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that I got from Mudgee girl. And this
 fur lined coat, my boy, Is the real thing none of your cheap and nasty limitations but real rat-genuine Australian rat. I
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thought I'd drop when a Gulgond usher passed it over the footlights with tho compliments of the Gulgong Bachelor Girls society,""
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The questions answered below are general in character. the symptoms or diseases are given and the answers will apply to any case of similar nature
 Those wishing further advice free may address Dr. Lewis Baker, College Bldg. College -Elwood Sts., Dayton. O.. enclosing self addressed stamped en- velope for reply Full name and au- dress must be given, but only initials or fictitious name will be used Tn my answers The prescriptions can be fili- ed at any well-stocked drug store. Any druggist can order of wholesaler
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heart is thyn,'' and 1t Is to be hoped that the maiden whose ring bore the posy, Let love abide till death divide" had no reason for regret
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Eaves, D. D.

and wage earners are 12,00o,000. Pro fessional persons of all sorts number 1,5o0, ,0Oo. Employees of labor estimated at 2000,000.
 Where the remaining 3,5O0,O0o of workers belong does not appear, but that is of no consequence. because the figures are of only relative value. Elm ployers in large concerns are 300,000 according to MT. Orth, and employees in such concerns may be put at some thing more than half the total. say at 100000. These estimates are. based on the census of 1900. The figures for of employers is growing iess so that 'in 1905 11.2 per cent of the total num- Der of manufacturing establishments controlled 8l.5 per cent of the capital invested in manufacture; employed TIC per cent of the wage earners engaged in manufacture, and produced 79.3 per cent of the total manufactured pro- ducts" Already, therefore, one-tenth of the business concerns in America con trols eight-tenths of the business done in America and employees seven-tenths of the laboring people employed in all American manufacture. How this works out in the various metal trades, the garment workers, boot and shoe man. ufactures, and so on. Mr. Orth will show. Meantime he Is sketching the forces on both sides of the work done He shows what unions are doing, why the Industrial Workers of the World have come in to reinforce unionism where 1t failed, 1. C., among the inn migrants, and the numerical strength
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A FRIEND has been good enough to
 "A put in my hands a copy of "The 4 \ Worlds Work" for the month of November. Though November will be gone before these lines get into print the magazine will not be out of date, nor is 1t likely to lose interest for many months to come. Hence I should be glad if some one who in the rush of affairs has not taken In this bit of reading would save his copy from the Gehenna that awaits most monthlies and read 1t thoroughly. For it is distinctly alive, modern. vivid and yet really thoughtful and well done piece of journalism. There is the usual March of Events and there are the usual pictures of men who are making events march. With the latter is the pie ture of Birmingham's sky line in 1912, con- trasted with that in 1894, which has al- ready appeared in local paper.
 There is also the wonderfully buoyant series of articles on the business outlook ot America today. Prof. Irving Fishers plan to give stability to the value of the gold dollar is somewhat sympathetically outlined, and the political situation re- ceives attention; the article on art con- cerns Oscar Hammerstein's successes, and the article on education proposes to sup plant much text book work in high school classes, with discussions on current mag azine presentations of current events.
 But the characteristic distinctive of the whole number is it's human interest, it's intense social tone. What could be bet ter than the two column discussion of "The New Health Conscience by the
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THE TOXIN OF CHRISTMAS-By Arthur B. Reeve

the aisle. Half dozen bells? 30 cents, please"
 All the worldliness of rich New York, was passing in a kaleidoscopic crowd too tired to care much about anything, too tired even to watch tho clock on the gallery at the end of the aisle.
 Hello, Tess"
 It was Magic, who had worked with Tessie last year at the handkerchief counter. but had been laid off in the slack season during the summer.
