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He Placed an Order,

A small, sharp faced boy, one Of
whose eyelids had an inclination to
droop In a chronic wink, entered a
tailor shop in upper Broadway, ap-
preached the proprietor and silently
handed him button. The tailor took
it and looked puzzled.
"What's this for?" he asked. II
don't want it. I've got plenty of but
TONS"
"Dat's all right" said the youngster.
But yer want business, don't yerY'
Eyes,"
"Well, just sew a pair O. pants on
dat button"
The small boy was half way up the
block before the tailor reached the
doOr.-NeW York Globe.
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CRITICIsEs CoRTELYoU.
Increase In Interest Bearing Debt Not
yustifable.


Galesburg, ILL.,, Nov. 2 Congress-
man George Prince, member of the
house committee on banking and cur
rency, in speaking of the issuance Of
Panama bonds and debt certificates,
said:
1--WE owe $9OO,OOO,0O0 of interest
bearing debts. We have today in the
hands Of national banks and drawing
no interest for the government $780,
100000.
"The present policy of the secre-
tary of the treasury is to all intents
in times of peace adding to the inter
est bearing debt of the people $3.50,
100000. 1t is not justifable under
existing circumstances. I think that
the $50,0O0,O00 needed for the con-
struction of the Panama canal should
be taken out of the S240,O0O,00O in the
banks and not be raised by bond is
sue. AS to the other S100,000,000,
which is proposed to be raised by
debt certificates, I do not approve Of
the plan at all. First, because the
money is worth to per cent inter
est and no one is going to buy gov
eminent notes that draw but per
cent interest. Second, because the
purpose of the 8 per cent note is to
realize money from the sale of these
certificates, the money arising from
the sale to be deposited in the ma
tional banks. What does this mean?
1t means, if understand it correctly,
that the people are to borrow $780,
100000 and pay 8, per cent on it and
hand it over to the national banks to
be by them loaned, without dollars
cost to them, to the people at the
rate of to 10 per cent, according to
the rate where the banks are located
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SEEM VERY POPULAR.
Indications That New Bond Issues
Will Be OyersubScribed.
CRITICISM OF coR1ELYou
Congressman Prince of Illinois De-
clares That the secretary's Action
In Increasing the Bonded Indebted.
mesa Is Wholly UnjustifiabIe.

r.
Washington, Nov. 2 Treasury ot11.
Gals are highly gratified at the large
number Of letters and kilograms re-
ceived from all sections commencing
the secretary's action with respect to
the issue of government certificates Of
Indebtedness and Panama bonds.
Many kilograms have been received
applying for participation in the dis
tribution of the certificates and ask
Ing for details and requirements of
the bond issue Both issues, judging
from present indications, will, it is
said, become very popular and the
subscriptions, In the judgment Of the
officials, will far exceed the total to
be disposed Of The determination of
the secretary to receive registered
certificates as a basis for circulation
as we'll as for government deposits is
highly commended and no doubt is
expressed that this additional quality
given to the certificates will greatly
stimulate public demand. New York
city banks have signifed purpose to
Increase their present circulation by
over $25,000,000 and this fact is most
favOrably commented upon.
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MEETS IN OKLAHOMA.
Annual Session Of Transmississippl
Commercial Congress.

Annual Session Of Transmississippl
Commercial Congress.
Muskogee, Okla, Nov. The
eighteenth annual session of the
Transmississippi Commercial congress
was begun here. The delegates
listened to addresses Of welcome and
effected organization for the transac-
ton of business.
Matters of vast Importance to the
West are to be taken up, including
parcels post, deepening of the water
ways, sale Of public lands, irrigation
and drainage of submerged lands.
Former Governor Francis of Mis-.
souri, welcomed Oklahoma into the I'm.
lon. Chief Maty Tiger of the Creek
Nation ,livered an address of well
come t. the congress and spoke
against the removal Of restrictions
from the lands of the Five Civilized
tribes.
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Work, Mrs. Batonyi's father, whom he
charged with alternating the affections
OF his wife. Another suit, he said,
had been brought against Mr. Work,
also for alternating the affections Of
Mrs. Batonyi, and the third, in which
the charge is conspiracy to separate
him and his wife, had been brought
Jointly against Frank Work, J. H.
Work, Mr.. Sturgis and Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, the latter Mrs.
Batonyi's sister. These suits, Mr.. Ba-
tonyi said, had been entered in New
York.
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Two Brothers Are Drowned.

