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yr unites OixirfSenna Cleanses the System Effect ually;Dispels Colds andneaa aches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts Truly as a Laxative. . Best f)rMenwmcn ana Lnucfc ren -youngana Wet its heneficialtjfecTs Iways buy ine aenume jvmcn as ine luu name or me om California JioStrup.Co. by vvnom it is manufactured , printed: on the snin mm i i FAtiiNC nRiiGGiST one size only, rejpilar Prce 50 battle- Neatly Put. Homer Folks, the secretary of the State Charity Aid society of New York, referred in a recent address to the awkwardness that charity work- era feel in making public appeals for funds. "And few charity workers," Mr. Folks added, "can carry off that awk wardness with the neatness of the col ored preacher who reminded his con gregation that: '"Brudren, Ah kaiu't preach hyah an' board in heb'n.' " . MADE INTO STABLEl HUMBLE PURPOSE SERVED BY MAUSOLEUM OF TYRANT. Important to Mothers. Examine .carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy tor Infants and children, and see that it Signature ot&t&ffl&fifa In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. AN ADVERTISING TRICK WESTERN FARMERS. FOK Real Estate "Agents" Go After Men with Land fo Sale and Reap Rich Harvest. A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has been worked with much success in South Dakota. An oily grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his land. The figures are absurdly low at first, but by degrees are raised as high as $60 an acre, and the farmer consents. Then the visitor explains that he is only an agent, but that he can sell the land at the price named if the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of fifty cents an acre. The "agent" promises orally that the ad vertising money will not be payable until the land Is sold, but this stipula tion is not contained in a contract that the farmer signs. In a few days be receives a copy of an ad and not over-courteous demand for money. It is said that twenty two agriculturists were caught with this bait in Brown County and that one of them gave up $320. Others de clare hotly that they will not pay but they will make a fight in the courts. The Ruling Passion. Mammy 'Liza has lived with the "fambly" long enough to acquire words and expressions, which, used at second hand, are sometimes fatal to the family gravity. Recently a mem ber of the little circle had occasion to call for the horse and surrey from the livery stable. After waiting a long while the order was repeated, with no immediate result. Mammy, having beard the conversation, and knowing the impatience of her mis tress, expressed herself thus: "Huh! Dey's jes' no use countin' on dem libery stable folks, dey's so dil-lltante." Curious Memorial of the Ruin Solano Lopez Brought on Paraguay Country Being Brought Back Slowly to Prosperity. A curious memorial of the tyrant Solano Lopez, who wasted and depopu lated Paraguay between 1862 and 1870, stands in the city of Asuncion, the capital of the republic. It is the large and imposing mausoleum that he built for the ultimate housing of his body. But it was never used for that pur pose. When Lopez was overtaken and killed as he was fleeing his enemies did not care to give him a decent burial. Dr. Vallentin, the German geograph er, who has just written a book on Paraguay, says that it puzzled the peo ple to decide what to do with the mausoleum. It was finally turned into a stable and is still serving that humble but useful purpose. Grass is growing upon the Mty cupola and weeds protrude from every crevice in the walls. It is a monu ment to the ruin Lopez 'brought upon his country and himself. Lopez has often been called the Nero of the nineteenth century, but some historians say that he was worse than Nero. Dr. Baez, the historian of Paraguay, says that the tyranny of Lopez was the most barbarous that history records. The only' excuse ever made "for him is that he was in sane. He was president of Paraguay and intended to make himself king. He provoked and waged a five years' yar with the united countries of Brazil Argentina and I ruguay. He had a crown made in Paris to be ready for the coronation just as soon as he could declare himself king of more than half of South America. His idea was to build up a great kingdom, not by developing its resources, but by found ing a military despotism. i He became a despot wholly unre strained by law. AH his countrymen wno opposed mm were shot or im prisoned. He had his own mother and one of his sisters publicly flogged in the street. Another sister was kept a prisoner in chains. Every boy and man who could carry a gun was impressed into the army, and as the end drew near he com pelled many hundreds of women to light in the ranks. The whole coun try was in ruins when a bullet ended nis ine. in Paraguay nad a pop ulation of over 1,000,000. There were only about 200,000 human beings in ine country in 1872. The land was nothing but a waste. It had been completely stripped of cattle, norses, sheep and goats, not a plantation was in cultivation, and there was no money to buy seed, for Lopez, and the woman Lynch, whom he had brought with him from Paris the year before he became president. had shipped all the remaining gold and silver to England for a rainy day. Paraguay has recovered slowly from tins experience. She