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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-03
PATRIOTIC IDEA.
Request Of 6. A. r. for Ad-
mission Of Wives and


islature cannot we'll turn a deaf ear
to the request OF the committee ap-
pointed by the Minnesota q. A. r..
which asks an appropriation for q
new building in connection with the
state soldiers home at Minnehaha.
The purpose of this home 10 to fur
nish care and shelter for destitute
widows and mothers Of veterans.
Through the soldiers relief fund the
state is now giving some of these aged
women q pittance to exc out their
little pension money and keep them
from starvation. However, most of
them need better care than they can
receive In their loneliness and power.
ty. They must be provided for by the
state. or else sent to the county poor
farms. 1t would be q disgrace to the
state to condemn soldiers widows to
die a. common paupers.
One wing Of the proposed building
is to be set aside for dependent veter'
ans with their wives. Hundreds OF
these old couples are scattered over
the state, some Of them living on
pension of S12 q month. The husband
can now 20 to the home, but If he
does the wife must 60 to the poor
house. The etate cannot afford to sep
arate companions Of half a century
in their closing hours.
Common humanity, as we'll as state
pride and patriotism, call for this
work. Members Of the Grand Army
and the auxiliary organizations. who
personally have seen and kept track Of
the cases being helped. have stories
to tell that would melt the stoniest
heart. 1t is a matter of urgent ne
cessity. and If the Legislature Is com
pelled to choose between the various
objects seeking appropriations II
must not be forgotten that the relief
of veterans and their wido rs requires
haste. A few years more and it will
be too late.
Tue plan proposed Is tried and prov
en- satisfactory by the experience o
several other states. The committee
appointed at the last encampme"r
which has issued an appeal to tn
legislature, says that women are nov
admitted to the soldiers homes II
Iowa, Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin
Michigan, Kansas, California, Ne
braska and Pennsylvania, and recent
" in Ohio q home for veterans vic
ows and mothers has been established
Minnesota led the nation in respond
ing to the call for volunteers, and Ger
tainly cannot afford to lag behind il
the effort to care for them in their de
olining DAYS, aud for their families
The soldiers wives and mothers q
war-times days were real heroinef
In Minnesota they were the citizens
who titled the field, kept the sto1s
and ran the households at home. N
state was swept cleaner by enlistmer
and the draft, and in no state di
the women CARRY q greater burden
Now is the time for posterity to aci
nowledge the debt that is owed
them.
A new cement industry is the NAL
ing of shingles out of cement. It
said they cost about as much as sla,
roofing but are superior in that the
are made with ridges and grove
which tit together and prevent wat<
baking between them.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-03
SMALL UNITS

SMALL UNITS
Acne Glover NernstLamp
will give 80 Candle Power,
and cost SO cents per Hour.
A Two Clover NernstLamp
gives 100 Candle Power, and
costs 1.76 cents per Hour
A Three Glover Nernst
Lamp gives 226 Candle Pow.
or, cost 2.64 cents per Hour.
Little Falls Water Power Go.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-03
new COURT TERMS
Changes are Made in Time
ofDistrict Ses-
Sions

The term of holding court In Nor.
rison county has not been changed.
but remains the same. Changes in
most of the counties of the district
have been made however. by q bill
which has passed the Legislature, and
the times Of holding court In the var
ious counties will be as follows:
Morrison oounty-First Monday In
March and third Monday In Septem-
Der.
Douglas county-Fourth Monday in
February and second Monday in Sep
tember.
Wadena oountv-Third Monday in
March and third Monday In October.
Becker county-Fourth Monday in
March and second Monday in October.
Mile Lace county-First Monday in
April and first Monday In October.
Otter Tail county-Second Monday
In April and second Monday in No.
vember.
Todd oounty-Fourth Monday In
April and second Monday IN October.
Stearns ooonty-First Monday in
May and first Monday In December.
Clay county-Third Monday in May
and first Monday In December.
Benton oounty-First Monday In
June and fourth Monday In November.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

