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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE O0I8T1TUT10I-THE imOI-AJD TEE UPOXOIMETT 07 TES L1YS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XU.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27, 1887.
NO. 13.
ralm of Lifte.
Thiou U tie wi'J IS11 of our fever'd time
tm Ji evi Homer co-netb, grave and stern,
Wilh tidings irum i j
jgshicli our worn, wearied age con
eern.
rnciiatijred, through all tlie long nnnum
tier' J years .
ii .miir in(T4 tli onr ill vine.
TO TO' w r
Vhicb tells of godlike toils, of heroes tear,
And o: tL8 fuuuuiucm -
The battle in tbe plain is raging yet,
Ti,e watcLSres b'.aze, the beafd ships line
tlie shore ;
For us the foe in grim array is set
AU ; but do we fiibt as they fought or yore.
- . -. fliM tinmes ton? a"a.
Mu-t wage s!,nT waM anJ sal1 ,lie l,,"er
sea i
t ierce i the c.Ltiict, loud the trumpets
blOW,
And the waves roar and rage unceasingly,
sti'l Dii't ne wandero'er the stormy main;
Tw'ixt picks ded whirlpools a dead passage
make ;
Stj'i biu- ,1:e Sirens sinji to us in Tain ;
Still from the toiis of Circe must we break.
Tun, t'.' ii, to Homer's l'saliu of Life, and
Howt!i'-y endured whose pilgrimage is
And "here the message they have left for
thee
Ou':j ! y l'.it:eu.-3 is the victory won.
GRA" DMOTllEirS M(LN EY.
Bless and .-avo us, mother, what 1
ve doin'V" 1 manded Farmer Martin iu
creat amazement, as he came in at the
kitchen iWrf.-r ;i jug of molasses ami
V'-Tm a-canin' house," said Mrs.
M2rt.11. .
It Mrs. Martin had been going to a
masovitnuh' party she couKl scarcely
have disguised herself more systemati
callv. Her head was tied up 111 a roller
t'.wti whose ends, escaping behind,
str".in,ed i:k a meteor to the troubled
afr;"' 'her partly figure was encased in a
coarse woikn:g apron, her skins were
piimed up, anil her sleeves rolled high
alV.vetlse -Hkw.
Jjiin't know je calkelated to com
mence to-dav." said the farmer.
"'.!!. I didn't exactly," owned his
t ife. "Bat the minute your mother
made up her mind she'd have the horse
aiid wagon and go over to Deacon
Trull's widow to spend the day, I
iuade"i;p my miml to begin house-clean-in'.
You see, Ilosea, you know your
self that Mother Martin is a pleasant
old ladv. and 1 M'-t a deal of store by
her. but -he can't War to have nothin'
disturbed, and them tile of old papers
up garret, and heaps of rusty tins and
o'.d bottles down cellar, and the broken
crockery back of the pantry door that
she alwavs says she's going to mend
when she" cets'time, and the barrels of
rags in the store-room she's goin' to
sort over hi a minute of leisure"
-What be ye goin' to do with 'em?"
asked Fanner Martin, as his wife
paused to draw a long, despairing
breath. - -
-iucVK gsAt,-" sail Mrs. Martin,
witu a r-'guish twiutle m her eyes.
G-me v.'vttV"
'Matilda sold the rags to a ragman
before jrandina's wagon was out of
sisht,'- said the enterprising niation.
"The paj'-rs KUler Holey gave me live
dollars ir. Urause they dated clear
back to President Zach Taylor's time,
an' Le sa'd they'd be a curiosity for the
Young Men's 'Heading-Room, and the
crockery -,uA the old tin cans and the
buttles a ain't good for nothing under
creation, I gave Kill Uetis a quarter to
take Yin d..wn to the old well by the
stone fenee. and fling "em all in."
'What:'' cried Mr. Martin. "Fillin'
up my old well, eh: Where be I goin'
to water the cattle, d'ye s'lKWe?"
''It ain't but a little further to the
brook," said Mrs. Martin. "And that
well ain't sate. Never was, since the
curb rotted away:-'
'Many a gourd-shell of pure cold
vater I've drunk there, when the old
bouse stood tli .se by under the butter
nut tree." said the farmer, with a sigh,
'afore wr pulled it down and built the
new one. "
'Well, e won't never drink no
more," said Mrs. Martin. "Tlie
water's most all nin out since we dug
tLe new well down here, and I've had
the children carrying cobble stones
there all the spring, at a penny a hun
drel, to get the huckleberry pasture
cleared out a little. And now the old
truck has gone a-t.p of it and a good
riddance of two bad tilings at ouce,
says I"'
Mr. Martin groaned.
'Well, mother," says he, "what
bothers me is- what will grandma say?"
"I don't siippo; she'll lie pleased,"
said Mis. Martin, stirring vigorously at
a pail ot whitewash. '-J5ut it's done,
and it can't l undone; and, after all,
what's the ibe of turning one's house
into a magpie's m-stV"
The fanu.-r filled up his jug and re
treated to the remotest fastnesses of
the rmiahy meadow, resolved to be as
far as jossible out of the way when the
o;d lady came home.
. ''-I'et'y likes her own way," said he,
"arid so dues mother, and wken flint
and steel come together, there's most
generally fir,-:''
lint poor Mother Martin came home
' unite a different fashion from what
t'.ey exacted, struck down with apo
pexy at the neighlior's house, she was
tarried back across her own threshold,
dead. And Mrs. Martin, who, in
spite of her K-culiarities. had been fond
d h.-r lmnher-iiidaw, wept tears of
genuine grief, and audibly rejoiced
.-.at giandnui had never known about
he selling of tlie ol.l paters, and the
uiiing up of the ancient well.
So ..Irs. Martin, senior, was dead and
mined m the old cemetery bv the mouu
lam side. "
... "grange, ain't it?'' said Mrs. Deacon
1 iudge. "Everybody s'iosel old Mrs.
-martin bad money in the bank, and
fotd'" a'" 1 a of lt 10
"AU fooled awav in them deceivin'
snares that her sou Josialtwas ruined
il l, said M iss Grundy. "That's the
way it s gone, you may depend."
