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'I THE <PVL<P1T. ; ??? c AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON EV [ BISHO? H. C. POTTER. t 2 } Subject: The Church ami Labor. J c f t Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rt. Rev. ( Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. I preached in St. Ann's Church on the r Heights. Sunday. His subject was c "The Church and the Labor Ques- r ticn," and for his text he took the e two passages: St. Luke 3:10 to s 14 (R. V.): "And the multitude c asked Him what then must we do? e He answered and said unto them, *He that hath two coats let him im- \ part to him that hath none; and he s that hath food let him do likewise.' \ And there came also publicans to be c baptized and they said unto Him, i 'Masfer, what must we do?' And He f aaid unto them. 'Exact no more than t that which is appointed you.' And 1 the soldiers also asked Him, saying, i What must we do?' and He said unto c them, 'Extort from no man by vio- j lence; neither accuse any one wrong- r fully; and be dontent with your t wages." And St. Matthew 11:2 to v: r "Now when John had heard in prison c the works of Christ he sent two of his Y disciples and said unto Hira: 'Art c Thou He who should come or look we * for another?' And Jesus answered j t and said unto them. 'Go your way s and tell John the things which ye c see; the blind receive their sight and e the lame walk; the lepers are a cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead a are raised up and the poor have the I good tidings preached to them; and t blessed is he who shall find no occa- (3 Bion of stumbling in Me.' " Bishop r Potter said; i I wonder if it has ever occurred to \ you to ask yourselves the question, d how far the absolute incidents of the t gospels are a witness to their truth? t There are incidents like that which t must present itself to you in connec- r iiV - T XI n UUU Willi juiiu (.(it; JDit|?nsL. ituu iuai s other which occurs at the close of St. t Matthew's and St. Luke's gospels in a connection with Peter which make p us fee} that if any one -were writing a b book in which he desired to present t to us simply a favorable impression a of this or that man there are certain v things in the gospels which would li have been left out. Nothing is finer, t for example, in its way, than the lan- 1 guage of John the Baptist in connec- t tion with the coming to him in the r desert of the people, and of the sol- n diers, and the tax gatherers and the r rest. It is a singularly direct and c explicit way in which he lays down to e each group what should be the law c of their life. And it is entirely an- l other man, if we stop and think a t moment, whom we encounter in the f gospel for the third Sunday in Ad- d vent: "Art Thou He that should a . come? Really, I do not know wheth- s er you are or not." 1 That is the implication of the p words, and I can imagine an unbe- t liever using these words as a very i effective argument against the belief v of John the Baptist in the divine r claims of Jesus. Here is a man who r has been sent as the forerunner of a Jesus, who had baptized Jesus, who c was profoundly persuaded of the mis- r Bion and truth and divine character \ of Jesus, and yet there comes a mo- y msnt in his life when he says: "Well, s really, I am not clear about you. You t claim to be the Messiah. You have c appeared to this nation and to this i; era in the history of the world with r a revelation of the Supreme Force in d the world. Art Thou He who should c come?" But the fine thing about I these two texts is the fact that each y one of them is a distinct and explicit s witness to that thing of which you t and I are perfectly conscious in our- r eelves. That is, that every man and c every woman is made up of two men a and two women; that there are types c i of character which are so contradic- s tory and so unlike each other that abstractly we should say they are ab- c eolutely irreconcilable and yet they p belong to the same person, influenced o ' by different circumstances and chal- v lenged by different perplexities. There I ran ho nn rtnnht as to thp irrmrPSQinnc r> which had Been made by the teaching t and life of Jesus upon John the Bap- \ Ust in the words I have read. John. \ in other words, grasped and seized i with singular clearness and force the t ' fact that here in the advent of Jesus d there had entered the world an abso- t lutely new law in the conception of t life and of the individual's relations t to other lives about him. a Go back to the beginning of civili- t zation and trace step by step to this r hour and you will be amazed to find t how largely they built on the compli- a cations and philosophies of caste. My a brother (Dr. Alsop) might make an \ interesting sermon upon the tragic and dramatic forces of caste in India. whose