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Embarrassing The Administration Whatever Mr. Cannon may say the fact remains that he is the same Mr. Cannon, reactionary, and stand pat with the power by virtue of the rules of the house and the prerogatives of his office to make or break legislature. In view of this fact it is still instructive to hear him talk of the great work performed by congress under the last administration when it is well known that he has opposed it on every occasion. Theodore Roosevelt fought every bit of the legislation past Aldrich and Cannon as the country well knows. This being so, the arguments of Mr. Cannon do not seem so pertinent when he intimates that the insurgents have been embarrassing the administration and its program. The program of the insurgents is exactly that of the previous administration plus the promises made by the republican party in convention assembled. It was further understood that Mr. Taft was to carry out the Roosevelt policies. The arguments of Mr. Cannon are unavailing. Even the comfort which he draws from Mr. Taft does not remove the knowledge of the people that the Speaker of the House, second in power to himself, did ill he could to keep the tariff legislation from being satisfactory or even in accordance with the pledges of the republican convention. Which has done the most to embarrass the administration for by embarrassing it, we assume that keeping it from carrying out its promises is meant? The speaker who used his enormous power against it or the insurgents who maintain that those promises should be carried out. We think that a performance of the promises of the republican convention is more nearly good republican doctrine than the abortion or them performed by the Speaker and his machine built up on rules of the house. Which, by the way, is the whole question.

the manager, "although I shouldn't like to have it generally known. Hefore her big scene I go around to her dressing room and tell her how little real money there is in the house." Restless Royalty. "Before their marriage he said she should be treated like a queen."

Business Review of The Past Week by Henry Clews

Wall street was decidedly disturbed by the decision of the United States Circuit Court against the Standard Oil Co. Although not entirely unexpected, this decision emphasizes the ban which the courts are placing upon the efforts to suppress competition. Needless to say these mandates interfere materially with the plans of many industrial and financial leaders who had contemplated mergers, holding companies or other devices for circumventing the law. Such plans must necessarily be seriously interfered with and all combinations of a monopolistic character are now wondering how the decision may affect their future welfare. It is not to be supposed that either the government or the courts are going to take extreme or unintelligent action towards the great combinations of capital, which are necessary to the development of the country and more efficient and more economical than numerous small concerns. Nevertheless, it may as well be recognized at once that the government seriously intends to comply with the popular demand for adequate restraint of monopolies and great aggregations of capital. It is evident, too, that the courts of last resort will support this movement; and that the Sherman law, though requiring some modifications in order to make its enforcement more reasonable, will remain the law of the land. The prime intent of that meas ure is to maintain the open field and fair play. Monopolies are un-Ameri can, for they conflict with such pur poses and endanger the very foundation of our political institutions. The door of opportunity must not be shut and locked fast by monopoly. Competition has been the main incentive in the material development of this great nation, and the recent tendency towards its elimination, if not resisted, would rapidly lead to socialism, national decay and revolution. The political and industrial life of the nation depends very largely upon the decision of the courts on this vital question; and it is really encouraging to observe that the present -drift is towards sound and well established economic principles and away from the popular fallacies which captured many light thinking or ultra-selfish people, who in the pursuit of their purposes are blind to public welfare. Tha check upon this tendency towards mo nopoly and excessive centralizations of industry may, of course, be temporarily unsettling in Wall Street, but the ul timate effects even upon investments will be highly beneficial, for it will dis arm much of the public criticism naturally aimed at the great corporations and monopolies, which would surely continue to abuse the great power ob tained without due restraint. It will be remembered that none of the ca lamities which were predicted in event of a decision against the Northern Securities Co. ever happened. On the contrary, the decision was distinctly beneficial; it averted worse political agitation: and the Standard Oil decision will do likewise. Stock Exchange prices exhibited a lower tendency owing to the conditions just referred to. New issues are still forthcoming in large amounts, but th.? buying power of the market is verv limited. Investors and speculators alike, keep aloof and there has been no support except from the manipulations of big traders. The approaching opening of congress is also an element of uneasiness. President Taft is expected to live up to his promises of carrying out the Roosevelt anti-corporation policies. It is not to be supposed that Mr. Taft personally would oppose any radical measures, yet he fully understands the strong public opinion throughout the country which is hostile to such combinations, an1 recognizes that if he does not satisfy the public desire for action, Mr. Roosevelt may be summoned to that task three years hence. As to the attitude of Congress, nothing can yet be ascertained owing to the conflict of various issues. The legislature, however, is likely to be more unfriendly than otherwise to corporate interests, and there is no doubt that amendment of the Sherman law will be attended with; difficulty this season. Another depressing influence has been the firm-; ness of money. No particular strin-j gency is anticipated, but good interest!

"Well," answered Miss Cayenne, ne has kept his word after a fashion. His household is very much like one of those little European monarchies."

