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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
TO START MONDAY
Commander Peary's Ship,
Roosevelt, Ready to Leave
on New Expedition.
RAISES NECESSARY FUNDS
Expects 10 Follow Same Route as
Before But. to Use the Drift 1
Method in Approaching.

New York, July 2-On Monday Com
mander Robert e. Peary's steamer,
Roosevelt, will start from this port on
another effort to find the north pole.
Commander Peary will not leave New
York with his ship, but will see it
safely started and, after remaining a
few days here perfecting his final ar
rangements, will go by rail to join his
party at sydney, Cape Breton, where
the Roosevelt will stop TO coal. The
explorer had planned to have his ship
leave New York yesterday, but the un-
certainty of raising the $4,000 neces-
sary to finance the expedition caused
the Slight delay. All but $4,000 of the
ne is hopeful of raising the amount
before he leaves the city.
VIII Use Drift Method.
Peary's plan for this expedition,
aside from his expectation of placing
the stars and stripes at the north pole,
include researches into the north
coasts OF Grantland and Greenland.
He will follow practically the same
route as he did on his previous trip
but his tactics will be different, and
he will utilize the drift method so
that the moving ice will rot carry him
beyond The line of his goal. He has
planned carefully to overcome many OF
the obstacles which were encountered
in former expeditions, especially by
the big Lead or open water, which
nearly caused his death and that OF
his little band on their return from
the "furtherest north" Eskimos and
dogs will be used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
BRYAN TRYING TO REUNITE PARTY
and is PLAYING NO FAVORITES

Chicaso' July water Wehmah
in his special dispatch from Lincoln,
Neb to the Record Herald, says:
If is a bip game that is beinp nIaved
,,o ~,
ie man Ao' US "a 'Ne'
10 4euliile uisrupted party. 10
bring all factions together upon plat
form all can stand upon. To inject
into a Marty Till now so oftep heaten
.h+ ;. - ,,
80 - 80 -o "ei % nlen hopeie','
= 49, a,'. 10. 80 ou. ,,,. up, eonh
TI1;il. s' .nusi'-'i 20 'ne '''eh
/" i-'i''iii Jennings Di!d dn 10 ehsaSeu
UpT,i ~,
,Vb;to hn,'so
Mr. prvon is n1.,,;,, his .rt ,,,,
with great skill with well.defined
ideas as To metbods and prinranIas
with . nersonal magnotisu and so,f
controI rara,x, o,,,alod sn,opr ON. MI,
liz mon With airnost insrj.o -,
lodga of ,oop apd c,,ditions a,,or,-
where in tho country
etrona etocL fac,d bo.vv
iawed onio,,.oyod n,eosant1s 1snoal,in.
sweet-smiljnp man stands on the norcb
ne . hoortif,, courtrr ho,sa IJ;s h.nd
/. ,,ts+ratotos IT. ,,,a,oaa ~, oe,.,
ars NJ sa,t of aau,oon.t - -
NJ matte, n,hat - has dona ~ for
whom or what voted or taI,,ed y,
written in tbo dow tbot orc sona-i,
be ie now democrat and for The old
rartv tba a1od bond gr,ens b;s .s he
wa,l.. +ha sta;rs re ~ =. y,an
ne ap,, innort.noa wba+ayar and he
49, +t,o trr,,,,lo 90 ,,,i,o ,ho,d Az
prvan ,S;,, n,aat h;r, - tha r,,,r'a,
station and div h;n, o,t 70 Ea;rriav
o,,5 ,,,a,ra ,,;,,, - - ~ - -.
''-N- hi''fAe nm ""pp''
i'e"'''>s
ms man VINO Is No" haid al "orf
Eeshaphhg, rehaklng' re-creatihg ths
oehocfatic party, uhder ms OWL ieaa
er snip anu lhciuel'aiiy iof MS owl
Depeh., Is one Oh cue lharyeis ol Ia, y
III i'is pc, aoI"'i's .no - une =
,ile niost leiliaihaoie men VI oal uas
ne IS now s'lons' d Iipe, d i',ll hia.i ,
ile Is ihueeo new Dis an i,e n,ss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
fails OF PLOT WHICH LED TO THE
EATH OF PORTUGUESE RULERS TOLD
of Progressves in House of Lords Says Assassination
Was Planned Deliberately and Men We're Paid for
Bloody Work but Went Too Far.

