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The Undoing of Zipzip, Zipzip was a moth. Zipzip first saw the dark in a cedar cheat where his family made a part of the summer colony. Clothes were their natural prey, but often they were lucky enough to find camphor and tar-flakes. Sometimes they found insect powder. Zipzip soon learned how to attack a fur coat; how to grapple with a sealskin sack; how to bring down a feather boa in true scientific style. For some time our hero had been in business for himself. One day he encountered an unfamiliar enemy. He bit at it, but the mandibles closed on emptiness. Nothing was there. Zipzip was no coward. Again he sprang to the attack; again his jaws snapped on emptiness, atmosphere, air, ether, nothing. Zipzip was afraid. His antennae quivered. He turned over and ex pired. What was this monster, implacable, impalpable, invincible, void? Ah, Zipzip, who may prevail against a nonexistent foe? It was a peekaboo waist!—Louis ville Courier-Journal. Surveyor and Panther. A surveyor employed by the St. (Louis, Bartlesville ' and Pacific Rail jroad Company, which purposes to fbuild a line from Joplin, Mo., to Pond Creek, Okla., saw a remarkable sight through the glass of his transit in strument while running a survey on Band Creek, fifteen or sixteen miles (northeast of Pawhuska, in the Osage, (Indian reservation, recently. The country at that place is broken and indented with canyons. The surveyor had turned his instru ment to see the flagman behind him. The flagman was seen plainly, but be yond the flagman about 300 yards was something that caused the sur veyor to gasp in astonishment. A large panther, at the edge of a small clearing, was gazing intently at the surveyors. Through the glass the panther’s every movement could be clearly seen. The surveyors shouted at the beast, which quickly ran into the timber. —Blackburn correspond ence Kansas City Times. Mr. Bryan’s Dessert. Upon William J. Bryan’s return to Cotter Bride’s home from the White House he found a note and a box which had been sent to him by an old lady whom he knew while a mem ber of congress years ago. He slip ped the box into hla pocket and join ed his daughter and several friends at luncheon at the Raleigh Hotel. When dessert time arrived he ord ered the waiter to search his pocket and bring forth the package. "These,” he said, “are doughnuts sent to me by an -old friend, and we iare to eat every one of them.” All gladly consented, and the Peer less One consumed five, while the waiters looked on in horror. —Wash- ington Special to New York World. THE TYPEWRITER GIRL. See the busy typist girl As she pounds thq keys, Printing other people’s thoughts With apparent ease. Sometimes printing other things Because of lack of care, And thus producing in her boss A strong impulse to swear See her with her guileless face, Making her excuse: “I had it in my notes, you see,” The boss—“Oh, what’s the use?" *—G. A. Boyd, in Harper’s Weekly. WORN OUT WOMEN Will Fiad Encouragement in Mrs. Merritt's Advice. Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 S. First Ave., Anolca, Minn., says: “Last win fter I began to suffer with my kidneys. I had pains in my back and hips and felt all worn out. Dizzy spells bothered me and the kidney se cretions were irregu lar. The first box of Doan's Kidney Pills brought decided re lief. lam sure they would do the eahia ?or any other woman suffering as I did.” Sold by afi dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y. _ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syimp for Children teething,softens thegums,reducesmflammar tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bo Genuine happiness is able to .->tand a lot of hard knocks. Doctors are in business for hca .h of others, but not for their own. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days. Puo Ointment i guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleedmgor Protmdin? Piles in oto 14 dayaormoney refunded. ovc. HEART INTEREST. “That play,” remarked the critlca person, “lacks heart Interest.” “It does, eh,” answered the star, “you just ought to see the way the manager is taking the box office r. ceiptj? to heart."— Washington Star. Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Cos. 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 an swer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is officially given out, was de layed several weeks, “for business reasons,” because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly disturbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commissioner 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 rate of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been is sued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Inter state 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 and Eastern ! Illinois at six and one-fourth cents per hun dred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission as the law ful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodities between these points of a similar character, 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 be tween these points under substantially tbe same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly ex erted 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 at tack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influence, and hence the new deliverance of Commissioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his re buttal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He answers the points made by President Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company had a traffic 1 department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no an swer, (3) the Chicago and Eastern Illinois i rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as “a village of about 1,500 popu lation 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 admits 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 evidently 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 and Eastern Illinois do not run THE MFN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. R vAk 8 W. L. Uouglast mshes and sells mare ''' 8 ftST men'ssS.BO, $3.00and53.50 shoe* Stan any other manufacturer In the m world, because they hold their "TUV fV* ehagJ, fit bettor, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other v%} shoes In the world to-day. n j W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Giit Edgo Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At An J Pnce OK- CArriOST. W. L. Donclasname and ,'ipdl>J.m < facto^y t to™nv par', of ttie world. lllu- Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Shoes trated Catalog tree to aay address. There is little fun in doing the things we are compelled to do. 3. H. Green’s Sons, of Atlanta. Ga., aro the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column 01 this paper. A pencil is often hard pushed to tell the truth. Taylor’a Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum nnd Mullen is Nature’* great reme dy--cures Couiths, Colds, Croup and Con sumption, and all throat and lung troubles. At druggists. 