Appleton, Mimi, Nov. THE two
sons Of David Johnson, farmer liv-
Ing in Hegbert, north Of this place,
were drowned in Artichoke lake while
skating. The boys We're eighteen and
fifteen years Of age and skated out to
get some ducks they had shot and
ventured too far out on thin Ice. The
father is bedridden and the boys were
the mainstay of the family.
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AFFECTS TWO ARTICLES.
Commercial Treaty Between Great
Britain and United States.

London, Nov 2 "A, commercial
convention between Great Britain and
the United States was signed at the
foreign Office here by Foreign Secre-
tary Grey and Ambassador Whitelaw
Reid, under which British works Of
art will henceforth be admitted to the
United States at one-quarter less than
the present duty. In return Amer
lean commercial travellers samples
will be admitted free at British ports.
It is thought that the latter will tend
to stimulate United States exports to
Great Britain.
In future the duty on works of art
will be only Is per cent.
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NOT SUMMONED HOME.
Governor Post of Porto Rico Denies
Published Report.


New York, Nov. Governor Re
gis H. Post of Porto Rico, who has
arrived here on the steamer Philadel-
phia from San Juan, denied that he
has been summoned to Washington
by the president to explain certain
charges concerning his administration.
ct is not true that I was sum-
moned to Washington to answer these
charges" said Governor Post. ''I came
home to report on affairs in the island
and while in Washington expect to
take up these charges. The fact is a
short time ago nasty newspaper
article was published in Porto Rico
and am going to Washington to ex-
plain about it. cannot say anything
about the matter at this time.'
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Nearing tn. $75,ooo,ooo Mark.

New York, Nov. 2 Engagements
Of gold abroad for Importation to re-
lieve the financial stringency in the
United States are nearing a total of
SIS 100000. Heidelbach, Ickelheimer
& Co. and the Guaranty Trust COM
pany, both Of whom already have
made large engagements since the
present movement began, announced
that they had concluded negotiations
the former for an additional $1,000
600 and the latter for 100000.
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An Illustration.

Little Harry-Pa, what's q foregone
conclusion? Pa-Anything that's sure
to follow something else. To give you
an Illustration, If were to lock the
drawer of my desk it wouldn't be
twenty minutes before your mother
would break it open for the purpose Of
finding out what was trying to con.
ceal.-Cleveland Leader.
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Receiver for smeltino Companies.

Trenton, N. j.. Nov. . Judge Ian
ming, in the United States court, has
announced the appointment of j. Kear-
ney Rice Of New Brunswick as re-
ceiver for the Arizona Smelling COM
pany and the Consolidated Arizona
Smelling company. Application for
the appointment of receiver for
these companies was made about q
week ago.
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premier, therefore, Is gang abroad
almost Immediately. He has not been
the same man since his wife died last
Year and his recent acute attack OF
heart trouble at Bristol was a signal
that his political activities had been
OYertaXing his strength.
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ASKS S1,5oo,ooo DAMAGES
AureI Batonyl Places High Value on
Wife's Affections.

Newport, R. l., Nov. 2L-Stating
that he had brought three suits, each
of 100000, against those whom he
charged with alternating the affections
Of his wife, formerly Mrs. Burke.
Roche, and also with conspiracy
against him, Aurel Batonyi made a
Aging visit to Newport He said also
that he had come to seek an interview
with Mrs. Batonyi, but that in this he
had been unsuccessful.
Mr.. Batonyi said that he had
brought one suit against Frank K.
Sturgis, former partner Of Frank
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Reduction in Workinu Force,

Newark, N. j., Nov. 2I--Notice that
their services would not be required
until further orders has been received
by 900 employees of the International
pump works at Harrison, N. J. No
reason for the reduction Of the work.
Ing force was given.
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Suspended Bank to Resume.

