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TOE OMAnA DAILY J1EE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1902. 21 SIXTH TERM CANDIDACY Of D. II. MERCER car expect! to gt a minority nomlnattsn and be will not support a minority nominee. Tbe gentleman cannot get out ot It that war. David H. Mercer la not going to auk for a nomination at the hands of the minority or a plurality. I am a mem ber of that committee, but I want to ssy to my distinguished opponent that I am not David H. Mercer's man or any other man's man. I represent on that commute the republicans of this district and that committee will run those primaries or tbe convention fairly, orderly, honestly and according to the good old American rule of majority. (Applause). Now then, t want to ask my distinguished opponent again. If David H. Mercer Is the nominee of the republicans of this Second congressional district, will be support him or will he not? I have a right to ask that question, my friends. My distinguished op ponent may call me Inquisitive, but that Is a question which every republican in this dis trict has a right to ask; that is a question when tbe gentlemen agreed to meet me here tonight In debate he had a right to xpect would be asked, and it la expected be will answer it. I ask him to answer It now. Voices He can't. (Applause). MIU ROSE WATER. My very distinguished opponent bss held ma up to acorn for resigning from the na tional committee. I never made a secret of that I did resign from the national com mittee. I regarded It as a matter of honor to support the nominees of the party from top to bottom so long aa I was a member of the national committee and I resigned from that committee when I could not con scientiously support Mr. Majors. (Ap plause.) Put my friend here Is a member of the congressional committee of this dis trict. Did be resign when he made up his mind to bolt the ticket as be did In 1900, when he tried to give us two democratic United States senators or a vacancy? He re mained on that committee while giving aid and comfort to the common enemy. Why did not he have the decency to say to repub licans that they should All his place with a man wbo would be loyal to the ticket from top to bottom? Why did be not re sign? Why did he go down to Lincoln afterward and try to keep in their seats the democrats or fusion members whose seats were contested? Why does be defend such scoundrels as that man Mitchell, who trumped up the most Idiotic charge that I bad sought to Induce him as chief of police ot South Omaha at 1 o'clock in the after noon to raid the ballot boxea of South Omaha and destroy tbe ballots. That in famous story was part of the conspiracy Into which these men had entered In order to defraud the legitimate voters of this dis trict. Some day when we get to the bottom of the South Omaha election frauds they will be pretty thoroughly ashamed of them selves. I do not propose to answer the question of Mercer's candidacy until I am face to face with the issue. I want to see first whether a majority is secured for blm by an honest, square primary. (Applause.) I suppose I am tbe master of my own con science and I am not accountable to any man for what I do. I will support repub licans that support republicans when there Is no flaw in their title. There was no flaw in the title of that legislative delega tion; there was no flaw In the vote that the people gave, and Mr. Mercer sought to subvert the expressed popular will and destroy our system ot self-government and attempted to establish a system of anarchy; for it would be nothing less than anarchy to change tbe publicly expressed will of the people, expressed in conformity to the provision in our constitution, that gives every citizen the right to Instruct his representative for whom they should vote In the election ot senators. What would be thought today ot Senator Jones of Arkansas if he should turn back and attempt to overthrow the popular will now when the democratic primaries of Arkansas bove declared tor Clark for United States senator? The Arkansas legislature is not yet In session. What would be thought of him If be ahould return to his state and try to decoy members instructed on that lr-sue from their allegiance? He would be despised of all men. . I want to aak my friend why ho has not explained why the quartermaster's supply depot was kept In the pocket of Mercer? That bill was introduced by Senator Thurs aton in February, 1900. It passed in the senate in the month of May and Mr. Mercer bad ample time to report It, The speaker told me personally that ha referred It to bint in preference to the commute on military affairs, because he believed he would report it, but he did not. He