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HIT HARD
PRESIDENT OF BIG INSURANCE
COMPANY FACES SERIOUS
ACCUSATION
SURPLUS funds DIVERTED
STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
OFFICIALS WERE NOT
CRITICAL

New York, Dec. 6-The Phoenix
Insurance company OF Brooklyn, is
under investigation for irregularities,
which it is believed has impaired its
surplus at least 81 200, 900 and result
ed in conditions which Superintendent
Hotchkiss of the state insurance de-
partment laid before the district at
torney today for possible criminal &C
ton. 1t is charged that the president
George p. Sheldon, has overdrawn his
salary, unloaded doubtful securities on
the company, and used the company's
assets as collateral to secure his OWE
personal speculative accounts.
In a formal statement tonight Sup
e~rintendent Hotchkiss says he does
not believe the capital of the company
is impaired, and thus far there is no
evidence that it's securities are not in
tact, but adds the investigation is IN
completed.
Sheldon has been president of the
Phoenix since 1887. 1t is charged that
the annual report of the company 10
the insurance department during al
least the last ten years and probably
longer, was false in more than on
particular.
Hotchkiss says the Phoenix, which
is a fire insurance company, has not
been examined for nearly twenty-five
years.
The insurance department alleges
questionable securities originally sold
to the company by Sheldon have an
nually passed through wash sales
and thus been concealed. Speculative
accounts were maintained by Sheldon
according to Hotchkiss, in at least
one brokerage house, by assets OF
the Phoenix used as collateral for op-
erations, and it is charged the preSi-
dents salary is now paid to October
1910.
During the last seventeen years il
is alleged members of the state in
uranc department whose duty it was
to supervise the company. accepted
collateral loans from IT, made by Shell,
don, in amounts varying from $4,000
to 500, 600.
Hotchkiss says "the directors who
permitted Sheldon to do as he has
done are equally responsible to the
public for the acts committed. II
might be said the Phoenix company
was really Sheldon, and ahat the di
rectors seemingly never objected tc
his operations"
1t is announced tonight that the di,
rectors of the company today removed
Sheldon from office and elected Z. w
7. Gray, formerly auditor of the Con,
tinental Insurance company, presi'
dent.
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Wanted More.

Francis, aged 2R, was given a bunch
of grapes on his solemn promise not
to swallow the seeds. Very care
fully he removed them all, and en-
joyed the fruit as a child always does
enjoy a new goody. When he had re-
moved the last grape from it's clinging
place, he handed the empty stalk to
his father.
Daddy" he said, will you send
this back to the store and have the
man put some more grapes on it?"
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the need or a spe-
cial remedy to re-
move and cure the
congestion or in
fiammation of the
kidneys that is in
terfering with their
work and causing
that pain t h a t
makes you say:
ooh, my back"
Thompson Wat.
kins, professional
nurse, 420 N. 23rd
ST., Parsons, Kan,
saws: For some
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-12-09
Ten Per Cent Raise

Washington. Dec. 6-The general
\ managers committee, which will rep
resent ~thirty-two eastern railroads in
the negotiations with operating train
mems unions for a 10 per cent in
crease in wages. expects the employees
proposition to be submitted the latter
part or THIS Week. a member or the
general managers association dec'ar,
ed today that no nostiiit. existed
now between the roads and the men.
and none will be permitted TO exist
so Far az the roads are concerned.
follow chicago
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Night Rider Jury Ready

Union City, Tenn, Dec. 6-The jury
in the case Of Garrett Johnson and
Arthur Clear. alleged leaders of the
Reelfoot lake night riders, charged
with the murder of Captain Quentin
Rankin, was completed late today.
The defense challenged the entire
jury, averring the court, of its own
motion, had summoned veniremen
from only certain districts, in viola
tion of defendants constitutional
rights. The motion was overruled.
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A Risky Thing.

