Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 9 SAVE THE BABIES Timely Word to Mothers on Care ot Infants DuringHotWeather. ADVICE WORTH HEEDING Health Commissioner Dixon Gives Rules to Be Observed In Nursing the Baby and For Its Proper Care In General—The Necessity of Pure, Fresh Milk. The hot weather of this season of the year is extremely dangerous to the lives of infants and young chil dren, not only because of the depres sing effect of high atmospheric tem perature in general, but more espe cially because of the effect of hot. weather upon all perishable articles of food, among which cow's milk holds the first place. It is therefore highly important that cow's milk to be used for infants' food should be the purest and freshest that you can afford to buy. During the hot weather ice is absolutely necessary for the preservation of milk, and all milk ÜBed for food should be cooled by ice as soon as it conies from the cow, and should be kept next the ice until ready to be used. A little money spent for ice may prevent illness and its greater expense for medicine, nurs ing and medical attendance. As water is often a carrier of disease it is safest to use only boiled water for drinking or the preparation of a baby's food. The following rules will aid you in keeping your baby well during the hot weather, and are given out by the State Department of Health of Penn sylvania: Breast feeding. Every mother should endeavor to nurse her baby. Breast milk is the natural food of a new born baby. There is no other food that can compare with it. A breast-fed baby has a much greater chance of living than a bottle fed "baby. Immediately after birth do not give any kind of artificial food to the baby while wailing for the breast milk to come. Put the baby to the breast every four hours and give nothing else but water that has been boiled. The baby needs nothing else and will not starve. Aftei the milk comes into Ih-o breast nurse the baby every two hours during the day and two or three times at night. Don't nurse the baby whenever it cries. A moderate amount of crying helps to develop the lungs. Babies who are nursed irregularly or whenever they cry are likely to get indigestion and then cry the harder from pain. Nurse regularly, and the baby will soon learn to expect its nursing only at the proper intervals. C.ive the baby a little boiled water several times a day. After the baby is two months old lengthen the time between feeding to two and .a half or three hours, with only one or two feedings at night. Do not wean the baby as long as be is gaining, and never do so except by advice of your doctor. Do not follow the advice of friends or neighbors abwut weaning. If the baby re-ma well, but after a time stops gaining . . weight, do not think that your milk is of no value, but consult your doctor about adding one or two bottles to help you out. Bottle feeding. If it becomes neces sary to feed the baby entirely or only in part upon the bottle, remember that the greatest cleanliness is neces sary in all details of the feeding. As soon as a bottle is finished it should be thoroughly washed with cold water, then cleansed with hot water and borax (one teaspoonful to a pint of water) and put aside for further cleansing before being used again. If you have only a few bottles and it be comes necessary to use the same bot tle for the next feed ins. boil it for a Continued on Third Page. HARDWARE,^^|p|p whatever it may be—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these thing-*, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "aheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from, AVhen you think of HARDWARE °f COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work ami repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. MELVILLE >W. FULLER. Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, Who Died Suddenly. TO BOOM CANUIDATE BY SONG Mrs. Ella Fiagg Young Seeks Educa tional Presidency. Political, campaign methods have been adopted by the Chicago school teachers to make Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, snuperintendent of the Chicago schools, the next president of the Na tional Educational association at Bos ton next week. They will sing two songs in the con vention hall. One is entitled "Boston," sung to the tune of "Dixie." Rehear sals will be held on the special train from Chicago to Boston. Middies Give Lives to Save Woman. With everything to indicate that the young midshipmen met their death in a manner befitting the best tradi tions ol' the American navy, the bod ies of Sherman N. Nason, of Newport, R. I.; Grisby E. Thomas, of Union Point, Oa., and Mrs. Joseph McC. Bowyer, daughter-in-law of Captain J. M. Bowyer, superintendent of the naval academy al Annapolis, Md„ were found in the river Severn on Wed nesday. The bodies were found close together, and there can be no doubt that the midshipmen lost their lives trying to save that of their compan ion, who could not swim, and who had probably gone off the shoal and into the deep water that is on the side of the bar. The place of the finding was about forty feet from the place where their