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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
Chair Hitchinc.

''The chair hitcher," says business
man, lis the greatest nuisance that an
office man is compelled to endure
THE hitcher is always deeply inter
ested in the matter he has come to
talk over, and the more he talks the
closer he draws his chair. and with
every additional point he makes he
gives his chair another bunch in your
direction. and by the time he has fair
~ entered on his subject he has his
feet on the rounds of your chair his
elbow on your desk and is dropping
the ashes from his cigar on your coat
sleeve. 1t would be just as easy for
him to make his speech or preach his
sermon three or four feet away, but
he never learns that fact and damages
his, own cause by dragging his chair
over your carpet and putting his breath
in your face.
Il know one office man in town who
got SO tired of having cigar ashes on
|. his clothes and smoke poured into his
face that he called carpenter, took
the rollers off one chair. placed 1t il
a convenient position at the end of his
desk, then had the man nail it to the
floor. But it didn't do a particle OF
good. The first hitcher that came in
was big, strong 200 FOUNDER, who
began his talk and, growing earnest
just pulled the chair up by the roots
dragged it toward the desk and nevei
noticed that anything was wrong.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
in 800 SECONDS
Or Five Minutes Later All indigestion
and Stomach Misery
Vanishes. r.
JNBURDEN YOURSELF NOW
Don't Spend Another Miserable Hour
With stomach Trouble When Ger
tain Relief is So Handy
and inexpensive.

Miserable is the man or~woman whe
suffers from dread Indigestion or dys-
pepsia. There are few diseases which
create such misery, long drawn out
suffering, as Indigestion. 1t pursues
them before meals, after meals and be-
tween meals; they take it to bed with
them. 1t Is with them wherever they
so though indigestion is the simplest
disease of all to cure.
Tell such afflicted ones, dear reader,
of Pape's Diapepsin; urge the sufferer
to go to any pharmacy here and give
so cents for case. Such a sufferer
would ever bless you, because five
minutes after taking there would be
no more Indigestion, no feeling like
a lump of lead in the stomach. or
heartburn, or fullness and discomfort,
no belching of gas or eructations of
sour food, facilitating headache, nau-
sea, water brash and other symptoms
of sour, disordered stomach.
Pape's Diapepsin will digest any.
| thing you eat without the aid of the
stomach.
Diapepsin is wonderful stomach
purifier and splendid to keep the intes
| tines clean and fresh; then your food
will not ferment and poison your
breath with nauseous odors.
Diapepsin will rest the stomach and
increase the gastric juices; this il
whae is mostly needed-more and bet
ter digestive juices-and no CASHIER
Indigestion ana all stomach trouble
will 60
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
"Rooies" In Business.

The successful business man played
with the quaint amulet suspended from
his watch chain.
you'd be surprised If you knew
what part superstition plays in
business" he said. az know two part
ners who are very lucky in their specu-
lations. Well, they never made sim
gle plunge without consulting GER
tain medium as to their. chances Of
success.
Another man once told me he had a
familiar spirit whom he consulted
quite frequently and whose advice he
had always found reliable.
Zone of the most daring manipula-
tors In stock has a fine tiger skin
spread as a rug on his study floor IH
an expansive moment he oDce Informed
a friend that not only did he seek ad.
vice from clairvoyants and spiritual.
lists. but when about to carry out one
Of his bold schemes he would lie or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
By FREDERICK r. TooMBs.

ny ESEOENtGh N AocNIoo
4" HAT things are not always what
Nthey seem is very well exempli-
fed by the manner in which the
American people elect their
president and vice president If you
were to tell the average experienced
voted for either a presi-
dent or a vice president be would
probably class you with the people
who still believe the earth is fiat like
a pancake.
The fact that candidate for the
presidency is named at "A national con-
,vention and that his name is placed at
the top of the ballot on election day
has no relation whatever to the con
stitutional provisions regulating the
mode of choosing president. The
name of the president or vice presi-
dent would be left off the ballot if the
actual intention of the trainers of the
constitution were followed. and in
spite of the ''unwrittcn law" which
has developed the placing OF the ma
tional candidates names on the ballot
1t Is in an actual legal sense done only
as a guide to the voter to indicate in
simple and effective manner what
set of membets of the electoral col
lege he Is to vote for. 4,
!. Tire electoral college. composed of
prominent partiSans termed electors
and whose names appear on ballots in
national elections. has become a sort
of fifth wheel. a useless appendix. in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04

