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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30

DRESS GOODS.
SPECIALS FOR WEEK.
Fall Sutings value up to SIC, 19c.
Pretty all wool suitings in mixtures. Rob Roy
plaids, etc., should be 42c. 29c.
IS pieces, all different styles new Fall Dress Goods
usual SOC values at sec.
SO pieces handsome new goods in great variety Of
weaves and patterns in value SIC and &c at 45c.
New English Covert Cloths. desirable for styl-
ish dresses the 81 value will be this week CSC.
The newest things in Rough Effects. Mohair Fig
ures, counters. Very handsome new
paids for waists and skirts just placed sale at our
low prices.
WRAPPERS.
Indigo blue and dark calico wrappers, at 69c.
Dark red, indigo blue and background wrappers
rufe collar large sleeves, worth $l.Ss at 99c.
Wrappers. piped yoke. value 81. at $l.25.
SOME NEW THINGS.
long Bang Initial.
Trlby Feet sterling silver
and Belts 81 Is. Belt Pins
and 1zII Second Avenue, Rock Island, ILL.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30
Cou,u~ over to See Hi. Best Girl.

Coming Over to See His Best Girl.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 3o.-Aldmcric Hugh
Paget, whose engagement to MissWhitney,
daughter of ex-Secrctary William c. Whit
ncy, was recently announced, is a passen-
ger on board the Cunard line steamer
Lucania for New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends 10 personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in tho form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but i. is man
nfactured by the California Fig Syrup
20. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
sccept any substitute if offered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30

Capes. Jackets, Etc.
The best and cheapest lines of Fur Capes Cloth
Capes. Plush Capes Cloth and Plush Jackets. which
will be shown in Rock Island this open
for your inspection. We court comparison with any
competition as to STYLE quality, fit and price, Here
You will find wealth of rough effects Bouces. rare
CrePons etc. also the natty smooth effects in Melton.
hersey and Beaver Take the Boucle Capes, fur TRIM
med and satin faced. at 49, the warm beaver Jack
cts very we'll made. at s. 80. those Chevot Jack
cts. splendid garments. at $49S All worth much
more and as well made as the higher priced ones.
We are showing Boucle Jackets at es for which 9TH
ers ask SO and $l2.
Fine Boucle one-haf lined Jackets at &c. which we
ask you to compare with $14 Jackets elsewhere.
Persian Lamb Jackets, velvet collars. extra value
at 9S, worth later in the season $25 il you can
get them at all.
Fur capes in all desirable styles at almost any
price from $4.S9 up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30

Fair today and tonight; fair Tues.
day and warmer. Today's temper.
allure, So. F. J. WALL. Observer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-30
MCInfyre-ReCk Dry Goods Co.
Pent Up September ENERGY

viii
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-26
A Personal Letter
From Jay Cooke,

The Financial Agent and Adnis0r of the United
States During the Administration of abraham
Linc0Zn-The Man Who Sold Our Bonds, at
Home and abroad, and Lent His Great Credit
and Energy to Sustain and Supply Our National
Treasury With Funds to Carry the War of
the Great Rebellion.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-26

CHAs. A. TowNE, NJ c.,
Duluth, MIMI
has me the Duluth Herald
able and convincing speech the silver question: glad
you ouspokn pan fearless
word you
copies of the Herald containing speech
FULL and have pamphlet form will subscribe ccula
of the pamphlets.
enclose 50 90 for copies of Herald
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-26