present at the meeting. Alpin charg-
ed the republicans proposed to kill the
entire royal family with the exception
of Maria, mother of King Carlos, but
the monarchists insisted that such a
general slaughter would be useless.
Paid to Commit Crime.
Finally Manuel Buissa and Alfredo
Costo were given $4,000 and $4,000
respectively to kill King Carlos and
Premier Franco. Arrangements were
made by the other men to cover the
flight of the assassins but when Buissa
and Costo fired the friends opened
fire also and these shots resulted in
the death of Grown Prince Luiz
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
SECRETARY OF TREASURY FORCED .
TO CALL FOR RESERVE FUNDS
BANKS AT START OF FISCAL YEAR

took up the Orchard case. Frann
Wyman, appointed by the court to
Orchard, appeared before
the board and presented formal ar
gument in behalf of his client, basing
his plea, solely on the legal status OF
the case and maintaining, as held by
Judge Wood in recommending elem
ency, that in naming Orchard states
witness the state obligated itself to
extend consideration TO him in return.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
NOT YET READY
TO APPROVE OF
NEW SPELLING
National Educational Associa-
ton Turns Down Attempt
to Endorse New System.

Cleveland, July 2.-After electing Of
ficers for the coming years members
tfon today rested from their labors.
Department meetings continued, but
there were no general sessions. The
day was given over to sightseeing.
At the session yesterday afternoon
general resolutions were adopted Civ.
ing an expression of the association
upon various educational topics. An
unsuccessful effort was made to have
the association endorse simplified
spelling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
NAN LEAVES ON
Is WAY TO UTICA
hn Vice Presidential Candi.
Expected to Reach Home
|om Cleveland Tonight.

md, July 2.-Looking extreme
congressman James Shoollcraft
!, accompanied by his wife and
sf-s-left ttT sefty-tffis morning
private car Laclede attached TO
leaving for the east.
Iarty will arrive in Utica about
Evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02

ON, July DIR. Jose Maria. De
chief of the progressives smart
bder an insinuation that he was
lated in the assassination at Lis
|sst February of King Carlos and
b Prince LuMcreated a sensation
/ house of lords today by reveal
that he declared to be the true
y of this regicide plot.
Held Meeting to Plan 1t.
b assassination had been decided
at meeting of leaders of the
party a few days before
carried it out.
of republicans were also
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
!! BET NOT A
lE, COURT SAYS
bw for Governor Hughes in
pt to Prevent Race
Track Gambling.

Fix, July 2.-Justice Bischoff
charged Melville Collins,
/ ith violating the new anti
laws, ruling Collins had COM
crime in making a verbal
ms case was selected by the
Eb for a test of the new laws.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02

the sentence of Harry Orchard, who
was under sentence to be hanged to-
morrow for the murder of former Gov
ernor Frank Stuenenberg, to hmpris-
onment for life. The pardon board,
of Governor Gooding, Sec
retary of State Lansdon and Attorney
Guhen, met in regular session and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
SIX HUNDRED DIE
IN FIERCE GALE
Beats Overturned in Batavia Harbor
in Orient and Passengers Are
GobbIed by Sharks.

Victoria, B. c., July News of q
disaster involving the loss of over 600
lives at Batavia was brought by the
Empress of China. A number of over
loaded boats overturned in the harbor
during storm and many passengers
snapped up by sharks. About 80 were
rescued by fishermen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
DURING
/ DENVER;
1000 majority from the
ers in Ohio and 100000
bia was given because
p President Roosevelt
m, particularly on the
hand.
MINORITY LEADf r
Members of the House
Elves for Missourian.

y, Mo-, July Con
amp Clark already has re-
from more than a ma
democratic members of
house of representatives
Fir support for the minor
p made vacant by the res
ohm Sharp Williams. Al
hem also expressed them.
iring MIR. Clark for speak
lty-frst congress is dem
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
BRING A BRYAN BANNER
California Delegates Start for Denver
Carrying Silk Flag.

San Francisco, Cal, July Bear
ing banner of silk and gold, with a
picture of William Jennings Bryan
upon California's delegates to the
democratic convention left today for
Denver aboard a special train. With
the delegates was Theodore A. Bell,
temporary chairman-elec
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-02
HARRY ORCHARD
ESCAPES MOOSE
Board of Pardons Changes Sentence
Of Notorious Criminal to Life
Imprisonment.

