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READ OUR BIG CHRISTMAS NUMBER, DECEMBER, 20ST. THE SEDALIA TIMES. ROOSEVELT TO CONGRESS His Annual Communication Upon Questions of Importance to the Nation. VIEWS ON THE TRUSTS AND TARIFF A Lowering of Import Duties Would Not Remedy the Evils of Monopoly-Believes in a Tariff Commission-Much That Is Good in Labor Unions and Corporations-Many Needs of the Nation. To the Senate and House of Representatives: We still continue in a period of unbounded prosperity. This prosperity is not the creature of law, but undoubtedly the instrument in creating the conditions which made it possible, and by unwise legislation it would be easy enough to destroy. There will undoubtedly be periods of the life we will advance. This nation is seated on a continent flanked by two great oceans. It is composed of men the descendants of pioneers, or in a sense, pioneers themselves of men borrowed out from among the people we have built, boldness, and love of adventure found in their own eager hearts. Such a nation, so placed, will surely wrest success from fortune. In the people we have played a large part in the world, and we are bent upon making our future even larger than the past. In particular, the events of the last four years have definitely decided that, for woe or for wish, our place must be great among the people we have succeeded greatly; but we cannot avoid the endeavor from which great failure or great success must come. Even if we would, we cannot play a small part. If we would, we could play a would follow would be that we should play a large part ironically and shamefully. Causes of Prosperity. No country has ever occupied a higher plane of material well-being than ours at the present moment. This well-being is due to no sudden or accidental causes, but to the play of the economic forces in this country for over a century; to overcome our sustained and continuing policies; to the high individual average of our citizenship. Great fortunes have been won by those who have taken the lead in this phenomenal industrial development, and most of these fortunes have been won not by doing anything but by the work of the people who have benefited the community as a whole. Never before has material well-being been so widely diffused among our people. Great fortunes have been accumulated, and yet in the aggregate these fortunes and the small indies when common people have benefited the community as a whole. The plain people are better off than they have ever been before. The insurance companies, which are practically mutual benefit societies—especially helpful to men of moderate means—are among the smallest of capital wharfers. There are more deposits in the savings banks, more owners of farms, more well-paid workers in this country now than ever before in our history. Of course, when the conditions have favored the greater of the millions of capital wharfers have also favored somewhat the growth of what was evil. It is eminently necessary that we should endeavor to cut out this evil, but let us keep a due sense of proportion; let us not in fixing our gaze upon the lessen evil forget the greater of the millions of capital wharfers are menacing, but they are the outgrowth, not of misery or decadence, but of prosperity—of the progress of our gigantic industrial development. This gigantic industrial development must be checked, but we should it should go such progressive regulation as will diminish the evils. We should fail in our duty if we did not try to remedy the evils, but we shall succeed only if we proceed patiently, with practical common policies, separating the good from the bad and hollowing the former while endeavoring to get rid of the latter. THE TRUSTS. They Can Be Controlled Only by National Action. In my message to the present congress at its first session I discussed at length the question of the regulation of those big corporations commonly doing an indifference business, often with some tendency to be known as trusts. The experience of the past year has emphasized, in my opinion, the desirability of the steps I then proposed. A fundamental requisite of efficiency is a high standard of individual business, but this is in no wise inconsistent with power to act in combination for aims which cannot so well be achieved by the individual alone. A fundamental base of civilization is the ability to act in such a way as to prevent the misuse of these powers. Corporations, and especially combinations of corporations, should be managed under public regulation. Experience has shown that underour system supervision cannot be obtained by state action. It must therefore be achieved by national action. Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these high corporations, the development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would the utmost mischief to the entire body产业 of the regulation and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavouring to do away with, even in them we are not hostile to them, so that we are not great industrial fear by which he wins money is a welldoer, not a wrongdoer, provided only he works in proper and legitimate lines. We wish to favor such a business he does well. We wish to supervise and decisions he prevents him from doing ill. Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation; and we need not be overtender about sparing the dishonest corporation. Must Exercise Care. In curbing and regulating the combinations of capital which are or may become injurious to the public we must be careful not to stop the great enterprises which produce, not to abandon the place which our country has won in the leadership of the international industrial world, not to strike down wealth with the result of closing factories and mines, of turning the wage-worker idle in the streets and leaving the streets empty, of the hegree grows. Insistence upon the impossible means delay in achieving the possible exactly as, on the other hand, the stubborn defense alike of what is good and what is bad in the existing system, the resolution effort to obstruct any attempt at betterment, the indifference to the historic truth that wise evolution is the sure safeguard against revolution. No more important subject can come before the congress than this of the regulation of interstate business. This country cannot regulate business. We repeat under our peculiar system of government we are helpless in the presence of the new conditions, and unable to grapple with them or to cut out whatever of evil has arisen in connection with them. The power of the congress is an absolute and unqualified grant, and without limitations other than those prescribed by the constitution. The congress has constitutional authority to make all this power, and I am satisfied that this power and I am satisfied that this power has not been exhausted by any legislation now on the statute books. It evident, therefore, that evil, restrictive of commercial freedom entailing restraint upon national commerce fall within