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Show THE CITIZEN 4 team to Litchfield, the county scat, where he sold it at $1.85 a cord. Alongside the income of those early days, the salary of a United States Senator looks munificent., but he thinks his new job the hardest. It used to take one day to cut a cord of wood, and then y an trip, starting about 4 a. m., to haul it to town. He got home long after dark, but his good wife could milk the cow, and so after feeding and unharnessing his team, and eating a plain supper, he would tumble into bed in the little log house and sleep a few hours. It is no wonder that Magnus recblled. The cord-woo- d buyers made several times as much clear profit on the farmers wood as to total amount received by the farmers, and Magnus delivered his maiden speech on the streets of his county seat town, to a group of roughly clad cordwood haulers, urging them to stick for more money. This movement had its effect, and the price paid to the farmers for their wood was increased. Perhaps his public career ought to be considered as beginning with this experience. He was recognized as a leader in Kingston township, was justice of the peace, secretary of the school board, president of the first creamery association, director of the first, farmers elevator .there, and held many other positions given him because of the confidence of his neighbors. From the decisions of Justice Magnus Johnson no appeals wTere ever taken, not because of any terror that the justice instilled into litigants, but because, if there was any dispute that seemed likely to go beyond the court, .the court itself would hitch up its best horse to the old buggy and jog out to the premises of the contending farmers. Only once in his long career as justice, was there ever any real danger of a case getting into the district court, and Johnsons- hundred per cent record of no appeals was saved by his own reputation for being fair. Each party to the suit set out to Litchfield to hire a lawyer and overrule .the court of Kingston township. But lawyers were almost as scarce as hens teeth in those days, and each litigant in turn visited the same lawyer and laid the case before him. The lawyer listened to both sides and got ail the details, and when he learned that Justice Magnus Johnson clients of both had rendered a decision, he advised his would-b- e sides to accept the courts decision, and they did. all-da- - . QUACK DOCTORS. SILVER FACTS. Ravancl Macbeth, secretary of the Idaho Mining Association, takes exception to the statement of Acting Secretary Gilbert of the United States Treasury that the silver producers of ithe United States have been paid $62,000,000 in excess of market prices for bullion under the operation of the Pittman Act. While Mr. Gilbert does not so state, says Mr. Macbeth, the uninformed reader would infer that the $62,000,000 came from the pockets of the taxpayers of this country, whereas the facts are that the government merely acted as the fiscal agent for the silver producers, and England exacted the fiscal agents toll and the transaction did not cost the taxpayers a cent. The facts are that the government sold to England 208,000,000 ounces of silver at $1.0124 with interest at 4 per cent until paid and repurchased this amount from United States silver producers at. $1.00 an ounce. Mr. Gilbert fails to state that when silver ranged from $1.35 to $1.37 an ounce the silver producers lived loyally up to their contract with the government under ithe Pittman Act and turned in their silver at $1.00 an ounce. Nor does he give them credit for the difference between these prices and $1.00 when he mentions (the amount made in excess of market prices. Without the Pittman Act, silver would have soared to $1.50 an ounce, possibly higher with a rssultant revolution in Pndia and the loss of the great war, so England advised our government, and it was due to these representations by our government that silver producers, imbued with patriotic motives, agreed to sell their silver at $1.00 to be resold to England to prevent this revolution. It is unfair for any public official in a high position to give the people of this nation half truths or incorrect inforamton about any ndustry, and particularly about a basic industry as important as mining. ELECTRICITY. Electric lights are cheaper than candles and the illumination is better. One hundred years ago and four decades prior to 1855, sperm oil and candles produced the light in the average home in America. Today the maximum daily light requirements of an average American home is eighteen times that of a century ago. The cost is only of what it was then. The cost of lighting per unit now is less than three per cent of what it was in the days of sperm oil and tallow candles. Electricity does the lighting, cooking and most ctf the domestic work around every modern home within reach of the Utah Power and Light company, which company also provides the at a nominal cost. many numerous fixtures for its patrons ' two-thir- ds Director James T. Hammond of state registration has discovered a flaw in the way the late chiropractic examinations were conducted and which course if pursued would admit almost anyone who so desired to become a chiropractic doctor. No risk should be taken with the health of the people and experiments should not be allowed. No man should be allowed to practice medicine or healing without medicine unless the doctor or healer in question are thoroughly qualicannot pass an ordinary examination without fied. If months of study on questions it shows that there is something wrong, and the people are with Mr. Hammond in demanding that no one be allowed to practice unless thoroughly competent. Sorry to say, but we have some quack doctors who string their patients along with glowing accounts of their future health. They tell them just to be patient and not worry. Their system is perfect and a cure will be made. Then after collecting fees for a year or so, the patient is turned away with the information that a cure is impossible. A good and honest doctor will tell the average sick applicant the condition he or she is in and will then rely upon his ability to bring about a cure. The quack doctor first scares his patient into hysteria and then informs them that they have not been treated right but he knows just what to do to bring about a sure such-doctor- COAL BARONS RULE. s pre-select- ed cure, providing the first payment is big enough. If any of the examinations have been conducted unfairly as charged and doctors have tried to work their way through by Iraud, it is up to the state board of health to see the proper, corrections are made for the protection of the general public. The Financial Review takes a rap at the coal industry which is in a roundabout way coupled with the political situation. It saysO that whether a coal strike is or is not averted, this country will finally have to, within a few years, definitely settle this long continued industrial conflict. Simultaneously with the miners request for an advance in wages the operators warn the public that coal prices must be increased. This has been the procedure for nearly forty years and the patient public has seen its fuel problem become more and more formidable. The suspicious conclusion might.be that this represents a conspiracy between employer and employees and it is in the sense that the miners voluntarily accept the increase against what they know to be a raw and premeditated extortion of the public, and that the operators are quite pleased to secure this excuse for higher "V coal prices. The operator still uses his press agent and he still shows a moderate profit on the coal he sells; that is, a profit based upon the price at the mine. But tlmreal price is that which the consumer |