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THE ARGUS, SATURDAY, JUNE l 1000. 4 THE ARGUS. Published Dally and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue, Roclc Island, 111. En tered at the postofflce aa second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally. 10 cents per week. Weekly, 91 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tloru No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. Saturday, June 2, 1906. Anarchists who throw bombs at weddings do not help to popularize their cause with the masses. Caleb Powers is about to be tried again. Let us hope this may be Coleb's farewell appearance in court. In IS02 the Standard Oil company was capitalized at Sj.'mmi. I he com pany now declares annual dividends of nearly $50.imio.uoo. Was this gigantic business built up honestly? In the neighborhood of his home in Mississippi. John Sharp Williams is always called "John Sharp." This is because the family of the congress man's mother were the Sharps the great people of that section. The Souih American revolution sea son seems to be opening up in a lively manner this time. A general was Killed in one of I he outbreaks the other day. There was no army pres ent, or he might have been hurt, too. Addicks sends word from Dela ware that there is no truth in the re port of his retirement from the sena torial race. Why couldn't he have let people go on being happy until the light was resumed again, anyway? Safe aa Iteeult of a Deal. The Central Christian Advocate is published at St. Iritis. It is primarily a religious paper and lias the endorse ment of the Methodist church. It is no wise a political paper. The following item clipped fiom its columns will therefore have significance: it is now openly cnarged taut a compact between the republican man agers and the Mormon hierarchy was entered into during the last campaign, and that in consequence Mr. Smoot is glued to his seat with no tremor of fear that he will be torn loose. Also the Springfield Republican says that President Roosevelt does not wish to see Senator Smoot of Utah expelled from the senate." senator's 'obligation to the party who employed him as an attorney. It is -not human nature to suppose otherwise. After a man has taken a fee from a corporation as an attorney, has devoted himself to studying one side of the question and is sincerely desirous of earning the money paid him, how could he with any conscience give to that question, when it came up in the senate, an unbiased opinion This practice, however, has led to in numerable evils and based on this we see that Aldrich of Rhode Island nr. dertakes the defense of the Standard Oil in the. senate. Tom Piatt appears as the agent of the express companies and absolutely holds up any measure that threatens to be hostile to the spe cial interests he represents. Little Hale of Maine fought the bill for free alcohol because of certain interests which he represents, and so the sen ate has been scarred and dwarfed and twisted this way and that by men rep resent iogiis attorneys special interests. Burton went a little farther than the rest of thorn, it is true, but a halt must be made somewhere and he was cauaht rec handed in the. act, for he was defending actions tliat he knew to be illegal and hiring himself out to a company that he knew was fraudu lent. It is a source of satisfaction not i DAILY STORY. i A PRACTICAL WOOER. I Original. Henry Truesdale was a practical young man, a member of the best so cial circle ami in every way fitted to get on. was economical, but not niggardly. In his business be was very systematic and had a remarkable knack of saving lalor, which is the result of system, though some people have a special gift in getting thiugs done with the least trouble. Truesdale sat at bis desk at the head of his department idly twirling a pencil, and yet his pred ecessor had never had time enough to do his work. Moreover, it was admit ted that Truesdale was the better man ager of the two. Mr. Truesdale went into matrimony in the same practical fashion aa be ad ministered his department. He re garded every girl in his circle as ho would regard so many applicants for a position of confidential typewriter and stenographer, lie examined the cre dentials and qualifications of all and sifted the applicants down to two, Martha Hayues and Gwendolen. White head Neither possessed means in her own right, but Mr. Truesdale had none himself and was too good a business ate. ROCK ISLAND GETTING VALUABLE ADVERTISING Press of Unitsd States Publishing No tices cf Meeting of Farmers' Congress. Small Appropriation for the Itiver. 