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■ 3..1.U ui; '■ "‘1 jsVege table Preparation for As similating li\eroodatulßegu!a~ | ling the Stomachs andDowels of j I m ilml ii ii > ilUtaa; ■ ■■ rn Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- j ness and Rest.Confains neither Opium,Morphine nor >liiuiral. Not Narcotic. , I I b aw—>M fc —^a——^ jfettv of Old SAMUEL PITCH&R I\mpkm Sul' AUSenna * JiochtlU SJ*s - Anitt Seed * I Fhjpf>muDt - / fftCarbonate Sed * fiirmSeed - 1 Clarified Sugar . , miiyruH navtr. / Ii i-h — r Aperfect Remedy for Constipa tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, ! Worms,Convulsions .Feverish- I ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of X~EW YORK. j I EXACT copy or WRAPPER. I Cubans Incapable of Self Government. By P. A. IRWIN of San Francisco. IX will be a bad day for Cuba and ESPECIALLY FOR AMERICANS WHO HAVE INVESTED in that country when the authority of the United States is withdrawn. I am just back from Havana, where I have some interests, and while there made it my business to study existing political condi tions. There is not an American down there who believes in the ability of the Cubans to run a government of their own in any decent fashion. This is also true of the intelligent and property owning class iof natives, but this is not the element that dominates. IN CUBA THE PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS RU-N THINGS. AND THESE PATRIOTS ARE EAGER FOR THE DAY THAT OUR FLAG SHALL BE LOWERED SO THAT THEY CAN GET UP TO THE PIE COUNTER AND FATTEN OFF THE PUBLIC REVENUES. AS LONG AS OUR AUTHORITY IS PARAMOUNT THEY CAN GET NOT A DOLLAR FROM THE GOVERNMENTAL EXCHEQUER, BUT THE MIN UTE WE LEAVE THERE WILL BE OFFICES TO FILL AND FAT SALARIES TO DRAW. Cuba, I can tell you, is going to give us trouble. The natives are simply not fit for self government, and I predict that we will have to GO BACK THERE IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS after the Magoon regime comes to an end. 1 don’t think it will be or ought to be a state of this Union, and about the only solution 1 see is that we shall eventually have to make it a kind of dependency and occupy it in about the same fashion that England occupies Egypt. High Time to Padlock All Muck Rakers. By JOSEPH D. FORAKER, United States Senator From Ohio II would be most fortunate if a padlock could be provided for the muck rakers —all of them, high and low, big and little, well intentioned and evil intentioned —for it is HIGH TIME TO QUIT SLANDERING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They never less deserved it. They were never more worthy of praise ami commendation. THERE WERE NEVER HIGHER IDEALS AND MORAL STAND ARDS AMONG THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE NATION. AND THERE*. WERE NEVER BETTER METHODS EMPLOYED BY THEM fCrt THE CONTROL AND TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS. In this wc should not only find hope and inspiration, but also a command to administer our public affairs on the theory NOT THAT ALL MEN ARK DISHONEST, but that, with the exception of thO'fow, all men are upright, and that as to even the few who may not be upright they are entitled to the presumption that they are and to have a right to be HEARD BEFORE THEY ARE CONDEMNED. Humanity Gulled by Palmists By Professor STIRLING of Victoria University Manchester, England V" OOK at your palms and you will find certain classical lines. I These lines—the so called lines of life, heart and head, ami the girdle of Venus, and the bracelets of life around your wrists- 1 -what do you suppose they really are? They are nothing more or less than creases or folds produced by the ACTION OF THE MUSCLES. The line of heart, for instance, is the flexure of the four fingers. The line of’ life is the result of the action of the thumb. All these lines that have been given astronomical names by palmists are character istic flexures. You will find the same lines on the palm of the Bar ba rv ape. Humanity is daily gulled through its EXTRAORDINARY IGNORANCE OF THE 1 ELEMENTARY FACTS OF I’ll VS *OLOGY. ]J PAYS 10 ADVERTISE 1111 TIMES TRY IT. Forlnfants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Sough! Signature /Am (\ Jp’ Ik l Use Ia For Over Thirty Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, HEW YORK CITY. € i Labor . % l Organizations ■ Accomplish m § Much Good. ■r ' By United States Senator A. S. CLAY of Georgia. HAVE never been one to encourage antagonism be *> ° | - . % tween labor and capital. Each should be protected. H Ij No thoughtful man will contend that labor organiza- B 4* tions should he absolutely destroyed. Sometimes 4 ® their demands mav he unreasonable, hut if the work <g> 1 . . Sing people of the country cannot have organizations to protect themselves against organizations of capital that may attempt to put unjust burdens