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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
The Coffee Jugglery.

Chicago Tribune: 1t was the origi-
nal intention of the committee on ways
and means to levy duty on coffee.
1t gave up the idea either because (
became manifest that a duty would
produce no revenue for a couple If
years, while enabling the holders of
great stocks of coffee to mark I'D
prices, or because it was evident that
the duty would be unpopular and pro-
woke violent opposition.
The committee has been enveigled
into an attempt to do indirectly VIII 1t
it deemed it ineXpedient to do directly
THAT is, TO make the American con
sumers pay more for their favorite
beverage.
The bill. while declaring coffee free,
provides that if any country shall inn
pose an export tax upon coffee ex.
ported TO the United States a duty
equal to that tax shall be collected
here. There would be no great obiec-
ton to this if the coffee supply of the
United States were drawn in nearly
equal portions from many countries
one of which had an export tax. The
sting of 1.-THE little joker"-is that
Brazil supplies the United States with
over 10 per cent of the coffee it con
sumes and has an export tax. Both
these facts must be known to the
members of the ways and means com
mittee. They must know also thai
the effect of their proviso if BraZi
did not repeal the export tax woult
be to make American consumers pa,
| more for their coffee. If they com
planned they wauld be told that Brazi
Ialone was 10 blame.
The export tax idea did not origi
nate in Brazil 1t was insisted on .,
a group of European and American
capitalists. because it would requir,
Irevenue for the payment of interest or
loans made by them-loans which ar,
fee. These capitalists would not ri
low Brazil or its provinces TO repea
the export tax. 1t would be agains
their interest 10 do so. They will b.
the beneficiaries to any American dut,
that may be put on coffee. Being III
able to get the duty which the com
mittee on ways and means was at frs
inclined to impose, they accept wit
pleasure the proviso it has put in tn
bill.
| If 1t were law the coffee drinker
of the United States would be take
i for the benefit of some foreign an
domestic capitalists. The proviso
odious and should be expunged. TIL
chairman of the ways and mean
committee should submit that mi:
take has been made and make tn
motion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

there might have been other men than
Peter IN love with her and probably
were. but Peter was the only one that
advertised his regard boldly.
All the young unmarried women
We're simply dying for Peter. In the
first place he was rich. and in the next
his good looks would have made him
eligible without the addition of money
His married sister took him to task
rs soon rs she suspected his infatua-
ton. She had kept him from marry
Ing a good many years. because she
wanted the money for the small Pc
ter her son. and she did not intend to
he outwitted now by woman who
had nothing but her handsome face to
recommend her
"You don't know anything about
Aer." she urged
81 don't ask to know Anything that
she does not choose to tell me. love
her we'll enough to trust her." Peter
answered valiantly.
Good heavens, She may he an ad-
venturess!" cried his sister, losing her
temper
Then Peter lost his and declared that
he was going straight to Mrs. Wrest
to ask her to marry him. He went
Mrs. Rowland, who lived opposite. saw
aim go to the door. saw Cornelia
Bangs admit him and take him into
the parlor, Then she flew for the spy.
glass which had belonged to her ia
Their, an old sea captain. But the spy
glass WAS. after all. very inadequate
to the occasion. She could not hear
what was said, though she drew hel
own conclusions when Peter. came
forth, detected.
Mrs. Wrest had indeed refused him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Rheumatism Cured In "a Hours.

T. ]. Blackmore of Halter e Black
more, Pittsburg, Pa, says: "a short
time since l procured a bottle of Dr..
got me out of the house in "a hours.
took to my bed with rheumatism
nine months ago and DR.. Detchon's
Relief for Rheumatism is the only
medicine that did me any good. l
had five of the best physicians in the
city, but l received very little relief
from them. l know DR.. Detchon's Re-
lief for rheumatism to be what it is
represented and take pleasure in rec
ommending it to other poor sufferers"
Sold by Otto Grotjan. 1901 Second
avenue, Rock Island; Gust Schlegel &
Son. 220 West Second street, Daven-
port.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
White House ExiIes return.

The White house exiles are return
ing, now that the big stick embargo
has been lifted. Rear Admiral Schley
saw the inside of the presidents resi-
dence last week for the first time in
several years and he was accompanied
by Senator Rayner of Maryland. The
Bellamy Storers and other members Of
the now def6nct club, of which M.
Roosevelt was the initiating Officer,
have also paid their respects to the
new president and several United
States senators and mature takers
are expected to break the ice from now
on
Everything comes to him who
waits" but some of the exiles waited
a long time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

the simple doctrines of the cure and
prevention of this disease to every one
of the 100000 Catholics in the
United States.
The activity of the church, however.
as "a center of education in tuberculo-
sis. is of much more recent growth.
In fact, almost all of the preventive
educational work of the churches has
been accomplished in the last four
months. The National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis estimates that there are now
over 10000 church congregations ID
whom the message>of the cure and pre-,
vention of tuberculosis has been
preached and the number is increasing
daily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
The Argus Daily Short Story
NORTHP0RT'S MYSTERY---By Alexandra Daemar
= Goryrighted 1909: by Associated Lterary Press:

