THE OMAHA SUNDAY HHK:
.TANTTAKV
8, 1011.
Proposed Increase in Railroad Rates
The Shippers Urn rrnmlrd by K. J. MrVann, rmmllof of the Omaha Frelcht Birwi.
'This article wan contributed bv Mr. Mr- Increase. $M.Wono more than sufficient to
Turin to the annual financial revle of the pay foP th estimated Inereaiw In wages.
New York Tillies.)
UK controversy between tht
shipping rubllc and the rnil
rnadn In officlnl classification
territory and Western trunk
line committee territory Hroae
over the announced Intention of
T
those railroads to make material advance
In thMr charges for transporting freiftlu.
The shippers In those two eran1 divisions
of railroad geography opposed the ad
vances upon the ground that those ad
vances were unnecessary. The earnings of
the railroads, the shippers claimed, wero
ample to pay all expenpes. meet the fld
charges and leave sufficient ninrirln for
dividends and surplus. The spokesmen of
the railroads Insisted that the shippers
were not well Informed. It was true, they
admitted, that the gross receipts of the
railroads had Increased, but they argued
that operating expenses had also Increased ;
that they were confronted with furthor
Increases on account of the advance? in
wages, and that they must largely augment
their gross receipts to meet the situation
they were facing.
Space will not permit more than th3
barest mention of the '.evelopment of this
controversy. The shippers Interested In
the eastern rates met In mass convention
at Chicago May 17 and appointed a con
ference committee with power to open
negotiations with the eastern presidents.
The eastern president Ignored the com
mittee and proceeded with the preparation
of the advanced rates. A meeting of
western shippers was held at Omaha. May
84. Here the situation was more acute.
The western advances had been published
and would become effective June 1. The
treatment of the conference committee ap
pointed at Chicago was known. It was
felt that a similar move would be a waste
of time and that drastic action was neces
sary. The administration was called upon
for aid, through the enforcement of the
conspiracy clause of the Sherman anti
trust law. The response was prompt and
effective. Mr. Wlckrrsham petitioned for
a restraining order against the Western
Trunk Lino committee roads. Judge Dyer
granted It on May 31. Congress was also
retltiotiod for help and almost Immediately
put a revision In the commerce law that
any railroad which advanced any rate In
effect January 1, 1010, or thereafter must
Justify Its act before the Interstate Com
merce commission If called upon to do so.
Thereupon the eastern and western rail
way presidents sent committees to the
White House and offered to withdraw the
proponed advances and submit the whole
controversy to ths commission. President
Taft arranged the basis for such submis
sion. The commission Issued the necessary
orders and appointed dates for hearings
at Chicago, New York and Washington
for the taking of evidence upon the ques
tion of the necessity for the proposed ad
vances. It Is probable that the majority of the
readers of the Times annual review are
not shippers or railroad people. In order
that they may clearly understand the mag
nitude of this controversy, a brief explana
tion and a few figures are necessary. Of
ficial Classification territory Is that part
of the United States bounded on the east
by the Atlantic ocean; on the south by the
Potomac and Ohio rivers; on the west
by tha Mississippi river and on ths north
by the Canada line. This great territory
overlaps the western Trunk Lin Commit
tee territory, which is bounded on the
eat by Lake Michigan a,nd the Indiana
Illinois state line; on the south by the
Missouri-Arkansas state line; on the west
by tha Missouri river, and on the north
by the Canada Una.
Taken together, these two railroad ter
ritorial divisions coincide roughly with
groups I, h. III and VI, as established by
the Interstate Commerce commission and
shown In Its statistical report for the fis
cal year ending June 30, UK. According
to that report there were 129,000 miles of
railway In the United States, of which
116,000, more than SO per cent, are Included
1:1 these four groups. Of the 1,600,000,OUO
tons of freight handled, by all the rail
ways of the United States that year about
71 per cent U, 1 jO.000.00 tons) were handled
In these four groups. Of the 687,000,000
freight train miles that were run In the
United States for tha year ended June .,30,
(0 per cent, were run In groups I, 11, III
and VI. Finally, of the 3, 315, 000,000 total
operating revenues of the railways of the
United States for the year ended Jiwm 30,
190S, the railways In these four groups
earned $l.ii,H0,0iA), about 60 per cent. It
Is impossiulle to Indicate accurately how
much revenue would be added to this
vast sum by the proposed advances. Many
cellmates have been made, but they are
ail predicated upo the niovetut ut of lml
nobs for preceding periods ana might be
nullified entirely by the effect upon the
commerce ot the country if the advance
demanded by the railroads should be ul
loaed by the commission.
