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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-24

Cedar Rapids, July 24-The locals
won both games yesterday. Long hits
by Collins, Chase and Spencer won the
first game. The second contest went
L. rounds to a whirlwind finish
Springfield scored three on punched
hits In the locals half Bells error.
COolcy's single, Saillard's two Dagger,
followed BY Clemon's terrific home run
wallop. brought in four runs. Score of
the first game:
r. H. E
Cedar Rapids. .100Ot001#-3 ) /
Springfield ....00000000 30 Z .
Batteries - Spencer and Rohre-
StCiger and Johnson
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-24

Two base hits-Berger t2), Jacob
sen. Three base hit-Murphy Sac
rifice hits - Murphy, Mclean, Stark
Stolen bases-BerSer, Mclean, Smith
Rowan. Double -Stark-EIardin
BergerKelley. Base on dead ball-Off
Berger-Kelley. Bases on balls-Off
Hardin, ); OFF Hovlik. 1. Base on dead
ball-Vogcl. Struck oui-By Hardin
q: by Hovli!. l. Time of game 90
Umpire-MckenZ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-24
Cold Cream In Demand.

This travelling hotel resembles a
hospital train more than anything
else on account of the large number
of people who are suffering froneSun.
burn. There is a strong demand fq7
cold cream. witch hazel, or anything
that will relieve the singing pain. <
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-24

Now watch the fight between Jess
Ruby and Otto Burns for that left field
daily job, as neither will be willing to
admit himself pitcher after the fiasco
in the second game Monday for Burns
and the blow-up of Ruby Thursday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-24
LINE 20 DOPE

E Frank Deconley, the new Rabbit
outfielder, halls from Seward, Neb,
where he played Independent ball. He
is said TO be fast, but not great hit
ter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Anvwav al Monstrous Cost.

Whatever may be thought Of the
alleged Panama scandal, there are
many who believe that Uncle San has
paid a pretty penny for al uncomplet-
ed ditch, and one which has many and
very serious difficulties to overcome
before it aver will be completed,
Mr.. Roosevelt was Enthusiastically
impatient of delay; he never did care
what a thing costthe public If he want
ed it, and thought that the public
ought to want it.
He committed us to the Panama
route, against the judgment of Sena.
tor Morgan and others who had spent
their lives in studying the question.
Then, he committed us to the lock
canal plan, against the judgment Of
competent engineers, disinterested en-.
g%ineers, and drove the senate into line
with his views, against the better judg.
ment Of the senate committee. The
changesof management and otherwise
which he has capriciously ordered in
carrying out his own plans are like
the sands of the sea for number, and
the cost has steadily mounted without
regard to the estimates; and to-day it
Is a big problem whether a lock canal
can ever be built In that earthquake
region, and the ominous sinking in
the vicinity of the Gatun dam says
moi
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
WASTING THE PUBLIC MONEY.
National Financial Management Dis
creditabIe to Republicans.

The Washington Herald speaks of
the prevailing extravaganza in public
affairs by noting that the general as
sumption Is that the growing and
necessary expenses of the government
warrant the imposition of additional
taxation. This, 1t says, is true If ma
tional financial management is to con-
tinue to be of the present haphazard
character, but that 1t is not true If
the federal budget were to be made
up properly and the expenditures were
co-ordinated with prospective reve.
nues. 1t considers at some length
Secretary Cortelyou's report and con
cludes:
"As long as congress adheres to a
reckless mode of expenditure, 1t is
preposterous to talk Of imposing addi-
tional taxes, especially taxes on the
necessities Of life, like tea and coffee.
The ample existing revenues of the
government should be so economically
applied that they will provide for the
reasonable necessities. The
true theory of national expenditure is
well stated by Secretary Cortelyou to
be the application of the money Of
the taxpayers in the most efficient
and beneficial n to those objects
Of expenditure which are most desir-
able So long as congress re-
fuses to take up seriously the prob
lens Of economical administration and
of budgetary reform, it is a mon
strous imposture to ssum that more
taxes should be levied"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Mr.. raft,s Complaint Bag.

