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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
The Innocent Standard.
Every individual firm and c.

Every individual firm and Cor
poration enjoying a monopoly and
pursuing monopoly methods.
every railroad indulging 10 the
giving of rebates, every business
interest thriving by Unfair compe
tition and favoritism and every
financial interest tied up with Or
dependent upon such conditions,
will rejoice in the failure of the
Standard Oil Company suits in
Chicago and applaud the peculiar
bias Of mind of the judge whose
mental attitude was the cause.
Laymen will again throw up their
hands in despair of understanding
the peculiarities of the law Or the
mysterious workings of the legal
mind. and heavy weight will be
added to the load of distrust of
courts and legal proceedings in the
popular mind.
Just what will be the effect upon
the anti trust law and further ef
forts to enforce or amend it is diff
cult to predict. Undoubtedly sen
timent in favor of Federal regula
ZION of corporations will be large
ly increased and that subject will
be live one at the regular session
of Congress next December, pos
sibIy at the approaching extra ses
sion. Probably, also, there will
be some additions to the ranks of
those who favor Federal ownership
Of railroads. Certainly there will
be increased determination to find
some way by which transportation
advantages shall be absolutely just
and equal for all business inter
ests, great or small, monopolistie
or competitive, within State o,
in,erstate.-St. Louis Star.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

that trip to the city and came back
broke"
THAT just illustrates" said Fin
negan, ''what money will do when
it is kept moving. Here's one five
dollar bill that has paid three five
dollar debts in less than a minute
and a half, and Jim has his five
back again."
The Station Agent took the bill,
twisted it into taper, touched a
match to it, and calmly proceeded
to light his cigar with it.
Finnegan and the Grocery Clerk
were too astonished at this seem
ingly reckless Coal Oil -Johny's act
Of the Station Agents TO find words
to express their feelings.
"Yes,' drawled the Station
Agent. sit illustrates lot more
than that-ihis bill is the rankes
counterfeit that ever struck town.
"Weil, what do you know abou,
that" exclaimed Finnegan.
"Now, wouldn't that jar yoa,'
echoed the Grocery Clerk.
''Notbing to get excited about,
gentlemen" said the Station Agent,
'the bill served our purpose just
as well as if it bad been ii good
one. 1t didu't cost me anything
| found it. We've paid our debts
to each other and no one is any
loser"
"WelI, it's new one on me,
said Finnegan, ''and the cigars are
on me, too"
And he passed out the cheroots.
"I'll have to take a day off and
figure it out" said the Grocery
Clerk, "l'll be blamed if | under
stand it,"
''There are lot of things you
don't understand" replied the Sta
ton Agent with smile.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Congress Acts At Last.

In the last hours of the Sixtieth
Congress an enactment bearing on
liquor shipments was finally
agreed upon. 1t is one article of
revised Federal Penal Code, and
though not all the temperance peo-
pie have been contending for, will
prove an immense reinforcement
of State prohibitory laws. 1t con-
tains three provisions, the viola.
tion of which by common carriers
exposes them to severe penalties.
The first of these prohibits the
railway and express companies
from collecting the price of liquor
shipped across State line. All
such shipments must now be paid
for by the purchaser dealing d.
rectly with the seller, without the
Intervention of the carrier. The
second inhibition is against deliv-
ering any such package of liquors
to persons other than the consignee
or upon his written order. But of
all the provisions of the law the
third, which is that all shipments
of liquor must be plainly marked
with the name and quantity Of
their contents and the name of the
consignee, is the most important.
This simple requirement of com.
plete publicity will do more to re.
duce the shipments of liquor than
anyth that has yet been devised:
The law is, as we have said. not
all that is to be desired; but as fal
as it goes, it is all good. Thai
the men in Congress who have
bee so long engaged in killing al
sorts of temperance legislation al
lowed this bill to 90 through
even Speaker Cannon, mirabil'
dictu, favorlng and voting for it il
committee of the whole-showi
that some of them have seen
light.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