religions it would be well to remember are older than ours. In e other words, the moment that bar- y barism begins to lift itself by organi- *r zation, by the creation of the govern- a ing society, it differentiates barbar- s Ism from civilization. It begins also e to emphasize the distinction of caste. f Do you know that to-day a Pariah, one or the classes in India, cannot ^ walk on the sidewalk of the street s after 3 o'clock in the afternoon be- s cause it is possible that this Pariah, c whose touch is defilement, might j brush against a Brahmin? In other s words, the Brahmin has pushed the <] theory of the isolation of the caste to 2 that point where he cannot allow { one not of the same caste to walk on t the same side of the street with him. s When I was in India I asked a Hindu on a boat on the Koogly River to sit down and eat with me, and he turned as if I had struck him and said: "My caste forbids; I cannot eat with you because you are a Christian." Now, Jesus came and John the Baptist sees first of all that He ^liad j struck at the foundation, at the jays- t tem of the theory of caste. The^ie- j ory of caste carried with it the right { of certain privileged people to main- t tain a certain autocratic and imper- j lous sovereignty over the lives and property of others. "No.." said John, having been long enough in the presence of his Master to grasp that great ["?- central truth of the Master's teach- 1 ing, "no, you and I, the soldier and '< the tax gatherer and the men who I pay taxes, and, all the rest, are one ? family in the family of God. and in i your relations to one another you 1 must govern yourselves by the law of < equity and not by the power which 1 comes into your hands because of any i mere caste inheritance whatever < your office or place may be in caste 1 L inheritance of power over another." I i'ne oeuevers xn cue reugiuii ui > Jesus Christ were slow, to grasp that t truth. John the Baptist himself be- '< gan to doubt whether Christ had i come to create a new system under < which men should sustain new rela- < tions to each other. "Art Thou He 1 ' who should come? If so. why don't < you strike at the foundation of this 1 concrete, ecclesiastical-political-social 1 order of which you and I are a part?" < Now, we come to the great truth 1 which Jesus strives to get to the t I minds of His disciples: "Go tell John ; Lv the thinzs you have seen." What : vas the definition of the Master's nethod? That He put into human ;ociety an absolutely new conception >f the relation of man to man and left t as ?. seed. He did not deal with he miseries of society, as you and 1 ire often tempted to deal with them. -Ie did nnt dismiss the blind and the ame and the rest out of His sight md teaching. He dealt with then our-square. and relieved them. Hf ranslated the mind and the heart of >od to the consciousness of man and le mads them realize at last that His eligion was in the world to be a recreative force. First of all. beginling at the individual heart and life md then bringing about the reconduction of society because of the lifferent way in which men regarded ;ach other. That brings me to the subject on vhich T have been specially asked to ipeak to-night. You and I, whether ve are disposed to like the situation >r not. and most of us resent It as an nsufferable impertinence, are conronted in this republic, and in this wentieth century, with incompara?ly the most tremendous problem, in ts relation to the right construction >f human society, with which the remblic hc>s yst had to deal, and that >roblem is the problem of the unificaion of the ideas and sympathies and lurposes and aims of men. and you annot go home to-night and lay your lead upon your pillow without being onscious, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. that there is in he depths of poverty and want and hamp all about you a profound sol's l rtisrnnfpnt. and that there are arnest and able men (let us be just, iltliough we don't love them), who ire deeply persuaded that there can te no peace in human society unless hat peace is wrought by the absolute lestruction of principles which are >recio;i9 and beautiful and dignified n human society. They say the vhole social fabric must be pulled lown and thrown to the ground and he man who stands in the way of hat must be got out of the way. Now, he question which confronts you and ae is: How are we to deal with this tate of mind and what are we to do o remedy it? We know that if such , social revolution were to come to >ass to-morrow it would be attended >y cruel and brutal indignities and hat the guardianship of the family .nd the safety of the State itself rould be imperiled. Our social probem here in America, and especially hose problems which involve our reations to the men who work with heir hands, are not to be solved by evolution, but