One Of the first organized com
plants President Taft will hear will
be from American consumers protest
ing against tariff robberies. It will
not be news to Mr.. Taft. He knows a
good deal about the cause of these
complaints. But it will be his first
official experience as an executive
charged with the duty and power to
meet them with practical remedies.
Fortunately, the party that elected
Mr.. Taft as president has given him
an unmistakable commission for this
particular reform. Mr.. Taft has only
to fulfill his party's pledges to get
busy with genuine tariff revision.
VIII he?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
TO A THE POOR
REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO RE-
FLEMISH TREASURY.
Extravaganza of the Party in Power
Likely to Lead to the Placing Of
Additional Burdens on the
Workers.

With a deficit for the year of prob
ably $135, OOO, 900, and with the avail
able cash balance of the treasury down
to $149, 000, 900, of which only $42,-
900, 900 Is actually in the treasury, our
tariff makers are giving much anxious
thought to the question of revenue. 1t
is said that there is a strong feeling
in favor of reimposing the taxes that
were levied during the Spanish war.
1t is proposed to lay a tax Of three
cents a pound on coffee, a small tax
on tea, to increase the tax on beer 81
a barrel, to restore the stamp tax on
bank checks and drafts, and to tax
proprietary medicines. Every n of
these taxes, except possibly that on
bank checks, will fall chiefly on the
poorer people. We believe that taxes
on tea and coffee are in themselves
good taxes, but only on n condition,
and that is that the taxes on other
necessaries of life, which are almost
wholly protective, be abolished. II
we are going to tax tea and coffee
we ought to remove or greatly lower
the taxes on clothing, pottery, iron
and steel, tinplate, boots and shoes,
cutlery, and all the other articles
which enter into daily consumption,
To pile on these new taxes, while re-
tanning all the other taxes on neces-
saries, is to discriminate heavily in
favor of the rich and against the
poor.
There is no reason why congress
should not impose an inheritance tax.
1t could, perhaps, enact an income
tax law that would be consistent with
the constitution. 1t could increase
the tax on wines and w~hiskeys used
principally by the rich. But nothing
of this is proposed. Tea, coffee and
beer are to bear the chief burden. The
situation is remarkable in many ways,
In the first place this resort to the
system of direct taxation indicates
a desperate condition of affairs, for
1t Is known that direct taxes are
viewed by high tariff statesmen with
particular adherence. Their idea is
and always has been that the people
should be taxed in such a way as tc
make them unconscious Of the fact
that they were being taxed at all
Again the great devotion of these
same men to the free breakfast ia
BILE" idea does not consist with the
proposition to tax tea and coffee. The
emergency must be great, indeed. And
finally nothing short of a crisis could
lead congress to consider the advisa
bility of imposing distinctively wal
taxes in time of peace.
To such straits as these has the
party been driven by the extravaganza
Of the Roosevelt Administrations
dianapolis News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
The Tariff Court.

Mr.. Taft condensed the criticism of
the present system of tariff schedule
making, and the argument for a per-
manent tariff commission, into a sin
gle sentence when he wrote to Chair
man Payne of the ways and means
committee: What we lack Is evil
dence." Mr.. Carnegie expresses a
similar idea when he says: THE aver
age congressman is not equipped by
training or knowledge to deal with
abstruse tariff problems" and the con-
gressional committees are necessarily
uniformed and get no trustworthy
evidence concerning conditions in this
and other countries" Legal practice
is demanding in the interest of justice
that courts shall employ and detail
their own experts, completing the dis
credit of the paid and partial expert
witness. Similar reform must come in
the tariff court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
MISSOURI NEWS
seeking to Show insanity.

Macon.-In a win Ease from Ran
dolph county. now on trial in the cir
cult court here, Elder Pettis A. Sears
testified that he observed the maker
of the will, James NJ. Holman, in a
strangers cornfield neal Salisbury.
No. ono day p~lucking ears of corn
from the stalks, and for each ear he
took from the strangers field he de
posted two Of his own. which he had
carried there in a sack. The evidence
was given to show mental incapacity
on the part of the maker of the will.
Holman was a wealthy farmer and
banker of Randolph county. Aubres
Thomas, a young relative, is seeking
to break the will. The witness to the
will testified the old man was perfect
ly sane when he signed the instru
ment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Meant the Other Way.

