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•FTTiDtJTT A ritr - TILLAMC j OK tm A DT .TA WT Revolutionary Russia. I could nut help thinking to myself the timber and the land and the young whether it might not be possible some growth and everything for >2.50 an Like the Stuarts of Great Britain day or other to awaken the people of acre. Taking the value or that timber the Mississippi valley to a realization at what the stumpage actually sold for and the Bourbons of France, the of the fact that forestry is a problem upon some of the government land in reigning dynasty of Russia goes from extending from New Orleans to the con Minnesota, >15.06 an acre, the govern AT THIRTY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE blunder to blunder. Such a revolution tinental divide of the Rocky mountains ment has lost >40,000,000 by that pro UE HEADS TUE JUG G EST PRINT as is in progress throughout Euro on the west, to Canada on the north ceeding. But the stumpage on the 3,- and to the crest of the Alleghanles on 000,000 acres located during the last SUOR IN TUE WORLD. pean Russia cannot be suppressed by the east, where the Ohio river has its two years was much more valuable the sword. The thing to have done source; and that failure and destruc than that. And if the government had ----------- ammmb . AAAA ——«3—i———a—- tion are inevitable if it shall be ex managed its timber land business as , His Office Pays Out Annually Over was to make concessions to the spirit pected in the years to come to control any business man or any man of fa f our and a Half Million Dollars in of liberty when the agitation began. that great flood by increasing the sense would have managed it we Wages—Is One of the President’s Grants that would have been When you buy a Win? Piano, you buy at whole levees to protect the sugarbowl of the might just as well as not have realized hailed as liberal a year ago would be sale. You pay the actual cost of making It with Youngest. nation. The time will come when they >70,000,000 from that stumpage and our wholesale profit added. When you buy cannot bjjlld them higher and the have had our young forest trees plant rejected with scorn to-day as wholly only a piano, as many still do—at retail—you pay the At the head of the biggest printing country will revert to a swamp condi ed in southern California and the sur insufficient. retail dealer’s store rent and other expenses. tion and be as desolate as it is today plus left over. office in the world at the age of 34. (Applause.) revolution is strikingly like that You pay his profit and the commission or sa:ary where the St. Francis basin is covered That is the position in which Charles of The of the agents or salesmen he employs—all these A Few Suppositions. with water through which you may France, and there will be no stop on top of what the dealer himself has to pay to A. Stillings finds himself to-day. When look down and see the tops of trees The proletariat has fought the manufacturer. The retail profit on a piano are told that there is going to be the Hon. Frank W. Palmer resigned ping it. that once grew on dry land. How are a W© deficit this year in the treasury of and blood. Suppose they sup is from $75 to $200* Isn’t this worth saving? you going to prevent that? from the ofdce of Public Printer last press tasted the United St ites of >22,000,000. If the revolt in Moscow? It will This great problem of forestry, is we had not thrown away that >70,000,- summer. President Roosevelt found not alone a matter of sentiment. It 000 we could have covered that deficit himself facing the necessity of making break out at some other point—in Po is just as much a cold blooded ques least twice over and still have had land, or Lithuania, or Finland, or tion of business. Tiie speakers who al WE PAY FREIGHT. . • • money left in the treasury. In other one of the most important appoint elsewhere between the Baltic and the preceded me have spoken upon the im words the public lands committee of ments that had ever fallen to his lot NO MONEY IN ADVANCE portance of forestry to mining. I Black seas. The army will be kept on the house has thrown away over We will place a Wing Piano in any home in the to consider. The printing required for have listen» <1 With mu' h fntSFMrt» to >70,000,000 of the people’s money <n the jump, and its loyalty put to the su- United States cn trial, without asking for any ad their masterly discussion on the rela the last two years. If we should put the United States Government Is so vance payment or deposit. We pay the freight premest test. Then, when order has tion of forestry to mining, and