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THE PULLMAN COMPANY. R. T. Lincoln, the president of the Pullman company, has issued a statement showing that the original Pullman company's capital of $100,0, haa paid ?32,O0O0O ia dividens einos the start. At the same time a hearing la going on before Inter State Commerce Commissioner Lane, in Chicago, to determine whether or not the company Is Justified in charging the same rate for both upper and lower berths, and an inquiry is being made in to the tipping system which Is in vogue on those cars as a part of the porter's pay. The ordinary citizen who does much traveling, will wonder if the great dividends have not come, for the most part out of his pocket, in the shape of unfair tariff rates, excessive charges for upper berths and the meager pay of porters, which forces them to live out of the tipping system. This thought is further strengthened by the announcement in the papers at the time, that the accounts of the various departments of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad were published. The railroad runs its own Bleeping car system and the accounts of that department show that there is more profit connected with that branch than with any other, taking into account the amount of capital invested. There is not much doubt in anyone's mind that the Pullman cars are safer and more comfortable than any other cars la the world. They are the real American "first class" when it comes to traveling. But there is a lingering suspicion in the common mind that the public is being imposed on. For Instance, takes the fares. The traveler who must use the sleeper Is practically at the mercy of the company. It has often been a matter of speculation as to how these rates can possibly be logical, except as they put money into the company's pockets and discriminate against the travelers of small towns like Richmond. For instance, the traveler who comes from the East will find if he buys, his ticket for Richmond, that there is a whole dollar's difference between Day ton and Richmond, although the seat fare between the two places is only a quarter of a dollar. The rate from Baltimore to Richmond is exactly the same that It is from Baltimore to Indianapolis. The wily traveler will do well to buy his ticket to Dayton and pay seat fare to Richmond. The at tentlon to this state of affairs was call ed by a Pullman conductor himself while on duty. He denounced the rate as excessive. In the same conversa t!on a commercial traveler who, in the course of his travels had apparent ly been all over the country, volun teered to demonstrate that a man might save a very considerable figure, if he would but pay attention and buy seat fares when conditions warranted it. He brazenly announced that such was his custom and that by a system of "rake-offs" which he had devised he was enabled to pocket a figure amounting to hundreds of dollars every year out of his expense account which he tallied to the published rates of the Pullman company. . Now, much of this might seem talk, his figures might have been wrong, but it Is possible that that sort of thin might be done. The same unfairness In the matter of upper and lower berths Is in force Although on many trains the upper berths are l.ot occupied, they are invariably pulled down, thus cutting off a supply of fresh air and making it unspeakably uncomfortable for even a normal sized adult to manipulate him self, his luggage and his wearing apparel. Moreover, the upper berth Is draughty anl filled with the shimmer ing, half-light that filters in from the low turned upper lights, to say nothing of the bother of climbing up a rickety flight of steps o reach it. It may be the contention of the Pullman compa ny that their upper and lower bertha are equally uncomfortable and hence the rate should be equal. The fact re mains that the public almost Invaria bly asks the agent for a lower berth. If this be the case why not lower the rate of upper berths or raise the price of lower berths with the stlplation that the upper be left unmade?. V, . Thi matter of timilnc nortra Yian

