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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11
NEW SHOPS TRAIN TO BE
TAKEN OFF ON MARCH 80
In the Meantime the Company Allows
Uniform Fare of Cents to Men
Residing Here and in Davenport.

The committe appointed by the New
Shops employees whose homes are in
Rock Island and Davenport to call
on the general officers of the Rock Isl
and railroad at Chicago to protect
against the charging of fare on the
train on which they are conveyed to
and from their work has received
their reply.
The company agrees to a uniform
fare of cents each way from Daven-
port and Rock Island, a reduction of
10 cents per day in favor OF the en-
pIoyes living on the other side of the
river, but announces that March so
next the train will be discontinued as
far as Rock Island and Davenport are
concerned After that date it will be
run between Moline and New Shops
only. No fare will be charged, the
same as now. The purpose Of the COM
pany is to induce the men to live
closer to their work. 1t is a move
obviously in the interest of Moline and
East Moline.
There is a petition of protest being
circulated among the business men
of Davenport. a committee from the
city council there will call upon the
officers of the Rock Island road at the
meeting of the stockholders that is to
be held in that city Thursday of this
week and seek a revocation of the
order charging fare 10 the men living
in that city who are employed at New
Shops and ask for the continuance of
the train. 1t is claimed there are 800
men living in Davenport now working
at New Shops.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11

The motion for dismissal was over
ruled without entering into the merits
Of the same. the court explaining that
n order 20 be consistent with its posi-
s-on announced earlier in the day. it
you'd hear fully all sides and phases
-of the contest. giving the widest lati-
.tude TO the itigants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11
BOY PUNISHED
Walter Kannenberg, Fire
bug, Sent to Pom
tiac.
ON LARCENY CHARGE
Not Allowed to Plead to Felony
on Account of His
Youth.

Walter KannenbeTg, the Moline fire
bug, in the county court this morning
entered a plea of guilty to an informa-
ton charging petty larceny, the theft
of SC, and was sentenced to the Pom
tiac reformatory by Judge E. E. Par
menter.
The law assumes that child under
the age of 10 years does not know the
difference between good and evil, and
whether he does between 10 and II
remains to be established by fact, or
is left to the discretion of the court to
determine.
Could Not Plead to Felony.
Walter has just arrived 10. While
he is guilty of arson, having confessed
to setting fire TO nine barns in Moline
during the past summer, the law would
not permit his pleading guilty to a
felony, and the only alternative was in
bringing him in the county court to
answer to misdemeanor, petty lar
ceny
The boy stole the Sc yesterday morn
ing after having set fire TO the barn
1T the Five Points grocery. entering
the store from the front when the
clerk ran to the back yard attracted
by the smoke issuing from the barn.
Walter admitted having conceived the
plan of drawing the clerk from the
| store by means of the fire in order to
give him access to the cash drawer.
Great Worry to Parents.
1t appears the boy has been the
cause of untold worry to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Kanneberg Only
recently he robbed a cigar stand at
Moline Of several dollars, but the
amount was returned by the father
Walter was locked in the cellar. but
enc night he was missing. He had
pushed out a screen in one of the eel
lar windows and escaped. Two days
afterward he was arrested in Daven-
port by the police, having been wan
dering aimlessly about that city since
running away from home. He wa.
without funds, and it was never learn
ed where he had obtained food and
lodging.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11
AGED Geneseoan Dies.

Death came Sunday evening to re
lieve the sufferings of L. F. Clark. one
Of Geneseo's best known and long time
residents. Four weeks ago Mr.. Clark
sustained a severe fall the result of
which was a fractured hip. Being 20
years of age it was impossible to re-
cover. and he rapidly declined until
death came. Mr. Clark was for many
years in the marble and granite bust
ness in Genesco.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11
TELEGRAPH Wires Suffer.

