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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

E>OR RENT-RESIDENCE AT $40 TWEEN.
a teth street Apply AZ Black Hawk
Building Loac association, Bengston block.
EoR RENT-A NICELY FURNISHED
II front room with gas. hath, sleam hest.
ard AL modern couyerienceS. Gentlemen
preferred Inquire at this once.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

E>OR REST-Two FRONT ROOMS WITH
y bath, heat and all modern conveuiences;
board IL desired; centrally located; 30 Seven.
teenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07
WANTED.

WANTED- COMPETENT Girl. FOR GEN
w ersl homework. Apply to Mrs. George
BBrth, Sss Twentieth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

osn source Of worry 10 disposed
Of. Gov. Tanaer 10 back In the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

"ANTED-CPR AND FAITHFUL
w gentlemen or ladies' to travel for re.
sponsible. established house In Illinois. Month.
ly e6S and expenses Position steady. Re fer.
ence. Eoclose self addressed stamped enyel.
ope. The Dominion company, department K,
Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO PLAY
w Tor dances by j. J. Baker, with Otto's
men, who guarantees good music Henry
Webbing. pronpter. Also furnish violin and
piano music. No. 100 Seventeenth street:
telephone on 1871.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

WANTED-RELIAB MEN I'd TACK
w up advertising signs: tls5O weekly:
steady work. Send 10 cents for postage. sam.
pie. etc. Young Medicine comps any, si.g North
Colorado street. Philadelphia. Pa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

EOa SALE-CNCSCALLY CHEAP, A ..
II room s-story frame house end large lot 10
good location. Gordon & Bowman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

"ANTED-LADIES AT ONCE: 80 PEE
w week and expenses at your home or or
the road. Address A. Il. Smith 4 Co, son
South Bals,cd street, Chicago, III Send
stamp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

WANTED-GooDs TO STORE IN CHEAP,
w clean and light storage rooms. with ele.
sstor % iex9 Secord avenue. johnny Jones.
Two rings on 1876.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-07

LNOR SALE-A GO,D BAKERY BuSI
II ness At iiop Third avenue, Rock Island
Owner Is going TO embark 10 other business.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

duty TO wear a cheaper gown be-
cause some Of her club sisters mus?
Here is a nice question in club
ethics. Ones husband may count his
money by the hundred thousands or
even the millions; both he and the
children may be strenuous about the
mothers clothes. What is her duty
Shall she go against the wishes of her
own family. not 10 mention her per-
sonal taste in the matter, and studi-
ously avoid wearing good gowns when
there are women there whose nus
bands can scarcely afford the ready
made tailor" or the home-seamstress-
made silk which they are wearing?
.'Why don't you bring some of your
fine gowns up here with you?" asked
the country relatives of a rich woman.
I'VE like to see them even if our meet
ing house and rag-carpeted sitting
rooms don't seem just the place for
them" A great many club women
feel the same way. They like to see
pretty clothes, even il they cannot
wear them. And no woman really likes
&c feed that she isn't worth dressing
for: or that she must be dressed down
10. So let us not worry over this mat
ter of dress. 1t will right itself. IL
the woman who is apt to overiress-
TO whom dress is the main object in
ife-comes into the club. she will
soon absorb higher ideal and come
to feel that there are greater purposes
than are covered by the Paris fashion
plates. and worthier subjects of con-
temptation and discussion than
whether to ruff,e or not to ruffle the
skirt. And do these not need the club
just as much as those that dwell i'm
low places and perhaps long ago
learned to combine high thinking with
plain living? o sisters, we none of
us realize one annther's needs. How
do we know that she whom we have
been enyying as possessing everything
heart could wish, is not the most mis-
erable of women? How do we know
that the quiet. insignificant woman in
sparrow-hke raiment has not exactly
the help which we are s-.ently crav-
ing? Let us come out of our shells and
see.
There is no good reason why sailors
should receive prize money and sol
diers should not. The taking of city
has been accompanied by greater loss
of life on the victorious side I'M this
war. than the sinking of the ships.
And the value of city is many times
that Of ship. The long established
custom by which Admiral Sampson
receives forty thousand dollars over
and above his salary and Commander
in Chief Miles nothing is absurd. The
former has a luxurious cabin and is
served in solitary state, the sailors On
hoard the ships of his feet have been
trained FOR years by the rigid disci-
pine of the navy. The commander in
chief of the army puts up with
accomRodations and hisarmy
is composed of regulars and raw re I
cruits upon whose performance the
success or failure of the campaign de-. I
Ponds. The naval victories of this war
have been brilliant but without the Z,
army they would have been ineffective.
The government builds the hattie /,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

