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caught, I viii prosecute them as
never prosecuted anybody before"
1T is the most brutal thing I ever
heard Of" continued Captain Mooney.
''The man who would run down an
other person and then go of and leave
his victim dead or dying in the road
fs-a coward and a criminal who ought
TO be prosecuted to the fun extent OF
the law
I am sure that the guilty persons
will be found. and when they are
they viii be charged with manslaGgh-
ter. and an additional felony charge
viii be laid against them for leaving
: their victims without Offering assist
ance. in contravention Of the law.
ASKS PUBLIC TO ASSIST
The public can help the police de-
partment in this matter. II any per-
son. who sees an automobile with a
broken headlight will at once notify
the police department it will greatly
assist us in catching the criminals"
Headed BY Captain Mooney, a squad
mounted policemen and patrolmen,
are making a Systematic search Of
private and public garages in San
Francisco for the death dealing auto
mobile
An enraged public, whose antago-
nism against reckless driving was
aroused by the brutal tactics of the
party which abandoned Mrs. Dooley
and her companion after running over
them. are assisting the officers by
sending them clews which eventually
will lead to the capture of the party
Many Of these were run down yes
terday. resulting in the dismissal of
suspicion against B. Ldssner. 11s4
jackson street, whose machine was
sent TO a repair shop on Saturday for
repairs to broken lamp.
Theodore Kytka, handwriting ex-
pert. made a microscopic investiga-
ton Of Lissners machine to deter
Q mine the age OF the damage to the
car. Kytka, after the examination,
was satisfied that the machine was
damaged several weeks prior 10 the
Great highway tragedy
PENINSULA POLICE BUSY
on the theory that the car which
killed Mrs DooIey is the property Of
somebody living in the outlying dis
tricts. the police OF every city on the
peninsula and in the transbay cities
have been requested to search for
an auto with broken headlamps.
louis J. Ward is still suffering from
shock and Is unable to throw further
light on the accident. He says there
were three or four people IN the ma
chine which struck him and Mrs.
DooIey, but is unable to describe
either the car or any OF its occu-
pants.
Edward McKenna, while crossing
the street near the ferry building
early yesterday morning was knocked
down and crushed under the wheels
Of a. taxicab. which, say eyewitnesses
to the accident. was travelling at q
speed OF 40 miles an hour The driver
Of the cab went on without even
glancing back at the PROSTATE form
Of McKenna.
-Four persons, August Rox. a busi-
sness man living at 1861 Fifty-third
street, Oakland and. his wife and their
two children. were all injured last
night. when a speeding autnmahiIe
crashed into their buggy from the
rear at AIlston way and San Pablo
avenue, West Berkeley.
John Agee of 1899 Francisco street,
driver of the machine, and Arthur B.
Cotton of 1921 First avenue, were
arrestdt and will be held on charges
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-08
MANIAC MAKES FIGHT

Mills d. Anderson, maniac. was
arrested by Patrolman J. Dannaw in
an Oakland lodging house last night
after desperate battle. Anderson
became violent through brooding over
evangelistic ideas.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-08
SERVANT RoUTs THIEF

A Japanese servant employed in the
home OF James MCLEAN. 1892 Sixth
avenue, Sunset District. routed a
burglar early THIS morning. The In
truder fed from the basement with
out taking any loot.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-08
Joint KEEPER FINED $500

Joseph Osborne, keeper of a blind
pig" at Thirteenth avenue and Glenn
ent street, was fined $500 this morn
ing by Police Judge Shortall on a
charge of selling liquor to minors.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-08
Barber and Customer
Killed by Lightning

SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. s.-George
Berksdale, barber of Bridgeboro,
and Chesley Wills, who was being
shaved, were instantly killed when a
bolt of lightning entered the shop.
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-08
NEGRO GETS TWO YEARS