by quite another aethcd. First of all we are to recoglize the situation, the tremendous onvolution, the transformation I nay venture to call it, which has ome to pass in the workingman's ife by the invention of machinery, >y the building up of great central orces for the employment of men tinier conditions which separate him bsolutelv from the master whom he erves. The workman is as absolutey unknown to the man or the corloration?and it is often a corporaion?who employs him as if he lived n Dahomey. It is along these lines, whether you choose to recognize it or lot, thatdanger lies; and the church's elation to that problem is one, aiter .11, which is in the hands of every ine to whom I am speaking. How * 3 ? ??P + V? /-? 11 fn nf fVifi nuca ao you KUUW ui iuc me v/i <-1*^ rorkingman? How much time have ou given to understanding it or to often it or to inspire it? It is not he giving of money, or the creation if charitable institutions that builds ip the feeling of brotherhood among aen. The poor man resents our con[escension. He does not want that ir your gold; he wants recognition of lis manhood. The shop girl wants ou to honor her womanhood; to repect her in the task in which she is oiling and suffering. You can do Quch to make that task easier and reate an atmosphere in which she ,nd you can move alike as members if the same divine society and fellow oldiers under the same Master. That brings into view the relation if the church 'to these great social iroblems. You and I somehow or ither must bring the man who works rith his hands to recognize his place, lis right, his office, his calling in the hurch of God. The first business of he church is to place her houses of worship at the service of the people rho work with their hands and then n the life of the church to encourage hat spirit which will help us to un[erstand and to serve it. There is rat one way to do that. Instead of urning to any "ism" of the hour or heory of social reconstruction, or tny new philosophy which underakes to re-create society upon theoies which are essentially barbaric in heir nature, you and I must go back .nd look into the face of the Master ,nd find in Him the secret of our service and our triumph. Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit. Christ said to His disciples on the (Vening of His resurrection, "Receive e?take ye?the Holy Ghost." The nessage is to us also. These words rp a command?not a mere permis? ion. It is not a passive receiving, lither, but an active taking on our lart. If we take this Holy Spirit, what vill it mean? It will mean that wo hall have the spirit of missions, the pirit of power. Livingstone wrote in his last birthday but one, "My fesus, my King, my life, my all, I igain dedicate my whole self to Thee." When the Lord called him Lwav, he was on his knees, with his ace buried in his hands, praying for he regeneration of Africa. The ipirit of missions within us prompts o various kinds of service. Ke noves one to say, "Here, Lord, am I, lend me;" another gives of his possessions to send the Gospel across the ieas. while another spends days and lights in earnest prayer for the vorld's conversion. May the Spirit ead us during this coming year o consecrate at least one evenng in the month to an earnest study )f this great cause that is so near Lo ^ nf nnr Mnchor' WJ i 11 i o T7* Petiibone, in Pacific Eaptist. A Prayer. Soul of our souls. Thou to whom ve turn for life and health, inspire ma quicken us, and by our worship ;repare us for our work. Give us a iieadfast spirit, a heart enslaved b> 10 appetite or passion, a will guided jy wisdom and firm for the right jive power to work and power tc ,vait. mercifully look upon our infinities and those evils, which bj )ur frailty, our sin, or our ignorance ,ve have invited, turn from us rransform evil into good. Out ol nortal weakness bring forth immor oi cfrenffth. May the fire rurify md not consume; and, when we pass .hrough the rivers, may they not jverwhelm us. Stay with us frore lawn till eventide. Should the waj )e rough and gloomy, may we pul )ur hand in Thine, aiid, if we an ed out into the dark, still let us hotc :ast by Thee, and cast away fear, li ;he crush and clang of life, may i jlessed calm often visit us, tell ins hat a Holy Ghost has entered in Mid will not leave us till we bid H}n :o. Amen.?P. E. Vizard. f J;. .; THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA :i ? CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. i : Poem: Justicc?The Number of Total Abstainers Who Are Being Elect| ed to High Office Shows a Grati* > | fying Increase. J Three men went out one summer night, 1 ! Vn fnrr> hrvl ihpv or aim. And dined and drank: . "Ere we go home i We'll hare," said the}-, "a game." . , Three girls bepn that summer night A life of endless shame, And went through drink, disease and death