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FASHIONS INJURIOUS TO THE EYES By Walter Irwin M O Fashion to vhom many women arl slaves is responsible for many ilia that flesh is heir to It matters littla how absurd the style may be or ho uncomfortable there will always ba those who bow in submission to fash ions latest decree Dangerous Practices Belladonna the Italian for beauti ful woman might be translated to signify reckless vanity mad woman who in time must pay the- inevitable price of her folly There is no ques tion as to the effect of belladonna up on the eyes A drop in the eye or a few drops rubbed on the brow abovy each eye will produce a great dilation of the pupil giving a peculiar fullness and languo conceded by many to ba extremely fascinating This practice if indulged in long may result very seriously as the effect on the eye ia usually a spasmodic condition of the iris which is apt to become perma nent and sooner or later the penalty is paid by those who are so foolish aa to resort to this means of brightening their eyes The use of arsenic as a beautifler also tells very seriously on the sight and should be objected to not only on this ground but because it is ruinous to the general health despite what may be said to the contrary and if persistently indulged in will result In dull eyes yellowed and dim Will the woman who is using any substance or mixture to increase the luster and brighten the beauty of her eyes be advised I sincerely hope she may for terrible suffering if not the actual shutting out of the light for ever threatens every women who is making a habit of this most unnatural method of intensifying her charms A Better Way Use natures remedies They are at your disposal on every hand pre serve the youthful beauty of your eyes toy caring for them as an all wise Cre ator intendid True it is that the general acceptance of glasses by man kind may seem to call on the arti ficial But since man has invented the eye straining vocations which re quire the close application of sight in nearly every walk of life it naturally follows that the ever increasing tax upon your sight be met by science and inventive genius until today glasses for the eye are as much an accepted fact as food and raiment But how carelessly do we treat the subject in comparison to its importance until tired work weary eyes begin to dull and the drug route is taken whero the proper treatment with glasses would in the majority of instances bring the desired results with perfect safety at once restoring the beauty of the eye as well as the full enjoyment of healthy useful sight Can any of us afford to be without the full enjoy ment to be obtained through the use of properly adjusted glasses Three fourths of the eyes that read these lines could find comfort and relief in proper lenses of which perhaps you little dream Source of Comfort Kryptoks are a source of comfort and preservation of the eyesight of the wearer as this lens is so con structed that it is achromatic and the changing of the sight from the long to the short focus lens is accomplished with less annoyance and many of the objectionable features of the old bi focals are entirely eliminated in the doing away with the crack or split which marks the dividing of the two lenses in all of the old style two-in-one glasses You who are burdened with two pairs of glasses can now lay aside one of them and breathe a sigh of relief This lens can be obtained of the Columbian Bifocal Co Temple Court Denver Colo who are the exclusive makers and distributers in the West Contractor f Brick Mason and Plasterer Ornamental Cement Worker Prices Rfeht Work Guaranteed Can he X found at the Wall Paper and Paint Siore J R DECKER A 000 LOAN 2 X with the McCook Co operative Building Savings Association can be paid off in monthly payments 1 1 50 of PI If you are paying more you pay too much We can mature your loan on smaller monthly payments and less money in the aggregate than any comepting associa tion Call on the secretary who will explain our system Office in First National Bank McCook Building Savings Association M m COOK TRIBUNE Only One Dollar the Year ers Pills Wake up your liver Cure your constipation Oet rid of your biliousness Sold For 60 years JCArerCo Xioirell M ui Want your moustache or beard BUCKINGHAMS DYE HbCaUtlfdl bT0WIl Or rich black Use nmcMorwicocirQBBAUftcoiusinjAKBi SUMMARY OF THE WO I 01 ESS Session Just Closed Has Been One of Extraordinary Interest EXTENSION OF FEDERAL POWERS Railway Rate Bill One of the Most Important Before the Congress Meat Inspection Amendment to the Agricultural Appropriation Bill New Star Added to the Flag By Edwin S Totter Probably more new nnd extraordi nary questions were under consider ation by the congress which began its legislative life Dec 4 last than by any previous session of our national lawmaking body Not counting the many acts favorably reported to or passed by either branch and left in a state of suspended animation their fate to be determined by the