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NOTIFICATION Of
RUSSIA TREATY
END RATIFIED
Continued from page one.)

1892 has been received at the State
department.
Officials decline to publish the
text of the note but admit its con-
tents have been we'll outlined In the
news dispatches from St. Petersburg.
1t may be stated on good authority
that the Russian government does
not intend to be hurried upon nego-
tiations for new treaty, but on the
other hand it does expect to include
new contention before the existing
treaty expires on Dec. 81, 1912.
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Local Data Yesterday.
General Conditions.

The southwestern storm was GER
trail Wednesday morning over Okla
homa and increased intensity II
ED caused precipitation in the mid
die and southern Rocky Mountain
and Plains States, the Gulf States,
Tennessee, Missouri, extreme south-
EN- Illinois, and extreme western
Kentucky Rains were heavy in the
middle Gulf States, New Orleans re.
porting 2.S4 inches Precipitation
was also reported on the north Pa
.cific slope. Temperature changes
were generally unimportant Rain
is indicated for this section Thurs
day, followed by colder
WILLIAM E. BARRON,
Local Forecaster.
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Youthful REASONING,

A Maryland assemblyman says the
boys up his way begin to learn poll.
ucs as soon as they leave the cradle
ny ten." he states, "a boy knows
the game pretty well. For instance.
one day in school the teacher was
asking the pupils about South Amer
lea Explain the government of ten
OF the countries down there, she
SAD to one OF the little fellows.
Ihey're republics. he quickly replied.
What are the other threeY Demo
crats.'"
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Shocked the Clergyman.

A Maine clergyman. living at tho
hotel In his town, ordered a type
writer and had 1t sent 20 his rooms.
1t came when the clergyman was out.
and the proprietor took charge Of It
When the minister returned the pro-
prietor led him behind the desk and
whispered: That case Of yours Is
on the Ice, parson. guess It will be
all right by dinner time
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River Forecast.

The 0hio-From the mouth of the
Wabash to Cairo, will continue ris-
ing for or days, but probably al
decreasing rate. The Wabash---At
Mt. Carmel, and the Tennessee, from
Florence to below Johnsonville, will
continue falling "a to SO hours. The
Mississippi--From below ST. Louis
t. above Cairo. not much change
during the next 48 hours.
WILLIAM E., BARRON,
Local Forecaster
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Seems TO Justify sunerstlt,on.

The opal associated with misfortune
oy Russians Of both sexes. who should
they chance to see an opal among the
goods displayed for purchase will buy
nothing more that day. and 1t is Gu.
rious fact that the Japanese. being un.
der the sign that this stone belongs
70, should be the nation to bring such
VI luck to the Russians during the
disastrous war between these two
countries.
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Thought II a Purchase.

Some good luck had come to him
In business that day and he felt az II
no wanted to share It with others.
SO when he reached her house and
dismissed the station hack with tt
two sorry horses he joyously handed
the driver two dollars. The driver
looked at the money. then at the man.
and then at his horses. and finally
said: "All right cir, which horse do
you want?
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His Need.

A Hiawatha. Kan, man told young
woman that he would marry II be
could find Selpmate who would be
willing 10 do all the washing and
all the other hard work around tbs
house. What you want IL woman
with asweak mind" said the girl
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Thankfulness.

Thankfulness Is an exalted and din.
cult grace. 1t 10 an essential part OF
any worthy character. OF the minor
vices, If this may be classed with them
no one Ia held more despicable than
ingratitude. -SmiIes
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NEWS OF THE RIVERS

The gauge yesterday read "a 8
feet. rise of IS of foot in the past
tventy-four hours
The Wash Honshell went to the
lever Mississippi yesterday morning
with two empties
The 0leander. in the government;
service, went to Memphis yesterday
morning
Tn Ed Myer was in and out from
Faducah on time yesterday
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cInema,oaranh N chlra