II think I'll go home"
But it's only IL o'clock, old man."
well there's nothing doing at the
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II rs usua1Ty costly to .olIow cneap
advice.
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HOW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY q CO.. Toledo. O.
We. the undersigned. have known +. J. Cheney
for the last Is years. and believe him perfectly hon
orable In all business transactions and financially
able TO carry out any obligations made by his arm.
WALDJNG, KINNAN Il MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price rs cents pr
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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D.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate ana ,uyip.
orate stomach, liver and bowels sue. coated
Tiny granules. EASY TO take as candy.
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Sufficient Evidence.

Father was evidently drinking
again last night"
What makes you think that?"
"He sassed the ~janitor wnen ht
came in."-Louisville Courier-Journal
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GOMPERS' APPEAL
Supreme Court Grants Writ and vii!
Review Case

Review Case
Washington, Dec. 6-The supreme
court of the United States today grant
ed a petition for a writ of certiorari
in the consempt cases of Gompers,
Morrison and Mitchell. This will
bring the entire record in the Bucks
stove and range case to the supreme
court for review.
Washington, Dec. 6-Before the SUI
preme court of the United States to-
morrow attorneys for the American
Federation of Labor will request dis
missal of the original anti-boycott in
junction issued by Judge Gould in the
now famous Bucks Stove and Range
company case. Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison, fedora
ton officers under a contempt sem
tence for violating the injunction, are
also parties to the appeal.
This move puts it to the supreme
court to decide whether the federation
boycott of the Bucks company in its
official organ, the Federationist, was
lawful. The court of appeals Of the
District OF Columbia held not. and
with some notifications, has sustain
ed Judge Gould's injunction.
The Bucks Stove and Range COM
pany has already filed an appeal to
the supreme court of the United
States against the notifications,
claiming the original injunction is 50
altered as to be practically ineffective.
The Federation of Labor, in its appeal
viii argue that no injunction should
have been issued in the first court,
and asks for a complete dismissal.
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Change In your pocket?

Pleasant WPIGLEY'S SPEARMINT
cures unpleasant tobacco habit.
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Happy the man who finds a peculiar
Joy In undertaking a difficult and dis.
agreeable task, and In achieving It.
DR.. Lyman Abbott
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As an eye opener, what's the mat
ter with an alarm clock.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-12-09

Il know; but consider. Once l
went home at IL o'clock and came
near establishing a dangerous precs-
dent"
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time I was annoyed with sharp twinges
across tho small of my back and ir-
regular passages of the kidney secre-
tons. Since using Doan's Kidney Pills,
/ am free from these troubles"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. so cents a box. Foster
Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
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sAcKAcHE is KIpNEYAcHE.
Usually There Are other Troubles to
Prove Il.

