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OTHiS ROCK ISLAND iVRGUS, MOX13AY. SEFTE3rBER ?9, 11,13. THE ARGUS, . ruM;:hcri daily at Second ave nue. Kocn Inland, IU. (Entered at the l pvssofSte as second-class matter.) I Keck !Und Mfmlwr the Associated Press, , BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TLZIiMb Ten cents per wejk by car rier. In r.ock Island. Cnrr.ria-'rita of dejlvery service should tc nade to the circulation department, v-:.!-h shoulJ nl.o be notified In every tistar-e where It Is desired to have rarer d!."ctr.tlnued, as carriers have no authority in the premises. All communications of argumentative rhr-'cter, political or religious, must hive r'-il r.nrr.c tf.arhfd for pnblica . tion. No sjr-h srtlcles will be printed ever fictitious yignatures. Telephones i: all departments. Cen tr?.l Union, P.ock Island 141, 1145 and 2J4S. Monday, September 29, 1913. Greece is again preparing for war. Alas the poor Turk. It may be those English golfers are proficient at croquet. The bankers of Illinois have gone on record as opposed to the currency ( Mil. The people, however, want it and will get it. We have It on Senator La Fcllettf's Authority ti.at th- trusts ran never be Fuhdued by oratory. But still he keeps on talking. "i We Pure are in the electric a?e. It ' Is estimated that ne.arly 70 per cent ...of tho people In the Vnited States nov,- use electricity in Home form every ;-iay, if only for telephoning or ringing , door bells. An automobile Manufacturer pre dicts the coming of machines that can travel 2U0 wiles an hour. It is not the coming of them so much as the Koin' of them that will interest the people on the ground. The appointment of Harry M. Fin- 'dell, editor of the Peoria Journal, to the lUiFsian ministry is an honor wor- thily bestcwed. Mr. 1 ind!! will ably and grncioiiMy represent the govern nunt of the Vni'eJ States at the crar's court. A mother in Cedar Ra;:i:is was in form' d by a rote freni a teacher that her son. rhou'.d bo trt.iv.1 for attigma tira. Th faithful mciU.-r wrote a note ba.k thtt Flie had Riven Johnny ra sound thresb'ns ad hod he would ' not do it apain. Kvi lenee has been discovered that Bhakesp.-are vrs r. tv. dodder. Pur-) Ihcr search pmhebly v. iil reveal that ! he irecu'-'ntV accrchcd cvrr the lult-1 Vards without tail lights a:d wi'h muf-j I't cut out and ' .'eiuted -very ordi-: 3I8.1CC and rule of public taiely. I Tilt: W l-.ST MM liOOM. The evidence cf ncv l.'fa in the vt-st section of Cue city, following the adoption of the numersus projects! K vt.xiv I'KF.sithsxt. that promise fo much, cot crdy for the The democratic ways, or if you pre- directly interested di-.rict wist off.rit. the tr? Americanism, of Preai- Fcvente lUh ttrett, but for tho newly .mnexed territory, are gratifying to commendable. He is the most invet thP pc-ople of P.ock WarJ . vhole. j ,.,( t ,f , 0J The plans for to hs.anti .l now, fof lheatrical9 , , lcss and flat building each to eilibr4icill! vaudeville and moving pic- conla'.r. a theatre, one on Klevnth . , ,, o . ;,-'. . . , ' , I turns, cs well as the more legitimate street rnd Twelfth n" ;nuo and the I . . . . . . , . or-t"ia. rue, may be traceable to two causer, the permanent Improvement cf streets -in that part of the city and the? proiTt' j-'lce cf other adantucf pnarantecd In the success of the propositions adopt f rd by the people in the special elec tion. Thus is it shown that development end genera! be' torment follow public improvements, and if the people in the west end will taka an inventory of their property values a year henco they will find an enhancement that will make them z'.i up and take notice. THE frCAKCITV OF ATTM'.. At a meeting of meat packers in Chicago last week the growing bcarc- ity of cattle in this country was de - 'plored and methods proposed to cdu . cate farmers to raise more cattle, r, Thia move on the part of the meat 1 packers is a good one, and it is to j be hoped It will succeed iu incrcas i ing the eurply of animals to meet the 1 demand. rt But it cannot be claimed by the j meat packers that the decreasing sup- r piy OI eaiue la im? uiaiu mure iu p high prices asked for meat. The prices '. Daid cattle raisers in Chicago and ia y other markets do not Justify the exist- ing high cost of meat to the consumers, n Besides, the packers did not show that the supply of cattle does not . meet the demand for home consump C Hon. As a lady who read the report of the packers' convention remarked to the writer: "If the supply of cattle f. is as Inadequate a"s the packers claim, i why is so much of the product of the product of the cattle they slaughter t rlaced in ccld storage and exported to J other countries?" j c. This ia a proper and important cues-! ? tion. Why should cattle and other! p meat products be exported