the regulative power of the congress, and that a wise and reasonable law would be a necessary and proper exercise of congressional authority, and the end that such evil should be eradicated. I believe that monopolies, unjust discriminations, which prevent or cripple competition, fraudulent overcapitalization, and other evils in trust organizations and protected state trade can be prevented under the power of the congress to "regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states" through regulations and reevaluation of the effects of commerce, the instrumentalities thereof, and those engaged therein. I earnestly recommend this subject to the consideration of the congress with a view to the passage of effective legislation providing effective in its operation, upon which the questions can be finally adjudicated that now raise doubts as to the necessity of constitutional amendment. if it prove impossible to accomplish the purpose of the constitution, then, assuredly, we should not shrink from amending the constitution so as to secure beyond peradventure the power sought. It Is a Subject That Stands Apart from the Truth. One proposition advocated has been the reduction of the tariff as a means of reaching the evils of the trusts which fall within in the category I have described. Not only because of the potential for the diversion of our efforts in such a direction would mean the abandonment of all intelligent attempt to do away with these evils. Mary, of the largest corporations management, has shown certainly included in any such regulation, would not be affected in the slightest degree by a change in the tariff, save as such change interfered with the general prosperity of the country. The tariff would be made manufactures profitable, and the tariff remedy proposed would be in effect simply to make manufactures unprofitable. To remove the tariff as a punitive measure the tariff would be suit in rule to the weaker competitors who are struggling against them. Our aim should be not by unwise tariff changes to give foreign products the advantage over domestic products, but by proper regulation of tariff changes, and this end cannot be reached by any tariff changes which would affect unfavorably all domestic competitors, good and bad alike. The question of regulation to take the apart from the question of tariff revision. Stability of economic policy must always be the prime economic need of this country. This stability should not be fossilization. The country has acquiesced to the wisdom of the international community to keep undesirable that this system should be destroyed or that there should be violent and radical changes therein. Our past experience shows that great prosperity can count on having come under a protective tariff and that we cannot prosper under fitful tariff charges at short intervals. Moreover, if the tariff laws as a whole work well, and if business has prospered under them and is prosperous under other conditions, then there are inconveniences and inequalities in some schedules than to upset business by too quick and too radical changes. It is most earnestly to be wished that we could treat business needs in a more equitable way. It is, perhaps, too much to hope that partisanship may be entirely excluded from consideration of the subject, but at least it can be made secondary to the business interests of the country—that is, the business interests of business needs. It is, perhaps, too much to hope that partisanship may be entirely excluded from consideration of the subject, but at least it can be made secondary to the business interests of the country—that is, the business interests of business needs. We must take scrupulous care that the reapplication shall be made a way that it will not amount to a dislocation of our system, the mere threat of which (not to speak of the performance) would produce paralysis in the business enterprise community. The first consideration in making changes would, of course, be to preserve the nature which underlies our whole tariff system, that is, the principle of putting American business interests on a full equality with interests abroad in ways allowing a sufficient rate of duty to cover the difference between the labor cost and the well-being of the wage-worker, like the well-being of the tiller of the soil, should be added as an essential in shaping our whole policy. There must never be any change which would undermine the standard of comfort, the standard of wages of the American wage-worker. One way in which the readjustment sought can be reached is by reciprocity treaties. It is treaty to be desired that such treaties may be made, and we can be used to widen our markets and give a greater field for the activities of one producers on the one hand, and on the other on practical shape the lowering of duties in order to longer needed for protection among our own people, or when the minimum of damage done may be disregarded for the maximum of good accomplished. If it is necessary to ratify the pending treaties, and if there cannot be to no warrant for the endeavor to execute others, or to amend the pending treaties, or to can be ratified, then the same end-to-end policy should be met by direct legislation. Need of a Tariff Commission Wherever the tariff conditions are such that a needed change cannot with advantage be made by the application of the reciprocity idea, then it can be made by business experts by holding duties on a given product. If possible, the product should be made only after the fullest consideration by practical experts, who should approach the subject from a business standpoint, having in view both the commercial well-being of the people and whole. The machinery for providing such careful investigation can readily be supplied. The executive department has always collected facts and figures from the commercial well-being of the people andgress desires additional consideration to that which will be given the subject by its own committees, then a commission of business experts can be appointed who would then be responsible action by the congress after a deliberate and scientific examination of the various schedules as they are affected by the changed and changing conditions. The commission would show that change should be made in the various schedules, and how far these changes could go without also changing the great prosperity which this country is now enjoy- or upsetting its fixed economic policy. The cases in which the tariff can produce a monopoly are so few as to constitute an inconsiderable factor in the question: but of course if in any case the monopoly is removed, the duty does promote a monopoly which works ill, no protectionist would object to such reduction of the duty as would equalize competition. In my judgment, the tariff on anthracite should be removed, and anthracite put on the free list, and finally, on the free list. This would have no effect at all save in crises: but in crises it might be of service to the people. Needed Financial