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' " "5wp5wt. wvm&wm!f!wm&mm It" 14 If 1 I r i i u V i;Mi ft: i! :. '4 ir-l I i The Commoner. VOLUME 11, NUMBER 4T 1 W BfttuifM (Krfetonui SflifoirT wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmammaamamsmmmmm By Henry van Dyke "Half-Told Tales." Full of poetry and fancy, and each with a lesson for the time. Beautifully illustrated by Garth Jones. By Richard Harding Davis "The Invasion of England." What happened when the Germans were reported on the English Coast. Illustrated. By Edith Wharton "Xingu." A witty and most amusing satire on certain seekers after "Culture." Dickens's Children A series of four paintings by Jessie Willcoz Smith, beau tifully reproduced in color. A Berkshire Winter by Walter Prichard Eaton. The coming and the passing of the snow in the New England hills. Illustrated by Walter King Stone, printed in tint. Other Short Stories, Poems, etc If you are in any doubt about your reading for 1912 ft glance at the new SCEIBNEB Prospectus, sent fre, will convince you that there is at least one magazine you wiQ not care to bo without. ' Hundreds are subscribing every day, beginning witli October, to have the first of A. E. W. Mason's new serial, "The Turnstile." $3.00 year; 25 coats a number ( CHARLES SOIUBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK Washington News Doctor Walter Wyman, surgeon general in the marine hospital ser vice, died as the result of a carbuncle. The government's criminal case in the proceedings against the alleged Bathtub trust -will begin in the federal court at Detroit, January 30. Sumner Curtis, correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald, declares that.Roosexolt has set the politicians at the national capital guessing as to his inclinations towards the re publican nomination next year. Some claim that La Follette's lieutenants have the situation in Ohio so well in hand that unless Roosevelt becomes a candidate Ohio will instruct for La Follette. ing that Rockefeller, through Gates and his agent, took from them in 1893, $10,000,000 in Mesabe iron mine and Duluth, Mesabe & North ern railroad securities to satisfy a call loan of $420,000. These securi ties were afterward sold to the United States Steel corporation and are today a part of that corporation's vast holdings. After Leonidas Merritt had testi fied that he had gone to New York with $10,000,000 in securities and had met Mr. Rockefeller and two H8XET IN TWWI. W tell yon bow ard pay bast prlcaa. Writ tor jwkly prim Ut aad'tafertncti.. M.SABEL&S0NS imnsTitTC. VY. "smsx FU RS The Stanley steel investigating committee of the house is having some interesting sessions just now. Following is & Washington dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald:" Alfred Merritt of Duluth, Minn., firse president of the Duluth, Mesabe and Northern railroad, who styled himself a 'lumber jack" unacquain ted with the methods of the "money trust," told the house steel trust 1 investigating committee that through loans or lees than $1,000,000 from John. D. Rockefeller he had lost his holdings in the Mlsabe Iron mines and railroad, properties , now owned by the United States corporation and estimated to be worth as high as $700,000,000. The introduction of Mr. Rocke feller's name in this manner almost resulted in the issuance of a sub poena; duces tecum for him to appear before the committee with the con tract made at the time of the Merritt loans. Representative Beall of Texas moved that this be done. No objections were heard when Chair man Stanley put the motion, but the committee decided later in executive session not to call Mr. Rockefeller until Leonidas Merritt had testified. Merritt and his brother. Leonidas Merritt, were amone the original mine owners in the Lake Superior region ana part owners and builders or tne Duluth, Mesabe and Northern railroad. Alfred Merritt declared that Tia was induced through F. D. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's secretary, "in charge of his charitable work," to put up all nis holdings as collateral for loans from Mr. Rockefeller in 1892 and 1893. One loan was for S420.000. Others were for various sums. Gates, Merritt saia, was a Baptist preacher, in wnom ne, naa confidence, and who assured him that by placing a call loan he would not be pressed and that ho would bo taken care of. The witness related how, two months after he had put up his col lateral with Mr. Rockefeller, during the panic of 1893, Rockefeller called the loan, giving him twenty-four hours to raise $420,000, and that be ing unable to raise the money he ana nis orouier lost their property. Ho admitted that Mr. Rockefeller offered him an opportunity to buy his. property back within a year, but declared that the oil king told finan ciers to keep their hands off" and that he was unable to raise money anywhere. On the following day the Associ Hd carded this despatch: John D. Rockefeller and his agent, Rer. F. D. Gates, of Montclaire, N. J., will be invited by the house com mitter of inquiry into the United States Steel corporation to reply to testimony given by Alfred and Leoni das Merritt ot Duluth, Minn., charg- JP A TENTS seSS1&nd.BI1 Free report as to Patentabllitr Illustrated lull) Book, and Ltet of Inventions Wasted, sentirco. VICTOR J. EVANS" & CO.. Washington. J3. a PATENTS WatiB E. CeleRta. Pateat iAwyer.Waahlnglon, TW A i1irb anil twilni (n Rates reasonable. Htghwit ratergacee. BoatBe-rvlca, nilllfCC RAISE THEM WITHOUT URLf Ed MILK. Booklet Free NEBRASKA SEED CO., Omaka, Neb. DAKOTA BEATS THE WORLD Five sample- packets of C best kinds for your section 10 cents. 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