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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02

after as means OF exercising the
property instinct of the American peo-
pie 4 corporation which subServes
this purpose honestly and fairly. doing
it's duty by the public and the investor.
is doing n public service. If it uses
quick rich methodist care not wheth-
err it is gentlemen's club or a swim
dlers' scheme-it is a menace and
disgrace. l have been engaged for
five or six years trying to eXtricate
the victims of such i corporation.
THE remedy is for the state of ILL
nois locally and the United States Of
part from their indifference and lay
the foundations for corporate struc-
lures that will exercise the truSteeShip
| they ought to exercise. If our state
permits a corporation to swindle thou
sands of investors by financial legerde-
| main and false reports you and | are
not absolved from blame by having
had no personal part in the fraud.
"Why is it that the state of Illinois
permits corporations to pay unearned
dividends? Thus was traction stock
| raised from 80 TO par and double par
and higher while nothing was spent
for maintenance. The men on the in
side pocketei the proceeds and left the
investors to hold the bng.
| There is no reason why a corpora
ton should not be compelled to estab-
fish before Il competent tribunal that
dividends have been earned before it
is allowed to pay them.
What | ask is that the corporation
shall become a medium through which
the instinct of mankind for independ
ence can work itself out. The Ameri
can people are not afraid of ordinary
business risks. They demand an eff
Gent inStrumentaiity through which tC
work out their instinct to be men
among men,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02

brawny black arms seized him around
the body and for the space of ten sec
onds the breath was almost squeezed
out OF him. Looking up. he beheld his
protege, who had grown to manhood
and the proportions of a giant. The
heartiest greeting followed. after which
Coronto said:
DO you remember that picture you
gave me? Well. my father. the king.
fell in love with it. OF course it was
your goodness TO his son that i'm
pressed him. He has put it on throne
in our largest hut. which my people
| use as temple. and has commanded
his subjects to worship it. He told
them that it was an American god
who had saved his sons life. And cy-
erybody worships it. No one dares to
disobey my father. for he would in
stantly kill him.
Mr.. Ford was duly impressed and
| asked Coronto how he had been spend.
| ing his time in Zuuland. The young
| chieftain replied that during the Boei
war he had acted as guide and inter.
| prefer for English generals and since
| the cessation of hoStilities had endeav
ored to teach his people something OF
American manners, for in Zulu fam
lily all eat out of one pot. which is
never washed. and use their fingers tt
handle the food. Moreover. men. WON
Ell and children sleep in one ROOM
II tried to teach them manners" sale
Coronto. and started n school for thu
purpose. But the work was slow
The girls insisted on attending with
out clothing in warm weather. How
ever. they learned quickly, and | sool
found that they knew as much as tn,
teacher. So have come to Americ,
to obtain an education. after which
| will go back to ZuIuland and teacl
my people"
Coronto is now in the south, wher
he expects to enter one OF the negr
colleges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
WON STATE TITLE
Moline Football Warriors Pit
the Skidoo Sign on Rock
ford High School.
ouTPLAY NORTHERN CHAMPS
Pillow City Enthusiasts Wild with Joy
Now Want Western Citys
Scalp for Holidays.

By that hated figure, %. Moline
snatched from Rockford the laurels for
this years football championship
among Illinois high schools Saturday,
and Rockford failed to tally point.
The upstate team was Outplayed, and
did not have a look in. Naturally the
defeat had bitter taste for Rockford,
whose supporters had been so conf
dent of winning that it had boldly and
with a patronizing manner laughed at
Moline for even daring to ask that II
be given a chance at the state title
But Rockford people are true sports
and are frank in designating Moline
as the best and fastest high school
football team in the entire west. And
experienced judges hesitate to deny
the declaration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
AMERICAN AS A GOD.
Why South Africans Worship Harry
Prinqe Ford.