Legislation. Needed Financial Legislation. Interest rates are a potent factor in business activity, and in order that these rates are maintained, and the need for needed needs of the seasons and of widely separated communities, and to prevent the recurrence of financial stringencies which injuriously affect legitimate business, it is necessary that there should be an element of elasticity in our monetary or commerce, and upon them should be placed, as far as practicable, the burden of furnishing and maintaining a circulation adequate to supply the needs of our diversified industries and of our domestic and foreign commerce; and the issue of this should be so regulated that sufficient supply should be always available for the business interests of the country. It would be both unwise and unnecessary at this time to attempt to reconstruct our branch system, which has a large proportion of its additional legislation is, I think, desirable. The mere outline of any plan sufficiently comprehensive to meet these requirements, would transgress the approvals of the relevant legislation, is suggested, however, that all future legislation on the subject should be with the view of encouraging the use of such money to automate supply every legitimate demand for productive industries and of commerce, not only in the amount, but in the character of circulation; and of making all kinds of money interchangeable, and, at the will of the government, able into the established gold standard. THE LABOR PROBLEM Unionism Contains Much That Is Good and Some Bad. How to secure fair treatment allike for labor and for capital, how to hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employee, without weakening individual initiative, without hampering the progress of the country, is a problem fraught with great difficulties and one which it is of the highest importance to solve on lines of sanity and far-sighted common sense as well as of the one right. This problem is the federal and state problem. Exactly as business men find they must often work through corporations, and as it is a constant tendency of these corporations to grow larger, so it is often the case that corporations can both do evil federations, and these have become important factors of modern industrial life. Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good, and as a necessary corollary they can both do evil federations. These important factors should take the form of opposition to whatever is bad in the conduct of any given corporation or union—not of attacks upon corporations as such nor upon unions as such; for some of the most important corporations, labor and capitalism have been accomplished through both corporations and unions. Each must refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others. Organized capitalism and labor and capitalism remember that in the long run the interest of each must be brought into harmony with the interest of the general public; and the conduct of each must conform to the fundamental rules of freedom, and of justice and fair dealing toward all. Each should remember that in addition to power it must strive after the realization of healthy, lofty and generous ideals. Every employer, every employee, must be free from liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. It is of the highest Recommends Department of Commerce. It is earnestly hoped that a secretary of commerce may be created, with a seat in the cabinet. The rapid multiplication of questions affecting labor and capital, the organizations through which both labor and capital find expression, the steady tendeny toward the employment of capital in huge corporations, and the wonderful strides of this country toward leadership in the in-depth justice of an urgent demand for the creation of a position. Substantially all the leading commercial bodies in this country have united in requesting its creation. It is desirable that some such measure as that which has passed the senate be enacted into law. The department would in itself be an advance toward building with and exercising supervision over the whole subject of the great corporations doing an interstate business; and with this view, the congress should endow the department with large powers, which could be increased as experience might show the need. CUBAN RECIPROCITY. President Insists the Island Should Have Consideration. I hope soon to submit to the senate a reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On May 20 last the United States kept its promise to the island by formally vacating Cuba soil and sending it to those whom her own people had chosen as the first officials of the new republic. Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever affects her for good or for ill affects us also. So much have our people felt this that in 1992 we took the ground that Cuba must herself have closer political relations with us than with any other power. Thus in a sense Cuba has become a part of our international power and is therefore necessary that in return she should give the benefits of becoming part of our economic system. It is, from our own standpoint, a short-sighted and mischievous policy to fail to recognize this need. Moreover, the mighty and generous nation, itself the greatest successful republic in history, to refuse to stretch out a helping hand to a young and weak sister republic just entering upon its areas of dependence. We should always fearlessly face the face of the strong, and we should with ungrudging hand do our generous duty by the weak. I urge the adoption of reciprocity with Cuba not only because it is eminently a market and by every means to foster our supremacy in the tropical lands and waters of the sea, but also because we of the giant republic of the north, should make our sister nations of the American continent our allies, and we will permit it we desire to show ourselves interestedly and effectively their friend. International Arbitration. As civilization grows warfare becomes less and less the normal condition of foreign relations. The last century has seen a marked diminution of wars being mobilized powers, wars with unicivilized powers or with international police duty, essential for the welfare of the world. Wherever possible, arbitration or some similar method can be employed in lieu of war to settle difficulties as though as set the world has not progressed sufficiently to render it possible, or necessarily desirable, to invoke arbitration in the international tribunal which sits at the Hague is an event of good omen from which great consequences for the welfare of all mankind may flow. It is far better, where possible, to invoke such a permanent tribunal than to create spe- It is a matter of singer congratulation to our country that the United States and Mexico should have been the first to use the good offices of The Hague court. This was done last summer with most satisfactory results in the case of a claim at issue between us and our story that this first case will serve as a precedent for