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THE AKGTJS, FI?IIAY, NOVE3bEU 7. 1?02. 4 THE AUG US. Published Dally and Weekly at 164 Second avenue. Rock Island, 111. Entered at the Poatofflce as Second-class matter.! BI THE J. W. FOTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cenu per week. Weekly, 1.00 per year In advance. All comma nicatlo ns of political or argumen tative character, political or religion, must save real name attached for publication. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every town ship In Rock Island county. . Friday, November 7. The public schools of St. Louis will observe Eugene Field day Nov. 7. Capt. P. .7. Visser, late chief of the boer scouts, hay come to the United States to live. lien. Fred Grant, who is visiting his niter-in-law, Mrs. Potter Palmer, iu Chicago, is accompanied by a native Filipino valet. The democrats are inclined to con test the election in New York state. It is hoped the disposition of the Em pire state democracy in this resect will resolve itself into a determination that will carry it to the court of last resort. King Edward VII. is again the cause of anxiety to his physicians. A spe cial cable says that he has been again put upon a severe diet and that a number of private dinner parties at which he was to be the center have been cancelled. Cincinnati i to have a "sweetheart's' owl." The girls of the Mill Creek val ley decided they were tired of having their beaux put them on a car and send them home instead of going home with them. The result of the mass meeting on the question was a petition to the street railroad offi cials for a car to leave the upper end if the valley at 12 o'clock or there abouts. The president of the com pany thinks the women can get every thing thev want, and so it will be. A civil war record of the height of Indiana soldiers ' show that out of JlS.jt there were 1.1.407 5 feet 10 inches tall, 5 feet 11 inches. G.C79 C feet tall. 2,014 G feet 1 inch, 1,357 G feet 2 inches, and ?,'.' over 6 feet 3 inches. Commenting on these -statis tics, the actuary of the United States sanitary commission writer: "It is evident from our statistics that the Indiana men are the tallest of the na tives of the United States, and these latter the tallest of all civilized na tions." ' The Illinois legislature, according to information at hand, will have a republican majority on joint ballot of something in the neighborhood of 40. The senate will have ?.C republi cans and 15 democrats, and the house S7 republicans, G4 democrats, 1 prohi bitionist and one public ownership. The prohibition member of the house is O. V. Stewart, of Chicago, chair man of the national prohibition com mittee, elected in the Fifth district and the public ownership member is C. S. Darrow, of Chicago, elected in the Seventeenth district. It is announced from Washington that the gold dollars to be struck in commemoration of the centennial cel ebration of the Louisiana purchase by a world's fair at St. Louis in 1904 will be ready in December of this year. Two designs will be u.-ed, one the head of President .Jefferson, who ne gotiated the great purchase, the oth er the head of President McKinley, who issued the proclamation of the world's fair. The number will be lim ited to 250.000. They will be placed on sale by the treasurer of the world's fair, the act of congress which au thorized the issue permitting this to e done under the proper bond. They will be sold at a premium. (Coal Trust Deceived People Until After Election. New York dispatch to Chicago Tribune: Immediately after election retail coal dealers in this city were notified by the sales agents of the anthracite roads that there would be a scarcity of anthracite during the entire winter. l.efore the election the anthracite coal roads gave the imprei-sion that by the present time coal would be reaching New York in sufficient quantities to supply all needs. The representatives of the roads say now that the coal supply here will be so scant that soft coal will have to be used all winter, even if the winter should prove a mild one. An officer of the Lackawanna road said today: "There will not be a time thin win ter when a man will be able to fill his cellar with coal. The customer who wants 10 tons probably will get a ton. We shall do all we can to get coal enough here to supply the city's absolute needs, but if the use of soft coal is stopped some one will suffer." A canvass of the larger coal dealers made reveals the fact that the scar city of coal is almost as great as it was when the strike ended.. The re tail price of $0.50 a ton is still main tained, but, as has been the case ever since that price was .fixed, the deal ers have nothing to sell. Speculators are selling anthracite in good quanti ties, however, at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2 above "the circular price. President Roosevelt's Precinct Goes Democratic. - The voters in President llooseve'lt's own precinct and town do not indorse "Koosevelt prosperity." It is an in teresting1 fact that a gneat republi can president cannot influence his own precinct and town, to indorse him. In the town of Oyster Hay, where Col. Koosevelt resides and where he voted, the'vote for governor of New York stood Tuesday night: Coler (dem.) 1,032 Odell (rep'.) . 