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The Commoner
JANUARY, 1914
31
Paint Without Oil
Remarkable Discovery Tkat Catn Dawn
the Cent of Palat Seventy-Five
Per Ccat.
A Free Trial Package In Mailed to
EvcryoHc Yl'ko Writes.
A. I. Rice, a prominent manufacturer
of Adams, N. Y., has discovered a pro
cess of making a new kind of, paint
without the uso of oil. He calls it
Powdrpaint. It comes in the form of
a dry powder and all that is required is
cold water to make a paint weather
proof, Are proof and as durable as oil
paint. It adheres to any Burface, wood,
stone or brick, spreads and. looks like
oil paint and costs about one-fourth as
much.
Write to Mr. A. L. Rice, Manuf'r,, 192
North St., Adams, N. Y., and ho will
send you a free trial package, also color
card and full information showing you
how you can save a good many dollars.
Writo to-day.
and then refused to divide the milk,
maintaining that he sold only the
front half. The buyer was also re
quired to provide the feed the cow
consumed and compelled to carry
water to her three times a day. Re
cently the cow hooked the old man,
and now he is suing his son-in-law
.for damages. Boston Postr
Value of Ignorance.
"But you don't speak the language
of the country in which you desire a
diplomatic position."
"Well," replied the determined ap
plicant, "a man isn't nearly so liable
to make indiscreet remarks if he has
to get a lexicon and look up the
' meaning of every word he utters."
Washington Star.
Pointed Paragraphs
If a man gets the last word in an
argument with a woman it is be
cause she gives it to him. '.? --..
; "Wften a man lives a double life ha
may have to do two men's work, so
what's the use?
A married woman thinks she fs
being neglected unless her husband
lets her buy his socks and ties.
Young man, the safest way to study
the color of her eyes is through a
telescope.
Not one person in a hundred-cares
to hear the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth. Chicago
News.
According to Ed. Howo
In your business as well as in base
ball, if you can do anything particu
larly well, a scout will call on you,
and offer you a better job. Seven
tenths of the big men of today, in
every calling, have been picked up
by scouts in small villages or on
farms. Don't say you haven't a
chance, because you have. a scout
is watching you every day, and you
are promoted as you deserve. A
good clerk in a country town is
fought for by the merchants; a good
farm hand is fought for by farmers,
and he is soon picked up by a scout
who has a farm to sell at a low price,
on long time. And the more modest
and capable you are, the more apt a
scout is to find you. But you can't
fool a scout: he knows good work.
There are times when it is a good
thing to be victor in a fist fight.
Some men cannot understand any
other argument, and will annoy you
untl knocked down.
Only one in ten thousand can be a
genius, but anyone can ' be a hard
worker, which pays better. The big
gest business men are nothing more
than the best workmen who have
been promoted. The world is full of
three-quarters men: they are three
quarters industrious, and cannot get
all the way. A man should know his
job thoroughly and fill it with en
thusiasm. His work is his backer;
his source of credit; his hope of
prosperity and distinction. Be as
careful of your job as you are of your
noto in a bank.
Criticism will do you more good
than compliments. A compliment
makes you lazy; a rebuke causes you
to become more active. And the more
a rebuke hurts, the longer you have
been needing it.
By the time some people make up
their minds what to do it's too late.
The best friend a man can have Is
a reputation for being fair, capable,
industrious, polite, intelligent and
temperate.
Nearly all worthy and capable men
aro modest. B. W. Howe's Monthly.
THE IAW'S DELAYS
Discussing the "Law's Delays," S.
P. Stevenson writes to the Chester,
Pa., Times to say:
What a time we do have to bo sure
with the courts, and what aro so
light and considerately called their
"errors."