New York, Nov. As evidence of
the marked improvement in the finan-
oial situation in this city came the
announcement that the Twelfth Ward
bank, one Of the institutions which
suspended payment during the early
days Of the crisis, will reopen for busis
ness at once. The announcement was
made in the form Of brief notice
posted on the door of the bank.
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BELIEVE CRISIS is OVER.
Cabinet Meeting One of Rejoicing and
Generalization.

SOnGfaCulatlon.
Washington, Nov Information
from the cabinet meeting indicates
that the session was largely one of
rejoicing and congratulation on the
success Of the administration fnan-
cial relief measures. A large number
Of messages of approval have arrived
and continue to reach the White
House and Secretary Cortelyou report
ed a lively business in applications
for the new certificates of indebted
ness and the receipt of many bids for
the Panama bonds.
No authorized statement was made
as a result of the session, although
the matter of making public the mes
sages of approval Of the presidents
course Is under consideration.
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The Burqlar.

A burglar was one night engaged in
the pleasing occupation Of slowing a
good haul Of swag in his bag when he
was startled by touch upon his Shout
der, and, turning his head, he beheld
a venerable. mild eyed clergyman gaz-
Ing sadly at him.
"Oh, my brother" groaned the rev:
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NEEDS CHANGE AND REST
British Premier to Leave England for
Some Weeks.

London, Nov. Z Sir Thomas Bar
low, physician to King Edwards
household, made an examination Of
the premier, Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman, and an official announce
ment Was subsequently issued to the
effect that the patients condition was
satisfactory, but that in view of the
approaching session of parliament it
Is necessary that he should have some
weeks complete change and rest. The
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" A n | :
ONE CENT A WORD.
HELP WANTED.

FOR u. S. ARMY: Able
bodied unmarried men, between
ages of Fl and IS; citizens of
United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read, and write English
For information apply to Recruit
ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji
MINI.
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WANTED: For the U. S. Marine
Corps; men between ages FL and
IS. An opportunity to see the
world. For full information apply
in person or by letter to Marine
Recruiting Station, Armstrong
Hotel, Bemidji, MINI.
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FOR SALE: A solid section of
best farming land in Beltrami
county at sacrifice. Address
315 Minnesota Avenue.
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Prohibition in. Alabama.

Montgomery, Ala, Nov. 2,.-The
senate has passed the prohibition bill,
81 to 2. The law becomes effective
Jan. l, 1909. It has already passed
the lower house.
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Upholds $1,000 Saloon Tax.

Columbus, O., Nov. 2i.-The state
supreme court has held the Aiken law.
imposing a tax of $1,000 on saloons in
the state, valid. The decision was
given in the case Of Bernard Wrede,
Cincinnati saloonkeeper, VS.. G. G.
Richardson, charged with the colleo.
ton of the saloon tax. All the acts Of
the last session of the legislature
whose validity were questioned by the
illness Of Governor Pattison are Incl
dentally upheld by the decision.
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FOR SALE-Rubber stamps. The
Pioneer will procure any kind of a
rubber stamp for you an short
notice.
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WANTED: Competent girlfor gen
eral housework. Inquire of Mrs.
R. H. Schumacher, sos Bemidii
Ave.
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WANTED: Three boys to sell
Saturday Evening Post. At Peter
sons.
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FOR SALE-Magnifcent moose
head mounted; will be sold cheap.
Inquire at this office.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE: $4,000 buys good
restaurant property in city. Cen
trally located. For particulars
address Box 5O7, Bemidji MINI.
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FOR RENT: Furnished room,
with or without board. Cpl Min
neSota Ave.
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FOR SALE-Ten head of work
horses at my barn, rear of Post
office. S. B. Hayth.
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Fate leads the willing, but drives the
stubborn. French Proverb.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT: Newly furnished
rooms. Modern conveniences
and excellent location. 700 Be-
midi Ave-, or apply at Peterson's
fruit store.
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FOR Rents room house, SIG
Beltrami Ave. Apply to ]. Glib
bons.
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HOUSE FOR RENT, No. 113
Ninth street. ]. H. Deniston.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11