OK recent years the ctnematogrM
shows have made great strides N pa
lie favor III China unril nov afuo~
every port boastn OF al least Que IN.
alter and mang CT five or six
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eign price was found TO be CT per
cent as the result Of domestic compe-
tltion.
At the present time the industry
IN general is on competitive basis
the report says.
The cost of a suit OF clothes from
the back of sheep to the back OF 4
man Is computed in report and the
profits which accrue in the process
are traced to their sources For pur-
poses of computation the board takes
a suit OF clothes retailing at $33 and
wholesaling at $3.50. This is
said to represent fairly the suit of
clothes work by the average Ameri-
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TARIFF BOARD
URGES REDUCTION
IN WOOL RATES
Continued from page one.

found TO be gprohibitory, because ii
keeps out all except the finer grades
On cloth, the present rate of duty
is pronounced prohibitory on heavy
weights. heap and medium grades
cloth, principally because Of the epe-
cifc compensatory duty which fixes
a certain charge per pound before the
I'D valorem rate begins. 1t costs 100
per cent more to make cloth from
yarn in the United States than it
does in England and France. The
present system Of fixing the -aine nd
valorem rates Of duty on different
grades of fable is condemned as un-
fair
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FOR SALE--Two lots on Third
street (J5x100 feet) between Wash
ington and Commercial avenue. APP
ply 1903 Washington avenue.
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Christmas Dance.

The "Old Folks f" committee will
give a holiday dance Monday ever,
ing at Swoboda's hall.
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Wilma TO obllae.

u want recognition as taxpayer
said the irate citizen. "Ali right"
said the municipal boss: 'well send
the assessor around to see you again.
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building be provided for the ice q
the Commission.
BQRAHI
HITS ''LAWlESS
BIG BUSINESS
Concluded From Page One.

pointment, in diseouragement or de-
spair, thinks he can better conditions
by taking the law into his own
hands. In the hour in which order
shall be driven from it'll high place
IN the temple of liberty and in which
lawlessness and might shall come IN
it's stead, in the fearful struggle to
follow the first man TO go to the
bottom to remain there will be the
man who tolls.
"But how shall we excuse or long
sympathize with the man OF infiu-
ence and position. OF wealth and
prestige who still by word and deed
teaches disrespett for or defiance OF
tho law? Does he not know that IL
is useless to long expect law and or
der iii the common walks OF life
when lawlessness reigns supreme in
the upper air?
The danger lies in procrastination.
We learned once at tremendous cost
OF life and blood that you may have
your fugitive slave law, your Mis-
souri, compromise, your Dred Scott
decision, your fiat OF government,
your compromise with wrong, your
barter with pustice, but the hour OF
reckoning and reimbursement comes
tardy, but memorable. vt Is possible
my friends, to go on until men OF
great fortunes, whether justly Of un-
Justly earned, will stand stripped
| like the slave master of the South
not alone of his slaves, but stripped
of his wealth, earned through two
centuries OF 'unrepuited toll
Warns Against Delay.
| LET us not trife too long with
that widespread passionate sense Of
wrong, even among the more conser-
! vative. arising out Of the belief that
large fortunes have been built III
at the expense of the poor, and that
men, women and children 60 hungry
while others reveI in waste and lux
ury 1t is possible to go until the
soldier called into the street &c
property will fraternlze with the
mob
"You will hear often in these days
| that certain men are engaged in eX-
porimenting with new plans of gov.
eminent and dangerous expedients
1--WE do not need new faith; Te
need the completely, the directnesi
and sef-surrender of the old W.
do not need new gospel; we need
rather to preach the creed of Wash
ington and Jefferson and Jackson anG
Lincoln with tongue of fire through.
out the land. We need to have con.
stitutional morality declared as was
the gospelof old to the rich and the
poor, tA
! Choose We whom We will this day
4 : F
serve, the few. the selfish, the law
less, and see our party continue
broken in faction and deserted BY
| thousands of the rank and file, or The
interests of the countless thousands
whose hopes and happiness lie in the
direction of equal opportunities, q
just and equal laws, and see oul
party take on the strength of th'
days when it deiied the arrogance
power of slavery and appealed K
mems common sense of justice-nov
as then, however. to deal not il
malice and revenge, in hatred or de
struction, but in equity and justice
in protection and security alike fog
all, rich and poor"
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Water Plea Shallow.

