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THE :R"GUS, MDNESDAT, FEBRUARY 13, 1005. '4 THE 'ARGUS. PoVlIshed Daily and Weekly at 1C24 Beccad avenue. Rock Island. I1L En tered at the postofflce aa second-class matter. . By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly. II per year in advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from svery township tn Rock Island county. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1905. "We must choose between regulation and rebellion," says ex-Gov. Van Sant. Pass ft filong to the senate. Will somebody please suggest to this weather that it has worn out its wel come and that even the oldest inhab itant stands In awe. It seems to be becoming clearer to the average mind daily that what Rocii Island wants is interurbans, and that nothing short will suffice. The report that Secretary Morton is about t leave the cabinet to become president of the Santa Fe is promptly denied. What the railroads want is not to get men out of the cabinet, but to get them in. The steel trust work ed It so admirably that they made their own private attorney the attor ney general to prosecute trusts and thus had the counsel on both sides. The governor of Kansas has accused the chaplain of the lower house of the Kansas legislature of stealing a prayer from the paragraph in the governor's newspaper. The chaplain prayed. "There is so much bail In the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." The governor Fays he thought that a very neat bit of phrasing up, and printed it more than a year ago. ami naturally he wants credit for it. Presidential Beards. When Iloosevt-lt is inaugurated on March 4. 1!05, he will be the second president with a mustache. Cleveland was the first. Whatever the presidency of this country has done for the incumbent, it has not been productive of beards, comments the New York Sun. The fir.ut four chief executives were as clean shaven as Benedictine friars. J. Q. Adams was the first to break the rule, but he was not a full-bearded president. His facial growth of hair hardly came up to what are usually termed side whiskers, but they were a trifle more expansive than the Scijtch Fresbyterlan type. When he retired. the beardless pres ident came in again with Jackson, but his successor. Van Buren. brought to the white house almost an exact pat tern of the whiskers grown by J. Ci Adams. William Henry Harrison again set the beardless face. The seven who came after were clean shaven. When Mr. Lincoln was elevated there was not a hair on his face, but before he finished bis first term he wore a sparse beard, with ciean shav en upper lip. One of the authenticated stories is that he did this to please a child. CJrant was the first president with a full short beard. His immediate suc cessor. Hayes, was the first to wear full, long whiskers, covering his shirt front. Garfield also wore a full beard but It was less luxuriant than that of Hayes. Arthur, who was the most correct dresser of all the presidents, was the first In the list to grow the Burnside type of whiskers. Benjamin Harrison's beard was full with a slight tendency to curl at the end. and was tinged with gray. After Cleveland the clean shaveu face returned with McKinley. The mustache came in for the second time when Roosevelt succeeded. The Kallless Trolley. As far as it has been systematically tried ' under proper conditions in Ger many and France, the railless trolley, as the latest experiment In applied electricity, is a practical success, from which some are already expecting rev olutionary results in the United States. The line connecting Dresden with one of the suburbs cost about $13,500 a mile for werything except its cars. The car. which is an adaptation of the omnibus, seats 22 passengers. Warm ed and lighted by electricity it costs about $3,500. To Install a railless trol ley system. It Is only necessary to string the wires over a fairly pood ordinrvy roadbed, ard attach, the trol ley connection to the car. to start the system to oneratine. As there is no rail ret:rr. f.?r :he current, the dou ble wire syMetu is used, and It is said to take altout a fourth more power o move the car without rails than with j them. The system works at a speed which in French experiments is suited at about eight and a half miles an hour. Its great future in the United States is predicted through its extension iu country districts, where it can be In stalled at a small initial cost always providing there is a passable country turnpike to install it on. During snow in winter the Dresden cars have the hind wheels removed and runners sub stituted. If every county in the United States had at least one well-paved road, tha expectation of railless trolleys connect ing every county town with the next might be realized during the period it will now likely require to get existing roads mended for foru-horse wagons. It THE HOTELS. At the Harper John F. Rowe, Chi cago; Mrs. H. Rusenburg, St. Louis; H. M. Temple, St. Paul; J. P. Weyer hauser, St. Paul; David Richards, Chi cago; Charles H. Martin, Leavens ville; Benjamin Smith, Mankato, Minn.; K. M. Whitham. Aledo; Guy G. Somerby, Chicago; C. D. BlnggoH. city; James J. Whiting.. Canton;, L. C. Johnson. Galva; X. P. Jones, Tolona: E. A. Bartholomew, Dixon; S. R. Ixjg wood, St. Iuis; M. D. Rosenfield, Mo line; S. H. Cox. Cleveland; H. J. Wal ker. Chicago; J. T. Walker, Kansas City; George Blyneyer, Minneajolis; William Hutton, Milwaukee; D. R. Smith, F. M. Bond, Chicago; Ralph E. Johnson, Lincon; E. Corris, Washing ton, Iowa; W. J. Blair, A. H. Ayles worth. Cincinnati; M. A. Walsh. Eu gene J. Walsh, Clinton la.; C. Meyrer, New York; H. C. Klocksiem. Ixiering; Thomas E. Green. Charles E. Piper, Alfred Loepard, Chicago II. H. Fenni more, C. R. I. & P. railway: Benjamin lAtvy, Dan vers, Mass.; A. C. Edwards, Chicago; Charles H. Begg, Detroit; M. Klanker, New York; E. N. Newburger, Chicago; A. , W. Goenipler, Oenawka. 