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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

and Randall. Other states make the
following showing:
Connecticut, 1913, /. j. Trumbull;
New Jersey, 1859, Jonathan Day
ton, 1s6O-61, w. Pennington; South
Carolina, 1S14-15, Langdon Cheves,
1878, James L. Orr; New York
ls2O-21 and 1S25-27. j. w. Taylor; Ten
nessee, .1S34-35, John Bell, 1859
James X. Polk; Indiana, 1S45-47, j. w
Dawes, 1s63-69. Schuyler Colfax, 1875
76, NJ c. Kerr; Georgia, 1S49-51, How
ell Cobb, 1s91-95, c. F. Crisp; Maine,
1S69-75, James G.. Blaine, 1Ss9-91,
Thomas b. Reed; Ohio, 1SS1-S3. J. w.
Keifer; Iowa, 1s99-O1, d. b. Hender-
son.
Though the office is a very powerful
as well as honorable one, it will be OBJ
served that Polk was the only speaker
who became president. and that few
of the speakers have been presiden-
tial candidates. Hunter, of Virginia,
was only 80 when he took the chair,
and other young men have occupied
it, but Mr. Cannon is more than twice
so and Il veteran in congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
Speakers of the House.

Chicago Record-Herald: When Jo-
seph G.. Cannon becomes speaker of
the house that Office and honor viii
fall to an Illinois man for the first
time in the history of the country.
Mr.. Cannon's native state, North Car
DINA, will then have Jared not much
better in his particular than his adopt
ed state, but it did have one man who
was in for six successive years. This
was Nathaniel Macon, who served
from 1SO1-O7. 1t is interesting to note
that North Carolina was then the
fourth state in population, being pre-
ceded by Virginia, Pennsylvania and
New York in the order named.
The position of speaker has been
held more times by Kentucky than by
any other state, but her, record is
largely made up of two men, Clay and
Carlisle. Clay was speaker 1s11-14,
1880, 1S23-25; Carlisle, 1SS3-S9. The
other Kentucky men were j ohm White,
1s41-43, and Lynn Boyd, 1s51-55.
Massachusetts has had four speak
ers-Theodore Sedgewick. j. b. Var
mum, II. c. Winthrop and \. 2. Banks,
only one of whom-Varnum-s
as much as two terms. Virginia also
had four speakers. They were P. p.
Barbour, a. Stevenson, r. NJ. T. Hun
ter and j. w. Jones. Stevenson serv-
ed from 1924, the others but one
term each. Another state that is well
represented in the list is PennsyIva-
MIA, which furnished the first speak
err, +. A. Muhlenberg. who was re-
elected after an intervening term,
and which added at a later date Grow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
WE EXCHANGE
RECORDS

Bring US your old disc records that
you have grown tired of (either Co
hImbia or VictOr), and we will ex-
change them for the new Improved
Columbia Disc Records. We will al
low you 80 cents for your 1O-inch
record and other sizes in proportion.
The new Improved Columbia Records
are of elegant workmanship and are
decided Advancement in the art of
record making. They have a full.
sweet tone, and owing to the manner
in which they are made they have a
less scratching tone; the needle seems
to run smoother on the record. We
also wish to introduce to your notice
the new Grand Opera Sound Box,
which is designed to obviate the
scratch of the needle and at the same
time retain the full volume of tone.
We will exchange the new Grand
Opera Sound Box for any of the old
style Columbia sound boxes now on
the market. Call at our warerooms
and get our plan of exchange. We
carry the largest line of records in
the city.
Graphaphcne headquarters at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

BY THE j. W. POTTER 90.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
Chicago Dental Company
For You.

If you are in need of dental work
call on US before going elsewhere as
we can save you money. We use
nothing but the best of material a I'D
our work is guaranteed to be first
class in every respect. If you are in
need of a set of teeth call and bee our
thin elastic plate. We guarantee it
to fit in all cases and when all others
have failed. We never ask you more
than our prices below.
CLEANING FREE.
Cement filings. .......... Csc
Bone filling -. .... " 26C
Platinum hll1ng .......... soc
silver hlI1ngs. ......... soc
Gold filings, 81 and up go. SI.OO
Gold crowns, 4 to s.. ..... 400
Set of teeth, SIS and up. ..... 500
e15 set OF teeth for. -. 80. 1000
Permanent location
Office 1907 Second Ave.
ROCK ISLAND.
Over SpeidePs Drug Store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

w. E Curtis, who is in Spain, writes
that the Spaniards in general feel
benefited by the war with the United
States, being relieved Of the tremen-
dous drain of keeping up and policing
the colonies which we now have on
our hands. On the other hand a great
army of crooks in politics who for
1nerly made a living stealing officially
from the colonies now make a living
by stealing at home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
StookboIdars, Meeting.

