look at them.
“Every healthy man or woman likes to
see a fight, and football is the hardest
kind of fighting I ever looked at. You
may call it a strenuous sport or any other
fancy namo you like, but it is Just a big
redhot fight, all tho same.
“Just look at tho difference between
football and prizefighting—It’s all in favor
of prize fighting. In tho ring you can hit
a man only with your fisis and only above
the belt. If you strike low. or if you butt
with the head, or use your elbow or shoul
der to strike your man the referee calls
a foul on you and you lose tho battle. In
football you aro supposed never to hit a
man with your fist, but you can block him
with the shoulder, or give him the elbow,
or wick him or Jump on him when ho is
down.
“I know football people will deny this
and say these things happen only by acci
dent. Let them call it acci lent If (hey
like, but it is a pretty fierce game where
this kind of accident happens every time
two teams clash. If a fighter tried to bring
off that kind of an accident in tho ring
he’d bo disqualified and hooted1 out of the
place.
“Here's a funny thing. A fight crowd,
which some people like to dcscribo as a
bunch of ruffiians, won’t stand for the
rough work that fine society people ap
plaud and cheer on the gridiron for all
they’re worth.
“In the ring the referee is watching both
the fighters all tho time. If either one of
them commits a foul ho Is seen and dis
qualified right away. On the football field
there are twenty-two fighters, and all tho
referees in the world couldn’t keep track
of tho blows hit in the scrimmages.
“If every player in the game were to
obey the rules all the time and never com
mit a foul, football would still be ten
times more dangerous than fighting in tho
ring. As they play the gamo nowadays, I
wouldn't go into it for $1,000 a minute.”
In reply to Jeffries's criticism of the
game “Texas” Charwate, Yale ’08, declares
the attacks on football emanate from dys
peptic critics who, during their youth, de
veloped their mind3 at the expense of their
bodies. Ho says a team made up of prize
fighters would have absolutely no show
against an all American college team.
The Brute.
She—Well, dear, after that you must
acknowledge that you are a fool.
He—I always knew it, darling, but until
I married you 1 managed to keep it a se
cret.
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Mrs. Gaswell—Is your niece still do
ing art work?
Mrs. Sudden-Clymer—Yes, indeed.
The other day she painted a bunch of
goidenrod so lifelike and natural that
It gives me the hay fever every time I
look at it.
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