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THE ARGUS, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1906. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island. IlL En tered at the postofflce aa aecond-claas matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS DallyalO cents per week. Weekly. $1 per year in advance. All communication of argumentative character, political or religious, must bare real name attached for publica tion. No nuch articles will be printed oyer fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. Thursday, May 17, 1906. The streets of Rock Island are. gen erally speaking, in a creditable condi tion but the alleys, oh, my!" The time is about ripe for another raid on the dives and the gambling houses. It is now thought by some that De neen has been using Yates as a stalk ing horse in the contest for a seat in the senate. It is rumored that Judge Humphrey is going to Washington. He will prob ably find it inconvenient to call upon the i resident. ll The people of Illinnois are having a hard time to grope their way during the horrible silence which Dick Yates Is now inflicting upon them. We can't blame the supreme court with the destruction of the peach crop, for it never handed down its opinion until all danger of frost was over. Two of the greatest undertakings that Rock Island can assume this year are involved in the improvement of Xinth and Twelfth streets. Both, hap pily, are now practically under way. The contention that Chicago owns its streets has received the formal in dorsement of the United States su preme court, and the belief is general that the traction companies will Dot try to carry the case any higher up. The appropriation of one-half of the internal revenue taxes paid by the sin gle Illinois city of Peoria would dig the St.. Louis-Chicago waterway in a few years without going outside of the state of Illinois for a dollar of the money. Senator Bailey of Texas is the one man who comes out of the freight rates tight with large gains of personal repu tation. His part in the debates on the Hepburn bill lifted him in a few weeks to a recognized place amoig the ablest leaders the senate has known. William .1. Bryan does not care to run for the presidency again "unless the circumstances seem to demand iL and at the proper time he will make a careful inspection of the circumstan ces himself. He will find the circum stances very complimentary to him self. Delaying the Big Can'. After five months of leisurely con gress-ional treatment of the subject of the type of the Panama canal this re sult, which has just now been reached in the senate committee. In this un baked condition the senate should have long since taken the subject bodily out of the hands of the committee, and that too. when the calendars of both houses overcrowded with legislation deferred because of the rate bill and disagree ments between them, permitted for a long time little hope of any sort of sat isfactory action in the "hurry for ad journment. This protracted delay has been permirted to come about in the face of the fact officially declared and elaborately explained by the secretary of war personally to the committee weeks ago. a fact which the commit tee should otherwise long before have known that the work on the canal had already gone about as far as it could go until the question as to sea level or Weal Pong cnilffren who hare trouble in fretting about, will be strengthened if you rub the little backs and legs once or twice a day with Dr. RICHTER'S Anchor Pain Expeller A great 'burden is lifted from mother's mind when this good old remedy makes their children lively and strong. Don't be de ceived by counterfeits. The anchor, our trade mark, is on every bottle of the genuine. Sold by all druggists, 25 and 50 cents. F. AD. RICHTER A. CO. 215 Pearl Street, New Yti. lock should be settled, and that unless congress acted or left It to the presl dent to act it would be necessary to lay off the 23,000 laborers who have been massed on the isthmus only with vast trouble and expense, and otherwise gravely injure and retard the enter prise. It is no- wonder under these condi tions that thoughtful people all over the country were beginning to call loud ly, and in many cases angrily, to con gress to take hands off a matter which it hesitated to dispose of. The original act regulating the canal organization, it js generally believed and deliberately asserted by Secretary Taft. confers authority upon the president to decide as to type of canal in the absence of congressional action, and he long since made known his readiness to decide. If there be the least doubt anywhere, congress could long ago have passed a simple declaration, making such authority ex plicit." It is significant that some of the strongest newspapers, some of them sharp and persistent critics of the pres ident as to certain features of his policy, have been most positive in the .demand that congress cease its paltering, dog-in-the-manger tac tics with reference to the great na tional undertaking at Panama and Jet the president go on his own responsi bility. The senate has acted, but it took its own time. The Voice ot Democracy. St. Ixjuis Republic: President Roosevelt, first and last, has stolen a good deal of democratic thunder which he doesn't know very well how to use. but republican chumps who imagine that the democrats have no issues left will be undeceived if they will listen a little to the voice of democracy now resounding through the counties ot Missouri. The notes of democratic doctrine sound strong and clear in all the dem ocratic county conventions, and texts from the Jeffersonian gospel are given out for preachment in every township between now and November. In reaffirming the principles of Jef fersoian democracy the democrats of Missouri do not need to expand their resolutions with multitude of words. The simple