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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02

lowing legislative committee and to
which win be referred the resolutisn
int oduced by MIR. Cook: Messrs l..
NJ. Cook, Z. }. FcuA tain, J. H. White,
John Stasney. J. Webb Howell. II. O.
Boa,wright. A. w buchanan. J. l..
Fountain, Ed Crenshaw, J. 7. Malo-
ney, w, H. Morgan. n r. H. o. Boat
wright is chairman of the committee.
At meeting OF the n embers of the
Union held just priorl to the mass
meeting, it was decided to hold the
next county union meetfpg with Cot
tonwood local union, IA hiles north
of Bryan. This is to be\the regu-
lar quarterly meeting of Me county
union.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
cowan Predicts Warm Flight.

Chicago. Dec. is. II. Cowan, at.
torney for the Texas Cattleraisers'
association, is here attending the Ma.
tional Livestock show. He will go TO
Washington. where he will present
claims for several hundred thousand
dollars against railroads on behalf OF
cattlemen, as overcharges on ship
ments. Mr.. Cowan declared that when
Pryor and others show the situation
regarding hides to President Roose.
welt and the ways and means commit
tee he believes hides will remain
where they are now He predicted "a
warm fight, however.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02

a representative in the trade. He
would cut out\gambllng in cotton fu-
lures. No map. ne believed, ever
failed by buying spot cotton for spot
cash. Cut out speculation. =
This country is adapted to the pro
duction OF cotton. and ne does not at
tribute the present hard times to low
price of cotton but rather to the pan
ic. Indeed. locally. at least. some
explanation of the situation may be
found in the fact that two years ago
this city received 10000 bales against
perhaps $1,000 this season.
Mr.. Hall favored the use of cotton
bagging. The speaker advised the
practice of intensive farming. He
would rather take one Doy and raise
him up as he should go THAI to rear a
half dozen boys at random. Let the
farmers. merchants and bankers come
together oftener. These gatherings
are all for the common good. The
present meeting as starter
Professor r. o. Allen made a
most interesting address. He was.
surprised at the small attendance.
He regretted and was disappointed in
the fact that notwithstanding the wide
publicity given the meeting. so few
business men were present. Like
wise, more farmers should certainly
have been present. There is unrest,
and there is good reason why there
should be unrest. The patched
clothes and one gallus would not solve
it. Prof. Allen told of his childhood
home on the farm where diversified
ton was practiccd. The farmers
boys and girls are not the only ones
who are wearing clothes better than
they can afford.
Uncle Mark Wilcox stated that he
had made a success of farming by
raising hogs. He had a tenant also
who diversified and was out of debt
and did not have to buy meat for his
table
Mr.. !. NJ. Cook, former president of
the Brazos County Union, made a
short talk, but one of much import.
1T is the receipts of cotton, not the
grade, that determines its price,"
said Mr.. Cook. If large quantity
of this low grade can be worked up
into bagging, rope, etc, and taken out
of competition with the better grades
long step forward will have been
made. He moved the appointment
of a committee whose duty it should
be to draft resolutions to be present.
ed for passage before the next leg.
islature, authorizing the state to build
and equip and operate with convict
labor, factories where cotton may be
made into bagging, etc. This COM
mittee to be composed of business
men and farmers.
After the introduction OF the mo-
ton. Mr. J. H. White arose and asked
all present to place orders now for
cotton pillow lines for next spring. He
put in his own order, remarking at
the time that he was a cotton raiser.
that it was not the things we raise
and can't sell that hurts us. but rath-
er the things We buy that we can
raise. This remark was prompted
by the recital of member present
who had tried diversifcation and fail
ed to find satisfactory market for
the crop.
President Edge appointed the fol-
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
Leases offices.

Wichita Falls, Tex, Dec Ina,
varro Refining company has leased of.
fees here. The pipe is now strung
all the way between Wichita Falls
and Petrolia gas fields. A large force
is diggin gtrenches. 1t is expected
gas will be brought here by Jan. 1
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
Run Over and Killed,

Sherman, Tex, Dec. Mrs. ]. II.
Hughes, wife Of prominent Sherman
travelling man, was run over by an
eastbound Texas and Pacific passen-
ger train at the intersection of the
road with Grand avenue Tuesday af-
ternoon and instantly killed.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
Five Daughters Testify.