it tills total loss at only >50,000,000 for voluminous and of such diversified de all other charges In advance. There is brought more forcibly than ever to my the two years it has amounted to over been shot into the nation, and reigns and tail that it is necessary to operate the nothing to be paid either before the piano is sent mind the conviction that the whole >2,000,000 a month or about >70,000 a or when it is received. If the piano is not satis enormous plant in which the printing everywhere as it once did at Warsaw, factory country and those engaged in all its day. after 20 days’ trial In your home, we taka the revolution will break out afresh in industries arc fast coming to recog- Now suppose some enterprising and is produced, in the most perfect way. It back entirely at our expense. You pay us noth Tn 38 years over 42,000 Wing Pianoe n.ize the importance of forestry. I 1 ingenious * ------ person ■ had ■ succeeded in At the head of this great prlntery the Moscow or somewhere else, and it will ing, and are under no more obligation to keep have been manufactured and sold. They are recon- regret that we cannot include the tunneling under the United States all have to be done over, again. the piano than if you were examining it at our mended by seven governors of States, bymusci President knew he must place a man lower house of congress. They do not treasury and cut a hole____ inlo the vaults > Before the thing is finished, Russia factory. There can bo aosoluteiy no ruk or ex collegosand schools, by promlnentorchestra leaden seem to have yet waked up to it. and carried off >70,000 a day. Don _ ’t . who would be manly among men, will be a republic; not a free republic, pense to you. music teachers and musicians. Thousan is o( theee Do not imagine that It is impossible for us to do rlanosare In your own State, some of them undoubt, you suppose we could get the people strong of character, quick of decision * How to Get Things Done. as we say. Our system Is so perfect that we can edly in your very neighborhood. Our catalogue coo- of the United States to wake up the and with a thorough grasp of every but a revolutionary republic guided by without any trouble deliver a piano In the smallest ulus names and addresses. I am not going to take up your time public lands committee if it required detail ol the printing business in a Cromwell or a Napoleon. And if such In any part of the United States just as Ith any further dissertations upon some action by it to stop that steal should be her destiny, she will be a town Mandolin, Guitar, Harp, Zither,Banjo easily as we can in New York City, and with ab That is exactly what is going everyone of its many branches. Many mighty ugly customer in a quarrel with the importance of forestry. But I want ing? solutely no trouble or annoyance to you, and —The tones of any or all of these instruments oigy for if the house public lands com men backed by strong political influ to offer some practical suggestions as on; ' be reproduced perfectly by any ordinary player on th« without anything being paid in advance or on does nothing in this session of ence were presented to the President a neighbor, just as England was in the to what we should do to get what we mittee 1 either for freight or any other expense. piano by means of our Instrumental Attachment want done. I listened with the great- < congress (and it has already voted to middle of the seventeenth century, just arrival This Improvement Is patented by us and cannot be for his consideration in making the We take old pianos and organs in exchange. est interest and pleasure to the uresl- < do nothing) the loss to this country A guarantee for 12 years against any defect in had In any other piano. WING ORGANS are made l appointment for Public Printer, but as France was at the close of the eight tone, action, workmanship or material Is given with the same care and sold in the same way m W im none seemed to be possessed of all of eenth century. Pianos. Separate organ catalogue sent oa request. For a full 100 years republicanism wKh every Wing Piano. Are Sold Direct From Factory and in No Other Wa> J YOU SAVE FROM $75 to $200 SENT ON TRIAL ANYWHERE Payments the necessary qualifications, until his YOU NEED THIS BOOK attention was directed to a progres has been driving autocracy to the wall sive young man whose knowledge of in Europe. France is a pretty good re If You lat.te to Bu, a Plaoo-Mo Matta, What Mate the printing business covered the en public and getting better every day. A book—not a oaUlogufr-that gives y tire Held and who bad had practical The Kaiser of the great German Em Uon