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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

ried are the trades or professions they can easily follow if only given the train- ing and an opportunity to work.
 Blind babies are only recently coming in for their share of attention It IS too late to save some pitiful little fellows put early enough to save many thousands # the spirit of justice and philanthropy spreads. Unless blind baby is taught before it is six or eight years old, it be- comes the most pathetic of idiots. Boston has established a nursery for these, though she has had a Kindergarten in the Perkins institute since 1881 one fourth of the babies who come to the nursery are restored either to normal or partial sight through proper treat ment, and the state now requires that physicians and nurses report all eases Of new born babies with weak eyes. The Sunshine society of New York has home and kindergarten for these little creatures and other cities are taking up the plan Massachusetts has four trav- cling teachers who go to the homes of the blind, and an association that does much to help and to educate others. Rhode Island has two travelling teachers, and Pennsylvania has had home teach ing since 1882 New York city has an association for helping the blind of all ages and conditions, a workshop for blind men, a self-improvement club for them, and eight teachers, six of whom are blind. Minnesota has a summer school for blind men.
 It is the hope of the workers for the blind to find out just how many there are in the whole country and interest the states and cities In them. to have indus- trial training for them as well as mental, and so open the doors of hope by making them independent. One great problem Is that of teaching the adult blind, the blind who once had sight and lost 1t only in later life Hope departs quickly when the sight is gone and the aged do not take eagerly to the task of learning a new method of reading. Once they get start in the alphabet, though, they grow eager, learn quickly, and then are anxious to teach others. The glorious consciousness has come to them that they can be Of use by teaching what they have learned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

Realizing what earelessness has done in these pathetic cases, philanthropic men and women are busly augmenting the work Of the states in making the lives of the blind happier and more useful. Already twenty per cent of the American blind over 10 years old are engaged in some kind of gainful occupation-a great CT per cent than that shown by any other country in the world, and the present intent of those interested is to give them a wider and more remunerative field of endeavor They mean to have the word blind no longer synoym for dependence. They mean to train the hands and the hrain until these less fortunate people become as independent and as happy as those who do not sit In physical dark ness. All they ask is a chance to de- velop whatever talents that lie within them, and a square deal when they try to earn their own. living.
 Thlrty-slx states and territories now have institutions for the education of the blind, the southern states as rule adding separate departments for the care of the negroes Massachusetts was the pioneer in this work. In 1dz9 the first school for the blind In the new world was opened in Boston and from the first received state aid. In 1881 active work was begun under the celebrated Dr. Sam
 
 man fom the eternal darkness and si- lence that hang over the deaf-blind. Col. Thomas H. Perkins donated his home for the use of the students and the institu- tion was named for him. In 1881 New York opened her first institution for the lllnd in 1883 the Society or Friends found- eG the world famous one in Pennsylva- Tia. and In 1887 Ohio opened school in Columbus. The next year one in Rich mend, Va, and in 1S42 another In Louis vile, Ky. marked the spread of the all truistic idea. There are now forty-one state educational institutions with about 40Ol pupils, support expense of over a million ; and With manual training m a part of the general GU
 The latest censu the blind prepai ed under tn rection of Dr. Alexander Gral 1wed that eighty-ive out of citizens were blind, but tha of the totally blind and A of the par italy blind were er-pfoyed in earning their own living Five thousand or more over ten years old were engaged in agr- culture, one-ffth of the number being totally blind Professional service claimed nearly 2OO0, domestic and personal service about the same number, trade and trans portation over 16e0, and manufacturing and mechanics. 1915. There were four to- tally blind woodsmen and raftsmen. nine totally blind wood-choppers, 492 musicians or music teachers, and h43 brush and broom makers. The list shows how va
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
shriners Leave Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, May 11.-Delegates3 tC the imperial council of the Mystic Shriners began leaving this ,norAins for their homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

Deep wrinkles, smallpox scars, frecllles and all facial blemishes removed in ten days to two weeks by the latest sci entific Parisian method; results permanent. For particulars call
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Twenty Per Cent of American
 Blind Make Their Living
FIRST INSTITUTION IN 1929
Books for Blind Are Most important Feature In Modern Educational ements--Wsconsin Work
 shop Interesting.
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKlN.