Under tho provisions of the newly
enacted law, the railroads found themselves
In the novel position of making an affirm
ative showing In support of their demands.
The eastern Unas pooled their Itsucs and
presented as the backbone of their cast: a
statement Indicating that the advances in
wages which tlicy had been couipclU to
make, and would be compelled to make,
would add e36.OuO.Ooft per annum It their
oporatlng expense account, w bile tliclr es
timate of the Increase in thli- revenues,
baaed on the new rate, would only lu
cre be those revenues fc:j.OuQ,uuo. These tab
ulations were Introduced by the clerks who
made them, During the entire New York
was earned upon the basis of the old rates
These results seem to completely sustain
the contention of the shippers that In
creases In the eastern rates are entirely
unnecessary.
The advances made bv the railroads In
Western Trunk Line territory were not
important In end of themselves, but the
executives of those lines made It clear
that It vu their intention to follow these
advances with others thst would augment
their revenues materially, If the commis
sion approved the first figures submitted.
The theory of the western roads wii
much the same as that finally adopted
by the eustern roads, vis.: That their op
erating expenses were increasing with
greater relative rapidity than their gross
earnings, and that they must augment
their gross earnings materially In order
to pay their dividends and fixed charge
and create the amount of surplus thst
they considered necessary to preserve
their credit. The principal western roads
presented an elaborate theory of fair re
turn, based portly upon the evidence of
Vice President May of Price, Waterhouse
Co., and partly upon the theory that
they were entitled to capitalize their sur
plus, earnings that had been put back Into
the property. Mr. May's theory was that
fair return Included not only present div
idends, but the right to returns upon
the Investment from the beginning
of the company's history. In other words,
if the Santa Fe road passed Its dividends
during several bad years It was entitled to
add the amount of those passed dividends
to Its present dividends, so that the aver
age would equal a fair return for all the
years of Its existence. The other theory
was put forward by the Burlington and
Northwestern. The Burlington claimed
that It had a right to a fair return upon
1127,000,000 of surplus reinvested In Its
property, and the Northwestern showing
Indicated a claim to earn returns upon
nearly ITO.OOO.OW of surplus Income rein
vested In the same manner.
Tho Burlington road laid great stress
upon the evidence of Its general manager,
Mr. Ward, that the property would cost
r,30,0OO,0O0 to reproduce. Included In this
estimate was ll0,OO0,009 land value. Mr.
Ward testified that he based this value
upon an ascertained actual value of sur
rounding property, which was multiplied
by three upon the theory that It cost a
railroad three times the value of sur
rounding property to obtain land for Its
use. Tha fair Inference from Mr. Ward's
testimony was that he had applied this
multiple of three throughout. When the
Burlington was confronted with the fact
that the cost to the railroads of terminal
property In four large cities was as fol
lows: Omaha. 160 per cent of adjoining land.
Minneapolis, 160 per cent of adjoining
land.
St. Paul, 175 per cent of adjoining land.
JDuluth, 126 per cent of adjoining land,
and that the use of the multiple ot ISO
supported by these figures cut Ward's
value estimate Id two, Mr. Ward was put
back on the stand and modified his first
testimony materially. He corrected his
evidence by the statement that he bad not
used a multiple of three uniformly, but
only with reference to farm lands. The
value per aero upon which he supported
his estimate of farm lands were so far out
of line with actual values, even admitting
the correctness of his multiple of I, that
It la not anticipated that the oommfsslon
will pay much attention to that estimate
as a basis for tha claim of fair return.
The underlying theory of tha testimony
of all tha western railroads seemed to be
that the commission ought to accept with
out question their statements of the
amount of their operating expenses, and
not to go behind those statements dealing
only with the net revenues left after de
ducting these operating expenses from the
gross revenues. If the testimony of the
railroads themselves showed no abnormal
or unusual conditions as to the amount
of their operating expenses, their position
in this respect would not be open to se
rious question. Counsel for the shippers,
however, made an exhaustive analysis of
the operating expenses ot the principal
western railroads upon the theory that the
transportation conditions In the west ware
controlled by tha Atchison, Tcpeka &
Santa Ke, Chicago, Burlington at Qulncy,
Chicago & Northwestern and Chicago, Mil
waukeo Jk St. Paul railways, and that the
commission must decide the case with
reference to the showing made by thoae
four roads because of their commanding
position and because of the fact that they
were generally admitted to bd capitalized
with reasonable fairness and to be hon
estly and ably managed.