mention of Jefferson's name expresses hostility to most of the things that the republican party has done, is doing or wants to do. Reform of the robber Dingley tariff is a purpose on which Missouri democ racy is unanimous and determined. Re publicans who claim that the tariff should be revised by its "friends" are reminded that they have put it off too long, and that the democratic party is the only friend of the -right kind of tariff. Hostility to trusts and monopolies in restraint of trade, hostility to machine methods and boss rule in politics, loy alty to representative government freely exercised are elemental parts of the Jeffersonian democracy whose voice is heard all through Missouri just now. State and national conventions may expand upon the issues, but all the is sues the democracy contends for in the opening campaign are covered by the single Jeffersonian maxim: "Equal rights to all, special privileges to none." TROUBLE NOT YET AT END (Continued from Page One.) tives and his acts in democratic con ferences, in democratic caucuses, on the floor of the senate, and in the con ference between Tillman and Moody, and through Chandler, with the presi dent, gave rise to the suspicion that he was not true to the principle of railroad rate regulation, is clear from the record Itself and cannot be suc cessfully denied. "Bailey may be innocent as a babe unborn, and he says he is, but the sus picions did exist and they have exist ed for weeks. They have been talked of in the cloakrooms of the senate, on the streets, at the White house and elsewhere. They have been mentioned in many newspapers and if they have not been justified Bailey is unfortunate and his character should be relieved from aspersion." On Authority of Iiuu1It. Raymond declares that in the dis patch published in the Tribune, and which caused Bailey to make the at tack, he states the facts on the author ity of William lE. Chandler' himself. It was he, says Raymond, who convey ed to the White house the intimation that Bailey was a traitor and if the Texas senator has anyone to blame it must be Tillman's friend, William E. Chandler. tu"t- frwui Memorandum. Without having the text of Chand ler's memorandum before him, Ray-: mond. quoting from memory says the memorandum was: "The railroad sen- ators want the Bailey amendment, but Tillman is for the president's court re view amendment and will block their game." "This." says Raymond, "isj nearly a literal quotation, out no one could have the text, probably, without ' permission of the president." Raymond declares his dispatch to the Tribune was sent on his own authority and without, the knowledge' of the presi dent. Know llr in Corrrrl. j Raymond continues: "I know I am correct in the statement that during ' the course of the negotiations William I E. Chandler, who, since has accused the president of falsehood, made ail' oral report either to the president him-, self or to some one representing him. which was much more specific. During this talk Chandler In explaining the difficulties In' securing united ' action" by the democrats, stated' in so many words that he and Tillman were sus picious of Bailey, believing he was in alliance with Aldrich and associating with the Standard Oil and railroad crowd in the senate, but that Tillman was watching his maneuvers and ex pected to be able to prevent any evil effects. Alluded to Prev!oulr "These were the suspicions I allud ed to in a previous dispatch as having constantly existed and as having influ enced the administration beyond all doubt in dropping negotiations with Tillman, through Chandler, and renew ing the efforts to unite the republicans on a reasonable basis of compromise." Senate SetMea to Work. Washington, May 17. When the sen ate met it promptly entered upon the consideration of the rate bill. Begin ning with the first amendment, Bever idge moved to strike out the words "excepting gas lines, natural and arti ficial" from the operation of the pro vision making pipe lines common car riers. The suggestion as sharply an tagonized by Foraker. who charged the change is desired to "meet the whims of somebody who wants to in fluence legislation." lleveridK'e Withdraw. Lodge, author of the amendment, ad mitted he cared very little about the gas feature of the provision. After further debate, Beveridge withdrew the amendment in order to permit Talia ferro to present a provision excluding only natural gas for. municipal pur poses. Taliaferro declared the senate has twice taken a position against the Foraker "pet line," and yet, he added, as the bill now stands it appears to have been unsettled. He attributed this change to the skillful management of Aldrich, Foraker, and Carter. MnkrH Sharp Retort. "There is no excuse whatever for that remark," said Foraker. "The change was not due to me. I do riot do anythinng in a surreptitious man ner." Knvorit BIk Battleship. Washington, May 17. The naval ap propriation bill, carrying nearly $100. 000.000, was completed yesterday in the house. An amendment introduced by Mr. Burton of Ohio to strike out the appro priation of $6,000,000 for a rival to the English Dreadnaught was defeated, as was the amendment leaving the con struction of the battleship to the dis cretion of the secretary of the navy after the second Hague conference. I'aaxea Naval Dill. 1 Washington. May 17. The house to day passed the naval appropriation bill. Stanford Will Be Rebuilt. San Francisco, May 17. Stanford university will be reconstructed at once and by next September every building necessary to the welfare of college will be in perfect condition. The damage by the earthquake is not nearly so great as at first reported. General McArthur Dead. Chicago, May 17. General John Me Arthur, a former postmaster of Chicago and major general during the civil war. is dead, aged 71. Stomach Troubles. Mrs. Sue Martin, an old and highly respected resident of Faisonia, Miss., was sick with stomach trouble for more than six months. 