Of Mike Crowell charged with the
murder OF his wife, the prisoners five
daughtrs testified. The two youngest
told Of their coming home from school
and finding their mothers body on
stairway.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-02
keefe Appointed.

Washington, Dec. l.-Daniel J.
Keefe of Detroit, Mich, was appointed
commissioner general Of immigration
to succeed the late Frank P. Sargent.
Keefe Is president of the International
Longshoremen's union.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

fetched a chair and supplemented is
height with 4 haSsock. With gray:
courtesy he extended hand 10 tn.
lady on the mantei, and rs she gave
him the tips of her fingers he felt the
warmth of flesh and blood.
Lightly she stepped down. gathering
her skirts gracefully about her dainty
gray shod feet. and presently she stood
beside him. looking timidly at him
from beneath the shadow of her long
lashes.
MY Godr' he muttered. staring from
the vision before him to the empty
frame above the chimney piece.
With quick movement the girl
slipped the pink cloak from her shout
ders and removed the. gray plumed
hat from her crown Of duskyshair. lit
is only 1, Mark" she said wistfuliy.
"I-don't understand-yet" He pass
ed hand over his dazed eyes.
She stepped forward and pressed
upon a carved portion of the mantel.
InstantaneOusly there was movement.
and the painted canvas swung into
place with n little click. There was
Mistress Mowbray in her accustomed
place above the shelf. and beside him
was-Beth.
ut is one OF Harry's jokes" she ex-
planned in low, breathless. tone. He
| wrote me month ago and asked me
| to come here and enact the apparition
Of Mistress Mowbray. 1t was favor
| lite pastime when we were children.
| for there is secret stair behind the
| chimney. and the portrait is really
door which opens upon 1t. Harry said
| that a 'skeptical friend would spend
| the night of the 18th here and asked
me TO play the part. l was reluctant TO
do such a thing. but Harry has been
very kind TO me-and / consented.
F.! They did not tell me who the 'skep-
teal friend would be. and it was-a
| surprise TO me-when i looked down
upon your upturned face"
She leaned against the tall back Of
| chair with Down bent head and CULVER
] ing lips.
"And you could have gone back-and
away from me again-and | never
| would have KNOWN" he said, a vague
wonder dawning in his eyes.
She did not reply.
But Won stayed-yeu made yourself
known~tO me-you came down TO NE.
What do you mean, BETH"
She lifted her head slowly and look
ed at him through misty, joyous eyes.
| and he understood.
Hannah's voice broke 'crisply upon
| the blissful silence. "a cablegram. Mr..
Randolph
Mark tore open the yellow envelope.
at is from Harry" he said. gather
ing his love into his arms. land he
| says, Bless you, my children"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Enthusiastic for Lewis.

Our friend George. M. lie Crone. edi-
tor of the Effingham Democrat, is en-,
Enthusiastically for Bryan for president
and James Hamilton Lewis for COVER
nor of Illinois, He thinks with such a
leadership the democrats would carry
the state and win a fight that would
result in oyerthrowing corporation con,
troll of public affairs He says in the
current issue of the Democrat:
"Over in Nebraska, republican
state which is very democratic be-
cause of the fear of the influence OF
Mr.. Bryan, law was passed reduc.
ing the express rates 25 per cent. OF
course the express companies are fight
ing the law. Here in Illinois. however
no effort is made to control or dis.
lodge the corporations. The republi
can party is afraid to attack them
The men who direct and control the
republican party in Illinois are men OF
great wealth whose interests are in
the corporations. Until We elect a
man like j. Hamilton Lewis, who, as
corporation counsel of the city of Chi
cago. made the big corporations pay
their taxes, we will continue to have
such docile, do-nothing policy in
Illinois. Elect j. Hamilton Lewis as
governor and the corporations of this
state will know that there is an able
and courageous man at the throttle"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