Hit Mr. and Mrs. Uosea Martin
, not ''''eve that grandma could so
'ar hae lost her senses as to fritter
'hl money away like that
.1 .fa"e us 'ou live,Hosea," said
Wlfe- ""lie's put it away some-
1 lit' n' i ? a k'Hff or a bag, or up
tlie thinibly, or under the bricks of the
JIV1 1"'aitl1' aild t must lie
2 i.or Matilda's sake! Grandma
.awas said Matty was to have her
S; i"1". now tflilt sl,e ls engaged to
J.ufus Burton, and all"
"tfo ..... ' r
id in i ,,nvate P'n'ou, Uetty,"
ij the far, er, shaking his head in a
Sft that n -""" wa'' "tl,at -vou
bagsl" 1 Di0"l'-Vdue "I'iu the rag-'
insr"' lrrs- Mrtin. J--!
f lesoi w migU hav ln in the
Sown! T JTR5',llid flatand 8titclied
J?-. 1 'Ud tell o' sneh thin, I
" TO the truth, Uosea, I've
been to the tider's and looked over
every identical one of them papers, lly
good luck, tlie package hadn't even
been untied. But there wasn't uothlu'
there but printers' ink. But the rags
(J, Ilosea, I wouldn't know the man
with the string or bens ana the rag'
wagon from .lob! And where he went
and where he came from, the good
Lord only knows."
"I reckon you'll find that house
cleaniu' came pretty expensive," Eaid
Mr. Martin, aryly.
All search proved unavailing. Xoth
ing could be discovered of grandma's
money, no scrap of paper to afford a
clew, no hidden hoard, not even
word of allusion to it in the old lady's
neatlv kept memorandum book. And
to Matilda's exquisite mortification.
Mr. Ruf us Burtou, after a decent jieriod
of time had elapsed, delicately gave
her to understand that he didn't feel
able to marry at present, and that.
sooner than bind her bv the trammels
of a long engagement, he considered it
better to release her from her troth.
"Just as you please," said Matty
Martin, with true New F, nglaud spirit
All the tears she shed were wept in se
tret, to the great disappointment of the
neichliorhood. who were looking out
with some interest to see "if Matilda
Martin would pine any, now that Kufe
Burton had mittened her."
But she didn't. Instead of that she
married Alva Dean, who liad alwavs
loved her from a child.
I ain't co lege-learned like Rufe
Burton," said he; "but I love vou,
Matty, and I'll be a good and true hus
band to you, see if I am X"
The newly-wedded couple came to
live with the Martins at the old home
stead, for Ilosea was getting old and
rheumatic, and Mrs. Martin could not
lear the idea of parting from her only
daughter. Time crept by, Ilosea Mar
tin and his wife grew to be white-haired
old people, and Alva Dean had pros
pered on the farm, aud built a new
barn up on the hill, when one day he
said to his cherry-cheeked wife:
"Didn't there use to be an old well
up somewhere near the big .butternut
tree, Matty, at the south side of the
barn?"
Of course," nodded Matty. "But
the curb rotted away, and mother
thought it unsafe. So, after the new
well bv the house was dug, they filled it
u;."
"I've a notion to open it again," said
Alva. "The water would be dreadful
handy, now that we keep all the cattle
theiel"
"But," said Matty, "I seem to recol
lect that it ran dry after the new one
was dug,"
"I guess we can strike water if we go
deep enough," said Alva. "Anyhow, I
mean to try."
The old well was re-opened although
Alv Dean remarked, with a grcan,
that all the old trash in creation seemed
to have been poked away there,
"Bottles," said be, "and broken
nosed pitclira, and tin cans, half -rusted
away, aud cobble-stones, and goodness
knows -what nli. Koougb. to act up a
junk shop with."
"Ah" said Matty with a smile,
"mother filled it up the same spring
that she sold grandmother's money to
the rag peddler, tliat never came around
again, at a cent and a half a pound."
"Xo use cryin' after spilt milk, my
girl." said Alva, bravely.
"But I'm not crying," said Matilda,
"I'm laughing. Don't you see!"
Just then in came little Bess, the
voungest, golden-haired darling of the
flock.
"O mamma,'' she cried, "look at the
lovely old cracked stone jug that came
out of tlie old well. Mayn't me and
Fanny have it to fix liquorice-water iu?
Look! The cork is sticking tight in it
yet:"
'But it's cracked down the side,
dear," remonstrated Mrs. Dean.
"But we can putty it, mamma, like
Mrs. Dutcher's best china bowl. Please,
mamma, may be?" urged the mite.
Mrs. Dean took it up and looked cu
riously at it au old, high-shouldered
jug of drab, with a sprawling pattern of
blue da-shed down the side.
"I remember it well," said she. "1
used to stand behind Grandma Martin's
buttery shelf. I used to fancy the pat
tern was like a blue crab. And we "
"O mamma!" cried Bess, with a
shriek; "O mamma!"
For the handle had slipped through
Mrs. Dean's fingers, and the jug fell
with a crash to the ground. But the
stoneware was strong, and it separated
in two pieces, following the line of the
crack.
"It's stuffed full of funny bits of
biown patier," cried Bess.
Mrs. Dean gave a little scream and
grew pale.
"Grandmother's money!" she cried,
"As true as you live and breathe,
mother," to Mrs. Martin, who had
coine limping in upon her crutch, "it's
grandmother's money, put there ten
good years ago!"
lt was true. Tne stone j ug, lying al
most at the top of the other debris, had
kept its treasure dry and safe; and here,
ten years after the old lady was dead
and entombed, her secret hoard always
intended for Matilda had come to
light.
A thousand dollars. Not a great
sum, ierliaps, but wealth to these prim
itive people. Aud Ruf us Burton, who
had married a pretty shrew and had
just failed in the grocery business,
groaned over "what might have been,"
and Alva Dean kissed his wife, and
blessed God in bis heart; and Farmer
Martin chuckled at his ancient help
meet, and remarked, with something of
his old waggishness:
"That house-cleauiu' of yours like to
have cost ye a thousand dollars, Hetty!"