1-a Crosse Leader: The upper Mis sissippi river, as usual, is to get only a mite of the government appropria tions this year. Dozens of other propo sitions, which seem less deserving than that of the improvement of the Mississippi river that it may be made fit for navigation, have been favored with allowances considerably larger. For instance it seems more desirable that the upper Mississippi be put into a condition to handle the commerce of the millions of people living in the states bordering on it than that a na tional museum be constructed, but the upper river gets $30O,ou for general purposes and the museum $5oo.o00. As war is to the United States so rare as to be almost out of the calcu lation, the people of Wisconsin. Minne sota, Iowa, Illinois and Mississippi might have felt inclined to struggle along a little longer without "the big gest battleship afloat," which will cost five or six millions at least, if they could have had the same or little larg er amount expended in putting the riv er into such condition that their com merce would develop faster. St. Mary's river, connecting Lakes Superior and Michigan, is generously treated, receiving $l.not.000, which is right, but congress seems, even after the educational campaign of the last few years, to have no adequate concep tion of the value and possibilities of the Mississippi river as an artery of commerce. Secretary Whitaker of the l armers National congress is sending out the following notice to the press of the United States and asking its publica tion: The meeting of the Farmers Na tional congress, at Rock Island. Ill-, next October, opening the Hth, will af ford an opportunity for a most pleasant outing, to say nothing of the valuable program to be presented. Rock Island is beautifully located at an attractive point on the Mississippi river at tne toot of Rock Islaiul rapids. Aside from the tine scenery Ln the city and imnie Hate vicinity, it is surrounded by an ideal agricultural country and is the site of improved dairying industries. At this place is located Rock Island irseual, the largest in the world, and Black Hawk's Watch Tower, famous in Indian history and legend. In ad diMon. there is aji abundance of jwrks and drives. The Western and Central ailroad associations have made a rate if one fare, plus $2. for territory. The frimk Line association will charge a fare and a third through its territory Vniisylvania and New York. Other ssociations have? rrade liberal conces sious. An excellent chance is offered for an exceedingly delightful, cheap and instructive excursion. Pay full tare going and lane receipt trom vour local agent. .7. M. Stahl. Chicago. HI.. president: George M. Whitaker, IJoston Mass.. secretary. Licensed to Wed. Charles Sidlinger Port Hyron Klsie Garnett Port Bvron Senator Onrton. Senator Burton of Kansas is desir ous of clinging to his job as long as the law will enable him to draw his salary. He tells his friends that he will net resign his seat. The supreme court has granted him a stay of GO days, and he pretends that until the mailer is finally decided, he will not give up his place in the senate. That imMoiable- body is therefore confronted with the possibility that when it meets next fall, it will find one of its mem bers in jail, and its idea of senatorial courtesy will be very badly shocked indeed. Burton insists that he was only foir.'-'iiis a precedent set by other distinguished republican senators. Pos sibly so. The history of republican legislation is that many a time the sen atorial vote and the senatorial influ ence was twisted as the result of the to find the name of a democratic sen ator among the list wno nave acted tori man to propose a panunsuip -pi corporations while members of the sen- tal without capital himself. Having xnus seiecieu ine most prom ising" candidates, he proceeded to carry his attentions into the homes of both In order to observe them without the limelight of society. One rainy Sat urday night called tub night before the day of modern plumbing he re solved to begin operations by visiting Miss Haynes. "I shall be likely to take her off her guard and can the better Judge of her." he said Now. it happeued that it being Satur day night, and rainy at that. Miss Ilavnes. who was her father's house keeper, concluded to examine for her self the range on which the cook had recently been spoiling dinners. The servant had gone out, and Miss Haynes removed the ashes. includiifg clinkers, not neglecting the chimney, which was checked with soot. While she was thus engaged t;? doorbell rang, and as Miss Haynes was the only person in the house she was obliged to answer the he'd. When she saw Mr. Truesdale in evening dress she stood up under the trying ordeal as best she could, invited him in. excused herself while she made a hasty toilet, then came down and joined him in the drawing room The result, while It was not what might be expected from a severely practical man, was in perfect accord with Mr. Truesdale's bent. Miss Haynes in taking upon herseif to do what the servant could not do showed energy, but it seemed