next ses sion the amount and character of new laws enacted makes the Fifty Ninth congress the milestone of a new era in the history of American institutions The day of the nation has come state and local powersare on the wane or in small favor Commercial and in dustrial concentration having brought about new opportunities for abuse of privilege and the muck rakers hav ing waked up the public mind to the various existing evils President Roose velt found in this congress workable soil for the growth of federal powers in dealing with those evils The im press of the presidents mind Avas given to all the more important reme dies adopted Neither friend nor foe in the political arena will question the statement that the work of the session bears the Rooseveltian stamp although the Democrats all along have pointed out that the president was merely camping along the trail blazed by their party platforms Nevertheless the presidents party being in the majority at both ends of the capitol has either taken the credit or been forced to as sume responsibility for what was done even t hen aided by Democratic votes Railroad Rate Regulation The keynote was struck unmistak ably in the message -which congress re ceived at the opening of the session namely the insistence on federal fixing of interstate railroad rates as well as the prevention of rebates or any kind of special favors Rate bills of vari ous kinds and descriptions were promptly introduced in both senate and house but the house majority being under better discipline the bill was more promptly formulated there- which was approved at the White House It was fathered by Representative Hep burn as chairman of the committee on interstate commerce It was so modi fied in the committee as to come before the house without Democratic opposi tion and after a few days of perfunc tory discussion it was passed on Feb S by the almost unananious vote of 345 to 7 the seven opponents all be ing Republicans As passed it gave the interstate commerce commission f pll power to regulate interstate freight tariffs without express recognition of the rights of appeal in the courts This however was only the foundation of the law that was to go to the statute book In the senate the nepburn bill was destined to run the gauntlet of fierce opposition from a conservative faction of tiie Republicans led by Aldrich and 1oraker and become tire football of personal and party bickerings over period of three months The main point of the dispute was the question of a broad or narrow court review pro vision and at one time after the presi dents political and personal enemy Tillman had been placed in charge of the measure there was a tacit coalition between the president and the minor ity Later however the -president ac cepted the compromise Allison amend ment upon which his party associates had agreed vesting jurisdiction in the circuit courts to enjoin set aside an 1 or suspend any order of the oi appeal of the carrier concerned It Avas at this time that the Democratic leaders charged the president with bad faith on the strength of representations said to have been made through ex Senator Chandler Finally the bill with sixty seven amendments passed the senate May IS by a vote of 71 to 3 Still further changes were made in conference thereafter The senate confeirees held out stub bornly against the house proposal to drop the clause placing pipe lines under federal control As this was finally agreed to by senate and house the pipe lines are to be regarded as common carriers but are not prohibited from carrying their own products Railroad and railway mail employes are ex empted from the anti pass amendment Investigations and Inspections In both branches bills were intro duced early authorizing investigations of the railroad monopolies nnd a com bination of these known as the measure was passed by the house Jan 23 and though signed by the president was sharply criticised by him for not carry ing funds and due authority Tho monov ws appropriated Inter and un der tin- authority the interstate com merce commission has already un earthed a vast amount of graft and crookedness in railroad and oil indus tries The pure food bill which passed the senate Feb 21 V5 to 4 was also In line Ith this federalizing tendencj It did not pass the house until June 23 240 to 17 and then with a nunilnr of amendments which endanged its final passage In its final shape the provision af fecting state rights or state and munic ipal control over the original package was cut out As to blended whiskies the package must be labeled blended or mixed The senates provision re mained requiring labels to state the amount of alcohol contained in food packages but not in bottled drugs Tins favors tho patent medicine people 11 is made a misdemeanor for any per son to manufacture or sell any food drug medicine or liquor which is adulterated or misbranded or which contains any poisonous or deletinous substances For violation the penalty Is i0 fine and one years imprison ment The