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For arrest and detention of Roy Samuel Slack in any jail in the United States until officer can come and receive him. Age 17, looks to be 18, height 5 feet 4 inches, weight 127 lbs., hair light chestnut, eyes blue, complexion fair, full thick lips, teeth good, usually smiles when speaking, and emphasizes "yes sir" and "no sir" in conversation. Has worked in stone quarry and on railroad grading. Under sentence to the Kansas Reformatory for train robbery, and escaped from the Wyandotte county jail by slugging jailer, on morning of December 8, 1908. Send any information to J. E. Porter, Sheriff, Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas.

Fort Scott, Kan., Nov. 20, 1908. To all Labor Orders in the State of Kansas: At a regular meeting of Ft. Scott Division 165, Order of Railway Conductors, held on November 15, 1908, at Ft. Scott, Kan., the following resolution was passed: That this Division endorse the candidacy of Brother C. H. Danner for the office of Commissioner of Labor and Factory Inspector, and that we ask the support of all

organizations who seek to better their conditions in the labor world.

Brother Danner has been a member of the Order of Railway Conductors for twelve years and has identified himself with and given his earnest support to all movements looking to the betterment and uplifting of laboring men in general, and we are sure that any confidence reposed in him I will not be abused.

We earnestly solicit your support in his behalf for the office of Commissioner of Labor at the coming election in February, 1909.

We, as the committee appointed by Division 165, Order of Railway Conductors, cheerfully and confidently recommend him as a conscientious worker in the cause of labor and are glad to append our signatures. R. WILLIAMS J. N. MILLER W. F. WILSON Committee.

Announcements have been received that Storm Shults, a member of La Crosse Division 61, has been appointed superintendent of the Brookfield division of the Burlington, with headquarters at Brookfield, and the announcement is received with much pleasure by Mr. Shults' many friends. Storm Shults' rise in official position with the Burlington since he left La Crosse has been rapid and deserving. About two years ago he left his position as a conductor on the La Crosse division to accept one as trainmaster of the Galesburg division, and at that time moved his family from the north side, where they had lived for many years, to Galesburg. A year later he was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent of the Brookfield division and now has been made superintendent.

In the January number of "Success Magazine," Charles Edward Russell begins a series of articles, "The Break-up of the Parties;" the first is entitled "The Republican Party-Its Glory and Decline." Robert Haven Schauffler writes on "Making Ends Meet on a New England Farm." Cleveland Moffett continues his series on the waste of American wealth abroad in an article, "Fake Art and the Millionaire." Roland Phillips points out the practical phases of the forestry problem in "When the Wood is Gone." The subject of an article by Michael Williams is "The Rat and His Board Bill." "Growing Old a Habit" is by Orison Swett Marden.

The leading stories are "His Big Picture," by G. B. Lancaster; "Entertaining Aunt Melissa," by Mary Heaton Vorse; "The Twice-Told Tale of a Stolen Theater," by Lincoln Steffens, and "Jimmy Pepperton of Oshkazoo," by Robert Barr.

To Investigate Accidents. From a circular letter just received from the Union Pacific Railroad company we judge it has adopted the policy of making a public investigation of accidents on the road and of publishing the findings of the investigating committee.

The case just investigated is stated as follows:

"In the matter of Extra 223 east, Engineer Schley, Fireman Christenson, Conductor McCormick, Brakeman Tracy, and Brakeman Duncan, becoming uncontrollable and colliding with Work Extra 1508 at Borie, at 7:40 p. m., November 10, 1908." Members of the investigating board and the findings were as follows:

Charles C. Hughes, general superintendent, C. & N. W. Ry., retired.

George M. Randall, major general, U. S. A., retired.

Frank D. Baldwin, brigadier general, U. S. A., retired.

