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Seven browing companies havo
agreed to pay all tho cost of tho re
cent proceedings against them and
leave tho state of Kansas. Only
four companies now remain.
Washington dispatches say that
Mr. Roosevelt may soon call a peace
congress of his own.
An Austin, Texas, dispatch says:
"Tho International Harvester com
pany of Wisconsin yesterday plead
ed guilty to a violation of the Texas
antl-tniBt laws and paid a fine of
$35,000 assessed by the court. Tho
company also agreed that a perpet
fual Injunction bo enterod forbidding
jit to operate in Texas."
! Tho railroads are not after all,
i suffering. A Now York dispatch
says: "Directors of, the Chicago,
(Burlington & Quincy railroad today
declared the regular quarterly divi
dend of two per cent on capital
stock and an extra dividend of six
por cent. The "last previous quar
terly dividend was 1 per cent.
Concerning the extra dividend on the
Burlington stock, J. J. Hill, said:
'Northern Pacific and Great ' North
ern have had Burlington for about
six years, and during this time
Burlington has not paid the carry
ing charges of tho joint four per
cent bonds to the extent of one per
cent per annum, and therefore, to
equalize this deficiency, Blx per cent
ifadditlonal has been declared on Bur
Uington stock.' The annual report
tho city and along the water front
last night. Tho police were help
less. All authority was paralyzed
and for five hours a mob of half a
thousand white men raided the hills
whore the blacks wore working,
battered . down doors of lodging
houses and dragging the invaders
from their bods, escorted them to
the city limits with orders to keep
on going. The trouble started at C
and Holly streets, a district with In
dian lodging houses. The houses
were cleaned out and the denizens
started bn their trek for the Cana
dian line."
A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch to
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat fol
lows: "Judge Winfield today im
posed a fine of $10,000 against the
Iron Mountain Railroad company for
issuing free transportation to mem
bers of the legislature during the
1905 session. The company was
fined $2,000 in each of live cases
instituted by Prosecuting Attorney
Rhoton. Twenty-three additional
suits of the same character will be
filed In a few days against the Iron
Mountain."
off the humiliating bonds thus placed
upon them.
The protests of these acquistlve
gentlemen that the people's" repre
sentatives are unjust when they at
tack the system of despoliation by
which the lawless Industrial com
bines have wrung many millions of
dollars unjustlyrom the consumers
of this land distinctly do not carry
conviction. Tho law of self-preservation
is a very old law and to it the
people appeal in justification of thir
determination no longer to be the
prey of the forces of pitiless mon
opolies like the Standard Oil com
pany. Chicago News.
A shaft in memory of the late
William McKinley was dedicated at
Buffalo, N. Y. Governor Hughes de
livered the oration.
At the Nebraska 1 primaries being
the first held under the new law
M. B. Reese, of Lincoln was nom
inated by the republicans for iustice
of 1907 will show that the Burling- of the supreme court, the democrats
nominating ueorge Jb. Loomls of
ton has had the best year in ita.his-
1 tory. The additional dividend on Fremont.
'Burlington stock will contribute
1 about $3,250,000 apiece to the treas
uries of the Great Northern and
i Northern Pacific. This is equivalent
to .more ttian two per cent on the
' capital stock of Great Northern and
Northern Pacific."
J
I An Associated Press cablegram
; rromne Jtiasuo ioiiowb: rne ex
amining 'committee today approved
.the American, proposition on the sub
ject of the establishment of a perma
jnent International high court of jus
tice, witn the exception of the para
graph referring to the allotment of
tho judges, which was referred to a
sub-committee. Article 7 of the
American project, which 'provided
that the high court yearly shall an-
point three judges, with three sub
stitutes, constituting a special trib
unal, which can, if necessary try
cases elsewhere than at Tho Hague,'
j has been changed so as to give the
three judges tho name of 'special
J delegation,' Instead of 'special trib-
unal,' while the whole court will be
called the 'court of arbitral justice.'
