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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
WHAT ]. W. WAR; DID WITH
THE MONEY APPROPRIATED

The question as to what j. w. War;,
of Moline. did with the money he APP
propriated is becoming clearer as the
| investigation proceeds. 1t is said that
the printing plant was running be-
hind to the extent of several>thous-
and dollars year in bad debts and
otherwise; that a good deal of money
was required to equip the plant; that
the old Plowman debts took con-
siderable part of the money; that Mr..
Wars living expenses were $4,000 or
$4,000 a year; investments in build
ings were heavy; and most of all he
paid interest on 100000. being very
prompt to pay all interest as it be-
| came due.
This latter item would amount to
$4,000 per year. but of course this has
not continued for great while, as
| the amount was small at the begin
ming, growing gradually larger as Mr..
| War; became mere and more involv-
ed. This sort of thing continuing
over Il period Of years. would reach
| to the amount of the shortage. it
must be admitted.
Besides the foregoing, il is under
stood that Mr.. War; declared and
paid a dividend of about 10 per cent
! of the printing investment, when. in
fact, so far as can be ascertained, it
was a losing venture. One of the
largest leaks Of the printing plant is
said to have been the fact that some
of the largest work was being done
at losing figure. y thorough ex-
animation Of the books will have to
be made before it can be positively
ascertained just where the money
went but the foregoing is the best
explanation thus far given.
One of the losses in the printing
plant was probably through the fact
that one of the largest jobs was
handled in a peculiar way. The house
using the printing put in the type and
bought the stock. Mr.. War; furnish
ing the men to set the type, doing the
printing. ETC., charging for the mems
time. In this latter regard it is said
he gave a losing figure. and this eX-
tending over number of years, dis
posed of lot of the money Outside
of two of the large factories here the
local business was not large. the
product of the printing shop being
largely college literature.
Mr.. War; carried an insurance of
$4,000 on the plant. 1t is said that
ID. II. Schiller has first claim upon the
plant, being a landlords lien.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
Change In OmcIaIs.

Announcement has been received in
this city Of the appointment of B. +.
Van N'Het, formerly superintendent of
the northern division of the Milwau-
kee road, to be assistant general SUI
perintendent, with headquarters at
Chicago.
Z. D. Wright, formerly superintend-
cecds Mr. Van Nliet as superintendent
of the northern division. and +. LAS,
for some time superintendent of con-
struction, with headquarters at Dav-
export during the building of the Mil
waukee cutoff, has been appointed
superintendent of the Kansas City di-
vision in Mr.. Wright's place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
BERTH IS HIGHER
Increase of 81 Made for I through
Trip to the Pacific
Coast.
BY THE PULLMAN COMPANY
Improvement in Service Given as
keason-ChaDGes on the
Milwaukee.

The Pullman company has an
nouneed that the tourist sleeping car
rates from Chicago TO the Pacific
coast are to be increased to 81 instead
of Sc on and after Dec. l. The circu-
lar giving the increase in rates was
made public yesterday, but officials of
the company declined to give their
reason fer the move. Passenger Off
Gals of the road west to the Pacific
coast say, however, that the increase
is occasioned by the enhanced cost of
running trains. Wages have been in
creased by the Pullman company and
the cost of improving the service has
been enhanced to such an extent with
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
KEEP YOUR HEAD UNCOVERED.
The Constant wearing of a Hat Propo.
gates Dandrun Germs.

There are many men who wear their
hats practically all the time when awake,
and are blessed with a heavy shock of
hair; yet If the scalps of these same men
once became infested with dandrur
germs, the parasites would multiply all
the quicker for lack of air. Badness
would ensue as the final result. New
bros Herpicide kills these germs and
stimulates unhealthy hair to abundant
growth. Herpicide is a pleasant hair
dressing as well as a dandruff cure and
contains not an atom of injurious sub
stance. Sold by leading druggists. Send
10c. in stamps for sample to The Herpi-
eide Co.. Detroit. Mich.
For sale by T. H. Thomas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
Has Another swIudIer.

Marshalltown, having sent the boss
swindler, Evangelist Fred \. Marson,
to Fort Madison for the term of seven
years, has unearthed another prec-
ious rascal in the person of Rev. a. ].
Wheeler. evangelist. prohibition work
err and lecturer Mr.. Wheeler is in
jail now in Canada, but Marshalltown
is in hope Of getting him back. Her
easy people want to- see him several
hundred dollars worth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
noern,t Reapeot old Are.