As swift as racing liame. i Lawless and homeless, foul they died; Rich, loved, and praised, the men; Eut when they all shall meet with God, And Justice 3peaks?what then? ?Stopford A. Brooke. Total Abstinence Mayors. It is gratifying to note the great increase in the number of total abstainers among those who were elect; ed to a first place in civil administration. In 1902 there were in England forty total abstaining mayors. In 1906 the number had grown to eichty-two. How many are in Ire land we are not able to say. We fear few, if any; but we venture to express the hope that the time is not far distant when the city of Belfast and other centres of administration In our island will he delivered from the disgraceful stigma that has too long rested on them, where a total abstaining mayor could not be elected because civic hospitalities without alcohol would not be tolerated. For many years we have been listening to good men again and again deploring this fact, but none seem willing to draw public attention to it. We I take leav6 to say plainly, that to make it an essential qualification for a chief magistrate that he should be able and willing to drench his council statedly with debasing intoxicants is not civilization, even at its lowest point,but is downright belly-worship; and of the guilty here we h-ve the highest authority for saying, that they will also "glory in their shame." No human language could be strong enough to express the dishonor with which such a circumstance brands any community.?Everybody'sMonthly, Belfast, Ireland. A Terrific Excoriation. Georgia is certainly to be congratulated for having passed the laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within the State. Whisky is doomed, and it should have been condemned by every State in the Union years ago. Examine the records, and you find that all sorts of crimes?yes, ninetyfive per cent, of them?can he traced to whisky. It has reduced many a home to poverty and has broken up hundreds of thousands of happy homes. It furnishes the asylum with patients, the penitentiary with inmates and sends its victims to hell. When we think of the wrecking power that whisky possesses, we stand amazed that a Christian nation should tolerate for one moment the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. The Government long ago enacted laws for the protection of our fish, and the birds, and beasts in the forest; yet have let the American home go on unnoticed and unprotected from the clutches of the whisky demon. But we hehold the dawn of a new day. Other States will follow Georgia's example, and sure at some time our posterity will enjoy better things, nrill r?Qtror ho qJiIo fn ItTlflpr auu lucj n in stand why their forefathers, representing a Christian nation, could, for one moment, have tolerated such a condition of whisky affairs as we have to-day.?Southern Fruit Grower. The Temperance "Wave." The movement toward moderation in the use of alcoholic drinks, which is often referred to as a "wave," is too widespread and too continuous to answer to that term. Consul Mahin, of Nottingham, forwards some statistics that show that it is gaining in force in England, and seems to be progressive as well as persistent. Since 1900 the consumption of beer per head has fallen from 32.29 eallons. the highest point reached in i the history of the trade, to 27.81 gallons, or fourteen per cent. This, still leaves a consumption of rather less than four pints a day for the adult male population, which would seem to be adequate for legitimate thirst; but if the rate of decrease, one-seventh in seven years, can be kept up or nearly approached, the middle of the twentieth century will see a practically beerless England. Of course, no such result ia to be looked for, but the decrease is substantial and unquestionably wholesome. During the same period the consumption of spirits declined from 1.18 gallons per head to .91, which is twenty-three per cent., a still more encouraging showing.?New York Times. Have Never Seen a Saloon. * Governor Hoch says: "A quarter of a million people have been born in Kansas who have never seen a saloon or a joint, and have grown up to believe as a part of their creed that it j is an unmixed evil." Of the 105 counties in tne state only twenty-one have any paupers. Only twenty-five have poor-houses. Thirty-five have their jails absolutely 1 empty. Thirty-seven have no criminal cases on their dockets. Kansas ! has the smallest number of paupers of any State in proportion to its pop! ulation. It spends more money for 1 education in proportion to its population than any other State. How soon can these things be saiil ; of your State??Carrio Nation's Hatchet. i Temperance Notes. The prohibition Chautauquas have been well attended and sown lots of seed. In Tennessee only Chattanooga, i Memphis and Nashville remain as > cities that license the sale of liquori, In the southwestern part of VirJ ginia, the wildest part of the old , Commonwealth, many towns have voted liquor out of business, and it is ' said that the next Legislature of North Carolina will consider a prohi'r bition law. ) Every asylum has half its inmates . because of rum, every poorhouse 1 ~? ??3 -io i 1 fniir L iuicc"4uttiicra ttiiu cvcij j<n* ? . fifths. Three out of four of all dol, lars paid in taxes go to defray exj penscs caused by saloons.?Connectit cut Citizen. 