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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-7-12, Page 7Zi . 4 ri l E .dA .t, B: ER SLEEPING ON THE MAUL. '$epic (.'neer Stor°ces of the Sud Some philosopher has said that a pian with a strong mind can sleep or keep awake at will, Perhaps that philosopher never tried forced mar tell- ing in a tropical country. Owen S. Watkins, who .was in the last Sudan campaign with General 1` itehener, tells of seeing an adjutant and a. sen- ior major riding side by side on long marches, `so that if they fell asleep they could lean on each other tinct not fall from, their saddles, Mr. Watkins repeats some queer tstories that were told bine, without saying that they are true. But If truth is stranger than fiction, one of them, at least is strange enough 1:o be true. It is about a transport mister, who rode in the rear of his train .on cam- els. De had been very buay, and had slept little for a weak. Tbe day was hot, and for comfort he lead removed his helmet and belt. Then he tell asleeep. Pretty soon the jolting of his cannel unseated him; and he rolled to the soft ground unhurt, In ;Gaol, be wa.s not even awalreued. When at last ha did wake the cara- van togs out of sight, and he OOuld not tell how long he had been sleep- ing. There he was, the toaster of that column of transport camels, Melee .in the desert, unarmed, and with not even a covering for his head, As notliing was to be ,gained by *inning where he w44, he started to follow the trail, tend :had ,hurried aletu far come time before he rhotic- ed by the fast setting sun that lolled on ad baok, instead of ahead, on the trail of the camels. ITe turned, and, fortunately a camel and driver mom Met him. They had been sent bac k trona the caravan, lent to :searoh for Itiirl, strangely enough, but to Iclak for some article that had been lost by the way. AN ARM :+; URSE, The following is an rlitewer in tits Girls' Own Paper to a question which many women are asking now. The question is; "What are the necessary qualifications forge runty nurse. and what are her chit less Z :are the army Nurses and the Recd Oros uur.ses the same Candidates for the army nursing service. should apply to the Under Sec- retary of State, War Office, Pall nra11 S. 1,V. No num is alhpilinted to this ,service who is not between the ages of twenty-five and thirty -Live, and has had at lest three years' preliminary training and service combined in a ci'tfit general lues litaI. t. eauditlate* must also produce unimpeachable references as to health and character. On being nominated, the nurse un- dergoes a period of sir months' pro- bation at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, and will then probably, in times of peace, be employed at home. .Later she will bo sent for service abroad, and her period of such em- ployment is usually five years. The salary of a nursing sister Is 4830 far the first year of service, and rises by yearly additions of ;82 until :850 a year is reached. Lodging, board, and washing are also provided, or an allowance in lieu of board and wash- ing. A,, senior nursing sister, acting as superintendent, receives £20 a year in addition to a nursing sister's salary. The highest post in the army nursing servioe is that of lady superintendent of nurses at Netley, and the salary of this post is about on a par with that of the matrons of the most import- ant mportant London hospitals. Army nurses are obliged to retire at the age of sixty, but receive pensions. The Royal Red Cross is a aecora- tion, instituted in 1883, for rewarding zeal and devotion in providing for and nursing' sick and .wounded sailors, soldiers and others with the army in the field, on board ship, or in hospital. The greater number of women upon •whom the decoration has been confer- red have been army nurses, though a not insignificant proportion are ladies who have rendered service to 13ritish soldiers and sailors in various ways unco`nneeted with the regular military nursing organization. The order was founded for the pur- pose of publicly acknowledging the valsrf "Red Cross" work, by which - his primarily understood work perform- ed by voluntary societies organized for the relief of the sick and wounded in war. . In several of the chief countries of Europe, Red Cross societies have.eit- isted for many years, and in Great Britain the work of various societies is directed by the Central British Red Cross Committee, which' has been formed with the sanction of the Sec- retary of State for War. Thus it will be seen that, though an army nurse may receive the Royal Red Cross, and may be said, by virtue of her service, to be engaged in Red Cross work a Red Cross nurse is net necessarily a member of the army nursing service. but may be engaged by a voluntary society, although' she will be required topossess high qualifications; and to be approved by the military authori-`• ties, .