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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05


St. Louis TO finish buying goods
for our fall and Winter trade. He
went as far East as New York
City. He bought well. Many new
goods will be on display in this
store this fall.
Visit This Store.
Rug Special.
Assorted Administer and Velvet
carpet rugs, size 14x22, bound
sides, frinsed edges. Good values.
Placed on sale Saturday, Sept. 2 at
25c,
FIeeced Goods Special.
All Of the 12A and 15c fleeced
goods on sale. These are good
patterns for waists, wrappers, XII
monas, etc. Sale price per I'D.
lOc.
School Stockings . rS' c sSs:
Ribbed, evenly knst seamless
stocking. A good stocking for the
money. Placed on sale next Sat
urday 2 pair for
25c.
Another good stocking, a pTac-
teal and good wearing school hose
for boys and girls. Triple heel
and toes. per pair
15c.
All Of our 10 cent ink or pencil
tablets on sale next Saturday at
Sc.
Dress Goods Special.
We desire to close out several
pieces before our new stock arrives.
These are extra good values and
advise early buyiys. One Lot
All Wool dress goods, good va
riety Of plain cOlOrs: also good lot
novelties recuced from Soc per I'D
to 35c.
One lot dOuble-fOld wool and
cotton dress goods. Regular price
25c per yard. Choice l0c.
To make more room for the new
goods, beginning Saturday, Sept.
z, the special prices quoted above
Win obtain for Eight Daya
PolSIn DDK
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

The negro, who was hurt last
Saturday, has not died as was re-
ported. He is resting very easily
at his home in Joplin, and it is
expected he will recover.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05
Eaton's Highland Linen

will make your letters as presenlabIe as a
pretty toilet makes your person. II will
naEe your calls BY proxy moresenjoyable to
lbose who receive them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

w. A. Doty has lately made
improvements to his home place
in the south part of town. He
now has a very comfortable place.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

Wanted. A good wood cutter.
About twenty-five big trees to be
cut into chunk wood for heating
purposes. Call on Chas. l.. Smith.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

Queens OF England. 3 vols. Strickland
Ten Frsnchmen Of ro Century Warren
NoTIcE. If you will cut this
partial list out and every succeed
ing one, and paste it in a scrap
book, you will soon have a COM
plete cataloge of your library.
THE LIBRARIAN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

DR.. c. NJ. Jones has bought a
new dynamo and a two hundred
horse power engine for his light
and water plant. He expects
them to arrive in a few days. :
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-09-05

With cheaper electric lights
and an improved water service,
Baxter Springs will be in it with
any of them. And We are prom
Used those very things.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

The year just closed has been in many very important
respects the greatest in the history Of this country.
And that the greatest in the history of the
world.
These words may be glibly said But back of them in
this instance lies tremendous volume of truth
The prosperity of the country has been phenomenal
The figures perhaps beyond common comprehension
But the rush of production, the steady employment,
the increased incomes and the easier living in all grades
OF life are conditions apparent to everybody
The banking power of the United States today is four
hfths of the entire banking power of the whole world.
The bank deposits of the people are increasing three
quarters of billion every year.
Bumper crop follows bumper crop, and records
are established than they smashed by bet
ter ones.
And marvellous the industrial record of 1906 has
been there is every indication that it will be surpassed
in 1907.
Greater than all before has been the old year, but
greater still, unless all signs fail will be the new.
All the factories flooded with orders. The pros
perty of the country founded the creation of actual
wealth. and for that substantial and enduring
But unprecedented prosperity the only thing
the greatest which has distinguished 1906.
The year will stand in history one in which egsa-
ton of tremendous force found enactment The national
conscience asserted itself in 1906 greater power than
organized greed and restraints put upon the preda
tory trusts the benefits of which will be reaped for wears
to come.
1t has been year of liberal philanthropy, year of
decided growth in scientific educational and religious
affairs.
Prosperity has not yet caused u.s. people, to lose
sight of the higher ideals forget the higher purposes
Wonderful have been the achievements in 1906. More
wonderful still, let us hope, will be those of 1907.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

gratifyingly effective so far as
they have gone.
Opposite these have been forces
working for the detriment of con.
ditions. Some have been deliber-
ately malign and selfish; others
have been we'll intentioned but pitt
fully misguided. There have been
spectacular and sinister figures
among both group of forces. Sim
cere and insincere alike have been
active.
Out of all this the United States
in 1907 needs to evolve enduring
conditions, surrounded by safe
guards that will not vanish away.
Let us preserve our material pros
perity without paying for it in
moral welfare. Amid all our plenty
let us remember that our abund-
ance should not be squandered in
extravaganza or dissipated through
methods of business that will not
bear that light of intelligent and
honest inquiry. Provocation for
wholesale public distrust should be
abated permanently. The insin-
cere agitator of sham reforms
straightway would find his job
The grim dictator of
business abuses would find himself
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
BY F. D. UNDERWOOD
President of the Erie Railroad
System.