1 The prohibition movement, which, according to the National Temperance Society's report, has overspread ? Continental Europe, is taking England by storm, has penetrated Scot[ land?that "most Biblical and bibu, lous country in the world"?and is ' i sobering Bourbons in Kentucky, as J ! also the other States south of Mason , and Dixon's line. . V'.. ..Jk. Commissioner I Frovr, 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 answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is officially given out, was delayed 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 issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate 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 hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission as the lawful 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 cf freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted 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 attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influence, and hence the new deliverance of Commissioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal 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 department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as "a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many yqars the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." The Commissioner admits in describing this rate that there was a noie attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corporations 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 Irons in the Fire. Colombl An amateur authoress who had According to submitted a story to a magazine Mining Journal waited for several weeks without um exports of hearing from the editor concerning Cartagena and It. Finally she sent him a note re- exports througt juesting an early decision, because, ventura are sai is she said, she "had other irons in quantity.?Engl ;he fire." Shortly after came the editor's re- National C ply: Regulations i "Dear Madam?I have read your costume of bott story, and I should advise you to put people have be< It with the other irons."?Harper'- there are nine i Weekly. tumes.?Shang] ' . Then They Killed Him. The pen was "No," said the offensive punster; 'a girl who persists In hailing men i jmes uureu can't be a reigning belle. She'll Pazo Ointment is meet a good many frosts and soon case of Itching, Bli find her name under a cloud. It m6tol4day won't dew."?Leslie's Weekly. To get rid o dians marry th There is more Catarrh In this section oJ the flowers an the country than all other diseases put to- widows, and vi gether, ana until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many cu<3aP' years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by con- WORN i gtantly (ailing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven -rrrjn Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and, wu* Ulna Jum therefore requires constitutional treatment. Menri Hall'i Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. **ro ttt t Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con* * " ' stitutional cureonthemarket. Itistakenin- Aye., Anoka, M ternally in dnees from 10 drops toateaspoonful. It acts directly on the bloodandmucous surfaces of the system. 11'hey offer one hundred dollars forany caseJh fails to cure. Send for circulars and test imtrunlH. Address F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold tiv Druggists. 75c. Jgb Take Hall's Family J'illa for constipation. The Good Time Coming. Vrflffo wtiPTi airshins come into common use people who tell us how far it is ; ||iTT as the crow flies will be of real ser- ' vice.?Chicago Record-Herald. would do the Moravian Barley and Speltz, woman sufferin two great cereals, makes growing and fat- Sold by all d tening uogs and cattle possible in Dak.. Foster-Milburn Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere, and add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. A good man Emperor William Oat prodigy, etc., ana a lie if they other rare farm seeds that they offer. say ? JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT ' with 10c in stamps to the John A. Salzer Ct Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get their atop ;big catalog and lots of farm seed sam- before it be plea. A. C. L. Brown's Bronc One may