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s '-V Jf J HAVE YOU TRIED THIS? Simple Prescription Said to Work Wonders for Rheumatism. ThiB has been well known to the best doctors for years and is now given to the public. "Get one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla compound and one ounce Toris compound. Then set half a pint af good whiskey and put the other two Ingredients fnto ft. Take a tablcspoon ful ef this mixture before each meal and at bed time. Shake the bottle before using." Good effects are felt the first day. Many of the worst cases here have been cured by this. Any druggist has these ingredients on hand or will quickly get them from his wholesale bouse. SURE THING. Hoy Papa, is it moths that goes through your clothes? Papa Yos; it's ma s all right. A WONDERFUL CHANGE. From Daily Wretchedness and Pain to Normal Health. Mrs. R. Cronse. Manchester, la., says: "For two years my back was w e a k. Rheumatic pains racked my lower limbs, day and night The ac tion of the kidneys was annoyingly ir regular. When I started using Doan's Kidney Pills, these ; troubles soon less ' ened and the dull backache vanished. The kidneys now art normally and I give Doan's Kidney Pills credit for this wonderful change." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a Foster-.MIIbuni Co.. Buffalo, X. box. Y. An irresistible Petition. "And now, Lawd-uh," a bit ominous ly proceeded square-headed Hrother Tarr. in his supplication, "in de con volution dat am gwine to take place soon's I meet up wid Rruddcr Dingford sneaky scoun'rel wid side-whiskers dat's been up-slippin' an up-slidiu 'round muh yaller wife be nootral. Lawd; dat's all I axes I'll do de rest! "I lias been, as you kin see for yo' pe'f by do church books, a pillah in Kood an' 'Hicient stan'in' for lo desc nany yeahs, an' de tuddcr gen'ienian am a puhstdin' eldah; so I hasn't de brazen statuary. Lawd, to ax yo to lake muh side in de battle. Hut if yo kain't ht'lp, dess hang off an' be noo tral. Git yo'se'f a comfable place in do shadu som'ers. an' sed down, an' yo'll se one o" de peart est fights yo' I'ver had de pleasure o' witness-In'. Amen!" Fighting Disease in Greece. Consul General George liorton has made a report from Athens on the ronspicuous work of Greek physicians In combating the country's chief scourges malarial frvcr and tubercu losis. An annual average "of ".000 persons die each year from the for mer, while in epidemic years, due to rcessive rains, the number exceeds O.000, which was the case in 1!nr.. The imputation of Greece is 2.4::3.S0fi. The people have been interested through lectures, pamphlets, etc., to light the malaria-carrying mosquito by draining .tngnant ponds and throwing petro leum on thorn. A tuberculosis con press will be held at Athens next year, to which will be invited not only physicians, but all the mayors and other prominent people of Greece. A Consolation. A young woman who had been in the habit of spending her summers in a hill village of Connecticut recently encountered a rural neighbor in a city store. "How's your wife. Mr. Green?" in quired the young woman graciously. "Why. don't you know." said Mr. Green. "1 lost her three months ago?" "Oh." said the shocked young wom an. "I didn't know. 1 beg your par don. Mr. Green, for being so thought less." "Well." said the disconsolate wid ower soothingly, "it ain't as bad as it might have been. I've got good help." Driven by Hunger to Desperation. Mrs. Mode had just returned homo from the country, to discover her pre viously welt-stocked wardrobe empty. "Good gracious, Herbert,," she cried to her husband, "where are all my clothes? And what in the world is that big black patch out on the lawn?" "Nelly." he replied mournfully, "after 1 had starved for two whole days, you wrote me that the key of the pantry was in ihe pocket of your bolero. Well. 1 don't knn.v a bolero from a box plaited rntlle. and I was desperate, so I took all the things out on the lawn and burned them. Then I found the key among the ashes." Success Mag azine. May Make Convents Into Sanatoria. Efforts are. being made in P.ulgaria to abolish the numerous monasteries mid convents of the Greek Catholic church and to use their buildings and revenues for the establishment and main.enance of tuberculosis sanatoria. King Ferdinand has given 100.000 francs lor the erection of a national sairttorinm. The death rate from tu berculosis 5p Hnlgaria is very high, being ."1 for every 10.000 living. to mm: a com in ovc day Tk I.AXATIVK BBOMO Oainicp Tst'. Iini!sirfiiiiil monrj if It fails to cere. ILVf. KUuVK'Sfc!&aroi9onrachtiix. :5c In proportion to its population, more people earn a livelihood by soaiaring in Norway than in any o'.her country. Britain comes next. Smoker like Lew-?'