ana tnat, too. from nearing 1t but
twice.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Pas
Neihuhr and Macaulay all were men
of marvellous memories. Almost from
childhood Mirandola was noted for his
extraordinary memory. He studied
canon law at Bologna and then went
to Ferrara, where he mastered theol-
ogy and the different systems of phi
losophy and became proficient in Lat
in, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee and Ara
bic. The wide range of his learning is
best Illustrated in the 900 theses he
proposed as subjects OF controversy at
Rome in 1856. Pascal says he never
forgot anything lie read. Ben Jon
son tells Us that he could repeat all he
had ever written and whole books"
that he had read. The same feat, too,
is credited to Niebuhr, the historian.
1t is also told of Neibuhr that in his
youth while employed in one of the
public offices of Denmark he was able
through his memory alone to complete
ly restore book of accounts that had
been partly destroyed. Leibntz. like
Euler. is said to have been able to re-
peat the whole of the "Aeneid."
The many stories told of AIacaulay's
almost portentous memory have been
related too often to bear repetition.
Not a few of them are on seemingly
certain authority. William II. Pres
colt, who met Macaulay about 1850
has told us some interesting things of
his memory. L shall mention but one
This was related to Prescott by Henry
Hallam, who said that Lord Jeffrey
had once told him that. having tripped
up Macaulay in a quotation from Par
adise Lost two days after Macaulay
came TO him and said, You will not
catch me again in the "Paradise."' at
which Jeffrey opened the volume and
took him up in Il great many passages
at random, in all Of which he went on
correctly repeating the original Was
1t not miraculous tour d'esprit? Ma
caulay does not hesitate to say now
that he thinks he could restore the first
six or seven books of the Paradise in
case they were lost
There can be no doubt of the truth
of this and many of the other stories
told of Macaulay's memory. He was
Il man of splendid talents. His knowl-
edge of English history was unsur-
passed by his contemporaries
William Perrin in New York Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11
ASCARRIED PAST
Jumping From Train at End OF
Bridge. Agon Won Koeckritz
is Fatally Injured.
ACCIDENT ON THE ARSENAL
Skull is Fractured When Davenport
Man, Former Resident Here,
Goes Down Embankment.

AgOn Won KoeckritZ of Davenport, a
former resident OF this city and
brother of Horst Won KoeckritZ of Chi
cago. formerly engaged in the drug
business here, was fatally injured LAST
evening about $50, when he jumped
from a Rock Island passenger train at
the south end Of the Rock Island bridge.
Mr.. Won Koeckritz. who was travel
ing salesman for a Davenport drug
house. had been in Muscatine and Du-
rant yesterday afternoon. and was re
turning home on the evening train due
here at 6 O'Clock. The train was late
and did not reach Davenport unYl
about $50. and it is supposed that Mn
Won Koeckritz had fallen asleep. ana
did not awake and learn that he had
been carried past Davenport until the
train was on the bridge
skull Was Fractured.
In jumping from the train TO the en-
bankment at the south end of the
bridge. he sustained severe bruises. and
n severe fracture of the skull. He was
removed in the Rock Island city am
buIance TO St. Luke's hospital in Dav-
export. where he died of his injuries
about IL o'clock last evening.
Mr.. Won KoeckTitz and his wife. who
survives him. resided at Third and
Gaines streets, Davenport.
He is survived by two brothers.
Horst Won Koeckritz. and w. C. Won
KOeckritz. formely proprietor of the
Walker house in Davenport, now resid-
ing in Texas.
brother Killed Bridge.
There is something of a coincidence
in the fact that Mr.. Won Koeckritz's
brother. John Won KOeckritz. was kill
ed in a street car accident on the
bridge some - years ago. not far from
the scene of the accident of last eve
ming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11
HITS AT RAIL WAY
Governor Deneen's Message on
Illinois Central is
Read.
DISCUSSES BACK TAXES
Arbitrary Rulings of Company Have
Deprived State of Revenue,
He Says.

