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The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

- ONT make any mistakes about
Z the dainty little maid, Of the
Dresden China type.
- OF course she is just as dainty
Gs she looks, and has a penchant
for pretty things that form the back
ground Of the picture or is in the nature
Of frame work of the little miniature.
The dainty girl. petite and charming
herself. runs to little things of her own
prototype. Dainty belongings, dainty
surroundings, that harmonic with her
own personality, are adopted by her and
anything other than in keeping irritates
her, and as old women say, Gets on her
nerves"
The tastes and environments Of a large
woman run into more generous channels.
She is not apt TO notice little things with
the same precision or analytical spirit
as does the wee maiden. She sees life
through a larger prospective, and her
character partakes Of her physical self.
The dainty maid seeks harmony in her
surroundings and an absence of it strikes
a discordant note that mars the whole
melody Of her life.
She notices many things that her more
generously proportioned sisters would
never think Of. and allows the little things
OF life 10 fret and annoy her in a manner
that her physical opposite escapes.
For this reason you rarely find a little
old woman who retains even a remote
semblsnce Of her girlish beauty. The little
old woman shows in her wizened face,
with its lace work of wrinkles, how she
has fretted and nursed her grievances un-
al through them she has woven her net
work Of wrinkles during all the years
that Time has kept tabs on her.
Large women, in the majority CT cases.
crow into handsome old ladies. The pass
ing years deal kindly with them. and
many who were hardly passabIe In youth
take on a beauty with the friendly mark
fngs Of age that astonishes even them
selves.
The dainty little woman shrinks into a
ahriveled little dame. with an almost un-
canny, selfish look. and the proportion of
pretty little old women with handsome.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

The Rock Island Railway keeps one OF
the largest supply houses in the United
States in Trenton, Mo. The shipments
from this store are said to exceed tha
combined sales Of all other business
houses In Trenton. 1t furnishes supplies
to every point on the line between Mus
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27
ADvERTIsEMENTs
DR.. CHARLES FLESH FOOD
For the Form and Complexion.

Has been success
fully used BY lead
ing actresses. sing
ers and women Oe
fashion for more
than 25 years.
Wherever applied
Il Is instantly abb
sorbed through the
pores OF the skin.
and its wonderful
nutrition feeds the
wasting tissues.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27

catine. Iowa. and Missouri River pOintA-
Kansas City Journal
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-27
RENO OVIE0
PI1EPLEa

As II By magic, one
application oftsn
showing . remark
able IMPROVEMENT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
An Elastic Currency.

The JohnStOwn. Pa, Democrat calls
attention to the plan for an elastic
currency proposed by Clarence Y.
Tiers, of Pittsburg. and submitted to
Senator Aldrich. The bill as explained
is not likely to meet with the APP
proval of that astute fnancier. As n
matter of fact it is likely to throw
the Standard oil father-in-law into
several kinds of fits, because the
scheme might work for the benefit of
the great common people instead of
for the benefit of the banks and few
Wall street magnates.
y similar bill, we believe. was in
trOduced in congress several years
ago by Tom l.. johnson. present dem
ocratic candidate for governor of
Ohio
The bill of Mr.. Tiers provides for
what is described as United States
currency notes and these are to be a
legal tender. Any one may secure
these notes by depositing government
or other approved bonds with the
treasurer of the United States. While
a full legal tender equally with gold
coin they would not be payable on de-
inland in such coin. They would stop
the fine work of the gold spectators
and leave them without leg to stand
on. Instead of being payable on de-
mand in gold coin they WOULD be eX-
changed at the option of the holder
at their face value for five year gold
bearing bonds at their par value.
Thus they would be kept at par
with the unit of value so long as the
credit of the government remained
unimpaireG and without the expense
of maintaining a vast gold reserve
which may at any moment melt away
and vanish into thin air.
Initiation of the currency is provid-
ed against in the bill of Mr. Tiers by
a tax of per cent payable by the
depositors of the bonds until the
bonds are reclaimed by the return to
to the treasury by an amount of
money equal to the currency notes
received. No one would take out cur
rency at the rate unless the urgency
were great. and not one would keep
it out a moment after the urgency
ceased unless he were a fool.
In some broad aspects at least this
plan resembles that of Mr.. Johnson.
and it certainly has the merits of
simplicity and directness. However,
it is not probable it will receive slight
consideration at the hands of Mr..
Aldrich and the gentlemen who have
been commissioned by the bankers to
draw up a rubber currency which will
stretch only when the banks wish it
to, and which will contract whenever
the banks let go.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
FEATURES OF LAST WEEKS
STATE FAIR SUMMARIZED

