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8 THE ARGUS, FRIDAY. APRIL 2G. 1907. ooccooc A Safe Investment Large resources and sure returns. No prospecting, and hence no speculation. Supply not equal to demand, and hence no competition. A limited amount of stock offered for sale at a special discount to cash buyers. Good references can be given. Make your savings work. Will pay you well to investigate. Call at office, or address: Rook Island Tropical Plantation Company BOUND IN RED TAPE s the Law Favoring the Manu facture and Sale of the De natured Product. A FLAT FAILURE UP TO DATE Senator Hansbrough Working Hard t-j Relieve Pressure But Rules and ' Regulations Interfere. 302 BENGSTON BLOCK, THIRD FLOOR :ROCK ISLAND, ILL. )OQZX:C2QOOCGQQQQQQQOQQOQQQGQQOGOGCQO(XttOGOOGOQOOQ Delinquent Taxes. Do not lot your taxes go delinquent because you are temporarily s'.hiit of cash. If you do not know how to raise the money to meet these obligations, come to us; we will aid you. Theie are times when a few dollars might do you a great deal of good; yet you do not like to ak your friends to lend you the money, be cause you do not wih to have your friends know your business; and you do not like to feel that you have to depend upon your friends in matters of tliis sort. We have several plans of loaning, on household goods, pianos, stock, wagons, etc.. without removal, and on salaries; and some of our plans are sure to suit you. Years of experience have taught us how to arrange these loans in a confidential manner. Your payment can be made either weekly, month ly or quarterly. We can give you- from one month to twelve to repay us. Fair rates and good treatment assured, as we take care of your account during sickness or other misfortune. $l.L'u repays a $",u loan in r.o weeks. Let us come and explain our plans. We have three private offices. Call, write, or telephone. vert a gallon or the stuff back' into Its natural state. All I am asking is that we - may - have a f sir chance to see what denatured alcohol can do for It self. It Is necessary that its manufac ture shall be under the eye of the, gov ernment, but after It has left the ware house of the distillery it should receive precisely the treatment other fuel receives." The senator believes the price of de natured alcohol should not l.e higher than that of gasoline. "The pi-ice must come down." said he. "and I believe It will If wo can get into the mitrket on the same footing with gasoline. As long as it is to be an outlaw and the demand limited the price will stay up." RELIABLE. PRIVATE. 1 TRJ-CITY LOAN CO., j 8 Old Phone N 2425. 219 Brady, Davenport. ( g Open Wednesday and Saturday Nights. QOQOOOOOOCCO(yyOQOOOOOOOOOQOQOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOQ i 00X)OOOCX500000000000000000t5CX50000CXOOOOOOOOCXX)OOOOOOC A Full Siock of Wa.ll Papers Of the latest desirable designs in always to be found in our estab lishment at any season of the year. But at certain times we are busier than at others. Best for you to make your selections and place your order in advance. Then yoi will be sure of prompt service when you want it most; also a com plete line of the celebrated Mas ury's house and floor paints, oils, varnishes and brushes are to . be had here. W. C. HUBBE 1612 Fourth Ave. Rock Island 300ooocxocoX!Ooooacoe Senator Hansbrough of North Dako ta, author of the denatured, alcohol law, is taking: advantage of every opportu nity to impress on the president ' the importance f having the treasury de partment exercise good judgment iuthe preparation of rules and regulations for the manufacture and sale of tlio new fuel under the law as a mended at the recent session of congress. The act does not go into effect before next Sep tember. It is designed to encourage the manufacture of the fuel by farmers who, it is expected, will club together and engage in making denatured alco hol in much the same v:'.y they now co operate in manv sections to condnct creameries. The original law for the manufacture of denatured alcohol, passed nearly a year ago, is a flat failure, writes a Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Kveuitig Post. It developed -be fore it wtis put into effect that the leg islation was so worded as to make it impossible for anybody outside the whisky trust to engage in the making of the fuel. The treasury department added to the uselessncss of the