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and far more dreadful death from un-
tended wounds than the quick death
OF the battlefield
Like unto the soldiers from Bngen,
who lay dying in Algiers-
There was lack of womans nursing
There was dearth OF woman's tears.
The woman hospital nurse was un-
known and for such to go into the field
and attend upon the wounded soldiers
rough uncortth fellows. ministering to
them as IL they were helpless infants,
was something unheard of. But there
was nursing to be done and the lives
of thousan6s were hanging in the ball
ance because of a Tack of woman's
nursing"
The wounded soldier. unable to help
and nurse himself, was succored by
one less badly hurt Medical appli-
ances and surgical aids as known to-
day We're unthought Of And yet the
wounds and infection were no different
from now
The insanitary conditions. the cloth
ing of the wounded, unwashed for
weeks, the wounds gangrening for
want Of care, and death stalking
through the wards, which resounded
with cries of delirium, were the items
that made up the hospital news from
the seat of war daily greeting the Eng
lish folks at home
Gathering a corps of volunteer
nurses, Florence Nightingale left for
the front, followed by the fears. hopes
and prayers of the English people, to
whom the entrance of these refined,
educated and philanthropic young
women into the army hospitals equaled
descent into a veritablesinferno
Three thousand wounded soldiers
were at once placed under Florence
Nightingale's care, and there was prac-
tically nothing to do with Bandages,
cotton. lint, lotions and the medical
supplies of the day were wanting.
Chaos and disorganization were ram
pant. But out of pandaAsnium order
was born. Florence Nightingale did
not wait for things to turn up but as
they did turn up she promptly met
them with the executive ability of a
tried general handling an army In
fact her Efforts and work were so
swift and energetic that she practically
burst asunder the red tape of the war
officials at home in the way she forced
them into action, The lives of her
soldier patients were at stake, and,
like true forerunner soldier of the
Red Cross, she fought desperately to
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
I Tried to Make Myself Look as Pretty as Possible

All my life had been taught. and
had believed, that only good came Of
telling the truth. Well. now the op-
portunity TO prove that had come.
had done what had been demanded of
me, and every one looked upon me a
though I were inhuman. Had all the
laws of the universe been suddenly
turned upside down? Ought my lips to
have been sealed instinctiveIy by what
I saw? Ought I to have been struck
dumb on the witness stand? Was 1t
true. the terrible injustice of I.aura's
words, that because of me-not alone
the story I had told. but my looks my
misery. my very pity for him--he had
been convicted?
I was recalled to my surroundings by
the rocking of the carriage Great
rains. which had fallen lately, had left
the roads quilted, and rough as the sea.
The moon would not rise until after
o'clock, and what made our progress
really dangerous. something had gone
wrong with the carriage lights. They
dwindled and went out when we were
but block on our way and no scratch
ing of matches would make them stay
lighted for minute. At. the foot of
the hill the driver brought theShorses
to a halt, and Informed me that the
road ahead looked impassable
I peered out the window
An unbuilt space was on my right
and across the dark expanse and across
the street which cut the other side of
1t, l looked to the long roofs and walls
of the convent all a dull monotone
scarcely distinguishable from 4he
night. Only on the corner a solitary
street lamp Illuminated little space
of the wall and made a pool of light
on the pavement beneath.
The silence was broken by the sound
of voices talking-the jargon of poems
l thought-and I remembered that I
was alone, and driving across lonely
part Of the city. The voices seemed to
be approaching down Powell street,
even now, perhaps, under the very con-
vent walls. They sounded loud and
jovial.
Cant you turn into the sand lot and
make a crosscut to Mason street," 1
whispered to the driver.
Muttering that sand was "decenter
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
By Charles Cristadoro