to Mr. 1 rues- dale that there must be a lack of sys tern in a bouse where such a surnrise could happen. However, he passed a very pleasant evening and went home resolving to make a similar visit to the other candidate. Miss Whitehead, the next rainy Saturday night He found Miss Whitehead sitting be fore a cheerful fire, reading a maga zine. a pair of dainty slippers protrud ing from under her skirts, her costume in perfect taste. Indeed, he would nev er have known from her appearance that It was Saturday night. He sat down and began to chat with her, all the while wondering at the harmony of the different articles of her costume, the dainty appearance of the room. and, having an analytical eye. he dis covered that there was not a costly thing in either. The pictures on the walls were works of art. but not ex pensive; the furniture was the same, and as to the lady's dress It was an attractive combination of scraps, though it required an experienced eye to discover this. I m getting awfully down on V.ik messenger service," said Mr. Trues dale. "I had an invitation to dine with a friend tonight, and. having made tip ray miBd that I wished to spend the evening with you, I declined. I sent a reply by messenger and, though the distance was not over half a mile,. the charge was 40 cents. A note with a special delivery stamp would only have cost you V2 "Singular, ' observed Mr. Truesdale, I never thought of that "We girls whose fathers haven't for tunes and who must keep up our posi tions in society are obliged to think of such things, Mr. Truesdale. We can't help ourselves. Mamma has no head for economy, and I am obliged to think for myself or give up society. - j ne next time i senu a note to a girl I will use your plan. Rut I couldn't very well send a note with a delivery stamp on it to a girl, could I? It would smack too much of econ omy in a society man. But I 11 give you a way of employing a little more capital and making a bargain at the same time. Add 10 cents to the 40 cents, step around to a florist, buy HO cents' worth of violets, and the florist will send them with your note right up to the girl. You will have your note sent for nothing and make the girl happy with the violets. Mr. Truesdale sat looking at the pro poser of this beautiful financial trans action with mingled surprise and ad miration. But he was accustomed to restrain his approval of the nets or suggestions of his subordinates in busi ness for fear they would expect an i;i crease of salary, ami from force of habit he made no comment on Miss Whitehead's plan. Soon after he left her. The next morning she received a written proposition or carriage, ac companied by a whole cushion of vio lets. TOP DIE r1 iel Gabriel Lyons Maymee Engvall . . Edmoud Wittermani Marie Desoeta Walter H. Weckel Wilhelniina A. Schneider Mo! ine Moline East Moline .East Moline Rock Island .Rock Island The Motor Boat of the Future. steam yacnrs are iast Decoming a drug on the market and many million aires are disposing of theirs at greatly reduced prices and replacing them with large motor boats. Experts be lieve that before long there will be gasoline boats afloat at least two hun dred feet long. Experts in medicine long ago decided that Hijstetter's Stomach Bitters was, the leader among remedies for the stomach, liver and bowels, and from a standpoint of merit. reliability and cures was far ahead of any other medicine. It has been this assurance that persuaded thousands of sickly people to try the Bitters, with the result that they have since enjoy ed better health. Don't lake anything but Hostetter's when you suffer from bloating, heartburn, poor appetite, clogged bowels, headache, dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness or malaria, Tever and ague. A WORD TO JUNE BRIDES Vhen casting about to find the right place to buy your outfit, don't take any chances. We have been catering to the trade of young couples for so many years that we can quickly and accurately point out ths right goods. Our assortment is complete, high class, and every piece of Furniture, Carpet and Rug is of enduring beauty, made with care, and of the same standard of high quality that has made this store the most talked of in Davenport, Rock Island and Moline. Carpets and Room Rugs The? ndvnntage f buying at Holbrook' i proven over and over again by every liom in thFS -dverf isemen! but in no other depart- MM-rii i s ine 'saving no pronounced as it 1m in C;arpels and room -size Just read the values: russ this week Hood In;?: :iln Carpet ...... ILilf-Wool lrirr:;!n Cf.i pf I ...... Good Wool r.::c-d C-Wjiet Ue.'t all-Wool Carpet. 65c, ii'c and . . . . 23c ..39c .50c ..hue Velvet Carpets, pretty patterns Fin? Axmltistor 'arpets Reversible liigiain Ku ftxl2 He.