Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 12, 1908, Page 9

ST —— FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL. Discharged Because Doctors Could Not Cure. Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave., Anoka, Minn., says: “After lying for five months in a hospital I was dis- charged as incur- able, and given only six months to live. My heart was affect- ed, I had smother- ing spells and some- times fell uncon- scious. I got so I couldn't use my arms. my eyesight was impaired and the kidney secretions were badly dis- ordered. I was completely worn out and discouraged when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, but they went right to the cause of the trouble and did their work well. I have been feeling well ever since.” Sold by alldealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Double-Sided Hole. The latest story of German “thrift,’ ls told at the expense of the proprie- tor of a circulating library who charg- ed for the wear and tear suffered by his books at the hands of his patrons. One volume came back to his scrutiny. “See here,” he ex- claimed, “there is a hole on page nine- teen of my beautiful book. And see here,” he went on, turning over the leaf, “there is another on page twen- ty.” PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 910 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: M. M. Berg, Beardsley, Minn., animal trap; B. Dahl, Minneapolis, Minn., rotary engine; O. P. Hanson, Minneapolis, Minn., rail joint; J. F. Hinck, Crookston, Minn., wagon scale; A. Hovland, Waubay, S. D., traveling thresher; G. W. Rucker, and E. L., Minneapolis, Minn., flue cleaner; S. G. Stevens, Duluth, Minn., var tarpaulin. The Phonograph and the Parrot. The training of parrots has been greatly aided by the introduction of the phonograph, the instrument now being used to repeat a given phrase for hours each day to a roomful of the noisy croakers until they have mastered it. The various kinds of birds require various methods of train- ing; the bird experts develop special- ties and win fame in their exclusive fields for their.accomplishments. Fi- nally, the whole immigration of 400,- 000 is disposed of and distributed throughout the country, and the cycle is begun for another year that will bring something to the utilitarian who raises practical fowls for the market, and more to the sportsman who seeks game to shoot. Politeness Pays. Newport has gained financially as well as patriotically through its re- formed methods of treating soldiers and sailors in the United States uni- form. Because a dance hall in New London largely owned by the mayor of the city, refused to allow sailors on the floor in uniform the mdship- men’s training squadron that has been making its headquarters in that city has been ordered to Newport. As there are two thousand men aboard the ships, business in New London will be sacrificed for the benefit of the merchants of the Rhode Island city which has overcome its prejudice against the United States uniform. It is good policy to be loyal to the army and navy. ALMOST A SHADOW. Gained 20 Ibs. on Grape-Nuts. There’s a wonderful difference be- tween a food which merely tastes good and one which builds up strength and good healthy flesh. It makes no difference how much we eat unless we can digest it. It is not really food to the system until it is absorbed. A Yorkstate woman says: “I had been a sufferer for ten years with stomach and liver trouble, and had got so bad that the least bit of food such as I then knew, would give me untold misery for hours after eating. “I lost flesh until I was almost a shadow of my original self and my friends were quite alarmed about me. “First I dropped coffee and used Postum, then began to use Grape-Nuts although I had little faith it would do me any good. . “But I continued to use the food an have gained twenty pounds in weight and feel like another person in every way. I feel as if life had truly begun anew for me. “I can eat anything I like now in moderation, suffer no ill effects, be on my feet from morning until night. Whereas a year ago they had to send me away from home for rest while others cleaned house for me, this spring I have been able to do it myself all alone. “My breakfast is simply Grape-Nuts with cream and a cup of Postum, with sometimes an egg and a piece of toast, but generally only Grape-Nuts and Postum. And I can work until noon and not feel as tired as one hour's work would have made me a year ago.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are. genuine, true, and full of human interest. a Al GRADE PERCHERON FSTALLION. H/S HEAD EDOES NOT SEEM TO A “grade” horse, strictly speaking, fs one that was sired by a pure-bred stallion. Always the sire must be pure-bred, if the progeny is to be en- titled to the name of “grade.” Where a pure-bred mare is bred to a grade stallion her progeny is not a “grade.” Such breeding is de-grading—a step backward and downward—and, the progeny which has not been graded up, but degraded down, is of mongrel breeding. When a pure-bred stallion is mated with a native cr mongrel-bred mare the product of this first mating is a “one-top-cross” grade, the offspring being one-half pure blood and one-half impure blood. If the first progeny is a female and in turn is bred to