THE trained nurse Of history is
nebulous in the extreme. quite as
much so as the ubiquitous Mrs.
Harris Perhaps the two nurses in
fiction Of most vivid memory are Sairy
Camp and Betsy Prig. the latter hail
ing from ~Bartlemy's," analogous per
haps TO the Bellevue hospital Of the
present day as to the social standing
Of its patients.
somehow or other one never had a
very high idea of Sairy as a nurse. al
though her propensity for putting her
lips to the liquor bottle on the mantel-
piece whenever she felt so dispoged: -
her corrective measures. such as put
ting SNUFF in The brorh OF ner
patients and soap in their mouths. her
vivid Harrisonian Imagination. gave us
all unlimited amusement. As TO BETSY
-Prig one cot next 10 her virtues Vi
cariously through Nursey Camp. Ger
tainly Betsy was of a peppery tenn
perament or, when at the memorable
'piclled salmon and cucumber party
at sairy's. when asked to drink fair"
IRON the mendaclous teapot, she would
not then and there have asserted that
there never was no stitch a persons as
Mrs Harris
But we have fallen upon better times
and the evolution Of progressive
humanity has been the production of
the trained nurse Of the present day.
The best educated woman on this
earth is the woman most useful to her
fellow beings. The most precious
thing, immeasurable in the sordid
scale Of dollars and cents, upon this
earth is human life, and the most
benefcent OF all human work is the
alleviation Of human suffering and the
saving Of life. This is the daily duty.
the life work of the trained nurse.
and therefore the trained nurse, In all
that the term implies, becomes by her
vocation the most useful woman on
this earth.
II may well be said, the ideal trained
nurse is the noblest work of God
The question is often asked, To what
should nurse conform to thus fulfill
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NO MORE HONELY WOMEN
Wrinkles Vanish
BUST DEVELOPED
PIMPLES AND BLACKHEADS RE
MOVED FOREVER
sUPERFLUOUS HAIR DISAPPEARS
LIKE MAGIC BY A NEW
TREATMENT