+, dis. In an appeal to the United
States court of appeals Judge
Grosscup overruled the verdict
and remanded the case for a new
trial.
ln clearing the Standard Oil Co.
from this charge the process adopt
ed by Judge Andrews was both
easy and effective. He simply
ruled out all the evidence tending
to prove the defendant guilty and
left the prosecution without leg
to stand on. Then he instructed
the jury to bring in verdict de-
claring the defendant innocent of
the charge.
What is going to be the outcome
of such favoritism on part Of the
courts toward the trusts is not diff
ficult to see. 1t means that the
men who control both the monopo
listic corporations and the rail
roads through the constant grow
ing of the Capitalization of wealth
will be free to enter into any ar
rangement between the producing
and the and the transporting ends
to stife all competition. 1t will
also tend to widen the distrust Of
the masses in the integrity of the
judiciary.
1t means, further, that monopo
ly has come to stay and is being
upheld in the courts. Wealth will
rule the nation, and the battle of
the future viii! be the wrestling of
the monopoly privilege from The
hands of private individuals and
investing it in the people.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Pointed Paragraphs.

Many a barber-chair occupan
is cut and dried.
Money talks, but it frequent,
goes without saying.
A welI.preserved woman isn''
necessarily a canned peach. )"
And lots of young men act sen
sibly until they fall in love.
A short answer may turn a bliss
ful honeymoon into matrimoniai
strife.
The man who claims to be able
to do anything he wants to seldom
wants to.
A wise man never asks a woman
her age; he simply tells her SHE
doesn't look it.
The less man talks the less ht
may be expected of belonging to
an Auanias Club.
If people could live on food fol
| thought the baker and butche,
would have to retire. from bust
ness.
If a man marries for money ht
may be able to make his wife be
Iieve be didn't-for II week or ter
days.
| After refusing to marry maj
a woman is disappointed if b.
doesn't visit a booze emporium an
try to drown his disappointment
Chicago News.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
A Rural Enoch Arden.

"In our little town in western
state" said Brown, there was a half
witted sort of a fellow named Bill
Wilkes. One day Bill took to the rail.
road tracks and never reappeared for
about six years. In the meantime his
wife, Bette. took in washing and sup
ported the family. One day Bill came
back. He went around to the kitchen
coor, softly opened it, stuck In his
head and said. Boo, Bettie.' Bette
turned around from her washtub. 'Te
he said Bill. Z scared ye, didn't l.
Bette" Wherever l see q stage hus
band return to his family l think ol
Bills greeting after six years alb
sence: Boo. Bette. scared ~
didn't ~"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
PRIOR TO DAYS OF COPYRIGHT
Golden Opportunity That cassandr,
Overlooked.

Xanthippe, Cassandra. Queen Eliza
beth and Dido were walking along the
Styx one afternoon not long ago and
the conversation between these emf
nent ladies turned upon prophecy
With the exception of Cassandra none
Of them seemed to take much stock
In it.
Tell me the honest truth now, Cas-
sandra-could you really see into the
future?" asked Dido with a skeptical
smile at the prophecies.
Il could, honestly" said Cassandra
earnestly
How far. Cassie?" queried Queer
Elizabeth
"All the far there was" said Cas-
sandra.
"Humph," said Xanthippe. Gould
you see as far ahead as-Rudyard
Kipling?"
Yep" said Cassandra. I'D read all
Kipling ten years before the fall oi
Troy"
Then all I've got 10 say saiG
Xanthippe tartly. lis you were an aw
full fool not to copy the stuff down Ant
publish it as your own"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

Revising the tariff with a hole
$3.50, ,0oO, 900 in the treasury means
just one ,hing-if tariff duties are
made lower the taxes will have tu
be paid in some other way. The
country needs the money, it Ii
needing more and more each year,
and the people have to dig down
and raise it. 1t strikes us it NIGH
as we'll come out of a tariff tax as
we'll as from any other old tax. We
have always been told anyway that
it was the foreigner who paid the
tax under the tariff, and we don''
quite see what we owe the foreign
ers in this matter.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
business like and modern meth DDS