She came to Northport alone ard IN
announced. an entire stranger to every
BODY. she boarded at Mrs Folks, and
it was thought that when fall came she
would 20 away, as did the few other
city dwellers who were able to get
summer accommodations in the con
sentative old town But when fall
came she bought pretty cottage on n
quiet street
The first thing Mrs. Wrest did after
going into the house was to lisre Cor
nelia Bangs, partly as servant. partly
as companion. Cornelia was Il peculiar
old soul. but respectable and good
worker. and the position Mrs. Wrest
offered must have been real godsend.
OF course all the ladies in the neigh
borhood went TO call upon the new
resident. She received them graciously
and served them with tea and cakes
made in Cornelia's best style. But she
told them nothing that they had come
to hear. and they went away with their
curiosity completely baffled. Who was
.
Was she widow or divorcee? They
were at liberty to conjecture what they
chose. but they could find out nothing
positively.
Cornelia Bangs, being proverbially
close mouthcd, was as impenetrable as
her mistress. SrYe didn't know. That
was the answer she made to all
| queries.
1t was evident that Mrs. Wrest
meant to live very quietly and cared
very little for social doinGs. Most of
her time she passed in reading or
playing upon her violin or doing little
| kfndnesses for the sick and needy.
Mrs. Wrest attended all the services
| OF the church.. although she had pre-
| sented no letter for membership. She
dressed always very beautifully IN
| black, but she wore ne jewelry save. n
large pearl /brooch. which Mrs. Hay
the jewelers. wife, said was the fiuest
Of the kind she had ever seen.
No other woman in Northport had
such way of wearing her clothes, of
carrying herself. of tilting her chin.
| And no other woman was as beauti-
| full If she had not been beautiful
there would not have been so much
said or thought about her.
| She had calm. pale face, surround
ed with dark hair as with frame.
Her eyes also were dark. inscrutable
In their depth and stiffness. Hell
mouth dropped LITTLE but then some
mouths are not shaped for constant
smiling. 1t was not sad mouth. and
it was not happy one. 1t was just
| still, like the rest CT her face.
If she had had great sorrow she
hid 1t sl1illfully or else she had nc
heart. There were great many WON.
en- who thought she had no heart
That is often the first accusation
brought against beautiful woman by
others who are not so beautiful.
She had lived in Northport two years
! when something happened Peter Mere
dith fell in love with her. OF course
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Here's to u. Z. Best.

Amid the fluctuations of the hour
that attend the opening of the new
home of Young & McCombs' big de-
partment store, there looms not in
the background, but in the forefront
one hero who should not and cannot
be overlooked That man is l.. P.
Best of Davenport, whose enterprise
and judgment and confidence in Rock
Island made the great mercantile ex-
pansion possible: and whose invest
'ments in Rock Island mount up close
to $250.00O. ,.-.
So here's to l.. p. Best, one of the
builders of Greater Rock Island May
future events bind him closer to Rock
Island, may he always receive the
glad hand of the people, may he con-
tinue in his good works and may he
live long and prosper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Hunor and
Philosophy
ACTION.

The only way to do a thing -
Is to arise and do 1t. =
To try your best to beat yourself
BY half a minute to It.
Some folks may know another way.
A short cut old and hoary,
But when 1t comes to show results
Well, that's a different story.
By sitting in your easy chair, J.
Your feet upon the table.
And reading in a fairy book
some sweet and thrilling fable
You'll never get within q mile.
In happy dreamland dwelling,
OF anything that spells results =
In true and iifeIike spelling.
Get up and get. Don't sit around.
Your feet cooked at an angle.
For that will never in the world
Upravel any tangIe.
Be Johnny on the through express.
Down grade. with signals flying,
OF ease and sloth defying.
Don't put IL of a day or two
Or even till tomorrow.
That is the way to pile Up work
And future trouble borrow.
Say 10 your easy chair Goodbyi'
Shake some enticing rover.
Get busy. and you'll be surprised
How soon il will he over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

of the United States by the Adams.
Express company. in regulating the
railroads, congress put in the Hepburn
act provision exempting railroad en-
ployes from the clause against passes,
but this was overlooked in the provis-
ions as to express companies, IL
though it was stated that it was the
intention to exempt employees.
The supreme court held to the actual
wording of the act and express COM
pany employees are therefore denied a
privilege that they should have. 1t
Is understood that an attempt will lie
made to supply the omission in the
wording of the act at the next session
Of congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
April Cadenees.