While Matilda said, softly:
"Heaven bless the dear old grand
mother." A Poor Shot at Kisses. First
Girl: "Isn't that Mr. De Sweete hor
rid. He hain't any business to kiss
you last night."
Second Girl: "Not a bit; the forfeit
wax that he was to kiss his sister'
"Yes, and he pretended he made a
mistake. Weren't you horrified? '
"No; I got awful mad about lt,
though. He's so clumsy and awk
ward. "
"Did he step on your feetT"
"No; he kissed me on the nose."
Reasonable borrow. Mr. A.
"1 just met your friend N. He has
lost his uncle."
Mr. B. "That rich uncle?"
"Yes. The poor fellow is quite dis
consolate." "Impossible!"
"Certainly, for his uncle has disin
herited him."
"Ah!!I'
A little borax put in the water in
which red nankins anil hnrderwl towels
are to be washed will prevent them
THE
INTER-STATE COMMERCE ACT
ok febkcary 4, lf7.
lie it enacted by the Senate and House
of J'epresentatires of the United States of
America in tkmyreis assembled, That
the provisions of this act shall apply to
any common carrier or carriers engaged
in the transportation of passengers or
property wholly by railroad, or partly by
railroad and partly by water whun both
are used under a common control, mati
ng ment, or arrangement, for a continu
ous carriage or shipment, from on 3
.State or Territory of the I'nited states,
or the District of Columbia, to any other
State or Territory of the United States,
or the District of Columbia, or from
any place iu the United States to an
adjacent foreign country, or from any
place in the United States through a
foreign country to any other place in
the I'nited States, and also to the trans
portation in like manner of projierty
shipped from any place in the United
States to a foreign country and carried
from such place to a port of traosshi
ment, or shipped from a foreign country
to any place in the L nited states and
carried to such place from a port of
entry either in the United States or an
adjacent foreign country: i'rori(f((.
ftotmrr, That the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the transudation of
passengers or property, or to the receiV'
ing, delivering, storage, or handling of
property, wholly witlnu one state, and
not shipped to or from a foreign country
from or to any state or lerritorv as
aforesaid.
The term "railroad" as used in this
act shall include all bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with any
railroad, and also all the road in use by
any corjoration operating a railroad,
whether owned or operated under a
c.ntract, agreement, or lease; and the
term "transportation" shall include all
instrumentalities of shipment or car
riage.
All charges made for any service ren
dered or to be rendered in the trans
portation of passengers or property as
aforesaid, or in connection therewith,
or for the receiving, delivering, storage,
or handling of such property, sliall be
reasonable and just; and every unjust
and unreasoiuible charge for such ser
vice is prohibited and declared to be
unlawful.
Sec. 2. That if any common cai rier
subject to the provisions of this act
shall, directly or indirectly, by any
special rate, rebate, drawback, or other
device, charge, demand, collect, or re
ceive from any person or persons a
greater or less compensation for any
service rendered, or to be rendered, in
the transportation of passengers or
property subject to the provisions of
this act, than it charges, demands, col
lects, or reeeives from any other terson
or persons doing foe him or for them a
like and contemporaneous service In the
transportation of s like kind of- traffic
raderbetimtialry afiefttf chrtirrrMnn-
ces aud conditiou, such common currier
sliall Ledtmed guilty of unjust dis
cr initiation, which is hereby prohibited
and declared to be unlawful.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the pro
visions of this act to make or give any
undue or unreasonable preference or
advautaga to any particular person,
company, Arm, corporation, or locality,
or any particular description of traffic.
111 any respect whatever, or to subject
any particular person, firm, corporation,
or "locality, or my particular description
of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable
prejudice or disadvantage in any respect
whatsoever.
Every common carrier subject to tiie
provisions of this act shall, according to
their respective powers, anorti ail rea
sonable, proper, and equal facilities for
the interchange of traffic between their
resjiective lines, and for the receiving,
forwarding, and d livering of passen
gers and property to and from their
sevend lines, and those connecting
therewith, and shall not discriminate in
their rates and charges between such
connecting lines; but this shall not be
construed as requiring any such com
mon carrier to give the use of its tracks
or terminal facilities to another carrier
engaged iu like business.
Sec. 4. That it snail oe uniawiui ior
any common carrier subject to the pro
visions of thu act to charge or receive
anv greater compensation iu the aggre
gate for the transportation of passengers
or of like kind of property, under sub
stantially similar circumstances and
conditions, for a shorter than for a
longer distance over the same line, in
the same direction, the shoiter being
included within the longer distance;
but this sliall not be construed as au
thorizing any common carrier within
the terms of this act to charge anu re
ceive as great compensation for a shorter
as for a longer distance: rrori let, hn.
ever, That upon application to tlie Com
mission appoinieu unaer rue pioisions
of tins act, such common carrier may,
111 special cases, aner liivesiiguuoii
the Commission, be authorized to
charge less for longer than for shorter
distances lor the transportation 01 is
sengersor property; aud the Commission
may from time to time prescribe Uia
extent to which such designated com
mon carrier maybe relieved nom tne
deration ot this section of this act.
Sec. 5. Tnat it snail oe uniawiui 101
any common carrier subject to the pro
visions or tnis act vo enter 11110 auy tuu
tract. agreement, or combination with
auy other common carrier or carriers
for the pooling 01 ireigntaoi. unieicin
and competing railroads, or to divide
lietu-Aen them the aggregate or net pro
ceeds of th earnings of such railroa Is,
r anv Tallinn thereof: ana in ar.y case
of an agreement for the pooling of
freights as aforesaid, eacu aay ot us
continuance shall be deemed a separate
offence-
Sec. 6. That every common earner
aubject to the provisions of tins act
shall print ana seep ior puuuc msi-.-tion
schedules showing the rates and
fares and charges for the transjwrtation
of passengers and property which any
such common carrier has established
and which are in force at the time upon
its railroad, as defined by the first sec
tion of this act The schedules printed
as aforesaid by any such common car
rier shall plainly state the places upon
its raiusad between wnicn propenj u
passen ers wm oe cameu, auu iuu
contain the classification cf freight in
force upon sucli railroad, and shall also
state separately the terminal charges
and any rules or regulations which in
idianire. affect, or determine
any part cf the aggregate of such afore
said rates and fa?es and charges. Such
schedules shall plainly printed in
large type, of at least the size of oidmary
pica and copies for the use of the public
shall be kept in every depot or station
upon any such railroad, in such places
and in such form that they can be con
veniently Inspected.
