—— PA RS i Ss Stan Potash For Sale to All Farmers who farm on business principles and fertilize their soils as a manufacturer pe money into a plant--for investment convinced that “Potash Pays,” as the Ger man Kali Works puts it. The trouble for the farmer has been not only the price, but the difficulty of getting [Potash at any price. The manufacturers have herctofore absorbed it ; il. of farmers who farm for profit rather than able to buy all the Potash Salts they need, ia any quantity they want it. of local deal ars e\ srywhere, And not only this--but they can get it at lower rates than have ever before been charged This means that farmers can now invest mn plant foods that they themselves can buy and mix-—fertilizers without tillers or make- weights—and put the money saved from in terest, freight, excessive profits on fillers and mixing charges into so much more actual crop-making fertilizer The great German potash mines are now Rroducing enough potash to enable the merican selling agency to guarantee deliv. ery of all that 1s required both hy fertilizer manuf cturers and by local dealers and farmers. Ask your dealer to carry these in valuable salts in stock. Tell him to write to the German Kali Works, Continental Building, DBaltiraore, for particulars and prices. And we recommend you to write $0 them also, for their “Farmers' Note k™ and their valuable literature on fer silizing and cultivation. Mention what erops you are most interested in. It will pay you to do it. And see your dealer the sext time you are in town. . Conclusion Is Obvious, John M. Briggs, an W. Morse with a revolver, bent on killing the ‘ice king" on sight, ac- cording to Briggs’ own testimony at the trial of the Ice Trust for viola- tion of the Donnelly antimonopoly law before Justice Wheeler in the Supreme Court. “You don't like Mr. Morse?" ask- ed John B. Stanchfieid, counsel for the trust “No, I do not." And it is true that you threatened to shoot him?” “Well, 1 was chasing after him with a gun for two weeks once,” was the witness’ frank reply.—Milwaukee Wieconsin. once " Dealers say this to be the greatest year in the history of the cranberry trade. The crop for the East and the Middle West, the territory from whieh New York draws its supply, is estimated at 1,675,000, against last year's estimate of 900,000 bushels Because the demand for machinery 8 exceeding the product in the do- mestic market, it is likely that this eountry will soon be buying foreign machinery. | VITALIZER RESTORES LOST POWERS. A weak Ya in like a clock run down. MUNYON'S ITALIZER will wind bim up and make him £3 If you are pervous, If yoga are frritable, if you lack confidence in your. self, If you do not feel your full manly begin en this remedy at once. There are 75 VITALIZER tablets in one bottle: every tablet Is full of vital power. Don't spend another dollar on quack doctors or spurious remedies, or fill your system with Rarmrvl drugs. Begin on IUNYONS ITALIZER at once, and you will begin fo feel the vitalizing effect of this remed &fter the first dose. Price, $1, post aid, Maunyon, 3rd and Jefferson, Phils, Pa. —————_ Murder! One gets it by highway men—Tens of thousands by Bad Bowels—No dif. ference. Constipation and dead liver make the whole system sick — Every. body knows it—CASCARETS regulate eure Bowel and Liver troubles by simply doing naturs’s work until you get well— Corr rms ore, mail it with your address to Sterling Remedy Company. Chicago. Ill. and re. aive a handsome souvenir gold Bos Bon Fare A ISO CURE THE BEST wEDICWE TOR Bucs wis sassafe as it is RITE. Market 50. LOUISVILLE, KY, PATENTS, Pa, Clima: Agate do Address W. H. WILLS, Malm Av maciogen, D.. PATENTS sist re i GOVERNMENT TO UP. New York America - - —. INVESTICATE Legislation Washinton. D The alarming increase in the eos. of living, due to the rapid and constant advance in the necessities, is to gated by the Government Senator Crawford, of kota, has asked Secretary the Department price of South Da- Nagel, of the facts. information, Senator will preas a resolution directing the desired ford Senate, in that there he remedial legislation Senator Crawford early, may prompt an ie pLTpORes " got in prices. There is suspicior in his part of the country that combination and community of interest something to do with conditions that are alarming and fast growing intol- erable. ponent of all monopolistic trusts and corners in farm and dairy products Preliminary Investigations show there have been no reports from the Commissioner of Labor on the costs of living, the advance in price of necessities and the value of labor since 