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4 THE ARGUS, SATURDAY. MAY 27, 1905. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1C24 Second avenue. Rock Island, I2L En tered at the postofflce as second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally. 10 cents per week. Weekly, 1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, mast have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solfcilted from every township In Rock Island county. Saturday, May 27. 1905. There is one particular moral to be drawn from Savanna s double tragedy: It I that murder will not only out, but that crime of any tort will out. So Hero Hob son is married at last. What illustrious son of the republic will now come forward and invent a popular substitute for the osculating bee? The Springfield high school, like that in Rock Inland, has been having trou ble with co-called "color rushes." and there, as here, the principal has taken a position against the form of demon stration, and the board of education has upheld him. Dr. Osier continues to insist, and vigorously, that he did not say what was attributed to him relative to chlo roforming people when they have reached certain stages in the journey of life. What shameful carelessness has fame shown In this particular case. The fact that courage of conviction is always awe to win is emphasized in the way the councilmen in Phila delphia are coming gradually around to the side of Mayor Weaver. The mayor took a positive stand against graft, and he is going to triumph in his position. A distribution has been made of a portion of the Carnegie hero fund. A number of silver and bronze medals were given to various heroes who have rbme under the especial observation of the commission having the fund in charge. So offer has yet been made, however, to present Secretary Taft a tin medal for being the Qrst to an nounce himself as a presidential can didate in 19i8. The legal position of Queen Alexan dra is very curious. So far as her pri vate business is concerned she is not regarded by the laws and customs of England as a married woman at all. She ia the only woman in Great Britain who does not come within the scope of the married woman's property, act. The idea of the law is that affairs of mate consume all the time of the king and therefore no responsibility for the queen' private business rests upon him. If the queen contracted debts in her husband's name, he would not be responsible for them as any other hus band would. The king cannot be sued (fnr debt, but the queen can be. Should the king die. some authorities hold that the queen could not marry again in case she wished to do so. without the special license and commission of the king's successor. Asphalt and the Indueace For and Agalsit It. Springfield Is becoming more pleased daily with ihe experiment of asphalt pavement in that city. And what is true of the state capital is true of ev ery city that has given this paving ma terial a reliable lest. But what at taches peculiar interest in Rock Island to Springfield's experience is the fact that they have been having for year? there the same disadvantage from which Rock Island has suffered. They have been in the throes of a brick trust, and every attempt to adopt some paving material of any kind other than brick has been effectually blocked by some means or other. On a little strip of two blocks in the city of Rock Island the property holi ers have been striving for years to have some asphalt put down in front of their property. Inasmuch as these property holders will pay the bill, they have felt that it was their ripht to elect the kind of pavement they want ti. Nevertheless they are still without pavement and they are likely so to continue unless either they surrender to brick, or the council comes to their relief. The original desire of the property holders along Fifteenth street was that asphalt pavement be laid in front of their property. Fifteenth being the main thoroughfare leading out to Long View park, it seemed quite proper that material such as is employed in the drives and boulevards in the larger cities be used there. But the brick in fluence prevailed again. First it was strong enough to delay the laying of the street car tracks through the street for a year, thus retarding the grading and then finally by exaggeration as to cost to - -cy the people from what they really desired. How far the people in the Twenty-first street district will sub mit to the same cvitching process re mains to he seen. j In the meantime read a little more from the Springfield Regiatr as to how the people who have been trying as phalt there feel on the subject: "The effect of the new asphalt pavement on Fourth street seems electrical. It has caured more apparent satisfaction than anything that has happened in thi city in the pavement line in a long time. If you don't believe this just stand on the curb stone on Fourth street for a few minutes and watch the expressions on the faces of the men and women drivers as they glide along over the smooth surface of the street. There has developed what may be called the asphalt smile. You can see it all along Fourth street. It seems to be the smile that won't come off un til the driver drives off the asphalt pavement, and then, the jolting on the brick pavement again freezes the coun tenance to its normal frigidity. Now if you think this is a myth about the asphalt smile, take a look. Fourth street between