irony of Life. “It is sad to realize,” said a ■woman, “that those who love us most usually please us least, while those who please us most don’t love us at all.” Uses of Adversity. The gem cannot be polished with out friction, nor man perfected with out adversity.—Bishop Hall. If. Many a man who loves his neighbor as himself would be in serious trouble if his wife knew it. Uncle Allen. “Speaking of the price of success,” mused Uncle Alien Sparks, “I’ve no ticed that ‘getting ahead’ means, as a general thing, getting a bald head.” YOUR EYES Don't trust your _ evps to traveling mi' *■ optlrians ur puciv peddlars. We are the oldest manufactur ing opticians in the state—grind our own lenses—make our own frames. Consulta tion free. Glasses fitted. $1.00 up. Hate son Optical Co.. ICxelusive Opticians, Jl.'i So. 16th St. Omaha. Factory on prem ises. Wholesale and Retail. The different Indian tribes in Mex ico do not mingle much and seldom intermarry. Mingle a little gaiety wilh your grave pursuits.—Horace. When a man doesn't care a wrap, he generally gets the sack. Omaha Directory NEBRASKA IOWA Si Do a General Grain Business Terminal elevator at Omaha. We solicit consignments; we buy grain: we sell corn to feeders; we sell seed oats; we sell choice milling wheat. / Write, wire or phone us. CARD CASE FREE Mail me 35c for 3 dozen Cards with your name Fancy Written thereon andgret this Aluminum Card Case FREE. J. WILLIAMS. 873 Brandeis Blk.. Omaha. Neb. FOR SALE FOR SALE 1760 acres, solid body of land, improved, central $23.00 per acre. ?12 acres, well improved, onlv three miles from South Omaha; $:•<>.00 per acre. FOR SALE Bargain. Pric* per year. Address JOHN Corner lot two houses on business street. < »maha. $6,500.00. Rental $000.00 L. McCAGUE. Omaha. 6%to 10% Interest On Your Money That i* what vnu can pet by buYlnK OMAHA REAL ESTATE We hav^e niany good^ $|.Q00 tO $50,000 That we will be p>ett?ed to show you acy time, nothing safer. l»etter or more substantia!. HASTINGS and HEYOEN 1704 Farnam St. Omaha. Nebr. IF YOU . have never used I the CHAMPION SCREW CALK with a Black Diamond Steel V-«*ntCP iiii iiJr w luroupn. jou never used the best C;ilk on the market. At»k your blacksmith to show it to you. HA “SQUARE DEAL” ON 9DES AND FUR§ ■Want ‘20.000 Muskrat** and l.ono mink at once. No. 1 Large I tats W-SS*-. Kits 7t\ No. 1 Mink. I.arge §5.75. "Write for price list on hide- and fore which is now readv. Tag*and full Information cheerfully furnished. D. B. MCDONALD HIDE & FUR CO Office and Warehouse. 5i3 So. 13th Street Reference- Omaha National Bank OMAHA < ornuiercial Agencies Nebr. I)rs. Hailey & Mach. The | — -- 3d tio*;r. Pax . Block, cor. ltith I id Furnam 1 s.. Omaha. Nm. Best equipped J>ental office in the Middle West. Latest appliances. High grade Dentistry. Reasonable prices. DENTISTS Do You Drink Coffee Why put the cheap, rank, bitter flavored coffee *n your stomach when pure GE R M AN- AM ER iCAH COFFEE rosts no more; insist on having it. Your grocer sells it or can get It. MATTHEWS Tllk OKIklML 1'tlM.KSS DENTIST 2S veara inOmaha. Neb.. Room 4. Bushman Block. K. E. comer lGth and Douglas Si.**. Good act teeti . N.ofl; gold crowns. N-oO: bridge t**etb. *4. ■*): Amalgam III lingo. 50c.; silver fillings* 75c: gold fillings*. •! and up. M'lKk <-l AK A.MEEU 10 IKAks. Bring tnisadvertisement w ith yoa $5 Per Day AND EXPENSES made by our agent® bo . _ liclting for us. Male and Female. Chicago Picture and Frame Co., Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Pictures. Frames, Portraits. Art Novelties and Glass, 606 south 13th St., Omaha. Write this week. Largest stock in the West Montello Granite a speci alty. All lettering done by pneumatic tool*;. First-class work and lowest prices. Correspondence solicited. Give us a call J F. BLOOM & COMPANY, 1815-1817 FARNAM ST.. OMAHA.' YOU CAN HAVE A cents in st: ors wanted VIOLIN FREE °^cDHf0RGE imps for particulars. Solicit eve* vwhere. TWENTIETH CENTURY CORRESPOKDEKCE MUSIC CO.. 1611 Farcarr. St.. Omaha. SHIP grain DIRECT Farmers can save t*> t*>8u»0a rar by shipping their ow n grain to us for sale. A. L. Davis. Gordon. Neb., saved tl» on one ear of barlev. Write t"day f«»r --Shipper*' Guide with full directions. Address F armers’ Grain Co. 781 1-2 Brandies Bldg., Omaha, Men. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES A„„a."rg,u. RAILWAY. STEAM AMD GENERAL SUPPLIES JOSEPH R. LEHMER, 1218 Farnam, Omaha , DON’T Youa "TBS By having them experimented on bv trav eling fakers. Come to us for Free Exami nation. H. J. PENFOLD & CO.. Loading Scientific Opticians. 