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A PLACE OF OLDEST RANK AT THE HEAD OP THE LAKES. f°r DEPOSIT for the funds of Individuals, Guardians, Administrators, Trustees, Fraternal Orders, and for anyone desirous of securing a fair rate of Interest and Absolute Security. Savings Accounts Opened, Books Given. Time Certificates of Deposit Issued. 3% INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS. Duluth Saving's BanR NO. 220 WEST SUPERIOR STREET. Deposit Your Savings in the American Exchange BanR, OF DULUTH, MINN. CAPITAL $500,000. SURPLUS EARNED. .$300,000 Books given and interest paid on Deposits of $1.00 and up wards in our interest deposit department. Open 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Saturdays, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., and 6 to 8 p. m. Ask to see our Now Up-to-date Safety Deposit Vault. Safes rented from $3.00 to $23 per annum. NOTICE TO LABOR UNIONS. THE LABOR WORLD HALLS in the Manhattan Building are now fully equipped and a few nights are stril open. This is the new labor headquarters and should be patronized liberally by organized labor. month®*1* lare:e hal1 ,5 00 per month. LAH&10 HALL: Every Saturday Night. Every Third and Fourth Sunday. SMALL HALL: Every Sunday. First and Third Thursdays, ©very Saturday. Make all inquires about th* halls at LABOR WORLD OFFICE, 208 MANHATTAN BLDG. ZENITH 'PHONE 6S. BOYCE,THE DRUGGIST, Is the most responsible person in the city to fill your prescription. This is his motto: ACCURACY AND PROMPTNESS IN FILLING PRESCRIPTIONS. BOYCE, 229 WEST SUPERIOR ST. SMITH (A SMITH, DRUGGISTS. 101 W. SUPERIOR STREET. DULUTH, MINN. Otir Drugs are always FresH and Pure We keep complete lines of the latest remedies, Patent Medicines, Toilet and Proprietary Articles, Perfumes, Stationery, Imported and Domestic Cigars, etc. Physician Prescriptions and Family Recipes compound-ed ^ith care. If You Wish a Delicious, Wholesome and Palatable BEVERAGE OA1/L ON VAL BLATZ BREWING CO. STAR" MILWAUKEE BEER. INCORPORATED 1879. Small halls $2.00 per HOLDING YOUR uclulh Brewing WHOLESALE 1 Own to pleasure when you can hold It In the brewing of beer that will com* pete with the best breweries in this country or Burope In the manufacture of iriire. rich and creamy bottled beer, that possesses the qualities of all with the palatable flavor and strengthening Qualities of the best beer. Try it an appetizer and tonic—it is good. sod Molting co„ liXHBR PHONB Ml. PAISTERS' HON* Til OH BIGH-PBOOF ALCOHOL MOM At the recent convention. of the Painters and Decorators' National con vention a movement was started to se cure a removal of the internal revenue tax on certain kinds of aloohol. Since then Mr. Marshall of North Dakota has introduced a bill in congress bear ing on the subject. Its passage is of vast importance especially to such ag ricultural state? as Minnesota. Not only will it benefit the farmer who p:o duces the raw ijiaterial from which al cohol is^made but it will contribute to his further advantage in a cheap and safe motive power for use on the farm as well as light and heat for his home. Th removal of the internal revenue Measure Now Before Congress—If Passed It Will be of Incai culable Importance, Especially to Farmers^ Manufactur ers and Tradesmen. sen the enormous dividends of the Standard Oil company mude possible by its rnonop'oly. It Would Benefit Many American Industries and Hit the Oil Trust's Monopoly Hard—Protection Offered to Prevent Use as leverage. The bill provides that free alcohol does not carry with it a license to in dulge in the original intoxicant as will also tend in, no small way to les- held annually- In a special report on beverage. It contemplates that ample It is not difficult to point out the far-reaching effects which the removal of the tax would have upon the in dustries of the country, and it is equally simple to produce proofs to show that, arguments in favor of free alcohol are based upon sound economic principles. At present alcohol for beverages and Industrial alcohol are subject to a tax of more than $2 a gallon. Industrial alcohol, according to the department of agriculture, could be sold profitably were there no tax on it, for about 15 cents a gallon and under the in creased demand that would be sure to follow, it is possible it could be sold profitably for 10 cents a gallon. The U. S. at a Disadvantage. The fact that the United States is the only important maunfacturing and commercial country in the world which makes no distinction between alcohol used in the arts of manufactures, is due chiefly to the popular lack of knowledge as to the value of alcohol as an industrial material. Alcohol is absolutely necessary in the chemical industry, and in the man ufacture of most chemicals large quantities must be used. Owing to cheap alcohol the German manufac turers in these lines have developed their industries so that they are the foremost in the world, and have se cured almost the entire trade in neut ral markets. Not only this, but they sell large quantities in this country, the advantage resulting from cheap alcohol being sufficient to enable