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Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
A Price FalIacy.

Because, when corn was worth only
IS cents bushel, farmer could get
only 1900 boards in exchange for 300
bushels of corn, while now he can get
considerably more than twice as much
lumber for the same quantity of CORD,
the Mississippi Valley Lumberman
concludes that the prices of lumber are
today wholly reasonable when compar-
ed with the prices of farm products
and merchandise in general.
The lumbermen have been permitted
by the state to get possession of prac-
tically all the timber "in sight," They
own it. They have it in the coziest of
CORNERS" They can charge what they
please, without incurring the obliga.
tion OF apologizing to anybody. What
need, then, to resort to fallacy to
justify their swollen and still swelling
price list?
The fa]lacy consists in putting a
product which is mainly the gift of
Nature-like water from river, fish
from lake, or oil from a "gusher''-
on the same plane as one which is
mainly the fruit of human labor.
There was an over-supply of corn when
the farmer paid 800 bushels for 1900
boards at $22.50 per 1000. There is
no over-suprly at present; so the fact
that he can get SO cents a bushel for it
is no justification for charging him
$32. so thousand for the same boards.
The Justification is found in the fact
that the lumberman is in a position to
exact the larger price-nowhere else.
If the lumberman had sown the seed,
nursed the trees for so or 100 years, and
then cut them into lumber, the news.
papers parallel would be proper. But
he has done little aside from appropriate
ing what Nature has bestowed upon
the state. For the cost of converting
trees into lumber bears about the same
proportion to the lumberman's charges
as the cost of shelling corn bears to the
total cost of raising and marketing the
crop.
The lumbermen appear better when
they stand on the rights vested in them
by the laws s-hoWever carelessly enact
ed by the people-than when they re-
sort to verbal legerdemain to justify
what needs no justiGcation.-Pione
Press.
Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
Should Appeal to Congress.

"a mass meeting Of Minnesota Val.
ley farmers is proposed for the purpose
Of agitating a reservoir system
says The Minneapolis Journal. The
Minnesota river drains five congress1on-
al districts, and project to relieve the
chronic flood conditions ought to re.
ceiye the hearty support Of the entire
state delegation. The flooded farmers
will get more consideration at w ash
ington if they get together and make a
showing of their numbers and the
gravity Of the situation. If a reservoir
system is practical it should be install
ed, but the valley people will be far
more likely to- get what they want i
they organize !"
Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
$1OO Reward, 500.

The readers of this PAPER will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
stages, and that is Catarrh Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu-
tional disease, requires constitutional treat
acting. directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa.
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials,
Address F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c. -
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
Marvellous Statements.
From Le Roy Independent.

From Le Ray Independent.
Tawney papers throughout the first
district are making desperate attempt
TO- bring their political friend back into
the good graces of the people. Their
efforts however only remind one of the
struggles of a drowning man, and &C.
count for about as much as do the final
efforts of a doomed man to the water.
Here is the ridiculous statement that
one paper has the courage to hand out
to its readers: "Mr. Tawney has now
reached position where he can not
only be of great value to his constitu-
ents in the first district but where he
can as we'll accomplish much good for
the masses throughout the whole nation
and the voters of the first district will
see to it that he is reelected to his pres
ent position by a large majority" No
one denies that Mr.: Tawney has reach
ed position where he can be of great
value to his constituents. What hurts
the constituents is that he holds the
power and yet does not use it for their
benefit If Mr.. Tawney was using his
power for the benefit Of his constitu-
ents he would not be found such fav
orite in the eyes of the corporations.
AS far as his being reelected to his pres.
ent position by large majority, no man
who has any regard for what he says
would make such an assertion. The
last election showed the extent of Mr..
Tawney's popularity and dispelled the
idea of large majority from all think.
ing men. For the reason we have men
toned before Tawney will never be re-
elected. A large portion of the mem.
bers of his party will not support him
under any condition so that if he should
by chance secure the nomination at the
primaries he would find this large party
of Republicans adding their strength to
that Of the Democrats, meaning certain
defeat for Congressman Tawney. If
the Republicans wish to secure a vic.
tory in the congressional election they
will support someone besides Tawney
at the primaries.
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Letter to nr. John Briebach, Austin
Mimi.

