Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

8 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF Bethesda Mission Which Came Into Existance May Ist, 1913. mm*. 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.