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ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE." hat Is LAXATIVE BItOMO QUININE. lx>ok for io signature of K. W. GKOVE. t'sed the World rer to Cure a Cold in One J>ay. 25c. NO COMPLAINT, r , T^T The Jay—By Heck! It'd certainly urt a feller to fall off thet 27-story jilding. The Guide—Well, de last guy wot ,d it never complained none. No Sale. "Hill work?" replied ihe demon rator, after Stiggins had Inspected le new car carefully. "Hill work? 'hy that's our strong point, Mr. Stig ins. This car can climb a tree." "Ha! hum!" demurred Stiggins. Then I guess I'll look elsewhere. I i ever saw a car yet that climbed trees lat was any good afterward." —liar- j ■r's Weekly. THE DOCTOR HABIT And How She Overcame It. When well selected food has helped e honest physician place his patient ' sturdy health and free from the loctor habit," it Is a source of satls ction to all parties. A Chicago wom i says: "We have not had a doctor in the >use during all the 5 years that we ive been using Grape-Nuts food. He re we began, however, we had 'the ictor habit,' and scarcely a week went ' without a call on our physician. "When our youngest boy arrived, 5 ars ago, I was very much run down id nervous, suffering from indiges )n and almost continuous headaches, .vas not able to attend to my ordinary imestic duties and was so nervous at I could scarcely control myself, cider advice I took to Grapt-Nuts. '1 am now, and have been ever since a began to use Grape-Nuts food, able do all rny own work. The dyspep* i, headaches, nervousness and rheu atisiu which used to drive me fairly ild, have entirely disappeared. "My husband finds that in the night 3rk In which he is engaged, Grape its food supplies him the most whole me, strengthening and satisfying nch he ever took with him." Name ven by Postuin Co., Battle Creek, ich. Read the little book, "The Road to ellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." •Sver rend Ih* above Irttcrf A new 'e Appears from lime to time. They '<■ genuine, true, and full vf human (ereat. TAFT'S POSTAL SERVICE MESSAGE President in Transmitting Hitch cock's Report to Congress Says He Eoes Not Approve , Recommendation That Tele graph Lines Be Operated by Post Office Department. OOES FAVOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL The Commission on Second-Class Mail Matter Recommends That the Cent a-Copy Rate for Newspapers Other Than Weeklies When Mailed at a Letter-Carrier Office for Local De livery Be Abolished. Washington.—President Taft's mes sage transmitting the annual report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, and the re port of the Commission on Second- Class Mail Matter, was listened to with deep interest when read before both i houes of Congress. It is as follows: To the Senate and House of Represen tatives: In transmitting the annual report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year ended June 'JO, 1911, it gives me pleasure to call attention to the fact that the revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, amounted to $237,879,823.60 and that the expendi tures amounted to $237,060,700.48, mak ing a surplus of $219,118.12. For the | year ended Juue 30, 1909, the postal service was in arrears to the extent of $17,479,770.47. In the interval this very large deficit has been changed into surplus, and that without the cur tailment of postal facilities. Indeed, in the same time there have been es tablished 3,744 new post offices, deliv ery by carrier provided in 186 addi tional cities and new rural routes es tablished, 2,516 in number and aggre gating 60,679 miles in extent. The force of postal employees has been increased by more than 8,000, and a liberal policy in the matter of salaried has been followed, so that the amount I expended for salaries is now $14,000,- | 000 more than two years ago. The av j erage salary has been increased from | $869 to $967 for rural carriers, $979 to J $1,082 for post-office clerks, $1,021 to j $1,084 for city letter carriers, and sl,- | 168 to $1,183 for railway postal clerks. The report shows that the postal | savings system was begun experiment | ally in January, 1911, and that it has I now been extended so as to include 7,- ! 500 presidential post offices, which in i eludes practically all of the post offices |of that class. Preparr'ions are also j being made to establish the system at | about 40,000 l'ourh-class offices. The deposits in 11 months have reached a total of $11,000,000, distributed among 2,710 national and State banks. The Postmaster General recom mends, as 1 have done in previous mes sages, the adoption of a parcel post, and the beginning of this in the or ganization of such service on rural routes and in the City Delivery Ser vice first. The report of the Postmaster Gen eral is full of statements of the impor tant improvements in the organization and methods of the postal service made a part of the postal system a.id and of tentative drafts of legislation embodying cerain recommendations Oi the department which need legislation to carry them out. There is only one recommendation in which 1 can not agree—that is one which recommends that the telegraph lines in the United States should be made a par of the postal - system and j operated in conjunction with the mail j system. This presents a question of I Government ownership of public utili : ties which are now being conducted by I private enterprise under franchises I from the Government. I believe that | the true principle is that private en j terprise should be permitted to carry ion such public utilities under due regu lation as to