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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-05

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-05
In Henry County.

Henry county, as usual. Went re
publican. The fight centered on the
county judgeship. Judge Turner. the
democratic candidate. being defeated
by the narrow margin of 115. white
the remainder of the republican tick
ct went through with majorities of
about 9. 600
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-05

subseribe for The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-05
all OF them obtained greater num-
Der OF votes for than against.
CARLSON Is SHUT our.

Socialist Legislative Candidate Does Moi
Receive Vote I'm Henderson Mercer
p. j. Carlson. the socialist candi-
date for the Legislature, whom the
Moore faction sought to have elected
over George a. Cooke, the democratic
nominee. did not receive n solitary
vote in either Mercer or Henderson
counties according to advices from
there This afternoon. In Mercer
county Mr.. Cookies vote was 1900 and
in Henderson 1900.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-05
Fidelity Loan Company.

I4vnde II.
Saturday Telephone 1914
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-14
A DREADFUL SIGHT.

From the New York journal.
Though King Edwards coronation did
not come off the poor of London had the
dinner he promised them.
The feast is declared to have been a
grand success. There were ninety miles
of tables, half a million diners, 10000
walters, and the cost of the food was
$l50.0O0
The intention of the King was kindly,
and it is we'll that for once the poor OF
London had their fill of good food
But what dreadful sight that gigantic
dinner must have been to every observer
with a heart TO feel and brain capable
of reflection
London is the richest city of the world,
and 1t processes the Christian religion.
1t typifies modern civilization.
Yet rich and Christian London can COL
lect half million poor for a pauper
feast
There is no doubt that they were the
real, genuine London poor" said I,ieuten
ant Governor Woodruff of New York.
who witnessed the spectacle, land the
London poor are the wretchedest, tough
est kind of poor I know. They are not
like our poor"
That is because America is younger and
bigger than England
Like causes will everywhere produce
like effects. The economic conditions of
this country are essentially the economic
conditions of Neutrality-suspicious. which
enable the few to appropriate what the
many earn.
Let those conditions endure among us.
and ultimately our poor will differ neither
In quality nor proportion from London's
poor.
Justice. not charity. is the cure for pow
erty Charity gives a dinner to the poor:
justice would place the poor beyond the
need of charity
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If 1892 Alabamians went North to
live then 1892 persons born in
Northern States came to Alabama.
for the whole strength of Alabama
stands unimpared. and so undoubtedly
It has been in other States. The South
could not lose 1,347,121 white persons
without feeling the loss, but the truth
in this section has gained as many
whites as it has lost.
There is a constant exchange of
citizenship going on in this great and
populous country, and the South has
not been and will not be a loser
through this shifting of population.
As the resources of the South becomes
better known more and more people
from the North will come here, and in
the long run this will lead to marked
changes. The Southern immigrant in
the North and the Northern immi
grant in the South will knit the coun-
try together, and one lot viii balance
the other. and both will lead to a
better understanding between differ
ent sections and to broader Ameri-
canism.
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BERLIN BoERsE.
German Market Maintains Its staena-
tion-lndustrials Lifeless.


