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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Selection of Lodge Approved.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SAMOA
Eighteen Warships, Including Torpedo
Boats, Will Make Voyage.

Washington. June 17-Eighteen
vessels will comprise the feet which,
under command of Rear Admiral
James H: Dayton. will proceed from
San Francisco Aug. "a for cruise to
Honolulu and thence to Samoa. 2,20o
miles distant, and then return to the
United States. They will include the
eight arnlored cruisers of Admiral
Dayton'S Pacific fleet, the feet tender
Charleston, the Solace, parent ship for
the torpedo vessels, and torpedo boat
destroyers Truxton, Whiple. Hopkins,
Hull, Perry. Preble. Stewart and Far
ragut The return to the United
States will be in time for fall target
practice at Magdalena bay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
MENTION OF ROOSEVELT
STARTS A WILD SCENE
ON CONVENTION FLO. r

Continued from Page Seven.)
under whatever name it comes dis
guised.
1--WE will see to the defense of the
country. We. mean to have a navy
worthy of the American name. We
seek peace and friendship with all the
nations2 but alliance with none. Yet,
We have no intention of being a hermit
nation.'f The great services of the
president to the worlds peace will be
continued by the party which he has
led. We are a party fit to rule and
govern--to alegisfate and administer
and not a fortuitous collection of atoms
whose only form of thought or motion
is to oppose. Above all, we are true to
our traditions and to our past. True
now, as we were III the days of Lin
coin. 'sse '"-}
I'm this spirit we must prevail. BY
this sign we must conquer"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
DRUNKENNESS, A DURABLE DIS
EASE.
Eminent Physicians and Scientific Men
Agree That 1t Should be Treated
as Such.

Drunkenness is progressive dis
ease; the moderate drinker is not sat
isfied with two or three drinks day:
the craving for more and more be-
comes irresistible as the disease ad-
vances; the result is chronic alcohol
ism.
The treatment used successfully by
thousands right in their own homes is
Orrine. 1t is scientific cure for
drunkenness and has given such uni
versal satisfaction that it is sold under
"a positive guarantee to effect cure or
your money will be refunded. This guar
antee is given in good faith and is
carried out to the letter. Orrine is
not new remedy; it has been sold
by the leading druggists in every city
for years. 1t has lifted tens of thous-
ands from the depths to worthy man.
hood and has the hearty endorsement
of grateful men and women in every
state in the Union.
Orrine No. 1 is the secret remedy;
Orrine No 2 is Tor those willing to
take the treatment. Either form
costs $l.OO, The guarantee is the
same in either, case. Write to the
Orrine company, Washington, D. c.,
for free treatise on drunkenness, mail
ed in plain sealed envelope. Orrine
will be mailed sealed on receipt of
price. Sold by leading druggists and
in this city by the Harper House
pharmacy.
A,lthe uews AN the time-The Argus,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
BY RoRERrus LOVE.

~ NE gets middling tired of poll
" helps to account count. for the gen gen.
eral interest in the announce
ment of John Hays Hammond's can
dldacy for the Republican nomination
for the vice presidency at the Chicago
convention. Mr.. Hammond is a bust
ness man, or, rather, business profess
sional man. He has lived to be fifty
mixed into American politics in the
slightest degree. Now, In his maturity,
he suddenly makes a high dive for
the second best plum on the political
tree. and his friends are limiting that
Mr.. Hammond has his eye on the pres
idential plum four years hence.
All of which makes interesting read.
ing.
The Hammond announcement caught
us unprepared. We had supposed
that all the entries were In. We had
just finished reading some saffron
journal tales to the effect that John
Hays Hammond. consulting mining
e IN TIC
ton company, had enjoyed a salary
raise from a quarter to half million
dollars year when-presto, changeE
came the enlightening and enlivening
information that this same Mr.. Ham
mond had quit his quarter million job
and was an active aspirant for an
$1,000 post at Washington.
about it all is that Mr.. Hammond pro-
ceeded to make campaign for the
nomination. AS a rule, the vice presi-
dental nomination is thrust upon
some modest citizen who pretends that
he doesn't want it. Mr.. Hammond Is
otherwise. He wanted it and was not
ashamed to say SO.
Though not in American politics
heretofore, as stated, Mr.. Hammond
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
A Hero WorShiper.

