Thousands of American women
in our homes aro daily eacfiflcing
their lives to duty.
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the cliildrcn well dressed
and tidy, women overdo. A female
weakness or d ir.placcment is often
brouphton find they suffer in silence,
drifting alonjr from bad to worse,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome tho pains and
aches which daily make life a burden.
It is to theso faithful women that
LYDIAE.HN KHAKI'S
VEGETABLE C0.V.P0US.D
comes as a boon and a blessing,
aa it did in Mrs. V. ElUwnrth. nf
Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P.
Boyd, of Bearer Falls, Pa., who say:
" I was not aWo to do my own work,
owing1 to the female trouble from which
I Buffered. Lydin K. Pinkhain's Vcpc
tablcCompound lielped me wonderfully,
and I am so well that I can do as big a
day's work ns I ever did. I wish every
sick woman would try it.
FACTS FC?2 SICK WORSEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. l'ink
ham's Vcgctablo Compound, maflo
from roots and herbs, has been the
Biauuaru remedy ior iemaio im.
and has posi I i vely cured thousands of
women who have boon troubled with
displacements, inllammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bcar-nig-down
feeling, llatulency,indigcs
tion,liz7,inesR,orneivousprostration. Why don't you try it ?
airs. Pinkhnra invites all slok
women to write her for advice.
She lias riiiletl thousands to
health. Address, lynn, Mass.
Ilia Slnarvlnr Infirmity.
"What is your name, little boy?" ask
ed the teacher.
"I'll have to write it for you, ma'am,"
aid the new boy, hesitatingly.
"I think not. My hearing is quite
food. Your name, please?"
PJ ntlH ...II t
A U 1U11II-L IllJL It'll , UU.
"Are you aslmmeJ of your name?"
"No, ma'am, but "
"Then we will not waste any more
time, if you please. I am waiting."
The boy '8 eyes rolled wiUlly in their
Rockets and his face became contorted as
he bejian :
"Kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk Clarence !
That's my first name. The other is I'up-pup-pup-pun-pup-inp
Perkins! P never
stutter 'cent when I'm speaking my name,
and when I'm n airbed like this I'm a
whole lot worse, ma'am."
Not Hard to Do.
The writer of detective Ktorlos laid
down his pen with a slgli of relief.
"There!" be said. "I've worked out
the problem. All I've got to do now Is
to build up n tneiisly plot to fit It."
Looking thruiiKb the first page col
umns of the Daily Blood and Thunder
be soon found a suitable crime, and
with the aid of Poo's Tules of Mystery
he had no dithVulty iu rigging up the
Intervening Incidents.
CASTOR I A
For Inf&nts end Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Grandfather's Cure for
Constipation
REAT mcilicine, the SawbucX.
Two hour3 a day sawing wood
will keep anyone's B o w e 1 a
regular.
No need of pills. Cathartics, Castor f.;l,
nor "Physic," if you'll only work the S ,w
buck regularly.
Exercise Is Nature's Cure for Constipa
tion and, a Ten-Mile walk -will do. If yor
haven't got t wood-pile.
But, If you will take your Exercise In an
Easy Chair, there's only one way to do that,
because, there's only one kind of Artificial
lEierclse for the Bowols and its name is
i'CASCARETS."
Cascarets are the only means to exircisa
the Bowel Muscles without work.
They cfon't Purge, Gripe, nor "ipset
your Stomach," because they don't act like
"Physics."
They don't flush out your Bowels and
Intestines with a co:My waste of Digestive
Juice, as Salts, Castor Oil, Calomel, Jalap,
or Aperient Waleis clways do.
NoCascare'.a .trcnjjthen and stimulate
the Bowel Muscfcs. tiut lino the Food
passages and that tighten up when fooj
toucan them, thus driving the food to its
fuih-v .
A Cascaret acta on your Bowel Muscles
as If you had just sawed a cord of wood, or
walked tin miles.
Cascarets move the Food Naturally,
digesting It without waste of" tomorrow's
'Cash-to Juice. "
The thin, flat, Ten-Cent Box Is made
ite tit your Vest pocket, or "My Lady's"
Parse. Druggists -10 Cents a Boi.
