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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
TAVENNER IS PRAISED

the control of interlocking director
ates and other devices which result
in the Capitalization of wealth under
the dominion of what is known as the
money trust.
Whether powerful aggregations of
capital have sought or are now seek
ing TO exert undue influence over leg
isldtion involving the conservation to
the public of the water power, mineral
and other resources of the United
States and Alaska.
What efforts, if any, have been
made, or are being made by railroads
to influence unduly legislative or ad-
ministrative action to their benefit.
ITO what extent has this undue in
fiuence or invisible government been
used by individuals and corporations
to gain advantage in the letting of
contracts for government supplies,
such as armor plate, powder, submar,
inc boats aeropIanes and other mill
tary supplies, as we'll as the supplies
of the postoffice and other depart
ments.
Whether and TO what extent such
insidious and improper influences have
been exerted or are now being exert
ed in connection with legislation af
/ fecting the American Indians, inter
state commerce, coastwise and for
eign shipping, the Philippine islands
the control of the sale or shipment Of
, intoxicating liquors, and such other
legislative or administrative matters
as may come to the attention of the
! committee.
ITO investigate and determine wha
methods are being used or have beer
used by special interests to exert un
due influence, whether the above-re
cited methods have been employed
and what other methods, which, in thu
Judgment of the committee, are i'm
proper. have been used.
In making the report of its investi
cations the committee is instructed t.
compile a list of lobbyists, settini
down after each name the interest tn
bearer thereof represents, such list t,
be printed for the information o
members of congress, officers of tn
government and the public of tn
United States"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Confident MANS Waterloo.

NO" said the grim old captain of
industry, Il guess ill have to decline
your proposition. You might be just
the right man for the place; still I'm
afraid must give it to some one else"
But, my dear sir" urged the self
approving applicant, I'm positive that
you will make a sad mistake if you de-
cline to give me the position. AS
told you when made my application,
l have never failed at anything in my
life. I'm positive"
That's just it. No man can amount
to much without falling at something
or other, and l don't want you to begin
at my expense"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
John A. Logan Enemy Dies.

Sterling, Ill, July 1O.-DeXter Fos-
ter, the man who in 1877 controlled
the members of the Illinois legislature
and then defeated John A. Logan in
his candidacy for United States SEN
ator, is dead at his home here.
Mr.. Foster held the balance of pow
er in the deadlock that preceded the
senatorial election in 1877, and final
ly obtained the election of David
Davis, a member Of the United States
supreme court at that time Mr.. Fos-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Dunno Plans His Vacation.

Sprin gfield, Ill, July 10-Governor
Dunno has planned to leave Spring
field next Tuesday for a rest. He is
keeping his destination secret, an
nouncing only that she will be accom-
panied by his private secretary, Will
liam L. Sullivan, and County Treasur-
err William O'Connel of Cook county,
his chief political adviser. When tl,I
governor returns he will probably an
nounce several of his most important
appointments.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
THE GETTYSBURG CELEBRA-
TION.

II is practically agreed that the
celebration Of the semi-centennial of
the battle Of Gettysburg was the great.
est peace jubilee the world has ever
seen or will ever see. Fifty thousand
veterans who fought each other in
the bloodiest Of fratricidsl wars met
again at Gettysburg last week, for
the first time in half a century. and,
as one visitor said: The tears that
fell as the former enemies met II
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

John D. Rockefeller, at "a, advises
us. If we would enjoy long life, to
practice temperance in all things, in
Guiding money-making. or course the
oil king does not expect the average
young man of today to appear in his
tory as his rival in accommodating cash.
And, then, II intemperance in money
making were a certain preventive Of
longevity we would imagine that they
would have sung the final hymns over
John D. many years ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
MIGHT Give Stamps With Them.

Might Give Stamps With Them.
so those five plain-looking ladies
are daughters of Bunkum, the mer-
chant prince?'
Yes. Rather curious that they
don't get married. The youngest of
them must be getting pretty close to
thirty"
1T is strange. And he seems to be
such a firm believer in the efficacy of
trading stamps, too"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
OF Course He Did.

''If I were nominated for the presi-
dency of the United States" said Mr..
Henpeck. Il would"
You nominated for president of the
United States?" his wife interrupted.
What are you thinking Of? You mean
if we were nominated, don't you?"
Then ne changed the subject.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

dear"
Yes, they had q big turkey COB
bier out there"
But l don't see why turkey COB
bier should make you homesick."
Why, you see. he had such a big
double chin that every time l looked
at him I couldn't help thinking of
you"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
July 10 IN American
History.