is rank and the man who stands In
the most exposed posts, is served the
poorest and coarsest fare and works
the longest and hardest. receives tho
least money. Military caste and mill
tary division of the spoils is survival
older than the Egyption off-with-his-
head absolutism. The difference be-
tween man and man IS not what the
military regime makes il. Absolute
obedience to officers is necessary. but
the caste which makes ii court mar
tial offense for an officer to treat a
Jacky or the American Tommy Atkins
as il he were a man like unto himself
is repellant and tends to keep many
a brave fellow who is willing to die
for his country out of his country's
service.
Going without shoes and stockings
and a carefully regulated diet are the
principle remedies of what is called
the Kneip cure. From bare feet to
bare hands is but long step and we
have taken it. A few years ago a
modish woman would have felt awk-
ward and ashamed TO 60 upon the
street without gloves. Now only lie
most punctilious and conservative
think them indispensable even on in
formal occasions. The reform has at
last reached the head and i'm the east
ern summer resorts the hatless young
man is no longer an object of curl
osity because there are so many of
him. OF course girls left off hats in
resorts many seasons ago.
But the masculine attachment to hats
has persisted in spite of badness,
headaches and scalp diseases caused
by the suffocation of the follicles.
has accomplished what con-
of good health has failed
to. The thick hair of the Esquimaux
the PatagOnians and the jewellers of
central Africa teach investigators that
the air is as necessary to hair plants
as it is to larger vegetable growths.
Bald heads which are shiniest and
baidest at the crown, which is the
spot furthest away from the edge of
bhe hat. should have convinced the hat
lend of the cause of his disease. FASH
ion knows no law but caprice has at
last ordered man and woman to go
without their hats. not spasmodically
Or for the few hours when the male
animal is asleep or at dinner or in
-aising it to the ladies, but when he is
tut doors in temperate weather. Fash
on's immediate courtiers, the men of
wealth and leisure in the country,
ave obeyed. The custom will grad
lally creep west until the many whose
rowns now catch the light and reflect
t. will first be covered with a fuzz !
md then with real hair. The effect ;
lpon the country viii be like the dis
overy of a real fountain of youth.
knobs, whose owners
ave allowed time to polish them
Without attempting to dodge, will, by.
beying fashion, grow young and fas-
mating again.
The meeting of the science associa-
ion few weeks ago i'm Boston was I
unusual interest. A time, spe- Z
ific and recognized time arrives when I
whose announcement created
onsternation and hitter opposition, /
fter having been tried by scholars j
2 xUol l,x- ;.,soll:c=o.x ,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

Theoretical reforms, that suspect the
Gar OF the most oppressed peasnntry
on the earth, of desiring to aliay the
suspicious of the Americans and the
English and the japanese SO that they
will not make a coalition against the
rest of the world.
1t is a question if we are ready for
the surcease of war. Men who take
their stand in front of guns and con-
tinue to advance while their comrades
are falling about them are too good to
kill but such heroism fuses the hearts
of a nation into one. 1t has been diff
cult for either north or south since
the civil war to appreciate the man
illness of the other section. Since they
have fought together against COM
mon foe they are eager to claim kim
ship. What commerce and self-inter-
est has not been able to unite, war has
melted together without rift. An
other generation would hardly do
what a few months of war has done
to destroy all signs of Mason and
Dixon's line.
Imperialism means to Carl Schurz a
fOrcible bringing together of unre-
lated and Incompatible peoples under
one government. In spite of the alb
sOrbent quality of the United States
which has been tested again and
again, Mr.. Schurz is sure we cannot
incorporate the islands of the sea. He
seems to think the savagery of the
islanders will dilute the quality of our
own civilization rather than be miti-
gated by us. He does not recken on
the widening of our horizon. the en-
largement of our market and the sub
sequent change of view in regard to
intercourse with other nations. Mr..
Schurz, although he lives in this coun-
try, is a Teuton. His arguments.
though he may have tried to conceive
them from an American standpoint,
are suspected of being written from
the standpoint of what is best for Ger
many.
Imperialism. with the establish
ment of any permanent governmental
not essentially democratic
would be an inconsistent and unwise
policy for a republic to adopt. but
congress- does not propose to estab-
lish an imperator i'm Manila Instead,
the United States will teach her new
subjects how to govern themselves.
Their incorporation will eventually be
rs much a matter of course and of mu-
bual benefit as it is with any one of
he forty-five states.
As to the inconsistency of the policy
If expansion we have been expanding
'pasmodically ever since we landed on
he rock of Plymouth in 1920. 1t would
Ne a departure from tradition to stop
sow
The Rough Riders have proved as
lashing and adventurous as their
lame and purpose of assembling led
IS to expect. They have brought ro-
nance into modern life. Roosevelt is
richard Occur de lion starting on a
rusade and his followers are knights
areless of all but honor. The cow
'oys- of the plains who joined Roose-
eH's company are no less knightly
han the New York club men. They
ave their lives as freely at Caney and
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