if the sup g ply is not sufiicicnt to meet the home p demand T r .. . , r ; various reasons are advanced ion the Dish cost of meat, but few ctn- tend thiit it is tec3use of the lack of supply. Tfco supply may not meet - the demands of the packers, but ft I wi! n'fet the demands of the eonsum - i crs. and certainly exceeds the demands L' cf consumers at present prices. There dim be ptJw reasons than scarcity of cattle for the high prices asked for meat. What these reasons are the packers might be ahle to explain if they would try. The scarcity of cattle looks like an excuse, not a reason. THE CITY'S BAI EXAMPLE. The stand taken by the municipal commission since the inauguration of the present system of new paving and repaying throughout Rock Island. thatWorth Bailey, the fighting progressive only under circumstances of dire emergency may the improved streets be disturbed, has been everywhere commended and upheld. Property holders ail over the city who have paid cheerfully for pavement only to see it indiscriminately torn up by contractors for underground work or connections and never properly re paired, realize to their sorrow the er ror of past policies in this respect. Some of the principal thoroughfares of the city have in recent years been practically destroyed by euch care lessness and indifference, and pave ment that under ordinary circum stances and proper care would last for years, has become so honeycomb ed as to require entire overhauling, and in many instances relaying, be cause the gas man, the waterworks man, the plumber or someone else had been allowed to dig into the street. It v,as consideration of all these facts that prompted Commissioner R. it. Reynolds in his positive refusal to allow the promoter of the automatic telephone system to cut up the 6treets. 'Tunnel, was Commissioner Reynolds demand, and while the edict was at tended by a great hue and cry and all sort3 of nonsensical threats on the part cf the promoter, Mr. Reynolds stood pat and was perfectly right in doing so. In this attitude Mr. Rey nolds has had the backing and sup port of Mayor Schriver and the other members of the municipal council, and it is on this account that no little in dignation has arisen because any de partment of the city government, which has properly refused private in terests the privilege of disturbing new pavement, should have torn up a portion of the asphalt pavement at Fourth avenue and Twentieth street, to make belated improvements in water valves that should have been at tended to before the pavement was put in. The city by this act of contributory I negligence on the one hand and rack inconsistency on the other has made it the more difficult to enforce syste matically its own rule against allow ing the new Ftreeta to be destroyed under any circumstances. People who have pride in the city fear, and not v ithout reason, that the pavement that has been disturbed will not be speedily repaired, and as cause for the'r fear they point to evidences til over the city where the streets have bcsn torn up, as cited heretofore, and as a more recent evidence the effects cf wcrk done ty tho waterworks de partment a! Fourteenth-tnd-a-half where after the street was psved with asphalt, the waterworks department found underground work necosssry Rid the surface has not yet been put b'.ck in the condition that it should be. Let ths practice of tesrln? up the iftroeis b9 cgain started, end cill the iiiii.rcvemerts that have been made in the ptpt nausht. two ; ears will soon go to dent V.'iison is both admirable and" Tker.tre managers In Washington bke to havo the president visit their i theatrts and it has been the custom tor the occupant of the White house to give notice of his tisit. Mr. Wilson hr.3 shattered this precedent- He goes with the crowd unannounced and like tin otdinary citizen he takes his chance of securing a "good" seat. Instead of occupying the "president' I ox" he prefers a seat in the audience and even goes In "peanut heaven." At vaudeville and picture shows he se lects a Beat with the general audi ence. At golf he usually plays with a friend but is not averse to becom ing part of a foursome with members of the club whom he does not know. It be recalled that at the br.se- J.,all n,mes the president has refused to use the" presidential box and has eat w.ta the fans in ths ordinary BcttS. is treatly Interested in the game and "roots" for the home team but never fails to applaud a good play made by a visiting player. He is a former football player and continues j his interest la that strenuous sport. im.iif uuv jjx etiu?ui ui rfcem limes he walks the streets of Washington accompanied only by a secret service man. President Wilson's plainness will become emulative. It is high time. Official life at the nation's capital has been too