Berlin, July 13.-The boerse maintains
the same physiognomy of stagnation-
Last week all departments were weak
except domestic government securities,
which were firmer upon the growing
case of money and buying for English
account. All industrials were lifeless at
lower quotations, the weakest being cleo
trical shares, which declined upon the
publication of the annual report of the
Lahmeyer Company of Frankfort, which
showed a loss of 100000 marks and the
passing of the dividend as against a
dividen of 10 per cent In 1901 and of IL
per cent in 1900
Shares of the North German Lloyd
line and the neutrality-suspicious. Steam
Packet Company, although continually
sold for Hamburg and Bremen account
recovered slightly. Irons were / point
lower Notwithstanding the announcement
of large American purchases and salts
factory trade conditions in Silesia. The
Rhine country, however, reports a less
satisfactory condition. Representatives
of the bar iron mills met at Duesseldorf
yesterday and agreed to raise prices 5
marks. Coal shares were lower upon the
June report of the syndicate, which
shows a reduced output.
Domestic bank stocks were dull and
fractionally lower.
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AssAlLlNe THE ALABAMA PRESS.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
1t is to be regretted. and should be re-
GREETED by none more than Mr. Stevens
himself, that the able gentleman from
Mobile should have married an otherwise
strong and excellent speech by an I'M
called for and really brutal attack on the
press of Alabama. He went out of his
way to lay serious charge against all
the newspapers of the state and all of
them should resent it. There was abso-
lutely no reason for this attack on the
press by Mr.. Stevens He made a strong
speech. logical and lucid. and for the
most part in excellent temper, but his
attack on the Alabama press was I'M
called for, unjust and In bad taste. Much
can be forgiven those who, In the heat
of debate, utter words which their
friends regret, and which they them
selves will regret in their sooler mo-
ments,, as we believe Mr.. Stevens will
regret having given utterance to a seri-
Gus and offensive reflection on the hon
esty of Alabama's newspaper men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-14
LONDON STOCK MARKET.
Adjustment of the Settlement Affects
Exchange Adversely.

London, July 13-The adjustment of
the settlement. the existence of consider
able speculation for a rise and an alb
sence of general investors from the mar
ket affected the stock exchange adverse
~ last week and caused declines in most
directions. A feeling of apprehension
pervaded the atmosphere and many OPP
orators do not disguise the fact that they
were glad to see the week end. The
public was not disposed to relieve specu-
lators of the loans and securities they
were carrying and three minor failures
resulted. The market was again obliged
to borrow considerably from the bank in
order to meet the demands of the stock
exchange settlement and the consol
loan installment, but as there is no
special demand this week the bank Is
expected to be reimbursed, at least until
another stock exchange settlement is
due
Paris is again buying gold in London,
but the desire to send money to France
is not sufficiently pronounced for gold to
be taken from the bank for that purpose
and no inflow of gold is expected as
Paris is absorbing all in the open mar
ket and the arrivals for American ac-
count are light.
Railway securities last week were
steady with an optimistic tendency. In
dustrials were quiet and South Africans
were disappointingly weak.
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Labor and WarshIps.

In view of the fact that organized la
Dor in Birmingham end the district and
throughout the United States brought
powerful pressure to bear upon Congress
in favor of tho building Of warships ir
government navy yards, 1t would seem
to be desirable that The many erroneous
statements published regarding the final
action of CongI ess in the matter be cor
rected, more especially as every union
labor man feels much interested said
a man who has somewhat to do with
Congressional work.
AS the naval bill passed the House of
Representatives it provided that three
ships should be built in national navy
yards; but the Senate rejected that pro-
vision, end otherwise so amended the
kill that a conference on the disagreeing
votes of tho two houses became neccs-
sary. Three Senators and three Repre-
sentatives constituted the conferees four
OF the six berg, as matter of course,
Republicans that party being in the ma
jority in each house. The conference
was, with one exception the most pro-
lcnged one of the long session, the main
difference being the proposition to build
ships IL, The navy yards. The House con-
ferees, led by Mr.. Foss of Illinois. chair
ms n of the naval committee of that body,
insisted en- this propc sition, and the Sen
ate conferees were equally stubborn in
their attitude against 1t. Finally there
was a compromise. With the result that
one war vessel of the first class is
to be built In navy yard; and possibly
1t will be the only one so built for many
years to come.
THE Secretary of the Navy has select
ed the Brooklyn navy yard for thea work
required which will be in the nature of
an experiment and one that may prove
to be so costly that Congress will not
repeat it. The ship planned and pro-
vided for would cost under contract with
private builders $1,000 900, it is said. The
greatest experts of the navy and of the
country, and indeed most experts, are
agreed that the building of such a ship
by the government will cost at the low
est SO, 250,0OO No authoritative official
estimate places the cost of shipbuiidins
by the government at less than % per
cent in excess of the cost by private con-
tract, and many experts estimate the ex-
cessive cost at 40per cent.
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SAYS EGAN BACKED DOWN.
Col. w. p. Harlow Chose Shotguns at
Twenty Feet.