Madison and Jackson streets is now the avenue of smiles." The Sympathetic Strike and the Schools. The novel spectacle of entire schools in the city of Chicago participating in the sympathetic strike movement and leaving their studies because a sup posed non-union teamster had deliver ed coal at the buildings where they were taught, is not only one of the most remarkable phases of the great strug gle that has been waging in that city for several weeks, but it is something else. It is the presentation of an ex ample of how far-reaching and earnest may become the influence and strength of the sympathetic idea as applied to labor disputes. While it is gratifying to know that the rising generation is becoming so apt to post itself on the progress of current events, and to form settled convictions, there Is occa sion for serious thought where preju dice becomes so intensely and so deep ly aroused. There is always a principle at stake where labor disputes arise, and in nine times out of ten the man who strikes is in the right. It is his only redress, his only salvation from the grinding heel of capital, and if it were possible to weigh his case before an impartial tribunal, he would be overwhelmingly vindicated. Furthermore, it Is the spirit of Americanism to sympathize with the oppressed. It is not unnat ural, therefore, that the man who seeks relief from his grievances through the only course open to him should have the moral support and the practical sympathy of his fellow toilers In every vocation of life1. Hence the question of the sympathetic strike becomes one of the most complex in the entire sys tem involving the adjustment of the relations between labor and capital. It is human for the laboring man to ex tend, not only his sympathy, but his moral support to his fellow toiler In distress, but how far he should go in carrying out that spirit of loyalty is the point to be determined. The Innocent have been obliged to suffer with the guilty in most of the great controversies in the world's his tory, whether in international warfare or in bloody or peaceful revolution, and yet it does not appeal to reason that the man of high morals and lib eral instincts who considers his laborer worthy of his hire, and so rewards him. should undergo hardship because his neighbor is less conscientious and less humane. Yet this is what invari ably comes from the sympathetic strike. It is the logical consequence, and there is no theory of philosophy that will afford the deduction that the man who does his duty must pay the penal ty in order that his neighbor who does wrong may be punished or at least brought to his proper sense of duty by force or otherwise. So that the theory of sympathetic strikes being, as it so often proves, wrong in principle and operation, it does not offer the proper or safe idea to be inculcated into tile minds of the young. It is not patriotism, because it is unjust. It may be natural, but it is not fair. INijtht of Ihe Fopulisla. Jerry Simpson, the leader of the pop ulists, was in Chanuie. Kans., the oth er day aud in an interview thus chron icled the eclipse of some of the old time leaders of the people's party: "Mary Ellen Is in N'Yauk, Annie liggs is leading the sheltered life. Peffer is a pension attorney, Leedy and Utile are not in it and the rest of the populists ate nowhere. "Who would have thought it? Eight years ago we were the whole show in Kansas. We made United States sen ators for them, we made, governors for them and we came pretty near tell ing the people what to think. Look at it now. You cannot find a populist with a search warrant. The crown of thorns and the cross of gold have been forgotten. The people hav gone off af ter strange gods. "Where are the roses of yesterday? Where are all the populist leaders? Think of seeing Mary Ellen making speeches for Roosevelt. How can she J reconcile that with the doctrines of "less corn and more hell?" Think of Annie Diggs. far from the strife of politic. Think of Peffer. dear old whiskers, leading the humdrum exist ence of a pension attorney in Wash ington. Think of me as the land agent for a corporation and then burst out crying. That shows you how times have changed and how we change with them. It shows too. that the populist pirty has gone to smash for all time." All the healing, balsamic virtues of! the Norway pine are concentrated In I Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, na-' ture's own remedy for coughs and) colds. I ! DAILY SHORT STORY ! THUMPING A KING. ICoyprUjtt. by T. C. MeClure. The old Calabar river flow Into the bight of Renin, on the west coast of Africa and twenty miles up the river. In the rear 1S02 was born the kingdom of King Oyampoo. The British had had possession of that coast for thirty years, bat more In name than in fact. Their authority was supreme wherever settlements had been made, or ports opened, bnt up tbe numerous rivers and back from tbe coast the native chiefs held full away. Oyampoo was a man about forty years old and chief of the Adamawa tribe. He began making war on other tribes as soon as be had been elected chief, and at forty be was cock of the walk for 5Co miles around. In twelve years he had licked nine tribes and brought them under his rule. Trader bad visited him and sold him firearms and taught him how to use tbem, and deserters from whale ships aud men of-war had found refuge with him and taught his troops the white man's drill and built forts to defend bis capital on the water side. Cannou and ammunition were wanted for those fort, mtd so one day when a French survey brig came up the river she was seid nd disarmed and her crew made to shift tb gnus find intru-t the unlives In their ne. 