"De reasun," said Uncle Eben, "dat some men walks de floor because of deir debts is because it's warmer an' mo' comf-able dan gittin' out an' buildin' fences or shovelin' snow." rates must be expected for some weeks to come, which is not helpful to bullish operations when the market is already upon a high level. The business situation, however, is not without its encouraging features. Railroad traffic is increasing, and practically all of the roads report satisfactory gross earnings. Mills and factories in nearly all parts of the country are running full time. The steel and building trades still maintain their phenomenal activity. In a few quarters there is a slight slackening of the pace as the rush of the fall trade is over, but this is not general. In the wholesale and retail trades there is a decided feeling of conservatism among merchants who often hesitate to enter into future contracts because of present high costs of production an i high prices of raw materials. There is also an uneasy feeling regarding the situation in cotton and copper resulting from excessive manipulation, and while the general situation is hopeful, it is not without its serious perplevities, chief of which is the generally high scale of prices. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS J. Warren Beck et al to A. Schafer & Sons, Pt. S. E. 24-18-14, $1. Henry Oler to Frank R. Oler, Pt. 11-17-13, $2,000. Nanie L.' R. Moran to Joseph Brower, Pt. 34-35-13-1; $425. Auditor Wayne county to James Stotens' Heirs, lot 3, block 28, Cambridge City, $2. Walter Stoubaugh to P., C, C. & St. Jj. R. R., lots 5-7 block 2S, Cambridge City, Jl. Alonzo R. Feemster to P., C, C. & St. L. R. R., Pt. W. K 27-16-12; Jackson Twp., $600. Sophia O. Cokefair to P., C, C. & St. L. R. R., lots 15, 16, 41, 42, 43; Pt. 17, 40, 44, 45, Cambridge City, $450. Richard A. Jackson to Turner W. Hadley, lot 59 Grand Boulevard Sub. of P. V. Washburn's addition to city, $350. Dickinson Trust Co., Tr. to Turner W. Hadley, lots 7-24 in Jenkins Add. to City, $260. S. S. Imp. Association to John Sanders, lots 426 and 427 Beallview Add. to City, $525. Chas. M. Bradway to Harry 'O. Foster lot 7S Mendenhall & Price Add. city, $1,000. Dickinson Trust Co., Tr. to Louisa R. Gross, lot 36 Jenkins Add. to city, $135. Mary A. Weller to James H. Cole, lots 307, 30S and 309 E. Starr Add. to city, $3,000. Mary A. Weller to James H. Cole, lot 5, Blk. 4, C. T. Price's Add. to city, $4,500. John C. Evans to Harry B. Stanley, Pt. lot 256. Haynes Add. City, $2,600. Frank M. Price to Wm. B. Dye et al, lot 4S, official map of the city, $1,750. Robinson & Co. to Olive M. Osborn, lot 16, J. K. Dugdale Add. City, $S50. S. S. Imp. Association to Wm. Metzger, lots 416, 417, 41S Beallview Add., city, $3S0. Mary H. Haynes to Henry H. Posther et al lot 73 Schwegman's Add. city, $1,600. Clara T. Moorman to John B. Keys Pt. lots 30 and 31, J. Cox Add. to city, $3,300. S. S. Imp. Association to Hackman, Klehfoth Co., lots 175 and 176 Beallview Add. city. $600. Auditor of Wayne county to John Stout, lot 56 C. T. Price's 2nd Add. to city. $2.10. John A. Stout to Frank M. Conklin et al, lot 56, C. T. Price's 2nd Add. city, $100. A Dreary Failure. "Yes, my life is a failure. "Oh. Henry, how sad! Way should you say that?' "I spend all my time making money enough to buy food and clothes, and the food disagrees with, me and my clothes don't fit."

CANNONADE STIRS INSURGENTS' IRE Uncle Joe's Recent Speech Adds Fuel to Flames Of Revolt.

