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The St. Louis Republic., 1904-07-03
BABY DISSECTED BEFORE
MOTHER KNEW 1T WAS DEAD.
She Visited Hospital Only to Dis
cover That Chfid's Body Had
Been Sent to q Meti-
cal College.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
New York, July with a little rubber
ball she had promised her child, Mrs
Thompson hurried up the steps of the
General Hospital on Randall's Island
eager for sight of his pale little face
and big blue eyes.
why do you come here?" plped a child
ish voice from the top of the stair. Don't
you know your Robbie is dead?'
The mother stood for I moment staring
ct her sons little playmate. Miss Fee. the
head nurse. came out of the hospital.
rs my son dead?" inquired the mother.
why, yes. 1 believe SO. See Mr.. Nor
timer"
With the ball trembling in her hand the
mother hurried to the clerks office.
Yes. He died and we notified you at
Broome street.
"Broome street? 1 never lived in Broome
street You have my address, No. S21
West Twenty ninth street." gasped the
mother.
Sobbing. she then asked where she could
find the little body.
I'VE sent it to Broome street. That's all
know about it," she alleges Chief Clerk
Mortimer replied He did not tell her it
had been sent to the city morgue.
Mrs. Thompson had been nurse On the
.s1and and she knew 1t had been received.
But that hall of death was filled with
the Slocum victims and there was no time
10 spend on an agonized mother looking
Tor little boys body.
She begged for help from the Gerry So
ciety, which had committed the child to
he island. but its clerks were not inter-
ested.
Finally the management Of the Waldorf
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1T is not the grown person that appeals
to me, but il Is the little helpless infant
that carnot do anything hut raise a pitt
ful nttle wall in its defensc-even that
little moan is not always Needed and the
little life goes out-wearv of fighting
against the uneven struggle of life"
If you GO into the homes where the
babies are fed on modified milk supplied
| by the pasteurizing plant. the babies
| themselves will tell you how good il is
| that IS. if YOU can understand baby talk.
| growing and their gursling. you can un-
| dcrstand their happy smiles. which is the
! Tes,l Of being well fed. They will show
hos; GOOD they think 1t is by grabbing =
well-tilsd bottle and soon making it
empty.
BABIES ARE, APPRECIATIvE.
Babies are appreclative little creatures
and they soon show the results of good
treatment; they never complain unless
there is just cause for complaining. But
they are happy now-the St Louis Pure
Aiilk Commission is lust what Its name
implies: 1t is an endless river of good.
pure. rich milk.
The commission has supplied every Ply
sician III ST. Louis with their prescription
blanks; and upon submitting their babies
10 a physician for examination the COM
mission will honor the prescription and
give 10 the mother a days feeding for her
infant infant according to the prescription OF the
lows:
In s-oqnce bottles.-,Ten feelings for tven.
fy-fonr hours. One hundred parts contain.
rat: parts: milk sugar, parts; proteids, one-A
hs. half part; For infants during frs, four weeks
after birth. Feedings every two hours from
night.
In s-ounce bottles-Six to eight feelings for
twenty-four hours; One hundred parts contain:
Fat. parts: milk sugar. 6 parts; proteids 1
part For infants during second. third and
fourth months. Feed every two and one-haf
hours from in the morning and once at night.
In 6-ounce botties-Six TO eight feedngs in
twenty-four hours One hundred parts contain:
rat. parts; milk sugar. I parts: proteids.
parts. with barley water. For infants fifth,
sixth and seventh month"; and cases with IN
testinai disturbance Feed every three hours
during day from in the morning None az
night
In S-onnce bottles-Five fecdings in t~erty-
tour hours; One hundred parts contain: Fat.
t parts; milk susar. parts: proteids. parts
For infants during eighth and twelfth month.
Feed every three hours during day from {
CLOCK in the morning. None at night.
zach morning when the days supply is
siven 10 the mother she will also get a
new prescription. which will enable her to
get the next days supply. When il Is
necessary to change the prescription. on
account of age the mother will have to
apply to the physician in charge
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| roth of Colorado, who is in the city for a
| few days on private business matters, has
| this to say about the Republican plat
| form:
Its best friends can hardly call it a
strong platform 1t is simply claim for
credit for everything that has been of
benefit to the country and disclaimer of
everything that has not been good. The
Philippines plank is the poorest excuse for
outlining policy ever put into print.
