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Established 1899 WORK OF RICHARD BAKER HOSPITAL An Expert Visits it and Gives His Favorable Impressions already has a fine record Tiie Equipment Perfect for Taking tare of Any Case, and the Hospi tal Corps a Most Able One - Death and Modern Fight Against It Written for the Democrat by Dr. R. Wood Brown In the midst of life we are in death; also in the midst of life we are in debt. In fact there are many who fear their creditors more than they do the grim reap er The vast majority of humans fear death. It does not seem to make any difference whether they are orthodox or unbelievers. To some death has no terror, as was demonstrated by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war. The Mohammedans like wise in their religious frenzy or fanaticism are now alsb demon strating that to them death is for Allah, the Arabic name 'for the Supreme Being in use among the Mohammedans, A well person does not worry much about the separation of the soul from the body but when he become sick then he yells for a doctor and, it is many times a batcie royal between the M. D. and Oarcn. If the M. D. wins the fight he sometimes gets the same fee that the mythological gentle man gets. We personally know of a case where the patient said: "Only get me well doctor and I will work my fingers to the bone to pay you every cent/' The patient recovered, M. D. whistled for his coin. If the fee had been a dog, the pup might have matetialized. As it was the M. D.'s whistling did, not bring one simoleon rolling toward him. . . While death is painless, it is to a certain extent interesting. One moment we are animated, sei.- tient creatures, the next moment we are but a mass of matter com posed of Carbon, Oxggen, Hydro gen and Nitrogen. In the change we call death and know no more, there are really two changes, one a physical and the other psychical . The former we are fairly conversant with, the latter we except on faith.. The Duration of Liie Personally we do very little to ward off death, but the law steps in and makes demands. They have been obeyed (many times under compulsion) until now the average duration of life is about 36 years while 50 years ago it was about 33 years. Sanitation, sanitary homes, pure food, but above all the fight against germs has lengthened the aver age span between the cradle and the grave. Antitoxins and vac cination have reduced the __ death rate the world over, and if civi lized persons will take half as much care of their health as they do of their dresses and coats they will stand a better chance of longevity. There are very few persons upon this terra firma wno know how to live properly, and when they get sick they cry for the doctor first and the par son last. This earth is about 400,000,000 years old and ever hince the pianet became cool enough there has been some form of life upon it. Every solitary thing that has lived has died, and tvery thing or creature from the protozoa to the elephant: most at sometime pay the penalty for being born, jjiii win £> expression, the law of the survival of the fittest, isan apt one; it has been applicable since liie commenced. We find it in ail species UD to man or man down to vitalized mud. This law simply means a struggle I'oi exis tence or in other words a con tinuous fight against death. Self preservation is the first law of Nature, and a fundamental civil law. Nature tries to enforce it to perpetuate the species, anc man tries to enforce it, not sc much to perpetuate the species, as co save himself. Man is the only animal that does noliivefivt times as long as it takes to get his uruwth. This is radically wrong and can be charged up t improper attention to health am excesses befo>e maturity i reached. Health is like a goot wife. We fail many times t appreciate, until we lose. Throws Dow the Gauntlet Accidents are a fruitful eau&- of in jrtaiity, but surgery has be com SD exact a science couplet with aseptic procedures, thai traumatism lost much of it> tenor.-, and man's fight Qtuth is victorious, and we here ' •• r ' • ■ - , Ji.v inoiwinrL/iiii."; in Hickory have an institution which throws down the gauntlet todeath. This institution is the Richard-Baker Hospital, owned and managed by Dr. J. H. She ford, This Hospital and grounds appropnate two acres The main structure is brick, stone trimm ings, 70 by 40 feet and three st« >.;•> Njrh and cor tuns 18 private rooms, dining room a modern culinary department and steam apparatus which furnishes steam-heat in win # ter and hot and cold water all the time. The fea thered pipeds furnish fresh eg.