business like and modern meth Ods
should be shelved. Arguma nts
and even statistics are of little
avail with hard-shell.moss- backs
who are still planting by the SIGNS
Of the zodiac and skimming os Ell
the top of the soil, stirring np
from two to four inches of chemi
cal labratory debris, under the
false impression that this is the
only fertility they OVID; combined
with this goes the wierd belief that
% to 4 feet of good soil lying
below this is full of 'pizen." His
tory when it is backed up by care >
fully preserved records which
furthermore are checked up year
by year is something that no man,
however eel.hke his nature, can
dodge. Therefore we submit the
Denmark formerly occupied the
lowest rung of the agricultural
ladder. This little European com.
munity about half the size Of our
so called potato state, Maine, and
precisely the size of the combina-
tion formed by boulder-covered
Connecticut and marshy Maryland
has risen from the bottom rung to
the big firm platform surmounting
the agricultural ladder, and Dem
mark started early and did it in
the right way.
In 1s45 this small European
community established hig b
schools where real agriculture and
horticulture was taught. There
are now 7S of these with an attend
ance of some 5000. Its marked
success is the result of educating
children in these schools. As soon
as the pupils take up their work
on the farm and market garden
they throw away the old farmers
aImanacs and wipe off the slate
the time honored custom of plant
ing lima beans after 4 o'clock in
the afternoon of May 29th, hence
in thirty years they jumped this
toy kingdom to the very top and
the result is that Denmark's butter,
bacon, eggs an1 all other agricul-
tural products that Denmark ships,
bring the top notch returns in the
markets of the world against all
the other inhabitants thereof.-Ex.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

A national socialism will be the
outcome of that treatment which
fines corporations guilty of law
breaking, bat does not punish the
individual who really is RESPONSE
BILE.
The above paragraph is not
from the "Appeal To Reason, "
that ultra socialistic organ, nor is
it one of our own expressions on
the subject to which it relates.
1t was uttered by DR.. Woodrow
Wilson, president of the Princeton
College, in an address before the
Virginia Society of St. Louis one
evening last week, and goes to
show the drift of thought in men
who are recognised for their cs'l'
ture and broad-minded liberalism.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
The greatest of all newspapers

The greatest of all newspapers
is the daily Globe Democrat, of
st. Louis. 1t has no equal or rival
in all the west and ought to be in
the hands of every reader Of any
daily paper. 1t costs, by mail,
postage prepaid, daily, including
Sunday, one year, 100; 6 months,
s.. 90; 3 months, 81 80; daily with
out Sunday, one year, s4.0O; 6
months, $500: 3 months, Sl.00;
Sunday eaition-a big newspaper
and magazine combined, As to 1G
pages every Sunday. one year,
200; 6 months, sl.00. \ sub
| scription for the Globe Democrat.
| at these prices, is the best possible
| newspaper investment. Send your
order to day. or write for free
sample copy to Globe Printing
Company, St. Louis. Mo. See
special offer of the ''Twice-a
Week" issue of the Globe Demo.
| crat, two years for s1.25, else.
| whers Il this issus.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Why and Wherefore.

A minister one day found little
boy in tears and questioned him as to
the cause of his distress. The young
ster replied that his father had pun
ished him for being naughty, and he
was mighty glad that his mother
hadn't done it.
Why do you prefer 70 have your far
ther whip you?" questioned the min
lister Is it because he is less severe
than your mother"
No replied the boy. but when
he licks me ma says he's brute and
always gives me money to buy candy
-Harper's Weekly.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

The re. election of ''Uncle joe
Cannon as Speaker of the House
was a fore9one conclusion, Of
course; but it is becoming evident
that there is a good deal Of restive
ness in the country over tho Can
nonized rules by which that body
has been governed, and are now to
changed. There is no doubt but
that these rules conferred too much
power upon the Speaker. Under
them the members could not make
a moye except with the consent If
the Speaker. No matter how
popular measure might have been
with the members NO one could
bring it up for consideration on'
less it had the Speakers personal
approval, or be consented to il
against his own judgment, which
is something "Uncle Joe" did moi
do often. All the deliberalion Of
the House was centered in ths
Speaker, and no member could ad
dress the house without a previou'
understanding with the chair. Th'
nature and purpose of the mem
ber's address was therefore familiar
to the presiding officer in advance
If it failed to meet the latter
approval be refused the mem
Der recognition on the floor.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
OIL Trust Wins.