1907. At that time a report was made that labor was not able to purchase as much as in Years. cised by Republican statesmen, cause a political campaign was about to onen An amended report apoeaced, and ite comparisons, more exhaustive than in the frat explained some of the most damaging statements previously made Increased Cozt 37 Per Cent. Since 1807 there has been a sharp increase in the cost of living, and a gradual increase for a dozen In a special dispatch to Thay American from Trenton, N. J., it was stated by cost of living in New Jersey has increased in thirteen years These facts have home to a number their constituents. The prople want to know whether combinations price arrangements have ralsed cost to consumers; what the farmer and the middle man gat, to hoon brought of Senators by great. Senator Crawford will have little difficulty in getiing his resolu- ticns of inquiry passzd. Senator Pristow, of Kansas, be- lieves combinations have something to do with the advance of the cost of “The people have grown accuse he said. “For years they got the best of everything When mand, they had to take the next best. I believe the combinations have had much to do with it, but not all. “When the wholesaler advances slightly, the retailer advances, and the two or more advances made be fore the article reaches the consumer makes the general advance a burden I would like to know the relationship that exists in all cases or in large communities be- twoen wholesaler and the retailer. I have heard, but do not know, that in some instances the wholesaler con. trols the retaflers and fixes the retail price, “I do not think the tar(ff can be held responsible for these advances, Oklahoma Inspector Determined to Have Orders Obeyed, McAlester, Okla. Eleven collieries of four different companies were c.oned at Coalgate, Okla, by Mine Inspector Hanraty, because they had Ignored his formal notice that they must censs maintaining mule stables in the mines. Bon i Inspector Hanraty's order for all operations to cease until ba rule is eomplied with immediately threw 5000 minsrs there temporarily out of employment, Electrical appliances bo installed to do the work. Will Follow. ! There i woolen the sugar tariffs petuity to t can be sche no defense of the , no justification for except to insure per- ne Sugar Trust, Opposes Investigation, “1 eannol whut good results would flow from an investigation of these conditions at this time.” Senator Perkins, of California, be- leves the advance is due to the law of supply and demand, that produae- tion has not kept pace with the growth of population “Many years ago, 1 was a cattle raiser.” he sald. *““We got $12 to 18315 for a steer To-day that steer | brings $45 to $50. I sold sheep at $1.50 a head They now bring $5 for mutton Wheat has sold at fifty cents a bushel; it is now more than i $1 in Chicago. The cattle raiser and the wheat grower get a large per. { centage of this increase the ecitied could be fed ules ECpH “Formerly {in large part by the produet of sur- | rounding territory Now the neces. | gitles are demanded in such bulk they i must be transported great distances. | This Increases the cost of fhe neces- i nities 1 Cost to i That Go Still Higher. the cost of living soon will be greater than ever before, is indicated by December report, just issued by the Bradstreet Company. The re- port shows that the prices of com- modities to-day are within a small fraction of the record Up to date the highest pricas ever | known in this country for commodi- ties was March 1, 1907. According Dradstreet’'s table of index num- bers, on December 1, this year. the level stood at $9.1262. On March 1. 11907, the level was $9.1282. That i is, the price of commodities to-day is { within a small fraction of one per { cent. of the highest record | Bradstreet's report shows that, otically, a man going to the wholesale market place to purchase 2 pound of each of ninety-six articles would have had to pay on December {11 of this year about $95.12%. On March 1 last like goods might have n purchased for nearly ninsty-one less, while on December 1. they were cheaper by 91.35 the ito { theo: Bradstreet’s index numbers are the ' totals of the prices per pound of nine. i ty-six articles, quarterly or monthly, | which is used as a standard of com- { parison. { The groups that make up the index | numbers are set out in the following i table, which shows the striking in- | erease in the cost of living this year as compared to last: Dee. 1, 1808. Breadstoffs ...«..$0.0879 Livestock ..¢...« .3275 Provisions ...... 2.0603 Fruits cennae 21607 Hides and leather. 