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Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
Ready TO Follow Fish.

Counsel for the Truesdale investi-
eating committee are ready to follow
the example of Stuyvesant Fish and
resign from the committees, in despair
of forcing President Peabody TO fur
nish information.
An old employe of the Mutual Life,
who disappeared when the state inves-
tigating committee began to call wit.
nesses. turned up and visited the law
yers representing the McCurdys. He
stated that he had facts which. if dis
closed would result in the retirement
of at least one officer of the company.
McCaIrs Estate Worth Nothing.
A close friend of the late Mr.. Nc
Call said that when his little personal
obligations are wiped out there will be
next to nothing in his estate. This
friend said Mr. Mccall died a poor
man; that he gave nearly all he had
in voluntarily paying back into the
treasury of the company the 1926, 900
which he had advanced to Judge An
drew Hamilton on the home office an
mex account
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
TANCLE is WORSE
Big Life insurance Companies
Find Complications Grow.
ing Daily.
PROBLEM I'M MCCALL SUIT
Left No Estate and New York Life
Trustees May Be Forced to
Sue Themselves.

New York, Feb. 22.-The affairs OF
the big life insurance companies are
tangled up in the worst kind of a snarl
and the general miXup is getting more
complicated every day.
Some of the more important recent
developments are:
Trustees of the New York Life dis
covered that they may be forced to sue
themselves for the claims the company
had against John A. Mccall as the
fact that Mccall died poor man is al
most certain to prohibit suits against
his estate.
Stuyvesant Fish's threat to resign
from the Mutual Lies board of trus-
tees decided other members of the
board TO request him to stay and see
the fight for wide open investigation
through to a finish
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
Fall Off scaffoId at Decatur.

Decatur. Ill. Feb. 22.-By the fall of
a scaffold at the Mueller factory Chas
Alexander was killed and Jesse Fisher
fatally hurt.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
l-r.se TWO Yenr.., ResisLencc limit.

represented in the congress or sui
ctoutia1l,, ca
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22

Continued on Eighth Page.)
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
Control Legislation.
Could Not Trace Money.

After calling attention to the fact that
Andrew Fields and Andrew Hamilton.
to whom large sums were entrusted
and unaccounted for, had remained be-
yond the jurisdiction of the commit
tee, the report says:
"On account of the necessary wit
nesses and lack of proper vouchers,
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22

In a statement made TO newspaper
men before the presentation of the re-
port, Senator Armstrong said he hoped
to have passed before April 10 a bill
which will defer the annual elections
in mutual companies from April Is TO
Nov I5
Rock Island Argus., 1906-02-22
Governing Investments.

Contributions by insurance corpora
tions for political purposes should be
strictly forbidden, and the passage of
an unequivocal, drastic measure to
remedy this evil is recommended. Re
garding lobbying, the report says:
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03

take the train aud go out 10 the
little country town where YOU were
born. We get OFF nj the station and 20
up the old. familiar street. II is sur
prlsing how little some of the old
country towns change. There are the
same little ,,ostoilice and the same lit
tie church covered with the same col
ored paint. When we walk around !.
almost seems ms though the same
chickens were running about the yards
as ran there thirty years ago. We en-
ter the old farmhouse where you were
born. and I fnd that the son OF your
oldest sister now dead has II. l turn
TO him and say: "Harry. what 10 the
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03
Pntronixing "a king.

The London Mail tells u remarkable
story of the democratic way in which
Norway treats royalty At the end vi
play by Biornsternc Biornson al the
National thcatcr IN ChrStiania King
IIaakon received the venerable dram
atist with the remark. "A very beauti-
ful play, my dear BjornSOn." Bjorn
son. patting the king paternally on the
head. said. "po not say majci very,
your majesty. hut 'mcget. That's how
we pronounce 1t here. \ man In your
place must take care of these little
matters. you know" King llamkon.
surprised. replied with as good grace
as possible THAT he would he careful 10
follow the advice That's right" re
piled Biornson. III you take care To
remember what say you'll lind you'll
have good cause Ia thank me"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03
:. : - - Al -
/ % Mi TesIEit X

mcnt. Doctors treated me for rheu-
matism, but failed to help me. lost
all confidence in medicine. but Doan's
Kidney Pills relieved me so quickly
and so thoroughly that | gladly made "A
statement TO that effect for publication.
This was in 1898. and during the six
years which have elapsed have never
known Doan's Kidney Pills to fail"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Bierbach will
be mailed on application to any part Of
the United States. Address FosterMil-
burn Co.. Buffalo, \. y. For sale by
Ill druggists; price so cents per box.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03

