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4 THE ROCR ISLAND ARGUS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1010. THE ARGUS. I Published Dally and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island. 111. En tered at the postofflco aa second-class matter. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS. Dally. 10 cents per week. , Weekly, $1 per year in advance. All communications of argumentative j character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles -will be printed 'over fictitious signatures. ! Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. $ TRADES (jgg) CPU NOL 20 Tuesday, February 22, 1910. Let the town grow. Boost for a Greater Rock Island. The Keokuk Gate City welcomes the new 12 cent stamp to return spring (poetry with. What shall it profit a man if he finds ', out the high cost of living and he can not reduce it? Zelaya is going to write a book. Here's something else that Secretary Knox is responsible for. The threatened conflict between in terurban franchises and the Belt line ' proposition has been removed. Now let us get busy bringing in the inter urbans by the route proposed and ' pushing the Belt line on its own merits. have more weight than many words from laymen. There is the more reason to look, for this assistance on the part of the Judges, because it is inevitable that measures calculated to cure the scan dals of the law's delay will add dig nity and power to every trial judge. A Straw Which Indicates. An indication of the keen interest the farmers of the country are taking in the various explanations given by protectionists to account for high prices of meat is furnished in the fol lowing letter, just received by Minor ity Leader Clark of the national house from a farmer of York, Neb.: "The secretary of agriculture has just issued a bulletin in which he at tributes one important cause of the high price of beef to the limited ship ments of cattle to market, but the fact is that American beef Is sold in Eng land 25 per cent cheaper than at home. A man of this city has recently re turned from London. He Is a leading butcher in this state. He found Swift's and Armour's beef on the block in the shops of London at a cost of 2 cents less a pound than he could buy them for in Omaha. To be exact he GAIN IN DEPOSITS State Banks of Illinois Show a Flattering Growth During Two Months. FIGURES FROM AUDIT0K 1 OX Institutions Have Depotdts $520, 1 57,04 4.2G Surplus Growth $3,905,340.74. of Springfield, 111., Feb. 22. The in crease of $15,622,306.50 in deposits of the state banks of Illinois, between Nov. 17 last and the first day of the present month, indicates that the pros perity of these institutions is keeping pace with the general improvement in conditions throughout the country. State Auditor McCullough has made public his recapitulation of the aggre gate resources and liabilities of the 468 state banks. The statement shows total deposits of $526,157,044.26. Cash The New York Times calls the Payne-Aid rich robber tariff law "a two humped Bactrian camel o tariff treachery.'' Has the republican party dropped the elephant for the drome- dary? on hand and due from banks aggregate had to pay in Omaha 11 cents a pound , $143,50,34S.47, which is an increase of the time of the last previous statement. The per cent of reserve to deposits is now 27.27. Inrrraam in Nearly All Clusses. Increases are shown in all classes of deposits, except cashier's checks, tho most notable being the t me and savings deposits, which now aggregate $210,194,479.13, an increase of $8,613, S04.16 in two and one-half months. Demand deposits have increased in this time from a total of $195,799,005.54 to $197,845,219.27, and time certificates from $44,047,406.29 to $45.62S,461.65. Demand certificates now aggregate $1 5.6 14. S9 4.02 and certified chocks $1, 2 5 3. 7 3 9. OS. The surplus fund of these state banks has been increased $3,395,346.74 since November. for the best quarters of beef, and the same were on the Iymdon dealers blocks at 9 cents laid down there. "These are facts which render in significant the finding of the depart ment of agriculture as to the falling ofT in the shipments. The fact is that the packers charge home market con sumers this enormous difference be cause the tariff enables them to com bine and agree'to do it. It also proves that 9 cents is a reasonable price, af-for.