Carry U con.itvntly with you and take a
jCaiouet whenever you sune-t you need
Be very careful to get Uie genuine
made only by the Sterling Remedy Com
pany, and never sold In wulk. Every tab
let tumped 'vGCG.'r at
I 1 i
lWS OFCENT HOOKS
Homy Milnor Uidooiil enlivens 'Ids
new tale with the usual touch of mys
tery mul sudden- disaster. "Admirals
Agt" It Is culled. It is the story,
pier.siintly told, of tin adventure-loving
boy who xrows up In n remote light
house vIIImko. The descriptions are re
frisliinIy Mig'-ji-Htlve of green hills nnd
rimuliu water. The Illustrations, too,
are especially charming u frontispiece
by Martin Justice and eleven little ma
rine drawing by Charles V. Wood
bury.
I:i "The Memoirs of Monsieur Claude,
Chlcr of Police t'nder tho Second Um
pire." we nre given a book of a u,u:il
Ity nltogether tinliii. Added to the
eiig:iKlng mystery of ' th Sherlock
Iloimes stories, the somewhat sinister
attraction of "Les M.vsteres de Paris"
and the morbid Interest of l'oe's detect
ive tales are elements of yuito ft differ
ent order tho accuracy of au Impart
tlal historian, the nutliorlty of a par
ticipant, the authenticity of an eye
witness. Fifty years of the Inner his
tory of the most Interesting capital in
the world forms the subject mutter of
this book. The man most Intimately
acquainted with all Its strange and sur
prising happenings Is the writer. The
secret motives of famous nion, the un
known causes of great events; all the
hidden, eccentric, yet powerful ui:
chinery which during the reign of
I.ouis Philippe nnd the Second Umpire
drove the French ship of state on her
devious course Is here laid bare. Nor
are Incidental episodes wanting, stories
characterized by till those jualitlos
which make truth so much more and
s mr.oli less than fiction that lncom
ph'te'iess, unexpectedness nnd apparent
liii'oiisi'ipience which si surely mid
sharply distinguish verity from ver
isimilitude. A. K. V. Mason's reputation us a tell
er of an . absorbing story Is too great
for surprise at nuy excellent thing
Unit colnes from his pen, but "The
I'i'okeii Kond," ills novel of England
and India, seems to rest on a level not
bit 'lerto 'iiUiiIned by him. It Is not
only marked by a knowledge of Indian
and Anglo-Indian conditions that allow
bin: t. write entirely at his ease, but
also by a reserve In his power that
gives to the reader unquestioning confi
dence In the author's conclusions.
While the story Is ostensibly concerned
with the tragedies and mutations con
nected with the interrupted building of
a great governmental road In the hill
country, it really turns on tho educa
tion in Kngland of an Indian prince,
She re All, heir to the throne of Chil
tistan. His apparently complete assim
ilation of western Ideas and acquies
cence in the restrictions of English rule
In India fall off when he goes hack to
his native country, and his return to
the ideals of his own people and his
own religion ppenks his doom. Hut
that catastrophe does not come until
his heart is broken with despair wh-n
he realizes that he Is after all of the
subjugated and despised race. There
Is a woman In the tale who works woe
ful mischief, although she is technical
ly good, nnd only has too pronounced a
taste for pearls. Apart from the de.p
Interest of the story the reader seems
to be listening to n denunciation of
great wrong ns he reads, and It Is this
quality of earnestness In the work that
sounds a new und n higher note.
A Winter Hat.
"Does your husband take any Inter
est In your clothes?" asked Mrs. Kim
ball of her pretty friend, Mrs. Archer.
"Of course, Mr. Kimball likes to see me
well dressed," she added, "but I do
wish he'd sometimes say whether he
liked a thing or not"
Mrs. Archer smiled as she answered
demurely, "Oh, yes, Mr. Archer takes a
great Interest In what I wear. Only
lust winter lie bought me a hat."
"Bought you a hat himself! Why,
wasn't It sweet of hliu!' exclaimed her
friend.
"Yes, It was." admitted Mrs. Archer,
ni:d ag:iln site smiled.
"1 was trying to be economical nnd
v.ear my last year's bat. which uever
hr.il been a success; but that poor boy
i n;;!,;;i'r endure ii." Yh;:l "poor boy"
was a powerful man measuring sis
feet two.