legisla tion by adopting rules and regulations which make it next to impossible for dealers to handle the commodity after the whisky trust has made it. The internal revenue officer seems to fear that some one may convert n gal lon of the denatured article back Into the state in which it existed before it was denatured and use it for drinking. This, of course, would be a violation of the laws, ami the internal revenue bu reau has taken pains to throw restric tions about the sale of the fuel. - Up to this time only small quantities of tlfe denatured product have been on the market, and If there has been any demand for it it is because it is a novelty. The price demanded by dealers in different parts of the coun try is extortionate. "I saw the sign "penatured Alcohol Tor Sale' over a drug store front here in Washington the other day," said Senator Hansbrough, "and 1 asked how much it was a pint. The proprie tor answered 'JO vents, or Sl.tSO a gal lon. That Is outrageous. Twenty or 2o cents a gallon would be a fair price. I am told that dealers all over the country have been asking from 13 to "5 cents a pint for the fuel, and there has been some demand for It at 'this rate shnpiy because it is a novelty." Remove All KvNlrlctiouM. The XortU Dakota senator wishes the president to see to it that when the ameuded law goes Into effect all unnecessary restrictions are removed. If denatured alcohol is ever to come into general uve." said he. "it must be is free from surveillance after it passes into the hands of the dealers as Is gasoline. There is no more rea son why its sale should be hedged about by red tape than there is for putting gasoline under guard. I do not know that the internal revenue depart ment is preparing to continue the sur veillance, but I wish to make sure If can that the fuel has a fair show with gasoline. If icvery. man who makes it and every man who sells It Is to be under suspicion all the time it will never come into general use." "Is it easy to convert denatured al cohol back into the natural state and use it for drinking?" "It is not easy, but it can be done. I do not belief anybody will try to con- ACADEMIC COSTUMES. Square Cap or Berretta Hood Survival of the Ancient Cope. Academic costume was originally the ordinary dress of the period in which It was prescribed. Mediaeval statutes were directed not to the wearing of any particular robe, but against ex travagant taste in or deficiencies of dress. At Heldellierg. for Instance, stu dents were forbidden to go tint without boots "unless clad in a garment reach ing to the heels." The most purely academic part of the costume was the square cap or berretta. with a tuft on the top (in lieu of the very modern tasseli. which was the distinctive badge of the mastership. Its posses sion was much coveted, and. according to one authority, "it is only in post mediaeval times that the berretta. first without, then with, the sacred 'apex, has been usurped, first by bachelors, then by undergraduates and now (out side the universities) by mere choris ters or school boys." The gown, or toga, on the other band, was an un official robe or cassock of various col ors, the favorite at Oxford being "green, blue or blood color." The hood is a survival of the ancient appa. or cope, which is still to be seen ' u the official robes of the chancellor of j 'ambridgo. It formed part of the gar- j ment. like the cowl of a monk's robe, i and was not restricted to graduates, being the ordinary clerical dress, and ! not even exclusively clerical. "It is ' only the material of the hood which was characteristic of degree or office. I the use of minever, for instance, being onfined to masters. "Silk hoods came j n perhaps toward the end of the four- eenth century as a summer alterna tive for masters, whose winter fur hoods were something more than an honorary appendage in the unwarmej schools and churches of mediaeval times." At Oxford undergraduates lost their hoods in 1 ISO. hut it was not till 'about the beginning of Queen Eliza beth's reign" that the masters and stewards of incorporated societies, who also wore them, "cast them off their heads and hung them on their shoul ders."