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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-17
Public DefenseIess.

DCtCHSCiCSSs
 It follows therefore, that without ef- fective competition in railway rates and with no law providing effective control of the rates, the public lies defenseless under any aggressions or exactions which the carriers may see fit to impose The public interests, which in so many states have demanded successfully the passage and enforcement of laws for the regula- ton of these matters within their bor- ders, are affected advantageous or to the contrary respecting interstate com merce according as charges for trans portation therein are reasonable and just or unreasonable and unjust. and upon those intereses, the interests of the pub lie at large and those who represent them, rests the burden of securing legis- lation which will result in their protec- ton from excessive or unrlfr charges or discriminating practices in the move ment of commerce between the states.
 The same reasons which have justified the establishment and continued exist ence in twenty or more states of railroad commissions authorized in effective ways to deal with the transportation rates, and which are now the basis of urgent pub lie demand for rate regulation in other states, appl with even greater force to the much larger volume of interstate commerce moving through all the states and territories, and in which are con- cerned in substantial and often controll- | ing degree the interests of practically every merchant, manufacturer. producer and trader in the United States.
 Colonel Clements Talks.
 Colonel Clements supplemented the re- port of the committee with few minutes discussion of the topics referred to. He | told the members of the organization there are 600 miles of main line of railway in the United States. This, he said, would belt the earth eight times, | ard would build seventy railroads from | New York to San rancisco
 Benjamin F. Chlbourne of Maine fol- lowed Colonel Clements in a discussion 1 of the report. The delegate from Maine said that in his opinion there was no such thing as a railroad monopoly He l said the railroads had built up his state "They have, in fact, changed 1t from a | pleasure resort to irving state" said he.
 Captain Chilbourne declared that there was no tribunal that could decide what a fair and just rate was. He said that l it was like the definition of a mas- cot-"a mascot is a mascot" He said | that he did not believe that the railroads l in his state have ever made dollar on their passenger business.
 Valuation of Railways.
 Prof. B. H. Meyer, expert special agent | representing the Interstate Commerce Commission, read paper on the valua-
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

shutters have come down, one after
one. The postoffice began timorously
by opening for an hour or two, morn
ing and afternoon. Now it is open for
a long time every day. Meal times are
still sacred in this civilized land of
France.
The BARRIERS is no longer shut. The
picture postcard shop has furnished
great store of blatant weapons for the
seasonal fray. When and where the
food is bought confounds the traveller,
for food shops there seem to be none
The native servant looks after all that,
and it is believed that local custom
provides him with fitting endorsement
in return for his local knowledge.
The big hotels, mausoleums in sum-
mer, have cast off their disguise, and
are become hotels again. Some ener-
getic man has thrown back the vast
army of window shutters; the old tin
cans have been removed from the
gas jets at the gates.
Extensions have been triumphantly
completed after months OF daWdl1ng
and a frantic rush at the end, as local
custom ordains. Lawns have ceased
to be caretakers' vegetable plots, and
have become lawns of needleblade
grass again.
Carriages are again upon the coastal
roads. The Riviera hired rig is like a
duke's carriage anywhere else. Its
horses are pair of spanking bays, its
varnish glistens refulgent. Motor cars
return to their wicked ways, hurtle
along tortuous roads. thrash the dust
from it's soft summer bed. That poor
dust! 1t is painful to see, and swal-
low.
The electric cars from Nice to Monte
Carlo are necessarily gliding along the
rock-riven road. They brush past
olive and aloe and palm, swing round
the very turrets of Villefranche,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The dead summer is gone; glad
February has come and the Riviera
has awakened to it's wintry life, which
is natheless more summary than the
summer of other lands. This beautiful
winter-summer will be half a year
long. For the Riviera has only two
seasons Of the year, the live and the
dead-the heavenly and the Internal.
Technically the season opened on Jan.
/, but there were happy people who
anticipated it by month, or even
longer.
The shops are open again, as after
some burning nightmare six months
long. know not, nor can ascertain,
how shopkeepers pass the time be-
tween the seasons. Perhaps they also
sleep, like alternating beasts, having
first gorged not grubs, but gold. Per-
haps they make the grand tour. The
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Free TO Twenty-Five Ladies'.

The Defiance Starch Co. will give
rs ladies a round trip ticket to the
st. Louis Exposition, to five ladies
in each of the following states: ILL
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from ten
cent, 16-ounce package Of Defiance
cold water laundry starch. This
means from your own home, any.
where in the above named states.
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by the Defiance Starch
Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September
LIST, 1904. October and November will
be the best months to visit the Elk.
position. Remember that Defiance is
the only starch put up 16 OF. IA full
pound) to the package. You get one
third more starch for the same money
than of any other kind, and Defiance
never sticks to the iron. The tickets
to the Exposition will be sent by regis
tered mail September 5th. Starch FOR
sale by all dealers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
HLAB0R zN HH
W INDUSTRY O.
II Satan Should Come.

