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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

It is not only the tenement mothers who are hygienic offenders, however. Many physicians report that apparently intelligent mothers, when asked about the baby, say with pride: He's fine. He eats everything we have at table," The won der is, the doctors say, not that one in 15 dies before first birthday, but that so many don't die. But of those who live a sad percentage grow up with wrecked little constitutions and never become the strong, healthy adults the nation needs for its work. Later, these find their way to tuberculosis hospitals, or because of physical weakness and the permanent suits of mistreatment, either never can complete the public school course or else grow up with misshapen bones, the se- quels of babyhood rickets.
 So the charity people are giving dem onstrations First, they catch the sick baby and fix things so that the mother has to be present at the treatments. They wash the baby, put him clean and sweet out in the air without bundling him up in arctic wrappings, feed him only on pure, modified milk, unless his mother. can nurse him, and the after taking" picture makes the convert. The baby who was puny and fretful becomes a laugh ing, bouncing youngster, and helps might fly to convert the whole neighborhood to sanitary methods.
 There is but one thing that they are cranks about. They do not recommend any measures impossible for a tenement or beyond it's means. But they are cranks about breast feeding," and the mother who tries to escape this obligation has a merry time of 1t with the nurses and physicians. For science frankly admits that it can find no substitute as safe and as good for the little chaps as mothers milk.
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that suits her fancy, but really does rot make her so thin as she imagines.
 One day not long ago woman sat be- fore a Fifth Avenue photographer after spending two hours at a ir-dresser's. S. She came back in a hurry with the proofs and said indignantly: "Why, these are awful-my hair has never looked like that in any picture"
 "Did you ever have it done that way before?" was the polite inquiry.
 The woman was somewhat embar- rassed. "No." she admitted, 'I never did''
 Then the photographer rebuked her gently.
 There's a moral in this,'' said he. "Never go to the hair-dresser before the photographer. It only makes person look tired, and the hair-dresser's art doesn't help the photographer.
 Another woman could not understand why her chin stuck out so far, but she elucidated the mystery herself when she explained that the morning of her sit ting was the first on which she had worn an unusually high collar That naturally changed her appearance.
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TRY ID SAVE TIE
 FIFTEENTH BABY Charity Workers Fighting h.
 fant Mortality BY EDUCATING MOTHERS Campaign To Teach Value of Pure Food, Air and Bathing Called
 the "Whoe Darn Family
 System by Some.
BY EDUCATING MOTHERS

New York, July 25.-With hundreds of mothers feeding tiny babies watermelon, cucumbers and green bananas, or else re- gardlng water and fresh air as fatal to lnfants, with thousands of baby bottles filled with milk which, even if once good, las become bacteria tainted by being lett around in a hot kitchen, and baby death rate of one out of 15 babies under d year old, the charity workers of New York have come to the conclusion that some. thing radical must be done to save the children from the ignorance of their par ents. As result many of the leading charity organizations of the metropolis nave entered upon q great campaign of parent education. The campaign is of two sorts, practical demonstration and careful training, for it has been found that no matter how much you talk to some mothers, and no matter how sincere their promise not to give the baby highly col ored penny soda water the baby is al- lowed to continue in this course of diet, which, at the first hot spell, leads to a hurry call for the relief society to rush the baby down to some seaside home where a trained nurse is boss of the feed ing department.
 Even at some of these seaside homes a strict watch has to be kept on the mothers, or many get the idea that six months old baby who is being given sln,- ply pure milk modified with barley water or other foods, Is being starved, and, at the first chance, smuggle in bad fruit or some other outrageous edible, and the nurse comes to the crib to find that a long tattle against summer complaint has been lost by one mouthful of solid food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Not Always What They Seem.

From Success Magazine.
 Professor and Mrs. Hadley were on q train bound for New York, where Yales president was to speak before national convention. He made use of the hour and % minutes he spent in the train by re- hearsing his speech in a low voice, using lIls hands to emphasize certain passages.
 A kindly matron who was sitting direct. ly behind Mr and Mrs. Hadley, and who had been watching and listening. leaned forward, and, tapping Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said feelingly, You have my sincere sympathy, my poor woman; have one just like him at home."
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river, where, in cots surrounded by wire netting, but open to all the curative preezes, the babies lives are fought for by a medical staff and a dozen nurses and special baby's milk laboratory.
 Junior Sea Breeze, with its doctrine of fresh air, has done more to encourage ventilation for babies than any other known agency in the neighborhood. For. manifestly, if a baby gets well practi- cally out of doors, just sheltered from the storms and rain and direct sum- two or three inches of open air tenement window
 and plenty of fresh water will not kill him. And tenement windows cautiously open for the baby and some of his bund- lings are taken off In sweltering weather.
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ATHENS COLLEGE, Athens'Aia