It's shameful when youth fails to
show proper respect for old age, but
just the contrary in the case of DR..
Kings New Life Pills. They cut off
maladies, no matter how severe and
irrespective of old age. Dyspepsia,
iaundice, fever, constipation, all yield
to this perfect pill. 25 cents, at Hartz
& Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
Peanh Rinssnrn Ten.

For some time the girls of the Busy
Bee Mission band of Broadway church
have been making preparations for a
peach blossom tea. Everything is
now in readiness and you are invited
to come to this Japanese festival,
which will be held this evening in the
old Sunday school room of the church.
Light refreshments, music and a good
time. Come.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
FalIsDown stairs.

Mrs. B. F. De Gear, whose home is
on Third avenue between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, is at St. Anthony's
hospital for treatment for fractured
knee sustained in failing down stairs
at her home at II o'clock Wednesday
night She was removed in the am
buIance to the hospital yesterday af-
ternoon. She is under the care of DR..
c. Il. Foster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
nfnnv Nan snl,scrlhsrs.

The Central Union (BelD Telephone
company has added so new subscribe
ers within the last few weeks to the
list in Rock Island and Moline, and
still have room for more. The new di=
rectory is being repaired. and all who
want service should send in their
names now.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13

~ 4 COLES HOT BLAST
Read Stove i. the most
economical stove in the world. 1t
burns the gas arising from coal.
Other stoves do not. 1t is air tight.
This perfectly air tight stove will
keep a fire all night; and with fuel
put in the night before you can
have brisk fire in the morning
by simply opening the draft. Tenn
perature always the same.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
~ 4 COLES HOT BLAST
A\SWS stove burns every

Read COLES HOT BLAST
kind of fuel, soft coal, hard coal,
wood, coke, Ignite coal, cobs-
everything without change of fix
lures. This stove gets the same
results from siftings and soft coal
that other stoves get from hard
coal 1t is because of the scientific
construction which you can see at
our store.
Read The feed door is alb
A\\WN solutely smoke proof.
no gas or SCOT escape into the
room. On this feed door are the
words COLES HOT BLAST
FROM CHICAGO" BY this you can
always identify the original HOT
BLAST.
Al Is the time to buy this
ANOW stove. 1t SAVES dol
lars in fuel The most economical
hard coal stove in the world. Re-
quires no change for hard coal,
wood or soft coal. 1t gives re-
suits possible with no other heat
er. May we demonstrate its value
to you?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13
DEALING IN GIRLS
Regular Traffic Being Prosecuted
by Organized Gang at
Chicago.
DECLARE OFFICERS OF Y. W. C. A.
Lured From Rural Homes on Prom
Use of Lucrative Employ
meut.

Chicago. Nov. 13.-Traiiic king il
girls is being carried on in Chicago by
means of Il system which includes
Turing them from their rural homes
by offers Of employment and then inn
prisoning them in disurderly houses
This is the conclusion reached by Off
GERS of the Young Woman's Christian
association at the close III their years
work.
THE trade is being carried on like
any other business in Chicago de
clared Mrs. a. s. Chamberlin. vice
president of the association, after the
annual meeting of the board of Girec
tors of that organizaticn last even
ing Mrs. ChamberTin bases her state
ment upon the reports of the agents
of the association, who meet all in
coming trains and find homes for the
young women travelling alone.
Unable to Secure Arrests.
THE business" she continued. lis
so cautiously carried en- that we have
been unable to cause the arrest al
any of the principals. but that traf
ticking exists is proven by the large
number Of cases which have beer
brought to the attention Of the trav
elers' aid committee Of this associa
tiCn.
Country girls, approached in their
villages and on their farms, are tolc
that if they will come to Chicago
they can make many dollars weel
as parlor maids and domestcs. Il
they accept the offers made they ar,
met at the depot by women and taker
to houses of disrepute.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13

Into each life some ruins must fall,
Wise people won't sit down and bawl;
Only fools suicide or take to fight,
Smart people take Rocky Mountain
Tea at night T. H. Thomas phar-
macy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13

There is no cough medicine so pop
ular as Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t
contains no opiates or poisons and
never fails to cure. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-13

in the last three years that the direc-
tors at the annual meeting held in
Chicago a short time ago decided that
the tourist rates for sIeepers must be
made greater.
1t is claimed by the passngr rep
resentatives of the roads west of Chi
cago that the tourist service has been
improved to such an extent that it is
now almost equal to the standard
Pullman service. The fare for the
tourist sleepers to the coast has been
less than one-half that in the stand
ard sleepers and the Pullman officials
have been considering the ADVISABLE
~ of bringing up the rate so that it
would be one-half of that charged on
the standard coaches. Some of the
lines objct to the increase for the
reason that it is likely to injure bust
ness
The National tribune., 1903-07-30
The Greatest Enemy of the Human Race.
lSucreSS)

