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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
TO DARK LIVES
DEAF MUTES
Work Being Done Here and
Abroad to Prevent Many
Cases of Blindness.

Miss Keller recently. referring to Mrs.
Macy.
An important work now receiving
much attention both in this country
and abroad Is that of preventing blind
ness and deafness. So many cases of
blindness are the result of cause
which might have been prevented that
this work, according to those interest
ed in it, Is the most important of any
directed against the "long night" The
various associations for the proven
ton of blindness issue bulletins at
regular intervals. telling how blindness
in many cases can be avoided.
In the campaign against preventable
blindness, many startling facts are be-
ing brought out. One Of the most i'm
portant is that wood alcohol is an en-
envy of sight
Thirteen persons In New York state
were made blind for life and four were
killed during 1912 either by drinking
wood alcohol or inhaling its poisonous
fumes, while throughout the country
hundreds of persons have been inno-
Gently victimized by the same poison.
according to the fourth annual report
of the New York committee on proven
ton Of blindness.
The report further states. what is not
generally known, that. although wood
alcohol in al small a quantity as q
~teaspoonful has caused permanent
blindness and in larger quantities Of
ten causes death. this poison is easily
obtainable from various retail stores,
drug stores and grocery stores. often
without a label or warning to indicate
its poisonous nature.
Rectifed wood alcohol may be easily
mistaken for good" or grain alcohol
and because Of its resemblance is fire.
quently used by ignorant or unscrupu.
lous persons to adulterate cheap liquors
In the trades it is sometimes used in
the preparation of bay rum. paregoric
favoring extracts. Jamaica ginger and
in some patent medicines.
The committee reports the case OF
one woman who became hopelessly
blind as a result of drinking wood al
cohol contained in p%aregoric which she
had bought at a reputable drug store
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

Photo by American Press Association.
RECREATION ROOM. NEwAwEs SCHOOL
Another case is that of a young clerk
who drank white whisky from a
friends recently filed flask and was
totally and ir%reparably blind the next
morning because the whisky was adul-
terated with rectifed wood alcohol.
The inhalation of the fumes Of wood
alcohol also causes blindness. This
usually occurs in those varnish indus
tries where wood alcohol is used as a
solvent for shellac - for example. in
vanishing the inside Of beer watts. var
nishing lead pencils and furniture.
Since industrial or denatured alcohol
(untaXed grain alcohol made undrinka-
BILE by the addition Of wood alcohol and
benzine) can be used in practically all
manufacturing processes where wood
alcohol is nov employed and is safer
md no more expensive. there is no
longer any legitimate reason for the
present wide use of wood alcohol.
However. the use Of wood alcohol
would be robbed of it's terrors if it
were used in the presence of adequate
ventilation.
Two men were recently killed and
one blinded in New York city while
vanishing beer watts because a ventila-
tor was not attached to the watts. while
another man was blinded and one kill
ed because the necessary thirty min
utes in the open air was reduced to
twenty minutes. 49,.
The general ignorance which prevails
in regard to the poisonous nature Of
wood alcohol is evidenced by the lack
of legal restrictions of its use. In no
state in this country is there a law re-
curing adequate ventilation in indus
tries where wood alcohol is used.
while in very few states is wood alco-
hol classified as a poison and sc la
beled.
There was recently presented to the
New York state legislature n bill en-
anating from the state factory investi-
eating commission providing for more
stringent labelling of all forms of wood
alcohol sold In the state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
The Secret of His Choice,

$50 of the two girls you were after
you married Alice?"
Eyes. You see. she has three mar
ried sisters, while the other girl was
an only child
whats that got to do with it,"
my boy. it's better to have four
places for your wife's mother to visit
than one, believe me."-Boston Tran
script. &C.,.
Itch! Itch! Itch!-Scratch! Scratch!
Scratch! The more you scratch, the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment.
For eczema, and skin itching, SOC a box.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
Captain Scott's Variety,