-t all -Wool Art Squares, Ixl2 95c $1.00 .S3.75 $9.25 White Enameled Refrigerator Nothing too Good for That Baby S?i FT Ui Mi 1 ' i 'i Extension Tables j n p A large assortment of round and square tables. Over 10) differ ent stvlcs. One just like cut. solid A J inc l tb is H. . VIIt- JUfl IIIVT I Ul, I oak top, T Qf" ao.oD (I.Ike cut) The nicest refrig erator of its kind on the mar ket. It Is sanitary and odorlos? . Always jiure and sweet easily kept clean keeps the food cold with the smail esr amount of ice; lias two shelves . Zinc lined Refrigerators HOLBROOK'S SANITARY STEEL Davenport Thi:-: d.ivernort is made of met al ilirounhoul and is a 1 :-'. u tel; y sft nit:s i'v . Tbo steel ma tire-.. ; we puruantec ue, to wis;. An extra vtilue at steel m:mre.i.-e , ::..$4.50 L Jpri?-; $ J2t ff&A Mr M J "Quick Heal" Blue flame Oil Stoves Two ! Surlier for . . . HuriK'i' for . . . $5.75 S3.80 $8.75 $5.75 Going to Buy a Folding Go-cart? Rubber Tires, Well Made and Finished Ton will like this Co-cart. Its h rich and elegant design -il-Justable back niid foot rest. Folds up fo compactly that it can be carried on the Mreei car and takes up no room in the htUee . Special at $6.40 $7.75 Nice Soft Top Mattresses tlltS olio aIno oil $1.90 With parasol . . Vudor Porch Shades Are made of Unden-wood fibre-, closely held toprther bv Mioiii; seine twine. They roll up like theater curtain and mav be instantly raised or lowered. Vudor Porch Shade inukeur veranda a cool living room, free from the fud'n ras. Size 4x7-8. Size 6x7-8. Size Sx7-S. Size lOxT-S, 1)"?t Hxira good ticking. :-7.f my Dining Room Chairs $2.75 Hard l.:u-k 1IV- '-.a regular ."c chair, now wood diiicrp. carved finished golden. Just Special Reductions in Kitchen Cabinets This Week. La Assorln,en! 50c Hammocks $2 $2.75 . $3.50 $5.00 "Quick Meal' Gasoline Stoves Caroline Stove are fnade i'i a Mif'i'drnt variety of M1rs ai.d Mze- to meet every reUirrnu nl The very nnci in the way of tranollne stoves that U m ev T been offered to the public and has miny good points th;it nvrt be Keen to be appreciate)' Two Humor iapoline Stoves . k . . . $3i $2.50 A large and tine assortment of beautiful hammocks, a variety of colors. Strongly male, witn tce head rest . $1.2'.., J 1.75. $1 $2.5 up to Hammocks for baby for porch or lawn $4.75 $1.95 RUSTIC HICKORY PORCH AND LAWN FURNITURE No amount of ml "usage, can Impair Its durability. The only furniture made that is not af fected by rnln or Funshlsi. Htroim:, ervlceabla ami attractive. T W O u-ti 1O0-I11 East Second Street Davenport, la. A , ,1 5 4l X I I?. Hi l . A r ii There's little room tin this grea world of our for the "Fat Woman. She's a hindrance to herself in street oars. Hats, elevators; but v.'hat can she do. poor thing take Hcllister's Rocky Mountain Tea. :J3 cents, tea or tablets. T. II. Thomas, pharmacy. In Gases of Accident Sprains, Dislocations and other mishaps, cse at once Dr, RICHTER'S Anchor Pain Expeller PANAMA RUINS RICH IN HISTORIC LORE (Continued from Pago One.) the realm of modern ruins, for this is one of the specters left by the French engineers to mark the graves of French ambition. - We pass olher things than villages, for here, high and. dry on the bank, we find a n:assive dredge, whose parts were brought over from France in the days gone by, and assembled on the edge of the forest, never to be used. Her boilers have never been filled with steam, and her buckets have hung there, nothing but nesting places for the vagrant birds. The shores are lin with just such ruins as this. The bed of the river is the resting place of ruin, and the Chagres, loaded down with bridge," as David llarum would say, cost more in time and repairs to use it in order to evade a great steel rail pro truding from the precipitous banks along the river. How these rails got there I cannot say. They are a long way both from the ties and the tid but they are there, just as I lie sepul chers border on the Appiau Way of Rome. Let us leave the river of ruin and start on our journey across the road of ruin. At its very beginning we find more wreckage. More than $20,000,000 worth of French machinery is distribu ted along the canal route from Colon to Panama, slowly rusting away to use lessness. At the very mouth of the canal we find a thousand great steel cylinders that were intended to assist in the foundation of some gigantic structural work. On the other side of the canal are more cylinders and hun dreds of freight cars that have never It soothes, heals and comforts. Keep it always in the house and be sure to get the genuine with our trade mark, the anchor, on the wrapper. All druggists sell it, 35 and so cents. F. AO. RICHTEFt A. CO. 215 Pearl Street, New York. have left these telltale .monuments to their wastefulness.,. Words cannot de scribe such scenery. It is so unnatural. We begin to realize the greatness of the French failure. For a moment we wonder if this portends our destiny -whether America will give her quota 