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SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF
Bethesda Mission Which Came Into Existance May Ist, 1913.
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llus institution was organized and
incorporated not for profit, but for
the special benefit of unfortunate and
destitute girls and their babies. The
officers are: W. C. Warrington, Presi
dent; John A. Futch, Vice President;
Rev. C. W. Inman, Secretary; J. W.
Rast, Treasurer. The incorporators
are; W. C. Warrington, Jno. A.
Futch, C. W. Inman, J. W. Rast, S.
J. Melson, W. S. Jennings, Telfair
Knight, and F. 0. Nichols.
The Mission has cared for 24 girls,
five of whom have been returned to
their parents or guardians; seven have
taken positions, one was sent to an
other institution, and eight are at pres
ent in the home. The number of girls
in the home during each month was
as follows: During the month pf
May, 4; June, 8; July, 9; August, 12;
September, 11; and October, 13.
Twelve babies have been cared for, two
of whom went away with their moth
ers; one was adopted from the home;
one was sent to the Children’s Home
Society. One remained at the home
for two and one-half months and went
where there is no more sorrow. Seven
are in the home at present. The num
ber of babies in the home each month
in the year was as follows: During
the Month of May, 1; June, 3; July,
6; August, 9; September, 9; and Oc
tober, 9.
Cash contributions were received as
follows:
J. A. Cranford $30.00
F. O. Nicholson 25.00
S. J. Melson 30.00
B. W. Blount 10.00
J. W. Rast 32.00
D. H. McMillan 25.00
C. S. Adams 1.00
C. R. Armstrong 10.00
J. L. Doggett 25.00
L. A. Wilson 30.00
Harris Hardware Co 1.00
C. T. Doty 1.00
H. E. Harklshelmer 10.00
A. E. Bryant 5.00
Mr. Livingston 3.00
S. E. Calhoun 1.00
C. B. Sharp 1.00
B. F. Boyd 2.00
C. B. Rogers 10.00
Jacob Tetter 5.00
P. M. Ulsch 2.00
F. E. Wood 3.00
Grover-Stewart Drug Co 5.00
C. D. Upchurch 2.00
Business Woman'i Missionary Aid
Soociety 5.00
W. C. Warrington 30.00
L. K. Riley 1.00
Dr. G. E. McKinnon 5.00
Miss Bertha E. Price 10.00
Lake Jones 5.00
M. L. Howard 5.00
R. H. Baker 5.00
W. H. Baker 5.00
L. A. Wilson 30.00
Total $351.00
Money received from the nursery
where the babies are cared for when
the mother takes a position and goes
out to work, and from the girls who
have paid a nominal sum -for their
maintenance while in the home, $235.
Thus a grand total of $586.00 has been
subscribed and paid in cash. In ad
dition, merchandise was received from
the following: C. W. Zaring Co.,
Groceries; The Nelmaur Co., furniture
for hospital room; J. Gumbinger Co.,
glasses repaired; Dignan & O’Brien,
groceries each month; The C. D. Ken
ny C 0.., sugar each month; Knight
No one can do a good day’s work
with a disordered stomach. No one
can enjoy life who is not well. Drugs
may help. They do not cure. Let
Nature have her way. Drink Shivar
Spring Water. It has benefited oth
ers. It will benefit you. Try it now.
If ten gallons do not benefit you, your
money will be refunded. $2 for 10
gallons at the druggists or of the
Shivar Spring Co., Shelton, S. C.
NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF DEC. 11, 1913
Furniture Co., furnishings; Jefferies
Market, meat twice per month; R. S.
Nicholson, ice box; Jacksonville
Cracker Works, one box of crackers;
Steins Bakery, bread and cakes;
Smith, Richardson & Conroy, one tur
key for Thanksgiving; Southern Bell
Telephone Co., a concession; Highway
Avenue M ood Yard, one load of wood;
Marcus Conant, coffin. The value of
the above articles cannot be exactly
determined, so no value is given.
