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Vol. XXXVIII—No 46.
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN
The railroad agents in the senate
down at Washington hav started out
to make president Roosevelt tired in
the effort to get the proper laws made
to regulate railroad rates in the inter
est of the small shipper. It looks like
the railroad agents was in control of
the committee,on inter-state commerce
and all they intend to do is to meet and
do nothin', just dilly-dally along until
congress adjourns without reportin'
any practical and effective bill. This
railroad bunch ain't amenable to pub
lic sentiment. They feel theirselves
above and beyond it and ask with Boss
Tweed of old, What are you goin' to
do about it. These progcrastinators
and time-killers and paid manipulators
are onto all the tricks and arts of pro
crastination in congress and you can't
start 'em with dynamate and they're
goin' to do the biddin' of their bosses
in spite of the execrations of eighty
millions of people. Meanwhile poor
president Roosevelt is kept on the anx
ious seat and the railroad bunch intend
to bring him Anally to a compromise that
won't hurt 'em much oil the theory
that half a loaf id better than none.
Ain't it a sweet pass of conditions
when the men that are elected to rep
resent the people's interests sell 'em out
to the railroads and corporations?
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I hope that Minnesota will get a leg
islator some time that has got brains
enuf to make an inheritance law that
will stick. A lot of wooden heads
can't make laws. Other states hav in
heritance laws that will stick but in
this state somebody interested alwus
circumvents the project. It ain't no
hardship to anybody to bring the big
estates under taxation at least once in
every generation. As it is, the big fel
lows dodge taxation and assessments
like a cat. Everybody knows that the
rich folks don't as a rule pay tax at all
in proportion to those of moderate
means. The proposed law won't hurt
in any wrong place. It exempts all es
tates up to the first ten thousand val
uation. If this law would stick, it
means a million dollars a year for Min
nesota. The big millionaires die oif
once in awhile and then their millions
show up in probate lists and we can
get at 'em. This inheritance tax prob
ably with lots of 'em don't equal one
tenth of what they hav cheated the
state out of all these years by hidin'
their property and dodgin' taxes but it
will help out so fur as it goes and is
part restitution. I see that our pres
ent defective law is now bein' tested in
supreme court and it don't say what
the people wish that it was intended to
mean.
A Kansas city judge rules that a
silk skirt cosfcin' $16.50 is not an article
of necessity to a wife and that if a
woman purchases one her husband is
not bound to pay for it. The judge
went home before his decision and
found that his own wife could move in
first class society and be comfortable
and happy in skirts that cost $3.00
apiece and he went back and ruled ac
cordingly. I like such high and broad
and wise and equitable judicial tfulin's.
The courts are the bulwarks of our
rights and what would we do without
'em? [f a man wants to buy $16 skirts
for his wife, well and good, but when
she buys such extravagance without
his knowledge and consent and has 'em
charged to his account, courts and
judges should not be a piarty to such
holdups by forcin' the poor man to p&y
for such uselessness. The Kansas City
case was brought by a store firm to
compel the husband to pay for a dry-,
goods bill and he kicked on th^$16.50
skirt and wouldn't put up for it or
stand for it. So the store folks sued
him on the account and got a boomer
ang decision that hit 'em square in the
eye. Farmer Ben's wife is happy in a
$3.00 skirt just like Judge Gates's
wife and if the judge will ever come up
to Farmer Ben's ranch, we'll kill a
chicken and load him up witft the best
we hav.
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was interested in that divorce case
-down at Sioux City the other day
when 'a farmer's wife sued for divorce
on the ground that she simply cannot
liv without talkin'. She alleges and
asseverates in her testimony that af
ter she vent to liv on a farm she found
it exceeding and intolerably disagree
able because she had no one to talk to.