Wires of the telegraph companies
reaching this point were damaged late
yesterday afternoon by a windstorm
east of Morris. H., and were not re,
paired up to this afternoon. All bust
ness had to be handled by a rounda-
bout route. \ section of the Western
Union lines about two and one-half
miles long was blown down.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11
Makes Fast Run,

Engineer Hank" Pratt made a fast
run on Rock Island train No. - yester
day. covering the distance between
Brooklyn and Davenport, 81 miles. in
30 minutes. His train was made up
of engine S24, pulling seven coaches
The train was almost an hour late out
of Council Bluffs and came into Dav
EXPORT only five minutes late.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-11

Naud-Last night Jack told me that
he wouldn't marry the best girl living
less-what-unless she took Hollis,
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. Bright fel-
low. % cents. tea or tablets. T. H
Thomas pharmacy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
spencer and the Inmates,

To the late Herbert Spencer the
minds of lunatics had strange fasci-
nation. Mr.. Spencer was frequent
visitor to a number Of asylums, and
he would never laugh so heartily as
when recounting some unconcious
witticism Of lunatic.
Sometimes he would tell OF the
criticism n lunatic woman made on a
sermon that was preached in her
asylum. This criticism was brief, but
it was telling.
ITO think" said the woman, point
ing towards the clergyman, ito think
Of him out and me in"
On another occasion Mr.. Spencer
and friend We're walking toward an
asylum they proposed to visit. Their
way led them across Il railroad, and
seated near the track they saw a young
man reading This young man was a
lunatic, but they did not know it at
the time.
+ "My FRIEND" said Mr.. Spencer paus-
ing, "where does this railroad 20 tor"
The lunatic looked up from his book
and gave his interrogation long stare
of scorn. Then lie replied:
at doesn't go anywhere. We keep
1t here to run trains on"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

Icy. A citaln on this pulley passes
over n sprocket wheel at the top Of the
seat back, ana is fastened to the lower
end of the framework of the top. This
frame is also provided with Il disk,
from which the two rods extend to the
spring bolts. located one on each side
of the frame. The bolts are adapted
to enter notches in the seat back when
the fralhe has been sufficiently ele-
waited, locking it in place. When 1t is
desired to lower the frame the disk is
rotated by means of handle in the
back of the seat, causing the connect
ing rods to withdraw the locking bolts.
The upright members Of the middle
bow slide on rods on the seat arms,
and can be detached when moved to-
the rear, permitting them to be folded
up and deposited In the pocket. The
location of joints in the frame has
been carefully planned to permit of
folding the top as compactiy and neat
ly rs possible. With the buggy top
slowed away in the hollow seat back
free access is permitted to the rear
portion of the vehicle body, permitting
the storage of packages or loose arti-
cInc
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

off. An open door "FLooD" LAMP.
at the rear of the stage in windy
weather may blow draperies within itt
fiery reach.
In an effort to get the prettiest CO...
oring. thoughtless stage managers
have been known to place flood lamps
behind wings or side settings In n
passage used by principals and chorus
for entering or leaving the scene. A
misstep, trip on carpet, or aay
false or awkward move of performer
passing the. flood lamp" n swish Of
n lacy costuming has caused many q
small fire behind scenes since the use
of the usual pattern of food lamp was
begun.
Electricians agree that unless bull.
along entirely different lines the flood
lamp should be discarded An up-to-
date calcium is built like searchlight,
1t is practically without heat, cannot
spark, and is as safe as the incandes.
cent lamp, as perfect as modern science
can make ii.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
How She Retained Her Youth.

Women who are asking how to keep
young as the gray hairs appear abovc
their brows would do well to try the
recipe of an old lady who, although
she had seen so years, never impressed
one as being old, because her heart was
still young and sympathetic. When
asked how she had secured such ap,
parent youth in age she said:
II knew how to forget disagrecabls
things.
81 tried to master the art of saying
pleasant things.
81 did not expect too much of M.
friends.
81 kept my nerves well in hand ana
did not allow them to bore othe.
people.
81 tried to find any work that cam.
to hand congenial.
II retained the illusions of my youtn,
and did not believe every man a ligr'
and every woman spiteful.
81 did my best to relieve the misery
l came in contact with, and symrs-
thized with the suffering.
I'm fact / tried to do to others N
l would be done by"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
FANEUlL HALL, BOSTON. KNOWN
AS THE "CRADlE OF LIBERTY