THE INCUBATION OF SEED And SOIL
HUBERT NJ. SKINNER
BY HUBERT M. SKINNER

ment, but only mixed with the oxygen
of the air. Why should not the plants
make use of this? 1t is well known
also that plants derive a very large
part of their dry matter from the AIR.
1t seems perfectly easy for them 10
absorb the carbon in the atmosphere.
Strange as it may seem, however, the
plants ordinarily raised upon the farm
will not take nitrogen from the atmos-
phere, but only from the soil.
Years ago il was discovered that
where clover had been grown the SOIL
seemed to become more fertile; and
farmers often gave up their fields to
clover for q single season and cid not
harvest the crop, but "plowed II IN,
with a view to enriching the SOIL.
There was something strange about
this. 1t seemed unaccountable that
any plant should enrich the soil. when
logically il should be expected TO de-
plete and impoverish IL. The enriching
of the soil by means of clover was gen.
orally attributed to the "plowlng In
of the surface growth. and not TO any
thing relating especially to the roots.
Now it is discovered that ii is TO the
roots, and not to the stems and leaves
of the clover, that the soil is indebted
for the additional nitrogen which it re-
ceives, and that the blowing in" may
be unnecessary and waSteful.
For many years microscopists have
been studying bacteria, or germs. These
minute growths are vegetable in their
nature and have the power of increaS-
ing enormously in an astonishing short
period of time, under certain conditions,
though at the same time they may be
easily and quickly killed where the
conditions are not favorable to them.
1t is now known that many diseases Of
humanity are the result of the micro
scopic bacteria, or germs. taken into
the human system, where they find the
conditions of warmth and moisture,
such as to cause them to multiply very
quickly and corrupt the entire system
in a very short time. Various "cul-
tures,'' simple pastes or liquids, have
been prepared, in which the bacteria
find a specially easy and rapid devel
opment; and these have been used by
biologists for studying the bacteria.
A careful examination of the roots
of the clover brought to notice certain
little nodules, or balls, attached to
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say, be accomplished more satisfac-
torily, as well as more economically,
by two. This centralization of effort is
one secret of the famezof Vienna, where
what is probably the largest hospital in
the world, provides an unequaled
training school for young doctors.
This impulse toward the multiplica-
ton of schools is felt more In under
graduate work than in advance study
Thus it is estimated that in 1904 there
were in Chicago 2.912 medical students.
in New York 2,627, and in Philadelphia
1852. From these figures 1t seems that
the three cities offer practically the
same facilities, for one would naturally
suppose that the most students go to
the place where they can obtain the
best training. Another set of figures,
however. tells another story. The num-
Der of post graduate students in Chi
cago in 1904-was 647. In New York it
was 939, and in Philadelphia only AT.
In many ways the post graduate statis-
tics, representing as, they do a class of
men looking for something more diff
cult to find than a fair undergraduate
medical school, are the most significant
Post graduate instruction in medi-
cine is of comparatively recent devel-
opment; in fact, it may be said to have
come into being with the opening of
the New York Post Graduate Medical
school and hespttal-in November, 1882.
The usefulness of the departure was
Immediately apparent, and several
schools modelled, after the New York
institution are now in existence in the
country. Post graduate medical in
struction is conducted along lines of its
own, differing absolutely from the
methods of advanced work in other
sciences, and also from the methods
until very recently in vogue in Europe.
In Vienna or Berlin the student be-
comes a disciple of some noted master
and pays directly for the privilege of
following him through the hospitals.
In such ain institution as the New York
Post Graduate school the physicians
give their services for NOTTINGHAM act
which some people. who think more of
a physicians work in life than of the
prosaic fact that he needs. money like
the rest of-us, regard as quite natural
and the fees OF the Students are used to
maintain the hospital. the Indispensable
supplement of the school,
But perhaps the most striking thing
in connection with such institutions is
the fact that they are attended not by
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

