davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
FOR THE BARY.
A Valuable Hint to Every Father an
 Mother

 A Valuable Hint to Every Father and
 Mother.
 There are two kinds of babies in the world; the kind who have too little nour- ishmsnt and the kind who have too much.
 The first kind of babies starve because their stomachs are too weak to digest the amount of food necessary for their growth and healthful development and the other kind are overfed with the re- suit that the delicate stomach and intss- tines are inflamsh ard as every mother knows. thousa nds of infants die yearly when warm weather begins, from stom- ach and bowel disorders.
 Or1ates, soothing syrups and cathartics, however mild, are lot what is demand ed. Go to the root of the trouble, assist the ehild's digestion. give the little stom- lach the aid neoeSsary to thoroughly and promptly digest its food and the little one win thrive and grow and gladden. the mother's heart.
 To give perfect digestion to the child 1t is only necessary to give in a pleasant form the harmless digestives contained in the well known tablets sold in drug
 
 pepsfa Tablets. Stuarts Tablets consa no so called drugs, but are composed of pepsdn, pure aseptic, fruit acids, starch digestives a'rid are put up in lozenge form. With sugar of milk, very pleasant to the taste and have been used for years as the safest. best remedy for any form of indigestion and stomach troubles in ad- ults, but recently many remarka ble cures have been made in the cases of weakly babies who failed to grow and thrive as they should.
 Buffalo mother short time ago who despadred of the life of hsr babe was So delighted with the results from giving the child these tablets that she went be- fore the notary public of Erie Co.,, N. r., and made the following affidavit:
 Gentlemen:-Stuart's Dyspepsia Tabl- cts were recommended to me for my two months old baby, which was sick and puny and the doctors said was suffering from indigestion. I took the child to the hospital, but there found no relief A friend mentioned the Stuart Ta blets and l procured box from my druggist and used only the large sweet lozenges in the box and was delighted to find they ware just the thing for my baby.
 l feel justified in saying that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets saved my child's life.
 MRS. W. T. DETHLOPF Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day, of April. 1897.
 .s,s HENRY KARIS Notary Public in and for Erie Co.,, fN.SY.r For babies, no matter how young or deicalte, the. tablets will accomplish won- ders in increasing flesh. appetite and growth. Use only the large sweet tab let's in every box. Full sized boxes are sold by all druggists for 50 cents. and no parent should neglect the use of this safe remedy for all stomach and bowel troubles if the child is ailing in any way regarding it's food or assinila ton. , Stuart's Dyspe psia Tablets has been known for years as the best preparation for ai1 stomach troubles whether in ad ultS or infants.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Unprecedented,

Never before have such low rates been made to New York as are Gow being of- fered by the C. ntral of, Georgia Railway company. Only $2975 for the round trip. The route is via Savannah, from which place you take, the elegant steamships of the Ocean Steaismsd1ip company whose boats are far superior to any hing on the Atlantic coast. Accommodations are given on these boats that cain be equaned only by the best hdtels of the larger ci.- ies. The rate of S29.75 includes your meals and state rooms on board ship Reduced rate tickets will be sold only on August g, 10, F and 13. good to return on any of the steamers within twenty days from dale of sale. For further information, call at 1916 Morris avenue, telephone 976.
 SOLON JACOBS, Commercial Agent Central of Georgia Railway Company.
 2-5tO12
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
GENTLE JEAN INGEr ow.
Her Life of Modesty. Contentment and
 Tranquil Resirnation.

Her Life of Modesty. Contentment and
 Trarquil Resirnation.
 Jean Ingelow. who died recently in Lon don. seemed curiously out of place in the literary life of the day when any writer who has done anything to attract atten- ton lives so much in the public eye. Jean Ingelow's career was quiet and gentls in it's course. The greater part of hsr work, moreover, was done at a period previous to that in which the public in- terast in celebrities was as fully gratified as 1t is today. For nearly a quarter of a century she had been neglected by the world in spite of the great popularity that her earlier writings had won. But it is certainly notable that a writer who was esteemd the most popular woman poet of 11er day. whose books in her country ran through twenty-three editions and in the United States were sold to the number of
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
A HAPPY WOMAN
Writes a Letter to Dr. Hartman, of Colum
 bus, Ohio.