Let this woman send you free, everything she
agrees: follow her instructions: then. II yOu are
pleased, recommend her wonderful methods to
TOur friends
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secure promptly the hospital supplies
that meant life to the thousands for
whom she was caring.
The only criticism ever made upon
Florence Nightingale was that she did
things and had scant respect for the
circumlocution of the war office at
home.
There was no duty too menial for her
when attending the sick, and the SOL
diers suffering almost as much from
insanitary linen as from their wounds
she volunteered and found the way and
actually washed the soldiers clothes.
When things needed doing she did
them. Colonel Rowan may have carried
the message to Garcia, but Florence
Nightingale certainly did. through her
supreme energy. carry the message of
comfort and life to the poor soldiers
under her charge, red tape and official
incompetency to the contrary notwith-
standing.
And the day came when the fearful
war ended All England was singing
its grateful praises and stood ready
with loud acclaim to welcome her home,
when Florence Nightingale quietly pro-
ceeded by a circuitous route to her
mouse in Derbyshire. thus escaping any
pubic demonstration. She felt she was
only trained nurse and had only done
her simple duty.
But England must show her graft
tude, and subscriptions were taken up
with which to erect monument to
her Again she said she was only a
tralRed nurse and, having done her
duty, that was statue and monument
enough for her.
Then the British public laid $3.50 900
IN her hands as a small token of its
appreciation. She accepted it and at
once turned around and established the
nfst hospital nurses training school
In connection with ST. Thomas hospital
in London.
But her health was broken. The
work In the hospitals had undermined
her constitution. She lived on, an in
valid, patient and Industrious for her
su1ering fellow beings, until only
within few weeks ago when she
passed out at the age of 90, having
been sufferer for nearly so years
She was called the Angel of the
Crlmea, as well as the Lady of the
Lamp, for the rough soldiers who as
patients passed under the lovely wom-
ans hands worshiped the very
ground she walked upon. When, lamp
In hand, she made the night rounds
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ones ideal2 Certainly she should have
perfect health, an instance above all
others of a sound mind in a healthy
body. Then follow intelligence, ex-
ecutive ability, sympathy, interest,
self-control and self-respect of the
highest order. Geniality in a nurse, a
trait of the highest value is not to be
lost sight Of.
The field Of usefulness of the trained
nurse Is merged within that of the
surgeon and physician, one being in
separable in their lire Of work from
the other yet it is fully conceded that
so per cent of cares are attributable
to the nursing.
Suffice it to say that the surgeon of
today. without the aid of the faithful
trained nurse, would be useful in the
ratio to a man with two arms and a
leg amputated compared with a whole
man.
It car be truthfI.!Y said that the
usefulness. sacredness and nobility of
the calling of a trained nurse is such
that among the professions she leads
all the rest
Until Florence Nightingale ennobled
the calling Of the hospital nurse to the
highest point when she undertook the
nursing of the English soldiers of the
Crimea, we heard nothing of the
trained nurse
The monetary urge was not respon-
sible for her entering the profession.
her parents being wealthy English peo-
pie. SO she certainly did not become a
nurse for the money there was in it.
Nurses, like poets, are born not
made. All the training in the world
VIII not make a nurse out of a woman
unfit for the occupation, incapable of
giving forth the qualities that are in
dispensasle to the work
Florence Nightingale born 90 years
ago and receiving as complete an edu-
cation as money and the day could
give young English woman, while a
mere girl visited the hospitals, became.
interested in the alienation of human
suffering, and did what she could to
aid When % years of age she under
went course of training and in 1865
took charge of a sanatorium in London.
Three years later the war in the
Crimea was raging. It was in the
Crimea that the charge of the Light
Brigade took place, the Gallant Six
Hundred" The cannons that .volleved
and thundered" sent those brave fell
lows and thousands of others into the
hospitals 10 die, in many cases a slow
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and carefully trod between the rows
OF manned and suffering men, they
watched her movements as If an angel
had descended from above, and fol-
lowed her every step with prayers of
thankfulness. The soldier who passed
to the great beyond with her hand
resting on his clammy brow always
died with a smile on his lips She
certainly was an angel of hope and
proved an uplift to every invalid un-
der her care, giving them a grip upon
life that carried them to stage of
convalescence.
Despite the fact that Florence Night
ingale, because of her broken health,
had remained a recluse for half a cen
tury, a lapse of time sufficient to in
sure forgetfulness, yet at the hour of
her burial in the little village church
in Derbyshire, memorial services were
being held in every church in Great
Britain.
The great cathedral of ST Paurs in
London was filled to overfiowing and
the large square outside was crowded
with mourners. The queen mother, the
king and the queen, the nobility thou
sands of trained nurses in uniform
and distinguished citizens from all the
professions crowded the immense
structure.
The queen mother in sending a floral
gale as the greatest benefactress to
suffering humanity" The international
council of nurses. representing $4,000
trained nurses from all over the world,
sent floral tributes. Regiments, Ma
sonic fraternities. hospitals and nurs-
ing institutions sent in their tributes
So this great and good woman who
was satisfied to be referred to as only
a trained nurse who did her duty, was
honored from around the world as, per-
haps. no crowned head ever was, and
she stands a shining example to the
aspiring trained nurses of today.
The writer in penning these lines
does so appreciatingly. for he has just
passed through many weeks of suffer
ing in a hospital. having been led
safely through the vaslay of the
shadow of death by trafnsd nurse.
true and noble daughter of Florence
Nightingale, trained nurse in all that
the term implies
Verify the trained nurse is the no.
blest work of God. and to such I re-
move my hat and bow in deep and
grateful reverence.
To the woman who stands as an
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