fact, owing to a radical change in the
theory of government in this repub-
lie. Each state has as many electors
and electoral votes as it has members
in the senate and the house Of repre-
sentatives, and these men were origi-
nally intended to exercise their own
initiative in voting for president and
vice president after the election Of
their ticket at the polls. When the
electors were given constitutional eX-
istence it was never designed that they
should ever act as Il unit. according to
their party affiliations. That is exact
ly what they do today and have done
for century. Each elector is today
in honor bound and pledged to cast
his vote in the electoral college for
the presidential candidate at the head
of his party column.
How to Secure the Presidency.
Each state having definite number
of electoral votes, it becomes the OBJ
ject of the heads of presidential tickets
to carry a larger number of states or
the states having the largest number
of electoral votes rather than to obtain
the votes of the largest number of the
citizens of the country, for, as readily
seen, 1t is possible for a presidential
candidate to receive more individual
votes than any opponent and yet lose
the presidency. This has occurred
twice in the history of the country.
The constitution article II and
amendments and article 12) prescribes
the number of electors and the partic-
ular manner In which they shall per-
form their duties, but the states have
absolute power i'm designating the
method of their appointment. and con-
cress names the time when they shall
Re chosen and the day on which they
Shall formally meet to cast their votes.
Method. of Election.
The electors are chosen the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
venber every four years. on presiden-
tial election day, in every state in the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
out of my head. and I have never re-

out of my head. and I have never re-
covered it.
But what puzzled me most was the
condition of things / found when
went back into the house. The hall
was a mass of wreckage, and the stair
case from top. to bottom WAS. covered
with pieces of broken glass, sharp as
raZors and so distributed that ! found
it impossible to ascend without a light
to show me where not to tread.
Nevertheless l had come down
those same stairs, with my eyes shut
or unseeing. and had never SO much as
scratched my bare feet. The thing
was impossible, and yet I had done it.
l had been skeptical about miracles
before that. but since then have been
both believer and an evangelist
Chicago Record-Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04

pain, reducing swelling, removing in
flammation, etc The efficiency of
Salubrin in all such cases is so remark
able that all VINO nave tried it recon-
of unique value. All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
A Celebrated Controversy.

The celebrated Samuel J. Tilden-Ruth,
erford s. Hayes controversy occurred
in 1876 A violent partisan dispute
arose over the electoral votes of Flori
da, Louisiana, Oregon and South Caro-.
lima The entire matter was referred
by congress to an electoral commits
sion composed of eight Republicans
and seven Democrats. AS Il result
by strict party vote 1S5 electoral
votes We're awarded to Hayes and 1S4
to Tilden. Some of the supporters of
Mr.. Tilden became so aroused over
the decision that they openly talked
of taking Tilden to Washington and
seating him anyhow" and threats of
bringing about a civil war We're bruit-
ed about.
The ablest men of the newly born
United States founded the electoral
college, choosing system that was
but one of dozen advanced for the
purpose of deciding the presidency
and vice presidency. To Alexander
Hamilton is given most of the credit
for bringing about the adoption of the
system as originally created by the
constitution.
Hamilton devoted the paper known
as the .LXVIII Federalist" to the
subject of tie presidential election,
and in it he urged many forcible rea-
sons showing the advantage, of sub
| hitting the choice to an Independent
body of mem:
Among other things he said: at is
| equally desirable that the immediate
election should be made by men most
| capable of analyZing the qualities
adapted to the station and acting I'M
| der circumstances favorable to DELHI.
GRAFTON and to judicious combina-
| ton of all reasons and inducements
that were proper to govern. this choice
"a small number of persons selected
by their fellow citizens from the gen
| eral mass viii be most likely to pos
sess the information and discernment
requisite to so complicated an invcs
| tigatiOn."
George Washington was chairman
of the convention, and active part.
were taken by such men as Benjamin
Franklin, James Madison, John Dick
ins0n Of New Jersey. Pincknay oil
South Carolina, Alexander Hamilton
and others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04