reasonably expect to have nine PrePara**on foya' sickness out of the year. Soap ha8 be n 3000 years. A. I" ' Itch cured in I Syrup trnfis ? ^ eighteen feet in I ^Oixirsfoenna sou0, x > BU i?K ,QCIS VtJUliy ytri Uiuiiipi uaDies nau ; \ L i ') ? Caticura J Iv ontne bowels, cleanses -My baby ha< X\ \ C[ \ U neck and nothin the system effectually, effect until 1 U8e , y/ JJ , */ ' nearly full of te assists one in overcoming dise e- woul v v v \ . \ could hardly star habitual constipation, cc^s?aep a^.0a, permanently. To get its, Zynearly beneficial effects buy neTerfanedm \\ ' , JJ \?S edica did the w A>nnn my uncle's baby, lilt? ymumt. f 4, J l +L sores, and anotu [ylQnuJacTurcd byTh6.x same lix. iMrs. California^ FIGSyrup CO. tbe only successfi SOLD BYLEADING DRUGGISTS*504ptrBOIIli: world. See their . ment in another >mith vs. The St i the (Railway World, January 3, ig Into Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which point entrance Is made over the Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt Line at Dolton. 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 us see in what wuy 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 wmhtic PommlsBioner Smith contends that "concealment Is the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement," 1. e., that( this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitors of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective 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 informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6% cents from Dolton, and he would have been further Informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago 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 industrial towns in the neighborhood of Chicago, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis at a rate of 0*4 cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Cor poratlons makes so much of? Any rate? from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to shipments from Whiting, as to shipments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays 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 unquestionlngly every statement made by a Government official as necessarily true, although, as In the present Instance, a careful 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 rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that "the 'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted 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 terrian Platinum. New Postal Ri the Engineering and ' The Postmaster-Geni , most of the platln- order effective Janui Colombia are from which requires publish Barranquilla, though papers to drop from t i the ports of Buena- tion lists the names o d to be increasing in ers whose subscriptioi ineer. months or more in arr lation of the paper's sec hinese Costumes. privilege is the penalty egarding the national comply Vith the above i officials and ordinary ?n duiv comniled. and . The use of wind mot llfferent grades of cos- tors of electric power tiai Mercury. the Increase in Denma invented in England in Out of 205 men one 1 ' . . | high. I in 0 to 14 Days. FITS, St.Vitus' Dance, Ner guaranteed to cure any manently cured by Dr. Kli na, Bleeding or Protruding 5fa^?r?r,T,?? trial bottle t s or money refunded. 50c. ' i^me> Ld.,931 Ar f daughters, East In- holda the r< iem to flowers. When n Ing' ? 3 dead the girls are Mrs. Winslow'e Soothing S 'idows can be sold? *?ething, softens the gums i tion, allays pain, cures wind The Story of OUT WOMEN The word "Zero" is I ? ish, and means "empty conragemcnt in Mrs. ing. It was first use itt's Advice. mometer in 1795, b Merritt, 207 S. First named Fahrenheit. I inn., says: "Last win- snow and si ter I began to suffer f?und that he could pr ?. t * I* ?v> *9 IrMnova t f of cold equal to that k WILU ILIJ AiU u> A " had pains in my back w*nter day. It happ and hips and felt all ^ay on which he mad worn out. Dizzy periment was the col spells bothered me body could remembei and the kidney se- w*th the coincidence c cretions were irregu- discovery, he hastily < lar. The first box of he had found the lov Doan's Kidney Pills temperature, either m brought decided re- He called the lief. I am sure they and constructed a ther same for any other uating up from zero tc g as I did." which he numbered ealers, 50 cents a box. freezing point thirty-t? Co., Buffalo, N. Y. American. 