young men who have just received their
degree and are anxious to push their
studies little further before beginning
practice, as is the case with embryo
school teachers, professors and others
who support the post graduate depart
ments OF our universities, but by ply
sfcians who have been out in the world
for ten or fifteen years, and many of
whom have built up excellent practices.
OF the physicians attending post grad
uate courses in the New York Post
Graduate Medical school the great ma
jority are men who have felt the need
of being in touch with the most recent
advances in medicine. A busy doctor
has little time to devote TO study. No
man can work all day and study all
night, and as years go by the physician
finds himself not infrequently behind
the procession. 1t is largely in that it
enables such men to catch up that post
graduate instruction, is of highest serv-
ice.
This explains why New Yorks popu-
lation of medical students is so largely
post graduate. The man fresh from
college and anxious to become phySi-
clan usually attends the school that is
nearest his home and where he can
study at least expense. The physician
who has ten years of success behind
him usually can afford to go where the
OCSl lilSlI uClIOIl ID W ne ildu, Were 10
can study the methods of the ablest
men and be in the center of medical
progress. Another factor which re-
duces the number of undergraduate
medical students in New York is the
stringency of the state laws. The de-
gree of NJ. d. from the institutions of
the highest standing does not admit a
man to practice in this state, and the
state examination, which must be
passed, is very rigorous Such restric-
tions tend inevitably to restrict the
Plumbers as well as 10 raise the stand
ard of the undergraduate medical,
schools.
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center New York now ranks with Ber-
lin and Vienna. Oxford has recently
called to prominent chair one of our
leading physicians.
The man on the street who suddenly
discovers that he needs a physician is
not usually in a mood conducive to
curiosity as to how his physician OBJ
tanned the knowledge necessary to cure
him, and in the outside world the
problems of medical training have
aroused little interest compared with
the Importance of their results. Three
things are necessary for the successful
study Of modern medicine-good teach
ers, many and varied cases from which
to learn by PERSONAL observation. and
adequate facilities for treating these
cases by advanced methods. 1t is the
abundance of all these essentials that
has made New York pre-eminently one
OF the worlds medical centers.
New York is not only the largest
city of America and the second largest
in the world; Ii is the dumping ground
for thousands OF immigrants brought
each year TO our shores. Here hum
dreds OF them stay, among them many
incapable of going anywhere else. OF
every race on the face of the globe and
reared on all kinds of food and under
all Kinds OF circumstances, the most
stringent laws and examinations can
not prevent their bringing with them
at least the possibilities of every kind
of illness. But the more undesirable a
man is as citizen the more useful he
is likely TO be to the medical student,
and cases of disease are seen daily in
New York which would not come to the
nouce of a physician in a smaller place
once a year. 1t is not immigrants
alone who provide work for New York
physicians. Every ailmept that flesh is
heir to, whether. it comes from the
oVertaxed nerves of the rich or the I'M
der-nourished bodies of the poor, is TO
be met with here. In addition, the rev.
olution that is being effected in the city
by the expenditure of 100000 600 in
railroad and terminal improvements,
the erection Of skyscrapers and bridges,
brings in its train a constant success
sion CT accidents which also provide
varied experience for surgeons. Per-
haps the only city which can be COM
pared TO New York in the variety OF
the field for medical work is Vienna
and Vienna was for years the cynosure
OF medical eyes. London, a larger city
than either, has not the diversity OF
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population that characterizes New York
and Vienna, and the same objection
carries weight in the case of Paris and
Berlin.
The Wilderness of the field and the
abundance OF good to be accomplished
in it has resulted in. bringing to New
York, and in keeping here, medical men
whose ability and standing are recog-
niZed the world over. The names of
practitioners in the borough of Man
haitian alone ill 14S closely printed
pages of the medical directory, and so
more pages are devoted to Brooklyn.
From the ablest OF these men are
drawn the teaching stats of the New
York medical schools, men who turn
from lucrative practices to give their
time TO clinical instruction. frequently
for nothing, almost invariably for less
than the time is worth to them in dol
lars and cents. To the multitude of
persons anxious for treatment, to the
abundance of physicians of the highest
standing. is added the number of fully
equipped hospitals, built by the philan-
thropy of one of the wealthiest cities in
the world and supplied with all the APP
planes and facilities which modern
skill has devised for the treatment of
patients. SiXty-eight of these institu-
lions exist in greater New York, and
their services must be estimated by
even DTOdQeT tnan the
amount OF suffering actually relieved
by them. To the young physician, with
the ink on his coveted parchment hard
ly dry, modern hospital is an invalu-
able school of experience, and an ap-
pointment 10 the staff of the best ones
comes as the reward of years OF the
hardest kind of work in the schools.
Although medicine is being taught
more and more through clinical lee
lures and in hospitals instead of In
lecture rooms, there is much which the
beginner can acquire almost as well in
one place as another. The American
tendency in education is unquestion-
ably toward multiplying the number Of
institutions instead of strengthening
those already in existence. This ten
dercy has been carried to an extreme
in medicine, and doctors are turned out
each year from schools without num-
Der throughout the country. when they
could better be taken care of by a few
thoroughly equipped. centralized insti-
tutions. In New York, for instance, the
work done by five undergraduate med
ical colleges could, many authorities
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12
We of the most remarkable seien-
tific discoveries in recent years

