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BRISTOW HIKES ALORICH. KANSAS IN si ltd FAT EXPOSES Alil>Kl< M S PERSONAL NTER UT IN TARIFF. Tfmmm of Organisation of Intrrcontl aental Rubber Company and Ef? fects of Tariff In Producing Divi? dend* For Aldrlrh and Friend*. Milwaukee. Wla. Aug. 12.?United Stete* Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kanaan in his speech here tonight, which he stated was in reply to a let* ter last night to Senator Nelson W. Altrich, launched Into the subject by easing. "Senator Aldrlch declares that the Intercontinental Rubber company Is not a trust and at the same time admits It Is a holding company." Senator Bristow then took up Mr Altrich'* declaration that neither he nor his family had profited directly or Indirectly by the tariff on manufac? tured rubber, "yet" Senator Bristow said, "he admits that he Is producing millions of pounds of crude rubber per annum, selling it to American manufacturers and that they Increas? ed duty on their products when they did not need it for protection." First Point. Oeing Into the question of the Or? ganisation of the Intercontinental Rubber company. Senator Bristow quotes Mr. Aldrlch as saying that the Continental Rubber company was or w ntaed under the laws of New Jer eey January 29. 1903. and that the Continental Rubber Company of America was organized under the laws of New Jersey January 6. 1906. and further thst "Mr. Aldrlch says that the first two companies named were subsidiary companies of the In? tercontinental company and that It owned all of their stock and that they were organised for the sake of con? venience." Mr. Bristow asked: "How c >uld they be subsidiary companies of the Intercontinental Rubber company and organised for its convenience when both of them were organised before It wee?" ??Where OKI Yon (Jet It?" "lie admits that dividends had not been paid before the consolidation of the various OOmOOnll into one an I thst after the SeSSSOtMaateOS enormous dividends were paid, as stated In my speech. "He says, 'ft isn't true that there was an Increase in the rate in para? graph 4SI. which Includes certain manufactures of Inlda rubber with other Items and It Is true that I am s> stockholder and director in the In? tercontinental Rubber company, but none of the other statements referred to contain a single element of truth?" "Now what were the other state? ments I made? I stated that the Con? tinental Rubber company was organ? ised under the laws of New Jersey, January 29. 1903. That the Contl Sienta 'onpany of America was organised under the laws of New Jersey. January 5, 1906. and that the Intercontinental Rubber company was organized under the laws of New Jersey. December *. 1906. Now Mr. Aldrlch says that the first two com? panies named were strictly subsidiary companies of the Intercontinental Rubber eompany and that It owned all of their stock and that they were or ganlzed for the sake of convenience. \dlmts This Point. "I stated that this intercontinental company, sfter these mergers were completed, had within three months and four fsjyi paid on Its preferred ?Sock dlvi lends aggregating 18.2 per cent This Mr. Aldrlch In substarn e admits. ?*I stated that the Intercontinental ftubber company OWnsd the capital stork of five other ompan'es in ad? dition to those absorbed. This Mr. AJdrh h admits. "The company owned a controlling interest in the capital stock of the Amerhan Otsaf/O OSes P111. organized through the concessions given by the Relgtan government. This Mr. Aldrlch neither affirms nor denies. "I stated that since the tariff bill passed and since the absorbing of these other companies Sy the Inter? continental Rubber company the price of manufac tured rubber has ad? vanced to the people of the t'nlbd States about If i ' nt. ?>uc Thing Barred "Mr. Ablrh h knows that the Gug fjv.nhein ?. Thomas V. Kyan. If. P. Whltnev und himself are the control? ling MNsssjoss in this Intersoattnsntsl UuMter eompany and under Its char? ter It is empowered to transac t any kind of hunlnea* on earth except to preach the go*pel. "H* admits that the Increased duty r*f the manufacture* of rubber was an Added protection given to the Amer? ican manufacturers when It was not. needed "Mr. Aldrlch further admits that the Increased dutv of manufactured rubber resulted In d> < reused Impor? tation^ This Mr. Ptinnnn In Kansas denied nnd stated In a public address at Emporla that I made false state? ments In regard to such decreased Importations. , "Tho long letter ?MhmlttOd from MMSrretts Is one of those ridiculous statements tb>it this man Sharretts is accustomed to make to suit the con venience of Mr. Aldrlch when there is any explanation made In regard to the tariff bill." TO HK MAN'S GOOD AXUEL. A Iieslro Tliat Is Part Of The Fem? inine