Show ’KT FEDERAL AND 8TATE RIGHTS CONSERVATION IST8 LINED UP FOR BATTLE extension of the sons system and ol other provialona of the parcel post law are pecessary the postmaster gen eral after consultation with the Interstate commerce commission and on Its approval can make auch changes by executive order as he sees been When fit It Is known that Mr Hitchcock is extremely advanced In his Ideas of what the post office department should BRYAN CLASSED It is WITH FORMER have within its jurisdiction said he holds that tbs express companies for years have been infringing Strength of the Opposing Forces May upon the natural rights of the postal Be Revealed First In the Matter of service and that therefore the takover of the business of the comthe Cooea River Dam In Ala- ing panies ought to follow In order that bama from the Hitchcock point of view the government should have a monopoly In postoflice business of all By GEORGE CLINTON kinds Washington -- Since Gifford Plnchot which be thinks belong to it A bill made his speech to the Washington already has been prepared Introduced and into Repcongress of men convention by Interested in forand estry the other day it has become resentative Lewis of Maryland Ooeke of Ohio looking sharply apparent that a hard fight is Representative to the ultimate taking over of the exto begin between the federal conservapress companies by the United States tionists and the state right conservaNow it wonld be pergovernment tionists as soon as the Wilson administration begins The representatives fectly possible for the government under the clause in thelaw which alof the federal idea are making prepaquoted gradually to rations to combat the representatives ready has of the state rights idea and already extend the parcel post until the field of the companies had been ao the representatives of both have de- Intrudedexpress that be they might upon scended on the capital to prepare for forced out of business without any rethe coming conflict It seems therefore to be In these dispatches a month ago it compense of was said “When Woodrow Wilson the intention of the proponents government ownership to take anothtakes office be will find conservation er course and to propose that the exadded to the tariff and the trusts to press companies’ business be taken complete a trio of administration wor- over and that they be paid a fair ries’ Mr WlUon is said to Incline sura for what they give up and that to the state rights view of the con the stockholders shall be reimbursed nervation matter but his friends say for their he does not believe in letting go of It seems likely that If congress anything ever which the government shall listen attentively to tha proposhas control until it is known definiteal for the taking over of the express ly that the individual state Intends companies' business dollar for dollar to make proper use of it will be paid for all the valuable The instant that the name of a cer- and properties that are received rights after tain governor of a northwestern state a properly constituted board has dewaB mentioned to the t It may be and percided the matter as a proper man for the position of haps will be that years will elapse besecretary of the interior Mr 'Wilson fore the sentiment of congress will to the general allow the government to enter into the paid high compliment character of the man proposed This express business wholesale Perhaps man is known ae a state rights con- the day of Bucb a proceeding never servationist and the federal conserwill come but the plana are laid to and the vationists say this means that be “is make the attempt proposal a bitter opponent of any federal plan has perhaps as many friends as opfor saving to the people their natural ponents in the two bouses of coninheritance” One of the most promi- gress as they are at present constinent conservationists in the country tuted Useless yariff Hearings said of this possible choice of the northWesterner 'Representative' Oscar W Underfor the cabinet position: "His appointment would be wood and his Democratic colleagues Ideally evil" These things Show how forming a majority of the ways have wide is tne difference between the and means committee already the and heard the of two leaders the protests forces pleas on chemicals on earthenware glassBryan Federalist in This The conservationists hope that ware metals and a boat of other William Jennings Bryan will be made things and they will go on hearing he fora” and "the agalnsta” on other a member of the next cabinet As to the methods of saving the country’s Imports until the last day of this natural resources Mr Bryan and Mr month and then they will prepare tarWilson do not agree In this matter iff revision measures In virtually the Mr Bryan may be called a federalist same form as those made ready at and It is the One Chief matter of gov the last Session It Is probably true that the represin eminent policy which so far aa is known at present his views differ entatives of high protection whe are