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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-12-07
FARMlN GToN.

Pennington. Mrs w. D.. McCor-
mick pleasantly entertained the High
five club Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Harry Sawyers of St. Louis was an
out OF town guest.
Mrs. j. L. Therme of Keosauaua
was called here Thursday by the Ill
ness of her brother L. Meek.
Miss Maude Proper of Harrisburg
was the guest of Miss Mamie Kirk
patrick Saturday while enroute to Bur-
lington where she is attending busi-
ness college.
Miss Amelia Pfister was hostess to
the Kensington club on Wednesday,
evening. A dainty two course lunch
con was served.
l.. Burg of Billings, Mont was a
Harrington visitor Tuesday. Mr.
Burg was formerly a resident of this
place when his father operated the l.
Burg carriage factory.
| Mrs. A. w. Beeson was a keosauqus
| visitor Wednesday.
| Misses Edith and Marie Dehart o
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Greater Interest in Good Music Brought
About by Edison Records

lis notable people today taking FAR
greater better class of music than ever beor
and Il Ia also development almost wholly due
farreachns eevatne effects Of the Edison Phono
graphs and Edison Records.
Amona the Records announced is "The Gar
den Of song of the rich, oldfashioned
Me-" "Bachs Air. rendered by Vic
his orchestra which every one should hear
renders the famous Mendes
sohn aspiring Song" Edison Standard e mnute
ords And there A other Records this list Of
which YOU should They reoitatlons,
selections every character These Records
sale in this city by all Edison agents.
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MoulroN.


Moulton-J. B. Stucky, who has
',o II, fo- 7nveral months died
Wednesday at noon.
Ms. Enie Ware was in Ottumwa
shopping last week.
A. J. Cowell of Moravia spent Sun
day with his brother VIM. Cowell.
RMS Rick Ball visited in Cincinnati
Thursday.
Mrs. Audie Wheeler from Des
MONIES has been visiting her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Wright.
The Eastern Stars of Moulton We're
royalty entertained by the Centerville
order at Centerville Tuesday night.
Miss Anna and Emma Wiseman
spent Thursday in Centerville with
relatives and friends.
| W. r. Nighswonger left Monday for
| ST. Francis. Kansas to look after bus
mess and visit friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moore spent last
Thursday in Centerville.
Mrs Thomas Kennett and daugh-
ter Flossie of Corydon and Mrs. Will
son and daughter Hazel of MENDOZA
spent Sunday with Mrs. Robt. Mudd
and children.
Mrs. R. A. McGriff of Des Moines
has been visiting her parents Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Sherman Clark north of town.
E. ]. Richardson who came to at At.
tend the funeral of his father left
Saturday for his home near Liberty,
Ariz.
/ You can sell eggs chickens, horses,
hogs sheep, cattle, seed corn and all
kinds of grain, or you can exchange
articles by putting want ad in the
Courier. Read the want ads today.
You have something you want to sell,
or there is something you want to
buy-write your ad and then count the
words and send it in with stamps to
Ipay for the number of insertions de-
sired
Maude Horn who is teaching at Mo-
ravia is visiting her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. J. s. Horn southeast of town.
/; Mrs. Geo. Arbogast of Nuna spent
Sunday with her sister Mrs. J. T
Sturgeon.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Gale who are
now living near Centerville came ovei
to visit relatives and friends last week
l.. NJ. Clark and D. y. Brady left foI
Des Moines Sunday.
Mrs. E. E. Bryan and son Harrison
, have been visiting the formers parent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Baker of Cen
. terville
Mrs. E. C. Hanna went to Centervillt
Monday and attended the Easter
Stars banquet Tuesday night.
Arthur Noten and Mrs. Grace Fish
err of Ottumwa spent Sunday thei
parents Mr. and Mrs. N. Noten of thi
city.
Mrs. Austin Bassett of Cantril ha
been visiting her mother Mrs. F. N
Bond.
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OttunWa Optical Go.
Upstairs Over New = and 10c Store.
Ask for Dr.. Hanseii.
after a brief visit with relatives in OF

after a brief visit with relatives in OF
tumWa.
You can sell nuts, shelled or in the
shell, by advertising them in the want
ads. Write and tell the Courier what
you want to advertise and it will be
attended to.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Rosecrans visit
ed friends in Blakesburg Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Peterson and
two children of Nebraska visited on
Sunday at the Mrs. Catherine Lewis
home.
Miss Alma Potter who is teaching
school near Agency spent Thanksgiv-
| ing day at the home of her mother
Mrs. C. o. Potter.
Elmer Williams is workin~ on a
farm near Lincoln Mo-. for his uncle
Harry Garfield.
Miss Stella Potter who is employed
| in Ottumwa is enjoying a vacation at
the parental home.
| James Johnston is home from a
business trip to Des Moines.
1 Miss Ethel Cloyd of near Blakes-
burg visited briefly at the Scott john
ston home last week.
F. e. Perry who is working for the
Milwaukee company at Polo. Mo-, Wis
tied Sunday with his family here.
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19h@255 lbs. 135M1a5 lb,
Chicago Live Stock Market.

