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VOLUME X X X Y . CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER <1, 1907.

>The i

Musical Course Cancelled.arse of musical entertain-

which were announced to be | In Chatsworth will not occur. Brst number was to have taken

i t last evening (Thursday) but the company failed to appear, and a letter Sent to Rev. K. K. Masterson by the Barbereaux Concert Course, who were $o put the entertainments on here, Was forwarded to him a t Animosa, Iowa, and was returned to others in­terested here, being received yester-

I day afternoon. I t stated that, owing > the fact tha t the course was not elng put in here under a cash gtiar-

f atitee, the contract was cancelled.The Plaindealkr regrets having

lADDOunced tha t the course would be [ given, undor the circumstances, but j when the announcement was made

there was every reason to believe that the course would be given, the con­tracts having been signed, and even up td yesterday afternoon canvassers

. wtre out selling tickets.[*,. **"*<> blame can be placed upon the

local committee, as they had complied Pfrtfti their contract in every wav, but

the Barbereaux Concert Course pro­moters, of Chicago, evidently secured a contract where they expect to get more money than they looked for in Chatsworth.

Cullom Weddiny6.Miss Alice E. Essington. of Kemp-

ton, and Mr. John Reibe, of Cullom, were married at Kankakee on Thurs-

* day morning. The ceremony was performed by Bev., Dr. Lambert, of

1 tile First M. E. church of Kankakee. Mias Julia Essington, sister of the bride. and Mr. Jesse R. Ilaag were

I the witnesses. The groom is engag- . ad Jn farming near Cullom, and the

newly-wedded pair will go to house- kdeping surrounded by the best wishes of a host of friends.

Miss Mary Terrell, daughter of James Tyrrell, of Cullom. and James Olcment, of Kankakee, were united Irnttirrlage In Kankakee on Sunday

lorning. They spent part of the past woek with Cullom relatives and will reside in Kankakee.

To the Public.We take pride in presenting to the

readers of the Bi.ainueai.ku and our customers our official statement as made to the II. S. government, shoeing the financial condition of The Commercial National Bank on December 3, 1907. The statement ahoWs the bank’s condition is con­servative and up to the standard re­quired by national bank laws. We th ink all depositors and customers for their business, nnd appreciate and solicit a continuance of their patron­age. (». W. MpCahe, Cashier.

K. of C. Elect Officers.At a meeting of the Knights of

Columbus held on Tuesday evening the following officers were’ elected: J. A. O’Neil. O. K ; J7 E. Donovan,

KD. G. K.; J hb. Bergan, Chap!.: F. J.Harbeke, Ward.: G. W. McCabe.

M^Preas.: D. L. Murphy, Lect,.; J. A Kcrrlns. Adv.: Dr. D. E. Egan, physician; J. F. Duffy, Fin. Sec.; J. W. tiarrity, Rec. Sec ; T. E. Baldwin,

G : Frank Endres, O. G.

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Melvin Woman Found Dead.The body of Mrs. Arena Longmire,

wife of John G. Longmire,. deceased, Ffljf-Melvtn, was found near the Baiftoh- ] m ie Asylum on November 28. She was

Inmate of the RaUlfryflle institu- &n, and is reportedffg^ave escaped

OMScptember 2. Tlie.^oRdy was.found within 300 feet of tlrt cottage from which she Is said to have escaped. She is survived by one son and two

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Baok After 25 Years. \d Mrs. H. O. Saathoff, of Wy- eb., are visiting a t the home rmor’saged mother,Mrs.Tenie

ithoff. I t has been twenty-five rs since Mr. and Mre. Saathoff left tsworth, and they nad not visited

reslneb. They naturally see many nges, both in the country, town

d people. _______ ^

Keeetner Accepts. ' vImer Koestner, the well-known

ball pitcher, has decided th a t he 1 accept the draft made by Los geles for his services next season,

rdlng to the Bloomington Panta- ph, and will be one of the pitchers the Los Angeles ball team in the

cldc coast league next season.

Settlement Notice.All parties knowing themselves 1

The Late Senator Vest’s Famous “Dog Speech.”

Some years ago Senator Vest, of Missouri, was attending court in ^ country town, and while waiting for the trial of a case in which he was in­terested he was urged by the attor­neys in a dog case to help them. He was paid a fee of 8250 by the plaintiff. Voluminous evidence was introduced to show that the defendant had shot the dog in malice, while other evi­dence went to show that the dog had attacked defendant. Vest took no part in the trial and was not disposed to speak. The attorneys, however, urged him to make a speech, else their client would not think he had earned his fee. Being thus urged he arose, scanned the face of each juryman for a moment, and said:

“Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man tins in the world may turn against him and become Iris ene­my. II is son or daughter that tie has reared with loving care may prove un­grateful. Those w ho are nearest and dearest to us. those whom wo trust wit li our happiness and ourgood name may become traitors to their faith. The money th a t' S man tins he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man’s rep­utation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fail on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the lirst to throw I lie stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish wor!d,*the one that never deserts him, Hu* one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

••A man’s dog stands by him in pros- penly and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He w ill sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and tlie snow drives fiercely, if only be may be near tiis master’s side. He will kiss the hand that. Ikis no food to offer; lie will lick the woundsaiid sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. lie guards tiie sleep of 11is pauper master as if tic were a prince. Whe n all other friends desert lie remains.. When riches t ike wings and reputation fails to pieces he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the heavens.

‘•If fort une drivi s t he master fori h an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accom­panying him. to guard against danger, to light against hisenemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace, and his body Is laid away in cold ground, no m atter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found. Iiis head be­tween his paws, his eyes sad, but. open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.”

Then Vest sat down. He had spoken in a iow voice, without a gesture. He made no reference to the evidence or the merits of the case. When he fin­ished judge and jury were wiping their eyes. The jury filed out but soon entered with a verdict in favor the plaintiff for $600. He had sued for $200. I t is even said tha t some of the jurors wanted to hang the defendant, j

Newt Dealsrt will be Short.News dealers over the country have |

received notice from the Chicagodaily papers that In the future unsold cop­ies will not be returnable, and no credits will be given dealers for copies remaining on their hands unsold. As a result, persons who have not placed orders with the news dealers in the smaller towns for papers to be taken regularly will often have, trouole in securing papers, the margin of profit to the dealer being so small tha t he can not afford to have any papers left ofThis hands.

When any of the leading Chicago dallies can be secured with the P lain- dealer for $3.60 in advance, or the Evening Journal for $3.00, there is no reason why anyone should not have a Chicagodaily coming to his address regularly and a«oid the possibility of not being able to purchase a paper when It Is wanted.

Proceedings in County Court.Estate Elizabeth Uornbaker, deceas­

ed; A. L.Dolde. administrator. Proof of notice of llnal settlement^ final re­port filed and approved; receipts filed and estate fully settled; administra­tor and bond discharged.

Estate Benj. F. Lehman, deceased; Benj. F. Lehman, petitioner. Ordered tha t ded in ms Issuo to Orrln M. Con­ley, Elkhart. Ind., to take deposition of C. L. Shantz.—Pont lac Leader.

-- ---- --------------- i. A Card to All Interested.

As has been my unfailing custom, I will be pleased to have all bills, of whatever kind, against me presented for payment a t any time up to Decem­ber 26, or Christmas day. 1 have made It an Intarlabje rule for over th irty

ith everyone whom I ,t once a year,Ills against

0S|NUM BER 10. • 4 s

uDied at Chatsworth Sanitarium.

Edward Lee, son of Chris. Lee, of Germanville township, died at the Chatsworth Sanitarium on Tuesday evening, following an operation for appendicitis. The remains were tak­en to the family home on Wednesday and the funeral services are to take place a t Strawn today (Friday).

Deceased was twenty-live years of age and had lived all of his life in this immediate vicinity. He was a young man who had many friends and was highly esteemed. He is sur­vived by his father, step-mother, two brothers and oilier relatives. The sympathy of the entire community is with ttie bereaved family in their sorrow.

The following is copied from the Pontiac Daily Leader of Thursday, December 5: Strawn, HI., Dec. (Special) -Edward Lee. son of a promi­nent farming living east of this place, died last night from an opeiation fer ( appendicitis. The father does not believe tlie operation was necessary and 1ms begun an investigation. To that enu he summoned Coroner Siyder of Pontiac who arrived tins noon and went out. to the home. Tlie inquest is in progress this afternoon. Dr. Carson performed the operation

Will Move to Oklahoma. /I. G. (Winnie) Fuii states that he

expects to load two ears with Ii is ef­fects on Monday next for shipment to Lawton, Oklahoma, near which city his father. S. B. Furr, and family nmv reside, and where the senior Mr. Furr has quite extensive land interests. . Conrad Iieppe expects lo accompany [ one of the cars. When Winnie gets| to Law ton t tie cut ire Furr fainily will, again lie together. Mr. Furr was first j at t racled to < tkiahoma by i he cl i mat ic conditions, which were favorable t o 1 the healt 1. of himself and daughters, which had been pour lu-re. and whichseems to have b-‘cn materialiv im- i‘proved. It Is with regret that the* j many friends of tlie Furr family in, this community have them leave, but | this community's loss is tlie gain of Oklahoma.

D O Y O U R E A L I Z E ,

T h a t i t i s o n l y 1 8 D A Y S t i l l C h r i s t m a s , a n d o n ­

l y 1 8 s h o p p i n g d a y s ? W h y , C h r i s t m a s w i l l b e h e r e

“ a l m o s t b e f o r e w e k n o w i t . ” N o w , y o u ’l l n o t h a v e t h e

l e a s t b i t o f t r e m b l e f i n d i n g s o m e t h i n g f o r H E R N m a s

p r e s e n t a t T h e R u s h w a y S t o r e , a n d t h e r e a l l y s e n s i b l e

p a r t o f “ g e t t i n g i t a t B u s h w a y \ s ” i s t h a t i t w i l l n o t o n l y

b e p r e t t y , b u t u s e f u l . A l l o u r “ C h r i s t m a s t h i n g s ” a r e

n o w i n a n d r e a d y f o r y o u r i n s p e c t i o n . A r t i c l e s s e l e c t ­

e d n o w w i l l b e l a i d a s i d e t i l l w a n t e d . R i g h t n o w t h e

a s s o r t m e n t i s c o m p l e t e . W 'e a d v i s e * e a r l y s e l e c t i o n s .

B u s h w a y ( E L C o .

T O - D A YW e a r e h a v i n g a S P E C I A L C L O A K S A L K ; a r e s e l l i n g s c o r e s a n d s c o r e s o f C l o a k s .

A ll o u r $ 2 2 .5 0 a n d $ 2 5 .0 0 L a d i e s ’ C l o a k s a t . . . $ 1 6 .7 5A ll o u r $ 1 5 . 0 0 a n d $ 1 7 .0 0 L a d i e s ’ C l o a k s a t . . $ 1 0 . 0 0A ll o u r $ 6 .5 0 a n d $ 7 .0 0 C h i l d r e n ’s C l o a k s a t . . . $ 4 . 9 0A ll o u r $ 4 . 5 0 a n d $ 5 . 0 0 C h i l d r e n ’s C l o a k s a t $ 3 .7 5

N o w o n d e r t h e y a r e s e l l i n g ; t h e y o u g h t t o s e l l a t s u c h p r i c e s .

AND TO -M O RRO WSATU R D A Y , DEC. 7

C loak P r ic e s Will B e T h e S a m e(BUT ONLY FOR TO-MORROW)

R. F. D. Carriers to Spruce Up.The postmaster general lias issued

t-he following notice to the carriers of the rural free delivery system: Post mas­ters at rural delivery offices will in­form carriers under their supervision tha t they are required to present a neat personal appearance, that the vehicle used by them must be suited to the service, kept in good order and presentable; that the animals used by the carriers in serving their routes must he fit to work and such as to not cast a discredit upon tlie service. Lax­ity in these matters by the rural car­riers will be Immediately reported by the p o s tm a s te r s E x .

XHusking Bee Today.

The home of Alva T. Cunninglon. northwest of Chatsworth is the scene Of a husking bee today, w hich is en­veloped in the right spirit. Some time ago Mr. Cunningtou met with an ac­cident which has prevented him from doing any work. Today his neigbors and friends are in his corn fields husk­ing his corn, and before night a large percent, of It, if not all, will be in his cribs. _______________

Are After Hunters; Beware.Amos Orr, county game warden,and

another state warden spent today in this city. They are spending some time going through the adjacent coun­try In search for hunters without the necessary license and also looking for game killed out of season.—Pontiac Leader, Dec. 4.

M. W. of A. Notice.All members of the M. VV. of A.

camp are requested to be present at the meeting to be held on Monday evening, when election of officers will take place. J. E. Roach, Clerk.

B U S H W A Y C O .

REPORT OF THE CONDITION- or—

The Commercial National Bank Of Chatsworth.

At Chatsworth, in the State of Illinois,— .IT T1IK -

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Home from Sanitarium.H. Royal returned the latter part of

last week from Bloomington where he had been taking taking treatm ent a t the Kelso Sanitarium. He seeina to have been materially benefited, which fact Is pleasing news to his hosts of friends.

Cliatsworth Markets.Corrected each Friday afternoon.

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Notable Happenings Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man—Sum­mary of the Latest Home and For­eign Notes.

Congress assembled wi li the mem­bers and even the party leaders at sea as to the prospects for legislation. The financial situation engaged the attention of all to the exclusion of other topics.

Speaker Cannon was reelected by the house of representatives and the old rules adopted on the opening day. W. J. Bryan entered and was given an ovation.

Viscount Siuzo Aqki, ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipo­tentiary from Japan to the United States, has been recalled. He called at the White House and state depart­ment and notified the president and Secretary Root of this fact.

It was stated in New York that James Hazen Hyde, former vice presi­dent of the Equitable Life Assurance society, offered to make restitution to the society of various sums of money which he is alleged to have received in profits from participation in syndi­cates in which also the Equitable had an interest.

In order to avoid a threatened run on the bank and to afford all depos­itors and creditors an equal Chance in the settlement of the bank's affairs, State Banking Commissioner Zimmer­man, of Michigan, announced that the Chelsea Savings bank would be closed. The president of the bank is State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier, who has deposited in the bank approxi­mately $684,000 of the funds of the state of Michigan. Attorney General Bird said he believed the state was fully protected. ,

During a blinding snowstorm the Canadian Pacific Railway company's steamship Mount Temple, bound from Antwerp to St. John, N. B.. with 600 passengers, struck La Have iron- bound leges, 15 miles south of Lunen­burg. Passengers and crew were taken off safely.

Rev. Dr. E. E. Chivers, field secre­tary of the Baptist Home Mission so­ciety, died at Richmond, N. J.

The Republicans of Portland. Me.. elected a mayor and a safe majority In the city government. The city has been controlled by the Democrats tho past year.

The Pullman company's big paint shop at Buffalo, N. Y., burned to the ground in less than an hour. The to­tal loss was about $400,000.

Following a visit of Charlen M. Schwab notices were posted at the Bethlehem Steel works announcing a ten per cent, reduction in wages.

Miss Lilly Kelly, a young woman homesteader, was found with her head crushed at her home 20 miles south of Fort Pierre. S. D. A. F. Owen, a discarded lover, was arrested charged with the crime.

Three widows appeared in the su­preme court at Boston as claimants to the estate of the late Joseph P. Green- ough, whose property is valued at $1,000,000.

Tommy Burns, of America, knocked out Gunner Moir, of England, in the tenth round before the National Sport­ing club of London.

Henry O. Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refining company, was reported seriously ill at his coun­try home at Commaek, L. I.

The case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, slayer of former Senator Brown, of Utah, in Washington, was given to the Jury which, unable to agree on a ver­dict within a few hours, was locked up for the night.

Four Mississippi river steamers in winter quarters at Wabasha, Minn., were destroyed by fire, the total loss being $105,600.

Ephalra Banning, a widely known attorney, died at his residence in Chi­cago. His death was due to injuries when he fell from a street car.

The death sentence passed upon Karl Hau, formerly a professor in George Washington university, Wash­ington, D. C., for the murder Novem­ber 5, 1906, at Karlsruhe, Germany, of bli mother-in-law, Frau Molltor, has been commuted to life Imprisonment.

H. J. Groves, managing editor of tbe Kansas City Post, died of wounds In­flicted by Gen. Richard Horne.

Maj. Downing, a noted Indian fight­er, died at Denver, Col.

At Mifllintown, Pa., Julius Derr, a railroad employe, was shot end fatally wounded by nn Italian, who was pur­sued and killed by a party of hunters.

Irvin Robison, of Blue Grass, la., a senior In the Iowa State college at Ames, was killed In jumping from a train. . ' :v...

g The Jury to try Caleb Powers was completed a t Georgetown, Kr. There

eight Democrats and toif Repub- the Jury.

Chairman Ferris of the Populist na­tional committee Issued a call for a Populist national convention to be held in St. Louis April 2, 1908, for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and vice president.

In a wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Shenandoah Junction, Md„ three passengers were killed and s dozen were injured.

The superior court at Philadelphia refused F. Augustus Hartje’s petition for a reargument in his divorce suit

The second trial of Harry K. Thaw for tho killing of Stanford White wa3 postponed to January 6.

John Mlchenheim, of Delano, Minn., was murdered by his daughter Frances, aged 50 years.

Instead of paying about $46,000, al­leged to be due the state of Wiscon­sin as back taxes on unreported gross earnings for the years 1898 to 1902, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company has filed its answer to the state complaint, alleging that the state owes the railroad company $1,469,748.56, which it declares was overpaid in taxes during the years in question.

Dr. Artemis O. Wotrlng, aged 40 years, was instantly killed and several others were injured by the explosion of a gas plant at his home in Ogden Center, Mich.

Charles L. Fergueson, Jr., was drowned in a bath tub at his home in Ossining. N. Y. The coroner decided that Fergueson had fainted and his head slipped below the water.

Congressman George W. Smith died suddenly of typho-malarta at his home in Murph.vsboro, ill. He was serving his twentieth year in congress.

Secretary Taft visited the kremlin in Moscow and was given a banquet by the American colony in that city.

Capt. Frank E. Bent, company I, Twentieth Wisconsin National Guard, of Marinette, was instantly killed in an automobile accident near Escanaba, Mich., and four others were injured.

Between 50 and 60 miners were en­tombed in the Naomi mine of the United Mine Coal company at Fayette City, Pa., as the result of an explosion of black damp. It was thought many were killed.

Melvin Powell, aged 17, shot and in­stantly killed his sweetheart, Lillian Humphreys, aged 16, near Hopkins­ville, Ky.

George Bea, of Brownsville, Pa., was waylaid and murdered on his wed­ding night, presumably by rejected suitors of the bride.

With 2,000,000 pounds of ammuni­tion stowed away in her magazine rooms and with nearly 1,000 men and officers aboard, the 16,000 ton battle­ship Louisiana sailed from the Brook­lyn navy yard for Hampton roads, the rendezvous of the Pacific-bound At­lantic fleet.

Judge Joseph I. Landis, one of the best known attorneys in western Ken­tucky, died at his home in Hopkins vilie at the age of 71 years.

If the amount lost by fire, burglary, etc., is added to the ordinary excess of expenditures over receipts the gross deficit in the postal service dur­ing 1907 will aggregate $6,692,031.47, according to Third Assistant Post­master General A. L. Lawshe.

Secretary Metcalf recommends that congress appropriate $69,270,000 for new warships.

it was reported that H. Gassaway Davis, multimillionaire and Demo­cratic candidate for vice president in the last campaign, would wed Miss Mabel Ashford, a poor girl.

The Royal Swedish Yacht club de­cided to drop the challenge for the America's cup.

George Edalji, wrongfully convicted in England of maiming cattle, has been restored to all his rights through the efforts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Mrs. Lucy Hagenow, midwife, of Chicago, was given 20 years In the penitentiary for causing the death of Mrs Anna Horavitch.

