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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

was married in 1874 to Miss Ida L.
Gallery of Michigan. They have one
daughter.
Senator William 3. Allison, who is
now said to favor the "Iowa idea" has
represented his state in congress for
nearly forty years, thirty of them as
senator. Mr.. Allison was brought up
in Perry. O., on his fathers farm.
which he assisted in working when not
attending the district school. In 1857
he went to Iowa and settled in Du-
buque, where he has since resided.
His congressional career opened in
1862 when he was elected to the Thir-
ty-eighth congress. He was elected
three times and declined a renomina-
ton in 1871, instead becoming a candi-
date for the senate. After a long con-
test he defeated Senator James Harlan
and took his seat in 1873.
Senator Allison is q ready, earnest
debater, not easily disconnected by at
tack and always clear and logical in
the presentation of his arguments.
Never bitter partisan, he has always
held the respect of public men in both
parties. He is in comfortable circum-
stances, but far from being a million
aires
The veteran statesman was recently
reelected to his sixth term in the SEN
ate. He is of Irish extraction and is
seventy-four years old. Before the
death of his wife his home on Yer
mont avenue, Washington, was one of
the social centers of the capital.
Hon. David 3. Henderson, who de-
clined to stand for reelection because.
it is said, of the views of his party in
Iowa on the tariff question, was ten
times elected to the house of represent
atiyes and twice was speaker of that
body.
He was born in Scotland sixty-three
years ago and came to this country as
child. He served in the civil war,
where he lost leg. AS speaker of the
house of representatives he was popu-
lar and was generally considered an
impartial presiding officer. Indications
seem to point to the growth Of the SO
sailed iowa idea"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

the then comparatively unimportant
office which has since grown to great
proportions.
When Mr.. Machen took charge of the
division the office force consisted of fif-
teen people. Now it numbers 26S,
with special agents and others on the
road that bring the total number up to
$50. For rural free delivery there are
now eight division headquarters, and
another will be established by July l.
These headquarters are in New York,
Philadelphia, Nashville, Marietta, o.;
Indianapolis. st. Louis, Denver and
San Francisco.
Six years ago there were but forty
four rural letter carriers in the service
of the United States government. By
the LIST of July the number will reach
$500 and 10000 more carriers will
be added to that force during the next
fiscal year by reason of the appropria-
lions made by the last congress. Ten
years ago there were 11,625 city letter
carriers BY next July the number
will be approximately 1880. The rev
Eenue of post offices in cities with free
delivery was $4S,000,O00 annually a
decade ago. Now it is S96,OOO,OO0.
The first rural delivery route was es-
tablished by Postmaster General John
Wanamaker at Charleston, w. Va, on
intended the project now grown to such
magnitude during nearly the entire pc
riod of its development.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
AA ovERNoR ALBERT B. CUM

- OVERNOR ALBERT B. CUM
MINIS of Iowa, famous for
Nh the persistency with which
he has urged the Iowa idea"
of tariff reform and who is said to
have won over President Roosevelt
and Senator Allison TO his views, is
probably the most popular man in the
state of which he is the chief eXecu-
tive.
Public interest in what is called the
'Iowa idea" was Quickened last fall
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

GOVERNOR ALBERT b. CUAIAIINS OF IOWA.
when David s. Henderson, then speak
er of the national house of representa-
tives, declined to stand for reelection
rather than indorse the Iowa plan of
tariff favored by Governor Cummins
and Endorsed by the Iowa Republican
conventions of 1901 and 1902.
The pith of the Iowa idea" was pro-
nounced in favor of ANY modification
of the tariff schedules that may be re-
Quired to prevent their affording 4
shelter to monopoly" This phraseolo-
gy was too strong for Speaker Hen
derson, it is said, and he stepped down.
In the agreement said to have been ar
rived at between President Roosevelt,
Senator Allison and Governor Cum
minis the tariff idea has been made
more in harmony with the tariff plank
in the national Republican platform of
1896.
Governor Cummins is native OF
PENNSYLVANIA and worked his way
through the commt n schools and the
Waynesburg acade ny. Going west in
1869, he secured a clerkship at Eliza
der, Ia, and later worked as n carpen-
ter and an express messenger. In 1871
he went to Indiana and soon became
division engineer of the Cincinnati,
Richmond and Fort Wayne railroad.
When twenty-three years of age Mr.
Cummins began to study law and two
years later was admitted to the bar in
Chicago. That city was his home I'M
til 1878, when he removed to Des
NIoines. where he has since resided.
For sixteen years Governor Cummins
has been Il conspicuous figure in public
life. In 1893 he was a candidate for
United States senator. but John II.
Gear was elected. y popular speaker,
he has made many friends who follow
him with intense devotion. His second
campaign for senator was made in
1899, when he was again defeated by
the late Mr.. Gear. His campaign, how
ever, resulted in the formation Of a
powerful organization in his interest,
and he was elected governor in 1903.
That Governor Cummins possesses
talent, integrity, eloquence and a genius
for politics every one in Iowa knows.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
FOR THE CHILDREN
A CIeN-er Ring Trick.

