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THE ARGUS, FRJPAY. OCTOBER 25. 1907. PLAYS SNAKE JOKE Quentin Roosevelt Livens Up 'White House With Some of His Pets. DASHES IN ON ROLLER SKATES Makes .'Attorney General Bonaparte Hurriedly Ascend Back of Chair ,j and Lacy Climb Table. f Three healthy snakes, under the aiA pices of QtiPUtin Roosevelt, recently broke up a conference, between the rcsident of the United States nnd the attorney general thereof, gave the a! leg-d author of the Hepburn rate bill n f-hnnce to pose as a snake charmer and reconciled John F. Lacey to his retirement from public life, says a Washington specinl dispatch to the New York Times. . Quentin had n couple of snakes ft Oystfr Bay. Shortly before the de parture one of fhc reptiles turned up missing. Quentin was inconsolable and requisitioned the whole family from his august father' down into a search. At last the snake was given up as hopelessly lost. The other day however, Quentin dashed into the room where the president was adding n few touches to his annual message, flopped A 'damp snake down on the doi-ttuient which the frenzied financiers of Wall street ore awaiting so eagerly "Ging to STiow my father my new snakes." responded Quentin "But the attorney general is with him, and they may not want to see the snakes," argued Loeb. 'Oh. yes, they will." argued Quentin confidently; "my father likes snakes." Loeb finally prevailed on him to sit down nnd wait, but tlie length of the conference got on h.is nerves, and when Loeb was not looking Quentin opened the door nnd skated in. - Quntloa of Inf riniceiueiit. "This question of infringement," the attorney general was saying. ."The question is whether on infringement of tbe enabling act is or is not a substan tial one.: If only a minor infringe mentwow." So saying the Attorney general hurriedly ascended the back of his chair. Before him was a boy on roller skates with n king snake twined around one arm and two subsidiary makes coiled, around the other, all with their mouths hospitably open in the attorney general's direction "What's the matter?" demanded Quentin. "Aren't they Jovely snakes?" "Quentin." said the president eonfi dentially, "I don't believe Mr. Bona parte is much interested in snakes. Suppose you go into the next room, Tete Hepburn and Laeey are In there, and they are very fond of snakes." Into the next room skated Quentin, with the look on his face, as one of the four participants in the scene. after ward said, "of one absolutely sure of mcetiug two congenial spirits." "See what I've got," sang Quentin. "Look at what the boy has, Fete," said Lacey, with n fond smile. "Toy snakes twined round his arm. Wonderful, isn't it? How lifelike they make the things nowadays! Come here, son, and let me holy Moses!" And Lacey climbed a table. NO MORE BUILDING J. J. Hill Declares Railroad Con struction is Definitely at - . a Standstill. NOT SUFFICIENT TERMINALS Claims Necessary Development Cannot Be Made Owing to World-Wide Scarcity of Money. FOR YOUR NEXT SU IT OR COAT and shouted gleefully: Here he -Is. I thought you'd be, . ,.,:. ,.- fhA nr(,sMf n.wvi glmi to know that he's come back." ,uto ,lle room grinuingi The klng .The president dissembled his joy and Bnake had wrijIC,e(1 up inside Qucn coMNPd Quentin away. . tiu-s s,eeve SQ tlmt onJ tbe t, of u,s inn tl tamilr rt tn W niiln n-tnn ! ... . - It was ascertained that the runaway snake was a little tired and that his colleague was not much better, so Quentin was instructed to take them both down to a snakeologist named Schmitz nnd have them rejuvenated. Quentin appeared so sad ovef having to iart with his Tets even Mr a day- or two that Schmitz, to console hiin, loaned him a king snake and two sec ondary serpents. Quentin skated up Pennsylvania avenue in hot haste, wi(h snakes twined around both arms, and dashed into the executive mansion without stopping to take off his roller skates. At that moment the president was In djp conference over the Oklahoma institution u, ,with ' Attorney .General Ffia parte, . irid in the next room Itep-. rewntatlve. W. P. Hepburn and ex Itepresentatjve John P. Lacey were a Jya itiug their ' turn, Quentin Was f peediug through the outer office, skates' -a.nd all;, on his -wayto Jhe con ference room when Mr.L Loeb' dexter ously surrounded him and asked what he was Rofntt to do, -. pealed to Hepburn to get him out. and the chairman of the interstate and for eign commerce committee of the hoiuo. trying to look as if he liked it. had hold of the snake's tail nnd was trying his best to pull him forth. "I'oud of snakes, Pete?" chortled the president. Hepburn mustered a feeble sitnula crum of a jovial grlu. pulled the snake out and wiped his brow. Later in the afternoon Quentin brought the snakes to his father and Bald there was something the matter with them. The president looked and discovered that the king snake was swallowing one of the others. With some difficulty he rescued the" junior serpent and returned to his work. Blackheads, blotches and pimples aro caused-by the impVopej. actlpn'pf :the bowels. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea regulates the bowels, nakes your complexion clear aud, beautifijlr gives you that healthy look. Ja cents, tea or tablets. Harper-House pharmacy. -'- . - ' ' OKI JIjIi&H Villi ! , DAVENPORT "jpllE TkaaksgiviiiK Linen Sale continuos The saving are unusual and should deep ly interest every housewife. Assortments re main unbroken in regard to patterns. 15 discount is beiifg offered oil' all unheinmed, bordered Pattern Cloths. Sale Stylish Dress Skirts at $4.48 - i SOME are skirts that have come to us at special prices:, others are from our regular lines 15'J fashionable skirts in all and embody the usual quality, workmanship and style characteristic of garments celling at $C ,"$C.7 and $7.50. The materials are novelty effects in , . various stripes and checks in tan and . gray and in dark, serviceable colors, - , also black, blue and brown hard-finished panamas. There is. a large variety of styles, sonic full plaited or plaited with folds at bottom, others attractively trimmed with velvet .and braid. Perfect in every detail of making and finish in all lengths. J Choice during sale S 4.48 s Second Floor. Yard-wide Black Taffeta, yd. 98c THE statement that this silk is a regular $1.10 value conveys but a ...tnerc idea of its excellence. Its beauty lies in the lustrous finish and fine texture, and really ought to be seen to be fully appreci ated. Specially priced for tomorrow, yard 08c All wool black Storm Serge, $1 -the . splendid service giving qualities of this has earned for it the name of being one of the best wearing materials made. Come 52 inches wide. Special, yd S1.00 lllack Chiffon Panamas, $1.50 these make up stylishly .and the hard finish slicds the dust readily, making them a serviceable fabric. The very sight of these suggests many possibilities for handsome tailored suits; 56 inches wide; priced, . ; ; S1.50 . West Aisle. Ask to See "Detirah" Black Silks. "Why do I think that railroad build ing in the United 'States is a thing of the past?" said James J.-Hill, presi dent o the Great Northern railroad, to the New York Times correspondent al Minneapolis the other day. "I don't think anything about it. 1 know. I certainly am glad that tbr inland waterways commission visitedJ nere (Minneapolis), even if it didn t stay long, for the after effects,wi:i be great. . The question of transportation Is a leading one iu the country on ac count of the great distances. Invest ment in such facilities is next to the value of the soil on which we live. "Twenty-five years ago - railroad thought that, like the sacred cows of India, no profan hand would be laid on them, but profane hands were lai I on them. ".This country today is in most im minent danger from want of trans portation. Business has. grown so that the railroads can't handle it. If fror.i the 1st to the iSth of November you undertake -to ship a carload of flour from Minneapolis to Liverpool you can't get a bill of lading to New Yo.k in thirty days, or, if you get it. this goods, will not be; -delivered."'' It is a physical Impossibility.1 ' ' 1 "The trouble is there are not suf ficient "terminals. Terminals arc like hands and, feet to men. The head may save'him, but he will make a poor race without feet. Trunk lines are mort gaged to the fifth time, and" money' can't be raised. "Some time ago I asked a real estate man what it would cost to get a tier of blocks, one of the narrowest, from tho Harlem river to Thirty-third street. New York. He came back in a week and said that $."0,)00,000 would not buy It. That means that it would cost for terminals alone $10o.000 a mile for every mile from Chicago to New York tie fore the line was built. The rail roads can't " pay ' rent on such high priced property. - ; "This matter of transportation is a niost urgent one. Teople think there i? no linit to what th rijronds c:ni do. There is a rery present limit, to many railroads in the volume of business. wo have to do. It takes money to run rail roads. Last 'year the J rent" Northern earned o.CS per cent. ;. . .. ' ."The Great Northern is -bonded .to less than $40.000.0CK: of Its valuV, but people are not anxious to invest-in a railroad w hich' pays only 5.0S per cent ; and have to sit up nights planning hov. to, defend the property when they can get ami s per cent rrom otuer secu rity. . Want Frit World Over. "I reieat that railroad building has stopped in this country. There is a. want of money in every center. Where business has grown the fastest there is the greatest want, as in Germauy and the United States. Newspapers tell us the trouble is in Wall street. I know