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WELL——
Most Occidentals can tell a Manchu
from a Chinaman when they meet
.one in the street.
en the super-dreadnought shall
en exceeded, how will the ves
erred to?
Tripoli who hilled Italian
ildiers were not bidding
;reatment.
eless aeroplane is even
ig to the cautious citizen
if the noisy kind.
Just because the small boy likes to
play with toy railroad trains is no
sign that he will be president
Most persons are willing to ac¬
knowledge that there is such a thing
as old age, but the bridegroom ot 73,
never.
Six hundred asteroids travel along
■with the arth, and one of them is
missing. Has any one seen a lost
asteroid?
Professor Lowell reports sighting
a frost on Mars, but could not tell by
the telescope which' party had been
defeated.
A ditch digger Is sole heir to a
$75,000 estate. When the whistle
blows at noon he can eat his lunch
light-heartedly.
Goat’s milk is strongly recommend¬
ed as a cure tor Inebriety. Still, the
victim may find difficulty in getting
lebody’s goat.
Chinese emperor, aged 5, is do¬
ll that can reasonably be ex
of him to pacify his numerous
lets, and they should not in all
fess behead him.
Seattle clergyman preached in
streets from a coffin and was car
home by “pailbearers.' And one
s objects was to prove u that he
not a dead one.
t prisoner begged a magistrate not
rflne him, saying it would be the
tinning of seven years of bad luck.
Clad been his good luck that had
fit him out ot trouble.
Fifty Pittsburg men are suing for
divorce on the ground of extrava¬
gance. It surely is a shame for their
wives to spend the money they need
for the Great White Way.
The beauty lecturer who has been
advising New York women to use
more soap and water on their faces,
but not to forget the rouge, reminds
ns that some beauty isn’t even skin
deep.
The cutting off of queues by the
Chinese rebels is reported to have
made puffs cheaper. If the revolution
wins out first thing we know puffs
will he so cheap they will be unfash
ibl
European nobleman tried to reduce
his weight in order to win a wife and
died of starvation. Moral: It is better
to have men say “Isn’t he fat?” than
“Doesn’t he look natural!”
Surely it ought not to be a repug¬
nant task for every good citizen of
the country to comply with the apple
growers’ modest demand and eat five
apples a day until further notice.
Jenks of Minnesota would
(divorce evil by letting wives
ae family purse strings. This,
the countless other sure
gd panaceas, makes one won
I divorce should stick around
elephone conversation has been
on successfully between Lon
and Basel in Switzerland, 600
llles away, and it is expected that be¬
fore long most of the large cities in
Europe will be in telephone communi¬
cation with the British capital. What
good will it do, however, to connect
a man in London with a man in Ber¬
lin if neither understands the other’s
language?
Now that the lawn mowing season
is over, the muscular system may be
kept in trim by judiciously heaving
coal into the furnace.
The names of statesmen and cities
in 'China are inexplicably mixed, and
they cannot well be unscrambled until
this cruel war is over.
The wearers of high crowned der
bys declare that the hatters shall not
for the sake of profit introduce the
low crowned article. They say they
will die first.
In the wheat tumble one broker lost
$2,000,000, on paper. That is the
pleasantest way to lose so much
money if a man foust lose it
Italian aviators have been dropping
bombs upon Arab camps, thus pre¬
venting the Arabs from folding their
tents and silently stealing away.
A pajama party was given in St
Louis and was attended by fifty men
and women. If they bad been routed
out by a fire they would have felt em¬
barrassed
Only Matter Touched. On In President’s
Message to Congress
Additional Legislation to Strengthen Present
Statutes Is Recommended—Defends Stand¬
ard Oil and Tobacco Decisions
Washington.— President Taft’s annual
mesage, which was read in both houses
of congress Tuesday, deals exclusively
with the anti-trust statute. The message
in part is as follows:
To the Senate and House of Represent¬
atives: This mesage is the first of sev¬
eral which I shall send to congress during
the interval between the opening of its
regular session and its adjournment for
the Christmas holidays. The amount of
information to be communicated as to
th^ operations of the government, the
number of important subjects calling for
comment by the executive, and the trans¬
mission to congress of exhaustive re¬
ports by special commissions, make it im¬
possible to include in one message of a
reasonable length a discussion of the top¬
ics that ought to be brought to the at¬
tention of the national legislature at its
first regular session.
