The Athena press., February 14, 1908, Image 2

17EW KING RULES SWEDES.
CTJBJJTO ILLS WITHOUT MEDICETE
Physician Telia How Every Mu Can
Be His Own Doctor.
"Have you noticed," tald the physi
cian In his post-prandial rest, "what a
tidal wave of "Every man his own doc
tor' is sweeping over the laud?"
"I supiose you mean," said the other
man, who had come tolilm for a litp
friendly advice about spring fevu,
"Chrltian Science and other cults?"
"Not alone that, but the growing
tendency to keep well Instead of bring
cured is fast relegating medicine to the
dead arts. We must keep up with the
procession, even if it rob us of occu
pation, and I'll assure yon, if every
man understood giving himself massage
be might practically be his own doctor.
For Instance, half the world either has.
or claims to have, liver troubles. A I
pare five minutes can be turned to ex
cellent account by giving your liver
lift. Place one hand heavily on the
right side at the lower border of the
ribs and rub it down slowly four or
five inches. Do this a dozen times
and you will empty this overfull liver
of its superabundent contents. This
New king of Sweden, his son and
daughter-in-law, and late ruler.
cures heartburn and remedies cramps
by removing the acidity from the stom
ach as well as relieving the liver.
"The food of a dyspeptic remains too
lonif In his stomach. furmeuttiiK and
causing Inflammation. Try helping the
tomach to get rid of Its contents. Place
one hand at the extreme edge of the.
left side Immediately under the ribs
end slightly overlapping them. Then
work It round to tho right by pressing
the fingers In as hard as you can, draw-
u f, rlirlit with
tho other hand, at the same time swing
lng the body to the right, then to the
left. Practice this dally before meals
and reasonable food will never 'set
like lead' on your stomach. Here Is
a good suggestion for a plethoric, or
full-blooded, man: When waiting for
the fellow that doesn't keep his appoint-,
ment, place your hand at the back of
your neck where the hair joins It and
rub downward. You will thus empty
the glands and prevent their turning
into bolls. Or put your fingers on the
neck at the angle of the Jaw and draw
Iheni firmly downward over the course
Of the Jugular vein. This will remove
the used-up blood from the brain and
make that organ feel light and clear,
helping you to keep from getting 'hot
tinder your six collars,' like Klpliug's
nglna
"If you have a tendency to varicose
reins, when you sit down elevato your
feet The blood will How out of. the
turgid veins and give you great relief.
By deep frlctlou from the heel upward
you can encourage tho return of tho
blood to the heart as well as give tone
to the feeble veins. If you have a red
nose It Is because the blood enters the
superficial vetwels of the sklu and does
not return from It. If you would rem
edy this condition, perform regularly
this little feat: Urasp the tip of the
note between the thumb and lingers and
massage upward to tho root. This
method empties the vessels of used-up
blood and allows fresh blood to flow.
Besides, you are not half as likely to be
afflicted with cold In the head. One
exercise especially designed to preveut
a 'bay window below tho ribs is this:
Lit flat on your back, raise one foot
and leg to Its full height without bend
ing the knee, then the other, alterimt
lngg the mot Urns, or vary the exercise
by putting the toes under the bed
clothes, raising the body to the sitting
posture Beveral times. This exercises
the muscles of the abdomen and pre
vents the accumulation of fat.
"Cold feet, so ofteu found among
brain workers, can be overcome by pro
moting a vigorous circulation. Imme
diate relief can bo had by standing in
about one Inch of cold water In a bath
tub. Stand on oue foot and rub It with
the other, alternately, a number of
times for not more thau three or four
minutes. Follow this up by vigorous
rubbing with a crash towel, and the
good effects are almost eu.ua! to walk
lug In dew, recommended by Father
Knelpp. A fit of blues is a habit that
grows upon one so rapidly that In a
short time It becomes a disease. When
ever I feel an attack coming on I put
on stout walking boots and tramp till
I can go no farther. This effectually
dispels melancholia. An Oriental phl-
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losopher says fast, breathe and exercise
and you will never be ill, so we might
as well accept the situation that doc
tors are no longer needed."