Mr.. Hammond is n citizen of Massa-
chusetts, his summer home being at
Gloucester. He spends the winters in
New York city and Lakewood, n. j.
When not working hard he takes a
cruise in his private yacht. He Is said
to be something of a hero worShiper.
His favorites in contemporary Ameri
can life are ex-President Cleveland.
Secretary Taft, President Diaz of
Mexico and Richard Olney. Pictures;
of these and of the late John Hay
adorn the walls of his study at home.
He admires Rudyard Kipling intense
ly and iss an intimate friend of the
Anglo Indian author. Mr.. Hammond.
In short, has liking for the men who
have achieved. He has achieved a
few things himself. For one thing, he
has helped to eliminate from Ameri-
can politics the free silver coinage is
sue by discovering so much gold that
silver simply had to go away back
and sit down.
One of Mr.. Hammond's political ad-
visers, himself q noted mining en-
gineer, says: Mr. Hammond is not
only a famous mining engineer. but
he has done more than any man in
the west to develop the country. He
has long been known to the people of
the west as producer He has never
been destroyer. but always build
err"
The candidate himself. thus explains
how he happened to permit himself TO
be drawn into the political maelstrom;
| Gloucester, Mass, has been my home
for the past seven years. A gohd
many New England people are among
my friends. The Republican situalion,
1t is said, calls for a man on the ma
tional ticket who is known in Ney
England, who is known in New York
and who knows the west. For long
time it has been suggested to me that
should enter the political field. This
idea did not make serious impress
sion until my western friends began
to echo the thought. Then some Of
the working people who know me
came at me, and / yielded"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17


There's man in America who can
smell gold mine n thousand miles
of. Let's send for him."
So they sent for Hammond to smell
out new gold mines at $4,000 q year.
Hammond was such successful
smeller that Cecil Rhodes, the British
Colossus in general control of affairs
in Cape Colony, coveted him. Mr..
Rhodes Invited Mr.. Hammond to din
ner and intimated that he would like
to have the Americans services in de-
veloping gold deposits.
Make me a proposition as to your
terms for entering the service of the
British South Africa company" said
Rhodes between bites.
Five thousand dollars a month"
replied Hammond
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
ANNUAL MEETING is HELD
First Church of Christ Scientist Shown
to Have Grown Remarkably.

Boston, Mass, June 1.-THE annual
meeting of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, was held here yesterday
Nearly 5000 members from many
parts of the country and abroad were
present. The new officers are:
President--Commander John Blish.
L. S. N, tretired) Boston.
Clerk-William B. Johnson, Boston.
Treasurer-Stephen A. Chase, Fall
River.
First reader = Judge Clifford p
Smith, Mason City. Iowa.
a message was read from Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy. in which it was stated
new Christian Science churches or so
'cieties have been established at the
rate of one in every four and one-half
days during the past year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Freed For $4,000.

The upShot was that way out was
found. Mr.. Hammond'S sentence was
committed to fifteen years in prison.
let him out in time for the present
campaign. But he did not serve any
of the term. Dom Paul found a still
easier way. What was the good of
coping up healthy American with a
hearty appetite and feeding him at
public expense for fifteen years when
the government already needed mon
ey? 1t was arranged that by the pay
ment of fine of $4,000 Mr.. Ham
mond might go free. The American
considered his life worth that much at
the least, SO he paid up and was re-
leased
Instead of having his salary doubled
a few weeks ago. as most of the big
newspapers stated, Mr.. Hammond re-
tired from the service Of the Guggen-
helm people, his five year contract hav-
ing expired. He retired and surprised
everybody by diving into politics. He
is said to possess a very considerable
fortune; also it is declared by those
who know about mining matters that
men in the world had he cared for
immense wealth. One can believe this
readily in view of the fact that this;
man possesses an instinct for locating
precious metals. aided and abetted by
thorough scientific training for that
very nurpoSe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Games Madison
Oath President, U. S. AZ

