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- yr?1 rr riJWi'j,; i. The Conditioner. VOLUME 7, NUMBER 45 Eir. 0 V n .' X Kr A ir : IV i u t, ., t , ' ') '?? f v '.'"II JN J'f 'H An Associated Press dispatch fr&m Cincinnati follows: "Deploring un willingness to put the motto 'In G&d "VVxj Trust' on the United States coins, the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America today unanimously adopted a resolution urging congress to re store tho motto to all coins. There was no debate on the resolution. The resolution fpllows: 'The Presbyte rian Brotherhood of America regrets that the words, 'In God Ye Trust,' have been omitted from the 'coins of the United States and earnestly hopes that congress will take action to re store them.' " of New York, committed suicide at his home. The Knickerbocker Trust company' closed Its doors early in the present panic. ' A ; third Russian parliament was opened at St. Petersburg Novem ber 14. .-'. The trial of John R. Walsh, ex presidont of the- Chicago National bank and owner of the defunct Chi cago Chronicle, is on trial in the fed eral court at Chicago charged with bank wrecking. An Associated Press dispatch says: "Tho 'government will attempt to show that Walsh took from the Chicago National bank, the Equitable Trust company and the Home Savings bank, $14,000,000. In his statement today Mr. Doby'ns de clared that Walsh bbtalned the own ership of various large properties without cost to himself by using the funds of the banks.' He detailed a number of Walsh's financial ventures, asserting that he issued great blocks of worthless stock, which he sold to his bank, taking the money to float his personal enterprises." Dexter M. Ferry, head of one of the great seed houses, died suddenly atf-liislfome in .New York. i'v, " : ' fLpuis B. McComas, associate judge of the court of appeals for the Dis trict' of Columbia, and formerly a Mr. Bryan spent last week in a lec United States senator from Marv- ture tour thromrh WfaonnRin. Jand, died suddenly at the national Thomas Taggart, chairman of the democratic national committee, has called the committee to meet at French Lick Springs, Ind.. Novem ber 22. . capital. r Ex-Governor James E, Campbell of Ohio says that- he .expects tOhio to elect a democratic legislature in which event ho will be a candidate to succeed Senator Foraker. The New York World prints this dispatch from Danville, 111.: "Sen ator Tillman declared today that President Roosevelt will not accept a- third term and that Speaker Can .npn will be the republican nominee. 'Mr.. Bryan,' Mr. Tillman said, 'will be the democratic nominee. He is the greatest living democrat.' " The Buffalo, N. Y., correspon dent for the New York World, wires his paper ;as follows: "Chairman W. J.V Gondrs, " of the democratic state committee; who is planning to goto Mount Clemens, Mich., next ,;-eelc; and confer there with Chv.rles Murpny, was asked his views con cerning democratic candidates for president. Coners said vigorously: 'Chanler is the strongest candidate in the field. The people want him. You will see democratic committee men all over the state declaring for him and you will see a Chanler dele gation from New York next year.' " The Washington correspondent for the New York World reports that tho Roosevelt third termers are very active and adds: "One of the most enthusiastic third term boomers to arrive in Washington recently- is Rep resentative Langley, of Kentu6ky. 'I .have long been a student o: the life and teachings of George Washington,' ho said to the World's correspondent 'and I am satisfied that If he wore alive today he would rescind what he said about any man holding, the presidential office three terms. He would have believed In hanging on to such a good man forever if he had seen Roosevelt.' " Speaking to newspaper reporters, Congressman Hull of- Iowa said: "President Roosevelt will be nom inated, forced to accept the nomina tion and elected. This is the trend of public sentiment in the east. Hughes is growing in strength, and if he could secure the New York del egation, as he may, it would compli cate matters, but I think Roosevelt Is the man, and that Mr. Bryan will be nominated by the democrats, and the United States will see the liveli est campaign in history." Japan'-s minister ,pf foreign affairs Hayashi has given to the Associated Press an , interview declaring tityat Japan has the kindest feelings for the United States, and. asserted that ho is confident the immigration question would be settled to the sat isfaction of both governments. An Associated Press dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., . says: ."Judge Olin Wellborn, in the United States district court today, fined the Atch ison, Topeka & Santa Fo Railroad company $330,000 for rebating. The fine was what the court denominated 'an intermediate penalty,' the maxi mum of which might have been as sessed being $1,320,000 and the min imum $66,000. The court re viewed the case in a written opinion of some length, in which it stated that there were sufficient doubtful and extenuating circumstances to preclude the possibility of a maxi mum sentence and yet sufficient in tention of wrongdoing shown to make impossible a minimum penalty. The Santa Fe was convicted on October 11 last by a jury in the federal court of granting rebates to the Grand Canyon Lime and Cement company of Arizona. It was, found guilty of all of the sixty-six counts charged in the indictment after but an hour's deliberation. The rebates, which were given on shipments of lime and cement from Nelson, Arizona, to Los Angeles, ranged in amounts from thirty-five cents to $45. The company claimed that these amounts were not rebates on the regular freight rate, but were in the form of damages to goods which were allowed after such claims had been regularly presented and proved in each instance. The court today did not take that view of the case, however, and stated that it 