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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21
A Woman Tells How TO Relieve Rheu.
matte Pains.

matte Pains.
have been great sufferer from the
dreadful disease. rheumatism. for a
number Of years. I have tried many
medicines but never got much relief
from any Of them until two years ago.
wnen / bought bottle OF Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. found relief be-
fore had used all Of one bottle. but
kept on applying It and soon felt
like different woman. Through my
advice many OF my friends have tried
1t and can tell you how wonderfully II
has worked.--Mrs Sarah A. Cole 140
S. New st., Dover. Del. Chamberlain's
Pain Balm Is linlment. The relief
from pain which II affords Is alone
worth many times the cost !: makes
rest and sleep possible. For sale by
frank Hart and all leading druggists.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

The soldiers are all In unanimity for
peace, but as we go to press the dele
gates to the conference were still vain
ly trying to persuade some of the
preachers to stop their war talk and
get into line.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Russia declines to agree to the pro-
posal OF an American syndicate 10
build tunnel under Bering strait,
so as to give continuous land pas
sage from America to Asia and Eu-
rope. This measure can wait until
freight congestion at home is re-
lieved.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Instead OF burning so much mid
night electricity In an effort to make
graphophones cheaper Wizard Edison
could enhance his fame by inventing
an attachment that would render the
price prohibitive.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

In the city OF Dalny. turned over by
the Russions who built II to Japan.
census shows a population Of $4,000,
all Japanese or Chinese except 90.
The open door Is not working there
practically to any extent.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

The semi-mysterious discussion con-
cerning the Diedrichs affair in the
Philippines should be held over for
somebody's memoirs. We all know
what Dewey did and that he did It
we'll.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21
MUNICIPAL ARTERIES.

Electric street car lines are the mod
ern municipal arteries that serve the
system with the blood of energetic
expansion; that reach out and vi
vify the extremities and utter bound
aries of the city and bring into con-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Many legislators in Missouri go
softly on the subject Of taxing dogs,
and they are usually the same who
tinker at a game law until It protects
nothing but reckless pot-hunters and
Illicit dealers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Seven hundre d members Of the
Wiener Naennergesang verein are
coming from Vienna to sing at Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Eerves him right!
Serves him quite right
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

If ex-Congressman Hearst and ex-
Congressman Bryan can't settle 1t
among themselves, they might leave
It to that celebrated denaturized Demo-
crat, John Temple Graves.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

A scientist says the full moon is IL
times as bright as when at the quar-
ter. 1t might have been guessed from
the initiation once proposed by moon
shine flnanciers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

A Yale professor has been lecturing
on "The Sniff Kiss In Ancient India"
This form of salute is little known,
but sounds as If it might not be free
from microbes.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Science has christened the green
wheat bug "toxopetra granium," and
the shooting bug will hereafter be
known as "dementia Americana"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Nineteen women have been elected
to the Finnish Parliament. The Car
thought he had Finland In subsection,
but found he was mistaken.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Nearly all OF US. including Thaw's
lawyers. see where we could have
made improvement In the case.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

Illinois viii build the ship canal be-
tween Chicago and ST. Louis II Uncle
Sam Is backward about II.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

smoothly. disturbed only at short in
teryals by the chug Of a new battle-
ship hitting the water.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

The Thaw jury was not quite talked
to death. II escaped with disability.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-04-21

The peace convention goes along
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
Cause of the Coal Famine.

The coal famine in the northwest
is another demonstration of how es
Sential the railroads.&c. great art
cries of commerce-are to our national
life. Without them our present scheme
of life could not exist They are part
of the very foundation of human exist
ence.
This merely emphasizes the abso-
lutte necessity of public control. No
man or body of men can be allowed
to manipulate these great institutions
for their personal ends. They are a
part of the life of the nation and must
be governed and conducted in the in
terests of the whole people, fairly and
impartially.
1t develops now that the coal famine
is largely caused by the fact that dur
ing the quiet season of the summer,
which should have been taken ad-
vantage of to send forward the requi-
site tonnage of fuel, the railroads and
the coal shippers were wrangling over
rates and let the precious time slip
by until the fall rush of traffic began
and glutted the highways of traffic I'M
til there were neither cars nor ship
ping facilities sufficient to handle the
business.
When it is beyond the power of the
managers of railroads to manipulate
rates and grant concessions or rebates
when the charges of freight are fixed
and all shippers know exactly what
they are to pay and that in no manner
can they be changed so as to give fav-
ors to any one. traffic will to a great
extent regulate itself. Then it will be-
come merely matter of facilities to
handle the business and railroad man.
ayers can be depended upon to pro-
vide these
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
Strongly Favors Army canteen.