William Sullivan. a negro, was SEN
fenced this morning by Superior Judge
Law1or to serve two years in San
Quentin on a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon. Several weeks ago
Sullivan slashed another negro in Pa
cific street with a knife.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Why Live OSTRICH
FEATHERS Are Never Pulled

A VERY small proportion Of our ostrich
- feathers come from the wild birds now
& d. adays. Twenty years ago there were
but few ostrich farms and the great majority
of ostrich feathers came faom wild birds
which we're killed by the feather hunters in
South Africa.
or course, after the ostriches were killed
the feathers were pulled out but now that
the ostrich farms thrive and the birds are
stripped of their plume feathers and turned
loose to grow more, greater care has to be
taken.
The white ostrich feathers are not fully
developed. There are also black and drab
feathers on the same bird, but when the
white feathers are fully developed they lose
q great deal Of their whlteness and in the
olden days had to be bleached.
Now the ostriches are blndfolded with a
hood on the farms and led into a sort of
crate-likc coop where the black and drab
feathers are carefully pulled out; but the
white feathers are never pulled out, as this
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

would so damage the great sockets in which
the large quilts grow that no more would be
forthcoming, so the quills of the white feath
ers are carefully cut off and the quilts allowed
to remain for several months, when they
come out naturally and the new feathers
start
Therefore, practically every genuine un
bleached white ostrich feather does not have
a complete quill when it is shipped in the
rough The people who prepare these feath-
ers for the markets, however remedy this
easily by adding the end of other quils in so
clever manner that it is scarcely dis
cernible
Fifty years ago there were only eighty-two
tame ostriches known in all South Africa.
And in that year only sixteen pounds of
feathers were exported and they came for
the most part from wild birds brought down
by the hunters. Last year there were about
100000 domesticated ostriches in South
Africa, nearly 100000 pounds of feathers
were exported at a value of more than a
million and a quarter dollars.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Where LITTLE SCHOLARS Are
Started on Their LIFE WORK

But it should be remembered that this is
not all a Swiss school teacher gets, he IL
always furnished with a good comfortable
house to live in and all the fuel he needs, which,
in that cold country, means a great deal
In addition to this, he has good-sized garden
plot where he can grow much of his food
And then the school teacher in a Swiss vii
lage is an important parsonage, one who
ranks along with the Mayor, and the clergy
man, and the doctor. He is the intellectual
part of the community, and very frequently
he picks up 400 extra each year serving as
secretary of various associations creamery
companies, loan associations, carving-selling
concerns and the like. At the same time ne
is probably the leader of the village choir,
bandmaster, head Of the cemetery associa-
ton and active in man. such branches.
Such a school teacher gets his home and
soon settles down for life, raising a family
and living honored and beloved all his days,
frequently teaching four generations of
children in his life time. One teacher taught
his School without break for sixty five years,
one had held the position for twenty years,
and his father had taught that same school
before him for thirty-five years Such
teacher gets to know the children and their
parents ana IneT grandparents, anu uhduS
such a teacher is pretty we'll qualified to help
direct his students in the walks of life they
seem best fitted for. The Swiss children ara
excellent scholars, and it is rare indeed they
are not rapidly promoted. After four years
of elementary training the children proceed
into schools that carefully divided tor
the various types Of children. Some get
technical training, some few are prepared for
the university and some for various forms OF
business life, both the boys and the girls.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

