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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
An Appetizer.

"a lot of people who never buy any
thing come in here and loaf around
and tune up their systems" says a
marketman. when those unproflt-
able visitors began to hang around my
shop l felt inclined to resent their
cheek.
But when they explained the reason
hadn't the heart to turn them out
1t seems that a few doctors in this
town have more common sense than
professional sagacity. They have come
to the conclusion that the best appe.
tizer a man can find is uncooked cuts
of roasts and steaks and fresh fruits
and vegetables; so, instead of filling
their patients up with pills, they just
prescribe walk around to a combina-
tion meat and green grocer's market,
where big whiffs of natures real tonic
are on tap free of cost.
so every day my market Is turned
into clinic for dyspeptics. They take
up room, and often get in the way, but
/ don't like to kick. l was always
soft, and, anyway, the new treatment
means new customers for me in the
end, so l shall not be out anything"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

perhaps another day-and your
mind might have been gone forever.
Now you are yourself again, ready to
out a qualm.
That is the way New York is saving
those about-to-be insane.
Many Patients Cured.
This splendid place up on the Hud
son near Poughkeepsie has 1900 pa
tients. 1t averages two new ones
day. Some % per cent. of all those
received are discharged as cured. But
Of those who have incipient insanity
and can be taken in time the per-
centage of cures is 20 per cent.
The Acute ward has been built for
incipient cases-those on the verge
of insanity. 1t wants people to come
of their own accord 1t wants to get
cases before they become chronic, in
order that there may be chance to
cure.
DIR. I. G. Harris took writer for the
Sunday World around the new build
ing the other day. 1t looks like we'll
built hotel. There are accommoda-
tions for so patients, 40 of each sex.
For those who are not excitable there
are small dormitories; for other cases
there are private rooms.
In each wing there is reception
room and dining-room and an open-air
porch. The patients sit six at table
just as they might in hotel, at tables
decked with flowers and bearing spot
less silver and immaculate linen. The
food is far better than She average
clearinghouse provides.
There are three floors, each with
its separate rooms and dormitories,
and rooms for physicians and attend
ants. Each floor has it's own sitting
room and bath arrangements for the
continuous bath, and there are also
all the other kinds of bath which any
sick person might need-douche, sitz,
needle, rain, spray and ordinary tub
and shower.
There is a fully-equipped electric
room, too. where there are electric
baths, X rays, static treatment and
other things of twentieth century in
vention.
Like Any Other Disease.
Insanity" said DR.. Harris, ''is just
like any other disease. The sooner we
get it the better the chance for a
cure. The trouble is to-day that we
get the average case only after it
has become chronic. If We could pos
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
PRACTICAL POINTS.

Treat your own family as politely as
You do your neighbor Jones' You live
q good deal nearer to them
If rats are 5othering your com get
some wire netting of half-inch mesh
and line the corn crib while it is
empty.
The man who persists in growing
noxious weeds will never sit in the
legislature or win prizes at the coun.
ty fair.
The man with the hoe" is no long.
er typical of the farmer. He rides in
an auto and plows with one If he
wishes.
Sweet clover has some value for
pasture, but little for hay. 1t is Of
some good as fertilizer or to plow un.
der in thin lands. 1t grows we'll on
waste lands and is a good thing to
hold new hillsides from excessive
washing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
THE HAY CROP.
Some Suggestions for the Stacking
in the Field.

Now that we have an unusually
heavy crop of hay to secure, some
farmers will be obliged to stack some
of 1t. A foundation can be made OF
rails or poles laid close enough to
hold the hay up from the ground and
allow the circulation of air under
meath to prevent the hay at the bot
tom gathering moisture from the
ground and spelling.
Begin the stack at the bottom con-
siderably smaller than you intend to
have the body OF the stack. Lay
the hay in the middle first and pack
it very firmly and work outward until
you get the size of the bottom. Carry
1t up a little ways and then begin to
lay out a little at each course. Keep
the middle fullest and pressed down,
but do not walk close to the side
while laying the outer course.
usually keep away from the edge
three or four feet.
When you have enlarged the stack
as much as you intend to, says the
Orange Judd Farmer, carry 1t up even
ly on the outside until you have fully
two-thirds of the hay in that you in
tend to put in that stack, and then
prepare TO draw il in to top out Keep
the middle fullest and well packed and
draw gradually until you have COM
pleted the top. Put a cap of marsh
hay on, and put on hangers, as good
hay is too valuable to be wasted by
exposing it to tho storms.
Kaap In mind frorn tho
that IL you keep the middle of the
stack the fullest and well packed, and
the outer course looser, the hay will
droop on the outside and shed the
rains perfectly from top to bottom of
stack. A man who has a mechan-
ical turn of mind can make stack
that looks well and in which the hay
will keep as well as in the barn. Hay
for stacking needs to be perfectly
cured before it is hauled.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