law goes into effect Jan 1 107 The greatest sensation of tho session came from the presidents investiga tion of the charges against the Chi cago beef packers as presented in Sin clairs novel The Jungle For fear of what the Neil Reynolds report might contain the senate passed the Beveridge meat inspection amendment to the agricultural bill May 2S with out opposition Then when influences in the house committee on agriculture were seeking to weaken this bill the fear of greater loses through prolonged agitation brought the friends of the packers to agree to a substitute satis factory to the president This placed the cost of inspection on the federal government and did not re quire the packers to date the labels on their meat packages Rather than see the entire bill fail as the senate con ferees said at last they decided to re cede on these and some minor points An appropriation of 3O0OO0O was made to cover the inspection expenses The national quarantine bill virtual ly putting state and local health au thorities under federal control for the purpose of fighting contageous dis eases passed the senate April 2 and the house next day with little opposi tion In January McCall of Massachu setts proposed a 81 5000 appropriation for the presidents traveling expenses But near the end of the session a bill appropriating S25OCO for that purpose passed both house in the senate by a close party vote Democrats regarded at as extravagent and unconstitutional New Star on the Flair The statehood muddle left over from the preceding congress was one of the most difficult tangles to be un raveled Under the leadership of Speaker Cannon a Republican insur rection against joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico was crushed and the bill was passed Jan 24 104 to l0 the insurgents numbering forty three On March 0 the senate passed the statehood bill with provision only for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian territories as one state Final ly it emerged from conference under a compromise agreement providing for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian territories as the state of Oklahoma and authorizing Arizona and New Mex ico to held a plebescite on joint state hood next fall This was approved by both houses and became a law with the presidents signature June 10 The immigration bill requiring as an educational test that newcomers shall be able to understand the English language and pay fees amounting to 5 passed the senate May 23 and tho house adopted a substitute June 25 In the latter both the test and the tax were rejected Notwithstanding the disagreement over tho immigration bill tho house bill making uniform the conditions for naturalization was adopted by the sen ate June 2S Declaration must be made two years in advance Anarchists and polygamists are barred For Look Canal at Panama The house was the first to go on record in favor of the lock type for the Tanama canal and the senate fol lowed suit June 21 30 io 31 By a par ty vote the senate directed that Am erican products and manufactures should be used in the construction of the canal and in this the house agreed On Jan 27 the house adopted the bill authorizing the construction of tho Lake Erie and Ohio ship canal and on June IS it passed the senate 41 to 11 After standing pat against the on slaughts on the tariff revisionists dur ing most of the session the majority permitted the passage of the bill plac ing denaturized alcohol on the free list This is expected to be a great benefit to many industries requiring power machines or vehicles Another bill which strengthens the arm of the executive in striking at the predatory trusts by preventing corpo rations from getting immunity because of testimony before a government be comes a law Labor interests though angered at the eight hour bill to even come to a vote were pleased somewhat by the passage of the employers liability ac making interstate carriers liable for in juries to employees in the absence of safety appliances and regulations Other measures of general Interest which passed both houses were Au thorizing the return of unidentified Confederate flags abolishing the grade of lieutenant general adding 5000 to each states quota for agricul tural experiment stations prohibition of gambling in the territories provis ion for marking jDonfederate graves In the north extending the time of tribal relations for the five civilized tribe changing coin and bullion reserves to 0000000 and 100000000 providing for the selection of a delegate from Alaska to prevent hazing at naval academy to reorganize army medical corps Important RUN That Failed The rhilippnne tariff 1111 which was one of tho pot administration measures and which was forced through the house by making a concession of 2 per cent of the Dingley rates on sugar tobacco and rice by the vote of 2S to 72 as early as Jan 10 was put to sleep effectually in the senate commit tee on the Philippines through a combi nation of Democrats and standpat Re publican