- Itundoe Advertiser. Elegance in Wa.ll Paper Like distinction of carriage and de portment in humans, appeals to the artistic eye. There's a certain sub tle "something" in papers we select and sell which speaks of style, taste and superiority which people appreciate. We ask you to see and elect wall decorations here at your leisure, as you will find our goods priced very low. Parldon Wall Paper Co. 41t Seventeenth Street IS :cxoooooocoocooccx:cooocooocoococxxxoooocoooooooooooo H. E. CASTEEL, President. L. D. MUDGE, Vice Presides. H. B. SIMMON, Cashier. CENTS AL TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. INCORPORATED UNDER STATE LAW. Capital Stock, f 100,004. Four Per Cent Interest Paid Deposits. C. J. Larkln, J. J. LaVelle, H. E. Casteel, L. D. Mudge, H. D. Mack, John Schafer, M. S. Heagy, H. B. Simmon, H. H. Cleaveland, Mary E. Roblnsoo, E. D. Sweeney, H. W. Tremaaa. TRUST DEPARTMENT. 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Brewers, Distillers, Cigar, Snuff and Tobacco Manufacturers, Tobacco Peddlers, Liquor Dealers, and all others who are required to give bonds of the above description should apply to the American Stmty Company of I2ew York Capital and Surplu e4.80a.000 I.adulpk & Reynold. At t '., Ilii ford blH-k; Wni. C. Manrkrr, AM Mnwonlc temple. Vm. R. Moore, . AUj-., dinar blot-lc, Mollne. TAILORS IN A RIOT. Refused to Permit a Performance That Satirized Their Craft. In lTfil) Foote bad produced a bur lesque, the author of which has never been discovered, entitled 'The Tailors; a Tragedy For Warm Weather." Dow- ton announced the revival of this piece for his benefit. As the title implies, it was a satire upon the sartorial craft. and upon the bills lelng issued an in dignatiou meeting was convened W the knights of the needle, who vowed to oppose the performance by might and main. Menacing letters were sent to Dow- ton telling him that 17.(K tailors would attend to his piece, and one. who signed himself "Ieath." added that lo.oou men could be found If nec essary. These threats were laughed t by the actors, but when night came it was discovered that the craft were in earnest and that with few excep tions they bad coutrived to secure ev ery seat in the bouse, while n mob without .still squeezed for admission. The moment Dow ton npicared upon the stage there was a hideous uproar and some one threw a pair of shears at him. Not a word would the rioters listen to, nor wouid they accept any compro mise iu the way of changing the piece. Within howled and hissed without in termission hundreds of exasperated tailors; outside howled and Iwl lowed thousands of raging tailors, who at tempted to storm the house. So for midable did the riot wax that a mag istrate had to be sent for and special constables called out, but these were helpless against overwhelming odds, so a troop of life guards was ultimately summoned, who. after making sixteen prisoners, put the rest to flight. Amer ican Tailor and Cutter. Have Your Fuel Delivered Through a Small Pipe. WHAT IS THE USE OF CARRYING COAL, SPLITTING WOOD AND EMPTYING ASHES EV ERY DAY IN ORDER TO GET A FIRE, WHEN BY SIMPLY STRIKING A MATCH AND TURNING ON THE GAS YOU HAVE A FIRE WHERE YOU WANT IT? WITH A GAS RANGE YOU HAVE A CLEAN, COMFORTABLE WAY OF COOKING, WITH NO WAITING FOR THE STOVE TO GET HOT. THE GAS IS ALWAYS THERE. WHEN YOU WANT IT AND WHERE YOU WANT IT. IT'S ECONOMICAL (ONE DOLLAR A THOUSAND FEET), AND SAFE. THE GAS RANGE WILL COST ABOUT TEN DOLLARS. ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR WHAT SHE THINKS OF HER GAS RANGE. (IF YOUR HOUSE ISN'T PIPED, LET ME PIPE IT THE SMALL COST WILL SURPRISE YOU. THE GAS MAN. People's Power Company. ROCK ISLAND. 100 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET. come when every one will flyi" 'It may. lint if it does I hope I'll not have to live near the people who are our next door neighbors now. I know they would be running in every day or two to borrow our wings." Chi ?ago Iiecord-IIerald. THE COLD BATH. His Sense of Touch. "A country grocer," said a lecturer, "was talking to a throng of customers about the wonderful sense of touch that the blind have. Tlere comes old blind Henry Perkins now.' said the grocer. 'W'e'll test him.' And he took a scoopful of sugar and extended it to the old"5, man. 