-tinr- a fair tirofit. else the moat j would not be shipped to England at I that figure." ! Congress Should Investigate. ! President Taft opposes a congres ! sional investigation of the sugar trust frauds on the ground that it ! might give "immunity" to the men j "higher up" and "otherwise prove i an embarrassment" in securing con j vietion of the guilty parties in New I York. It has been presumed from the first and there has been no denial ; i from the White house that Mr. Tatt ' I'm acting in opposition to a probe by i itself. He has the right to know that I congress upon the advice of the at-: patrons are satisfied, and no offense ! torney general of the United States, 1 can be given or taken through a po i George W. Wiokersham. j lite inquiry as to whether anything Mr. Wlckersham was former attor- can be done to assist the traveler. Local Kail way Situation Clearing Up. j ney for the sugar trust. Perhaps he j With the waiting room full of people. There is every present indication j knows the meaning that the words ; a few minutes spent among its oc that the Rock Island Southern has j "otherwise prove on embarrassment" ! cupants in this way may bring many i were intended to convey. No one; dollars to the company in return, abandoned its original proposition lo j eJse Reems to know. j .-0n the traiu the conductor has seek a franchise through First avenue t The record in the most recent of : many opportunities to increase the iuv Us passenger uu.ue, ai;d accept an j the sugar trust's scandals is as plain j value of his services with a little per ordiiiance which win bring us coacu-.a as it is infamous. By placing steel jsonal effort that costs him nothing, into Ruck island via i'nth avenue springs in 17 pairs of scales, the and wins smiles of approval that are from ti,p w.t ar.ri rinu n -pni.nth j trust robbed the government of more j certainly more desirable than frowns TO REPRESENT AMERICA IN BERLIN - k - . " V I j i i i - .'i S : f , i i, V f !? ' - ' i F ' - r - K h i ' fKvi t X-l: - ' f . ft i 19 --.r;,"- 13 - As P r i-: ' jiif f. - t The Teire Haute Star (rep.) says j that beiii9: such an overwhelming ma- ; jority of the senate. Mr. Aldrich dos not have to defend himself. Cannon like, on the floor of that select and distinguished house. is not manifested the impression may be given that the company's represen tative is taciturn and sour, although the contrary may be thf case. The aftnt is looked upon as the company to Fast and Uitnce eat to Twentieth, i The Walsh brotiiers, the piomoteis, than $2,000,000 in import duties, j of disapproval or sneers of contempt, and admitted it by returning the! Many very prominent and learned plunder. A few minor employes have men have been flattered by a word icaiiico iuii iuu.l me remaining spa-je b sent to Dri8on. The master i of recognition from the conductor on First avenue is to be reserved fur j thieves, the men into whose pockets , in what esteem, then, must his affa the Belt line, and that any new rail-j tDe $2,000,000 would have gone hadjbility be held by those of less import road project must either make terms! their crimes not been discovered, ance or fewer attainments?" with that corporation or lay out an in- i have not been molested. The present dependent route. The Southern ha3 preferred the latter alternative. In any ordinance now offered for the Southern for the use of streets pro vision should be made that it is for electric cars of the most modern in terurban type, designed for passenger, express and mail business only, and indications are that these men will go scot free. Instead of occupying All railroads in the western classi fication territory have decided to dis prison cells, as ordinary thieves do, ! continue the privilege of returning they are in all probability living in j shipments at half rates. The order mansions on fashionable boulevards. Because of their vast wealth, these multi-millionaire sugar thieves are more of a menace to society than or dinary crooks, because hey are in a that under no circumstances must it position to bribe the representatives be used as a freight line or for steam locomotives. These safeguards thrown about the ordinance, it will prove one of the best propositions ever put be fore Rock Island. It will bring in the long sought Interurban traffic from the eouth and will enhance the value of e-ery foot of property along the line it traverses. There are indications, too, that the local Htreet railway system, as it ap plies to the routing of cars, will !n due time clear away and that some : and escape being held up sf the people and thus breed more criminals. Congress ought to be allowed to investigate the sugar scandal, even if it does mean "immunity" for the men "higher up," which it does not, necessarily. A congressional probe might at least establish the ldentitj of the real robbers, and that would be a safeguard to the average citizen, who, in case he should see one of the sugar pirates coming down the street. might be able to run down some alley amicable arrangement will be agreed upon between the Second avenue and