senators The committee voted S to 5 against reporting this cherished administration measure and tho efforts to bring about a recon sideration proved futile The senate on June tabled the proposed constitu tional amendment permitting a federal divorce law Tho house defeated by a large majority the Adams bill author izing whipping posts for wife boaters in the District of Columbia Tho sen ate on Feb 14 voted 3S to 27 in favor of the ship subsidy bill establishing thirteen new contract ma 51 lines to Con tral American South African Austra lian and Pacific island ports at the rate of 8 per ton a year for tho for eign trade and 80r0 per ton for the colonial trade It includes provision for a naval reserve force by payment of- retainers to officers of subsidized vessels This measure is stranded how ever in the unfriendly house commit tee or merchant marine A now bill to restrict and regulate immigration which passed the senate May 23 contained provision for an ed ucational test namely the ability to understand tho English language and raised the head tax from 82 to while creating a commission to invostigito the entire subject When however the house passed this bill June 20 the ed ucational tost and the head tax wore stricken out and the senate refusing to agree the bill died in conference Throughout tho session the senate conmiitteoon foreign relations resolute ly resisted all the administrations in fluence to report favorably tho Santo Domingo treaty Other administration measures -which fared badly in one house or the other were For federal control of life insurance companies the employers liability act requiring the interstate carriers to become liable for accidents to employes in the ab sence of prescribed safeguards which passed the house April 2 modification of Chinese exclusion specific laws for prevention of election corruption Uncle Sams Big Kpense Account Just before the close of tho session it becameapparent that the total of ap propriations to carry on the govern ment for the next fiscal year would lie somewhere in tho neighborhood of 00000000 At this writing the exact figures have not been officially reported It is customary for ojwh party to In sert in the record a week or two after the end of tho session a statement of the appropriations and its own tion thereof The total recalls the out cry that was made only fifteen years ago when the Fifty first congress under Reeds speakership appropriated a lit tle wor 81000000000 in the two years of its existence Replying to tho criti cism that it was a million dollar con gress Reed said It is a billion dollar country Even the Fifty fifth congress which covered much of the Spanish war expenses spent only lfr3000000 in its two years Hence at the pace set by this first session tho Fifty ninth congress is certain to nuter all its predecessors in the matter of public expenditures To the criticism of the minority the dominant party replies that the country has grown in all di rections As a matter of fact tho numerous investigations and federal inspections provided for have added largely to the cost of government Tho approximate amounts carried by the different appropriation bills and some extraordinary appropriations were as follows Permanent annual 141401S20 postal 1010000S pensions 140 24f5C0 naval 102071 0 army 71 817105 fortifications r03093 mil itary academy 10031ir sundry civil 102300000 legislative execu tive and judicial 20740000 District of Columbia 10181200 urgent de ficiency 10000000 general deficiency ll04r000 agriculture 0800000 In dian 10233400 diplomatic 3080 S94 public buildings 2i000000 Pan fornia relief 2300000 militia 2 Senates Action on Treaties After having refused to ratify the San Domingo treaty for which the ad minstration had done its utmost the senate agreed just before adjournment that the Moroccan treaty should come to a vote not later than Dec 12 next before it could die by limitation The Japanese copyright treaty was ratified Feb 2S and the trademark treaty with Roumania May 4 The death of Senator Gorman of Maryland left the minority without its leader and Senator Blackburn of Ken tucky was chosen as the new leader Two other senators Tlatt of Connecti cut and Mitchell of Oregon were tak en by death the latter after his con viction in the land fraud case had made his further attendance impossible Sen ator Burton of Kansas was compelled to resign after the supreme court had approved his conviction on the charge of nsing his official position for pe cuniary gain Representatives who died were Castor of Pennsylvania Tatter son of Pennsylvania Marsh of Illi nois and Lester of Georgia the last having been killed by falling through a skylight in a Washington apartment house The new faces in the senate were those of LaFolIette from Wiscon sin Gearin from Oregon Benson from Kansas and Dupont from Delaware The thanks of congress-were- extend ed to General Horace Porter for bis ef forts in finding tie grave of Atfmiral John Paul 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