poa*sned by experts. It tells abou erialfl used in tlifferent parts of a piano experience in Boston, Philadelphia and pire has in the Reichstag a partner in (erect parts are put together; what ca. out of orderand in fact is a complete « Washington—one Charles A. Stillings. the government, ofttlmes a very med- ntakes the -election of a piano —y [dlesome and a very obstinate partner And so, after a thorough examination fulij.lt will make; you a judge of Workmanship aadflaM» It you . into Mr. Stillings’ commercial career, at that. The Cortez holds the purse of a piano and how to tell good from bad. It 1 b aba the President, finding that Mr. Stil Spain, and Italy is a constitutional lutely the only book of its amd ever pebUabed. It contain«, 1M large pages and huadrm lings’ ability was just what he had monarchy. Austria-Hungary has a leg HluNtrations, all devoted to plane oonatroeti Its name is "The Book of Complete Infarsw been looking for, appointed him as the islature, and the Scandinavian peo tion About Pianos. ” We send it free to executive head of the Government ples have enjoyed liberty for ages. anyone wUhing to buy a ptano. All you > hare to do is to send us your name and Russia is rousing from the si umber of Printing Office. The Senate promptly ^liaTa Ps«t*lTe-4ay while you confirmed the President’s appointment centuries and she cannot be put to Sir“' think of It juM Slrinc jour name and so Mr. Stillings has become the sleep again. There will be battle and and addrew, or send the attached address written Pianos 1 coupon, and the valuable book c blood and terror, but it will end in a active head of the establishment information.al»o full partlculara about the W1NQ PI A WO, with A brief idea of the volume of busi republic—at least, in a legislature— pric«, terms of payment, cto. ness conducted by the Government and then Russia will begin the new will be seat to you promptly by mail. Printing Office may be obtained from lesson of learning what liberty is and WING & SON the foilowing figures. Last year they what to do with it. paid In wages to its various employees 358-369 W. 13th 8t„ New York the sum of $4,610,781.70 and nearly 1868-38th Year-1906 Don ’ t Ask Again. three millions more were spent for various supplies, including paper, new An amusing incident is related of machinery and maintenance of the Nat Goodwin, the actor. Not long ago Couldn’t Milk the Bicycle. plant Every dollar of this great sum Goodwin was standing on the corner Some years ago, soon after bicycles is expended under the check of the of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. Public Printer and it is evident that New York City, where three car lines | began to be freely used throughout the much wisdom is needed in handling converge, when a seedy-looking indi United States, an agent for a New York money where so large an amount is in vidual. apparently from the country, house turned tip at a village in Central New York. He expatiated to an old volved. approached him questioningly. Mr. Stillings is especially fitted by "I want to go to the Brooklyn farmer upon the virtues of the new ma training, inclination, and ability for Bridge," he said, looking in perplexity chine, dwelling upon what a time-saver the position. He forms an attractive at the cars rushing in six different di it was, and withal how fashionable it would be for the old farmer to be able addition to the ranks of the young men rections. with whom President Roosevelt has "Very well,” said Goodwin, severely, to ride down to the village on one of the new-fangled machines whenever he wanted to. “Why,” said the salesman, “whenever you go to the postoffice, bank, or store, everybody will stop and stare at Fanner Wilson, and pretty soon you’ll be the most-talked-of man in the whole coun AMERICAN CROWN ty” “That may be so,” replied the farmer, but I tell you I’m a-needin’ a good new cow mo’n I am one o’ them things you’re a-talkin’ about” Nevertheless, the agent extracted a promise that the old man would save a green soap, consistency of paste, a perta up his money and purchase a bicycle cleanser for automobile machinery and il1 when the agent came around in the fall vehicles; will not injure the meet highly According to promise, the agent was polished surface. Made from pure vegeUbb on hand in the fall with the wheel. The oils. If your dealer does not carry Americas farmer took him in charge and carried Crown Soap in stock, send us his name and him out to the lot and showed him a address and *re will see that your wants are fine Jersey cow. supplied. Put up in 12)$ 25 and 50 lb pails, “That’s what I bought with the money