| The resolutions faVoring the reStOra-
| ton of the army canteen for the sale
of beer and light wines to soldiers I'M
| der proper restrictions, unanimously
adopted by Advance tent, Independent
Order of Rechabites of Washington, per-
haps the Oldest temperance organiza-
ton in the world, have aroused great
interest in temperance circles. Many
members of this order are men who
have served in the army, know all
about the evil effects of excessive
drinking from personal experience, and
they realize that the abolition of the
canteen is responsible for the increase
of drunkenness among soldiers. I'm
der present conditions. the soldier
drinks at low resorts on the outskirts
of army posts. without any restriction
whatever With the canteen, as advo-
Gated by the Rechabites, he will drink
under government supervision and re-
strictions. under which overindulgence
is impossible.
In addition. the Rechabtes propose
that the government, in framing the
canteen law, should discriminate
strongly in favor of beer, which has a
very small percentage of alcohol and
light wines. 1t is believed that the
soldier will be satisfied with these bev-
erages obtained under favorable condi-
tions, and that he will be less likely to
indulge in vile and ardent liquors than
at present. This action of the Recha-
bites has the support of army officers
and military organizations. The s. m
iSh War veterans, at their recent con-
vention. unanimously directed its
legislative committee to press congress
for the restoration of the canteen. The
Rechabites maintain that by making it
possible for soldiers to obtain such
comparatively harmless liquors as beer
and light wines under government reg
ulations, the cause of true temperance
will be better upheld than by driving
them to low resorts beyond the govern
ment reservations
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The United States circuit court in
New York City the other morning look
ed as though the sons of Anak had in
vaded the country. Over dozen men
were there applying for naturalization
papers, and more than half of them
stood over 6 feet tall. The particular
giant of the lot was Edmund Fritscher,
an artist, born in Austria, who meas
ures feet 8 inches. The clerk of the
court suggested. after glancing at the
remarkable assemblage, that perhaps
they had come here to grow up with
the country"
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
WOMAN ATTACKS IDLE
SISTERS IN NEW BOOK
Declared They Are Maintained in Lux
ury at Expense of ToiIing
Children

New York, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Lydia X.
Commander has written a book enti-
tied THE American Idea, in which
she discusses frankly the American
woman and attacks those who would
prevent working women from becom-
ing mothers.
"A perfect womanhood," she says,
requires both work and motherhood.
The idle women now maintained
are supported at the expense of work
ing childhood. The wealth that might
be produced by women now unem-
ployed would care for and educate all
the miserable. toiling child slaves who
are growing into stunted and dwarfed
manhood and womanhood."
Mrs. Commander does not believe
that a woman should assume her hus-
bands name and declares the word
obey" has no place in the marriage
bond.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

New York Globe: The United States
is plainly the Santa Claus of the ma
tions. II is not an excessive estimate
to say that this Christmas" it has
distributed abroad in actual cash not
less than s1O,OOO,OOO. During one week
recently outgoing steamships carried in
money orders alone over S1,S00,000.
From a sentimental point of view this
is a pleasant attitude to find ones
country in-helping the poverty strick-
en- and down trodden peasantry of Eu-
rope from its superabundant store of
good things.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

We see in one dispatch that the in
terstate commerce commission has dis
covered that E. II. Hartman is master
of the huge railroad system of the
west. including the Union Pacific, the
Southern Pacific, the Illinois Central,
the Santa Fe, the Oregon Short line.
the Milwaukee and the Northwestern.
does what he pleases with the Balti-
more & Ohio and the New York Gen.
tral, and in another that Henry c.
Frick is in control of the Pennsylvania
Under these circumstances can the
people discover where they "get OF
at?''
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
Eight for Waterway.