Governed by women for Girls and Women. On main line of L. & N. rail- road, half way between Birmingham and Nashville, in an ideal college town No typhoid. no malaria Graduate nurse looks after the health of the girls. Twenty teachers and officers. Much stress placed on music. Full college courses in ancient and modern lan- guages, mathematics and science. Most moderate priced institution in the south, advantages offered considered.
 All modern conveniences; beautiful campus; basket ball, tennis and other forms of outdoor exercise.
 We also offer an excellent normal course, with practice teaching under the superintendence of an expert critic teacher. Write for catalog.
 MARY NORMAN MOORE, President. Box 6S. 6-2S-su-wed-tf
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RICHMOND COLLEGE

Endowed and Well Equipped
 Courses of study to degrees of B. A., B. s. M A. and IL. D. Location in Richmond offers many advantages. Library facilities unsurpassed.
 Session opens Sept. "A. For catalogue address Prest F. w. Boatwright Rich mond. Va. 7-26-26t uth
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 But the milk work is not so simple as it seems. Sometimes a nursing baby is sick just because It's mother is so tired out with heavy housework, or Is her self starved, and cannot supply proper nourishment to her child. Then to get at the child, the A. T. c. P. calls on it's relief department. Day workers go in, and with trained housekeeping ability, get the wash done and leave the place like a new pin. Food Is provided for the mother. But if these are not enough, the mother goes out of town for a complete rest the other children being looked after in other homes. And if the baby is a very new one, the mother is sent to Caro- line Rest, the maternity rest home, until she is strong enough to take care of her regular duties.
 The association even found 1t necessary to teach the mothers how to make cheap ice box out of old pals and sawdust or papers, so that they could keep the milk furnished to them in proper condition.
 But whatever the size of the problem, these agencies get at the babies and the little children. One rather irreverent soul defined it as the whole darn family sys- tenn" for to help those babies they will even find work for the father The re- suits are beginning to tell. Healthy ba blcs. snatched from death and brought Lack to life not by drugs, but by proper diet and sanitation, have begun to be the advertisements on many tenement stoors for the system" Of an evening, Mrs Mccarthy tells how little Mike was sparet 10 her "just by fixln' his milk roight ana z twin him a bath ivry blessid day, rain or xhoine." Mrs Rabinsky has the same tale to tell of Rebecca, and Mrs. Spinnell with many gestures and calls for the blessings of the saints, spreads the reason for Tony's continued and unusually chuo- by appearance in Mulberry bend. Anti already there is an indication that when baby is out of condition, mothers are beginning to recognize the fact that there is a reason. and, abandoning fatalism and Historic nursing systems at the same time now come to the free doctors to find out. And the infant death rate is going down.
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Charlottesville, Va.
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University of Alabama
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Bethel Female College. WORTHWHILE KY,

Fifty fifth session opens September 1, 1908. Select home school for young women and girls. Thoroughness, com fort and culture. Tried instructors in each department. Write for catalogue and examine for yourself.
 EDMUND HARRISON, President.
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The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30

two loads of gravel. 20 cents; hauling
same, at 90 cents per load, So; break
ing stone per rod, 10 cents; worinSp
quarry getting out et1He, I1 cents;
grading road 40 cents; total, S4.55 per
rod, or 81 ,450 per mile. This makes a
good road at all times of the year. OF
course more money would make still
better road, but the major part of our
stone roads are made still cheaper than
this, being made of three loads of rub
BILE per rod and about one and one
half loads of gravel at n cost per mile
of 1,l20, There is not one farmer
that kicks on account OF the cost of
these roads. The kick is on the other
side or because we do not have more
of them.
The north part of our township
south OF Rockford is very sandy, and
l doubt il the road drag would do
any good there. Here the soil is diff
ferent, and the drag works all right.
l am not saying anything againr. the
use of the road drag, as | think 1t
fine thing, but where stone and gravel
are plentiful l say use them and make
a hard road that will he good az all
times of the year.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
Hold onl do this on one eondt,

Hold on do this on one eondt-
ton"
"Oh!
ION condition you promise solemnly
that neither Dallas nor any one else
shall know my share In it."
but
"Promise!"
"Oh, well, all right, then But DIAL
las ought to-
mo, she oughn't Now clear out.
I'm busy Don't waste any time going
to my broker I'm holding back the
official announcement of the veto as
long as | can. But
I'm on So long, old chap, Enter
Perry the Lamb into Bear and Bull
Vile! Let IIorrlgan & Co indulge In a
timely tremblc"
Scarce had Perry departed on his
mission when Fhelan was announced.
Your honor" he shouted AS he first
caught a glimpse of Bennett You're
all aces! Nothin' to 1t. Friend Horri-
CAMS bitin' holes in the eeiln' He's
oh, you needn't look so mum. I'm
wire haven't spent ten years and
close ON million bucks in serapin' to,
gether private secret service system
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
A CONVENTION PRIMER
Important Information Concerning Past and
Coming National Political Conventions.
METHOD OF SELECTING DELEGATES