I'VE feel strongly that water
competition. even when the widest
reasonable latitude is given to the
effect of market competition, cannot
by any possibility justify higher
rate from Omaha to Reno than from
Omaha TO San Francisco; from S.
Paul to Spokane than from ST. Paui
to Seattle.
Upon the other hand, il should
be noted that the opening of the
Panama Canal may so add to the in.
tensity Of this water competition as
tr call for some modification of the
conclusion now reached"
The Commission holds the fixing
of reasonable rates to be legislative
function, not subject to review by
the courts. Congress, ii is maintain
ed, has delegated that power to tho
Commission, and the intimation IL
clear that the courts, in the opinion
o. the Commission has no power to
review such rates as may have been
established through the orders OF
the Commission in the trans-cmti~
rental cases.
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Forecasts.

washington. Dec. 20.--lllinois-
Kentucky and Misouri--Snow or
rain Thursday; Friday probably fair.
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plant, materials and labor The cost
OF erecting and equipping both
wooden and worsted mills is much
higher in this country than in Eng
land.
"The material IS increased in price
hy the duty on raw wool, The man
nfacturer VINO imports his raw must
pay the full amount of duty, Woods
grown in the United States are in
creased in value by the duty, but
not by the full extent of the duty,
Wages are much higher in the United
States but wages are in themselves
no necessary indication of relative
cost of production. Frequently 1t
is found that high wages and low
labor costs go together.
No Just Offset
ut appears that this particular in
austry Ii one In which the high Gle
ments Of cost In this country are not
in general Offset by any particular
advantage or by any marked super
tority In the efficiency Of labor. To
A certain extent, European countries
have the advantage of us in this lat
Ter regard.
1T may be said thon, that taking
the industry as a whole, the Ameri-
can manufacturer practically has ne
advantage in efficiency of labor an
equipment over HIS foreign compel
.iror. On certain specialties the
largest and most efficient American
mills are ably by stilful organ2a
ton naterially to reduce the dit
erence in cost"
The investigation was begun In
1910 and has been pursued at home
and abroad In the United States ex-
pert investigators visited 1900 wool
growers in 19 states and l73 counties
Special agents worked in Australia,
South America, England and on the
European continent. Figures We're
gathered from mills also.
A large part of the report is de-
voted to wages, efficiency and ent-
ployees, A large proportion of ma
chinery used is made abroad. OF thu
IS, 900 employees in the industry In
this country, So per cent We're borr
in foreign countries and more than
IS3 per cent had no previous ex.
perience in mechanical industry
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Favors Graduated Scale

The board holds that fair So
luton would be the adoption of n
graduated scale under which the ad
valorem rate properly assessed on
goods of low value should then in
crease progressively according to
slight increments of value, up to
whatever maximum rate should be
iiAed
The boards figures would seem 20
show that the "prohibitory duties"
did not affect the American cons inner
30 much as would be inferred BY the
use of those words: for while the
duties on the sixteen samples Of for
elgn cloth selected by the board av-
eraged ls4 per cent the actual excess
of the domestic price over tie for
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Cairo, ILL.,, Dec. 90, 1911.
Tor Cairo and vicinity: Rain and
alider
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the full effect of water competition
upon the rail rates it says, I'VE have
the frank admission of the railroad
managers that they have subsidized
or bought some of the steamship
lines and tcrrorized others until they
can make the boast that the effect or
the sea has been "neutralized
Limitations Necessary.
"A railroad policy of rate making
must certainly be subject to limita-
lions of the law. or else there Is no
law. To say that there is long
section under which
a carrier may not charge more for
the shorter than for the longer haul,
bnt that the railroads may, to any
extent they please carry out a policy
OF blanketing the country for the
benefit of the farther points and not
the nearer points, is to say that 4
railroad may, without restraint, e.
feet a ruinous discrimination and
give no justification save its own de-
termination or within. There can b.
no regulation of rates as to discrimi-
nation or preference under such an
Interpretation OF the law.
THE Commerce Court intimates
that the mistakes OF the Commission
is In having attempted to fix rela-
ton of rates instead OF ESTABLISHING
reasonable rates; but, as we have
already pointed out, there is no way
in which the discrimination found to
exist in these tariffs can be prevent
ed except by fixing differential
since we have no power to establish
an absolute rate or fix minimum
charge below which the carrier is not
free to go,
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Subscribe for the Bulletin. tSe
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COMMISSION IN
ISSUE WITH NEW
COMMERCE COURT