w rlteS a lIeIDer to Or darlman, or COlum
 bus, Ohio.
 f"Three years ago I was sick I couldn't sleep in bed. slept in a rocking chair for nine years and half. When I wrote to you about 1t you said it was chronic catarrh of the bronchial tubes and air passages. thank the Lord and Peru na that I have such good health again. It is more than I ever expected, to get we'll I suffered so much and I tried all the doctors atound here and everything I heard of, and it was all in vain till I found Pe-ru-na. After I took two and a half bottles of Pe-ru-na I could sleep in bed. Before I took the medicine weighed 129 pounds, and to-day l weigh 153, and my flesh is as solid as when was young. I can't thank you enough for the good your mediciA did me. There are a good many taking Peru ma in my neighborhood because it cured me. Every body thought it was so hard to sleep in a chair so long I am so glad that I found help at last. I think there is no medicine Nike Pslfu-na. My cough is cured, and I thank you and Pe-ru-na with the Lords will for it." This let ter was received July 20, 1S97 from Mrs. Catherine Gerberich, Burbank, Ohio.
 Send for a copy of Dr. Hartman's lat est book, written for women only Ad- dress The Peru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. This book is beautifully illustrated, and every Wo- man should have a copy.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Convincing a Polcemani

From the Philadelphia Press.
 A small boy cyclist was riding without a light and was stopped by park off Ger, who asked him in gruff tones where his light was. s.5+
 Why, t'e here," excaImed the rider. in surprise.
 "Yes, but it's ouis," asserted the patrol man.
 Well, 1t was lighted at uha last turn y
 Sonny, its cold; couldn't have been lighted this evening, orfumpha ntiy an nounced the officer.
 Huh! That thin metal cools in min ute. 1'nl light thia'. lamp and wait till it gets red hot, put it oW, then ride to the next corner and back and when I return it'll be cold.'
 All right, try it. assened the acute policeman.
 The boy lighted his lant5rn, waited until il grew red hot, turned it out ard taited and that kid Is going yet.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Stockholders Meeting.

 meeting of the stockholders of the Virginia and Alabama Coal company is hereby called to be held at the office of the company, in the city of Birmingham, Ala bama on the 18th day of August, 1897, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the purpose of consid- ering a proposition to approve, ratify and confirm all acts and proceedings of all meetings of the directors of said company heretofore held outside of the state of Ala bama; and all acts and proceedings of all meetings of the stockholders of said com pany held pursuant to the call of any meet ing of the directors held outside of the state of Alabama; and any and all cleo tions of directors and officers of said com pany at any meeting of the stockholders or directors held as aforesaid; and all acts of any officer of said company elected or appointed by or in pursuance of meetings held outside of the state of Alabama and especially to approve. ratify and confirm the execution and disposition of the first mortgage bonds of tine company now out standing issued on the 1st day of May, 1893, and the mortgage executed by said company to the Virginia Safe Deposit and Fidelity Company on the property of said company to secure such issue of bonds. bearing even date herewith; and to trans act all other business of said company that may properly come before said meet ing. JAS. B. PAGE,
 President.
 Birmingham, Ala. July 10th, 1897.
 7-10-fd
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
CHEAP ROUND TRIP RATE, BIRAI-
 INGHAM TO NEW YORK, VIA

CHEAP ROUND TRIP RATE, BIRM- INGRAM TO NEW YORK. VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY, ATLANTA, SAVANNAH. AND STEAMSHIP, $2975.
 On August g. 10, 12 and 13. the South ern Railway will sell round trip tickets Birmingham to New York. at the low rate of $2975, via Atlanta, Savannah, and Steamship tickets limited 20 days from date of sale, for return passage. In x- der to accommodate those who cannot spare time to make an ocean trip, we will also sell rouHd trip tickets to Washing ton, Norfolk, and Richmond, at the lo.y rate of one. fare, tickets limited to nS- tesn days from date of sale. The fQSsh- ington Norfolk, and Richmond Tickets are routed, ALL RAIL. and with such quick schedules. no time is lost. Pull nyan sleepers and vestibule trains, car rying elegant dirllrg cars For dst sil- ed information. call at Passenger office, Phone S46.
 J. P. BILLUPS.
 Tray. Pass. ggent,
 Birmingham Ala.
 aug7-7t
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
First Use of the Baxonet.

