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4 THE ARGUS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902. THE ARGUS. Published Dally and Weekly at 16M Second Avenue, Rock Island, I1L Entered at the Poatofflce as Second-class matter. BY THE J. W. POTTKB CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cenu per week. Weekly, 1.00 per year In advance. All communication of political or argumen tative character, political or religious, mutt have real name attached f orpnbllcatlon. No uch articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every town Ship la Bock Island county. Saturday, December 20. There are few largre sums to which more people have contributed than to liockefeller's $4,000,000 check for his Standard Oil dividend which he re ceived this month. When beautiful theories run up p.ainst finance there is :i pyrotechnic flash and a burned odor. Uev. Shel don, of Kansas, is organizing a life in surance company on a moral basis. An Ann Arbor professor has discov ered seven new poisons. The old fa vorites, however, will still continue in demand, and answer all legitimate and illegitimate purposes of destruc tion. Uncle Shelby Cullom does not ap pear to have caught up with any of those bad trusts as yet. Ferhaps he, also, like Hanna, will find th-at "there ain't no bad 'uns nowheres!" Atlanta Constitution. The United States court refuses to allow the salt trust to go bankrupt. Coming- at the. height, of anti-trust clamor, this is discouraging. The trust, lhat will voluntarily go defunct is a public benefactor. The N'ew York World says that pri vate railway stations are the latest "wrinkle" for country families of wealth. At these they can alight with out being disturbed by or coming in contact with the common people. The Kansas man who proposes to raffle himself and his farm to liia'r riageable women at 5 cents a '"chance" is a true financier. If the scheme works he'll get a wife and a pocket full of spending money and still have the farm. The status of the Venezuela busi ness warrants the anticipation on the part of the Chicago Chronicle that Chauneey M. Depew will shortly le heard from. It will be remembered that, when the Maine was sunk. Mr. Depew galloped home to Xew York from .lekle island issuing appeals to his turbulent countrymen to stop this fool talk of war with Spain, "because it hurts stocks." A similar patriotic deliverance may now be expected from Chauneey at any hour of the dav or night. By way of illustrating one of the differences between Lords Roberts jpnd Kitchener they 'are telling this story in London: Just before "Bobs" left Caje Town he assigned an officer to a particular duty- and asked how soon it could be done. The colonel said in about a fortnight. Lord Rob erts unid pleasantly: "I know you will do the best, you can." Later the colo nel told Kitchener about the matter. 'Now. colonel," sa:d the new command der, "if you can't do it in a week we shall have to see about sending you home." The job was done in the time tet bv Kitchener. The "Free Trade Almanac" for 1903, issued by the American Free Trade league, of Boston; has made its ap pearance. In addition to the monthly calendars, etc., it contains a number of valuable free trade articles, statis tics, etc., prepared by men well vers ed on the phases of the question these articles relate to. The league will furnish the almanac at $1.00 per hun dred for distribution, and will also send a copy to any address on re ceipt of two cent stamp. Address Hazard Stevens, secretary. Paddock building. Bostoa, Mass. A most interesting Christmas ex periment is related by a Xew York paper, which shows that poverty is not a bar to the Christmas spirit of giving even to the extent of sacrifice. A $5 bill was given to a poor boy and another to a. poor girl of the tene ments to see just what they would buy for themselves. The boy bought a nice doll and a toy piano for his sister, while the little girl bought a doll for her sister and some handker chiefs for her mother. It is not ex pected that, a boy of ten or a girl of seven -will be either philosophers --or saints. If these poor children had spent every cent, of the money given them upon their own needs or dress es, who would have blamed them? But they did not. Though there must have been hundreds of things they wanted, each bought something for the others- What an example of self- sacrificing generosity is furnished by these poor little children. Principle Ignored for Politics. . The majority of the committee on insular affairs in the house has a proved a reduction of the duties on, imports from the PhilipjMnes from the 73 pcf cent of the Dingley rates, which were devilled on at the last ses sion, to - per cent of those rates. While the matter was under dis cussion the democratic members of the committee worked for the com plete abolition of the duties, but Rep resentative McClellan announced