II is the fashionable pose now 10
speak Of your hundreds of dollars
gown. rich with real laces and en-
broldcries. rs ~ rag of poucet's' aud
not "fi To he seen" \ beautiful coun-
try house ahundantly supplied with
servants and kept up with all possible
luxury. Is lust ~ little box" where 1--WE
do everything 50 simply" la, Ia. Ar
fectatlon and self consciousness % the
new rich are responsible for this ami
ability Boston Herald.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03

I'll w u VI lWO
years / had kidney
trouble, and there
was such n severe
pain through my
loins and limbs that
| could not stoop
or straighten up
without great pain.
had difficulty in get
ting about and was
unable TO rest Mt
night. arising in the
morning tired and
worn out. The kid
ney sccretions were
irregular and de-
pOsited n heavy sedi-
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03
REACH The SPOT.

To cure an aching back,
The pains OF rheumatism,
The tircd-out feelings.
You must reach the spot---get at the
cause.
In most eases it's the kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kid
neys.
Charles Bierbach, stone contractor,
living at 2G25 Chestnut St., Erie. Pa
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-03-03
Physical stamina.

In order 10 make our subject little
more intelliglblc let me- remind you or
the blessings of faith from worldly
or temporal standpoint. Let US. In
the first place, try To see what
mighty factor faith can be IN develop
Ing our physical stamina. Archbishop
Temple once said Faith Is the laying
hold of the future IN the midst of the
present. Of the unseen IN the midst OF
tain and stimulate the physical powers
that II frame weak and feeble and even
impcrfect can achieve tasks that would
tax the powers of vigorous constitu-
ton. Let me Illustrate my thought by
the scene of my text.
There is great excitement on the out
skirts of Capernaum. Christ has just
been working number of his mira
Giles. The most startling of these was
the raising from the dead of the daugh-
Ter of the ruler Jairus. OF course you
can understand the tremendous SEN
sation such AN act caused The news
spread like wldtire. The people every
where were fiocking about Jesus While
The multitudes were following him
there were two blind men 10y the road
side believe from the construction
of this chapter they were bcggars.
When the crowd surges past them their
acute ears hear the connection. What
is the natter" they ask. "Oh." some
one says. Jesus. the worker of mira
clcs, is passing by" "Do you believe
he can open my eyesf" TREMENDOUSLY
asks one of the blind men. II do not
know" Is the reply. You were born
blind. were you not? No one that Is
born blind has ever been known 10
see" Yes" says the blind man.
'but did not Christ raise tho dead
daughter of Jairusf feel know he
can give us sight" Then the blind
men. who could not get near TO Christ
on account of the crowds. began TO
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ported for war duty It was the boast Of his
crew that they could hit a fly on a mark miles
away.
When the blockade started McCalla began
to get busy. No officer in the navy showed
such activity. He was here and there and
all the time turning up in unexpected places.
Every one was nervous, and before long
the ships Of the American fleet got the
habit OF shooting at MoCalla in the night
before they found out who he was. He
remarked once that he was mighty glad
that none OF the other ships could shoot
like his.
It ia related that once Admiral Sampson
called a conference Of his Captains on the
flagship New York. McCalla came early.
The first man to enter the Admiral's cabin
after he got there said:
Hello, Mac! You ought to be more
careful how you 60 ~sneaking around nights.
/ found myself shooting at you last night"
Il noticed that" said McCalla.
The next man said: Hello, Mac! II you
don't look out some night III sink you,
the way you run around looking for
trouble, l shot at you night before last
before.I knew who it was"
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to worse. SO It's hard to see Just, how WI
would need to ever use dynamite here
Chief Croker was one of those who mads|
a special. study of the Baltimore fire. Hs
also visited Rochester n Ottawa after
the big fires in those places. In his study
about them which are interesting AND
which, he says, convince him that dynamite
as a means for stopping fires isn't what
old timers thought 1t was. There was|
some dynamite used, for instance at the
'of retarded it. Il
. 4These fires have shown that the only
way in which a fire could be stopped by
dynamite said the chief, would be by|
destroying an immense area and by re.
moving from this area all OF the debris
Of the buildings. That, Of course, would
be impossible. II Q reduce skyscrapers
or any other kind OF buildings to a heap
Of building materials what better material
could the fire want? The experience in
several fires where it has been tried is ths!
the ruins have caught much more quickly
than would have been possible had the
buildings been standing.
When a fire gets going SO that it as.
created a column Of. hot air. This column
hundreds Of feet beyond the flames them.
selves. In some fires this hot air column
has been several blocks in length. When
this column strikes a building 1t will Gauss
1t to burst into flames. Now, dynamite
won't stop that hot air column, but in my
opinion such a column could be broken
up with sufficient water. That is what we
want in New York.
Pour as many streams as you can INTO
that hot air current at different points ana
/ believe you will have destroyed its efeo.
t%iveness. That is the way l should Try 10
fight any fire that ever assumed such .
size here; but I don't believe that will ever
happen
The hot air current theory has come 10
be generally accepted by fremen nowadays
This current has it's p~eculiarities.
In Ottawa, for instance, where IT cut
clean path right through the city from ths
river edge to the city limits where there
was nothing more to burn, 1t leaped oye.
flame houses in several instances and !e.
them standing. 1t has also jumped oyes
hilTkoards which have been found in a pam
litteted with the ruins Of brick and s'on'
buildings.
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enough of the marsh to make O hole, which
quickly fills with water; then IL is launched
into the pond which 1t has made for itself.
Extending In front Of the hull Of the
dredge is a pipe nearly two feet in diameter.
Its outer end rests In the marsh and b
open. This IL called the suction head.
The other end Of the pipe Is connected
with q pump 80 powerful that II a man
were at the outer end he would be pulled
into the conduit, just asa cash box is driven
through a pneumatic tube in a dry goods
store. When this pump is started a stream
Of mud completely filing the pipe oontinu-
ally passes into the dredge.
After the material has been taken out
It must be carried away. Extending from
the dredge Is another big pipe Of the same
size as the sucker. The pipe is put together
in sections, 80 that 1t may be 100 feet or
500 feet long, depending on the distance the
spoil Is to be removed.
The pipe Is too heavy to be supported or
the marsh, 80 each section is buoyed up on
fatboats or ~pontoons. AS fast as the
pump draws the mud from the bottom it
forces it through this discharge pipe. The
main engine is aided by two others, making
the total horsepower which the dredge can
exert nearly a thousand.
In this way the refuse material can be
carried nearly a thousand feet away and
thrown from the pipe. Such is the muscle
Of this mechanical giant that the contents
of the pipe can be forced up hill to q height
Of twenty-four feet.
These dredges, which we're designed by
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said hat they couldn't have dom much with

