REST AND THE OLD T B
ONE of the most powerful allies of
tlie germ of consumption, once 1(
gains a foothold in the lungs, is
exercise
To the average victim of tuberculosis
this may sound a little startling. That
U why we put it that way.
People generally believe, that a cer
tain amount of exercise is always ad
visable for an Invalid who is able to lx
up and about. Yet for the tubereu
Josis victim it is always a serious
question whether any exercise should
l>e taken.
Tuberculosis of the lungs, which used
Suppose .vou have an early stage of
t lie disease ami you ure living the open
air life, receiving wholesome foo<l and
good mcdicai care. You uiay feel pret
ty good and thiuk you need a certain
amount of exercise, such as walking.
Mut when you take even moderate ex
ercise the lung works harder,? moves
through a wider space. Consequently
delicate healing tissue is stretched or
torn, as a spider's web might be
stretched or torn, and you give the
germ, t lie disease, a chance to spread
Persons with "lung trouble." as tuber
culosis is too commonly called, cannot
reaize the vital ini|>ortance of prolong
ed rest in bed in the early stage of the
disease They feel aide to be up and
about, and they imagine It "weakens"
to be known only as consumption? be- ;
cause it was not recognized until so far
advanced that the patient's body was
l>eing consumed by the disease ? nat
urally tends to recovery. Nature will
cure practically every case if she gets
a fair chance. The trouble is that not
every patient gives Nature a fair
chance to help him.
No chronic disease is more frequently .
cured to stay cured than tuberculosis j
of the lungs, intelligently treated by
the physician.
The very pathology of tuberculosis j
is nothing but an effort on the part of
the lungs to wall off and localize the
disease to one limited area, to protect
the rest of the body against the germs
and their poison, to rob the germs in
the lung of nutriment. This is what
consolidation or infiltration of the lung
in the affected part means.
CURING TUBERCULOSIS.
Rest, fresh air and proper food under a competent doctor's direction cure the
old T. B.
the body to lie in bed weeks or months
unnecessarily and without exercise
But the fortunate patient who has tried
out t lie real rest cure knows that it
does not weaken. On the contrary, it
adds wonderfully to energy and light
ing power.
When there is fever? that is, a teui
perature which rises above the normal.
08? or 99*. at any time in the day or
night? then probably absolute rest in
bed is the best .thing for the patient.
Sitting around, "taking it easy," is not
enough. The lung moves less when
you are lying down than when you are
sitting up.
One of t Ik? chief reasons why ixitients
pick up in strength, weight and health
when they enter a tuberculosis sana
torium is because there the physicians
know the value of prolonged rest in
j bed in t lie open air.
Watering Hogs.
We have had a pood many years of
experience in raising hogs with pleas
ing results and have always been very
careful in seeing that their water sup
ply was the purest to be had on the
farm. It is just as important to fur
nish hogs plenty of good clean water
as it is any other animal. Some men
are particular about the drinking wa
ter for their cows and other stock
and for themselves but consider any
thing to be good enough for their
hogs. This is a mistake. If furnished
with plenty of good water the hog
will more than repay for the trouble
with a goodly gain in pounds and
many grateful grunts of satisfaction.
The question of the amount of wa
ter is usually left to the hog to de
cide for himself and this is a pretty
good way to settle the matter. One of
our greatest authorities on swine,
Prof. Wm. Dietrch, says that a hog
will drink too much water during hot
weather and not enough during cold
and that better results can be ob
tained by forcing him to take a defi
nite amount according to his size by
mixing the water with his feed so
that he will be sure to get enough
and not too much. ^
But it will require a good deal of
work to determine just what the
right amount is as we will have to
consider the fact that feeds contain
more or less water to begin with and
the needs of the pigs will keep chang- j
ing all of the time as they increase
in size. Also there will be some work
connected with getting the pig to
take just the proper amount each
day. So I think those of us who are
attempting to produce pork as eco
nomically as possible do pretty well in
supplying plenty of the best quality
of water and allowing Mr. Hog to use
his hog Tense as to how thirsty he is.
A* to the proper time to supply the
water, that can be left for the hog to
decide if a supply is always accessi
ble. Bui if the water is pumped to
tfiem or^ carried and poured into
troughs I consider it a pood plan to
water just before each meal. The
stomach of the hog is comparatively
small and if he does his drinking af
ter eating a full meal there is danger
of part of the feed being washed
from the stomach before digestive
juices have had sufficient time to act
upon it as they should.
This subject of watering hogs may
seem like a small matter and it may
not be of as much importance as some
others connected with the growing of
swine such as feeding and breeding,
but most of us spend nearly all our
time looking after those bigger
things and do not give enough thought
to some of the lesser details, where
as our time should be divided accord
ing to the importance of our differ
ent operations among all the subjects
pertaining to our work. The watering
isn't such a small matter either for
practically one-half the weight of the
hog when he walks over the scales
is made up of water, while many times
this amount has to be used during his
life to carry the food to the prrts of
the body where it is needed and in
removing the waste matter from the
tissues. ? Indiana Farmer.
