on the bank, the doors can't be closed until after that. I'll have my money to night." It was five o'clock when he drew rein at an adobe house on the hill at the hither edge of the city. He had ceased his ravings and his bronzed face was set in lines as hard as metal. In answer to his ring a head appeared at a window. It was Rallson's, the cashier of the Copper and Silver Bank of Canon Center. "Rallson, it's I, Carruth!" said Theodore steadily. "Will you put on something? I want you." "All right. Wait a minute." Rallson felt as sure of Carruth as he did of himself. In an instant he appeared in the doorway. "Come to the bank," said Theodore in an even voice. He had the cashier's arm in a grip of steel. "Come quickly and quietly, or I'll kill you." The other hand showed a gleam of metal. Rallson nearly dropped dead of shocked surprise. Then he began to sputter. Then he looked at Theodore. Here was a madman, he decided. Wisdom counseled humoring the man until they reached help. "I want my own money, that's all," declared the madman. "And I must have it before morning. You can learn my balance; you can open the safe. I must get it and be out of here before daybreak." Rallson tried to think, tried to plan, to reason; but he could not. And then he heard the voice he knew and liked going on with a new note of pleading in it. order back to yesterday, and that may save me." Twenty minutes later, on a fresh horse from Rallson's own corral, Theodore had set forth again for Santa Domingo. The next morning the doors of the Copper and Silver Bank of Canon Center were suddenly closed after receiving a telegram from El Paso. In the general confusion Rallson's irregular action of the night before was overlooked. His explanation that Carruth's balance had been withdrawn just before closing time of the day before was not questioned. V. At Santo Domingo the two women lost the trail. They did not know for whom to inquire. They did not even dare to describe too closely the person whom they sought. A sudden fear that even now he might not be safe from pursuit had assailed them. The station agent, the hotel people, and the loafers of the town were all ready with garrulous suggestions, but none brought the two any nearer the object of their search. Christmas, the third day of their pursuit, found them still in the little forlorn town at the edge of the hills. "It is all my fault," Elizabeth said remorsefully. "You might have been comfortable at Santa Barbara this minute but for me and my craziness. probably not Ted at all. And if it was, he's swallowed up out there in that awful desolation that is alike at every point. I'm sorry. When I'm eighty I may have learned to distrust my impulses." It was "That was Ted," said his mother simply. "And having seen him, do you think that I could have gone on? You don't know a mother's heart, my dear." "Rallson, you know how I've slaved for it, how I've saved for it. It's mine -made of my muscle and my mind. So generous was Elizabeth's nature Well"-Theodore mused, and the half lie that it did not even occur to her that had greater effect when it followed-"I Mrs. Carey herself had not known a came here to hide. You know how mother's heart until she, Elizabeth, had straight I've lived; you see that whatever brought me, whatever damned folly or crime, I'm a man now. Well, they're on my trail at last. I've got to have the money and go." His heart smote him when he thought of the closed doors of the bank, the consternation among the shops and saloons, among the ranches and mines beyond the town. But, after all, his thousands would avail nothing in that panic. And he would not be cheated of the moment for which he had lived every hour of eleven years. uncovered one in the mere organ of circulation with which the older woman had been so long content. To pass the woful time they went to church-the little church of Our Lady of All the Angels. The soft-eyed Mexicans were there in contemplation before the Christmas crib-the representation of the Christ-child in the manger-and a few of the American families had come in. Mass was nearly half over when Theodore Carey entered the church. He was on his way back and, thanks to a wreck on the direct line to Canon Center, he was Rallson looked at him, trusted and going again by way of Santa Domingo. liked him as ever, pitied him with quick He wanted "to have it out with Rallsympathy. son" in any way that Rallson demanded. "I'll do it," he said. "We'll date your The certified check to the Elmburg County Traction Company was speeding due east from El Paso. So was a hopeless letter to Elizabeth Darrell. The evidence for the foregoing theory of infection has hitherto been circumstantial rather than positive and direct. What impulse led him to the adobe The outbreak of epidemic septic sore church with the cracked belfry he did not throat at Cortland and Homer in the know. He had not been in such a place State of New York, during April of last since last he had accompanied his mother year, gave an opportunity to demonstrate to the family pew in the white-steepled the correctness of the commonly held Congregational Church at Elmburg. But view. This outbreak cast suspicion on some idea of rendering thanks according the milk-supply from one dairy. Over to formal rite seized him, and