said that they couldn't have done much with
Then came the Boxer troubles IN China,
and there McCalla added to his reputation.
At the first sign Of trouble he was sent. to
Taku. He got up to I5entsin ana { 40 40,
Of fifty marines. MoCalla got there all right
and came back. These marines helped to
save the day later. Trouble increased and
McCalla was put on shore with M blue
jackets and marines from the Newark. Inc
naval forces Of the other nation soon began
to arrive, and Admiral Seymour OF the Brit
ish navy took command Of the allied forces,
Pekin was cut of and appeals for help were
struggled through. The allied forces OF
1000 marines and bluejackets started out
for Pekin. 1t wasn't long before they were
checked. 1t was proposed to quit Nc
Gala said:
Il do not know what you intend to do,
gentlemen, but I intend to try to save my
legation
Fight after fight followed until, beaten
back, the force had to retire. McCalla
was wounded three times in the fighting,
in the arm, the thigh and scalp. He would
not give ~ up 7os until n;n fo EGildd to aDd 40 fvs so: dns
wounded on that expedition. McCalla paid
this tribute to his men:
at was a pleasure to command such men,
and their bra very during that march adde
a new lustre to our navy. o,o,. ,;u.o,,
but that part is supplied by this extract
from a letter from Admiral Seymour of
the British navy to Admiral Kempf OF our
navy:
expressing to you, sir, the high admiration
I have for Capt. B. H. NcCalla, who ac-
companied US in command o, your officers
and men. Their post was usually in the
advance. where their zeal and 90. were
praised by all. regret to state that Capt.
considering the gallant way in which he
exposed himself, | am only equally sur
prised and thankful that he is alive"
McCalla was invalided home, but 1t wasn't
long before he was in command of the bat
San Francisco in charge Of the naval train
ing station. A short time later he became
a Rear Admiral and was in command Of the
Mare Island Navy Yard, where he finished
his services t. his country by another
the earthquake he at once sent all the force
he could gather to the water front and
guarded the docks and helped Funston to
restore order. =.
Admiral McCalla endeared himself to all
money In the Cuban campaign to establish
F, a clubhouse for the jackies and marines at
Vallejo, opposite Mare Island.
McCalla was the real author OF a famous
naval phrase. sohley used it in his desrStch
from Santiago. McCalla used 1t to Schley
In a conversation. 1t was:
There is glory enough for ALL"
McCalla retires without enemies and with
only friends in the navy and elsewhere. A
naval friend put IL tsts way The other day:
His record typifss the best in the ira.
ditions OF the navy. There never was q bet
ter fighter, a greater hustler, a more loya'
! patriot, a better executive man and a finer
specimen Of real manhood than Bow
McCalla."
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Linden w. Bates, who built the Galveston'
and Missisatppi River mud suckers, wiz
thus be used for bank building as well al
for making q hole in the marshy territory
through whictr the canal will pass. EACH
will r~enerate electricity for lighting, sol
that It can be kept running night and day
II necessary. Only a dozen hands are
needed to operate the apparatus, which,
literally performs the work OF an army
of men.
In many places the right Of way is covered
with woodland. This must all be cut down.
with saw and axe. Next the stumps must!
be taken out, 30 the sturup pulling maohinsI
comes into play, but sometimes the BOTTOM
of the tree is 30 large aud tough that NJ
must be blown to pieces with dynamit
cartridges.
Other sections are a tangle c6 young treeaiI
bushes and vines. Here the clearing must
be done almost entirely by hand, and 1t Isl
a question II more human labor is not END
ployed in surfacing along the U route
thar In exoavating.
Another feature In which the Erie re-
sembles the Panama ditch is in the lock
system. For instance, boats will descend
from the level OF the Mohawk River to ths|
level Of the Hudson River by a set Of thres|
locks, but in these they will be lowered nj
less than 121 feet, an average OF forty
feet to a lock. The gates Of these locks
will be nearly fifty feet high. This ap
proaches in height the locks which havsl
been favored by some Of the Panama Canal
engineers for the Isthmian waterway.
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Band OF African Musicians.