Dear Sir: Porterhouse, so much
neck, so much; all the way between.
Just SO with paint Devoe lead and
zinc is the porterhouse. Nobody wants
the neck; the between, some say, is
good enough for them.
But Deyoe costs less, not more, than
between. Lead-and. oil is between; it
is the old fashion paint. But zinc has
come in. Zinc toughens white lead.
Devoe lead and zinc is the paint that
wears twice as long as lead and. Oil
Mr. John n Deitel, Fair Haven, n Z, !,
writes:
aMr Charles Flalienbeek, of this piace, paint
ed ms No, 90 three YEATS ago with Davoe lead
ana, zinc; his father painted at the same time
with lead -and-pi1. Today the SON 8 house looks
as well as when It was painted, while the
fathers house is all chalked off and needs
painting very badly. The father says he will
paint with Devoe next time. = =
Yours truly
r. w DEvoE gtL Co
New Z ork and Chicago
I. T. Tollifson sells sour paint,
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Porto RicO's Wonderful Progress.

If an agricultural country is striving
to produce for export, the course of the
rise and fall of its trade is as true an
indicator of its prosperity as the hand
on steam-guage is of pressure. During
the fifty years prior to American civil
administration of Porto Rico there
were but four years in which the bal
ance Of trade was in it's favor, and this
balance aggregated but little over So,
100000, while the balance against the
island was over s750OO,OO0. The first
two years of civil administration show
ed trade balance of $750,O00 each
against the island, while the last five
years show a balance of $7,250,0OO in it's
favor. In 1901 Porto Rico exported her
products to the United States to the
value of SIS, ,50OO 600, and to foreign coun-
tries just in excess of $3,000,OOO. In
1905 she shipped us over $19,00O,00o
worth of her products, and to foreign
countries just $4,OOO,O00. Imports show
figures almost as favorable. This is es.
tablishing relations with the home
country in the most approved manner.
Not the least remarkable feature of
the increase of Porto Rico's trade has
been the shifting about of her products
in the scale of Importance. She came
into the United States with coffee her
principal, almost her only, crop, so COM
pletely did it overshadow everything else
in Importance. Eight years later, in
1906, coffee made up but II per cent Of
the exports, amounting to something
less than tobacco and to only fraction
of sugar, that is to say, $14O00O00
worth of sugar was exported, and about
So, 100000 each of tobacco and coffee.
All efforts to introduce the islands
coffee into the United States have met
with failure, principally because the
cheaper and stronger Brazilian coffee
better suits the American taste.-From
"The West Indies in Commerce." by
Lewis r. Freeman, in the American
Review of Reviews for September.
Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18
Austin Steam Laundry.

Patronize home institutions and
have your laundry work done at .he
Austin Steam Laundry in the highest
style of the art. No chemicals used.
Laundry. delivered free of charge
Diveus a trial.
:. T. M -BURNHAM. Propriettr.
Mower County transcript., 1907-09-18

We can get out your job work at
this office in the very best styles. Let
terheads, envelopes, pamphlets, circu-
lars, wedding invitations, visiting cards,
catalogues, in fact anything you wish.
Send in your orders.
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{. R. FARLEY, LOGGER
HOVE into VIEW TODAY
Continued from first page