that if it were imjMissible to get a free trade amendment before the house lie and hisdemocratic colleague would supiHirt the bill because the! reduc tion was ait improvement so far as it went. It was under these circum stances that the bill was favorably reported, anil it would be interesting now to know why the majority stop ped where they did. This will become evident upon a statement of the trade for the last fiscal year, from which it appears that the total, imports amounted to $6,612,700. divided in greater part as follows: Sugar : $ 1S8,1."0 Tobacco Manufactured 7,003 Unmanufactured 3 Cabinet woods 1,395 Filers, vegt'ble and textile (irasses 6,318,470 Scrap iron 972 In the volume of American trade this whole business is almost a nega tive quantity, and there is no posible menace in its development. If the sugar were multiplied many times over it could not make up the annual deficit on the American and Cuban crops in this market, and in both su garand tobacco distance ami the mag nitude of the supplies nearer home, make a fear of competition absurd. The figure on fibers is large com paratively sjeaking, but unmanufac tured fibres are already free under the Dingley law, while the rate on the manufactured can hardly be ne cessary to save some home, industry from destruction from the Filipinos. We may indicate this the more clear ly by a reference to the tables of the bureau of statistics for the first ten months of this calendar year. The to tal imports are put at $7.29S.22(); the imports of Manila, duty free, at $7. 214.746. Chicago Record-Herald. Free trade is not established with the Philippines for the same reason that what President McKinley term ed "our plain duty" was avoided in the establishment of commercial re lations with Porto Rico. The justice of the priniciple is established and ac knowledged, but it would never do for the republican party to fo on re cord in supjort of it. The tariff must be upheld, though the heavens fall. . Arbitration Always Itigbt. As to the Venezuelan affair, Ben Franklin's saying may be appropri ately altered to read. '"There never was a good war nor a bad arbitra tion." Hither through our Minister Bowen or by invoking the good offices of other tribunal, the trouble should be arbitrated. The British Avar office repudiates the sinking of one of Venezuela's war ships and puts the responsibility of it wholly on Germany's shoulders. This is a practical acknowledgment that the "mailed-fist" business is being overdone at La Guayra as it was at Peking. Public opinion in Great Britain, whose share of the total "'claims" of $2,000,000 is but $100,000. is evidently alive to the mixture of the burlesque and the brutal in this unde clared "war." It is a ridiculous. as well as dangerous demonstration for such a little debt. Castro's tardy proposition for a settlement by arbitration offers a way out which in London seems to be favorably regarded. Germany has dis claimed any intention of acquiring Venezuelan territory. Granted that the Castro govern ment has behaved badly to its credi tors, the chastisement already ad ministered is enough for all useful purposes. The bad boy- having been spanked to the point where he cries out that he is ready to "be good," it is pure cruelty to prolong the appli cation of the corrective slipper. All parties to the vexatious con troversy should submit their griev ances to impartial influences for ad justment, and there is no better time for the clove of peace to hover than the present. This should be the sea son for animosities to be buried, dis cord to cease and good will to pre vail among nations as well as men. Prof. Kobisison on the Trust Ques tion. Prof. M. II. Robinson, professor of industry and transportation in the University of Illinois, has an article in the November number of the Yale Review on the trust question as dealt with in the report of the industrial commission. Prof. Robinson treats of various phases of the trust question in particular, the causes of consolida tion, the form of consolidated indus tries, the monopoly power of "combi nations, and the public control of con solidations. The causes of consolida tion he describe as competition, the desire to lower the cost of production and distribution, and the desire to se cure a monopoly. Of these, the first and third he regards as permanently active, the second' as operative only so long as the maximum of economy iii production and distribution is not attained. Prof. Robinson criticises the report of the commission for its lack of completeness in dealing with the monopoly power of combinations. The chief defect, of the report of the commission," he says, "is that it often deals with opinions when it might have given us facts." With regard to the public control of combinations. Prof. Rqhiusou calls attention to the fact that the laws, of the different states regarding corpo rations do not meet conditions