April, dainty lady.
Lightly comes a-trjpping:
Lanes grow green and shady:
Rees are blossoms tipping:
Tulips f1aunt their banners
Gold and scarlet. burning:
Jonquils make their manners.
Glad that springs returning.
April. fearful maiden.
Softly sobs her sorrow.
Eyes are heavy laden.
Sullen seems the morrow.
Bursts the sun out brightly
Gone are clouds and showers.
Pearly beads are lightly
Hung on nodding flowers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Express Employees Hit.

Express company employees through
out the country have been notified that
they cannot "deadhead" packages for
their personal use in future, thus
Withdrawing a privilege that Office
managers and others have enjoyed
since the companies commenced oper-
ating. The order is the result of JUS
tice Days decision in the friendly suit
that was carried to the supreme court
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Much Cheaper.

Doctor. what can you do for my
dyspepsia:"
your daughter is taking lessons in
cooking school. believe"
Eyes"
You had better hire a family foR
her to experiment on"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Estimates of the Georgia peach crop
are now being made. There is still
time for reports of untimely frosts,
while, of course, we have the ''yellows"
with us always.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.

City .AttOrney-Albert Huber.
Police Observation-Disclosures J. Smith.
Aldermen - First ward, John HoIz-
hammer; Second ward, &. l.. Speckhart;
Third ward. =. a. La vanway; Fourth
ward, Henry }. Frick; Fifth ward, Will
liam Cochran; Sixth ward, +. +. Nee
nnn.
Assistant OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Davis
and Joseph GrOtcgut.
AsscssOr-JOhn c. Aud.
CoiIectOr-David Biswingcr.
Justices of the Peace Oscar Wah-
iund, John McShnnc, stephen Stader
and William Eaton.
Cons-tables-MikeM intz. Henry Hueck.
Henry Brunei and George Christian
son.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Take look at those telephone wire
cobwebs on Seventeenth street north
of Second avenue and then ask your
self if you are not ashamed that such
things are tolerated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The city should take steps to re-
move the cobwebs from Seventeenth
street between First and Second ave-
nues. They are not in keeping with
the spirit of that neighborhood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

A Washington doctor prescribes veg
etaTianism as cure for drunkards.
Yet the purest whisky is either corn
juice or extract of rye. Nobody ever
got drunk on. bouillon or extract of
beef
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

What in the world will the public
do between the time Teddy gets be-
yond the waves of the wireless, and
communication with him is re-estab-
liShed?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The cynical bachelor rises to re-
mark that the hardest thing in the
world to manage is wife. The next
hardest is a husband.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Deneen is making great play at
pushing aside the senatorial toga.
But it is still remembered that tho
mighty Caesar thrice refused the
crown
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The war of opposing interests over
the tariff is on. and the only certainty
as to the end, whatever it may be, is
that the consumer will have to foot
the bills
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

If man would only labor as hard
over his daily task as he does over
the things he doesn't have to do,
work would be easy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Accommodation,

"what is the matter with that man7"
He wants light work"
"Set him to polishing the Tampa"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

New York city has population of
4,422,O00, mostly politicians, confidence
men and chorus girls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Good Reason.

81 hate conceit in a man."
Why" -,-
well. l never did like to see lady
like masculine"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Mr.. Roosevelt is in do danger Win
ston Churchill says an African lion
will skip when he hears loud noise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Nat Goodwins new play is called
The Master Hand" and Nat knows
one when it is dealt to him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The New York World says that we
have escaped seeing it spelled "tarif
biz by close margin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The less woman claims to care
about dress the longer it takes her to
complete the operation Of adorniDg
herself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island, Ill. GEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The Quincy Herald says Theodore
is off on quite simplified spell,''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

The difference between taking
chances and gambling is generally
merely q matter of opinion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.

TERMS.-Daily 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township i'm Rock Island county.
EMpH6lAR
tIKAoEsl lSExss!aest (coGNcH
lHITY
Thursday, March rs, 1909.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Any way is good that brings the de.
sired results and bad that is ineG
fective.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

She is good cook who can furnish
both the dinner and the appetite.
When a mans wife goes away bis
emotions as well as his drinks are apt
to be mixed. He feels abused because
she has left him and glad because she
has gone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
Woman!

on ~AN/-i SAy- "
YOU hurry Up WE
lcAN SEE TIE LAST ACT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25

Copyright transferred to VIM. c. Mack. 1906.
The Washington times., 1909-05-16
CARDINAL CONF FIRNS
HUNDRED CHILDREN
His Eminence breaches on
the Need of Religious
Influences.

