What a Settler Can Secure In
WESTERN CANADA
160 Acres Grain-Growing Land FREE.
20 to 40 Bushela Wheat to the Acre.
40 to 90 Bushels Oats to the Acre.
35 to 50 Bushels Barley to the Acre.
Timber for Fencing and Buildings FREE.
Good Laws with l^>w Taxation.
Splendid Railroad Facilities and Low Rates.
Schools and Churches Convenient.
Satisfactory Markets for all Productions.
Good Climate and Perfect Health.
Chances for Profitable Investments.
Some of thelcholcest grain-producing lands In
Saskatchewan and Alberta may now be acquired
fa these most healthful and prosperous sections
tmder the
Revised Homestead Regulations
by which entry m ay be made by proxy (on certain
conditions), by the father, mother, son, daughter,
brother or sister of Intending homesteader.
Entry fee in each case is $10.00. For pamphlet.
Last Best West,” particulars as to rates, routes,
best time to go and where to locate, apply to
W. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration,
Ottawa, Canada, or E. T. Holmes, 315 Jackson
Paul, Minn.; I. M. MacLacnlan, Box 116
Watertown. South Dakota, and W. V. Bennett,
ioi New York Life Building, Omaha, Neb.,
Authorized Government Agents
Plaaaa say whara you saw thin advertisement,
8IOUX CITY PHPG CO,f 1,227—5, 1908
The lyre bird of Australia is the
largest song bird. It is about the size
of an English pheasants
We Sell Guns and Traps Cheap,
Buy Furs & Hides, or tan them for robes
ft rugs. N W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis
The Japanese will never sleep with
their heads to the north, but their dead
are always burled that way.
Back-Handed Munificience.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
They were making a special collection
In a Kansas church. Old Mr. Budd,
who never gave more than 2 cents,
was seen to place a slip of paper In the
box. The deacon could not help whis
pering to him:
‘‘This is Indeed generous, Brother
rudd," as he hurried down the aisle.
‘‘Well. I hope you’ll not think It's
a dollar bill, for It ain’t. It a receipted
bill for the kerosene the church for
got to pay me for last year.”
WOBN OUT WOMEN
Will Find Encouragement In Mr*.
Merritt’* Advice.
Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 S. First
Ave.. Anoka, Minn., says: “Last win
ter I began to suffer with my kidneys.
I bad pains in my
back and hips and
felt all worn out.
Dizzy spells bothered
me and the kidney
secretions were Irreg
ular. The first box
of Doan's Kidney
Pills brought decided
relief. 1 am sure
th^y would do the
same for any other
as I did.”
Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburu Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Explained.
Evelyn—It's like this: Just at the
stroke of midnight, you hold a mirror
before your face and waik around the
house backwards.
Loralne—Yes, and then
Evelyn—Well, If none of the young
men at the party take the trouble to
follow you and look over your shoulder
so you can see the face of your future
husband, why that proves that your
chances of getting married are ex
tremely remote.
The "swellhead” that follows a spree
differs from the other variety In that
its possessor Is angry about It.
now Ltnacn uoi inc money. gw
From the Financial Dept, of the New York
Evening post.
One of the interesting questions of
our recent raid on London's gold was,
how that city managed to send us near
ly $70,000,000 of the precious metal In
November and still leave the Bank of
England, the country’s gold repository,
with gold holdings $7,500,000 larger on
November 30 than on November 1. The
November statement of the British
Board of Trade, at hand, gives the an
swer; It is rather remarkable. In all,
Great Britain exported In November
$19,000,000 more gold than it imported.
Of the month’s $75,900,000 total exports,
$69,600,000 were shipped to the United
States.
Everyone knows that the new gold
from the Transvaal and a gold loan by
the Bank of France helped to make
good this heavy loss; the official figures
show', however, only $10,000,000 re
ceived from South Africa, and $16,500,000
from France. Whence did the $29,000,000
balance of imports come? India
appears to have sent only $800,000,
and Australia only $600,000, therefore
two of England’s greatest reliances
failed her in the emergency. During
that period of crisis, Berlin was in
financial staits; yet the Board of Trade
figures disclose the extraordinary fact
that Germany sent to England in No
vember, $23,300,000 gold, or more than
came from any other single quarter.
How did Germany spare this gold? The
question is perplexing. None of it could
have come from Russia, for the Im
perial bank at St. Petersburg reported
as large gold holdings at the end of the
month as at its beginning. As for the
German Imperial bank, its specie re
serve decreased only $17,500,000 in No
vember. Is it conceivable that the
American demand, operating through
London, actually drained Germany's
coin circulation?
sTr*. Winslow's soo-ranra nr jut t i»r nuiitw
teething-, softens the gums, reduces inf emautuon. s'
bjs psln enrw wind j-n- oent.- it bottle
Couldn’t Be Bluffed.
"If you kiss me again, I will call
mama.”
"Well, I don’t mind. She is still a
young looking woman.”
^ mm
The
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acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine—manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
The finest household furniture In the
world will look poor and tired out when
piled In a mover’s wagon.