" satan Shoulo Come'
Old Satan. through Gods gracious favor,
flung
His manacles aside and made his way
Forth from the gloomy depths and stood
The people in the teeming city. They
Knew not because he came In manly
guSe,
That hell's dread ruler doomed before
their eyes.
The arch-fend gazed upon the bent old
men.
Who toiled with weary hands and
munched their crusts:
He saw them get their pittances' ana
then
He scanned the mighty profits of the
trusts; ..
He stood within the noisome precincts
where -,
The toilers dwelt, and viewed the hor-
hors there.
He saw the pale-faced little children go
To labor for their profits VINO were
high
He saw the laws enmesh the poor and
Those self-same laws he saw the rich
defy ...
He viewed their splendors for whose
Whose sunken breasts were hopeless
toiled away.
And after he had scanned conditions.
He had beheld the glories of the, proud.
fellow men, :,
He watched the children toll, and
"This Where tney call themselves en-
lightened. free! -,
No wonder men have lost belief In me-
S E. kiser
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

Kidney Pills. which have made thou
sands Of permanent cures.
Frank D. Overbaugh, cattle-buyer
and farmer, Catskill, N. Y. says:
Doctors told me ten years ago that
I had Bright's Disease, and said they
could do nothing to save me. My
back ached so could not stand 1t to
even drive about, and passages of the
kidney secretions were so frequent as
to annoy me greatly. was growing
worse all the time, but Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me, and have been
we'll ever SINCE"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Overbaugh
will be mailed on application to any
part Of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For
sale by all dealers; price so cents per
hoy
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

sun on the balcony railing before put
ting them on.
| met a man who said he had boiled
his shaving water on the window sill.
but l cannot say whether he was a
truthful man or not.
Paris is cleaner than London, but
who could imagine that such cleanli-
ness could be as is here in this hotel!
In this atmosphere it is impossible
for things to get dirty. AS is the
wall paper, so are the lungs.
Oh, joy to awakened on Sunday
morning by the tinkle of the stone
mason's chisel.
Whoever would have thought to look
out in the flesh upon olive gardens
and oranges ripening upon the trees!
Whoever really expected to gaze
down upon the blue Mediterranean?
Who would have believed that scent
of food could be SO luscious as that
which ariseth even now from the
kitchen?
All, what a land!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Half Time In Bed.

Mount Hor, KY, May 9th.-The rec
ords of medicine in this state do not
contain a more interesting and In
structive case than that of Mrs. Lille
Jacobs of Mount Hor. Mrs. Jacobs
tells the particulars of her case as
follows:
For six years had to keep to my
bed half the time. When did get up
I was not able to walk across the
house without just gasping for breath.
had kidney trouble in the worst
form. in fact, was a total wreck. It
pained me fearfully to urinate and my
hack ached all the time.
Now am well for Dodds Kidney
Pills have entirely cured me. saw
an advertisement of this remedy and
bought one box. l experienced so
much benefit from this that kept on
till was cured completely.
81 can do my own housework and can
walk around as we'll as ever with per-
feet ease and strength. Just now
am helping to make garden. feel
like a new woman and l owe 1t all to
Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

5QxIZzZ 01Aas1NNLZG7NZ~

from his rising to his setting, and
never stops to think.
In Paris for one night, I dwelt at
the bottom of well, as in the manner
Of back rooms in Paris hotels.
never knew if the sun were shining
until l opened the window and looked
up at the patch of sky at the top OF
the shaft. Here the sheer sunlight has
given me an inflamed eye, do believe.
The sun in my bedroom was so
bright this morning that l could not
see the flame Of my early morning
match, never knew it was lighted, and
nearly set fire to the bedclothes.
Here the cold bath is thing to de-
sire, not duty to be braved; and the
air is so balmy that a pensive man
may find himself dry before he get
to the towel. 1t is small thing, but
a joyous, to hang ones clothes in the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
It's An Awful Disease.