sissippi river, about 20 miles north
west of this city, broke early yester-
day, flooding more than 1000 acres of
growing corn. The break was caused
by big steamboat, which ran close
to the shore, sending the waves over
the embankment The water was
stopped from flooding the entire bot
tom district of Jackson county by an
embankment thrown up near Raddle
which shut the water off from the
lake district, a reclaimed tract of
many thousand acres.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17

has had q political career. 1t was
short, but not very sweet After all,
1t ended happily. for Mr.. Hammond
escaped with his life. Should he be-
come vice president or president he
would occupy unique position as the
only man ever elevated to that high
position who had been tried and con-
victed and sentenced to death on a
charge of high treason against a for
eign country That was exactly the
predicament in which Mr.. Hammond
found himself thirteen years ago.
Militant Mining Engineer.
John Hays Hammond was born In
San Francisco when the glamour of
gold was Ia the air. He grew up In
the midst of gold mines, panning gold
from the gravel for pastime as a boy
and learning at first hand about quartz
formations and other auriferous depos-
its. Major Hammond, bis father, a West
&, Pointer and Mexican war fighter. had
married the daughter of Colonel Hays,
a noted Texas ranger. Thus two fight
ing families united to produce mill
tant mining engineer, for young John
Hays early determined to make gold
hunting in a scientific way his life
work. The boy entered the Sheffield
Scientific school at Yale and was grad
uated In 1876. Then he took course
In the Royal School OK Minessat Fret
berg. Saxony. Returning to San Fran.
cisco, he. enjoyed an excellent post.
graduate course in mining as mem
Der of United States geological sur
yey party which tinkered with every
gold mine in California. What Ham
mond did not know about gold depos,
its by that time would make only o
small leafiet.
Over In South Africa the Barnatc
brothers were bullying with bags OF
gold and boxes of diamonds dug out OF
tho earth, but the5 wanted still more
gold Barney Barnato remarked:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
TURNKEY PLANNING
TO MAKE CAMPAIGN
Candidate for Presidency on Christian
and Anti-Mormon Tickets
Gets Busy.

Mount Vernon, H.. June 17.-Daniel
BraXton TUrney. candidate for presi-
dent of the United States on the
United Christian and American anti
Mormon tickets. is here to make ar
engagements for opening the CAM
paign Mr.. Turney is well known in
Illinois and hopes to be the nominee
of the prohibitionists when they meet
in Columbus. Ohio, in July.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
FOUR EUROPEANS ARE EATEN
Party Shipwrecked on Congo River
Devoured by Captors.

Madrid. June 17-Further reports
have been received here from the
west coast of Africa concerning the
sinking by a tornado on the upper
Congo river of the steamboat Villa de
Bruges last May. Of the six Euro
peans who lost. their lives four were
caught by cannibals, killed. and de.
voured. Seventy negroes. were
drowned
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Injunction plank Sucker.

The proposed plank in the platform
relating 10 the limitation of the use
of the court injunction in labor con
troversies was the principal bone OF
contention. The resolutions commit
tee referred the question to a sub
committee and the subcommittee late
last evening adjottrned until this
morning. AT that time the surface
indications pointed to long and bit
ter struggle. Late in the night. how
ever, it became known a compromise
was likely that efforts were making
to get together an injunction plank
fairly acceptable 10 all the various
elements interested in the subject.
worked All Night.
All night the committee on creden-
tials plowed through the long line of
contests and few were much surprised
TO find all decisions confirmed those
of the national committee. There was
much interest in the announcement
that dissenting, report from the de-
feated minority would be presented
TO the convention. This seemed much
less formidable as implying struggle
OH the convention floor than it would
be had not the Taft people apparently
already had voted more than enough
to dispose. of the matter without seri
Gus delay.
Had Hard Knot to Saw.
The committee on rules and order
| of business also had troubles of its
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
NEW PARCELS POST TREATY
Postmaster General Meyer Concludes
Agreement With Italy.

Washington, June 17.-Postmaster
General Meyer has concluded a postal
convention with Italy whereby, be-
ginning Aug. L next, merchandise may
be sent by parcels post between the
United States and Italy at the rate of
u cents a pound up to II pounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
FOUR FEET ABOVE DANGER
All of Levee at ST. Louis Under Water,
STAGE 1871 Feet.

