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W0RTHIN6T0N ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED BVBIT FRIDAY.
THOS. DOVERY, PUBLISHER.
The problem in Ohio is not only
to
Bit
on the lid, but to get Foraker
under it.
Gov. Johnson is at Yicksburg
this week attending the unveiling
of a statue erected to the memory
of Minnesota soldiers who took part
in the capture of that stronghold.
It is intimated that a large num­
ber of San Francisco men keep their
grips packed for a sudden exodus.
We suppuse there will be a Tokio
colony similar to thut in Paris.
John L. Sullivan's definition of
mollycoddle is "a feller who says
'Oh, Fudge' when he should land
left or right on the jaw. Still, to
men about the size and heft of John
most of us would prefer to say "Oh
Fudge."
Abe Ruef, the San Francisco boo­
dle boss, appalled at the evidence
piled up against him, got frightened
and did the baby act in great shape.
However, his turning state's evi­
dence will make it easier to bring
other rascals to account, especially
some of the "prominent citizens"
whom Reuf served as go-between.
Luverae had a great time at
their 'Clean Up" day last week.
The Civic Improvement League or
the Commercial Club should inau­
gurate a like impovement for Wor
thington. There is plenty of room
for improvement here and with an
organized movemnt there is abetter
chance of everybody "getting the
habit."
Ike Stevenson's barrel, which has
made Senator LaFollette's brilliant
political career possible, has at last
accomplished Uncle Ike's life long
desire, and elected him to the Unit­
ed States Senate. This is a political
victory for LaFollette, Stevenson
and the barrel, especially the lat­
ter. Mr. Stevenson in his younger
days was a fairly capable man, but
he has long since outlived his pub­
lic usefulness. He will rattle
around in Spooner's seat like a tin
cup in a wagon box.
There has been some talk lately
of times becoming tighter, but there
is absolutely no room for the talk.
Wheat and cotton are soaring in
price, and the trade between this
country and Germany and France
alone, has increased from $590,
000,000 to $700,000,000. The pros­
perity we are now enjoying will
probably last for ten or fifteen
years without a check. We are
producing enormous crops and our
mines are yielding large outputs of
gold and silver and other valuable
minerals, all of which find a ready
market. With these facts to support
our prosperity, and famine in other
lands, it looks as though our vol­
ume of business would make a new
record this year.
Washington Notes
The weather is still a little too
cool for the usual crop of brain­
storm stories that grow up with
mid summer, but some of the ener
getic political alarmists came out
this week with a sensation in the
shape of a yarn that Secretary Cor
telyou was a secret enemy of the
President, that he had been
strengthening himself to make the
race for the Presidential nomina
taon next year, and was quietly
doing all he could to handicap
Secretary Taft in Ohio. This is
about as far fetched a story as
could be imagined. It may be
true that Secretary Cortelyou has
presidential ambitions who has
not? But he is clever enough not
to entertain them for 1908.
Senator Fairbanks launched his
boom in a modest way at Phila­
delphia this week. It is interest­
ing to note that he spoke strongly
in favor of expansion and "the
present commercial policy" which
is another way of saying that the
tariff must not be touched. But
the world does not seem to have
been disturbed in its orbit very
much as the result of the an­
nouncement.
One of the most serious things
ic the political line is the report
that desperate efforts are being
*i«a» to line up the coming trans*
llteissippi convention in Denver
against the President and all the
western policies of the administra­
tion. But the movement is thought
to come from the big railroads and
other corporate interests of the west
and not the people. Senntor-eleot
ttugggenheim, a member of the
Smelter Trust family, is said to be
one of the prime movers in the af­
fair. The railroads that have been
headed off in their efforts to grab
undreds of thousands of acres of
government coal lands and the lum­
ber interests that have been balked
in the same way of timber grabbing
schemes are all said to be interest­
ed. It is to the advantage of these
people to make all the western pol­
icies of the administration appear
in as bad light as possible.
The President has tried a number
of times to make it plain that his
only object of withdrawing big
areas of the west from homestead
entry has been to keep them intact
till expert geologists and forresters
could determine their exact nature
and value with a view to keeping
them from falling into the hands of
speculators and reserving them so
far as was desirable for the benefits
of the public in the future. Special
arrangements have been made for
grazing cattle under proper super­
vision in the forest reserves. There
is of curse a great deal valuable ag­
ricultural land in most of the re­
serves, and provision has been
made for opening this to settlers as
fast as possible. The settlers have
realized the advantages of a home­
stead in the midst of a forrest re­
serve and the government is alive
to the advatage of having some set­
tlers located in the reserves. Hun­
dreds of thousands of acres of coal
and other mineral lands have al­
ready been recovered from the mo­
nopoly by railroad and lumber com
parnies that had no right to them,
and altogether it would seem to the
average man that the western pub­
lic had fared pretty well at the
hands of the administration which
is trying to safeguard western land
interests.