now has a pop ulation of 500,000, immigrants are coming in growing numbers, and agri culture and commerce are advancing every year. Chance to Show It. . Mrs. Biggs I hear Mrs. Hilow is going to move again. Mrs. Diggs Yes, she moves every month since she got her new furniture. Moravian Barley and 8peltz, two great cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak., Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere, and add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. Emperor William Oat prodigy, etc., and other rare farm seeds that they offer. JTJST CUT THIS OUT AND BETTJBN IT with 10c in stamps for packing, etc., to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. K. & W. Not for Murphy. Mr. Murphy Oi want to buy a pair of gloves. Clerk Here's something I believe King Leopold nas sent to ivew iotk wni just suit you. It's a suede glove. for display a large collection of what Mr. Murphy Niver, begorra! Ol are said to be very valuable and in- i want Irish gloves. Swade gloves, in teresting exhibits from the Congo. . dade! Kansas City limes. So far as reported no scarred and niu- I tilated natives are among them. It may be the uncertainty of flirt- Ins that anneals to a eirl:. she is never quite sure but what she really ! ,ate and Custard. means it. Those Delicious Lemon Pies. The kind that "make your mouth wa ter" are easily made with no fussing and at least possible expense if you use "OUR-PIE" Preparation. Don't hesitate. Try it and tell your friends. At erocers. 10 cents. Three kinds: Lemon, Ctaoco- Many Old People Suffer from' Bronchial Affections particularly at Jhis time of year. Brown's Bronchial Troches give immediate relief. What a man thinks he knows about women a woman knows he doesn t know. However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing failure. Samuel Longfellow. FILES CV RED IN 6 TO 14 DATS. PAZO OINTMKNT is guaranteed to core any ease of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Files in s to 14 dayb or money refunded. 50c. You can't make good ginger ale if anything ails the ginger. i OUCH, OH MY BACK" NEURALGIA, STITCHES, LAMENESS. CRAMP TWINGES, TWITCHES FROM WET OR DAMP ALL BRUISES. SPRAINS. A WRENCH OR TWIST THIS SOVEREIGN REMEDY THEY CAN'T RESIST lQ) Price 25c and 50c DISTEMPER For IWrTTMfnnn Pink Eye. Epizootic abipping fever k Catarrhal Fever Sure cure and positive preventive, no matter how horses at any axaare tnfeated mm "exposed.' Liquid, feiven on the tongue: acts on- the Blood ana Glands; expels tfee poiitonoas (terms from the body. Cures Distemper in Dogs and Sheep and Cholem Us Poultry. Lanrest selling livestock remedy. Cures Ia Grippe among human belsups and Is a fine Kidney remedy. fiOc and tl a bottle; t5and t!0 a dozen. Out this out Keep it. Show to your drntfjeist. who will get It foryou. Free Booklet, " Distemper, Ofcn and Cures.' Special agents wanted, SPOHN MEDICAL CO.. BCSX GOSHEN, IND., U. S. JL JS!SS2l Thompson's Eye Water rtrriAMPP CTARPII siest to work with and torches clothes nicest DEFIANCE STARCH oarer .ttefci to tin lna. W. N. U., LINCOLN, NO. S, 1908. Hot For Mem B 20 When you need a medicine for women's ills, we urge you earnestly to take Car- dui. Cardui is a woman s medicine, suffer from the ills peculiar to women. It is not for men, but only for such women as Therefore, you should take , Wine of . Car- dm if sick, because it has helped others who suffered as you do. Mrs. Bettie Arpof Menlo, Ga., writes: "I was troubled with female complaint for twelve months The doctors treated me, but did me little good, so I took Cardui, and it saved my life." BiriMtlHH nATI H11H nAAtr Write for Free 64-pge Book for Women, giving y mutuiiM, taints, heme treatment ng WRITE FOR FREE BOOK This Is the law of benefits between men: The one ought to forget at once what he has given; the other ought never to forget what he has received. Seneca. We Sell Guns and Traps Cheap Buy furs and hides, or tan them for robes or rugs. n. W. Hide & tur Co., Minneapolis. It's a sweeping assertion to say that a new broom sweeps clean. Mrm Window's Soothlnar Stthb. for children teetblng, Bof tens the sums, reduce la ftammmuon.allayi pain, care wind colic 35c bottle. Talk Is cheap unless a lawyer is handing it out It is vain to be always looking to wards the future, and never acting to ward it. Boyes. Don't worry about your complexion take Garfield Tea, the Herb laxative and blood-purifier! An improvement will be seen in a week. By the way, are you acquainted with any man who flatters his wife! OSI.V OTE "BKOMO QUININE" That Is LAXATIVK BROMO QTjININK. Look for the slgnatnro of K. W. GUOVB. Used the World over to uare a listtd in una wy. z&c. By doing duty we learn to do it E. B. Pusey. SHOES AT ALL r PRICES. FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. MEN, BOYS, WOMEN. MISSES AND CHILDREN. nap wn imiwy.aw i ipi ' n of anafM1 vmlum tham mayo, W. L Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At An Pries MIAUT1UN, Sold far t he Keat ahoe t rated Catalog free to any address. y tssrt . W. L. Dowtlaa name and price i tamped on ZrJQjfi, SSrtJf'nJS!. w dealer, everywhere. Shoee mailed trom f artery Jo.'qT.Pa'? tAP?