1SG3-F Federal attack on Morris island,
Charleston harbor, opened with
bombardment of the outworks OF
Battery Wagner
1SS9-Julia Gardner Tyler, widow OF
President John Tyler. died; born
1920.
1s90-President Harrison signed the
bill for the admission of Wyoming
into the Union.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Thoroughly Approved OF.

Yes, always turn down my glass,
when I'm at q banquet.
That's good. II would be a shame
to let them waste any by filling It
before they discovered that you
didn't drink"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
All Dead Ones.

"In India BARRIERS rank high. So
cially, they are the equals of the
priests"
Say, where do poets come in over
there?"
Same place they do here"
where's that?"
Among the illustrious dead
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

Mrs. Mollie Netcher, owner of the
Boston store in Chicago and alleged
premier business women Of the Unit
ed States, is married. We may now
expect her business to decline, If the
Chicago alienists' theory is correct,
that love is lunacy."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

Congressman McDermott of the
Chicago stockyards district, replying
20 the Mulhall charges, says he is
willing that his record should speak
for itself. 1t has already spoken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

I saw nesting yesterday
Step forth and gaze around,
And. though the old birds did their best
To coax II back within the nest.
1t fluttered TO the ground.
They sought in vain to have it stay,
To still accept their care,
And. as it left the old home tree,
The parent birds excitedly
Went darting here and there.
1 saw a nesting fly away.
And pity filed my heart;
They whom we cherish graduate
And leave us signing at the gate
AS proudly they depart.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
THE ARGUS.

PuhIished daily at 1924 Second ave-
nue.. Rock Island. Ill Entered at the
pcstofice as second-cIass matter.)
Rock Island Member of the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

Discussing lobbyists, the Cedar Rap.
ids Gazette says: They are so
smooth they'd make a barrel Of soft
soap look like a mountain of nutmeg
pratars"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
REMINDED HIM OF HER.

ooh, ma" said
little Harold, who
had spent the hol-
idays with his
uncle Thomas out
in the country, Il
got terribly home
sick"
I'm so sorry,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

ter was one of the early Illinois pic
neers, settling in Whiteside county in
1S4S. He was native of New Hamp-
shire and was 81 years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
As II Would Seem.

Emerson says prayisg is a dis
ease"
Then swearing must be an cpl
lemic."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
The Great Struggle.

We toll, we scheme. we fight, we blur,
And all for this. that men may see
Us. some day, rich or great enough
To have our pictures taken free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

A regular user Of the telephone
these days has both his temper and
his self.control sorely tested.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Information Wanted.

did you" asked Uncle David, lever
hear woman refer to man as the
noblesr work Of Cod"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

scheme of life, but says that not he
alone but all working men shall have
insurance protection against accident,
sickness, old age and death"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

None Of this weeks Balkan battles
were lost; both sides won in all of
them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
Discretion.

Now. Mike, you must forgive your
enemies"
"Ugh"'
DO you object to thatf"
Not altogether There's some OF
EN- ! might as well forgive ! amt
Dig enough TO lick 'em."-Louisville
Courier-IonrnaI.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
a Bad Joke.

"A famous college president declares
that there are no new jokes"
"Ah, he does, does heT grimly re-
.rned the old codger. well, he ought
toNee the husband my niece has just
maTrHd and brought home to live or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10

Speaking Of summer resorts, why
not try Rock Island first?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-10
BY The J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMs-Ten cents per week by car
rier, in Rock Island.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made 10 the circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where Il is desired to have
paper discontinued, as carriers have no
authority IN the premises.
All communications CT argumentativs
character. political or religious. must
hsve real name attached for puolica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Telephones IN all departments: Cen
fral Union. West 145. 1I45 and 2145.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05
Coming Events

Sept 6-Annual Reunion of the Tracy
Family Gouldsboro Point.
Sept. S-Popular Vote on Two Proposed
Amendments to Maine Constitution.
Election Of Congressman Third District.
Sept 10-11-Reunion 18th Maine. Bangor.
Sept 10-11-ReunIon of Fifteenth Regt-
mental Association of Lewiston.
Sept. 12-Somerset County Veterans'
and Ladies' Auxiliary, Good Will Farm.
Hinckley.
Sept. 17-1S-19-Maine Women's Christian
Temperance Union Annual. Rumford.
Sept. 15-20th Annual Encampment G.
A. r. and Allied Organizations, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
Sept n-Maine Federation OF Women's
Oct. 2-l-Maine Musical Festival. Ban
gor
Oct 6-S-Maine Musical Festival, Port
land.
Oct. 22-24-Maine State Sunday School.
Annual, Augusta.
Oct UO-Sl-Maine Teachers' Association.
Bangor.
November S-7-S-Bangor Fruit Show.
Bangor.
Nov. ia-47th Annual Session National
Grange Patrons of Husbandry. Hanches-
Nov. 1s-sc-Ma,ne state Pathological.
Lewiston.
December 15-16-17-1S - Maine State
Grange, Bangor
Dec. 22-21-ber wick Poultry Association.
Berwick
ton, Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05
Anything to Beat Republicans.

