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
