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the organization was almost threatened
with collapse. Then, it was that Lord
and Lady Aberdeen decided to come to
America with their appeal.
When Lord Aberdeen was Governor
General of Canada his wife organized
the Victorian Order of Nurses in Can
ada. and well has the energy and time
which she expended in this direction
been repaid. She is one of the leaders
for the advancement of women in world
affairs She was president of the. In
ternational Council of Women from
1893 to 1899 and again from 1904 to
date. She is keeniy interested i'm this
movement and is constantly striving to
advance its object of bringing into
close relationship the woman workers
of the world.
When Lord Aberdeen went to Ireland
as viceroy for his second tenure of that
office. in 1905. which Office he held un-
til 1915. Lady Aberdeen. who had been
for many years identified with the
movement for Industrial revival in Ire
land. was quickly touched by the
poverty and the wretched conditions
which she saw about her. So she set
about devising ways to help the people
who needed help.
THE babies must be saved for the
coming generation" said Lady Aber-
deem, "and the other children must
have their health protected if the
OIL eHs III anu stdillHd Oh Ireland as q
nation is to continue. Thousands of
brave sons of Erin are giving their
lives in the trenches of Europe; the lit
tie ones at home must be safeguarded
and saved for the future Of the race.
The need for infant welfare work is
more imperative now than it probably
ever can be again. for in addition to an
increased infant mortality and the
deaths on the battlefield the records
show decreasing birth rate since the
war began.
Owing to lack of funds. a children's
sanatorium for the treatment of tuber-
culosis has been left standing empty.
children can go whose health would be
restored by few weeks of good food.
good air and care. was taken over, but
there is no money with which to equip
II. Ireland possesses no hospital to
care for children suffering from surgi-
cal tuberculosis, and this is a much
felt need. large percentage of these
cases could be cured If proper medical
attention were given at the right time
Unfortunately. this cannot be done.
But among its numerous activities
the association can point with PRIDE"
continued Lady Aberdeen. ''to what it
has accomplished in reducing the death
rate from tuberculosis in Ireland. There
are about fifty less deaths from tuber-
culosis each week now than there were
In 1907, and there are about $4,000 few
er persons suffering from the disease.
The association Is proud of the fact
that 1t was able to come to the United
states few years ago. at the time of
the International Congress on Tubercu-
losis, and be rewarded, in a contest
open to the world. with half OF the
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Country, Are Trying to Save Babies of Ireland

conflict is felt and the babies are dy-
ing much more rapidly than they would
be If their opportunities for life were
up to the standard.
at is eminently fitting that this should
be Irish babies week" said Lady
Aberdeen. in conclusion mo better time
could be selected than the week in which
the patron saint of Ireland is worshiped
by the loyal sons of Erin all over the
world.
Make this week of st. Patrick one in
which each good son and daughter of
the blessed isle shall deny himself and
herself some little luxury to help save
the babies Of Ireland. Their little lives
are crying to great and generous
america and to their brothers on this
slde OF the water to contribute a bit to
help them live and grow into strong
men and women for the future glory
of the Irish race"
In some of the cities which Lord and
Lady Aberdeen have visited treas,lrers
nave been named among them being
John ID. Crlinmins. New York; J. c.
Heyer, Boston. A. c. Kains. san Fran
CISCO and John Joy Edison. Washington.
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MEN 1NVALIDED FROM ARMY
SEEK PARL,IAMEN1r'S AID
cial Correspondence Of The Star.

special Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON. March 2, 1916.
~ NE of the scandals of the war
II ID which will have to be tackled by
parliament at the new session
which has just begun is the absence of
provision for soldiers who are invaIided
out of the army. although their inva-
lidism may have been directly due to
the hardships of their service. Already
the newspapers are full of stories of
men who have fought at one of the
many fronts at which Britain is now
fighting. entering the workhouse or ap-
food. and assuredly there is no desire
on the part of the public to stint the
man who has fought and suffered for
his country of anything.
Pensions on the most liberal scale.
running in many cases to over IS a
week. are provided for men who have
been partially or wholly disabled by
wounds. but apparently the case of the
man who contracts, say, tuberculosis in
the trenches has been entirely over
looked. AS a matter of fact it has been
overlooked because there never has
been a war fought under conditions of
winter hardship such as this. and when
the present pensions act was drawn
early in the war we had no experience
of the large list of disa ablements from
disease as distinct from wounds.
One of the commonest causes of dis
ablement, which is not provided for
now in the pension regulations, Is what
has come to be known to the military
doctors as trench foot" 1t is the re-
suit of standing for days and weeks
in trenches-sodden and often water
filled trenches-with the water just
above freezing point. At first it was
loosely called frostbite. but as a mat
ter of fact it is something quite differ
ent. When there is frost the trench
becomes dry and comparatively COM
Portable. What apparently happens is
that the cold water deprives the skin
of all it's natural oil. The foot swells
up and becomes extremely painful, and
in bad cases-and there are plenty of
bad cases-the use .of the foot is per-
lost.
The trouble about recognizing this as
a pensionable injury is that-this win
ter, at least-the sufferers have only
their own carelessness to blame. After
many experiments the army doctors
last winter discovered that no man
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OF ALASKA.

Seattle came to dinner together tho
other day, and thirty-five sat down to
the table.
The public schools are good the high
school having its business branches
with courses in public speaking and
mechanical drawing and in sewing and
cooking well. The high schools Of
Juneau give. their graduates certificates
admitting them to the University OF
California and other western colleges.
j came here expecting to find a popu-
lation of men only. The sexes are al
most equally divided. Many of the
women have come as school teachers,
or as clerks or stenographers and have
married. Some of the young men have
gone back home for their wives, and
the girls who are born here usually
stay. The population is not transient,
as is often supposed. I meet daily men
to thirty years. and find young men
and women who expect to spend
their lives here. Such people are even
now buying homes here and paying for
them on the installment plan through
the building association
There is much civic spirit in Juneau
and the town believes in municipal
ownership. 1t owns and operates the
principal wharf and it has it's own fuel
depot, where 1t supplies coal to the cit
izens at the rate of $40 per ton. Before
the city went into the coal business
coal was bringing Sl4 ton. and at the
same time gasoline was selling at 35
cents a gallon. The mayor began to
sell in competition and the price OF
gasoline dropped to 81 cents The city
has also aided in the building of a cold
storage plant with a freezing capacity
of $4,000 pounds a day and storage
rooms for 100000 pounds of fish.
Juneau has electric lights and water
works supplied by springs and streams
in the mountains 1t has a telephone
system and a service Of ferries which
connect it with the several towns on
the channel. All of the latter are run
by private corporations.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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of countries to make living in. AS
to the matter of good living, you can
go into any grocery store at the begin
ming of winter and buy thirty dollars
worth of -four, bacon. and condiments
You can take them into the woods, and
with the addition of the fish and game
you can catch. you can come out in
the spring as fat as a partridge. You
can, get fish anywhere by dropping
hook into the ocean or streams. and
the shore will give you clans and
crabs, fit for king. Some of our
clans are as big as mans hand, and
we have little butter clans that will
melt in your mouth. We have all kinds
of game. including deer and bear and
mountain sheep. Our islands have
grizzlies and the kadiak bear is the
biggest that grows"
X X
Some of the other items of the cost
of living in this part of Alaska are
as follows: House rents range from
$40 month for single unfur-
nished room to s25 a cabin, or a four
room fiat. Four-room cottages may be
had for $35 a month, and larger houses
command higher prices. Living ex-
penses per day are said to average
from 81 to $1.50, exclusive of lodg-
ing, which may be obtained for
about $20 per month. Household ne
cessities, including groceries, cost from
Sound cities. The demand for labor
about equals the supply. and the wages
range from SO for common labor to
$5 or $6 a day for skilled mechanics.
I am surprised at the sterling charac-
ter of the people Of southeastern
Alaska. They are as well educated
and as well bred as those of any part
of the States. More than half of the
professional men are graduates of col
leges. and Juneau has a university club
of $50 members. The majority are from
western institutions, but Yale, Har-
ward. Princeton and Cornell all have
their representatives. The graduates
of the University of Washington at
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regal lodge, at which all the guests
were expected to wear garments made
of Irish material
This was the start of society
whose members pledged themselves to
encourage and develop Irish industries
by every means in their power. Never
once during the thirty years since that
time has Lady Aberdeen appeared with
out some garment of Irish texture 1t
was under her leadership that the Irish
village was organized at the Chicago
worlds fair. which made S250,OOO and
gave great impetus to Irish industry
Ireland for two generations has been
a dwindling race. There are but half
as many people there today as there
were in 1910. Then the population was
more than 100000, and now it is
barely above the 100000 mark. Plague,
emigration, war, infant mortality have
taken their toll. There remains today
little more than remnant of a once
proud race, and conditions that are
tragically dangerous are facing that
remnant. The lustiest of Irelands
sons are dying in the trenches of Eu-
rope. Death stalks among the sou huts
where the financial stress of the great
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grand prize of $1,000 for having done
most TO help stamp out the great
white plague The other half of the
prize went to the Charity Organization
Society of New York.
TN addition to it's anti-tuberculosis
work the association has almed III .....4.V
other ways to promote the general
health and improve the living condi-
tions of the poor irish people. Visit
ing nurses have been engaged to go
about from place to place and from
home to home. ministering. like the
angels of mercy they are. to the needs
Of the sick and the suffering. They en-
ter a poor grass-thatched hovel like a
ray of sunshine into dark cavern. On
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IN THE BUSINESS SECTION OF JUNEAU.