Joseph H. Choate, of the American
delegation, urged tho necessity for
some such arrangement and suggest
ed several solutions of the points in
dispute."
THE MERCILESS MONOPOLY
In his report on the operations of
the Standard Oil company the fed
eral commissioner of corporations,
Herbert Knox Smith, gives a clear
view of tho noxious quality of a mon
opoly which stoops to methods in
spired Dy greea and greed alone. It
TRAGEDY OF FISH LIFE
"Fish never die a natural death,"
said an old fisherman who has ob
served as he fished. "If they did
bodies of dead fish would be float
ing on the surface of the water all
the while, because such bodies, if
unmolested, would have to float.
"I mean, of.-course, fish in nature
never die a natural death, not fish
in captivity. And perhaps It should
not be called natural death that fish
in captivity die. Their environment
induces mortality that fish in their
native habitat would escape, and
these causes might be properly
classed as among tho accidents that
carry the captive fish off.
"If fish in their native elements
were never molested I believe "they
would never die. If they had suffi
cient food, which would be impos
sible if they no longer preyed on
one another, there would be no rea
son for their dying. It was to pre
vent such uninterrupted tenure of
life that all fish were made fiercely
predatory, if not remorselessly can
nibalistic, as many kinds are.
1 "A fish's life is a constantly stren
uous one and one entirely selfish.
A fish lives only to eat and to avoid
being eaten." Los Angeles Times.
slon; a large 300-pound calm; not
obese, but amply proportioned, and
enough to go round."
"A decided calm in the executive
mansion" is what a great many law
breakers and trust criminals are
praying for. "A large, 300-pound
calm" would suit them to a tee-wity.
And so the Taft boom is growing hi
the "most respectable" circles.
Omaha World-Herald.
DOCTOR AND HEARSE
A "Vvashington physician was re
cently walking on Connecticut avenue
with his five-year-old .son, when they
were obliged to stop at a side street
to await the passing of a funeral pro
cession. The youngster had never seen any
thing of the kind. His eyes widened.
Pointing to the hearse, he asked,
"Dad, what's that?"
"That, my son," said the physician,
with a grim smile, "is a mistaken
diagnosis." Sunday Magazine.
"THE FIRST SOLID FOOD"
"A 300-POUND CALM"
The latest organ of reaction to
speak a good word for Secretary
Taft is the Philadelphia Ledger. Tho
Ledger likes the pro-consul because
he is "the antithesis of Roosevelt."
For the same reason the "interests"
look favorably upon him. He may
ponderously indorse some of the
Roosevelt policies, as he has done.
but his temperament, his sympathies,
A dispatch from Bellingham
Wash., says: "Six. badly beaten
Hindus are in the hospital, 400
frightened and half naked Sikhs are
In jail and the corridors of the city
hall -guarded by policemen, and
somewhere between Bollingham and
tho British Columbia line are 750
natives of India, beaten, hungry
and, half-clothed, making their way
along the Great Northern railway
bound for Canadian territory and
the protection of the British flag
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r'S; vo. and these' in a crisis, are
wnat count.
Manifestly corporations that are
resisting effective federal control are
"dee-lighted" when Taft, though pro
claiming himself a strict "control
ler," opposes the federal license plan
advocated by both Bryan and Roose
velt that would make such control
of real and permanent value.
