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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
viii Have to Defend Stealing.

United States Senator Dryden OF
New Jersey, who is also president Of
the Prudential Life Insurance com
pany, draws a salary from the latter of
500. 900 per year.
The average person will have diff
Guilty in understanding how he can
honestly earn the two salaries. Il
would seem the duties of one or the
other would be neglected.
This man, Dryden, was a witness re
Gently before the legislative commit
tee of the state of New Jersey, and he
admitted that his company contributed
Sc, 600 to the republican campaign fund
in 1896 and 1900. and $4,000 in 1904
Dryden was asked if he believed the
officers of the life insurance company
had the right to make such contribu-
tons, as he confessed they had made.
He replied:
The management of the company is
charged with the responsibility of the
company. and if, in the judgment of
the directors. conditions are likely to
be brought about that would tend TO
destroy the company's assets or impair
them, it is the duty of the management
to protect il"
That is where every insurance thief
who has stolen the money of his com
pany to swell the republican slush
fund will land. That must be their
excuse. They must all defend on the
same ground.
In the next presidential campaign the
republican party will be forced to de-
fend the looting of insurance treasur-
les for the same reason.
But what does President Roosevelt
say to these revelations?
In 1904 Judge Alton B. Parker charg-
ed that the corporations were contribu-
ting TO the republican slush fund and
Theodore Roosevelt Indignantly de
MED it,
Is it not time for the president, if he
is an honest and truthful man, to apol-
Ogize to Judge Parker for the brutal
denial that the corporations were con-
tributing to the fund for his (Roose-
yelt's) election?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
Ne wspapers-

a bulletin recently given out by the
census bureau in Washington shows
that 19,G42.757 copies of daily newspa-
pers. or one for every four persons, are
turned out each week day in this coun-
try.
The total amount charged for adver-
Using in 1905 was $145.531 81. The
capital invested in printing and pub
fishing is 1884 .O21 $50.
That American newspapers consti-
tute a great industry is shown by these
statistics. 1t is all industry that has
widened greatly in the past decade and
which is growing faster today than at
any time in its history.
The newspapers of today cover d
wider range of news, thought, study
and literary effort than they did few
years ago. and have become a most
efficient instructor as well as dispenser
of news. The newspaper has stood the
test of time 1t has become a fixture
in the home. a necessity for the bust
ness man and general public. A news
paper like The Argus, for instance
gives the people all the news all the
time fills their wants. brings the bus
mess houses and their patrons into re-
lationship and close communication
through the medium of advertising
presents good literature for entertain
ment and instruction, and possesses
other meritorious characteristics too
numerous to mention. The newspaper
is doing a good work all over the coun
try. II is the clean free press that
molds public opinion, defends the pub
lie interests. antagOnizes lawlessness
and wrong. and makes the nation bet
ter and greater.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Alfred Belt, the South African Croesus,
who died the other day, was said to be
very much averse to the marriage of
young men in his employ. At one time
his secretary asked for holiday to get
married. Mr.. Belt replied: IF you get
married l shan't want your services
any more You can't then serve me
as | want to be served and you cant
look after your wife as you ought TO
if YOU serve me properly. Come in Ia
ter and let me know what you are go
ing TO do" Next day the secretary ex-
planned that he had determined to wed.
HIS services were dispense VIII then
and there. but just before the wedding
Mr. Belt sent for him. wished him
success. and handed him an envelope,
not TO be opened until after the we'd
ding 1t contained a check for $4,000
ana a note admirIng the young mans
courage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
Plato-ImmortaIity.

A dainty cloth bound booklet con.
tanning the Life of Plato and his argu-
ment on Immortality is issued by Alden
Brothers. New York city. successors
to John B. Alden. the pioneer publisher
of high class books at little cost The
price, Is cents, indicates that the good
work is to continue-if / ) cents is too
much, get the cheap" edition in paper
for 3 cents. This is one issue in Sc
ries intended TO comprise a library of
universal literature. of all times and
languages. translated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

from South Afric penetrates the Sou
dan it VIII make connections forming
a continuous rail route across the con-
tinent. 1t is not many years since
Africa was known as the dark con-
tinent The region in which railroad
construction is going on is that in
which Livingston ilabored and in which
he died in 1878. AT that time the idea
the next generation would see the To-
connective in the heart of Africa would
have been regarded as the dream of a
mailman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
FIRST DISTRICT.