elects the president, voting by states.
each state having one vote
When a tie occurs for vice president
it is the senate that has the privilege
of deciding the question.
Votes Cast at State Capitals.
The successful electors of each state
invariably meet at their capital to
cast their votes. Three copies of the
result are made, one being mailed to
the president of the senate (vice presi-
DENT, the second being dispatched to
Washington by a trusted messenger
and the third as Il precautionary meas
ure is deposited in care of the fed
eral judge of the circuit in which the
electors meet. The copies received by
the president of the senate are pre-
served in Specially constructed safe
and additionally protected by an elab-
crate system of burglar alarms. When
the president of the senate receives
the sealed envelopes from the messen-
gers containing the certified votes he
delivers to them a receipt coucbed in
the following guarded and noncom-
initial terms:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04

his rug and stroke the paw to get in
duence,' though why and how this
plan works l don't know."-Londc1
Throne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
Notable Historical Episode.

At the second election jefferson and
Burr appeared as candidates. Ken
lucky giving the former four votes and
South Carolina giving the latter one.
At the third election they appeared
again and this time much more promi-
nentiy. jefferson receiving 6S votes
and Burr so. John Adams, with vote
Of II, Just one over the requisite ma
jority. carried off the presidency. and
Jefferson became vice president. North
Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia
each gave Adams one vote. giving JEFF
ferson the rest, and these three scat
tering votes made Adams president.
At the fourth election Jefferson and
Burr appeared again. and the vote in
the electoral colleges was tie. %
each, which led to the famous election
by the house. an episode occupying
prominent place in American history.
In 1925 there was another election
by the house. For president Andrew
Jackson had 30 electoral votes, John
Quincy Adams 81, William II. Craw-
| ford Al and Henry Clay 81, and, nei-
| Their candidate having a majority, it
| devolved upon the house TO choose Il
president from the three highest. The
| election came off on Feb. o. 1925, and
on the first ballot Adams was elected
| for Adams, Is states; for Jackson, q;
| for Crawford. f. In this election Clay
| threw his vote to Adams, who in turn
made him secretary of state, and the
resultant cry of bargain and sale ruin
ed the great Kentuckian's presiden.
tial prospects.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04
Vice Presidents Chamber.
Senate United States.

Washington, D. c., -, 1909.
Received of claiming
to be u messenger to deliver the
same. a sealed package purporting
to contain 4 certificate of the votes
given for president and vice prcSi-
dent of the United States by elect
ors of the state of ------1---, al
legged to have been elected Nov. 8,
1905.
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS.
Vice President of the United States
and President of the United States
Senate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-04

shown in the latter day mode of elicit
ing the vice president. In the first
national elections held the man re-
ceiving the largest number of votes in
the electoral college became president
while the man who got the second lar
geSt number of votes became vice pres
ident regardless of party. Thus in the
early days of our country we had
president from one party and vice
president from another That system
was terminated. however. at the open.
ing of the last century, and today
there is but the remotest possibility
that the vice president will be Of
different party than the president.
There is one phase of the electoral
system that has been attracting con-
siderable attention of late. That is the
inequitable degree of representation
had by various states in the electoral
college. Some states have far greater
proporti0nate representation than 9th
ers in respect to population. Thus the
citizens of those states so favored have
a larger voice in the choosing of Il
president and vice president than the
voters of less fortunate states. For in
stance. seventeen states can be group
ed having a total popular vote of prac-
tically the same as that of New York.
yet the electoral votes of these seven
teen states are almost twice those OF
New York in number Nevada. with q
popular vote of 10000 in 1904 has
three electoral votes, or one to about
every 1900 voters. Indiana, with q
popular vote of $4,000 in 1904. has
only fifteen electoral votes. or one tC
every 45.40O voters. New York is an
other unfortunate state in this respect
| having enc electoral vote to every
| Al 400 voters.
Adopted after n prolonged and i'm
| Uttered dispute in the famous consti
tutionaI convention of 1877 in Philadei
phia, the electoral college system ha:
| since its inception been the center o.
| various momentous diSagreementS
When Washington was first elected IL
the presidency the legislatures of New
York and New Hampshire were tori
by dissensions which reached so fal
that no electors were chosen. ant
Washington consequently did not re
ceive any votes from either of thes
states. At the second election. how
ever, Washington received the unani
| nous vote of all the electors.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