here he 70 per cent of the cases in each com was. He rose and knelt awkwardly enough with the others. He listened to the simple Spanish sermon with a reverence that he had not expected to feel. It was all of love and forgiveness and of the tenderness of God made manifest in the tender Mother of the Stable-"and in all tender mothers," the kind old priest finished by saying. Theodore smiled a little sadly, a vision of his own outraged mother before him. still, he understood her better now than on the night when she let him go, unloved, to the expiation of his sin. There was a murmur across the aisle. He glanced in its direction. He saw a face with hollow eyes-a face transfigured now with a light of great joy, and then, before the wide-eyed Mexicans, he crossed the aisle and took the fragile old figure in his arms. And across his mother's head he gazed, with joy and love too deep, too sure, for questioning the miracle, into the radiant face of Elizabeth Darrell. munity occurred among the patrons of a dairyman who was the only dealer selling milk in both places, and who furnished less than 7 per cent of the total milk-supply. Adjacent towns had no cases, and, further, they received no milk from the suspected dairy. As the result of an inspection of the cattle belonging to this dairy, two cows showing physical signs of udder inflammation were isolated from the main herd and the use of their milk was forbidden. For the first time in the history of the investigation of individual cows for the existence of udder inflammation, a centrifugal milk-clarifier was used. By means of this apparatus the milk of all animals in the herd involved was examined and the sediment easily secured. The results in the case of the two suspected animals alone furnished sufficient evidence, by contrast with the milk sediment of the rest of the herd, to point conclusively to their udders as affected; and the microscopic examinations showing the pus germs discharged by the inflamed udder into the milk completed the proof. Bacteriologic examination demonstrated The Cause of Epidemic Septic Sore that cultures from the throats of four Throat. patients contained streptococci identical with streptococci obtained from milk Three extensive outbreaks of septic slime from the two cows suffering from sore throat in the past three years, in garget. As it is now generally held that Boston, Chicago and Baltimore, have streptococcus is the cause of septic sore directed attention to the disease. The throat, the predominance in the inflamed facts in regard to these and similar epi- udders of garget cows of organisms of demics have been reported from time to that type has drawn attention to their time in The Journal of the American possible significance, and has suggested Medical Association. The relationship the probable original source of the inof the disease to the milk-supply has for fection in man. We must not forget the some time been either suspected or con- possibility, however, that in addition to firmed. 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CHRISTMAS-EUROPEAN WAR HAS CREATED SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR EFFECTIVE CHRISTMAS GIVING Help Needed To Save War Victims From Death By Starvation Another Christmas is at hand, and soon will another New Year dawn and to our members and their families-to all our readers and their loved onesthe Magazine extends sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright, Happy and Prosperous New Year. Soon will that influence which Christmas ever exerts on the Christian heart and mind be felt throughout the world. "Peace On Earth, Good Will to Men" are words whose lesson the world has never been more in need of than at present, for never before has humanity witnessed a more extensive and more terrible conflict between nations than the present European war, and never before has a war resulted in more extensive suffering both to combatants and innocent victims. But it is a blessed realization that, actuated by the true spirit of humanitarianism, people everywhere are interesting themselves to as far as possible alleviate the sufferings resulting from it. Never before has there been greater need or opportunity for effective Christmas giving-for a realization of the truth of the old saying that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Christmas giving means, to a great extent, the conferring of gifts that are not needed by those who receive them. If, say, one-half of the money spent on such gifts would be given in contributions to the numerous unds that have been organized for the relief of the European war sufferers, the gift and the joy of giving would be doubly blessed for the reason that in that case the amount would not only go where most needed-would not only aid in relieving suffering that is almost incredible, but would actually save people, amongst them innocent little children, from death by starvation. So at this time there is no nobler expression by which the true Christmas spirit can be manifested than by extending aid to these poor helpless victims of the present European war-families who have lost everything-who are trying to sustain life without the shelter of a roof-who are suffering from want of food, clothing and medicine, some who have already been