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The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Millions for Meat.

That the four big Chicago packers
who comprise the meat trust, and
their side partner, the National Pack
ing Co., do an annual business far in
advance of the biggest year ever en-
joyed by the United States Steel Cor.
poration is showed by the statement
filed under the new Massachusetts
compulsory law. These reveal that
during the past year Swift, Armour
Morris, Cudahy and the National did
a gross volume of business amounting
to $3.50, 100000. Figures furnished by
the National are not official and are
said to be s25,000000 too low. The
steel trusts biggest year was 1907,
when it touched the 1857 200, 900 mark.
The figures secured by the state
show that the meat packers do bust
ness on a much closer margin of
profits than the other big concerns
The total net profits on the enormous
business done during the year wi
hardly reach $25,000,O00, a margin OF
only about 3 per cent. In sharp con.
trast with this is the % per cent profit
of the steel corporation last year.
or last years business, Swift did
$3.50, 900. Armour s240. O00, 900. Nor
ris s110,000,000 and Cudahy 0,000.
600.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
TORNADO BRINGS
DEATH TO MANY
ZEPHYR, A TEXAS TOWN, Is
MADE DEsOLATE BY A
FIERCE TORNADO.
NORTH Dakota SUFFERS
Human Bodies Blown Miles Away and
Twisted Round Trees and Horrors
Were Numerous.

A tornado wrecked Zephyr, village
In Brown county, Texas, Saturday,
killing more than 80 persons, serious
ly wounding so, and hurting a score
Of others. Extreme darkness made the
catastrophe awful. The storm formed
half a mile southwest of Zephyr and
swept down upon the village, cutting
a wide swath directly through the
residence and business quarters.
Nearly so houses were demolished.
Lightning struck a lumber yard and
started a fire, which destroyed an en-
tire business block.
No effort was made to fight the fire,
as the care of the dead and wounded
demanded all attention.
A section hand pumped hand car
to Brownwood end spread the alarm.
In two hours the Santa Fe was speed
ing a special train to Zephyr with
nine surgeons and a score of Brown.
wood citizens.
Hundreds of persons in the coun-
try around Zephyr saved themselves
by taking refuge in storm cellars.
The big stone school building and
two churches at Zephyr were razed.
Daylight found 16 surgeons working
on the wounded
Brentwood hurried her second re-
lief train at noon, loaded with provis-
ions. clothing and necessary articles,
and 40 nurses.
Two children were found dead two
miles from Zephyr, having been blown
that distance.
A special train carried the more SER
iously injured to a hospital at Temple.
While the tornados path was 800
yards wide, the twister swept the
earth for a distance of only about a
mile. It's fury wss more terrible than
any previous tornado experienced in
this region.
When the first relief party reached
Zephyr, a desolate scene awaited. The
hillsides were covered with debris of
all kinds, intermingled with bodies of
animals and human beings. The ruins
were dimly lighted by burning build
ings and the cries of the wounded ris-
ing above the screeching of the dying
storm, guided the rescuers in their
work.
Human bodies were found twisted
about trees and distorted in every con.
ceivable shape. Survivors, mad with
grief and terror. walked the streets al.
most naked, crying for their lost rela-
tives.
Those houses that escaped the storm
were turned into hospitals and
morgues.
Brentwood, with a splendily or
ganized relief corps, has the situation
well in hand
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
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MICHIGAN ITEMS.

e. j. Moon. laborer, has put in a
claim of $1,000 against the city OF
Marshall for broken ankle, the result
of cave-in while he was digging a
city sewer.
John II. Dennis, president of the
Barry County Pioneer and Historical
society, announces that the annual
meeting of the society will be held
in Hastings on June "a.
George Burgeon and Eliza May
Porter. the Chicago couple arrested in
Port Huron on a statutory charge,
were fined $125 or 60 days in the De-
troit workhouse. They are unable to
pay the fines.
Owosso's estimated budget, as APP
proved by the council, is a record
breaker, totaling s71,000, which is an
increase of $4,000 over last years
budget. The increase is attributed to
many public Improvements.
Because his little daughter caught
her foot in a defective walk and fell,
causing a fractured shoulder which de.
veloped into congestion of the lungs,
from which she died, Henry DeBruin
wants Grand Rapids to pay him s., 900.
The board of tax review OF Bessem-
er was this year controlled by the
citizens. A raise of the mines within
the city from sb50,000 last year to
81 .206,000 now is the result. The total
valuation of the city is raised from
$950,000 to s1,5s6,000. This is the
first time since the raise by Pingree's
tax commission in 1900 that the mines
have been fairly assessed.
Col. George b. McCaughna, for ~
years municipal Judge OF Owosso, has
resigned the office and will go west.
Col. McCaughna was elected each
term on the Democratic ticket, despite
the fact that the city has a normal Re.
publican majority of 500.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
ONE THING THAT WAS CERTAIN
No Doubt In the Bsgsaseman's Mind
~ to Contents OF What Looked
Like Comm.