Thoughts most deadly instrument for
marring human lives is fear. 1t dcmor-
Allies character, destroys ambition, in
duccs or causes disease, paralyZes happi-
ness i'll self and others, and prevents
achievement. 1t has not one redeening
quality. 1t is all evil. Psychologists now
well know that it impOycrishes the blood
by interfering with assimilation, and cut
ting off nutrition. 1t lowers mental and
physical vitality and weakens every ele-
mcnt Of success. 1t is fatal to the happi-
ness Of youth, and is the most terrible ac-
compartment of old age. Buoyancy fees
before its terrifying glance, and cheerful
ness cannot dwell III the same house with
it.
The most extensive of all the morbid
mental conditions which reflect themselves
so disastrousiy ON the human system i, the
state of fear" says DIR. William IL Hol-
comb. ut has many degrees or Gradl-
tions, from the state of extreme alarm.
| fright or terror, down to the slightest
shade of apprehension Of impending evil
But all along the line it is the same thing
| "A paralyzing impression upon the cen.
! tcrs of life which can produce, through the
| agency of the nervous system, a vast vari-
| ETY. of morbid symptoms in every tissue Of
| the body"
Fear is like carbonic acid gas pumped
| into ones atmosphere" says Horace
| Fletcher; 'it causes mental, moral, and
spiritual asphyXiation, and sometimes
death.--leath 10 energy, death to tissue
and death to all growth"
| Yet from our birth we i've in the pres
ence and under the dominion of this de
mon. A child is cautioned n thousand
| times year to look out for this, and tc
| look out for that: it may get poisoned, il
may get bitten, it may get killed; some
thing terrible may happen TO it il it does
not do so and so. Men and women cannot
bear the sight of some harmless animal OF
insect because, as children, they were told
that it would hurt them. One of tn,
cruelest things imaginable is to instiIl int
a child's plastic mind the terrible image OF
fear, which, like the letters cut ON a sap
ling grows wider and deeper with age. Th.
baleful shadows of such blasting anC
blishting pictures will hang over the Who'll,
life, and shut out the bright joy of sur
The National tribune., 1903-07-30
THE BOYHOOD OF "JOE" CANNON.
The Prospective Speaker OF the House Be-
longs to the plain Folk" Of Indiana.
(SurcesSA

The spiders had not spun their first cob
webs IN the Tuscola law Office of j. G.. Can
non before the tenant was marching in the
front rank of the plain people of that plain
state. Uncle joe Cannon saw the force
and effect of the direct, straightforward
code of the frontier, and he has adhered
to it through life. He had been born to
the rough and ready way of the frontier.
His parents were members of the Society
OF Friends, who, with others of the sect,
had been driven from Massachusetts by
persecution, and had formed a Qpaker
settlement called New Garden near Gull
ford Courthouse, in North Carolina. where
Joseph G. Cannon was born. The first
hard bumps he ever received in life, he
says, were against the oaken sides of a
prairie schooner in which the family
made the long journey from New Garden
to Indiana. His life in Indiana had been
that of most frontier boys. He worked on
the farm. went to school, and his father,
a poor country doctor. was even able to
give him two terms at the Friends Man
nal Labor Academy at Bloomngdale.
When Joseph was ii years old. his father
was drowned, calamity that terminated
the boys school life. He became a clerk,
and, Tor i've years, he was among the
thousand and one things that. in those
days, comprised the stock of a country
store.
At 10 Mr.. Cannon had $500. which he
hau SdNtu NIiIie Il n. Tie OeclUPl 10
study law, and entered the office of Usher
and Patterson, in Terre Haute and in
1888, he was admitted to the bar. A year
later, being unable to make living in In
diana, he moved to Illinois. The practice
of law was very different in those days
what it is now. There were few or no
precedents. Only small number of tho
decisions of the Illinois Supreme Court
had been printed. The lawyers had to
reason out a proposition in conformity
with their knowledge of fundamental prin-
ciples, instead of searching for support Of
their contention in reports of adjudged
cases. The sittingS of court at a County
seat were great occasions, and the sessions
we're attended by many who had no part
in the litigation. The trials We're general
ly before juries, and the lawyers depended
as much on their wit and eloquence for
winning a case as they did upon the legal
points brought out and sustained.
Mr.. Cannon rode the circuit on horse
back. He was an interchangeable worker,
and. in less than a year, he gained an en-
viable reputation for thoroughness and for
resOurceful wit. Tie rough and tumble
passages which he had with the other cir
cult riders gave him good training for his
subsequent career In Congress- They
taught him how TO Use his great natural
WIT to the best advantage
The National tribune., 1903-07-30
r. Nesbitt: 10th Ohio, Col. Harley h.

