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The GREAT MINE
RESCUE TOURNAMENT
NODE SAM la going to stand spon
sor this autumn for one of the most
novel and most Interesting com
petitive contests aver conducted.
So far as known no other govern
ment In the world has ever conduct
ed such a tournament and it is
bound to attract attention far and
wide. Moreover this unique event
is all the more interesting and all
the more commendable from the
fact that Its purpose is not merely
the exploiting of athletic prowess
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after the fashion of the average "field day.” On
the contrary Its aim and object Is the saving of
human life and the relief of suffering. It Is be
cause of Its high pi-rpose, combined with the fact
that It Is under government auspices, that Pres
ident Taft, the secretary of the Interior, and other
high officials and prominent men will be present
This innovation which promises to win a per
manent place on our calendar of public events has
a rather long name. It Is designated officially as
a National First-Aid-to-the-InJured Field Meet, and
It la to concern itself primarily with "first aid”
work and relief work as conducted in coal mines
where, as every reader knows, there is most ur
gent need for such humanitarian measures owing
to the frightful disasters which occur all too fre
quently in our coal mines, due to explosions, fires,
and cave-ins of rock and earth. The field meet
will be held at a place known as Arsenal Park
near Pittsburg, Pa. This site has been chosen
because it will be convenient of access for the
miners and mine rescue workers who will com
pete in the contests, and because, furthermore,
the United States govornment has at this place
an experimental station with all the facilities and
equipment at hand for giving exhibitions and con-
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Suctlng contests in mine rescue work
under approximately the same condi
tions that would prevail after an act
ual mine disaster.
This inaugural tournament is to be
conducted by the U. S. Bureau of
Mines, the newest branch of our na
tional government and an institution
which congress recently established
under the interior department, espe
cially for the purpose of studying and
finding remedies for the mine disas
ters which have been giving the Unit
ed States a bad name all over the
world for these many years past. How
ever, the Bureau of Mines is going
have InfliiAnHnt U n 1
to have Influential help In the conduct of its first
national Field Meet. For one thing the American
Ked Cross is going to co-operate.
Now the Red Cross has been colled on very
frequently of late years to lend a hand after
some great mine disaster, and it is today Instru
mental in supporting and educating many chil
dren whose fathers were killed In the disasters
of the past few years. Thus the Red Cross offi
cials have had brought home to them the need
of doing everything possible to save lives in
mines and to reduce the number and seriousness
of mine accidents. And anyway the Red Cross
has become deeply interested of late years in
flrst-aid-to-the-injured work of all kinds, —so much
so that It is now distributing “first aid cabinets"
all over the country and has on the road all the
while a special car with instructors who travel
from town to town enrolling workmen as volun
teer Red Cross workers and instructing them in
"first aid” work. So that, in view of all this, it
is but natural that the Red Cross should want to
have a hand in the first field meet to stimulate
interest in the cause. And finally the coal opera
tors, who have much at stake, have through their
general organization volunteered to help make
the tournament a success.
It 1b expected that from 20,000 to 30,000 miners
will attend the Field Day near Pittsburg on Sep
tember 16. A number of them will come merely
as spectators or because they have been urged to
come and profit by the "object lessons" that will
be enacted before their eyes, but a very large
proportion will be entered as contestants in the
various events. It would surprise the average
reader, no doubt, to learn how many men are
eligible to entry in such contests, considering that
organized rescue work on its present scale was
taken up in the mines of this country only a few
years ago.
Some of the most skillful first aid workers de
vote their entire time to this occupation. These
are the employes stationed on one or another of
the U. S. Government’s Mine Rescue Cars. The
Mine Rescue cars, it need scarcely be explained,
are Pullman cars which Uncle Sam purchased a
year or two ago, turned over to the newly-created
Bureau of Mines, and had transformed Into com
bination school rooms und hospitals on wheels.
