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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

na0 no appeuLe. olnce L nave taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
aad feel Ike new woman. / cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mira.
AUGUSTUS LYON, Terre Hill, Pa
1t Is true that nature and woman's
work has produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots an d
herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to womankind
. remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more efficscious than any
other combination of drugs ever COM
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkhasr's
Vegetable Compound is recognized
from coast to coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds Of
thousands of letters from women seek
ing health - many Of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
T. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
REMEDY FOR THE W00DcHUcK
Among Other Methods of Extermina.
ton Suggested Is That Of Man
With a Good Rife.
(By M w. WILLIAMS. Minnesota.)

CBy M w. WILLIAMS, Minnesota.)
The woodchuck. or ground hog" Is
80 destructive to gardens in some
counties in this section, that a few
remedial measures may be of interest.
White muslin strips may be tied to
the pea vine supports about a foot
above the ground, at intervals OF about
q foot in the row, to keep the animal
away. Cotton or oakum may be
wrapped around stone soaked in car
bon bi-sulphid, and the mass rolled
into the hole as far as possible. In
order that the fumes may have the
fullest possible effect, close the hole
as tightly as possible. A good marks.
man with rifle, stationed where he
can secure good view Of the infested
field, may prove effective. Blasting
powder and long fuse are sometimes
used and SO is the steel trap
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Constipation
Vanishes Forever

Cure

In his latest poem. aNarcissus, .
Robert Bridges. the English poet lau.
reate, has banished the comma entire
ly, so that procession of adjectives
may be taken at the readers option,
as separate qualities, or as qualifying
each other, Thus one may call his
hero almighty wondrous." or regard
him as being both. Mr.. Bridges prin.
ciples of punctuation are not obvious.
He loves the exclamation mark, using
1t five times In the % lines of the
poem, and sprinkles dashes about with
prodigality. He adopts the colon and
does not slight the interrogation mark,
while using now and then full stop
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Easy Gate to Open.

than height Of gate, and to the bottom
end bolt short piece which makes II
T-shape. This is bolted to the gate as
shown in the illustration, and serves
as a lock. for the short piece goes be-
tween the spokes in the wheel and
holds the gate either open or closed.
A child can easily open heavy gate
that has this attachment.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Power for Emery Wheel.

raised about inches SO the stone will
not rub against the counter shaft II
there are no bookings handy, good ones
may be made from maple, or other
close grained wood, and babbitted. A
is the emery stone, B the counter
shaft, c small sprocket on the stone
shaft, D large bicycle sprocket, D
sprocket chain, and F the bicycle sad.
die.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
MAKE USE OF OLD BICYCLE
Power for an Emery Stone May Be OBJ
tained by Using Discarded Parts
Of Veioeipede.

An old bicycle may be used to fur.
nish power for an emery stone. It
can be rugged up on the frame OF an
old grindstone, or something SINH
lar. The large sprocket and pedals
are placed between the two l by 4s
Of the grindstone frame, as in the
drawing. the hub. on either side, fitting
into large holes bored into these cross
pieces, writes Floyd c. Miller Of Inola,
Okla, in Farmers Mail and Breeze.
The counter shaft is placed below the
top of the frame. The mandrel Is
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Feed Calves In stanchlona.

Calves should be fed in stanchion
30 constructed as to prevent them
from sucking each others ears after
they have drunk their milk. The feed
ing of grain by placing a little before
them after every meal of milk will
also discourage the desire to suck the
ears of the calf in the next stancrion.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

Fundamental |
Principles Of |
| Health |
BY ALBERT s. GRAY, M. o. I
LIFE CONSERVATION - INDIvID
UAl OBLIGATION TO
THE RACE.