In an emergency the manufacturer
OF Limburger cheese was forced to
use strategy with a shipment. Ordi-
narily his product went In special
cars, but in this instance no car was
available and the order must be flled
Two hundred pounds OF the fragrant
comestible was put In . rough. OBJ
long box, and taken TO the railroad
baggageroom. Then the manufactur-
er bought n ticket for himself and the
box, and entered the train. At the
frst stop he went ahead to the bag
gage car to see that there was no
trouble. He stood by the box in q
disconsolate attitude and shaded his
eyes with his hand. The baggageman
was sympathetic. "A relative?" he
asked. YES" answered the manu-
facturer, ut Is my brother" WELL"
said the railroad man, philosophically.
you have one consolation. He's dead,
all right."-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
As the Boy Saw che Lesson.

Prof. Charles Zeublin of the Univer.
sity Of Chicago was discussing at a
dinner the greatest paintings OF the
world.
THE legends that are beautiful and
immortal" he said, have in them
turths that we all, according to our
kind, take home. This is true in
likeness Of immortal works of art
pictures. poems, songs. For different
people they have different messages,
For instance, in my native Pendleton
some of the mothers used to cut the
children's hair They did 1t with
shears and a bowl. The operation
was often painful, and the result was
never elegant.
''In Sunday school Pendleton
teacher once told her pupils the trag.
ic story of Samson and Deliah. Then
she turned to little boy:
what do you learn, Joe,' she said,
from the Samson story?'
"Tt don't never pay piped Joe, to
have a woman cut feller's hair -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Will Go to Jail.

DR.. j. ]. Ryecroft, mayor of Petos-
key, has decided to serve a 15-day
sentence in the county Jail.
About two years ago the Lockwood
hospital was built, from a fund OF S10,-
900, which was bequeathed by form
err summer resident of the city. The
officials in charge of the institution,
soon after taking Office, were accused
by several local members of the med
ical profession of unfair discrimina-
ton in choosing physicians to handle
cases.
The arguments over the question be-
tween the doctors concerned were
heated, and it is said that during an
operation on patient in the hospital
DR.. Ryecroft struck a brother physi'
clan. He was convicted in justice court
OF assault and battery, and sentenced
to pay a fine of $50, or spend Is days
in the county Jail. He appealed TO
The circuit court, and there the decis-
ion of the lower court was sustained.
Then he took the case to the supreme
court, and was again defeated, the de-
cision being handed down about two
weeks ago. During the interval the
complainant died.
Now DR.. Reycroft refuses to pay the
$50 fine, and the prosecuting attorney
and the sheriff say that there is moth
ing for them to do but to confine him
in the jail. The mayor admits that
this is the only course, and says that
on Sunday night he will deliver an
address in local church, giving his
side of the story; then on Monday he
will go to Jail.
While his practice will probably
suffer while he is in durance, the at
fairs of the city will go on as usual
The council has made arrangements
whereby Reycroft may attend the ses.
sions in charge of an officer.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
WAS THE TIME
LIMIT OPERATIVE?
WERE IMPORTANT ACTS PASSED
TOO LATE IN THE SESSION
TO BE VALID?
QUESTION MAY BE RAISED
A Difference Of Opinion May Be Aired
In the Courts and Result In Over
throw of Some Measures.