An American physician has dis
covered that the blues are only form
of splanchnic neurasthenia due to in
tra-abdominal venous congestion. Now
If that doesn't make patient with
the blues bluer than he was before he
could be jolly with hyperpyrexia, or
with metaplas:a Of the epithelium.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Poor Return for Chivalry,

A London man gave up his seat IN
a tramcar to a woman. While he was
basking in the sunshine Of self-appro-
baton along came constable and
placed him under arrest on the charge
Of aiding and abetting the conductor
to overcrowd the car. He was fined
IS. and babe to go away and sin no
more,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Women of Slam,

There are no old maids in Siam, for
there all the girls marry, and woman
is not considered to have attained her
highest estate till she has become a
mother. Then she has reached the
pinnacle Of honor. The chief wife is
the first wife and she may not be
sold, but if her husband desire to be
rid of her he must divorce her &C
cording to the law.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Worshiped the Camel.

For sixteen centuries the inhabi-
tants of Beziers, in south France,
have held, the camel sacred, for in
$50 A. D. st. Aphrodise, mounted on
one of these animals, evangelical the
city. In their museum they preserve
a curious papier-mache effigy of q
camel.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
DECAY OF THE CURTsEY.
Experts Deplore the Rudeness OF the
Present ACE.

Experts Deplore the Rudeness OF the
Present Age.
There never was time when peo'
ple were more lacking in grace" said
a dancing master.
"A hostess nowadays" he added
Crowds her drawing room or ball
room with large number Of 'undesir.
ables'-that is, people with no pre-
tense to what is vulgarly called a sty'
lish manner. The hostess is not to
blame; circumstances compel her to
invite these people. But at one time
a hostess paid as much attention
to her guests accomplishments in de-
pertinent as to their character before
inviting them to her house.
cat private dance, how seldom one
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The news that fortune of $1,000
900 awaits one missing George Miller
is calculated to raise false hopes. But
it would have been still worse if the
lost heir had happened to be John
Smith.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

II the Italian chemist who thinks he
has discovered a chemical combina-
ton in liquid form that will prove a
substitute for kerosene oil is right,
he may be endowing universities or
giving away libraries dozen years
from now.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The decision of Philadelphia court
that a wife does not own her hus-
bands pay envelope will not disturb
the average wife. All she wants is
the contents-Kansas City Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The able but dyspeptic New York
Post still sternly declines to point
with pride at anything in this repre-
hensible country except the occasional
imaginary fulfillment of one of it's dis
NAL predictions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The eminent authority that descrb-
ed Uncle Russell Sage as man who
did not care for money for its own
sake must have heard of the reckless.
ness with which he sometimes spends
S7.9S for a suit of clothes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The Englishman who has been in
vestigating the question decides that
there is measure of stern reality in
dreams. Any man who has paid or
his wife's spring hat will corroborate
this.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

In one block of twelve houses in
New Brunswick there are six brides
That block is good deal more desir
able now as place of residence than
it will be few years hence, if they
all stay there.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

One Of the Japanese officers who
were killed at Port Arthur has been
elevated to the rank of war god in
Japan. Still, comparatively few of us
would care to be blown to pieces even
for that high honor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

1t is unsafe to make a running COM
ment on a baseball team or the
weather. Either is likely to present
a complete change of form without a
moments notice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

One of the mysteries of nature is
the ease with which song birds and
game can be exterminated as COM
pared with the difficulty in getting
rid of the boil weevil.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

It is to be hoped that the fact that
a defendant in breach of promise
case used to send his sweetheart
million kisses in every letter will not
be used as an argument against the
feasibility of one-cent postage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

Half million talking-machine rec
ords were destroyed in a Camden,
N. j., fire the other day without utter
ing word Of protest.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

Novoe Vremya, which is the name
OF one of Russia's leading newspapers
means The Times and The Vsemirnaya
means The World. 1t must be excit
ing when The World newsboys flock
out with an extra.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

An esteemed New York contempor.
airy is discussing the question, why
does popcorn pop?" 1t will be follow
ed by symposium on the topic, why
is q gourd."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

It would serve the convenience of
editors, compositors. proofreaders and
readers alike if the American news
papers would only agree upon COM
plete set of Yankee names for both
the Japanese and the Russian war
ships.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
Why Is a Hound?

