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Endorsee! to Voo anrf Vour Freenets. iy, and* which arc bought by ail our gw ? r V We ve divided the capital into to aXsuiuL Furs MERCHANDISING is the money maker of the age. Os all the great money-making department stores, THE MAIL ORDER DEI AM- shares of SIO . OO each /o that you. g I clothing, nra.iy-tn wear M ENT STORE is the greatest. Its line comprises everything from a needle to a threshing machine. Everything the people eat, we.at ant use ®’^ an gJ.“take advantage of this clothing. Ma.ie-to-ord.r > from the cradle to the grave. Its field is not limited by city and suburban limitations, but extends to every town ol the country ami evciy conn t> tr(l]y wonderful opportunity to FX ! iZ,r<'o’’:s | on the globe. It requires less capital to do an unlimited amount of business than any other mercantile or manufacturing enterprise. Its expenses < l '> pc?Seaeh I; Furniture —selling or fixed —are less than in any other business. It’s a strictly cash business. It has no losses. It does not depend on ot oca con and" every year, with the possibility of snorting Goons ditions. It is a “hard times” business. It does not even depend on prosperity. Its profits are immense, earning as high as 40 per con. a...i Hamess an., saddlery ' more on every dollar must e U . rm. • x r • r 3 Buy your ooods ai ine .uww ho Xi’- 1 11' 1 s An investment of less than $40,000 Yielded Over a Million Dollars in Cash in Less Than Six tears in One of b pHces ever known an d get an addt- Housefurnishing Goods | tional discount of 5 per cent (praetl- aa Jewelry and silverware i jj] 0 CllicaSOMail 01‘ dC I' IIOIISCS. I rally nil the net profit) on everything O Mntn- Al Ithisisl ul ly explai nod in a book wli ich we wii ii tI o send you Ire “of all charges- -on req nest. Ihe book gives the complete history and eaining power of the mail ( a ' co;nm ission of 5 Mushai instruments | order business, it gives statistics showing that the famous co operative stores in England cleared over 40 per cent on the investment last year. \\ e have reorganized oiu cent the new business you : Braa>is Go0 “ 3 i old-established mai 1 -order busiuess uuder the co-operative sy.stem. We want to interest you (no matter how large or small your capital) and we know you will be deep y help us to get. ' i r.nn .s j interested if you let us send vou our free book. Lt’s a mine of interestiiur business information. 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Incorporated 1889. lie-chartered ino.t. z fl Indies’ Wearing Apparel I BSI Miners’ ar.i Prospectors' Outfits 3 „ „ ju JL. <X 4 C ESI ■ st 6SS to JOO West Vs*r» Buren SS-treet, z /' / H EH Plumbers’ Suppllfifi ra . Ziv a <y y' / Surgical Instruments BIoHIOAGO, » ILLINOIS.. XWZ ■. 1 REFERENCES —First National Bank, Chicago, Depository; Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Registrars; Messrs. Lord A z •• lrf ; S e ! Thomas, Advertising Agency: Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency: any railroad and express company. The publishers of this or any V o-’' B ree cat a- 1 1 newspaper or magazine. Any bank or reputable business house in Chicago*. , -o c y' BEVERIDGE USED AS A MOUTHPIECE. Fresh from Oyster Bay, Beveridge Informs Indiana Banks Just What Roosevelt Proposes That Congress Shall Do as to Finance. i S >uth Bend, Ind. September 10.—The seventh annual contention of India-a bankers was addressed today ?y United States Senator Beveridge. Senator B. - eridge has but recently returned from a visit with the president at Oyster Bay and his positive assertions with reg a d to the action of the coming session of congress were thus given weight Senator Beveridge said: "The coming s< ssion of congress will not enact any rad 1 , a.l or sweeping line i cial legislation. Except in gre.-t ennr g ncie.'. moderation is the word in all financial legislation. The stability of financial legislation, even though imper fect, is more desirable than sudden a id , comprehensive changes even though those I changes are toward greater pcrfectii n. i Some moderate financial legislation which I will relieve the periodically recurring I money stringency in the money center is pvobahlv desired and may be en icted, but such legislation, if enacted, will-be simple. "The maintenance of credit is the only great financial question and always must be. Credit is only another name for confidence. Confidence is preserved by reasonably permanent adjustment of bus iness to any given lines of financial and commercial policy more than by all other things put together. "I do not mean that there should not be gradual changes in ad of our laws bs those laws here and there become out pf date. But Ido mean that it is better for business to steadily' adhere to some settled line of policy than to suddenly jiii radically change It. Our whole financial and industrial legislation should be steady and not spasmodic. Bankers Should Quit Fighting. "Within banking circles themselves all contentions .should cease. There is no natural antagonism between eastern and western bankers. Naturally their inter ests are the same. Bankers east ami v. . st are th- tinanciad servants of a sin gle people under a single IV. g. if wm ,- ei . bankers when they do not need th.