davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

known to the public,
but complete restor-
alton tohealth means
so much to me that
/ cannot keep from
telling mine for the
sake of other suffer
ing women.
az had been sick
about twelve years,
and had eleven doc
tors. / had drag
ging down pains,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
Wise Physician.

wise physician.
II told the doctor l was tired OF
waIting. so be asked me to put out my
tongue and close my eyes. Kept me
that way for ten minutes"
And meanwhileT
HE attended to four other patients"
louisville Courier-Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
DAVENPORT

Licensed TO Wed.-Erich II. Michaels
and Miss Anna D. Wittmack OF Daven-
port.
Sues for separation.-Mrs. Emma
Beard yesterday filed suit for divorce
from her husband, John Beard, alleg-
Ing that he deserted her without just
cause. They were married in Chicago
May 4, 1908. The plaintiff is repre-
scented by Attorney W. C. Mott.
Divorce 10 oranted.-The application
for decree Of divorce which was filed
in the district court some time ago by
Mrs. Minnie Russell against her hus-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

Avoy of Washington, Iowa, Mrs. Rol-
and Gray of Winterhaven, Fla, and
Mrs. Elwood Register of Muscatine,
Iowa, and five brothers; John McAvoy
of Washington, Iowa, Doublas NJ Nc
Avoy, Minneapolis, Mimi, Enoch Nc
Avoy Of Kansas City, Daniel McAvoy
of Chicago and Robert McAvoy of Val
ley Junction. Iowa. The remains were
taken to Muscatine for burial.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
$3.50 to w, =. M. 8.

$3.50 to W. =. NJ. s.
Decatur, May 3.-The Women's For
eign Missionary society of the First
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
WOMAN SICK
twelve YEARS
Wants OtherWomen to Know
How She Was Finally
Restored to Health.

Louisiana, Moi think q woman
naturally dislikes to make her troubles
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

Catch One of Prisoners.-Earl JAM
ieson, one of the four prisoners who
broke out of the county Jail two days
ago, was caught by the police Thurs
day night at Second and Iowa streets.
He is now back in his cell at the Jail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

Sustains Bad cut.-Fred Rasmussen
cut his right wrist while at work In
the Hager tinshop yesterday fore
noon. Several veins we're severed and
DR.. Perry Vessel, who was called,
found it necessary TO take stitches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

New Superintendent. - Theodore
Brown is the new superintendent OF
the Marseilles Manufacturing com
pany's plant at East Moline, succeed
ing this week to the position held by
Martin J.. Eggan since removal TO
East Moline
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27

case of war. This we learned when We
went to war with Spain; this was empha-
sized when our fleet undertook to voyage
In peace around the world, and this has
been accomplished each year since when
coal had to be carried from the Atlantic
seaboard to our West coast for our naval
vessels. Whatever we shall do now 10
promote indirectly the merchant fleets OF
other nations we shall to just that ex-
tent hurt our own merchant marine in
times of peace and hazard our national
honor in the hour of strife.
The Panama Canal, even though IL may
benefit the merchants of other lands
and they have a right to profit by our
work upon the isthmus-should be a
source of vast business expansion for
our people, and the freights that fol-
low In consequence should be mainly
carried I'm ships of our own building II
the canal is to be the medium OF inaug-
urating a period Of satisfactory Amer.
lean maritime growth" as the Commits.
sioner Of Navigation has expressed II.
then that can be realized only If the ship
Yards of this country create that growth.
other nations are anticipating the opsn-
ing of the canal by making their prepare.
tons. Our own people can do but little
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
A Lays MANS LAND.