The Springfield News summarizes
the features of the state fair that
closed at that city Saturday after the
most successful week by far in its
history:
Ideal weather.
Perfect police protection at every
point.
No accidents.
No thieving.
No burglary.
Very little drunkenness.
Programs at fair and carnival car
ried out with little friction.
Transportation facilities prove adj
equate under the heaviest strain.
Street car lines Thursday carry ST.
600 people, including the transfers.
Chicago q Alton Thursday carrie d
10000 single fares on its fair trains.
For the week the street car com
pany carried 10000 single fares.
Chicago d Alton carried 100000 sin
gle fares.
Hotels, restaurants and boarding
houses give accommodations to al
who apply. Lodgings offered not eX-
hausted.
Perfect system in handling people
and directing them and keeping them
moving in places of congestion.
Excursion train system the most
perfect and comprehensive ever ac-
corded Il provincial city by railroads
Excursion trains from the very linn
it's of the state and from neighboring
states.
Excursions from Missouri points
Burlington. Iowa, from Freeport and
Ogle county, from the northern tier
of counties. Il train load from Kanka-
kee. an excursion from as far south
as Shawneetown, from Quincy and
Danville.
One hundred thousand strangers
brought to the city by the railroads
and returned home without accident
and with a minimum of discomfort.
State fair the most complete eX-
hibit ever made in Illinois.
Gate receipts of, fair will reach
nearly 100000.
Grand stand income will amount to
nearly $4,000.
Concessions will return at least So,
600.
Total receipts of the fair will reach
nearly $685. 900.
All concessionaires make money and
leave the city satisfied with the bust
ness they did.
Visitors to the fair pleased with the
exposition and the accommoda tions
they received.
Few complaints among exhibitors
over awards. Judging has been uni
formly just and satisfactory. though
the high quality of stock made it diff
ficuIt to choose the rightful heirs to
the ribbons.
The great fair of 1908 will probably
stand on the records for some years
before its equal or superior will APP
pear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

tally dictated by the sellers. All the
receipts of the internal revenue were
deposited in the favored banks and
allowed to remain there without in
terest. and the vast sum of oyer $780,
100000 is now loaned to the banks on
which not one cent of interest has
ever been paid. All this succor not
being found enough to stem the tide
of liquidation, the banks were allowed
to withdraw their United States
bonds, which they had deposited with
the treasury as security for loans, and
in place thereof deposit city and rail
road bonds. This allowed the banks
to use the released United States
bonds 10 increase their circula tiOn and
thus further initiate the currency.
At the last session of congress an
attempt was made to pass the Fowler
asset currency bill and the Aidrich
bill, but the proposed legislation was
defeated.
President Roosevelt is officially
quoted as favOring the financial legis-
lation that the banks ask for and will
issue n call for an extraordinary SEES
sion of congress, to commence Nov. @.
for the purpose All this shows that
President Roosevelt has authorized
more and greater favors to the banks
and Wall street than any president
ever did, and all the efforts of the re-
publican newspapers to make it APP
pear that Wall street is opposed to
I he president are not only absurd,
but are not borne out by the facts.
The spook that worries Wall street
is congress. for it is notorious fact
that at any session just before ma
tional election the politicians are on
their good behavior and do not, as a
rule, enact legislation that will be
questionably received by the voters.
That President Roosevelt will recon-
mend financial legislation to congress
is said to be assured. But whether
congress will dare to legislate further
in the interest of the banks and Wall
street is predetermined.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
AdministFation and wall Street.