Pain in the back is pain in the kid
neys, in most Eases and 1t points to
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% but il will not reach its greatest DIS
lance from that body and 50 become
easily visible until May 10.
The planet Venus will be lost in the
sans rays during April and the greater
part of May but as the spring ana
summer months go by il will each even
ing become more and more conspicuous.
until it is the most brilliant object in the
heavens All this year this planet Will
be our beautiful evening star. The mag
nificent Jupiter will gradually sink toward
the west as Venus rises, the two planets
passing each other August IL. On this
date their cOnfiguration will be so striking
that il will attract the attention OF the
most casual observer, for these two bril-
liant objects will then be seen In the
southwest err sky So close together that
they will seem almost 10 touch each
other.
Meanwhile. until Venus has drawn
away from the sun, our one most bril-
liant evening star is the great planet
Jupiter which shines out with It's dull.
yellow!sh light from the constellation
Leo, just east of the white star ReGu-
lus. Even in a very small telescope the
bands OF this planet and its four swiftly
moving little moons form most inter-
esting object for study. The observer
may watch a satellite pass inside the
shadow OF the planet and SO become
eclipsed April Z, hours II minutes.
Similarly, satellites emerge from eclipse
April T. hours Al minutes; April IL, :
hours : minutes: April H. hours Ri
minutes; April Is. 10 hours 40 minutes,
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and April %. . hours - minutes, eastern
standard time.
The Spring Stars.
The bright winter groups now I'LL the
southwestern part of the heavens Due
south is the beautiful Leo, the fortunate
constellation of the early astrologers'
while in the cast the faint summer
groups of the Virgin, the Serpent ana
The Balances are beginning to appear.
Above the Virgin is seen the enormous
Driver, with upstretched arms, and De
low this the delicate little ring OF stars
which form the Northern Crown, whiie
i'm the south the very long Water Snake
has entirely emerged from the ground
and now stretches across almost the en-
tire heavens from the east to the west
The region of this last group, marked A.
in Fig !. was to the Chinese the Cate
10 Heaven: on the other hand. 10 the
,Ehaldeans the ill-omened Cancer was
the Gate of Men, through which souls
descended from heaven into human pod
les.
TO all OF these groups great impor-
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the same age, but they are fully as strong.
Get one of the little fellows to double
up his arm. and put your hand on his
biceps. Every muscle stands up like a
base ball and every ounce of his flesh is
hard with the athletics which every
SchOOlbOy has to take daily. AS to his
fighting, you have heard how the Japa-
nese whipped the Russians. who are al
most twice as heavy they are and
three times as many in humber. and how.
about fifteen years ago. they conquered
the Chinese, who have ten times as many
people in their great nation over the way
Just now the children of Japan are all
playing soldiers. The nation is still excited
over it's victory, and the boys go about
with guns and flags. marching in step
while their trumpeters blow. Their guns
are sticks of bamboo and their swords
are of wood. They march right well,
however. and they have sham fights be-
tween the different companies of boys III
a town. Even babies are now dressed
in military costumes by some OF the
mothers and many a four-year-old Jap
anese baby goes about in the dress of
an officer of the navy. Some children
who wear kimonos have soldier hats, and
not a few are dressed in khaki. The
toy shops are full of lead soldiers and
miniature guns and drums. The older
boys are real soldiers, for every school
has its military drill under officers of
the army. Boys OF twelve and fourteen
have to march with guns. and as they
grow older they go out in the field to
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one eat raw fish as we'll as raw oysters?
And then there are salads and pickles.
apples and pears. and great red persim-
mons as big tomatoes. The rice Is
brought in at the close of the meal i'm a
wooden bucket bound With brass rims.
We are told again and again 10 help our
selves to the rice, for one is supposed 10
complete his dinner with il, as, with rice
in plenty. no one can so hungry We find
some difficulty in conveying the rice to
our mouths with the chop sticks. ana
finally raise the bowl to our lips and
shovel il in. AS it grows cold We pour
little hot tea over it. laughing with the
Japanese children they do the same.
But there are SO many strange things
among the little ones We see all about
that il would take long time 10 mention