A clever trick may be very success
fully performed as follows: Have
ready two or three plain gilt rings,
worth aadime or 50, and slip one into a
boys pocket; borrow n plain gold ring
from some one present and insist on
marking it so ii may be safely re-
turned. Call one of the children, have
your marked ring, your counterfeit
ring and magician's wand ready. Beg
leave to slip the marked ring on the
wand yourself and deXterously substi-
tute the counterfeit ring held in your
hand. Beg the person you have called
out upon to throw the ring on the stick
out of the window. After a moments
deep meditation tell him he has de-
ceived you and the ring IS at that mo-
ment in So-and-so's pocket. Beg the
person into whose pocket you have
slipped the first ring to search for it
Be close at hand, take the ring and
before any one can look dispose of II
and show the marked ring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
Afrnid of the Dunk.

Effie was a little country girl whose
home was on the outskirts of village.
There was no gas, only lamps, to light
the rooms, and Efiie used to go to bed
by candlelight.
One day there came an invitation to
spend Christmas with some city cous-
ms. Effie thought their big house
wonderful, but most of all she all
mired the way in which the electric
lights with which it was fitted up could
be turned on and off.
On the first night of her visit the
nursemaid was about to leave her aft
or tucking her up coZily and put up
her hand to switch off, the light.
Whereupon. in plaintive little
voice, Effie was heard calling out, "Oh,
Mamma, Mamma, please don't turn on the
rl-V'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
A Sfranre Rirh.

Just why the baya should light up
his dwelling with firefies, which he
catches and fastens to the wall of his
nest, nobody can tell. Some say it is
because he doesn't like the darkness;
others that it is to dazzle the eyes of
plundering bats, while others say that
he does not care for the light. but only
wants to eat the fireffies. The birds
like. to build their nests near. others Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
Little MiIIionaIres.

Twenty little millionaires
Playing in the sun
Millionaires in mother love.
Millionaires in fun;
Millionaires in leisure hours,
Millionaires in joys.
Millionaires in hopes and plans,
Are these girls and boys.
Millionaires' in health are they
And in dancing blood:
Millionaires in shells and stones,
Sticks and moss and mud;
Millionaires in castles
In the air and worth
Quite a million times as much
AS castles on the earth.
Twenty little millionaires
Playing in the sun;
Oh. happy they must be.
Every single one!
Hardly any years have they.
Hardly any cares,
But in every lovely thing
Multimillionaires.
YOUTHS Communion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
AN AMERICAN SONG BIRD.

Nine. BIauvelt. Who Is to Sing mt
Covent Garden, London.
Nine. Lillian Evans Blauvelt, the
American prima donna who is to sing
Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet and Mar
guerite in Faust at the coming opera
season at Covent Garden. London, has
already won many brilliant successes
in the capitals of Europe.
Mime. Blauvelt is Brooklyn girl and
first appeared on the stage at the age
of eight as Il violinist. When she was
fifteen years old she began the cultiva-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
WORK OF A. W. MAcHEN.
How Free Rural Delivery Grew I'M
der His management.