and that If he did not commit very grave error
in maintaining life he would live his normal period of
years probably did his very ancient ancestors.
Man has vastly increased the productivity Of labor
by invention, and the productivity of the soil by the
science Of agriculture. He has almost conquered the
air and carried the transportation Of intelligence (ak
ing through the ar) to its seeang limit but he has
forgotten himself in fact just the extent he has
progressed in all of the other sciences he has retro
crosses in the science Of preserving his health and
life
Man Is entitled by Inheritance to live two hundred
Science, therefore, boast only when it has
carried him beyond this period.
The difference between youth and age is fact only
a chemical difference. The difference between the stiff
and flexible cartilage the hard and soft artery the
NAL and irrltaed nerve the rich hemogobin Cred)
thin blood the black and white hair only chemical
differences They represent deposits-thngA taken
into the body in which way and for
the body is unable to cast out. If man had studied
his construction and maintenance ard made of It
true scence-if he had given much thought the
human body and it's preservation as he has other
branches Of science these chemical differences would
have been known, their causes removed and would
to-day be in possession Of his birthright, which is
normal life period of two hundred years. If he had
carried the science of physiological chemistry and food
chemistry to the degree of development that he
has many other branches Of science doubt he would
be able to proong his life far beyond the normal period
The three fundamental laws governing all forms Of
life nutrition tfood) motion (exercse and oxida
tion common air.
The most important of these is food. Fresh air is
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Why BRIGHT CHILDREN Are Often THOUGHT to be DULL

training and should be placed in small classes with
teacher who purposely speaks distinctly and slowly
and with careful lip movement they need to
study the lip movement well the normal studies
These simple and practical tests of hearing and
should be made by teacher, also by all parents
when it is known Just how far away child can hear
whisper then it is known just what sort of training
should be given the child, whether he is normal or
whether he should sit down 'front.' go into
special class and take up lip reading along with other
studies
Children who deaf from birth should be taught
lip reading early age possible which will
help to overcome to great extent his handicap OF
being mute DR.. Macmurchy summarizes the educa.
ton of the deaf child follows Cd Teach the dear
child to speak % Recognize the deaf child and Sc
cure his education CD Provide special teachers and
special classes for the deaf child () In large cities
night classes for adults who in danger of becom
ing deaf should be established in lip reading.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

II RACTICALLY no attempt is MADE IN
~ the public schools in this country TO
l. sort out the boys and girls and start
them in whatever occupation seems best
fitted for them. That remains for later train
ing, of for the great god Chance" which is
responsible for so many thousands of occu'
pations that young people enter into.
But in Switzerland, the greatest of care is
taken to note just what youngster seems
best fitted for, Just what he likes best ana
also what he is best adapted for. The old
rule that a man will generally succeed in any
sort of business or work that he actually
likes holds good in Switzerland, where the
teachers will put some boys into wood carV-
ing and not waste too much of their time with
a higher education, while other boys will be
educated along mechanical, or theological, or
scientific lines, as they seem best adapted for.
The school teachers in Switzerland are
more than 80 per cent men, and they do not
fit about from city to city and school to
school as they seem to do in a certain meas
ure in this country When a man becomes
school teacher in Switzerland he is generally
teacher for life.
The pay of these school teachers does not
seem large, but when everything is consld
cred it will be seen that he is probably doing
better than the average school teacher in this
country, which is not saying so very much,
considering the small pay teachers receive
here.
Swiss school teacher gets $500, on an
average, for his years salary. Some get as
high as $780, or even $500, but such salaries
are rare and generally in wealthy communi-
ties or large cites-that is, large cities for
that little country up among the Alps
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

easy get and breathing is automatic and If the BODY
is properly fed exercise will also be automatic; but
feeding the human animal is guesswOrk done at hap
hazard He is guided purely by his taste His taste
is warped and perverted He has forced into his body
thousand things that it did need and could not
use that has changed hunger into appetite that has
poisoned his blood and produced exharation dehroned
his reason and enthroned pernicous habits. He has
eaten other animals quadrupeds, bipeds, insects, and
all sorts of cold creeping things, In other words he has
waited until these animals have collected few food
elements from very questionable and built up
their bodies and then he has attempted to preserve his
own life be stealing his nutrition from other animals.
He has secured food second hand after it had been col
ected by and passed the body of another animal
The human body is composed of fifteen WeEdefned
chemical elements.
That person enjoys the best health, the keenes men
tality and powers of perception the highest mental
physical and emotional organism who can select and
feed upon such articles will supply all these con-
sttuent parts Of the body most nearly in the right or
natural proportions
All of the body elements can be found in the vege-
table world in their purest form 1t requires, there
fore hut little knowledge to enable to select food
from such articles as will supply all these elements in
approximately the right proportions; but to this i'm
portant matter he gives practically thought
Every housewife especially every mother, should un-
dersand something about the chemistry OF the tody
and its needs and also understand about food chem
stry which tells how to supply these needs
No intelligent mother would give her child or nus
band medicine compounded by a druggist that knew
nothing about the chemistry and action of drugs yet
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
the Only PERIOD OF MATURITY