@NE of the most remarkable scien-
Hill tific discoveries in recent years
V has proved by practical expert
ment to be so valuable to the farmer
that it is certain to exercise vast in
fiuence on the agriculture of the fu-
ture in the United States and else
where.
The exhaustion of soils has been a
source of great discodragement to
farmers and has been menace to the
future of oour agricultural interests;
for soil may be rapidly exhausted TO
the point almost of worthlessness, and
the restoring of it to fertility has been
an exceedingly expensive, slow and
unsatisfactory process.
Soils need, primarily, to contain nj
trogen, potash and phophorous. They
also need lime. Concerning the latter
there is little difficulty, for most of the
lands in the United States are we'll
supplied with lime. Wood ashes will
replace the potash that has been ex-
hausted, and various phosphates are
available to replace the phosphorousi
but, when the nitrogen is exhausted
from the soil, it is found difficult and
expensive to restore, and it is useless
to attempt to raise the farmers usual
crop without it. The land is then al
most vaIueless for agricultural pur
poses.
For sixty years or more we have i'm
portedSnitrates from a very great dis
tance, and at heavy expense. Ships
from our Atlantic ports have sailed the
whole fengtlIsof South America, round
ed Cape Horn, and come northward on
the Pacific nearly to the equator, in
order tossseHFe the rich nitrates con-
tanned in the islands off Peru. Their
long return>trip, with their heavy car
goes, has brought to the American
farmers the material upon which they
have chiefly depended for restoring the
exhausted nitrogen. to the soil.
Now it is a well known fact that
nearly fouf-f1fths of the air is nitro
gen. fuFtheryethat this nitrogen is free
NOT commended with any other ele-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12
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NnEw YORK, March 1.-THE recent
IMI establishment in the city of CO.
uW logne of a postgraduate med
ical school is another instance
of the much talked of American in
vasion" of Europe, which is disturbing
the old-world traditions of science, as
well as of commerce. The Cologne in
stitution is the direct result of the
foundation in 1882 of the New York
Post Graduate Medical school and the
new methods of medical instruction
first introduced in this country at that
time are now being initiated in London
and in Germany, the land which for
years has been regarded by Americans
as the home of Science.
AS matter of fact the day when
American students in every profession
thought ii necessary to finish their ed
ucation abroad has passed. The ia
nous institutions of the old world still
hold much of their fascination, but the
opportunity to study at Oxford afford
ed by the requests of Cecil Rhodes, the
African empire builder, aroused much
less enthusiasm in this country than it
would have even, ten years ago. For
merly every American scholar yearned
for the classic halls of oxford and
Cambridge, or the atmosphere OF solid
learning surrounding Heidelberg.
Strassbourg. Bonn and the other Ger
man universities. The professional
man felt himself handicapped unless
he had the prestige of a year or two
under some celebrated European teach
er.
All this is changed now. Even in the
arts, though musicians still flock to
Vienna and Berlin, and architects and
painters to the famous schools OF Paris,
the states" are steadily providing
more and better facilities, while in
those sciences concerned directly with
practical life American ingenuity has
been as successful as in everyday bust
| ness. Nowhere, perhaps, is this devel-
opment so strikingly seen as in the
field of medicine and surgery. Ameri-
can surgeons are already recognized as
leading the world, and as a medical
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12
Looked More Like a Piece of Raw
Beef Than a Human Being.
Doctors Useless.
CURED BY CUTICURA
Blessed Relief After First Application and First
Real Sleep in WeekS-FactS of This Won
.
derful Cure by Cuticura VOuChed for by
Mrs. Hunts NeighbOrS.

