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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
We HAVE THEM OVER HERE
Suffragettes Go to Oyster Bay to Meet
With the President.

New York, Aug. 5.-Suffragettes
will journey out to Oyster Bay to-
night, where they will hold an open
air meeting for the benefit of the
president and such other men as may
happen to be on hand. The expedi.
tion will be under the personal con
duct of Mrs. Borrman Wells, the Eng.
lish suffragette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
PRICES OF WHEAT
SHARPLY BID UP
Dry, Hot Weather Responsible for An
other Boost, Maximum Advance
Being Three Cents.

Chicago. Aug. 5.-Wheat traders in
nuenced largely by the dry, hot
weather bid up the prices on that
cereal in sensational fashion today.
At high level prices of all options
were more than cents better than
the closing prices yesterday and at
the close the quotations were but a
slight fraction below this.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05

Senator Allison. who died yesterday
afternoon at his home in Dubuque.
was born at Perry. Ohio. March 2,
1879, the son of John and Mary ALI
son. His boyhood days were spent
on the farm, which was his birth
place. Reaching young manhood he
secured his education in Allegheny
college in Pennsylvania and Western
Reserve college in Ohio. in both of
which schools he distinguished himself.
winning high honors in all branches,
which he studied.
Allison was admitted to the bar in
1850. He was married to Miss Ann
Carter of Wooster. Ohio. at Ashland.
Ohio, in February. 1854. From 1850
until 1857 he practiced law in Ohio.
liz 1857 he removed to Dubuque. where
he took up the practice of law. ALI
son was a delegate to the republican
state convention in 1859 and to the
national republican convention at Chi
cago in 1860. He was a member of
the governors staff during the civil
war and raised troops to fight for the
Garfield but declined the Office. In
1889 he was elected to congress and
served continuously until 1871. In
| 1873 he was elected United States
senator from Iowa and represented
his state in this capacity until the
time of his death.
| Declined Cabinet Place.
In 1881 he was offered the secre
taryship of the treasury by President
Garfield but declined the Office. In
| 1889 he again refused this Office when
it was offered him by President Har
rison. For the third time he refused
the Office when it was offered him by
President Mckinley in 1897 In 1S9:
lie was chairman OF the international
Monetary conference at Brussels. He
was a candidate for the republican
tional convention in 1886 and agar
in 1895.
On Ways and Means Committee.
Shortly after his first election to the
house of representatives Allison's abil
ity was recognized by his appoint
ment to the ways and means com
Imittee.
On the ways and means committed
he began a career which made hin
the best authority in the country upol
the revenue and expenditures of th'
government. For more than 40 year
he has been assigned by the judg
ment of his colleagues in the hous
and senate to the responsible task o
lplanning the revenues and supervis
ing the expenditures. and no man VIII
| ever had a part in this work had tn
confidence of both houses more con
lpletely
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
WALKS OFF DRAW INTO RIVER
William O'BIennes, Engineer at keo
kuk. Is Drowned.

Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. 5.-William
O'Blennes, assistant engineer on the
Keokuk and Hamilton bridge. walked
through the door of the engine room
into the river early yesterday morn
ing and was drowned. Employees had
left the bridge open after boat had
nassed through for the purpose oi
cleaning the engines after the work
was done. O'Blennes, evidently for
getting the open bridge, stepped out
and disappeared. The current at the
draw is very swift.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
Great FINANCIAL
ARE INVOLVED IN
SHOP men OF

brokers, was announced on the floor
of the consolidated stock exchange
today Robert E. Eastman of the firm
was. arrested in Chicago last night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
.Airhrake Inventor Dead.

Pittsburg, Aug 5.-George F. Lar
mer, aged 73, who made the first West
inghouse airbrake, died here today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
Failure Follows Arrest.

New York, Aug. 5.-The suspension
of the firm of Eastman G Co, stock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05
Cramps Cause Another Death.

Sterling, H., Aug. 5.-John Jacobs,
% years old, while bathing at noon
yesterday in Rock river. was seized
with cramps and drowned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-05

layed his arrival at Mayence for more
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20
THE SHOOTING OF HENEY.