W. B. Scott, assistant director of maintenance and operation, Union Pacific System-Southern Pacific Company.

H. H. Forney, general air brake inspector, Southern Pacific Company.

A. L. Mohler, vice president and general manager, Union Pacific Railroad Co.

W. L. Park, general superintendent, Union Pacific Railroad Co.

After an examination of all employes concerned in or having knowledge of the handling of Extra 223 east, down the east side of Sherman Hill on the night of November 10, and from testimony given by a number of experienced engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and car inspectors, employed on the Fifth District of Wyoming division, Union Pacific railroad, we find that this train left Laramie and passed Buford in normal condition in every respect, all of which supports the findings of the first board convened to investigate the cause of this accident, as hereinafter quoted, to-wit:

"After having heard the testimony of Conductor McCormick, Brakeman Tracy of Extra 223 east, Engineer Clinton and Fireman Hansen on Work Extra 1508, who were in collision at Borie at 7:40 p. m., November 10, 1908, we have reached the following conclusion:

"As the evidence shows, leaving Buford, Extra 223 had a train line air pressure of ninety pounds; at a point between Ozone and Buford this pressure was reduced to forty pounds, the conductor having stated that frequent applications and releases of air had been made without the necessary time being allowed for the train line to recharge, we believe that the accident was caused by the improper manipulation of air by Engineer Schley on Engine 223, which resulted in his not having the necessary pressure to control the train when the emergency arose.

"We further find and believe that had prompt and proper response been given by the crew with hand brakes, the speed of this train would have been checked and controlled in ample time to have prevented the accident."

From the general Eight-Hour Committee representing Akron Typographical Union No. 182, Int. Brotherhood Bookbinders, Local No. 5, Akron Printing Pressmen's Union No. 42, Akron Printing Press Assistants' Union No. 5, we have received the following circular which speaks for itself, and to which we call attention of our readers:

Akron, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1908. BROTHER UNIONISTS:

Permit us to again bring to your notice that the publications of The Werner Co., of this city, are produced under non-union conditions. It is the boast of the company that they will not employ a union man.

A number of the books published by the Werner Co., are now being strongly advertised. Among them are: "Makers of History," the works of Muhlbach, "Historians' History of the World," the "20th Century Encyclopedia," and other editions of Encyclopedia under different names. The company is making a special effort, under its own name, to push the sale of the works of Maupassant and of the "New American Encyclopedia Dictionary."

Pay no attention to any claims that may be made, either by advertisements or personal representatives. EVERY PUBLICATION NOW BEING PRODUCED OR MARKETED BY THE WERNER CO. IS THE OUTPUT OF NON-UNION LABOR. There is absolutely no truth in a statement from any source that such is not the case.

Kindly bring this matter to the attention of your membership, and also make it known to union sympathizers in general. And do not overlook book sellers or agents who may be engaged in the sale of these non-union works.

GENERAL EIGHT-HOUR COMMITTEE.

The January Review of Reviews is noteworthy for its treatment of topics related to the movement for the conservation of natural resources. There is a sketch of Gifford Pinchot, the leading personality in the December conference at Washington. An article by Dr. David T. Day, the world's foremost authority on the subject, gives an account of the petroleum resources of this country, embodying much material never before published on this highly important subject. An instructive paper on state control of water-power, by Curtis E. Lakeman, is followed by an illustrated article on "Power from the Farm Brook," by Donald

Cameron Shafer, who shows that an enormous quantity of water-power is permitted to go to waste every year. Also Postmaster-General Meyer makes a cogent plea for postal savings banks, meeting with special force the arguments advanced against the scheme by the banking interests. Besides the editorial discussion there are three contributions to the tariff discussion in the January Review of Reviews-a letter from the Hon. J. A. Tawney, a vigorous indictment of the existing tariff by H. E. Miles, of the Manufacturers' Association, and a paper on "How Canada Looks at American Tariff-Making," by Andrew Macphail.

FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS. Modern Woodmen Society Will Conduct Sanatorium for its Members-A Business

as Well as a Fraternal Proposition At the December meeting of the executive council of the Modern Woodmen Society, held at the headquarters of the Society in Rock Island, Ill., it was decided to conduct that Society's sanatorium, located at Colorado Springs, Colo., for the treatment of members afflicted with tuberculosis, free of all charge to members.