"Well, it got to lie about the middle
ii." I leceinlxT. and one night he came
lion:-' bringing in his own hand a Imnd
luix. I never shall forjret bis look of
Ulur.ipli and pleasure as he ociicd It
: vl slid. 'There. Louise! That's the
!i..;l iif ii bat I like to see you wear!'
! was lovely, too. nil trimmed with
l!:ik ros.'s mil clillTon; but, do you
know, the p ir dear, never noticed thut
it was str:;w!"
A l.lttl Snrcuntlo,
All old woman went Into a grocer'
end ordered a penny worth of currotl.
U:.t Le'iiig sewed she inquired, "IVy
ii, ;!::. iw something In wi" them?"
i'i. K" replied the greengrocer; "If
e wait a minute I'll l lira w In a sock
' lettics a: is a barrel i' apples an' a
r. d'viiuv'g'it o turnips an' a box o'
...-.res'. An"." be shouted, as the old
i,.:. in 'loom-cd out of the shop, "when
.. ! uv I'll thraw in the horse an'
r:' !; '( r en. satlsl'i! then, come
fur tli- shop!" London Mail.
A :.nl l.e.iiilu f'U-ture.
A cn,i';tiyiiia:i bai i tied with a Cal
. i in;. i photographer fur a half length
'' himself at half price, und
lie. i ihe artist delivered a tine view
f I lie .:!ij.'ct from the waistband
I iwn Ihe vli'li.-iiUed witter indulged iu
'.. arks more forcible tliau polite.--".nliii!e!p!il.'i
Inquirer.
fr'alul Honor.
JiiiiKou Whan became of that umn
a'io uud tweutyieveu Liedals, for sar
i g o ple frtin drowning? Djck;
. 'rV r lie fell' Iu one day when he
'"1 Mieiu nil :il. und the weight of 'em
; i k hi'i'.
.uany people have a hubit of finding
fault iut witli a view of bettering eoii-.'itlo.-i.
hilt to satisfy a petty desire to
5 Old Favorites s
1 1 i 1 1 S f 1 1 f 5 1 f 1 1 f 1 1 f
th'alfte A riirnrniiFC,
The world Is ntill deceived with omamont
In law, whut plea so tniutcd nnd corrupt,
Hut, being sensonod with n gracious voice,
Obs'urcs the show of evil? In religion,
Whnt dn nined error, but some sober brow
Will lileM It, and approve It with n toxt,
Hiding the crossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on bia outward
parts. s
How ninny enwnrds, whose hearts are
all ns false
As stnlrs of sand, wear yet upon their
chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning
Mnrs;
Who. In wn id senrched, have livers white
ns milk !
And these nss-.iniR but valor's exefement.
To render them, redoubted. Look on
beauty,
And you uliall see 'tis purchased by the
weight.
Which therein works a miracle in nature.
Mukiug them lightest that wear most of
it.
So are those cris'd, snnky, golden locks,
Which make such wanton gambols with
the wind
t'lxjii ttipul fuiiiii, ofttn known
To be the dowry of a sotondAiead,
The skull that bred them in te sepulcher.
Thus ornament is but the gulled shore
To a most dangerous sea ; the beauteous
scarf
' Veiling nn Indian beauty ; In a word,
The seeming truth which cunning tinTes
put on
To entrnp the wisest. Therefore, thou
gnudy gold.
Hard food for Midns, I will none, of thee.
William Shnkspoare.
Of Old Snt I'miliim on the Heights.
Ol old sut 'Freedom on tie) heights,
' The thunders breaking at her feet;
AIhivo her shook tho starry lights:
SIih heard the torrents meet.
There in her place she did rejoice.
Self-gathered in her prophet-mind,
Put fragments of her mighty voice
('ami: rolling on tho wind. (
Then stept she down thro' town nnd Held
To mingle with the human rnce,
And pnrt by pnrt to men reveal'd
The fullness of hot1 face
(irnve mother of majestic works,
From her isle-nltnf gazing down,
Who. God-like, grasps the triple forks,
And, King-like, wenrs the crown.