Many Americans admire titles, bat
few have enjoyed the distinction of
being worshiped as a deity. says tie
Philadelphia Public Ledger. Harry
Pringle Ford. an elder in the Holland
Memorial Presbyterian church of Phil
adelphia, is probably the only eXcep-
ton. for Mr.. Ford or. rather, his pho
tograph. is being worshiped today by
thousands of stalwart ebony skinned
natives in the mountains of the Matl-
belle country, in South Africa. as "au
American god"
Philanthropy won for the Presbytc.
rian elder this remarkable distinction
Fourteen years ago he befriended a
Zulu boy who had been persuaded to
come to America to obtain an educa.
ton. but who was used as an "attrac.
ton" on the Midway Plaisance of the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
Later the boy. Hosana Coronto by
name. was abandoned by his manager
and it was then that Mr. Ford rescued
him from wretchedness. The friend
less boy was the son of Coronto, des
potic monarch in the Zulu country
whose wives numbered more than
twenty and whose authority had nc
restrictions. Men die in Zululand at q
nod of this potentate's head.
When Coronto was sent back to his
native land. with his expenses paid by
the generosity of American friends
whose sympathies Mr.. Ford enlisted.
he carried with him a photograph of
his benefactor. What happened to
that picture IN Zululand was told a
few days ago by Coronto himself when
he visited the headquarters of the
board of publication and Sabbath
school work in the Witherspoon build.
Ing at Philadelphia. Mr.. Ford. who
! is connected with the board. was sit.
ting at his desk when suddenly two
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
All Britain il Interested.
IN FAVOR OF SEVEN
FOOTBALL GAMES
Western Conference Authorities al
Chicago Meeting Refer Question
to the Colleges.

Chicago. Dec. 2-The western in.
tercollegiate athletic conference Satur-
day failed to vote formally upon the
propositions to increase the football
schedule of the big eight colleges
to seven games and to resume ath,
letic relations with the University oil
Michigan. Delegates TO the meeting
however, stated both plans were ia
vored in the discussion and that for
nal action adopting them will be
taken Jan. 4, to which date the meet
ing adjourned. Meanwhile the admin
Iistrative authorities of the various uni
versities will be asked to consider The
propositions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
PERIL TO The NATION.
Grosscup Wants Corporate Rule OF
Peoples Wealth Checked.

Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the Unit
ed States circuit court in n recent ad,
dress before the Irish Fellowship club
in Chicago declared for state and fed
eral control of corporation dividends
says the Chicago Record-Herald. His
talk was hinged upon the present mon
ey stringency, which. he said. could
not be explained by lack of money.
He asserted that corporate control of
the peoples wealth constitutes a dan
ger to the country if permitted to 50
on.
Judge Grosscup said in part:
I'VE are in the midst of a most
phenomenal national development. We
have a greater circulation of money
per capita than ever before. Yet we
are told it is not large enough. Higher
wages are being paid. wOrkingmen are
more skilled. industry and commerce
and our capacity for consuming prod,
ucts are larger than ever was the case
in the worlds history. Our crops for
the last seven or eight years have
been phenomenal Never before has
there been so great a foreign demand
for American products. Yet with all
these elements of prosperity in our
favor we find business for the moment
in state of paralysis.
1--WE are like man stepping sud
denly from bright sunshine into a mist
Our banks are sound: our industries
are sound; our productivity is sound
we are hopeful and expectant. Some
say there is not enough currency in the
country. l cannot see how, if there
was enough ten days ago, there is not
enough now.
America is going through a trans
formation. We have come in the last
twenty years to place where we are
bound to pause and readjust ourselves
to new conditions. Twenty years ago
the people of the United States had
invested in Industries through the
banks less than s2,OO0,OOO,O OF the
peoples wealth there Is loaned to bor-
rowers from the banks now a sum five
or ten times larger in proportion.
Thirty years ago the countrys in
dustries belonged to the men conduct
ing them. Now the ninety and nine
furnish the bone and sinew of the en-
terprise controlled by the one. This
is dangerous condition if permitted
to go on uncontrolled. Unless we think
more deeply and carefully than some
of our political leaders there is trou'
bic ahead for the nation.
The corporation has not been looked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Swapping Turtles For Terrapi,.

