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Thousands of American yromen
in pur homes are dnily sacrificing
their lives to duly.
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty , the children well dressed
and tidy , women overdo. A female
weakness or displacement is often
brought on and they sailor in silence ,
drifting along from had to worse ,
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches whifh daily make life a hurden.
It is to these faithful women that
comes as a hoon and a hlessing ,
as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth , of
Mayville , N. Y. , and to Mrs. W. P.
Boydof Beaver Falls , Pa. , who say :
"I was not able to do my own work ,
owing to the female trouble from which
I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkhaiu's Vege
table Compound lielpedme wonderfully ,
and I am so well that I can do as big a
day's work us I ever did. I wish every
sick woman would try it.
FACTS TOR SaCK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound , made
from roots and herbs , has been the
standard remedy for female ills ,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements , inflammation , ulceration -
tion , ijbroid tumors , irregularities ,
periodic pains , backache , that bear
ing-down feeling , Hatulency.indigcs-
tioudizzinessor ne rvoiis prostration.
"Why don't you try it V
Mrs. Pinkhixm invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
S&e has guided thousands to
health. Address , Liyiin , Itliss.
Side I.ixrlitM on Hixtory.
Tlio carkliug of the gpfst- had sav : l
Rome.
"How mortifying ! " oxclaiinpd the Ko-
mazis. "Posterity will jot the improssitm
thai \vo averted iie tniftion by followr1 ?
the advice of the street corner orators ! "
The historians however , have been eriro-
ful to place the credit where it properly
belongs.
Miss Dora I'a pa , .Jack told me the
other day that you wouldn't believe lie
Lad money enough to support me unless
he showed it to you. Has he done it ?
I'rwient I'npa Yes dear. lie proved
it by the testimony of the rocks.
ior Infants emd Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
{ Signature of
Grandfather's Cure for
Constipation
REAT medicine , the Sawbuck.
fo Two hours a day sawing wood
1 ' will keep anyone's Bowels
regular.
No need of pills , Cathartics , Castor d\\ \ ,
nor "Physic , " if you'll only work the S r.v-
buck regularly.
* * *
Exercise is Nature's Cure for Constipa
tion and , a Ten-Mile walk will do , if you
haven't got awood-pils.
But , if you -frill take your Exercise in an
Easy Chair , there's only one v/ay to do that ,
because , there's only one kind of Artificial
Exercise for the Bowels and its name is
"CASCARETS. "
Cascarets are the only means to exsrcise
the Bowel Muscles vithout work.
They don't Purge , Gripe , nor "upset
your Stomach , " because they don't act like
"Physics. "
They don't finch out your Bowels and
Intestines with a costly waste of Digestive
Juice , as Salts , Castor Oil , Calomel , Jalap ,
or Aperient V/s.ters always do.
No Cascarets strengthen and stimulate
the Bowel Muscles , that line the Food
passages and that tighten up when food
touched them , thus driving the food to its
A Cascaret acts on your Bowel Muscles
as if you had just sawed a cord of wood , or
walked ten miles.
Caccarets move the Food Naturally ,
digesting it without waste of tomorrow's
Gastric Juice.
* * *
The thin , flit , Ten-Cent Box is made
to fit your Vest pocket , or "My Lady's"
Purse. Druggists 10 Cents a Box.
Carry it constantly with you and take a
Cascaret whenever you suspect you need
one.
Be very careful to get the genuine
made only by the Sterling Remedy Com
pany , and nev r rold m bulk. Every tab
let ctainpid "CCC7'T 7K
The Senate calendar was cleared oi
nearly every bill upon it Thursday , ant
the bill to revise the criminal laws of tlu
United States was taken up and discuss
ed until adjournimnt. . A complete change
of front was exhibited by the majority ir
the House of licprosentatives in the con
sideration of the bill to codify and rei.s <
the penal laws of the I'nited States. The
pacific spirit displayed by the committee
on revision of laws , toward the close 01
\Ycdnesday's session , when it appeared as
though the several amendments strength
cning certain provisions of the bill regard
ing corruption to the appointment of p"r
sons to public * offices would be adopted
vanished , and instead every inch oi
ground was fought over to keep airvnd
nients out oE the bill. When adjouin
mont was taken ouly six additional pagei
had been disposed of and but one or iwc
verbal amendments by the committee hnc
been inserted.
