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The McHenry Plaindealer UNITED STATES ACTS TO Puttlislisd by F. a 8CHREINER. McHENHY, ILLINOIS We can stand for female aviator, but not for aviatrass. This Is the Identical cold war* 70a Wars wishing (or last July. This is a beautiful world to live In. when one's liver is working all right. Some mistakes can be corrected, but eating -toadstools Is not one of them. How fortunate for oyster lover* that the successive months have an R la them! Unfortunately weepy, maudlin weather cannot be put Into a cell to sober up. Our Idea of a versatile man Is » poet who can eat a second plate of boiled cabbage. Possibly one reason why aeroplanes •re not being made safer is thit acci­ dents help swoll the gate receipts. Women would do well to let avia­ tion alone until men have made a greater success of it. A paragrapher asks: "What is a perfect wife?" The only answer we can give is: "How old is Ann?" Flying from New York to San Fran­ cisco is Just as dangerous as flying from San Francisco to New York. An Illinois Judge has decided that Reno divorces are not good in Illinois. Have your divorce papers made trans­ ferable. A New Jersey man became the fourth husband of his third wife the other day. Birds of a feather do flock together. Whenever there is a great disaster In this country you are sure to find heroes who gave or risked their lives for others. No, brother, the anti-pistol toting law In New York was not passed for the purpose of 8topplng*the hold-ups In Wall street A baby s cry saved six, people from being asphyxiated. Let us learn to be patient with crying babies. They may come in handy. Mr. Malcolm McDowell puts the hobo's cost of living at four cents a day. But he falls to tell how the hobo sets the four cents. The knights of old had one advan­ tage over their descendants. They could go through the deer season with­ out being punctured. When we stop to consider the num­ ber of Isms that exist the great won­ der is that more people do not get Into the violent wards. Platinum is now worth two and •ne-half times as much as gold, and gold ia worth about its weight in po­ tatoes and other luxuries. * The undertakers having decided to call themselves "morticians" we pre­ sume that hod-carriers of the future will be known as "mortarianB." Brooks' cdmet is said to be com­ posed of illuminating gaB and cyano­ gen, but the scare manufacturers can­ not frighten us after the Halley hoax. A Cleveland Judge granted six di­ vorces in ten minutes each. At the normal rate of arithmetical progres­ sion, if he could do that well in Ohio, what a home-breaking record he could tatahllsh In Nevada! A Greek couple in Connecticut wait­ ed 24 hours at a chtirch for a priest to come from Boston to marry them, ao evidently they had made up their minds. A New York woman has Just re­ ceived $200,000 from the husband she ran away from to Join a younger man. Which shows how grateful he Was. A Pittsburgh scientist says that Andrew Carnegie looks Lke the ear­ drum of a whale. That man need not waste his time performing any heroic action. A western man has asked the Phil­ adelphia police to find him a nice wife. Great goodnetfB, does he think the police have anything to do with "Bice" people? A Stamford, Conn., woman who died recently bad read the Bible througn sixty times. We presume after the third of fourth time she ceased to skip to the last chapter to see how it was going to end. Trenton, N. J.--The federal govern­ ment tiled suit against the United States Steel corporation to compel its dissolution as an illegal com­ bine. It is the most sweeping anti-trust action ever brought by the department of justice. The petition was prepared by Jacob M. Dickinson, former secretary of war, who had been retained by the govern­ ment as its special counsel in this case. The government asks not only for the dissolution of the United States Steel corporation, but for the dissolu- fitn of all constituent or subsidiary companies which are alleged to have combined in violation of the Sherman law to "maintain, or attempt to main­ tain, a monopoly of the steel business." There are 36 subsidiary corporations named as defendants. Lords of Industry Named. The following individuals are named as defendants in the suit: J. PIERPONT MORGAN. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. ANDREW CARNEGIE. CHARLES M. SCHWAB. GEORGE W. PERKINS. E. H. GARY. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. HENRY C. FRICK. CHARLES STEELE. JAMES GAYLEY. WILLIAM H. MOORE. J. H. MOORE. EDMUND C. CONVERSE. PERCIVAL ROBERTS, JR. DANIEL G. REID. NORMAN B. REAM. P. A. B. WIDENER. WILLIAM P. PALMER. The following are named as corpo­ rate defendants, all but the last three being organized under the New Jersey laws: United State Steel corporation. Carnegie Steel company. Carnegie Steel company of New Jer- sey. Federal Steel company. ) National Steel company. American Steel and Wire company of New Jersey. National Tube company. Shelby Steel Tube company. American Tin Plate company. American Sheet and Tin Plate com- pany. American Sheet Steel company. American Steel Hoop company. American Bridge company. Lake Superior Consolidated Iron mines. H. C. Frlck Coke company. Tennessee Coal and Iron and Rati- road company. Great Western Mining company. Hills Also Are Involved. Louis W. Hill, James N. Hill, Walter J. Hill, E. T. Nichols and J. H. Gruber are named as trustees in connection with ore companies. |ft The steel corporation's leas*of the Great Northern railway's ore proper­ ties, which the directors of the steel company formally decided to cancel, Is alleged to be illegal. This action of the directors was taken but a few hours before the filing of the bill. Sensational allegations fairly topple over each other in the government's petition, which is an equity proceeding praying for injunctions to estop con­ tinuance of the alleged monopoly and such other relief as the court may grant. Tennessee Coal Is Target. The Steel corporation's acquisition of the Tennesiee Coal and Iron com­ pany during the panic of 1907 is de­ clared illegal and scathingly criticized. The petition declares that E. H. Gary and Henry C. Frick misled former President Roosevelt when they told him "that but little benefit will come to the Steel corporation from the pur­ chase." "The president," it says, "was not made fully acquainted with the state of affairs in New York relevant to the transaction as they existed. If he had been fully advised he would have known that a desire to stop the panic was not the sole moving cause, but that there was also a desire and pur­ pose to acquire the control of a com­ pany that had recently assumed a po­ sition of potential competition of great significance." Gary Dinners Were Binding. I The Gary dinners are referred to, ! though not by name, as meetings ! which accomplished more than written [ pools or agreements, which were fre- | quently broken. "It was understood and agreed," says the bill, "that they (the steel manufacturers represented at the meetings) were bound to protect one another; that to carry out this purpose their honor was at stake and that the obligation binding upon them was even dearer than life Itself, and that no one of them should act or fail to act exoept with a distinct and clear un­ derstanding that his honor was in­ volved, and that this was more bind­ ing on him than any written or verbal contract. When bidden by the chief executive of the corporation they came at any time, from any distance, ready, willing and anxious to turn over to him and to his friends all that was in their minds and in their hearts con­ cerning their own business." Interlocking directorates through which, those in power In the Steel cor­ poration held positions of influence on the directorates of other powerful cor­ porations are referred to as "a method more refined, more euphonious, but not the less effective than pools." "Through its directors thus distribu­ ted," say* the government's petition, "the corporation is in direct touch with all of the large railroad and steamship companies of the United States, such powerful concerns as the A Massachusetts woman mistook her husband for a burglar and shot him as he was crawling in the back window about midnight. She still in­ sists, however, that he got what was coming to him, even if he was inno­ cent of the charge of burglary. Chicago has a preacher who says he will go to the theater whenever he feels that way, and that it's none of the congregation's business. As far as we are concerned, he is at liberty to take in even the moving picture •hows. John D. Rockefeller. Standard Oil company, the Pullman company, the International Harvester company and the Western Union Tele­ graph company, and with the over­ whelming majority in money and pow­ er of the banks and trust companies of the United States. The possibilities of the power and the control that may thus be exerted over trade and com­ merce Is inestimable. "The power and control that have been exerted by the corporation large­ ly through the grasp of Its tentacles, thus thrown out upon the consumer, competitors and capital, is Incompat­ ible with the healthy commercial life of the nation." Reviews Steel Conditions. The government reviews in great de­ tail the conditions in the steel trade before the consolidations of 1898-1900 and the formation