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u, WILLIAM BRADY. VI. ID.

TE"M the fruits Of long experience
r we have concluded that the best
time to plan vacation is the
day after YOU arrive home from
one or as soon thereafter as YOU have
disposed of accounts accruing there
from Under this plan you have
who'll. year less a week or ten days. for
alterations and repairs of the original
proposition. The plans at first laid
, down never seem to be practicable
somehow. In the course of the years
preparation they grow more and more
unlike your primary Intentions, just
liz. the plans for new home.
Many vacatlonists make the fatal
mistake of selecting a summer resort
for their headquarters instead of going
OFF in the wilds by themselves. Young
people naturally have an affinity for the
more popular watering places and well
pa,ronized resorts. Well and good; let
them go there. We are not considering
the mysteries of youth in this article.
our concern is rather the family
jIunt The young people prefer to
spend their vacations in places where
they can see great deal of each other;
We grownups like to go away off where
We can cast off conventions and re-
straint and travel about farefree, stare
free clrefree and just have a nice, quiet,
comfortable time.
Early in February we usually write
brother Walt hoping he is quite well
and so forth and instructing him to rent
the Hermitage for the month of August.
The Hermitage is one of the finest cot
tageS on one of the prettiest inland
lakes in these United States. Cottages
go begging for tenants all summer be-
cause the lake is off the central artery
OF railroad travel; hence we feel con-
fdent in February that Walt will have
no trouble in engaging the Hermitage
for August.
BY the end of March Walt drops us
brief line as follows:
DEAR Bro: Ice not cut OF lake yet
Guess | can get the cottage though Fix
ing up the boat-putting in new en-
CINE. Expect will push her along eighteen
miles an hour job will cost about $780,
Hop. YOU are all well. Your brother.
WALT
?. S.-Do you want to send your part
pay in advance for cottage rent? 1t will
b. 800 for the month.
Now Walt and his boat are important.
nay Indispensable. factors In our sum-
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The cure. apparently, has been dis
covered. Ninety per cent. OF the boys
who are honorably discharged from the
Chlldren's Village make good in the
eyes Of the world, find honest remu-
nerative occupation in various walks of
life, even enter and graduate from our
leading universities. That Is a pretty
fine record for a crowd of boys who
have been picked up from the streets
and cutters Of the city and sent away
by a long suffering Magistrate. 1t Is
a record quite up to the average of
any crowd Of boys in every country.
That Is what the two year course at
the Children's Village has done for
them. and the men in charge of the
little colony are satisfied that the cure
is worth the effort.
, The initial cause for such delin-
quency. however. is far more difficult
to ascertain. Strangely enough the
doctors" have cured the ailment with
out knowing just what disease they
are treating. But recently a thorough
medical investigation has thrown a lit
tie light on the problem.
Acting upon the premise previously
cited that the bad boy was q sick boy
the directors OF the Children's Village
determined to make complete physical
inspection Of the youngsters of its coll
ony. To their satisfaction rather than
surprise they found their assumption
justified. These boys were sick
Sixty-fve per cent. of them were ane-
mic the result OF poor food and irregu-
lar habits of living. To this hall
starved condition could be attributed
most of the Waywardness and apparent
vciousness. Their low stage of physi.
cal development had induced feeling
of carelessness. Physically their fibre
was weak; their mentality and morality
suffered accordingly. Their birthrlgh
had been generally bad. their environ
| ment had exaggerated and aggravated
| the inherited faults: so that the average
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I'VE just have nice, quiet, comfortable time"

heart. We sit around and watch him
work like a wild man. We hear him
talk like one too. At noon we go away
up town for something to eat. Walt has
no appetite. He appears somewhat fe-
verish. He prefers not to come with US
AT 2 o'clock we return. Walt Is GER
tainly giving that engine an awful over
hauling. He resembles II so closely
now that it is hard to distinguish the
various parts, but all of sudden there
is q terrible spluttering and a roar
from the engine-and a shout of exulta-
ton from Walt. We spring into the
boat, drag In our outfit. stow everything
neatly away and prepare to start. Then
there is a jolt and a chug, and the en-
CINE goes dead as a doornall.
