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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
CLASS OF n
TO GRADUATE
Programs for Commencement
Week Exercises of High
School Completed.
SERMON is FIRST EVENT
Rev. X. Il. Williams Will Address the
Members of the Class-Plans of
Alumni Association.

Preparations for commencement
week at the high school are now COM
plete and the programs have all been
arranged The usual order of events
will be carried out. The calendar CT
the week is as follows:
Sunday, May so Baccalaureate
sermon at First Methodist church by
Rev. r. B. Williams.
Wednesday, June 2-Junior recep-
ton to seniors, Black Hawk inn.
Thursday, June at o'clock-Class
day exercises, high school auditorium.
Friday evening. June 4-Commence-
meth exercises, Illinois theater.
Saturday, June 5 at 6:30-Alumni
banquet and reunion, high school
building.
Glass Day Exercises.
The class day exercises will be held
Thursday afternoon, the program he
ing as follows:
Welcome by Glass President-Harry
Frey.
4 Piano Solo-IneZ Peterson.
Address of Welcome-Will Duncan
Class Will-Eleanor Tremann.
Presentation of Gift to Juniors
Eric Holmgrain.
Harold Tubbs.
Piano Solo-Notavena Steck.
Glass Marinda Roberts.
=. Glass History-Bessie, Donaghho.
Music-Grls' Octette, composed o
the Misses Jean Fowlew, Ellen Ferry
Henrietta Horblit. Gertrude Wagner
Ethel Birkel, Charlotte Schneider
Mabel Johnson, JcOephine Sheldon.
Presentation of Gift to School-Ben
jamin FinkelstoMI.
Acceptance on Behalf of School
Frank HuDtoon.
Reading--Jessie MauZy.
Farewell Address-Rilla Fraser.
Plano Solo-Josephine Sheldon.
Chicago Man Orator.
Friday evening, June ), the com
mencement exercises will be held il
the Illinois theater. Professor Solc
mon H. Clark of the University O
Chicago. has been secured to deliva
the address of the evening. Must,
will be furnished by the high schoo
orchesta under the direction of Pro
fessor Christian Oelschlagle The pro
gram for Intervening is as follows:
Music.
Invocation.
Music.
Address to class, "The Responsibility
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

ing was busy time on the river here
The Columbia, Lizzie Gardner. Wau
Meta, Everett and B. Hershey were
north and south through the Rock Is
land draw. The Ruth passed north
The stage of water was $50 at G
a. m. and 9.S5 at noon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
HoW's This?

We offer 800 reward for any case
Of catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
]. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING, KINNING & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price, IS cents
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti
patton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
AIDING, KINNING & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. G
A caIifornian's Luck,

''The luckiest day of my life was
when I bought box of Bucklen's Ar.
MICA Salve," writes Charles F. Budahn
of Tracy, California. 1.-TWO Csc boxes
cured me of an annoying case of itch
ing piles, which had troubled me for
years and that yielded to no other
treatment" Sold under guarantee a,
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Dean Beals of Moline, left this morn
inv in Dooley's Hartford auto for
Urbana. They will be the guest of
Roy Collins at the ID. X. E. fraternity
house during the state interscholastic
athletic meet, in which they are enter
ed as Rock Islands representatives.
The meet is to be held Saturday at the
university grounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

The committee expects to have its
work about completed by the time the
banquet is held and recommendations
for the publication of the list will be
made. The committee will. however,
recommend the continuation of the
search for members and by the time
the book is issued it is hoped that the
present address of every one of the
LOO members will be known. The
work of the committee has aroused a
new interest in the association and in
the school, and it is possible that the
association will be able in the near
future to post an annual scholarship ut
the state university.
All May Attend.
The executive committee in sending
out the announcements has had the
cooperation of the directory commit
tee, but as the latter committee has
not located some of the members AS
yet, it is likely that some will not re-
ceive announcements. The committee,
however, urges that all alumni attend,
whether notified or not. and it is also
urged that those who do not receive
a notice at once communicate with
either the executive or the directory
committee, so that the names may be
entered on the lists.
There has been no directory issued
since 1888. and naturally the records
of the association are very incomplete.
In fact the directory committee has
located number of members whose
names have never been entered on the
mailing list of the secretary. The COM
mittee Will recommend the revision Of
the directory every five or 10 years
when the list is once brought up 10
date.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
LINE o. DOPE.
Continued from Page Three.)