There is no policy at all.
THE plank which deals with the alleged
disfranchisement of a class of voters in
some of the Southern States and proposes
in retaliation to reduce the representation
of those States in the Congress is but a
bid Tor the negro and the radical vote The
United States Supreme Court seems to
have upheld the constitutionality of these
so-cal1ed disfranchisement laws whenever
they have been brought before that tri-
bunal, so on what theory can the Repuh-
licans cut down the representation? There
Is nothing in law on which they could
base such action"
Speaking of Democratic prospects in Col
orado, Mr.. Shafroth says he thinks they
are very bright. The Republican, he
thinks. are finding the labor troubles a
very difficult proposition to handle, and no
one can tell just what effect the serious
nature of recent occurrences in the State
will have at the polls next November.
THE impression throughout the State
seems to be that outrages committed by
individuals are bad enough said Mr..
Shafroth. 'anl that those committed by
organizations are terrible, but when an
ohlcer OF the state sworn to support the
Constitution. which says no man shall be
deprived of his liberty without due process
of law. deliberately takes men away from
their families and banishes them from the
Commonwealth. such action is considered
exceedingly reprehensible."
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INVESTIGATE CANNES HOME.
Tramp Pets Shelter Said to Be a
Place of Starvation.

ttfSPl BLIt' SPECIAL
New York, July 1.-The Bde-a- Wee
home for tramp animals. established by
Mrs. Henry Ulysses Kibbe. in Yonkers
has been brought to the notice of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
hired by the Bide-a-Wee Club of which
Mrs. George Gould, Miss Harriet Bins-
ham, Mrs. a. V. 7. Ellington. Miss Con-
dry and other prominent members of So
ciety's agents fifty dogs suffering from
mango and distemper, many of which,
according to reports OF experts cannot
Mrs Rife started the home year ago
in the belief that the dogs which are
turned loose by their owners on the
streets TO die, should have shelter Miss
A. +. Jett, the superintendent, remained
signed.
when I took charge the Bide-a-wee
Club agreed to pay me $40 a month after
certain period, and also to furnish sew
eenty-five pounds of meat. with other
he beV J not aa Keen Mis- Jet5 last
ment."
Ferdinand Garnjost. agent for the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. found in one kennel eight dogs
in excellent condition. They were board
ers and had been sent to the home for
the summer.
It found one kennel" said Mr.. Garn-
jost. exposed to the sun all day, and in
it were seven dogs. all suffering from
mango and distemper. / found in two
other kennels twenty-three dogs, all sick.
When / entered the kennel the dogs
fought viciously. and one was killed. An
other dog. which had been bitten nearly
to death, / threw over the fence.
superintendent Wildenmuth told me
that the dogs were supposed to be fed
on bread and meat. but that for some
weeks no supplies We're sent to the home
and the dogs had to go without food"
Mr. GarniOSt saws that Mrs. Kibbe said
she never had known that the dogs were
in such bad shape, and that there would
be no delay in making the necessary
changes,
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hope is held out for change or more
liebral treatment.
Knowing that the Democratic party
will make an issue of Philippine indepen-
dence. as it did in 1900, this platform
lodges the question and maintains cow
ardly silence.
Secretary Taft. speaking for the adj
ministration. has been working and beg
ging for free trade with the islands. or a
substantial reduction of duties, but the
'stand-patters' crushed him.
"A cowardly silence is maintained on
this point.
'It contains no promise to change a
single schedule. or to take the shelter off
the trusts. Having full knowledge that
the American people desire to know its
position on the Iowa idea.' 1t lodges and
keeps a cowardly silence. Knowing that a
great section of this country demands a
reciprocity with Canada and urges it as
living and vital issue, it avoids it in a
cowardiy manner. Knowing that the peo-
pie demand the prosecution of monopolist-
ic trusts. it maintains a cowariIy silence
DEFENDS THE TRUSTS.
1T is the first platform of any party
to defend the trusts. which 1t does by say
Ing that they are an economic develop
ment of the times, and it seeks to give
them an appearance of respectability by
CHASING them with labor organizations,
saying that neither of them must trans
gress the law. but it promises no new leg
islation. nor a vigorous prosecution of the
present laws. The Republican platforms
Of four and eight years ago were far more
specific on this point.
'The people demand the election of Unit
ed States Senators by direct vote. but the
platform avoids the issue.
