Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 25, 1906, Page 3

—_— i SS ; a ‘MISS LEOPOLD, SEC’Y LIEDERKRANZ, Writes ; “‘ Three Years Ago-My System Was In a Run-Down Condition. .2 Owe to Pe-ru-na My Restoration to Health and Strength.” ‘ya ISS RICKA LEOPOLD, 187 Main street, Menasha, Wis., Sec’y Lied- erkranz, writes : “Three years ago my system was in a terrible run-down condition and I was broken out all over my body. I began to be worried about. my condition and I was glad to try anything which would relieve me. «‘Peruna was recommended.to meas a fine blood remedy and tonic, and I soon found that it was worthy of praise. ““A few bottles changed my condition materially and in a short time I was all over my trouble. “Lowe to Peruna my restoration to health and strength. Iam glad to en- dorse it.” Pe-ru-na Restores Strength. Mrs. Hettie Green, R. R. 6, Iuka, J1L., writes: ‘tI had catarrh and felt misera- ble. I began the use of Peruna and began to improve in every way. My head does not hurt me so much, my appetite is good and I am gaining in flesh and strength.” A man is seldom as old as he feels or a woman as young as She says she is. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE, A powder. It cures painful, smart- ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. 30,000 testimonials of cures. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package, FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. He Had Met Him. “When you go to New Zealand I wish you would inquire after my great-grandfather,- Jeremiah Thomp- son.” “Certainly,” said the traveler, and wherever he went he asked for ws of the ancestor, but without ava .’ One day he was introduced to a fine old maori of advanced age. “Did you ever meet with an Englishman named Jeremiah Thompson?” he asked. A smile passed over the Maori’s face. “Meet him?” he repeated. “Why, I ate him!” The Speedy Meter. Br-r-r! went the office telephone and (ne gas company’s manager took duwn the receiver. “Hallo!” said a gruff voice. “Is that the gas company I am talking to?” “Yes. of gas. “Well, I wanted to know when the entries for the races must be in.” “We don’t know anything about races. This is the gas company.” “Just so; but I thought you conld tell me.” “But why do you ask us? What co you want to know for?” “Oh, nothing in particular. Only I've got one of your meters here that I would like to enter, that’s all.” Without a word the gas manager hung up the receiver with an angry slam. What is it?” asked the man MORE THAN MONEY. A Minister Talks About Grape-Nuts. “My first stomach trouble began back in 1895,” writes a minister in Nebr., “resulting from hasty eating and eating too:much. I found no re- lief from medicine and grew so bad that all food gave me great distress. “It was that sore, gnawing, hungry feeling in my stomach that was so distressing and I became a sick man. Grape-Nuts was recommended as a food that could be easily digested. “Leaving the old diet that had given me so much trouble, I began to eat Grape-Nuts with a little cream and sugar. The change effected in 24 hours was truly remarkable, and in a few weeks I was back to health again. “My work as a minister calls me away from home a great deal, and re- cently I drifted back to fat meat and indigestible foods, which put me again! ‘on the sick list. OUT MILLIONS NORTHERN RAILROADS OFFER 10 PER CENT REDUCTION IN | GRAIN FREIGHT RATES. A COMPROMISE PROPOSITION SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ROADS OPPOSE AND OFFER IS REJECT- ED BY R. R. COMMISSION. The proposition of the three north- ern railroads, the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and the Soo, to make a reduction of 10 per cent in the grain freight rates, was rejected by tne state railroad and warehouse commission, because the reduction was opposed by the railroads operating in Southern Minnesota. The reduction would have saved the farmers of Minnesota alone $1,000,- 000 a-year in freight on grain. The 10 per cent reduction in coal rates, which Was proposed by the commission, would have meant,a saving of $200,- 000 more to the people of the state, making a total of $1,200,000 a year that would have been put into the pockets of the people of Minnesota had the new schedules gone into ef- fect. The Minnesota reductions in Minnesota grain rates would have re- sulted in reductions in neighboring states, and the total saving to the farmers of the Northwest would have been between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 a year. 5 The Better Plan. The proposition was made by the three northern roads as a compromise in the pending proceedings looking to a reduction in merchandise rates. The roads could not afford to make both reductions. The merchandise reduc- tions would have benefitted no one but the merchants, while the grain re- ductions, by cutting the cost of getting grain to market, would have benefited the farmers directly. The three roads therefore proposed to reduce