their "products fo~ be' sold" "Here'" in s'f(i(e""of the protective tariff. The total manu facture of fine chemicals in this coun try is valued at less than $5,000,000 the value of these articles exported by Germany exceeds $50,000,000. The revenue laws of all other com mercial nations of the world, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Aus tria-Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Ar gentine Republic, Chile and Peru, dis tinguish between the beverage and al cohol used only for industrial pur poses The use of alcohol as an industrial I material figures prominently in the manufacture of nearly one hundred different articles. These range from articles of household use and neces sity to electrical machinery, ammuni tion and fire arms. But few luxuries find a place in the list. The more common ones are as follows: Stiff hats, silk hats, women's' and children's straw hats, smokeless pow der, fulminate of mercury, cartridge ?, artifieal silk, picture frames, .mould ings, manufacturers of metal goods, including hardware, brans: beds and brass trimmings for iron beds, gas and lamp fixtures, lamps brass, musical the tax for another reason: He instruments, ple. tric fan?, bird cages, clocks, toys, etc.. coal tar dyes, celluloid, zylonite, fibroid and all manufacturers erf nitro-cellulous compounds and pryo xolin plastics, photographic supplier electric generators' and motor?, lead pencils, watches and clocks, ole -stearine, or steric acid, automobile 7«ower boats and small stationary com bustion engines, furniture and other polished wood productions, including railway and passenger street cars, car riages, pianos, organs, billiard tables. burial caskets, rattan goods and all polished wood interibrs. whips, trunks, shoe dressing, patterns, shoes fire works, emery wheels, pipes, umbrell-'S. and canes, handles and novelties, chloroform, fusel oil and transparent soap. The Making of Soap. Take the item of soan for instance. Alcohol is used in the manufacture of so a a a so Transparent soap is made by mixing fat and soda to form a soa.p mixlive in the usual way. Alcohol is tiipn added and an emplsion formed by vio lent agitation thus bringing the alrohol into contact with every particle of the soap. The alcohol is then allowed to evaporate and now transparent soap is run into moulds and pressed into the shares in which it is sold. The sales of transparent soap throughout the world are enormous, the anuual sales of one foreign man ufacturer in the United States'alone being about 14,400,000 cakes. Very lit tle is made in this country owing to the fact that the manufacture is increased over $5 a gross on account of the in ternal revenue tax of $2.07 per gallon on alcohol. What is true of soap is in a large measure true of smokeless powder. The weight of alcohol required in mak ing the best smokeless powder Is 14 times the weight of the finished pow der. The internal revenue on this al cohol is $2.08 a gallon, making the tax on tpe quantity necessary to use in making a pound of the .best smokeless powder 37 cents. The result is that, the sportsman must either be satisfied to use an inferior powder with 'the dan ger of excessive fouling and corroding, or pay an excessive price for the best. 1 protection shall be provided alongf this varied display of lamps, chandeliers, line by demanding that it shall con tain an obnoxious poisonious sub stance. The government secures the best powder for the army and navy at the lowest price by allowing the manufac turers to use tax-free, alcohol in man ufacturing powder for government ac count. For all other prj-ties tax paid alcohol must be used. For Lighting and Heating. The importance of cheap alcohol is now so well appreciated in Europe that in all the leading countries exhibitions to promote the industrial uses are the exposition held in Berlin, United State Consul General F. H. Mason referred to the use of alcohol for lighting and heating and other do mestic purposes as follows: "The department of lighting and heating apparatus includes a vast and street and corridor lights in which alcohol vapor burns with an incan descent flame which rivals arc lights in brilliancy and requires to. be shaded to adapt it to the endurance of the human eye. There has been a great improvement in the lamps and chand ielers for alcohol lighting which are up to the best standard of modern fix tures for g!i,s and electricity, with which alcohol lighting is now compet ing, with increased success in this country. TJie ordinary shade lamp for every day use is made of bronze with white porcelain shade and costs from $1.50 to $2.50, acording to the size and de sign, giving a light of 30 candles at a cost of one-third of one cent an hour. "Similarly attractive and interesting is the large display of alcahol heating stoves which for Warming corridors, sleeping rooms and certain other lo cations are highly esteemed. They are made of Japaned iron plate In decora1 tive forms -with concflave copper re flectors, are portable and furnish a clean, odorless and convenient heating apparatus. Cookings stoves of al! sizes, forms and capacities, from the