Notwithstanding the business depres-
sion which has been settling down upon
the country for the last year. the decrease
in revenues, a deficit staring the Govern
ment in the face, and the most extrava-
CANT administration in the history of the
Union. the platform contains not line or
a. word in favor of economy or of reduc-
tion in expenditures"
SHAFROTH'S VIEWS.
Former Representative John F. Shat.
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Paseurizing Plant Established by Nathan Strauss of
New York and Local Charitable Persons Now
in Opsration-==Great Care Taken in
Preparation of Food.

clean vessels. it is allowe,i to become sour
anf unsantary. which is Ike 50 much
send TO the poor. helpless infants of oar
city. ] intend to establish system
whereby | can have, traiped nurses 20
into the homes of the c'ty's poor and
teach the mothers how to bath and care
for their babes, and how to prepare their
food"
The pasteurizins plant is immaculate.
The minute YOU enter the door your smell =
ing sense is impressed with the wholesome
odo- of cleanliness. You. who have had
the pleasure of visiting your grand
have an idea OF the cdor and tie good
things that the little st. Louis babies get
from the St. Louis Pure Milk Commission.
Edwin a. ObersChelp milk chemist. and
who has made a study OF the feeding of
II fants for some wears, has charge Of the
rasteuriziug plant. MIR. Oberschelp ex-
planned the pant and the process of pre-
pairing the modified milk for the babies.
In the first place" said Mr.. Oberschelp.
the milk comes from a carefully selected
herd The most important thing is to get
are carefully insuected by veterinary
physician in order to ascertain whether
they are perfectly healthy. then the milk
is inspected by a bacteriioloGist to see
whether it is free from bacteria. The
cows are housed in . thoroughly modern-
up-to-date barn, well ventilated and with
sranitoid floors The milking IS done in
a separate room, and the utmost care is
exercised by the mixers, the milking uten-
sils being thoroughly sterilized. The cows
are treated very gently.
THE milking is done about 4 o'clock in
the morning and shipped direct to us. |
use cream and skinned milk to get n
bases to work upon. The milk cans are
put in the can watts. where the cans are
surrounded by ice water.
'I stir each can thoroughly and test it
to see If it has the required standard. If
it has l modify it. The bottles are filled
and the milk is pasteurized and put in cold
storage for delivery.
Il modify the milk and get as near TO
the human milk as possible. To do this
use fluid sugar of milk lime water and
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pure water. Where the physician asks for
1t. ! use barley water or cat water.
J. myself. would not Use either barley
or odt water except in cases of summer
complaint. or something of that kind
UNDER Doctors INSTRUCTIONS.
mo milk will be given or anv diet of
any kind. only under the instructions of
a physician. as believe that the first year
Of child's life belongs in the hands of a
physician. More babies are killed by fol-
lowing ncighborhooi advice than the world
has any idea Of Babies are tender plants
and VIII not stand experimenting
We have adopted four formulate. which
we believe will fill the average need.
Other formGlac will be used as they are
required. When l have prepared each
and the bottles are flied. then it is put
in the pasteurizer, and kept in there at a
temperature of l67 degrees FOR thirty min
utes. This kills or numbs all the germs.
The bott es are sealed and placed III the
cooling vat, and from there they are
placed in cold storage. Pasteurized milk
will keep in cold storage for week. The
bottles are thoroughly steriliZed before
the milk is nut in them. so there is no
possible chance for bacteria
DO You not steriiiZe the mik?'
"onIy when special cases require 1t. To
sterilizc milk We have TO heat it to
temperature of 212 degrees. The idea is to
keep the temperature as low as possible
and at the same time kill the germs. to
httD II pure. We hlloW tndl neallNV milk
changes its composition. just the same as
that of an egg. That is one reason why
We use so much precaution with our milk
at the beginning. We want it as pure as
we can possibly get II.
''SterlizinG the milk makes it more con-
stipating. and in the hot summer months
we will have TO steYilize the milk for some
children. SteriliZed milk will keep in
definitely IL the winter time we will not
pasteuriZe all OF our milk. as II is so very
pure In Is original state. and it is better
for the babies. During the summer we
are compelled to in order TO keep 1t
sweet"
why do YOU dilute the milk
Cows milk is five or six times as heavy
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as the human milk The babies cannot
digest 1t. unless 1t is modified ana made
as near the human milk as possible. The
milk must contain certain elements in
order TO he nourishing. Milk contains al
the sustenance Of life. 4 mature person
could live on milk alone. II IS a grave
mistake for parents to feed children solid
food before they are year old. II is
criminal the way some people feed little,
he 'piesS babies. They think because the
baby eats it that it is good for them. The
baby. of course, will eat whatever il gets
it hards or from milk TO carpet tacks.