Make-up. (From the Kansas City Star. The woman does not live who is not flattered by the idea that she is a good anget to some man. It is a part of the feminine make-up to wish to be a guiding star. Men know this Instinctively, and when they need an excuse they word it something like this: "I know I am not worth it, but you are the one good thing in my life." Girls, especially young girls, with a slight knowledge of the world, are strong In their own sense of power. They think that their wanting to make a man good will make him good. Knowing nothing of the awful grasp of evil habits, they believe from the bottom of their little white souls that they can bring him up to the heights. And that Is how it hap? pens that women marry men to re? form them. A great problem faces the girl who falls In love with a man who Is weak. Generally her love for him makes her underestimate his weaknesses. She calls his liking for the things that harm him by other names than the true ones. If he drinks, she tries to convince herself that he can stop if he will do it. She is sure gambling will have no attraction for him when he can bask alwsys In the pleasure of her society, and she contends that his flirU.tious regard for other girls will ceane when married. Sometimes her faith in him is justi? fied. Some men lead reckless, care? free lives un*il they meet the one woman to whom they give a great love and that love transforms them. But such cases are exceedingly rare. The average man, in the first flush of adoration, makes promises which he cannot keep. Dad habits are not easily replaced by good ones and the girl who engages herself to a man whom she knows to be dissipated should Insist upon a long engage? ment. Only in such an engagement can her lover prove himself worthy. It Is easy enough for the Intemperate man to refrain for a few weeks or months from tippling, but a year or longer will test its strength and prove his love. If all women were strong they might ?>ear up weak men on the wings of their strength, but marriage, after the honeymoon, Is a practical proposition. The young wife facts problems that have never before con? fronted her, and she needs a hus? band who will help bear them ami not add to them. The wives of weak husbands are always to be pitied. They never have their womanly heri? tage of protection and tsndomSBS. They go through the world with more a t ight than their slender Shoulders it illy ought to carry. No man who Is the victim of bis <?\\n weaknesses should ask a girl to marry him. If his love for her is very treat he may tell her of it. toll hi r that be wbhes her for his wife, but that, as yet, he has no right to bind her to any vows. If she loves him she can wait for him. marry him The brave-hearted girl will say at this point. "Let me help you." And that is hrr mistake. She may help, but not as his Wife, If misery is t<> ??mc he must boar the burden of his own WOaknOOOOl and not inflict it on i woman and perhaps on her child. Love is a sacred thing, so sacred that no two people should treat it SI trivial. It shouldd not demand oT its object perfection, but it must de nim i i Striving toward good. The young couple who wishes to marry BlttSt have idea Is if they are to have happlnooo. They must have strength If they are to benefit their race. They must bo temperate if they wish to h..ld the rSSpOCl Of the community. Degrees of Hunger. "I'm simply starving!" cried the short story writer at the Hungry club "I wish they'd begin dinner." "I never saw you when you weren't starving," said the i>oet. "I'm never as hungry as Toy are. though," the short story writer declar SS\ "because I write prose."?New York Press. m ? - Why He Stopped. "You BjSSd lO be an awful spend? thrift." "YtfV P.ut I ain't any longer." "Ah! Reformed?" "No; spent It ull."- Cleveland Leader. Tie who hits lost confidence can lose nothing more Uoistu. Sprinkling a Trestle. A STSjodsll trestle on the Klamath Lake railroad, in Oregon, Is prot oct ed fron Bee In the dry season by a sys? tem of sprinklers whieh keep it eon tlnually wot, A pipe runs the entire length of lbs trestle between the In ks. and at short distances are antes through which the water is sprayed OVOT the structure. Popular Mechanics. Bwgjiter street since having boon s irfaeed with the Ctongareo clay travel is ghoul the best street lt? town. BALLINGER AN EKCUMBhAliGE. (i. o. I?. RFADJCSTMFNTS BF.FORi: ; FALL CAMPAIGN. Developments Indicate General House Cleaning at Headquarters. Posnlblo that Undo Joe Cannon Will not Have Administration Sup? port for Spcakorship. Beverly, Mass., August 13.?Certain events of today following incidents of the past week or so lead inevitably to the conclusion that a complete politi? cal readjustment in circles close to the President is in