He was looking at the picture with
dreamy abstraction in his eyes.
( You admire my beautiful ancestress.
then. Mark Dickson shot n keen
glance at his friend
YES" was the low response 'She
reminds Inc OF another whom I once
knew"
On the 18th of March Randolph jour.
neyed down 10 the sleepy old New
England village where the Dickson
homestead spread its comfortable wings
| behind sheIterins elms. now leahess
and soughing mournfu!ly i'll the east
wind. Within doors all WAS cheeriness
, and comforS, with soft lamplight and
blazing tires
When Hannah had cleared the din
ner table and departed. Randolph
threw himself into a huge easy chair
before the fire in the dining room and
looked up at the pictured face of Mis-
tress Mowtray. He compared her face
| with that of another Elizabeth Now
bray. u cousin of Harry Dickson and
| also descendant of the lady in the
picture. 1t was an old story now. ten
years old. He and Beth had quarreled
| and she had returned his ring and gone
back 10 her home in the south. They
had never met afterward. but he had
never forgotten.
| Randolph placed not the slightest ere.
dence in the story of the apparition "i
Mistress Mowbray. but the idea Of
spending an uninterrupted evening be
| fore the portrait appealed 10 him. I'll
able tn longer withstand the glance OF
the tender eyes. he buried his face I'm
| the upturned palms of his hands and
gave himself up to unhappy musings
| Hour after hour was tolled by the
tall clock in the hall. and when the bell
shimed II Randolph reused himself
| with Il slight start from the ham doze
IL which he had INDUCED.
/ Involuntarily he gaZed Mt the por.
| trait. and Il great wonder came into his
| eyes. He wheeled his chair away from
the fireplace and stared. He rubbed
| his eyes. looked about the softly light.
ed room and stared again.
| There was the same youthful figure
with its gray plumed hat, gray gown
and rose pink cloak caught together by
one slender white hand. 1t was all as
1t had been before save that now
| there was life in it-iife In the soft
| brown eyes and in certain tremulous
| movement of the pink bowed lips.
With white face aud unbelieyins
eyes he watched the figure step slowly
down from the frame, and he saw the
movement Of the puple velvet dra
| peries that formed tile background.
| She stepped upon the wide mantel
| piece. which was devoid of ornament
and made an imperions gesture Will
her hand, and as she did SO he was
conscious of the heavy scent of white
| lilac from the branch she carried.
MY good sir. pray assist me to the
floor she said in a low. vibrant voice
| As in dream. Randolph hastily
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
The Weather Test.

Yes, this is disagreeable weather
bHt' why should anyone surrender un
conditionally to unpleasant thoughts
and why make those about him fee
unpleasant because OF your continued
complaints about meteorological con
ditions?
The weather man doesn't care ono
whit about all the kicking, complain
ing and dismal pessimism, and by in
diligence in blueness, discouragemen,
and complaint one makes conditions
worse instead of better.
One and all are now being subject
ed to what may be termed the wealth
er Test
The weakness of temperament. Of
character. and disposition of will pow
err are now under the weather test
Pick out the chronic complainer, the
constant kicker. and you pick out /;
person detested by everybody. Don
be one of that class.
What good does it do to "kick?"
1t does harm, because it makes 9th
ers unpleasant; so brace up; smile
and make others smile. and live optim
istically in contemplation of the brigh
May days. the sunshine, the flowers
and all the accompanying blessings o
nature which, are being temperate,
delayed. but which are certainly il
waiting.
Cheer up; there are better, brighte
days coming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Humor qna Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
THE. COMPANY SHE KEEPS.

Her faithful subjects ever claim
My Lady Nicotine
Is really what a man might call
A most engaging queen.
But il we Judge her by the ones
With whom she keeps in touch,
Her everyday associates,
She isn't such a much.
Ny Lady Nicotine. indeed,
You find her hanging out
With politicians. red OF face,
And with the racing tout.
Sometimes she trains with gentlemec
And persons of that stamp.
And farther down the line you find
Her flirting with the tramp.
Suppose my lady takes trip.
Goes junketing afar =
You find her with the common herd
4. Back in the smoking ear.
Good cheer may be about the place
And solid comfort there.
But it has hardly what you'd cali
A ladys boudoir air
or course We must admit she Is
A democratic miss.
The stoGy or the meerschaum pipe
VIII give her equal bliss.
No favorites the lady plays
The lowly and the grand
" no come beneath her sway she rules
All with an iron hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
RECORD OF COURT HOUSE
Real Estate Transfers.

