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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10, NUMBER Bt
. GETTING BEADY '
"Your, father ain't a real doctor,
yot."
"Yes he is."
"Nope. Ho'g just practicing med
icine." Woman's Homo Companion.
4 MODERN MARY
Mary had a little skirt
Tied tightly in a bow,
And everywhere that Mary went
Sho simply couldn't go.
Harper's Bazaar.
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The greatest 'opportunity today is In Eastern Oklahoma, where the
U. S. Government has recently removed all restrictions from the
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The German steamer Palermo is a now vice president of the federal
council and chief of the department
of the interior. M. Ferrer occupied
the presidency in 1906. The retiring
president is Robert Comtess.
total wreck off Capo Corrubodo on
the west coast of Galicia, Spain.- Her
five passengers and crew of nineteen
were lost.
The liberals of Guayaquil and
Quito have designated Alfredo Baque
rlao Moreno as their candidate Xor
the presidency. The elections will
be held on January 8.
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The Iowa supreme court denied
damages to B. H. Rockwell, editor
of the Farmington (Iowa) Herald,
who was treated to a coat of tar and
feathers by fellow townsmen in
January, 1908.
Announcement was made by the
Yale University authorities of a gift
of $100,000 to the Yale forest school
by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman,- for
establishing a chair in forest man
agement in memory of her husband.
Robin Cooper who, with his father,
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, was
charged with the murder 'of ex-Senator
Edward W. Carmaclc, in Nash
ville, Tenn., In the fall of 1908, was
married at LouiBvllle, Ky., to Miss
Eva Lee Smith, daughter of Presi
dent Milton H. Smith of tho T.mH-
ville and Nashville railroad.
The Chicago nolice had a cilsinh
with the striking garment workers.
One working man' was shot dond
while several police officers were in
jured.
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The will of the late Marv Balcnr
Eddy was filed for probate and a
uoncora, n. a., dispatch says: " 'For
the purpose of more effectually pro
moting the religion of Christian
Science as taught by me Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, in her will filed here
makes the mother church of Boston
her residuary legatee, after various
other bequests. Among these is one
of $100,000 to the Christian Science
board of directors, to be held in
trust for the "purpose of providing
free instruction for 'indigent Chris
tian Scientists.' In addition to the
previous gifts to her son, George W.
Glover, of Lead, S. D., $10,000 is
given him in the will, and 'the same
is given each of his five children. Dr.
E. J. Foster-Eddy, her adopted son,
gets $5,000; Calvin A. Frye, $20,000,
and there are several more bequests
of $1,000 to $3,000 to relatives and
attendants of the Eddy household
By codicils Mrs. Eddy directs that
an indebtedness on the church edifice
of the Second Church of Christ,
Scientist, in New York, shjill be can
celed from her estate and bequeathes
her 'crown of diamonds' breastpin
to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson of New
York. The will was filed by Henry
M. Baker, the executor. It was exe
cuted on September 13, 1901, and"
re-executed as an original will No
vember 7, 1903, the previous will
having been lost or mislaid. There
are two codicils, the first dated No
vember 7, 1903, and the second May
Andrew Carnegie has . appointed
Elihu Root and a number of other
men as trustees of "the Carnegie
peace fund" and haB transferred to
them ten million dollars of 5 per N
cent bonds, the interest to be used
in advancing the cause of peace.
Tho next world's convention of the
World's Christian Endeavor Union
will be held in Sydney, Australia, in :
1914.
Federal secret service agents raid
ed bucket shops at Chicago, carried
on by tho Capitol Investment company.
At Berne, Switzerland, the federal
assembly in Joint session of the na
tional and state councils elected
Maroh-Emile Ruchet, president of the
Swiss confederation for 1911. Louis
Ferrer was chosen vice president of
the federal council. M. Ruchet is
William Cleburne, who surveyed
the original route for the Union Pa
cific railroad, died in" Newport, Ky.,
aged 86 years.
The Oklahoma criminal court of
appeals decided that conducting a
turf exchange is a violation of tho
state gambling law.
Attorney General Byers of Iowa in
a brief filed with the Btate railroad
commission advocated government
ownership of express companies..
The strike of the Missouri, Paciflo
machinists, bojlermakers and black
smiths, which has been in progress
for . nearly seven months, nrobablv
will h' nnlWl ntf ' '
it -. - 3- s &
After having escaped with-Tils life
from many wrecks, W. S. Richard
son, the oldest engineer in point of
service on the Chesapeake and Ohio
system was killed.
'
Newspaper editors cannot trifla
with the .courts in Washington. An
Associated Press dispatch' from
Seattle says: "For criticising tho
superior court in connection with the
granting of a temporary injunction
to the Puget Sound Electric Railway
company, Leroy Sanders, publisher
of the Seattle Evening Star, was ad
judged in contempt of court and sen
tenced to four months in the county
jail; Hugh Allen, managing editor,
was sentenced to thirty days In jail,
and the Star Publishing company
Sufeicrifcers' Advertising Dept.
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of Commoner subscribers, and a special
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the lowest rate has been made for
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The Commonor, Lincoln. Nebraska.
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1 l tlcle for Parlor or Den. Sample 5c,
assorted, dozen 50c; Davis, 1G39 Cham
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DUY A FARM IN CENTRAL MINNE--
sota; prices will surprise you; goofi
soil, water; markets, roads, schools
churches, neighbors, and not least!
"always a good tltlo." Write C. IX
Baker, Fergus Palls, Minnesota, for
lists of 100 farms.
W OTJLDN'T YOU LIKE AN IRRIGAT
vv ed farm In Sunny Southern Idahot
For information, write Harvey Cos
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TO ANTEDAN EXPERIENCED AND
vv practical fafmer who understand
all accessories to profitable farming!
m"vJl,lin&ln th0 clt7 limits of
El Paso with fifty acres of the 'fittest
SmSS ,ch wiy alTord bl profits "J?!:
Ji-We1ni2 ??.htfcmn takes charee ot
it. Eggs sell here for 40 cents th
year around, butter 35 cents, and all
farm products at highest prices. Ad
dress Felix Martinez, Hi Paso, Texai.