Boise, Idaho. July 2The, state
board Of pardons yesterday commuted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
NneCdofe8 COncel nin0
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.

to make no laws to preserve them against
these terrible fires, which destroy more
trees in a day than the AK could destroy
i'll year.
1.-The trouble is carelessness. The hunt
err is careless, the inhabitant is careless.
the railroad is careless, and the hunters
fire, the inhabitants match. the railroad 3
sparks burn up, every autumn, an untold
wealth of timber.
IF every one would but take home
this lesson of carelessness! Wee none
of US, though, care to take home lessons.
1t is like old Jacob Grimes.
Jacob was an Illinois farmer. and one
summer his nephew from Chicago came
to work on the farm for him. Jacob
told the boy that the first principle or
farming was to use up and wear out the
old things first.
Don't touch this years fodder he
would say, till last years has been con-
the old holds out. The new red cart
runs better, but We will keep it i'll the
barn till the old gray one r-aks down
Jacob sounded this principle of his till
the boy got tired of it. He would ger
especially tired when he would be obliged
to eat last weeks bread and SO forth.
according to the principle.
Jacob, one stormy night, said 10 his
nephew: =.
William. I've got to go to the village
Fetch up and harness one of the horses
from the four-acre field
(Which shall l fetch said William.
the old horse or the young one?'
1.-The old one. of course" said Jacob
Always wear the old ones out first, you
know
William paused in drawing on his
rubber boots.
"Tn that case. uncle he said hadn't
you better go and fetch the horse?'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
He Was a Hen.

u EGINALD VANDERBILT. at a dinner
N in New York. denied that during the
Pittsburg horse show he had snubbed
Pittsburg society.
1.-THE trouble lay in the fact said Mr.
Vanderbilt, that in PittsburS | was mis-
understood 1 was taken for society
man of leisure, when really l was hard
working horseman without minute to
spare"
He laughed.
cit was a case" he said, ''of mistaken
identity, like that of the little Newport
boy. He. with his little brothers and
sisters, was being taught natural history
by his Governess through the instru-
mentality of u game. The game was
called 'barnyard.' One child was tur-
key, another a duck, a third calf, anu
so on A noisy. delightful game. and
much natural history was no doubt
learned through 1T.
But my little boy remained. in all the
tumult as still as death. Far Off in
corner he crouched, silent and alone. 1he
governess, spying him, approached in
dignantly.
Come she said, play! Be rooster!
Flap your wings and crow!
SSH said he. I'm laying an egg. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
The True Sport.

TIM JEFFRIES praised in San Francisco
} the other day the grizzly that with
one punch he slew in the mountains
above Los Angeles.
THAT bear was a true sport" said he.
He never flinched. He was game to the
death. So game. in fact. that he re-
minded one of Philadelphia sport named
Hoskin / used to know.
"Hoskin lay dying in his flat on Cherry
street. He sent for friend and said:
Here's So Take It, and the day Of
my funeral use it to treat my pallbearers
with
1.-The friend, much affected, said as he
put the bill in his wallet:
Shall l treat. old man, going out to
the cemetery or coming back?
Going OUT said Hoskin. 4 won't
be with you coming back"
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The Sting in the Tail.

" kOO, the brilliant young Chinese
editor of the Daily Spectator Of CO.
lumbia University. said the other day of a
criticism:
When l began to read / thought the
article was laudatory / soon discovered
my mistake. however. That article re-
called TO me motor ride that l took
with Junior last month.
THE juniors car was not a remark
able one, and out in the country, after
luncheon. the young man was rather
pleased when farmer said to him:
i guess that thar automobile O. yourn
is hundred horsepower. isn't ito
oh. no. said the junior with a pleas
ant smile. oh, no, my friend. 1t is only
five horsepower. A hundred horse
power would be ever SO much larger
Il want jedgn' by the size, but by
the noise said the farmer"
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MiStruSted.