Walt fairly fumes, poor fellow. He
gives the old crank one vicious twist.
and she backfires as good as he gives
Walt mumbles something in his beard
oh, yes. he has grown quite n beard
during the day-and we offer sympat by
and advice, which he refuses to hear.
He strolls out of the boathouse and
down the dock. In minute he comes
running back.
Say, the big boat leaves in ten min
utes." he puffs. "Come on, we've Just
got time to load on your stuff You
people can go up on the steamboat and
I'll come up with the motor in the
morning"
"All right, Walt. We 10 sorry the en-
CINE Is so mulish," We reply. Then we
help load the outfit onto the sidewheel
steamboat and we eat supper In camp.
When Walt reaches camp bright and
early in the morning he reports that
there wasn't thing wrong with the en-
CINE. All the matter was the batteries
were exhausted: he had brought down
six new ones and forgotten to connect
them up with the engine.
But we don't care. We're going out
fshing-pike in the shadows and trout
in the deep water
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in Rescum
Wonderful Work Done by the Children's Village
in Rescuing City Boys From Careers Of Crime

found To be inferior in every way to
the child from families of higher social
development.
The examination produced many
highly significant facts. OF the 634
boys examined only 90. or a little over
Q per cent. were free from physical
abnormalites of some character. While
many of these abnormalities were slight
and very few We're of a gripping or
handlcapping nature, in themselves the
percentage of approximate perfection
was surprisingly low.
In heighth and weight also the boys
were found to be decidedly subnormaL
Both OF these deficiencies were justly
attributed to malnutrtion directly or
indirectly resulting from the poverty OF
the parents.
But perhaps the most significant
physical shortcoming Of the boys OF
the Children's Village as well as of all
juvenile delinquents is the misfortune
Of bad teeth. Young as the boys are 1t
was found that over 30 per cent. OF
them were suffering from this defect.
Unable to chew their food properly, the
boys had acquired the almost universal
habit of boiling everything they put
into their mouths. Thorough mastica-
ton was unpleasant, painful and prac-
tically impossible. and the natural con-
sequence was a multiplication OF stom-
ach and intestinal disorders that con-
tinually dragged the boy down.
To remedy these conditions II was de
cded to employ a dentist to see to U
that the teeth of the children should b
kept always in the most perfect condi
ton possible. Immediately upon ad
mission to the institution the boy Il
sent down to the dentist In the village
OF Dobbs Ferry for a searching exam
nation. The doctor goes over thu
teeth with the most meticulous care ant
makes whatever repairs may be ex
pedient. extracting the hopelessly de
cayed. filling and browning the less seri
ously diseased and ending up with
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dren. First founded as home for
children Of both sexes and all religious
denominations. II has become to-day a
refuge for Protestant boys who need
the salutary supervision so provided.
Ten years ago the juvenile asylum
moved from the city out to the open
plateau above the Hudson River and
there established itself.
The Children's Village occupies
thirty-five buildings situated on a tract
Of 2S6 acres near Dobbs Ferry and
Chauncey. The present buildings ac-
commodate almost 600 children. The
general plan admits of progressive ex-
panslon, the unit being a cottage capa-
BILE Of caring for twenty boys. One or
two OF these Cottages are added each
year to meet the annual increase. and
latterly much OF the work of building
these homes has been done by the boys
The Investment In land and improve
ments approximates $1,200,0O0. No part
Of this sum was provided from the
revenues OF the city or the state, al
though the children In the village are
wards of the city. having been COM
mitted by the citys courts. Each Of
the cottages Is an attractive home with
a dining room, living room, recreation
basement dormitories and kitchen. The
boys who live In the four honor cot
tages occupy individual rooms, and
sixteen of the cottages are presided
over by master and matron. The
smaller boys are assigned to twelve
cottages, each OF which ts in charge OF
a matron.