plainly patterned after Euro pean centers. FOREST NOTES II The railroads of the United States use about 150,000,000 wooden ties each year. P.J v.. . . - . . . . . I wuav, iui;.a., is reported to ne the toremost city in the country for varied and close utilization of forest ' products. :,Icre tnn one-fourth of all the j sheep in the 11 Etates nearest the Pa- j f nc coast are grazed on the national j forests. ; - i The national forests contain water j powers with an aggregate estimated capacity of 12,000,000 horsepower, Capital Comment BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER woncrestman from ths Fourteenth District. (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) j wasnington, D. C, Sept. zi. it is a mo sharp cry of warning which Warren democrat from Johnstown, Pa., ut ters for the benefit of his democratic colleagues in con gress. Mr. Bailey sees the Ingenuity of the tariff con ferees strained in an effort to provide a bill which will raise sufficient rev enue to run the government, and apparently the rev enue which is be ing sought Is as large as the rev enue of the past Mr. Bailey won ders why this is so. He was one who helped frame the democratic CLYDE H 4 AV&NNER platform at Baltimore, and that platform denounced the republicans for extravagance and pledged the democrats to economy, a plank which Mr. Bailey takes seriously. Why then i3 it necessary to raise rates in the tariff bill to provide revenue as large as has been available in the past? The Pennsylvania congressman believes it would be a good thing if the new tariff bill should be drawn not to raise so much revenue as the government has been spending. "I am sincerely of the belief that it is of the first importance that the democrats should cut the federal rev enues to the bone,' he says. "They have made the country believe them regarding what they have said about republican extravagance, and the coun try is going to hold them to a strict account of their stewardship. If they prove as wanton, as reckless, as ex travagent, as wasteful, as the republi cans were charged with having been, then so much the worse for the demo crats. They will find it no easy task to convince the country that another change is not desirable." "First of all I would lay the axe at available for use under permit from the secretary of agriculture. Much of the piling, wharf material and lock gates cf the Panama canal are made of greenheart, said to be the most durable wood known for these purposes, which comes mainly from British Guiana. The western forestry and conserva tion association will held its annual conference about Dec. 15. This year it will meet at Vancouver, B. C, and will give its main consideration to the problem of forests fire prevention and control. EDITOR PIN DELL, ENVOY, IN CALL ON PRESIDENT Washington. D. C, Sept. 2S. A M. Pindell, the Teoria publisher. v.l-.oEe nomination for ambassador to Russia will go to the senate this week, arrived in Washington yester day to confer with the president and j Secretary of State Bryan. Accompanying Mr. Pindell was Joseph P. Durkin cf Peoria, whom the new ambassador indorsed for collect or of internal revenue cf the Fifth district of Illinois. Durkin is here to make a fight for the place. He will ha assisted net. onlv bv ambassador Plr.dell, but also by Roger Sullivan, i who is due to arrive in Washington today. P.eferring to the charges that lie has not supported democratic candi- "The Young Lady itfFif ft11 ' IT" We asked the young lady across the way if she saw anything in the theory of collectivism and she said som of the Eirls paved ail their old rianrp nrn j graas Rod such things, but for ter the root of the tree of militarism. In airection nas tne growtn oi e"- ditures been so riotous as in that oi army and navy appropriations. Hun- dreds of millions have been worse than wasted on what they have called 'preparedness; and now all the big navy boomers and all the jingoes who shout . for more soldiers and more guns and more fortifications are telling us mat we are lartner iruui ww; of preparedness than ever. "'Many a mickle makes a nruckle, but it was not. of the little wastes and extravagances I was thinking when I suggested to the democratic leaders that in proposing to raise a revenue equal to that which the re publicans have been wringing from the people they were Inviting profligacy, while failing to Veep faith with the country. I was thinking of staggering sums which we are spending on bat tleships and destroyers and fortifica tions and other naval and military items. As a beginning I would be sat isfied with some liberal slashing here; and then it might be advisable to slash more or less when we reach the rivers and harbors. In a large measure the river has ceased to be a highway. Yet gigantic schemes for river