(COntlnued from rage Inree.1
If the case If proven against him it is
all day with Bill for while. Indeed.
for life.
Manager CantillOn of Washington
has been suspended for three days for
umpire batting. He .,faced Jiggs Don.
ahue, late of the Chicago White Sox,
in charge of the team.
The South Atlantic league, which
started out with II men limit, has
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1SzZzTl2zE2
MRS. ROBERT J.. wYNNE.
Misses Garrard Leave.

Misses Garrsrd Leave.
The Misses Garrard. daughters Of Col
mel and Mrs. Garrard, Of Fort Myer
nave left Washington for a few weeks,
Miss Lucy Garrard 90 visit relatives in
Charlotte, n. c.. and Miss Valerie Gar
Tard for a short stay in Westminster,
Md
Mrs Gilman. widow of Captain Gil
man, L. s A., was hostess at a small
benefit card party at Fort Myer. las;
evening.
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Mrs. P. Lee Phillips, who has been
spending q few weeks at Elkins, w.
Va, the guest Of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Lee at their country place, GTacelands.
has returned to Washington.
A,rs. David B. Tenant is spending
several weeks at the Homestead Hotel.
Virginia Hot Springs.
Mrs. II. ". McNeaI and the Misses
McNeal have gone TO Atlantic City for a
few weeks.
The Washington times., 1909-07-20
MARRIAGE BY MEN AS A GAIN
Full TRADE.

Some men, whether for defense or
out OF pride, announce to the world,
especially the feminine portion of it,
that they are not marrying mem
that is TO say, they have little SYM
pathy with the honored estate of
matrimony, or, at least, no intention
OF entering it.
Not so was it with Christian John
son, who has just entered upon a sen
tence of seven years in a California
prison for bigamy. 3igamy seems a
feeble word in connection with John
son, who. by his own confession, mar
ried a score or two Of women-mOre
women, in fact, than he can remember
johnson explains that he made his liv-
ing by marrying.
Before retiring from the public gaze
johnson gave an estimate of how much
money he had made by his multi
tudinUus marriages, for every wife
whom he took to his susceptible bosom,
it seems, brought him money. 1t was
for money and not for love that John
son married. He obtained his Iiveli-
hood by going to the altar and sealing
himself. year after year. as often as he
could obtain them, to fresh victims.
Johnson, who is not without a sense
of humor-he could scarcely have been
under the circumstances gave TO the
reporters some rules by which women
may be easily won. tt would be sad
to think, and it viii surprise timid
bachelors to hear, that the charming
sex Is so easy as this much married
seoundrel ayers; and yet we must ac-
cept the statement as one founded upon
a wide and indisputable experience.
The story of Johnson's career, how
ever, illustrates how lightly matrimony
is entered upon by many women, and
seems to explain, in part, why in this
country there is such an appalling num-
Der of divorces.
Women do not make even a casual
investigation Of the character, past or
future prospects Of the sutton; they
take him upon his personal credentials,
give their welfare into his keeping
usually hand over their money and
await with blind confidence the result.
II that result is disaster and misery,
as so often happens, they have only
themselves to thank for folly that viii
seem to minds of ordinary common
sense incredible.
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ALDRICH MAY LOSE
ON COTTON SCHEDULE
President Finds That Many Senators Are Opposed to
the Duties Imposed by the Chairman of the Finance
Committee They Promise to Do