This analysis showed an unprecedented
Increase In operating expenses under the
heads of maintenance of way, structures
and equipment. The testimony of the exe
cutives of three of these roada had been to
tho effect that their properties had been
kept up from year to year in such shaps
that they were belter at the end of each
year than they had been the preceding
year. Notwithstanding this fact, their
maintenance expenses were very largely
Increased during the fiscal year ending
UU0. The Increases showed most clearly
in these items which could be most readily
controlled by the fiat of management. No
claim was made by the shippers that these
accounts hud been deliberately padded for
the purpose of Increasing operating ex
pense. Tho theory presented for the con.
slueratlon ot the commission was that, if
the Judgment ot the management had re
cited In tho contracting of unusually heavy
maintenance, expenses during the fiscal
yei.r 11' in. that fa-t should not be made
A point presented by the shippers for the
consideration of the commission was the
reduction of railroad earnings to the basis
which the railroad people themselves are
so fund of presenting, vis: Considering the
railroad as a manufacturer and seller of
transportation and presenting its gross
profits from the sale of Its wares. On this
basis It was shown that the Chicago A
Northwesten railroad had done a business
of t74.O0O.O00 in the year 1110 and. after
paying the cost of selling Its transporta
tion had a gross rroflt of 82.7c out of every
dollar received, available for taxes, de
preciation, fixed charges, dividends, spe
cial funds, and Including a surplus of
e,4iP,000 over all these Items. Upon the
same basis the Panta Fe was shown to
have sold 1X,00Q.0C0 worth of transporta
tion and to have left a gross profit of 36 6c
out of every dollar. The Chicago. Burling
ton & Qulncy railroad sold fss.CCO.OOO worth
of transportation, out of which It had a
gross profit of S3 8c on each dol
lar. In addition to these profits,
It Is, of course, understood that there Is
included In the operating expenses a very
laige amount of money which Is really
re-Invested In the property by way of
maintenance charges, which, of course,
Increases the value behind the securities.
Mr. Ward testified that the Burlington
road had put about JS.CCO.OOO into Its
property during tha year 1810, but the
account of his company for that year
showed a little over $1. 000,000 -deducted
from surplus Income under the heading
of additions and betterments. The natural
Inference Is that nearly 17,000,000 was ex
pended for maintenance charges that In
crease value of the property and was
charged to operating expenses.
Many important facts were developed In
cidentally during the hearing of the west
ern terllmony thlch, from the shippers'
point of view, would militate strongly
against the claims ot the western railroads
that they needed more revenue. One In
stance of this was the Issue of fl00.oo0.uoo
worth of Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul
slock which paid 7 per cent or 17,000,000 In
dividends In 1910, in exchange for a like
amount of Chicago, Milwaukee 4 Puget
Sound bonds, which paid 3 per cent to the
parent company. This, of course, made a
net loss of $3.0ot,000 in the Income account
of the St. Paul road, which their witness
strenuously Insisted was made up by the
additional business gained through the
building of the Puget Sound road, but no
definite evidence was Introduced In sup
port of this claim. Another Item of this
character was the exhibit ot the Santa Fe
system, which showed that that road had
charged oft Its Income account since It
reorganized In 1896, 130,000,000 which was put
back Into the property by way of additions
and betterments; about tS.500,(XiO net
discount on Its bonds and 12,600,000 fuel
reserve fund, a total of 141,000,000. In
addition this exhibit showed an existing
surplus in Income account of $24,000,000,
or a total In excess of $85,000,000 surplus
Income earned by that road In addition to
operating expenses, fixed charges and
dividends. Mr. Ripley testified that this
surplus was not enough, but that the road
should be enabled to earn at least 6 per
cent additional on Its common stock, or
about 16,000,000. His theory was that
sound financial policy required the piling
up of tha surplus that would result. As
against this testimony it was interesting
to note that Mr. Gardner, president of
the Chicago & Northwestern railway, tes
tified that he would be satisfied with
125,000,000 surplus to be earned in
ten years, which was exactly at the rate
of tha surplus earned by his company In
mo, under the existing rates. With respect
to this item of surplus earnings, Mr. Gard
ner remarked that the possession of too
large a surplus tended to extravagance
In management During the same line
ot examination, Mr. Gardner made the
significant remark that a basis of earnings
which might be Justice to some lesser line,
would extravagantly increase the earnings
of a road like the Northwestern. This
la precisely what the shippers contend with
reference to the present situation, vis: that
the commission ought to tlx tha rates based
upon the financial situation of tha strong
lines that, control the transportation situa
tion, and let the overcapitalized and badly'
managed roads take care of themselves.