 Tessie had not seen her since then. She remembered Magic as plump faced girl who had lost 0 good deal of her freshness in tho store but none of her wilfulness. Was this the same Magic? True, there was color now on her cheeks, but it was not the color of the crisp night air. Her black eyes sparkled, but there was a look of bold ness in them that grated on the sen sitive nature of Tessie. Yet there was no denying that Mazie was pretty. Even her cheap fur coat and rakish hat did not wholly spoil 1t.
 Hello, Tess. They told me that you were at this counter. I thought I'd stop and see you. I came in to get some Christmas cards. I always send little cards to the fellers who are so good to me, on holidays. It jollies em along and I'm careful not to send 'em any. where it'll cause trouble." She laughed, the laugh of a girl oi the world. But it sent shuddcr through Tessie. Still, the coat was fun and the hat was rakish.
 Yes, l got lots of fellers, nice fell
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Here, too, if we do not obey the law that comes to us through faith in the unseen powers we shal certainly die. Hence the enormous value of scientific and preventive medicine as part of all school drill from the earliest years.
 Our editor proceeds to rejoice that growing members of thirty American people are using their money not to make more money but only in quiet securities for income. To most readers this will have little practical interest; but as a sign of the times it is en- couraging. For the madness of specu- lation and excessive production In this country has always needed restraining influences. These influences will arise only through large numbers of plain people. who only ask that their interest vouchers should come along regularly. only the people themselves can form a barrier against unprincipled specula- ton, stock watering and other much practised methods of stealing.
 The industrial article is by Samuel P. Orth, who has been spending time in trying to understand the conditions of American labor in it's relation to cap- italsm. This first article. richly illus trated, is frankly sympathetic with the majority concerned and calls on all the rest of us to consider the patient heroism of daily labor. The workers are roughly estimated to number 29,- 100000 persons.
 Of these the farmers number about 5000, 900. Then there are "laborers" on farms, say 1000. 900. Salaried employees
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of all labor organizations, whereby the seven-tenths are entrenched against the one-tenth. Quoting Haywood, that ac- tive and much suspected unionist, MT. Orth concludes that the Fundamental object of unionism Is the monopolizing of labor in order to secure higher wages. The American union generally is weak in provision of welfare funds. It's purpose is belligerent rather than constructive. The relations between employers and employees is one of mu- tual distrust. only few of the unions, he says. are conservatively led. On the other hand, "cold business" con- trols the question of keeping or dls- charging any man.
 Whatever we may think of these statements, MT. Orth hits the main nall squarely when he repudIates the sugary doctrine that "the interests of capital and labor are identical" He says:
 They are not identical. They never will be under a wage system and the sonoer the public finds this out the sooner the public finds thls out the rules of war. umpire the conflict and In self protection impose fines and pen- alties, on the malefactors"
 By all means let working men and employees alike read Mir Orth. Above all let the chief employer. the many millions whose welfare and whose money are the chief prize of the bat tie. read such articles as this in these days of quiet, and understand that they are the chief partner in the great firm of People. Employe and Capital.
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A NOVEMBER MAGAZINE-By George

editor? Quoting pr. Mclaughlin of the federal health service, he says that at least 25,0O persons die every year in this country from typhoid, "a greater sacrifice of life than the bubonic plague or cholera economic loss" He contrasts 8 northern
 European cities, with a population of 31, 00,000, with % American cities with a
 population of 20,000,O00. The old world ty-
 phoid death rate is 61a to every 100000
 of the populations ours is 9 per 100000, all
 most exactly four times greater!