Rear Admiral Sperry, commander.
in-chief Of the fleet returned from its
triumphant sail around the world,
sometimes has serious spells of absent
mindedness. Several years ago he was
talking with a group of fellow officers
at the Naval War college at Newport,
when one of them remarked that he
had been ordered for duty on the
Asiatic station.
Are you going to take your wifs'
with you?" Admiral Sperry inquired.
"No," the officer replied.
Il think you are making a serious
mistake the admiral continued in
positive terms. Il was out there in
1876 when an epidemic of cholera
broke out, and hundreds Of people
died."-Sunday Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
The People Are Weary.

That Theodore Roseveltf, taking Of
flee as a popular idol, has become in
the last days of his administration one
Of the most unpopular Of all our presi-
dents, is sad but true, declares the
Chicago Journal. That his friends
should profess establishment over this
transition is perhaps to be expected,
although its cause is an open secret.
Mr.. Roosevelt set himself up as an
overload. None could differ with him
on the least matter and escape the In
temperate accusation of being either
ignorant or dishonest. None dare ques,
ton his acts or attitude. His daily
conduct has exemplifed his belief that
the king can do no wrong, and that
Theodore Roosevelt Is king.
His vast, tremendous intelligence
has taught law to lawyers, medicine
to doctors, engineering to engineers,
Christianity to the church and mater.
nifty to mothers. From running rail
roads to making beds we nave had
but one authority, and his name has
been Roosevelt.
For seven long and weary years a
turgid tide of unsolicited advice on az
topics has flowed from the Whit,
House to deluga every corner Of the
land, and the people are tired Of 1t.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
SYNOPSIS.

Three girls - Elizabeth, Gabrielle and
Elise-started for Canada to spend the
summer there. On board steamer they
were frightened by an apparently dement,
ed stranger, who finding a bag belonging
to one of them, took enjoyment in scru-
tinizing a photo of the trio, Elise shared
her stateroom with a Mrs. Graham, also
bound for Canada. The young women on
a sightseeing tour met Mrs. Graham,
anxiously awaiting her husband, who had
a mania for sailing. They were intro
duced to Lord Wilfrid and Lady Edith.
A cottage by the ocean was rented by
the trio for the summer Elizabeth
learned that a friend of her fathers was
to call. Two men called. one of them
being the queer-acting stranger on the
steamer. The girls were mot at home"
but discovered by the cards left that one
of the men was Elizabeth's fathers
friend. The men proved to be John c.
Blake and Gordon Bennett. The party
was told of the search for smugglers In
the vicinity of the cottage. Elise visited
Mrs. Graham to find that her life was
rot the happlest. She learned that the
Grahams and Lady Edith were acquaint-
ed. A wisp of yellow hair from Mr., era
hams pocket fell into the hands of Elise.
Mrs. Grahsm's hair was black.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

casting a broad path across the black
water, and we could see a little boat
making its way around the point OF
the island-now riding the waves gal.
Iantly, now tipped so far to one side
it seemed certain to capsize.
Our friend the searchlight," re-
marked Gabrielle, in the tone Of one
who welcomes an old acquaintance,
but a smothered sound as the little
boat careened dangerously caused me
to glance curiously at Mary Aanne.
She was leaning against the window
frame, and was evidently in pain, for
her face was livid and her breath came
in short gasps.
ITS nothing, Miss Elise" she NUT
tered, as she caught my eye. "The
dyspepsy ketches me around the cart
now and then. And to think of some
mothers son in that little cockle-shell
tonight! Come, now, get into bed
and drink your chocolate while
it's 'ot."
81 think" remarked Elizabeth, as
she slipped appreciatively, that Mr.,
BENEFITS boat will be beaten to pieces
against Jul slip tonight. I wish we
could get into the boathouse for such
emergencies. You must make your
brother get us a key, Mary Anne"
Eyes, miss" said Mary Anne quietly,
/ tried to say something, but found
myself suddenly too sleepy to articu
late, and saw Mary Anne retreat with
the empty cups Is though through a
veil.
I slept heavily that night, and
dreamed that Gordon Bennett made
boathouse of our cellar in spite Of
our circumstances to the contrary.
also had a curiously vivid impression
Of Mary Anne and a candle passing
and repassing my door, but when
tried to call out and ask her what she
wanted I could make no sound, ant
could only struggle with the oppressed
s~mothering sensation which Eliyabett
said always accompanied nightmare
I vas willing to take her word for 1t
never having experienced 1t myself
but / did not like 1t. and mentally re
solved to drink no more chocolate q
night, II It produced such unwelcoint
after-effects.
gro BE coNTINUED)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Falling Slab Kills Five.