So much has been done to rehablli-
tate the boy whose misfortune-or as
some think good fortune-has brought
him into the grip OF law and conse-
quentiy to the Children's Village. Sc
much has been done to cure him.
For after all the bad boy Is generally
the sick boy
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Why Col. Hampton Hasn't
That $4,000
ny W. J. LNMPTON.

HE death At the Waldorf Astoria
i of John G. Mayo. the noun
taineer millionaire Of Kentucky,
whose fortune is estimated at twenty
millions of dollars, all made in oil and
coal lands of the Big Sandy Valley and
the adjoining territory, reminds me that
only few years before he began his
career of millionairing at Paintsville
sixty miles up Sandy, in Johnson
county. I began mine of newspapering
at Ashland in Boyd county. near the
mouth Of Sandy.
My paper and one in the neighbour
ing county of Greenup. further down
the Ohio River. both weekly, We're the
only papers published in more than
thirty counties extending clear back to
the Tennessee line, and our combined
circulation was about $500 in an esti-
mated population Of 100000. Among
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complete cleaning. Then the boy Is
sent back to the village armed with
tooth brush and paste and instructed in
their use-a caution generally quite es-
sentIal, as the early life Of the youngster
has seldom allowed him the leisure to
become acquainted with these useful i'm
PIGMENTS of hygiene.
Regularly every six months the dem
tlst drives up to the village and one
after another the boys are sent in to him,
seated In the dentists chair and ex-
amined.
COW, don't, doctor" Is no excuse. The
unpleasant inspection Is made. the de-
fects listed and within a very few days
the boy with the bad tooth is hustled
down to the dentists office and the
good work Is done.
1t IL no wonder. therefore that by the
time the boy has completed his two
years in the Chlldren's Village he Is a
better and healthier youngster than
when he went up to the little colony.
Every spring the village sends out a
squad of boys to the West. where amid
new surroundings and with no stigma
of the past they can begin a useful life
in the open country. With moral STAN
ina created, with mental powers de-
veloped and with physical strength
stimulated and made sound by their
careful training these youngsters who
have suffered and paid their penalty are
ready to start with courage and con-
fdence and to look the whole world
bravely in the face. Instead OF being
branded as potential and probable Grim
inals these bright eyed youngsters are
entering an existence Of usefulness and
helpfulness that would have been ir-
retrievably closed to them but a few
decades past and are going out with
the encouragement and confidence OF
those men whose far slghtedness has SO
happily provided for their future well
fare and the welfare OF the coming
II generation.
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these non-newspaper readers Mayo was
born. grew up. taught school and even
tually made his twenty millions on the
possibilities of coal and oil.
Timber was there, but the best Of 1t
had been cut and the people were not
the kind to dig down under the ground
for what was hard to get They knew
1t was there. all right, because my
neighbor editor and | used to tell them
about 1t every week and talk In high
sounding language about our vast nat
ural resources and the need Of foreign
capital to develop them, but they did
nothing and we did nothing, though my
neighbor did make IA little money with
a friedrich works. But he got none OF
the land that Mayo gathered up year
after year in options, finally moving into
the millionaire class.
I might lust as we'll have done what
Mayo did, for I was there before him.
but I lacked the money making faculty
and would not use the knowledge / had.
For example. one day man from up
Sandy came into my office to advertise
some oil and coal land he had for sale
1t was tract of 400 acres, and he
told me could have 1t for sl.1OO-
% cents an acre. I laughed and so did
he, and might have had 1t for even
less than that. I preferred the dollar
or two proposed to charge him for
his ad.
There were plenty of men in my town
who could have bought the land and
paid for it, could not-but nobody
wanted it, and nobody got it that I ever
heard of. Probably Mayo picked 1t up
later.
