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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29
Local Markets.

Local Markets.
Sheep-464h.
Corn -30E932-
Oats-54IS
Hsy-Timothy. 1910; Wild, s5.5oas.
Straw 5Of15.
Pota'Oes- SOC.
Butter-Choicc to fair 2oc. fresh creamery
24c
EgRS-9Oc
Henss-5c per pound.
Spring ehickenS &c
TurlXeys-9c per pound
Ducks-6c per pound
Coal-Soft. lie
CATTLE Butchers pay for corn fed steers
5l54; cows and heifers, 51zGs41s, calves. %
Hcgs-3HS 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

L1OR SALE-COAL IN ANY. QUANTITY
II of so bushels or over at s2-s5 per ton. de-
llvered c. o. D. to any part of the city.
Leave orders at Commercial house barber
shop, Rock Island. or Enos James, Milan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

NOR SALE-A GOOD Si2s ORGAN FOR
II sale cheap. Apply at 4O9 Second street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29
FOR SALE.

TOR SALE-SIX-ROOM HOUSE ON SEW
II cnteenth street for q, 800. Hull & Co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29
WANTED.

"ANTFD-COOK AND SECOND GIRL
w At SO Nineteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

NOR SALE-ONE No. REMINGTON
II typewriter. Price s25. One once desk
oak finish ~ feet long, curtain top and patent
lock sl4 Call on or address, B. {. Wood, SIS
Seventeenth street, Moline. Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce,

Chicago, Dec. IS.
Following were the quotations on the
Chicago Board of Trade today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

TTANTED-BOARDERS. CHOICEROOAS
" and board At z22e Fourth avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

WANTED BY YOUNG MAN, A POSI-
w ton as bartender. No previous expe'i
ence but one DESTROYS of learning the business
Can give good references IL required. address.
G.. l. C.. ia care of TIE ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

"ANTED-W WOMEN TO BIND DRESS
w shields at home. Steady work distance
M disadvantage; ask yonr dealer to show you
" .ra Sbiela and Kora klaSp hose supporters.
kOra Shields snap waist without sewing.
send 10 cents for catalogu9 of work kora
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

UTANTED-GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE
w work at 53, Twelfth street Mrs Gold
berg.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

"ANTED-LOCALS SOLICITING AGENT
w for accident insurance; one who can de-
vcse SUFFICIENT time TO the business TO make it
rrodtable. Address IL M" ARGUS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

"TANTED-GOOD. RELIABLEOIL SALES
" man, on commission or salary. Address
Quaker on and Implement company, Cleveland,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-29

"AHTED-TWOMEN COLLECTORS AND
w solicitors for Rock Island. Permanent
positions. 50 Mitchell Lynde building, be-
tween 5 and p. m
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24

lection and under the extremely prob
able conditions of a decreased cost of
production abroad by means of the in
PRODUCTION of American machinery and
methods, and the development of a
higher degree of efficiency among for
eign artisans, such competition can
only be possible by the reduction of
the American rate of wages down to,
or nearly to, the European level.
To this complexion it must come at
last. Foreign producers are day by
day becoming more alive to the fact of
the disadvantages under which they
are laboring and to the extent to which
their interests are endangered by
American competition in all markets.
They will not suffer always on account
of this handicap when it can be so
easily removed in the manner suggest
ed by the New England manufacturer
namely, by the purchase or the copying
of American appliances and methods.
A better reason for not turning to free
trade as the best American policy has
seldom been stated.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
TOO MUCH PROSPERITY.
The Organizes Are Being Upset by
the Good Times and In
creased Wages.

