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ITHE 3HGUS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1905.
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lahUahe4 Daily and Wetkly a1 1(24
eVecoaa avenue, Rock Island. HI. En
red at tae poatoSlca aa aaooaa-claa
natter.
By THE J. W. POTTER CO,
TERMS Daily, io cents par week.
WMklr, $1 per year In advance.
AH communication! of argumentative
character, political or ralig-leua, must
nave real name attached for publica
tion. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious Big-natures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
Thursday. July 13, 1905.
Tha fact that Paul Jones is being
actually buried Ik affordiu England a
heap of satisfaction.
That fribky federal injunction will
rnvort around until it will set someone
into trouble. See if it dou't.
The fireworks tru.st in fctttiiig jt8 pa
pers ready to put a federal injunction
on all atttmpia to have a huuiaue
Fourth a jear hence.
The sequence of the cotton Iwak
scandal in the cabinet comes in the
promised retirement of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson. Next!
According to a Mlshotiri newspaper,
which maintains that there was no
slcknexs before U-trs were invented,
the American people are paying $1,
OOO.Oud p-r year less for physicians
fes ami drills than they paid lo years
ago. The statement is also made that
the avvrage duration of life has risen
1') yutt Tti duriiJK the same perkd. It
would be interesting to know the
source of these statistic.
Jng on Its hidden face merely tie label,
'train mail. A would-be depositor
must get permission to go through the
gate to reach it, and he cannot tell
even then whether the collection from
it la made five or twenty-five minutes
before train time.
At the St. Louis air the government
had a postal exhibit inside the govern
ment building. The actual equipment
used on the grounds outside, however,
was far from reflecting on postal en
terprise. An old one-horse phaeton,
with an extemporized arrangement at
the rear for stringing up the bag. was
ued for collecting from the boxes on
the grounds. It was a ridiculous spec
tacle at the great international exposi
tion of social progress.
In the city of Budapest postmen
speed to the street post boxes on motor
cycles. Denmark is reported to have
introduced automobiles into her postal
service. Other European countries have
done so. American mails are still col
lected "on foot."
In the city of Vienna not quite a?
large in population as Chicago there
are 452 "'red" post boxes, for special
pos-t cards and letters requiring re
spectively 4 cents and t cents postage
Collections are made from these boxes
every 20 minutes from 7 a. ui. to f p
m. I hese letters and post cards are
hurried to one of the 46 pneumatic tube
stations in the city, they are sent by
tube to the station nearest the destina
lion, and they are then dispatched by
messenger. A "red" box letter thus
DAILY SHORTTORyI
THE MIDSHIPMAN AND GEISHA, j
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reaches lis destination on the average
withiu about one hour after deposit in
the box. lenna has had tins service
for a generation. Paris. Berlin, and
several lesser cities of Europe have
like service. The United States has
the 1'Ment special delivery letter.
which probably requires on the aver
age for delivery two or three hours
from the time of deposit in a jxjst box
Our postal department needs toning
up. The president's commission should
examine and report the facts. 1'resi
dent Koosevelt. himselr can render no
more valuable service to the nation
than to promote enterprise in the iosta1
department.
oecrotary nay. Jess than a ear ago.
predicted that he would not live 1
inoniDS longer. i nis was in conversa
tion with James Dubois, a state depart
ment official, and others. The latter
expressed the hope that Mr. Hay would
remain in the cabinet during this presi
dential term, and vtius serve longer as
fcecretary of state ilian any of his
predecessors. The secretary said:
"Xo. I fhall not live to ierv;- anotijer
jear."
New York Evening Tost: Perhaps
the most inteietinK fact regarding
the announcement of a new
$150,000,00(1 loan to be raised by Japan
is the participation of Germany in
bringing it about. At the outset of the
war, German opinion expressed itself
as unfavorable to Japanese credit as
to the chances of Japanese victory over
Russia. Change of sentiment in the
one direction has brought change in
the other.
WLjr Conceal Corruption?
There scvins to be no eud to the cor
ruption of employ e-s of the government
in the department at Washington. The
postoflice department, the interior ile
partmeuf, and uow the agricultural de
partment, have each revealed brazen
dishonesty and graft of the meanest
sort. Why, it may well be asked, have
these matters been so long concealed
ana tue people told that things were
all right?
The exposures in the federal service
at this time are beating the records
and disclosing how long and safely
cunning politicians have been fatten
ing themselves by rascality, not so
sleek that it ought to have gone so
long without detection.
irange, too, an tins being done tin
!r a republican administration, and
when the head of which is talking to
the people of honest and virtuous off!
cials in voluminous orations.
Judge Bishop, of the juvenile court
In St. Louis, thinks it Is good for boys
to ngnt occasionally. The foreman of
a brewery caused the arrest of two 12
year-olds who had been engaged in h
game of fisticuffs. The judge reproved
him for doing so. lectured the boys and
eent them home. "I do not wish." said
his honor, "to be quoted as an advocate
of fighting, and yet there are times
when no other course is open to man
or nation. Besides, it is a serious thing
to put the stigma of arrest on these
ujk ior sucn an onense. wnich was
not nearly so great as the complain
ant's in causing them to be taken to
the police station."