From the New York Tribune.
Col. w. P. Harlow, the Mexican and
Arizona rancher ard miner who was
challenged by Gen. Charles p Eagan,
former commissary general of the United
States amy. to fight duel at Guaymas,
Mex, a month ago. has come to New
York in connection with mining inter-
ests. His suite OF offices is at No. s7e
Broadway. where he was seen yesterday
by a Tribune reporter. His version of
The duel is substantially as follows:
General Eagsn is trying to secure a
valid title to a tract Of coal land In the
state of Guaymas that is claimed by
Colonel Harlow Cor the Pacific Coast
Coal Company. General Eagan, in the
absence of Colonel Harlow from the
mines, elected the Harlow men from the
premises. News does not travel as fast
there as it does In some other places. and
it was four days before word reached
Colonel Harlow that Eagan had ousted
his men Then Colonel Harlow appeared
on the scene and rsn off all of General
Eagans men. A week later the colonel
appeared at the hotel in Guaymas where
Ea gan was a guest. The men had been
introduced a month before and had met
socially number of times.
How are you. general?." said Colonel
Harlow, bowling politely.
who the devil are you. sir?" asked
General Eagan, holly
Colonel Harlow is about feet inches
tall and weighs more than 225 pounds.
He corfesses that he has the Arizona
Wy of getting angry in a hurry
I'm not the embalmed beef hero"
ssid he, shakir his first under the nose
of General Eogon.
General Eagan that night sent Colonel
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DROUTH WILL SERIOUSLY
AFFECT EXPORT TRADE

100000 IN 1902 while the value fell from
s2.25o,oo0 in 1901 to little over s1.5o0,ooo
in 1902 THIS the reduction in value of
the exports of breadstuffs. clearly trace
able = the drouth was: Corn and corn
meal s6T.0oo.90o. oats and cat meal S.
100000; total. s15.o00.eOo
Two other marked reductions In the
expectation IF products of agriculture
are beef Including live stock and cot
ton. The expectation of live stock has
fallen from 4Ol 600 In 1901 to $4,000 in
1902; the expectation of fresh beef from
35000o,o00 pounds in 1901 TO 800 100000 in
1909, and the total value of cattle and
beef products has fallen from SS0,O00,OOO
in 1901 to $50 100000 in 1902, a loss of SILL
100000. In cotton the reduction is wholly
due to the reduced rriees the quantity
exported for the year being 100. 000, 900
pounds greater than in the preceding
year, while the value was $24O00o0O less
than the preceding year.
One other item of exports which will
show a marked reduction during the last
year is iron and steel. While the total
figures of exports have noe been received
by the bureau of statistics, sufficient
rave D1en received TO justify an eStl-
mate tfat the reduction in exports of iron
and steel VIII amount. In round terms. to
$40 100000, due in large measure to in
crease in the home demand upon our
manufacturers and in part to the de-
creased demand abroad. The principal
reduction In the export trade of the year
win then stand. Corn and corn meal and
cats ana oat meal 900, due chiefly
to tho drouth of 1901; beef and beef cat
tie $11,O0o, CO., due to increased home de-
mand and shortage in material for feed
Of stock; cotton s24.O0O.0O0, due to reduc-
ticn in prices; manufactures of iren and
steel $2o0oO.000 due to increased home
demand and decreased foreign demand.
Thus in the four items of exports
corn and oats, beef and beef cattle, raw
cotton and manufactures of iron and
ateel-the reduction for the fiscal year
will amount to about $4,000 200, while
the total reduction in all exports is but
about s90,000,000, thus indicating that the
general exports aside from these four
classes in which conditions were nor
mel, will show a satisfactory growth
when the complete figures of the fiscal
year are presented.
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Washington, July s.-(special.l-It Is
now practicable to determine the effect
of the drouth of 1901 upon the export
trade of 1902, The treasury bureau of
statistics has just completed its prelimi-
nary figures on the exports of breadstuffs
and provisions and, as they show about
81 per cent of the total exports. a rea-
sonably accurate measurement of the
expectation of articles affected by the
drouth of last year can now be made
The tables show the exports of quanti-
ties and value of corn and corn meal
oats and cat meal. wheat flour and other
breadstuffs, also live cattle fresh beef
and other beef products as well as other
provisions. The direct and most marked
reduction Of course is in corn, which was
most largely affected by the drouth of
1901 The exploration of corn at the prin-
eipal ports. shown by the preliminary re-
port of the bureau of statistics, amounts
TO twenty-six million bushels in the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1902, against 176.00O.-
600 at the same ports In the preceding
year, the value for 1902 being s16o0O,0o0
against ss2.0000O0 in the preceding year.
a reduction of s66 900. 600; the complete
figures will probably show the total ex-
ports at about 27,000.0Oo bushels against
1Sl.oOO0O0 in the preceding year. Expor-
tations of corn meal have also fallen
from 100000 in 1901 to 81, 100000 in 1902,
making the total reduction In corn ex-
ports in round terms, as shown by the
preliminary figures. $4,000 900. Compared
with the fiscal year 1900 the reduction is
still greater; the corn exports of the
fiscal year 1900 were the largest In the
history of our export trade having
amounted to 21312s 412 bushels, while for
the year just ended the complete figures
will amount to about 27.0OO,000 bushels.
But the effect of the drouth upon the
export trade did not stop with corn.
though In this item it is most largely ap-
Parent The reduction In the quantity of
corn available for live stock naturally
increased the consumption of oats. and
as result the expectation of oats fell
eff from SooO,00O bushels IN the fiscal
year 1901 to 100000 bushels in 1902 and
the value from about s12. 100000 in 1901 to
s400O,00o in 1902. In oatmeal expectations
fell from 100000 pounds in 1901 to 3d.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-14
Operators and Miners Happy.