craft in which they went sailing had been at anchor. One of the launches picked tip the body of Mrs. Bowyer with grappling lines. A few minutes later the bodies of Nason and Thomas were found almost simultaneously. They were about four feet apart and each about six feet from the body of Mrs. Bowyer. The closeness of all the bodies In dicated strongly that they had gone down together, the slight separation being accounted for by the drifting with the tide. The circumstances bear out exactly the theory that was most strongly held that Mrs. Bowyer had got into deep water and the mid shipmen had tried to save her life. Mrs. Bowyer could not swim and Thomas was a very poor swimmer. It is likely, however, that he did what he could and that Nason tried to help both. The result was the drowning of all three. Whatever happened must have been very sudden. From the fact that the life preservers which were in the boat were not used, it is probable •hat all tiiree were in swimming when the accident occurred, and there was no chance to get the life preset vers out of the boat. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1910. T. R. OPPOSED TOJBALLINGER Endorses Insurgent Eor Dnlted States Senator. MAY SPLIT WITH TAFT It Is Believed the Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy May Cause Break Be tween the President and Ex-Presi dent. if Colonel Roosevelt is going to fall In line and indorse the administration, as a good many political sharps think he will,do, he is employing a novel method of making his attitude known. The colonel announced that several of the most rabid insurgent leaders in the country are coming to Sagamore Hill on Thursday. The conference gives every indication of being the most important gathering that Mr. noosevelt has participated In since he got back from the other side, with the possible exception of the meeting with President Taft at Beverly last week, which apparently was not as satisfac tory to the colonel as the Beverly dis patches would have it. It has been stated frequently in the Oyster Bay dispatches that the ex prosident is cautiously feeling his way before he lets the public in on how he feels toward the administration. It has been remarked, also, that the Bal linger-l'inchot controversy Is the rock upon which Colonel Roosevelt and President Tafe are likely to split. For the first time the colonel defined clearly his opposition to Secretary Ballinger by telling Representative Miles 12. Poindexter that he will in dorse his candidacy in the fight for the United States sonatorship against Senator Piles, of Washington. Piles is identified with the Ballinger wing of the Republican party in the state of Washington. Poindexter is an out and out supporter of Pinchot and a mili tant insurgent. There is, of course, the possibility that Mr. Roosevelt will support the administration indue time, but he cer tainly is in no hurry about it. He, him self, has summoned nearly every one of his political visitors to Sagamore Hill. He wants to hear the insurgent side of the story first, and then, per haps later, he may ask some of the regulars to drop in and explain the stand they have taken during his ab sence. Judging from his program, the colonel Is going to work the New York state and national game together, be cause he believes they are pretty closely related. In case the investigating committee that is looking into the Rallinger-Pin chot matter brings in a report to the president adverse to the secretary of the interior, which results In Bailing er's resignation or removal, whatever probable breach now exists may be healed. The colonel has been so fear ful to have his position known on this mater that his personal comment Is unnecessary. Without exception, his Sagamore Hill guests have kind words for Pinchot, and there is a lurking sus picion here that Mr. Ballinger will get out. Snake Coils Around Man. While he was at work plowing in a field near Paxinos, Pa., on Wednesday, Haivy ltelgol and George Lewis saw a big black snake glide under a ma chine they were sitting on. The men jumped to the ground to kill the rep tile, which, finding its path blocked, jumped 011 Lewis and colled itself about his body. His arms being pin ioned, he was rendered powerless. The snake pressed tight against hi'ii and he began to suffocate. Keigel drew a jackknife and tried to cut the reptile away from his companion, each fresh wound the snake Received mak ing it more infuriated. Lewis fell senseless to the ground and was al most breathless when Reigel killed the reptile. It was six feet long. Auto Scared Horse to Death. Emery Kerrick, of Philadelphia, did what no other automohilist has yet been able to accomplish, that is drive his automobile up the steep Kerrick hill, in Asylum township, Bradford county, Pa. In doing so, however, he frightened a horse to death. The horse was greatly startled by seeing a ma chane reach the top of the hill, where no other automobile had ever been, that he deashed away and after run ning half a mile fell over dead. Baby Killed on Rocking Horse. Bernice, the nine-months-old daugb ter of Mr. and Urs. N. R. Brown, of Franklin, Pa., met a