Rock Island, H., Oct. 81, 1908.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples Power COM
pany Wilt be held at the Rock Island
office of the company, corner Seven
teenth street and First avenue, Fri
day, Nov. 27, 1903, at $3.50 p. M, for
the election of directors, and any 9TH
err business that may come before the
meeting.
PEOPLES POWER COMPANY.
S. S. Davis, Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

Stuyvesant Fish. president of the
Illinois Central railroad, says that
Wall street has been on drunk for a
long time. and is now suffering from
a severe headache. With all due re-
spect to Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish the pub
lie doesn't care a rap whether Wall
street has a headache or the collie
Crete Citizen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
ARunaway bicycle,

Terminated with an ugly cut on the
leg of J. y. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill.
1t developed a stubborn ulcer, I'M
yielding to doctors and remedies for
four years. Then Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured. It's just as good for
burns, scalds, skin eruptions and piles.
% cents, at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

TERMS-Daily, 10 cents per week. Weekly,
l per year IN advance.
ALI communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must have
real name attached tor publication. No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
ignatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

Former Speaker Henderson declin-
ed to stump Iowa during the late cam
paign, but this will not account alto
gether for the falling off in the repub-
lican vote in that state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
Tuesday, November 10. 1908.

Down in Panama the people seem
to be able not only to originate revo-
buttons, but to deliver the goods. The
latter has been the besetting weak
ness of revolutionists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10

The Kansas City Journal says: THE
New York papers have demonstrated
that they are fully equal to the Chi
cagO papers in defeating a municipal
ticket by uniting in its support"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
IMMENSE TOBACCO PURCHASE.
Forty Eight Thousand Dollars Paid
for Fancy Lot OF Tobacco.

The biggest purchase of high grade
tobacco ever made in the West by a
cigar manufacturer was made last
Wednesday by Frank p. Lewis, Peoria
Ill. for his celebrated Single Binder
cigar. A written guarantee was given
that the entire amount was to be fancy
selected tobacco. This, no doubt,
makes the Lewis factory the largest
holder in the United States of tobacco
Of so high a grading. ~ Herald Tran
script, Dec. Fl, 1909.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-10
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1894 Sec
and avenue, Rock Island, ILL., IEntered at
he postonace as second-class E1atter.l
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

GARDEN THEATRE 27th St and Madison Ave.
Last Evgs $50 Last Matinee Sat. 2:31.
TdE ifTH cP PiIy EVERYMAN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
LIVE TOPIcs ABOUT TOWN.