The supreme court of the United
States is being urged by the Ameri
can Bar Association, assisted by At
torney General McReynolds, to grant
a rehearing of a case before it, in
which it has decided that under the
Seventh amendment of the United
States constitution, a federal court
of appeals may not correct the ver
dict of a jury, though it believes the
verdict was not supported by suffi
cient evidence. It holds that "a re
trial was necessary to overturn the
verdict of the jury." The bar as
sociation and the attorney general
ask in the name of justice that the
unconstitutional act of the lower
court be upheld, because they dislike
the delay of a new trial more than
an unjust verdict. The supreme
court is right, the rehearing should
be refused.
If the verdict of judge or jury is
not in accord with the facts it should,
"be reviewable until.it is. Blunder
ing, incompetent juries, who are de
nied records to go by, are not so dan
gerous as judges who do have such
records. In a recent; case, a federal
judge, with the printed testimony,
taken before a master, and the ex
hibits before him, wrote an opinion
and made a decision from which both
litigants appealed.
In the United States circuit court
of appeals, the case went before three
judges. One judge was permitted to
override the other two, and in writ-,
ing the opinion, he stated that a thing
existed which the printed testimony
on both sides and the exhibits also
before him, showed was absent and
had never existed. He then pro
ceeded with gross perversion of the
plain meaning and application of
words and the most transparent
sophistry, to a conclusion and a de
cision in accordance.
The losing lawyer, a very eminent
man, can not afford to impair his so
cial standing with the judge, and de
fends himself for submitting to this,
and failing to apply in time for a re
hearing, by saying that
"There is no use in trying to get
the judge to change, and you can
not appeal to the supreme court, be
cause there is no constitutional ques
tion involved." "Of course, it Jb
outrageous, but I s"ee no help for
Ir. "Oh! J know him so well, that I
just know he will not do it."
And the lawyer was no doubt cor
rect in that opinion. Think of $10;
000 a year as judge, for a man you
can not safely trust to read proof,
whom you can not discharge; re
sponsible to no one, accountable to
no one.
If this sort of "error" were rare,
it would be bad enough, but It is
doubtful if there is a single judge in
the United States who does not do
this thing, many of them with great
frequency, and always with perfect
impunity. It is not defeated once in
five times. We can not escape, we
must submit, but fs it remarkable
that no intelligent man trusts them?
Plainly this lawyer does not. Does
any lawyer pretend to? If go, ask
him to guaranteo success with a suit,
and see him hedge.
President Wilson's remedy for
"flrmr" on thn nnrf nt o..nn.l 4.. ..!,.
would stop this thing in a day. A)
singlo case of falsifying the record,
of perversion of the plain moaning!
and application of words or of sophlu-
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for a conclusion, should disqualify
for judicial service for life. Not as
punishment to the offender, but as
protection to other helpless victims.
A tribunal of threo scholarly lay
men could pass infallibly on such
offenses. Motive or lack of motive
or provious character should not be
conoidorod, Tho only question should
bo, did ho do It? Lawyors with their
follow-fooling should be disqualified
for this duty.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sometimes our judgment of an agent may be wrong; but if it
'is, we do nol intend that any prospective policyholder shall
suffer thereby. An agent is tho agent of the company, and
THE MIDWEST jLIFE does not propose to shirk any of its re
sponsibilities ifrwill recognize his acts and statements as the
acts and statements of the company.
Wo wish to emphasize in every way that wo nan that no ap
plicant for insurance will have a policy thrust upon him which
is different from the one he bought. When a policy Is tendered
for delivery, if it is not exactly as represented by the agent,
tho applicant need, not accept It; and his note or money given
in settlement of the first premium will be returned.
It was once said of life insurance that it was the only
legitimate business in which sales were made by fake methods.
Whether this was ever true we will not stop to discuss. As
far as THE MIDWEST LIFE Is concerned, the selling of in
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mercial transactions. Our aim will ho .to so deal wjth our ,
policyholders that they will be satisfied and the best 'friends
the company has. A company is developed and ,1s successful
in proportion as it has many dealings with the same uih
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