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—Cartoon by De Mar, in the Philadelphia Record.
FRIGE OF MEAT FORCED UP FOR PROFIT ONLY
ml Trust is Really Reaching Out to Control the Retail Trade of Entire
Caiiitry, Dealers Declare—High frice of Corn Not Accepted as
Excuse-Advance of From 25 to 35 Per Cent, in
Meat Forces Fish Dealers to Raise Prices.
X w York City.—Without even the
justification that the demand has in
creased or the supply fallen short,
the advance in the price of meat by
the powerful combination now reach
ing out to control the retail trade of
the country has reached a point
where hundreds of small butchers
must be driven into bankruptcy be
cause they are unable to sell at the
exorbitant rate forced upon them,
with the added burden of the exac
tions of the railroads in freight rates.
In Washington Market, the most
famous mart of its kind in the coun
try, trade has been cut almost fifty
per cent, in a year. Butchers who
needed six or seven big ice boxes last
year get along now with two or three.
The stalls that handled thirty or forty
car-cases now handle from ten to
twelve. Veterans in the business like
Peter J. Hickey suddenly find them
selves confronted with agents of the
Beef Trust as rivals in attempting to
gain hotel and steamship trade, offer
ing the product at a lower price than
it is sold to the butchers themselves.
Deaf Ear Turned to Pleas.
Pleas and demands for fair play
are futile. No notice of an advance
in price is given to any retail dealer
not controlled by the Meat Trust. He
must pay up once a week or go on the
black list, and if unable to meet his
obligations on the dot he locks up his
ice box and goes out of business.
The only explanation that the trust
makes as to why the price of beef
should be increased at a season when
the demand is smaller than at any
other time of the year is that the high
price of corn has made it necessary.
It has been asserted that in the fat
tening of what is known in the trade
as “finished beef" large quantities of
corn are required as fodder, and that
when the price of corn goes up the
price of beef must advance corre
spondingly.
It is asserted without qualification
by old-time butchers in the Washing
ton Market that there lias not been a
carcass of a corn-fed bullock in the
market for twenty years or more and
TEXAS PRICES ARE HIGHEST IN YEARS.
Influx of Population and Occupation of Land Cliiefly
Res po risible.
Fort Worth, Texas. —The present
prices of cattle on the hoof in Texas
—the highest in twenty years—are
due principally to the influx of a mill
-1011 settlers in the past two years, the
occupation of ranch lands and the
sale of cattle to clear off the big pas
tures.
best meal and grass fed steers now
e A? n Hie hoof at Fort Worth from
'’•<s to $6 a hundred pounds; corn
ed steers sold last week at $7.25 and
grass-fed steers have sold here this
spring at $6.75, the highest price
e , Ver paid in the history of Texas cat
be raising.
A year ago the best steers brought
7 4 •' 0, and two years ago to-day noth
was offered that would bring as
as $3 a hundred. In two years
price of cows on the hoof here has
HARD TIMES PRODUCE MALE CHILDREN.
Dr frank Kraft Says Sex of Infants is Based on Law of
Survival of Fittest.
Cleveland, Ohio.—Control of the
ex of infants is a practical proposi
according to Dr. Frank Kraft,
/fetary of the American Institute
v Homeopathy. Dr. Kraft says he
l s discovered noMiew principle, but
js shown the practical application
tha° n , e , ori Sinating with the evolution
• X)ry. The p r i nc jpi e> he says, is
tho r on Hie * aw the survival of
rh.i test Dr. Kraft makes these
in a book just off the
olna,la brinks Mud—Con
sumes Thirty-one Tons Each Day.
(w ol ? aha .. Neb. That citizens of
daih a r *nk thirty-one tons of mud
k h - ln the water from the Missouri
train Vvas .^ e testimony in the Feel
er V ourt inOmaha in a water works
T h by , tlle City Chemist.
Watr ■ Clty m akes the charge that the
adult COmpaD y oes n °t tTirnish un
dent water and refuses pay-
A g f]r ° the city bill on that account.
Bisson riV- rom a Hydrant, a glass of
tiionru Klver water cannot be seen
until it jetties.
that the meat of corn-fed cattle is not
sold for general consumption, foi the
reason that when the price of corn is
high the owner can make a greater
profit by selling it in the grain mar
ket instead of feeding it to stock.
There is not a retail butcher who
is able to explain why he has had to
pay more for his beef and mutton
and pork and charge his customers
more. All he knows is that the price
is increased. The meat is ready for
his inspection and purchase, and ho
can take it or leave it. The nearest
to an explanation of the increase baa
been the price of corn, and next to
that the shortage in supply.
Increase Instead of Shortage.
The organ of the Meat Trust m
New York does not bear out the
shortage theory. In its last issue the
receipts of live stock in Chicago were
recorded as “33 6,18 0 head for the
week, of 60,573. Deliv
eries of cattle were 8 911 in excess of
the receipts of the previous week,
end 11,372 head greater than the
same week last year.’’