Each car has a crew’ of several experts who eat
and sleep aboard, like firemen ever ready to re
spond to an alarm. They and their car have
dual functions. When a mine disaster occurs, the
cars in that district are hurried to the scene and
the men on board take tho lead in the rescue
work. At other times when no such emergencies
demand their attention the cars traverse regular
routes, visiting one mining town after nnother
Just as a traveling circus might do and tarrying
for two or three days at each camp, while the ex
perts, by means of demonstrations and “night
school" lectures in the car. give instructions to
the community as to how to prevent accidents and
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teera agree to devote enough time to the work
to gain more than a superficial knowledge such
as is acquired by the rank and file of the miners.
Uncle Sara’s experts devote any necessary amount
of time to instructing these volunteers and the
Red Cross and the mine operators have shown a
disposition to provide them with all the necessary
equipment.—expensive though it be.
The result of this development of a humanitari
an militia in the coal mines has been that we now
find at many a mine a volunteer corps of "first
aid" workers who are thoroughly qualified for
their work and who can do Just as much for their
entombed fellow-workmen or for miners overcome
by poisonous gases as could the experts on any
of the government mine rescue cars and who
are on hand to act immediately without waiting
for the arrival of a government car. It 1b these
volunteers who are expected to give zest to the
competitions In rescue work at the big gathering
in Western Pennsylvania. “Teams" made up of
volunteer workers at verious mines have been in
training for months for the event, working to be
able to do each stunt in the shortest possible
The Danger of the Inferior
We are orten told that one reason why we
should not go down to tho inferior thingß is that
they can never satisfy us. But the danger is that
»hey may satisfy us. A boy at school may come
to like evil talk and unworthy stories. When he
left home such things were unnatural and dis
tasteful to him. but he let himself down to them
little by little until anything else is uncongenial to
him. The inferior things have come to satisfy
him. A popular lecturer told recently of having
heard one woman say to another as they came
away from an Ibsen play, "I do not like Ibsen.
He takes the hope out of life.” If Bhe spoke sin
cerely, it was only because she had brought her
self to such an unnatural philosophy. She did
not begin life with so unwholesome and untrue a
view. In the days that were real and worthy it
was hope which made life beautiful. If now she
preferred hopelessness It was because her pref
erences had degenerated, and that had begun to
satisfy her which formerly would have been the
very depth of darkness to her.
This is the peril of the soul’s freedom. The
very capacity to rise Involves the capacity to de
scend. Just as we can go forward from any at
tainment, discontented with it, to higher things
which alone can satisfy us, so we can go back
ward and downward Into tastes, experiences, and
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how to carry on rescue
and relief work if a
disaster does occur.
The result of this
plan of Uncle Sam for
having these "mission
aries" of tho First Aid
crusr.de constant ly
traveling up und down
the mining regions
Bhowlng the once-ignor
ant miners what to do
in an emergency and
how to do it, has been
that a considerable pro
portion of the under
ground workers are
coming to have some
knowledge of what to
do to relieve the suf
fering of one another
in time of accident
when doctors and nur
ses are not at hand.
Better still, a feature of
the government plan
and the Red Cross
plan to organize at
each mine a volunteer
corps of "first aid”
workers. These volun-
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space of time, —for in contests as in hook
and ladder races and hose laying contests, a sec
ond or two may mark the difference between vic
tory and defeat.
The "first aid" tournament is going to have
some very realistic features. For one thing there
will be proviJed a "make believe" coal mine,
open at one r.ide to the view of the spectators,
and In this will occur on Bignal an explosion Just
like that which occurs in a real mine except that
there will be no actual loss of life. However,
men will be apparently injured by the shock and
overcome by the fumes and will fall in supposedly
perilous positions from which they will be res
cued by "first aid" men working in double quick
time Just as they would do under the stress of
a genuine disaster. These rescue workers will
be called upon to improvise stretchers from their
Jackets and :nine drills; to hurriedly bring to the
scene mine hospital cars; and do the other things
they would do in time of serious trouble Of
course, all their operations will have to be carried
on by means of what illumination can be gained
from the new pattern of electric safety lamps for
it is out of the question to carry into a mine
filled with explosive gases any ordinary lantern
or lamp with an exposed flame of any kind.