periods. Those who can be trusted are
allowed the freedom of the grounds;
others even may go to town if they
desire.
But, what is best of all, 1t costs
nothing If the patient cannot pay.
Board, lodging, medical attendance.
clothing, everything-the state OF
New York will pay for if you cannot
If you can pay 81, So, SIS, $40, all right.
But all this newest treatment is
free If you cannot pay.-New York
World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
varietIea of Soil.

There are more than 500 varieties
OF soil, and each variety needs iust
a little different treatment from any
other variety OF coil. Also each va
riety has in 1t different combination
of fertilizers from any other variety
Therefore we have before us a prob
lem worthy of the efforts of the wis
est men. The man that best under
stands the various soils with which he
has to work is the man that will gen
orally succeed best In the cultivation
OF his land. The tendency is to dodge
the study OF the soil because 1t is q
ditacult study.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

sibly get it in it's first stages the
chance of a cure would be so much
the greater.
In this new ward we will encourage
patients to come of themselves. OF
course, we would hardly take paretic
or one with senile dementia, but where
1t is a case of nervous breakdown we
would be only too glad. We will put
in this new ward all those cases In
which we consider there is ground for
hope. That doesn't mean that we
have in the other departments no pa
tients for whom there is no hope
far from 1t. But when we think the
case is incipient we will put the case
In this new ward, there to start the
cure-if 1t be possible-as soon as
possible.
People sick physically are often
sick mentally. Those are the cases we
can best reach. A little quiet and rest,
good food, peaceful surroundings, and
the cure is far easier than 1t would
have been had the patient been kept
at home to allow his or her case to
become chronic.
Sleep and Eat In Bath.
Suppose we get patient who is
excited and restless. She cannot
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

| sleep; she is tearing around imagining
the whole world is against her. We
put her in the continuous bath. She
sleeps there and eats there. You can
hardly imagine the change that comes
over her. And If things are favorable
her cure is very simple.
IF she needs 1t, we have the elec-
tricity. There is a massage table,
where tired muscles may be started
anew and the blood gain freshened
circulation. She may be just on the
borderland-this treatment will often
save her. She gets quieted nerves
and new hope: that is the start Of a
cure.
"Of course, some will apply who are
not insane, but think they may be.
1t may be only prostration. Imagine
the relief to them when we tell them
that they are all right mentally
not insane, but mentally tired.
"One of the great rewards OF our
profession is the thanks we often get
from those we have cured They did
not know at the time what the mat
ter was, but after they had been
cured they realized what had been
done for them. l think there Is moth
ing that can satisfy a physician more
than the appreciation of those he has
saved from mental night"
Already there have been many appli-
cants for the new treatment. When
the new hospital opens it will be first
come, first served. If the patients be
found to improve upon treatment they
will not be deemed insane. If they
should fail mentally after a period of
six months, then the regular commit
ment proceedings will ensue, just as
they would have done had the patient
waited till the disease had progressed
too far.
Work When Possible.
To-day IS per cent. of the men pa.
tients and 65 per cent. of the women
patients at Poughkeepsie are able to
work. This gives their minds some
thing to think about and helps toward
a cure. if this be possible. They are
encouraged to wear their own clothes
If they can afford it, and they are al
lowed to receive as many visitors as
the doctors consider good for them
There are games for them to play,
and pianos, if they are musicians.
Bathing is insisted upon. If the pa
tients want to bathe they may do so
as often as they please. If they don't
want to, then they must ,at regular
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

can be rugged UP
to save steps in
getting the mail,
suggests Far m
and Home. The
box is hung on
two pulley door
hangers, as shown
in cut, A strong
post, with a bent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

arm, is set next the highway, and a
wire, a, suspended between it and the
house, on which the box runs. A pul.
ley is fastened in, or to, the post. and
over 1t runs cord, b C. to pull the
box back and forth between the house
and the road. The box is sent down
to meet the carrier. who places the
mail in it. and then it is quickly
pulled back to the house
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
CRIMSON CLOVER.
A Good Plant for Localities Not Too
Far North.