What has been predicted in these
columns would be the outcome of
the governments suit against the
Standard Oil Co., happened in the
federal court in Chicago last We'd
nesday, when Judge Anderson in.
structed the jury 10 bring in a YER
dict of not guilty.. This was in
the retrial Of the governmeat's
case against the Standard 10 which
that company was fosnd guilty Of
rebating at . previous trial and
ansd oas, ,Aoo, BOO by Judge Ian
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

"One Of the curious things about
this revival Of the puxsle erase" r.
marked the man who notices httls
things, ''is the fact that I never have
met Q man or woman who plays With
the cut-up pictures nowadays who
knew them a. . child. Whenever
have commented on the superior
beauty and dimculty q the preoeat.
day puzzles over the ones ! knew -
little boy the invariable respease AAs
been: 1t 10 curious. but never saw
any when was q cAilA.' I doat just
know how my youthful social standing
could have compared with theirs. but
do know the old.tims picture pasales
were sold in the best shops IN ~ city
at that time.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
MADE MRS. CULLEN FEEL PROUD
Pats AiIn,snt q Grand Large Disease
for q Small Man.

A Chicago physician SAYS that he
was once called to visit sick maH
named Cullen, living in a tenement
Just before the doctor took his DE-
parture a number of the residents oi
the place dropped in To hear The yer
dict.
Well, me fri'nds" said Mrs. Cullen
with an air OF modest triumph. "t'.s
doc1her here says Pat has an a'tack'
of plural pneumonia. Docther. says
/ to him, 'aint You sxasseratin' d
troife. for, TO me way OF thinkin Pat
is too shmall a man for ihot. Single
pneumonia, I behave. Is all thered be
room in him for
But the docther stands by his dec!
sion. Sure. it's a grand, large disease
for such a shmal1 man as Pat"
And the woman's attitude showed
the conscious pride that she feit.-Il
lnstxatai Saaday Magazine.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
At Finnegan's Cigar Store.

Heres that FIVE l owe you,''
said the Station Agent, as he hand
ed Finnigan a brand new silver
certificate.
eyes, and just need it." laugh
ed Finnigan, as be passed the bill
along to the Grocery Clerk, ''pve
been owing Tom this FIVE for a
week now"
SWELL" replied the G. 9. with
q grin as he handed the flyer to the
Is. A. "We'll let the good work
20 on, that's just the amount pve
ewsd jim here eyer sinee I made
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Just to Make Sure.

An old farmer, who by hard work
and thrifty habits had got together q
small fortune, decided that the time
had at length arrived when he was
justified in ordering family carriage.
He went to a carriage builder and
described in detail the kind Of vehicle
he wished to buy.
Now, / suppose you want rubber
tires?" said the carriage builder.
mo, sir" replied the old farmer ii
tones Of resentment. NY folks Atn'1
that kind. When they're s1dta1 tASv
wat = nav ID" s.-.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Sick Headache

Il have been a frequent sufferer
from sick headache for years, yet
never would use headache tablets.
Ny son persuaded me to use DR..
Miles Anti-Pain Pills during one
Of these attacks, and to my surprise
it gave me speedy relief"
MRS. LOUISE LEWELLYN,
Powell, S. D.
When the disturbance which
causes headache affects the nerves
at the base of the brain, which con-
meet with the large nerves that run
to the stomach, heart and lungs, it
frequently causes headache with
vomiting-sick headache.
DR.. Miles Ant-Pain Pills
soothe the irritated brain nerves
and the cause of pain is removed.
The first package will benefit; IL not,
your druggist will return your money.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

Hikealong Hsnry--Wot's happened
TO Measly Bill an where did he git
them new shoes?
Flooding Pete-Didp't you hear OF
where that's sendin' him . dollar .
week
Dollar q week. Hully smoke!
Wct'1i he do with ~"
Bill says he's goln' to spend every
cent Of IT,
Well. say, what do you think OF
that? Amt he de wealthy voluptu.
sfy."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
The Value Of Books.

A young girl once asked Mark
Twain if he liked books for Christ
mas gifts.
We'll that depends" drawled the
great humorist. If a book has .
leather cover it is really valuable as .
razor strop. If 1t is brief, concise
work, such as the French write, 1t is
useful to put under the short leg Of q
wabbly table. An old-fashfoned book
with a clasp can't be beat as a missile
to hurl at a dog, and a large book. like
a geography, is as good az a piece Of
tin to nail over broken pane Of
glass"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Wheeled a Sheep for Charity.