WANTED-AGENTS TO SELL PRINTERS
ENGINEERS. MOTOR1IEN anybody who
wants clean hands. VANCO the Perfect Hand
soap ana Household Cleanser. Let ANYBODY try
a sample and you make a quick sale Add S12
per week easily to your income. We want hust-
ling representatives in every shop Inclose Zoe in
stamps for full size can and Darticularn Al
dress box Y. THE j. T. ROBERTSON CO.. Man
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unconscious man upon the cot. who
with all the odds against him is strug-
Cling for his life-I say success and
godspeed in her work. Let her
smooth the way for those who must
pass out. and yet through her kindly
offices stay the hand of the grim reaper
from claiming his own, even an hour
too soon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

and mothers. wera already going;
and, muffled in my long cloak and lace
scarf, l managed to slip out in the wake
Of group of these-hoping they would
not notice my being alone-and into my
carriage. evading Jacks insistence that
he must see me home by shutting the
door in his face.
AS the carriage went laboring off
down the dark hill | crouched in a
heap on the seat IF Estrella and Laura
had seized me by the shoulders and
bodily thrust me out of doors J could
not have felt more utterly an outcast
Does every one feel like that about
me, even my friends?" I thought.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
CHAPTER X
A LIGHT IN THE DARK

TORTUNATELY It was late. after
~ midnight. and a few early ones.
dragged away by their fathers
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TEACHERS EXAMINATION

Notice is hereby given that the
next regular examination for al
GRADES Of certificates will be held
in Selby on May ) and 6, 1910.
Work will begin at Q o'clock
q. m.
All material will be furnished
by the county superintendent.
4 certificate fee of one dollar
will be required OF each applicant
G. j. Schellenger,
County Superintendent.
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LATE LOCAL NEWS

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Milwaukee.
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bats and rubber balls NJ the Rec
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this state, is visiting with O. c.
Linden and family.
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
AMERICANS IMPRESSED
BY P0PE'S HEALTHY LOOK
PontiH Walks Quite Firmly, Showing
That He Is In Good Physical
Condition.

ROME, Jan. 25.-Americans who
have no official position and whose
words are. therefore, not inspired by
any attempt TO produce a certain ef-
feet or conceal a certain situation, are
now available as witnesses to the pres
ent condition OF the Pope's health.
Rumors had again begun ocircu-
late that Plus X. was not well. that
govt gave him considerable pain. that
his knees were swollen. and that his
temper ature was rising, while others
asserted that his heart was also the
cause of considerable anxiety.
Bishop Thomas Kennedy, rector OF
the American college, recently OBJ
tanned from Mgr Bisleti, major domo
and master of the chamber Of his holt
ness, permission that he be allowed to
present TO the Pontiff a few distin-
guished Americans who were passing
through Rome.
The audience took place in the re-
ception apartment Of the Pope, adjoin-
ing the Clementine hall and the hal
OF the consistory. The party included
Dr. Edward Kellogg Durham. profess
sor OF pathology at New York uniger-
sity, whom Plus X said he knew by
name as a great bacteriologist The
others were Mrs. Durham. Mrs. Flea
SLOUGH. and Mrs. Thomas j. Garden.
o. BoEton, and Miss Aileen Tone, OF
New York They were all admitted
to kiss the papal ring and the Pontid
impaired To them and TO their rela-
tives the apostolic benediction. They
we're all impressed by the healthy APP
pearance OF the Pope and by his be-
ney client. and. at the same time. ener-
getic manner. He walked quite firmly
and without effort. showing plainly
that he was In the best OF spirits and
physical condition.
The ladies OF the party had pre-
pared beforehand something to say 10
the Pontiff but at the crucial moment
emotion overcame them and they were
silent
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
INDEPENDENT MEN MAY
SUE STANDARD OIL CO
Thomas L. Hissen Says Advissbility
Of Bringing Suit Will Be Dis =
eussed at Meeting.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Jan. Z5.-
Thomas L. Hisgen, president OF the
independent Petroleum MarketeIs' as
sociation. left today for Minneapolis.
Mimi, where he will attend the execu
tive committee meeting TO be held in
that city Friday and Saturday A test
suit for damages against the Standard
Oil Co. To be brought under the Sher-
man act, which the Standard has been
found guilty Of violating, will be con
sidered by the committee
President Hisgen is optimistic over
the outcome Of such suit He says
his lawyers have reported fayOrably.
He adds
All ind pendent iobbers who have
been injured ia any way through the
monopoly maintained by the Standard
OIL Co. should take advantage OF this
opportunity TO recover the money
taken from them by the oil trust.
There is no question that there Is
damage. in fact all the evidence the
government mas in it's last successful
case is simply evidence of damage
done by ,he trust TO the indie
pendent oil men They have suffered
greatly at the hands OF the Standard
and II is only right that they should
recover that which the Standard took
away FROM them by sheer force. 4
favorable decision on this test case
will let down the bars all over the
/ country and would cost the of trust
millions Of dollars
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
RETIRED BURGLAR GIVES
ADVICE TO HoUsEH0LDERs
List Of "0ont's" That Apply IN Case
You Receive a Visit From One
81 His Craft.