-,!?clSt-! ' CUTICURA CURED FOUR Southern Woman Suffered with Itch ing, Burning Rash Three Little Babies Had Skin Troubles. "My baby had a running sore on his neck and nothing; that I did for it took effect until I used Cutlcura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some sim ilar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cutieura. Ointment, cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it Itched so badly. I went back' to my old stand-by, that had never failed me one set of Cuti cura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby whose bead was a cake of sores, and another baby who was in the same fix. Mrs. Llllie Wllcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chat tanooga, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1907." The more Judgment a man has, the slower and the more careful will he be to condemn. Maurer. Willi M V 'i.e. SPOT CASH Cost of Mine Timbers. The cost of every ton of anthracite Is increased eight cents by the pense of the mine timbers. To sup ply these timbers, says the Vegeta rian Magazine, requires each year the product of approximatetly 150,000 acres of forest. Timber is used for cross ties for tram roads in the main haulage ways. as wooden rollers and as props. A set of gangway timber consists of two legs, commonly nine or ten feet long and about 13 inches in diameter, and a collar six or seven feet long. These sets are placed on an average at in tervals of five feet; one gangway fre quently contains 1,000 sets, and ten gangways to a colliery is not an un usual number. The average life of the timber is hardly above two years. Forty-five per cent, of the timbers are destroyed by decay, while breakage, wear and Insects destroy the remainder. Bv peeling the timbers and properly sea soning them and especially by giving them a treatment in oils or chemical salts, their length of service is materi ally increased. Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. From the Railway World, January j, igo8. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which large shippers in the territory had been guilty. . cause of economic reform has been in no wise point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Considering the fact that these shippers in abated by the panic which he and his kind did Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not eluded the packers and elevator men of Chl so much to bring on, is out with an answer to on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, cago the action of the grand jury in calling President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com- which receives its Whiting freight from the upon President Moffett to furnish evidence ot pany of Indiana. The publication of this an- Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de swer, it is ofllcially given out, was delayed eev- discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make mand for an elaboration of the obvious;, but eral weeks, "for business reasons," because it them read from a point on the line of the fil- the fact that a rate-book . containing these was not deemed advisable to further excite ing road, and it was also general to state on freight fates for other shippers was offered in the public mind, which was profoundly dis- the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to evidence during the trial and ruled out by turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm other points, e. g.. Whiting. The Chicago & Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. Presl clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis- Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing dent Moffett would not, of course, accept thet sioner rushes again into the fray. its rate from Dolton, and making a note on invitation of the grand Jury although be might Our readers remember that the chief points the sheet that is applied to Whiting: This was have been pardoned if be had referred1 them' n tha rieferuv. nf thn standard Oil Comnanv. as in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was to various official investigations by the Inter state commerce . commission ana omer de partments of the .Government. U7a nnmn ha rTr ' 'tliAWkfsil'A r fia nnf1nof Iffl " CW? "iSlld tiTrT of the whole matter, which'is that the Stand- presented by President Moffett, were (1) that iu common use, the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission was a class and not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was Now let us see in what way the Intending the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting. Commissioner Smith contends that "conceal ment is the only motive for such a circuitous arraneement " i. f that this method of filine shipped in large quantities between Whiting the rate waa intended to mfslead intending and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East- comnetitors of th Standard Oil Comnanv. era Illinois at 6 cents per hundred pounds, Supp0se ch a prospective oil refiner had ap- Inrstato commerce commission, mere is no which has been filed with the Interstate Com- ,- vJ T1 t7J VT evidence, and none was introduced at the trial. JJlltJU LliD XULClDiaiU VAJIUUUOOIUU merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) for rate from Chicago to East St. Louis that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of ovcr tne Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would proportion Jo lawful rates on other commodi- nave been informed that the only rate filed tlAa between thesa nninta of a similar