now In Washington to be heard by greatly from those of the incoming president The conservationists be- the ways and means committee fully lieve that Mr Bryan would use his realize that their pleas will be of no Influence to keep the water power service for they made the same pleaa the mines and the foreats out of the at the last session and then the comhands of private corporations to be mittee went ahead and wrote such bills as seemed right from the Demoexploited largely for their own benecratic standpoint and this is exactly fit what is going to be done at the extra Protests are coming into Washing The hearings have been ton daily from Individuals and from session societies all over the United States granted for the purpose of giving evhe erybody a chance io say what against the granting of the right to private Alabama corporation to build chooses and to allow no opportunity a water power dam on the Coosa river for anyone to complain when the bills one are In Alabama to be used it is claimed side of that only presented the case was heard without proper federal regulation No "Cut to the Bone The Coosa dam matter promises to As has been said before "the Demobe as prominent in the conservation crats are not going to cut the tariff to fight as was the proposed James river Mo dam of some years ago In the bone” This much Is assured and no one here seema to be particularly the Missouri matter President Roosescared over the result to business velt Intervened with a veto The Democratic leaders who own when the new laws shall come Into Alabama as a hafne It Is said are In force The high protectionists through their representatives predict disaster favor of giving the private corpora tlon what It asks in the state This but few of the members of congress At means that the fight of the conservaseemingly believe the predictions tionists must be directed against any fhte the Washington legislators ranks are preserving concern which has with it the Influ- of the protection a remarkable equanimity If they think ence of men high In the Democratic party's councils who will be chiefly that the precipice Is Just ahead and that business soon is to break its instrumental in framing Democratic bones at the bottom of the abyss legislation in the house of representaThe tariff hearings in the house tives and who bold they are absolute committee on ways and means will ly right in the matter in hand end on FridayJanuary 31 If Mr May Buy Out Expreea Companies Preparations are being made by Wilson shall call congress together friends of the parcel post sys- In extra session on March 15 Mr will tem to attempt through congres- Underwood and his comrades sional action to secure legislation for have alx weeks’ time in which to prethe purchase of the express companies pare their tariff bills If It were not mowork Involved and to give Uncle Sam a virtual the for the clerical carrying businopoly of the package thing could' be done In a week for a ness This plan has thousands of op- secure copying guide Is to be found ponents and it may nevei come to In many cases In the bills which went the fruition but those opposed to through the house last year Protection to Make Its Fight the scheme may as well know definiteIt will not surprise anybody If the ly now that the friends of the prowith posal are going to work persistently representatives get through to secure the end which they have their tariff debate by the end of the in view first week in April The time of deIt Is even possible that the present bate in the house will be limited but administration of the postoflice de- Sereno E Payne Joseph W Fordney partment may urge what can be call- and some others of the protection ed government ownership of the ex- chieftains will make the most of the The attempt which Is time allotted them to apeak In oppopress business to be made to extend the parcel post sition The protection members In la business only to a degree a party the house will not let tariff legislaIt is possible that more measure tion be enacted quickly without using Democrat than Republicans favor It every possible minute of time to get In opposition but Borne of the strongest advocates of into the record The the proposal are Republicans who on house protectionists are utterly at other matters have been called con- outs at present with the senate In the matter of the wisservatives One wonders if the public generally dom of strenuous opposition to cutrealizes that without any additional ting the rates In the senate Mr Penrose Mr legislation It is within the power of Uncle Sam to enlarge the parcel post Smoot and others who hold th high operations to an almost unlimited ex- wall as sacred as a temple are of a tent under the authority which the mind to "let the Democrats do their law gives to the postmaster general worst and do It quickly" Mr Penacting with the Interstate commerce rose and Mr Smoot are perhaps the commission only two men in the United States Power Hitchcock Has the congress who really think that