The spaniel is so called because tho
original breed came from Spain, and
the first arrivals in England were
called Spanish dogs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

You can't make chicken thief be-
lieve that bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush if he is caught with
the goods on him-Town Topics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13
BE WAR; EDi
Natures
Heed

warnings! Pal N
tells Of lurking dis
ease. Backache Is
k / d n ey pain "a
warning Of kidney
ills. Urinary trou.
bles, too, come to
tell you the kidneys
are sick. Constant
WEAKNESS, h e a d.
aches, dizzy spells,
days Of pain, nights
Of unrest are dam
ger signals warn
ing you to cure the
kidneys. Use Doan'S
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

DR.. Pearsons, the Chicago philan-
thropist, endowed three colleges in
commemoration of his birthday. Long
life to him!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

When Nine. Patti gives up $4,000
once in her grip she surely intends
to make another farewell tour" in
order to recover it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

There is something in the finger
nail diagnosis. If you have aches all
over you, and your nails are thin and
brittle, you have rheumatism.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

That separation of Weber and
Fields, after twenty-five years of part
nership, seems something like the
divorce of a couple rs years old.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

"A sneer never yet answered an
argument" says the Hartford Times.
And it's foolish to try to argue against
q sheer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

1t would be interesting to know how
much Prof. Crittenden, since he dis
covered that people generally eat too
much, has reduced his own daily bill
of fare.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

One reason that trusts are often
dissolved is that too much water is
frequently used in their composition.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

There are some people who think
the dentist, not the politician, has the
biggest pull.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

sees a girl mako graceful curtsey to
her partner! Usually she does no
more than nod in way that looks
shockingly familiar. AS for the men
well quarter of a century ago one
saw more masculine grace at clerks
or shop assistants cinderella than
our best bred men are capable Of 20.
day! But, after the example Of the
girls. who can wonder at it2"i
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

The latest news from the grated
nose is that it has taken root and
Is getting ready to blossom.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

Don't look coy at me-" said man
to woman recently; Il am too old
to enjoy it?"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

gaze down up the battleships lying in
the green harbor water, scrape the
feet of the high mountains, through
the pierced nose of Red Cape.
This years installment of new roads
is finished. The local newspapers are
bursting with rich column upon col
umh of visitors lists. 4
No wonder. for what land 1t Is!
This is the land where tt sun shines
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

We don't recall that we ever saw a
woman in drygoods store who was
In Q hurry.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

etc permanently No fits nervousness after
I'll rst days of DR.. Klines Great Nerve Restor.
err Send for FREE o.. 90 trial bottle and treatise.
De. T. II. KLINE, Ltd, 9Sl Arch Street. Philadelphia Pa
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-13

A woman may have a poor memory
for names and faces, but she can al
ways remember clothes.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-11-09

Mukden, Nov. THE Russian and
Japanese armies, extending from Ben
dispute east to the Lao river west.
at places are almost within a stones
throw of each other. At Bensiaputze
not more than 400 yards separate the
advance posts, and at Sinchinpu, on
the Shakhe river, just west of the rail
way and 10 miles south of Mukden,
the Japanese and Russians occupy the
extreme ends of the same village. At
Huangshantz the Russian center has
thrown advance guards across the
Shakhe river. Both armies are still
strengthening their positions all along
the line. The slightest move on
either side is the signal for firing
which occasionally lasts all night.
The Russians are using six inch guns
on the railway which must greatly
harnss the japanese.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-11-09
Protection for Trains.

The semaphore system has been
adopted by the Oregon Short Line
and o. r. & N. railroads which
throws every precaution around the
operation of trains to insure their
safety and quick dispatch.
In addition to inaugurating the
semaphore system of handling trains
the section foremen along the line are
instructed to see that the trains do
not run closer together than ten min
ute limit prescribed by the time card.
The semaphore system is this
The arm of the station semaphore,
which is regulated by the telegraphic
train orders, is now always left SET
for full stop for every train, all the
time, and when train approaches 8
station, if it does not have to stop fol
any other purpose, the engineer calls
for signals from the station agent by
giving four short blasts on the whistle
and If the agent has no orders fol
that train be lowers the arm of the
oohoPhplO oho poImlJS Ju6 Train &c
pass without stop. If the agent has
orders for the train, he does not lower
theNsemaphore and the train comes tc
a stop and receives her orders.
This rule does not apply to Pendle
ton or LaGrande, which are terminals
and at which all trains must stop ano
receive their orders
In this way it is impossible for 6
train to pass the station without the
knowledge of the operator and thus
all possibility of collision or run.
ming past orders is prevented.
1t is almost as rigid system as the
block system In use on the roads OF
the eastern states and is fully as eff
fective in preventing accidents.
The new orders to section foremen
and watchmen to look for trains run.
ming together is an additional meas.
ure of safety, and is one practiced on
most large systems. If the foremen
or bridge watchmen see that two
trains are closer together than 10
minutes, he has orders to stop the
second train and hold it until the full
10 minutes have elapsed, since the
preceding train passed.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-11-09
Improved Farm for SAX.

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with old established water rights. ali
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o acres winter apple trees, o acres Of
peach, pear prune and plum trees
~ acres IN alfalfa 20 acres native
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