a pure- bred stallion, of the breed used for the original top-cross, her progeny will be a “two-top-cross” grade, or three- quarters pure-bred. When five top crosses of the same kind of blood have been put on, the last resultant off- spring is practically pure-bred, and if the work of further top-crossing is per- sistently carried on, without a single turning aside to a sire of some other breed, the blood of the offspring be- comes purer all the while and purity of blood, when fully established, pro- duces in its possessors decided heredi- tary power (prepotency) to stamp upon their progeny the fixed charac- teristics of the breed employed in the grading-up or top-crossing process. When a grade stallion is mated with a native or grade mare the resultant progeny is of mixed breeding. It is not a grade, strictly speaking, for there has been no grading up in the breeding process and no advance can possibly be made so long as a grade sire is used in place of a _pure-bred stallion. This applies to the stallion that is still a grade, by reason of too few top-crosses to make him practical- ly pure-breed. Where five or more top-crosses of pure blood have been employed in the grading-up process the final product no longer is an ordinary grade, but is practically pure-bred, and being such has gathered some of the prepotency of the pure blood of the one predomi- nant breed and so may be enabled to stamp, with a fair degre of fidelity, the characters of that breed upon the progeny of all classes of mates. Such horses, however, are not eligible to record in\a majority of the govern- ment recognized stud books, hence their retention for breeding purposes is inadvisable when legitimately re- corded pure-bred stallions may be had in their place. The pure breeds of horses have been bred in one line for so many years without an admixture of alien blood that each stallion representing a pure breed is possessed of the power to transmit at least the designating bred characteristics of his kind. Some pure-bred stallions have more power than others in this way and the degree of power (prepotency) may be said to depend largely upon the degree of pre- potency possessed by each individual ancestor and the length of time those ancestors of the individual horse have been bred pure in a direct line. Some- times the pure-bred stallion may not be so individually excellent as we could wish, but almost inevitably, if he is well bred and of a good family, he will transmit successfully the charac- teristics of his breed and in many in- stances some of the superior qualities of his ancestors. Always a pure-bred stallion must be employed, if the breeding operation is to be a true grad- ing up process, and the better bred and more perfect the individual stal- Hon is the more quickly will his grade e De-Gra os : 249 pte progeny attain the type, character, quality and valuable attributes of the pure breed. This grading-up process everywhere should be patiently and persistently followed in practice, the males being each time castrated for the work- horse market and the females re- tained for the furtherauce of the im- proved horse-breeding operations. The grade stallion may be, and sometimes is, a “good looker” and pos- sessed of superior vigor, by reason of hard work in harness, but there is lit- tle if any breed prepotency back of his good looks. His pleasing appearance often is like the thin layer of silver that gives a plated article its look of reality, ‘but merely covers base metal; and as the base material predominates in the makeup of both, so in the scrub and low-grade horsé the prepotency comes from the predominant elements which were derived from scrub ances- tors and merely gives the owner the power of transmitting like undesirable elements. He may be stronger than many a pampered pure-bred, so far as begetting numerous rugged offspring is concerned, but he stamps all of them indelibly with the seal of the ‘scrub. There is much need of making some of our pampered pure-bred stal- lions more vigorous and virile by work, exercise and sensible feeding, that their colts may be more numerous and robust, but the unnecessary weakness of some pure-bred stallions is an insuf- ficient argument for the general use of grades throughout the state. Water cannot rise above its level; neither can the grade or scrub stallion, however muscular and _ hardy, raise the “blood level” of his progeny above that of his own veins in quality. The use of such sires, therefore, usually means no progress, no grading-up and on, but mere maintenance of a dead level with a possibility of retrogres- sion where unsound, unfit horses are employed. DR. A. S. ALEXANDER, Veterinarian, Wisconsin. Wastes.—Two things cause expense in the poultry business. The first is loss or waste; the second feed. Pre- vent waste and make a pound of feed produce the greatest possible gains and you have solved the mystery of prof- its in the poultry ‘business. Cleanli- ness is more than half the battle in preventing loss. Keep the lots, the yards and the houses as clean as you can and you will find that the losses of last year will be reduced 50 per cent. Put Your Whole Heart in iIt.