Two persons were killed and eight badly hurt by the falling of an ele­vator in a clothing house in Chicago.

Discouraged by long illness, Mrs. Sadie Anderson of Chicago burned her­self to death. Her husband made heroic but unsuccessful efforts to save her life, putting out the fire with his hands and burning them to the bone.

As the result of a suicide pact, five young women of Bristol, Va., made unsuccessful attempts to kill them­selves with bichloride of mercury.

David Ranken, Jr., capitalist and philanthropist, deeded to the David Ranken, Jr., School of Mechnlcal Trades in 8t. Louis titles to real es­tate and railroad stock valued at more than $2,000,000.

A woman on horseback held up four New Yorkers in an automobile near Torrington, Conn., and took away theirmoney.

Charles S. Harpel, aged 73 years, a pioneer resident of Chicago, died while planning to celebrate his golden wedding.

Dr. George F. Shrady of New York, a noted' physician and surgeon, is dead.

Many bankers in the west plan to transfer their exchanges to Chicago because they saw in financial reports and newspapers of New York maps In­dicating by dark spots that Omaha and other western cities are in sore financial straits.

While Hugo 8cherer, a wealthy banker of Mexico City, was giving a dinner to a number of friends $40,000 worth of Jewelry and several hundred dollars in cash were taken from the hquse.

Turning on the gas and a phono­graph at the same time, Mrs. Georgia Tittle, aged 36, committed suicide in New York to the strains of "la tbe Wild Woods Where the Blue Bella Grow." • ;

W. H. B. pbs- of I t h e / ^ ’

Lieut. Crawford, secretary to Ad­miral Dewey, who disappeared leaving a note saying he was going to drown himself, was found In n western town. His action has not been explained.

The French government, through the minister of public Instruction and fine arts, M. Urlaud, has decorated Mary Baker G. Eddy as “Officer d.Academle." Mrs. Eddy was first awarded a grand prize for her work, and was also given a diploma of honor as founder of the Christian Science movement

Trinidad Vasquez, a secret service officer in the employ of the Mexican government, the chief witness for the government in the cases of Magon, Villareal and Rivera, alleged revolu­tionists, was poisoned at Los Angeles.

Frank McCoy, 40 years old, was shot and killed and his father, Joel McCoy, was fatally wounded by Edward Ford on their farm near Bloomington, Iud.

B. Fulton French was acquitted at Beattyvtle, Ky., of complicity in the murder of James B. Marcum.

The police of Ufa, Russia, heard there was a plot to blow up the train on which Secretary Taft was travel­ing.

Florence Nightingale, the English philanthropist, has been decorated with the order of merit by King Ed­ward. She is the first woman to re­ceive this distinction.

Mrs. Catherine Snay has passed her one hundred and sixth birthday at her home in North Oxford, Mass. She Is bedridden, almost blind and one side has been paralyzed for years. Mrs. Snay has smoked a pipe since she was ten years old.

Two convicts. James Ware and Al­bert Bunch, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a stockade at the state convict farm In Lincoln county. Ark.

James 15. Bradwell. former county judge, publisher of the Chicago Legal News and picturesque pioneer, who lived in Chicago since 1834, died, aged79 years.

During a family quarrel. Carl Farina i shot and killed his brother-in-law, | Philip Mundon, at Bass Lake, Ind.

The total value of the country's farm j products for 1907, according to Secre- i tary of Agriculture Wilson’s report, is j $7,412,000,000.

Prof. Albert A. Michelson, head of the department of physics of the Uni­versity of Chicago, has been awarded the Nobel prize for physics for 1907.

John B. Obermeyer, inventor of the time lock for safes, died at his home near Zanesville, O.

Senator J. B. Foraker made it clear­ly known that he will contest the Ohio delegation to the Republican national convention with Mr. Taft.

The fireworks plant of Louis Wolter in St. Louis was destroyed by an ex­plosion.

John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil company, speaking to the alumni of Syracuse university, denied that his gold was tainted.

William J. Bryan presented a marble fountain to the city of New Haven, Conn., on behalf of his friend, the late Philo S. Bennett.

Mayor John Van Fossen of Ypsllan- tl, Mich., committed suicide by shoot­ing.

Ricardo Castro, the leading pianist and composer of Mexico, died of pneumonia.

George F. Porter, millionaire attor­ney and theater man of Minneapolis, died of heart disease in Omaha.

Gen. Leon Jastremskl, a confeder­ate veteran, candidate for the Demo­cratic nomination for governor of Louisiana and formerly a grand chan­cellor of the Knights of Pythias of the United States, died at Baton Rogue, La.

Fire destroyed several business blocks in Cody, Wyo., and three- fourths of the mining town of Granite, Col.

Five factory employes were killed at Waterbury, Conn., when a freight train struck a trolley car.

Four men armed with corn knives waylaid and robbed an automobile party near Riverside, N. J.

Former Lieut. Gov. Joseph H. Tucker of Massachusetts died in Pitts­field. aged 75.

Judge Kalligar of Beatrice, Neb., sentenced R. Meade Shumway, con­victed of the murder of Mrs. Jacob Martin, to be hanged March 13.

President Roosevelt and family spent Thanksgiving day at the old home of President Madison near Mont­pelier, Va. Secretary Taft celebrated the day on his train in Russia. Amer­icans resident in London, Berlin, Vienna and other foreign countries had their customary banquets and recep­tions.

R. Meade Shumway was convicted at Beatrice, Neb., of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Martin, wife of his em­ployer.

In the Thanksgiving sermon at Trinity Protestant Episcopal church, New Orleans, the rector. Rev. Dr. Beverly Warner, inaugurated a cru­sade against racing In Louisiana.

Hugh Murray, grand secretary of the Masonic Grand I-odge of Canada, died suddenly in Hamilton, Ont, from apoplexy.

Fire destroyed the business portion of the village of Columbus, N. D. The loss Is $50,000.

Alpheus Stothower, half-back on the Wellington (Kan.) football team, ran Into a buggy on the side line In a game in his home town and suffered con­cussion of the brain. The injury may prove fatal.

Mrs. Louise M. Taft, mother of the secretary of war, la again seriously 111 at her home In Mlllburg. Mass.

Marquis Gulaeppo Cl to, a member of the most aaclent aristocracy of Naples, Italy, and a cousin agd aide of th / "*'ugQt Italy, waijjjkir- . - ty .

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TRICK THE FOOLISHMUST BUILD UP BUSINESS.

SCHEMES OP ORDER

PREMIUMHOUSES.

MAIL

STUFF IS OF LITTLE VALUE

Cheapest Kind of Goode Handled by Theee Concerne, and They Are

8 old at the Highest Mar­ket Prices.

There are dozens of premium-giving mail order houses operating in differ­ent cities of the country. These houses reach out for trade in all parts of the country, and do not overlook the largest cities. They gain for their aides and their agents men, women and children, wives of lawyers, mer­chants, church workers and any class that they can. Some of them make a business catering to the Epworth leagues, the Sunday schools, the churches, and have plans by which the people are humbugged and loaded down with Inferior goods, and the league, the Sunday school or the church gets a little cheap furniture, some dinky-dinky thing almost worth­less for all the trouble gone to.

These premium concerns that put out baking powder, cheap coffees, gro­ceries of every kind and description, generally put out the cheapest kindB of stuff. Recently samples of the goods that have been received from them have been sent to the chemists of the pure food departments in a number of cites, and universally the goods were found to be of the rankest kind. The coffee the cheapest Santos, and doctored up with roasted cereals and chlckory; the baking powders were an abomination of cheap acids and other materials; the extracts were wholly synthetic, produced from coal-tar products, and so adulteration was carried to the extreme. These goods were sold at the highest prices and were of such class ihat no re­spectable grocer in any city or ham­let would have them in his stock. These are the classes that the good women, perhaps well-meaning, but not up to snuff, palm off upon their neighbors when they become the sec­retary of “the club,” and the kind of dope they innocently give to their husbands and children, and when the little ones become sickened by par­taking of the stuff, the dear little woman gladly pays some doctor four times the amount the abominable goods cost.

.There will be something dropping pretty quick among a certain class of these big "Companies.” Their busi­ness Is of the fraudulent kind and there is a likelihood that at no distant period the government officers will se­cure such evidence as will put many of the concerns out of business.

Catalogue House* Busy.Thousands of dollars are being spent

with the big catalogue houses of the east by the residents of the small towns in southern Utah, according to reports brought to Salt Lake by Or­son Hewlett, president of the Manu­facturers’ and Merchants’ association, and Lorenzo Jenkins, secretary and manager of the Retail Merchants' as­sociation of the state.

Messrs. Hewlett and Jenkins spent nearly a week In Sanpete county and vicinity, calling merchants and farm­ers together to urge greater patronage of home Industries. Ephraim, Moroni, Falrview, Spring City, Mount Pleas­ant, Fountain Green, Mantl and Ches­ter ware visited and in each place the greatest enthusiasm was manifested by merchants over the campaign re­cently Inaugurated by commercial bodies of the state for a more exten­sive patronage of home industries.

Meetings were called and ways and means discussed by which the prac­tice of patronizing the mail order houses can be done away with. This practice has reached alarming propor­tions in the southern part of the state, according to Messrs. Hewlett and Jenkins. One small town alone last month received goods to the value of $1,200 from a big eastern mall order concern.—Salt Lake (Utah) Herald.

Calls for Energetic Action.There Is but one way for the coun­

try merchant to combat mall order evil and that Is to organize and syste­matically fight and the battle must be carried on energetically If It Is to win. This has been done In some sections of the country and can be done in oth­ers. Where a few years since the larger portion of the people have spent the major portion of their earn­ings with the mall order houses, to­day they do their purchasing at home, but this has only been accomplished by hard work by a thoroughly organ­ized body.—NeW Iberia Enterprise- Leader.

Broke 8 tatue In 8 plte.Mr. Kitamura Naojlra, sculptor of

the marble statue of a female, priced at 13,000 yen, which Is exhibited in the Fine Arts building of the Toklo exposition, proceeded to the exposi­tion on June 11, at 7 a. m., and de­liberately knocked down the statue and destroyed the head and arms with an Iron hammer, which he had originally used in carving the figure. The reason for this violent proceed­ing waa that he considered that the prize commissioners of the Toklo ex­position had shown bias In their awards, and were prone to confine high testimonials to artists of their own clique.—Japan Advertiser.

Has Too Good a Thing Here.One of Chicago's mall order houses --------that for thpi.nr.«?*ent at

Country Merchant Can Uso the Local Press to Advantage.

The sentiment exhibited In the nu­merous articles now printed in coun­try newspapers for the purpose of In­ducing people to trade at home in­stead of sending their money to mall order houses Is good and noble, but we doubt if it appeals to the multitude who patronize these mail order houses.

The best way in which tho mer­chants in the towns &nd'nmaller cities can fight the mail order houses Is to advertise. They know most of their patrons personally, can show them the goods before they buy them, have many other advantages over the mall order houses and in almost every in­stance can sell just as cheap, it not cheaper.

If the home merchant lacks fore­sight and is too penurious to proper­ly advertise his goods, why should the publisher exert himself to keep the trade at home for him? If solicita­tions on the part of the publisher fail to educate the merchant to the fact that he must advertise if he wants to keep up with the procession, then nothing is left to the merchant but to learn in the school of experience, and if the teachings of that renowned school are of no effect on him, then there is no place for him and eventu­ally his place In the commercial world will be taken up by some more enterprising competitor.—Buck­eye Informer.

Catch-Penny Schemes.Those who make a habit of answer­

ing advertisements in the cheap mail order papers are sure to bite at the "bait" held out to them sooner or later. One of the common grafts Is advertising for men to “distribute cir­culars’1 and offering from three dol­lars to five dollars a day for the serv­ices. These concerns generally charge a fee of from two dollars to five dol­lars for "registering," and In return send a number of printed blanks and names of companies who want adver­tising matter circulated. After some dollars’ worth of postage stamps is wasted in writing to the names sup­plied, the person anxious for a jot concludes that he Is out of pocket.

A common form of fraud is the ad­vertising for men to become detec­tives. There are few of these rank humbugs doing business, and in a way so shrewdly devised that the authori­ties cannot deny them the use of the malls. In a few cases fraud orders have been issued against them, but a change was quickly made to another city, and the same old graft put in operation. In these cases a fee is charged for commission and badge and instructions. The bit of nickeled brass sent out as a badge is familiar in nearly every police court as a source of trouble for green young men who think that Its possession gives them official authority.

Business men should be on the look­out for a new game which has been played In a number of parts of the country of late. A stranger enters a store, buys a small bill of goods, not exceeding ten or fifteen dollars, says that he will call for them later, and gives a check for $50 or more on a bank, receiving no change in return. He remains away for a few days, then calls for the goods. He Is told that the check is no good. After roundly “cussing" the bank he pays for the goods, takes the check and goes. In a few days more the check comes to the merchant, paid at the bank, because it had the merchant’s endorsement on it. This was the end to be obtained. Be on the lookout for this game.

Fake Spices 8old to Public.It has been found that more than

80 per cent, of the groceries sold by traveling agents who sell direct to consumers are of the adulterated classes. Examinations made of cof­fees sold by such concerns proved that there was 50 per cent, adultera­tion. The cheapest kind of Santos is used for a base, and with this ground cocoanut shells, burnt corn and chicory are, combined. Such con­coctions are dangerous, and a rank imposition upon the people. Tho spices that are sold by many of the alleged pure food concerns that have agents working among the people In small towns are dangerous to health. Many classes consist of ground bark, nut shells and other materials and flavored with artificial flavors that are coal tar products. It Is un­safe to buy from the concerns that gain their business through can­vassers, or who do an exclusive mail order business.

Lava Put to Good Use.Residents of the district round Ve­

suvius have put to practical use the lava which has flowed from the vol­cano In the past and recent eruptions. Naples and its vicinity appear to be a world of lava. Tho streets are paved with It. There are lava staircases and statues, drinking troughs, bric-a-brac and even Jewelry. The guides make a profit out of it by pressing coins or other objects on partially cooled frag­ments and selling these to visitors. On the ashy sides of tbe mountain there Is enough lava to build a large city. In appearance it resembles a shoreless frozen sea of dull black that shimmers strangely purple In some lights.

Cheyenne (Wyo.) merchants are or­ganizing to fight the mall order houses. It Is claimed that fully one- half of the clothing and dress goods purchased by tV W Cheyennecome from out ml the lo­cal merchant* 4 **/ thisA - •- -1 - 1 • vtf IT ••“**■

PROOF FOR TWO CENT*.

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If Ysu Suffer with Your Kidneys and Back Write te Thla Man.

G. W. Wlnney, Medina, N. Y., In­vitee kidney sufferers to write to him. *

To all who enclose postage he will re­ply telling how Doan’s Kidney PHIn j cored him after h e ' had doctored and bad been in two different hospitals f o r e i g h t e e n months, suffering Intense pain in | \ e b a c k , lamendr t w i n g e s .then

stooping or lifting, languor, dizzy ■pells and rheumatism. "Before I used Doan’s Kidney Pills," says Mr. Wlnney, “I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was completely cured.”

Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milbura Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

EQUAL TO THE OCCA8ION.

This Servant Girl Was Evidently • Person of Resource.

Ab a source of humor tbe Irish ser­vant girl has long since fallen from her high estate, a refisuit probably dke to the better class of young women from tbe Emerald Isle who come here annually to help confuse the eternal “servant girl question.” But now and again one of the old, naively ignorant sort turns up in a New York house­hold, as was demonstrated the other day to a caller at a house on the West Side.

The girl who responded to the bell was asked if her mistress was at borne. To this inquiry she surprised the caller by putting her arms behind her back and replying ih a rich brogbe, as she thrust her face toward tho caller: "Put th' tickets in me mouth, ma'am, an' I’ll go an' see. Me bands is w st”—N. Y. Press.

SORES A 8 BIG AS PENN IES.

Whole Head and Neck Covered—Heir All Came Out—Cured in Three

Weeks by Cuticura.

"After having the measles my whole % head and neck were covered with scaly sores about as large as a penny. They were just as thick as they could be. My hair all came out. I let the trou­ble run along, taking the doctor’s blood remedies and rubbing on salve, but it did not seem to get any better. It stayed that way for about six months; then I got a set of the Cuticura Reme­dies, and in about a week I noticed e big difference, and in three weeks it was well entirely and I have hot Aad the trouble any more, and as this vas seven years ago, I consider myself cured. Mrs. Henry Porter, Albion, Neb., Aug. 25, 1906."

A Frank Advertiser.The now commercial morality has

spread to Ceylon. From one of the newspapers of that bulmy Island we take the following;

"CH. A. HORSE—Rising sevqn, fine mouth and paces, about 15 hands; flue Lady's Hack; shows a lot of breed­ing; Reason for selling, bad with mo­tors; won't go in harness; jibs when leaving stables; catohes rider by seat of breeches when mounting; bat 8 darling pet. Apply, &c.“—LondonDaily Mail.

One Walter with Sense.Man In a restaurant, happening la

Just as a new shtft of waiters came on. And having eaten a very modest luncheon this man laid down a mod­est tip, to be exact, five cents.

And did the waiter shy off or sniff at this nickel? He did neither, but OB the contrary he seemed to regard it as an augury of good fortune that kit first customer should have given hint Something, and—

“Thank you,” he said, politely, the customer, and as he turned awa he added to himself: “That’s a star er.”—N. Y. Sun.

Laundry work at home would b much more satisfactory if the righ Starch wore used. In order to get ti desired stiffness, it is usually need', sary to use so much starch that th! beauty and fineness of the fabric 1 hidden behind a paste of varyin. thickness, which not only dOstroys th appearance, but also affects the weai ing quality of the goods. This trot ble can be entirely overcome by usln Defiance Starch, as it can be applle much mere thinly because of Its grea er strength than other makes.

A Fascinating Game.A precocious little girl living on oi -

of the crowded business thorrf^ fares of the city was in the tyfchh. gazing out of the window at therfcj street below for hours at a time

“What Is It, Oladys, that you fli so constantly Interesting In tl street?” asked her mother one day,

“Oh,” came the wise rejolnd “Just watching the cars go pro oon."—Harper’s Weekly.

H ow 's T h is? jW * o f fe r O n e H u n d r e d P o l l e n R e w a r d to t i O f C a t a r r h ( h a t c a a n o t b e a s q i d b y H aCatarrh Cora.W e , th e u __________f o r t b e la s t IS y e a n , o r a b la i s A ll o u e tu t a b le t o c a r r y o u t a n j».J.CnKN*T*<‘. hare knowni _1L 1 ballara him p ueaa traoaac Ilona aia n y o b lla a U O M m a d e 1Walpivo, Kinrah * Mas Wholesale rH a i f a C a t a r r h C a r s ; la t a k e n In te ro i d ir e c t ly u p o n th a b lo o d a n d m a o o u a a o r r e y a te tn . T e a t lm o o ta la a a n t t r e e . P r i c e 1

fur MoatlfMlM.

Deserved.“How comes It that this mann

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ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

By WUXIAM T. ELLISi«d American Joumallet is Trmreiln* Around the World (or o( Invesdtratlng the American Foreign Missionary from

Interested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint, s Drawings and from Photographs.-* - —

l i Distinguished Ar

Illustrated

J o h n C h i n a m a n I s A f r a i d

o f S p o o k s a n d S p i r i t s

taking, China.—W ily Chinese have, in English speech and print, that,

a ll, Confucianism is quite aa as Christianity, If not better, and have more than Implied that It Is

Impertinence for Christian nations ■end missionaries to their country.

matter la fundamentally lmpor- it; any Investigation of missions

inst deal w ith the native religions of mission field. Moreover, as I am

mdying mission work at first hand, not from the books written about

it by propagandists, I am bound to ’orm my conclusions of China's rell- lon by observation of the life of the

iple, especially with respect to tbelr practices.

speaking, and apart from adherents, the Chinese

religious than the Japanese, more-so than the Koreans. One

tn vain for the multitude of gnd shrines which are to be met

very aide In Japan. The Idolatry te Chinese may almost be said to been exaggerated. While every

|e has its "kitchen god," there is g the god shelf that is found in Japanese homes, and the public

except In temples, jrd about this kitchen god. He

!per image, before whom are :ed candles and Incense, generally Vhted. As all family affairs, even ,le greatest households, find their ' to the kitchen, the kitchen god Is posed tojfear everything. AcCord-

Year’s day, before send- the realm of dlvlnltleB

I and flame, his lips are with sweets. Then, when he id of concerning the family's jd ie can only mumble

tian came along to pick him up, and he was In a semi-conscious condition for several days subsequently. Sim­ilarly, one Chinese will watoh another drown without stretching form a hand to help him.