Wall street is still in the dumps and
does not seem able to rally from the
enormous decline in the quoted value
of stocks. The Napoleons of finance
are turning their eyes to congress to
help them and the select members of
the finance committee are preparing
a bill which is intended to he Just
what the Wall street people want.
Very seldom has congress legislated
entirely as Wall street has dictated.
because what the stock iobbers asked
for is just what the other people who
pay the taxes don't want. and won't
have it if they can help it. As long as
times are good in Wall street and
there are plenty of lambs to shear,
the financiers make no demand for
legislation. but when the crop of
lambs has all been sheared and the
bulls and bears undertake to strip the
hide from each other, then the trou-
BILE begins and the president is called
upon TO order the secretary of the
treasury to laid the banks and pre-
vent panic.
Early in the fall of 1902. when the
first big break in the price of stocks
commenced, the condition of the f.
nancial weather in Wall street was
squally and the secretary of the treas
ury, under orders from President
Roosevelt, at once commenced to aid
the banks in every possible way
Bonds were purchased at an enor-
nous premium, the price being virtu-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
The Cry OF the Trusts.

The decreased purchasing power and
forced economy of more than half the
people are having the effect of dimin-
ishing the trust prosperity.
There are strong indications that the
speculative boom has run its course
and that wages instead of being in
creased will probably decline. The
press dispatches of Sept. 16 tell us
that the National Metal Trades as
ISOLATION has started movement to re-
duce the wages of machinists all over
the country 10 per cent when the wage
agreements with the machinists expire
Jan. /. The cause given Is fierce COM
petition and diminution OF business"
With all this evidence OF the neces-
sity for legislation to curb the extor-
ton OF the thousands Of trusts. great
and small, the Republican cry is to
stand pat' and leave well enough
alone. That is the cry Of the trusts
and not of the people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Public NOfice.

Public notice is hereby given to all
persons interested, that the under
signed Tri-City Railway company will
at a meeting of the city council of the
city of Rock Island, to be held at the
city council room in said city on the
5th Gay of October next, IT the hour
OF S o'clock p. m, present petition
to said city council, PRAYING that it
will rant to the LLGcrs 2ned Tri-
City hallway company, its successors
and assigns, the right. for a period of
20 years, to construct, , perate and
maintain an additional or double
track in connection with the use and
operation of its electric street rail
way as now located, operated and
maintained in said city of Rock Isl
and, on the streets and avenues of said
city hereinafter described, and to
erect on the line of said street rail-
way all necessary poles, wires and
cher appliances required for the use,
opCrat on, maintenance and construc-
tom &! said electric street railway.
with Il double track. The line of said
proposed additional or double track
to be run as follows:
beginning on Seventeenth street in
SAID city of Rock Island, at the IN
ters. elton of Second avenue, thenca
south along Seventeenth street to
Seventh avenue, thence west along
Seventh avenue to Eleventh stree.
thence south along said Eleventh
street to Tenth avenue.
Rock Island, H., Sept. "a, 1908.
TRECITY RAILWAY COMPANY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
The saIve That Heals.

without leaving a scar is DeWitt's
The name Witch Hazel is applied to
many salves, but DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is the only witch hazel
salve made that contains the pure
unadulterated witch hazel. If any
other witch hazel salve is offered you
it is counterfeit. E. c. Dewitt in
vented Witch Hazel Salve and De.
Wits Witch Hazel Salve is the best
salve in the world for cuts, burns
bruises, letter, or blind, bleeding,
itching and .protruding piles.
Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Pork.

