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4 THE ARGUS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1902 THE ARGUS. Aio-shed Dally ancWeeklj at 1634 Second Avenue, Bock Island. 111. Entered at the Pottofflce as Second-class matter.) BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly, 11.00 per year in advance. All communications of political or arg-umen tatlre character, political or religions, must hare real name attached for publication. No such articles will be printed oyer fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every town- ship in Bock Island county. Friday, October 24. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. State Ticket Clerk Supreme Court, i JOHN L. PICKEIUXG. State Treasurer, GEORGE DUDDLESTOX. Superintendent of Public Instruction, AXSOX L. UL1SS. Trustees University of Illinois, JULIA HOLMES SMITH, f JOIIX HUSTON. Dli. J. E. WHITE. Representative Fourteenth Dis trict, J. W. LUSK. Senatorial I'or State Senator, Thirty-third Dis trict, O. J. MOWRY. For Representative Thirty-third Dis trict, GEORGE A. COOKE. County. For County Judge, For Count v Clerk, DEXJAMIX FOUNTAIN. For Sheriff, CORNELIUS DONOVAN. For Treasurer, GEORGE W. HENRY. For Superintendent of Schools, some of the minor fuel concerns may have their sharp edges knocked off now. While it is about it, the arbitra tion commission might also arbitrate the price of coal. Speaking1 of rare days in June, what's the matter with substituting October for June? For a prince, lhat young fellow from Siam seems to know pretty de cently well how to behave himself. It has been proved beyond a ijues tion of doubt that the trusts are will ing: that the people shall have cheap coal in the summer time and cheap ice in winter. Every republican stuinp speaker in the country is asserting1 that they are not to be understood as defending the schedules of the Dingley tariff. Since the whole thing is but a matter of schedules what else is there to de fend about it? If the voters in the Eighth Illinois senatorial district heed the appeal of George Mawman, a one-armed news boy will grace the lower house of the next legislature. .Mawman. for a num ber of years, has peddled papers in front of the Chicago Sr Northwestern depot. He lost an arm between the bumpers, and. with a capital of 17 cents, tvtnt into the newspaper busi ness, and has succeeded in making a comfortable living for his little fam ily. Mawman has a good education, is interested in reform movements, and is well thought of by the people of the district. He has the people's party nomination. Candidates for Congress. For the 378 members of the house of representatives to be elected Nov. 4, says a Washington dispatch, (eight in Maine, Vermont and Oregon having already been chosen) the democrats have made 070 nominations, the re publicans 333. the prohibitionists !)G in sixteen states, the socialists C'. in cialist democrats 10, labor 1, united cialist democrats 10, Labor 1, united labor 4. jeople's party 8, populists 7, anti-trust 1, third party 3 in Missouri, in Pennsylvania unionists 9. and citi zens 3. The democrats made no nomina tions in two New York districts and in four Philadelphia districts, while the republicans put up no candidates in Florida, Georgia. Mississippi and South Carolina, and in one district of Arkansas, one in Kentucky, one in Louisiana, two in New York, three in Illinois, three in Tennessee, live in Texas, and two in Virginia. Two women Ure numbered among the candidates, Mrs. Mary Durkhart being the standard bearer of the pro hibitionists in the Tenth Kentucky district, and Miss Ida Hazlett the so cialist candidate of congress at large from Colorado. Popular Election of Senator. Thirty-four years ago President Andrew Johnson recommended an amendment to the constitution pro viding for the popular election of senators; 20 years ago James B. Weaver introduced in congTess a res olution submitting such an amend ment: 10 rears ago a democratic house of representatives passed such a resolution for the first time, and since then the house f representa tives in three other congresses ha sent a similar amendment to the sen ate. but in each instance the senate has killed the measure. Why? l!e cause the corporations control the senate and do not intend to snrrende the advantage which thev now enjoy The senate refuses to be reformed what can be done? The constitution, as IJryan's Coin inoner says, "wisely provides fo amendment bv convention Ml Ted by three-fourths of the states. Now let the state legislatures join in calling such a convention and then the sen ate can be reformed whetherTlie sen a tors want it reformed. r not. "Jh Kansas City platform declares for the popular election of senators and the candidates for the legislature who run on that platform are committed to the reform and it will increase their strength before the public t let that fact be known. Aiming the voters the sentiment in favor of the direct, election of senators