MARK TWAIN was talking about the
IVA famous robbery in his beautiful
country house.
Had l still been living in Hartford"
he said, whimsically, some of my Hart
ford friends would certainly have ac-
cused, me Of robbing myself. They had a
poor opinion Of me in that town
Marshall Jewett. the ex-governor,
used to take up the collection in our
Hartford church. They never asked me
to take it up fretted a good deal over
this matter.
See here, Jewett.' L said one day,
they let you take up the collection every
Sunday, but they would never let me do
it
'''Oh. yes. they would said Jewett,
that is, with a bell-punch, like the horse
car conductors USE"
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TIE aEKlDAn N 4Es3oS A. n ,oooa

most notable of all the Sheridan relics.
Here are his spurs, the various swords
which he carried or which were presented
to him. his medals and decorations. and
great portfolios of original autograph let
ters to Sherman and other Union generals.
In the Sheridan home also are numerous
flags which have figured in the career OF
the cavalry leader
1t is matter OF great satisfaction To
the admirers of the daring Sheridan that
his widow has been enabled to live III
comfort close to the scenes of his famous
exploits. Mrs. Sheridan is, with the ex-
ception Of Mrs. Garfield. a presidential
widow, the recipient of the largest pen
sion paid by the United States govern
ment to any woman.
The widow of a President or eX-Pres-
dent is entitled to Il pension of $1,000, and
Mrs. Garfield receives this sum. which
covers the services of her husband, both
as general in the civil war and as chief
magistrate of the nation. Mrs. Sheridan
receives $3.50 per year, or sos per month
Several other famous widows. including
Mrs Logan and Mrs. Mcclellan receive
5000 per year each. Mrs. Sheridan has
also been enabled to keep together almost
all the mementos OF her distinguished
Notwithstanding that has not been
true in the case Of the relics OF all mill
tary heroes.
The one exception In the case or the
Sheridan trophies was the $4,000 collec-
ton of tapestries which were imported
and presented to Gen. Sheridan by per-
sonal friends. The tapestries were too
large to be accommodated in the new
Sheridan residence. and were accordingly
loaned to the National Museum at wash
ington. Mrs Sheridan finally felt un-
able to bear the burden OF the taxation
on theseI works of art and offered them
for sale In this connection ii Is related
that when it was announced that the
tapestries would be sold it was rumored
that Mrs. Sheridan would remarry. Some
one asked Mrs. Sheridan about the report.
and, according to the story, received the
characteristic reply:
IT would rather be the widow OF PM
Sheridan than the wife of any man liv-
ing"
The new Sheridan memorial has been
erected under the direction of the Sheri-
ian monument commission, consisting or
William H. Taft, Gen. II. G. Corbin ana
Gen Michael V. Sheridan. 1t depicts the
cavalry leader az the moment of the com
pletion of his famous ride. His horse mas
been suddenly refined in 50 suddenly, IN
deed, that he has stiffened his forelegs ana
been thrown back on his hauncnes, ana
the rider has removed his hat as though
with a broad sweeping motion, In response
to the cheers which greeted him.
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Powder Proof.

MILE. GENEE' the famous dancer. a: at
lv1 a ladies' luncheon in her honor in
New York, said:
II am glad to see that American wom-
en- are not using powder in the ridiculous
manner that prevails abroad. Over there
the powder is, really, laid on quite too
thick.
other day to a friend:
But il it was pitch dark, and she
said nothing, how can you be sure that
you kissed your wife's cousin by mis-
take?
LIT was the other answered, "a diff
ferent brand of powder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
His Price,.

TEIR HARDIE, the English labor
H leader, during his American visit re-
ferred at New York banquet to politi-
cal corruption.
You are sweeping your house of poll
tics clean here In the states" he said.
land the buying and selling of votes
will soon be a thing Of the past
Traffic in votes is death to a repub-
lie. l wish that this vile traffic could
always be shown up as it was the other
day in a western law court.
I'm this court the Judge said severe
ly. to a prisoner:
MY man. did you ever earn a dollar
in your life?'
Yes the prisoner answered in a loud
voice. i voted for your honor once"
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is library, many of the shelves of which
are filled with the books in which the
former commander Of the American army
took delight.
On the second or drawing room floor of
the house there are a spacious dining
room, with a large oil painting of Gen.
Sheridan in uniform over the fireplace: a
short hall and two communicating draw
ing rooms. The larger of these extends
across the entire front of the house and is
an exceptionally attractive apartment. The
major portion of one wall is given over to
an immense painting of Gen. Sheridan,
who is depicted upon his black charger
during his famous ride. Underneath on
a gold scroll is one of the poems in which
the deed has been immortalized. There
is also in this apartment a bronze por-
trayinS Sheridan on the same historic
occasion.
However, to the admirer Of the dashinS
Union cavalry leader the most interesting
object in the room is a large glass and
mahogany cabinet which contains the
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past at gait in excess of a mile a min
ute. The American cars will all be paint
ed red and white: the French machines
will be- blue: the German motors Will be
spotlessly white and the Italian flyers
will flaunt the significant red.
The arrangements for policing'the race
course are perhaps the best ever devised.
The entire course will be lined with SOL
diers. principally members of the Georgia
National Guard, and these men will have
orders to enforce to the letter the strict
est orders. absolutely prohibiting any per-
son crossing the track on any preteXt
while the race is in progress. The eff
fectveness of this system was demon
strated at the auto races held at Sayan-
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GEN 1hER1pAp2 ADD1E