The crying need of the United
States is relief from present condi-
tons which make it possible for
rates in money to f1uctuate as they
do at present. In a letter written
by the secretary of the treasury 1t
is stated that "he stands between
the country and financial embar-
rassment" Taking that statement
at par, 1t is a deplorable state Of
affairs when one man can occupy a
position of that kind, and such a
state of things calls for a remedy
Another desirable thing is the
exercise of tolerance by the peo-
pie The desire to reform seems
to be omnipresent, and reforms are
reforms in name only. The bind
ing together of SS0,00O,O0O people,
with an area as large as that COW
cred by the United States, furnish
es different examples of climate,
race, temperament and other quail
ties that call for the exercise of
great tolerance by all of U.S. Re-
forms that come in the shape of
"twisters" are neither lasting nor
real.
Another great need is that of per-
sonal economy. AS individuals we
spend too much money-our per-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
BY JAMES N. ADAM.
Mayor of the City of Buffalo.

What is the crying need of the
United States in 1907? am
tempted to answer babies. One of
our country's choicest blessings is
its children. This is true every
year and not alone for this one
new year.
1t is great year-this new
conner. | believe the chief need of
the United States in regard to
1t is to utilize along permanent
lines for preservation in abiding
form the good that has resulted
and eliminate any evil that has at
tended the conflict of forces over
conditions as they have existed.
One array of these forces has
been at work for the betterment Of
conditions. Some of its elements
have been wildly fanatic; other,
have been sluggishly conservative,
and others have been practical and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
LIFE WITH HAT
PIN.

OMAHA, Jan. Mrs. John
Gibbons, matron Of police head
quarters, will never again look at
hat pin without shuddering
When Mrs. James, a prisoner, ask
ed to be let into the corridor that
she might exercise, the matron I'M
suspectingly opened the door for
her. Immediately upon entering
the corridor Mrs. James drew a
dangerous looking hat pin and
threatened to plunge it into the
matron's heart if she did not &C
company her in her walk up and
down the hall. For six hours the
matron was compelled to do sentry
duty with the demented woman be-
fore she finally had an opportunity
to summon assistance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
MORE BABIES THE CRYING.
NEED OF 1907

dethroned and his realm ruled by
better men.
The chief need of 1907 is to
clinch our country's progress by
putting wrong conditions and
shams down and out, ana putting
sound methods and the common
good up and in-and the doing Of
this should be the work of the ma
ton and the task of all its leaders
in manner and form that will
abide. To put it practically, keep
up our prosperity, keep down our
cost of living and get honest, get
honest. -
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
BIG SLIDE ON n. P.

A report from Missoula, Mont,
says that one of the worst rock
slides in the history of the North
ern Pacific railroad blocks the
Occur d'Alene branch. Every avail
able man has been sent to the
scene. Passenger trains will be
run as usual and passengers and
baggage transferred. More than
100 feet of track is buried.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
NEEDS OF THE new YEAR

sonal tastes are too extravagant.
Too few native-born Americans
are fitting themselvesb for useful
occupations. Lack of painstaking
Is a national characteristic. We
need better farmers, better work
men and better artisans. We are
making too many superficial men
and women, and it is time we were
more thorough and painstaking in
the discharge of every duty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
ALSO BUNcoED BY BOYD.

Sheriff Gibson, of Ukiah, Cal,
has wired the local police that he
wants Edwin E. Boyd, the forger,
who he claims has sent the Ukiah
bank 81 400 worth of bad checks.
This bank was one of Boyd's ia
vorites and checks came to it from
all over the United States. He
was always provided with a lot of
its blanks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
MURPHY IMPROVING

V. N. Murphy. who was injured
yesterday morning by being crush
ed in the freight elevator in the
new Holley-Mason building on Rail-
road av. and Howard ST., is some
what improved this morning. &C.
cording to reports from Sacred
Heart hospital, where he is being
attended by DR.. William Hall and
DR.. E. B. Nelson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
FINED FOR FRUIT THEFT.

Justice Hinkle yesterday after
noon fined Daniel Baker, carpet
layer, 500 and costs for stealing
some canned fruit while he was as
sisting in the moving of the furni-
ture of F. B. French, 1919 First av.
Baker had been drunk and said so.
He also confessed to taking the
fruit but said he thought it would
be all right.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
EXTEND HELPING HAND

The local lodge Of Elks this week
will distribute fuel and food to the
needy families of the city. Con.
siderable money was left over from
the Christmas dinner given last
Friday night to poor children and
this will be disbursed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

"Ah, me, autumn has come
again." sighed the poet.
Yes" said his friend, who pass
ed a lemon to all sentiment, "but
I'm not bit surprised. 1t general
ly comes about this time of the
year"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
PETER LARSON FATALLY ILL

HELENA, Mont, Jan. 1.-Peter
Larson, railroad contractor, banker
and mining man of great wealth, is
dying at his home here. He has
long suffered from a liver COM
plant.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
WEDDING ANNOUNCED.