25c., 50c. and SI.OO per bottle Styles sometimes make a handsome woman look otherwise. Moravian Barley and Speltz, two great cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak.. Mont Ida., Colo., vea. everywhere, and add to above Saber's Billion Dollar Grass, the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. Emperor William Oat prodig)-, etc., and other rare farm seeds that they offer. JUST CUT THIS OUT AND BETURN IT with 10c in stamps to the John A. Salzer Seed Cos., La Crosse, Wis., and get their big catalog and lots of farm seed sam ples. A. C. L. Never "judge the fidelity of a friend by his eagerness to point out your faults. —— LaCreole Will Restore those Gray Hairs From the (Railway World, January 3, igt~. Into Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight originates, la not on the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, whioh receives its Whit ing freight from the Belt Line at DoltoD. The former practice, now discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make them read from a point on the the line of the filing 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 and 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 ns see In what way the Intending shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago and Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whßtng. Commissioner Smith contends that "concealment 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 Stand ard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospec tive oil refiner had applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, he would have been in formed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6% centß from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this al ready, that this rate applied throughout Chi cago 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 indus trial towns in the neighborhood of Chicago, he could have hlB freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis at a rate of 6 % cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Cor porations 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 Whiting, as to shipments from any other point In the district. So fax from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dol ton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either be trays his gross ignorance of transportation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public ignorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unquestioningly every statement made by a Government official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a carefnl 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 pates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that “the ‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in ques tion. The question is whether this rate con stituted 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 terri- Cures Constipation, Diarrhoea. Convulsions, Colic, Sour Stomach, etc. It Destroys Worms, Allays Peverishness and Colds. It Aids Iliges i tion. It Makes Teething Easy, Promotes Cheer fulness and Produces Natural Sleep. CAPU DINE ft temora tbs mum. f, I I WV w* soothe* the nerves uni ww ww i relieves the ecbee sad COLDS AND QRIPPE/“V. ']i beadubM end Neuralgia also. No bad eßr,u. 10c. 20c aad 50e bottles. 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Injectors, I Pumps and fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, ( Shafts, Pulleys. Belting, Gasoline Engines. “T 01 LOMBARD, 1 Foundij, MachJii and Boiler Works and Supply Store, AUGUSTA. GA. MORPHINE and other drug habits are positively cured by HABITINA. For hypodermic or Internal P rpa use. Sample sent to any drug habitue * * by mail, in plain wrapper. Regular price J2.OQ. DCLT* CMCMICAL COMPANY 1144 Hollaed BaUdla* *t. Leuls, Me. tory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers included the packers and elevator men of Chicago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may, be interpreted as a demand for an elabora tion of the obvious; but the fact that a rate book containing these freight rates for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. President 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 Interstate Com merce Commission and other departments 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 value of its entire property, because Its traffic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent com modity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was intro duced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered 1 with by the eightoen-cent rate nor that the' failure of tho Alton to file its six-cent rate, had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper,—wo must take thl# on the word of the Commissioner of Cor porations 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 and Eastern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, President Moffett’s defence is still good, and we predict will be declared so by the higher court. 1 The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and mis demeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against tho Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell’s offensive personalities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless mis representation in the report of the Commis sioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of tho crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of tho United States, the corpora tion is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. The whole strongth of the Government is directed against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Com pany is to pay the penalty of Its crlmeß, and It is finally convicted of having failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and Is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. Under the old criminal law, the thoft of property worth more than a shilling was punishable by death. Under the inter pretation of the Interstate Commerce law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of property. aEarlyJersey WAKEFIELD Tho Earliest Cabbage Grown CABBAGE PLANTS For Sale SUCCESSION Variety 4L iJm Oh! Papa don't forget to buy ■ bottle of CHENEY’S EXPECTO RANT for your little *lrl. You can buy it at any Drug Store and you know it never falM to cure my Croup and Couf h. Dropsy V- Removes all swelling in 8 to a* ’ days; effects a permanent cure In joto Cos days. Trial treatment Nothingcan be fairer A'av/H&wH write Or. H. H. Green’s Song, &£3BpoclaUt a. Bo* a Atlanta, If (At6-’08)