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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13
October IS, 1914
Morning Tonic
TUESDAY
Cotton

(COlton.)
"A N act by which we make one friend and
- one enemy is a losing game; because re-
.ense Is a much stronger principle than graft
tude.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13

No, this is not Indian summer. That will
come along later. This is the real old-fash-
toned unadulterated summer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13
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me Commoner, an able monthly journal, pub
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
TENNESSEE LEADS
IN CANDIDATES

Washington, July 21.-Not until the
disposal of the nominations of Messrs
Warburg and Jones for members OF
the federal reserve board by the SEN
ate will the president take any action
toward the nomination of a member
of the United States supreme court to
succeed the late Justice Horace H.
Lurton, of Tennessee. Until then,
gossip will be speculative.
Each state or judicial circuit is ex-
pected to boost a favorite son until
the situation crystallizes, The great
est speculation centers around south
ern men, especially those included in
the sixth judicial circuit.
Tennessee has brought forward a
larger number of candidates than has
any state. This is natural because
of the residence of the late justice.
Those now mentioned as available
from Tennessee are: Attorney Gener-
al NcReynolds. Senator John X.
Shields, Gen. Chas. T. Gates, Jr.,
Judge John A. Pitts and Judge Thomas
e. Matthews, the two last named be-
ing from Nashville. The names of
Gen. McReynolds and Senator Shields
are uppermost.
The nomination of a member of the
supreme court of the United States by
the president will be awaited with
keen interest Precedence and the pc
culiar significance of the appointment,
removes 1t from political preferment.
It is known that the president believes
that the judiciary should be selected
with the utmost care, and the general
opion in administration circles is that
Mr.. Wilson will proceed in this, his
irst duty of this character, slowly
md with due regard for the tradi-
ions and standard that have made the
court the greatest judicial body in the
world.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
Headache Remedies.

BY Lucious P. Brown, Commissioner
There is nothing which is of great
or importance to the country at large
than proper knowledge of the COM
position Of materials SO widely sold
as the so-called headache powders
used for the alienation of headache.
Within the past ten years a great
trade has sprung up in these products.
They are represented as curing head
aches, no matter to what cause due.
1t is stated that they are quite as
efficacious for headache due to eye
strain as for that peculiar variety
which has it's origin only in 1.-The cold
gray dawn of the morning after" Ev-
erybody has headache at some time
or other. Usually, of course, these
headaches are due to disgestive dis
turbances, because apparently there
is for most people nothing that will
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
PHONE BLOCK SYSTEM

Atlanta, Ca, July 19-Southren
Railway is preparing to install tele-
phone block system to take the place
of the telegraph system now in use on
the Atlanta division between Macon,
Ca, and Ooltewah, Tenn, a distance
of 225 miles and part of the route of
Southern Railways through trains be-
tween the west and Florida. The
present telegraph block system con-
sists of one telegraph wire. The tele-
phone block will consist Of two wires
and each Office will be equipped with
one bell on the north block and one
bell on the south block with the tele-
phone so installed that it can be con.
nected with either. The lines will be
so arranged at the offices that when
block Office is closed the line can be
cut through it. The wires used for
the telephone block will also be used
for a telegraph circuit from Atlanta
to Macon and for another circuit
from Atlanta to Ooltewah into Chat
tanooga. In order to take care OF the
heavy Florida traffic last winter tele-
phone block was put in operation be-
tween Macon and Jesup and was
found so satisfactory that it has now
been decided to extend the system
over the line between Ooltewah and
Jesup. The new system will be put in
effect as soon as the change can be
made.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
1918 RECORD YEAR IN
TIMBER PRESERVATION