METHOD OF SELECTING DELEGATES.
On what basis delegates selected the Republican and Demo
cratic national conventional
Two delegates admitted each convention for each electoral
vote the states the electors of each being equal the whole
number of and representatives congress In the Demo
cratic convention each territory represented by six delegates IN
the Republican convention by
In what the delegates the seleetedf
The four delegates large 1.-TWO for each senao chosen at
state convention while the Others in each congressional DIS
trict are chosen at district conventions.
How are the territorial delegates selected
In the same those from the congressional districts
What aterna2
Men chosen take the place of delegates of death
inability to attend the eongenonargey honorary position
What is the primary system2
direct of the people for candidates ratified by formal
convention.
When the electors ehosen3
At the time the delegates the national convention
selected
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
LESSONS ON ROAD BUILDING.


At a meeting of the parish superin-
tendents of education held about a
year ago at Baton Rouge. La, the SEN
timent was In favor of consolidating
several Of the small rural schools into
one large one.
A meeting of the superintendent
was held Dec H. 1907, at which the
subject Of road improvement was ear
nestly discussed. The result of the
discussion was the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolution, says the Good Roads
Magazine:
Recognizing the improvement OF
our schools depends upon the building
and maintenance Of good roads and
further recognizing that it is the func-
ton Of the public school to promote the
social well being Of its people, it is the
sense of this conference that those
who are directly responsible for the
management Of our schools should give
more serious attention to the problem
Of road building, and In accordance with
this belief we recommend that the sub
iect receive more prominent cOnsidera-
tlon I'm our Institutes. Teachers asso-
citation and School Improvement asso-
citation. that our schools regularly Of
fer to their students carefully arrang-
ed series Of lessons on the subject aud
that superintendent and teachers ded-
nltely undertake to create among the
people n liveller appreciation Of the
importance of better highways and dis
semlnate better understanding of the
improved methods of road cOnstrue-
ton"
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
On cs5jno tIor-.-a Drunk

Laasa faaEa yr GpuGs So ausrls weep
NiiIs Eoliis.I mifth AID hdft SORROW,
Liza rivers, IA their onward sSeer
From gathtrHE streams fresh farcea
ldftpW
Tel us Ne spirits lowering low
Around the scene of all things human
If earth has sadder sight tn show
This side the realm Of hopeless woe
Than this poor drink degraded woman,
Her drigeling speech her slang retort,
Her face deformed with hue of damson.
The crowd has claimed for silly sport
AS Philistines poor blinded Samson,
But, ali, within the lurid light
That doth the shadowy scene illumine,
Who fails TO trace the fearful blight
OF that Internal appetite
Which dominates drunken woman?
Yet modest grace was once her crown
And love a very queen confessed her;
The cursed cup hath cast her down,
Dishonored, vanquished and possessed
her
OF all that native glory shorn
Which yirtuous daughters prize in COM
mon.
Let pity yet forbear 20 scorn-
Let Indignation rather burn
'Gainst all that makes her less than
woman,
We justly weep with her who weeps
The loss of husband son or brother
But who shall tell his loss who Keeps
Sad memories of Il drunken mother?
By all the claims of heavens grace.
Oh, church of Christ. thy daughters
summon
And bid them, from their lofty place,
Wage war on all that would debase
Mans noblest estimate of woman
Alas and shall this fouler curse
Than smote the Nile with red staguation
Lay waste the homes, exhaust the purse
And blast the hope of earth's best ma
tun2
Oh, mighty Saviour, King divine!
Oh, Son of Man, so truly humanl
Frustratc the tempter's dark design
And from the cruel curse of wine
Save the fair destiny of woman
~. II. Maxwell ia Everybody's Monthly
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
COST OF GOOD ROADS.
Points Of Value From an Illinois High
way Commissioner.

way Commissioner.
George Stevens, road commissioner
of eleven years experience in Illinois,
is quoted as follows by Farm Prog
ress as TO the cost of making good
roads at a small expense:
The grading can be done with a
twenty horsepower traction engine at
% cents per rod on an average. Four
leads If rubble per rod and two loads
Of grH9e make good road. The ay-
erage number of loads hauled near
Rockford, Ill, per day would be about
six If course this varies according
tn distance, but six is about the aver
age We have no stone crusher, some
thing very much regret have tried
10 get one for years. but the cost of
same has prohibited 1t so far We
break our rubble by hand.
The cost of this road is as follows.
Four loads of stone or rubble, 40-ceHt4s
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
ITo BE Continued