become so established that there Is lit

tle hope of relief until the conditions are much worse. It Is safe to say that the average traveler parts with his money much more easily and readily to the usually smiling, cheerful and accommodating porter (for a considera tion) than- he does to the highway rob bery indulged in by the Pullman com pany. It is to be hoped that the Inter State Commerce Commission will devise some equitable means of adjusting Pullman charges to the exact mileage which the seat or berth is used. There Is no reson why a man should pay more than he receives, and no reason why there should be discrimination between the smaller and larger towns. It is worse than the rebates of freight rates, because it affects the whole traveling public which wants to sleep comfortably on the train. This is a matter which the business men clubs all over the state might take up to great advantage to themselves and the whole country. In the meantime the mystery of the enormous earnings of the Pullman company is to some extent Bolved. THE STANDING OF THE PRESI DENT ELECT. The American people has in its wis dom, seen fit to elect its presidents in November and then to put them on the shelf to cool for the six months following. This has led to some results and incidents in the history of the country which call for some comment. The most recent comment on this sub ject has been the remark of the NewYork Sun in regard to Taft's recent visit to New York, accompanied by se cret service men. Of course, the Sun, in pursuance of its usual attitude, scores the president for using the secret service to protect an ordinary cit izen of the United States and wonders how much farther the president Is going to carry what it is pleased to call the monarchial tendencies of Theodore Roosevelt. The public will hardly sympathize with the Sun. It seems that after the trouble the people have gone to to elect Taft that there Is no particular use in exposing him to the stray shots of cranks. As far a3 that goes, there has not been an inauguration, lo, these many years, In which the Secret Service and the detectives of Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia have not been called in to protect the president and the president-elect. The American people have placed one of their number In a place in which he Is at the mercy of cranks, and there is little difference before ho takes the oath of office than after, as far as the actual danger is concerned. The death of the president-elect would endanger the financial condi tions of the country. Why should he have less protection than is afforded the transfer of the funds of a subtreasury? It was Abraham Lincoln who point ed out that tho people of the young republic could not pay too much at tention to precedent. It was Abraham Lincoln who had to be guarded on his way to his first inauguration. It was also Abraham Lincoln, who. having seen his own election as a protest against the division of the country, saw it turn into a house divided against itself, and he could not touch it until since months after his election. It was Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated. The conditions are, to be sure, not the same now that they were In Lincoln's day. There is no impending rebellion; there is not the same spirit of unrest. But at the same time tho lesson which was learned at that time is indeed one to be thought ovor now. The president elect should, if he is not to have the power, at least be guarded. He should not be a mark for the assassin. This country has paid too little heed to tho possibility of assassination, conidering the fact that there have been many attempts frustrated that were never heard of and that three have actually occurred In the history of the country. The fact is that the intrepid president will be in no greater danger In the wilds of Africa among snakes, venomous insects and man-eating animals than he is in this country with the great army of misguided peoplo who do away with men in high office as a part of their belief and doctrines. If so, why not guard the president designate? MASONIC CALENDAR. Saturday, Dec. 19. Loyal Chapter No. 49. O. E. S.. regular meeting. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh betng a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. 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The Night Express Is Held Up Considerable A mount of Money and Jewels Taken from Passengers Aboard Oregon Railway Train Last Night.

Portland, Ore,, Dec. 18. Within six miles of the city the Oregon Railway and Navigation night express was held up by three robbers at 10 o'clock Thursday night. All three of the outlaws were masked. One held the engineer under cover of a revolver, another one treated the conductor and brakeman in the

