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Ff!jJJj! ww n The Commoner. VOLUME 7, NUMBER 12 ii '' PES' ir iffv H' .1 , r r m i. to Q : fe c . M. ; f v nfciHr Ml aii! Ml ;,,ft I I III " ' " ' wmmrr'frrt., LjL, . -yf V -fi- - Tho farmers national congress mot tit Oklahoma City, Okla., and elect ed the following offlcors: Colonel Benham Cameron, Stagevllle, N. C, president; first vice president, Joshua Strango, Marion, Ind.; second vice president, A. L. Strayer, Illinois; fepcrotary, George M. Whittaker, Washington, D, 0.; trcasuror, W. L. Ames, Oregon, Wis.; executive com; mittoe, J. C. Wickey, Ocean Springs; Miss, (long term); L. Morrison, Greenville, Pa. (short torm). It was decided to leavo the selection of tho next meeting place to tho executive ' committee. n - T An Associated Press dispatch from ;Now York says: "The first convic tion in tho cases' on tho disclosures in the legislative investigation of in surance affairs in 1905-06 was ob- tained in tho district attorney's of fice tonight when a jury In the crim inal branch of the supreme court found Dr. Walter It. Gillette, former ly vice president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, guilty of per jury in the third degree. The ver dict was accompanied with arecom mendation for mercy. The maxi mum penalty for this degree is ten years imprisonment." ?, A dispatch from Wheeling W; fVi.,,follows: "What is said to be he .most sweeping injunction 'ever issued against organized labor wa's granted at Philippl, W. Va., today by Federal Judge Dayton. The in junction, which is temporary, re strains John Mitchell, president; T. 15. Lewis, vice president, and the district officers of the" "United Mine Workers of America from organiz ing or interfering in any way with about' 1,000 non-union miners .em ployed by the Hitchman Coal , com pany Glendale Coal company and the Richland Coal company, located infcthe Wheeling district. , A hearing in the case will be held In Parkei's bug next month." A llbelj suit i brought -by VQif Moltke, aV dormant statesman and on triUat Berlin," resulted in many dis closures of an immoral nature. Tho k ;itrlaT" created a great sensation iff T.xurougiiout tne empire. a flight of 876.4 miles. It is claimed that tho Pommern would have gone much furthor had not the Atlantic ocean intervened, compelling the crew to alight. Tho French balloon L'Islo de France landed near Lake wood, N. J. It was up about forty flvo hours. Distance 875 miles. The balloon America landed in Patuxent, Md., covering 715 miles approxi mately. The German balloon Dus seldorf landed at Little Creek, ,near Dovor, Del., covering approximately 776 miles. The American, balloon United States landed near Hamilton, Ont, covering approximately 650 miles. The American balloon St. Louis landed near Westminster, Car rol county, Maryland, covering 865 miles. The German balloon Aber cron landed near Manassas, Va., cov ering 680 miles. .The English-balloon Lotus II, landed near Sabina Ohio, covering 360 miles. The. French balloon Anjou, landed at-Ar-menius Mines, Va., and made 625 miles. Washington dispatches . say that the fleet ,pf American . ships .ordered to the Pacific will return to Atlantic waters within ninety days after its arrival on the California coast. Earthquake shocks in Italy result ed in great destruction of property and in the -loss of, several hundred lives. ' ' The.Allis-Chalmers' company at their Now York meeting showed a deficit 'for the year ending June 30, of $229,816. ..;, The National Civic Federation in session at Chicago adopted resolu tions "calling upon congress to' ap point a commission for the purpose of investigating the trust 'question. " t ill- The races at St. Louis for the in ternational aeronautic championship cup resulted in a victory for the Ger man entry, the Pommern, sailed by Oscar Erbsloeh. The Pommern landed at Asbury Park, N. J., after THE COST OF LIVING Mr. Albert Britt, in his discussion of "The Actual Cost of Liyfng," .in the Independent, analyzes various re ports and statistics and reaches,. the conclusion that tho increase in, tho nvmg expenses or. uiq people exceeds the Increase in their earnings. And, as an introduction to his argument, he mentions the fact that not long ago tho Massachusetts bureau of la bor statistics said that in 79? stores inf Boston 45,482 debtors, or, about 7 per cent of the population of the city, were on the hopejess list, and they owed over half a million dollars. This fact, we think, is Qf more im portance than 4k$ statistics which deal exclusively with solvent families. ,But beyond all statistics and conclu sions derived therefrom, the .fact is well known to every householder in the country that the cost of living has not only largely increased, but that it continues' to increase" although labor has apparently reached the high water mark. Statistics may be jjiggled to "prove anything. The householder cares nothing about them when his own experience is sufficient to inform Him of the trend of tho times. The department of commerce and labor through the bureau of statis tics has published interesting data on tho question; so has the Massa chusetts bureau of labor statistics, but the rule seems to be to observe conditions amonc the poorer classes of people. Thoy live hard at best. When the price of food, rent and fuel goes up, they simply deny them selves because it is either do that or starve. Thoy suffer their