The Commoner.
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Vol. a, No. 36.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WHETHER COnnON OR NOT.
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Don't You Know?
Ho said ho'd shackle cunning,
Don't you know.
On that thorao his talk kept running,
Don't you know.
But at last there came a day t
"When' he had it all his way , (
From Spokane to Oyster Bay,
Don't you know.
Then ho changed his tune a hit,
Don't you know.
And ho, shackled cunning- "Nit,"
Don't you know.
Of industrial captains ho
Talked with strenuosi-tee,
For they boss the G. 0. P.,
Don't you know. v .1 .
'Stead of using crim'nal laws,
Don't you know,
Got injunctions just because,
Don't you know,
Thought 'twould bo a winning bluff
If lie played it hard onough,
But the country's up to snuff,
Don't you know.
But the trusts don't care a rap",
Don't you know.
Realize thoy'vo got a snap,
Don't you know.
Know they own tho G. O. P.
And they're feeling up in "G,"
But it's tough on you and mo,
Don t you know.
you bought off the opposition to your
ro-olection," said tho spokesman of tho
committee.
"You wrong mo by your suspicions,
gontlomen. The momont I became in
formed of tho opposition I checked it
That is all."
"Without waiting to ascertain tho
amount of tho chock tho committee
doparted.
Down.
There was a coal baron of Reading
Who deafened his ears to tho pleading
Of tho hungry and poor
Who flocked to his door,
And went on his. way still unheeding.
At last ho reached life's journey's
ending,
Struck Peter's gate, entrance 'intend
ing; But Peter said, "Nay,
Your course is that way
Tho elevator that is descending."
Boygrapha,
The boy who does not treat his sis
ter with respect will likely make a
bad husband for some other fellow's
sister.
When we seo a boy who does not
treat his mother "with respect and de
ference we" are quite suro there is
something wrong., with the boy's
father.
There is a difference between noisy
boys and boisterous boys. Our "boys
are only noisy.
The boy who is first to go in swim
Aunt Mehltable.
"I was just reading today," re
marked Aunt Mohitable as she laid
aside her knitting, wiped her spec
tacles and leaned back in her rocking
chair, "about a man down east who
claims to be a sort of administrator
of the universe. But he ain't the first
;ono to havo that idea in his head."
Knowing that Aunt Mehltable would
resume when she was ready wo waited
while Bho fixed tho skein over the back
of tho chair.
"No, he ain't the first one. A long
time ago- another fellow went up into
a high mountain, looked at tho world
all about him and pretended that he
was able to give it away if it suited
him to do it"
Brain Leaks.
Every day is wrest day with tho
trust magnate.
Tf'n n -wIrr hiiRhnnrl who knows what
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is usuany tne ooy wno is most airalu
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is
sued a statement on September 13 in
which ho stated that he has made ar
rangements to release about $4,000,000
of tho treasury holdings. He has also
had a list prepared of national banks
to be named as temporary depositories
in tho hope bf increasing money circulation.
Jt was reported from Cleveland, O.,
on September 13 that a financial al
liance had been formed by the, Van
derbilt interests and those of the Penn
sylvania lines to shut the Gould inter
ests out of the coal fields. The new
organization promises to be the most
domineering that has ever been
formed. Tho roads included in the
combination are the New York Cen
tral, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio,
Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & West
ern, Philadelphia & Reading, Lakef
Shore, Big Four, Michigan Central,
Nickel Plate, Boston & Albany, Balti
more & Ohio Southwestern, Pore Mar
quette, Hocking Valley and Lake Erie
& Western.
A Washington dispatch of Septem
ber 13 says: Mr. Squires, United States
minister to Havana, telegraphs the
department of state that the Cuban
house passed the tariff bill yesterday.
The following increases are author
ized: Coal, 25 cents per thousand
kilograms; fresh beef, beef in cans,
fresh mutton, fresh pork, salt beef,
salt pork, jerked beef, bacon, hams,
wheat flour, codfish, herring, husked
rice, coffde, eggs, olive oil, cider and
beer, soap, starch, poultry, condensed
milk, beans, peas, onions, potatoes
and alimentary preserve's, 100 per cent;
of cold water in the wash-bowl.
Some boys learn burglary because
the pantry doors are locked against
them.
A Plaint.
O, I -wish I had a ton
- Of anthracite!
I am "worried through the day
s ' And through tho night
Ijcan seo my finish clear,
JPutting-up-stove time is near
O, my lost, beloved, dearf
'Dear Anthracite!
But I know 'tis useless quite
? To raise a fuss.
Got to buy tho coal that's called
Bituminous.
Got to bear tho. smoke and soot
While tho hard coal barons loot,
Giving us the old "root noot"
Wuss and.wuss.
Uncle Joshta.
"I notice," remarked Uncle Joslah,
"that tho Smart Set at Newport is all
worked up at th' criticisms of a .editor
down south. An' I also -notice, that th'
$mart "Set ; lias-hadt' git somebody
outsido o th' Smart Set who's smart
enough t' "make any kind of a answer.".
A patch on the trousers is better
than a bill at the clothiers.
Just Going to Do is always playing
second fiddle to Has Done.
What some men consider patriotism
is only aggravated partisanship.
The man "who boasts loudly of be
ing self-made has forgotten to finish
his job,
When a man has made up his mind
to do a wrong he is never at a loss
for an excuse.
The man who looks over your shoul
der can always seo where you should
have moved your chessman.