FFOW We thltuVO TND"N''
In East Africa no one ever lifts his finger
for even he smallest service, To move .
chair, TO hiok up a card. to open IA door, "a
lift a book n boy Is ,called-in facls "
generally close at hand. Most OF me-,
servants we've born savages in. the sis"J
huts OF a people that hunted with bows Ann
arrows and Occasionally enjoyed a little chi"
nibellstio feast. 1.-Two,
The GermanA have trained their ral, ,s5
wonderfully -thnse that they have a,'IIE,s
to their civic And domestic, usage . r
first morning. afAer. our arrival 49, %, =.
serenaded by tho native band o. about t%'I nst.
Ave or thirty pleoes,. There they STOOD .suyiSd
side our windows. rhd In reGimentSls IA Va
khaki helmets, neat goats ano knee Dri"rys.
OF the same and shiny, bare black ra
around their leader. a. German In full uh.aTD'irplt
The music was eSeell. mt. given win SPTin"
and precision. The German. with ne had
domitable perseverance OF his rae one
trained them. although he spoke lw' oTSTd
word Of their language. they not one ~
Of his. caught
Each man had had to be separately tanhiid
his Instrument. Probably n,one Of them SSOGV T,
read any written language, yet eGcn 9.,ru.
read his little sheet Of music. Itune nlS LAWS.
ment and play in accord whh his irl" ads
il was a sight worth seeing md q ,tr ,hh"nss
worth listening to, there In the Ahade ol tnVoo Of
thick, black trees. with the ioreSr'Tj"gren Tense
blue sky b We and the sentrhs Nlh 1--WE AZ
up and down 9 few feet FROM our "''''
all day aud ell night.
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The methods which are being followed
In digging the Panama Canal may be studied
along the Erie Canal. In enlarging the
New York waterway the labor saving
machinery Is much the same as that used
to pierce the Isthmus. So far the chief work
has been done on the eastern section In
Engines Aliens division and west of Ro-
chester on Engineer A. j. Rookwood's
division.
Along the Erie there are cute which nave
been dubbed -Culebra' by the workmen,
owing to their depth. Several Of these nave
been completed nearly to the canal bottom,
and looking up their walls one might get
the impression that they were more than q
hundred feet high.
Though none Is Of such dimensions, each
represents al immense amount Of exoava-
ton, owing TO the required width Of the
canal at the bottom. In making such
gashes In the landscape the drill driven
by compressed air or steam power has been
required to bore holes where there is rock
formation, so hat the dynamiters could
rend apart the stone barriers.
Following the explosion squad may COME
the big steam shovel which bites out a
wagonload every time it's huge scoop is
driven into the pile OF loose rock and earth.
At some points tram roads have been put
down temporarily to remove the material
to q dumping ground as fast as the shovels
load 1t upon the dirt cars. which are pulled
and pushed here and there by the little
locomotives.
The canal diggers have an advantage over
the railroad graders, for in most places they
can use what is ~excavated for the wallis OF
the new ditch, 90 some Of the mechanism
in use combines the operations Of taking
out and building up. There is an ~e1oavator
which has been doing as much as q regi-
ment Of hand shovellers.
It can do two things at once-dig out
the canal and build up the bank on the side.
From one end Of the machine projects an
endless chain to which Is fastened a row
of steel scoops which combine q shovel and
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M'CALLA A HERO OF OUR NAVY.
LIVED DOWN THE FLAW nv HIS
RECORD BEFORE HE RETIRED.