Her open eyes desire the truth. ,
The wisdom of a thousand years
Is in them. May perpetual youth
Keep dry their light from tears;
That her fair form may stand nnd shine
Make bright bur days and light our
dr,enms,
Turning to scorn, with lips divine,
The falsehood of extremes !
Alfred Lord Tennyson.
MOTHERS SHOULD BE PAST 25
At I.rnat That In the Conclanlon of
Dp, Ilrla Itevena.
Af,ter un exhaustive exnnilnntlon of
the cnuscs that determine the size nnd
weight of newly born . children. Dr.
Hela Kevess! eoiuos to the conclusion
that heredity has nothing to do with
It, says the New York Sun. The Bize
of the child depends entirely on the age
of the mother, lie thinks, nnd the older
she Is the bigger and stronger the child
Is likely to be, regardless of the sta
ture nnd strength either of the pnrents
or grandparents.
Spenklng generally, he finds that the
children of very young mothers ore
likely to be small nnd ill nurtured,
while those born to women more than
U5 are apt to be large and robust. He
considers the reason very simple, the
woman of 25 being fully matured, so
that no nourishment Is expended upon
her development.
From this position the doctor at
tempts to explain the racial character
istics of various peoples. Thus the
Scandinavians, who make late mar
riages, have maintained blgb stature
and robust physique.
On the other hand In the south of
France nnd In southern Italy very
young girls are given In marriage, and
in consequence the rnce has dwindled.
In height and frame and even In en
ergy and Initiative. Hebrews In Po
land are n conspicuous 'example of the
evil of early motherhood. N
The doctor thinks that the same
principle may account for the sinnll
uess of the Japanese, ond he Is sure
It does for the degeneracy of the Hin
class, wherein girls mnrry young, ns
build of city people to be Inferior to
that of peasants, and It tends to cause
physical retrogression In the leisure
class, 'w wherein girls marry young, ns
compared with tho class of workers. In
which the young women have to tnke
up trades or domestic service for sev
eral yeurs before they can marry.
Thv l.lirht of lirnlui,
For more than a week n school teacher
bad ls-en giving lessons on the dog,
says a writer In the Philadelphia ltec
ord. and so when the Inspector came
down and chose that very subject
there seemed every prospect of the
e!i.t--s distinguishing Itself.
Thing were progressing quite satis
factorily, and the teacher was congrat
ulating himself on the trouble he had
taken when, alas! u qii '.iti mi was asked
which made him tremble fo.- the repu
tation of his s-holars.
"Why d:es a dog hair.- his tongue out
of his mouth?" asked the lusp-tor.
my boy?" he said to a brlihr
lonklug lad who in Id up bis lu:id.
while the light of genius was In h!n
i-ye.
"To balance bis tall!" shouted the
bright boy.
Guod Mom Olhrr Tluie.
"Just as Jack was about to kiss me
last night father walked luto the
room."
"Whut did you do?"
"I gave Jack u ruin check." Milwau
kee Sentinel.
What bus become of the old-fashioned
nuiu who said, when he wanted to
abuse a town; "It Is the Juuipliig-orf
pluce?"
A man may be so homely that tlw
reflection of his face would dent a new
I uiilk pan, but he can uuriy.
Xr F.tinnt' Wiitiili'rlnml.
New Zeal and Is n Uud of Cioplnn
colony whe-e women vote nnd poverty
Is tiiiknown, says W. ii. l'i.'::-:;riilil l;i
the Technical World Mag::.'.i;:e. It Is
firstly n panlornl. nr.d sevully nn rg
rlcultural vuntry. Hut It Is mainly
remarkable to the rut,!ldr,r for Its i:i'sr
curious nbirlghii.l race, whose orl'.tln
hns been lost In nbneurlly ; nr.d lor
the thermal "wonderland" of North
Island, where a vnst region has lierti
set apart by the government fi r nil
time as n nnnMrlum for Invcllds.
This region abounds in volcanoes,
many off them over tl.OCO feet high,
whose crater-lips emit steam, vupors.
and poisonous gases. In one of the
mountains u hot. steaming lake lies nt
the bottom of u fuunel-shupcd crater
whose Hrpeti(llculnr sides nre mantled
with snow mul Ice. The land seethes
with lnt sprlnprs. geysers, "porridge
Pots." mud .holes that forever boll, uud
exploding pools.