them all. The children wear shoes OF
wood or of straw, and their stockings are
foot mittens with finger for the big toe.
These mittens stop above the ankle, and
the rest of the leg goes bare except for
The gown or kimono, which falls from the
shoulders. The kimono has very long
sleeves. These. in the case of the women,
hang down, forming quite large bags At
the wrist. which serve as pockets. The
boys have smaller sleeves. The girls have
great belts called. obs, which are tied
together. For the same purpose the boys
have sashes which are scarcely large
than ropes. The girls wear bright red
underclouhing, although their kimonos are
usually of more modest hues.
All the school children Of Japan have
their own dress. The boys wear divided
skirt, which reaches from the waist al
most to the ankles. and the girls have
fuller skirts not divided. Both boys and
girls wear kimonos, which are tucked in
side their skirts and which cover the
upper parts of their bodies.
From this would think it almost
impossible to tell the boys from the girls.
II is not so. The skirts OF the girls are
either dark red or OF sthe color of a blue
damson plum. while those OF the boys are
steel gray. The girls go bareheaded, and
their hair is twisted up on the top OF
their heads. The boys wear caps or hats.
and their hair is cut short and ii stands
out like a shoe brush in bristles over the
scalp.
In the schools OF Japan the boys and
girls do not sit together, although they
have the same studies. They now us
desks and chairs, but they used 10 study
sitting on the floor. In other respects
their schools are not very unlike our
schools at home.
FRANK CT. CARPENTER.
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of two bright stars. of which the light
diminishes periodically because the sec
ond star moves in front of and hides the
first SIMILARLY il was long known by
mathematical computation that great
so-called dark star revolves about each
of the Dog stars, but these companions
can be seen shining by their own light
in large modern telescopes In fact'
among the millions of bright stars the
presence of "A dark cold body has never
yet been certainly detected.
Nevertheless. it seems impossible TO
escape the conclusion that each of tire
multitude of bright stars must in time
become cold ard therefore it Is highly
probable that dark. invisible stars exist.
exceeding. some astronomers think, even
the bright stars in number. The specula-
ton has many times peen advanced
that our sun in it's journey through space
may some time collide with one of these
objects, in which event the enormous heat
developed would instantly vaporiZe the
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fit or unfit for polite society.
The education of a we'll bred girl nova
days pays considerable attention to prop
er reading, and SO important is this
thought that there are persons who make
a business of suggesting authors and titles
to the unsophisticated in matters of liter
AZURE.
Certain books dubbed by the average
girl or boy as old fashioned or merely
religious should form the nucleus of
every young persons library. Indeed. no
library would be complete without them,
for they and others, too numerous 10
mention are the very foundation of Eng
Hsh literature. With their admirable
STYLE great good sense and spiritual up
lift. they are the actual eye openers to all
good and great reading. The most impor-
tant among these are the Holy Bible,
',rhe Pilgrims Progress and the plays
of Shakespeare.
Considered only educationally the Bible
can give more pointers on oehaNior.
beauty of deed and word than all the
other books of the world put together.
Take the first chapter of Genesis alone
for ravishing suggestion, and halt with
the last lines:
And God saw everything that he had
made and. behold. it was very good
Who can read these beautiful and SIM
pie words without seeing in the story OK
the creation food for eternal and lovely
thought? The heavens and the earth
have been made and finished for us-for
you anu LOT luc-duQ all Tie iosl VI thSiii
This greatest of great books and all
the others which deal nobly with real
or supposed life teach us how to live,
emphasize for our dull wits the nice
points of conduct, instruct us in the
very language of the stars.
Many lives" by well known authors
are as interesting as fiction. If / must
put the thing that way. What ambitious
boy can read a good life of Abraham
Lincoln without being thrilled with the
hope of being as big and wonderful him.
self some day? What girl can go with
Florence Nightingale through the Crimea
without realizing the splendor of a life
spent for others?
And both Lincoln and Florence Nishtin-
gale were great Bible readers, and the
fact of being a Bible reader does not pre-
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Wisdom and Po1iteness Of Good Reading.

