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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

CT cocaine, the good old doctor of long
ago used to take a mallet and drive
an orange stick into the nerve canal,
and the nerve died, died just as effect
lively as It does today, but it made more
fuss dying. You knew more about its
death than you do now.
There are many good stories told
of tne methods and practices Of these
eler doctors. 1t is told of one Of
the most prominent and effective work
ers of the generation before the war
that he used as much muscle on his
patients as he did medicine, and it
was not according to the rules of the
osteopaths of today, rather according
to the rules of the Marquis of Queens
bury, but ne generally carried his poini
just as we'll as whether beaten or
healed his patients respected him and
followed his orders.
Another good doctor saw mine of
wealth in a peach orchard that would
grow fruit to be made into brandy, but
he got religion at a camp meeting and
gave his interest in the plant up and
would make no brandy
DR.. o B. Mayer was one of the eld-
ers of the church who elected a negro
from the church when he would sit
with the white people in the day of
reconstruction.
DR.. eorgeG Nv. Garmany is said to
have been the best story teller tnat,ever
lived in Newberry, and that he was
never without crowd around him,
telling some new story for their
amusement.
DR.. Sampson Pope is said to have
been one Of the kindest and most help
full men to the younger members OF
the profession tnat ever lived.
Besides his adventures into antisep-
tic surgery in the use of turpentine,
DR.. P. B. Ruff is said to have been
one of the earliest practitioners Of
modern methods in gynecology, and
the treatment of the diseases of wo-
men. He applied here very largely
the same principle of antiseptics. He
was something of a writer, more than
the average doctor, for doctors have
been historically averse to writing,
whereby the world has lost lot that
it ought to have had DR.. Mayer was
another very accomplished literary
member Of the medical fraterity in this
county and his sketches of the early
life of Newberry and mis- researches
in history have been very valuable.
Newberry also contributed largely
to the men who went as surgeons in
the Confederate service and did faith
full work on the battle field and in
camp, finding substitutes for the drugs
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
The Physicians Of Old Nevberry

Following the lead Of the Great Ply
sician, who went about doing good, ,"
physicians Of all ages in this Christian
land have given their lives to the
cause of humanity and the we'll being
of the race. 1t is this which makes
the story of the doctors Of any com
munity full Of interest 10 the genera
tions that folIcved them and profited
by their excur N into tAa land OF eE-
pertinent and i.vcstiga;ion. The prog
ress of civiliz&.. en- and cf the GeTel-
opment of MAJ lEar'is also the prog
ress of the care ana treatment Of the
sick and suffering, the conquering O..
disease, contagion and physical evil,
even to the gradual understanding and
subsection of the criminal impulses
and tendencies of the unfortunate or
the degenerate.
While the progress OF medicine
throughout the world had been Won
derful and staggering in its immense
strides, we do not note the little
streams from which the great flood
of human achievement takes it's start.
I've do not note tne grain Of sand that
those around us contribute to the
building of the great world of science,
nor any of the little intimate things
of our life that, taken in the aggre-
gate, make the big things of the world.
In looking over the story of the good
old doctors who attended the sick in
Newberry, brought the babies into the
world, cured the ills Of the children
and folded the hands Of the old over
their still breasts, and find a source Of
pride and qualification in the knowl-
edge that these men have done their
part in the great world war for science
and the healers' art. The greatest Of
discoveries in medical science has been
in the line OF antiseptic surgery, and
we find that it was an old doctor Of
Newberry who long ago discovered
that the use of turpentine in wounds,
when gotten to the bottom of the
wound" prevented tetanus and otner
serious results. the first step in antisep-
tic surgery. Another of these Teter-
ans frs made war on the use of the
lancet in the treatment of fevers, and
his patients recovered from the deadly
fevers of that day when others were
dying by the wholesale around him,
Another of these honorable ancestors
was the discoverer Of drugs that work
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