The t.-U aM-...h'd lo (lie bell boy A a
small New Ili ilin h..:d was n,i sioo
cur'C nnd h- ival.-cd it. fir fin old
;.vn;!c:.ia:i Ki I: id requested that he
lie a'w.tUeiied for an early breakfast
as extri'im ly deaf.
"1 dm t know wh.it I'M do about th
li. an in N . 41, Ilia; wanted to go off
on the 7 o'clock train," the bell lsy
announced htcathlosly to the proprie
tress. "Haven't you waked him np yet?"
demanded that brl!: person.
"I've waked him three tiliics," said
the boy, sulkily, "but he hasn't heard
me yet. Everybody else has, though,
tin that Hour. I know. Ini'ause they've
nil hollered to me to stop buttering on
their ifooi's."
ltrr tartleolnr.
Alexander the (jrvst was explaining to
the reporters how the story originated
that he hud wept because iliere were no
more worlds for hi in to conquer.
"That ridiculous yarn." he said, "was
started by a reactionary wbo happened to
see me wiping a cinder out of my eye.
Hut I've ni'pa rated him from his job in the
treasury department, all right, all right!"
Feeling nalish.vl tluit he could leave the
verdict to impartial history, he dismissed
the reporters with a wave of the imperial
hand. '
rtt.K n rtEn i a to 14 days.
PAi OIXTMK.rr N Biinteeil to cure any
caw nf llrlilm!. HUml, lllirillnu or I'rolrmt
Iti'i l'lir Id ii to 14 U.i.v or motley refunded,
toe.
Sixty carloads of Cunndinn-mnde bar
vesting machinery have been ordered for
Liberia.
Mrs. WIuhIiiw's Sdiitlilng Hyrup for Child
ren teetliliut. uritteii the Slims, rednrei Iu
rJiiiiumitlKii. nllu)S palu, cures wind colic.
1!.- n Iwt tie.
Out of an average annual loss to the
world's shipping of 2.172 vessels, 04 are
completely missing aud never beard of
again.
Wo Aril Hana and Traps Caeap,
Huy Furs A Hides, or tan thera for rebel
& rugs. N W. Hide A Fur Co., Minneapolis
niannted the Proposition.
"All thnt you are, my friend," said the
lecturer, singling out an elderly nmu sit
ting in a front sent, who appeared to be
deeply Interested, "all that you are, I re
peat, you owe to heredity and environ
ment." , "Oosh!" exclaimed the elderly man,
turning red with Indignation, VI never
bnd no dentin's with that Hnn in my life,
and I don't owe them nor nobody else a
b'nnied cent !"
Few men in Europe have had a more
frikitm career than the Itev. Dr. Hishop
Cabrera of the Spanish Reformed church,
Who was educated to the Catholic priest
hood, but embraced the Protestant faith
and became a voluntary exile to Gibral
tar, when he returned to lend the Kvnn
rellcal party i- '- - ws
Msn rrnMi( Woman rMpo.
"No," said the girl with the refrig
erator heart, "I enrt never tie your wife
nnd I'm sure I never give you any
encouragement."
"ICncourngenient 1" echoed the yowig
ninn who wns too dense to realize that
he had won by losing. "Why. eve your
father thlnUs It all settled."
"How do you know he does?" queried
the chilly fnlr one.
"Hecause," explulned the y. m., "be
tried to borrow money from me last
week."
peso of Yale declared that poorer
pupils mnde best scholarships; rich boys
neglected their stud'en.
TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA.
Catlrnra Cared Scnlp TtmMn of
Tin llllnole Glrla Another Slater
Took Callcara Pllla.
"I must give much pralae r all the
Cutlcura Remedies. I used but one
cake of Cutlcura Soap and one box of
Cutlcura Ointment, as that was all that
was required to cure my dlseaae. I
was very much troubled with eczema
of the head, and a friend f mine told
me to use the Cutlcura Remedies, which
I did, and am glad to say that they
cured my ectema entirely. My slater
wns also cured of eczema of the head
by using the Cutlcura Remedies. An
other sister has used Cutlcura Resolv
ent and Pills and thinks they are
splendid tonic. Miss Edith Hammer,
R. r. D. No. , Morrison, IU, Oct, 8,
00.
mm
What a Satlier Can Soctiro In
ISO Ami Cnln-Orowlri nj nttE.