II is rumored that an attack will be
made in the courts on one OF the Ia
Dor bills passed during the last ses-
sion of the legislature. This is be-
lieved to be the general labor bill re-
pealing several previous bills and re-
enacting the labor laws and factory
laws of the state in what is claimed
to be a more consistent and workable
form than were the originals, which
confiicted in many ways. The basis OF
the expected attack will be the fact
that this bill was passed after the
session had drawn so close to adjourn
ment that the five-day rule for legisla-
ton established by the constitution
could not be observed
IL it comes to a contest along this
line some of the most important acts
passed during the session will un-
doubtedly become involved. Among
them will be the home rule bill for
cities, the Warner-Cramton liquor bill,
the county home rule bill and the
highways bill.
The point involved is whether a
substitute or amended bill could be
passed after the time limit expired.
All of these bills were changed in
COLiulllCS uullnS the SlOSlhS uoJ Va
the session and then passed. The
question whether they came within
The constitutional inhibition was raised
at the time. Speaker Campbell ruled
that they did not, and could not be
acted on. Attorney General Bird was
of the same opinion.
The section of the new constitution
which bears on the question at issue
is No %, and reads thus:
mo bill shall be passed or become
a law at any regular session of the
legislature until it has been printed
and is in the possession of each house
for at least five days. No bill shall be
altered or amended on its passage
through either house so as to change
its original purpose"
In the explanatory note accompany
ing this section in the copies of the
constitution which the convention or
dered sent out to voters before the
new fundamental law was adopted, &C.
ours this statement
1.-THE provision that no bill shall be
altered on its passage so as to change
it's original purpose is included so that
by no possibility can the publicity Sc
cured by the five-day rule be multi
fed or evaded"
That the important bills alluded to
above were altered is not controvert-
ed in capitol circles. Whether they
were so altered as to change the
original purpose" is the question at
issue.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
VILLAGE Wiped Out.

Negaunee is covered by dense
smoke, caused by forest fires which
completely surround II. Fishing
parties who camped Wednesday night
at Goose lake, five miles south, were
compelled to fee for their lives. At an
early hour In the morning they re-
turned, nearly exhausted.
The city fire engine was sent to Dial
ton, small town south of Marquette,
on the Munising railroad. Families
were compelled to fee on a special
train.
Late advices say that the town is
practically wiped out. Fire from an
engine spark started the blaze. Among
the buildings burned is the Dalton
Lumber Co.'S plant, entailing $4,000
loss. Two mills were saved with diff.
ficulty. Forest fires are reported at
Mcmillan, east OF Negaunee and near
Sidnaw. Wire communication Is inter
rupted. No immediate danger Is ex.
pected near the city. The firemen are
held in readiness. No rain storms
have occurred this spring and every
thing is as dry as finder.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
TORE HIS SKIN OFF
In Shreds-Itching Was Intense
Sleep Was often Impossible.
Cured by cutioura in Three Weeks.

AT first an eruption of small pus-
tules commenced on my hands. These
spread later to other parts OF my body,
and the itching at times was intense,
so much so that l literally tore the
skin off in shreds In seeking relief.
The awful itching interfered with my
work considerably, and also kept me
awake nights. l tried several doc
tors and used a number Of different
ointments and lotions but received
practically no benefit. Finally set
tied down to the use Of Cuticura Soap,
Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills,
with the result that in few days all
itching had ceased and IN about three
weeks time all traces of my eruption
had disappeared. have had no trou-
Bile Of this kind since. H. A. Kruts-
koff, STA Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.,,
November 10 and 2S, 1907"
Potter Drug d Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
An AGED Suicide.

Feeble with the weight OF his &c
years, and respondent, Henry Hoff-
man, a well-known farmer living near
Traverse City, took his own life with
a shotgun. A son, sole survivor of the
immediate family, while at work in
the fields, heard the report of the
gun, but thought nothing of it, as his
father had said he was going to town.
When the son reached the house at
noon he found the aged man dead, one
side of his head shot away. In his bare
feet, Hoffman had pulled the trigger
of the gun with toe. On the table
lay a note in German, telling where
would be found sos, the household
fund.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
OVER THE FENCE
Neighbor Says Something.

The front yard fence is a famous
council place on pleasant days. Maybe
to chat with some one along the street
or for friendly gossip with next door
neighbor. Sometimes 1t is only small
talk but other times neighbor has
something really good to offer.
An old resident of Baird, Texas, got
some mighty good advice this way
once.
He says:
Drinking coffee left me nearly dead
with dyspepsia. kidney disease and
bowel trouble, with constant pains in
my stomach, back and side, and Sc
weak / could scarcely walk.
"One day was chatting with one OF
my neighbors about my trouble and
told her l believed coffee hurt me-
Neighbor said she knew lots of people
to whom coffee was poison and she
pleaded with me to quit 1t and give
Postum a trial. did not take her
advice right away but tried change
OF climate. which did not do me any
good. Then / dropped coffee and took
up Postum.
MY improvement began immediate
ly and l got better every day used
Postum.
MY bowels became regular in two
weeks, all my pains were gone. Now
am well and strong and can eat any
thing / want to without distress. All
OF this is due to my having quit cot
fee, and to the use of Postum regu
larly.
MY son who was troubled with indi
gestion thought that IL Postum helped
me so, 1t might help him. II did, too
and he is now well and strong again
I'VE like Postum as well as we ever
liked the coffee and use 1t altogether
in my family in place of coffee and all
keep we'll" There's Reason" Read
THE Road to MELVILLE" in Pkgs.
Ever read the shove letterf A new
one appears from ti.c 20 time. They
are genuine, true, ssd fall Of human
Interest.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
North Dakota Visited.