the grain rates instead of the merchandise rates. The members of the state railroad and warehouse commission seemed in- clined to accept the compromise, ap- parently believing that the reduction in grain rates would be a much great- er benefit to the people of the state. They asked; however, that a 10 per cent reduction be made also in coal rates. But the Southern Minnesota roads objeeted. The proposed reduction in merchandise rates would have affected them only to a trifling extent, while the proposed grain rate reduction would have meant a material benefit to the people at the expense of the rail- roads. In the face of the opposition of the southern roads, the state railroad and warehouse commission rejected the proposed grain rate reduction. The proposition of the three north- ern roads, the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Soo, and their position in the matter, is ex- plained in their letter to. the state commission. The letter says: The Proposition. “1. The merchandise rates umder discussion, so far as they relate to the tariffs now in force on said three lines of railway, shall be continued in force, and the proceedings with reference to the same shall be dismissed. This because, in the opinion of the railway companies the evidence that has been so far developed in the case: proves conclusively that merchandise traffic is being handled in the State of Min- nesota at just and reasonable rates that compare favorably with those in effect in other states; that the present merchandise rates do not more than pay the actual cost of the transporta- tion furnished, and that a reduction in said rates would be an injustice to the railway companies and impracticable for them to accept. “2. It is the opinion of the railway companies that the prosperity of the portion of the state served by the said three lines is dependent upon the well being of the agricultural communities along those lines. A reduction in the rates on merchandise would be of no benefit to the farmers and producers in Northern Minnesota. This has been clearly brought out jn the testimony taken, it having been shown beyond question that the only persons to be benefited by the proposed reduction would be the merchants. Direct Benefit. “A reduction in the rates on grain is a direct benefit to every farmer raising a bushel of grain for sale, as the price paid the farmer for his grain in the country is fixed by the price at the terminal markets less the cost of transporting the grain to those mar- kets. Farmers desiring to do’so may ship their grain and sell it themselves at terminal markets without the inter- position of middlemen. If the farmers are prosperous the communities in which they live are prosperous, The “So I went back to Grape-Nuts and country merchants sell more goods, cream and in four days I was put’ consequently buy more, and the manu- right again. The old dull headaches factyrer and the jobber in the city en- are gone, stomach comfortable, head joy an enlarged trade. If, at any time, clear, and it is a delight to pursue my studies and work. “Grape-Nuts food is worth more than money to me, and I hope this may induce some sufferer to follow the same course I have.” Name given by Postum’Co., Creek; Mich. “There’s a reason,” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. ‘ Battle it is possible for the railway compa- nies to reduce their rates, the highest public policy and the interests not only of the railways themselves but of all classes of citizens in this state demand that the policy. that has heretofore been fpllowed by these railway com- | panies should be continued, and that reductizns in rates should be made in a as to enable t his product to market with the 1€ast expense. i . How It Works Out, : “The increased benefit to the pre ducer from.-reductions in grain rates over reductions in merchandise rates, is easily computed. For instance: A farmer with 160 acres of land, raising, say 20 bushels per acre, or 3,200 bush- els avéraging, on different kinds of grain, 50 pounds per bushel, would furnish 80 tons of freight. Should the farmer purchai of the storekeeper once a week 25 pounds of merchandise (an amount much in excess of that or- dinarily consumed by a family) he would purchase 1,320 pounds of mer- chandise during the year, on which the freight charges, at an average of 40 cents per hundred weight, would amount to $5.20. The reduction in merchandise rates proposed by the commission, is about 20 per cent, which would méan a reduction of a little over $1 in the freight charges on the merchandise a farmer’s family would purchase during the year. It the railway company were able to re duce their rates on grain 11-4 cents per hundred pounds, or 25 cents per ton, it would mean a reduction to the farmer, or an increase in the amount received by him for his grain 6f $29, or over twenty times the amount of the reduction in the freight charges on merchandise, provided that the farm- er received the benefit