Third avenue merchants that will re sult in a mutually advantageous agree ment. The Argus Is for any move that Vill redound to the future greatness of Rock Island. In that we are all ! Interested. The definite mapping out of the franchise for the Southern leaves the Belt line In control of the remaining First avenue rights, and the public spirited men In charge of the enter prise should make haste to without further delay avail themselves of the privileges which they are In a way to secure there, to the end that when the next railroad project comes along Ihey will he In a position to show it the way to get la. The Law's Delay. The courts of New York county, ac cording to the World, cost $5,986,132 per annum. There are 149 Judges, with many clerks, stenographers and attendants. Yet notwithstanding, the number of courts and the generous compensation they receive, the World makes the just charge that there are numerous and unnecessary delays in trying cases. It cites a case.lhat has been In litigation six years, a tax case that involves the franchises Df corporations, 11 years, and a per sonal Injury case 33 years. It states that judges have been responsible jn many instances for the numerous ex traordinary delays, while in many other cases the law's delays are caused by the rule of practice which prevail, and in these the judges are victimized and oppressed exactly as are litigants and taxpayers. The conditions In New York City exist in a modified form in nearly all portions of the country. That there is need for reform is apparent. Judges themselves ean do much to expedite Justice under existing laws. They can also be of great service in fllrecting necessary legislative action looking to reforms In practice and pro cedure. A few words from them will Feb, 22 in American History 1732 George Washington born in Westmoreland county, Va.; died at Mount Vernon. Dec. 14, 1799. 177S Rembrandt Teaie, celebrated art ist who painted Washington from life, born; died 1800. 1819 James Russell Lowell, poet, au thor and diplomat, born; died 1S91. 1847 Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, and defeat of SaDta Anna's Mexi can army by American volunteers under General Zachary Taylor. The watchword of the Americans was, "The memory of Washing ton." 1S9Q Edgar Wilson Nye, popular hu morist, died; born 1851. RAILROAD NEWS As a starter in an educational cam paign the Harriman lines, through D. C. Buell, chief of the bureau, has is sued a pamphlet entitled "The Value of Courtesy." The booklet is being distributed among the students of the bureau and among passenger train employes, station and ticket agents. Among other suggestions and in structions it says: "Questions must be answered care fully aud correctly and with a cheer fulness that does not repel nor dis courage tho questioner. They may seem irrational, or even silly. It must be remembered, however, that the railway, with Its complex and changing rules and schedules, is to a greater or less extent, a mystery to some eighty millions of people even the experts are put to their wits end to avoid mistakes or misunderstand ings. "A kind word to those in the wait ing rooms who may be too timid to ask questions, shows thoughtfulness, and is received with appreciation. Courtesy of this kind is seldom vouchsafed, and when such interest Is the result of a recent declaration on the part of the interstate com merce commission stating that the return shipment privilege was being abused and should be confined to the return of damaged goods. The supreme court of Illinois has ruled that railroads must exercise the same care and protection for govern ment mail clerks as for passengers. This was decided in the case of W. E. Barker, who sued the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis road and recover ed $6,000. As a defense to the in jury of Barker the railroad contended that he was not a passenger. Telephone train dispatching cir cuits are to be installed between Chi cago and Kansas City, between Joliet and Pequot, 111., and a third between Topeka and Kansas City. M iLWAliKLE. The many rrlends ot Col. William C. Brumder or Una city are congratulating him on his recent appointment by the state department at Washington as honorary commissioner general to tha American exposition to be held in Berlin the coming summer. CoL Brumder is the son of George Brumder, a pioneer German newspaper pub lisher ol Milwaukee. lie is associated with his father in the management of the various papers controlled by the Brumder family, these including the Germania, a weekly, and the two dailies, the Germanla Abendpoet and the Herold. The Brumders also hold a controlling interest in the Ger maoia .National bank. The Argus Daily Short Story Saved by a Parrot. By Andrew C. Evin. Copyrighted, 1910. by Associated Literary Press. r H. t Casteel, Pres. M. S. h'eajy, Vice Pres. L irJI H. B. Si.T:rnon, Cashier M0WET SM THE E-AK VDONT YOU im BAWIC cecum? ji .rt i'il f7 a Km an , wt Kr sr u b.