as they exist at the present day. The re port of the commission emphasizes this fact, he says, and if it "should have no better effect, save that of cabl ing attention to the absolute neces sity of revising the corporation laws to fit the changed economic condi tions, it should be justified in its ex istence." Interesting Illinois School Figures. " The annual report of Alfred Bay liss, state superintendent of public in struction, which has just been com pleted, gives valuable statistical in formation relative to the schools of the state during the last year. The re port shows, among other things, the following: The last, school census found 1.601, 175 persons between the tiges of 6 an 1 l years. There were - 22.273 more boys than girls. The enrollment show ed: Boys in graded schools, 314,921; girls in graded schools.322.SM; boys in ungraded schools, 174. 1HS; g-irls in ongraded schools, 1. "'.).."; V; total. 971, 841. The average daily attendance in all grades was 76S.057. ' The wages paid to male teachers ranged from !12.."0 to $300 a month. Female teachers were paid from $10 to $250 a month. The average wages of male teachers were $64.55 and of female teachers $54.18 a month. There are 27.186 teachers employed in the state. The whole number of persons be tween the ages of 6 and 21 rejJorted as unable to read and write was 614. NEWS IN OUTLINE. Four hundred thousand persona are reixrted to be destitute and starving as a result of the crop failure in Finland. A semi-official announcement places the Italian claims against Venezuela at $2.iXO.0. The house committee on commerce has reported favorably the bill requir ing safety appliances for coupling cars. Winston Chrrchill, the author, is 111 in St. Iouis. where he is visiting rela tives. Mrs. Lelia Monson was arrested at Ashford. Conii.. charged with poison ing Mrs. Julia A. Wilson, an old and well-known resident of that town. The LuetgTt sausage factory at Chi cago has been purchased by a fur niture manufacturing firm for a fur niture factory. An attempt was made to kill Gov ernor Jennings, of Florida, by a lunatic named Holt, who escaped from a Georgia asylum. Fire destroyed the terminal station of the Long Island railroad. in .Long Island City, causing a loss of about $ltHMX. The Countess T'boldi and Prince Reggio were found dead at the Hotel liomltardi. Genoa; double suicide is the story; unconfirmed. John Roche, idpuiImt of the British parliament for Kast Galway, has be-'n given a month in jail for unlawful assaulting. Engineer .Times Murphy, Kane Pa., and Engineer Charles IMeffebach, Erie, Ta., were killed in a wreck near Wll more. Pa., on the P. and E. The czar has granted amnesty to the students banished for rioting on his name day. The round-up of Lad rones in Rlzal province, Luzon, P. I., is proceeding satisfactorily. David Fleming, of Elizabethtown. N. Y., threw his golf stick into his caddy's eye and knocked it out, for which he has to pay $t.000, says the Jury. It is now known that nearly 1,000 persons were killed by the earthquake Dec 16 at Andijan, Russian Central Asia. COMMON PROPERTY. Public Praise Is Public Property Rock Is land People Star Profit by Loral Experience. Grateful people will talk. Tel their experience for public good Rock Island citizens praise Doan's Kidney Pills. Kidney sufferers ap preciate this. They find relief for every kidney ill. -Read what this citi zen says: II. XV. .Thompson, photographer: "I noticed -for some time a sluggish ness of my kidneys. The secretions from them were highly colored, con tained a sediment and had an often sive odor. To my mind it was a fore runner of kidney complaint and anx ious to get rid of it before further complications set in more difficult to check, when I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills I obtained a box at Mar shall & Fisher's drug store. I took them as directed. In a short time the trouble disappeared and the kid neys performed their functions pro perly. My wife also used Doan's Kidney Pills, and is as firm a be liefer in their merits as I." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, Xew York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute. Warning. Warm Ins; Beware of substitutes offered by unscrupulous dealers in place of Fo ley's Honey and Tar, Foley's Kidney Cure and Banner Salve. Dishonest dealers for a little extra profit will try to palm off worthless prepara tions in place of these valuable medi cines that hare stood the test of years, and thus jeopardize the lives of their victims.. For sale by all druggists. . DAILY SHORT STORY His Mysterious Friend tOrtgfnal. Ern?ftt Trevor was pacing back arid forth nervously in his office. He had bought stocks by dejositing with a broker 10 per cent of their value, and as they had dec lined 10 ier cent he had been called upon for another 10 per cent. If it were not forthcoming, the stocks would be sold, and he would not get the lienctit of a subsequent rise that would probably occur. In fact, he would be ruined. Trevor was engaged to the daughter of a wealthy man who had given his consent to the marriage on Trevor's representation that he was worth $100.