United States senate document No.
41s, Sixty-first congress, entitled ma.
tional Vitality, Its Wastes and Con.
servation," being an extract from the
report OF the national conservation
commission, states: From these data
1t is found that Is years at least could
be at once added to the average hui
man lifetime by applying the science
OF preventing disease" And again:
The estimate of Is years as the pos
sible prolongation of life is merely Q
minimum estimate"
This report. ordered printed and is
sued by the government printing Office.
Washington. d. c., for some reason
has received but limited attention.
In view of the fact that the pressing
need of humanity Is better health,
greater efficiency and longer life and
that the most insistent demand of this
age Is for means Of attaining these
three things, 1t would appear that
there must have been insufficient pub
licity given the report. Further, the
fact that only recently Rittenhouse
clearly showed that In this country the
chances Of untimely death after one
has passed the ago of forty are In
creasing, in contrast with a stationary
or even slightly decreasing death
rate for the same ages in some Euro
pean countries. makes an emphatic
and patriotic demand for aggressive
publicity Of causes. to the end that a
grave economic loss to our nation
through such unnecessary sacrifice
may be checked.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
ATTACHMENT ON FARM GATE
Discarded Pillow Wheel and Wooden
Axle With Narrow Strip Of Board
Makes Handy Arrangement.

There are a great many different
kinds Of gates used on farms through
out the country, some simple and 9th.
ers complicated. The Farm and Home
describes and illustrates one as ar.
ranged by Leslie Beattie of New York
as follows:
/ take an old pillow wheel, fit wood.
en- axle to 1t, and bolt it to the bottom
corner Of the gate. Then take a mar.
row strip OF board six inches longer
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Il Can't Bs Done.

Jim Brown and Tom Smith--to call
them by names that are not their own
were roommates and companions in
misfortune. One afternoon they came
across a piece of money and they de-
cided to eat dinner in good restaur-
ant and go to show afterward. When
they had eaten their meal and were
calling for the check the one who was
to pay dropped five-dollar gold piece
on the floor. They couldn't find It.
That fixes u.s." said the other. I'VE
can't go to the show"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Bound to Be Heard.

Who is that man that always &C
companies you to the ball games?"
He's a Scandinavian. When / want
to speak slightingly of the umpire
tell 1t to him and he translates 1t into
his own tongue Nobody understands
him, 30 nobody can take offense."
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

Wait" answered the first, summon.
Ing the waiter. And to the waiter he
said
Il have just dropped two fve-dollar
gold pieces on the floor. Please find
them"
The waiter searched and while the
guests were putting on their coats he
found the gold piece.
Thank you" said the guest. Now
when you find the other one keep It
for the bill and your tip. Never mind
the change"
And they went to the show.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

Lydla T. finknam 8
V e g table Com
pound When | first
began taking it 1
was suffering from
female troubles for
come time and had
almost all kinds of
aches-pains in low
er part of back and
in sides, and press
ing down pains. I
could not sleep and
C;pno I hova fakop
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
No. SIx.SIXTY-SIX

This is prescription prepared es-
pecially for Malaria or ChIlls and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case. and II taken then as tonic
the fever will not return. 25c.--Adv.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

Each individual Is link In an un
broken chain OF life extending back to
the beginning, and he enjoys life today
only by virtue of the fact that each
ancestor in the long line possessed
the will to live and the intelligence
and courage to grasp and to use such
means as were then available to com
bat untoward conditions, thereby be
Ing enabled to reproduce strong on
spring. Continuation of the line Of
life places the same obligation on the
present generation.
That there is definite government
Of this universe Is generally admitted
Matter is not scattered at random, but
In accordance with orderly and fixed
laws. and 1t Is In accordance with all
that we know of the rest of the world
hat there should be agreement be
tween one portion Of sensitive crea.
ton and another portion. in all mat
tiers and at all points. This explains
those close and remarkable analogies
so frequently noted by independent In.
vestigators in every department, and
makes clear how We may measure the
unknown by the known. the whole by
the part
The Greeks loved hypothesis and
disdained facts, and we In this age are
not in any great degree, IL at all, su.
perior to them in this respect. Ap-
parently, the thing we most strenu.
ously endeavor not to see is 1.-THE
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth"
Mark Twain in his quaint and
humorous but very sound and whole
some style sums up the situation In
the following words: I'VE are always
hearing of people who are around seek.
ing after truth. | have never seen a
permanent specimen. i think he has
never lived. But / have seen several
entirely sincere people who thought
they were permanent seekers after
truth. They sought diligently, per.
sistently, carefully. cautiously, pro-
foundly, with perfect honesty and nice
ly adjusted judgment-untii they be-
lfeved that without doubt or question
they had found the truth. That was
the end of the search. The man spent
the rest Of his life hunting up shin
giles wherewith to protect his truth
from the weather. If he we're seeking
after political truth he found it in one
or the other Of the political gospels
which govern men on the earth; IL he
were seeking the only true religion he
found 1t in one or the other OF the
5000 that are on the market In any
case when he found the truth he
sought no further, but from that day
forth, with his soldering iron In one
hand and his bludgeon in the other, he
tinkered its leaks and reasoned with
directors"
That is fair statement OF the
mental attitude of most of us. Our
minds are not selfpropelling and un-
less we are careful to remember that
even the north star is not fixed, but is
In constant motion, inertia grips US
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Watchful Waiting.