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We have the knowledge and equipment, and in fi.tting eyes we look- u little further ahead than the edge of the cash drawer ;o your best interests. Try us. 7o a avi :ck Island. III. atZZZZZZ3 V DAILY STORY HOW THE POSTAL BILL WAS CARRIED.) r Original. One morning Sir Roderick Boyle, 2d. P., a baronet living In London, went to the postomce to ask if there were any letters for him. Now, at that time 1830. the second year after the good Queeu Victoria ascended the throne of England the postomce was a very different bureau from what it is today. The mail was all carried on coaches, and the charges ou letters were lu pro portion to the distance they were trans mitted, ranging from 10 to 4o cents for a letter weighing au ounce, and were collected when the letter was de livered. Since the value of a shilling wa proportionately much greater tbeu than now the cost of postage, especially on a letter seut from one extremity of! the kingdom to another, wan, to the poor, prohibitive. Sir Roderick stepped up to the de livery window aud, finding a young womuu. a maidservant, there, waited. The clerk bad banded her a letter, aud she Was looking at tbe superscription. Presently she sighed and turned to leave. The clerk called her 4ack. "This is the third time this week you've leen here to ask for letters, and, though I've had one for you every time you've called." "Whut's the matter, lassie V" asked Sir Roderick. "Cnn't you pay for your letter" "1 haven't the mouey, sir." "Whom is it from?" "My young niau, sir." "What is the postage?" asked the baronet of the clerk. "A shilliug fourpeuce," replied the clerk. Sir Roderick took the amount from his wallet and laid it before tbe clerk. Glaucng at the grl to see how pleased she would be to read the letter from her lover he noticed a peculiar expression ou her face, while she shook her head, as much as to say, "Don't do it." But it Mas too late. The clerk had taken the money, aud the letter was In the baronet's band. He gave it to the girl, and tbe two walked out of the postofflce together. When tbey reached the street Sir Roderick took out an eyeglass and read the super scription on the letter. The name was "Beth T. B. It. Perk." Sir Roderick was puzzled. He bad never seen so many initials in tbe name of one in her class. "You are Beth Perk. I supiose." he said. "Yes. sir; ou that letter. Sometimes I'm Bess, .Elizabeth. Betsy or one o' the other names as belongs to Eliza beth." Tbe goad man looked at her wonder Ingly. "And you seem to have a good mauy other names, judging from the Initials.' "The letters, sir. Them differs. Sometimes there's three, like this one, sometimes two, and once there was five, but that was only once and was necessary." Sir Roderick took the glass out of bis eye and surveyed the girl from head to foot. What could she mean? He was too well bred to ask even one so far be neath him to explain a matter in which he could not possibly be expected to have an interest, so be simply looked at ber. "Well, here's your letter," he said, handing it to ber. "Please, sir. I don't want It." "Don't want it." "No. sir. There's nothing in it, sir." "Nothing in it? Then why" He paused. "I tried to stop you payln' for It, sir. It's this way. sir. My young man's valet to a laird in the north o' Scot land, sir. The postage on a letter from him Is one and four, sir. so we has a way o' writin' on the back o the letter as we both knows what It means. In side there's nothln but a sheet o pa per, with nothin' on it. I goes to the postofflce and calls for the letter and knows what It says by the writin on the outside. Then I bands It back to the clerk and pays nothin'. I won't mind telllu" you what this one says If you won't look at me. Beth means sweetheart. T. means time. B. R. means one month that Is, it's one month before we're to be married." Sir Roderick, who was a statesman, stood looking down upon tbe girl think ing. Tbe postal laws enabled him as one of the nation's rich men and legis lators to send a piano through the mails free. If he chose, but tbe poor must pay for an ouuee of paper. The next day Rowland Hill's bill for uniform inland penny postage was to come up in tbe house of commons and Sir Roderick had proposed to kill It. It now occurred to blm that the gov ernment was carrying this girl's love letlers free, whereas the charge of a penny might be paid not only by her, but by thousands of others who could not pay the high rates. "Beth," he said, tearing open the let ter and glancing at a piece of blank paper withiu, "when you want to send another letter to your lover come to me." he handed her . a card, "and It shall cost you nothing; I'll frank It for you. And here's a wedding present for you, or rather pay for an Idea you have given me." He handed her two 10 notes and left her standing on the side walk gaping after him. Tbe next. day. when the postal bill came up in tbe bouse of commons. Its friends were in despair since It was sure to be killed by Sir Roderick Boyle, who had denounced It as a visionary scheme that, would . swamp the post offlce department. When shortly be fore the vote was cast the great states- j man arose and made a speech In ad- i vocacy of the bill there was great as- I tonishment. The measure passed, but no one knew that the turning point In its struggle for existence was a cipher between two lovers, neither of whom knew any more than to read and to write. 1 MARY O. BURNET. . THE BEE HIVE Net only do we show the largest selection of Trimmed Hats in the Tri-Cities, but We Give the Best Values Every day we have indisputable evidence of this fart hy women who shop all around town and come back to The Bee Hive to buy. Avoid this tedious task by coming here first. 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