BABY KNOWS LITTLE
1T only knows two tEings-that its
hands are to pick up things and its mouth
a place to nut them. He does not know
the result. But parents are supposed to
be reasonable beings. yet they give I'M
proper food 10 children. until they get
the ricketts,, or softening OF the bone Then
they bevail the dreadful calamity that
made to suffer without Just cause. il is
only the effects of ignorance. No solid
food should be given TO :. child until 1t is
is eating does not agree with him ply
Sician should he consulted. and he viii
prescribe. His Instructions should be fol-
owed carefully. Nino-tenthS OF the dis
food.
''Our capacity will supply 1o.ooo bottles
per day. and will be able to meet the
demands made upon US.
The bottles of milk should be kept in a
cool place; 4 fresh bottle must be used
for each feeding. The bottle of milk
should be placed in pail or can of warm
water for about ten minutes before feed
ing the child. but the milk should not be
boiled. The milk which Is left in the pot-
tie after the child is done feeding should
be thrown away, because in heating it
the composition of it has been changed.
The bottle must not be opened until ready
for use. The bottles should be rinsed
with clean water. A fresh nipple should
be used for each feeding.
We thoroughly clean each bottle and
boil the corks. then they are sterilized be-
fore they are used again.
DO you think that poor mothers will
avail themselves of this opportunity to
help their babies?"
Yes. every one Of them. 1t is not their
fault that they do not do better, it is be-
cause they have not the means to do it
with. They want to do all they can for
their children. but they are so helpless
They are the victims of circumstances
We have a good many applications
and the mothers are Just as happy as il is
possible for porta's to be. This is The
greatest charity that has ever been un-
dertahen IN St Louis.
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Commission ADOPTS F o Il
Formulae to Fill the Aver.
age Need Of Little Ones.

'Tn faith and hope the world will disagree
But all mankind's concern is charity."-Pope
A charity that Is as wide as the earth, a
love of mankind that has no selfish aims
to encompass 1t, has caused Nathan
Strauss of New York City, man of wealth.
philanthropist, together with a small
group Of philanthropc people in St Louis
to 60 about a great work of charity that
means life to many little children. happl-
ness to many mother who has looked at
her babe In her arms, fearful for its life
as she saw It's pale. wan, half-starved and
pinched features.
perhaps that parent
Bent DER her babe. her eyes dissolved in dew;
The big drops mingling with the milk he
drew"
This great charity that has been inaugu-
rated here contemplates the furnishing to
mothers Of absolutely pure. modified and
pasteurtzed milk for their babies at nom-
1naI cost
For years the statistics have shown that
In all the largo cities more babies die be-
fore they reach the age of one year than
live. Men of science have investigated
this alarming and distressing condition
and they have decided. and their decision
is based on facts, that the terrible NOR
tality among children Is due to the i'm
pure, germ-breading and unsanitary milk
that the babies are compelled to drink,
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which. considering the excellence of the
instrument. and its good state of preserva-
tion. was no more than a fair pline. 1t is
source or surprise to me to read that "a
dealer so well known as W. E Hill OF
London should have parted with a gem
ulne Stradivarus for fS0, although he gave
only t25 for it to the itinerant fiddler, who
originally purchased it for $6.25.
II seems to me that there are far better
Judges Of the worth of vioiins in this
country than there are in London I shall
never forget the first time that l saw the
Bot VIOLIN Could anyone have been de-
ceived with regard to the value Of such an
instrument as that? / had been invited to
look at what / supposed to be merely n
French copy. and / went expecting to SEQ
something worth not more than $50 L
succeeded not long after that in arranging
not accept the certified check Of Nine.
Adeilna Patti for 1t, and 1t was not sold
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Celebrated Violin That Figured
in Fletcher Case Is Owned bv
d Connecticut Man.
ONCE BROUGHT ONLY ss.25.
