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IS SPREAD BY BOOKS scnoox. Ermmucs CAUSED ' BY SECOND HAND BOOKS. Evidence That Cannot Be guidedâ€"Smallpox Epidemic Kentucky. _ Cincinnati Letter: How many thon- snnd American school children are to be killed during the school year just opened? The word'ls chosen advisa- hly. tor the meaning is. that these young people will die of diphtheria, amallpox. scarlet fever, malaria, tubers "L _.....|--... On Mill» IWIIWA, Mu.» ....--, ___,V,, > culosis, etc.. through neglect to take certain precautions that are now, hap- pily, within the reach of every school board in 45 states, three territories, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Porto Ri‘ co, the Philippines and (in so Jar as we mu continue to be partly responsible) in the Pearl of the Antilles. Cuba Libre. in this imperial domain the one really priceless possession is the army of chil- dren 'whom we started for school the other day. ..... s vtucl nu; . "As I walk the village street. A- satcheled lad 1 meet. With the same blue eyesxand curly hair." As many another lad who went to first days of school this time twelve month. and who. “in some mysterious fly" contracted diphtheria during the term. We know. of course. that the prevalence of children's diseases during the school year is due to a variety of causes. and that all of them are not entirely within the control or those who can and ought to act. in an official capacity, for the removal of such ““98. ,. ‘,,, L_‘.I-\-v .- “MICE! , , But, let us suppose that by taking a certain course. quite open to school of- flcials everywhere. the lives of many school children will .be saved. Will of- flcials adopt that course? it is only one of the causes of the spread of dis- ease through the schools. it is never- theless so easy to get at. that itshould be eliminated at once from the list of 'wrong Conditions in the school room. The Chicago Public 7 Library board last winter put a special committee to work on the subject of infected book‘s. Theâ€"eminent scientist, Dr. W. A Kur- lewski was chairman of the committee which examined fifty volumes taken from the library. When the commit- tee reported; the doctor (lisp ayed sev- eral small glass tubes contai ng count- less germs of disease taken from the books. not one of the fifty being free from them. He was convinced that books spread contagion. Now a person who takes a book out of the library in town. city or village. always does so of his own free will; but when parents and school hoauls put second-hand books in the hands of the young pupil. they are practically master of the situation, and it diphthe- ria or other dangerous disease attacks those chlldren. their elders become re- sponsible. An adult need not go to a: public library: we compel our children: to go to school. We have no right to‘ endanger thelr lives by making them use secondohand books. a But is disease communicated by sec- end-hand school books? Here are two facts to he looked at, separately and conjointly. From some cause or oth- er second~hand school books have found their way lnto nearly every neighborhood and school ill-Kentucky: so have smallpox and other contagious diseases. Scarcely a county -in the state has escaped the ravages of this contagion. and in most instances the Fmanner of its approach is mysteriously -unknown. Dr. J; N. McCormack of Bowling Green. secretary of the state board of :health, who has treated a great many The all'e'ged notorious instigate): of mu! last perilous crisis of her career and my fin gum In to hav‘e handled. - - - EMMA GOLDMAN ON BACK. cases 9! smallgox‘ ‘ 1 Health Officer Healey who has had the evil too fl: concrete, has this to_§gy: The Secretary chusett’sfipme no t resume her place i: concrete. has this to say: ' were can be no doubt that dirty «newtond’hand books can convey contagh uc. diseases. Some Chicago houses are liming them in states which have recewiiy adopted new lines of text books. They rbhlnd them and brush them up a little. and sell them all over the cownry. I find that there'is really no econmny‘ln buy- ing them. as thefidiflerence in price beâ€" tween second-hand and that new books is only ten cents per book, 01 an aver- age. ' The saving is too email. and the risk is too great." Public spirited medical men in CH:- cinnati declare that the prartice of ins discriminately using mom-hand books would be a. constnnt menace to the pubâ€" AL A-.. -1... wuuuz v» .- vu-...