Papers of the ultra Bryan and popu-
list variety are beginning TO be troubled
about the good times. They seem to
realize the force of the remark of
Mayor Taggart last fall, that demo-
cratic victory cannot be expected as
long as good times continue. Therefore
they declare that the good times are de-
ceptive-that there will be no real pros
perity until the United States perfects
vast silver-bullion trust by legislat-
ing to stamp every As cents worth OF
it one dollar. To them the outlook is
not cheerful, and SO they make it as
cherries as they can.
Unfortunately for such cliques and
newspapers, but fortunately for the
country, the people knew better Most
of them read newspapers, and when in
one issue, as was the case on Monday,
they read that 1000 wage-earners in
Cleveland had their wages advanced
from five to twenty per cent, that 49,
900 iron workers in Birmingham. with
out solicitation, were given an advance
advances were announced in Reading,
Pa; Springfield, O., and other places,
most people will come to the conclusion
that prosperity of the substantial sort
has come very generally.
One Of these papers declares that the
prosperity is artificial, having been
manipulated by Senator Hanna for po-
litical purposes. He is the bold, bad
man who is melting employers in ex-
tensive industries all over the country
to increase wages and to make it APP
pear that there is an unprecedented de-
,nand for all the staples of the country.
Thereat they invent some new story
designed to show the depravity of the
man.
The Journal is not an admirer of Sem
ator Hanna. Doubtless he does not care
fig, but the Journal has never taken to
him. For that reason and others we
would warn the agitated Bryan-popu-
list editor that he may overdo the Han
ma talk. There is more labor seeking
men to perform it than there ever has
been in the country before. Workers
are getting millions more as wages each
| week than they did three years ago.
| Never before did 100000 of men have
their wages increased without asking.
Now, if all these people whose condi-
ton has been improved by the better
times should be persuaded by the
Bryan-populist editors that Senator
Hanna has brought it about he would
be the most popular man in the land.
He could have anything he desired at
the hands of those people. What il
they should make Senator Hanna pop
.ular idol? Dreadful thought!-Indian-
apolis Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
closest shave on Record.

Lumbermen were rolling logs down
a BLUFF into the st. Johns river, Canada.
Near the foot of the hill there was a
slight ridge, and now and then log
would strike it and bound into the air,
landing well out into the river. Some
times log went astray and got stuck,
and then a man had to go down to dis
lodge it. Once when this happened a
man was prying at log when two men
came to the top of the bluff with an
other log, an~ by some mischance it
started down. They called to the man
below, but there was no chance to seek
shelter. Down rolled the log, gaining
velocity with every foot. and then it
struck the ridge, gave a great bound,
and went high over the mans head.
The lumbermen call il the closest shave
on record.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
WHO KNCwsa

Somewhere in the length and breadth of
our land,
Our president-one- day to-be-
Plays 'leap-frog" and tag" with some
lad whom the world
Will yet great orator see;
For every swift hour that's speeding away,
Is helping to make the great men of some
day!
In various hooks meath our star-spangled
flag,
Our future wise senator's sit,
In session round histories, grammars and
states,
With stu6ious brows roughly knit;
And hearts all unconscious that they are
to be
Bright stars in Americas proud destiny!
Now, laddic, who knows but that you may
be one
OF our countrys brave, valiant men
Ats chief, or maker of laws or son
Who'll bring glory by saber or pen?
A name may be yours which to ends Of the
earth
Will shine like a star Ger the land of your
birth!
Who knows? So, my lad, train your ener-
ges now,
For what they may yet have to do.
BE thorough! Let nothing be only half
Say nothing half-honest, half-true
Serve well in small things howe'er humble
their state,
And then you'll be fitted to govern the
great,
Golden Days.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
A SNOW-WHITE ROBIN.
Was DiscOvere by Lover
of Birds and Nature.