Faneuil Hall, Boston, permission for
the use Of which for poultry show
was refused by Mayor Patrick A. Col
Inns. is more popularity known as ''the
cradle of liberty" and is one of the his
toric buildings in the United States.
1t was built in 174O by Peter Faneuil,
n philosophical citizen of Huguenot
descent, and strangely enough the first
Grafton delivered within Its walls was
the funeral eulogy pronounced over
the remains of its founder, on the 14th
of March, 1878. 1t was burned twenty
years later. but was speedily rebuilt,
and in 1775-7G was used MS a place of
entertainment for the English and 10y.
alists. In it receptions have been
given to Lafayette Kossuth, President
Andrew Jackson, Talleyrand and 9th.
ers, and its walls have rung with the
eloquence of Charming, Webster, Sum.
ner, Garrison. Everett, Wendell Phil.
lips and Henry Ward Beecher. The
hall is decorated with the pictures of
many celebrated men.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
Alaskans Prefer Dried veoetabIes.

After two years in Alaska, living IL
mining camp boarding house, H. C.
Ccnroy, who has come down here to
spend the winter, was hunting through
grocery and provision stores yester-
day in search of Oregon dessicated
soup vegetables. He was unable to
find any, but insisted that he had
been using soup made from them in
Alaska all the time he had been there.
When told that even If this was so,
there was no use for such stuff here
now, as the markets were full of all
kinds of vegetables, he said he had
become accustomed to dried yegeta-
bles and liked them better than the
fresh ones, because they afforded a
fine variety of seven different kinds
and were ready to put in the pot at
once. He finally found a man who
had heard of the disintegrated, dessi-
Gated vegetables he was searching
for, and said they were put up for
shipment to Alaska by a man at Day
ton, but they had never been intro
duced in tie market here, partly be.
cause there had been no demand for
them, but mostly because there had
never been any more made than the
Alaskan market anded.-Portland
Oregonian.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
Unneeded Strain on Horses.

The strength required of an aver
age sized team of horses and the
strain on the horses to draw a heavy
load over stones or out of deep rut,
hole, or over many other avoidable
obstacle is often greater than to
draw the same load over a smooth
surface fifty yards.
1t would be small estimate to say
a careless driver strains his team in
that manner twenty times day.
II a driver prevents straining his
horses twenty times a day he will
save them 1000 yards of unneces-
sary pulling, and in the 300 working
days of the year 100000 yards, and
in five years 100000 yards-nearly
1000 miles.
With proper judgment and careful
ness the driver, at the end of five
years, will have, in place of a team
of weak, oyer-worked, bony horses,
a team of healthy and strong ones.
From business point of view, will
it not pay any horse owner, driver,
or teamster to be careful and con.
siderate and to avoid all unnecessary
strains on horse?-Our Dumb Ami
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

REV. ate OF find sensations for restless,
dissatisfied patronage burdened with many op-
pressed by an indescribable ennu
Simple, tasteful dress scarcely exists; are an over
dressed people, ruled by the latest convention of clothes
makers We are mad superiuous wants. The people
worry most nonessenal things. No is any hap
pier under these conditions Every has look of
Our women not rosy and contented looking young
men breed wrinkles early. The artificial complexy of
life destroys individuality. In dress are automatons
prancng at the nod Of tailor dressmaker miner If
the milliner hats up average turns hats
up If the millner hats down. down they 60 our
tailor says long coat is the thing long coat
though the heavens fall, and vice suit be-
fore o'clock Is scandal anything else after is
Men and who suit themselves and be COM
Portable freaks
To keep up appearances people clothes which
they have not paid for and cannot afford To with
the procession people eat food for which they have paid
the grocer live in houses with arrears affect STYLE
of life they have visible of supporting Living
at our present responsible for modern
crime From the Of small debts, brought by ex-
pensive living, many to escape by certain
speculations and finally by certain POPULATIONS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03
Tariff ON Coal,