This is sometimes called Italian
clover and German clover. 1t is hardy
enough for locations sonth of the Ohio
river, but winter kills it in the nortS:
1t is beautiful plant, and a mass OF
crimson clover has a pleasing effect
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

two telegraph poles. two guy ropes,
and an iron rod of cable, on which
runs a carrier. BY this method says
the Prairie Farmer, one can build as
large a stack as he wishes, and do 1t
quicker and better.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

In the flower garden. In the south a
big field of crimson clover is a pleas.
ant sight.
On the Atlantic seaboard It has been
grown successfully as far north a.
delaware. AS green crop for
plowing under II is excellent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
HAY STACKING DEVICE.
Handy Device That viii Do Good
Work Anywhere.

This handy device for stacking hay
In the field can be set up anywhere
In very short time. 1t consists of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
Lettuce Good FOR oeeso.

Lettuce. is an excellent food for
young geese and ducks. Usually there
Is more in the garden tnan the family
uses. This can be fed with profit. Il
pays to raise 1t for young waterfowl
and all kinds of poultry l,ka'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
Trolley System for Bringing Letters
from the Road.
DELIVERING MAIL.

Where the house stands some dis
tance back from the highway a trolley
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31

| VIEW YORK states new Acute
N hospital, on the grounds of the
NJ Hudson River State Hospital
for the Insane, at Poughkeep-
sin uhinh will hn nnnnnd nnNt
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Alexander the Greats Escape.

AS young man Alexander the
Great escaped death In a curious man.
ner. \ great banquet was being held
at Pella. the capital OF Macedonia, at
which were present the future con-
queror Of the world and his father,
Philip. During the feast one Of the
guests proposed toast and prayer Of
fenslve to Alexander, who hurled a
goblet at him. King Philip, angry at
this outrage. started up, drew his
sword and rushed furiously upon his
son. but he had drunk so deeply that
before he reached him he fell PROSTATE
among the terrified merrymakers. Not
a whit per;urbed at this extraordinary
escape from death. Alexander retorted,
"IIere is n man preparing TO cross from
Europe into Asia who yet cannot step
surely from one couch TO another"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
A WiIIinu Informer.

"What is the numberT' repeated CEN
tral.
"violet Park, elght-seven-seven."
"violet Park, elght-doube-sevenT
81 reckon So"
"And what number do you w&ntT'
"Elmdale. two-naught-four-seven."
"What Is your nameT
"My name IS John Henry Miggles. l
live at 50 Blicken street, Violet Park.
My house phone IL Violet Park, eight
seven-seven or eight-double-seven, as
you choose. | am married. have no
children. We keep a dog and a cat and
a perpetual palm and a Boston fern.
and"-
"All that Is unnecessary, sir. We
merely
"And last summer we didn't have n
bit OF luck with our roses. / tried to
have little garden, too, but the neigh
bors' chickens got away with that. The
house is green, with red gables. There
Is q cement walk from the street. /
am forty years old. My wife Is young
er and looks 1t. We have piano. keep
a cook and an upstairs girl. Had the
front bedroom papered last week, and
l want
"Did you want Elmdale two-naugft-
four-sevenT
"Yesv' gasped Mr.. Miggles.
"Well, the line Is busy now. Shall |
call your
But Mr.. Miggles wrote letter. New
Orleaus Picayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03

