Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 11, 1908, Page 3

a 1 “ miss anwaz ca7no™ THE DISEASES WHICH CATARRH MADE LIFE A BURDEN TO ME. ISS ANNIE CATRON, 927 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: “As I have found Peruna a blessing for a severe case of catarrh of the head and throat which I suffered from for a number of years, I am only too pleased to give it my personal endorsement. “Catarrh, such as I suffered from, made life a burden to me, my breath was offensive, stomach bad, and my head stopped up so that I was usually troubled with a headache, and although I tried many so-called remedies, noth- ing gave me permanent relief. I was rather discouraged with all medicines when Peruna was suggested to me. ‘However, I did buy a bottle, and be- fore that was finished there was a marked change in my condition. Much encouraged I kept on until I was com- pletely cured in a month’s time, and J find that my general health is also ex- cellent.” People who prefer solid_medicines should try Peruna tablets. Each tablet represents one average dose of Peruna. Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative. Ask Your Druggist for Free Perune Almanac for 1908. Not So Bad. It is related that a man in a hurry for a train rushed for lunch into the first handy restaurant. It was not a fashionable restaurant. It was not even a good restaurant. To his sur. prise and horror he recognized in the waiter an old school and college friend. “Good heavens, my dear fellow!” he cried, “how.did you come to this?” “Oh, it’s not so bad as you think,” said his friend. “I only wait. I don’t dine here.” HE WAS SO THOUGHTFUL. And Yet He Must Have Been Shockec When She Spoke. “Ah, sweetheart,” he said, “how can I wait for next Thursday to come? It geems a year away. I have just seen Dr. Thudleigh and he has gladly con sented to perform the ceremony.” “I am so happy,” the beautiful gir) replied. “The dressmaker addeq the final touches to my going-away gown to-day, and nothing remains now but wait for the great day to come. Have you seen about getting the drawing room on the 9:30 train?” “Yes, love, and I have taken out 3 $10,000 accident insurance policy, sc that if I happen'to be killed by our dear friends when they are seeing us off you will have something to partial. ly console you for your loss.” “Dearest Harry, how will it be pos sible for me to er be anything but happy with one who i thoughtful?” FOUND A WAY To Be Clear of the Coffee Troubles, “Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad condi- tion that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. “I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee and after some dis- cussion he decided to give it up. “It was a struggle because of the powerful habit. One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it, and then it was easy coffee. “His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began to clear, kidneys grew better until at last he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and tak- ing up Postum.’ Then I began to drink it, too. ’ “Although I was never as bad off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 lbs. before I began to use Postum. Now I weigh 115 Ibs. and can do as much work as anyone my size, I think. “Many do net use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. I have successfully fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They would remark, ‘You must buy a high grade of coffee.’ One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusias- tic about my ‘coffee. When I told him what it was, he said, ‘why I’ve sold Postum for four years but I had no idea it was like this. Think I'll drink Postum hereafter.’” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” to leave off “ATTACK THE POTATO Are Persistent and Troublesome—Damaged Tubers May Be Safely Fed to the Livestock. cd * Potato disease (phytophthora)—com. mon in England—is not the only trou- ble which affects the potato-grower; unfortunately, there are other diseases —leaf curl, black scab, potato scab, wet rot, etc.—all of which are more or A Diseased Tuber. less destructive. In the case of po- tato scab, though it is not exactly in- jurious to the tuber, if the skin is badly spotted, naturally enough the market value of the crop is lowered. The illustration of potato scab in all are volatilized as the decay increases. It may be of interest to look for a mo- ment at the average analysis of a healthy potato compared with the analysis of a swede turnip: Potato. Turnip 75.0 89.4 2. 1, 3 ob 7 13 0.9 0.6 Perhaps in ordinary forming prac- tice we scarcely realize wherein the difference lies. By the above table it can be observed that there is nearly three times as much carbo-hydrates in potatoes compared with the quantity found in swedes, and nearly twice as much albuminoid matter, and, more- over, it may be added that 60 pounds of potatoes represent an increase of one pound live weight, whereas it takes 109 pounds of swede to give the same result. A high analytical value, as here noted, while good in its way, is not everything that can be said. The price of the material and the di- gestive powers of the animal have to be taken into account, for it is well known that foodstuff having a lower percentage of nutritive material in larger bulk is more readily digested. In feeding diseased potatoes to pigs and cattle in Germany,’a series of ex- periments have been carried out with the crop of 1905. Dr. Otto Appel, writing in the Journal of the Imperial Biological Station, states that, when the tubers were supplied to the stock in small quantities, either raw or boiled, no ill effects followed; but when increased amounts were given, the animals were slightly scoured. The report, though adding to our knowl- edge, cannot, of course, be looked upon as conclusive either way without fur- Water .. its unsightliness is sufficient evidence of reduced market value. The grow- ther experiment. Most farmers who have had experience in feeding pota- Scab on er from whose crop the specimens il- lustrated were taken had tons of the same kind, many hundreds of thou- sands of tubers being in an equally diseased state, and a great many much more so. The loss to this par- ticular grower can be easily imagined. Scab of this kind may be prevented if the sets are soaked for two hours in a solution of formalin made up at the rate of one pint of formalin to 30 gallons of water, the sets being dried before planting. During seasons when disease has made inroads upon the quality of the crop harvested, there is usually more or less discussion and difference of opinion as to the food value and the desirability or otherwise of feeding stock with diseased potatoes. It is in the main all a matter of degree. Of course, there are conditions and stages of rottenness when it would be little short of folly to do anything but destroy them. On the other hand, that a moderately diseased potato, though unfit for culinary purposes, has a definite food value for stock, and may be used with perfect safety as food for pigs, no practical farmer in the country will for one moment deny, provided that the potatoes have Leaf