plank and the centraI roadway and
sidewalks are SO tipped that the water
runs off into cutters of wood. Such
streets are costly. They need constant
repair. The plan is to gradually elm
mate them and make macadam streets
of the tailings.
The business section of Juneau runs
parallel with the channel. Close to
the docks are sawmills, lumber yards,
sheet metal works and machine shops,
and further back are long streets de-
voted to stores, banks and shops of all
kinds. 1t may interest you to know
just what business is done. There are
twenty-four stores handling groceries
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the little Island of Innishboffen, off the
coast of Galway, one of these visiting
nurses administered alone for weeks at
a time. without a single vessel from
the mainland, to the needs Of the poor
people on the island. She was the
only one to whom they could turn for
medical advice of any sort
x X
I'm all. the association has maintain
ed about 160 Of these visiting nurses.
They have been sent to any part of Ire
land. wherever there has been a call
for aid. They go to the home where a
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Copyrighted, 1915, by Frank G. Carpentero
JUNEAU, Alaska.
& AM in Juneau, the capital of Alas
ka. 1t is the biggest city of the
territory, and it's political, finan-
4 ciaI and commercial center. 1t has
the residences of the governor and the
chief officials. Their offices are in an
old frame structure not far from the
governors mansion. 1t has preten-
tious frame courthouse of two stories
with a little dome on the top, and
city hall with a cupola that reminds
one of the head of a pearl diver IN ms
diving suit. ready to drop into the deep
The most of the houses of Juneau
are of frame. The country about is
covered with timber, and there are
great sawmills at the wharVes that
supply the building materials. of Iate
they have been putting up some con-
crete structures, fnd the era OF stone
has begun. There is one building OF
five stories and a half dozen two and
three stories each constructed of con-
crete.
Z <
The Juneau of today has only
5000 inhabitants. but its streets are
as lively as those of a city OF Tour
times that number in the United States
proper. Every man in the town is
hustler and the place huns with poll
ticians. lawyers. tourists and miners.
The crowd is of all classes and of all
sorts of dress. Many of the men wear
clothes of the latest cut of Broadway
or 5th avenue, and others have SLOUGH
hats mackinaws and trousers or
khaki. Some have on boots that reach
to the knees, and now and then you
meet one in white rubber pantaloons to
the waist.
Drays, automobiles and carriages
move about through the city. Ju-
neau has thirty motor cars. and
motor stage runs from 1t to the mining
town of Thane. three miles down the
channel At that place are the mills
and reduction plant of the Alaska Gas
tineau gold properties. Nearby are the
Juneau gold mills and on the other
side of the channel, in plain view, are
the Treadwell mines. with the towns
Of Treadwell and Douglas. each hav-
ing 1000 or 1000 population. Alto
gether. there are at least I5.Ooo people
living within a radius Of fve miles OF
the courthouse, and the quartz mines
alone are now giving employment 10
more than one-third of that mum oer-
The place Is a great mining and fishing
center; IL is the chief port of Alaska,
and IL does business with every part OF
the territory.
Juneau is in the heart of southeast
ern Alaska 1t is 800 miles north of
Seattle and 1900 miles from San Fran
cisco. 1t is farther from Nome than
from Salt Lake to New York, and It's
distance from Fairbanks is greater
than that from Boston to Omaha. The
town is beautifully situated. 1t lies
on the mainland. at the head OF the
Gastineau channel, a narrow strait
which separates it from Douglas Is
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upon stills. The irregularities Of the
rocky foundation have been leveled by
a trestlework of piles. The wharves
are on piles, and from the channel as
the tide falls they make you think of
an army of centipedes tramping out to
the ocean.
1t is now planned to give the city
A substantial foundation by filing
in the space between the piles with
the tailings from the mines in the
mountains behind. These contain great
masses of low-grade gold ore, and the
waste rock dust from the gold mills
q foundation of rock. In the town of
Douglas. over the way, beach of such
tailings has been made along the edge
of the channel and the base ball
grounds are laid out upon them. There
is still some gold in the sand. but mil
lions have come from that lying inside
the diamond.
l wish 1 could show you the streets
of Juneau. The town has about ten
miles of planked roadways that run up
hill and down. The roadways give no
spring to the feet, and your hips keep
bobbing up to your waist and tire your
anatomy.
AS write this letter they are
repairing the street in front of my
hotel, and l can see how the roadway
is laid. The hotel is some distance up
the side of the mountain, where bed
of earth and stone has taken the place
of the piles. The street is about thirty
feet wide. Upon the earth and stone
cross beams or rafters are laid, and
three-inch planks are nailed to them,
running from one side Of the street to
the other They are fitted together al
most as closely as flooring. Upon this
foundation second layer of planks is
MI wit rdS ot
an angle to the first layer. the whole
forming a substantial wood pavement
six inches thick.
The street has also sidewalks of
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ae Capital of Alaska, Is a City on Stills

