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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
MINISTER eowERs CAREER
He Has a Long and CreditabIe Rec
ord as n Diplomat.

The affairs OF Venezuela have recent
" received "a great deal of public atten-
tian. and the latest developments con
nected with them direct the public gaze
upon HertCrt W. Bowen. who was APP
pointed minister TO that country in
1901. and Francis Il. Loomis. his prede-
ccssor in that office and now assistant
secretary OF state. Through Mr. Bow
en- charges rejecting upon Mr.. LOOMS
integrity a. an official while represent
ing the United States in Venezuela
have been filed ut Washington. An in
vcStigatiOn has been ordered. and Mr.
Bowen has been summoned home to
testify at this inquiry He will not re
turn To Venezuela. but will. il is sup
posed. he transferred TO another diplo-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27

Mironda Squires OF Columbus, Ind.
who is a devOut believer in spiritual
Ism. has contracted for placing a tele-
phone at the head Of a relatives grave
near that city, says a dispatch from
Peru. Ind Frequently she has visited
the grave or a departed one and held.
she says. long conversations with the
dead She Is busy woman, and as the
cemetery Is some distance from her
home she has adopted the telephone
idea IL is her intention 10 have the
telephone on pole that touches the
lid Of the box containing the casket.
and she thinks that the spirit OF the
dead one Will answer when she calls
up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Co.tIY UnderEronnd Chnnel.

An underground chapel, whose cost
will total at least $4,000. has been be
gun by workmen underneath the chap
el proper IN the first floor OF the chief
building Of the ST. Mary s-of the Woods
Institution at Terre Haute. Ind, says
the Indianapolis Sentinel. The chapel
when finished VIII be the largest and
most costly underground chapel In
America. Models for the tiling. affairs
end furnishings. Wln he brought from
the east.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
TESTED 40 YEARS,

Since 1854 thousands of Rheumatic and
Comfy sufferers have been cured by
Sennswald's Prescriptions Four Thousand.
1t is no new experiment. There is
nothing uncertain about it. We ALSO
iutely KNOW that it is a quick and
permanent specific for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27

Advantages OF a system Detained 10
RevOlutiOnize Agriculture In the
Far WeHt-LarEe Amount OF Money
Appropriated To Carry on Expert
ments on a Large Scale.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
CLARK'S LATEST ROLE.
Senator Bought Six Plants to
Supply His New Mansion.
HOW he oUFWrrTBD CONTRACTORS

Montana millionaire, Determined
Not 90 Aeced< To Their Demands.
Has His 0Wn Quarry sud Factories
t0 Make Everything Fer New York
Palace - Arehitec4 RaII's Grown
HaES GrsyEn Gray Since Work on
HanEion started.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
RHEUMATISM

Gout and Asthma. We absolutely KNOW
that it will cure you if you are afflicted
with either of these diseases. We absolutely
KNOW it to be the one remedy that viii
neutralize and expel the poisonous uric
acid from the system. It costs only 100
per bottle and can be bought at any drug
store, or win be sent direct by express.
Ask your druggist for our little book
Plain Talk About Rheumatism. 1t costs
nothing and tells in plain language all there
IS to know about the cause. treatment and
cure of Rheumatism, Gout and Asthma
Address E. A. Seanewald & Co., 800
Hickory Street, St. Louis, no.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-27
Rrplorinr Deep sea..

The English admiralty intends TO
send deep sea exploring expedition to
the Indian ocean One OF the members
win be Stanley Gardiner. the well
known coral expert
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
PREVENT FAcTioNALlsM.

