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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
FOR RENT-Roosrs.

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! FOR RENT-Three modern unfurnish-
ed rooms Inquire 1125 Third avenue
| FOR RENT-Twe, furnished rooms for
/ light housekeeping; 1907 Sixth ave-
FOR RENT-AIodern furnished room at
pa Sixteenth street Phone Rock Is
FOR RENT - Modern rooms for light
housekeeping Inquire 229-2I7 SIX
iesutu street
FOR RENT-FOur modern unfurnished
rooms at S@y Ninth street. Inquire
il2i Third avenue
FOR RENT-AIodern furnished rooms;
ladies' OF scntlemeus close in 10
FOR RENT -- one modern Furnished
room at I54 Seventeenth street. Phone
Rock Island l4II-A.
housekeeping rooms: water. sewer.
gas. 81 Twentieth street.
FOR RENT - Three modern furnished
rooms Tor light housekeeping. IN
quire lsl6lz rnird avenue.
FOX RENT-Two completely furnish
"a large light housekeeping rooms.
rent. $3.50 at 1914 Fourteenth street.
FOR RENT - Nice. light. airy light
housekeeping room. with kItcEeneite;
$3.50 p"r week. I0' ThIrteentn street.
FOR RENT - Furnished light house
keeping rooms. electric Hgnt. gas,
ultH. laundry and refrigerator. ZIls
Fiftu avenue
FOR RENT-June 1. two very large
housekeeping rooms. MODERN. gas
range. sink. bath, and phone. lIZV
not ana cold water IN rooms with
rock Island 1897.
FOR RENT-Three modern unfurnish- !
go rooms Tor light housekeeping, |
close ~. near car line. also furnish
oL room. Phone Rock Island 2s29.
FOR RENT-Furnlshed rooms for light !
EglscEeeplHgs opening on porch; |
ground moor. nice view. COOL clean.
Gas range. refrigerator. closet. one
car lines. 10 people OF good character
only 1916 Third avenue
PRoFEssIoNAI.-ATT
sEAHLE * MAEsaALL-Attorn
Rock Island
JACKSON. HUEsT & sTAFFoRp-At:
tefheys -at-law. once IN Rock Island
National bank building.
WALKER. INGRAM q swEENEY-Ai-
tCrueys and COunselOIs at law. Money
% loan on real estate. Rooms ZOO
ZJ3 Peoples National bank building.
WILLIAM NJ WALKER Attorney;
genera law business: corporation.
probate ana real estate law: sl1 Peo-
pies bauS building. Phone Rock Is
land S4s.
,
Dress PLEATISGs, BUTTONS COW
Erred, REMNANTS, DRESS FORMS.
KNIFE rleatings. &c a yard and up; ac- q
cOTdeoH pleatings. &C a yard and up. c
E-=rtCns covered from scraps OF RoodA .
lyc a dozen and up Ia all styles, 4
sIzcs ana colored ivory rims Felt ,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE

ABSTRACTS or title prepared or con-
Lnued 20 date covering any real &C.
tate n the county. Prompt ana &C
curate service a. reasonable Tutes.
Rock Island Title * Abstract COM
panys J. J Ingram. PRESIDENT W. J.
cNeeEey, EecreLarys -Dg-@J5. second
noor. PeOple's National bank build
Tag. Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
FOR RENT-FLATS.

FOR RENTNFive-room nat; apply 2ss2
Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-Modern four-room nat and
bath at 1888 Fourteenth and -a-half
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR SALE-Seven-rooIn house. strictly
modern, at 1874 Twenty-third street
Inquire at room 402 Safety building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
DRAFTING AND DESIGNING

WANTED --- Drafting. designing, gen.
eraI trafinss ana O!ue prints "a all
KINDS MADE Dy competent craftsmen,
prices Te,lsundb bic. runs Blueprint
company. BaV, npOrL iowa. Inous
Davenport sv46.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-Three modern unfurnish-
ed rooms Inquire 1125 Third avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT - Five-room nat opposite
Rock Island passenger depot Phone
Rock Island 399-L
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-Modern furnished room at
pa Sixteenth street Phone Rock Is
land $40.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR SALE-Household furniture, one
walnut bedroom set, one oak dining
room set, ne oak dresser. one oak
desk one set walnut open book
shelves. one Morris chair, box couch.
two mahogany rocker, two walnut
tables. Inquire George I. Roth, 74S
Twenty-third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
NATURALIZATION.