The Senate was not in session Friday ,
After passing a large number of pension
bills the Elouse at 1:2 , > p. in. adjournec
until Monday. The penal code bill was
not takeu up.
*
The bill revising the crrmlnal las ol
the United States was taken up as un
finished business in the Senate Monday ,
and its discussion occupied the greater
part of the session. A letter was receiv
ed from Secretary Cortelyou explaining
his delay iu giving the financial figures
which had been asked for. Unrestrained
opportunity to express views ou the im
migration question was afforded members
of the House by the decision , soon after
convening , to take up and consider a bill
appropriating $2nO,000 for an immigra
tion station iu Philadelphia , and so many
took advantage of it that the code of laws
bill , , which the managers of the House
had planned to take up , was also side
tracked for the day. The entire sessior
was devoted to a consideration of the bill ,
which was passed.
The Senate Tuesday discussed tht pro
priety of authorizing one of its cotn-mit-
tees to investigate the circumstances con
nected with the issuance of an injunction
in the case of the Ilirclmian Coal and
Coke Company versus John Mitchell , by
Judge Alston G. Daytou of the United
States Circuit Court of the northern dis
trict of West Virginia. Senator Culber-
son asked to have a resolution for that
purpose adopted , and Senator Halo
thought it should not harass judges in
their decisions , and he did not favor
such a resolution unless there va * con
siderable ground for believing that a
judge had exceeded his authority. Con
siderable time was spent iu considering
the bill to revise the criminal code. At
the close of a day of excitement in the
House of Representatives an amendment
was added to the penal code bill making
it a criminal offence for any officer or
employe of the government to give out ad
vance information regarding any crop sta
tistics authorized by hrw to be prepared.
The original amendment was by Mr.
Uurleson of Texas , who made a strong
plea for its passage , but a substitute
by Mr. Sherley of Kentucky , with a brief
addition by Mr. Olm ted of Pennsylvania ,
was accepted. Earlier in the day interest
attached to a tilt between Mr. Dabicl of
Pennsylvania and Mr. Itandell of Texas
over the latter's amendments prohibiting
Senators or members from being employ
ed by public service corporations. The
climax of the debate came when Mr.
Clark of Missouri announced , amid thun
derous Democratic applause , that William
.1. lirjau would be nominated at the Den
ver convention , while Mr. Boutcll of
Illinois aroused the members on his side
to a hi h pitch of enthusiasm by stating
that Speaker Cannon would be the Re
publican nominee.
The Senate spout over an hour Wed
nesday in disi-ussiug a resolution offered
b.\ Senator HaiiMirough of North Dakota
directing the Department of Commerce
and Labor to suspend its investigation
into the atfairs of the International Ilar-
v ster Company , which was" ordered by a
resolution over a vVar airo. During ui *
discussion Senator Ilausbrough declared
that the "harvester trust" is attempting
to control the selection of delegates to
the-next Republican national convention
and is especially plotting to defeat him
for re-election to the Senate. The resolu
tion finally was referred to a committee.
The criminal < -odo bill was again consid
ered for over two hours. Rapid progress
was made in She House of Representa
tives in the consideration of the bill to
codify and revise the penal laws of the
United States. The ouly amendment of
any importance which got through was
one by Pllie .Tam"s OL Kentucky , making
it a criminal offense , under heavy penalty ,
to falsify government , crop statistics , the
objecr of the : jneudinent being to protect
the cotton and tobacco growers from
speculators. Over fifty pages of the bill
tvere disposed of. Except for a political
? peech by Mr. Kimball of Kentucky , the
proceedings were monotonous and -it no
Lime were a hundred members in their
eats.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
A free art bill was introduced in the
House by Mr. P.urtoii of Ohio. It wag
Deferred to the committee on ways and
ueans.
Representative Mann of Chicago in-
ircduced a bill permitting railroads to
jive free transportation to officials aud
sinploycs of other lines.
Senator Tillmau is swamped daily with
otters from all parts of the country
Haisiug him for his efforts iu behalf of
irohibition.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma introduced
. bill providing for the taxing of depos-
ts in national banks to raise a fund to
; uaranlee all dopositors.
The joint resolution extending to Jan.
1 , 11)10. ) the time allowed militia con-
innies of the various States to conform
heir organization to that prescribed for
be regular army , was passed by Mie
v aud goes to the President for
' are
IIli SI
"What is your uair.e , little boy ? " ask-
d the , v. ' ! : ! .
