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The Commoner. SfcPRIL 7, 1811 11 Bays some tilings which will not be at all pleasant to the Guffey crowd. Mr. Guthrie Indulges in virtually no recommendations at this time, but devotes considerable of his space to dealing with the situation as it exists Seven Million Acres of Public Lana were entered in Mon tana laat year, nearly twice as much as in any other state. Where homo seekers aro sottllng- theso figures prove. Why they chooso Montana over all competitors Is because thoy find there an abundance of land of un equalled fertility, virgin soil which will yield unsurpassed crops when cul tivated, a homo market, good transpor tation facilities, a healthy climato, schools and churches. Millions of for tilo acres, to bo acquired as froe home steads or bought at a low price, aro waiting for the plow. For further in formation, write to J. H. HAUL, Com mlsnloncr State Bureau of Agriculture, Helena Montana. and makes a forceful statement as to the .legality of the positions of the new officers of the committee, and further intimates that should the matter bo taken into court the plain tiff would probably lose." Judge W. S. Kenyon, at Fort Dodge, was nominated by the Iowa republicans to succeed the late Sena tor Dolliver. The deadlock con tinues, however. The Nebraska legislature has passed a bill permitting Sunday baseball. It was later vetoed. CA.JLVJEJS RAISE THEM WITHOUT MILK. Booklot Free NebraskaSeod Co., Omaha, Nob PATENTS Wataaa E. Coleman, Patent LnwyerWoahlngton, D.C Advice and hooka free. States reasonable. Highest references. Bcotsorvlcca, Asthma IUCXEDY sent on KIMK TRIAL. If It cures send $1.00; If not. don't Give Express Office. Kl'l CbemUal CompAny, 810 Oklo Artu, Sidney, 0. 2P A HP J77 77 HP SECURED OBJFEE JT J&. X Mil JX J. a3 RETURNED. Free report as to Patentability. Illustrated Quld3 Hook, and List of Inventions Wanted, sontireo. VICTOR J. EVANS St CO., Washington, D. 0 ECZEMA DAN BR CUKEW. My mild, toothing rnsmmteed com lots It and JTIL,: .AMPLE prorej It. STOPS TUK ITCHING ftad cure to Uy. TVUITK HOW TODAY. DR, CANNADAY, 174 PARK SQUARE. SEDALIA. MO HHBUkv TD?3WWe (mESSbmt WHEEL CHAIRS A Wheel Chair Is often an Invalid's trreatest entnfnrt. offer over 75 styles of these easy, sfH-pro- pcwBB wjq inraioi Kouinff Chairs, with latest Improvements. Ship direct from 110,7 l0J, "" prepaid, and sell on iuw'u IMXB' TKIAIi. 1 Liberal discounts to all sending 1 for free Cataleptic NOW. GORDON MFG. CO. 476 Madison Ave Toledo, 0. f i l XL y WHAT YOU INVENT! Your Ideas May Bring You a Fortune. Write for Our FREE BOOK; elves list of needed Inventions; tells how to protect them. Patent Obtained or Feo Returned. No charcc for report as to patentability; send sketch or model. Patents advertised for sale free. II. ELLIS CllAflULKE A CO., Attorneys, 135 V Street VTASUINQTON, D. C. Agents vrantod In overy county to sell Novolty Knives. Razor Stool Blades. Unbreakable Transpa rent Handles which show name, address, photos, lodge and society emblems, eta Let us show you how to bo Independent Big Commission. Qulclc Sales. 'Write at once for exolnalve torrltory. NOVELTY CUTLERY CO., 66 Bar St., Canton, 0. Tobacco Habit Banished DE. ELDERS1 TOBACCO BOON BANISHES all forms of Tobacco Habit In 72 to 120 hoars. A poil sire, quick and permanent rellof. Easy to take. No crarine for Tobacco after the first doie. One to three boxes for all ordinary cases. "We guaran tee results In Tory case or refund money. Send for our free booklot r'Ting full information, Uders' Banatarium, Dept. 41 St. Josoph, Mo. 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL In !Unftitl We ship on approval without a cant PAY A CENT It you are act satUfad DON'T depoilt, frolrht prepaid. fAX A UJSWX II jou are after uaine the bicycle 10 dais. An llflT E1IIV bicycle or avoir UV HU1 DU1 of U res from anyone at any price until you receive oar Iatejt art catalogs illnttratlnc ovory kind of bicycle, and have teamed oar unlieard of prices and marvelous new offers. ilUE OCHT baU Itwlllcoit yoato UnC WENS write a noiUUnd every thing will be cast yoa freo postpaid by rttarn raaJL Too will rtt much valuablo In formation. Do not wait, write it now TTOWS rviaotnr - TlrAlcn r&sue wheels, lamp, awadrf at tutf uswd prkm. Mfl Gymt Cm, DeptM".Grcj The German premier declares that universal arbitration and disarma ment are impossible of realization. A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch, car ried by the Associated Press says: "The house passed, by a vote of 89 to 13, the WInman bill providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote on the Oregon plan. The Winaaan bill is a duplicate of the Stockwell bill, which the senate has smothered for several weeks. The only democrats who voted against the bill wero three of the Mont gomery county delegation, Johnson, Qebhart and Roth. An Augusta, Maine, dispatch to the Associated Press, says: "Fol lowing a conference between Gover nor Plaisted and the democratic leaders of the senate and house, the legislature voted to ratify the pro posed amendment to the federal con stitution providing for an income tax. This action squarely reversed that taken by the senate and by the house previously in voting against the federal tax and adopting a state tax measure. During a recesB Governor Plaisted called in the democratic leaders and reminded them of their platform pledges with the result that the amendment was reconsidered and ratified. A state income.tax measure previously passed was then killed. Later the house concurred in the senate's action." The lower house of the Austrian recihsrath was dissolved and a new election ordered. A band of 160 bandits is levying tribute on the merchants in northern Peru. Troops have been sent against them. The government is criticised for not having maintained sufficiently equipped garrisons in that district. In the New York factory fire 141 lives wero lost. At a mass-meeting of New York negro Methodists resolutions of con fidence in Booker T. Washington were