. Sins! Binda cigar for its rich, mellow quality. Happy is the man who can tun. business into pleasure. M amaBmamamaf n IDDDaaDDDaaaaaaaDDDi Romance By T. S. Three gentlemen, two English, one American, sal around a table in the garden of the Mloamer and sipped slowly at their cocoanut water, not particularly liking the insipid drink. Outside, in the Prado. a long, unend ir.p line of carnages, motors, pedes trians moved steadily back and forth. "And they tell me that Havana is a 'imantic place." drawled Hullcy, re moving his Panama bat. for like all good tourists their first move when they reached the Cuban capital was to invest in Panamas "Now we've been over here a week." growled Middleham. his brother Eng lishman." and as far as romance is concerned. Snow, there lias been abso lutely "nothing doing.' as you Ameri cans put it." As both the men appealed to Snow, and as Cuba lay so close to the States, ' under an American protectorate, too. that gentleman felt called upon to de fend the island's good name in things i romantic. "What do you fellows expect to hap pen to you cuddled up here in the Mioamcr gardens? You poke around I and look at forts, cathedrals, histori cal spots and places where romances have occurred. That's all wrong. Ro mance is like lightning; it never strikes twice in the same place. The man who goes around gaping at ro mantic spots will never make one." "Aw, come now," gibed Hulley, "that's an American joke." "Yes." echoed Middleham, "there may be adventures for the natives, but hardly for a foreigner like me, barely speaking the language." "I'll show you," remarked Snow, briefly. He arose. "Ah, now, what are you going to do?" in chorus. "Stir up an adventure." "What?" exclaimed Middleham. pulling out bis watch, "at 10 o'clock at night." Snow shrugged his shulders. "Ten o'clock at night is the beginning of the Cuban day." Hulley arose likewise. "Come along. Middleham; let's see what he is going lo do." So the three big fellows sauntered Into the hotel lobby and walked up to the dapper little clerk. "Jaurez." asked Snow, "would you oblige me with your guitar to-night?" The clerk smiled brightly. "Si. penor.. certc." and he hurried into the office after it. "Better get a stiletto and a revolver, too" suggested Middleham. laughing. The clerk returned; the three men took the instrument and set forth. "Nothing's going to happen." mur mured Middleham; nobody's at home." Snoxv stopped. "Now you fellows see that big house right yonder, with the curly brass grillwork shining In the windows. I want you fellows to stay here n the shadow behind this corner. I'm going over and thrum on this guitar a bit; maybe something will turn up." His two to'ends assented. The American walked over to the window in the full glare of an arc. swung the guitar around in front and. without more ado. began to play. It was in odd. plaintive, tangled little air that Snow played, a thing that he had picked up years ago. down in Mexico, and had played on other nights at other windows. Just inside the shining grill work Snow could catch the glint of a silk curtain. ! played on, weaving a mu sical phartasy. until he almost be lieved himi-elf back in the old Aztec capital. The impression grew so strong as 'o be almost disagreeable, lit- stopped. Just at that instant a hand was laid on his shoulder. Snow laughed shortly. "The ro mance is otf." he remarked without looking aronnri; "you boys came over and spoiled t all." "May 1 inquire what the senor is doing here?" asked a voice in perfect ly good Spanish. Snow wheeled around abruptly and found himself facing a heavy-set. kwarthy man. with black mustache curled up in a fierce Kaiser Wilhelm fashion. Snow stated at this apparition in amazement. "Am I on your pre serves?" he asked in Spanish. The stranger stepped back a little. "I see from your accent." he went on. "that you are an American, but. senor. 1 accept no insolence even from an American." A little tingle of amusement went through the American. "Well, as you have answcri-I my question in the af firmative I'll i.eii you what I am do ing. Some friends and I have started out with this guitar this evening in earch of an adventure, so I stood I HI d-.se zf zz to Order STR1BUNG here playing and hoping something would happen." At Snow's pleasant, smiling face and ingenuous explanation the stranger be gan to thaw. "So you are hunting an adventure?" responded the man. agreeably. "Would you mind helping me? I was just wishing for someone to give me a little assistance In case I should need it." "Arc you joking?" asked Snow. "Never more serious here's my hand." in impulsive Spanish fashion. Snow took It gravely. "What shall I do?" "Stand right here and play the gui tar." Then the man vanished. The man had hardly disappeared In the side alley when the silken curtain behind the grill was drawn back a little. "Senor." said a voice, "did Rafael ask you to play there?" Snow drew near and removed his Panama. He could sec a dim oval face outlined in the black interior with two dark splashes for eyes, but there was a quality in the voice that made the American'blundcr his tune and let It die away. "Yes, senorita," he whispered back; "someone set mo here to play." "Then why don't