Improve ments are in contemplation, and they will be urged on congress with all possible insistence, on the plea that the waterway will provide an effective check on the railroad. This overlooks the obvious fact that the railroad has already put the waterway out of bus inass and that it laughs at water com petition. "I don't pretend to know Just how much we are wasting. But I feel buie that it must be more than we would waste were we to reduce the volume of revenue through a general reduction in the burden of taxes. We have been gouging too much money out of the people. There would have been a revolution long ago had we gouge J it out of them by the rude processes of direct taxation. By the refined methods v. i.'ich are actually in vogue we have done the job very handsomely and without extorting more than a complaint about 'hard time,' 'overproduction,' and 'lack of confidence.' " dates in the past and that he is not supporting the democratic candidate in the fifth judicial district, now, Mr. Pindell said: "I am guilty." He declared that In his whole ca reer as an editor he has never been a partisan in judicial elections. He a!' ways supported the man he thought best Qualified for the place. Today his paper is supporting a republican for eupreme court justice, a democrat for circuit court jiiage, and a progressive for probate judse of Peoria county. Under no conditions will Pindell get into line for the two democratic can didates he is fighting. A Record In Fietcherizing. If they learn , the art of chewing even people whose food expense is only threepence a day can make their meals last a loug time. A chewer. according to dietetic experts, is one who chews all things so long as they have any taste left in them. Gladstone, we ere told, used to take thirty-two bites to every mouthful of food. The modern school of chewers would regard this as dangerously rapid eating. "I have tried chewing conscientiously," writes Mr. Eustace Miles. "A banana has cost SCO bites, a small mouthful of bread and cheese 240 bites, a greedy mouthful of biscuit (while I was walk ing on a Yorkshire moor) over 1,000 bites. It still seemed to taste about as much as at first, but I knew that-taste by then, so I swallowed." London Chronicle. Across the Way" pan she didn't see much use In it. M HEiW HOWIAND Tou may laugh a; my plans, you may say I'm a fool to expect to succeed; Tou may try to heap things In my way. Tou may answer me "No" when X plead; Tou may plot to destroy me and meet My every advance with a frown, Tou may spread out your snares for my feet. But you can't keep me down! "You may question my risrht to aspire. Tou may rail at my wish to mount high; Tou may hold back the aid I require. My worth you may grimly deny; Tou may try to entice me away From the path that leads up to re nown. Tou niaj- scourge me and scoff and be tray. But you can't keep me down! Tou may bring all your eunnlg to bear. For tho purpose of bre&king my will; Tou may load me with fetters to wear. Tou may rail at my strength and my . skill. Tou may rob me of love and of trust. you may call me knave, coward or clown, Tou may press my face into the dust. But you can't keep me down: Why She Was Despicable. "I don't see why you should think Mrs. Wibbersleigh doesn't know any thing. You know 6he is a graduate of Vassar and is one of the leading spirits in the Woman's club." "Well, she's so stuck-up. She wants to put on so, without any rea son for it." "Do Jou think she's that kind? I'm surprised. The last time I called on her she told me that one of her rugs which I supposed was a very costly one was nothing but an imitation and that they had only paid $17 for it." "It isn't in that way so much. Of course anybody can see that most of the things in her house are cheap and shoddy, but she's such a namby pam by, selfish creature." ' Why, really, you surprise me. I had supposed she was anything but that. You know she works regularly in one of the settlements, and it woyld nKike you happy to see her there fond ling those poor little ragged children the way sheioes and acting as if they were just as dear to her as her own are." "Gracious! I didn't suppose she would even touch another woman's child, mine!' She won't let hera play with REALLY A WONDER. "Yes, Mr. Bink eon is one of the most wonderful men I ever knew. He is really a ge nius." "I didn't know he had ever writ ten anything." "Oh, he hasn't, bat he can take a railroad time table and tell just when a train will start, where it is going and when it will get there." MERE OPINION. No man ever got down on his knees I asd prayed for a blessing in disguise. j If the women who want to reform things were always pretty, things I would eoon be reformed. I j Early to bed and early to rise may. ! not make a man healthy, wealthy or wise, but it is preity