"I'll ! : av to write it for you , ma'am , "
said tbi' r.ew Iny. hesitatingly.
"I iKnl : : : < > ! . My hfarng Ls qitu
good. Your raine. pleasy' : "
"I'll rather no * tell you. "
"Are ; . on ashamed of year name ? "
"Xo. ma'am , btit "
"Then we will not w.-uste any more
time , if you please. I am waiting. "
The boy's eyes rolled wildly in their
. ntkots and his face became contorted as
he 1-egan :
"Kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kul : Clarence :
That's iy first name. The other is Pup-
. Perkins ! 1
pup-puy-I.up-pnp-pup never
"turtor V"j > r when I'm speaking iuy namq.
av ! W'SOM I'm narved like this I'm a
whole lot worse , mn'ani. "
Importfs into Canada in 15)07 ( estimat
ed ) 'from the T'niird Stales amount to
SK'.ri.niUMXxt. nir.-iir.st only ? 7KI' ) . < MJO' '
from Gr iat P.ntuln.
Parental Misinformation.
Paw. what is a guillotine ? "
"It's an instrument bearing some re
semblance to a shirt collar that has been
{ three r.r four times to the laundry. Tom
my , but it is much quicker and more mer
ciful in its operation. "
I'lI.KS CUIiEI > IX G TO 14 DAYS.
J'AXO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure any
i-nsc of I ion Ins. Illind. Bleeding or ITotrini
InI'ilos iu U to 14 days .r money refunded.
COc.
Sixty carloads of Cauadian-mnde har-
ves'.ing machinery have been ordered for
Siberia.
Mis. Wjnslow's Soothing Syrup for Child-
ion teething , softens tlie nuins , reduces 111-
tlrtiMinati.ni. uKvis pain , , cures wind colic.
J. > e : \ bottle.
Ne'n' Jersey farmer declares his life
was saved by ghost of his wife.
YT > Sell fJu.s ami Trnpn Cheap ,
P.uy Furs & Hides , or tan them for robes
& nigs. X W. 1 lide & Fur Co. , Minneapolis
151sj > ul - l lluProposition. .
"All that you are , iny friend , " said the
lecturer , singling out an elderly man sit
ting in a front seat , who appeared to bn
deeply interested , "all that you are. I re
peat , you owe to heredity and environ-
uent. ' '
"Gosh ! " exclaimed the elderly man ,
turning red with indignation , "I never
had uo dealin's- with that firm in my life ,
and I don't owe them uor nobody else a
1 laniod cent I"
Few men in Europe have had a more
striking career than the Rov. Dr. I'Sshop
Cabrera of the Spanish Reformed church ,
who was educated to the Catholic priest
hood , but embraced the Protestant faith
and became : i voluntary exile to Gibral
tar , when he returned to lead the Evan
gelical party ! > ffeitb" > n'n'-Jrm m * iN
Mr. JFcrberl Kuox Smith , who = c zeal in the
cause of economic reform 1m been in no iwise
abated by the panic which lie and his kind did
so much to bring on. is out with an answer to
President MolTctt. of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. The publication of this answer , it is ,
officially gueii out.us delated several weeks
"for bi.sine-s reasons. ' ' because itt was not
deemed nd\i-abie to further excite the public
mud , which was profoundly disturbed by the
crisis. Xow that the storm clouds have rolled
by. however , the Commissioner rushes again
into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief points in
the defence of the Standard Oil Company , as
presented by President MoiYctt.cre , ( t ) that
the rate of six cents on oil from Whiting to
Hast St. Louis haben is-tied to the Standard
Oil Company , as the lawful rate by employes of
the Alton , ( J ) that the iS-cer.t rate on tile- with
the Inter-talc Commerce Commission was a
class and not a comrnod'ty rate , never being" in
tended to applv to ol. : (3) ( ) that oil was shipped in
large quantities between Whiting and l-.ast St.
Louis over the Chicago and Ka- > urn Illinois at
six and one-fourth cents per hundred pounds ,
which has been filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission as the lav. fill rate , and (4)
that the its-cent rate on oil was entirely out of
proportion to lawful rates on other commodities
between thc.-e points of aimilar character , and
of greater value , such , for example , as linseed
oil. the lawful rate on which was eight cents.