upon them they would he POWERLESS r J O RESIST any oppression. LABOR ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD. THEY HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER THE WORKINGMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN CORDIAL AND FRIENDLY RELATION AND HAVE ENABLED THEM TO SECURE BETTER WAGES, TO BUY HOMES AND EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN. IP £ These people are in many instances our very BEST AND MOST VALUABLE CITIZENS, and we should give them every possible encouragement. This statement does not refer to the agitator, hut to the honest and industrious toilers who seek to better their conditions. Take John Mitchell, for example. lie lias shown himself to be a careful, thoughtful and just man. Both employers and employees have rights, and each should con sider the welfare of the other. Destroy labor organizations entirely, and a MOST DEPLORABLE CONDITION would confront us. Army and Navy Should Keep Pace With National Growth. By WILLIAM H TAFT, Secretary of War. OUGHT we not in the six years between the present and the completion of the Panama canal to adopt a policy which shall give us a merchant marine to justify our expenditure of this enormous sum of money on commercial as well as naval and war strategic grounds? 13 IT NOT OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAT, IN ORDER THAT OUR INFLUENCE MAY BE FELT, WE SHOULD MAINTAIN A NAVY AND ARMY COMMENSURATE WITH CUR RESOURCES, WITH OUR COAST LINE, WITH THE EXTENT OF CUR COUNTRY AND OUR POPULATION? I do not say this in any jingo spirit. No one hates war or the prospect of it more than I do. But I am confident that the maintenance of our navy commen surate with our resources ami the reorganization of our army in such a way as to permit its SPEEDY EXPANSION UNDER STRESS will he most useful to secure life CONTINUANCE of THE PEACE under which we shall thrive and attain the highest aims of popular government. The Bible a Human Book * That Meets Human Needs. By F. S. GOOGMAN Y. M. C. A Secretary CUE Bible has always been under fire, hut the old hook will stand all the assault that will come upon it. It has been under the fire of infidelity, of destructive criticism, of con troversy and of misrepresented text. There is nothing the Bible has a harder time with now than with the misrepresentations of professed Christians. The Bible stands under this fire because it is a HUMAN LOOK AND, MORE, be cause it faithfully accounts for human conditions, because it is a bool: filled with the records of human misery and because it meets hufiian needs. In writing of Washington and Lincoln in the present day we tell only of the good parts of their lives. Only the good stories that Lin coln told are recounted, yet in his early life he told some that were not so good. TLrti* Bible, however, looks the matter in the face and TELLS THE TRUTH. It relates the sin in the lives of Abraham "and David as well as the better parts of their character. WHEN THE WRONGS OF MODERN CONDITIONS ARE RIGHTED IT WILL BE BECAUSE THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRIST HAVE HAD A FAIR CHANCL EVERY MAN LONGS TO BE BETTER THAN HE IS. THE SATISFACTION OF THAT YEARNING MAY BE FOUND IN THE BOOK. GIVE THE BIBLE A CHANCE. State Corporation Commission Successful In Oklahoma. By P. E. PRINGLE, Merchant, of Guthrie, Okla. OUR new state of Oklahoma is not half so wild and woolly as outsiders have been made to think. Ido not think that we have gone to excessive lengths of radicalism, and yet we have done more to curb corporate power than any state of the Union. Our plan of a ST ATO CORPORATION COMMISSION HAS BEEN AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM in bringing about this condition, and I am here to tell you that the commission lias been a , success, as THE RAILROADS THEMSELVES ADMIT. It has already Drought aboiil a big reduction in freight rates —50 per cent on lumber, 30 per cent on coal, 40 per cent on oil, '2O per cent on grain—and is now arranging a cotton tariff that will bring relief to our farmers, who are heavy producers of this crop. That's pretty good for a body that has only been in existence since last November, isn't it ? I hese reductions mean a saving of millions of dollars annually to our people. What is more, instead of kicking; THE RAILROADS ARE CO-OPERATING with the commission and signifying their intention to work with it for the mutual benefit of the general public i and of the transportation companies. |Uniform Marriage Lav/ to Control the Divorce Evil. Ey HENRY C. IOTTLR Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New Yortt. , UNIFORM marriage law is more important than a % ■ iny Ifi uniform divorce law. The sane regulation of niar . i hrxJi f riage will in a large measure control the divorce evil |/ j o THE VERY EXISTENCE CF THE NATION DE- I ¥ PENDS UPON THE