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“NEW RIVAL”
LOADED BLACK POWDER
Shotgun Shells
The important points
in a loaded shell are
reliability, uniformity of
loading, evenness of pat-
tern, hard shooting qual-
ities and strength to
withstand reloading. All
these virtues are found
in Winchester “New
Rival’’ loaded black
powder shells. Ask for
them the next time.
THEY HELP MAKE
BIG BAGS
Help the Horse
No article is more useful
about the stable than Mica
Axle Grease. Put a little on
the spindles before you ‘ ‘hook
up’ —it will help the horse, and
bring the load home quicker.
MICA AXLE
GREASE
wears well—better than any
other grease. Coats the axle
with a hard, smooth surface of
owdered mica which reduces
riction. Ask the dealer for
Mica Axle Grease.
A Standard Measure.
After being 10 years in the making
there has just been deposited in the
government standard weights and
measures strong room a new standard
yard measure. It is made of 90 parts
of platinum and ten of iridium,
which combined are not upset by
either heat or cold. After the elabor-
ate marking it was submitted to a
number of tests, coming through all
with high honors. Every vear of the
next ten vears it wil] he examined,
and if it varies by the millionth part
of an inch it will be consigned to
the rubbish heap, otherwise it will
become a standard.-—IL.ondon News.
Chinese Porcelain Marks.
Marks in Chinese characters indi-
cating the factory or the studio name
of the decorator are common on
porcelain, says China, Glass and
Tamps. Among them are ‘made at
the hall of profit and prosperity,” or
the “hall for the culture vf harmony,”
or ‘‘the pavilion where I hear my
faults,” or ‘the myriad rocks retreat.”
There are also marks of dedication
and good wishes, such as “a myriad
of ages never ending,” ‘“scholar-
ship high as the mountains vor the
great bear,” or the marks may be in
praise of the piece, “a gem among
precious vessels of rare stone.”
Philadelphia Record.
Don’t Wabble.
There is one sort of man that there
is no place for in the universe, and
that is the wabbler—the man on the
fence, who never knows where he
stands, who is always slipping about,
dreaming, apologizing, never daring
to take a firm stand on anything.
Everybody despises him. He is a
weakling. Better a thousand
have the reputation of being eccen-
tric, peculiar and cranky than never
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zine.
OLD SOAKERS
Get Saturated With Caffeine,
When a person has used coffee for
a number of years and gradually de-
clined in health, it is time the coffee
should be left off in order to see
whether or not that has been the
cause of the trouble.
A lady in Huntsville, Ala., says she
used coffee for about 40 years, and
for the past 20 years has had severe
stomach trouble.
ed by many physicians but all in
vain.
lief.
and came near dying.
and drink I tried coffee again and it
soured on my stomach.
“I finally concluded that coffee was
the cause of my troubles and stopped
using it. I tried tea in its place and
then milk but neither agreed with
me; then I commenced using Postum,
had it properly made and it was very
pleasing to the taste.
“1 have now used it four months,
and my health is so greatly improved
that I can eat almost anything I want
and can sleep well,
1 suffered for years with insomnia.
“I have found the cause of my trou-
bles and a way to get rid of them.
You can depend upon it I appreciate
Postum.” “There's a Reason.” Read
“The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs.
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Smith's Magazine has the best arti-
cle that has been printed in a long
time on a subject that is sure, sooner
or later, to mean a great deal to the
majority of Americans. The questions
which it deals with are the decreasing
forest ‘areas of the country, still
shrinking rapidly in spite of all that
the government can do to the con-
trary, thre increasing cost of lumber,
and the growing difficulty that a poor
man meets with when he tries to put
up a frame house for himself.
S. C. Hutchins, the writer of the
article, says that the country is in the
grasp of a veritable lumber trust. He
tells of the inception of the trust
and its growth.
“Long before the government awoke
to the significance of the rarid growth
of our industries,” he writes, “private
interests had become fully alive to the
importance of the matter. As long as
50 years ago, a few far-seeing men
anticipated the future enormous con-
sumption of lumber, and realized that
at the end of a decade the northwest-
ern states must become the chief sour-
ces of the country’s supply. In 1850
the lumber product was valued at lit-
tle over $60,000,000; last year it was
in excess ef %600,000,000. At the former
period, the bulk of the cut was secured
in the Eastern states; now Pennsylva-
nia is the only one of that group that
figures in the ranks of the eight prin-
cipal productive states. Then New
York was at the head of the list; now
Washington leads the country.
This movement of the lumber indus-
try was foreseen by a group of asso-
ciated Westerners, at whose head was
Frederick Weyerheuser, of St. Paul.