progress. Senator Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, called to see the President early to? day. The President was gratified that Senator Aldrlch had replied *o Sen? ator Brlstow's charges regar ing the tariff. In doing so, it i3 said that the Senator from Rhode Island perform? ed an act which fitted exactly Into a programme which has been framed by party leaders close to the Presi? dent. Although he is not to retire until March, 1911, the readjustment plans which plainly are In progress, apparently treat with the influence Mr. Aldrich may have had with the President as a thing of the past. The elimination of Mr. Aldrich, ac? cording to close political advisers, is soon to be followed by the retirement of Secretary Richard Balllnger from the Cabinet. The Republican party Is facing one of the most crucial cam? paigns in its history this fall and the leaders who have been coming more and more Into influence with the President are arriving daily to do all they can to bring about an adjustment of the differences within the party. Mr. Hallinger practically has lost all his personal fortune in defending himself from the attacks that have been made upon him. If the Secretary is to recover these losses It is said he must assume the lucrative practice of law which he left in his home State to take up the arduous duties of head of the inte? rior department. The retirement of Mr. P.allinger Is fixed for September IS. The Con? gressional committee will have re? ported by that time and the date is sufficiently early to take the so-called Baliinger issue out' of the campaign. The third move in contemplation is said to be directed against Speaker Cannon. It is not admitted In Bev? erly that Mr. Cannon will even be a candidate for the Speakership. Once it is known that President Taft would like to see a change in the Speaker ship, however. It Is believed that all doubt as to the result would be re? moved. That Beverly Is being made the headquarters of the movement to set the Republican House in order Is now. generally admitted. Tie various moves are being made quietly, but effectively. Reports have reached Beverly that the recent results in Kansas and Iowa were due largely to the activity f Speaker Cannon in Kansas to the charges against Senator Aldrich and doubt In the West as to whether he actually intended to retire. The situ? ation developed in these two States evidently has made an impression up? on the pary leaders that has stirred them to action. If Jupiter Were Inhabited. Calculations as to the si/.e required for human beings on the other planets vary widely, according to the basis of reckoning. According to those based upon the attraction of gravity. Jupiter should be peopled by pygmies of tveti iy-eight inches WoltlUS, on the other hand, argued that Goliath himself would be accounted decidedly under sized upon that planet. He worked from the feebleness of the sun's liuht there, which would demand that the pupil of the aye should be much more dilatable. Since the pupil stands in a constant proportion to the pall of the eye and that to the entire body, said Woltius. a little calculation shows that an average Jovian must be nearly thir? teen feet seven inches tall?not quits four Inches shorter than Og. king of Bashan, according to the measure of his bedstead given in Deuteronomy. A Bright Blacksmith. The greatest improvement in vehicle construction was when some bright blacksmith thought of heating the tires and shrinking them on the wheel. While many claim the honor, It is not known to whom it rightly belongs. Previous to this event tires were made In short section! and held on the fel? loes with nails. When starting on a long haul the driver always laid in n good supply of nails to use on the trip.?Shop Notes Quarterly. Poisonoui Gas Geyser. In the mid t of the great faunal wil? derness near Nairobi, Africa, Is a big bit.whole in the earth issuing poison? ous gases. Surrounding this hole for many yards are piled bones of dead animals poisoned by this gas geyser. Dogs dragged by ropes over the hole were killed in less than 0 minute. The gas has been found to be hydrochloric, coining from some volcanic depth. The death trap has been fenced aud billed With warnings. ? New Yo.'k Press, Hotter an ass that tarries us thai. ;i horse thai throws us.?Timothy Tit comb, In the Good Old Days It Was Sport. Not Commercialism. A MAN TOOK A CHANCE THEN. He Didn't Ask For s Written Guar antes Thst the Animal Was Sound, and If H* Got Stuok H* Bided His ! Tims to Psaa Along ths Prizs. ( "i have been reading that David j Harum story," said the ancient livery Ml when his crouies were comforts- I b!y seuted in his little ol?ce. "A friend told me that story was the last word od bors3 trading, but the man who wrote it didn't understand the spirit of the game at all. David Harum would bave been skinned out of bis teetb if be had blown into any west? ern town in the palmy days of horse trading twenty-five or thirty years ago. "1 tell you. my friends, all the dead game sports are asleep with their fa? thers. Nobody is willing to take a chance nowadays. If a man buys a cigar he wants a bill of sale with It The other day a cheap skate pestered me a whole afternoon talking about buying a horse. He tried out all the nags in the barn and finally decided that the - glass eyed bay would suit him. And he actually wanted a writ? ten guarantee that the horse was sound! A written guarantee! No. gen? tlemen. 