Helen Keller, tha most wonderful of deaf-blind says in her beautiful essay on "Once l knew the depth wb was, and darkness lay on t Ill things. Then love came ar ul free. Once I knew only da stiffness. Now I know hope a Is one of over 65,060 blind pe,. United States of D. 000,0O0 on the and the hope and joy that are now rs are being tardily brought to the others. With the passing of the years points of view are chang ing, and where help was once meted out to the blind as charity, modern civilza- ton is beginning to give it as just due. of the 65000 American blind 25,00O are unnecessarily so. Had their eyes had early care and treatment the sight could have been saved. sixty-five hundred are blind because their mothers and physicians did not care properly for their eyes when they were new born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

ried are the trades or professions they can easily follow if only gwen the train ing and an opportunity to work.
The oasis., 1907-02-02
TWO WAYS.

This week THE OASIS has been shown copies of two different letters, each written by promi- nent man in business in Santa Cruz county. Both gentlemen had been written to by some one in the East asking about a certain min ing enterprise in their vicinity, upon which there is considerable work being done, many men em- ployed, and the large expenditures,
The oasis., 1907-02-02

Now Mark Smith asserts that Arizona will be admitted to state hood singly in four or five years. He expects to be reelected until then on the record made in de- feating joint-statehood; and after that he feels sure of reelection n every term for another twenty years on the old, familiar cry : "Mark Smith and Statehood"
The oasis., 1907-02-02
NEED EXAMINATION, BUTT

Regulation of trades and pro. fessions by law seems to have be- come fad with American legis- latures. Every legislative session adds to the list of callings that must be regulated, commissions appointed to supervise admission 10 the exclusive ranks and pres cribe qualifications and examina. tions to determine who shall enter the sacred precincts of the select and selected guilds. And all these callings and professions that have induced the law to spread above their sacred brotherhoods it's pro. tecting wings have done so under the plea of. protecting the public from incompetents and frauds. Long ago the medical fraternity induced the assembled wisdom of 1the various states to realize that athe public health was endangered aby practitioners of narrow intel hgence and limited education, so commissions were created in every state and territory to whom must apply for examination every aspir- ant to practice within the common wealth, and without llcence ifrOm whom no one can practice without the pain and penalty of the law. Then, to protect the pub lie health the plumber must needs submit to examination, and none can plumb without examination and a sheepskin from a political commission. Afterward no dentist could pull tooth or break a jaw without a license from another political commission appointed by the governor of the commonwealth. And, now, in some states, no bar Der can scrape chir or recount fairy tales without diploma from barber college, or license from another political commission. Long nave the courts prescribed an ex- animation for .aspirants to prac- tice at the bar, and formerly ex- aminations were very strict. But in some way or another the bars have been let down of late, and the public have become appalled, at some of the samples that have been turned loose upon them with legal sheepskins and real sheeps- heads; so now another political commission is proposed, to which must apply for examination all in
The oasis., 1907-02-02

CoNGREssMEN fear not to admit in open session of the House that abolition of the canteen was a mis- take; but, such is the potency in politics of the W. c. T. U., none of them dare vote for it's restoration.
The oasis., 1907-02-02

LAWYERS in Italy are on a strike, and the courts are at a standstill. They are not striking against their clients, however. They get from them without strikes.
The oasis., 1907-02-02