Anyway. that 400 acre tract to-day.
valuing it at 500 an acre, which Is not
half what some lands have sold for In
that section, Is worth SAC, 900. which Is
very fair increase on the original in
vestment. 1t Is some evidence too thai
twenty millions Is not too large ar
amount to place on Mayo's fortune, be-
cause he gathered in thousands of acres
of coal and oil, some al pr.ces even less
than the price proposed to me.
OF course If I had bought the tract for
$l,100 would have sold II gladly
enough to the first man who came along
and offered me 1900 for 1t, but that
does not make 1t any pleasanter TO
think about the 100000 I might have
had to-day IL my foresight had been al
good as my hindsight.
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prOval. That was the genesis Of the
local reform school, so-called. At its
birth and In its youth ii was enveloped
IN the atmosphere Of the prison. 1t is
because Of its ancestry and the fact
that II Is an inescapable duty OF the
city government to provide for those
who pass through the courts that gen.
and endowed every other type Of school
and sociological agency have given
sparingly Of their surplus to schools for
delinquents and dependent children.
These schools have been hampered
not only by the traditions Of the par
ent prison system and by slow public
recognition but by painfully irade-
quate appropriations. The directors
and friends were at first permitted,
subsequently required, to provide the
land and buildings and equipment. The
city makes per capita allowance
which has never been sufficient to meet
the running expenses. 1t Is neither
feasible nor possible to have the pupils
or their parents pay tuition fees
directly to the schools or to have them
supplement the city's grant. In conse-
quence these schools have had con-
slant struggle for existence.
Out OF this struggle has grown one
institution at least that Is covering
Its field with the highest success. This
Is the Chlldren's Village at Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y
The Children's Village Is the home
OF the New York Juvenile Asylum. a
corporation chartered In 1851 under
the laws Of New York for the care
maintenance. education and after guard.
lanshlp Of delinquent or dependent chill.
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civilization were employed and per-
mitted in this country and little or no
attention was paid to the inevitable
consequences. The boy and the girl
come out from their reform period"
reformed indeed. but into potential
criminals.
Naturally the larger the cities the
worse were the conditions; but until
comparatively short time ago no atten-
ton was paid to the plight Of the youth
full unfortunates. Finally, however,
some broad minded humanitarians pro-
tested against the thoughtless exposure
OF the young to degrading tutelage and
inevitable contamination. Then the
wrong was rlghted by setting apart a
section of the prison for the use of
youthful prisoners, and the reformers
were silenced for a time. At length,
however, the complaint was made that
the prisoners of school age were living
in idleness, opportunities for education
having been denied to them, with the
result that their minds were deteriorat-
ing. The authorities met this disclosure
by assigning to the juvenile group as
teachers the brightest of the adult
prisoners. No money was available for
professional teachers. The ideality was
still zero. Peter Cooper, BENJAMIN F
Butler. Charles O'Connor. Edmund
Dwight and others interviewed decislvely
and stirred the city by their denunci-
alton of this niggardly policy. They
pleaded for funds with which to estab'
fish home for perverted, neglected ant
abnormal children in which strong mer
and women might undertake to reshap'
the warped character and mind. Thell
plan awakened satisfaction and won ap
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4 fUCH has been written Of the
MI gorles of the good old
days; many have been the
signs for those halcyon times
gone by-and small has been the con
sderaton given to the actual facts
The Yankee In King Arthurs court
must have seen several things highly
fepugnant to his Connecticut training
ana temperament; the Yankee in the
court Of King George. even In the court
OF Queen Victoria. would have been
horrlhca by many of the methods en-
ployeI by even that comparatively en-
"Rhivnc1 generation In the treatment
Of imIna.s, convicts and the insane.
But most Of all would he have been re-
""rd by the methods Of handling the
question Of juvenile delinquency.
