(3) Hours of labor: Night work permitted: for children under sixteen, work is restricted to ten hours in the twentyfour.

(4) Educational test: Child under sixteen must be able to read and write, and must attend school before or during employment.

(5) Enforcement: Attendance officers appointed by school commissioners are charged with enforcement of the law.

Mississippi. No age limit in Mississippi, except that minors may not be employed for more than sixty days without the consent of the parent or guardian.

North Carolina.—(1) Age limit in factories, twelve.

(2) Proof of age: Written statement of the parent or guardian required.

(3) Hours; Night work not prohibited; work for minors under eighteen restricted to sixty-six hours in one week.

(4) Educational test: No requirement of compulsory attendance on school and no educational test.

(5) There is a Commissioner of Labor and Printing provided for under another statute, but he has no authority for the inspection of the factories or enforcement of the law.

South Carolina.-(1) Age limit: (1903: ten years, (1904) eleven, (May, 1905) twelve. In factories, mines or other manufacturing establishment exception is made for child with widowed mother or totally disabled father, and for dependent children-these may work in the factory without an age limit for the purpose of earning a support-sworn affidavit to this effect required of the widowed mother, totally disabled guardian, or in case of dependent child, of legal guardian. The officer before whom affidavit is made to endorse on back of certificate his consent that the child may be so employed.

(2) Proof of age: Affidavit of parent or guardian, stating the age of child.

(3) Hours of labor: Night work prohibited children under twelve, and from 8 p. m. to 6 a. m. Time may be made up which has been lost through temporary shut-down due to accident or break-down in machinery. Under no circumstances shall a child under twelve work beyond 9 p. m.

(4) Educational test: Children may be employed at any age in vacation if they present certificates showing school attendance for four months during the year and ability to read and write.

(5) No provision for enforcement. Tennessee.-(1) Age limit in factories and mines, fourteen.

(2) Proof of age: Required of children under fourteen, to be sworn to by parent or guardian, unless age of child is known to the employer.

(3) Hours of labor: No restriction. (4) No educational test or compulsory attendance.

(5) Grand jury given inquisitorial powers, and judges of Circuit Courts required to give special charge.

Texas. (1) Age limit: Factories, if illiterate, fourteen; if able to read and write, twelve. In mines, breweries and distilleries, sixteen.

(2) No proof of age required. (3) Hours of labor: Work at night prohibited for children under fourteen between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m.

(4) Educational test: Child under sixteen must be able to read and write before being employed. Exemptions may be given for children between twelve and fourteen who are "necessarily employed."

(5) No provision for enforcement. Virginia. (1) Age limit: In factories, twelve.

(2) No provision for proof of age.

(3) Hours of labor: No prohibition of night work. Work restricted to ten in the twenty-four for children under fourteen.

(4) No educational test.

(5) No provision for enforcement.
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Mrs. Harriet Hodges,, of 772 East Madison ave., Cleveland, Ohio, well known in connection with the gospel work of the Central Friendly Inn, and the Ladies' Auxiliary to Order of Railway Conductors, was quietly married on Wednesday evening, Aug. 30, to Henry W. Hackenberg, of 49 Mapletree avThe ceremony took place in the presence of a very few intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Hackenberg will make their home on Mapletree avenue.

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'Correct English-How to Use It." A monthly magazine devoted to the use of English. Josephine Turck Baker, editor. Partial contents for this Month: Course in English for the Beginner. Course in English for the Advanced Pupil.

How to Increase One's Vocabulary. The Art of Conversation. Should and Would: How to Use Them.

Pronunciations (Century Dictionary). Correct English in the Home. Correct English in the School. What to Say and What Not to Say. Course in Letter-Writing and Punctuation.

Alphabetic List of Abbreviations. Business English for the Business Man. Compound Words: How to Write

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In the October World's Work M. G. Cunniff describes the unique personality of New York's district attorney in an article, "Jerome: A Man." The following incident is related:

A New York reporter once telephoned to the proprietor of a gambling house who had defied the law for years and said, inquiringly:

"We have heard that you were raided this evening. Is it true?"

"No, it isn't true," replied the gambler. Me run a gambling house! What are you giving us?"

"But our information came from the district attorney's office," objected the reporter.

"Oh, Jerome told you, did he?" came after a pause. 'Well, if you got it from

Jerome it's straight. I was raided, and you can take it from me, young feller, that anything Jerome tells you is on the level-I don't care what it is."

It is just because the public, too, believes this that District Attorney Jerome, of New York, has become a unique force for good in our public life. He has

told us things that have made many a cuddled delusion wriggle with discomfort the Kansans that their prohibition law is a sham, cultivated New Yorkers that the shames and evils of the city are "up to them," college men that they shirk their duty, public officers that they compromise with political corruption, reformers that they deceive themselves.

"I believe," he said one day, "that, somehow or other, telling the truth is better than lying. if only for the man himself;" and then he added, "besides,

you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have announced what many other people think and daren't say."

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The art of newspaper illustration in its present form is a development of recent years. Newspaper cartoons have become a most popular feature of up-todate metropolitan daily papers. The unique and catchy drawing now appearing daily on the front page of The Chicago Record-Herald is one of the many special features of the great paper. The Record-Herald has been fortunate in securing one of the best young artists in the country to carry out its popular policy of presenting each day a humorous and good-natured cartoon. Ralph Wilder is one of the coming men in newspaper work. His success has been as pronounced as it has been rapid. He shows all of the good-natured humor and the brighter side of everyday common life which has carried his work to a very popular success. His drawings are on all of the various subjects of popular interest, political and otherwise. Current events are vividly portrayed in a way that pleases, yet often giving just criticism in a way that does not offend. Through his excellent work on eastern magazines Mr. Wilder first attracted universal attention. The Record-Herald recognized in him at once a cartoonist of unusual promise, and congratulates its readers on having been fortunate enough to engage him.

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