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Will Find Encouragement in Mrs. Mer
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Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 S. First
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I had pains in my
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Dizzy spells both
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kidney secretions
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sure they would
She—You (shriek) brute, before we
married (shriek), (shriek) you said
mamma could come and see us as
often (shriek) as she pleased.
He (meekly)—Yes, dear; but she
has ceased to please.
CUTICURA CURED FOUR
Southern Woman Suffered with Itch'
ing, Burning Rash—Three Little
Babies Had Skin Troubles.
“My baby had a running sore on hi9
beck and nothing that I did for it took
effect until 1 used Cuticura. My face
was nearly full of tetter or some sim
ilar skin disease. It would itch and
burn so that I could hardly stand it.
Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box
of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two
years after it broke out oil my hands
and wrist. Sometimes I would go
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set also cured my uncle s baby whose
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baby who was in the same fix. Mrs.
Lillie Wilcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chat
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Not for Murphy.
Mr. Murphy—Oi want to buy a pair
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Clerk—Here’s something I believe
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Mr. Murphy—Niver, begorra! OI
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dade!—Kansas City Times.
Thousands of American women
in our homes are daily sacrificing
their lives to duty.
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdo. A female
weakness or displacement is often
brought on and they suffer in silence,
drifting along from bad to worse,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches which daily make life a burden.
It is to these faithful women that
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©wing to the female trouble from which
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talileCompound helped me wonderfully,
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Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Piitkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lyutt, Mass.
DEFENDS PHILIPPINE POLICY
Says Filipinos Will Not Be Ready
for Independence for a Generation
and Perhaps More.
Washington.—Nine years after the
battle of Manila Bay, Secretary Taft
records the results of the American
occupation of the archipelago and
forecasts the future of the Filipinos
in an exhaustive report transmitted
to Congress by the president, with a
letter written by the chief executive
commending in the highest terms the
secretary’s conclusions. The presi
dent declares that ruin would have
followed the adoption of any other
policy toward the Philippines than
that outlined by William McKinley
and carried forward through these
nine years, and asserts triumphantly
that there is no brighter page in his
tory than that dealing with the re
lations between the strong and the
weak in those islands. He adds that
the Filipinos “have yet a long way
to travel before they will be fit for
complete self-government."
Secretary Taft's report records his
observations on his recent visit to
the islands to (he extent of nearly
SO printed pages. Generally speaking,
the secretary is optimistic in a high
degree in treating on this subject,
even though he cannot fix a time for
declaring the independence of the is
lands. In answer to the critics who
have made “the most astounding and
unfair statements in respect to the
cost to the United States of the Phil
ippines,” he figures out a total annual
expenditure of $500,000, and he vig
orously denies the failure of the Phil
ippine policy. He says that great
changes have occurred in the islnds;
tht the people are now' anxious to
have the American soldiers retained;
that there is a high standard of ad
ministration of justice; that nothing
is more popular than the constabu
lary; that there are no questions be
tween the government and the Ro
man Catholic church, unless the Agli
pavan schism can be said to be in
volved; that peace prevails in a great
er degree than ever before in the his
tory of the islands, and that the mag
nificent Benguet road is now justi
fied by the results obtained.
The secretary is wdlling to limit the
amount of sugar and tobacco that can
be exported to the United States. He
predicts a development, of business
W'ithin 25 years that will make the
Filipinos themselves stand high in the
W'orld’s industrial populations.
To Lynch Negro.
Ottumwa, la.—A mob of 200 men
gahered at the county jail and de
manded Roy Edwards, a negro, who is
under arrest for assault on Mrs. Clara
Erwin. A riot call was sent to the
police, and then Sheriff Jackson ad
dressed the mob and told it that Ed
wards had been taken out of town.
The mob remained about the jail for
some time, and then left in a body
and marched down through the main
streets.
Cuida Has Ceased Labor.