kept It In his pocket and let It die out of pur spit and malic because he did not want to give Thurston or anybody els credit for the work done. We wsnt a congressman who Is loyal and who la Identified with us, and not a man who is identified simply with corporate In terests which control htm absolutely. MR. G I It LEY. My distinguished opponent wanted to know why I did not tell you something about that quartermaster's aupply depot. thought I had explained that very early In the game, but if be doe not understand It I will try to explain It again. If that quartermaster's supply depot bill. In which my distinguished opponent is so deeply In terested. had gone through, w would have lost the offices of the headquarters of the Army of the Platte, for the city of Omaha. Kansas City and St. Louis were making a vigorous light for those offices. If the quartermaster s supply depot Had gone down to the old postofflc building, so that the government of the United Statea would bar had to pay from 1 9, 000 to $11,000 a year rent for thre or four years until the wings ot the new federal building wr com pleted, we would have lost those office to Omaha. It was of some value to the pecpl of Omaha that they should b per manently retained here and watt little while for the quartermaster's supply depot. (Loud applause.) David H. Mercer baa already Introduced a bill pro viding for an appropriation of $75,000 for quartermasters supply depot in this city. It has been recommended-tor passage by the committee and will pass the house this eeealon. We will get that depot all right, That is not what la troubling my friend. It Is not the depot. It is the sore feeling which hits been there rankling ever since. la 1900, the rent of from $9,000 t $11,000 year, whatever It waa, was turned aside from his pocket Into the tressury of tht government ot the United States. That is what Is the trouble with my friend. Why, If It was not that, would he be her talking about the lobby of 1887? Why would he be here exhibiting the ledger of tbe Capitol Hotel? You went all over that la 1892, wben Mercer. first ran. didn't you? You tried to smirch him then, when he was young, when he was unknown, but it did not work. Do TOU thin tt wuj worK DOw when he stsnds before this people known honored and respected Do you think you ' can smirch htm with the old charge and the old slsnders now? It is too late. You Tt it one and It wouldn't work. Yon rt to bav something better, my V you want to defeat David H ' and continued applause.) Evidently not acquainted girding the quartermaa bill. This bill provided established La Omaha a purchasing station. It also provided that Just a soon as tbe west wing of the new building waa completed then the army was to move out of the old building into the new building. Tte old building was to be retained as a quartermaster's supply depot. The bill thst Mr. Mercer has In troduced now is a quartermaster's ware bouse. Tbe other wss a quartermaster's supply purchsslng station. Tbe army had moved out of Tbe Be building in July, 1900. Mercer held the bill In hi pocket for nine months after the army headquarters hsd been In the old post office building. This trumped up charge falls to the ground. There Is not a scin tilla of truth In it. I want to ask my friend another thing: If Mr. Mercer had been so loysl to hi constituency, why has ha acted as if the cadetshlps at the disposal of every con gressman were his personal property? Why has he not given tbe same opportunity to all the deserving boy of Omaha and the district that waa given by W. J. Con nell, that waa given by W. J. Bryan, that was given by Judge Crounse and the other congressmen who have represented us? Why bss he given these csdetahlps only to the young men to whose fathers he waa under aome political obligation and never allowed the other boy to compete and get an opportunity? Tbe result of his miser able way of appointing has been that two thirds of the boys recommended failed either on account ot physical or mental disability, and this district, has sent to West Point and Annapolis simply boys whose fathers had put Mercer under some obligation. One of these Is the son of Thoma Blackburn. Now, Mr. Blackburn's son is a deserving boy, well qualified, per haps, but be should have contested that place with every other boy In the district who had an ambition to be educated for tbe navy at the expense of tbe United States. (Applause.) I want to know why Mr. Mercer has done nothing in the District of Columbia except for his friends on the wife's aide? I want to know why Mr. Mercer ha dis placed two union veteran soldiers who were employed in the capltol building and put in their places two residents ot Minnesota who have no