'Feel this, Henry,' he said, 'and tell us what it is.' "The blind man put his hand in the scoop, passed its cOitents through his fingers and said In a firm, confident tone, 'Sand.'" Dainty Deer. How sensitive deer are in the matter of food was proved once again during the hearing of a case at Felthani. Eng land, where, three men were charged with sleeping in a deer pen iu Bushey park. A keeper said they had pulled down from the racks about ten shill lugs' worth of hay, which the deer would not afterward touch because it bad been lain upon. In fact, the deer would not go near the pens, as the men bad slept there. U Looking Forward. "Eq you. think the time will ever Many Men Say They Like It, but They Don't Like It. In a paper read at a meeting of an association f,ir the study of tubercu losis an eminent doctor said that one of the curious facts connected with thtf practice of the cold linth iu the morn ing is that so many of Its votaries pos itively declare that they enjoy it. lie contends that they do not and cannot enjoy it. The doctor is doubtless right as far as he goes, but he does not go far enough. He mis-es the main point. perhaps tiie only point worth empha sizing. There is abundant reason to believe that the most curious fact connected with the cold bath in the morning is that so many people who Insist that they enjoy it do not take it. There is vicarious atonement, an 1 there is also vicarious bathing, and it is a very easy matter to enjoy a bath tlr.it is not tak en, the bath of somebody else. Almost anybody gifted with a little Imagina tion can slug the praises of a cold bath In the morning. There are the pleasu rable, even delightful, shudders of the first dip and splash; the brisk rub with a coarse crash towel: the warm, health giving glow; the new man feeling, ex hilarating, uplifting, as one gets into his attire for the day's work, and. above all, the sense of cleanliness im parted by the cold bath every morning. And it is equally easy to take a cold bath every morning. It only remains to turn on the hot water faucet and enter the tub. Or both faucets may be turned on and, without entering the tub, one may stir the water violently with his hands, draw long breaths and shiver, not perceptibly, but audibly. It will all sound remarkably lifelike, this performance, wonderfully like tak ing a cold bath. Even an alert and sus picious sentinel, stationed at the door, bis car delicately attuned to what is going on within, may be readily de ceived by the cold bath iu the morning. Contemplate, some broiling August forenoon, the man who tells yon that he fairly revels In the cold bath on winter mornings as he gingerly steers his bare feet through the rljjdes that are lazily lapping the Inwh at a shore resort, and believe iu him and trust him if you can. Watch him advance as if he were going to meet his doom, hesitate, glance shoreward longingly, retreat, immersing himself slowly, re luctantly, inch by inch. Suddenly he remembers that he mnst wet his head ' If he would avoid a chill, and he pauses ! to shampoo Ids hair in the sad sen waves this hero of a thousand frigid baths on a thousand frozen mornings: As a matter of fact, what a man may do alone with his sponge in his bath room no other man may know, and what he pretends he does may be as "false as dicers' ontbs." Providence Tribune. l O 3 gob (bar Have you pressing bills that you simply cannot meet at this time? Are collectors bothering tho life out of yon? Has it reached the point where the grocer and the butcher get red in the face and ask about payment on the account you al ready owe, before extending you more credit? Then you certainly need our assistance need it now. Let us bear your burden Burden-bearing is our business. Just tell us how much money you need to tide you over and within what time you can conveniently pay it hack. It's a lot easier to pay a little i month than being obliged to pay all your debts on the Sot, when you haven't a dollar. It's more satisfactory, too, dealing with one creditor than with half a dozen. O We loan any amount from $10 up on furniture, pianos, horses, wag s' ons, etc. Property stays in your possession. 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The most critical taste can be gratified and suitable styles and colorings obtained. Parlors, sitting rooms, dining rooms, bed rooms, dens, libraries, halls, bath rooms, kitch ens, etc. As the range is wide in pattern and coloring, we guarantee satisfying results At Half Price. Stock not of this season's purchase has been sampled In two large books, and as it has been decided that this stock must be closed out, this spring's prices are cut one-half, and in some instances less than one-half. 8 8