The expenditures for items of ex
pense have been as follows: House
rent, $100.00; water rent, $11.50;
telephone, $13.65; groceries, $392.60;
Medicine, $17.95; food for babies in
the nursery, $26.20; wood, $54.50;
ice, $22.00; furnishings for home,sl2;
stamps, stationery, etc., $5.00; car fare,
$8.20; miscellaneous, $72.35; salaries,
as follows, Mrs. C. R. Harris, Matron
one month, $30.00; Mrs. Annie Dona
hoo, superintendent and acting matron,
$15.00; a total of $780.25.
Several professional men of the city
have aided in the work by giving their
services, among them the following:
Dr. T. G. Simmons, Dr. W. E. Ross,
Dr. J. B. Black, Dr. Russell H. Dean,
Jr., and Dr. H. P. Hoover, have aided
us in caring for the sick, and a num
ber of attorneys have given us of their
services, for all of which w y e feel the
deepest appreciation.
A HOME FOR BLIND GIRLS.
Golden Rule Alliance Makes an Ap
peal Through Fanny J. Crosby.
We are glad to give space to the
following appeal from Fanny J. Cros
by as president and Miss Mabel Hol
man as secretary of this worthy cause
Fanny J. Crosby, the blind hymn
writer, is president of the Golden Rule
Alliance recently formed for the pur
pose of securing funds to erect a home
for blind girls who may be in need of
care and education. Miss Crosby was
for many years a teacher in the New
York Institution for the Blind. There
she formed the friendship of Grover
Cleveland, who as a young man was
secretary in the school. Her work in
the Bowery Mission is replete with in
cident. Already, while the Aliance is
yet in its infancy, a wide field of use
fulness is being opened..
A father and mother in New Jer
sey called the attention of the Alliance
to a baby with sore eyes. The trouble
was recognized as a case of the dreaded
ophthalmia neonatorum. The parents
were unable to give the child proper
medical treatment. The Golden Rule
Alliance assisted them. A complete
cure resulted and the child’s eyesight
was saved.
In northern New York lives a girl
twelve years old. Her parents are
toilers, and life has become a struggle
for daily bread. Besides her blind
ness, her ankles are so weak that she
cannot stand alone. Her wrists are
too weak to hold a book. Efforts to
place her in some home or school for
the blind failed because of her lack of
development. Arrangements were!
made for her at one of the leading
hospitals, and it is expected that a
complete cure will result. The ques
tion of what is to become of this sight
less one, and the problem of educating
girls in a similar situation is a serious
one.
Miss Crosby gives out a statement
in which she alludes to her recent se
vere illness, and says that she believes
God spared her life that she might en-
gage in the establishment of a home
for the blind girls.
She says further:
“During my illness, my Father gave
His angels charge over me to keep me
in all my ways. It was shortly after
my recovery that my dear friends,
Rev. Edward C. Holman and Mrs
Holman, told me of the intention of
some of their friends to establish a
home for blind girls. I believe that
it is to see this plan advanced that my
life has been spared. I pray that God
will lengthen my days until the work is
accomplished.
“There is no need greater than that
of a home where blind girls may be
surrounded with protecting love, be
taught to support themselves, and feel
that they may be sheltered from the
tempests that beat upon their frail
forms. I appeal to all lovers of God
and mankind to forward this beauti
ful work. Will you not help one
blind child? This you can do by con
tributing in full or in part, toward the
education and maintenance of at least
one blind girl.
“FANNY J. CROSBY.”
Charter memberships in the Alliance
consist of those who pay $5.00. All
charter members will receive a cer
tificate signed by the president, Fan
ny J. Crosby, in her own handwriting.
Active membership consist of those
who pay SI.OO.
Contributions may be sent, or fur
ther information may be obtained by
addressing Golden Rule Alliance, 75
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
GOV. HOOPER ISSUES CALL.
(Continued from pagee 5.
attitude in state politics in no sense
interfered with their loyalty to him
or affected the presidental vite in Ten
nessee. The people of Tennessee re
fused to be fooled into mixing their
state and federal politics last year.
Another evidence of this fact is that
I received about 50,000 or Roosevelt’s
54,000 votes, although he toured the
state against me.
