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The Commoner.
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Vol. a, No. 9
The Home Department.
Oft in the Stilly Night.
Oft in tho stilly night,
Ero slumber's chain has bound mo,
Fond momory brings tho light
Of other days nround mo:
Tho smiles, tho tears,
Of boyhood's years,
Tho words of love then spoken;
Tho oyes that shone,
Now dimmed and gono,
Tho cheerful hearts now broken.
Thus In tho stilly night,
Bro slumbor's chain 1ms bound me,
Sad memory brings tho light'
Of other days around mo.
Whon I remember all
Tho friends so linked together
I'vo seon around mo fall,
Like leaves in wintry weather,
I feel liko ono
Who treads alono
Somo brtnquet hall deserted,
Whoso lights aro iled,
Whoso gurlands doad,
And all but ho departed.
Thus In tho stilly night,
Bro slumbor'3 chain has bound me,
Sad momory brings the light
Of other days around me.
Thomas Mooro.
Ue Patient With tho Boys.
I have a profound respect for" boys.
Grimy, ragged, tousled boys in tho
stroot often attract me strangoly. A
boy is a man in the cocoon you do
not know what it Is going to become
his lifo is big with possibilities. He
may make or unmake kings, chango
!
Xbc diver dies without air to
breathe. The consumptive dies
wijjiout lungs to breathe the air,
optyjf- lungs rendered incapable of
breUiing by disease. The blood
ns it flows in and out of the lungs
cress. As the lungs grow weaker
less oxygen is inhaled and the
blood ch auger, from scarlet to pur-
0)Ple. Oxygen is the lite of the
v blood as the blood is the life of
the body.
The effect of Dr. Pierce's Gold
en Medical Discovery upon weak
lungs is to strengthen them, to en
able the full oxygenation of the
blood, arrest the progress of dis
ease, and heal the inflamed tis
sues. Luncr diseases have been
tf?ft and are being cured by "Golden
auuuii.ui xijv:uvi:iy, in
cases where deep-seated
cough, lrequent hemor
rhage, emaciation, weak
ness, and night-sweats
"'have all pointed to a fatal
termination by consumption.
"Some years aRO I
was almost n help
Jess victim of that
Ircad disease con
sumption," writes
Mr. Chas. l'ross.
St P. M., or Sitka.
WlltpOn Tiirl tir
was confined to my room for several months;
ny friends and neighbors had given up all hope
of my recovery, until one tiny a friend advised
me to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
ery, and after I had taken the contents or the
second bottle I began to improve. After takitiR
six bottles I was, I honestly believe, delivered
from the crave and entirely cured. I am now a
strouff and hearty man."
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets nlnnnc
the clogged system from accumulated
impurities.
boundary lines between states, writo
books that will mold characters, or in
vent machines that will revolutionize
tho commerce of tho world. Every
man was a boy it scorns strange, but
it is really so. Wouldn't you liko to
turn Time backward, and seo Abraham
Lincoln at twelvo, whon he had never
worn a pair of boots? the lank, lean,
yellow boy, hungry for love, hungry
for learning, tramping off through the
woods for twenty miles to borrow a
book, and spoiling it out crouching
boforo tho glaro of tho burning logs.
Then there was that Corsican boy,
ono of a goodly brood, who weighed
only fifty pounds whon ten years old,
who was thin and palo and perverse"
and had tantrums and had to be sent
supporless to bed or locked in a dark
closet because he wouldn't "mind!"
Who would have thought that ho
would havo mastered overy phase of
warfare at twenty-six, and when the
exchequer of France was in dire con
fusion, would say, "The finances? I
will arrange them."
Distinctly and vividly I remember a
squat, freckled boy who was born in
tho "Patch" and used to pick up coal
along railroad tracks in Buffalo. A
'few months ago I had a motion to
mako before the court of appeals at
Rochester. That boy from the "Patch"
was tho judge who wrote the opinion
granting my petition.