-. 000. This was true at tjw time the rep resentation was made, but Trevor, hav ing leen c-uught in the decline of stocks, was now worth nothing. Nevertheless, as he had no more funds, he wrote n note to his broker to that effect and consenting to the? sale of his security. This he did with a heavy heart since he considered it equivalent to the breaking of his engagement. He was sealing the uote when a- mes senger entered with a communication from the cashier of the lmnk where he kept his funds. He sighed as he tore off the envelope, knowing that his ac count was overdrawn and exiiecting a notification to that effect. To his aston ishment the note read as follows: We. have to notify you that the sum of $20.00) has been placed to your credit in this bank. Mr. Trevor's emotions inay Ik? better imagined than described. Was it a mis take of the bank? Had the wrong per son lKen notified? He stepjied to the telephone and called up the cashier. "Who placed 20,000 to my credit?" he asked. "Hold the wire." In a few minutes came the reply, "The check was payable to Martin Copeland, who made it payable to you." "You have made a mistake. I don't know such a man. Who is he?" There was another request to hold the wire, and in live minutes the infor mation came that the bank did not know Mr. Copeland and had no occa sion to know him since the check had been certified by a bank that was ier fectly good. This meant that the bank, and not Mr. Copeland, was responsible. "Thank you. Good by." Some one must have blundered. The money could not possibly come from any friend, for there was no one among those devoted to Trevor who could or would risk such an amount for friend ship. Nevertheless, since he had honor ably notified the bank of the probable error, he had done? all that could be ex pected of him and. with plenty of money to his credit, did not proiose to let a fortune slip through his lingers. He tore up the note he had written to his broker and wrote another, inclosing a check for r.0W. He stayed in his otlice till . o'clock, expecting to get a notice from the broker that the Itauk had after all refused payment, but no notice came, nor did any ever come. Later he was obliged to send another check for margins for $r,(HR), which was also paid. When the market turned. Trevor plunged on the remain ing $10,MI0 to his credit, and in the end he not only regained what he had lost, but trebled it. He then sent a check for $20,000 to his bank for Martin Copeland. asking the cashier to let him know what became of it. He was in formed that his check had been sent to the bank on which the original check to him had been drawn and had not been returned. It was supposed that Mr. Copeland had received It. The evening after Trevor had sent the check to Mr. Copeland he called at the- house of his fiancee. Miss Eleanor Buckley, to take her to the opera. He found Mr. Buckley and his daughter standing over a number of necklaces, bracelets and other orna ments from which the gems had been extracted and were missing. There was a scowl on the father's face, and the daughter was evidently troubled. Tre vor was informed that Mr. Buckley, noticing that his daughter was going out without her jewels, had asked where they were. The result was the production of a good deal of gold, but no Jewels. For this she gave no ex planation. At this Juncture a servant entered and handed Miss Buckley a package. She opened it and displayed the miss ing gems. "How's this?" exclaimed Mr. Buck ley. "Those are the' identical Jewels on which I recently lent $20,000. The request for a loan came while stocks were tumbling, and, though I don't lend on jewels, at that time they were better than any securities offering." The secret was out. Miss Buckley, knowing that her lover was in financial difficulty, had sent her Jewels to her father through an acquaintance whom neither knew and placed the money borrowed on them to Trevor's credit. Mr. Buckley frowned. He had heard that Trevor was a loser in stocks and feared that his fortune had disap peared. "My consent," he said, "was gained on condition of your being worth n certain amount." Thanks to the loveliest girl in the world, I am worth three times that amount. Had the check not been forth coming I would have leen ruined." This was an argument the capital ist could uuderstand, and his frown turned Into a smile. Going to his daughter, lie kissed her affectionately and grasied Trevor by the hand. Miss Buckley went to the opera with out her jewels, but she was told so often during the evening that she was herself the most precious "jewel In the world that this didn't matter. After the opera, when they were