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THEABGUS, SATURDAY, JULY 0 1904 4 THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island, 111. En tered at the postofflce ae second-class matter. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly. $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumenta tive character, political or religious, must have real name attached for pub lication. No such articles will be print ed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. Saturday, July 1904. Nevertheless the Ieorrotes should b prevented from eating dogs until the fhnraficr of the American loir nas been improved. The Russians are hoping that all games in the Manchurian league will hn liostuoned on account of wet grounds and rain. Perdicaris has determined to come to th: United States, and he will with out doubt be one of the open-cage at tractions at chautauquas. There is more inspiration to make men truly great in one convention like that in session at St. loiiis than in a do7.cn of the cut and dried kind that recently assembled in Chicago. It might be settled by saying that the national republican party is no more in earnest over reciprocity now than it was when the idea was first suggest ed. That woiiid allow ill fac tions to stand on the platform. Democracy has again shown to the world in its national convention a forum wherein men of conviction meet and adjust honest differences regard ing men and measures with but one end in view that of their country's good. July T. was American Boy day at the world's fair. There were not so many of him in attendance as there would have been had not the previous day been the Fourth. He was doing busi ness with the toy pistol then am! be is not BO numerous now as he was. The explanation, which it is hoped the public will accept, for the present hiKh prices of beef is that the packers need the money. A contributory idea is found in the fact that the men who believe there is too great margin be tween the live stock quotations and the price of dressed meats decline to do the slaughtering to teal the matter. In their conquest of northwest Su matra the Dutch are proving their ability to kill women and children by the hundred, which leads to the belief that they will in time suppress the men by cutting off the supply. At first the killing of the women and children may seem brutal, but the warriors of Wilhelmina regard ii as deep strategy. Ona Danguisse. a resident of Port land, Ore . was brought before Justice Hoyne of the municipal court charged with ill treating his wife. The evi dence showed that be had choked the woman brutally. The court directed Officer Goetz. an immensely powerful man, to choke the prisoner in order that he might have practical knowl edge of how Ii is wife suffered. The of ficer obeyed with a will, holding the wife beater until the brutal fellow be came limp. Then Justice Hoyne sen tenced him to :; tlays in jail. President Hadley, of Yale, ti lls of be ing requested to lecture in a city some distance away not long ago. His train was late in arriving at the place and he was earnestly concentrating his mind on the address he had prepared. Jumping Into a cab he handed the driv er $2 and shouted. "Drive fast The horse started off With a plunge and kept up his rapid Knit for half an hour, going up one street and down another. Finally the professor stuck his head out of the window and asked: "Are we nearly there cabby ?" "Dam fino, mister." was the astonishing re ply. "Where did you want to go?" As an illustration of carrying mili tary discipline too far this story is told by Qua. N. A. Miles: "There was a certain colonel who in the middle of a Campaign was seized with a sudden ardor about hygiene. He ordered that all his men change their shirts at once. This order was duly carried out except in the case of one company where the privates' wardrobes had been piti ably depleted. The captain of this company was informed that none of his men conld change their shirts, since they had only one apiece. The co'.uiel hesitated a moment and said firt::i : "Orders must be obeyed. Let the :ucn change shirts with each other." The Detroit Free Pros discovers that the fact that this is a leap year carries with it an effort apt to he over looked, which is that the annual expenses of governing the nations will be considerably increased