The Anti-Trust Law—The Supreme
Court Decisions.
In May last the Supreme court handed
down decisions in the suits in equity
brought by the United States to enjoin
the further maintenance of the Standard
Oil trust and of the American Tobacco
trust, and to secure their dissolution. The
decisions are epoch-making and serve to
advise the business world authoritatively
of the scope and operation of the anti¬
trust law of 1890. The decisions do not
depart in any substantial way from the
previous decisions of the court in constru¬
ing and applying this important statute,
but dux they tney clarify ciamy those xnose important important decisions ueui&iuna
by further defining the already admitted
exceptions to the literal construction of
the act. By the decrees, they furnish a
useful precedent as to the proper method
of dealing with the capital and property
of illegal trusts. These decisions sug¬
gest the need and wisdom of additional
or supplemental legislation to make it
easier for the entire business community
to square with the rule ot action and
legality thus finally established and to
preserve the benefit, freedom and spur
of reasonable competition without loss of
real efficiency or progress.
No Change in the Rule of Decision—
Merely in Form of Expression.
The statute in its first section declares
to be Illegal “every contract, combination
in the form of trust or otherwise, or con¬
spiracy, in restraint of trade or com¬
merce among the several states or with
foreign nations,” and in the second, de¬
clares guilty of a misdemeanor every per¬
son who shall monopolize or attempt to
monopolize or combine or conspire with
any other person to monopolize any part
of the trade or commerce of the several
states or with foreign nations.”
In two early cases, where the statute
was invoked to enjoin a transportation
agreement between interstate railroad
companies, it was held that it liras no de¬
fense to show that the agreement as to
rates complained ief was reasonal at com
Ittor. * lrtw. di^^Bfd all the
statute was against restraint con¬
tracts and combinations in of
trade whether raaSonal at comrfln law
or not. It was plain from theBveord.
however, that the contracts corBiiained
of in those cases would not ha-« been
deemed reasonable at common iff*.
It has been said that the court, by in¬
troducing into the construction of the
statute common law distinctions. has
emasculated It. This is obviously untrue.
By its judgment every contract and com¬
bination in restraint of interstate trade
made with the purpose, or necessary ef¬
fect of controlling pri \s by stifling com¬
petition, or of establishing In whole or In
part a monopoly of such trade, is con¬
demned by the statute. The most ex¬
treme crltiics cannot instance a case that
ought to be condemned under the statute
which is not brought within its terms as
thus construed.
The sugestion is also made that the Su¬
preme court by Its decisions In the last
two cases has committed to the court the
undefined and unlimited discretion to de¬
termine whether a case of restraint of
trade ls within the terms of the statute.
This is -wholly untrue. A reasonable re¬
straint of trade at common law is well
understood and is clearly defined. It does
not rest in the discretion of the court. It
must be limited to acomplish the purpose
of a lawful main contract to which, in
order that it shall be enforceable at all,
it must be incidental. If It exceeds
needs of that contract It is void.
The Remedy in Equity by Dissolution.
In the Standard Oil case the Supreme
and circuit courts found the combination
to be a monopoly of the interstate busi¬
ness of refining, transporting, and mar¬
keting petroleum and its products,
ed and maintained through thirty-seven
different corporations, the stock of which
was held by a New Jersey company. It
In effect commanded the dissolution of
this combination, directed the transfer
and pro-rata distribution by the New Jer¬
sey company of the stock held by it in
the thirty-seven corporations to and
among its stockholders, and the corpora¬
tions and individual defendants were en¬
joined froln conspiring or combining to
restore such monopoly; and all agree¬
ments betwen the subsidiary corporations
tending to produce or bring about further
violations of the act were enjoined.
