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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
DROP IN STOCK PRICES.
The Farmer Is Getting Richer and
the Spectator Poorer.

the Farmer Is Getting Richer and
the Spectator Poorer.
Wheat and corn are going up and
stocks are going down, writes William
4. Curtis in the Chicago Record Herald.
The farmer is getting richer and the spec
uiator poorer-which many people will
agree is in the line of eternal justice.
Stocks are lower now than they have been
for several years. They are now down
practically where they were at the time
Of McKinley's election. when THE Era Of
Prosperity" set in. The decline has been
general, affecting almost everything in the
list of securities available to the public,
and Wall street statisticians declare that
the total shrinkage amounts to at least
$1,000, 100000. But the value of the
property these stocks represent, and their
earning capacity has not been impaired.
In most cases the dividends will not be
affected; the shrinkage only represents
water that has been squeezed out and the
spectators are practically the only suf-
ferers. The permanent investor who has
locked his certificates up in tin box and
put them away in the safe deposit vault is
not likely to suffer from the present
much as it ever was, but the certificates
no longer have the fictitious value given
them by the gamblers.
The slump is by no means confined to
New York or to American securities. 1t
has been general all over the world. Brit
fsh, French, German, Italian, Indian and
South American shares have suffered a
marked decline, although in no case has
1t been so sharp as may be seen in the
quotations of American industrials. Lon
don and Northwestern railroad stock has
dropped twenty-five points, shares in the
copper mines of Spain have fallen twenty
four points, those of the Great Eastern
railway of England are twenty points
lower than they were at the beginning
of this year. British consols have drop
ped per cent; japanese, Chinese, Rus
sian, South African, Egyptian and Indian
railway securities and government bonds
have all fallen oft from 3 to 20 per cent,
while South African mining stocks are q
per cent below the quotations for Jan. 2,
1907. French railway and bank stocks
have sympathized with the general de-
preston and in Germany the same condi-
tions prevail. The stock of the Bank of
France and the Credit Lyonnais Of Paris,
which are among the strong institutions
in the world, sympathize with less val
liable securities and show decline of
several per cent. Therefore American in
vestors should not feel at all uneasy, but
should congratulate themselves that by
this universal shrinkage they have es-
capped the perils of local panic.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
Mrs. Besant Against Moral Code.

In her address before the twenty-frst
annual convention of the American sec
ton Of the Theosophical Society C$si-
cago, Mrs. Annie Besant, the new world
president of the organization. took pro-
nounced stand against the adoption of .
fixed moral code, and against the imposi-
ton of penalties by the society for any
individual action. She held that The
osophists are at one In their desire to
raise the moral tone of society, and they
differ only as to whether their ideas
should Se enforced by penalties. For her
self, she would stand for the affirmation
of their ideals and for efforts to live up
to them, She said: II appeal to the UNI
folding divinity in man, and not to the
beggarly elements of coercive laws; I
gladly affirm my brotherhood with the
lowest, as / reverently hope to be ac-
cepted as brother by the highest" She
said further that none of the great re-
ligions had a penalty enforcing its COM
mandments by exclusion, but, on the con-
trary, they regarded it as primary duty
to try to improve their evl-doers. She
thought the Theosophical Society would
not wish to copy the example of those
churches which employ heresy trials and
accommodations. Such code would
be the denial of brotherhood. In illustrate
ing her point of view in one of her talks
Mrs. Besant used the personality of John
ID. Rockefeller as an example, saying that
ia his next incarnation he would probably
reappear as highly developed and per-
fected individual; in fact, almost an
angel. She explained that he would prob
ably retain all of his capacity for doing
things, and slough off the baser motives
and aims actuating his present career.
The society voted by large majority
against the proposed code.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
war Until End OF Time.

on Governors Island, Bishop Henry G.
Potter expressed the belief that while the
objects OF The Hague conference were
very beautiful, they were only dream.
He called the armies of the world the po-
lice of the world. contending that their
existence was as necessary to the safety
of the globe as was the existence of the
police to the safety of man in his homo
at night. He did not lslieve that peace
would ever prevail, for, said he: until
the last day of the earth there win be
armies and there will be wars
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02