A large tract, not very far from Chi.
cago, unfrequented even by sportsmcn,
has been taken possession of by birds
and ''beasties." Hundreds of them live
here the year round. Warm-weather
birds spend the summer months here,
and throngs of hardy little creatures
shelter themselves here throughout the
winter and listen for the spring.
One day last September pushed my
way through this wood down to the
creek to see what condition the fences
were in--for sometimes old Mosquito
carries off the rails-and TO say good
by to the summer birds. 1t was
lucky day for me. Besides being near
to lark when he rose with his song in
his throat, | flushed covey of quail
from the edge of the brush, heard
flicker drum his best tune on half.
decayed limb, and, best of all, l saw
a white robin! This was the way it
happened: | was coming home about
four o'clock, when just before me in
a little open space on the ground were
ii'S VI Ola lObiiio3 oulPihS Oil ooiAiC OCl
ries. Among them was one white as
the driven snow. l could hardly be-
lieve my eyes. Involuntarily 1 stood
still and riveted my gaze on the little
albino. The flock fingered several Sec
onds on the ground and then flew, light
ing in a tree not far away. l moved
carefully till 1 could command sight of
this tree, and in few minutes l saw
them fly again, this time to disappear
in the tree tops. The fact which inn
pressed me most in my observation of
this robin and its companions was that
neither the white one nor the red
breasts seemed conscious of any pc
culiarity in its appearance. Unlike the
| white blackbird of the old Latin read
err, the bird appeared to be on the most
friendly terms with those around it,
picking up seeds and chirping with the
rest. The little company was doubt
less preparing to go south, for robins
are wont to gather in flocks in the
woods just before migrating.
| All robins have more or less white in
their feathers, but a robin perfectly
white is extremely rare. Once in a
great while Mother Nature, for some
reason not understood by naturalists,
forgets to put any dark coloring mat
ter in robins plumage. The young
of this freak of nature are not neces-
sarily white, but they inherit ten
dency to albinism.
Robins have habit of returning year
after year to Fest in the same place,
and if Prince White Feather spreads his
wings in Mosquito creek woods next
summer know person who will be
there to cultivate his acquaintance
Justine Iddings Baldwin, in Chicago
Record
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
A BIt of History.

To the question: rs it true that any
protectionist ever said that it would be
good thing for the United States if
it were separated from Europe by an
ocean of fire"' the Boston Journal re-
plies: I'VE believe that a remark some
thing like this was once made-S0 or 80
years ago. The man who uttered it was
democrat, by the way. His name was
Thomas Jefferson" What blessing it
would be for the democratic party if all
books-especially all the histories-in
the world could be destroyed in Thorn
as Jefferson's ocean of fire! That par
ty has never taken kindly to history at
any time, but it is only when the say
ings CT its patron saint are dragged out
of the musty tones of the Boston pub
lie library that it feels an overpower-
ing resentment against the man who in
vented movable types.-Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
FAULTY REASONING.
Free Trade in the United States
Foreign Competition.

A New England manufacturer of ma
chine tools, having lately returned from
a tour among the machine shop n
Great Britain and the continent, an
nounces his conversion to the doctrine
of free trade, basing his change of view
upon the vastly superior skill and eff
cheney Of the American mechanic as
contrasted with the slower and less
skillful workmen of Europe. Under
these conditions the New Highlander
mas no doubt of the ability of the Amer
lean producer to hold his own against
foreign competition without lowering
the American rate Of wages.
Having thus built up his free trade
argument, the gentleman proceeds I'M
consciously to demolish it by the state
ment that European manufacturers
are already large purchasers of Amer
ican-made tools and arc thereby greatly
increasing their output without in
creasing their working force, and that
before long the general use of American
machinery and the large productive re-
suits thereby gained will bring the per
capita producing power of the Euro
pean artisan up to the American stand
ard. In other words, American ingenu-
ity and craftsmanship, the direct out
growth of the protective policy, are be-
inT so extensively copied abroad that
| our advantage in respect of superior
machinery and superior skill in its use
will shortly disappear, and foreign pro-
ducers, paying far less than the Amer
lean scale of wages, will be able to man
ufacture goods much more cheaply
than at present.
When this comes to pass American
competition, lacking the defense of
protection, must cease alike in the
home market and in the worlds mar
kets. If American competition is to
be maintained in the absence of pro-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
POLITICAL DRIFT.