«rs, the loving kine-milk and cream for the patients. We have been toid by some of the patients tha( they had never tasted such de licious milk and cream. The are commodious, hospital size and the ceilings very high 12 feet. Square corners are con spicious by their absence, for tin corners of the wall and ceilings are round, which prevents the accumulation of dirt and dust. The ceilings and wafl3 of the (rooms have 5 coats of enamels; the operating rooms for major and minor surgery have 7 coat of enamel. Not much use to swat the fly in this hospital fo; I did not see one. Perhaps they slipped on these walls and dis located their cervical vertebra Excellent Arrangements. There are two modern bath i rooms and toilet rooms on second and ihird floors. The floors are so arranged in sections that one part of a floor or story is kepi private, and patients in one part need not know what is going or. in another. If a serious case comes in at the basement a large eleva tor carries the patient up stair? and no other patient can know. The elevator cage is made of white polished wood similar to grill work which gives a much better impression than black iron bars. It is sometimes unpleas ant enough to go to a hosf•; tal without being reminded of pri son cells. The operating rooms are bijoux of perfection. r J , hpr>Tl'> forryV; > * • - - i i'-ziij lo J.i t .!« . j What I saw (apparatus and j instruments) indicated to me that also in this room operations and treatments on the eye, ear, nose and throat were performed. Everytihng was aseptic, including the ceiings and walls with round corners and ! its 7 coats of enamel. The operating room for maj >r! surgery is on the third floor. It is some what more elaborate than the one on the second floor. : Sunlight through large windows j illumes the room, while a sky-; light throws the sunlight direct ly upon the nickle plated operat ing table. Foot levers in the floor under the porcelain wash stand, gives hot or cold water as desired. This obviates the opera tors handling faucets with anti septically clean hands. In this room are three very handsome nickle plated sterilizers for in struments, cotton and gauzj.! This dry sterilizing is by means of heat from electricity. A cabi- i net contains sealed packages of j cotton, gauze, etc. When any particular kind is needed it is re-; sterilized for the occasion. This ! major operating room like the 1 smaller one has rounded corners and 7 coats of enamel on the walls and ceiling. The Hospital Corps. The basement has 10 rooms of; which 4 will be utilized in the j future for hospital purposes j One hundred and sixty patients | have been operated upon or treat- j ed in one month. The whole! building is lighted by electricity, I and beside each bed, in the wail is an electric push button, so j that any patient can call nurse at any time of day or night. This hospital is iignt, airy and , clean and needs no Dante's in scription over its front door, i Drs. J. H. Shuford is ably assist- j ed by the head nurse. Miss Azile j Davidson, who has full charge in i Dr. Shuford's absence. Miss Davidson's assistants are the Misses Aiken and Row 0 . AH ~ e graduate nurses, Miss n and Miss Aiken having graduat ed from Dr. Long's Sanitarium n Statesville. \ We do not wish to throw aj y; orchids at ourself when ve vvri e -that we have seen many h- -- pitalsboth in Europe and in t: >s country, but we have never se a a more compact or modern 1n,3- oiiaj than the Richard B»ltr Hospital of Hicl'ory. It is tqi p ed to fight death, and is, iot ?verytime successful, but enough to warrant the patronage and moral support of every citizen of North Carolina, especially Cat awba County. Can Handle Any Case. I have specially refrained from writing anything about death HICKORY, INI. C. s THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912 HOW JOHN W. ROBINSON RAISED 93 BU. OF CORN TO THE ACRE ON 5 ACRES Written for the Democrat by John W. Robinson. We all know that fve first learned of corn from the Indians and that the Indians only had crook ed sticks to work the ground with. The field lam telling ycu cut was the first plgce settled by white men in western North Caro | iira and by no means new grot 1 c), or fcettem land either, Just as common a field as any farmer owns. Several years ago I grew only about 20 bushels of corn per acre on this same field. But since the Indians were here this field has been plowed by various farming implements from their wocden crooked sticks to the stick of dynamite, course the seed corn used now has been improved as much since then as the method of cultivating.. ,This field of 3 9-10 acres of upland has been in pasture for years with a good sod of what is known as Japan and white clover, one of our best nitrogen gathering plants and land improvers. This piece of land and a'so the bottom piece I Will mention was given one coat of manure. The far mer broken with a two nor.v: plow followed by a twj h3r33 subi/nec abrit 10 inches deep. Fur iovvs broken and edged as much as possible not turned over flat. This was done to catch and hold the winter rains. There is enough rainfall during the winter to grow a summer crop if we could hold the moisture. i The field was left in this shape until spring, then harrowed down, broadcast with 200 