He La almost equally noted for his skill
as an all-round athlete, a cotillon leader,
and an uncommonly skilful hand at tooling
coach. He has been regularly on the box
OF one Of the coaches that drives daily
from city hotel to one OF the neighboring
country clubs. The experience that befell
him In that capacity the other day was
unprecedented and shocked him more
than the automobile collision that occurred
In Central Park recently.
Inc coach had been engaged for the day
by western plutocrat staying In the hotel,
and the Westerner's pretty young daughter
occupied the box scat. The driver merely
noticed that she was pretty and rather
more formal than most of his passengers
exchange word, He did not understand
the cause of her unusual reticence until
the party had dismounted on the return to
Papa, l wish you'd give that driver a
good. big tip he heard the young woman
he did start to talk to me twice and had
tlemanly about it."
Papa disappeared into the Office Of the
hotel. AS he never came back, presumably
he realized that II was not customary to
tip this particular coachman.
Fifth avenue tailor with every reason
to be satisfied with his success in the last
three months confided recently to an ac-
quaintance that his bu siness during that
period had amounted to $4,000. Yet he
was not the man who boasts Of being the
most expensive tailor on the avenue. This
distinction is divided now between two
tailors who struggle to give their patrons
the privilege Of saying that they are dressed
by the highest-pr men in New York.
has ID MI al,
clothes for young men. Their patrons are
principally elderly men, who have reached
the age that makes them particular about
curves and highly appreciative Of any
skill that is able to make them less con-
spicuous. Both Of these tailors, who eye
one anothers schedules carefully that
there may be no undiscovered advance in
price. have been established in Fifth ave-
nue. for years, and they must by this time
have accumulated fortunes. Nobody. re-
for their prices. So $4,000 worth Of BUSH
ness In three months would have been no
exceptional run to them.
"Within the last two years" said we'll
known furniture dealer, men in my BUSH
ness and manufacturers Of furniture also.
have been making great efforts to drive
the so-oalled Mission furniture out of the
market. But we haven't been able to do
it. l have told my customers that in
great many instances 1t is not genuine. that
in many others 1t is constructed with an
appearance Of great solidity but Of hastily
chosen woods which will warp out Of shape
In short time, that when the black or
green varnish wears at the edges it looks
rusty-all that and more But it has no
effect. We thought at first this furniture
was fad, and paid no particular attention
to it., believing that the standard woods
and styles, particularly mahogany, Shera-
ton and Chippendale, would always hold
their own, but it appears we are mistaken.
II 1t is fad 1t seems to have come to stay.
have to keep the style whether want
to or not
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

Garden Party and Tea for Charity-Miss
Roosevelt Out Riding.

WASHINGTON, May ls,-Society people
generally attended the garden party at
the l street home Of Miss Myer this after
noon, which was for the benefit OF the
Girls Holiday House in Virginia. Miss
Foraker and Miss Cotton served ice cream,
while Miss Letter Miss Patten. Miss Ashton,
Miss Glover, Miss HUFF, Miss MCGOWAN.
Miss johnson and Miss Satterlee each
contributed her service with a bevy Of
other society girls.
Another pretty affair for charity. which
was participated in by all the diplomats
and society people, was the tea and sale for
the benefit OF the Homeopathic Hospital
Among the women who assisted at the
latter entertainment were Mrs. George
Hun, Mrs. Dalzel, Mrs. Ralph Jenkins,
Mrs. E. c. Dean, Mrs. Beriah Wilkins and
Mrs. Victor Kaufman.
Mrs Bates, wife of the Paymaster-Genera
of the Army. will spend the su INNER In
Europe. She will be accompanied by Miss
Bates
Miss Roosevelt has sufficiently recovered
from her recent indisposition to be out,
and this afternoon drove her long red
automobile about the streets, having be-
side her a professional chauffeur. She
attended several garden parties and spent
some time at the old observatory grounds,
where the country fair will be held to-
morrow afternoon. She looked fresh and
pretty in a white gown and striking picture
hat. Mrs. Roosevelt went with a party OF
friends for a long horseback ride, Senator
and Mrs. Lodge being Of the party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

BERKSHIRE HlLLS-Board az reasonable EtLc.
lake and trout fishing: pine groves. lake,.
WILD Farm. Monterey, Mass,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
GIRLS SHOULD LEARN TO CATCH.
Bean Bags Instead OF Rubber Balls for
Those OF Brooklyn High School.

Those Of Brooklyn High School.
This notice, to the surprise of the 1000
odd pupils In the Girls High School in
Brooklyn, was posted on the school bulletin
board on Monday:
Hereafter the use Of rubber bouncing
balls and all other varieties Of baseballs
is prohibited in tho school yards during
recess and before and after school hours.
Rubber balls will be used only under. the
eve Of instructors In oalisthenic exercises.
The turf plots surrounding the school
building have been recently sodded and 1t
has become necessary, for q time at least
for the young women OF the school to keep
of the grass.
.This rule is not intended as a restriction
of healthful exercise and there Is no objec-
ton to games OF tossing and catching. It
is suggested that there Is too much tossing
and too little catching. 1t In further .sug-
gested that bean bags be substituted for
the balls.
DR.. Felter, the principal, said:
@Weve stopped the use Of rubber balls
and baseballs OF all sorts. because the girls
run all over the grass The girls are really
getting to like bean bags just as we'll and
bean bags don't roll. Rubber balls are
still used in the physical culture classes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
TIE DIAMOND Mills BURNED.
ESQ 600 Fire in BufYalo-Bursting Hose
Kills q Fireman.