From the shippers' point ot view, the
strongest argument against permitting the
railroads to Increase their rates, is the
argument advanced at the Chicago hearing,
that to do so would be to Ignore the
Inexorable economla law underlying all
commercial transactions, that law which
(Q)ppirtiiife at Jllilpatriclk's
Monday January 9th. A few facts, truthfully
told, which will attract and interest if you
need merchandise
At the Linen Section
Very special selling of Center Pieces, Doilies, Cluny
Pieces, etc. divided iuto six great lots:
No. 1 24-inch Damask, figured Center Pieces, worth
$1.25; Monday 89t?
No. 2-lrish Embroidered Doilies, sold as high as 50c
Monday 9e
Xo 3 iland made Cluny Lace Doilies, 12-inch, sold at
$1.00; Monday 59c
Xo. 4 36-inch Irish Embroidered Lunch Cloths, sold at
$2.00 nnd $2.25; Monday $1.G9
No. 5 Irish Embroidered Doilies and Cluny Pieces, sold
up to GOc; 3C
No. G Hand made Cluny Centers, regularly sold up to
$2.25; Monday $1.69
. Notwithstanding that we started this sale with a very
large stock of Bed Spreads, several numbers are almost
gone. Think of this Monday and you'll save money.
Now is your opportunity to buy Linens, Cloths and
Napkins. Please come in the morning if possible and
oblige us by taking small packages with you. Bear with
us on deliveries we have done our best, but were abso
lutely swamped several days last week.
Beautiful Basement Bargains
Heavy Cotton Suitings Galateas, Shrunks and Reps
sold up to 18c; at, yard 10c
Percales that were 12lLc, Monday at 10c
15o quality at 12M:C
Gingham 32-inch imported Zephyrs, 25c quality, 14Mc
12Vc Ginghams at O'nC
Swansdown dainty, delightful, nappy and nice; usuallv
15c to 18c; on Monday, yard 10
Blankets the $2.00 grade, 12-4 cotton; Monday. .$1.-15
The $b00 grade, 11-4 wool; Monday $4.35
Sheets Ak-Sar-Ben brand, 81 inches wide, !H) inches long,
seamless, torn and hemmed; Monday, each . . .
9o
Lonsdale and Fruit genuine, no faking here, 4-4, at 81 Lt
Skirt orders taken Monday will be delivered in about
ten days. The price for making is $2.0015 styles to
choose from.
We are receiving daily, new' Foulards, 1911 styles
The best goods. Our prices are lower than those asked
by the majority of silk men. Look at the beauties Monday.
At Embroidery Counter
15e Nainsook Edge and Insertion at 9c
75c Flouncing, Nainsook and Swiss, at 39(J
$1.00 27-inch Flouncings, elegant styles, at 59c
Second Floor Monday "We'll sell Silk Petticoats, made
of soft taffeta, messaline or choice Persian, worth $5.U0
at $2.98
Jersey top Messaline flounce Silk Taffeta Skirts, sold up
to $6.50; Monday $4.15
The Undermuslin Sale is still booming tables ar
ranged with very special lots for Monday. Store opens at
8 o'clock sale starts promptly. Take our advice and
come in the morning if possible.
Flhomas Ililpatirick & Co.
Invariably operates to decrease the volume
ot business In direct ratio to the Increase
in the cost of doing that business. The
only exception to the operation of that law
is in those cases where there Is absolute
monopoly in the barter and sale ot a ne
cessity of life. No one has yet been heard
to claim that the railroad monopoly ot
transportation is absolute, and it fol
lows that increases in the price of
railroad transportation must decrease the
volume of business. In tact, ever since the
railroads became a factor in transporta
tion tha universal rule applied by them has
been to reduce transportation rates when
they desired to increase their business and
their earnings. A complete reversal ot this
policy seems strange and the shippers be
lieve, and urged the view upon the com
mission, that the necessary result of such a
policy would be to Impede the free intor;
change of commodities, cause hardship to
many established lines of business, heavy
losses to the shipping public and bring no
real gains to the railroads.
By the time these lines appear In print,
both the eastern and western cases will
have been concluded and fully argued be
fore the Interstate Commerce commission.
The commission is charged with the duty
of going into the subject thoroughly, and
there Is no doubt that that duty will be
fully, ably and conservatively performed.