MOBILIZED FOR BATTLE GOVERNOR STUBBS SAYS THE SPEAKER GAINED NO FRIENDS IN THE WEST BY HIS DECLARATION OF WAR. Chicago, Nov. 'JO. Insurgent republican senators and representatives are heading for Washington for the regular session of congress from out of the western states, keyed up to fighting pitch. The Kansas City speech of Speaker Cannon, followed so closely upon the heels of his Bloomington midnight attack upon everybody whj doen't agree with him. has burned the bridges and the wires are down. Perhaps Uncle Joe didn't know it, but insurgents of high standing within the republican organization west of the Missouri river, were on the spot at the Knife and Fork club dinner, to hear with their own ears exactly what the speaker had to say about them. These leaders saii frankly after digesting that part of the Cannon diatribe which was spontaneous with him and which did not go out to the country at large through the medium of the Associated Press, that any attempt at compromise, even during this session of congress for personal or local reasons, or even for the sake of the president, would be ultra-foolish, in view of the limit to which Speaker Cannon had gone in condemning insurgentism to the fiery furnace. Insurgents Ready for Fight. The two recent fulminations of the speaker, in connection with the public utterances of Senator Aldrich through the west, result in a belligerency on the part of the insurgent delegation at Washington which was not to be the practical attitude of the midwesterners, as they viewed the situation following the New Orleans waterway convention and prior to the Bloomington speech of Uncle Joe. This fact was stated simply by Senator Bristow of Kansas after Speakr Cannon's emphatic declaration that hereafter the "regular" republicans will fight the Insurgents upon the same plane and with the same weapons as are needed against William J. Bryan. "Mr. Cannon is wrong, utterly wrong." said Senator Bristow. "He has forced the war and now he will get it. He lost his head in his Kansas City speech. He has misled himself as to the real attitude of the republicans of this part of the country. There is nothing for the progressive republicans to do now but to fight back. I consider the battle opened and upon ground chosen by Speaker Cannon." Thinks Cannon Helps Foes. Gov. Stubbs of Kansas attentively considered the Kansas City address of Speaker Cannon. "A few more speeches such as the knife and fork speech," said Governor Stubbs, "and Mr. Cannon and his coterie will be. without even lukewarm support in Kansas or in any other part of this western territory, in my judgment. "The effect of such meandering and wandering allegations and veiled charges as Mr. Cannon makes Is altogether favorable to the progressive movement within the republican party. The visit of Senator Aldrich to the west simply strengthened the fighting spirit in our men at Washington." There has been much talk about Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas having in his vest pocket a petition asking the speaker to resign, taking Uncle Joe at his word in one of his Mississippi river speeches when he said that he would lay down the gavel if a majority of the republicans in congress so requested him to do. The Little Cuss. Trofessor Marsh, the distinguished paleontologist, once met I. T. Barnum. the showman, iu a railroad car. He ; knew Barnum from his portraits, but Barnum did not know him. They eu- ; tered into conversation, and Barnum j told him of a number of curios which i had been picked up in Mexico for his museum, but which his agent in New York, not realizing their value, offered for sale. "And they were sold?" asked Professor Marsh. "Yes; some little cuss up in New Haven bought them." answered Barnum. "I thought so." said the scientist smiling and handing out his card. "1 was the little cuss." Hard Luck. "People can talk of their troubles." said Mrs. Wagleigh, "but 1 think Mrs. Jones has the hardest luck of any one. She is absolutely deprived by nature of enjoying a woman's greatest pleasure. She's a deaf mute and can't talk. She can only use her hands. Now, if that isn't awful, tell me what isV" Mr. Wagleigh looked up from his evening paper. "1 met her husband this afternoon." he said, "and b was tickled to pieces. Ills wife cut her fingers with the bread knife yesterday, and now she can't talk at all." New York Times. MASONIC CALENDAR. Monday, Nov. 29. Richmond Commandery. No. S, K. T. Work in Red Cross Degree. Tuesday. Nov. 30 Richmond Lodge No. 196. P. & A. XL Work in Master Mason degree. Refreshments. Thursday, Doc. 2. Wayne Council. No. 10, R. & s. M Stated Assembly and election of officrs. Saturday, Dec. 4 Loyal Chapter. No. 43. o. E. S.. Stated Meeting.

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Col J. J. Astor and his yacht N wrecking boat. For fourteen days tie West India boat who said he sighted a finally reported safe in the harbor of UNION'S GREAT WORK What the Ironmolders Have Done In Fifty Years. A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT. High Dues Have Enabled the Organization to Pay Substantial Benefits and Thus Increase Membership Wage Agreements Favored. In July of this year the Ironmolders' union celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its organization as a national body. There was a union of ironmolders in Pittsburg in 1836 and one In Philadelphia in 1837. Cincinnati bad one in 1847. Each of these various unions may have been organized several years earlier than the date named for it. The records of most of the early unions are lost. We get just a glimpse of one here and there by accident. On June 10. 1S55, the molders of Philadelphia formed a union, which still exists as union No. 1. Through its efforts the national organization was formed. In the fall of 1S58 a circular was sent from the Philadelphia union to all the local Ironmolders' unions it could get track of. asking each to send a delegate to a national convention. This convention met In Philadelphia July 5, 1SD9. with delegates from local unions In Philadelphia. St Louis. Albany. Troy. Peekskill. Utica and Port Chester, N. Y.; Providence, R. I.; Jersey City, N. J.; Wilmington. Del.; Baltimore and Cincinnati. Letters came from local unions in Louisville, Ky., and Stamford. Conn., pledging them to abide by whatever action was taken by the convention. While the molders from the very start favored wage agreements and their union was among the first In the field with this peace promoting device, they have had harder fights and more of them than any other uulon I know of. Partly because of its numberless strikes the molders" union early came up against that most serious of all the foes of unionism the opposition of the wives of union men to the union. Women could see in the organization of labor only danger of more strikes and an expense at least to the extent of the dues and assessments. Whether the benefit features of the Ironmolders' union were consciously introdnccd to placate the women or not I do not know. In 1808 at the convention in Toronto a resolution embodying some rather wild benefit features was adopted, but it was never put in practice. In 1S70 an attempt was made to form an auxiliary association to be composed only of members who agreed to pay an assessment to meet death benefits. This plan soon collapsed. The convention of 1879. held in Chicago, ordered a death or total disability ."ie.nt.o.SKK) J:i acli t