fought it in every gathering of his
brother practitioners. In a great epi-
demic of typhus fever he was particu
larly successful because he did not use
the lancet. The use of the lancet was
as common in those days as hypo-
dermic injection of morphine is to-
day, the knife and the needle seem to
be the doctors chief dependencies
while getting better bearings.
1t was old Dr. ]. L. Glider, the
grandfather of the present practicing
physician, who made such a study Of
the herbs of this district and used so
many Of them in common remedies. If
he had just put down in a book ali
that he had learned during his study
of the herbs and their properties that
book would teach many things that
the medical world would be glad to
know now. There has never been a
deeper or harder student of drugs than
DR.. Glider. He made the Glider liver
pill. He was not octor as we under
stand the profession of today, but in
those days he was doctor real and
earnest enough, and he healed the sick.
The Glider pill was private prescrip-
tion, its contents were made known
only to the family, and one of his fam
lily, DR.. Land, who had the formula,
went into business with DIR. Tut in
Augusta, Ga, years ago. When this
firm was dissolved DR.. Tutt took the
prescription with MIN to the North,
and the TUFTS pills Of today and the
Glider pill, which is still made, are
one and the same, the doctors say. Be-
sides this liver remedy, he made other
discoveries, but much that he knew, by
far the greater part of it, is lost to
posterity.
What we know as medical educa-
tion was limited in those days and the
medical colleges were few and far be-
tweel and really could not teach their
students a great deal when they got
there 1t has been only within COM
paratively modern years that doctors
have been learning in universities and
taking degrees. In the old days they
learned under some good physician for
whom they worked, and in some ways
it was mighty good kind of an educa-
ton. The older doctor knew what the
institution knew and often many things
that he had found out himself, and the
doctors and the medical school and hu-
manity in general were ali learning
together. Medicine, surgery, denNs-
try and many other things used to go
together, all practiced by the same
man. Dentistry was simple, even if
cruel. Whereas We of today have the
aching nerve killed by the application
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
HOW TO EDUCATE.

row TO EDUCATE.
In the temperance education cam
paign now being vigorously carried on
in all parts of the country special
lied system is advisable. DR.. Wells
Andrews, in Chicago Daily News,
puts this suggestion into words that
are well worth passing on.
Tell the lumber men of Michigan, he
says, how many thousands of drinking
farmers will shingle their homes and
barns or build new ones as soon as
they quit their meanness." Tell the
shoe manufacturer of Massachusetts
what it means to take all the bare
feet of drunkards' children off the
ground. Tell the iron men of Penn
sylvania that new stoves will be need
ed in 100000 homes when the saloon
keeper ceases to get the money, and
tell the miners they will have work
all winter through getting coal enough
to put into those stoves. Tell the wool
growers of Ohio that everybody in this
country is going to be wrapped in
wooden and sleep under blankets when
the billiards. blow, and the men no
longer heat up with liquid fire" in or
der to exterminate their families with
atmospheric cold. Tell the cattle rails
ers of the West and stockyards men
in Chicago that there is going to be
beef on thousands of tables, where
now there are a few cold potatoes. Tell
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
DAIRY
RAISING CALVES FOR DAIRY
Food and General Management Should
Be Such as Wal Give Full Devel.
opment In All Parts.

IL owners of dairy stock would al
ways remember that the calf of the
present Is to be the COW of the future,
the treatment would be different in
the majority of cases The food and
general management should be such
as will give full development to all
parts. They need good care during
the cold season ard should be housed
during rain or cold, biting winds;
whatever lessons their comfort or
warmth lessons vitality also, and that
means loss in growth.
The calf that is reared for place
in the dairy herd should possess all
necessary qualifications for such an
important place. Its grandams on
both sides should have a good record
at pail OF churn. Examine udders at
suitable age and note any malforma-
tons; occasionally there will be found
three or sometimes five teats, an I'M
desirable number; sometimes there
will be a double teat, which will prove
a troublesome feature. 1t will be bet
ter to discard all such.
Handle the calves gently, groom
daily and they soon become accus-
toned to It. Much of the nervousness
which we see in the young cow can
be done away with If calves are given
proper treatment. Teach them to lead
from the very first. We all know how
annoying it is to try to lead mature
animal that has not been broke to it,
when young. The timidity of the
young heifer with her first calf is near.
ly always due to training and not tenn.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
IDEAL WOMEN OF THE PAST
Live In History as. the Inspiration of
Men Who Led the Worle In
Art and Learning.

All inspiration comes from woman"
In these words Castiglione sums up
medieval ideas and theories on the
subject. Hers Il is to inspire man with
hope and courage on the battlefield
and in the council chamber, in the pur-
suit Of art and learning, in the higher
paths of virtue and religion, to point
the way upward and lift hearts from
earth to heaven
So 1t was that the boy Raphael grew
up in the enchanted air of Urbino I'M
der the fostering care of the good
duchess; so Isabella d'Este heard
young Ariosto recite the first cantos
of his great poem, or gave Mantegna
and Costa themes for their pictures
in the studio of the grim old CASTILLO
that looks down on. the Mantuan lakes
and the windings Of "smooth-sliding
Mincius."
So Veronica Gambara smiled on the
early efforts of the painter Correg-
gio, and Vittoria Colonna soothed the
loneliness of Michaelangelos weary
old age.
By their delicate culture and refined
taste these noble women brought art
into close touch with life.
BY their gracious and kindly SYM
pathy they cheered the artist souls
that were struggling toward the light,
and helped to produce immortal works.
Will posterity say as much for the
women 6 our own age?-Exchange.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
STUNNED BY THE MEXlCANS
Caves Supposed to Be Possessed by
the Devil" Into Which None
Willingly Enter.