is practie ally unanimous. Let democratic n didates appeal to this sent7iuiit stud point out the impossibility of secur ing this reform through republican leaders who are themselves under 4b ligation to the corporations for cam paign funds." Senators must be elected by popu lar vote and the issue ought to be presented at oace. I Tbnnder Lorr. The natives of the Hawaiian Islands considered thunder us being Mauna Loa's echo from the clouds. This cu rious notion hag crystallized a weather proverb which is now current among many of the white residents of the islands viz, 'lt will rain today; Maunu Lon. shakes the clouds." In this connection it may le remarked tr.at the early Scandinavian settlers in Iceland believed that there were somo mysterious and supernatural connce Hons between the roarings of Ileola and the "angry multerings of Jove." In England many of the peasantry still plant the- house leek "Jupiter's leard" on their house roofs as a preventive against thunder, lightning and evil spirits, a custom which reminds one of Charlemagne's edict, "Et hnbeat quis que supra dotnuin suaui Jovls bur bam." Another widespread superstition, and one that has lieen noted among the trites and nations from China to Eng land and from Cape Ilatteras to the Golden Gate, tells us that if the "claps" or reports of thunder come In even numbers the storm will be of short duration and very mild, but, on the other hand, if they come In uneven numltors, especially if the reports be a series of live, nine or thirteen dis tinct claps, much loss of life and prop erty will. result. The Gleaners. The old custom of gleaning in the harvest fields, which recalls the Bibli cal story of Itutb and Naomi, is not obsolete in Engkiud, and in Hertford shire, Bedfordshire and the neighbor ing counties as soon as the wheat is gathered in the late days of August there may be seemin the newly cleared fields numbers of Iwotneu and children diligently; picking yip one by one the scattered tears and' forming them into neat little sheaves- which they carry in their hands until large enough to be bound up. When the daylight falls, all the booty is lound up in cloths and carried home on the beads of the gleaners. At home they thrash it out by hand auid sell the grain or Use it for their Chickens. The gathering of a half peck is usually a full day's work for a ehild. and often a woman spends a wuoie nay-in garnering very mue more. Gleaning', however, is looked upon somewhat in the light of a picnic. The mother and children leave home in the morning, take with them food for the day, and stay out In the fields until nightfall Detroit Free Press. A Quick WltteU Pastor. In Germany a country preacher was preaching a sermon when suddenly he lost the thread of his discourse, Hnd, do what he would, the could not find it again. - The congregation was greatly embar rassed and was wondering what the matter was when he startled It by ex claiming hurriedly, "Pardon ' me, my brethren, for pausing in my sermon, but it seems to me that 1 smell fire somewhere and and it might be well to see that it has not broken out in the church or in any of the nearby houses." Before the words were all uttered the congregation was pouring out of the church, each family being anxious to make sure that its home was not on fire. It need hardly be said that the fire existed only in the pastor's imag ination. Hoot He Hade Money. Conversation overheard on a train for Monte Carlo. Two travelers un known to each other chatting familiar ly: "On your way to Monte Carlo, 6ir, that delightful and exclusive home for all gamblers?" "That is exactly where I am going." "And you will play Just a little, I suppose?" "I do noth. og else, sir. It is my busi ness." "Gracious! Yon don't mean to say you make a business of It?" "Yes, sir; twice a day regularly, and I never by any chance lose." "In that case perhaps yon will ex plain your 'system to me." "Certainly, with pleasure. I play the violin." She is a fine girl, quite brilliant, I hear. I understand she has just com pleted a course of Rocky Mountain Tea. That accounts for her brilli ancy. T. H. Thomas Pharmacy. DAILY SHORT STORY Who Passed the Great Football Man? Orlelnal. It won't do to mention the colleges or the parties Interested. They must all co under fictitious names. We'll call the colleges Kings and Queens, Kings was a large institution, and Queens was a small one. But Queens had been lugged through a series of successful games for the championship by Spangler, a splendid, powerful fel low, whose only fault wns that he was always In danger of failing on his ex amination. And now, when the final game of the series was coming on, he had to go and make a guy of himself by breaking down in analytical geom etry. No student could play football for the championship who had not passed In every subject. The conse quence was that Queens must lose aft er all her victories because the great hulk of a fellow couldn't learn math ematics. .... "Blast