SO t 40 Ba.hl, Wbt to th. Acre
40 to SO Bu.b-I. 0l, to tha Acr.
as Is SO Bu.AkU n..t.. a .L. a
Timbar for Fsnctn and Dtn Wing, FREE.
Good Law with Low Taxalioa.
Splendid Railroad KaciMtie, and Low Rataa,
Schoola aad Churckoa Corvrniant.
Satiafactorr Mark eta for all Productions.
Cood Climate and I'erfocl Hnalth.
Cbancaa for Profitable Investment.
Some of thelchnlceit eraln-produclnf land fl
In thee most bealtblul and prosperous soctiua
nndor the
Revised Homestead Rcgclatics.
conlltlon), liy ttia father. mother, son. (lanrbtec,
brother or sinter of InlenrUrR hnmenteader.
Entry fee In each ens. Is 110.00. For pamphlet
Last Best West." particulars as (o rate, roi-taav
best time to to and where to locate, apply ta
W. D. Scott. Superintendent of Immigrailea,
Ottia, Canada, or K. T. Holmes, in jarkaoaV
St., S-t. Paul, Minn, and ). M. MacLschl .n, Hoa
Ii6, Watertowo, ho. Dakota AUlherued Oeerv
meal Ascnts.
flaaa aaf abar tea aaa tal adHimav
S. C. N. V,
. No. .a ioa.
?.mn, "Ja-Thompson's Eye Wat:r
W-flCW WRfTINO TO ADTKRTlSBanl
aleaae aw laa saNrUHnasi
sa thla napea,
ClOy HOC3 AT ALL VSt-
C FAMILY.
Kyr erticr. rosi
MfMBER OfTH
MEN, BOYS. WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN.
W. L. Pnuolam ntmlrvm mnrt mmUm mere
tltnn any tit ha- manuf actum In Ihm .
XTiS) wnrlri, hoemumo they itolH tlmlr llti
mhtipm, tit haltmr. ymmm on itmr, mntl
JT f "!".fm mn -Cit ' V 7 r-r
w. l. uougias 54 and $5 Gilt Edee Shoet Cannot Be Exjuallerj At Am Price
l Mainreo on tHmom. Tine . Biimtniiw,
fit freni lai-tnry to any pan nf the worlil. Illae
M Km VUliOlaJa, alrackviaa, Ataaa. .
MAITTIIIV. IV I rsnM.ri.n nama mwtA a4Maa la art a. sura nn Knttotn.
J-" fj I"" nfi riur- nntieni fT"i JWOWflb NlUfJsj UMaii
nWU aVUUUlf UW) W aUiJ AuareM.
Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co.
From tht Railway ' World, January j, igoS.
Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose real in the .
cause of economic reform lias been in no wise
abjted by. the panic which he and his kind did
o much to bring on, is out with an answer to
President MofTctt, of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is
officially given out, was delayed several weeks,
"for business reasons," because , it was not
deemed advisable to further excite the public
mind, which was profoundly disturbed by the
crisis. Now that the storm cloud have rolled
by, however, the Commissioner rushes again
into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief points in
the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as
presented by President Moft'ctt, were, (l) that
the rate of six cents on oil from Whiting to
East St. Louis lias 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 beitiff in
tended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in
large quantities between Whiting and Iiast St.
Louis over the Chicago and Eastern Illinois at
six and one-fourth cents per hundred pounds,
which has been filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4)
that the 18-ceni rate on oil wai entirely out of
proportion to lawful rates on other commodities
between these points of a similar character, and
of greater value, such, for example, as linseed
oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents.