Williart Allen White, at an old-fasn-
toned Halloween party in Emporia' t0.a
Kansas story.
Nature is superlatively helpful here u
Kansas" said Mr.. White, as he watched
half a dozen pretty Kansas girls VINO
tried, their hands fastened behind their
backs, to snatch with their teeth the
enormous Kansas apples floating In tu'
OF water Mature IS so superlauNeH
helpful here that one could almost believe
the story OF old HI Robinson.
"A neighbor, passing HIS fertile farm
one autumn day, found the old feIo"
smoking a corncob on fence.
Nothin' to do, "Hi"?' he asked.
"'No, nothin' much, the old man al.
swered. L had a right smart grove o.
pine trees to cut down, but blamed II ias'
weeks cyclone didn't level 'em FOR m'
and split 'em up, as Well
Wonderful country, Kansas, said 'h'
visitor.
"'You bet! HI agreed. You know
them stumps I was goin' to blast! "s'
the lightnin' saved me the trouble
"Do tell! Say, that's fine potato crOs
over there, "Hi"' And the visitor noa'e'
toward field of white poisoning vines
Ives, amt it?' said the old man. u
Jest waitin' for an earthquake TO con''
along and shake the Eaters outen INV
ground, same as usual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
CATS THAT CAME HIGH.

Senator La Toilette, apropos OF the
campaign contributions investigation, said
to a Washington correspondent:
1T used to be that the party bribed
the voter. Now, it seems, the voter brides
the party-and not with S bill or so,
but with quarter millions!
"I suppose that vicissitudes like that Of
Nola Chucky cat no longer happen to
eletioneers.
Nola Chucky man to get his vote. The
man himself was out, but his wife said;
81 can't promise you nothing about
Jonathan, sir He's independent Hell
vote as seems best to himself
THE electioneer, after being as agree
able as possible, rose 10 go. But first ne
patted a wretched, NANCY kitten on the
woman's lap.
I'm very fond of cats he said. I,
shouldn't mind giving you s. for that one
THE woman jumped at his ofer. Shs
locked the s. in a drawer, put the cat
I'm a basket, and as she ushered the man
out with his purchase on his arm sns
said:
IN do the best / can for you about
that vote, sir. AS l told you before,
Jonathan won't be Influenced by anybody
The gentleman that's electioneering for
your opponent spent full hour here with
me uselessly yesterday-and, by the way,
he bought the brother OF that kitten Oh
yours for SO"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
PRESENT AVAILABLE -coAsTACANo SEA TONNAGE.
| NORWAY
|44a4assrns

until Congress has removed the obstacles
which have hampered our shipping in the
past and our national legislature has
placed all Of our shipping in position
to meet foreign competitors upon fairly
approximate basis of equality, TO say the
least. This is a far larger issue than mere
party politics. Surely We have statesmen
wise enough to provide properly for our
needs and our commercial Advancement
beyond the seas. II we have not then
we must acknowledge our incapacity CON-
pared with the shrewder foresight Of
Great Britain.
II is a notable fact that every helpful
act and every contemplated law intended
by Congress TO promote our merchant ma
rine, within the last twenty years, has
met with prompt and substantial re-
spouse by American shipowners Our
people will surely do this again and on
a handsomer scale If justified. But our
shipowners have been led, alas, into ex-
pensive preparations in anticipation Of
the passage Of certain beneficial laws,
only to find after they had obligated
large sums Of money that Congress was
unwilling to keep its promises. Naturally
our shipping interests don't want 10 be
caught again in this manner. However,
preparation is necessary II we are to be
on the field fttingly equipped when the
canal opens. Foreigners still enjoy all Of
the advantages that have so long been
theirs, and they are therefore taking ap-
propriate steps now to reap the harvest
which is in prospect for them upon tho
opening Of the Panama Canal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27

,u,,v nayigated than the craft that bears
the English flag, and these conditions are
taking from the Briton year by year some
~ the advantages which he has come 10
think were peculiarly his own. The jap
anese shpyards are now turning out
snlendid merchant steamers-those no"
engaged in the transpacitic service are
larger and faster than those OF the single
American line running from San iran
c,sco To the Far East. The japanese are
determined 10 do everything In their
mower TO widen their commercial reia-
tions and to carry the freights in their
own vessels. There is every reason 10
suppose that they will continue 10 au-
vance and to realize their desire. Inc
Germans are inspired by the same pur-
nose. and the figures Of their increase III
the foregoing table show how consistently
thew are making good. These are all
tborns in Englands side, and they are
9oad,ng on that nation to desperate et-
forts 10 turn a mere treaty OF courtesy
into a business document peculiarly bene-
actal to British commerce.
ANY one can see that the imposition OF
tolls upon British shipping and the Tree
dom from tolls of American vessels Would
tend to bring the rivalry for ocean trade
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27