Seven persons are known to be
dead. many are dying and over a score
are seriously injured as a result of
a tornado that swept over northwest
ern North Dakota Saturday night
The storm was especially severe at
Langdon, where the residence section
OF the city was practically wiped out,
four people killed and 20 injured.
The tornado demolished all of the
buildings of the jamestown Fair as
ISOLATION, the loss being $4,000, and
several other large buildings.
Cassellton, Devils Lake and other
towns have been completely cut off
from communication, and it is feared
that the death list will be greatly in
creased
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Crushed Under a Roller.

Thrown off a land roller, a heavy
cylinder drawn over a plowed field to
crush the Jumps, dragged by the foot,
then thrown under the roller and
crushed, Harley Norris, 1S-yeapyold
son of John Norris, of New Haven
township, seems certain to die. Both
his shoulder blades are broken, as
also three ribs, and there are other
internal injuries.
The horse drawing the roller was a
colt. 1t started suddenly, throwing
the boy off the seat. 1t raced across
the field, hauling him along by the
tangled reins, and brought up against
a fence. There 1t backed the roller
over the driver.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Mutual Surprise.

A mission worker in New Orleans
was visiting a reformatory near that
city not long ago when she observed
among the inmates an old acquaint-
ance, a negro lad long thought to be
q model of integrity. "Jim!" ex-
claimed the mission worker. "1s II
possible I find you here?" "Yassum,"
blithely responded the backslider. IT'S
charged with stealth barrel o. sweet
pertaters." The visitor sighed. You,
JIM" she repeated. Il am surprised"
"Yassum," said Jim. $50 was l or
wouldn't be herei"
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Headache

"My father has been sufferer from sick
headache for the last twenty Eve years and
never found any relief until he began
taking your Cascsrets. Since he has
begun taking Cascarets he has never had
the headache. They have entirely cured
him. Cascarets do what you recommend
them to do. will give you the privilege
of using his name. "-E. M. Dickson,
II7o Resiner ST., w. indianapolis, Ind.
Pleasant. Paistabie. Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Sickeni WEAKEN or Gripe.
1oc. Csc. Soc. Never sold In bulk. The Ren-
uipe tablet stamped c. Guaranteed 70
cure or your money back "
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
The Missing Mr.. Curtis.

A letter bearing the postmark of
Seattle, Wash, has been received by
Mrs. Frank S. Curtis from her hus-
band, who disappeared from the
Wayne hotel in Detroit April 81, while
bound for Mackinaw, Mich. The let
ter is so incoherent as to lead his
wife, who lives in Crawford, n. j., to
fear that his mind has failed him.
Curtis is a railroad engineer, and
while designing the intricate track
plans for the new Grand Central sta
ton in New York he was engaged to
lay out railroad in West Virginia.
1t was on that business that he went
to Michigan, from where he disap-
peared. The letter gives no address
and the Seattle police have been
asked to look for him.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04

The total assessed valuation OF Mar
shall is $2,46S, $50, an increase OF $24,-
675 over last year. Automobiles make
up the greater part of the increase.
DR.. Long and Warden Fuller, heads
OF the two state institutions at Ionia,
are not in accord with the act of Gov.
Warner in vetoeing the bill which
would have allowed the use OF oleo in
state institutions. They declare that
good oleo is better than the class OF
butter which II is sometimes neces-
sary to buy to supply the institution.
Gov. Warner is reported to have
said that he had decided not to sign
the bill removing the prohibition of
the use of oleomargarine in the state
institutions. He said he considered
the measure in the interests of a few
Chicago packers and against the
Michigan farmers.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
palx Released on ball.