1 am not joking. That bald headed travesty on a man actually asked for such a document 1 regarded it as an insult, and after 1 had rebuked him they had to pour four buckets of water over him before he recovered. I *'ln the good old days horse trading was a game, not a commercial transac? tion. If a man wasn't willing to take the chances when he went trading he ( was advised to try some other line of business. Many and many a time i had the harpoon administered to me. One day Major Charlie Slaughter drove to my barn. " *1 have quite a neat package of horseflesh here,' said the major, 'and 1 have a sort of presentiment that he can travel a few lines when the wind | is blowing in the right direction.' "His horse was a handsome roan, a regular peacock for style, with his head away up in the air so you'd need a stepladder to see if he bad a star on his forehead. And the way he hit the road was a sin. Talk about galted horses! That roan handled his legs as though he had taken sparring les? sons. Now, my weak point lu the horse business Is that when 1 want a certain nag the worst way I can't conceal the fact I just can't steep or eat my victuals until that hor-e Is In my barn with a new baiter on him. The major was wise to my weakness. " 'It's no use, Jake,' says the major. This boss Isn't on my swapping list Every roan hair on him just suits me, and I'd be a chump to let him go.' ?'Well, of course 1 got the roa.n all right The major was just bluffing. And I gave him the biggest trade yon ever heard of?gave him a matched team and several bills for that gan? gling roan. And when I took the roan to the water trough for a drink 1 found that he couldn't lower his head. He had to carry it about ten feet in the air all the time, owing to some Injury in his neck. He bad to eat his flaked rice off a shelf and drink from a garden hose, aud a man needed an aeroplane to put a bridle on him. "Did 1 raise a fuss with the major? What sort of skate do you take me for? Next time I met him I told him 1 liked the roan better than any horse 1 ever saw. *He isn't always rooting In the ground like a pig.' said 1, 'and If you had told me about his patent dirigible neck I'd have given you $10 more.' We were sports In those days. "One time the veterinary surgeon told me about a fine trotting horse in a town some distance away which had been deprived of its tail by a surgical j , operation. 1 went and looked at the j horse. He was a perfect beauty and { could trot like an avalanche. But he bad just a stump of a tail, and the owner was ashamed to drive him, so 1 bought the critter for a song, i went to a lot of trouble having a tall made for him. It was a beautiful, flowing tail, a credit to the hairdresser's art It was fixed to slip over the horse's stub tall and was then fastened to the crupper of the harness, and a man needed good eyes to see that it wasn't the real thing. "Tht? major had poor eyes, and when I took him for a drive behind that black trotter he simply had to be tied down to the seat he was so excited. He said he'd always wanted a hOi*se with a tail like that. He had my own weakness. He couldn't pretend indif? ference when he wanted a vhing the worst way, and he wanted that horse so bad that his hair was falling out I After a great deal of deliberation I issued my ultimatum. M 'I'll give you the horse, harness and buggy just as they stand.' said I. ?for your sorrel three-year-olds and $50.' Either of the sorrels was worth a I herd of horses like the black. " 'It's a trade,' cried the major. "Next morning the major came '. around to my bam all smiles. 'Ever since I was a child uud quit playing with a rattle,' says he, *I have wanted a horse with a detachable tall?a tall that a man could taae off and use as chin whiskers at a masked ball. I Just called to pay you another 50 cents, so that when I meet you after this you can't say 1 took advantage of you in our trado yesterday.' "Oh, there were real sports in those days."?Walt Mason in Chicago tfews. When the sea is smooth we have many good sailors. Poetry is the natural language of all worship.?Madame de Stael. One Highly Distressing to an Ac? complished Swordsman. TURNS A DUEL INTO A FARCE. Ut?d by a Weak or a Timid Opponent It Ran dar? His Adversary Practically Hslpleee?