When her husband came at noon and
at night from his work she would un
cork the streams
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would answer gmnt abd nothin'
more'. She tried" many topics in the
hope of findin' out something her hus
band would let her talk about but
every time for answer there was only
the grunt varied at times with the la
conic information that she acted like
the devil. This inhuman and cruel
treatment she alleged in court made
life a mockery for her, ruined her
nerves, threatened her health and in
terfered in divert other ways and man
ner with the serenity of her feelings
and the flow of her chin music. The'
husband's extreme taciturnity was so
provokin' and uncalled for and outrage
eous and made her life so lonely on the.
farm that she wants divorce and ali
mony and to quit him forever. I tell
you that when it is impossible for a
woman to talk all she wants to, things
need lookin' up. Howsomever, I reck'
on that the man had a restful time
while his wife's taciturnity was enforc
ed and the lid was nailed down on her
ebullient loquacity.
$ioo Reward.
During the last two months the lead
cables of the Interstate Telegraph &
Telephone Co. have been maliciously
damaged in various parts of the city.
The company now offers $100.00 re
ward for the arrest and conviction of
the guilty parties either in the past or
future. Keep your eyes open. If you
find a man up a pole don't let him
down until you have evidence to prove
who he is and what he has been doing.
A. O. DINSMOOR, President.
JAMES KEENAN, Secy.
Who Owns the Eggs?
The question has been raised as to
the ownership of eggs, laid by h6ns
brought to Rochester for exhibition
purposes. Each morning quite a har
vest ot eggs was gathered from the
pens. Inasmuch as the Southeastern
Minnesota Poultry Association is pay
ing the rent for the hall in which the
hens are depositing their product, it
seems to some as though the associa
tion should have the eggs. On the
other hand, why should exhibitors be
deprived of the output of their laying
institutions, just because the machin
ery happens to be in Rochester at the
time of delivery? 4.11 eggs are high
uoW and the eggs of prize poultry are
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FARMJER BEN.
Senator Clapp Tired of Delay in Leg
illation.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald from Washington, says: Sena
tor Clapp, of Minnesota, was a very
angry man when he came out of the
senate committee on interstate com
merce Saturday. Mr. Clapp is one of
the republican members of that com
mittee who favor railroad rate legisla
tion in accordance with the recommen
dations made by President Roosevelt
The committee had just held a meet
ing of about two hours' duration, but
it did nothing—nothing except discuss
the wages to be paid the committee
employes for their' extra work during
the past summer, and then debate in
solemn fashion whether or not there
ought to be rate legislation, and
whether or not there was a popular de
mand for it in the country. It was
this last straw that broke the broad
back of Mr. Clapp's patience.
"The idea," he exclaimed. "It is tco
absurd for any use. Our committee
discussed railway rates all last spring.
We were authorized by the senate to
sit during the recess and investigate
the subject. We wfcre instructed to
prepare a bill for. presentation to the
senate at the earfost possible moment
this session. W-e *ame down here
a couple of weeks before the opening
of the session and have held a number
of meetings. And yet nothing is done.
"The whole subject has been thrash
ed out in the country, in the press, in
the committee. Everyone knows we
have got to pass a bill. The only ques
tion is as to just what sort of a bill.
Yet we meet today and spend our time
debating whether or not there ought to
be legislation. It makes me tired."
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$5.00 a dozen. Be
the eggs are laid in the owner's
private pens appears to some as a logi
cal
argument for property rights, but
it must be remembered that the asso
ciation paid for all the feed and water
that went into the egg. Judge Holden,
president of the American Association,
has declined to, arbitrate and no one
appears to know eggzactly what to do
—Rochester Bulletin.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
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.We, the undersigned, have known P. J.
Cheney for the lastl5 years, andbelieve him
perfectly honorable in ail business transactions
and financially able to carry out. any obliga
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act-
Take HaU'~8 Family Pills for Constipation.' ?,
Opposed Numbering
Boxes.
Rural Mail
The determined and general opposi
tion to the numbering of rural pail
toxes in the interest of the mail order
houses^ is being endorsed by the busi
ness men of the west generally. The
following letter from the large Chicago
mercantile house of Marshall Field &
Co., is a warning to country merchants
that should b^ healed:
Dear Sir:—We are informed that the
fourth assistant postmaster general
has issued an order that all mail boxes
on rural free delivery routes should be
consecutively numbered and that the
carriers have been instructed to deliver
all mail matter to such boxes according
to the numbers on the letters or pack
ages.