Continued from Page One.
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Acknowledge Shrinkage

"The rates of schedule X are based
upon the assumption that woods in
the grease shrink an average of
66 23 per cent. While 1t is true
that considerable quantities of wool
do shrink that amount, the average.
is we'll below that figure, Certain
very heavy woods grown at the South
African cape and in certain districts
of Australia. South America and tn.
Western United States shrink as
high as 10 to rs per cent
1.-THE cost OF manufacturing WOOL
en- and worsted yearns and cloth in
The United States Is much higher
ttan in Europe. The"main elements
OF cost II production are cost Of
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Report Many Decisions.

507 formal decisions were disposed
oil. During the year SS1 formal COM
plants were filed and IL proceedings
OF inquiry were instituted by the
Commission on its own initiative. IL
addition there were instituted AZ
proceedings of investigations and
suspensions OF tariffs containing
proposed increases and rates 4,32E
informal complaints; 1858 claims,
and 5,723 applications for relief
from the operation of the long-ano.
short-haul provision
At sessions OF the Commission
Field in Washington and elsewhere
943 hearings were held at which
more than $4,000 pages OF testimony
were taken, In the twelve months
ended November 30, 1911, 121, 1929
tariff publications were filed, an
average of more than 400 for eacn
working day.
An elaborate discussion Is pre-
sented of the work of the Division
OF Inquiry showing that since De
cember /, 1910. 662 indictments for
criminal violations of the act to
regulate commerce were returned
The aggregate OF fines assessed was
$214,225. Many investigations were
made that disclosed practices not of
sufficient gravity to warrant prose
cution but OF such doubtful propriety
that the Commission ordered their
discontinuance. In this connection
the Commission says significantly:
1T becomes increasingly evident
that entire freedom from discrimin-
alton can be secured only by a com
piete separation of the business of
transportation from every form o.
commercial or industrial enter
prises."
In conclusion the Commission
recommends that the law be amend
cd SO as to require telephone tele-
graph and cable companies to pub
iish, file and post their interstate
affairs; to make the Elkins' act APP
plicable to such companies; that
transportation companies be requir-
ed to adopt a system of uniform
classification of freight; to provide
additional safeguards in railroad
transportation for employees and the
pnDlic; TO relieve the Commission
of the jurisdiction OF the street rail-
ways Of tho District of Columbia; to
provide for the regulation and con-
t'ol Of caplta!i-ot'o1 ard suitahlec
nrnvls'ons for 'se valuation of rail-.
tsol OF capitaiss.tl,. a.d s.itob,a
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-03
REASONS FOR USING
HOPS IN BEVERAGES
Taste and Aroma as Well as Pc
sentative Quality Are Desired.

Some American growers claim that,
fnasmuch as American hops In many
cases are just as rich in the soft resins
as the best European hops. their brew
ing value ought TO be equal TO that OF
the Europeans, They have not. how
ever. been able 10 convince American
brewers of the accuracy of this view.
They will try TO do so at the barley
and hop exhibition in Chicago In Dc
tober. 1911 The principal trouble.
however, with American hops as they
reach the market is that they are pick
ed carelessly. The only part that is OF
value TO the consumer is the cone. and
everything In the shape OF stems and
leaves that is mixed with the grains
not only dlminishes the amount of
available material. but introduces a
decidedly injurious element, the leaves
and cones being rich in fannie acid.
which imparts stringent and harsh
taste.
In the international barley and hop
exhibition. which viii be held In Chi
cage in October. 1911. the item of
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-03
CONTROLLER BAY MESSAGE
President Denounces "Dlck-to-Dick"
Letter as a Fabrication.