SAYS pointed paragraph" in. the Chicago News: "A married man is telling always of the fun he had when bachelor" Does
The oasis., 1907-02-02

made lu good itlfh tfe potiiog tu- to circulation Q great dea oi money The eompaoy bas a large group oi mining claims. through which tun several strong and well defined lodges, that show good mineral in places, and Chat with judicious development will turn out good mines, in all probability. No better surface showing can be found anywhere, and some of the best mining properties in the country had not so good q showing on the surface.
 One of the business men to whom allusion is made here (and the curious part is that he is the owner of properties adj jacentto some of those he backcapped, and has them bonded for a good price) wrote an extended letter in which he damned the whole enterprise from beginning to end. He knew something about the properties. They had been there a long time but nobody ever thought them worth taking up. They were do- ing little work out there, but no one knew of their having any ore. But still they might get ore. The manager once worked in a mine down about Yuma, and the writer has heard that he had taken course in a school of mines some where. But nobody ever thought that he was much of mine mana ger. And the entire malicious screed was in that tenor. It ended with this admonition: "Miud you. l don't say that they will not make a mine."
 The business man who wrote the other letter, when he received it, visited the property, looked over the ground, inspected the work, inquired into the plans and an~ ticipations of the company, and wrote a fair account of what he had seen, presenting conclusion that as speculative proposition the outlook was good for the enter prise.
 Now there is fair sample of two different ways of treating men who endeavor in good faith to develop the resources of the country. One can see no good in any enterprise in which the backcapper is not in- terested or cannot bleed. The other, practiced by men of hope and faith in the resources of the region, endeavors to encourage and build up enterprise rather than tearing it down.
 Of course the community has to endure the knocker and backcap- per, but he is an unparalleled
The oasis., 1907-02-02

the pointed paragrapher" expect a married man give himself or anyone else away by telling any, thing else?
The oasis., 1907-02-02

tipieut Cukes and BIHeksl0ues lt ls q good scheme, and ought Go be extended
 Formerly there was in Nogales an excellent business man who was wont Co aver Chat "what No. gales most needed was a protect. l i've organization of business men to head off some of the d--d news. papers" And when one surveys the newspaper men of Arizona, and sees what lot of frauds and in- competents a large per cent of them are, he cannot help agreeing with the gentleman quoted. As described by the late O'Brien Moore. who was a real newspaper man, "they cannot produce good newspaper, but they can hamper and limit the man who can do so; and they are a detriment to the communities that support them in that they prevent the real news paper men there giving those com munities the best service that is in them."
 If there be a profession in which aspirants should be subject to ex- animation and license it is that of newspaperdom. But under free government that would be impos- sible. Such law would be an abrldgment of the constitutional privilege granted freedom of the press that under free institutions could not be tolerated for mo- ment. Before those constitutional guaranties such law would van- ish ere it could be written in the statute. But that very inalien- able right imbedded in every fun damental law for the government of free peoples makes those peoples subject to just such impositions as the business man mentioned de- plored so bitterly.
 But in the older states there is a public sentiment that serves to protect good newspapers as com pletely as does legislation protect the medico, the barber, the plum Der, or the horse doctor. As an eastern man asserted not long since, after all interview with one of our Arizona editors" "why, back in Iowa, where 1 came from he wouldn't be permitted to sweep out printing office"
 So for that portion of the Ari- zona press who are real newspa- per men there is only one thing to do, and that is to help all other callings protect themselves from frauds and charlatans, and hope for that growth of an enlightened public sentiment which will pro- tect them by refusing patronage to the frauds and charlatans who butt into the chosen field of the real newspaper man.
The oasis., 1907-02-02

Published Every Saturday at Nogales. santa Cruz County, Arizona, by THE OASIS
 Printing House. Incorporated.
The oasis., 1907-02-02

ALLEN T. BIRD, Managing Editor. DANE ID. BIRD, Business Manager.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14

5000 feet long and more than 800
feet high and will cost millions.
A large number of new engines
and cars of every description are
being added to the equipment of
the Canadian Pacific and Sault Ste.
Marie and the Spokane & lnterna-
tional lines.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
ANOTHER TRUNK
LINE NEXT
MONTH