mmnn carrier subject to tne
provisions of this act receivmg freight
through a foreign country to any place
in the United States shall also in like
manner print aud keep for publ c in
siection, at every depot where such
freight is received for shipment, sched
ules showing the through rates estab
lished aud charged by such common
carrier to all points in tlie United States
beyond the foreign country to which it
accepts freight for shipment; and any
freight shipjed from the United States
through a foreign country into the Uni
ted States, the through rate on which
shall not have been made public as re
quired by this act, shall, before it is
admitted into the United States from
said foreign country, be subject to cus
toms duties, as if said freight were of
foreign production; and any law in con
flict with this section is hereby repealed,
No advance shall be made in the
rates, fares, and charges which have
been established and published as afore
said by auy common carrier, in compli
ance with the requirements of this .sec
tion, except after ten days' pubic notice.
which shall plainly state the changes
proposed to be made iu the schedule
then in force, and the I i'e when the
increased rates, fares, orcirges will go
in:o effect; and the proposed changes
I shall be shown by printing new sched
ules, or shall ie plainly indicated upon
the schedules in force at the time and
kept for p iblic insjieclion. Reductions in
such published rates, fares, or charges
may Le made without previous public
notice; but whenever any such reduc
tion is made, notice of the same shall
immediately be publicly posted and the
changes made shall immediately be made
public by printing new schedules, or shall
immediately lie plainly indicated ujkm
the schedules at the time in force and
kept for public insjiectiou.
And when any such common carrier
shall have established and published its
rates, fares and charges, in compliance
with the provisions of this section, it
shall be unlawful for such common car
rier to charge, demand, collect, or re
ceive from any persou or persons a
greater or less compensation for the
transportation or passengers or proierty,
or for any services in connection there
with, than issiecilied in such published
schedule of rates, fares, and charges as
may at the time be in force.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall tile with the
Commission hereinafter provided for
copies ot its schedules of rates, fares,
and charges which have been established
and published in compliance with the
requirements of this section, and shall
promptly notify said Commission of all
changes made in the same. Every such
common carrier shall also file with said
Commission copies of all contracts,
agreements or arrangements with other
common carriers 111 relation to any
traffic affected by the provisions of this
act to which it may be a party. And
in cases where passengers and freight
pass over continuous lines or routes
operated, by more than one comrr j
earner, and the several common carriersJr
for such continuous lines or routes.
copies of such joint tariffs shall also, in
like manner, be liiea wjtn saim ommis
sion. Such joint rates, fares, and
charges on such continuous lines so filed
as aforesaid sliall be made public by
fueh common carriers when directed by
said Commission, in so far as may, in
the judgment of the Commission, be
det hied practicable; and said Commis
sion shall from time to time prescribe
the measure of publicity which shall be
given to such rates, fares, and charges,
or to such part of them as it may deem
It practicable for such common carriers
to publish, and the places in which they
shall be published; but no common car
rier party to any such joint tariff sliall
le liable for the failure of any other
common carrier party thereto to observe
and adhere to the rates, fares, or
charges thus made and published.
If any such common carrier shall
neglect or refuse to file or publish its
schedule or tariffs of rates, fares and
charg. s as provided in this section, or
any part of the same, such common
carrier shall, in addition to othor pea
allies hereiu prescribed, be subject to a
writ of mandamus, to be issued by any
circuit court of the United States in the
judicial district wherein the principal
office oi said common carrier is situated,
or wherein such orxeuce iuiy be nom.-
mitted, and if such common carrier be
foreign corp ration, in the judicial
circuit wherein such common carrier
accepts traiiie uud has an agent to jr-
form such service, to comjei compliance
with the aforesaid provisions ot this
section; and such writ shall issue in the
name of the people ot tne L mieu stales,
at the relation of the Commissioners
appointed under the provisions of this
act; and failure to coinply with its re
quirements shall be punishable as and
for a contempt; and the said commis
sioners, as complainants, way also apply,
in anv suoh circuit court, oi tne united
States, for a writ of injunction against
such common carrier, to restrain such
common carrier from receiving or trans
IKiiting proierty among the everal
States and Territories of the United
States, or between the United States
and adjacent foreign countries, or be
tween ports of trans-shipment and ot
entry and the several Slates and Terri
tories of tho United States, as men
tioned In the first section of this act,
until such commou carrier shall have
complied with the aforesaid provisions
of this section of this act.
Sec. 7. That it shall be unlawful for
anv common carrier subject to the pro
visions of this act to enter into any
combination, contract, or agreement,
expressed or implied, to prevent, by
change &f time, schedule, carriage In
different oars, or by oUur means or
devices, the carriage of freights from
being continuous from the place of ship
ment to the place of destination; and no
break of bulk, stoppage, or Interruption
made by such common carrier shall pre
vent the carriage of freights from being
ami being treated as one continuous
carriage from the place of shipment to
thp place pf destination, unless such
break, or stoppi.20, or interruption was
made in good faith for some necessary
purpose, and without any Intent to
avoid or unnecessarily Interrupt nuuh
continuous carriage or to evade any of
the provisions of tais act.
Sec. 8. That in case any common car
i. r subject to the provisions of this act
sha 1 do, cause to be done, or permit to
be done anv act, matter, or thing iu this
act prohibited or declared to be unlaw
ful, or ithall emit to do any act, matter,
or thing in this act required Jo be done,
such common carrier shall be liable to
the person or persons injured thereby for
the full amount of damages sustained
in consequence of any such violation ot
the provisions of this act, together with
a seasonable counsel or attorney's fee.
to oe nxeu uy me court in every case 01
recovery, which attorney's, fee shall be
taxed and collected as part of thp costs
in the case.