B. Nesbitt; 10th Ohio, Col. Harley 81.
Sage: 1921 Ohio. Col. Lewis Butler.
Unattached regiments Sd Ky; 2Sth
Mich. Col. William W. Wheeler: 113d
Ohio, Col. John b. Hurd; 18th Pa. (de-
tachmentl, Maj. Henry W. Torbett.
Veteran Reserve Corps-Col. Frank 2.
Cahill-44th Wis. (battalion). Lieut. Col.
Oliver C. Bissell; 45th Wis (battalionl:
Garrison Artllery-Maj. John J. Ely,
communicable Illinois Light. Bridges's Bat
terry. Lieut. Lyman a. White; Indiana
| Light. ID Battery, Capt. James $. Which
er: Indiana Light, 4th Battery. Capt. Ben
;amin Il. johnson; Indiana Light, 18th
Battery. Capt. James z. White: Indiana
Light. DIST Battery. Capt. Abram p. An
Edward w. Nicholson; Indiana Light,
24th Battery. Lieut.. Hiram Allen 1st
Michigan Light. Battery f, Capt. Byron
o. Paddock 1st Ohio Light, Battery A,
Lieut. Charles w. Scoville; 1st Ohio
Light. Battery f. Lieut.. Frank b. Reck-
ard: Ohio Light. Goth Battery. Capt. Will
liam Rackus: 1st Tennessee Light Bat
terry c. Lieut.. Joseph Grigsby: 1st Ten
rcSSce Light, Battery D, Capt. Samuel ID.
| Lccnart: 2d L. $. Colored Light, Battery
| \. Capt. Josiah V. Meigs.
The immediate defense of the post OF
Nashville WAS entrusted TO MaJ.-Gen. j.
| +. Steedman.
Following is list of the cavalry as
Sembled ut Nashville for the defense of
that post:
Byt. Mai.-Gen. James II. Wilson. COM
manding-Escort lth U. s., Lieut.. Joseph
Hedges
First Briagde of First Division-Brig,-
Gen. John L. CroXton-Sth Iowa. Col. Jo-
seph B. Dorr; 4th Ky. amounted infan-
try. Col. Robert NJ. Kelly; I'd Mich,
Lieut. Col. Benjamin Smith: 1st Tenn,
Lieut. Col. Calvin NJ. Dyer: Illinois Light
Artillery. Board of Trade Battery, Capt.
George |. Robinson.
Fifth Division - Brig.Gen. Edward
! Hatch.
First Brigade-Col. Robert f. Stewart
Sd ILL.,. Lieut.-C Robert II. Carnahan;
11th Ind. Lieut-Col. Abram Sharra; 18th
Mo. Col. Oliver Wells; 10th Tenn, Maj.
William T. Story.
Second Brigade-Col. Datus +. Coon
9th Ill.,. Lieut.-Col. John Lynch: 9TH ILL.,,
Maj John NJ. Graham; 9th ILL.,, Capt.
Joseph W. Harper; I'd Iowa, Maj. Charles
c. Horton: 18th Tenn, Col. George
| Spaulding; 1st Illinois Light Artillery,
Battery /. Lieut.. Joseph A. Mccartney.
Sixth Division-Brig.-Gen Richard W.
johnson.
First Brigade-Col. Thomas w. Har-
riSon-16th ILL.,. Maj. Charles II. Beeres;
9th iowa Lieut.-Col. Harlon Baird; 9TH
Ohio, Col Israel Garrard.
Second Brigade-Col. James Biddle-
14th H., Maj. Haviland TOmpkins: 9th
Ind, Maj. Jacob S. Stephens; Sth Mich,
Col Elisha Mix: Sd Tenn, Maj. Benja-
min Cunningham.
Artillery-4th L. s., Battery /, Lieut.
Frank G. Smith.
|. Seventh Division-Brig.-Gen Joseph +.
knipe.
First Brigade-Bvt Brig. Gen. John H.
Hammond-9th Ind. Col. George w.
Jackson: 10th Ind. Lieut.-Col. Benjamin
Q. A. Gresham: 10Th Pa, Lieut.. Col. .lo-
seph c. Hess; I'd Tenn, Lieut.-Col. Viii
liam r. Cook; 4th Tenn, Lieut. Col. ia
cob NJ. Thornburgh.
Second Brigade - Col. Gilbert NJ. l..
Johnson--12th Ind, Col. Edward Ander-
son; 18th Ind. Col. William T. Pepper;
9th Tenn. Col. Fielding Hurst.
Artllery-Ohio Light, 14th Battery,
Lieut.. William c. Myers.
The National tribune., 1903-07-30
JOHN WESLEY'S INFLUENCE.
Immense Personal Power Used With Singu-
lar Wisdom and Liberality.
august Century. }