If this order is carried into effect it
will be possible for all order or cata
logue houses to reach customers whose
addresses they do not now have. As
an illustration, a catalogue marked No.
76, R. F. D. No 1, Dows, Iowa, would
reach the customer, although the mail
order did not know his name. This is
manifestly in favor of the mail order
houses and should be prevented if pos
sible.
We suggest that you prepare a peti
tion in your own words, similar to the
enclosed, and circulate it among the
people in your town and vicinity tor
their signatures. When you have ob
tained a number of such names, the pe
tition should be forwarded to the post
master general at Washington.
It is important that you give this
matter prompt and energetic attention,
as the catalogue houses are busily at
work in favor of the proposed plan.
Very truly yours,
—Marshall Field & Co.
Grip Quickly Knocked Out]
"Some weeks ago during the severe
winter weather both my wife and my
self contracted severe colds which
speedily developed into the worst kind
of la grippe with all its miserable symp-i
tons," says Mr. J. S. Egleston of Maple
Landing, Iowa. "Knees anJ joints
aching, muscles sore, head stopped up,
eyes and nose running, with alternate
spells of chills and fever. We began
using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
aiding thfe same with a dose of Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
and by its ItberaF iise soon completely/
knocked out the grip." It is a good
plan to take a dose of the Tablets when
you have a cold. They promote, a
healthy action of the bowels, liver arid
kidneys which is always beneficial
when the system is congested by a cold
or attack of the grip. For sale
druggists.
by all
Poison. Cause of Rheumatism.
Prof Perieres of Toulouserecently read
a paper in the Academy of Medicine at
Paris in which he sets forth a new
theory on rheumatism.
Prof. Perieres' belief is that rheuma
tism is directly caused by the introduc
tion into the system of a ferment sim
ilar to the fibrine ferment of the coagu
lation of the blood.
The learned doetor has succeeded in
driving the poison out of the system
by means of mild antiseptics, which he
finds in juniper and cubebs peppers.
The new treatment is swift in its ef
fects and entirely without danger.
A Certain Cure for Croup.
When a child shows symptoms of
croup there is no time to experiment
with new remedies, no matter how
highly they 'may be recommended.
There is one preparation that can al
ways be depended upon. It has been
in use for many years and has never
been known to fail, viz: Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Give it and a quick
cure is sure to follow. Mr. M. F. Comp
ton of Market' Texas, says of it, "I
have used Chamberlain's Cough Rem-1
edy in severe eases of croup with my
children, and can truthfully say it al
ways gives prompt relief." For sale,
by all druggists.
NOTICE.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Austin National Bank,
of Austin, Minnesota, will be held at!
their banking house on Tuesday, Janu
ary 9,1906,
*at four o'clock p. m. for the
purpose 6f electing five directors for
the year ensuing, ana for the transac
tion of such other bnsiness as may pro
perly come before said meeting.
Dated Austin, Minn. Dec, 2,1905.
J. L. MITCHELL,Cashier!
Annual Meeting.
The Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of the Citizens National Bank
of Austin, Minn., will be held at their
banking house on Tuesday, January 9,
1906, at two o'clock p. m., for the elec
tion of five directors for the year en
suing and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before said meeting.
Dated Dec 2,1905.
B. J. MORE*, Cashier.
When you want a pleasant 'laxative
take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv
er Tablets. For sale by all druggists.
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f,#iAiistWl iVToWer County, Minnesota, We^iesday, December 20, 1905 $1.50 Per Annum, in Advance.
A MORRIS CHAIR made of
Oak Golden finish loose Velvour
Cushions $5.75
MISS ION MORRIS CHAIR made
of Weathered Oak, Spanish
Leather Upholstering, special
price, $12.00
We have over 25 styles of Morris
chairs to choose from. Why not
select out of a stock that can show
you an assortment at Prices That
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