Chicago Dec. 6.-The live stock
market follows:
CATTLE-Market strong to ten
higher; receipts, $4,000; beeves. $40
9.25; stockers, feeders, $3.15@ $50;
cows, heifers. s2.15@5.7o; westcrners,
$4.25@7.50.
er: receipts. $4,000; light, s7.S5@S.35;
mixed, s7.9o@850; heavy, sS@S.55;
rough. $S@S.20; good choice heavy,
$8.20@S.55; bulk sales. s8.2o@S.45.
SHEEP-Market ten higher; re-
ceipts 10000; natives, $3@5.2o; lambs
$5.25@7.S5.
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LEGAL,
Notice of Final Settlement.


In the matter 1T the state of Hannah
McGrath to Katherine Calman,
John McGrath. Phillip McGrath,
Patrick McGrath and Josephine Ry-
an, and to whom it may concern
You are hereby notified that the An
al report OF the undersigned executrix
of said estate will be filed in the Of
fee of the Clerk OF the District Court
of Wapello County, Iowa, on or before
the 27th day of November. 1909, and
unless you appear and show cause 10
the contrary. If any there be. on or
before the second day of the next
term of said court, commencing ut
Ottumwa in said county on the Sd day
of January, 1910, said report will be
approved and the undersigned execu-
trix discharged from further duty and
responsibility therein.
Mary McGrath. Executrix.
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Chicago Grain Market.

Chicago, Dec. 6.-The grain market
follows:
WHEAT-No. 2 red, .s1.20@1.22; No
8 red, s112@1.19: No. 2 hard, $1,000
1107s; No. hard, S1.04@1.0S.
WHEAT-Dec. opened. $1.06B
highest, $10T5s; lowest, $1.06; closed
s1071z: May. SLOT
CORN-No. 2, CSC; No. 8. 551a q
55%c.: No. white, 551s @55&c.; No
yellow. 551s @55Ac.
CoRN--Dec.-57@ @57ho.; highest
5sc.; lowest, 57Bc.; closed, 5sc.; May
61hc.
OATS-No. 2 white, 4sAc.: No.
white, 41@42c: standard. 421ac.
OATS-Dec. opened, 40ssc.; highes
407s41c.; lowest, 4o%c.; closed, 4osc.
May, 42$4c.
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OAK RIDGE.

Oak Ridge--Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Widger returned home Tuesday from
West Grove where they visited with
Mrs. Frank Hanna.
Clarence Baker, wife and daughter
visited Saturday and Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Ruckman of Ottumwa.
Miss Bessie Robinson visited Thurs
day and Friday with friends at
Batavia.
Reggie Hills and family of Blakes-
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Stock Yards. Chicago, Dec. e.-It
was nrn close to a good market the
past week on sheep and lambs. Fat
sheep at finish We're UP 15@25c, while
sheep ruled strong. Feeding sheep and
lambs We're firm from start to finish al
best level of the season. Trade weak
ened last each day after most urgent
orders were filled. but was firm each
succeeding day. Quality was fairly
good, and few offerings for feeders
We're on sale. Western wethers sold at
s5@5.35 and ewes at S3@4S5 while
yearlings went at $5@7, bulk $6@6.75.
Feeding ewes made s2.75 and yearlings
$5.65. Native ewes sold mostly at S4.25
@5, with yearlings downward from
1913. Bucks landed at 1904. Native
lambs reached s7.S5, and most fairly
god to choice ones went at 1880
775. with seconds at $4.5o@6.25, bulk
$5.50@6. Western lambs sold at $6.75
@765, feweunder s7.t5. Feeding grades
topped at s7.15, with others at $650@
no Quotations follow:
Native lambs, plain to best $6.75@7.S5
Range lambs, poor to best. 6.75@765
Gull lambs 4.75@6.25
Feeding lambs -. !. :. 635@7.15
Wethers, plain to best ;. -. 4.65@5.50
Yearlings, poor to choice -. 5.25@7.00
Breeding ewes, aged :. -. 3.75m5.10
Ewes, inferior to prime 49,. 3.S5GD5.00
Feeding yearlings ~. ). 5.0O@5.65
Feeding wethers - .... 4.15d465
Bucks, stays and Gull sheep 2.OO@4.0
Actual receipts 90 hoes at Chicago
Friday were 21,236. including 1,433 di-
rect to down town packers.
Average price of hogs at Chicago,
1922, against s816 Friday, 1914 a
week ago, S5.74 year ago and S4.S4
| two years ago.
| Combined receiots of hogs at eleven
markets the past week, 100000, against
$4,000 the previous week. $4,000 same
week last year and $4,000 correspond
| ing week two years ago. Total for 1903
| to date 21,041.000, against 25,754,O00
same period 1908 and 22,25S00O cor
responding time 1907.
Estimated average weight of hogs
at Chicago the past week 222 lbs, the
{, lightest in several months. against 224
lbs previous week, 215 year ago and
j 211 lbs two years ago. Average cor
4 responding week of 1899 was 256 lbs
and the ten year average for the cor
responding week since 1898, 22S lbs.
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Morris Williams
HORSES AND CATTLE AUCTION
EVERY OTHER FRIDAY
Largest Year Round Horse Marks:
West of the Mississippi. Send
Word What You Have for Sale.