John A. Holmer to Forrest Donald
part block E. Childs' Second addition
Moline. $4,000.
Rock island Plow company Ito RocE
Island Stove company, part of Third
street Lower addition. Rock Island. 81
Jane S. Cable to Robert J. Hutchir
son, lot II. block ~, Buford & Guyer's
addition, Rock Island. $3.50
f. II. Guyer to Robert J. Hutchin
son. lot IA, block 6, Buford & Guyer's
addition, Rock Island. $3.50.
E. H. Guyer TO Mathilda sHutchin
son. lot 10, block II. Buford & Guyer's
addition, Rock Island. $3.50.
Velie. McCabe & Guyer to James
A. Hannah, lot 2. block D. Prospect
Park addition. South Moline. 1925
NJ. E. Sweeney to Rock Island Stove
company, all blocks s, Q. 10. Lower
addition. Rock Island 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

No inconsequential part of our ma
tional wealth for the current year is
the prospect that the fruit growers OF
Florida, which formerly furnished the
entire American supply of oranges, will
this year yield 100000 boxes. This
far exceeds any former crop in that
state, where 1t was formerly supposed
6.800.CO0 boxes would be such a glut
as TO fill the market. Oranges, it is
stated, will be excellent this year. and
sell at reasonable prices The market
is assured of 2O.0c3.00O boxes the com
ing winter from the two principle
sources of supply. This choice tropical
fruit reaches an abundance in this
country which makes it favorite in
diligence of the great majority of oul
people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Making Democratic Votes.

Chicago Journal: When the major
ity Of the ways and means committee
assumes that the people of America
are not yet fully alive to the iniquities
OF robber trusts, they are laying up
retributive wrath against the political
party that claims their allegiance.
III the ways and means members
imagine that the people of America
viii bow to the dictatorship of a sin
gle congressional committee, in the
face of an economic crisis, it merely
shows how fatuous and purblind trust
servants can become, Their masters,
the trusts, with all their wealth. will
be unable to stem the rising tide of
revolt against tariff robbery.
The trouble with the ways and
means committee is that it has become
entirely aloof from the people. It's
rulings in favor of the trusts are as
ahtomatic as a cash register The
majority of its members have appar-
emily become mere lackeys to the COM
bination of trust magnates who have
decreed against tariff revision. They
ignore the ground swell OF popular re-
volt that is breaking down party lines
and mag turn hundreds of thousands
OF western ballots against their party
next November.
II the west is inflamed against pred
atory trusts, II is due largely to the
specific acts of congressional leaders
in turning down the pleas of western
interests fer relief from trust exac-
. tons. The arrogance OF Industrial
trusts is a sectional blot 1t arrays
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

pleading AMI coaying for the ballot in'
TO put on the boxing gloves. as IL We're
with man.
That may he the only kind of arsu
ment. that will reach the Englishman
but in this country i'll the western
states in which the ladies do as Ell
lighteited Il job of plain and ornamen
tai voting rs their husbands ana broth
ers they didn't win out by brandlshins
Il club or by shooting out the lights.
AS we understand it. the western
brother gave woman the ballot be
cause she was such dear creature
that he couldn't refuse her request
Maybe if the Ens.iShwomen woul,
take Il course in being agreeable b.,
mail from the western girls they woult
he able TO wind mere man around thu
smallest of their fingers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
ILLINOIS FACULTY MEMBERS
important University Appointments
Announced by President James.