'hey Say." r y people think it isn't m preface it with "they comes chronic. Get hial Troches, the best 11 111 known to the world for 30 minutes by Woolford's mc-iidai r Never fails. At druggists. NtURMLu TVk twinges, :s of India build combs , ddiiic height. ALL BRUI THISSOVI A CURED FOUR. an Suffered With Itch- 1 Eg Rash?Three Little I B J| skin Troubles?Calls a tter Old Stand-by. 1 a running sore on his g that 1 did for it took d Cuticura. My face was tter or some similar skin ???a? J itch and burn so that 1 id it. Two cakes of Cuti-J | box of Cuticura Ointment ? .Hk k tm rJIF ,'cars after it broke out on^ Tist. Sometimes 1 would { ' for it itched bo badly. I <i G0W* YaYTWX* J y stand-by, that had "J fcro\!X-JI Sue set of Cuticura Rem--? sk ork. One set also cure<J whose head was a cake oi MEN, BOYS, WOME icr baby who was in the **?30, W. L. Douglaa Lillie YVilcher, 770 Elev- man'* *2.50,1 looga, Tenn., Feb. 16, '07." worldl^bacaL HXB 8h' fN bat withstand a twenty-eight- aro of areatoi && ahoem fn the m i Sons, oi Atlanta,(Ja.,are $4 and $5 G ill Dropsy Specialists in the S(^f si.t^r deale^ liberal offer in advertise- t:ated Catalog free to any adc column of this Daoer. ? : --;?! VM ' - \ ' ; -v andard Oil Co. ^.'r -<yM - ; :m <* ' : : \ mm v ; '.'f.Zj 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 elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a ratebook 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 Commerce Commission and other departments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was fined ah 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 commodity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was Introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered wHh hv the eiehteen-cent rate nor taat the ' failure of the Alton to file its six-cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper,?we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "Independent" shipper of oil, whom he pictures as v being driven out of business by this discrlm- ,v; .' "fp lnation 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. Lonis. In short. President Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be declared so by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and mis- 1 . - ' demeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with bis Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive personalities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the r President of the United States, the corporation Is at last dragged to the bar of justice to ? . answer for its misdoings. The whole strength . 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 crimes, 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 ' theft of property worth more than a shilling was punishable by death. Under the Inter-; ! v-:.i pretation of the Interstate Commerce- law by Theodore Roosevelt and Jndge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official '* /*/snflonoHAn rtf a is made tne excuse iui cue wuiuvouu^ .. vast amount of property. iling. Sermons In Esperanto. , '+' eral Issued an The sum of $26,000 has been left try 1, 1908, by a German merchant who died at ers of weekly Cottbus, to found a church In Conheir subscrip- stantinople for all denominations. f all subscrib- The sermons are to be preached In , as are twelve Esperanto.?London Standard. ears. Cancel- ; :ond-class mail In 1906 the United States profor failure to duced 26,238 flasks of quicksilver, rule. valued at $985,634, a decrease 1s _____ quantity of 4213 flasks, and a vaJue ors as genera- of $144,486 in 1905. California, is greatly on Texas, Utah and Oregon are the prork. ducers. a over six feet A mouse seldom lives longer than three . ... years. 7ou8 Diseases per- Only Ono "Bromo Quinine" ne's Great Nerve That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look ind treatise free, for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the ch St.,Phila.,Pa. World over to'Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c. jcord for cocoa Sweden and Spain have fewer alien residents than any other country of ymp forChildren Europe. N.Y?5 educes inflamma colic, 25c a bottle. ??? rrom'the Span- 14 straight to the hence noth- ITiark id for a thersiS Ha'e's Honey ?? of Horehound; ened that the ? e his final ex- _ M J ? dest that any- ^0 I ST r, and, struck ** if his scientific concluded that Quickly Cures Coughs I ?nd Colds mometer grad- Pleasant, effective, harmiesa ) boiling point, Get It of your Druggist 212, and the " . -n. jro.?New York Plke'8 Toothache Drops Cure In One Minute - )UCH, OH MY BACK" j f IA. STITCHES. LAMENESS, CRAMP , TWITCHES FROM WET OR DAMP SES. SPRAINS, A WRENCH OR TWIST iREIGN REMEDY THEY CAN'T RESIST ACOBSOIL Price 25c and 60c : ' ;ES, FOR EVERY^SjBP^ 8 ^gPS?*^ ./ > "N! MISSES AND CHILDREN. *t 8 makea and mmllm mora?|gft 9 tS.OO and S8.BO shoaa ^?jg5? V^p mannfmoturar tntha ?^ rsa thajf hold thalr*T&8 f<ut tmr. wear Songor. and W\WMfA''!; ' v?2ti? 1Jf*n '"yotnermo-ZQ. -^v, or Id to-day. <?*8 u'ed lilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price Extiunvow, Donglaa namo and price Is sta% ped on bottom. Tnke \? 8nli?tttut?. i everywhere. Shoes mailed trom factory to any part of the world. Ilia* tress. W. L. BOVGLAS, Brocktou, Mm*. < HWrii ,