- 'fend i lfoWfcLD Off &4fKZk1sC-Z "K- If Adam, 4,004 B. C, had lived and earned 510 a day until now, he would have earned less than 22 million dollars. If he had found ONE dollar and put it out at One per cent com pound interest that one dollar would now amount to $66 4-597,6iJ4,3S5,-947.64S. Money grows if you will let it MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK We pay liberal interest consistent with safety 4 per cent. CENTRAL TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK On either side of .Wv York harbor, ! on an electric car for a visit to the is commanding tlie Narrows. Is a fort. land. Robert had money enough in That on the east shore is called Fort , "is pocket to enable them to take in Hamilton, that on the west Fort "st of tho shows, ami so great was ... . ,, , . , ; their enjoyment that tho time passed adsworth. Ihese forts are at all' ,, .. , , . , . more rapidly thau tlioy realized. The times garrisoned by t mted States . daya were at fhe t,me at thpir ongesU troops. . ; aEj this, too. had something to do with There lived some years ago near , their mistaking the hour. At any rate. Fort Hamilton a widow named Hani- when there was slill twilight they mend, whose boy. Robert, growing u;i heard a clock strike f. in clos. proximity- to an army post. Robert's heart bank within bim. His imbibed a taste for a military life. : leave had expired, and he would not When he became eighteen years of age 1 J able to reach the fort in less than . , . ... r . i.i half an hour. He would be "broken he went into the fort one day and on- . i i,s , , , . ; that Is, reduced to a private ana Ins listed and then went home and told Ins ; &am of 1)Ct.oialnj? a commissioned of mother what ho had done. tlc,.r wa9 nt aa elul At any ratc he Robert Hammond was a steady : VlOUia i)? obliged to begin all over and young fellow and, liaving received n ; b.T a long period of good behavior get pretty good education, resolved to try j again in line. for promotion throima the noncom- j "Very wo!!. Nancy." be said; "I mny missioned to tho commissioned grade. ! as '!1 be hanged for a sheep as a He had become a corporal when that ! J; VvVn st:1-v h as lo11 as wo happened which sometimes makes and ; ancy endeavored to induce him to sometimes breaks a man he got a j p0 i.ack at once, but he would not. sweetheart. Nancy Alvord was about ' y they ordered a supper and after Hammond's age and a lovely girl. that continued to enjoy themselves at Nevertheless she was the cause of Lis j the various places designed for 1!ie getting into trouble. j double purpose of giving people pleas- Famous Couey Island, where there uro ani pcttiug their money. When is a multitude of shows, is but a few j tnc nKl.J(.v was mostly spent they took miles from Fort Hamilton, and rue ; C3r anj went home. Passing a sa summer day when the youug soldier ' joou kct by cue Murphy. Robert wish had leave to go where he lilted be j oa to go in and get a g!a.-s of beer, but tween midday and 0 p. m. he called j xancy dis-iaded h!;n. Robert left her Xoj? Kancy, and together they stepped ; at her house, then went to his moth- " i er's. ! Though It was late. Mrs. Hammond : was just a i .nt going to bed, Robert told her that he had broken his leave, j Mother-like, she persuaded bim to go j to his own room that he bail occupied i as a boy and remain there overnight, j He did so and in the morning over i slept. Then his mother begged him to take breakfast at home. By the time be readied the fort it was long past reveille roll call. Robert was put in arrest. And what was his astonishment when told that the saloon keeper. Murphy, had been j murdered tbe night before, that some shreds of blue uniform and several army buttons had been found near j the body and a soldier answering his description bad been seen near the saloon. The young soldier was troubled only j at the prospect of being rtnluced to tho racks. There could be uo doubt of Lis proving that he had not been in Mur phy's saloon and that he had been with his sweetheart and later with his mother. He gave the captain the ad dress of both women and told him to I go and ask his mother and Nancy if i he had not been with tbcui during the night of the murder. I The officer, in order that thre might j be no collusion between Robert and the others, said not lung about the charge of murder to either woman in order to better conceal his object. He told thorn that the soldier was in dan ger of being tried for desertion. Both women kuew enough