FRANK CARPENTER
Commercial Center ATen Miles of Plank Roadway-The Palaces
Chicken Supply Ownership
Beath CoaC Combine.
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CORNER Vceoy Ireland and His Wife Working
Which of SnakesrSh
Factors to Be
With n Ireland
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cational campaign to awaken parents
and municipal authorities alike to the
infant lives and to the means which
should be taken to prevent it.
But this means money. Meanwhile
the Women's National Health Associa-
ton, the body which is striving to
carry on the child welfare campaign, is,
in consequence of lack Of funds caused
by the war, threatened with annihila-
ton.
Every bullet that kills soldier shat
ters at least two lives-the life of the
man and the life of TIE woman who
loves him-to say nothing of the
abies. To compensate for these losses
tained, is to reduce the death rate
among children and to do away with
preventable illness. This must be done
now; to wait until the end of the war;
will be too late. If the saving OF the
babies and children has to be aban-
doned at this time there will be no
way of making up for the losses after
the war. The destruction will have
been wrought The lives of the thou
sands of little ones who might have
been spared for the rebuilding of a
strong and sturdy Irish race will have
been lost. and no efforts after the war
can by any possibility make up for the
irreparable damage to the race.
This is the plea and the lesson which
Lord and Lady Aberdeen have brought
with them TO America. They have been
laboring. in season and out of season,
10 impress upon those to whom they
nave spoken the urgent need of the
Irish babies welfare work. In addi-
ton to an increase in the infant NOR
tality in Ireland since the beginning of
the war and the loss of thousands of
irish heroes on the battlefields of Eu-
rope. the records show also a decreas-
ing birth rate since the war started,
Lady Aberdeen points out
In one Of the cities of ireland, Dub
I'm, Tor instance. there has been a great
increase in infant mortality since the
war began, said Lady Aberdeen, in
discussing the question a few days ago.
mere mas been an increase in the
death rate of babies under one wear
from iSz per 1000 in the early part of
isI1' da neiore hostiiities began. to 1s1
per 1000 in the corresponding period
of 1915. The normal death rate in Dub
lin is about 14s per 900. Proper feed
ing and wise care for the little ones
and their mothers would have pre-
vented many of these deaths In tbe
country districts there is not the cry-
ing need that prevails in the large
cities with their congested districts and
wretched conditions"
Lady Aberdeen is president of the
Women's National Health Association
OF Ireland. which she organized in
1907. soon after Lord Aberdeen went to
ireland as viceroy. Since that time the
death rate from tuberculosis in Ire
land has been reduced in marked de-
gree and much other excellent health
Improvement has been noted through
out the Emerald Isle
But the association always has been
supported by voluntary contributions.
Therefore, II began to be hampered al
most Immediately after the European
war started and. with other demands
upon the people who had been contrib
utors. as the months rolled by the
money stringency for the association
became more and more acute. At last
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The Aberdeens, Now in This Gov

