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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-16

knew what a surgeon was up In Labra,
dor until he went there to make it his
life work. He is known now from the
Arctic circle down to where real civil
ization begins. If he knows he is
needed he will take any chance-this
doctor who carries his lancets in one
hand. his ether in the other and his
Bible in his pocket. And if the opera
ton is a success he may be crowding
a football or a baseball and bat upon
his patient as soon as he is able to get
about. He may also hand him tract.
A s one English Newspaper said of Dr.
n Grenfell HE is surgeon,
master mariner, magistrate, an
agent of Lloyds in running down the
rascals who wreck their vessels for
the insurance, a manager of string
of cooperative stores, general Oppo-
nent of all fraud and oppression.
'He can amputate a leg, contract
the walls of a pleuritic lung by short
ening the ribs, or cure with the aid OF
modern methods and homemade APP
pliances a man suffering with certain
forms of paralysis; hundred miles
from a shipyard, he can raise the
stern of his little steamer out of wa
ter by the rough application of the
principles of hydraulics and mend her
propeller; he can handle dynamite and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-16
HENS EAT INSECTS.
For This Reason They Are a Good
Thing on the Farm.

Movable poultry establishments are
coming into use on some of our farms.
1t is probable that they are as yet in
their infancy, and that we are to see
more elaborate appliances for utiliz-
ing the idea
I have often thought that it would
be good thing if the whole poultry
establishment could be moved about
the farm, says a writer in Farmers
Review, so that We could have the
fowls working over a pasture one
week, plowed field next, and perhaps
WORKOUT meadow the next.
The amount of insects on every
farm make rare possibility for the
feeding of fowls. I notice that when
ever we pillow a field near the house
the hens turn out en- masse and dis
tribute themselves. along the burrows
and are extremely busy pulling out
angleworms and grubs from the
turned-llp soil.
I can imagine that in case of a
breeding ground of locusts being
plowed up big flock of fowls would
prove exceedingly valuable. The fowls
destroy a great many insects each
every day if they are given a good
chance.
l wish some person would make a
few examinations of the crops of the
hens that have been allowed to run in
field infested with grasshoppers. !
think they would find SO or more of
these insects IN the crops of each
bird. At that rate a hundred hens
would destroy 5000 insects in day.
Insect life is very abundant on all
of our farms. If we include the angle
worms, we see that the aggregate
weight Of food of this kind must be
very large.
The domestic fowls should be util-
lied more for the destruction of in.
sects than they are.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-16

II land is available. A house 14x30,
facing the south, with a shed roof,
should be divided into two equal pens.
Each will hold so fowls. There may
be two yards south of the house and
two at the north, as indicated in the
diagram. A half acre of land inclosed
in this way will provide green food
for the fowls. They may be kept in
the north yards during the summer
and the south ones during the fall and
winter months.
While the fowls are in one set of
yards, says the Farm and Home, the
others should be plowed up to sweeten
the soil and sowed with some suitable
crop to provide green food. If clover
is sown in spring in the north yards
1t will make sufficient growth to pro-
vide good picking during fall and win
ter. Rye or wheat and winter vetch
can be sown in the south yards DUR
ing fall. If the yards are large enough
the best way is to seed them down to
grass.
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the village. Every bachelor writes his
name on a card and casts it into a tub
of water
The single women approach the tub
at noon with long poles fitted with
spikes. Each spears a card, and the
man whose name is on the card
speared is expected to marry the girl
within a month. With arms linked.
they walk through the village and thus
publicly acknowledge their betrothal
Mr.. Watson was in Marididi for tho
purpose Of sketching the natives dur.
ing the fete of All Husbands day and
he overheard Miss Burnley dare Miss
Mercer to spear for husband. When
in fun Miss Mercer accepted the dare,
Watson bribed the native in charge to
change the tub for one which con-
tanned cards with his name only.
He claimed the forfeit and the walk
through the village.
A month later to day, on February
10, they were married in Marididi and
later continued on their tour until
they reached Venice where they de
cided to make their permanent home
Previous to All Husbands day Miss
Mercer and Mr.. Watson had never
net
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TWO CURES OF ECZEMA
Baby Had Severe Attack-Grandfathe
Suffered Torments with IT.
Owe Recovery to Cuticura.

