The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05

A1ilton. the Swe dish baker showed
$40 loaves of bread into his big oven
al the State Hospital yesterday, wipeC
g vatered forehead with his apron
and said: by t'under, me brain is
sfctting like me body. Dock Ander-
SON." and proceeded to bake even as
the bread.
They were getting dinner at the
State asylum and it is a good mans
job. Fifteen men had five boxes OF
fish on planks and tables scaling them
and making ready for Sunday. Twice
as many women. there are always
twice as many women at work as
men. were peeling potatoes. pairing
them some folks call it. and a large
population of the inmates doing daily
tasks with songs in their hearts
Real musicians entertained the
more melancholy in the Erwin build
ing woman in middle age sang in
the unmistakable voice Of former
operate star She played her own
accomplishments and one Of her Sis
ters in misfortune dashed Iag-time
and popular airs hours by the time.
The varied turns are old as the race.
almost, for thousand years before
the Caesars, the Egyptians were call
ing back the senses with the voice Of
music.
But there is always something new
in the walls OF the hospital for the
insane. These daily performances
never grow stale. They are elemental.
instructive methods of curing those
who have lost their balance and be-
come what those from without call
crazy or insane. Some are hopeless
without reason or understanding Of
l. L,,,I ~ 1rSh \ col
itary alteration which never diSc1OSeS
itself until long contact brings it out.
And when it comes the bars are rails
ed and the doors closed.
Since carly spring, DR.. Albert An
derson. of Raleigh. has been in charge
of the hospital. but in the few months
he has formed an acQuaintanceShip
ready insight into their troubles.
There are upwards of nine hundred
men and women on Dix Hill. of which
number there are 100 more women
than there are men. The demand for
wards for women is becoming great
tons work will be the meeting OF
that demand.
Is Self Helper.
The State institutions have never
been expected to produce revenue FOL
the State. They wouldn't be State
institutions il they were required tc
do this. Their cost is enormous And
IN day of high prices and growing
demands. slender finances and ar
overdrawn treasury. the State has cut
its appropriation from $175.0OO te
100000
But the hospital helps itself. 1t:
men and women do great volumes o
supporting the inmates is lightenet
considerably by the labOrs of thOs'
within. There is a farm of 1.400 acres
$40 of which are titled. In season j
bears money crops and IL the STAT
allowed it. many articles OF fOot
might be sold to aid in the supper
or lts unfortunate child.
In the StorerOOms, refrigerate|
thoroughly. there were 1900 cabbag
heads yesterday. Corn, beans ant
peas. staple products for the asylum
able. are produced IN greater ano"1
man can be consumed. But the az
ttcrities have not been allowed to Vu
'hesc on the market. There is reason
md particularly sentiment, for Ihis
lut 1t is believed that one or theS
lays the excess will be allowed to 6;
% the deficit which bad years al
Door crops will inevitably make
Splendid Dairy.
The hospital has less meat an
mix problem than the average c't
corporation. 1t feeds it's own COW
md raises many Of it's hogs and shee!
Sixty well-fed cattle supply tn
milk at which modern science is nc
able to trIow rocks. This Is plac
m the refrigerator that has nOthin
Else and allows the absorption Of n
other matter. The meat produced
not nearly enough to meet the dc
mand. but it il good. One hundre
and fifty hogs, about seventy-ffy
sheep and a few goats are butchere