The most notable progress yet Ic-
| corded in the chemical treatment of
timber to prevent decay was made in
1913, according to a report recently
issued by the American wood preser-
vers' association in cooperation with
the forest service of the department
of agriculture.
The report states that SO wood-pre-
serving plants in 1913 consumed over
108 million gallons of creosote oil, rs
million pounds of dry zinc chloride,
and nearly million gallons of ot,.er
liquid preservatives. With these the
plants treated over 1853 million cubic
feet of timber or about 20 per cent
more than in 1912. The outpus from
additional plants unrecorded VIZ, Id
increase the totals given.
Impregnation of wood with oils and
chemicals to increase its resistance to
decay and insect attack, the report
goes on to say, is an industry which
has become important in the United
States only in recent years. In Great
Britain and most of the European
countries practically every wooden
cross-tie and telephone or telegraph
pole receives preservative treatment
In the United States less than 80 per
cent of the 1876 million cross-ties an
nually consumed are treated, and the
proper treatment of an annual con-
sumption of 4 million poles may be
said to have scarcely commenced.
Real progress in the United States
dates from 1882, when the Kyanizing
process, using bichlorides of mercury,
was developed. In 1887 two other
processes were introduced, the Bur-
nett process using zinc chloride, and
the Bethel process using coal tar creo-
sot. These last processes are very
largely in use today.
The idea of timber preservation at
first made very slow growth in this
country, on account of the large sup
ply of cheap and durable timbers and
the general disregard shown towards
economy in the use of natural re-
sources. In 1885 there were only
three pressure plants in the United
States; and in 1895 only .15. Since
then, however, the industry has
grown rapidly; in 1918 there were III
plants.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
Weekly Chats With the Consumers
BY the Tennessee Food and Drugs Department
Guaranteed Under the Food and Drugs Act"

produce headache so quickly as in
digestion. But when the enforcement
of the Food and Drugs Act was pro-
ceeded with, calling for a statement
upon the label of the porpOtion of GER
tain drugs contained in medicines,
the general consumer found that the
effect of these glorious new discover
les which had so often relieved his
headache was due either to acetanilid,
phenacetin or antipyrine. All these
materials are derivatives of coal tar;
all were formerly used for the pur-
pose of reducing fevers, and all ex-
cept antipyrine have been practically
abandoned at this time for this pur-
pose. They are now used chiefly for
the relief of pain, and, under the adj
vice of a competent physician, are
valuable medicines, but too large an
amount produces depression of the
heart, and, in severe cases, stupor
and death. Many cases are on record
of this character. The United States
Bureau of Chemistry have investiga-
ted this subject; they found refer
ences in the literature to 855 cases of
poisoning by these drugs. These in
cluded rs deaths, and what is quite
as bad, SO cases of habitual use, for
these drugs may, when too long per-
sisted in, form drug habit almost as
surely as morphine. The medicines
reported on Included all the we'll
known patent medicine headache pow
ders. 1t is not necessary in this place
to mention the names, as an inspection
of the stock of almost any well regu-
lated drug store will show a large
number of them. 1t is safe to say
that practically everyone of these has
produced death at some place or time
The Food and Drugs Department of
Tennessee found that while often the
label showed the presence of the drug,
in many cases the quantity of it de-
clared on the label was incorrect,
and, in some cases. nearly double the
amount said to be present was found
1t is obvious that such misbranded
packages could produce death very
promptly whether administered under
the direction of physician or not
The safe rule is to leave all such
things alone. The best remedy for a
headache is to take a purgative, and
If the headache persists, go and see a
physician or ocultist The purgative
will usually do the business. No man
has right to take any liberties with
his constitution by the use of these
powerful drugs. In cases of supposed
poisoning by them, which would be
indicated by the bluing of the skin,
cessation of heart action or irregular
heart action and feeling of collapse,
a physician should be called in at
once.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
SOUR SKIM MILK FOR CALVES.