- A Cat* of Twe Pia/mg at the Sama Game. , A long and Interesting chapter might be written on the humors of duels which uever came off or which In some way fell short of deserving the name. A case which occurred a few years ago In Paris, the particular home and harvest field of the habitual duelist merits mention. A peaceable looking gentleman was walking down one of the boulevards with a lady on bis arm when out of a cafe sprang a man. who dealt him a violent kick. The victim turned, only to meet the horrified apologies of the aggressor, who begged to assure him that It was wholly a mistake in Iden? tity. Instead of insisting upon an ex? change of cards and the other custom? ary forms, the kicked man answered, ?with much warmth, but admirable self control: "1 cannot, sir, accept your ex? pression of regret as sufficient Your action may have been a mistake, as you say, but acquaintances of mine may have witnessed It and will go away and spread the news that I have submitted to an insult without aveng? ing it I must therefore and instantly slap your face with equal publicity." The other most becomingly assented, the first sufferer administering a ring? ing blow on his ear. and the affair ended with entire satisfaction on both sides. I Weak or timid fencers are sometimes taught by their masters to keep a more skillful antagonist busy by fixing the sword in one position, aimed straight at his sword hand, and then not mov? ing except to retreat when pressed too hard. It is highly distressing to an ' accomplished swordsman to have to j face a learner so Instructed, for it 1 means a great outlay of energy and ; wind to little purpose. ; Comte de Dion once thus chased a retreating adversary across plowed fields for a mile and a half and final? ly under the wheel of a cab for the poor satisfaction of giving him a slight prod in the back. Dr. Clemenceau in j his famous duei with M. Deschanel, after a swift and wearisome pursuit, halted, shouldered his rapier like a i walking stick and strolled back to bis original place, throwing the contemp 1 tuous remark over his shoulder. "And now, monsieur, I will await you here." Ca tu lie Mondes bad a similar run after Lugne Poe through the forest of I St. Germain, which he ended by fling? ing his own sword tuto the bushes, with the angry exclamation. "1 am willing to die from exhaustion by the < roadside. If need be. but not from run? ning after a poltroon." A yet funnier incident was that whioh occurred in Toulouse, where a lawyer of some note uamed Cazeneuve was called out by a landed proprietor ' "whom be had offended by a speech in ' court. He repaired at once to a fenc I ing master, as he knew nothing what i ever about baudling a sword. This teacher gave him the usual advice about keeping his adversary at arm's length with the poised and immovable rapier, but strongly enjoined him not to retreat. It so happened that the landed proprietor, being equally igno? rant, applied to the same master for instruction. The master, who was somewhat of a wag, gave him the law? yer's lesson in duplicate. When the two men met and their seconds had duly placed them a long and tedious stillness ensued. For more than five minutes each foemau stood with his sword arm extended at i full length, waiting for the other to I advance. Then the seconds interven? ed, claiming that both had proved j themselves men of honor and courage and that nothing further was necessa I ry but to shake hands and be recon? ciled. And this recalls the occasion when Lieutenant Randolph Ridgely of our army while in the Mexican war wTas sought by two young officers who had quarreled and each of whom wished the lieutenant for his second. It was finally arranged that he should act as second for both. On the field, where ; the adversaries were armed with shot? guns, Ridgely measured off a line of ten paces and placed them respective? ly at its two termini, cocked his own revolver and announced that he would give all the orders himself and in his own way and that he would shoot down whichever of his principals dis? obeyed him in the slightest particular. Then came the orders, very delib? erately uttered: "Present arms!" "Car? ry arms!" "Shoulder arms!" "Take aim!" They took careful aim and I waited almost breathlessly for some ! minutes for the command to fire. It I never came. Instead came the orders; j ''Present arms!" "Carry arms!" "Shoul j der arms!" "Right about face!" "FrontP "Forward march!" They recognised his commands as given in deadly earnest and knew that It would be instantly fatal to rebel. He kept them marching till they reached his tent. There ho halted them and bade them stand at parade rest till they bad