by the in clusion of the extra day. This comes home with the greatest force to those governments which have the largest armies to feed and provide for. The French budget commission was met by the fact that the one day will add to the expenses of the war office for 1!04 a sum of nearly 80,000 francs, which will be expended in rations for the men who forage for the horses. When all the various state departments are separately considered the total sum runs into several mil lions of francs. Policy and Personality. All voters should remember that they do hot vote for any candidate for president directly - they vote for a par ty with policies. The Republican pal Icy, if approved by a majority of th voters, is to drift along and trust that good enipa and bit;h prices will con tinue and claim that any measure of prosperity is of Republican manuf a tore. Then' voters who an- enamored of rough riding and Strenuosity should understand that Mr. Roosevelt is but a small sK)ke in the wheel of the par ty that lias nominated him and that be must carry out Republican jolii-ies such as thu leaders dictate und th platform culls for. When Mr. Roosevelt accepts the nom Illation his letter of acceptance will show that he thoroughly Indorse all that the Republican party stands for. He cannot object: he must approve The rule of the party Is stronger than personality, nnd to object, even not ap prove, all that the Republican plat form declares to be the policy of that party would be disastrous to any can didate. To vote nnderstandingly and conserve their own interests the voters must investigate and decide between the policies of the two great parties. Civil Service JCefbrm. Local civil service boards are often the most ultra partisan, and instead of the road to an ottji-e under the govern ment being opened to nil. if they can pass the necessary examination, only friends of the party in power ha v any such opportunity For instance the civil service commission has dis covered in ;i ew England town a sec retary, the chief executive Officer the local board, who frankly declared that lie IiihI been in othec live years and that no Democrats would ban nnv share In the administration of this government as long as he could keep them out. All of which goes to show that al though civil service reform may the oretically have strnim points in its la vor it can be and often is but an aid to the Republican machine. Under our fonn of government every citizen has the rlirht to aspire to any office he Is competent to lil I. and unless we want to establish an officeholdlng class, who must be pensioned when age dis qualifies them, appointments for four years would seem to be the best solu tion of the problem. CHICAGO-DEHVER TIME IS REDUCED BY MILWAUKEE With a new time card effective to morrow, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railway will eliminate two hours and forty-five minutes from the running time of passenger trains be tween Chicago and Denver. Under the schedule that has been prepared, the Overland Limited train, operated jointly by the Union Pacific and the St. Paul, will reduce its time between the two cities from L,s hours and !" minutes to hours. The distance between Chicago ami Denver is considerably over 1,000 miles, which means a rate of about 49 miles an hour for the entire distance. Bast bound the time win be cut even deeper than westbound, three full hours being eliminated front the sched ule between Denver and Chicago. By the arrangement the Overland Limited of the St. Paul road will leave Chicago at 6:06 p. m.. and arrive in D. tiver at B o'clock the following night. Eaatbound the train will leave Denver at 1:20 p. in., and arrive in Chicago at 0:66 p. m. the next day. To line up with the new schedule the train now leaving Chicago at 9:45 a. in., will be operated only as far as Omaha, and its leaving hour from Chi cago will be changed from 6:45 a. m., to 7:15 a. m. The reduction of time between Chi cago and Denver makes the St. Paul a central figure in the transportation world between the east and the Rocky mountains. Notice of Meeting Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the stockholders of The Hlack Hawk Homestead Building Loan & Saving association of Rock Island. Illinois, will be held at the office of the secretary in Beugston Hlock in the city of Rock Island, on Tuesday evening. July 