Let everybody vote for Lawrence and
make 1t unanimous i'll Names Third con-
gressional district There is no sense in
voting for any other candidate than Law
tent and promise to steal no more-Lew-
iston Journal
Sinners are penitent and their prom
ises to sin no more are accepted only
VIXEN they eat the Dingley dirt.
IF you will do just as we tell you
and ask no questions, you are good
enough to vote our way. But if you
refuse to believe all the lies we tell
you about yourself and your associates,
then you are a CRATER, a swindler, a
white SLAYER and member of a press
gang. In other words, you are a Tory,
Reactonary. an Old Guardsman, and
Larcenier, and are best described as
Penrose- Hale Burleigh- Peters Nero
Richard the Third Guiteau-C zolgosz
type of the party of rogues, rascals and
highwaymen with the label Republic
can"
III you vote with me, we are on the
road to Damascus. but anyone vino
votes with YOU is on the road to the
place where they incinerate rubbish. "
We wonder if any of our readers
ever heard or read anything of the
above tenor.
At time when every honest man OF
any party or faction knows that tn
Progressive candidate has not a shad
ow Of chance; when all know that Re
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05
Maine Gossip
"Life's Track"

6uC tfdShs
This game of life is dangerous play
Each human soul must watch Away
From the first to the very last.
] care not however strong and pure
Let no man say he is perfectly sure
The dangerous reefs are past.
For many a rock may lutk near by
That never is seen when the tide is high
Let no man dare to boast.
When the hand is full of trumps-b
For that is the time when thought and
care
And nerve are needed most.
As the oldest jockey knows to his cost,
Full many a well-run race is lost
A brief half length from the wire.
And many soul that has fought with
sin.
And gained each battle. at last gives in
TO sudden, fierce desire.
And vain seems the effort of spur and
whip,
Or the hoarse, hot cry of the pallid lip,
When once we have fallen back,
1t is better to keep on Stirlup and rein,
The steady pose and the careful strain
In speeding along life's track.
a watchful eye and strong, true hand
Will carry us under the Judges stand,
If prayer. too. does its part
And little by little the struggling soul
Will grow and strengthen and gain con-
troll
Over the Passionate heart
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05

of the considerable sources of wealth
to the Republic. All this in fifteen
years--no time at all
This illustration is typical. Dozens
of schedules of our vast tariff scheme
furnish examples equally striking.
These achievements were due to
that faith in the American people
which is the very soul of Republican
ism. And that the American people
could thus succeed was denied with
that sombre infidelity to American
enterprise which is the ruling eharae-
teristic of the party of opposition.
This faith in the American people
which distinguishes the Republican
party; and this disbelief of the OPP
position in the ability of the Amerf-
can people to do things and in the re-
sourcefulness of free institutions to
permit American people to do things
this faith of one party and this dis
belief of the other-have been equal
ly displayed in every phase of Ameri-
can enterprise and activity from the
sixties during which time the OPP
position party declared that the war
is a failureo down to the last session
of Congress, when the opposition
party resisted the construction of the
Panama canal.
You will find, young man, that the
whole life of the Republican party for
fifty years can be summed UP in
these words: We Americans can, VIE
Americans Wilt and as the result of
these two following: We Americans
have achieved On the contrary, the
whole life of the opposition party for
fifty years can be summed up in these
words We Americans cannot, We
| Americans dare mott
We oppose We deneunee,'
We protest. We deny'-how ia
miliar these phrases in the opposi-
TONS platforms.
SO we see that the Republican
party is the party of optimism-of
faith in the American people; and
that the opposition is the party of
| pessimism-of doubt denial, forebod-
ing. gloom. Between them let young
men choose"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05

