The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-04-25
unload four lots it wanted to get rid OF
at nearly double their value.

unload four lots it wanted to get rid of
at nearly double their value.
The members of the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
had a conference with President Rcose-
welt upon labor matters in which the
federation Is interested. The president,
it is stated, expressed himself in favor
of an effective Chinese exclusion law,
and as in sympathy with the demands
of labor as to an S-hour bill and a
prison labor bill.
BY a rule just adopted the Chicago &
Alton railroad will no longer hire men
who are W. 35 years Of age. This
rule applies to all departments, includ-
ing the shops. Present employees who
are past this age will not be affected.
The officials state that they prefer to
employ young men rather than those
along in years, thinking that the train
ing of the younger class will give better
results than when men farther along in
years seek to enter railroad duties.
Secretary of War Root has made an
order relieving General William Crozier
and Captain |. N. Lewis, coast artillery,
from further duty with the coast ord
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report of the committee in the nomina-
ton of General Crozier as chief of ord
nance is said to have been largely due
TO the complaints of investors having
business with the board of ordnance
and fertilization. Now that the depart
ment has given heed to this objection,
it is confidently predicted that there
will be a disposition in the senate to
meet the department half way, and con-
Arm General Crozier as chief of ord
nance.
There is no more interesting or curl
Gus sight on this earth than the inter-
ior of the extinct crater, Aso San, about
80 miles from the city of Kumamoto, in
Japan. 1t is inhabited by 20, 900 people,
who live and prosper within its vertical
wall 500 feet high. The inhabitants
rarely make a journey into the outer
world, but form, as it were, a little ma
ton by themselves.
Lord Roberts, replying to a cores
pendent who suggested using corps OF
veterans for British home defense, says
he appreciates the patriotism of the pro-
posal, but is of the opinion that sol
diers who have served their country
may now look to younger men to de-
fend it.
Chinese coolies were first brought into
the United States in large numbers as
laborers on the Central Pacific railroad.
After its completion thousands were out
of employment and took up laundry
work, because in California towns al
that time there were so few ONE to
do such work.
The government Of France has appro-
priated S12O, 900 600, 900 francs) for the
maintenance of the French government
exhibit at the Louisiana purchase expo
sition. Representatives of the worlds
fair now in Paris write to headquarters
that the expenditures of private exhibi-
tors from that country at the big expo
sition will reach fully half a million
dollars.
Prof. Charles S. Minot, of the Har
ward Medical school, has been studying
the question of vacations in colleges
and he concludes, as he states in al ar
ticle in Science, that the amour of va
cation lis very excessive. With tn
vacation shortened 1t would be easil
possible to bring young men into activ
life a year earlier than is now possible
and that would be an immense gain"