OF universal benefaction: 1t is commercial
self-seekng. pure and simple, and we
should profit by the outspoken candor or
that authoritative journal. AS The
Times" puts It:
'If the bill becomes law 1t will prove
little short of disastrous to British ship
owners. (This refers TO free passage for
all American shipping) The preponder-
ance OF British tonnage in the American
trade renders the passing Of the bill OF
vital moment. Millions Of quarters Of
wheat are carried annually by British
vessels from the west coast of North
America. Nine tenths Of the nitrate from
South America Is carried in British bot
toms A vast trade is done by British
steamers carrying oil from New York to
the Far East. The enormous quantity or
American coal shipped from the northern
United States to ports on the west coast
almost exclusively employs British ton
mage. The Panama Canal will open a
shorter route for these vessels, enabling
them to effect an appreciable saving OF
time. A further market for the British
ship owner will be the development OF
the coal fields on the west coast OF South
America. The passage OF this bill,
however, would undoubtedly give tre-
meudous impetus TO the American ship
building industry. With their best brains
and energy devoted 10 the work, the
United States will now proceed to turn
out vessels on a Wholesale scale, and,
aided by their freedom from Panama
Canal dues. there is little to prevent them
from entering with success all those
trades in which British ship owners arc
now the principal carriers. At the same
time, faced by the handicap imposed upon
him by those same dues. the British ship
owner cannot hope To compete with any
satisfactory result against the state CT
! things which will always enable his OPP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
A Typ4ca1 Fore 4gn
R1cb * ONf Cost?

Is without just foundation in any public
law ever before recognized in any other
instance by Americans or Englishmen as
applicable to Indian titles on this CONT
nent"
In 1S4S the United States entered into
q treaty with New Granada, which had
sovereignty over the Isthmus Of Panama,
and in that treaty a guarantee OF pro-
lection was arranged between the two
countries for proposed railroad across
the isthmus. At that time New Granada
enjoyed undistWbed possession of the
Isthmus OF Panama. The difference be-
tween the situation in Nicaragua and In
New Granada must be borne in mind.
In 1850 because OF Great Britain's arbi-
trary dominion, in the name Of the Mos
quito King, over the port Of San Juan,
and, IN fact, over the greater part OF
Nicaragua, the United States and the Brit
Ash Authorities entered into the Clayton
Rulwer Treaty, which was merely guar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
Japan cs <
Paci/io LinetI

reached after discussion OF the Panama
Canal toll problem may penetrate TO the
heart Of American shIpbuilding. A con-
cluslon upon that question which shall
be consistent with our own traditions and
precedents and with the policy which We
may be sure any other maritime nation
under similar conditions would adopt VIII
mean the beginning of a period of salts
factory American maritime growth"
Other nations are keenly alive to what
the opening OF the Panama Canal Will
mean 10 their merchants and to their
mercantile marine, and most OF the lead
ing maritime countries are now making
energetic preparations TO be ready TO
take advantage of the shorter routes to
favorable markets which the canal Will
afford Even TO the tyro In matters COM
mercial and international II will be plain
that all OF these rival nations expect tc
gain their biggest rewards through over
sea traffic, and 1t is equally true that
the United States would profit most by
similar intercourse with foreign markets
The coastal trade, pure and simple, OF
the United States would be measurably
increased, and a coastwise shipping ia
that extent would be handsome gamer
but the greatest field for profit lies beyond
| the seas and in those markets TO the south
OF us in which we should rightly be su-
preme.
! In order to understand what the Pan
ANA Canal may mean to other nations
let us see how the United States ant
those countries compare, and let us mark
how they have developed their merchant
fleets in the last twenty-one years. The
following table will give these details
and also the measure OF the percentage
increase. In this table we have given the
] tntal ahinnlnp nk thu limited States hui
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
Express Seee-4oer- They Have, Grown