In the Tobacco case, the court found
that the individual defendants, twenty
nine in number, had been engaged in a
successful effort to acquire complete do¬
minion over the manufacture, sale, and
distribution of tobacco in this country
and abroad, and that this had been done
by combinations made with a purpose
and effect to stifle competition, control
prices, and establish a monopoly, not
only in the manufacture of tobacco, but
also of tin-foil and licorice, used in its
manufacture and of its products of ci¬
gars, cigarettes and snuffs. The tobacco
suit presentend a far more complicated
and difficult case than the Standard Oil
suit for a decree which would effectuate
the will of the court and end the viola¬
tion of the statute. There was here no
single holding company as in the ease
of the Standard Oil trust. The main com¬
pany was the American Tobacco com¬
pany. a manufacturing, selling and hold¬
ing company. The plan adopted to de¬
stroy the combination and restore compe¬
tition involved the redlvision of the capi¬
tal and plants of the whole trust between
some of the companies constituting the
trust and new companies organized for
the purposes of the decree and made par¬
ties to it, and numbering, new and old,
fourteen.
In the original suit there were twenty
nine defendants who were charged with
being the conspirators through whom the
Illegal combination acquired and exercised
She Had Her Doubta.
Patience—He said he would go
through fire for me.
Patrice—Well, you don’t doubt him,
do you?
"Sometimes I do. I notice he al¬
ways sits near the Are extinguisher
when, he calls on me.!’
■ i ■■ ■
Mother's Full Duty,
Our observation Is that no mother
can do her full duty by a big family
of boys without becoming a good deal
of a pugilist.—Galveston News.
pg. 2
its unlawful dominion. Under the de¬
cree these defendants will hold amounts
of stock in the various distributee com¬
panies ranging from 41 per cent, as a
maximum to 28H per cent, as a minimum,
except in the case of one small company,
the Porto Rican Tobacco company, in
which they will hold 45 per cent. The
twenty-nine individual defendants are er.
joined for three years from buying any
stock except from each other, and the
group is thus prevented from extending
its control during that period. All parties
to the suit, and the new companies who
arc made parties, are enjoined perpetual¬
ly from in any way effectfng any com¬
bination between any of the companies
in violation of the statute by
way of resumption of the old trust. Each
of the fourteen companies is enjoined
from acquiring stock tn any of the others.
AH .these companies are enjoined from
having common directors or officers, or
common buying or selling agents, or com¬
mon offices, or lending money to each
other.
Size of New Companies.
Objection was made by certain inde¬
pendent tobacco companies that this set
™mies Hement was unjust because it left com
with very large capital in active
business, and that the settlement that
would be effective to put all on an equal¬
ity would be a division of the capital and
plant of the trust into small fractions in
amount more nearly equal to that of each
of the independent companies. This con¬
^ tention results from a misunderstanding
wf tne anti-trust law and its purpose.
* ls not intended thereby . to prevent . the ..
accumulation of large capital in business
enterprises in which such a combination
can secure reduced cost of production,
sale and distribution. It is directly
against such an aggregation of capital
only when Its purpose is that of stifling
competition, enhancing or controlling
prices and. establishing a monopoly. If
we shall hspre by the decree defeated these
purposes and restored competition be¬
tween the large units into which the cap¬
ital and plant have bfeen divided, we
shall have accomplishes the useful pur¬
pose of the statute.
Confiscation Not the Purpose of the
Statute.
It Is not the purpose of the statute to
confiscate the property and capital of the
offen ding trusts. Methods of punishment
by fine or imprisonment of the Individual
offenders, by fine of the corporation, or
by forfeiture of its goods in transporta¬
tion, are provided, but the proceeding in
equity is a specific remedy to stop the
operation of the trust by injunction and
prevent the future use of the plant and
capital in violation of the statute.
I venture to say that not in the history
of American law has a decree more ef¬
fective for such a puapose been entered
by a court than that against the Tobacco
trust. (
CommOjVpiuvk Ownership. fhat Tribal !
It has been gtssumed IS;
pro-rata companies and rommon -ownership in all
these by former stockholders
of the trust would insure a continuance
of the same old single control of all the
companies into which the trust has by
decree been disintegrated. This is er¬
roneous and is based upon the assumed in¬
efficacy and innocuousness of Judicial in¬
junctions. The companies are enjoined
from co-operation or combination; they
have different managers, directors, pur¬
chasing and sales agents. If all or any
of the numerous stockholders, reaching
into the thousands, attempt to secure
concerted action of the companies with a
view to the control of the market, their
number is so large that such an attempt
could not well be concealed and its prime
movers and all its participants would be
at once subject to contempt proceedings
and Imprisonment of a summary cnarac
ter. The immediate result of the present
situation will necessarily be activity by
all the companies under different man¬
agers and then competition must follow,
or there will be activity by one company
and stagnation by another. Only a short
time will inevitably lead to a change in
ownership of the stock, as all oppor¬
tunity for continued co-operation must
disappear.