Please compare the spirit of this letter and the
who bent all his efforts the Nation in the hour
of peril, with the infamous bond contract pages
1888 of this pamphlet and the financial agents thereto
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

public is in 1.-THE breath Of God fills
its nostrils-and it will go forward to-
ward perfect justice.
And our farmers should be able to
perceive that the same brutal greed
which has driven the workman down,
until his wages represent but i've per
cent of the value Of his product. is at
work upon them; and has already re-
duced the price Of their productions,
while their toll puts millions into the
pockets of those who live in idleness.
Let the people rally into the ranks
Of the new party, which promises to
extend. with one arm, the shield OF
it's protection over the oppressed;
while, with the other, it news down
the villains who are destroying the
world.
The two old parties are nothing but
"reminiscences, living on the memory
of their past virtues. They propose
nothing, they do nothing. They
dwell upon the past; they shout old
battle-cries: they sing old songs. They
belong to the realm Of history-not
craftsmanship. When has one of them
dared to suggest a remedy for existing
evils? The men who profit by the
evils own their party. and to fight
the evils is to disrupt their organiza-
ton. There is no remedy but new
political party pledged to reform.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
THE INCOME TAX.
A Populist Measure.

Washington, Jan. 27.-MemberS OF
congress who believe in the income
tax as an equitable method Of. raising
revenues are gratified at the unex-
pectedly good showing of the prelim-
mary canvass made by the collectors
Of the internal revenue at the direc
tion of Secretary Carlisle. They be-
lieve that the greater the amount
realized from the tax the more popu-
lar it will become and the more hrmly
rooted as part of the policy of the
government. Representative McMil-
lin, of Tennessee. says that, IL large
percentage of the revnue Of the gov
erment is derived from this plan, any
attempts to repeal it before the ex-
piratiOn of the five-year limit fixed in
the Wilson bill will be exceedingly I'M
popular, and that the greater the
revenue derived from it the greater
will be the proba bility Of its reenact-
ment at the end Of its term. When
the proposition to tax incomes was
before congress the profit from the
scheme was at first eS timated at from
$4,000, 900 to $lS,0O0.O1O. Later the es-
Inmates Of the committee were raised
to the vicinity of $1,000, 900. Mr.. Hail.
of Missouri, who has given more study
perhaps, to the theory and history OF
the income tax than any other man in
the house. did not place the total be-
Low $50, 100000. From the results of
the canvass Of the internal revenue
bureau it appears that Mr.. Hall was
more nearly correct than the other
forecastcrS. He now says that the in
come tax may yield more than $780,
100000, and it is known that the
treasury department officials do not
place it's results below that mark.
The showing made by the thirty-three
districts gives ground for the estimate
that about 100000 persons and corpo-
rations will contribute to the treas
ury by this plan.
Do not let it be forgotten that the
Income Tax was Populist demand.
While the old-fool parties were SQUAD
ling over the Tariff the Peoples Party
put forth that issue with several 9th
ers. They will be accepted by the
people eventually. There is not one
of them that is not just, wise and rea-
sonable. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

IL Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas RI
resist to the utmost the demands of tho
English landlords. The organization is a
secret one, and is the first really agrsrian
agitation IN American history The asso-
clatlon works more secretly than the HoIv
Vehm Gerichte, but it has already in
Huenced legislation in a marked degree
rms is the development in the situation
which, more than anything else. caused
me Engllsh land owners to form an alli-
ance among themselves. The movement
was hrst proposed in the interests OF the
oculiy estate. 1t Is intended to have an
agent IN attendance at the meetings of tho
legislature Of all the states involved this
winter This matter was brought to tho
attention OF Sir Julius Pauncefote last
autumn, when he visited the London for
elsn once, but what he is to do in the
matter no one cares to say. The English
oWnerS'feel that they have not been fairly
oeaN With by their American tenantry and
~ is likely that this winter will witness a
crlsls IN the entire Western agrarian move
ment. The duke of Beaufort and the duke
Oh sutherland both assert that the meet
lngs OF the land owners, new periodically
held at the Bank of England are meant
entirely to effect economy In the collection
OF rents. AT present, each land owner has
MS set Of agents, who work independently.
by consolidating the collecting systems.
the landlords hope to expedite business
Inc tenants profess to be alarmed by this
new development. They see in it more
rack-renting, and committees have been de-
tailed to visit the legislatures and obtain
legal redress If possible
At any event. there is now, for the first
time, an open war in prospect between
aristocratic land owning Britons and their
tenants in America.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
PROTECTION OF IRON COLUMNS.
Bricks Laid in Portland Cement Sue.
rln XAifhsfnr,I