2 408 Farnam, Omaha, "”When¥ OMAHA Stop at the Iler Grand Hotel Good Rooms SI.OO Per Day Meals at Reasonable Prices ■Iiv Alin RDAIW Nebraska hit »»o grain co. HA I Hnu UiiniM 707-93randies'Bldg. Omalia. E. A. Nordstrom, Manaper. ’Phone or wire u*. Members Omaha Grain Exchange. Carload Consignments Our Specialty. OIL MEAI Cotton Seed Tan kage and Alfalfa Feeds J. H. CONRAD, 724T26 Omaha ciniln Exchange. Established ISM. Ton and nr l.*ds. Consignmenti Itralu solicited. Member t Imabs (trail. Eicbamt*. IF IT'S A JOHN DEERE IT’S RIGHT NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ULI. SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. A Taft organization has been formed at Peru. Hastings is discussing the 6 o’clock closing movement. Stock sheds, valued at several hun dred dollars, were burned at Geneva. Rev. Mr. Buechner has tendered his resignation as pastor of the St. Paul Lutheran church at Blue Hill and asks to be released from his duties in about three months. The annual Johnson county farmers’ institute will be held in Tecumseh on February 11. 12. 13 and 14. Six state speakers will be in attendance and there will be a corn show. The smallpox condition at the state industrial school at Kearney is much improved, and it is thought that in a short time the Quarantine will be raised. There were three cases of genuine smallpox. Joseph M. Shively, deputy land com missioner. has announced his candi dacy for land commissioner, to suc ceed his chief, H. M. Eaton. Mr. Shively hails from Dodge county, the home of Mr. Eaton. Inc diner attached to Burlington train No. 3 took fire between Dorches ter and Friend. The burning car was pulled to Friend, where the fire was extinguished, though the car and can tents arc a total loss. August Swartund. a wealthy farmer living near Holdrege. tried to kill him self with a razor. He made two deep gashes from ear to ear. when the razor broke. He was found unconscious, but will probably recover. A 14-year-old son of Peter Obbody. a Bohemian farmer residing eleven miles south of Friend, lost one of his legs while driving the horsepower of a corn shelier. Physicians amputated the limb just below the knee. Attorney Charles W. Seymour, one of the best known and, perhaps, the eldest attorney in this state, at this writing is lying dangerously ill at his home in Nebraska City, and no hopes are entertained for his recovery Governor Sheldon has received $9,300 from the government as the semi-an nual appropriation for the support of homes for soldiers and sailors in Ne braska. being at the rate of $100 a year for each member of the homes. Orland Pierce, by his attorney, John C. Watson, has filed a suit in the dis trict court of Otoe county against the Morton-Gregson Packing company, ask ing for $15,000 damages for injuries received while working for said com pany. Senator Norris Brown, emphasizing “the importance of the financial legis lation now before congress," has writ ten to the secretaries of the commer cial clubs, including that of Lincoln, for a statement by the secretary as to the wishes of the members of the club. Valeria W. Coad. wife of Mark M. Coad of Omaha, filed a suit tor divorce in the district court at Lincoln. Ac cording to information received in Lin coln. Coad is a ranch owner and erst while business partner of W. F. Cody, known as “Buffalo Bill." Mrs. Ccad's petition is brief. She alleges non support. The state auditor has returned the $15,000 school bonds of the Sidney dis trict, properly registered. The bonds are in denominations of $5,000 and run from one to twenty years, drawing 5 per cent, interest optional after five years, issued for the purpose of build ing an addition to the high school building in Sidney. The railway commission issued two orders, one permitting the Union Pa cific to put in a lower rate on feed corn to St. Paul, Amherst, Riverdale, Odessa and Buda and intermediate, and to permit the Union Pacific to put in a lower corn rate to Genoa, Kent and Merchison and intermediate points. Succumbing to an attack of nervous trouble, Jerry Hennen, a Fremont drayman, who came into possession of a fortune eighteen months ago by a legacy, died last week. Mr. Hennen, who was in moderate circumstances, was bequeathed a valuable farm, iron and coal land worth $25,000 by a dis tant relative, who died in West Vir ginia. State Food Commissioner Johnson announces that the requirements of the law in regard to the handling of milk nr. J cream will henceforth be enforced. In regard to testing cream, he says: ‘ The Babock test must be employed, using a weighed sample of eighteen grams, weighed on a delicate balance and tested in a nine-inch bottle, gradu ated to at least 5 per cent of the fat column and read between the tempera ture of 130 and 140 degrees Fahren heit. Three fine milch cows belonging to J. A. Zimmerman, who resides north west of Beatrice, were drowned in the Blue river. The animals disappeared, and after a search of two days their bodies were found' in the stream. Exeter was visited by another fire. It was the West Side livery bam. The conteni j of the barn were owned by Attorney Delaney and consisted of (' ven lie.’