President MofFctt uKo stated that thousands of
tons of 11 eight had been sent by other shippers
between thc.se poiius under substantially the
same conditions as go\crncd the shipments of
the Standard Oil Cuinpam.
This defence of the Standard Oil Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted
a powerful inllncncc upon the public mind. Nat
urally the Administration , which has staked the
success of its campaign against the "trusts" up
on the result of its attu k upon this company ,
endeavors to offset this influence , and hence the
new dclierance of Commissioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal
argument is extreme ! } weak , although" strong ,
no doubt , as the circumstance- , would warrant.
"He answers the points made by President Mof-
clt .substantially as follow ! * : ( j ) The Standard
Oil Compain had a traffic "department , and
should have known that the six-cent rate had
not been filed. (2) ( ) no answer. (3) ( ) the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate be
cause it read , not from Whiting , but from Dol-
ton. which is described as "a village of abo'.it
1.500 population jast ont.-idc 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 Comriis-ioiier admits in de
scribing this rate that there was a note attached
stating that the rate could also be used from
Whiting.
'i he press has quite generally hailed this
statement of the Commissioner of Corporations
as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently
recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument
advanced by the Standard.
In fact , it is as' weak and inconclusive as the
remainder of his argument. The lines of the
Chicgo and Eastern Illinois do not run into
TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA.
Cntlenru Cured Sculp Troubles of
TITO nilnoi.s Girl.i Another Sister
Took Catluitrn Pills.
"I must give much praiseto all the
Cuticura Remedies. I used but one
cake of Cuticura. Soap and one bet of
Cuticura Ointment , as that was all that
| was required to cure my disease. I
I was very much troubled with eczema
of the head , and a friend of mine told
| me to use the Cuticura Remedies , wtiich
I did , and am glad to .say that they
cured roy eczema entirely. My sister
was also cured of eczema of the head
by using the Cuticura Remedies. " An
other sister has used Cuticura Resolv
ent aud Pills and thinks they are a
splendid tonic. Miss Edith Ilauiiuer ,
R. 1iD. . No. 6 , Morrison , 111. , Oct 3 ,
'OG.
The laws of Norway compel a man
who cho s down one tree to plant tkres.
f
From the Rail-cay World , January j ,
Chicago. They terminate at Dolton , from which
point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whit
ing , where the oil freight originates , is not on
the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois ,
\vhich receives its Whiting freight from the Belt
Line at Dolton.The former practice , now dis
continued , in filing tariffs v/as to make them
read from a point on the line of the filing road ,
and it was also general to state on the same
sheet , that the tariff would apply to other points ,
e. g. , Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
followed this practice in filing its rate from Del
ton , and making a note on the sh/et that is .ip-
plied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this
mctli6d of filing tariffs was in common use.
Now let us see inhat way the intending
Chipper of oil could be misled and deceived by
the fact that the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
had not tiled a rate reading from Whiting.
Commissioner Smith contends that "concealment
is the only motive for such a circuitous arrange
ment , " i. e. , that this method of filing the rate
was intended to mislead intending competitors
of the Standard Oil Conipairy. Suppose such a
prospective oil re-liner had applied to the Inter
state Commerce Commission for the rate from
Chicago to K s . St. Louis over the Chicago and
Eastern JiH. : - , he would have been informed
that the onl\ rate filed with the commission by
this company was 6r4 cents from Dolton , and
he would have been further informed , if indeed
he did not know this already , that this rate ap
plied throughout Chicago territory. So that
whether he wished to locate his plant at Whit
ing , or anywhere else about Chicago , under an
arrangement of long standing , and which applies
to all the industrial towns in the neighborhood
of Chicago , he could have his freight delivered
over the Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St.
Louis at a rate of 6J4 cents. vVhere then is the
concealment which the Commissioner of Corpo
rations makes so much of ? Any rate from
Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappell on
the Alton , or Harvey on the Illinois Central , or
Blue Island on the Rock Islandapplies through
out Chicago territory to shipments from Whit
ing , as to shipments 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 either betrays his gross ignorance of trans
portation customs in Chicago territory or relies
on the public ignorance of these customs to
deceive the public too apt to accept nnquestion-
ingly every statement made by a Government
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 Moffctt 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 a discrimination
as against other shippers of oil , " and he also
makes much of the failure of President Moffett
to produce before the grand jury evidence of the
alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil
official said that other large shippers in the ter-
Out of an average annual loss to t ta
"world's shipping of L',172 vessels. 04 ar
completely missing and never h < * ard oi
again.