you play?" asked the woman, with a little tremolo in her voice. With a feeling that he was in the midst of a phantasmagoria. Snow once more adjusted his guitar and began strumming the tune. He bad hardly started again when he saw two white hands clasp the brazen grills. "Xot that! Not that!" trembled the voice. "Ah. mia Dlos, not that!" Snow paused again abruptly. "You know the tune it is not a Cuban air?" "Nor I a Cuban girl, senor." "What shall I play, then?" "Anything else." There was a touch of pathos in her words and again that dimly familiar quality the man had noted all along. He moved a trifle closer. "May I iuquire why I am playing and to whom?" "You are playing in Raphael's place so that Rafael and Maria may escape unobserved. That is all. senor." Snow pressed up against the grills. He wa3 staring fixedly Into the dark recess beyond the curtains. "And to whom?" he asked, tersely; "to whom?" There was a broken little laugh in side, then a shaking, silvery voice hummed over the air he had just been playing, then sang softly the first line. "But but I composed those words myself!" stammered Snow. "So so you did Len." "Carlotta!" trembled the Americas In the uttermost surprise. "You!" "Yes. yes. my father sent me here to to avoid you." "Well, come on quick. Carlotta We'll follow suit the back way." "But. Len." gasped the girl, "some one must play the guitar. Rafael al ways played!" Snow leaped to the middle of the narrow street and began wildly to sig nal toward the dark corner. The two Englishmen came up leisurely. "Hurry! Hurry!" cried the Ameri can. "I need you!" "What's the matter?" asked Middle ham, as the two followed him back to the window. "Stand here and play this guitar!" snapped Snow. "Aw, now. what do I want to stand here and play a guitar for?" "Don't ask questions! To make them think I'm here till Senorita Car lotta Yitrclli and I elope out the back way." "Yes. scnors," pleaded the voice In the window, "and if my uncle comes out you must catch him and hold him. Don't let him pursue us!" They could see her wringing her bands excitedly in the gloom. "Xow. really, Hulley. don't this upset a fellow, though? Snow here has known her for at least five minutes, hasn't he?" Then. as an afterthought. "I can't play a guitar, you know." But Snow thrust the instrument into his hands. "You've got to try as a friend a benefactor!" Middleham held the guitar. Hulley looked on in amazement. Snow van ished around the clde alley and the girl disappeared from the window. The two Britons were planted dog gedly by the window and Snow knew that neither the uncle nor all the Ha vana police could move or pass them. As he and Carlotta met in the tiny little alleyway there sounded from the front the most execrable noise that a guitar was ever guilty of In Ha vana. 1 TIiam Ui.11.... w4.n.t .. ..! ucu nunc uitru lu Ml!g. "That's unnecessary punishment." murmured Snow in the girl's ear. But Carlotta laughed happily as they hurried down the dark path. Dies for Love of a Girl In a Novel. Most of us have been impressed at some time or other with a lovable character in a book, but is is not often that people are carried away like the young laborer at Sidlesbam. near Chi chester. Eng.. who, falling In love with a girl in a novel thought his love for his own sweetheart was false, and shot himself. At the inquest a letter left by the distracted man was read. In which he stated that he had read a tale of love about a girl, and he could not get the character In the book out of his mind. "I have made love to a girl," he went on. "to find it was false, and I cannot make false love anv more, but I ttniA j not tell the girl I tons' go." A Man's House. What is a man's bouse but his nest, and why should it aot be nest-like both outside and in coarse, strong, negative in tone externally, and snug and well feathered and modeled by the heart within? Why should it be set oa a bill when he can command a nook under the bill or on Its aide? Why should It look like an observa tory, when It is a conservatory and dormitory? John Burroughs. 2 . . I The Glory of I the Nazarene I By Be. Warn. E. Tame, D. D. And we twhMhte alory. John -1:14. That a citizen of the, earth, some nineteen centuries ago, a certain Syr Ian Jew. one Jesus of Nazareth, lived a life that was a life of glory, is the thins that is here said. Other things are said, but our matter of talk Is this. It is not a theological vision, but n piain record. "The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. and we be held his glory." Xot that to the son of Zebedee, topological vision was wanting. To him the historic Jesus of his genera tion was rn eternal, ineffable some thing known as the Word of God. "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God. and the word was God." and "The word was made flesh and dwelt among us." As speech is r revealing, a message, from the soul invisible, so the Christ was e word from God. Further, this Christ was with John the potent universal Creator. "AH