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The leader., 1904-01-09
A New Wholesale Grocery Company.

The Leader publishes today the
charter of the Brookhaven Whole
sale Grocery Company, soon to
be organized by Messrs. HI. Lew,
enthal, A. E. Moreton and such
others as may become associated
with them.
Mr.. Ell. Lewinthal was for years
a stockholder and m manager of the
old Brookhaven Grocery Com
pany, and afterward of the Mer-
chants Grocery Co., from which
he lately withdrew. He is one of
the best known and most expe-
rienced business men of Brookha
ven. Capt. A. E. Moreton, who
has long been one of Brookha-
ven's most honored and highly es-
teemed citizens, and who has been
prominently connected for years
with number of the largest bus
mess enterprises of Brookhayen
and Lincoln county, is even better
known to the public. With two
such men as these at the head of
the enterprise success is assured.
The ware house of the new COM
pany will front on Monticello
Street, east of Scherck's corner,
and the building is now in course
of construction.
The leader., 1904-01-09
hdVertiSin@,

The following from the West
Point Publisher will furnish food
for thought for merchants:
"The mel chant realizes that he
must advertise, not solely for the
purpose of increasing his trade,
but as means of keeping old
customers informed regarding the
latest styles and additions to his
stock, as well as quoting current
prices. "
Yes, and the subscriber who
complains that paper is too full
of advertising matter, fails to re-
alize how much in the dark be
would be without that department
of the paper. A school teacher
paid us a dollar on subscription
not long since saying: II came to
town thinking it was pay day.
If / had had the Leader, / would
have known better. A we'll in
formed man is an all-round man,
who keeps up with the business
as we'll as the news of his town;
and he wouldn't have paper that
was SO unpopular and unmindful
of the peoples public's interest as
to cause it to be refused as an ad-
vertising medium by the mer-
chants and business men of the
community. That kind of paper
would soon go to the "demnition
bow w-wows. It's live paper that
carries ads along with its reading
matter; and the former are as
much evidence Of its standing in
the community as the latter is Of
the character of its editor.
The leader., 1904-01-09
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
The Evening News Will Give the News
as Il Happens.

The proceedings of the incoming Leg
islature, which assembled in the city
of Jackson ON Tuesday, the 9th of
January. will be of peculiar interest to
the people of the entire state.
All intelligent and law-abiding peo-
pie desire to become acquainted with
the laws of their State as soon as they
become such, and in addition they
want to know what their representa-
tives are doing and how they are dis
charging the duties entrusted to them
at their hands.
The Evening News will have report
ers especially assigned to the legisla
tive halls, whose duty it will be to
gather all the news of that body and
prepare it in readable shape, and the
proceedings, as printed in this paper,
will reach you earlier than any other
paper published.
Legislative subscribers have been
made special rate during the session,
which will last three months, aud pos
sibly longer. This rate will be 81 25
for the entire session, or so cents for
one month. The weekly will be sent
during the session for 80 cents, or
S1.00 per year.
Besides giving a complete legislative
report, the Evening News is the only
paper published at the capital con-
tanning the Associated Press, and will
continue to give it's readers full mar
ket quotations.
Those who want to take advantage
of the special rate must pay in ad-
vance. THE EVENING NEWS,
Jackson, Miss
The leader., 1904-01-09
Death Of Gen. James Lonestreet.