busiThe law provides that If the pres- ness la going to smash within a week ent system does not work well and after the Underwood bills become or laws and if modifications economically Up She Came Business Picked and He Decided She Should Remain BY MILDRED CAROLINE RICH GOOD- so kind to me” continued Price ”1 amounted to humbly but sincerely Had a business and something once but for drink would have succeeded If you will let ms do a little advertising for you 111 guarantee results” John Moore was dubious but finally he agreed to try the experiment The next day Price cleaned up the show windows Tho next he repainted the front of the store in attractive colors After that he brought a big brass bell and secured It on a standard over the store doorway with a chain running to the Inside of the Btore Early Friday morning a sign appeared above the bell reading: “Every twentieth purchase free — announced by this bell” Just at noon the bell rang The exwas Incited customer a farmer formed that his purchase would be handed to him free of charge As he left the store John came rushing back ' to Price "you’ll ruin “Say" he exclaimed me! Why that was a overcoat!’’ "Never mind” replied Prlc conf"The average will come out idently BOY OBEYED Meant ORDERS GIVEN Well But Information Wat Not Welcomed by Hotel Manager Juet at That Time What a Funny Teacher An east side lad of six summers luus child’s faculty for seeing things often in tbe way they are net Ho came home from school the other day and found his father reading the d&ilg paper “Pop” he said "my teacher don’t know nothin’!” "Why son what’s the matter now? asked the father "Well” replied the youngster “she held a big red apple up in ‘front of us this morning and said: ‘Children what la this I have in my hand?’ "—Indianapolis News a A certain New York hotel manager one of these nervous men who constantly warn their employes against ot any keeping them in Ignorance happening around the place He hired a new bell boy recently and gave usual him the warning: “Remember" he warned "If anything happens around here I'm to be the first person to know about it” Soon after that he was showing It takes more than a soft answer to three haughty Daughters of the one of the best rooms in the turn away the book agent place when the new bell boy rushed in with his hair on end ‘‘Something's happened!” hA yelled The three Daughters of the Confederacy turned coldly and the manager anxious to get rid of the boy Backache demanded to know the trouble makes life a “That old cat down stairs” said Headburden the boy "hae Just had kittens! What aches dizzy shall we do?” and disspells ' was The manager’s suggestion tressing urinary disorders rough are a constant T ake trial Good Cauae Suswarning! "Will you ‘donate something to a pect kidney good cause?” said the caller as he Look trouble laid a paper on the about for a ' desk good kidney "What is It?” asked the businessremedy man Learn from one who has “One of the tenants In this g relief found killed a book agent this morning" from the same suffering the caller we “and are replied taking Get Doan’s Pills— the Kidney up a subscription to reward him" same that Mr Lee had “Put me down for $10000” replied A Texas Case the business man J Im 41t W Walnut At Cleburne Tex any? Is "Business is had very bad” said John Moore to a passing townsman and struck a still more dejected attitude in the doorway of hla little store He posed there staring gloomily out into the fast darkening street thinkining how very bad was business deed and wondering why he had ever brought his little stock of dry goods boots and shoes and notions clothing to Riverton "I would go to a real live wideawake town’’ he ruminated "and here I am — trade dull stock dead and 1 don’t seem to make many friends Heigh ho! I suppose being a crusty old bachelor keeps away the ladies’ trade Aa to others maybe I’m too slow and Guess I’ll right” This proved to be true Curious close up Hello!”Starting to pull up the awning the people came In making only small storekeeper’s foot toudhed a moving purchases The newB got around town human object crouched back in the The crowd kept up till midnight to the build- Tired out but elated John reckoned hallway side entrance up the gains of the day Counting in ing “Here wake up!’’ called out John the presents given he was over fifty with a frown "What you doing there dollars to the good The next week Price had a new anyway?” “I’m not asleep” responded the scheme the distribution- of a free pafaint quavering voice “and I’m here per cap to children advertising the because I’m too sick and weak to go store The rush kept up "Mr Moore” said Price one eveany further’’ The speaker got to his feet with a ning "the night business Is better "For four years endured miser? from irravet That is because you bad terrible paint painful effort As he came more fully than the day Morphine was my only relief In my baek and It was hard for me to pass tbe kl don't get the trade of the ladles I’ve Into view John