with the drive. Anyone building
a fire under a mule invites total
destruction to all the features of
the landscape. Anyway, by the
time you can get near enough to
a mule to build a fire under it the
mule will be so old that the neces-
sity for the fire will have disap.
peared.
"And yet we talk about horse
sense.
"Mule sense is what swells the
balance sheet. The man with
horse sense may understand
what is wanted of him, but the
man With mule sense under
stands what he Wants-and gets
it, or kicks.
"a swift kick in the right
place is of more avail than 200
faithful acts. Here's to the mule!
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ed to assist Commander Tappan in
every way in obtaining the facts in
the case Governor Magoon thereupon
telegraphed to the governor of San
tiago instructing him to extend all the
assistance possible to Commander Tap
pan. Commander Wood is the senior
officer in Cuban waters. r..
The men wounded by the Santiago
police are Henry Lee, fireman, who
sustained a fractured skull and gun
shot wound in the lung; G. ]. Pember,
electrician, wounded in the left arm:
l.. B. Austin, compound fracture of the
arm. The condition of Lee is serious
Ensign A. T. Brisbin, who was in civil
ian clothes, and six seamen we're
slightly injured:
The attack was made on the Taco
mas men while they were on their
way to the wharf at 2 o'clock in the
morning to embark in a launch for
transportation to the cruiser.
Later reports received at the gov
errors palace indicate that the fight
between police and sailors at San
tiago was merely one of several brawls
in which the sailors are alleged to
have been the aggressors. The gov
ernor Of Santiago has telegraphed to
Governor Magoon that two such fights
have occurred and the municipal au-
thorities have been directed to pre-
vent further breaches of the peace.
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ABSOLUTELY EXHAUSTED.
Entombed Men Taken From Mine at
foustWeII Pa.

Johnstown, Pa, May 2.-Taken from
the dark recesses of coal mine where
they had been imprisoned for over 100
hours and snatched almost from the
jaws of death the seven men taken
from the Berwind-White mine No. SO
at Foustwell are lying in the Windber
hospital physically exhausted and OBJ
livious to all around them.
Immediately upon being brought out
Of the mine all the men wanted to go
to their homes and were taken to the
hospital under protest. No food was
given them at first, but stimulant in
the form of brandy and water was adj
ministered to all.
Soon after arriving at the hospital
the men fell into sound sleep and no
communication is allowed with them.
The men are not disturbed except at
regular intervals when the nurses adj
minister hot broths and nourishment.
Immediately after these treatments
the men again drop to sleep, apparent
ly absolutely exhausted.
The hospital physicians say that the
men will be able to be about in few
days, but they would be weak and I'M
able to resume their regular duties for
a week or more.
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WOULD TAX HEIRESSES.
Paul Morton Objects to American
Money Going Abroad.

Philadelphia, May Paul Morton,
formerly secretary of the navy, after
his attendance at the banquet Of
Equitable Life Insurance company
agents ct the Bellevue-St ratferd,
talked on various subj cts and among
them that of those who spend Amer
lean money abroad and of heiresses
who take their money abroad and
marry noblelnen.
ION this matter Of the immense ex-
portation of money from America to
Europe by means Of heiresses, etc."
said Mr.. Morton, 81 have often be-
ieved that some kind of tax should
be put upon it. .-
Particularly have for long time
thought that a tax Of some kind
should be placed on the incomes
which American women carry to Eu-
rope after their marriages to foreign
noblenlen. Those good for nothing fell
lows marry American girls solely for
their money and some taxation scheme
should be worked out to save at least
a portion Of this outgo. Besides, we
want to keep young American heir
eSseS in this country"
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PRESCRIPTION TO
CLEAN THE BLOOD

Anyone can easily mix
the following prescription
at home, which is said to be
splendid because Of it's
peculiarly beneficial action
upon the Kidneys, which
are made to properly filter
and strain from the blood
the impurities, acids and
poisons.
Get the ingredients from
any good pharmacy and mix
them by shaking we'll in a
bottle: Fluid Extract Dan
delion, one half ounce; Com
pound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsapa-
rilla, three ounces.
Take in teaspoonful doses
after each meal and at bed
time. Drink plenty of good
water too.
Those whose viens are
filed with sour acids and
Rheumatic poison, who re-
quire a good blood cleanser
and system tonic, or if the
Kidneys are weak and
clogged up, should prepare
this mixture and take as di.
rected for a few days and
note results.
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MAY DAY TROUBLES
No Serious Disturbances in the
Industrial World.
SOME SMALL STRIKES OCCUR