lictter. The trouble is in our own households. v"Is Wall street in trouble when it is now getting 0 and 7 per cent and when last year it got 3 and 'SVj per cent? Hardly. The scarcity of money is worldwide, it is not time for political ghost dancing. "There was a bad time last,, winter when a total of 107 fcills were passi by the state legislatures ng:ibit tiu' railroads. Not one of 111610 was based on information. They did hae a hear-" ing in Minnesota and invited testimo ny, but the report was contrary to -the testimony given. " ''"" ' . -T. ' "Traffic Is growing five times as fast as the mileage, and we are up' against a stone .wall. Even the amovfnt needed to put us in a condition where w? ought to be is so large as to be beyond th'V possibility of the country to fur nish. We might as well put railroad Improvement out of thp question. Th? public will use what they have got until they get more, and that will not be in a short time." "But what is your remedy for pres ent evils?"' asked the correspondent.' "The newspapers talk of a deep channel from Puluth to St. rani," In said. "Suppose we build a canal. Where are yon going to get water to float the boats? , The water would have to be pumped 150 miles." He-then suggested a canal placed on rockers, into which a little water could be flooded from one end and then tilted with jackscrews so tljat boatJ would be floated to the other end. ' But let us do what can be done. There are others in the World beside3 ourselves, and some of them are ac tive. There is talk of a canal from the lakes by the Ottawa river to Montreal. This would put MontreaMifteeu miles nearer Duluth than Buffalo is, and it would be almost Impossible fo get traft fic to take the'longer route. Chicago' wants a ship canal and would be glad to nave one Duur. out mere are 1 some difficult problems. Where will i you get the watert The shores of the great lakes touch two countries, and people at the upper epd of the lake : will object if enough Is taken to oper ate such a canal. r "But don't delay the whole move ment on this account. There is water enough from St. Louis down to make channel. All -the movement wants is a man with Intellect and money to pay the bills. Such a channel would save ' '-' " - -'v .' . 03kWr3 H NBiC aw BRANCHSTnpf: FVEKYWHERE WHY PAY MORE? The People's Will Sell It For Less If you have not been to our store recently you arc probably not aware of the sur passing styles we are now selling. Many of the best dressers of ydur town are willing to verify our statement that the garments.for Men and Women we sell this Fall are 50 per cent better in quality and 25 per cent lower in price. Russian Pony and Caracul Coats - " In addition to the immensely large stock of new designs in ladies' cloth suits and coats we are now showing new styles in Winter coats, made of the new Caracul and Persiana cloth, 27 to 34 inches long, varying in price from $17.98 to $35. We also have a choice selection of long Kersey coats with fur collars, cither satin or fur lined, $22.50 to $39.50. Men's Brown Suits & Gray Overcoats You can always depend upon finding the newest and most correct styles at the People's store. We have exclusive designs in ready-to-wear clothincr. or we make it to your measure. .We have established a reputation the country oyer for making high grade clothing, eliminating the high 3Mi,, - price? Our MolincT' Store 524 LI 15th St. v L L fi fTrnr)ffl f INI 2, rar AMERICA'S LARGEST AND MOST POPULAR RETAIL CLOTHIERS. CONDUCTING BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE. LOOK FOR THE ELECTRIC SIGN, "CREDIT." iCV ) Our Rock Island Store 319-21 20th St. Li. rrnm a to o Cents on everji iumi;:i ui grain exported; Such a canal. tV-nu St. Louis to New Orleans, will ba worth as many rannma canals as you can imagine." Then he said that a six foot channel with a three mile ait hour current would not.be.suCicieiit. If grain could lie carried thus in boats and liic boals could lie sold at the end of the trip for ready money.. the companies haul ing grain would about break oven." Hut the craft must come back, ami it costs money to go against the current. Un less twelve or thirteen feet of water were available boats would not be in a position to do cheap transporting. Mr. Hill said this country ins mad 3 as good use of its 'railroads as any. He said that, the railroads of Kngland are capitalized at $2:;o. .mm por mile and that they average r0i,'0 ton miles per annum and only pay half the wages we do liorr. The roads here on a capitalization of $57.00O n mile mtrke 1 a showing of SOft.fXM) ton miles per an num. "The question of transportation." continued Mr. Hill, "is a question this country is up against. There isa cry ing need for the improvement of tlij Mississippi river. It can't le delayed. Kvery day it costs more mul mora money to every one in the Missfssippi I valley