The Associated Press report of the
speech delivered by w. j. Bryan at
Jamestown, Va, quoted him as saying
that the great metropolitan dailies are
controlled by the trusts and their col
umns are open to the highest bidder. Mr..
Bryan later denied that this was COR
rect report, asserting that he made the
qualified statement that many of the met
ropolitan dailies were so controlled.
In a leading editorial for the current
Federationst, President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor describes
Secretary Taft as 'the injunction stand
ard bearer" and takes the position that
no one can compel laboring man to buy
where he does not want to buy. He says
that Taft's contention in regard to the
boycott would lead to the dispersion and
forcible breaking up by court orders Of
every assemblage of workirgmen, however
innocent or lawful their purpose, and to
the notification of all their agreements.
Editor Watterson of the Louisville
Courier Journal, in a New York inter-
view, said that old party lines had ceased
to exist and that we must now have a
new party. He asserted that Roosevelt
had destroyed what was left of the Re
publican party, and that Rooseveltism
was like Organism in 1896. Bryan would
have Mexicanized our currency, but
Roosevelt's reelection would Mexicanizo
the nation. Bryan ie characterized as a
destroyer of plans and breaker Of inn
ages. Watterson says he is out of poll
tics for good
Before the American Bankers Asso-
citation at Atlantic City, Charles Emory
Smith, former Postmaster General, COM
mended the efforts of President Roose-
welt to put the big combinations of CAPT.
tai under control of the laws, but said
that some Of the so-called awakening Of
the public and the anti-corporation agita-
ton was "a wild and hysterical crusade
against all colossal enterprises and all
corporate activity" He thought there
was a call for sober judgment and that
it was senseless to decry all combina-
lions. He concluded that regulation it.
self might need to be regulated and that
tie craze for fantastic interference in
some States would in due time run its
course.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
MAeiLLs SET FREE !,
Judge at Decatur. Declares Murdes
Is Not Proven.

Judge ne Decatur Declares Murdes
Is Not Proven.
Fred II. Magill and his young wife.
Faye Graham Magill, are not guilty Of
the murder Of Mrs. Pet Candy Magill
at Clinton, H., last May. So declared
the jury In the case at Decatur, acting
under instructions Of Judge Cochran,
who said that, while the State had
proved beyond doubt the death Of the
first Mrs. Magill, 1t had failed to show
that a murder had been committed.
This being the case, the jury was or
dered to bring in verdict of not
guilty.
On May 81 Mrs. Pet Magill was found
dead in her home at Clinton, ILL.,, and q
post-mortem examination held six weeks
after her death showed that she had been
suffocated by chloroform.
On July ) in Denver, Colo, Fred Ma
gin and Miss Faye Graham, young
woman who had been close friend of tho
family, were married.
Four days later in San Diego. CAL,
Magill and his second wife were arrested
on charge Of numbering the first Mrs.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
M.HOOZS
@In-lD COLLEGES
~~N~~~~~~~