of army offenses to understand that desertiou was a se rious charge. Neither knew what rea son Robert had given his superiors for his absence, and both feared to say anything about him for fear of dis- ! nrovine what he had himf-elf said. Tbe consequence was that both denied having seen hita the night before. .This waa quite enough to convict him, if not of the murder, certainly of falsely accounting for his absence. He was turned over to the civil authori ties to be tried for murder. Mc:i of the iinguish of i lit mother ui:d sweetheart when they learned of t!;u real charge that bad been made a-aiust tho sou of the one and lover of the cLher and th:U they had pu; l! out of their' power to prove an alibi for him and in this way establish his innoceuce. They were visited by Rob ert's attorney atid questioned. It was evident to them that he did not be lieve the reason they cave for telling his captain that they had not seen him during the night of the murder, and it would not have made any difference If he had believed them. They had made a statement and could not contradict it before a Jury and expect the contra diction to be considered evidence. Nancy Alvord. after her terror at ber lover's position and her chagrin at having denied that she bad been with him had in a measure subsided, began to think of some way to prove the un truth of her first story. This led her to read carefully the newspaper ac counts of the murder, and she saw that Murphy's watch, which was found in his vest pocket, had stopped at thirty-seven minutes after 10. She remembered hearing a clock strike 11 while on the car returning from the island. This was fixed in her mind by the fact that she expected a scolding on her return home for having stayed out so late. The civil authorities considered that Murphy's watch marked the time of bus death. The murder occurred in an upper room used for card playing, uo one but the murderer and the mur dered man being present. That there had been a scuffle was evident from the shred of uniform and buttons picked up on the floor. The watch bad undoubtedly stopped during this scuf fle. At thirty-seven minutes after 10 on that eventful evening, with a limit of ten minutes either way, Robert and Nancy had been among the shows at Coney Island. They bad passed Mur phy's saloon at about twenty minutes past 11. Had Nancy not been handl capped by her hist statement she could have told a perfectly straight story that would have tallied with the facts and exonerated her lover. The next move she made was to go to Coney Island and visit the attend ants upon the various shows with a view to finding some one who bad seen her there with a soldier and if possible to secure that soldier's identi fication as Robert Hammond. She went over the ground, but found no one who remembered her or her sol dier escort. As tbe day for the trial drew near the result looked black for the youug soldier. His mother was in agony over the situation, which was rendered more excruciating by the fact that in her effort to shield her son she had put it out of her power to save him. The morning before the trial Nancy was sitting by her open window over looking the lower bay. trying to think of her problem. A woman came to a window of the house opposite and hung a parrot cage containing a par rot beside the window. The woman left, and the parrot began to chatter. Nancy Jumped from her seat, dashed into an adjoining room, seized her hat, flew downstairs out into the street and boarded a car for Coney Island. What she did there will apiear at the trial, which was called In the criminal court tbe uext day. A jury had been impaneled and the prosecutor had stated the case for the state and had produced his witnesses. They were but few and stated only what has been thus far giveu. Then the prisoner's counsel took up the case for the accused, calling him to tbe witness stand. He asked Robert a number of irrelevant questions not ap parently bearing on the case, requiring him to give long explanations. Final ly tbe state attorney objected to thi? questioning as irrelevant, and the judge sustained tbe objection. Then the counsel called Nancy to the wit ness stand and pursued exactly the same course with her till another ob jection was raised and sustained. "Where were you," asked the coun sel of Nancy, "on the niulit of tbe liith of Juue between 10 and 11 o'clock?" "At Coney Isbiud." "Who was with you?" "The accused, Robert Hammond."' "That will do." At a sign from the attorney a phono graph was brought into court and set on a table. An operator put its ma chinery in motion, and a voice, plainly Nancy's, began to talk. What bad been spoken in the machine was of no Importarce. detached sentences ex pressive of tbe pleasure to be derived at visitiug Coney Island. Then .another voice was switched on. Every one started. It was the voice of Robert Hammond. "I'm a soldier. I am. Got leave till 0 o'clock, and here I am at 0:30 talking into a phonograph machine. I'll be broke tomorrow. 