Ancient caves In different parts Of
Mexico often contain the skulls and
bones of former inhabitants, whether
prehistoric or of later times. some
times containing fine fashioned flint
implements.
The natives, as rule, fear to go
into these places. DO not enter, Sc
nor they will say as. with Anglo
Saxon lack of superstition you deter
mine to explore them; some evil be-
falls those who NEEDLE with the re-
mains of the dead
And II they are prevailed upon to
assist they cross themselves devoutly
before descending or entering. Weird
tales they unfold afterward Of men
who have gone into such places and
found their exit barred by some evil
spirit, they themselves having been
encountered dead and cold upon the
cavern floor when discovered by their
relatives, who had searched for the
missing one!
According f., the poems, the scenes
of murder or wickedness which may
have taken place in such situations are
enacted again to the terrified vision
of the unhappy witness who haG the
temerity to venture into those places
possessed of the devil, for the king
of darkness is an ever-present and
active elemen of the poor Mexican's
superstitious world"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
NOT MODERN KIND OF BEAU
Girl of Today Is Looking for Some
thing Different FROM This All
Too-BashfuI "Chump."

The dear girls were comparing notes
on subjects of more or less impor-
lance.
Your beau seems rather hashful,"
said Stella.
"Bashful!" echoed Mabel why,
bashful is no name for it."
why don't you encourage him?"
queried her friend
Il have tried" answered Mabel, "but
the attempt was a measly failure. Only
last night sat all alone on the sofa,
and no perched up in chair as far
away as he could get. l asked him
If he didn't tnink 1t strange that the
length Of mans arm was the same
as the distance around a woman's
waist, and what do you think he did,"
"Just what any sensible man would
have done-tried 1t, suppose"
mot any, thank you. He asked If
could find piece of string, so we
could measure and see If it was fact.
Isn't he the limit?'
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Had Pe|Iagra Seven Years
Thanks God He's Cured

towards, S. C.-David G. Pate, Of this
place, writes ri am glad to say to you,
after waiting forty days, that I still feel
like I am cured of pellagra. had this
disease for the last seven years. The
fourth day after beginning your medicine
I went back to work and have been able
to do my work ever since. thank God
for your remedy"
There is no longer any doubt that pei
iagra can be cured Don't delay until it
is too late. 1t is your duty to consult the
resourceful Baughn.
The symptoms-hands red like sunburn,
skin peeling off, sore mouth, the lips,
throat and tongue flaming red, with
much mucous and choking; indigestion and
nausea, either diarrhoea or constipation.
There is hope; get Baughn's big Free
book on Pellagra and learn about the
remedy for Pellagra that has at last been
found Address American Compromising
Co., box 2o88, Jasper, Ala, remembering
money is refunded in any case where the
remedy fails to cure.-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
REGULAR HOURS FOR FEEDING
After First Week Give Calves Little
Dry Grain--Feed skim Milk
Four to Six Months.
(By R. G. wEATHERsToNE.)

(By r. G. WEATHERSToNE.)
Feed at regular hours and after the
first week give little dry grain, after
they have drank the milk.
Give them all the clean, cool water
they will drink.
Sprinkle a little salt on a board
where they can lick it.
Give little bright clean hay. As
they become accustomed to 1t increase
to what they will eat up clean,
Increase the grain gradually until
1t reaches pound day. Shelled
corn, whole oats, bran, shorts, wheat
are all good; but preferable in the
order named.
Always feed the grain dry in the
box after taking away the milk pail.
Leave them in the stanchions 80 to
40 minutes after feeding.
Handle them frequently. Avoid
frightening them.
II they go on good pasture at six or
seven months of age gradually shut
off the grain.
Feed the skim milk four to six
months.
For forage, alfalfa, red clover, pea
and oat hay mixed with meadow hay,
fodder corn, ensilage are all good. The
first four are the best.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
How She Looked.

II lost dollar at the matinee this
afternoon" remarked the fieshy WON
an to her husband, and never was
so angry in my life"
How'd it happen?" asked the man.
Il dropped it in the aisle" she an
swered shortly, land looked for it
that's all could do"
did you look good?' persisted the
head of the house.
did | look good!" shrilled the wom-
an, really angry now. II looked as
good as a fat woman crawling around
on all tours ever does. Collier
Weekly.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23

back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean your sluggish liver better
than dose of nasty calomel and that
1t won't make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn.
ing. because you will wake up feel.
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chill
dren. Millions of people are using
Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dam
gerous calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale of calomel
is almost stopped entirely here.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU S|CKj
CLEAN LIVER AND BOWELS MY WAY
lust Once! Try "ncdsos Liver Tune When Bilious Consti
pated, Headachy-Don't Lose Days Work

Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
hne and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; be vigorous and full of am
bition. But take no nasty, danger
Gus calomel, because it makes you
sick and you may lose a days work
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's
when You feel that awful nausea and
cramping. N
Listen to me! II you want to enjoy
the incest. gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just
lake spoonful of harmless Dodson's
liver Tone. Your druggist or dealer
Iells you so cent bottle of Dodson's
liver Tone under my personal money.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
The ACES Of Man.

