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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, MONDAY, JANUARY 10,-1910. ; THE ARGUS. Published Dally and Weekly at 6c6d avenue. Rock Island. 111. En tered at the postomo aa acond-laaa matter. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. k. I - TERMS. Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly, r per year In advance. AU communications of argumentative character, political or religious, mutt hm ml name attached for pnblica tlon. ' No auch artlolea will b printed over fictitious signatures. Correapondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. V 1 Monday, January 10, 1910. Boost for Rock Island. That's what will make the town hum. It reallys looks as 'though the Jan uary, thaw has - been postponed until March or August. -Counterfeiters who are manufactur ing bogus 1 bills cannot win regard by that kind of democratic simplicity. Will the railroads please stand Btill while congress takes their measure and decides oo the proper kind of har Maybe the. Interests are not cutting ice while the cold spell is on between factions in the lovely g. o. p, at Wash ington. There were over G.000 births in Min neapolis during the past year. This is at the rate of 5X a month. The conclusion la warranted that the stork was a very busy bird la that com munity m Roosevelt gone. Attorney General Wickersham is the phrase maker of the national administration. "Inhibited by ei-ril conscience" Is pointed and pithy applied to the crimes of the to bacco trust, or to the aggressions of other combinations of avarice. The consumption of corn by Peoria distilleries fall off 1.MO.000 bushels last year as compared with 1&03. The Keokuk Gate City holds that It doesn't follow that the out-put of spirits was lessened correspondingly. As the price of corn goes up the spirit-ual possi bilities of the golden grain increase. The emigration from the United 5 tat $3 to Canada last year numbered &0.148 persons, and the investment "f American money in the Dominion totaled some $90,000,000. American enterprise and American citizens are Sulldlng up the western provinces of Canada, and without them the country irould go ahead at a snail's pace. The Chicago. Tribune's headings of Its Washington story anent the Taft Pinchot incident express with wonder ful accuracy the acute stage that has been reached in the internecine war in the republican party. The Tribune's headings constitute an editorial la themselves. Here Is what they say: Taft and Cannon on Seething Sea. Political Storm at Washington Threat ens to Engulf Administration Chief tod Speaker. Situation is Unique. Re- ubllcan Party, Divided by Insurgency and the Plnchot Issue, Drifts a' Prey of interests. Split In Congress "Widens Russian capital, which, the correspond ents state, is designed to be the most brilliant since the present czar came to the throne. Beginning with an im perial reception at the winter palace, there are to follow in rapid succession a series of state dinners, theatricals and other social festivities. The pur pose of these entertainments, It is said, Is to disprove the statements made abroad that the czarina has become mentally afflicted. Despite the official denials, it is learned from an authoritative source that the czarina, who is closely re lated to the English royal family she is a niece of King Edward is seriously ill, both mentally and physi cally. Her present condition is such, in fact, that her recovery Is regarded as difficult, if not impossible. The czarina, as is well known, has never been popular in Russia. From the very day of her arrival there, in deed she has been looked on askance as an intruder one who has neither part nbr lot in the land. And of late years the feeling against her has be come much more insense. Surround ed by enemies she has for years been the unhaDDiest royal personage In Europe. Though she has been a devoted wife, her domestic life all through has been one of ereat sorrow. The czar hungered for a son, and as each of the many daughters was born the gloom increased, till melancholy had marked her for its own. Even when the long wished for heir arrived the joy was short-lived. Attempts to kidnap the czarevitch were narrowly frustrated, and the terror of violent death at any moment for herself and family broke down what little fortitude remained. The czarina received a great shock when the Grand Duke Sergius was as sassinated at Moscow. For weeks afterward she could not sleep without opiates. Although she compelled her self to attend the funeral of her hus band's uncle, the Grand Duke Alexia, her terror of bombs was so great that afterwards fears were entertained as to her reason. When she traveled to the Crimea with her family, making her first journey through Russia in seven years, her one thought was of revolutionaries, and practically during the whole of the time she had the little czarevitch clasped to her breast. Every political disturbance in Eu rope has increased mis aepressiou, find the recent tour to France and Eng land, where she had passed so many happy days in her girlhood, was de layed too long, it is believed, to accom plish all that was hoped for in the way of restoring shattered nerves. Jan. 10 in American History SLEUTH ARRESTED Thomas P. Reilly Investigator for Commerce Commission, Accused. FOR ABSTRACTING LETTER Claimed He Took One Written by Wickersham from Files and Gave It to Newspaper. i.iii.4a A.cecUer. lather of the famous family, died; born 1775. 