Every Imposing residence In China has pasted on Its doors hideous Images to scare off the evil spirits. Streets do not run straight. In order to baffle the spirits. Inns and large residences have stone screens In front of the principal entrances, so that evil spirits may not find their way in. Charms hang over almost every doorway. Graves can be located only after the dispositions of the spirits of wind and water have been consulted—and, In the case of wealthy persons, it re­quires a deal of time and money to find out what the spirits wish. Much of the native religion Is associated with the dead. The Chinese are fear­ful lest their dear departed Bhould re­turn to trouble them. Therefore, the massive coffins, the offering of food at the grave, and the burning of paper Images of money, houses, clothes, serv­ants, and even. In one case I wit­nessed, paper jinrickishas.

The nearest approach to street Idols seen in China Is the oven wherein la burned every scrap of paper that floats about the streets, lest It contain a sacred character, and also paper prayers. The Chinese believe in the fire route to the spirit world. Down In Canton every houseboat has Its lit­tle sanctuary In front, before which a light Is kept burning. In that part of the country It is also the custom to burn Incense dally out&ldo the door­way.

The Chinese and the Grandfathers.

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A Poor Man’s Funeral In China— The Mourner la In White.

which Is esteemed good re-

luperetltlous Chinese, tnaman seems to care more [tie gods than for the big ^Slonally one Is met who re-

favor of heaven or wor- ,nBliportant figures in the na-

„ ton; but 99 Chinese out of lire chiefly solicitous con-

spirits of the air. which Is more a code

religion, la the na- aad Buddhism is suppos-

donlnant faith, but Taoism, f jp>oin for an Innumerable

[ of spirits, holds the greatest yt0 ff one of these three blend-

may be said to dominate, ordinary Chinese Is not a Confu-

, or m puddhlst, or a Taoist; he i a Buddhist and Taoist

h« airships in exactly the

Of all thq religious tenets of the Chi­nese, that of ancestor worship Is the strongest, although It can hardly be disassociated from spirit worship. It Is probably less a matter of love for ancestors than of fear of their spirits which lies at the bottom of the Chi­nese regard for the departed. The great occasion for doing reverence to ancestors Is the New Year; elaborate offerings are made before the ances­tral tablets, and afterwards there Is feasting and music.

So inwrought Is ancestral worship with the social, civil and political life of the Chinese that It is very difficult for a Christian convert to separate himself from it all, especially on the occasion of funerals and the New Year. Certain veteran missionaries aoBume the position that the venera­tion of ancestors should not be regard­ed as Idolatry; they prefer to look

way—s i, Indeed, he does also | UDOn mere|y aa fiuai respect, just Ala ancestral tablets and It Is j a8 northern states of America keep

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Scdtt lo r an uninitiated person to Rfingulsh between the two temples. r,e of them, as a matter of fact, Is

with business.‘’a day there Is consld-

of the temples, with unmeasured incense

of paper money, and the i W n e n U e candles, which

fM R F priests quickly extln- nsslt down, to be sold over

! lH a ia poems to be no moral I i . 3 E X 7 |t]l Chinese worship,

run In fu ll blast in A proverb show-

tanapt in which priests are "Every shaveling Is a ras-

rascal Is a shaveling.” [are a despised lot.

Is Spirits., the fortune tel-

of charms, does a John has a ll the

nllef In “good ■tltlous to the bs M. Alexan- lllstlo singer,

weeks ago, China He

bat none of the the party would

They thought they some of the sp irits

U eianderV life . As It

Memorial day. Were all missionaries to take this ground serious obstacles would be removed from the,paths of many natives who want to enter the church. _____

Among the Chinese It is commonly reported that Europeans have no re­spect for their ancestors. An interest­ing concession to this feeling is to be noted In the practice of many mission­aries, who prominently display family and ancestral portraits where native guests will see them.

A Motley Crew of D irty Priests.One needs a strong stomach to

travel In the east, but the famous Llam a temple In Peking Is enough to turn the strongest Th is is supposed to be Buddhism at its best Buddhism straight from Llhassa, the home of the grand Llam a. In Its prime the build­ing was no doubt splendid, and It has many Interesting carvings and bronses; but aa a whole It Is In a state of miserable decay. Its d irt and grlmlness and squalor, however, are nothing as compared with the filth and odlouaness of the priests. They are the most repulsive lot of mortals It has ever been my bad fortune to

Tbelr unwashed, unkempt ax­is leas hideous than

that here la depravity remarkableeven for Chins.

There are some >00 of these yellow- robed priests, men and boys. They are famous for the deep tones la which thqy chant their ritual dally, re­cording, it is said, a lower register than the human voice has been known to attain elsewhere. Nothing manly Is to be associated with these deep voices, however. They are a lot of degenerate mendicants, whom no Chi­nese is so low as to respect There are few visitors to the temple except tourists. At every doorway—and one mast pass through at least a dozen in visiting the teiqple—one or two priests stand with outstretched palm, de­manding a fee. Others try to sell bits of bronze or chinaware. This is Bud­dhism at its highest and worst.

One of China’s Great Sights. «The old Confuclan temple at Pe­

king, although very shabby, and manned at every gate by begging at­tendants, commands respect for Its fine old trees, its ancient royal tablets on the backs of great stone turtles, its meteorite drums, of immemorial an­tiquity, and its tablet to the great teacher and his 12 disciples. It was at the Confuclan temple that I first heard the sweetest sound In the east, the pigtons with soft whistles fastened to their backs, making, as they cir­cled and flew above one, music out­rivaling an Aeolian harp.

The greatest native religious spec­tacle In China, subllmer even than the 8hinto shrines at Ise, In Japan, is the Temple of Heaven, In Peking. This Is now open to visitors, although formerly closed to alien eyes. Hither the emperor, or his representative, joumeyB every year to offer sacrifices to heaven. Smaller temples of heaven exist In every provincial capital.

The Lost Jews In China.One of the many romances of China

has to do with the Jewish colony at Kalfungfu, in Honan, the history of which has baffled all investigators, al­though many curious conjectures aro made. It Is certain that here are to be found a small colony of Jews, who, while retaining certain Jewish char­acteristics, have so largely Intermar­ried with the natives that they are now practically Chinese. It Is certain, from the Inscriptions on the monu­ments still remaining, that they came to China not later than the early part of the twelfth century. They main­tained a synagogue until within less than 50 years. Dr. W. A. P. Martin having visited It while In ruins and having talked with the Jews who tore It down, after It had fallen Into decay. The scriptures and the Jewish ritual were also partly preserved. The man­ner In which this mysterious remnant kept alive their national and religious Identity through at least eight cen­turies Is one of the marvels of Chinese history.

The Inscriptions of the two monu­ments still standing have been trans­lated by Dr. Martin. One monument was erected In 1485, to commemorate a rebuilding of the synagogue, and the other In 1512. Both summarized the history of Israel, from Abraham down to Adam being mentioned. The Hebrew faith, as set forth on the tab­lets, is, however, tinctured by Confu­cianism.

Mohammedanism widely exists In China, Its adherents numbering mil­lions. Mohammedan mosques and pagodas may be seen in various parts of the empire. The Mohammedans, for one thing, are the butchers of the nation,

Of all the faiths of China, except Christianity, one Is bound to admit that they have deteriorated greatly from their original character, and are. In practice, little more than supersti­tions, with scarcely any corrective In­fluence upon character. This natloa Is In need of a new religion.

Will Chins Become Christian?Is that new religion to be Christian­

ity? Have the nearly 4,000 Protestant missionaries In China (the figures, for the Roman Catholic mission are not obtainable) made such an impresaion upon this nation of 400,000,000 that the ultimate conversion of the whole Is to be predicted? Faith, rather than facts, would have to underlie such an assumption. The missionaries have only begun to make an impression upon China. Vast as have been the treasures of human life and gold and energy expended upon the Christiani­zation of this inconoeivably Immense empire, the visible return has been out of all proportion with this expenditure, there being to-day only about a hun­dred thousand enrolled church mem­bers, not all of whom, it Is to be feared, are sincere Christians. Not un­til within recent years has there been anything approximating an organized effortio administer Christian missions nationally, or as a unit; an effort In thlB direction will be one of the nota­ble characteristics of the Shanghai centennial.

A greater degree of relatedness, unity nnd cooperation has been one of the manifest needs of the m issionary propaganda In China Lack of th is has been the cause of great Waste of work and money, and of no little dupli­cation of effort and of mission riva lry . A ll this being true, It yet remains un­deniable—and this Is the most sweep­ing criticism I have to make upon Chinese missions—that the enterprise Is conducted on too small s scale for the results sought i f missions are to be operated at a ll, they should be maintained In a manner commensur­ate with the object There has been a deal 'or burying of gospel leaven la China during a hundred years past, and by qp M M s without resu lt But It strike f ag WteMWttf forcibly that If this g n ngMsa or Mm next la to see Chine reckoning seriouslywith Christianity, the. ?e mast be som

NEWS OF ILLINOISHAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM

ALL OVER THE STATE.

R O B B E R S A R E 8 E N T E N C E D

Bank Thieves Plead Guilty and Re­ceive Indeterminate Terma In the

8tate Penitentiary— Prison­ers Are Reticent.

O u r S p r i n g f i e l d L e t t e rSpecial Correspondent Writes of Things of

Interest at the State CapitaL

Clinton.—Edwqrd Davis and Edwai Miller, the State bank robbers, were taken Into court and arraigned under an Indictment charging them with burglary and larceny. When each stated he wished to plead guilty Judge W. G. Cochran explained it would be his dqty to sentence them under the Indeterminate law. He explained that wouldj be a sentence.of from one to 20 years each. They answered they had nothing to say. The court then sen­tenced them, stating that they would be confined one day each year in soli-, tary confinement.

While aboard an extra freight train bound for Springfield the two bank robbers, who secured $700 from the Clinton bank, were arrested. The men confessed. The arrest of the pair fol­lowed a search of many hours in which officers from towns between Springfield and Clinton participated. One of the robbers was arrested short­ly before the train reached Kenney. The second was taken near Spaulding.

The latter was armed with a Colts revolver and carried the stolen money. He offered no resistance and when handcuffed told the officers that he would serve his time and have plenty of money to keep him the remainder of his life.

“I have been In this business for three years, but have finally been ar­rested. I suppose you will return me to Clinton, and I will plead guilty. We were unable to make our escape.”

RETURNS A FTER 23 YEARS.

Geneva Man, Legally Dead, to Claim $25,000 Property.

Geneva.—After an absence of 23 years, during which he was legally de­clared dead by the courts of Kane county and his property, valued at $25,000, distributed to his heirs, John Llpp suddenly returned to his old home to find his wife long since dead and his family scattered. Llpp flew Into a rage at the loss of his property and vowed vengeance upon all his re­maining family and former friends. He refused to be placated and de­parted almost Immedately for Chica­go, stating that he would return to de- mand justice and deal out punish­ment.

The disappearance can only be explained upon the supposition that Llpp had been suffering from mental abberatlon, though he apppears to be In his right mind at the present time.

Many Pupils Expelled.Litchfield.—There has been consid­

erable trouble in the Litchfield high school. The students, owing to lack of discipline or dislike of their teachers, played numerous pranks, resulting in the suspension several days ago of six boys and one girl. Later the board held another meeting and suspended four more pupils. Three of the first expelled were reinstated.

Emulates E. P. Weston.Springfield.—William Buckingham,

sporting man and general man about town, walked 25 miles In eight hours and now holds the record for that dis­tance over the West Grand avenue course. Buckingham Is 68 years old. He covered the distance without the aid of a pacemaker or the use of nar­cotics. In racehorse parlance, he was an even money favorite.

To Investigate Graft Charge,Barry.—Charges of graft against city

officials have stirred the residents and it is probable that an Investigation will be made. William McGraw, gam­bler, states that he operated here with protection from the council and says that one member of the body reg­ularly received one-third of his win­nings.

Grosscup Hearing in January.Mattoon.—Circuit Judge James W.

Craig announced that the preliminary Issues in the cases of Federal Judge Peter 8. Grosscup of Chicago and other directors and officials of the Central Illinois Traction company would not be heard before January. The hearing will be presided over by Judge Thompson of Danville.

Plant 8uffers from Fire.Carllnville.—The plant of the Carlln-

ville Democrat, a weekly publication, In this city, was almost completely destroyed by fire the other morning. The estimated damage is $4,000.

Falla from Car; Killed.Seneca.—C. L. Day, conductor on

the Illinois Central, was killed In Seneca by falling from-the top of a car.

Body Found In Brush.Lebanon.—Anton Greuhahn of St.

Louis Identified the body of the wo­man found four miles west of here aa that of hts mother, Mrs. Llzzte Greu­hahn, who disappeared from the home of her daughter June 16.

Springfield. — Agreement on the Oglesby direct-primary plurality bill was reached by the conference com­mittee and In Its amended form It was submitted to both branches of the general assembly at the after­noon sessions. It will take a two- thirds vote for adopjtion of the report and whether this number may be mustered In both branches remains to be seen. Such a vote Is necessary to make the proposed laws operative in time for the state primaries In April next. The measure as It now stands pro­vides for nomination by direct plural­ity vote of all elective officers except trustees of the University of Illinois. Delegate conventions are retained for the purpose of promulgating party platforms and the delegates to the state convention are to select the men at large who will sit in national con­ventions. Each congressional conven­tion is to name the district represen­tative in the national convention. The ground work for a direct system of choosing delegates Is retained by provision stipulating that precinct committeemen who are selected by direct vote shall constitute the personnel of the coun­ty convention. This assemblage, in turn, names the delegates to the con­gressional and senatorial conventions. Some hot words were passed at the session of the conference committee before the legislature was called to order. Douglas Pattison, Democratic

■ leader of the house, started trouble when he suggested that as the house was yielding much to the senate the lower branch should be given some­thing in return. This was a red rag to the supporters of Congressman Cannon, whose friends succeeded in eliminating from the bill provision for the selection by direct voting of dele­gates to national conventions and presidential electors. "I’d like to know what is going on here,” said Senator Juul, with flushed face. “It seems to me some people are attempt' lng to throw all responsibility on the senate.” Pattison came with this quick reply: “If the gentleman from Cook refers to me, I wish to say I am not attempting to place any responsibility on the senate other than that of kill­ing this bill by making changes In It This retort does not brighten the way for the bill in the house, a9 It would be impossible to pass the measure with an emergency clause without Democratic votes. On the proposition of eliminating national convention delegates and presidential electors Messrs. Pattison and Daugherty, Democratic members of the conference, voted-in the nega­tive. The vote was as follows: For conference report. Senators Berry, Ac­ton. Dunlap, Hamilton, Gardiner, Re­publicans; Burton. Democrat; Repre­sentatives Chiperfleld, Lindly, Shana­han, Behrens and Oglesby, Republic­ans. Against report, Senator Juul, Republican; Representatives Pattison and Daugherty.

Asserts Rights Were Not 8 tate’s.Clarence E. Snlvely of Canton, pres­

ident of the Illinois and Michigan , canal commission, made public tlia first statement from the lloard in an­swer to the charges of selling the riparian rights for a "mess of pot­tage.” Mr. Snlvely charges that the majority of the newspapers of the state which are spreading Indignation are prejudiced. He said: “On Sep­tember 2, 1904, the state of Illinois possessed no legal right to acquire or construct for itself at any point upon the Desplalpes river a dam for the de­velopment and sale of water power to be derived therefrom. Neither the sanitary district of Chicago nor the canal commissioners, in the absence of affirmative legislative action, pos­sessed any authority to construct at Dresden Heights or at any other point on the Desplaines river a dam for the development and sale of power to be derived therefrom. At the (joint near Dresden Heights where the dam Is now being constructed the state does not possess any riparian rights on the Desplaines river.”

Give “Uncle Joe” Aid.“Uncle Joe” Cannon received unex­

pected aid in his struggles to preserve the old convention system when 50- odd Republican country editors met in the tea-rooms of the Leland and adopt­ed resolutions pledging to support against adverse criticism any legisla­tor who votes against any bill that eliminates nominating conventions. The meeting was largely dominated by editors who are attached to federal jobs. It was called by George C. Rankin, who came all the way from his home In Washington to help your "Uncle Joseph” to escape risking his presidential ambitions to a direct vote under a primary law. Rankin is an ardent Cannon man. Before he was appointed as bank receiver he edited the Atlas of Monmouth. Among the half-hundred editors who rallied to Rankin’s call were several who are postmasters. The most active partici­pants in the discussion were W. R. Jewell, postmaster at Danville and one of “Uncle Joe’s” closest friends, and Postmaster Calhoun of Decatur.

Talk of Going to CourtDispatches from Chicago contained

the information that a movement was on foot to bring mandamus proceed­ings against Speaker Shurtleff to com­pel him to sign the Oglesby bill as it was passed In the house by a majority vote. The speaker has held a two- thirds vote was required to adopt the report of the conference committee. This, the report of the joint confer­ence committee. on the Oglesby bill failed to receive, the vote in the house standing 83 for to 34 against the adop­tion of the report, or 15 less than two- thirds.

Officers Are Nominated.The annual meeting of the Illinois

Manufacturers’ association will be held In Chicago in the assembly room of the Fine Arts building. The fol­lowing ticket has been nominated: President, Fred W. Upham; first vice president, Phillip Mitchell, Rock Is land; second vice president, W. H. Burns; treasurer, John T. Stockton; director for one year, E. R. Bennett; two years, C. H. Smith, Aurora; John C. Spry, C. F. K. Wlehe, H. C. Gard­ner, George W. Nledringhaus, Granite City, and Charles Plex. Members will discuss "The Proper Protection of the Life and Health of the Employes of the Manufacturing Establishments."

Employment Project Grows.Growth of work of the free employ­

ment offices In the state Is shown In the recent reports made to Qov. De- neen. The accomplishment of the offices for the last three years are covered In the reporL The reports show, in a measure, the benefit to be derived from maintenance of these bu­reaus. There are four such offices In the state, three In Chicago and one In Peoria. Within a short time there will be a fifth, one at East SL Louis having been made possible by a re­cent provision of the general assem­bly.

Give Public Thanksgiving.Public thanksgiving for the great

progress of the temperance movement in Illinois was a striking feature of all sermons delivered by ministers throughout the state at union services. There was an unusually good attend­ance at the placeB of worship where services were held. The work of the Illinois Anti-Saloon league came In for praise at the hands of many pas­tors.