Movement for Repeal of the Anti-Trust
Law.
But now that the anti-trust act is seen
to be effective for the accomplishment of
the purpose of its enactment, we are met
by a cry from many different quarters
for its repeal. It is said to be obstructive
of business progress, to be an attempt to
restore old-fashioned methods of de¬
structive competition between small units,
and to make impossible^those useful corn¬
** binations of " capital and ~ the reduction of
the cost of production that are essential
to continued prosperity and normal
growth.
In the recent decisions the Supreme
court makes clear that there is nothing
in the statute which condemns combina¬
tions of capital or mere bigness of plant
organized to secure economy in produc¬
tion and a reduction of its cost. It is only
when the purpose or necessary effect of
the organization and maintenance of the
combination or the aggregation of im¬
mense size are the stifling of competition,
actual and potential, and the enhancing
of prices and establishing a monopoly,
that the statute is violated. Mere size
is no sin against the law. The merging
of two or more busmes plants necessarily
eliminates competition between the units
thus combined, but this elimination is in
contravention of the statute only when
the combination is made for purpose of
ending this particular competition in or¬
der to secure control of, and enhance,
prices and create a monopoly.
Lack of Definiteness In the Statute.
The complaint is made of the statute
that it is not sufficiently definite in its
description of that which Is forbidden, to
enable business men to avoid its viola¬
tion. The suggestion is, that we may
have a combination of two corporations,
which may run on for years, 'and that
subsequently the attorney general may
conclude that it was a violation of the
statute, and that which was supposed by
the combiners to be inocent then turns
out to be a combination in violation of
the statute. The answer to this hypo¬
thetical case Is that when men attempt
to amass stupendous capital as will enable
them to suppress competition, control
prices and establish a monopoly they
know the purpose of their acts. Men do
not do such a thing without having it
clearly in mind.
New Remedies Suggested.
Much Is said of the repeal of this stat¬
ute and of constructive legislation intend
Impossible.
"They would make a splendid match.
I wonder why they have never mar¬
ried?”
“Oh, In the winter she Is Interested
In society, and in the summer he is
interested in baseball.”—The Smart
Set
Too Easily Satisfied.
He who comes up to his own idea
of greatness must always have had a
very low standard of it in his mind.—
Hazlitt.
ed to accomplish the purpose «--d blaze
a clear path for honest merchants and
business men to follow. It may be that
such a plan will be evolved, but I sub¬
mit that the discussions which have been
brought out in recent! days by the fear
of the continued execution of the anti¬
trust law have produced nothing but glit¬
tering generalities and have offered no
line of distinction or rule of fiction as defi¬
nite and as clear as that which the Su¬
preme court itself lays down in enforcing
the statute.
Supplemental Legis an Needed—Not
Repeal or Jendment.
I see no objection-1 ■indeed I can see
decided advantages-- the enactment of
a law which shall j-ibe and denounce unfair
methods and of badges competing of unlawful which are purpose
are
denounced in the anti-trust law. The at¬
tempt and purpose to suppress a competi¬
tor by underselling him at a price so un¬
profitable as to drive him out of business,
or the making of exclusive contracts with
customers under which they are required
to give up association with other manu¬
facturers, and numerous kindred methods
for stifling competition and effecting mo¬
nopoly, should be described with sufficient
accuracy In a criminal statute on the one
hand to enable the government to short¬
en Its task by prosecuting single misde¬
meanors instead of an entire conspiracy,
and, on the other hand, to serve the pur¬
pose of poipting out more In detail to the
business community what must be
avoided.
Fedoralifi^^poration Recommended.