President .MofTctt also stated that thousands of
tons of freight hau 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 exerted
1 a powerful influence upon the public mind. Nat
urally the Administration, which has staked the
success of its campaign against the "trusts" up
on tlie result of its attack upon this company,
endtavors to offset this influence, and hence the
new deliverance ot Commissioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal
argument is ektremely weak, although as t,iroii,
no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant,
lie answers the points made by President Mof-ft-tt
substantially as follows: (1) The Standard
Oil Company had a trallic department, and
should have known that the six-cent rate hid
not been tiled, (a.) no answer, (3J the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois rate was a secret :ite be
cause it read, not from Whiting, but 'iron Dol
ton, which is described as "a village of about
,coo population just outside of Chicago. Its
only claim to note is that it has been for many
years thr point of origin for this and similar
secret rates." The Commissioner admits in de
scribing 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 Corporations
as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently
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
Chi-:-go and Eastern Illinois do not run into
Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which
point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whit
ing, where the oil freight originates, is not orl
the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt
Line at Dolton. The former practice, now dis
continued, in filing tariffs was to make thein
read from a point on the line of the filing road,
and it was also general to state 011 the same
sheet, that the tariff would apply to other points,
c. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
followed this practice in tiling its rate from Dol
ton, and making a note on the sheet that is dp
plied 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 and Eastern Illinois
had not filed a rate reading from Whiting.
Commissioner Smith contends thai "concealment
is the only motive for such a circuitous arrange
ment," 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 applied to the Inter
state Commerce Commission for the rate from
Chicago to ast St. Louis over the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed
that the only rate filed with the commission by
this company was b cents from Dolton, and
he would have been further informed, if indeed
he did not know this already, that this rate ap
plied throughout Chicago territory. So that
whether he wished to locate his plant at Whit
ing, or anywhere else about Chicago, tinder nn
arrangement of long standing, and which applies
to all the industrial towns iu the neighborhood
k of Chicago, he could have his freight delivered
over the Belt Line to tha Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St.
Louis at a rate of 6 cents. Where then is the
concealment which the Commissioner of Corpo
rations makes so much off Any rate from
Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappell on
the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or
Blue Island on the Rock Island.applie through
out Chicago territory to shipments from Whit
ing, as to shipments 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 trans-'
portation customs in Chicago territory or relics
on the public ignorance of these customs to
deceive the public too apt to accept unucstion
ingly rvciy statement m? it by a Government
ollicial as .ecessahly tnu . 'al'Uough, as iu the
present .nuiicc, a carcfui 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 Comniissioner 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 MofTctt
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 ter
ritory bad been guilty. Considering the fact
that these shippers included the packers and ele
vator men of Chicago the action of the grand
jury in calling upon President Moffett to fur
nish evidence of their wrong-doing may be in
terpreted as a demand for an elaboration of th
obvious; but the fact that a rate-book contain
ing these freight rates for other shippers was
offered in evidence during the trial ond ruled
out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight.
President Moffett would not, of course, accept
the invitation of the grand jury although bo '
might have been pardoned if he had referred
them to varions official investigations by ths
Interstate Commerce Commission and other de
partments of tht Government. '
We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of
the whole matter, which is that the Standard
.Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount
equal io seven or eight times the value of its
entirs property, because its traffic department
did sot verify the statement of the Alton rate
clerk, that the six-cent commodity rate on oil
had been properly filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission. There is no evidence, and
none was introduced at the trial, that any ship
ment of oil from Chicago territory had been in
terfered with by the eightecn-cent rate nor that
the failure of the Alton toYile its six-cent rate
had resulted sn any discrimination against any
independent shipper, we must take this on tho
word of ths Commissioner of Corporations and
of Judge Landis, Neither is it denied even by
Mr. Smith that the "independent" shipper of ilJ
whom he pictures U being driven out of business
by this discrimination of the Alton, could hav
shipped all the U he desired to ship from Whit
ing via Dolton sver the lines of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois to East St Louis. In short
President Moffett' s defence is still good, and wo
predict will be so declared by the higher court
The Standard Oil Company has been charged
with all manner of crimes and n'.bnier-ors.
Bcginning with the famous Kic: oi Marietta,
passing down to that apostle of j -'-pnlar liber
ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth
Against the Commonwealth, dcsccutliii by easy
stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive personalities,
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 commer
cial piracy and with most of the crimes on tho
corporation calendar. After long years of stren
uous attack, under the leadership of the Presi
dent 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 Gov
ernment is directed against it, and at last, wo
are told, ths Standard Oil Company is to pay '
the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally con
victed of having failed to verify the statement
of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodig
ious sum, measured by the car. Under the old
criminal law, the theft of property worth more
than a shilling was 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 vast
nount of property.
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