 Exclusive of the fatal cases, the loss of
 wealth by typhoid sickness in America.
 the cost of illness and nursing is esti-
 mated at $10o,oOo.0oO annually. This Is sim
 ply because we have poorer sanitary con- trol of the water supply. because toun- try doctors and health officers allow pig
 pens to drain into the well of the farm,
 because city dwelers are intensely igno-
 rant and therefore indifferent concern ing sources of infection. The horrible statement still remains true that this na- ton spends far more on care of hogs and
 their defense against disease than on it's citizens defense against similar dis cases We are in fact more concerned for the cotton crop than for the baby crop. We wax warn in election years to settle the question whether republi- can or a democrat shall dwell in the White House and veto laws for us; but that debate is Insignificant compared with the challenging needs to safeguard the public health. This, however, we do not feel interest in. The four questions of
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ter to get something that had been put off until the last minute
 Behind the long counter half dozen girls, first floor sales girls" were busy. selling, answering questions. handing back change, crying out now and then shrilly, "check," trying hard to be courteous, now and then spurred on by the watchful foorwalker who with piercing eye seemed to see even half d moments pause in the rush to sell. The time eschedule of these girls had not been heightened by night work In this store by reduction of the lunch and supper periods. It was the glad. season when even the law does not protect the 18th to the 24th of December.
 Tessies fingers were numb. Tn the mad rush. she had cut them here and there on the sharp edges of the paper. painful cuts that smarted with a pain only deadened by her exhaustion Her feet were swollen with long hours of standing. She knew nothing about the toxin of fatigue about which the doc- tors and social workers study and write. But she could have told them much from her own experience of the ing into the glad Christmas season for her.
 There was no pause for the little girl with the dreamy face, sensitive mouth and delicate blue-veined hands,
 Yes, ma'am, cents for that size These are two for 5. No, we're all ole of the largest size. The 10 cent size How many, please? Five? 50 cents Your change? Just a moment. No, the holly boxes, cord and ribbons are it the next counter. Postal cards across
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lers," added Magic. We go to dances and balls and suppers and-oh. I'm hay in a grand time. I got swell date tonight"
 Magic was talking at Tessie but not to her. Tessie noticed 1t and followed her rowing eye.
 Over by the picture post cards was a well dressed young fellow with a face that showed a Knowledge of the world somewhat beyond his years. Tired as she was Tessie saw that the young fel- low had caught Mazes eye.
 A querulous customer interrupted She wanted to see some garlands and wreaths but Tessie. absorbed in watch ing Mazie, had not heard her.
 In an unlucky instant the floor walker called out. Here. no gossiping now Wait on this lady"
 The harshness of the floor walker brought a flush to Tessie's pale cheeks as she mechanically showed how to fold and unfold the long garlands. Again and again she had to reach up to the shelves with her leaden arms for other kinds to satisfy the querulous customer. Nothing seemed exactly to suit. While the querulous customer fussed and talked she waited on another. Still the querulous customer took her exasperating time to decide on a 15 cent purchase. 'So long, Tess" rasped Mazie Do you know what I'd do to him?" She nodded at the back of the floor walker. 'I know a feller who could frisk him good and plenty for that, if he done 1t to me. Say, I wouldn't go through an- other of these Christmas rushes at s per--not If It was the last act" Magic laughed at the thought of the
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paltry sum and Tessie returned to her work of meeting this last paroxysm of Christmas shopping. The querulous GUS toner was gone and half dozen crowd ed into her place. grabbing. unreasonable, insistent.
 In the renewed rush Tessie caught sight of Mazie at the post card counter. The young fellow had edged up closer. They were laughing at something It took no woman's intuition to guess what sort of card they were laughing at.
 See here, Tessie. if you go to sleep over the goods I'll have you fred
 Again 1t was the floorwallxer. not n bad fellow, but mindful of the store and it's customers. Tessie bit her lip and said nothing. Her feet felt heavier than ever. Her heard swam. The customers were more insistent as the clock hands ad- vanced. Was there no antitoxin for the poisoned Christmas Eve?
 At last the hour of closing came Tes- sic had been invited to a Christmas din- ner given by some philanthropie people to working girls. The store had given a Christmas bonus of $2 and during the time when she should have been eating her supper she had run off to purchase a s1.59 net waist to wear to the festa dinner But somehow the thought of that dinner now did not gladden. Tessie. She was too worn out.
 l Tessie dragged herself rather thar walked out on the side stret from tn, employees entrance At the curb young man was standing. He lifted his hat Merry Christmas, kid." he said. 1t was not an unpleasant voice. Tessie did not look twice. She huged her s159 waist closer to her thin coat, and sped up tho
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far greater moment than any political debate are these:
 What are the sanitary conditions of our water supply?