Sec. 9. That any pei.on cr persona
claiming to be damaged by any c mmon j
carrier subject to the provisions of this
act may either make complaint to the
Commission as hereinafter provided for,
or may bring suit in his or their own
behalf for the recovery of the damages
for which such common carrier may be
liable under the provisions of this act iu
any district or circuit court of the
United States of competent jurisdiction;
but such person or persons sliall not
have the right to pursue . both of said
remedies, and must in each case elect
rwhich one of the two methods of pro
cedure herein provided for he or they
will adopt. In any such action brought
for the recovery of damages the court
i before which the same shall be pending
may compel any uirector, omcer, re
ceiver, trustee, or agent of the corpora
tion or company defendant in such suit
: to attend, appear, and testify in such
case, and may comel the production of
: the books and papers of such corpora
tion or company party to any such suit;
the claim that any such testimony or
evidence may tend to criminate the per
son giving such evidence shall not ex
cuss such witness from testifying, but
such evidence or testimony shall not be
used against such person on the trial of
any criminal proceeding.
; Sec. 10. That any common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act, or,
whenever such common carrier is a cor
poration, any director or officer thereof,
or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent,
or person acting for or employed by
such corporation, who, alone or with
any other corjioration, company, person,
or I arty, shall wilfully do or cause to be
done, or shall willingly suffer or jrniit
to be done, any act, matter, or thing iu
this act prohibited or declared to be
unlawful, or who sliall aid or abet
tlterein, or shall wilfully omit or fail to
do any act, matter, or thing in this act
rfWjuired to be done, or shall cause or
illingly suffer or permit any act,
matter, or thing so directed or required
by this act to be done not to be so done,
or sliall aid or abet any such omis
sion or failure, or shall be guilty of
any infrac ion of this act, or shall aid or
abet therein, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic
tion thereof in any district court of the
United States within the jurisdiction of
wbich such offence was committed, be
subject to a tine not to exceed five thou
sand dollars for each offence. 1
Sec. 11. That a commission is hereby
created and established to be known as ,
the Inter-State Commerce Commission,
which shall be composed of five Com
missioners, who shall be appointed bv
the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate. The Com
missioners first apiKiinted under tills act
shall continue in office for the term of
two, three, four, five, and six years,
respectively, from the first day of Jan-
uttry. Anno Domini, eighteen hundred
atl eighty-seven, the term of each to
b designated by the President; but
U eir successors shall be apiointed for
bins of six years, except Mutt any tr-
. chosen to fill a vacancy shall be ap
veed oujy for the unexpired time of
. ;ti-T . iMtor irhosi lit) slu.il Ktlc
Any tornrnissjoner mav be r
m'.ved by tlie President for inetfioiency,
neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
ol more than three of the Commis
sioners sliall le appointed from the same
inimical party. jo persou 111 tneompioy
of or holding any othcial relation to any
common carrier subject to the provis
ions of this act, or owning stock or bonds
thereof, or who is in any manner iecu
niarily interested therein, shall enter
noon tho duties of or hold such office.
Said Commissioners sliall uot engage iu
any other business vocation or employ
ment. .N'o vacancy in the Commission
shall impair the right of the remaining
Commissioners to exercise all the pow
ers ot the Commission.
Sec. 12. That the Commission hereby
created shall have authority to inquire
hit J the management of the business of
all common carriers subject to the pro
visions of this act, and shall keep itself
informed as to the manner and method
in which the same is conducted, and
shall have the right to obtain from such
common carriers full and complete in
formation necessary to enable the Com
mission to perform the duties and oarn
out the objects for which it was created;
and for the purposes of this act the
Cewmission shall have power to require
the attendance aud testimony of wit
nesses and the production of all books,
paj-ers, tariffs, contracts, agreements,
and documents relating to any matter
under investigation, and to that end
may invoke the aid of any court of the
United States in requiring the attend
ance and testimony of witnesses and the
production of books, papers, and docu
ments under the provisions of this sec
tion. And any of the circuit courts of the
United States within the jurisdiction of
which such inquiry is carried on may,
in case of contumacy or refusil to obey
a suiwena issued t J any common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act, or
other person, Issue an order requiring
such common carrier or otlior person to
apiear before said Commission (and
produce books and palters if so ordered)
and give evidence touching the matter
in question; and any failure to obey
such order of the court may be punished
by such court as a contempt thereof.
The claim that any such testimony or
evidence way tpr.4 to criminate ine per:
son -giving such evidence shall put ex
cuso such witness from testifying; but
such evidence or testimony sliall not be
used against such person on the trial of
any criminal proceeding.
Sec, 13. That any person, firm, cor
Kration, or association, or any mercan
tile, agricultural, or manufacturing
society, or any body, politic or municiKtl
organization complaining of anything
dene or omitted to he done by any com
mon carrier subject to the provisions of
this act in contravention of the provis
ions thereof, may apply to said Com
m ssion by petition, which shall briefly
state the facts; whereupon a statement
ot the charges thus made shall be for
warded by the Commission to such com
mon carrier, who shall be called upon to
satisfy the complaint or to answer the
same in writing within a reasonable
time, tq be specified by the Comimssion.
If such, ooiiiinon carrier, within tho
time sjieciiied, shall make reparation for
the injury alleged to have been done,
said carrier sliall be relieved of liability
to the complainant only for tlie particu
lar violation of law thus complained of.
If such carrier shall not satisfy the
complaint within the time specified, or
there shall appear to be any reasonab e
ground for investigating said CQmplajnt,
it shall be the duty of the Commission
to investigate thp matters complained of
in such manner and by such means as it
shall deem proper.
Said Commission shall irt like man
ner investigate any 'complaint forwarded
by the Railroad Commissioner or Rail
road Commission of any State pr Tfirri,
tory, at the reauest of such Commis
sioner qr Commission, and may institute
any inquiry on its own motion in the
same rnanner and tp the same effect as
though complaint had been made.