PRESERVATION CF THE HOLv l I *&&&&■&&&&& INSTITUTION OF MATRIMONY AND THE IDEAL HOME LIFE. THE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE IS FAR MORE IM PORVANT THAN THE GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF THE CORPORATIONS. In many respects our laws upon marriage are more erode than those of anv other great nation of the world. With a record of some 50,000 divorces a year we lead any other nation in proportion of divorces to population. The law should so ! safeguard the sacred institution of matrimony that we would be spared 'the disgrace and scandal of the,* SILLY SECRET MARRIAGES that are of almost daily occurrence in this country. While the state may and indeed should stop in and regulate mar riage in many wholesome ways, yet happiness or unhappiness, honor lor dishonor, depends chiefly on each individual. The great lesson to he learned bv each of us is to perform our duty and our obligations and to do both of these things well in the sight of God. THE SHIRKING CF THE R ZSPONSIC! LIT! E3 CF PARENTHOOD IS THE CAUSE OF MUCH UNHAPPINESS, NOT TO SPEAK OF ILL HEALTH. IN DOING THIS THE FEOPLE “KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.” NATURE'S LAWS CANNOT DC TAMPERED WITH IN ANY ARTIFICIAL MANNER WITH IMPUNITY BY EITHER THE MAN OR THE WOMAN. MORE RIGID LAWS REGARDING THIS SHOULD BE PASSED. IF THE PEOPLE COULD CL INSTRUCTED IN THIS ALL IMPORTANT MATTER. THE DECREASE IN THE J&JMBER OF NERVOUS PROSTRATIONS. SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. INSANITY AND EVEN CONSUMPTION WOULD BE VERY MARKED. HEALTHY COU PLUS SHOULD HAVE LARGE FAMI LIES. Ihe “one child" family is heifer than none at all, but a single child is unfortunate for the child itself as well as for the parents. Usually the one child grows up to be selfish, vain and with exagger ated if not perverted ideas of life. When 1 there are one or more brothers or sisters to sympathize with, t<* make sacrifices for and to love it makes hettei rounded and sweet ( r characters. Good IMorgls Requisite To Good Business. Dy OSCAR S STRAUS of Commerce and Labor. CUE first requisite of good permanent business conditions is (()(){) MORALS —not one kind of morals for the farmer wh drives his earl of produce f<> market and another kind of u,e>rals for the railroad whi-di brings the products of tho farms and factories from distant point*.. EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND RIGHTS 13 A3 NECESSARY ON THE ONE HIGHWAY A3 ON THE OTHER. ND UNREASON ABLE CONDITIONS OR RESTRAINTS MUST EE PLACED UPON EITHER. There are combinations which promote trade and combinations which restrain fratio. T< cheek Loth i- harmful; TO PERMIT ROTH IS MORE HARMFUL. To adju-t our laws to preserve corporate industrial and individual right, and BY ALL MEANS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, and to curb wrongs, whether corporate or individual, is of the highest con cern not only to commerce, but to the <tabi:ii% of the commonwealth. A Humorous View cf Happiness By J ADAM BEDE Coagfwnian from Minnesota. I'AaSx APIMXESS mean- the npiinitm *f civilization. Each year hj we meet new obstacle**, and when they have been overcome J'L j? we have obtained anew ie-;d !<> happmess. Our comfort and happiness lie m the < <t nb-tacles. Anti I might say that it is not the wealthv class that enjoy- the most happiness. It is THE GREAT MIDDLE GLASS of thi- great country. T he women of the country today cujov more happiness than did those of a century ago. This is the result of THE MASTERY OK* OBSTACLES. The women have wife more time to join the Daughters of the American ''AillJFHir Revolution or to start a revolution >1 their own. The men also enjoy more privileges, and privileges It has not been so long ago when a law was £ passed prohibiting the sale -of vhi-kv in the eapitol at Washington and on the Indian reservati-*ns. The lawmakers evidently assumed that drunken Indians and congressmen were dangerous. Perhaps they were right. Blit it only shows the inarch of progress, which emphasizes happiness. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SUCH AN ADVOCATE OF PRO GRESSIVENESS THAT HE HAS EVEN CHANGED THE NATIONAL BIRD FROM THE EAGLE TO THE STORK, EVIDENTLY HE ACTS UPON THE THEORY THAT THE EAGLE MERELY SCREAMS, WHILE THE STORK DELIVERS THE GOODS. Does Honesty Lead To the Poorhouse? By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. Kansas Editor and Author. I MUST deprecate the present lax methods of charity. Those who need it don’t get it, I he millionaires have not returned to the common peo ple what they took away from them. And under the present scheme of government these millionaires are fostered. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer without any doubt. There is an un even distribution of wealth that TENDS TO MAKE THE POOR* HOUSE THE GENERAL"DESTINATION - OF THE IIOXF-T MAX. -