•use a Second Tima.Moline.—After he had aeoepted $110

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Deneen to Push Campaign.Gov. Deneen’s campaign plans oc­

cupy 'the attention of slate political leaders. The executive has opened h is canvass in the southern tier of oountlee. Th is news came us a shook to Borne of the leaders, who believed the governor was being embarrassed by legislative delay on the primary question. The executive opened his oampalgn for renomination regardless of the outlook for a primary law . H is

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To Conduct Milk TesL The Illinois State Dairymen’s associ­

ation at Marengo, January 14, 15 and 16, will have several distinctive fea­tures. One of these will be a milk contest to be conducted by C. B. Lane, assistant chief of the dairy division, department of agriculture, Washing­ton, D. C. The scoring In this test will be conducted by Mr. Lane Tues­day morning, the opening day of the convention, and In an address at the afternoon session Mr. Lane will show to the audience samples of good, bad and indifferent milk and give an ad­dress on "Lessons from the Milk Con- tesL”

Plans to Enlarge Hospital.Plans for enlarging the Illinois hos­

pital were formulated when the Na­tional Medical and Surgical Aid as­sociation was formed with headquar­ters at Monmouth. The business of­fice of the corporation will be In this city. The association Is composed of editors, business men, doctors and bankers from all over the state. Tho association will Incorporate under the laws of another state, and the Illinois hospital Is to be the main In­stitution of the concern. E. A. Perry of thlB city has been chosen attorney.

Test Local Option Law.Saloonkeeprs have begun proceed­

ings at Winchester to prevent the en­forcement of the local option law. At the election held November 5, North Winchester precinct voted to become antisaloon territory by five majority. The aaloonmen are oonteeting the election on the validity of the petition, asking that the question be submitted to a vote. They allege that it did not oontaln the necessary legal signatures.

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Place Tax Assessment.With an Increase of $$,354,61$ in the

total assessment of property in San­gamon county, the tax rate for the year will be $7.63 on the hundred dol­la r valuation, the same aa last year vhe Increase In valuation In the city of Springfield Is $686,300. The total shows tho valuation of city prauorty is $8,663,875, as compared w it’572 for the year 1906. T l atlon of all property oouoty le $21,997,320, vi»-

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Kitchen ranges a t Burns Bros.’Cash paid for furs. F. F Heald. 12 Try Landwehr's home-made ta l­

lies 8-10<let your stove repairs and linings at

Burns Bros.’Remember Ed. Lighty's sale on

Wednesday, Dec 11 Miss May me Duffy went to Chicago

on Saturday to visit friends See me when in need of coal, a t the

I. O. elevator.—James H. Kerrins.William Clark, of Sauninin, was catl­

ing upon Chatsworth friends on Tues- ! day.

Call on the new Cash Grocery, one door east of Citizens Bank.—J. W. Reilly

Father Lentz, of Piper City, was | mingling with Chatsworth people on t Tuesday.

%ov BennoJt and Ernest Schrock at- show at Fairbnrytended t he chicken

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W hen your head aches, there is a storm in the nervous sys­tem, centering in the brain.

This irritation produces pain in the head, and the turbulen t nerve current sent to the stom ­ach causes nausea, vomiting.

This is sick headache, and is dangerous, as frequent andErolonged attacks weaken the

rain, resulting in loss of memory, inflammation, epi­lepsy, fits, 'dizziness, etc.

A llay this stormy,, irritated, aching condition by taking Dr. M iles’ A nti-Pain Pills.

T hey stop the pain by sooth­ing, strengthening and reliev­ing the tension upon the nerve* —not by paralyzing them , as do most headache remedies.

Dr. M iles’ A nti-Pain P ills do not contain opium, morphine, chloral,cocaine or sim ilar drugs.

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j Mr. Waller A Chester, of Chicago, .spent Sunday a guest at the George .1.

Walter home.Emmett O'Connor was a passenger

to Chicago on Wednesday and took in !; he Stock Show.

1 have the largest assortment and j the latest stvies of bracelets in town.

W. A Coughlin. 10-1fMisses Anna and Margaret Schafer

! spent a few days this week the guests I of friends at Chenoa.

Tile Needle Club w ill meet at the home of Mrs. C G Dorsey te xt Tues­day afternoon. Dec. in.

Mi*. James Ray. of Sterling, spent a few days this week at the home of George Clark and family.

Born, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles llarmes, of Char­lotte township, a 12 pound son.

II. W. Brown, of Sully, Iowa, was here the hitler part of last week, the

'guest of Mr and Mrs. James liarner.Miss Mollie Harold, of Fairbnry, j spent Sunday I he guest of her sister,

j Mrs. Quit. Mori is, east of Chatsworth.Foil Salk A 20 horse engine, Mas- s i Ion 40-tio separator, and No. It Mar-

j seilles shcller.— Crawford Bros., Mel- jvin, III. 10-12\ M isses Maggie and Jessie Rosendahl,| of Ilanforth. were guests a t the Ubbe | Rosendald home, south of town, over Sunday.

Thos. McDermott, of Piper City, was in town on Tuesday between trains enroute to Chicago to attend the Fat Stock Show.

Deputy Sheriff William Patterson, of Pontiac, was in Chatsworth on Sat­urday serving papers in connection with his official position.

Terry Burns and Henry Rosenbaum went to Strawn on Tuesday to do work for the firm of Burns Bros., of this city, who have a contract ttiere.

It is intended for those who appreci­ate quality, for those gentlemen who enjoy a thoroughly matured, rich Old Kentucky liquor — I. W. H arper whiskey. Sold by Frank Kaiser.

Mrs. Mary Clark, of Wichita, Kan.,| was a guest a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Pratt, at the southwest corner of town the forepart of tlie week.

Mrs. W. T. Lytle aud son, Glenn, of Mt. Ay re, Ohio, and Mrs. John Huette, of Fairbury, spent Wednesday guests at the Hartley homes, east of Chats- worih.

Mrs. A. Sloper, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Jos. Zcigler, of Remington, Ind., were guests a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Strine on Friday last, enroute to Colfax.

Mr. and Mrs. James Bergan went to Chicago on Tuesday morning to con­sult physicians regarding the health of the latter. Mrs. Bergan has been in poor health for some time, and it Is hoped that she may receive permanent benefit.

Charles Beckman returned to Cham­paign on Monday morning to resume his studies a t the State U n iversity , aft^r spending the Thanksg iving va­cation at the home of h is parents, M r. and Mrs. C . R . Beckmon.

Roy E . Bennett, of Charlotte town­ship, carried off the following prizes a t the Livingston County Poultry and Pet Stock Show which was held at Fairbury th is week: F ir s t and second oncockrel, first and th ird on pullet in

K itchen utensils a t Burns B ros.’Try Landwehr’s home-made taf­

fies. 8 10Stock and poultry feed a t Burns

Bros.’When in need of groceries call on

J. W. Reilly.Hear Col. Bailey a t Lighty's sale,

December 11.Wedding Ring goods for sale at

Dorsey's grocery.Itevonoc washing machines, best of

all.—Burns Bros.Highest prices paid for produce at

Dorsey’s grocery.James Brvdon was a Kankakee

visitor on Monday.W. II. Grossenbach was a passenger

to Peoria on Saturday.^Highest market price'paid for but­

ter and eggs.—J. W. Reilly.Buy White Pearl Flour a t Dorsey’s

grocery. Every sack guaranteed.Clias. Merkle. of Peoria, was greet­

ing Chatsworth friends on Tuesday.Messrs. James and John A. Kerrins

were passengers to Chicago on Wed­nesday.

Mrs. James Baldwin and son. Har­old, spent Tuesday with Fairbury friends.

Mrs Josie Van Duscr spent Tues­day tile guest of Fairbury relatives and friends

James A Smith was on the sick list part of the week, fighting an attack of t he grip.

Mr. and.Mrs John Kane and little son. took tiie train here on Saturday for Fairbury.

Nothing makes a nicer! Christmas gift than a neck chain and locket.W. A. Coughlin. 10-1 f

Conrad Hoppe was the guest of ins brother-in-law'. E. R. Pape, at Pon- tiac, on Monday.

Rev. and Mts II. C. Burch, of Cu - lom. were guests at the M E. parson­age on Wednesday.

Mrs. Terry Bunisspcnt Tuesday the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Hollywood, at Melvin.

I have a line of hand-painted china, which I am closing out regardless of cost W. A. Coughlin. 10-tf

MissZoe M. Troll arrived home on Tuesday evening after visiting friends in Chicago for several days.

Janies Donovan went to Chicago on Saturday to visit relativesand friends, and be present at tlie Stock Stiow.

Foit Sale White Wyandotte cockrels and pullets, breeding right and prices light Roy E. Bennett, tf

Miss Lulu Kane was the guest of Chicago friends during the past week, having departed for tlie city on Sat­urday.

Mrs M. Garrity arrived home on Wednesday evening titter spending a couple of weeks visiting tier children in Chicago.

Mesdames Mary Sorg. Henry Wrede and M. Gronewald went to Forrest this morning to help Mrs. Faber cele­brate her 82 birthday.

John W. Meister is again among Chatsworth relatives and friends after spending several months in Nebraska looking after business interests.

Dr. O. V. Ellingwood was in Chica­go the forepart of the week attending to professional business, and incident- ly attended the automobile show.

Misses Irene Ryan and Elnore Har- beke returned home on Monday after spending several days, including Thanksgiving at Notre Dame, Ind.

E I I . Rumbold, of Chicago, arrived in Chatsworth on Saturday, and was a guest at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rumbold, south of town.

Miss Emma Ilansen, who teaches school near here, spent the Thanks­giving vacation with her mother a t Pontiac, resuming her school duties on Monday morning.

J. H. Stoutemyer occupied the pul­pit at the Baptist church on Sunday last, both morning and evening, and his hearers had the pleasure of listen­ing to very able discourses. ^

The second snow of the season cov­ered the ground On Saturday morning. As the first snow fell on November 10, some of the old prognosticators insist tha t there will be ten snows during the winter.

M r. and M rs. A . Van A lstyne and fam ily moved the la tte r part of last week into the new residence, east of the Thom as Corbett home, which lias recently been erected by Mrs. Van A lstyne’8 brother, A qu illa Entw istle .

The P l a i n d r a l k r has received word to change the address of Mrs. Lo llle B . Scott, from W infield, K a n ., to Law ton , O kla ., as M r. and Mrs. Scott moved th is week to the la tte r place, near where Mrs. Scott’s par­ents, M r. and Mrs. 8. B . F u rr , have

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“I take pleasui . these few lines, thinldi | other women suffering

“ I had tny complaint nightawcMts nil winter I was run-down so fi s i t down to do my co weak.

a . “I tried many differe doctors also. Nothing any good. The doctor ate on me.

“ At last I wrote to told him just exactly h told me what ailed me take l’erunu.

“ I did as he told me and now I am all cure

“No one cun teil ho1 rlo him, us I had given *ever getting well agaii

“ I am a widow and ( small children who de port, I work all day tired.

“I took five bottles c oinan wishin case may w

dly toll fill ubc ink Dr. Ilartu i for me.”

% H O M E O F G O O D C L O T H E S .

H A T S , C A P S

G L O V E S

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W IL L IA M T R A U BCHATSWORTH, ILL,

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F o r X m a s G i f t sN o t h i n g m a k e s s u c h a p l e a s i n g , l a s t i n g g i f t

f o r C h r i s t m a s a s J e w e l r y , a W a t c h , a C lo c k o r a C a m e r a o r P h o t o g r a p h i c O u t f i t .

O u r s t o c k i s c o m p l e t e , o u r p r i c e s m o s t r e a s ­o n a b l e a n d h e n c e o u r s t o r e i s m o s t a t t r a c t i v e t o C h r i s t m a s g i f t b u y e r s .

W e a r e s h o w i n g e v e r y t h i n g i n J e w e l r y , e v e r y t h i n g i n W a t c h e s , e v e r y t h i n g i n C l o c k s , e v e r y t h i n g i n K o d a k s , e v e r y t h i n g i n P h o t o ­g r a p h i c S u p p l i e s .

DOUDBROS.

ROACH & O'NEIL

Church Announcements.METHODIST.

Sunday school, 10:00 a. m.; preach­ing, 11:00 a. m., theme, “ Consecra­tion” Junior League, 2:00 p. in.; Ep- worth League, 6:00 p. m.: preaching, 7:00 p. m., subject, “ Immediately Seeking the Lord;'* prayer meeting, Wednesday 7:00 p. m.

O. E. Clapp. Pastor.BAPTIST.

The pulpit of the Baptist church will lie lilted on Sunday next, both morning

D . Keiff, Tim e of ser-

the W hite W yandotte class. Therewere a uumber of entries In the class^qived for a couple of years.

M r. a |4 S k . W allace Koonse and children , t^ jh trlv llle , spent a few days th la n e e ^ it tho homeof M r. and M rs.Maurice RWHi and fa m ily ./T h e y ex

t th e ir home In P iper

O. E . Thayer, of Pontiac, discussed the local option law a t the M. E . church on Sunday afternoon la st, a t the special temperance meeting. M r. Thayer is a ta lk c ( o L lfc l old school,

and evening, by W.Ravens wood, Chicago, vices as folfow i;

Morning services begin promptly at 10 o'clock, evening preaching services at 7:00, Sunday school at 11 a. m. and dismisses at 12, 8enior B . Y . P . U . at 6:00 p. m. iu basement, Jun io r B . Y . P . U . at 6:00 p. m. in lecture room, mid­week prayer meeting at 7:00 p m.. Boys’ Club on Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock.

■VANOKLICAL.Q uarterly meeting to begin on F r i­

day evening and last over Sunday. Rev. F . F . Jordan, P . E . w ill conduct the services.

Sunday school, 9:80a. m .; Preaching, 10 :80a.m .; Y . P . , A . 7:00 p. m .; English preaching, 7:46; Prayer

Wednesday evening,

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Edward Robbins,Harness and Horse Furnishings.

T H E SEA SO N FO R *

Robes aod BlanketsIS H E R E .

I have Chase Double Plush Robes from 12.76 to $10.00 each.

Montana Buffalo Robes from $6.00 to $8 50 each.

Galloway Robes from $13.50 to $17.00 each.

6A Horse B lankets from $1.60 to $5 00 each.

8table B lankets, wool lined, )to$ l.76eaoh .

large stock and my tre rig h t. C all have.

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A Sensitive Owen Mudge was

man. More than once he had forsaken pro gone home for symp: One morning Owen st Glenn Butler, who hs stump-pulling machlr paring to clear a fiel

Toward noon Owen udge sighed and wn

lly for the explanatl“I Just couldn't stai

rubbing hlB jaw. ■, stump-puller twist t! reminded me so of i to the dentist to gel traded. The first tb limp as a rag, and over and had to quit panlon.

By following tno i are plainly printed oi Defiance 8tarch. M' Cuffs can be made ji sired, with either g finish. Try it, 16 oz all good grocers.

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tng plant Is worth dSmokers appreciate

Lewis' Single Binder or Lewis' Factory, P«

Furniture

The Bank of Engh persons.

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A NY STYLE ijPlain, Rock Faced, B rokei/L, Tool Panel, e tc., etc.

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“ I take pleasure in writing you these lew lines, thinking there may be other women suffering the same as I did.

“ I had my complaints for over a year, night sweats n'A winter and noappetlte. I was run-down so far that 1 had to sit down to do my cooking, I was so weak.

“I tried many different medicines and doctors also. Nothing seemed to do me any good. The doctors wanted to oper­ate on me.

“ At last I wrote to Dr. Hartman. I told him just exactly how I was, and he told me what ailed me und how I should take Peruna.

“I did as he told me for four months, and now I am all cured.

“No one can tell how thankful I am had given up all hopes of

■ well again.am a widow and the mother of six

small children who depend on my sup­port. I work all day and seldom get tired.

“I took five bottles of Peruna in all. “ Any Woman wishing to know more

tbe®' my case may write to me and I will jfladlv tell fill about it,

“ l thank Dr. Hartman for what he hM fenc for aie.”

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A Sensitive Soul.Owen Mudge was a very sensitive

man. More than once at a harsh word he had forsaken profitable work and gone home for sympathy to his wife. One morning Owen started out to help Glenn Butler, who had bought a new stump-pulling machine and was pre­paring to clear a field.

Toward noon Owen came back. Mrs. udge sighed and waited sympathetic-

lly for the explanation.“I just couldn’t stand it,” said Owen,

rubbing his jaw. • “When I see that ) stump-puller twist them roots out, it

reminded me so of the times I Went to the dentist to get back teeth ex­tracted. The first thing I knew I was limp ns a rag, and I just ached all over and had to quit.”—Youth’s Com­panion.

By following tdo directions, which are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de- slred, with either gloss or domestic finish. T ry it. 16 oz. for 10c, sold by a ll good grocers.

^Japanese Man Outnumber. Women.Japan in one of the few countries

fheep the men outnumber the women. The ratio there is 980 to 1,000.

A P P L A U S E F O R V E R D IC T

Woman la Released from Custody and Receives Frlendt in Cell—

Going to Goldfield,Nev.

Washington.—The Jury in 'the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of ex-Senator Arthur Brown, or Utah, at a local hotel on December 8 last, Tuesday morning brought in a verdict of not guilty. The Jury reached the courtroom at 10:08.

When the court asked the jurors if they had reached a verdict the fore­man answered: “We have.”

“What is your verdict, gentlemen?”“Not guilty."A demonstration of applause fol­

lowed the announcement of the ver- diet.

The prisoner had arrived at her cell In the city hall—a dark, ill-ventilated room directly under the criminal court—an hour before court opened, and remained there with her eldest son, Arthur, until the jury filed in. She was dressed In black and with suppressed excitement watched the Jury. There were tears in her eyes, but she bore up bravely and there were no indications of a collapse, as might have been expected at the crisis of such an ordeal.

Immediately after the jury deliv­ered its verdict the court thanked the Jury for the manner in which it had performed its duty and the jury in turn, through its foreman, expressed to the court and counsel its thanks for the consideration and courtesy shown it. The jury was then dis­charged and Mrs. Bradley was re­leased from custody.

She was immediately surrounded by men and women from among the spectators, who pressed upon her con­gratulations. She returned to the cell from which she had come to hear the verdict and there she received a few visitors. She thanked them for their congratulations and expressed her re­lief at the conclusion of her trial.

Mrs. Bradley will leave here short­ly for Goldfield, Nev., there to join her sister.

PRODUCTIVE POWER OF WESTERN 6ARABA SOIL

Winnipeg Correspondence.There has never been any who have

doubted the productiveness of the soil of Western Canada, but there are sometimes found those who question the fact of its superiority. During the past season it has been shown that in grain raising qualities it possessed the very best. The late spring pre­vented grain being sown in many cases before the middle of May. Yet, a large percentage of that sown at that time produced excellent yields. Had it not been for the frost early in August, which visited most of the north half of the continent, there would have been a magnificent yield in every dis­trict In Western Canada. Throughout the Southern Alberta district where about 100,000 acres was sown to win­ter wheat the yield will be enormously large. There are vast tracts of valu­able grain growing land in Western Canada that are available for home­steads, the Canadian Government giv­ing 160 acres free, and entry may be made by proxy, by any near relative, thus saving consTderable cost to the American who may have entry made in this way. Any Canadian Govern­ment Agent will give you the partic­ulars.

Your correspondent has Just re­ceived the following letter from Cralk, Saskatchewan, which bears out the statement made in the first part of this letter.

“Cralk, Sask., Aug. 1907.“May 24th we planted a Dahlia root,

which we brought with us from Min­neapolis. Aug. 12th, 80 days later, it was In bloom. The plant is now 4>£ feet high and covered with blossoms. We never got half as many flowers on it in Minneapolis, even during Septem­ber and October, although we had more time to attend to it there.”

I mention this only as an example of the great productive power of the soil here in Saskatchewan, Canada.

C0NTA6I0N kQUESTION OF PREVENTION

PA TIEN T SHOOTS HER DOCTOR. (

O K tt •llROMOThat Is UAXATtVH PRO Sit the *1 irnature of 15. W. C1KOV orcr to Cure a Cold in One Dot. 26c.

Nnagara Falls as a power generat­ing plant is worth $46,000,000 a year.

Smokers appreciate the quality value ol Lewis’ Single Binder cigar. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.

The Bank of England employs 1,000 persons.

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lnt shapeCircles, Squares, i i .

ANY STYLE \ck Faced, Brokeifw,1, etc., etc.

ICY PRICESn cheaper than other It is a proven fact tty attractive and have/ ng qualities.