Gen. James Longstreet, who
had been longtime sufferer with
cancer of the face and eye, and
who had recently submitted to an
X-ray operation and was great
ly improved, died unexpectedly of
acute pneumonia on the End, at
his daughters home in Gaines
vile. Ga.
From the Clalrion-Ledger we
take the following:
Gen. Longstreet is deserving
of more than a passing notice,
having for many years been one
of the most prominent factors
in the upbuiiding Of the South,
and prior to 1865, one of the
most distinguished soldiers of the
Mexican and Southern armies.
He participated in the battles of
Palo Alto, Monterey, Vera Cruz
and Chapnltepec, being severely
wounded in the latter, and for
conspicuous bravery was rapidly
promoted between 1847 and 1858.
When war was declared be-
tween the North and South, Gen.
Longstreet resigned his commits
sion as pay master in the army
and joined forces with the South,
being made a brigadier general,
and won great distinction at the
battle of Bull Run. From that
time on till the surrender, he was
a great favorite with Gen. Lee
and did as good fighting as did any
commander on either side in that
bloody conflict, retiring with Lee
at Appomattox with the rank of
Lieutenant-General.
At the close of the war Gen.
Longstreet went to New Orleans
to live, being the head of a great
firm of cotton brokers and one of
the most dearly beloved Southern
survivors of the war. 1t was
there that he turned Republican
and lost the confidence and es-
TEEN of great majority of his old
friends and associates, but he al
ways claimed that he was driven
to it. He had been appealed to-
by his old comrades to know what
they shouldtdo in meeting the new
conditions that confronted them,
and he ADVISED them to accept
what was rendered them by the
conqueror. He was severely
criticized at the time in the news
papers and in every other way
and it is probable he turned his
back on bis own people very
largely on that account. In 1868
or 1870 he was appointed COM
mander-in chief of the Louisiana
National Guard by a Republican
governor, accepted the. post and
was in command of negro troops
when the political riots occurred
in New Orleans. Gen. Grant, his
friend and kinsman, appointed
him surveyor of the port of New
Orleans, and later on Internal
Revenue Collector; in 1880 he
was United States Minister to
Turkey, and after that United
States Marshal for Georgia.
Later on he was appointed rail
road commissioner to succeed
Gen. Wade Hampton Of South
Carolina, and held that position
at the time of his death.
The leader., 1904-01-09
Hon. E. F. Brennan Reelected County
Attorney.

Hon. E. F. Brennan, who has
ably and faithfully served as
county attorney of Lincoln county
for the past seven years, received
the compliment of reelection
at the hands of the new Board of
Supervisors at their meeting this
week, though objection had been
made to him by some on political
grounds. A majority Of the
Board rightly took a practical
business view of the matter, and
voted for him on the ground of
his we'll known experience and
recognized fitness for the duties
of the position, regardless of po-
litical considerations, the Office
being a non-political one.
This is the third Democratic
Board of Supervisors which has
selected Mr.. Brennan for county
attorney, and each one has pro-
ceeded on the non-political idea
and chosen him on account of his
peculiar adaptability to the posi-
tion--a compliment of which he
and his host of personal friends
may we'll feel proud. The salary
he receives is a mere song com
pared to the service he renders
the county and the Board in the
discharge of its official duties.
He is progressive and wideawake,
always watchful Of the best in
terests of the county, and his ex
tensive and familiar knowledge of
the county and its people, to-
gether with his legal learning,
make him an invaluable adjunct
to the Board.
The leader., 1904-01-09
A longtime Resident.

Next Monday will mark the
fiftieth year of Mr.. E. M. Bees
in Mississippi. He
came from Georgia in 1853 ex-
pecting to stay a year and has re-
NAMED half century. His
pretty, black-eyed sweetheart, = J
to whom he says he has been true
for forty eight years, has doubt
less, had much to do with Mr..
Bees persistence in making Mis-
sissippi bis abiding place. tits an
interesting bit Of history to hear
him tell Of early times in Lincoln,
before the railroad was built, and
when he used to chase deer where
the Magee Hotel now stands.
Mr.. Bee is nearly IA years Of
ape, and wears his siIyery crown
with royal grace. May he live as
long as he finds joy ID the pass.
ing years, which, we are sure,
means time indefinite.
The leader., 1904-01-09
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Gov. Longino's last biennial
Message was read in both houses
Wednesday and created a fine i'm
preston.
The two houses met in joint
session Wednesday, to elect a
State Librarian. Miss Matte
Plunkett, the present incumbent,
won an easy victory over all her
fair competitors. The election
created great interest and amuse-
ment.
Both houses have adopted reso-
lutions urging our Senators to
vote for the ratification of the
treaty with the new Republic of
Panama, now pending in the Z.
S. Senate.
The first bill passed by both
houses was one appropriating
500, 900 to defray the necessary
expenses of the legislative session.
Joint resolutions have been in
troduced in both houses looking
to the publication of a new code.
The Senate held an executive
session Thursday and confirmed
all of the judicial appointments
made by Gov. Longino in vaca-
ton. The much talked-of con-
test over these appointments fail
ed to materialize.
The House took recess Thurs
day evening until Monday to al
low time for laying carpet on
the floor of Representatives Hall
and improving the acoustic quail
tiles. A motion by Representa-
tive Van Watts was adopted, pro-
viding that the legs of all the
chairs be tipped with rubber caps.
Representative W a t t and
Floater Representative Montgom-
cry, from this county, were pres
ent when the Legislature met and
have participated in all of the
proceedings to date. Senator j.
Wood Magee. on account of i'll
ness, did not reach jackson until
Thursday.
In the distribution of seats in
the House, a motion was adopted
allowing all members of the body
over so years old, to select their
seats before the drawing COM
meneed, and most of these chose
seats we'll to the front. DIR. Van
Watts, who is about the youngest
looking man in the House over
so, selected a seat in the third
row, directly in front of the
Speakers S stand, one of the very
best in the Hall.
The leader., 1904-01-09
The Coming Woman.