regarded him closely Doan's Kidney Pills oured me ney secretions Important to Mothers a new suggestion to make You need Examine carefully every bottle of ly and I have been wsll ever slnca" "Oh I see” he said rather distasteSt 50c i Box ora at Get Dotn'i CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for Any fully “you are the man who was here a woman behind that dry goods counfants and children and see that it Let me send for my daughter a month ago and got in trouble with nter Bears the a riotous crowd down at the tavern” Martha We can use the two empty CO- - BUFFALO NY “That was me” assented the tramp rooms upstairs and you needn't pay Signature of either of us a cent of salary unless we In Use For Over ioYears for such he seemed ”1 was arrested I hoped it was forgotten IF YOU HAVE for I came earn It" Children for Fletcher’s Cry Castcvia So this came about The result was back here this morning to find work no appetite Indigestion Flatulence Sick or loalng flesh na Martha Price bright modmagical Serious Matter est obliging brought in the female Griggs— I saw the doctor’s carriage customers In groups The pleased old at your door seAnything yesterday bachelor began to humanize himself rious? with pleasant words instead of frowns Briggs — I should say so! He wantIn turn Fortune smiled npqn him need They tone np the weak ut whatandyonbuild ed to collect his bill — Boston Evening atomacb up th flagging energies he smiled upon Martha “It’s no use denying It Price” ho Transcript Man Who Put tbe The two one said to her father day "you His E a in F E E T E Caliber have managed to transform a crusty "He has a heart of gold a grip of crusLook for This a will of steel” on the Label when buying ty old bachelor Into a real human be- iron and ALLEN S F00TEASE "Humph! He must be a man of ing Aa to you I’m proud of you” mettle” The Antiseptic Powder for Ten “Some good In the world after all der Aching Feet Sold everyam I?” responded Price "I’m so glad where 25c Sample FRRR Address causes and aggravates many Constipation ALLEN S OLMSTED Lc Roy N Y and Martha is happy as the day is serious diseases it Is thoroughly cured by The favorite Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets long” John Moore did some deep thinking family laxative Adv LDISORESICUREDI eveIn the the restof that day early Alien aLlcorinoi'NilvPCuroHt hroiiU l tpera buss For Accounted ning when Price was eating his UloersHorof ulous Ulcers Varicose lf'erSyln— be went over to - the counter clotent Ulcer Mercurial Ulcers t hlteNireli— "Why is it so few women look well ingrIMIIk Hjmhmc LcR’LeverHoresslloMsra where his daughter stood in a steamer cap?” fras AlaLJCN ltept A31bt Paul Mina “Martha” he said "I’m going to tell "I guess because it is a handy cap” SORE you something that I never told any Pettit:!? EYES Salver no expert Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children other woman Having had reduces Inflammaerce I must be rather plain and teething softens the gums OR ANT COLOR HA1I change tion allays paincures wind colic 25c a bottlejU Hum pie buttle blunt” GRAY to nntnmlBra 'ark U Ds Boiasa1 Her murmured "Yes?” Martha In order to be a social favorite a color heightened be a cheerful liar W N U Salt Lake City No man may to be I and want love you "I you old Of course a crusty my wife bachelor —” “What Do You Want?” “Don’t call my father’s best friend I found out that people do remember hard names” interrupted Martha No one would employ me Heartsick sweetly “I am only a poor girl but and footsore I crept in here to if true love and devotion will satisfy to die I don't know for 1 feel you— Then it was his turn to interrupt— pretty bad” and the poor fellow’s eyes filled with tears with a kiss “What do you want?” Inquired John (Copyright '1913 by W G Chapman) a trifle harshly “money I suppose to ' On Style buy liquor” of character tell even The tramp reached into his pocket Idiosyncrasies drew out a folded paper and opened more than variety of subjects in their it so that his challenger could see influence on style No two persons same mould Clearly what it was are cast in the "A temperance pledge eh?” re- therefore the dress which is very becoming to one writer or speaker may marked John almost contemptuously Yet Being be very unbecoming to another "And your name Is Lemuel Price?’’ “Yes sir I’m through with all that to the end of time in defiance of this E Pinkham’s by I’ve been through with it for over a truism packs of imitators dog the Compound week I’ve done It because I’d got low steps of genius as the courtiers of Alexander copied the conqueror's wry enough to beg hard earned wages “Worth mountains of gold” says one woman Another neck or the courtiers of George IV from my motherless daughter says “I wo"uld not give Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable “If stopping short is going to kill his bulging cravats or as the under for women in the me all right — at least I’ll die sober” carter apes the slouch and shamble Compound for all the other medicines This peculiar style of the wagoner The man was shivering as he spoke world” Still another writes u I should like to have the There was a feverish flush to his wan In which Carlyle clothed his oracular of E merits Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound thrown Lydia face He looked hungry John Moore utterances suited him and them the on the sky with a searchlight so that all suffering women could believed his story jerkiness and joltiness of his senread and be convinced that there is a remedy for their ills" "See here” he said “If It’s a bed tences startling the world Into attenand something to eat come with me’ tion and the difficulty of unwrapping We could fill a newspaper ten times the size of this with such quoWhen John had closed the store he the mummy from the cerecloths netations taken from the letters we have received from grateful women led his pensioner to the neat suite of cessitating the effort of Will without whose health has been'restored and suffering banished by Lydia EL t which the thought cannot be grasped rooms he occupied behind the store l’inkham’s Vegetable Cbm pound It seemed to brighten up the place to In fact the style of Carlyle is part Why has Lydia E Tinkham’s Vegetable Compound accomplished of the man and of his temperament have company even poor but grateful such a universal success ? Why has it lived and thrived and kept on But it was good advice of tbe dying as Price was company doing its glorious work among the sick women of the world for more It was as a new man that the latter critic to his friend “Avoid Carlylese" than 30 years ? entered on the next day John had And what is true of Carlyle and his The reason na Simply and surely because of its sterling worth Can an7 fed him on nutritious soup and gruels copyists is true widely medicine has ever approached its success is plainly and simother not be named who has great writer he had given him a comfortable bed ply because there is no other medicine so good for women’s ills had a herd of servile imitators at his Out of his stock he selected a neat Here are two letters that just came to the writer’s desk — only two1 unsalable suit of clothes and the ex- heels? Is not the old saying doubly of thousands but both tell a comforting story to every suffering wo‘Tbe tramp went out on the street clean- trebly true in this application man who will read them— and be guided by them becomes the shaven and encouraged to again look best if corrupted OxFROM MRS D II BRO WX —I the in worst?” Gregory Smithy for work Iola Kansas— “During theChange ford and Cambridge Review "If you don’t make it” said John of Life I was sick for two years Be“come back and I’ll give you board fore I took your medicine I could Too Much of a Luxury and lodging for helping around the not bear the weight of my clothes A friend of ours tells us that he store until you get something better I docand was bloated very badly went to consult a doctor last week to do" tored with three doctors but they ‘I have some queer pains” said our did me no good They said nature He Price reported that afternoon must have its way My sister adhad found a chance to work as a friend vised me to take Lydia E Pinkham’s "I see” said the doctor looking teamster he said but he added he Vegetable Compound and I purchased "Do you feel a ’sharp pain low had decided first to submit a propo- wise a bottle Before it was gone the down on your right side?” sition to the storekeeper left me and 1 was not so bloating "Doc" answered our friend "I only "All right what Is It?” asked John sore I continued taking it until I In his usual get $12 a week Don’t go lookin’ for had taken 12 bottles Now I am crisp businesslike way “Well" replied Price “I don’t want any symptoms of appendicitis” stronger than I have been for years and can do all my work even the Tbe case was Immediately diagnosed but I’ve been tryyou to be offended washing Your medicine is worth do as indigestion ing to study out why you don’t its weight in gold I cannot praise more business than you do You have it enough If more women would Other stores are JuBt Many Like Him got the stock take your medicine there would be Bill — What kind of a fellow is rushing Saturday's especially the more healthy women You may use You haven’t got your trade is 'big this letter for the good of others"— — EL Brown He can Will how to D 809 North Walnut tell you Mrs adopt share” Street Iola Kan national system of currency that “I have realized that for some time” would pay off the national debt but said John bitterly "JteWrite to LYDIA EPINKHAM MEDICINE CO p— "Now I’ve been thinking up mat- he can't raise the price of bis groJU—v (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN MASS for ad vice ters tor your good because you bat cery bill — Cincinnati Enquirer Your letter will be opened read and answered by a woman and held In strict confidence BACKACHE IS DISCOURAGING DOAN’S11” fuii’o Pills E Jl Women Are Constantly Health Lydia Vegetable Restored to |