most mothers putting prescription of food upon
their tables three times a day without any knowledge
whatever of the chemistry foods the demands OF
the family.
1t is much easier to accept things they than to
analyze them and show their faults Thus the great
mass of people eating what is before them
or what is listed bills of fare, without knowledge or
concern
Dr. j. H. Mason Knox an eminent authority on chill
drens diseases, said in public lecture in Washing
ton not long ago that 900 children under years
of age die every year the United States of curabe
diseases Dr. Knox further asserted that the number
of deaths among children from creless feeding is
twice that from tuberculosis and about one-thrd the
number from all socaed viruent diseases combined
Practically every of these lives could be saved by
correct feeding.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Why You Should Always SAVE
PUMPKIN and SQUASH SEEDS

devised for catching both rats and mice. The
little animals will go anywhere for one of
these seeds. They are naturally suspicious
of traps, and are often smart enough to keep
out OF even the most simple traps, but when
traps are baited with pumpkin or squash
seeds they will risk anything and enter or in
yestigate any form of a trap.
If properly used every seed is worth it's
weight in gold. They will draw the entire rat
and mouse population to one point, and they
will not leave without an attempt to secure
their desired sweets and, if properly man
aged, the entire lot can be captured.
Do away with all forms of poison and try
this remedy
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

T7HERE a great many bright school childreh
who are unfortunate enough to be classed by
n their teachers as rather dull and stupid when
in reality they quite bright any other young
ster and this is due to the fact that they are slightly
deaf
Their deafness is so slight that the teacher does
not discover it, and be expected to discover
under normal conditions; their faces do not show
that they are deaf is the case with those whose
deafness is quite pronounced.
But these slightly deaf children do not catch all
that is said they do not quite get the benefit of all
that read spoken in the class and they do
learn these things Then when the time comes, they
cannot repeat the lesson and they held to be dull
At the sixth congress of the American School Hy-
giene Association DR.. Helen Macmurchy of Toronto
read most interesting and instructive paper upon
this subject in which she pointed out all these things
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

and declared that it was frequently possible to recog-
nize such slightly deaf children by extremely careful
examination.
There is no doub but that children who are slight
" deaf but whose condition is such that their
teachers recognize it. are greatly handicapped by the
failure of others to know this and take the proper
steps. The child in this condition has no means of
knowing that his hearing is not normal
In a perfectly quiet says DR.. Macmurchy, the
average normal hearing distance for a whisper is
twenty-five feet child that hear a whisper at
five yards will not lose much education because of
this but they may lose a little, especially if seated at
the back of big school room, and no child should
lose any opportunity to learn Children who can hear
a whisper at a distance of only from three to five
yards should always be given seats in the front
in the school, and those who hear a whisper at
only from one to three yards need special help and
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Why YOU
SHOULD LIVE
200 YEARS
By EUGENE CHRISTIAN. Esd.