1,320 Coler's majority 146 Compare this with the result in the town of Oyster Hay in 1000. In that year the result in Itotsevelts town was: Odell (rep.) 2,041 Stanchfield (dem.) 1,32 Odell's majority 5.32 This is not a very creditable shew ing for "Roosevelt prosperity" wheu it gets a jolt like that "right where it lives." Ciunpare the results in 1!MH and UI02: li'OO, republican majority for Odell. 512 1002.democratic majority for Coler.140 Total republican loss .G5S In UtHKeveIts own precinct Tues day the republicans were defeated. The democrats carried that precinct by :!1 votes. These figures show the interesting fact that even presidents sometimes fail to have influence for their par ties in their own homes. Expediting the Election Returns. If voting machines were used in the elections in Illinois and other states, there would not be the annoying de lay in learning the results that has become peculiarly characteristic of the state. Machines make it possible to announce the result within a very few minutes after the polls are closed. Hesides this, there is no possibility of an error in the count. The ma chine can not be "stutfed," its figures can not be juggled with, nor can a vo ter be cheated out of his vote because of a defective or wrongly marked bal lot. Machines would cost money, but their speed and accuracy would make them highly desirable. If Two World. Shonlil Meet. Our world is spinning through space at a speed of over 1,000 miles per min ute, says an astronomer. Should it come In collision with a glole of equal size going at the same rate of speed, what would be the result? The very best thinkers of the age tell us that heat enough would be generated by the shock to transform lotb of the col liding lodies into gigantic balls of va por many times their present circum ferences. Some have thought that in case the center of the earth is com posed of solid and colder matter than Is the generally accepted belief this might not be the case, but after search ing all the leading authorities I must admit that I cannot find a more ap propriate "finis" than the following, which Is from an eminent scientist: Should such an unheard of event occur the heat generated would be sufficient to melt, boil and completely vaporize a mass of ice fully 700 times the bulk of both the colliding worlds In other words, an ice planet 150,000 miles in diameter. The San Birth. It was in Bayard Taylor's day that the sun myth had its vogue. One night at a party Taylor was greatly lored by the persistent efforts of a guest to dis cuss sun myths. No matter what direc tion the conversation might take, this person 'would ruthlessly drag it back again to his favorite topic. At last the d 1st res sed poet raised a very interesting question in regard to the threadbare subject. "Did you ever think," he asked, "that the name Smith, so common all over the world, is de rived from sun nsythV" No one Lad ever dreamed of such thing. Max Mul ler had overlooked the point complete ly. "Quite possible; certainly most plau sible," said Taylor. "Sun myth, Su myth, Smyth, Smith, and some still spell the name with a y." The discus sion was ended. Asleep Amid Flames. IJreaking into a blazing home, some firemen lately dragged the sleeping inmates from death. Fancied securi ty, and death near. It's that way when j'ou neglect coughs and colds. Don't do it. Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption gives perfect protection against all throat, chest and lung troubles. Keep it near, and avoid suffering, death, and doctors bills. A teaspoonful stops a late cough, persistent use the most stub born. Harmless and nice tasting; it's guaranteed to satisfy by Hartz & Ul-lemej-er. Price, 50 cents and $1. Trial bottles free. " A Policeman's Testimony. ' J. N. Patterson, night policeman of Nashua, Iowa, writes: "Last Svinter I had a bad cold on my lungs and tried at least half a dozen advertised cough medicines and had treatment from two physicians without getting any benefit. A friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds of a bottle cured me. I consider it the greatest cough and lung medicine in the world." All druggist. - . DAILY SHORT STORY The Mudge Mining Company Original.! Silas Mudge, a fainer. hearing that an uncle had died in Colorado and)had. left him a email mining property, con cluded to go out and look after it. But the hay had to be got tin aud the fruits shipped, and It was three months be fore Silas started. In Denver he fell Infwltli'a drummer who was