FIRST DISTRICT.
Cordova, Canoe Creek, Port Byron
Yuma, Coe; Hampton, 3rd precinct.
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
SECOND DISTRICT.
Hampton. 1st precinct; Hampton, End
precinct; South Moline, LIST precinct
South Moline, End precinct; South Mo
line. .Srd precinct; Coal Valley. Rural
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
THIRD DISTRICT.
Moline, Seventh ward, 1st precinct
Moline, Seventh ward. End precinct
Sixth ward, End precinct; Moline, Fifth
ward. 1St precinct; Moline, Fifth ward
End precinct; Moline, Fourth ward, Isl
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
and state, l.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Moline. Fourth ward, End precinct
Moline, Third ward, 1st precinct; Mo-
line. Third ward, End precinct; Moline
Second ward, LIST precinct; Moline, Sec
ond ward, End precinct; Moline, First
ward, LIST precinct; Moline, First ward
End precinct.
Delegates = Senatorial. congressional
and state, l.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Rock Island, Seventh ward, LIST pre-
cinct; Rock Island, Seventh ward, End
precinct; Rock Island. Seventh ward
Bird precinct; Rock Island. Sixth ward
Isl, precinct; Rock Island. Sixth ward
End precinct.
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
and state, /.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Rock Island. Fifth ward, 1st precinct;
Rock Island, Fifth ward. End precinct.
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
and state, l.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Rock Island. Fourth ward, 1st pre-
cinct; Rock Island, Fourth ward, End
precinct.
Delegates - Senatorial, congressional
and state. /.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Rock Island, Third ward. 1st precinct;
Rock Island, Third ward, End precinct;
Rock Island, Third ward. 3rd precinct
Delegates = Senatorial, congressional
and state, l.
NINTH DISTRICT.
Rock Island, Second ward, 1St pre-
cinct; Rock Island. Second ward, End
precinct; Rock Island, First ward, LIST
precinct; Rock Island First ward, End
precinct.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
How TO Start
Off the Day
Students Of Hygiene All Agree That
the Right Kind of Break
fast Is Essential.

Thinking people are giving more
and more earnest thought as to how to
start off each new day so as to put
themselves in the best possible physi-
cal and mental condition for the work
of the day. It is an interesting sub
ject, so interesting indeed that it has
attracted the attention of a host of the
worlds leading scholars and authors
on hygiene and many different opin-
ions have been written for the guild
ance of the people. On one point, at
least. all are agreed. This is that the
right kind of a breakfast is essential.
A perfect breakfast is impossible
without Ma1ta-Vita, that delicious.
crisp, vitalizing, whole-wheat food.
In making Malta-Vita the whole of
the wheat. after being cleaned, is thor
oughly steamed and cooked in abso-
lutte purity and then mixed with malt
extract, powerful digestive agent,
which converts the starch of the wheat
into maltese, or malt sugar. Maltese
is great food and the weakest stomach
digests and assimilates it without eff
fort. After being rolled into thin,
wafer-like flakes the matted wheat is
baked under such intense heat that it
comes from the ovens crisp and brown
positively the most delicious. most
healthful food in the world. Always
ready to eat. All grocers, now 10 cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Baltimore News: The great adj
vance which mas been made toward a
realization of Cecil Rhodes daring con
ceptiOn of the cape to Cairo railroad
is impressively displayed by the recent
announcement that the rail head has
reached Broken Hill. in British Central
Africa. The length of Africa from
north to south along the line of the
roaF ont 1000 miles. The portion
of tde load now in actual operation is
2.016 miles long, but the distance re-
naming to be covered is even less than
these figures seem to indicate. for rail
road construction is going on south
wardly from Egypt, and when the line
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