claim upon htm? Why Is It that Nebraska 1 not represented in place of Minnesota? My friend has not answered ma yet, whether Mr. Mercer intends to stay In Omaha In case we do not re-elect blm. He has not answered definitely any question about the next term. Mercer will always want a next term. Within the last week be declared at Washington he was going to have this con gressional campaign wben he got good and ready. Ha has the congressional commit tee and he proposes to hold tbe convention and the primary whenever it pleases him. With the machinery In his bands Mercer proposes to force himself upon the repub licans of this district whether they want blm or not. Is It not our privilege to select public servants whom we consider worthy? Are we to be compelled to keep perpetually the same representative in Washington as If the position was heredi tary? In debating Mercer's claim It mat ters nothing what policy I bave advocated or what I have done in years past. Suffice it to say, my friend had no right to remain on tba congressional committee when be could not in honor support the ticket the last time. He has not answered a single one of my questions yet. I thank you for the kind attention you have given me and I trust you will gtvs the matter presented tonight your earnest consideration. (Loud applause.) NR. Ol'RLRV. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: The gentleman ha presented his case. What argument ha he advanced? What reason haa he given; what sentiment has he ap pealed to which strikes a responsive chord In any republican heart? Ha he convinced this audience that what he said ot Mer cer In '96 and '98 was not true? Ha he been able to show any decline In the in fluence, in the power or In the repub licanism of our representative? Fellow republicans, you are to nominate the next congressman from this district. It is not in the power of any one man to nominate. It I not In the power of any one man to defeat. Your Is the duty. Yours Is the power. Where will you stand? The Issue Is clear and well defined. Shall an alleged republican, who does not hesitate to aay that he will defeat the party unless his will be substituted for the will of the people, shall a vaunting traitor who pro claim hi treacherous intent before the hour of battle, be placed in command of the troop? (Cries of no, no.) Haa Nebraska no pride In ber own? David H. Mercer 1 of Nebraska, reared on ber prairie, educated In ber oommon schools, working hi way through ber university, he stands today In the congress of the United State representa tive, typical of the traditional spirit of the great west, the spirit which commands the respect and challenge the recognition ot the east. He haa don much for our city, our district, our state and the west. Ills possibilities for future service never were greater than they are today. W need him more than be needs us. This Is our battle, not bis. Shall we yield to the cry for private vengeance? Shall we make term with malice. Shall we vindicate venom? Shall we surrender to spite? No, a thousand times no! Voice No, no. I believe I speak for the business In terests of this district, for the laboring Interests of this district, for Its manhood, for Its independence, for its courage, aye, for Its gratitude, wben I predict the tri umphant renomlnatlon and re-election of the most faithful public servant this dis trict has ever known, David H. Mercer. (Loud applause). PRATTLE OF TUE 10V5GSTERS. "Why did you pray so loud for a bicycle. Tommy?" askel his sister. "God isn't deaf." "No," replied 6-year-old Tommy, "but papa can't hear very well." "I think the man In the moon must be tick," said little Fred one dark night. "Why, dear?" asked bis mother. " "Cause," replied the youthful observer, "he didn't light up tonight." Little May Mamma, do dogs get mar ried? Mamma Certainly not, my dear. Little May Then what right ha Rover to growl at Flossie wben they are eating their breakfast? Mamma Yesterday I gave you a dime to be good and today you are evidently trying to see ho bad you can be. Little Johnnie That's all right, mamma, I'm proving to you that you got the worth ot your money yesterday. Little Nellie Uncle Will said the other day tbat he was as happy as a lark. Do you suppose a lark Is very happy? Little Robert I should say not. Why, I read in a book that a lark geta up befora sunrise every morning. Harry, aged 6, was looking over bis sis ter's geography one day when he finally asked: "Mamma, did God make the ocean?" "Yes, dear," replied his mother. "Well," said the small philosopher, "I'll bet It rained awful hard the day before." Sunday School Teacher Do you aay your prayer every night before going to bed? Willie (aged 6) Yes, ma'am. Sunday