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Too Much For Him. According to a Tennessee man, there was once a judge In the eastern section of that state, a man well versed In law, but entirely self educated, who had to contend with the principles of orthography all his life. In early life he had lived In Knoxvllle, and for a long time he Insisted upon spelling the name Noxrllle. Finally his friends educated him up to the point of adding the K. So thoroughly, In fact, was the lesson learned that when a few years afterward be moved to Nashville nothing could prevent him from spelling It Knashvllle. Then some time later the Judge moved again, this time to Murfreesboro. On the day that he began to write his first letter from this place he scratched his bead In perplexity and nnallyexclalmed : "I give it up! How on earth can they spell the nam of this place with a 'K?" FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng. They will condense within thy soul And Chang- to purpose strong. But he who lets his fooling run In soft, luxurious flow Shrinks when hard service must be done And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears Where hearts and wills are weighed Than brightest transports, choicest prayers. Which bloom their hour and fade. Jolyi Henry Newman. Adjusted His Nam. When the baronet, Cave-Brown-Cave, first came to America he insisted upon being addressed by his full name. He sat one night at dinner In a boarding bouse In Montreal next to an Englishman named Leonard Holme, an old Cantab. When the Joints came on the table the landlady, who did the carving, said, "Beef or mutton, Mr. Cave?" The future baronet. In his most freezing manner, replied: "I beg your pardon, madam. My name la Cave-Brown-Cave, If you please." Willing to oblige her guests, the landlady asked if Mr. Cave-Brown-Cave would take beef or mutton. He accepted the beef. Then she turned to the next guest and said, "Beef or mutton, Mr. Holmer Without a smile the Cambridge man gravely replied: "I beg your pardon, madam. My name Is Home Sweet Home." This drew a roar from the Englishmen at the table and cost Holme the friendship of Cave-Brown-Cave from that time forth. Ahead on Prayers. A bishop traveling In the depth of winter came to a house of a presiding elder to spend the night. The weather was bitterly cold, and the bedroom Into which the bishop was shown bad a thick coating of ice on the windows. The elder waited to see the bishop safely between the feather beds. But when the bishop, half, frozen, jumped Into bed without stopping to say his prayers the elder remonstrated with him. "You have forgotten to say your prayers," he said. "No," answered the bishop. "I always keep "prayed up In preparation for nights that are as cold as this." Something Missing. "Didn't I tell ye to feed that cat a pound of meat every day until ye had her fat?" demanded an Irish shopkeeper, nodding toward a sickly, emaciated cat that was slinking through the store. "Ye did thot," replied his assistant "an' I've just been after feedin' her a pound of meat this very minute." "Faith, an I don't believe ye. Bring me the scales." The poor cat was lifted into the scales. They balanced at exactly on pound. "There T exclaimed the assistant triumphantly. "Didn't I tell ye she'd bad her pound of meat?" "That's right," admitted the boss, scratching his head. "That's yer pound of meat, all right. But" suddenly looking up "where the dirvil is the cat?" Everybody's. Work With a Will. We are not sent Into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to he done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will, and what Is not worth this effort is not to be done at all John Ruskin. H. Praysd Hard. An old man in Georgia named Jack Baldwin, having lost his hat In an old dry well one day, hitched' a "rope to a stump and let himself down. A wicked wag named Neal came along Just then and. quietly detaching a bell from Baldwin's old blind horse, approached the well, bell in hand, and began to ting-a-ling. t Jack thought the old horse was coming and said: "Hang the old blind horse! He's coining this way sure, and he ain't got no more sense than to fall in on me. Whoa. Balir The sound came closer. t "Great Jerusalem! The old blind fool will be right on top of me In a ratnlt! Whoa, Ball! Whoa, haw, Ball!" Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack's head, and Jack began to pray: "Oh, Lord, have mercy on whoa. Ball! a poor ainner I'm . gone owt

same manner, while the third went through the train and secured a conssiderable amount of money and valuables. The mall and baggage car was not molested. After the robbery the engineer was ordered to run at full speed and the robbers disappeared in the darkness.

Whoa, Bail! Our father who art tn whoa. Ball! hallowed be thy gee, Ball, gee! Wbat'll I do? name. Now I lay me down to si gee, Ball!" .Just then in fell more dirt. "Oh, Lord, tf you ever Intend to do anything for me back. Ball! Whoa! thy kingdom come gee, Ball! Ob, Lord, you know I was baptized in Smith's mill dam whoa. Ball! Ho up! Murder! Whoa!" Neal could hold in no longer and shouted a laugh which might have been heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when be got out. Conscientious. An English official in Newar, India, decided to plant a line of peepul trees In the avenue of shops, that the traders might be sheltered from the blazing sun. But, to the agent's amazement, when his Intention became known the shopkeepers set up a tremendous objection to it. On no account, they said, would they have the peepul trees on their avenue. If the trees were planted there every merchant would move. The agent sent for a leading bunniah, or shopkeeper, and said to him: "Why, my friend, this objection to the peepul trees? The avenue is horribly hot and sunny. The trees would improve it tremendously," "Sir," replied the bunniah, "the peepul tree is a sacred tree. No true be liever would dare to lie or swear falsely in its shade. How, then, with a row of peepuls on the avenue, could we merchants any longer carry on busi ness there?" A Dark Outlook. When a minister, marrying a negro couple, started to ask the woman. "Do you take this man for better or for worse?" the woman startled the clergyman by blurting out: "No, Judge, I wants him jest as he Is. If he gits any better he'll die, and if he gits any wTiss I'll kill him myself." - What He Ought to Get. A popular London millionaire made his vast fortune by bis business abill ty. Thinking that, as he bad been so successful in trade and finance, he must also succeed in literature, he did as others have done wrote a book of travels. Having a proper pride in his own work, he expected to receive a fairly good price from his publisher therefor. To his intense disgust, instead of offering him a comfortable check for the copyright the publisher demanded that be should pay him for the risk of issuing the book. It was clear to him that this was an attempt to take advantage of bis position as a rich man without experience in literature. He happened to be on friendly terms with a well known Journalist, and the hap py thought occurred to him to send the manuscript to the great litterateur and critic with a businesslike inquiry, "What do you think I should get for this?" The journalist was equal to the oc casion. After reading the manuscript he returned it with the laconic answer written across the. top sheet, "Five years r Conscience. Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment and induction, but Intuitively and in ad vance of experiment. So in add! tion to the experimental way whereby we learn justice from the facts of hu man history we have a transcendental way and learn it from the facts of human nature and from Immediate con sciousness. Theodore Parker. BATTLE OF BLOUNTSVILLE. New Castle, Ind., December 18. Temperance people of Stony Creek are working hard to keep a saloon out of Blountsvllle. Power of attorney cards are being use, and it is understood that nearly two-thirds of the required number to make a remonstrance successful have heen obtained. In the next few days it is thought enough will be obtained and the remonstrance will be prepared and filed with the county auditor. Examiner In Physics What happens when a light falls into the water at an angle of forty-five degrees? Pupil It goes out Scott's Emulsion is for coughs and colds as well as for consumption. It's easy for Scott's Emulsion to cure a cold or cough and it does it better than anything else because it. builds up and strengthens at the same time. r Don't wait until you get Consumption or Bronchitis. Get Scott's, Send this advertisement, together with name of paper ia which it appears, your address sad four ccats to cover postage. . and we will aaad you a "Complete Handy Atlas of the WorW s s SCOTT & BOWNK. 409 Pearl Street, New York