Some experiments were recently made by
the building inspection department, Vienna,
on the protection of iron from fire by cas-
ing it with brick. says Engineering
wrought iron column II feet long, and built
up of two channels connected by lattice
bars, was used. This was set up in small
chamber constructed of brick, and the COL
umn was loaded by levers. This done, it
surrounded by a Az inch brick wall
laid in fire-clay mortar. The wall did not
fit closely around the column, and advan-
tage was taken of this to fix there samples
of fusibe metals, and which should serve
as gauge of the temperature attained. Va
rious samples of stone concrete and other
materials were also placed in the chamber
within the column. This chamber was then
filled with split firewood which was lighted
and the doors Immediately walled up with
slabs of plaster of paris. After the fire had
broken out, the doors were broken in and a
stream Of water turned into the room from
a IA horsepower fire engine. An exanina-
ton ofthe room next showed that the walls
of brick, laid in portland cement, retained
their strength, while most of the material
stone left in the chamber had been de-
stroyed. The ceiling had been lined partly
with plaster of paris and partly with terra
Gotta tiles. Both were damaged. The in
closure around the iron pillars was still
standing firm, though corners OF the brick
work were clipped one inch or so, and the
fire clay mortar was largely washed out OF
the joints. On removing the casing, how
ever the pillar was found to be injured.
even the paint being unscorched, and the
fusble plugs only showed a temperature of
149 degrees Fahrenheit.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
TERRIBLE.
10000 In Chicago On the Brink
of Starvation.


cat the meeting Of the committee
on public service of the county board,
yesterday afternoon, the report of
various subcommittees were adopted.
At the meeting the previous week the
committee on outdoor relief were re-
Quested to investigate the charges
that the supplies furnished the
poor from the county agents
office were not of quality re
quired by contract. In the report by
this committee the statement is made
that the demand maze upon the
county agent for relief during the last
few weeks has been simply enormous.
The books show that during January,
1900 more applications for relief were
received than during the same month
in 1894. Not less than $4,000, accord
ing to the data furnis he'd by the coun-
ty agent, were supported during that
month by the county, and there are
at the present time not less than $780,
600 persons in Chicago who require
charity to keep them from starva-
ton. A large number of these persons
are not pauperS, but are persons who
have held good positions but have
been out Of employment so long that
their resources and credit are thor
Oughly exhausted"
We hereby appoint Tams Bixby a
committee of one to explain to those
100000 starving people that Populist
success will keep money out of the
country and create hard times. He
might supply them with extra copies
of the Pioneer Press between soups.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
POOR MEMS HOMES.
Labor Commissioner Wright Makes
Interesting ReDOrt

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. IA The
United States commissioner Of labor, Car
roll D. Wright, has transmitted to congress
his eighth special report. The title of the
report is, THE Housing Of the Working
PEOPLE, The report covers Is chapters
Chapter VII treats of public intervention
in the houses of working people, giving
the most notable laws which have been
passed and furnishing data showing the
encouragement accorded by municipalities
ana various public institutions The Bel
glan law of 1889 permits, the general savings
Dank OF that country to loan money at re-
duced rates of interest through Joint stock
ana cooperative loan or building compan-
les, founded on certain conditions and also
provides for the insurance of the purchas-
err HE. SO that in case of death the
nome Immediately becomes the property of
the family. Under it the acquisition of
nome is made sos easYaf that where the
period OF repayment by installments is
nXed at Is years or over, the actual cost
10 the purchaser fs less than prevailing
rentais during Their samRs time.
Chapter VIII. furnishes information re-
garding rent collecting land other agencies
Tor improving the living environment of
working people. Special stress is laid upon
the plan adopted by Miss; Octavia HILL The
distinctive characteristics of this plan is
tnat the inhabitants apd their surround
!ngs must be improved simultaneously. The
iAulnburgh Social Union which carries on
us work on a commercial basis represents
another type fully described. Wealthy peo-
pie, for the most part belonging to the or
ganization, become purchasers of old dilapi-
dated property, put it in good order and
rent 1T to the casual boarders and others
VINO find it difficult to procure proper &C
commodation, lady members undertaking
the administration of the property. Most
successful results have attended both these
plans.
Chapters TX, x. and XI. comprise more
tnan one-half Of the volume. deal with
model homes and lodging houses A history
OF leading agencies and the financial result
attending their operations are given.
The general lesson CLEANED from a study
OF the facts in these three chapters, the re-
port says "is encouraging. 1t shows that
the. proper housing of the great masses of
working people can be conducted on salts
factory commercial basis. With the devel-
opment of rapid transit, in the electric age
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