Washington, July 27.-President
Taft has transmitted to the senate,
in obedience to it's request, all of the
papers and records connected with
the elimination of 1880 acres of land
from the Chugach forest reservation,
made by his order a year ago. The
Chugach reservation lies along the
margin of Controller bay in Alaska
and the elimination In question formed
the basis OF what became known as
the Controller bay scandal, out OF
which grew the alleged "Dick-to-Dick"
letter.
But the president did not send the
documents unaccompanied. They were
under the convoy of message to the
senate in which he goes into the his
tory of the elimination of the land.
assuming all responsibility and JUS
tifying II to the limit, showing the
impossibility of it's promoting any
character of monopoly. reintroducing
a Ballinger echo, scoring the 'Dick-to-
Dick" letter as a malicious fabrica-
ton and finally denouncing the meth
DDS which have attacked all proper
plans for the development OF Alaska
and besmirched all officials connected
with Alaskan affairs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-03

thrashed out thoroughly In connection
with the barley and hop exhibition
which will be held in Chicago Oct.
1920. AS in the case of other aromat-
ic plants, the sources of the aroma are
not well understood. Aroma usually
depends upon such minute particles
OF substance that even the delicate re-
actions in the chemical laboratory are
frequently inadequate to discover
them. The high prices which are paid,
for instance. for certain wines are
based upon their flavor or aroma, and
yet this flavor or aroma cannot be
discovered by chemical analysis. 1t
Is not surprising. therefore. that the
substances which contain the flavor
or aroma Of hops have never been as
certained with certainty. There is a
theory that they are closely associ-
ated with the soft resins contained in
the lupulin. or the hop flour, which is
found between the bracts of the cone
and which Is really the essential part
OF the hop plant.
As for the color Of the hops, various
preferences prevail. some preferring
the varieties which are entirely green,
while Others think the yellowish green
Is preferable. In this country the vel
lowish kinds are usually preferred,
while in Germany the green ones have
the call
Inasmuch as the brewing value of
hops depends largely upon the lupulin-
Ic acid and the soft resins and the
American hops are unusually rich in
soft resins. American hop growers
need have no fear of entering the prize
at Chicago under the rules
which have been adopted for the jury
which is to Judge the hops.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-03

ing). 80 moisture and dryness (poor
kiln drying, "a sulphuring, % dam
age by wind, mold and insects 60 of
color and appearance.
Standard hops should range from 100
to 80 points, the relative merit or value
of the specimen being expressed in the
percentage Of points it receives.
For every per cent of hop-bitter acids
below 20 and down to Is, inclusive, one
point is deducted: for every per cent
below 10 and down to 10 two points
are deducted; for every per cent below
10 and down to 8 three points are de-
Quoted; for / per cent below four
points are deducted.
The scale of quality as to aroma will
range from exquisite with fifty points.
to inferior with twenty five points, the
grades being: Exquisite, so; very
good. 40; good. 35; fair. 80: inferior, Is.
Contents Of leaves and stems and
seeds will be penalized one point for
each per cent; moisture per cent
for each per cent above 10. up to IA;
dryness two points for each per cent
below 8 and down to 6 inclusive, as
indicated in schedule
Hops will be disqualified If they con-
tain: O Less than per cent of soft
resins or hop-bitter acids. (2) more
than IA per cent of seeds 81 more
than IL per cent Of leaves and stems,
a. more than Is or less than per
cent OF moisture. % If strongly sui
phured (heavy reaction In five min
utes), 90 If heavily damaged by mold
or insects, 0 If strongly discolored
or strongly off in appearance, 81 If
abnormal in odor, disagreeable. cheesy
or rank