Rev. and Mrs. o. w. Mintzer an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Grace, to George r.
Bell The wedding will be cele-
brated Jan. 81.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

Tom Plat is not a member Of
/. the Down and Out club. He's down
but not out.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

'No man ever made anything fol-
lowing the horses"
mo? How about the fellows on
The canal?"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01

"Your new cook didn't stay very
Tong"
mo, she found fault because we
had no mission furniture in the
Kitchen"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-01
AMONG OURSELVES
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE,

Lifted be too short
fer US t work out all
tn good things we've
overlooked.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31

done to stop the manufacture and sale
OF impure drugs.
We have been as active with re-
spect to drugs as with regard to food
and drink. We have co-operated with
the postoffice department and the
mails have been refused to a large
number of fake preparations. We have
excluded from the country large
number of invoices of drugs not up to
the standard or debased in some way
There have been discovered numerous
violations of the interstate commerce
feature of the law with respect to drug
shipments, and persons responsible are
to be prosecuted. 1t has been found
that in some cases the percentage of
alcohol, cocaine or opium stated on
the label does not correspond with the
quantity found in the preparation. Lee
gal proceedings, of course, have been
instituted in all such cases.
DIR. Wiley is confident that the year
1908 will witness even fewer violations
of the law. Manufacturers and deal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
OIL FIND UPHELD.
Commissioner Of Corporations Makes
Reply to Standard,

Washington, Dec. 30.-Commissioner
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of
corporations, last night made public a
trenchant reply to the statement of
President james A. Moffett of the
; Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in
which that official sought to show that
the $29,000,000 fine levied by Judge
Lands last August was unwarranted.
After replying in detail to the argu-
itlnents of Mr.. Moffett, Commissioner
graph:
"'rhe Standard undersold competi-
tors in the great southwest by means
Of this 6 cent rate to the ST Louis
gateway, and, having undersold them
and driven them out of that territory,
It then raised prices to a monopoly
figure. so that it's marketing concern
there was making over $50 per cent on
its capital stock in 1904. and Cor a long
series Of years had been making prof.
its extortionately high. These profits
were thus based on this secret dis
elimination which had been in exis-
tence over fifteen years. The enjoy
ment of this discriminatory rate was
to the Standard. and most emphatical-
ly justified the imposition of a great
fine when that rate was finally discov-
cred and conviction was secured there
on"
Taking up what he styles "Mr. Maf-
fett's remarkable statement" that
there was mo question of rebate or
discrimination" when the Standard
paid only 6 cents from Whiting, Ind,
to East St. Louis, when the published
rate was 10 cents, Mr.. Smith says:
whether it was rebate or not
is a mere question of words. Appar-
emily the position of Mr.. Moffett is
that if he had actually paid the Alton
railroad IS cents per hundred pounds
and received back II cents, so as to
make a net rate Of 6 cents, this would
have been rebate But that because
the lawful rate was Is cents and his
company paid only 6. and the balance
(12 cents) never physically passed
back and forth between his company
and the Alton railroad, altho the re-
suit was exactly the same, it was not
a rebate. This statement is simply
an evasion.
THE other proposition of Mr.. Moi
felt is that there was no discrimin-
ALTON in this case Apparently his
position is that, because no one else
is known to have paid the published
1S-cent rate from Whiting to East
St. Louis, while his company was
paying cents, therefore there was no
discrimination. On the contrary this
very situation proves that not only
was there discrimination, but that this
discrimination had worked out it's log
icai result, so that no one else could
ship at 10 cents in competition with
the Standards 6-cent rate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
FOR RENT

For Rent -Four room house, 10
West Church. McCombs Bros.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
root IN Finger Bowl.
baltimore SUM


The late William Cassidy, one time
editor of the Albany Argus, possessed
the traditional Irish wit. On one oc-
casion number of years ago, he was
guest at a political banquet in AL
bany At that time finger bowls were
seldom used, and their correct usage
Ia passing fad) meant to dip a cor
ner Of the napkin in the water and
Herewith dai.ntily cleanse the finge,
tips.
Most of the men present eyed the
innovation when introduced at dessert
narrowly and uncertainty. One after
another ended by plunging the hand
into the crystal dish. But Robert
Pruyn, we'll known Albany gentle
man, correctly, moistened a bit of his
napkin and laved his fingers. Mr.. Cas-
sidy watched him admiringly, not hav-
ing as yet touched his own glass.
That's good" he whispered to
neighbor, IF Pruyn hadn't done that
should have put by foot in II"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
kinq Edwards Cocktail.