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Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co.
From the Railway World., January j, 1908.
*
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 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 clouds have rolled
by, however, the Commissioner rushes again
into the frav.
Our readers, remember that the chief points in
• the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as
presented by President Moffett, were, (i) that
the rate 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 in
tended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in
large quantities between Whiting and East 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-cent rate on oil was 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 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 exerted
m powerful influence upon the public mind. Nat
, urally the Administration, which has staked the
success of its campaign against the "trusts” up
on the result of its attack upon this company,
endeavors to offset this influence, and hence the
new deliverance of Commissioner Smith.
We need.hardly to point out that his rebuttal
argument is extremely weak, although as strong,
no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant.
.( He answers the points made by President Mof
fett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard
Oil Company had a traffic department, and
^ ahould have known that the six-cent rate had
not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate be
cause it read, not from Whiting, but from Dol
ton, 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 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
Chicago 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 on
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 them
read from a point on the line of the filing 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 and Eastern Illinois
followed this practice in filing its rate from Dol
ton, and making a note on the sheet that is ap
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 that “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 East 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 6% cents from Dolton, and
lie 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, under an
arrangement of long standing, and which applies
to all the industrial towns in the neighborhood
of Chicago, he could have Ins freight delivered
over the Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St.
Louis at a rate of 6;4 cents. Where then is the
concealment which the Commissioner of Corpo
rations makes so much of?" 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,applies through
out Chicago territory to shipments from Whit
ing, as to shipments from any other point in the
district. So far from tile 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 relies
on the public ignorance of these customs to
deceive the public too apt to accept unquestion
ingly every statement made by a Government
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 ter
•
ritory had 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 the
obvious; but the fact that a rate-book contain
ing these freight rates for other shippers was
offered in evidence during the trial and ruled
out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight.
President Moffett would not, of course, accept
the invitation of the grand jury although he
might have been pardoned if he had referred
them to varions official investigations by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and other de
partments of the 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 to seven or eight times the value of its
entire property, because its traffic department
did not 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 eighteen-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 “independent” shipper of oil,
whom he pictures as being driven out of business
by this discrimination of the Alton, could have
shipped all the oil he desired to ship from Whit
ing via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short,
President 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 Rice of Marietta,
passing down to that apostle of popular liber
ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth
Against the Commonwealth, descending 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 w ith every form of commer
cial piracy and with most of the crimes on the
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, we
are told, the 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 ia
made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast
amount of property. |
Went Short on Clothes.
From the Telegraph.
"Your husband will be all right,
now,” said an English doctor to a
woman whose husband was dangerous
ly 111.
"What do you mean?” demanded the
wife. "You told me he couldn’t live a
fortnight.”
"Well. I’m going to cure him. after
all," said the doctor. "Surely you are
glad?"
The woman winked her brows.
"Puts me In a bit of an ’ole." she
eald. "I’ve bln an’ sold all his clothes
to pay for his funeral!”
how's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for
any case of Catarrh that cannot l>e cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY St CO., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business trans
actions. and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
Waldino, Kinnan &. Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of tbe system. Testimonials sen\
free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Egotist.
From Fllcgende Blatter.
The teacher was endeavoring to ex
plain the meaning of "egotism," to the
class.
“Who Is It” he said, "who expects
never to be neglected, who expects the
oest of everything. Imagines that he Is
the centre of everything, who never
thinks of or does anything for any
body else but expects everything done
lor him?"
"Please, teacher," said a small boy,
one of a large family, "tho baby."
Moravian Hurley nnd Spelts,
two great oercnls. makes growing nnd fat
tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak..
Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere, nnd
add to above Salzer’s Billion Dollar
Grass, the 12 ton Ilay wonder Teosinte,
which produces 80 tons of green fodder
per acre, Emperor William Oat prodigy,
etc., and other rare farm seeds that they
offer.
JUST OUT THIS OCT AND RETURN IT
with 10c in stamps to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co , La Crosse, Wis., and get their
big catalog and lots of farm seed sam
ples. C. N\ IT.
How He Did It.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Early In the morning session, when
the pupils wore feeling bright and hap
py, the teacher thought It a good plan
to give them sentences to correct, both
as to grammar and sense. She accord
ingly wrote on the blackboard:
"The hen has four legs. He done
It”
Thoughtful little Ignatius, at the foot
of the class, pondered deeply, and at
the end of 15 minutes' time allowed
for correction, he wrote:
"He didn’t done It. God done It."
TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA.
Cutleura Cured Scalp Troubles of '
Two Illinois Girls—Another Sister ■
Took Cutleura Pills.
“I must give much praise to all the
Cutleura Remedies. I used but one |
cake of Cutleura Soap and one box of I
Cutleura Ointment, ns that was all that
was required to cure my disease. I
was very much troubled with eczema
of the head, nnd a friend of mine told
ne to use the Cutleura Remedies, which
I did, and am glad to say that they
Jured my eczema entirely. My sister
was also cured of eczema of the head
0y using the Cutleura Remedies. An
other sister has used Cutleura Resolv
ent and Pills and thinks they are a
splendid tonic. Miss Edith Hammer,
R. V. D. No. 0, Morrison, 111., Oct. 3.
•06. _ _
What’s in a Name?