Old Man-What are you fishing for,
sonny?
Sonny-Snigs.
Old Man-What are sings?
Sonny don't know. / amt never
caught any yet.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Proper Pruning.

When pruning, have reason for
every cut made and cut close to the
limb OF trunk. Leave no stubs.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
The irresponsible Adjective.

IT see you have announced me al
the world-renowned orator" said the
gifted speaker.
YES" replied the chairman. We
had to do something to make you
seem important. Nobody around here
ever heard Of you"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
A Bin Man.

He seems to feel rather important"
We'll, Yes. He thinks tobacco
stocks ought to slump a bit whenever
he swears off smoking.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
Benefit of the Best LIoht.

We should be as generous with a
man as we are with picture, which
we always give the benefit of the best
possible light-Ralph w. Emerson.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25

Mrs Agnes Hovernor Timme, owner
Of the Milwaukee baseball club, is
studying for grand opera.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
MRS. LYONS
ACHESAND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Tere Hill, Pa" Kindly permit me
b give you my testimonial in favor of
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25
ENVIRONMENT.

All that is contained inside our skin
at birth is heredity; all that touches
or in any way influences US after birth
Is environment.
The Century dictionary defines en-
vironment as: The act of surround
ing; the aggregate Of surrounding
things or conditions"
Our food. our clothes, our house, our
work. our amusements. our studies,
our friends and the climate we live In.
one and all are environment Envi-
ronment may be good or bad accord
Ing as 1t tends to raise or lower US in
the scale of efficiency and happiness.
Dirty milk is bad environment
insufficient ventilation is bad envf
ronment.
Too much clothing is bad environ
ment.
Tight shoes is bad environment
An incompetent teacher is bad en-
vironment.
Too much or too little Of anything
is bad environment
Everything we see, hear, feel, smell
or taste is environment, and each is
certain to influence our development
and determine to some degree whether
we shall have good or bad health.
We inherit tendencies. and envi
ronment develops or checks them, be
they for health or disease, in exact ra-
ito to the sum of the Impressions re-
sulting from our experience. We are
born potentially sick or well, good or
bad. and environment determines
which it shall be and the degree of the
final result.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-25


