The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-14

I shelf and adopted the plan of having the
 tluant boy examined by a physician. | He has discovered that defective eye
 sight and nasal obstruction are the prin- cipal causes for apparent truancy in the
 boy. If this eyesight is bad he forms
 distaste for study and will play hockey. Correct the eye defect and the boy may
 become a good and faithful pupil. The
 surgeons knife or pair of correctly adjusted glasses does the work. | If the boy is neglected and he gets in | the habit of sidesteppng school he nat 1 tiIally comes in contact with bad com l ranions and soon gets in. a bad way. | After surgical treatment under the di- rection of Judge DeLacy one boy who had been placed in a school for incorrigi- ] bles, and who was one of the worst, has become one of the best students in the school, and is soon to be transferred to one of the regular schools where he gives promise of leading in his classes. The rod could never have accomplished this result
 Hunger is another thing that is some times mistaken for moral deficiency It is hard for a boy or even man to be good while he is hungry. The court that has to deal with child delinquency has learned that 1t is a good idea to examine into the home conditions and the food supplies of the persons brought before
 them before judgment of a harsh nature IS rendered.
 Eleven cases of typhoid fever in the
 District of Columbia were traced to one
 small dairy farm in Virginia, where a member of the farmers family had g.
 case. Shipments of milk from the farm were stopped at once. The inspectors of
 the district are making a careful inves-
 tigation of the milk supply on account of an epidemic of fever.
 Sophie is one of the prize milk and butter cows of the United States. She is
 . pretty Jersey and belongs to c. I. Hood of Lowell, Mass. Her record for 12
 months is 14,373 pounds 3 ounces of milk,
 eauaing 1905 pounds of butter. She yields
 net profit for F months of $565. .22.
 Experts of the United States depart n,ent of agriculture have estimated that the wealth produced in one year by the
 22, ,OOO cows of the country is $sO000o.- eco, or an average profit of $36.36 per COW per annum. If all the cows were as i, good as Sophie the total wealth yielded by them would be $1, 2i0, ,O00,O00 per annum. 1 Cows like Sophie are the result of care- l ful breeding and expert care. 
 l President Tafts address before the Ma tional Conservation Congress at Kansas 1 City on September 25 is full of inspra- | ton and optimism for the farmer of the | United States The speech is not only l full of valuable information of 8 sta- tistical nature, but it holds out much | encouragement for the future of agri-
 cultural development in this country. He | stresses the importance of increased pro-
 duction per acre, and calls attention to
 tte fact that the ever increasing demand
 for food supplies in this country will
 perpetually insure fair profits to the pro-
 ducer His figures show that the in l crease of population in the United States
 for the past 10 years was 21 per cent while the increase in production of food ! stuffs was only 20 per cent.
 Leslie's Weekly tells the following cruel story at the expense of an alleged Ala | bama job seeker.
 , There have been many amusing phases
 to the appearance of the swarm of demo- cratic petty officeseekers who hocked to I Washington when the jobs changed hands. Every man who arrived seemed
 to believe he would land the most impor- I tant position. His first letter home con
 fded the fact that he was about to se- l cure a chief clerkship. Seven days later
 
 then something even more modest. Most l likely the end of the month would find
 this same man running an elevator in the
 House office building and glad to get it. l One of the best stories is of an individ- l ual said to be one of Mr. Underwood s | constituents, who wended his way to Washington from Alabama. He was a l democrat all right. and needed the
 money. Finally the man landed the berth
 oi policeman. He looked good in his uni from, but was green about his new | Guties.
 I What should I do first?' he inquired
 of another older policeman. l Your first work" said the other, and 1 without the slightest authority, lis to l get out there and mow that grass It was 104 in the shade, but the man Alabama went to it without word. He
 had tie task nearly completed when q friendly soul took pity and told him
 that capitol policemen were mot sup Fposed to keep the lawn trimmed
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