things were made by IiJt. and without him was not any thin,: made that was made." This same Creator and word has also life and light. "In him was life, and the life was the light of men." There may be existence without light, but exist ence without life there is not. and that new thrilling thing, the key of being, the light of the world, and the secret of destiny, is in the Christ. Surely the invisible and everabiding Jesus shone zenith high in the eyes of John, and there was theological vision In plenty. But It was this vision be come flesh and dwelling among us that was the immediate concern. One too poor for where to lay his head; barren of social prestige, without cul ture of the schools, writing no books, showing scant regard for organism or Institutions, setting the sword into its sheath, beggaring himself deliberate ly of every arm of power in honor with the ages, and so mighty as to bend and rock the earth with bis tread, making men suspect him nothing less than God, was a spectacle unspeakable for a Galilean fisherman. Fifty years and more he remembers what his eyes have seen, and only the greatest words under the sun and stars are able to tell his tale. "And we beheld his glory." The glory of the Christ life may be seen earliest, possibly, in that it is the only one of its kind. It was a unique life. Jesus Christ was one. "only begotten." In all the ages he has no fellow. When Napoleon said: "Xot one Is like him," he had this vision. It Is of the genius of greatness to carve a niche for Itself, to fly in its own orbit, to evermore walk lonely. Moses. Aristotle. Caesar. Shakespeare, are memories of the forgotten, and live among the dead. So there was never another like the Son of Mary. Reverence is born of respect, and wor ship of the Christ may well begin by finding him among the solitary few. History can, neither be written nor read without mention of His name. Jesus of Nazareth Is even now Jesus of the planet But the glory of Christ Is unique, especially, in being such a glory to the mind of God. Jesus is the only be gotten "of the Father." A compli ment of benediction gathers its music and fragrance from its source. The great of earth must read their glory, always, in a revised version. The noonday light of one generation fades in another to a smoking taper. "Call no man happy until he is dead." la an ancient epitaph. Only the judgments of the immortals Btand. That the life of the Christ is a glory with the Eternal. Is at once a patent of worth and a call to prayer. That worship of the historic Jesus Is not rank idolatry finds its one reason here; he is in time a veritable manifestation of the eternal God. Forevermore the Almighty Father exists In some fash ion as a revealer. and in this fashion never repeats himself. "In the begin ning was the word and the word was with God." Like the shock of earth quake or the rising of the sun this divine word breaks into human his tory as Jesus of Nazareth and passes on, and very rightly men tarry in reverence at his feet. That human soul which sees in Christ a unique, solitary, unpharable revealing of God alone may worship him. This leads me naturally to say that the glory of the Christ life is seen also, in its transcendence. It Is a bio-' graphy evermore parting from men and carried out of their vision. "The darkness comprehended it not." The world knew him not." "His own re ceived him not." Men face the Christ not only with mortal opposition, but with mental collapse. They reject bici as surely that they are little as they are wicked. Their logic falls in a heap. They walk by faith or stag ger to the dust. Unless they believe on his name, receive him. are given right and power to be sons of God. are veritably born again, they never catch the glory of the Christ A simply human Christ, a Christ who is not transcendent, turns every Christian church into a heathen temple, baptism to an empty, wicked farce, the bread and wine to symbols of a gigantic lie. and Christian people everywhere Into the most miserable of men. The Lesson of Trust. "In every thing ... let your requests be made known unto God." Thll. 4:6. The oldest and wisest of us may be as little children on our communion with a prayer-hearing God. No er rand to that mercy-scat is too trivial to lead our footsteps thither. We may connect all the Issues of life with the control of that over-ruling wIU. We may put our band In that paternal hand, no matter bow narrow the chasm, how gentle the declivity, and look trustfully and hopefully for that availing guidance. Oh. If we could learn this lesson of filial trust at every step of our way along our earth !y pilgrlmaga. no matter how steep cr -ough or obscure the path, it would mide us safely and aurely home to ur Father's house. Rev. A. i Stone $3.50 RECIPE CURES WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY TROUBLES, BACKACHE, STRAINING, SWELLING, ETC. Stops Pain in the Bladder, Kidneys and Back. 