The bayonet was first made in Bayonne. in France; hence its name. It was first used by the French army in 1e71. It was successfully employed by the French dur ing the reign of William III in an attack on the British Twenty fifth regiment of foot It afterward became generally rscog- nize1 as an indispensable militazy weapon.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Cahaba Coal S2.0O per ton. Birmingham Ice Factory. Thelephone 1928.

NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS.
 On the 18th day of Angus. 1897, at Tus- caloosa, Alabama, we will let all of the masonry and superstructure for the con- struetion of the Alabama river bridge, on the line of the Montgomery division of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, nsar the city Of Montgomery. Contractors can bid sup arate1y for the masonry if they so desire. Masonry to be of hard burned brick, with one outer course of paving brick of Chat tanooga, Birmingham or other manufac- ture. We will also let superstructure Warrior river bridge on same day.
 Plans and specifications can be seen in the office of the chief engineer, at Tusca- loosa, on and after August 9th
 THE HANOVER CONSTRUCTION co. 8-1-10t.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Cheap Summer Excursion Rates to the East
 via Alabama Great Southern Railroad.

on Aug. 18th, 18th and 14th the Alaba ma Greaat Souuhern will sell tickets to Wash ington, Norfolk and Richmond at 'he low rate of one fare for round trip with a final limit of fifteen days from date of sale. fs.9-
 Vestibuled trains, splendid service and convenient schedules.
 Pullman handsome drawing-room sleep ing cars through without change
 For further information call at the pas- senger office, No ' Nor lh Twentieth St., or write to c. M BILLHEIMER,
 Birmingham. Ala. Telephone No, S46 S-4-td.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Telephone S46.
Do You Wenr Shoes ?

If you do now is the chance to purchase elegant shoes at a very much reduced price. We will move Oct. 1 to our new quarters. the elegant store at 1928 Second avenue. We can save you money now on the best shoes in the city.
 THE BOSTON SHOE STORE.
 107 N. 20th St.
The age-herald., 1897-08-08

running about as chipper as boy There is nothing peculiar about the oil l use. I use if OLuF because the Scriptures re- quire 1t.
 My friends all think I'm a little off, but Pm sassy and independent and ask no odds of any man. New York Journal
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
LOW EXCURSION RATES TO EAST ERN CITIES, VIA ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD

Washington and return $21.10; Norfolk and return S1s.75; Richmond and return $1S.50. alE Tickets to be sold August 12, 1s and IA, with a, final limit of fifteen days from date of sale. ,&
 Travel via the Alabama Great South ern railrcad where you get splendid serv- ice and convenient schedules.
 c. M. BILLHEIMER,
 Tray. Pass. Agent,
 Birmingham, Ala. Telenhone S46
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Barbarossa Standard.

Barbarossa aaS@ Standard.
 These are the most delicious bottled beers known, They are the pride of the grsst Moerlein Brewing Co. of Cincin- natl. Keep it in your house. Fine for table use. Phone 946. ~
The age-herald., 1897-08-08
Moerlein. the Queen of Bsers.

R5 heaathy; drink Ingram Tithia wate-. 3 N. 2oth street, opposite Union depot.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

occupations open to all who wish, and
are physically able, to keep their places
in the ranks of tEe worlds workers. One
OF the men runs tiny store with stock
OF such small articles as are in demand
among his associates; another keeps a
fruitstand, and still another has chicken
ranch somewhat removed from the camp.
Bicycling is popular with those who are
able to direct and govern wheel; trout
fishing in the Napa River. close at hand,
affords enjoyment to many, and helping
hands are welcomed and appreciated any
where about the houses and grounds. A
comrade of somewhat hermit-like tenden.
cies has put in his spare time in building
himself cottage upon a hillside at a
little distance from those occupied by his
brothers-in-ar arms.
Those who arg considered fit for such
service are etall ed to perform light work
in the different apartments of the estab-
lishment, and few are exempt from
other tasks and given charge of certain
flower beds, in which they take great
pride. Among these last is Little Louis, 3"
a German, who is an artist in his way, his
taste and skill being exempiitied in the
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