1 loom for Improvement In the Go-
erniuent Service. i
Presidwut Roosevelt's commission of
inquiry should give special attention to
the postal system not to its statistics.
but lo its lack of enterprise in many
Hues und to Its limited scope. The
railway mail service is admirable. The
rural free delivery is a great iniblic
benefit. The department is astonishing
ly negligent, however, adds the Chica
go Tribune, of many small matters of
public accommodation and is suspic
lousiy limited in its general ti.ld of
activities.
Post boxes, even in minor European
countries, are provided with a device
which shows which one of the schedul
ed collections was last taken. A ilepos
or cau always tell, Ihertfiae. with
certainty wuether or not be is iu time
for a given collection. It was only
tnree or tour jears ago that any such
boxes were put in use in this couutry.
and then only a limited uumber were
installed.
St. Ixtuis had a world's fair last year.
Travelers Made special use of the
mails. There were throngs of people
atuearlyall hours iu the union station
Yet after an early hour in the evening
it was impossible tin that gnat gate
way of travel to get a special delivery
or even an oi.linar postage stamp
to say nothing of general postal infor
mation. The same thing is probably
nw true of every railway station in
this city.
la the union statiou of the comparatively-small
city of Zurich. Switzerland,
thero is a prominently placed post box
-beariug notice that mail is lifted from
it for every mail train, and five minutes
before t'.. leaving time. Iu the "union"
station of Chicago, persistent search
may discover, obscurely placed on the
Inside of the railiug. so hat it faces
away instead of toward h waiting
area for passengers, m uot bos, bear-:
HAS MAN FOR TAYLOR'S PLACE
Gov. Deneen Said to Have Planned
Change at Wa-tertown.
According to the Chicago Record
Herald Supt. W. E. Taylor is doomed
to be removed from the head of the
Watertown hospital by Gov. Deneen
when the latter's belated appointments
are announced. Only two superinten
dents, it is said, will escape the gov
ernor's ax. These will be Supt. J. C.
Corbus at Kankakee and Supt. George
A. Zeliar at Bartonville.
The others, where successors are ex
pected to be appointed are:
Central hospital. Jacksonville Dr.
H. B. Carriell. superintendent.
Northern hospital, Elgin Dr. Frank
S. Whitman.
Southern hospital. Anna Dr. R. F.
Bennet.
Hospital for insane criminals, Chest
er Dr. Waiter E. Sanger.
THE HOTELS.
At the Rock Island. (European!
.Noah Ilenliue, Omaha; I. R. Pitney,
Peoria; C. M. Angel, Chicago; (Just
Olson, Peoria; Irwin L. Melody, Bos
ton; Olof H. Kyster, Reynolds; F. W.
Ri'sser. Des Moine; C. B. Uadcliff,
Chicago; William C. Behring, Cedar
Rapids; Harvey B. Peek. Austin
Minn.; C. B. Krausch, Chicago; M. B.
Storey, LaSalle; Irvine C. Leonard
Chicago; A. R. Steele, Chicago; A. J
Krazier. Beardstown; F. D. Seribner,
Cliuton; Adolph Nelson and wife. Ori
ou; Jack Cudy. Cornell; M. J. Davis
and wife, Chicago; J. B. Heydlauff.
Jacksou: E. E. Law. Sterling; E. E.
Sly. loua. Mich.; C. C. Peuse. Chica
go; F. M. Guthrie, Canton; William
Wolf. Chicago: C. A.. Jackson, Chica
go; A. Wilsou. Battle Creek; C. W
Black, St. Ixjuis; George Fergusou.
Orion: R. H. Taft. Cedarville; S. Carr
and wife. Ehiou, Iowa.
Petition for Saloon.
Rock Island. 111.. July 3. lSjt3. To
the Honorable Mayor and City Council
of tho City of Rock Island. III. Gen
tlemeu: We. the undersigned owners
of property ou Sixteenth street, in the
city of Rock Islaud. ou both sides of
said street, within a distance of S'K
feet both ways from No. 230 Sixteenth
street, hereby consent to and petition
your honorable body to permit the
Rock Island Club to open and conduct
a saloon at No. "M Sixteenth street, in
the city of Rock. Island. 11L
The Rock Island Club, by E. H. Guyer,
president. 160 feet frontage.
Dennis Warren Estate, by Phil Mitch
ell, administrator. 40 feet frontage.
Illinois Theatre Comnanv. by Phil
Mitchell, president; T. J. Medill, bec
retary. 150 feet frontage.
Frank 111, 1.10 feet frontage.