NEXT F'RiDAX-THE BIG DAY.
Just about everybody and his wife
will be in Ottumwa next Friday. So
you chop house people want to make
extra provision to feed a hungry crowd
that day.
The men will be here to attend our
last Big Speeia! Horse Sale before the
holidays. and the women will be along
to spend a part of the proceeds of the
horses the men sell.
You know our enterprising mer-
chants here pay your railroad fare
where you do certain amount OF
trading about town, so 1t won't cost
lyou cent extra to come to Ottumwa
and see the crowds of people and be-
sides you buy your goods enough
cheaper to pay your railroad fare sew
eral times over.
! The horse sale will be good. / be-
| lieye l. am right in making that pre-
diction. Already l am getting word
from consignments. Among other Cal
llots reported is one load of good mules
SO you mule men want to be on hand.
J would suggest to private parties
| over southeast Iowa who will want
work stock for the coming year thai
| this holiday sale will be z
mighty good time for you to be here
/ and buy them.
! Don't forget the date, Friday, De.
cember 10th, and don't fail to come
for every body else will be here. ant
| they'll be looking for you.
\ MORRIS WILLIAMS,
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burg spent Thanksgiving at the VIM
Stevens home.
Mrs. Agnes Kirkpatrick left We'd
nesday for Oskaloosa to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Eff1e Smith,
Mrs. Terril and two daughters re-
turned to their home in Missouri Tues
day after a visit with her daughter
Mrs. Jennie Welsh.
Ed Runyon and family of Council
Bluffs visited last week at the Chas
Harter home.
Mrs. VIM. Robinson spent Saturday
with friends at Agency.
Ed Baker spent last week with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Harter
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BiDWELL.

* <&<%-H-%->-t>->-<$>-> (,
Bidwell-Miss Clara Lathrop visited
last week with relatives near Kirk
Vile.
Bruce Grooms is doing considerable
carpenter work In Blakesburg.
Mrs. Frank Smith and little son re-
turned Saturday on Milwaukee No. 8
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Ford's Harness Store,
ITO South Market St.

Keosauqua visited Thursday with Rev.
H. w. Carson and family.
Mrs. p. o. Peterson and children
visited Friday with friends in Bona
lparte.
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EsTRAYED.

COMING 2-YEAR-
old yellow steer with white, spots on
either side (not certain which side)
has q dark nose Shows part Jersey.
Finder please notify Ed Gillasple,
Ottumwa, Ia, r. No. 4.
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CARROTS, peck 49,. -. 80.
STEERS CLOSE LOW.
Last Week Saw High Prices Paid fol
Fancy Stock, But Plain vari-
eties Declined,

SCl0S b0CilNo0s 1873
Stock Yards, Chicago, Dec O.
porters bought their Christmas beeves
In the market and at auction during
the past week and paid highest prices
on record for prime kinds. F1fty-tWo
loads of show steers sold at auction at
an average price of $11.40 over 81
higher than a year ago, and nearly SO
higher than two years ago, while on
the open market prime steers sold up
to $3.50. exceeding previous record
price by zoe. All good to choice steers
were firm sale throughout the week,
but there was an excessive supply OF
common and medium to pretty good
killers, and these showed price de-
clines of 15@25c from the week pre-
vious. A small proportion of steers on
the market had quality requisite to
sell up to IS. and bulk of medium to
good grades brought s5.S5@7.25, with
plain light warmed UP classes down to
s4.s5 and lower. Western range cattle
bulk making s5@5.75, with tops al
S715. Butcher stock sold freely at 10
"a Csc advance on the week before
Prime heifers reached 81 and fat
beef cows $4.25@5.25. Bulls sold al
strong rates and calves scored Zoe ad-
vance, prime lots selling up to 50
Broad country demand for stockers
and feeders held prices at unchanged
levels, compared with a week ago
CHAMPIONSHIP load of show feeding
calves sold at auction at 5000 {
record price On the market good feed
ing steers made s4.65 = 5.25, with plair
light grades down to 81 and poo
stockers below $3.50. Prices had tn
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CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE
MARKET.