release from which will prove embar-
RAISING Every effort viii be made to
take care OF the Senators who have beer
with the committee from start to I'm
ish. II is freely admitted, however, that
this canpot be done If the President
wishes are TO prevail
The Finance Committee believed that
the bin which they hoped TO bring out
of conference would prove sufficiently
satisfactory to insure its passage and
the mem bers We're willing TO shoulder
responsibility for the measure. It IS
now declared tnat the Presidents pro-
gram VIII lose TIE committee much OF
the support IL had while the bill was
in the Senate.
Up TO the time Mt. Taft stepped for
ward with his ideas Senator Aldrich and
his intimates were willing TO produce
the votes necessary 10 adopt the con-
ference reporC They are no longer
willing to do so. The President having
virtually injected himself into the con-
ference, the committee now feels that
IL is up TO him. The position is taken
that Senator Aldrich IS relieved OF ali
responsibility and that the President IS
being looked to to engineer the confer
ence report safely through the Senate.
This attitude is so well understood
9mOng the Conferees that they have
practically ceased making any material
progress on the bill.
The Views
Of One Senator
"What Is the use OF going ahead until
we know where we are at said a MEM
Der OF the committee today. Strictly
interpreted the President ideas would
necessitate changes in some features %
the bill. II he can put his program
through there is nothing FOR us 10 do
but acquiesce. Just at present there Is
a hiatus and there viii continue to be
one until the atmosphere clears little.
The unwiIiingness of the Finance Com
mittee to shoulder responsibility Is re-
sponsible for the unexpected return OF
Senator Crane Of Massachusetts, 10
washington Senator Crane Is now ths
Presidents personal representative at
the Capitol He has been busy every
moment since his arrival, getting views
of the Insurgents as well as those OF the
Senators who faithfully followed Aid
rich. II IS said that these interviews
clearly demonstrated the determination
OF the insurgents TO insist upon SOME
concessions which were denied them be-
fore the measure went to conference.
The cotton schedule is foremost among
these demands and It IS now believed
that Aldrich will be made 10 see that
hs~Will have to give way and restore
the ad ValOTem rates.
Senator Crane. as usual, IS doing no
talking for publication, bat II Is kno7Sd-
that he expects TO have the situation 50
well in hand in a day OF two that ha
viii be able to inform the President
exactly what can be hoped for IN the
Senate.
The Washington times., 1909-07-20
Striking Articles In
August Scrap Book

The August Scrap Book is another
Illustration Of the wonderful field COW
cred by this extraordinary magazine.
There is a striking article, Genius
Lured Dy Drugs, on the immortal ere
ations of great minds held "a the grip
Of nerve-pa raiyzing narcotics. Work
ing Your Way Through College" bears
a message Of interest TO all Young
America. and When Man Is at His
Pest IS a thoughtful discussion OF a
vast problem by Francis NJ: Blorkman.
Tweuty-Six Special Articles.
in all there are twenty-six special
articles OF the widest possible appeal
half a dozen snappy short stories, and q
generous showing Of poetry and mis-
cenauies
The Washington times., 1909-07-20

FrenCh-Harding.
Miss Dolores Holmes Harding and
Rainsford French were married yes
terday morning at the residence OF
the officiating clergyman, the Rev
John Chester, on o street.
Immedi" tely after the ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. French left Washington for
a trip L. New York and the coast OF
Maine, where they will visit Mr.
French's father. DR.. William B,
French, at his country place.
Mrs. Richard Poole and Miss Anna
Cost Poole closed their apartment in
the Westmoreland this morning, and
left Washington for Richmond for the
remainder Of the summer. The mar
riagc OF Miss Poole and the Rev. Walter
Williams, rector of Grace Church,
Georgetown. will take place upon their
return in the early fall.
MIS-. Frank Simpson and her daugh-
ter, Miss Flora Simpson, of Chevy
Chase, have gone for visit to rela-
lives in Virginia
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increase the power of monopoly where
monopoly already exists, and TO in
crease the temptation TO establish
monopoly if it doesn't already exist.
The free raw material program viii
not ultimately popularize the measure,
If it is understood. There isn't a dime
OF annual saving in the cost of living
for any family in America in this
program.
There would be dollars of saving for
every family, in a simple amendment
of the sugar schedule that would break
the power of the Sugar trust.
Why not do something for the con
sumner, gentlemen of the conferenceg
The Washington times., 1909-07-20
ROBERT j. WINNIE AND FAMILY
TO MAKE HOME IN WASHINGTON
Mrs. Wynne and Children
Have Already Arrived
in New York.
Miss Taft to Attend Miss
Rockers Coming-Out
Party.