IO QUININE”> Q U I N I N N . I ,o o * fo r I V K . U » e d t b e W o r ld

Detroit Woman Then Puts Bullet in Her Own Brain.

Detroit. Mich—Dr. J. A. Attrldge. aged 38, and his patient, Mrs. John B. Griffith, aged 35, were taken to hos­pitals Tuesday night from Mrs. Grif­fith's room in the Roycourt apart­ments, 318 Randolph street, both shot through the head and In a critical con­dition.

Mrs. Griffith had been In Harper hospital several weeks receiving treat­ment and had just been removed to her rooms under the direction of Dr. Attrldge wTfen the shooting occurred. Mrs. Griffith’s sister. Miss Stella Wade, of Holly, Mich., had complied with her sister's request to leave the room when she saw Dr. Attrldge rush­ing from the bedroom after her and saw him fall to the floor in the dining­room as the first shot rang out. As Miss ,Wade ran toward the street to call for help she heard the second shot. When neighbors entered they found Mrs. Griffith lying In bed with a revolver uear her and her brain pierced by a bullet. Dr. Attridge lay wounded In the dining-room.

Best He Could Do.It was his first circuit, and, more­

over, he had to defend his first client, who was a better known than re­spected burglar. In an interval he approached a veteran member of the bar and sought for advice.

"And how long do you think I ought to make my speech to the jury, sir?" he finished up.

“I should say about an hour,” said the old hand.

“An hour! Why, I thought ten minutes would be ample! Why so

i long?”“Well,” said his adviser, "you see,

they can’t sentence him till you're finished, and the longer you talk the longer he'll be out of jail!”—Stray Stories.

Going to Be Fined.When George Ade was a newspaper

reporter he was gent to “write up” an Irish laborer who had fallen from *. building. When Mr. Ade arrived on the scene, several officers and others were helping the injured man into the ambulance. Mr. Ade pulled out hie pad and pencil. "What's his name?” he asked one of the policemen.

The injured man, who had heard Ade and who mistook him for the timekeeper employed by the con­tractor, rolled his eyes In a disgusted way.

“What d’ye think o' that?” he mut­tered. “I’m goin’ to be docked for the few minutes I lose goin’ to the hospital 1 ”—Success.

MR. TA FT IN ST. PETERSBU RG .

Visits the Duma and Attends Banquet Given by Americans.

St. Petersburg.-—The American sec­retary of war, William H. Taft, was accorded a hearty welcome here Tues­day. He arrived In St. Petersburg In the morning from Moscow and after a round of official visits aud a brief rest, visited the Duma, where he spent half an hour listening to the debate on the ministerial declaration.

In the eVening Secretary Taft at­tended a banquet given in his honor by prominent Americans, and made a speech in which he emphatically de­nied that his round-the-world trip had aught to do with a special policy of the United States, whose sole policy, he said, was one of peace for all na­tions.

K A D A G H EIvely co red by

lfc*s« Little Pill*.They alao relieve Dl*-

trees from Dyspepsia, In­digestion and Too Hearty Eating. ▲ perfect rem­edy for Dlulness, Nau­sea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste In the Month, Coat­ed Tongue, Pain In tha Bids, TORPID LIVKB.

Bowels. Purely Vegetable.

Safe Blowers Use Automobile.New York.—Burglars, who reached

the place In an automobile early Tues­day, blew the safe In the post office at Garden City, L. I„ and secured $1,000 in cash and stamps. A village watch­man who Interrupted >thelr work was robbed hlmSelf.

Gsn. Allen Thomas Dead.Waveland, Miss. — Gen. Allen

Thomas, United States- minister to Venezuela during tbe second adntfnls-

OOSE. SMALL PRICE. tration of President Cleveland, died at 1 his home here Tuesday, aged 77 years.

Genuine Mutt Bear Fae-Simile Signature

SUBSTITUTES.

CASH

Captain la Held for Cruelty. Philadelphia.—Capt. Frank 8. Le-

land, of the American bnrkentlne An­tioch, now in this port, was held in $1,000 ball Tuesday by a United States commissioner on a charge of cruelty preferred by a former member of the crew. William T. Corcoran, a seaman, alleged that he waa chained between decks for St d a f l while the vessel was in the tropical tone and waa fed ou a diet ot hrt,td and water.

Sinks, drains, eating and cooking utensils, sick room linen and clothing frequently carry the dreaded disease- germ unnoticed by the household.

Thorough and hygienic cleansing is tbe best safeguard against infection, and such a safeguard la found in tbe universal household necessity—Borax.

This simple preventive carries in it­self, disinfecting qualities which en­ter the fabric or act upon the article to be cleansed in a hygienic manner, eliminating every unwholesome prop­erty, rendering it contagion-proof, while at the same time Borax i» of itself as harmless as salt.

Unlike most disinfectants which de­pend upon their strength ot odor or harmful-to-the-system qualities, to ar­rest or prevent contagion. Borax Is Nature’s remedy, being easy to ob­tain and easy to apply, a simple so­lution in hot water being all the appli­cation necessary and requiring no prescription, it can be obtained from any grocer or druggist in convenient, economical household packages.

In addition to Us disinfecting quali­ties, Borax is especially a household necessity, and can be used for soften­ing water, cleansing and whitening clothes, clearing the skin, whitening hands, makes an excellent dandruff remover and can be used on the finest laces or most delicate fabrics without injury, while as an adjunct to the bath It removes all odor of perspira­tion and leaves the skin soft and vel­vety.

AS SHE HAD BEEN ORDERED.

Domestic Cleared Everything Left Over Out of the Ice Box.

There recently entered the service of a Cleveland family a domestic of Scandinavian origin. She had never seen a refrigerator before, and the lady of the house, after initiating her Into Its mysteries, instructed her never to leave anything old or left ovec in the Ice-box, but to keep the refrigerator perfectly clean and fresh by throwing the old things away each morning.

The very next day the mistress, looking out of the window, observed something peculiar in the yard.

“What Is that, Sophie?" she asked.And how did It get there?”"That Is old ice. ma'am,” was the

proud response, “left over from yes­terday. I t'rew It away lake you tol’ me.”—Harper's Weekly.

Caught Whlakars In Safa.la locking bia safe tbe other night

prior to his going home for supper George Edgemont, a paperhanger who lives at Jefferson street and Hermit, age lane, Manayunk, shut the safe door upon his flowing whiskers and was held until released by his daugh­ter, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Edgemont had been out collecting bills during the day. Returning to his office he opened his safe and placed- the money in it. He then threw the door shut, catching the end of his beard In the door. In the excitement Incident to his odd predicament he forgot the combination and so could not release himself. With his chin resting on the safe he was discov­ered about an hour after the accident by his daughter, who came to find what had delayed him. The safe was broken open by a locksmith.

The True Home.Homes are not built of brick and

mortar. It is the people, not the places, that make the homes; the face of a smiling woman, the patter of tiny feet and the music of children's voices, aye, even the barking of a dog and the human look of Joy at our coming bring us the nameless charm that wo call "home."

TILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS.P A Z O O I N T M E N T I s g u a r a n t e e d to c u r e a n y c a s e o f I t c h i n g , B l i n d , B le e d in g o r P r o t r u d in g P i l e s I n 6 to U d a y s o r m o n e y r e fu n d e d . 50c.Some real estate dealers waste a lot

of valuable time in trying to make mountains out of mole hills.

Lewis’ Single Binder — the famous straight 5c cigar, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.

The statesman leads the masses. The masses lead the politician.

T h eG e n e r a l D e m a n d

of the Well-Informed of tbe World hag always been for s simple, pi we sept andefficient liquid laxative remedy of knows value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its coma ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action.

In supplying that demand with its ex* cellcnt combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remark^ able success.

That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is gives the preference by the Well-Informedj To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the Cali* forma Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle.

$ 3 0 AN HOUR He* SeepTaken Mtnth owr

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SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO. INDICTED.

Was Holding His Own.A wealthy man, revisiting his native

village, was telling his old croaies around the store stove how he had achieved his great success. At the close of his recital an old village char­acter that he had known as a boy en­tered.

"How are you, Tom?” said the great man, holding out his hand. “And how have you been getting along all these years?”

The old fellow shifted his quid and spat.

“Wa’al,” he said, "when I hit this town more’n 40 years ago I didn't have a red cent, an’ now—wa'al, I guess I’m holdin’ my own all right.”

BEGAN YOUNG.

Had “Coffee Nerves" from Youth.

"When very young I began using coffee and continued up to the past six months,” writes a Texas girl.

"I had been exceedingly ne.-vous, thin and very sallow. After quitting coffee and drinking Postum FViod Cof­fee about a month my nervousness disappeared and has never returned, "his Is the more remarkable as I am

a Primary teacher and have kept right on with my work.

"My complexion now is clear and rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As a good complexion was something I had greatly desired, I feel amply repaid even tho this were the only benefit derived from drinking Postum.

"Before beginning Its use I had suffered greatly from Indigestion and headache; these troubles are now un­known.

"Best of all, I changed from coffee to Postum without the slightest Incon­venience, did not even have a head­ache. Have known coffee drinkers who were visiting me, to use Postum s'w eek without being aware that they were not drinking coffee.

“I have known several to begin the use of Postum and drop It because they did not boll it properly. After explaining how It should, be prepsipd they, havo tried it again and* pro­nounced It delicious.”

lame given by P i f e u r t A . ShM

Charged with Using Malls to De­fraud and in Misrepresenting

Articles 8old.

Des Moines. Ia.— (Special)—Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago have been charged with using the mails to de­fraud. The indictment is on three counts. It is alleged that the com­pany misrepresented articles In its catalogues sent through the mails. The first count charges that on June 13, 1907, the company devised a scheme to obtain money by false pre­tenses from Dr. C. F. Spring of Des Moines by seHing him white lead that Sears-Roebuck claim to have made. The indictment alleges It was made by others. A second count Is on a ring bought by R. H. Miles, and the third count is the sending of an­other ring, alleged to have been mis­represented, through the mails.

The Worst Was Yet to Come.A southern pulpit orator, one Sun­

day morning, was describing the ex­perience of the prodigal son. In his endeavor to Impress his hehrers with tho shame and remorse that this young man felt and his desire to cast away his wicked doings, he spoke thus:

“Dls young man got to thinking about his meanness and his misery, and he tuk off his coat and frowed it away. And den he tuk off his vest and frowed dat away. And den he tuk off his shirt and frowed dat away too. And den he come to hisself.”

IStarch, like everything else, Is be­

ing constantly Improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and Inferior to those of the present day. In the lat­est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in­jurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of anqlher ingredient, In­vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap­proached by other brands.

Not All There.Bleeker—Your wife seems to have

a mind of her own.Meeker—She did have before our

marriage, but she hasn't any more.Bleeker—What's the answer? yMeeker—She has given me several

pieces of it since we faced the parson together.

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ere o f greeter value than any other w ah aaa In ‘ha world to-dayW.L.Oougtae $4 and 05 GUI Edge I

t y CAUTION. — W. L. Douglas name and pries Is stamped on bottom............................. dealers" everywhere. Shoes mailed from factory to any parkW . L . D O U G L A S , B r o c k t o n , M la t l t n t e . S o l d b y t h e b e s t s h o o o f t h e w o r ld . I l l u s t r a t e d c a t a l o g I r o e .

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Hard coal a t Corbett’s. P u b lic S a le B u lle tinHard coal on cars a t Corbett’s. _ -------Try Landwchr’s home-made taf- Richard Brennan

lies. 8-10 wi)| sell at his place in the southwestHeating stoves, cheap, a t Burns part of Chatswortli, commencing at 11

Bros ’ o’clock a in. onllarley West went to Springfield on Monday, December 9,

Thursday. l'black l-Norman mare coming 6 yearsThere are just eighteen days before old, with foal, weight 14(H); 1 black J-

Christmas. Norman mare 5 years old, with foal,MissSiella Moore spent Thursday w<*iKht 13<W; 1 full-blood iron gray

in El l’aso mare (papers furnished) 8 years old,. witli foal, weight 1500; 1 sorrel mare 6

tran k Herr was a passenger to Chi- o)(, with foa,t wt.illht iooo; 1ago this morning. chestnut mare 7 years old, with foal,

lu>\. <) E. Clapp was a 1 iper C ity Weiplit 1100; 1 t>nv ro;i«l mare 10 years visitor on Ihursduy. old, with foal by Morgan Ryan’s horse;

William Baldwin went to Chicago l black yearling mare colt; ft suckling on Thursday morning. colts, one of them a full-blood horse

Joe W ittier made a business trip to colt; 1 yearling roadster; 1 driving Meadows on Thursday. horse; 3 fresh milch cows: 4 cows,w hich

Miss Maude Kcwley spent Thursday will be fresh in January; 2 cows, willafternoon with Fairhury friends. les^ *" cal ; ,s

, . sows; 18 harrows; 1 full hlootl t>oar; 1(. \V. McCabe wasa business visitor , , , . ,, , . , , Averv wagon: 1 Avery riding cultivat-at the county seat on W ednesday. . ,, . ,J or; 1 Bradley corn planter, with lt>0Miss Edna I)ycr, of toirest, was the ]()(js ()f wire; l sulky plow; 1 harrow: 1

guest of Chatswortli friends on Satur- (|js,.; l seeder; 1 seeder cart; 1 top-lnig- dav. g \; 1 carriage: 2 road wagons; 2 sets of

Mrs. i. It. McKinney, of Forrest, work harness; 1 set of driving harness: spent Thursday at tire ('has. Perkins i single harness; <i tons of Hover liav in limiH . I barn, and other articles too numerous

Mrs. Mike Kennedy, of Odell, spent to mention Terms, 12 mouths C. E. Thursday a guest at the Jus. *'iiydcr Bute, auctioneer. F. II Herr, clerkh nne. -----

.!.(,), Puller is having a new house I*. M . S i r o nerect ef I upon his fait:, two miles west will sell at his place 'J miles west and 21 of town. in lies soul li olCliatswoi tli. 4 miles east

.1 . Ehv dcpai te(i on Wedi.'sday j and 2t miles south of Forn st. 4 milesfor a visit with relatives and friends i north ami 34 miles east ol Strawn. 1 in Ohio. mile cast ami J mile mutli of Healey.

If you do not buy your Chifs! mtis 1’’m - ' • eing at in oeh.ek a. m. on lewdly of me We w 1 il hoth lose money. Tuesday. December 10.

'\ A. Coughlin. lo-' 1 ] gia\ maie |:’ \t :us nIil. with foal; 1Mis Fiatik llcrr and sistir. Miss brown mai< hi years old. with to il, an

India Wade wi-jil to ( l:ii ii_n on extra I brood mare. 1 gray male 3Tia.tsdat iM is ! fi lends old. w :ili fmil: 1 hay male d ea rs

Mrs John Hose and daughlei, M issj‘,!'!; 1 Kl> male 'J yea is old: 1 hay geld- Julia a i rived home on Sal lit day :if t , .r | >'ig 2 years old; 1 hay ho w 5 years old; visit ing relat ives at Aurora. ' hlacK mate . >'•*>* ol«i. with toal, 1

. . . . . I l;n k hors»- v Year* «»m1. ;t sjo<m! ailMix. 1. ( . >• ru l.t ai.(I cluMivn ;ii- . ' , . , , .. .. ari»iniil In i<r: 1 t«*:iiii pf Mark ( nachrivtsl iioiiii' on sal urua v c\i nm r a! t * r i 4 , , , l4 . ,,' k ' ullics Jw a is olu. 1 l ;i :i colt Ixe.uoM:visiuii^ at M ivator and O; lawa i . _ . . .1 l»p»w!i lit a i <’ i \t*aiN < T <1, with ton! byMiss Adeline Nc'ida. » f IN• ria. ! s n.^km-N l>. i >.•. Jad\ Biokt*;;1

>|ii r.t t la* forepart ol t lie week a go*-t i( m, ,,t ||.,< i,in \ colts 1 and " \ earsat Ih- Hupprl home, south of town ! tl|,| ln]I brother and sister and match-

Mis Charles Stanford went to |,.,| ni eveiy way: 1 gray colt o iinig T Fuichaon Thursday to atti ml the d e a r old; 1 hlaci: colt coming 1 year w odd j ug ot 1 ici loot he i. Kyi** M one- oh!: *i mih 1; cow s. .1 c \t i a good ones. 5 ham now flesh, ot Ini s u :i l he 11 esh soon: ii

Now is l ie time to hay mantel I good luood sows and 1 male pig: 2 clocks 1 am making a special price j wagons: 1 buggy: 1 gang plow: i walk- on tin m till altei ( h: :stmas W. ,\ ! inc plow ; -J Sullev riding c u lta to is ; 2 Coughlin. 10-tf1 discs, one nearly new: 1 planter: 1

Mrs Man Dawson departed for her h,' " : 1 Mc*l.omeat Wane,, on llu.rsdav after j ' ,,n,,u'k ,,imUM* " s'"' >'‘in' -bcinga guest at the home of Mr and 1 n ‘wa' 1 *,t,‘ 1 l,:" ‘ "'k; - !ie,s 01

. . rr ,, , , , ‘ liiii ness: 1 harness; 1 saddle:Mis. 1. I. I ab o u t !f> bushels of ^oikI »«*« I coin;Mrs. .lolin m Ih ibel and daughter, . . . . . , , .%l | some household ami kitchen humture.Miss Nellie, of k nikakec, are visit Inin , . . . . . . . . ., , , |a n d other articles t«»o numen ns toat t lie home of h« t parents. Mr and i . rn . . . . . . , lr .. • * inentmn. I erins. 11 umntlis. \N . LMrs. 1 Donovan .» »• Hailv. auctioneer

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THIS BANK is subject to examination by the 1’. S. Bank Examiners, and also publishes reports of its condition so that the people* can know how its business is conducted.

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Edgar H. Lightywill sell at his place 34 miles south of Chatswortli and 3} miles east of Hea­ley. commencing at 10:30 a. m on

Wednesday, December II.1 bay brood mare 8 years old. weight 1400. witli foa.; 1 black J-I’ercheroii brood mare 4 years old. with foal; 1 work and draft Imrse 14 years old, weight 1030; 1 black gelding colt com­ing 2 years old: 1 hay gelding colt com­ing 2 years old; 1 black J-IVrcheron lll- ]y 5 months old: 1 family driving mare; 3 good young milch cows, 2 now fresh. 1 grade Short-horn, will he fresh by

H O L ID A Y G O O D SOf Beauty, Utility and at Prices that Spell ECONOMYno acres < miles trom Terre Haute. Im.1 imprnwd: a line tract of

land. Price, $(45 per acre.200 acres in Indiana: a line st-K'k and giain farm: improved.

Price, $75 per acre.321 acres in Jackson county, Ind. This in a good proposition l- r

the money asked: is w ell improved. Price. * >o per acre.320 acres, well improved and no better corn land in Illinois: lo­

cated in Jackson county, 111. Owner wants his land nearer home and will trade for IIIGH PRICED land in central Illinois. Price. *75 per acre.

A *35,000 business property in Champaign. Make offer.$0,000 stock of groceries; want land.$18,000 stock of hardware and implements: want Illinois land.380 acres in Holmes county. Miss.: 00 acres in cultivation, bal­

ance line timber. A snap at *25 per acre, hut lor a ipiick deal owner will take $20 per acre.

The above properties are for sale or exchange and are advertised subject to sale without notice, hut if you have some property you would like to exchange it will pay you to send me full description, as f have a large list to select from.

CHRISTMAS PERFUMES— A most complete assortment.

CHRISTMAS STATIONERY— Attractive boxes from 25c up to $2 .5 0 .

GAMES— for the little folks.CIGARS. SACHET POWDERS. TOILET ARTI­

CLES. ETC.POST CARD ALBUMS— A variety.

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IH miles south And IK* mile east of ChatswofthWednesday, December 18.

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T b e y m k e ing wall, am nished in aj R O L L S .