Cardinal Gibbons confirmed a class of
los children at St Paurs Catholic
Church, Fifteenth and V streets north
west. this niorning, following high mass.
1t was the cardinals second appearance
IN Washington this spring, and his pres
ence served to attract a large congre-
cation. In the class were eighty-seven
girls, fifteen of whom were converts.
In his address to the class the car
dinal placed great stress on the need of
religious influences ia the lives of young
people. Assisting the cardinal in the
services were the Rev. George Doherty
and the Rev DR.. Mcguire, of the Catho-
lie University.
The Rev. William Ketcharn. Of the
Catholic Indian School, sang the high
mass which preceded tke confirmation.
The Rev. James Mackim. pastor of St
Pauls Church, assisting.
Cardinal Gibobns advised the children
TO adhere strictly to th.-ir faith, and
urged them to assist in i.s spread. The
need Of religious teaching, he said. was
never more necessary thar TODAY in cr-
DER to increase reverence for the
church among the young generations
cardinal Gibbons will be the guest of
Father MaclIim today at the church
rectory and will return TO Baltimore to-
night.
The Washington times., 1909-05-16

really, you know, 1 don't want to be
ciscourteOus, L couldn't be to any man,
but cant talk nGW- You see the un-
enviable position am in. These thing
must be combatted later, but now Il is a
personal matter You are a gentlemGu
and am gentleman, so can't you un-
derstand?'
And then he resumed his downcast,
detected posture, thanking the visitor
for the consideration shown In making
the call. This was Immediately after
Mrs. Foxwell had left the station
When the Foxwelis first came to the
Capital the latter part Of last year they
occupied apartments at the New Willard
for several weeks. IT wais said there
today that they were unobtrusive, at
tended to their own affairs, and that
but little was known of them. They
were quiet and dignified guests, paid all
bills promptly, and came and went
much as any other couple more or less
settled In life might have done. Captain
FoxWeu was taken TO be a business
maE, and his manner and actions II :
dicElted that he was man Of affairs
and experience.
T'hcy are said to have similarly inn
pressed those who have known them
about the Connecticut. AS tenants they
were considered ideal, and their appar-
ent desire for life much TO themselves
was respected.
Captain FoxweH had been a familiar
figure about the Hotel Manhattan in
New York for a number of years The
police are unable to understand why, II
II is true as alleged in the cities in
which he had operated that he desired
10 hide his whereabouts, he would come
to the Capital IN search Of seelusion.
Captain FoXwell Is said to have re-
turned TO New York about a year ago
with a wife. Prior TO this time he was
regarded, it is said, as single man.
The Washington times., 1909-05-16

Fo,swelI lowered between London and
Paris a great deal while the proper
~ Of the Growler company was being
investigated by the captains foreign Of
The Washington times., 1909-05-16
DON'T Worry About The Money

OUR EASY PAYMENT TERMS give you opportunits
to have teeth attended at without waiting
until you saved ali the money meeting
low prices asked elsewhere for inferior work
The Washington times., 1909-05-16

disclosed them, and they were going to
send an investigator over. The investi-
gator came in due season. so he re-
ported, and the captain reported that
him to satisfy him of the value of our
property. The investigator. we were
told. returned 20 Paris to make his
report. Very soon came the announce
ment that the Investigator had sicken-
ed and died two or three days after
putting foot on his native soil.
Work Done All Over.
'Tt appeared that most of the work
had to se done all over again. In COM
pany with George Otis Draper, who was
won by the captains interesting per-
sonality, he sailed for England last
February. Though we were growing
restive. he was placid enough. and pro-
posed stopping at London on his way to
Paris. 1t seems that he hovered be-
tween London and Paris a good part
of the time. We quite lost track of
him. and his New York connections ap-
peared TO have been abandoned.
Though my associates insisted that
he wasn't in this country, 1 suspected
that he could be found in New York
before long, and asked our attorney,
Mr.. Perkins, TO try to locate him.
Yesterday 1 heard from him that he
thought our man was in Washington,
and Mr.. Moseley went Over last night
Today had a wire saying that the ar
rest had been made. What the other
Boston men may do who put their con-
hdence In the captain, don't know.
All we want is our money back.
FoXwell is a fine tallXer and seemed
70 have large experience as a promoter.
he gave us to understand that he was
the American representative of a Paris
company that had unlimited resourc IS.
When he went to Europe he left the i'm
preston pretty well fixed that he was
going TO raise s, ,00O, 600 or 5000, 600 /
think we are the only ones who got
his name to any paper. SO far as
know, there was no half million swindle
involved in any local operation the cap
tain is connected with"
Official Figures.
According 10 the Office of the district
attorney, the transactions in which Fox
well has figured will exceed $500 as
the man first came here four years ago.
During his first stay he failed to in
terest any financler in his schemes, bu.
returned about a year ago and met
Moseley ana Morrill,. of the Grower
Company. whom he succeeded IN inter
eSting.