Easily one of the most interesting phases of the
contests will be the competitions involving the
use of the oxygen helmets so called. A helmet
of this kind, which may cost as much as S2OO,
may be described as an air-tight, armor-like cov
ering for the head and shoulders which enables
a rescue worker to penetrate into mines filled
with noxious fumes just as a driver’s suit enables
its wearer to live and work under water. The
air-tight helmet not only excludes the deadly gaa
es of the mine but It supplies Its wearer with
necessary flow of life-giving oxygen, drawn as
needed from metal cylinders of compressed oxy
gen worn on the back, like a knapsack. The com
petitions at Pittsburg will Include tests as to how
long a man can work effectually In such a suit
of armor and tests as to the ability of the respec
tive wearers of the helmets to detach empty oxy
gen cylinders from their backs and replace them
with fresh cylinders. This is highly important
because in mine rescue work it may happen that
there is no second rescue worker at hand to as
sist in changing cylinders and unless a “first aid”
man can do this for himself he must leave his
work and hurry back to the mouth of the mine
for fresh air.
Another form of apparatus, and it is a new one,
which will be demonstrated is the Pulmoter. The
Pulmoter is a German invention, and for ull that
it would almost fit into an ordinary suit case,
it is so delicate and remarkable in its mechanism
that it costs SBOO. The Pulmoter is, in effect, an
automatic breathing machine. It will compel un
unconscious man to breath whether he wants to
or not and it mechanically draws poisonous gases
out of the lungs with one operation and forces in
the life-giving oxygen with the other. That it is
capable of well nigh performing miracles may be
appreciated when it is explained that with this
agent for mechanical resuscitation the experts
of the U. S. Government have brought back to
life, miners who nad remained unconscious in
mines for 26 hours and who had been abandoned
as dead.
W"U WW I ** WHUfTT
character which would once have been utterly re
pugnant to us. but which have the dreadful power
of becoming the soul’s desired aim, so that we are
satisfied. The soul can shrivel as well as ex
pand. And we must beware of those who tell us
that we can go down to anything we wish with
out fear, that we can throw off the inferior
things whenever we wish and return to our na
tive place. We cannot. The soul adapts itself
to Its environment, and we may become so satis
fied on the low planes that we shall never wake
to discontent. Then our birthright will be gone,
and we shall not care to have it back again. The
danger of all sin and surrender is that they may
stupefy the taste and satisfy it.
HUMAN HANDICAPS.
We do not require the same attainments from
all. Some are well taught, some are ill taught,
some are not taught at all. Some have naturally
good dispositions. Not one has had power to ful
fill the law' completely. Therefore It Is no crime
in him if he fails. We reckon as faults those only
which arise from idleness, wilfulness, selfishness
and deliberate preference of evil to good. Each
is judged according to what he has received. —
James Anthony Froude.
WMemore's
7 Shoe Polishes
ItUihlni ibo«« of All kind* and colors.
GILT EDGE the only ledles shoe dressing
that positively contains OH. BUcks And I'oilKhes
adles* And children’s boots And shoes, sltlnea
•eltboat rubbing, 25c. “French Gloss," 10c.
DANDY combination for cleaning and polloblng
ill kinds of russet or tan shoes, 25c. “Star' size, 10c.
QUICK WHITE makes dirty caneas shoes
•lean and white. In liquid form so It can be
■■lckly and easily applied. A sponge In every
package, so always ready for use. Two sixes, 10
tad *3 cents.
If your dealer doee not keep the kind yon want,
■end ns his address and tba price In staxnpe for
t fall size package.
WHITTEMORE BROB. & OO. f
tp-20 Albany St., Cambridge. Mast.
The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of
Shoe Polishes in the World.
Distressing.
h/1 ov . &8.1 lay.
“Here is the account of a poor wo
man who lost both arms In a railroad
wreck."
"It must be dreadful to go through
life without any arms.”
"Yes, Indeed. And much worse for
a woman than for a man."
"How Is that?"
"Well, a woman without any arms
can’t reach around to feel If the back
of her collar and the back of her belt
are all right."