BULLETIN NO. 25
Of the Minnesota Dairy and Food
Commission.
The recent legislature passed sev­
eral laws and amendments to exist­
ing laws which affect the manufac­
ture and sale of foods in this state.
The attention of the parties inter­
ested is called to the following new
laws:
Chapter 384 gives the commis­
sioner and his employes authority
to seize any unwholesome food or
dairy products or in his or' their
discretion to render the same unsal­
able for use as food.
Chapter 424 authorizes the com­
missioner to formulate rulings re­
quiring certain labels on food pro­
ducts for the purpose of securing un­
iformity between the food laws of
this state and the laws of the feder­
al government.
Chapter 455 provides for the in
spection of canning factories and
fixes a grade for "Minnesota stand­
ard" canned goods. It provides
that an inspector of the department
must be present while the goods
are being packed. The expense of
such inspection is to be borne by
the canner.
Chapter 124 provides that all ice
cream manufactured and sold with­
in the state must contain not lees
than
twleve per cent by weight of
butterfat, and must not be colored
to make the article appear better
than it really is. The use of all in­
jurious ingredients is prohibited in
its manufacture.
Chapter S83 provides for the in­
spection of concentrated commer­
cial feedstuffs. This is the famous
'stock food bill" which caused so
much discussion during its consider­
ation. _______
Chapter 421 is the new paint law
which requires that the true ingre­
dients of all paints shall be plainly
printed on the latels of all paint
packages.
Amendments to the present laws
areas follows:
Chapter 237 prohibits the sale of
adulterated spices. Heretofore ad­
ulterated spices have been sold
when labeled "Mixture and Adul­
terated."
Chapter 258 includes among the
prohibited ingredients in foodstuffs
coal tar dye and saccharin.
Chapter 337 amends the present
milk and cream license law so that
parties keeping not more than three
cows are exempted from the provi­
sions of the law. Heretofore the
exemption has been one cow.
Chapter 347 reduces the required
percentage of ao tic acid in vinegar
from 4.5 per oent to 4 per cent.
The latter is the standard set by the
federal authorities.
Under Chapter 424 rulings will
be issued which will secure unifor­
mity between the label provisions
of the state and fed ral laws. An
article labeled to comply with the
federal pure food and drugs .act
THE W0RTHINGT0N HOSPITAL.
The following letter from Dr.
E. Walker, formerly of this place,
fully explains itself. Dr. Walker
is an authority whom all will re­
spect
als whose full page advetisements
among the Sunday Supplement
Syndicate are glaringly on par
with the big mail order houses, is
bad. Bad for the doctors who
give suoh advice, bad for every
other physician, bad for the patient,
bad for the family and friends, bad
for the city, and bad for the com­
munity.
4th—Expenses incident in travel­
ing to and from a hospital at some
distant point is considerable, which
together with higher surgical fees
and hosital expense make a sum
over and above what it would cost
for the same thing at home ranging
from $125.00 to $200.00. Every
cent of this sum is taken directly
and indirectly from the pockets of
every man, woman and child of
earning capacity in the community,
and not one cent ever comes back
or every will be seen again, for
this reason keep this business at
home just as much as you do the
merchants interests.
5th—Results obtained at home
are just as good in every respect as
results obtained in other fields far
removed, and in the great majority
of cases for better. There is not a
person within the city or surround­
ing territory who can point to an
individual case or to a collective
group of cases, who have left Wor­
thington to some of the great de­
partment hospitals of the mail or-
Interesting Communication From Dr. F. E.
Walker of Hot Spring, S. D.
Hot Sprins, S. Dak.,
May 13th, 1907.
To the Editor:—
The article in the last week's is
sne of the Advance, referring to an
operation for brain abcess perform­
ed by Dr.Ueyerman, of Worthing
ton, contains more material for con­
sideration than would be supposed at
first reading. In stating the fact
that at home such operations and
other operations can be successfully
performed without high priced (so
called specialists) fees in distant
places is worthy of more careful
and extended consideration.
1st—In Worthinton you have the
best of facilities for the care and
treatment of both surgical and med­
ical patients. I refer to your hos­
pital, which any medical man of ex­
tended observation among hospit­
als throughout the country will
readily accord it, splendidly fur­
nished and equipped as it is, its
recognized place among the lead­
ing institutions of the state.
Therefore, it is not necessary for
patients to be sent away or go
away on their own account, as far
as hospital facilities are concern­
ed.
2nd Hospital fees are from
three to ten dollars a week less in
Worthington than elsewhere and
the patient receives better treat­
ment, better service and better
surgery in the great majoiity of
oases. On account of nursing,
hospital fees and treatment there
is no excuse for the sending of pa*
tients away.
3rd—The habit of doctors advis­
ing patients to go away to hospit-
should be allowed on sale within
the state without further label re­
quirements provided that it does
not contain ingredients specifically
prohibited by our state laws, addi­
tional state requirements only tend
to confuse the manufacturer and
adds to the cost of production which
must be borne by the consumer
without giving him added protec­
tion.