School Teacher That's right. But tell me why you say them? Willie Cause I sleep in a foldln' bed. A young minister, seeking to Impress tbe beauties of nature upon his class of New York boy, had been describing tbe gradual unfolding ot the springtime. Pausing im pressively at tbe end of his speech, he asked: , "Now tell me, boys, in your own lan guage, what comes in the spring?" "The rent man!" quavered a pathetic lit tle treble. Again the - developer' enthusiasm waa chilled when urging upon hla pupil tbe im portance upon tbe Friday evening exer cises. "Remember, children," said the pastor, "our church Is open on Friday as well as on Sunday. On the Sabbath day we have tbe regular morning and evening services. Now" with a blandly expectant look "what yo we have on Friday?" "Freah fish, sir!" answered the boys. LABOR AND IKDl'STRY. Pittsburg's May-day atrlke is said to have canceled $34,000,000 of proposed new building operations. The Continental Tobacco company of St. Louis haa given notice to its 6,000 factory employes in St. Louis of a 10 per cent in crease in wages. Moving an 8,000-ton bridge fifteen feet in New Jersey on a recent Sunday, without Interrupting public travel, was one of the little Incidents that testify to the large de velopment of modern engineering. A bill Is proposed by the trades union of Wales to define liability. No action Is to be, taken against a trades union for the recov ery of damages sustained by any person unless It be proved to have the sanction and authority of the trades union rules. A movement has been quietly started In St. Louis for the organization of Pullman conductors and porters. The conductors are dissatisfied with the present wage schedule, snd as soon as the organization Is perfected will make a demand on the company for an advance ranging from $5 to $10 a month. In the United States there are 60,000 Pullman conductors and porters. In Cleveland a clause In the latest fran chise granted requires that In case of dis pute the company shall select two men, the employes two and the mayor of the city shall act a the fifth member of a board to arbitrate all differences. Another clause provides that the men shall not work more than ten hours in fourteen out of every twenty-four. This rule abolishes the "swing" runs, as the men are assured that they will have at least ten hours to themselves at a stretch every day, Instead , airr Ala). JUNE eLEHRftNeE s: Ura. POLICIES PlllCltAtKD. INSURANCE pollole, old-line companies purchased. Loans on policies. Call oa or write The Putnam Co., 604-s N. Y. Uf Uldg.. Omaha, Neb. BRASS rOVlVDRY. Monday morning we start the big June Clearance Sale, the purpose of which I to reduce ou ; . ' 1 " '.' . . . . " nAfifl mnA aluminum fatln ftlrkal nlat- Sharp, clear and decisive reductions In the face of advancing prices. Omahu-g and finishing. Specialty Mfg. Co., 41 large stock to normal. pers will reckon their saving by theee extraordinary positively matchless prices, being sold at prices that you would bave to pay ordinarily for used goods. MAIL OlWEIiS riiOMVTLY ATTEXDED TO. New, bright, fresh t Main St., Council rilufTs. 1L ROCKER Large arm rocker exactly like cut, made of bard wood, nicely golden finish, substanti-d f"n ally constructed, special, each lOvf Other large arm rockers, fancy designs $1.80, $1.95, $2.85 and up. S T O O L LIKE CUT Made of golden oak, Flemish finish or birch mahogany finish, upholstered figured velour top, substantially constructed, O fP June Clearance Sale price JJ ORIENTAL RUGS Second Floor Tomorrow commences our Annual June Oriental Jlvg Sale. We have, formontht pa.it, been making preparations for this event, by collecting a choice lot of ruga that will be- especially admired for tlicir beauty and richness of design and coloring. Jiugs that can truly be called gam. In this lot you will find rugs from the smallest mat to the largest room sizes, in bewilder ing assortment. Tie extend a special and most cordial invito tion to one and all to come and see this magnificent collection. BUYERS AND LOOKERS BOTH WELCOME BED ROOM FURNITURE lliree-plece solid oak Bed Room suit dresser ha French bevel mirror. This suit would sell in tbe regular way for $18.50 special June Clearance Sole for the -f sy Q three pieces .. t)Oij Solid oak dresser, French bevel mirror, shape tops, $7.75 and $9.00. French plate shape mirror, swell top dressers, $9.45, $11.65 and $13.50. OUR SPECIAL Solid oak dresser, quartersawed, swell front, handsomely hand polished a $22.50 d GZf value special June Clearance Sale price.... 