Januat^^^Hft, In" iHhI |>, message I I essage /enture^o *entu. ^^cojigress point out on
tojbusiness H =w -.« *--------- would
the disturbance - that
probably attend* the dissolution of
these offending trusts. I said;
"But such an investigation and pos¬
sible prosecution of corporations whose
prosperity or destruction affects the
comfort not only of stockholders but of
millions of wage earners, employes,
and associated tradesmen must neces¬
sarily tend to disturb the confidence Of
the business community, to dry up the
now flowing sources of capital from its
places of hoarding, and produce a halt
tn our present prosperity that will
cause suffering and strained circum¬
stances among the Innocent many for
the fault of the guilty few. The ques¬
tion which I wish In this message to
bring clearly to the consideration and
discussion of congress is whether, in
order to avoid such a possible business
dauger. something cannot be done by
which these business combinations may
be offered a mewithout great finan¬
cial disturbance, of changing the char¬
acter, organization and extent of their
business into one within the lines of
the law under federal control and su¬
pervision, securing compliance with the
anti-trust statute.
“Generally, in |he industrial principal combi¬
nations called ‘Trusts.’ the
business is the sale of goods in many
states and in foreign markets; in other
words, the interstate and foreign busi¬
ness far exceeds the business done in
any one ^tate. This fact will justify
the federal government in granting a
federal charter to such a combination
to make and sell in interstate and for¬
eign commerce the products of useful
manufacture under such limitations as
will secure a compliance with the anti¬
trust law. It is possible so to frame
a statute that while it offers protec¬
tion to a federal company against
harmful, vexatious and unnecessary
invasion by the states, it shall subject
it to reasonable taxation and control
by the states with respect to its pure¬
ly local business.
“Corporations ;anized under this
net should be u| ited from acquir
ing and holding in other corpora
tions (except forf icial federal reasons, author- upon
aoprovai by avoidirl the r creation under
ity), thus iie
national auspieesj [he holding com
pany with subor corporations in
different states, s been such an
effective agency^ atlon of the
great trusts arj
“If Jhe profit _____e b^ anti-trust
-act' fljai'ds\ a enforcoll, T-t -"mf
ot trade is to be effectively
it Is essential that the national govern¬
ment shall provide for tne creation of
national corporations to carry on a
legitimate business throughout the
United States. The conflicting laws of
the different states or the. Union wifh
respect to foreign corporations makes
it dil^cult. if not impossible, for one
corporation to comply with their re¬
quirements so as to carry on business
in a number of different states."
Federal Corporation Commission Pro¬
posed.
I do not set forth in detail the terms
and sections of a statute which might
supply the constructive legislation permit¬
ting and aiding the formation of combina¬
tions of capital into federal corporations.
They should be subject to rigid rules as
to their organization and procedure, in¬
cluding effective publicity, and to the
closest supervision as to the issue of
stock and bonds by an executive bureau
or commission in the department of
commerce and labor, to which in times of
doubt they might well submit their pro¬
posed plans for future business. It must
be distinctly understood that incorpora¬
tion under a federal law could not ex¬
empt the company thus formed and its
incorporators anfc managers from prose¬
cution under the anti-trust law for sub¬
sequent ilegal conduct, but the publicity
of its procedure and the opportunity for
frequent consultation as to the legitimate
purpose of its transactions would offer
it as great sqmrity against successful
prosecutions for violations of the law
as would be practical or wise.
Such a bureau or commission might
well be invested also with the duty al¬
ready referred to, of aiding the courts
in the dissolution and recreation of trusts
within the law. It should be an execu¬
tive tribunal of the dignity and power of
the comptroller of the currency or the
interstate commerce commission, which
now exercise supervisory power over Im¬
portant classes of corporations under fed¬
eral regulation.
The drafting of such a federal incorpor¬
ation law would offer ample opportunity
to prevent many manifest evils in corpor¬
ate management today, including irre¬
sponsibility of control in the hands of
the few who are not the real owners.
incorporation Voluntary.
I recommend that the federal charters
thus to be granted shall be voluntary, at
least provisisa^l^fce unt il exp erience bendfc’te -Jus tifies mandatory
be derived
from tire operation" or great businesses
under the protection of such a charter
would attract all who are anxious to keep
within the lines of the law. Other large
combinations that fall to take advantage
of the federal incorporation will not have
a right to complain if their failure ls
ascribed to unwillingness to submit
their transactions to the careful scrutiny,
competent supervision and publicity at¬
tendant upon the enjoyment of such a
charter.