Perhaps the very term itself had not
'h'n been suggested; certainly no
S'i'"us thought had been given to this
mo- Important problem. The miser-
an.' child who was so unfortunate,
"''h nInuSh no fault OF his own, as ia
ID. INTO the hands of the law was
"us.''d away to the confines OF an
ah'.'Ht and unsavory Newgate and
"''''I M with scores OF grown men
ana women crowded heterogeneously
INTO 'Ae narrowest confines OF the COM
mon r-I y criminal, whether aged six
Vt SA'N, whether boy pilferer or adult
murd'r'r was-well, only a criminal
ooc'''' could not be vexed with them
"eh'o Il followed the most convenien,
"'ans II their removal from society
was the best.
nor was Europe the only transgres
sor' such practices as would now b.
aeemeo outside Of the possibilities o.
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tient. He seems to think the engine
possesses animate will power. judging
by the way he talks to 1t. The boat has
been running fine for the past week or
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Walt really can make the boat run.
This Is something worth making a sac
rifice for. It's "a delightful experience
watching Walt trying to make his en-
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more, and now. Just because a fellow
needs It, the
Walt cranks the engine again and
again. We grow alarmed about his
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A citizen who believes that a certain
thing should be done called al the Globe
office to-day and said, You can scold
the people into doing It," But We do
not wish to become a common scold.
People are becoming tired of having
others tell them what they should do.
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Every town has its men who take
pleasure in running after ,ther peoples
hats when they blow off.
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TE'M the fruits of long experience
r we have concluded that the best
time to plan vacation is the
l1y a flor ,p, arrivo homo from,
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-01-09
CHILDREN HATE OIL,
CAL0MEL AND PILLS
California Syrup Of Figs" Best for
Tender Stomach. Liver. Bowels.

Look back at your childhood days
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil. calomel, cathartics How
you hated them. how you fought
against them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt Is we'll
founded. Their tender little "insides'
are injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need a cleansing, give only de-
licious california Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle Millions
OF mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative handy; they know children
love to take it,; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and
sWeeten the stomach and that a tea
spoonful given today saves sick child
tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot
tie Of california Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle, Beware of counter
feits sold here. See that it is made
by california Fig Syrup Company. .
Refuse any other kind with contempt
ADV.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-01-09
PLAYERS SATISFIED
WITH mACNA1ES'
GRANTS
REPRESENTATIVE OF FRATER-
NIFTY ISSUE STATEMENT Ex.
PRESSING PLEASURE.

New York, Jan. 8.-The committee
which represented the Baseball Play
ers fraternity before the national
commission in Cincinnati this week, is
sued statement tonight expressing
satisfaction at the granting of so large
proportion Of their demands and
pleasure at the attitude of baseball s
highest tribunal toward the players.
Regret was implied that the fraternity
did not meet with more success for the
minor leagne members before the rep
resentatives of the lower class organi-
cations. The statement reads:
I'VE believe that in the Cincinnati
conference the ball players won a vic
tory which a year ago could not have
been dreamed of. Twelve of our re-
quests We're granted, though modified,
and two were withdrawn. Eight or ten
of them were vigorously opposed, but
with the utmost frankness and good
feeling.
We met far more opposition from
the minor league representatives than
from the national commission, and
were, therefore, unable to do as much
for our minor league members as we
had hoped. But even as it is they will
be materially helped.
"rhese representatives, we felt, were
sincere in their belief that an undue
hardship would be placed upon them
unless some requests We're modified,
and as we had no disposition to bring
this about, we waived the points
The treatment accorded rs, except
in the effective attitude Of one Of the
conferees was all that we could have
asked We Were met in a fair, cordial
and dignifed manner, which, in view
Of the strained relations previously ex
listing, was gratifying in the extreme"
The statement was signed by John P.
Henry, Edward NJ. Reulbach, Jacob E.
Daubert, John H. Miller, Ray w. Col
Inns and David Il. F'ultz