Whatever the decision may be. it Is hoped
that it will result In establishing a sound
economic basis tor the levying ot the tre
mendous transportation tax upon the people
ot the United States.
ICE PACKER MAKES NEW MOVE
Provides Cuspidors for the Vse ot the
Men Who Are Cnt
tla lee.
F. 8. Knapp of the Omaha Box company
tells of a very thoughtful Ice man.
"He came info the plant on Monday,"
says Mr. Knapp. "and asked to have fifty
boxes of a specified size made at once. He
had brought a wagon to take them away
immediately. I had the order filled as
quickly as possible, and after the goods
were delivered to the wagon, I asked him
what he was going to do with the boxes.
He sold he was going to till them with
sand and set them about on the ice for the
men at work to use as cuspidors. This
struck me as being especially thoughtful,
for he has about 204 men working for him,
and the care taken to keep them from
expectorating on the ice would seem to be
Justified."
Choir of Iowa Soldiers' Home
hearing none uf the iwtpoi.:iUc executive
officers of tho eastern rouds was put upon j the basis fur advunclng rates In order to
the witness siaud until the public press, of I augment
all shade of opinion, had united in ridicul
ing the sort of showing that the eastern
railroads niude. The uafuc executives of
(oine of the prlucipal l u were then Intro
duced as witnesses. Out it nas easy t ) too
that their evidence was olteitd rather to
meet the criticism of the pisa than to
support the railroad position Lefore the
commission. iubMiuviitly. at the Wash
ington hearing, the presidents of the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore & Ohio testified. The gist of
their evidence was that, In ordir to pre
servo the credit of the companies anl en
able them to obtain the additional capital
nosary for the development of their
proieitles, rates must bi advanced to such
a point that a large surplus could be ac
cumulated to be put back into the prop
erty. Between the hearing of the eastern lines'
case In New York and the taking of the
testimony of the presidents of those lutes
In Washington, the actual results of the
operation ef the iines In official classifica
tion terrltor) for the year ending June
W, lsls. were made public by the Inter
state Commerce commission. The rallrouj
presldir.ta were confronted with the fact
that the lines which were called upon tJ
pay tha a.OoO COO estimated Increase In
wages hud ixVtJU WO actual Increase in
their net operating revenues for that year
over aad above their lww earnings, the
basts upon which their estimate of M.
tti.vu Incrtai.e was luade. This enormous
gross earnings.
As an In
Mance of the larrre expenditures
lor maintenance, there was tie
ta:ie of tha tie renewal account of t its
Sunta Ko. This account showed that tfco
Santa Ke company had expended tO.uJ
more In lalt) than In 190S for renewals of
Uts, but had laid GC0.UC0 less ties in l'.'.'U.
and had reported to the commission ti:a:
the co.-t of Its ties at the point of dis
tribution was practically the same tor
I 'cth years. Another instance was an ln-
crvaso In the expenditures of the same
ctmpany of tl.Vtf.0iO In 1310 over 19 under
the Item of roadway and track, hummed
up, the Santa lpe malntsnance accounts In
creased 25 per cent; the Chicago & North
western maintenance account aJ'i per cent
and the Chicago, Burlington A Qulncy li-j
per cent. There was also muuh railroad
testimony that the winter of 130K-10 was an
exceedingly hard winter and that the Illi
nois coal strike, which lasted
months
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BRUNING IS J0LAND A JOB
Two Coramlssloaera Say lie Is to Be
County Storekeeper Formerly
Kept a Store.
Fred Brunlng, former county commis
sioner and chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners, will be appointed
county storekeeper by the Board of Coun'y
Commissioners, according to statements by
Commissioners Plckard and Bedford. The
board has not decided who it will place
In charge of the Detention Home.
"Brunlng Is Just th man for store
keeper," said Mr. Bedford. "He used to
be a grocery man and his long experience
In his grocery store well qualifies him."
Const I tut ton tor Monaco.
MONTE CARLO, Jan. 7.-Prlnce Albert of
Monaco today Issued a proclamation es
tablishing a constitutional government for
the principality of Monaco. He has 1.20)
subjects.
TO REFUND MERCHANTS' FARE
Commercial Clab slakes the gain
Arrangements as Were In ef
fect Last Fall. .
The jobbers and manufacturers' associa
tion of the Commercial club has arranged
for fare refunds to country merchants be
tween January and April 20. The gen
eral plan Is like that successfully pursued
In fall campaign, the present one being de
signed In the Interest of sales of sprlnj
goods.