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It will quickly show you its power once you uso It, so I think you had bet ter see what it is without delay. I will send you a copy free you can use it and cure yourself at home. SURE THING. Katherine Was Miss Bilyuns ex pensively dressed at the ball? Kidder Yes, indeed. Why, even her slippers were tied with real laces. Let the Doubters Ask Me. James Houser of Henderson, Iowa, wrote the following open letter to the United Doctors, the famous specialists who arc located on the second floor of the Neville block, Omaha: "Dear Doctors I have been so benefited by the treatment I have re ceived from you that I feel I ought to write and thank you personally. I have been telling all my friends and neighbors about you and have been the means of many of them going to sec you for different ailments and diseases, and all who have taken your treatment have been benefited and pronounce your methods of cure noth ing less than wonderful. For myself, I can say, truthfully, that you have done me so much good that I can scarcely explain it. I haven't had any of my nervous spells since I com menced your treatment and I have better health in every way than I have had in the past ten years. "I feel grateful to you and recom mend your work to every one. If any one is so foolish to doubt the ability of so great a medical firm as the United Doctors, just tell them to ask me and I can also refer them to many others. "JAMES HOUSER." Two Points of View. Mrs. Whoopser For my part, I think Mr. Dyler was mean when he made his wife promise she would never marry again. Mr. Whoopser Oh. Mary, don't judge the ioor man so harshly; you ought to be thankful because he prob- ' ably prevented some brother man ironi oeii'g iuaue raiserauic. Ilrrt. Weak. Weary. Watery Eye. Rcll.-votl By Murine Kye i:-mcily. Try Murim For Your Kye Troubles. You Will l.ikf Murine. It Soothes. DOe at Your Druggists. Write For Kye Books. Free. 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The crow is a rational bird. He .ccsn't make a noise without caws. RAILROAD REGULAH01 EFFECT ON BUSINESS. Te the Bueineee Man: With enor mous crops commanding the highest prices ever knowa; with every kind of business on a safe and seasible basis; with merchandise stocks of all kinds al most at a minimum; with everybody desirous of making; gopdalltheBeceB sary Improvements which the past two years' depression would not permit of, and to fill up stocks which have been almost depleted, with plenty of money and credit to do all these things, there Is a hesitation by the greater part of the business community, for the reason that something has appeared calling a halt in the progress which had so fairly started In the latter half of 1909. The one great and most ap parent element which has caused this hesitation. Is that the railroad corporations-of this country have stopped the purchase of anything beyond their immediate necessities, so much so that betterments which had been projected, (which are not only better ments, but in a great many cases are almost, or soon will be necessities) amounting to over one thousand mil lions of dollars, have been held up. It is customary for railroads to prepare their budgets of expenditures January 1st. If these budgets had been pre pared on the lines of necessities the outlook for general business, particu larly among manufacturers, would be exceptionally good for 1910. These budgets have not been presented, and are not within the call, or even within the sight of those who would gladly welcome them, and it is doubtful when we will be able to make any reason able forecast in the manufacturing and commercial world. It is unquestion ably true that the railroads would gladly enter Into a year of liberal expenditure, but as matters stand now. it is quite possible that they will be compelled to drop back into the con dition they were in the latter part of 1907 and during the year 1908, that is, purchase nothing except that which is absolutely essential, and the reasons are exactly the same as those that existed in the early part of 1907. that is "Radical Railroad Regulation." Our legislators seem to be unmind ful of the causes of the depression of 1907 and 1908, and give every indi cation of re-entering the field with even more laws to interfere with and discourage the investment of money in railroad enterprises, whether it be for increases or improvements in existing lines, and absolutely calling a halt on new projected railroad enterprises. And the railroads have not reached the position that they now occupy through any concerted plan; they all realize and appreciate the necessity of renewing their tracks and equipment that the recent depression would not permit of. This in the face of a very general actual or threatened demand for large increases in the wages of their employees, and knowing that the only way they can grant these ad vances will be by a corresponding ad vance in their revenue, and the only way in which they could increase their revenue would be by raising