rates by proper authority rather than that the Government should itself conduct them. This principle 1 favor because I do not think it in ac cordance with the best public policy thus greatly to increase the body of public servants. Of course, if it could be shown that telegraph service could be furnished to the public at a less price than It is now furnished to the public by telegraph companies, and with equal efficiency, the argument might be a strong one in favor of the adoption of the proposition. But 1 am not satisfied from any evidence that if these properties were taken over by the Government they could be man aged any mor economically or any more economically or any more effici ently or that this would enable the Government to furnish service at any smaller rate than the are now required to pay by private companies. I can not speak with too great em phasis of the improvement in the Post Office Department under the present management. The cutting down of cost, the shortening of mehods, and the increase in efficiency are shown by the statistics of the Annual Report. One of the most important matters referred to by the Postmaster General is the proposed fixing of new rates of pontage for second-class mail matter. In connection with this subject, I have the honor to transmit herewith the re port of the Commission on Second Class Mail Matter, appointed pursuant to a joint resolution of tlic Sixty-first Congress, approved March 4, 1911. ■ The commission consists of Hon. ■ Charles E. Hughes, Associate Justice ■ of the Supreme Court of the United States; President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard University; and Mr. Har ry A. Wheeler, president of the Asso ciation of Commerce of the City of 5 Chicago, whose character, ability, and a experience command for their findings and recommendations the respect - and confidence of the Congress and the country. ' The report discloses a most exhaus tive and critical inquiry into the sub ject of second-class mail matter after adequate notice to all the parties in in r erest. Extensive hearings were held by the commission, at which the Post master General and the Second and Third Assistant Postmasters General appeared and submitted formal state ments presenting the arlous conten -1 tions of the Post Office Department, to- E " gether with all the relevant official r data and evidence relating to the cost a of handling and transporting second class mail matter. Certain of the leading magizines were represented by counsel, while various other publica tions appeared by representatives and i- were heard in oral argument or per f mitted to submit written briefs setting 1 forth their respective reasons for op ■- posing a change in the present postage [- rate on second-Class mail. The Sec li ond.and Third Assistant Postmasters I General, together with minor officers : of the department, were critically cross-examined by the counsel and I representatives of periodicals, and all the various phases of the second- I I class postage problem were made the I j subject of a most painstaking investi e I gation. I I The findings of the commission con r j firm the view that the cost of handling 3 and transporting second-class mail | matter is greatly in excess of the post ■* | age paid, and that an increase in the e | rate is not only justified by the facts, ' but is desirable. ' The commission reports that the s evidence submitted for its considera- tion is sufficient to warrant a finding of the approxmate cost of handling and ■ transporting the several classes of " | second-class mail known as paid-at-the ' | pound-rate, free-in-county, and transi ' ent matter, in so far as relates to the '*! services of transportation, post-office " | cars, railway distribution, rural deliv -31 ery, and certain other items of cost, 1 j but that it is without adequate data 1 to determine the cost ol' the general s j post-office service and also what por -1 tion of the cost of certain other aggre " gate services is properly assignable to * second-class mail matter. It finds that 1 in the fiscal year 1908, the period for ' which the statistics for the Post Office ' Department were compiled, the cost of " handling and transporting second • class mail, in the items of transporta " tion, post-office cars, railway distribu " tion, rural delivery, and certain mis * cellaneous charges, was approximate ' ly 6 cents a pound for paid-at-the ' pound-rate matter, and for free-iu-coun- j 5 ty and transient matter each approxi- j ' mately 5 cents a pound, and that upon , : this basis, as modified by subsequent i ' reductions in the cost of railroad trans- I 1 portation, the cost of paid-at-the-pound- j i rate matter, for the services mentioned, ; is now approximately 6 1-2 cents a ; " pound, while the cost of free-iu-county j " and transient matter remains as form- j • erly, namely, each at approximately 5 ' ' cents a pound. ' The recommendations of the com- j ' mission as to the postage rates on sec- j ond-class mail are as follows: 1. The rate of 2 cents a pound on j copies mailed by publishers to sub- j 1 scribers, to news agents, and as sam- ■ ' pie copies, and by news agents to j their subscribers or to other news ! j agents. 