19th. 194. at the hour of S o'clock, for the purpose of electing four directors, and the transaction of such other business as may be necessary to come before it. E. D. SWKENKY. President. T. J. MKDILL, Secretary. July !th. 1904. DAILY SHORT STORY A Thunderbolt at Sea. COURT HOUSE RECORD. A Nice Trip for $1. Iave Rock Island on the steamer Helen Blair at 4 p. m. Sunday. Mon day. Wednesday or Friday. Arrive in Muscatine at 7 p. m.: returning home, leave Muscatine on the Rock Island at in p. m.. or the Milwaukee at 10:25 p. ra. Round trip tickets for sale by F. V. Black, agent. Both 'phones. At the bottom of good manners there are always three things self sacrifice, elf control, self respect. All the news all the time The Argus. k Copyrlsht. 1904. by C. B. Lewis This was the situation at 10 o'clock of a fine June morning many years ago: A big English sailing ship called the Kangaroo, one of the last of the Australian packets, was lying becalm ed off the African coast to the south of St Helena, and three miles away was a rakish brig, also without move ment. The brig bad crept out from the coast during the night under the influ enee of airs too light to flare a candle As was afterward known, she was a Spanish rorer called the Celeste. The Kanpnroo would not have been put in a state of defense but for the passengers. Many of them became nervous atUhe siuht of the brig, and to quiet themand at the same time exer cise the crewv the guns were cast loose. small armsjerved out. and the peaceful packet was tunienl into a man-of-war. There wan a providence in it. When the stranger saw that he was suspect ed he threw off all disguise. f a sud den bis deckx were alive with men run ning about, and later on four boats wen? lowened and filled with armed men. Theywere coming to attack the Kangaroo. They must have known that she was armed and had a strong crew aboard, but the pirates of old were men to take long chances. When the boats left the brig's side we count ed fifty-two men in all, and it seemed as if us many more were left behind The bhuk flag was hoisted, and there could no longer be a question as to the sort of men we had to deal with. The passengers of the Kangaroo to a man TOltmteered to assist the crew. and we wire presently prepared to give u good account of ourselves. We could note long before the pirates reached us that they comprised several nationalities and that they were a des perate lot. The boats divided as they came on, and wheu within a ndle of us the fellows began cheering. Our first shot was from one of the big guns and conld not have been bet tered. It struck one of the boats fair on the stem ami split her open full length, ami of those not killed outright only two or three were picked tip. The disaster only made the rascals the more desperate. Raising a yell, the three remaining boats dashed at us and were soon so close that the big guns were of no further use. We met them with bullets and buck shot, and we hove eokl shot into their boats as they booked on, and no gang of pirates ever got a harder drubbing. Although we lost two men killed and several wounded, not an enemy got ttlKard, and only two boats nnd eight een men returned to the brig. That night the damaged spars were replaced, shot holes plugged up, and there wis no reason why we should not nufejy make the Cape. When daylight came we congratu lated each other over our victory, nnd the captain bad just dec ided to make a sort f holiday in honor of the event when a thunderstorm came racing up behind us. and in the midst of the black chsid was the pirate brig. In stead of sailing nway in search of a haven or other prey when she had re pa Ired dunnages she had plckcl tip our trail and was going to give us unother brush. Bach grim persistency at first brought a Ceding of fright, but this soon gave place to one of grim determination to Oght her to tin- death anil show her no mercy. When we hail her crippled the night before we could have destroyed her. but Captain Wilson simply sailed away. He now promised the crew to sink her If be could, and there was cheering as the men went to the guns. Down came the black cloud, and with It down caine the pirate, with his black flag flying, and as he ranged up on our port quarter at half rifle shot he opened tire. His first shot struck a gun nnd killed three men. and his second wounded