their rates, and certainly the outlook for this is far from promising. They have no certainty as to the character of leg islation to come; they are in positive fear of Congress, and arc warranted in that fear by special bills already introduced, which is a sufficient cause for them to hesitate. They are not certain that the .people generally would favor any increase in rates, and they are equally uncertain as to whether the public would not side with labor in its increased demands upon the railroads. They feel as all owners of property naturally would feel, that the earning capacity of their property is now absolutely dependent upon the manner in which they shall be gov erned. They do not know what that government is going to be; they are almost positive that there will be no legislation which will cause an in- lAJzer: MICA P n O A I EM fiiManttf Great Western rori- 1 O ! E lawl ftttit, paying a dividend cf Hf We are obliged to enlarge our plant due to tho increase in bit.sine.vs and offer the above stock to those seeking investments. For particulars, address GREAT WESTERN PORTLAND CEMENT CO. i&SKo PATENT Bookand Advice KKKB. Imu, In.MtUmu., WaUiinKloii. DC. list. am. Oml references. m hVUM B BHk8ntiot yfe ffl$2 m mm l Biffg ATISM, STOMACH ARO LIVER COMPLAINT g&ggr EAST SURE TO ACT DISTEMPER At rT a flmJi itry. It. Skowtejoar um SMI VEIiCAL CO.. creased desire on the part of investors to put their money into railroad prop erties. They have been given to un derstand that probably their borrow ing capacity is to bo limited within narrow lines by the Government, so that even if they were willing to make these expenditures, it would bo diCl "cuit for them mi ohtain the necessary financing. In fact, looking at it from any potnt, the owners of railroad property havo nothing to see that would encourage them in spending any money until they have a more definite idea us to what extent they are going to be con trolled and directed by the National Government, and under such circum stances, all tff the vast industrial en terprises that are depending upon the railroads, will find that at the time that their present orders upon which they are working. Issued some six months ago when it was not dreamed of that the present adverse condition could possibly arise, will have been completed, that we will again be in practically the same pocition that we were in during the early part of 190S. In my judgment unless Congrcsu re strains its interference with the earn ing capacities of tho railroads, thcro will be a permanent set-back in the general business of the country, that it may take years to overcome. Some Congressmen think that tho ' railroad Interests arc the real forco that is behind tho rapidly growing un rest of tho business men regarding legislation. This is absurd: v;c need . no spur to wake us up to our tm for tunate situation, which is by no means confined to railroad supply institution There arc 1,500.000 railroad o:.i ployces. It takes 1,500,000 men to sup ply what the railroads need, ami a vast number of men arc employed In supplying the personal needs of tho above 3,000,000 men. Every kind nf business is dependent in some mcau uro on railroad prosperity. Tho producers of wool, cotton, to bacco, sugar and many other special articles in this country, have so in terested themselves in their business that they have forced the General Government to put a special protect ive tax on tho things they produce, which we and our employees, who do not produce them, have to pay for. and to many of which we do not ob ject On the same principle, and for the samo reasons, when business men be .come as active in looking after their interests, and with the same rights, we can induce the General Govern ment to give us equal protection by allowing the railroad companies;, who aro the producers of our revenue, to make sufficient profit to enable the:a to buy a full plenty of the goods they need which wc manufacture. This will involve no special tax, will mean hot ter railroad service, and more business- for everyone, particularly tho working man; and when it is consid ered that In reality 90 of all the money received by the railroads ami ourselves goes directly to the working people, wc should have the solid en dorsement and individual support cf every working man in the country Cause: The trouble with the vhofo situation is that many of the men who make the laws arc not familiar with the true inwardness of the relations and dependence which the manufac turing and business interests havo upon the general railroad situation, nor do they realize that in administer ing their so-called discipline to t!ia railroad companies that wc are the "ul timate consumers" of that discipline. Remedy: It is of tho grcatc-t-t im portance that some decided action Le taken by the Government at as early a date as possible, as there will he no im provement until this uncertainty has been overcome. January 22, 1910. T. 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