1 i UV PAP. LOR TABLE MOPES ABOUTS Exactly like cut, made of best selec. u hand nnl I .h. vnMnn nnlr hlreh tt - " ' -.. . - " --J Ian. Top 24 In. in diameter, richly C' with carving, always a $j stand. A spi of these June Clearance Sale price .ISH. V -UJ M III llrTtltk i I I Ili-eVS I IRON AND BRASS BEDS Very special prices n iron and brass bods this month IfiOO Iron bed S6.50 Iron bed $7.00 Iron bod Brims bed, full size, kftil. haa full bow value; special June Clearance sale price $3 95 4 10 4.35 heavy post, neatly trimmed all brass, regular US m 24. 7 5 foot MATTRESSES Sounds each, unett 7tl J M KM One lot of special hair mattresses, 40 never sold less than 112. 50: special Clearance Sale, while they last, each. Sole agents for the air felt mattress, guaranteed not to pacK or mat. Made in nejt Amnskeng stripe ticking, soft and comfortable. A full guurantee goes with each mattress, price each 12.50 CARPET DEPARTMENT JUNE SPECIALS 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT on all fiber mattiner. These beautU ful and artistic summer floor cover. lngs will go In our June Sale at one-quarter off in price. The line Is large and you may take your choice aa every piece goes at the discount. I IrVOI FITM CH Cetit Cork and linseed oil the real thing 38 nnuiwEUiu oo wems centg Thlg ig Bot the heaviestilt9 the grade sold at 60 cents. REMNANTS OF WOOL TERRIES euaii7.oid at 75 cent.) at J5 cent9 per yard. These pieces are from 3 to 18 yards each, Just the thing to URe under and around rugs. Floor burlap remnants In plain colors for rug back ground, at 8i) cents per yard, sells at 35 cents. CHINA MATTING 10 CeiltS Olid Up Japanese fancy mat. r tinjfleoand up. In grain carpets. Full weight all wool extra super Ingrain, 80 cent FULL. LINE. Continuation of Our Lace Curtain Reduction Sale Last week marked tho beginning of the greatest lace curtain sale in our history. Hundreds have taken advantage of the price we are offering and laid in a supply. While our stock was somewhat reduced, the assortment remain unbroken. Its money in your pocket to buy your lac curtains during this sale. New, bright, fresh goods at prices less than you are asked for bankrupt and job lot. .' Nottingham Curtains. Silkoline and Cretonne. Hammocks. gj: gs- Nottingham Curtains. pa.r...,1.50 Veard j gS, V'S8 IS Ter Bfcl&S $1.50 Nottingham curtam,. p..r.. .$!5o gsH nm an'd cunTAix swiss &g SSS& ::::::::::::::::fi& "Curtain stretchers. Arabian, French and DOmeStiC 15c Swiss, 38 inches wide, per yard 10c Hammock Hopes lic Clean your own curtains and save niBuiam .ivuv.i-.. "u"l""v . . . . d M Hammock Hooka, new patent Hc - money. 1 -t a,ki nm.m.n fir? 60c and 6oc Swiss 50 in. wide, yara 3-JO Hammock Cushions, each. .10c, 60c, 75c No. 3 (Stretcher, large enough for $8.5 Arabian, domestic $4.75 p pnrtJPrPc n i r . Y curtain, each V 06o $10.00 Arabian, domestic $6.75 KUJJC ruillCIC. DttlSSelS ClirtaiflS. No. 2 Stretcher, large enough, for $12.50 Arabian. French $7.50 $2.75 Rope Valance, only $1.95 , . M Pruplg Curtaln.. per Palr...i3.50 No"3! StreohVur'ge enough "for'1"75 $30.00 Arabian, French $17.60 $o.00. Rope Curtains W- $ti.T5 Hrussels Curtains, per pair. ..$1.50 any curtain, each $2.B0 $30.00 and $35.00 French $25.00 $6.75 Rope Curtains $4.50 $7.50 Brussels Curtains, per pair... $5.00 H&rtpence Curtuin Stretcher, each. $3.00 Catalog Mailed Free to Oat-of -Town Requests. ORCHARD St WILHELM eHRPET (20. 14i4'l613 Douglas Street. of having two or three turns and not get ting more than four or five hours oft for rest at one time. The eleventh quarterly report of the Gen eral Federation of Trades Unions of Great Britain brings up the record to the close of the March quarter, 1902. The total number of unions federated was seventy-seven; of these tifty-three were on the higher and twenty-four on the lower scale. The ag gregate number of members was 418,818; of these 282.814 were on the higher and 13,504 on the lower scale of payments and bene fits. One of the measures submitted to the at tention of the Massachusetts legislature Is a bill to establish an "Industrial court." It la designed to set up a court, composed of fair-minded and Impartial men, authorized to Investigate all the facta relating to an Industrial depute and to decide what shall be the minimum work day in accordance with tests definitely stated. Labor and capital shall be regarded as partners In production. President Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel corporation has given Alfred Hobson, a laborer In the steel works at Mingo Junction, O., $200. Last year while on an Inspection tour Schwab saw Hobson under the Influence of liquor. He had Hobson prgmtse he would not drink intoxicating lWuor for one year. If he kept his promise he would be rewarded with $100. Hobson earned the reward and waa surprised with double the amount promised. The trustees of the Johns Hopkins uni versity