One of the largest retail tobacco
dealers in the United States says. that
the consumption of chewing tobacco
has increased almost so per cent in
five years. He attributes this increase
TO the automobile, because it is impos-
sible to enjoy a cigar or pipe while
whizzing along in motor car. There
is also danger of sparks or ashes from
the lighted cigar or pipe getting into
the eyes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Senator Pettus of Alabama. who re-
Gently passed his S5th birthday is re-
ported TO have offered this explanation
of his vitality: 4 never chew less
than half pound of tobacco per day.
| swear only when it is absolutely ne
cessary; drink nothing stronger than
whisky. and for years have made it Il
practice to go to bed when l blank
pleased"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

John Wesley Crockett, deputy secre-
tary of state in Arkansas and candi-
date for president of the state railroad
commission, is a great grandson of
Davy Crockett. hero of the Alamo.
Among his most cherished possessions
are the gold watch and the rifle gun
of his iIIustrious ancestor The rife
was the gift of 500 young wings, his
admirers in Philadelphia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Governor Harris of Ohio, who left
the pillow 10 take the office he now
holds. has been eating his MONDAY
luncheons at a restaurant where the
prices are low. He sits at the counter
and rubs elbows with men covered
with CRIME. His ham and" luncheon
finished. he hUrries back to the CAPT
toI as if it were haymaking time down
on the farm, with rain brewing in the
west
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

is working hard on the downtown track
proposition, and there is every prospect
of success. Then there will be no diff
ficulty in landing more factories.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Delegates = Senatorial. congressional
TENTH DISTRICT
South Rock Island, Bowling, Black
Delegates - Senatorial congressional
anu ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
Edgington. LIST precinct: EdgingtOn,
End precinct; Andalusia. Buffalo Prai-
Delegates = Senatorial, congressional
JOHN P. SEXTON Chairman.
Attest: George p. Stauduhar.
Secretary.
Dated at Rock Island, Ill, this 9Th
day of July, 1906.
Senatorial.
A delegate convention of the demo-
cratic party of the Thirty-thrd sena-
torial district of the state of Illinois is
street opera house at Eeithsburg, Ill.
on Tuesday. Aug. IA 1906. at the hour
nominating one candidate for the office
of state senator. and one candidate for
the, office of representative in the gen
torial committee; also to transact such
other business as may properly. come
before the convention. The said con-
vention will be composed of % dele
gates from the several counties com
posing the district. to be elected at the
primary election to be held on Satur-
day, Aug. 4. 1906. The basis of repre-
sentation will be one delegate for every
200 votes cast for the Parker and Davis
electors of the democratic ticket in
1904, and one delegate for each fraction
of 100 or more. Under this call the
representation will be as follows:
Votes Del.
Rock Island county ........2135 II
Mercer county ...-..-..-. 1870
Henderson county ..-.-.-..-. IO2 =
BY order of the democratic senatorial
central committee.
Dated this 30th day of June. a. d. 1906.
c. c. SWISHER,
c.. r. WHITING,
a. NJ. THORNTON.
Democratic Senatorial Committee of the
Thirty-third Senatorial District of the
State of Illinois.
Congregational.
Delegates to the democratic congress
sional conVen ton for the Fourteenth
district of Illinois VIII meet at Rock
Island. Thursday. Aug. 16. 1906, at IL 80
o'clock a. III. for the purpose of nam
ing a candidate for congress and To
transact such other business may
properly come before the convention.
The basis of representation from the
various counties in the district is as
follows:
Hancock go. II
Henderson ...... -........-..-.
McDOnOuSn ...--- II
Mercer
ROCK Island .-.---..-... .-....-. /
warren 1890 ....-...-.. .-........ 8
Total delegates .............. 61
BY order of congressional committee.
JOHN p. SEXTON, Chairman.
J. w. Lusk, Secretary.
Monmouth, Iii, July Z, 1906.
pborr,a n. Ste tbrourbout tho world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

New York Herald: a life insur-
ance president is out in an attack on
Colonel Bryan. This will make many
who have been opposed 20 the Nebras-
Kan think seriously of giving him their
votes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

ChlorOform. according TO French an
thorities. is responsible for hallucina-
lions. Suspect that the republican po-
liticaI bosses who foresee vindication
at the polls have been taking chloro-
form
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