Three Chinese girls. wards of the EN-
peror, have arrived at Wellesley College
being the first Chinese women to be sent
to America to be educated.
Under Vermont's new law common
school districts are in process of enlarge
ment and concentration, for wherever two
or more outlying towns can agree TO unite
under one supervisor the State pays a
large part of the salary of such officer.
The Alumni Association of Houston,
Texas has raised funds and established a
dining room in the high school, which ia
one of the best of its kind in the coun-
try. This addition gives the students
who are taking domestic science an oppor
tunity not only to prepare the meals, but
to serve them.
Editor Page of the Worlds Work is adj
vocating the establishment of a school for
authors in connection with the universe
ties. He holds that writing is trade
like any other, and that those who pro-
pose to follow it should receive regular
course of instruction. He would have each
poet student compelled to write a sonnet
day for one term, and each prose stu
over three or four years.
In its annual report on the. statistics
OF cities having a population Of over 3d.
600, the Census Bureau presents a very
interesting table showing the costs of
maintaining free public schools, including
in such costs the interest on investments
in school buildings and grounds. These
vary from z cents per capita in Charles
ton, S. c., and % cents in Atlanta, Ca,
to $1.33 in Denver, Colo; to SLAB in
Newton, Mass, and $1.53 in Spokane,
Wash.
The New York City Board Of Educa-
ton has appointed a special committee
of three to inquire of the teachers wheth-
er the adjustment of corporal punish
ment in public schools has been beneficial
or detrimental in maintaining order and
respect Should the concensus of opinion
be adverse to the present methods, it is
proposed to restore the rod to its former
position in the schools of the city. Com
plants have recently come from some
teachers that they are unable to maintain
order because tie supervising force is
powerIess to infct punishment for Of
lenses affecting general behavior.
In Missouri the condition of public
school teachers seems even less satisfac-
tory. j. NJ. Greenwood, president of the
State Teachers Association, says the av-
erage pay of men teachers is $325 year,
and of women teachers 1919 year. The
average for the country schools alone is
considerably lower. In some country dis
trcts teachers receive less than half the
compensation Of unskilled labor. There
is said to be constant stream of the
best of the Maine teachers going to other
parts Of New England, to New York and
to the West. Presumably this stream
does not head toward Missouri. The at
tendance last year at the Maine normal
school was less than for several years.
The reason for this is apparent.-Hart'
ford Courant.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
Prairie Schooner ON broadway.

New York City recently witnessed tho
novel spectacle of an old-fashioned prairie
schooner drawn by yoke of oxen pass
ing down Broadway. This outfit was the
property of Ezra Meeker, who had come
all the way from Puyallup in the State
of Washington, traversing the old Oregon
trail, over which he went to the Pacific
coast in 1856, from his home in Ohio.
Mr.. Meeker's purpose in making the trip
east is to arouse public sentiment in fa-
vor of a bill which he will have intro
duced in Congress at its next session, to
build a permanent concrete road along the
route OF the old trail in commemoration
Of the pioneers who constituted the adj
vance guard to the West. 1t is his in
tention to go to Oyster Bay to see the
President, and will afterwards proceed to
Washington.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02

Magill. They were brought back to Clin-
ton on requisition papers issued by Gov.
: Deneen, and secured a change Of venue to
Decatur.
In the trial the State charged that Ma,
gill and Miss Graham by their conduct
had driven Mrs Magill to suicide, and
were therefore guilty of murder. The de-
Tense introduced letters written by Mrs.
Magill shortly before her death, in which
she complained of "unbearable headaches"
and constant ''nagging" of her husbands
relatives. Witnesses also testified that
Mrs. Magill had often talked of commit
ting suicide.
In letter to her husband, written the
day before her death, Mrs. Magill asked
him to marry Faye Graham IN case any
thing should happen to her.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
OUTLOOK is BETTER.
FINANCIAL STORM SEEMS TO
HAVE PASSED.
Upheaval Among Eastern Banking
Institutions Takes On More Hope
full Attitude Despite Crashes I'm
Pittsburg-West Ii Reported Solid.

The financial gale in New York,
and occasioned uneasiness in other Sec
lions Of the country, seems to have
passed. The trouble that started In
New S5rk spread to Pittsburg, but
prompt and effective action taken by
the clearing house association and the
directors Of the stock exchange there
COPIED with 1t effectually.
The trouble In Pittsburg was precipi-
tated by the announcement of the en-
barrassment Of four concerns in the
Westinghouse string of interests, which
were unable, owing to the abnormal
stringency Of the money market, to se-
cure sufficient liquid collateral to meet
maturing loans. Receivers were ap-
pointed for the embarrassed Westlng-
house concerns. 1t was stated that these
concerns are entirely solvent, and that
creditors would be paid In full. The
Iron City Trust Company also went into
estimated at 100000 and liabilities at
S1,7O0,OOO.
The transition from unrest to reas-
surance in New York was due to action
taken by j. p. Morgan, James Stillman
and number of the most influential
financial interests in the city, who CO.
operated in an effort to bring order out
of the chaotic condition into which
the financial community had fallen. A
committee was formed to protect trust
companies. After thorough canvass
Of the situation Secretary Cortelyou
pledged government assistance to the
extent of $25,000,000.
7 Financial conditions In Chicago re-
NAMED practically unaffected by the
scare in the East. Financiers connected
with the leading institutions in the city
gave out statements declaring that the
furry had not and would not be felt to
any appreciably serious extent by the
banks there. Conditions similar to
those existing in Chicago were reflected
in every important financial center
throughout the West. Reports from
over large area say that not only have
conditions not been disturbed by the
excitement in the East, but that large
and important offers Of assistance have
been made by western bankers to their
troubled confreres In the East.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
TRIO OF HISTORIC HOUSES.
Where Hawthorne Wrote Many OF
His Books at Concord, Mass.