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Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CABTORIA, a Bafe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and se9 that it
Bears the
Signature of (
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Leaving Him at Sea.
"Could you do something for a poor
old sailor?" asked the seedy-looklng
wanderer at the gate.
"Poor old sailor," echoed the lady
at work at the tub.
"Yes’m, I follered the wotter for 16
years."
"Well," said the woman, after a
critical look, “you certainly don’t look
as if you ever caught up with It."
Then she resumed her labors.
Held the Records.
Two ladies seated at afternoon tea
fell to discussing the prowess of their
respective hubbies.
After each had related several feats
of endurance and hardihood, one of
them remarked that her husband had
on one occasion dived under the wa
ter and remained down for fully two
minutes, without coming up to take
breath.
"Oh,” said the other, "that Is
nothing. My first husband dived be
low the water five years ago, and has
not yet come up to .’•eathe."
Sufficient Evidence.
Having vouched for the honesty of
the woman who wished a situation as
scrub-woman, the good-natured man
was subjected to a severe examina
tion by the superintendent of the
building.
"There are degrees of honesty,”
said the superintendent. "How hon
est is she?”
The good-natured man reflected.
"Well,” said he, "I'll tell you. She
Is so honest that If you throw any
thing that looks to be worth a cop
per into the waste basket you have
to tag It ‘Destroy this,’ or she will
fish It out and put it back on your
desk night after night, no matter how
badly you want to get rid of It. I
don’t know that I can say anything
more.”
i "No more Is necessary," said the
i superintendent, and he proceeded to
i hire the woman.
STRONGER THAN MEAT
A Judge’s Opinion of Grape-Nuts.
i
i A gentleman who has acquired a ju
dicial turn of mind from experience
[ on the bench out in the Sunflower
State writes a carefully considered
opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts
as food. He says;
"For the past 5 years Grape-Nuts
has been a prominent feature In our
bill of fare.
“The crisp food with the delicious,
nutty flavor has become an indis
pensable necessity in my family’s
everyday life.
"It has proved to be most healthful
and beneficial, and has enabled us to
practically abolish pastry and pies
from our table, for the children prefer
Grape-Nuts, and do not crave rich and
unwholesome food.
“Grape-Nuts keeps us all In perfect
physical condition —as a preventive of
disease It is beyond value. I have been
particularly Impressed by the benefi
cial effects of Grape-Nuts when used
by ladies who are troubled with face
blemishes, Bkln eruptions, etc. It
clears up the complexion wonderfully.
"As to Its nutritive qualities, my ex
perience is that one small dish of
Grape-Nuts Is superior to a pound of
meat for breakfast, which Is an Impor
tant consideration for anyone. It sat
isfies the appetite and strengthens the
power of resisting fatigue, while Its
use Involves none of the disagreeable
consequences that sometimes follow
& meat breakfast.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
lYellville," In pkgs. "There’s a reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are sennlse. true, and full of human
Interest.
Fair Question.
Willie—Pa?
Pa—Yes.
Willie—Teacher says that we re
here to help others.
Pa—Of course we are.
Willie—Well, what are the other*
here for?”
Oh, So Suspicious.
"Very suspicious man, they say.”
"Very. Bought a dictionary laat
week and now he’s counting the word*
to see If It contains as many as the
publishers claim.”
He Had Experience.
“I’ll call up my wife and tell her
I’m detained at the office.”
“Be sure to shut the door of the
telephone booth. Last time I called
my wife up from this cafe she heard
the orchestra playing."
The Real Reason.
"What has become of that man who
used to say he was a servant of the
people?”
"The people had to let him go, re
plied Farmer Corntossel. "He got to
be one o’ these hired men who stand
around talkin’ when they ought to be
at work.”
Had the Proper Yell.
The baby across the car aisle caught
sight of the bibulous Individual op
posite and let out a shrill yell of
alarm.
The bibulous person leaned forward.
"Baby attendin’ college, ma’am?” he
asked.
"No, sir," the mother sharply re
plied, and the baby yelled again.