The spectre of dissension again
threatens the Irish Parliamentary
party. 1t will be remembered that
some little time ago Mr. William
O'Brien resigned his seat in Parlia'
ment because of disagreement with the
present leaders of the Irish NATIONAL
ist party. The disagreement arose
over difference of opinion in refer
ence to the last Land Act Mr. O'Brien,
as is we'll known, has ever been
the friend of the Irish peasant farmer.
He was the organizer OF the United
Irish League and his life work has
been spent in trying to better the con-
dition of the Irish farmers. He looked
with great favor upon the. last Land
Act as measure which would ulti'
mately make the Irish the owners o.
the land of Ireland. He threw all the
power of his strong personality into
an attempt to popularize the Land Act
and to make the Irish farmers take
advantage of its terms. In this effort
he was opposed by some of the strong
est leaders of his own party. Tht
3Irish press abused him. Later on Mr.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

1t seems to us that the example
furnished by Carter Harrison, Ex,
Mayor of Chicago, is more worthy of
commentator than the so-called sac.
rifices which certain public men have
recently made. Mr.. Harrison is now
out of politics. While away on hunt
ing and fishing trip recently the AS
SCISSOR of Chicago taxed his personal
property at $4,000. Upon returning
to his home and learning of the fact
he promptly notified the assessor that
his personal property was worth $685.
900, making an increase of fifty per
cent, and that he was willing to pay
taxes upon that amount If every
citizen would emulate the ex-mayor
of Chicago the burden OF taxes would
not fall so heavily upon few. Mr.
Harrison's act is certainly one char
acterizing the highest citizenship and
worthy to be called true patriotism,
for he is willing to render in an un-
way to his country that
which rightfully belongs to it.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

The French can give us the horse
laugh over the Panama deal, says the
Intermountain Catholic of Salt Lake.
Uncle Sam paid them handsome
sum for his right to begin digging
where they left off, and it costs him
much more for getting away with a
cart load of mud than it cost the
t'renchman for coolie labor to do the
same thing. Everything tried in the
isthmus moves along on the principle
of how not to do it. Wages paid to
white men are really no more than
what labor could obtain in a Kansas
cornfield, or a mechanic could earn in
New England. The food supply to
workmen is bad and the cooking
worse. A glass of beer is luxury to
dream over in the sleep of sitting
night. Five men get out of the plague
spot for every new arrival that takes
chances. Wallace, the man with the
big head and big salary, was bounced
by Taft and Magoon, who takes his
place, is governor as well as minister.
But the canal must be dug if it takes
every coolie in Asia, every Hottentot
in Africa and every mule in Missouri
1t is an Administration undertaking
and President Roosevelt is bound to
see it through. That is, if he lives
long enough.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

Field Marshall Lord Roberts created
sensation in the house of lords early
in the week when in lengthy and
we'll considered speech he deliberate
ly expressed his opinion as practical
soldier that the military force of Great
Britain was inadequate, imperfectly
trained and totally unfit to uphold
Great Britain as a first-class power.
Lord Roberts did not blame the gov
ernment, which he said was actuated
by national feeling, but he scathing-
ly attacked the people of England who,
he said, showed no national feeling to-
wards the military until danger arose.
Then, said Britain's Field Marshal,
the soldier was the pet of the people,
but this way only an evanescent en-
thusiasm which did not entail self
sacrifice and passed away as soon as
the danger disappeared. Ever since
the close of the Boer War this fact
has been pounded into the English
mind from time to time, but without
effect. There will be plenty of time
to give the Britishers another good
drubbing while they are weighing
Lord Roberts words.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
PANAMA CANAL,