of that reduc- tion. But, as a matter of fact, none of this dollar would find its way into the pockets of the farmer, as the dollar would have to be distributed over so many different articles during the course of the year that it would be im- possible for the storekeeper to make any reduction in the prices charged by him for the merchandise sold. New Schedule. “3. For the above reasons, and in pursuance of the policy which they have long followed, the three railway companies presenting this statement, propose that if the present merchan- dise rates under discussion are contin- ued in force. and, while so continued, they will reduce the rates on wheat and coarse grains shipped from all points in the State of Minnesota in ex- cess of 100 miles from the terminals of their respective systems, 10 per cent from the tariffs now in force. The rates from stations within 100 miles of the terminals are now so low that further reduction is impracticable. The present rates from such stations are now lower than those charged in any other Western state, as a comparison and the evidence submitted to the com- mission in this case will show. “The aggregate reduction in the revenue of the railway -companies from the proposed reduction in grain rates will be very large, and one that the railway companies cannot afford to make if their present merchandise rates rates are also to be disturbed. It is only by reason of the large inter- state business over which the commis- sion has no control that the railway companies are able to offer any re- duction whatever. If the railway com- panies, parties to this proposal, were solely dependent upon state tariff, they could neither afford to make the proposed reduction nor provide one- half of the service which tHey now give the state. Immediate Benefit. “4.'Under conditions that have arisen in the course of this hearing it is apparent that considerable. time must elapse before the matter can be finally determined by the commis- sion, leaving out of the question the possibility of consideration of the mat- ter elsewhere. The railway companies. making this proposal have been hold- ing back an intended reduction in grain rates awaiting the result of the present hearing. While a reduction in grain rates has been contemplated, it was impossible to grant it, and also submit to a reduction in merchandise rates. A large crop is about to be harvested, and it is important to the farming communities to know at once what rates they will be compelled to pay; and if the farmer is to receive the benefit of a reduction in the grain rates on his crop of this year it is time now to act, and an immediate de- cision of the matter is necessary. If the proposed compromise is promptly agreed to, the present crop will get the benefit of the reduction. “The railway companies cannot af- ford to reduce both the merchandise and grain rates, and one or the other must remain where it now is. A reduc- tion made now in grain rates and fol- lowed later by a reduction in the mer- ‘dhandise rates would mean simply the restoration of the present grain rates.” A Philosophical Tramp. The correspondent of a New York paper writes of a philosophical tramp whom he met in Massachusetts. The nian, who said his name was William Hicks, had clothes that hung in looped and windowed raggedness, but he refused to accept others. In the course of a lengthy interview Mr. Hicks uttered this piece of more or jess conclusive philosophy: “I do what I please, doing what I please, I have my will, and, having my will, I am contented, and when one is con- tented there is no more to be desired, and when there is no more to be de- sired there is an end to it.” Was Ten Years Too Soon. John Knox had his fourth centenary celebrated ten years too soon, it ap- pears; for Hal Fleming has been deciphering Archbishop Spottiswoode’s manuscript, and finds that in noting |. Knox’s death in 1572, he wrote fifty- seven for his age and not sixty-seven. Knox would not be 400 years old until 1915. 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In choosing the color of paint for your house, select reds, browns, grays and olives which, considering the various tones these tinis wil) produce, will give a wide range from which to choose. Avoid the harsh tints, such as cold yellows (like lemon), cold greens (like grass green, etc.), and the blues. It must be understood that no virtue is claimed for tints in themselves, ir- respective of the materials used in the paint. Any color will fade, and the paint will scale off, if adulterated white lead or canned paint is used, but if one is careful to use the best white lead—some well-known brand of a re- Mable manufacturer—and genuine lin- seed oil, the warm tints mentioned above will outwear the same materials tinted with the cold colors. Jap as a Carrier. Japanese steamers are carrying a large part of the Philippine-Australia business each way. DOCTOR CURED OF ECZEMA. 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