complete" range with the baking and roasting ovens, foroilers. etc., to the simple tea and coffee lamp were in display." Alcohol burns readily under all con ditions without smoking, and is free from disagreeable odors. Motor Fuel for Farm Engines. The man who stands in line for the greatest benefit of free alcohols is the farmer. A greater demand win be created for the products of the farm, 'aftcfiii1 rei®ffir?he be' able to'buy a motor fuel at a cost so low that pow er w.ill be utilized very liberally in connection with worty on the farm. The rapid growth in the demand for liquid fuel has more than doubled the prices of gasoline during the past five years, and the fuel bill for a five horse-power engine ten hours a day has increased from $100 to $150 a year. With gasoline as the only available motor fuel its cost must advance With the steady increase in the number of engines used, since the supply is lim ited, and cannot be increased in pro portion to the growing demand for it. It has been estimated that making alcohol available as fuel by removing the tax would double the power uses inthis country. This would mean an agregate increase in engine of over ten million horsepower and if these were employed one-third of the time an addition to the yvorking force of the country of a thousand million horsepower hours. At one tenth of a gallon per horsepower this would re quire the annual consumption of one hundred million gallons of alcohol- Production of Alcohol. The farmer has interest in alcohol and the move r.e:U for the removal of is the producer from the raw material from which it is distilled. Corn is principal raw material dn this the country from which alcohol is made. It cm ako be made from other ma terials. such as potatoes, beets, un marketable fruits, damaged grain, etc. A large industrial consumption of al cohol would guarantee a sure market far surplus and otherwise unsalable crops- Furthermore the nature of the fluid permits of its being kept for years if necessary, hence when a large crop raised which tended to create a surplus and «3epress prices, the sur plus could 'easily be converted into al cohol and siored to prevent any marked reduction in prices in case of failure from short crops the follow ing year. Effort cr Insurance. Another feature of the matter is in surance. No insurance company will permit a farmer to have at one time any considerable quantity of gasoline on his farm. Since alcohol mixes with water freely a fire started with al cohol is one of the easiest to disting uish. This is not true of gasolene or kerosene, froth of which float on water and continue burr inc. The question has been raised as to whether extensive changes would be necessary in the gasolene engine now in use on farms in case the owner should want to use alcohol. This ques tion. has been given careful considera tion by the manufacturers of these en gines and their reply that the changes necessary would be very slight, if any at all. In 'fact gasoline ^engines have been operated experimentally with wood alcohol, and the engine made to per form every function intended of it. Alcohol in Cornstalks. Based upon figures furnished by the department of agriculture at Washing ton, D. C., the humble cornstalk of the crop raised in Iowa the past season would produce 1,500,000 gallons of al cohol." In\ a recent letter to a friend bearing on\ the subject, Secretary W1P son said: "During the past twenty-five year# experiments Save been made in this country which show that the cornstalk at the tirfie w%en the grain is harden ing contains from 12 to 15 per cent of sugar and other fermentable matters. If these sugars would he fermentated at this time it is easy to see that they Would produce an amount of alcohol far in excess of all that is used in the world for technical purposes and bev erages. "It is evident that as natural gas, oil and coal become scarcer, some other source must be found for fuel and light. It seems probable from a care ful study from all the conditions of agriculture that alcohol is destined to be the fuel of the future. It is the part, of wisdom therefore, in those con nected with the agricultural interests of'the country to exploit as far as pos sible all the various sources of supply In this country the stalk of Indian corn, the yam and the sweet and Irlgh potatoe are promising sources of al cohol in the future." CHINCHILLAS ABE GROWING SCARCE From the New York Herald: Consul Mansfield of Valparaiso, writes that chinchilla skins, much prized and highly valued in the United States, England and European coun tries because of their beautiful color and fine quality of the fur, are a product of Bolivia and Chile only. The consul continues: "The chinchilla is a small animal that burrows in the ground, and re sembles in general appearance a rat, except in the coat, which is a beautiful silken light gray fur. It is found in the Cordillera ranges of the Andes in Chile and Bolivia, the best quality coming from the -latter country. They are fouind in great numbers in the higher mountain ranges. But like all animals whose skins have a high mar ket value, chinchillas have been killed with impunity in season and out of season in recent years. As a result they are threatened with extinction. 