A correspondent OF a London paper,
commenting on the crusade against
rats In Great Britain, says: "The real
remedy against rats is the ferret. not
the unhealthy ferret kept by the half
starved rat catcher OF the agricultural
village, but the strong, healthy ferret
bred on the ground floor of we'll ven
tilated, commodious dog kennel and
there kept c. sEimmi!k. table refuse
and small birds Eeldcd with clean
wheat straw, TIE ferret is one OF the
sweetest Of animals. and the expert
goes into the kennels and cheers them
az though in n kennel Of hounds, and
they crawl about him hGrmlessly. The
young bucks will run miles across the
country with the expert, just Ike lit
tie terriers. With this healthy life
they grow too big for hunting rats In
barns or other buildings, but they can
settle any rat in a wheat stack If put
In before the rat has made n labyrinth
inside the stack. The doe ferrets will
rout the buildings. and they alone
should be the chief instrument In the
crusade. The rat IS too cunning for
guns, traps and other devices"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Durability of Class.

It does not seem odd to find inscrlp-
tions written ages ago still visible On
the Tower of London or on the steeple
Of some cathedral. but one would hard
ly look on a fragile pane Of glass in a
common window for characters 200
years old. a notable case In point is
that of the old house In London where
in the notorious Jack Sheppard once
lived as a carpenters apprentice. One
of the window panes still bears an in
scrlpton cut in 1t by a GLACIERS dia-
mond recording the name and address
Of man who preceded Jacks master
In that house.
The inscription Is. John Woolley
Brand. Painter and Glazler. March II,
17OG."
That was nine years before the COM
Ing to the house Of the famous Jack
Sheppard and over 200 years ago.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
The Hundred Best Books.

"The fact is that there IS no posi-
blllty OF naming the hundred best
books. The naming Of them for any
large general audience IS quite impos-
sible. All that IS possible In such a
connection IS TO state emphatically
that there are very few books that are
equally suitable to every kind Of in
tellect," says Clement Shorter In his
book Of Immortal Memories" TEN
permanent as we'll as intellectual en-
dOwment makes for so much In read
ing. Take, for example, the Imitation
OF Christ George Eliot, although not
a Christian, found 1t soul satisfying
Thackeray, as I think more robust In
tollect. found it we'll nigh as mischiev'
ors as did Eugene Sue. There are
great books that can be read only By
the few, but surely the very greatest
apDeal alike to the man Of rich intel
lcctual endowment and to the man &c
whom all processes Of reasoning are
incomprehensible."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Suuarinu the Circle,

There is a record of an attempted
quadrature In Egypt 500 years before
the exodus Of the Jews, and, If we are
to take Hone as an authority, the
problem was solved by Hlppocrates,
the geometrlcian Of ChioS, nearly 800
years B. G. By some II is claimed that
the efforts Of HippOcrates were In the
direction of converting circle Into Il
crescent because he had found that
the area of q figure produced by draw
Ing two perpendicular radii Is exactly
equal to the triangle formed by the
line Of conjunction. This last Is the
famous theorem Of the fumes Of Hip
pocrates." The "Papyrus Rhind." the
Oldest mathematical book In the world.
written by one Ahmes about zoo
B. c.. gives a rule for "squaring the
circle" The rule given requires tha'
the diameter Of a circle shall be short
ened by one-ninth and the square erect
ed upon this shortened line. The early
Babylonlans also worked at this ole
mathematical problem. rs IS atteste'
by several references in the Talmud.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Sensible Dog.

sralklng about the intelligence Of an.
imals," said young Kanebiter, why,
have a dog up at the farm that's sim.
ply wonderful"
"TOw sOY said Pitkcl.
"Nhy, you see. was out shooting
one day when | found a large, hand
some dog lying on the ground moaning
with pain. Some rufiian had shot II
In the leg. carried 1t home, bandaged
the wound and finally cured the poor
beast. Some months after that | was
compelled to travel lonely road after
dark when Suddenly POntO, who ac'
companied me. grOwled warningly.
The next moment Il highwayman step
ped out of the bushes and put q pistol
to my head"
"Ah," cried the listener 81 see!
Thereupon the grateful dog seized the
robber by the throat"
"Not at all. The man robbed me
easily enough-toOk watch, purse, ev-
erything"
"But PontoT'
"Ran off as fast az his legs would
carry him. That's the polnt-don't you
see? Animal instinct-dldn't want to
get shot again" - Illustrated London
News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Iondon's First Pawnbrcker.