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ble. They beat the daylight out of predigested, half digested or any other old box of sawdust. Good bread is what made your father so sturdy. Our bread will be found even better than the

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Albert Perkins and Ohas. StanfordH m i l e n o r t h o f t h o C h a C s w o r l h c e m e t e r y ,Tuesday, December 24.

fMot only hold ngr feel right and look ri;

Stop in and see them.George Nelson2 m i l e s n o r t h o f t h e C h s t e w o r t h t i l e f a c t o r y ,

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D a n i e l L . M u r p h y , A t t o r n e y .Executor’* Notice.E s t a t e o f E d w a r d O ’ B r i e n , d e c e a s e d .T h e u n d e r s i g n e d h a v i n g b e e n a p p o i n t e d e x ­e c u t o r o f i h e I n s t w i l l a n d t e s t a m e n t o f E d w a r d O ' B r i e n , I n t o o f C h a r l o t t e , in t h o c o u n t y o f L i v ­i n g s t o n . a n d s t a t e o f I l l i n o i s , d e c e a s e d , h e r e b y ( t i r e s n o t i c e t h a t h e w i l l a p p e a r b e f o r e t h e o n u n - t y c o u r t o f L i v i n g s t o n c o u n t y ,a t t h e o o u r t h o u s e i n P o n t i a c , a t t h e F e b r u a r y t e r m o n t h e f ir s t M o n d a y i n F e b r u a r y n e x t , a t w h i c h t i m e a l l p e r s o n s h a v i n g c l a i m s a g a i n s t t h e e s t a t e o f t h o s a i d E d w a r d O ' B r i e n a r e n o t i f i e d a n d r e q u e s t e d t o a t t e n d f o r t h o p u r p o s e o f h a v i n g t h e s a m e a d j u s t e d a r e r e q u e s l t h e u n d e r s i g n e d .

PIPER CITY.Miss Irene O’Connell whs calling up-

on Ohatsworth friends on Friday.D. A. Kloethe attending to business

in Chicago on Friday.Mrs Benj. Mitchel.of Martinton, is

visiting her parents, Mr. and Mas. R. I). Moore.

Rev. O. E. Clapp, of Chats worth, oc­cupied the pulpit of the M li church Thursday night.

The third numlier of the lecture course was pulled off Thursday night to a crowded house.

Miss Norma Woodruff, of Urbana, spent Thanksgiving at the home of her parents in this city.

Masters Leo Lemna and Maurice O’Connell and Miss Eva O’Connell spent Friday in Lallouge.

Mrs. M. O. I.itsty, of Yorkville, has been a guest at the borne of her mother, Mrs. M. l’arsons, the past week

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Miller spent Sun­day w-tli their son, John, in Chicago, and took in the automobile slum .

Misses Pauline and Helen Hostler, of Olienoa. spent a few days last week at the Steadman and O'Connell homes.

Mrs. Martha Ray nee Alexander, a former resident of this city, who now resides at Sterling, has been visiting relatives and friends here this week.

Mrs. Chas. Opperman and family left Monday for Vioksburg, Miss., to join Mr. Opperman, who has been in the south all fal’. They expect to spend the winter there.

The basket hall team that went to Onarga on Friday night expecting to cover themselves witli glory met with ((■rite a "frost" and came home very much disgusted with our classic neigh­bors..

Clias. F. White severed his connec­tions with I lie mail service on Sunday after having served as letter carrier on route No 1 from this office for live years and one month. His place lias been taken by Chas B. Switzer, who entered upon his duties Monday morn­ing. Mr. Switzer is not a novice in the business, having been employed as clerk and assistant postmaster in the office here for eight years. While the patrons of the route have been well served r he past live years, we feel as­sured they will still receive the same courteous, gentlemanly service. Mr. White expects to take a trip to the west, with a view of locating there.

Monday night the entire force from the F. O., witli their families, made an onslaught u|>on the home of C. F White, taking him completely by sur­prise. They took along with them oysters, with all the trimmings, and popcorn galore and proceeded to make merry until the twinkling of the elec­tric lights reminded them it was time to disperse. At the conclusion of the feast Postmaster Cook, in behalf of the ,P. O. "gang.” presented Mr. White with a handsome watch chain and fob as a token of their appreciation of his faithful service. Mr. White responded in a few well-chosen words. Such oc­casions are green spots m the desert of life and make life wortli living.

STRAWS.Chas Hill and L. E. Grandstaff were

in attendance at the fat stock show in Chicago on Wednesday.

Roy Singer began teaching Monday in the Leopold school, district number 182, after a month’s vacation.

Mrs. Geo. Aaron and children, Itita, Mayme and Raymond, returned home on Wednesday from a weeks visit with relatives at Rutland.

Edward Lee, a resident of German- ville and a son of Chris. Lee, of this place, died on Tuesday at the hospital in Chatsworth as a result of an opera­tion for appendicitis.

Peter Kuntz and Gus. Ringler went to Chicago on Wednesday to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Garhy. a sister of Mrs. H. Ringler and the mother-in-law of Peter Kuntz.

FORREST.Miss Verna Rudd was a Fairbury

visitor on Saturday. * " •Miss Edna Dyer was a Chatsworth

visitor on Saturday.Mra. T. R. Kuox and son, Ralph,

are visiting relatives in Chicago.Mrs. Fred Hanshy, of Decatur, spent

Sunday at the J. O. Krack home.Miss Ola Smith was the guest of

friends at Sauiiemin over Sunday.I)r. G. C. McCann, of Danville, spent

Sunday with his parents in this city.Prof. G. N. Bradley and family spent

Thanksgiving with his parents at Clin- tou. '

Mrs. Lillian Finnegan, of Chicago, is the guest of her brother, C. H. Car- ruon.

Miss Josephine McMullen spent the forepart of the week with friends in Eureka.

Mrs. Jessie Krack and daughter, Miss Eulali, were shopping in Fairbury on Tuesday.

Miss Vera Moyer, returned to Bloom­ington on Monday after a week’s visit with home folks.

Miss Bessie Hoyt, of Pontiac, spent Sunday with her sister. Miss Daisy Hoyt, in thiscity.

Roy Miller, of Peoria, spent Ttmnks- giviving witli his parents. Mr. and Mrs. II. M Miller.

Miss Edna Smith returned to her home in Chicago on Sunday after a few days visit with friends here.

Mrs. li. E. Robinson, of Fairbury, spent Sunday with her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Carmpn.

Rex Clarke returned to his home in Chicago on Monday having spent Thanksgiving with relatives here.

Mr. and Mrs Edgar Hoffman and daughter, Helen, of Milford, visited relatives and friends here this week.

Mrs. M. Damon entertained a num­ber of her friends at a six o'clock din­n e r at her home on Wednesday even­ing.

Mrs. F. E. Knapp and children re­turned to their home in Chicago on Sunday after being guests at the Bul­lard home.

Miss G ‘orgia Iligbee returned to her school duties at Ancona, on Monday having spent Thanksgiving with her parents here'.

Perry Keck and Ralph Potter, of Fairbury. who are attending school at Lake Forrest, spent Sunday at the A. McMullen home.

CHARLOTTE.Harm Frieden is on thesiek list this

week.The first snow of the season fell on

Friday nightWm. Iloppe, Sr , was in Chatsworth

on business Monday.Mrs. W. Mackinson was visiting at

the.Iohn Ommen home last week.Mifs Matie Williams was a guest at

the Fred Bork home the forepart of the week.

Mrs. Harmon, of Chatsworth, is vis­iting her dapgliter, Mrs Chas. Harms, this week.

A. Hoppe liad his foot near the ankle burned while trying to extin­guish a fire in his field and is under tiredoctor’s care

Corn husking is being finished up rapidly and another week will put an end to it in this locality. A good crop was raised Litis year.

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. RISK AND VICINITY.John and George Garrels went to

Chicago on Tuesday.Walter Strawn, of Ottawa, was in

this vicinity on Monday.Miss Julia Harrington, of Fairbury,

spent Sunday with relatives here.Miss Edna Brown, of Healey, accom­

panied her Bister, Mrs. J. P. Garber, to her home in Roanoke on Monday.

Miss Gertrude Huston, who isatteud- ing school at Bloomington spent Thanksgiving with her sister, Mra. E. Harrington.

A Real Woaderlaad.South Dakota, w ith its rich silver

mines, bonanza farm s, wide ranges and strange natural formations, is a verit­able wonderland. A t Mound C ity , in the home of Mrs. E . D . Clapp, a won­derful case of healing has lately occur­red. H er f on seemed near death w 1th lung and throat trouble. “ Exhausting coughing spells occurred every five m inutes," w rites Mrs. Clapp, ’ when 1 began giving D r. K in g ’s New Dlscov*

the great mediotne, that saved hia id completely cured h im .” i (Or coughs and colds, ttar

troubles, by J . F . Su llivan ,. Mitf >1 no

OOr*>YI?If>HT 3Yla XaO&WENOTElN Si SONS MAKLRS o r "N L CL.OTHES

N e v e r so m a n y , n e v e r so m a n y s ty le s ,© r s u c h a s h o w in g o f b i g v a l u e s a n d m o n e y - s a v in g p r i c e s — S u i t s t h a t a r e m a d e to f i t a s w e ll an a n y t a i l o r c a n f it y o u — O v e r c o a ts t h a t a r e s t y l i s h a n d f u l l o f v a lu e — t h e b e s t t h e m a r ­k e t a ffo rd s . T h i s is w h a t y o u s h o u ld b e i n t e r ­e s te d in . T h in k w h a t i t m e a n s to h a v e a S u i t a n d O v e r c o a t t h a t f its y o n a n d th e c o s t o f a s p e c ia l t a i l o r ( f ro m $5 to $1 2 ) s a v e d o n a g a r ­m e n t . T h i s is t h e k in d o f c lo th e s w e w a n t y o u to b u y . E v e ry g a r m e n t g u a r a n t e e d to y o u d i r e c t f ro m t h e m a k e r , a n d w i th o u r s y o u m a k e Ho m is ta k e .

P r o te c t y o u r s e l f a g a i n s t t h e c o ld b y g e t t i n g th e b e s t U n d e r w e a r . S t a l e y ’s w oo l is in t h e le a d .

B a l l B r a n d O v e rs h o e s , W a lk o v e r S h o e s , K in g s b u r y H a ts , S i lv e r S h i r t s .

GARRITY & BALDWINCLOTHIERS TO ALL.

KELLOGG S

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CHAS. KELLOGG, Prop.

PROFESSIONAL and BUSINESS CARDS.

L K, ELUNGWOOD, M. firOffice i n the Smith Build in ft,

OHATSWORTH, IL L .Telephone* . Residence .No. 18; Office. N o.S3.

D R . D A N I E L E . E G A N ,Physician and Surgeon.

Office hours. 1 toft p m.OFFICE IN DORSEY B U I L D I N G ,

CHATSWORTH. - - - I L L I N O I S .

Badly Mixed Up.Abraham Brown, of Winterton, N.

Y., hail a very remark-able experience; he says; “ Doctors got badly mixed up over me: one said heart disease; two d ie d it kidney trouble; the fourth blood poison, and the fifth stomach and liver trouble; hut none of them helped me; so my wife advised trying Electric Bitters, which are restoring me to per­fect health One bottle did me more good titan all the live doctors prescrib­ed.” Guaranteed to cure blood poison, weakness and all stomach, liver and kidney complaints, by J. F. Sullivan, druggist, 50a_____ ______

^OFFICIAL

Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Chatsworth, III.

At a regular meeting held in coun­cil room one Tuesday evening, Nov. 26, 1907. Members present; President McCabe and Messrs. Shols, Cording, Harbeke, Klover.

In tile absonce of Clerk Taggert, H. T. Klover was elected clerk protem.

The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved.

The following b ills were read and, on motion of Harbeke and seconded by Cording, allowed as read by a unan­imous yea vote on ro ll-call;

ACC’TS. AND A.O . L . P e r k i n s , w o r k w i t h t e a m ...........................t 2 70W m . W a l k e r , w o r k w i t h t e a m ................................. S SOR u e h l B r o s . , l u m b e r a n d n a i l s ...........................l . 30 00J . K . M a r r , w o r k w i t h t e a m .......................................... 27 25T . H a b e r k o r n , t t p r o p e r t y o w n e r s ' w a l k s 481 83 A o o '-r r . a n d w .B u r n s B r o s . , m e r c h a n d i s e ..................... .............. .. 38 10aoo’t mao.C h a t s w o r t h P l a i n d e a l e r , p r i n t i n g c o n f e t l n o t i c e s .................. .................................................................................. 2 20

Moved by Shols and seconded by Cording th a t the proposed team ster’* license be dismissed from fu rther con-

eratlon. Motion prevailed, o fu rther business appearing, on

>tlon of Harbeke the board adjourn-H . T . K l p v b , C lerk pro tern

D R . . X . J . K I L L Y ,DENTIST.

DR. O. H. BRIGHAM'S OLD STAND, Room 8 . Plaindealer Bldg.

CHATSWORTH. I L L I N O I 8 .

T. P. <& W.TRAINS PASS CHATSWOKTH.

BAST.No6 , A tlantic Express, Mail)-.............9 34amNo 4. Express, e a. Sunday ............. 3 13 pin jNo 2. Atlantic. Express, daily ....... 9 27pmNo 13, Local F reight, ex. Sunday....... rt 35amNo 18, Stork Freight. e \ . Sa tu rday ... 1 40 am

xy KHT.No 7. Passenger and Expr, daily ........ S 21 amNo ft, Passenger and Mail, daily .......... 1 04 pmNo 1, Kansas City Ex, ex Sunday..... 8 (« pmNo 13, Local F reight <e< Sunday ....... 35 proNo 17. Stock Freight, ex. Saturday 10 50 pm

Freight trains do not carry pns«engcrs ex­cept on permits. C. (4. IK>rbey,Agent.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.TRAINS PASS CHATSWORTH.

SOUTH.No 104, Chicago* Pass (mail) cSitnUay 8 04 amSo 30-*. ChlraRo Kxpreaa. ex S o n d a ;....5 »6 pinNo OH, Local Freight, ex Sunday........ II 20 amNo 382, Throntrn Krcifrhi.ex Saturday 9 36 pm

SOUTH.No 323, Bloomington Casa, ox Sunday 1? 04 pm No32ft, Bl’m’gton Paa9 (m all)ex 8 'nd 'y 8 30pmNo 391. Local Frolght, ex Sunday........ 11 20aroNo356, 1'hmugh Freight, ex Sunday... 2 30.ain

No. 304 arrives i 'hteago at 11.30 a hi. No. 802 arrive. Chicago at 9.45 |>. m. Through coach rn>-led in each direction No change of cars nctween Ohatsworth and Chicago m cither lirecttnn. No. 323 le a v e Chicago a t 8 So a . m. No. 3:25 leave* Chicago al 5:25 p m.

U. W. R utlbd ob . A gent

DANIEL L. MURPHY, LL . B.ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

Collections ami all legal matters given prompt.careful and aggres­

sive attention.Office on .ecoud floor o f Baldwin B l d g

CHATSWORTH, - - - I L L I N O I S .

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A Dangerous Deadlock,that sometimes term inates fa ta lly , is the stoppage of live r and bowel func­tions. To quickly eml th is condition without disagreeable sensations, D r. K ing 's New L ife P ills should always he your remedy. Guaranteed absolute­ly satisfactory in every ease or money hack, at J . F . Su llivan ’s drug store. 2 5 c _____________

Have your commercial p rin ting done a t the Plaindealer office and get the best.* ■. ■ —..... —---- .

Hear’* Geed Advice.O. S . Woolever, one of the best

known merchants of LeR aysville . N . Y . , says; “ I f you are ever troubled with piles, apply Bucklen’s A rn ica Salve. I t cured me of them for good 20 years ago."Curesevery sore, wound, burn or abrasion. 25c. at J . F . S u lli­van’s drug store.

P I R E ,

LiGhtoiDE. Life. Tornado & AccidentX J S T T X A. I nTc j s w r i t t e n in a ( n i l i m e d i o M . r e l i a b l e c o m p a n i c s

byROBT. RUMBOLD. A gt.

The L ivingston County

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ABSTRACT!made by

Livingston County Abstract Co,are reliable and up-to-date.

C. H O O B LE R . - S e cy , and M gr.L a t e C i r c u i t O l e r k and Recorder o f L i v i n g s t o n C o u n t y .r

Money to L o ss .W e o d o r b o r r o w e r s m o s t libel and te rm s O O m o n e y s e c u r e n o l s r a r m s . L o a n s m a d e a n d m d s n y p a i d p r o m p t l y , f t a e u * b e f o r e b o r r o w i n g

In v e stm e n tsW e k e o p c o n s t a n t l y o n b a n d f o r t a l e C h o i c e F a r m M o r t g a g e * I n a n y a m o u n t , w h i c h n e t t h e I n v e s t o r t h e h i g h e s t r a t e s o f I n t e r e s t o b t a i n a b l e o p s t r l o i i v f l r a t - e i a t s a e o u r l t l e * I n t e r e s t a n d g i o e t p a 1c o l l e c t e d a n d r e m i t t e d b y D a t h e d a y d u e w i t h o u t e x p e n s e 0 * 1 1 o r w r i t e .JN O . I . TH O M PSO N ,( S u o c e e a o r t o J . 8 . T h o m p s o n * S o n )

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PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE

CAL'-SES OF T H E PR ESEN T FINAN­CIAL CONDITIONS IS MADE

TH E C H IEF TOPIC.

SUGGESTS REMEDIES FOR ILLS

CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS AND RAILROADS TO PREVEN T

OVERCAPITALIZATION.

Believes This Would Solve the Prob­lem Together with Provision for More Elastic Currency— Recom­mends Postal Banks and Asks for Legislation Along Many Lines.

"W ashington, Dec. 3. — P re s id en t R o o sev e lt 's an n u a l m essage to cong ress Is a vo lum inous docum ent of n early 60,000 w ords, by fa r the lo n g es t m es­sag e he has ever su bm itted to congress. (The opening su b jec t of th e m essage is th e financial condition of th e coun try , an d fo r w hich th e p res id en t lay s much o f th e blam e upon u n scru p u lo u s stock ^pecu la to rs , and says:

"In an y la rg e body of men, how ever, th e re a re c e rta in to be som e w ho a re d ishonest, and If th e cond itions ure Such th a t these m en p ro sper o r com ­b i t th e ir m isdeeds w ith im punity , th e ir exam ple is a very evil th in g fo r the com m unity. W here these men a re b u si­n e ss m en of g re a t sag ac ity and of tem -fieram ent bo th u nscrupu lous and reck - e s s , and w here th e cond itions a re such th a t they ac t w ith o u t superv ision or co n tro l and a t first w ith o u t effective Check from pub lic opinion, they delude xnany 'innocen t people in to m ak in g In­v e s tm e n ts o r em b ark in g in k in d s of b u s in e ss th a t a re re a lly unsound. .When th e m isdeeds of these su ccessfu l­ly d ish o n est m en a re discovered, s u f ­fe r in g com es no t only upon them , bu t Sipon th e Innocent m en whom they p a v e misled. I t is a p a in fu l aw aken ing , ({whenever it occurs; and, n a tu ra lly , ■Then i t does occur those w ho suffer l i r e a p t to fo rg e t th a t th e lo n g er It w as p e fe rre d th e m ore p a in fu l it w ould be. fen- th e effort to pun ish the g u ilty it is B oth w ise and p roper to endeavor so fear as possible to m inim ize th e d is ­t r e s s of those w ho have been m isled by She gu ilty . Yet It is no t possib le to R efrain because of such d is tre s s from s t r iv in g to pu t an end to the m isdeeds g h a t a re the u ltim a te causes of th e s u f ­fe r in g , and, a s a m eans to th is end.t there possib le to pun ish those re -

ponsible fo r them . T here m ay be hon­e s t differenoes of opinion as to m any (governm ental policies; bu t su re ly th e re can be no such d ifferences as to the need of unflinching p erseverance in the •war a g a in s t successfu l d ishonesty ."