COAESE FISH FOE THE TABLE.
egleoleil Food Supplies of BrttUh
Inland Strennm.
Puzzling euough to the student of nat
ural economy must be the ilxed preju
dice of the English people to tho edible
Konmn snail, the titbit frog, more espe
cially, the common "course" fish of
fresh water streams, says the Pall Mall
Gazette. Fresh water salmon trout,
grayling and ells are everywhere re
garded as edible fish, though until very
, recent times tho grayling or "ouncer"
one of the nalmouhUe was but little
esteemed either by sportsmen or cooks.
To-day grayling ranks so closely with
such game fish as salmon, trout, char
and possibly the rarer vendace, etc.,
tlwt the angler must not under penalty
"feed" its "swim," and it must not be
fished for with maggot or worm except
in tho depth of winter.
The point Is that since our notions
about grayling have so utterly changed,
why should not our notions about tin
more sizable pike change, too? For
"Esox luclus," the luce of English her
aldry, bettor known as pickerel In
America, Is truly a "iramo" fish, Judg
ing from the manner he fights and the
great uumbcr of denticles In his inoutli.
which are strong enough to blie off an
angler's finger. Yes. our familiar
"fresh water wolf is game enough, aiul
I can say from experience that his
many pounds of sound llesh taste ex
ceedingly choice about Christmas time
when stuffed with veal forcemeat and
basted with savory gravy. Yet very
many hundreds of. enormous pike are
captured ou our streams yearly by
"trimmers" and other questionable de
vices of the river watchers; moreover,
they are throughout treated as so much
vermin. If exised for sale on the fish
monger's marble slab they could hardly
fall to command a good price, little as
the world In general cares to make the
experiment of cooking a pike.
Take the case of tlie equally abund
ant chub. I am told that it takes a
Jewish tailor or furniture broker's fam
ily to appreciate It.
The Helrea.
He (teuderly) When I woke up this
morning you were my first thought
She Indeed? Were the creditors al
ready standing at your bed? Mergeu
dorfer Blatter.
Sand Is one of the important ltgre
dleuts lu the elixir of sucre.
Each la Broken In Two, but Neither
Engineer Knowa It.
The following story was told by J.
D. McXamara, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Wabash railroad
"From Clark to Mexico, Mo., our liue:
runs almost parallel with that of the
Alton. The distance Is about twenty
miles. It Is open country and the
grades are light The 'going is good
and trains race with each other as
often as occasion offers.
"One day two long freight trains,
one on each road, reached Clark about
together. A race, of course, was In or
der. Passing Centralia the Wabash en
gineer turned partly around in his cab
and noting that the Alton man was
minus a portion of his train gave a
'broke in two' whistle signal for the
information of his rival. The Alton
man, hearing the signal, himself turned
In his sent and observing that the
Wabash train was considerably shorter
than when the race began he pulled the
throttle open a notch or two more and
smiled as he looked forward to winning
the contest. As the speed of the Wa
bash train continued to Increase the
Alton man in a spirit of banter gave
with his whistle the 'broke in two' sig
nal. As there was no apparent effort
made to stop, the slgual was repeated.
"Again and again was the signal
given by one or the other of the racing
englnemen.
"At length Mexico was reached, both
trains arriving there at the same time,
each engineer laughing at the Joke he
would have on his competitor when the
hreal would be discovered. As soou
as he stopped nt the Mexico water tank
the Alton man called across the right of
way :
"'How far you golu' without vour
tail lights?'
"The Wabash man, observing for the
first time his own predlcnment, said:
'"Gosh, but I thought you was
whlstllu' for your own hind end!'
"'Ditto. Bud!' exclaimed he of the
C. A A. as he noticed regretfully that
about two-thirds of his own train was
absent." Kansas City Star.
Plant Hemeraber.
Plant memory is a problem for the
Inquisitive botanist. In 1901 a plant
allied to the squash and pumpkin was
taken to New York from the desert of
Souora, In Mexico, and since then It
has been kept without water lu a
strange climate 3.0(H miles from home.