No one would guess that uncle had
so illustrlous an ancestor rs n right
reverend prelate, yet this seems to be
so. for pawnbroking was first intro
duced into England by Michael de
Northburg. bishop Of Lol. on. In Ed
ward Ills reign. He set up an esfab-
lishment for lending money TO the poor
er Londoners on portable property, and,
according to Dugdale, If any sum so
borrowed was not paid at the expira-
ton of a year the preacher at st. PauFs
cross was TO announce that the pledge
would be sold in fourteen days unless
It was previously ACKNOWLEDGMENT s
Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03

This advertisement appeared In Lon
don in III:
Haunted Houses.-Whereas there
are mansions and castles In England
and Wales which for many years have
been uninhabited and are now falling
into decay by their being haunted aud
visited by evil spirits or the spirits or
those who for unknown reasons are
rendered miserable even In the grave.
a gentleman who has made the tour OF
Europe. Of n particular turn OF mind
and deeply skilled in the abstruse and
sacred science of exorcism. hereby Of
fers his assistance to any owner or
proprietor Of such premises and under
takes TO render the same free from
the visitation Of such spirits, he their
cause what it may. and render them
tenantable and useful to the proprie-
tors. Letters addressed to the Rev.
John Jones. 80 st. Martins lane, duly
answered and interview given II re-
quired. \. B.-Rooms rendered habit
able In six days"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Same, but iiorc Of II.

Sitting in a Broadway restaurant the
other evening were two young women
who had not met for four years. One
OF them had RON stout ana the other
had admltteI that she wouldn't have
recognized he. Oh friend under ordl-
nary circumstances. They sat silently
looking at each other for moment.
when the heavyweight inquired:
"What are you thinking about|
81 was just trying TO see whether
your expression is the same as 1t used
to be-" said her friend.
Just the same" the girl with the
ayoirdupols declared. "Only more OF
it"-New York Globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
The Servant.

"Remember," said the patriot, that
so long as you hold public office you
are a servant of the people, a plain
servant"
Great Scottr' answered the subur-
ban resident who had just been elect
ed Can act as naughty and over
bearing and take rs many holidays as
all thatT-Washingto Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Moro at Home,

A young fellow being asked by re-
cruIting sergeant If he wished to enlist
10 q Scottish regiment. replied:
"Not likely. I'd rather go to lunatic
asylum than enlist In Scottish regi'
ment."
"Ah. weel." said the sergeant. I've
nae dout ye'd feel mair at hame there
Dundee Advertiser.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Hard.

'Ta, is it true that all men are made
Of dust?''
1--WE had reason TO think lately. re-
piled the man who had been trying 10
get his notes extended, that good
many OF them are made OF cement -
Chicago Record-Herad.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
An Irish T1lo.

One day an Irishman. having put his
hat upon a gate post by wh.~h he lay
down to sleep. sprang up at midnight
and. mistakiag the object for ar en-
emy, dealt 1t a desperate cut with his
scythe. Percei ing his mistake, the
man gave thanks to heaven that be
had taken ii CT before lying down
For" said he, had my head been In
that hat, it's ten to one had laid II
open with my scythe, and it's dead
man would have been seein' mesilf al
this minuter'-London Captain.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
The Cure.

'FYcu look CLAM" sail the husblnd O..
one c..rcr woman tO the man who ha'
married her cOuip~nloH.
80 would you If your wife studied
geology and f.icd the house with
stores until there want p.I-e lef
for you to sit
Don't worry about that" was tht
eli h.c~eul reply. Turn your We
,hol ghts 10 astronomy That VIII ST.
lr- '1st ae well. AMI he ca3't colie
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-04-03
Mot Far 70 Go.

The reporter hurried up to the seen
of the accident. A workman engaged
on some scaffoldlng had missed hiS
footing and had fallen many feet int
the street below. Then the reporter
went of to interview the unfortunate
man. who luckily had escaped with q
very severe shaking and few nasty
bruises. and asked sympathetically:
"Did you have vertigo, my nanf
"Oh. no, sir: only about thirty-hve
feet. Quite far enough fol nc. though
-PearSOn's.