111.; W. C. King, Rockford; Owen L. Jones. Blue Island; H. M. Wright, Chi cago: M. H. WyckofT. Harrisburg, Pa.. H. Keyster, Reynolds; Joseph Rich. Milwaukee; Delmar D. Darrah. Bloom ington; W. D. Fullerton, Ottawa: Charles C. Myers. Rock Island; Peter Connor, Coal Valley; A. B. Snyder, Chicago; James A. Lombard, Grand Rapids: F. E. Miller, Geneseo. At the Harms (European) F. C. Robbins, Davenport; W. C. Read. Chi cago; H. T. Melvin. New York; Frank G. Mason. Omaha; P. R. Johnston, Vermont. 111.; R. W. Thompson. Chi cago; H. T. French, Kansas City: O. W. Burton. Albany; C. A. Horn brook, Port Byron; Joe Fox. Chicago; F. Y. Keator and wife, Texas; Georg? H. Ingolsby, Chicago; F. C. Nordgreen. Milwaukee: F. A. Clarke. Philadel phia;; Shelby Martin, Rockford; C. W. Holmes. Chicago; A. A. Twitt. Roches ter, X. Y.: T. N. Roach. A. F. Mull. Chicago; C. W. lister. New York; Harry G. Williams, Chicago; Charles lrrick, agent Orphan's Prayer com pany: C. W. Medearis. Cincinnati; H. M. Temple. St. Paul; Frederick John son. Cambridge; H. C. Tressen. Mus catine; L. C. French. Galesburg; C. E. Ritter. E. R. Hurd. Chicago; J. L. Cap per. Milwaukee; G. W. Horace. Peo ria; John F. Williams. Chicago; C. J. Johnson. St. Louis; William G. Spring. Chicago; H. G. Hoffman, New York. M. A. Morrison, Chicago; C. V. Stod dard, Cincinnati: Allen Woods. New York; Stephen W. Bradley. St. Iuis; W. Fredericks, Chicago; Carl Leutz, Jt slin. Fiendish Suffering is often caused by sores, ulcers and cancers, that eat away your skin. Wil liam Bedell, of Flat Rock. Mich., says: "I have used Bucklen's Arnica Salve, for ulcers, sores and cancers. It is the best healing dressing I ever found." Soothes and heals cuts, burns and scalds. 25 cents at Haltz & Ulle- meyer's drug store; guaranteed. Deserved Popularity. To cure constipation and liver trou bles by gently moving the bowels and acting as a tonic to the liver, take Little Early Risers. These famous little pills are mild, pleasant and harm less, but effective and sure. Their universal use for many years is a strong guarantee of their popularity and usefulness. Sold by all druggists. IT IS SERIOUS. Some Rock Island People Fail to Real ize the Seriousness. -. The constant aching of a bad back. The weariness, the tired feeling. The pains and aches of kidney ills Are serious if neglected. Dangerous urinary troubles follow. A Rock Island citizen shows how avoid them. to Mrs. J. Andrews, of 1305 Thirty- eighth street, says: "I had steady aching pain through my kidneys and in my hips, especially after a hard day's work when my back hurt me so severely that it made me nervous and restless nights. There was too fre quent action of the kidney secretions as a rule, very annoying and distress ing. Doan's Kidney pills were rec ommended to me and I obtained a box at the Harper House drug store In a few days I bejjan to improve and I continued the treatment until I was completely cured." For sale by all dealers. Price 5' cents. Foster-Milburn company. Buf falo. N. Y.. sole agents for the United , Slates. Remember the name Doan's anJi lake no other. 1 DAILY SHORT STORY ) A MAN OF PROMISE. Original. 1 Iiorni-e Doaue was a country girl tbiit is. she was brought up In a small New England town. She went away from home to be educated, and before Ler final return her father died, leav ing only the bouse in which the family had lived. Niles Willmrtu had been a suitor for her hand since she was little more thau u child, but Niles had gone to college, where he had beeu a gen eral fag In term time, a teacher in va cation. This was essential to his edu cation. When Bemi-e finished at stbol and went home Willman was struggling in a law school In uiuili the same fashion he had pulled himself through college. Berah-e was a more high bred girl than the other girls iu her town. She would have passed in social life any where. On her return she learned that a young eurate. Tracy Bond, had come to the village during her ab sence, an intellectual young fellow and very agreeable. He had. however, been brought up In the most aristo cratic circles in the land and did not appear to take much Interest in the girlf of his parish. Hernlee was in formed by her friends, that she must not be disappointed if he failed to no tice her. But when she and Rev. Mr. Bond met he not only noticed her. but devoted himself to her. The result was a love affair, and in time Bond called on Mrs. Doane to ask for her daughter's hand. Now, Mrs. Doane was a very prac tical woman. During the call she sat quietly knitting, chatting the while with her visitor, gradually getting at the bottom of the young man's ability to make a wife comfortable and taking his measure without his In the least suspecting it. "My income nt present," said the rev erend