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CLEK<n>!E\ ENDORSE ^ CHILI) LAKOK DAY. The National Child Labor Committee Issues Pamphlet of Facts for Preachers. -* ? The National Child Labor Committee J call to churches and schools to observe | Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Jan-J uary 25th-27th. as Child Labor Days, * has received the hearty endorsement i of the Federal Council of the churches; of Christ in America and of the Social Service Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. Bishop Greer says, "Naturally T am; deeply interested, and am glad 10 en- j dorse and commend your appeal to the j clergy of the Diocese," , The following letter signed by Shia- j 1-er Mathews, president, and Charles S. (Macfarland, secretary, of the Federal j Council of the Churches of Christ in America, has been sent to one hundred j state and city Federation* Secretaries, of the Federal Council. "By authorization of the Executive; Committee of the Federal Council and of the Federal Council's Commission on the church and Social service, the call of the National Child Labor com-! mittee for the observance of the Child Labor Sunday is commended to your earnest considertion with thie hope that, in the way they suggest or by such other method as may commend itself to your judgment the subject: of Child Labor may be fully presented in all its seriousness to the Christian! mo and wnmpn of th-e. nation. IS "At the recent Quadrennial Session | of the Federal Council, at Chicago, December 9, 1912, the Council reaffirmed its declaration of four years j previous, that the churches must * stand: * "For the abolition of child labor. M 'For" the fullest possible development for every child, especially by the provision of proper education and recreation. 'These two principles ore embodiedj in the platform of social principles o/4a-k.TY+a/} Kir tha ' " Iauvyv^u vwv vvv?Mw. In urging them to observe Child Labor Day, the Social Service Commission i of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of t. New York sends to all the clergy in ' that diocese the following strong re' **' solutions adopted by the House of! -Bishops at the last General Conven- ' I s tion, Cincinnaati, in 1910. ;; .. "Whereas, The-employment of child dMeii in factories, mines -and shops, re duces wages to tne cnna's sianaara, disintegrates the family, deprives the child of his natural rights to a period of training and time of play, and depreciates the human stock; and, "Whereas, We recognize the responsibility of the church for our ini dustrial as well as our spiritual standard; "Therefore, We call upon employers and parents to use all influence toward better legislation and better enforcement of the laws for the protection of children, to the end that ex ploitation of the labor of children shall become impossible in this Christ* ian country." W" To aid in the observance of Child Labor day, the National Child Labor Committ e is sending free to all clerp gymen and school principles who apply for it, a pamphlet of facts about] Child Labor. In this the Committee! prints, among other things, the cfh sus figures on Child Labor for 1900, subject, and points, out that the total number of workers 10?15 years of age, i,idz,ioi, aoes noi. mciuae me thousands of newsboys and bootblacks who w-ere attending school, nor the i other thousands of children who were; employed in tenement house mruufacturing. Also, the estimates of 284,330 children classified as engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits is misleading since cannery children were in many States reckoned as agri- | cultural workers. It is expected that in all of the forty- | three States having legislature sessions H this winter bills bearing on the Child! W _ Labor problem will be introduced. . " _ i Southeastern States Lead. P Washington, D. C., January 20.?! President Finley, of the Southern Railway Company, commenting upon record of cotton mill construction duri ing the calender year 1912, said: "The Southeastern States led all other sections of the country in cotton mill development in 1912. There were 37 new mills built in the United States I during the year. Of these 20 were in I the Southeastern States. Out of 533,fr 300 new spinales 427,000, or 80 per L cent, were in Southeastern mills, and ft out of 9,774 new looms, 6,450, or G6 ir per cent, were in Southeastern mills. These figures refer only to new mills and take no account of the large addirtions made during the year to existing plants by which the manufacturing capacity of the section was largely increased. The aggregate increase has been so great as practically to ^ insure the maintenance of the record / made by the cotton-producing states in the year ended August 31, 1912. \vh 11 the mills of the South consumed more cotton than those of all other sections of the I'nited States. ? i, Breaking the Monotony. "Sr? I ;nn oomnellod. am L to wait until tomorrow afternoon before I can ( get a train cut of this Providence for- . saken place?" peevishly carped a hypocritical personam from the north, who , was maroon, d in the humble hamlet:, of Polkville, Ark. "Oh. confound the j luck! to be obliged to remai.i in this , dismal, monotonous,"? Well, now, I don't know about its be- , ing so mighty monotonous," calr^ly in- ] tcrrupted the landlord of the tavern. ' ? "You can get drunk tonight if you j lil.