1.1825 Textiles ......... 2.3653 Metals .... ....» 5381 Coal and coke ...e .0083 Oils cavase +3637 Naval stores .... .0688 Bullding material , .0804 Chemieals, druge.. .6379 L958 Miscollancous L744 ST12, Total .........98.2133 4 89.1262 The report shows that prices con- tinud to move upward. If the pres- ont rate of increase continues, it can be a matter of only a short time be- fore the highest prices ever known will be recorded for all kinds of com- modities, $120 a Year From Government if You're €5 and Don't Make $240. Washington, D. C.—"An oid age home guard bili” was introduced in oe fos y 2 laor : nn san. sylvania, os that all over sixty-five years of age who have resided in the United Sta‘er for twen. “..+five years and have been citizens for fifteen years not ng prop. erty exceeding $1508 aus or with a year Dec. 1, 1909. $0.1014 4010 2.3187 J057 1.2875 2.7350 5850 0070 3763 0898 0827 “wes Ee Sean enrolled to recei may be ve a pension of 3120 Mr. Wilso ea Bb asa A Good Manager. Homer 8. Taylor, president of the National Archery Association, sald at an archer's dinner in Chicago: “An archer must be very skillful and calm and cool to succeed, He must handle his bow as Mrs, Porarck, Michigan Avenue, handles her “Mr. Porarek came home very late the other night from an important meeting. In the hall “ ‘What's the matter, my dear?’ ** ‘Matter—hie—is,' Mr, Porarck roared, ‘that there's two hatracks hat on.’ “But you've got two hats, haven't you? said Mrs, Porarck, soothingly boar hed You're tired — Savannah Served Her Right. price “I want you would get for your- The wife, however, hal her own ents, and the purchase article, “"H'm!" sald the husband, “Is that what you would have chosen for yourself?" “Exactly?” she replied “Well, my dear, keep it. I meant ft for vou!” he explained with an amiable amile.— Philadelphia Inquir. er Kept His Word, it the banquet to the ation given by the ¢f Commerce =a told how a resident n town had lost a watch in the streets of Buffalo and then hurried to the nearest police station to report the ealamity The sergeant listened to his story with respectful interest “You negured, maid Chicago man, ‘that we will leaves ne stone unturned in our efforts to recover your property.” Chicago man was in again He aron at the Buffalo street and then hurriel to the police station “Why, sergeant.” he cried, "1 gee you kent your word, but I didn’t ex- pect you'd tear up all of ‘em!” Philadelphia Reeord humorist Buffalo Chicago of his gir,” he may hae rot to Two years Inter the Buffaln looked nd For HVADACTHE -Mirke' CAPUDINR Whether from Colds. Heat, Stomseh or Nery Capudine will relieve you. It's lig plessant 10 take—acts imunedis ately Tey 1 toe he. and le. sl drag Flores gx "Towns 4 i 5 “a Tea production in Ceylon in the first nine months of 1509 was 9,000. 0600 pounds greater than in the same months last year Rheumatism Cured in & Day, Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rhcumatism and Neuraigia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action 1 remarkable. Removes the cause and disease quickly disappears. First dose greatly benefits. 73c. and §1. All druggists. The municipality of Petersborough, sngland, has enriched its treasury perceptibly by engaging in the celery business Impossible ta find anvrthing better for sideache, backache or stitches than Perry Davis’ Painkiller. 25¢., 35¢. and Bic. A bumper cotton crop is in view In India It may amount to 5,000,000 bales. The price of yarn is advance ing Some people saffer continually wah tired, aching and swollen feet. Little do they know how soothing is Hamiine Wiz Oil. Rab it in at night and have } nr foot in the morning ard than ful, ioe Pawn shops in Chili are under special regulations of the general government, enforced by local au- thorities Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate steamach, liver and bowels. Sugar coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy months of 1509. Allen's Lang Balsam is the ald relishie Found in every drug store, nres. Phonographic was the invention of Pitman, in 1837. A A PA AA SAAN. tion, allayn pain,cores wind colic. 