others, in which not only the United States, but foreign nations may take advantage of the machinery already in existence at The Hague. I commend to the favorable consideration of the congress the Hawaiian fire claims, which were the subject of careful investigation during the last session. THE PANAMA CANAL. French Company Offers a Good Title to its Property. The congress has wisely provided that we shall build at once an isthmian canal, if possible at Panama. The attorney general reports that we can undoubtedly acquire good title from the French Panama Canal company. Negotiations are now pending with Colombia to secure her assent to our building the canal; one of the engineering feats of the tenth century; a greater engineering feat than has yet been accomplished during the history of mankind. The work should be carried out as a continuing policy without regards to change of administration; and it should be begun in stages, for which it a matter of policy for all administrations to continue with the policy. The canal will be of great benefit to America and of importance to all the world. It will be of great importance to all the world and also as improving our military position. It will be of advantage to the countries of tropical America. It is earnestly to be hoped that all our allies have already done with signal success, and will invite to their shores commerce and improve their material conditions by recognizing the prerequisites of successful development. No independent nation in pressure on the governs and one to man- tain it, out but also to a target. Just because they are in- terest in it, these is more they can be strong or weak, they have to dread from outside interference. More and more the increasing interdependence and com- municational political and economic incumbent on all civilized and orderly power, insist on the proper policing of the world. The Pacific Cable During the fall of 1901, a communication was addressed to the secretary of tax asking whether permission would be granted by the president to a corporation to lay a cable from a point on the comma coast to the Philippine islands by way of the Philippines. A statement of conditions or terms upon such corporation would undertake to lay and operate a cable was volunteered. Inasmuch as the congress was shortly to convene and Pacific cable legislation had been the subject of consideration by the congress it seemed to me wise to defer action upon suchplication until the congress had first an opportunity to act. The congress adjourned without taking any action, leaving much in exactly the same condition in which it stood when the congress convened. Meanwhile it appears that the Commercial Pacific Cable company had promptly proceeded with preparations for the installation, also made application to the president and used of soundings taken by the U. S. S. Nero, for the purpose of discovering a practicable route for a trans-Pacific cable the company urging that with access to the president's cable its cable much sooner than if it were required to take soundings upon its own account. Pending consideration of this subject, it appeared important and desirable to allow the permission to examine and use the soundings, if it should be granted. In consequence of this solicitation of the cable company, certain conditions were formed, upon which the president will willingly and to those soundings and to consent to the and laying of the cable, subject to any alterations or additions thereto imposed by the congress. This was deemed proper, and it was clear that a cable connection of some kind with the foreign country, was a part of the company's plan. This course was, moreover, in accordance with a line of precedents, including President Grant's action in the war of 1861, which explained to the congress in his annual message December, 1875, and the instance occurring in 1879 of the second French cable from Brest to St. Pierre, with a branch to Carte. These conditions prescribed, among other things, a maximum rate for commercial messages and that the company should construct a line from the Philippine islands to Brunei, there being at present its cell Ternau, British line from Manila to Hong-Kong. The representatives of the cable company, many long under consideration, continue in time, to prepare for laying the cable. They have, however, at length acceded to the agreement between our Pacific coast and the Chinese empire, by way of Honolulu and the islands, thus provided for, and is expected within a few months to be ready for bushness. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The Policy of Holding Them Has Been Vindicated. Taking the work of the army and the civil authorities together, it may be questioned whether anywhere else in modern times the world has seen a better exam- than our people have given in the Phi- pline islands. High praise should also be given those Filipinos, in the aggre- gate very numerous, who have accepted SEDAHA TIMES SEDAHA TIMES W. H CARTER, Editor and Manager Mrs W. H CAPTER, - Editoress Dr C S Walken Representive Send all Money's b Post-Office, Orders, Express Order t W. H. Carter, Published Every Saturday Evening The Time office 120 E. Main st. Follow the rowd to the auction sale of Dickman's jewelry store. The maiden fair, under the mistletoe, bearing an appetizing looking pudding, as shown in our illustrated Christmas number, will make the reader long for the Christmas dinner. We have been informed that the A. M. E. members raised during Thanksgiving week $183.50, the Morgan street Baptisc nearly $50 and the Taylor Chabel M E church $50.70, which makos $284.20 raised by the three churches Thanksgiving week, without saying what the Fvee Will Baptist and C. M. E. church people raised. Again is the ceason near for that cheerful, inspiring cry, a merry, merry, thrice merry Christmas; the season when everybody feels good, when people expect something out of the ordinary. And this is what the Times is going to do; give its readers a fine Christmas edition, h the weole of the first page alluminated in six different colors and many tints, that will entertain, amuse and instruct the old and young. It is bright and cheerful, the design a superb once, and the coloring in harmony with the season. The highest bidder gets it at the Dickman auction sale. BIG FOUR NIGAT CHURCH FAIR. The members and friends of the Taylor chapel are arranging to have a big four night fair at their church during the week of Dec. 16 to 20 inclusive, of which they promise will excel anything given by any of the churches The first night, Dec. 16th, will be Taylor chapel night, the second night the preachers' night, and the third night the Lincoln High school night, the 4th night, Geo. R Smith college night; An excellent program will be rendered each night, also a handsome display of art needle work and fancy cooking. The committee in part is W. H Carter, Julia Nelson, Matilda Smith. Other committees will be appointed Monday. --- We do not feel that we are indulging in fulsome praise