unanimously adopted and Presi dent Taf t was warmly praised for his letter of sympathy to the noted colored educator. In Floyd couty, Kentucky, 210 In dictments charging vote selling have been returned. The' currency committee of the American Bankers' Association, rep resenting 12,000 banks indorsed the currency scheme submitted by ex Senator Aldrich, and urged Its adop tion by the national monetary commission. The government of Brazil has agreed to co-operate with New Or leans and other Mississippi valley cities in establishing a steamship line between New Orleans and Brazil. An Associated Press dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., says: "A law of four years' standing, barring from Missouri insurance companies paying officials salaries of more than $50, 000, was wiped oft the statute books, when Governor Hadley signed the repeal measure enacted by the re cent general assembly. The su preme court of Missouri sustained the law in the cases of tho Metropoli tan, Prudential and Equitablo com panies, and an appeal is now pending In tho supremo court of tho United States. An agreement between tho state and insurance companies whore by the costs aro to bo paid by tho defendants whether or not tho higher court sustains tho law." Col. Thomas Kilshaw Irwin, presi dent of tho Mobile Cotton Exchange, died in Mobile. Ho was a guard of President Jefferson Davis when ho was captured. Charles D. Sheldon, wanted in Montreal, Canada, on the chargo of embezzlement said to Involve ?2, 000,000, was arrested at Pittsburg, and admitted his identity. Twenty-two plow manufacturing companies have been Incorporated at Molino, 111., with a capitalization of $50,000,000. Fire damaged the New York state capitol building at Albany to the ex tent of $5,000,000. The walls were Intact and the structure will be rebuilt. The effort to amend tho county option law in Ohio was defeated in the Ohio house of representatives. General Thomas L. James, post master general in the Garfield cabi net, celebrated his eightieth birth day in New York City. Miss Phoebe Cousins, who forty years ago was the most famous suf fragette in America has changed her opinion and delivered an address at Springfield, 111., on the other side of the question. United States circuit court of ap peals at St. Louis, has declared that Oklahoma's two-cent fare law is con fiscatory and restrains tho state from enforcing the two-cent law. Joseph P. Reichman, former presi dent of the defunct Carnegie Trust Company of Now York, has been In dicted on the charge of having made a false statement as to tho company's condition. At Seattle, Wash., Clarence D. Hlllman, a millionaire land dealer, was found guilty in the federal court of using tho mails to defraud. The Jury, acquitted him on the first five Indictments, charging a misde meanor, but convicted him on thir teen counts of tho sixth indictment, charging a felony. The maximum penalty for each of the thirteen counts on which Hillman was found guilty is five years' imprisonment and five thousand dollars' fine, The German dirigible balloon Per cival VI was very badly damaged in a collision with tho balloon shed at Johahnisthal. The big airship was descending or its nightly trip, when the accident occurred. Sixteen pas sengers were aboard but no ono was injured. An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch to tho Omaha Daily News says: "Benja min D. Greene, sentenced for com plicity in the famous Savannah har bor contract frauds, was released from the federal prison here. Ho took the pauper's oath to escape further liabilities for the $575,000 fine Imposed on him, saying he spent $700,000 in his fight for freedom. He left for Now York and will sail to join Mrs. Greene in Paris, where they will make their home. Gaynor has completed his sentence and has made application to take the pauper's oath. Greene and Gaynor had a $1,000,000 government contract for improvements in Savannah harbor, under tho supervision of Captain Obcrlln P. Carter of the army. When Carter was given an appointment at tho court of St. James, his successor at Savannah discovered frauds. Greono and Gaynor were sentenced to four years each after a legal battlo of ton years." A Springfield, 111., dispatch to tho Chicago Record-Herald, says: "Stato bounties for babies and premiums for largo families to be paid by a tax levied upon chronic bachelors is tho latest schome of Senator Edmound Bcall to encourage an increase of population in Illinois. Tho senator, who as 'stork mayor' of Alton, ran on a platform which had a plank reading, 'A child in ovory front yard, a nursery in ovory home,' will intro duce a bill creating 'the increase population fund, established to en courage mothorhood.' " An Associate Press dispatch from Augusta, Mo., says: "Forced by Governor Plaisted, a democrat, to make one of tho quickest legislative flops on record, Maine stands square ly in favor of tho constitutional amendment for tho federal Incomo tax and the measure again has a chance for enactment. Tho action of the senate in its early session, concurring with tho house In Its vote against tho amendment, made twelve states against it, thereby pro venting Its ultimate success unless some states should change their vote. Tho change In Maine's posi tion leaves only eleven states op posed, with several expecting to re verse their stands. In a conferenco Subscribers' Jlflvcrflstafl Dew. Thin department iff for tho benefit of Commoner subscribe, and a special rate of nix cents a word per insertion the low cot rato has boen made for them. Address all communications ta The Commoner, Lincoln. Nebraska. urXPTHALMlX," for cataract, blind w noss. Free lltoraturo and ono dol lar trial treatment now. C. Sherwood Co., Rcid Block, Elmira, N. Y. FARM BARGAINS, ALL SIZES AND prices, for 50 conts on tho dollar; I will furnish government expert tes timony on soil fertility, If you buy. Fischer, 342 Main St., Mlddlctown, Conn. ECZEMA SPECIFIC, GUARANTEED, mailed, $1.50; farms for sale. 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