functions give rise to a sense of pleas
ure. We enjoy action along the lines
of our tendencies because they are
the lines Of least resistance; they are
our instincts" and are therefore easy
to follow. Life is motion. and there
fore there is Joy in action, because 1t is
life. At very early age the emotion
Of Joy arising from action Is shown by
smiles and laughter in the human,
and by their equivalent, play, in the
brute. Action is the fundamental
foundation of all outdoor games and
amusement The pursuit of pleasure
through functional activity is vigor-
ously followed by all animals until
checked by unfavorable environment
conditions, and then resentment Is
shown, because all restraint is de-
structive to the organism and all life
instinctively resists destruction.
Tendencies may be good or bad, and
bad tendencies should be restrained,
submerged and destroyed. That man
has risen far above the brute, that our
present civilization has been achieved
step by step. is proof positive of the
destructive power of restraint on bad
tendencies, and is also proof that un-
favorable environment conditions
may easily destroy the desirable quail
tiles.
The discovery of radio-activity,
property Of matter far beyond our abil-
ity to sense without assistance, has
opened the minds of the scientific
world to the belief that undoubtedly
the primary sources of natural energy
by virtue of which the universe keeps
going over immense periods Of time
are to be found not In the great masses
Of glowing matter dotting the heavens,
nor in any of the relations between
energy and matter In bulk, but in the
individual atoms out of which bulk Is
made up.
And SO. too, the key to the proven
ton of disease and the promotion OF
human health and happiness undoubt-
eddy lies In the little things: in the
conservation Of the enormous amount
Of energy lost through apparently
trivial irritations and Insignificant
friction constantly ignored, but the
effects of which slowly accumulate
until in the aggregate there is power
sufficient to overwhelm the stoutest.
These are now levying an appalling
tax on our economic efficiency and
happiness.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15
IMPROVEMENT IN WEST
UNDER LANE POLICIES
Cooperative
Buying Proves Great
Economy.

Washington Herald.
Steady Improvement in the financial
condition of farmers on the govern
ments irrigated lands in the west and
substantial progress in all lines OF
practical farming are declared to be
the fruit of Secretary Lanes policies,
according TO officials of the Depar
ment Of the Interior.
Farmers on the various reclamation
projects are looking forward to one
of their must prosperous years and
optimism and cheerfulness are report
ed everywhere. 1t is felt the period
Of pioneering on the reclamation pro-
jects is largely passed and with in
creased areas in successful tillage the
returns are most enCOurag1n2
A Notable feature of the progressive
ness of the various communities ia
found in the various forms Of co-ope-
ration now being initiated. Groups
Of farmers are buying agricultural i'm
plements and other supplies through
the common agency and are working
together in cultivation and harvesting
their CrOps. Community purchases Of
registered stock for breeding purposes
are frequent. In various other ways
the irrigated west is forging ahead
and III numerous instances setting an
example Of intelligent and practical
advancement which might be follow
ed prO1ltaDly Dy OlQer communities.
The development of electric power Oh
several projects has stimulated the
farmers to make use Of this cheap
force in their farming operations.
1t is surprising to visit some of these
projects, which five years age were un-
inhabited deserts, and find comfortable
houses equipped with modern cleo
trica1 apparatus usually associated
only with city dwellings,. There are
not only electric lights, but electric
heaters, cooking stoves, and other
electric utensils The cream separa-
tor and the churn, the pump and the
iced grinder, are operated by cleo
tricity.
On the Minidoka project in Idaho
the farmers formed a corporation.
built a power house, and now are dis.
tributing power throughout that sec
ton. In the towns electricity is gra-
dually replacing coal. the hotels,
schools, stoves and residences are be-
ing heated with electricity and tF z
government is supplying the electric
lights.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

ThimbIe ShOal Marked by $4,000
CandlepOWer Lantern.
$4,000
Washington Star.

Washington Star.
A modern lighthouse now marks
the dangerous Thi1nble shoal, in low
er Chesapeake bay. Mariners bound
to this city, Baltimore or other ports
on Chesapeake bay and it's tributaries
AVE a new mark to guide them on
their way.
struction for about three years, went
into service early in the past week,
when the 46. 000-candlepower lantern
was lighted for the first time. The
new light, which cost the government
500 coo, is a mode Of it's kind.
Sunk deem in the bottom Of the
lower Chesapeake is an iron caisson
filled with concrete. On this BASE a
circular tower Of iron, topped by the
lantern was constructe j.
The tower, in addition to the light,
contains rooms for the keepers, and
also mechanical devices for operating
fog signals, the revolving lantern and
the like. The lantern is of the oil
vapor type and shows a lash every
w seconds.
The original Thimble shoal light, a
frame structure built on a skeleton
steel foundation, was destroyed OF
the night of February 5, 1910, when a
large ~coasting schooner ran into il
and knocked it from it's upderpinning
Goals from overturned stoves set the
structure on fire. The keepers had q
narrow escape from being burned te
death or drowned in the ice-filled
waters Of the Chesapeake, being res.
cued at the last minute.
Following the disaster, a small tenn.
pOrary lighthouse was placed IN thu
foundations of the destroyed struc
ture. This has been in service unit
the completion Of the new light
which daily is passed by steamer
, plying between this city and Norfolk
l Now, that the new structure is il
: service, the temporary one and tn,
: foundations Of the old one, Will b
I removed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