"Thass ver’ funny," said the inebri
ated one. "There’s cert-nly some class
to that yell.”
Then he gave the child an atrocious
wink and fell asleep.— Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Answered.
"You, there, In the overalls,” shout
ed the cross-examining lawyer, "how
much are you paid for telling un
truths?”
"Less than you are,” retorted the
witness, "or you’d be in overalls, too."
Turning Night into Day.
When the doors opened In the little
Indiana theatre a farmer wandered In
and looked around.
“Ticket, please," said the doorkeep
er.
"The only thing I've got agin’ these
here op’rys," said the Hoosier as he
walked away, “is that they don’t be
gin till bedtime."
Only a Husband.
"What was the worst knock you
ever got?” we asked a little group of
young married men the other day.
"I can tell mine and skin the other
fellows before they start,” replied one
who shall be nameless, for his wife’s
sake. "My wife hit me in the vanity
harder than anyone else ever did."
"That’s nothing,” chorused the rest.
"That’s everybody’s experience.”
“I suppose so. But listen. The oth
er night I woke up suddenly, hearing
a noise downstairs. ‘What’s the mat
ter?’ asked by wife drowsily. ‘I think
there’s a man in the house,’ I said.
‘My dear,’ she murmured, ‘you flatter
yourself.’ ”
Had Nothing on Him.
Rabbi Joseph 'Silverman, the noted
pastor of New York, tells an amusing
anecdote of an Englishman and a
Scotchman, who were bragging in loud
tones.
"Me man,” said the Britisher, "taln’t
hoften a person Is tooken fer royalty,
but I’ve been mistook for th’ prince of
Wales in me young days.”
"Hoot, mon,” said the Scot, "I, my
self, have been called th’ duke of
Argyll."
The man selling collar buttons
paused to listen. "Dat’s nuttin’,” said
he with a deprecatory gesture; "I vas
meetin’ an friend in Ravington strit
an’ he ohouted: ‘Oh, Holy Moses!ls It
you?’”—Washington Star.
HOMESEEKERS EXCURSION
RATES TO TEXAS AND NEW
MEXICO POINTS DUR
ING 1911.
On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month during the entire year
The Colorado and Southern Rail
way will sell round trip homeseekers'
excursion tickets to a great many
points In New Mexico and Texas at
greatly reduced rates. Final limit
25 days allowing liberal stop-over
privileges. For detailed Information,
rates, etc., call on your nearest Colo
rado and Southern agent or address T.
E. Fisher, General Passenger
Denver, Colo.
HOWARD E. BURTON. ASSAYER & CHEMIST
LEADVILLE, COLORADO
Specimen prices: Gold silver. lead $1- rolrf
silver. 75c: Kold. 50c: zinc or copper* fi*
Molllni; envelope* and full price Mat *eiit on
application. Control and umpire work so
licited Reference: Carbonate National Rank
rDENVERIIRECTORT
FOR SALE £jL ad c,l MILLINERY
ANf! £ll Wholesale cost $1,300. Ad-
WI * U OILIXOi dress Bex 289. Denver. Colo.
Can double your salary In six months. Endorsed
by 26 banks. \N rite lor valuable souvenir and
catalog tree. Denver. Colorado.
Reduced Round-Trip
SUMMER TOURIST FARES
to the
PACIFIC COAST
via
T*** D e«ver «* Rio Grande Railroad
“The Scenic Line of the World."
$5O from all malu line polnta In Colo.
™do to Pnclflc Con*t deal I nation*.
Tickets on sale daily to September
ll* i9ii ’ Flnal return limit October
Standard and Tourist Pullman
sleeping; Cars are operated dally
through to San Francisco and Los
Angeles without change.
Through electric-lighted train con
sisting of steel coach. Pullman and
Tourist Sleeping Cars is operated daily
Denver to San Francisco via Salt Lake
City and THE WESTERN PACIFIC
RAILWAY without change of cars
For Information regarding train ser
vice. reservations, etc., call on local Rio
Grande Agent or address
Frank A. Wadlelgh, General Passenger
Agent, Denver. Colorado.