A 100000 foot gas well blew up
at Petrolia, Clay county.
The state school board may deny
the Fiskyille school the benefit of its
apportionment if it does not accept
the text books.
General Cabell is out in a letter to
Attorney Faulk of Austin, in which he
says the text books are vile.
Prof. Harrington has left College
Station and taken up the work of the
experiment stations.
A motion is to be made by the at
torneys for the Waters Pierce com,
pany to consolidate the two cases
The state will resist it with strenu,
osity.
Heavy rains have fallen in the coast
county during the past two days.
Two brakemen have been killed by
falling from cars and being crushed
within the past twenty-four hours on
the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19

tary of the department of health O
Greece; DR.. Aristotle Mouzis, of the
+, University of Athens; DR.. Constant
Savas, the physician of the king; DR.
P. Manoussos, of the military hospita
of Athens; DR.. Kalliontzis, a distin
guished surgeon, and DR.. Pierre ]
Rondopoulo, professor of pathology at
the University of Athens.
Among the delegates from Italy are
many distinguished scientists repre-.
senting the universities of Turin, Flor
ence, Naples, Bologna and other Ital-
ian cities, and Dr. Guido Baccelli of
Rome, the representative of the Ital-
ian government and secretary of the
Italian commission.
The Russian delegation will include
DR.. S. S. Steriopulo of Moscow and
DR.. X. l. Raining of Riga.
Bulgaria has sent DR.. Maren Rous-
self, director of the department of
health of Sophia; DR.. Ivan Oggnian-
off, DR.. Georgia Zolotovitch, DR.. Ivan
Thedoroff and DR.. S. A. Valcotvitch.
The South and Central American
delegates include men of great promi-
hence, among them DR.. A. Herrera
Vegas of Caracas, Venezuela; DR.. J.
]. Azevedo Lima of Rio de Janeiro;
DR.. Luis P. Jimenez of Costa RIGA;
DR.. Guiteras, of the University of Ha-
vana, and many others.
The congress will be divided into
seven sections under special chairmen
and besides English the languages
used in the discussions will be Ger
man, French and Spanish. In addition
70 the sessions of the congress there
will be public meetings, one of them
lnder the auspices of the American
Federation of Labor The exhibition
with the congress is nearly
'eady for the opening on Monday, and
promises to be highly interesting and
instructive.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
INDIGESTION :.
A Disorder that Breeds Dis
ease in the Body, and an
Easy Way to Cure 1t.

Take care of the stomach and you will
have little need for the doctor.
When the stomach begins to show
signs of disorder; when the food digests
slowly and with discomfort; when you
have heartburn; feel bloated and uneasy,
you are in condition that needs atten-
ton.
Prickiy Ash Bitters corrects the dis
ordered stomach by Strengthening and
toning up the digestive organs, driving
the badly digested food into the bowels
and thence out of the system.
Constipation is nearly always pres
ent when the stomach becomes sour or
disordered. Prickly Ash Bitters con-
tains the medicinal qualities which act
as restorative and regulator for the
stomach and bowels. It strengthens the
digestive organs, cures constipation aud
prevents the return of bilious conditions.
Thousands of people who have re-
ceived lasting benefit from this great
remedy willingly testify to its power in
curing indigestion, constipation and kid
ney trouble.
81 suffered from constipation for years, and
tried many remedies, but Prickly Ash Bitters is
the only medicine that has ever done me any
good. Through its use am now in good health
and entirely free from all traces of my former
trouble."-B. P. Sr1eALL, Winnsboro, Louisiana.
Get the genuine with the figure
SO" in red on front label.
Sold by druggists. Price Sl.Oo.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19

lead over baseball and other summer
sports. The larger universities have
no regular games scheduled before
October, but their players are already
It work on the gridiron and interest
ing reports are beginning to come in
from Yale, Harvard, Brown, Cornell,
Princeton and Pennsylvania. Bates
college, Dickinson college and the
Carlisle Indians have practice games
scheduled for today with minor teams.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
The ObIate Chapter.