when we speak so highly of our forthcoming Christmas number. The full page design is so artistic and meritorious that we need not dwell upon it. The name of the artist alone recommends it—C. Ward Traver, one of the leading artists of New York, whose covers are familiar to readers of the high grade magazine. While artistic it is showy and attractive. It departs from the threadbare Christmas scenes and gives us a new idea—a home-like scene, the Christmas dinner. The design has an idea—sentiment. Its worth looking at and studying, as it appeals to the mind as well as the eye. Now is the time to buy your Christmas presents in fine jewelry, watches, rings, etc., at Dickman's auction sale. ORDER OF PUBLICATION STATE OF EISSOURE COUNTY OF PETTIS ss. In the Circuit court of Pettis county February term, 1903. Emily Wiilliams, vs. Plaintiff. Charres Williams, Defendant. Now, at this day com's the plaintiff herein, by her attorney, A. L. Shortridge; and files her petition and affidavit, alleging among other things, that Defendant Charles Williams is not a resident of the State of Missouri. Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff has commenced a suit against him in this court, the object and general nature of which is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendact, and to produce a divorce on the grounds of desetition: as will more fully appear in the petition now on file, and unless the said Charles Williams be and appear at this court. at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden at the court house' in the city of Sedalia, in said county, on the first Moaday of February next, and on or before the first day of said term, if the term shall so long continue—and if not, then on or before toe last day of said term—answer or plead to the petition in said cause, the same will be taken as confessed, and judgment will be rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copy hereof be published, according to law, in the SEDALIA WEEKLY TIMES, a newspaper printed and published in Pettis county, Missionri- for four weeks successively, the last insertion whereof shall be at least thirty days before the commencement of the said February term of this court. Atttst: P. H. LOFGAN. Circuit Clerk. A true copy from she record. N. W. KENNEDY, D, C. A. L. Shortridge, plaintiff's attorney. WHIST CLUB. The Silk Socking Whist and High Five club held two meetings this week. The first meeting was held at tee home of James Ellis on Monday night but only a few members were present, and the meeting was then called for the following Wednesday night at the home of T. A. Carter, at which a good num present. Refreshments were served and a good time was had. The score in the high five game stood as follows; Hickman and Carter; 5 games Eilis and Carter, 4 games. Martin and Ogden, 4 games. The new members taken in at this meeting were Dan Jones. T. P. Moffette and Richard Saunkers Emmet Cook and Wm. Anderson. The club also appointed a committee to arrange for a grand smoker on Christmas night. The next meeting place will be at the home of Robrrt Martin next Wednesday night. Mrs Laura Lewis is very sick. C E Cornelious and Miss Saddie Densmore were married last Sunday Miss Hogan of Otterville spent several days this week in the city, visiting her sister Mrs Chas White. The Queen City Band will give an entertainment in thier hall next Friday night admission 10c. Mrs Watts of St Louis has been visitiag her parents Mr and Mrs Fred Bush of this city. Miss Watts of St Louis has been the guest of Mrs Richard Saunders last week Mrs Soloman Dixon spent real days visiticg in Otterville this week Miss Jennie Taylor is yetvery ill The members of the Morgan Street Baptist Church is arranging to have big coneert on Christmas night Among the features of Thanks giving exercises at the Simpson chapel was the quilt prize made by the Rvstlers sewing circle, Mrs L. Lollies won first prize, Mrs Gec, Williams second Convict's Daughter A strong and great play, Prices 25, 50 and 75c A great and Laughable Comedy PATENTS GUARA Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sket any invention will promptly receive our opinion free a ability of same. "How to Obtain a Patent" sent up secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patent taken out through us receive special notice THE PATENT RECORD, an illustrated and widely circula by manufacturers and Investors. PATENTS GUARANTEED Our fee returned if we fail. 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Neighbor--Your little Dicky seems very unwell; his cough is quite distressing. Don't you think he ought to have medical advice? Mrs. Flyntskyn—Well, yes, I suppose he ought; but, you see, the winter's coming on, and some of the other children are almost sure to get a bad cold or something, and it'll be almost as cheap to have the doctor in for two or three as to call him in for only one.—Ally Sloper. Disinterested. The man who had dropped in to see him was smoking a cheap cigar. "I think you will find it more comfortable," said Uncle Allen Sparks, pleasantly, "if you'll sit over there by thatopen window. There is no draught from it, as you will see from the fact that the smoke from your cigar goes out through it. There, that's better." —Chicago Tribune. Nothing Better in Sight. Cook—Please, ma'am, I want to give a week's notice. Mistress—Why, Jane, this is indeed a surprise. Are you not satisfied with the treatment you receive here? Cook—Oh, yes, ma'am. Mistress—Then I suppose you have a better place in view? Cook—Oh, no, ma'am. I'm only going to get married, ma'am. —Chicago Daily News. "They say she married him just to get him away from another girl." "What did the other girl do?" "Sent her a bundle of his love letters as a wedding present. That was the reason she had nervous prostration and was compelled to give up her wedding trip."—Chicago Record-Herald. Mrs. Tufthunter—I'm sorry you didn't come yesterday, Mrs. Cutler; I could have introduced you to Lady Begabit. She calls on me quite frequently now. Mrs. Cutler—Indeed! Do you know, I thought the craze for slumming had quite died out.—Ally Sloper. It Makes a Difference. "He's dreadfully disagreeable and boorish." "Tut, tut, my dear. He used to be but he is no longer." "How is that?" "Why, since he has become famous we have decided to consider him only delightfully eccentric and original."—Chicago Post. What Troubled Him Most. 