2. The rate of 1 cent for each 4 i ounces for copies mailed by other than ! publishers and news agents; that is, ; the present transient rate. 3. The present free-in-countv privi lege retained, but not extended. The commission also recommended that the cent-a-copy rate for news papers other than weeklies and for ! periodicals not exceeding 2 ounces in weight, and the 2-cent-a-copy rate for j periodicals exceeding 2 ounces in ' weight, when mailed at a city letter- i carrier office for local delivery, be j abolished. As to the to the effect and adequacy j of the proposed increase of 1 cent a ! pound in postage the commission says: "Such an increase will not, in the opinion of the commission, bring dis tress upon the publishers of news papers and periodicals, or seriously in terfere with the dissemination of use ful news or information. A reason able time should be allowed, after the rate is fixed, before it is put into ef- | feet. While the new rate will be very I far from compensating the Govern- ! ment for the carriage and handling of second-class matter, it will to some j extent relieve the existing burden and result in a more equitable adjustment ! of rates." The commission suggests that the department "maintain an adequate cost system, so that the effect of the new rates may be closely observed and a proper basis may be secured I for the consideration of any future pro- i posals." In these recommendations the Post master General and I heartily concur and commend them to the early atten tion of Congress. The proposed in crease of 1 cent a pound in the sec ond-class postage rate, I believe, to be most, reasonable, and if sufficient time is allowed before the change goes into effect it should work little serious injury to the business of the periodi cal publishers, while equalizng, at least in a measure, the burdens of pos tal taxation. WM. H. TAFT. The White House, February 22, 1912. I FLAX GROWING IS PROFITABLE i [ WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE COMING RICH IN ITS PRODUCTION. ; So much has been written regarding 1 the great amount of money made out i of growing wheat in the prairie prov inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and , Alberta, Western Canada, that many other products of the farms are over looked. These provinces will always grow large areas of wheat —both spring and winter—and the yields will continue to be large, and the general average greater than. in any other portion of the continent. Twenty, thir ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels per acre of wheat to the acre—yields unusual in other parts of the wheat growing portions of the continent — have attracted world-wide attention, ! but what of oats, which yield forty, fifty and as high as one hundred and ten bushels per acre and carry off the world's prize, which, by the way, was also done by wheat raised in Sas katchewan during last November at the New York Land Show. And then, there is the barley, with its big yields, and its excellent samples. Another money-maker, and a big one is flax. The growing of flax is extensively car ried on in Western Canada. The writer has before him a circular is sued by a prominent farmer at Saska toon. The circular deals with the treatment of seed flax, the seeding and harvesting, and attributes yields of less than 20 bushels per acre, to later seeding, imperfect and illy-pre pared seed. He sowed twenty-five pounds of seed per acre and had a yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre. This will probably dispose of at $2.50 per acre. Speaking of proper prepa ration of seed and cultivation of soil and opportune sowing, in the circular spoken of there is cited the case of a Mr. White, living fourteen miles south of Rosetown, "who had fifteen acres of summer fallow a year ago last summer, upon which he produced thirty-three bushels to the acre, when many in the district harvested for want of crop. Now, there can be no | proper reason advanced why such a ; crop should not have been produced on all the lands of the same quality in the adjacent district, provided they had been worked and cared for in the same manner. This year (1911) the same man had one hundred acres of summer fallow, had something over ! 3,800 bushels of wheat. He also had 1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels of flax." There are the cattle, the horses, the roots and the vegetable products of : Western Canada farms, all of which J individually and collectively deserve i special mention, and they are treated i of in the literature sent out on appli cation by the Government agents. SATISFIED HIM. Mr. Nervee—l come, sir, to ask you for the hand of your daughter. Her Father (feelingly)— Young man, her mother is dead; she is all 1 have left. Mr. Nervee —You've given her a fine recommendation, sir, a fine recom mendation. Subject for the Minister. According to reports gathered by : the National Association for the Study | and Prevention of Tuberculosis, prac- 1 I tically 10 per cent, of all deaths in j church congregations are caused by tuberculosis. In a study of 312,000 communicants of 725 chuches in which'there were 7,000 deaths in 1910, the death rate among these church members was found to be 2.21 for every thousand communicants. This is higher tlian the rate for the regis tration area of the United States. I which was 1.60 in 1910. "While these statistics,' says the ' j national association, "are not com- j l parable from the point of view of ac- I curacy with those of the bureau of , I census, sufficient credence may be ! J given to them to Indicate that one of | the most serious problems the or dinary church has to consider is that of the devastation of its membership by tuberculosis. Every minister in the United States should give this sub ject some attention during the week ! preceding or that following April 28, j Tuberculosis day." Creature of Habit. "Man," didactically began Professor Twiggs, during a recent session of the Soc Et Tu Um club, "is a creature of habit." 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