His Books at Concord, Mass.
A trip to Concord, Mass, is not com.
plete without visiting the Wayside,
which has attained its fame as the
former home of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
says the Boston Globe.
This estate was once owned by A.
Bronson Alcott, who purchased 1t in
1916. He rebuilt the old place and
called it Hillside.
A few years later, in 1852, when it
passed into the hands of Hawthorne,
the latter changed the name to Way
side.
The house is on Lexington road, and
on each side is house Of historical
interest. To the west is the Orchard
house, the home of the Alcotts, and at
the east is Grapevine cottage, the for
mer home of Ephriam w. Bull, the
originator of the Concord grape. All
these estates are the property OF Mrs.
Daniel Lothrop.
After Hawthorne purchased the house
he made several changes in it, and
among them was the addition Of the
tower, as he called it, 1t was a square
structure, over the center of the house.
In this house and in the tower Haw-
thOrne wrote a great many Of his
books.
He made his homo there until his
death in 1864.
For several years young woman's
boarding school occupied the Wayside.
In 1879 the property passed into the
hands of Hawthorne's son-in-law,
George Parsons Lathrop, who sold ii
IN 1883 to the late Daniel Lothrop.
Mrs. Lothrop generally makes this
her summer residence, but this sum-
mer she and her daughter, Miss Mar
garct Lothrop, are abroad and the
house was closed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
MIX THIS YOURSELF.
GIVES RECIPE FOR SIMPLE HOME
MADE KIDNEY CURE.
lnexpensfve Mixture OF Harmless
Vegetable Ingredients Said to
Overcome Kidney and Bladder
Trouble Promptly and Cure Rheu-
matism.

Here IL simple homemade mix.
ture as given by an eminent authority
on Kidney diseases, who makes the
statement In New York daily news
paper, that 1t will relieve almost any
case Of Kidney trouble II taken be-
fore the stage Of Bright's disease. He
states that such symptoms as lame
back. pain In the side, frequent desire
to urinate. especially at night; painful
and discolored urlnation, are readily
overcome. Here is the recipe; try it:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce
Compound Syrup sarsaparllla, three
ounces. Take teaspoonful after each
meal aud at bedtime.
A well-known physician Is authority
that these ingredients are all harmless
and easily mixed at home by shaking
well In q bottle. This mixture has a
peculiar healing and soothing effect
upon the entire Kidney and Urinary
structure, and often overcomes the
worst forms of Rheumatism in just a
little while. This mixture Is said &c
remove all blood disorders and cnre
the Rheumatism by forcing the Kid
peys to otter and strain from the blood
and system all uric acid and foul, de-
composed waste matter, which cause
the Affections Try 1t If you aren't
well. Save the prescription.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-11-02
TAKE THEM OUT
Or Feed Them Food They Can study