OUR MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
(Continued from page 7.)
are not only dangerous, but the result
is too seldom an improvement over the
original condition and too often the
reverse. Surgeons, great and small,
think with surgical minds and see with
surgical eyes. It therefore behooves
the sufferer from appendicitis, ovarian,
uterine or prostatic disorders, or the
like, to look about for conservative
advice.
The Physiological treats the patient
and not the disease. Its intelligent ap
plication requires more than an an
swer to the question —what disease has
this patient? Is it catarrh of the mid
dle ear, nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia,
rheumatism, appendicitis, neuritis, in
flammation of ovaries? It demands a
minute inquiry into the exact vital sta
tus of the individual; a determination
of the degree of acticity and efficiency
of each of the great bodily functions,
by observation and analysis. It re
quires a complete inventory of the pa
tient’s vital assets.
The Robertson System of Health
culture has for its aims the following:
The dilution and elimination of pois
onous waste and debries, the relief of
obstruction or irritation to the normal
nerve action, the unimpeded flow of
blood to and through every part, the
adjustment of foods to the digestive
capacity and to the demands of good
nutrition, and the education of the
patient in matters of exercise and ra
tional living. This, in a nutshell, is
the whole story of health regained and
health retained. In the accomplish-
The Danger of Next Year.
“It is said, however, that the inde
pendents can afford to surrender and
be swallowed by the regulars, because
the mission of the independent demo
cratic organization has been fulfilled
and its work finished. This is a palpa
ble effort to deceive the people.
“Recognizing all these conditions and
the additional fact that the national
liquor interests, with their unlimited
corruption funds, will never submit
in Tennessee or elsewhere till every
hope is gone, let our friends over the
state take a fresh hold on the situation
and get ready to avoid mistakes in
the election of legislators.
“It is absolute folly for any man to
beguile himself into the belief that the
national liquor interests will not make
a most desperate fight in our state next
year.
“Let us not forget that Alabama
had state wide prohibition for a short
while, but lost it in a fight financed and
managed by liquor interests from out
side the state.
Who Will Finance the Work?
“The temperance republicans and
democrats of Tennessee should press
the advantage they have won until the
work of cleaning up this state is com
pletely finished. They should not re
lax. They should not be lulled into
a setback of years for the temperance
cause.
“There is not the shadow of a doubt
in my mind that the liquor people will
dominate the next legislature if the
independent democrats do not main
tain their organization and place their
candidates in the field in every debata
ble country.
“The plan of the candidates of the
liquor interests next year will be to
run on almost any kind of a platform
that the temperance people demand.
This was practiced on a smaller scale
last year. There were men in this
legislature pledged for law-enforce
ment legislation, who fought it every
(Continued on page 13.)
ment of these aims, Bobertson-Black
man Sanitarium is the first institution
to employ by reinforced combination
and therapeutic concert, the Water,
Electric and Mechanical Treatments,
Osteopathy, and a definite system of
Hygienic Dietetics.
“An eye to see Nature; A heart to feel
Nature;
A courage to folloiv Nature.”
THE HOME BEAUTIFUL.
What is it that makes home beauti
ful? First of all, it is the spirit of
love which predominates and brings
into unison the highest and best im
pulses of which human hearts are cap
able. But what implements does love
use to cultivate this spirit in the home
and make the home-life beautiful, hap
py and inviting? They are lovely
furnishings, of which the PIANO is
KING. What is there in the home,
next to the Bible, which can be used
to inspire greater appreciation of life,
olftier ideals and deeper sincerity,
than the Piano or Self-player Piano?
The Golden Age Piano Club gives
you the opportunity to combine your
order with those of ninety-nine other
Club members which we secure, there
by obtaining the maximum Factory
discount on instruments of the highest
quality. Every feature, of the Club is
guaranteed, so that you take no risk
of being dissatisfied. Write for your
copy of the catalogue and letters from
old Club members. Address the Man
agers, Ludden & Bates, Golden Age
Piano Club Dept., Atlanta, Ga.