Romo.—Ouida, the once famous nov
elist, died at the home of her faithful
maid, Isolina Cervelli, near Florence,
Italy, after a brief illness. Her death
was duo mainly to old age, although it
was hastened by the privations which
she had been compelled to undergo in
recent years and which brought on
heart disease. She refused to accept
any financial asistance from the man
friends who desired to aid her.
Rob Mail Wagon of $5,003.
New Orleans.--—Daring thieves
robbed a United States mail wagon
loaded with incoming mail, which had
arrived from Cincinnati and other
Northern points over the Queen and
Crescent route, Friday night. The
thieves were reported to have secured
about $5,000, but the postoffice au
thorities refused to make any state
ment about the amount of the rob
bery.
Pension Roll Increases.
Washington.—Representative Keif
er of Ohio, chairman of the Sub-com
mittee on Pensions of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, announces
informally that the committee has
agreed to recommend a pension roll
of $150,000,000 for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1909. This will be about
$7,000,000 in excess of the pension roll
of the present fiscal year.
Sells Tobacco; Whipped.
Hopkinsville, Ky.—R. H. Rodgers,
of the Bra vincinity, this county, was
visited Friday night by a party of
about 75 night riders. He was called
from his house and severely whipped
with buggy whips. Mr. Rodgers is a
member of the “association,” but is
alleged to have sold his tobacco out
side of the organization.
Plan $20,000,000 Company.
Mexico City.—Plans for the estab
lishment of a bar iron plant to cost
$20,000,000 are said lo have been form
ulated here. The promoters are Amer
ican millionaires represented by F.
H. Clarke, a New York lawyer.
Murder and Suicide in New York
Restaurant.
New York.—Dressed in her best
clothing and with three loaded revol
vers in her big sable muff, Mrs. May
Roberts Clark walked into R. H. Ma
cey & Co.’s restaurant when that place
was crowded and shot and killed
Frank P. Brady, who was employed in
the advertising department of the
Evening Telegram. The woman then
shot herself, dying two hours later
in the New York hospital.
Moravian Barley and Speltr,
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The Reason for Marrying.
“They say that he married her for
her money.”
“And what did he do when she lost
her wealth?”
“He lost his reason.”—Harvard
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This is the law of benefits between
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Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co.
From the Railway World, January j, igoS.
Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the
cause of economic reform has been in no wise
abated by the panic which he and his kind did
so much to bring on, is out with an answer to
President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana. The publication of this an
swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev
eral weeks, “for business reasons,” because it
was not deemed advisable to further excite
the public mind, which was profoundly dis
turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm
clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis
sioner rushes again into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief points
in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as
presented by President Moffett, were (1) that
the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to
East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard
, Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes
of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file
with the Interstate Commerce Commission was
a class and not a commodity rate, never being
intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was
shipped in large quantities between Whiting
and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East
ern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds,
which has been filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4)
that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of
proportion to lawful rates on other commodi
ties between these points of a similar char
acter, and of greater value, such, for example,
as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was
eight cents. President Moffett also stated that
thousands of tons of freight had been sent by
other shippers between these points under
substantially the same conditions as governed
the shipments of the Standard Oil Company.
This defence of the Standard Oil Company
-was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert
ed a powerful influence upon the public mind.
Naturally the Administration, which has
staked the success of its campaign against
the “trusts” upon the result of its attack upon
this company, endeavors to offset this influ
ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com
missioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebut
tal argument is extremely weak, although as
strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would
warrant. He answers the points made by Presi
dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The
Standard Oil Company hada traffic department,
and should have known that the six-cent rate
had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate
because it read, not from Whiting, but from
Holton, which is described as “a village of
about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago.
Its only claim to note is that it has been for
many years the point of origin for this and
similar secret rates.” The Commissioner ad
mits in describing this rate that there was a
note attached stating that the rate could also
be used from Whiting.
The press has quite generally hailed this
statement, of the Commissioner of Corpora
tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi
dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal
argument advanced by the Standard.
In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the
remainder of his argument. The lines of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into
Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which
point entrance is made over the Belt Line.
Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not
on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
which receives its Whiting freight from the
Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now
discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make
them read from a point on the line of the fil
ing road, and it was also general to state on
the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to
other points, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago &
Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing
its rate from Dolton, and making a note on
the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was
in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was
in common use.
Now let us see in what way the intending
shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by
the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
had not filed a rate reading from Whiting.
Commissioner Smith contends that “conceal
ment is the only motive for such a circuitous
arrangement,” i. e., that this method of filing
the rate was intended to mislead intending
competitors of the Standard Oil Company.
Suppose such a prospective oil refiner had ap
plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission
for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis
over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would
have been informed that the only rate filed
with the commission by this company was 6*4
cents from Dolton, and he would have been
further informed, if indeed he did not know
this already, that this rate applied throughout
Chicago territory. So that whether he wished
to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere
else about Chicago, under an arrangement of
long standing, and which applies to all the in
dustrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica
go, he could have his freight delivered over
the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi
nois at Dolton and transported to East St.
Louis at a rate of *6% cents. Where then is
the concealment which the Commissioner of
Corporations makes so much of? Any rate—
from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap
pell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois
Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island,
applies throughout Chicago territory to ship
ments from any other point in the district.
So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate
from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper,
it is the Commissioner of Corporations who
either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor
tation customs in Chicago territory or relies
on the public ignorance of these customs to
deceive the public too apt to accept unques
tioningly every statement made by a Govern
ment official as necessarily true, although, as
in the present instance, a careful examination
shows these statements to be false.
The final point made by President Moffett
that other commodities of a character similar
to oil were carried at much lower rates than
18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations
discusses only with the remark that “the
‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in question.
The question is whether this rate constituted
a discrimination as against other shippers of
oil,” and he also makes much of the failure of
President Moffett to produce before the grand
jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of
which the Standard Oil official said that other
large shippers in the territory had been guilty.
Considering the fact that these shippers in
cluded the packers and elevator men of Chi
cago the action of the grand jury in calling
upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of
their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de
mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but
the fact that a rate-book containing these
freight fates for other shippers was offered in
evidence during the trial and ruled out by
Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. Presi
dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the
invitation of the grand jury although he might
have been pardoned if he had referred them
to various official investigations by the Inter
state Commerce Commission and other de
partments of the Government.
We come back, therefore, to the conclusion
of the whole matter, which is that the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an
amount equal to seven or eight times the val
ue of its entire property, because its traffic
department did not verify the statement of
the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod
ity rate on oil had been properly filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no
evidence, and none was introduced at the trial,
that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory
had been interfered with by the lS-cent rate
nor that the failure of the Alton to file its six
cent rate had resulted in any discrimination
against any independent shipper,—we must
take this on the word of the Commissioner
of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither
is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "inde
pendent’’ shipper of oil, whom he pictures as
being driven out of business by this discrim
ination of the Alton, could have shipped all
the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via
Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, Presi
dent Moffett's defence is still good, and we
predict will be so declared by the higher court.
The Standard Oil Company has been charged
with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors.
Beginning with the famous Hice of Marietta,
passing down to that apostle of popular liber
ties, Henry Demurest Lloyd, writh his Wealth
Against the Commonwealth, descending by
easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive person
alities, we finally reach the nether depths of
unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the
report of the Commissioner of Corporations.
The Standard has been charged with every
form of commercial piracy and with most of
the crimes on the corporation calendar. After
long years of strenuous attack, under the
leadership of the President of the United
States, the corporation is at last dragged to
the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings.
The whole strength of the Government is di
rected against it, and at last, we are told, the
Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of
its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav
ing failed to verify the statement of a rate
clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum,
measured by the car. Under the old criminal
law, the theft of property worth more than a
shilling wfas punishable by death. Under the
interpretation of the Interstate Commerce law
by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw
Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is
made the excuse for the confiscation of a ^ast
amount of property.
What you cannot avoid, learn to
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