buffalo. May Is.-The milling and ele-
vator plant Of Churchill & Co., known as
the Diamond Mills. on the Abbott road. in
this city. was destroyed by fire last night,
the loss aggregating about 100000. Some
meal bags In q nearby elevator were found
on fire and weighted down with stones
shortly before the fire in the Diamond Mills
was discovered. It ia believed in oonse-
quence, that the Diamond Mills fire was OF
incendiary origin.
Lieut.. William Clark, while fighting the
fire, was struck accidentally with portion
q a hose which had burst. The hose hit
Clark In the stomach with such force that
he was hurled against curbstone. frac-
turing his skull. He died at the Emergency
Hospital at 2 OF clock this morning.
The fremen were called upon to
put out fires in twenty-five different dwell
ing houses which had been ignited by sparks
from the burning mills: Twenty-Five freight
oars loaded with grain taken from lake
boats for shipment to-day also were do
stroyed. This may swell the loss to $3.50, 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
FOR A NATIONAL THEATRE.
The Society which Hopes to Estabfish One
Elects Its Oflcers.

The National Art Theatre Society OF New
York held its first business meeting last
evening at the society's rooms in the Hol-
land Building in Broadway. and elected
these officers: President, J. l; c: Clarke;
Rice. Henry Miller, F. F. Mackay, Wilton
Lackaye, John r. Dos Passos, Charles Bar
nard and Arthur Hornblow; corresponding
secretary, Sydney Rosenfeld; recordin &
secretary. Duff q, Maynard archivis let t.
Henry Tyrrell; treasurer, Herman Conheim;
had consented to act on the committee Of
finance. II was requested that persons
desiring tickets for next Sunday evening Is
conference with Joseph Jefferson at the
Garrick Theatre should apply TO Mr.. Rosen-
field
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

MADISON SQUARE THEAIRE,2ith St.nr. B'y.
Evgs. $50 Matlnees To-day and Saturday.
6 Gee; nf"a dnm.d, A FOOL Zip MONEY
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
JAWESK. HACKETTyNANEW ROLE
ne Is TO Play Alexander the Great IN
Play Built About the Greek General.

James X Hackett announced yesterday
The name OF the new play by Victor Mapes
With which he will open the new Weber 4
Yields Globe Theatre in Boston. The play
y 10 h. called Alexander the Great,
y founded on incidents in the career 81
'ha' gr"a, General and Mr.. Hackett viii
appear in the title role The scene is laid
N he first conquest az Persia. so that there
{ Unlimited scope for picturesque scenic
NY siiture and elaborate decoration and
Ah'go force az slrers
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
Struck by q Train In Montelair.

MoNTcLAIR, N. j., May ls,-Richard
Wagner. a New York merchant. whose
home Is in this place, was struck and seri-
o,,sly injured by train on the New York
and Greenwood Lake Railway at the Park
street station while crossing the track s
this morning. He Was taken 70 the Noun
tainside Hospital, where y was found that
he had q fracture at tho base Of the skull
and that there was little hope for his re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
,,x,,.on Get. a Now School Job.

SPRINaFIzLp, Mass, May ls.-Fred W.
Atkinson, the former Superintendent, OF
Education in the Philippines. was elected
last night Superintendent Of Schools st
Newton, Mass. and will begin his work
there on Sent
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
e2.SO-RATFS REOVCED-slO TO xIs
THE VITI ENHOl 81.
HOTEL SCARBOROUGH

New jersey AVc, AID Tht BtAcn
Regular rates ~ daily reduced TO 81 so and $40 10
3s weekly. Strictly high class service and cuisine
maintained. n. G. HALLINGER.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
HOTEL GLADSTONE

Directly on the ocean front In Chelsea nnest
location. New and strictly high class. Sea water
In all baths. running water In rooms: sun psriorE
overlooking ocean. etc, ETC. Special Spring IAtea
Booklet. Goa Oh meets trains. MI. COLLINS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
ADJUSTMENTS.