as far cast as Columbus. O. Don't delay the work for a canal be: tween here and Lake Superior. We shall need more raiu'tban we have been getting to run that." ' Mr. Hill gave some statistics of the falling off of trade that the Oreat Northern has carried on with .Tapau. When that service was begun the road carrie'd 5.000,00(1 tons annually. For the year that ended Iletv 31. inai. it car ried Sl.f342.aW tons. The next year it dropped "to 42.000.000 tons, and this year At is much less. "There Ja nothing we can furnish Japan cheaper than' others do," said Mr. Hill.; "The meuus of transporta tion are arrested now, and it will be a ' long- time before tley will bo started 1 again. We can't raise money. The ry"dr::iV ija.v; giitio sfar a.s.Jhvv can in increasing the capacity ot tnc pres ent equipment. "What we have suffered iu the past is nothing to what we shall suffer in the .'future. I would not be surprised if congress is asked for money to con tinue bHilding railroads. The people will do it. They are not bad." No Long Grsen; Long Pink New. Hie American Bankers' association while in session at Atlantic City. N. J., adopted a resolution requesting th? secretary of the treasury to have bills of different denominations printed on paper of differenf colors, says the New York .Touvtfal. The idea is that a batik teller's desk can 1 more readily han dled by re.-ison of the case with which bills can bo niled uu according to their color. 1 he colors kchIm on for t ho different denominations are: Slate. 51; brown. i?2; green. $r: blue. $10; yellow, $20; pink, $50; white, 5100 and over. Specialists are going hack to na ture's remedies as being the best, llo' listcr's Rocky Mountain Tea has been nature's best remedy for '30 years. Recommended a?id used by specialists. 33 cents,' eat or tablets. Harper House pharmacy. Quinsy, Sprains and Swellings Cured. "In November, 1901, I caught coid and had the quinsy. My throat was swollen so I could "Hardly breathe. I applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm anl it gave me relief in a short time. In two days I was all right," says Mrs. L. Cousins, Dtterburn, Mich. Cham berlain's Pain Balm is a liniment an 1 is especially valuable' for sprains and swellings. For sale by all druggists. 0CXXXO(XXXyVRXXXXXXXXCX30OTOCXXXXOOOO0OOCXXXXXXXXXX Nervous Dyspepsia for 1 2 Years Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills effect a cure after everything else failed. - , . It took Mrs. James H. Titus, of 107 Clinton St., Warren, Pa., many years to realize- that there was only one way to cure nervous dyspepsia. That ail the digestive mixtures and Bitters in the world would not do it. and that the only true way was to tirst put the nervous pysm that controls, the organs of di gestion in perfect working outer so that the food miitht be properly bandied and digested. She says: "Dr. Ary. Chase's Nerve Pills are just splendid. M stomach bothered me for twelve years food digested slowly heavy after eat ing. I was fearfully dizzy by tpells and very nervous. I tried everything other medicines, doctors, anything I was told to, bat the Nerve Pills I got cured me.1 I feel well In every way today no weakness or dizziness, and dlgf.st!on splendid. I can not recom mend tham too strongly to others as I believe the medicine to be unequaled in Its ability to cure such troubles. It certainly acted like magic with me." E0c a bo at all dealers or Dr. A. W. Chase- Mocicine Co.. Buffalo, N. T. None genuine without the signature and portrait of Dr. A. . Chase. For Sale at Harper House Pharmacy. S3 V 111 Hi J . Jt'lf ILr,i(liiuintAM The Man "Wortk While "IT'S EASY ENOUGH TO BE HAPPY WHEN LIFE MOVES ALONK LIKE A SONG, BUT THE MAN WORTH WHILE IS THE MAN WHO CAN ' SMILE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES DEAD WRONG." And when things go wrong regarding money matters, he doesn't let that worry him long. He knows where he can get -riglHtd. If there's 4 a pressing bill to pay, or extra expense jo meet, he borrows the money of us to "make good," maintains his credit, and remains smiling and happy. When he's ""flush," he pays us back and everybody is satisfied. Isn't that the better way? It beats worrying and keeping creditors ' worried. Let us help YOU Ret rid "of .YOUR worry. Iet us loan you the money yon need. We loan from $10 up on housebofd furniture, .pianos, horses, wagons, and other personal property, without removing the property; ail without noise or notoriety and on the best and easiest terms in the city. Come in and get Eume money and get happy. A square deal beforehand AFTER you get the money. Write or phone us If you find it inconvenient to call. ... FIDELITY LOAN CO., MITCHELL A LTNDE BLOCK, ROOM S8, ROCK ISLAND. Office hour, Hm.to6p.io, and Saturday vnln. Ttlaahona west 514; new telephone 6011. X!O0OOCXXXX5O0O00OO00COO0O03QO0OOO0O0000O060O 1. , , t