cate. owning 1000. 10 acres h various
atateA 3lt.
For some time past It has been evident TO
the foreign landowners that concerted ac-
ton on their part was essential to their
interests.fi It. u, we'll known to those who
have ever casually looked into the matter
tkat foreisn land owning has much Inn
peded the development of the Western COM
monwealths. These great landowners posi-
lively refuse to sell They prefer to estab-
lish a system d agencies and bailiffs with
the result that serious complications have
resulted. The state legislatures have done
their best ato deal with the question, but
heretofored with only Indifferent success.
Viscount ,Scully is, rightly or wrongly,
made the seapeg6at of this whole business.
He has fof years been a thorne in the path
of one state administration after another,
and his shrewdness in evading every pro-
vision of law directed against him has
extorted the admiration of thousands. Thus
Scully practically owns, in Illinois, the
best part OF the counties Of Logan, Living
ston and Tazewell. The state in 1887
passed an alien land law, directed rolely
against Scully. To evade 1t he insisted be-
forehand upon clause in all his leases
stipulating that the lessee should pay all
taxes accruing against the property leased.
The result was the creation of large and
solid body Of voters in the Scully counties,
as they are called, opposed to propositions
OF public improvement by taxation.
The war against Scully in Illinois threw
the other British land owners into panic,
and as fast as leases have fallen in they
have been renewed under heavier and
heavier conditions. Alien land laws have
occupied the attention of the legislatures,
and in Kansas and Nebraska the struggle
for time had serious effects upon land
securities of all kinds.
Finally, matters came to such a de-
plorable stage that a committee OF the
American tenantry was appointed to pre-
sent a memorial to the London owners of
land, setting forth the ruin that stared the
Western farmers in the face, aus the result
OF the rack-renting system that had been
evolved out of the chaos. This memorial
had marked effect upon the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts, who insisted upon no more
evlctfons Of the American farmer 1t only
aggravated the duke of Sutherland. who
was then in sore need of funds, and he
caDled to his agents to collect the rents
and send them over at all hazards
FINDING that mild measures availed Moth
ing the tenantry resorted to more radical
expedlent An association has been formed
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
n 6HRFR CURED PERMANENTLY.
hESLn Home treatment, $50 to s35.
u1H HIlF m Send stamp for book.
OlEHUAEB JOHN B. HARRIS,
Fort Payne, Ala.
TAKE NOTICE!
THE BACON SOCIETY,
CIRCULAR