St Louis, Mo-. June 1.-THE Mis-.
sissippi river this morning reached a
stage. of 33.7 feet, almost four feet
above the danger line. The leyee is
submerged.
Murphysboro. H., June 17.-The
Ieree at Wagner's Landing on the Mis-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Shoots Sons AssaiIants.

New Orleans, La, June 17.-Early
today Pietro Giacona. a wealthy mer
chant, killed three Italians who We're
attempting to force his son to give
them a sum of money and his watch.
The shooting occurred at the home of
Giacona.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17

conditions were favorable. Jameson,
it appears, acted upon his own initia-
tive and made a raid into Kruger's
country before the plans were COM
plete. His force ingloriously surren-
dered, and the Scotch doctor himself
was turned over to the British govern
ment for discipline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
$50 Fishermen Wave Victims.

Toxic, June Fifty fishing boats
have been wrecked off the coast of
Kagoshima, and $50 men in the crews
have been drowned. The governor of
the province has requested assistance
frem the government navy yard at
Sasebo.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
American Car Leads German.

Nertchinsk. Asiatic Russia. June II.
The American motor car in the New
York 10 Paris automobile race passed
through here at 9 O'Clock yesterday.
The German car left at $50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
Loss of
SLEEP

Body and brain need sufficient
peaceful sleep each night to
repair the waste caused by the
physical and mental exertions
of the day. Broken rest brings
on headache, dependency, ir-
ritability and nerve exhaustion.
When the nerve force is low,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17
TROUBLE IN SIGHT IN MORNING.
Contests Before Committees Gave Prom.
Use That Two Days More Would
BE Reauired

Chicago, June 1f.-Down TO business
at last. the 14th republican national
convention entered upon its second
day with several important factors un-
settled, and with trouble enough in
sight to make it practically certain
at least two days more must be CON
sumed before nominations can be
made and the. work Of, the convention
cpmnIefed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17

with an unsettled controversy of i'm
portance on its hands. This was over
a proposition to reduce the ratio of
yentions. The question will have an
important effect upon the status of
the negro members of the republican
party i'll the south.
Main Business Pcrfunctory.
In view of these important matters
before the committees, it was assumed
nj the outset of today's session of the
convention would be comparatively
perfunctory so far as the main pur-
pose of nomination is concerned. The
features of the day are expected to
DE a parade of visiting marching
clubs, reports of committees and the
speech of Senator Lodge as perma-
rent chairman of the convention.
If a compromise is reached today
upon the disputed planks of the plat
form. and if the battles over the com
mittee reports do not extend over
night. there seems fair prospects to-
morrow will be clear for the nomina-
tion speeches ana IudI tiiS CLOSE ol
the day may see the close of the con.
vention.
Committee ON Rules Reports.
| After the last of honorary vice pres
idents and the new national commit
tee were read. the committee on rules
submitted its report.
Selection of Lodge Approved.
| The selection of Senator Lodge OF
| Massachusetts as permanent chairman
of the convention was formally ap
proved at a meeting of the committee
on permanent Organization yesterday
Afternoon. 1t was agreed all other
Temporary officers of the convention
| should be made permanent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17

Continued from Page seven)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17

After the last of honorary vice pres
idents and the new national commit
tee were read. the committee on rules
submitted its report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
DEATH OF MRS. CASTLE.
Wife of Former Auditor for the Post
Office DEPARTMENT

News has been received here OF the
death in St Paul, Mimi, Thursday, of
Mrs Margaret J. Castle. wife of Capt.
Henry A Castle. former auditor for the
Post Office Department and postmaster
at ST. Paul.
Although Mrs. Castle had been in i'll
health for some time, her death was
unexpected and was great shock to her
husband. who was in this city at the
time. He received telegram last We'd
nesday evening. saying that his wife was
i'll and advising him 10 return to St.
Paul. but before he started the next
morning he was informed of her death.
He left here Thursday noon fo: the west.
Mrs. Castle had wide circle OF friends
in Washington. where she lived several
the Post Office Department. Since he
resigned from his government position.
he has maintained a law Office here and
his family resided on Euclid street. Mrs
Castle has recently spent much of her
time in st. Paul. She had severe ILL
ness last spring and had been in feeble
health since.
Capt. and Mrs. Castle were married at
Quincy, H., April Is, 1860. Five of their
children are living: Capt. Charles Cas-
tie, paymaster, L 5 A, and Mrs Stone.
wife of Lieut.. Stone, U.SA., both of
whom in the Philippines and the
Misses Helen, Mary and Anne Castle
who were with their mother when she
died.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
When the Blood
Goes Wrong
Man Suffers In Many Places Like
a City Whose Sewers Spread
Disease.