The Republican leaders in Congress
have decided to keep the tariff tax on
bitum!nous coal and the Boston Trans
cript calls on Massachusetts, Congress
men to demand that the duty be abol-
ished. But the protest will be fruit
less and Congress will stand pat" 1t
will be remembered that, under the
stress of the popular uprising against
the coal combines, during the strike,
the Democrats forced the Republicans
to repeal the duty on anthracite coal
and also to pass an act to refund the
duty Gil bituminous coal for one year.
That period has now expired and the
Transcript good Republican author.
ity, says:
1.-The measure proved of practical
benefit, although the quantity Of for
eign coal which was brought into the
United States last year was small when
compared with our home output. The
American manufacturer or consumer
prefers cur own coal when 1t can BE-
purchased at reasonable rates In an
open competitive market, but such a
market does not exist in New England.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

I AlIRl!||'|E!||R|!|6 + efiE RE1 6

when aluminium will Gust ron lead and copper from theh
present high position in the world Of metals.
The metal called platinum had perpexed the chemst
because of its obstinacy to dissolve in nitric acid Al
experimental chemist trying to reduce the obstinate pat
nun TO the level of its fellows placed portion thu
metal and silver he had in his hand in quantity III
nitric acid, when to his asonshment, he saw that thu
whole had dissolved in the acid That solved the riddle
The silver had done it.
Uninfammable gunpowder sounds paradoxical but there
Is such substance 1t is ordinarily ground glass mixed
with the explosive itself Gunpowder dressed in this wa,
cannot explode when 1t is at rest in the powder magazines
Wien the explosive required for the ground glass Ia
easily separated from it by sieve This wonderful prc
yentve was the result of accidental observation of Mr.
Gale of Plymouth, England
Radium was discovered by accident by Nine. Curie
Certain scientists had to the conclusion that some
specific metals capable Of giving peculiar light
not dissimar TO the Mays She worked hard upon one
metal after another and at last got in hand metal called
uranium and shortly fell upon, accidentally the MISSING
INK connecting two of the specific metals together metal
which gives light other element in world can eve,
give as regards intense brightness and penetrating
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

"c'A-' we AAEA A"'' luiHeu tlle pain VI
life. Returning to this country and
drifting westward, he stopped in Hi
nols and began work rs n farm hand.
Later he secured employment as n
brakeman on the Dayton q Michigan
Railroad, where he continued to work
until the panic of 1871. Returning to
the East, Mr.. Hayes settled in New
Brunswick, N. j., and again served as
brakeman, this time or the Pennsyl-
vania lines. He was thrown under
one of the cars and his right arm was
so badly mangied that amputation was
necessary. He turned his attention to
telegraphy, an occupction he followed
successfully until 1888. During this
year a strike occurred in the American
Union Telegraph Company, and for
the part he took on behalf of the en-
ployes he was bla;klisted and has
never since returned 10 the key. After
the failure of the ntrike he became a
successful merchar: in his home town.
1t was while. in the employ of the
railroad company that Mr.. Hayes be.
came identified 9Th the knights of
Labor, and was from the beginning
active and aggressive in the cause of
the knights.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

ng adding the interior and exterior decorations doing
them right wrong the may be- If the building
completed correctly in architectural design and decora
tions. as well in construction we have then sfmpv
performed our duty in the as the one in
trusted with funds has properly faithfully returned
them TO the rightful If the building is wrongfuy
completed let how nearly compare to the Grim
inal who has mislsed his trust
IN one OF the largest cities of this country theater
was recently erected Upon Its completion was well
advertised by Its managers and owners and otherwise
talked OF as something out of the ordinary. The arch
lecture of this theater is absolutely bad its interior ont of
proportion, and the decorations and harmony
AS whole, this building is mt among public buildings
But this same building, account its popularity md
being located In large city and owned managed nv
leading teater managers has been copied over and
again. ana the mistakes repeated and enlarged upon have
become ana are constantly menace to Flaw good
order i'll architecture So the architect who produced fills
isht of architecture is morally responsible for all the
harm his msit has produced.
Reforms Of all sorts constantly agated but no one
seems to take up the cudge for purer surroundings better
architecture and correct blending color designs which
is SO much needed to help humanity advance to higher
state of perfection
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03