sure to keep him I out of bad company. j The world doesn't like a man who euiks in ms tent, neitner ooes u ay prove of the one who sulks in public. The popular way is not to sulk. They Never Learn. He led her iown t'vough the green pas ture. The sky was aglow In the west, FT!s heart with new gladness was bound ing, An arrow tad entered her breast. They sat on a leg that was mossy. With their backs to the ram on hill. He arrived and was busy a moment. The nurses are tending them still. th And eighty-nine years In the future Food lovers will blissfully fare to the pastures, and deacons Will still have old ram feeding there. "I suppose the titled personage yon say you are going to marry is mention ed In the Almanach de Gotua?" said the inquisitive newspaper man. "Xo. indeed." retorted the lovely ac tress. "Of course he ain't in uo al manac. Do you think be'a a iniror i Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Daily Story DR. BURLESON ARRIVES BY CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrighted. ;13. ty Asaoclatel Literary Bureau. Dr. Allen came into the living room, ! drawing on his drivlnsr gloves. H was an elderly man, hard driven by an extensive country practice, which he was about to share with an assist ant from the city. i "I am called over to Ridgewood. Molly," he said to his plump little wife. "There's to be a consultation on the Travers case. Brown has tele phoned for me. I may not return until late this evening." "Oh, dear!" sighed Mrs. Allen. "That is awkward just when you are ex pecting Dr. Burleson. But he may not come today." "I'm expecting a telegram any mo ment. He said he tvould wire just be fore he left You have a room for him, dear?" "Oh, yes, the chimney room. It's so cozy on these October evenings." Delia Allen looked up from her sew ing with a mischievous smile crin kling her lips. "Mother is spoiling him, dad, dear. She has hung new curtains in the chimney room, and ehe has picked out all the prettiest worked slippers and necktie holders apd shaving paper "THEY TKLIi MB YOU AKE FROM ALLEN'S. " balls that your lady invalids showt-r on you at Christmas and hns adorned his. room with them. Xow mother, you know you have!" Father and daughter laughed tender ly at the embarrassment of the dear little woman, who murmured some thing about "refined young men far away from their homes." "Here comes Peter with the car riage," announced Delia from the win dow, and she flew to tuck his medi cine cae iuto the buggy and receive his farewell kiss. It was an hour later that the expect ed telegram arrived. Delia smoothed out the message and read scornfully: Meet me at 3:12 train. Suve best room for me. BURLESON. "Why why, what a singular mes sage!" faltered Mrs. Allen, all her ex alted ideas of the new assistant crum bling to dust. Delia laughed. "Well, mother, of course I will meet him. He must be ruther amusing, to say the least. We won't worry father about Dr. Burle son's eccentricities. Ho will be dis appointed." Delia Allen, very straight and slim in her scarlet coat and gray skirt, with scarlet feather in her gray hat, drove Dandy to the railroad station to meet the 3:12 train. As the rubber tired runabout wheeled around to a stand still at the platform the train rdsbed in with a roar of escaping steam and a thunder of wheels on the rails. Then a high pitched, rather disagree able voice Founded at Delia's elbow. "They toll me you are from Allen's," said the voice sharply. "Dr. Burleson?" she asked crisply. "Yes." Delia turned the carriage, and Dr. Burleson tossed a heavy suit case in the back and climbed to a seat beside her. They drove in silence for some time. "How's the old man?" he asked after awhile. Delia stiffened. "You mean my father, of course," she said coldly. "He is very well, thank you. He was called to Itidgo wood this morning. Otherwise he would have met you himself." "Every cloud has a silver lining," he said with a laugh that was extreme ly unpleasant to Delia Allen. Deila thought of the dainty chimney room, and she wondered wh;it her mother would think of the guest for whom she hud made such thoughtful preparations. Dandy turned In at the open gate way and stopped before the door of : the wing where her father'! oifi'.e wai situated. j Mrs. Allen came into the porch, cor-' dially smiling. "Here is Dr. Burleson, mdher," said Deila dryly as the new assistant w-iit up the steps with Ids suit caseiu hand. "I am very glad to see you," said Mrs. Allen, holding out her band. The physician gripped it in a large red paw. "Pleased to meet you." he said rath er awkwardly, and Delia stared a he added in a businesslike tone: "I lion you saved a decent rom for me. I wired Allen to that effect." "I trust you will find it entirely com fortable," said Mrs. Allen haughtily, and ehe called Peter from the Cower r .. betlf t0 CPnduct lootor to rooaJ- ! iivMii?. .in- inu n uuirii fftwum all. t-at 11 cthor. "Mother, he will never do!" ed Delia. whisper- "He is impossible." said Mrs. Allen with flashing eyes. Delia drove Dandy around to tho barn and then returned to the house to find black Peter in earnest conver sation with her mother. The old ser vitor was rubbing his woolly head in perplexity. "Sho. Miss Molly, he nm de con traptedest I eber seen," grumbled Pe ter. "Ses he, 'Bring me ice water, boy, an' is dey a drink in de house or am dis a temp'rance hotel? an" when I tells him it ain't a saloon he asks. 