How Free Rural Delivery Grew Un-
der His Management.
Augustus W. Machen, who was re-
Gently relieved of his position as SUI
perintendent of the free delivery di-
vision of the post Office department by
Postmaster General Payne, had been
in charge of that part of the postal
service for the past ten years.
Previous to entering upon the duties
from which he has just been relieved
Mr.. Machen had been assistant post
master at Toledo, o. When Grover
Cleveland became chief executive OF
the United States for the second time
in 1898 Mr.. AIachen was appointed to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

ton of her voice, and for several years
she studied in Paris under the instruc-
ton of Jacques Bouhy.
Since then she has sung with success
in this country and abroad both in con-
cert and grand opera. Nine. Blauvelt
was married in 1899 to William f. Pen
dleton, an American. Her voice is a
high soprano of very pure timbre, the
range being from G. to d in altissfmo.
Mime. Blauvelt is thirty years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30
It Was Not Loose.

Doctor Ito Gilbert. aged four)-Put
your tongue out, dear.
Sick little Gilbert feebly protruded
the tip of his tongue.
Doctor-No, no; put it right out.
The little fellow shook his head
weakly, and tears gathered in his
eyes.
81 can't, doctor; it's fastened on to
me-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-30

the same kind, and one traveller says
he has seen as many as hundred Of
these nests hanging from the caves of
one cottage
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15

tree and members Of the Quincy fam
lily, almost without number, are buried
there, as are many members Of the
Hoar family. On q marble slab which
covers the graves Of the Quincy fam
lily is the family coat of-arms, cut in
slate stone, resembling lead. This tool
the place of the original coat-of-arms
which was cast out of lead, and which
was, during the days of the revolu
tionary war, cut from the tombstone
and melted into b'llcts
1t was in this old cemetery that
President John Adams was buried un
til his later tomb under the First
Church was ready to receive his body
President John Quincy Adams also
found a resting place In tomb Of tn,
cemetery VIXEN the body was brought
home from Washington. For nearly
two centuries cattle were allowed te
roam at will and Craze in the church
yard, and 1t was not until 1909 that
steps were taken to inclose the place
with fence. In that year a commit
tee, consisting OF President John
Adams, his brother, Chief Justice
Thomas Boylston Adams, Josiah Quin
cy and a number Of other citizens pur
chased the land and presented tn,
place to the town Of Quincy.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
LYNCHINGS ON THE WANE.

Despite Appearances They Arc Les,
Frequent Than Formerly.
Conspicuous crime like the Whining
ton lynching almost always provokes
imitation. Many cases have been re
ported in rapid succession since its oc'
currence. But this will not blind
thoughtful students Of our civic situa'
ton to the fact that the general trend
of lynching statistics is downward
From 1884 to 1900 there were 251e
lynchings in the United States, an av'
erage of about 100 annually. or these
contrary, perhaps, to general opinion,
only little more than two-thirds, l..
CTS, were of negroes. More than a fifth
20 az the lynchings were in Northern
States,
1t is notable, however, that the pro
portion of whites is decreasing, owing
to the diminution OF lynchings fol
horse stealing In the West. Contrary
also, to popular opinion, hardly fifth
: of the cases were for assault, and even
If we include the categories, attempted
assault, alleged assault and assault ag
gravated by murder, we shall still find
less than fourth, 619, attributable
to this cause. 1t may be worth noting
also that forty-two States are repre-
scented in the statistics of lynching.
There is a steady tendency down
ward since 1897, when the number OF
! lynchinSs was almost exactly that OF
the average for the siXteen-year period
1866 In 1898 it fell to 1877, in 1899 to
1O7. There was slight increase in
1900 and in 1901, but in 1902, for the
first time since accurate record began
there were less than 100 lynchings, and
the first six months of 1903 show only
15, which suggests that this year may
be even freer from this social crime
than 1902. We must record with re
greet, however, that nearly third OF
the six months total occurred in June
Tabuated by States, the figures
show Georgia in the lead, with Missis
, sippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and
Tennessee following. In no othel
States has the number of lynchings foI
the past twenty years reached 100
But, though lynchings are decreasin;
in number, the area in which they oc
cur grows. They are met with il
States where a generation ago the.
would have been thought impossible
This reveals an evil no longer section
. nj, but of national concern.
One touch of moral heroism illumin
ates the Wilmington incident. TIL
father of the victim, when he learne
: that there was talk OF lynching tn
= confessed criminal. published an ope
! letter begging all good citizens t
' await the orderly process Of law. ii
! is minister and, suffering under
' provocation hardly thinkable, Shove
:, himself worthy Of the Master he ha
u undertaken to set before others as a
emplar.-Churchma
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
Cynical Views of Lie.