'They are captured in various ways, but the most common method is to hunt them with dogs, the fox terrier being the most rapid exterminator of the chinchilla and the absolute lack of protection or regulation in taking them has resulted in a tremendous ad vance in the price of the skins in the past two years. "As an evidence of the commercial interest in the fur produced by this little animal, two American and two French firms keep expert purchasing agents in the field dunring the ship ping season—January to July. Co quimbo, Chile, is the chief port of ex port, that being the port of ghiptnent for the Bolivian product also. Last year there were exported from Co quimbo 12,000 dozen skins, the ma jority of which went to the United States, one agent shipping 7,150 dozen and another 2,500 dozen to their re spective New York houses. Prices last year were almost double those, paid in the year previous. "At the last session of the Chilean congress a bill was passed prohibit ing the killing of chinchillas within a certain season and providing penalties for violation of the law. But the nat ural habitat of the chinchilla in thp w'Ids of the Andes mountains make detections and convictions for viola tion of the law regulating their kill ing difficult, and it seems probable that this valuable fur producing ani mal, like many other wild animals, in digenous to the forests and mountains of North and South America, is des tined to early extinction." WHEN A STTLU RUNS AMOK. His Act Premeditated and Often the Ile Rennlt of RelivrlotiN Frenzy. From Jolo Cor. Straits Budget: Another "luramentado" affair here last night resulted in the death of a private belonging to the Twentieth Infantry and the wounding of another. The two sol diesr were sitting in front of a native house in the suburban village of Tulai, talking with an Eurasian interpreter employed in the office of the governor, when a Moro stepped up in front of them. The interpreter instantly exclaimed "Juramentado," the dreaded word which there keeps both American and Filipinos in a constant state of fear. As.soon as the word- was spoken, one of tne soldiers drew his revolver, but, unfortunately, it was not loaded. He was immediately cut down by the "bar ong" (buoad-bladed parang) of the fero cious Sulu and died soon after. The sec ond man then seized the blade and, after receiving some savage cuts, succeeded in wrenching it away from the savage, who took to fight and has not yet been captured. This was a decidedely unusual ending of such an affair, the "Moro usual ly fighting as long as life lasts, very rarely indeed taking to fight. Only a few weeks ago when there was a similar case of "juramentado" a mount ed sentry of the Fourteenth cavalry was attacked by a Sulu armed with a spear. The horse received a savage cut in the hip the sentry jumped down and shot the Moro dead, escaping entirely unin jured. As the island is now supposed to be at peace, this was considered an excep tional instance, and no special precau tions were taken on account of it. The "Juramentado" is somewhat differ ent from the amok-runner, in that he acts with premeditation. Through family troubles, as a religious fanatic, as a slave of some leader or priest, or any of 101 different reasons he decides to com mit suicide by taking with him into the next world the souls of as many Chris tian "dogs" as he can. He makes careful preparations for the event. He is anointed and shaved, the loss of his eyebrows being especially no ticeable. He dresses in white, provided that he can "scare up" a white suit, which is not always the case. He ties up certain of his organs in such a way as to produce agonizing pains this probably to keem up his courage. Then he makes for the American settlement and fight?, till killed. Owing to the extraordinary precautions which have been taken any serious in jury by one of these men has been a very rare occurrence, though a corporal was shot by agitated soldiers about three years ago after having slain the "jura mentado." There is an abundance of sen tries about the settlement. All soldiers outside the lines are supposed to be armed with heavy revolvers or rifles, and many of these are supplied with dumdum and "doctored" bullets, for the. Moro will flght as long as he can stand and does not mind having a few holes in his body. OREGON LAND BOARD CANCELS CERTIFICATES SAL»EM, Ore., Feb. 27—The state land board today passed formal reso lutions cancelling and declaring void all certificates held by the De L*itre brothers and allied interests, purchas ed through A. Kelliher, of Chicago, recently convicted in this city of fraudulent land transactions covering 20,000 acres. The board specifically de clares that the De Laitres were not p4rtle& to the fraud in ^making appli cations, but purchased, them from part- 'SSSSSKSsSM Diseases of Men CURED TO STAT *CURED. ,, By oar new EILECTRO-MBDICAL TREAT MENT, which oomblnes all of the curative powers of botftmodlolne and electricity. 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