H e quotes a t len g th from h is m es­sag e of la s t y ea r in w hlcn he advo ­ca ted federa l con tro l of co rp o ra tio n s iflolng in te rs ta te business, and believes (that in such contro l w ould be found the rem ed y fo r overcap ita liza tio n andt tock specu la tion w hich he believes

ave b ro u g h t ab o u t the p re sen t f inan ­c ia l conditions. He flays:

“O ur stead y aim should be by leg is ­la tio n , cau tiously and ca re fu lly u n d e r­ta k e n , bu t reso lu te ly persevered in. to a s s e r t the so vere ign ty of th e n a tio n a l g o v ern m en t by affirm ative action .♦ “T his is only in form an Innovation . In su b s tan ce it is m erely a re s to ra tio n ; fo r from the e a rlie s t tim e such re g u la ­tio n of In d u s tria l a c tiv itie s has been recogn ized in th e ac tion of th«* law - m aking: bodies; and a ll th a t I propose Is to m eet the changed cond itions in Such m anner as w ill p rev en t th e com ­m o n w ea lth ab d ica tin g the pow er it 1ms A lw ays possessed, not only in tills co u n ­t r y . b u t also in E ng land before and p lncc th is co u n try becam e a sep a ra te R ation .t e d e r a l C o n t r o l o f a l l r o a d s I s F a v o r e d .1 "No sm all p a r t of the tro u b le th a t we h av e com es from c a rry in g to an ex ­tre m e th e n a tio n a l v ir tu e of s e lf - r e ­liance . of independtm ee in In itia tiv e an d action . I t Is w ise to conserve th is V irtue and to provide fo r its fu lle s t ex ­ercise , com patib le w ith seeing th a t llt»- e r ty does no t become a lib e rty to (Wrong o thers. U nfo rtu n a te ly , th is is Iih e k ind of lib e rty th a t the lack of all e ffec tive reg u la tio n Inev itab ly breeds. (The founders of th e co n stitu tio n p ro ­v id ed th a t the n a tio n a l g overnm en t Bhould have com plete and sole contro l |of In te rs ta te com m erce. T here w as th e n p rac tica lly no In te rs ta te business pav'e such as w as conducted by w ater, a n d th is the n a tio n a l go v ern m en t a t once proceeded to re g u la te In th o ro u g h ­g o in g and effective fashion. C ondi­t io n s have now so w holly changed th a t Ithe In te rs ta te com m erce by w a te r is in ­s ig n if ic a n t com pared w ith th e am oun t Itha t goes by land, and a lm o st a ll big B usiness concerns a re now engaged In In te r s ta te comm erce. As a resu lt, It c a n be b u t p a rtia lly and Im perfectly co n tro lled or reg u la ted by th e ac tion of a n y one of th e severa l s ta te s ; such ac ­tio n Inev itab ly ten d in g to be e ith e r too d ra s tic o r else too lax, and in e ith e r case Ineffective fo r purposes of ju stice . O nly th e n a tio n a l governm en t can In th o ro u g h g o in g fash ion exercise the Heeded contro l. T h is does no t m ean t h a t th e re should be any ex tension of fe d e ra l au th o rity , fo r such au th o r ity A lready ex is ts u n d er the co n stitu tio n In a m p le s t and m ost fa r -re a c h in g form ; t u t I t does m ean th a t th e re should be a n ex tension of federa l ac tiv ity . This «• no t ad v o ca tin g cen tra liza tion . It Is m ere ly look ing fac ts In the face, and r e a l i z i n g th a t c en tra liza tio n In b usiness h a s a l r e a d y come and can no t be av o id ­ed o r u n d o n e , and th a t th e pub lic a t la rg e can o n l y p r o t e c t I t s e l f from c e r­ta in e v i l effects of th is b u s i n e s s cen ­t r a l i s a t i o n b y p r o v i d i n g b e tte r m e t h o d s

, fo r th e e x e r c i s e o f c o n t r o l t h r o u g h the a u t h o r i t y a l r e a d y c e n t r a l i z e d in the • n a t i o n a l g o v e r n m e n t b y th e c o n s t i t u ­t i o n I t s e l f . T h e r e m u st be no h a lt In t h e h e a l t h y c o n s t r u c t i v e c o u r s e of a c ­t i o n w h i c h t h i s n a t i o n h a s e l e c t e d S o p u r s u e , and h a s s t e a d i l y p u r s u e d , d u r ­i n g th e la s t s i x years , a n s h o w n b o t h I n t h e l e g i s l a t i o n o f th e c o n g r e s s and the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f th e l a w b y t h e d e­p a r t m e n t o f J u s t i c e . T he m ost v i t a l n e e d I S I n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h th e r a i l r o a d s . A s to these. In m y J u d g m e n t th e re s h o u l d n o w b e e i t h e r a n a t i o n a l Incor­p o r a t i o n a c t o r a I g w l i c e n s i n g r a i l w a y c o m p a n i e s t o e n g a g e In I n t e r a t a t e com - < snercc upon c e r t a i n c o n d i t i o n s . T he l a ws h o u l d b e s o f r a m e d a s t o g i v e t o t h e i n t e rt e r s t a t e c o m m e r c e c o m m i s s i o n p o w e r p a s s u p o n t h e f u t u r e I s s u e o f s e c u r l - w h i l e a m p l e m e a n s s h o u l d b e p r o - I t o e n a b l e t h e c o m m i s s i o n , w h e n - t n I t s J u d g m e n t I t I s n e c e s s a r y , t o a p h y s i c a l v a l u a t i o n o f a n y r a l l - A s 1 s t a t e d I n m y m e s s a g e t o t h e * a y e a r a g o r u f l r o a d * s h o u l d s r t o e n t e r I n t o a g r e e -c t t o t h e s e a g r e e m e n t s I n m i n u t e d e t a i l a n dbile I

t h e c o n s e n t o f t h e i n t e r s t a t e c o m m e r c e c o m m i s s i o n b e i n g f i r s t o b t a i n e d . D n t U t h e n a t i o n a l g o v e r n m e n t a s s u m e s p r o p e r c o n t r o l o f I n t e r a t a t e c o m m e r c e , i n t h e exerc ise of th e a u t h o r i t y I t a l ­r e a d y possesses. I t w ill b e I m p o s s i b l e e ith e r to g ive to o r to g e t from th e ra ilro a d s fu ll ju s tice . T he ra ilro a d s a n d a ll o th e r g re a t co rp o ra tio n s w ill d o w ell to recogn ise th a t th is con tro l m ust com e; th e only question Is as to w h a t govern m en ta l body can m ost w isely exerc ise It. T he co u rts w ill d e ­te rm in e th e lim its w ith in w hich th e fed e ra l a u th o r ity can exerc ise it, and th e re w ill s t i l l rem ain amp^e w ork w ith in each s ta te fo r th e ra ilw a y com ­m ission of th a t s ta te ; and th e n a tio n a l In te rs ta te conamerce com m ission w ill w ork In harm ony w ith th e se v e ra l s ta te com m issions, each w ith in its ow n p ro v ­ince, to achieve th e desired end. C o n t r o l o f I n t e r a t a t e I l u s l u e a a C o n c e r n s U r g e d .

' Moreover, In my Judgm ent there should be additional legislation looking to the proper control of the g rea t business con­cerns engaged In In tersta te business, this control to be exercised for their own benefit and prosperity no less than for the protection of investors and of the general public. As 1 have repeatedly said In m essages to congress and else­where, experience has .definitely shown not merely the unwisdom but th e futility of endeavoring to put a stop to all busi­ness combinations. Modern Industrial conditions are such th a t combination Is not only necessary bu t inevitable. I t Is so In the world of business ju s t as it is so in the world of labor, and It is a s idle to desire to pu t an end to all corpora­tions. to all big combinations of capital, as to desire to pu t an end to com bina­tions of labor. Corporation and labor union alike have come to stay . Each If properly m anaged is a source of good and not evil. W henever In e ither there is evil, It should be prom ptly held to ac­count; but It should receive h earty en­couragem ent so long as It Is properly managed. I t Is profoundly Immoral to put o r keep on the s ta tu te books a law, nominally in the In terest of public m oral­ity, th a t really puts a premium upon public Immorality, by undertaking to forbid honest men from doing w hat m ust be done under modern business condi­tions, so th a t tile law itself provides th a t Its own infraction m ust be the condition precedent upon business success. To aim a t the accom plishm ent of too much usu­ally m eans the accom plishm ent of too lit­tle, and often the doing of positive dam ­age.

"T he an titru st law should not be re ­pealed; but it. should be made both more efficient and more In harm ony w ith ac t­ual conditions. I t should be so amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendm ent to be accom panied by, or to be an incident of, a g ra n t of su ­pervisory power to the governm ent over these big corporations engaged .n In ter­sta te business. This should be accom ­panied by provision for the compulsory publication of accounts and the subjec­tion of books and papers to the inspec­tion of the governm ent officials. A be­ginning has already been made for such supervision by the establishm ent of the bureau of corporations.

"The an titru st law should not prohibit combinations th a t do no injustice to the public, still less those the existence of which is on the whole of benefit to the public. But even if this feature of the law were abolished, there would rem ain as an equally objectionable feature the difficulty and delay now Incident to its enforcement. The governm ent m ust now subm it to irksome and repeated delays before obtaining n final decision of the courts upon proceedings instituted, and even a favorable decree may m ean an em pty victory. Moreover, to attem pt to control these corporations by law suits means to Impose upon both the depart­ment of justice and the courts an Im­possible burden: It is not feasible to carry on more than a limited number of such suits. Such a law to be really effective must of course be adm inistered by an executive body, and not merely by means of lawsuits. The design should be to prevent the abuses incident to the crea­tion of unhealthy and Improper com bina­tions, Instead of w aiting until they are in existence and then attem pting to de­stroy them by civil or criminal proceed­ings.In v es tin g Public Should H e Amply Safeguarded .

"The congress has the power to charter corporations to engage In in tersta te and foreign commerce, and a general law can be enacted under the provisions of which existing corporations could take out fed­eral charters and new federal corpora­tions could be created. An essential pro­vision of such a law should be a method of predeterm ining by some federal board or commission w hether the applicant for a federal charter was an association or combination w ithin the restrictions of the federal law. Provision should also be m ade for complete publicity in all m atters affecting the public and complete protec­tion to the Investing public and the share­holders In the m atter of Issuing corporate securities. If an Incorporation law is not deemed advisable, a license ac t for big In tersta te corporations might be enacted; or a combination of the two m ight be tried. The supervision established might be analogous to tha t now exercised over national banks. At least, the an titru st ac t should be supplemented by specific prohibitions of the methods which ex ­perience has shown have been of most service in enabling monopolistic com bina­tions to crush out competition. The real ow ners of a corporation should be com­pelled to do business In their own name. The right to hold stock in other corpora­tions should heareafter be denied to In ter­sta te corporations, unless on approval by the proper governm ent officials, and a prerequisite to such approval should be the listing with the governm ent of all owners and stockholders, both by the corporation owning such stock and by the corporations In which such stock is owned.

"To confer upon the national govern­ment. In connection with the am endm ent I advocate In the an titru s t law, power of supervision over big business concerns engaged In In tersta te commerce, would benefit them as It has benefited the n a ­tional banks. In the recent business crisis It Is notew orthy th a t the Institu ­tions which failed were Institutions which were not under the supervision and control of the national governm ent. Those which were under national con­trol stood the test.

"N ational control of the kind above ad ­vocated would be to the benefit.of every w ell-m anaged ra llw ar. From the stand ­point of the public there Is need for ad ­ditional tracks, aditlonal term inals, and Im provements In the actual handling of the railroads, and all th is a s rapidly as possible. Ample, safe, and speedy tran s­portation facilities are even more neces­s a r y t h a n c h e a p t r a n s p o r t a t i o n . T h e r e ­f o r e , t l r e r e I s n # e d f o r t h e I n v e s t m e n t o fm o n e y w h i c h w i l l p r o v i d e f o r a l l t h e s e t h i n g s w h l l s a t t h e a a m e t i m e s e c u r i n g a s f a s a s I s p o s s i b l e b e t t e r w a g e s a n d s h o r t e r h o u r s f o r t h e i r e m p l o y e s , T h e r e ­f o r e . w h i l e t h e r e m u s t b e J u s t a n d r e a ­s o n a b l e r e g u l a t i o n o f r a t e s , w e s h o u l d b e t h e f i r s t t o p r o t e s t a g a i n s t a n y a r b i t r a r y a n d u n t h i n k i n g m o v e m e n t t o c u t t h e m d o w n , w i t h o u t t h e f u l l e s t a n d m o a t c a r e ­f u l c o n s i d e r a t i o n o f a l l i n t e r e s t s c o n ­c e r n e d a n d o f t h e a c t u a l n e e d s o f t h e s i t u a t i o n . O n l y a s p e c i a l b o d y o f m e n a c t i n g f o r t h e n a t i o n a l g o v e r n m e n t u n ­d e r a u t h o r i t y c o n f e r r e d u p o n I t b y t h e c o n g r e s s i s c o m p e t e n t t o p a s s j u d g m e n t o n s u c h a m a t t e r .O r e n t e r K l e s t l d t y l e C e r r e a e y l a U r g e d .T h e p r e s i d e n t q u o t e s e x t e n s i v e l y f r o m h i s l o s t m e s s a g e l a d e a l i n g w i t h t i t s d l -

- .. ——* - ^r e c t s u b j e c t o f c u r r e n c y l e g i s l a t i o n , a n d • a y s ;" X a g a i n u r g e o n t h e c o n g r e s s t h e n e e d o f I m m e d i a t e a t t e n t i o n t o t h i n m a t t e r . W e n e e d a g r e a t e r e l a s t i c i t y I n our c u r ­r e n c y ; p r o v i d e d , o f c o u r s e , t h a t w e recog­n i s e t h e e v e n g r e a t e r need o f a Bate a n d secure currency. There m ust alw ays be the most rigid exam ination by the na­tional authorities. Provision should be made for an emergency currency. The emergency Issue should, of course, be made w ith an effective guaranty , and up­on conditions carefully prescribed by the government. 8 uch emergency Issue must be based on adequate securities approved by the governm ent, and m ust be Issued under a heavy tax. This would perm it currency being Issued when the demand for It was urgent, while securing Its re­tirem ent as the dem and fell off. I t Is w orth Investigating to determ ine whether officers and directors of national banks should ever be allowed to loan to them ­selves. T rust companies should be sub­ject to the sam e supervision as banks; legislation to this effect should bo en­acted for the D istrict of Columbia and the territories.

"Y et we must also rem ember th a t even the w isest legislation on the subject can only accomplish a certain am ount. No legislation can by any possibility guar­antee the business com m unity against the results of speculative folly any more than It can guarantee an individual against the results of his extravagance. W hen an In­dividual m ortgages his house to buy an automobile he Invites d isaster; and when w ealthy men, or men who pose as such, or are unscrupulously or foolishly eager to become such. Indulge In reckless spec­ulation—especially If It Is accompanied by dishonesty—they jeopardize not only their own future but the fu ture of all their In­nocent fellow-citizens, for they expose the whole business community to panic and distress.”

He advises against any general tariff legislation this session of congress, and says:

“ In a country of such phenomenal grow th as ours it Is probably well tha t every dozen years or so the tariff laws should be carefully scrutinized so as to see th a t no excessive or Im proper bene­fits a re conferred thereby, th a t proper revenue Is provided, and th a t our foreign trade Is encouraged. There m ust alw ays be as a minimum a tariff which will not only al­low for the collection of an ample rev­enue but which will a t least make good the difference In cost of production hero and abroad; th a t Is, the difference In the labor cost hero and abroad, for the well-being of the w age-worker m ust ever be a cardinal point of American policy. The question should be approached pure­ly from a business standpoint; both the tim e and the m anner of the change being such as to arouse the minimum of ag i­tation and disturbance In the business world, and to give the least play for selfish and factional motives. The sole consideration should be to see th a t the sum to tal of changes represent the pub­lic good. This m eans th a t the subject cannot with wisdom be dealt w ith In the year preceding a presidential election, be­cause as a m atter of fact experience has conclusively shown th a t a t such a time It is Impossible to get men to tre a t it from the standpoint of the public good. In my Judgm ent the wise tim e to deal with the m atte r Is Immediately a fte r such elec­tion."

He asks for the repeal of the tariff on paper and wood pulp.

He reviews and enlarges upon his pre­vious recom mendations for the enact­m ent of federal Inheritance and Income tax laws.

A ttention Is called to the prosecution of w ealthy offenders against the national laws, and In th is connection he asks th a t the laws under which these prosecutions are brought be strengthened and made more definite.T h e U s e a n d t h e A b u s e o f I n j u n c t i o n s .

"Instances of abuse in the g ran ting of Injunctions In labor disputes continue to occur, and the resentm ent In the minds of those who feel th a t their rights arc being Invaded and their liberty of action and of speech unw arran tab ly restrained continues to grow. Much of the attack on the use of the process of Injunction Is wholly w ithout w arran t; but X am con­strained to express the belief th a t for some of It there Is w arrant. This ques­tion is becoming more and more of prime Im portance, and unless the courts will them selves deal with It In effective m an­ner. It is certain ultim ately to demand some form of legislative action. It would be most unfortunate for our social wel­fare If we Bhould perm it m any honest and law-abiding citizens to feel th a t they had just cause for regarding our courts with hostlll^ '. I earnestly com­mend to the attention of the congress th is m atter, so th a t some way may be devised which will limit the abuse of In­junctions and protect those righ ts which from time to time it unw arran tab ly In­vades. Moreover, discontent Is often ex­pressed with the use of the process of Injunction by the courts, not only In la­bor disputes, bu t where sta te laws are concerned. I refrain from discussion of th is question as I am Informed th a t It will soon receive the consideration of the suprem e court."