The favored National Banks are
paying enormous dividends these days,
and most of this is gathered from the
extraordinary fiscal operations of the
administration.
The National Banks now have loan
ed to them over S1GS,Oo0,O0O of pro-
ceeds of taxation upon which the banks
pay no interest. The latest job which
the War Department and the Secretary
OF the Treasury have invented to put
money intlle pockets of the bankers is
the Philippine loan. The bankers who
were awarded the loan paid 107.577
for it, and the bonds draw per cent
interest. They are to all intents and
purposes United States bonds and the
bankers are now offering TO sell them
at Ill, or about 31@ per cent profit, and
recommending them particularly as an
Investment for National Banks, on the
ground that as a basis for public de-
posts they would "lnake a net return
of over twenty-eight per cent" This
is figured out on the assumption that
100000 of the 4 per cent bonds would
cost $111,OOO, and that 100000 of Gov
ernment money would be deposited OH
their security without interest, so that
the actual cash invested would he
only $11,Oo0, upon which the income
would be per cent interest on $780,
600, less $916 as sinking fund at 4
per cent to retire the premium, or 3d.
oS4, which is 2S.037 per cent on the
$4,000 actual cash invested"
The above quotation is from an ed
itorial in the Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin, which also says:
ut is certain that the discretion of
the Secretary of the Treasury should
not be exercised to enable favored
banks 10 make special profit out of
any class of public loans"
Ii the Governments finances were
run in the interests of the taxpayers,
instead of the bankers, the philippine
bonds could have been purchased by
the United States Treasury with part
of the money now deposited with the
banks, and the taxpayers would have
made the large profits which the banks
now enjoy. But that would not bring
any grist to the Roosevelt campaign
fund
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

with his army at o'clock next morn.
ing to attack them. He went to the
barracks, made a patriotic speech to
the soldiers and told them to parade
at the appointed hour Then he
sauntered into the Hotel America,
Calls finest restaurant, and ordered
coffee for 6:30 in the morning.
The troops We're lined up at that
hour outside the hotel and the general
strutted to and fro, waiting for his
coffee and telling everybody what terri
BILE things he was going to do to the
enemy. But complication arose.
Perez had not been general long, but
lie wanted milk in his coffee, whereas
nine Colombians out of ten are content
with black coffee. There was no
milk. The cows are kept three or four
hours journey out of town, and, of
course, milk cannot be kept over night
in that tropical climate. The hotel
folk figured that the milk could not
arrive before II o'clock.
The general TUNED and fretted.
Some of his officers suggested that he
had better start without the milk or
the would escape, but he said it was
impossible to fight on black coffee. He
sent a soldier post haste to fetch the
milk and then another after him to
hurry him up. Meanwhile the army
stood in the broiing sun for hours,
awaiting the order to march. 1t was
nearly noon when the messengers re-
turned.
"No milk" they reported.
"Caramba! Then l won't march till
tomorrow
And the general dismissed his men
and would not go until the next morn
ing after his cafe au lit. OF course,
when he reached his destination the
liberals had flown and he was deprived
of his glorious victory by>a miserable
spoonful of milk.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-03

spot" LIGHT. even n frequent
theatergoer. For instance. 1t took sew
eral days for the Chicago police to es-
eablish MS a fact whether 1t was n
flood" or a "spot" light that cost al
most GOO lives by igniting the pros
cenium fly. A Chicago policeman is
not the only person to whom these
terms are Greek.
The spot light" is small handy
calcium. fitted with powerful lenses
and throws n clear strong light on n
dancer, following her wherever she
fits, to any remote corner of the stage.
For years they were kept In the bal
cony, but of late have been taken be-
hind the scenes.
Nine Hermann and Papinta, usually
dance In the glare of from three to six
"spot lights" located in as many parts
of the house, from the balcony, the
bridge" on either side of the stage
and even one and sometimes two di.
rectly under them. In the latter in.
stance they dance on French plate
glass.
The spot light occupies but small
space and is mounted on pivots. SO
that it can be readily swung in any di.
rection. 1t is considered safe,. because
its fire is enclosed on all sides by a
metal casing and the glass lens in
front, so that even If the lamp sparks
there is absolutely no danger. If over
turned, no harm would he done.
The flood lamp" is more dangerous.
In flood light the carbons are ex-
posed. That is, the fire is inclosed In