clude other books. Lincoln loved that
dearest of all boy books. Robinson
Crusoe." and | have no doubt but that II
he were living today he would be reading
land" Stanley's In Darkest Africa"
Nansen's .'Farthest North and a score
of other books the right kind OF boy calls
bully"
To buy all the books necessary for
education and pleasure is. of course. inn
possible for any but those with ample
means.
But ticket TO a public library will
open the way TO the right reading and
reveal many a rare volume. What every
boy and girl who is fond of books should
do-assuming that they are not doing il
a!ready-is to join library and get them
selves accustomed al least TO knowing
good literature. The persons employed in
these places give excellent advice where
taste is rot formed. and any confession
of ignorance will be met with sympathy
and help.
Say Il dent know what / want il
your mind is at sea, and watch how
many good books the young librarian
will haul down for you to dip into be-
fore YOU need make the choice.
A little red tape is necessary for IL
brary membership. First personal appli-
cation is made for the ticket. on which
the applicant writes his or her name.
age and whether or not school MEM
Der. The ticket is then ready for the
person who will stand for reference. Any
name in the directory will do for this.
though IL must never be forgotten that
the reference is responsible for torn or
defaced books. With an ordinary ticket
allowed persons Of sixteen or over three
books can be taken out, one OF fiction.
one non-fiction and a magazine. The
books may be kept out two weeks-ex-
cept in case of something very new-but
a magazine of the current month must
be returned in three days.
Special privileges are given with .
teachers ticket" This is accorded stu
dents of any subject who need more than
the usual number of books. Ii allows
eight books and a whole months time.
and it is quite possible TO have one OF
these special tickets and one for fiction
at the same moment.
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materials of the earth and all of the
other planets.
When one glances at a photograph OF
the heavens. such as that of Fig. =, in
which thousands of stars seem packed
closely together. and when one considers
that all OF these stars are great suns.
moving with high velocities in every
imaginable direction, the first impression
might be that an occasional collision
would be almost certain. But to think
this is to lose sight OF the Theoretically
enormous distances which separate the
stars themselves. Our sun and its near
est neighbor are two such stars, yet so
far are they apart that could they today
both be stopped in their courses and per
mitted to fall directly toward one an
other under their mutual gravitation. the
cataclysm caused by their collision would
not occur until 1.OOOOOO years hence.
When from a consideration of this last
number we partly realize by how great
distances the stars are separated We find
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fixes the size and price. All land in
Japan is assured by the unit of the mat.
a tSubo. being six feet square or two mats
in size. Land here is measured by tsubos
not acres. 1t takes more than thou
sand tsubos to make one acre of land.
BY and by we go out to look at the
bathroom. The Japanese children are
very clearly and they take a redhot bath
every day. The bath tub is about as high
as our shoulders. 1t has a stove pipe
running through it with a board resting
against the pipe to protect ones body
from it when he gets in. The pipe is
filled with charcoal and lighted; 1t soon
heats the water to boiling. and when it
begins to steam, the japanese jump in
Even little babies are put into this hot
water. 1t turns their skins red. and when
they come out they are the. color of beets.
We try such bathing ourselves. 1t is so
not that we jump quickly out and cannot
be induced to attempt it again
The Japanese have many public bath
houses. There are hundreds In kyoto.
where one can get good hot plunge for
3 or cents.
You would think that houses SO thin
and open as this one. where We are visit
ing. would need steam or hot water, or
a. any rate great coal or wood fires to
make them comfortable during the winter.
Nothing OF the kind is known to the
children of Japan. If we should go mp
In a flying machine and look down upon
the roofs OF Kyoto we could not count
a hundred chimneys on its tens Of thou
sands of houses. These people have no
frenIaces. no CRATES and no means of
heating like ours. The cooking is done
with charcoal in little clay ovens. and if
one would give big dinner he must have
many such stoves. For warmth small
b,ass-lined box filled with ashes with a
little burning charcoal within ii is most
common. This warns only ones hands.
and he keeps his feet from freezing by
sitting upon them. Sometimes d wood
fire is made in box of this kind. This.
however, is only in the poorer houses;
and the smoke goes out where it can.
We take a meal with our friends. Each
of us has his own little table. The meal
is served in individual dishes and the girls
bend low and bow before they offer them
to U.S. The meal begins with sweetcake and
candy. Then there is a bowl Of soup in
a dish of wood covered with lacquer, a
varnish SO bright that one can see his
face in it. There is fish. raw and cooked,
and fried cells, which taste delicious. The
raw fish is not bad. 1t is served upon ice,
cut into little slices so we can eat 1t wit II
chop sticks. After all, why should not