pyMr. Bryan is compelled to glare
very intently at imperialism in order
to avoid seeing the many evidences of
prosperity at home.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
1--WE note with interest a growing
disposition to let Mr.. Edward Atkinson
have monopoly of the business which
has lately engaged his attention.-N.Y.
Tribune.
1.-THE democrats are waiting to see
what the republicans will do. That is
why the strongest kind of a plank
should be put in the republican plat
form.-Cleveland Leader.
GyIt would be just like Mr.. Bryan to
tie free silver and anti-imperialism by
their tails and hang them over the
clothes line in 1900. What Kilkenny
consequence would follow!-Brooklyn
Eagle.
UFree silver politicians will regard
Admiral Dewey's willingness to sit
down to a $50-a-plate dinner as forever
settling his chances to become presi-
dent, even should he change his mind.
Washington Star.
UThe Atkinsons and Laughlins are
noisy, but they do not represent the
deep and settled conviction of the Amer
lean people, at least as they are repre-
scented by those that live in the great
middle west.-Indianapolis News.
UThe Philippines belong to Ameri-
ca by cession, by purchase, by the right
of conquest and by possession. And yet
there are some who dispute. all these
and would have the property turned
back to anarchy, fire and sword.-Cip-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
UNew Jersey kept up its republic
an maiorities in the spring elections
The once rock-ribbed democracy of that
state dwindled into minority when
threatened with bogus dollar. Bry-
ans new gospel of socialism will finish
what is left.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
UOur protective tariff hurts Eng
land, but request in parliament fol
its abrogation has just been officially
disapproved. England's only hope is
that free trade will some day win il
this country, but that is hoping against
hope. Protection is the only safe
guard of the American standard of liv
ing for American labor.-Iowa State
Register.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24

ten-dollar Jeffersonians who were with
in the sound of his voice, and every man
of whom has shared literally in the in
crease of national wealth which has
followed the restoration of the very pol
icy which the speaker denounced. Ger
tainly not the vast army of wage
earners of all occupations who have to
thank the return of good protection
times for more work and better pay for
it than they had during the awful strin-
gency of the last four years of demo-
cratic domination. Certainly not the
great body of farmers who have en-
joyed the substantial benefits of en-
larged consumption and increased val
ues of agricultural products. Certainly
not the general community of mer-
chants, manufacturers and business
men who, as the commercial statistics
show, are prospecting as they never did
in free trade times.
What ears, then, did this possible
presidential candidate expect to reach
with his diatribe? The ears, it may be
presumed, of the average Bourbon poll
tician who always recognizes the denun-
citation of protective tariff as sure
sign of sublime craftsmanship. These
he may reach, but not the ears of a
prosperous and contented people. All
such will smile a plying smile at the
foolish mouthings OF typical Tam
manyite trying to tickle the fancy OF
the fellows who boss caucuses and con-
troll conventions.
Just as matter of contrast, let us
quote what Thomas Jefferson wrote in
1909 in letter to Humphrey:
my own idea is that we should en-
| courage home manufactures to the extent
of our own consumption of everything of
which We raise the raw materials"
Had Thomas Jefferson lived in these
| days, of trade expansion and of Ameri-
| can victories in the contest for posses
sion of the worlds markets he would
point with pride to what he wrote SO
years ago and urge adherence to pol
icy that had wrought such splendid re-
suits. But, then, Thomas Jefferson is
not now alive, and Augustus Van Wyck
| is a very different sort of person.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
old Cat Adopt. DucLI,ngs.

A lot of little ducklings is funny
family for cat to have, but in Salem
county, n. j., there is just such fam.
lily as this. Pussy had lived with the
ducks in the barnyard all her life, sleep
ing among them every night, and when
some one took all her little ones away
she was lonely without them and stole
10 little ducklings from an old mother
duck. She carried them all down in
the cellar, one by one, one night, so
the mother duck could not coax them
away, and when Mr.. Allen, who owns
the cat and the ducks, went down into
the cellar the next morning ne found
all the little baby ducks huddled about
the cat keeping warm.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
THE TAKAHE BIRD.