1.-THE total increase in the payment of
day-labor in the immediate Birmingham
district, resulting from the signed agree
ment between the scale committee of
the miners and the committee of the op-
orators, will amount to about $4,000 a
year. said a business man who is In
timately associated with the miners and
who has given the scale question very
close attention.
Possibly the total may not amount to
fully 100000, but 1t will be over $500, 0O0-
between the two sums, at any rate.
THE miners are in my opinion quite
satisfied with the new agreement for
the coming year, and they show the best
of good feeling. In fact there has never
been any other than good feeling on the
part of miners and operators since the
controversy began two or three weeks
ago. Not only has there been an entire
absence of bitterness, but on both sides
the best of good will and kind feeling
have prevailed. The differences were
perfectly friendly, and were urged from
both sides in the most friendly spirit
The result is a happy understanding
and the miners all go back to work we'll
satisfied and with good heart for the
years work."
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representative In the Legislature from
Madison county. Is ct the Morris.
]. F. Farrar Of Montgomery Is at the
Morris.
]. W. Harris Of Nashville is at the
Florence.
T. P. Davis of Atlanta is at the Flor
ence.
Massey Wilson of Clarke County, candi-
date for attorney general, is at the Me-
tfopolllan
R. T. Raymond. United States Army,
Montgomery. is at the Morris.
William L. Campbell of Montgomery
and ". K. Mcneil of Nashville are at the
Morris.
George A. searcy of Tuscaloosa Is at
the Metropolitan.
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as a taper for lighting fire of cinna-
mon. 1t may be conjectured that the
flaming parchment gave forth incense
even more agreeable to the imperial nos
trils than the perfume of the fragrant
wood that 1t served to kindle
Another financia. anecdote relating to
this medieval financier is that Charles
V, when the accounts of the treasury of
France We're exhibited to him, remarked:
There is linen weaver in Augsburg
who could pay all Of this Whether that
De true or not, it is recorded history that
charles made over to these brothers
the mortgaged estates at Kirchberg and
Weissenhorn, created them counts and
invested them with the privileges of
princely rank They loaned the emperor
money to pay the cost OF an expedition
against the pirates of Algiers in 1885. and
In return he granted to them the prlv-
ilege of issuing gold and silver coinage
CT their own. 1t does not appear what
Iatio these private financiers maintained
in regulating their bimetallic exercise of
a great public franchise, usually regard
ed as an exclusive right Of sovereignty.
COINED money" for the estate of An
tonius when he died IN 1860 included six
millions of gold crowns, besides a vast
amount of property of various kinds In
Europe, Asia and America
This fact suggests the contrast that the
modern Midas of America not only has
vast holdings in his own country, but has
invaded with his investments the Oldest
lands of the earth. The fortunes of the
two llnes of this family have since con-
tinued to be part of the social and
political history of Germany. If he chose.
Mr.. Morgan might add to his art collec-
ton series of portraits of the chief
representative of the Fugger race, en-
graved at Antwerp in 1898.
1t is interesting to know that this fam
lily rose to financial and political power
only after several generations OF toiling
and moiling. They achieved these things
more slowly in the middle ages; for the
first of this line of linen weavers, who
died in 1909, left fortune of only 1000
forms. But incessant industry is char
acteristic of the record of each succeeding
generation.
me published utterances of ]. Pier
pont Morgan indicate that that Is the
habit OF his own life, to which he attri-
1tes his own success and which he would
inculcate in young American manhood
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Gov. Taft's Mission at Rome.