The following market is furnished By
]. G. Furman, grain and stock brok-
err, Rooms and 8. Chiffon Blk. New
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New York Butter and Tsa Market.
New York. Dec. 6.--Butter-Market
steady: receipts, 1000; creamery spec
ials, 34c. thirds to extras. 27@33c.;
held creamery, 2S@32kc.; state dairy,
25@S23ac.; process. 25h @2sc.; factory
23k@25c.; imitation creamery, 26@
csc.
EGGS-Market irregular; receipts.
5000; extra flrsts, 31@32c.; frsts, %
@30c.; refrigerator, 20@24c.
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Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago, Dec. 6.--Butter--Mar
steady. creameries, 26h @32kc.; dair-
les. 2492Sc.
EGGS-Market steady: receipts, g..
900; at mark, cases Included, 201a a
25c,; firsts, 2S1ac.;; prime firsts, 301sc
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New York Poultry Market.

New York. Dec. 6.-Poultry-Mar-
ket dressed. irregular; chickens, broii-
ers, 15@21c.; fowls. 1914 @16c; tur-
keys, 1920.
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RANGE OF LOG PRICES.

Range OF hog values at Chicago for
the past week with comparisons:
fixed and Light
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Blankets ard Robes

Several weeks ago we were very en-
thusiastic over sales CT Blankets and
Robes, but the warm wave struck us.
and put on the brakes. BUT DON'T
LET YOURSELF BE DECEIVED
ABOUT A WARM WINTER. Old Iowa
most always gets in her work. Some
times she is a little slow, but we can
look for plenty of cold weather before
next July.
BETTER PROVIDE YOURSELF
NOW, and BE REALLY WHEN IT
COMES. There is still big stock to
select from at
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LOCAL MARKETS
FIVE CENTS ADVANCE.
on Porl<ers Soar Opware
/ Other Market Items Are
Steady,

The quotations on porkers are soar
ing upwards. Another hve CENT aa.
rance in hogs in all or the classes s az
acted on the market prices TO-DAY.
Grain and other provisions remain the
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SIDE LINE

Ralph Williams has charge of the
teaming department. If you want any
heavy hauling done, cars of sand load
ed, dirt work done, household goods
moved. light express hauled, call him
UP at the sale barn. PHONE 3041.
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st, Louis Grain Markets. :

st. Louis, Dec. s.-The grain market
follows:
Wheat-Dec.-$1.osT.
Corn--57 &c.
Oats-40hc.
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CHICAGO Poultry Market.

Chicago, Dec 6.-Poultry-M Market
strong; turkeys. 15c.; chickens, 12c.;
springs, 12c.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE--THE PROPERTY
known as the John Overman Es-
tate containing four acres, good
i. seven room house. just outside city
limits, west of South Ottumwa. Adj
dress f. p. Hawk, MoraVia, Iowa.
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Choice to fancy steers .s7.75@9.5o
Medium to good steers -. $500 80
Inferior to fair steers 400@60O
Fat cows and heifers ). -. 3.40@6.0O
Canning COWS and heifers 2.00@3.15
Native bulls and stays ;. 26O0 4.T5
Feeding cattle 600@1100 Its 3.10m5.25
Fair to fancy veal Calves. 7.75@9.0
Heavy calves !. 2.5O@4.50
Export steers -. 6.50@7.40
Western range steers :. :. 4.25@7.25
heifers. 3.15@5.25
Distillery fed steers 800 6.50@7.35
Mixers and sprineers head 27.00@ 100
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&c cosN S11 -; corn, So;
Estimated Receipts for Tomorrow.
Wheat, 81.
Corn, 5s5.
Oats. 156.
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat. s@ss up; corn
unchanged.
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FOR SALES. C. B. LEGHORNS
and Orphington cockerels, one and
two dollars each If taken In Decem
Der, G.. e. Lasley, Selma. Ia.
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Peoria Corn Mark

Peoria, Dec. 6.-The. corn market
follows:
No. yellow, 54&c.
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FOR SALE--oNLY DRUG STORE IN
town of 1000 population in southern
Iowa. Address DID care Courier,
Ottumwa Ia.
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FOR EXCHANGE.