WANTED - Sewing of all kinds at S23
Seventeenth street Phone Rock Is
land 176S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-Twe furnished rooms 10
light housekeeping 1907 Sixth ave
nue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

COME and pick your cherries; 81 a
bushel ut the Bollinger Fruit Farm,
Thirty-eighth street road.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT - Modern rooms for light
housekeeping. Inquire 229-2I7 SIX
te-utu street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
wAsTED-EEMALn HELP.

| WANTED-Girl to do general house
work; 1900 Twenty-eighth street.
Phone Rock Island 1T93Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-MOdern furnished rooms
ladies OF gentlemen. close in; 40
seventeenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19
FOL. REST-aoUsEs.

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FOR EzsI-dJderu eI-.hL-ro0su nous
Inquire 1900 E'yuELl 4ggE1g.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-19

FOR RENT-FOUr modern unfurnished
rooms at S29 Ninth street. Inquire
I1s4 Third avenue.
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20
uRG 6 c . 6 c Q c . . c c . OIL
 IE HERE AND THERE. lT
 lfT z 99FF7o c c G c 6 c c c c c c 6 cg

Flower pots and hanging bask- ets at Prices bookstore. 11btf
 Fertilizers-All Kinds-South- ern Cotton Oil Go. 98b1m.
 Ladies long Kimonas only 48c at the sale.-Bowen's Cash Store 15d6t
 There will be a meeting of Ben Hur Lodge at Board Building Tuesday evening, when 12 mem bers will be initiated. All mem- bers are urged to be present.
 Don't forget to see the Palace Jewelry Store for that gradua- tion present. 9oo.
 Fertilizers-All Kinds-South- ern Cotton Oil Go. 98b1m.
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20
"STAR CLOTH/NG HOUSE

For first-class repair work go to the Palace Jewelry Store. 9d8 [ Dr. J. P. Robinson, president of Arkansas College, was here today en route home to Bates vile.
 l. D. Price for typewriter rib bons and carbon paper. 11btf 1 Legal blanks at Prices book store-mortgages, deeds and all kinds of justice forms. Send for price list. 11btf.
 Hen and chick feed also poul- try and stock remedies, at Bow en's Cash Store. 7d12w2 For Sale-Horse, mule, wa gon and harness, cash or on time. Apply to J. H. Elfrank. 2btf.
 J. Wise Brown, E. s. Bloom and E J. Mathews of Memphis are here today looking after bus mess at the "Sip" Bottling Go.
 Found-On Mink Hill, Grubbs road, a leather case, containing surveyors instruments. Owner may have same by calling at this office and paying for ad- vertisemq~' 11btf.
 For sat- A few carloads of wood. Call 1908, which is our Newport telephone number, or write Muirhead Shingle Com pany at Weldon. 99dtf. We will be glad to demonstrate the Buick car to anyone contem- plating purchasing an automo- Ibile. The Buick Agency, Phone 61J. 11b7 Kauga garden hose in 50 foot lengths, guaranteed for two years. Bowen's Cash Store. l7d1mo.
 Try Virtues Little Liver Pills at the City Drug Store. 69btf 1 Cedar Fence Posts, Sash, Doors, Lumber, Shingles, Brick land Cement.-Hubert's Lumber Yard, lower end Front st. 33btf 1 Knox mends shoes cheap. LII Walnut street. dtf.
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20
how's This i?

We oAer One Hundred Dollars Rewar fer any case Of Catarrh that cannot ee cured by Hails Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY X co, Toledo O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney the last 10 years and believe him perfectly hon. orable in Ill business transacti9ns and faancio;,r able to carry out any obligations made by hs arm
 NATIONAL RANK OF COMMERCE
 Toledo. Ono. Hall's Catarrh Cure ts ta61a iEtctnally atluF rectly upon the blood and mucous suriaOes oi tn stem, Testimonials sent free. Ptgce yE cent, pes ssttle. Sold by all lNuir-sts
 'ske ttail's FamHy Plfs iNr ,anslisaisaa
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20