The Italians who live in the towns
along the Connecticut valley are reap
ing harvest catching young swapping
turtles. which they sell to marketmen
for the New York hotel and restaurant
trade for terrapin, the taste of which
they closely resemble, says a Water
bury Conn, dispatch to the New York
Tribune. This season of the year the
snapper lies concealed in mud below
the frost line and may easily be caught.
The turtle, unlike other creatures that
hibernate. becomes fat. juicy and fine
favored and is in fine condition in late
fall.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Odd Way to Paw Election Bet,

John Mcintosh, u prominent politi-
elan of Rome. y. Y, made a wager on
the election for mayor. the loser TO ride
horseback from Rome to Chicago, q
distance of GOO miles. says dispatch
from Utica to the New York American.
Mcintosh lost the bet. He has pur-
chased Il horse and saddle. He is to
blow Il bugle to announce his arrival
at each place. He promises faithfully
to carry out his contract
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02

Public Printer Stillings has appoint
ed Garfield Larkins and w j. Johnson
fly killers in his department. says a
Washington special to the New York
World. They have begun their labors
in Mr.. Stiliings' own palatial private
Office. Mr.. Stillings requires daily re-
port of the number of flies killed, and
the salaries of the killers will depend
upon the results.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
BANK UPON NOR.
British Sportsmen Periodically
Back Candidate for Worlds
Championship
IN GO WITH TOMMY BURNS
Two Men Meet in 2o-Round Fight at
London Tonight in Match of
Unusual Interest.

London, Dec. 2.-There is a general
feeling of satisfaction in English
sporting circles at the form shown by
Gunner" Moir the British champion
who meets Tommy Burns, the Amer
lean, for the heavyweight title of the
world before the National Sporting
club tonight.
Almost without exception the Eng.
lish sporting writers who have seen
the two men in training prefer the ex.
gunner of the English navy to the
American champion. Just how much
of that attitude is due to a patriotic
bias is difficult to say. Burns, with
his short body and handy legs. has i'm.
pressed most of the English sports as
tucked up" as they call it over there
but those who have seen his fast work
in training give unstinted praise.
First of Kind Ever Held.
1t will be the first international
glove contest ever held in England
for the title of champion heavyweight
pugilist of the world The men vii
box 90 rounds with five ounce gloves
for a purse of $4,000. of which $4,000
goes to the winner and $500 to the
loser. There is also side bet of 81,
600. Eugene c. Holborn, a member O
the London stock exchange and a wei
known boxing expert will be the
referee.
Al! Britain is Interested.
England has not had a world!
heavyweight champion for 81 years
and for that reason the belief Moir vii
score Il success has stirred up a grea
amount of interest not only in England
| but throughout Great Britain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Every Hearse Its Own Band.

A Berlin Germany woman has in
vented monograph for a funeral ma
chine. 1t is attached to hearse and
can be started by the driver as the
procession starts, the effect being that
of full band playing the dead march.
The invention has not yet been tested.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
New York Stocks,
New York, Dec. . Following ;
the quotations on the market today:

New York, Dec. q Following are
the quotations on the market today:
Gas 77k, L. p. HIS, u. S. Steel
preferred SIS. L. S. Steel common
261s. Reading 93%. Rock Island pre-
ferred Big, Rock Island common 14%
Southern Pacific 73%, n. Y. Central
977s, Missouri Pacific 501a. L. & \.
941a, Smelters 1873, c. F. l. IS, Can
adam Pacific 1929, Illinois Central
.124k, Penna 112B, Erie 1854, c. &,
o. 27a4, B. R. T. 36h, B. & o. S23s
Atchison 731s. Locomotive S61s. Sugar
1913. ST. Paul 102, Copper 52H, Re-
public Steel preferred 62%, Republic
Steel common 1612, Southern Ry. Is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Dec. 2-Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat.
December, 9GB, 81, 95ss, 95as.
May, 103, 1037s. 1921. 1929.
July, 9S34, 9Sk, 97A, 97A.
Corn.
December, 551s, 555s, 54a4, 547s.
May, 55&, soy, SOS, 55B.
July, 553s, 56H, 55h, 551a.
Oats.
December, 1864, 471a, 1865, 4Gk.
May, SOS, SIS, SOS, 81.
July, ass, 461a, 1878, 45B.
Pork.
January. 1867, 1915, 1865, 1865.
May, 1902, 1915, 1895, 1897.
Lard.
January, 7.65, III, 7.65, III.
May, 1862. III, 1862, 7,75.
Ribs.
January. G.S2 G.S7, CT, ESQ.
May, 6.92, 1902, $50, 6.92.
Receipts today: Wheat. II; corn,
1874; oats. 1913; hogs, $4,000; cattle,
$4,000; sheep, $4,000.
Estimated receipts Tuesday: Hogs,
10000
Hog market opened slow. Hogs
left over 1900. Light, $4.45@4.95;
mixed and butchers. s4.5O@5.05; good
heavy, S4.45@5.0O; rough heavy, S4.45
@46O.
Cattle market opened 10 cents
lower
Sheep market opened steady.
Omaha-Hogs, $500; cattle, 400.
Kansas City-Hogs, 1000; cattle, s.,
600.
Hog market closed strong 10 to %
cents higher. Light. Si.65G520;
good heavy, s465@5.25; mixed and
butchers, s4.7O@5.2O; rough heavy
$465@4S0.
| Cattle market closed 10 cents
lower. Beeves, s3.25@6.55; cows ant
lheifers. $1156470; stockers and feed
ers, s2.1O@415.
| Sheep market closed weak.
Northwestern receipts. Minneapoli:
To-day, 472; last week, 423; las
year, 6S3. Duluth-Today, 307; las
week, 534; last year, 2O4.
Liverpool opening cables-Wheat 3,
to y higher, corn Il higher
| Liverpool closed - Wheat II TO ;!
lower, corn unchanged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Barefooted Enthusiasts.