—A half-hearted effort will never bring suc- cess in poultry-raising or any other line of endeavor. If you expect to ac- complish anything worth while you will have to be an enthusiast and get a hustle on you. If we could raise prize-winners or extra heavy layers without giving any special thought to mating or care in rearing the fowls, what encouragement would there be for the fellow who works hard? Keep Them from Getting Sick.—Do not waste too much time trying to cure a fowl afflicted with some disease that you do not understand. Better kill them at once unless they are valu- able exhibition specimens. Keep your fowls clean and dry and there will not be much danger from disease. Late Hatch Chickens.—With many poultry raisers the chief objection to late hatched chicks is their suscepti- bility to the ravages of mice, lice and chiggers A Tolerant Manner. When another asserted something that I thought &n error, I denied my- self the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in the proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there “appeared” or “seemed” to me some difference, etc. The modest way in which I proposed | my opinions procured them a readier reception, and less contradiction; 1 had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right— Benjamin Franklin. Blobbs—“A woman over in Jersey gave birth to quadruplets the other day.” Slobbs—“Yes, the stork some times makes a goose of himself.” | OPTIMIST CLUB HAS SOME 20,000 MEMBERS Organization Has Grown Fast in Six Months. | 4 The Optimist Club of America, Will- iam J. Robinson, president, although Jess than six months old, has a mem- bership of something like 20,000 per- sons. In it are the governors of many states, including Charles E. Hughes of New York, Curtis Guild of Massa- chusetts, Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, E. W. Hoch of Kansas and Charles S. Deneen of Illinois. The chairman of the executive committee is John C. Cutley of Utah. Mr. Robinson, who is a mining ex- pert, is the originator of the Optimist club. He himself is called the op- timist-at-large. The optimist club was started by Mr. Robinson last fall, when financial conditions throughout the country WILLIAM J. RODINSON ou Founder and Head of an institution born of the financial stringency of ‘October, ‘1907. had a discouraging effect upon man- kind in general. At a club in Salt Lake City, Mr. Robinson found a lot of the bluest human beings he ever had seen together. He said afterward that they were groaning over the de- pressed conditions with so much per- sistency that they themselves were having anything but a beneficial in- fluence on the times. Mr. Robinson at once’ formed these men into a club, whose principal ex- use for existence was that it must conduct itself through its members, all of whom agreed to look only on the optimistic side of things, so that its influence upon the people of the coun- try as a whole would be a brightening one. The club began with the following cheering definition, which it has con: tinued to stick to: “?Twixt optimist and pessimist The difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut, The pessimist the hole.” The club has branches in most of the big cities of the country, including Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, St. Louis, Kansas City, Duluth, Seattle, St. Paul and Minneapolis. MAN WHO HUSTLES BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES TO PRISON -- -@ 9 | | INSPECTOR SCANTLEBURY, The chief cf the house of commons police, who has had the painful duty, perhaps not unmixed with a certain amount of pleasure, of escorting more suffragettes to prison than any other representative of the London force. Won’t Stand for It. Church—I hear she is going to open one of the quick lunch places. Gotham—You don’t mean it ? “Yes, and she says she'll not have any seats in it.” “Y’m afraid the public will not stand Quick Results, “Can you tell me how I can get to a hospital?” asked an excited individ- ual, shakily. “Sure,” replied the policeman. “Dodge into Wall street and yell ‘Hurrah for Roosevelt.!’” Big Pennsylvartia Oak. A monster rock oak’ tree was re- cently cut in Juniata township, Hun- tington county. Its dimensions were as folows after having been cut down and peeled: The circumference of the butt was 12 feet 7 inches, or a diameter of about 4 feet; the diameter at the end of the last log, or 62 feet from the butt, was 22 inches; no limbs were on the tree within 60 feet of the ground. The logs were meas- ured and the amount of lumber that can be made is 2,190 feet board meas- ure, and twelve crossties can be cut from the limbs. The bark will amount to from one and one-half to one and three-quarters cords. An Explanation. “How long has this restaurant been open?” asked the would-be diner. “Two years,” said the proprietor. “T am sorry I did not know it,” said the guest. “I should be better off if I had come here then.” “Yes?” replied the proprietor, very much pleased. ‘How is that?” “J should probably have been served by this time if I had,” said the guest, and the entente cordiale vanished. Your Druggist Will Tell You That Murine Eye Remedy Cures Eyes, Makes Weak Eyes § *t Smart. Soothes Eye Pain Saving Father’s Feelings. The Bridegroom (on the return from the honeymoon)—Halloa, what’s this? All the bil!s for your trousseau! Why, I thought your father paid these. Bride—It is the custom, dear. But he thought you would rather do it than give him the humiliation of bor- rowing the money from you.