TO EXCHANGE-,SoO ACRES OF
choice, well improved Benton Co.
Ia, farm; 500 acre. Owner wants
into business; consider hardware or
general merchandise stock to SIS
900. Mather & Co. Cedar Rapids, Ia.
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WANTED.

AN EXPERIENCED
farmer. u we'll stocked farm on
shares. Address William Warner,
Dudley, Iowa.
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

FOR SALE OR EXCtIANGE--oNE
horse power gasoline engine, good as
new. Want typewriter. Address DE-
"A care Courier.
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FOR RENT.
FOR SALE.

A DAVIS COUNTY FARM IS A
good investment either for home
or income. Land as low as $40 per
acre. Write for descriptions. c. E.
Fry, Bloomfield, Ia.
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FOR SALE--APPLEs. BEN AND
Black Ben Davis, also or head of
mich cows, one pedigreed Short
Horn bull 3 years old, gentle, and
one Poland China male hog. j. o.
Reighard. Agency, Ia.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-12-10

In order to avoid deficit for the
ensuing fiscal year I directed the
heads. of departments in the prepara-
tion of their estimates to make them
as low as possible consistent with I'M
perative governmental necessity. The
result has been, as am advised by
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-12-10

the OnllGQ SIdlcS SVFSiuIueHt Il oIo'S
mept Of the contributions received ana
of the expenditures incurred III the
campaign for such elections and that
similar legislation he enacted in re-
spect to all other elections which are
constitutiomally within the control OF
congress-
Conclusion. ~
Speaking generally. the country is
in a high state of prosperity. Ihere Is
every reason to believe that we are On
the eve of substantial business ex-
pansien, and we have just garnered
harvest unexampled in the market val
ne of our agricultural products. The
high prices which such products bring
mean great prosperity for the farming
community; but, on the other hand
they mean Il very considerably lncreas-
ed burden upon those classes ID the
community whose yearly compensation
does not expand with the improvement
in business and the general prosperity.
Various reasons are given for the hlgn
prices. The proportionate increase III
the output of gold. which today is the
chief medium of exchange and is III
some respects a measure of value, fur-
nishes a substantial explanation OF at
least part Of the increase in prices.
The increase in population and the
more expensive mode Of living OF the
people, which have not been accom-
panied by a proportionate increase IN
acreage production. may furnish fuf-
ther reason. 1t is we'll to cote that the
increase in the cost Of living is NOT
confined to this country. but prevails
the world over. and that those who
would charge increases in prices to tne
existing protective tariff must meet
the fact that the rise in prices mas
taken place almost wholly in those
products of the factory and farm IN
respect to which there has been either
no increase il tho tariff or in many
instances a very considerable reduc-
ton.
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as may be found most consistent With
it's dignity, it's duty to American III
terests and its moral obligations to
Central America and to civilization. 1t
may later be necessary for me to bring
this subject to the attention of the
congress in a special message.
In the Far East.
In the far east this government pre-,
serves unchanged it's policy OF support
ing the principle of equality Of oppor-
tunity and scrupulous respect for the
integrity of the Chinese empire, to
which policy are pledged the interest
ed powers of both east and west.
By the treaty of 1908 China has un-
dertaken the abolition of likin with a
moderate and proportionate raising of
the customs tariff along with currency
reform. These reforms being a mani
fest advantage to foreign commerce as
well as to the interests Of China, this
government is endeavoring to faclli-
tate these measures and the needfu!
accuiescence of the treaty powers.
When it appeared that Chinese iikln
revenues were to be hvpothecated to
foreign bankers in connection with a
great railway project it was obvious
that the govern ments whose nationals
held this loan would have a certain
direct interest in the question Of the
carrying ont by China o the reforms
in question. The administration deem
ed American participation to be of
great national interest Happily. when
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rife rate in America, for next to
candy and beauty mixtures the spe
cial weakness of American women
is pills. They are taken to increase
and reduc weight, for strengthen
ing and whitening the skin, for driy-
ing away freckles. There are pills
to stimulate the appetite and brace
the nerves. to invigorate the brain
and stir a torpid liver.
There are over two thousand diff
erent varieties OF pills made in De-
tloit, and two hundred new kinds
are added every year. Pill discover
ers are as plentiful as sands on the
sea shore. Nearly every doctor has
at some time Or other invented a
new pill, which he christens with a
weird name and has manufactured in