â€"V no. health. and, as evidenve they cite innumerable instances where chutes- ion has resulted from bmks exposed to infectious diseases. sometimes after a period of fifty yeah. Books are considered one of the best natural culâ€" tures fordisease germs known, and no mode of sterilization will i it anse them. This fact has been recognizr'i by henith department experts for e ‘ong time. Where books. have been noosed even to-, the atmosphere or rooun in which contagion has been preseit they have been promptly ordered dwroyed. uunins now has ruched the :1 find seditious lite xature a dam- HAS MISS LONG REGAINED HEAL' r of tie Navy hope 3 to t! tar benefit his dun ghter in the ‘ast three social kif’e. .exington. ht in the There can tend-hand It is not possible to tell want any second-hand book bought of a dealer has passedjhrouxh. The custom thnt once prevailed among neighbors known to each other. under whim school books were interchanged, is far aster than buying them of second-hand desi- era; still. most cOmmunities have long since abandoned the former prsctlce. it is a safe rule to buy and own snd use your own school books; then you know what you have. You can keep them out of the hands of your own sick. out ot-the sick room. away from every source of contagion. “VI-VIII: . There is need. however. of concerted action. Let these agents of the "Inn. terlous’" be gathered together in every school district: let them be put in a heap and burned. in the name of true enlightment. Frothe flames will go out innocuous the full spirits of diph- theria. smallpox. malaria. tuberculosis. scarlet fever; and it the neighborhood ‘is visited by these diseases, it will not be on account of books that are not m to go into the hands of children any- how; What self-respecting child wants an old book to‘begin school with? New 4.11.: _.nl books are not’dear: and no child wlii| take as good care oi an old book bought * for him second-hand. as he will of a new book. 'The dlflerence in the carei he takes in each will more than make‘ up the difference in the cost. 1 The mortality caused by such school books must be responsible for a very considerable percentage of the deaths among school children for ten months. Sanitary and hygienic regulation of schools has attained respectable pro- portions in this country: health boards are vigilant: school boards and teach- ers are. co-operating with a zeal known only to those who are convinced of the importance of the new regulations. it would be strange it such a scheme as the second-hand school book trade were allowed to introduce the “mysterious" element into school district epidemics. after all that has been proven outset the use oi such books in the Kentucky smallpox cases. ' ‘ Tho,tlme to stamp, out the evil is right now, at the beginning oi" the school year; the place to do it is every- where. the object or the movement is A o. -AIAL ucam. ouu ' vi. -â€" to save the “Vet and fibtect the health of a great many children. _.-.n.-I IIADIF Proceeflings Practiced by Prtmlflye Holland Village Congregation. Yo'uthf . Companion: . A Sunday among the staid burghers of Holland gave Cliftqn Johnson an opportunity to see thrce church collections taken up in rapid succession. He had asked to be directed to a characteristic coun- try church in an outlying village. As a result. he went by train from Leyden to a little place where there In. a church. as severe in. its simplicity as the meeting-houses of colonial New Enmd. fl ' . It reachable: them. too. in its chilli- nesa. for there In: no attempt at warm- THREE COLLECT FOE CHURCH- find the mm" :1: of her Inu- r’s health that she will be this to not possible to _t_ell Awhnt any ;A_|-_ RANDALL HARE. Beside Roanoke stood her )0: Bud. and her owner. Jim Hum Ecleun cut. lithe young rlnchmn. “mused about them. payln§ the ho: ‘the America is so eager to rend. Mi godâ€"success. A [run faced, thin upped an t quietly beside Roanoke. paling, hand ndminbly over her gum flank: and Ilender “mug. , This appeared on the bulkfln b as the Jockey: who had ridden the heat of the runnIn‘ race wheeled t hams, and riding5 b'etore tho I“ stand. waved their lunch ln_|l_ll|ll. ”‘5'"!- w-vw wcu “uâ€" ._ _..,,H The blatant country band hep: Mare. _ The race track was a nu: Jostllng. swarms. luv-flu. bet men. Gold clinker-ulna dim. were waved in the air. "em" cries of ”2 to 1" or “5 (.9 10¢ R oke." Buckskin Jones. a aloonlm soc-med to be the only taker for me has side. He Ind Med u mll’ tune on Coma Queen. and bet use Roanoke freely. The Jockeys wore India: 1 mounts to and fro. llamas the uni mouth. and rubbing their li-lII. l hundl were “ruched forth to pat winning Roanoke, n black. Kentu bred mnre. whose slender. re beauty in come subtle way Iflu‘ the Gibwn picture: of American u en. She seemed proudly consclou her triumph; her nostrils dilated the pupil; of her eyes widened.