Screening and all kinds of re-
 pair work done at reasonable
 prices. T. N. Humphreys, 918
 Front street. 93d24 For Sale at Bargain -One
 stake wagon, practically new.
 Apply at Stevens Grocer Go.
 O1btf.
 Wanted-Clean COTTON rags lat Independent office. dtf. 1
 For rent-Two furnished
 rooms for light housekeeping. I702 Newport evenue. 12d6 1 Do it now. Buy that graduat-
 ing present at the Palace Jewel Irv Store. 9d8
 Fertilizers-An Kinds-South-
 ern Cotton Oil Go. 98b1m. | Call Sam Denly about the Va
 cuum Cleaner, the only sanitary
 way. Telephone IF. 304dtf
 See R. Topp for extra staple
 cotton seed. 15b1O.
 For rent-Two good, modern
 houses. Hot and cold water. l.. Minor. d3 Forrest Bleakley of Auvergne attended the funeral of Will Luker in this city Saturday af- ternoon.
 John James Ferguson return ed to his home at Augusta Sun- day afternoon after a short vis- it here.
 All kinds of tin work, and re- } pair. Will appreciate your bus } mess and give it careful atten- q tion. Gus lowers, at Wolff a Goldman's warehouse, on Lau- \ rel street. 7dtfw2 J Fertilizers-All Kinds-South- ? ern Cotton Oil Go. 98b1m. 4 Miss Vela Jernigan Zada Roe
 and Mrs. w. R. Mcintosh of Batesville were guests at the !. Hazel hotel Sunday night en g route home from Little Rock. " For Sale-Red Cedar posts, 9 from 2 to 25 feet long. Apply y to J. H. Elfrank. 2btf. y Fresh county butter and eggs 4 at Bowen's Cash Store. 16d6 ' Miss Leona Maddox of the Y Weldon school, who spent Sun Y day at her home at Conway, was ' here this morning on her return S home.
 ' Graduating presents-the dia- a mond is appreciated most. See S same at Palace Jewelry Store. Y 9d8. < Miss Pearl Martin returned z home to Memphis Sunday after < a weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. < Geo. M. Sink.
 See Johnson-Avera Hardware < Co.'s advertisement of Herrick $ refrigerators. 13d4. I Have oak and hickory wood for sale, any side load.-Pno. R. Loftin, Jr., Phone 125. 22dtf Popular games at Prices book i store. Rock, roodles and finch. Price, soc, by mail 55c. Send stamps. 11btf 1 ] Mrs. Mary Ellen Marshal of l ] Little Rock, who spent Sunday 1 in our city with her sister, Mrs. ! John w. Stayton, returned l home this afternoon. Drayage of all kinds handled 1 promptly. Phone No. 10. - l Chester Robinson. 18dtf. | Miss Joe Love of Searcy who teaches music at Newark was here Sunday evening en route [ to Newark from spending Sun- day at home.
 Wanted-Drain or tile ditch ing to do. 10 years experience. | Call or address Fred Otto, at | Cooks hotel. Newport, Ark. b7 1 Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Fitzhugh, 1 ' Judge and Mrs. s. A Hail, Con- ' way Hail, Carter Fitzhugh and 7 Mrs. W. W. Byers, all of Bates ' vile were through here Sz1ur-
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.

The Rector of St. PauPs church will preach a sermon next Sunday morning on "Un- developed Resources" which will awaken the patriotism and pride of every citizen of Arkan- sas who hears it. The offering will be devoted to mission work AT HOME.
Newport daily independent., 1914-04-20
WEATHER FORECAST.

Tonight and Tuedsay fair and warmer.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05
e1zSTTS STOCK Excl ANGEzSA

for the benefit of those who engage in
trade and barter. We may, TO be sure,
kick the barometer to pieces, if the
weather il portends spoils our plans, but
the navigator who did that would then
be, worse off than he was before, And
kicking is no argument.
The best way to understand the stock
exchange IS TO begin at the beginning,
tracing its origin and development in the
light of collateral facts. Later on in
these articles | propose to speak about
the evils of some forms of speculation
and of the necessary remedies. At pres
ent let US see how the thing started.
Up to the end of the seventeenth CEN
tury, notwithstanding the growth of the
speculative idea, property and trade
we're so insecure that if man had saved
money he had to hide it or lend it at
such usurious rates as would compen-
safe him for what he lost in bad debts.
There were pirates by sea and highway
men on land. Sovereigns and mobiles ex-
torted loans only to repudiate them !;
governments supplied their needs by de-
basing the coinage or by issuing worth
less paper money. There was no such
thing as credit and banking; securities
were unknown. and the word invest
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