In an article, How Royalty Dimes
published in Town and Country, it APP
pears that while King Edward is ex-
trenely abstemious in regard to liquid
refreshment he displays considerable
individuality of taste in this respect,
which is curiously exemplified in the
case of a cocktail of his own inven-
ton, the composition of which is as
follows:
A little rye whisky, some crushed ice,
a small square of pineapple, piece of
lemon peel, few drops of Maraschino,
a few drops of champagne, a dash of
bitters. and sufficient powdered sugar
to bring the mixture exactly to the
royal requirement.
This delectable appetizer quite takes
the wind out of the sails of those OF
your correspondents who have been
recommending West Indian green and
red SWiZzleS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
There is a Differences.

In England to call a woman homely
means that she is fond of anything
about home and is unpretending; in
the United States it means not hand-S
some. To be clever in England means.
to be dextrous and with us the term
signifies good natured or honest. We
say crackers; they say biscuit; our
mail is the post; and a baggage check
in England becomes brasses, while.
they say luggage for baggage. a
tramp in the United States is a vaga-
bond, but in England any traveller
may be so called. But there is even
greater difference of terms in differ
ent parts of the United States than
in the two countries. In New England
man is brought UP and in south he
is reared and a colored man is raised.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31

Wanted-Men to learn barber trade
will equip shop for you or furnish po-
sitions. few weeks completes, constant
practice, careful instructions, tools CIV
en- Saturday wages, diplomas granted.
Write for catalog, Moler Barber Col
lege, Chicago, III.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
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MISCELLANEOUS

For Rent-Furnished room at 12xS
East State street. Furnace heat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31

Wanted - Chambermaid and dining
room girl Stoddart hotel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
BANKERS FIGHT POSTAL BANK.
Hands Of Congress Will be Tied Unless
the People Rise Up.

Lne y eCpto 6ISo VI
Washington, Dec. 81. - Opposition
| by bankers is expected here to Kill
whatever chance there may be left for
/, legislation toward establishing postal
savings banks, unless the people rise
up and lombard Washington with such
a demonstration of their desires as will
scare fits out of congress, as was the
case when railroad rate legislation or
the free alcohol bill went thru.
| In the first place. Speaker Cannon
has said no. and Cannon was banker
before he became speaker and is one
! still. But back of that there is
evidence Of a combination among the
bankers to uphold the speaker in his
attitude. Correspondence has been re-
(! ceived here to show that the fears of
the country bankers thruout the nation
have been worked upon until they are
more afraid of the postal savings bank
than they are of panic.
Such hysterical letters and such dis
perate petitions have perhaps never
before flooded congress. The country
bankers claim they are afraid they will
be wiped out and driven from the bus
mess if postal savings bank system
is established.
AS the case stands at this time, 1t is
doubtful whether a single country
member would dare to vote for the
postal savings bank bill if Speaker
Cannon were to permit it to come to
vote, and this will undoubtedly con-
tnue to be the attitude of the new
country congressman until the farmers
and other depositors in the banks
start movenHnt of their own. And
even some of the farmers have been
Influenced to write letters against the
postal bank idea on the ground that 1t
might make it difficult for the farmer
to borrow money. Altho how it could
be made any more difficult than it is
just now is not stated by any of them.
Copies of letters secured by the adj
ministration indicate that the move-
ment among the country bankers
emanated from New York. But what
the real motive behind the matter is
can not be ascertained unless it is
feared by the financial interests of
Wall street that system making the
government stand good for all postal
deposits will break the power at pres
ent welded by those interests. Ger
tainly wonderful stories are being told
of the fabulous sums quietly realized
in New York and elsewhere in the coun-
try at the present time by the simple
transfer of bank credits and without
the disturbance Of a dollar in currency.
The man who owes and cannot bor-
row the money with which to pay has
to give up his property, and that is all
there, ia to II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31
HoBsoN PLANS NATIONAL PAPER
To Introduce Bill Providing for Pub.
lication Of Official Journal.

Washington, Dec. 30.-An official
journal. to be published weekly by the
government, and oftener if necessary,
which probably will contain brief no.
tees of the work executed in the de-
partments and independent bureaus of
the departments of the supreme court
of the United States, and of the pro-
ceedings of congress so far as they
may be of general public interest, is
provided for in bill which Congress-
man Richmond p. Hobson, of the Sixth
Alabama district. proposes to intro
duce after the holidays. The sum Of
$4,000 is appropriated for equipment
and $4,000 for She expense of issuing
the publication.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31

Wanted-A position in grocery store,
either in or outside Marshalltown.
Five years experience. Address
BET" care T.-R.