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WORN OUT WOMEN Will Find Encouragement in Mrs. Mer ritt’s Advice. Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 S. First Ave., Anoka, Minn., says: "Last win ter I began to suf fer with my kidneys. I had pains in my back and hips and felt all worn out. Dizzy spells both ered me and the kidney secretions were irregular. The first box of Doan's Kidney Pills brought decided relief. I am do the same for any other woman suffering as I did." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. sure they would She—You (shriek) brute, before we married (shriek), (shriek) you said mamma could come and see us as often (shriek) as she pleased. He (meekly)—Yes, dear; but she has ceased to please. CUTICURA CURED FOUR Southern Woman Suffered with Itch' ing, Burning Rash—Three Little Babies Had Skin Troubles. “My baby had a running sore on hi9 beck and nothing that I did for it took effect until 1 used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some sim ilar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke out oil my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me—one set of Cuti cura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle s baby whose head was a cake of sores, and another baby who was in the same fix. Mrs. Lillie Wilcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chat tanooga, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1907.” Not for Murphy. Mr. Murphy—Oi want to buy a pair of gloves. Clerk—Here’s something I believe will just suit you. It’s a suede glove. Mr. Murphy—Niver, begorra! OI want Irish gloves. Swade gloves, in dade!—Kansas City Times. Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. It is to these faithful women that LYDIA E.PINKHAIVTS VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of Mayville, X. Y., and to Sirs. W. P. Boyd,of Beaver Falls, Pa, who say: “I was not able to do my own work, ©wing to the female trouble from which 1 suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege talileCompound helped me wonderfully, and I am so weU that I can do as big a day’s work as I ever did. I wish every sick woman vouid try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has posit ively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flat ulency, indiges tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Piitkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lyutt, Mass. DEFENDS PHILIPPINE POLICY Says Filipinos Will Not Be Ready for Independence for a Generation and Perhaps More. Washington.—Nine years after the battle of Manila Bay, Secretary Taft records the results of the American occupation of the archipelago and forecasts the future of the Filipinos in an exhaustive report transmitted to Congress by the president, with a letter written by the chief executive commending in the highest terms the secretary’s conclusions. The presi dent declares that ruin would have followed the adoption of any other policy toward the Philippines than that outlined by William McKinley and carried forward through these nine years, and asserts triumphantly that there is no brighter page in his tory than that dealing with the re lations between the strong and the weak in those islands. He adds that the Filipinos “have yet a long way to travel before they will be fit for complete self-government." Secretary Taft's report records his observations on his recent visit to the islands to (he extent of nearly SO printed pages. Generally speaking, the secretary is optimistic in a high degree in treating on this subject, even though he cannot fix a time for declaring the independence of the is lands. In answer to the critics who have made “the most astounding and unfair statements in respect to the cost to the United States of the Phil ippines,” he figures out a total annual expenditure of $500,000, and he vig orously denies the failure of the Phil ippine policy. He says that great changes have occurred in the islnds; tht the people are now' anxious to have the American soldiers retained; that there is a high standard of ad ministration of justice; that nothing is more popular than the constabu lary; that there are no questions be tween the government and the Ro man Catholic church, unless the Agli pavan schism can be said to be in volved; that peace prevails in a great er degree than ever before in the his tory of the islands, and that the mag nificent Benguet road is now justi fied by the results obtained. The secretary is wdlling to limit the amount of sugar and tobacco that can be exported to the United States. He predicts a development, of business W'ithin 25 years that will make the Filipinos themselves stand high in the W'orld’s industrial populations. To Lynch Negro. Ottumwa, la.—A mob of 200 men gahered at the county jail and de manded Roy Edwards, a negro, who is under arrest for assault on Mrs. Clara Erwin. A riot call was sent to the police, and then Sheriff Jackson ad dressed the mob and told it that Ed wards had been taken out of town. The mob remained about the jail for some time, and then left in a body and marched down through the main streets. Cuida Has Ceased Labor. Romo.—Ouida, the once famous nov elist, died at the home of her faithful maid, Isolina Cervelli, near Florence, Italy, after a brief illness. Her death was duo mainly to old age, although it was hastened by the privations which she had been compelled to undergo in recent years and which brought on heart disease. She refused to accept any financial asistance from the man friends who desired to aid her. Rob Mail Wagon of $5,003. New Orleans.--—Daring thieves robbed a United States mail wagon loaded with incoming mail, which had arrived from Cincinnati and other Northern points over the Queen and Crescent route, Friday night. The thieves were reported to have secured about $5,000, but the postoffice au thorities refused to make any state ment about the amount of the rob bery. Pension Roll Increases. Washington.—Representative Keif er of Ohio, chairman of the Sub-com mittee on Pensions of the House Com mittee on Appropriations, announces informally that the committee has agreed to recommend a pension roll of $150,000,000 for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1909. This will be about $7,000,000 in excess of the pension roll of the present fiscal year. Sells Tobacco; Whipped. Hopkinsville, Ky.