filthy and filled with foul odors, If IS
readily understood how the streams Of
milk passing from the Edder 10 the
pail Will force the contaminated air
into the pail and impart u the milk
its foul odors. The use Of the sepa-
rator under similar conditions must
produce similar results.
odors and havors are also produced
in the milk after it has been Drawn,
by the Introduction into il Of unde-
sirable germs in the dust from the
stable al d the COW and from lack Of
cleanliness of vessels used in hand.
ling it.
If the milk is allowed TO remain at
body temperature and cool slowly. the
gaSformlng bacteria, whose habitat is
filth, rapidly develop, producing pnde-
sirable odors. but if quickly after be
ing drawn the milk is cooled to q tenn
perature from SO degrees To 40 de-
greeS F. the growth Of these undo
sirahle bacteria in the milk will there
by be checked and reduced to a mini.
mum.
From the preceding statement it
plainly follows that the patron who
keeps healthy cows. in clean. well
ventilated and we'll lighted stables.
feeds them sound, wholesome food.
causes them to be MIXED in a cleanly
manner, and the milk and cream
handled at all stages in clean vessels
and quickly cooled as Q as possible
to a temperature ranging from 60 dc
greeS to 40 degrees F.. and delivers it
TO the factory free from chemical pre-
serVatiyes and with such frequency
that, when delivered. it is in prime
condition, meets his responsibility for
the quality Of factory products
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

snce are often the first consideration.
Ordinarily the building of "A barn
Is an event which occurs very seldom
In the life of a farmer and for this
reason a great deal of thought and
study should be given before begin
ming the project BY careful planning
the labor of caring for the cows may
be reduced one-half.
Many mistakes may be made in
building a barn and frequently these
re not discovered until it is too late
to correct them. Mistakes in arrange
ment may compel a great many I'm.
necessary steps and require work to
be done at a great disadvantage, day
after day, year in and year out. Mis-
takes may be made in the location of
the silo, in the placing of doors, or
in the dimensions of platforms, gut
ters, passageways and alleys, and the
location of posts. These details
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

often built for much less. Wealthy
men sometimes build barns which
cost $1,000 to $500 per cow. If rent
were charged the COWS for use Of
these buildings it would amoun to
500 to $50 a year for each COW.
Such expense, of course, makes 1T ut
terly impossible to secure profits from
such dairieS even with the most eco
nomical methods Of feeding and man
agement.
Sometimes too little money is in
vested in dairy buildings, in which
case undue labor is required in TAX
ing ear Of the COWS. Work is often
done at a great Disadvantage, as, for
instance, when silage must be carried
to the COWS in baskets. Dairy work
must be done twice d day, every day
iii the year, and a Slight fault in ar
rangement may mean a large amount
of extra work in q years time.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15
pLNN THE DAIRY BARN CARE
FULLY.


Experience has shown that eiaD-
orato and costly barns are not neces-
sary for permancnce, sanitation, com
fort Of cows, or convenience in the
production Of clean milk. Money in
vested in elaborate barns is seldom
recovered when the farm is sold.
Some of the most expensive barns
have been the most inconVcnient and
impractical. IN many cases this is
due to the fact that they were plann-
ed by city architects knowing little or
nothing of the operations necessary in
handling lows and milk. In building
such barns. display and fancy appear