most peculiar death. She fell forward in a rocking horse, her neck striking on a cross piece, and she strangled to death. Her mother, who had been canning ber ries, found her ten minutes after btr death. JEFF EASY VICTIM FORJQHNSON Colored Champion Toyed With White Oppooent. FIGHT LASTED 15 ROUNOS Boilermaker Was Outpointed From the Start and Was Knocked Repeatedly Through the Ropes. Jack Johnson, the negro heavy weight champion, has turned over the sporting world. He knocked out James J. Jeffries in the fifteenth round at Reno, Nev. It was sudden, this defeating of a hitherto unbeaten man. It came very swiftly, like the dropping of some bolt that wrecks a 10,000 horse power dy namo. Hardly had the bell sounded for the fifteenth round when the lightning movement of the negro's right arm in an uppercut ended in a thud. The tre mendous head of the white fighting man swung back as the glove landed on his jaw just to the right of mid chin. His torso relaxed, his knees trem bled, then crooked. Down he went. Sixteen thousand people leaped to their feet and the great dish of the arena was so still that those sitting next to the ring could hear the click of the black champion's teeth as he snapped his jaw shut and stood wait ing over the fallen fighter. The timekeeper had counted nine; Jeffries, his head swinging from side to side on his thick neck, struggled to his knees, to his feet. Hardly had he straightened when two terrific blows shot over his feebly rising guard. A right and left uppercut to the chin fol lowed. Down the white man tumbled. This time his body was outside the ropes and his legs were crooked over the white strands. He sat haunched in this squat, eyes closed, hands droop ing over knees. The spell was broken. The arena roared. Referee Was Rattled. Rickard, the referee, was rattled. He stood by the side of the beaten pu gilist, counting in a dazed sort of way. Nobody watched him. Everybody bad his eyes on Jeffries. In the uproar Timekeeper Harting counted Jeffries out. Nobody heard him. Abe Attell ran over from Jef fries' corner and lifted up the ropes, while the lighter clambered blindly through. The man stood, half crouching, knowing nothing. Then came the black man, not knowing that his antagonist was counted out. He came lightly, stepping swiftly like a cat stalking. He jumped up to the side of the bloodied, half conscious man. a>td with his arms jerking back and forth with the thrust of an en gine's piston he pounded and pounded the drooping head of the former cham pion. Uppercuts, each one of them. First with the right, then with the left, Johnson swung back the lolling head. Again the tremendous bulk of the white man tottered. Sam Berger, Jeffries' manager, now Jumped into the ring and rushed to Jeffries' side. Rickard understood and he waved the tigerish Johnson back to his corner. At the same time he held up his hand and motioned toward the black, retreating. That was the end. The light was won. A man un beaten and thought to he unbeatable had been pounded into defeat. The championship remains with the negro and $70,600, 00 per cent of the purse, of SIOI,OOO, had been won. Was a Clean Knock-Out. It was what the followers of pugil ism call a clean knock-out. The blow that the black man sent up from his waist to the point of Jeffries' chin In that quarter minute of the finish round wa sthe blow that finished the battle. Jeffries was outclassed, outpointed. He didn't lose because of a lucky blow. He lost because he was an older man than when he last fought, because he had not "come back" from his years of physical and nervous flabblness. A surprise they call this sort of thing In the sporting world, a surprise because the results were not forecast ed by the weightiest opinion of ex perts. Here Is what one who was not an expert in pugilism might have seen in the ring: A white man whose every nerve was tensed to fiddle string taut ness. who kept his power of co-ordina tion between mind and muscle at such a working pitch that mental fatigue threatened each instant. Opposed to him was a negro who was not afraid, who was vain In his skill of self-pro tection, but not to the point of reck lessness, who approached the task of stunning an antagonist with an easy and baflllng confidence. No such spectacle as the one inside the graded tiers of humanity baa ever JACK JOHNSON. Colored Mail i.etains Champion ship by Defeating Jeffrie*. been seen, i-'rotmniy in mis country no such spectacle will be seen again. It was the fight of the century. It was the surprise of the century also. Johnson left for Chicago in his pri vate car. He is under contract to till vaudeville engagements for a time and r.ays he wilt be glad to get another flght soon, but so far as can be learn ed, no man in the world Is really eager to get into the ring with him. Jim Jeffries left for his home in Southern California In his special car. As a result of the flght he is probably SIOO,OOO richer, and the damage to his body and the humiliation will be heal ed by time. The talk among the sporting author itle: who still remain here deals with the amazing superiority of Johnson in Monday's battle. It is agreed