-ir money make loans to the customers of N w York bankers, for example, as is universaliv done, and when they ne--d their money again take it away and re quire the entire tinan lal necessities of business in the east to be cared for by eastern bankers whose territory th-y have invaded, western tankers should not object to a measure which will relieve the 1 ,e..l eastern stringency which th western bankers themselves have caused. On the contrary, the eastern banker? pliould not invade the territory of west.-: a bankers when eastern money is plen and thus invite r. nrisalr iii their o; '-••hl the western bankers There sliOUid be mutual consideration, each sec tion taking <are of the financial necessi ties of its own people, as long as It has the money to do so and relieving the necessities of another se -tion only whmi they are not able to take care of them selves. "Upon the shoulders of the bankers of the country more than upon any one set of business men depends the continual)* • ■ of our present prosperity. And if with out reason the bankers indulge in vague apprehensions they will them selves bring about the very thing which they fear. If the bankers begin to exer cise cowardice instead of prudence; if without any reason except timidity they begin to contract their loans and redm * their credits that confidence upon which all business rests and of which the bank ers themselves a.re the beneficiaries will be impaired. But this will not occur. The bankers of the republic are t.oo intel ligent, too brave, too patriotic. " Fowler Sees Chicago Bankers. Chicago, September 10.—Congressman Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the house committee on banking and cur rency, Is in Chicago to confer with bann ers on the details of the financial bill he is io introduce at the extra session of congress. Hr. Fowler’s proposed bill provides for : a retirement of the greenbacks, or for I their "impounding" through a stipule I tion that the banks be compelled to hold i 40 per cent of their cash reserves in 1 United States notes’. The second feature Is for the disposition of all public money in banks, the government to get 2 P-r cent interest, and be secured by n first , lien on bank assets, the relationship be tween the government and the banks thus resembling- the present relationship of states and municipalities to the tanks where they keep their money on deposit. Deposits are not to be larger than 50 , per cent of the p-aid up capital of banks . receiving them. The third feature of the bill will be a j provision for "asset" or "credit cur rency." National banks will ■ permitted to put out stich currency by depositing In the United States treasury gold com or government -bonds equal to 6 per cent j lof the amount so put. 1 his 5 per cent. 1 together with th*- 2 per cent inter st on I government deposits anrl I per cent tax I on the notes thus issued, would * onstl- I tute a "guarantee fund." When this 1 guarantee fund, amounted to $10,000,000 the excess over this amount would be utilized In purchasing gold bullion for converting the greenbacks into gold cer tificates. New York Bankers and Shaw. Saratoga, N. Y., September 10— At the state bankers’ convention, which opened here today, L-o Schlesinger, president of the Mechanics and Traders’ bank, of New York city, offered the following res olution: •’Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be tendered to Secretary Show and that his wisdom in depositing the revenues amounting to $40,000,000 in the banks be approved." I Action was deferred. • i You Know What You Are Taking When you taka Grove's Tasteless Chill I Tonic, because the formula, is plainly ' printed on every bottle, showing that it I Is .simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless ■ form. No Cure, No Pay. EOc. Dynamite Used on Editor. Berne. Ind.. September 10—The home of Fred Rohr, editor of The Berne Wit ness, was almost entirely dent dished early this morning. The family was ex tricated from the ruins with slight ip juries. Rohr's paper has been leading the opposition to licensed saloons. A Clear Head: good digestion and a ripe old age are some of the results of the use of Tutt’s Liver Pills. An Established Fact ! An absolute cure for sick head ache, malaria, sour stomach, constipation, dyspepsia, bilious ness and kindred diseases. TUTT’S Liver PILLS AAIAJ .. A'J&AJN’IA. U4L, MOIMDAY. EMBER id, WAITING POLID' FOR UNCLE SIM, It Is Known That Colombia Regreta Her Action, but the State De partment Will Suggest No Remedy for the Mistake. Washington, September 7.