made in completing the new memorial. 1t
was more than half a dozen years ago
that Congress appropriated something
over $4,000 for the Sheridan memorial,
which sum was supplemented by $1,000
raised by the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland. In 1892 a contract was
given to distinguished New York sculp-
tor for the construction of an equestrian
statue.
He prepared model that was satisfac-
tory to Mrs. Sheridan and to the military
authorities having jurisdiction in the mat
ter, but for some reason this design did
not fulfill the ideal of the artist, and so
he destroyed the cast. He made repeated
attempts afterward, but was never able
to evolve a design that sat SIZED all the
persons interested, and finally the con-
tract was transferred to Gutzon BorSlum,
a talented young sculptor, who about a
year ago completed the design which has
now been expressed in bronze.
Mrs. Sheridan's new home is In effect
fOur-story structure, being of the base
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The Frivolous Curate.

BISHOP MACKAY SMITH, on his re-
- turn from Europe. was talking at a
dinner in Philadelphia about the English
curate.
This good and intelligent young man.,
he said, sometimes acquires a highly
artificial manner-a manner too sane
timonious. Meeting a curate of this
type, one better understands the curate
jokes that SO frequently occur in Eng
land.
IAN English lady told ME one of these
jokes about worthy but most affected
young curate. He had. it seems. been
skating. and the bracing air had exhil-
arated him.
oh, dear he said, as he took on
his skates, L feel SO frivolous! 1 think
/ shall ride home in the smoking-car!
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ment design which has become so popular
in cities where the price of land precludes
the possibility of detached houses for per-
sons of moderate means. The house.
which sits back some distance from the
street. is Of brick and stone, the liberal
use of light-tinted stone contributing to
a pleasing ensemble. The house, while
furnished in perfect taste as a private
residence, bears in almost every one of it's
rooms the stamp of individuality as a re-
pository of the most interesting relics of
the hero of the stored ride at Winches-
ter. -
J.
Upon entering the hall the visitor notes
below the colonial stairway a handsome
marble bust of Gen. Sheridan. and farther
back in this apartment is the splendid
silver-mounted saddle which was one of
Gen. Sheridan's most highly priced pos
sessions. Opening to the left OF the hall
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nah some time since, when the soldiers
absolutely dominated the crowd and when
spectators who refused to remain out
side the lines were handled with little
ceremony. All things considered. it NAV
safely be predicted that with favorable
weather conditions this contest Will prove
the greatest automobile race ever held in
the world, the greatest not only In point
of speed attained, but from the spectacu-
lar standpoint, in the matter OF attend
ance and in its influence upon future mo-
tor design. for. be it known, 1t Is such
tests as this that disclose the points or
weakness and ind cate the direction OF
possible Improvement in automobile con-
Struction,
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I of whom contributed

Gen. Sheridan. each of whom contributed
$1,000 to a purchase fund
However. when the national legislature
made arrangements to provide an ade-
quate memorial to the hero of the Shenan-
doah, Mrs. Sheridan felt instinctively that
she would prefer home under the
shadow of this heroic size figure of her
husband. Accordingly the house pre-
scented by Gen Sheridans friends and ad-
mirers was sold to Clifford Pinchot, for
ester of the United States. and Mrs.
Sheridan chose small tract of land ad-
jacent to that approved for the new
monument The site chosen for the
statue to be unveiled this week is plaza
known as Sheridan Circle, and located on