We are beginning to learn that the
attended with a great deal more diff
culties thon were dreamed of when
the project was undertaken. Ameri-
cans, who eagerly sought positions on
the work, are beginning to return with
stories of the great hardships con-
nected with the undertaking. Many
rushed to the Isthmus in the hope OF
great reward for easy work, just as
hundreds of young men and women
rushed to the Philippines to engage
themselves as teachers and in other
like employments. They did not re-
main long. They found from hard ex-
perience that the Equator was not
made for the white man.
1t would have been far better had
we started in upon the construction
of the canal with little more prepara-
ton Men should be advised of the
situation and conditions surrounding
the work. They should be made to
understand the obstacles that must be
overcome, and only those prepared to
put up with the conditions should be
allowed to take employment.
In our enthusiasm we started out tc
show the world what the United
States could do in the way of great
undertaking. We were to show by
comparison how the American differed
from the Frenchman. One would be
lieve from reading the early accounts
of the undertaking that all that ha6
to be done was to start In and dig
the big ditch as giant snow-ploW
would shovel away the drifts in Feb
ruary. Questions of sanitation ant
| vegetation and climate were brushed
away as minor features. These mat
ters which formed such stumbling
blocks to the French were to be push
ed aside as of little moment in OH
case. We have quickly learned, how
ever that the very things which trou
bled the French are the things whicl
are troubling us. How to live nea
the Equator and to combat equatoria
vegetation are matters that are nov
engaging the attention of those II
charge of the work. We will probabl
hear more in the years to co.le c
destruction and of desolation than G
the commercial good that is to follo'
the completion of the work.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
The Vicariate of Rome has issued

The Vicariate of Rome has issued
la warning to the faithful against un-
authorized prayers, says the Provi-
dence Visitor. The warning is timely
and to the point. Many of the faithful
are accustomed to say long prayers
and even to practice arduous fasts in
the firm belief that by these acts of
piety they are to be delivered from
sudden death, to escape the flames OF
purgatory, to receive extraordinary
graces in the present life and eternal
happiness in the world to come. Gen
orally such prayers are sold for
money which eventually finds it's way
into unworthy hands. Only the au-
thorized prayers of the church are
worthy to elicit the pious beliefs of
the faithful. All other prayers are not
only without the special blessings at,
tached to them, but are often danger:
Gus and misleading.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
What Webster Wanted.

Daniel Webster, the famous Amer
lcan statesman, once dined with an
old Boston merchant, and when they
came to the wine a dusty old bottle
was carefully opened by the servant
and passed to the host. Taking the
bottle, he filed Webster's glass and
handed it to him. Then, pouring out
another for himself, he held it to the
light and said:
"lIow do you like it, Mr.. Webster?'"
81 think it is fine specimen Of old
pert"
Now, can you guess what it cost
me-" asked the host.
surely not" said Webster. 81 on
y know that it is excellent"
We'll, now, can tell you, for /
made careful estimate the other
day. When I add the interest to the
('orice, find that it costs me the sum
Of just five shillings per glass;"
Good gracious. You don't say so!''
Fcried Webster. And then, draining
lis glass, says a biographer, he pre-
sented it again, with the remark:
/ Fill it up again as quick as you can
for want to stop that confounded in
terest!"
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
that If he went forward he would re~
[ceive the fire of his own side, he asked

that If he went forward he would re-
|ceive the fire of his own side, he asked
his men if any one would give his life
to save the rest. A soldier stood out
of the ranks. After explaining the
certain danger he would have to face,
the general gave him slip of paper
on which was written: "Send me the
Acknowledgement Smith," He knew
the soldier would be shot and then
searched, and thus the paper would
be found and the sign made known.
The soldier sets out, and, reaches the
outposts. who goes there?" ga
friend" Give the password" But
the soldier advances in silence, and at
once the rifles are aimed at him. He
thereupon made sign Of the cross,
and to his surprise the rifles are low
cred. The act of a Catholic soldier
in commencing himself to God was
the very sign given that morning by
the commander to his army.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
THE CASES OF ROOT AND DILL