char- m. ai i i. at . wiiu me vuuiiJiiBDiuu u v uiia vuiuuttiiy was . . - . Hvi- .rf!".m U from Dolton, and he would have been LLTll as unseea on, ine lawiui rate on wmcn was further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined . an amount equal to seven or eight times the val ue of its entire property,' because its traffic' department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod ity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered with by the 18-cent rats nor that the failure of the Alton to file Its six-, cent rate had resulted in any discrimination eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "inde pendent" shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrim- else about Chicago, under an arrangement of inaU(m Qf the AUon haye 8B,pped M dust rial towns in the neighborhood of Chica go, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi nois at Dolton and transported to East St. FOR SOLDIERS AND HEIRS AH fednrul sold I em and sailors who sprrod 00 day between lHrtl and lMttf and wno norm' steaded leswlhan l0acrebeforJnnet,187,ttroenUUrduddittonal honiestoad rignt wbicta 1 bur. If soldier is dead, bis heirs can aelL Talk tooldwildirs.widowsaiid heirs. Kind s me soldier relative who went West or Month after thn war and bomeRteaded goTemment land. 8?k5?Ew.&etX W crP In the country except corn. Relic of a Great Composer. Among lire s largest ironies is the fate, that often befalls the manuscript of a genius. Of no one is this truer than of Beethoven. When this greatest of composers was alive he was inces santly In financial difficulty. After his death all his manuscript were sold at auction over 200 of them thera were yet they brought hardly $500. This would, be at the rate of about two dollars and a half apiece. The other day the manuscript of his G major sonata for violin and piano, written in R 2, was sold by a man in Leipsic to a man in Florence for 12. 500 marks, or $10,200. j What the Little Workers Do. The bee, humble 'worker as he is. yet last year paid the interest on the national debt of the United States, $24,310,326, and had a surplus remain ing of nearly $700,000. This Is almost as much as the $28,000,000 which was the value of raw cane sugar produced in the country. Yet beside the farm yard chicken the bee sinks into in significance. Poultry products this year are worth $600,000,000, more than staked tbe success of its campaign against Lcmte at a rate of 6 cents. Where then is the "trusts" upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influ ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com missioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebut tal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant He answers the points made by Presi dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company had a traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate bad not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as "a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." The Commissioner ad mits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corpora tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, it is as wc ak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into the concealment which the Commissioner of Corporations makes so much of? Any rate from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap pell on the Alton, or-Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to ship ments from' any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who the oil he desired to ship from; Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short,, .Presi dent Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged . with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liber ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, .descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive person- , alities, we finally reach the nether' depths Of j unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report, of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every " I t either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor- commercial piracy and with most of tation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public ignorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unques tioningly every statement made by a Govern ment official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that "the 'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted shilling was punishable by death. Under the a discrimination as against other shippers of interpretation of the Interstate Commerce law oil," and he also makes much of the failure of by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw President Moffett to produce before the grand Landis. a technical error of a traffic official Im jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of made the excuse for the confiscation t vast which the Standard Oil official said that other amount of property. the crimes on the corporation calendar.' After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the ' United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings, j The whole strength of the Government is di rected against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav ing failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. . Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than n