priva tions without complaint andope for better conditions which never come to their hopeless surroundings. The chief pressure of the rising cost of living falls upon the great middle classes tho people who are accustomed to comforts and a modi cum of luxury. They find as a rule that taxation increases, that food products soar and that clothing steadily advances in price. Much is said about the extravagant tastes which inevitably, develop in periods of prosperity. There may be a bit of truth about that, but it is never theless true that hundreds of thou sands of families, thrifty and pros perous, simply do without the abund ance or quality once enjoyed because the price, has gone beyond them and they deny themselves arid keep on i the safe side. There are many reasons, of course, for the increasing cost of living. Tax ation, trusts and other Influences con tribute to such conditions of life, but we must not overlook the fact that the pressure is greatest in cities and that the cost usually increases as a city grows. There are yet abundant opportunities in the rural sections of the country to live well and cheaply, but at present the cities seem more attractive to the migrat ing population, than the farms. Food is the most expensive of all the neces sities of life and the man who produce's-his fobd Is not likely "to endure' the hardships that fall to those who must buy. Houston Post. FOR AGENT5. A SUr.nFoS- ggThe Old WorBd Ana Its Ways" BY' . 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THE REFORMATION The bishop of London knows the value of making an addresa bright and entertaining, and he has .been treating Toronto, one of his first stop ping places during his present Amer ican and Canadian tour, to some good stories. HeYe is one of them: Talking about settlement work among the poor of London, the bishop said that the wife of a certain man came to him one day and, re ferring to her husband, aaid: "Yes, bishop, he's a very nice man when he isn't drunk." ' "So I got him," said the bishop, "into the temperance club, and he joined classes in first aid to the in jured. Some weeks later his wjfe gratefully told me: can't thank you enough, bishop, for what you have done for my husband. He never goes to the public house now, but spends every evening in, bandaging me cat.' " London Tid-BIts. PAY YOU back your lottor postage If you will wrlto mo today for an Absolutely Free trial of my Incomparable Kltluoy, iiltulder and Uric Acid treatment. I dp this because I want to prove, at my own ex pense, that you can bo cured. No strings on this ofior. It means what It says. ITKE1J2 Treatment sdnt by mall, propatd. Address DR. D. A. WILLIAMS, 528 P. O. Blk., East Hampton, Conn. PRIMARY PLEDGE vi :' I promise to attend all the primaries of my party to be held between now rnd the next Democratic National Convention, unless unavoidably prevented, and to use my influence to secure acleai honestand straight- iorwara declaration of tho. party's position -onevery- -question : upon wuiua cne voters oitne party desire to Bpealc. -,i Signed 1. .,. . w .-. . . . Street , Postofllce, ...... .... i . i County State. . :- Voting Precinct or Ward Fill out blank and mall, to Commoner Of lice, Lincoln-, Nebraska. EDWIN'S EXPLANATION Edwin, aged three, who ' fondled hs small cat overmuch and unwise ly, .appeared before his mother one day, his little face guiltily pained and a scratch unon bin hnnii "What happened?" she-asked. "I bent the lcitty a little," he said, briefly. Youth's Companion. A GRAVE DANGER The American Protective Tariff League will take notice tha.t the earthenware manufacturers of Wil liam McKinley's former congressional district have declared for reform of the tariff. At the rate at which things are going on the whole1, tariff crockery threatens to be knocked in to potsherds. Philadelphia Record. The First Battle A Story of tho Cnnipnign of 1S9C by W. J. XlRYAN A collection of -Tils speeches and biographical sketch by his wife. Il lustrated octavo. 673 pages. When the few copies I now have are sold this book will bo out of print. lrlco, cloth bound, $1.80 ench, Bent by mull outage prepaid.. AU dress orders, G. H. Walters 2245 Vino Street, Lincoln, Neb. FARMERS' UNION Do you want to know all about It? Two million strowrand spreading: rapidly. Tho Farmers Coto chlAru contains all; 3.000,000 copies1 puho. dreda of knotty questions answered. Whole; nw In a nut shell. k Ucsldcrf tbreo Bot snceciiw w farmers, ylz: Jiideo Flsk, Uio Rational tUT"l Farmcra' Union, to Kansas farmers July 4th. uot Thomaa. B. Wataon to Farmers State Ui Ion. o Qeor;J. and tno oioauoni u. a. ,V,VTVninii Editor Jlran'a IconoclasU to Farmers' State Unioa These three great speeches aro worth 4S 'Ptio ovory larmer, Other hot stuff Is Included. I no Oatecbtem to a great c'ducator-a Powor"L nar patgn document. It will open tho eyes of tno in row partisan bigot belilnd tho plow, flod know s no needs light, aympatby and truth. To got inw TRUTH into blm, It must bo put up TSAf will doaca and properly coated. Tho OATBOIHSM w reach the. spot and do tho work. '' reader of Tho Commonor. can have ; OATEdHISJur, by eondln,? tlio addrces or n lUrmoranot members of Xlur Farmers' Union, j' readers of Tho Commoner, and a silver dimo."' you help spread truth. Justlco androform? ".i"!,, want to see tho "dead ones" reached and brmiKJ" life? 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