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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06
sudlow & Co., investment bankers.
Safety building.
River Steamer Cos Down.

Thebes, Ill, Dec. 6.-The steamboat
City Of Savannah, enroste from Cairo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06

hand wrought initials, plain or
fancy, loo to 25c.
Armenian lace edge initian hand
kerchiefs, only 50c.
Children's crossbar and plain hem
stitch handkerchiefs up from 1c.
Children's initial handkerchiefs in
fancy boxes or singly, SC up.
Ladies' all linen cross bar 10c.
Mems colored borded or all pure
white handkerchiefs, sc.
Mems pure linen hemstitched or
initial handkerchiefs, sheer or
medium weight, 10c to soc.
Many Of these are most unusual
values and can be safely stated to
be 80 to 40 per cent less than pres
emit values.
on. Look them over and tell
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06
At Y. M. G. A.

Tomorrow night the Toastmasters
club viii hold it's regular monthly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06
Sale of WOmen'S
Sweater Coats

Just right for Christmas come
these sweaters. Not In the house
over three days. that means right
from the makers, new, stylish and
useful. Note the prices.
Fancy weave sweaters, high roll
collar, pearl buttons, white and car
H51,s ss aa,s values ',ss SI.9O
Sweater coats in grey white and
cardinal, with double row pearl
buttons, also heavy weave sweat
ers. coed style, trimmed GO az
in contrasting colors, at pZ.0C
Sweaters with sailor collar, all
plain colors or white with dainty
light trimmings. very ca 40
special. .................p O. ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06
Correct Corsetry.
Lillian Russell Says
"COsfiy thy corset as thy purse can buy tor
the corset oft prOcLdimS the stylish Uon1an"

Many fashion journals trying to make us think
but when she gets dressmaker she finds she
cannot do without it. She must simply LOOK as if
she corset.
The day OF Wasp Waist large bust and redundant
hips, has passed and have found that their
dress be Portable artistic beautiful and stylish
the same time.
Most women now know that it is longer necessary
to be uncomfortable to be correctly corseted
There has been more real improvement in corsets in
the last few years than any other article womans
attire.
From a torturing Of iron and heavy cloth, it
has become dainty bit lingerie Of the softest and
pliable kind.
The up-todate corset is designed that disposes
the flesh proper places and helps to disguise the
fact that has little bust or too much hip or
vice
With than fifty different models it is as easy
for corsetiere to fit your figure perfectly
with a late design, be fitted with ready to wear
shoes We insist that you should be perfectly COM
Portable and the lines the exactly suitable to
your figure.
To unusual interest in corset section for
the balance this week, shall take of our most
popular makes Of corsets, viz: The well Regis
and famous P. N corsets and sell them this way:
5000 Corsets for $3.50
$3.50 Corsets for S245. $3.50 Corsets for SLY
$3.50 Corsets for ..95c s1OO Corsets for Sic
Thousands Of in this community have worn
and wearing these two celebrated makes and
fashionable models, and we don't need dwell upon
their style. quality At, just mention the saving
by buying Thursday Friday and Saturday. Come either
day anytime and buy you choose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-06

Christmas Hosiery
In boxes, ready for giving.
Women's imported lace and en-
broidery Isle hose, in a Christmas
box PAIRS FOR $500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
THAT DEATH DEALING MATCH-By George Eaves D D.