As the demand for the choicest cuts
of beef falls off the price of the
cheaper parts is increased by the
butcher so that he can come some
where near getting even with the
wholesaler. In the populous east
side, where a half cent in the price of
meat means much, the cut for which
there is the greatest demand is the
brisket, which is divested of its bone
before it is sold to the customer. One
year ago the brisket was sold at from
thirteen to fourteen cents a pound.
This week the lowest price was twen
ty cents. Corned beef that sold for
sixteen and fifteen cents a pound in
June, 1 907, now sells for twenty
cents. Soup meat has gone up to
twelve cents a pound on the east side
and fourteen and fifteen cents a
pound in Jefferson Market, an in
crease greater in proportion than for
any other meat. Last January the
price of soup meat was from ten to
twelve cents a pound, and a year ago
the highest price for the best quality
was ten cents.
advanced practically two cents a
pound.
Last year's receipts of cattle at
Fort “Worth exceeded 1,000,000, the
majority calves and heifers, which
presages a shortage for probably two
years to come. Yearlings and two
year-olds sold this spring to feeders
have been bringing from $3 to $5 a
head more than last year, and it is be
lieved they will go higher.
The past two seasons have been un
usually favorable, the open range sea
son much longer than usual. The
loss from storms last winter was in
significant and the calf crop this
spring unusually large. This may
improve conditions within two years,
but neither packers nor cattlemen an
ticipate much change in conditions
before that time.
It is well known to scientists, as
serts the author, that savage races
and races which exist where the con
ditions of life are hardest produce a
preponderance of malechildreu. From
this fact he deduces that nature rec
ognizes in the female the weaker sex.
Thus, he says, in times of plenty fe
males are likely to predominate.
Some thinkers on the subject even go
so far as to assert that hard times
produce male children because the
struggle for life is harder.
Market Price of Fingers
Fixed at S3OO Each.
Columbus, Ohio. —Four Columbus
men have offered a finger each for
S3OO to A. C. Balloux, of Wheeling,
W. Va., who lost his fingers in an ice
cream freezer recently. * s . in
hospital at East Liverpool, Ohio, and
his brother, Joseph Balloux, made the
offer of S3OO a finger on the sugges
tion of the surgeons. The men who
have offered to have their fingers cut
off are Robert E. Robbins. W. E.
Thompson, O. E. Mansperger and a
man signing himself __
BRIDAL FADS AND FANCIES,
* 4 You haven’t half smoked that cig
ar. A newly-married man should not
be so wasteful.’’
“I leave the butts long to please
tny wife. She likes to loop ’em with
ribbons and hang ’em about the flat.”
*■—Washington Herald.
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manently cured bv Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr - H - R - Kline, Ld.,931 ArcbSt,, Phila., Pa.
How it jolts a man’s self-conceit in
after years when he happens to come
across a love letter he once wrote to
his wife!
TWO CURES OF ECZEMA.
Baby Had Severe Attack—Grand
father Suffered Torments with
the Disease—Owe Recovery
to Cutieura.
In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an
eltack of eczema, and after trying the doc
tors to the extent of heavy bills and an in
crease of the disease and suffering, I rec
ommended Cutieura and in a few weeks
the child was well. He is to-day a strong
man and absolutely free from the disease.
A few j r cars ago I contracted eczema, and
became an intense sufferer. A whole win
ter passed without once having on shoes,
nearly from the knees to the .toes being
covered with virulent sores. I tried many
doctors to no purpose. Then 1 procured
the Cutieura Remedies and found immedi
ate improvement and final cure. M. W.
Laßue, 845 Seventh St., Louisville, Ky.,
April 23 and May 14, 1907.”
Never judge a man by the talk he
lets out in his own behalf.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens thegums,reducesinflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
A dollar in your hand is better than
two in another's pocket.
To Drive Out Malaria and Build Up
the System
Take the Old Standard Grove’s Taste
less Chill Tonic. You know what you
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui
nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the
most effectual form. For grown people
and children. 50c.
A train of thought should not be
allowed to run wild.
John R. Dickey’s old reliable eye water
cures sore eyes or granulated lids. Don’t
hurt, feels good; get the genuine in red box.
About a vacation the most enjoya
ble thing is the planning thereof.
Do Your Feet Aclie and Burn?
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a
powder for The feet. It makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions,
Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet
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and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample 3ent Free.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
SPOILING THE FUN.
“But, Michael, can’t you possibly
manage to live with your wife with
out fighting?”
“Well, no, mum. I can’t—not
'nppily.”—London. Opinion.
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You can learn more about a people's
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“What business is Miss Gad die
“Oh, she’s in everybody’s business.' - '
“Wholesale, efi?”