Yesterday I rode horseback past a
field whore a boy was plowing. The
lad's hair stuck out through the top
of his hat, one suspender held his
trousers in place, his form was hony
and awkward, his bare legs and arms
were brown and scratched and briar
scarred. Ho turned his horses just as
I passed by, and from under the flap
ping brim of his hat ho cast a quick
glance out o dark, half-bashful oyes,
and modestly returned my salute.
When his back was turned I took off
my hat and sent a God-bless-you down
the furrow after him.
Who knows? I may yet go to that
boy to borrow money, or to hear him
preach, or to beg him to defend me in
a lawsuit; or he may stand with pulse
unmoved, bare of arm, in white apron,
ready to do his duty, while tho cone
is placed over my face, and night and
uoatn como creeping into my veins.
Bo patient with the boys you are
dealing vrith Soul-stuff Destiny waits
just around the corner.
Be patient with tho boys! Elbert
Hubard in the Philistine.
Homely Wrinkles.
Cottage pudding is not out of place
in a palace.
When flat-irons do not heat well
turn a large dishpan over them.
Put a little baking soda with tho
batli brick and see what a polish you
will get on your knives.
If a house is on fire and the flames
cannot be extinguished, shut the doors
leading to the place where it rages.
Several minutes may often be gained
in this way to save valuables, but re
member your life is worth more than
they are.
Keep a bag hanging in the kitchen
into which strings from all parcels
may bo placed, and have one drawer
of the dresser devoted to paper bags,
etc. A hook screwed into the wall over
the table for a pair of scissors is a
necessity.
The older members of a family ought
to write down their reminiscences of
their parents and of important family
occurrences. It would be of Interest
to future generations if a family chron
cle, with dates carefully entered, were
kept by each generation.
The Northern Sscttrities Test
(Continued from Pago Seven.)
deem necessary to aid in any manner
such railway companies or enhance
tho value of their stocks.
In tliis manner tho individual stock
holders of these two independent and
competing railway companies wero to
bo eliminated and a single common
stockholder, the Northern Securities
company, was to be substituted; the
interest of the individual stockholders
in the property and franchises of the
two railway companies was to termi
nate, being thus converted into an in
terest in the property and franchises
of tho Northern Securities company.
The individual stockholders of the
Northern Pacific Railway company
were no longer to hold an interest in
the property or draw their dividends
from the earnings of the Northern Pa
cific system, and the individual stock
holders of the Great Northern Railway
company were no longer to hold an
interest in tho property or draw their
dividends from the earnings of the
Great Northern system, but, having
ceased to be stockholders in the rail
way companies and having become
stockholders in the holding corpora
tion, both were to draw their divi
dends from the earnings of both sys
tems, collected and distributed by the
holding corporation.
In this manner, by making the
stockholders of each system jointly
interested in both systems, and by
practically pooling the earnings of
both systems for tho benefit of the
former stockholders of each, and .by
vesting the selection of the directors
and officers of each system in a com
mon body, to-wit: tho holding corpora
tion, with not only the power, but the
duty to pursue a policy which would
promote the interests, not of one sys
tem at the expense of the other, but
of both at the expense of the public,
all inducement for competition be
tween the two systems was to be re
moved, a virtual consolidation effected
and a monopoly of the interstate and
foreign commerce formerly carried
on by the two systems as independent
competitors established.
In pursuance of the unlawful com
bination or conspiracy aforesaid, and
solely as an instrumentality through
which to effect the purposes thereof,
on the 13th day of November, 1901,
the defendant, the Northern Securities
company, was organized under the
general laws of the state of New Jer
sey, "-with its principal office in Ho
boken, in said state, and with an au
thorized capital stock of $400,000,000.