time came when the vertebrate that
was a fish, reptile, and had come
from some invertebrate clam which
had been an aspiring vegetable born
of an inorganic rock, parted company
with a vertebrate that had also been
a reptile, a fish, clam, q vegetable,
a stone. One started on the road
which in some one hundred million
years would again bring him to the
stone age a naked man with a stirring
something i'm his head which led him
to sharpen and scoop out stones, and
the other started ON road which I'M
very fewer years made him grim
ming ape from the beginning of time
till the end of the world. At this meet
ing in Boston the scientists accepted
this theory as in harmony with the
greatest number of facts. The miss
ing link theory is finally, therefore.
disposed of and monkeys will no long
er be expected to develope into men.
The curious human formations who
resemble monkeys can no longer lay
their conduct to a prehensile ances-
try. In all probability it is hundred
million years since their ancestors
wore tails and they were of the polly
wog character. All attempts therefore
to evade responsibility for the incon-
sequence which is a characteristic of
the monkey tribe, will no longer be
considered. The local survivals of
prehistoric age can no longer be COM
fortably laid to monkeys. In forgiv-
ing their lazy development however.
we can still blame an indolent ances-
tor who refused to live up to his
lights.
The type setting machines, like
other inventions, have drawbacks.
They have to a large extent destroyed
the individual aspect of papers. The
old familiar type faces whose weekly
or daily arrival was recognized at first
sight, have been replaced by a uni
form pale line containing more trans
positions. incorrect and impossible
syllable divisions and beheadings than
any apprentice compositor dared to
make. As each line is a line of type
solid, corrections entail a resetting of
the whole line and trivial errors which
do not destroy the sense, of the kind
above, are not corrected.
The result even on the best papers is
a hodge-polge of poor spelling and
This page is printed by
machine and a comparison of it with
he former clear and heavier hand-set
type is much to the disadvantage of
he linotype. OF course the machines
throw out of employment large
number of men who had accomplished
and swiftness and comeliness
n type setting. This last result is the
fleet of all machines which do more
work i'm an hour than a man can do
n a day, but the reimbursement which
Ill such inventions compel entails a
which is none the less poig-
ant because the next generation will
ave learned to accept it. The illegi-
'ility of newspapers which use the
machines and neglect to keen them in
rider is another very serious objec-
ion to the linotypes. Mans ingenuity ,,
las not been overpraised or overlap
but the early days of a new
INVENTION cause starvation and in
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

The Cars proposition that the ma
tiOns of the world reduce their arma-
ments and agree to settle disputes by
peaceful methous IS accepted by
drenmers who like 10 plan Utopias as
the beginning of a millennium which it
will take thousands of years to sys-
tematize and get into running order.
There are others, grown suspicious of
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-09-10

The meeting of the science associa-
ton a few weeks ago in Boston was
of unusual interest. A time. a spe-
cific and recognized time arrives when
theories, whose announcement created
CONSERVATION and hitter opposition,
after having been tried by scholars
as well as by intelligent people with
NO especial training for a decade or
50, are revised and accepted or defini-
lively rejected as having been dis
proved by experience or sounder
thinking. The doctrine of evolution
mas been accepted by the world of in
telligence but that part of it which
refers to the missing LINK has been on
trial Some years ago a biologist an
n0unced that man and monkey were
from the same stone originally
and went through various forms of
animal evolution in company but a
The evening times., 1898-09-08
THE POLICY OF TOMORROW. >
spain Likely to LinEer Departing
From Havana.