are employed, was sufficient to bring about this result. He is really middle aged man, but prematurely aged, and his wife and child have been aided to return to Germany, where they are among rela- lives. What he now asks is aid to gel home. But his preearious subsistence Is upon tomatoes, milk, coffee and other soft diet When he brought suit against the company he was easily defeated, and he did not get a cent
 Is John Werner-is the 19-year-old girl from the same factory whose whole lower jaw, except three or four front teeth, is gone-is the lone German widow, who lost both jaws in that factory in two years q legitimate result of the risks of indus try? Granted that industry has it's dan gers. Granted that only progressive com panies like the Steel Corporation in its various branches assume their share of the loss when damage comes to an em- ploye. Granted, too, that the conception of community risk in all employments is a new and astonishing idea to backward minds. Granted, moreover, that it is a novel way to do good thus by taxing the bad out of existence. Yet who would ob- ject to the higher price of matches cre- ated, if necessary, by estopping the com- petition of the cruel and deadly white phosphorus match? Who would be willing to bubble about an economic or political theory of taxation when folks are dying men and women, particularly women and girls-dying by a foul and execrable dis ease which can be so easily and effectual- ly stopped? This is the community's share of the peoples safety.
 Granted further that MT Tuner and a few others would be compelled to buy the raw material for the new process at such price that he could no longer undersell
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had an instance of "phossy jaw in his plant I have evidence, however, that MT. Huner employees only 60 persons in his plant. It is plain, as the association sec- retary, MT Andrews, observes that if MT. Tuners i"thousands'' are employed only 60 at time, they must work for a very few months each. And since the disease only occurs among those operatives who work continuously. in closest contact with the chemical and in lingering the matches, clearly only a small proportion of those "thousands would be exposed for a very brief consecutive period
 Mr Huner also averred that he was selling matches at half the price charged by the big manufacturers, and he man. aged to impress the committee with the idea that the surrender of the patents was rendered quite valueless because the big fellows still hold the supply of ma terial necessary to the production of the non-poisonous match.
 Let it be further explained that the Escl bill by it's proposal tp tax the poisonous match, attempts to put it out of compe- tition with the sesqui-sulphide which un- der present conditions is little more ex- pensive to produce.
 The problem vexing the committee of ways and means therefore is created by the danger lest the match trust, taking advantage of the ban on poisonous phos- phorus, should force up the price of matches, already protected by a tariff, and continue unrighteously to bleed the There is also the principle involved of using the taxing power to destroy an in dustry viz: the poisonous match indus try. There is a humanitarian shelter for the hesitancy of the committee in the claim of MT. Huner that operatives whose
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industry in the hands of what is known as the match trust.
 Undoubtedly there is a match trust in the sense that a great combination of plants is a trust. The head and front of that trust is the Diamond Match Co.,, and they are in close bonds of commer- cia interest with the chief English man. Co. They have factories in many parts of America.
 Undoubtedly the Bryant & May Co pur- chased from the French the rights to man. ufacture sesqui-sulphide matches in Eng land; and in order to enable legislation there to eliminate the poisonous match Bryant & May sold at cost to the whole body of English factories these patent rights.
 Furthermore the American rights were purchased by the Diamond Match Co, and in January of this year were turned over by that company in order to hasten the exit of the poisonous match, to group of three disinterested and promi- nent citizens as trustees who might sell to any manufacturer the formula and pave the way for the Esch bill. This rangement was criticised as failing to guarantee an open field for manufactures. Owing to the urgent representations of the Association for Labor Legislation the Diamond Match Go. then cancelled it's patents, for which it had paid heavily, proving, it will be supposed, its sincerity and disinterested concern for employees in the dangerous industry. On tho strength of these preparations the Esch bill was presented to the committee of ways and means, and in opposition came the evidence of Mir Huner, who averred that he had for six years been employing "thousands of operatives and had never
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teeth are kept properly filed do not fall victims to "phossy jaw
 Here, however, is the present situation: There are some American factories turn ing out non-poisonous matches; but tine poisonous match cannot be eliminated in this country by act of Congress except through the taxing power. Congress can not bar any state from manufacturing what it will Neither can Congress do as the European government did, enter into a treaty agreeing to carry out such a prohibitive act Hence the Esch bill was framed along the only available lines. It's self-evident motive was. and is, the pro- lection of the operatives.
