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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1915 
You know this Trade-Mark through National Periodical Advertising 
The man who puts his 
brand on the goods he sells 
sets his light where it will 
“shine before men” be¬ 
cause he is not afraid to 
have it shine on him. 
He wants it to shine on 
him as well as on his goods 
because he has nothing to 
fear and everything to 
gain from the glare. When 
he adds to the illumination 
of the trade-mark the full 
light of national advertis¬ 
ing you may be sure he is 
certain of his goods — sure 
that you will like them. He 
is willing to risk his fortune 
and his business future 
on the chance of your ap¬ 
proval. 
He would not do this if 
there really were a risk be¬ 
cause he is a hard-headed 
business man. He has taken 
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the risk out of his business 
by putting quality into his 
goods. 
Deal with the man who 
is not afraid of the light. 
Buy the goods that bear 
trade-marks and are adver¬ 
tised nationally because 
these are the goods that it 
is safest and most economi¬ 
cal to buy — safest because 
you know who is respon¬ 
sible for them, most eco¬ 
nomical because there is a 
lower selling cost in¬ 
cluded in the price of 
nationally advertised goods. 
Trade-marks and na¬ 
tional advertising are the 
two most valuable public 
servants in business to-day 
Their whole tendency is to 
raise qualities and standard¬ 
ize them, while lowering 
prices and stabilizing them. 
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The Truth About Rabies 
R ABIES or hydrophobia—a disease 
known several centuries B. C., and 
at the present time only imperfectly un¬ 
derstood by the average layman — is a 
malady about which are clustered a mass 
of erroneous ideas and panicky accounts 
garbled for the public press. 
It is far from my intention to give the 
impression that the real “mad dog” is a 
rara avis — if a somewhat mixed metaphor 
may be permitted. But it should be very 
clearly understood that a large percent¬ 
age of the reported cases are not rabies 
at all, but merely animals — particularly 
homeless city animals, or those which have 
lost their way — half crazy from thirst, 
pursued through the baking streets by a 
shouting, hysterical mob headed by a 
policeman with a club in one hand and 
revolver in the other, while automobiles 
honk, pedestrians rush wildly about, and 
one and all act as though at least forty- 
three raging, bloodthirsty, long-clawed 
lions had been loosed in their midst. Is it 
any wonder that the dog loses his sense 
of perspective under such circumstances, 
and in sheer, desperate terror snaps at 
whatever living thing is nearest him? 
Five minutes ago he was but a cring¬ 
ing, thirsty derelict, searching in vain for 
a drink of the saving water which a 
thoughtless municipality too seldom sup¬ 
plies. Four minutes agu some browless 
coat-cutter or bootblack’s helper, far less 
intelligent than the dog, noted his apathetic 
eyes and lolling tongue and threw an 
empty bottle at him, shrieking “Mad-da 
dog!" Three minutes ago the dog’s 
nerves, already stretched nearly to the 
breaking point by his suffering, gave way 
entirely and he fled crazily from the pan¬ 
demonium that followed the shoe cleaner s 
alarm. And in one minute more he will 
have paid the penalty which a semi-bar¬ 
barian mob exacts. It is not a pleasant 
picture. 
In a somewhat extended experience with 
dogs of many breeds I have known of but 
two cases of genuine rabies. Both were 
of the violent type, and in both cases the 
animals afflicted passed through the period 
of aimless running which is almost inva¬ 
riably noted in this form of the disease. 
But I can recall many instances where dogs 
suffering from lack of water, or else af¬ 
flicted with fits caused by chronic digestive 
trouble, or perhaps epilepsy,, exhibited the 
frothing mouth, unnatural eye expression 
and general wildness of demeanor which 
are sufficient to brand them as mad in 
the opinion of the populace. 
The question naturally arises, “Why, if 
rabies has been recognized for over two 
thousand years, is it so little understood ? 
The answer is that it is one of those 
diseases of the nervous system which baf¬ 
fled the science of all save the more recent 
investigators. The cause of the malady 
is a micro-organism found chiefly in the 
nervous system, and capable of ready in¬ 
fection through the bite of the affected 
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