Springfield. H., Jan. lin n spec
ial message to the legislature yester-
day Governor Deneen makes a start
ling arraignment of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad company. charging it
with illegal and dishonest practises in
fulfilling its charter obligations to the
state.
The governor asks for an extraordi-
nary appropriation of $150,000 to ena-
BILE him to push to a definite conclu-
sion suit to be started by the attor-
'ney general within the next six days
The law suit is made necessary by
the attitude of +. II. Hartman Start
ing out with the assertion that the
Illinois Central would pay every cent
which it owed the state. he finally of
fered to pay some of the claims if
others We're dropped. Governor De-
neen on his part, proposed that the
company pay the claims which it adj
mitted were just and submit the others
to a lawsuit. Hartman refused. and
now the entire matter will have to be
fought out in the courts
The total amount of the states claim
as it now stands. is believed to be $4.
100000. and the examination of the
cOmpany's passenger and express ac-
counts is not yet completed. The final
totals may present substantial in
crease over this amount.
Some of Governors Charges.
Governor Deneen. in his message.
declares that the incomplete eXamina-
ton of the expert auditors employed
by him has revealed the fact that the
Illinois Central has made arbitrary
rulings which deprived the state of
revenue. has withheld various items of
income from its statement of gross re-
ceipts on which compensation is to be
paid. and has adopted various policies
calculated to give the state as little
and the company as much as possible.
In one or two instances a specific
statement of the loss sustained by the
state is made. but these are not the
most important items. The section
treating of the Dubuque bridge arbi-
trary allows the inference that the
state has lost in the neighborhOod of
500, 900 because of the practice which
the company inaugurated in 1900 de-
Quoting cents per hundred pounds
from earnings of all freight crossing
the bridge
The Cairo bridge arbitrary, which
deducts % cents for each passenger
and cents per hundred pounds for all
freight carried over that bridge. is
said to have cost the state at least
$4,000 a year.
The fact that the company makes no
return on its investments is said 70
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11
YOUR OWN FACE.
Would You Recognize 1t if You Saw It
on Another?


How curious it is said the philos-
ophcr, that the person for whom you
care most on earth, the one you see
oftcnest and who receives your most
constant attention, is the one whose
cOuntenance is least familiar to you"
who is that?" asked the visitor.
Yourself" said the philosopher. at
is a fact that if people could be dupli
Gated and could meet themselves in the
street very few would recognize them
selves. We look at ourselves many
times during the 800 days of the year.
We say our eyes are blue or brown or
whatever other color they may be. our
hair black, our chin peaked, our fore
head high. We know every lineament
of our face from constant study and
attention, yet when we turn away
from the mirror we cannot conjure up
Il picture of ourselves
I'VE know just how our friends and
even acquaintances look. In fancy we
can see them sitting so or standing so.
and their varying expressions under
different circumstances are clear to us
even though we may not have seen
tleill iOI years. DUl WHICH IL COMES 10
ourselves we cannot fill in even the
outlines Of the picture. We may laugh.
we may cry. we may frown. but we do
not know how we look while we are
doing it. Photographs do not help us.
We have never seen ourselves in the
flesh. Mirrors and pictures are poor
aids when we sit down and try 10 see
ourselves with the minds eye.
THAT is why people are 50 deeply
interested in anybody who is said to
resemble them. Just say to Il man.
L know somebody who is the dead i'm
age of YOU and he will never rest till
he sees that person. Then if the like
ness is really true he will own that
up to that time he had had no concep-
ton of how he really looked
The visitor smiled wanly.
Il wish you wouldn't talk like that
she said. 1T makes me feel positively
uncanny."-New York Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11
The Soft ANSWER

Johnny" said the stern parent, my
father used to whip me when 1 be-
haved at the table as badly as you are
DOING
We'll" rejoined the precocious
youngster. 81 hope I'll never have to
make a confession like that to my little
News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-11
Cain For Congressiona1 Hccords.

Representative Watkins of Louisiana
thinks he has about the most incon-
sistent constituent imaginable. says a
Washington correspondent of the New
York World. He sent him a full quota
of garden seeds and received this letter
In reply: Il received the seeds, but
they are no good. Send me set of
Congressional Records. They amuse
the children and make bully lamp
lighters"
Bury your grudgcs without any ~
News.