Government Officials Endeavoring to
Prevent Threatened Tieup of Steam
ship Lines Engaged in Coastwise
Traffic on the Atlantic.
New York, May May day found
the workingmen in comparatively few
Of the trades in this city ready to as
sert any demands for increased wages
and in consequence strikes were few.
Chief interest centered in the posi-
b1lity of strike of the first, second
and third officers Of the coastwise
steamers, who have made demands
for increased wages. Up to date seven
Of the seventeen lines of steamers
having terminals in this city had ac-
copied the new schedule Represen-
tatives of the department of commerce
and labor at Washington have been
sent to this city to try to avoid the
threatened trouble.
The journeymen painters have been
uu SCilke lOi lew WEEKS anu are
still out In Paterson, N. j., 1000
journeymen carpenters went on a
strike for an increase in wages. The
building operations in that city are
at standstill. Thirteen hundred car
penters in Newark, N. j., also struck
to enforce a demand for an increase in
wages. All of these men were en-
association. The demands of the men
were granted by independent employ
ers and 900 carpenters remained at
work.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

John Cudahy, the we'll known pack
er, is critically i'll at his home in Chi.
cago.
Colonel Charles P. Lane, editor of
the Huntsville (Ala.) Evening Tribune,
the only Republican daily in Alabama,
dropped dead Wednesday. He was
fifty years old.
Carroll B. Short, a prominent attor.
ney Of Center, Tex, was shot and in.
stantly killed by DR.. Buck Paul. The
shooting grew out of feud Of several
months standing.
One hundred drivers and helpers OF
ice wagons in Columbus, O., are on
strike for shorter hours and more
wages. The strike has tied up the
ice business thoroughly.
In the finals in the international
amateur court tennis championship
games at London Jay Gould won from
Pencil, the champion of 1904, in
three straight sets, 6-1, 81, 81.
Miss Mabelle Gilman, the former
actress, who is engaged to be married
to w. r. Corey, president of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, has ar
rived at New York from Europe.
Five justices Of the Michigan SUI
preme court, constituting majority,
have decided that the city of Detroit
cannot build street railway tracks to
be leased to an operating corporation.
Announcement has been made at
the White House that William F. Will.
loughby Of the District Of Columbia,
now treasurer, will be promoted to
the secretaryship of Porto Rico. S.
D. Gromer of the University Of Mis-.
souri, will be appointed treasurer.
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DECISION is POSTPONED.
San Francisco Street Car Men Delay
Action on Strike.

San Francisco Street Car Men Delay
Action on Strike.
San Francisco, May 2.-About 1900
members of the Garments union met
at the Central theater at 1: IS a. m. to
vote upon the question as to whether
there should be industrial peace or
industrial strife in this city.
The refusal of the management Of
the United Railways in this city to
concede the demands of the men for
So for a day Of eight hours was dis
cussed at length and also a PROPOSE
ton to substitute the scale of wages
adopted by the Oakland lines, which
it was thought by some might be ia
vOred by the men.
1t was finally decided to leave the
settlement of the question to the eX-
ecutive committee and Father P. G.
Yorke, who represented the men on
the recent arbitration committee. This
committee is to report to the men at
mass meeting which will be held on
next Saturday night. This leaves the
question of strike open until that
date, after the report of the committee
has been received. .s
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DIES FOLLOWING BANQUET
Professor Hinton, Formerly of Mime
apoIis, Expires Suddenly.

Washington, May 2.-Charles IL.
Hinton, formerly a professor of mathe-
mates in one of the collegiate institu
tons Of Minneapolis and for the past
two years an examiner Of the patent
office, dropped dead in the lobby of the
Young Mems Christian association
building as he was leaving the ban
quet hall where the Society Of Philan-
thropic Inquiry had held its annual
dinner, at which Professor Hinton had
responded to the toast "Female Phil
osophers." Death was due to cerebral
hemorrhage. He was born in London
sixty three years ago and was gradu-
ate Of Oxford and several other noted
universities. Professor Hinton was
the author of several books devoted
to scientific research, the chief of
which was the Fourth Dimension"
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MINOR LABOR TROUBLES.
Unusually Quiet May Day Throughout
New England.