-o nrifl hnVP 3 fi^ht Or tWO - ""v> """ I" "" - - -O-- -- , whether you want to or not. ! * "You can go and call on a certain i charming grass widow lady I could ( name, and very likely get shot at if j you're as fresli there as you are bore. , or you can attend an elocutionary en- . tertainment at the Ap'ry house a id not j be in any great danger unless the building ketches fire. i , "You can play checkers with a mem- ( ber of the legislature and not los any- . thing, but your self-re;pect, or you can sit around in the parlor a.ul read Sut , Lovengood's latest work and laugh ( yourself to death. ; "If she happens to go by, ni point j out to you, although, of course, you'll , have to take my word for it, a short. ( lady that would be fully a foot taller if she wasn't so blamed bow-legged. I'll | ( throw you, side-holts, for cigars, or I j .for nothing, if you say so. ; ( "I'll do anything to break the monot-; \ ony for you, even to the extent, if you! j don't quit mourning about it, of get- j ting up a foot race in the general direc- j tion of Lower Calfornia, with you as : \ the party of the first part and me and i ( my old navy-six, here, the parties of: j the second part, push to show you that s you don't have to stay here if you don't admire it. i "Looks considerable like rain off to j "the northeast, don't it?" t Barking at Bismarck. Bismarck was no favorite with "women, least of all clever women, who i dared to think for themselves and imagine that they could fathom questions of state. He was never tired ^ ,of snubbing strong-minded ladies, put- ^ ^ting them down and. stamping on them. - One day he paid a visit to the Russian embassy at Berlin, where he be >haved as usual, flouting even his mis tress of the house, the Countess JSchouvaloff herself. He took his ] leave at length, to the relief of every- 1 body, and presently the family mastiff \ was heard barking at the great man as 1 he passed through the courtyard. Im- j mediately the countess ran to thei < open window, and Bismarck heard her 1 voice, saying to him in a tone of gentle : entreaty: ] "Oh, please, M. le Chancellor, don't 1 bite my dog!"?Tit-Bits. ; ?? Receipts of Longevity. The late John Bigelow, the patriarch of diplomats and authors, and the no less distinguished physician and author, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, were together several years ago at West Point. ' Dr. Bigelow was then ninetytwo and Dr. Mitchell eighty. The conversation turned to the subject of age. "I attribute my many ? years," said Dr. Bigelow, "to the fact , that I have been most abstemious. I have eaten sparingly, and have not , used tobacco, and have taken little exercise. "It is just the reverse in my case," explained Dr. Mitchell. "I have eaten just as much as I wished, if I could get it: I have always used tobacco, immoderately at times; and I have always taken a great deal of exercise." With that, ninety-two years shook his head at eighty years ana said, "Well, you will never live to be an oid man."?Lippincott's. ! DIGGING FOIJ A METEOR. One Worth Billions of Dollars Believ- f ed to be in Arizona. Several years ago a syndicate of mining men began sinking a shaft in Arizona to reach the largest diamond in the- world, believed to be no less . than half a mile thick. This shaft is now 1,600 feet deep. Three or four hundred feet more, it is expected, will reveal the great prize. The scene of this most wonderful mining operation is Meteor Mountain, Ariz. The mountain is such in name, : <only, as it is little more than a butte, ^rising 200 or 300 feet above th-e desert, i about ten miles from Canyon Diabolo j station, on the Sante re ranroau. . Viewed from a distance Meteor j Mountain looks little different from the countless other butte's that rear _ their heads above th? southwestern desert. But as soon as one begins to , climb its sides, strewn with meteoric fragments, he realizes that he is on the ' threshold of one of the world's great^ I scientific mysteries. From the top of the "mountain" one gazes into a bowl-like depression in the -; arth 600 fret deep and a mile I acro-s. It is in appearance like a vol-: ::anic crater. Scientists agree that this crater | marks the place where a giant met-; ^orite, as large as the circumference of he bowl would indicate struck th-i *arth in ages i;a?T, perhaps a million of i rears ago, and buried it -elf deep into I rhe bowels of tlu> arth?just how deep! :r is the purpose of ill - mining syndi-! it'1 to find out. When this giant mass struck the I ?arth there was no butte there; the! buue was creat-d when the meteoritestruck, its tremendous weight di?plac-i ing strata of rock, sending huge clouds j Df dust into the air and forming the | 'mountain" as it exists today. After the meteorite sank into the, ?arth tbv sand and dust settled into! be depression. The drift of ages sift-j over the edges of the huge bowl and! is-iskd in the work of covering the! neteorite. But the most remarkable thing about his meteorite, apart from its prodigious size, is the fact that in a1! prob-! I ibilitv it consists of one huge diamond! j This \i inl" rred from the fact that! uimerous large fragments of the rae-i r-orife found in the crater, and which j ire unusually heavy, were found, upon j nwstigation, to contain, besides me-j :eoric iron, large, hard black diamonds j >r great value. Even if the meteor itself consists only of black diamonds its value would )e quite inconceivable, for a good black iiamond, though worthless as a gem, s worth even more than a white one :'or mechanical purpoSes. It is quite probable, however, that the bulk of :he meteor consists of white diamond, ii which event there would not be mough money in the world to pay for t at the current price of the precious >tone. The largest diamonds n the world, +Vio. XT nVi_i_nnnr tha Pn 1 li n a Tl llUIUUilig J.IUII J-uvvi , ?j ;he Great Mogul of Russia, the Orioff, he Great Premier diamond, the Tiffany liamond, the Etolie Polaire, and a doz*n others of the same standard, worth n the aggregate hundreds of millions )f dollars, might all be placed together n an ordinary derby Hat and not reach :he top. This meteoric diamond, scien:ists believe, must be at least half a nile thick! Made of< Calfomia Redwood. The California redwood- is constantI ;* f ' y gaining in popularity in the manufacture of incubators and brooders, md indeed no lumber is more suitaDle for the purpose. This popularity :s due to the fact that it is suscepuDie i }f very fine finish and its adaptation | to "all changes and condition of climate. The Petaluma Incubator company was the first to see the advantages of the use of Calfornia redwood, as in fact, many years ago, they were the' first to begin the manufacture of Incubators. The "Petaluma" is the pioneer hatching machine. Its incubator antedates that of any other on the market, and to them, therefore, and to the energy, persistence and patience of their Mr. L. C. Bvce, is du-e the credit, to a very large extent, of I the development of incubators and brooders to the extent which exints* at this time. 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