 What is the law under which I live that ensures the public health?
 Who are the men with power to enforce these laws?
 Are they doing their duty?
 Among the questions also suggested is this: Why will you run promptly to the rescue of man hurt in an accident, but yet pass day after day some insanitary outhouse, close to the public road, but owner of the risk he runs or to complain to the sanitary officer of your neighbor- hood? Only more knowledge will over come this unwillingness to discharge a plain duty. The explanation of that un- willingness is a mere half belief in the existence of danger. It is the visible and believed peril that arouses action.
 Those germs which you do not see You cannot estimate at their true sig nificance and so you leave them to those scientific gentlemen who 'iso- late" them and recognize thim through microscope, and prove mathematic- ally that they cause sickness and death and sorrow and loss. For 1t is not only in religion that We are saved by faith. The same law emphatically holds good In things of scientific knowledge We have but faith; we cannot know, For Knowledge is of things we see: And yet we trust it comes from Thee, A gleam in darkness5- let it grow"
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street which took her past dance hall. Couples were going in and coming out. In there was light and life and happi- ness.
 The crisp snow crunched beside her. Say, kid. yer needn't run away from me- Come on in and have dance."
 Tessie looked up and drew back in surprise. The young man following her was the fellow to whom Mazie had been talking so gally at the post card counter.
 Just then the music started Every body's Doing It" She could feel her feet, tired as they were, urged on by the strains. On the waxed floor Magic glided into her line of vision.
 'Huhl She had date wid dat guy and stood me off. Said she had to go home, " sneered tho voice at her side. Come on in, kid I got money and I don't care how I spend it fer q good time. Come on."
 He tok her arm, not roughly, but in a grasp that was new and strange to Tessie An instant later she had broken away from him and was actually run ming down the street, slipping. sliding. but keeping on doggedly. At last, breathess, exhausted, she reached her home. She crawled upstairs to the narrow hall bedroom warmed only by the gas jei that even failed to light it. She paused moment to look about the bare room with a growing resentment at her lot There was the blackened and battered cof | fee pot and a couple of rolls for to- | morrow's breakfast. Leisure was precious weariness extreme. yet she kept her room neat and clean She was not very clever nor very competent, nor foreslghted, per haps. She knew nothing of scientific
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race that has grown sick with too much living in houses.
 Are we going to seed?
 And if so, to what extent is athletics a factor in our unmaking?
 Let us consider a bit the attitudes of the doctor of divinity and the doctor of muscle: the one holding that through athletic channels we go toward mental disaster; the other, that those same channels better equip the new citizens for wrestling with the large problems of life.
 Neither expression, perhaps, is a ten able last word to which we may hold. seeing there is scarcely a yardstick anywhere with which we may measure and contrast the life a man lives and the life he might have lived. That would indeed require some rarer pos session than the gift of clairyoyance. And in this matter you can prove nothing without such divining gauge. It proves nothing that a hundred fail- ures at law, business. engineering were strong in atletics; neither does it prove anything that another hundred failures
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management or of efficient salesmanship. in her heart, she knew she did not de- serve this.
 She threw herself on the bed. What 8 Christmas Eve this was for her-too tired even for sleep.
 There flashed through Tessie's mind tho picture of the gay crowd in the dance hall, of Magic in her furs, of the young fellow who had spoken to her. He was good looking, better looking than the fellow Magic had been dancing with. She sat up with a shudder at herself. A week ago she would have cried even to have harbored such thoughts moment But now 1t seemd different. What did 1t all amount to, this hopeless struggle to be decent?