listened to a lecture on the folly of dueling which fairly made their ears ring. But he sea? soned bis dose of rebuke with a few words of praise for the soldierly met? tle they had shown In facing each oth? er's gun without flinching, and the two men became fast friends from that hour?New York Post We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves.?llazlltt. DELEGATES APPOINTED. Governor Ansefl Names Prominetit OMsens to Attend Waterways Con? gress. Columbia, Aug 13.?To represent the State at the Inland waterways congress in Providenence, R. I., Aug? ust 31 September 3. which he will himself address Governor Ansel to? day appointed the following: From Georgetown, J. I. Hazard, I?. H. Ebrich, H. Kaminski, R. S. Farr, G. A. Doyle; From Charleston, P. S. Gadsden and R. G. Rhett; From Bennettsvllle, A. J. Matheson and Knox Livingston; From Orangeburg. Samuel Dibble; From Marlon, W. J. Montgomery; from Columbia, Wm. Otis. PATTEN AGAIN INDICTED. Cotton Rills Patched Cp By Grand Jury. New York, Aug. 12.?It became known today that James A. Patten and others indicted in June by speciat federal grand jury for conspiracy in restraint of trade in connection with the alleged bull pool in cotton, have been re-indicted by a regular federal grand jury. Papers were sealed and filed two weeks ago, but who was named in them did not come out un? til tonight. Counsel for the defendants ques? tion the legality of the first indict? ments on the grounds that the special grand jury was improperly drawn and a second indictment was re? turned to cover any possible defects. Charles A. Kittle, member of the firm of S. M. Pell and Co., of New York, named in the first indictment, escapes in the second because he was called as a grand jury witness, although forced to testify by the court. BATTLE OF THE HATS. Daring Original And Successful Stratagem of A Milliner. . . (From the Boston Courier.) A milliner in Copenhagen for a. long time had the privilege of supply? ing the hats to all the best families in the Danish capital. Then came a change of fortune; her business be? gan to decline, and this was coinci? dent with a rival establishment In Copenhagen ordering largely from a Paris house of renown. The milliner, patronized by the no? bility and gentry, was a woman of spirit, so she resolved to fight for her position?put her back to the wall, eo to speak. Her first idea was to make hats larger than her rivals, but hats are not like Eucilid's line. There is a limit, so this idea was not practicable After serious deliberation she hit upon a plan which not only restored the fortunes of the house, but chang | ed the fashion in Copenhagen, as the sequel shows. The Copenhagen mil? liner's stratagem was both daring and original. * She openly purchased a score of the largest and most attractive hats in her rival's show rooms and pre? sented one to each of the market women, who are exposed all day to the rays of the sun. These ladies gratefully accepted the gifts, and showed their appreciation by putting them into immediate use. When the society ladies were making their pur? chases of fowls and fish, seeing the venders with hats as attractive as their own, they at once concluded that they had become very common, and translated their thoughts into action by presenting their hats to their maids. The stratagem was a success, and the society milliner had by this time dressed her windows with small hats. The rival firm sold off its stock at a reduced price, and now Copenhagen is the only capital in Europe where a hat of less than two meters in circumference is not despised. ?If your liver is sluggish and out of tone, and you feel dull, bilious, constipated, take a dose of Chamber? lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to? night before retiring and you will feel all rigrht in the morning. Sold by W. W. Sibert FATHER SHOT BY SON. Probably Fatally Shot in Attempt? ing to Save Life of Another Man. Hampton, Aug. 12.?W. H. Good? ing and John Altman were seriously shot by Jake Gooding yesterday af? ternoon at the Croekettville picnic as the result of a quarrel between Jake Gooding and bis brother-in-law, John Altman. W. H. Gooding. the father of Jake Gooding, rushed in between his son and Altman to prevent trouble and received the discharge from Jake Goodlng's pistol just below the left nipple and in the right side, the other tw<> loads bitting Altman in the abdomen and groin. Both men are probably fatally Wounded. Struck a Rich Mine. ?S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala says he struck a perfect mine of health in Dr. King's New Life Pills for they cured him of Liver and Kid* ney Trouble after 12 years of suffer Ing. They are the best pills on earth for constipation, malaria, headache, dyspepsia, debility. 2.'c at Sibert's Drug Store.