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f A STORY BY JOHNY. r ' n. y., aug. 1. alnt it a terribel thing what a grate guverment f like the yunited states can do - when it onct makes up its mind why, it can take a big trust like the standerd oil cumpeny and bust it all into smithereens you mite think jondee rockafel ler, being the ritchest man in the world, vouId be able to prevent sutch a calamity to his bisniss interests 7 . but no, all his gold cannot avail, whcu uiitvci sd.111 any a, una ncie trust has got to be busted, she is going to be busted, and don't you forgit it jondee mite even rite a letter to the presadent, and say, o, sir, think of all the widders and orfins what has got their dough invested in our stock what will they do when your minyons goes to work and nocks our industry all to bits he mite even say, think, of me. i am a old man and i have worked hard to bild up this little oil bis niss. must i see the fruits of my labor perrish jn this crool manner for all i know, old jondee mite .have sed all them things to the guvernment but the guvernment just went ahed and smashed the standerd oil trust, and broke it all up into y .little peaces, and showed jondee and his gang that they was up agenst the real thing when unkel sani got busy o, yes, they showed them, all rite before the standerd oil trust was smashed, its stock was 675 h dollers a share it is -6 months now sinse the grate monopoly-bustin act was pulled off, and shares is sellin for 1000 dollers today jondee owns quite a few shares, and the old boy is a little more than 81 milyen dollers ritchen than he was befoar the trust was busted aint this a grate little country we li.ve in ? beleave me, it is for jondee' johny o o Hardy Whitlock, embezzling treasurer at Danville, HI., was fined $75,000, payable in monthly installments of $40. He will make his last payments Oct.-28, 2068 IF! gb-j-Ajtauii-j. f furfur tfa ijjrnffiaatfaa Hjj . -s&