mathematics!" said the team and the college generally. "What's mathematics compared with football?" Now, Professor Plum of the chair of mathematics had every .reason to help Spangler througlu lie had himself been the best tackle when an under graduate the college had ever had and was still devoted to the game. More over, he was engaged to be married to Spangler"s sister. He had agreed to give the athlete a final trial the day before the game was to be played and be as lenient as possible with his pa pers, but the professor wns a conscien tious man. and Spangler must get the average required by college law. And so it was that the day before the game, when everj-body said that Span gler should be spending his time legiti mately practicing with the team In stead of wasting it In useless figures, he wns pitting in a classroom endeavor ing to answer the questions rium bad written out for him. It was S o'clock before Spangler handed in his papers, nnd Professor Plum, who did not reli- h spending an evening apart from his betrothed, took them to the little boudoir where Alice usually received him and, taking bts pencil, began to look them over. giving each answer a uumber denoting Its value. The rule was tlit the stu dent must get sixty out of u fmssible hundred iu order to pass. Alice, who had been graduated at the head of her class the year before at the woman's college attached to the university, ask ed the professor to read the questions and their answers aloud. There were ten questions. The first was a complete breakdown and was given a zero. The 6econd was answer ed perfectly and received 100, the third 50 and so on to the end. As the pro fessor put down the numbers Alice added them in her head, and when eight had been answered with only a total of 400, or an average of 40, she knew that unless the next two ques tions received 100 each the result would be a failure. I think." she said, "that yon made a slight mistake in giving only 50 to the sixth question. It was In two parts. The first part was not answered en tirely wrong, and the second was all right." After a brief argument the professor was convinced and added So to the score. The eighth question was fairly answered nnd secured SO. This gave a total of C10, and the last question must receive IK) to make the required average. The professor, who had not kept tally, was about to mark 00 for ft. when Alice stopped him. The first four out of five subdivi sions in this question are right," she said. "The third is wrong." "Figure it again." He did so and found an error in his own work. He changed the marking to 80. Before you take the average," said Alice, who knew that it was still short by 10 numbers, "look over the fourth question again." The professor did so, and Alice took Issue with him on his interpretation of the answer, claiming that the student meant one thing while the professor claimed he meant another. Plum was not thoroughly convinced, but, feeling that one on trial should have the ben efit of all doubts, yielded and added 10 to the total. "I sincerely hope," said the profess or, "that the average will be up to the mark, but I fear not." Meanwhile several hundred students who had tracked the professor had congregated outside the house and now began to howl for the result. "I'll make the addition before them," said Plum. "Then neither they nor the faculty can accuse me, since I don't know the result myself." . Going out on the piazza, he faced the expectant crowd. "Gentlemen. I have laid down a fair value for each question. I do not know the result, but will strike an average." I'll do it for you!" cried the captain of the football team and seized the paper. Alice had followed with a candle. which she held while the student ran over the figures. In a moment he threw the papers over her head as well as his cap and shouted: "Sixty!" i There was a yell that shook the col lege building, and Spangler. who was present, was picked up and carried away on the shoulders of the football team. And this Is how Queens won the championship for that year. Professor Plum was looked upon with as much favor as if he had strained a point to pass Spangler. No one ever knew that it 'was Alice who had pulled him through. AMBROSE SPENCER. A SIMPLE QUESTION. Rork Island People Are Requested to Hon estly Answer Thin. Is not the word of a representative citizen of Hock Island more conven ing than the doubtful utterances of people living everywhere else in the union. Read this: Isaac Shiffer, of 529 Fifteenth street, employed at the Moline Gas works, says: "There was a dull, heavy pain in the small of my back continually, and after stooping it v.;is all I could do to straighten again. mere was always too frequent ac tion of the kidney secretions, whicfe was very annoyin.tr, especially through the day. I saw JJoan's Kid ney Pills advertised in our paper and I procured a box from Marshall & Fisher's drug store. After a short treatment the dull, aching pains left me. my back felt stronger and the kidney secretions were restored to their normal condition. 