'What kinda ranch am dis any way?' " Mrs. Allen's face was pale and red by turns. "Is there anything else that Dr. Burleson wishes?" she asked. "Yas'm, Miss Molly. Ses he. Take all dese yere dinglcbats outer dis yer9 room,' an', yas'm. he flang all dese t'iugs at my haid." Peter brought his hand from behind his back and dis played an orange colored shaving ball, a beribboned necktie holder, a fancy pincushion and a pair of worsted slip pers. "The man is Intoxicated.'' said Delia from the doorway, and just then Dr. Burleson's heavy step was heard in the hall. In a moment he appeared, look ing at his watch. "If after 4, and I had a light) lunch," he said briskly. "Just have cook fix up a steak for me. . Soma onions with it would go well. "And a piece of apple pie, the kind mother used to make, eh? I'll go out to the stables and take a look at the horse." He nodded toward them, clapped his green hat on his head and left the house, sauntering slowly toward the barn. , Peter followed him, grumbling. Mrs. Allen looked at Delia and was about to speak when there, came a ring at the doorbell. Delia answered It, looking singularly handsome, for her cheeks were flushed with anger and her eyes Bhining like stars. On the doorstep stood a tall, slightly built young man, with eyeglasses astride his handsome nose, lie was immaculately attired, and beside him on the porch were a leather suit case and a traveling bag. "Dr. Allen?" he inquired, baring his head. "I am sorry, but my father is away. He may not return uutil late this even ing," returned Delia. "Is there any thing?" "I am Dr. Burleson," explained tho newcomer calmly. "Dr. Burleson!" shrieked Delln. "Why vhy, pardon me, but we havo been entertaining Dr. Burleson. Oh. there must be some mistake. Do come in and see mother." So Delia hustled the astonished young man Into the living room and introduced him to her mother. "I knew there wns some awful mis take." said Mrs. Allen quietly as sho ehook hands with him. The new Dr. Burleson displayed a letter from Dr. Allen, which fully iden tified him as the new assistant. Still, there was the man at the barn whom Peter reported as making a careful ex amination of Dandy and who was be having in a very rude manner. "Suppose I go out and Interview this gentleman," suggested Dr. Burleson. When Dr. Burleson returned from the barn it was with a smiling request for tlie first Dr. Burleson's baggage. "He asks me to apologize for a mis take," said the young dictor. "Now, do tell us all about it," said Mrs. Allen after the new assistant had returned for the second time, hav ing escorted Dr. Burleson to the ton of the hill and directed him to his proper destination. Dr. Burleson laughed pleasantly. "It appears that your visitor has a -right to his professional title, but hei happens to be a veterinary surgeon. He wns called here to treat an aniinaH belonging to Hosea Allen, proprietor of same big boarding house. Perhaps you know of the place?" "Oh, yes over near the bay," re sponded Mrs. Allen. "lie had never been here before and was surprised to find the boarding house conducted on such a small si-ale. It seems ho wired Hosea Allen to havo a room reserved for him, and at the station I believed he asked if there was a conveyance for Allen's, ami they evidently pointed out your daughter." "But your telegram':" "My telegram? Oh, I never sent any, after all." So the now Assistant had n very In formal introduction Into his wife's family. Ob, yes, he fell in love witn Delia and married her, much to the delight of Dr. Allen and his wife. And Mrs. Allen often shudders and soys: "Just suppose the other Dr. Burle son hud been the rlht one. Delia!" But Delhi only laughs and answers: "Then you couldn't indulge in ding bats, mother, de.'ir!" Sept. 29 ia American History. 17S) The board of officers appointed by Cczieral Washington to try Ma jor Andre found him guilty of be ing a HrltSli spy and "ought to suffer death." ISO" Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, with two of his generals. Mcjlu and Miramou. shot ot yueretaro by order cf the Itepubllcan govern ment laiO Rebecca Harding Davis, novelist and writer, died: born 1SJ0. All the Argus. news ail th? time Th3