1S03 Benjamin Franklin Butler, sol dier and statesman, died; born ISIS. 1900 Dr. William Ralney Ilarper. not ed Hebrew scholar and president of the University of Chicago, died; born 1R56. BALLINGER LOPS QUARTET OF HEADS Disgraceful Condition Alleged in In dian School of Five Civilized Tribes. Who Pays Import Duties? Joseph. Chamberlain, the British protectionist, in a recent speech at Glasgow, said: 'I propose to put no tax whatever on maize, because maize is a food it the very poorest of the people. propose to exclude bacon from pro- lectlon also, because bacon forms the Staple food for many of the poorest of the population." Why should Mr. Chamberlain do his if the foreigner was going to pay the Import auties? The answer that he did not wish. to put a tariff on maize and bacon because he knew the amount of the duty would be added to the cost of these articles. lie realized that's the import duty would not be paid by the foreigner. 5ut by. the consumer. A Democratic House. With President Taft trying to disci line the Insurgents, and Speaker Can ton planning to eliminate them, there s eomethlng doing in Washington the action of this wing of the republi Haa. party la the entering wedge which vul split It In twain, and place demo crats in control of the lower house text year. Voters are more and more tinging off the party collar and voting . Heir sentiments. Ia the republican tarty today are hosts of men who were Igalnst the Roosevelt policies and Mo were responsible for the over whelming Taft victory. Arrayed igainst then are the Insurgents, who (old that the party platform has been wrtrayed by the Aldrlch-Cannon tariff ueasure and who are determined to jo before their constituents on the "ilatfonn rather than the tariff bill. Republicanism, always before pre texting a solid front, today is all the dIotb of the rainbow, the republicans 1 Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and other restern states being openly hooted at h Rhode Island, jeered by Pennsyl anlans, and ignored in' New Jersey, resident Taft, if he whips the Insur ants into line and pacifies the flght og elements at the same time, has fork cut out for him which will pre lude a summer vacation. A Qe?n of Baldness. Dispatches from St. Petersburg tell f the elabefate arrangements made r the winter social season in the Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. Sec retary Ballinger of the Interior de partment yesterday suspended from office John D. Benedict, superintend ent of schools of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and three sup ervisors, as the result of an investi gation which has disclosed "a dis graceful condition" affecting the ma terial and moral welfare of the schools. As a further result of the Investiga tion, which will be continued, other officials of the Indian service may suffer a like fate. The inquiry was entered Into be cause of reports reaching the depart ment charging the officials with ac tivities inougnt improper ror gov ernment employes. The suspended supervisors are Calvin Ballard of the Choctaw schools at McAlester, Fred erick H. Umholtz of the Choctaw schools, Ardmore, and Walter Fal- well of the Creek schools at Mus kogee. The four men will be allow ed to make answer to the secretary of the Interior as to the charges against them. From the report It appears that Superintendent Benedict is connected with certain business interests in Ok lahoma which have more or less bus iness with the Indians, which rela tionship, it was believed, was wholly incompatible with his service as sup erintendent. New York. Jan. 10. Thomas P. Rellley, special investigator for the in terstate commerce commission, was ar rested here late Saturday afternoon and locked up in the Tombs, charged with the theft of a letter from. George W. Wickersham, U. S. attorney gen eral, to Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, from Mr. Wise's of fice in the New York federal building, The letter subsequently appeared in the Cosmopolitan magazine, and It was known yesterday that long search for the man who. stole it had at last re sulted in the return of an indictment by the federal grand jury. Violated Statute. The specific charge against Rellley in the indictment is the "taking and publishing of letters and private papers without authority" in violation of the United States revised statutes and of the New York penal laws. The acts complained of are said to have been committed on July 1, 1909, when Mr. Wise was abroad. In addition to the Wickersham let ter there were also abstracted from the files of the district attorney's office two letters from A. C. R. Heike, sec retary of the American Sugar Refining company, to John E. Parsons, counsel for the company, for the meeting held at the house of the late Theodore Havemeyer, December, 1900. Copy for Publication. Abel I. Smith, the assistant United States district attorney, who worked up the case against Rellley, said that when the