From the Committee of Management.
LONDON. January. 1S95.-The committee of
the Bacon Society. of England, desire to lay be-
the work of the society the need of funds for
carrying on and charging their present maya,
for mutual information periodical journal. of
which the title was afterwards changed to Ba-
coniana. The necessity for this publication
arose from the resistance offered by the Press
to free discussion Baconian matters, and the
discouraged for the time any at
tempt TO circulate the magazine beyond the cir
Gle of students by whom it was supported
But times have changed. Not only has the
scope of research expanded, but corresponding
amount of interest has been aroused. From vari-
quarters of the world reports have been
ceived of the growth of Baconian knowledge and
theories Several new and important books have
taken place in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig and Antwerp.
From Riga it is reported that an address on
''Francis Bacon the True Shakespeare kept
the attention of audience of nearly 1000 per-
sons for nearly two hours. In America a fort
nightly magazine on this and kindred subjects
is in course of preparation while in England
others announced for Birmingham and else
where.
ceSSary advertisement and by increasing
number of requests from students and public in
sttutions for free gifts of our publications. also
in order duly to develop the many branches of
research and inquiry enumerated in our former
prospectus the committee of the Bacon Society
appeal to members and others to help for
ward the work, either by themselves sending
contributions to the publishing fund by in
teresting their friends and obtaining from among
their number additional subscribers to Ba-
coniana.
pected ways, tended to elucidate the universal
aims and work of Francis Bacon. These things
should longer be ignored. They worthy
of consideration by the profoundest thinker. as
well as by the ordinary reader, both of whom
will find opening before them the wonderful
page in the history of modern literature.
Price of subscription to Baconana. shillings
G1:25). Address Is Parliament street, London.
THE BACON SOCIETY.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
RULED TIE KING.
Jean Antoinette Poisson Did as She
Liked With Louis XV

In reply to the question, What man or woman
not monarch or acknowledged ruler has welded
the most despotic power? a writer says no single
individual has ever eQualed even approached
Jean Antoinette Poisson, the most famous
among the train Of Louis XIV. of France who
was created marquis de Pompadour and for 20
years swayed the whole policy of France says
the Philadelphia Times. She filled all public Of
fees with her own nominees and made her own
creatures ministers of France. She it was who
brought Belle Isle into office, with his vigorous
policy, and introduced the Abbie de Bernis into
office to work her own pleasure. Previous to 175S
the policy of France had been to weaken Aus
tria by alliance with Germany.
This she arbitrarily changed because Freder-
ick the Great lampooned her, and because Maria
Theresa wrote her a courteous letter, entered in
to an alliance with Austria, ultimating as If
turned out in the Seven Years War She mora
over correspondent with the generals in the field
prepared all business for the kings eve and
daily examined the letters sent through the most
The king a mere puppet, who assisted Mt
the spectacle of his reign, and the peop]e
for the time being bowed down and worshiped''
her.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
THE ALIEN LANDLORD
Process of Rack-Renting Begun in
the United States.
Foreign Nobility, Who Live Off of
the Labor of American Farm
ers. Form a Union.
from the Chicago Times I


Washington, Feb. mot the latest of
the stories told about the present interior
department has been one to the effect that
recent wholesale decisions in favor of
timber companies and land rings, not only
in Wisconsin to the McCord rascals and
the Keystone timber piratee, but in Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Dakota-North and South
and all along the Northern Pacific to
Montana, as we'll as across in California,
whereby these rings and coteries were in
vested with title to tremendous tracts and
slices, not alone of the public domain. but
of lands already the habitations of honest
settlers, and the headlong hurry which
accompanied the black proceedings, were
due to the fact that arrangements were
already complete and contracts already
signed to sell and make over all of these
holdings to an English syndicate or syndi-
Gates. of which one Lord Brassy was a
prominent figure. Villas and Jim Hill,
Srooner, Sawyer, the Mississippi Logging
Company. McCord and other Unknown
excessively execrated Northwestern names
were frequently mentioned in this behalf
The British had our breweries, were deep
in cattle raising, they were about to dip
seriously into land and lumber. Whether
these stories are true, half true, or of the
variety dfsclamed against as GHOSTS"
they all very naturally carried the
thoughtful man to the matter of alien
landlordism in this country.
That English aristocrats should own
large domains in the United States and
rule them from London is at first a diff
cult thing to grasp. Not until it is borne
In mind that peers and peeresses of Great
Britain are large landed propretors in
our country-Viscount Scully alone owns
5000, 900 acres in Illinois, Iowa and Ne
braska-does the significance of absentee
ism in landlords become apparent But