of the Federal Steel company, the Carnegie company of New Jersey, the American Steel and Wire company, the National Tube com­ pany, the National Steel company, the American Tin Plate company, the American Steel Plate company and other corporations prior to the forma­ tion of the United States Steel corpo­ ration itself in 1901. The bill goes on to allege the for­ mation of illegal pools known as the steel plate association and the struc­ tural steel association, the steel |*ail combination, the wire rope combina­ tion, the rubber-covered wire combi­ nation, the horse shoe manufacturers' associations, the underground power cable combination, the weather proof and magnet wire combination, the en­ cased rubber cable combination and the bare copper wire combination. These are alleged to have been ille­ gal agreements to suppress competi­ tion and fix prices In the commodities indicated by their names. Suit Comes as Bombshell. Washington.--The filing of the suit was a bombshell to official Washington. It is said that only four men knew of it, so closely did the department of justice safeguard its action against leaks. Attorney General Wlckersham, his secretary, Frank Cole, and J. M. Dickinson, former secretary of war, the government's special counsel in the case, are the first three who were in the secret. It is presumed, of course, that the fourth Was the president of the United States. When Art Failed. "And so your young wife serves you as a model. How flattering! She must be immensely pleased." "'Well, she was at first; but when we had a spat and I painted her as the goddess of war, she went home to mother."-- Fliegende Blaetter. Astronomers have discovered that the new comet has a tail. Now we '•#111 be kept 1n the usual harrowing suspense as to whether it is going to Join the present popular crusade and •W&t the earth. Modern Irreverence. Another thing--Why doesn't Father Time improve his looks by running bis scythe over his own whiskers?-- Galveston News. Now a young woman wants a di­ vorce from her husband because he has not spoken to her for six years and she charges such silence is cruel •ad Inhuman. Other wives complain of equally cruel and Inhuman volubil­ ity. It Is hard for the poor men to hpleiw taj way thsy try. Mint Established In Vermont. Vermont was the first state to Issue an authorized cent, although not then in the union. The legislature of Ver­ mont, in June, 1785, granted to Reu­ ben Marmon, Jr., the right to coin cop­ per cents of a specified weight. The mint was established in Rupert, the home of the said Hiram. Buttermilk Again. Buttermilk is the best thing to clean linoleum and oilcloth. Just mop it up with a soft cloth and see the dirt taken off by the application. Milk well rubbed into the wood makes a good furniture polish, alcjo, Keeping the shiny surface in good condition. Her Catch. She--"They Bay there are germs in kisses. What do you suppose a girl could catch that way?" He--"A hus­ band." Defined Fame as Accident. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a proba­ bility of such; it 1b an accident, not a property of a man.--Carlyle. Why Delay? A small tailor in the Twin Cities has a head for advertising, in front of his store stands an oil-barrel with the head knocked in. The barrel is bright green and on it in red letters la painted: "Stand in my barrel while I press your suit for fifty cents."-- Zenith. SUUN ÎNDIANAPOLIS WIMI . [Q PELS Petition Filed By Government at Trenton, N. J., In Federal Circuit Court to Dissolve the U. S. Corporation--Monopoly In Restraint of Trade Charged--Dickinson to Lead. / 7///, - . mMmfl'/ASm CHINESE IMPERIALISTS TO NE­ GOTIATE WITH REBEL LEAD- ERS TO END HOSTILITIES. WAR MINISTER IS OUSTED Yuan Shi Kal Takes Command--As­ sembly Asks Popular Parliament-- Gen. LI Yuen Heng Claims He Is President of New Republic. Peking.--Their navy gone, armies defeated or in revolt and their power crushed'in a score of large cities, the imperialist forces at the Instigation of Yuan Shi Kai In the Yangtse Klang are to sue for truce with tbe revolu­ tionists. This announcement is made official­ ly here and is regarded as a victory for the revolutionists. To bring about peace the throne must offer terms on a basis of constitutional government, and It is authoritatively declared that the throne is ready to take this step. It Is proposed to send government emissaries at once to the Yangtse Kiang regions, the hotbed of the revo­ lution. The government is said to have made such advances already to certain of the rebel chiefs to learn their temper and to have received the reply that no capitulation will be agreed to unless it provides for a complete reorganization of