—The state department today received a routine 1 message fr, tn Mr. B'-aupre, the Amer | lean minister at Bogota, acknowledging I j the receipt of Secretary May's calde [ gram of August 26 stating that the i Washington government would enter into ’ no agreement which would hamper the ! I president's freedom of action under the < | law. This was all the cablegram staled, although it has been the basis of specu- I lative reports about Mr. Beaupre's ideas I of the Bogota situation. The. state department's attitude is one lof dignified path nee. No indication of j | its course of action in the event that i the Colombian congress rejects or amends ■ the treaty will be forthcoming until the time for the exchange of ratifications expires, September 22. It is known at the state department that the Colombian congress already is regretting its hasty action in rejecting the treaty, but the state department will suggest no remedy for the mistake. <-nee and for all the state department has announced that the treaty as ap proved by the Washington government was ratified by the American senate. It is up to the Bogota government to ratify that identical treaty if Colombia desires an isthmian canal. The state department regards all the reports as to the connection of this gov ernment or even its interests in the un rest on the isthmus as too trivial for consideration. Dr. Merran, the Colombian charge, in dignantly scouts the idea that the United Slates would lend itself to the encour agemen’ of this unn-st. Dr. Merran, the. Colombian charge, to day- received the follow!:.g cablegram from the retiring governor of Panama. I dated Panama yesterday, in reply to an inquiry ho sent last night: Nothing is known hero regarding withdrawal from congress of Panama delegation, 1 have been informed that Senator Obaldfa has boon appointed gov ernor. and h- is on his way with Rep resentative Fahuega.” Colombian Bill for the Canal. Bogota. Saturday, September s—The bill which congress is now discussing au thorizing President Marroquin to nego tiate a new Panama, canal treaty with the I United States contains the following I stipulations: The perpetual use of the canal zone is granted provided that at Mie expiration of each hundred years the I nited States shall pay during the succeeding hundred 1 years 25 per cent more premium and rental than tor the preceding term, the premium beginning at biro,on) and the rental at S4OO. The mixed tribunals in the canal zone .'.hall trv suits between foreigners or be ' tween Colombians and foreigners. ! The police and sanitary measures shall j b<- practically in charge of the United States. j Twenty million dollars is fixed as the i price oft).,- concession, besides the rental ; (sum) of $10,000,000 payable by the canal i company, in consideration of Colombian I approval of the transfer of shares. The railroad shall in sixty-four years revolt tn Colombia, but the United States may buy it under a valuation. A term shall be fixed within which the canal must be begun and finished. The contract shall provide for a means to settle differences which may arise be tween the governments during the con struction and execution of the contract. KILLED THEIR CHILD TO PLEASE GOD, THEY SAY. Columbia, S. C., September B.—(Special.) A horrible case of Infanticide, attributed to religious fanaticism, occurred last night in Broadway township, Anderson county. John G-raffenreid, a negro, and his wife h.-’.i been attending a "holiness meeting" and had become greatly wrought up over the ex.iteriient attending- it. They went home from the meeting and spent the greater part of the. night praying, .lust before daylight Graffenreid says his wife awoke him and asked him which ho loved best, his wife or child, a baby about sixteen months old. She said the Dord was going to take one of them and asked ( which he would rather give up. He re , pli d that if it was the Lord's will he would rather give tup the child. He says the woman then got out of bed and took the child in her arms and declared she was going to offer it as a sa, rifb • He says he. was standing by | her trying to quiet her when she sudden ly exclaimed, "Here, I,ord. take this chi.il," and threw the baby against the wall. He says his wife then threw her arms around him and tried to choke him, say ing something about both of them going to Heaven together. They bad a scuffle which awakened the other children who ran into the room and took the child and placed It on the bed. ECZEMA. NO CURE, NO PAY. Your druggist will refund your money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Ring worm, Tetter, Old Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads on the face, and all skin diseases. 50 cents. CHILD KILLED BY GRANDSIRE. South Carolina Hunter Made a Hor rible Mistake. Lancaster, S. C.. September ll.