That in summer time calves do az
well on sour skim milk as they do on
sweet will be interesting news to
many farmers who have hitherto
been kept from raising calves by the
expense of keeping the milk sweet in
hot weather. This expense expert
mnts carried out by the department
indicate to be quite unnecessary. The
calves will make as rapid gains m
sour skim milk. In winter, is it true
this is not quite so satisfactory II
chills the calves and some of them
drink it with great reluctance. Very
young calves have been known 10 re-
fuse it altogether. On the other hand
of course, it is much easier to keep
the milk sweet in winter.
In calling the attention of farmers
to these facts, however, the depart
ment at the same time emphasizes an
important precaution. Unless the
milk is produced and kept under
oleanly conditions, it may become
contaminated with disease-producing
bacteria. Farmers should therefore
allow the milk to sour quickly and
then feed it without delay.
In the course of these experiments
sour skim milk was fed to % calves,
Holsteins, Jerseys and Guernseys, at
different seasons of the year. In no
case did it cause digestive disturb
ances even when the change from
sweet to sour milk was made abrupt
ly when the calves were only few
days old. Moreover, no evil results
followed the alternate use of sweet
and sour. It seems, therefore, that
the common idea that sour milk leads
to scours is quite unfounded.
The calves, it was found, did not
like the sour milk as well as the
sweet, but in the majority of cases
soon became accustomed to it. The
aversion, however, increased when the
milk was fed them at low tempera-
ture.-Weekly News Letter from U.
S. Dept. of Agriculture.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30

Hot weather. Little clothing. Plenty
of water inside and out. DIR. Fahr-
ney's Tething Syrup. Babies don't
get sick.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
How,s TbiSY

We offer One hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O
We, the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him to be perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan
cially able to carry out any obligation
made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE
Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
pally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c pei
bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take
Halls Family Pills for constipation
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30

The words guaranteed under the
Food and Drugs Act" on food and
drug packages convey the idea that
the material contained in such pack
ages is guaranteed to be pure and
wholesome, and many people have
gotten the idea that it means that the
product has been inspected and pass
ed" by the government. This is not
the case. For instance, a material
under the following label, Smith s
Chill Sauce" manufactured by John
Smith & Co., Baltimore, guaranteed
under the Food and Drug Act-serial
No. co." does not mean that the goods
is guaranteed by the government Gin
spected and passed., or anything else
so far as the government is concerned.
Nor does it even so much as mean
that the manufacturer guarantees the
goods to be pure, but what the guar
antee really does mean, is, that the
manufacturer agrees to take all re-
spOnsibility for its sale and all prose-
cutions and punishment in case it is
found illegal.
In view of this widespread misun-
derstanding the United States Board
of Food and Drug Control have made
ruling known as Food Inspection
Decision No. 155, taking effect May l,
1916, which is in substance as follows:
No manufacturer or packer shall
put upon the label of any food or
drug material the words guaranteed
under the Food and Drugs Act" but
may give to his jobbers or agents a
written guarantee either in special
form or upon the invoice. Meantime,
my suggestion to the consumer is to
disregard these words ON food and
drug packages. They mean little or
nothing to the consumer, and are
good for trade purposes alone.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30
Has Your Child Wormsl

Most children do. A coated, furred
tongue, strong breath, stomach pains
circles under eyes, pale, sallow com
plexion, nervous, fretful. grinding Of
teeth, tossing in sleep, peculiar
dreams-any one of these indicate the
child has worms. Get box of Kicka.
poo Worm Killer at once. 1t kills the
worms-the cause of your child's con.
dition. Is laxative and aids nature tc
expel the worms. Supplied in candy
form. Easy for children to take. 25c
at your druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-07-30

OutSs BurhSs sores
Mr.. e. s. Lopez. Marilla, N. Y,
ur'sos. "I have never had cr
burn. wound or sore 1t would not
heal" Get box of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve today. Keep handy at all timse
for burns. sores, cuts, wounds. Pre-
vents lockjaw. Csc ia your druggist.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
DiamoAde.