Purlng the six weeks of ralu in the
desert the plant grows its leaves and
flowers aud perfects Its seed. Then It
dries up and leaves only a water filled
gourd, which a thick, hard shell seals
against animals and evaporation. The
trannplauted specimen still remembers
the rainy season of six weeks. It wakes,
solids out rootlets, stems and leaves,
and theu dries up again until the fol
lowing year Kansas City Journal.
If you want a certain thing to hap
pen. It la easy to "feel in your bones'
that It will happen. "
ism
Storage of Corn.
The relation of a perfect stand ta ln
freased crop yields has been so effec
tually demonstrated that the best meth
od of storing grain
becomes a matter
of vital Interest to
all corn growers.
A test was made
last year to deter
mine what the ef
fect of storing
corn la a dry
room, on racks in
the barn, in the
warming oven of a
stove and in a
eorncrlb would
have on the ger-
ruinating powers
of the seed the
following spring.
The per cent of
germination was
lowest with the
DBYINQ SACS.
corn stored in the crib, as would nat
urally be expected, as the seed was
exposed to the widely varying tem
peratures which prevailed during the
winter season. The germination was
practically the same with the samples
stored In a dry room and on racks in
a barn, though tnese methods of stor
ing had but little advantage over the
use of the warming oven. Considera
ble difference was witnessed, however,
in the strength of the germinations
from corn kept in the several ways In
dicated. The grain from the corn
stored in the crib showed the least
vigor of germination, the best results
being obtained from the corn stored
on the racks in the barn, followed
quite closely by that stored in a dry
room. The corn stored in the warm
ing oven germinated fairly well in
all except two instances. In one the
germination was remarkably low, due
either to a poor ear or to the fact that
the corn may have been overheated at
some time. Exchange.
Heavy Hay Tonnage.
By methods that are perfectly prac-
! tlcable to you we at the college are get-
; ting fifty-four tons of hay from twelve
acres. First we have our land well
...tilled," said Professor Gilbert, of the
Maine station, in addressing a recent
farmers' meeting. "Why is there so
much rundown land, is It low in fer
tility? No, It has been lying In grass
too long. There are lots of fertility,
.nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash;
J what It needs is plowing up and rota
tion. I "Plow poor land in the fall, and by
spring there will be air In it, harrow it
'well in the spring, pulverize it by har
rowing It over and over again. Then
seed with oats and grass, and the next
'year you will have a good crop of
' grass, and clover the next year. A
good rotation of potatoes on sod land,
; using commercial fertilizer; the next
year cover with stable dressing, then
oats and grass with no fertilizer ; the
next year, grass and clover, with top
dressing of fertilizer. Our mixture of
grass seed to the acre is eleven pounds
timothy, six redtop, four red clover and
four alslke.
"For the top-dressing 350 pounds to
the acre of a fertilizer carrying 3 per
cent nitrogen, 7 per cent phosphoric
acid, 6 per cent potash. The grass
should be cut while In bloom." After
explaining why it should be done, he
continued, "After the first crop is cut
150 pounds of the same fertilizer to the
acre should be applied."
Eaally Blade Bag Holder.
I describe a handy sack holder, use
ful on a farm. It has two upright
pieces of 2x2 and a two-inch plank two
feet long which
the upright pieces
are fastened to.
About four or five
Inches from the
top bore two holes
e x actly opposite
each other and
place through
these boles a long
bolt. Take a piece
of plank or board
and cut it to fit
between the two
BAG HOLDER.
uprights and place the bolt through
this board so it will work easily. Cut
tills board in a half circle to fit the
sack. Drive nails through this board
around this half circle to fasten sack
to. This board can be raised or low
ered to the height of sack and Is held
In place by means of an iron rod which
la fastened on the uprights about two
feet from the bottom.
Preventing Sore Shoulder.
Don't let your horses' shoulders get
sore. You can prevent It by bathine
every night with strong salt water. It
toughens them ana also prevents galls.
Among the most distressing sights is
that of a horse at work with sore shoul
ders. Frequent bathing and care in
the selection of collars will prevent it
Agrlenltnre'a Amazing Growth.
How can any 'country be bard np
whose farms In the last . nine years
have produced fifty-three thousand mil
lions of dollars' worth of crops?