Mrs. Robert J. Wynne, wife of the
former United States consul general at
London, accompanied by Miss Ruth
Wynne and Masters John and Charles
Wynne, arrived in New York yesterday
on the steamer Minneapolis from Lon
don, MIR. Wynne was to nave made the
trip over with his family but was de-
tanned by business for few days. Upon
hs arrival they will come to Washing
ton and make their home here after an
absence of four years.
Mrs. Wynne and her slder daughter,
Mrs. Hugh Ronald French, wife of
Lieutenant French, Of the British army,
then Miss Ida Wynne spent last winter
in Washington and were prominently
identified with the social activities of
the season. The marriage OF Miss
Wynne to Lieutenant French took place
only a few weeks ago in London.
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Miss Eleanor Rocker, who is spending
the season at Newport, has arrived at
the summer White House at Beverly.
Mass. for a visit to Miss Helen Taft.
Miss Taft will go to Newport for the
coming-out party of Miss Rocker. who
IS to be among the seasons debutantes
in few weeks.
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Senator w. Murray Crane has re-
turned to Washington after spending
several days at his summer home, at
Dalton, Mass, with Mrs. Crane He
viii rejoin Mrs Crane Immediately after
the close Of Congress.
Mrs Everett, wife Of Rear Admiral
William II. Everett, has arrived in
Washington for a few days stay from
Newport, where she IS spending the
summer.
The Secretary of War, Mr.. Dickin-
son, returned to Washington yester-
day from Fort Monroe, where he
spent the weekend, attending target
practice Saturday.
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DR.. and Mrs. William c. Gwynn, who
have been spending several weeks at
Deer Park Hotel, Deer Park, Md,
viii return 10 their home at 1886 o
street this evening
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Gen. and Mrs. Horace Porter,
who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
p. J. Berwind at Newport. have re-
turned TO their home in New York,
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Cornelius ". Wickersham, son Of
the Attorney General and Mrs Wick
ersham, and his bride. who was for
merly Miss Rosalie n. Hinckley, are
spending their honeymoon in the
Maine woods.
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Former Senator and Mrs. Marion But
Ter viii close their apartment at the
Portland tomorrow. and will go to their
plantation in North Carolina for week
or -wO, before sailing, early ia August
for an European tour
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must sell TO him. It would be a sin to
let him get away SO he replied:
Yes, I have one that / am sure viii
just 1T you And producing it, he
dTapeG it over the shoulders Of the Gus
toner, and hastily reached for huge
pair Of scissors.
Hold, what would you do with
thOseT demanded the customer.
1 must cut il of; it is a trihe too
long, replied the tailor. Can you not
see that it would be more fitting to
you If it were but a little shorter?
The customer looked it over careful
y, screwed his mech around, and studied
it with care.
sell II 10 YOU sir, unless you permitted
me to shorten IT, 1t would speak IN Of
my workmanship to sell a coat too long
for its WeaTer.'
THE customer studied it some more.
and said.
'Methinks il is not too long; / doubt
If it Is quite long enough. But I'll take
And the clever tailor held him I'D
for two prices and sent him away hap
py Which is just what they're getting
ready 10 do to us and the country with
this tariff BILL concluded Mr- Murdoch.
Senato~ Clapp Of Minnesota, is a reg
ular purchaser Of cigars at the Senate
restaurant. To see him purchase 9
handful of expensive perfectOs one
would naturally suppose that he was
an inveteTate. The Senator. however. is
only a dry smoker He almost in
variably has a stub Of 2 cigar IN his
mouth when outside Of the Senate
Chamber. but the end is never lighted.
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And the Rats Came Back.
The rats have decampeA from the
Senate office building. They have gone
as suddenly as they came. When the
subway was opened between the office
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By The
Washington
INES Men