Special to the Herald.
Rome, Sept. 19.-The meeting of
the Oblate Fathers for the nomina-
ton of officers for their annual chap
ter began in Rome today. Represent
atives of the order from all parts of
the world are in attendance. Among
the delegates from the United States
falo, Father Lamothe of Lowell, Fa-
Their Constantineau of San Antonio.
Father Grandin of Alberta, Father
Mayrand of Manitoba and Father
Parvignier of British Columbia.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
Race Meet at Portland.
anial to the Herald

Portland, Ore, Sept. 19-What
promises to be the best harness race
meeting ever held in this section will
be inaugurated in this city Monday
under the auspices of the North Pa
cific circuit, which has conducted a
successful campaign in the Pacific
northwest this summer In anticipa-
ton of the meeting the stables of the
local track have filled with fast step
pers from California, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
Western Canada.
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In Seventh Mississippi.

Special to the Herald.
Natchez, Miss, Sept. 19.-The sec.
ond primary to determine the demo,
cratic nominee for congress in the
seventh district is being held today
and the result is awaited with much
interest owing to the close margin
separating the two leading candidates
in the first primary. The two candi-
dates are Jesse B. Webb of Macomb
City and William A. Dickson of Cen
terville. So keen is the public inter-
est in the contest that considerable
money has been wagered on the re-
suit.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
GAMBLING

your life against 25 cents is just ex-
actly what you are doing if you ne
glect cough or cold on the chest in
stead of treating it with Billiards.
Horehound Syrup. A 25 cent bottle
of this splendid remedy will cure an
ordinary cough, heal the lungs and
act as tonic for your entire system
Sold by Bratton Drug Co.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
Bryan In New England.
.ja1 tn the Herald.

Providence, r. l., Sept. 19.-William
J. Bryan, the democratic candidate for
president, today was Rhode Islands
guest A royal welcome was given
him here, the participants in the DEM
onstration including leading demo-
Gratis from many parts of New Eng
land Mr.. Bryan returns to New
York tonight Tomorrow morning,
after being entertained at breakfast
by Herman Ridder, the presidential
candidate will journey to Esopus to
spend the day with ex-Judge Alton B.
Parker.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
DAYS NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest From Over the
Country Given to Our Readers
In Condensed Form.
Special to the Herald.

oDeCldl W Tie f1eTdlu.
Malvern, Pa, Sept. 19.-The 131st
anniversary of the Paoli massacre,
where Gen. Mad" Anthony Wayne's
troops were slaughtered by the Brit
ish soldiers, was celebrated with in
teresting exercises on the battlefield
near here today. Several thousand
people, including many representa-
tives of the various patriotic societies,
attended the celebration. The speak
ers included William H. Berry, former
state treasurer; William H. MacEl-
rec, district attorney of Chester coun-
ty, and several other persons of prom
inence.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19
Roman Catholic Central verein.

Special to the Herald.
Cleveland, o., Sept. 19.-Many dele
gates have arrived in the city for the
annual meeting of the Roman Catho-
lie Central Verein, which will be in
session here during the next four
days. In addition to a large amount
of routine business to be transacted,
there will be addresses by number
of prominent laymen and Catholic
clergy. The pontifical high mass in
st. Michael's church tomorrow morn
ing, preceding the formal opening of
the convention, will be celebrated by
Mgr Diomede Falconio, the apostolic
delegate at Washington.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-19

Anything in the saddle, harness o,
vehicle line at w. o. Vandiver's
Main street He will give you fai
treatment. lott