The disgraceful shooting of Attorney
Heney, graft prosecutor in San Fran.
cisco, by a man whose business had
been ruined through the exposures,
should arouse every good citizen of
this country.
That man who had given his labor
and his time to cleaning up the rotten
government of city as rotten as San
Francisco, should be shot in the very
courtroom in which he was fighting
for better conditions, is to the lasting
disgrace of the city and country.
Like many another i'll judged assault
upon a public benefactor, the tragedy
can only bring about a stronger re-
action than ever against the boodlers
in favor of cleaner government and
less corruption.
And the whole country will applaud
when San Francisco is cleaned up for
sure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

A southern farmer decided that
fences and hedges along the road de.
cided nuisance as well as waste of
land capable of producing valuable
crops. Accordingly he cleared away
all distractions and after thoroughly
cultivating the ground, set out alter
nately, peach, apple and cherry trees,
with currant bushes filling up the
spaces between. The trees were kept
carefully trimmed and proved extreme
ly ornamental, calling forth many ia.
vorable comments from passers by.
Soon he began to get fruit for table
use, increasing each year. In four
years time, he had sold $500 worth be.
sides having all his family could use.
The following years the sales averaged
800 to $3.50. This same plan might
be followed with pleasure and profit
all over the country and the beauty of
the landscape greatly enhanced be.
sides.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20
THE CORN SHOW.

The corn show, which will be held
IN Norfolk Monday afternoon, ought
to attract wide attention and deep in
terest among the farmers of this
vicinity. 1t has opportunity of stimu-
lating interest in a better grade of
corn and more of it.
From the fine corn that will be as
sembled, samples will be selected to
be sent to the National corn show at
Omaha. Norfolk farmers will unques-
tionably walk away with some of that
shows best prizes.
Frank Tannehill has done much al
ready to raise fine corn. To such ex-
amples of interest in better farming,
an agricultural section owes much.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

The chemists of the agricultural de.
partment have solved the problem OF
how to make paper from cornstalks.
Even at the present primitive stage of
experimentation cornstalk paper can
be made almost as cheaply as wood
pulp paper and it is believed that
when the proper machinery is per
fifty per cent less than that now made
from wood.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

While Japan's great merchant fleet
is growing, prospecting and absorbing
the carrying trade of the Pacific our
own tonnage is dwindling rapidly and
losing money for its owners because of
interstate ruling on rates, Cheap ships,
cheap labor, cheap food, are the three
weapons with which Japan is making
her commercial conquest The Jap
anese shipbuilders get on an average
of thirty-two cents a day while Ameri.
cans get 81. Japanese sailors work
for $40 n month while American tars
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

If the youth of America could only
have two pictures stamped indelibly
n their mental picture gallery and be-
come impressed with the idea that If
they start out in life as fast boys more
leeply interested in the sporting page
than anything else, that they will
never have before them the choice of
three such positions as now are open
to Secretary Root or even the posi-
bility of one of them, which picture
would they choose? That of the hon.
ored man who has served his country
faithfully or the skittish sport with a
aashy necktie who usually develops
into a professional gambler? Fun or
honors, which?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

The future farmer will subirrigate
his land and defy drought as well as
floods. He will become a scientific
forester and every farm will produce
wood and lumber as well as wheat and
apples. A single acre will produce as
much as ten yield now. Women will
be the horticulturalists and truck gar.
deners of the future. 1t was a red let.
ter day in American history when con.
gress decreed the agricultural college,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

name of Judge Jackson Of Neigh very
ogically suggests itself as one which
ought. under all circumstances, to be
considered by the governor
Judge Jackson was until recently n
supreme court commissioner. He re.
signed because the position was not
sufficiently remunerative to Justify him
in giving up his private practice.
N. ID. Jackson has served with
marked ability upon the bench in this
district with his experience as su.
preme court commissioner, he would
make an ideal supreme justice and his
qualifications should at once appeal to
Governor Sheldon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