years specimen went to the Dresden
snuseum, at the cost of hundred gum
cas-. The fourth, which was captured
last year in the fords of Lake lie Anau,
in New Zealand, has been offered to the
government there for the tidy sum of
ESQ.
Thus it appears that the bird is pre-
cious; worth very much more than its
weight in gold. The value, of course,
comes of rarity. The wise men were be-
ginning to set it down as extinct.
Scarcity aside, it must be worth looking
at--a gorgeous creature, about the size
of big goose, with breast, head and
neck of the richest dark blue, growing
Back, wings and tail feathers are olive
green, and the plumage throughout has
metallic luster The tail is very short,
and has underneath it thick patch of
soft, pure white feathers.
Having wings, the Takahe flies not,
resembling therein it's remote con-
gener, the Diornis. The wings are not
rudimentary, but the bird makes no at
tempt to use them. This is the more
wonderful, as it belongs to the family
of rails, which is in the main family
of strong flyers. The legs are longish
and very stout, the feet not webbed,
and furnished with sharp, powerful
claws. Both legs and feet are rich
salmon red in color. The oldest feature
of all, however, is the bill, an equilateral
triangle of hard pink horn. Along the
edge, where it joins the head, there is
a strip of soft tissue much like the
rudimentary comb of a barnyard fowl.
The bird is wader, but lives ON
grain, the big beak to the contrary not
withstanding. Dissection showed that
this latest specimen had a crop full of
grass, shipped into bits from quarter
to an inch in length. Its habitat is the
colder part of New Zealand, where it
finds asylum among glacial lakes and
lords Fossil remains show that it was
once sparingly distributed over the
whole country. If there is still land
where it is plenty it must lie mighty
close to the south pole.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
ABUSES THE TARIFF.
TRADE of a Democratic Presidential
Aspirant.
Augustus Van Wyck, Pet Candidate
of Richard Croker, INDUCES In a
Denuncintion of the American
System of Protection.

It Is the fouest mockery Of reason to
profess in one breath devotion to the doc
trine of the equality of all men before the
law of the land and in the next to APP
plaud a tariff system which squeeZes the
blood out Of the average man for the fat
tening of select individuals who have mas
tered the art of depraving all federal gov
eminent, and directing new feudalism
which purposes to subdivide the land into
plutocratic dukcdorls. From the speech
of Augustus Van Wyck at Richard Gro
ker's ten-dollar Jeffersonian dinner in New
York, April 10, 1889.
This peculiar view of the conditions
now prevailing throughout the length
of the most favored land that the sun
was the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of the state of New York at the
election of 1898. He is, moreover, under
serious consideration as possible dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency of
the United States in 1900, ard is per-
haps the most formidable competitor of
William Jennings Bryan for that nomi-
nation. Otherwise it would be difficult
surrounded on every side with I'M
mistakable evidences of restored pros
perity which showers it's blessings
equally upon rich and poor, falling alike
upon the just and unjust, could take
so absuraly pessimistic view of exist
ing conditions as to characterize the
American policy of protection as "a
system which squeezes the blood out Of
the average man."
What class of gudgeons does Mr.. Au-
gustus Van Wyck expect to catch with
this sort of bait? Certainly not the 1000
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
When Otis Was NonpIuxed.

Only once, it is said, has Gen. Elweil
S. Otis, the American commander in
the Philippines, been nonplused. Tha'
was when as boy he was student in
the Rochester academy. He was a
natural leader, and for four years he
kept the faculty in state of agita-
ton. His most famous prank was the
smuggling of donkey into the class
room, and tying the animal securely
to the head professors desk. When
that gentleman made his appearance,
he neither smiled nor exhibited any
trace of anger. Young gentlemen"
he said, quietly, Il see you have wise
ly chosen your instructor. Good morn
ing" That time the laugh was on
Otis
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
COMPANIONS IN CRIME.
Another Shot MT the Associated
Preachers of Treason in
This Country.

Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, who
from the Philippines, adds his testi-
mony to that of the other command
ers in praise of the Americana troops
who have been participating in the cam
paign about Manila.
For fact the American soldiers
Aave made record for valor, endur-
ance and perseverance in the Philip
pine campaign. considering the fact
that most of them were raw volun-
teers, which has astonished the world,
and every American should be proud
of the men who have been following
the stars and stripes through jungles
and swamps under a tropical sun.
These brave volunteers have put their
hearts into their work, and there has
been rare pluck behind every gun
Furthermore, they have made the sac
rifice willingly, because they were in
spired by a patriotic desire to uphold
the honor and glory of their country.
Yet while the American soldiers have
been demonstrating that they are the
best fighters on earth, traitors at home
have been trying to breed insubordina-
ton and mutiny among them in the
hope of so weakening the forces of Gen.
Otis as to make it possible for the in
surgents to win.
1t is impossible to contemplate the
splendid work of the American army
and navy in the Philippine islands
without feeling the utmost contempt
for Edward Atkinson and his asso-
ciated preachers of sedition.-Cleveland
Leader.