| Pork.
| Oct. ,n.12; I1.S7; IL IL: IL 81
| jan IL So, II 80: II 45: IL IS.
May, I247; 1887; l2.47; 1852
| Lard
Oct, go; 60; 7.42. 7.42.
Jan, e.s5, $50; 6s5; 6.s5.
Ribs.
| Oct, $50; $50: 9.35: 935
| jan, 6 80; 60 6.55: 6 81.
Rye, Dec. 80 May s.; fax. N. w 1Ol;
s. W. 95; OF. 95; Lee. 81; May Of;
barley 42GI5S.
Receipts today: Wheat rs, corn I76. oats
I7g; hogs 1900: cattle ., 700, sheep 40,OOU.
dog market opened strong.
Light. e5 9046.50; mtXe0 and butch
ers. IS sos 50; good heavy, S5.25G6.25; rough
| heavy, 5.2505.50
Cattle market steady.
Sheep market opened lower.
Hogs at Kansas City 600. cattle 1900;
hogs at Omaha 800, cattle $500.
Union stock yards $40 a. N.
Hog market strong for good
Light, IS 9016.50; mixed and butchers, O.. SIS
ae 50; good heavy. s5.250e 80; rough heavy,
Cattle market steady for good.
30 Te4as sseers IS s5aa n S sfocFers aSS
| feeders ~ 1004.10, westerns % 0OGD440
Sheep market mostly l0c lower.
Hog market closed weak to sc lower.
Light. s5:S51e so; mixed ana butchers, 5.55
Qe As; good heavy, S525Gs6 IS; rough heavy.
cattle market closed for good steady.
Sheep market closed steady.
New York Stocks.
new YORK, OCT. 5.-Tne following are the
closing quotations on the New York stock
] exchange:
Sugar 11l1s, Gas 92C. RI&P 24x, South
ern Pacific AK, b. s. o. 74N, AtchiSOn COM
mon 6Sh, Atchison pfd. ssh, c. M. & st. P.
Tel. Co. slH, L. & 97a<, G. & A. 21sl. Rdg.
common An, Can. Pacific 1904 Leather com
| mon ~, B. r. 7. 33S. Pacific Mail 1854, U.
S. Steel ptd. 63S, q. S. Steel common 17h
Penna 1885, Mo. Pacific ss1, Union Pacific
wabash pfd 5oSz. car foundry 26, c. s 6,
w. l5X, Rep. Steel pfd. 81 Rep. Steel com
mon ga, New York Central 1l6A, Illinois
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
A Cure For Dyspepsia.

l had dyspepsia in its worst form
and felt miserable most all the time.
Did not enjoy eating until after
used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which
has completely cured me.-Mrs. w. w.
Saylor, billiard, Pa, No appetite, loss
of strength, nervousness, headache,
constipation, bad breath. sour risings,
Indigestion, dyspepsia and all stom-
ach troubles are quickly cured by the
use of Kodol. Kodol represents the
natural juices of digestion combined
with the greatest known tonic and
reconstructive properties. IT cleanses,
purifies and sweetens the stomach.
Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

TodAy's Quotations on Provisions. Live
Stock. Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, Oct. 5.-Following are the
quotations on the local market:
Provisions
Butter-Creamery 91c022c, dairy17c.
Eggs-Fresh zoe.
Live poultry-Spring chickens IOc per
pound hens SC per pound.
Vegetables-Potatoes, new, soc.
Live Stock.
Cattle-Steers A.Oo to $3.50, cows and
heifers $500 to $780, calves $500 to $500
Hogs-Mixed aud butchers 800 to Is 90.
Sheep-Ycarlings or over, per cwt. $3.50 to
"a 90, Lambs per head s4O0 to $500.
Feed and Fuel
Grain-Corn 5O155c; oats. S5c.
Forage-Timothy hay. Is to eq.O0. prairie
"a, baled prairie "a. baled timothy 90, straw
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

TERMS-Daily, 10 cents per week. weekly,
u 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
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town
shipin Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
TODAY'S MARKETS

ing, highest. lowest ana closing quotation 1
In today's markets;
wheat.
Oct. 76s<: 76s<: 76sz: 76a
Dec, 76k: IN: 769s: 76sS.
May, 777s; 7sH; 7714; TN.
Corn.
Oct. A: A: a. A.
Dec, Az; 43s<; ~: 446.
May, AK; Az; 49,; a..
Oatn.
Oct 35Sk; 35ss: $50: 35k
Dec, 351f; s5A: 355l: ShA
May, 500; 36al; 361l; se96-.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

The Richard Olney named by the
democrats of Massachusetts, for lieu
tenant governor is not the original,
the secretary of state in President
Cleveland's cabinet. The candidate is
the son of the great statesman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
What would a revised version o.
''Dixie" look like anyway?

Forty-five New Jersey corporations
which last year paid taxes on $SO,OOO,-
900 of stock have burst with liabili-
ties II times their assets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

Have you stomach trouble, indiges-
ton, constipation, bad feeling after
eating? Take Rocky Mountain Tea.
If it fails to cure you, will refund
your money. 35 cents. T. II. Thomas
pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Monday, October 5. 1903.