Nearly onefourth of the total popu.
alton Of the United-eighty millions
of people-are in school. Such is the
constantly expanding public school
system of this country that any capa.
Die child Is carried from the kinder.
garten to the university at public eX.
pense, giving to every human being
within our borders the best chance
possible to make the most of his life
In that lies our hope to preserve and
perpetuate order, liberty and law over
a united country that stretches from
ocean to ocean.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

An expedition under Captain Mikkel-
son was sent into the Arctic regions
to discover whether land or water
existed north of Alaska. They made
soundings through crevices about fifty
miles from the coast and found no
bottom at a depth of 264 feet. Sixty
miles farther on the results was the
same. After exhaustive explorations
they have reached the conclusion that
deep water exists at least for a great
distance north of Alaska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20


has given that state much fame for
many years past. The loss In dollars
to Sioux Falls will be stupendous. Yet
the moral phase of the question won
out against the dollars with the voters
of that state in general. 1t should be
source of satisfaction to them to
pote that their action has received the
Commendation of the press of the east
ern states. The News quotes the fol.
lowing from various papers concerning
the vote:
New York, Evening Post: BY their
votes on the divorce law referendum
last week the citizens of South Dakota
American name of disrepute into
which divorce mills" have brought It,
The scandalously lax statutes which
have virtually legalized bigamy in sew.
eral states do not represent the public
wish any more truly than the "jokers"
in corporation laws do. Like the lat
ter, they have been foisted upon the
public by interested parties, while no.
body else was looking on. Once on
he statute books only organized effort
could eXpunge them. But the citizens
most averse to easy divorce are the
very ones who think least about sever
ance of wedlock. The evil had to cry
out on the street in order to provoke
its cure. 1t has cried out, and the
South Dakotans have voted that di-
vorce seekers must live year in the
state and present their cases only at
regular terms of the court.
Philadelphia Press: This change in
South Dakota, made as 1t Is by over
whelming popular approval, is a
healthy indication of public sentiment,
and no doubt will have its influence in
other states which still have short resi-
dence laws, and possibly aid in promot.
ing uniform system
New York Globe: The avenues to
closed, but by the action of South Da-
kota they are substantially reduced.
And the example is one that should
count for something elsewhere. En-
couraged by this action, may not the
referendum on this issue be demanded
in many other states?
Washington Post: The action by
the legislature was in response to a
general demand from the best citizens
of South Dakota, and petition from
all parts of the union to remove the
stain from the statute books and cure
an evil which amounted to national
disgrace. Those influenced by the
commercial advantages to be derived
from the old law, principally proprie-
tors of hotels, restaurants and saloons,
asked for referendum on the sub
iect, and the voters, by an overwhelm-
ing majority have shown to the world
that right living is more to them than
private gain; that the hearthstone is
more sacred than the almighty dollar.
The good citizens of South Dakota
are to be congratulated, and their vic
tory should be needed in three or four
other western states where the divorce
laws need overhauling. Travelling di-
vorce hunters should be discouraged
in their efforts to change wives and
husbands as they would change SER
wants, and be made to respect the
sanctity of the marital relation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

Alabama's sailor-congressman, Rich
ard Hobson, has received considerable
ridicule because of his ability to sight
war clouds which never materialized,
but he is making good as congressman
in securing needed education along
agricultural lines for his rural con-
stituents and has been instrumental in
arousing new interest in the possibil.
tiles of scientific agriculture not only
in his district, but throughout the
south
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

A New England postmaster who has
by carefully untying and saving the
twine on all packages coming to the
Office receives special commentator
from the postoffice department with
the evident hope that others will fol.
low his glowing example. Evidently a
postmasters time in New England is
not very valuable. If it were that
twine would be expensive.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

A strange lake known as "The Eat
ing Water" exists in the Bay of Plenty
off New Zealand. The lake is on White
Island and the name Eating Water"
Is no misnomer. The sulphur deposits
on White Island are the richest in the
world, an ineXhaustible supply of SO
per cent pure. The waters of this
axe are impregnated with hydrocho-
losic and sulphuric acid and is boiling
hot. No one dares to stay out on this
lake in a boat more than twenty min
utes for once a boat corroded by the
acids fell to pieces and its three occu-
pants were soon changed to chemicals
by the Eating Water. One must feel
when in the region of this lake that
they have reached the Internal regions
and found a literal lake burning with
fire and birthstone.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20
POPULAR ELECTION OF SEM
TORS