From the Baltimore American.
"Old Amy. you know, who Is famous
for being arrested, has been sent to jail
Again. But as she weighs nearly 300
pounds and Is a good lighter It took
aearly all the reserve force to get her
In the wagon.
“Then the magistrate who sent her
to Jail ought to be arrested, too.”
“Why so?”
"Didn’t he commit big Amy?"
Ottly Oue “BROMO QUININB"
mat la LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look
for the signature of K. W. GROVE. Uaed the
World over to Cure a Colo In One day. 25c.
New York paid last year 221,000,000
in Interest and will pay this year 224,
000,000, about the same as the federal
government.
Sugar Is to be found In the sap of
aearly 200 plants and trees.
FOR SALE or exchange, horses, cat
tle. wagons, harnesses, buggies, hay,
city property and farm lands. Will sell
any of the above property on weekly
or monthly payments J. Mulhall, Sioux
City, la._ _ _
T rained.
Mr. Goodlle—"My boy. you'd never
hear me use language like that.”
The Kid—"I bet you don't. Why It
took me flve years to learn all dem
words.”
A Wonderful Record.
Many so-called “specifics” and
"cures" for Rheumatism have already
been brought before the public; but
when Rheumatism, Neuralgia and kin
dred diseases have become chronic and
threaten serious results, you may rest
assured thnt they will help hut very
little. If any. Although not recom
mended as •Infallible,” the peculiar
qualities of St. Jacobs Oil especially
adapt it to those cases which may be
termed “chronic,” and which have pre
viously withstood all known "speci
fics,” as well as the prescriptions of
the best physicians.
A Handicap.
Mammy-Why, whut happened to my
chile at de Hallowe'en party?
Little Remus—Boo-booi When dey
bobbed foh apples dey made a rule that
I had to git two apples stid of one!
err- --j—
'“"'MEMBER OFTHE FAMILY,
MEN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN.
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men's 92.BO, 93.00and 93.80ahoaa *•
than any other manufacturei* In the . .
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W. L Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Anj Pries
W“ rAtJ'flOlV. W. I. Douglas name and price Is stamped on bottom. Tnkr lfs testa.
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HOUSE
WORK
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
LYDIA E.PINKHAM’5
VEGETABLE COMPOUHD
comes as a boon and a blessing,
as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of
Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P.
Boyd,of Beaver Falls, Pa.,who say:
“ I was not able to do my own work,
owing to the female trouble from whiob
I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
tableCompound helped me wonderfully,
and I am so well that I can do as big a
day’s work as I ever did. I wish every
sick woman would try It.
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkbam invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
There is a successful fox farm on
Prince Edward island. Skins In their
green condition are valued at from $200
to $250 each, one or two reaching $460.
$36 week and expenses to men with rig t*
introduce poultry compound. Write quick
ly. Grant Co., Dept. 27. Springfield. 111.
When a man hates to leave home that
Is a sign he Is getting old.
Taking the flags of 25 national pow
ers, red Is to be found In 19 of them.
Grandfather’s Cure for
Constipation
REAT medicine,—the Sawbuck.
l( 9 Two hours a day sawing wood
\V'*T7 will keep anyone's Bowels
I regular.
No need of pills, Cathartics, Castor Oil,
nor "Physic,” If you'll only work the Saw
buck regularly.
• * *
Exercise is Nature’s Cure for Constipa
tion and,—a Ten-Mile walk will do. If yoa>
haven't got a wood-pile.
But, If you will take your Exercise In a* <
Easy Chair, there's only one way to do that,
because,—there's only one kind of Artificial.
Exercise for the Bowels and its name 1*
"CASCARETS."
Cascarets are the only means to exercise
the Bowel Muscl-s without work.
* * *
They don’t Purge, Cripe, nor "upset
your Stomach,” because they don’t act Ilka
"Physics.”
They don’t flush out your Bowels and
Intestines with a costly waste of Digestive
Juice, as Salts, Castor Oil, Calomel, Jalap,
or Aperient Waters always do.
No—Cascarets strengthen and stimulate
the Bowel Muscles, that lino the Food
passages and that tighten up when food
touches them, thus driving the food to its
finish.
A Cascaret acts on your Bowel Muscle*
as if you had just sawed a cord of wood, or
walked ten miles.
Cascarets move Hie Food Naturally.
digesting it without waste of tomorrow’*
Gastric Juice.
• * *
The thin, flat, Ten-Cent Box Is made
to fit your Vest pocket, or “My Lady's”
Purse. Druggists—10 Cents a Box.
Carry It constantly with you and take a
Cascaret whenever you suspect you need
one.
Be very careful to get the genuine
made only by the Sterling Remedy Com
pany, and never sold in bulk. Every tab
let stamped “CCC.’’ 73$