pounds per acre of 16 per cent acid. Then disced and harrowed again. Easter Monday one acre of this was dynamited by the demonstrator for the Jefferson Powder Co. using 1-2 stick of 33 per cent dynamite every 15 feet. On April the 25th this field was planted with Batt's Prolific Seed C:>rn, rows every 3 1-2 feet, then harrowed. The weeder was run over it every week until the corn was a foot high. It was then thinned to about 15 inches in the row. On account of a wet season the heart worm left a bad stand. Shallow cultivation about every 10 days until past the roasting ear stage. During this time I used four applications of fertilizer and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda one rainy day. This was donated by the Royster Guano Co. for demonstration. Acre No. 1 harvested 108 bushels and 4 pounds of corn, cost $30.40 making the cost for grow ing it 28 cents per .bushel not counting manure. Acre No. 2 was treated in the same way as No. 1 except the dynamiting. This harvested 98 bush els, cost $20.40 making the cost for growing it 20 cents per bushel. Pa mainder of field, 1 9-10 acres, not so heavily fertilized, yeilded 171 or 90 bushels per acre, cost $23 70, making it a cost of 14 cents per bushel. 1 1 10 acres of bottom land was sown in peas last summer, vines taken off and sown in rye lastr fall. This spring the rye was turned under when about 2 feet high; used same manure, less subsoil ir.g tl an upland. Ihis yielded 88 bushels or SO tusheis per acre, costs $12.98, making the cost per bushel of growing, 14 cents. This makes an average for the five acres, 467 bushels or 93.4 bushels per,, acre, at an ayerage cost of 18 cents per bushel for growing it. I have shown you the result of dynamite and fertilizer. 01 fertilizer without dynamite, also land with little feitiiizer against land heavily fertilized. Bottom land against upland. This shows that the upland will beat the bottom if properly tended. These acres were measured by the county surveyor. Also measuring and weighing of corn done by two disinterested parties. If the heart worms had not made a bad stand for me, I feel sure I would have averaged 100 bushels per acre on the five acres. I feel it due the dynamite company to say that the land was too wet when dynamited, and also had a wet spring. 1 think if it hod been dry we would have found more difference in acres Nos, 1 and 2. As it is we find 10 bushels more oh the acre that was sufcsoiled with dynamite. Now the average cost of growing corn has been estimated at $lO per acre, so if any man makes only 10 bushels per acre, it has cosc him $1 per bushel to make it. An 1 there are many such as one man who was at rr.y place while we were gathering mine who confessed that he made only 70 bushels on 7 acres.- And he was an average farmer. There are many who will not confess. Men, measure up, see what ycu are doing. Oui average yield for North Carolina is only about 18 bushels per acre, making It cost us farmers about 55 1-2 cents per bushel for raising it. We must do better. Does it pay to subsoil? Does it pay to fertilize? Dees it pay to dynamite? Does it pay to make large yields? Does it pay to farm at all? Does manure pay? . We must study these questions. from a religious view point, be- j cause we all have so many opin-; ons that it s ems sometimes very! iiffiicult to harmonize. Perhaps it. some future time I mav have «i opportunity to write my rea urns why I do not believe death ends all. This article which I write .vith much pleasure is solely to 3ring before the readers ot the hickory Democrat the fact that the Richard Baker Hospital is ready, and can take care of an\ ease sent to its care. It is one >f Hickory's institutions created tocornb?t sickness which so many f imes results in death. There •ire many cases of sickness and iceident that cannot be taken ;are of properly outside ot a well maintained, modern hos pital which robs deatn ot it? prospective sting and grave )f seeming victory. Vote Your Convictions On every hand I find scores of the best men saying that they 1 orefer J arise Ciark, and would vote for him excent they thought he had no chance. If Judge Clark is defeated in this fight, it will be because the friends of the other candidates are overcoming the natural feeling of the people ! for Judge Clark by this argument. 