ercise, and has been known-his diminu-
tive size exempting him from wearing the
general uniform - to don five different
suits during the waking hours OF one short
day.
Interesting in q different way is old
John Mccormack, a veteran Of SS, who
was one of the argonauts OF Napa Valley,
and a friend ard CO. worker of George
Yount, for whom the town of Yountville
was named. Mccormack was pilot and
Iount was engineer of the Mississippi
passenger boat Smelter for quite num-
ber of years, but in the forties the latter
came West, and when Mccormack and
two friends who had worked together on
the same boat-one OF them being James
Colburn, the clerk, and the other Jack
Brady, Youn:'s former apprentice-came
to the valley in 1850 they found him and
his wife settled here in a log cabin, the
only dwelling for miles around. Comrade
Mccormack makes frequent pilgrlmages
to the statue OF his old friend in the
Yountville cemetery, and is never tired of
telling stories OF their friendship and ad-
ventures in the long ago.
One of the recent Improvements at the
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
By Guasuia 3. 1t1abnrn,

and forty, but to-day in that little town
of 1000 inhabitants there are some 10
students attending the high school.
And IN this same territory of which l
spoke before" continued Mr.. Black,
There are now probably 1900 high school
students in all, which certainly speaks
we'll for this district"
In 1890 Mr.. Back became County Sup
erintendent at Ventura, and four years
later was elected on the Repu bl can
ticket TO the State superntendencv,
which position ne has ever since held.
This in brief is an outline of the history
of one of CALIFORNIA; s foremost scholars,
who both as pioneer and educator of to-
day has done so much TO raise the stan
dard Of the public schools in our State.
In response to a question Mr.. Black
stated that there are to-day twelve women
California.
In my Office at the State Capitol" said
the uperintendent. There hangs a
framed certificate which came from Del
Norte in the early sixties. This document
certified that the County Superintendent
OF tnat district had examined himself on
tue series OF QueSLlODS WHICH were dt tHdt
time prepared by the State Board of Ex-
animation. On the back of the certificate
was an indorsed statement to the effect
that the Superintendent could not
get an examining board TO serve for So
which was all the law allowed-while
teachers in the public schools were paid 81
4 dav.
THE standing on the certificate was
very creditable one and entitled the appli-
cant TO a first grade certificate. And l
have every reason TO believe" continued
Mr.. Black, that the man earned faith
lully all the credits that were marked on
the back of the certificate
There is little country school up in
Calaveras County" said the State Super
intendent (which has been tau hit by the
same teacher for the past twenty years.
Recently Mr.. Price has INTRODUCED man
ual training into his school, and when |
last V sited IL found that the children
had made all their own desks and the
schoo! furniture. Besides this some OF
the boys had whitfield cut and set in opera-
ton miniature quartz mill, with stove
pipe rigged up 10 carry the water, which
is an exact copy OF such mills used in that
mining resion.
This shows to what an extent manual
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

the school needs of each, | have this rec
ommendation to offer: That the three
grades of certificates should be abolished,
Gates, equally good and strong, each de-
signed for its own class Of work, be
issued.
First, certificates should be granted to
kindergarten teachers. All the smaller
towns, containing from 1000 to 5000 popu-
lation. are clam oring for the establishment
of kindergartens. The present law in re-
gard to this is not very explicit. and a law
Tor the purpose of creating such institu-
tions should be passed at the next session
of the Legislature.
Moreover, there should be a law en-
powering the State 10 issue certificates to
these kindergarten teachers, which is not
at present the case. For this reason the
cities and towns already containing
kindergartens have been compelled to re-
sor. TO various devices to secure the GER
titicates of their teachers.
Second, another certificate should be
issued to teachers in The elementary
schools without drawing any distinction
between the primary and grammar GER
titicates, because in different counties
these words mean different things. And
why should not the children in the first
four years OF school life have as good
teaching as in the last four?
Third, three or four Dranches-such'a as
English, history, maihematic and
science-should be common to all the
high schools in the State, and certificates
should be issued 10 the teachers thereof
Also, the latter should be allowed to spe-
cialize along the lines each prefers, with
the privilege of taking examinations Bnd
specially fitting himself to teach these
lines, while all certificates IL high-schooI
work would be mutually equivalent.
1.-The certificates Of kindergarten lead
ers ought to represent an academ edu-
ca non equivalent to that obtained in the
!igh school. and also show satisfactory
evidence of peculiar kindergarten training
besides.
But for high-school teachers" said Mr..
Black ''the best kind OF preparation is an
acad demic or normal school education, plus
some university training
1T is the opinion of many that school
certificates should be granted Tor life, but
with this l cannot agree. Ifteachers take
vacation for ten or twelve years and
then go back to their professional worI,
they will generally be found very rusty.
For this reason they should be period
ically tested. But permanence Of Certiti-
Gates might be preserved oy teachers who
had thus been tested at various times and
who had won renewals OF their certificates.
when the latter are granted the ex-
aminations in the different counties
should be as nearly uniform as possible,
in order that the teachers certificates
might be valid anywhere i'll California.
1.-The Supreme Court has laid down
this principle: That while the county
boards of education have charge of exam
lining teachers and granting them certiti-
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

