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 THE GREEN BAG EDUCATION "South Dakota provides for instruction in the public schools in physiology and hygiene to be taught as thoroughly as arith metic and geography are taught in said schools, and such instruction is to be given orally to pupils who cannot read and by the use of text books to those who can, and the text-books used must give about onefourth of their space to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, to be at least twenty pages and not to be embraced in a separate chapter at the end of the book. "We may confidently look for a genuine revival of abstinence in the use of alcoholic drinks in a state where the instruction on this subject is to be as exact as arithmetic and as boundless as geography itself. "The Court of Appeals of New York is allowed to admit to the Bar without exam ination, upon the production of a diploma, graduates of the Albany Law School, the Law School of the City of New York, the Law School of Columbia College, the Law School of the University of Buffalo, or the New York Law School, or of the College of Law, Cornell University, Syracuse Univer sity, or the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University. "Perhaps the acts of assembly in no state in the union contain as much legislation on the subject of education as those of the state of North Carolina. This is largely due to the efforts of the Southern Educa tional Board, in which the state of North Carolina has exhibited remarkable interest; and I think I am safe in saying that North Carolina is the first cotton state which has advanced to the position of trying compul sory education. The city of Asheville and Raleigh Township provide for compul sory attendance upon schools; while Yadkin and Macon counties, and probably others, provide for submitting this question to the vote of the people; and attendance upon schools is made compulsory upon Indians.

LABOR "South Dakota has passed an act to establish a twine and cordage plant, shirt and overall factory, at the state peniten tiary, and appropriated $76,000 to carryit into effect. Said plant is to be under the charge of the Board of Charities and Corrections, and its product is to be sold to farmsrs of the state who are actual con sumers for cash, upon such terms as shall be fixed by the authorities. "This bill is evidently aimed at the twine and cordage trust. Many of its provisions are similar to the act of the State of Kansas authorizing the establishment of a branch penitentiary and an oil refinery thereat to compete with the Standard Oil Company, wh'ich has recently been declared uncon stitutional by the Supreme Court of Kansas. "Tennessee has passed an act to ' exempt thirty-six dollars of all monthly salaries or wages amounting to over forty dollars, and to make ten per cent of all salaries and wages of forty dollars and less subject to garnishment.' "Colorado, emerging from the throes of labor revolutions, passes a stringent law against boycotts and also decides that eight hours is sufficient length of time for a laborer to work in any one dav. "Illinois, to protect laborers in the mines, provides that in all mines where gas is gen erated in dangerous quantities a 'number of men, designated as 'shot fires,' are to be employed at the expense of the company, whose duty it is to inspect the mines and do the firing of all blasts. "Massachusetts, by resolution of her legis lature, expresses the opinion that it is de sirable that the Constitution of the United States should be so amended as to place it clearly within the power of Congress to enact laws regulating the hours of labor in the several states according to some uni form system. "A corporation engaged in mining and manufacturing is prohibited in Missouri from working its employees in its mills or plants