With the arrival of the Cuban military
commission in the next few days at Ha-
Vana the real work of terminating Span
ish rule in the island Will begin The
Spanish evacuation will involve many
complicated details. and the work will
require diplomatic treatment. The clause
In the protocol calling for Immediate"
evacuation is the basis upon which the
American commission must work and if
the work OF the commission is confined to
this point, ii can be finished In two weeks
No doubt the Spaniards will try to open
many irrelevant questions, but a firm
stand on the part of the American COM
missioners wilL soon bring them to terms
There are about 100000 Spanish troops
scattered about the Island of Cuba, and
to mobilize such large pOdy of men. and
prepare them for transportation will in
volve great deal of work and consume
barkation viii take place from the near
est port TO which the Spanish are sta
toned, beginning with Havana. and thus
rapidly concluded.
The first few sessions will show the
Il
mating policy will be readily discovered.
Excuses and delays will be useless. how
ever. and the American commissioners
need only stand on the terms of the pro-
tocol to complete rapid evacuation of
Cuba by the Spanish troops
If the recommends ton of Special Com
missioner Robert +. Porter Is adopted by
the War Department a most important
change WIFI be made in the tariff sched-
ules which were put into force In Porto
Rico by the military authorities.
Mr.. Porter was appointed special COM
! missioner TO investigate the trade condi-
tions, banking institutions and customs
and internal revenue laws OF Porto Rico.
with view to their adjustment when the
| island is turned over TO the United States.
| In letter received at the Treasury De-
| partment yesterday Mr. Porter recon-
mends that the rates of duty on goods
| imported into Porto Rican ports in pos
| session OF the United States be reduced
| 50 per cent preliminary to a general
| revision Of the tariff which will be made
| in the future. lie bases his recommends
| tion on the views of Porto Rican mer-
| chants that the present rates are entirely
| too high and will greatly hinder the re-
sumption of business in the island.
The evening times., 1898-09-08
CLEANING THE WARSHIPS.
The Oregon Enters the New Dock Mt
the brooklyn Navy Yard.

New York. Sept s.-The Oregon was
safely locked in the new timber dock at
the navy yard at high tide yesterday.
Three government tugs towed the ship
from her berth 10 the dock, which she
entered without difficulty Naval Con-
structor Bowles was in charge. After
sufficient water had been pumped out of
the dock the Oregon's own crew set to
work To clean her below the waterline
Considering that she had been in tropi-
cal waters some time she was in fair con-
dition.
Barnacles had fastened on her. but
these were soon scraped away 1t was
said by one Of the officers that she would
be ont of dock again by Saturday or
Monday There is quite a good deal Of
reiiJting work to be done in her interior.
The Iowa, which came out of dry dock
Monday. is lying at the coal dock Con-
siderable rehtting is being done on her
1t was stated at the commandant's Of
ilce that nothing was officially known
Oregon and Iowa from the North Allan
ron.
The Massachusetts. which is now at
Boston. is due at the yard tomorrow, and
on Thursday of next week will go into
drNdock for overha ulinE. The BROOKLYN
viii probably come up TO the ward from
Tompkinsvile Saturday of next week.
The evening times., 1898-09-08
action. presumably out of regard for