The Modern Woodmen Society, several months since, acquired 1,380 acres of land within seven miles of Colorado Springs, and has established thereon an up-to-date sanatorium, the tent colony plan being employed. The first colony plan will be ready for the reception of patients on January 1, 1909, and is equipped to care for sixty patients, to which number admissions must be limited for the present.

The tents are octagonal structures, with shingle roofs, canvas sides, hard wood floors on solid cement foundations, heated by a central plant, equipped with all modern conveniences, such as telephones, etc., and each tent will accommodate one patient. An administration building for physicians, nurses, dining hall, baths of all kinds, etc., stands in the center of the colony.

Dr. J. E. White, formerly of the Nordrach ranch sanatorium, the medical director in charge, states that only those consumptive members who are curable, or whose lives may be prolonged for a considerable length of time, will be admitted as patients. The wisdom of this rule is apparent. Rigid medical examination as a condition precedent to admission will be insisted upon in every case, and special blank forms have been prepared for this purpose.

It is expected that another colony of sixty tents will be ready by July, 1909, and that acceptable patients will be ready to occupy it in full by that time. A movement is already under way to equip the second colony plant. Each tent, completely equipped,

represents an expense of $250, and a number of local Camps, or lodges, of the Society have decided to donate tents. As there are over 13,000 local Camps of Modern Woodmen, and over 1,000,000 members, it is anticipated that several colonies will soon be equipped in this way.

The members and local Camps of the Society have voluntarily contributed to the Sanatorium fund over $70,000, and at the last national convention a permanent tax of ten cents per member was voted to the support of this work.

The last official Woodmen reports show that during the years 1891-1907, inclusive, 14.5 per cent of the total mortality, or 5,156 deaths, were charged to tuberculosis, and that 13.9 per cent of the total insurance losses in those years, or $9,065,000, resulted from this cause. As the mortality experience of the Modern Woodmen Society has been remarkably favorable, being but seventy per cent of the expected at all ages under the National Fraternal congress table, a death rate of but 6.29 per 1,000or but 4.98 per 1,000, if the experience of the first five membership years be included -the much heavier insurance losses inflicted upon other societies experiencing a higher mortality may be conservatively approximated.

Which prompts this question: If the Woodmen Society, with its exceptionally favorable mortality, finds it to be "good business," as well as good fraternalism, to fight consumption in this way, why should not other fraternal societies, life insurance companies, labor organizations, the national and international church bodies, etc., find it profitable, from the viewpoint of business or benevolence, or both, to take such action?

Each life saved to the Woodmen Society. by means of this sanatorium, will, it is stated, represent a saving of $1,700-the average amount of the Woodmen policies in force at an expense for treatment of approximately one-twentieth of that sum. In the broader sense, each life saved means the preservation to the family of its head and bread-winner, and to the state of a useful, self-sustaining citizen.

Grand Canyon o Arizona.

Even under the inspiration of a sight of this gigantic wonder of nature we doubt if there has ever been a more beautiful word painting than the following, by Mr. C. A. Higgins:

"Stolid, indeed, is he who can front the awful scene and view its unearthly splendor of color and form without quaking knee or tremulous breath. An inferno, swathed in soft, celestial fires; a whole chaotic underworld, just emptied of primeval floods and waiting for a new creative word; eluding all sense of perspective or dimension, out

stretching the faculty of measurement, overlapping the confines of definite apprehension; a boding, terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream. The beholder is at first unimpressed by any detail; he is overwhelmed by the ensemble of a stupendous panorama, a thousand square miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the eye, as if he stood upon a mountain peak instead of the level brink of a fearful chasm in the plateau, whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away. A labyrinth of huge architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs formed of talus from the upper cliffs and painted with every color known to the palette in pure transparent tones of marvelous delicacy. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful. It flashes instant communication for all that architecture and painting and music for a thousand years have gropingly striven to express. It is the soul of Michael Angelo and of Beethoven."