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She was a geisha In Tokyo. In Japan
girls are named Star, Sunshine, Cherry
or some such word, while boja are
called Stone, Tiger or Bear. This re
minds us of the children's saying that
"girls are made of sugar and spice
and all that's nice," while "boys are
made of scakes and snails and puppy
do its tails." The eei&ha's name was
Cherry, and It suited her exactly.
though she was an ox heart. Through
ber dnftky skin the red blood showed
Itself, her eyes were liquid, while the
lashes fringed them like the rushes on
the verge of minute twin lakes.
Bob Hyatt, a young American mid
dy, went with a party of naval officers
to the tea house where Cherry danced
and sang, accompanying herself on her
eamWon. The next day Hyatt went
again to the same tea house, gazing at
the geisha out of a pair of bine eyes
which spoke admlratiou far more
plainly than he could have expressed
it in words. He had barely passed
twenty, and Cherry was several years
behind that milestone of life. She bad
been trained frr a geisha Just as girls
in America are trained to work in fac
tories. The love sng8 she sang were
meanlugless to her. When the little
god flew between her and the midship
man she did not recognize him for the
same Cupid with whose antics she had
entet t"ind stranger?. He was some
thing new and beautiful to her. She
caught him in her bands and hugged
him to her bosom with all the delight
of a child clutching a fluttering bird
None of the orficem on the cruiser
knew how Bob Hyatt made the ac
jjualnuince of the geisha. Tbey noticed
that when he was granted shore leave
he Invariably made pome excuse to gi
off bv himself. Uttle attention was
paid to this till one day a number of
his shipmates met him face to face
walking with hi little sweetheart on
one of the Kirt wtreets of Tokyo where
he had boned to avoid them. When at
breakfast the i"xt morning they all
sat at the Junior officers mess they at
tempted to rally him on his conquest,
but he frowned them down, and they
had the delicacy to let him alone.
The cruiser remained In Japanese
waters some time, going from point to
point, then sailM for Manila. 'Hie
night before she weighed anchor the
last time Bob came aboard with an
air that showed a change In the fair
weather of love In which he had been
silling. There was a faraway look in
his eyee that now and again gave place
to one of pain. He was so engrossed
that he forgot n lotus flower in his but
tonhole, und when he did see It with
a hand that trembled a little be took
ont a pocket book and put It away as a
souvenir. During the voyage to Ma
nlla he was not himself. His brother
officers smiled hikJ remarked that Hy
att had leen quite badly hit for a
sailor and that he would not likely get
over it during the voyage to the Amer
lean islands. This, however, would
not indicate a very serious damage,
since the trip lasted but a few days.
With time the young officer regained
an Interest in wnat was going on about
hliu, though he would permit no refer
ence to his Intimacy with the geisha
Indeed whenever any one ventured ou
forbidden grounds a strange terror
was noticed to pass over his young
face, aud for this reason his comrades
luiautmou&ly resolved that there must
be something painful connected with
the affair, and they would not irritate
the wound.
One morning an American gunboat
came into the bay, and when she slg
naled that she was from Tokyo one of
the young officers standing beside Hy
att noticed a dread pass over his face,
as if be might receive some bad news
When an ensign from the gunboat
came aboard and went straight up to
him he caught at a rail to steady him
self, but when the officer gave him an
ordinary message he recovered at once
All these indications were remembered
afterward by Hyatt's tompanlona.
Finally tiie cruiser steamed out of
Manila harbor, and it was announced
that she was to go ba-k to Tokyo with
government dispatches for the emper
or, after which she was to return to
America. Midshipman Hyatt caught
bis breath as though be was to face
some trial, but bore up bravely under
the scrutiny of others. Before the ves
sel reached Tokyo several of his friends
among the Juniors made up their
minds that he should not go ashore un
less watched. I'pon reaching iort be
was one of the first to ask for leave.
and when be was rowed to the dock
two of his best friends went In the
same boat. Hyatt seemed to be too
much absorbed to suspect that they
would dog his footsteps, and they bad
little trouble in doing so nnaeen.
When the two officers retained to the
ship they carried with them In a rick
shaw Midshipman Hyatt to the dock
aud thence by boat to the cruiser.
There they reported that they bad
been attacked la the streets by some
low grade Japanese and Hyatt bad
been wounded. Hyatt recovered, but
he was a changed man. He was never
again the careless sailor boy be bad
been before his first visit to Tokyo.
The officers who followed him in To
kyo kept the secret of what happened
for years, but after Hyatt's death one
of them told the story as I have told It,
using an assumed came. The sequel Is
this:
When the middy left the geisha for.
as he told her, a final parting she
threatened to kill herself as soon aa ha
had gone. It was this that troubled
him. On his return he west at one to
her house, met her brother and learned
that she had kept bar word. Hyatt
would have been killed by tha brother
had bis comrades not Interfered la
time to save his life.
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2:30 p. m. Lecture, "Shylock" FATHER J. L. VAUGHN.
4:00 p. m. Second psychic lecture, "Man's Dual Nature" REV. J. H.
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7:30 p. m. Concert ALLEN FAMILY.
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