AO complaint shall at any time be
j dismissed because of the absence of
direct damage to the complainant.
sec. 14. That whenever an investiga
tion shall be made by said Commission,
it shall be its duty to make a report in
writing in respect thereto, which shall
include the findings of fact upon which
the conclusions of the Commission are
based, together with its recommenda
tion as to what reparation, if any,
should be made by the common carrier.
to any party or parties who may 1
round to have been injured; and such
findings so made shall thereafter, in all
judicial proceedings, be deemed prima
facie evidence as to each and every fact
found.
All reports of Investigations made by
the Commission shall be entered of
record, and a copy thereof shall be fur
nished to the party who may have com
plained, and to any common carrier
that may have been complained of.
Sec. 13. That if in any case in which
an investigation shall be made by said
Commission it shall lie made to apiiear
to the satisfaction of the Commission,
either by the testimony of witnesses or
other evidence, that anything has lieen
done or omitted to le done in violation
of the provisions of this act, or of any
law cognizable by said Commission, by
any common carrier, or that any injury
or damage has lieen sustained by the
party or isirtiescomplaining, or by "other
jwrties aggrieved in consequence of any
such violation, it shall be the duty of
the Commission to forthwith cause a
copy of its rt'ixirt in restiect thereto to
lie delivered to such commou carrier to
gether with a notice to said common
carrier to ce ise and desist from such vio
lation, or to make rearation for the iu
jury so found to have been done, or
both, within a reasonable time, to lie
siecilied by the Commission; and if.
within the time specified, it shall le
made to apiear to the Commission that
such common carrier has ceased from
such violation of law, and has made re
paration for the injury found to have
been done, Iu compliance with the re
lort and notice of the Commission, or
to the satisfaction of the party complain
ing, a statement to that effect shall lie
entered of record by the Commission,
and the said common carrier shall there
u(on l relieved from further liability
or penalty for such particular violation
of the law.
See; 10. That whenever auy commou
carrier, as defined in and subject to tlie
provisions of this act, sliall violate or re
fuse or neglect to obey any lawful order
or requirement or the Commission in
this act nanied, it shall be the duty of
the Commission, and Lawful for ac
company or jiersou interested in such
order or requirement, to applv. hi
summary way, by petition, to the cir
cuit court of the United States sitting
in equity in the judicial district In which
the common carrier complained of has its
pnncial office, orm which the violation
or disoliedience of such order or require
ment sliall liapen. allegingsuch violation
or disoiiedience, as the case may be; and
the sal court nhatl Imve powpr to hear
mid determine the matter, on such short
notice to the common carrier complain
ed or us the ooml Hhall deem reason
able; and such notice may be served on
such common carrier, his or its officers.
agents, or servants, m such manner as
the court shall direct; and said court
shall proceed to hear and determine the
matter speedily as a court of equity.
and without the formal pleadings am
proceedings applicable to ordinary suits
iu equity, but in such, maimer as to do
justice in the premises; and to this end
such court shall have power, if it think
fit, to direct and prosecute, in such
mode and by such persons as it may aj-
Ioint. all such inquiries as the court
may think needful to enable it to forma
just judgement iu the matter of sue!
iH'tition; and on such hearing the muni
of said Commission shall lie hrima facie
evidence of the mutters therein stated:
and if it be made to appear to such
court, on such hearing or on rvixtrt of
iinv such person or iersons, tliat the
lawful order or requirement of said
Commission drawn in question has been
violated or disobeyed, it shall lie lawful
for such court to issue a writ of Injunc
tion or other projier process, mandator'
or otherwise, to restrain such common
carrier from further continuing such
violation or disoiiedience of such order
or requirement of said Commission, and
enjoining otiedience to the same; and in
case or anv disobedience of anv such
writ of injunction or other proiier pro
cess, mandatory or otherwise, it shall be
lawful for such court to issue writs of
attachment, or any other process of il
court Incident or applicable to writs of
injunction or other proper process, man
datory or otherwise, against such com
mon carrier, and if a corporation,
against one or more of thp dirctui's, vi-ticei-s,,
ui aftoiits or tlie same, or against
inv owner. lessee, trustee, receiver, or
other ierson failing to obey such writ of
injunction or other proper process, niiiiu
datory or otherwise; and bii'ul court may,
it it shall ihniK nt, make an order di
recting such common carrier or other
tierson so disobeying such writ of injunc
tion or other proiier process, mandatory
or otherwise, to pay such sum of moiiey
not exceeding for each carrier oi n-.rsi.ii in
default the sum, of live hundred dollars for
every day after a day to be nanied iu the
oitler that such carrier or othtr- person
shall fail to, oliey such injunction or
other inojwr liooess, . mandatory m
otherwise, and such moneys shall lie
tiayable as tlie court sliall direct, either
to the ;arty complaining, or into court
to abide the ultimate decision of the
court, or into tlie Treasury; and pay
ment thereof mav, without prejudice to
any other mode of recovering tho Whitf,
beeuiorcpti lor attainment ur order iu
tho natuio of a writ or execution, iu like
manlier us if the same had been rcrov-
ered by a final decree in pertumam in
such court. When the subject in dis
pute sliall be of the value of t w o thous
and dollars or more, either iwrty to st;ch
proceeding before said court hw apjieiil
to tlie Supreme Court of the United
States, under the same regulations now
provided by law in resjiect of security
for such appeal; but such appeal shall
not oiierate to stay or sppersPijo ihotadei
of the court or thp (ecution ot any writ
or process thereop; and such court may,
in every such matter, order the payment
of such costs and counsel fees as sliall be
deemed reasonable. Whenever any such
petition shall be filed or presented by the
Commission it shall be the duty of the
District Attornev. under the direction
of the Attorney-General of thi Ui.iicd
States, t prosecute the same: and the
costs and cipenses of such prosecution
shall be paid out of the appropriation
for the expenses, of the co,urt oi the
United States. F-ur the purposes, oi tins
act, excepting its penal provisions, the
circuit courts of tlie United States, shall
be deemed to be always m session,
Sec. 17. That ihe Commission may
conduct if? proceedings in such manner
as will best conduce to the jiroer dl
patch pf business, apd t tne ends of
justice. $ majority of the lommission
shall cunsiitiite a quorum for the trans
action oi uusiuess, uuii no vuuiuiissiouei
shall participate in any hearing or pro-
ceeding in which he has any pecuniary
interest. Said Commission may, from
time to time, make or amend such gen
eral rules or orders as may 1 requisite
for the order aud regulation of proceed
ings lie fore it, including forms of notices
and the service tliereof. which shall con
form, as nearly as may be to those in use
in the courts of the United States. Any
party may appear before said Commis
sion and lie heard, in person or by attor
ney. Every vote and official act of the
Commission sliall 1 entered of record,
and its proceedings shall be public upon
the request of either party interested.