1 to these costly gravestones. But we i reflect further. No! The American 1 . .... ... The nrooosal was declined on ihi people are not 01 tne sort to forsake ground that she was engaged to young tneir trust- 11 is tneIr habit to make Enderby. who had recently come into u best even or a Dad bargain, and fortune. .something tells us that despite the cost Mr. Truesdale has not yet married, jand the criticism the unforeseen ob He says ifc-l-barder to get a good wjfo stacles will be overcome and the canal than it Is fo'gtf good stenogra phor. will be built by the American people. CHARLOTTE SHERWOOD. Now and then we have to "low these memories of the past, flows onto! the bosom of the Atlantic, to bury its.ueon placed on trucks. Once this was iiuuuira men'. , , j a sign 01 industry, but now it portenus At every turn in the river we find indolence. One can stand there oti ghosts ol the departed builders, who that little wharf at the Atlantic end of the canal and see a pile of beautiful junk that cost Franc about $."ioo,ooo. Just back of the wharf is a lit 1 1c gully filled in with portions of engines and freight cars, trucks, wheels, and all sorts and conditions of mechanical paraphernalia. There is so much of this In the Immediate vicinity that it is in the way and the American engi neers merely load it on. other cars and dump the whole train Into the sea. This apparent extravagance on our part worried me until I had talked with some of the engineers. They told rue that the French .material had been ex posed to th rajusf uC.eo many winters that it was unreliable, and that it would than it would to get new material from the states. We find ruins along the canal; we find ruins to the right and to the kit of us. There are acres upon acres of it. Iron sheeting for the construction of small ships; galvanized iron with which houses were to have been made; hun dreds of miles of rails, some of which have been put to use as telegraph poles; a thousand narrow gauge switches, all ready to be tacked to the tics all this, and more, lies here un der its covering of rust, a wealth of waste that is appalling in its incompre hensible magnitude. Further along the line we come upon a train of 40 freight cars that once were . used by the French engineers. Here they are, still uxn their track, but the wheels have not turned for a decade, while the vines have ventured further and further until now they have trellised the trucks and climbed Into the cars in wild confusion. Even the trees have shoved their tops be tween the couplings and now peer down upon this scene of chaos. At TabernMIa there are 20 hoisting engines alongside the railroad track. They were dumped there by the French and never put to use; tin ir boilers have never been tested, and they stand then: today on the edge of the forest, head stones upon the grav'es of French ambi tion. Why they were put there I could not ascerta'n. nor could I find out what was to have been their purpose. Their cost was about. $30,000, and the chances arc that they, too. In their entirety, will be fed to the hungry waves near the Atlantic terminus of the canal. And so It goes, from one ocean to As we' enter the far-famed Culcbra' Cut we come upon four immense dredg es tnot steam shovels, but dredges 1, brought by the French and left to Mi' 1 high and dry on the hillside. In the valley below the little dirt trains arc hurrying hither and thither, doing their mite toward the great task of excaa tion. From their throne alxive, those four forgotten dredges look wistfully down upon that sc ene of scini-indust ry , as if wishing that they, too, might for sake their realm of inactivity. Hut they are useless. Their potency has been destroyed by the ravaging ele ments, and it is their destiny to re main here on the hillside, their story made more eloquent by their silence. And so it goes, from one ocean to tlie olher, a veritable road of ruin. A we stand upon the crest of a hill and look down ujmmi the Pacific, we see the ruins of the old city of Panama, found ed four centuries ago, anil destroyed in 1071 by that licensed Knglish pirate, Morgan. The ruins of the old city have remained undisturbed for two cen turies and a half, and liNe San Loren zo, the natives that lie in the shad ows of its crumbling walls, know not the strife and turmoil of a dozen mile, away. I doubt that lliey are even aware of the fact thai the American people have taken hold of the canal project. Here in the midst of jnii I -chaos we find a fascinating monument to history an old church, now aim" .1 lost, in the forest, as If nature, wiili her garments of green and gold an 1 brown had sought to shelter from pub lic view this relic of Morgan's Ingl i rious conqiK st. Ruin and desolation Is everywhere: hut there is a beauty in this chaos a beauty that wc do not find in modern things. WOODWORTH CLUM e-- j. ... .