Be honest, and your friends will
call you rude.
Be pious, and people will call you
a hypocrite.
BE independent and people will say
you put IN airs.
Be philosophical and people will
call you a regular fool.
Be tactful, and people will wonder
what you are driving at.
Astronomers announce that the
Star of Bethlehem, which directed
the wise men to the birth place OF
the Savior. will appear once more in
1910 or 1911. Josephus the Hebrew
historian, speaks Of this star, which
is now known as Halley's comet, and
since this time it has appeared on
twenty-three occasions.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
THE JOKE OF A SCIENTIST


When Prof. Joseph lie Conte waa
taking a scientific excursion with
Agassiz, he ventured ON q little pleas
antry, to beguile the time. They had
gone by sailing vessel to the Man
quesas, and thence into the Dry Tor
tugas.
The day after their arrival Profes-
sor lie Oonte was sent to examine
little island, about ten miles away,
and having done 1t he remained there
becalmed all the next day. The wa,
ter was about twenty feet deep, q
splendid place for dive.
lie Conte stripped and plunged over.
board, and amused himself by pluck.
ing sponges and corals from the bot
tom. While he was thus engaged an
old-time naturalist who had Joined the
party, something to Agasslz's disgust,
came padding round the ship in n lit.
tie boat.
lie Conte, to the delight OF the sail
ors looking on, took hold OF the kee
behind, lay on his back, with his leg!
under the boat and his head hidden b!
the stern, and began to swim back
ward.
The boat mysteriously moved tn
wrong way, and the harder the oil,
gentleman padded the more it resiste
hm. Still it moved backward.
He was alarmed. Some devil-hs
was evidently running away wit
him. He peered over the gunwale, bu
saw nothing. Now he padded fraI
tlcally, his strength increased by te,
ror; but still the boat slipped bacl
Finally the unlocking sailors laughe
50 hard that the joke could be carrie
, on no longer, and lie Conte, fearful {
an avenging paddle on his hea
swan swiftly away.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15

The mission Of the skeptic is to
retard progrc sg.-The Crusader,
Wise is the fool who knows
enough to keep it to himself.-Ex'
change.
Same men g0 to bed to late ever to
wake up famous,-Chicago News.
The chief end OF man is the one
with the head on.-Chicago News
Men make success by making use
of their failures.-COmmon Sense.
! If you don't understand the other
fellow just laugh.-Tha Schoolmaster.
Nothing can be hostile to religion
which is agreeable to juStice.-Ala-
bama Elk.
Bacon can be cured by smoking, but
the tobacco habit can t.-Stanford
Advocate.
1t should not be forgotten that
some Of the best opportunities are
home ade.-Puck.
Optimists get more fun In hoping
than pessimists do in having sat
urday Evening Post.
Good fortune is simply the result OF
gcod habits, good methods and good
principles, -Common Sense.
The man who conceals his failures
Twill in the end triumph over the
man who trumpets his successes -
New York Press
"ro wlrk for Others is In eality,
the only way in which man can
work for himself. Seifishness Is liz.
norance."
Last year America only imported
s 600, 900 bushels Of potatoes.
Twenty-four persons living In
County Tlpperary, LELAND, are cen
tenarians.
An adder twenty-six inches lena
has been killed by gamekeeper a,
.Tobermory, Null.
japanese is the latest language II
be added to the list at the Univsrs
ity of Chicago.
Games of love often end In a tie.
Self-possession is nine points will
the lawyer.
He who takes his own time ger
orally takes other peoples, too.
Smoking cars for ladies are In as
[ on some of the Russian railroads.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
TO SAVE ANCIENT TOMBSTONES,
Work Begun to Preserve Those in tho
Historic Hancock Cemetery.