Ago Limit Drives Him From active Service
won Fame ut Panama, at Guanta-
namo and I'm China Praised by English
Admiral Stories They Tell or Him..
Hereafter it will read Rear Admiral
Bowman H. MoCalla, RETIRED" In official
documents and in newspaper dispatches.
Sixty-two has been marked on the age
record Of McCalla and deprived the United
States Navy Of his active services. Sixty
two In the navy Is what 20 has come to mean
in ordinary life. MoCalla is through,
unless some great national emergency
arrives requiring retired naval officers to
be summoned again to active work.
The people generally hardly know the
worth Of McCaIla. 1t is because there was
once a black mark against his name in the
books Of the navy. He wiped it out long
ago, wiped 1t out in the only way a manly
man could do SO, by meritorious deeds. but
because some folks never forget, no account
Of MoCalla's services is complete without
reference to it. Over against that black
mark were set these words: by John D.
Long when he was Secretary of the Navy:
The bravery, tact and energy you have
again shown are an added title to the esteem
In which the department holds you, and it
gladly adds to your record this expression
OF the further appreciation Of your good
services
McCalla wasn't at all different from the
hundreds upon hundreds Of the young cubs
who have been graduated from Annapolis.
He was a good student, was ambitious and
energetic when he was graduated In 1884,
having been appointed from New Jersey.
He saw his first service at once on the old
steam sloop Susquehanna in the Brazilian
squadron. Then came the time when there
wasn't enough work for the navy officers
to do, and many were detached on shore
leave for years. The navy went down hill
and some of the officers deteriorated with
it.
p Not so with MoCalla. He had an oppor-
tunity to show the stuff hat was in him in
1885, when the United States hadto seize the
Isthmus Of Panama to keep commerce
open. He had charge Of 5000 bluejackets
there at hat time, and he kept the trains
moving. He also 30 kept down the death
rate from fever among his men as to cause
tbs French Government to inquire how it
Was done.
Then came more stagnation, and with it
came McCalla's blight. He was in COM
mand OF the sloop Enterprise on the Asiatic
station, in May, 1890, when an enlisted man,
who was drunk, was brought before the
mast and reprimanded by the commander.
In bis rage he cursed MeCalla, andthe latter
lost control Of himself and struck the man
with his sword. --,s
McCalla was denounced from one end Of
the country to the other. He was court
martialled and sentenced to dismissal from
the navy, In view OF his record, faithful
and excellent up to that time the sentence
was mitigated to three years suspension
and a heavy loss Of numbers. In a year and