Before the industrial demand had be-
gun to make drafts upon that section,
they secured, at small cost, and to a
considerable extent for nothing, thou-
sands of square miles of timberlands
in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and the Mississippi River section. Ten
years ago the vast holdings of = this
syndicate were practically exhausted.
They had made many millions out of
almost nothing. The demand for lum-
ber was on the increase, and the avail-
able sources of supply were still far-
ther to the west, in the states of Mon-
tana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
Here were millions of acres of the
finest timber in the world, but it be-
longed to the people, and the govern-
ment had by this time awakened to
the value of it. There was only one
way of légitimately acquiring any of
this Jand, and that was through the
Homestead law, which restricted the
applicant, who must be a bona-fide
settler, to one quarter-section.
“Lying, bribery, theft, perjury—
every crime in the calendar—has been
committed by the Western land-grab-
bers for the purpose of circumventing
the Homestead Act. Hundreds of thou-
sands of square miles of public domain
have thus passed out of the hands of
the government in the last decade. A
great -deal of this ill-gotten property
was transferred to the Weyerheuser
syndicate, but that group of master
manipulators did not descend to the
methods of the ordinary land-thief.
Such methods were not only risky—
several state officials and members of
Congress have been sent to prison
within the year for practicing them—
but also slow. Thousands of acres,
even though they should run into hun-
dreds of thousands, could not satisfy
Weyerheuser and his associates. Their
plans involved millions to be acquired
by legalized robbery.
“The Lieu Selection Act enabled the
Weyerheuser syndicate, employing Con-
gress and the Northern Pacific Rail-
road as tools, to acquire several mil-
lions of acres of the most valuable
timber-land in the country at a nomi-
nal cost. This iniquitous measure
passed in 1897, during the closing
days of the session, when Congress
habitually endeavors, by slipshod leg-
islation, to make up for time sense-
lessly wasted. An insignificant appro-
bill for forest preservation
was introduced and passed, with the
following apparently innocent rider
attached to it:
‘“‘In cases in which a tract covered
by an unperfected patent or unper-
fected bona-fide claim is, included
within the limits of a public forest re-
serve, the settler or owner thereof
may, if he desires to do so, relinquish
the tract to the government, and in
lieu thereof select a tract of vacant
land open to settlement, not exceeding
in area the tract covered by the claim
or patent; and no charge shall be
made in these cases for the making of
the entry or issuing the patent to
cover the tract selected.’
“The members of Congress who paid
any attention to the proposition doubt-
less saw in it nothing more than a
means of enabling settlers who had
got upon poor land to better their con-
dition, and supposed that a few hun-
dreds, at most, would take advantage
of the privilege. What actually hap-
pened was this: The Northern Pacific
Railroad promptly exchanged over
three millions of acres of worthless
land for an equal area of the best tim-
ber tracts in the possession of the gov-
ernment. The land surrendered by the
road had haedA originally donated by
the people, and it was returned to
them after it was denuded of timber
and rendered valueless. But Wever-
heuser, who had been the timber agent
for the Northern Pacific for many
years, did not engineer this scheme for
the benefit of his employers. They
were merely a necessary medium for
the consumation of the project. The
wndicate which bad secured an option
The Reasons Why Our F orest Avcrs
Are Shrinking Rapidly.
on the railroad’'s holdings promptly
closed after the passage of the act at
an average price of six dollars per
acre. That is to say, the syndicate
paid less than one thousand dollars
per quarter-section for land which
contained timber worth from fifty to
one hundred thousand dollars.
“For many years this syndicate of
timberland owners had exerted a
strong influence over the lumber busi-
ness. The coup of 1897, followed as it
was by another large deal in 1900, put
it in possession of billions of acres of
the finest forest-lands in fee simple,
and enabled it to extend an absolute
control over every branch of the lum-
ber industry—wholesale, manufactur-
ing, and retail. This fact is beyond
controversy. It is admitted by lum-
bermen who are giving evidence per-
force to the government officials, and
it is corroborated by many victims of
this combination. who have striven,
without its authority, to engage in the
business.