Boston, May Am unusually quiet
May day throughout New England,
with the exception of this city, was
experienced in labor circles. Minor
troubles in the building trades in some
of the cities and towns were the most
discordant notes outside the Greater
Boston district, where 1900 men went
out for higher wages, while the team
sters' strike, which started a month
ago, is still in force with almost daily
scenes Of disorder
The majority Of the new men who
went out were boilermakers, number
ing 1000. They ask for a 10 per cent
increase in pay. The cement and as
phalt workers to the number of 210
quit work pending the result of de-
alterations by their employers regard
ing new wage adjustment. In the
building trades and other industries
an amicable adjustment Of existing
differences was expected.
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the first crop clover cut early for
hay, the second crop cut for
seed. Roots used for all the
animals on the farm.
In this series Of rotation are
many things to be worked out,
most particularly the results Of
such a system of farming on
sandy soil. AS was stated in the
beginning it IS based upon prac.
tical farming and if successful it
is a demonstration that has proof
in itself.
Various other systems of rota-
ton are conducted on a small
scale, 80 tenth acre plots being
used for this purpose.
Under the system of crop rota-
ton outlined in the foregoing the
following named crops will be
grown on the Experiment Farm
each year:
Wheat, 4 acres; oats, 10 acres;
barley, 6 acres; peas, 2 acres;
hay, 20 acres; fodder corn, IA
acres; roots, 2 acres; potatoes, 4
acres; tame pasture, 6 acres for
season, and 13 acres for two
months Second crop cloyer.)
(The uncleared land Of the farm,
200 acres, is used for pasture
Three acres not mentioned in
the regular farm rotation is used
for hog pasture, growing clover,
and rape.
There are 70 acres in the farm
rotation. With the crops pro-
duced on this, along with the
wooded pasture, the farm is
planned to carry 40 dairy COWS,
20 head of young stock, 6 horses,
80 pigs, so sheep and 200 chick
ems.
Only potatoes will be sold in
the form of a field crop, and the
proceeds used for mill feed,
bran, shorts, etc., so the fertility
sold from the farm will be kept
at the minimum.
"A. J. Mcclure.
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ALL RELEASED ON BAIL.
Officers of PoIicyholders' Committee
Accused of Forgery.

Accused of Forgery.
New York, May 2.-When George B.
Scrugham, manager of the internation-
al policyholders' committee, and
Charles F. Darlington and Charles
Stirrup, assistant managers of the
same organization, arrested on charges
of forgery in connection with the re-
cent election of directors Of the New
York Life Insurance company, we're
arraigned before the police magistrate
their cases were continued until next
Monday. Scrugham and Stirrup were
released on $4,000 bail and Darlington
on $4,000 bail.
Before he was arraigned in court
Scrugham issued statement in which
he declared that facts of an entirely
legal nature have been misconstrued
so as to make appear that an attempt
was made to circumvent the laws gov
erning the insurance election and to
procure the counting by fraud of bal
lots not PROPERLY executed
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St. Paul PLasterers Out.

st. Paul, May 2.-Union plasterers
of this city are on strike. About eighty
men quit work. They demand raise
in wages from $3.50 to SIS per day.
The demand was refused. Several of
the plastering contractors have stated
that the claim is exorbitant and will
not be met. At this time they have
not very many contracts on hand.
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May Rebuild Hotel.
From Tenstrike Tribune.]

From TenStrlke IrlDune.1
Mr.. j. o. Harris informs the
Tribune that he may in the near
future rebuild the Hotel Rich
ards, recently destroyed by fire,
and that a frst-class hotel may
yet occupy the spot which is now
adorned by smoldering pile Of
ruins. Mr.. Harris says that he
has received some great encour.
agement from the F'itger Brew.
ing Co., of Duluth, who have
made him a fattering PROPOSE
ton to stand the expense of any
kind of a hotel he desires to
erect.
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Jail Prisoners on Strike.

Alton, ILL.,, May 2.-Eight stalwart
prisoners Of the city Jail, who, in de-
fault of police court fines imposed for
various offenses, are required to sweep
the streets, were put on diet Of bread
and water because they went on strike
and declared they would not work.
James Locke, fat man who boasted
that he had not worked in twenty-four
years, acted as leader.