No wonder that the report of the
Secretary of Agriculture Is full of
thanksgiving flavor and that he is un
affected by causes for gloom that work
on other men. The value of the farm
products for 1007 is nearly seven and
one-half billions of dollars; 10 per
cent above that of 1006, when all rec
ords of crops were broken ; 25 per cent
over 1903, and 57 per cent over 1890.
More than 3,000,000 acres of land
that used to be considered valueless,
"the home of the cactus and the prai
rie dog," are now producing $30,000,
000 worth of crops every year; and
these crops are directly due to Sec
retary Wilson, who Imported the Med
iterranean dunnn wheats at a first
cost of $10,000 and saw that they were
planted there. Irrigation farming, due
wholly to the department, will this year
sell crops for not less than $250,000,
000, which is not contemptible, in view
of the fact that the Department of Ag-
riculture costs only about $15,000,000
a year. ' -
Yet the work of the department is by
no means on such a scale as tho nat
ural resources of the country warrant
and will one. "daywmake possible. Sur
veyors declare that not one-half the
farms of the , country 420,000,000
acres, to be exact can be classed as
Improved land, and only one-third, or
290,000,000 acres, is fruitful. Many
years will pass before all this ground
Is put under cultivation, but the time
will come when It will be producing
abundant crops and supporting hun
dreds of millions of human beings.
Chicago Journal.
Convenient Hayrack.
Many basket hay racks are built In
such a fashion in the rear that to climb
Into them presents an especially Irk
some task to a man, more so after
having lifted hay or pitched, bundles
all day. In the sketch presented of the
rear end of a rack we have tried to il
lustrate how the task of climbing Into
the rack might be made easier., But
little extra work and material will be
required and at the same time the con
tents of the rack are held very nearly
as good as if the end pieces extended
clear across.
Fertiliser for Oniona.
Professor John B. Smith, the Ento
mologist of the New Jersey Experiment
Station, in a bulletin on the cabbage
and onion maggots, Just Issued, refers
to the necessity of a quick-acting fer
tilizer In conjunction with planting at
the right time, and replenishes the fol
lowing formula, recommended in ear
lier reports : Nitrate of soda, 700
pounds acid phosphate, 1,000 pounds; I
muriate of potash, 300 pounds. This, !
he said, in the case of radishes, can be i
applied as a top dressing along the j
rows, before they are planted, or Just
after they are up, at the rate of 500
pounds per acre. Similar applications
can be made on turnips or onions. I
believe that 1 a fertilizer compounded .
after this formula, or the application
of the three ingredients separately, at
a -proportionate- rate, would Jn most
cases be followed by good results. The
combination has about 5 per cent nitro
gen in its 'most available form, 7 per
cent phosphoric acid, and 74 per cent
potash. A ton of it would cost in the ,
neighborhood of $32 to $35.
Getting Rid of White Grnba. :
These suggestions regarding "white
grubs wereade by the Missouri Ex
periment Station:
It Is very difficult to do much in de
stroying white grubs where they have
once gotten a gooa rootnoia. .About
the only plan is to put out a new patch" .
and plow and cultivate thoroughly the
ground where the infested patch" stands. .
These white grubs are the larvae of a
group of beetles known as May beetles
or June bugs. They feed for three
years as white grubs before changing
to adults, so that you will find various
sizes of these grubs at the same time
In your patch. Some of these will ma
ture one year, some the following year,
and so on. Cultivation Is about the '
only remedy for these grubs. r
.Proper Fruit Packing.
" A great many farmers and fruit
growers seem to Ignore the conditions
attending the Journey which their
waxes must take before they .reach the
hands and eyes of the consumers. The
methods of transportation, customs of
the trade, the markets' fashions as re
gards style, size and form of package,
all must be well .understood, for they
are as Important as the growing of the
crop.- ... . -..-A
HAT BACH
t TBOIPET CALLS.
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Ram's Horn Sound a Warning If ote
to the I'areAeemed.
. It is never safe
to get in front of
sin's blank car
tridges. The test of any
amusement Is the
resultant tone of
your life.