announce that a citizen of Balti more has given a sum of money to the uni versity to be devoted to a systematic in vestigation of the history, activities and Influence of labor organizations in the United States. The sum of $500 Is given for the Immediate purchase by the univer sity library of additionul books, journals and reports relating to this subject. The further sum of $1,000 Is made available to meet the expenses Incident to carrying on the inquiry foi-,he next academic year. Modern Telegraphy Review of Advances Made in the System. Prot. Pupln of Columbia university re cently expressed tbe opinion that tbe tel egraph companies of this country were wo fully behind the times In equipment. He declared that many Invention which would materially Improve the service were shelved because the companies were unprogresslv and penurious. Th criticism provoked a re ply from J. C. Barclay, electrical engineer of the Western Union Telegraph company, who denies the allegations In an Interview In the New Tork Times, and shows what progress baa been made In modern teleg raphy. "Th professor," say Mr. Birclay, ,,dl play a wonderful lack of knowledge of th telegraph, which la not aurprlstng, knowing that the gentleman has had no practical experience whatever in this Held, and for the benefit of tbos who read Prof. Pupln' criticism and are unfamiliar with the practical working ot the telegraph, I take pleasure In making reply to the ertt Icsm from a practical standpoint "At the Urns when Prof. Morse erected hi first wire between Washington and Pl- tlmore, a distance of forty-one miles, un der adverse circumstances, and over which he aent hi first message, he did not real ise that he had Invented the best, quickest and cheapest system of telegraphy that ha been Introduced up to the present time. It Is true that this first message was repro duced embossed on paper on what was thea known a th receiving register. . This method of receiving telegrams was in vogue tor a number of years, until th yoang American with his quick ear for music soon after learned to receive message by sound, and th old registers have long sine bee ocas obsolete, and with hi nimbi fing ers messages are flow transmitted over th wire not only a dlatane of forty-one mile, but thousand of mile, aa rapidly a th receiver can writ them en a type writer, and a distinct and slmpl aa A. B. C. "Ia this connection I will say more dis tinctly thsn th letters and figure can be talked over th telephone line, for ther 1 bo similarity between th Mors char acter forming th letter B and V and other similar letters, that are ma contusing to transmit over th telephone. "Since the telegraph was invented the improvements In the apparatus have kept apace with the demands of the American poople and today the telegraph systems iu America, according to the admissions of experts tbat have been sent here by all the foreign countries to Investigate our systems, are year In advance of most all other nations. This Is shown In the im proved apparatus namely, tbe multiplex systems, automatic repeaters, switch boards, copper wires, insulation and con ductivity, motor dynamos, storage bat teries, etc., and to illustrate the quick ness of this wonderful system it 1 not un common for a broker to file hi message in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadel phia or other cities In the t'nlted States and to have the same transmitted to his broker on the floor of one of the exchanges, the order filled and to have received the reply notifying him that It had been exe cuted within the short space of fifty-five seconds. Messages of this description are not only transmitted between Chicago and New York, a distance of 984 miles, but the same applies to the direct working wires of this company between San Francisco and New York, a distance ot 1,300 mile. Th American people have been educated up to this quick service, which, a I have aid before. Is th most rapid that has been Introduced up to the present time. "Prof. Pupln referred particularly to the automatic rapid system of telegraphy and in order to compare one of these systems with the former tt will be necessary to ex plain th 'modus operandi' necessary to transmit bnd receive a message. In th Brat place on ot th most rapid system wa given a practical test by me over th Western Union line between New York and Chicago within the last two years and In point of working satisfactorily it was an absolute failure and not adaptabl to us In this country oa account ot it alowness. In th system referred to th message Is handed Into th office of th telegraph com pany and ' 1 placed before aa employ known a a 'puncher,' who perforate th massag ea a strip ot paper, which con sume