''In 1884 my grandson, babe, had
an attack of eczema, and after trying
the doctors to the extent of heavy bills
and an increase of the disease and suf-
fering, / recommended Cuticura and
in few weeks the child was well. He
is to-day a strong man and absolutely
free from the disease. A few years
ago / contracted eczema, and became
an intense sufferer. A whole winter
passed without once having on shoes,
nearly from the knees to the toes be-
ing covered with virulent sores. tried
many doctors to no purpose. Then 1
procured the Cuticura Remedies and
found immediate improvement and
final cure. M. W. LaRue, 845 Seventh ST.,
Louisville, KY, Apr, % and May IA, OF"
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blast an excavation under one of his
hospital buildings in which to place a
heating apparatus; he can start a
lumber mill and teach the inhabitants
of lonely Labrador not only how to
handle a saw but how to sell the
product as a living wage"
DR.. Grenfell reaches 10000 people
every year. He found an imbecile
girl bound in harness and he rescued
her. He stamped out smallpox in q
fishing fleet. He has operated out al
sea on board tossing smack on two
men who were doomed to death had
he not come along with his merciful
ether and his intelligent knife.
DR.. Grenfell is a graduate of Christ
college, Oxford, and of the medical de-
partment of London university. He
began his medical missionary work on
board a hospital boat of the North
Sea fleet. He was sent to Labrador
for a vacation and he has been there
ever since.-From the New York
World.
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Vitality of Chicks.

How shall chicks with great vitality
be secured? In the first place by
keeping and feeding hens in such
way as to give them the greatest pos
sible amount of muscle and muscular
energy, which means that powerful
heart muscles will be developed. II
these hens are compelled to exercise
they will be able to produce eggs that
will have in them the elements of
nutriments and energy that will de.
velop into chicks of powerful vitality.
We do not believe that chicks of
great vitality can be developed from
eggs laid by hens that have been
pampered On fatty foods and deprived
Of exercise.
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OF oNE-ToPIc HABIT.
To Sc Popular, Strive for Variety in
Conversation.

When some one asked very popu-
lar lady why everyone liked her, she
turned scarlet and said with httle
laugh. 4 won't pretend that | DO not
know why l have more friends now
than used to have, for that would De
the same as telling falsehood. Ihe
only reason can give, however, is
that some years ago 1 set watch over
NV Inns. and was amazed at what dis
covered One day was thinking over
what / had said to the people | had
seen, and when l counted up | had
toES each and every. one about the
baby's cold, and very little else. All
at once discovered why people were
edging away from me in stores and at
different places where l met them, for
i was talking about the baby from
morning till night. 1 bad dragged
that poor little mite into every CONVEX
sation from the moment of her birth.
I'm not the only sinner" she went on.
with some people it's housework and
some diseases and some clothes. hut
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Parts and Construction.

board cut hole 1 by u inches. Take
another thin board by IN inches and
cut hole in it 2h by "a inches.
Place first board, Fig. 2, 21a inches
from end A of cigar box, and second
board, Fig. 3, "a inches from end B.
Tack two thin boards between the two
boards, allowing plenty of room for an
egg to be dropped down, says the
Farmers Mail and Breeze. They will
keep the eggs from rolling back and
forth Four and three-fourths inches
from end A of box paint with black
paint and 21a inches from end B paint
with white paint. The eggs may be
tested either by sun or lamp light.
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but chiefest of all are the medicines
and surgical appliances.
TT is queer doctoring," laughed DR..
Grenfell when last he was here. 81
have Canadian and Newfoundland
fishermen among my patients, as well
as American, Scandinavian and British
sailors, whalers of nearly all nation
alities, and Indians and Esquimaux.
Some of the diseases they spring on
me would puzzle the best of special
lists. Why, only last winter they called
on me to care for shipload of beri-
beri. 1t cleaned out the whole vessel
every one of them had it.
EcTHE Indians and Esquimaux of the
frozen north are gradually dying
off because of the disappearance of
the great forests. This drives away
the caribou, which means starvation
for the Indians. With the Esuuimaux
it is disease, brought by contact with
the white men. We white people are
immune against many diseases, but
when they strike the Esquimaux the
germs light on virgin soil. For ex-
ample, a white sailor brought a sim
pie case of influenza into an Esqui-
maux village of 800 souls. Before it
ran it's course Al of the natives were
dead.
"The Esquimaux up here are all
Christians-the Moravian missionaries
converted them years ago Christianity
is a saving influence for them; they
would have been extinct long ago from
the vices which follow trade. AS it
is, their number decreases with every
decade. They are now installing the
wireless all the way up the Labrador
coast. 1t is already as far north as
Belle Isle, which has summer connec-
lions with the mainland and the world
Wireless has now been put 200 miles
nearer the pole than it ever was be-
fore. 1t is of great assistance in my
work; it puts me within call when
there is an epidemic or serious case.
I'VE have found the wireless a great
help to the fishing industry, which is
what our people live upon. The run
ming of the fish is uncertain and when
one ship strikes the fish it can sum-
mon the entire fleet.
I'VE are gradually getting the ma
tives to live proper life. Liquor has
crept in among them, and has given
us trouble. 1t is not an essential in
cold ATTITUDES for physical well being.
| can tell when liquor has seized hold
of place as easily as l can tell an cpl
demic of diphtheria or beri-beri Per
sonally [ remain a teetotaller.
WVNE have many eye-diseases in the
w frozen north, due chiefly to the
glare of the sun on the ice and snow.
The great white plague is creeping in
upon us, too. But Labrador is still al
most germless. We can perform op-
erations out in the open almost as
easily as they do in the marble lined
operating rooms in New York.
eve wear dressed reindeer skins for
clothes, and the lighter and softer the
garment is the warmer it is You
could almost put your overcoat in your
pocket. With the thermometer at 20
and 80 below zero, with your bread
and condensed milk frozen, your but
ter no good, then's the time for fat
pork-it is nectar! You can never
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FACTS ABOUT Or. GREENFIELD