Work Begun to Preserve Those in tho
Historic Hancock Cemetery.
In accordance with a vote passed re-
Gently by the city council of Quincy,
the city engineer Of that place has
begun to make an accurate plan OF the
old historic Hancock cemetery in City
SQUARE says the Boston Transcript,
This burying ground is nearly 2JO
years old and contains many quaint
headstones, the inscriptions on which
are fast becoming obliterated. Every
stone and tomb in the cemetery will
now be numbered and an accurate rec
ord of the names on each viii be kept
This little cemetery, situated in the
heart of the city, probably contains
the remains OF more illustrious people
of revolutionary times than any other
one burial spot around Boston. The
first headBtone of which there is any
record was erected TO the memory of
the Rev. William Thompson, the first
minister of the old First Meeting
house, in 1866 The first tomb in the
place was built in 1915 for DR.. Leon
ard Hoar, third president OF Harvard
College and an ancestor of Senator
George b. Hoar. The second tomb
was built in 1909, and was for Ed
mund Quincy, one of the first Of that
illustrious name In this country.
In this cemetery are buried the Rev
u Tohn Hancock, once a pastor OF the
First Church across the way, an(
father OF Governor John Hancock OF
revolutionary fame, who married dor
o.hy o." Henry Adams, who fled from
the dragon persecution in Devonshire
England. and also his son, JOSEPH
Adams, who was one of the orgina
roprietors OF the township Of Brain
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
Yours kva CIearHSaf
DR0WO1 SITTER.
KOYSS Old EXERXNIXEEeE ---~@
. Old AVERYKEsXERE :

A new social diversion has been con-
trived 10y Miss RosamOnd Guthrie, of
Mexico, Mo. She gave party, and
seventeen couples started from her
home in seventeen buggieS. After
driving ten or fifteen minutes, all
the buggieS stopped d, and each gentle
man got out and imbed into the
buggy just ahead of him This was
kept up all the evening. The changes
OF partners were interspersed by re-
freShmentS at four different resi-
'denceS.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
The Presidents Impetuosity.

president Roosevelt" said Wash
ington official, has always been a fo'
to dallying. l remember once, wheI
he was Assistant Secretary Of thu
Navy, some measure or other was un
der discussion, but, as so often hap
pens, there was postponement, ther,
was red tape.
He rose suddenly one afternoon
The session had lasted an hour ant
nothing whatever had been done
Gentlemen he said, If God hal
referred the ark to n committee Of
naval affairs like this, it's my opinion
that it wouldn't have been built yet
Boston Post.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15
Still Another Case.

Franksville, Wis, Oct. 12.-Many re-
markable cures are being reported
from all over the country. but there is
one right here in Franksville which is
certat nly worth publishing, and which
has not as yet been given to the public.
Mrs. Louis Markison of this place
had been q sick woman for quite a
long time and could not find anything
to give her any help. She suffered all
the painful symptoms of what is gen.
orally known as female weakness. Ev-
cry woman who reads her story will
understand these distressing conditions
which combine to make the lives OF
many women one long burden Of
weakness and suffering.
Mrs. Markison CHANGED one day to
hear of new remedy called Dodd's
Kidney Pills, that was said to be a
splendid medicine for women's weak
ness. She determined to try some and
soon found herself getting better, She
kept on with the pills and was cured.
Speaking of her case Mrs. Markison
says:
IL can and do praise Dodd's Kidney
Pills as a remedy for female weakness.
They are the best medicine have ever
known. and lave done me a great deal
OF good"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15

So little have the industries OF
India been affected by the British
occupation that the native smith
still FORCES locllly made iron on a
stone anvil within eighty miles OF
Simia.
Miss E. Leslie Jackson has painted
from nature in water cOlOrs II vari-
cites Of wild flowers Of Alaska. This.
collection is now in Washington, D..
C., and will be feature Of the AL
askan exhibit at the worlds fair
Congressional garden seeds are dis
tributed for the purpose Of raising
votes.
A good stomach is sometimes as
useful as brains in helping man
along in the world,
1t takes bachelor with money to
exterminate the weeds from a wild
ow's bonnet.
The small hoy always wonders If
his mother will ever get over being
surprised at the things he does.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and Others manage
to grow smaller each day.
If our neighbors had as few faults
as ourselves what a pleasant old,
world this would be TO live in.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-15

It's tho people who
doubt and econ .
cured while they doubt
who praise Doau's Tills
the highest.
Aching backs are eascd.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colored, pain in passing,
dribbling, frequency. bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney
Pills remove Calculi and
gravel. Relieve heart pal
pitation, sleeplessness,
headache, nervousness,
dizziness.
TLYLoRvuLE, MISS. II
tried everything for a weak
back and got no relief until
/ used Doan s Pills "
j. n. LEWIS.