Diseases Among Trade Unions.

BY E. GEORGE LINDSTROM.

Taking into consideration the vast percentage of deaths among trade unions, especially among the newspaper element, it is my animus to chronicle a few facts concerning this great and omnipresent question.

Ever since the illustrious Bernardini Ramazzini, of Padua, Italy, penned his great thesis concerning the diseases of trade unions, in 1713, under the title of "Dt Morbis Artificum Diatriba," there has, from time to time, appeared in various newspapers, magazines and journals, necrologies on this subject, but none so important and vitally startling to me as appears in the typographical reports. They go to show that newspaper men are more susceptible to tuberculosis than any other trade, and the vast death rate is alarming, notwithstanding the war and extra precaution taken to stamp out this germ. In some printing offices a strong odor of fumes from the linotype machine are very noticeable to the occasional caller and dangerous to the printers in the long run. I was once employed on a great New York daily where thirty-seven machines were running. Tears rolled down my cheeks and my eyes were as red as blood in the morning, so strong were the fumes from the metal. It was in winter, being cold, and no windows were open, no skylight, and no pipes to carry off these fumes. I soon became accustomed to this, and then did not notice it, but it must be perfectly awful on the lung substances.

As is well known, the union printers, nearly 50,000 in number, have provided themselves with a $75,000 home at Colorado Springs with a $20,000 hospital an

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nexed, where the sick receive the best possible care in the best possible climate in this country for first and second degree consumption, but almost fatal to third degree patients, the altitude being too high. officers tell me that in 1906, out of seventyseven admitted to the home, forty-four were tubercular; out of sixteen deaths, ten died from tuberculosis; during the past year, out of twenty-two deaths, thirteen were tubercular, and since the institution of the home, out of 203 deaths, 131 died from the white plague. A valuable acquisition to this hospital is the sleeping tents, which proves without question, their efficiency in the treatment of lung trouble. Fully fifty per cent take advantage of this outdoor life, and a marked degree of improvement is noted. These tents are steam heated and lighted with electricity.

While tuberculosis is SO susceptible among the printing trades it is nevertheless a disease that is no respector of other trade unions. Following is a table of percentages of death rate in the various branches of trade of a year ago: Printers, 33.84; blacksmiths, 10.57; cigarmakers, 28.48; carpenters, 13.30; iron workers, 18.62; machinists, 17.77; plumbers, 27.97; plasterers, 17.38; tinners, 18.27; tailors, 17.59; upholsterers, 17.32.

As tuberculosis seems to be most dreaded and predominant, a chart in a recent tuberculosis exhibit gave foreign lands figures which follow: Germany, 611; Ireland, 387; Canada, 92; Russia, 64; Italy, 60; Scotland, 56; Austria, 34; France, 18; Holland, 7.

Among the famous personages who succumbed to the ravages of the white plague are Keats, Von Weber, Rachael, Laenec, Chopin, Schiller, Bastein Le Page, Dr. Robert Koch, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Goethe and Napoleon are said to have cured themselves and escaped death, due directly to this disease.

As procrastination is the thief of time, begin at once to be more solicitous about your health.

Getting at the Roots of Crime.

"It is useless to stay the flood of crime by dikes at the mouth of the stream; it must be filtered at its source. Intelligent penology, like intelligent forestry, does not consist merely in cutting down crooked trees; it means work in the nursery, the protection of the growing plants." This is the idea of the new penology as expressed by one of its strongest advocates, Samuel J. Barrows, corresponding secretary of the Prison Association of New York.

This "new idea" of modern philanthropy, this getting at the real roots of the trouble, will be carried out in the coming meeting of the International Prison Congress which convenes in Washington in 1910. Secre

tary Root, who is, in the sense of the word, an international promoter, has asked Congress for $50,000 to show the European delegates what this country has accomplished in improved methods of dealing with crime, especially in the direction of juvenile courts, probation, child saving, and other reformatory agencies.