Graduated from oxford uni
versity, 1886, and from the medi-
cal department, London university,
1890.
Began his life work on mis-
sion-boat of the deep sea trawling
fleet, 1891.
Went to Labrador to carry the
Gospel to the deep sea fishers in
1899.
He reaches 10000 fishermen on
the coasts of Labrador every year.
He got from Andrew Carnegie
30 portable libraries to assist him
in his work.
He has started a series of CO
operative stores in the north.
He operates on patients any
whore. wherever called, without
charge.
He carries his ether and instru-
ments in one pocket and his Bible
in the other.
He raises $4,000 in New York
every year for his work.
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ORD strAtncona of Canada not Icing

LOT0 6LTAtuCOu6 Oh O6Ho10 not lcnR
ago.
TIE man he was talking about Is
just a plain, weather-beaten. self.
deprecatory doctor, who is living HIS
life just where he thinks he can do
the most good He is captain of in.
dustry-under God!
Don't think for a moment that he
is a soft-spoken, SNUG country parson
no, indeed. He can play a game Of
football with the best of them, and he
can amputate a frozen limb, set a
broken bone or care for desperate
pneumonia case. He can also put up
a pretty good fight against the wrong
kind of men, just as well as he put up
his fight against the hungry dogs.
He is a robust, deep-chested, jolly
sort of a fellow He loves adventure.
He'd rather set broken shoulder
thousand miles away from civilization
than preside over wellordered OPP
GRAFTON in a city hospital. They never
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Z II::s!zEEi}aIEZLIIII j
HinqeIess Door for Chicken Coop.

side of the hole b C. This acts as
groove for the door, a, to slide in. Thus
you have sliding door, which opens
and shuts with the greatest ease. The
front of the coop is inclosed with lath,
or narrow strips, placed 21s to three
inches apart. The top should be COW
cred with a good grade of roofing pa'
per to make it waterproof. A coop
of this sort, says Farm and Home,
should be two to 21a feet long, 16
inches deep and not less than 20
inches high, while two feet would be
better.
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" gov he did it, DIR. Wilfred Gren-
81 fell, the Arctic missionary phy
n stefan, can hardly tell But he
did and he is safe home again
now after an experience that would
have ended in the death of ninety-nine
men out of a hundred.
Out in the ice pack, surrounded bv a
pack of eight hunger-maddened dogs.
fighting him for their lives as hard
as he was fighting them for his-he
had to face them alone in a tempera-
ture ten degrees below zero. How he
survived is nine days wonder even
up in frozen Labrador, where men bat
tie 365 days year to wrest a living
from fOrbidding nature
And when he had conquered the
dogs he still had the elements as his
deadlier foe.
DR.. Grenfell leads a strange life.
He has devoted himself and his life
to the Esquimaux and the natives of
Labrador-deep sea fishers all. He is
their DOCTOR missionary, friend. A
graduate of Oxford, he has chosen that
MOSL DdTTGn Spot III 4NO1 III AuISIlCo
as one where he may do some good in
the world.
His Headquarters he makes at Bat
tie Harbor, Labrador. From there, as
base Of supplies, he makes trips of
hundreds of miles into the frozen
north. carrying his surgical instru-
ments and his medicines along with
his Bible and his great good cheer, to
say nothing of his books and his foot
balls. Until DR.. Grenfell went to
Labrador men and women lived and
died without as much as ever seeing
a doctor, much less having his serv-
ices. He has had many adventures,
but this is the story of his latest:
GGT HAL, left Battle Harbor," he said,
ito attend several patients ten
miles away in little settlement across
the ice pack. 1t was bitterly cold
the thermometer showed it to be ten
degrees below zero. l was travelling
over the ice with my pack of dogs
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CAN'T BLAME TOMMY MUCH.

Tommy, were you fighting witk
that Carter boy?"
Yes, NAV"
Didn't tell you not to quarrel with
anyone?"
Eyes, NAV; but / thought all betA
were off since you quit speaking to the
Carter boys nav"
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Sorghum as Feed.