ment." in a financial sense, had not yet
appeared in the language Men could
and did speculate in commodities, but
wen this was dangerous because prop
erty rights were not restricted.
Introduction of Securities.
This was the situation until 1904,
when the Bank of England was founded.
II was and is joint stock affair-the
invention OF a Scotchman named Pat
terson. whose introduction into England
of bits OF paper called securities has
made more prosperity than any other
single contribution to the development
of trade since the world began. The
people seized with avidity upon this use
of securities as a means of translating
capital and credit into tangible forms
of wealth. Within a few years the New
East India Company was formed, to be
followed by the famous bubble, the
South Sea Company, in which the public
became saturated for the first time with
watered stock on a tremendous scale
Other companies were formed on the
new joint stock basis as fast as print
ing presses could turn out the securi-
ties, and from that day to this not only
England, but the whole civilized world
has clung to the joint stock idea as the
one efficient means of readily transfer
ring property from hand to hand with
a minimum of delay.and a maximum of
safety.
1t requires no imagination to see that
as soon as securities became popular
vehicles OF barter, jobbers. brokers, and
agents sprang up to handle them and
deal in them and bring buyers and SELL
ers together. By the natural gregari-
Gus habit through which merchants of
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

records we find that twenty-four "Brok-
ers for the Purchase and Sale of Public
Stock" met under a buttonwood tree at
what is now 90 Wall Street and effected
an organization. The history OF the
New York Stock Exchange which there
had its origin has been written many
times and need not be repeated here Its
development in its early days was but
record OF the cOuntry's growth. and
this in turn depended upon speculation.
1t was, indeed, speculation such as the
world had never witnessed How our
western borders were extended as the
railroads pushed onward: how trade
was stimulated throughout Christendom
by the discovery of gold in California;
how the national debt expanded at the
time OF the civil war, and how after the
war construction went ahead at tre-
mendous pace-all these served to fan
the flames of adventure and enterprise
which are the bases of speculation. The
panics OF 1887, 1857, and IS73-severe
enough to give pause to another and
less vigorous nation-seem in the retro
spect to have been but starting points
for a fresh development of the national
Spirit-a spirit which owes. to specu-
lation the extension of frontiers, the
bridging OF waters, the unlocking of
mountains and the transportation of
wealth. In this splendid work of con-
quering a continent the stock exchange
has kept pace with the march of in
dustry. 1t has supplied the one great
central market for the expression of the
country's progress as measured by the
country's securities, and it will con.
tinue to do so as long as an evergrees
faith in America exists among its people.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

cry. to be sure, yet in all the inter-
vening years, speculation in securities
has been under the ban, with stock eN-
changes the bulls eye in the great popu-
lar target. Politicians bruise the air
with shouts of corruption; occasionally
a clergyman is heard to murmur gam
bling hell" and there is always the
grinning humorist who says "caveat
emptor." How the stock exchange has
managed to hold its ground in the face
of this formidable abatis of adjectives
is worth considering.
Stock Exchanges Everywhere.
There are stock exchanges today in
every important city of the world. In
America alone securities represent a
third of the nations wealth, and they
are owned by more than two million
people. The number of persons affected
in one way or another by the days
work on change can only be estimated
by counting all the holders of insurance
policies. all the deposits in banks, all the
spectators and investors and all those
identified with American industrial
progress. 1t would be easier to count
those not affected than those who are.
In country of big things the stock ex-
change is one of the biggest. Does it
meet a genuine need of the community,
or is it gambling hell?
As it is probably the only business in
the world that has survived and pros
pered in the face of such widespread
condemnation this fact alone makes the
stock exchange an interesting study. In
the nature of things no function in art,
science, or commerce can persist and
grow strong with every mans hand
against it, unless there's a reason. What
is the reason?
The critic fails to take into consid-
Grafton the fact that today interstate
commerce commissions and public serv-
ice commissions grow on every bush,
and in consequence. of their activities
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05
By WILLIAM c. VAN ANTWERP,
Member of the New York Stock Exchange.

of merchants at large to freedom OF
traffic, a privilege which changed the
whole composition of feudal society and
soon admitted the merchant -speculator
to place among the landed gentry.
With such a recognition of the useful
ness of speculation the old prohibitory
laws. long honored in the breach, van
ished from the statute books.
The Public Hostile.
The hostility which began with the
dawn of the practice continued, how
ever, to attack it and hedge it about
with restrictions. Public opinion
seemed to turn instinctively against it;
there was an immediate antagonism be-
tween those who speculated and those
who didn't. And this antagonism con-
tinues, in one way or another, in our
own day. The pillory is still with us.
as are restraint of trade" craft and
subtlety," 'profane cunning" and all the
other direful things that happened to
the London fishmonger six hundred
years ago. He had to struggle with his
economies just as we have to struggle
with ours. And in a fundamental way
there isn't much difference in the two
points OF view. The sheriff and his pill
lory returned again, for example, in the
person of Mr.. Pujo and his committee
When stock brokers came into ex-
istence their profession at once became
an object of wit, satire, and denuncia-
tion. Four hundred years after the cur
tain fell on the eel merchant in the pill
lory we find another speculator-a
stock broker named John Rice-execu-
ted at Tyburn for violating the law by
'bucketing" a customers order, a
gruesome recital that serves to temper
the wind to the shorn broker of today
by showing him that our modern re-
formers are at least more tolerant than
their ancient prototypes
From Tyburn to Broad street is far
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05
Ccopynsht. lsiI.l