| 81. LOUIS hepuDnc. L ne DOdTu Ol
engineers for rivers and harbors simply
tells us that fourteen feet through the
valley" will cost money. We have
known that all the time The Republic
had it in mind weeks ago when it sug-
gested a bond issue for the waterway
| if necessary The fact was prominent
| in the minds of the gentlemen who
have proposed that the bond issue be
made $500, 10000 to $1,0O0.000,0O0.
The cost of the main waterway from
| the lakes to the gulf will be much less
than the smaller of these sums, but,
cost what it may, the money must be
forthcoming. The commerce of the
valley badly needs this highway now.
The need will become more urgent
with every year of the great growth
and development going forward in this
part of the country.
No matter what the price, the water
way will be worth vastly more than it
will cost Reading between the lines
of what the board of engineers say, it
seems that they are less solicitous
about the cost of the work than they
are dDOul ulSlul CAlSNiheo AhOo VI
traffic
1t is even limited that opposition to
the waterway is powerfully felt in the
rivers and harbors committee through
influences which believe that the trend
of traffic is so decidedly east and west
that the time is not ripe to change it
abruptly to north and south.
If the board of engineers and the riv-
ers and harbors committee, which it
advises, are influenced by such consid
erations, they take upon themselves
powers which do mot belong to them in
opposing adequate western river i'm
provement. Their purpose is simply to
make the valley states tributary to an
other section instead of giving to them
the freedom of commerce which is
their right and which they mean to-
have.
After a special survey under the di-
rection of the war department it has
been ascertained that the 14-foot chan
mel from St Louis to Chicago can be
made for about $1,000, 900. 1t is not
the business of the board of engineers
for the rivers and harbors committee
to say that the commerce between the
two cities is not sufficient to justify
the expense.
The engineer corps of the army is
not composed of commercial experts.
If it were. they would know better than
to take the present traffic as the meas
ure of the traffic there would be if it
had the cheap and easy transportation
of 14-foot channel. The business in
terests of the Mississippi Valley realize
and urge the necessity of the 14-foot
channel They appreciate the expense
involved and the benefits to be gained |
Surely their judgment cannot be dis
regarded or their recommendation ig-
nored by the opinion of body of men
with the commercial needs |
of this great section.
With this report the real fight for
the adequate improvement of western |
and southwestern navigation is only |
beginning. Something may still bel
done before the end Of the present ses-
sion on congress. If not. the fight |
must be waged with redoubled vigor |
in the next congress and in the presi- |
Dental election of next year.
The valley states will have the Ia
foot waterway or know the reason
rhv
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald in
dulges the boast that Dubuque inn
provements for 1906 reached the enor
nous total of s1,O54,S50 and gives
the items to prove it The Argus has
shown that Rock Island improvements
during 1906, beat that record by nearly
half a million, and his been doing over
a million per annum for several years
back. Yet Rock Island has not half
the population of Dubuque. This is a
pretty good old town after all.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
IN FIELD OF LITERATURE
Lippincott's.-A happy New Year t.

Lippincott's.-A happy New Year t.
everybody in general and to Lippin
colts readers in particular.
BY way of helping to make good this
wish the initial number for 1907 is al
especially all-around, good, entertain
ing issue, full from cover to cover OF
the sort of reading that people want
and this standard will be striven after
II times during the next II months
sometimes it will be surpassed.
The opening novelette, in January is
by Grace MacGowan Cooke: Love
Among Thieves" is a distinctly mod
ern story of love and mystery-social,
not professionalism it is written in
Mrs. Cookies most engagingly vivacious
style, in which the humorous abounds.
There are nine short stories in addi-
tion to the novel Buelah Marie Dix
contributes 'The Way of a Will" a
powerful "Glanby'' tale of woman s
pride and its consequences. The first
one of a series of humorous neighbor-
hood types by Marion Hill is called
''The Semi-Aquatic Benders." THE In
weighing of George" by Dorothea Dea-
kin, is an amusing episode of a blase
"Only SON. THE Soul of Mana Sa-
hib," by George Seibel. carries a thrill
in a mans uncanny experience with a
tiger-and his skin. Minna Thomas
Antrim writes an appealing story of
family life and frailty called Lost
Two Years" Bum O'Reillys Last
Chance" is another one of Lucy Cop
inger's funny stories of public school
life in our cities. These are being read
in public and widely quoted. A delight
fully pure and simple love story is
that by Eleanor Ecob entitled "The
Sapphire Ring" From Francis Lynde
there is a rafting good railroad right
of way story, 'The Dolomite Sweep
stakes in which the tender sentiment
is not forgotten. An amusing fishing
incident, 1.-The Monstrous Pickerel of
Gillettes Dam," is by Charles Newton
Hood.
The Tooth anniversary of General
Lees birth is noticed by Some Per
from the widow of General Pickett. in
cluding much really new material
'Imperio," a paper on travels in Spain,
by Maud Howe, possesses all the charm
for which the author is famous.
Verses of merit, and a satisfying
'Walnuts and Wine" department COM
Dlete the New Year number.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The government pays the cost of
inspection of meat products of the
big packing concerns, yet these COM
panies are making their inspection one
of the biggest advertising cards any
interest ever secured. 1t is worth to
the packers much more than the three
millions it costs the government year
Iy, and they ought to be made to pay.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The Los Angeles girl who can sing
in either the soprano or the baritone
registers, and who now wants to add
the basso profundo to her equipment
as a vocal trust, is in the class with
the monopolist in the old song, whose
hearts desire it was to be a whole
brass band.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
Wise Counsel from the South.