- "What‘ll you take for her?" he a In an undertone. “Not for sale," npllcd Harcourt "I'll give you 82.000 1! line w murmured the grim mu without in; a muscle of MI nee. _ . .. n -n_ A‘â€" “Two thousand donut-I!" Jlln tbc rapidly of I neat cotuxe on the r_ Where he could take JI-ule. tn In: the disapproval of her stern old f: JuC-zv Osborne. but the caution c natural horseman wu strong. pulled his cigar : moment In ll. 7 â€"- ___A_L.4I $31119 the "'g'rihn" mu mined closely. and murmured uni-sly: see you It“: the me." The Dakota sun beat down mere Holy on the grand mad when) punch .the shoddy aristocracy ot a boom tow: ,upâ€" on the fringe of {am "com 9 wide the enclosure. whose occnpnntn ( find their neck: to no: the two I =out money 1nd without price. nil t‘ .=-n a single lndinn tense sundiu no. the course.‘ The last was occupied by Shunt: LI, who Ind net up his I no- on. But Interest In this event I»; Anxietyé-nnd cubâ€"are center; the second but at the running the next on the program. At last the hideous. goal on blonkets are removed and the on list slum on shining flunk. brid 'Il stirrup.. Jim Humour-t. madly h side the Osborne carriage. in' “ihk sitn Jessie. dainty. patricinn and gve' enough to turn the head of on) no see- Buckakin Jones pm throu I ti crowd and slip a folded paper ix. j; ti and of, Bud. Ronloke'l Jockey. ‘- mo already mounted. Fear. anger. - alt: tion are plninly written upon hirrlov brewed. dimlate (me as he 3nd ‘ With a sinister mile he tare tht up in bits. . , . 1 Jim whispers to Jessie: "i am mi'era 132.000 for Roanoke it he wins. ,Yt know what that means (or us, d6‘-':?" Jamie's face flushes. I “You know he will win. but m 3th: ing it. and the people were «lei. we: upon toot stoves ot the old-ts:.~§on( type that was beginning to so .jut ( vogue in America 100 years an» {80‘ oral scores of these little boxei :ytoc in the church empty. neatl ‘pile against the wall. ready to be all ”Iii smoldering pest and supplied 6‘ ti worshipers as they came in. When the time (or the collec) !:1 a' rived it man started out from t' mi ed-oi! space before the pulpit vhlc space was Occupied by the old! at with a black pocket at the ear is! a eight-foot pole pmceeded to h: a With this necessary he coda .u 53:1: t the and at . ”fluently he ha. :o b careful not lb hit some worship wit the butt end while making hi: slim reaches. ' Everybody In the (‘0th in something and the collector llttle bow every time a cola m: the pocket. He bed [one Ibo, way round when another elder out with another he; and pol; wrlter wondered he Ind not its tore. Hts purpoee. however, to heln hls fellow collector I work. Indeed. he started jlll' the other had begun Ind passed, to the same people. and ever-yo:- ped in 1 coin ls faithfully n' doae the first time. Nor was this the end. for thv collector hld no sooner got n gt than a third stepped out from tl from with has and pole and Industrloully over the mum (wo other: had done. He was successful a his mdecepoon. ,_-L_ _'.-_ .V_ ,, Thlna wire hunt-emu strange r had put “Iver In the I but tearing tht the coflectlo Remote ........ Conan Queen Pnlrle Belle Wild Rule :opymt. 1* ..... I .0186 Mm ,1qu mt t J t! hi] W5: m L tikr 0‘ hull by Th 1:0} am»: y IN“ It. iIc'oey h I " There a the null “M333 but new they an of. 'WA man, But mum Mn (one: Conan Owen. her under all iron and are. She's under e m, "Hurrah for Coteau Queen." 56 a: cry of Buckskin Jones nnd his ,, lites. The infu‘rimd Incl gnu-M round the judzen' stand. They bid “if to tear it down. and with here: cries of‘ derision in minllud the nnme of Butt. ihe im-key. who barely coupe- no!!! handling through the Intervention Of Buckskin Jones. * What Jim Harcourt said to his Sock” in not a mutter of biliary. but when the third [mat is called Bud has di _ nnd Jim is mounted on Roanoke. “Win her and the (yo wound is yourn." whispers he of the grim hoe. . A voice shouts: “Don‘t disappoint mm- [flu-Ill. Jim. We've put our money "Wln her IN the 2'0 "um.” ‘vmmfl he of m . A voice MU: "9°“ your friends. Jim. We've pl on that man of you-n."- “You {001. 40“" you changed rldel'l?" er!” ‘8 .n, , “ALA-Q AI he pale! the 0 matches M a neatl- u-rlng fichu. And I: looking. how white face above it. m" crie- "other .- the Osborn can-tut 1"” a fleet!“ cit-090‘ ' “" and he know. 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