A copy of the articles of incorporation
of such company is attached to and
made a part of this petition. Among
the purposes and powers designedly
inserted in said articles is the purpose
and power, not only to "purchase"
and "hold" "shares of the capital stock
of any corporation or corporations,"
under which said company wrongful
ly claims and is exercising the power
to acquire by exchange and hold the
stock of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern Railway companies,
uul me purpose ana power, while own
er thereof, "to exercise all tho rights,
powers and privileges of ownership;"
that is, to vote such stock, collect the
dividends thereon, and in all respects
act as a stockholder of such railway
companies; and the purpose and pow
er "to aid in any manner any cor
poration ... of which any bonds
... or stock are held, . . . and to do
any acts or things designed to protect,
preserve, improve or enhance the value
of any such bonds ... or stock,"
meaning thereby to do whatever it
may deem necessary to aid in any
manner the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern Railway companies.
c: to preserve or enhance the value of
their stocks or bonds.
VIII.
In further pursuance of the unjaw
ful combination or conspiracy aforo
said, and solely as an instrumentality
through which to effect the purposes
thereof, on or about the 14th day of
November, 1901, the defendant, the
Northern Securities company, was or
ganized by the election of a board of
directors and the selection of a presi
dent and other officers, the defendant
James J. Hill, the president and con
trolling power in the management of
the defendant, the Great Northern
Railway company, being chosen a di
rector and president thereof; and
thereupon, in further pursuance of the
unlawful combination or conspiracy
aforesaid, the defendants, James J.
Hill and his associate stockholders of
the defendant, the Great Northern
Railway company, assigned and trans
ferred to the defendant, the Northern
Securities company, a large amount of
the capital stock of tho Great Northern
Railway company, the exact amount
being unknown to complainant, but
constituting a controlling interest
therein, and complainant believes a
majority thereof, upon the agreed basis
of exchange of $180, par value, of tho
capital stock of the said Northern Se
curities company for each share of
the capital stock of the Great Northern
Railway company; and the defendants,
J. Pierpont Morgan and his associate
stockholders, of the Northern Pacific
Railway company, assigned and trans
ferred to the defendant, the Northern
Securities company, a large majority
of the capital stock of the defendant,
the Northern Pacific Railway com
pany, the exact amount being un
known to complainant, upon the
agreed basis of exchange of $115, par
value, of the capital stock of the said
Northern Securities company for each
share of the capital stock of the
Northern Pacific Railway company;
and thereafter, in further pursuance
of the unlawful combination or con
spiracy aforesaid, the defendant, the
Northern Securities company, offered
to the stockholders of the defendant
Tailway companies, to issue and ex
change its capital stock for the capital
stock of such railway companies, upon
the basis of exchange aforesaid, no
other consideration being required.
In further pursuance of the unlaw
ful combination or conspiracy afore
said, the defendant, the Northern Se
curities company, has acquired an ad
ditional amount of the stock of the
defendant railway companies, issuing
in lieu thereof its own stock upon the
basis of exchange aforesaid, and is
now holding, as owner and proprietor,
substantially all of the capital stock
of the Northern Pacific Railway com
pany, and, as complainant believes
and charges, a majority of the capital
stock of the Great Northern Railway
company, but if not a majority, at
least a controlling interest therein,
and is voting, the same and is collect
ing the dividends thereon, and in all
respects is acting as tin owner thereof
in the organization, management, and
operation of said railway companies,
and in the receipt and control of their
earnings, and will continue to do so,
unless restrained by the order of this
court. By reason whpronf o irifoi
consolidation under ono ownership
and source of control of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific Rail
way systems has been effected, a com
bination or conspiracy in restraint of
the trado or commerce among tho sev
eral states and with foreign nations
formerly carried on by the defendant
railway companies independently and
in free competition, one with the other
has been formed and is in operation,
and the defendants are thereby at-
SUX ? t0 monPUze and have mon
opolized, such interstate and foreign
iS?nnS ,commei,ce. to the great and
?J 5Ieda,n.age of thG pePlG of tne
United States in derogation of their
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