Man will never know what real trou
ble is until ho experiences the feeling
of a housewife whose jelly won't jell
A great many people think they are
charitable when they give something
away that they have no further use for.
Nobody has ever been able to ex
plain why tho cdal does not weigh
as much in the dealer's wagon as it
does in tho coal" hod.
Tho man who says ho takes no inter
est in politics is usually the one who
makes the loudest complaint when
abuses creep into government
Some men think they should receive
credit for being charitable when they
give a dollar to the poor and get ten
dollars' worth of advertising out of it
Will M. Mauplru
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v Our Beautiful Language.
, The. committee waited upon Senator
Graball to protest against what they
understood to be boodle methods in
his campaign.
"Gentlemen, it Is not true that I
nave used money in this matter," said
the senator.
"But wo are reliably informed that
A conference was held on September
13 between Governor Stone of Penn
sylvania and President John Mitchell
of the united mine workers of Ameri
ca on matters pertaining to the an
thracito coal strike. Other influential
capitalists and politicians were also
present, but so far no definite informa
tion as to the result of the conference
has heen obtained.
The healthy
woman need not
fear the change
which comes as the
beginning of life's
autumn. It is the
woman who is worn
out, run down and
a sufferer from
womanly diseases
who naturally
dreads the change
of life. This is the
critical period of
woman's life, and
the prevalence 0
womanly diseases
makes it the duty
of every woman!
who would avoid
unnecessary suffer-
care of herself at this time.
. The ills which vex so many women at
the change of life are entirely avoided
or cur,ed by the use of Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription. It makes weak
women strong, and enables the weakest
to pass through this trying change with
the tranquility of perfect health.
I hnve been a very healthy vomnn, and thU
time as been very hard with me," writes Mrs.
Mogfjie Morris, of Munson Station. Clearfield
Co,, Pa., Box 16. I am come to the time of
change of life, and I have heen sick a great deal
off and on. When Mrs. Hemmis juoved beside
me I was sick in bed, and when she came to see
me and we were talking over our sickness, Mrs.
Hemmis told me to try Dr. Pierce's Pavorite
Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery'
also Pellets. I got her to bring me abottleiof
?, 5m Aho druS 8t0re ani 1 used them.
They did mtfu great deal of good, and I got two
more bottles oP Favorite Prescription.' 1 never
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and feel well."
was in such miscrv I hardlv
with myself, now I can do all my work mvself
undressed plno lumber, 40 cents cubic
motor; lard, 80 per cent; cheese, but
ter, wines, liquors, 10 per cent; hats
60 per cent; corn, 33 per cent; foot
wear, 17 per cent
After nearly three months of ex
istence, the strike among the em
ployes of tho Union Pacific shops at
Omaha, Neb., shows little chance of
an amicable adjustment.
An interesting report from Washing
ton is to tho effect that the prairie dog
has become so serious a problem in
the west that the national government
has taken the matter up and the de
partment of agriculture has recom
mended tho use of poison to extermi
nate them. The states in which the
most damage is reported comprise
Montana, Western Kansas, Oklahoma,
New Mexico, and Northern Texas.
McKinley Memorial Day, Sunday,
September 14, was generally observed
in the churches of nearly all tho cities
in the United States, where the life
and deeds of the dead -president wero
extolled.
An interesting dispatch :from Con
cord, Mass., dated September 14, says:
Another literary shrine Is to be in
vaded by the commercial spirit and tho
philosophers of classic, Concord are
turning in their gfayes af the idea.
Concord Is all stirred up over tho
scheme now under way to establish a
mammoth packing plant for hog prod
ucts on the shores of .Lake Walden,
Wght under the site where Thoreau,
the fisherman philosopher, had his ca
bin. - Thousands ancL. thousands of
hogs will be handled and- kept there
and fattened' untiL reavdyiiokill, the
Fitchburg railroad burnishing the
transportation to' and from the place.
It is said, too, that the road has also
an Interest in the deal. For years
Lake Walden has -heen fringed with a
beautiful forest, the retreat in former
days of Alcot, HaWthorne,- Thoreau
and Emerson. But as soon as the
packing plant deal is completed the
forest and the cairn of stones erected
by visitors to Thoreau's memory will
be1 things of the -past
Dr. Pierce'a PUacanf P1Utc m-A ..
and pleasant to take.
A Manila cablegram of September 14
says that the force of "native constab
ulary" which has recently been in pur
suit of the Rios band in Tayabas pro
vince, Luzon, has killed 18' and cap
tured 25 of the haridits. . Tho constabulary-encountered,
the band upon four
different occasions during the chase,
but suffered no losses whatever. Rios,
the leader of the bandits, says he will
never be captured alive.
A Manila cablegram bf September
14 says: On account of the impover
ishment of the people by war and
cholera, the United States Philippine
commission has remitted the land tax
in the province of Batangas, Luzon,
for tho year 1902.
It Is reported that about 300 per
sons are left, homeless, in those por
tions of Oregon where the forest fires
have been paging for the past week
In Cowlits pounty, Washington, a strip
25 miles long has been utterly de
vastated, 11 persons are dead, several
are mlssjng "and , over. 200 are home
less. Great damage 0, property, is
also reported.
A Buffalo, N. Y., dispatch of Septem
ber 14 says: &Nine Chinese, who, it is
alleged, were smuggled from Rose Hill
on the Canadian shore and landed aj
Woodlawn Beach, ten miles West 01
1 tfuiiaio, were captured at -uumm-u-
day by Inspector Pierce. Tkoy were
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