The varied knowledge Of Captain
Scott. the a"t,lrctic hero. was amazing.
"Physicist. biologist. Z%oologist or geolo-
gist." says Nv. Pointing. the official pho
tographer who accompanied the last
expedition. "he could meet them ali on
their w ground and discuss the most
intricate details Of the science which
was their sneciality. | once asked him
how he managed to keep up so many
things. My dear fellow he replied
a favorite eXpression-'I simply make
a bluff of it. | really know very little
about these things That was only his
modesty. He left no stone unturned to
master everything bearing on the work
he had in hand"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

responded. The writer was made
chairman and asked to superintend the
work. A brief report of how it was
done may help other villages:
-Four hundred and fifty American
elms (white) and fifty hard maple
trees, eight to ten feet high, were
bought from a large Ohio nursery
firm near by at 40 cents each; freight
and carriage to holes, 5 cents each;
digging holes and planting, Is cents
each; total 60 cents each. Nursery
grown stock was bought because it
cost less than to dig. scattering local
seedlings or suckers, besides being far
more compactly rooted and with far
better fbrous roots than any non
nursery stock.
A curious fact is that all these
"American' elms from an Ohio nurs-
cry were born from American elm
seeds in Holland and had their tiny
first seasons growth in that Dutch
land. Why? Because the first years
growth takes much hand labor, and
that costs about 60 cents per day there
and $1.75 to 50 for the same grade
here. Further, their richer, black. sub
irrigated soil is better adapted to the
tender first years life and vigorous
growth Of the elm. At q year old they
would weigh scarcely an ounce.
A week before the car Of trees was
due to arrive acre four good men dug
all the holes, about three feet in diam
eter and one foot deep and fifty feet
apart. peeling a thin turf off first and
placing the fine earth by itself. When
the trees came they were taken to the
holes. the roots that had been bruised
in digging were cut off smooth. one
man held the tree, sighted for the true
line, ''churned' the tree up and down
to work the loose earth all in around
the roots as it was shoveled in, slowly
at first. then tramped pretty firmly
when all was in except the turf. This
was inverted grass down and pressed
down firmly. Some of the land was
pretty wet. stiff clay. hard to pulver-
ize. We did the best we could in filming
and packing it around the roots.
AS"A4S Ia NaSaIiSICS dlc uoW uilcu,
and ten years from now thrifty trees
will beautify the streets, and twenty
years from now Il grateful shade will
cool those who walk the pavements,
and fifty years from now this village,
a fine residence suburb Of Cleveland.
will be known as the elm City" And,
by the way, in all New England ! have
never seen n single elm more graceful
than scores OF ours in Hudson. planted
forty or sixty years ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
Tree PLANTING IN
one OHIO VILLAGE
How Citizens 0VereaIne Diff
cu|ties In Hudson.
TOTAL COST VERY SMALL,

Town Might Well Be Called Elm City.
Not Until This Spring That a Gen.
eral Movement Started to Improve
Vacant Streets and Bare Places, but
Work Went With a Rush.
The village Of Hudson, O., might
we'll be called Elm City. Some sixty
years ago, under the inspiration of the
president and professors of the COL
lege then located there, the citizens
set more than a mile Of the streets, on
both sides, with young elms eight to
ten feet high and about fifty feet
apart. Those little elms now arch and
span and meet at the top giving splen-
did shaded drives.
Since then until this spring little
tree planting was done except here
and there by enterprising citizens as
individuals, chiefly along their own
frontages. This spring, however. a
general movement started, says w. T.
Chamberlain in the National Stock
man and Farmer, and a tree CON-
mittee' of fifteen was appointed by
the village mayor and asked to fill in
single vacancies and the vacant streets
to the corporation line in all directions.
The village funds were low, and so all
property owners were asked by the
committee to 'chip in" and pay actual
cost of all trees set along their front
ages (seven and a half feet from the
fence line to give room for sidewalk)
at a cost not to exceed 81 per tree.
Most of the property owners cheerfully
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