The Spokane & International
railway will begin running a
through train to the east about
June 10. Theh train is intended to
eclipse any running through this
city and the time between here and
st, Paul and the Atlantic coast will
be reduced. The card time of the
new train will be 81 miles per hour
as against 30 miles on the Hill and
Hartman lines The distance to
the Twin Cities will be cut down
IS miles, the International being
that much shorter than any other
line out of this city
The 500 road has always claim
ed to be 500 miles nearer the At
lantic coast than any line running
out of st. Paul or Minneapolis,
therefore the new route to the east
should make quite a difference in
time consumed in reaching the At
lantic seabOard. The Canadian Pa
cific. with which the International
road connects, runs trains into
Boston direct
The Canadian Pacific is doing ey-
erything possible to reduce the run
ming time of trains on its line in
competing for Spokane business.
At one point on the line a steel
bridge is being built that will cut
off 80 miles, The bridge is over
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
PRIVATE HOUSE FOR
THE HAYWOOD JURY

won't have time to cast his dis
eliminating eye on the perform
ance. A Methodist minister's at
tendance at a theater might arouse
more interesting developments for
him than he could arouse for the
play in case he found occasion to
tear up the performance. There is
still extant generation of Method
lists that maintain the old abhor-
renee to things theatrical.
Rev. Rasmus agrees with the
theory that if ministers took a
more active interest in what is
presented on the stage for public
the quality of that
would be vastly i'm
proved And he surmises that there
will be fairly good sharp shooting
for a minister in the play tonight.
But he won't be there, although
The Press understood him to say
yesterday that he would tackle the
job if offered
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
GROCERS PLAN
GREAT PICNIC

Grocery stores and butcher shops
will begin closing at 8 O'Clock Sa-
turday nights on May %. The date
was fixed by the Spokane Grocers
association last night. 1t was as
certained that at least 80 per cent
of the grocers and meat dealers had
signed the agreement and that
many of the unsigned had agreed
to favor the proposition in case it
works all right.
The major part of last night s
meeting was taken up in the APP
pointment of committees for the
Srocers' annual picnic, to be held
at Occur dAlene, June 10. A. w.
Bower. John McGouigh and l.. c.
Brown were chosen judges of the
contests. l. G.. Allen. c. Anderson
and Secretary e. n. Cory advertis-
ing committee; E. X. Allen, entry
clerk A floor committee and
committee on entertainments and
sports were also named. An eX-
ceptiOnally good time is planned at
the picnic this year
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
GREAT RIDING THIS YEAR

Bare back riding is a big feature
of the Norris & Rowe circus. Be
fore last seasons tour had come to
close. Norris & Rowe had deter
mined upon the riders they would
secure for the present tour If offers
of high salaries could tempt the eX-
perts, and the showmen received
signed contracts from riders whose
names are famous in the realm OF
the white tents. George Holland
and Rose Dockrill are a duo of eX-
perts: Edna Marietta, who has no
equal as a somersault rider; Frank
Miller performs a hurricane hurdle
and jockey act. John Carroll mas
the most highly educated horse in
the world. The animal goes through
his act without rein, bride or com
mand. Six pure white Shetland
ponies 90 through novel act.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
DID YOU WRITE TO
THIS YOUNG WIDOW

EVANSVILLE. Ind, May IA
Catchy advertisements. represent
ing that a golden haired young
widow of Evansville was a can
didate for matrimony. and false
hair switches. from which locks
were cut to send to gullible mates
who answered the advertisements,
figured in the preliminary hearing
before United States Commissions
er Wartman of Mrs. Violet Ian
caster, 46. and her daughter, Garnet
Lancaster. 10. arrested by the
Evansville police.
They are charged with using the
mails to defraud. and their opera
tons are said to extend as far west
as Portland Ore.
Detectives found letters indicat-
ing the women had rOped in nu-
merous men for large sums.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
BY JACOB WAlDECk
Special Correspondence to The Press