A barefoot brigade is trying to make
converts in Paris. Their chief is q
painter of some renown who believes
that going barefooted is absolutely es-
sential for the health. In his studio
he wears no foot covering of any kind,
and when he is out he wears specially
made boots which are perforated so
as to allow free access to the air, wa
ter and snow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
A Home Made Happy by Chamber
Iain's Cough Remedy.

About two months ago our baby girl
had measles which settled on her
lungs and at last resulted in a severe
attack of bronchitis. We had two doc
tors but no relief was obtained. Every
body thought she would die. | went
TO eight different stores to find a GER
tain remedy which had been recon-
mended to me and failed to get it,
when one of the storekeepers insisted
that | try Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. | did so and our baby is alive
and well today.-George w. Spence.
Holly Springs, n. c. For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
What Rockford Thinks.

How the defeat of the Rockford
boys is taken at Rockford is shown by
this from the Star:
please excuse these tears. They
come unbidden and flow too copiously
The place where our heart used to be
is welled up with rivers of woe. The
art of smiling is lost one, the desire
TO chuckle is arrested by the wish to
weep, the inclination to crow is smoth
cred by the thought that it might have
been. the effort TO cheer is halted by
groans, the attempt to eXult is stopped
by despair and ali hope is lost by
those hated, freighted yet talisman's
figures of the jokesmith-23.
And, ito the visitors great credit is
due. They won on their merits. They
played a clean, manly, gentlemanly
game. and have gained many admirers
in this city,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.

Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island. Dec. 2-Following are
the wholesale quotations ON the market
today:
Provisions and Produce.
Live Poultry-Spring chickens, s to
&c per h.; hens, per h., Sc; ducks,
per pound, &c to 10c; turkeys, per
pound. 14c to 15c; geese, per pound, SC
to 10c.
Eggs-22Bc.
egetables-Potatoes. soc; onions.
SO to Coo.
Live Stock.
Hogs-s3.75 to 81.
Sheep-Yearlings or over, $500 to
SIS; lambs, $3.50 to $6.75.
Cattle-Steers, $3.50 to $3.50; cows
and heifers, 81 to 81; calves, $3.50 to
$3.50.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn, new so, old Csc; oats,
as to soc.
Forage = Timothy, $11@$13.00s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02

When December's icy, fingers
Have shorn each forest tree,
Its time to tone your system
BY taking HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea.
Harper House Pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Liahtninu Calculator.

The expert bridge players little
daughter was model Sunday school
scholar. Toward the close of the year
her teacher said:
Susie, if you continue to know your
lessons so well you will have a good
conduct card for every Sunday in this
year"
"My." said Susie. "that'll be a whole
deck, won't philadelphia Ledger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
afford quick relief for all forms of kid.
treatment, 25 cents. Sold by all drug
Igists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Simply OutpIaycd.

The story of the game shows that
Rockford was simply completely out
played. A punting duel in the first
half resulted in Moline's landing the
ball back of the goal line, and this
score took much of the ginger out of
RCckford's play
In the second half a steady march
on tandem formations scored the first
touchdown of the half, and practically
the same tactics were brought into
play for the last two scores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
Team Congratulated.