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Thomas and myself having been dissolved, I will continue business under the old firm name THE FISHER PRINTING CO. Q. C. Telephone 500. I am adding new type and machinery to my present excellent equipment, employ only first-class workmen, which with my practical knowledge of the printing business will enable me to produce first-class work. Thanking you for all past favors, I will be pleased to meet you at my new location and will give prompt attention to all orders, large or small with which I may be favored Yours for business, FISHER PRINTING CO., Theodore H. Fisher, Mngr. P. S. Don't forget our new location, 113 Ohio St., and Telephon number, Q. C. 500 the new conditions and joined with our representatives to work with hearty good will for the welfare of the islands. I urgently call your attention to the need of passing a bill providing for a general purpose for the reorganization of the only Capitol in the nation of the bill proposed by the secretary of war last year. When the young officers enter the army from West Point they probably stard above their compers in any other military service. Every effort should be made, by the army, to ensure that they into their careers and capacity to keep them of the same high relative excellence throughout their careers. The National Guard. The measure providing for the reorganization of the militia system and for securing the highest efficiency in the national guard, which has already passed the house, should receive prompt attention and action. It is of great importance that the relation of the national guard to the militia and volunteer forces of the United States be maintained, and the force of the present obsolete laws a practical and efficient system should be appointed. NEEDS OF THE NAVY. More Ships and Men Needed to Keep Pace with the Times. For the first time in our history naval maneuvers on a large scale are being held under the immediate command of the adjutant, and the attention is being paid to the gunnery of the navy, but it is yet far from what it should be. I earnestly urge that the increase asked for by the secretary of the navy be made, and the marksmanship be granted. In battle, the only shots that count are the shots that hit. It is necessary to provide ample training to the great guns in time of peace. These funds are not only for the purchase of projectiles, but for allowances for prizes to encourage the gun crews, and especially the gun pointers, and for perfecting an intelligent system which alone it is possible to get good practice. There should be no halt in the work of building up the navy, providing every year with such naval warfare we are a very rich country, vast in extent of the great in population, a country, moreover, which has an army diminutive indeed when power is increased of any other first-class power. We have a navy of own certain foreign policies which demand the possession of a first-class navy. The seismian canal will greatly increase the power of our navy of sufficient size; but if we have an inadequate navy, then the building of the canal would be merely giving a hostage to any power of superior strength. The Monroe doctrine requires that American foreign policy, but it would be worse than idle to assert it unless we intended to back it up, and it can be backed up only by a thoroughly good navy. A good navy is the surest guaranty of peace. Each individual unit of our navy should be the most efficient of its kind as regards both material and personnel that is to be found in the world. I call your special attention the manning of the ships. Serious troubles threatens us / if we cannot do better than we are now doing as regards securing the most important number of the highest type of sailormen. The veteran seamen of our warships are of as high a type as can be found in any navy which rides the waters of the world; in which the warship is faring, in resolution, in readiness, in therefore of their profession. They deserve every consideration that can be shown them. But there are not enough of them. It is no more possible to improvise a crew than to improvise a warship. To build the finest ship with the best battery, and to send it afloat with a raw crew, no matter how bravs they were individually, would be to insure disaster if the supply capacity were encountered. Neither ships nor men can be improvised when war has liven. We need a thousand additional officers in order to properly man the ships now provisioned to order under construction. The classes at the naval academy should be greatly enlarged. At the same time that we thus add the officers where we need them, we should facilitate the retirement of those at the head of the list of officers who become impaired. Promotion must be fostered if the service is to be kept efficient. There is not a cloud on the horizon at present. There seems not the slightest chance of trouble with a foreign power. We should hope that this state of things may continue so that the insure its continuance is to provide for a thoroughly efficient navy. The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble and would also insure disaster. Fatuous self-compliance vanity, or short-sightedness in refusing to prepare for danger, is both foolish and pain in such a nation as yours; and past experience shows that such futility in refusing to recognize or prepare for any crisis in advance is usually succeeded by a mad panic of hysterical fear once the crisis has actually arrived. Rural Free Delivery The striking increase in the revenues of the post office department shows clearly the prosperity of our people and the increasing activity of the business of the country. The receipts of the post office department for the usual year ending June 50 last amounted to $121, $148, $047.26, an increase of $10, $126, $83.87 over the preceding year. The increase in income has been the history of the postal service. This increase will best appear from the fact that the entire postal receipts for the year 1860 amounted to but $8, $518, $057. Rural free delivery service is no longer an issue in the country, has become a fixed policy. The results for the introduction have fully justified the congress in the large appropriations made for its establishment and extension. The average yearly increase in post office revenue is about one per cent. We are able, by actual results, to show that where rural free delivery service has been established to such an extent as to us to make comparisons the yearly increase has been upward of ten per cent. On November 1, 1902, 11,650 rural free delivery routes had been established and were operated, covering about one-fifth of the area available for rural free delivery service. There are now awaiting the action of the department petitions and applications for the establishment of 10,748 additional practices to increase the want which the establishment of the department has met and the need of further extending it as rapidly as possible. It is justified both by the financial results and by practice in the our rural population it brings the more livel the soil into close relations with the active business world; it keeps the farmer in daily touch with the markets; it is a potent educational force; it enhances the value of property and life far pleasanter and less isolated, and will do much to check the undesirable current from country to city. It will be hoped that the congress will make deliberate opportunities for the influence of the service already established and for its further extension. Progress of Irrigation. Few subject of more importance have been taken up by the congress