On one Of his raids Benedict Arnold
captured an American officer in Viz
ginia. After a few days he said, Cap
tain. what would our countrymen do
with me If they caught mef'
well, sir" replied the captain, "if
I must answer the question | should
say that IL my countrymen should
catch you they would first cut OF your
lame leg, which was wounded in the
cause of freedom and virtue at Quebec,
and bury 1t with the honors of war.
Then they would hang the remainder
Of your carcass on a gibbetr'
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30

Display ADVERTISING So cents per
Inch per month. Loe~Is cents pc
line. Legal advertising = legal I rat 81
Small discounts on long fsueeon3a'''
Resolutions of respect, ohlluatna,S ~
ETC., over ten lines at local Fdtes. "a.
tices of entertainment, etc wh s,..
mission is charged, S cents per 'ihe.
All bills payable monthly.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30

'1bcn tchB don't yoU thank God, It's
clcTr Il upT' only till Friday
After that I can go to her aud make it
all clear"
Before Mrs. Bennett could reply Fer
ry returned to the ballroom, Cynthia at
his side
"Then why not give me the next one.
tOo?' the lad was pleading III one
twostep's good two twosteps are twice
as good Please
But see" expostulated Cynthia,
showing him her card "The next is
Mr. Gibbs, I've told you that twice"
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30

it's a wretched
position for us
bothr
Then W h Y
don't you clear
it upT
by going to
her and saying;
Dallas, | am
exposing your
" " Z ! z HN u
blackRuard and
am destroying
your fortune
and + erry's
VIII you marry
meF These are
the facts, but.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
CHATTER VIII

tecuth man is, your honor whis-
pered Phelan In high excitement
n It's Roberts-Rlchard Z. Rob
erts Of the Third. He's the alderman
that llorrlgan's trying to put the In
dian sign on. We've got to nail him
lf we can"
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30
CHAPTER VII
By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

Copyright, eo3, by George II. l3roadhurst,
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-05-30

Tommy-Pop. what is the difference
between hrmness aud obstlnacy? Tom
my's Pop-Merely the difference he
tween will power and won't power. my
Record
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-04
THREE MEET DEATH.
Fatal Fire in Store Building at Hines,
itaSca County,

Three persons were killed, four
severely injured and four others
slightly injured i'm a fire which de-
stroyed the store building OF v. M.
Owens at Hines, Itasca county. Two
of the dead were entrapped by the
flames and the third, Wells johnson,
was overcome and died while trying
to save his eight-year-old nephew from
the fire The dead ara:
;fna Doyle, domestic, international
Falls; Wells johnson, clerk; Rodney
Owens, eight months old.
The seriously injured are: ". NJ.
Owens, MRS v NJ Dwen, Lester
Johnson and MillIcent Owens.
The damage to the building amounts
to about Sl,500 and that to the stock
is $4,000. There was no insurance
on either. The village is entirely
without fire protection and all efforts
made were directed toward saving the
lives OF the occupants of the building.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-04
FOR GIVING REBATES.
Great Northern Conviction Sustained
by Highest Court.

ny fl9neS1 NQUc1s
Whether the railway rate law, known
rs the Hepburn act, repeats section /
of the Elkins act prohibiting rebates
by railroads was involved in the case
of the Great Northern Railway COM
pany VS.. the United States, which was
decided by the supreme court OF the
United States against the railroad
company and against the contention
of such repeal.
The case was instituted in the Unit
ed States district court for the district
of Minnesota, which court fined the
railroad $1,000 each for fifteen viola
lions of the first section of the EIkins
law
The alleged offenses against the law
were committed during the summer of
1905 and consisted In granting con-
cessions to the W. P. Devereux COM
pany on It's shipments Of oats and
corn from Minneapolis, this state, to
points in Washington. The company
admitted the concessions and fought
the prosecution on the ground that
by amending the Elkins act so as to
provide for punishment by imprison-
ment rather than by fines the Hep
burn law had SO modified the original
law as to accomplish its repeal and
render punishment under 1t imprac.
ticable. The decision was announced
by Justice White and affirmed the
finding of the district court and the
United States circuit court OF ap.
peals.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-04
Brand New Grimes.

A writer in Harper's Weekly Won
ders If certain brand new crimes
will not result from the increasing use
of wireless telegraphy. A recent spe-
cial message to congress urged legisla-
ton to prevent interference with gov
eminent wireless telegraphy. A boy in
Washington, it seems, had put up a
staff for wireless experiment and had
prevented the sending Of a wireless
message to the president when he was
on a warship bound for Panama. A
Brooklyn lad had caught wireless
headed for the navy yard, and in other
eases boys and amateurs had got in the
governments way. Behold in sight
new class Of rights and easements I'M
known to Blackstone, Kent or Parsons,
invisible. intangible, inaudible and yet
existent and. we suppose, important.
Let us see now IL congress can legis-
late that boys must not be boys in this
matter of playing with magnetic cur
rents"