Yes, a girl who can bake loaf
of bread and cook meat and pota-
toes just right is worth semina-
| ry of those soft-handed, silly
headed angels who sit in the
'pahlah' and let 'mawh' do the
work in the kitchen. = Green
County Reporter.
Well, if they are "sllly headed"
the above article may pass; but
we beg to remark that there is
too much to be accomplished in
this world of ours, for girls to
be spending their time washing
dishes or baking bread, unless it
is plainly their duty, because of
some peculiar environment, SO to
do.
The women that die are not
praised because they could bake
or sew; but because they were
kind to their neighbors; because
they were active in church and be-
nevolent circles because they were
patriotic as we'll as devoted moth
ers and housekeepers. One of
the best women we ever knew
spent her days in the kitchen,
heart, mind and soul absorbed in
her menial labor. To this day,
the children of that woman carry
a burden of regret deep in their
hearts that at-they can cherish no
memory Of tenderness from their
mother; no recollection of mental
or spiritual training at her hands.
1t is we'll to know how to bake
and sew and scrub, in case ne
cessity demands; but knowing
the one,so material and so tyranni-
cal, the other life, with its higher
responsibilities should by no
means be forgotten; and if either
must be neglected, let future
mothers and women bake and
sew little less, and train young
minds and hearts about them
more-love them into a knowledge
of the sacred gospel of human life
and its relationships, and teach
them to grasp early the problems
that make for the uplifting of
humanity and for their own sue
cessful living. Women that bake
and scrub, day in and week out,
are prone to forget even that "bet-
ter part" that commends hospi-
tality and sweet association with.
those around them. May those
whose duty it is to do these
things, learn to keep their souls
above the drudgery of it, with
its enslaving tendencies.
The coming woman is not only
the "ministering angelo of past
chivalry, but the guardian angelo
of the future veal of the home
and country. Her destiny may
include menial service, but she is
not silly-headed" because she has
seminary" training and can en-
tertain in the parlor, no matter
what her mothers habits may
be- And no aspiring mother,
ambitious for her daughters
greatest good, will want her to
keep on a dead level with the
generation behind her. Progress
is the watchword in every depa TT
ment Of living today.
The leader., 1904-01-09
RELIGIOUS Services Tomorrow.

At the Presbyterian Church
Rev. g. E. Chandler will preach
at Il q. NJ. and Z p. NJ.
Sunday School at 9 a. m.
AT the Baptist church Rev. r..
IH. Purser will preach at IL
O'Clock and at 7:3O D. m.
b. Y.P. q. at 6::45.
Sunday School at 10 a. N.
AT the Catholic church ser
vices by Rev. James Herman at
10 a. m. and 4 p. N.
AT the Methodist church Rev.
g. w. Crisler will preach at i
al m. and 4 p. N.
Sunday School At $50.
At the X. M. G. A. the regular
Mems Meeting at 4 p. NJ.
Capt. ] M. Tedford has been
laid mp with lagrippe.
The leader., 1904-01-09

Asbestos cloth is in demand
since the Iroquois fire in Chicago.
1t is believed that not more than
one third of the Chicago theatres
will be allowed to reopen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
BoodIers Not Wanted by Folk.