Of other legislation In the Interest of labor he favors federal Inspection of ra il­roads; providing limited but definite com­pensation for accidents to all workmen employed In any way by the government, and says:

"The constitutionality of the employers’ liability ac t passed by the preceding con­gress has been carried before the courts. In two jurisdictions the law has been de­clared unconstitutional, and In th ree Juris­dictions its constitutionality has been a f­firmed. Tho question has been carried to tue supreme court, the case has been b eard by th a t tribunal, and a decision Is expected a t an early date. In the event th a t the court should affirm the consti­tu tionality of tho act, 1 urge fu rther leg­islation along the lines advocated In my m essage to the preceding congress. The practice of putting the entire burden of loss of life or limb upon the victim or tne victim 's fam ily Is a form of social In­justice In which the United S tates stands In unenviable prominence. In both our federal and our s ta te legislation we have, with few exceptions, scarcely gone fa r th e r than the repeal of the fellow- servant principle of the old law of liabil­ity, and In some of our sta tes even this slight modification of a complete out­grown principle h a s not yet been s e ­cured."H e f a v o r s t h e e x t e n s i o n o f t h e e i g h t - h o u r l a w t o a l l d e p a r t m e n t s o f t h e g o v ­e r n m e n t , a n d t o a l l w o r k c a r r i e d o n b y t h e g o v e r n m e n t . H e u r g e s l e g i s l a t i o n f o r t h e c o m p u l s o r y I n v e s t i g a t i o n o f I n ­d u s t r i a l d i s p u t e s , a n d s a y s ;" T h e n e e d f o r s o m e p r o v i s i o n f o r s u c h I n v e s t i g a t i o n w a s f o r c i b l y I l l u s t r a t e d d u r i n g t h e p a s t s u m m e r . A s t r i k e o f t e l e g r a p h o p e r a t o r s s e r i o u s l y I n t e r f e r e d w i t h t e l e g r a p h i c c o m m u n i c a t i o n , c a u s ­i n g g r e a t d a m a g e t o b u s i n e s s I n t e r e s t s a n d a e r l o u s I n c o n v e n i e n c e t o t h e g e n ­e r a l p u b l i c . A p p e a l s w e r e m o d e t o m e f r o m m a n y p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y , f r o m c i t y c o u n c i l s , f r o m b o a r d s o f t r a d e , f r o m c h a m b e r s o f c o m m e r c e , a n d f r o ml a b o r o r g a n i s a t i o n s , u r g i n g t h a t s t e p s b e t a k e n t o t e r m i n a t e t h e s t r i k e .E v e r y t h i n g t h a t c o u l d w i t h a n y p r o ­p r i e t y b e d o n e b y a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e o f t h e g o v e r n m e n t w a s d o n e w i t h o u t ' a v a i l , a n d f o r W i k s t h e p u b l i c s t o o d b y a n d s u f f e r e d w i t h o u t r e c o u r s e o f a n y k i n d . H a d t h e m a c h i n e r y e x i s t e d a n d h a d t h e r e b e e n a u t u o r l t y f o r c o m p u l s o r y

l a w s e v i l s s u c h a s c h i l d l a b o r , a s t b s o v e r - w o r k i n g o f w o m e n , a s t b s f a l l u r o t o p r o t e c t e m p l o y e s f r o m l o o s o f l i f e o r l i m b , c a n b e e f f e c t i v e l y r e a c h e d , a n y m ore t h a n t h e e v i l s o f r e b a t e s a n d s to c k -w a te r in g cab b e r e a c h e d w i t h o u t good l a w s . 'T o f a l l t o s t o p t h e s e p ra c ­tices by leg is la tio n m eans t o force honest m en In to them , because o th e r ­w ise th e d ishonest w h o su re ly w ill ta k e ad v an tag e of them w ill have ev e ry th in g th e ir own way. If th e Btates w ill co rrec t thesq evllp. w ell and good; bu t th e n a tio n m ust s tan d read y to aid them .

l i t e x i s t i n g c o n d i t i o n s , c h e c k p r o g r e s s , a n d I n c r e a s e t h o c o a t a n d l e n g t h e n t b s t i m e o f c o m p l e t i n g t h o c a n a l .P r e s i d e n t K e c e a u s v a d a

I n v e s t i g a t i o n o f t h e d i s p u t e , t h e p u b l i c w o u l d h a v e b e e n p l a c e d I no f t h o m e r i t s o f t h e c o n t r o v e r s y , a n d p u b l i c o p i n i o n w o u l d p r o b a b l y h a v e b r o u g h t a b o u t p r o m p t a d j u e t m e n t" I t l a I d l e t o b o l d t h a t w i t h o u t g o o d

I n l a n d W a t e r w a y S y s t e m s S h o u l d B e D e e v l o p e d ."T he conserva tion of ou r n a tio n a l r e ­

sources and th e ir p roper use co n stitu te the fu ndam en ta l problem w hich u n d er­lies a lm ost every o th e r problem of our n a tio n a l life. We m ust m a in ta in for ou r c iv iliza tion th e ad eq u a te m ate ria l basts w ithou t w hich th a t c iv ilization canno t exist. W e m ust show foresigh t, we m ust look ahead. As a na tion we not only enjoy a w onderfu l m easure of p resen t p ro sp e rity bu t If th is p ro sp e r­ity Is used a r ig h t It Is an ea rn e s t of fu tu se success such as no o th e r nation will have. The rew ard of fo re s ig h t foi th is na tion is g re a t and easily foretold. B ut th ere m u s t be th e took ahead, th e re m ust be a rea liza tio n of th e fact th a t to w aste, to destroy , o u r n a tu ra l resources, to sk in and ex h au st th e land Instead of u s in g It so as to Increase Its usefulness, w ill re su lt In underm in ing In th e days of o u r ch ild ren th e very p ro sperity w hich we o ugh t by r ig h t to hand down to them am plified and devel­oped. F o r th e la s t few yearB, th rough sev era l agencies, the governm en t has been endeavo ring to g e t ou r people to look ahead and to su b s titu te a p lanned and o rderly developm ent «f ou r re ­sources In p lace of a hap h azard s t r iv ­ing for Im m ediate profit. O ur g rea t r iv e r system s should be developed as na tiona l w a te r h ighw ays; th e M issis­sippi, w ith Its tr ib u ta r ie s , s tan d in g first In im portance, and th e C olum bia sec­ond, a lth o u g h th e re a re m any o thers of Im portance on th e Pacific and A tlantic ' and the g u lf slopes. The n a tio n a l gov­e rnm en t should u n d e rtak e th is work, and I hope a beg in n in g w ill be made in the p resen t congress; and th e g re a t­e s t of a ll ou r rivers, tltc M ississippi, should receive especial a tten tio n . From th e G reat L akes to the m ou th of the M ississippi th e re should be a deep w a­terw ay , w ith deep w a te rw ay s lead ing from It to th e east and the w est. Such a w ate rw ay w ould p rac tica lly m ean th e extension of ou r const line in to the very h e a rt of ou r country . I t w ould be of Incalculable benefit to o u r people. If begun a t once it can be ca rr ied th rough in tim e appreciab ly to re lieve th e con­gestion of our g re a t f re ig h t-c a rry in g lines of ra ilroads. The w ork should be sy s tem atica lly and con tinuously carried fo rw ard In accordance w ith som e well- conceived plan . The m ain s tream s should be Im proved to th e h ighest po in t of efficiency before the im prove­m ent of the b ranches is a ttem p ted : and th e w ork should be k e p t free from every ta in t of reck lessness o r Jobbery."

A tten tion Is called to the w ork of Ir ­rig a tio n and rec lam ation of g o vern ­m ent lands. In th e sam e connection he a sk s for a rev ision of the public land law s along the lines proposed by the public lands com m ission. B elieves the governm en t should Increase Its efforts to conserve our fo res ts and should In­crease by pu rchase the ex is tin g fo rest preserves. On th e sub jec t of th e n a tu ra l resou rces of th e na tion he says:

"In the ea s te rn U nited S ta te s the m inera l fue ls have a lread y passed Into tho hands of la rg e p riv a te ow ners, and those of the w est a re rap id ly fo llow ing I t is obvious th a t these fuels should be conserved and no t w asted, and it would be well to p ro toc t th e people ag a in s t u n ju s t and ex to rtio n a te prices, so fa r a s th a t can s t il l be done. W h at has been accom plished In th e g re a t oil fields of th e Ind ian T e rr i to ry by the ac tion of th e ad m in is tra tio n offers a s tr ik in g exam ple of th e good resu lts of such a policy. In my Judgm ent the governm en t should have th e r ig h t to keep the fee of th e coal, oil and gas fields In Its own possession and to lease th e r ig h ts to develop them under p roper reg u la tio n s ; or else, if the con ­g ress will not adopt th is m ethod, the coal deposits should be so^d u nder lim ­ita tio n s. to conserve them as public u tilities , the r ig h t to m ine coal being separa ted from th e ti t le to the Boll. The reg u la tio n s should p e rm it coal lands to be w orked in sufficient q u a n ­ti ty by th e sev era l co rpo ra tions. The p resen t lim ita tio n s have been absurd , excessive, and serve no u sefu l purpose, and often ren d er It n ecessary th a t th e re should be e ith e r fra u d o r else abandonm ent of th e w ork of g e ttin g ou t th e coal.”P r o g r e s s o f t h e W o r k O n t h e P a n a m a C a n a l .

"W ork on th e P anam a cana l Is p ro ­ceed ing In a h ig h ly s a tis fa c to ry m an ­ner. In M arch th e to ta l excavation in th e C ulebra Cut. w here effort was chiefly concen tra ted , w as 815,270 cubic yards. In A pril th is w as Increased to 879,527 cubic yards. T here w as a con­sid erab le decrease In th e o u tp u t for May and Ju n e ow ing p a r tly to th e a d ­ven t of the ra in y season an d p a rtly to tem p o ra ry tro u b le w ith th e steam shovel men over th e question of w ages. T h is troub le w as se ttled s a tis fa c to r ilyto a ll p a rtie s and in Ju ly th e to ta l ex-

il lcava tton advanced m a te ria lly and In A u g u st the g ran d tJotal from all po in ts In th e canal p rism by steam shovelsand d redges exceeded a ll previous

as.U nited S ta tes records, re ach in g 1,274, 404 cubic yards. In Septem ber th is rec ­ord w as eclipsed and a to ta l of 1.517,- 412 cubic yard s w as rem oved. Of th is am oun t 1,481.307 cubic y a rd s w ere from th e canal prism and 36,105 cubic yards w ere from accesso ry w orks. These r e ­su lts w ere ach ieved In th e ra in y sea ­son w ith a ra in fa ll In A ugust of 11.89 Inches and In S ep tem ber of 11.65 Inches. F inally , In O ctober, th e record w as ag a in eclipsed, th e to ta l excavation b e ­in g 1,868.729 cubic yards; a tru ly ex ­tra o rd in a ry r e c o r d , especially In view of the heavy ra in fa ll. w hich w as 17.1 Inches. In fac t, experience d u rin g the la s t tw o ra in y seasons dem o n s tra te s th a t th e ra in s a re a less se rious ob ­stac le to p ro g ress th a n has h ith e rto been supposed.

"W ork on th e locks an d dam s a t O atun, w hich began ac tiv e ly In March last, has advance'* so fa r th a t It Is th o u g h t th a t m asonry w ork on the Ic^cks can be begun w ith in 16 m onths." L a s t w i n t e r b i d s w e r e r e q u e s t e d a n d r e c e i v e d f o r d o i n g t h e w o r k o f c a n a l c o n s t r u c t i o n b y c o n t r a c t . N o n e o f t h e m w a s f o u n d t o b e s a t i s f a c t o r y a n d a l l w e r e r e j e c t e d . I t I s t h e u n a n i m o u s o p i n i o n o f t h e p r e s e n t c o m m i s s i o n t h a t t h e w o r k c a n b e d o n e b e t t e r , m o r e c h e a p l y , a n d m o r e q u i c k l y b y t h e g o v ­e r n m e n t t h a n b y p r i v a t e c o n t r a c t o r s . F u l l y ( 0 p e r c e n t , o f t h e e n t i r e p l a n t n e e d e d f o r c o n s t r u c t i o n h a g b e e n p u r ­c h a s e d o r c o n t r a c t e d f o r ; m a c h i n e s h o p s h a v e b e e n e r e c t e d a n d e q u i p p e d f o r m a k i n g a l l n e e d e d r e p a i r s t o t b e p l a n t ; m a n y t h o u s a n d s o f e m p l o y e s h a v e b e e n s e c u r e d ; a n e f f e c t i v e o r g a n i ­s a t i o n h a s b e e n p e r f e c t e d ; a r e c r u i t i n g s y s t e m I s I n o p e r a t i o n w h i c h I s c a p a b l e o f f u r n i s h i n g m o r e l a b o r t h a n c a n b e u s e d a d v a n t a g e o u s l y ; e m p l o y e s a y s w e l l s h e l t e r e d a n d w a l l f e d ; s a l a r i e s p a i d a r e s a t i s f a c t o r y , a n d t h e w o r k I s n o t o n l y g o i n g f o r w a r d s m o o t h l y , b u t I t I s p r o d u c i n g r e s u l t s f a r I n a d v a n c e o f t h e m o s t s a n g u i n e a n t i c i p a t i o n s . U n d e r t h e s e f a v o r a b l e c o n d i t i o n s , a c h a n g e I n t h e m e t h o d o f p r o s e c u t i n g ( b e w o r k w o u l d b e u n w i s e a n d u n j u s t i ­f i a b l e , f o r I t w o u l d I n e v i t a b l y d l s o r g a a -

P w ln l Savings B anks.“ I c o m m e n d to th e f a v o r a b l e c o n s i d ­e ra tio n of t b e c o n g r e s s a p o s t a l sav ­in g s bank s y s t e m , as r e c o m m e n d e d b y th e p o stm aste r genera l. T he p r i m a r y ob ject la to en cou rage am o n g o u r peo ­ple economy and th r i f t and b y th e use o f posta l sav in g s b an k s to g lye them an opp o rtu n ity to husband th e i r re ­sources, p a rt ic u la r ly those w ho have no t th e fac ilities a t hand fo r d epositing th e ir money In sav in g s banks. Viewed, how ever, from th e experience of th e p as t few w eeks, i t Is ev iden t th a t th e ad v an tag es of such an In s titu tio n a re s t il l m ore fa r-reach in g . T im id depos­ito rs have w ith d raw n th e ir sav in g s fo r th e tim e being from n a tio n a l b a n k s ; In ­d iv iduals have hoarded th e ir cash and the w ork ingm en th e ir e a rn in g s ; a ll of w hich money has been w ith d raw n and k ep t In h id in g or in th e sa fe de­posit box to th e d e trim en t of p ro s­perity . T hrough the agency of th e pos­ta l sav ings b an k s such money w ould be res to red to the channels of trade , to th e m utual benefit of cap ita l an d labor.

“I fu r th e r com m end to th e congress th e considera tion of th e p o s tm as te r g en e ra l’s recom m endation fo r an ex ­tension of the parcel post, especia lly on th e ru ra l rou tes. T here a re now 38,- 215 ru ra l rou tes, se rv in g n ea rly 15,000,- 0 0 0 people w ho do not have tho a d ­v an tag es of the in h a b ita n ts of c ities In o b ta in in g th e ir supplies. T hese recom ­m endations have been d raw n up to benefit the fa rm er and th e co u n try s to rekeeper; o therw ise , I shou ld not favo r them , for I believe th a t It Is good policy fo r our governm en t to do ev e ry ­th in g possible to aid th e sm all tow n and the coun try d is tric t. I t Is desirab le th a t the coun try m erchan t shou ld no t be crushed out.

"T he fo u rth -c la ss p o s tm as te rs ’ con­vention has passed a very s tro n g reso ­lu tion In fav o r of p lac ing the fo u rth - c lass po stm aste rs under th e c iv il-se rv ­ice law. The ad m in is tra tio n has a l ­ready pu t Into effect the policy of re ­fu s in g to rem ove an y fo u r th -c la ss p o st­m aste rs save fo r reasons connected w ith the good of th e serv ice; and it Is endeavoring so fa r a s possib le to r e ­move them from the dom ain of p a rtisan politics. I t w ould be a m ost desirab le th in g to put th e fo u rth -c la ss p o stm as­te rs In the classified service."

H e renew s h is recom m endations of la s t y ear in re g a rd to A laska; ca lls a t ­ten tion to the adm ission of O klahom a as a s ta te ; u rges th e Im portance of p ro ­vid ing sh ipp ing re lie f fo r H aw aii; a sk s fo r citizensh ip fo r P o rto R icans, and prom ises subm ission of S ec re ta ry T a ft 's report on P h ilipp ines w hen th a t official re tu rn s.

He ask s for th e crea tion of a bu reau of m ines; recom m ends the p rov id ing of funds for p rese rv in g Tho H erm itage , the home of A ndrew Jackson ; nnd the erection of a naval m onum ent a t V icksburg.C orporation C ontribution* to Cotupalgn Expenses.

"Under our form of governm ent voting Is not merely a right hut a duty, and, moreover, a fundam ental and necessary duty If a man Is to be a good citizen. It Is well to provide that corporations shall not contribute to presidential or national campaigns, and furtherm ore to provide for the publication of both con­tributions qnd expenditures. There is, however, alw ays danger In laws of this kind, which from their very na tu re are difficult of enforcem ent; the danger being lest they be obeyed only by the honest, and disobeyed by the unscrupulous, so as to act only as a penalty upon honest men. Moreover, no such law would ham ­per an unscrupulous man of unlimited means from buying his own way Into of­fice. There Is a very radical m easure which would, I believe, work a substan­tial Improvement In our system of con­ducting a campaign, although I am well aw are tha t It wilt take some time for people to so fam iliarize them selves with such a proposal as to be willing to con­sider Its adoption. The need for collect­ing large campaign funds would vanish It congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitim ate expenses of each of the great national parties, an ap ­propriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large ex­penditure of money. Then tho stipula­tion should be made th a t no p arty re­ceiving campaign funds from the treasury should accept more than a fixed am ount from any Individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could w ithout difficulty be provided."W a n t s I m p r o v e m e n t I n t h e O c e a n M a l i S e r v i c e .

“ I call your especial attention to the un­satisfactory condition of our foreign mall service, which, becaase of the lack of American steam ship lines, Is now largely done through foreign lines, and which, particularly so fa r as South and Central America are concerned. Is done In a m an­ner which constitu tes a serious barrier to the extensions of our commerce.

"The time has come. In my Judgment, to se t to work seriously to m ake our ocean mall service correspond more closely with our recent commercial and political development. A beginning was made by the ocean mall act of M arch 8, 1391, but even a t th a t time the ac t was known to be Inadequate In various par­ticulars. 8 inee th a t time events have moved rapidly In our history. We have acquired • Hawaii, the Philippines, and leaser Islands In the Pacific. We are steadily prosecuting the g reat work of uniting a t the Isthm us the w aters of the Atlantic and the Pacific. To a g reater extent than seemed probably even a dozen years ago we may look to an American fu ture on the sea w orthy of the tradition of our past. As the first step tn tha t direction, and the step most feasible a t the present time, I recommend the extension of the ocean mall ac t of 1891. T hat ac t hga stood for some years faee from successful criticism of Its prin­ciple and purpose. I t was baaed on theo­ries of the obligations of a g rea t m art- lime nation, undisputed In our own land and followed by o ther nations since the beginning of steam navigation. Briefly those theories are, th a t It is th e duty of a first-class power so fa r a s practicable to carry Its ocean m alls under Its own flag; th a t the fa s t ocean steam ships and their crews, required for such m all serv­ice, a re valuable auxiliaries to the sea power of a nation. Furtherm ore, the construction of such steam ships Insures the maintenance In an efficient condition of the shipyards In which our battleships m ust be built." H t i e e x p e n d i t u r e o f p u b l i c m o n e y f o r t h e p e r f o r m a n c e o f s u c h n e c e s s a r y f u n c ­t i o n s o f g o v e r n m e n t I s c e r t a i n l y w a r ­r a n t e d , n o r I s I t n e c e s s a r y t o d w e l l u p o n t h e I n c i d e n t a l b e n e f i t s t o o u r f o r e i g n c o m m e r c e , t o t h e s h i p b u i l d i n g I n d u s t r y , e n d t o s h i p o w n i n g a n d n a v i g a t i o n w h i c h w i l l a c c o m p a n y t h e d i s c h a r g e o f t h e s e u r g e n t p u b l i c d u t i e s , t h o u g h t h e y , t o o , s h o u l d h a v e w e i g h t "A sks Increase la P ay fo r A rm y Officer* an d B ek.T h e p r e s i d e n t d e v o t e s m u c h s p a c e t o t h e a f f a i r s o f t h e a r m y , a n d s t r o n g l y u r g e s t h a t o u r r e g u l a r m i l i t a r y o r g a n i ­s a t i o n b e k e p t t i p t o t h e h i g h e s t p o s s i b l e s t a n d a r d o f e f f i c i e n c y , a n d ' s a y e ;" T h e m e d i c a l c o r p s s h o u l d b e m u c h g r e a t e r t h a n t h e n e e d s o f o u r r e g u l a r a r m y I n w a r . Y e t A t p r e s e n t I t I s s m a l l ­e r t h a n t h e n e e d s o f t b s s e r v i c e d e m a n d e v e n I n p e a c e . T h e S p a n i s h w a r o c ­c u r r e d l e e s t h a n t e n y e a r s a g o . T h e o h l e f l o s e w e s u f f e r * ) l a I t w a s b y d i s ­e a s e a m o n g t h e r e g i m e n t s w h l q h n e v e r l e f t t h e c o u n t r y . A t t h e m o m e n t t h e

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