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case to W paid from the geueraT fuud. this to be in .erutiou on and after Jan. 1. 1SS0. and to apply to all members who at the date of death or disability had U-en in the organization for twelve consecutive months and did not owe more thaa three months' dues. The couventiou of lStO changed this arrangement to a graduated benefit and provided that a member who had been in good standiug from one to five years should receive $100. from five to ten years floO. from ten to fifteen years $173 and from fifteen to twenty years or over $3X, membership to be computed from Oct. 1. 18l5. From the inception of this benefit feature. Jan. 1, ls0, to June 30. 1909. there had been paid from the general fund for death benefits $619.Stk; for disability benefits. $45,225; total. $GG5,111. A sick benefit fund was established by the convention of 1S95. also held in Chicago. At that time the dues were raised to 25 cents a week. 8 cents of it to go to a fund from which a benefit of $5 a week was to be paid to a sick member for a period not to exceed thirteen weeks in any one year. Any member who was twelve weeks in arrears on dues stood suspended. The high dues went Into effect Oct. 1, 1S95. and 32 per cent of all dues and reinstatement fees from that time on was to be set aside for sick benefits, but the latter were not to begin until Jan. 1. 1S9C. In July, 1902. the sick benefit was Increased to $5.25 a week and In July. 1907. to $5.40 a week. In October. 1907. the dues were increased to 40 cents a week. Since January, 1S9C. the union has paid out in sick benefits $1.6G0.097. It was found that 32 per cent of the dues provided an unnecessary surplus in the sick benefit fund, so In 1897 a so called out of work benefit was started on a cent a week from each member. All that is Intended by this fund is to prevent the lapse of membership through nonpayment of dues by members who are neither sick nor disabled nor on strike. If a member Is out of work the union will pay his dues for thirteen weeks in any one year. From Oct. 1, 1897. to Oct. J. 1907. a period of ten years, when the dues were 25 cents a week. 2S3.473 payments of dues were made, amounting to $70,8GS. Between Oct. 1. 1907. and June. 1909. there was an enormous amount of enforced Idleness in nil the trades, the ironmolders being especially affected. During the period the weekly dues were 40 cents a week, and 271.fi58 payments were made, amounting to $108,602. or a total from the fund of $179,530. We hare thus a total of benefits paid by this union as follows: Sick benefits. $1,000,079; out of work dues paid. $179,630; death and disability, $665.Ill; total. $2.504.720. Ethel be rt Stewart In Chicago News. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.

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lAmrrli n Ni Srvh-r C leveland. O.. Nov. 29. The successful transplanting of fatty tissue from the abdominal wall to the eyesock t of Peter Itothgery. at the City Hospital, the first operation of the kind on record, U announced by Hr. A. K. Ibershoff. The tissue was used as the base for the setting of an artificial eye. This eye is now susceptible to precisely the same control as to movement as the living eye. It is claimed by Drs. lberschoff and his assistants, Drs. Houston and Iee. Haughty. "Were you ever arrested beforeT asked the magistrate, whose principal business is Imposing Hues for speeding. "What do you tnlnk I've been doing all these years." asked the chauffeur "pushing a wheelbarrow?" Washington Star. Alligator and Crocodile. The alligator is more stoutly built than tba crocodile. Its bead is more bluut. and it la not as vicious. Pennsylvania LINES IMPROVED SERVICE TO Canton Alliance Youngstoivn Daily except Sunday from Columbus. Lv. Richmond 3: 03 p.m. Ar. Columbus 5:35p.m. Lv. Columbus 3:50 p.m. Ar. Orrville 8:20 p. m. Ar. Massillon 8.52 p.m. Ar. Canton 9:08 p.m. Ar. Alliance 9:40 p.m. Ar. Yonngstown 10:50 p.m. Without Changing Cars After Leaving Columbus. Broiler-Buffet Parlor Car and Coaches through from Columbus to Youngstown. For further Information consult Ticket Agent C. W. Elmer. 22-21-26-23 : : i - :