Northwestern Harness Co-
Established lSi . 'JO } ears sq'urlerillni ; .
312-314 Pearl St. , Sioux City , Iowa
Order direct from our Factory rn-J s ive ( or
yourel ! 1' ' ! ' ! ' and
'eUiT-i' LI : '
i-rml fcr . e No 53
Just as
{ , 'oocl as
sells for
$155.00
SHOES AT AU-
PRICES. FOR EVEfiY
ER OFTHEFAMILY.
MEN , BOYS , WOMEN , MISSCS AND CHILDREN.
L. BougSas msfcass and softs mope
men's $2.50 , $3.GOand$3.SOshoes
thott any Oshss * manufactures * Sn the
WOPbscsuso ihcy hold # /JC/r
s/iapc , fit baiter , vraas * longer , sni3
as-o of srsaZcp vafuo than any oiher e = r
shoes fa tbGvtorttl to-day. 5 > M
W. L. Douglas $4 and 35 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Pries
33VUTI ON' . W. L. Donpl-is name and price is ptampcd on bottom. TaUi'o Sut-i tiiiitr.
Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Shoes mailed from factory to any part or : ! vror.'i. Illa&-
ttsiod UatalOB free to any address. W. i. . JOUGi.AJs , UrocL-tou , Ala * * .
ritory had been guilty. Considering the fact
that these shippers included the packers and ele
vator men of Chicago the action of the grand
jury in calling upon President MofFett to fur
nish evidence of their wrong-doing may be in
terpreted as a demand fpr an elaboration of the
obvious ; but the fact that a rate-book contain
ing these freight rates for other shippers v.'as
offered in evidence during the trial and ruled
out by Judge Landis. was kept out of sight.
President MolTett would not , of course , accept
the imitation of the grand jury although he.
might have been pardoned if he had referred
them to various official investigations by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and other de
partments of the Government.
We come back , therefore , to the conclusion of.
the whole matter , which is that the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was lined an amount
equal to sex en or eight times the value of its
entire property , because its traffic department
did not verify the statement of the Alton rate
clerk , that the six-cent commodity rate on oil
had been properly filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission. There is no evidence , and
none was introduced at the trial , that any ship
ment of oil from Chicago territory had been in
terfered with by the eighteen-cent rate nor that
the failure of the Alton to file its six-cent rate
had resulted in any discrimination against any
independent shipper , we must take this on the.
word of the Commissioner of Corporations and
of Judge Landis. Xcither is it denied even by
Mr. Smith that the "independent" shipper of oil ,
whom he pictures as being dm en out of business
by this discrimination of the Alton , could have
shipped all the oil he desired to ship from Wait
ing via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois to Mt.st St. Louis. In short ,
President Moffett's defence is still good , and we
predict will be bo declared by the higher court.
The Standard Oil Company has been charged
with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors.
Beginning with the fan.oiis Rice of Marietta ,
passing down to that apostle of popular liber-
tics , Henry Dcmarcst Llo\J. v.ith nib Wealth
Against the Commonwealth , descending by easy
stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive personalities ,
we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and
baseless misrepresentation in the report of the
Commissioner of Corpornlions.- The Stamford
has been charged with every form of commer
cial piracy and with most of the crimes on the
corporation calendar. After long years of stren
uous attack , tinder the leader-hip of the Presi
dent of the United States , the corporation is nt
last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for
its misdoings. The whole strength of the Gov
ernment is directed against it. and at last , we
are told , the Standard Oil Company is to pay
the penalty of its crimes , and it is finally con-
Aicted of having failed to verify the statement
of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodig
ious sum. measured by the car. Under the old
criminal law , the theft of property worth more
than a shilling was punishable by death. Under
the interpretation of the Interstate Commerce
law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kcnesaw
Landis , a technical error of a traffic official is
made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast
amount of property.
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a&JBM&i a&fc } o W E 2
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jrh. sniiftK sweenv. capped hoek , founder. sraii !
ft/ ! I lameness in horses -
rot * end qorqeS4 on caS'He and sheep
and scours in hogs
, canker and roup in poultry -
AT ALL. DEALERS - - PRECE , 25 $ . 5 © * E $ § .O © |
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