—R. H. Rodgers, of the Bra vincinity, this county, was visited Friday night by a party of about 75 night riders. He was called from his house and severely whipped with buggy whips. Mr. Rodgers is a member of the “association,” but is alleged to have sold his tobacco out side of the organization. Plan $20,000,000 Company. Mexico City.—Plans for the estab lishment of a bar iron plant to cost $20,000,000 are said lo have been form ulated here. The promoters are Amer ican millionaires represented by F. H. Clarke, a New York lawyer. Murder and Suicide in New York Restaurant. New York.—Dressed in her best clothing and with three loaded revol vers in her big sable muff, Mrs. May Roberts Clark walked into R. H. Ma cey & Co.’s restaurant when that place was crowded and shot and killed Frank P. Brady, who was employed in the advertising department of the Evening Telegram. The woman then shot herself, dying two hours later in the New York hospital. Moravian Barley and Speltr, two Rrcat cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak.. Mont., Ida.. 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S of your collections: xWcapital except team and wagon. Send for list of our products and fS pat ticulars. Address with refer enees and stamp. KKK MEDICINE CO., Keokuk, Iowa. LOANS "n barms nr city, anvnhere t v7 DEFIANCE STARCH &Ss5 Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. From the Railway World, January j, igoS. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the cause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana. The publication of this an swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev eral weeks, “for business reasons,” because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly dis turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis sioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard , Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission was a class and not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East ern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Com merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodi ties between these points of a similar char acter, and of greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company -was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the “trusts” upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influ ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com missioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebut tal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He answers the points made by Presi dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company hada traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Holton, which is described as “a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates.” The Commissioner ad mits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement, of the Commissioner of Corpora tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make them read from a point on the line of the fil ing road, and it was also general to state on the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to other points, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing its rate from Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was in common use. Now let us see in what way the intending shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting. Commissioner Smith contends that “conceal ment is the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement,” i. e., that this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitors of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective oil refiner had ap plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6*4 cents from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an arrangement of long standing, and which applies to all the in dustrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica go, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi nois at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis at a rate of *6% cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Corporations makes so much of? Any rate— from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap pell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to ship ments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor tation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public ignorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unques tioningly every statement made by a Govern ment official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that “the ‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted a discrimination as against other shippers of oil,” and he also makes much of the failure of President Moffett to produce before the grand jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil official said that other large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers in cluded the packers and elevator men of Chi cago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight fates for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. Presi dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official investigations by the Inter state Commerce Commission and other de partments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight times the val ue of its entire property, because its traffic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod ity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered with by the lS-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file its six cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper,—we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "inde pendent’’ shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrim ination of the Alton, could have shipped all the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, Presi dent Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Hice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liber ties, Henry Demurest Lloyd, writh his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive person alities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. The whole strength of the Government is di rected against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav ing failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. 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