ponents to carry cargo at lower rate OF
freight"
Certainly, our cousins across the sea
are frank. For nearly a century we have
been progressively suffering because
of treaties by which the British diplomat
made II possible for British shipping to
drive us gradually to our present medi-
OGRE position in oversee transportation.
The Britons that are criticising us now
so outspokenly would probably temper
their language did they but know better
something of the manner In which their
business minded statesmen have looked
upon their obligations to us. Most of us
know what brought on the War OF 1872:
we had become commercially too strong
upon the sea to please the English people.
The opening Of the Panama Canal is an
other vital epoch In the history of our
foreign commerce.
III the last report of our Commissioner
OF Navigaton-that for l9ll-he says:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27

ers by placing handicaps upon our own
shipping while leaving alien merchants
and their marine to reap the lions share
Of the very fruit of our toll. History is
repeating itself, and the foreign press and
foreigners within our gates are doing
their best to stir up discord and to be-
cloud the issue in order that our ocean
traffic in our own ships may be blighted
on the eve of an era Of golden promise.
British newspapers and British agencies
have been loudest in their denunciation, but
none Of these are speaking for the rest of
the world. They are concerned only with
looking out for British shipping and In
keeping for that flag the preponderance
Of oversee traffic. They want to hold us,
as we so long have been, dependent upon
British merchant craft TO carry the bulk
Of our oversee freight and the most
profitable part of our foreign mail.
THE London Times" has really blurted
out the whole truth. and 1t Is pot a tale
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
GERMANY
iL25a.568T Tors
FRANCE
|4.5eo.o66bs

10 a still more critical stage-to meas
ure making the race for recognition In
business more directly between the Ger
mans and the japanese and our own
ships, If properly encouraged by legisla-
ton. Naturally, this is a development
toward which the British people cannot
look without grave mlsgivings They
know they cannot fool either the Ger
mans or the japanese into treaties which
would in any way imperil the growth OF
the shipping and the oversee transport
ing under those foreign flags, and as we
have been before, the English want to
make us a stepping stone to their ousl-
ness predominance upon the sea- and 10
march over the sinking body OF our ocean
trade 10 dominance in this golden trafnc.
This is not an empty figure of speech
but the undenlable story of the part we
have played before in helping our cousins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
THERE WAS A REASON.

Frank Gould at Halloween diilh''
told timely story. :.
1.-The morning after Halloween
said. "a youth remarked TO his father:
"I don't know what's the matter W.
mother. l never saw her in such so
humor. She's singing and smiling ar0D"
the house like a bird "A.
THE old man nodded absently over :.
newspaper. Some minutes later, 40
rose to go to the office. he grcwled; -.
81 can't imagine what got INTO :,
stewards OF that Halloween bahaue'
ours that we'd been counting 50 muc, "a.
Blest If they gave us anything TO 'i'
but mineral water"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
TREATIES WITH ENGLAND.