5 The truth is that most of the people in North Carolina wish him over either of the other can didates, but they do not wish to lose their votes, and have a pre ference as to the other two. It seems to me that our own _ man hood, and our feelings of justice ought to require us to vote for the best man, without regard to the result. If we vote our senti ments and our real beliefs, we Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S . CASTORIA can leave it to the balance and let the results take care of them selves. The argument that Judge Clark has no chance is losing its force, as the people over -the State are now announcing that they will support him because they prefer him, and the result will be that the people of the State will get their choice. Judge Clark answers the re cent forecast of the election by reciting the fact that the same people were opposing him for Chief Justice in 1902, and pre dicted his defeat by £5,000 ma jority and he won by 62,000 majority. Bruce Craven points >ut that the Clark campaign has been conducted with the farmers. and mechanics who consitutei 83 per cent of the voters, while j the two other candidates have! confined their attention mainly I to the daily papers and the 17 per j cent, and concludes with the sum mary of the situation that the people are coming to Judge Clark and the size of his vote when announced at the close of election j day will be a paralyzing shock to North Carolina political pro phets. 1 ' Judge Clark has faced all kinds of combinations against him, and HE HAS NEVER YET BEEN DEFEATED. J. W. Pless, A Log on the Track »•{ the fast express means serious rouble ahead if not removed, so loss of appetite. It means lack of -vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fails, take Electric Bitters quickly to overcome ihe cause by toning m ip the stomach and curing the indgestion. Michael Hessheimer of Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but six bottles of Electric Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give fure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at C. M. Shuford, Moser & Lutz and Grimes. 1 Utt Social Circles f The Wednesday afternoon Book Club began its sixth series at the home of the president Mrs, E. B. Cline, Oct. 16th. Mrs. Cline, always noted for her cordial hospitality, was more than usually gracious as she wel comed the club in her new home on 13th. ave. The spacious hal), library and parlor were beauti ful in their elegant simplicity and decorations of dahlias and cosmos. The book for discussion was Mary Austin's "Promised Land." This autobiography of a Russian, Jewess immigrant and her impres sions of our "Promised Land" is one of the most remarkable nov els of recent year 3. A bright and personal letter to Mrs. Cline from the author intensified the interest in her book. The social feature of the after noon was a delicious six course luncheon in the dining room, stately in rich old mahogany, silver and glass. At each place round the snowy table athwart j which evening sun beams played was a dainty Irish Crochet bow a memento of the good cheer a "Roadside." Mr. Bartlett Coffey died at his home near Patterson last Friday and was buried at Harpers Chap el Saturday, Rev. C. M. Pickens conducting the funeral services. He was nearly 71 years old and had been a member of the Bap tist church for 45 years.—Lenoir Topic. "I suffered habitually from constipa tion Doan's Regalets relieved and strengthened the bowels so that they have been regular ever since," —E" Davis, Grocer, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 The Sad Story of the Farms New York World. Tei years of unexampled pros perity for the protected trust' have left marks of debt and ae pendency upon American farm ers. The story is told in a Census Bureau bulletin now at hand. Note is made of 6,361, 502 farms of all kinds in the Unites States. Of 3,948,722 ~of them 1,327,439 are mortgaged, an in crease in 1910 of nearly 18 pei cent, over 1900, and 2,621,283 art not mortgaged, an increase ol only 4 1-2 per cent. Of the remaining 2,412,780 farms the bureau discreetly makes no report on the subject of mortgages. Of these 58,104 are operated by managers and 2,354.676 are occupied by tenants. The bureau has something to say about mortgages not being necessarily an indication of hard ship and about greater increases in the value of farm lands than in the aggregate of debt, but it does not and it cannot explain or excuse the appalling growth of tenantry. No matter what the bureau crats at Washington may say, these figures, taken all together, show where the blight of privi lege, plutocracy, jingoism and extravagance has fallen. We have agriculture, once the freest and proudest in the world, bending under growing debt. We have one-third of those who pursue it unable to own the soil they ttITT Who owns the millions of rent ed farms? They are owned chiefly by the money-lenders whose mortgages have been fore closed. i State News The Lexington Mirror Com pany has closed a deal with the Kent-Coffey Manu fact« ri n g Company of Lenoir for a site near its factory. Upon which the new company will build, expend ing between $15,000 and $20,000 in the erection of a plant, and giv ing employment to a number of people. Miss Annie McDowell was married to Dr. Edwin M. Gayle at Morganton Oct. 23. She is the dkught=r of Mr. J. C. Mc- Dowell. After a northern trip they will be at the -State Hos pital, where Dr. Gryle is one of the assistant physicians. Mr. J. O. Peterson, spent Sun day in High Point, visiting his sister, Miss Lois