Curl. remained firm and hard, and are not in the least degree soft and pulpy. The diseased potato illustrated, and sections of the same, are quite firm to the touch, and in that condition the alteration or loss of food constitu- ents was but slight; the carbo-hy- drates had not varied to. any consid- erable degree from that in a normally healthy potato. The change that had taken place was mainly in the fiesh- forming or albuminoid matter, the proof of which is usually fully in evidence, as the ammonia and other compounds Tubers. toes to stock in this country know full well that even healthy tubers, en- tirely free from disease of any kind, if given for some time, will cause purging, and that to av considerable extent. Prof. Wrightson, a _ well- known authority on the science and practice of agriculture, has put on | record quite recently: “Diseased po- Section Showing Disease. tatoes are good food for pigs and have been given to cows even ina raw state with profit. To sell the sound tubers and have the damaged ones for stock is not altogether bad’ business, hence a mild attack of disease may be borne with equanimity.” And, further, as to the wholesomeness of diseased pota- toes for stock, “I remember one case in particular in which there were a number of diseased ones in the crop, and these were given’ raw to cows in milk without any ill-effects.” In stock feeding or farm practice of any kind, as in many other occupations, one cannot lay down absolute rules and say, do this or that, and certain other things are bound to happen; but in this instance we can to a large extent, if not altogether, secure im- munity from any trouble likely to re- sult from the use of diseased potatoes, and this by using only reasonable precautions in preparing them as food for stock. The potatoes should be carefully overlooked and thoroughly cleaned before use, all the soft, badly rotten ones thrown on one side to be destroyed, the presumably fairly good ones cooked, preferably steamed. The , accumulatetd experiments of the last few years show clearly the beneficial effects of spraying, and the Bordeaux mixture now so commonly used is only of real practical service when used as a preventive rather than} a cure. Early in July, if the weather is dull, warm and moist, it suggests that at any hour an outbreak of dis- ease ‘may occur. It were better far not to wait for such conditions before striking a vigorous blow to ward off the prospective enemy. |” NEW sysTEM A Goon ONE. Interlocking Switching Plant That Can’t Make Mistakes. One of the Targest railroad signa’ and interlocking switching plants in the world has been put into operation by the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern railroad. The new plant controls all of the train movements at the new Hoboken terminal of the Lackawanna, and is the first plant of the track cir- cuit interlocking type to be installed inthis country. There are 131 little switches on every track that runs into the main terminal. The old way of switching required at least 30 men to do the work. Under the new ‘ar- rangement four men can do the work in less time, and so perfectly con- structed is the plant ‘that, according to the engineers, it is almost impossi- ble to make a mistake. This system of interlocking eliminates the old-fash- ioned detector bars used with the old- er interlocking plants. In the inter- locking cabin, where the system dpe- ated, there is a perfect model of the yard, showing every track controlled by the apparatus and which indicates at all times to the men in charge ex- actly how the system is working. As soon as the automatic signals are in- stalled, the engineer, before he starts his train, will get his signals, his routing will be absolutely fixed and the signal will indicate to him when and where to move. As soon as the engineer gets his train on the fixed route the operator in the tower can- not possibly change that route or change the switches under that train until the train is clear of the route. It will be impossible for another train to foul that train while it is on the route fixed for it. Seventy-five miles of insulated wire was used in connect- ing the track circuits with the inter- locking layout. The system is known as the electro-pneumatic, the power used being compressed air, the move- ment of the switches being controlled by a piston operating in an air-cylin- der. The operations in the air cylin- ders are made by means of a magnet, electrically controlled, which opens up an air valve, so as to apply the air in the cylinder in such fashion as to move the switch. When the train is made up in the terminal and is ready to go out, the station master touches a little electric button, which indi- cates to the director in the operating tower that the train is ready to go. The director then fixes the routing for that train, gives it the signal and the train is off on its journey. Mexican Railroad Methods. “As the son of a soldier and hav- ing lived in the ‘midst of alarms’ dur- ing my tender years, I may be ac- counted a man out of the ordinary,” remarked Phil K. Gordon, after whom Fort Phil Kearny is named, “but I must say that traveling on Epes Ran-|pe an angel. dolph’s trains in the state of Sanora, Mexico, is liable to cause cold chills to run up and down your spine. “I was on the Sonora railway re- cently when the Mexican brakeman rushed into our car and spoke excited- ly to the conductor, who, by the way, was an American. “What's the matter? I asked, for I was interested, owing to the excite- ment of the brakeman. “Oh, nothing,’ replied the conduc- tor, and he continued his conversa- tion. “After the lapse of an hour he slowly gathered himself together and observed that he would go forward and see what the Mexicans had been doing. “You should have seen that car. It looked like a butcher's shamples, for somebody had gone a-knifing for some one else, and the end was that it was a free fight for all. The con- ductor calmly locked the door, wired to the next station for the police, and there was no further trouble. I won- der what would have happened if a car on one of our railroads was turned into a butcher shop?” Straight Railway Track. In spite of the apparently mathe- matical straight lines which many ot the western railways appear to follow on the map, it has been stated that the record in this respect will be beat- en by the new national transconti- nental railway, otherwise known as the Grand Trunk Pacific, 70 miles of which will be constructed without, a curve. Five years ago, however, a length of 71 miles of perfectly straight railway track was constructed on the extension of the Rhodesia railways from Bulawayo in the direction of the Victoria falls. So far, therefore, as the length of straight line is con- cerned, the record is held by the por- tion of the-Rhodesia railways above referred to.—London Times. Happy In Slumber, Michael Callahan, a section boss for the Southern railroad in the little town of Ludlow, Ky., has a keen Gaelic wit. One warm afternoon while walking along the railroad tracks he found a section hand placid- ly sleeping beside the rails. 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