more time than It would require for aa expert operator to transmit it from Mew York to 8aa Francisco by th Mora system. The message Is afterward run through what is known as a Wheatstone transmitter at the same time the receiver 1 in operation at the distant end of the line, which la composed of a cylinder con taining sensitized paper. "After tbe message has been reproduced on this paper, it is necessary to carry it into' a dark room, where it is developed the same as a photographer develops his neg ative. It is then placed In the band of an employe known as a copyist. The mes sage la then copied on a typewriter, which again consumes more time than It would require an expert telegrapher to receive tbe message transmitted by the Morse sys tem. "If an error is discovered in th message aa received on the sensitized paper, which frequently occurs, it ia not possible to cor rect it at th time it is being received, aa it would be If telegraphed by the Mors system, and It consumes too much time to make such correction. "A number of automatic system nave been tested by telegraph companies) ot this country, but up to the present time every on of them haa been found lack ing, except for emergency service and they are not only slower than the Morse sys tem, but more expensive to operate. A corps of expert electricians are constantly In our employ experimenting with new de vice and testing automatic and machine telegraphic systems, with a view of curing fcomethlng better than the Morse and while soma of tbe automatics will transmit very rapidly th time wasted In preparing the message for transmission and recapylng makes the service slower and more expensive than th Morse. "To show the strength of th Western Union Telegraph company. 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No one is too poor to buy it, yet no amount of money could buy a better medicine. Wine of Cardui has endeared itself to the 1 ,000,000 women it has relieved. They love the name "Cardui" and they write the fol lowing letters to show the world what they think of this medicine: Mrs. Mary Cline, Stilesboro, Ga.t "Your medicines have done me mora good than any that I have ever tried. My son from Chattanooga brought me a bottle Af ter being confined to my bed for nine weeks it got me out of bed and I gained 23 pounds." Mrs. Pearl Philpot, Muskogee, I. T.: 44 1 was married two years and had no children. When my monthly periods would come I would have pains in my back, head, legs and bearing-down pains in my bowels. I would nearly have fits. My husband got me a dollar bottle of Wine of Cardui and it did me so much good. No tongue can tell how much good it did me. Since I have taken Wine of Cardui I have given birth to two children. One Is dead but the last one is living. It b just three months old and th prettiest thing I ever saw. I took the Wine before confinement and I was )ust sick one hour. I am in better health than I ever was before. My age is 13 and I weigh 128." Why not go to your druggist today and secure a 11 .00 bottle of Wine of Cardui ? WINE OF CARDUI RELIEVES ALL "FEMALE ILLS A Trial Treatment Offered Every Afflicted Man. THE PARIS MEDICATED CRAYON PITC OR CALL all other treatments. PLEASANT, SOOTH ma AND HEALING. Th New 8clentlfto Method for th Our of 8em. Inal Weakness, Varicocele, Stricture, Gleet, donor, rhaea, Catarrhal or Mucous Dischargee, Irritation and Enlargement of th Prostate Qland, Bladder and Urinary Disorders. There la no medicine tak en Into tbe stomach which can reach the membrane of these organs, as every pbyilclau Is fully aware. Common sense tells us that a remedy applied directly to tbe seat of any disease muit give the best retulta. The Paris Medicated Orayon I soothing and heal ing, stops all unnatural dUcbanxc and drains of vig or, and gives perfect aud permanent power to the sexual organs. It Is a harmlras home treatment, and acts like-e mild electric current. Invigorating and Im parting vim and snap to the enure body. In It la the only method of treatment yet discovered that will produce positive and satisfactory effects In long standing and chronic eates. It does uot Irritate, Uie senaaiion imng pleasant. for our Trial Treatment today, and satisfy yourself that tbe Crayons will do all w claim for them. Complicated r.i, which bav baf are now being cured bv tbu sclcnurlc treatment. Wa will alio send our book, fully llluitruted witb forty engravinga, giving valuable Information and advice. No " Private Prescription," - Depoatt " or " C U. D. schemes. We send all medicine by mall in a plain sealed box. prepaid. OSes, H. W. Cerasr f (ay tat fsigft It. ltFtRICt tatt lata trni Laaia lusts Mas f Calssikaa. 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