ton; but meanwhile the little ones are
passing away month by month in
thousands, and it needs "a popular edu-
cational campaign to awaken parents
and municipal authorities alike to the
needlessness of this waste of precious
infant lives and to the means which
should be taken to prevent it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-02
COTTON MARKET

AMERICUS, June 2.-The Amer
icus spot market shows a rise, with it
Quoted today as follows:
Dooo mlaallng ...............12 3-4c
rully mlQdllng ............,1 IL lac
Mloullng lie
The Futures Market.
The futures market opened Fri
day steady, with quotations:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-02
HOW TO PREPARE, PLANT AND
CULTIVATE IRISH POTATOES

Fall potatoes: One of the most prof
table crops, and one of the most USE
full that can be possibly be planted on
cur Southern farms, is the fall crop
of Irish Potatoes.
Many people who have tried plant
ing this crop continue to do so, and
the interest is increasing. This crop is
different from the spring crop, will
keep almost indefinitely as they can be
housed in barrels; in an ordinary Gel
lar, barn or any other dry cool place,
and are convenient for use throughout
the entire winter, and will keep per-
fectly until June and July, when they
are ready for seed that perfect stand
can be secured from. Therefore, this,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-02
CASE POSTPONED BEFORE
LANBDIN UNTIL july 10

Attorneys w. A. Dodson and ]. E
Sheppard have returned from Savan-
Eah, where they appeared in a case
before Judge W. W. Lambdin affecting
the Sparks Horse and Mule Company
and their preferred claim against the
Americas National Bank. The case
postponed until July 10th in order to
give Receiver N. NJ. Dudley time to
gather more evidence.
Judge Lambdin ruled several months
ago making the claim of Sparks Horse
and Mule Company of $4,000 preferred,
in the matter of $1,000 in cash in the
bank. Other creditors have now
come forward with claims in regard to
tie amount, and the judge will hear
the new petitions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-02

at the courthouse tomorrow morning.
Camp Sumter will meet at the same
time and place and take part with the
Sens of Veterans in the business of
the hour, as will the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
The Times-Recorder, feeling a deep
interest in these organizations, and
the success of their plans, joins with
them in urging large attendance at
this meeting. Remember what we do
is duty we owe the remaining rem
nant of those who braved the horrors
OF war in order that the honor and in
tegrity of our fair Southland be up
held.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-02

the Lookout Mountain Potato has been
grown year after year strictly for fall
planting, and the seed harvested in
October and November are best for
fall planting.
A perfect stand can be secured from
this seed as they are sprouted by June,
ready to terminate Immediately after
being painted in the ground. They
will not make in the spring, as their
habits have been completely changed
owing to the continued fall planting
for more than 22O years.
The Lookout Mountain Potato is
sound and firm, there never being any
blac'1 hearts among them; also free
froI scab. They are the best to keep,
heavy yielders, are mealy and the
very best of table potatoes.
One of the principal reasons why
people should plant this potato ex-
tensively is because they can be cul-
tivated at time when labor is usually
plentiful, and not much else to do on
the farm. Furthermore, their keeping
quality is another reason why you
should plant them and you are never
bothered with the dreaded bugs with