This world can
do without the man
- who can do with
out another world.
No man becomes a hero by advertis
ing his heresies. . ' ,
Success Is not always honor, but hon
or Is always a success.
The prayer to God to draw near to
tis draws us near to Iilm.
Many who think they are hiding from
God are only forgetting Him. r..
The best views of heaven come when
the back Is bent with earth's burdens.
The practice of the love of man Is the
best preparation for the love of God.'
That morality becomes only immoral
that is followed only for profit or pride.
God Is not a matter of demonstration
nor of conviction, but of companion
ship. If you cannot tell the good your re
ligion Is doing, it la probably, doing
barm.
To have His power In the time ot
need we must have His' presence all
the time.
The home that sends out love and in
spiration is the best of all borne mis
sionaries. .
Many a man is leading in religious
exercises to save himself the exercise
of religion.
Dogmatism is heard, not because It is
right, but because it says what.it has
to say bo loudly.
The language of heaven Is acquired,
tot by memorizing its vocabulary, but
by living Its life.
There is no reconciliation of this
world to God until we are ourselves
"econcUed to the way of the cross.
YArhat we have given, rher than
what we have gained, will give us
greatest Joy when we come to make up
life's balances. -
Some people think that prayer is a
scheme by which you can stick your
head Into a hornet'8 nest and come
out none the wiser.
DOUBT PACTS OF HISTORY.
Persona So Fond of Miracnlona That
Queationa Are Easily Raised.
The love of the miraculous Is enough
to keep alive the belief .that the ac
cepted facts of history concerning a
person who has greatly , lpterested the
world either , by his life or his death
are all wrong, says the Boston Trans
cript. Within twenty years a big book
has been published in this country to
demonstrate that Marshal Ney was ot
shot in the garden .of the Luxembourg,
Dec. 7, 1815, but escaped to America
and dwelt In North Carolina.
For some years there flourished in
Germany a man who declared himself
to be the son of the duke of Relchstadt
by a secret marriage and therefore the
grandson and direct heir of Napoleon.
This imposter was a clumsy-fellow who
did not know his book, for the date he
assigned as that of his birth was fully
a year subsequent to the death of the
duke. - -
But we need not travel so far as Eu
rope to find the credulous of the Incred
ible. Only a few years ago there died
in Kansas a man who was believed by
many of the vicinity to be Wilkes
Booth. A marked physical resemblance
to the assassin caused so much annoy
ance to a well-known clergyman that
he took pains to demonstrate by proofs
of his .birth and education that he was
not Wilkes Booth.
The fact that Mrs. Fltzherbert made
a solemn declaration that she never
was a mother does not deter the "Fltz
herbert heirs", in this country from
bothering King Edward with letters
applying for permission to examine cer
tain papers which they believe contain
a secret of vast money value to them.
Tie people who believe these incredi
ble legends in the face of proof posi
tive to the contrary, are not all of one
kind, nor of the class of the Engllsh
niaivwho said of the TIchborne claim
ant: "Just because he was the son of
a Wapplng butcher they wouldn't glv
him the estate."
I ... : Mistaken Identity.
During Robert Loraine's performance
of Robert Shaw's "Man and ' Super
man," In Minneapolis, ' one night re
cently, a lean-visaged man with . a
sparse red beard, occupying a private
box all alone, applauded the scene
showing the 'automobile so noisily that
.when some one started the report that
the box occupant was the redoubtable
G. Bernard himself, many people In the
audience believed it When the cur
tain fell on the act. a'. fervid Shawlte
ran forward to greet the boxholder as
he started for the lobby. '
?Mr. Shaw, I hope," said the devotee
enthusiastically. T
"Mr. Shaw, I hope not," snapped
back the man in the ginger beard de
cidedly; "I'm the fellow who sold the
show the automobile !" .
The Liraltv
"You reckon Br'er Thomas, got Into
paradise?" ; , '
."I can't, tell fer sartin. All' i kin
aay is de mule kicked htm ter de
gate!" Atlanta Constitution.;"
'. 5 Somehow the average boy lacks a ma
la for acquiring good conduct mark
at school