BOISE, May IA cottage
across the street from the court
house has been fixed upon as the
home for the Haywood jury. In or
der to get it a liberal bonus was
paid the family living there to va
cate for the period of the trial. The
house was selected because it is
close and convenient and will en-
able the jury to live in comfort.
Sheriff Shad Hodgin has both a
personal and official interest in this
matter or the jury. He served,
while back, as member of the
jury in criminal case, and he
knows what ''roughing it" means.
He intends that the men having to
stand the long and arduous siege
in this case shall have proper
degree of comfort. A cook will pre-
pare their meals at the cottage, and
every juror will sleep in bed The
great court house lawn will afford
them place for exercise.
The sheriff will adopt extraordi-
nary precautions to prevent a mis-
u iol thi puSiI even lIC dDpCdi dllSC
of misconduct on the part of the
jury, To that end special bailffs
will guard them day andnight.
A stairway has been constructed
at the rear of the court house, so
that the Jurors will not come in
contact with the crowd in the cor
ridOr of the building. They will
pass from the court room through
Judge Woods private Office, down
the special stairway and across the
lawn and the street to the cottage.
AS an instance of the care which
must be exercised, the sheriff
cites a case that recently fiured
in the courts. A bailiff was con-
Quoting jurors in a criminal case
through the streets to restaurant.
when one of the good men and
true stepped around the corner to
buy cigar There was no evil
dence that he had been approach
ed" in fact he had not been spoken
to about the case. but he had been
ont of the bailiff's sight and the
judge set aside the verdict.
In the matter of Haywood the
sheriff will guard against the
slightest slip that might give
ground for criticism.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
EARLY MORNING
HOLD-UP

Charles Johnson of the National
hotel was knocked down and rob
bed of $50 at 2:50 O'Clock this
morning in front of the Cross
Roads saloon on Lincoln st. He
gave the police a description of his
assailants. There were 2 of them.
Both grappled with him and threw
him to the ground. While one held
him. the other searched his pockets.
Neither man carried a weapon or
was masked. AS soon as they let
him up Johnson shouted for help,
but The robbers got away.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
TAKING HOME A
JAP BRIDE

Passengers on the Great North
ern who arrived in Spokane last
evening tell of a couple aboard who
attracted more attention even than
usually attends a bridal tour. They
were a handsome looking young
man, apparently well bred, and a
japanese girl of exceptional beauty.
Neither one made any offers to get
acquainted with their fellow pas
sengerS, but the trainmen managed
to find out who they We're. The
young man was Horace II. Levine,
son of a wealthy Syracuse On. W,
shoe merchant. and the Japanese
girl was his wife. She speaks no
English and her husband conversed
with her in sort of Japanese and
gestures.
Horace Levine enlisted in a
Tennessee regiment and was in the
Boxer troubles. While in Japan
with his regiment on the return
from China he fell in love with the
little Jap girl, who is the daughter
of well-to-dO Japanese of Toxic.
Levine's parents are unaware OF
his strange ENHANCEMENT and the
first they will know of it probably
will be when he arrives at Syracuse
with his bride.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-14
!: Bits o News

The Fraternal Union of America
will give card party this evening
on the fourth floor of the Fraternal
hail.
S. T. Jordan has resigned as a
commercial instructor at the high
school to work for the Washington
Trust Co.
Tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock
the ladies of the First UniverSalist
church will give a dinner and enter
tainment at the church, corner of
Fifth av. and Howard st.
Fred Gerrant was found guilty by
a jury in Judge Kennans court yes
terday afternoon of having stolen a
watch, valued at s15, from Sam Nc
Donald. March s, and was sen
fenced to ! year in the penitentiary.
In the federal court yesterday
Judge Edward Whitson sentenced
w. II. Mckay to pay 800 fine and
serve 60 days in Jail for selling
liquor to Indians, The imprison-
ment was deferred for $40 days SO
Mckay could arrange for the care
of his family.
In Justice Hinkle's court yeSter-
day afternoon May 20 was set as
the date for hearing the charges OF
violating the Sunday closing law
which II. C. Blair yesterday
brought against F. c. and l.. c. Tur
ner and B. C. Wiltse, saloonmen
They were released under $50 bond
each.