'was not convinced by any means that these amounts represented bona fide settlements qf claims.' " A New York Associated Press re port says: "The contest of the European money markets to retain their gold resources was indicated by the simultaneous action today of three of the large central 'banks of Europe and a call for a meeting to morrow of the governing board of a fourth. The Bank of England ad vanced its rate of discount from six to, seven, per cent, a rate whiph Ms not beon reached since 1873. The Bank of France advanced its regular discount rate from 3 per cent to four per cent, and fixed the rate for loans at 4 per cent. The Na tional bank, of Belgium advanced its rate of discount from 5y2 per cent to six per cent, and Dr. Koch, gov ernor of the Imperial Bank of Ger many, called a meeting of the gov erning board for tomorrow, which is expected to advance the discount rate of the bank from six 'to. -seven per cent. These movements in Europe are regarded as an indication of the ability of New York to com mand gold and the efforts of the European banks, to protect them selves against this demand;" President Roosevelt has issued a statement to the effect that he is satisfied with the results of the re cent election. THE HONORABLE WAY Tho agreeable notion that trade follows the flag has been badly shat tered.. Colonies, however profitable when all trade was monopolized, are now a burden to every country in Europe. So we rather expect that a change In the concept of national honor is coming about. We get about one-fifth of the Fill pinos quite inconsiderable foreign trade which we would get anyway; and buy from them eleven million dollars' worth of hemp a year as we would do whatever flag they had. As a business proposition our colony, so far, has been a dismal failure. WO are indebted to the islands, also, for a record rather singular in our annals, beginning with the "wa ter treatment" episodes and extend ing to the latest army scandal. This record suggests that dominion over pagans involves certain moral risks. The Filipinos, insofar as they ex pressed themselves at all in the re cent election finds our rule (of the islands) as little to. their profit and liking as we find it to our own. President McKinley said, "The flag is there; who will haul it down?" meaning 'that, having stepped into a bad mess, we must stay in, how ever little that benefited anybody, for withdrawal would involve na tional dishonor. The other day Speaker Cannon said, "I would bo in favor of getting out of the Philip pines tomorrow if there was any honorable way of getting out" which, we should say, implies a rath er wistful leaning toward the hope that there may, after all, be an hon orable way out. This difference is simply the effect of seven years' un profitable experiencer Other nations have the same prob lem. We suspect it will finally bo discovered that to act with common sense in the matter of the unprofit able .policing of savage territory Is quite honorable. Saturday Evening Post. MORE LIKE GAS Mr. Harriman declares that money Is a liquid. It would sometimes seem so. Indeed, from the way it disappears, it would sometimes seem to be a gas. Chicago Inter Ocean. WATCH! England will run her war ships with oil, says a dispatch from Lon don. Now watch the Standard Oil company absorb the British navy. Rochester Post Express. RECLAIMING SWAMPLAND If the federal government puts water on dry land in the far west, why should it not take water off the wet land of the east and south? Baltimore Sun. SFNft IIS, BANKERS' CHECKS, CLEARING HOUSE CHECKS, BANK 0BIIFTS )L1 U UkJ YOUR OWN CHECKS Certified to by Your Banker WE TAKE THEM THE SAME AS CASH WITHOUT DISCOUNT OR EXCHANGE th'fo money by postofflcs rnoney ordar o, express money order, the same as usual.M referred lo e'xaotlv tL ?J. 7Z " tor th Pr"Bnt a0Mlt from ou checks' dra and certificates above- reierrea to exactly the. same as money orders or cash !n Some Sections aWirAaiSRu'iy1.; The New York World says: "Three republican newspapers in Ohio which were favorable to Secretary Taft's nomination for president have aban doned his candidacy on the. ground that the result of the Cleveland elec tion puts Mr. Taft out of the race." Charles T. Barney, late president of the Knickerbocker Trust company This Notice is to Inform You "Vih111 "nol xoimnjco exolmngo for any of our g o1h exactly tTiSwrn a" aotofflS 2!ww? 0",erM ? l'ftvp ft banker', chock or a bank dmff orif you 1 ? ?t checking account of your own, ami will mako a check to "tho amount vnnZS to purchnso and go to your bank and have bo check cortined. you n RonH vm, J for tho bank's check or tho bank draft, ondonod L paynbto toouJ olanr , cff;ffiooI2,aa.Boo, ,n our cataio and Mas For Example. ,fInh8iW for ypur produce, your labor nachcckorban& send tho ontlro amount to'ua for" rtZcLnS, SmirKn toVbiruS check. Pay tyUiaqrdcr of Sears, Jloobuck',5; Co.," Bign your namo and sow! .It to us with your ordor for poods, and It will bo accepted by 'tis oxactly thonam) as if you had sont us a postofflcb .money order., express monoy order or even exactly tho same as tho gold. If You Have Any Balance m the Banke" check, clearing- liouso chock or bank draft or If you havo any cattle or grain or other produco which you can oxchanffo for chocks or drafts, sacii checks or drafts will bo accepted by us oxactly tho sarao as cash in oxcliaiifeo for any gofids in our catalogue. Send Us the Check or Draft You Have SSrS check, firHthavIntf it certified to by your banker, or If you want to send for a lessor amount of poods, tako tho draft or check you havo, KOtoino bank nild havo tho bank divjdo It, making ono chock or draft to our ordor tor tho amount you wish to send to us. If You Hava Money in the Bank dSSfJSl CRnsoiullt to uHln exchange for any merchandise" In our cata logue nt our lowest prices, and by us It wlU bo treated oxactly tho samo as if It wore gold. ROEBUQK & OO,, CHICAGO A a. ;t ;?U!J, teV ..'..i&i