the govern- ment, Including the Immediate conven­ tion of the representative parliament and the appointment of Yun Shl Kal as premier. The national assembly adopted a resolution to memorialize the throne requesting the Immediate institution of a popular parliament, with the nobles excluded from the cabinet and the pardon of all political prisoners, including the rebels. The rebels have taken no cogniz­ ance of the new attitude of the gov­ ernment, however. Mganklng, tbe capital of the province of Nganwhel, 160 miles southwest of Nanking, has been taken and other minor successes are reported from several sections. Great excitement was caused here when a band of rebel sympathizers set upon Sheng Hsuan Huai, the re moved minister, and were prevented from assassinating him only by tbe prompt interference of the imperial police. He asked to be taken to the American legation, whence he was es­ corted to Tientsin by a squad of sol­ diers. Yuan Shi Kal has been placed in complete control of the imperial army and navy and will proceed to Sinyangchow at once to take com­ mand. Hp relieves Gen. Tin Tcbang, minister of war, who has been ordered to return to Peking. Gen. LI Yuen Heng, leader of the rebel forces, has informed the for­ eign consuls that be has beeh pro­ claimed "president of tbe republic of China." It is believed, however, that in the event of a new form of government Yuan Shl Kal will become the ruler of China. MACKS OWN TITLE SERIES ENDS IN DEFEAT FOR GIANTS. Bender Hurls Four-Hit Game While His Teammates Administer Worst Defeat of All. Philadelphia.--For the second suc­ cessive year the Philadelphia Athlet­ ics of the American league are the champions of the world. With a victory so decisive that it bordered on tbe ridiculous the great Athletic machine triumphed over Mc- Graw'8 Giants in the sixth battle of the crucial series, a battle that ended after a pitiful effort by tthe New Yorkers and a brilliant tussle by "Big Chief" Bender and the Mack- men. With the victory goes 60 per cent, of $127,910 61, or $76,746.37, of which each Athletic player will receive $3,654.59. The loserts will receive the remainder, $51,164,24, or $2,436.39 for each New York player. Traveling In a batting streak which totaled 13 hits for 18 bases and which drove thr6e of McGraw's Singers to a stage of distraction, the Athletics clinched the battle and the world prise by the lopsided score of 13 to 2. The curtain goes down witn four victories for the Quakers and two for the Giants, and with the conclusive evidence that the speed of McGraw's machine was not equal to the ter­ rific bitting of Mack's star aggrega­ tion. Leon Ames, George Wfltse and the prized Rube Marquard each took a turn against the Indian, but to no avaiL TURK TROOPS HEM TRIPOLI Bears Refuse to Eat Woman. Lima, O.--In an attempt to end her life, Miss Anna Harter, thirty-three years old, leaped Into a pit at the city park in which were confined two large black bears. The bears, however, re­ fused to harm her Three Children Burn to Death. Rhlnelander, Wis.--During the tem­ porary absence from their farm home of Mr. and Mrs. August Peters their three children Were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the farm house- Less Wise Than the Birds. Whenever a bird Is about to fly It looks up, but some men always shut their eyes when about to take an Im­ portant step. Oklahoma Bank Is Raided. Shawnee, Okla.--Robbers attacked the town of McComb, several miles from here, cut telephone and telegraph wires, then blew open tbe safe In the town bank. They got a large amount of money and escaped. C. P. Bryan 8alls for Japan. San Francisco.--Charles Page Bryan, newly appointed minister to Japan, who has been staying in 8an Francisco for two weeks. Bailed for Yokohama on tlM steamer Chyo Maru. Force of 60,000 Is Ready to Attack Italian Army--City in Panlo of Fear. Malta.--A force of 60,000 Turks and Arabs has mobilized outside of Tripoli, according to dispatches received here, and is expected to attack the Italian army at any hour. The city Is terror-stricken and hun­ dreds are fleeing to the country for safety. The Mussulman force Is well supplied with ammunition and provi­ sions. It Is feared the city cannot be saved from destruction, as the Italian force Is numerically inadequate to offer any serious resistance. The Mussulmans intend to surround the Italian positions, annihilate the force and enter the city. GLiODEN TOUR JUDGE SLAIN Auto Overturns Near Tlfton, Ga., and 8. M. Butler Is Killed-- Two Injured. Tlfton, Ga.