.d of horses, several car ria?1 s, a lot of hay and feed, harness, blankets, rotes and other things, all of which are a total loss, as there was no insurance. Moravian Barley and Speltz, two front cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak., Mont.. Ida.. Colo., yes. everywhere, and add to above Salzer’s Billion Dollar Grass, the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte. which produces SMons of green fodder per acre. Emperor William Oat prodigy, etc., and other rare farm seeds that they offer. JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT with 10c in stamps for packing, etc., to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse. Wis., and get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. K. & W. In the Language. “Some one has said that a kiss is the language of love,” remarked the | young man in the parlor scene. “Well,” rejoined the fair maid on i the far end of the sofa, “why don't you . get busy and say something?" 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 Lampoon. important to Klothe.-c. Examine carefully every bottle ol CASTOR1A a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In tTse For Over .‘50 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought It is vain to be always looking to wards the future, and never acting to ward it.—Boyes. Bon t worry about your complexion— take Garfield Tea, the Herb laxative and blood-puriber! An improvement will be seen in a week. You can't make good ginger ale if anything ails the ginger. | - Had Dene His Best. Uncle Hosea did not feel able to contribute more than 75 cents to the missionary cause, and was not particu larly enthusiastic about giving even that. ‘ You ought to give as the Lord has prospered you,” said Deacon Iron- ; side. “I don't think the Lord'll ever .ac cuse me of bein’ ungrateful,” an swered Uncle Hosea. "Six of my ' boys is preachers." Those Delicious Lemon Pies. The kind that “make your mouth wa- j ter" are easily made with no fussing: and ! at least possible expense if you use [ “OUR-PIE” Preparation. Don’t hesitate. I Try it and tell your friends. At grocers, i 10 cents. Three kinds: Lemon, Choco- ! late and Custard. It is not necessary for all men to be i great in action. The greatest and sub limest power is often simple patience. —Goethe. Many Old People Suffer from Bronchial Affections particularly at this time of year. Brown's Bronchial i Troches give immediate relief. However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing failure.—Samuel Longfellow. 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Douglas makes and sails more «?£'* men 's $2.SO, $3.00and *8.60shoes than any other manufacturer In the * mould, because they hold their shafts, fit better, wear longer, ana = are of greater value than any ether mr-'O shoos in the world tit-day. n. L. uougtas $4 2nc tint tuge &noss uannci ce t^ucusc m nny nice arl'Al’TIOW. W. L. Donclas name anil price Is Btamped oa botton. Take!¥o Sub.titiitp. Sold by tbe best shoe dealers everywhere. Shoes ma-lrd from fartorr to any pan or the world, Illu> tr&ted Catalog free to any address. W. L>. UULliLAsi, Brockton, Isluas. DEFUIGE Gold WaterStarch makes laundry work a pleasure. 18 oz. pkg. 10c. W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 5, 1908. u&uSunus electrotypes' In grreat variety for sale at tbe lowest prices by A. N. k II JAM it, NEH'SP.tl’Ut ( 0., "t W, AiianisSe, tbicteo i From the Railway World, January j>, igcS. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the cause of economic rt form 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 lS-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 had a 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 Dolton, 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 w as 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 be 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 614 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 tlaat other large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the tact 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-ccnt 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 18-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 ail 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 ogensive 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 was punishable by death. 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