A traveller while in Africa once said. If I could only find some diamonds, or other orecious stones, I would be a rich man
 One day while on his travels across a desert he became hungry and look cd in his pack to find something to eat, but found that he had nothing left. He was in danger of dying of hunger, and of thirst also, as there were not many places where one could get a drink very often.
 After looking and straying about he came to an oasis and was Just about to take a drink when he saw a travel CTS pack lying on the ground. He picked it up and was very anxious to see what was In it. because he thought 1t might contain something to eat. He opened 1t and alas! 1t was empty save for 8 little wallet. He opened it and found to his dismay If contained only diamonds.
 "Ay." he said in a, dispairing tona. What good are diamonds to me? A piece of bread would be more to me than all these diamonds"
 ELEANOR SBMGEEL, Age 1s.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
 BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

does not remember having seen one real blotty letter. He remembers but one with few little spatters upon 1t, and the writer said in postscript. Uncle Jed: Please excuse spatters, For I had very bad pen!" and Uncle Jed saw there were no spatters or bIots on that little Wide -Awake's manners, and was made glad.
 Uncle Jed has been wanting to tell the Wide-Awakes what a pleasure their neat work has been to him, and it indicates they have had, careful. painstaking teachers and that they have been careful studious pupils. Do you know that our work and our con- duct is sending out wireless messas es about us all of the time for good or Ill and our parents and our teachers ha e to share the praise or the blame we call out from others
 When we make blots on our char acters some one else gets spattered. and such spatters are worse than the spatters on the copy books or upna our clothing.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
ArIene's Play Heues

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tel you about my play house. My mothet CT told me I could have a room uu stairs to keep my playthings in. as have so many. It is not a very largs room, but it is large enough for me to have five rooms. the kitchen. dining room, parlor, bedroom and a library
 In the kitchen I have a stove, table chair and also a cupboard to hold u1y dishes. In my library l have a tabla and chairs, my books and my dolls, and a telephone In my bedroom I have my dolls bed and bureau and commode. In my parlor I have lounge
 I will tell you how made a lounge: took two trunks and a pillow and q piece of rug and little pillow made 2 | put the two trunks together, putting. one ahead of the other, with the pillow over the trunks. Then placing the rugs over the pillows for the cover, and then my little pillow 1 worked on tops have a stand holding the music, lny- desk with the stool to go with it. and my zither.
 ARLENE PEARL, Age II.
 Augusta Me.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19

This is what he said:
 'eMy dear friends, am going to tell you my history. I remember when I was part of a 1T tree on mountain side. There we lived happily as could me.
 "one day man came along and cut down the tree. including my brothers and me.
 Not very long after did find my self in factory and soon was made into match. I was put into a card board box with my brothers and put into a storeroom.
 Soon a child came in and took us away and put us here.
 '.AlI my brothers are gone and pro$ duced warmth and light, but I re- main here"
 Here the cardboard box began to tell its history;
 T was a large spruce tree in the woods. Wood cutters roamed the for est and cut me down.
 Mot long after my companions and I were made into little boxes. Match es were put into us, including our friend and his brothers. Here I also stay until become of some use" Now the tea kettle began to tell of his history:
 The first thing remember was when men put me into furnace and began to melt me. was then lump of tin taken from the mines of South America.
 T was brought to a factory and was manufactured into g. tea kettle.
 After that was put onto a shelf in a tinware store and a young woplan came in and took me away. Every day I am filled with water and put over a fire and perhaps the next time I am put on the fire it will be our friend match burning"
 The broom in the corner must by all means tell his history:
 T, too. was a living plant growing in a field sand a wood. My straw WAS made into d broom and the wood into a broom handle. Every day I have to sweep this kitchen floor and sweep the hearth.
 "Ah. T am far more useful than all of you,
 The pencil tied to d string on the wall began to say:
 Every day the maid takes me up ana writes with me. All of you would be useless If did not write down what was to be brought in here.''
 The slate said: Why do you boast so much? The pencil would surely be useless if he had not me to depend upon." silence cried the clock. get into your places. and stop your conversa- tion.''
 Then there was scramble and they vera just in time when the maid came in, and taking the match she struck it against the wall and put him in the stove. Then there was a blaze and a roar and the kettle was filled and put upon the stove.
 pencil began to write on his friend the slate.
 EVA ALPERIN, Age 13. Mansfield Four Corners,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19