Fatal Quarrel Over Miotirnn.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. T.-Ferdlnand
Cure, a planter, Is dead and C. M. Ft.
Cermaln, registrar of St. Bernard parish, Is
under arrest as the result of a quarrel over
the disposition of a i-hotgun. which led to
a fatal shooting affray here today. 6t.
(Jermaln claims he shot In self-defense.
A LIQUOR CURE
THAT NEVER FAILS
Cured of AU Desire or Craving for Alcoholic
Liquors in THREE DAYS -That is The
Story Being Told by Hundreds
u of Our Patients
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A former Omaha woman, Mrs. Fannie
several M. Hanks. Is a member of what la proba-
had affected ooeratinif expenses ' bly the most remarkable choir of the en-
tluouah the increase In the cost of fuel, tire west. If not of the entire country. No
and freight revenues through the decreaso ' other organisation of Its kind exceeds in
In coal tonnage. the aggregate age of it membors, and
Notwithstanding nil of thess cSverse ' 'nr average age. The choir is that of
conditions, these rracs wero er.ab'.cd to the Iowa Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown,
pay tleir fixed charges, a.tiple dividends Iowa. In which Mrs. Hanks sings soprano,
upon their stock, make the usual appro- The total age of the ten members, the
prlations from Income for bettermer.ta ' organist and the chaplain Is 73 yeara.
and carry considerable su:ns to their sur- , Their averaae age Is a years and 7 months
plus account for the yer 1J;. Ths con- Mrs. Hanks has been a member of the
tentlon of the shippers la that these tacts home since In October, 1SOS. Three other
would Justify the commission In denying western Iowa old people are members of
these roads the right to make any ad- 1 this choir, which sings regularly at all
vances la their rales. I chapel services and funerals. They are
Kdward B. Wsrd, basso, of Ogden, la.;
Mrs. J. Cottrell. pianist, of Atlantic, la.;
and Mrs. Emma Gould, alto, of Sioux
City, la. The organiser, Chaplain Jesse
Cole, Is a Methodist preacher, who form
erly held charges In northwestern Iowa,
and who Is still a member of the North
western Iowa conference. He Ib a lecturer
of soma note, and prior to and after the
war he held various charges In Wisconsin.
He was chaplain of the E'ghth Wisconsin
Infantry, the ruglmeiil that becane fa
mous by reason of the mascot, the live
eagle, "Abe Uncoln," that It carried
through the war.
The members of the choir, with their
ages, places or residence before being ad
mitted to the home, and the positions they
occupy in the choir, are as follows, reading
from left to right: Top Row A H. Albert,
70. Alb!a, tenor; C. B. Wilbur. S. Polk City,
tenor; Miller Tallmun, 9. H oux City, basso;
Edward li. Ward. Ct, Ogden. basso. Mid
dle Row Mrs. M. Proctor, , Ottumwa.
soprano; Mrs. Etta Cutler, bi, Dubuuue,
sotrano; Mrs. Itoena A. Walker, W, Kolfe.
soprano; Mrs. Fannla M. Hanks, 64, Omaha,
soprano; Mrs. J. Cottrell, SI, Atlantic,
pianist; Mrs. Sophia Wilcox. t- Fort
Lodge. alto: Mrs. Emma Gould, oti, Sioux
City. alto. Front Row Kev. Jesse Cole, 70,
chaplain Iowa Soldiers' Home, and or
ganiser of the choir.
The Neal internal trcit
ment cures the periodical,
occasional or moderate
drinker, the habitual and
excessive drinker and the
nervous man who has
to drink to keep from
becoming more ner
vous. It takrs away all
inclination to drink, all
desire and craving fr
drink by neutralizing the
poison of alchol in the
system and ridding the
blood of the pisn by a
rapid process of climina-
tin leaving the drinker
in the same normal con
dition he was in before
tasting liquor, so far as
the effect of alcohol may
be concerned all appe
tite for drink gone and
he a new man.
Mo Hypoderm'c Injections
The Neal internal treat
ment effects a perfect
cure in three days with
out hypadcrmic injections.
A GumaheJ Contract
A guarantee is given each
patient t effect a perfect
cure or refund the money
at the end af the third
day.
A Modira Treatment
The Neal is a Physi
cian's Cure for the drink
habit; it is ths most mod
ern and perfect of known
treatments, originated by
a physician, compounded
by a physician, and ad
ministered by experi
enced physicians. It
never fails.
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