in recent years than the inauguration of the system of nationally aided irrigation for the arid regions of the far west. A good beginning therein has been made. Now that this policy of national irrigation has been adopted, the need of thorough protection will grow more rapidly than ever throughout the public-land states. So far as they are available for agriculture, and to whatever extent they may be reclaimed under the national irrigation law, the remaining public lands be used for agriculture. For the home builder, the settler who lives on his land, and for no one else. In their actual use the desert-land law, the timber and stone law, and the commutation clause of the homestead law have been so perverted from the intention with which they were enacted as to permit the acquisition of large areas of the public domain for other than actual settlers and the consequent prevention of settlement. Moreover, the approaching exhaustion of the land of actual settlers and the discussion as to the best manner of using these public lands in the west while suitably chiefly or only for grazing are sound and steady development. The west depends upon the build of the homes therein. Much of our own land is occupied by the proscription of the homestead law to the operand, we should recognise. On the other in the grazing region the fact that responds to the home the man who can or able to settle permanently unto use the same property if only allowed to use the same amount of pasture land allowed to use the homesteader, is arable land. One hun- dred and sixty acres of fairly rich and well watered soil, or a much smaller amount of irrigated land, may keep a family in plenty, whereas no one could get a living from 160 acres of dry pasture and capable of supporting at the outside only one head of cattle to every ten acres. In the past great tracts of the public domain have been enclosed in private persons having to tilt there in order defiance of the law forbidding the maintenance or construction of any such unlawful inclusion of public land. For various reasons there has been little interference with such enclosures in the past, sample notice has now been given the resource and the resources at the command of the government will hereafter be used to put a stop to trespassing. Alaska Legislation Asked For. I especially upon the congress the need of wise legislation for Alaska. is not to our credit as a nation that Alaska, which has been ours for 35 years, should still have as poor a system of still have as poor a system of still have as poor a case. No country has a more valuable assessment of mineral wealth, in fisheries, furs, forest also in land available for certain kinds of farming and stock growing. It is a territory of great size and varied resources we need to support a large permanent population of a good land law and such provisions for homesteads and preemptions as will encourage permanent settlement. We should legislate with a view not to the exploitation andandoning of the territory, but to the building of a new therein. The land laws should be liberal in type, so as to hold out inducements to us, as to possess whom we most desire to see take possession of the country. The forests of Alaska should protected, and, as a secondary but still important matter, the game also, and at the settlers should be so out timie, under proper regulations for the own use. Laws should be enacted to protect the Alaskan salmon fisheries against the greed which would destroy them. The should be preserved as a permanent industry and supply. Their management and control should turned over to the commission of fish and fisheries. Alaska should have a delegated congress. It would be well if a congressional committee could visit Alaska and investigate its needs on the ground. The Indians. In dealing with the Indians our air should be their ultimate absorption into the body of our people. But in many cases this absorption must and should be their ultimate good that has gone on at the same time with their wealth and education, so that there are plenty of men with varying degrees of purity of Indian blood who are absolutely indistinguishable in point of social, political, economical ability from their white assescent. They are other tribes which have as yet made a ceptible advance toward such equality. To try to force such tribes too fast is to prevent their going forward at all. Moreover, the tribes live under widely different conditions. Where a tribe has made considerable advance lives on fertile farming soil it is possible to allot the members lands in severality much the case with the white settlers. There are other tribes where such course is not desirable. On the arid prairie lands the people should be to induce the Indians to lead pastoral rather than agricultural lives, and to permit them to settle in villages rather than to force them into isolation. The large Indian schools situated remote from any Indian reservation do a special and peculiar work of great importance. But excellent though these are, an imminent threat to the Indian must be done on the reservations themselves among the old, and above all among the young, Indians. The first and most important step toward the absorption of the Indian is to teach him the skills of effective communication sarily to be assumed that in each community all Indians must become either tillers of the soil or stock raisers. Their industries may properly be diversified, and those who show special desire or adaptability for instruction should be encouraged commercial pursuits should be encouraged practicable to follow out each his own bent. Scientific Aid to Farmers. In no department of governmental work in recent years has there been greater success than in that of giving scientific aid to farmers, and in that they how most efficiently to help themselves. There is no need of insisting upon its importance, for the welfare of the farmer is fundamentally necessary to the welfare of the republic as a whole. In addition, the farmer is the animal and vegetable plagues, and warning against them when here introduced, much efficient help has been rendered to the farmer by the introduction of new plants specially fitted for cultivation under the conditions of the country. New cereals have been established in the semi-arid west. For instance, the practicability of producing the best types of macaroni wheats in the country has been shown, in inches or thereabouts has been conclusively demonstrated. Through the introduction of new rices in Louisiana and Texas the production of rice in this country has been made to equal the home demand, the above-mentioned regrassing overstocked range lands has been demonstrated; in the north many new forage crops have been introduced, while in the east it has been shown that some of the fruits can be stored and shipped in such a way as to find a profitable market abroad. The District of Columbia is the only part of our territory in which the national government exercises local or municipal functions, and where