Milton ]. DAILY, who is fighting extra
dition on a bribery charge after in
dictment by the grand jury of Jackson
county in connection with the binder
Irvine plant and sisal gratis at the
state prison, has been released on $685.
900 bail at Chicago, following his ar
raignment. He will have a hearing on
habeas corpus proceedings on June 8.
Deputy Sheriff Stroebel has re-
turned from Chicago, where he went
to serve the extradition papers and be
present at Days arraignment.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Sale of Beer Stamps.

Here is a puzzle: The May receipts
for the sale of all kinds of internal
revenue stamps are nearly double
those of last May, despite the fact
that some 10 counties embraced local
option last fall, and as result are
now supposedly as dry as the Sahara
desert. The sale OF beer stamps has
not fallen off, and few of the brew
cries in local option towns bought as
many stamps as ever during the
month.
The latest records in the local In
ternal revenue Office shows that there
has been a heavy influx of saloon
keepers, hotelkeepers, etc, into the
wet counties, and that the number OF
new arrivals in Detroit just about tops
the list of wet migrants.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04

Bert Reach, of Boyne City, serving
a jail sentence for illegal fishing, stat.
ed that he had caught the fish to keep
his family from starvation. On investi.
eating the story the officers found the
family in restitution, and they have
been taken in charge by the superin.
tendent of the poor.
After being out is hours, the jury
in the case OF s. r. Marcott, OF Me.
nominee, against the 500 Line rail
road. returned a verdict of $4,000 for
the plaintiff, who sued for damages
claiming that a. cold he had caught II
sleeper on the road had resulted ir
pneumonia.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
WESTON, ocean-to-ocean Wake

Said recently: when you feel down and
out, feel there is no use living, just take
your bad thoughts with you and walk
them off. Before you have walked a mile
things will look roster. just try it," Have
you noticed the increase in walking of
late in every community? Many attribute
it to the comfort which Aliens Foot Ease,
the antiseptic powder to be shaken into
the shoes, gives to the millions now using
it. AS Weston has said, at has real mer-
it." 1t cures tired. aching feet while you
walk. 10000 testimonials. Order a 25c
package to-day of any Druggist and be
ready to forget you have feet. A trial
package of ALIENS FOOT.EASE sent
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, lie
Roy. n. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Doesn't Want Fourth Term.

Mayor Breitmeyer followed Gov
Warner in an address at Ludington
when the Detroit Board of Commerce
landed there and, during the course of
his remarks, said: Good people of
Ludington, Gov. Warner told me this
morning that he will not be your gov
ernor again"
This is probably the first public an
nouncement that the governor does
not want fourth term.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
Misfortune Comes AGAIN.

Anne Louise, infant daughter OF
Charles NJ Hackley, Muskegon's blind
young millionaire, is dead. The nature
OF the child's ailment is unknown.
Esther and Charles. Jr., his two
other children, are seriously i'll.
Mr.. Hackley lost his eyesight some
months ago through the premature ex.
plosion of some dynamite with which
he was about to blast stumps from q
field.
The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04
AN INDIGESTION
REMEDY FREE

Many people who are otherwise
healthy suffer from Indigestion, or
dyspepsia. When you consider that
the stomach and allied digestive or
gans are the most important organs
OF the body, 1t would seem that a dis.
order there is to be taken very seri.
ously.
Dyspeptics cannot eat the things
they like; food sours in the stomach.
then chronic constipation begins, or.
as Is often the case, you have been
constipated all along, and the stools
are forced and irregular.
But there is no use letting indigestion
go until II becomes chronic and under
mines your health. 1t is good advice to
gist and get bottle OF Or. CaidweIi's
Syrup Pepsin. the wonderful cure for
stomach, liver and bowel troubles That
Is what G. Fowler OF Carson City, Mich.
the same and are cured are Ida A. For
tune, Of Grand Junction, Tenn, B. F.
Thompson. of Shenandoah. Ia, who ac-
tually considers that 1t saved his life.
the druggist, and. taken according to di-
rections, IL will probably be all you need.
1t is liquid. acts gently, never gripes,
and besides the laxative effect, contains
the stomach, and that is what is espe-
cially needed in indigestion.
All sufferers from Indigestion who have
never used DR.. Caldwelfs Syrup Pepsin
the doctor. 1t will be sent direct TO your
home without any charge In this way
thousands have proven TO their own sat-
isfaction DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is
the very remedy they needed to cure In
digestion. When once you use this grand
remedy you will throw violent cathartics,