Progress Toward Prohibition.
1. Nineteen years ago, in the war
with Spain, the colonel of a regiment
was allowed to decide whether intoxi
cating liquors should be sold in the
camp cantecn.
2. Several years ago the United
States government prohibited the sale
of liquor in the camp canteen.
3. About three years ago liquor
was driven from the chips of the
navy.
4. A few months ago Congress
made it a criminal offense to sell in
toxicating liquor to any mrn wearing
the uniform of the United States.
5. An order has b?en issued pro
hibiting saloons near the army camps.
Can any one fail to note the rising
tide against the saloon? It will not
ebb until the nation is saloonlcss for
| ever mo?e.? W. J. Bryan.
Rockefeller's Foundation.
Everything.
We receive for August a statement
of what the Rockefeller Foundation
has been doing in the war, and it
reads like a romance. The richest man |
in the world, when he first established
his Foundation, reserved the right to
each year give two million dollars in
his own way. In other words, he was
willing to let the greater part of his
wonderful gift "to promote the well
being of mankind throughout the
world" be disbursed as the officers of J
fhe Foundation saw fit, but he wanted
to throw a couple of millions of it
away to suit his own fancy. In his let
ter requesting this Mr. Rockefeller |
said:
"The Rockefeller Foundation was a
development into impersonal form of
my own personal plans of giving, fol
lowed for many years. While I desired
to have the directors of the Founda
tion free to use the funds as they
might se? fit, in making my last gift
I reserved the right to designate dur
ing my lifetime the specific objects to
which $2,000,000 of the income should
be given annually, my purpose being j
in this way to provide for the various
philanthropies more or less personal
to myself and related to the places of
my residence, to which I have been a
contributor in the past. Under the j
terms of the clause of my letter of
gift reserving this right it^ is stipu
lated that the objects must be within , p,
the corporate purpose of the F^ounda-juf
tion, and my designations are subject ! Q
to review by the board as to that j
feature."
T1 , l 1 ? 1*1 .1 1 1- A. A I M
nut even mis nm not iook rigni i"
the wonderful man, so last month hi
wrote the officers and told them he
wanted to quit that part and let them
handle the entire amount in war work.
He said:
"In view of the increasing demands
upon funds of the Foundation, espe
cially those arising in connection with
the grer.t war for human freedom in
which our country is now engaged,
which have led the Foundation to ap
propriate a part of its principal, as
well as all of its income, I hereby re
lease the conditions set forth in the
provisions quoted above and surren
der from this date all right to desig
nate the application of any portion of
income of the Foundation, and re
lease the Foundation from any des
ignations heretofore made which
have not already been paid."
This t.ppears to us a3 a wonder
ful thing. Old John has been used
as a universal pounding bag for
many years; he has been held up as
a demon, because he made good in
the game in which we are all en
gaged; but to see him take his big
snow ball that he has rolled through
a long life and turn it over, without
a string tied to it, and urge the
men selected by him to spend his
money on the war, to help the sol
dier, to assist in all ways possible ?
well, if it please your honor and
gentlemen of the jury, we stand un
covered in his presence. The total
disbursements of the Foundation
from January first to June thir
tieth was eleven million three hun
dred and fifty-one thousand two
hundred and eighty-six dollars and
two cents, all given by one man to
"promote the well-being of man
kind throughout the world," one of
the gifts being an unconditional
one of five million dollars to the
Red Cross.
Wonderful, indeed, has Rockefel
ler been, and more wonderful he is
being. Looks like he had been
chosen to horde the money as it
flowed along in order that when
great things were to be done this
pile of wealth which he only holds
in trust could be utilized. For a man
to labor as Rockfeller has labored;
to stand all the abuse that has been
piled upon him, and to walk along
in his old age, happy and contented,
and to know that he was taking his
money that had been entrusted to
him to help his fellow man, what
grander life could he have lived?
The rich man gets it in the neck
and elsewhere, but after all with
out Old Man Money Bags where
would we be? Doesn't this lfcist
skirmish to raise a few billion dol
lars to prosecute the war suggest
that maybe Money Bags is about the
best asset this country has? Looks
so to us, and we are willing to stand
on the proposition.
New Company at Kenly.
The Consumers' Milling Company,
of Kenly, was chartered Tuesday by
the Secretary of State. It starts with
?10,000 of its $50,000 capital paid in.
The incorporators are J. W. Harden,
J. II. Kirby and L. Z. Woodarcl.
FREE OF CHARGE.
Any adult suffering from cough,
cold or bronchitis, is invited to call
at the drug store of Creech Drug Co.,
and get absolutely free, a sample
bottle of Bosohee's German Syrup, a
soothing and healing remedy for all
lung troubles, which has a tuccessful
record of fifty years. Gives the pa
tient a good night's raet frte from
coughing, with free expectoration in
the morning. Regular sizes, 2.r> and
75 cents. For sale in all civilized
countries. ? Adv.