‘ ‘Few trusts have been able to ex-
ercise such complete and drascdc con-
trol as this, and yet none Las con-
trived so effectually to conceal its ex-
istence from the public. There is no
organization of record—no company or
association to which one can point and
declare: ‘That it.” There are ‘a
number of lumbermen’s associatioas,
each of which claims to be concerned
only with its local affairs, and to be
entirely independent of all outside in-
fluence, but there is ample evidence
that every one of these associations is
connected by a string to some unseen
hand, and answers with invariable
promptness to the pull. The would-be
dealer who finds himself blocked in
the effort to set up in business in the
territory of one of them, and goes into
that of another, with the hope of im-
munity, finds the same mysterious in-
fluences operating against him. The
man who rails to get an order filled
in St. Louis soon learns that it is ut-
terly useless to try in Chicago cr any-
where else. =
“Coincident with the intreduction of
economical methods and lahor-saving
machinery, there has been a steady
rise in the price of lumber. Prices
have been consistently maintained
throughout the country by what could
hardly be anything but concerted ac-
tion. Exceptionally high figures might
prevail in a certain territory, but no-
where could lumber be bought at less
than the prescribed rates. In recent
years prices -have gone up by arbitrary
leaps and bounds without any regard
to cost of production, or any other
legitimate economical factor. Take
the case of pine—the poor” man’s
friend—which represents fifty percent
of the entire cut. The highest govern-
ment stumpage price last year for yel-
low pine was $4 per thousand. The
average cost of cutting and hauling to
the mill in the principal lumber sec-
tions is less than $3.50 per thousand,
and the mill work should z0t exceed
$1 per thousand. Add to this $1.50 for
incidental charges, and you have a
very liberal cost price of $10 per thou-
sand feet. But if you built a house
last year—and it matters not how or
where you bought your lumber—the
pine used cost you $45 per thousand,
and perhaps more. You were mulcted
to enable some one to realize a profit
of 200 percent—and the value of the
lumber consumed last year amounted
to well-nigh $600,000,000!"”
is
OPPOSITION TO TROUSERS.
Wearers, Many Peagle Believed, Could
Not Be Religious.
The modern custom of wearing
trousers was taken from the military
dress introduced into the army by the
Duke of Wellington during the Penin-
snlar war.
In early days these were known as
“Wellington trousers,” after the Duke.
When they were coming into general
use at the commencement of the nine-
teenth century the religious world and
the fashionable were most determined
in their opposition. A clause in the
original trust deed, dated 1820,
Sheffield Non-conformist chapel pro-
vided that ‘‘under no circumstances
whatever shall any preacher be al-
lowed to occupy the pulpit who wears
trousers.”
But this was not all. Some doubts
were expressed in many quarters con-
cerning the question whether a man
could be religious and appear in trous-
ers. One of the founders of the Primi-
tive Methodist body remarked to a col-
league in the ministry, “that trousers
wearing, beer drinking, so-and-so will
never get to heaven.”
Father Reece, a famous Methodist
minister, twice president of the con-
ference (born in 1765, died in 1850),
could not be induced to adopt trousers,
and among the Methodists was the last
to follow popular fashion in this re-
spect.—Chamber’s Journal.
His First Practice.
A young man in Philadelphia, who
many months ago hung up his shin-
gle as “attorneyatlaw,” has not, as
vet, been overwhelmed with clients.
A friend, entering the office the other
day, noticed on the desk a cheap
alarm-clock.
“Taking it home, eh?” he observed.
“Good thing at this time of year.
Everyone's liable to oversleep these
spring mornings.”
The lawyer smiled. “I have not
purchased that clock for the reason
you mention. I keep it here to wake
me when it's time to go home.”—
From Judge's Library.
of a}
London Census 7,000,000,
Londan, .according to the last cen:
sus, has passed the 7.000000 mark.
FITS, St. Vitus’ Dance: Nervous Diseases per
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve |
£2 trial bottle and treatise free.
Phi la.,
Restorer.
Dr. H, R. Kline, Ld. 031 Arch St.
An Old Church.
The Pilgrim Congregational Church
near London, founded in 1616, is
oldest of the denominations in
empire, and it was from this that the
London contingent of the men of the |
recruited.
Mayflower was
SKIN SORE FOR EIGHT YEARS
Spent $300 on Doctors and Remedies
But Got No Relief—Cuticura
Cures in a Week.
“Upon the limbs and between the toes
my skin was rough and sore, and also sore
under the arms. 1 had to stay at home
several times because of this affection. Up
to a week or so ago I had tried many other
remedies and several doctors, and spent
about three hundred dollars, without any
success, but this is to-dar the seventh day
that I have been using the Cuticura
Remedies (costing a dollar and a half),
which have cured me completely, so that
I can again attend to my business. 1 went
to work again to-night.
by the Cuticura Remedies within a week.
Fritz Hirschlaff, 24 Columbus Ave.,
York, N. Y.. March 29 and April 6, 1906.”
More Money Than Brain.