81 want to give some valuable ad-
vice to those who suffer with lame
back and kidney trouble" says J. r.
Blankenship, of Bee, Tenn. 81 have
proved to an absolute certainty that
Electric Bitters will positively cure
this distressing condition. The first
bottle gave me great relief and after
taking few more bottles, l was COM
pletely cured; so completely that it be-
comes a pleasure to recommend this
great remedy" Sold under guarantee
at W. F. Hartz's drug store. Price Soc
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
, hatch of congressmen have

A batch of congressman have gone
to Panama on junket to see if they
can see what the president saw. Other
junkets, of course, will be necessary to
confirm the findings of this one. Now
is the time to visit the climes where
perpetual summer reigns. The people
pay the bills.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

easy, or corrupt administrative officials
need no excuses for inefficiency or
favoritism as long as they can persuade
the people that it is the laws that
are to blame and that new ones must
be had
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

Many people are led to believe
that the only remedy for the ills they
now suffer from is to enact and en-
force more laws, yet there is hardly a
single evil that affects the country
today. that could not be amcliora-
ted by a fearless, impartial en-
forcement of existing law. Careless,
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
The Riuht Name,

August Sherpe, the popular overseer
of the poor, at Fort Madison, Iowa,
says: "Dr Kings New Life Pills are
rightly named; they act more agreeab-
ly, do more good and make one feel
better than any other laxative" Guar
anteed to cure biliousness and consti-
patton. 25c at w. F. Hartz's drug
store
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The interstate commerce commits
sion has unearthed the despotic power
of E. II. Hartman, the railroad mon
arch-but what will it do about it?
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

The Michigan legislature which open
ed yesterday is to elect a successor to
Senator Alger and several millionaires
are in the running. Business ought to
be good in Lansing this season.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
THE ARGUS

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island, III. IEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

Miner Hicks. under the ground. was
more of a curiosity than Actor Hicks
on terra firma.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

If Vice President Fairbanks contin.
ues in the race he will corner the rain
bow market
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

should have railroad collisions instead
of big ships
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

Get more tracks in the west end
and make way not only for more fac
tories, but more railroads.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
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Saturday, Jan. 5, 1907.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-07-27

president will be glad to see them at
such and such an hour on the day
mentioned"
The president has telephone in his
house, but If you, Mr.. Citizen, had
something in your mind that you
thought the nations chief ought to
know about at once, you couldn't go
into the nearest pay booth and call
him up. The telephone exchange girls
at. Oyster Bay have strict rule on
that All persons, from cabinet rank
down who call for Mr.. Roosevelt's
number are switched over to Mr..
Loeb. II it's all right, Mr.. Loeb says
so, and you get" the president. II
Mr.. Loeb doesn't know you he asks
you your business and probably ad-
vises you to put 1t into writing, for
Mr.. Loeb is methodical and careful
secretary. l..
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-07-27

house. These ofices are connected
by direct wire with the executive OF.
fees adjoining the White House at
Washington. The clerks Mt the capL
tai are therefore In as close touch
with their immediate chief, Mr.. Loeb.
as IL he were in his own ONCE there
Mr.. Loeb. in turn, II In constant touch
with the president. The whole ar
raugemen. works out In the same
manner as i; the capital and all the
departments had been moved from
Washington to Oyster Bay.
One difference is that the president
never visits the executive ofices IN
oyster Bay. Whatever business re-
quires to be brought to his attention
is taken up by Secretary Loeb to Sag
amore Hill. Mr.. Loeb goes to tbs
president in the forenoon about IL
o'clock, after he has gone through the
mail and sorted out from 1t the letters
and Official papers which need to pass
under the executive eye or hand. Some
days Mr.. Loeb gets back to the village
in time to put in an hours work be-
fore luncheon. More often his lunch
con has to wait an hour for him.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-07-27
LOEB DECIDES WHO CAN
SEE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
1 LARGE part of Mr.. Loeb's bust

A LARGE part of Mr.. Loeb's busi-
"a ness in summer is deciding who's
who" in the matter of requests for per-
sonal interviews with the president.
Few persons are allowed to go up to
Sycamore Hill and ring the door bell.
OF course, cabinet officers, senators
and few representatives would be
permitted, If they chose to arrive in
Oyster Bay unannounced, to drive up
to the presidential door and send their
cards to Mr.. Roosevelt. But these
privileged men are the very ones who
would never think Of doing so. All
visiting statesmen write or telegraph
beforehand. asking whether 1t will be
convenient for the president to see
them on a given day. The query and
the answer pass through Loeb's hands.
He writes these gentlemen that the