1 will. My chevrons will come off. and I'll serve the balance of my enlistment :s high yrivate in the rear ratik. Come. Nancy; let's get along to the next kIiow." "Your honor." said the counsel for the defense. "I made the Jury famil iar with the voices of my two wit nesses that they might recognize them in this ph' nogrnph. which 1 propose by its operator to prove received the voices at Coney Island about the tiaie the murder was committed." R.bert was acquitted. He had been saved by the squawky voice of the parrot that had brought to Nancy's mind the phonograph, thus suggesting that they bad talked in one ou that eventful evening. v Robert Hammond's captain was so chagrined at the jeopardy in which he had placed the young man by the way he had approached his mother and sweetheart for evidence that he inter ested himself in the soldier's behalf, promoting him rapidly as a noncom missioned officer and coaching him for his examination for lieutenant. Hammond, with LN wif. Nancy, are now rtationod on tbe Pacific coast. The murderer of Murphy rurned out to t'j u militiaman who had been off ou an excursion with his company. He had t:e to Murphy's saloon, played and lost to Murphy himself nr:d iu a burst of passion killed him. Acting suspiciously, bo was finally accused of the murder, tried and con- ! A -o-o-cvt") ! I Mumor and J ? T.y -nvycAfj M. SMITH J POSSIBLE RELIEF. S MlOl'I.D Theodore charte The boats In a fleet .Ari'l forwiird his killings The prices of meat From plHccs exuiteu A tumble would lak?. And how we would revel Jn elephant steak! Eeef barons would trembt As over the wave The fat of the Junple W'ss hurried to save A trufit rlddfrt people And bid them to break Their fast with a flatting On elephant stenk. Each crack of his rlfie A township would leeii. And plenty would flouri.-h. And no one would need. The price booBtmg dealers in terror wouH quake As on came the windfall Of elephant steak. Then let us take courage. Ileijef may be near. For soon via wireless iood news we may hear. The waiter who pauses Our order to take May nay. "Hnre or frazzled, lour elephant steak?" Not He. "I suppose he has a good time all the time." "Well, he doesn't." "What?" "Not a bit of it." "Why, I thought he was a million aire." "He is. That is the reason he can afford to kick all the time aDd find fault with everything, and nobody has the nerve to poke bis blamed bead and teach him a little sense. Save It at All Hazard. "What is the good of ventrlloirnism anyway?" "It would be fine for our high priced opera singers." "In what way?" "In cpse of a fire they could throw their voices out of the window th eauie as they do their trunks." Any Race. Tar "Yes, my son." "What is tbe race problem?" "The race problem?" "Yep." . "How we shall beat the other fal lows to it and take their grub away from them." Hard Enough at That. Search for the fourth dimension At once should be cut short. For !n these t.mes we tlnd th.-.t thre la all we can sup; ort. That's It. Tie Is bent on going to destruction.' "1 see a regular crook." Many of Them Do. "She is an artist, did you tayin "Yes." "Hoes she paint?" "Alwayt- in the evening." PERT PARAGRAPHS. The people who have been up in th air for so Ion? ought to be able to ; qualify in the aviating races. I f an unhappy marriage can't le I cured it certainly ought to be ampu j tated. Doing a fool doesn't pay unless you tire paid f"r it. Then it isn't foolish , ness. but business. ' The bunko man always salves his ' conscience by telling himself that ; somebody Is poing to get you anyhow. ! The man who can't take care of bim ; Self usually b;is his nini::eiit of genius i In which he secures a capable wife. A man on n't bo a fool and not know it. He has too many friends. I One reason why so many of us are , poor is because there are people who ! have to be enormously rich iu order to i tecp out of jail. A girl h.nte dishwashing wor;-e than a boy hates sawing wood, only t,he will Jeer aud say she doesn't tnlnd. People who keep their tempers ore always the ones who never let them get busy. If Justice would have a surgical op ern'lon and recover her vision she m;i;bt col'mso it the first trliuipse. An a' tack of the grip Is often .". lowed by a persistent coiih. which t- many proves a great a.inoyance. Chamberlain's Coin;h Remedy ha been extensively used and with good success for the rfl'ef and cure of this roush. Many cas'"? have been cured after all other remediea had failed. Sf.ld by sdl druggists.