A wealthy landed proprietor named
Gliszinski of Buetzow, Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, who committed
stated in a letter found by
that he took his life because
ministration of his money
too heavily upon his mind.
the
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, on
We. the undersigned, have known F.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and LE
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, \Whole
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Hall's Catarrh Cure istaken internally, act- |
ingdirectly upon the blood and mucuoussur-
faces of the system. Testimonials rent free.
Price, 75¢c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Effect of Electric Light on Eyes.
Reports to the effect that electric
lights are detrimental to the eye-
sight are «pronounced unfounded by
an ~lectrical expert in The London
Times. He -says that the. trouble
arises from
eve to the light,
be the same or
light.
worse with any other
FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Decause Doctors Could
Not Care.
Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave.,
Atfoka, Minn., Sq: “After lying
for five. months in a
hospital I was dis-
charged as incura-
ble, and given only
4 six months to live.
My heart was affect-
ed, I had smother-
ing spells and some-
times feil uncon-
-Scfous.. ' 1-got so 1
couldn't © use my
arms, my eyesight
was impaired and
the kidney secretions were badly dis-
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan’'s Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have been
feeling well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Discharged
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Electricity and Steam.
According to figures presented to
the Institute of Electrical Engineers
the net saving over steam by the use
of electricity on the railroads of the
United States averages $638 per mile,
which, if applied to the entire rail-
road system, would effect a saving of
$138,500,000 per annum.
The milk pail is kept free from
staleness, sliminess and stickiness if
it is washed with Borax and water in
the following proportions—one table-
spoonful to a quart of water.
John Bull figures out that his coun-
try has been successful in 82 per
cent of the battles in which it has en-
gaged.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
tecthing,softéns thegums, reducesinflamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind colig, 2c abottle
The ranks of the miners and char-
coal Lurners. ave less affected by
consumption than any other occupa-
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PERIODS OF PAIN
MISS ADELAIDE NICHOLS
that period of its terrors. Women
While no woman is entirely free
from periodic suffering, it does not
seem to be the plan of nature that
women should suffer so severely. Ir-
regularities and pain are positive
evidence that something is wrong
which should be set right or it will
lead to serious derangement of the
feminine organism.
Thousands of women, have
found relief from all periodic suf-
fering by taking Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, which
is made from native roots and herbs,
as it is the most thorough female
regulator known to medical sciemee.
It cures the condition which
causes so much discomfort and robs
who are troubled with painful or ir-
Ml regular functions should take immediate action to ward off the serious
# consequences and be restored to health and strength by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Miss Adelaide Nichols of 324
West 22nd Street, New York City,
writes:—Dear Mrs, Pinkham:-‘‘If women whe suffer would only rely
upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound their troubles would be
quickly alleviated. I feel greatly
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Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures Female Complaints
such as Falling and Displacements, and Organic Diseases. Headache,
General Debility, Indigestion,
system.
and invigorates the whole feminine
For the derangements of the Kidneys of either sex Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is excellent.
Mrs. Pinkham'’s Standing Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited t@
{ write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. From the symptomsgivex, the trouble
d may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised.
Ore io will convince
you that
will relieve soreness and
stiffness quicker and easier
than any other preparation
sold for that purpose.
It penetrates to the bone.
quickens the blood, drives ;
away fatigue and gives strength
and elasticity to the muscles.
Thousands use Sloan's Liniment
for rheumatism. neuralgia, toothache
sprains, contracted muscles, stiff &
joints, cuts, bruises, burns, cramp g#
or colic and insect stings
PRICE 25¢,50¢. & $1.00
g Dr.Earl S.Sloan, Boston, Mass. U.SA
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other makeis because of their
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The selection of the leathers and other niaterials for each part
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Valid Reasons Found.
With the announcement that the
air 11 miles above the surface of the
earth has a temperature of about 100
degrees below zero in the latitude of
New York, a valid argument in favor
of placing a limit upon the height of
buildings in Manhattan has finally
been found.—New York Tribune.
murders committed
hanging.
For every five
only one is avenged by
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The Value of Ridicule.
“A man,” said Dr. Johnsen, “should
pass a part of his time with the
laughers, by which means anything
ridiculous or particular about him
might be presented ‘to his view and
corrected.”
$3.00 Per
cash, not promises—(8 hours’
work) is the salary I pay my
representatives. The work is
not hard—you can do it. Or
tell your best friend, if you
have not the time. I give ex-
clusive territory. For details
write
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LUMBAGO’S PAIN, RHEUMATIC TWINGE,
YOUR BACK FEELS LIKE A RUSTY HINGE;
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