Said Commission shall have an offi
cial seal, which shall be judicially no
ticed. Either of the members of the
Commission may administer oaths and
affirmations.
Sec. IS. That each Commissioner shall
receive an annual salary of seven thous
and five hundred dollars, payable in tho
same manner as the salaries of judges of
the courts of the United States. The
Commission shall appoint a Secretary.
who shall receive an annual salary of
three thousand five hundred dollars,
Iayable in like manner. The Commis
sion shall have authority to employ and
fix the compensation " of such other
employes as it may find necessary to the
proiier performance of its duties, sub
ject to the approval of the Secretary of
tne interior.
The Commission sliall be furnished bv
the Secretary of the Interior with suita
ble offices and all necessary office sup
plies. Witnesses summoned before the
Commission sliall be paid the same fees
and mileage that are paid witnesses in
the courts of the United States. All of
the expenses of the Commission, includ
ing all necessary excuses for transjior
tation incurred by the Comml-sioners.
or by their employes under their orders.
in making any investnration in anv
other places than in the citv of Wash
ington, shall lie allowed and mid. on
the presentation of itemized vouchers
therefor approved by the Chairman of
the Commission and the Secretary of the
interior.
Sec. lit. That the principal office of
the Commission sliall be in the -ity of
Washington-where its general sessions
shall 1 held: but, whenever the conve
nience of the public or of the parties
may be promoted or delay or expense
prevented thereby, the Commlsion mav
hold special sessions in any part of the
I'nited States, It may, by one or more
of the Commissioners, prosecute any in
quiry necessary to its duties, in any "part
of the United States, into any matter or
question of fact ixTtaining to the busi
ness or any common carrier subject to
the provisions of this act.
Sec. 20. That tlie Commission is
hereby authorized to require aiuimd re
ports from allcommon carriers subject to
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me i .1 u visions ot tins act, to nx me time
and prescril the manner in which such
reixu ts shall bejmade, and to require from
such carriers sjiecilic answ ers to all ques
tions upon winch tlie Commission mav
need information. Such annual reports
shall show in detail tlie ? mount of rstd
tal slock issued, the amounts paid there
for, ami the manner of payment for the
same; the dividends aid, the surplus
iuiui, ii any, anu me number or stock
holders; the funded and floating debts.
and the interest paid thereon; the cost
and value oi me carrier spro;.crty, fran
chises, and equipment; the numlier of
employes and the salaries paid each
class; the amounts exiiended for im
provenieiits each year, how expended.
and the character of such improvements;
me earnings aim receipts irom each
branch of business and from all sources:
the operating and other expenses; the
oaiancesor prom and loss; and a com
plete exhibit of the tinancuil onennious
oi me carrier eacn year, including an
annual balHiioe-shect. Such reiiorts
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au.iil mo contain such information in
relation to rates or regulations concern
ing fares or freights, or agreements, ar
rangements, or contracts with other
common carriers, as the ConnuUsioii
may require; and the slid Commission
may, within its dixcivtloii. for the pur
pose, (if tumbling it the better to carry
out the purposes of this act. prescril
(if in the opinion of the Commission it is
practicable to prescrilie such uniformity
and met hods of keeping accounts) a e
riod of time within which all common
carrit rs subject to the provisions of this
icr snail nave, m near as mav l a uni
form system of accounts, and the man
ner in which such accounts shall be
kept.
Sec. 21. That theCommLerion shall, ot.
or before the first day of Deeemlier ineach
year, make a reiiort to the Secretarv of
the Interior, which sliall le by him
transmitted to Congress, and copies of
which shall I distributed as are the
other rvpui-ts issued from the Interior
Deiwrtinent. This reiiort shall contain
such information and data collet-tod by
the Commission as may bo considered of
value in the determination of questions
nnectM with the regulation of com
merce together with such recominenda-
lons as to additional legislation relatiliir
thereto as the Commission may deem
necessary.
Sec. 2i That nothing in this act
hall apply to the carriage, storatre. or
handling of proierty free or at reduced
rates fox the United States. State.
r municipal governments, or for
hariiatJe purposes, or to or from
fairs and exjiositious for exhibition
thert-at, or tho Issuance of mileage, ex-
ursiou, or commutation passenger tick
ets; nothing in this act shall I con
strued to prohibit any commou carrier
irom giving reduced rates to ministers of
religion; nothinir In this act sliall lie
coustrUil to prevent railroiwls from
ajvuijf freo carriage to their own
officers and employes, or to prevent the
principal officersof any railroad comjiany
or companies from exchanging passts or
ltkeis wun other railroad eoiimanies
for their officers and t'fttlJoyes; and no
thing in this a-i contained " shall in anv
wa.y biilgt or alter the remedies now
existing at common law or by statute,
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iui me provisions oi mis act are m ad
lition to such remedies: Provided.
That no ending litigation sliall iu any
way be a,noete4i hy this act.
ewt, 2.1 lliat the sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars Is hereby appro
bated Pir the use and punioses ot this
tct for the llscid year ending June thir
tieth. Anno D.inini eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, and the intervening
time anterior thereto,
Sec. 24. I hat the provisions of sec-
ions dfcven and eighteen of this act. re
lating to the appointment and organiza-
V,m oi tne omniissiun hrrein provided
r',r shilU tW immediately, and
lon of the Commission hrrein provided
the rwitalnlng provisions of tins act
sliall take effect sixty davs after its pas
sage. Approved, February 4, 1837.