Joplin.-Ffve men were killed out.
right and two others fatally injured
in n Of the most disastrous mine
accidents in the history of this dis
trict, when a slab of rock weighing
80 tons fell at the mine of the West
Seventh Street Mining Co. The dead
are: Harry Ritter, Joe Morrison,
Gilbert Ritter, Bob Warren and A. C..
Griffith, Burt Ritter and Frank Alzer
are fatally injured. The seven men
were at work timbering the roof,
which had been pronounced unsafe,
when the enormous slab fell, grinding
the victims beneath tons of dirt. The
three Ritters are brothers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

fur" she inquired in q more natural
way. is 1t afraid We are, too. and
come out ere to look fur me to keep
ye comp'ny?"
We told her about our fright, and
she promptly treasured us, saying she
had locked everything securely early
in the evening. but would go down and
investigate.
'I1l go with you and hold the light"
I volunteered; but Mary Anne declined
my society more firmly than politely.
And what good would you be, Miss
Elise-jumpin' at yer shadder and
drippin' candle grease over me clean
floor? No, thank We kindly, I'll go
alone; full well l know there's nothin'
bigger than a rat down there"
1t was very pleasant to hear her
moving about, and when she called up
to us with a laugh that the hanging
shelf had fallen, coming down upon
the coal shovel and s%cuttle, we
laughed also, and felt a weight lifted
from our hearts.
Them ropes was rotten" announced
Mary Anne, laboriously ascending the
stairs, and it's a mercy l didn't set
the cream there to raise as usual,
which, praise be given, l didn't. Don't
you worry no more, but go to bed, and
I'll make some chocolate to warm you
like, for it's very comfortin' to the
innerds on a night like this"
1t was acceptable advice, and we
gladly followed it, but as we left the
kitchen l CHANGED to glance back and
saw Mary Anne at the cellar door,
her head bent and her whole bearing
tense and alert-much the attitude OF
a dog who waits an expected command
in it's masters voice.
Yet when she appeared upstairs a
little later, carrying a tray with three
cups of steaming chocolate, and filed
with motherly solicitude as to our com
fort, she was merely a respectable,
middle-aged servant, whose opinions
one would receive with due respect,
She had r%earranged her dress, and her
ann was quite natural and com
posed as she drew aside the curtain
and looked into the night, with a com.
ment on its witness.
We Joined her at the window, and
as we stood looking out a beam of
light pierced the enveloping darkness,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Freddie,s impression,

This little boy attending Sunday
school for the first time was greatly
impressed by the teacher and the
larger boys of the class. On returning
home his mother questioned him in re-
gard to what was said and what he
must learn for his next lesson. The
child in a frank way, replied: "Oh,
mammA, it was all about God and love
and a lady named Eve, and how she
gave an apple to a man called Adam,
who never gave her a bite" The
mother, tc lead him on, said: "Who
was Ever why, mamma, she was
Mrs. Eve Adam, a friend Of Gods, who
kept house in a garden!"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

bravely enough and ending with a
quavering whisper.
OF course there was no reply, and
we would have been frightened to
death if there had been, yet we felt
indignant at the stiffness, as well as at
the impenetrable darkness u eyes
could not pierce.
"Shall we go down" Her voice was
rather tremulous, and she looked re
lieved when we shook our heads de-
cidedly.
IF we only had a dog" I hazarded
I'VE could put it down ahead of us tc
find out If any n was there; but
we haven't"
mo-" agreed Elizabeth, thoughtful
ly; "but we have Mary Anne"
AS though in response to her name
the outer kitchen door opened, and
Mary Anne herself, wet, draggled anG
breathless, stood before us.
Her usually ruddy face was pale
and her eyes rolled wildly as she
looked from one to the other, while
her shawl slipped unnoticed to the
floor, and we saw that her gown was
badly torn and her arm scratched ant
bleeding.
you've been out?"
It was Elizabeth who spoke, and heI
voice brought Mary Anne's wandering
eye to a focus and held it a moment.
Eyes, miss"
She picked up her shawl and foldet
it carefully, smoothing the creasel
with trembling hands.
TITS a wild night, Miss Elizabeth,
she said, with a shudder. 1.-THE storm
got into me blood, miss, and sleep
couldn't fur thinking Of them I know
who are maybe out on the sea, 30
got me shawl and started fur m,
brothers 'ouse to see II e 'ad go
ONE safe and sound; but I couldn'
git down the bluff, Miss Elise, thu
wind being that vi'lent 1t clean dru'
me back. And / stumbled, Miss Gabri
ellie, and 'urt meseIf aginst the sid
Of the 'ouse, miss, as you kin see fui
y%erself. 'Ow, but It's a night! Coz
save them out on the wide water"
Mary Anne paused for breath AM
looked curiously at us.
But what are We all in the kitchen
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Argument That Won.