receive the New Testament. How.
then. can civilization kill within us our
loveliest %feelingsy"
Again he looked at her and won
dered. How could she by her shrewd
replies continually force him to take
the aggressive and vet be so simple.
so innocent?
These are too deep questions for
country folk like us to HANDLE" he
said. "All l know is that l can't speak
all l would speak to your fathers
daughter"
They stood both looking on the
ground. Confused sounds came to
them-the lowing of cattle. the rattle
OF a distant reaper. the neigh of a
horse. the bark of Il dog. the hum of
bees. The horses continued to kick
the flies. but there was just now moth
ing to be gained by reproving them for
doing so. 1t was the girl who broke
the deadlock between them.
II don't ask" she said. that YOU
speak all you would speak: 1 only ask
you n thing
And that is?"
why did you send me the fowers?"
She came and stood beside him. look
ing up into his eyes with hers. He
struggled hard with himself to avoid
answering the question. bat she did
not help him: indeed. she bad kindled
ii IRE within him and was heaping on
fuel with her eyes. her fragrant breath.
her very presence.
Because | love you"
And vet they say men D to wo-
men.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the whole
system. Doan's Regulets (25c per box
act mildly on the liver and bowels. At
all drugDstores.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

Photo by American Press Association.
TEACHING FINGER READING, NEwAwEs
CHOOL
fuency and ability. Since acquiring
the power Of speech she has frequently
appeared on the lecture platform.
To her patient teacher. Mrs. John
Macy. Miss Keller owes her ability to
surmount the difficulties Of being blind
and deaf. Mrs. Macy has had charge
of Miss Keller since infancy, and her
work in developing the blind girls
mind has attracted the attention Of
the world.
'She has led me from darkness into
light and Joy and companionshiD." said
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
BRINGING LIGHT
OF HELPLESS
German School Teaches Little
Unfortunates to "Read"
With Their Fingers.
REMARKABLE institute has
N been opened at Newawes. Ger
many. 1t is a school for blind

deaf mutes. whether afflicted
from birth or later deprived of their
faculties by disease or accident.
To most persons nothing except
death is as terrible as blindness. But
when to this affection is added that of
absolute deafness then is the ''long
night" a hideous dream indeed.
AS a general rule. blind persons nee
essarily lead lives Of comparative idle
ness. and this is productive of both
physical and mental suffering. Doubly
helpless is the blind deaf mute. for
hearing. on which the average blind
person depends for most Of the good be
gets from life. is denied him.
Imagine. you who can see and hear.
what your feelings would be if you
suddenly found yourself unable to see
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
Can't Keep It a Secret

Ehe splendid work of Chamberlain's
tablets is daily becoming more widely
known. No such grand remedy for
stomach and liver troubles has ever been
known. For sale by All Dealers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26
Shake Off Your Rheumatism.

Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. Try a twenty-five cent
bottle of Chamberlain's Liniment and
see how quickly your rheumatic pains
disappear. Sold by All Dealers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-06-26

For baby's Group. Willie's daily cuts
and bruises, mammals sore throat
grandma's lameness.-Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil-the household remedy.
25c and SOC.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
At the Gem

The program at the Gem today is as
follows:
"The Wives of jamestown, "a Kalem
two-reel special; The Lake Geneva
Camp Of the Y. NJ. c. A., Lake Geneva.
Wis. The Office Boys Birthday" "A
Revolutionary Romance, Selig
drama.
Friday and Saturday will be shown:
"The Ways of Destiny" Pathe two
reel special A big drama which is
begun in the green fields and leads the
spectator through labyrinth of middle
class and high society life, following
the vicissitudes of the career of beau
tiful girl, the daughter Of a shepherd,
who, at time when his little daughter
needed him most, was forever lost to
her; cut off while tending his flocks in
the open meadow by the most realistic
stroke of lightning ever shown in mo-
tion picture. A giant tree under which
the old man has taken shelter, is shat
tered by this binding flash, this is no
stage setting but the real thing.
''The Title Cure, an Edison comedy.
"A Desperate Chance. Kalem rail
road drama.
Sunday: "Red Sweney's Mistake, :"
a Kalem drama. "Leonie. " "The
Bringing Out of Papa, a Vitagraph
comedy.
"Broncho BillY's Brother"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
THE SATURDAY Union MEETING