TEARLY all specimens of animal life on this globe
M except man, live, under normal conditions, about
eight times the period of their maturity.
that time it takes them to attain full growth.
horse, dog cow that will obtain its growth in
four years will live about thrtytwo years This rule
applies especially to all snthropoida quadruped
specimens
Man natures Or gets his growth, at about twenty
four of age Measured therefore by the scale of
all other animals he ought to live eight times twenty
four years of Measured, therefore by the scale
governing the life Of all other animals he ought to live
eight times twenty-four, about hundred years
but reckoning from the Of six, dies at frac
tion forty, which, this reckoning is about
fifth his natural period of longevity while if take
into calculations children under six including the
Infant class 1t brings mans period of longevity in all
civilized countries down to about thrtyseven years
Man drinks the same water and lives under the
sunshine his brother animals He differs from them
mainly in his food quantity of fresh air and exercise
which the three fundamental laws governing all
forms of life II is fair to that is excep
tion to the general rule governing all other animals,
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

- yrILLIONS of rats and mice infest our
MI cities and towns. as well as every
Iva rural section, and it has been a prob
lem how to rid the country Of the expensive
pest.
All sorts of traps have been invented, and
many schemes devised, and the pests have
been caught and killed in vast numbers, but
the right way does not seem to have gone
into general use.
There is something in pumpkin or squash
seed that will attract the rats and mice more
than any other known substance, and the
solution to the problem of eradicating the
great pest ia TO use the seed from sQuashes
and pumpkins for bait for all kinds of traps
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Coal and the X-Rav

T is now believed that the mystery of the formation
| and constitution of COAL which has long puzzled
students will be solved by means of the X-ray.
According to a French scientific journal, there are
two or three kinds of ash in Goals First, the foreign
matter carried by the wind the rain into the forests
that gave the coal Next there is the mineral
matter that forms part of living plants Finally there
generally more or less mineral matter due to the for
nation of new compounds by the decomposition of the
first two kinds Of ash The examination of coal with
the X-rays VIII PROBABLY lead to possible distinction
between these three forms of ash, and will thus con-
tribute to throw light on the formation of veins.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Making BABIES SLEEP Under Running WATER

Anywhere from three to ten babies thus lulled
TO sleep depending upon the size of the spring and the
quantity of water in the overflow. Each stream was
about the size of ones finger and made run through
a little wooden spout, to give force to the stream
According TO English officers who reported this re-
marka0e method of caring for babies it quite
cesslul Never were such quiet and we'll behaved
babies found as those under the spouts of water The
natVe mothers laughed at the suggestion that such
Ihlng would hurt their babies, and declared that on
the other hand, it tended to make them strong In
TACT some Of the mothers declared that a child not
brought up in this manner would be weak mentally as
well as physically they believed the water pouring
on the little heads actually strengthened their brains
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

of field work and must leave their babies alone Few
Of these women can afford caretakers and they resort
to what they consider the next best thing
An example Of this noted while ago when
new road was being built and many mothers were EN-
poyed in some of the work There little grooves
or resting places along the line of the road that was
under construction, and here were seen numbers Of
oaoles. Each resting place selected because of a
spring near at hand The water from the spring was
carefully directed to the place where the babies we're
lying. The babies, were placed with their heads on a
pillow OF earth, and stream of water directed to flow
fairly against the top of the infants head and
trough was made for this water to run of in
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

T has often been claimed that the sound of running
water had the effect of mllng anyone to sleep but
in one part OF the country the mothers go much
further than this and make their babies sleep by
letting a small stream OF water flow directly their
little heads.
Such a means seems almost incredible and
would think colds and other ailments would result
that would kill the babies but apparently this novel
liquid lullaby has harmful effects upon the native
infants and they lie sleeping for hours with stream
cf water flowing directly upon the tops Of their heads
This is done by the native mothers in the vicinity
OF Smla, in India. There the women do great deal
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

orally accepted, but as scholars began to
study the old AnglO-SaXon and the kindred
languages, it appeared that this derivation
ignored the other languages altogether, and
yet the idea existed and was expressed I'M
the similar tongues. The latest research
points to a derivation entirely different from
that old-fashioned one which satisfied our
forefathers. In Old Saxon the word is found
spelled of and it is only when we study
the Old High German that we see the real
origin of our word There is the word ''Iba,
condition or stipulation and the dative case
of this word is "Ibu" or "Ipu" meaning ION
condition the precise meaning of our word
IF and evidently the correct ancestor OF
,his common little word so often on our lips.