PATHS next farewell tour is headed
this way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924 Sec.
ond avenue Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED at
the postofice as second-class matterl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

By THE J. W. POTTER 90.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
Eli Perkins ~Stammering s+orioo

"In his lecture last night
the Los Angeles Times, eli D.,
kins showed great art in ton;n-
stammering stories. The one
Sam Jones caused great Iaugbtor
but the laughter was caused bv FI2,
inimitable way Of telling it.
"It seems that Sam arrived varr
late at the Spirit Lake Chautauono
and had to rush through a bas+v
dinner before he struck his wait;ro
audience.
"'W-w-what will y-you h-havep
asked the stammering waiter, SLOWLY
Dinner, dinner; quick. hurry
upp
"'Will you have some sou-sop-
soupY
"'Soupp exclaimed Sam. rushing
his fingers through his hair. Yes,
soup-anything?
"'Will you have r-r-roast bee
beefY
,"'Yes, yes; trot it on. Hurryn
"'And mac-mac-macaroniT
"'Thunderation, yes! Now git!
"EAIl ri-right,' said the waiter,
slowly, but I want to ask you one
more ques-ques-question.'
"'Out with it, fooln said Sam,
pounding the table with his hand.
"FWell, [ wa-wa-want to ask you
if you came here to eat or ha-ha-
have a f-f-ft3"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
THE HOME CIRCLE
Man and Woman

"For woman is not undevelopt man,
But diverse. Could we make her as
the man
Sweet Love were slain; his dearest
bond is this,
Not like to like, but like in differ
ence.
Yet in the long years liker must they
grow;
The man be more of woman, she of
man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral
height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that
throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in child
ward care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger
mind;
Till at the last she set herself to
man,
Like perfect music unto noble words;
And so these twain, upon the skirts
of Time,
Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all
their powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing the lobe,
Self-reverent each and reverencing
each,
Distinct in Municipalities,
But like each other even as those who
love.
Then comes the stateIier Eden back
to men;
Then reign the worlds great bridals,
chaste and calm;
Then springs the browning a c of
humankind"
From "The Princess" by Alfred,
Lord TennysOn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
Mother

One not learned, save in gracious
household ways;
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender
wants;
No angel, but a dearer being, all dipt
In angel instincts, breathing Para
disc,
Interpreter between the gods and
men,
Who looked all native to her place,
and yet
On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a
sphere
Too gross to tread, and all male
minds p~erforce
Swayed to her from their orbits as
they moved
And girdled her with music. Happy
he
With such a mother! faith in woman
kind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all
things high
Comes easy to him, and though he
trip and fall
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
From "The Princess" by Alfred,
Lord TennysOn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19

the farmers who move to town do not
realize their expectations. 1t costs
them far more to live than they ex-
pected. It is difficult for them to
make themselves at home with bust
ness or professional life. Many of
them feel like a fish out of water, and
the more so when. they find that near
ly every successful business or pro-
fessional man longs increasingly for
what the farmer has left-a home on
his own farm in the country. Better
roads, ~interurban lines, rural delivery
and the telephone will all tend, when
there is time enough, to reverse this
current and make the farmer who
has moved to town wish he was back
again and had done his part in de-
veloping social life in the country
while he was there. - Wallace's
Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-05-19
The Proposal.

John (sheepishly): "I-I-s'pose
you'll be gittin' married some time"
Betty with a frightened air):
ooh, l dare say l shall some time"
John: q dare say I'll git mar
ried, too"
Betty: ooh"
John: "P'r'aps we might both git
married at the same time"
Betty: "Wouldn't it be awful,
John, if the parson should make a
mistake and marry us to each other 2"
John: Il shouldn't mind"
Betty: 'No-neither should I, to
tell you the truth, John."-Tit-Bits.
&NOs. III and us of our series of the Worlds
Best Poems, selected especially for The Pro-
gressive Farmer by the Editor. In this series
selections from the following authors have
already appeared: Burns, Bryant, Mr.. and
Mrs. Browning, Byron, Goldsmith, Holmes,
Ripling, Lanier, LOngfelow, Lowell, Mark
ham, MacauIay, Milton, Moore, Poe. POne
Read. Riley, Ryan, Scott, Shakespeare, Shell
ley, and others.