The International Prison Congress is one of the most important deliberative bodies in the world. It was organized in 1871 and, since its first meeting in London in that year, other congresses have met in Stockholm, Rome, St. Petersburg, Paris, Brussels, and Budapest. They have studied criminal law and environment, heredity, alcoholism, administration of courts, treatment of offenders, criminal labor, international comity and international law.

It is to be hoped that Congress will have the same broad viewpoint of Secretary Root and grant an appropriation that will make the 1910 meeting of the International Prison Congress in this country a success.

The Youth's Companion for 1909.

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The amount of good reading given to subscribers to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION during the year is indicated by the following summary of contents for 1909: star articles contributed by men and women of wide distinction in public life, in literature, in science, in business, in a score of professions. 250 capital stories including six serial stories; humorous stories; stories of adventure, character, heroism. 1000 upto-date notes on current events, recent discoveries in the world of science and nature, important matters in politics and government. 2000 one-minute stories, inimitable domestic sketches, anecdotes, bits of humor, and selected miscellany. The weekly health article, the weekly woman's article, timely editorials, etc. A full announcement of the new volume will be sent with sample copies of the paper to any address on request. The new subscriber for 1909 who at once sends $1.75 for the new volume (adding 50 cents for extra postage if he lives in Canada) will receive free all the remaining issues for 1908, including the double holiday numbers; also THE COMPANION's new calendar for 1909, "In Grandmother's Garden," lithographed in thirteen colors.

THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 144 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.

The National Bison Range in Montana. The bison range in the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, to establish which Congress, at its last session, appropriated $40,000, has been selected. The location of the range is the one recommended by Prof. Morton J. Elrod, of the University of Montana, after he had carefully examined several parts of the country. It lies directly

north of the Jocko river near the towns of Ravalli and Jocko. Approximately 12,800 acres are embraced in the tract, which will be fenced in a substantial manner under the direction of the engineering department of the United States Forest Service.

Of the $40,000 appropriated, only $10,000 will be available for fencing the range and constructing the shelter sheds and other buildings necessary for the proper maintenance and care of the bison. The remaining $30,000 will be paid to the owners of the land, many of whom are Indians. Funds for the purchase of bison are being raised under the auspices of the American Bison Society, which was largely instrumental in securing the appropriation.

The first person to spend actual money in the effort to preserve the American bison from total extinction was the late Austin Corbin, who, many years ago, fenced some 6,000 acres at Blue Mountain Park, New Hampshire, and secured a herd of bison. The Corbin herd became, in course of time, the inspiration of the national movement which is now furthered by the American Bison Society. This Society, of which President Roosevelt is honorary president, and William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Park, is president, was founded in 1904, and the Montana bison range is directly the results of its efforts.

Details of the management of the herd in the new national bison range will be worked out as soon as the herd is purchased, when the construction work on fences and buildings will also be begun.

President Eliot and Professor Palmer at a

Reception to Harvard Students.

Professor Palmer said: "Gentlemen, I know of no better way of welcoming you here than to explain some of our most striking customs. Almost alone among universities of this country we have been able to maintain a daily prayer meeting through a long term of years. I believe this exercise we have is one of the most devout, one of the most refreshing religious exercises you have ever seen. *** In the first place it helps me to start my day, and I think that is a matter of great consequence to most of us here. It is a kind of inward bath. I regard this as a very valuable thing. I get a great intellectual stimulus. There is one common spirit pervading the whole place. Once in a day to lose one's self in the whole company of God's people and to feel that one does not stand solitary before one's Maker but, on the contrary, appears there merely as a member of His great family, actuated by one spirit-this is an ennobling experience. *** We are dealing here at chapel with a piece of the greatest literature in the world. Day by day I go there and hear a section of the Bible read. We all know the advantages from time to

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