Governor Taft's mission to Rome,
which at first was very promising,
seems to have dwindled to a mere
sale of lands at arbitration prices.
The Vatican is ready to sanction the
sale of the lands held by the four re-
ligious orders. but it is not ready to
sanction the deportation of the friars,
nor is it ready to hand over the public
schools to be conducted on the Amer
ican plan.
The friars acted as SPANS political
agents, and as such they became very
obnoxious to the Filipinos, and their
and turbulence. The 7caseAis scarcely
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE



They are going TO take down de fiddle
and de bow-bo"in the town of Gurley on
the 18th day Of the current month. and
there Will be
"Jubal Juba dis an Juba dat,
An, Juba killed de yaller cat"
And likewise there will be
Happy times way down IN Butler,
Tid-dah-di-iddledy. tid-had-di-iddleby.
All likewise. alasi moreover, alaekl
Breathes there a native Alabama man
who as boy did not shake his foot to
the stirring strains of Happy times way
down In Butler?" Is there one such still
above the sod who does not remember
the too-brief nights OF the other years
when all his life and all his world were
wrapped in the joyous sweep of ''Too-ry
Loo-ry7' The long-halred Paderewski and
the girlish little thing Kubelik simply
'aint In itl''
There will be JOY in Gurley town. and
no mistake. The Interstate festival OF
the fddlers will be In Joyous progress.
Talk about Sinsinatter, Bawston, and
Birmingham musical festivals"-they
are each but the seventeenth trombone in
a world of melody when measured by the
glory that shall be Gurleys If one had
a gal ones gal would dance, as a matter
of course, and assuredly one would wish
TO be with that gal at Gurley when the
fiddlers fiddle In the dangerous atmos-
phere of late July. Prizes are to be
awarded to the best fddlers. and how
these will bow to the bowl
The list of the good old Southern
tunes makes an Alabama mans feet
go pit-a-pat. pit-a-pat irresistibly. Read:
"Forked Deer"
"Natchez under the HILL
"Gwine to Mississippi"
"Arkansaw Traveller" lAhD
BILLY in the Low Ground" tAiso Abb
Liza Jane (Yum-YumD
1.-The Girl | Left Behind Me-" (OhD
Dixie" Iip-hip-hip-hurrahD
bile the Cabbage Down" (JoyD
But why proceed? Why tantalize every
native Alabama man? Special trains will
have to be run to Gurley. The very name
of the town is uggestive-Gurley gurgle,
gurgling.
Here I stand on two little chips;
Come and kiss my two little lips"
Lawsy, lawsy-there will be fun In Cur
leyl