Saturday is going to be an eventful
day with Hood. River apple growers.
and the Glacier hopes that all valley
Orchardists realizing this will be pres
ent for the annual meeting OF the Ap-
pie Growers Union stockholders. We
have watched the trend Of opinion as
to the proposed amalgamation Of the
local marketing concerns. When first
proposed it seemed to offer an oppor-
tunity TO overcome conditions Of mar
keting that have proved so disastrous
to growers during the season just end
ing, and the orchardists, viewing it in
this light, have endorsed it, but we
think that many Of the growers, after
due thought, are coming to realize that
the proposed plan does not mean coop.
Grafton.
We call attention to a communication
from Thomas E. Avery appearing in
this issue of the paper. Our views CO.
incide to a great degree with those of
Mr.. Avery. We think that the venture
of amalgamating the concerns by the
proposed plan of leasingsthe properties
of the Union and the Davidson Fruit
Co. and the purchase of the National
Apple Co., If consummated, will prove
very dear. And who will bear this ex-
pense? The growers, the members of
the Hood River Apple Growers Union.
Inadvertently we would not
want to lay 1T to the result of wisdom
wandering aimlessly- the News last
week declared that all who opposed the
amalgamation were traitors to the best
interests of the Hood River valley. We
are not going to 80 brand the sincere
opinion of those who disagree with us,
for we realize that many of the val
ley's most substantial growers are sin
cere in their belief as to the benefits of |
the proposed amalgamation.
But we think that they are mistaken.
That they have failed to conceive that
the contamination of the plans proposed
will lead, not to harmonious coopera-
tion. but to a fuller alignment of the
growers in factions 1t will not elm
mate competition of local fruits among
themselves in foreign markets. 1t will
be an experiment that will be costly
resort to figures and prove it to your
self-and the growers will be left un-
organized and in disorder.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
MANY Trees Grown For Exhibit

One of the horticultural features at
the 1915 universal exposition, will be
California Canyon" which will be To-
Gated between the Japanese Gardens
and Horticultural Building or north-of
Lombard street between Baker and
Lyon streets.
1t will be six hundred feet long and
two hundred feet wide. 1t will be
adorned with one thousand.re woods,
madrones, California lilac, manzanitas
and California wild flowers.
A model Of this beautiful canyon has
been made by the landscape depart
ment which is in charge of John Me
Laren, landscape engineer. The land
scape department has been extremely
active during the past month. The
nursery in Tennessee Hollow, which
covers $4,000 square feet, is being used
to great advantage. There are $50, 900
small plants which have been raised
from seeds and cuttings in the six
green houses and this number is being
rapidly increased every day.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
FOREIGN APPLE MARKETS

United States consuls at the ports of
different foreign countries have re.
Gently made reports on the sales of ap.
pies in regions contiguous to the re-
spective cities in which they are
located. The Portland Journal in its
last Sundays issue published on its
markets reports page a number of the
reports of consuls. Judging by these
reports, it seems that the American
apple stands ahead of any other fruit
for excellency of quality. The New
town Pippin seems to be growing in
popular favor everywhere. Even in
Belfast. Ireland, we find that the Pip
pin is popular fruit.
Foreign countries produce little or
no first class apples. The foreign mar
kets offer a good field for fancy north
western apples. The box package. be-
cause the fruit reaches its destination
in better condition than that Of bar
rels, is preferred by the dealer 1t
seems safe to prophesy that growers of
Newtown Pippins, who continue to
produce fruit free from disease and of
the best of quality. need not fear an
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
THE STORMS