 'I don't know where I'll be next Christ mas" she moaned as she looked at the
 ironing board and little tub which she must use even before she could go to the philanthropic Christmas dinner, al- most as an almstaker. II don't know where I'll be next Christmas, but I just won't stand it, no, I won't, I won'tl'
 This is the next Christmas. this com ing Christmas. Who knows-perhaps ir we do our Christmas shopping early, carly in the month and early in the day. per- haps if we are a little more consid- crate of the girl behind the counter, well, l perhaps we can make Tesses Christmas more bearable. make 1t seem more worth while for Tessie to fight along and keep straight make the toxin of Christmas fatigue not quite so poisonous. Exclusive Service The Survey Press Bureau.)
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1 Now North Dakota is growing men as well as alfalfa and wheat; how it Is checking the emigration to Cam ada by learning how to diversity tho crops, is tho burden of a few pages. pr. Knapp's success in the southern states was the awakening of MT. A. R. Rogers, owner of large interests in North Dakota, and the Better Farm ing Association" has resulted. Skilled agents are available to consult with farmers. to manage dairies and dem- onstration farms. and generally to prove that knowledge can turn fai,- ure into success. Every farmer in Ais- bama would profit by this story of North Dakota.
 The sketch of Lloyd George and hls prodigious insurance scheme Is very much in its proper setting in this mag azine But my space Is filled. and must say no more than the one word, 'Readw Worlds Work" has place in our national needs, and is worthily filling 1t; but never more worthily than when thus pointing the way that all nations must tread, making their peo- pie strong and glad and progressively intelligent in their mastery of the worlds resources.
 So splendid are the national forces in this land that when she turns her attention from the mere building of for tunes to the problems of the common veal, both of men and of microbes it shall then be said: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy noun tain"
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Two legislative sessions terminated his career in the general assembly of Ala bama, and on the occasion of the untImely death of General Mcconnell, as the repre- sentative in Congress from the seventh district, a special election was ordered with Thomas A. Walker and Franklin ". Bowdon as the candidates for the vacancy. The result was the election of MT. Bow don. This was followed by his re-elec- ton over Hon. Samuel r. Rice for the term next succeeding. and over General Bradford for the next following term.
 For five years he held his seat in Con- gress, giant among giants. In wider sphere there was ampler scope for the play of his power. and it was duly cxer- cised. Brewer states that an English peer was present on one of the occasions when Bowdon spoke, and the Engllshman pronounced the effort the ablest to which
 he had ever listened. and he had hear
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whose brains were alive and active. ..... Well, let us see the results ofthe con- servation of energy. Let us see where brain begins and ends. and wherein those who get their finest joy from shouting and fighting down a wind swept field differ in punch" capacity from those on the side lines who make their wagers on the contest in pure Greek.
 This is no new defense the muscle doctors bring to puny society. It has been moro or less the preachment of all half wild healthy men since the or g n a l Olympic games. The only menace about athletics Is the remote possibility that 1t may obsess the free mind of school boys to the neglect of certain Fundamental preparation that can only be got from class work. This. even, is a remote possibility because of the class standing required of stu- dent trying for team distinction. If a lads brain Is harmed in such a case, 1t will perhaps come from his eagerness to make good in classroom and the
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Many men fall just short of accorded greatness because of the needed stride across the boundary over which others bound and catch the loud plaudit of the crowd, and are borne to the crest of emil hence. Many another receives undue ap- plause because he boldly thrusts himself on public attention and forces recognition, while others. far superior, perhaps. stand in manly disdain of bald tawdriness and
 the impudence of ignorance of which certain competitors are the innocent vic- tins. Gifted men are usually. though not always, men of delicate taste, which is itself an element of real greatness. It is the ripest and heaviest ear of corn
 that hangs lowest MT. Bowdon with the consciousness of his own power which every strong man has, eschewed the cheap chatter of the fatterer. and always ap- peared in public to advantage because he was summoned thither. This, at least in part affords an explanation of the ab- sence of the fame which was justly his,