five men. Tlien the storm broke, the sea Increased, nnd, although the firing continued, no grent damage was done on either side. Daylight was turned into evening by the storm. There was heavy rain, with gusts of wind nnd the keenest of lightning ntid the loudest of thunder. ur decks were ankle deep, but every man stood to his gun and continued to fight. As the darkm'ss increased the brig crept closer to us. and during the last ten minutes of the fight one could have heaved a stone aboard of her. One saw her in the piny of the light ning nnd for an instant could almost look into the eyes of the men aboard, and then for a few seconds she would be lost in the darkness. So terrific and continuous was the roll of thun der that the reKrts of the guns were unheard. You felt the concussion along the deek. but the report was lost in the war of the elements. Loading nnd firing every gun which would lear as fast as osslble, the Kangaroo rushed forward on her course and, hanging to her quarter like I bulldog to his prey, followed the Celeste. Of a sudden there was a great crash nloft. and down came fore and main topmasts together. The men were called from the guns to clear the wreckage, and the ship was in danger of broaching to and being swept when there came such a flash of lightning as seemed to burn the eyeballs. This was followed by a thnnderclnp wbih Seemed to lift the ship out of the wa ter, and then fifty pairs of eyes saw a great snout of flame shoot up out of the sea. In the midst of the flume were masts, yards and sails and flying ob jects. The brig had been struck by light ning, and her magazine bad blown op. There was a puff, a boom, a gust of red flame, and that was the end. She was blown into matchwood, with her black flag whipping in the gale and ber crew working at the guns, and the last pirate craft to plow the south At-1 Ian tie was no more. M. QUAD. Real Estate Transfers July 8. C. H. Pope et al to L. P. Strayer. lot 12. block 179, East Moline. Moline. $::"u. D. S. Metzgar to Mrs. M. B. Shaw, part outlot C2, 25. 19, le. $200. E. H. Guyer to Henrietta Wehrend. lots 1 and 2. block 59. East Moline. $'.( '0. In County Court. July 8. Estate of Frederick Val entine.. Claim of Charles A. Strom berg allowed in class 7 at $14 4. 'is. Claim of Charles A. Valentine allowed in class 7 at $795.60. Estate of Mary O. Wheelock. In ventory filed and approved. Final re port of administrator filed. It ap pears that no further notice is neces say. Said final rejort approved. Said administrator discharged and estate Closed. Licensed to Wed. Floyd Reynolds Taylor Ridge. Ill Miss Mary Simpson Edgington. 111. Camiel Christ ianens Moline Miss Julia I'ttetihove Moline TODAY'S MARKETS. Chicago. July 9. Following are the opening, highest, lowest and closing Quotations In today's markets; heal. juiy. 89, It'll.,. SKs. ssa-.. 4, v::- st. September, 8S?j i ( mber, 83 S3 31 '4 t'oru. July. 4j. 4V.L,, isepiember, 4'jIr. 4-fc. December. 4".. -i".7,. 45. 4." Oats. July, 39, Mjjt, 3xv.. September, ::j-s. Hi: u, . 32 ft December, .13 '4. 33, 3-.' Pork. July. 12.S0, 12.''2. 12.62, I2. September, I.'.;, 12.90, 12.72 l. rl. July. f.0, 6.99, 9.99, 9.99. September, 7.65, T.oT. 7.00, 7 Rika. July. 7.:;7. 7.40, 7.r,T, 7.40. September, 7.60, 7.66, 7. .".5. 7 Kceipts today: Wheat 9. IS 13. 12.80. 'i J. Kill 121 ! i v u rm v "cOWRlCmc irww FINE It s Well to Dress Well... and in order to dress well you must have a garment that fits perfectly and becom ingly, and by getting a G. (Si H. Special 1 6, cattle 1,066, sheep d'ais 10, 1 1 1 r 2.000. Estimated receipts Monday: Wheat Is. corn 1 4. oats nn. iios :::.ooo. Hen market opened weak to Be low er, tashl e.104?5.45, mix.-. 1 and butch ers 5.155.55. Kd heavy 5.10f?5.6(l he. ivy 5.10 3.25. Cattle market opened we ak. Sheep market opened steady. 1 c. . Ai& l .tliffil'li vs...'i" tcmrnif wypp Hoars: At Omaha 7.006. cattle 1. V .8. rards, n:4 a. m. -Hog market slow to :. lower. Light ... 1 i V mixed and butchers 5. 1ft 4r 5.55, ii heavy :..i'i rough heavy 5.10A 9.25. Cattle market strong. Beeves 4 on 6.60, cows and heifers 1. ' I. m. Texas tockers and feeders .BO. steers :t.7 2. .Ill ii 4 Sheep market steady. i--K market closed steady. Light ". 1 1 .",.4.-.. mixed and butchers 5.15(1 .v.. K""d heavy .". t"-,( rough heavy '.I 'i ' 5.25. Cattle market colsed unchanged. Sheep market 1 losed steady. New York Sdieks. New fork, July 9.