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that th* quality of the stamped envel opes and newspaper wrappers fur nished by the Hartford Manufactur ing Company is far below the speci fications. The Government loss on this is $125,000, and the Postmaster- General has held up payments pend ing investigation by Ibe Department of Justice. Cotton Men in Convention. The International Conference of Cotton Growers and Manufacturers was opened at Atlanta with 500 del egates present, including cotton men from Great Britain, Germany, Bel gium. France and Spain. C. W. Macara, President of the English Master Cotton Spinners* Federation, said that if American cotton planters attempt to hold for extreme prices the efforts made to develop cotton gorwing in the colo nies and dependencies of European nations will be greatly stimulated. Government crop reports will be debated. Full Dinner Pail is Up $1 a Week. Twenty West Springfield, Mass., boarding-house mistresses met at the home of Mrs. Charles Clark, Jr., and voted to form a Boarding-house Union. A score of boarding-house proprietors who were unable to be present sent word that they would stand by any action taken by the meeting. The union decided to raise the price of board from $5 to $6 a week and to put the new rate into effect at once. One of the chief causes of dissatis faction was the full dinner pail. It was asserted that railroad men who carried their dinners provided them selves with with pails as large as wash-boilers and expect the boarding house mistresses to fill them with ‘ 1 lunch.’’ It was explained that the medium sized pails held two quarts of coffee, eight or nine sandwiches, half a pound of cheese and six dough nuts, and that failure to include two pieces of pie was considered justifi cation for prolonged grumbling. One of the women declared that the late Mark Hanna was to blame for prom ising the men “a full dinner pail.” A long-faced landlady of Republi can tendencies, said Senator Hanna merely meant enough to eat and not a wheelbarrow load. One* boarding-house mistress sug gested' that a special rate should be made for school teachers. “ k school teacher’s appetie is as good as anyone’s else and they are more bother than two men,” was the prompt reply of a maiden woman. It was voted unanimously not to make an exception in favor of school teachers. As practically all the boarding housees in West Springfield are in cluded in the movement, the boarders have the alternative of paying $1 a week more or of moving our of town. Dr. Rowland and Wife Acquitted. • In the case of Dr. and Mrs. Row land, who were charged with poison ing Charles R. Strange, Mrs. Row land ’s first husband, the jurors re turned a verdict of acquittal. When the verdict was announced Dr. Rowland’s friends begun a dem onstration. Mrs. Rowland and her sister embraced each other and wept, as did also Dr. Rowland and two of his lawyers. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. Jiidge Long indignantly arose and quelled the cheering, saying a court room was no theatre and said that if he knew the offenders every due should pay SIOO. Dr. and Mrs. Rowland took a car riage and drove Sb a boarding buose, where Dr. Rowland used to live. A little party of their friends hurried to a florist and got a great quantity of flowers, which they carried to Dr. Rowland’s office. He and his wife soon went to the latter place. They there held a sort of reception and were loaded with flowers. They left two hours later with their relatives for Henderson, where they will spend a day or so and then go North. John Mitchell Improved. John Mitchell, President of the United Mine Workers of America, was so much improved in health that he was able to’ go to his office at National headquarters in Indianapo lis for a short time. Friends of Mr. Mitchell believe he is on the road to complete recovery. Tobacco Trust Says It’s a Good, Kind Concern. “What!” exclaims the American Tobacco Company, in effect, replying to Attorney-General Bonaparte’s Anti-Trust Law suit; “do you call us a trust, a conspiracy in restraint of trade? Mr. Bonaparte, you’re misguided.” The Attorney-General, last July, had a bill filed in the United States Court in New York, alleging that the American Tobacco Company and its allied and subsidiary corporations and firms were in fact an octopus and asking for a receivership for the Trust and of its co-defendants, in cluding Thomas F. Ryan, James B. Duke, Oliver H. Payne, Anthony N. Brady, directors, is a curiosity of the literature of the law. The keynote of the defense is that while the Trust has combined many companies and interests into one, it has no power to control the industry in which it is engaged, nor would it if it could. The author of this unusual document is said to be Junius Parker, solicitor for the com pany. Attorneys who examined nis plea hastily last night said that Mr. Parker seemed to have blazed a new way in practice before the Federal Courts in Sherman law cases, and tnat his