gentleman, with stress on the "at present," "is a mere six hundred a rear, but I have u strong friend in the bishop, and the Bond family Is by no means disposed to see one of its mem bers left In the lurch. Our family, which I may truthfully assure you Is one of the oldest in our state, has" "Yes, yes." Interrupted Mrs. Doane, "I have heard of the standing of your family. Has It sufficient means to keep up a style of living commensurate with its honorable name?" "Oh. yes." replied the young man. "My father, it is true, has not attained the success he deserves, but my Uncle Edward is now engaged In putting a copjier mine on a paying basis and Li just on the eve of success.'' "And will share his profits with you. I suppose?" asked the lady dryly. "Uncle has always leen very fond of me." replied the curate uneasily, "but of course lnce he has eight children I don't count on funds from him. But I am sure of his influence. I am rather looking to preferment In my profession and the sale of some western lands taken by my grandfather for a debt. Bernice is a noble girl and is fitted to take the position I have tn view for her. I do not intend that she shall 1m? put to the necessity of doing menial work. My wife shall never go into the kitchen. My family would 'cut' me if I allowed such a thing. I am quite sure it will stand by me in my marriage and will be nble to m.-ike hit path and Bernice's a smooth one." This ended the interview, and Rev. Mr. Bond departed, feeling that he had silenced any doubts Mrs. Doane might have had its to the cxpiliency of trust ing her daughter to one of the old and tried Bond family. When Mrs. Donne was alone Bernice joined her, holding in her hand n let ter from Niles Willman, which she gave to her mother to rend. It was a reminder of a youthful promise she had given him, but releasing her If she wish ed to be released, since she was aow a woman of an age to make her future. while he still had years of plodding ahead, with nr one but himself to help him. Mrs. Doane handed back the let ter. "Niles is doing something." she said, "and promising nothing, while Mr. Bond is doing nothing and living in a roseate world of exiectatlon that some one will do something for him. You must make your own decision, 103 duughter. I know- that no one can successfully interfere with a girl fol lowiittc the dictates of her heart, but If I were you I would decline Bond and accept Niles Willmsu." It was a bitter striiKKle. but Bernice Inherited the practical nature of her mother and rejected the curate and In time married the lawyer. Rev. Mr. Bond before he left the parish became engaged to one of Ber n ire's friends. Bernice was a bit shak en wlicu she thought of the handsome curate in his canonicals led to the al tar by suolher. But she tided over her emotions and in time forgot all but her happiness as the wife of a young law yer, full of pluck and resource, rapidly making his way Into a lucrative busi ness. Ten years after Beruice's marriage and about as many after the marriage of Rev. Mr. Bond, Mrs. Willman and her mother, being in the city where Bond and his wife were settled, thought it a good opportunity to call on them. The doorbell was answered by Mrs. Bond, whose drawn features indicated that she had not found life as roseate as Mr. Bond had promised Mrs. Doane his wife's life should be. Half a dozen children came trooping after their mother, she evidently being nurse and housemaid. During the visit the hus band called out In a querulous tone from bis study: MXan. why don't yon bring me up a cup of tea, as I told you?" Mrs. Bond sighed, exensed herself, went ut to the kitchen and carried a cup of tea to the man who had de clared that his wife should never b her own servant. FLORA MI LUG AN. D R O 1 A Postal FOR TMsBooK FREE Year health Is yoor neatest blessing Guard it as your Ule. Find out the truth about yourself, whether you are sack or well. Learn how to set well and keep well and how to ret well should r ou become ill. Poor health is the result oi your allure to obey nature's laws. How can you obey these laws unless you know what they are? Io you suffer from headaches? Is your appetite poor? tio you lay awake at nicht? Are you nervous and irritable? Then you are on the dowivroad to poor liealth. Get on the up-road. Dr. McLean's book tells you how to renin lost health or to retain the health you have. Dr. J. H. McLean has prepared many remedies to help those who suffer. One ot them is MeanSLiver Kidney Balm This remedy reaches the organs that are most susceptible to disease: the orjrans that must be kept i a good working condition to secure good health for you. McLean's Liver and Kidney Ha!m puts these organs in good order and keeps them so; makes them throw off disease perms: relieves un. told suffering; brings health and strength to those who use it. At all druggists. 1.0J the bottle. THE DR. J. 11. W CLEAN MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS, M0. mi FOOD DELICIOUS NUTRITIOUS CORRECTIVE I have used and prescribe J SUN BRICHTS CALIFORNIA BABY POO! ::h tr.uch satisfaction and t,or.:-iJcr it on.: of the best, if not the best f. oJ rrspsration cn the market. It did me espi-Ily RrJ service in or.e case ol ChoWa Infantum, and in Typhoid Fever I found it invaluable. V T. .VwNiiry, V,.D., Sin Jose. Csl. 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