Americans Are Better Judges of
Rare Instruments Than the
English, Declares Dealer
Who Appraised This
Stradivarius.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
New York. July 2-Apropos of a sale in
London of a Stradivarius violin once val
ued at s.. for $500. comes the announce
ment that the best-known "Strad" in
this country. once owned by Joseph Jean
Bott, has been sold for 5000. 1t was once
pawned for 81, and after wandering for
eight years, was found again while Victor
F1echter, a well-known dealer. was on
trial for the second time on the charge of
stealing it.
Mr.. F1echter was exonerated. although
he had been once sentenced, and he spoke
OF the sale of the famous instrument to
which he always refers as the Bott Stradi-
varius.
That violin,'' said he was sold three
weeks ago by the Bott estate to a Mr.
Mitchell Of Norwich. Conn.,, for 5000,
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KIPNAPERs CHASE BOY OF 7.
Parent Believes Men Were En-,
deayOring to "Get Even" \


New York. July 2. - Bernard Shore. Z
years old. who went to sleep in tine base
ment of his home at No. 424 East Four
teenth street. gave his father and the DO.
ice of tine East Fifth Street Station no
end Of trouble before he awoke and pre-
serted himself to his parents.
ne father, Joseph. runs a candy and
rooaccq ro shop; his family living IN the
room rooms back of the shop. While his wife
Mss tending the shop three men entered
ana asked her to give them some cirar-
ettes. She refused, and they departed,
swearing to get even"
several hours later a boy ran INTO the
candy shop and told Shore that l.. had
seen three men chasing little Bernard at
thirteenth street and Avenue A. Shore
vent at once to the station and notified
sergeant Kelly. He also told Of the threats
made to his wife by the three men. Kelly
ordered out the reserves and a hunt was
made for the boy and the men.
Inc search was kept up through the
night. shore going to the station and
10 police HEADQUARTERS, from where a gem
eral alarm had been sent out, several
times to see II any trace of his boy had
been found.
At daylight Bernard appeared in the
rooms where his parents were awaiting
word OF him. He said that he had been
chased by the men, and had come Rome,
nidlng In the cellar and had gone to sleel
sAsSl %
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Then very often the milk is kept in un.
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Slight Fall Kills woman.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
q years old. of No. 457 West Thir;:etf
street. died at Bellevue Hospital from
fractured skull, received according to hei
husband. Colin Steele. compositor by
falling at her home aud striking her head
on the loor,
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Astoria, where she is employed. took up
her story. and the childs body was found
at the Post Graduate Hospital, frozen and
partly dissecteG.
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Representative Lucking Says Re-
publican Planks Are
All Negative.
JOHN F. sHAFRoTH's VIEWS.
Former Representative From
Denver District Criticises Ne
gro Resolution; Troubles
in Colorado.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington, July 2. - Representative
Alfred Lucking Of the Detroit District
gave the following as his views on the
Republican platform recently adopted at
Chicago:
at is a platform Of extravagant self
praise. OF negations and of cowardly ST.
lence.
Mot single direct statement or prom
ise on live question in 1t. No hope Of
self-government Is held out to the Fill
pinos, nor of reversal of the policy of loot
and carpetbagism and military rule over
those eight million people. Practicing in
those islands a rule Of despotic and selfish
colonialism far worse than England's rule
the Eighteenth Century. not ray Of
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CUNNINGHAM INDICTED.
True Bill Against the sheep King and
Six Others.

True Bill Against the sheep King and
six Others.
Washington, March ~. The Interior
Department today received the following
dispatch from Portland, Oregon, report
ing the latest development in the inves-
tigation of the public land frauds in the
west: "Charles Cunningham, the
wealthy stockman Of Eastern Oregon,
and six homesteaders procured by him
were indicted today for conspiracy"
Six Other Indictments Returned.
Portland, March 22.-Although the
indictments have not been reported to
Judge Bellinger, it is understood that
the grand jury which has been investi-
eating the land frauds in this state has
returned indictments against Charles
Cunningham, one Of the largest stock
raisers in Eastern Oregon, and six others
for conspiracy to defeat the government
in the matter of obtaining lands. The
others indicted are said to be Asa Rey.
burn, Glen Sailing, Shelley Jones, Marx
Shakleford, Dallas O'Hara and Kate
James. The persons named are accused
Of acting as dummies for Cunningham
1t is understood that Judge Hartman
and Joe Parkes will be held as witnesses
in the case. Several Of the indicted
persons have not been apprehended.