method was worthy of the most caretui study. It is understood that James B. Duke, the controlling genius in the Trust, instructed his counsel that he desired no mere technicalities to be interposed to delay a speedy trial of the issue, whether or not the Ameri can Tobacco Company is an unlawful monopoly. It is not hard to imagine Mr. Duke himself inspiring the phrases in which the central ideas of the defense are set out, so different are they from the lawyer’s profes sional manner. The answer, in a dozen places, de clares that so long as brands re main in existence, competition can not be destroyed, because competi tion in every branch of the tobacco trade is a struggle between brands, and not between factories and the ri val concerns owning them. “Brands,” says the answer, “have their strength in the fact that tobac co is a luxury. The consumer de sires only that his taste shall be sat isfied. The creation of a profitable tobacco business depends in the first place on hitting, by luck or skill, up on a process of manufacture, packing and labeling that will please a great number of consumers; in the second place bringing this product favora bly to the attention of a great many consumers, and in the third place, maintaining the quality and charac teristics of the product. “The American Tobacco Company has achieved the degree of success alleged in the petition, because it has met these requirements.” A larg part of the brief is devoted to an expansion of this idea. Some brands are good sellers, it is profit able to buy them, in most cases the sales if the brands so bought have largely increased. These brands are always in competition with other brands that may bid in open market for the tastes of consumers. Clubbing Offer DIXIELAND, The Illustrated Home Magazine of the South, and WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE Both at $1.75. No commissions to agents on this offer. DIXIELAND MAGAZINE and WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSO NIAN. Both at $1.25. No Commissions. DIXIELAND MAGAZINE, WATSON’S Monthly, and WATSON’S Weekly, all three for $2.15. No Commissions. Farmers’ Catechism I Millions of farmers need a mental treat—an eye-opener—an intel lectual cocktail. That’s what the Farmers’ Catechism is. It’g~ a Gat ling gun cut loose on gamblers in farm products and other pirates It’s Farmers’ Union thunder—a mail course of instructions to farmers —worth S2O, but U can get it for a dime. Gamblers in life’s necessities exposed. How farmers have been deceived, plundered & robbed. How the Union will prevent the robbery. It will fire the brain and stir the heart of every Intelligent farmer. Great help to organizers & workers. Hundreds of knotty questions made plain. Besides three of the grandest speeches ever made to American farmers, viz., National Lecturer, Judge Fisk, to farmers of Kansas, July 4th. Hon.’ Thos. E. Watson, to Georgia farmers, and the eloquent Mr. Windle of Editor of Brann’s Iconoclast, to farmers State Union. Every farmer should have these three great speeches. Some farmers are dead —intellectually. Some too mean to die. But the majority are not. The majority are in for a square deal. They ask no favors—only fairness. To them the CATECHISM will be hailed as a great brain preparation. Send for it. This is not a stand ing ad. Ads cost money. Every reader of WATSON, sending a sil ver dime, £ address, plainly written, of 20 intelligent farmers not readers of the JEFFERSONIAN, win get the CATECHISM, postpaid. Are U willing to help spread the light? A MIGHTY CONFLICT IS NOW RAGING. Don’t be asleep or in different. Send now, but not names of lunk-heads. Wouldn’t you Hie to see WATSON’S publications have ten times the circulation they now have? Then, lift a hand. FARMERS’ CATECHISM Wichita, Kans. w The $2.00 Offer was never Intended as an agent proposition on which commissions could be charged. The purpose of the offer was to encourage the voluntary subscriber to subscribe to both Jeffersonians at the same time. ♦ From this date the $2.00 price for both Jeffersonians will be for the voluntary subscriber. In other words it is a net price. No com missions at all can be paid on that price for both Jeffersonians. October 9,1907. Declare President Would Be Beata. Among Milwaukeeans it is general ly believed that if President Roose velt makes another run for the Pres idency it will be next year. William George Bruce, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, said: 1 ‘Roosevelt can not run again. It would really be a third term for him to try again for election. You cannot consider it anv other way. In case Roosevelt should attempt to be a candidate again, I be lieve that he would be rejected in the Convention, and he certainly would be rejected at the polls. There is, in my mind, no danger of his trying to be p candidate again in 1912, after one full term has been served by some one else, whether it be Secretary Taft er another man. By that time his etar will have waned.” PAGE FIVE