Susie had been promised a pair of
new slippers for Sunday. Anxious to
have them at once she had tried in
every way to persuade her mother to
buy them for her and let her wear
them to a children's party that was to
be given on Wednesday, but without
success. Finally when both she and
her mother had become tired of the
teasing the little girl said: We'll,
mamma, you needn't get them now;
but maybe I'll be dead by Sunday and
if am you'll be sorry for disappoint-
ing me-" Susie wore the slippers
Wednesday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
NEW IDEA
Helped Wis. Couple.

1t doesn't pay to stick too closely to
old notions of things. New ideas often
lead to better health, success and hap
piness.
A Wis. couple examined an idea new
to them and stepped up several rounds
on the health ladder. The husband
writes:
Several years ago we suffered from
coffee drinking, were sleepless,
nervous, sallow, weak and irritable.
My wife and | both loved coffee and
thought 1t was a bracer." (delusion.)
FINALLY, after years of suffering, we
read OF Postum and the harmfulness
Of coffee, and believing that to
we should give some attention to new
ideas, we decided to test Postum.
When we made it right we liked 1t
and were relieved Of ills caused by
coffee. Our friends noticed the change
-fresher skin, steadier nerves, better
temper, etc.
These changes were not sudden.
but relief increased as we continued to
drink and enjoy Postum, and we lost
the desire for coffee.
Many Of u friends did not like
Postum at first, because they did not
make 1t right. But when they boiled
Postum according to. directions on
PIE. until 1t Was dark and rich, they
liked IT better than coffee and were
benefited by the change" There's
q Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
creek. Mich Read ''The Road to Well
VILE in pkgs.
Ever rend the above letter. A new
one nppenrs from time to time. They
interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04

not follow them, and where memory
and anticipation are softened by mu.
tual interest and mutual affection, But
| did not care, for l also had a little
inner world with memories, and liked
to anticipate the future, now very
hazy and indistinct, to be sure, but
filled with delightful possibilities and
alluring in its very vagueness.
So l leaned back in my low wicker
chair and built castles in the air, while
the rain beat unnoticed against the
windows and the surf Numbered angri-
ly upon the shore.
whats that?" cried Elizabeth, sharp.
", and with one accord we sprang to
GU feet.
For above the noise of the storm we
had heard a crash, as of metal striking
metal, and the fall of a heavy body
apparently right beneath us.
TITS the Storm" said Gabrielle
"Only the storm"
But she was white and trembling as
she spoke, and cast an ap~prehensive
glance at the floor, as though she ex
pected it to open and enguIf us.
THE cellar" whispered Elizabeth
-"some one is down there"
Now, the cellar was a part Of ou'
abode we had not yet explored, so i
had all the mystery Of the unknown
and as we crept stealthily into tn,
kitchen we experienced a sensation O
standing over a bomb which might a
at any time explode and annihilate us
Gabrielle valiantly advanced to tn
door leading down into it, and opened
it the fraction Of an inch.
"Who is there?" she said, beginning
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-04
Taft Specials to Be comp,ned.

Jefferson City.-The Missouri spe-
cial for the Taft inaugural will depart
from st. Louis at 9 p. IN. Tuesday,
March 2, for Washington. Governor
Hadley will be accompanied on the
trip by Adjutant General Rumbold and
members of his staff. 1t will be the
first opportunity offered to the new
colonies to shine respondent in gold
braid. The Missourians will make the
trip via the B. G o. in two Pullmans,
a dining car also to be attached to the
train. At some point in Illinois, prob
ably olney, they will meet the Illinois
special with Governor Deneen and his
staff aboard. The two trains will be
made into one.