- is Ou the Farm.- BACTERIA AND THE MILKMAN, 834c1te;ria are "miliaute plants, fre- quently not Havre than one -twenty five thousandth, pf an inch in diamee ter and pervading ttir, water and soul everywhere, They multiply so rapidly that a .single individual may produce 17,000,000 offspring in 24 hours, Their importance to agriculture consists in their power of breaking up various compounds and also .secreting from their both mega ollemieel products. The in of beet ria. which occur most commonly in neiik may be called dairy bacteria. They are so Common that they gannet be excluded from the milk by any practicable means, but their numbers may be reduced. Thera are tetany tlneomhnon kinds which when present may be excluded, aito-, nether by care and cleanllfiess.• So tar as concerns the milkman, bacteria are an t nnlitighted nuisance, being the cause of souring and other undesirable changes in the predict, The cotttwoir dairy bacteria as they grow produce a obe ttioal change in milk sugar and convert it into heti) acid, which gives a sour taste and fin, ally causes the wo.ilk to curdle. This change oannut be prevented, but it may be postponed by reducing the number of bacteria. The first Means of reduction is by -cleanliness, carefully washing the milk vessels, and more attention to the clean condition of the aoty. The second meata.s is by regale- tion of temperature. When freshly drawn, milk is Mond 100 deg. a tern-. perature favorable to the rapid growth of dairy baoteris. Cooling the milk irthmediately checks their growth greatly, It is necessary, however, to mediae size the need of immediate cuuJiug. Halt an hour or an hour after miiking 113$ cooling will bo tit very much Ie^is oldie high if done at once. During this half hour the bacteria have al - reedy become very numerous. It sonlatimes happens that night's mills beeps better than that of the next morning because the nii;lit s milk was cooled at once, while i+ornetirnes the morning's rank is put into the cans at once and taken into the city without cooling. The two ebiet agencies to prevent souring then are cleanliness and low temperatures. The sumo weans will prevent all the .ither bae- torial growth wbiah causes s. hue' milk, tainted milk amt other peculiar caudi- tion::. Milk from a healthy cow continue no bacteria, but by the time it has roach - ed the milk pail, it is already contam- inated to a surprising extent, contain- ing from a few thousand to 150,000 germs to the cubio inch, sometimes more. There are obtained chiefly from four sources; the air, the euilkor and his clothing, the milk pail, the tow. They are always floating in the al; especially if hay is fed dur- ing milking. They are likely to be on the hands of the milker to some ex - tont and his clothes are terming with them, 1 rilkpnils not completely clean contain a 'large number, but the greatest source of milk bacteria is the cow. The germs get into the teats through tbe milk ducts, and botweeu one milking and the next they multiply rapidly. The first milk taken from the gland washes these. bacteria into the milk pail. The filth of various kinds that sticks to the cow's sides is filled with incredible numbers of bacteria, and those, under careless, methods, sbower from the cow's body, mixed with hair, dirt and filth. Since the most important sources of bacteria are the milk vessels and the cow, the dairymen should direct special attention to these, taking 'care to clean the .milk pails thoroughly and not allowing cattle to, become caked with manure. If he will . groom the cow as he does his horse, if he will moisten the under parts of the cow before milking and if he will reject the first one or two jets of milk from each teat, he will greatly reduce the number of bacteria which get into the milk when milking and thus improve its quality and keeping powers. .. In fact, cleanliness directed to the cow is the most ' promising moans which the farmer has of reducing the number of bacteria in the milk. ERADICATING WILD MUSTARD, One of the worst weeds in. many parts of 'Canada is the wild mustard. It is an annual and is spread entire- ly by seeds, and owing to the great vitality of the seeds themselves, it is a very difficult weed to eradicate. The seeds once in the grountl live for years. and continue to germinate as they are brought to the surface. If they are present in small amounts, hand pulling is the best method of eradication. When tbe field is badly infested, the ground should be her- rowed or gang -plowed soon after hare vest. As soon , as ' the seeds have sprouted, cultivate thoroughly and at repeated intervals. Rib up withh a double mold board plow late in, the fall. Put , in a hoed crop