Manifestly 'the representatives of
plutocratic fortunes that look with
alarm on the income and inheritance
tax Ideas will snuggle close to the
candidate who would resort to such
taxes only in case of extreme neces
sity. Even the "beneficiaries nf tho -li
ber Dlngley schedules may look with
complacency on a "demand" for
tariff revision that is conditioned first
on congress finding such revision ad
visable, and second on the entire re
publican party being in favor of it'
So it is not; strange that the Phila
delphia Ledger congratulates Itself
on the fact that "if Taft attains the
presidency he will be a far different
sort of ruler than Ronsm-Ait
It Is not strange that the Ledger
should gladly proclaim that, with
Taft for president, "no longer will
we have the spectacular, - rash and
impulsive atftocrat." 1
It is not strange that the'-Ledger
should look forward, with eager an
ticipation, to the time when, wltlf
Taft for president, "thorn win lSi
a decided calm in the .executive man-.
bines can justify the methods em
ployed systematically by Mr. Rocke
feller's great machine for-squeezing
money out of consumers of oil.
Having brought into existence the
most complete system, of crushing
competition that has ever been put
into operation on so large a scale,
the Standard Oil company finds itself
in full control of the oil market
throughout large sections of the Unit
ed States. In these sections prices
go up. They keep on going up.
They become absurdly high as com
pared with prices charged at more
distant points from the eomnanv'-t
distribution centers and particularly
In European countries. Wherever
the Standard Oil company has the,
consumer at Its mercy it nrocoRris
promptly to put on the screws.
There is nothing new In all this,
The people already know the raeth-
qfls of the Standard Oil company.
Still, it is well that the commissioner
Of corporations has told the story
officially And in detail. This mon
opoly and other monopolies which
maintain themselves in power by
miserable shifts of deceit and brlbi
ery and tireless' espionage for no. oth
er purpose than to exact unreason
able, profits from the. people must
be curbed by lawi. They have been
given a free hand and they have
used their freedom, 0 put fetters lip
on the people. The people now must
either acknowledge that they are.un
fit for .freedom or they . must .cast
Most of Our Ailments Are Cured by
tho Right -Kind of Food, not by
Medicine Interesting Experi
ence of a Lewistown Woman
How quickly we fly to the doctor
or the drug store the minute we havo
an ache or a pain. Even in attacks
of indigestion we are apt to resort
to pepsin and other so-called "diges
tants" when we know very well, if
we stop to think, that a food that
is artificially 'digested" with drugs
is not digested at all- And, what
is more important, we ought to know
that the use of these so-called "di
gestants" soon puts the stomach
"out of business." In other words,
the stomach soon refuses to work at
all.
A woman down in Lewistown, Pa.,
who was afflicted with gastritis went
about it In a more sensible way.
Here is her letter:
"In May I went down with a so
lvere attack of gastritis, and for some
weeks could not take anything but
milk prepared as "koumyss," but
finally as the first solid food, the
stomach retained one half a Shred
ded Wheat Biscuit, and for six weeks
have eaten one each morning, though
as yet can not assimilate bread of
either whole wheat or fine flour. I
believe in acknowledging a good
turn, and will bo glad if this is of
any service to you or any of the suf
fering brotherhood of the world."
Very truly yours,
(Signed) (Miss) Laura H. Bell.
Lewistown, Pa., August 23, 1907.
The oaly rational way to cure dys
pepsia or other ailments that come
from indigestion is to gradually coax
the stomach back to health and
strength with a natural food that
Id easily and quickly assimilated a
food that will make the stomach, do
the work Nature intended it should
do.
You can not make-your arm strong
by. carrying it in a sling. Neither
can you recover the digestive power
by depriving the stomach, of its work.
Many persons whose stomachs have
rejected all ordinary foods have been
able- to digest and assimilate Shred
ded Wheat Biscuit and grow strong
upon, it, The. reason, is very simple.
It is the whole wheat, steam cooked,
1 shredded and baked. The delicate
porus shreds are quickly permeated
by the saliva and the other digestive
fluids and are .easily converted
into rich blood and healthy; tissue.
It is food to get well on, to grow on,
to work on, to live on. Try it for
breakfast with, milk or cream, or
fruit. Your grocer sells it.
Shredded Wheat r products are
manufactured by -the Natural., Food
v,umimuy at Niagara iraus, .
Your grocer Bells ttiem.-
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