One of the issues upon which all the
changes were rung in the late cam
paign, one upon which every radical
will pour out his views to you with
great earnestness, is the direct cleo.
ton of senators by the people. 1t has
been said so often that the senate is
the stronghold of corporate influence,
that money elects senators and that
the people cannot make their will felt,
that many have actually come to be-
lieve it. In spite of all our other po-
litical experience, there are those who
will say to you that the senate would
be made up of men of vastly higher
character if these could be named di-
rectly by the people themselves in
stead of being selected by the legisla-
lures of the several states. Democrats,
Independence Leaguers, Laborites, all
sorts of people who want to get into
office, dilate upon this theme, until it
is quite probable that, if it could be
declare for change in the constitu.
tional method of electing United States
senators.
We have several times tried to point
out that there Is absolutely nothing in
the argument that if bad men are in
the senate, 1t is because careless
voters permit them to go there; that
II the people of the state believe some
man worthy of senatorial hOnors, they
can make him senator at any time by
clearly expressing their will; and that,
as matter of fact, in most of the
states at this time there already exists
a system of virtual election by the
people, which does not show any diff
ferent results from the old way. This
last consideration, amounting to actual
proof, completely destroys the notion
that the quality of the senate is weak
| ened by the n-participation of the
people directly in their choice. A
short time ago Wisconsin voted for
Stephenson, who has nothing but his
money to recommend him. Last week
| Missouri had to choose between Stone
and Folk Folk is reformer, a man
of the highest character and ability,
| Stone is one of the abject tools of the
Interests" representing all that is un'
worthy in politics and especially those
influences against which the advocates
of popular election inveigh. Yet the
people of Missouri chose him and de-
| feated Folk. If legislature had done
this, everybody would have been scan
| dalized.
Fred w. Carpenter, who has been
Mr.. Taft's private secretary for the
past nine years, is a native of Mime
sofa, but spent most of his life before
going with Mr.. Taft in California. He
is thirty years old, has twice encircled
the globe in company with the genial
president-elect was with him in the
Philippines and has taken frequent
trips to Panama and Cuba. 1t is prob,
able that he will continue to serve as
the future presidents secretary.
COMMENCING SOUTH DAKOTA.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

The reelection of Sir Wlfred Laur-
Ter as premier of Canada Is considered
as an overwhelming endorsement of
his policies and will mean the building
of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway
through to the coast at point consid-
erably north of the Canadian Pacific
terminal, where it will open up new
wheat lands to settlement, also the
construction of the Georgian Bay
canal These large improvements show
that under the lead of Sir Wilfred
Laurier the Canadians are alive to the
possibilities of their great country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

Three most important and enviable
positions are open to Secretary Root.
He may remain in the cabinet as sec.
rotary of state, position for which he
is exceptionally fitted, and in which
he has served the country most ably;
he may have a place on the United
States supreme bench or enter the
senate. Which of these seats Mr.
Root will decide to sit on is still unde.
termined. Yesterday he consented to
accept the senatorship if rendered to
him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20
WILLARD FOR TREASURER.

Nebraska would be highly honored
by the selection of former United
States Senator Joseph H. Willard of
Omaha as secretary of the treasury.
That such an appointment is within
the range of possibilities is announced
in a dispatch from Washington, and
Nebraskans will very generally hope
that the report shall be fulfilled.
Senator Mi!lNr' is a financier of
recognized standing both in Nebraska
and throughout the country. He has
been a life long Republican, He is
a statesman of good judgment and
level head.
Nebraska would deeply feel the
honor were Senator Willard to be
given this place in President Taft's
cabinet. I'3 .ITKNB
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