the follow_ ting spring and cultivate thoroughly throughout the- growing season, Cul - And harrow after the crop is off and plow again with a double ,mold board plow. Sow the ground the next spring and seed with clover, pulling the weeds by hand out of the grata. crop. After one or two crops of hay are out, rotate again in the same way, tIREATD1ENT OF HORSE" COLIC. Forty years' practice as a country physician has campe]led, me to give advice for the farmers' sick azlilnals, writes Dr. A, G. Chace, Whisky is the very worst thing that can be. given, unless it is bicarbonate of soda. The only remedy that need ever be given it used in any reasonable time is spirits of ether. One-half ounce of this in a pint of warm water swear:_ ened, repeated in half to three-quar- ters of an boor if, needed, is all I have lever found necessary. I never lost but one case, and in that one a halt "pint or more of whisky had been given e couple hours before I saw the horse, which died within five minutes of my arrival. In the absence of the ether, gee of sweet spirit$ of niter May be used. wit#,1 egtlal suceess. This is the spirits of nitrous ether and may be given in varrYater as with ether, in the absence of anything better, hot water internally and externally is proper tre:ttulent, LEVEL CULTIV'.AT1ON FOR HOED CROPS. This is winning now advocates every , year, especially in corn crop, when grown on well drained land. Level t eultivatiou has many things to re- commend it. It enables you to des.— troy the weeds eiose to the plants with greater Ifaci:lity and with Less labor. l 'It makes gathering the crop much 1, easier and less strain and ,jar on the ;machinery. The greatest advaut-1 r age of an is leaving the land SO level I tor' the neat plowing, as it is a most G disagreeable task to plow cora stubble" I ground that bas been left in ridfi ee,� The billing Proe esg will n9 doubt still bo tullowei on laud that is not I drained as properly to that cane a kers, rain would either drown out the plants or leave the soil immediate- ly about then cold, sour and not suit- able for plant .growth. THE COWBOY'S PROOF. Iliµ nerl.t,ntnneittpb1 Bred that Ler Had No* .but at th(' rtra%i:enitta to Rt►1. 'Jack" Vance, a cowboy from the ranch of the Butte Greek Cattle Com- pany, was on trial at Alliance, Neb., on a charge of shooting et a. brake - mail on the :Burlington ltailr'oad with Intent to kill. lie had received his pay a few days before and was en- gaged at the time of the shooting, in the picturesque pastime of painting the county red. Vance vehemently 'd.eniad any in- tent to perforate the brakeman. Ile told. the Court that, while it was true that ho did Mk:: out his revolver, and shoot after the brakeman had push- eadhim eft the train, be was merely giving a pre -arranged signal. He and a friend had been down the road a few miles and wanted to ride back to the nearest station to ills ranch. Rea- liziug that if they were found by any of the train crew they would be put off, they had arranged that if one was ; further measures in this direction, a pub off the train he should notify his resolution being adopted declaring partner by firing his reolver at once. that the time bad arrived when a Sci- The, trainman, with visions of what I entific medical health officer, trained he firmly believed was a narrow es- , especially in bacteriology and sani- cape from death, shook his head, and ? tary science, should be appointed in the judge looked unbelieving. Vance's l each county especially for the over - cowboy friend corroborated the story ` sight of premises from whence milk but, seeing that his tale failed to re- ` supplies are drawn and of butter and ceive credence, the defendant asked' cheese factories. the Court to please step judge asked what for. SO1VigTWNG QUITI, New— CEYLON GREEN TEA, Sallee Savor as japan, only more delicious. DAIRYMEN'S ASSOBIATIONS ANNUAL REPORTS OF CIEESE .AND BUTTER MAKERS, The Jt'royturiai Wary cayhools—]lane drehthes of Interest and Practical -Value —Steady Improvement e1r Dairying IIII Condrttons—Seleuitfio Medical Ilea lth enlace Shontd lfe Appointed. The annual reports oft' the Cheese and Butter Associations of Eastern and Western Ontario, the name of which has recently been changed by ' the Legislature to .the Dairyman's Associations, haTe been received from the Provincial Department of .Agri- culture. The volume is, as usual, of a highly the rustiee character in, rets• tion to this great and growing mane. try, and affords an excellent idea of the work than is being performed by these bodies In disseminating instruc- tion in all that appertains to cheese and butter making and popularizing" the latest ressulta of scientific roves. tigetion and research as to the best groctrsse$ of manufacture. T11w re- turns made by the dairy