nlone, her lover gave her a kiss for every jewel she had hypothecated, repeating 'the process as many times as there were Jewels. W A LL ACEFL0 YD. VeirTFa"Tuer. "Is he a good dog for burglars?" "I guess so; de feller I bought him off iruz a burglar." New .York Journal. Truth of tbe Matter. Bcfole a ud after taklnj News. , Cluago Sulci In Society. "Mv clear, there is such a crush here -simply crowded, you know!" "Why. who is her;-":'' "Oh, nobody at all." One Comfort Aayway. "I am sorry to hear, my poor woman. that your husband has run away and left you." "Well, mum. It will be one mouth, lesa to feed." She It must be a terrible shock to a womau when a man proposes. He It must be a bigger shock .when be doesn't propose. Too Sensitive. Harpld Did you ever take your girl out in an automobile? Percy I did once, but she screamed o every time I. ran over anybody that It made me nervous. Chicago Ameri can, . 1 .' . One For Her. (Gre Mark down sale is go ing on at the new Cloth ing Store, from 20 to 25 per cent saved on every Suit and Over coat. One week only. All New Goods.' 4 GUSTAFSON & HAYES 1714 Second Avenue. H"H-H--I-H"!"I"W GROIYC HAIR UKC THIS within a few months. Nbvbro's Herpicide kills the dandruff gems that cause falling hair and finally baldness. No other preparation but. T ! 1 - I'll, .1.. A.n IierpitlUC KlliS uicuau- i rl n i 17 crt-rm . Destroy the cause, you remove the effect. Herpciue is a cieiignuui nair dressing for regular toilet use. LrvTxcsTos, Mojtt., Sept. 90, KD. I liave uwl one-half buttle 1.1 Ilerpli-me, and my head t free from danrtnitl and my liairlie not fa'.l out a formerly. lain very nmrh enthnaed over the result, and have recuuuusuded it to a number of my friends. Wins Mabisold Baldwin. For Sale at all First-Class Drug Stores.'a For sale by T. II. Thomas, druggist Xmas Candies Of all kinds, both in bulk and fancy boxes. The cele brated Allegretti, Gunther, and Lowney chocolates fresh at all times. Also candies of our own make a sje cialty. Hot lunch served at all times. COIN'S PALACE OF SWEETS 1810 2d Ave. 4th and Brady. ROCK ISLAND. DAVENPORT. Master's 81. E. H. Guyer, Attorney. State of nil nois, I ttoos: Island County, i In tbe Circuit Curt of sId County. In chan cery Foreclosure ro ow Tbo neck is'std Mutual Building, Loan snd Is a vines Association, vs.. John Goossens, Victoria Goossens, Hary A Nutter. Notice is hereby given, tbat by virtue of Jecree of said Court, entered In the above sntitled cause on the tid day or ueceoer, A. IX 1902, I shall, on Saturday, the ith lay or November, A. D. , 1902, at the hour of two. o'clock la the afternoon, at the North door of the Court House. In the City of Rock Island, in said County of Rock Island, to sattofy said decree, sell at publlo vendue to the highest bidder for oash in hund, that certain parcel of land situate In the County of Rock Island and State of Illinois, known and described as follows, to-wit: Lot No. two (i In block No. one hundred and seventy-eight (ITS), la the town of East IVlolIuo Dated at Moltne, Illinois, this fourth day of November, A. D., 1jc. . Walter J. Entikuc. - Master In Chancery. Koek Island County, Iil E. H. Gutw, Complainants' Solicitor . All the news all' the time The Argus. - - . . i' . !.... ( : W ! at o o o t V Special Inducements To Wall Paper Buyers We have decided to close out tbe balance of our spring stock at a sac rifice, and for the next 30 days you can buy good, new Wall Papers (no shelf worn, goods) at special values all the way from 2c per roll up. We have a large force of practical paper hangers and painters and all work intrusted to us is given our personal attention. Prices the lowest in the city. Paridon (L Son 417 Seventeenth St. Phone 4753. Chicago Dental Company 2V For You. If you are in need of dental work call on us before going elsewhere as we can save you money. We use nothing but the best of material and our work is guaranteed to be first class in every respect. If you are in need of a set of teeth call and e our thin elastic plate. We guarantee it to lit in all cases and when all others have ailed. We never ask you more than our prices below. CLEANING FREE. Cement fillings 25C Bone filling 25C Platinum filling S0C Silver fillings S0C Gold fillings, fl and up t.UO Gold crowns, 4 to 5 4.00 Set of teeth, $5 and up 5.U0 15 set of teeth for : 10,00 permanent location Office 1607 Second Ave. ROCK ISLAND. Over Speidel's Drag Btor. It's Quality That Counts In Coal it's quality that makes heat, it's quality that retains it, it is quality that makes possible consumption of 90 per cent of the combustible part of it, leav ing a light, clean ash; lastly, it'u quality that lessens your fuel bills you're not paying for dirt, refuse or unburnables. The coal vVe handle both hard and soft de serves all the good things we and our patrons say for it- A ton will talk .as loudly as a carload. E. G. FRAZER Telephone 1133. - -