I saved up for you,” said the farmer. And without waiting agent IO to ------------- o for the w «RVUI. recover from his surprise he went on: CHICAGO ILL. “1 ‘lowed that I needed the cow mo’n I did the bicycle, an’ there she is. Ain’t she a beaut?” When the agent recovered his breath he said: “You’ll look funny riding that Pine, Pir, Cypress and Yellow Pine. cow to town, won’t you?” Write for Catalogue. “Ya’as,” drawled out the old farmer, “but I’d look a darned sight funnier i Eagle Tank Co., 211 N. Creen St, tryin’ to milk a bicycle.” j SCENE IN MINNESOTA. Timber Devastation After Lumbering and Fire. dent's address yesterday and one of of >70,000 a day—>2,000,000 a month— his sentences struck me very forcibly, >25,000,000 a year, and it is much more lie suid: "We want to change the than that—will ffo right along and hope of accomplishment to the knowl continue until all the timber land of edge of things done.’’ If we are go the government has been stolen. That ing to do that we must have u clear will be a little over a year, according cut idea of what we are going to do to the report of the senate public and of what we want Congress to do lands committee. And after the land —so plain and clear that there is no Is al! gone—after the horse has been possibility of any man being so stupid stolen—the house public lands com that he cannot understand it. mittee will awaken from its Rip Van We have listened to these gentlemen Winkle slumbers and cluse the stable here today telling of the necessities of door with a bang. the mining industries and of the injus Some Things to Do. tice brought about by insufficient laws. There is u most simple way to Before 1 cluse 1 wish to specify get all the things done that they have some definite and specilio things which recommended, and more, too. The first should be done; is to come to a perfect understanding First—Repeal the timber and stone with a business bureau of the govern act. ment, if we can create such a bureau, Hecund—l'ass the consolidation bill and the way to do that is to pass the putting the government forests under bill consolidating the forest reserves i tiie management of the bureuu of for under the control of Gifford I’inchot. estry. (Applause.) And after you have done Third—Provide by national legisla that and he has consulted with the tion that every acre of agricultural lumberman and the miner and the far land that can be reclaimed under the mer iiiid understands what tin J want, national irrigation system must be then back him up ami make your con saved for the homemaker who will go gressman help to get it done. there and make a home upon IL In that way you cun breuk up the A Case of Masterly Inactivity. timber combinations, and in that way only; because the land thieves of Det us look at the _____________ business end of that proposition. Othur -I- - tilinga -1.1- be- North Dukolu, under tiie couimutation ■ides bees have business ends. ___ For ___ a clause; the land thieves of Montana, number yf years tile president of the under the desert land act; tiie land '•United States, the secretary of the in- thieves under the timber und stone act tsrioi .ind tile commissioner of the in—well, perhaps 1 might be permitted (laughter) are general land office have been trying to to mention Oregon You will have to imprt ss upon congress, without suc working together. cess, the necessity of repealing the explode some of those Japanese shells timber and stone act. I want to give among them to break up the combi- tiie exact facts. The president, in De nution. To show you why we cannot depend cember, 1902, more than two years congressmen from the limber ago, called the attention of congress in upon states of tiie west to correct this enor tiie strongest possible language to the necessity of doing something to stop mous evil, a year ago both Oregon and both representatives the frauds ami depredations upon tiie senators public duinMln under tiie ilmbi-r ami from Oregon were bitterly opposed to ■ Repre stone act. Tiie secretary suid ill his any ciiange in the land laws. annual report mure than two years sentatives Hermann and Williamson both went before the committee and ago: Mr. “The timber and stone net will, If protested aguinst any change. not repealed or radically amended, re Hermann was before the committee. At that exact moment the Oregon sult ultiinulely in the complete de struction of the timber on the unap grand Jury was in session in the city propriated and unreserved public of Portland, composed of men drawn by lot from all over the state, and that lands.'