—Yester day afternoon Major J. M Riddle, one of the proprietors of The Lancaster Re view, accompanied by his son, .1. M. Rid dle. Jr., and his little grandson, Robert Mackorell, a lad about 8 years old, went over to Chester county on a. squirrel hunt. While hunting on the river bank this morning Major Riddle fired on what ho supposed to be a squirrel in the bushes, but on approaching the object of his aim he discovered his grandson in the aigony of death, the boy having received the entire, load. When Major Riddle reached him, the boy exclaimed: "Grandpa, you have shot me." The child died in the grandfather’s arms on the way to a spring near by. A Family Conjugation. Exchange: A Shawnee girl named Spink has just ’ married an Oklahoma man named Spunk. Well, it does beat all how some people do twist things anyhow. Past tense spink; present spunk, future spank. B WHIMS ndftnum, Ccca’r.a and Liquor habits pev- ♦ painlosily cured *t home. No detention Aation ImiEfiliale. Leaves patient in ttS thy condition without deaire for drug?. ’tlcclars. L'R. LONG CO., Atlawta, Ga. S* Guaranteed for $lO. $ MTOWamVMMIM nail-ißßffi ■PENSION FLOOD FALL-1 1 ING, SAYS WARE. He Thinks That the Roll Will Never Again Cross the Million Line. He Makes Recommendations Looking to Reform of Abuses. I Washington. September 10.-The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Ware places the total number of pen sioners now on the rolls at 996,545, of which 729,356 are soldiers and 267,189 are widows and dependents. Mr. Ware announces that it. is not probable that the pension roll will again cross the mil lion line, the high water mark having i been reached a year ago. Five of the ■ pensioners are on the roll on account of j the war of the revolution, 1,116 on a-- i count of the war of 1812, 4.734 on ac count of the Indian wars and 13,874 on I account of the Mexican war. The great j buil. of the roll is as follows: Civil war invalids, 703,456; widows, I 248,390; Spanish war invalids, 9.200; j widows, 3,662; ami the regular estab- | lishment invalids, 9,170; widows, 2,938. i The roll shows a net loss of 2,901 pen- j sioners during the year. Out of a total of 304,809 applications on hand during the year 130,109 were admitted and 113,- 794 were rejected. The average annual value of each pen sion is now $133. The annual value of the Spanish war pension roll has reached $1,765,310. Commissioner Ware makes the follow ing recommendations: Laws forfeiting the pension or right to pension of any man convicted in court of an infamous crime; prohibiting tne giving of pensions to the women who marry soldiers after the soldiers become old pensioners, and a different method of examining applicants for pensions, stamping the. present system as uncer tain, expensive, unsatisfactory and gen erative of an enormous amount ot polit ical friction. Mr. Ware suggests boards constituted of experts under civil service rules which should go from place to place on fixed days, giving examinations and re ceiving testimony regarding the condi tion of applicants and making reports thereon. He also recommends a law providing for superannuated clerks, vig orously urging some law of retirement and provision. An analysis of pension figures shows that the actual total of disbursements in pensions on account of the revolu tionary war, war of 1812, Indian wars, Mexican war, civil war and the war with Spain was $3,038,623,590. The cost of the pension system per capita of population for 1903 is given as $1.75. STEWART HADLEY WOUNDED. Augusta, Ga.. September 12.—(Special.) A serious shooting affray has just oc cured in Pat Brock's bar on Upper Broad street, In which Stewart Hadley was shot in th eneck and breast by Paul Watkins. The two mon are reported tz> have had I a street fight at an earlier hour, but no- I body knows what about. In the barroom i the difficulty was renewed by Hadley at tempting to stab 'Watkins, but only the latter'# clothes were cut. Watkins then drew his pistol and sent two bullets into his assailant. The neck r wound is not. considered dangerous, but the bullet, in the breast entered the cavity and is serious. Hadley has Been taken to a hospital and ] Watkins is under arrest. - —. {SHAFTS OF CRITICISM FLYING AT LANSDOWNE T.nndon. September 7.—As an outcome of the disclosures made in the report of the South African war commission, it is rumored in well informed quarters here that the resignation of Lord Lansdowne, the former war secretarj’ and present for eign secretary, may be exne -ted shortly. It is added that he will be succeeded as foreign secretary by Mr. Broderick, the present war secretary, and that Mr. Wyndham, the Irish secretary, will be made the bead of the war office. A meeting of the cabinet will be hold shortly for the purpose of discussing the fiscal question now r,< fore the country, but it generally is beloved that the atti tude of the people with rrspeet to the findings of the war commission, as shown by the proposal to send a. monster peti tion to King Edward for Lord T.ans downe's dismissal and by the publication of cartoon illustrating his incompetence, ] will bo considered and that something wili ' bo determined upon as n oossary to stem I the tide of Indignation now flowing I against the ministry. He Sees Peril to the Nation. I Leicester, September B.