Words cannot describe the terrible
broke out head and kept spreading
body was almost solid of looked
more like Of beef than being The pain and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

In
law peggec me to try the Cucua Remedies would but had
no hope of But blessed relief experienced after
applying Cucura Ointment cooled bleeding and itching flesh
and pougnt the first real sleep in weeks was ..
grateful as ice burning warm water and
Cuucua soap then apply the ointment freely took the Resoen
of m oooo IN snort time the running flesh
began to heal and knew get again. Then the hair ~
my head began grow and time was connlA,s,v a
But kept on taking the Cuhcura Remedies as they did ma 50 much
good i do not stop them
my cure was SO wonderful thought write you about II
cannot praise Cicura enough tell everybody who
has Eczema to Cutcura My so terrible thu. b
cured cannot fail anybody of this awful disease anu
one DOUBTS me truth of this letter, tell write TO me
etet'l35 Thomas ST, Newark. N. ]. MRS VIM HUNT"
line undersigned acquainted neighbors of Mrs n,
Hunt OF 35 Thomas ST. knowledge of her
eczema by the Cucua Remedies by Hunt in her letter
(Signed) Mary E Cooper Thomas St. Newark N T. Mr s
Taylor. 48e Mulberry ST., Newark NJ j."
ahed free' An ABOUT The cuicura Dollar - " "a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12

dSO.lv CiuufCU SCSiIlSQ IllOr6 IDan
! could bear.
Blood and pus oozed from the
great sore on my scalp. from under
my finger nails. and nearly all over
my body. My ears were so crusted
and swollen was afraid they would
break off. Every hair in my head
fell out. ! could not sit down, for
my clothes would stick to the raw
and bleeding flesh, making me cry
out from the pain
my family doctor did all he
could, but got worse and worse.
My condition was awful. | did not
think could live, and wanted death
to come and end my frightful suf-
ferings.
"ln this condition NV rno,ha,-in
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-30
Morris Shot at Connecticut.

A young woman who has been en-
ployed in collecting material for a
man who is writing a history found
something the other day which anus
ed her very much, as illustrating the
tender and brotherly feelings which
existed between the different COLO
nies prior to the Revolution. It was a
passage in the will of Lewis Morris,
recorded in the Surrogate's Office of
New York in the year 176O, and ran
as follows:
1T is my wish that my son, Gouver-
neur, shall have the best education
that can be furnished him in England
or America; but my express will and
directions are that under no circum-
stances shall he be sent to the colony
of Connecticut for that purpose, lest
in his youth he should imbibe that
low craft and cunning so incident to
the people Of that colony, and which
are so interviewer in their constitution
that all their wit cannot conceal it
from the world, though many of them,
under the sanctiied garb of religion,
have attempted to impose themselves
on the world as honest men,"
Looks to me- said the investiga-
Tor. "as if old Lewis had had some
dealings with Connecticut people and
come out second BEST"
The Cook County herald., 1905-09-30
A Bud of Promise.

A few Sundays ago well-known
minister preached in a village church.
After the morning service, while
strolling through the village; he came
across some small boys playing ball.
my son. he said to one of them,
"don't you know that it is sinful to
play ball on the Sabbath day?''' Il /.
''No, SIR" replied the boy, innocent
ly. ....: -'..@ r;>.$=l
'.It is, my boy, and very sinful" said
the minister. "God knows all things,
and He therefore sees you and will
punish you for your sin" 3: r..
'.Do you really believe, SIR asked
the boy, ''that God knows everything?"
"Most assuredly," said the good
man. .&4y !
"Does He know that my Uncle John
has got cow?", ..%. ~."e :*n>>'
"Of course He does, my child"
"That's where you git left, for Un-
Gle John hain't got no scow!" cried the
boy, as he started after the ball. New
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