who is steno grapher for a large manufactur ing plant there. WALTER CLARK TO THE PEO PLE OF NORTH CAROLINA My Friends and Fellow Citizens: Your choice of your United States Senator will deeply affect your welfare. It ought not to be procured by agencies employed to control your votes. The increase in the production of wealth has been marvelous, in deed nearly double that of ten years ago. National legislation, controlled by the Special Interests, has transfered the wealth cre ated by you to a few so that there are now over one thousand men in this country who posses from ten million up to one thousand million each and 3 percent of our population own more than the other 97 per cent. Not only this but the same legislaton has transferred the wealth created in the South, which has been retarded in its development by the discrimination, to the enrichment of other sections. The discrimination in freight rates against North Carolina amounts to $12,000,000 annually. The tobacco tax takes from the farmers 8 cents on every pound they raise and deprives this State of $7,000,- 000 a year, while twenty-five States pay no tobacco tax whatever. The war contribution of $5,000,000 yearly for Federal pensions, almost none of which comes back to us, ought to cease now that it is nearly half a century since the war. The contribution by each State for pensions shouid be returned to that State to be distributed by it among its own citizens and their widows. Neither of my competitors during the twelve years each of them served in Congress has done anything for the relief of the people of this State from the above annual burdens of $22,000,000. Each of you pay your part of this tribute. Do you wish it stopped? On 13 Mav, 1910, Mr. Simmons voted against a bill to prohibit freight discrimination and to send the matter back to the Inter state C mmerce Commission which had theretofore done nothing for our relief, and which has done nothing since, and about the same time the tax on tobacco was raised from 6to 8 cents a pound—an annual addition of $2,000,000 yearly Upon our tobacco raisers. The tobacco tax maintains the existence of the Tobacco Trust by preventing farmers and others from munufacturing tobacco just as the protective Tariff creates the other Trusts. In the Senate I shall stand firmly for the removal of the and other burdens upon our people. The sharp contention between the friends of my two opponents renders it advisable for the party not to nominate either of them. Ths great contest between the People and the Special Interests must be fought out in the U. S. Senate and there I can do fifty times as much for your good as in the position which I now hold by your good will. Your Friend, Oct. 25, 1912. * WALTER CLARK Give Us A. Y. tyE-A. the Editor of the Democrat: In travelling over the state and constantly coming in contact with the different Young Men's Chris tian Associations I feel more and more the need of such an organi zation for our fast growing city. What has become of the move ment which was started here early in the summer? Why cant we before the firat of the year get together organize and start the work to going. We should not try at first to erect an ex pensive building, some second story of a building in the busi ness part of the city will do for a few years until we can raise the necesary funds for the erection of a regular equipped Y. M. C. A. building. We can equip a good size building with shower baths, gymnasium, swimming, pool, reading room and other con veniences with very little cost. lam sure that enough young men of the city will be interested enough to join at the start to pay dues enough for the equipment of the building. The need of a Y. M. C. A. for Hickory was more visibly im pressed upon my mind than ever after attending the annual ban quet in Asheville on last Friday night. The organization there now numbers more than two hundred of the best young men of the city.* It was an inspiration to mingle with them and to hear the masterful address of Dr. Snyder of Wofford College. Young men are naturally social beings and are going to seek some place where they can meet and mingle with their fellow beings. If there is not a place under Christian influence nine times out of ten they will go to the bad. We would like to hear from more of the citizens of Hickory as to their views in this matter. Let us bestir ourselves and see if we can't do something for the elevating and uplifting of our young merf. A. W. Cline Rev. F. K. Roof, of the St. Timothy .Pastorate will be away in South Carolina, from the 29 of this month till after the 2nd Sun day in Nov, He will visit hii aged father in Lexington Co., S. C. and attend the meeting of the Tennessee Synod which meet's near Chapin, S. C., including the 2nd Sunday of November, Rev. Prof. R. L. Fritz will preach for Mr. Roof at St. Tim othy the Ist Sunday at 11 a. m. And Rev. J. H, Wannemacher will preach at Bethlehem at 3 p. m.