Supplemental Legislation Needed.
The opportunity thus suggested for fed¬
eral incorporation. It seems to me, is suit¬
able constructive legislation needed to fa¬
cilitate the squaring of great industrial
enterprises to the rule of actfon laid down
by the anti-trust law. This statui* as
construed by the Supreme court must
continue to be the line of distinction for
legitimate business. It must be enforced,
unless we are to banish individualism from
all business and reduce it to one common
system of regulation or control of prices
like that which now prevails with respect
to public utilities, and which when ap¬
plied to all business would be a long step
toward state socialism.
WM. H. TAFT.
At the Football Game.
"Of course, we have to use our star
men sometimes,” explained the foot¬
ball enthusiast, “but we’re always wor¬
ried for fear we'll lose one of them.”
“I know just how It Is,” responded
the young bride. “1 feel that way about
my best teacups.”
Beware of Idleness.
All the bad things we do are the
result of having nothing good to do
Idleness is the devil’s trap. Keep
busy. '
;
CONGRESS MEETS
CHAMP CLARK THINKS ADJOURN¬
MENT WON’T COME UNTIL AF¬
TER THE CONVENTIONS.
PRESIDENT TAFT’S MESSAGE
Chief Executive’s Message to Con¬
gress Dealt With Only One
Subject—T rusts.
Washington.—The .first regular ses¬
sion of the Sixty-second congress
convened. Legislative machinery is
ready for a long session. Speaker
Clark and other leaders having pre¬
dicted that adjournment may not
come until after the national conven¬
tions of the two big political parties
have been held. This has pot .hap¬
pened since 1888.
The opening was not only the start
of a congress in which party leaders
will struggle for party vantage at the
polls next November in dealing with
tariff, trust and other big problems,
but it will initiate the brilliant win¬
ter social season at the nation’s cap
tal.
“When you contemplate ail the im¬
portant legislation to be considered,”
said Speaker Clark, “you are forced
to the conclusion that congress will
be in session until well into the sum¬
mer, if not until fall.”
“While no definite program as to
tariff bills in the house has yet been
framed,” said Democratic Leader tin
derwiod, “it is certain that the Dem¬
ocratic caucus will unanimously ap¬
prove immediate action by the ways
and means committee. The commit¬
tee will welcome the report of the
tariff board on the textile schedules,
but it will not delay action for any
great length of time if the board’s
report is held back.
Upon the attitude of the Insurgent
Republicans will depend the legisla¬
tive accomplishments .of the senate.
They hold the balance of power as
between the regular Republicans and
the Democrats, and without their ac¬
quiescence nothing can be done by
either of the regular parties.
President Taft’s third annual mes¬
sage was devoted to the “trust ques¬
tion.” The message contains from
5,000 to 6,000 words, and, with the
exception of a few references in a
general way to other related subjects,
deal with the question of industrial
combinations alone.
Federal incorporation as outlined
by Mr. Taft two years ago was sug¬
gested again as a method for solution
of the problem. The president indi¬
cated his aversion to amendment of
the Sherman anti-trust act, and there
is u'o suggestion of such amendment
in the message.
“I’ve put all my eggs in one bas¬
ket,’ the president said to callers. The
president has clone something that
has not been done since 1887, when
President Cleveland devoted liis mes¬
sage entirely to the tariff. It Is usual
for the chief executive to point out
the need of all sorts of legislation,
and to give in brief form the history
of the past year so far as the gov¬
ernment is concerned. This will be
done away with ift the present mes¬
sage and later on Mr. Taft will send
special messages to congress dealing
with important subjects.
Conservation, including the develop¬
ment of Alaska, will be dealt with
either in a separate message or Jn
one that takes in many subjects'ex¬
clusive of the trusts and the tariff.
In addition to these suggestions to
congress, iMr. Taft hopes to send in
reports of the postal commission, the
railway cimmission and possibly oth¬
ers, before the usual holiday adjourn¬
ment.
Seeking Accomplices of McNamaras.