* I find these words In the report of K i i nd jury urged the repeal of all the senate committee on the public those luws—the timber and stone act, lands, und the dute is February 19,1 the desert land act and the commuta tion clause—and sent a memorial to 1903: The Government Printing office •'It can be plainly seen that all the the public lands committee to that ef fect. Now the grand Jury has had valuable timber lands of the United —The Largest Print Shop in that cs will be owned by ■peculators some business with Mr. Hermann since (Daughter and applause.) within three years if the opportunity th.it time. the World. In all those western states the state to acquire them at >2.50 an ucre ia has tiie power to form districts for continued." That was February 19, 1903. It io local public improvements, such as ir Charles A. Stillings, the New districts, now prsttj ■ loss to 1 sbiuary 19, 1905, rigation districts, sanitary and one year from that dute the three drainage districts or levee districts Public Printer. years will ba axh ustad ■ nd all 1 bs und 1 lor one do not believe that that timber lund will be gone according to is the right policy that the national government should assume the burden ¿his official stutement. of protecting from fire forSsts now Has tiie bill been repealed? No! owned by men who have gotten them Has ths house oi repn done anything to stop this shameful from the government for one-tenth of The state and nation waste of the public property under the their value. should co-operate to form forestry snrrouQded hîmsêlf In the administra I you can go this time, but never ask They have done nothing whatever to districts und have assessments levied ■top th« I fraud.......... istantl> on all private lands in tiie district, and tion of the Government affairs. He re me again." every ucre should contribute its pro ceived his education in the Phillips being committed under that act. portion to the cost of preserving it Grammar School and the English High from fire. (Applause.) President Secs the Necessity. An Improvised Excuse. * There is one more thing that I was School at Boston. After leaving school Again the following year the presi going to urge as a mere matter of per he entered his father’s printing office, Tommy was absent from school for ; dent in his measuge to congress made sonal opinion. In making lite sugg« s- where he received a varied and thor substantially the same recommenda tion I do not speak for California or i one entire day. But he brought a note tions. They were reiterated by tiie for the National Irrigation Associa ough experience in all branches of the of excuse the next morning, which | secretary of the interior. The senate tion, but for myself alone. 1 have trade, finally working up to the posi »■onl mittce on public lands recoin« been nil my life a republican and in tion of general manager and later be would prove that he had been detained m< nded a bill to repeal the timber and my earlier years advocated tiie repub at home legitimately. The writing was | • tone act and the senate passed the lican doctrine of a tariff tor protection coming sales manager of the Griffith- hardly that of a feminine hand, and tiie I bill In the lust session of congress. It In many political campaigns in my na St tilings Press, an organization which went to the public lands committee of tive state of California from the Or took over the business formerly con note appeared to have been written la the house or representatives. T. B. egon line to Mexico; but because I be ducted by Mr. Stillings, Sr. boriously. Furthermore, the penman Walker uppeared before that commit« lieve in preserving our Industries and In all of Mr. Stillings' transactions ship seemed to be strangely familiar to te«* and waved his magic wand and not in destroying them 1 bsllsvo that they guve two votes for the repeal of In order to preserve the forest indus he has shown an unusual aptitude for his teacher. The note read as follows: “Dear Teacher: Please excuse Tom the bill out of eighteen members of tries of this nation we should repeal organization, and. possessing a marked the committee. Two votes! And the every tariff law imposing a tariff upon my for not coming to stool ylstidy, he bill is lying there in that committee the products of the forest, whether degree of personal magnetism has couldn't come I tore my pants. Yours yet. . timber or wood or wood pulp, at any drawn into a close friendship with In this session of congress without t il«» tor a limited number of years and himself many men of dignity and posi truly, Mrs. Mulligan.” waiting for anything, or for anybody until we shall have planted forests to do anything, they passed a