When the blood of man becomes impure and
filled with poison and decay. il throws OF he
impurities and leaves them to force and foster
themselves through the skin. just like city in
whose sewers foul gases arise and escape up
through cellars into houses. bringing contagi
and death.
What city needs is generous flow of pure
water to carry along and away tho sewage which
breeds death and disease. What the system
needs for the blood that is impure is purifier
that will stimulate the flow of the precious fluid
that will check the impurities and remove them
10y the flow of the blood from the system nat
urally without irritation. infection and pain.
Calcium Sulphid" * the strongest blood purifier
known 10 science and medicine. What pure.
running water does I" the impurities in a city's
sewer Calcium Suphde does for the blood Of
Stuart's Calcium Waters give the human body
all the strength and vigor Of Calcium Sulphide.
in better form than any other mode OF present
ing il To the system 4 recent article has stated
that m" st Calcium Sulphidc preparations contain
hut :sU'G of the strength Of this wonderful
cleanser the other 10cs being lost by evapora-
ton. chemical change decay.
Stuarts Calcium Waters contain other bod
purifiers like Quassia Golden Seal and Elcalyp-
tus. each having distinct function 10 perform:
also an Alternative and laxative to throw or
through the human sewerage system ths bowclsD
the waste and poisonous matter eXtricated by
the blood purifiers.
These little waters tremendous power.
and act with amazing rapidity In their work II
cleansing the blood. and clearing the skin. Every
druggist carries them in stock: price o0r per box.
or send us your name and address and We VIII
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F. A. Stuart Co., 1I5 Stuart Bldg, Marshall,
A.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
Gentle Speech.

From the North American Review
OF course the broad view of the ques-
ton that language is life only applies to
those who have the elements of the lam
guage well under control. But in a les
ser degree even among the unread and
unskillful, the life of the man or woman
will always protrude through his speech.
His language will always to some extent
be an indicator of his life. If YOU will
go from Spencer and Shakespeare to Mas
singer and Fletcher and Webster in Eng
lish literature. you will find that the fall
in language was accompanied also bv a
fall in life. IL you will read Milton and
then Pope. you will find the grandeur and
repose of Milton in his life as well as IN
his language: you will find the nypo-
critical glibness and self-satisfaction in
the life of Pope as well as in his lam
gua2e Miltons was the righteousness
of conscience and you read ii in his lines
Pope's was the Righteousness of geometry
and You will find il mrrored in his stiff
little verses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
LOOKS FOR DAUGHTER.
Father of Mary Malone Fears She
Has Eloped

Inspector Boardman was visited last
night by resident of Addison, AleXan-
dria county, Va, named Malone. who
asked that the police assist him To pre-
Vent the marriage OF his daughter. Mary
Malone, and William Callise He said his
daughter had been away from home since
carly in the afternoon and he feared
she had run away to marry
The young man is all right" the
father of the girl CECILIA cd, but my
daughter is only fourteen years old. al
though she looks several years older
Calls is tWenty-three years of age.
Inspector Boardman informed the caller
that no license had been issued to the
parties named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
Blares and Peeps on Paris Streets.

1t goes without saying that there is no
speed limit. AL times one suspects that
there are no rules of the road either
But the browning infamy of the motor
kind is the lack of verisimilitude so to
speak in the noises they make. | have
leaped half the height of the Arc de
Triomphe at the biare of basso pro-
fundo trumpet in my ear. only to view
from some hard-won isle of safety. a
female bicycette deriding my terrors
and again. | have indolently glanced
around at the peep of a broken winded
penny whistle. and saved my life by some
Ealvanic and deSpairing contraction of the
muscles. from man eating speed devil
that would leave comet stranded at the
post.