Smuggs-Say, jugs. who are those
three gentlemen standing at the con-
servatory entrance?
Juggs-Why, they represent three
generations. The rudy old man with
the fine head of hair, Buggs-the thin
haired one next to him is his son, and
the dissipated fellow with the bald
head is the grandson. - National
Monthly.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Turner's Make Good Soldiers.

More than $4,000 German turner's
have been decorated with the Iron
Cross since the world war was de-
clared," writes DIR. Hugo Ruehl, sec
Rotary of the Deutsche Turnerschaft,
in letter to George Brosius, veteran
Milwaukee turnmaster.
In commenting upon the ability of
turner's as soldiers, Professor
Brosius says:
THE exceptional training that turn
ers are given In Germany makes them
most efficient as soldiers. There are
more than 100000 serving the kaiser.
In their gymnastic training, long
marches have always played an i'm
portant part"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23

Some one advised me to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. had
taken so much medicine and my doctor
said he could do me no good SO l toldm
husband he might get me bottle and I
would try it. By the time had taken
it felt better. continued its use, and
now am well and strong.
~ have always recommended your
medicine ever since / was so wonder
fully benefited by it and / hope this
letter will be the means of saving some
other poor woman from suffering. p
Mrs. MARTHA SEAvEY, Box 1144,
unionville, Missouri.
The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound have thousands Of
such letters as that above - they tell
the truth, else they could not have been
obtained for love or money. This med
icine is no stranger - it has stood the
test for years.
II there are any COMPILATIONS ye.
do not understand write to Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfldentiaD
Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by O woman and
held In strict confidence.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
A NEW FAITH.

Although Maj Dan Morgan Smith
of Chicago was never personally ad.
dicted to the use of strong drink, yet
he was for several years the able gen
eral counsel of the Model License
league. He is now Jealous advocate
of temperance, and thus writes: Gar.
guments that once seemed SO plaus'
ible have failed me; for the founda'
ton of my faith and the corner stone
of my arguments was the failure OF
regulation and the success of prohibit
ton. My faith is gone and my corner
stone is displaced, my structure has
fallen and it remains for me to hell
build another, founded on new faith,
with a corner stone as enduring as
the truth, and that faith shall b.
called Temperance, and the corner
stone shall be Annihilation. / shall
never make another speech in behalf
Of the Model License league. ! am
through with the wet side. My intel
ligence insists upon it; my conscience
demands it."
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Some Refrcshment.

An admiral, during the maneuvers
at Newport, told a story at a gar
den party.
THE navy is as abstemious from
ethical reasons" he began. as old
Stingee was from miserliness.
"Old Stingee was entertaining boy
hood friend one evening at his shore
cottage. After a couple of hours of
dry talk the old fellow said, genially:
Would you like some refreshment
"a cooling draft, say-George?'
why, yes, l don't care If | do
said George, and he passed his hand
across his mouth and frightened up
wonderfully.
Good said Old Stingee. I'll just
open this window. There's a fine sea
breeze blowing"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
CARE FOR cHILDREN's
Hair and Skin With cuticura. Moth
Ing Easier. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify the
skin and scalp, the Ointment to
soothe and heal rashes, itchings, red
ness, roughness, dandruff, etc. Moth.
ing better than these fragrant super
creamy emollients for preserving and
purifying the skin, scalp and hair.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Notified.

This really happened in New York
the other day:
Dispfeased Parent-Molly, find
you have been buying three pairs of
gloves without my permission. Why
did you do It?
Miss Molly Jagged twelve)-Why,
daddy, ! was Obliged to have some
gloves; hadn't pair to wear!
Displeased Parent-It was very
wrong Of you to buy the gloves with
out asking either your mother or me
about Il.
Miss Molly-Well, never mind, dad
dy dear; they won't cost anything. /
had them charged!-New York Eve
ming Post
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Change of Feed.

Don't chop off in day from dry
feed to green pasture. The milk COW
treated in this way is sure to show
a material decrease in her milk flow.
The work horse taken from good hay
and given grass as his main rough
ness won't stand up under it. Feed
them what hay they want until they
quit of their own accord. Even then
the best results won't always follow
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
Very Indlscreet,

Look here" said Mr.. Bonehedde an.
grily, I'm not going to stand this
sort of thing any longer. That broth
er Of yours called me fool today, and
right in public, too
That's just like Tom," replied his
wife. He's always hurting out fam.
lily secrets