- Following are the the closing quotations on the New fork stock exchange; New York. Jlllv 9. SUgmr USV.. Has C, It. I. - P. l".. Southern I'n 1 iih 4s-"-. B. A O. 82. Atchison com mon 7',. Atchison preferred 95, C, If. ft St. Paul t4.r.'-,. Manhattan 151 Copper 1 1 ? . N. v. Central 1 1 7 . L. js- x. 11: , Reading mniKii iI'k. Canadlai j 1 -1 . H. R. T. SOS. PSciflc Mail :m,. DESICr.tRS MAKERS of CLOTHUNQ suit you are getting the best. It has that broad shoulder and chest effect which gives a full, substantial appearance to the wearer without that stuffed and padded look so common to many makes. Try a G. S3L H. SpeciaJ and get the best. Sold only by us. Gustaison SX Hayes J5he New Clothing Store, 1714 Second Ave-, . . Go to . . WILLIAMSON 8 To buy or sell ISccond Hand (ioods of all kinds. 1628 Second avenue. New 'phone 516-1 Coach Excursions to ike World's Fair. Here is the opportunity July 5, 7, l. 14, 1!. 21. you bave been waiting for. :; nnd 28 the Rock aland Steel preferred ,s-i4 V S. Si mmon it. Penna lis '.4. Missouri Pa ine '-. I'nion Pacific 91, i.al Iron '7. Brie common !5, Wabash tie rerred S5, a.- ; ,W. 13, Illinois Cen tral 133. Republic steel preferred 11 :'t . Republic st.-ei common 7. Hunk Htatl mmt mt. New York, July 9. Reserve decrease 178,475; less i". s. decrease, $73,625 loans increase, $3,263,366; specie in rease, 13.722.160; legale decrease. $J. 516,366; deposits Increase, 5,1C1.566 irculatlon decrease, 341.360. System will sell round-trip tickets t St. Louis ;it consid erably less than the one-way rate --only $; from Hock Island. Return limit, seven days. Tickets are kikxI for first class passage, but will not be honored in Bleeping cars. Tlio great fair is open for the reception and entertain inent of visitors. In size, beauty and variety it excels any thing of its kind in t bo historj of mankind. To see it is the privilege of a life time. Full information on request. F. H. PLUMMER, C. P. A. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. S. F. Boyd. D. P. A., Davenport, la. I.Or.ll, MARKET CONDITIONS. rnilny'a Quntnlinnv un I'rovlnions, Live Stock. Peed nnl I'uel. R.M-k Island, July '.. Following are he wholesale quotations on the local mn rket : lro ImIiium. Ratter Creamery 18c4 20c, dairy 13c Kpmt Fresh 14c. Lard 6c Live Poultry Sprinp chickens 330 3.50 m r dozen: liens Se ter pound: turkeys in- per pound; ducks Jo; geese sc. Vegetables New potatoes 75c. l.lve Stock. Cattle Steers $l.:.0$(): COWS and neilers j:; 4...0 : calves Mi $4. Hogs Mixed and butchers $4.7."'!' ;..2.v Sheep Yearlings or over 33034.60; lamhs $3.r.o 'n 36. Feed imil fuel. Oraln Corn 55c4p5Sc; oats 4 3c Ot 4 fie. Forag Timothy bay 31149312; prai rie fj 'u Jl. 'i : str.nv 16.50 (a S7.50. Wood Hard. ! r load. 35.50. Coal -Lump, per bushel. 14c; slack. per bushel, 7c. .sK iaar --i . 1 iQlBl Zzrl H . 9. A Study in Wall Decoration is contained in our stock of new de signs and effects In colorings. For rich anil artistic touches of colors and tints and beauty of patterns they are nnrtValed. Decorations from them are furnishings in themselves, and we will do it at prices that are as attract ive as our wall papers. We also carry a stock of paints, oils and room mouldings. PAR.IDON SON. 4 l'. SEVENTEENTH STIfKKT. Old 'phone union 218, ucw 'plitMe 5213. It's Indispensable in the Good i Old Summer Time. Cincho Reliet Tonic At all druggists and cafes. Price. 25c. b0CO00CXXXX000000X0000000 I XX5000GOXXKCOOCXXXXXOOGOO OOCOOOOOOOO OOGGCXXXXXXiOOOOO We Don't Need the Money, Maybe Yovj Do? Money loaned on all articles of value. A trial is all we ak. We have Siegel's Loan Office g .1 few exceptional bargains in diamonds. 320 Twentieth St. New Phone 5122... f.fX All Roa ds Lead to Our Store TtM July particularly is apt to be quiet in business cir cles. The spring buying is over and many people are leaving for the summer. But there are still a great many here judging from the way they have been flocking to this busy store to tcike advantage of the saving that they know they always make on Firiiturea Carpets, Rvigs, Mattings, Stoves, Etc., when bought here. You'll find what you are looking for here - and what's more you'll find that our prices are ies. May we save you money? All we ask is that you come -our stock and prices will do the rest. C L E M A N N & SALMANN,