action. presumably out of regard for
the Sultan.
Now that the blow has fallen, per-
functOry investigation may be insti-
tuted by the powers. but IL is safe to
say Great Britain will not be satisfied
with this. Not only have British mis-
sionaries and their converts been mas
sacred, but the British vice consul has
been killed and the consulate burned.
and a body of biuejackets, unarmed,
cut down in the streets of Can
dia. For this England will exact such
reparation as Turkey can make, and
the island She will not be satisfied
with anything less. though il may lead
TO a smashing of THE concert of Eu-
rope" The recent alliance for special
ends effected between England and
Germany encourages the hope that the
latter-wl,ich has been the chief OBJ
stacle in the way of an adequate gov
ernment in Crete-will give ready
consent TO British demands, and Rus
sia will hardly dare make open objec-
ton in the light of present events. 1t
that her sons cannot be murdered with
impunity. and unless the present gov
ernment is weaker than is thought.
English exclusive rule in the island Will
be the price OF peace.
1t might be thought that this later
outbreak after the powers had assumed
responsibility for the protection of the
Christians and following the Armenian
atrocities would diminish the influence
of Turkey. but it will not After be-
ing the sick man of the East for so
many decades. the Sultan finds his au-
thority greater than it has been for
more than quarter Of a century, and
the partition of Turkey farther away
Bismarck said We'll when he called him
the ablest diplomat of the time.
The evening times., 1898-09-08
A PACKET LINE SERVICE.
The Government Hns One TO the
West Indies.


The Government has established a
packet line between New York. Porto
Rico and Santiago. but the vessels carry
only mail and Government freight
General merchandise is not permitted
TO be shipped by individuals on these
boats. for the business of the Government
is all that the transports can convenient
ly handle.
The vessels sail from New York every
Wednesday. making no stops except at
Santiago and Porto Rico. It is expected
that as soon as communication is open
ed with Havana the service will be ex-
tended 10 that port also.
These Government vessels are carrying
an enormous quantity of freight which
consists principally of supplies for the
relief of the starving natives of Cuba
While not permitting individuals to ship
goods by its vessels. the Government
is endcavoring 10 promote trade with
Cuban and Porto Rican ports. Repre-
sentatives of large houses in New York
have advised the Administration that
bonded warehouses are greatly needed
at Santiago and also at Porto Rico and
that the absence of them is a great draw
back to commerce. After the Secretary
of the Treasury was placed in possession
of this Information he communicated the
facts to Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn
and advised that instructions be sent TO
the commanding general at Santiago as
follows:
You are authorized to lease a building
for the storage of imported merchandise
not entered sat the custom-house, and
upon WHICH duties may be paid at any
time within ninety days after importa-
ton, as provided in paragraph IA, Gus
toms regulations. storage to be at the
sole risk of importers, and every expense
connected Herewith to be paid by the
importers. ~
The President has approved some
changes In the Cuban and Porto Rican
tariff rates. and they have been cabled
20 Porto Rico and Cuba.
The evening times., 1898-09-08
SOLDIERS GOING TO HAWAII.
Five Thousand Men to Be Dispatch
ed to Honolulu

ed to Honolulu.
1t has been determined by President
Mckinley to send 5000 troops to Honolu-
lu as soon as the War Department is in
receipt of definite advices from Cen
Merriam, who is soon expected to arrive
at San Francisco.
The placing of troops at Honolulu has
been the subject of Cabinet discussion,
and it can be stated with authority that
they will remain there permanently
Neither the rumored army activity in
German army Circ'es nor the reported ag-
gressive attitude of Aguinaido has much
to do with the case, although il is DEEM
ed advisable to have larger force at
arms near our Pacific possessions than at
present exists.
The President will make no formal or
der transferring troops until a report is
made 10 him by Gen. Merriam. and con-
ference is held with Ger. Miles.
In this connection ii has been deter
mined to send at least two and perhaps
three battleships to join the naval forces
row in the Pacific. The vessels named
are the Oregon, Indiana and Iowa
The Oregon and Iowa will stop at Sa-
moa and then proceed to Honolulu. while
the Indiana, if dispatched TO the Pacific,
will join Admiral Dewey'S fleet at Ma
Mia.
September IS next, is the date on which
all repairs to the warships shall be com
peted, and there is official information
that the Oregon and Iowa will at once
proceed round the Horn. The question of
coal for the battleships has about been
determined and colliers will accompany
them.
The soldiers most likely 70 be sent TO
Hawaii are now in California. and com
prise the Sixth. Seventh and Eighth Cali
fornia Infantry, Fifty-first Iowa, Second
Oregon, First Tennessee. Twentieth Kan
sas, First Wyoming, First Washington.
Battery c, Utah, and First Utah Cav
a