'OyatiiiMio wawu't cruel, but be was ambitious. Hh bed just got his forts In working order when tbe British gov ern merit sent a gnnlout up the river to knexk t beui til tout his eurx and bumble his pride. It wasn't a success. He sank the craft lu half an hour, and such of her crew as survived were held prisoners for tuonthx. He expec ted the British to fight, and there wus a glad song In bis heart as he saw their ships in Imagination sailing up the muddy old Calabar to give him battle. Within a distance of sex en miles he erected nine forts and five or six earthworks. He counted up and found that he hadn't cannon enoUKb. and be sent a fleet of war canoes down to the gulf to see what could le scooped in. As luck would have It, a merchantman laden with military supplies for Cape Coast Cnstle had put in there In distress, and her capture was an easy Job. There were twelve cannon among her supplies, and these went up tbe river to be mounted, while her 2.000 muskets went to arm 2.0UO more of the king's fighting men. According to Oyampoo, things were coming bis way and he wus leading the procession, but there was a little cloud forming on the horizon which was be yond his ken. Tbe British bad their bands full elsewhere on the coast just then, but they finally got around to take the king's case under advisement. All needed particulars were learned from traders and deserters, and when au expedition finally set out It knew what it was up against. Oyampoo had iosed as a strategist, and he had had the advice of other posers, and jet they made a fatal mis take. All tbe forts bad been built on narrow islands in the river, with a deep channel flow ing on each side, and tbe batteries in front of the town were protected only by flimsy earthworks and could be taken in reverse. The depth of the river was well known, and the exact location of each fort was mapped out. Four men-of-war, accom panied by two transports carrying 2.0OO infantry, made up the expedition, and when it had gathered at the mouth of the river Oyainpoo sent word down that be would demolish it on sight. As a matter of form he was asked to sur render, aud he returned word that he would have the ears of the commander of the expedition. It was thought lest to make Hu ob ject lesson of Oyampoo and to make a fair stand up light of It. The ex Itfditlou. therefore, advanced up the river . with wind and tide one morn ing alsxit 8 o'clock, and word was sent to the king of Its coming. Salvos were) fired and hurrahs given, and by and by tbe heed of the line appenred. Two of tbe fighting ships tk one cbniHtel aud (wo the other, and lu this way all the forts were taken in re verse. 'ITie triinsports did the same, and the rifle Are joured Into the em lTMsiire, and the roar of the forts was enough alone to drive the natives from the guns. Of the fifteen mounted cannon not more than three were fired more than om-e. The big shells from the lighting ships knocked the earthworks to ieces and dismounted the guns, aud the rifle fire mowed the defenders down by the score. The men-of-war sailed up to the city without a halt and with only three men killed, and. anchoring iu front of the capital, they knocked It into smithereens within half au hour. What huts were not knocked to pieces were reduced to ashes In the confla gration. lite natives did hot run away like cx wards. On tbe contrary, they fought lu a w ay to compel admiration and yet without a show. When flesh and blood c-ould stand It no longer they broke and fled, and tbe victors landed and finished the chapter. It was three days before Oyampoo could be Induced to come forward and take a little fatherly advice. He bad lost bis king dom, his capital and bis armament, nnd be bad had 8" of his army killed. He was told what would be ex pee ted of him In the future, and his written declaration was taken that be would forever bear allegiance to the British crown. Id three short days he was reduced from a Itoantful and powerful ruler to a contrite and badly frightened sub ject, and the lesson was one he never forgot. Two years later be was pick ing u shells at Cape Coast and selling them to traders for a living, and when be happened to get In the way of a white. man he was kicked aside like aa old-shoe. if. QFAI). Clearlasi HlanU. jifipn "Henry," s:iid Mrs. I'euhecker. -what ia the meaning of this empty glass cu the table'; Is it possible that you have acquires! tbe habit of taking a sly nip while you are reading":"' th. no. my augel." explained Mr. Penhecker. "1 was perusing a volume of poems entitled "tioldeu Memories" and merely put the glass there as a sort of a help to my understanding." Chi cago Tribune. A Subjeet For la. "Father will be past here in a min ute with a new horse. He wants to see if It will shy at you." The 'onibrr tbe Victim Saw. tuck oh Hliuaelf. "There's lVr?y. He says he's In love." "Oh. he bus been for a long time He's infatuated with himself." What, Already? She What did pupa say? He He said you were hardly old enough to think of marriage. 8he Humph.' He's forgotten that I'm going on six New York American. Aatif I'rltBds. Maud I believe that people inherit most of what they know. 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