ana tppk hltn "a tht ess4AYafg The old
mans wits Ntfe fseida tsfit his tustna
~ Tor All Things eshhefiaG with dead
mems bones was accurate He af once,
announced that The Etsss haa been oe-
eupied by Armstrong. ihe fnhkeeper.
DR.. Dome inquired abo,ita the VII
lage concerning the death of Arm
strong. and the oldest inhabitants re-
called the wife's queer story and her
remarkable haste To get married again.
There was reason for SUSPICION at
least; hut the good doctor found IL al
most impossible to believe that the fine.
devout woman, who listened to his SER
mons so closely, could be guilty of an
atrocious crime. II evertsa calm. I'M
troubled face spoke of a. clear con-
science, the face belonged to that wo-
man.
But he felt it his duty to set his
doubts at rest IL she WAS guilty. the
law must have its due; If Innocent, she
should be indicated. SO one day he
called at the inn with small package
in his hand. The good wife was over
whelmed with pleasure and pride. She
took him into the best room, and while
her hack was turned he. opened his
parcel and placed the skull upon;
table. When she turned around she
saw Ii and her face became ghastly.
ITS curious SKULL said Donne.
taking it up: see how "a huge nail has
been driven into it And he looked in
to her eyes as though he would read
her soul. She sank into seat weeping
and meaning. and then, while the gen.
tie pastor held her hands, she told how
she slew her husband ,H8 tz5-.=
She was convicted and sentenced to
death. and during the brief interval
between her trial and execution the
man who had been her Nemesis proved
her comforter and CONSIDER. He was
with her almost constantly through
these trying hours and to such good ef-
feet that she went out of the world
hopefully with smile on her lips
Kansas City Star. - .fii ~. aae
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05
Skeleton of the Missing Link.

Has the missing link been diScov :
cred? Recent disclosures of 10 por-
tons of the anatomy of being pro-
nounced qualifiedly by scientists To
have been human. brings this question
again in the ascendency. Ten skulls
have been found at Neanderthal, Glib
raltar. La Nadlette. Spy Malarnaud
Krapina. La Chapelle aux Saintes, LIE
Moustier, La Ferrassie and La Quina
that are in such state of preservation
as to permit of morphological studies.
Prof. Marcellin Boule, one of the
most eminent of the French SCIENTISTS
pronounces them to be human. and de-
clares they belong to a race that more
nearly connects with the monkey than
anything previously discovered. Yet
he declares these beings lived while
there was more highly developed
race of humans in existence. There
are differences between the skulls, but
they are only such as might be ex-
pected in different individuals, and NJ
Boule thinks the differences insight
ficant by the side of their Fundamental
resemblances.
He suggests that they all belong to
the same species of mankind, and
should be called. after the first skull
discovered, Neanderthal n man. The
chapelle- aux Saintes skeleton is, how
ever. the most complete of the type
| and has been very closely studied by
| the Franch anthropologist. He finds
that it offers very few points of re-
| semblance with the skeleton of the
most primitive living race, the Aus
tralian black; and, in general, the
Neanderthal fossil men have greater
number of ape-like characteristics
than any living human type.
| M. Boule asserts that whether we
| incline to the belief that all human
races spring from one primitive type
or that there are several lines of de-
scent, yet We must regard Neander-
thai man as a species distinct from
living man, the homo sapiens."
His reasons for the assertion are
based on number of skull charac-
teristlcs which are absent from all
normal human skulls o-day; such, for
example, as the absence of forehead,
the fiatness of the occiput, the shape
OF the chin, the position of the eye
'"NNeS anu tlic SUSPENSION VI ehS
jaws.
Nj. Boule asserts that while Mean
derthal man still survived there was
superior type of man living in Flu.
rope. This man could not have de-
scended from the Neanderthal man
but must have belonged to nobler
type, and possessed a more sapient an
cestor The two types probably exist
ed side by side; and the Neandertha
i survival from an earlier epoch was
that "underman" of his day. 1t seems
probable that he disappeared altogeth-
, err, even as the Tasmanians disap-
l peared in our own day, about the time
of the advent or period of Mousteriar
man.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-05
Deceivina Drug Victims.

San Francisco recently furnished one
of the most convincing illustrations OF
the effect of the imagination upon
drug users that has come to public at
tention in some time. The authorities
seized 500 pounds of white crystals
four trunkfuls-in hotel, supposins
1t to be cocaine. Under analysis t
proved to be crystalized sugar cane.
The sugar had been put up in drug
bottles bearing the name of Mon
treal manufacturing chemist and Ia
bled Cocaine hydrochloride, large
crystals, highest quality 1t was eVl-
IDENTIFY plan to impose in a who're
sale way upon the creduility and eraV-
ings of drug users. Had the RAID no!
been made the distribution to retaii
distributors would have been accom-
plished in another day or two.
Physicians frequently have decelVeo
drug victims into believing they were
taking cocaine and morphine wheh
the pellets administered were nothing
but dough balls coated to carry out. Inc
subterfuge.-New York Sun-