The fact that the attention of the
country is now directed to the spec,
tacle of Elihu Root giving up large
and lucrative law practice for cabi,
net position which pays only $4,000 a
year shows that situations of this kind
are not frequent in this country. It
happens that just at this time there
is another man, whose law practice
amounted yearly to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, who has accepted a
position in a New Jersey court at a
salary Of $4,000 year. This man is
the we'll known corporation lawyer,
James B. Dill. Even the President of
the United States has considered the
acts of these two men as of sufficient
Importance to dwell upon in public
speeches. 1t is fortunate that we have
such examples, rare though they are.
1t proves that in this age of greed and
avarice there are few men who be-
lieve that there is something in this
world better even than money 1t is
probable, however, that in the case OF
Secretary Root his action is partly
prompted by the fact that he is an
aspirant for the presidency. In the
case of Dill it may be that he consid-
ers his position upon the bench as a
sort of an honored retirement, for
Mr.. Dill is already millionaire. He
is still young man and probably looks
upon his duties on the bench as a
sort of pastime, without which an ac
tive mind would be i'll at ease 1t is
easy, therefore, to explain the action
of these two men on other than purely
patriotic grounds, and it is probable
that a majority of the people will sc
construe their action
| While such actions are truly rare
in this country they are by no means
such in other countries. Those who
direct the affairs of legislation for the
British Empire are wholly unpaid
Members of Parliament receive nj
compensation whatever and yet the
very ablcst men in England esteem i
a privilege and high honor to repre-
sent constituencies in the House O
Commons. The members of Parlia
ment from Ireland are even supported
by charity while performing their du
| Is
of the Irish Nationalists are poor mel
who would be unable to retain thei
seats were it not for the fact that the.
are supported by subscriptions mad
in Ireland and in this country, and
has been necessary in the past fo
some of the ablest members of Parlia
ment to resign their seats in orde
that they might take up some work a
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

The first public speech made by
Charles ]. Bonaparte since he was ap-
pointed Secretary of the Navy was
that delivered before the Christian
Endeavor of Baltimore upon the sub
ject of pure politics and religion.
President Roosevelt has evidently got
ten the man of his heart in the new
Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Bona
parties conception of the great issue
in this country was expressed in his
own words as follows: 'The under,
lying evil in the administration of our
public affairs is simply dishonesty
For seventy-five years we have per.
mitted our public offices to be treated
as mere loot in political warfare
not as trusts belonging to the people
but as spoils belonging to the victors.'
He maintains that the campaign fo1
honesty in public life is not political
issue but moral one. Mr. Bonaparte
thinks that the application of religion
to politics would go far towards solv
ing the question. The reason for al
the opposition on the part of politica
bosses to the appointment of Charles
J. Bonaparte is apparent. He is out
spoken at all times in relation to the
| political boss and his methods. His
definition of a politician is a man who
interests himself actively in the goot
government of his city; who tries tt
secure for it a sufficient police and fire
department, we'll paved streets, judi
cious provisions for the public health
public schools for the education of al
classes, and with all, low taxes ant
diminishing debt: one who does all T;
man can to enforce the law, punisl
crime and safeguard the order, goot
morals and prosperity OF the commun
ity. Every such man is engaged il
| politics, and is, in the Greek sense o
the word, a politician OF course
man with such ideas is not a friend o
1 the political boss whose trade is tina
of living on the taxpayers and gettin:
rich at their cost.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
THE CHURCH IN FRANCE.

The Concordat which for century
has regulated the relation of the
Church to the French government has
been abolished. 1t is generally un-
derstood that the Concordat applied
only to the Catholic church. This,
however, is not true. The agreement
covered the relation of the govern
ment to all churches; Protestant and
Jewish as well as Catholic. But the
fact that the vast majority of the
people of France are Catholic makes
it of course of supreme Importance to
the Catholics OF that country. The
abolition of the Concordat will. theo-
rctically. place the Church in France
upon which it rests in this country
The Church will hereafter be Obliged
to seek its support directly from the
people instead of through the taxing
power of the government. This
change may work great hardship tc
the cause of religion in France. IL
this country there, never was gov
ernment aid given TO religion. The
people have for Hundreds of years
been accustomed to support their ow,
churches In France just the reverse
has prevailed. The people have beer
taxed for the support of the Church
and the Church and it's priests
have received stipends direct from
the government. 1t has been the Gus
tom for the church to give to the peo
pie rather than the people to tho
Church. A complete reversal of tn.
situation will require time in order t.
accustom all to the change. Their,
is another very great difference II
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