This epigrammatical phrase from the
recent speech of Joseph w. Folk OF
Missouri will live long time:
Il do not want the support of hood
lers. Next to the honor of defeating
them is the honor of being defeated by
them"
Yet there are municipalities in the
United States today which sometimes
tolerate officials who seek support of
bOodlers and depend upon that support
for election as opposed to the support
of the law-abiding element. Non-en-
forced laws, broken pledges and neg
lect of duty are the products of Doodle
elected officials.
If Missouri fails 10 elect Mr.. Folk,
Missouri deserves to suffer severely. If
the state should fail 10 elect Folk it
would serve it right to be punished by
going republican.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
Notice to Stockholders.

Public notice is hereby given that
the regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Illinois Central
Railroad company will be held at the
company's office in Chicago, Illinois,
on Wednesday, October 10, 1904, at
II o'clock noon.
To permit personal attendance at
said meeting there will be issued to
each holder of one or more shares of
the capital stock of the Illinois Central
Railroad company. as registered on the
books of the company ut the close of
business on Tuesday, September p.
1904. who is of full age. a ticket enab-
ling him. or her. TO travel free over
the company's lines from the station
on the Illinois Central railroad nearest
10 his or her registered address to Chi
Cago and return. such ticket to be good
for the journey TO Chicago only during
the four days Immediately preceding
and the day OF the meeting. and for
the return journey from Chicago, only
on the day of the meeting and the four
days Immediately following, when
properly CounJeTsigned and stamped
during business hours-that is TO say,
between 900 q. N. and 500 p. M
in the Office of the assistant secretary,
Mr.. w G. Bruen, in Chicago. Such
ticket may be obtained by any holder
of stock. registered as above, on ap-
plication. in writing. 10 the president
of the company in Chicago. Each ap-
plication must state the full name and
address of the stakeholder exactly as
given in his of her certificate of stock
together with the number and date of
such certificate. No more than one
person viii be carried free in respect
10 any one holding Of stock as regis
tered on the books of the company.
A G. HACKSTAFF,
Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
Obstacles to City Building.

The Argus always has been an OBJ
server and TeSpecter of law, as any
newspaper ought to be. but it never
has had any patience with the dispO-
sition to take advantage of supposed
technicalties for the purpose either
of depressing or imposing upon cor
pOratiOns in their reasonable enjoy
ment of privileges for doing business.
The Argus believes Rock Island the
best town on earth. 1t is composed
Of the most enteTprising and progress
sive people. iberal-minded in their
treatment of all enterprises and indus
tries. and on this account the spirit
manifesting itself here of late years
on the part of a few to inflict hard
ships on corporations. and thus do ir-
reparable injury TO the city's name. is
the more to be deprecated.
This paper has not hesitated to con-
denim on all occasions the tendency
in certain quarters TO unnecessarily
and uujustly cmbarrasS the Tri-City
Railway company and the Milwaukee
road in the holding of their franchises
here. and the proceeding that has now
been entered against the Rock Island
Plow company Of a similar nature
ought likewise to be denounced by all
people broad-minded enough to regard
the welfare of the entire city as para
mount TO the picaunish interests of the
individual.
Such proceedings as are herein re-
ferred to will do more to check the
efforts of business mems associations
and other organizations for the promo
ton of the common good than can be
overcome in years of hard. persistent
labor.
The world outside should not and
The Argus hopes. will not, judge Rock
Island by the narrow spirit of the few
who seek to profit at the expense OF
the city in general II is simply the
old fogy spirit that is apt to crop out
in any community. and Rock Island re
grets as much as it possibly can that
il is in evidence here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
Political speeches From the Cabinet.

New York World: The World can
not wholly agree with certain captions
critics of the administration who pro
fess 10 find in the political activity of
the cabinet officers a violation of the
spirit of the civil service law. II is
farfetched criticism. There is no
violation OF the law. no impropriety
in a cabinet officers taking the
stump"
On the contrary. there are excellent
reasons why cabinet officer should
make speeches in a campaign. Such
activity is wholly in harmony with the
political traditions of the English
speaking peoples. who have always in
sisted that their public servants give
from time TO time an account of their
craftsmanship. The people have a
right to know what Secretary Taft has
TO say in support of his Philippine
policy; what explanation Secretary
Shaw can make of the treasury defic-
its; how Mr.. Hay can justify the adj
ministra,. 0r's dealing with Columbia
and Venezuela and its prolific use Of
the big stick; what Mr.. Payne thinks
of hot air" and the postoffice scandals
Free discussion is the breath of life
of republican institutions, and we are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