—At today's ses sion of th»j trades union eongtess Presi | dent Hornidge declared Colonial Secre- • tary Chamberlain's suggested change in • the British fiscal policy were likely to ■ be most detrimental to the best inter- ests of the nation. ; “Dabbling with the principles of free trade," he asserted, "could do no good to the country at present. Tne land laws.” said the president, "caused two thirds of the national misery." He advocated government old age pen sions. The following resolution was car ried with only two dissenting votes: "That this congress strongly condemns the suggested changes by Mr. Chamber lain In our present fiscal policy as mis chievous and dangerous to the best in terests of the people of the country and hereby pledge itself and urges all other iabor bodies to make every effort to pre vent such a change being brought about." The resolution will be communicated to the colonial secretary. After a heated discussion an important resolution mi labor representation was passed by 506,000 to 255.000 representative votes. The resolution was as follows: "That this congress heartily indorses the policy of direct labor representation as decided upon at the last annual con ference of the labor representation com mittee and urges upon till trades unions not «yet afiiiated to that bodv to loin forthwith, so that the entire labor move ment maj' be consolidated for definite po litical purposes." This commits the labor party to sup porting neither of the dominant parties and has increased the strairyid relations with the liberals. CHINA AND RUSSIA GET TOGET. ER Tokfo, August 22. via Victoria, E. C., September -A special from Pekin t-‘ io,> states that the much mooted secret con vention between China and Rus. ia has been executed, but this is not officially confirmed. The Pekfn correspondent of the Ji.ii wires that concerning the opening, of Manchuria, the Uinted States minister, Mr. Conger, has made a strong argu ment. to which Prince Ching has replied [in a note. The prince's message says that if < hina assents to the opening at this | time Russia will make that action a pretext to continue the occupation of •Manchuria after October W, t»e date stipulated In the treaty for the final evacuation. The correspondent adds that the Japanese minister has also r. eelved a similar answer from Prince Ching i EXTRA SESSION IN 1 NOVEMBER. Date Is Changed from October to November 9—ldea of Session in October Opposed by Leaders of the Repub lican Party. Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 12.—After mature consideration and consultation ■ person and by mail with members of both the senate and the house of repre sentatives, President Roosevelt h s abandoned the suggestion that congr<-s be called into extraordinary session . October. The extraordinary sessinr. yhi< li he announced many months a. would be held this fall, will be called, according to present plans, to meet i November 9, which was the date tent tively fixed some time ago. Jt is r expected that the formal call for the si sion will be issued until after the pre deni shall have returned to Washingte Notwithstanding the fact that the sug gestion of an October session of co. gress came from prominent senate-‘ who warmly advocated its adoption, the proposition was not received with fax by members of congress generally. T idea of a session in October was oppos particularly because it would oblige s< . ators and representatives to leave th states and districts in the midst of i campaign which to many of them and their party was of vital importance. No definite agreement yet has been reached as to the character of the finan cial legislatint which may be enacted at the approaching session of congress. In deed, it is not certain that an agreement can oe reached between the two branches of congress whereby any special legisla tion can be enacted. It may be that a solution of the problem, which is alike complex and perplexing, will be reached before the convention of the extraordi nary session, but even that is by no means assured. SUICIDE OF T. N. HAWES. V Ith four gashes across his throat and a razor lying close beside his stiffened fingers, Professor Thomas N. Hawes was found Saturday morning lying de .1 on the floor of a room in the Cannon house, Atlanta. He had committed suicide and had apparently been dead twenty-four hours. Foiled by the skill of physicians in an attempt to end his life by taking poison, Professor Hawes went to the Cannon house and found a surer and quicker method of self-destruction in a keen bladed razor. Professor Hawes came to Atlanta four or five days ago and secured board at. No. 46 1-2 Wall street. Wednesday as ternoon he attempted suicide by swab lowing five or six drachms of laudanum Drs. A. W. Harris and S. N. Simu.' - succeeded in counteracting the effects of the poison after five hours’ hard work Hawes was taken to the Tabernacle ho.-, pital, where he remained until Thurs day about noon. He left the hospital and nothing was known of him until Thurs day night, when he registered at the Cannon house. •ludgi . ( hicago Man—Let's see N- v York is the place you go through on vour way to Brooklyn, is it not? New Yorker—Oh, no. New Y'ork is the place that goes through you on your v "' to Brooklyn.