CCoryrisht. lsiIl
90 far as the old records of the
English law courts may guide us,
the first man who INDUCED in
what we now call speculation was a
london fshmonger named Thomas
Lespicer
The year was 1871. II was the law
that any one having fish to sell should
stand with them for four days under the
wall of St. Margaret's in Bridge street
and wait for buyers, to whom the fish
monger was required to sell AT current
prices" To this lnave Lespicer the
thought occurred that a market created
IN so prosaic fashion lacked snap and
[irility, so he determined to put little
life into it by buying up all the eelS in
sight and storing them in a cellar As
we say today, he 'cornered the market"
and sat down to wait for the inevitable
rush of buyers. But his plans went
wrong. Instead of host of buyers, the
sheriff and his men appeared, caught the
luckless Thomas and his eels, as it were,
!ed-handed, and charged him with craft
and subtlety." He was thereupon put in
he pillory as a lesson and a warning
alat no vassal of Edward II might safe
y indulge in restraint of trade"
Although the curtain of oblivion falls
Upon poor Thomas standing there in the
pillory-a martyr to the cause of bull
markets-the speculative idea which got
him into trouble persisted. The notion
that something might be had as the re-
suit of risk found many warm adher-
ents, notwithstanding the fact that the
laws fairly bristled with penalties for
such "profane cunning" Edwardian
ststecraft might, to be sure, hurry Of
tenders to the pillory, but once the no
hon took root of buying cheap and SELL
ng dear it followed as a matter of
course that speculation had come to stay.
Moreover, there was Magma Charta ex-
I s5ressly asserting the common law right
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

one class huddle closely together, these
brokers soon foregathered in Change
Alley, Jonathan's Coffee House, Lom-
bard Street, and Sweeting's Alley, where
they led more or less precarious ex-
istence until dealings in securities at
tanned such an importance as to cause
them to organize. Thus at New JON
athan's Coffee House in IZz3 "The
Stock Exchange" was wrote over the
door," In 1901 the business had be-
come so important through our war
loans, the increased national debt and
the growth of new spirit of COM
merce and industry. that a site was ac-
quired in Capel Court, where the Lon
don Stock Exchange of today had its
origin. 1t has become the foremost
stock exchange of the world, dealing in
securities that exceed in number and
in value the combined totals of the New
York Stock Exchange and the Paris
Bourse
Under the ButtOnwood.
What happened in London has hap
pened everywhere else as fast as prop
erty rights and the creation of wealth
have developed In New York the idea
took hold in 1892, when from the old
The Washington herald., 1914-04-05
Why People "Knock' the Stock Exchange

he First Man Who Ever Attempted Corner the Market and What Happened Him.
The Business the World Which Has Survived Ppered the Face Of
smWn Exchange
The Washington times., 1914-03-03

the men do not keep themselves in the
shape that will guarantee their report
ing at training camp ready for the hafa
ordeal outlined by managers. with
Washington. however, there is no such
handicap.
The principal worry of those in au-
thority is in keeping the men from
working too hard here. When Bert
Gallia appeared here it was generally
remarked that he was ready right then
to go in and start a championship
game. But he has nothing on either
John Henry or Howard SAanks, not to
forget Acosta.
With the cole .-ians at Amherst.
Henry has been in active work all
winter and row seems to &c i'm CON-
ditioE for the hardest schedule which
his manager can outline. Monac ca. Pa,
is not such IN exciting settlement as
TO drive man to distraction IN ROUNDS
of pleasure, and the result is that the
leftfie!der appears to be as we'll primed
today as he was at any time last sum-
mer when his sensational fielding was
the talk of more than one of the towns
in the circuit oe which Ban johnson is
boss. Shanks spent a large part OF
ticularly gratifying to his chief to see
the condition in which he appeared in
this wind-whippcd village.
Merito Acosta played all winter on
the Havana team and he, too has reach
ed a stage OF Ihysical perfection that
promises to make it possible for him
TO endure hard practice. As soon as
Griffith got a flash at the Cuban vic
trola he gave orders that he vas not
to be hurried in his work and the
chances are that the younSster from
the island republic will have easier
shedding until next Thursday of any
OF the men who are assembled here.