2ca bottle Stem-winding watches were the in- vention of Noel in 1851. Iteh cired in 30 minutes by Woollford's Banitary Lotion. Never fase. At druggista, The first American paper money was made In 1740. “About two yours such a condition that ——— POTASH The German Kali Works have talked Potash and its benes fits for twenty-five years, They have never sold a pound direef to local agents or farmers, : You know how hard it was to buy and get Potash. Thin have changed. The mines are now producing enough to e us to offer POTASH FOR SALE in carload lots of twenty tons, to local dealers without interfering with the requirements of those to whom we have sold Potash to be used in mized goods. We have, therefore, established a Selling Agency in Baltimore, M4, and in 1910 will sell all potash salts in carload lots for cash direet from the mines to the buyers in Delivery Guaranteed original sealed bags, or kainit in bulk, at lower rates than were ever before quoted. Potash Pays You can buy the real potash salts—plant food without fillers or make. .weights— you save all the money you have been for interest, freight, excessive profits on fillers and mixing charges. For particulars amd prices write to WORKS, Continental Bldg., Baltimore Underestimating His Abilitm H, W. Klausesman, chairman of the Republican eity committee, tells a story about a bass dromumer of a band that he swears is true. The drum- mer was a German. He, with the other members of the band, was on an excursion train, and the sickets they had were about four feet long (that is, four feet of ticket per man, 160 feet for the whole 40-plece band.) Soon after Hans was seated eomfort- ably the conductor came by for the tickets. Hans reached for his. Hort rors, it was gone. He grew excited and searched and spluttered, bat all in vain. He declared he had lost the ticket, “Why,” ventured the eonductos “you couldn't have lost t tickel It was four feet long.” “Vass isa? Vy you dalk Ike dose?” demanded Hans excitedly. Vy, once 1 lose dot tdrom—Dbags tdrum 1 could lose a teekot if § loose heem!’ Indianapolis Stas lst tb Sh vl a Sl Son pt Se 8 RE —— Tongue Twisters. A London paper recently offered a series of prizes for the best “"tongue- sentences, The prize-win- contributions are: The bleak breeze bright broom blossoms Two toads tired trot to Tedbury Strict, snared siickly six sickh Busan BOCks and sho ceaseth shining ¢ blighter the totally tried to Stringer silky snakes and socks; Suan She and socks, for shoes an. sod Susan. A haddock, i a black- dock ¢ spot on the i ! spotted had- strong Stephen shineth shoes ks shock idock, spotted had black dock Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and .» y 1 Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle an owl and If Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and an ors the owl and the oys- ogled ?—Chica back of an oyster? iT ter, where are ter Oliver go Tribune ed 4 ¥ Ogilethorp For COLDS and GRIP, Hiek's Carrpire is the best remolpw relieves the aching and feverishmes—&u the Cold and restores norms! conditions guid ~effects immediately. Ne. 2+. ond We. atdrog stores. Not Comforting, minister say anything asked the neighbor of recently bereaved. } idn't" was the quick husband was Among the suicides, men predousi. nate. 4 A Poor Weak Woman As she is termed, will endure bravely end patiently egonies which a strong man would gve-way under. The fact is women ure more patient than they ought to be under such trovbles. Every womea ourlit to know that she may obtain the most experienced medical advice free of charre and in choclate confidence sad privacy by writing to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, R, V. Pierce, M. D., President, Bufizio, N.Y. Dr. Pierce has been chiel consulting physician of the Invalides’ Hotel and Surgical lostitute, of Buffalo, N. Y., for many years and has had a wider practical experience in the treatment of women’s diseases then any other physician in this constr, ” His medicines are world-famous for their estonishing efficacy. The mort perfect remedy ever devised for weak and delle cate women is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. IT MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG, SICK WOMEN WELL. The meny snd varied symptoms of woman's peculiar ailments are folly eet forth in Plain English in the People’s Medical Adviser (1008 pages), a newly revised and up-to-date Edition of which, cloth-bound, will be mailed free on rooeint of 11 one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only. Address as above. ——— i Have Heat Brought To You When your bed-room, bath-room or dining room is chilly, you may have heat brought to you in just the degree you desire. It is casy when you have a PERFECTION 0il Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) available. Place the heater where the cold is most annoying, strike a match. No fuss—no flurry—no smell—and, above all, no smoke. The Automatic Smokeless Device which automatically Jocks absolutely prevents smoke. Removed in an instant. 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