publication of Mr. Wicker- sham's letter first greeted the eyes of Mr. Wise, shortly after his return from Europe, he Immediately instituted a search for the original. The Wicker sham letter he had left in his desk. It was found finally In the W. file. A copy of It had evidently been taken for publication. The Heike-Parsons letters had also been copied for the originals "worked in the office file, but the minutes of the sugar company's board of directors have apparently dig appeared for good. Protege of Stlmaon. News of the arrest caused a sensa tion in the federal building, where Reilley was known as a protege of Henry L. Stimson, now special counsel for the government In Its prosecution of the sugar cases and formerly United States district attorney. It was on information furnished by Rellley to Mr. Stimson that the government prosecuted with success the New York Central, Rock Island, Chicago, Milwau kee and St. Paul. Central Vermont and other railroads and transit companies for giving rebates on sugar shipments la violation of the Hepburn law. The railroads on pleas of guilty were all heavily fined. Rheumatism Cured in The Days. N. B. Langley, Madison, Wis., says: "I was almost helpless with rheuma tism for about five months. Had it In my neck so I could not turn my heal, and all through my body. I tried three doctors and many remedies without any relief whatever until I procured Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism. In a few hours the pain was relieved and in three day3 the rheumatism was completely cured and I was at work." Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1501 Second avenue. Rock Island; Gust Schlegel & Son, 220 West Second street, Davenport. WILLIAM JAMES CALHOUN 1 S, mm V - 'x, PHOTO 11V THOMPSON to r New Minister to China. The Argus Daily Short Story Her Hobby By Frank H. Sweet. Copyrighted. 1909. by Associated Literary Press. Is there any one who has no hobby? Well, if there Is It is questionable if such person Is happy. We live lives at least most of us do that lie In beat en tracks. The merchant that has built up a large business goes to his store every day to do pretty much the same thing. His wife stays at home, looks after the servants and makes calls. The doctor visits the sick and listens to an eternal round of aches and pains. The clergyman preaches every Sun day and makes parochial visits. With all of us our occupation sooner or later becomes humdrum. What, then, is our relief,, our safety valve? A hobby, i Hobbies are sometimes mere whims. or they may be a fancy that a certain line of action under certain circum stances is essential. Of such kind was Neil Lambert's. Her hobby was self control. She waa accustomed to say that it was the only cultured substitute for content ment and that the result of its perfect attainment was perpetual youth. The quick growth of a frown habit and the wrinkles that follow In its wake were among ber strongest arguments. Neil was wooed and won by John Brent. She was very happy, and ap parently John was happy too. The world seemed suddenly transformed from a very humdrum affair to a para dise. She managed to retain her self control, so far as telling any of her friends of her engagement was con cerned. Then there was a lapse. Her friend Pattle Roane called, and Neil let out the secret. Not long after Miss Roane's depar ture Pattie was standing at the parlor window which overlooked the street admiring some flowers that were kept in the window. She was thinking of her lever, and it seemed that the flow ers looked up at her with a happy smile. Happening to glance up, her heart seemed to cease to beat. There, driving down the street on his dogcart, with Miss Roane beside him, was John Brent. Nevertheless her hab it of self control was strong enough to Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the part nership lately existing between H. Riegel and Peter Matthews of Rock Island, 111., doing business under the firm name of H. Riegel & Co., has been dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be continued by H. Rie gel. AH debts owing to the said part nership are to be received by the said H. Riegel, and all claims and demands upon, or debts owing by, said partner ship, are to be paid by the said H. Riegel. H. RIEGEL, PETER MATTHEWS. Stockholders' Meeting. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Rock Island National bank of Rock Island will be held at their banking house on Tuesday, Janu ary 11, 1910, at 3:30 o'clock p. m., for the election of directors and the trans action of such other business as may properly come before them H. E. CA5TEEL, Preslden H. B. SIMMON, Cashier. H. E. Casteel, Pres. M. S. Heagy, Vice Pres. H. B. Simmon, Cash. In enable her to give the couple a gra cious nod and a smile. What did It mean ? Had she not been In that tremulous condition, love, when every shadow is a demon? She would probably have thought that there was no meaning to It whatever. As it was, she considered It In the light of an in sult from both John and Pattie. That evening John called. She re ceived him graciously and charted with him as if nothing had happened, but before he left told him that their en gagement was a thing of the past. All this required great self control, but that self control she possessed. The three weeks that followed found her still living up to the hobby. If she was a bit whiter and thinner the splr ltuelle effect was becoming, therefore welcome. There could be a tonic and a change of air should the scrawny stage threaten. Pending that time her maid one morning announced, "Miss Roane." "Lower the shades a trifle, Llsette," said Nell and glanced Into her mirror. PETER COOPEE, who when yet alive, gave $630,000 to found Cooper Union in New York City, earned only $25 a year for the first two years he was in that city. He was an apprentice to a coa'chmaker. He SAVED $20 the first two years and put into the bank. Make OUli Bank YOUR Bank. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety, 4 per cent. Central Trust and Savings Bank WE MEANT ONLY TO TEAJ3K TOU A. LITTLE. "Draw that stand" of lilacs nearer", so. Miss Roane may come up." "How sensible you always are!" said Pattie. making at once for an easy chair. "Here have I for three weeks been afflicted with a conscience, and you you look as if you never bad one." "Three weeks?" smiling. "It is a long time to carry anything heavy." "Well." with a look half meek, half mischievous. "I have brought the bur den to you." "To me? I thought a conscience was like a railroad pass always labeled not transferable.' " "I only want it doctored." "But that is a very trite Idea, Is It not?" "What I mean Is not trite." said rat- tie. She took a cluster of white lilacs from the stand and gently brushed her face with them. Keen eye shots could piece such a hedge undetected. "Trite exploits are either easy or necessary." "If you mean it is bard to do any thing original" "But I do not I mean this is origi nal because too hard to be often un dertaken." "Yet it Is only a little conscience to be doctored." "There ere things to tell you," gravely, "because we are friends." "Present tense?" "Yes," lowering the hedge to give a steady look. "Very well." with a smile that held some sarcasm lurking beneath it; "tell on." "That tfay after you told me of your engagement to John Brent I saw his dogcart before Ransom's, and I hap pened in. don't you know, and said something about such a royal day for driving and smiled up at him my very best smile. It was a bit of 'mischief. I knew you would be cool over the matter and wake his resentment." " T.ob'.iift biw crat a fre n little spark kindleth.'" ald unruled Noll. "I askrd blm to drlvo this way. and he laughed. We meant only to teas you a little nothing serlouj." "Nor- "Not then." bendinjr her face lnti the lilacs. "Well." coldly, "lie 13 now fro." An eye shot passed over the hedge "Knowlne how that drive came about, you are still too proud to recall him?" Nell settled herself more cozlly among the cushions of her divan and gave her prettiest low laugh. " 'Is thy servant a dogT " she said. "But he would come" said Pattie gently. "There Is a better way to come." "And If he does not choose it?" "I am content," sang Nell sweetly. "Then if he's free." said Pattie. well behind the flower hedge, "I ought to let you understand." hesitatingly "that that" "Oh, certainly," said Nell mockingly "each one for herself." "I should not have put it in Just that war." Pattie went on. with a half nervous little laugh, "but 1 shall not avoid him or be at my worst with him." "It is a woman's business." dryly "to charm, especially to charm one man." "If he la the right one," faltered rat tie Roane. "True. Yet the wrong one Is often entertaining and easier." "And you do not carer asked Pattie as she took up and put the flowers back in the vase. "But you'll believe, won't you, that I meant no wrong, that I did not know what would comer' "You have not finished your story,' said Neil, with sudden sharpness. "What has come to bim what has come?" "If you would be sorry, I think," very low, "that he would be happy." "Otherwise in timer breathlessly, "Perhaos he may think of me," said Pattie and turned away ber face. She was going silently to the door when Nell, white as her lilacs, came to the lintel. "You have been honest," she said chokingly, "so I will tell you. I cannot bear it," with a sob. "1 cannot!" Pattie flushed. "Do you want me to go away out of his reach f she asked with voice that trembled and with lowered eyes. "No, but I will write and ask him" alas for the hobby, tears came "ask him to forgive me." "I will wait and post the letter. Pattie slowly and went back to her chair. "He may be angry still, you know," Nell said wistfully when the note was written and her guest on the stair. but there was no answer. Pattie hurried out to the corner mall box and, having dropped the note in side, came around the turn of the street face to face with John Brent. "I have been attending to some of your business." Bhe said, with a happy laugh. "Thank you. It could not be in bet ter hands, I am sure." said John. "I think so myself," radiantly. "Could you pick a lock or a corner post boxr "Well, not without some training, 1 think." "Then the best thing for you to do is to go on to Nell s. Say the proper thing, you know," rapidly. "Say that you are a wreck from misery and can not bear it any longer." "But" "That handsome Englishman has been sending more flowers, exquisite white lilacs. If I were you they should go out of a back window." "But" 'She will be delighted that you came before the note reached you, but do not hint that you know about it." "About what?" The note, the note, the note!" 