San Francisco is recovering its spir-
its. Six hundred barroOms have been
opened.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

The Russians are so busy just now
with internal troubles that they may
not find time to shoot Stoessel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

In careful perusal of the pure food
law we find no reference whatever to
congressional pie and pork.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Dick Yates declares Senator Cullon
n corporation tool. Why don't Dicl
tell something new?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Do your part to boom Rock Island
1t is your duty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, III. I'm
tered at the postofiee as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

Pharmacists throughout the world
have devoted their lives to the perfect
ing of HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
It contains the choicest medical roots
and herbs known to modern medicine.
Tea or tablets. So cents. T. H. Tho
mas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24
CALLS FOR DEMOCRATIC CONvEN-
TIONS.
County.

| The county central committee of the
democratic party of Rock Island coun.
! ty, state of Illinois, hereby issues cal
for a county convention of said demo
the 9th day of August, 1906. at tn,
Crystal theater, in Rock Island, in sale
county of Rock Island. state of Illinois
converting at IL o'clock a. M Tor tht
purpose of nominating candidates fol
the following offices:
One county judge.
One county clerk.
One county treasurer.
One county superintendent OF schools
One sheriff.
The primary delegate districts in said
county are entitled to delegates to con
ventionS as follows:
Sono,e' c;raal,
Fort Byron ........... .-.'....'-..
Hampton. first precinct. ............. :
Hampton second precinct. .........
Hampton, third precinct.
South Moline, first precinct. .....
South Moline, second precinct.
South Moline third precinct: .-.
Moline, First ward, 1St precinct. 49,.
Moline, First ward, End precinct.
Moline. Second ward. 1st precinct.
Moline, Second ward. End precinct.
Moline, Third ward, LIST precinct.
Moline, Third ward, End precinct. 80.
Moline, Fourth ward 1t precinct;
Moline. Fifth ward, LIST precinct: $50.
Moline, Fifth ward, End precinct....
Moline, Sixth ward, LIST precinct.
Moline, Sixth ward, End precinct.
Moline, Seventh ward, list precinct.
Moline, Seventh ward End precinct.
Rock Island. First ward. 1st precinct.
Rock Island, First ward, End prec....
Rock Island Second ward, LIST prec...
Rock Island, Second ward, End prec...
Rock Island, Third ward LIST prec....
Rock Island, Third ward. End prec...
Rock Island. Third ward, 3rd prec-...
Rock Island, Fourth ward, LIST prec..
Rock Island. Fourth ward, End preC...
Rock Island, Fifth ward. LIST prec....
Rock Island. Fifth ward, End prec....
Rock Island, Sixth ward, LIST prec....
Rock Island, Sixth ward, End prec....
Rock Island, Seventh ward, list prec,.
Rock Island, Seventh ward. End prec..
Rock Island Seventh ward, Bird pr &C..
South Rock Island. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Black Hawk Observation-Disclosures.
coal NdIleS
Iturai
Edgin gton, 1st precinct ..-....
EdEington, End precinct
AnuaIuSld
Buffalo Prairie NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Drury ......... ....... ...........
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

BY order of congressional committee.
JOHN =. SEXTON, Chairman.
J. w. Lusk. Secretary
Monmouth, Iii, July Z, 1906.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-24

TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications OF arguI tentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township III Rock Island county.
[NN3sELA rN>
GTRA6Esl Yss2E cogNcJE5 20
Tuesday, July "a, 1906.
The broad ax., 1906-02-10
St. Marx Literary.

Education as Related to Civic
Prosperity was the subject Of Mr.. R
N. Harvey's paper last Sunday after
noon at the St Mary Literary. State
street near Forty-seventh street. The
paper was well received and freely
discussed. Next Sunday afternoon
win be the Lincoln anniversary. DR..
N. C. B. Mason, Of Cincinnati. win be
the orator. DR.. Mason is the senior
Secretary Of the Freedman Aid and
Southern Educational Society OF the
n z. church. He receives a salary
Of $500, and Is recognized as being
one Of the greatest orators the race
has ever produced. The Garfield
Boulevard NJ. E. church orchestra
will furnish the music next Sunday
The program begins at $3.50 p. m.
Mr.. Richard A. Crolley will preside.
The broad ax., 1906-02-10
AMERICAN WOMAN GUIDE.
Touring Parties in Ancient Athens
Shown the Sights by
Young Lady.