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OF THE CAHAL Understood That the Presi dent Will Have Probe Made. CIVIL ENGINEERS PROBABLE IT IS STATED THAT MR. ROOSE VELT DESIRES TO EMPLOY THEM IN MAKING ANY SUCH INVESTIGATION. Washington, Dec. 19. The presi-j dent is considering the advisability of having a thorough examination and J report made on the character of foun dations that underly the locks and important dams along the line of the Panama canal. So much has been said recently cpneerning questionable conditions that exist beneath sites of these works that it is regarded as important to carefully determine at this time the exact magnitude of the task of providing stable foundations for these locks and dams. Boring has been continued and there is now more data bearing or this subject than has ever been in possession of the canal commission. Excavations that have been going on also furnish additional data concerning the nature of the ground. For this important duty the president is considering the employ ment of civil engineers of eminence who are not now Jn the service of the government, and who could not possi bly be biased in their judgments because of any personal interests in re-, ports previously made on the canal. A request for an urgent deficiency appropriation of $5,458,000 to carry on the work on the Isthmian canal at the present rate during the balance of the fiscal year and for new projects was received by the house today from the secretary of war. line last year a deficiency appropriation of $11,990,000 was made. For the Atlantic division, where are located the Gatum locks pnd dams, an appropriation of $3, 451, Of 0 is required. Chairman Goethals, of the commission, explained that the current appropriation was based on the mistaken idea that congress had appropriated for a rock-crushing plant at Por to Bello, an erecting plant for the Ga tum locks and dams and vessels to transport the crushed rock. For these purposes $2,500,000 is now asked. To make an additional survey of Gatum Lake and Its tributaries $55,000 is asked. In the central division, including the Culebra cut, it is said that the ex cavation has been 50 per cent greater than was estimated, and for this purpose a deficiency appropriation of $1,150,000 is required. An additional plant at the Miraflores locks is also required. EDITOR AND MANAGER OF EARLHAMITE RESIGN Now Engaged in Issuing Sargasso. the Because of the heavy duties in attending to the business of the Sargasso, the college annual, Comstock, editor-in-chief of the Earlhamite, and Haworth, business manager of the monthly publication, resigned at a special meeting of the Ionian society held at Earlham college yesterday. Daniel Beebe was elected the successor to Comstock while Paul Furnas was selected as Haworth's successor. Both are well known and liked students of the college and it is the hope of the students that they will be able to improve the Earlhamite or at least keep It up to its present high standard. Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop Into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar. as it soothes inflamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expels the cold from the system. A. G. Luken & Co. IF Across

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