Edward E. Slater,
Commissioner.
der type, for operation who could
not have been operated upon at
home just as successfully, if not
more so, with as good or better re­
sults and most certainly a lower
death rate. From 1903 to 1906 there
was perfomed in Worthington 428
abdominal operations with only one
death. In an average number of
like cases where the operations were
performed in one of the outside hos­
pitals which has taken unnecessay
thousands of dollars from Worth­
ington, the death rate was seven to
the same number. This is not nee
essarily due to superior skill and
technique but to better treatment
before and after the operation, to
indviduai medical supervision, and
the personal interest of surgeon
nurses and friends, to the lack of
rough handling, long and tedious
journeys and the natural fear of
strange doctors, nurses and sur­
roundings. There is no interest
manifested towards patients by
either hospital, nurses or surgeons
in distant places except the glitter
of the gold obtained as a fee.
Rth— Skill and technique are
found much oftener in the small­
er places than is generally known.
The brainiest men are not confined
to the large cities and the im­
mense hospitals by any means
and there is absolutely no argu­
ment to the proposition that a
doctor is better because he lives
in Chicago or Liverpool. There is
not an operation known or yet de­
vised but what can be as success­
fully consummated in Worthington
as anywhere else in the world. The
fight you are putting up for the
merchants against the mail order
evil is good. Pat up a fight for
your local hospital and the men of
the medical prfeesion who are pro.
gressive and aggressive enough to
put up hospitals, others to perform
successful oprations, aiming to ad­
vance themselves,the city and com­
munity by keeping the money at
home and who, to use a street
phrase "are delivering the goods.
No city has any use for the man
or men who are only large enough
to supply what is needed by local
demand, but any city dues need men
they reside. This creating and
ly interested business man of the
city.
To sum up, the only possible ad­
vantage to sending patients away is
that it assists the the hospital and
doctors who are fortunate enough
to get them to increase their salar
ies.
The advantage of remaining at
home:
1st—Tou have a number one first
class hospital.
2nd—YOB have first class, skill­
ful and conscientious surgeons.
3rd—Expenses are from $125.00
to $200.00 less.
Scoffs Emulsion
4th—Patients are more contented
at or nearer home.
5th—A superior service in every
way is given the sick.
6th—No other business will speak
so well and so effectually for the
city as this work and there is noth­
I
RitfcMlM PaniaM.
strengthens enfeebled
nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and
nerve force.
It provides baby with the necessary fat
and mineral food for healthy growth.
ALL DRUGGISTSi BOo. AND 9I.OO.
Timely Warning Against "Mail
Order" Cream Separators
Tie "Fam Implement News" of Chicago quotes the fol­
lowing Rood advice to dairy farmers from a lecture by Prof.
C. E. Lee of: the University of Illioois State Eiperiment
Station:
"I am not at liberty to give my preference, for I am not
selling separators —if I were to name a separator manufac­
turer, either to jcu here in public or in piivate, I would lose
'my position—but there is one thing I desire to warn you
farmers against and that is buying hand separators from the
'mail order' houses. Don't do it—you will regret it. The
machines do not give results and they do not last. Our de­
partment receives hundreds of inquiries as to 'What's the
matter with m.v separator! It doesn't do this or it doesn't do
that,' and I tell you, gentlemen, that in every instance when
we ask them to name their seuarator it is a 'mail order house
machine and almost worthless when it was hew."
Don't waste your money in a trashy separator, made
"cheap" to sell "cheap," that is going to WASTE instead of
SAVE for you EVERY TIME you put milk through it, and
which would be VERY DEAR EVEN AS A GIFT.
DE LAVAL Cream Separators are NOT that kind. A
DE LAVAL catalogue is to be had for the asking.
SMITH IMPLEMENT CO.
AGENTS, WORTHINGTON, MINN.
"ABOUT PAINT"
Entirely a question of Compensation—-of how much
value you get for your money
B. P. S. I S GOOD COMPENSATION
B. P. S. is a Pure Lead, Zinc and Linseed Oil Paint
Purity, Perfect Formula, Fine Grinding Means Economy
Covering, Spreading and Wearing
ANDERSON BENSON
Ask for B. P. S. Sealed Evidence (paint co9ts, color card and
plates of colored houses)—FREE.
FARM LOANS
ing in which the oitizens can inter­
est themselves more beneficially
than in the building up of a hearty
co-operatoin in creating a demand
for this class of work.
F. E. Walker,
Hot Springs, S. Dakota.
Befote you make your Loans you will
do well to consult me, I can loan you
money on easy terms and at a low rate
of interest.
TH0R0UCHBRED STOCK
Breeder of the following
PercHeron Horses
SHropsHire Sheep
Breeding animals for sale at all times.
Gc W. PATTERSON
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A. J. KANNAL,
Practical Painter Sign Writer
WORTHINGTON, M1NNSOTA
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