1 know of others who had a similar satisfac tory experience with Doan's Kidney Pills." Price .10 cents. For sale bv all druggists. Foster-Milburn Co., Buf falo, N. V.. sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's nnd take no substitute. In Brlght's Disease the kidneys be come so spongy that they fall apart and the victim dies. Your case is not yet that serious, hut may be any day if you run along as you are. Don't defy disease, but take Kid-Ne-Olds at once. 50c. Sugar-coated tablets. T. H. THOMAS, Leading Druggist. INSURANCE. J. M. BUFORD General Insurance Agent. The old Fire and Time-tried Com panies represented -Hates as low us any reliable company can afford. Your patronage is so licited. Charles E. Hodgson, Fire Insurance Agency. Established 1874. American Ins. Co Newark, X. J. Continental New York Agricultural New York Traders Ins. Co Chicago, 111 I nion Ins. Co Philadelphia, Pa. Kockford Ins. Co.. Hockford, ill Hecuritv Ins. C, i..New Haven, Conn. Ins. Co. State of Illinois. Kockford, HI. Office, room 3, Ihiford block. Kates as low as consistent with security. It's Quality That Counts In Coal it's quality that makes heat, it's quality that retains it, it is quality that makes possible consumption of 90 per cent of the combustible part of it, leav ing a light, clean ash; lastly, it's quality that lessens your fuel bills you're not paying for dirt, refuse or unburnables. The coal we handle both hard and soft de serves all the good things we and our patrons say for it. A ton will talk as loudly aB a carload. E. G. FRAZER Telephone 1133. 'H 1 1 1 1 1 H I M I II M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M PATTERNS of all kinds made in I Wood and Metal Special attention given in de veloping, inventors ideas. TIMCKS REASONABLE. t GUSTAV BLECHSCHMIDT 4 1040 Sixteenth St. ROCK ISLAND. ILL, Admin Utra tor's Motio. Estate of Julius Goetz, deceased. Tbe undersigned having been appointed ad ministrator of tbe estatn of Julius Goetz, late ot the county of Rock Island, s'ate of Illinois, deceased hereby rives notice that be will appear before tbe county court of Kock Is'and county at the county court room. In tbe city of Rock Island at the Janu ary term, on ibf first Monay in January next, at which time all persons hvtor cUims against said estate are notified and requested to at tend, for the purpose of having tbe same adjusted M All persons Indebted to said estate are re (nested to make Immediate payment to U tnaerslgnffd. Dated this 20th day of October A. D. 1902. Joseph G kiosk. Administrator. Amusements. DiftiCTioN CHAnBERMN.KiNDT. Company. Friday Night, Oct. 24. As Piayed 100 Nights in New York. DAVID HIGGINS and GEORGIA WALDRON In their Picturesque Play of Country UP YORK STATE A Homely Komahce of the Adiron dacks. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1. Seats on sale at Illinois Smoker Thursday. Dirlction Cham rerun. Kindt a Company. Saturday, Oct. 25. ! Matinee at 2:30. Evening at 8:0O. Direct from Five Months at t Dearborn Theatre, Chicago. A Musical Fantasy Triumph. THE STORKS In two acts and three scenes. The Original Production. FKICKS Matinee-f5c to 1.50 Evening- 50c. 75c, l. tl 50. Seat sale opens Thursday noon for mati nee performance: Friaay morning at 8 for evening performance. DlRlCTION CttAMBtRUN. KINDT .CW1PAIV. Sunday, Oct. 26. Those Famous Funny Fellows WOOD & WARD Presenting their Jolly, Jing ling Farce Two Merry Tramps (:$d Addition) New Scenerv, Sonirs. Chor uses, Dances, -'0 Artists, -'U Novelties. Common Sense Frices 25. 35 and 50c. Direction Cmamberun.MnutaCoi-ipanv. Tuesday, Oct. 28. Mammoth production of the lhenonienally Successful .'omeiiy-Drania "Lost in New York" Nettie DeCoursey as "Jennie" and a strong supporting company fSf-r- The Badger's Remler.vous ,Pictu VI" f" resque Kast Kiver. Hisioricn.1 Madi '"" son Square. Ulackwell's Island. Ktc. Practical Steam Launch, Row Boats, Etc. Prices: 10c C0c. :X)c and 50c. Seats on sale at Illinois Smoker Monday morning at 0 o'clock. EXCURSIONS TO CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 20-30, OCTOBBEK 1. $69.25. SETTLERS RATES SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER TO CALIFORNIA COMMON POINTS, SECOND CLASS $51.00 Granting stop-overs at certain points. Homeseekers Excursions SEPTEMBER 1G, OCTOBER 7-21. For full information inquire of II. D. MACK, General Agent. Phone W. 12CS. 210 Eighth St. Men's SB THAT ARE R.IGHT. SEE OUR LINE OF TO Patent Colt, Patent Kid, Vici Lifflit or Heavy Soles. All t lie Newest Shapes $2.50 to $3.50. Reduced prices on Overiut ers and Leffgins. ' rs GUSTAFSON 6c HAYES. GUSTAFSON WHEN YOUR DISEASE LINGERS Consult Dr. Walsh the Celebrated Specialist in Chronic, Nervous and Private Diseases of both Sexes. Consultation and X-Kay Examination Free by Our 24-Plato Static Machine, the Largest in the Country. 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