tion is to-day evolutiDg. At the present
lime teachers should be required to pre-
sent certificates showing their qualitica-
tions for their positions. And, in addition
to the common academic work, we should
add professional studies in their examina-
tons.
The academic requirements are now
higher than few years ago. In those
days in California there were three classes
Of certificates issued. The holder of
first grade certificate was entitled 10 teach
three years in the public schools; those
holding second grade certificates could
teach two years, while certificates Of the
third grade were granted only to females
who were allowed to teach but one year.
This was the best that could be done
by the educators at that time. Later the
third class of certificates ard then further
and grammar-grade certificates were
granted. This showed that the latter
grade was considered higher than the
former; but l think Just the reverse is
true, for if any exper menting is to be
done, let it be done on the older pupils of
II to IA years, and not tried on The little
children, who look up TO the teacher as
the sum mum bonum of wisdom and men
tally absol b everything she says. Prep
aration for reaching should be OBJ, aimed at
public expense in preparatory school.
but as little as possible at the expense of
the children"
Continuing, Mr.. Black said: There is
no such thing as fectly trained
teacher. AS in every other line of work,
teacher cannot stand STILL but must
either go forward or drop behind.
I'm nv opinion the time has come in
the evolution of education when there
should be d special preparation for those
expecting to teach. In New York ana
also in Ma sachusetts there are about a
dozen normal schools. Con sequentIy. the
teachers in these States are well pre- pared
And this is what California needs. She
has at present two large normal schools.
with some 1900 students in attendance.
If the State, instead 0. esta blishing these
two, had divided them and distributed
the 1900 students among several normal
schools throughout her territory there
would be greater demand for normally
prepared teachers. and the prejudice
against them in the rural districts would
be broken down.
1.-THE junction of the normal school is to
prepare teachers for the public schools
But it should also further aid and stimu-
late the teachers who are now teaching
If the normal schools in our Stale. espe-
cially those i'll the southern part where
the climatic conditions are so favorable
would arrange their vacations so tnat they
could remain open during the summer
months to teachers from the rural schools,
where they might study and gain credits
the whole teaching force ihrougho the
State would greatly add to their pre- para
ton and an immense benefit tie derived.
After visiting so many counties in Cali =
fornia, and having carefully inquired into
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

which is mex plica BILE to those who believe
that "the need justifes and ennoDles the
actor, whatever may be the ac:-"
Those of the men who ere in receipt of
pensions which make them the masters
OF trife of ready money, those who are
on the payroll for working as carpenters
and laborers and G neral helpers, and
such as are able to earn a little by their
skill in different handicrafts, as making
fancy basket, rustic furniture, canes
and other articles useful and ornamental
are glad to pay those less fortun ate to act
as substitutes in this department.
1T takes folks who are materially ener-
getic and accomodatin' to be good wait
ers," said one old gentleman explaining
the matter elaborately, ''an' | wus alters
pud gicky an fractions. l never could
abide bein' ordered round. except by my
superior officers, an so I'd ruther pay out
hard cash than take chances on my tenn
per-"
The hospital. because of the age and
physical condition of the 'comrades," is
never quite deserted, but its kind aud ef-
ficient head, DR.. w. F. McA lister, and
his staff OF four trained nurses, make an