inclined to make gajneiof the simple farmer. One evening thedruin mer, being askedyin the rotunda of the hotel where Silas swas staying, "Who's your country-Jake friend?" replied: "That fellow? Thatts l'iukerton's crack detective. He's ou the track of some big rascality. What i do you think of his makeup?" A man sitting neorfheardtthe woods, started and walked quickly away. , That night, as Silas .was going to bed, there was a knock dt his doorjaud a man followed the knock. "I'm on to your gaaue,"' he said. "Iteckon I don't understand you, stranger," said! Silas astonished. "I know whatt you're (here for. It's a certalu nil nil : company." "Well?" exclaimed Silns, .with eyes and mouth open. "You can't fool me witli that farmer business. You're u Piukerton man out hereto lok aCter us fellows who are getting up the Mudge 'Alining com pany. Now,, you're off jjour; base. The thing isn't a swindle at all, ibut a bona tide transaction. The only weak spot in it is the Mudge projHrty, which isn't worth 10 an acre. The other proper ties are all light. We got our deed to the Mudge land from a rascal who personated tho heir. He fooled us beautifully. But wo dont want any suspicion casta on our company, and we're ready toUlo the right thing about this Mudge property." "How much lid you pay for it?" "Five hundred dollars. We had to have it to carry our ore through. There is no other exit for a road from our other property. What we're afraid of is that if the transfer of the Mudge property to us Ima fraudulent manner lecomes known it will preveut our Coating the stock of our eOuipany." "You mean youVo ready to pay me somcthln fur goin back home an' mak in no investigashun." "We'll take you in -on the ground Eoor if you can engage that tho real Mudge heir, whom I susiiect you repre sent, will give us a quitt'laiui deed to his property. There's $3,000,000 of stock, all of Which wo own. We're going to put $100,000 of fit on the mar ket at a dollar a share. We'll give you $50,000 more stock for the same pur pose." Mudge was no fool. He thought for some time and finally closed with the man. A contract was drawn, a notary was routed out of his bed and all was made complete. "I see," said the promoter, glancing over the paper, "that you have put everything in the name of the heir." "Jes so," replied Silas. "Well, then, he'll have either to call for the stock or send you a power of attorney." "Jes' so." "Come to my office tomorrow and 1 will have a deed ready to be signed, also a receipt for the stock. Mudge will have to agree not to soil anj of his stock till the 1st of January, when ours goes on the market, and then only at the rate of a thousand shares a day." "Jes so." The promoter gave the supioscd de tective a curious parting glance, as though he wondered at his motive for keeping up his country character, then left him. When the promoter entered his office the next morning at 10 o'clock, Silas had been wailing for him three hours. The papers were ready. "Send these papers to Silas Mudge." said the promoter, "and when they're presented here, duly executed, we'll de liver the stock." Silas took the papers aud studied them for a long while. Finally he asked: "Ilev you got the 6tock ready?" "It's In that safe." "Git it out." "But you don't expect us to deliver it till you produce Mudge's rec'iprs?" "Git It out." related Silas. The promoter brought out the Btock. "What'll you give fur it In cash?" "Cash? Why, let me see 00 per cent of par." "Pll take it." The promoter, still believing that for some purpose of his own the sup posed detective was keeping up his character of countryman, drew a check for $23,000. "Don't want that. I want the money." , "I can have it certified." "Don't want nothln certified. Gimme tho bills." The promoter went to the bauk him self and brought back twenty-five one thousand dollar bills. Silas put one band on the pile and with the other signed the papers. "Silas MudseT exclaimed the pro moter. "Jes' so." Silas shoved the bills Into bis capa cious pocket and moved toward the door, leaving the promoter gaping after him. The stock of the Mudge Mining com pany went on the market at par and gradually, sank to nothing, 200,000 shares having been disposed of at an average of $45. The promoters made a handsome thing, the public were gulled and Silas Mudge was content with the sale of his patrimony. "I s'pec the galoot what pretended to be me," said Silas, ;waa one of the company,,. , MAB ifttr, J&Jflfi B, ETH; HOVE Y. The Problem of a lATired Mother. ' h!fl JI1 The funny papers have told; time and again, how it makes a man feel to be shut up alone with the children even for a few hours. It's no wonder that nerve troubles attack the mother for she has the children all the time. How can she help being nervous, especially while the little ones are making such con stant drafts on her energy? 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