--Samuel M. Butler, chairman of tbe American Automobile association and one of tbe best known tnen in tbe United 8tates, was In­ stantly killed about three miles south of Tlfton, when the car In which he was riding was overturned in a ditch. At the same time P. J. Walker of San Francisco and his wife were badly In­ jured. Insane; Burns 8elf to Death. Newaygo, Mioh.--The body of Hen­ ry Bode Hollander, seventy-six years old, was found In the ruins of a barn burned on his son's farm. The man ignited a hay mow with kerosene while in a temporary fit of Insanity. Champ Clark's County "Dry." Louisiana, Mo.--Pike, Missouri's most famous county, the home of Champ Clark, voted "dry" at the local option election by an overwhelming majority. The vote was about ten to one against the "wets." Rear Admiral 8ands Dies. Washington.--Rear Admiral James H. Sands, U. S. N., retired, who par­ ticipated in the evacuation of Charles­ ton. died at his heme here of acute Indigestion. He was sixty-six rears old. Is 116, But WHI Cast His Vote. Grand Junction, Colo.--The oldest voter in the state of Colorado, and probably the oldest voter In the United States, registered here for the city election. He gave his name as i Cherokee Bill, aged 116. CHINESE THRONE HUMBLY APOU OGIZES AND GIVE8 IN TO PARLIAMENT RULE. ROYALTY TO HAVE NO VOICE % Threats of Army and Demands of Na- tional Assembly Result in Grant* ing of Constltutldnal Government. Peking--Yielding to the threat of a large section of the army and the de­ mands of the national assembly, the Chinese imperial government issued an edict for the immediate establish­ ment of a constitutional government with a cabinet from which all nobles shall be excluded and; granting full pardon for all political offenders. The reforms asked are most sweep­ ing. They may be summarized as fol­ lows: Parliament with full power to revise the constitution; surrender by the emperor of absolute power of life and death; cabinet responsible to the people, with premier chosen by parlia­ ment; royalty to be ineligible to the cabinet; parliament to share the treaty making power and have full control over the budget; throne to have no power over taxaxtion unless author­ ized by parliament; no appointive members of the upper house of parlia­ ment until the reforms are completed, and the army and navy to have full voice in their shaping; army and navy not to be used in internal trouble without consent of parliament. Th» government's action was pre­ cipitated mainly by the threat from 27,000 soldiers at Lanchow, in the province of Kansu, that they would bombard Peking unless a complete constitution was granted. As though emphasizing the begin­ ning of the end of the Chinese em­ pire, the rebels at Canton proclaimed the republic of Kwantung, another large body of revolutionists seized the capital of Shansi province, while the imperial troops set fire to the native city of Hankow, and hundreds of wounded rebels perished in the flames. The imperial troops are now practical­ ly in possession of the entire cify and are in good position for attacking the Hanyang arsenal. The high Manchu oCicials in Peking are fleeing in all directions. Many of them are disguised. All trains are crowded. The few officials left are preparing for a defense of the city until the new government can be es­ tablished. Admiral Sah Cheng Ping has noti­ fied the foreign consuls at Wu Chang that he is about to bombard that city and has asked that they order all foreigners to leave the city. Wu Chang has been strongly fortified by the rebels, who are in a spendid posi­ tion there to withstand a land attack. TOBACCO PLAN IS ARGUED Attorney General Filesi Government's Answer to American Company's Scheme of Reorganization. Wew York.--The plan for reorgani­ zation of the tobacco trust submitted by the American Tobacco company and co-defendants to the government anti-trust suit was both praised and condemned before the circuit court judges of the United States for the southern district of New York. After Attorney General Wickersham had filed the government's answer to the plan, Lewis Cass Ledyard, arguing for the defendants, insisted that it was an honest plan to comply with the Supreme court's mandate for a reor­ ganization that will restore competi­ tion in compliance with the terms of the Sherman anti-trust law. Representatives of the preferred stockholders and bondholders of the American Tobacco and constituent companies urged approval of the di­ vision of the trust into four segre­ gated companies, to be operated inde­ pendent of each other. Independent manufacturers, dealers, and producers of tobacco unanimously disapproved the plan on the ground that it is a sham proposal to divide the properties, control of which still would be retained by the group of in­ dividuals now dominating the indus­ try. Louis D. Brandeis of Boston made the principal argument against the proposal. The answer of the attorney general did not express general opposition to the dissolution plan, but contained for the guidance of the court many re­ strictions deemed necessary to as­ sure restoration of competition in the tobacco industry. Maintaining that it was impossible for the court to determine in advance whether a plan actually will accom­ plish effective competition, the attor­ ney general requested that right be reserved to the government to apply to the court at any time within five years for other relief upon a showing that tbe plan did not result In a new condition in harmony, with the law. Doctor Flexner Is Honored. Berlin.