 Considering the failure of American law and courts to protect employees of in dustry from accident or to enforce a real ly effective employers liability law, which is as much needed in the interest of the employer as of the employe, there is an overwhelming humanitarian argument for the Esch bill. Even supposng it does create monopoly, is not a monopoly less dreadful than these broken lives, these faces from which all the jaw bone and teeth have been removed, these persons condemned to carry the stench of the ter rife disease with them, and sentenced to live out their days on sloppy food because they have no teeth?
 From Secretary Andrews I have bor- rowed a photograph. Tt is the face of an old German named Werner, who to Ashland, O., and is now living there in a shed near the rail road tracks and carrying an ap- peal to charitable people, setting forth the facts. Both his jaws are gone, and the disease is still active, One year and five months work in a small match fac tory in Ashland, where only 20 persons
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[ thrills have any commercial value in this world, the chap who pays his \ @ cents per month for the daily pa per comes more nearly getting his moneys worth than in any other bargain he may drive. From the performances of Mrs. Vermilya, lying sick-a-bed camoring for roach powder. to the last word of the yellow man. Yuan Shi Kai; from the de- tails of the nervous condition and gar rulity of the Birmingham commissioners to the first class drama played out these past weeks at Los Angeles Cor was it tragedy Dat the rate of 40 thrills for ? cents, say. Can you drive a better bar gain than that on Morris avenue, or at your o'clock market, or at any of the bazars or markets under the sky? These last words of your daily paper. hot from the heart of the world-crisped and con- centrated, burning like fire shaping his tory: indeed the last page of history! For your ? cents of American money you become repository for all of the tale bearing of the globe.
 Who loves talebearers? Not I for one; yet here is q most persistent talebearer, withholding nothing, letting the cat out
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Let II WOfk.
 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard.'
 TT was this way. A New England shoe shop made about the best foot gear you ever saw It was shapely, it was stylish, it was handsome it was service able, and it was worth the price. Pro- tected in the domestic market, it made more shoes than it could sell at home without cut in price. It sent it's sur plus aboad, and with the weapon of cheapness it conquered a big trade in a country of continental Europe, where you can buy this shoe at $1.50 pair cheaper than you could get it in any store of America.
 It's speciality was a shoe made of kan garoo leather, such as is only tolerable to old men. for the calf skin gets to be came along and made sham kangaroo leather, that only the expert could dis tingush by sight or feeling from the genuine article But it was even morn inferior than it was cheaper. A shoe made of it looked all right and felt all right for couple of weeks, and then 1t scaled off and would not take backing at all This concern sent d cargo of those shoes abroad to their custom and made big money out of the venture. They fave never sent another shoe abroad that was marked as their brand In that market they are blacklsted. For a mis- erable profit on a single cargo they parted with their good name, and with their profits which had been built up by hon est dealing.
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the Diamond company's match in New York That is the price he and other in- dependents would pay to save America from her present humiliating rank among | industrial nations. She is practically the' only one which does pot ruthlessly de- stroy the cruel and baIDarous and stupid manufacture Dollars in America are pre- ferred to life. We sell human beings for dollars. nay for a few paltry pennies per thousand matches
 But we expect to prove to the committee that there is no such control of raw ma terals by the match trust. We expect to prove also that MT. Tuners statements need careful interpretation, that the num- Der of days during which his operatives worked is too few to demonstrate his con- tention about the teeth that the disease is wholly unnecessary, but that no fac- tory where the old method is in use Is im- mune to the disease MT. Andrews recent nvestigat ations show positively that the very best equipped factories in the world. using the old process, have produced ghastly and dreadful cases
 Inasmuch as Birmingham Underwood, the coming democratic nominee for Pres ident, is a through humanitarian, and the most influential single legislator in hand ling this matter, our responsibility is very great. I venture respectfully to suggest to those who may be interested that they confess their willingness to pay, if nec- essary, more for their matches than thus to carry their share of the responsibility for the present dreadful conditions. Surely if a trust is the only instrument whereby 'phossy jaw may be eliminated From American civilization, we have at last found trust forgivabe, a rara avis, a beneficent trust!
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invades the teeth and bones of operatives, inflicting incurable and ghasty. injuries. The disease so produced is terribly pre- still using the old process. America, sad and humiiating to relate, still adheres to the old method and still adds, year by year, it's quota of victims from whose faces the jawbones have been removed by successive operations In the too often vain endeavor to arrest the necrosis or dying of the bone.