There is not much evidence of the
existence of a board Of strategy in the
war now going on in the far east. The
operations are not directed by a body
of men thousands of miles from the
scene of operations. The command
ers. both as regards the Russians and
the Japs, have been given hints
as TO the general conduct of the cam
paign, but it has not been necessary,
as it was in the case of Dewey, to
cut the cable in order to get busy
without interruption. An exchange re
marks that war is hell over there and
is carried on in the old hellish way of
finding the enemy and then smashing
them if the thing is possible. just as
Grant did
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

Unique scenes were enacted when
the remains of Col. NJ. II. Messcherb
of DougIasville. Pa, were removed
from his late home TO the place of Gre
nation near by. Deceased was mil
Iionairc and had more friends among
tramps than any other man in the
country. In some mysterious way
news of his death had been passed
around among these waits, scores of
whom We're in attendance. many hay
ing come from long distances. Mess
chcrb always had quarter for a
tramp and was known 10 thousands of
the nOmadiC fraternity
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
Russia's Worst Enemy is at Home.

Perhaps when the Russian-Jap war
is over, and the truth is all known, it
will develop that the Japanese did not
weaken Russia so much on the firing
line as Russia has weakened herself
at home. Militarism and anarchy seem
to have rotted Russia internally. An
illustration was the assassination of
Minister Won Plehwe only few weeks
ago.
The fundamental principle of nation
al strength and integrity is peace at
home. Russia faces a deadly war at
home. Officials look into the faces of
the people with terror, knowing not
which among them carry daggers in
their sleeves or bombs in their peck
els
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

not in danger of suffering from too
much Of it.
If the cabinet officers can convince
the people that the administration was
right in its policies, and is going to be
right, well and good. If they cannot,
the administration must take the con-
sequences. The World does not be-
lieve the supporters of Judge Parker
are afraid to meet any issue the cabi-
net officers can raise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

After all the boasting that came
from administration sources TO what
the republicans would do in the repub-
lican state of Vermont the republican
majorities in the election of yesterday
are not above the average-not SO
large as they have been in times past.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

MIR. Roosevelt is running against the
constitution. The competition is I'M
fortunate for him. y president may
override the constitution while in of
fee. but a candidate cannot overcome
it in a campaign.-St. Louis Republic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

w. + Stead says the car is one
of the most enlightened men in the
world. He certainly ought to be if
he has been reading the papers since
last February.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

TERMS-Daily. 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications OF argumenta-
tive character, political or religious.
must have real name attached for pub
ucatfon. No such articles will be print
ed over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
TOdny's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.

Rock Island. Sept. 7.-FolIowing are
the wholesale quotations in the local
market:
Provisions.
Butter-Creamery, 20c, dairy 15G16c.
Eggs-Fresh lGc.
Lard-9c.
Live Poultry-Spring chickens, $2.75
0S.25 per dozen; hens Sc per pound;
turkeys 1Oc per pound; ducks Sc; geese
Sc
Observation-Disclosures 40c.
Live Stock.
CattIe-steers $4,000, 800: cows and
heifers $500 400; calves $3.OOm5.oO.
Hogs-MiXed and butchers $475m 5.25.
Sheep-Yearlings or over $3.OO@4Oo;
lambs $3.5On$6.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn 5ScGf COO; oats 80 a 35c.
Forage-Timothy hay $9.OO0$11;
prairie s90 $1o.5O. straw $6.5Oq $3.50
Woodland, per load, $3.50.
Coal-Lump, per bushel, lie: slack,
per bushel, &c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

President Roosevelt's letter of &C
ccpJanCe contains 10000 words. This
ought to serve as a warning to those
persons who have made up their minds
In read IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

Six Indians died from drinking alco-
hol at Rolla, y. D. There must have
been an enormous supply of alcohol
at Rolla.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07

Pity the sorrows of the republican
orator in Missouri this year. He Will
have nothing to say and nobody TO say
it to.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill I'm
tered at the postofice as second-class
matter.1