The launching of the American
Dreadnaught, the North Dakota, ship
of 10000 tons, of 81 knots an hour
speed, of biggest gun armament, is
token that however much by hamper
ing laws we choose to hand over to
other nations the carrying of our com
merce on the seas, we do not propose
to allow our naval strength to fall en-.
tirely below the standard of the times.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

Norfolk can not afford to lose the
Y. NJ. c. A. building toward which so
much progress has already been made,
what that building and institution
would mean to Norfolk can not be
measured in dollars and cents. II
would mean stronger, cleaner young
men: firmer muscles, more wholesome
amusements. Surely the young men
are worth all that 1t would cost.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

1t Is gratifying that the corn show
held in Norfolk Monday should attract
such keen interest among farmers of
this vicinity. and that such a wide
variety of exhibits should have been
assembled. Interest in better grains
means that two ears of corn, and better
ears, will be made to grow where one
grew before. Concentrating farming
S going to make land in northern Ne
braska and southern South Dakota
more valuable, and it is just such an
Indication as the interest in this show
hat will bring about this added value.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20

The very life of social intercourse is
conversation. And yet the art Of
brilliant conversation is so little
studied that the person who devotes
himself or herself to successfully &C.
curing its graces is marked as eX-
ceptional. A society woman said
recently: "You rarely hear anyone say
of a young woman, How well she
sings, or what fine pianist but If
a girl is a bright talker it is noticed,
commented on and admired"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-20
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JOHNNY BUMPERS UNCLE
ANSWERS ROOSEVELT'S QUESTIONS


YOUR nCighbOrhOOd satisfactory l....
ties for doing their business i'm u.uN.
ing, credit, insurance, etc?
Ans. Quite satisfactory, | Think
There seem to be all the hauha uuN
our way that the business will stand
and, in the main, they are very uN..
ing. The only objection | have huul
TO them is that they always dcmuu
security on loans to men who haNO ND
security to give. while the man NUo
has all kinds of security seldom M.
to give any.
Quest. No II. Are the sanitary con
dtions of the farms in your ncighhug
hood satisfactory?
Ans. The worst sanitary conditions
on Nebraska farms are better than the
best sanitary conditions of towns of
one thousand inhabitants or moro that
do not have sewerage. Nebraska has
the two best sanitary agents ON CurDO
abundant wind and sunshine
Quest No. t.. DO the farmers and
their wives and families in your uc0ah.
borhood get together for mutual inn
provement, entertainment, and social
intercourse as much as they should
Ans. No.
Quest. Why?
Ans. Too busy! AT least Large
percent of farmers and their families
are.
Quest What suggestions have ,oo
| to make?
Ans. would suggest that President
Roosevelt issue message to the farm
ers of the United States telling them
that man who cant make living
on a farm without working fourteen
hours day ought TO 80 into sDmc
other misunderstanding them that with
all our progress and machinery Of the
last twenty-five years il is not right
for man to work day in and day out
from year end to year end and to make
his family do the same thing just TO
get along faster financially than his
neighbors-telling them to throw off
the cares of living and of mere exist
.ence and to have Il corliin good time"
occasionally in a social way. Too
many Nebraska farmers are too intent
on their pursuit of the almighty dol
lar to stop and realize that money IS
not an end in itself but merely a
means to an end. There are thous-
ands of farmers in Nebraska who are
such slaves TO their work that they
cannot even spare half day i'm n year
to march to the graves and honor the
memory Of the dead who freed our
land from the curse of Involuntary
slavery. There are thousands Of Ne
braska farmers too busy even to leave
their Corn-ficlds on the annivcrs iry Of
our nations birth, on July Fourth TO
do honor to the flag that protects
them. There are even men, calling
themselves citizens, who seldom or
never take time to vote, that simplest
of all acts by which a citizen can show
that he prefers our government y and
for the people to a government of alb
solute monarchy. Such men are i'm
the minority | am glad to say. but
even the most patriotic of our people
work too much for their own good and
the highest interests of the nation Let
there be levity!
Uncle Oscar
Or as Mr. Bryan scd, "All work and
no play makes man a poo, polly
tishun!"
Yours,
johnny Draper.