Even upon the manners of the English
people no man of his century had so much
influence. 1t was peculiarly fortunate that
the leader of great popular movement
united with intense religious earnestness
the tastes of the scholar and the instincts
of the gentleman. He never felt it neces-
sary to yulgarize his teaching or to make
any concessions to coarseness In his spot
less linen. his cassock, his black hose and
silver shoe-buckles, he was a model Of
scrupuiouS precision in personal attire; and
his Oft-GuOted saying. Cleanliness is next
to godliness. well expresses the almost
fastidiOus habit of the man. His dignified,
yet gentle courtesy, his refined self-pes-
session, made his very presence and ex-
ample and an inspiration.
And it should be said that Wesley used
his immense personal influence with SIN
sular wisdom and liberaIity He had in
his hands control of the whole system of
Methodist discipline; but he did not at
tempt to bind the members of his societies
by narrow or rigid rules. still less to i'm
pose upon them arbitrarily his own judg-
ments. He was anxious only that Meth
odists should be good Christians. On
doubtful matters he did not prescribe or
prohibit, but left the decision in such cases
where 1t belongs-with the individual con-
science. In an admirabl sermon on
amusements. after admitting that much
may be said for the drama-he was a
lover of dramatic literature himself. and
used to advise his preachers to read plays
that they might cultivate natural mode
of speecf-he decides that, for himself. he
could not go to the theater or play at
cards with Il clear conscience; but he adds:
Possibly others can: | am not obliged to
pass any sentence on them that are other
wise minded. l leave them to their own
Master: to Him let them stand or fall"
His successors have not always been so
wise.
The National tribune., 1903-07-30
THE BOYHoOD OF THE HERREsHoFFs.
John B., the Blind Builder, Worked Under
the Guidance of His Mother.
Success

When the America" won the first In
ternational yacht race at COwes, England.
- years ago. the world little knew ut the
time that on little farm at Point Pleas
ant, Bristol. Il. l.. two children were play
ing who would give yachting and rapid
navigation generally an all-round, far
reaching impetus such as, i'll all the wide
world. they had never felt before. The
elder. John Il. HerreShoff, Il Sandy-haired,
blue-eyed, earnest-loOking hoy of 10. al
though foredOOmed to Il life of blindness,
could then see. and had already begun to
whittle out pretty toy boats. Only three
or four years later he built his first boat
for actual use. which was considered a
marvel of beauty and speed. At 10, his
eyesIght failed him forever, but he would
not let anything discourage him, so he
continued to study boats. and to build
them, toe. The younger. Nat" rather
reddish-haired. ruddy-faced. roguish tod
dler of three. ut the time of the Cowes
contest, was noted chiefly for an irrepres-
Sible inclination to run away to the shore
near by. at every favorable opportunity.
and lie down on his back i'll the sand and
kick his heels eXultantly in the water. He
was often found asleep in this position by
his anxious mother, one chubby hand
claSPinS Il wiSp of seaweed, the other full
of wet sand. with the rising tide washing
his bare feet. Whenever he was missing
he was first sought for on the shore. where
if he was awake and saw that his move
mentS were noted he would generally
spend his time in watching passing ships
or sailing Chips or toy boats.
When older grown. he attended the pri-
mary, intermediate, and grammar schools,
and, later, the high school. under the
principalship of Thomas W. Bicknell now
living in Providence, who says lie was al
ways weii-bchnyed and studiOus. only an
ordinary pupil in grammar. reading SPELL
ing. or history. but bright in physical
geography. algebra, geometry. aud chem
istry. and remarkably keen in natural phi
lOsOphy. AT this time he was tall for his
age. thin. rather slender somewhat loosely
built, and had noticeable forward incli-
nation of the head which became more
and more pronounced from n habit he
had of closely watching rivals in his many
boat races. craning his neck in order TO
see them from under the boom
Mr.. Bfcknell says that the mother of
the young Herreshoffs. although Il very
busy wcman, managed 10 visit the high
school two or three times week on an
average, and encouraged her children,
some of whom We're blind, in all ways
possible. My mother" said John B.
Herreshoff to the writer. in 1899. lis So,
and still enjoys good health. If | have
one thing more than another TO be thank
full for, it is her care in childhood and
her sympathy through life. She is one
of the best Of mothers, and l feel that I
owe her Il debt | can never repay She
has since died.