Invch -J3.I the President appointed the foh
lowing ViMiimiwionprs under tbi Aet :
Thomas M. Coour, ol Michigan. Term six
years.
Wiu,iam H. MOBRISOS, of Illinois. Term
,ve rcara,
Avorcrva Schoo. maked, or New York.
Term itur years.
Aldace f. Walker, of Vermont. Term
three years.
altes A. Bjaou, of Alabama. Term two
yean.
NEWS IX BRIEF.
A four seated hanwm cab is now
the popular vehicle in London.
It is proposed to forbid the sale of
cigarettes to minors in Richmond, Ya.
A d rama by the Kinj? of Sweden
is to be brought out at Buda-Pesth.
Cairo, Egypt, is said to have one
blind person to every 20 inhabitants.
The catch of shad in the nudson
for the season of 1SSG was 1.300,930.
Summer hotel men are prayunz for
a big war in Europe to keep people
home.
The three bullfights In Paris have
produced the grois receipts of 205,000
franca.
A resident of Chester, Illinois, has
a pet crow that talks quite as well as
any parrot.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of Michigan University occurs
this Spring.
Cornelius Tanderbilt's new milk
house will have tiling on it which co t
over $1,000.
A peculiarity or the language of
the Sandwich Islands is that every
word ends in a vowel.
The sight of General Bragg's left
eye is gone and that or the right is said
to be seriously affected.
The daughter of Governor Moon
light, of Wyoming Territory, ls said to
act as his private secretary.
Susan B. Anthony is quoted as
saying that Abraham Lincoln is the
only man she could have loved.
The ages combined of a couple
married out In Mecosta county, Mich.,
the other day, foot up 107 years.
Forty thousand bamboo canes are
among the cargo of a vessel from Japan
discharging at Portland. Maine.
Music, it is thought, is likely soon
to be introduced systematically in the
public schools of Massachusetts.
A bill to permit the probating of
wills during the life of testators is be
fore the Legislature ot New York.
A balloon that will carry up 100
persons, as it is stated, is to be a feature
of the next (13S9) Paris Exposition.
Two employes appointed in 1331
by Andrew Jackson are still in the
Postal Department at Washington.
Daniel MUlser, a native Pennsylv
aman, is dead at Van Buren, Iowa, at
the age of 102 years and 8 months.
"Unmerchantlike Conduct" Is the
charge on which the New Y'ork Produce
Exchange is trying one of its members.
A native paper under the control
or the Hawaiian government has taken
to publishing a column or so In Eng
lish. Female models, the "Magazine of
Art" declares are, "with few excep
tions, virtuous, hard working, guileless
and honest."
Queen Victoria intends, it is said,
ta purchase certain of the' Trroco
crown jewels, which are soon to bs
sold in Paris.
Western beer is now selling freely
In N'ew York, as a result of a fight
between the saloon keepers and the
brewers' "pool."
The citizens ot Oswego, Kansas,
raised 570UO recently in halt a day for
the purpose or sinking a shaft iu
search of gas and coal.
A man at Bismarck, D. T., has
invented a freight car time lock that
can only be unlocked at the station for
which the car is intended.
Among the inmates of the ooor-
house at Kalamazoo, Michigan, is re
ported a man who rivalled Gough as a
temperance lecturer a generation ago.
Experience in a Glasgow hospital
has taught Dr. J. S. N'airue that boiled
or fried fish is a damrerous diet for
weak persons, but that steamed fish is
harmless.
In the. days of Rome's greatest
prosperity, that is, during the reign of
Augustus, the circumference of the
city enclosed by walls was about
twenty miles.
A mystery connected with the re
ported loss of the new Japanese man-of-war,
Unebi-Kan, is that not a trace
of her or her officers and crew (200 in
number) has been found.
There are said to be six men living
in Portsmouth. N". II., who took part
in the battle between the L nion fleet
and the Southern ram Merrimac. at
Hampton Roads, in 1S02.
AVild geese and ducks have become
so destructive a pest to the grain fields
of Alameda, California, that the
farmers are driven to the use of lumin
ous scarecrows to drive them away.
The Plantagenet liDe of Enclish
kings began with Henry IL and ended
with Richard IL.occupvinz the throne
of England for nearly two and one-half
centuries, that is, from 1154 to 1339.
The highest balloon ascension on
record ia said to have been made In
1853 by Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell.
two famous English aeronauts. They
reached an altitude of 37.000 feet, or
seven miles.
Some of the ice ccmranits that cut
this winter on the Kennebec have
housed ice 24 inches thick. The crop
from that river aggregates 9u0,00u tons.
and is reported the best, as well as the
largest, ever gathered.
An agricultural paper figures it
that "when land is worth $20 au acre.
one glass of beer at five cents wxmld
represent a piece of land nine feet wide
and twelve feet long. Room enough to
bury the whole family in."
In an auction room at Bridge-
water, Massachusetts, some days ago.
about the time the auctioneer bad gone
from "going" to "gone," the floor
went, carry ma into the cellar 200 peo
ple, none of whom, fortunately, were
seriously hurt.
A Justice of the Peace in Chester.
Massachusetts, who is 80 vears old. has
just been recommended for a term that
will make him 03 years of age when it
expires, if he lives, and the veteran is
said to be "full of vitality." as yet.
A burglar, with whom a man In
Laurens countv. Georgia, grappled
upon being awakened some nights ago. '
directed an accomplice to shoot. This
the accomplice did, but the ball killed
the struggling intruder, who was then
found to be a constable. The other
burglar escaped.
The highest salary paid Methodist
Ministers in the N'ew Hampshire Con
ference, it ls stated, is $1500 (and the
use of a parsonage) which now is paid
by one church in Manchester, and an
other in Lawrence (Mass.,) while the
average is, including house rent, ItJOO.
A law intended to restrict the
number of lawyers is on its way in the
New York Assembly. It provides that
new lawyers must take out license at
500 for attorneys m N ew York, and
$100 In other cities of the State; $1000
for attorneys and counsellors in New
York city, and $500 in other cities.
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