I.os Angeles, Cal.—“The United
States government and California au¬
thorities are co-operating to uncover
one of the most gigantic conspiracies
ever conceived in the hstory of ths
country.” Ths was the declaration
of Assistant District Attorney W. Jo¬
seph Fird, second in command to Dis¬
trict Attorney John D. Fredericks. “It
is only a question now of whether the
Federal government or the state au¬
thorities can reach certain persons
and bring them to justice more effec¬
tually,” continued Mr. Ford.
Carnegie Talks of War.
New York.—“These warlike pro¬
ceedings in Europe at present are a
flash from the past, a passing recur¬
rence of the practices of savage
times,” said Andrew Carnegie, in a
statement in which he urged the ne¬
cessity of ratifying the proposed ar¬
bitration treaties with Great Britan
and France. Mr. Carnegie advocated
“a four-hands-around” treaty between
the Unified States, Germany, Great
Britain and France who would stand
four square to all the winds that
blow.”
Pellagra Puzzles Scientists.
Washington.—After many months
of investigation of pellagra in the
Southern states, the scientists of the
public health and marine hospital ser¬
vice are in as much doubt as ever as
to the cause of the scourge. Mean¬
while, the disease seems to be gain¬
ing, and it has been reported that
nearly every physician in South Car¬
olina has from five to fifteen cases in
his private practice. Assistant Sur¬
geon Gen. John D. Long says it has
been demonstrated that cure can be
effected even up to the fifth attack.
Rayner Against Russ Treaty.
Baltimore, Md.—United States Sen¬
ator Rayner announced his intention
of supporting the senate resolution
calling for the abrogation of the trea¬
ty of 1832 between the United States
and Russia. “We have trifled with
this thing so long that the time has
now come for action, and I shall take
it up with all the eal I can and urge
it to its limit,” he said. “We ought
not to listen to any doubtful inter¬
pretation of the treaty. It is too plain
to admit of the slightest ambiguity.”
A SURE SIGN.
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Bronson—Is there any doubt about
our prosperity?
Woodson—None whatever. If you
don’t believe we have money to burn,
look at the way we celebrate the
Fourth of July.
A Father’s Worry.
Your poor wearied wife losing sleep
night after night nursing the little one
suffering from that night fiend for chil¬
dren and horror to parents, Croup,
should have a bottle of Taylor’s Chero¬
kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mul¬
lein, an undoubted croup preventive
and cure for coughs, colds, consump¬
tion, Whooping Cough, etc.
At druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 f a
bottle.
Indefinite.
“I want a puff,” suddenly annmmced
the petted, spoiled star.
“Yes, my dear Miss Starlite,” meek¬
ly answered the long suffering man¬
ager. “Shall' I call on the confection¬
er or the press agent?”
Class Pins, Pennants and Sofa Pillows
Write for new illustrated catalog show¬
ing latest designs. We make ’em. Shelley
Ivey, The College “Co-Op,” Atlanta.
In Hard Luck.
rfewitt—You are always broke.
Jewitt—I know it; I couldn’t raise
the wind with an electric fan.
A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s
work ig the everlasting right of man.
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
Ii the best of all medicines for the cure of diseases,
disorders and weaknesses peculiar to women. It is the
only preparation of its kind devised by a regularly gradu¬
ated physician—an experienced and skilled specialist in
the diseases of women.
It is a safe medicine in any condition ofthe system.
THE ONE REMEDY wjjjch contains no alcohol
and no injurious hi and which
create^ nn rrn its.
THE its maxeri P
are n< ingredient on
each and attest to the
trui er oath.