in consequence the government is the sole law enforcement reference certain types of sealand economic legislation which must be essentially local or municipal in their character. The government should see to it, for instance, that the hysteric and sanitary legislation affecting the city of a high character, evils of slum collapse, when in the shape of crowded and congested tenement-house districts or of the back-alley type, should never be permitted to grow up in Washington. The city should be a model country. The cities of the country. The charitable and the systems of the district should receive consideration at the hands of the congress to the end that they may embody the results of the most advanced thought in these fields. Moreover, while Washington is not the only city in the nation trialism here, and our labor legislation, while it would not be important in itself, might be made a model for the rest of the nation. We should pass, for instance, a wise municipal law for the Disaster of Columbia, and we need such in our navy-yards. Railroad companies in the district ought to be required by law to block their frogs. $ Protection for Railway Employee. The safety-appliance law, for the better protection of the lives and limbs of railway employees, was enacted in 1850, went into full effect on August 1, 1901. It has resulted in averting thousands of casualties. Experience shows, however, the necessity of additional legislation to permit employees to be provided for for the passed the Senate at the law's provision is to be hoped that some such measure may now be enacted into law. Gratifying progress has been made during the "press extension of the me making year custom system of pointments in the government service. It should be called the Dir. of Columbia. It is much to be desired the our consular system be established by law on a basis providing for appointment only in consequence of proved fitness. The New White House. Through a wise provision of the congress at its last session the white house, which has become disfigured by incongruous additions and changes, has now been restored to what it was planned to be when it was first enacted by the utmost care has been exercised to come as near as possible to the early plans and to supplement these plans by a careful study of such buildings as that of the University of Virginia, which is the property of the nation, and as that is compatible with living therein it should be kept as it originally was, for the same reasons that we keep Mount Vernon as it originally was. The stately simplicity of its architecture is an indication of its acclaimed position in which it was built, and is in accord with the purposes it was designed to serve. It is a good thing to preserve such buildings as historic monuments which keep alive our sense of continuity with the nation's past. The central executive departments are submitted to the congress with this communication. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House, December 1, 1902. DEATH VALLEY NITER. Recent Discoveries of Deposits in That Region Cause Rush of Prospectors. Discoveries of vast deposits of niter in Death valley have started a rush to that desolate region. Dozens of expeditions fitted out by capitalists and hundreds of miners are leaving Daggett, Borate, Randsburg and Mojave for Death valley. Already there are more than 400 men waiting at Ballarat for information as to which portion of the terrible desert is best to rush to, says a late report. The nitrate deposits are reported by the discoverers as being of such extent as to rival if not surpass those of Chili. So far their real range is not known, but many square miles have been examined by the prospectors. There are millions of dollars' worth of the much-sought material in sight. Those who have so far made claims to the niter beds are poor men. "Borax King" Smith, Lord Humphreys and Millionaire Singleton are the capitalists who have taken the keenest interest in the fields, but they have as yet made no claims. Nearly 100 men are being sent into Death valley by "Borax King" Smith, Lord Humphreys and The expense attached to their operations will approximate $250,000. Unjustly Punished. A friend of mine returning to camp after a day's shooting, says a writer in Navy and Army, suddenly came in sight of a big she bear with two cubs following in single file, proceeding along a ridge, the forms of the three being sharply silhouetted against the sky. It was a very long shot, but he determined to try it, so drew a bead on the old she bear and fired. The result was curious. 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Lave (uvusands of- testimonials like the following we have not etopublish: Mrs, Mary Young Fowler, California, writes, Lusto- " isa God-send to suffering humanity.’ Send me ‘$5.00 worth at €. I know what it did for me, | ¥ 9 Pa) ee FREI rT Baur ‘i ¥O SEGURE A FREE SAMPLE oF LusToROKE F + 1s your name and address and enclose 12c. to pay postage and we § 41 mail to you a sample of LusToRonz No. Land No. 2(2 packages) @ jouey is recetved. 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[an eter to yeni ee ae seein Cong aa ~S SST ERPS eee cance eed 2 msi, FREE f Setter pete ocay sci tact “Gets ake Rano J. 8, DISTILLER’S DISTRIBUTING OO-—Lept. Un 431 North Clark Bt., Chicago, Dl GASH ie Cate. PRICE | ft will pay é - will pa oR Ve ee $ 3322 | soos ae CRED ( () i ™ | logue No. 6, quoting iT. \)yy FREE. 3 Vf prices on Buggies, = ee Harness, eto. We seli direct from “yey fay Dorey ike mee St Sg Wee AS PONS hse eee NA ee KAS rerVirite for Freo Catslogue. = Siew 3 iN THIS PAPER. SENTURY MF’C CO. ores East St, Louis, §k z i aR ao nae ay wees a > a a5 ey 138 PRES oe TN OS aa ‘AERO 3 < ii “SN FBP A a es | 2 haiti rh Nude aH ALE CASES OF ee 29° OP HAPS ME Desr 533 OR HARD HEARING ema * Felli A Sy to ROW CURABLE by inventicn. Ouly those born deaf are incurabi>, REAM AUISES CEASE IMMEDIATEL HEAL AUISES i ¥. 3. A, WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS: BALTINORE, Md., Mach 39, 1901. Gentlemen :— doing entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, £9 be Bocd at your discretion, : ‘About five yeita are tay right ear began (0 sing, and (his kept ou getting worse, until lost hearing in this car en! vel BY Flonderwent & {reat nest for catarsh, for three months, without any success, consulted a num- ‘ber of physicians, among others, the most eminent car specialist of this city, who told me that gay af operation could help, me, and even that Only temporarily, that the head noises would Ghee corse, Lut the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever: i ther, saw your alvertisement accidentally in.a Sew York paper, and ordered your treat ment. After Thad used it only afew days according to your directions, the noises ceased, and fesday, o7t2y Gve weeks muy hearing in the diseased ear hs been entirely restored. Thank you eee, SINE. KWERMAN, 7505. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 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