Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 1, 1908, Page 16

—— + | Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make lifea burden. It is to these faithful women that LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a We as it did to Mrs, F. Ellswo: Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say: “T was not able to do my ‘etnbebeles owing to the female trouble from which I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound helped me wonderfully, and I am so well that I can do as big a day’s work as lever did. I wish every sick woman would try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. 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He accepted, and at the dance he met a charming girl who spoke very good Italian, which added greatly to his enjoyment. At supper he confided to this girl that as he spoke very little English he was worried as to what he should say to his hostess, in acknowledgment of her courtesy, in leaving. The girl promptly replied that she would give him the best phrase in use for saying adieux to his hostess, and then she coached him until he was letter per- fect. As the guests were departirtg the attache approached his hostess. Click- ing his heels together and making a most elaborate bow, he declared’in im- pressive tones: “Adieu, madame. I haf had a bulli- golli time.” The hostess was unable to control her laughter as she acknowledged his salute. An attache of “the ‘French embassy, who found the English language a pro- found puzzle, was speaking of a state- ly ‘Washington society leader. He wished to express his admiration for her. “Ah,” he said, shrugging his shoul- ders. “She is a grand woman, so well deviled up.” An incensed listener, who was a tiend of the woman in question, in- fignantly demanded what he was talking about, and found that the Frenchman had meant to compliment her figure by saying she was well de- veloped! t+ One of the Chinese ministers on his arfival here received an invitation to a very large and important dinner given by a government official. He carefully read the formally engraved card and then wrote on its back, “All right,” put it in the envelope and re- turned it to the sender. tale A debutante last winter went to a large dinner at which many foreigners were present. A South American at- tache took her out to dinner and every- thing went well until the dessert was served. By that time the debutante’s small talk was exhausted, as she had ‘had to chat more than her fair share to keep the ball rolling. She noticed that the attache did not eat his ice, and to make conversation she asked idly: “Don’t you care for ice cream?” “No,” he answered simply, “it always gif me a pain in my front.” eed An attache of the German embassy, was very devoted to a Washington girl who took keen delight in teasing him. One afternoon they were payi visits together, and about 5 o’cloc they took a Connecticut avenue cay to return uptown. : Every seat was taken in the car, ‘so they both had to stand. The girl saw! a sweet-faced woman seated in one corner, and she leaned over and said| to her: “Madam, my brother,” pointing to the attache, who was over six feet an broad in proportion, “has just recov-| ered from a serious illness, and he 4 very weak. Will you kindly give hi your seat?” The kindly hearted woman instantly| rose and offered the astounded and much embarrassed German her seat. The attache, who spoke very broken English, tried vainly to explain, while the other passengers, catching on to the situation, laughed heartily, which added to his discomfiture. He finally bolted out of the car, exclaiming ve- hemently that they were all quite mad. tet The extreme frankness of a foreigner when asked a direct question is some- s a trifle appalling to the Anglo- xon. sclentist gave a dinner some winters vhich included with her American sts several newly arrived diplomats. During dinner the hostess noticed that Mon. X-— kept reaching under the table in a manner that suggested the loss of his napkin. Finally, after he had executed this maneuver several times, she turned to him and asked: “Pray what is the matter, monsieur?” He straightened himself up suddenly, and gravely replied: . “I think it is a flea!” And for the next few seconds gravity was at a discount at that table— Philadelphia Ledger. In Lengthy Terms. In the suburbs of one of our great cities recently a new resident stopped in front of his neighbor's gate and in- quired of the boy swinging thereon: “Is your pa home, sonny?” “No, sir,” replied the lad. up the road a piece.” “Gone afoot?” No; about a _ mile.”—Judge’s ‘Li- brar; “He went An Inquiry. “How did you enjoy Europe?” “Pretty well, but the crush coming back was awful. Dad refused to pay rates, so we shipped him by the cat- tle steamer.” “As cargo?” Makes a Difference. The young author was in a quan- dary. “Would you,” inquired he, “have your hero tear down the street or tear up the street?” “That depends. Is your hero a sprinter or a paving contractor?” Reconciled to “Inevitable. “The only thing I can recommend in your case,” said the surgeon, “is a long journey.” “Well, if it has to be, doc,” the pa- tient groaned, “get out your whittling Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the eause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did 80 much to bring on; is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com- pany of In ana. The publication of this an- swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev- eral weeks, “for business reasons,” because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly dis- turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis- sioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with theInterstate Commerce Commission was a class and not a commodity raté, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in large quantities between Whiting: and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East- ern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Com- merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodi- ties between these points of a similar char- acter, and of greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert- ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the “trusts” upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this. influ- ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com- missioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebut- tal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He answers the points made by Presi- dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company hada traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi- cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as “a village of abou: 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates.” The Commissioner ad- mits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corpora- tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi- dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make them read from a point on the line of the fil- ing road, and it was also general to state on the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to other points, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing its rate from Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was in common use. Now fet us see in what way the intending shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting. Commissioner Smith contends that “conceal- ment is the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement,” i. e., that this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitors of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective oil refiner iad ap- plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6% cents\from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an arrangement of long standing, and which applies to all the in- dustrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica- go, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line’to the Chicago & Eastern Illi- nois at Dolton and transported to Hast St. Louis at a rate of 6% cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Corporations makes so much of? Any rate— from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap- pell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to ship- ments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations. who either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor- tation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public ignorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unques- tioningly every statement made by a Govern- ment official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that “the ‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted a discrimination as against other shippers of oil,” and he also makes much of the failure of President Moffett to produce before the grand jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of From the Railway World, January 3, 1908. \ ; large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers in- cluded the packers and elevator men of Chi- cago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish eviderice of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de- mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight fates for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. »resi- dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official investigations by the Inter- state Commerce Commission and other de- partments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Stand- ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight times the val- ue of its entire property, because its traffic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod- ity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered with by the 18-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file its six- cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper,—we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr, Smith that the “inde- pendent” shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrim- ination of the Alton, could have shipped all the oil he desired -to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East- ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, Presi- dent Moffett’s defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liber- ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell’s offensive person- alities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in tho report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. The whole strength of the Government is di- rected against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard ‘Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav- ing failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than a shilling was punishable by death. Under the interpretation of the Interstate Commerce law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast The wife of a distinguished | Ld., Chicago & Eastern Illinojs do not run into which the Standard Oil official said that other amount of property. 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