Analysis show that considering the
amount of protein and fat contained in
sorghum it is about equal to timothy
hay as feed. In point Of the amount of
nitrogen free extract it is about half
as rich in these elements as timothy.
Timothy contains five per cent. pro.
tein, As per cent. nitrogen free extract
and three per cent. fat. Sorghum con-
tains As per cent. protein, 20 per rent
nitrogen free extract and 3.25 per cent
fat
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Poultry Profitable on Farm.

1t is my belief that farm poultry is
more probable than the poultry kept
in any other place. l have never OBJ
served that our poultry cost us much.
We have a variety of feed that would
go to waste if we did not use it for
poultry.
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Water often.

Plenty of pure, fresh water should
be provided for both old and young
chickens. They drink lots Of it these
warm days and they should not be
restricted, otherwise they will seek
some fou: water in pools or hollows
This will Invariably bring on some
disease.
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be needed for
poultry house and
yards to keep a
flock of 100 hens
They must be
confined in yards
all the time. In
such a case it is
well to have at
least four wards
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IMPROVED CHICKEN COOP.
Convenient Way in Which 1t Can Be
Made.

The diagram shows convenient
way to make a coop for the poultry
yard, of which the special feature is
it's door. Procure box Of the right di-
mansions and saw a hole, d, in one
end. Then strengthen the box with
narrow strips of wood, c, on each
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CIGAR BOX EGG TESTER.
6erviceable Device Made Out of Sim
pie Materials.

Take a sigar box and in end A, Ffg
4, drill hole one-quarter of an inch
in diameter. In end B, Fig. 5, cut a
hole inches by IL inches. Cut a
strip of thin board 5 inches long and
IN inches wide and in the center Of
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when I found I was being carried
away from the coast by the moving ice
field. Before l realized it l was
floundering in broken drift ice, and be-
fore | could stop the dogs we were all
in the freezing water.
"They, of course, knew no law ex-
cept self-preservation. They tried to
save themselves by climbing up on my
shoulders. / had to fight them back
before / could Chamber to safety on a
piece of solid drift ice. Then the
dogs had to save themselves. One by
one they scrambled up on the ice
foe beside me.
Il had lost everything. My robes
were gone and the supply of food for
myself and the dogs. 1t looked as if
it was all up with all of us, because a
gale from the northwest was driving
the foe rapidly out to sea. And the
temperature was falling fast. My
clothing was soaked.
$50 / took off my skin boots and cut
them in halves. These halves
strapped to my chest and back.
"The wind and cold increased as the
night came on, and 1 could see the
dogs were growing ravenous. When
>they are that way they are what their
ancestors were, nothing better than
wolves. They were yelping for food
and l knew it was only question of
time before they would attack me.
1T felt like murder, but I killed
three of my largest dogs. I stripped
them of their skins while the rest of
the pack kept aloof, snarling and
yelping Finally the bravest of them
came after me, but I was able to fight
them off until l could skin the three
dead dogs. Then l threw the meat to
the survivors and kept the skins to
wrap about myself.
'When morning came | saw the ice
was rapidly drifting from shore. / had
nothing to put as a mast on which
could swing out signal of distress
until I thought myself of the bones of
the legs of the dead dogs.
These l managed to splice together.
From the top of the pole flung out a
piece of my shirt. 1t was seen by
George Reid and some of his men off
Locke's Cove and they came out in a
boat and took me off,"
TOR II years DR.. Grenfell has been
1 working there among the fisher
folks or anybody else that needed his
services. He has had two hospital
ships lost in the treacherous ice and
now he has a third. But very often
when he gets a call miles away the
ship is powerless to reach the patient
and he goes over the ice with his pack
of dogs.
Already he has established three
land hospitals in Labrador, % loan
libraries. an industrial school and half
dozen cooperative stores. He has
seen to it that wireless telegraphy is
installed on land as well as on the
fishing boats. This gives him many
chances to answer calls which cost
nothing.
Occasionally DR.. Grenfell comes to
New York to tell of his work. He has
interested Andrew Carnegie and Rev.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke. They send as
many footballs as Bibles to the Arctic,
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The Eternal Feminine.

The best women in the world are
extravagant in at least two particu-
lars; dry goods and preserves.-Atch.
ison Globe
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Work is the grand cure of all the
maladies and miseries that ever beset
mankind-honest work which you in
tend getting done.-Carlyle.
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Take care of the minutes, for the
hours will take care of themselves
Lord Chesterfield.
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WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR CREAM.
Miller & Holmes, st. Paul, Minnesota.
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KEEPING FOWLS CONFINED.
Room Which Should Be Provided for
a Hundred Hens.

A city man living in the country
wants to know how much room will
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The romance of a spinster is apt to
be one sided.
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Buy U. S. Dip and Dislnfectant
and ship your Hides, PeIts, Wool, Etc, to
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis. MINI.
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Stack Covers, Awnings, Tents.
Flags etc. For information and prices, write