that Johnson could have knocked out Jef tries much sooner, and it is said that he wished to give the moving picture men tllms of proper length. Tales are told of attaches of Jeffries' camp who hedged at the last moment, being dis satisfied with the former champion's condition and temper and placed bets on Johnson. The colored population ol Reno is not nearly so happy as might be expected, for many risked money 011 Jeffries. Johnson is not a hero among n:ost of his race who have met him. Jeffries has talked little of the fight since he was brought back to his cot tage, a beaten, bruised, brooding figure. As he walked around his house his stride seemed noticeably unsteady and his Dig head hung down on his breast. The swelling around his right eye was very evident and there were nu merous slight bruises and contusions around his nose and mouth, but his face showed little discoloration, the work of the rubbers and trainers hav ing gone far toward removing the signs of defeat. Johnson was $120,000 richer when Jeffries went down for the last time in Monday's fight. He took GO per cent of the SIOI,OOO purse, which amounted to s6o,(i(Ki, a bonus of SIO,OOO, a.id he sold his picture interests for $30,000. Jeffries took a fortune out of thi defeat at Johnson's hands. He receiv ed 40 per cent of the purse, amount Ing to $40,400, the bonus of SIO,OOO, and he sold his picture interests to; $(>(>.(!(!(!. r-.'in.r i,| B total $117,000. FIRST NATIONAL BANk, BZTJGHESVII LE, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75,000 ' DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Frontz, John 0 Laird, C. W. Sonen, Banking Business. W.c.Front*. Frank A.Kmler, Jacob Per, Lvnian Myers, W. T. Reedv, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndlVld- J. A. S. Ball, John Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Yenr. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR DEATHS ON FOURTH DROP FROM 44 TO 28 "Sane" Celebration Also Cot Down List of Injored. The value of a sensible and restrain ed observance of the Fourth of July has been demonstrated by the casualty list of this year's celebration. In nearly every city and town where the sale and explosion of fireworks were pro hibited or restricted there has bean a decided lnlling off in the number of dead and injured, compared with pre vious years. This year's list of dead throughout the country, do far reported, totals 28. Last year the same total was 44. Thfe whose number of injured last year was 23<il. This year there were only 1785. These figures show enormous conser vation of human life. Dead, 28—By fireworks and 'result ing fires, 7; by firearms, 11; by gun powder. 4; by toy pistols, 6. Injured, 1785—8y fireworks, 882; by cannon, 1(J9; by gunpowder, 230; by torpedoes, 74; by toy pistols, 13(>; by bombcanes, 21; by runaways, 28. Life Sentence For Dr. Hyde. Dr. B. C. Hyde, who was convicted of having poisoned Colonel Thomas H. Bwope, the millionaire philanthopist, at Kansas City, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor by Judge Latshaw. An appeal to the state supreme court was filed by Hyde's at torney, and until it is decided the prisoner will remain in the county Jail here. BALLINGER WuN'T QUIT Secretary Has Conference With Presi dent on Reclamation. The reclamation service came up for a long discussion at the sum mer capital at Beverly, Mass. Secre tary of the Interior Ballinger got here early, went over to the ICvnns cottage on Burgess Point, anil stayed there until night. He then left for Boston and Washington, without having re signed, but it is said in some circles here, with the scalp of Director F. 11. Newell, of the reclamation service, in his portfolio. Mr. Ballinger absolutely refused to discuss the question of the removal of Mr. Newell. The White House preferred not to talk about it, too, but the impression prevailed that Mr. Newell's iinish is coming swiftly. The report that Mr. Newell is togo is based upon the undoubted fact that he and the secretary of the interior do not agree. The secretary of the interior looked confident, stepped with a spring and laughed at the rumors that he had come to resign. "I haven't brought any resignation with me," said the secre tary. "and I don't Intend to leave any when I go away. 1 am not a Quitter. I have gone into this thing and I intend to flght it out." Confesses Killing of Woman. John Smart, colored, arrested on sus picion of having killed Eliza Brown, a colored woman, of Belair, Mr., on Sunday night, made a confession to State's Attorney Stitier, saying he and the woman quarreled, when lie dealt her three blows over the head with a hatchet, casing her death shoitly af terwards. Lunatic Slays His Father. Bud Plant, who escaped from tli state asylum for the insane at Parse Kan., returned to his home and ki hJs father as he lay asleep. He . struck him with a club and then cut his throat. Ten years ago he killed his brother and was adjudged insane. Fell Dead on His Plow. While plowing on his farm, near Durham, N. 0., former Congressman John M. Atwater dropped over dead. He was seventy years old.
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