GENEVA. Jan. 25.--A notorious
Swiss convict. who says he has now
retired from business. has written the
following advice to householders who
wish To save their property and per.
haps their lives;
Don't forget that the burglar is far
more frightened than you are. and II
you give him a sporting chance 10
escape he will take II.
when you near burglars In the
house you can get rid OF them In sew
eral simple ways without descending
for an interview. Put your finger on
the electric button. II you have one,
and keep IL there for some minutes,
and the burglars will wish you good
night In eight cases out OF ten.
IF they still outstay their welcome,
open the window and shout out once
OF twice. Let the police do the rest.
Don't rush downstairs madly. even
n you are an exceptionally brave man.
for you might break your bones falling
over wires stretched across the stairs
by your visitor.
IF you want TO be quite sure that
the men below have perfectly under
stood that their visit is untimely. take
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
THREE NEW PLAYS MAKE
BIG hit IN NEW YORK
Maxine Elliott, Billie Burke and
chauncey Oleott Win Praise OF
Eastern Critics.

NEW YORK. Jan. 25.-Three new
plays, according 10 the critics today,
which had their first performances
last night. will be successes. Maxine
Elliott opened at Days in The In
ferior Sex written by Frank Stayton.
an Englishman, and made an instant
hit The entire play takes place at
sea, where Miss Elliott's winsome ways
win the heart OF a confirmed woman
hater. There are many ludicrous sit
ustions III the plot which is well acted.
Miss Billie Burke opened al the
Lyceum ia Mrs. Dot a farce by
W. Somerset Vaughan, in which Miss
Marie Tempest scored such a hit in
The critics unite in praise
Of Miss Burke. but do not think she
takes the part of a sophisticated wo-
man as we'll as did Miss Tempest. The
play. however, is well received.
Chauncey Olcott returned to New
York after a two years absence. open
ing at the Academy OF Music with
Ragged Robin" mythical irish
play, in which he uses his voice TO
splendid advantage. The play was
written by Mrs. Olcott in collaboration
with Rida Johnson Young and is high
IS commended
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-25
DANISH COUNT WEEDS
A PRETTY STENOGRAPHER


SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25.-Coun,
Otto Won Madvig. whose family name
links him with the royal house of King
Christian Of Denmark. has been sc.
cretly married to Elizabeth Krieder, .
handsome stenographer employed by
a large banking institution in San
Francisco, since las; June.
While he has not formally relin-
quished mis- title, the Danish nobleman
Is living with the young woman as
plain "Mr. Won Madvik" in apartments
at Twen.y-fifth-st and Telegraph-aye.
Oakland.
Both Won Madvig and his wife ad-
mitted the secret marriage and ex-
planned the reasons that had led the
count to cast aside mis- title
The bride of the count has not yet
assumed the title OF countess. but has
continued to work as a stenographer
In order TO assist her titled husband 10
buy and furnish their own house
Count Won Madvig is contributing to