When a young woman asked farm
er at Shavington, near Market Dray-
ton, England, for contribution toward
a bazar to be held at the village Of
Calverhall on Saturday next he prom
ised to give her live sheep on condi-
ton that she pushed it in a wheelbar-
row from Shavington TO Calverhall. =
distance of nearly three miles
The offer was promptly accepted,
and in the presence Of a large crowd
the woman wheeled sheep weighing
80 pounds from one village to the
other and thus won the wager
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

The more plain and satisfyiAe eHf
state appears. the more We nay know
that we are living in IN unreal woeld.
For the real world 10 not satisfytAG.
The real world is full Of braciAg ~
wilderments and brutal surprises.
Comfort is the blessing and the curse
OF the English. and Of Americans.
With them it 10 a loud comfort, Q wild
comfort, \ screaming and caDorinE
comfort: but comfort at bottem STILL
For there 10 but An inch Of difference
between the cushioned chamber and
the padded cell--Gilbert X. Chester
ton.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

Not 90 very long ago the liquor
interests firmly believed that they
were in possession of the earth,
but now they are pretty nearly
convinced that they are simply get
ting hades.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

The compulsory school super
vision bill has passed both houses
of the Missouri legislature and
has been signed by Governor Had
lev. This law creates the Office OF
county school supervisor, with a
salary of $500 a year. half to be
paid by the state and half by the
county.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Book Farmer or Moss Back.

Under this caption a lively little
paper published on Long Island,
n. Y, and called The Agrono'
mist" has the following:
The idiotic term ''book farmer
apelisd to agrisulturists pursuing
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
century.

The poor old Globe Democrat
can now no longer point to that
S29, 900, 600 fine against the Stan
dard Oil Co. as proof that the
courts are not being dominated by
the trusts.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17
Sl.OO Per Annum.
Senator Foraker has returned to
his o bio home and will practice
law. 1t may be assumed that the
law he viii practice will be the
oily kind.

Government by the Judges may
have been satisfactory to the an
cient Hebrews, but we do not he
lieve it will prove 90 with the
American people of the twentieth
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-17

We have Just received n fr"-'
supply of paper stock, ard cnn d"
! yo,r letters heads, envelopes, card
bills. etc. in first-claas ~ e nd
as cheap as anyone cleo. ',y "nr
Job prlatlae.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-30
NEGRO WORKMAN
 BLOWN TO PIECES
CHARLIE SLAToN WAS WORKING IN WELL NEAR BoYLES WHEN THE DYNAMITE CHARGE WAS SET OFF.

Charlie slaton. a negro workman, was of the Birmingham Fertilizer company, near Boyles. his body being literally torn to pieces by the explosion of charge of dynamite in a well where the negro was working.
 From what could be learned of the &C., cident yesterday 1t seems that Slaton and several other workmen were engaged in digging well on the grounds of the fertilizer plant. It Is understood that the batteries with which the dynamite was being set off were working badly and before each shot they were tested A shot was prepared and Slaton was down in the well to- see that the wires were connected to the fuse properly.
 When everything was in readiness for the shot Slaton called to the men above him, Al right" The man at the bat tery supposed that slaton wanted to test the battery as he had been doing. when in reality Slaton was signalling the men above to draw him on, of the well. When the batteries were connected for the supp posed test the dynamite was set off and Slaton was killed instantly.
 The negro's body was badly torn and many bones were broken. The matter was immediately reported to Coroner B. l.. Brasher, who went to the scene at once. He held a preliminary investiga- ton of the case yesterday afternoon. An official investigation will be held later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-30
PYTHIANS MEET AND
 MAKE GREAT PLANS

At the call of Grand Chancellor H. M. Beck of the Knights of Pythias of Ala bama, all the deputies of the various dis tricts in the state, and all the committees on district work, held meeting In the Hotel Hillman yesterday to map out the work for the state organization during the coming year.
 Chancellor Beck, who was recently elected, has taken great interest in the work He was host yesterday at an elab- crate dinner when rousing enthusiasm was displayed, and the officers decided on a slogan for this year-15,000 members by May 1, 1910." The plans for the year were completed and dates for the district con- vacations arranged consecutively.
 Among the out-of-town guests were A. w. Humphries of Oxford, Charles Black of Tuscaloosa, p. B. McCarty of Demop- oils, O. w. Byrne of Stockton, J. T. Letcher of Montgomery A. J. Morris of Newton, J. B. Rylance of Dadeville, H. l.. Gwin of Gadsden, D. l.. Tinneman of AndaIusa, Harwell G. Davis of Thomas vile. J.. M. Dannelly, grand keeper of records and seal, was also an energetic factor In the meeting.