On.
When student begins to break down
from lack Of the right kind of food.
there are only two things to do; either
take him out of school or feed him
properly on food that will rebuild the
brain and nerve cells. That food ia
Grape-Nuts.
A boy writes from jamestown, N. Y.
saying: "A short time ago / got into
a bad condition from overstudy, but
Mother having heard about Grape Nuts
food began to feed me on 1t. 1t satis-
fed my hunger better than any other
food. and the results were marvellous.
got fieshy like good fellow. Ny
usual morning headaches disappeared,
and found l could study for a long
period without feeling the effects of it.
my face was pale and thin. but is.
now round and has considerable color.
After l had been using Grape-Nuts for
about two months felt like new boy
altogether. / have gained greatly In
strength as well as flesh, and it is
pleasure to study now that / am not
bothered with my head. I passed all Of
my examinations with a reasonably
good percentage. extra good in some Of
them, and it is Grape-Nuts that has
saved me from years delay in enter
ing college.
Father and mother have both been
improved by the use OF Grape-Nuts.
Mother was troubled with sleepless
nights, and got very thin, and looked
careworn. She has gained her normal
strength and looks. and sleeps well
nights" There's a Reason" Read
1.-THE Road to wellville." in pkgs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-16
JURY |ND|CTs
FAIRBANKS SON
Charged With Perjury in Making
Oath for Marriage
License.

sTEUBENsv1LLE. O.. January ia
sensation was created here to-day by the
grand jury returning an Indictment for
perjury against f. C. Fairbanks. son OF
yice-President Fairbanks, in swearing
relating to his marriage to Miss Scott,
OF Pittsburg. The charge is that Mr..
Fairbanks went to Steubenville and dis
guised himself as a Workingman, and
said that he was workingman OF
Adams county and that Miss Scott was
q resident of the county.
On this statement he secured mar
riage license and they were married. and
left the town Immediately afterward.
The prosecutor says that the papers
will be served upon Mr.. Fairbanks as
soon as it can be done.
Fairbanks Denies.
SPRINGFIELD. o.. January 15-F. c.
Fairbanks said tonight:
II took no oath whatever in the Pro-
bate Court at Steubenville- say this
emphaticaliy, as my memory in regard
to this Is distinct. answered their
questions, but there was no affidavit
and no oath administered"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-16
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Cables All Interrupted and Land
Lines Are Down.

ST. THOMAS, D. w L., January To-
The cable station at Holland Bay. ia
maica, reports that very severe earth-
quake occurred there at $3.50 Monday af-
ternoon. The cable Office was badly
damaged and all the land lines to king
ston were instantly interrupted. Com
munioatlon by the land lines was res
stored this afternoon to within five miles
of Kingston. That oity reports a ter
rible earthquake on Monday afternoon.
The city was DESTROYED and there was
much loss of life. The shocks continue.
Everybody is camping out and much dis
tress prevails. Fires started at King
ston immediately after the earthuuake.
Tho Jamaica Colon and the jamaica
Bermuda cables are Interrupted.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-16
PAIR WENT MANY
MILES TO BE WE'D.
From New York City to North
Carolina Is Record Made
by Couple.

From New York City to North Carolina
to we'd is the record made by Mr. Howard
X. Hgbee and Miss Margaret NJ. Cole,
his eighteen-year- bride, who, after
unsuccessfully attempting to secure u
cense here. succeeded in being made man
and wife in Halifax. N. c., on Monday
evening.
The young couple reached Richmond
Monday and Immediately sought the
clerks Office of the Hastings Court and
applied for license to wed. The appli-
cation for, the license was made out and
signed by the young woman and by the
clerk. but 1t developed at this point that
there was no one there to establish the
fact that her parents We're dead or that
she had no legal guardian, and 30 Judge
Witt. to whom the matter was referred
declined to instruct the clerk to issue tho
license 1t Is reported that the young
lady's parents arc both living In New
York City, and she admitted that she
was only eighteen years of age. Her hus-
band is twenty-five.
Thwarted in their plan to wed here.
the couple visited the Capitol on Monday,
and there soon made their story known.
1t appears that the young lady was Wis
iting in Washington and that Mr. Higbee
came on and joined her there and the
/ two took train for this city, owing to
the fact that the bride had relatives
In Washington and was afraid to risk
applying for the license there. They
needed some one to appear and testify
TO the statements required as condi-
ton OF the issue of a license to minor
without consent of parent or guardian.
Yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. Hlgbee reached
the city and informed sympathetic ac-
quaintances here of their marriage at a
hotel in Halifax. They left on a later
train for Washington and New York TO
seek parental forgiveness. and, 1t Is to
be hoped, to live happily ever afterwards,
as the fairly tales put 1t.