“Yes, except when it comes to a
bit of scandal; she retails that”—
The Catholic Standard and Times.
PROOF FOR TWO CENTS.
If You Suffer With Your Kidneys and
Back Write to This Man.
G. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y., in
vites kidney sufferers to write to him.
To all who enclose
§ postage he will re
ply, telling how
Doan’s Kidney Pill3
cured him after he
had doctored and
had been in two dif
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eighteen months,
suffering intense
pain in the back,
lameness, twinges
when stooping or
lifting, languor, dizzyspells and rheu
matism. “Before I used Doan’s Kid
ney Pills,” says Mr. Winney, “I
weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12
boxes I weighed 162 and was com
pletely cured.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
DON’T STARCH TABLE LINEN.
A well known authority says that
table linen should never be starched.
It is a common mistake that many
housekeepers 'make and nothing so
detracts from the appearance and life
of handsome linen as starch. “Elbow
grease” is all that one needs to make
the proper kind of linen stiff. It
should be ironed damp, to get the
fine ssieen so characteristic of well
laundered linen. If it is ironed when
it is dry, or nearly so, it gets fuzzy. ;
Cultivator.
American Cotton College,
MILLEDGEYILLE, GA.
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young or old, who are unable to classify and put the correct valuation on 18 GRADES OF COTTON.
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MENDING BROKEN CHINA.
, Buy 5“ cents’' worth of thick white
shellac and apply a coat to the brok
en parts. Let dry 15 minutes, then
apply a second coat and press brok
en parts together. While shellac is
moist wipe over mended parts with
piece of cloth wet with wood or pure
alcohol to remove surplus shellac.
I have mended a valuable oriental
globe, a hand painted cracker jar,
a Bohemian glass bonbon dish, be
sides several pieces of a dinner set
and after years of use all are in ex
cellent condition. —Boston Post.
I AM
A MOTHER
How many American women in
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepara
tion for healthy maternity is
accomplished by the use of
LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Maggie Gilmer, of West
Union, S. C.,writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
“I was greatly run-down in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. It
not only restored me to perfect health,
but to my delight I am a mother.”
Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown,
Ky., writes:
“I was a very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but I am now a proud
mother.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
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ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She lias guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Some men walk as If they needed
glasses and some others walk as if
they had taken too many.
SOFT CORNS BETWEEN THE TOES
Are often more painful than the hard ones
on top. Abbott’s east Indian corn paint
will cure either kind,as well as bunions,sore,
callous, spots and indurations of the skin.
“It cures to stay cured.” 25c. at druggists
or by mail. The Abbott Cos., Savannah, Ga.
Never borrow a crowbar for the
purpose of prying into the affairs of
others.
What a Poultry Man Says About 20-
Mnle Team Borax.
As 1 am in the poultry business,.l
had ten white chicks to wash and
prepare for a show. I used “20-Mule
Team” Soap for washing the birds,
and I can say from years of exper
ience washing white birds, never be
fore have I found a soap or Borax
that cleaned my birds so fine and
easy. I had a great deal of comment
on my birds being so white. J. A.
Dinwiddie, New Market, Tenn. \
All dealers—*4, 1 and 5 lb. cartons.
Sample and booklet, sc. Pacific
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RESORTS.
(Mrs. Knicker —'Wherewill you ©pond
the summer.’’
'Mrs. Rocker —Jack ©ays it depends
on Chicago and Denver. —New York
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Malaria Causes Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the
system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it
is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children, 50c.
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Also NEURASTHENIA or NERVE EXHAUSTION. Administered
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X RECIPE FOR HOMEOPATHIC COFFEE <5
nUANG a stale coffee bean In the sunshine, let liner its shadow
fall on a tub of water; then serve the water in cups. Or,
make in the usual way, using cheap, low-grade, bulk or brand
coffee. The result will be practically the same. Bnt if you
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It is growing more and more ap*
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be the greatest city in the w’orld, and
we might as w’ell admit it. The only
question is now’, v*on’t it be a chore
for "the greatest city in the world”
to stay so? The American climate
conduces to fickleness, and incon
stancy. Having once reached the goal
nobody wants anything more to da
with if. Therefore, let Manhattan go
a bit slow’. It is getting to be "beau
tiful” in the new sense, and its squal
or and "early New’ York” look are
being pushed further and further out
of sight. That is a physical point
to its credit. —Boston-Herald.
Getting rich quick is as difficult as
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Take the Place of Calomel
Constipation sends poisonous matter hounding
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NUBIAN TEA brings immediate N \!
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There isn't much hope for the young
man who feels sorry for himself every
time he looks at his parents.
ANTIDOTE FOR SKIN DISEASES.
That’s what Tetterine is; and it is more.
It is an absolute cure for eczema, tetter,
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The man who quarrels with his
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Hicks’ Capudine Cures Women’s
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