There Is in Athens, Greece. a young
American girl, Miss Florence Stone,
who makes good living as a profess
sional guide. Some time ago, while
travelling in Europe with her mother,
Miss Stone received word that their
fortune had suddenly been lost. Hap
pening to be in Athens, she determined
to remain there and do what she could
toward their support. She tried teach
ing English for a while, but was not
particularly successful in getting
pupils.
Then, at the suggestion Of a promi-
nent American woman whom she had
accompanied on one or two sightsee-
ing expeditions. she offered her SER
vices to parties of tourists as a pro-
fessional guide and has made a sue
cess of II. With education and cul-
ture as well as a perfect knowledge
Of modern Greek. she Is better able to
impart interesting historical informa-
tion than the ordinary foreign guide.
The broad ax., 1906-02-10
The Negro In Literature.

But in the arts, in literature, what
can he do there? There have been
white men in the South who have not
scrupled to affirm that the Negro was
only an animal, soulless and inca
pable Of real progress. Perhaps they
regard Industrial achievement as
mere training Of animals" Perhaps
they look upon his religious enthusi-
asm as excess Of animal emotion. Per-
haps they would bring the same accu-
sation against the Negro music, the
only real American music we have
produced. But they can hardly pre-
tend that Brutes could bring forth
such work in literary lines as the Ne
gro Is showing himself capable Of.
We refer to the writings Of Prof. Du-
bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mr..
Dunbar's latest book Of poems illus
trated by Negro artists is a gem
which the writer has not seen sur
passed by the work Of any white
poets this year.
It Is about time for us to wake up
to the fact that in the field Of liter
ature, even as in other fields, the Ne
gro is working side by side with his
white brother. There is no use in
talking about the inferior races any
more than here Is In talking about
the inferiority Of women. Difference
is not inferiority. And even the diff
ference has been greatly exaggerated.
BY the sign Of the book the Negro Is
showing a mental capacity which
places him on level-Chicago Ad-
vance (white).
The broad ax., 1906-02-10
GOT HER MONEYS WORTH.
Drug Store Customer Took Postage
Stamps Instead Of Hair
Bleach.

The pretty girl whom the drug
clerk recognized as a customer en-
tered the store rather difndently and
approached the clerk with the air
Of one about to ask a favor, relates
the Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
do you ever exchange things?" she
asked, appealingly.
well, it depends. We try to be
accommodating" he replied. What
do you want to exchanged"
She brought forth bottle, which
she handed him.
IL decided not to use this" she
said, "and I'd like to return it"
This" was a bottle Of peroxide OF
hydrogen, and the girls hair was still
brown.
Certainly well take it back" said
the clerk. what do you want in
stead?"
She thought a minute and looked
around at all the mysterious glass
bottles and jars. Then an inspiration
lit up her pretty face.
you are so kind" she said. "Pn
take it out in postage stamps"
The broad ax., 1906-02-10
HE GOT A. WARMER SEAT.
Clever Ruse of Tavern Guest Cleared
the Crowd from Around
the Stove.

One bitter cold night recently a SOL
emn-faced man drove up to a tavern
near westchester and made his way to
the sitting-room after seeing that his
horse was taken to the stable, relates
the New York Press. There was q
large crowd Of guests huddled aroHnd
the stove and he had to take q distant
seat where 1t was not much warmer
than outside. AS soon as q waiter ap-
peared the man said:
Get two dozen oysters on the half
shell and take them out to my horse"
When the waiter passed through the
room on his way to the stable every
body but the new guest followed him
to see the remarkable horse feed on
raw oysters. In few moments the
Disguised crowd, headed by the waiter.
returned to the room to ind the own
er Of the horse comfortably seated by
the stove.
"The horse wouldn't look at the oys-
ters," said the waiter.
81 didn't think he would" replied
the man "Hand them to me and bring
me bottle Of ale"