"'fS' so''h appointments
Announced by President James.
+ Champaign, H., May 6.-President
James of the University of Illinois
yesterday announced addi-i onal facul-
'ty appointments. DR.. Raymond Weeks,
professor of romance languages in the
University of Missouri. is appointed
professor of romance languages; Dr.
julius F. Goebel of Harvard univer-
sity, one of the foremost German
scholars in the United States, is ap-
pointed professor OF German and head
of the department of Ceramics; Dr.
Charles II. Mills of Syracuse univer-
sity Is appointed director of the school
of music in place of Mr.. Lawrence, re-
signed. He is fellow of the Royal
College of Organists The appoint
ments date from Sept |, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

Boiling eggs without the use OF
water is the latest novelty exploited
at one of Londons leading hotels
and as the feat is accomplished direct
ly before the customer, the new way
of cooking generally attracts attention
and comment. The waiter places Z
box-like apparatus on the table and
turns on little electricity. and places
the desired number of eggs in the
heater. In about minute and half
or half the time consumed by the hot
water process. the eggs are cooked to
q turn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

the east against the west. The sproduc-
ing west is forced into economic slav-
cry. as real as old time feudalism, and
the trust barons maintain their posi-
ton by owning the nations law-maki
ling body.
The ways and means committee is
manufacturing democratic votes for
the November election faster than all
the orators and spellbinders from
Bryan down.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

For stomach troubles, biliousness
and constipation try Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Many re-
|rlarkable cures have been effected by
them. Price. % cents. Samples free.
For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

The young Indiana woman who gave
George AIDE that impromptu kiss prob
ably discovered that George possesses
pronounced literary taste.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

The smart. up-to-date. woman of today
knows how to bake. wash, sing ami
play;
Without these talents a wife is N. G..
Unless she takes Rocky Mountain Tea.
Harper House pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
BANKERS CHOOSE DENVER
Executive Committee Picks Next
Meeting Place.

Lakewood, n. j., May, 6.-Denver
VIII be the next gathering place of the
American Bankers association. accord
ing to the decision reached by the
members of the executive committee
OF the association who met here yes,
terday. The session will be either
III September or October. the date to
be set by the committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

Cheer up There are better days
coming. The sun will get there after
a while. He never has failed SO far.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
From the Old Man.

From the Old Man.
My son. if you're wise
You will not despise
A word of advice from your dad
II YOU think you are smart.
That thinlSlet impart
To no one, To no one, my lad.
Just keep the thing hid
And put in your bid
For what you are sure you can swing
The chances are fair
You'll rake in your share
or dollars and that sort OF thing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Differentiation.

cts lying ever justitiable?'
"Neyer."
"But have known some very well
respected men TO promise one thing
and do another" !.
'Goodness. man. that isn't lying:
that's business"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

Colonel Henry Watterson's dark
horse" comes up to the post wearing
the familiar smile of W. j. B.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island. H. lEn-
tered at the postoffice. as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Beer THAT is Beer.

Beer That Is Beer.
II you want to drink good beer, order
the Davenport Mailing company's pale
export. Delivered anywhere in Rock
Island. Both phones, north 1859.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

have merit and some because they
sound we'll
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06
Hn1eriedn
Surety
Company
nf Dem York
Of nen, York

Capital and Surplus $4,000 600
LudoIph . Reynolds, Attys., Bu-
sord block, Rock Island. John A.
Goedmanson. AK~Ht, I433 Firth
Ave-. AIstiae. Iii.y :. n. a }. l..
oskieafs attorneys, zlaline, M
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

BY THE ). W. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

Empty heads are much to be prefer
red to blockheads. At0least you don't
have to excavate before hoping to sc;
results
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-06

A live proposition is worth more than
a dead ancestor. ne matter how high
he graded.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-21
POINT FOR THE EMBROIDERED
Good Effect in the Combining O.
Stitches and Colors.

Embroiderers are learning more and
more to combine stitches and colors,
and the latest idea is to use wallachian
with the long-and-short stitch. finished
here ind there with a little coronation
braid. The way this is done is to use
the design intended for wallachian
work. and instead of finishing the
stitches in the middle as is the Gus
tom, they are carried all the way
across. leaving the buttonhole finish
at one side and the plain finish at the
other. This plain side is then done
over again in pale shade of some
other color in the long-and-short
stitch, thus giving the flower or leaf
the appearance of a light shading,
which looks far more attractive than
it sounds.
Wherever outline stitch is necessary
in stems or scrolls, the coronation
braid is used, and this is compare
lively easy way to make simple de-
sign look intricate, for the merest
child may learn to do such work AS
though this were not enough, little
Misunderstanding is sometimes added
around the border, and. of course,
such a combination of stitches would
look very patchy were it not that they
were very artistically arranged.