Secretary of the Navy, Bonaparte,
is of the opinion that it is not quite
the proper thing for Cabinet officer
to travel on railroad pass, and as a
consequence he has returned passes
sent to him by different railroads. In
this respect he out-Roosevelts Roose-
velt for it will be remembered that
the President accepted the services OF
a whole train for quite long period
during the first year of his administra,
ton. Well, come to think of it, what
does Bonaparte, who is to be a sailor
from now on, need with a railroad
pass anyhow?
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

Even Chauncey Depew has been
caught in the drag-net Of the graft
prosecutors. Who would think that
good-natured Chauncey Depew with
his little after-dinner talks and his
peachy stories could be guilty of TAX
ing $4,000 a year from an insurance
company just for giving lot of free
advice? Most people insist upon Civ.
ing free advice without being paid for
It. and Chauncey likes talking SO well
that it no doubt comes as a surprise
to the country to learn that he has
been receiving $4,000 every year for
talking freely.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

Pone Gregory XVI. died on June 4,
1916, nearly sixty years ago, and it
would seem impossible that a Bishop
appointed by him could be still alive
and ruling a diocese, says the Kansas
City Catholic Register. But few
days ago DR.. Daniel Murphy, arch
bishop of Hobart, Tasmania, the last
prelate of Pope Gregory's creation,
epterea on his niIIY-ffth year. He
Was born in Cork While the battle of
Waterloo was being fought, was con.
secrated an Indian bishop in 1876 and
translated to Hobart in 1865.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
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The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

Governor Folk of Missouri is right
when he says that the hunt for bood-
lers and grafters now in progress in
SO many states is sign not of de-
cadence but of regeneration and NOR
al awakening. The exposures abound
in a wholesome effect resulting in the
public conscience becoming more ac-
tive and sensitive.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

The London Times has published a
history of the South African war,
edited by l.. L. Emery, which makes
some very frank admissions about the
British army. The Saturday Review,
in reviewing it, contrasts the British
army of today with that described by
Napier in the Peninsular war and
says We Won three years ago also,
but no one can assert that we re-
turned with untarnished laurels or
buoyant exultation, and no one can
ever forget the lack of self-sacrifice
and discipline leading up to incidents
which have been euphemistically
termed "regrettable." Those who
show resentment because in these
pages it is admitted that man for man
our opponents were usually superior
to us should receive no sympathy or
support. We won, but in many fight
before the end at length came in
sight had handful of peasants put to
shame the so-called veterans that rep.
resented England. To admit the truth
is the first step on the road that leads
to amendment. We have had enough
of the epics of newspaper correspond
ents, enough of bloodless triumphs,
and cheaply won distinctions. When
pitted once more against an enemy
adequately armed we shall gain no
more pinchbeck renown, we shall
have to fight as we have had to do in
the past and as we see two nations
lighting now, and we shall have to put
in the field better representative OF
the manhood of this country than we
have grown accustomed to if we are
to escape defeat. Every military
writer in England now, except few
fools, admits the utter inefficiency OF
the British army, says the Gaelic
American of New York.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15
eNs @RsN
THAbIs .ss,e,s, e5vNeiO
SssHEssE

Tom Lawson has lost his voice but
the knowledge of this fact will not
bring any great comfort to H. H.
Rodgers and other magnates for they
know that Lawson's fountain-pen is
still in good running order.
The Irish standard., 1905-07-15

1t will be hard to convince the
average reader that Ellihu Root made
a sufficient sacrifice to constitute
himself hero. Most Of us would be
pleased with $4,000 a year, and there
are some who would be pleased with
great deal less if they only had the
opportunity of occupying the exalted
position which Mr.. Root occupies. To
occupy the seat once held by such
men as Thomas Jefferson, James Mad
ison, James Monroe, Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay, William L. Marcy, VIII,
liam II. Steward, James G. Blaine
and Richard Olney is sufficient com
pensation for even man Of Elihr
Roots ability. All this talk about
the sacrifice" that he is making, is
a little bit nauseating.