 During last session of Congress a bill promoted by the American branch of that great philanthropic organization, The As- sociation for Labor Legislation, and known as the Esch bill was presented by Mr. Esch The matter was referred to the committee of ways and means, of which MT Oscar Underwood is the splendid chairman. In the course of the inquiries conducted by that committee a certain New York manufacturer, a Mr. Huner, was heard, and it appears that Mr. Hun er's testimony was considered sufficient to postpone action by the committee. MT. Tuners plea was that the bill proposed to tax out of existence the manufacture of the old style match and that this would work grave injustice to himself and other independent manufacturers.
 This is indeed fact so far only as the Esch bill proposes to tax out of existence the manufacture of the poisonous match. It is not fact so far as it is supposed to work injustice to the independents. At this point progress is haltng today. The committee asks for proof that by taxing the poisonous matches at the rate of 1 cent per hundred, the law would not throw the independents out of the running and put the whole business of the match
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~ ONE months ago one Sunday morn-
 ing I discoursed to readers of this o paper on the dangers of match mak- ing. Everyone who has ever attempted the industry in that social sense which crowns itself with orange blossoms and marches to the music of wedding bells is well aware of the risks involved. Don Cupid is a queer fellow, and hates those who take liberties with him. Especially does the unfortunate dabbler in Cupid's wiles righteously suffer when he-more freuuent1y she-palms off as the real ar ticle a shady and seductive imitation. Then doth the sweet nectar of Hymettus turn to the juices of an unfrosted Ala bama petsimmon. Then is the match most noisome. Yea, doubly toxic. Then is the atmosphere of the new-made home surcharged with the fumes of sulphur and the bale-fres of phosphorc poison
 So 1 come to the other kind of toxic match. the poisonous household necessity which lures babies to chew its bright red ends, and then by it's ghost gibbers and waves and dances around their hps Ill they die in agony, the innocent victims or a halting civilization.
 Readers who were before interested in the need of legislation against the poson- ous phosphorus match will remember that a substitute for white or yellow phos- phorus, which is to say the common pois- onous phosphorus has been discovered and is now available. It is known as the sesqii-sulphide, was first used by the French government in the great factories of that.sf sSntry and is being used to the exclusion of poisonous phosphorus in nearly every civilized land. The reason for the change is that most subtly the ,volatile fumes of the ordinary chemical
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one who subsequently wore his crown Some said he was the son of the Grand Duke Charles of Baden, and that he was kidnapped by the Countess of Hoch-berg, who desired to divert the succession.
 Aina, as the Princess called herself at one time, had a most checkered career Of her earl5 life she is said to have had no remembrance. Even the names of her parents she did not know. they having died, as was said, when she was too young to learn them. An uncle. or so he was caIed. brought her up in Per sia and also looked after her property. This property constituted q vast fortune in lands which lay in Russia. v
 She became known as the "Sultana Ali na," as now it was rumored that she was the daughter of Turkish sultan. She figured pro ninently in Asia. Belgium, Paris, London. Germany and Italy. She had wonderful story to tell. and gov ernors. cardinals and kings listened to her with amazed interest. She enaeavored to enlist armies and navies of various kingdoms in her cause, for she boldly claimed the Russian throne upon which Catherine sat. Many. acknowledged her as the daughter of the Empress Eliza beth, whom Catherine succeeded.
 II was known well enough that Eliza beth had borne a daughter whose father wss the obscure Shubine. who was sub
  beria and that the daughter was mys- teriously put out of the way. There was nothing easier to believe than that AIina, otherwise Tarakanof. was the daughter of Elizabeth and heir to the throne of all the Russias.
 When Catherine heard that she had a rival in the Princess Tarakanof she determined to entrap her The prin- cess was in Italy, living life of eA- travagant luxury in Pisa. but was ir- veigled into a trip to Naples In Ma ples she was enticed to visit a Rus sian shipv of war. She was immedi- ately seized and borne to St. Petersburs and by Catherines command she was put under the fercest examination Nothing. except what the whole of Eu- rope had heard, could be learned from her respecting her right to the throne of Russia. She gave her story over and over again without committing her self, for she was the prisoner of an ambitious and heartless woman She would say, q was brought up at Kiel, | never knew my mother or father; when l was 9 years old I was taken to the interior or Russia, where I was given poison" She was then sent to Ragdad, where a rish Persian took charge of her; afterward she was taken to Ispahan. Here, from the Persian prince, she learned the story of her birth. namely, that she was the daugh- ter of the Empress Elizabeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
GOOD POLICY--By Savoyard