How powerful and yet how weak is
the hand of man. Guided by the in.
structions OF a genius and aided by the
wonderful mechanism devised by an in
genious brain, the hands of men may
rear towers that almost rival that of
Babel. throw concrete barriers across
streams and imprison the energy of
the waters there and make it do their
bidding. The metals of the earth are
mined and wrought into moving palaces
that speed across the continents or
plough the oceans surface. The proud
eagles can no longer boast of their su-
periOrity; for man can navigate the
skies. Nature seems to us, in our
boastfu moments, to be conquered.
Yet Nature laughs. and the elements
at moments seem enraged, and men are
made to feel themselves infinitely small.
The Titanic, a masterpiece of the ship
builders art, is crushed even as though
it were the shell of an egg. Frosts
creep silently over the worlds most
wonderful orange grove and leave It's
fruit worthless and its luxuriant YER
dure scorched. Tornadoes, sweeping
the middle west and the south, wreak.
as 1t seems, vengeance-on the works
of man, andstwist the girders of steel
structures as though they were the
strands of SPIDERS web. The flood
waters of rivers grow rampant and
mems homes are swept saway like
straws.
While the sympathy of the whole
world springs up for those who have
suffered, unless we have actually been
through some of the dire calamities,
we cannot begin to know the horrors
the storms and floods. Yet the dis
asters tend to draw us closer together.
We forget for the moment all other
things and remember alone that our
fellows are in distress, the helping
hand is extended. State aids state,
city aids city, and the ties of the ma
tion are more closely cemented.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
The Farmers Wife

! The farmers wife is now so occupied
with social affairs that she has lost the
art of making butter and jam and do
ing the work of the farm that her
grandmother did. This results in a
great economic loss to the country. -
The subject of government report is
sued from the agricultural depal tment.
The farmers wife, in early days, got
up at half past two,
And shined the plows and milked the
cows and put the prunes to stew.
The breakfast for the hands she'd set
upon the stroke of four.
And then she'd bake her bread and
cake and scrub the kitchen floor.
But nowadays the farmers wife has
time to call her own.
Good gracious p says the Govern
ment, 'how idle she has grown"
The farmers wife, in times gone by,
brought up the calves and lambs,
And sacked the oats and fed the shoats
and smoked the hickory hams.
And when she'd cooked three great big
meals she cheerfully arose
And with her churn sat down to earn
the money for her clothes.
But now she often visits round and
gOssips, like as not.
MY goodness p says the Government,
how worthless she has got -
The farmers wife, some years ago,
was wholly free from nerves.
Twelve hours a day she d slave away
at putting up preserves.
Six children dangling at her skirts, a
seventh on her arm.
She'd gamely set herself to get the
mortgage off the farm.
But now she sometimes takes a rest,
like city women do.
Great Heavens !" cries the Govern
ment, what is she coming to-"
The farmer's wife departed from this
vale of toll and tears
For happier climes, in those old times
when under thirty years.
The farmer got another mate, he some-
how always found
The ideal wife who toiled through life
and underground.
But now sometimes her years add up
their full allotted sum.
Great Scott p excaims the Govern.
ment, chow shiftless she's become %
james j. Montague in San Francisco
Examiner.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-04-03
The wet spell will make things grow.
Electric Theatre

The program at the Electric Theatre
today and Friday is as follows:
'The Finer Things" American
drama. when All Was Dark. " Bar
nard Powers, happy with his wife,
spends many pleasant evenings with
his friends at the card table. Sud
denly he loses his sight entirely. AT.
ter year of total darkness, he regains
his sight and sees his wife sitting at
the piano with his friends arms about
her. A letter written by his wife to
her lover confirms his suspicious that
she is in love with him. Finally, how
ever, he drives the deceiver from his
door and takes his wife back to his
heart.
"rhe Ghost IN Uniform. The city
abandons the old police headquarters on
the completion of the new one. One
night two tramps enter the building
intending to spend the night there.
They would have enjoyed a peaceful
nights rest, had not headless spectre
in police uniform appeared to disturb
their slumDers. Investigation proves
the ghost to be-well, the picture tells
the story.
Shirts and Socks, Majestic com.
edy, will complete the bill. Come and
enjoy an hour of good, wholesome