--Dr. Simon Flexner, who an­ nounced in New York a few days ago the discovery of a serum for the pre­ vention of cerebro spinal meningitis, was appointed by imperial authoriza­ tion an honorary member of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapeu­ tics on Frankfort-on-Main. Wife Slays Her Husband. Davenport, la.--Frank Kilduff was shot and instantly killed by his wife, Anna, because he had deserted and re­ fused to support her. Find Body of Slain Man In Barrel. Rochester, N. Y.--With the head and legs hacked off, the tody of an un­ identified man was found packed in an old whisky barrel north of this city. The severing of the head and legs evi­ dently had been done with* a carpen­ ter's saw. Kills Wife and Himself. Kansas City, Mo.--Hugo Brown, aged forty-six, agent for a barber sup­ ply company, shot and killed his wife, Margaret, aged thirty-two, then shot himself to death. 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I've always made It a rule of my life-- The Acute Victim--Yes; and I've often wondered why some Idea dldnt move Into that open mind. The Wrong Throat. A little boy took an apple to school the other day and was playing with It When the teacher Baw him ha took it frpm him and commenced to eat It. As the boy saw the last piece dis­ appear he commenced coughing, and when the teachir asked him what he was coughing far, he replied: "Please, sir, It's gone down the wrong way." The Facetious Farmer. "I am an actor out of work. .Can you give me employment on your farm?" "I oan. But a day on a farm Is no 20-mlnute sketch." "I understand that." "All right. Yonder Is your room. When you hear a horn toot about 4 a. m. that's your cue." A Change of Opinion. "Talk Is cheap," chuckled the poli­ tician with the telephone frank In his pocket. After talking $20 worth, he pulled out his frank and found It had ex­ pired. "By heck!" he muttered rue­ fully, "that guy was right when he said that 'Silence is golden.'"--Judge. A Bad Sign. She--If I were you, dear, I would not send for that plumber again who came today. He's too Inexperienced. He--Didn't he do tbe work right? She--Yes, he did the work all right, but he brought all the tools he needed with him. THE TEA PENALTY. A Strong Man's Experience Writing from a busy railroad town the wife of an employe of one of tha great roads sayB: "My husband la a railroad man who has been so much benefited by the usa of Postum that he wishes me to ex­ press his thanks to you for the good It has done him. His waking hours are taken up with his work, and ha has no time to write himself. "He has been a great tea drinker all his life and 2zas always liked It strong. "Tea has, of late years, acted on him like morphine does upon most people. At first It soothed him, but only fo«* an hour or so, then It began to affect his nerves to such an extent that he could not sleep at night, and he would go to his work In the mono- ing wretched and miserable from the loss of rest. This condition grew con. stantly worse, until his friends per­ suaded him, eome four months ago, to quit tea and use Postum. "At first he used Postum only for breakfast, but as he liked the tasta of It, and it somehow seemed to do him good, he added it to his evening meal. Then, as he grew better, he began ta drink It for his noon meal, and now ha will drink nothing else at table. "His condition Is so wonderfully Im­ proved that he could not be hired ta give up Postum and go back to tea. His nerves have become steady and reliable once more, and his sleep la easy, natural and refreshing. He owes all this to Postnm, for ha has taken no medicine and made no other change In his diet. "His brother, who was very nervoua from coffee-drinking, was persuaded by us to give up the coffee and usa Postum and he also has recovered hla health and strength." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a reason.'* ICvvr read the above lettefT A ss®w mmt appear* from time to tlaati They arc iroalB*) trme, am4 (all *t Istwmt