'Pick a corner post box." said John dazedly, but with a slight dawning in his eye. "Neil has written me a note?"' "Oh. the slowness of a man's mind!" cried Pattie. "Are you going to stand here after all my brilliant plot while that girl sobs herself ill ill waiting to know if you forgive her?" John's answer was In the rapidity of bis stride around the corner, and Pattie. the plotter, her face dimpling with smiles and ease of conscience went far enough to peep and see birr, run up Neil's steps three at a time. "Good!" she murmured, with a little chuckle. But It must be admitted that she deserved one. That was Neil's last effort at con trolling her feelings when she felt eg grieved. She hod lenrned that stand fng out as If the right was all he?2 without giving the other side a hearing was not self control, but Injustice. And Pattie Roane, whose mischievous disposition was ciways getting her into scrapes which her gefiial disposition usually got her out of, learned that her propensity for such larks should be curbed by a proper self cortrol. A Horrible Holdup. "About ten years ago my brother was 'held up in his work, health and happiness by what was believed to be hopeless consumption," writes W. R. Lipscomb, of Washington, N. C. "He took all kinds of remedies and treatment from several doctors, but found no help till he used Dr. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bottles. He is a well man to day." It's quick to relieve and the surest cure for weak or sore lungs, hemorrhages, coughs and colds, bronchitis, grip, asthma and all bron chial affections. Fifty cents and $1. Trial bottle free. . Guaranteed by all druggists. Humor and Philosophy 5 " "Br T V JVC A. J M. SMITH A PERT PARAGRAFHS. TEINO enrtrly satisfied with one self U one )f the very first mmmb tiais of being disagreeable. , If we could get out an Injunction against ourselves restraining us from giving the tblDgs we so mucb want ourselves to some cue else, perhaps we would be happier. 1 It Sometimes men are disappointed be cause so many girls refuse to take an engagement seriously. The beat part of a is apt to be on edge. woman's letter 1 iv V Moving Along. Hot the yearn slip away Llk the wlft river's now, Aa softly they com And as aoftly they gol Our hand la extended A new one to great. And. lo, re we reckon Its days are completel A stately procession. They go as they came. No slower, no swifter. But always the same. In Joy or In sorrow. In pleasure or pain. Proceeding- unheedlnff Tbroush sunshine and ratav They wait not for orders. They halt not for kings, . Tbey laugh at Injunctions And such puny thing. Strong chains cannot bind then 'J Nor slacken their pe.ee. i No congress can cause them Their steps to retrace. Tbey go. and In going Tbey leave not behind A mark save on memory. That book of the mind. On down with the others A well beaten jtrsxk. And never no, never Comes one of them back. libs Mere Man Necessary. "Don't you like this place. Ethel r "No, not a bit." "But see what beautiful views are all around." "They are utterly valueless." "How can you say sor "Because there are no nice young men here to help a girl look at them." Mean. "I always try to do good." "Do you really?" "Indeed 1 do." "Too bad, isn't itr "Too bad? What do yon mean by thatr "That such a laudable ambition should bare such a dismal end." Her Evidence. ne I was reading an article about women having smaller brains than men. She But women haven't any brains at all. He But why do you think so? She See whom tbey marry. Generally. "Pa?" "Yes. my son." "What are woman's rights?" "Woman's rights?" "Yep." "Any thing that she gets her eye on that she thinks she wants." Quito Frank. "You mustn't let little things trouble you. Miss Ethel." "Me?" "Yes." "Dear me! Mr. Slowon. don't men tion it. 1 hadn't noticed you were here." Paradoxical. "You brute!" "What: .Mer "Yes. you! What made you act that way'"" 'Just buman nature. I suppose." Rraccn Enough. "Is he superstitious?" "How can lie help it?" "Why?" "He has been fired three times 01 Friday." a SoaK. yottr Clothes tvfth BEACH'S Peostsa. Soap TThcn you need not rub nor boil them Quite Safe. A little learning ia a dangerous thing. But don't you ever fret. Keep up your studies. We have never heard Of one It hurt as yet. Repented, "near about Munko !!:!? ne started out to rob a bank." "Changed bis mind, did her "Yes. The banker wouldn't let him," 4i the Softened the Outlines. "She doesn't seem to care for bright lights." "No; she looks better in the moon light," . Explained. "What Is he doing for a living? "Nothing." "I didu't know be was married." Case of Necessity. "Do you try to live within l eanar "Try to? Man. I have to." yora Have you a weak throat? If so, you cannot be too careful. You can not begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to anoth er and the last Is always the harder to cure. If you will take Chamber lain's Cough Remedy at the outset you will be saved much trouble. Sold by all druggists. "VC