which are stored 51 different kinds of elements, 10 of which are in my body, and three, nay mother says, are very important.
 My growth as an acorn depended on mothers supply of the 10 elements as food. For one or more of these ele- ments may be near in large quantity; but if in a. locked bin. or in a wrong form, mother could not buy it with out great cost, just as you are now being troubled with the high cost of living. So the get at -tveness' of even one element may spoil not only a few oak babies, but your fathers grain or root crop.
 Yes, What is an element?' 9 becomes a proper question for you to ask; ut you must have patience for an answer Do you know the difference between starch and sugar? Is one the other and the othe rone? We plant babies cannot eat starch. yet that is what our mothers pack away into our cradles for us to live on,
 Are the mothers doing wrong? Dia John say No? Mother laid up a store of starch for me in three forms
 Didn't know there was more than one form of starch?
 Why. Agnes. you have to have starch, and sugar, too; and you get both through the plant. Tn fact, if we didn't furnish you with starch in sew eral forms you would not have enough energy to move that pencil. This starch and sugar question is no laugh ing matter. You cannot get along without uor sugar and starch even if you have formed a club to live without buying 1t because of the high price.
 "You'd eat it in an apple or pota.o, find 1t in the grain and berries. rn- deed. you have got to have our starch and sugar to feed your bodies, proud as you ares
 But Pm off Io,1 . +snSAoFI ar x,o,,r teacher would cay.
 T said as a baby oak ! could not eat starch. That is true; but sugar will not keep like good starch, and starch IS easily turned into sugar. So mother packs our baby food as starsl1 so 1t will keep."
 GRANDFArEER I1owArER.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19

require air and in November they be- gin to make kitchens.
 They are built of mud, leaves and twigs in different parts Of tha pond. Getting air requires a. hole in the ice, and the beavers leave layers of sticks Jn the surface or the water near the edge in q concealed spot. They get air through the layers of sticks, which are not aifstight. Generally a dozen of these Kitchens are built.
 To catch beavers the kitchens which are found Ry beaver dogs are destroy ed and tceNfrozen over them.
 Then stakes three inches apart, so the beavers cannot get between them, are hammered through the ice into the pond bottom in the form of the let ter Y.
 Have the two upper sides of Y come each side of the beaver house to the dam. Let the lower end of the ' have two rows of stakes and a passage be- tween them. Let the end of this pas sage be open, and have hole In the ice there, to take out the beavers from the water. Aside from this, everything must be air tight.
 Hammer on the house and drive the inhabitants into the passage and through it. Lay on the ice at the end of the passage near the hole and keer still.
 When the beaver comes out they down and get him with lance and throw him on the ice and he is dead More will come out: one by one they l are killed. Some will slip, and they are lost for the year if their lungs had air in them:
 Beaver skins bring from $s to s each, but young hides are better fol 1 they are softer.
 1 MYRoN J. ENGLAND, Age IA. | Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-19
How Pins Are Made

Dear Uncle Jed: T am going to telE you about the manufacture of pines Many people use pins, but do not mov. how they are made.
 The common pin was once a part of a long wire of uniform thickness In the manufacture of pins this wire must
 be first drawn through steel rollers ta
 straighten out the curves and kinks,
 On its way to the roller it is cut intdz pin lengths, the upper ends of which
 extend beyond the jaws of the ma. chine. A steel~bar strikes these ends and this makes the. pin heads.
 Next the crude pins are dropped into sits. In this position the other ends. are filed into fine points.
 The pins are then heated in 8 vessel containing a solution of copper ands tin This makes them bright and strong. They are finally attached to. papers by means of other machinesE and packed for sale.
 HANNAH MCCARTHY, Age fl.