Our dealings with New Granada were
not involved with Great Britain; our
treaty was with a friendly, independent
government. and it was an interocean ran
way which primarily inspired the agree
ment Many years afterward, when Pana-
ma had become a separate country, we
bought the strip OF territory through
which the United states and not private
company Of Americans was to dig the
canal England had no territorial rights
and she had herself initiated the steps
looking TO her abandonment OF the pro-
tectorate she had exercised over the MOS
quito Coast. BY the Clayton Bulwer
Treaty Of 1850 the Nicaraguan Canal was
not to be fortified, and no government was
( to exercise any control or restriction over
the private company in possession OF
public utility for the benefit of the World.
The purpose Of the -Pauncefote
treaty was to change the whole spirit OF
ownership and management of the ran
! ANA Canal by making it the property OF
/ the United States and 10 guarantee fair
. and equal treatment to the rest Of the
world in the enjoyment of transit through
the canal under terms which We should
have unquestoned right TO establish.
Great Britain had no authority In Cen
trail America during the final years Of the
unsuccessful efforts of the French to dig
| the Panama Canal, and she had no rights
which she had fostered by any helpful
| acts which were properly subject to ad-
| tustment when we bought the canal strip
/ from the Republic of Panama. Great
Britain's own act in the SOS and the civil
changes wrought in Central America by
its own people had virtually made the
CLAYTON Bulwer treaty a dead letter. The
Hay Pauncefote treaty should properly
be considered in the light of international
ethics and as an expression on our part
to the entire world-not particularly to
Great Britain--that we intended to treat
oil foreign nations alike and TO give the
rest Of the world every privilege con-
sistent with due regard to our own people
ana their rights because OF the part they
have taken in making this shorter trade
route possible
We have recently had every reason to
wonder whether our legislators were alive
TO the claims of the people they represent
To the man in the street II has looked
! very much as II they were bent upon
/ turning our natural rights over to forsiGn-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
,one.third Of this plies on the Great Lake

'One-third Of this plies on the Great Lakes.
A mere casual reading of the foregoing
table will show Germany and Japan to
be the nations that have added most to
their commercial shipping during the In
teryal mentioned, while the percentage
of British development Is smallest OF all,
but this is, OF course, Offset by the Inn
mense total tonnage at her disposal The
British and the Japanese have a measure
OF their shipping engaged In strictly do
nestle trade, but Germany has no
coastal traffic, and substantially the whole
OF her merchant marine goes abroad
British shipping is slowly yielding It's su-
premacy, and the Germans are at present
the most formidable competitors, while
the japanese are slowly but SUCCESSFULLY
absorbing the native traffic in the Far
East and deliberately striving TO COM
mand the Pacific trade In the carriage OF
freight In ten years, British steam ton
mage has declined from So per cent of the
worlds total to 45 per cent. and even this
does not tell the whole story. Part Of this
decline is due to the higher wages paid
the British sailor as compared with the
rival ships of Germany and Japan. What
will probably surprise most Americans is
the fact that the average rate of pay for
seamen aboard a German steamship Is
nearly 81 less than that of japanese
sailor per month, while the British sailor
is only little better off than his Oriental
rival
One reason why the German sailor 10
content with his lesser pay is that he thus
escapes military service. Just the same.
there is no question as to the general Mt
! ness Of the German seaman, and physical
| ly he is quite the equal of his British
! competitor. The German ship Is as well
| h,u. 81 mn .LufuiIu not mara care
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
An Authority Gives Here the History of the
Project with His Views of the Opportu-
mites and Rights of the United States
in the Matter and Discussion of the
international Relations Involved.

antee 90 the American charter hoiuers
that they should be protected in the build
ing of the canal and that the waterway
should exist "as ship communication De-
tween the two oceans for the benent Oh
mankind on equal terms to an Three
years later-that is, February Is, lS0S-
President Fillmore. who had succeeded
President Taylor, wrote to the senate anu
the House Of Representatives as follows
81 transmit a report from the Secretary
of State embodying the substance OF re-
cent communications made by the Minis
ter of Her Britannia Majesty to the De
partment OF State on the subject OF tiie
interoceanic canal by the Nicaragua route
which formed the chief object OF the
treaty between the United States ana
Great Britain of April 10, 1850, and the
relations Of Great Britain TO the protec-
torate of Mosquito which she expresses
herself DESTROYS of relinquishing on terms
consistent with her honorable engagements
TO the Indians of that name"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
The He-rbor is o cee-se1ess Highway for
the Fetior's Plenty II, TransitJ

"The policy with reference to canal tolls
which Congress may adopt Is more
important to American navigation than
any change in the navigation laws which
has been seriously considered in gem
Grafton The decision which shall be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27

1t must be borne in mind that full third
OF this tonnage is virtually locked up
within our Great Lakes, and only mis-
cradle percentage Of our merchant feet Is
engaged In foreign trade.