It is everywhere, and any dealer who hasn’t it can
get it. coMPosnVH|HHRunterfeit of unknown composition for this medicine op
known somethin^eBejs is as good as the genuine and the druggist
who says “just as good as Dr. Pierce’s’’ is either mistaken
or is trying to deceive you for his own selfish benefit. Such a man is not to be
trusted. He is trifling with your most priceless possession—your health—
may be your life itself. See that you get tphat you gsk fpr. % ,
Cotton Values Increased
Many ginnery »ort combing ginned
cotton brim 3c a lb. more than
saw ginned—less waste—no cut fibres
Exhaustive tests by many fered, the only one that has ever
practical Ginners during the proven practical is after long con¬
past two years have proven that tinued tests the
the Southern Combing Gin Is the COMBING COTTON GIN.'
leng sought practical Saw improve¬ Manufacturers and Dinners
ment on the old Gin invent¬ throughout the South who have
ed by Eli Whitney in 1792. witnessed exhaustive tests of the
One of the greatest sources of Combing Gin on long and short
loss in the cotton Industry has staple cottons attest that the
been the wasteful cutting of old- the machine is really practical.
fibre by the saw teeth of the During the past two years
fashioned Saw Gin. This loss Ginners who have equipped their
has been felt not alone by the ginners with Combing Gins in
Planter In that his cotton after place of the old Saw Gin have
passing through the Saw Gin produced cotton which brings
was injured, but by the Manu¬ from *4 to 3c. more than cot¬
facturers of Cotton Textiles. ton grown on tffe same land by
The entire Cotton Industry has the same planter arid ginned on the
been on the lookout for some Saw Gin, the Planter got
way of separating the fibre from more actual cotton fibre per ib.
the seed without injury to the of seed passed througli the Gin
fibre, and although many at¬ because of the thoroughness
tempts have been made, and with which the Combing Gin
many machines have been of¬ cleans tire fibre from the seed.
Combing Cotton Gin
The Gin Without Saws:
The Gin without Saws will undoubtedly, in the course of the
next four years replace every Saw Gin that is now in use.
Hundreds of letters that we have on file, which we will be glad
to show to you, from Ginners throughout the country amply attest
to this fact. Gin
The basic patents owned by the Southern Combing Company,
a big going plant—and orders in excess of our capacity, in addition
to the recognition of Combing Gin as the modern method of
preparing cotton for manTifacture are the assets which assure this
Company's health, rapid growth, and profit to its stockholders.
Never since the organization of the Bell Telephone Co. has there
been an equal profit public opportunity. the opportunity to participate .... unusually
We offer to the in
attractive profits that are guaranteed by actual orders now in hand,
with what is admittedly the greatest machine that has been perfected
in the history of the Cotton Industry since 1792.
Cotton Brokers, Manufacturers, and Investors at large will find
it profitable to investigate us, our product, our offices and our future
t ' 10r Thfs incorporated $250.000—$150,000 capital being
Company is for
fully paid—$ 100,000 is open to public subscription in blocks of one to
one hundred shares. will he delivered
Not more than one hundred . shares to . any one
party Arrangements have been made so that small investors can
obtain fractional shares of $10 each on a monthly payment basis.
There is no preferred stock, nor have we issued any bonds.
We fo are increasing the capital of our profitable manufacture going plant in
order instal additional machinery so that we can all
parts of Combing Gin Outfits and increase our output.
Our earnings will be trebled by the proposed increase in our
P2T53 city. been organized with attrac¬
There has never a company a more
tive future before It, nor a bigger field.
FULL, PARTICULARS AND OUR BOOK, THE “PRIMER OF THE
COTTON COMBING GIN,” WII.I, BE SENT FREE, POSTPAID, ON
REQUEST TO
J. W. Lindau, Suite 1091
Exchange Building- 145 West 45th St, New York.
Southern Combing Gin Co.
Chattanooga, Tenn., or Rossville. Ga.
References- Anv hank in Chattanooga. Dun or Bradstreet.
All subscriptions should be sent and all checks be made payable
to the Citizen's National Bank. Fiduciary Agents, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Every facility for thorough investigation is open to those who would
profit by this unusual opportunity.
Lamps and
Lanterns
The strong, steady light.
Rayo lamps and lanterns give most light for the oil they burn.
Do not flicker. Will not blow or jar out.
Simple, reliable and durable—and sold at a price that will surprise you.
Ask your dealer to show you his lineot Rayo lamps ind lanterns, or write 10 sny agency of
Standard (Incorporated) Oil Company
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BONE PAINS
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SKIN, PIMPLES
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This coupon is good for one sample
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men and boys to leam AUTOMOBILE) BUSINESS
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New cars for road lessons. Catalogue Free.
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W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 49-1911.