resolu enough to harvest annually from our tion. Mr. Stillings is a Mason, having tion in the public lands committee of own forests all the wood and timber attained the honors of the thirty-sec Here lies th. body of Mary Ann. the house continuing this whole sub we may use In any one year. ond degree of the Scottish Rite, and is Her head on the bosom of Abraham. ject over until the next session of It’s pleasant and sweet for Mary Ann, Tlwre are a number of other things also a Mystic Shriner. congress. Bat mighty tough for Abraham. that 1 have in my mind to suggest The next session of congress will that ought to be done; convene at a time within two months that would make him feel the full of the expiration of the three years P ass the Appalachian Bill. weight of an outraged national public new forests by the national <overn- within which the senate committee One is to pass the Appalachian for sentiment. (Applause.) They are not nient on the wide level prairies and told congress that all the timber land bare, rollinx foothills which are now would be gone unless they got action. estry bill, which 1« ready to be passed liable to punishment criminally, but Another Is to stop now and for all they are morally responsible for every supposed to be among the waste places I In the two years that nave expired of the land and nt only tor Krasin* > •Ince the president baa called tha at time all exchange of lands in forest fraud committed under the timber and ground for a few stray cattle and If the gov stone act since they shelved tha bill to tention of congress tn that timber and reserves for other lands. sheep. stone law then» have been located under ernment needs any su< h I »nd let it buy repeal it passed by the senate in the It Is the vast possibilities of forest and pay for them their fair value last session of congress. the timber and stone act over 3.000.- them Planting and timber* le® of In forest this and no more. All lieu land scrip But It Is not enough merely to re planting and timber production 000 acres of timber land, the greater should be called In and canceled and region that make It almost a crime ■ peal the timber and stone act. Every part of It the magnificent timber of no more ever Issued under any circum against future generations to part acre o( public forest lands or brush the northwest, which, according to the stances. The forest lieu land ex or woodlands which conserves a water with the land In its present condition: report of the secretary of the Interior law should be rvpea.cd. should be at once embraced In to stockmen under such a scheme as! and the commissioner of the ge.ierai change The bill providing for the consolida reserves, the *$•$« title to the Klnkald bill for the creation of land office, is worth anywhere from tion of the government forestry inter permanent forest reserve« be always retained by the national large graslng estates in private own-1 >30 tn >100 an acre for tha mere value ests Is ready- to bo passed by the government and the itumpan of ma ershlp. of the stumpage, to say nothing of the senate and should be passed In this tured timber r only 1 The mining Interests more Immedt-I onl- to be sold. •• ’ young timber or the land Itself. session of congress It has already M oatlerful Ponalhllltles of the Arid ately than any other ought to oppose! passed the house; ard If this session this 440-acre homestead Id. a anywhere Hrclnn. Four Million Dollar Loss. of congress adjourns without the bill The whole great plains rceinn In the great plains or Rocky mountain Tn other words, as a result of the being passed by the house which has should be studied and developed is a states and help to Inaugurate a great tra^formed national policy of planting new for- | deliberate delay of the public lands passed the senate, repealing the tim from araa..m'i‘«Iian committee of the house. Instead of ber and stone act. every member of rirtfnrJ'f 'J r*«lon »0 one of ests. not only to furnish wood and i bavins the value of the stumpage from the public lands committee ought to be d m.ore hu®*<> Climate timber for the mines but to c nserv1 up to popular obloquy and k that 1 000.000 acres of timber In the held planting of immense nreas. and Increase the rainfall, regulate the national treasury we have parted with whipped at the cart's tail with a lash hundreds ot thousands of acres, of flow of the river« .top flood, and fur-' nlsh water tor Irrigation. 1 Kirk’s t SOAP James S. Kirk & Company SILOS Chicago, Ill. OAT F ONE LIFE TO LIVE That’s the Reason Why EVERYBODY should get the most out of life that they can. 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