instructors for th various ,aecrtis show th eteady irnprovrrnent Qt dairying con- ditions and the adoption at better Methods of those formerly in vogue, with increased attention to purity and eIeanlinees, while every effort is being made to prevent fraud, and maintainhigh standard the irl ! a d inll qual.. .ill1 tl 9 ity et the output. Action W43 taken by the Western 4ssuedatiou cooking to reepooseeseseenentassesseamossensesteneersese m.ii. ll, eaknes A woman's reproductive organs are in the meet in- terne and continuous teem- JruIiy aid.; her lli,.e'ys. rheslil;htest disorderin oho kidneys brings about a corresponding ,disease in the reproduetivc organs. Dodd's d itnoy Pills, by ro- . storing the kidneys to their perfect conditlon,revent and cure those fearful dia. orders peculiar to women, Pale young girls, worn-out mothers, offering wives and women entering upon the Change of Life, your best friend. is Dodd's Kidney Pills outside. The I ADDRESSES BY DAIRY EXPERTS. The reports include many addresses "1'11 prove my innocence, Your Hon- ! of interest and practical value dello- or," Vance said. ' ered at the annual meetings by prom - The Court was curious and went ' inent men who have had a wide ex- ou?tside. So did the sheriff, lawyers ' perience Indairying, and by scienti- and spectators. Vance pulled out his fig experts who have devoted much revolver, and holding a postage stamp ' attention to the subject in its differ - between the fingers of his left hand, ent phases. Among those who spoke clipped off each corner in succession. I or furnished papers were: D. Derby - Next he asked a spectator to suspend shire, President of the Eastern Asso- a hickory met from a thread. Taking . dation; J. H. Grisdale, J. W. Hart, six tacks he placed them loosely its a J. W. Newman, Prof. H. H. Dean, G. piece of wood. This he placed against G. Publow, Harold Eagle, J. W. John - a post twenty-five yards away. Dor- son, Hon. Thos. Ballantyne, A. F. Me - rowing a watch from a by -standar, he Laren, M.P., A. W. Campbell, Dr. W. opened the case for a mirror, shot T. Connell, Andrew Patullo, M.P.P., Dr with his back to the mark, and drove James Fletcher and Miss Laura Rose. each tack into the wood without a Many of the addresses gave rise to miss. interesting discussions, in which the The brakeman had been looking on points brought out were thoroughly in ppen-mouthed wonder. As Vance concluded the brakeman stepped up to the judge, and, tapping him on the arm, said : "Yes, Yer Honor, I guess I was mistaken. That man wasn't shooting at me." NONE I3ETTER. Military engineers are agreed that no material for fortification is super- ior to earth. considered. Among other questions considered was the profitable dispos- al of the by-products, which it was urged could be utilized by the raising of pork and which should go hand in hand with the dairy industry, contri- buting greatly to economy in the pro- cess. The preparation of cheese and butter for the market also received due attention. Four essays, two on cheese making and two on butter making are also published, the writers of which were the successful compe- titors among 67 who wrote papers, In order to secure the prizes, amount- ing in the aggregate to e200, .offer- ed by the Western Association for the best ,essays on these subjects. The Jacky prize winners were Colin A. Campbell and A. J. Wagg, whet treat- ed of cheese -making and, J', M. Liv- ingstone and Wm. Waddell, whose theme was butter -making,. THE DAIRY SCHOOLS. Reports of the Provincial Dairy Schools aro also given, which are of a highly satisfactory tenor, as show tag the disposition on the part of many young people to avail thein- selves of the facilities offered by these institutions for instruction in the best dairying methods. The school at Guelph, in eonneetion with the Agri- cultural Qollege had 209 atudente re- gistered in the last two years, 45 of whom were females, in addition to those taking the regular College course. The attendance at gingston this year was 75 and at Strathroy 29. These schools are also engaged in ex- perimental researches, and some re- sults of value in determining the best canditiois for dairying processes have already been rowelled. PLTTNA,3I'S CORN EXTRA.CTQR In the best remedy for corns extant. It actsquickly, makes no sore spots and effects a radical cure. A hund- red imitations prove its value. Take neither substitutes offered as good nor the closeimitations of the gene utne too often offered. Eighty per cent. of the cost of the world's Governments is caused by wars, past, present, and prospective. Sitocea0 In lousiness rouges toren thorough satisfaction is given the public. That 5 why Nerviline tells so rapidly. Tooth- ache is cured as if by magic. Pain. 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