GARRICk THEATRE, 18th St. Near Bway.
Last Evgs., $50. Last Matinee sat, AIS.
sKIPPEn 4 co. WALL STREET.
May 2l-Henry IL. Dixey In Facing The Music.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

NEW SAVOY THEATRE. Bath ST. & Broadway.
Evgs., Sis. Matinces Wed. & Sat- 2:l5
EZRA KENDALL IRE h H5HHGAR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14

Beach front Maryland Ave. Atlantic Gity.
Ocean Elevator. Private Baths. Special Spring
Rates. N7 so per week and UP. Quiet, nrst clAAA
select Illustrated booklet
ALFRED VIVIAN.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
READ THIS AND PONDER

j.. i. Trowbridge. the author, tells in
his autobiography the following incident
of his young manhood: after had been
So far prospered as to be able to place a
small deposit in savings bank the father
of a family once besought me for loan
Of $50. When I told him, to my sincere,re-
gret, that / had no such sum at command
he made answer that his quarters rent
was due, that he had; been unable to col
lect some bills he had relied on. to make
up the needful sum and he didn't know
which way to turn if I couldn't help him
! haven't it. I repeated but thought
of my poor little savings-bank deposit and
Of a. family mans natural distress on be-
ing unable to pay his remit might pos
sibly raise it for YOU Altho [ knew there
would be a loss of accumulated and pros
pectiYe interest if / withdrew my money
from the bank, and / could not think of
taking interest from a friend, his express
sions of gratitude paid me in advance for
any such sacrifice l went at once and
drew the $50. which handed him without
saying how I had come by it. He paid me
in a week or two, thanked me warmly and
added this naive remark: If you hadn't
lent me the money should have had to
take it out of the savings bank and have
lost the interest. smiled and held my
Deaces'
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
The Wilderness Not a Waste.

1t Is not bad national ecoflomy to
have a wilderness in a nation. Land
is, not worthless to a nation because
it will not grow corn and wheat and
cannot be proftably plowed. Even
if a. large portion of our plains and
mountains shall never be more capa-
ble of population than to-day, they
need not be considered waste lands.
1t is good for man to see wild, nn-
harnessed nature. 1t is even good for
him to know that there is a wilder
ness. even if it shall, be denied to
him to ever see it.
The possession of a vast extent Of
wilderness has had much to do with
shaping our national character. III
his recently published book, THE
Way to the West Emerson Hough
dwells on the part the wilderness has
had in giving us the men that have
made the nation great and strong. He
fears that with the wilderness, that
is to say, the west, so nearly converted
to civilization, the American of the
future will be an inferior type of
humanity. In one of his essays
Thoreau expresses some such idea
as that so long as we know that there
Is somewhere wild country with
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26
SATURDAY EVENING.

primitive men. country where there
are wild animals and great unin-'
habited stretches, where the covering
OF snow in winter is broken only by
the wilderness creatures and the only
paths are those of the deer, we shall
from time to time get few tonic
whiffs from it that will save us from
the dangers Of society.
Instinctively feel that human life
must be tame in country that has
been tanned to continuous cultivation,
laid out in regular fields stripped of
Its forests drained Of it's lakes and
swamps. Genius and wilderness are
related. We expect to see our great
men come out of the new countries
The fact that the old countries produce
an abundance Of great men does not
keep us from looking to the new for
leaders. We instinctively that the
man with his feet firmly planted on
the earth, who is at home out of doors,
who knows the forest and its mys-.
teries, the waters and their depths,
whose life has been passed in the
midst of natures grand disorder, is a
greater man than the child of the
apartment house and the office.
We can't keep the land a wilderness,
but we can keep a wilderness in the
land. In country that is all fertile
and capable of sustaining an agricul-
tural population, it is not easy to re-
tain wildernesses while an expanding
population presses for new homes. But
in this country we have sandy forest
lands and arid deserts and great
mountain chains that will always re-
main wildernesses unless man makes
desolations Of them. That is all we
need to do-refrain from making deso-
lations Of what would otherwise be
wildernesses.
The United States Is very popular in
Panama just now: A little later on, judg-
Ing from the experience with Cuba: it will
be very unpopular. With little new ma
tions the appreciation of favors expected
is considerably stronger than Of those rem
dered. g.