compelled to see those dearer to them than their own lives, die from actual need of the necessities of life. As it is more blessed to give thar to receive, then the blessedness of giving to aid in the relief of such sufferings as these must indeed be manifold, and all who thus give will add materially to the happiness of their own Christmas. WESTERN JOINT CONCERTED WAGE MOVEMENT Neutral Arbitrators Appointed Just as the last forms of this issue of the Magazine are being closed, information is received that the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation has appointed the two neutral arbitrators on the Arbitration Board that will arbitrate the differences between the Western railroad companies and the engineers, firemen and hostlers represented in our Western Joint Concerted Wage Movement. Said neutral arbitrators are as follows: Judge Jeter G. Pritchard, Presiding Judge of the United States District Hon. Chas. Nagel, former Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the The Arbitration proceedings begin in room 603 of the Federal building, in the City of Chicago, at 10:00 a. m., on Monday, November 30, 1914, and an award will probably not be completed until the expiration of ninety days from that date. Information of interest to our members regarding the arbitration proceedings will be published in our January issue, and it will be our purpose to keep our members informed, through subsequent issues, upon matters pertaining thereto as they develop. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT AND UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUSTAIN AWARD IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA RAILWAY ARBITRATION CASE-DECISION FINAL Another Instance of a Railroad Company's Failure to Apply The District Court of the United States for the Northeastern Division of the Southern District of Georgia on July 18th, last, handed down a decision sustaining the award of the arbitration board which undertook the settlement of the differences between the Georgia and Florida Railway Co. and its engineers, firemen and hostlers regarding wage and employment conditions, and on October 30th, last, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a decision sustaining the United States District Court. This decision is, in this case, final, as the Newlands Arbitration Law provides that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals shall constitute the court of last resort in such cases. The words of the law in that connection read as follows: "Sec. 8. That the award, being filed in the clerk's office of a district court of the United States as herein before provided, shall go into practical operation, and judgment shall be entered thereon accordingly at the expiration of ten days from such filing, unless within such ten days either party shall file exceptions thereto for matter of law apparent upon the record, in which case said award shall go into practical operation, and judgment be entered, accordingly, when such exceptions shall have been finally disposed of either by said district court or on appeal therefrom. At the expiration of ten days from the decision of the district court upon exceptions taken to said award as aforesaid judgment shall be entered in accordance with said decision, unless during said ten days either party shall appeal therefrom to the circuit court of appeals. In such case only such portion of the record shall be transmitted to the appellate court as is necessary to the proper understanding and consideration of the questions of law presented by said exceptions and to be decided. The determination of said circuit court of appeals upon said questions shall be final, and, being certified by the clerk thereof to said district court, judgment pursuant thereto shall thereupon be entered by said district court." This case is of great importance to railroad employes for it not only involved the question of the validity of this particular arbitration award, but the construction of the arbitration law itself and gives that law that judicial endorsement which in the United States is essential to the life of any statute enacted by any legislative body therein. In our September issue in connection with matter pertaining to our Western Joint Concerted Wage Movement we published a letter from Grand Chief Stone of the B. of L. E., and President Carter of the B. of L. F. and E., to A. W. Trenholm, Chairman of the Conference Committee of Managers, setting forth instances of failure on the part of railroad companies to apply arbitration awards. Amongst these instances is specified this Georgia and Florida case and a sentence in the letter reads: "This case is now in the courts and it is understood that if the decision of the Lower Court does not sustain the attitude of the Georgia and Florida Railway the arbitration award will be defeated by keeping the case in the courts, and thus seeking by 'legal methods' to repudiate an arbitration award, notwithstanding the pledge of the General Manager to the contrary.” Such has been the course pursued by the Georgia and Florida Railway Co. in this case and thus has been added another to the already numerous instances in which railroad companies have sought to evade compliance with the decisions of arbitration boards. |