man of his day enjoyed an able speech more, and no other ever had less patience with a silly speech. Tn all his career pliment more than twice-once when he eulogized Oliver Cromwell, the great lord protector of England, whom he resembled and Henry c. Turner, with whom he hao no single thought in common.
 It was not frequently that Reed relaxed and got down with the common herd. He lived so high in the clouds that he had actual contempt for the fellow on the dead level of the commonplace. His bete nor was a republican member from one of the Dakotas, who he swore was the re- incarnation of the wild ass colt mentioned in the book of Job
 One night. long after l should have been abed wrapt in the slumber of the just, was necesstated to walk through La Fayette Square. It was about couple o'clock in the morning. Near Jackson s equestrian statue were Tom Reed, Bob Cousins, Jonathan P Deliver, a member of the House from Illinois whose name I cannot now recall. and, Tom Browne, per- haps the other one was. Cousins was a-spouting poetry. He could do it capital iy. and never actor had a more sympathet- ic audience. l saw at glance that Reed was relaxed, But l did not malt. I passed on on the other side, not like the Levite, indeed, but as one who was not sure of his company.
 am and have long been sorry that I did not stop and butt in. I am sure t would have rodounded in advantage to mo
 Washington, December 1.
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BILL VINES ON WATT BROWN

work, that grate school, with a pro- fetick eye he looked into the future, and foresaw that if he built up a big school at Ragland and it becum known to all the boys and there fathers that they could go to Rag land to Watt Browns school and get g free educasion that it would not only be grate thing for the boys, whom Watt synseerly wants to help, but it would also be big thing for Watt, as it should be. Watt has al- ways mixed considerabul in polyticks, and while once and while he mite get beet for an office, he is like Bry- an and is perfectly willing to try try again, and unlike Bryan he occa- sionally gets elected. He used to be alderman at Attalla, ana aftur man once gets to be alderman at Attalla no reesunabul man can see what he wants with enny further honors, but
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seem to be content to trail after news like the Tgorrotes after heads, or like bloodhounds on the scent of a criminal offender. From casual observation, 1 dare guess the joy of getting their "story" into print is not surpassed by the Igorrote who gets his neighbor's poll or the hound that quarries its victim.
 And yet between the Igorrote and the news man there is one vital difference. The first class news man finds an equal joy in winning a piece of news tha, makes for restoring his neighbours head that has perhaps been ,decapitated by islander.
 And between the hound and the re- porter there is fixed gulf; for the honest newsgatherer trails down a gra- cious act of altruism as zealously as he would an act where blood and tears are involved. However toughminded the na- ture of his work may be, he is al least fair and impartial in his valuation of news for itselfs sake. Though he may be ever such a scapegrace himself, he will be planning perhaps to get fund started for the welfare of little chil- dren.
 In a very vital sense the active daily