building and the Capitol. they poured
through the tunnel in hordes and over
ran the new structure, terrifying the
stenographers and eating up the garden
seeds. Now the garden seeds have
been mailed out. and the old lumber III
the court Of the office building has been
hauled away OF burned So the rats
have betaken themselves back to the
Capitol, In the catacombs and Iabyrinths
underneath which they disp0rt them
selves hy the thousand.
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Friends OF Representative DENLY Of
Michigan, are pokjng fun at him be-
cause of his selection of an automobile.
With the exception Of Serene Payne.
Mr.. DENLY is the heaviest man in the
House He rode up to the Capitol the
other day at the steering wheel Of the
smallest automobile in Washington
and proudly proclaimed ownership
Whenever Mr.. DENLY steps aboard his
car the springs CTeak uotiCeabIy ana
there is decided list 10 starbOaTd.
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The best informed man in the employ
Of the House OF Representative is
James C. Courts. clerk Of the House
Committee on Appropriations. When
ever any one runs up against a legisIa-
tive joker he promptly hastens to Mr.
Courts for relief. It doesn't make any
difference whether the question has TO
do with appropriations, Mr.. Courts will
know about it. He is not unapprecIated.
The legislative, judicial, and executive
appropriation bill each year carries the
provision that during the incumbency
Of the present clerk OF the House An
preparations Committee he shall receive
$1,000 in addition to the salary fixed by
law,
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/ Senator AIdrich is face to face with
defeat on the cotton schedule which he
| has repeatedly declared is the keystone
/ &c protection President Taft has dis
covered In talking with Senators whose
votes will be necessary to put through
! his program for free raw materials that
, they are unaItera bly, opposed to several
! features of the Aldrich Jill and that
! they are particularly insistent that Aid
rich be compelled to give way on the
cotton schedule. 1t is now regarded as
| almost a certainty that the Senate FL
nance Committee will be informed that
I this schedule must be changed.
! The cotton schedule in the House bill
carries the ad valorem duties after the
fashion % the Dingley law. but Senator
! Aldrich substituted specific duties. In
doing so he aroused the antagonism Of
/ the dry goods trade throughout the
/ United States. He has been insistent
/ that the specific rates would not result
| in increased duties, but this argument
has been comba1ed so successfully that
| It Is nov. confidently predicted that the
/ President win insist upon the restora-
/ ton OF the ad valorem duties.
Committee
Not Working Hard
/ The Finance Committee is not working
overtime to assist the President in put
| ting through the program which he out
| lined in the statement given out at the
( White House last week, in which he de-
clared himself ia favor OF free raw
materials wherever possible. and real
downward revision, Senate leaders ad-
nit that If the President takes a firm
stand and insists that this shall be so
and that shall not be so they are bound
to give heed to his demands.
A strict Interpretation of the Presi-
dents ideas, however, will play havoc
with the pet schedules OF several MEM
! hers of the Finance Committee and also
those of members OF the Senate who
have been assured from the outset that
they would be taken care Of To follow
the Presidents program now Will mean
that several pledges win have to be
broken. These were made in the early
days of the tariff bill in the Senate.
The committee will not regret back
ing down on some of them. Several
members are being accused Of having
southland received-the kind Of treat
meDt their States demanded in the
tariff bill. and then failed TO give the
Finance Committee the hearty support
which the members Of that body had
been led to believe would be forthcom-
ing I'm return for the concessions
granted.
There are other pledges in existence,
The Washington times., 1909-07-20

The New York American has been
polling the governors Of States and has
answers from sixteen who favor imTne-
date adoption Of the income tax amend
uent, and seven who are nOn-COmmit-
tai That ratiO IS likely TO be about
maintained when the legislatures act,
and 1t will be found in the end that the
necessary number of Publications will
be secured only with very great diff
Guilty and as the result OF a determined
popular campaign.
The Washington times., 1909-07-20
INSIST
FIGHT MUST GO ON
If Tariff Bill Is Not What They Want Recalcitrans IN
Congress Declare They viii Keep Up the
Battle for Lower Rates

The battle for tariff revision will
go on. if Congress puts through bill
that does not accomplish genuine re-
auctions in rates T'tiis is the tone of
the talk from the Republican insurgents
in Senate and House,
II no revision dow award now, what
next2 This is the question one can
hear the insurgents ,tsking. And there
is no doubt they are bent either on
getting something approximating TO
what they want or going ahead on a
further campaign for lower duties. Many
of them hold that the tariff question
has become a question now that is big
ger and broader than any party and
that the time has come for men TO
sneak out plainly from other than a
partisan standpoint. This is what a
good many of them have been trying
to do through the special session, and
they are looking forward now TO carry
ing their case 10 the country 1t cannot
be doubted that this spells trouble, and
MANY uneasy hours for numerous Re
publican members of Congress. unless
the bill which is evolved is satisfactory
to the country.
President Taft is given credit among
the insurgents for doing his utmost with
the bill in conference, and the insur-
gents hope that the bill which comes
out will be such as they can support.
But. they say. frankly, they do not
expect il will be. They fear II will be
so near the Dingley law as TO not be
in accord with what they consider the
nIatfOrm promises Of the Republican
party, as they view those promises. The
insurgents. especially in the Senate. are
openly saying they do not think lower
duties or none at all on a few raw
materials will make the bill down.
ward revision one. and that they can
not overlook the high duties in num-
her Of other instances.
The Washington times., 1909-07-20

A Connecticut mans nelghbor called
UP his house to tell the family how
sorry they were at receiving news Of
his death, and the supposed deal man
received the condolences, II wasn't
Mark Twain either
The Washington times., 1909-07-20
HIS THEORY.

II notice he always speaks well Of
himself"
Yes, me saws that his friends will tell
The had about him. Louisville Courier
Journal