—Judge. EROS okt ASS aes We want your CREAM ship us to-day. MILTON DAIRY CO.’ St. Paul. Minn. He Liked This Camphor. Little Harry had not been talking many months. when he expressed him- self this way on occasion. He had | often smelled of camphor, but one day | got a bottle of perfumery and was de- lighted. “Mamma,” he said, “this fun- | ny camphor makes me good breath- | ing.” | WE SEL & buy Furs & Hid Wri N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minn He Wanted Her to Be Happy. | An individual of the Weary Willie | type was given 10 cents by a philan- | thropic lady, who said, as she handed him the money: “J am not giving you this because you begged, but for my own pleasure.” “Oh, ma’am,” replied the tramp, “make it a quarter and thoroughly en- joy yourself.” HOW TO PR! ROOFS; Valuable information quest. Maire Paint Co., M Perfectly Lovely. “Physical culture, father, is perfect- ly lovely. To develop the arms I grasp this rod by one end and move it slowly from right to left.” “Well, well,” exclaimed her father; “what won’t science discover? If that rod had straw at the other end you'd be sweeping.” It Cures While You Walk Allen’sFoot-Ease forcornsand bunions, hot, sweaty callous aching feet. 2c all Druggists. Nothing Doing. Woman—Now that I have fed you, are you going without doing your work? Tramp—Oi couldn’t worruk on an impty stumach, mum; an’ Oi nivir wurruk on er full one. So there yez be! Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in- flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. '25ca bottle- Idle Curiosity. “Why are you calling up the various hospitals?” “My friend Snigglebat assured me he’d pay me $5 to-day or break a leg, and I want to find out which leg he broke.” fi WE PAY HIGH PRICE FOR CREAM. The Crescent Creamery Co., St. Paul. Added a Little Sulphur. Doctor—Did your husband follow my directions? Did he take the med- icine I left for him religiously? Patient’s Wife—I’m afraid not, doc- tor; he swore every time I gave him a dose. As Usual. De Style—You say Miss Gotrox is a clever ice skater. Can she cut the figure eight? Gunbusta—No; but she cuts the fig- ure seven, reduced from eight. SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by | these Little Pills. They also relieve Dis- | tress from Dyspepsia, In- digestionand Too Hearty Eating. A perfect rem- | edy for Dizziness, Nau- | sea, Drowsiness, Bad | Taste in the Mouth, Coat- | ed Tongue, Pain in the | Side, TORPID LIVER. | They regtilate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE,’ Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature (teewktrd | women only, and are the letters kept | over one million, one | might just as well regain REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. THE COME AND SEE SIGN This sign is permanently attached to the front of the main building of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. What Does This Sign Mean ? It means that public inspection of the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. Itmea: that there is nothing about the b iness which is not “open and aboy board.” “It means that a permanent invita- tion is extended to anyone to come and verify any and all statements made in the advertisements of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound made from roots and herbs — with- out drugs ? Come and See. Do the women of America continu- ally use as much of it as we are told ? Come and See. Was thete ever such a person as Lydia E. Pinkham, and is there an; Mrs. Pinkham now to whom sic woman are asked to write? Come and See. Is the vast private correspondence with sick women conducted by strictly confidential ? Come and See. Have they really got letters from hundred thousand women correspondents ? Come and See. Have they proof that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has cured thousands of these women ? Come and See. This advertisement is only for doubters. The great army of women who know from their own personal experience that no medicine in the world equals Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ills will still go on using and being ben- efited by it; but the poor doubting, suffering woman must, for her own sake,be taught confidence,forshealso her health. Tolstoi’s “Simplicity.” Tolstoi’s wife, who watches over him as tenderly as if he had never declared marriage to be vile, sees to it that he is not deprived of creature comforts. Under his shaggy outer clothing he wears the finest linen. Though his food be simple, it is of the best, and is cooked with all the skill of a Parisian chef. Because of his old age he does not detect the kindly imposition that is practiced on him. Ill news travels fast when it is go- ing to a doctor. ee NY DODDS ") 4. Z ros = = TOILET ANTISEPTIC Keeps the breath, teeth, mouth and body antiseptically clean end free from un- healthy germ-life id disagreeable odors, which water, soap and tooth preparations alone cannot do. A germicidal, disin- fecting and deodor- izing toiletrequisite of exceptional ex- cellence and econ- omy. Invaluable bo for inflamed eyes, § throat and nasal and uterine catarrh. At drug and toilet stores, 50 cents, or by mail postpaid. 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