The Moline boys were congratulated
or all sides, a dozen messages and
long distance calls being sent from
Moline. When the team reached home
Saturday night it was met by 1000
citizens and band. and a general
jollification was INDUCED in, ending
with demonstration at the Manu-
Ifacturers.
Moline has sent kilograms to Den
yer and Seattle asking for Christ
mas game in either city
Rock Island people knew what a
great team Moline had, when the local
boys lost by an overwhelming score
There have been no warmer congrat
ulations to Moline than those from
this city.
F. G. Allen is to banquet the players
Coach G. H. Mckinley. Manager Dick
inson and the school principal Satur
day evening. At that time the 1905
captain will be elected.
Seattle has written Moline for d
game here Dec. 81, Offering to come
for $500. AS weather conditions
make game here impossible, Moline
hopes to secure one on the coast
where the temperature is higher il
December than it is here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-02
prairie, s9@s11; clover, s1O@s11;

WOODLAND, per load, So to- $3.50.
Coal-Lump, bushel, 13 to lac; slack,
| per bushel, to Sc.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-10-03

The following editorial from the
Washington Post Of yesterday i time
IL and opportune. and Of interest TO the
Navy. n large contingent Of which Is
located in Annapolis. The Post says
a vigorous effort will be made At
the forthcoming session 81 Congress
10 secure the passage Of an act grant
ing increased pay 10 officers of the
Army. Navy and Marine Corps. After
several years Of pulling and hauling.
am equitable basis Of pay has been
found. and all parties concerned are
cordially supporting the bin embody-
ing the proposed changes. The bill
has received the official approval Of
the War and Navy Departments, and,
presumably. it will be strongly rec
commended By the President in bis
message 10 Congress. The sponsors
az the bill in the House and Senate
are active and influential Legislators,
who should he able t. impress their
colleagues with the justice and neces-
sity Of the proposed increase of pay
The pay o. Army and Navy on
GERS has not been adjusted for many
years. II is ridiculously inadequate
Officers In both branches Of the ser
vice are compelled to practice the
seyerest economy, and are sometimes
subjected to humiliating conditions.
The government expects its officers
to be gentlemen. and holds them 10
a standard Of life and manners which
will keep them on an equality with
officers Of equal rank in foreign armies
and navies. Yet, while making these
demands, the government mas failed
10 grant the means with which to COM
ply with them. The general increase
in the cost of living and other Incl
dents of prosperity have aggravated
the hardships Of officers receiving pay
based upon the needs of a lifetime
ago.
THE necessity Of relief is SO press
ing that officers are determined, il pos
sible. to impress upon Congress the
wisdom of acting immediately. In
trying to obtain relief officers are
likely TO run counter to the executive
order prohibiting any action designed
TO secure>fegislation by Congress.
Rear Admiral Goodrich, com
mandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
WAS recently reminded of the existence
Of this order, and was constrained to
recall a circular letter intended to fur
Their the bill providing for increased
pay. 1t is a ridiculous rule that an
officer of the United States army or
navy cannot espouse his own cause, or
apply for a redress of grievances.
The independence, frankness and sol
dierly qualities of officers are taken
out of them the moment they are mug
zled and deprived of the rights pos
sessed by other Americans. The no.
ton that Congress would be bulldozed
and dragooned into granting out
rageousy excessive pay II Army and
Navy officers were free to exercise
sheir influence is pure nonsense.
There Is way TO stop improper
action by these officers, il they should
attempt such a course. Until they
abuse il. they ought to have the right
OF free speech aud action. IL Army
aud Navy officers were permitted
absolute freedom Of speech-subject,
81 course. 10 the requirements of truth
and decency-they would do Congress
more good than harm.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-10-03
Notice to Creditors.

hYOTfCEIs HEREBY GIVEN, that tho sui
IN Ecribcr. Of Anne Arundel County, has OBJ
tanned from the Orpbane' Court Of Anne
Arundel County, in Maryland, letters Ies-
tanentary on the personal estate Of Will
LIAM q. SMITH. late Of Anne Arundel
County. deceased. All persons having claims
against the deceased, are hereby Uefnei %
exbIbIt the same. with tho vouchers. there
OF. 20 the subscriber. on or before the
9Th DAY or FEBRUARY, 1905
They may otherwise, by law, be excluded
from ali benefits of the said estate. Ali per-
sons Indebted TO said estate are requested 70
make immediate payment
Given under my hand this 5osb. day Of
July, 1907.
LAURA IDA SMITH,
Iy39 Admr., c. I. a.